Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s

Whose voice is described in this month's Listen Up as "vomity"? It's sure not Sting because Catherine CANNOT be objective about him. It's also not Debbie Gibson protégé Chris Cuevas, though we do have a lot of opinions about the little photo of him we get in What Now. We also discuss whether L.A. Story is still worth seeing and whether it includes a baby in a basket on the side of the freeway; rate the tracks on R.E.M.'s Out Of Time; and wonder whether Christina's piece on why going backstage at a rock show sucks is actually just a huge humblebrag. Give a big David Lee Roth-style scream: it's the April 1991 Pop Culture episode!

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TOPICS
🎧 It Is April 1991
🎧 What Now
🎧 Listen Up
🎧 One To Watch
🎧 Feature: I Hate Going Backstage
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Go Ahead

NOTES
📅 Chris Cuevas and Debbie Gibson's "Someday" on YouTube
📓 The February 1991 Seventeen cover
💄 "Going For That Sassy Touch" from The Olympian at Newspapers
😎 "Why Is Olympia So Cool And Countercultural?" at r/olympia
🍯 R.E.M.'s "Me In Honey" on Spotify
🪦 Ray Davis on KeyWiki
💥 "Catastrophe" at Reb Jeff
🍑 The Dharma Bums in the 21st century
🥾 Sonic Youth's "Dirty Boots" on YouTube
🛌 Susanna Hoffs's "My Side Of The Bed" on YouTube
💀 "Billy Drago, 'Untouchables' Star, Dies At 73" on Variety
🫎 "'Northern Exposure' Revival With Rob Morrow In The Works At CBS" at The Hollywood Reporter
📸 Darren E. Burrows on Instagram
🧶 Darren E. Burrows on Etsy
🎸 "Soundgarden 1990-1991 All Access Tour Laminate Backstage Pass!" on eBay

The April 1991 issue lulls you into a false sense of complacency by burying its biggest bummer feature in the middle of the island, but then there it is: "They're Shooting Horses." DAMN, KAREN! (Spoiler: this is a problem the U.S. government still hasn't solved -- hope you were sitting down to read this.) Around it, we get Christina's embedded report from a Black debutante ball in Georgia; Margie's mini-profiles of 5 people in cool and important jobs, What He Said about dating an unpopular girl, It Happened To Me from a conflicted breast-reduction surgery patient, and a lot more. Content warning for the fiction story: it's about a girl with the OLDEST MOM IN RECORDED HISTORY -- 60!!!!!

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TOPICS
🎧 It Is April 1991
🎧 Feature: Inside A Black Debutante Ball
🎧 Feature: They’re Shooting Horses
🎧 Feature: 5 Jobs That Aren’t Lame
🎧 Fiction: Sixteen To Sixty
🎧 Body Talk
🎧 On The Road: Baltimore
🎧 What He Said: Would You Date A Girl Less Popular Than You?
🎧 Help + Help For Him
🎧 It Happened To Me: Boobs
🎧 Stuff You Wrote
🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES
📆 The Wonder Years (2021) "Lads And Ladies And Us" at Fandom
💬 "Rough Draft" quote at QuoteFancy
🪧 "Rough Draft" banner on eBay
🐴 Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy
🐎 "US Judge In Nevada Hands Wild Horse Advocates Rare Victory In Ruling On Mustang Management Plans" at the AP
👧🏻 Citizen's Committee for Children of New York
🤝 "NYANA To Close After Long Run Here" at Jewish Telegraphic Agency
☮️ PeaceAction
📚 Enid Harlow's new story collection Voices at Livingston Press
🤧 "How Fast Is A Sneeze Versus A Cough?" at Each Breath from the American Lung Association
👙 Title 9
⛴️ "A Tour Of Baltimore's Inner Harbor"
👕 "Best Vintage & Thrift Stores In Baltimore"
🤕 "Top 15 Misconceptions Of Self-Injury" at Cornell
🔨 Leonid Brezhnev at Alpha History
🤨 George Whipple

Are you a techno head? In 1991, that meant "Do you know how a computer works?" but also possibly "Can you drive stick?" This quiz is trouble and we've got objections. We've got NO objections to your latest calls about The Grateful Dead, looking like Ben Seaver, The Bridge On The River Kwai, and (of course) cuticles. March on in and listen!

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TOPICS
🎧 It Is March 1991
🎧 Quiz: Are You A Techno Head?
🎧 From The Hotline
🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES
💦 "How I Might Have Just Become The Newest Urban Legend" at Pam's blog
🌴 Again With This Club campaign

It's March, and that means it's time to start morbidly obsessing on prom, up to and including having a dress rehearsal five days out. All the frippery that fills the special pull-out prom insert feels very un-Sassy, so we hope sponsor Tampax at least paid a truckload of money for both that and a half-reassuring, half-fear mongering insert about periods. (No, your tampon can't get lost inside you...but then again why would they even bring it up unless MAYBE IT COULD?!) Elsewhere, there are tips on nail care, a creative/non-dirty use for an odd sock, photos from Sassy's third birthday party, and more! Put on your pastelliest formalwear and listen!

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TOPICS
🎧 It Is March 1991
🎧 Fashion Feature: All In One
🎧 Fashion Insert: How To Have A Sassy Prom
🎧 About Face
🎧 We Try It
🎧 Zits And Stuff
🎧 Sassy Ads
🎧 Diary
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Crossroads

NOTES
🧥 Website for Monic Richard, who shot "All In One"
🍌 "This List Of Period-Related Food Myths Is Straight-Up Bananas" at TheKitchn
🩸 Starter Kit For Using Tampons at TinaHealthCare
🌽 "CALS Student Laura Croal Serves On Panel With Vice President Gore" at University Of Wisconsin Madison's College Of Agricultural & Life Sciences News
👄 Tara's review of Big Mouth S08 at Cracked
🫦 Tara's interview with Big Mouth co-creators Jennifer Flackett, Andrew Goldberg, and Mark Levin at Cracked

Pam came to the taping with less than one hour to spare before she had to leave to see a movie, so we had NO time to waste getting through this episode's many pop culture topics. Perry Farrell cutting a bathroom line! How much of The Godfather Part III we've seen and/or is worth seeing! Neill's latest crappy review! Who The Replacements are and also who they are not! HURRY UP AND LISTEN, PAM'S GOTTA GO

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TOPICS
🎧 It Is March 1991
🎧 What Now
🎧 Watch It
🎧 Listen Up
🎧 One To Watch: Reed Diamond
🎧 Feature: Will The Replacements Ever Be Famous?
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Chop Chop With The Commentary

NOTES
🙀 "Shooting Cats In Head As Part Of Study Ends" on Desert News
😾 "Report On Cat-Shooting Research Stirs Debate" at UPI
💇🏻‍♂️ "Teen's Fight A Hairy One" at Tampa Bay Times
👅 Zach Toungate on LinkedIn
👒 Bolero Hat at Village Hat Shop
👀 Barbie's The Look on YouTube
🪤 "Please, Mr. Jailer" on Spotify
🍿 Popcorn on YouTube
🎶 Popcorn by Hot Butter
🧙‍♂️ Warlock on Dailymotion
💊 Happy Mondays' Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches reviewed at Pitchfork
💿 "Donovan" on Spotify
🍭 Lush's "Sweetness And Light" on YouTube
🐍 Reed Diamond on Wikipedia
📷 Reed Diamond on Instagram
🔥 Extra Hot Great 561, about The Four Seasons

Sassy launched with the March 1988 issue and here we are in 1991, watching our friend turn 3! And if we were reading the issue in order, this would probably be a cool, fun party, but since we're starting with the Teen Life topics...the first feature is about a rape on campus at the University of Rhode Island that, spoiler, did not have a happy ending for the survivor. After that piece, things lighten up: Jessica revisits her old job as a substitute teacher. Christina collects a (somewhat questionable) list of decent men (and the fact that one of them is fictional and six of them are dead kind of says it all). Two of your co-hosts are divided on the quality of this month's fiction piece, "Train Date," while the third mainly just wants to keep playing a clip advertising a mail-order train set. Guess who? The answer won't surprise you! Body Talk divides a household. Body hair is a confusing Help topic. What He Said star Pauly Shore is somehow still a going concern in our day. And to the Jeannes in our listenership: sorryyyyyyyy. All this and even more awaits you!

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TOPICS
🎧 It Is March 1991
🎧 Feature: The Rape
🎧 Feature: Hello, I’m Your Substitute Teacher
🎧 Feature: 20 Men You Can’t Beat With A Stick
🎧 Fiction: Train Date
🎧 Body Talk
🎧 What He Said: If Someone Gave You $1000, What Would You Do With It?
🎧 Help
🎧 It Happened To Me: Born Addicted To Heroin
🎧 Stuff You Wrote
🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES
🚴 "Bike Mags To 'Bunny Hop': Skate Media's BMX History" at Slam City Skates

The February 1991 quiz -- How Good Are You In A Pinch? -- has us all doing a little introspection and a lot of complaining about the "d" options that aren't available. (As for Pam's husband Jason's score...well, listen and find out.) Then we're playing some of your latest calls on such topics as at-home highlight kits, turning into the Target lady upon injury, how much we miss catalogs and pleasant department store bathrooms -- and, of course, dinks. At least some of this will make sense when you listen. So you should!

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TOPICS
🎧 It Is February 1991
🎧 Quiz: How Good Are You In A Pinch?
🎧 From The Hotline
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Counting Hitler's Balls

NOTES
💤 "Slumber Party" by Carter Vail
👚 Request the Spring 2025 J. Crew catalog

Pam is still out on assignment, so it's just Dave and Tara this week to talk about all the style contained in the February 1991 issue. Dress in florals, or straight out of a mall store! Dye your hair, for a while or forever! Annoy everyone you know by going overboard with a heart motif! DON'T buy the sketchy products advertised at the back of the issue -- let Karen tell you precisely why! And above all, when you're applying mascara, OPEN YOUR MOUTH. All of this and much much more awaits you in our latest episode!

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TOPICS
🎧 It Is February 1991
🎧 Fashion Feature: Fresh Cuts
🎧 Fashion Feature: Worn To Work
🎧 What Next: Heart Attack
🎧 Beauty Feature: Fear-Free Hair Coloring
🎧 About Face
🎧 Sassy Ads
🎧 Diary: Will The Real Jane Pratt Please Stand Up?
🎧 Magazine-y Feature: Karen Tries To Get Thinner Thighs, Longer Hair, Bigger Breasts, Tanner Skin And A Boyfriend Through The Mail!
🎧 Inside Out: What I Did On My Vacation
🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES
🐕 The Doxshund collection at the Through Methods store
🎱 "Vintage 1980's Leather "8 Ball" Jacket By Boulder Ridge Very Rare 100% Authentic" on eBay
🎠 "Merry Go...Out Of Business" at the Washington Post
👱🏻‍♀️ Friends's Rachel Green and her highlights
💿 The Sassy / Sire Sampler at Discogs
📼 "Joey Ramone hosting 'The Sassy/Sire Sampler II' promo cassette tape (1992)" on YouTube [oops this was the next year's compilation, so I'm sure we'll talk about it whenever we get to that issue, but since we mentioned it on the podcast, here's the link anyway]
🎯 'MAGAZINES: GET HIM SYSTEM TURNS OUT TO BE A GOTCHA!' at the Virginian-Pilot
🪙 "Street Cents - The Get Him System" on YouTube
📕 @AlexisDelCid's tweet about The Get Him System on Twitter
📖 The Get Him System on ThriftBooks [sold out as of press time]
🏠 Tara's review of the S07 review of The Conners at Cracked

Our very special guest Daniel Blau Rogge is back for another episode that really runs the gamut: from Evan Dando to Roky Erickson; from Edward Scissorhands to Hannibal Lecter; to a punk skateboarder who couldn't return a damn phone call; and to a dance lesson conveyed through printed words and still photographs, which is how we had to learn things before online video came along to improve our lives (...sometimes). Fry yourself up some spam and listen!

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TOPICS
🎧 It Is February 1991
🎧 What Now
🎧 Watch It
🎧 Listen Up
🎧 One To Watch
🎧 Feature: Dance Like This
🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES
📸 Jesse Peretz on Wikipedia
🤥 "Scene Stealer: The True Lies Of Elisabeth Finch" at Vanity Fair
✂️ Edward Scissorhands on Disney Plus
🛹 "Danny Way -- Great Wall of China jump" on ESPN
📷 Danny Way on Instagram

Pam is out on assignment, so we lined up a wonderful substitute third chair who was, in fact, also a teenager in the 90s: Daniel Blau Rogge! This turns out to be a surprisingly male-skewing collection of articles: Catherine tries hunting, Kim reports on girls who gave their guys aesthetic or personality makeovers, and Christina tries to understand what "Saddamums" (yes, really) has done to bring Operation Desert Storm down on his head, not knowing that this war basically won't outlast the month of February 1991. There's also some humdingers in Help and Help For Him; a probably authentic (read: dull) scoliosis tale in It Happened To Me, and a What He Said featuring a couple of cuties from a new show you may have heard of called Beverly Hills, 90210. Grab your garlic pills AND a breath mint and hang out!

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TOPICS
🎧 It Is February 1991
🎧 Feature: Going Hunting
🎧 Feature: They Restyled Their Boyfriends
🎧 Feature: The Iraq Thing
🎧 Body Talk
🎧 Help For Him
🎧 Help
🎧 What He Said: Would You Go For Another Guy’s Girlfriend?
🎧 It Happened To Me: Scoliosis Brace
🎧 Stuff You Wrote
🎧 Goodbye For Now + Dan's Life Story I Guess?

NOTES
🧄 "What Happened To Man Repeller?" at GQ
🫡 Ramsey Clark's biography at Americans Who Tell The Truth