Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s (Tara Ariano, Pamela Ribon and David T. Cole)
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| 02 Feb 2021 | March 1988 Teen Life: Sex, Flirts & Tiaras | 01:08:06 | |
We're delving into the features and ephemera regarding TEEN LIFE in the March 1988 issue!
Karen Catchpole dares to be frank on the matter of "Losing Your Virginity" (and parents/right-wing wackos were PISSED). Catherine Gysin goes undercover at the Miss South Carolina USA pageant and learns secret uses for Vaseline. The whole staff collaborates on a "How To Flirt" guide…of sorts. In the spec piece that got her the job at Sassy, Christina Kelly addresses how to handle "Talk Behind Your Back." Catherine speaks to the survivors of three young people who died by suicide. Christopher Newbound kicks off the fiction section with "My Name Is Daniel."
Then it's on to the departments: On The Road to Miami; What He Said about why guys dumped their girlfriends; and a real mixed bag of Help. (What to do when Mom kisses Boyfriend is just one of many questions WE have for that possibly fake letter writer.)
Stretch out on the shag rug and turn down George Michael on the radio: it's time to Listen To Sassy! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's March 1988 🎧 Spine Line & Distrupting Seventeen 🎧 Feature: Losing Your Virginity 🎧 Feature: Backstage At Miss USA 🎧 Feature: How To Flirt 🎧 Feature: Talk Behind Your Back 🎧 Feature: Life After Suicide 🎧 Meanwhile At Seventeen... 🎧 Fiction: My Name Is Daniel 🎧 On The Road 🎧 What He Said 🎧 Help 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🍒 “Losing Your Virginity: Real Talk About What Happens The First Time You Have Sex” in Teen Vogue 📖 How Sassy Changed My Life by Marisa Meltzer and Kara Jesella 😖 Aglow International, as Women Aglow is now known 👨👩👧👦 Focus On The Family 🌟 April Abel in the Miss South Carolina USA Hall Of Fame 🎙 April Abel's interview in the Miss USA pageant (starts 3:50) 🤝 Teen Vogue's advice on how to start dating 📷 Lauren Rutten, who shot the lead image for "Talk Behind Your Back" 👩🏼💻 Christina's blog 🧐 Grok Nation, which she helped launch with Mayim Bialik 🧹 A piece Christina wrote about cleaning up her mother's home after her death 👨🏻💻 Christopher Newbound's blog 📰 Tara's essay on collecting Sassy at The New York Times Magazine | |||
| 09 Feb 2021 | March 1988 Pop Culture: Mack, Mallory & Iron Lad | 01:11:30 | |
After flicking through Mackenzie Astin, Keith Coogan (yes, again), Married To The Mob, Tom Cruise, and more (Glemby) in What Now, it's on to the reviews. How do we vibe with the star ratings given to Rick Astley, Madonna, and R.E.M. -- of course -- in Listen Up? What about Moonstruck and September in Watch It?
Then, once we revisit Charlie Schlatter, our very first One To Watch, it's on to the pop culture features. Christina and an Iain Blair tag-team to profile a circa-Less Than Zero Robert Downey Jr. Then John Elder pervs all over poor Justine Bateman. Dig out your copy of Kick: we Need You (to listen to our latest podcast) Tonight. QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's March 1988 🎧 What Now: Up Close With Mackenzie Astin 🎧 What Now: Cieth Coogan Count 🎧 What Now: Bumping Into Married To The Mob and Tom Cruise 🎧 What Now: And Now A Word From Glemby 🎧 What Now: Sassy Launch Party 🎧 What Now: Fury Of Bubbles, etc. 🎧 Listen Up: Inxs 🎧 Listen Up: R.E.M. 🎧 Listen Up: Cindy Lee Berryhill 🎧 Listen Up: Eurythmics 🎧 Listen Up: Rick Astley 🎧 Listen Up: Madonna 🎧 Watch It: Moonstruck 🎧 Watch It: Anna 🎧 Watch It: Good Morning, Vietnam 🎧 Watch It: September 🎧 One To Watch: Charlie Schlatter 🎧 Robert Downey, Jr. Is A Little Weird, But We Like Him 🎧 This Girl [Justine Bateman] Has Touched Michael J. Fox, Scott Valentine and Jason Bateman...What’s She Got That You Don’t? 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🎸 @nahalidabarbie's viral tweet about MTV's current schedule 🎢 Up Close With Mackenzie Astin 🏄♂️ Under The Boardwalk (the release title of Wipe Out) on Amazon Prime 🔫 The Married To The Mob poster 💇🏻♀️ The story of Glemby 🎙 Trailer for the Michael Hutchence documentary, Mystify, on YouTube 👩🏻🎤 Madonna A to Z, by Mark Blankenship and Sarah D. Bunting 🇨🇿 The Anna trailer on YouTube 🏆 Sally Kirkland's Golden Globe win on YouTube 📺 The pilot of the Ferris Bueller TV series on YouTube 📷 Charlie Schlatter on Instagram 🏥 Schlatter on his chronic myeloid leukemia 📸 Firooz Zahedi, who shot the Robert Downey Jr. portrait 🍔 The Pulp Fiction poster, which Zahedi shot 💉 "The star who came back from the depths" (The Guardian, August 23, 2008) 🤦🏼♀️ Rachel Axler's New Yorker essay satirizing this tendency 📷 Justine Bateman on Instagram 📬 Tara's talking about Postcards From The Edge on the Quaid In Full podcast | |||
| 16 Feb 2021 | March 1988 Fashion Etc: Bandanas, The Boardwalk & Bugle Boy | 01:01:40 | |
Once Tara and Pam have described the fashions they were sporting or coveting in March of 1988, we critique the cover, and then get into the fashion stories of Sassy's premiere issue, set on a boardwalk, at an old railyard, and in a palette of creams and beiges. What Next also forecasts coming fashion trends with pinpoint accuracy -- thanks, Michael Kors and Betsey Johnson! The beauty features teach you how to use bandanas and makeup; then About Face tells you about bang trims and hot oil treatments, and Body Talk warns you about gonorrhea, weed, and NutraSweet. After Elise gets a makeover (and WILDLY negged in the process), we take a quick trip through some of the issue's most memorable ads, including Benetton, Levi's, Cherry Lane trying to make bloomers happen, and which Sassy Club products we'd be bugging our mom to buy us.
Then: the Magazineyness! Jane's first Diary (her editor's letter) has a culturally insensitive lede but otherwise makes us want to keep reading. The letters to the editor in Say What are probably just as real as the ones in Help! And should Sara Walker, the subject of Inside Out (the magazine's inside back cover column for magazine production ephemera) who actually named the magazine itself, maybe have been its first cover model? Start thinking about how you can source these outfits on the cheap as you listen along! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's March 1988 🎧 What We Wore 🎧 Fashion: Cover 🎧 Fashion: On The Boardwalk 🎧 Fashion: Tough Enough 🎧 Fashion: Milk And Honey 🎧 Fashion: What Next? 🎧 Beauty: Bandanarama 🎧 Beauty: Beginner's Guide To Makeup 🎧 Beauty: About Face 🎧 Beauty: Body Talk 🎧 Beauty: Then & Now 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Magazineyness: Diary 🎧 Magazineyness: Say What 🎧 Magazineyness: Inside Out 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🛍 Pam's jean jacket on Poshmark 🇬🇧 Jensen's British "Vogue" cover, shot by Herb Ritts 🥈 Photographer Nick Vaccaro's website, The Silver Canvas 💅 Marni Malinosky on Instagram 🎀 Chrissy Teigen's scarf scrunchies 👁 Magazine ad for Coty's disposable mascara 👛 Guerlain Meteorite Powder Pebbles 😵 Current adolescent gonorrhea rates 🤩 TV commercial for the United Superstars of Benetton 🤯 Benetton's history of "shockvertising" 😈 Creative director Oliviero Toscani's most controversial Benetton campaigns 🇮🇹 Why Benetton fired Toscani (for the second time) in 2020 | |||
| 19 Feb 2021 | March 1988 Slumber Party: Competition & Baking Soda | 00:36:10 | |
We took Sassy's very first quiz -- How Competitive Are You? -- and so can you! It's online and linked right here in the show notes. We each pick one question that particularly resonated with us and discuss it, and then report on our scores. Next, we play some of your calls. A few are about the quiz; a few are about how Sassy first came into listeners' lives; and a few are on subjects we never ever could have predicted, and we love them. Then, we read an email from an O.G. Sassy staffer. Learn more about us, yourself, AND your fellow listeners with this latest episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's March 1988 🎧 Quiz: How Competitive Are You? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 👊 Take the "How Competitive Are You?" Quiz 🚀 Tara's review of For All Mankind on Vanity Fair. 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast 🚣 I Remember Everything: Life Lessons From Dawson's Creek by Erin Hensley and Julia Callahan | |||
| 23 Feb 2021 | April 1988 Teen Life: AIDS, Divorce & Dating A Rock Star | 01:04:10 | |
We're back to TEEN LIFE topics, now in the April 1988 issue!
Christina Kelly gets a first-person account from a man whose friend died of AIDS as a teen. Karen Catchpole demystifies what it's actually like to date a rock star, killing some Beastie Boys crushes in the process. Karen then dares to tell the truth about boys' bodies -- not just the parts in their boxer shorts, though that is admittedly what we're mostly interested in. And Catherine Gysin prepares readers for how their lives might change after their parents' divorce.
Christina returns with the Short Short Story "What Sudie Didn't Tell Me." On The Road takes a trip to Austin (a place all your co-hosts have lived and loved!). Body Talk moves from Fashion to Teen Life, and with it our comments on its reporting on pap smears, golf, and cross training. Help has some truly wild questions we must pray are fake before closing things out with What He Said: "What do you think of girls who make the first move?" QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's April 1988 🎧 Us In April 1988 & Spine Line 🎧 Feature: My Best Friend Died Of AIDS 🎧 Feature: Dating A Rock Star: What It’s Really Like 🎧 Feature: The Truth About Boys’ Bodies 🎧 Feature: The Divorce Is Only The Beginning 🎧 Fiction: What Sudie Didn’t Tell Me 🎧 On The Road: Austin 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 What He Said 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 👼 Angels In America on HBO Max ♥️ The Normal Heart on HBO Max 👩🏽🦰 Pose on Netflix 📖 The World Only Spins Forward by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois 📻 Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould | |||
| 02 Mar 2021 | April 1988 Pop Culture: Tiffany, Tom Hanson & Twisted Sister | 01:09:10 | |
Weeeeeeeeell…it's the pop culture topics of the April 1988 issue! What Now covers the latest in Madonna's acting career, Corey Haim's love life, and a new movie from Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, as well as the first entry in the Sassy glossary, news about condoms, and facts about prom, year-round school, and Frisbees. Watch It features reviews of Hairspray (the original and best), Dominick And Eugene, Stand And Deliver, and She's Having A Baby, while Listen Up highlights artists with hair (Twisted Sister) and without (James Taylor). We check in on where One To Watch Matt Adler is now. Then we are divided on Karen Catchpole's infamous profile of Tiffany, and Christina's turn as an extra on 21 Jump Street. Put on your vintage party dress and get into it! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's April 1988 🎧 Our Pop Culture Lives in April 1988 🎧 What Now: Madonna's Acting 🎧 What Now: Daggy 🎧 What Now: The History Of The Frisbee 🎧 What Now: Adam Horovitz in Lost Angels 🎧 What Now: Condoms 🎧 Watch It: Hairspray 🎧 Watch It: Dominick & Eugene 🎧 Watch It: Stand And Deliver 🎧 Watch It: She's Having A Baby 🎧 Listen Up: Robyn Hitchcock 🎧 Listen Up: James Taylor 🎧 Listen Up: House Of Freaks 🎧 Listen Up: Dweezil Zappa 🎧 Listen Up: George Thorogood And The Destroyers 🎧 Listen Up: Twisted Sister 🎧 One To Watch: Matt Adler 🎧 Feature: How Tiffany Ruined My Weekend! 🎧 Feature: That’s Me On TV With Johnny Depp 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Bonus: Pam & The Johnny Depp Poster NOTES 🐨 "Daggy" on UrbanDictionary.com 🎧 Bill On His Own on the Quaid In Full podcast 🤰 She's Having A Baby on CBS All Access (soon to be Paramount+) 🪦 The She's Having A Baby end credits 🎸 The April 1988 Listen Up mixtape on Spotify 🏄♂️ "Whatever Happened To Matt Adler AKA The Dude From North Shore?" 🧑🎤 Trailer for the Billie Eilish documentary The World's A Little Blurry on YouTube 💒 The 21 Jump Street episode "Chapel Of Love" on Peacock 🎙 Johnny Depp interviewed about 21 Jump Street on Entertainment Tonight in 1988 🏫 Lord Byng High School, where Christina's scenes were shot 🧒 Tara's review of the Punky Brewster revival at Primetimer.com | |||
| 09 Mar 2021 | April 1988 Fashion Etc: Prom, Lipstick & Floral Crafts! | 01:03:30 | |
Let's get to the fashion and beauty topics of the April 1988 issue! Want to know what to wear "holidaying"? To prom? On a first date? You're also going to learn how to kill five hours at home, keep lipstick off your teeth, make a fabric flower, and so much more -- all in our latest podcast! You WILL need an iron. QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's April 1988 🎧 Noxzema The Burninator 🎧 Fashion: The Cover + Depp Poster 🎧 Fashion: Holidaying 🎧 Fashion: Talk Of The Prom 🎧 Fashion: Decisions, Decisions 🎧 Fashion: What Next 🎧 Beauty: How To Shake Up Your Saturday 🎧 Beauty: Just One Color 🎧 Beauty: About Face 🎧 Beauty: Then & Now 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Magazineyness: Diary 🎧 Magazineyness: Say What 🎧 Magazineyness: Inside Out 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Humoring Pam NOTES 🌺 YouTube tutorial for DIY fabric flowers 🌼 YouTube tutorial for DIY paper flowers 💇🏻♀️ YouTube instructions for fake bangs 💅 Revlon's origins as a nail polish company 🧴 Buf-Puf Daily Cleanser With Microbead Capsules on eBay 📿 The fight against microbeads today | |||
| 12 Mar 2021 | April 1988 Slumber Party: Compatibility & Amtrak Bangs | 01:01:07 | |
Sassy's second quiz -- How Compatible Are You? -- had SOME of us asking a lot of questions about whether we had actually married the right person close to 24 years ago. Then we fired up the voicemails and took a wild ride through your reminiscences about your first periods, the albums you scammed out of Columbia House, your celebrity encounters, and your most regrettable hairdon'ts. Stretch out on the shag rug and listen! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's April 1988 🎧 Quiz: How Compatible Are You? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 👊 Quiz: How Compatible Are You? 🎧 Pam on the Go Fact Yourself podcast 🌍 Tara's review of The Real World Homecoming: New York at Variety 🔥 The Real World Homecoming: New York discussed at our sister podcast, Extra Hot Great | |||
| 16 Mar 2021 | May 1988 Teen Life: Stripping, Kissing, Moms & Monster Stepdads | 01:14:30 | |
Sassy is not messing around with the Teen Life topics this month. You're getting the straight dope on PMS. You're getting a BRUTALLY detailed story about a girl who dropped out of high school to become a stripper -- either encouraged or forced to do so by her mother. Sassy editors poll 200 mothers and daughters on what they know about each other, and what they don't. Catherine gets into the weeds with her advice on how to kiss. Even the short story twists, turns, and...Tums? You're going to learn a lot, so strap in for our latest podcast, if you dare! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's May 1988 🎧 Us In May 1988 + Spine Line 🎧 Feature: Why You’re A Bad-Tempered-Zit-Faced-Moody-Pain-in-the-Butt (Once A Month) 🎧 Feature: She Was A Teenage Stripper 🎧 Feature: What Your Mom Doesn’t Know About You (And What You Don’t Know About Her) 🎧 Feature: How To Kiss 🎧 Fiction: My Mother Married A Monster 🎧 On The Road: Beverly Hills 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 What He Said 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 The Gum Wrapper NOTES 🤬 Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder 💊 Bonafide 📰 30th anniversary news story about Tracy Mancini's suicide case in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel 💰 Contemporary story from the Sun-Sentinel on whether Chip and Theresa could profit off Tracy's story 📺 Law & Order Season 2 Episode 3: "Aria" 📝 A blog written by Theresa, supposedly from Tracy's point of view 👩👧 "20 Things Teen Girls Wish Their Mom Knew," from ScaryMommy 👩👧 "Raising A Teenage Girl: What Every Mother Needs To Know!" from Teenage Survival Coach 👩👧 "Three Questions Your Teenage Daughter Wants To Ask You" from Colorado Teen Therapy 💕 "On 'Late'-In-Life Virginity Loss" from The Atlantic 💋 Seventeen's 20 Best Kissing Tips 👩❤️💋👨 Pam's favorite kiss of all time, from The Holiday 😗 2021's most awkward kiss (to date), from Resident Alien 🌴 Beverly Hills's 75th anniversary celebration 👃 Tiziana 🏡 Another Beverly Hills house Prince had later 🏀 The story of Prince's rental of Carlos Boozer's house 🌴 Buy A Very Special 90210 Book at Black Pearl Books 📺 Deadline's report on Slam!'s series adaptation at HBO Max | |||
| 23 Mar 2021 | May 1988 Pop Culture: Swayze, Satisfaction & Four To Watch | 01:05:23 | |
May 1988 was a big one for pop culture: the airing of the St. Elsewhere series finale meant the dawning of the Tommy Westphall Universe! After discussing that, plus some other big moments in contemporaneous TV finales, we take a stroll through What Now. Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy, stretching as actors! Patrick Swayze, opening a restaurant in New York! Karen, breaking a Tiffany album in half! And Pam delves into the dark history of Anna Jarvis, creator of Mother's Day! Finally, the issue folds One To Watch into its one and only pop culture feature, having Christina interview FOUR Ones To Watch. Sure, we all know who Alex Winter is, but did Paul Hipp, Billy McNamara, and Alan Boyce amount to anything? Find out with our latest episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's May 1988 🎧 In Our Lives + Crybaby 🎧 What Now: Fresh Horses 🎧 What Now: Patrick Swayze's Restaurant 🎧 What Now: Celebrity Sightings 🎧 What Now: Trashing Tiffany 🎧 What Now: A Girl Named Sassy 🎧 What Now: Glossary #2: Rage 🎧 What Now: Mother's Day 🎧 What Now: Black Cheerleader Gets Abused 🎧 Watch It: School Daze 🎧 Watch It: The Beat 🎧 Watch It: Satisfaction 🎧 Watch It: The Invisible Kid 🎧 Listen Up: Ziggy Marley And The Melody Makers 🎧 Listen Up: Big Pig 🎧 Listen Up: Venetians 🎧 Listen Up: Johnny Hates Jazz 🎧 Listen Up: Will And The Kill 🎧 Listen Up: Crazy House 🎧 Feature: Ones To Watch: Cute Guy Alert 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 When Will The Episode End?! NOTES 🏥 The Tommy Westphall Universe 🎂 "The story behind Kirk Cameron's sad birthday party photo" at Yahoo! News 👩 "Take A Second To Salute Anna Jarvis, The Mother Of Mother's Day" at NPR 🤦♀️ The Wikipedia entry on Anna Jarvis ⚖️ "Ex-Cheerleader Wages Lonely Fight at Ohio State" at NYTimes.com 🗒 Biography of Jill (Redo) Joseph's husband, Rev. Eric Anthony Joseph, Ph.D. 📼 The Tapeheads Trailer on YouTube 🥁 Trailer for The Beat on YouTube 🎬 "Iko Iko" scene from Satisfaction, on YouTube 🎞 Trailer for The Invisible Kid on YouTube 🎵 Pam's May 1988 mixtape on Spotify 💨 Alan Boyce Grows Invisible at Dennis Cooper's blog 🖐 Sticky Fingers on Amazon Prime Video 🎹 Liberace: Behind The Music on Amazon Prime Video 🎙 Billy McNamara on the Conversations With Connors podcast 🔥 Extra Hot Great 346, featuring our discussion of Kid 90 | |||
| 30 Mar 2021 | May 1988 Fashion Etc.: Beaches, Bathing Suits & Natural Beauty | 01:05:18 | |
It's about to be summer, which means it's time for us all to look at some swimsuits, photographed in a tropical locale (St. John in the Virgin Islands, to be precise). Bright colors? Black? Some all-white dresses? All represented. Catherine also lets you in on the secrets of how models always look so perfect in magazines (it's all kinds of sorcery). Then you can go ahead and plunder your household pantry to make some natural masks and tinctures for your face and hair. We're also talking haircuts, hair dye, a whole mess of ads, Sassy Club, Christina's turn in the Diary spotlight, and much more. Put on your whitest dress, try not to spill a Coke on it, and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's May 1988 🎧 Fashion: Cover 🎧 Fashion: Island Life 🎧 Fashion: White, White, White, White, Whitest! 🎧 Fashion: Dare To Bare It! 🎧 Beauty: How We Make This Girl Gorgeous 🎧 Fashion: What Next 🎧 Beauty: Real Natural Beauty 🎧 Beauty: About Face 🎧 Beauty: Then & Now 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Magazineyness: Diary 🎧 Magazineyness: Say What 🎧 Magazineyness: Inside Out 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 👙 Body Glove Throwback Time After Time swimsuit 🩱 Body Glove 80's Throwback The Look One Piece Swimsuit at SwimOutlet.com 👜 Pam critiquing handbags on Twitter 🧼 "Maker of Dove Soap Will Drop the Word 'Normal' From Beauty Products" at NYTimes.com 🧑🦰 Set Free: The Book About Hair 👀 Covergirl Lash Blast Amplify Eyelash Primer 👄 Vintage Bonne Bell Lip Smackers 💋 Lip Smacker Vanilla Rollerball Lip Gloss for sale on eBay ⛷ "Whatever Happened to Sea & Ski; Once the Nation's Most Popular Suntan Brand" at BrandlandUSA 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast which includes both questions and answers | |||
| 06 Apr 2021 | May 1988 Slumber Party: Vanity, Threesomes & The Sassiest Girl In America | 01:19:55 | |
How Vain Are You? The May 1988 quiz determined our rates (and yours) in a very scientific way! We hear from listeners about the quiz, vintage legwear, the Bill & Ted soundtrack, and other euphemisms for farting, among other topics. Then, as a special Slumber Party bonus, we all fill out the application for The Sassiest Girl In America contest...as we think we would have done in 1988. Get into it! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's May 1988 🎧 From The Corrections Department 🎧 Quiz: How Vain Are You? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 The Sassiest Girl In America Contest 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🪞 Take the "How Vain Are You" quiz. 🐶 The theoretical podcast about dogs who fart would be called Listen To Assy. 🧰 Power Tool's "Two Heads Are Better Than One" lyrics ⌨️ The shitty Ontario-only computer was not "POGO" but "ICON." The language was LOGO. ✍️ The Sassiest Girl In America Application | |||
| 13 Apr 2021 | June 1988 Teen Life: Geniuses, Breasts & Wheels | 00:44:23 | |
The time will soon come (heh) when Sassy can no longer talk about such things, so get your fill (heh heh) of Karen's piece on getting turned on NOW. The issue also tells you everything you need to know about breasts -- or, almost, as Pam informs her moderately horrified co-hosts. Catherine's report on two 11-year-old child geniuses is dark in the moment, and gets darker after she leaves, as you can see in further reporting linked in the show notes. Pam and Tara are enthralled by Elizabeth Mosier's "Wheels," and former Hawaii residents Tara and Dave have some fact-checking notes when On The Road heads to Honolulu. Body Talk and Help get into their usual embarrassing areas (sponges! yeast infections!) before we close out with What He Said about smart girls, siiiiiiigh. JUMP IN to our latest episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's June 1988 🎧 From The Oopsie Department 🎧 In Our Lives 🎧 Feature: Getting Turned On 🎧 Feature: Wanted: Perfect Breasts 🎧 Feature: Geniuses 🎧 Fiction: Wheels 🎧 On The Road: Honolulu 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 What He Said: What Do You Think Of Smart Girls 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🍆 The Masquerade sex scene (WARNING: NSFW) ⏱ Adragon Demello's 60 Minutes profiles 🧠 "Boy's 'Genius' Is At Center Of Family, Academic Woes" from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel 👦🏼 Adragon De Mello on Wikipedia 📖 Mosier's novel, My Life As A Girl 🌺 "Far-Right Extremists Co-Opt Floral Hawaiian Shirts" at Beach Grit 🧽 Contraceptive sponge information from Planned Parenthood 🧐 "Do Men Want To Date Intelligent Women?" at Psychology Today 🎧 Something To Talk About on the Quaid In Full podcast | |||
| 20 Apr 2021 | June 1988 Pop Culture: Celebrity Crushes, Ziggy Marley & Beetlejuice | 01:02:06 | |
Pop culture in June 1988: let's get into it! What Now serves up Weird Al (kind of), newlyweds "Leonard" Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, and beach book recommendations. The reviews introduce you to Feargal Sharkey, Toni Childs, Little Nikita, and the now months-old Beetlejuice. WAS George Newbern One To Watch? Your panel is divided! And we get not one, not two, but THREE features: profiles of Ziggy Marley and Jason Gedrick, and an essay on whether your celebrity boy crushes make the real-life boys in your life feel bad. Turn off that new Stacey Q album and listen to us instead! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's June 1988 🎧 In Our Lives 🎧 Issue Search Update + Signoffs 🎧 What Now: Weird Al + Andrea = 4EVA 🎧 What Now: Young Celebrity Marriages 🎧 What Now: Bitchin' Beach Books 🎧 What Now: Who's In The Sassy Fan Club (and Who's Not) 🎧 What Now: Love, Jane XXX 🎧 What Now: Who Invented Father's Day 🎧 What Now: Glossary #3: Wanker 🎧 Listen Up: Feargal Sharkey 🎧 Listen Up: Talking Heads 🎧 Listen Up: Stacey Q 🎧 Watch It: This Movie Starring Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis And Winona Ryder, Directed By Tim Burton 🎧 Watch It: Stars & Bars 🎧 Watch It: 18 Again 🎧 Watch It: Little Nikita 🎧 Watch It: Plain Clothes 🎧 Watch It: Sticky Fingers 🎧 One To Watch: George Newbern 🎧 Feature: How I Bored Ziggy Marley 🎧 Feature: Why That Patrick Swayze Poster May Destroy Your Love Life 🎧 Feature: Don’t Call Jason Gedrick A Hunk! 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 What Now: NYCancer NOTES 🦈 Feargal Sharkey's "More Love" video 🏅 Feargal Sharkey receives the OBE 🎧 Pam's June 1988 playlist at Spotify 🎞 A long Stars & Bars scene on YouTube 🪆 The Little Nikita trailer on YouTube 👉 Sticky Fingers on Amazon Prime Video 👈 The Sticky Fingers trailer on YouTube 🚑 The Paramedics trailer on YouTube 💔 "Your Celebrity Crush Might Be Ruining Your Love Life" at StudentLife 🥰 "These Fans Landed A Relationship With Their Celebrity Crush" at Buzznet 🦅 Iron Eagle on Amazon Prime Video 🤠 Jason Gedrick in the series finale of Justified on Hulu 👍 The Everything Is Fine podcast on Patreon | |||
| 27 Apr 2021 | June 1988 Fashion Etc.: Hippies, Hat Crimes & A Hacked-Up Prom Dress | 00:47:25 | |
We're talking about the fashion and beauty of the June 1988 issue! Why is "My Backyard" in black-and-white, and did it make us less likely to covet the clothes? Which panelists hate all the hippies (and the hippie looks) of "Hip Hip Hippie"? Did any models cut their feet modeling barefoot in "Big Brights," and what the hell does "popsicle speed" mean? Did you attempt to tie-dye using What Next's instructions? Did "Some Things Never Change" make you nostalgic for your grandma's style, or Tim Conway's comedy? Isn't that a co-host of The Real on the About Face page? SHOULD you cut up your prom dress? How wild are "The Wild Ones" of Coty Wild Musk? Do we still think Mary Clarke is cool and envy reader Barbara Francis's day at the magazine? Some of these questions will be answered in our latest episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It’s June 1988 🎧 Updates + In Our Lives 🎧 Fashion: Cover 🎧 Fashion: My Backyard 🎧 Fashion: Hip Hip Hippie 🎧 Fashion: Big Brights 🎧 Fashion: What Next 🎧 Beauty: Some Things Never Change 🎧 Beauty: About Face 🎧 Fashion: Then & Now 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Magazineyness: How One (She Thought She Was Lucky) Reader Survived A Day At Sassy 🎧 Magazineyness: Inside Out 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 👖 Jordache Basics "I Hate My Mother" Commercial on YouTube 👗 The "Putumayo Dress" tab on eBay 🩳 "6 Versatile Ways To Wear Bike Shorts" on TheEverygirl.com 🥄 "How To Tie-Dye An Old White Shirt" on Instructables.com 👀 Maybelline Great Lash Clear Mascara 💅 Garcelle Beauvais on Wikipedia 🐦 Garcelle Beauvails on Twitter 📷 Garcelle Beauvais on Instagram 💆♀️ "Green Hair From Chlorine: This Is The Easiest Solution" at GloboSurfer.com 👗 "Hack Your Own Designer Gown" at Sue Bryce Education 🤛 Lolita Tulle Ruffle Cuff on Etsy 🎽 Blue Co Ord Corset Crop Top at MissGuided ✂️ "How To Convert A Prom Dress Into A Skirt Tutorial" at FleeceFun 🪡 "How To Make Your Own Petticoat" at This Blog Is Not For You 🛋 "Turn Those Old Bridesmaid Dresses Into Throw Pillows!" at The Sunrise Guide 📺 Tara's Couples Therapy review at Primetimer | |||
| 04 May 2021 | June 1988 Slumber Party: Glop, Snail Trails & Being Artistic | 00:34:07 | |
The June 1988 quiz purported to calculate how artistic we are, but not all of your co-hosts are on board with the magazine's methodology -- though we do tell you how we did. Then it's on to playing a selection of your voicemails, covering such topics as Kiwi periods, guerrilla anti-smoking campaigns, Guess Jeans, Beetlejuice, and justice for George Newbern. Get into it! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's June 1988 🎧 This Mint Business 🎧 Thrills Gum 🎧 The Sassiest Girl In America Contest 🎧 Quiz: How Artistic Are You? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Thrills Gum Again NOTES 👧 The Sassiest Girl In America Contest Application: Get yours in by May 7! 🎨 Take the How Artistic Are You? quiz! 🦟 Tara's review of The Mosquito Coast AppleTV+ series at Primetimer.com | |||
| 11 May 2021 | July 1988 Teen Life: Queer Couples, Guys Not To Date & Outdoor Parties | 01:01:17 | |
What was going on in Teen Life in the July 1988 issue? A LOT. First, Catherine profiles a pair of queer couples she and Jane met at a legendary LGBT dance at Columbia. Then, we learn how to throw three distinct kinds of outdoor summer parties...and we have notes. Christina schools us on the five types of guys we should NOT date; Pam's not sure if that means, like, ever? And the editors' suggestions for ways to get fit without really noticing you're exercising are confusing: there's kind of a world of difference between how much you exert yourself skateboarding as opposed to floating in a lake. Lauren Yaffe's short story "Under The Light" takes us to camp before On The Road takes us to Vienna, WV. Body Talk informs us about fitness walking, potato chips, cervical caps, and shinsplints. We hone in on the Help letters about drug-using parents, sex-having step-siblings, masturbation, and stinky feet. Finally, we discuss What He Said about losing his virginity. Steal that cocaine out of your mom's purse (spoiler) and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's July 1988 🎧 Feature: And They’re Gay 🎧 Feature: Do It Up Fresh! 🎧 Feature: Five Guys Not To Date 🎧 Feature: Forget Fitness 🎧 Fiction: Under The Light 🎧 On The Road: Vienna, WV 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 What He Said: When, Where, And How Did You Lose Your Virginity? 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Problem Feet NOTES 🏳️🌈 Records of GLYNY (Gay And Lesbian Youth Of New York) 🏢 "Earl Hall at Columbia University Listed on National Register of Historic Places" 🌭 "Zero Waste Outdoor Dining: You Can Do It!" at The View From Great Island 💁♂️ "5 Guys You Should Never Date" at Stylecaster 🐵 The damsel-in-distress in Donkey Kong is Pauline, not Peach 🤸 "11 Little Ways To Exercise Without Actually Working Out" at Self 🎨 Fiction illustrator Paula Nessick | |||
| 18 May 2021 | July 1988 Pop Culture: Dating Game, Aussie Bands & Cool Breezes | 01:05:52 | |
Our discussion of the pop culture topics in the July 1988 issue of Sassy turns into a wild ride, as Dave takes tough stances on overstuffed comic books, Pam fact-checks an item on Keanu Reeves's name, and a factoid about fireworks ends up in a revelation about pediatric dentistry in Saskatchewan in the 1980s. Watch It covers Permanent Record and Running On Empty, among others; then Listen Up assigns Jenny Morris the wrong nationality but also tells us about a solo project from a guy in The Smiths. Chris Young tries (and fails) to break the One To Watch curse. Then it's on to the features: Christina reports from the set of The All New Dating Game and delivers a roundup of Australian bands, before Karen profiles a very VERY young Chynna Phillips. No need to hold on for one more day: our latest podcast is here! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It's July 1988 🎧 In Our Lives 🎧 What Now: Comic Books Are Your Friend 🎧 What Now: Gibson Grammar 101 🎧 What Now: Dirty Dancing II 🎧 What Now: Keanu Reeves 🎧 What Now: Groovox 🎧 What Now: Stonewashed Demin 🎧 What Now: Our Karen Is Growing Up 🎧 What Now: Who Thought Up Fireworks? 🎧 What Now: Banana Guy Yells At Condoms 🎧 Watch It: Permanent Record 🎧 Watch It: Stormy Monday 🎧 Watch It: Running On Empty 🎧 Watch It: Casual Sex? 🎧 Watch It: Critters 2 🎧 Listen Up: Morrissey 🎧 Listen Up: Jenny Morris 🎧 Listen Up: Jane Wiedlin 🎧 Listen Up: Nu Shooz 🎧 One To Watch: Chris Young 🎧 Feature: I Was A "Dating Game" Bachelorette 🎧 Feature: Australian Bands Are Cooler 🎧 Feature: The Big Lies About Chynna 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Elfquest NOTES 💃 Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights on HBO Max 📻 This American Life segment on Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights 🛼 Keanu Reeves at an L.A. Derby Dolls bout 👖 Contemporary stonewashed denim for sale at Mr Porter 🦷 Academic study of Saskatchewan's school-based dental program, WHICH WAS REAL 🗄 Permanent Record trailer on YouTube 🏞 River's Edge trailer on YouTube 📆 Stormy Monday trailer on YouTube ⛽️ Running On Empty on HBO Max 🚗 Running On Empty trailer on YouTube ❤️ Casual Sex? trailer on YouTube 😈 Critters 2 trailer on YouTube 🎙 Jenny Morris covering "Jackson" with Michael Hutchence 🎵 Pam's July 1988 mixtape on Spotify 📺 "10 More Promising TV Pilots That Weren't Picked Up" at Vulture 🗡 Another Jake's Journey remembrance that references an article about it at Starlog 🏕 The Great Outdoors on Showtime 😘 The Celebrity Dating Game on ABC.com ⛪️ Chynna Phillips's YouTube channel, "California Preachin'" | |||
| 25 May 2021 | July 1988 Fashion Etc.: Stripes, Curls & Looking Like A Skater | 01:09:37 | |
While the July 1988 cover goes hard for American-flag style (...and, okay, so does Sassy Club), the rest of the fashion in this issue is not overly patriotic. We're going to Arizona -- or somewhere very dry and hot -- for a swimwear spread. We're in an old-timey cottage for some undergarment looks. And then: stripes. So many stripes. We're also learning about hot-weather hair help, products from the beauty closet the Sassy staff swears by, how to look like a skateboarder (and possibly get called a poser in the process), and so much more. Stick some American-flag toothpicks in your hair -- or don't -- and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is July 1988 🎧 In Our Lives 🎧 Fashion: Cover 🎧 Fashion: Hot To Trot 🎧 Fashion: The Cottage 🎧 Fashion: Stripes 🎧 Fashion: These Models Used To Look Like That?!? 🎧 Fashion: What Next: Totally Thrashed 🎧 Beauty: Hot Hair 🎧 Beauty: About Face 🎧 Beauty: Then & Now: Natural (Well, Almost) Curls 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Magazineyness: Diary: Hey, Baby 🎧 Magazineyness: Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🦁 1988 Wildcat Shoes commercial on YouTube 🧶 Adrienne Vittadini, Queen Of Knits 👎 Rightly slagged post on the Adrienne Vittadini Instagram 🛍 South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, the largest shopping center on the U.S. west coast 📸 Jonathan Lennard on Instagram 💨 "Ultimo, Chicago's First Great Boutique" at Chicago magazine 👖 Jordache Jeans "old man" commercial on YouTube 🚓 Cheryl Pollak's 21 Jump Street episode, "Best Years Of Your Life," on Peacock 💄 Discontinued Maybelline Moisture Whip Classic Red on eBay 💁♀️ "Diary Of A Hair Plop" at Elle.com 👃 Parfums de Coeur commercial on YouTube | |||
| 01 Jun 2021 | July 1988 Slumber Party: Eating Disorders, David Byrne & The Sassiest Girl | 00:29:17 | |
We've vetted all your applications (and we thank each and every one of you who filled one out), and the time has come to announce OUR Sassiest Girl In America! Then it's on to July 1988's extremely intense yet also possibly poorly constructed quiz: Could You Become Anorexic Or Bulimic? CW: This segment, of course, finds us talking about eating disorders, diets, and weight loss, so if those are triggering subjects for you, please skip ahead to...your calls! Past issues' pop culture! Getting punked by the Sassy Glossary! Believe it or not, EVEN MORE Miracle Whip talk! It's all here! Get comfy and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is July 1988 🎧 The Sassiest Girl In America Contest 🎧 Quiz: Could You Become Anorexic Or Bulimic? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🔥 Extra Hot Great 356: 2021 Summer TV Preview | |||
| 08 Jun 2021 | August 1988 Teen Life: Death Row, Teacher Crushes & Boys On Makeup | 01:04:11 | |
When we say the Teen Life topics of the August 1988 issue run the gamut, that is precisely what we mean. We're going to start with the story of the youngest person ever sentenced to Death Row; then review the results of a survey conducted on 300 boys in malls, on topics ranging from when they want to get married to which outfit they'd most like to see you wear on a date. Crushing on a teacher? Christina has advice on that, some of which has not aged so well. And Barbara Bondrack's short story takes us backstage at a rock show...sort of. On The Road takes us to Boston; Body Talk covers exercise bands and constipation; Help has some advice about confusing sex dreams and bed-wetting (unrelated). Two extremely important departments make their début: Stuff You Wrote and It Happened To Me! And the first IHTM is about...getting an abortion! After that heavy topic, we need to wind down with What He Said about the upcoming presidential election. Tone down your eyeliner -- that's how dudes like it, apparently -- and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is August 1988 🎧 In Our Lives + Spine Line 🎧 Feature: A Girl On Death Row 🎧 Feature: The Definitive, Ultimate "Guys Are Weird" Survey 🎧 Feature: Hot For Teacher 🎧 Fiction: Backstage 🎧 On The Road: Boston 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 It Happened To Me: Amy Had An Abortion 🎧 What He Said: Who Do You Really Want For President? 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 📺 "Indiana Woman Sentenced To Die At 16 Goes Free" at NBC Chicago 🗞 "From Death Row At 16 To Suicide At 45: The Life And Death Of Paula Cooper" at The Intercept 📖 "The Emerging Movement For Police And Prison Abolition" at The New Yorker 📚 Paula Cooper: The Executioner Within e-book at The Indianapolis Star 🗞 "People Over For-Profit Prisons: A Social Movement In Gary, Indiana" at Counterpunch 🍆 We found the Harvard Lampoon penis quiz! Take it now! 👨🏫 "It's Okay To Have A Crush, But Dating Your Teacher Is Wrong" at Teen Vogue ❤️🩹 "How To Cope With A Crush On Your Teacher" at WikiHow 🛋 "It Came From The '70s: The Story Of Your Grandma's Weird Couch" at Collectors Weekly 💺 "Unsightly Recliner Redesigned To Attract Style-Conscious Baby Boomers" at The Los Angeles Times 🎶 "Young Girl" lyrics at Genius.com 😖 "Resistance Band Snaps and Hits Guy in Eye While Exercising" at YouTube 😫 "What Could Possibly Go Wrong [Resistance Band Fails]" at YouTube 🩸 "Ten Days In The Life Of A Tampon" at Jezebel 💆♀️ "How I Might Have Just Become The Newest Urban Legend" at pamie.com 😴 "What Do Your Sex Dreams Mean?" at Everyday Health 🔪 "When Men Need A Dick Chopp One Vasectomy Doctor Proves Man For The Job" at WackTrap 🎥 Abortion: Stories Women Tell on HBO Max 🎞 Never Rarely Sometimes Always on HBO Max 💰 National Network Of Abortion Funds 🤠 "Texas Senate Advances Bill Requiring Pre-Abortion Counseling" at The Texas Tribune | |||
| 15 Jun 2021 | August 1988 Pop Culture: Lou Diamond Phillips, Guest Critics & Baby River Phoenix | 00:51:02 | |
The pop culture coverage in the August 1988 issue is a bit slighter than we're used to, allowing us to get into nearly every bit of it. What Now tells us to get hype for The Fly II, Haunted Summer, and The Prince Of Pennsylvania, also mentioning in passing a comedy called Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, shrug. It also gets into John Stamos's new haircut, a Europe member's birthday, the unreleased Jon Cryer/Penelope Spheeris movie Dudes, the Amnesty International tour, and the dearth of women in heavy metal. Outside pop culture, we learn about "the crack" in the Sassy Glossary, and hunt down photos of the River Phoenix poster that the previous owners of our magazine copies obviously ripped out before selling them to us. To mix it up, the magazine gets a bevy of young stars it's recently interviewed, or about to -- including Alex Winter (twice), Paul Hipp, Alan Boyce, Johnny Depp, Annabeth Gish, and more -- to serve as guest critics in Watch It and Listen Up. And finally, Christina does yeoman's work in her write-around profile of an unavailable Lou Diamond Phillips. We hope YOU are available to listen! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is August 1988 🎧 In Our Lives 🎧 What Now: The Fly II + Haunted Summer 🎧 What Now: Prince Of Pennsylvania 🎧 What Now: Free Pee-wee + John Stamos's Hair 🎧 What Now: Dudes 🎧 What Now: Debbie Gibson 🎧 What Now: Female Heavy Metal Stars 🎧 What Now: Amnesty International Concerts 🎧 What Now: The Crack 🎧 What Now: River Phoenix Poster 🎧 Watch It: The Year My Voice Broke 🎧 Watch It: The Blob 🎧 Watch It: Willow 🎧 Listen Up: Boogie Down Productions 🎧 Listen Up: Iggy Pop 🎧 Listen Up: Sam Phillips + Thomas Dolby 🎧 One To Watch: Rodney Harvey 🎧 Feature: Lou Diamond Phillips: Don’t Sit Home Waiting For His Call 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🤴 The Prince Of Pennsylvania on YouTube 🎸 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure on HBO Max 🧑🏻🦱 John Stamos before his 1988 haircut 💇🏻♂️ John Stamos after his 1988 haircut 🙆♂️ Dudes screenwriter Randall Jahnson on IMDb 📺 "Nickelodeon Cuts Ties With iCarly Creator Dan Schneider After Alleged Abusive Behavior" at Huffpost ☘️ "Who will set us free of the bogus Irishness of craic?" at The Irish Times 👦🏼 The Year My Voice Broke trailer on YouTube 🎶 Pam's August 1988 playlist on Spotify 👨🏻🎤 "Iggy Pop on David Bowie: 'He Resurrected Me'" at The New York Times 🇩🇪 "Why David Bowie and Iggy Pop chose Berlin over Los Angeles" at Far Out 📍 Spike Of Bensonhurst on Facebook 🎼 Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost on YouTube 📺 Rodney Harvey on The Outsiders TV show Wiki 👀 The Outsiders TV show on YouTube ✍️ Pam's autographed copy of The Outsiders 🪦 "The Curse Of Idaho" at Empire.com 🙃 Disorganized Crime on YouTube 💎 Lou Diamond Phillips on Wikipedia | |||
| 22 Jun 2021 | August 1988 Fashion: Sweaters, Denim & Smart Tartan | 01:09:06 | |
Let's get fashionable, August 1988-style! It's time to start your back-to-school shopping, and you KNOW that means you're going to see a fashion story about plaid. Have you also heard about denim? Or sweaters? Because those get a moment in the spotlight too. What Next is also going to tell you what's hot on the runways of real, grown-up fashion brands, while What Now scales back the difficulty level with a craft involving buttons. (Don't be scared.) This issue also features the premiere of We Try It, with Sassy staffers raiding the beauty closet and reviewing things like the Conair Fashion Plates iron that can crimp a star into your hair! You'll also learn about Cheryl in Diary, and about everyone's jobs in a feature in which all the staffers try subbing in for one another for a day. We discuss all of the above, and so much more -- so many new ads!!! -- in this week's podcast! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is August 1988 🎧 In Our Lives 🎧 Fashion: Cover 🎧 Fashion: Smart Tartan 🎧 Fashion: Hyper Denim 🎧 Fashion: Sweater Girls 🎧 Fashion: What Next: Big Designers Fall Forward 🎧 Beauty: Who’s That Girl? 🎧 Beauty: Wake Up! 🎧 Beauty: We Try It 🎧 Beauty: About Face 🎧 Beauty: Then & Now 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Magazineyness: Diary 🎧 Magazineyness: Say What 🎧 Magazineyness: We Just Weren’t Ourselves That Day 🎧 Magazineyness: Inside Out 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Covid Fuck Party NOTES 📕 Cover model Carrie Boone's '80s-era booking composite 💄 Carrie Boone on being a short model, in McCall's 👖 Betsey Johnson tartan pixie pants at Torrid (more Johnson plaids at the source) 👖 Plaid bondage pants at AngryYoungAndPoor.com 😷 Whittal And Shon Ou La La face mask 👨✈️ Whittal And Shon Misha Yacht Cap 👞 The Shophound on Tootsie Plohound 💁♀️ Conair Fashion Plates on Etsy 👓 Iris Apfel in her signature oversized glasses | |||
| 29 Jun 2021 | August 1988 Slumber Party: Guts, Cheese & Bathing Caps | 00:33:05 | |
How gutsy are we? Gutsy enough to share our results from August 1988's "How Gutsy Are You?" quiz, and even to critique the framing of several questions. Then we move on to your latest calls: this month, you want to talk about the quiz (and you also have some notes), narcs, bathing caps, crushes on teachers, the horror of having restaurant staff sing "Happy Birthday" to you, and so much more! We're not going to tell if you don't brush your teeth before getting in your sleeping bag for the Slumber Party! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is August 1988 🎧 Quiz: How Gutsy Are You? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 💪 The August 1988 quiz, "How Gutsy Are You?" 💰 Donate to the National Network Of Abortion Funds 🔥 The Extra Hot Great podcast on AppleTV+'s Physical (and much more) | |||
| 13 Jul 2021 | September 1988 Teen Life: Racism, Boarding School & Talking Toes | 00:53:09 | |
Sassy's first back-to-school issue makes a few major missteps: a feature called "Living With Racism" whose white author relentlessly others her interview subjects, all young women of color; and an imbecilic fiction story from premiere issue Justine Bateman harasser John Elder. But "Where The Boys Aren't," about the all-girl boarding school Emma Willard, leaves at least one of your co-hosts yearning for some single-sex scholastics. Then we go On The Road to Lexington, where Sassy is disabused of some of its hick stereotypes; get an It Happened To Me from a girl whose house was used as a Rain Man shooting location; hear What He Said about female athletes (and, as usual, wish we hadn't); and take a trip through the feelings being expressed in Stuff You Wrote. All this plus an itchy Body Talk and a typically squicky Help in our latest episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It Is September 1988 🎧 Spine Line + In Our Lives 🎧 Feature: Living With Racism 🎧 Feature: Where The Boys Aren’t 🎧 Fiction: The Talking Toes 🎧 On The Road: Lexington, Kentucky 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 It Happened To Me: Tom Cruise Made a Movie at My House 🎧 What He Said: What Do You Think of Girls Who Are Jocks? 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Girl School Daze 🎧 Ten Little Toe Coffins 🎧 Pam Never NOTES 🌀 Dave overstated the death toll from hurricane Gilbert by a factor of 10 because he's a monster 💊 Inderal drug facts (including side effects) 👖 "What Your Skinny Jeans Are Really Doing To Your Vagina" on Self.com 🩸 "10 Facts About Toxic Shock Syndrome Every Tampon-Wearer Should Know" on Self.com 📰 Pauline Ach at the Wooster Voice in 1989... 🧀 1984 Velveeta Slices commercial starring Kirk Cameron and Jenny Lewis | |||
| 20 Jul 2021 | September 1988 Pop Culture: Kevin Dillon, Amanda Peterson & Celebrity Style Fails | 00:51:35 | |
This is the POP CULTURE episode, not Fashion Etc., but given all the talk of hair, we'd get it if you got confused. As extensions! On arms! Stats about who's dyeing what shade! It's a lot. Watch It has some harsh words for the Pet Shop Boys' full-length film. Listen Up features, among others, a band from Australia's nearest neighbor -- hey, Crowded House! And the features tell us all about Kevin Dillon, Amanda Peterson, and a bunch of bad candids we're supposed to think represent female stars' personal style when, let's be real, they almost certainly didn't. Pause Forever Your Girl -- but not forever; its "BOMB" review was unjust -- and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It Is September 1988 🎧 In Our Lives 🎧 What Now: Who Has Fake Hair? 🎧 What Now: Celebrity Styles (And Slipups) 🎧 What Now: Matthew Broderick 🎧 What Now: Jason Patric 🎧 What Now: Peter Has Lousy Taste 🎧 What Now: Who Hasn’t Rob Lowe Kissed? 🎧 What Now: Poison Recall 🎧 What Now: Bogus Blondes 🎧 What Now: Condoms That Roll Over 🎧 What Now: Abortion Rates 🎧 Watch It: A Summer Story 🎧 Watch It: Big Business 🎧 Watch It: Poltergeist III 🎧 Watch It: The Presidio 🎧 Watch It: It Couldn’t Happen Here 🎧 Listen Up: Crowded House 🎧 Listen Up: Run-D.M.C. 🎧 Listen Up: Brian Setzer 🎧 Listen Up: Paula Abdul 🎧 One To Watch: Jonathan Ward 🎧 Feature: Kevin Dillon Likes To Garden 🎧 Feature: Amanda Peterson Hates Cheerleaders 🎧 Feature: Beauty Styles (And Slipups) Of The Rich And Famous 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🐒 George Michael's "Monkey" on Songfacts 🥗 Oil And Vinegar on Wikipedia 📸 Peter DeLuise and Gina Nemo's engagement photo 👰♀️ Peter DeLuise and Gina Nemo's wedding photo 🏆 Gina Nemo discussing her "award-winning" 21 Jump Street character 👯♀️ The Big Business reunion scene on YouTube 📍 It Couldn't Happen Here trailer on YouTube 📢 Brian Setzer's new album announcement on his website 🐍 "Cold-Hearted Snake" video on YouTube 😽 "Opposites Attract" video on YouTube 🎧 Pam's September 1988 playlist on Spotify 📺 The New Adventures Of Beans Baxter on Wikipedia 👀 Beans Baxter pilot credits and opening scene 🌷 Savage Steve Holland on IMDb 😳 "Vintage ICONS Interview: Savage Steve Holland!" at Icons Of Fright 👽 Compilation of Paul Rudd Conan appearances on YouTube 👩🎨 "Creativity without fear: Up close with ICON head Jonathan Ward" at Hagerty.com 👨🏻🌾 Kevin Dillon on Instagram ✊ "Hard Knock Life" scene from Annie on YouTube 💩 "You Shit On My House" scene from Can't Buy Me Love on YouTube | |||
| 27 Jul 2021 | September 1988 Fashion Etc.: Fishing, Jean Jodhpurs & Unnecessary Accessories | 01:06:28 | |
We're dealing with the fashion, beauty, and magazine-y topics of the September 1988 issue, and not dealing with them well because the editors have given us so much to yell about! Which garments are not safe to wear in a creek, or without pants? Why would anyone hike their giant pants up so high? WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO YOUR DAD'S OLD JEANS?! We also look at the cold war between surfers and skateboarders (???); what's new in shoes, socks, and hair removal; new ads; Sassy Club; and why Neill gets rave reviews for...doing his actual job. Take off that NAPOLEON HAT and listen! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It Is September 1988 🎧 In Our Lives + Cover 🎧 Fashion: Going Fishing 🎧 Fashion: Big Bottoms 🎧 Fashion: Surfers Vs. Skaters 🎧 Fashion: Necessary Accessories 🎧 Fashion: Making It: Redo Your Denim 🎧 Fashion: What Next: Foot Fetish 🎧 Beauty: We Try It 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Magazineyness: Say What 🎧 Magazineyness: Inside Out: A Neill By Any Other Name 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ⛪️ George Hulse's church, The Shoreline 👨👧 His daughter, Brooklyn Hulse, on Instagram 🚚 "Chris Miller Knows" at ThunderTrucks.com 🏄♂️ Mark "Gator" Rogowski's Wikipedia page 🐊 Stoked: The Rise And Fall Of Gator on YouTube 😬 Patricia Arquette describes her date with Rogowski at Eonline.com 🧠 "Brain injuries are startlingly common among those who have committed crimes" at Economist.com 🔍 "Domestic abuse: Killers 'follow eight-stage pattern,' study says" at BBC.com | |||
| 03 Aug 2021 | September 1988 Slumber Party: Best Friends, Narc Facts & Office Supplies | 00:42:47 | |
How Good A Best Friend Are You? We're not sure we totally agree with what ALL the options supposedly tell us, but we do share our results. Then it's time to play your latest voicemails! How did a listener end up with an apartment full of Cineplex Odeon popcorn sprinkles? What kind of glamor was Eric Stoltz serving when he was spotted on the streets of Toronto? Did we accidentally slander Covington, Kentucky? Those questions and more you never knew you had are answered in our latest Slumber Party episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It Is September 1988 🎧 Quiz: How Good A Best Friend Are You? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Eeeeee-yee-hee-eeee-EEEE NOTES 👯♂️ "How Good A Best Friend Are You?" quiz ✍️ Bic Round Stic Ball Point Pen | |||
| 10 Aug 2021 | October 1988 Teen Life: Fat Camp, Jelly Beans & Popcorn Lung | 01:01:11 | |
Our treat for October (as the spine line promises) is a brand-new issue, and we're starting things off by discussing its Teen Life topics! Catherine goes to a weight loss camp and collects insights from her fellow female staffers on how to ask out dudes. Karen facilitates as three readers make over their bedrooms in very different styles. Christina returns to the fiction department with a cautionary tale about jelly beans. All that, plus Body Talk; a BUNCH of Help letters from readers signing themselves "Confused"; and a Stuff You Wrote submission that is...not in good taste. Pour yourself a bowl of jelly beans and listen! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello, It Is October 1988 🎧 In Our Lives + Spine Line 🎧 Feature: Welcome To Fat World 🎧 Feature: How To Ask A Guy Out 🎧 Feature: Big Bedrooms 🎧 Fiction: Jelly Beans 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 What He Said: How Did You Like Being Asked Out (By A Sassy Staff Member, No Less)? 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 On The Road: Salt Lake City NOTES 🥛 Luverne, MN's Tri-State Band Festival 📉 "3,813 Pounds Down, 6,187 Or So to Go" on NYTimes.com 🥤 Alba '77 ⚖️ Weight loss camps still in operation 🏕 Camp Colang alumni group on Facebook 📍 Camp Colang on LocationsHub.com 👩🎨 Website for "Jelly Beans" illustrator Betsy Everitt 🚴♀️ The Presidential Fitness Challenge 🍿 "Do You Risk Popcorn Lung When You Make Microwave Popcorn?" at CSPInet.org 🛣 "Karen Catchpole Hit The Road 12 Years Ago...And Hasn't Stopped Yet" at the Bare Necessities blog 🛏 "Go To Your Room (and Decorate)" on NYTimes.com 📷 Andrew McCarthy on Instagram | |||
| 17 Aug 2021 | October 1988 Pop Culture: Vibes, Dudes & Female Ones To Watch | 01:02:53 | |
Our coverage of October 1988's pop culture topics kicks off with a big announcement: we're on Patreon! And we've got lots of cool things planned for those who support us there! We get out our electron microscopes to peruse the two-page Columbia House spread and choose the 12 Hot Hits we're going to buy for a Cool Penny. We bring you highlights from What Now, from a rudely dismissed River Phoenix biography to a beauty queen who infiltrated a pageant! We review the reviews of A Fish Called Wanda, Joy Division's Substance, Monkey Shines, UB40's self-titled album, and more! The latest male One To Watch is...really not, but later we are introduced to FOUR lady Ones To Watch who've all had great careers. We also journey to Long Island to meet Brian Bloom, and his very-involved momager. Don't miss it! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is October 1988 🎧 Introducing The Listen To Sassy Club 🎧 In Our Lives 🎧 What Now: Pop Culture 🎧 What Now: Other Stuff 🎧 Watch It: A Fish Called Wanda 🎧 Watch It: Monkey Shines + Waxwork 🎧 Watch It: Vibes 🎧 Watch It: Dudes 🎧 Listen Up: UB40 🎧 Listen Up: Dag Nasty 🎧 Listen Up: Scritti Politti 🎧 Listen Up: Joy Division 🎧 Listen Up: Pat Benatar 🎧 One To Watch: Christopher Rydell 🎧 Feature: Brian Bloom Does Make A Tasty Snack 🎧 Feature: Watch These Girls Get Famous 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 👹 Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground on YouTube ♣️ Our Patreon: Listen To Sassy Club 💔 "Why Did Johnny Depp And His First Wife, Lori Allison, Divorce?" on CheatSheet.com 👖 Lil Nas X splitting his pants on SNL 💼 "The Law Dean Who Became An Undercover Beauty Queen" at AboveTheLaw.com 🐵 The Monkey Shines videotape cover 🎥 Listen To Me on Amazon Prime Video 🎶 Pam's October 1988 playlist on Spotify 📷 Christopher Rydell on Instagram 💃 Dance 'Til Dawn (fka Senior Prom) on YouTube 🎵 Alanis's "Too Hot" video on YouTube 🐦 Penelope Ann Miller on Twitter 📷 Penelope Ann Miller on Instagram 🚬 Heathers on Amazon Prime Video 🕵️♂️ Hiding Out on Amazon Prime Video | |||
| 24 Aug 2021 | October 1988 Fashion Etc.: Coats, Beats & Hate Mail | 01:06:30 | |
What are you wearing in October 1988? Sassy wants to show you a lot of coats (which look good when accessorized with a boyfriend), a story inspired by the Beats, and jumpers. It also wants you to ruin a sweater with an assload of bells, and stick a bunch of hatpins in the tallest hat you can find. A beauty feature on how to achieve perfect skin proves to be another strangely formative story for two of your co-hosts, though the About Face items that most resonated are just...strange. Then & Now does a glam '40s-style makeover; the ads take us through ABC Daytime stars, the two jobs available to women, and baffling typographical choices. Sassy Club gets spooky for October, Diary highlights Andrea, Say What blows the lid off a plagiarism scandal, and haters get ONE WHOLE PAGE to air their grievances. We hope you won't be similarly aggrieved by our latest podcast! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is October 1988 🎧 LTS Club x TGAPCQS 🎧 Fashion: Cover 🎧 Fashion: Baby, It’s Cold Outside 🎧 Fashion: The Beat Goes On 🎧 Fashion: One Two Three Dressed! 🎧 Making It: With Bells On 🎧 Hat Next: Keep Your Hat On 🎧 Beauty: Wanted: Perfect Skin 🎧 Then & Now: Get Sophisticated 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Diary: Our Sedona 🎧 Say What 🎧 Magazineyness: What Do YOU Think? 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 About Face + Epiphonics NOTES ♣️ All about the Listen To Sassy Club 💄 All That Glitters by Jody Shield on Amazon 📕 More All That Glitters offers via Google 😱 Benguiat, aka the Stephen King font ⭐️ ITC Serif Gothic Std Heavy font 💰 Donate to the National Network Of Abortion Funds to help fight SB 8 in Texas | |||
| 31 Aug 2021 | October 1988 Slumber Party: Zits, Scams & Pens | 00:44:33 | |
How Superstitious Are You? The October 1988 quiz helps us figure it out, but not all of us are happy with our results. Then we play some of your most recent calls: what happened to someone who did sew bells on an outfit; how effective cortisone shots are on cystic acne; which pens are actually superior; and what is a Pam filter? We also share some of your most recent podcast reviews. Make yourself a root beer float and join us for our latest Slumber Party! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is October 1988 🎧 Quiz: How Superstitious Are You? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🥁 "It's a Steal! How Columbia House Made Money Giving Away Music" at MentalFloss.com | |||
| 07 Sep 2021 | November 1988 Teen Life: Sick Moms, Fighting Sisters & Virgins | 00:53:06 | |
Sassy is, of course, very proud of the work they did in their first few issues -- describing what readers' first sexual experiences might be like, demystifying boys' bodies, profiling out queer couples, and so on. But apparently the hate mail we read in the October issue was just a tiny fraction of what they received, or so we must surmise given November's lead feature: "Virgins Are Cool"! The issue then wends its way through how to land very cool jobs; what life is like for sisters who just cannot get along; a trip to Portland, Maine; and not one but two pieces about living with a mother who is ill. All this and much more: we hope you'll be thankful for our first episode on the November 1988 issue! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is November 1988 🎧 In Our Lives + Spine Line 🎧 Feature: Virgins Are Cool 🎧 Feature: Terrorizing Your Sister 🎧 Feature: Ten Amazing Jobs (And What It Takes To Get Them) 🎧 Fiction: Visitation Rites 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 It Happened To Me: Lynn’s Mother Died Of Cancer 🎧 Help 🎧 On The Road: Portland 🎧 What He Said: Do You Want To Live With A Girl Before You Marry Her? 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Crack Is Wack NOTES 📚 Slaves Of New York on Thriftbooks 📽 The Slaves Of New York movie on JustWatch 🏛 MTV's Museum Of Unnatural History ⚡️ "Should You Electrically Vibrate Your Period Pain Away?" at Slate 👙 Betty Beauty Malibu (Aqua Blue) pubic hair coloring kit at Amazon | |||
| 14 Sep 2021 | November 1988 Pop Culture: Axl, Ricki & A Guy From INXS Who Is Not Michael Hutchence | 00:56:55 | |
What Now? Or should we be pronouncing it "What NOW"? An extraordinarily salty Christina fills the two-page spread by denigrating Jane Wiedlin's animal activism, casting doubt on Jason Gedrick's sincerity when speaking about his mental health issues, and saves her last bit of poison for Remote Control's Marisol, who was not even still ON Remote Control at the time! Watch It once again lets Neill half-ass a review (this time for the Sasha Mitchell vehicle Spike Of Bensonhurst) amid more considered critiques of Imagine, Memories Of Me, and more. Listen Up brings us reviews of Cruel Story Of Youth (not the movie), Joan Armatrading, and Kylie Minogue's undeniably derivative self-titled debut. One To Watch breaks its curse by profiling someone who is still an actual A-List star in our day: one Mr. Brad Pitt. And for our features, Christina settles for INXS...........guitarist Kirk Pengilly before sitting down for some unwarranted body talk with Hairspray's Ricki Lake. Join us to hear it all! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is November 1988 🎧 In Our Lives 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It: Spike Of Bensonhurst 🎧 Watch It: The Prince Of Pennsylvania 🎧 Listen Up: Cruel Story Of Youth 🎧 Listen Up: Joan Armatrading 🎧 Listen Up: Masters Of Ceremony 🎧 Listen Up: Kylie Minogue 🎧 Listen Up: Big Audio Dynamite 🎧 One To Watch: Brad Pitt 🎧 Feature: He’s The One With The Glasses 🎧 Feature: Ricki Lake Has Two And A Half Boyfriends 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Imagine NOTES 🏙 The Downtown Chorus on Discogs.com 💉 A Nightmare On Drug Street on YouTube ⌚️ Club MTV's promo for the Swatch Impact Tour on YouTube 🥀 "The Hard Truth About Guns N' Roses" on RollingStone.com 🛍 ABC Afterschool Special "Summer Stories: The Mall" at the Paley Center 👑 The Prince Of Pennsylvania on YouTube 👶 Cruel Story Of Youth's John Are commenting at the Conformreach blog 🎧 The November 1988 Mixtape on Spotify 🍽 The 23 minute Genesis song "Supper's Ready" from 1972 that Pam somehow forgot to put on the Mixtape. 📫 Brad Pitt's episode of 21 Jump Street, "Best Years Of Your Life," on Peacock 🗿 A Stoning In Fulham County (fka The Amish Story) on YouTube 🌞 The Dark Side Of The Sun on YouTube | |||
| 21 Sep 2021 | November 1988 Fashion Etc.: Suede, Sunflowers & Scent | 00:51:34 | |
It's hard to know what the editors think their reader is doing in November 1988, based on the issue's fashion and style content. Is she dressing drably for a job? Visiting the Southwest (again) in suede? Attending a formal girls-only party? Maybe all three in succession! At least the hair story suggests pleasantly un-fussy styles...not that you can really see them in the photos. We also learn about the coming sunflower invasion, how to even out your eyelashes, what perfume is, and much much more! Roll your hair up -- or don't -- and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Hello It Is November 1988 🎧 Fashion: Cover 🎧 Fashion: The Country Girl 🎧 Fashion: Easily Suede 🎧 Fashion: All Dressed Up 🎧 What Next: Sunflower Power 🎧 Beauty: Spare Hair 🎧 About Face 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Magazineyness: Say What 🎧 Magazineyness: Inside Out 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 👂 "Van Gogh Painting Sold for Record $39.85 Million" at LATimes.com 🌻 Blossom in sunflower headgear 👁 "Your Eyelashes Should be This Long, Science Says" at ScientificAmerican.com 🏍 Jack Scalia Sasson ad outtake 🍱 The Caboodles Retro collection 🔮 "Caboodles then and now: How this beauty kit started with Vanna White" at GoodMorningAmerica.com 📺 Tara's essay on James Wolk and Ordinary Joe at Decider.com 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show's Listen To Sassy crossover episode | |||
| 28 Sep 2021 | November 1988 Slumber Party: Perfectionism, Australian Slang & Deborah Norville | 00:42:21 | |
Are You A Perfectionist? Only you can answer that for yourself (with Sassy's help); after you've finished completing the quiz, you can listen to your co-hosts' results. Then we play your latest voicemails and learn more about acne, salads, the Downtown Choir, what Australians REALLY think of the word "spunk," Deborah Norville, and which of us was owed an apology from one of our listeners. Join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is November 1988 🎧 Quiz: Are You A Perfectionist? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ⚖️ 1988 board games, including L.A. Law 🛏 Tara's perfectly folded fitted sheet on Instagram | |||
| 05 Oct 2021 | December 1988 Teen Life: Smoking, Preachers & Persimmons | 00:56:57 | |
It's time for festive fun with the December 1988 issue, and that means...kicking off with a real bummer of a Catherine story about two teen preachers, one of whom should have probably been removed from his father's care. Christina tries to fulfill Jane's request that she figure out what being "in love" actually is, and isn't. Karen brings us what is essentially a holiday "What Now," with gift ideas, recipes, fun facts, and a baffling layout. Karen then tries to convince her readership that smoking is uncool, fighting against decades of pop culture to the contrary. The whole staff pitches in on a holiday-themed short story. And then we're on to the departments! Exercise tights in Body Talk! Going On The Road to Tempe! Highlights from Help and What He Said (about consent)! And another wild installment of Stuff You Wrote! Grab some Oreos -- or don't, if you have political qualms (...you'll see) -- and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is December 1988 🎧 Feature: Children Of God 🎧 Feature: How To Tell If You’re Really In Love 🎧 Feature: ’Tis The Season To Be Different 🎧 Feature: Smoking Is For Dags 🎧 Fiction: It’s A Wonderful Story 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 On The Road: Tempe 🎧 Help 🎧 What He Said: If A Girl Says No, Do You Think She Really Means It? 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Bonus Douche Content! NOTES ❤️🔥 "Fiery family just keeps on punching" at The Deseret News 🙏 William Hudson III's episode of Amen ⛪️ Hudson's church, Powerhouse Chicago 👨🏾🦲 Hudson's current bio ⏲ A La Machine food processor on eBay 🎄 Why Christmas is abbreviated as "Xmas" 😇 One of many reasons not to volunteer at the Salvation Army or give them your money 🧫 Summer's Eve, Pam's guest issue of the Rick And Morty comic book, at ComicVine | |||
| 12 Oct 2021 | December 1988 Pop Culture: Tom Waits, Jason Bateman & R.E.M.’s Green | 00:53:19 | |
Time to unwrap another holiday-season podcast, this time about the pop culture topics of the December 1988 issue! What Now serves up smog, some Sassy superfan sisters, a book giveaway, what the stars want for the holidays, and "grotty"! Reviews include R.E.M.'s Green (featuring a legendary gaffe by our fearless leader Jane), Mystic Pizza, Clara's Heart, Bon Jovi's New Jersey, and Tom Waits's Big Time, which we talk about...a lot. One To Watch is certified A-lister -- well, okay, B -- Christian Slater! And the feature profiles go deep on R.E.M. -- more Green content -- and a truck-racing Jason Bateman seconds before he gave up the sport forever. Take off your fuzzy earmuffs and listen! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is December 1988 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It: Clara's Heart 🎧 Watch It: The Beast 🎧 Watch It: Mystic Pizza 🎧 Listen Up: R.E.M. 🎧 Listen Up: Tom Waits 🎧 Listen Up: Bon Jovi 🎧 Listen Up: Anthrax 🎧 One To Watch: Christian Slater 🎧 Feature: How To Make An R.E.M. Record 🎧 Feature: A Boy And His Truck 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🍆 "Ozone In Air Found Damaging To Condoms" at APNews ☎️ Wicomico County Health Department's HIV/AIDS program, current owner of 1-800-234-TEEN (8336) 🎧 The December 1988 mixtape on Spotify 🏛 Athens, GA - Inside/Out on FlixFling 💥 Jason Bateman's bad racing crash on YouTube 🛣 "How We Started a Racing Series That Almost Killed Jason Bateman" at Road And Track 🛻 Bateman himself discussing the crash on his podcast, Smartless (starting 01:07:30) | |||
| 19 Oct 2021 | December 1988 Fashion Etc.: Marilyn, Layers & Spa Treatments | 01:07:30 | |
The fashion (etc.) of the December 1988 issue features one spread inspired by the style of Marilyn Monroe, and another that shows you how to layer to stay both cute AND warm! There's also a story that we might say culturally appropriated the Roma people, except (a) that's not the word in the headline and (b) the interpretation is pretty loose. There are also step-by-step instructions on getting ready for a party, editors' reports on various spa treatments, more Christmas stuff in Sassy Club, a bunch of new ads, and more! It's a gift! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is December 1988 🎧 Cover 🎧 Fashion Feature: Marilyn! 🎧 Fashion Feature: Hey Gypsy 🎧 Fashion Feature: Over The Top 🎧 Making It: Sweatjacket 🎧 Beauty Feature: The Big Night 🎧 About Face 🎧 We Try It: Pamper Yourself 🎧 Then & Now: No More Frizzies 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Diary: Get Serious 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Over Over The Top NOTES 👗 "Losing And Finding My Worth Through Modeling" at New School Free Press 😡 "Resignation And Boycott At Sassy" at NYTimes.com 🖋 Tara's author page at Decider, where you can find her recaps of You Season 3 | |||
| 26 Oct 2021 | December 1988 Slumber Party: Honesty, New Jersey & Caboodles | 00:42:05 | |
We hope you brought your sleeping bag because it's Slumber Party time! Your co-hosts share their results from the December 1988 quiz -- How Honest Are You? -- and then play some of the most recent voicemails left on our hotline (720-SASSY-GO -- just program it into your phone and call us whenever the spirit moves you!). What memories did our episodes dislodge in the minds of your fellow listeners? Douche jokes, Caboodle coveting, defenses of gravel-voiced vocalists, and so much more. QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is December 1988 🎧 LTS Club Drunken Holiday Drive 🎧 Quiz: How Honest Are You? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Bruce Springsteen Can't Poop NOTES | |||
| 02 Nov 2021 | January 1989 Teen Life: Tattoos, Teen Dads & The First-Ever Sassiest Girl In America | 01:08:17 | |
3, 2, 1, HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's 1989, and we're kicking off our coverage of the January issue by talking about its Teen Life topics. What's teen pregnancy like for the dads? Why is your body going wacko? How did Christina survive an Outward Bound rafting trip? And who was named the very first Sassiest Girl In America? (Okay, the cover kind of gives that one away.) There's also What He Said about tattoos; a trip to Wabash, IN; another too-whimsical fiction story; a wildly fake It Happened To Me; and so much more. Make some noise! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is January 1989 🎧 Feature: My Girlfriend Got Pregnant 🎧 Feature: Who’s The Sassiest One Of All? 🎧 Feature: Why Your Body’s Going Wacko 🎧 Feature: There’s No MTV In The Wilderness 🎧 Fiction: Joe’s Dead 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 On The Road: Wabash, IN 🎧 Help 🎧 It Happened To Me: Friend Getting Sexually Abused 🎧 What He Said: What Do You Think Of Girls With Tattoos? 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🌼 Steel Magnolias on Wikipedia 🎭 Program from Nobody Knows The Francher Kid, starring Annisa Morrison 💻 Margo Phillips (née Meriwether) on Facebook 🪦 Obituary for Margo's mother, Dr. Myrtle Lillian Capehart 🏫 Sandra Oda's profile on OutSchool.com 🤷♀️ A Josie Hodgson at Commo.com.au [co-host jury is out on whether it's the same one] 🤦♀️ The same Josie Hodgson on LinkedIn 😎 Rinnan mentioned in a post on Compendium Of Cool 🧈 The Buttered Cat Paradox on Wikipedia 🛸 The conundrum in OMNI magazine 🧠 Veronica Chambers on Wikipedia | |||
| 09 Nov 2021 | January 1989 Pop Culture: Mary Stuart Masterson & Wacko Entertainment Poll Results | 00:54:30 | |
The pop culture topics of the January 1989 issue cover a lot of ground, from a sad update on June 1988 child genius profile subject Adragon DeMello to the movie Patrick Swayze's doing instead of a Dirty Dancing sequel (it's only ROAD HOUSE!!!), five-star reviews for two very dark movies, and a sweet profile of Mary Stuart Masterson. But there's also a lot of snarking at the stars! Duran Duran's latest dance album gets slammed. And a whole bevy of celebrities are judged and found wanting as Sassy reports the results of its entertainment poll. Retract your claws -- or don't! -- and join us for our latest podcast! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is January 1989 🎧 Pop Zsa Zsa Gabor Quiz 🎧 Holiday Goal Drive Update 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch: Steve Burton 🎧 Feature: Mary Stuart Masterson Wants To Have Babies 🎧 Feature: The Coolest (And Uncoolest) Stars Movies Music Of The Year 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 How To Make A Party Tape NOTES 📰 "Parents Of Boy Genius Will Share Custody" at NYTimes.com 🗞 "Is 11-Year-Old a Genius of Just Bright? Either Way, He's a Troubled Child" at NYTimes.com 🤝 "Tom Jones Meets Michael & INXS" on YouTube 💔 Tom Jones covering "Never Tear Us Apart" live 🎧 The Dinner Party Download Podcast 🐕 A Cry In The Dark on HBO Max 👶 "Dingo ate my baby" on Wikipedia 📸 The Feelies performing "Fame" in Something Wild, on YouTube 📆 "Tomorrow Today: An Indirectly Direct History of The Feelies" on Flood Magazine 🎶 The Feelies' "It's Only Life" on YouTube 🎵 The Feelies' Only Life on YouTube 🎸 Southside Johnny on Wikipedia 🎶 Duran Duran's "All She Wants Is" on YouTube 🪲 Paul McCartney's "This One" on YouTube 🎧 The January 1989 Mixtape on Spotify 💻 Mary Stuart Masterson on Wikipedia 🎞 Trailer for Lily Dale (1996) on YouTube | |||
| 16 Nov 2021 | January 1989 Fashion Etc.: Menswear, Pajamas & The National Teen-Ager Foundation | 00:58:52 | |
The holiday parties of late 1988 are behind us: time to hunker down for the long, long winter in pajamas and layered white leggings, sweaters, and shawls! If you simply MUST go out, why not remix your wardrobe with some menswear pieces borrowed from your boyfriend, or possibly your much, MUCH taller dad? There's also tips on achieving pretty hands, faking long lashes, and a future movie cutie hawking tampons. We get into all the fashion (etc.) of the January 1989 issue right here! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is January 1989 🎧 Cover + Sassiest Girl Face Blindness 🎧 Feature: His Clothes 🎧 Feature: PJ Days 🎧 Feature: Wild Wild Whites 🎧 What Next: Crochet Away 🎧 Feature: Pretty Hands 🎧 Feature: Fake 🎧 We Try It 🎧 About Face 🎧 Then & Now: Easy On The Eyes 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Diary: To: All Sassy Readers 🎧 Say What 🎧 Inside Out: Decisions, Decisions 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 The Pull Out Calendar NOTES 💅 "How To Paint Your Nails / Basic Manicure Tutorial" on YouTube 🧢 The National Teen-Ager Foundation at GeorgiaCompanyRegistry.com 👸 The Miss National Teenager Pageant 👒 "America's Elegant Miss National Teenager 2020 MaryAnn Bagwell" on YouTube | |||
| 30 Nov 2021 | January 1989 Slumber Party: Mom Breasts, Swear Loopholes & Period Bears | 00:47:05 | |
Our callers have a lot to say about our most recent episodes, including talking back to previous callers. The best way to shave legs? Setting makeup with hairspray? We're getting feedback on the feedback! We also discuss the difference between GPAs from 1989 to the present, Afterschool Specials on YouTube, scandalous doings in the Merry Go Round dressing rooms, and so much more -- including a call from a friend of the podcast about the otherwise unmemorable January 1989 quiz, What's Your Sports IQ? Hear all about it in our latest episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is January 1989 🎧 Quiz: What’s Your Sports IQ? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES | |||
| 23 Nov 2021 | Special: Prove How Well You Know Sassy | 00:22:58 | |
We've carefully read 11 issues of Sassy so far, but how much information have we actually absorbed? For this special episode, Tara puts her co-hosts' memories to the test in a no-stakes trivia quiz! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 The Prove To Me How Well You Know Sassy Quiz NOTES | |||
| 07 Dec 2021 | February 1989 Teen Life: Swimming, Braces & How To Tell If Someone Likes You | 01:01:24 | |
XXXOOO, says the February 1989 spine line, and the issue is full of Valentine's spirit...but first we need to talk about Christina's article on unhoused teens in New York. THEN we can get to her 12 DEFINITIVE ways to tell if a guy loves you, as a treat. (What He Said flips the question by asking a panel of dudes how they can tell when a girl likes THEM.) There's also another short story by the great Elizabeth Mosier, technological innovations in braces and pregnancy tests, a trip to Chicago, a first-person account of OCD, and much much more. Let this episode give you a great big O (...the hug kind) from all of us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is February 1989 🎧 Spine Line 🎧 Feature: Street Kids 🎧 Feature: Twelve Absolutely Definitive Ways To Tell If He Loves You 🎧 Fiction: Breaking Records 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 On The Road: Chicago 🎧 It Happened To Me: OCD 🎧 Help 🎧 What He Said: How Can You Tell If A Girl Likes You? 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Donuts + The Missing News NOTES ☎️ The Covenant House Nineline 💪 "The relationship between testosterone levels and cognitive ability patterns" at PubMed.gov 🧬 "Men's Test Scores Linked To Hormone" at NYTimes.com 🤰 "The First Home Pregnancy Tests Were Really Something" at Yahoo.com 🏫 Lisa Priborsky at Classmates.com 📖 Alissa Heyman bio at Storyscape Literary Journal 👩⚕️ Dr. Gina DeGiovanni on Vitals.com 🌤 "What's The Difference Between 'Mostly Sunny' And 'Partly Cloudy'?" on MentalFloss.com ✒️ Laura Arcazki-Pacter bio at the Cottey College Viewpoint | |||
| 14 Dec 2021 | February 1989 Pop Culture: DeLuise, Milano & LeBlanc | 00:44:53 | |
While the reviews and What Now items educate us about peace signs and future druid Julian Cope, it's two real Italians and a fake one who get the most attention. Peter DeLuise returns in a What Now blurb about a bad Valentine's Day; Alyssa Milano succeeds in convincing Catherine that she is not "stupid" (that's Catherine's word, not ours!); and One To Watch notches another win with future Friends star Matt LeBlanc back when he was only associated with Fruitful Bran. Don't watch Twins -- or do; we couldn't reach consensus -- and join us for our February 1989 pop culture episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is February 1989 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It: Rattle And Hum 🎧 Watch It: Twins 🎧 Listen Up: Julian Cope 🎧 Listen Up: Bangles 🎧 Listen Up: The Waterboys 🎧 Listen Up: Robbie Nevil 🎧 Listen Up: Pseudo Echo 🎧 One To Watch: Matt LeBlanc 🎧 Feature: Alyssa Milano Is Not Stupid 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 👯♂️ Twins on Showtime Anytime ⛏ Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage 😶🌫️ "Julian Cope interview: 'I live in a visionary state...I'm a wild beast'" at The Guardian 😼 "Julian Cope review - chaotic cult hero doesn't compromise" at The Guardian 🌝 "The Whole of the Moon" on Wikipedia 🎧 The February 1989 mixtape on Spotify 📺 "Television Commercials starring Matt LeBlanc" on YouTube 🦵 "Matt LeBlanc had knee and shoulder rebuilt" at Express | |||
| 21 Dec 2021 | Special: Sassy Era TV Commercials | 00:50:51 | |
It's Christmas, so in lieu of a regular episode, we've filled your stocking with a whole stack of TV commercials from 1988 and 1989 -- because what's more appropriate for the holidays than jingles? God bless us, everyone! (Especially 1988 Matt LeBlanc and his Cherry 7UP spot.) QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Sassy Era Commercials 🎧 Starlogjam Era Commercials NOTES ⚔️ Masters Of The Universe Power Tour 🧙♂️ Time-Life Books: Wizards & Witches 👹 Critters 🧻 Charmin 🤼♀️ Capital Combat '90 ✅ Miracle Whip (watch indoors) 🏀 Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball 🎮 Nintendo Entertainment System ⌚️ Casio Watch 🌠 Star Wars: Shadow Of The Empire 😈 976-EVIL 🍫 Caramilk | |||
| 28 Dec 2021 | Special: Spot The Sassy | 00:53:39 | |
We are off for the holidays but bring you the Listen To Sassy x The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show episode featuring three LTS listeners testing their Sassy and Sassy-era knowledge! Featuring guests judges Tara and Pam! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 Welcome to TGAPCQS 🎧 My Champion + The ½ Point 🎧 R1: Spot The Sassy 🎧 Sponsor: TGAPCQS Membership Bonus 🎧 Scorebreak 🎧 The Threequalizer 🎧 R2: The Sassiest Boys In America 🎧 At Home Version + Scorebreak 🎧 The Lightning Round 🎧 Outro 🎧 Bonus Lightning Round! NOTES | |||
| 04 Jan 2022 | February 1989 Fashion Etc.: Flips, Clogs & Baths | 01:05:34 | |
What looks did Sassy hope you would looooooove for Valentine's? Catalogue deliveries, mismatched prints, flipped hair, and Birkenstocks, for starters. The issue also tells you how to bathe, how to be a model (or, more accurately, why it's probably not as cool as you think), what's in your hair products, what Jane's assistant does with her days, and more! Grab a handful of cinnamon hearts and join us for our discussion! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is February 1989 🎧 Cover 🎧 Fashion: Dresses In The Woods 🎧 Fashion: Not Available In Stores 🎧 Fashion: I Was Not A Model (And I Didn’t Even Look Like One) 🎧 Fashion: Everything Goes 🎧 What Next 🎧 Beauty: Flip Out 🎧 Beauty: Bathing Beauty 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Diary: Me Two 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Birkenstock House 🎧 Donkey Milk NOTES 🧥 "What Happened To The Tweeds Clothing Company?" on Quora 🩳 150 Tweeds Catalog Ideas on Pinterest 🎵 "Jane's Addiction - Ain't No Right" on YouTube 🩴 "Sole Cycle" on NewYorker.com 🚿 "How Often People in Various Countries Shower" at TheAtlantic.com 👃 Mes Filles Pour Sassy at MesFlacons.com 💗 Pam discussing True Romance on the Female Apartments From 90s Movies podcast | |||
| 11 Jan 2022 | February 1989 Slumber Party: Alice, Change Rooms & Retainers | 00:51:42 | |
After we take the confounding February 1989 quiz -- How Romantic Are You? -- and share our results, we dive into your latest calls, and they are doozies. Your fellow listeners tell us their experiences with: the scary "real" "memoir" Go Ask Alice; innovations in cursing by the children of Somerville, Massachusetts; and the antisocial uses of retail fitting rooms. But by far the most calls we've received this time -- and maybe in the whole life of the podcast -- revolve around Pam's admission that she made her own fake retainers as a kid, because lots and lots and LOTS of you did so too. Make yourself a s'more and listen! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is February 1989 🎧 Quiz: How Romantic Are You? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🏋️ "The Power Team Was the Bloody, Evangelical Freakshow That Ruled the 80s" at Vice.com | |||
| 18 Jan 2022 | March 1989 Teen Life: Shyness, New Orleans & Period Myths | 00:56:11 | |
We spend a lot of time talking about what Tara was doing in March 1989 -- at band camp for what would be the last time -- and then it's another jokefest about REGINA, perhaps because none of us is that excited about discussing a very long and journalistically very questionable article about "Young White Racists." But Karen's advice about "How To Ask The Time Without Hyperventilating" is nearly as contentious! Is it too casual about the struggles of social anxiety, or were (are?) two of your co-hosts maybe too self-conscious for their own good? We do our best to skip over John "Toe Story" Elder's latest piece of short fiction before getting into a surprisingly inaccurate Body Talk. Then we go On The Road to New Orleans; discuss why He Said He prefers older girls; debate whether It actually Happened To Me (seems like nah); dip a toe in Help (who or what is "Sore" THIS month?); and wrap it up with a past submitter repeating in Stuff You Wrote. And hey, did we mention that as of this issue Sassy is ONE YEAR OLD? This episode is our birthday gift...to you! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is March 1989 🎧 LTS Club + In Our Lives 🎧 Feature: Young White Racists 🎧 Feature: How To Ask The Time Without Hyperventilating 🎧 Fiction: Life At The Side Of The Road 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 On The Road: New Orleans 🎧 What He Said: Do You Prefer Older Girls? 🎧 It Happened To Me: Katie Had A Bad Time As A Cheerleader 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 The Red Tent NOTES 👃 "Geraldo Rivera's Nose Broken In Scuffle on His Talk Show" at NYTimes.com 🦷 1986 Efferdent Ad on YouTube 🩸 "Does Your Period Really Sync With Close Friends'?" at ClevelandClinic.org | |||
| 25 Jan 2022 | March 1989 Pop Culture: Surfing, Beaches & Unprepared Interviewers | 00:57:13 | |
If there's one thread that runs through nearly all the pop cultural coverage of the March 1989 issue, it's writers acting like preparation is for nerds. Christina admits in a What Now item that she assumed U2 was an inspiration for The Go-Betweens when it was actually the other way around. Neill reviews Rain Man without knowing anything about it. Christina jumps in on the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise with its fourth installment. And Neill ends up with so little material for his Christina Applegate Q&A that he has to leave in "How are you?" -- yes, really. At least Eric Stoltz mixes things up by acting totally unprepared for the experience of getting interviewed, and comes off like a real turd. We discuss all of this in our latest podcast, for which -- if anything -- we might have OVERprepared. QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is March 1989 🎧 In Our Lives 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: Eric Stoltz Is Very Scary 🎧 Feature: This Is Christina Applegate 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 📷 Elizabeth Mosier on Instagram 🎧 The March 1989 mixtape on Spotify 📺 "TV Review; Eudora Welty's 'Wide Net'" at NYTimes.com 😇 Naked Angels theatre company 🎉 "For Naked Angels, the Party's Over. Time to Get Serious Again." at NYTimes.com 💁🏻♂️ Tim Ransom's page at his agency, Clear Talent Group 🎞 Some Kind Of Wonderful on Hulu 💥 Manifesto trailer (NSFW) on YouTube 👨👩👧👦 Married...With Children on Hulu 🐦 Christina Applegate on Twitter 🐶 Samantha Who? S02.E11: "The Dog" on Hulu 🎥 Introducing, Selma Blair on Amazon Prime Video | |||
| 01 Feb 2022 | March 1989 Fashion Etc.: Prom, Pool & Big, Beautiful Eyes | 01:09:20 | |
Your prom is going to be here before you know it, so the March issues of every magazine marketed to teen girls is going to be full of dress inspiration, and Sassy is no exception. But how effective is "Photo Finish" at making its looks seem aspirational? We've got critiques! The issue also tells you how to dress for pool (as in snooker), which blouses will look best with your underwear (???), how to protect your eyes, how a model spends her day, what you should sew on your perfectly good clothes NOW, and so much more! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is March 1989 🎧 Cover 🎧 Fashion Feature: Photo Finish 🎧 Fashion Feature: On Cue 🎧 Fashion Feature: Wear ’Em On Top 🎧 Making It: Cheap Frills 🎧 What Next: Rings On Your Fingers 🎧 Beauty Feature: Big Beautiful Eyes 🎧 Beauty Feature: Model Behavior 🎧 We Try It: Weird Stuff 🎧 About Face 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Diary: Kidding Around 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 A Visit From The Epilady NOTES 👃 Paint SCENTsations at Sherwin-Williams.com 🐫 Camelview Plaza at DeadMalls.com 🤷♀️ "Chief Resigns From Matilda" at NYTimes.com 📉 "CEO Resigns From Company That Publishes Ms., Sassy Magazines" at APNews.com 🙋♀️ "Profile: Sandra Yates" at The Sydney Morning Herald 🚨 Sandra Yates at ClaxtonSpeakers.com 💸 "Private Schools In City To Increase Tuition 10%" at NYTimes.com 🤑 Tuition And Financial Aid at Dalton 🎉 Tara's interview with Anthony King, writer on The Afterparty, at Decider.com | |||
| 08 Feb 2022 | March 1989 Slumber Party: Accutane, Epilady & Popsicle Bras | 00:47:19 | |
The March 1989 issue's quiz invited us to Rate [Our] Social Style, so we did -- and we were all a bit dismayed by the results that came back. Then we get to your latest calls, which run the usual gamut from adding on to previous callers' remarks, sharing hilarious high school memories, and uninhibited musings (thanks, NyQuil)! We love all of you, and we hope you love our latest roundup! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is March 1989 🎧 Big Stickers Update 🎧 Quiz: What's Your Social Style? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Moment Of Silence For Your Ankle NOTES 🔥 Extra Hot Great 392: Taking Out The Trash With Pam & Tommy 🥁 Tara's Pam & Tommy recaps at her author page on Decider.com | |||
| 15 Feb 2022 | April 1989 Teen Life: Spring Break, Cliques & Bra Sizes | 01:02:35 | |
The April 1989 issue is a little stripped-down -- no fiction, no quiz -- but still gives us lots to chew on. Catherine's profile of Andi, a teen addict, left us with a lot of questions. Laura Norton heads to a Yonkers high school to get close to its cliques. Christina and Jane's trip to spring break in Daytona Beach might not have gone into enough detail on a vacation that sounds like our worst nightmare. Body Talk leads us to our new favorite Las Vegas journalist. And there's also much to learn in Help, What He Said about dating a buddy's girlfriend, and a full page of Stuff You Wrote magic. We're not Cools, but we hope you hang out with us anyway. QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is April 1989 🎧 Feature: Andi Is An Addict 🎧 Feature: Cliques 🎧 Feature: Spring Break (Or Where The Jerks Are) 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 What He Said 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 The Good Baby 🎧 Bigger Breasts 🎧 Pamr NOTES 🐶 "The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Spuds MacKenzie, The Original Party Animal" at MentalFloss.com 🪦 "Spuds MacKenzie is dead" at UPI.com 🚗 "Driving on the Beach" at DaytonaBeach.com 🏜 "Memories of spring break, circa 1980s" at DesertSun.com 😵 "The Death of Spring Break" at PalmSpringsLife.com 🔍 "Solving the Mystery of Dyslexia" at Living-Las-Vegas.com 🎰 Diane Taylor's Living Las Vegas author page 🎈 "Hey, I Just Had a Birthday!" by Diane Taylor at Living-Las-Vegas.com 😻 Dr. Regina DeLorenzo at Mays Landing Veterinary Hospital 🗓 My Year Of Dicks at the South By Southwest Festival | |||
| 22 Feb 2022 | April 1989 Pop Culture: Debbie Gibson, Tiffany & Peter DeLuise | 00:55:39 | |
Pop culture offerings are slimmed down this month -- everyone was tired after the big anniversary issue, perhaps! -- but there's still lots of What Now to discuss, from the death of Acid House to the Brady ladies to Axl Rose's tresses, and...everything in between? A remarkably effusive Watch It delivers four-star reviews to the likes of Criminal Law, The Return Of Swamp Thing, and Big Man On Campus, but no love for Earth Girls Are Easy. Opinions are divided on Listen Up's Hit (They Might Be Giants) and Bomb (Tiffany's sophomore album). And Pam tries to keep it together through our lone pop culture profile, of her one-time crush Peter DeLuise. Pause Electric Youth (just for now) and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is April 1989 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 Feature: What A Sensitive Guy 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🥀 (W.) Axl Rose's first Rolling Stone cover, in August 1989 🌹 Rose's 1992 Rolling Stone cover 🥤 "Pepsi Cancels Madonna Ad" at NYTimes.com 🏃♀️ Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway on YouTube 🌉 The Night The Bridge Fell Down on YouTube 🕺 "Supreme Court Lets Stand a Missouri Town's Ban on School Dances" at NYTimes.com 🎸 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure on HBO Max 👨🏻⚖️ Criminal Law on Tubi 🥗 The Return Of Swamp Thing on Tubi 🎞 "Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga" scene from Big Man On Campus, on YouTube | |||
| 01 Mar 2022 | April 1989 Fashion Etc.: Hats, Blurs & Swamp Swimsuits | 00:53:35 | |
It's a slimmed-down Fashion (etc.) issue this month, but we still find plenty to yell about in the features. Why aren't any of the photos in "Going Fast" in focus? What is aspirational about a swimsuit shoot in a swamp? Who are they trying to kid with this friggin' hat story? All this plus a bunch of new ads, a deep dive on Sassy Club and much much more in our latest episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is April 1989 🎧 In Our Lives 🎧 Fashion Feature: Going Fast 🎧 Fashion Feature: Suit Yourself 🎧 Making It 🎧 Beauty Feature: Hot Heads 🎧 About Face 🎧 Then And Now 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Magnet Pole Position NOTES 😖 The "public criticism" tab on The Hunger Project's Wikipedia page 🦷 "Vintage 1985 Plax Dental Rinse Mouthwash Plastic bottle with old contents htf" on eBay | |||
| 08 Mar 2022 | April 1989 Slumber Party: Nerds, Brainers & Epilady Disappointment | 00:29:38 | |
Declining to submit ourselves to the literal vocabulary quiz in the April 1989 issue of Seventeen, we launch straight into your calls. What is it like indoctrinating your kids into They Might Be Giants fandom? What were the smart kids called at your school? How does Dave make flavored powder stick to his popcorn? And what call prompts a deep dive on colored toilet paper? Listen to our latest Slumber Party episode, where all these questions (and more) will be answered! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is April 1989 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🍇 Malt Vinegar Powder on Amazon 🍞 Frontier Co-op Dill & Vinegar Nutritional Yeast 🧻 "What Ever Happened To Colored Toilet Paper?" at ApartmentTherapy.com | |||
| 15 Mar 2022 | Special: TV Commercials Of May 1989 | 00:22:44 | |
As poorly qualified as I am to uplift individuals and communities on a global scale to prescribe a course of action, I hope you will bear with me while I begin this sincere and earnest attempt. And please don’t get mad with me if, in doing so, I must rail against the pseudoscience that attempts—and continually fails—to prove that it is Major American Corporate Conglomerates’s moral imperative to sell us into a lifetime of servitude. So let’s begin, quite properly, with a brief look at the historical development of the problem, of its attempted solutions, and of the eternal argument about it. The overweening blathering of a furciferous, warped undesirable is more like it. In fact, as far as Major American Corporate Conglomerates is concerned, facts and evidence are subordinate to, and mediated by, a discourse. There are no right or wrong answers, just competitive discourses. If that’s the case, then perhaps Major American Corporate Conglomerates would like to explain why it disbelieves that if I try really, really hard, I can almost see why it would want to snuff out the last embers of courageousness burning within us. QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is May 1989 🎧 Beauty Ads 🎧 Fashion Ads 🎧 Food And Drink 🎧 Things And The Such 🎧 PSAs 🎧 TV and Movies 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES | |||
| 22 Mar 2022 | May 1989 Teen Life: Weightlifting, Shoplifting & What Guys Want | 01:02:08 | |
We're opening up a brand-new issue and discussing its Teen Life topics! What's it like to be a competitive weightlifter who is also female? Which camp should you go to...next year, since if you're reading recommendations in May it's too late for this summer? Do guys REALLY only want sex? And what kind of slang are they busting out in Boulder? All this and much more in our latest podcast -- the perfect soundtrack to your next shoplifting trip! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is May 1989 🎧 Feature: Pumping 🎧 Feature: "Guys Just Want One Thing" And Other Myths 🎧 Feature: The Official Sassy Guide To The Grooviest Camps 🎧 Fiction: Red 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 It Happened To Me: Got Caught Shoplifting 🎧 On The Road: Boulder 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Confused Asks... 🎧 M. Edwards' Forever NOTES 🏋️♀️ Vikki Meads (now Vicky Meads Tackett) on Instagram 💪 "What is a Muscle Belly exactly?" at SculptUrself.weebly.com 🚪 Notable alumni of Stagedoor Manor 🦷 "How My Dentist Taught Me That I Am a New Yorker" at The Cut 💸 "The Steal: The Urgent Need to Combat Wage Theft in Retail" at Demos.org | |||
| 29 Mar 2022 | May 1989 Pop Culture: Matthew, Deborah & Breathe | 00:44:24 | |
The full complement of pop culture coverage returns for Sassy's May 1989 issue, PHEW. Following a What Now full of shrug items that read a lot like placeholders (what fell out?!), we're on to a very effusive Watch It, featuring Chances Are in the HIT slot and four-star reviews for Sing (not the one with animated animals) and Heathers. Listen Up vibes with Robyn Hitchcock and Elvis Costello's latest, Spike, but not even resident headbanger Laura could get on board with Skid Row's self-titled album. Matthew Sweet is our One To Watch, and then we close up with a profile of a very buttoned-up Debbie "Deborah" Gibson, and a set visit to a video remake (?) by Breathe. No need to raise your Hands To Heaven and pray for it: our latest episode is right here! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is May 1989 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch: Matthew Sweet 🎧 Feature: How Come I’m Not Deborah Gibson? 🎧 Feature: How Breathe Made Their Favorite Video 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 📔 "Naff" in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary 🐻 "Fur -- The Real Thing -- in Disguise" at the LATimes.com 🤑 "Blass Act: Dog Gets 100G From $70M Estate" at NYPost.com 🦮 Bill Blass with Barnaby, his dog 🗣 Trey Ames in September 1988's What He Said 🐬 The series premiere of Dolphin Cove on YouTube 💣 Heathers on Amazon Prime Video 🤦♀️ The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window trailer on YouTube 🎰 The Fruit Machine, aka Wonderland, on Tubi ☁️ Dream A Little Dream on Tubi 🎸 Elvis Costello's Unfaithful Music And Disappearing Ink at Vroman's Bookstore 🧠 Skid Row's "I Remember You" video on YouTube 🚨 Skid Row's "18 And Life" video on YouTube 🎧 The May 1989 playlist on Apple Music 🍬 Matthew Sweet in March 1989's Listen Up 👂 The Wikipedia entry on absolute/perfect pitch 🙏 Breathe's "Hands To Heaven" video on YouTube 🤥 Breathe's original "Don't Tell Me Lies" on YouTube 🥸 The "Don't Tell Me Lies" video remake on YouTube 📰 Tara's post on The CW's Dynasty and other throwback network primetime soaps, at Decider | |||
| 05 Apr 2022 | May 1989 Fashion Etc.: Blush, Stress & Split Ends | 01:05:09 | |
Let's just say it's a May tradition to do a spread on day-glo swimsuits and a spread on white garments, because we got both of those in the May 1988 issue, and here they are again! There's also a spread that's reggae in fashion form, lessons on how to use blush, and tips to reduce stress -- or at least its effect on your looks -- that have not all aged particularly well. We go in on denim styles and ad layout mistakes, debate whether hair brushing is right for everyone, and educate Dave about split ends. All this and more in our latest Fashion (Etc.) episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is May 1989 🎧 Cover 🎧 Fashion Feature: Day-Glo 🎧 Fashion Feature: Hot Stuff 🎧 Fashion Feature: Resort To White 🎧 Beauty Feature: Real Blush 🎧 Beauty Feature: Beauty Under Stress 🎧 About Face 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Diary: Our Own M.K. 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 No One Claimed The Cover NOTES 🔗 Mary Kaye Schilling on LinkedIn 😡 "Report: Memphis Has Most Hate Groups In Tennessee" on MemphisFlyer.com | |||
| 12 Apr 2022 | May 1989 Slumber Party: Sleep, Skid Row & Psych! | 00:31:53 | |
Have you ever wanted to know how susceptible you may be to possibly developing an addiction to...anything? The May 1989 quiz -- Rate Your Addictability -- claims to tell you how worried you should be about it, but we think it just might be too vague. As always, it's a joy to move on to your latest voicemails on such subjects as supporting your local abortion providers; which hair metal bands were buying novelty vehicles in the late '80s, and from whom; how you developed the habit of sleeping on your back; and so much more. Don't be concerned if you have picked up an addiction to this podcast: it definitely can be habit-forming, but what's the downside? QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is May 1989 🎧 Quiz: Rate Your Addictability 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 😵💫 The May 1989 quiz: Rate Your Addictability 💵 The National Network Of Abortion Funds | |||
| 19 Apr 2022 | June 1989 Teen Life: Summer Jobs, Activists & Pimples On My Butt | 00:52:25 | |
The June 1989 issue starts with a downbeat feature to end all downbeat features: first-person accounts from survivors of incestuous child abuse. Fortunately, the rest of the issue keeps it light: Karen tells you how to land a summer job; Christina profiles young-adult activists; all the female staffers discuss where the best guys come from. Outside the features, there's blisters, butt pimples, London slang, guys' views on feminists, a Hall Of Fame Stuff You Wrote submission, and so much more! Sit your pimply butt down and listen! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is June 1989 🎧 Feature: Real Stories About Incest 🎧 Feature: Five Easy Steps To Summer $$$ 🎧 Feature: Who Wants To Change The World? 🎧 Feature: Where The Best Guys Come From 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 On The Road: London 🎧 It Happened To Me: Dating A Non-Cute Guy 🎧 Help 🎧 What He Said: Do You Like Girls Who Are Feminists? 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🖊 "Writing to Heal: Therapeutic Uses of Creative Writing by Adult Survivors of Incest" at SpringerLink 🎙 "A Conversation With Karen Catchpole" at Travel Writing 2.0 📃 Karen Catchpole at Contently 👩🏻🍳 WSIB "Top Chef" PSA on YouTube 🏰 Eviction Defense Collaborative ☹️ "Why teen depression rates are rising faster for girls than boys" at TheConversation.com 🧒🏼 "Mental health data shows stark difference between girls and boys" at The Guardian 🏹 "Sloane Ranger" on Wikipedia | |||
| 26 Apr 2022 | June 1989 Pop Culture: Anthrax, Tiffany & Turtles | 01:02:46 | |
Have you ever wanted to: know what's in a lava lamp? Get Sassy to approve of your taste in music? Find out where Karen and Tiffany stand one year after the disaster that was Karen's attempted profile? What Now covers all of this and more. Watch It reviews The Dream Team and Troop Beverly Hills (among others), but which is the Hit and which is the Bomb? The answer may surprise you! Opinions are split on Hugo Largo's second (and apparently final) album Mettle, while Cowboy Junkies' breakout album The Trinity Session is rightly fêted. One To Watch gets it right once more with a profile of a 21-year-old pre-When Harry Met Sally Harry Connick Jr. Then it's on to the features: Sing star Peter Dobson impresses Catherine; Christina remains unimpressed by Anthrax. Plop down with a bag of M&Ms and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is June 1989 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: Peter Dobson Was Born Too Late 🎧 Feature: I Spent 48 Hours With Anthrax 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 The Nadir Of This Episode NOTES 💇🏻♂️ Mystify: Michael Hutchence on Amazon 👧 Sweet Baby's "It's A Girl" on YouTube 🗽 Lou Reed performs the album New York live, on YouTube 🐢 Hugo Largo's Mettle on YouTube 💊 "What if a man takes birth control pills?" on HowStuffWorks.com 🫃 "What happens if a guy takes birth control?" at PlannedParenthood.org 💥 "The Tug Of War Over Tiffany" at WashingtonPost.com 📝 "A Note From George Tobin" [upon the re-release of Tiffany's Dreams Never Die] on Tiffany.org 🏝 Lonely Heart [Palm Beach Prep 1] on AbeBooks.com 🌴 Palm Beach Prep on CliqueyPizza.Wordpress.com 🤪 The Dream Team trailer on YouTube 🛍 Troop Beverly Hills on Showtime 💿 Hugo Largo's Mettle on Wikipedia 🧧 Royal Court Of China on TrouserPress.com 🎙 Joe Blanton interview on YouTube 🏆 The "Accolades" tab on the Wikipedia page for The Trinity Sessions 🔪 Cowboy Junkies' "Murder Tonight In The Trailer Park" on YouTube 🎧 The June 1989 Mixtape on Apple Music 🐔 "Keep Fucking That Chicken" on YouTube 📻 Anthrax [starting at 15:03] in NewsRadio S02.E08: "The Negotiation" | |||
| 03 May 2022 | June 1989 Fashion Etc.: Marrakesh, Navy & The Return Of Bloomers | 01:00:46 | |
Want to dress like a John Waters protagonist, but only half the time? Risk abuse in a Muslim-majority country by flouting their standards of modest dress? Find a new way to confound your loved ones with bloomers? Give yourself a migraine with wildly complicated braids? The June 1989 issue is here for you! Our podcast on its fashion (etc.) also covers whether navy is basic; how young the cover model is; the absolute worst photo ever used for a contest ad; and much much more! Take a break from tracing the Bold Hold logo onto a drug store receipt and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is June 1989 + Cover 🎧 Fashion Feature: When She Was Good 🎧 Fashion Feature: Traveling Light 🎧 Fashion Feature: Blue Prints 🎧 What Next 🎧 Beauty Feature: Better Braids 🎧 About Face 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Say What 🎧 Inside Out 🎧 The Donut Mask NOTES 📷 Torkil Gudnason on Instagram | |||
| 10 May 2022 | Special: Movie Commercials Of Summer 1989 | 00:51:17 | |
Summer movie season is just around the corner, so for our latest special episode, we're traveling back 33 years to recall the summer movie season of 1989. We've collected a bunch of TV spots from that year's movie hits (and misses) and are sharing our memories of what we rushed out to see that June, July, and August...or what we just possibly happened to be on for a $2 Tuesday when we needed to soak up some air conditioning. Join us, won't you? QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is The Summer 1989 Movie Special 🎧 The Movies 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 👴🏻 Sharold Pennyworth lives. | |||
| 17 May 2022 | June 1989 Slumber Party: TV Trivia, Taco Bell & Tampons | 00:39:34 | |
It's one thing to test your TV trivia IQ today, when there are hundreds of networks and dozens of streaming platforms. It's quite another to test how well you can recall TV trivia that, at its most recent, is 33 years old -- but your co-hosts bravely attempt it with the June 1989 quiz, Rate Your TV Trivia IQ. (Which of us got a perfect score? The answer won't surprise you.) Then it's on to your latest voicemails, which run the gamut from tales of high school employment, good and bad; beloved YA novel series of yesteryear; one particularly memorable Chicagoland Batman fanatic; and more! Grab yourself some Taco Bell (...or don't), and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is June 1989 🎧 Quiz: Rate Your TV Trivia IQ 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 📺 The June 1989 quiz: Rate Your TV Trivia IQ ⏱ The 60 Minutes story "Get Me The Geeks" at CBSNews.com 👔 Tara's Pablo Schreiber interview at GQ.com 👩👧 Pam's op-ed "My mother, the stealth feminist" at LATimes.com 🎟 Buy tickets to watch Pam judge Literary Death Match at Dynasty Typewriter on Sunday, May 22 | |||
| 24 May 2022 | Special: Change, Self-Care & You | 00:12:15 | |
Listen To Sassy is changing from a weekly podcast to an every-other-weekly podcast; let us tell you why. (And also tell you we love you.) QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is July 1989 🎧 Announcement Time 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ✨ Sparkella, soon to be adapted by Pam and author Channing Tatum | |||
| 31 May 2022 | July 1989 Teen Life: Family Vacations, Fiction Winners & The Northern Lights | 00:54:14 | |
You're not going to believe this, but the first feature of the July 1989 issue -- about getting through vacations with your family -- is not extremely depressing; it's merely somewhat worrisome if you read between the lines about maintaining harmony amongst everyone on the trip. In fact, there's hopefulness in all the features, which also include a visit to Navajo and Hopi girls on an Arizona reservation, and theories on why guys might say "no" to you. We also read the first- and second-place finishers in Sassy's first fiction contest; learn...very little about Las Vegas; find out how much importance Michael Stipe ascribes to every interaction Michael Stipe has ever had with every woman he's ever met; and lots more -- makes perfect listening for gazing at the Grand Canyon with your dad! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is July 1989 🎧 Feature: Family Vacations Can Be Fun 🎧 Feature: What He Really Means When He Says No 🎧 Fiction: Contest Winners 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 On The Road: Las Vegas 🎧 It Happened To Me: Busted By Narc 🎧 Help 🎧 What He Said: What Woman Has Had The Biggest Influence On Your Life? 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 The Northern Lights NOTES 🏔 Cheryl J. Family profile "I Didn't Feel Like I Had To Hide Who I Was" at Paramount.com 🏋️♂️ Amanda Kanter Sargent bio at ReFitWellness.com 🖇 Kirsten Jennings on LinkedIn 💇🏻♂️ "The Brady Bunch: One Actor Revealed That None of the Male Cast Had 'Perms'" at Outsider.com 🖇 Kirstie Pagliaro on LinkedIn 🍆 My Year Of Dicks at the Brooklyn Film Festival 🎞 My Year Of Dicks at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival | |||
| 14 Jun 2022 | July 1989 Pop Culture: Robert, Reggae & Road House | 00:59:07 | |
The pop culture coverage of the July 1989 issue gets into a lot of different areas. The breakup of Johnny Depp's latest engagement? An offensive Guns N' Roses song? Censorship? A surprising amount of Ken Ober? What Now goes there! We also get reviews of Say Anything..., Road House, Boy George, and Julian Lennon, among many others. One To Watch tells us about Alex Désert, yet another young actor with a perfectly respectable character-actor career ahead of him. Our features tell us about Robert Downey Jr. (in his second profile in the magazine) and reggae (uh oh, Pam). But what you may remember best about this episode is that it takes you to melon camp -- you're welcome and/or sorry. QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is July 1989 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: Robert Downey, Jr. Acts Like An Adult 🎧 Feature: Reggae For Beginners 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Pam Gets The Willem Defoe Apron Photo NOTES 🥀 "Let's Talk About Guns N' Roses' 'One in a Million'" at MetalSucks.com 🏖 The Saturday Night Live sketch "Nude Beach" on YouTube 🚧 Willem Dafoe in Streets Of Fire 🐻❄️ Road House on Showtime Anytime 🧐 "Just For a Minute, Let's Talk About Yahoo Serious" on Talkhouse.com 🎩 The Boy George album High Hat on Wikipedia 😇 Julian Lennon's "Now You're In Heaven" video on YouTube 🪶 The White Feather Foundation 🌅 Julian Lennon's YA graphic novel The Morning Tribe at SimonAndSchuster.com 📚 Julian Lennon's children's books, at his website 🍉 John Mellencamp on Us magazine's March 1992 list of "The 10 Sexiest Bachelors" 🎧 The July 1989 mixtape on Spotify 🎙 "Alex Désert takes over for Hank Azarian voicing Carl on The Simpsons" at CNN.com 📅 Robert Downey Jr. in the March 1988 Pop Culture episode of Listen To Sassy 🙏 Robert Downey Jr. at Beliefnet.com 📷 Robert Downey Jr.'s 2020 pro-Chris Pratt post on Instagram 💉 Robert Downey Jr. on Addiction at IAmSober.com 🎞 That's Adequate on Wikipedia | |||
| 28 Jun 2022 | July 1989 Fashion Etc.: Vests, Dots & Polymers | 01:07:21 | |
The time has come to discuss the fashion (etc) of the July 1989 issue! We're back in Morocco for stories on colonial costume and culturally appropriative beauty! We're also doing vests and polka dots! We're learning how to stay safe in the sun! And we're...making a bandana cap? Or not! In the "etc" section, we're reviewing Jane's staff's review of her in Diary and commenting on the latest round of letters. All this and more (girl, control your facial oil!) in our latest podcast! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is July 1989 🎧 Cover 🎧 Fashion Feature: Lived-In Looks 🎧 Fashion Feature: The Best Vests 🎧 Fashion Feature: Dot Wild 🎧 Making It: Bandana Cap 🎧 Beauty Feature: Sun Smarts 🎧 Beauty Feature: Ancient Beauty 🎧 About Face 🎧 We Try It 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Diary: Jane Is Our Friend 🎧 Say What 🎧 Inside Out: We Bowl With The Stars 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Sweet Defeat 🎧 You'll Want To Get Six NOTES 👗 "Fashion Has Abandoned Human Taste" at TheAtlantic.com 🖋 "Henna Tattoos: A Complete Guide To Popular Designs And Meanings" at Birdie.com | |||
| 12 Jul 2022 | July 1989 Slumber Party: Social Conscience, Cinema Boycotts & Sun In | 00:44:44 | |
The July 1989 quiz invites us to rate our social conscience and then feel very smug about ourselves -- but do we? Then it's on to your calls, which are the usual chaotic mix, careening from the summer movies of yesteryear to the unexpected cautionary tale that is the Harry Connick Jr. vehicle Copycat to the works of Canadian YA author Gordon Korman, with many stops in between. Get into or out of the sun and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is July 1989 🎧 Quiz: Rate Your Social Conscience 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🚽 "Medieval bathroom, what a shit job to clean it" on Reddit 🧛🏻♂️ Tara's review of What We Do In The Shadows season 4 at VanityFair.com | |||
| 26 Jul 2022 | August 1989 Teen Life: Gambling, Cheerleading & Flings | 00:58:09 | |
Want to learn how grim a teen's journey into gambling addiction actually is? NO? Well, too bad, because Catherine's piece on Kim Cohen leads off the features in the August 1989 issue. We also cover cheerleading, summer flings, the intimate results of the recent Sassy readers' poll, and a short story about a girl short-circuiting her mom's affair with an electrician (see what we did there). But wait, there's more! Soy sauce! Bad breath! Communes! Abortion! Athlete's foot! And a whole new feature, It's My Life, to make you jealous of a girl you never met just because she got to tell the whole Sassy readership how cool she is! Go sit in front of a fan and listen to us talk about the Teen Life topics of the August 1989 issue! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is August 1989 🎧 Feature: Why She Gambled 🎧 Feature: Cheerleaders As A Concept 🎧 Feature: Summer Romance Is Good For You 🎧 Feature: All The Things You Wouldn’t Tell Your Friends 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 It’s My Life: Kathy Bonner 🎧 It Happened To Me: Grew Up On A Commune 🎧 What He Said: Do You Think Abortion Should Be Legal? 🎧 Signs 🎧 Stuff You Wrote + Goodbye For Now 🎧 I Can Think Of A Reason, Dave NOTES 👮 Kim's father Lenny Cohen on the job 🎰 "The Death And Life Of Atlantic City" at NewYorker.com [subscription required] 🎲 "The Dangers Of Youth Gambling Addiction" at KnowTheOdds.org 💸 Gam-Anon 🎨 Scott Heiser at the Delaware Art Museum 🪦 Heiser's 1993 obituary at the NYTimes.com 📣 Jeffersonville High School's 2016 production of Bring It On: The Musical 🐚 Karen's Summer Romance feature in a nutshell 🥤 "Jolt Cola: The Story Of The Original Energy Drink" at BetterMarketing.pub 💉 "Parent's Guide To Drug Abuse: Drug Paraphernalia" at PalmPartners.com ☎️ Class Act Locker Answering Machine on Etsy 📺 Class Act TV commercial on YouTube 🍚 Soy sauce making video on TikTok 🏯 "The History Of Soy Sauce" at SoySauce.or.jp 🦵 "Going Barefoot Cleared Up Athlete's Foot" at PeoplesPharmacy.com 🫠 "Is The Boom In Communal Living Really The Good Life?" at TheGuardian.com 🥺 "What Happened To America's Communes?" at Forbes.com 🛋 Tara's article on further Friends apologies Marta Kauffman should make, at VanityFair.com 💬 Sign Up for Dave's class on connecting Discord to your Patreon account | |||
| 09 Aug 2022 | August 1989 Pop Culture: Charlie, Spike & Rockmelons | 00:51:55 | |
How many calories in every hamburger McDonald's has ever sold? Was Booker the right career move for Richard Grieco? All this and more is covered in What Now. Watch it has, among others, a correct rating for Do The Right Thing and a wildly unfair rating for The Tall Guy. Listen Up finds us divided on The Ramones' "Pet Sematary," but united on 10,000 Maniacs. Dave agrees that Billy Zane is One To Watch, then protests the Ones To Watch. And we only have one pop culture feature this month, but when it's as memorable as Christina's sitdown with Charlie Sheen, that's all you need. QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is August 1989 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Ones To Watch 🎧 Feature: Breakfast With Charlie 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ☎️ Take the best 80s phone poll 👧🏻 Norma Howe's Game Of Life on eBay 🏫 Regina Mundi Catholic College 🎞 "Savage" Steve Holland on Wikipedia 💂♀️ The Tall Guy trailer on YouTube 🌫 10,000 Maniacs' "Dust Bowl" on YouTube 🎶 The August 1989 playlist on Spotify 🤔 "Billy Zane Not Walking Down Memory Lane on Samantha Who" at TVGuide.com 🚕 Vanessa Paradis's "Joe Le Taxi" video on YouTube ✨ Robert Conrad's Battle Of The Network Stars meltdown on YouTube 🪶 Charlie Sheen's book of poetry, A Piece Of My Mind, on Amazon | |||
| 23 Aug 2022 | August 1989 Fashion Etc.: Jeans, Beads & Boy Stuff | 00:58:29 | |
It's time for back-to-school shopping, so we're going back to basics, with fashion stories on jeans and sweaters. There's also a suggestion that you sew 1000 teeny-tiny beads on a dress, but who has the time? In the beauty lane, we're learning about traditionally male grooming products and tips and all about kingpin hats, the down sides of manicures, how to match your foundation color AND dig in on a new feature: Zits And Stuff. All this and more is waiting for you! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is August 1989 + Cover 🎧 Fashion Feature: Jeans Street 🎧 Fashion Feature: Into The Woods 🎧 Fashion Feature: Now Is The Time For All… 🎧 Making It: Bead It 🎧 Beauty Feature: Boy Stuff 🎧 About Face 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Diary: Get Back 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Ultra Pink 🎧 A Case Of The Meats NOTES 🐦 Angela Featherstone on Twitter 🤖 Tim Petros's post-kingpin hat work | |||
| 06 Sep 2022 | August 1989 Slumber Party: Mellencamp, Moods & Kingpin Hats | 00:47:25 | |
Was this the right week for us to Rate Our Moodiness, as the August 1989 issue invited us to do? Given what we were dealing with, maybe not! (Content warning: hip talk.) Then we move on to some of your latest voicemails, which cover matters as diverse as John Mellencamp's dating history and cross-country appeal; avant-garde uses for Sun-in; an extremely romantic-sounding job playing piano in the Yukon; and much much more! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is August 1989 🎧 Quiz: Rate Your Moodiness 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ⭐️ Tara's interview with Beverly Hills, 90210 creator Darren Star at GQ.com | |||
| 20 Sep 2022 | September 1989 Teen Life: This, This & That | 00:56:01 | |
Time to go back to school (in 1989) with the Teen Life topics of the September issue! Catherine goes to Northern Ireland to report on The Troubles and gets real poetic about it. Christina relays tales of raging jealousy with the tiniest nod to more productive ways their subjects could have handled themselves. Your co-hosts are divided on "Grace," this month's fiction story. It Happened To Me's contributor shares her wisdom from an unsuccessful Remote Control tryout. All that plus interracial dating, nipple hair, NutraSweet (remember her) and so much more await you in our latest podcast! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is September 1989 🎧 Feature: Blood + Poetry 🎧 Feature: 4 Tales Of Raging Jealousy 🎧 Fiction: Grace 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 It Happened To Me: Tried Out For Remote Control 🎧 What He Said: Would You Go Out With Someone Of A Different Race? 🎧 Help 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Pamie's Palace NOTES 🧑🏻🦲 Variety report on Showtime's Sinéad O'Connor documentary, Nothing Compares 👩🏫 "Former Women's Wear Daily Writer Returns To CoJMC To Teach" at Newsroom.UNL.edu 🍭 "What To Know About Aspartame" at WebMD.com | |||
| 04 Oct 2022 | September 1989 Pop Culture: Batman, Love Shack & All My Children | 01:03:24 | |
The September 1989 issue gives us much to discuss in the world of pop culture. Is "well-gutted" a valid Sassy Glossary entry when "gutted" is just fine on its own? Should men pay for dates? How much can we discuss the TV adaptation of The Outsiders that won't be out for several months? How much baseline knowledge should a Gen Xer have about the Indigo Girls? How much worse is The Batman (2022) than Batman (1989)? How many of the All My Children stars Christina hung out with on set are still working on soaps today? What does it mean to call Paula Abdul "a people artist"? And so much more! We'll be GUTTED if you don't listen! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is September 1989 🎧 Method Actor Daniel Day Lewis 🎧 Pamie's Palace Possible Perk 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch: Harold Pruett 🎧 Feature: You Are A Soap Star 🎧 Feature: Paula Abdul Does Her Thing 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 September 1989 In Our Lives NOTES 🔮 Ask Zandar board game commercial on YouTube 😿 Animal Liberation on Wikipedia 🏋️♀️ Hollywood Sports on IMDb 🎬 The Outsiders (1990) pilot on YouTube 🪆 The Living Dolls pilot on YouTube 🎸 Rock 'N' Roll: The Music Biz Game on BoardGameGeek.com 🥠 The Fortune Teller board game on eBay 👨👩👦 Parenthood (1989) on Starz 🍯 Honey, I Shrunk [sic] The Kids on Disney Plus 🎶 The September 1989 mixtape on Spotify 🧼 Robert Duncan McNeill and Lauren Holly in their All My Children days ℹ️ Maurice Benard on Wikipedia 💃 Paula Abdul rehearsing "When I Think Of You" video choreography with Janet Jackson and her dancers | |||
| 18 Oct 2022 | September 1989 Fashion Etc.: Buttons, Blimps & Horse Girls | 01:07:44 | |
What's your look going to be when you head back to school this year? Horse girl? All-red Christmas elf? Sticking buttons on all your garments, until they inevitably fall off in a trail behind you? Sassy is here for ALL these ideas! We also learn about tiny jewelry, models so "quirky" they actually look smart, some truly demented ads, and the arrival of a Fashion Editor, at last. Put down your glue gun and listen! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is September 1989 🎧 Fashion Feature: Red Is 🎧 Fashion Feature: Stable Manners 🎧 Fashion Feature: Buttoned Up 🎧 What Next 🎧 Beauty Feature: Quirky Models 🎧 About Face 🎧 Then And Now 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary 🎧 Say What 🎧 Inside Out 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Dry Skin Right Here 🎧 My Kingdom NOTES 🐴 "Dear my first love, I miss you" on YouTube 🐎 "GOODBYE CC, IM GONNA MISS YOU" on YouTube 🏇 "Goodbye Austin; 1482 days" on YouTube 💅 Model: The Complete Guide To Becoming A Professional Model in the May 1989 issue 🧑🏻🦲 "Pass It On - Being There - Prom Date" on YouTube | |||
| 01 Nov 2022 | September 1989 Slumber Party: Annie, Bonhomme & Drysol | 00:40:26 | |
The September 1989 issue truly gets to the heart of what 90% of Sassy readers (give or take) were obsessing about: Rate Your Guy Appeal. How strong should you come on to a hypothetical Danish exchange student? Take the quiz and compare your results to ours. Then it's on to your latest voicemails, covering subjects ranging from how to interact with Northern Irish children; whether Bonhomme is a force for evil; how dangerous Drysol may actually be, and much much more! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is September 1989 🎧 Quiz: Rate Your Guy Appeal 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Hello A Dink Dink Dink Dink NOTES 📈 The September 1989 quiz: Rate Your Guy Appeal 🤔 "The Enduring Allure Of Choose Your Own Adventure Books" at NewYorker.com | |||
| 15 Nov 2022 | October 1989 Teen Life: Reputations, Periods & World Statistics | 00:56:35 | |
For once, the lead feature is not heavy with tragedy -- it's just a little research piece on stats about teens in the U.S. compared to other countries. Do WE find a way to end on a bummer note anyway? ...Sorry, but yes, we do. We also discuss a piece that claims to help you "blow off" a reputation you might not want, and a collection of Sassy staffers' most horrifying and graphic period stories. Beyond the features, we're talking gum, toilet strat, cheaters, eye twitches, and much much more! Pull up your 3D socks and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is October 1989 🎧 In Our Lives 🎧 Feature: You vs. The World 🎧 Feature: How To Blow Off Your Reputation 🎧 Feature: Embarrassing Moments In Our Menstrual History 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 What He Said: Have You Ever Cheated On A Girlfriend? 🎧 It Happened To Me: Agoraphobia 🎧 Help 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 It's A Chompy-Chompy NOTES 🤯 Take the October 1989 Quiz: Rate Your Self-Destructiveness 🍯 "Should You Consider Using Honey for Wound Care?" at Consultant360 🍭 "5 Unexpected Survival Uses of Sugar" at OffTheGridNews.com | |||
| 29 Nov 2022 | October 1989 Pop Culture: Frogs, Whale(y) & River Phoenix’s Dog | 00:50:35 | |
Pam is overseas and Kim Reed's internet has been destroyed, but guest co-host Megan McCafferty is here! And eager to dig in on October 1989's pop culture topics. Her beloved Keith Coogan gets a mention in a What Now blurb about Star Search! Her object of teenage obsession, River Phoenix, gets a whole page to proselytize to Christina about animal rights! And there's more: we also cover Gleaming The Cube, The Karate Kid Part III, Frank Whaley, acceptable potatoes, whether The Pogues and reggae are repetitive (spoiler: yes), and -- somehow -- Steven Spielberg's defunct theme restaurant, Dive!. Make yourself a sandwich and your dog some meat-free kibble and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is October 1989 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: Does River's Dog Eat Meat And Other Burning Questions 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Thorold Video Centre NOTES 🧊 Gleaming The Cube on Prime Video 🤩 Keith Coogan (aka Kevin Coogan) on Star Search 🧑✈️ The pilot of The Famous Teddy Z on YouTube 🏫 CBS Schoolbreak Special's "The Jenifer Graham Story" on YouTube: Part 1 🏫 CBS Schoolbreak Special's "The Jenifer Graham Story" on YouTube: Part 2 📺 The Afterschool Specialist on YouTube 💣 The Casualties Of War trailer on YouTube 🏆 David Spade impersonating Michael J. Fox at the 1998 Emmys 🥋 The Karate Kid Part III on AMC+ 💗 The True Love trailer on YouTube 🌊 "Why Steven Spielberg's Nautically-Themed Dive! Restaurant Sunk" on MentalFloss.com 🥣 Cold Dog Soup on The Criterion Channel 🐍 Last Night At The Viper Room: The Life And Death Of River Phoenix excerpted at RollingStone.com | |||
| 13 Dec 2022 | October 1989 Fashion Etc.: Boots, Model Bones & Snapped Necks | 01:01:19 | |
While Pam continues globe-trotting, we are joined by guest co-hosts Megan McCafferty and Kim Reed for a discussion of the fashion (etc.) of the October 1989 issue! We're painting our feet, squinting at boots, sewing crap to the bottom of our blazers...okay, we're only doing some of that -- but we're talking about all of it. Prepare yourself for a deep dive on the "Welcome To Bedrock" fashion story, which instantly finds itself in the top 5 weirdest in the magazine's young life. Plus! Ads, letters, desks, the '20s, and so much more! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is October 1989 🎧 Kim's Harrowing Tale Of Internetlessness 🎧 Cover 🎧 Fashion Feature: Artist At Work 🎧 Fashion Feature: Hit The Road 🎧 Fashion Feature: Welcome To Bedrock 🎧 Making It: Jacket Renovation 🎧 What Next: Really Roaring ’20s 🎧 We Try It 🎧 About Face 🎧 Then & Now: How To Slick Up A Scruffy Dude 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: Desk Styles Of The Sassy Staff 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Kim Doesn't Have Anything To Plug NOTES 👗 Women's Simply Vera Vera Wang Chiffon-Trim Blazer at Kohls.com 👃 Electric Youth by Debbie Gibson Revlon review at Fragrantica.com 🧴 Electric Youth perfume for sale at Mercari.com 🎶 Morton Downey Jr. Sings on Amazon 🎵 "Morton Downey Jr. singing 'Are The Good Times All Over?' on The Pat Sajak Show" on YouTube 🎼 "Morton Downey Jr. sings 'Hey There Mr. Dealer' on The Arsenio Hall Show" on YouTube 🧛🏻♂️ Tara's interview with Interview With The Vampire star Sam Reid on VanityFair.com 🍦 "Byrne Dairy announces two new 'Bigwich' flavors" on LocalSyr.com | |||
| 27 Dec 2022 | November 1989 Teen Life: Pregnant, Drafted & Dumped | 00:44:34 | |
Megan and Kim return to help us cover all the Teen Life topics of the November 1989 issue! After racing through the lead bummer feature about the passes rich white criminals get, we discuss some solid advice from Christina on what to do -- and, more importantly, what NOT to do -- when you get dumped. The winners of a photography contest surprise us with their competence. Some guys DON'T surprise us with their shallow thinking about whether women should be subject to a military draft. There's also soup, Harvard, anemia, adoption, a bumper crop of Stuff You Wrote, and oh so very much more!
QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is November 1989 🎧 Feature: White Guys Are Getting Away With Murder 🎧 Feature: You've Been Dumped 🎧 Feature: Our Best-Picture-You-Ever-Took Contest 🎧 Fiction: Poison Ivy 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 It Happened To Me: Pregnant At 15 🎧 Help 🎧 What He Said: Do You Think Women Should Be Drafted? 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 🏫 "WV Business College Commercial with Cabbage Patch Dolls 1987" on YouTube 🥬 "The Cabbage Patch Kids Riots" episode of the Decoder Ring podcast 🔪 "Uniform Crime Report For Homicides" at ProjectColdCase.org 🚫 "The Vast Majority Of Perpetrators Will Not Go To Jail Or Prison" at RAINN.org 👶 "The Worst Adoption Agency In The World: Gladney" at FirstMotherForum.com 👍 Sylvia Hacker at LocalWiki.org 🪦 Sylvia Hacker's obituary | |||
| 10 Jan 2023 | November 1989 Pop Culture: New Kids, Josh Charles & A Cute Baby Boy | 00:56:30 | |
Megan and Kim wind up their guest-co-hosting gigs with a bumper crop of pop culture topics. What Now takes us through The Keeper, "Bettys," acceptable crush objects Simon de la Brosse and Ethan Hawke, and Unacceptable crush object Leaf Phoenix. We attempt to understand the plot of Nightmare On Elm Street 5 and the appeal of Queen Of Hearts. We celebrate Mike's extremely correct five-star review of the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique, and why the youth still know Tears For Fears. Then it's on to another successful One To Watch pick, and a feature all about every cool late '80s girl's object of disdain: New Kids On The Block. Join us as we go through the issue Step By Step!
QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is November 1989 🎧 What Now: All-New Boyfest Edition 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: Why Are New Kids On The Block So Famous? 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Kim Without Borders NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter 🐦 Megan McCafferty on Twitter 📸 Megan on Instagram 🎭 The Shaw Festival's Royal George Theatre 📖 The original feature on Paula Cooper in the August 1988 issue 🩸 The Keeper 🔪 The Preppie Murder on YouTube 👀 When He's Not A Stranger (fka Someone You Know) on YouTube 🤳 Better photo of Simon de la Brosse 📚 Momilies on AbeBooks.com 📍 List of Borders Stores locations, with store numbers 💭 Nightmare On Elm Street Part 5: The Dream Child on HBO Max 🥷 The Little Thief on YouTube 👸 Queen Of Hearts on Paramount+ 🐏 Heavy Petting on Prime Video 💿 "14 Classic Albums That Flopped When They Were Released" at RollingStone.com 📕 Excerpt from Michael Diamond and Adam Horowitz's Beastie Boys Book on Vulture ⚖️ Murder In Mississippi on YouTube 🐦 Josh Charles on Twitter 🗣️ "An Honest Conversation With Josh Charles" at Esquire.com 🎵 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast ⭐️ Maurice Starr on Wikipedia 🚪 "Jonathan Knight Confirms He's Gay After Being Outed On Bravo Show" at The Hollywood Reporter 🛍️ Megan's novel The Mall at Indiebound.org | |||
| 24 Jan 2023 | November 1989 Fashion Etc.: Loungin', Thanks & Shades Of Fragrance | 00:56:54 | |
Having bid adieu to our dear guest co-hosts Kim and Megan, we welcome back Pam for the November 1989 Fashion Etc. episode. Fashion spreads tell us how to dress like a pilgrim, or a rodeo queen (?), or in a jacket. Karen does an exposé on how worthless your expensive modeling school education actually is. The lone beauty story tries to show us what...smells......look like. There's also beauty gadget trials, an update on how to wear your jeans, curly hair makeovers, some very emotional letters, and so much more!
QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is November 1989 🎧 Cover 🎧 Fashion Feature: Loungin’ 🎧 Fashion Feature: A Modeling School Story You’re Not Gonna Like 🎧 Fashion Feature: Time To Give Thanks 🎧 Fashion Feature: Rodeo Circuit Blues 🎧 What Next: Hug Those Hips 🎧 Beauty Feature: Shades Of Fragrance 🎧 About Face 🎧 We Try It: Beauty Gadgets 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 One Sassy Ad 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Diary: How To Be A Metalhead 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Wearing A Cow Print 🎧 Strike Fast. Strike Hard. No Mercy. 🎧 Electric Shavers 🎧 What's Going On 🎧 Head Of Talks & Ideas Chip Rolley 🎧 Pam Taking A Shit Or Something NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 👠 "The Guy Who Teaches The Girls To Glide" at WashingtonPost.com 🪶 "Black Crowe Flies Solo Toward 'Sun'" at BostonHerald.com 📸 Emma Snowball on Instagram 💁♀️ Our February 1989 Fashion Etc. episode, in which Karen wrote about trying to become a model herself 👔 "A Hard Look At The Original Modelizer" at TheCut.com 🕹️ "American" names according to the Japanese designer of a '90s baseball video game, on Reddit 👃 BIC fragrances on Parfumo.net 📰 "'Most Unforgettable Woman' Is A 'Child Of Dust'" at Sun-Sentinel.com 👩⚖️ Mary Xinh Nguyen on Avvo.com 💅 Lady Remington's Smooth & Shapely Nailcare System on eBay 💨 DazzleDry.com 🚫 "The 15-year-old Girl Who Couldn't Stop Eating Hair!" on DailyMail.co.uk 🛹 Vision/Gale Webb sticker on eBay 📷 Gale Webb's photography on SkatingFashionista.com 🛝 Report on the opening of Menifee's Gale Webb Action Sports Park at PublicCEO.com 📚 Gale Webb on WomensMXHistory.com 👩💻 Future home of the Wearing Gale Webb's As A Skin Suit Tribute Site. ❤️🔥 The October 1989 quiz: Rate Your Self-Destructiveness 🛍️ The November 1989 quiz: Rate Your Mall Knowledge 📺 Tara's spring 2023 TV preview at GQ.com 🍆 My Year Of Dicks on Vimeo.com | |||
| 07 Feb 2023 | October & November 1989 Slumber Party: NKOTB, Frogs & Toilets | 01:14:40 | |
Having skipped the October Slumber Party episode in late 2022, we're bringing you a SUPER-SIZED installment featuring our results in not one but TWO quizzes: Rate Your Self-Destructiveness from the October 1989 issue, and Rate Your Mall Knowledge from November 1989. Then it's on to several months' worth of calls on such subjects as whether physical therapy is a scam, how to lord a birthstone ring over your haters, Crocs, tarot, Lady Gaga, and what is and isn't necessary when it comes to public pooping. Sorry but also this is partly on you, or at least your fellow listeners!
QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is October & November 1989 🎧 Quiz: Rate Your Self-Destructiveness 🎧 Quiz: Rate Your Mall Knowledge 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Discarded Underwear Merch NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 🤯 Sassy's October 1989 quiz: Rate Your Self-Destructiveness 🛍️ Sassy's November 1989 quiz: Rate Your Mall Knowledge 🐊 Tara's Crocs (with Kibbutz) on Instagram 😎 Forever 35's "Product Recall" episode on Sun-In 🍆 Tara's interview with Pam about My Year Of Dicks at GQ.com 📽️ Find where the Oscar shorts are playing at a cinema near you 👕 Listen To Sassy merch at ThroughMethods.com | |||
| 21 Feb 2023 | December 1989 Teen Life: Sobbing, Speculums & Saving The Planet | 00:55:55 | |
Sassy's first and only double issue kicks off with a classic bummer: the story of teenager Billy Rosebud, whose murder cops only bothered to look into after his own family spent years doing most of the investigating for them. From there, things lighten up, as Karen tells us what to expect from a gynecologist appointment, Christina walks us through a truly cathartic crying fit, and Mary Kaye attempts to help us save the planet. (Whoops.) Plus: a fiction story about a dad's hypocrisy (yes, we know, that's all fiction for teen girls); a stark warning about extended-wear contacts; the truth about hickeys, and much much more!
QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is December 1989 🎧 Feature: What Happened To Billy Rosebud? 🎧 Feature: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Going To The Gynecologist…And Then Some 🎧 Feature: Your Guide To The Perfect Crying Fit 🎧 Feature: 10 Ways You Can Save The Planet Right Now 🎧 Fiction: Waiting 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 It Happened To Dave 🎧 It Happened To Me: My Dad’s Adoring Students Didn’t Know He Was A Violent Alcoholic 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Tara Gets An A+ 🎧 So Much Coffee 🎧 A Cold One NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 📰 Meredith Fish entry at Tampa.gov 🚨 "Murdered Woman Was Forgotten Victim" at TampaBay.com 🏛️ "Individuals Can't Solve The Climate Crisis. Governments Need To Step Up" at TheGuardian.com 🌍 Help Save Planet Earth on IMDb.com 🏚️ Gif: Homer Simpson dropping Grampa at the Nut House ⛪️ Lori Klande's Church, Asbury United Methodist Church, on Facebook 🍆 MyYearOfDicks.com 🎅🏻 December 1989 quiz: Rate Your Ho-Ho-Ho-Ness | |||
| 07 Mar 2023 | December 1989 Pop Culture: Billy, Björk & Trixie | 00:45:01 | |
The pop culture topics of the December 1989/January 1990 issue fall into a few clear categories. Want to learn about age-appropriate boys? There are What Now items on Fred Savage and Jared Rushton. Want to get confused by feelings of horniness for unbelievably hot men? There's a shirtless Patrick Swayze and Billy Wirth, the latter apparently One To Watch. Want to be really mean about people who are wealthier and more powerful than you will ever be? There's a swipe at Cher for being old (at 43), and a WHOLE bunch of snark in the results of the entertainment poll -- including the magazine's editors snarking at YOU and your choices! We, however, think you're just great, so listen to what we have to say about all of the above, and more!
QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is December 1989 🎧 What Now 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch: Billy Wirth 🎧 Feature: Your Most Beloved And Despised Stars, TV Shows, Music And Movies 🎧 Feature: Natalie Merchant Can Get Cranky 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 🪦 Jeff Ballard obituary at Variety 🎮 Players review at Variety 🗑️ Esports.gg report on Players getting cancelled and removed from Paramount+ 🤦🏻♂️ "Fred Savage denies allegations of misconduct after Wonder Years firing" at NBCNews.com 🤨 "What Really Happened With Fred Savage on The Wonder Years" at The Hollywood Reporter 🥀 "50 Wildest Guns N' Roses Moments" at RollingStone.com 🌎 R.E.M.'s "Dark Globe" on Discogs.com 🎶 "Dark Globe" on YouTube 🖕 "That oughta hold the little SOBs" reaction at Frinkiac.com 🪓 A Cry In The Wild on YouTube 👩🚀 List of MTV News personalities on Wikipedia 🎧 The December 1989/January 1990 mixtape on Spotify 🎷 "The True Story of The Lost Boys' Sax Man" on Gizmodo.com 🪖 War Party movie poster 🇺🇸 Billy Wirth on American Gladiators on YouTube 📷 Billy Wirth on Instagram 🪳 Andrew Roachford on Wikipedia 🍷 Port Wine Stain information at MountSinai.org 📷 Dana Trixie Flynn on Instagram 📻 NewsRadio S03.E01 "President" on Prime Video 😴 Natalie Merchant's children's book, Leave Your Sleep 🌴 The Again With This podcast website 🍆 My Year Of Dicks on Hulu (until March 17) 🧘♀️ Laughing Lotus | |||
| 21 Mar 2023 | December 1989 Fashion Etc.: Sequins, Lucy & Cheap-Ass Christmas Gifts | 01:00:25 | |
One decade's ending and another one's starting: maybe your old aesthetic should end and you should try out a new one? The December 1989/January 1990 double issue has some ideas! What if you dressed like Lucille Ball, or a crow? What if you glued sequins to a t-shirt, or your face? What if you gave yourself dreadlocks??? ...Actually, don't do that one. Elsewhere, readers are calling out fur that turns out to be faux; a feature writer keeps her job thanks to fax machines; and the whole staff is giving you Christmas presents that cost them absolutely nothing and that they didn't even edit. We've got LOTS to say about all of it!
QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is December 1989 🎧 Cover 🎧 Fashion Feature: In Sequins 🎧 Fashion Feature: Of Mountains And Melodrama 🎧 Fashion Feature: Having A Ball 🎧 Beauty Feature: Very Party 🎧 Bonus Insert: Here Are Your Presents 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Sassy Club 🎧 Diary: Play Ball 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Pam'd It NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 💄 Kryolan theatrical makeup | |||
| 04 Apr 2023 | December 1989 Slumber Party: Christmas, Fuddrucker's & Ophthalmology | 01:10:35 | |
Yes, we know it's spring and we're talking about the winter holidays, but that's just how things shake out sometimes. After the "Rate Your Ho-Ho-Ho-ness" quiz discussion takes a surprisingly contentious turn, we play some of your latest calls! Topics include but are not limited to: Cher, Tori Spelling, the redheaded guy from Workaholics, Comedy Central, Cher, chambray, Fuddrucker's, Skyline Chili, Hatchet, Belk, and how many eye puff tests one person can experience in a day and still live to tell about it. Roll out your sleeping bag, it's the Slumber Party!
QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is December 1989 🎧 Quiz: Rate Your Ho-Ho-Ho-ness 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 🫒 "Brilliant meme sees people posting FAKE 'guides' to trendy text abbreviations to baffle parents about what their kids are discussing" at DailyMail.co.uk 🎅🏻 The December 1989 quiz, "Rate Your Ho-Ho-Ho-ness," on our website 👍 The Everything Is Fine podcast 📰 Jane Pratt's newsletter, Deedda 👩💻 "With Her Latest Media Project, Jane Pratt Is Still Telling All" at VanityFair.com 🍆 Pam's Instagram post about her presentation of My Year Of Dicks at Students Engaged TX | |||
| 18 Apr 2023 | February 1990 Teen Life: Divorce, Dude Defects & A New Sassiest Girl In America | 00:51:36 | |
Thirteen months have gone by since Sassy crowned Rinnan its first Sassiest Girl In America, so it's time to pick a new one from a notably smaller field of finalists. Did we agree with the judges' choice? (Would we bring it up here if we did?) Catherine reports on a woman who was divorced before she was old enough to vote. Kim France makes her debut with a confusing piece on "dude defects." Karen tries her hand at fiction again. All this, plus What He Said about fantasy women, an It Happened To Me that's more It Happened To Dad, a Stuff You Wrote that inspires musical interpretation, and much much more!
QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is February 1990 🎧 Feature: Four Of The Sassiest Girls In America 🎧 Feature: Diary Of A Marriage 🎧 Feature: The 7 Deadly Dude Defects 🎧 Feature: Beauty Pageants Are A Lot Like The Army 🎧 Fiction: 10-4 Good Buddy 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 What He Said: Who Is Your Fantasy Woman? 🎧 Help 🎧 It Happened To Me: Father Was Having Surgery During 1989 California Earthquake 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 📌 Kellie Feltman on Pinterest 💻 Kellie Feltman's website 📄 Kellie Feltman's CV 🦠 Club Stain on @ThisDayInDanzig on Twitter 👩🏼⚕️ Dr. Gina Marie DeGiovanni on Vitals.com 🐮 Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw 📷 Cathy Davies on Flickr 🤠 Cowgirl (NYC) 🥸 Groucho Club 🤓 “A Brief History Of The Military’s Unsightly ‘Birth Control Glasses’” at TaskAndPurpose.com 👓 “5 Struggles Those Who Wore BCGs Will Remember” at Military.com 🕶️ On BCGs getting a redesign, at NPR.org 😎 Shop "birth control glasses army" at EyeBuyDirect.com 💃 The 1989 Miss Teen USA Pageant on YouTube 🔴 Our May 1989 Teen Life episode, in which we discussed Karen's last published fiction piece, "Red" 🫥 WXII reports on the current Adderall shortage 🐦 Chris Connelly on Twitter 📷 Chris Connelly on Instagram 📷 Period Pals Austin on Instagram 🩺 Gillian Zaharias Miller, PhD on EcoCenter.org ☣️ Dr. Zaharias Miller's paper on detecting hazardous chemicals in consumer products 🇺🇸 Mr. Show flag desecration sketch on YouTube 🎙️ Tara's interview with The Drew Barrymore Show's co-head writer Cristina Kinon at Cracked.com ☺️ Swear2Care | |||
| 02 May 2023 | February 1990 Pop Culture: Lenny Kravitz, Rap & Norwegian Skateboarders | 00:55:09 | |
The February 1990 What Now claims to be a "Low-Venom Edition," then lashes out at Combos and Child's Play for no good reason on the very same page, so we're not sure what to believe. (We aren't going to "bail" on it, though we now know that's a slang term we could use if we did!) After we learn about Alyssa Milano's Japanese pop album, illicit Norwegian skateboard imports, and so much more, it's on to Watch It, where Courage Mountain (a Heidi take with Charlie Sheen, of all people) and The War Of The Roses get surprisingly good reviews, and Steel Magnolias gets one that's surprisingly mid?! Neill renews his Australian passport with a rave about Max Q, the self-titled Michael Hutchence side project début; we play you some so that you know Neill is wrong, as usual. One To Watch notches another one for the W column, and then Mike makes up a person who hates rap, gets mad at them, and tries to get them on board by profiling four positive artists. Which one sideswipes Public Enemy? The answer may surprise you! Listen and enjoy!
QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is February 1990 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: Why You Should Listen To Rap 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 🦶 Big Foot gas station sign 🎸 Bullet LaVolta on Wikipedia 💯 C-Hundred PSAs 🤔 C-Hundred PSA featuring Jane Pratt 🎧 Michael Stipe and Jim McKay discuss C-Hundred on Talkhouse Podcast 🎬 Jim McKay on IMDb 🏘️ Girls Town on YouTube 🇺🇸 The American Dream Contest review at The A.V. Club 🗽 The American Dream Contest host Michael Landon talks about it on Entertainment Tonight, on YouTube 🔎 Beyond The James on YouTube 💭 The Dream Come True on YouTube 🤐 I Was Speechless on YouTube 🫡 Declaration Of Independence on YouTube 🇯🇵 “The Japanese Pop Album Alyssa Milano Made As A Teenager” at The Awl 🦴 Joey Carbone on Wikipedia 😚 Tamara Browder Hageage on CoachesChoice.com 🏔️ Courage Mountain on Tubi 🥀 The War Of The Roses on HBO Max 🌸 Steel Magnolias on MGM+ 🔮 Back To The Future Part II on Peacock 🧣 Lenny Kravitz in his gigantic scarf 🦤 Vulture post on Kravitz discussing the scarf meme on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon 📚 Kravitz's 2020 memoir Let Love Rule on ThriftBooks 🧂 Salt-N-Pepa on Twitter 🎙️ KRS-One on Instagram 🍑 "Wild Thing" by Peaches + Tone Lōc, on YouTube 🏖️ MTV Spring Break 1989 on YouTube 📻 NewsRadio S02.E06: "Friends" on Prime Video 📷 Special Ed on Instagram 🗣️ Tara's Jeff Hiller interview at Cracked | |||
| 16 May 2023 | February 1990 Fashion Etc.: Embroidery, Cologne & DIY Beauty Basics | 01:05:21 | |
After blowing past cover girl Gina Marie DeGiovanni, we delve into the Fashion (Etc.) of the February 1990 issue. Give your preppy basics some edge! Canoodle with your boyfriend while you're both swathed in embroidery! Dump a bottle of cranberry juice on your head and see what happens! Also: Christina tries a bunch of beauty treatments; you get the best red lipstick recommendations at all price points; the New Kids are popping off in a full-page ad for their (very pricey) hotline. All this and more in our latest episode!
QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is February 1990 🎧 Cover 🎧 Fashion Feature: Look For Love 🎧 Fashion Feature: Wear This 🎧 Beauty Feature: Make-It-Yourself Beauty Basics 🎧 We Try It 🎧 About Face 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: My Glamorous Life 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 💄 Lipstick/finger/teeth tip located: the April 1998 Fashion Etc. episode 🏍️ "The Rise And Fall Of Harley-Davidson Perfume" at RideApart.com 🛵 "The Harley-Davidson Product No One Remembers" at MilwaukeeMag.com 🧴 Harley-Davidson Perfume And Cologne at Perfume.com 😫 The Museum Of Failure 💂♀️ L'Oréal's British Red lipstick on Amazon 💋 Revlon Love That Red lipstick on Amazon 👄 Maybelline Classic Red on eBay 🫦 Paloma Picasso Mon Rouge lipstick on Etsy 💨 Gone With The Wind: The Fragrance on eBay 🌬️ Gone With The Wind: The Fragrance at Cleopatra's Boudoir ☎️ New Kids On The Block 1-900 Hotline TV commercial on YouTube: 1 💰 New Kids On The Block 1-900 Hotline TV commercial on YouTube: 2 👂 New Kids On The Block 1-900 Hotline TV commercial on YouTube: 3 💖 "Pink Spent $118 Calling The New Kids On The Block Hotline" on BostonMagazine.com 🧠 The February 1990 quiz: Rate Your Willpower 😢 Tara's post on The Conners at Cracked.com | |||
| 30 May 2023 | February 1990 Slumber Party: Willpower, Pedicures & Poetry Scams | 01:21:06 | |
First off, we take February 1990 "Rate Your Willpower" quiz. If you think you may know what kind of tangents that leads us to, you are almost certainly wrong. Then we play your latest voicemails, in which you tell us about your own experiments with Sassy's beauty hacks, your musings about which kind of medical procedure would be least terrible if interrupted by an earthquake, what it's like to get scammed by a poetry contest, and so much more!
QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is February 1990 🎧 Quiz: Rate Your Willpower 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 The Long Goodbye For Now NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 😓 The "Rate Your Willpower" quiz 🔥 Burn It Down by Maureen Ryan at HarperCollins.com 📺 Partial explanation of the Television Without Pity reference on My Name Is Earl, at Metafilter 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast 🤠 The ATX TV Festival 🎳 WGA Contract 2023 | |||
| 13 Jun 2023 | March 1990 Teen Life: One-Night Stands, Pick-Up Lines & Mother Teresa | 00:48:43 | |
Sassy embarks upon its third year with a fun, kicky feature on a girl whose parents committed her to a mental institution for what sure seem like spurious reasons. Christina gets heteronormative about one-night-stands, starting with the assumption that you, a girl, might not want to have one. A list of the 20 coolest women hasn't aged well the whole way through (although "Mom" probably still rocks). All this plus another weird short story, Young MC abandoning his whole ethos to pretend he doesn't use pick-up lines, all the ginseng news you can handle, and much much more!
QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is March 1990 🎧 Spine Line 🎧 Feature: She’s Not Crazy 🎧 Feature: One-Night Stand Prevention Kit 🎧 Feature: Your (And Our) 20 Coolest Women Ever 🎧 Fiction: Maury The Mouse 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 What He Said: Do You Use Pick-Up Lines? 🎧 Help 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 🔦 "Senators launch investigation into child abuse allegations at treatment facilities" at NBCNews.com 👹 “I Want To Disown My Demonic Daughter” at Slate’s Care And Feeding (subscription required) 👩👧 "Jodie Foster on her 'interesting and fraught' relationship with her mother and being the breadwinner from age SEVEN" on DailyMail.co.uk 💸 "N.Y. Charity Scandal Leads to Indictments" at LATimes.com 📸 Sylvia Plachy on Wikipedia 💉 "How HGH cheats hit the end of the line" at TheGuardian.com 🏛️ "Building dedicated to Barbara Jordan in the Texas Capitol Complex" at KVUE.com 🤠 Barbara Jordan at the Texas State Historical Association 😇 "Why Mother Teresa is still no saint to many of her critics" at WashingtonPost.com 🐭 The Maury Chronicles on Amazon 🤧 "6 Strange Dangers of Blowing Your Nose Too Hard" on GetCareFreeMD.com 🍺 "11 Revelations from the Live 'Cheers' Reunion with Ted Danson, George Wendt, and John Ratzenberger" at Cracked.com 😭 "'Simpsons' Showrunner Matt Selman Has Read Your Mean Tweets" at Cracked.com 🤬 WGA Contract 2023 | |||
| 27 Jun 2023 | March 1990 Pop Culture: Stephen Baldwin, Rikki Rockett & The Johns | 00:48:55 | |
Are you still calling all guys "Fred"s? Did you hoard your Debbie Gibson autobiography or are you one of the people selling it for three figures on eBay? Can you pick Stephen Baldwin out of a lineup? Did you thrill to Mama, There's A Man In Your Bed? DO YOU THINK THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS ARE GOOD?! ...This is not actually a quiz; we're just letting you know some of the questions you may ask yourself after listening to our March 1990 Pop Culture episode. Get into it!
QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com 🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is March 1990 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: What Do Giants Eat? 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 👕 "Is Savile Row Ready for Rikki Rockett's T-Shirts?" at LATimes.com 👻 Old Ghosts shirts on Gem 🍆 Old Ghosts "Penis" shirt on Grailed 🚀 Rikki Rockett on Instagram 📚 Between The Lines by Debbie Gibson on eBay 👗 Debbie Gibson's Skirts screen text opposite Marisa Tomei 🐢 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem on Wikipedia 🗿 Boys Alone on YouTube 🏝️ Girls Alone on YouTube 🚧 Streets on YouTube 🛌 Mama, There's A Man In Your Bed aka Romuald Et Juliette on Kanopy 🐚 Lord Of The Flies on YouTube 🎶 The March 1990 Mix Tape on Apple Music 🐎 The Young Riders on Freevee 🤪 "What We Know About Stephen Baldwin's Political Views" on NickiSwift.com ☎️ Dial-a-Song ✊ WGA Contract 2023 | |||
| 11 Jul 2023 | March 1990 Fashion Etc.: Prom, Audrey & Wildly Expensive Brushes | 00:59:21 | |
Sassy's second birthday coincides with prom, and this issue is on it, showing you how to get ready (with...a bodybuilding magazine?) and one ad full of Merry Go Round's weirdest dresses. There's also a great spread on Audrey Hepburn as a fashion muse, and a weird spread on environmentally conscious fashion that doesn't quite think things through. We're also learning which natural beauty products passed Sassy editors' testing, what Climax Springs is, and how friggin' many soap stars had their own 900 numbers in this era. Put on your most diaphanous sleeves and get into it!
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