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  • August 1991 Teen Life: Gladiators, Boyfriends & A Whole Bunch Of Wives

    August 1991 Teen Life: Gladiators, Boyfriends & A Whole Bunch Of Wives
    Feb 3 2026

    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!

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    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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    57 min
  • July 1991 Slumber Party: Bratmobile, Chaplin & The Deliberate Stranger

    July 1991 Slumber Party: Bratmobile, Chaplin & The Deliberate Stranger
    Jan 20 2026

    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!

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    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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    57 min
  • July 1991 Fashion Etc.: Red, White & Blue (And Gray)

    July 1991 Fashion Etc.: Red, White & Blue (And Gray)
    Jan 6 2026
    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!

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    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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    45 min
  • July 1991 Pop Culture: Chapterhouse, Jamie Walters & Summer Recommendations

    July 1991 Pop Culture: Chapterhouse, Jamie Walters & Summer Recommendations
    Dec 23 2025
    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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    27 min
  • July 1991 Teen Life: Hamburger U, Girls' Self-Esteem & Things You Can Measure In Pints

    July 1991 Teen Life: Hamburger U, Girls' Self-Esteem & Things You Can Measure In Pints
    Dec 9 2025
    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!

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    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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    50 min
  • June 1991 Fashion Etc.: Bikinis, Bandana Prints & The Face Shade 2000

    June 1991 Fashion Etc.: Bikinis, Bandana Prints & The Face Shade 2000
    Nov 25 2025
    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!

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    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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    55 min
  • June 1991 Pop Culture: River, Noni & Munchkin Cats

    June 1991 Pop Culture: River, Noni & Munchkin Cats
    Nov 11 2025
    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.

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    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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    34 min
  • June 1991 Teen Life: Chilling Out, Quitting Church & Going To Antarctica

    June 1991 Teen Life: Chilling Out, Quitting Church & Going To Antarctica
    Oct 28 2025
    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!

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    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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    43 min