Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s

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2021/01/17
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2026/02/03
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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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August 1991 Teen Life: Gladiators, Boyfriends & A Whole Bunch Of Wives
2026/02/03
August 1991 is the thickest issue we've had in quite a while, but those extra pages were not set aside for Teen Life topics -- in fact, there isn't even a fiction story! There are, however, Kim's try-out for American Gladiators, Christina's musings on long-distance boyfriend pros and cons, a What He Said on breast size, a quick trip over a bridge (or through a tunnel) to Brooklyn for On The Road, and more. Even the bummer feature -- about polygamist Alex Joseph, his nine wives, and their many many children -- is mostly a curiosity in its day, and only a bummer in retrospect. Not a bummer? Our latest episode, featuring original music cues that WILL get stuck in your heads. Or maybe not. Enjoy! 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🎧 Feature: I, Gladiatrix🎧 Feature: Chronic Long-Distance Boyfriend Distress🎧 Feature: This Cat Has Nine Wives🎧 Feature: 9 Things About America That Make Us Want To Scream And Throw Stuff🎧 Body Talk🎧 What He Said: Does Breast Size Matter?🎧 It Happened To Me: “Fighting Homelessness”🎧 On The Road: Brooklyn, NY🎧 Stuff You Wrote🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES🤺 "Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin To Host American Gladiators Reboot" at Gladiators TV🧊 Former American Gladiators star Ice on Instagram💍 Alex Joseph on Wikipedia👰🏻‍♀️ "Plural Marriage Was 'Best Offer' Of My Life" by Bo Joseph at The Spectrum🌞 "Can You Get Sunburnt Or UV Skin Damage Through Car Or Home Windows?" at University Of Wollongong Australia🥥 "Jesse 'Shake It Like A White Girl' Jaymes - College Girls" on YouTube💰 Jesse Itzler on Wikipedia⁉️ "Uber Driver Sucked Me Off?!" on Know Your Meme🏚️ National Student Campaign Against Hunger And Homelessness🍕 Fascati Pizza on Yelp🌿 The Brooklyn Botanic Garden📸 "1992 Press Photo Slidell Factory Store Essay Winner Megan Watson In Louisiana" on eBay👊 "Double Fisting Two King & Queen Motorcycle Seats | Custom Seat Work At Atomic Cycle Works" on YouTube🌴 Again With This on Patreon✊ National Day Labor Organizing Network
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July 1991 Slumber Party: Bratmobile, Chaplin & The Deliberate Stranger
2026/01/20
We're just back from a nearly two-month break. We took two VERY confrontational quizzes ("Are You A News Moron?" and "Are You An Annoyance?"). We...barely remember how to do this, so please enjoy a basically unedited stream of thought conversation on wedgies, Margaret Thatcher, Antarctica, huffing in an unventilated garage, and much much more! 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 July 1991🎧 Quiz: Are You A News Moron🎧 Quiz: Are You An Annoyance?🎧 From The Hotline🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES🕵🏻‍♂️ The Deliberate Stranger DVDs on eBay👔 Tara's piece on Justin Theroux, Corporate Villain at GQ
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July 1991 Fashion Etc.: Red, White & Blue (And Gray)
2026/01/06
The hot dogs are sizzling, the fireworks are firing, and July 1991 cover model Rochelle is telling Sassy George Washington never meant shit to her and that HER Independence Day is January 1, the day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. HELL YEAH! ...There is more to the issue, but it doesn't really compare. One fashion story is in gray; the other is red, white, blue, and American flag print for the holiday Rochelle shan't be celebrating. Sassy also wants to help you lighten up your makeup; turn a t-shirt and a skirt into an ugly and ill-fitting dress; and look ahead to fall -- nooooOOOOO! -- and the plaids and suedes they think you'll be rocking for back to school. Light a firework 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 July 1991 🎧 Fashion Feature: Gray Matters 🎧 Fashion Feature: Burn Baby 🎧 Making It: Dress Yourself 🎧 What Next: Almost Time 🎧 Beauty Feature: Take It Off 🎧 About Face 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: Generally Excellent 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🥕 "I Drank Carrot Juice Every Day For A Month To Get A Tan, And This Is The Result" at Glamour 😴 "Forgotten 90s: Maggie's Dream, 'Love And Tears'" at Medium 📸 Robi Rosa on Instagram ℹ️ Patri Feher on Scannography 🎄 Audubon Park Christmas 2015 at Audubon Park Perspectives 🦉 "John James Audubon's 'Little Screech Owls' from 'The Birds Of America' Holiday ArtCards" on Amazon 💔 "Scorned Lover Charged In Internet High Jinks" at the New Haven Register 🏫 The Harmony School in Bloomington, IN
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July 1991 Pop Culture: Chapterhouse, Jamie Walters & Summer Recommendations
2025/12/23
It's summer, and everyone at Sassy is already too hot to work. Christina admits that What Now is kind of a flop -- she's even a month late mentioning Ian Svenonius's birthday! (It's June 1, in case you also want to mark your calendar for the most important event of the year.) One To Watch Jamie Walters, we can now agree, burned bright in his moment, but that his moment did not last long. And then the staff just foregoes Watch It, Listen Up, AND an entertainment feature, instead assembling an insert full of recommendations for what they're all going to be watching, reading, and doing in the summer of 1991. Which of them do we think you should listen to? Listen to US to find out. 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 July 1991 🎧 Feature: Her Sister Amy 🎧 Feature: Dump That Dude 🎧 Feature: Would You Like Some Fries With That Diploma? 🎧 Feature: Why You Liked Yourself Better When You Were 11 🎧 Fiction: Serenade 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 Help For Him 🎧 What He Said: What’s The Most Horrid Thing You Ever Did To Your Sister? 🎧 On The Road: Cleveland, Ohio 🎧 It Happened To Me: Teen Mother 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🏡 Chapterhouse on Wikipedia 🌎 "The Overpopulation Myth And Its Dangerous Connotations" at The Sierra Club Washington State 🌍 "Beyond 8 Billion" at The Population Institute ⚙️ Simple Machines 👖 Jamie Walters's Levi's TV commercial 🧑‍🚒 "Over The Hills: I Was A Beverly Hills, 90210 Heartthrob And Engaged To An A-List Actress -- But I Gave Up Fame To Become A Firefighter" at The U.S. Sun ⚓️ Odyssey on YouTube 🐤 Adam Hann-Byrd's website 🚇 The International Pop Underground Convention on Wikipedia 🎂 "IPUC At 30!" at Chick Factor 😶 "Words In Your Face" on YouTube 📰 "Words In Your Face" review at the New York Times 💅 Cover Girl NailSlicks in Tawny Peach at Amazon 🎞️ "I Watch Slacker To Read Austin In The Original" at Places Journal 😝 Ho Ho Ho Ha Ha Ha Ha at Woolly Mammoth 🤡 "It's 1:30 AM, And A Clown Wants To Fix You" at the New York Times
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July 1991 Teen Life: Hamburger U, Girls' Self-Esteem & Things You Can Measure In Pints
2025/12/09
The editors use an antique slur (sadly surging back to popularity) to describe a contributor's mentally handicapped sister, but let's not focus on that when the piece -- especially the photos it's built around -- is thoughtful and sensitive. Then, we can move on to why and how to dump a guy; no, taking you to the library isn't one of the reasons, though it does come up. Mike reports from the McDonald's training institute Hamburger University, where the sight of students and instructors actually caring about their careers in customer service alarms his apathetic Gen-X sensibilities. On The Road goes to Cleveland; female staffers' brothers confess the ways they tortured them as kids; a teen mother glosses over a LOT of what Happened To her; and more! You might want fries with this pretty early on, so sort that out before you hit play! 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 July 1991 🎧 Feature: Her Sister Amy 🎧 Feature: Dump That Dude 🎧 Feature: Would You Like Some Fries With That Diploma? 🎧 Feature: Why You Liked Yourself Better When You Were 11 🎧 Fiction: Serenade 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 Help For Him 🎧 What He Said: What’s The Most Horrid Thing You Ever Did To Your Sister? 🎧 On The Road: Cleveland 🎧 It Happened To Me: Teen Mother 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🍔 "Michael Jordan McDonald's McJordan Commercial 1993" on YouTube 🎓 Hamburger University at The Best Schools 👦 The Boy Crisis at Warren Farrell's website 📰 "The 'Boy Crisis' Is Overblown" at the New York Times 🧠 Underestimated: The Wisdom And Power Of Teenage Girls by Chelsey Goodan at Simon & Schuster ✍️ Seth Kaufman Writer 🗺 Cleveland's Tower City Center 🌊 "Lake Erie Historical" at Cleveland Historical 📹 "Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video" on YouTube 🍛 No Kid Hungry
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June 1991 Fashion Etc.: Bikinis, Bandana Prints & The Face Shade 2000
2025/11/25
Just in case you haven't already picked out every bathing suit you're going to need for the summer of 1991, Sassy's bringing you one more fashion story on bikinis. Hope you like the way Bronwyn models them because there's very little variation in her poses! The issue also covers vaguely pan-Latin American looks, some kind of fairy tale beauty story, bandana and patchwork-y prints, and how to keep the sun's harmful rays off your precious skin. Sure, a deep tan sounds good now, but someday you'll be in your fifties and VERY aware of sun damage! TRUST US!!! All of this and so very much more awaits you in our latest episode! 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 June 1991 🎧 Fashion Feature: Fiesta Forever 🎧 Fashion Feature: When Wet 🎧 What Next: Country Trip 🎧 Beauty Feature: Legend 🎧 About Face 🎧 We Try It: Protect Your Bod In The Sun 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: One Way To Ask A Guy Out 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🔎 "My dad claims to have made a product. And I need help finding it" in r/find 💃 Leslie Bibb Credits Oprah For Her Big Break After Winning 1990 Modeling Contest That 'Opened Up A Whole World'" at People 📫 "Mail-Order America" at the New York Times 🥪 The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank's food pantry locator
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June 1991 Pop Culture: River, Noni & Munchkin Cats
2025/11/11
Is "rotted" cooler slang than "rotten"? How "monotone" can Beat Happening's lead vocalist actually be? How does Christina rate the relative cuteness of Aleka's Attic, River Phoenix's band? Has the time come for a Toy Soldiers remake? Is it acceptable to call Winona Ryder "Noni"? These are but a few of the questions we answer in the June 1991 Pop Culture episode. We also have a few about Alek Keshishian, but he...probably shouldn't listen. You, however? You definitely should. 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 June 1991 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: I Saw River Phoenix Brush His Teeth 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Pam 'Beaver' Ribon Is A Lot NOTES 🦠 Girl Germs 3 at the Internet Archive 😷 Girl Germs 4 at the Internet Archive 🍟 Dave's post about McDonald's packaging on Bluesky 🎶 Robert Downey Jr.'s song "Broken" on YouTube 😽 "Cat Lover Billy Corgan Is On The Cover Of 'Paws' Magazine Again" at Exclaim 🎢 Billy Corgan On A Roller Coaster on Instagram 🪖 Toy Soldiers on The Roku Channel 🎨 True Colors on Hoopla 🌱 A Tale Of Springtime on The Criterion Channel 👁️ If Looks Could Kill on Hoopla 👀 If Looks Could Kill on Again With Again With This [paid subscription required] 📹 Alek Keshishian's website 🎻 Aleka's Attic's song "Across The Way" from the PETA benefit album Tame Yourself on YouTube 🎵 Josh McKay on Wikipedia ☔️ Rain Phoenix on Wikipedia 🏠 Aleka's Attic on Wikipedia 🎸 "The Story Of River Phoenix And Aleka's Attic" at Bill DeYoung's website 🤠 Donate to the Central Texas Food Bank
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June 1991 Teen Life: Chilling Out, Quitting Church & Going To Antarctica
2025/10/28
Well, there's no way around it: the very first feature is about Black activism, written by a white author (Kim) who gets no help from her editor on how not to sound tone-deaf as she describes being judged by the color of her skin or feeling unwelcome in Black spaces. So let's quickly dispense with it and move on to the rest. Karen finds three couples to talk about their couplehood. Amy Turner -- who checks in from the present day, because she's Pam's friend IRL -- visits Antarctica. Everyone on staff shares their stress relief tips. Plus: foods that trigger headaches, Danielle from Niagara Falls quoting J.D. Salinger at Stuff You Wrote, Ian Ziering on dating girls his parents didn't like, how atheism Happened to this month's Me, and more! Draw a soothing bath 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 June 1991 🎧 Feature: It’s A Black Thing 🎧 Feature: How To Be A Couple 🎧 Feature: Here It Is: The Last Clean Place On Earth 🎧 Feature: Our 26 Cheap And Effective Ways To Chill Yourself Ou 🎧 Fiction: Plucking Friends 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 What He Said: Would You Go Out With A Girl Your Parents Hated? 🎧 Help 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 It Happened To Me: Atheist NOTES ⚖️ "Brooklyn Man Convicted In 1989 Murder Of Yusuf Hawkins Will Try To Prove His Innocence" at ABC News 🐧 "How The Number Of Guests Can Affect Your Antarctic Cruise" at Antarctica Travel Centre 💿 John Douglas - CD at Trashcan Sinatras ⛑️ Penguin Cold Caps 🍽️ "The Monster At The Dinner Table" at The Cut
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May 1991 Slumber Party: Bores, The Doors & Body Horrors
2025/10/14
Sassy's May 1991 quiz dares you to determine whether you're a big fat bore...but it could be that this is a more stressful prospect for a teenager than for a middle-aged person who's come to terms with liking TV and Cheetos. After comparing our own results, we move on to some of your latest calls on topics like how a recent vest makeover project worked out in real life, pro tips on Kool-Aid hair dye, gross things the male body is prone to, and much much more. Hit pause on The Doors and listen! 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 May 1991 🎧 Quiz: Are You A Big Fat Bore? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🏈 Extra Hot Great 582: "Is Chad Powers A Winner?" 🏟️ "Chad Powers Is Way Better Than It Has Any Business Being" at Cracked
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May 1991 Fashion Etc.: Outside, Blue & Tutti-Frutti On Your Face
2025/09/30
School's about to end for summer, and Sassy is ready. It's got plaids for the bocce court. It's got swimsuits for...swimming. It's got tips for changing your hair color with a beverage........again. And it's got tons of historic inspiration if you want to make a BIG change to your look. It's also faking the news a little bit and of COURSE Neill is the offender there. Post up by the pool (indoors if you're not in a tropical zone) to hear about all this and tons more! 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 May 1991 🎧 Fashion Feature: Outside 🎧 Fashion Feature: Blue 🎧 What Next: Don’t Forget To Write 🎧 Beauty Feature: Forties 🎧 About Face 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: Dear Anne B. 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 📸 Sandrene Van Slee on Instagram 👖 "Emily Ratajkowski Is The Latest Fan Of The Turned-Down Waistband" at Vogue Australia 👙 Jennie Garth in the blue bikini in Beverly Hills, 90210 👗 "Tulipa Sleeveless Stamp-Print Maxi Dress" at Neiman Marcus 📫 "Old British Postage Stamps Texture A-Line Dress" on Redbubble 📭 "Vintage 90s Womens Design Elements Colorful Postage Stamp Blouse M 6 8 Black" on eBay 👁️ "Kurlash" at Cosmetics And Skin 💋 "Remember Maybelline Kissing Potion & Other Flavored Lip Gloss From The 70s And 80s?" at Click Americana 🎶 1991 MusiCards Blog 👨‍🎨 Philip Burke on Instagram 🐻 Fat Bear Week at Explore
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May 1991 Pop Culture: John Leguizamo, Balthazar Getty & The Whistle That Only Dogs Hear
2025/09/16
Pam is on assignment, but Dave and Tara are bravely carrying on without her. What Now brings us such items as the first news blurb Tara probably ever saw about the Texas mom who came up with a murder-for-hire scheme to advance her 13-year-old daughter's cheerleading career to the 1,000,000th update on reigning Sassiest Boy In America Ian Svenonius (LET IT END). Jane admits she can't be objective about R.E.M. generally and Out Of Time specifically, but at least she's right! The Doors is a five-dot pick we're dubious about; Paris Is Burning deserves not just the five dots it also gets but 10! 10! 10s across the board! Finally, we close on whether John Leguizamo proved to be One To Watch, and what associations we still have for Balthazar Getty beyond being an oil heir. If YOUR heroes have always been cowboys, you MUST 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 May 1991 🎧 What Now 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 Watch It 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: Balthazar Getty Contemplates The Whole Teen Idol Thing 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ✌️ "How The V-Sign Came To Represent Victory, Then Peace" at the History Channel 📰 "Former ACLU Leader Ira Glasser Slams Organization's 'Progressive' New Agenda" at the New York Post 🗯️ "Free Speech Has Limits Because Speech Can Cause Harm" at the Online Hate Prevention Institute 💥 "Gloria Estefan On How A Life-Changing Accident Sparked A $42 Million Mission To Cure Paralysis" at CBS News 🥖 Paris Is Burning on HBO Max 🧊 "John Leguizamo Calls Dean Cain A 'Moron' For Joining ICE: 'What Kind Of Loser Volunteers' For That?" at Variety 🤠 My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys on PlutoTV 🥱 "Charlie Sheen Was Never That Interesting" at Cracked
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May 1991 Teen Life: AIDS, Invisibility & Galactorrhea
2025/09/02
It's May 1991, and Sassy knows exactly what your mom wants most for Mother's Day: you following her around the house quoting statistics about how bad school sucks in this country! When she tells you to give it a rest, you can learn about Kim Frey, a young woman living with HIV, or why you should consider making friends with boys. (It's not because they have amazing answers to the What He Said question about what they'd do if they were invisible, that's for sure.) Also: hay fever, plants, vitamins, deodorant, and more than you ever wanted to know about breast discharge! You're welcome!!! 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 May 1991 🎧 Feature: How This Girl Lives With The AIDS Virus 🎧 Feature: She Says Guys Make Better Friends 🎧 Feature: You Spill It About Your Schools 🎧 Fiction: The Real World 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 On The Road: El Paso, TX 🎧 What He Said: What Would You Do If You Were Invisible? 🎧 Help 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Doxx Everything 🎧 I Don't Remember Why I Did This NOTES 📝 Buy Pam's book Notes To Boys on Bookshop 📸 Kim Frey's press photo on eBay 📔 Kim Bergalis's People cover 🪦 "The Angry Death Of Kimberly Bergalis" at Slate 🧛🏻 "How 'Vampire Facials' Infected Three Women With HIV" at BBC 💔 "First Love, Fatal Love" on Letterboxd 💓 "First Love, Fatal Love" mentioned in "'Lost'...And Found At The Library Of Congress" at Library Of Congress Blogs 👵🏻 Jeff Hiller's Actress Of A Certain Age at Simon & Schuster 👩🏼‍💻 Sharon Solwitz's website 💦 Notice about the cessation of marketing of PPA at DEA Diversion 💊 "Can You Get Diet Pill With Phenylpropanolamine In Europe?" at Womens Diet And Fitness 🏫 Coronado High School at Great Schools 🌮 "Iconic El Paso Restaurant Closes - Jaxon's Gone Forever" at Kiss El Paso 😥 "Fact Or Fiction?: Antiperspirants Do More Than Block Sweat" at Scientific American 🧠 "Does Aluminum Cause Alzheimer's?" at Healthline 📉 Meghann Lacko Kaplan on LinkedIn
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April 1991 Slumber Party: Landlines, Rompers & Wild Yam Cream
2025/08/12
With Pam out handling a family emergency (everything's okay now!), Dave and Tara bravely handle the Slumber Party on their own. After sharing their results from the "Are You Parent-Tolerant?" quiz, it's on to your calls: one serious one about Pam's massage story, then a lot of silly ones about: other places spooge has unexpectedly appeared; what to try if your nails are weak; that vulnerable feeling when you're wearing a romper and have to pee; and a TRULY horrifying tale of a restaurant trip gone awry. Prepare for an emotional roller coaster -- FOR REAL. 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 April 1991 🎧 Quiz: Are You Parent-Tolerant 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now
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April 1991 Fashion Etc.: Tights, Sun-In & Bloomers, Again?!
2025/07/29
It's spring...but summer is just around the corner. Start dressing for summer in holiday-ready gingham and all white eyelet everything! We get a moment-by-moment report on the process of shooting a Sassy cover, starting with the model's birth. (No: seriously.) The staff is trying tights, ruining a scarf, moving offices, and so much more. Pull up your bloomers 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 April 1991 🎧 Fashion Feature: Wish You Were Here 🎧 Fashion Feature: Wearing Air 🎧 What Next 🎧 We Wear It 🎧 Making It: Build A Better Vest 🎧 Beauty Feature: Why This Face? 🎧 About Face 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: New! New! New! 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🫟 Amy Sedaris's gingham guest room on Instagram ⛵️ Fantasy Lake Adventure Park 🧥 "Vintage Globe Men 34 NIOMEX Firefighter 2 In 1 Jacket Black Yellow Collar COAT" on eBay 🧑‍🚒 "Vintage Japanese Firechief Kimono with Belt Firefighter Black Red White" on eBay 🥾 "Women's National Park Chelsea Rain Boots" at Pendleton 🦵 DKNY Women's Opaque Coverage Control Top tights on Amazon 🪒 "Vintage Schick Personal Touch Razor With Deluxe Case New" on eBay 🧴 Le Lift Fluide at Chanel 🟤 Blake Brown Beauty ☀️ "1990 Sun In Hair 'With Silkenol' TV Commercial" on YouTube 🏢 "The History Of The Helmsley Building" at CitySignal 🕸️ Marjorie Ingall's website 🦋 Marjorie Ingall on Bluesky
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April 1991 Pop Culture: Susanna Hoffs, A Baby In A Basket (?) & Musicians Perving On Underage Girls
2025/07/15
Whose voice is described in this month's Listen Up as "vomity"? It's sure not Sting because Catherine CANNOT be objective about him. It's also not Debbie Gibson protégé Chris Cuevas, though we do have a lot of opinions about the little photo of him we get in What Now. We also discuss whether L.A. Story is still worth seeing and whether it includes a baby in a basket on the side of the freeway; rate the tracks on R.E.M.'s Out Of Time; and wonder whether Christina's piece on why going backstage at a rock show sucks is actually just a huge humblebrag. Give a big David Lee Roth-style scream: it's the April 1991 Pop Culture episode! 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 April 1991 🎧 What Now 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: I Hate Going Backstage 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Go Ahead NOTES 📅 Chris Cuevas and Debbie Gibson's "Someday" on YouTube 📓 The February 1991 Seventeen cover 💄 "Going For That Sassy Touch" from The Olympian at Newspapers 😎 "Why Is Olympia So Cool And Countercultural?" at r/olympia 🍯 R.E.M.'s "Me In Honey" on Spotify 🪦 Ray Davis on KeyWiki 💥 "Catastrophe" at Reb Jeff 🍑 The Dharma Bums in the 21st century 🥾 Sonic Youth's "Dirty Boots" on YouTube 🛌 Susanna Hoffs's "My Side Of The Bed" on YouTube 💀 "Billy Drago, 'Untouchables' Star, Dies At 73" on Variety 🫎 "'Northern Exposure' Revival With Rob Morrow In The Works At CBS" at The Hollywood Reporter 📸 Darren E. Burrows on Instagram 🧶 Darren E. Burrows on Etsy 🎸 "Soundgarden 1990-1991 All Access Tour Laminate Backstage Pass!" on eBay
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4.9 out of 5
251 reviews
I'mJessaFields 2026/01/01
Love these guys
What a great podcast! The hosts are funny and insightful, hugely knowledgeable about pop culture, and they organize the episodes really well so every ...
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Lex84047272947368393 2025/10/18
Laughing so hard I scare my dog
I’ve been an EHG listener since mark one of the podcast, and I never thought I could laugh more than I do listening to those chuckleheads❤️. Throw Pam...
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66meow 2025/03/09
23 Stars!
Happy now, Dave??
sschessler 2024/12/14
Magical Laughter
I finally just started listening to this podcast from Tara, Pam, and Dave, and I haven't laughed this hard in years
Bigcatwinnemac 2023/01/10
Love it
Always love the show, and enjoyed substitute hosts Megan and Kim! Look forward to Pam’s return though. PS Made me miss Kim’s the best thing I saw on ...
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🌠🌈🌌🌄🌊🗻🌅🌋🗾 2022/09/23
KEVIN COOGAN 4-EVA
I love Sassy but I love the banter between Tara, Pam and David even more.
andpops 2022/08/11
Oh Sassy!!
I adore this podcast. I love the hosts. join the Listen to Sassy Club!!! It’s awesome!! I was an avid Sassy reader at 11 with the first (or maybe th...
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nextrecord 2022/04/15
Pure Joy!
I studied every issue of Sassy more than any textbook and remember each page that Tara and Pam discuss! It thrills my heart to hear such earnest perce...
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jec1981 2022/03/21
STARLOG JAM!I
This is my favorite new podcast, despite never having cracked the cover of Sassy. I’ve been following Dave, Tara, and Paimie in their various endeavor...
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Delos 2022/01/29
Hilarious
My favorite find of the year. It’s been great hearing them all reminisce and crack each other up.
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