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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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March 1990 Fashion Etc.: Prom, Audrey & Wildly Expensive Brushes Jul 11, 2023

Show notes

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. We're also learning which natural beauty products passed Sassy editors' testing, what Climax Springs is, and how friggin' many soap stars had their own 900 numbers in this era. Put on your most diaphanous sleeves and get into it!
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🗒 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

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🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com

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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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🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers
👚 Merch discounts and free stickers
🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today!

TOPICS

🎧 It Is March 1990
🎧 Fashion Feature: Get Ready
🎧 Fashion Feature: Being Audrey
🎧 Fashion Feature: Kinder, Gentler Clothes
🎧 Fashion Feature: This Model Tells You All The Gory Details
🎧 Worn Out
🎧 What Next: Tie It On
🎧 We Try It
🎧 About Face
🎧 Sassy Ads
🎧 Diary: The Three Men Of Sassy
🎧 Say What
🎧 Inside Out
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Zits And Stuff
NOTES

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

👘 Oscar De La Renta strapless organza-jacquard gown on TheOutnet.com

🎗️ Hermès Paris ribbon on VintagePassementerie

💐 Ribbonflowers on Etsy

💝 Dior ribbon on Etsy

🥖 Chanel ribbon on Etsy

🧴 "Kiehl's Cosmetics Company Bought by France's L'Oréal" on NYTimes.com

🪮 Mason Pearson

💆🏻‍♀️ Mason Pearson round brush review at HairEveryday.com

🧈 Yassi's Butta

💇🏻‍♀️ "The Foolproof Way To Trim Your Split Ends At Home" on The Zoe Report

🧋 Tara's Rhea Perlman appreciation post at Cracked

✊ WGA Contract 2023

March 1990 Pop Culture: Stephen Baldwin, Rikki Rockett & The Johns Jun 27, 2023

Show notes

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 know some of the questions you may ask yourself after listening to our March 1990 Pop Culture episode. Get into it!
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

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🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com

🛍️ Shop the LTS Store

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 March 1990
🎧 What Now
🎧 Watch It
🎧 Listen Up
🎧 One To Watch
🎧 Feature: What Do Giants Eat?
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES

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

👕 "Is Savile Row Ready for Rikki Rockett's T-Shirts?" at LATimes.com

👻 Old Ghosts shirts on Gem

🍆 Old Ghosts "Penis" shirt on Grailed

🚀 Rikki Rockett on Instagram

📚 Between The Lines by Debbie Gibson on eBay

👗 Debbie Gibson's Skirts screen text opposite Marisa Tomei

🐢 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem on Wikipedia

🗿 Boys Alone on YouTube

🏝️ Girls Alone on YouTube

🚧 Streets on YouTube

🛌 Mama, There's A Man In Your Bed aka Romuald Et Juliette on Kanopy

🐚 Lord Of The Flies on YouTube

🎶 The March 1990 Mix Tape on Apple Music

🐎 The Young Riders on Freevee

🤪 "What We Know About Stephen Baldwin's Political Views" on NickiSwift.com

☎️ Dial-a-Song

✊ WGA Contract 2023

March 1990 Teen Life: One-Night Stands, Pick-Up Lines & Mother Teresa Jun 13, 2023

Show notes

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 whole way through (although "Mom" probably still rocks). All this plus another weird short story, Young MC abandoning his whole ethos to pretend he doesn't use pick-up lines, all the ginseng news you can handle, and much much more!
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

🛍️ Shop the LTS Store

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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🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers
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🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today!

TOPICS

🎧 It Is March 1990
🎧 Spine Line
🎧 Feature: She’s Not Crazy
🎧 Feature: One-Night Stand Prevention Kit
🎧 Feature: Your (And Our) 20 Coolest Women Ever
🎧 Fiction: Maury The Mouse
🎧 Body Talk
🎧 What He Said: Do You Use Pick-Up Lines?
🎧 Help
🎧 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.

🔦 "Senators launch investigation into child abuse allegations at treatment facilities" at NBCNews.com

👹 “I Want To Disown My Demonic Daughter” at Slate’s Care And Feeding (subscription required)

👩‍👧 "Jodie Foster on her 'interesting and fraught' relationship with her mother and being the breadwinner from age SEVEN" on DailyMail.co.uk

💸 "N.Y. Charity Scandal Leads to Indictments" at LATimes.com

📸 Sylvia Plachy on Wikipedia

💉 "How HGH cheats hit the end of the line" at TheGuardian.com

🏛️ "Building dedicated to Barbara Jordan in the Texas Capitol Complex" at KVUE.com

🤠 Barbara Jordan at the Texas State Historical Association

😇 "Why Mother Teresa is still no saint to many of her critics" at WashingtonPost.com

🐭 The Maury Chronicles on Amazon

🤧 "6 Strange Dangers of Blowing Your Nose Too Hard" on GetCareFreeMD.com

🍺 "11 Revelations from the Live 'Cheers' Reunion with Ted Danson, George Wendt, and John Ratzenberger" at Cracked.com

😭 "'Simpsons' Showrunner Matt Selman Has Read Your Mean Tweets" at Cracked.com

🤬 WGA Contract 2023

February 1990 Slumber Party: Willpower, Pedicures & Poetry Scams May 30, 2023

Show notes

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 interrupted by an earthquake, what it's like to get scammed by a poetry contest, and so much more!
QUICK LINKS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com

☎️ 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

🛍️ Shop the LTS Store

JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES

📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs
💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord
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TOPICS

🎧 It Is February 1990
🎧 Quiz: Rate Your Willpower
🎧 From The Hotline
🎧 The Long 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 "Rate Your Willpower" quiz

🔥 Burn It Down by Maureen Ryan at HarperCollins.com

📺 Partial explanation of the Television Without Pity reference on My Name Is Earl, at Metafilter

🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast

🤠 The ATX TV Festival

🎳 WGA Contract 2023

February 1990 Fashion Etc.: Embroidery, Cologne & DIY Beauty Basics May 16, 2023

Show notes

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 best red lipstick recommendations at all price points; the New Kids are popping off in a full-page ad for their (very pricey) hotline. All this and more 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

🛍️ Shop the LTS Store

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 1990
🎧 Cover
🎧 Fashion Feature: Look For Love
🎧 Fashion Feature: Wear This
🎧 Beauty Feature: Make-It-Yourself Beauty Basics
🎧 We Try It
🎧 About Face
🎧 Zits And Stuff
🎧 Sassy Ads
🎧 Diary: My Glamorous Life
🎧 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.

💄 Lipstick/finger/teeth tip located: the April 1998 Fashion Etc. episode

🏍️ "The Rise And Fall Of Harley-Davidson Perfume" at RideApart.com

🛵 "The Harley-Davidson Product No One Remembers" at MilwaukeeMag.com

🧴 Harley-Davidson Perfume And Cologne at Perfume.com

😫 The Museum Of Failure

💂‍♀️ L'Oréal's British Red lipstick on Amazon

💋 Revlon Love That Red lipstick on Amazon

👄 Maybelline Classic Red on eBay

🫦 Paloma Picasso Mon Rouge lipstick on Etsy

💨 Gone With The Wind: The Fragrance on eBay

🌬️ Gone With The Wind: The Fragrance at Cleopatra's Boudoir

☎️ New Kids On The Block 1-900 Hotline TV commercial on YouTube: 1

💰 New Kids On The Block 1-900 Hotline TV commercial on YouTube: 2

👂 New Kids On The Block 1-900 Hotline TV commercial on YouTube: 3

💖 "Pink Spent $118 Calling The New Kids On The Block Hotline" on BostonMagazine.com

🧠 The February 1990 quiz: Rate Your Willpower

😢 Tara's post on The Conners at Cracked.com

February 1990 Pop Culture: Lenny Kravitz, Rap & Norwegian Skateboarders May 02, 2023

Show notes

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 Norwegian skateboard imports, and so much more, it's on to Watch It, where Courage Mountain (a Heidi take with Charlie Sheen, of all people) and The War Of The Roses get surprisingly good reviews, and Steel Magnolias gets one that's surprisingly mid?! Neill renews his Australian passport with a rave about Max Q, the self-titled Michael Hutchence side project début; we play you some so that you know Neill is wrong, as usual. One To Watch notches another one for the W column, and then Mike makes up a person who hates rap, gets mad at them, and tries to get them on board by profiling four positive artists. Which one sideswipes Public Enemy? The answer may surprise you! Listen and enjoy!
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

🛍️ Shop the LTS Store

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 1990
🎧 What Now
🎧 Watch It
🎧 Listen Up
🎧 One To Watch
🎧 Feature: Why You Should Listen To Rap
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES

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

🦶 Big Foot gas station sign

🎸 Bullet LaVolta on Wikipedia

💯 C-Hundred PSAs

🤔 C-Hundred PSA featuring Jane Pratt

🎧 Michael Stipe and Jim McKay discuss C-Hundred on Talkhouse Podcast

🎬 Jim McKay on IMDb

🏘️ Girls Town on YouTube

🇺🇸 The American Dream Contest review at The A.V. Club

🗽 The American Dream Contest host Michael Landon talks about it on Entertainment Tonight, on YouTube

🔎 Beyond The James on YouTube

💭 The Dream Come True on YouTube

🤐 I Was Speechless on YouTube

🫡 Declaration Of Independence on YouTube

🇯🇵 “The Japanese Pop Album Alyssa Milano Made As A Teenager” at The Awl

🦴 Joey Carbone on Wikipedia

😚 Tamara Browder Hageage on CoachesChoice.com

🏔️ Courage Mountain on Tubi

🥀 The War Of The Roses on HBO Max

🌸 Steel Magnolias on MGM+

🔮 Back To The Future Part II on Peacock

🧣 Lenny Kravitz in his gigantic scarf

🦤 Vulture post on Kravitz discussing the scarf meme on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon

📚 Kravitz's 2020 memoir Let Love Rule on ThriftBooks

🧂 Salt-N-Pepa on Twitter

🎙️ KRS-One on Instagram

🍑 "Wild Thing" by Peaches + Tone Lōc, on YouTube

🏖️ MTV Spring Break 1989 on YouTube

📻 NewsRadio S02.E06: "Friends" on Prime Video

📷 Special Ed on Instagram

🗣️ Tara's Jeff Hiller interview at Cracked

February 1990 Teen Life: Divorce, Dude Defects & A New Sassiest Girl In America Apr 18, 2023

Show notes

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 with a confusing piece on "dude defects." Karen tries her hand at fiction again. All this, plus What He Said about fantasy women, an It Happened To Me that's more It Happened To Dad, a Stuff You Wrote that inspires musical interpretation, and much much more!
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

🛍️ Shop the LTS Store

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 1990
🎧 Feature: Four Of The Sassiest Girls In America
🎧 Feature: Diary Of A Marriage
🎧 Feature: The 7 Deadly Dude Defects
🎧 Feature: Beauty Pageants Are A Lot Like The Army
🎧 Fiction: 10-4 Good Buddy
🎧 Body Talk
🎧 What He Said: Who Is Your Fantasy Woman?
🎧 Help
🎧 It Happened To Me: Father Was Having Surgery During 1989 California Earthquake
🎧 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.

📌 Kellie Feltman on Pinterest

💻 Kellie Feltman's website

📄 Kellie Feltman's CV

🦠 Club Stain on @ThisDayInDanzig on Twitter

👩🏼‍⚕️ Dr. Gina Marie DeGiovanni on Vitals.com

🐮 Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw

📷 Cathy Davies on Flickr

🤠 Cowgirl (NYC)

🥸 Groucho Club

🤓 “A Brief History Of The Military’s Unsightly ‘Birth Control Glasses’” at TaskAndPurpose.com

👓 “5 Struggles Those Who Wore BCGs Will Remember” at Military.com

🕶️ On BCGs getting a redesign, at NPR.org

😎 Shop "birth control glasses army" at EyeBuyDirect.com

💃 The 1989 Miss Teen USA Pageant on YouTube

🔴 Our May 1989 Teen Life episode, in which we discussed Karen's last published fiction piece, "Red"

🫥 WXII reports on the current Adderall shortage

🐦 Chris Connelly on Twitter

📷 Chris Connelly on Instagram

📷 Period Pals Austin on Instagram

🩺 Gillian Zaharias Miller, PhD on EcoCenter.org

☣️ Dr. Zaharias Miller's paper on detecting hazardous chemicals in consumer products

🇺🇸 Mr. Show flag desecration sketch on YouTube

🎙️ Tara's interview with The Drew Barrymore Show's co-head writer Cristina Kinon at Cracked.com

☺️ Swear2Care

December 1989 Slumber Party: Christmas, Fuddrucker's & Ophthalmology Apr 04, 2023

Show notes

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 Central, Cher, chambray, Fuddrucker's, Skyline Chili, Hatchet, Belk, and how many eye puff tests one person can experience in a day and still live to tell about it. Roll out your sleeping bag, it's the Slumber Party!
QUICK LINKS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com

☎️ 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

🛍️ Shop the LTS Store

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 December 1989
🎧 Quiz: Rate Your Ho-Ho-Ho-ness
🎧 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.

🫒 "Brilliant meme sees people posting FAKE 'guides' to trendy text abbreviations to baffle parents about what their kids are discussing" at DailyMail.co.uk

🎅🏻 The December 1989 quiz, "Rate Your Ho-Ho-Ho-ness," on our website

👍 The Everything Is Fine podcast

📰 Jane Pratt's newsletter, Deedda

👩‍💻 "With Her Latest Media Project, Jane Pratt Is Still Telling All" at VanityFair.com

🍆 Pam's Instagram post about her presentation of My Year Of Dicks at Students Engaged TX

December 1989 Fashion Etc.: Sequins, Lucy & Cheap-Ass Christmas Gifts Mar 21, 2023

Show notes

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 one. Elsewhere, readers are calling out fur that turns out to be faux; a feature writer keeps her job thanks to fax machines; and the whole staff is giving you Christmas presents that cost them absolutely nothing and that they didn't even edit. We've got LOTS to say about all of it!
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

🛍️ Shop the LTS Store

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 December 1989
🎧 Cover
🎧 Fashion Feature: In Sequins
🎧 Fashion Feature: Of Mountains And Melodrama
🎧 Fashion Feature: Having A Ball
🎧 Beauty Feature: Very Party
🎧 Bonus Insert: Here Are Your Presents
🎧 Sassy Ads
🎧 Sassy Club
🎧 Diary: Play Ball
🎧 Say What
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Pam'd It
NOTES

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

💄 Kryolan theatrical makeup

December 1989 Pop Culture: Billy, Björk & Trixie Mar 07, 2023

Show notes

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 Watch. Want to be really mean about people who are wealthier and more powerful than you will ever be? There's a swipe at Cher for being old (at 43), and a WHOLE bunch of snark in the results of the entertainment poll -- including the magazine's editors snarking at YOU and your choices! We, however, think you're just great, so listen to what we have to say about all of the above, and more!
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

🛍️ Shop the LTS Store

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 December 1989
🎧 What Now
🎧 Listen Up
🎧 One To Watch: Billy Wirth
🎧 Feature: Your Most Beloved And Despised Stars, TV Shows, Music And Movies
🎧 Feature: Natalie Merchant Can Get Cranky
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES

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

🪦 Jeff Ballard obituary at Variety

🎮 Players review at Variety

🗑️ Esports.gg report on Players getting cancelled and removed from Paramount+

🤦🏻‍♂️ "Fred Savage denies allegations of misconduct after Wonder Years firing" at NBCNews.com

🤨 "What Really Happened With Fred Savage on The Wonder Years" at The Hollywood Reporter

🥀 "50 Wildest Guns N' Roses Moments" at RollingStone.com

🌎 R.E.M.'s "Dark Globe" on Discogs.com

🎶 "Dark Globe" on YouTube

🖕 "That oughta hold the little SOBs" reaction at Frinkiac.com

🪓 A Cry In The Wild on YouTube

👩‍🚀 List of MTV News personalities on Wikipedia

🎧 The December 1989/January 1990 mixtape on Spotify

🎷 "The True Story of The Lost Boys' Sax Man" on Gizmodo.com

🪖 War Party movie poster

🇺🇸 Billy Wirth on American Gladiators on YouTube

📷 Billy Wirth on Instagram

🪳 Andrew Roachford on Wikipedia

🍷 Port Wine Stain information at MountSinai.org

📷 Dana Trixie Flynn on Instagram

📻 NewsRadio S03.E01 "President" on Prime Video

😴 Natalie Merchant's children's book, Leave Your Sleep

🌴 The Again With This podcast website

🍆 My Year Of Dicks on Hulu (until March 17)

🧘‍♀️ Laughing Lotus

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