Desperately Seeking the '80s: NY Edition

By Jessica Jones and Meg MacCary

Revisit the crime and culture of NYC in the '80s with BFF Gen-Xers Jessica and Meg.... more

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The podcast currently has 172 episodes available.

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January 21, 2025 The Marriage Plot + Dance Democracy
Meg learns the ways of Sun Myung Moon, the Unification Church, and his “Moonie” followers. Jessica revisits partying at Nell’s, the iconic club that welcomed all - as long as they paid the $10 cover.
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56min
January 14, 2025 Gone Girls + Deep Dive
Meg learns how dedicated girlfriends discovered the identity of Joel Rifkin’s first victim. Jessica takes a tour of dive bars, and the communities they created, in the East Village circa 1986.
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58min
January 07, 2025 Lost Boys + Grisly Griselda
Meg discovers the true story behind a Satanic Panic scare on Long Island. Jessica sniffs out the facts behind cocaine queenpin Griselda Blanco’s violent rise and fall.
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46min
December 31, 2024 Remaster: Pilot Episode
Happy New Year! Revisit Meg and Jessica’s first episode ever: The Good Time Gal + Porno Pioneers, now available with advanced editing and sound quality.
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40min
December 24, 2024 Juror Furor + Precocious Promoters
Meg finds out how the jury in the murder trial of Eric Smokes and David Warren got it so wrong. Jessica tracks how The Saint morphed from gay Shangri-La to a booze-free teen scene.
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50min
December 17, 2024 Subterranean Blues + Shallow Throat
Meg investigates the incendiary story of the Weather Underground and their far leftist principles. Jessica reads into the absurd publishing industry brouhaha over John Ehrlichman’s tell-all “Witness to Power”.
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58min
December 10, 2024 McTantrum + She Got the Power
Meg gets a courtside seat to John McEnroe’s meltdowns and epic rivalry with Bjorn Borg. Jessica searches the newsstand for New York Woman magazine, the first to make advertisers pay for the privilege to court women.
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57min
November 26, 2024 I’ll Take It + Myth Making
Meg hunts down the real stories behind three Metropolitan Museum art heists. Jessica weaves a tale of tapestries, the big top, polyamory, and unicorns.
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46min
November 19, 2024 Hip Hop Happening + Sophisticated Lady
Meg dives deep into the early days of Hip Hop and how the Blackout of 1977 propelled the movement. Jessica pays tribute to Judith Jamison, groundbreaking muse and successor as director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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46min
November 12, 2024 Fallen Dancer + Reagan is the Root
Meg mourns the suicide of New York Ballet City principal dancer Joseph Duell. Jessica returns to the election of 1980 to try to understand how we got here.
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45min

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How many episodes does Desperately Seeking the '80s: NY Edition have?

The podcast currently has 172 episodes available.

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