If you love the show and want to support us, consider joining Slate Plus. If you have any cultural mysteries you want us to decode, email us at. Supervising Producer of Narrative Podcasts. This episode of Decoder Ring was written and produced by Evan Chung and Willa Paskin with help from Elizabeth Nakano. Some of the voices you’ll hear in this episode include Bill Fries, advertising executive Chip Davis, singer and songwriter and Meg Jacobs, historian and author of Panic at the Pump. It touches on advertising, hamburger buns, and speed limits but also global conflict, sky-rocketing gas prices, and aggrieved, protesting truck drivers. Slate producer Evan Chung is going to take us through the history of this bizarre number-one smash, an artifact from a time when truckers were also at the center of the culture. ![]() ![]() McCall’s “Convoy” come to exist, and what had it been trying to say?įor this episode, which was inspired by a listener’s question, we’ve updated a story that originally aired in 2017, but that could not be more relevant today. ![]() In early 2022, that same song became an anthem for a new trucker-led protest movement in Canada and the US. ![]() In the 1970s, a song about protesting truckers topped the music charts in multiple countries, and kicked off a pop culture craze for CB radios.
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