November 1988 Pop Culture: Axl, Ricki & A Guy From INXS Who Is Not Michael Hutchence

Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s

What Now? Or should we be pronouncing it "What NOW"? An extraordinarily salty Christina fills the two-page spread by denigrating Jane Wiedlin's animal activism, casting doubt on Jason Gedrick's sincerity when speaking about his mental health issues, and saves her last bit of poison for Remote Control's Marisol, who was not even still ON Remote Control at the time! Watch It once again lets Neill half-ass a review (this time for the Sasha Mitchell vehicle Spike Of Bensonhurst) amid more considered critiques of Imagine, Memories Of Me, and more. Listen Up brings us reviews of Cruel Story Of Youth (not the movie), Joan Armatrading, and Kylie Minogue's undeniably derivative self-titled debut. One To Watch breaks its curse by profiling someone who is still an actual A-List star in our day: one Mr. Brad Pitt. And for our features, Christina settles for INXS...........guitarist Kirk Pengilly before sitting down for some unwarranted body talk with Hairspray's Ricki Lake. Join us to hear it all!

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is November 1988

🎧 In Our Lives

🎧 What Now

🎧 Watch It: Spike Of Bensonhurst

🎧 Watch It: The Prince Of Pennsylvania

🎧 Listen Up: Cruel Story Of Youth

🎧 Listen Up: Joan Armatrading

🎧 Listen Up: Masters Of Ceremony

🎧 Listen Up: Kylie Minogue

🎧 Listen Up: Big Audio Dynamite

🎧 One To Watch: Brad Pitt

🎧 Feature: He’s The One With The Glasses

🎧 Feature: Ricki Lake Has Two And A Half Boyfriends

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 Imagine

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

🏙 The Downtown Chorus on Discogs.com

💉 A Nightmare On Drug Street on YouTube

⌚️ Club MTV's promo for the Swatch Impact Tour on YouTube

🥀 "The Hard Truth About Guns N' Roses" on RollingStone.com

🎞 Marisol Massey on IMDb

🛍 ABC Afterschool Special "Summer Stories: The Mall" at the Paley Center

🌜 Night Moves on YouTube

🚜 Miles From Home on YouTube

👑 The Prince Of Pennsylvania on YouTube

👶 Cruel Story Of Youth's John Are commenting at the Conformreach blog

🎧 The November 1988 Mixtape on Spotify

🍽 The 23 minute Genesis song "Supper's Ready" from 1972 that Pam somehow forgot to put on the Mixtape.

📫 Brad Pitt's episode of 21 Jump Street, "Best Years Of Your Life," on Peacock

🗿 A Stoning In Fulham County (fka The Amish Story) on YouTube

🌞 The Dark Side Of The Sun on YouTube

📷 Ricki Lake on Instagram

🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast

🤔 Imagine on YouTube