Slow Burn
Slate PodcastsSlow Burn illuminates America’s most consequential moments, making sense of the past to better understand the present. Through archival tape and first-person interviews, the series uncovers the surprising events and little-known characters lurking within the biggest stories of our time.Want more Slow Burn? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to Slow Burn and your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slow Burn show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/slowburnplus to get access wherever you listen.Season 10: The Rise of Fox NewsHow a cable news channel became a cu...
The Bad-Mouthing of British Teeth
Jul 30 • 53m
Decoder Ring | The White Noise Boom
Jul 2 • 54m
Decoder Ring | The Boston Cinematic Universe
Jun 18 • 49m
Decoder Ring | The Laff Box (Encore)
Jun 4 • 38m
Decoder Ring | How “Chicken Soup” Sold Its Soul
Apr 23 • 50m
Decoder Ring | Spring Break Forever
Apr 9 • 50m
Decoder Ring | Truck Nutz (Encore)
Mar 12 • 41m
Supercommunicators | 1. How to Talk to Anyone
Feb 22 • 32m
Introducing Supercommunicators
Feb 22 • 1m
Decoder Ring | Jump, Jive and Fail: The ’90s Swing Craze
Jan 29 • 1h 6m
Decoder Ring | Mailbag: Fruit Snacks, Waterbeds, and Lobster Tanks
Dec 18, 2024 • 52m
Introducing SNAFU with Ed Helms
Dec 11, 2024 • 32m
Decoder Ring | Mystery of the Mullet (Encore)
Dec 4, 2024 • 54m
Decoder Ring: Reconsidering One of the “Worst” TV Shows of All Time
Nov 20, 2024 • 1h 4m
Decoder Ring: A Feel-Good Story About the End of the World
Nov 10, 2024 • 43m
Decoder Ring: The Wrongest Bird in Movie History
Nov 7, 2024 • 51m
Decoder Ring: Selling Out (Encore)
Nov 4, 2024 • 53m
Decoder Ring: Calling Dick Tracy! It’s Warren Beatty Again
Oct 30, 2024 • 48m
The Rise of Fox News | 6. What Hath We Wrought?
Oct 23, 2024 • 1h 17m
The Rise of Fox News | 5. Ludacris Has Been Fired
Oct 16, 2024 • 1h 4m
The Rise of Fox News | 4. Beacon of Truth
Oct 9, 2024 • 1h 5m
The Rise of Fox News | 3. The Other Guy’s Hamburger
Oct 2, 2024 • 57m
The Rise of Fox News | 2. A Network for Normal People
Sep 25, 2024 • 1h 0m
The Rise of Fox News | 1. We Report. You Can Suck It.
Sep 18, 2024 • 57m
Season 10 Trailer: The Rise of Fox News
Sep 10, 2024 • 2m
Decoder Ring: Chuck E. Cheese Pizza War (Encore)
Aug 28, 2024 • 50m
Decoder Ring: The Hysteria Over Mass Hysteria
Aug 14, 2024 • 40m
Decoder Ring: Standing Up for Sitting Down
Jul 31, 2024 • 35m
Gays Against Briggs | The Story Behind Our Cover Art
Jul 26, 2024 • 27m
Decoder Ring: The Secret Life of Lawn Ornaments
Jul 17, 2024 • 51m
Gays Against Briggs | Tribeca Festival Live Show
Jul 15, 2024 • 1h 35m
Gays Against Briggs | 7. Turn Around. Fight Back.
Jul 3, 2024 • 51m
Gays Against Briggs | 6. The Murders at City Hall
Jun 26, 2024 • 56m
Gays Against Briggs | 5. Strange Bedfellows
Jun 19, 2024 • 55m
Gays Against Briggs | 4. You Must Come Out
Jun 12, 2024 • 57m
Gays Against Briggs | 3. Harvey Milk vs. the Machine
Jun 5, 2024 • 57m
Gays Against Briggs | 2. Defend Our Children
May 29, 2024 • 53m
Gays Against Briggs | 1. A Hotbed of Homosexuality
May 22, 2024 • 50m
Season 9 Trailer: Gays Against Briggs
May 9, 2024 • 1m
Decoder Ring: How the Jalapeño Lost Its Heat
May 8, 2024 • 32m
Decoder Ring: Making Real Music for a Fake Band
Apr 24, 2024 • 41m
Decoder Ring: Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?
Apr 10, 2024 • 37m
Decoder Ring: Andrew Wyeth's Secret Nudes (Encore)
Mar 27, 2024 • 54m
Decoder Ring: Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet
Mar 13, 2024 • 42m
Decoder Ring: The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"
Feb 28, 2024 • 43m
Announcing Slow Burn Season 9
Feb 22, 2024 • 1m
Decoder Ring: Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same?
Feb 14, 2024 • 33m
One Year: 1990 | 5. The Angry Death of Kimberly Bergalis
Dec 21, 2023 • 56m
One Year: 1990 | 4. Art on Trial
Dec 14, 2023 • 58m
One Year: 1990 | 3. Bush vs. Broccoli
Dec 7, 2023 • 40m
One Year: 1990 | 2. Mandrake the Magician
Nov 30, 2023 • 50m
One Year: 1990 | 1. Pizzastroika
Nov 22, 2023 • 57m
Decoder Ring: The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery
Nov 15, 2023 • 47m
Decoder Ring: The Dating Manual Unlike Any Other
Nov 8, 2023 • 37m
Decoder Ring: When Art Pranksters Invaded Melrose Place
Oct 25, 2023 • 41m
Decoder Ring: The Fast Decline of the Slow Dance
Oct 18, 2023 • 45m
One Year: 1955 | 6. The Hiroshima Maidens
Oct 6, 2023 • 54m
One Year: 1955 | 5. The Cutter Incident
Sep 28, 2023 • 35m
One Year: 1955 | 4. Siberia, USA
Sep 21, 2023 • 55m
One Year: 1955 | 3. The Weather Girls
Sep 14, 2023 • 45m
One Year: 1955 | 2. The Crockett Craze
Sep 7, 2023 • 57m
One Year: 1955 | 1. The Team Nobody Would Play
Aug 31, 2023 • 57m
Decoder Ring: Think Catchphrases Are Dead? Eat My Shorts.
Aug 16, 2023 • 40m
Decoder Ring: The Quest for a Homemade Hovercraft
Aug 9, 2023 • 42m
Decoder Ring: A Brief History of Making Out
Aug 2, 2023 • 36m
Decoder Ring: The Great Parmesan Cheese Debate
Jul 26, 2023 • 44m
Decoder Ring: What's Really Going On Inside a Mosh Pit?
Jul 19, 2023 • 34m
S8 Live Announcement & Bonus Conversation
Jul 15, 2023 • 27m
A National Disgrace
Jun 21, 2023 • 1h 6m
Becoming Justice Thomas | 4. A National Disgrace
Jun 21, 2023 • 1h 6m
Becoming Justice Thomas | 3. I’m Their Guy
Jun 14, 2023 • 55m
Becoming Justice Thomas | 2. Smiling Faces
Jun 7, 2023 • 50m
Becoming Justice Thomas | 1. America’s Blackest Child
May 31, 2023 • 54m
Season 8 Trailer: Becoming Justice Thomas
May 17, 2023 • 2m
Decoder Ring: Who Owns the Tooth Fairy?
May 10, 2023 • 38m
Decoder Ring: Why You Can’t Find a Damn Parking Spot
May 3, 2023 • 37m
Decoder Ring: The Artist Who Was Both Loved and Disdained
Apr 26, 2023 • 37m
Decoder Ring: The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 2
Apr 19, 2023 • 40m
Decoder Ring: The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 1
Apr 12, 2023 • 43m
Announcing Slow Burn Season 8
Feb 24, 2023 • 1m
Decoder Ring: The Mailbag Episode
Jan 3, 2023 • 39m
Decoder Ring: ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Got It Wrong
Dec 30, 2022 • 41m
Decoder Ring: Cellino & Barnes, Injury Attorneys, 800-888-8888
Dec 27, 2022 • 40m
Decoder Ring: How Preppy Became Streetwear
Dec 23, 2022 • 37m
Decoder Ring: The New Age Hit Machine
Dec 20, 2022 • 29m
Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade special announcement
Nov 29, 2022 • 3m
Roe v. Wade | Creating a Winning Show
Nov 29, 2022 • 2m
One Year: 1942 | 6. The Black-Japanese Axis
Nov 23, 2022 • 40m
Decoder Ring: The Butt and the Bustle
Nov 22, 2022 • 46m
One Year: 1942 | 5. When Internment Came to Alaska
Nov 17, 2022 • 42m
Decoder Ring: The Truth About #TheDress
Nov 15, 2022 • 38m
One Year: 1942 | 4. The Info Wars of World War II
Nov 10, 2022 • 48m
One Year: 1942 | 3. The Day the Music Stopped
Nov 3, 2022 • 57m
One Year: 1942 | 2. The Year Everyone Got Married
Oct 27, 2022 • 44m
One Year: 1942 | 1. The Most Hated Man in America
Oct 20, 2022 • 47m
Decoder Ring: McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime Pt. 2
Oct 12, 2022 • 47m
Decoder Ring: McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime Pt. 1
Oct 4, 2022 • 37m
One Year: 1986 | 7. The Man From Fifth Avenue
Sep 29, 2022 • 58m
One Year: 1986 | 6. The Miracle of Cokeville
Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 7m
One Year: 1986 | 5. Herschel vs. the Blubber Busters
Sep 15, 2022 • 51m
One Year: 1986 | 4. A Boycott in Mississippi
Sep 8, 2022 • 59m
One Year: 1986 | 3. The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults
Sep 1, 2022 • 1h 3m
One Year: 1986 | 2. The Ultimate Field Trip
Aug 25, 2022 • 1h 0m
Slow Burn presents... One Year: 1986 | 1. No Crime Day
Aug 18, 2022 • 55m
Decoder Ring: The “Sex” Scandal That Made Mae West
Aug 16, 2022 • 46m
Decoder Ring: The First Alien Abductees
Aug 9, 2022 • 41m
Decoder Ring: The Most Famous Poet No One Remembers
Aug 2, 2022 • 48m
Slow Burn presents: Decoder Ring - The Mall is Dead (Long Live the Mall)
Jul 26, 2022 • 50m
Roe v. Wade | 4. Roe Against Wade
Jun 22, 2022 • 12m
Roe v. Wade | 3. Women vs. Connecticut
Jun 15, 2022 • 9m
Roe v. Wade | 2. Life or Death
Jun 8, 2022 • 11m
Roe v. Wade | 1. Get Married or Go Home
Jun 1, 2022 • 56m
The L.A. Riots | 8. Damages
Dec 29, 2021 • 53m
The L.A. Riots | 7. Into Ashes
Dec 22, 2021 • 44m
The L.A. Riots | 6. No Peace
Dec 15, 2021 • 45m
The L.A. Riots | 5. The System
Dec 8, 2021 • 45m
The L.A. Riots | Extra: Leading Up to the Riots
Dec 1, 2021 • 22m
The L.A. Riots | 4. Glen
Nov 24, 2021 • 39m
The L.A. Riots | 3. The Chief
Nov 17, 2021 • 50m
The L.A. Riots | 2. No Justice
Nov 10, 2021 • 50m
The L.A. Riots | 1. The Tape
Nov 3, 2021 • 45m
Season 6 Trailer: The L.A. Riots
Oct 26, 2021 • 2m
One Year: Jesus on a Tortilla
Aug 20, 2021 • 55m
One Year: Roots: The Saga of Alex Haley
Aug 12, 2021 • 57m
One Year: Mr. Marijuana and the Drug Czar
Aug 10, 2021 • 50m
One Year: Elvis, the Pledge, and Extraterrestrials
Aug 5, 2021 • 59m
One Year: The Miracle Cure
Aug 2, 2021 • 1h 2m
One Year: Mary Shane's Rookie Season
Jul 29, 2021 • 54m
Decoder Ring: The Sign Painter
Jul 22, 2021 • 1h 2m
One Year: Anita Bryant's War on Gay Rights
Jul 9, 2021 • 1h 5m
The Road to the Iraq War | 8. Shock and Awe
Jun 16, 2021 • 10m
The Road to the Iraq War | 7. Judy
Jun 9, 2021 • 6m
The Road to the Iraq War | 6. Big, if True
Jun 2, 2021 • 46m
The Road to the Iraq War | 5. Four Dicks (and Vice President Cheney)
May 26, 2021 • 49m
Extra: More on the Road to Iraq
May 19, 2021 • 19m
The Road to the Iraq War | 4. Fighting Words
May 12, 2021 • 50m
The Road to the Iraq War | 3. Mushroom Clouds
May 5, 2021 • 47m
The Road to the Iraq War | 2. Terror
Apr 28, 2021 • 49m
The Road to the Iraq War | 1. The Exile
Apr 21, 2021 • 53m
Season 5 Trailer: The Road to the Iraq War
Apr 15, 2021 • 2m
Introducing: I Spy
Jan 29, 2021 • 28m
Extra: What We Can Learn From 1991
Oct 29, 2020 • 36m
David Duke | 6. A Concerned Citizen
Jul 22, 2020 • 10m
David Duke | 5. The Road to Hell
Jul 15, 2020 • 14m
David Duke | 4. A Silent Army
Jul 8, 2020 • 53m
Cold Call
Jul 1, 2020 • 27m
David Duke | 3. The Nazi and the Republicans
Jun 24, 2020 • 56m
David Duke | 2. Robe and Ritual
Jun 17, 2020 • 53m
David Duke | 1. White Knight
Jun 10, 2020 • 51m
Season 4 Trailer: David Duke
Jun 8, 2020 • 4m
Live: Party & Bullshit
Mar 18, 2020 • 56m
Announcement: Slow Burn's Watergate Season on TV
Feb 14, 2020 • 1m
Introducing: Broken Record
Dec 27, 2019 • 52m
Biggie and Tupac | Epilogue: Got a Story to Tell
Dec 20, 2019 • 51m
Biggie and Tupac | 8. Dead Wrong
Dec 18, 2019 • 8m
Biggie and Tupac | 7. To Live and Die in LA
Dec 11, 2019 • 7m
Biggie and Tupac | 6. Til Somebody Kills You
Dec 4, 2019 • 32m
Biggie and Tupac | Plus: "East vs. West"
Nov 30, 2019 • 1h 13m
Biggie and Tupac | 5. Wrath of a Menace
Nov 27, 2019 • 34m
Biggie and Tupac | 4. Against Those Thugs
Nov 20, 2019 • 33m
Biggie and Tupac | 3. What's Beef?
Nov 13, 2019 • 39m
Biggie and Tupac | 2. Cops on My Tail
Nov 6, 2019 • 35m
Biggie and Tupac | 1. Against the World
Oct 30, 2019 • 35m
Season 3 Trailer: Biggie and Tupac
Oct 24, 2019 • 3m
Introducing The Queen
Jun 4, 2019 • 24m
Slow Burn Live: The Kingdom and the Power
Dec 5, 2018 • 57m
Slow Burn Live: Keyholes
Nov 28, 2018 • 58m
The Clinton Impeachment | 8. Move On
Oct 10, 2018 • 7m
The Clinton Impeachment | Secret Tracks
Oct 3, 2018 • 34m
The Clinton Impeachment | 7. Bedfellows
Sep 26, 2018 • 7m
The Clinton Impeachment | 6. God Mode
Sep 19, 2018 • 10m
The Clinton Impeachment | 5. Tell-All
Sep 12, 2018 • 8m
The Clinton Impeachment | 4. Alone, Together
Aug 29, 2018 • 9m
The Clinton Impeachment | 3. Cred
Aug 22, 2018 • 9m
The Clinton Impeachment | 2. There There
Aug 15, 2018 • 47m
The Clinton Impeachment | 1. Deal or No Deal
Aug 8, 2018 • 41m
Season 2 Trailer: The Clinton Impeachment
Jul 23, 2018 • 4m
Watergate | Live in New York
May 22, 2018 • 57m
Watergate | 8. Going South
Jan 30, 2018 • 6m
Extra, Extra
Jan 23, 2018 • 28m
Watergate | 7. Saturday Night
Jan 16, 2018 • 8m
Watergate | 6. Rabbit Holes
Jan 9, 2018 • 8m
Watergate | 5. True Believers
Jan 2, 2018 • 7m
Watergate | 4. Lie Detectors
Dec 19, 2017 • 9m
Watergate | 3. A Very Successful Cover-Up
Dec 12, 2017 • 7m
Watergate | 2. The Defeat of Wright Patman
Dec 5, 2017 • 35m
Watergate | 1. Martha
Nov 28, 2017 • 30m
Season 1 Trailer: Watergate
Nov 17, 2017 • 3m
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