Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s

By Tara Ariano, Pamela Ribon and David T. Cole

From 1988-1994, Sassy was the coolest magazine going for Gen-X teens. Celebrate that golden time by joining Tara Ariano, Pamela Ribon and David T. Cole for a deep dive into every one of its 80 gloriou... more

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May 11, 2021 July 1988 Teen Life: Queer Couples, Guys Not To Date & Outdoor Parties
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
☎️ 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
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🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com
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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
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🏳️‍🌈 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 author Lauren Yaffe
🎨 Fiction illustrator Paula Nessick
📖 Chelsea Library's 2017 Exhibit of Nessick's papers
🎙 Bret Michaels on Twitter
📺 Tara on The CW's Dynasty
...more
1h 2min
May 04, 2021 June 1988 Slumber Party: Glop, Snail Trails & Being Artistic
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
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💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord
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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
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
👧 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
...more
35min
April 27, 2021 June 1988 Fashion Etc.: Hippies, Hat Crimes & A Hacked-Up Prom Dress
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
☎️ 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
🎧 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
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
👖 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
👖 Denimcratic x Rit
👀 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
👗 Project Glam
🛋 "Turn Those Old Bridesmaid Dresses Into Throw Pillows!" at The Sunrise Guide
🐦 Peripheral friend in Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers' friend group insecure about being in a group photo with them
📺 Tara's Couples Therapy review at Primetimer
🔥 The Extra Hot Great episode featuring Couples Therapy
💁‍♀️ The Sassiest Girl In America contest application
...more
48min
April 20, 2021 June 1988 Pop Culture: Celebrity Crushes, Ziggy Marley & Beetlejuice
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
☎️ 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
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👚 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
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
📺 Ellen Foster on YouTube
👨‍🦰 Father's Day at Wikipedia
🦈 Feargal Sharkey's "More Love" video
🏅 Feargal Sharkey receives the OBE
🎧 Pam's June 1988 playlist at Spotify
🇺🇸 Stars & Bars on YouTube
🎞 A long Stars & Bars scene on YouTube
🔞 18 Again trailer 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
😳 Scandal on Hulu
💔 "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
🥒 Rick & Morty #32: "Summer's Eve" on Amazon
🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast
...more
1h 3min
April 13, 2021 June 1988 Teen Life: Geniuses, Breasts & Wheels
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
☎️ 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
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👚 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
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🧰 Power Tool was Nelson
🍆 The Masquerade sex scene (WARNING: NSFW)
🎭 Masquerade on HBO Max
🍼 "Witch's Milk"
⏱ 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
✍️ Elizabeth Mosier's blog
📖 Mosier's novel, My Life As A Girl
✒️ El Marko on eBay
🛍 Honolulu's Ala Moana Center
⛸ Honolulu's Ice Palace
🌺 "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
📷 David T. Cole is on Instagram @davidtcole
🥩 The World's Best Meatloaf Recipe at Delishably
...more
45min
April 06, 2021 May 1988 Slumber Party: Vanity, Threesomes & The Sassiest Girl In America
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
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💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord
🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public
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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
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🪞 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
🤣 Tara's review of FX's Hysterical at Primetime
💊 Untitled: A Bad Teen Novel at Amazon
...more
1h 20min
March 30, 2021 May 1988 Fashion Etc.: Beaches, Bathing Suits & Natural Beauty
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
☎️ 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
🎧 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
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🤳 William Garrett Photography
👙 Body Glove Throwback Time After Time swimsuit
🩱 Body Glove 80's Throwback The Look One Piece Swimsuit at SwimOutlet.com
👂 Parts Models
👨‍🌾 Tween Hobo on Twitter
👜 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
🏖 Sea & Ski
⛷ "Whatever Happened to Sea & Ski; Once the Nation's Most Popular Suntan Brand" at BrandlandUSA
🔥 The Extra Hot Great podcast
🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast which includes both questions and answers
📖 "Toni Collette To Make Directorial Debut With Film Adaptation Of Lily King's Novel 'Writers And Lovers' For Topic Studios" at Deadline
...more
1h 6min
March 23, 2021 May 1988 Pop Culture: Swayze, Satisfaction & Four To Watch
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
☎️ 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
🎧 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
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🏥 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.
🚌 School Daze on Netflix
📼 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
☹️ "Sunday Reads: Make Sad Keanu Smile - Watch Permanent Record On Its 30th Anniversary" at Birth. Movies. Death.
🖐 Sticky Fingers on Amazon Prime Video
🎹 Liberace: Behind The Music on Amazon Prime Video
🐦 William McNamara on Twitter
🎙 Billy McNamara on the Conversations With Connors podcast
🎸 "Alex Winter on Telling the Story of 'Paradoxical' Frank Zappa in New Doc: 'It Took Us Years to Get it Right'" at Variety
🔥 Extra Hot Great 346, featuring our discussion of Kid 90
🚸 Showbiz Kids at HBO Max
🤪 Fanthropology on the Ologies podcast
🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast
...more
1h 6min
March 23, 2021 May 1988 Pop Culture: Swayze, Satisfaction, & Four To Watch
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!

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Episode Notes
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
🏥 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.
🚌 School Daze on Netflix
📼 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
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...more
1h 6min
March 16, 2021 May 1988 Teen Life: Stripping, Kissing, Moms & Monster Stepdads
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
☎️ 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
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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
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🩸 The PMS tag at Teen Vogue
🤬 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
😙 "How To Kiss" at WikiHow
💋 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
🐦 Ruth Koeppel on Twitter
🌴 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
👙 Freya's best sports bra
🌴 Buy A Very Special 90210 Book at Black Pearl Books
📺 Deadline's report on Slam!'s series adaptation at HBO Max
🛼 Buy Slam! at Boom Studios
🔥 The Extra Hot Great podcast
🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast
💄 Quiz: How Vain Are You?
...more
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