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Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s

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 glorious issues and remember what it was like hanging out with Jane, Christina, Catherine, Karen, and the whole crew, learning What Now, What Next, and so much more!

Copyright: © 2021 Tara Ariano, Pamela Ribon and David T. Cole

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February 1989 Fashion Etc.: Flips, Clogs & Baths Jan 04, 2022

Show notes

What looks did Sassy hope you would looooooove for Valentine's? Catalogue deliveries, mismatched prints, flipped hair, and Birkenstocks, for starters. The issue also tells you how to bathe, how to be a model (or, more accurately, why it's probably not as cool as you think), what's in your hair products, what Jane's assistant does with her days, and more! Grab a handful of cinnamon hearts and join us for our discussion!

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 February 1989

🎧 Cover

🎧 Fashion: Dresses In The Woods

🎧 Fashion: Not Available In Stores

🎧 Fashion: I Was Not A Model (And I Didn’t Even Look Like One)

🎧 Fashion: Everything Goes

🎧 What Next

🎧 Beauty: Flip Out

🎧 Beauty: Bathing Beauty

🎧 Sassy Ads

🎧 Sassy Club

🎧 Diary: Me Two

🎧 Say What

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 Birkenstock House

🎧 Donkey Milk

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

📸 Nkemdilim on Instagram

🧥 "What Happened To The Tweeds Clothing Company?" on Quora

🩳 150 Tweeds Catalog Ideas on Pinterest

🧦 Tweeds.com

🎵 "Jane's Addiction - Ain't No Right" on YouTube

🩴 "Sole Cycle" on NewYorker.com

🚿 "How Often People in Various Countries Shower" at TheAtlantic.com

👃 Mes Filles Pour Sassy at MesFlacons.com

🧴 MesFilles.com

💁‍♀️ ElizabethFoyLarsen.com

💗 Pam discussing True Romance on the Female Apartments From 90s Movies podcast

Special: Spot The Sassy Dec 28, 2021

Show notes

We are off for the holidays but bring you the Listen To Sassy x The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show episode featuring three LTS listeners testing their Sassy and Sassy-era knowledge! Featuring guests judges Tara and Pam!

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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🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today!

TOPICS

🎧 Welcome to TGAPCQS

🎧 My Champion + The ½ Point

🎧 R1: Spot The Sassy

🎧 Sponsor: TGAPCQS Membership Bonus

🎧 Scorebreak

🎧 The Threequalizer

🎧 R2: The Sassiest Boys In America

🎧 At Home Version + Scorebreak

🎧 The Lightning Round

🎧 Outro

🎧 Bonus Lightning Round!

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

🗽 Check out the full episode notes at TGAPCQS.

🎧 Subscribe to The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show!

Special: Sassy Era TV Commercials Dec 21, 2021

Show notes

It's Christmas, so in lieu of a regular episode, we've filled your stocking with a whole stack of TV commercials from 1988 and 1989 -- because what's more appropriate for the holidays than jingles? God bless us, everyone! (Especially 1988 Matt LeBlanc and his Cherry 7UP spot.)

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

🎧 Sassy Era Commercials

🎧 Starlogjam Era Commercials

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

🌌 Starlog Magazine

🍟 Wendy's GoBots

⚔️ Masters Of The Universe Power Tour

🐮 The Dairy Council

👽 The E.T. Board Game

🧙‍♂️ Time-Life Books: Wizards & Witches

🗿 Rock Lords

🤖 Robocop Contest

🥚 Joust on Atari

🍕 Pizza Hut Martians

✨ Shopping Zone

🍯 Honeycomb Cereal

🤼‍♀️ Capital Combat '90

🌊 SeaQuest DSV

👧 Girl Scouts

👄 Bubblicious

❌ Hellman's Mayonnaise

✅ Miracle Whip (watch indoors)

🏀 Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball

🚀 Wendy's Star Trek II

🍦 Transformers Ultra Magnus

🎮 Nintendo Entertainment System

⌚️ Casio Watch

🪀 T.H.I.N.G.S.

🌠 Star Wars: Shadow Of The Empire

💾 Circuit City Games Warrior

🔮 Jetson's PSA

🍽 Star Trek Hamilton Collector Plates

🕷 Spiderman PSA

🗑 Trash Bag Bunch

🙀 Time-Life Books: Mysteries Of The Unknown

February 1989 Pop Culture: DeLuise, Milano & LeBlanc Dec 14, 2021

Show notes

While the reviews and What Now items educate us about peace signs and future druid Julian Cope, it's two real Italians and a fake one who get the most attention. Peter DeLuise returns in a What Now blurb about a bad Valentine's Day; Alyssa Milano succeeds in convincing Catherine that she is not "stupid" (that's Catherine's word, not ours!); and One To Watch notches another win with future Friends star Matt LeBlanc back when he was only associated with Fruitful Bran. Don't watch Twins -- or do; we couldn't reach consensus -- and join us for our February 1989 pop culture 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

🎧 It Is February 1989

🎧 What Now

🎧 Watch It: Rattle And Hum

🎧 Watch It: Twins

🎧 Listen Up: Julian Cope

🎧 Listen Up: Bangles

🎧 Listen Up: The Waterboys

🎧 Listen Up: Robbie Nevil

🎧 Listen Up: Pseudo Echo

🎧 One To Watch: Matt LeBlanc

🎧 Feature: Alyssa Milano Is Not Stupid

🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

👯‍♂️ Twins on Showtime Anytime

👨‍👦‍👦 "Twins Sequel Triplets Set: Tracy Morgan Joins Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito & Director Ivan Reitman In Hot Toronto Package" at Deadline

⛏ Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage

😶‍🌫️ "Julian Cope interview: 'I live in a visionary state...I'm a wild beast'" at The Guardian

😼 "Julian Cope review - chaotic cult hero doesn't compromise" at The Guardian

🌝 "The Whole of the Moon" on Wikipedia

🎧 The February 1989 mixtape on Spotify

📺 "Television Commercials starring Matt LeBlanc" on YouTube

🦵 "Matt LeBlanc had knee and shoulder rebuilt" at Express

🏃‍♀️ Teen Steam on YouTube

🎣 Alyssa Milano on Baited

✍️ Tara's author page at Decider

💰 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast

February 1989 Teen Life: Swimming, Braces & How To Tell If Someone Likes You Dec 07, 2021

Show notes

XXXOOO, says the February 1989 spine line, and the issue is full of Valentine's spirit...but first we need to talk about Christina's article on unhoused teens in New York. THEN we can get to her 12 DEFINITIVE ways to tell if a guy loves you, as a treat. (What He Said flips the question by asking a panel of dudes how they can tell when a girl likes THEM.) There's also another short story by the great Elizabeth Mosier, technological innovations in braces and pregnancy tests, a trip to Chicago, a first-person account of OCD, and much much more. Let this episode give you a great big O (...the hug kind) from all of 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 February 1989

🎧 Spine Line

🎧 Feature: Street Kids

🎧 Feature: Twelve Absolutely Definitive Ways To Tell If He Loves You

🎧 Fiction: Breaking Records

🎧 Body Talk

🎧 On The Road: Chicago

🎧 It Happened To Me: OCD

🎧 Help

🎧 What He Said: How Can You Tell If A Girl Likes You?

🎧 Stuff You Wrote

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 Donuts + The Missing News

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

🏠 Outreach House in Queens

☎️ The Covenant House Nineline

💪 "The relationship between testosterone levels and cognitive ability patterns" at PubMed.gov

🧬 "Men's Test Scores Linked To Hormone" at NYTimes.com

🤰 "The First Home Pregnancy Tests Were Really Something" at Yahoo.com

🏫 Lisa Priborsky at Classmates.com

📖 Alissa Heyman bio at Storyscape Literary Journal

👩‍⚕️ Dr. Gina DeGiovanni on Vitals.com

🌤 "What's The Difference Between 'Mostly Sunny' And 'Partly Cloudy'?" on MentalFloss.com

✒️ Laura Arcazki-Pacter bio at the Cottey College Viewpoint

🍒 Warrant's "Cherry Pie" video on YouTube

🐝 Yellowjackets on Showtime

January 1989 Slumber Party: Mom Breasts, Swear Loopholes & Period Bears Nov 30, 2021

Show notes

Our callers have a lot to say about our most recent episodes, including talking back to previous callers. The best way to shave legs? Setting makeup with hairspray? We're getting feedback on the feedback! We also discuss the difference between GPAs from 1989 to the present, Afterschool Specials on YouTube, scandalous doings in the Merry Go Round dressing rooms, and so much more -- including a call from a friend of the podcast about the otherwise unmemorable January 1989 quiz, What's Your Sports IQ? Hear all about it in our latest episode!

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 January 1989

🎧 Quiz: What’s Your Sports IQ?

🎧 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.

🏈 The January 1989 quiz: What's Your Sports IQ?

😩 Tara's review of Frayed Season 2 at Decider

Special: Prove How Well You Know Sassy Nov 23, 2021

Show notes

We've carefully read 11 issues of Sassy so far, but how much information have we actually absorbed? For this special episode, Tara puts her co-hosts' memories to the test in a no-stakes trivia quiz!

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

🎧 The Prove To Me How Well You Know Sassy Quiz

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

🗽 Check out the Listen To Sassy-themed episode of our sister podcast The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

January 1989 Fashion Etc.: Menswear, Pajamas & The National Teen-Ager Foundation Nov 16, 2021

Show notes

The holiday parties of late 1988 are behind us: time to hunker down for the long, long winter in pajamas and layered white leggings, sweaters, and shawls! If you simply MUST go out, why not remix your wardrobe with some menswear pieces borrowed from your boyfriend, or possibly your much, MUCH taller dad? There's also tips on achieving pretty hands, faking long lashes, and a future movie cutie hawking tampons. We get into all the fashion (etc.) of the January 1989 issue right 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

🎧 It Is January 1989

🎧 Cover + Sassiest Girl Face Blindness

🎧 Feature: His Clothes

🎧 Feature: PJ Days

🎧 Feature: Wild Wild Whites

🎧 What Next: Crochet Away

🎧 Feature: Pretty Hands

🎧 Feature: Fake

🎧 We Try It

🎧 About Face

🎧 Then & Now: Easy On The Eyes

🎧 Sassy Ads

🎧 Sassy Club

🎧 Diary: To: All Sassy Readers

🎧 Say What

🎧 Inside Out: Decisions, Decisions

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 The Pull Out Calendar

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

💅 "How To Paint Your Nails / Basic Manicure Tutorial" on YouTube

🧢 The National Teen-Ager Foundation at GeorgiaCompanyRegistry.com

👸 The Miss National Teenager Pageant

👒 "America's Elegant Miss National Teenager 2020 MaryAnn Bagwell" on YouTube

🛍 Bagwell's profile on PageantPlanet.com

🥌 The January 1989 quiz, What's Your Sports IQ?

January 1989 Pop Culture: Mary Stuart Masterson & Wacko Entertainment Poll Results Nov 09, 2021

Show notes

The pop culture topics of the January 1989 issue cover a lot of ground, from a sad update on June 1988 child genius profile subject Adragon DeMello to the movie Patrick Swayze's doing instead of a Dirty Dancing sequel (it's only ROAD HOUSE!!!), five-star reviews for two very dark movies, and a sweet profile of Mary Stuart Masterson. But there's also a lot of snarking at the stars! Duran Duran's latest dance album gets slammed. And a whole bevy of celebrities are judged and found wanting as Sassy reports the results of its entertainment poll. Retract your claws -- or don't! -- and join us for 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 January 1989

🎧 Pop Zsa Zsa Gabor Quiz

🎧 Holiday Goal Drive Update

🎧 What Now

🎧 Watch It

🎧 Listen Up

🎧 One To Watch: Steve Burton

🎧 Feature: Mary Stuart Masterson Wants To Have Babies

🎧 Feature: The Coolest (And Uncoolest) Stars Movies Music Of The Year

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 How To Make A Party Tape

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

📰 "Parents Of Boy Genius Will Share Custody" at NYTimes.com

🗞 "Is 11-Year-Old a Genius of Just Bright? Either Way, He's a Troubled Child" at NYTimes.com

🤝 "Tom Jones Meets Michael & INXS" on YouTube

🕺 "Tom Jones on friendship with 'lovely fella' Michael Hutchence and INXS Star's struggles" at The Express

💔 Tom Jones covering "Never Tear Us Apart" live

🎧 The Dinner Party Download Podcast

🐕 A Cry In The Dark on HBO Max

👶 "Dingo ate my baby" on Wikipedia

📸 The Feelies performing "Fame" in Something Wild, on YouTube

📆 "Tomorrow Today: An Indirectly Direct History of The Feelies" on Flood Magazine

🎶 The Feelies' "It's Only Life" on YouTube

🎵 The Feelies' Only Life on YouTube

🎸 Southside Johnny on Wikipedia

🎶 Duran Duran's "All She Wants Is" on YouTube

🪲 Paul McCartney's "This One" on YouTube

🎧 The January 1989 Mixtape on Spotify

🐦 Steve Burton on Twitter

💻 Mary Stuart Masterson on Wikipedia

🎞 Trailer for Lily Dale (1996) on YouTube

💁‍♂️ Contemporary photo of Tim Ransom aka Not Lee Tergesen

🤳 Mary Stuart Masterson on Instagram

January 1989 Teen Life: Tattoos, Teen Dads & The First-Ever Sassiest Girl In America Nov 02, 2021

Show notes

3, 2, 1, HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's 1989, and we're kicking off our coverage of the January issue by talking about its Teen Life topics. What's teen pregnancy like for the dads? Why is your body going wacko? How did Christina survive an Outward Bound rafting trip? And who was named the very first Sassiest Girl In America? (Okay, the cover kind of gives that one away.) There's also What He Said about tattoos; a trip to Wabash, IN; another too-whimsical fiction story; a wildly fake It Happened To Me; and so much more. Make some noise!

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 January 1989

🎧 Feature: My Girlfriend Got Pregnant

🎧 Feature: Who’s The Sassiest One Of All?

🎧 Feature: Why Your Body’s Going Wacko

🎧 Feature: There’s No MTV In The Wilderness

🎧 Fiction: Joe’s Dead

🎧 Body Talk

🎧 On The Road: Wabash, IN

🎧 Help

🎧 It Happened To Me: Friend Getting Sexually Abused

🎧 What He Said: What Do You Think Of Girls With Tattoos?

🎧 Stuff You Wrote

🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

🌼 Steel Magnolias on Wikipedia

🐦 Deano Mueller on Twitter

🎭 Program from Nobody Knows The Francher Kid, starring Annisa Morrison

👔 Gena Cheng on LinkedIn

💻 Margo Phillips (née Meriwether) on Facebook

🪦 Obituary for Margo's mother, Dr. Myrtle Lillian Capehart

🏫 Sandra Oda's profile on OutSchool.com

🤷‍♀️ A Josie Hodgson at Commo.com.au [co-host jury is out on whether it's the same one]

🤦‍♀️ The same Josie Hodgson on LinkedIn

🎞 Rinnan Henderson on IMDb

📷 Rinnan on Instagram

😎 Rinnan mentioned in a post on Compendium Of Cool

📔 Henry H. Roth on Amazon

🧈 The Buttered Cat Paradox on Wikipedia

🛸 The conundrum in OMNI magazine

🧠 Veronica Chambers on Wikipedia

🐦 Veronica on Twitter

📷 Veronica on Instagram

🏈 Take the "What's Your Sports IQ" quiz

💰 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast

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