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TOPICS

🎧 Hello, It Is September 1988

🎧 In Our Lives + Cover

🎧 Fashion: Going Fishing

🎧 Fashion: Big Bottoms

🎧 Fashion: Surfers Vs. Skaters

🎧 Fashion: Necessary Accessories

🎧 Fashion: Making It: Redo Your Denim

🎧 Fashion: What Next: Foot Fetish

🎧 Beauty: We Try It

🎧 Sassy Ads

🎧 Sassy Club

🎧 Magazineyness: Say What

🎧 Magazineyness: Inside Out: A Neill By Any Other Name

🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES

⛪️ George Hulse's church, The Shoreline

👨‍👧 His daughter, Brooklyn Hulse, on Instagram

🚚 "Chris Miller Knows" at ThunderTrucks.com

🤖 "What's In A Name? 'The Terminator' Says Everything: Surfer John Parmenter Sets Himself Apart" at LATimes.com

🏄‍♂️ Mark "Gator" Rogowski's Wikipedia page

🐊 Stoked: The Rise And Fall Of Gator on YouTube

😬 Patricia Arquette describes her date with Rogowski at Eonline.com

🧠 "Brain injuries are startlingly common among those who have committed crimes" at Economist.com

🔍 "Domestic abuse: Killers 'follow eight-stage pattern,' study says" at BBC.com

📷 José Picayo's website

September 1988 Pop Culture: Kevin Dillon, Amanda Peterson & Celebrity Style Fails

mardi 20 juillet 2021 • Duration 51:35

This is the POP CULTURE episode, not Fashion Etc., but given all the talk of hair, we'd get it if you got confused. As extensions! On arms! Stats about who's dyeing what shade! It's a lot. Watch It has some harsh words for the Pet Shop Boys' full-length film. Listen Up features, among others, a band from Australia's nearest neighbor -- hey, Crowded House! And the features tell us all about Kevin Dillon, Amanda Peterson, and a bunch of bad candids we're supposed to think represent female stars' personal style when, let's be real, they almost certainly didn't. Pause Forever Your Girl -- but not forever; its "BOMB" review was unjust -- and join us!

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TOPICS

🎧 Hello, It Is September 1988

🎧 In Our Lives

🎧 What Now: Who Has Fake Hair?

🎧 What Now: Celebrity Styles (And Slipups)

🎧 What Now: Matthew Broderick

🎧 What Now: Jason Patric

🎧 What Now: Peter Has Lousy Taste

🎧 What Now: Who Hasn’t Rob Lowe Kissed?

🎧 What Now: Poison Recall

🎧 What Now: Bogus Blondes

🎧 What Now: Condoms That Roll Over

🎧 What Now: Abortion Rates

🎧 Watch It: A Summer Story

🎧 Watch It: Big Business

🎧 Watch It: Poltergeist III

🎧 Watch It: The Presidio

🎧 Watch It: It Couldn’t Happen Here

🎧 Listen Up: Crowded House

🎧 Listen Up: Run-D.M.C.

🎧 Listen Up: Brian Setzer

🎧 Listen Up: Paula Abdul

🎧 One To Watch: Jonathan Ward

🎧 Feature: Kevin Dillon Likes To Garden

🎧 Feature: Amanda Peterson Hates Cheerleaders

🎧 Feature: Beauty Styles (And Slipups) Of The Rich And Famous

🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES

🐒 George Michael's "Monkey" on Songfacts

🥗 Oil And Vinegar on Wikipedia

🎥 "'Am I Going to Have to Reshoot Half of This Movie?' Howard Deutch on Some Kind Of Wonderful" at Filmmaker Magazine

📸 Peter DeLuise and Gina Nemo's engagement photo

👰‍♀️ Peter DeLuise and Gina Nemo's wedding photo

🐠 Gina Nemo's website

📸 Gina Nemo on Instagram

🏆 Gina Nemo discussing her "award-winning" 21 Jump Street character

😩 The award she won

😍 Pam's date with Rob Lowe

😎 A Summer Story on Tubi

☀️ A Summer Story on YouTube

📈 Big Business on Disney Plus

👯‍♀️ The Big Business reunion scene on YouTube

👻 Poltergeist III on MaxGo

⚰️ The Poltergeist curse

⚓️ The Presidio on MaxGo

📍 It Couldn't Happen Here trailer on YouTube

📢 Brian Setzer's new album announcement on his website

🇯🇵 Japanese Rockabilly

🐍 "Cold-Hearted Snake" video on YouTube

😽 "Opposites Attract" video on YouTube

🎧 Pam's September 1988 playlist on Spotify

📺 The New Adventures Of Beans Baxter on Wikipedia

👀 Beans Baxter pilot credits and opening scene

🌷 Savage Steve Holland on IMDb

😳 "Vintage ICONS Interview: Savage Steve Holland!" at Icons Of Fright

👽 Compilation of Paul Rudd Conan appearances on YouTube

🕴 Jonathan Ward on Wikipedia

👩‍🎨 "Creativity without fear: Up close with ICON head Jonathan Ward" at Hagerty.com

🚙 ICON 4x4 on Twitter

🪖 War Party poster

🔫 War Party on YouTube

👨🏻‍🌾 Kevin Dillon on Instagram

✊ "Hard Knock Life" scene from Annie on YouTube

💩 "You Shit On My House" scene from Can't Buy Me Love on YouTube

📰 Report on Amanda Peterson's death at USAToday

🛶 Tara's Joshua Jackson interview at Vanity Fair

September 1988 Teen Life: Racism, Boarding School & Talking Toes

mardi 13 juillet 2021 • Duration 53:09

Sassy's first back-to-school issue makes a few major missteps: a feature called "Living With Racism" whose white author relentlessly others her interview subjects, all young women of color; and an imbecilic fiction story from premiere issue Justine Bateman harasser John Elder. But "Where The Boys Aren't," about the all-girl boarding school Emma Willard, leaves at least one of your co-hosts yearning for some single-sex scholastics. Then we go On The Road to Lexington, where Sassy is disabused of some of its hick stereotypes; get an It Happened To Me from a girl whose house was used as a Rain Man shooting location; hear What He Said about female athletes (and, as usual, wish we hadn't); and take a trip through the feelings being expressed in Stuff You Wrote. All this plus an itchy Body Talk and a typically squicky Help in our latest episode!

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TOPICS

🎧 Hello, It Is September 1988

🎧 Spine Line + In Our Lives

🎧 Feature: Living With Racism

🎧 Feature: Where The Boys Aren’t

🎧 Fiction: The Talking Toes

🎧 On The Road: Lexington, Kentucky

🎧 Body Talk

🎧 Help

🎧 It Happened To Me: Tom Cruise Made a Movie at My House

🎧 What He Said: What Do You Think of Girls Who Are Jocks?

🎧 Stuff You Wrote

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 Girl School Daze

🎧 Ten Little Toe Coffins

🎧 Pam Never

NOTES

🌀 Dave overstated the death toll from hurricane Gilbert by a factor of 10 because he's a monster

💼 Nancy Toy on LinkedIn

🏫 Emma Willard School

💊 Inderal drug facts (including side effects)

👖 "What Your Skinny Jeans Are Really Doing To Your Vagina" on Self.com

🩸 "10 Facts About Toxic Shock Syndrome Every Tampon-Wearer Should Know" on Self.com

📰 Pauline Ach at the Wooster Voice in 1989...

🗞 ...and 1991

🧀 1984 Velveeta Slices commercial starring Kirk Cameron and Jenny Lewis

🎧 The Midnight Miracle on Luminary

August 1988 Slumber Party: Guts, Cheese & Bathing Caps

mardi 29 juin 2021 • Duration 33:05

How gutsy are we? Gutsy enough to share our results from August 1988's "How Gutsy Are You?" quiz, and even to critique the framing of several questions. Then we move on to your latest calls: this month, you want to talk about the quiz (and you also have some notes), narcs, bathing caps, crushes on teachers, the horror of having restaurant staff sing "Happy Birthday" to you, and so much more! We're not going to tell if you don't brush your teeth before getting in your sleeping bag for the Slumber Party!

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is August 1988

🎧 Quiz: How Gutsy Are You?

🎧 From The Hotline

🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES

💪 The August 1988 quiz, "How Gutsy Are You?"

💰 Donate to the National Network Of Abortion Funds

🔥 The Extra Hot Great podcast on AppleTV+'s Physical (and much more)

August 1988 Fashion: Sweaters, Denim & Smart Tartan

mardi 22 juin 2021 • Duration 01:09:06

Let's get fashionable, August 1988-style! It's time to start your back-to-school shopping, and you KNOW that means you're going to see a fashion story about plaid. Have you also heard about denim? Or sweaters? Because those get a moment in the spotlight too. What Next is also going to tell you what's hot on the runways of real, grown-up fashion brands, while What Now scales back the difficulty level with a craft involving buttons. (Don't be scared.) This issue also features the premiere of We Try It, with Sassy staffers raiding the beauty closet and reviewing things like the Conair Fashion Plates iron that can crimp a star into your hair! You'll also learn about Cheryl in Diary, and about everyone's jobs in a feature in which all the staffers try subbing in for one another for a day. We discuss all of the above, and so much more -- so many new ads!!! -- in this week's podcast!

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is August 1988

🎧 In Our Lives

🎧 Fashion: Cover

🎧 Fashion: Smart Tartan

🎧 Fashion: Hyper Denim

🎧 Fashion: Sweater Girls

🎧 Fashion: What Next: Big Designers Fall Forward

🎧 Beauty: Who’s That Girl?

🎧 Beauty: Wake Up!

🎧 Beauty: We Try It

🎧 Beauty: About Face

🎧 Beauty: Then & Now

🎧 Sassy Ads

🎧 Sassy Club

🎧 Magazineyness: Diary

🎧 Magazineyness: Say What

🎧 Magazineyness: We Just Weren’t Ourselves That Day

🎧 Magazineyness: Inside Out

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 Covid Fuck Party

NOTES

📕 Cover model Carrie Boone's '80s-era booking composite

🎬 Carrie Boone on IMDb

💄 Carrie Boone on being a short model, in McCall's

📸 Steven White's website

🤳 Steven White on Instagram

👖 Betsey Johnson tartan pixie pants at Torrid (more Johnson plaids at the source)

👖 Plaid bondage pants at AngryYoungAndPoor.com

😷 Whittal And Shon Ou La La face mask

👨‍✈️ Whittal And Shon Misha Yacht Cap

👞 The Shophound on Tootsie Plohound

📸 Lara Rossignol's website

📸 Naomi Kaltman's website

💁‍♀️ Conair Fashion Plates on Etsy

👓 Iris Apfel in her signature oversized glasses

🎸 John Norum's website

📺 Tara's review of Kevin Can F*** Himself at Primetimer

🎧 Pam on the TV Guidance Counselor podcast

August 1988 Pop Culture: Lou Diamond Phillips, Guest Critics & Baby River Phoenix

mardi 15 juin 2021 • Duration 51:02

The pop culture coverage in the August 1988 issue is a bit slighter than we're used to, allowing us to get into nearly every bit of it. What Now tells us to get hype for The Fly II, Haunted Summer, and The Prince Of Pennsylvania, also mentioning in passing a comedy called Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, shrug. It also gets into John Stamos's new haircut, a Europe member's birthday, the unreleased Jon Cryer/Penelope Spheeris movie Dudes, the Amnesty International tour, and the dearth of women in heavy metal. Outside pop culture, we learn about "the crack" in the Sassy Glossary, and hunt down photos of the River Phoenix poster that the previous owners of our magazine copies obviously ripped out before selling them to us. To mix it up, the magazine gets a bevy of young stars it's recently interviewed, or about to -- including Alex Winter (twice), Paul Hipp, Alan Boyce, Johnny Depp, Annabeth Gish, and more -- to serve as guest critics in Watch It and Listen Up. And finally, Christina does yeoman's work in her write-around profile of an unavailable Lou Diamond Phillips. We hope YOU are available to listen!

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is August 1988

🎧 In Our Lives

🎧 What Now: The Fly II + Haunted Summer

🎧 What Now: Prince Of Pennsylvania

🎧 What Now: Free Pee-wee + John Stamos's Hair

🎧 What Now: Dudes

🎧 What Now: Debbie Gibson

🎧 What Now: Female Heavy Metal Stars

🎧 What Now: Amnesty International Concerts

🎧 What Now: The Crack

🎧 What Now: River Phoenix Poster

🎧 Watch It: The Year My Voice Broke

🎧 Watch It: The Blob

🎧 Watch It: Willow

🎧 Listen Up: Boogie Down Productions

🎧 Listen Up: Iggy Pop

🎧 Listen Up: Sam Phillips + Thomas Dolby

🎧 One To Watch: Rodney Harvey

🎧 Feature: Lou Diamond Phillips: Don’t Sit Home Waiting For His Call

🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES

🏢 Die Hard on Hulu

🪰 The Fly II clip 1

🪰 The Fly II clip 2

👻 Haunted Summer on YouTube

🤴 The Prince Of Pennsylvania on YouTube

🎸 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure on HBO Max

🧑🏻‍🦱 John Stamos before his 1988 haircut

💇🏻‍♂️ John Stamos after his 1988 haircut

🙆‍♂️ Dudes screenwriter Randall Jahnson on IMDb

🎞 Dudes on IMDbTV

🖼 The Dudes poster Pam had

📺 "Nickelodeon Cuts Ties With iCarly Creator Dan Schneider After Alleged Abusive Behavior" at Huffpost

🎤 The Linda Lindas

🎧 Big Joanie

☘️ "Who will set us free of the bogus Irishness of craic?" at The Irish Times

ℹ️ Craic on Wikipedia

👦🏼 The Year My Voice Broke trailer on YouTube

🦠 The Blob (1988) on YouTube

⚔️ Willow on Disney Plus

🎶 Pam's August 1988 playlist on Spotify

👨🏻‍🎤 "Iggy Pop on David Bowie: 'He Resurrected Me'" at The New York Times

🇩🇪 "Why David Bowie and Iggy Pop chose Berlin over Los Angeles" at Far Out

🩸 Mixed Blood on YouTube

🗺 Five Corners on DailyMotion

💃 Salsa on YouTube

📍 Spike Of Bensonhurst on Facebook

🎼 Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost on YouTube

📺 Rodney Harvey on The Outsiders TV show Wiki

👀 The Outsiders TV show on YouTube

✍️ Pam's autographed copy of The Outsiders

📰 Rodney Harvey on Wikipedia

🪦 "The Curse Of Idaho" at Empire.com

🙃 Disorganized Crime on YouTube

🔐 Julie Cypher on Wikipedia

💎 Lou Diamond Phillips on Wikipedia

🐈 Lou Diamond Phillips with his cats

🔫 Young Guns on IMDbTV

🪖 "Interview With Lou Diamond Phillips, Author Of The Tinderbox: Soldier Of Indira" on DeadDarlings.com

🧊 Tara's review of The Cube on Primetimer.com

August 1988 Teen Life: Death Row, Teacher Crushes & Boys On Makeup

mardi 8 juin 2021 • Duration 01:04:11

When we say the Teen Life topics of the August 1988 issue run the gamut, that is precisely what we mean. We're going to start with the story of the youngest person ever sentenced to Death Row; then review the results of a survey conducted on 300 boys in malls, on topics ranging from when they want to get married to which outfit they'd most like to see you wear on a date. Crushing on a teacher? Christina has advice on that, some of which has not aged so well. And Barbara Bondrack's short story takes us backstage at a rock show...sort of. On The Road takes us to Boston; Body Talk covers exercise bands and constipation; Help has some advice about confusing sex dreams and bed-wetting (unrelated). Two extremely important departments make their début: Stuff You Wrote and It Happened To Me! And the first IHTM is about...getting an abortion! After that heavy topic, we need to wind down with What He Said about the upcoming presidential election. Tone down your eyeliner -- that's how dudes like it, apparently -- and join us!

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