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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November 29, 2022 October 1989 Teen Life: Reputations, Periods & World Statistics
For once, the lead feature is not heavy with tragedy — it’s just a little research piece on stats about teens in the U.S. compared to other countries. Do WE find a way to end on a bummer note anyway? …Sorry, but yes, we do. We also discuss a piece that claims to help you “blow off” a reputation you might not want, and a collection of Sassy staffers’ most horrifying and graphic period stories. Beyond the features, we’re talking gum, toilet strat, cheaters, eye twitches, and much much more! Pull up your 3D socks and join us!

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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Visual Aids
🖼 View scans from the magazine in this episode's Visual Aids

Episode Notes
🗒 Full episode notes, further reading links and other goodies can be found on this episode's page on our site

Call The Hotline
☎️ Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO

Contact Us
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...more
57min
November 29, 2022 October 1989 Pop Culture: Frogs, Whale(y) & River Phoenix’s Dog
Pam is overseas and Kim Reed's internet has been destroyed, but guest co-host Megan McCafferty is here! And eager to dig in on October 1989's pop culture topics. Her beloved Keith Coogan gets a mention in a What Now blurb about Star Search! Her object of teenage obsession, River Phoenix, gets a whole page to proselytize to Christina about animal rights! And there's more: we also cover Gleaming The Cube, The Karate Kid Part III, Frank Whaley, acceptable potatoes, whether The Pogues and reggae are repetitive (spoiler: yes), and -- somehow -- Steven Spielberg's defunct theme restaurant, Dive!. Make yourself a sandwich and your dog some meat-free kibble 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 October 1989
🎧 What Now
🎧 Watch It
🎧 Listen Up
🎧 One To Watch
🎧 Feature: Does River's Dog Eat Meat And Other Burning Questions
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Thorold Video Centre
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
👗 Skirts On Broadway World
🎉 "Debbie Gibson Releases Songs From Musical SKIRTS To Celebrate World Theatre Day" at BroadwayWorld.com
🧊 Gleaming The Cube on Prime Video
🤩 Keith Coogan (aka Kevin Coogan) on Star Search
🧑‍✈️ The pilot of The Famous Teddy Z on YouTube
🏫 CBS Schoolbreak Special's "The Jenifer Graham Story" on YouTube: Part 1
🏫 CBS Schoolbreak Special's "The Jenifer Graham Story" on YouTube: Part 2
📺 The Afterschool Specialist on YouTube
🖼️ The Big Picture on Tubi
💣 The Casualties Of War trailer on YouTube
🏆 David Spade impersonating Michael J. Fox at the 1998 Emmys
🥋 The Karate Kid Part III on AMC+
💗 The True Love trailer on YouTube
🌊 "Why Steven Spielberg's Nautically-Themed Dive! Restaurant Sunk" on MentalFloss.com
🥣 Cold Dog Soup on The Criterion Channel
🌅 Three Days Rising on IMDb
📷 Vincent Young on Instagram
🐍 Last Night At The Viper Room: The Life And Death Of River Phoenix excerpted at RollingStone.com
📼 Tara's review of Netflix's Blockbuster at VanityFair.com
📖 Megan's book, Sloppy Firsts, on IndieBound.org
...more
51min
November 15, 2022 October 1989 Pop Culture: Frogs, Whale(y) & River Phoenix's Dog
Pam is overseas and Kim Reed's internet has been destroyed, but guest co-host Megan McCafferty is here! And eager to dig in on October 1989's pop culture topics. Her beloved Keith Coogan gets a mention in a What Now blurb about Star Search! Her object of teenage obsession, River Phoenix, gets a whole page to proselytize to Christina about animal rights! And there's more: we also cover Gleaming The Cube, The Karate Kid Part III, Frank Whaley, acceptable potatoes, whether The Pogues and reggae are repetitive (spoiler: yes), and -- somehow -- Steven Spielberg's defunct theme restaurant, Dive!. Make yourself a sandwich and your dog some meat-free kibble and join us!

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!

Visual Aids
🖼 View scans from the magazine in this episode's Visual Aids

Episode Notes
🗒 Full episode notes, further reading links and other goodies can be found on this episode's page on our site

Call The Hotline
☎️ Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO

Contact Us
🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter
📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram
🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
...more
51min
November 15, 2022 October 1989 Teen Life: Reputations, Periods & World Statistics
For once, the lead feature is not heavy with tragedy -- it's just a little research piece on stats about teens in the U.S. compared to other countries. Do WE find a way to end on a bummer note anyway? ...Sorry, but yes, we do. We also discuss a piece that claims to help you "blow off" a reputation you might not want, and a collection of Sassy staffers' most horrifying and graphic period stories. Beyond the features, we're talking gum, toilet strat, cheaters, eye twitches, and much much more! Pull up your 3D socks 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 October 1989
🎧 In Our Lives
🎧 Feature: You vs. The World
🎧 Feature: How To Blow Off Your Reputation
🎧 Feature: Embarrassing Moments In Our Menstrual History
🎧 Body Talk
🎧 What He Said: Have You Ever Cheated On A Girlfriend?
🎧 It Happened To Me: Agoraphobia
🎧 Help
🎧 Stuff You Wrote
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 It's A Chompy-Chompy
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🤯 Take the October 1989 Quiz: Rate Your Self-Destructiveness
🐊 Crocs Jibbitz
🍯 "Should You Consider Using Honey for Wound Care?" at Consultant360
🍭 "5 Unexpected Survival Uses of Sugar" at OffTheGridNews.com
...more
57min
November 01, 2022 September 1989 Slumber Party: Annie, Bonhomme & Drysol
The September 1989 issue truly gets to the heart of what 90% of Sassy readers (give or take) were obsessing about: Rate Your Guy Appeal. How strong should you come on to a hypothetical Danish exchange student? Take the quiz and compare your results to ours. Then it's on to your latest voicemails, covering subjects ranging from how to interact with Northern Irish children; whether Bonhomme is a force for evil; how dangerous Drysol may actually be, and much much more!
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
🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers
👚 Merch discounts and free stickers
🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today!
TOPICS
🎧 It Is September 1989
🎧 Quiz: Rate Your Guy Appeal
🎧 From The Hotline
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Hello A Dink Dink Dink Dink
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
📈 The September 1989 quiz: Rate Your Guy Appeal
🤔 "The Enduring Allure Of Choose Your Own Adventure Books" at NewYorker.com
🛰 "Remembering Prisoners Of Gravity, The Greatest Science Fiction TV Show Of All Time" at BoingBoing.net
🎞 This Had Oscar Buzz on Apple Podcasts
...more
41min
October 18, 2022 September 1989 Fashion Etc.: Buttons, Blimps & Horse Girls
What's your look going to be when you head back to school this year? Horse girl? All-red Christmas elf? Sticking buttons on all your garments, until they inevitably fall off in a trail behind you? Sassy is here for ALL these ideas! We also learn about tiny jewelry, models so "quirky" they actually look smart, some truly demented ads, and the arrival of a Fashion Editor, at last. Put down your glue gun and listen!
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 September 1989
🎧 Fashion Feature: Red Is
🎧 Fashion Feature: Stable Manners
🎧 Fashion Feature: Buttoned Up
🎧 What Next
🎧 Beauty Feature: Quirky Models
🎧 About Face
🎧 Then And Now
🎧 Sassy Ads
🎧 Diary
🎧 Say What
🎧 Inside Out
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Dry Skin Right Here
🎧 My Kingdom
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🌽 Agribition
🐴 "Dear my first love, I miss you" on YouTube
🐎 "GOODBYE CC, IM GONNA MISS YOU" on YouTube
🏇 "Goodbye Austin; 1482 days" on YouTube
💅 Model: The Complete Guide To Becoming A Professional Model in the May 1989 issue
🧑🏻‍🦲 "Pass It On - Being There - Prom Date" on YouTube
🛌 Alex P. Keaton's bedroom at FamilyTies.Fandom.com
👔 Alex P. Keaton on Wikipedia
⬆️ Tara's Paul Reiser interview at GQ.com
...more
1h 8min
October 04, 2022 September 1989 Pop Culture: Batman, Love Shack & All My Children
The September 1989 issue gives us much to discuss in the world of pop culture. Is "well-gutted" a valid Sassy Glossary entry when "gutted" is just fine on its own? Should men pay for dates? How much can we discuss the TV adaptation of The Outsiders that won't be out for several months? How much baseline knowledge should a Gen Xer have about the Indigo Girls? How much worse is The Batman (2022) than Batman (1989)? How many of the All My Children stars Christina hung out with on set are still working on soaps today? What does it mean to call Paula Abdul "a people artist"? And so much more! We'll be GUTTED if you don't listen!
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 September 1989
🎧 Method Actor Daniel Day Lewis
🎧 Pamie's Palace Possible Perk
🎧 What Now
🎧 Watch It
🎧 Listen Up
🎧 One To Watch: Harold Pruett
🎧 Feature: You Are A Soap Star
🎧 Feature: Paula Abdul Does Her Thing
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 September 1989 In Our Lives
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🔮 Ask Zandar board game commercial on YouTube
😿 Animal Liberation on Wikipedia
🔪 "Gutted" on Dictionary.com
🏋️‍♀️ Hollywood Sports on IMDb
🎬 The Outsiders (1990) pilot on YouTube
🪆 The Living Dolls pilot on YouTube
🎸 Rock 'N' Roll: The Music Biz Game on BoardGameGeek.com
🥠 The Fortune Teller board game on eBay
🦇 Batman (1989) on HBO Max
👨‍👩‍👦 Parenthood (1989) on Starz
🍯 Honey, I Shrunk [sic] The Kids on Disney Plus
🎶 The September 1989 mixtape on Spotify
🌤 Lonnie Quinn on Wikipedia
🏰 Michael Knight on Wikipedia
🧼 Robert Duncan McNeill and Lauren Holly in their All My Children days
ℹ️ Maurice Benard on Wikipedia
💃 Paula Abdul rehearsing "When I Think Of You" video choreography with Janet Jackson and her dancers
...more
1h 4min
September 20, 2022 September 1989 Teen Life: This, This & That
Time to go back to school (in 1989) with the Teen Life topics of the September issue! Catherine goes to Northern Ireland to report on The Troubles and gets real poetic about it. Christina relays tales of raging jealousy with the tiniest nod to more productive ways their subjects could have handled themselves. Your co-hosts are divided on "Grace," this month's fiction story. It Happened To Me's contributor shares her wisdom from an unsuccessful Remote Control tryout. All that plus interracial dating, nipple hair, NutraSweet (remember her) and so much more await you in our latest podcast!
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 September 1989
🎧 Feature: Blood + Poetry
🎧 Feature: 4 Tales Of Raging Jealousy
🎧 Fiction: Grace
🎧 Body Talk
🎧 It Happened To Me: Tried Out For Remote Control
🎧 What He Said: Would You Go Out With Someone Of A Different Race?
🎧 Help
🎧 Stuff You Wrote
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Pamie's Palace
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
☘️ Derry Girls on Netflix
🧑🏻‍🦲 Variety report on Showtime's Sinéad O'Connor documentary, Nothing Compares
🧴 Porcelana
🎨 Steve Stankiewicz's website
👩‍🏫 "Former Women's Wear Daily Writer Returns To CoJMC To Teach" at Newsroom.UNL.edu
🍭 "What To Know About Aspartame" at WebMD.com
🤮 "Does Aspartame Cause Cancer?" at Cancer.org
👤 Laura Macaluso's bio
🪦 Deborah Spears Obituary
...more
57min
September 06, 2022 August 1989 Slumber Party: Mellencamp, Moods & Kingpin Hats
Was this the right week for us to Rate Our Moodiness, as the August 1989 issue invited us to do? Given what we were dealing with, maybe not! (Content warning: hip talk.) Then we move on to some of your latest voicemails, which cover matters as diverse as John Mellencamp's dating history and cross-country appeal; avant-garde uses for Sun-in; an extremely romantic-sounding job playing piano in the Yukon; and much much more!
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
🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers
👚 Merch discounts and free stickers
🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today!
TOPICS
🎧 It Is August 1989
🎧 Quiz: Rate Your Moodiness
🎧 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.
⭐️ Tara's interview with Beverly Hills, 90210 creator Darren Star at GQ.com
🎙 Pam's interview with Noah Lloyd
...more
48min
August 23, 2022 August 1989 Fashion Etc.: Jeans, Beads & Boy Stuff
It's time for back-to-school shopping, so we're going back to basics, with fashion stories on jeans and sweaters. There's also a suggestion that you sew 1000 teeny-tiny beads on a dress, but who has the time? In the beauty lane, we're learning about traditionally male grooming products and tips and all about kingpin hats, the down sides of manicures, how to match your foundation color AND dig in on a new feature: Zits And Stuff. All this and more is waiting for you!
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 August 1989 + Cover
🎧 Fashion Feature: Jeans Street
🎧 Fashion Feature: Into The Woods
🎧 Fashion Feature: Now Is The Time For All…
🎧 Making It: Bead It
🎧 Beauty Feature: Boy Stuff
🎧 About Face
🎧 Zits And Stuff
🎧 Sassy Ads
🎧 Sassy Club
🎧 Diary: Get Back
🎧 Say What
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Ultra Pink
🎧 A Case Of The Meats
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
☎️ The '80s Phone Poll
🐦 Angela Featherstone on Twitter
🎩 TheKingpin.com
🤖 Tim Petros's post-kingpin hat work
😏 Posing with multiple kingpin hats in Playgirl
💊 Liza Huber on Wikipedia
🥨 "Susan Lucci's Children: Meet Her Son & Daughter With Late Husband Helmut Huber" at HollywoodLife.com
🪶 Tara's Reservation Dogs S02 review at VanityFair.com
...more
59min

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