Decoder Ring

Ugh. You’re one of those podcasts I can’t listen to due to the ear violations. Lose the vocal fry and ffs ENUNCIATE when you say “Decoder Ring” because it sounds just like you’re saying “Dakota ring” which is irritating af. But it’s actually less irritating than the host and guests who ALL say “Sortof” 5 times per sentence. Unfollowed

It’s a fun listen for the most part but the Eyes Wide Shut episode made me realize subjects of any depth are out of their league. The host worked SO hard to persuade for her position and the guest was such a flimsy resource that it came across as a commercial episode, not journalism. Stopped listening after that.

Seems weird to claim “rolling eyes” wasn’t common until 1987 when Marsha Brady was well known to roll her eyes on the Brady Bunch, Daffy Duck was well known to roll his eyes at Bugs Bunny, like c’mon what kind of research is that? Otherwise… great podcast

My absolute favorite podcast. The amount of research and thought that goes into these episodes is so impressive. They are always fascinating and I only wish they’d post more!!

I wish I could enjoy this podcast. Fun trivia about regular everyday things? Sounds like a great concept. And I’ve listed to all the episodes this far, but I’ve gotten increasingly frustrated with its delivery. Willa’s vocal affectations are so distracting and frustrating. It sounds like she’s trying to stretch it out to meet some kind of time limit, and over-enunciates and over-emphasizes every word while putting too much of a pause between every. single. word. She’s far too aware of herself and the delivery is very unnatural. It’s probably great for an auto-generated transcript, but terrible for human ears. It’s gotten worse as the podcast has evolved, to the point of it being unlistenable for me. The prune episode is the one that pushed me to finally review the podcast, and to say I don’t know if I’ll be coming back for any more.