Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s

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!

  1. October 1991 Pop Culture: Escalators, Mudhoney & Bulgarian Wedding Music

    2d ago

    October 1991 Pop Culture: Escalators, Mudhoney & Bulgarian Wedding Music

    After being so excited in the October 1991 Teen Life episode that the Ian Svenonius era was over, HERE HE IS AGAIN in What Now, along with stories on Wig Out, Brad Pitt, and Bulgarian wedding music. Your co-hosts are bitterly divided on the films of Mike Leigh, but come back together on Mary's Danish. Did One To Watch live up to his designation? Was Mike's report on his time as an extra in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare scooped up after getting cut from Dirt? We discuss this and much more 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 October 1991🎧 What Now🎧 Watch It🎧 Listen Up🎧 Feature: I Killed Freddy Krueger🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES👩🏽‍🦳 Wig Out online👤 In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story on YouTube🍽️ The Famine Within🍭 Life Is Sweet on The Criterion Channel👮🏻‍♂️ "I Fought The Law" by Mary's Danish on YouTube🧾 Tara's review of Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed at GQ

    35 min
  2. October 1991 Teen Life: Best Friendship, Sweat Glands & The Sassiest Boy They Could Find

    Jun 9

    October 1991 Teen Life: Best Friendship, Sweat Glands & The Sassiest Boy They Could Find

    Can you maintain a close relationship with your best friends from high school? What's it like to have a port wine birthmark? How many guys say they've been cheated on? And…what's up with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? One of these things is obviously not like the others, which is why we leave it to you to discover rather than wading into the quagmire ourselves. But! We also tell you about Mike Clark, the adorable new Sassiest Boy In America; an enjoyably offbeat fiction story; and what we think of abbreviating the word "tampons" to just "'pons." Light some incense -- ASSUMING YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE THAT A BUNCH THIS WEEK -- and join us! 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 October 1991🎧 Feature: Best Friends: Can They Last Or What?🎧 Feature: Israeli And Palestinian Kids Tell You Why They Can’t Live In Peace🎧 Feature: Mike: The Sassiest Boy We Could Find🎧 Fiction: Friends & Rivals🎧 Body Talk🎧 What He Said: Have You Ever Been Cheated On?🎧 Help For Him🎧 On The Road: Portland, OR🎧 It Happened To Me: Port Wine Birthmark🎧 Stuff You Wrote🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES🍔 Jamie's Hamburgers commercial on YouTube🦌 "That One Time Portland Was In 'Sassy' In 1991" in PDX Monthly📖 Sheila Heti on Wikipedia🔮 Liz Wermcrantz on TikTok🥴 The Drunk Dave episode of Extra Extra Hot Great🎬 The One Act Film website

    48 min
  3. September 1991 Slumber Party: School Phobia, Soup & Satisfaction

    May 26

    September 1991 Slumber Party: School Phobia, Soup & Satisfaction

    Are you school-phobic? Given that most of our listeners who regularly get near a school are probably students' parents or teachers, we...hope not? But we mentally traveled back in time to take Sassy's September 1991 quiz, "Are You School-Phobic?," to rate ourselves from our high school days. Then it's time to listen to your latest calls: you're listening to Good Hang, taking your kids to swim meets, mixing up VERY similar words for VERY different concepts, and so much more! Get into it! 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 September 1991🎧 From The Hotline🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES📚 A Very Special 90210 Book at McNally Jackson🌙 Tara's review of the Late Show series finale at GQ🎞️ The website for Pam's documentary film One Act

    37 min
  4. September 1991 Special: Dirt Preview Issue

    May 12

    September 1991 Special: Dirt Preview Issue

    From our current place in world history, we know that Dirt -- the Sassy offshoot targeted at Sassy readers' boyfriends, brothers, and friends from the skate park -- had a brief but interesting run. But in September 1991, Dirt was just a dream that required a preview issue as proof of concept, and it came to Sassy readers along with that month's issue of its parent magazine. Is it obvious that this publication is going anywhere? Find out as we walk you all the way through the whole damn thing, from instructions on how to shower to instructions on how to construct a zip gun! 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 September 1991🎧 What Gives?🎧 Junk Drawer🎧 Feature: Hard Knowledge: A Gangster’s Story🎧 Name: Ian MacKaye & Jeff Stanton🎧 Fiction: Rain, Trains, & Pain🎧 Fashion Feature: Low Maintenance🎧 “Hey Baby, What’s Your Sign?”🎧 A View From The Crowd🎧 Grooming🎧 Dirt Ads🎧 Goodball For Now NOTES🎶 Dischord Records📏 "Ian Mackaye on Straight-Edge movement..." on Reddit🏍️ Jeff Stanton Adventures🍎 Sidral Mundet🍔 "Can Working In Fast Food Cause Acne? (With 5 Skin Care Tips)" at Shoes For Crews👟 "Nike Air Mowabb Returns In Historic Fashion, So Why Aren't Sneakerheads Happy?" at Man Of Many😼 Josh Gosfield's website🗽 Gosfield's "Censorship Is Unamerican" painting

    43 min
  5. September 1991 Fashion Etc.: Beige, Icy Blu & Toilet Breath

    Apr 28

    September 1991 Fashion Etc.: Beige, Icy Blu & Toilet Breath

    The staff of Sassy is probably hoping you already finished your back-to-school shopping, because this month's fashion editorials are not their most inspired. You can wear French-y stripes or bone and beige shades straight out of the Spiegel catalogue, or possibly destroy a skirt to make yourself some fringe. If you're feeling bold, you can sneak into a tattoo studio or piercing pagoda. But maybe your style icon is alleged high school cheerleader Icy Blu, whose début album is advertised in this issue? We've got questions about desert boots, cellulite treatments, "Sammies," and so much more: put down your copy of The Vampire Diaries BOOK 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 September 1991🎧 Fashion Feature: Vous Êtes Vraiment Une Artiste🎧 Fashion Feature: Relax Already🎧 What Next: Cool School Shoes🎧 Making It: Fringy🎧 About Face🎧 Zits And Stuff🎧 We Try It: Smooth, Soft, Very Clean Skin🎧 Sassy Ads🎧 Diary: 12:00 PM EST / 9:00 AM PST🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES💃 "DIY: How To Make A Fringe Skirt - Cute, Fun & No Sewing Required!" at Fiskars🫟 The Conscious Ink Subscription🥪 "The Retinol Sandwich Method: A Gentler Way To Use Retinoids" at Westlake Dermatology⬜️ Clarins Multi-Mass on Mercari🥶 Icy Blu on Wikipedia🫠 "Icy Blu's Disappearance" at @untoldstoriesweb on TikTok🌄 "Twin Peaks Collectible CardArt By Star Pics - Julee Cruise" on Twin Peaks Blog📺 "'The Rockford Files' Remains One Of Television's Greatest Hangs" at Defector

    1 hr
  6. September 1991 Pop Culture: Brandon, Brenda & The Women Of The Music Industry

    Apr 14

    September 1991 Pop Culture: Brandon, Brenda & The Women Of The Music Industry

    The pop culture Sassy covers in the September issue includes some venerable names: Prince, Duran Duran, Violent Femmes. But there are some thrilling new ones, too. All the women who work in the music industry that Christina profiles, getting readers hyped about how to get jobs like theirs. Reese Witherspoon, a mere 14 years old in her breakout movie, The Man In The Moon! All the Commitments from The Commitments! And, probably most importantly, a show whose fortunes Sassy will continue to track until it, amazingly, outlives the magazine: Beverly Hills, 90210. Sure, you've seen their pinup pages in Teen Beat and Bop, but you've never seen them like this: in their underwear, just waiting for you to cut them out along with their clothes and put their paper dolls in situations Darren Star never dreamed of. Fact-checking Christina's blurbs is but one of the many orders of business in our latest episode -- 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 September 1991🎧 What Now🎧 Watch It🎧 Listen Up🎧 One To Watch🎧 Feature: Beverly Hills, 90210 Indecently Exposed🎧 Feature: How To Have A Job In Music And Be Female🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES🎓 "Valedictorian Legal Battle Continues" at UPI🐴 "Sinéad O'Connor Tribute - Jessie Buckley & The RTÉ Concert Orchestra | Troy Live - Culture Night"🗽 Violent Femmes' "American Music" video on YouTube👖 Samantha Fox's "(Hurt Me! Hurt Me!) But The Pants Stay On" video on YouTube🎨 Judy Francis on Illustrators Online🕷️ The Torture And The Desert Spiders website📑 Janet Billig Rich on Wikipedia🏆 "Judy Mareiniss - SAMMY's Hall Of Fame Induction" on YouTube🧑‍🎓 Students Engaged

    43 min
  7. September 1991 Teen Life: Farming, Popularity & Baked Potatoes

    Mar 31

    September 1991 Teen Life: Farming, Popularity & Baked Potatoes

    Tara needs to thank the scissor-happy Sassy reader who sold her the podcast's original copy of the September 1991 issue, because if not for the missing pages (full and partial), we would never have had to acquire another copy of the same issue and find out there were TWO VERSIONS of the cover -- one lipsticked and glossy, one nude-lipped and matte! Stand by as Pam uses her angles to try to get the inside story. While you wait, we can tell you about the issue's Teen Life topics. Karen does a shoddy job trying to make us take up for the beleaguered American farmer. Kim tries to make us chill out about the popular kids. Boys are crying and REALLY defensive about it. And much more! Get into it! 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 September 1991🎧 Feature: Why You Should Lose Sleep Over Farming🎧 Feature: Popular People Are As Insecure As You (And Other Reasons Fabulosity Is Vastly Overrated)🎧 Body Talk🎧 What He Said: Do You Ever Cry?🎧 Help🎧 Stuff You Wrote🎧 Goodbye For Now🎧 Who Else Was Big Here? NOTES🥔 "Potato Vitamin C: Truth, Loss Rates & Smart Cooking Tips" at Alibaba🧫 "Story Of Discovery: Hepatitis C: From Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis To A Cure" at the National Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases🐞 Coccinellidae on Wikipedia❄️ "Why No Two Snowflakes Look Alike" at Montana Public Radio🍑 Catherine Matzig receiving a check from BUTTCON on Instagram🛩️ Tara's Love Story recaps at Decider

    43 min
  8. August 1991 Slumber Party: This, This & That

    Mar 17

    August 1991 Slumber Party: This, This & That

    How health-conscious are we, according to Sassy's August 1991 quiz? Quite, as long as you have no follow-up questions! After sharing our results (and complaints) about that, it's on to your calls on subjects including (but not limited to) Nad's, dry brushing, Little House On The Prairie, Hypercolor t-shirts, Gantt charts, Kevin Coogan -- and, of course, Christmas piles, because 'tis always the season. Grab some vegetables or some weed (or both!) and snuggle into your sleeping bag with us. 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 August 1991🎧 Quiz: How Health Conscious Are You🎧 From The Hotline🎧 Goodbye For Now🎧 No One Asked Pam NOTES🚬 "The Science Is Clear: Marijuana Is Safer Than Tobacco" at Daily Montanan🪦 "Cannabis And Tobacco Smoke Are Not Equally Carcinogenic" at Harm Reduction Journal (via the National Institute Of Health National Library Of Medicine)🫓 "Ask The Dietitian: Fat Intake Range For Teens Is Flexible" at MLive🩹 Get Welly☁️ Cloud Dancer⛈️ "'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response" at John Paul Brammer's newsletter🖍️ Gallagher's "Gross Girls Coloring Book"⚖️ Gallagher's "Justice For Rizzo" print

    45 min
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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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  • Creator
    Tara Ariano, Pamela Ribon and David T. Cole
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    174
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Tara Ariano, Pamela Ribon and David T. Cole
  • Show Website
    Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s

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