Episodes

  • August 1990 Slumber Party: MTV, Extra Balls & East Side Mario’s

    August 1990 Slumber Party: MTV, Extra Balls & East Side Mario’s
    May 7 2024
    The two of us who grew up without MTV do our best on the August 1990 quiz, Rate Your MTV-ness! (That "best" is...bad.) Then it's on to your latest calls! What bedding treasures are you finding online? Who's out here defending Madonna's I'm Breathless? Which chain restaurants reign supreme? We thrill to the journeys you're taking us on in the August 1990 Slumber Party!

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    TOPICS

    🎧 It Is August 1990

    🎧 Quiz: Rate Your MTV-ness

    🎧 From The Hotline

    🎧 Goodbye For Now

    NOTES

    👨‍🚀 Rate Your MTV-ness

    🆙 An August 1990 episode of MTV's Turn It Up on YouTube

    🐝 A 1990 episode of MTV's Buzz on YouTube

    🫡 "MTV's 1990 BUZZ Cut-up salute to William S. Burroughs" on YouTube

    👭 Video for The Cure's "Close To Me" on YouTube

    🏹 @TribesTheSeries on YouTube

    🍋 Lemon/cow duvet at AliExpress

    🔥 Extra Hot Great 509 featuring Dan Cassino

    🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast
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    32 mins
  • August 1990 Fashion Etc.: Boats, Socks & Diets

    August 1990 Fashion Etc.: Boats, Socks & Diets
    Apr 23 2024
    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, THANK GOD.) Turn down your Keith Sweat or MC Hammer albums and listen to all our thoughts on the August 1990 issue's Fashion (Etc.)!

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    TOPICS

    🎧 It Is August 1990

    🎧 Fashion Feature: Academia

    🎧 Fashion Feature: Dressed To Play The Game

    🎧 Fashion Feature: Water Proof

    🎧 Making It: Under Where?

    🎧 About Face

    🎧 Sassy Ads

    🎧 Sassy Club

    🎧 Goodbye For Now

    NOTES

    👛 Burnout Velvet Black Mary Poppins Weekender at MCWHandmade.com

    👚 Women's 1988 Rollneck sweater at JCrew.com

    🗻 LookoutAndWonderland.com

    🧦 Socks at TabioUSA.com

    💅 Stop Nail Biting MS at PotentialsUnlimited.com

    ✈️ Tara's review of Conan O'Brien Must Go at Cracked
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    49 mins
  • August 1990 Pop Culture: Michael Rank, Michael Rank & Michael Rank

    August 1990 Pop Culture: Michael Rank, Michael Rank & Michael Rank
    Apr 9 2024
    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? Z'Nuff! 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 Bluesky 📷 @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 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is August 1990 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: Kip Winger 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🧏‍♂️ Gallaudet University Deaf President Now protest timeline at Gallaudet.edu 🥔 Chip Z'Nuff on Instagram 🐄 The Cows "Daddy Has A Tail!" on YouTube 🐮 Cows on what. on YouTube 🌍 "Unity 2: Shirlee" on YouTube 🏞️ Tom Petty "Into The Great Wide Open" video on YouTube 🌅 "Into The Great Wide Open" on Wikipedia 🍫 Kids In The Hall sketch "No Chocolate Diet" on YouTube 💿 "Controversial Album Art: Sonic Youth - Goo" at ScruffyTheory.com 📷 Original photo on which the Goo album cover art is based, at ScruffyTheory.com 📭 Reddit post about the photo 👀 Witness (aka Evil Relations) by David Smith on Amazon ⚖️ "He saved so many children: Two months after his death in his beloved Galway, David Smith's wife Mary says he has never been credited for helping bring the Moors Murderers to justice" at DailyMail.com 🟡 Sonic Youth's cover of the Simpsons theme song 🎸 Michael Rank on Bandcamp 😬 Lyrics for Winger's "Seventeen" 🫂 "Winger end feud with Beavis and Butt-head writer" at LouderSound.com 🤝 "Kip Winger Finally Got An Apology From Metallica" at UltimateClassicRock.com 🪽 Kip Winger's website 🌴 Tara's Palm Royale review at Cracked.com 📜 Pam on Episode 636 of the ScriptNotes podcast
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    47 mins
  • August 1990 Teen Life: Eastern Europe, Wet Pastrami & Mr. Sperm

    August 1990 Teen Life: Eastern Europe, Wet Pastrami & Mr. Sperm
    Mar 19 2024
    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 the owner of a female reproductive system. The fiction runner-up is about...talking to pastrami. All this plus Sassy staffers' romantic boyfriends, the return of Help For Him, unorthodox uses for avocados, and much much more! Stop hitting on your attractive cousin and join us!

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    TOPICS

    🎧 It Is August 1990

    🎧 Feature: Into The Light

    🎧 Feature: The And-You-Thought-You-Knew-The-Difference-Between-Guys-And-Girls Poll

    🎧 Feature: A Day-By-Day Owner’s Manual For The Female Body

    🎧 Fiction: Cold Storage

    🎧 Body Talk

    🎧 Help

    🎧 Help For Him

    🎧 What He Said: What’s The Most Romantic Thing You Ever Did For Your G-Friend?

    🎧 Stuff You Wrote

    🎧 Goodbye

    NOTES

    🇭🇺 "How Fidesz maintains its electoral stranglehold on Hungary" at cz.boell.org

    📖 The Book Of Questions at ThriftBooks

    🥴 "You sent us your hiccup cures. Experts put them to the test" at CNN.com

    💍 "Cousin Marriage" on Wikipedia

    😘 Mona Chalabi's Ted Talk "Is it really that bad to marry my cousin?" transcript at Ted.com

    5️⃣ Tara's interview with Meredith Scardino on Cracked.com

    👩‍🚀 The August 1990 quiz: Rate Your MTV-ness
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    56 mins
  • July 1990 Slumber Party: Horse Parking, Cher Impressions & A Mall Security Guard With A Secret

    July 1990 Slumber Party: Horse Parking, Cher Impressions & A Mall Security Guard With A Secret
    Mar 12 2024
    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 hear your stories of life in Phoenix during the rodeo, how to use a pot lip balm without greasing up your finger, which smutty book compromised the integrity of your toys, and so much more. Grab a cocktail -- maybe NOT from South Of The Border -- and listen!

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    TOPICS

    🎧 It Is July 1990

    🎧 The Quizzes

    🎧 From The Hotline

    🎧 From The Hotline

    NOTES

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

    📈 Rate Your Sassy Staff IQ

    🍕 Rate Your Prejudices

    🍝 "Mini Marios Fun Zone" at EastSideMarios.com

    🤷‍♂️ "A Brief History Of Shaun" at ManBehindTheDoll.com

    💁‍♂️ "Shaun, Starr doll's boyfriend" at DollCollector.Wordpress.com

    🎤 Tara's review of Jenny Slate's new standup special

    📰 Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan's newsletter, Drinks With Broads
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    56 mins
  • July 1990 Fashion Etc.: Dickies, Curlers & Miss Personality Plus

    July 1990 Fashion Etc.: Dickies, Curlers & Miss Personality Plus
    Feb 27 2024
    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 "beach braids" on your visit to the Caribbean. We're telling you about all this and more -- including a bumper crop of all-new ads! -- in the July 1990 Fashion Etc. issue!

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    TOPICS

    🎧 It Is July 1990

    🎧 Fashion Feature: And The Winner Is

    🎧 Fashion Feature: Slow Motion

    🎧 Making It: Nothing Up Our Sleeves

    🎧 Beauty Feature: Get Your Hair Fixed

    🎧 Sassy Ads

    🎧 Say What

    🎧 Inside Out: Why There’s No Christina Story In This Issue

    🎧 Goodbye For Now

    NOTES

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

    🎨 Amy Turner's website

    🥝 "Sorry, There Is No German TV Show Dedicated to Cutting Food Perfectly in Half" at Gizmodo

    🦺 Billie Eilish at the 2024 Golden Globes

    📦 "Smart packaging choices help reintroduction of Finesse haircare products" at PackagingDigest.com

    🍝 Another Filippo-Totti ad from November 1989

    🦝 Realistic Wildlife Taxidermy, in Corsicana, TX

    🧬 Tara's interview with Will Forte and Nicole Sullivan of Clone High at Cracked.com
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    53 mins
  • July 1990 Pop Culture: Bart Simpson, Scott Garrison & Dozens Of Recommendations

    July 1990 Pop Culture: Bart Simpson, Scott Garrison & Dozens Of Recommendations
    Feb 13 2024
    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 books Sassy thinks you need to check out. Are some of their recommendations weird or wrong? Sure! But a lot of them are solid; we go through the lists to say which ones we co-sign. All this plus a What Now with possibly the best Sassy Glossary item yet AND a One To Watch who definitely wasn't awaits you in our latest podcast!

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    TOPICS

    🎧 It Is July 1990

    🎧 What Now

    🎧 One To Watch

    🎧 Supplement: Don’t Die Of Boredom This Summer

    🎧 Goodbye For Now

    NOTES

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

    🤠 "Young Guns Signed Film Script X12 Emilio Estevez Kiefer Sutherland Sheen reprint" on eBay

    ☢️ "Is Radiac Radioactive?" on OurTownNY.com

    📺 @Tribes1990 on YouTube

    🤷 Scott Garrison on IMDb

    🤣 Tara at Cracked

    🎞️ Nimona on Netflix
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    37 mins
  • July 1990 Teen Life: Road Trips, Boyfriend Fights & Inverted Nipples

    July 1990 Teen Life: Road Trips, Boyfriend Fights & Inverted Nipples
    Jan 9 2024
    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 sounds pretty fun. And there's a lot to love in the issue's teen life topics, from great advice about fighting with a partner to a contest-winning fiction story from a future bestselling author to a whole new column: Help For Him! Take a break from trying to run a ten-minute mile 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 🛍️ 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 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 👚 Merch discounts and free stickers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! TOPICS 🎧 It Is July 1990 🎧 Feature: He Killed Her Parents 🎧 Feature: We’re On Vacation 🎧 Feature: Single Action Green 🎧 Feature: The Fine Art Of Fighting With Your Boyfriend 🎧 Fiction: Pink Champagne 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 What He Said: Who Is Your Idol? 🎧 It Happened To Me: Censorship At My School Newspaper 🎧 Help 🎧 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. 🙆🏻‍♂️ Richard Church on UnsolvedMysteries.Fandom.com 😡 "Girl Says Murder Suspect Had 'Bad Temper'" on Deseret.com ⚖️ "Killer Who Was Captured In S.K. Gets Life Sentence" on Deseret.com 🏚️ "Habitat for Humanity rehabbing site of 1988 Richard Church murders" on ShawLocal.com 🇲🇽 South Of The Border's website 📚 SaraiWalker.com ✍🏻 "Sarai Walker: 'I stopped holding back, and my writing had a new energy" on TheGuardian.com 🤷‍♀️ "Should we be surprised by John Wayne's racist and homophobic views?" at TheGuardian.com 🥑 A study on the effectiveness of Hoffman's exercise for nursing parents with inverted nipples 💉 The niplette on Philips.com 😬 Rate Your Prejudices quiz
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    38 mins