Endless Thread Presents: Decoder Ring

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🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

While we're on break working on a new season, we recommend checking out Decoder Ring. In each episode, Decoder Ring explores a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters. Today we're presenting one of their recent episodes: "Mystery of the Mullet."

The mullet, the love-to-hate-it hairstyle is as associated with the 1980s as Ronald Reagan, junk bonds, and break dancing. But in at least one major way, we are suffering from a collective case of false memory syndrome. In this episode, the Decoder Ring team tracks the rise and fall of the mullet, and also the lexical quandary at its heart: who named the mullet?

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from the History Channel with History's greatest heists.
0:05.7	What would you do for the riches of a lifetime?
0:08.3	The new original series, History's greatest heists with Pierce Brosnan,
0:12.5	delves into eight high stakes attempts to secure such riches.
0:16.2	From the Museum of Natural History heist to the Antwerp Diamond heist,
0:20.2	host Pierce Brosnan breaks down each plan and looks at the masterminds behind them.
0:24.7	It's better than a movie. This is Real Life.
0:27.5	Tune in Tuesday, February 7th at 10, 9 Central, only on the History Channel
0:32.5	and stream the next day on the History Channel app.
0:41.5	You guys, hi.
0:43.5	Endless thread is still on break,
0:45.5	cooking up some exciting stuff for 2021.
0:48.5	But if you're in the market for a different podcast to fill that endless thread sized hole in your heart,
0:54.5	I have one I think you're gonna love.
0:56.5	It's called Dakota Ring.
0:58.5	And in each episode, host Willa Pascon takes a cultural question,
1:02.5	object or habit, examines its history,
1:05.5	and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters.
1:09.5	So today we're going to play you one of their recent episodes.
1:12.5	It is called The Mystery of the Molect.
1:16.5	And yes, it is all about your favorite bad haircut,
1:19.5	or possibly your favorite epic haircut.
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