Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s

By: Tara Ariano Pamela Ribon and David T. Cole
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  • 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!
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Episodes
  • December 1990 Pop Culture: Judas Priest, Darkman & Gnards

    December 1990 Pop Culture: Judas Priest, Darkman & Gnards
    Nov 12 2024
    Our second episode on Sassy's first reader-produced issue covers its pop culture topics. Whose mom surprisingly liked Das Damen? Is "gnard" going to catch on as a slang term? And is Nathan Limbaugh...okay? There's also movie reviews, a One To Watch who may or may not be, a profile of Faith No More's Mike Patton, and a bushel AND a peck of a Mystic, CT scribe named Eva Peck. Put down your Factsheet Five for just a second and listen! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out 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 December 1990 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Fudge NOTES 👧🏻 "'Emily The Strange' Animated Movie In The Works From Warner Bros., Bad Robot" at The Hollywood Reporter 🪑 "Remembering Trivet's Antiques In Cincinnati" at That 70's [sic] blog 🛹 "The X-Girl Factor: How The Cult '90s Label Set The Standard For Skater-Girl Style" at Vogue 🌭 "Mr. Show - Titanica [sic] Visits A Fan" on YouTube 👖 Das Damen at Trouser Press 📢 "SST Vets Das Damen Announce First Shows In 30+ Years" at Brooklyn Vegan 📷 Das Damen on Instagram 🚏 Reprodepot on Etsy 📷 Djerba Goldfinger on Instagram 🔦 Volunteer application at the Olympics website 🚫 NOlympics L.A. 5️⃣ Factsheet Five on Wikipedia 💿 Nathan Limbaugh on Discogs 🎞️ Peter Sobczynski at RogerEbert 🏔️ The Two Jakes on Paramount+ 🌚 Darkman on AMC+ 🚮 Men At Work on Fubo 🎥 "Hollywood's Brat Pack" at New York magazine 🗑️ Men At Work on Wikipedia 🐸 Toad The Wet Sprocket's website 🗺️ Tara's Somebody Somewhere S03 review at Cracked 🚶‍♂️ Tara's review of Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking at Cracked
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    39 mins
  • December 1990 Teen Life: Protests, Fruit & Cocaine

    December 1990 Teen Life: Protests, Fruit & Cocaine
    Oct 29 2024
    The staff at Sassy had impeccable instincts for building its community -- and in the days when doing so required going to the post office to put actual paper goods in the actual mail, too -- and there's no better proof of their success than its first-ever reader-produced issue. The proof that some 80+ real readers made the issue happen is that...you know, the photos are kind of dark. Also that a lead feature about parents doing cocaine and the effect of their drug use on their 10-year-old son showing a few more gaps than we typically like to see in a piece purporting to be factual. But is the nitpicking by at least one of your co-hosts due in large part to the fact that she's jealous of all her then-peers who, unlike her, WEREN'T too scared to apply? Yes, yes it is. The readers bring us all the usual departments, plus a new one (Green Gossip) and the return of On The Road and a super-sized Stuff WE Wrote: join us as we leap in to the Teen Life topics of the December 1990 issue! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out 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 December 1990 🎧 Feature: When Mom And Dad Snort Coke 🎧 Feature: Black Armbands And Bart Simpson 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Green Gossip 🎧 What He Said: When Do You Consider Yourself “Taken”? 🎧 On The Road: Vancouver, BC 🎧 Help 🎧 Help For Him 🎧 It Happened To Me: Magazine Taken Over By Readers 🎧 Comic Strip: Stereotype Gripe 🎧 Horror-Scope 🎧 Stuff We Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Women's Section NOTES 💬 "Free Speech In High School" at TheFire ☮️ "From black armbands to the Supreme Court: Mary Beth Tinker and student free speech rights" at TheFire 🐊 "'No hoodies, no Crocs': Bessemer City High announces dress code requirements for new school year" at WBRC 👗 "Why dress codes are a violation of Title IX" at Lake Oswego Review 📹 The case involving middle school girls who were taped while changing clothes in a locker room, at FindLaw 🌞 "Revealed: The Worst Cities to Live in the U.S. for Your Skin" at Newsweek 📜 Judy Budnitz on Wikipedia 📖 "Miranda July: By the Book" at the New York Times 🖥️ Teresa McWhirter's website 🔫 "My Mom Shot Me" at Vice 🌴 The Again With This podcast on Patreon
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    49 mins
  • November 1990 Slumber Party: Spacing Out, Chasing Boys & Counting Tampons

    November 1990 Slumber Party: Spacing Out, Chasing Boys & Counting Tampons
    Oct 15 2024
    How spacy are we? According to Sassy's November 1990 quiz, the answer is "possibly a lot spacier than some of us would care to admit" or "just about as spacy as we thought." Then, because we spaced on our last combined Slumber Party episode, we go back in time to take the September quiz and Rate [Our] Boy-Obsessiveness. (If you predicted that Pam's score would require a whole different scale, good job: you've REALLY been listening.) Then we move on to some of your latest calls, which cover topics including how a driver's ed teacher might work smarter, not harder; how to ruin a pair of overalls with a single trip to the bathroom; and how messy a woman's first-date meal can be without driving her beau away. Don't space out: listen now!

    QUICK LINKS

    🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website

    ☎️ 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 November 1990

    🎧 Quiz: How Spacy Are You?

    🎧 Quiz: Rate You Boy-Obsessiveness

    🎧 From The Hotline

    🎧 Goodbye For Now

    NOTES

    😵‍💫 The November 1990 Quiz: How Spacy Are You?

    🤩 The September 1990 Quiz: Rate Your Boy-Obsessiveness

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    🌃 Tara on Saturday Night's Not Ready For Primetime Players, ranked by verisimilitude
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    54 mins

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