67: Bath & Body Jerks (A late 90s/2000s Deep Dive)

This week, we're throwing it back to a simpler time. Roughly the year 2000, when all Kate was concerned with were the latest scents at Bath & Body Works, getting an Abercrombie shirt with the most visible moose she could find, grinding (AKA 'freak dancing') at school dances, getting boys to read between the lines of her vague AIM away messages, and figuring out how to be one of those people that gets 'hott' over summer break. This episode examines a variety of topics related to a suburban public school girl's world in the aughts, from analyzing the politics of a suburban mall hang, to the dynamics that unfold in a food court, to reading off listener-submitted age-inappropriate phrases on Abercrombie & Fitch shirts, to covering the policing of freak dancing, and more. Toward the end, she expresses her discomfort with lingerie showers and goes off into several other tangents, never actually getting to this week's news before hitting 90 minutes. So this episode serves as somewhat of a nostalgic deep dive. We hope it's more pleasant than a fresh bottle of Cucumber Melon shower gel.