Best Pamela Garrison Podcasts (2024)

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August 1990 Fashion Etc.: Boats, Socks & Diets 49:08

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It's nearly time to go back to school, and Sassy has your wardrobe inspiration. Retro nerd? Cute jock? Merchant marine? It's all possible if you run with Sassy's latest tips. There's also advice on doing your hair and makeup like you didn't try, making perfectly good underwear borderline unwearable, and ads, ads, ads. (Yes, Filippo-Totti is back, T…

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August 1990 Pop Culture: Michael Rank, Michael Rank & Michael Rank 47:10

17d ago47:10

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Considering that Pam has not seen a single one of the five movies reviewed in the August 1990 Watch It, we find an awful lot to say about them. But that's not all! There's also dolphins, Butt-head, Goo, spack, Barbie, garbage, Sondheim, Michael Rank, Michael Rank, and Michael Rank -- and it's all stuck together with God's glue. If that's not Enuff?…

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August 1990 Teen Life: Eastern Europe, Wet Pastrami & Mr. Sperm 55:41

1M ago55:41

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Time for a new issue! Catherine kicks things off with a dark reporting trip to several locations that were, until quite recently, in the Soviet Union. Kim shares the results from a poll of guys' and girls' views, though what we mostly remember is what we thought they looked like in their underwear. Karen walks you through each day of your month as …

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July 1990 Slumber Party: Horse Parking, Cher Impressions & A Mall Security Guard With A Secret 56:27

2M ago56:27

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Skipping the June 1990 Slumber Party means we're doubling up on the quizzes this time, which is just as well since they're both about half as compelling as usual. Rate Your Sassy Staff IQ? Rate Your Prejudices? Is...everyone okay? Fortunately, everyone who's left us messages since the last time we heard from you is doing great: we're delighted to h…

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July 1990 Fashion Etc.: Dickies, Curlers & Miss Personality Plus 53:19

2M ago53:19

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The July 1990 issue has a lot of ideas about your look. Some are good, like the spread of 40s-inspired swimsuits. Some are weird, like the Making It suggestion that you cut off the collar and cuffs of a buttondown shirt and just tuck them, loose, into a pullover sweater, hoping for the best. Some are simply Not Done anymore, like getting white girl…

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July 1990 Pop Culture: Bart Simpson, Scott Garrison & Dozens Of Recommendations 36:32

2M ago36:32

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For its July 1990 issue, Sassy COULD just give you five reviews each in Listen Up and Watch It, as usual. But no: they've gone above and beyond to save you from boredom by creating a special pop culture supplement you can tear out and take straight to the video store, record store, bookstore, and library to load up on all the movies, albums, and bo…

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July 1990 Teen Life: Road Trips, Boyfriend Fights & Inverted Nipples 37:54

4M ago37:54

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We're diving into a new issue and...finding horror, unfortunately. Catherine interviews a girl whose high school boyfriend murdered her parents. Help offers painful-sounding advice to a letter writer looking to turn out her inverted nipples. AND Kim, Karen, and Mike are staying in low-end hotels?! Okay, that last one was a joke; their road trip sou…

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June 1990 Fashion Etc.: Water, Sun & How To Ruin A Swimsuit 39:35

4M ago39:35

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Summer is officially here, and that means learning how to stay beautiful in the water, and not use too much, but also splash your face 20 times when you wash it. It means spending time in the sun, and boiling a whole lettuce head to use the juice to soothe your skin if you burn it. It also means taking a perfectly good one-piece swimsuit, cutting i…

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June 1990 Pop Culture: Kate Pierson, Fan Mail & One Of Pop Music's Nicks 35:55

5M ago35:55

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We're learning a lot both in the pop culture topics as covered in the June 1990 Sassy, and ALSO in our further research about them. A Parenthood TV show? The couple I Love You To Death was based on? Who Rachel Hunter would end up with after Kip Winger? How many more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies would follow the 1990 début? There's just so mu…

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June 1990 Teen Life: Cowgirls, Aliens & Crabs 46:53

5M ago46:53

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CW: sexual assault. We're cracking open the June 1990 issue and kicking off with a discussion of its Teen Life topics! After racing as fast as possible through "Boys Who Raped," we lighten up with a look at some of Texas's most impressive teen cowgirls, and another Kim banger -- this time on what might make you a bad friend. Sandra Tyler achieves E…

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May 1990 Slumber Party: Embarrassment, Temu & The Other Keanu Reeves 1:06:10

5M ago1:06:10

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The May 1990 Sassy quiz invites us to Rate [Our] Embarrassability, almost as though they don't know the kinds of things we have disclosed on this podcast. And then, we're taking your calls, including some of YOUR embarrassing disclosures! What got up a listener's child's nose, and how did it get out? What are your phones recommending you buy, perha…

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May 1990 Fashion Etc.: Mixed Prints, Sweepstakes & Very Discolored Colors 43:31

6M ago43:31

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We still have a little left to say about Johnny Depp -- he is our cover boy, after all -- but then we get into the fashion (etc.) of the May 1990 issue. The photos for a swimsuit story starring Lou Rawls's model daughter Louann all come out looking brown. Editorial on mixing prints gets mixed reviews. And the blue-green beauty story raises a lot mo…

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May 1990 Pop Culture: Johnny Depp, Samantha Mathis & More Johnny Depp 56:31

6M ago56:31

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We've had a lot of different feelings about Johnny Depp, the May 1990 cover boy, over the course of our lives, and while we might want to distance ourselves from the people we were in May 1990, when he was about as hot and sexy as he would ever be...we can't; we have to talk about him -- not only because there's a feature profile on him, but becaus…

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May 1990 Teen Life: Pets, Fishbowls & Tortured Moms 48:52

7M ago48:52

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It's time to crack open a brand-new (33-year-old) issue of Sassy! A lovely profile of Cara Dunne, a blind Harvard student, is chased by the horror show of Karen's report on volunteering at a vet's office. Kim has the brilliant brainstorm of soliciting stories of her colleagues' teen cruelty to their moms, and THEN reaching out to said moms for comm…

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April 1990 Slumber Party: Movie Trivia, Nasal Mishaps & The Olive Garden 1:09:43

7M ago1:09:43

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It's the April 1990 Slumber Party, which means we've gotten into our sleeping bags despite having had WAY too much Jolt Cola. After sharing our results in the Rate Your Movie Knowledge quiz, we're playing your 20+ calls, on subjects ranging from the sound of dot matrix printers, how Jason Priestley's cuteness defies pixelation, and what criteria yo…

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April 1990 Fashion Etc.: Tattoos, Wigs & Strawberry Frankenstein 1:05:19

8M ago1:05:19

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The April 1990 issue knows exactly what you need to wear. Six essential pieces, half of which are actually visible in the fashion story! Tattoo prints and embroidery! Ballet slippers with gold shoelaces for some reason! WIGS! All this plus ads for Rit dye and a demented t-shirt, intern testimonials and world-class letters, and much much more in our…

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April 1990 Pop Culture: Milk, Deadheads & Jason Priestley 41:25

8M ago41:25

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Is Tremors actually a better movie than its marketing would have you believe? Will new Young Guns make the Young Guns sequel more compelling than the original? Who exactly is ruining the scene outside Grateful Dead shows? And why didn't Jason Priestley talk to Christina -- surely Sister Kate couldn't be keeping him that busy? We answer all these qu…

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April 1990 Teen Life: Dangerous Questions, Dolphins & Discharge 55:16

9M ago55:16

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The April 1990 issue may have fewer Teen Life features, but what they lack in number they make up for in discussion value. Mike counsels us on how not to talk to guys. A story on an anorexic girl basically leaves her out entirely. Christina is stunned to learn that dolphins...may not want to swim with humans? All this and more, from Gilda Marx to t…

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March 1990 Slumber Party: Butts, Teratomas & Your Self-Centeredness 32:59

9M ago32:59

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The March 1990 quiz dares readers to "Rate Your Self-Centeredness," and we dropped everything to do a deep analysis on life's main characters: us! In fact, because the voicemailbox was a bit empty this time around -- maybe the heat wave fried your phones? -- that we were able to focus on our responses to the quiz for twice as long as we normally do…

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March 1990 Fashion Etc.: Prom, Audrey & Wildly Expensive Brushes 59:21

10M ago59:21

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Sassy's second birthday coincides with prom, and this issue is on it, showing you how to get ready (with...a bodybuilding magazine?) and one ad full of Merry Go Round's weirdest dresses. There's also a great spread on Audrey Hepburn as a fashion muse, and a weird spread on environmentally conscious fashion that doesn't quite think things through. W…

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March 1990 Pop Culture: Stephen Baldwin, Rikki Rockett & The Johns 48:55

10M ago48:55

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Are you still calling all guys "Fred"s? Did you hoard your Debbie Gibson autobiography or are you one of the people selling it for three figures on eBay? Can you pick Stephen Baldwin out of a lineup? Did you thrill to Mama, There's A Man In Your Bed? DO YOU THINK THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS ARE GOOD?! ...This is not actually a quiz; we're just letting you…

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March 1990 Teen Life: One-Night Stands, Pick-Up Lines & Mother Teresa 48:43

11M ago48:43

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Sassy embarks upon its third year with a fun, kicky feature on a girl whose parents committed her to a mental institution for what sure seem like spurious reasons. Christina gets heteronormative about one-night-stands, starting with the assumption that you, a girl, might not want to have one. A list of the 20 coolest women hasn't aged well the whol…

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February 1990 Slumber Party: Willpower, Pedicures & Poetry Scams 1:21:06

11M ago1:21:06

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First off, we take February 1990 "Rate Your Willpower" quiz. If you think you may know what kind of tangents that leads us to, you are almost certainly wrong. Then we play your latest voicemails, in which you tell us about your own experiments with Sassy's beauty hacks, your musings about which kind of medical procedure would be least terrible if i…

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February 1990 Fashion Etc.: Embroidery, Cologne & DIY Beauty Basics 1:05:21

12M ago1:05:21

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After blowing past cover girl Gina Marie DeGiovanni, we delve into the Fashion (Etc.) of the February 1990 issue. Give your preppy basics some edge! Canoodle with your boyfriend while you're both swathed in embroidery! Dump a bottle of cranberry juice on your head and see what happens! Also: Christina tries a bunch of beauty treatments; you get the…

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February 1990 Pop Culture: Lenny Kravitz, Rap & Norwegian Skateboarders 55:09

12M ago55:09

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The February 1990 What Now claims to be a "Low-Venom Edition," then lashes out at Combos and Child's Play for no good reason on the very same page, so we're not sure what to believe. (We aren't going to "bail" on it, though we now know that's a slang term we could use if we did!) After we learn about Alyssa Milano's Japanese pop album, illicit Norw…

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February 1990 Teen Life: Divorce, Dude Defects & A New Sassiest Girl In America 51:36

1y ago51:36

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Thirteen months have gone by since Sassy crowned Rinnan its first Sassiest Girl In America, so it's time to pick a new one from a notably smaller field of finalists. Did we agree with the judges' choice? (Would we bring it up here if we did?) Catherine reports on a woman who was divorced before she was old enough to vote. Kim France makes her debut…

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December 1989 Slumber Party: Christmas, Fuddrucker's & Ophthalmology 1:10:35

1y ago1:10:35

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Yes, we know it's spring and we're talking about the winter holidays, but that's just how things shake out sometimes. After the "Rate Your Ho-Ho-Ho-ness" quiz discussion takes a surprisingly contentious turn, we play some of your latest calls! Topics include but are not limited to: Cher, Tori Spelling, the redheaded guy from Workaholics, Comedy Cen…

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December 1989 Fashion Etc.: Sequins, Lucy & Cheap-Ass Christmas Gifts 1:00:25

1y ago1:00:25

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One decade's ending and another one's starting: maybe your old aesthetic should end and you should try out a new one? The December 1989/January 1990 double issue has some ideas! What if you dressed like Lucille Ball, or a crow? What if you glued sequins to a t-shirt, or your face? What if you gave yourself dreadlocks??? ...Actually, don't do that o…

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December 1989 Pop Culture: Billy, Björk & Trixie 45:01

1y ago45:01

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The pop culture topics of the December 1989/January 1990 issue fall into a few clear categories. Want to learn about age-appropriate boys? There are What Now items on Fred Savage and Jared Rushton. Want to get confused by feelings of horniness for unbelievably hot men? There's a shirtless Patrick Swayze and Billy Wirth, the latter apparently One To…

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December 1989 Teen Life: Sobbing, Speculums & Saving The Planet 55:55

1y ago55:55

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Sassy's first and only double issue kicks off with a classic bummer: the story of teenager Billy Rosebud, whose murder cops only bothered to look into after his own family spent years doing most of the investigating for them. From there, things lighten up, as Karen tells us what to expect from a gynecologist appointment, Christina walks us through …

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October & November 1989 Slumber Party: NKOTB, Frogs & Toilets 1:14:40

1y ago1:14:40

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Having skipped the October Slumber Party episode in late 2022, we're bringing you a SUPER-SIZED installment featuring our results in not one but TWO quizzes: Rate Your Self-Destructiveness from the October 1989 issue, and Rate Your Mall Knowledge from November 1989. Then it's on to several months' worth of calls on such subjects as whether physical…

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November 1989 Fashion Etc.: Loungin', Thanks & Shades Of Fragrance 56:54

1+ y ago56:54

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Having bid adieu to our dear guest co-hosts Kim and Megan, we welcome back Pam for the November 1989 Fashion Etc. episode. Fashion spreads tell us how to dress like a pilgrim, or a rodeo queen (?), or in a jacket. Karen does an exposé on how worthless your expensive modeling school education actually is. The lone beauty story tries to show us what.…

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November 1989 Pop Culture: New Kids, Josh Charles & A Cute Baby Boy 56:30

1+ y ago56:30

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Megan and Kim wind up their guest-co-hosting gigs with a bumper crop of pop culture topics. What Now takes us through The Keeper, "Bettys," acceptable crush objects Simon de la Brosse and Ethan Hawke, and Unacceptable crush object Leaf Phoenix. We attempt to understand the plot of Nightmare On Elm Street 5 and the appeal of Queen Of Hearts. We cele…

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November 1989 Teen Life: Pregnant, Drafted & Dumped 44:34

1+ y ago44:34

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Megan and Kim return to help us cover all the Teen Life topics of the November 1989 issue! After racing through the lead bummer feature about the passes rich white criminals get, we discuss some solid advice from Christina on what to do -- and, more importantly, what NOT to do -- when you get dumped. The winners of a photography contest surprise us…

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October 1989 Fashion Etc.: Boots, Model Bones & Snapped Necks 1:01:19

1+ y ago1:01:19

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While Pam continues globe-trotting, we are joined by guest co-hosts Megan McCafferty and Kim Reed for a discussion of the fashion (etc.) of the October 1989 issue! We're painting our feet, squinting at boots, sewing crap to the bottom of our blazers...okay, we're only doing some of that -- but we're talking about all of it. Prepare yourself for a d…

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October 1989 Pop Culture: Frogs, Whale(y) & River Phoenix’s Dog 50:35

1+ y ago50:35

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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 ri…

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October 1989 Teen Life: Reputations, Periods & World Statistics 56:35

1+ y ago56:35

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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 staff…

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September 1989 Slumber Party: Annie, Bonhomme & Drysol 40:26

1+ y ago40:26

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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 …

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September 1989 Fashion Etc.: Buttons, Blimps & Horse Girls 1:07:44

1+ y ago1:07:44

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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 arriva…

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September 1989 Pop Culture: Batman, Love Shack & All My Children 1:03:24

1+ y ago1:03:24

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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 Ind…

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September 1989 Teen Life: This, This & That 56:01

1+ y ago56:01

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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," t…

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August 1989 Slumber Party: Mellencamp, Moods & Kingpin Hats 47:25

1+ y ago47:25

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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 extr…

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August 1989 Fashion Etc.: Jeans, Beads & Boy Stuff 58:29

1+ y ago58:29

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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 manicure…

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August 1989 Pop Culture: Charlie, Spike & Rockmelons 51:55

1+ y ago51:55

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How many calories in every hamburger McDonald's has ever sold? Was Booker the right career move for Richard Grieco? All this and more is covered in What Now. Watch it has, among others, a correct rating for Do The Right Thing and a wildly unfair rating for The Tall Guy. Listen Up finds us divided on The Ramones' "Pet Sematary," but united on 10,000…

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August 1989 Teen Life: Gambling, Cheerleading & Flings 58:09

2y ago58:09

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Want to learn how grim a teen's journey into gambling addiction actually is? NO? Well, too bad, because Catherine's piece on Kim Cohen leads off the features in the August 1989 issue. We also cover cheerleading, summer flings, the intimate results of the recent Sassy readers' poll, and a short story about a girl short-circuiting her mom's affair wi…

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July 1989 Slumber Party: Social Conscience, Cinema Boycotts & Sun In 44:44

2y ago44:44

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The July 1989 quiz invites us to rate our social conscience and then feel very smug about ourselves -- but do we? Then it's on to your calls, which are the usual chaotic mix, careening from the summer movies of yesteryear to the unexpected cautionary tale that is the Harry Connick Jr. vehicle Copycat to the works of Canadian YA author Gordon Korman…

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July 1989 Fashion Etc.: Vests, Dots & Polymers 1:07:21

2y ago1:07:21

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The time has come to discuss the fashion (etc) of the July 1989 issue! We're back in Morocco for stories on colonial costume and culturally appropriative beauty! We're also doing vests and polka dots! We're learning how to stay safe in the sun! And we're...making a bandana cap? Or not! In the "etc" section, we're reviewing Jane's staff's review of …

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July 1989 Pop Culture: Robert, Reggae & Road House 59:07

2y ago59:07

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The pop culture coverage of the July 1989 issue gets into a lot of different areas. The breakup of Johnny Depp's latest engagement? An offensive Guns N' Roses song? Censorship? A surprising amount of Ken Ober? What Now goes there! We also get reviews of Say Anything..., Road House, Boy George, and Julian Lennon, among many others. One To Watch tell…

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July 1989 Teen Life: Family Vacations, Fiction Winners & The Northern Lights 54:14

2y ago54:14

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You're not going to believe this, but the first feature of the July 1989 issue -- about getting through vacations with your family -- is not extremely depressing; it's merely somewhat worrisome if you read between the lines about maintaining harmony amongst everyone on the trip. In fact, there's hopefulness in all the features, which also include a…

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Special: Change, Self-Care & You 12:15

2y ago12:15

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Listen To Sassy is changing from a weekly podcast to an every-other-weekly podcast; let us tell you why. (And also tell you we love you.) 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 Disc…

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