![]() ![]() Everyone did it.” Telling the story of forever wars requires a long cast list. Visit megaphone.“At some point,” host Noreen Malone muses in episode four of Slate’s 2021 Slow Burn season on The Road to the Iraq War, “I started to think war in Iraq was like Murder on the Orient Express. Thank you to Benjamin Frisch for this topic. Supervising Producer of Narrative Podcasts. It was produced by Willa Paskin and Katie Shepherd. This episode of Decoder Ring was written by Willa Paskin. ![]() This episode relied heavily on a lot of archival material and innumerable books: When I’m Bad, I’m Better: Mae West, Sex and American Entertainment by Marybeth Hamilton When Brooklyn was Queer by Hugh Ryan Lillian Schlissel’s introduction to Three Plays by Mae West, Mae West: a biography by George Eells and Stanley Musgrove Mae West: An Icon in Black and White by Jill Watts Becoming May West by Emily Wortis Leider Gay New York by George Chauncey Mae West, She Who Laughs Last, by June Sochen: Goodness Has Nothing to Do with It by Mae West and Linda Ann Losciavo’s play “Courting Mae West” and her blog, which you can find at. More than a century later, her career arc offers a blueprint on how to survive a scandal…and maybe even come out ahead. In this episode, we look at how West honed her persona when she was under the bright lights of Broadway and the flashbulbs of the tabloids - and briefly behind bars. But before West hit the big-screen, she was prosecuted for staging not one, but two scandalous plays. ![]() In the early 1930s, Mae West’s dirty talk and hip swiveling walk made her one of the biggest movie stars in America. Eric’s got a lot more stories like this one so subscribe wherever you listen.ĭecoder Ring is written by Willa Paskin and produced by Willa Paskin and Katie Shepherd. Thanks to Eric Molinsky for bringing us this story that originally aired on his terrific podcast Imaginary Worlds. Baker and Stephanie Kelley-Romano explain how the Hills’ alien abduction changed science fiction forever. Then professors Susan Lepselter, Chris Bader, Joseph O. Betty Hill’s niece, Kathleen Marden, recounts how the story went viral and her aunt and uncle became unwitting celebrities. When you think of an alien abduction, what do you picture? Humanoid creatures, medical experiments, lost memories retrieved through hypnosis? That narrative was largely unknown until Betty and Barney Hill went public about their own alien abduction in the 1960s. With Slate Plus you get ad-free podcasts, bonus episodes, and total access to all of Slate’s journalism. If you have any cultural mysteries you want us to decode, email us at If you love the show and want to support us, consider joining Slate Plus. This episode of Decoder Ring was written by Dan Kois and edited by Willa Paskin. Along the way, Dan meets Andy Zax, a guy who, like him, was bewildered by this forgotten star-until he became an accidental fan, and then somehow the only person keeping Rod McKuen’s flame alive. We’ll hear from Stephanie Burt, Mike Chasar and Barry Alfonso, author of Rod’s biography A Voice of the Warm. So, how did the most salable poet in American history simply disappear? On today’s episode, Slate writer Dan Kois went searching for Rod McKuen, a famous poet who isn’t so famous anymore. ![]() He released dozens of albums, was a regular on late night, and was even nominated for an Oscar. Rod McKuen sold multiple millions of poetry books in the 60s and 70s. If you have any cultural mysteries you want us to decode, email us at you love the show and want to support us, consider joining Slate Plus. This episode of Decoder Ring was written by Willa Paskin and produced by Willa Paskin and Katie Shepherd. We also hear from mall-goers whose personal experiences help us make sense of this disdained yet beloved, disappearing yet surviving place. In this episode, Alexandra Lange, the author of the new book Meet Me at the Fountain: an Inside History of the Mall walks us through the atriums, escalators, and food courts of this singular suburban space. What do we lose if we lose the mall? 70 years into their existence, these hulking temples to commerce are surprisingly resilient and filled with contradictions. (While we work on the next season of Slow Burn we're showcasing Slate's other narrative podcasts, starting with a new season of Decoder Ring.) ![]()
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