2024 Teaser

Speaker 1 Hi, I'm Willa Paskin, the host of Dakota Ring, Slate's podcast about cracking cultural mysteries. And this year, we're back with more new episodes, like many more new episodes.

Speaker 1 We'll be diving down a new rabbit hole every two weeks, all year long. We're starting with a question that's hiding in plain sight: Why do so many coffee shops look the same?

Speaker 2 No one had told these cafes to look the same. There was no like parent company like a Starbucks to be like, you have to look like this.

Speaker 1 And we're also heading back to the early 1990s to ask if you can sell a soda by celebrating that it's just okay.

Speaker 2 Right next to the Coke, there's this gray product and it just says okay on it. And I was like, what, what is this? This is crazy.
And it had this really funky, like fruity soda, Dr.

Speaker 2 Pepper, like it tasted wild.

Speaker 1 You can hear these episodes and more on Decodering. Now on your feed every two weeks.
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