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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June 08, 2021 August 1988 Teen Life: Death Row, Teacher Crushes & Boys On Makeup
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
☎️ 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
🎧 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
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
📺 "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
📰 "Grandson Of Murder Victim Who Worked To Stop Killer's Death Penalty Verdict Returns To Gary" at the Chicago Tribune
🤝 Journey Of Hope
📖 "The Emerging Movement For Police And Prison Abolition" at The New Yorker
🤝 Indiana Federal Community Defenders, where Paula worked as a legal assistant and spoke to troubled youth
📚 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!
📺 Cruel Summer on Hulu
👨‍🏫 "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
🍿 Obvious Child on Showtime
👵 Grandma on Showtime
🎥 Abortion: Stories Women Tell on HBO Max
🎞 Never Rarely Sometimes Always on HBO Max
🎬 Unpregnant on HBO Max
📽 Plan B on Hulu
💰 National Network Of Abortion Funds
🤠 "Texas Senate Advances Bill Requiring Pre-Abortion Counseling" at The Texas Tribune
🌴 The Again With This podcast
👙 Again With This on Patreon
🛹 Shred Cycle
...more
1h 5min
June 01, 2021 July 1988 Slumber Party: Eating Disorders, David Byrne & The Sassiest Girl
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
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👚 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
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
✊ Color Of Change
🔥 Extra Hot Great 356: 2021 Summer TV Preview
🐻 Pam on the Does Machines podcast
🐦 @starlogjam on Twitter
📷 @starlogjam on Instagram
...more
30min
May 25, 2021 July 1988 Fashion Etc.: Stripes, Curls & Looking Like A Skater
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
☎️ 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 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
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🦁 1988 Wildcat Shoes commercial on YouTube
🧶 Adrienne Vittadini, Queen Of Knits
👎 Rightly slagged post on the Adrienne Vittadini Instagram
🇫🇷 Dance France on Poshmark
🥾 Acme Boots
👢 Double-H Boots
🏬 Bullock's
🛍 South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, the largest shopping center on the U.S. west coast
📸 Jonathan Lennard on Instagram
👗 Dianne B.
💨 "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
💸 Clarins Beauty Flash Balm
💁‍♀️ Sebastian Molding Mud
💄 Discontinued Maybelline Moisture Whip Classic Red on eBay
🧴 Cetaphil Lotion
💁‍♀️ "Diary Of A Hair Plop" at Elle.com
👃 Parfums de Coeur commercial on YouTube
🪓 Bod commercial on YouTube
🚬 Cigarette Loads Bangers
💥 Cigarette Bangers on YouTube
🌴 The Again With This podcast
📼 The Vidiots Foundation
...more
1h 10min
May 18, 2021 July 1988 Pop Culture: Dating Game, Aussie Bands & Cool Breezes
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
☎️ 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 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
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
💃 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
📰 Glenn F. Bunting, who reported the story River's Edge was based on, comments on the film in the L.A. Times
📆 Stormy Monday trailer on YouTube
⛽️ Running On Empty on HBO Max
🚗 Running On Empty trailer on YouTube
❤️ Casual Sex? trailer on YouTube
🍿 Casual Sex? movie poster
😈 Critters 2 trailer on YouTube
🎶 Jenny Morris on Wikipedia
🎙 Jenny Morris covering "Jackson" with Michael Hutchence
🎵 Pam's July 1988 mixtape on Spotify
🐴 Jake's Journey on Wikipedia
📺 "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'"
📰 "Chynna Phillips, the other Baldwin wife, bares all on Hilaria, faith and Justin Bieber" at PageSix.com
👩‍👧 Tara's interview with Allison Janney at VanityFair.com
🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast
...more
1h 6min
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
📷 @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 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
📖 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
🎧 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
👀 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
⚠️ 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
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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!
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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

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