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

Summary

Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s

Episode: July 1991 Slumber Party: Bratmobile, Chaplin & The Deliberate Stranger
Date: January 20, 2026
Hosts: Tara Ariano, Pamela Ribon, David T. Cole

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Episode Overview

In this lively slumber party installment, hosts Tara, Pam, and Dave assemble for a deep dive into Sassy’s July 1991 offering—complete with double quizzes, riot grrrl nostalgia, pop culture corrections, listener calls, and comical personal anecdotes. From heated debates on pop culture quizzes and the true nature of Vatican City, to unexpected journeys into the world of Riot Grrrl with Bratmobile, awkward recounts of wedgies and pantsing, and a surprisingly detailed conversation about pooping in Antarctica, the episode delivers both the meaningful and the absurd. As always, the hosts’ chemistry and their lightly sarcastic, nostalgic tone delivers a warm dose of Gen X camaraderie.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Shaking Up the Podcast Format

• The crew discusses possibly retiring or shaking up the diary-style intros, joking about Dave's penchant for self-assigned tasks and Pam's resistance to unnecessary labor.
  • Pam on the diary segments: “Dave is the president of making work for himself and then complaining about it..." (01:45)
  • Tara’s suggestion: "It can go away. It could be dealer's choice for intros, and you just do whatever you want to do." (03:07)

2. Double Quizzes: 'Are You a News Moron?' & 'Are You an Annoyance?'

• The hosts reminisce about and take the June and July 1991 quizzes from Sassy, savoring both their success and failings.
  • Pam shares her historic wrong answer about Burkina Faso:

    “Now I always think of that quiz whenever Burkina Faso comes up in my life, which, I mean, to be honest, it’s not often.” (06:28)

  • Lively debate on pop quizzes vs. scheduled quizzes (04:38); and an extended Vatican City/country conversation (09:18).
  • Dave scores a perfect 19/19 on the news quiz:

    “I did.” (10:36)

  • Tara confesses her quiz-answering strategies:

    "I went up to the teacher, I explained what happened, and everything’s fine now." (08:44)

  • On the “Are You an Annoyance” quiz, Pam scores lowest, to which the quiz’s copy says:

    “You are a delight to be around and a wonderful person in every way, and that makes you very annoying. Hey.” (19:57)

Wedgies, Pantsing, and the Realities of Teen Antics

• The hosts dissect the mythology and reality of the wedgie.
  • Dave: “My theory is nobody gets wedgies. It’s just something that happens in pop culture.” (17:17)
  • Tara: “I have been wedgied. [...] I hung out with boys a lot, like wedgies.” (18:53)

Movie Theater Etiquette and Alamo Drafthouse

• Discussion about the end of in-person slips versus mobile ordering and the etiquette of talking during movies.
  • Pam on movie phone ordering: “Because the point is, I can’t know what they’re doing with their phone. They could be texting or they could be asking for a drink.” (14:33)

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3. Listener Calls: Riot Grrrl, Chaplin, and Gen-X Deep Cuts

Bratmobile and Riot Grrrl Bands

• Two callers correct the hosts: Allison and Molly, creators of the Girl Germs zine, were in Bratmobile.
  • Callers celebrate Bratmobile’s legacy, including one’s humblebrag having met the band.

    “One of the members of Bratmobile won an Oscar for best documentary…I just wanted to lay out that. Do a little humble bragging because I met them.” (24:44, 25:04)

  • Pam, candid: “The Riot girl bands are a big blind spot for me. Sorry. So I didn’t know any of that, but thank you for informing us.” (26:02)
• Discussion of Taylor Swift as a modern pop icon and generational divides in pop knowledge. (26:00)

Aleka’s Attic: River Phoenix’s Band

• River Phoenix Correspondent Megan calls to say:

  “Nobody wants a 30-year reunion album. No, not even me. Aleka’s Attic is worse than the musical contributions of Robert Downey Jr.” (26:50)

Chaplin and Silent Movie Confusion

• Listener’s anecdote about a friend believing Charlie Chaplin had no ability to speak.

  “I didn’t know he could talk. And so then I had to explain to her that just the movies were silent but Charlie Chaplin was not.” (33:08)

Fashion Context and Jolene Cream Bleach

• Listener Jenny reminisces/laments about upper lip cream bleach:

  “I’m smelling it now as I tell you about it, the suppressed memory…” (43:40)

Nail File Sensory Triggers

• Caller draws solidarity with another Sassy listener about hatred of emery boards and frosted glass sounds.

  “All I gotta say. Bye.” (46:48)

Helicopter Phobias and the Antarctic Poop Protocol

• Amy Turner, former Sassy writer, calls to recount her article about going to Antarctica—“we had to bring our poop back with us…very close call. No, blindness is a real thing. I was very grateful to not die in Antarctica.” (34:53)

  • Pam (delighted): "I'll tell Amy to call back with the shit." (37:30)
  • Extended dialogue about Dave's terror during a Hawaii helicopter flight—“Really didn’t think I was going to come back from that one. [...] I was so happy to be on the ground. I was shaking at the end of it.” (37:51–38:59)

Migraines, Medications, and the Apocalypse

• Kelly from Rhode Island asks Tara about cold caps for migraines; Tara describes her regimen and stockpiling, and jokes about medicine in the zombie apocalypse:
  • “If I’m raiding drugstores, I’m probably going for opioids. I’m just skipping over resitryptan personally…” (51:15–52:58)

Slide Whistles, Toy Watch Parties, and Social Rituals

• Sarah from Evanston calls about handing out train whistles at Halloween; Dave contrasts with his own quest for superior train whistle quality and describes themed watch parties involving cartoon engineer hats.
  • “You would hand them an engineer’s hat and a train whistle so they could come in and enjoy themselves. And by enjoy themselves, I mean have forced fun.” (55:19)

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4. Pop Culture, True Crime, and Mark Harmon’s Ted Bundy

• Megan calls in about The Deliberate Stranger (1986) obsession—
  • “The 1986 two-part TV movie The Deliberate Stranger starring people’s sexiest Nana lives Mark Harmon. Ted Bundy is something that love to talk about…” (41:15)
  • Tara shares: “If you want to watch Deliberate Stranger…many, many copies. I’ll link that. Dave will yell at me if I put an okay dot are you clip in the show notes. But if you’re brave enough, you can find the full movie there as well to stream and earmuffs Pam, you can find it if you know how to sail under a skull and crossbones…” (43:33)

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• On podcast labor:
  Pam: "Let's step outside the ... you know, the framing device of the diary. Dave is the president of making work for himself..." (01:45)

• On generational disconnects:
  Pam, re: Taylor Swift: “Because I don't know any of her moving music either. I know ‘Shake it Off’ and that's kind of it.” (26:00)

• On Vatican City:
  Tara: "I mean, the building is a country? The building is a country." (09:21)
  Dave (mocking): “Do you think Vatican City is one giant building, like from Lord of the Rings?” (09:26)

• On quiz results:
  Pam: “I got a seven...The person who scores this low has absolutely no peeving qualities...and that makes you very annoying. Hey.” (19:57)

• On nerdy rituals:
  Pam: “Did you have no meetings at work this week? Did you miss them and wish you could listen in on someone else's? You're welcome.” (03:50)

• On bodily function humor:
  Dave (on public bathroom chaos): “This is just carnage. You turn off a luminol and it’s just fucking Jackson Pollock baiting everywhere.” (20:46)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Show format/diary banter: 01:26-04:14
• June 1991 Quiz – Are You a News Moron?: 04:14-12:13
• Vatican City as a country/catholic confusion: 09:14-10:07
• Quiz results (news moron, annoyance): 12:13-21:25
• Wedgies, pantsing, and pop culture: 17:01-19:54
• Movie theater etiquette/Alamo Drafthouse: 13:58-15:31
• Listener calls – Bratmobile & Riot Grrrl: 23:50-26:02
• Aleka’s Attic/River Phoenix verdict: 26:50-27:41
• Chaplin and silent movie misconceptions: 33:01-34:46
• Antarctica adventure & Dave’s helicopter phobia: 34:53-39:49
• Jolene Cream Bleach/teen beauty rituals: 43:40-45:39
• Emery board/frosted glass sensory aversion: 46:48-48:07
• Migraine treatments, medicine stockpiles: 49:45-52:58
• Slide whistles and watch party hats: 53:37-56:22
• The Deliberate Stranger/Mark Harmon: 41:15-43:33

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Conclusion

The hosts' rapport and nostalgic lens provide a rich, inviting window into early-’90s adolescent pop culture, magazine lore, and growing up weird and wordy. From obscure band trivia and Sassy staff antics to personal health hacks and the philosophy of forced fun, July 1991’s slumber party episode is quintessential Listen to Sassy—funny, meandering, and full of lived Gen X wit.

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For more on the show or to leave a voicemail, visit Listen to Sassy’s site or call 720-SASSY-GO.

Next episode: Teen life topics in the August 1991 issue—including surviving long-distance relationships and American Gladiators.

Transcript

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[Dave]

Have you ever tried putting with a wedgie? A wedgie?

[Pam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Yeah. Oh, it's great. It's great. All the pros are doing it. Would you. Would you like me to show you?

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Is June 1991, but also July 1991. It's a little confusing. That's because you've been on vacation and it was great. So great. You didn't put anything in your diary. This was nice. You could get used to not doing a diary all the time. Anyways, something to think about.

[Pam]

It's time to listen to Sassy. Can I just say, let's step outside the. You know, the framing device of the diary. Dave is the president of making work for himself and then complaining about it because the whole diary thing was your idea to begin with and we could stop.

[Dave]

Well, I had plans to kill her off by now, but you guys were like, I don't know. It's a little dark.

[Pam]

I'm not. True. No.

[Tara]

I've tried other things. I've read from my own diary. We've done offshoots. I thought it'd be more like, let's talk about the current events. But meanwhile, we're in this fake land with these fake families and an Orange Julius.

[Dave]

I don't know what you guys are talking about. This is all real. And she went on vacation. She's just having a crisis of Confidence. Or maybe she's just busy. Or maybe somebody put the wrong. It's time for this person to do the intro story. Because they've done the last three in a row.

[Pam]

Right.

[Dave]

Sorry. And they were caught unaware.

[Tara]

Look, it's been 81 years.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Pam]

Anything could happen in our house. Something could. We could tragically have a house fire that burns everything except burns nothing except the diary, you know?

[Dave]

Well, I'm still saying diary. Is death still on table?

[Tara]

It could go away. It can go away. It could be dealer's choice for intros.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Tara]

And you just do whatever you want to do.

[Pam]

Yes.

[Tara]

A new world.

[Pam]

Yeah. Who do you think you're going to piss off? Your boss? Like, just stop doing it.

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[Pam]

The demand. You're not going to get fired.

[Tara]

You two had to talk me out of these mixtapes that were taking up an extraordinary amount of my time. And you were like, pam, nobody's listening to these.

[Pam]

Well, I never said that, but, I mean, I wasn't.

[Tara]

That's what I heard. Nobody was listening to these. I moved over to Apple. I came back to Spotify. No, I mean, if the.

[Pam]

The.

[Tara]

To the two people who might have been listening.

[Pam]

Thanks.

[Tara]

And the rest of you were like, what was that? It was a short situation. Came to my senses.

[Pam]

Did you have no meetings at work this week? Did you miss them and wish that you could listen in on someone else's? You're welcome. We had to.

[Tara]

Suzuk, welcome back. This is our State of the Union. We have one meeting a year and it's the first episode of.

[Dave]

Guys, we didn't read the podcast minutes. This. Oh, everything up to now has been null and void.

[Pam]

Oh, no.

[Dave]

You gotta follow Robert's rules of order.

[Pam]

All right, shall we begin properly? Yeah, sure. We've got two quizzes because we took a slumber party off. So we've got the June 1991 quiz and the July quiz from the same year. Let's start with. Are you a news moron? Both of these are very confrontational. Are you a news moron? Are you an annoyance? What? What have you heard? It's Quiz writer is what I would.

[Dave]

Like to know before we get into it, when did quiz turned into pop quiz? Yeah, that's happened recently.

[Pam]

It has.

[Dave]

I didn't notice when it first happened, but I noticed when we're doing these two that it's Pop Quiz now.

[Pam]

Yeah, there's the. There was the one. How well do you know the sassy staff? And then there was how well do you know mtv? And now here we are with News Moron.

[Dave]

Is it really a pop quiz if you know exactly when it's going to be on schedule every month of your life? Yeah.

[Pam]

I don't know. Oh, you mean the title. I see. Yeah, I thought you meant the format. Okay, sorry.

[Dave]

You don't.

[Tara]

No, it's more. It's more school oriented. I feel like it's. I like it. It's a pop quiz. Comes up wherever in the. Of course I like it. You've met me. I do.

[Dave]

Hey, Pam, where's that character we heard before the show?

[Tara]

Oh, this is.

[Pam]

All right, here is Tornado and six and same voice you were doing.

[Tara]

I don't know if it is. I don't remember it. These things, if you don't hang on to them, they're go.

[Dave]

What? You know what? I'm just gonna say it right now. I'm not gonna edit this podcast. This episode is going straight, straight, straight to listeners ears.

[Pam]

All right. Brought to you by Lunacy. So I may not be a news moron spoiler. But I guess I am a noticing headlines moron. My question is that I chose to discuss number five. Margaret Thatcher is the prime minister of England. True or false? I said true. It was, in fact, false. And I would just like to say at the time, I probably knew that she wasn't, but I didn't remember exactly when her term ended.

[Tara]

So I. Yeah, I also got that wrong. I definitely got that one wrong. There were a couple where I was like, I know it now, but I definitely didn't know it then.

[Pam]

Yeah. Oh, I remember there was Burkina Faso is a country. The Prime Minister of India. Spanish seafood dish. A territory of the USSR. I got that one wrong at the time in 1991, and I never forgot. Now I always think of that quiz whenever Burkina Faso comes up in my life, which, I mean, to be honest, it's not often.

[Dave]

What did you answer originally? What would have you.

[Pam]

I think I said prime Minister of India, probably.

[Dave]

I was just curious if you went the food dish, and then I would ask you how exactly would that food dish be news? Is it that right?

[Pam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Holy. Have you tried.

[Tara]

I mean, that's what our news is like today. These five ways to prepare. Burkina Faso.

[Dave]

Yeah, we got it at a Spanish restaurant. Everybody had their own little dish of it. It was great. We shared.

[Pam]

All right.

[Tara]

Number 16. What is Puerto Rico's status? And I just thought, wouldn't it be neat if people even knew that yet now? Yeah, people are just gonna get that one wrong all the time.

[Pam]

Yeah.

[Tara]

So that's why I picked it. I'm. What about you, Dave?

[Dave]

I chose number 18. The Emperor of Japan's name is. And there are a bunch of options, including the correct Hirohito. But C is Goldberg. Exactly. Made me laugh. Emperor Goldberg, Demigod of the sun. Here he.

[Pam]

Shiro Goldberg instead of Sushi. All right, well, I did well on this one. I got 16 out of 19. The ones I got wrong were the aforementioned Margaret Thatcher. Question number three. Which was which of the following countries did not fight with the Allies in the Persian Gulf War? And I said Egypt, but it was Jordan.

[Dave]

Yep.

[Pam]

And then the last one I got Wrong was number 12. What country, according to its constitution, is not allowed to wage an offensive war? And I fully guessed Thailand. In fact, the answer is C, which is Japan. Jam's all over this thing.

[Dave]

Goldberg's. Goldberg Wars. Yeah, that's right.

[Tara]

I. I also picked Thailand on that one. That just sounded to me more Thailandy. Sure, let's do that. Yeah, I got. I got 14. Right. Because I went ahead and said, oh, I saw that. I knew that. I thought it said United nations located in New York. Like, I just. My brain turned it wrong. So I was like, I'll give myself credit. And I went up to the teacher, I explained what happened, and everything's fine now.

[Pam]

We figured it out.

[Tara]

The Vatican as a country feels like a trick question, and I got it wrong.

[Dave]

Why is that?

[Pam]

Not if you're Catholic.

[Tara]

I mean, the building is a country. The building is a country.

[Pam]

No, it's like.

[Tara]

Explain this to me.

[Dave]

Wait, do you think. Wait, hang on, hang on. Do you think Vatican City is one giant building, like from Lord of the Rings?

[Tara]

I thought Vatican City was in. Was in.

[Dave]

Wait, there's a building. There's a huge building. It's a giant fortress on the hill. And inside this building is Vatican City.

[Tara]

No, I thought Vatican City is in a country. Is it a country?

[Pam]

Yeah.

[Tara]

And then how is the Vatican a country? Isn't the Vatican a building in Vatican City or a conglomerate of a concept of a church in Vatican City in a country? It's not.

[Pam]

It's a city state.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Pam]

It'S my doctor's calling.

[Tara]

I'm gonna take it. Give me one second, please. I'm so sorry.

[Dave]

Oh, great. This is. And I have already said we're not editing the podcast.

[Pam]

Well, she's on mute. We can just talk amongst ourselves.

[Dave]

She's turning up a serious case of not knowing anything about the Catholic Church. You're going to have to do 12 Hail Marys and I don't know. Something with beads.

[Pam]

All right, well, you're smart. Did you get 19 out of 19?

[Dave]

I did.

[Pam]

Wow.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Pam]

Good job.

[Dave]

100%. I was. The Margaret Thatcher was the trickiest one.

[Pam]

Well, I didn't want to research it.

[Dave]

Mm.

[Pam]

Because that felt like cheating.

[Dave]

And I was unsure about the Summer Olympics. I was like, I pretty sure it was Barcelona.

[Pam]

That's what I was. I wasn't sure if it was Barcelona or Sydney, too, but I got that one right also.

[Dave]

Yeah. Well, you know, this is right in our wheelhouse.

[Pam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

You know, becoming aware of news. Stop being so selfish. Playing with toys.

[Pam]

Yes.

[Dave]

The hell's going on with Pam? What do you think's wrong with her? Calling to say, I'm gonna say you've had a new pair of boobs on her back?

[Pam]

Well, I thought it would be something related to one of her supplements. You have a.

[Dave]

You have an over abundance of bonafide.

[Pam]

Yes, bonafide.

[Dave]

I was trying to throw an extra pair of boobs on your back.

[Tara]

I claim hipaa, and it's none of your business.

[Pam]

Is everything okay?

[Tara]

Hey. Everything's fine. They wanted to make sure a prescription went through.

[Dave]

Gotta call her best customer, make sure she's okay. Or probably not okay because that, you.

[Tara]

Know, my punch card's full, so they had to see, like, do you want to bring it in, or should we send you another one?

[Dave]

You get a free medicine.

[Tara]

I do get a free medicine. I have to go back on Monday for more.

[Dave]

It'll make you feel good, Pam. Don't worry about it. It'll start or stop your nails growing. Whatever you want.

[Tara]

Maybe not even gonna let you know what's going on with his body right now.

[Pam]

But it's fine.

[Tara]

Things are good. Things are on the up and up.

[Dave]

We discovered I got perfect. And I am not a news moron.

[Pam]

No, I think none of us are these morons.

[Dave]

Yep. All right.

[Tara]

Perfect.

[Dave]

Yep. First time I've ever gotten perfect.

[Pam]

I'm curious. This is what's actually going to end the podcast.

[Dave]

This is why I don't have. This is why I don't have time for the diary. My head's jam full of news facts.

[Tara]

That's why you don't know what a uterus does, because you're busy putting Vatican City on your map.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Pam]

July 1991. Pop quiz is, are you an annoyance? This is how annoying I am. How long have you been hanging onto that one? He's been waiting all day. All day. All right. Are you fond of talking loudly in movie theaters? A yes. And everyone should be grateful for my running cinematic commentary. B, it's not a regular trait, but I've done it. C, no way. That's strictly for subhumans. And of course I said, see, Duh. But I also just wanted to bring this up because if you've been watching the entertainment news, if you care about the movie theater experience, you may have read a story last week about how the Alamo Drafthouse chain is phasing out putting up slips to order, you know, refills of your drinks or whatever else you want from the kitchen at your seat. And sorry for my Alamo privilege, but that is a thing that you can do at the movies here or wherever Alamo is. Maybe in your town that you can. They have waiters that come through and they will take your order, but starting in February, they're switching to mobile ordering. So you have to get out your phone and use the app to order. And they're like, this will improve the experience, I guess, because it means the waiter only comes out once to drop your whatever off instead of twice to, like, pick up the slip as well. But I. Every time you go to Alamo, when you get a ticket, they will afterwards send a survey to ask how your experience was. And I never have filled that one of these out. But now I'm gonna do it every time between now and February. Just a real Johnny letter. I object. Just letting them know I have spent.

[Dave]

Hundreds and thousands of dollars at your establishment over the year, and I feel like I am one of your best customers.

[Pam]

I didn't say any of that. Said, I hope you will reconsider this because it's going to ruin it. Because every time someone does it in February, I'm going to start snitching whether they're ordering or not. Because the point is, I can't know what they're doing with their phone. They could be texting or they could be asking for a drink.

[Dave]

I'm not going with you in that case.

[Tara]

Well, that's how it is out here when the non Alamo ones. And you know what? You end up having a person because you're like, it's not going through.

[Pam]

Like, I'm asking for Sprite, but it keeps.

[Tara]

And then they have to take your phone in the dark and go, oh, I can't. Yeah, it's like, it's the problem with the system.

[Pam]

And it's like, we don't have a.

[Tara]

Really good service in here. So you end up actually having a conversation with a person. This is crazy. However, also, I'M mostly talking to, say, Tara. That is not your answer to number four. Your answer to number four involves an Alamo Drafthouse where they told us you can't talk during Crossroads. And we were like, what are we fucking doing here?

[Pam]

That was a movie party. You're allowed to be annoying at the movie party because it was Crossroads.

[Tara]

We have done it at many movies.

[Pam]

Oh, we have done it at many.

[Tara]

Movies in a row with all our friends.

[Pam]

We didn't yell anything back. All we did was laugh at things that were not intended to be funny but were, in fact, hilarious.

[Tara]

Yeah, Honey, honey, honey was a full on MST3K experience for MBTV, if I remember correctly. Okay, fine. It's not a regular trait, but I've done it. Is, in fact. Please adjust your score accordingly. I picked number 13. How frequently do you complain about things that are completely out of your control, like the weather or getting a flat tire on your bike? A, well, everybody does it from time to time. Like once a day. B, I do this hourly. I admit it. C, I never do. How inconsiderate that would be to those around me. What is this question? This is small talk. What are we talking about? It's annoying to be like, the traffic was crazy, the weather was nuts. What? Look at you.

[Pam]

I think there's a difference between complaining about something and just commenting on it. I think the complaining is the part that's annoying.

[Tara]

Well, I complain about this question because.

[Pam]

Okay.

[Tara]

Because we do complain about things that are completely out, beyond our control.

[Pam]

Yeah. And I think they're saying it's annoying. It's fine to do it now and then.

[Dave]

I thought you were saying you're okay. Spider.

[Tara]

I'm confused. I guess I'll work on this. I guess I'll work on this.

[Dave]

Number 15. How many wedgies have you given in your life? A, none. Ever be a couple? C, Countless trillions. Has anybody here experienced a wedgie, given a wedgie, been on the receiving end of a wedgie, or have heard of anybody actually getting a wedgie? Because my theory is nobody guess Wedgies. It's just something that happens in pop culture.

[Pam]

I've never given a wedgie. Yeah, I'm sure I haven't gotten a wedgie, like, by. By a bully or whatever, which is the implication here. However, in my marching band years old, for giggles, there was a vogue of, like, pantsing people. That was, like, a thing that. That became. Yeah, I mean, you know, there. There was a moment for a couple of months when, like, you were always on your guard about being Pantsed? If you're a boy. And have I pants people? I sure have.

[Dave]

Well, wait, is wedgie an escalation of panting, or is it the other way around?

[Tara]

A wedgie hurts.

[Pam]

A wedgie hurts. But getting pants, you might accidentally. Accidentally pull underwear down as well as pants.

[Dave]

Did you tack your underwear just to be safe?

[Pam]

No, I don't think I ever got pants. But I was a pantser, right? So I answered this question with the pants pants things in mind.

[Dave]

It sounds like it could be about pulling down trousers, but it also sounds like it could be the tanks of World War II.

[Pam]

I don't think. I don't think. Normally you refer to yourself as a.

[Dave]

Pantser, but listen to Sassy became a coffee table book podcast. So gradually, nobody noticed. Okay, well, I mean, this answer is never. I've never given, never received. But also, I kind of don't believe wedgies are as big of a thing as the pop culture industrial complex wants us to believe it is.

[Tara]

I have been wedgied.

[Dave]

Really?

[Pam]

Really?

[Dave]

Yeah, but you and your sex Capades.

[Pam]

I was thinking you and your sister are close enough in age, but not by your sister.

[Dave]

Wait, was it a medical procedure?

[Tara]

I eat wedgies. You have them with a wedgie salad and your toast to have a nice wedgie salad. You know, you're surround. A bunch of goofball dorks. I hung out with boys a lot like wedgies. You know, it's like they grab all of it and yank and.

[Dave]

Okay, but here's the thing. Can I predict what the Pam difference is here?

[Pam]

Sure.

[Dave]

You wrote love notes on the back of your underwear so when they gave you wedgies, they would have something to read. I like you, Curtis.

[Pam]

Not Curtis.

[Dave]

Yeah, I don't know.

[Pam]

Curtis would never pan Curt.

[Dave]

Kurt's a good Texan name with a K, Maybe.

[Tara]

Yeah, it's the love interest. She's not denying why girls are weird. Thanks for reading my novels, Dave.

[Dave]

She's not denying it.

[Pam]

All right, I got a seven, putting me in the lowest category of annoying. The person who scores this low has absolutely no peeving qualities. Dave is not convinced. You do not experience public eruptions from any bodily orifices. You're unfailingly polite and courteous. You always wipe the pee sprinkles from the seat. I don't, because I sit on it like a normal person. You do not whine. You are a delight to be around and a wonderful person in every way, and that makes you very annoying. Hey.

[Dave]

I was just. No, I was laughing at the image of some just walking into the bathroom, pants already down, just already peeing before they even get to the toilet.

[Pam]

Cause they got pants.

[Dave]

This is just carnage. You turn off a luminol and it's just fucking Jackson Pollock baiting everywhere.

[Tara]

Just pull the pee, Dave, what did you get?

[Dave]

I think I had a five.

[Pam]

A five.

[Dave]

A five. And I think I really deserve a four because I think one of them.

[Pam]

Is a little silly, which.

[Dave]

Well, I mean, sometimes you just burp. Sometimes you're like, oh, excuse me.

[Pam]

Yeah, well, that's unfortunate, but sometimes it's sometimes necessary.

[Dave]

Okay. I don't really, but.

[Pam]

Oh, you object to. It's not even unfortunate.

[Dave]

I just didn't read it that way. I guess I just read it like, you know, it seems sarcastic to me. So. Okay, but I'll take the five. Okay. So five, five, five.

[Pam]

Okay.

[Tara]

And then what do you think I got, Dave?

[Dave]

12.

[Tara]

That's what I thought you would think. I got nine, which is.

[Dave]

I think you fudged the numbers most.

[Pam]

Maybe.

[Tara]

I even at one point said I'm a B and a C, and it only gave me one point. So I tried. I tried to get as annoying as I am, apparently.

[Pam]

13.

[Tara]

I should have had way more points. So I'll go ahead and give myself more points and move myself into most everyone is an irritant from time to time. So don't take it so hard if you fell into this category. But let's face it, you can be a bit of a pain in the butt. You're probably a little bit oblivious to this tendency, but it's true. Why not attempt to be spelled?

[Pam]

Its no apostrophe, thank you.

[Tara]

Why not attempt to be margin? Why not attempt to be marginally less of a weenie? By following our helpful hints, barge in a little less often. Think before you grab. Keep your nasality to a minimum. Don't you feel more pleasant already? That's a real annoying answer.

[Dave]

Think before you grab. Feels like an apocalyptic T shirt slug.

[Tara]

I. You know, I didn't get all the bad habits because I didn't have elastic. I didn't have braces, so. Or retainer. So I probably might have gotten three and four. So that's why I'm fine. Moving into the you know you're annoying category because I know I'm annoying. I know I'm annoying.

[Pam]

Everyone's a little annoying, really. There it is.

[Tara]

There we go.

[Dave]

There we go. All right, time to move on.

[Tara]

It just happens sometimes.

[Pam]

Who could help it?

[Dave]

Oops.

[Pam]

Oops. Oopsies. I borped my tummy air Came up.

[Dave]

Mouth bubbles. Okay, let's move on.

[Pam]

Let's move on to our calls. And I. Normally we do them in the order of our episodes, so teen life, pop culture, fashion, et cetera. But I flipped them this month because of two different calls from the same person who. So that we needed to have them in order. Okay, so we're starting with pop culture. Let's hear clip number one. And this person didn't give their name, but they called back immediately afterwards and then explained. So go ahead.

[Caller]

Hello. Listen to Sassy. I was listening to the June 1991 pop culture episode, and you mentioned the Zine Girl Terms. And I just want to say Allison and Molly are members of one of the best Riot gold bands of all time, Bratmobile. And I don't think that was mentioned, and I just wanted to be pedantic. I'm sorry. But, yeah, Bratmobile Rule. One of the members of Bratmobile won an Oscar for best documentary. I forgot which one, but she won an Oscar, so that's cool. And, yeah, their song Girl Germs is a really good song. And their song Love Sing is also great. That whole album, Potty Mouth, highly recommend it. Bratmobile rules up there with Bikini Kill as the great Rio go band of the 90s. And. Yeah. And thanks.

[Dave]

Wait, is there a band called Zucchini Kill?

[Pam]

Bikini Kill.

[Dave]

Oh, because there's a. There's a vegan. No, because there's a vegan bakery here called Zucchini Kill.

[Pam]

Oh, that's cute.

[Tara]

That is cute.

[Dave]

Okay, I just misheard it, and it was Brat Mobile with an R. Correct.

[Pam]

Yes. Let's go ahead and play the next call because that's. It's about the same thing.

[Caller]

Hi, listen to Sapphire Heather calling. I called near your very first episode. I am the cocaine queen of Innisfail, Alberta. I'm just calling in reference to the Girl Germs zine that was featured in your recent Fatty Listen to Thassy podcast. Alice and Molly are actually the founders of the band Bratmobile, so they are actually on tour again. And I know this because I met them recently as my friend Rose Melberg. And Boss plays guitar with that band currently. So I do have another story about Rose Melberg coming up because her band Packet Trap was reviewed in Sassy magazine. But I am going to wait for that episode. But anyway, just wanted to lay out that. Do a little humble bragging because I met them. And thanks.

[Dave]

Bye.

[Tara]

One of the members of Brat Mobile was a Sassy intern, according to the Internet.

[Pam]

That would explain how Girl Germs got in probably.

[Dave]

We're through the looking glass here, people.

[Pam]

Yeah, I'll. I'll go ahead and say I was. I. That the Riot girl bands are a big blind spot for me. Sorry. So I, I didn't know any of that, but thank you for informing us. I. I know all the names of the bands, but I did not know who was in them or that any of them went on to win Oscars. So thank you for informing us. I appreciate that. But also, speaking of my blind spots, Mark Blankenship, our friend, was visiting last weekend. We went to see the Housemaid and at the end of it, the song came up and he said, oh, they probably spent a quarter of their budget on this song. And I was like, why? Who is it? He went, taylor Swift. Because I don't know any of her moving music either. I know Shake it off. And that's kind of it. Next, let's hear clip three.

[Caller]

Pam, Dave, Tara, it's Megan, your unofficial River Phoenix correspondent. And I can vouch that Alec is addict.

[Pam]

Nobody.

[Caller]

Nobody wants a 30 year reunion album. No, not even me. Not even me. Nobody wants this. Alec is Attic is worse than the musical contributions of Robert Downey Jr. And how I Met yout Mother guy, whatever his name is. It's worse. It's worse than that. Nobody should listen to it. As somebody who's listened to every single, every single piece of Aleca's Attic music, nobody should listen to it. Kevin Coom Forever.

[Pam]

The How I Met yout Mother guy she's referring to is Josh Radner. I assumed that Dave was going to look up the clip that he is constantly torturing us with on Extra Hot Grade.

[Dave]

I haven't played in a while. No, let's be fair.

[Pam]

You true, not constantly, but Josh Ragnar's.

[Dave]

Auditory Experience, the album Red.

[Pam]

Oof. Speaking of Taylor Swift, thank you for also educating us again. Alika's Attic. Not Alika's Attic, which I'm sure is how I said it when we talked about it. But yeah, thanks for confirming it is not worth seeking out. I didn't think it was, but it's good to know for sure. Let's hear call number four.

[Caller]

Hi, it's Courtney from New York. I am an Episode one listener and when you talked about Odyssey of the Mind, I had to pause my workout, pause the episode and call you because I did Odyssey of the Mind in middle school and it was a team of six girls. We were 12 and 13. And our odyssey of the Mind was based on the obscenity trial about Ulysses A book that we all attempted to read and absorbed none of. And we decided to build a bridge for some reason, something that had to do with censorship and people meeting across time. So we built this bridge in the garage, the unventilated garage of one of the girls I was on the team with. And to give the bridge some texture, we used this spray that people use for, like, insulation foam. So we all got really, really high as we were doing this, and I think this is the first time most of us actually got really, really high. Anyway, I think we placed or even won, but it was a really fun experience, and it's a great story. And Odyssey of the Mind, aside from the weird, you know, drugging part of it, was actually a really good experience. I think kids should do it more, especially in the age where they're all addicted to smartphones. So, anyway, thanks, guys. Love the pod.

[Pam]

Since we talked about Little Man Tape, which is how Odyssey the Mind came up, it was added to Prime Video right after we talked about it on the podcast. So it's leaving in 15 days as of this recording on the 16th, so presumably at the end of the month. So if you've never seen it, check it out.

[Dave]

Get your affairs in order.

[Pam]

Get your affairs in order. I do find it funny that the caller was like, I think it was the first time any of us got high. Like, oh, really? A bunch of kids doing Odyssey of the Mind weren't partying every weekend. And I include myself in that, too. I'm obviously a bigger nerd than anyone. I just finished saying I didn't know who Taylor Swift was, or they were like, I know who she is. Didn't know what her music sounded.

[Tara]

It's okay.

[Pam]

It was for school, right?

[Tara]

We can't get in trouble.

[Pam]

It was first goal. Obviously, it was worth it if they won or placed so they can't remember.

[Tara]

They were so up.

[Pam]

Insulation foam. All right, next.

[Michelle]

This is Michelle from Eugene, Oregon. I've been listening to. Listen to Sassy for a while now. I've been catching up on all the old episodes, and I've made it to April 1991 pop culture. And I just wanted to call and tell you about the new Kids on the block book. For $39.95.

[Pam]

I had that book.

[Michelle]

It was totally worth every penny. It was given to me, I think, for my 13th birthday, which was in March of 1991, so not her pennies. And the book was enormous. It was huge. The photos, they were, I don't know, kind of artsy, gritty, like a Little edgy. But the main thing that really stuck out to me was that there was a full two page spread of all five of the guys in a like a locker room shower type situation. Not, I think there might have been a bare bun situation, but I, I can't really remember. But to 13 year old me, that was the best gift I could have possibly been given and way more important to me than a pair of jeans. All right, thank you. I can't wait to catch up to you in real time. I think I'm almost there.

[Rocket Money Advertiser]

Bye.

[Dave]

Was that $39 back then or was that like what it goes for now?

[Pam]

No, I think we were all stunned that it was 39.95 at the time.

[Dave]

I just did the math. This $95 today, adjusted for inflation.

[Pam]

Wow, that's crazy.

[Dave]

That's a lot of money.

[Pam]

Yeah, it is.

[Dave]

Yeah. $40 was the going rate for a video game console cartridge back then. So you could get a copy of Looping. And don't, by the way, if I can travel back in time and tell David T. Cole something, don't buy looping. It's very boring game. That's a lot of money.

[Pam]

Yeah, but to the caller's point about it was more valuable than a pair of jeans. I mean, speaking of people getting pants looking at that two page spread of the guys naked in a locker room. Anyway, let's hear our last pop culture call.

[Caller]

Hey everybody, I just listened to the episode where you talked about the movie chaplain and I'm not going to give my name because this is kind of a little bit of a mean story, but I'm going to tell it anyway because it just makes me laugh.

[Dave]

More of this. Seriously, if you've got a mean story, don't worry about it. We'll keep your amenity.

[Caller]

Many, many years ago, I was watching TV with my brother's girlfriend when an advertisement for this movie came on and we watched the trailer for it and when the trailer finished, my brother's girlfriend looked at me and said, I didn't know he could talk. And so then I had to explain to her that just the movies were silent but Charlie Chaplin was not. And yeah, that was a fun conversation. So still, 30 years later, whenever anybody mentions this movie, I get a little chuckle over that conversation. Conversation in which I had explained to someone that the difference between silent movies and mute people. So anyway, thought that story would give you a little chuckle. Hope you guys have a great day. Love the podcast. Thanks so much. Bye.

[Dave]

That woman is now her sister in.

[Caller]

Law.

[Pam]

So that's why she still has to keep her anonymous.

[Dave]

I think I would have world built that backwards to, like, at a certain point in time, the world did not have sound.

[Pam]

Right, Right.

[Dave]

Like the dinosaurs did not roar. They're just like. That was good podcasting, by the way. That was me opening my mouth.

[Pam]

I mean, I'm sure every parent has asked, when did the world become color, if any? As soon as a kid has seen an old, old footage in black and white, they've wondered that. Okay, okay, maybe just dumb kids. I don't know. I don't think I did, but who knows? I don't even know.

[Dave]

You are a news moron.

[Pam]

No. Hey, just because I'm not as little a news moron as you, 16 out of 19 is still an A. Okay. Congratulations, Dave. You're a news genius.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Pam]

All right, let's move on to the teen life calls. The first one was going to sound very Familiar to Pam.

[Caller]

Clip 7 hello, this is Amy Turner. I worked for Sassy and went to Antarctica and wrote an article, Arctic Hallo about it. And it was one of the highlights of my life. All of it, all of the above. And I just remember bringing the Sassy magazines to take pictures with me and the Sassies all the way from New York to the bottom of the earth on many flights. And it was an incredible experience. And we had to bring our poop back with us. And we flew in a plane, a DC10 that had no pressurization, so it was like, not pressurized. Maybe it was. We flew, I don't know, 6,000ft above, above the water as we watched the icebergs form. Very cool, very cold. And then when we flew back, we had sled dogs with us because this Norwegian group were retracing the steps of Amundsen's 1911 journey to the Pole. It was all cuckoo crazy. So what else? I almost got lost in a snowstorm with my cousins. We had a very, very, very close call. No, blindness is a real thing. I was very grateful to not die in Antarctica. Check. It was also the quietest place I've ever been. Like, to hear no sound. I know it doesn't make any sense, but that was pretty incredible. And it was amazing to have Sassy on my side to write about my experience. So thanks for your podcast. All you're doing to keep Sassy in our. In our collective memories. And there you go. See you in Antarctica.

[Dave]

Pam, did you tell her not to talk about the poop?

[Pam]

I. That was my first question. I wanted to know more about, like, we had to bring our poop back in a bag. Say more like wrap every piece.

[Dave]

I like to talk about a little toilet Strat.

[Pam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Especially when they're at the bottom of the world.

[Pam]

Yeah.

[Tara]

I'll tell Amy to call back with the shit. I can only imagine what Dave would be like in a non pressurized open flight vehicle at 6,000ft above the Earth. He would be buried in sled dogs just hanging onto them.

[Pam]

Dave.

[Tara]

Dave, is this not your nightmare?

[Dave]

Yeah. Are you talking about the helicopter flight in Hawaii where I. I sure am. I sure almost pissed and myself 20 times. So scared.

[Pam]

So scared.

[Tara]

It was so unexpected how scared you were.

[Dave]

Really didn't think I was going to come back from that one. It was so bumpy. And there were so many open windows and doors that should be shut and padlocked so that you won't fall out.

[Tara]

And I was pregnant.

[Pam]

And then we were, like, really as.

[RealReal Advertiser]

Scared as you were.

[Tara]

And Jason was hanging out.

[Dave]

Oh, God.

[Pam]

Hanging out the window with a strap and his camera. You were like, he's in a Vietnam movie.

[Dave]

We were on. It was Kauai, right?

[Pam]

Yes, yes.

[Dave]

And so they're like, helicoptering over the Jurassic park mountains from the opening of Jurassic Park. Like, literally, the guy was saying. And this is what I would put on the Jurassic park theme. I'm like, oh, please don't. And literally we're just like, skimming the mountaintops. Like, he's like going. It's like. Like they were shooting for the movie. I'm like, that's too, too close. Too close. Yeah. I was so happy to be on the ground. I was shaking at the end of it. I was just like, oh.

[Tara]

He was scared from liftoff. Because helicopters take off differently than a plane. So a helicopter, you're like, I'm in a helicopter.

[Michelle]

I'm in the air.

[Pam]

And he was just like.

[Dave]

Could you imagine a helicopter taking off like a plane? And how confused you would be, this helicopter going down the road at an angle. What the. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would enjoy that. I don't know what would be worse, because Antarctica, like, the worst you're gonna get is you just can't see anything. But the Hawaiian experience was you can see a lot, and then suddenly you're in the. The cloud layer near the top. That was the other thing. The cloud layer and the top of the mountain were sort of like, at the same level.

[Pam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

So I was just convinced the guy was going to slam into the mountain anyways. That's my phobia.

[Pam]

Poor kid.

[Dave]

Yep. Poor Dave.

[Tara]

Poor Dave. But I'll tell Amy to call back with more stories.

[Dave]

Yeah, noted. Very interested in the poop. Yeah. You think it's still there?

[Pam]

That they just left it in a can? Like in the. In an airport?

[Dave]

They put an American flag next to it.

[Pam]

Well, that does feel fitting. Let's go.

[Dave]

And another flag under it that just said Amy, exclamation point.

[Pam]

Moving on. Turds. Let's hear the clip. 8.

[Caller]

Pam Dave. But this is for Tara. It's Megan. AMD July 1991 Life issue. Tara, you just like very casually offhandedly mentioned the Deliberate Stranger to describe the way that someone was dressed. I don't remember who the Deliberate Stranger is. My Roman Empire. I don't know if people are saying that anymore. I don't care if anybody's people aren't saying that anymore. The 1986 two part TV movie the Deliberate Stranger starring people's sexiest Nana lives. Mark Harmon. Ted Bundy is something that love to talk about. And sadly, as I go about my life, I don't find nearly enough.

[Pam]

People.

[Caller]

Who know what I'm talking about when I talk about it. There was a phase in my life that if I saw it, I was just like, bleep, bloop. Like going through the channels on my channel changer and like Deliberate Stranger was on. Like if Deliberate stranger starts at 11:00pm, it's like, oh, well, I guess I'm just up till 3 o' clock in the morning now because I have to watch both parts of the Deliberate Stranger starring Mark Harmon. I believe that Mark Harmon's casting in this is brilliant, but it's also a reason why we think, like everybody thinks that Ted Bundy is hot when he's rolling along hot. Mark Hormon hot. Much like Zac Efron when he was cast as Ted Bundy. Also hot. Ted Bundy, not really that hot. He just knew how to comb his hair differently. Anyway, you just lit up something inside me when you just said the Deliberate Stranger. And yeah, I think I'm more obsessed with Deliberate Stranger than I am River Phoenix. Is that possible? It might be possible. Okay, thank you. Just. Thank you. I've been coughing forever.

[Pam]

Thank you, Megan. I just want to say I do two other podcasts with our dear friend Sarah Debunting who is a true crime expert. She has a true crime bookstore, exhibit B Books, which you can find online for all your true crime book needs. So the Deliberate Stranger comes up more in my life than you would think, Megan. Like not to say Sarah's always talking about it, but I definitely know it's one of the touchstones of like true crime media along with the the TV movie about Jeffrey McDonald where Gary Cole plays him as the family Annihilator. So yeah, if you want to watch the Deliberate Stranger if the idea of hot truly Mark Harmon at the peak of his hotness in 1986 playing Ted Bundy. The DVD is on eBay. Many many copies. I'll link that. Dave will yell at me if I put an okay dot are you clip in the show notes. But if you're brave enough you can find the full movie there as well to stream and earmuffs Pam, you can find it if you know how to sail under a skull and crossbones. Non dot wink wink. It is available that way too. The Deliberate Stranger it's around I was kind of surprised it wasn't just on YouTube actually.

[Tara]

Yeah, I don't know it Fashion Etc.

[Pam]

Let's hear from Jenny in clip nine.

[Jenny]

Hello, Jenny from Saskatoon here. Just wanted to tell you that you discussing Jolene Cream bleach. I had this sudden like flashback that I had suppressed from my memory of being a like 13, 14 year old girl and I know the advertisement had like you know, octogenarian teenagers advertising the product, but I was an actual teenager and somehow was given purchase for myself. I don't know. I got Jolene Cream bleach and I used it for oh years for my upper lip as a teen. And so mid-90s I was in the bathroom with a full on chemistry set. This thing came with like a little container with some sort of powder. I can I'm smelling it now as I tell you about it, the suppressed memory and you would pour the powder onto like a little tray and then you would smooth put on some activator cream and like mix it up with this like little brush sort of thing like a spoon and like a tiny, tiny tiny thing tool and you would spread it on your face and then wash everything.

[Dave]

This could be this product but it also describes going to Baskin Robbins and.

[Pam]

Sampling ice cream box.

[Jenny]

Anyway, I did this for years. I don't know when I stopped. I don't know what I replaced it with. All I know now is that I am in my 40s and don't give a so but as a team that was what I used. So thanks for the memory. And as a another thing I wanted to say was I was listening to you talk about all those phone numbers that people can call and like the 1 in 100 vanilla and the 1800 like answer these questions about your Life, like, are you a good kisser? And they all say, ask your parents. Like, parents permission. Can you imagine going to your mom and dad being like, hey, can I call the vanilla hotline? I don't know what I would do if my kid asked me. I would either think it was adorable or lock them in their room. I don't know. Anyway. Funny, funny. Okay, bye.

[Dave]

I think you know what you would say. Stop.

[Pam]

Collaborating. Collaborate and listen.

[Dave]

Thank you.

[Tara]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Pam]

That's what she's trying to do. Stop her life and collaborate and listen with Vanilla Ice on the phone. Yeah, the. The complications of early, or rather late 20th century cosmetics. The. The way she's describing it reminds me of every time you watch, like, a movie from the 80s where someone has to take an old pregnancy test and there's like a box and you have to pee into a vial and it's like multiple pieces instead of just, you know, a stick. That sounds like how Jolene cream bleach.

[Dave]

Also worked when you bleach your upper lip.

[Pam]

I haven't done it, but go on.

[Dave]

And it grows back in. Do you get, like, visible lip roots?

[Pam]

I think probably.

[Dave]

Do you look like Justin Bieber is camping out on your upper lip?

[Pam]

I don't know. Jenny, call back and let us know.

[Dave]

Let us know.

[Pam]

She doesn't care now, so. All right, clip 10.

[Caller]

So I'm listening to the slumber party episode and Jenny from Chicago, number one. We live very close to each other, so I feel. I feel that we are brethren. And emery boards. That would also be on my list of things that I absolutely can't deal with. I can only weirdly deal with glass files, which, now that I think about it, are a glass frosted product, but does not sound like frosted glass, which really sets my jaw on edge. Truly, deeply. I can't. My jaw hurts thinking about it. But emery boards? No, Absolutely not. All right, that's all I gotta say. Bye.

[Dave]

Thank you. No name. I wonder if there's a word for it. I should look it up.

[Pam]

There probably is.

[Dave]

Yeah. Because I feel like it's common enough that they've given it some nice little scientific sounding melody name.

[Pam]

Yeah, well, people have sensory issues. I guess that would fall into that category.

[Dave]

Do you think I can get a medical alert bracelet says, do not jam frosted glass into this man's hand. He will drop it.

[Pam]

That's the first thing they do when EMTs pick you up in an ambulance. They try to file your nails as they drive you to the hospital.

[Dave]

That's right.

[Tara]

I think it's all just misophonia.

[Jenny]

Hmm.

[Pam]

Well, I think misophonia isn't that specific to the sound of mouth noises.

[Dave]

Polyphonic Spree. Misophonia's got like 17 people in the band.

[Tara]

I think misophonia is just sounds that make you uncomfortable. I've probably moist phonics.

[Dave]

Oh. It's not the sound. It's the texture.

[Pam]

It's the feel.

[Dave]

Yeah. It's not sound. It's.

[Tara]

Well, it's a trigger. It's a trigger.

[Dave]

It's a sensory trigger for sure.

[Pam]

Yeah.

[Tara]

You just made my tooth tingle.

[Dave]

Oh, can you say that again in the character from before the show?

[Tara]

I don't remember the voice anymore.

[Dave]

Just wing it.

[Tara]

I just made my tooth tingle.

[Dave]

One of these days we're just. Okay, here's a new thing. Instead of the diary, we just get a little Pam doing that at the top of the show.

[Pam]

It's August of 1991. You're feeling great.

[Dave]

Moving on.

[Pam]

Let's move on. Oh, this category. Sorry. This category of calls I have labeled context of original topic is a very distant memory. We have not recorded a slumber party episode since October of 2025. So I remember that we talked about this. I don't remember how it came up. So go ahead.

[Dave]

But we're not discouraging voicemails about the distant past.

[Pam]

Certainly not. We're just saying we don't remember how it came up. We're going to keep talking about.

[Dave]

Temper your expectations. Here we go.

[Caller]

Hi, Dave, Pam and Tara. I'm just calling. Sorry, this is Kelly in Rhode island as calling because of the migraine discussion. I also get migraines. I also love rosatriptam. Thank goodness we have it. But the cold cap thing, I've actually ordered one. It's not here yet, but I was reading on a migraine sub on Reddit about these cold caps and I thought that sounds like the best thing in the world. I already have an eye mask that has. That has cooling gel in it. And I think it ostensibly for like reducing puffiness in your eyes, but it really feels good on a migraine too. So, Tara, you might want to look into that if you don't already have one. But that's all I have to say. I just wanted to commiserate on the migraine thing. Kara, do you ever have thoughts when you think about. I know you don't intend to live through these zombie apocalypse, but sometimes when I think about, well, what if I survive for a little bit? I think about raiding drugstores, pharmacies to get the tryptam that they have on stock. So, anyway, that's where my crazy mind goes. Love the podcast. Thanks so much. Talk to you soon. Bye.

[Dave]

On the negative side, humanity has been wiped out and we're doomed. On the positive side, free drugs.

[Pam]

Yeah, I mean, a. Good luck with the cold cap. Let us know how it goes. I have not looked into that, but. But if I'm raiding drugstores, I'm probably going for opioids. I'm just skipping over resitryptan personally, but in terms of how grateful how. How lucky we are and whether I would need to raid a drugstore, I just want to show my co hosts. This is half of my current supply of Ristriptan. This is a little Altoids container and it's almost full. The other half is in the bedroom. This is the. What I keep on my desk because they keep refilling the prescription like every three weeks. It feels. That feels like without me asking for it. And they used to only give me nine, and now they give 12. So I have probably like a hundred rhizatryptans in a stockpile at this point because I haven't gotten migraines that much. Like, it really is tailed off. So this is confidential to Kelly. What has really helped has been I've started taking propranolol every day, which is an. It's for high blood pressure, which I don't have. But they also prescribe it off label for migraines. So I take one of those in the morning and then at night, one Amovig, which, same thing. It's a. It's for. It's an antidepressant, I think. But they also prescribe it off label for migraines. Both of those have really reduced my incidence. So taking either of those as a preventative, it's much cheaper than all of the new injectables, which, like, they'll bait and switch you. Because I did take those for a while, too. And then after two years, they were like, oh, the coupons run out and your. Your health insurance doesn't cover it. So now it's $600 a month. And I was like, no, it's not. So if you're still getting migraines, look into that.

[Dave]

It's really good that we don't have kids in the house if you're putting 10,000 little pills in a mint case.

[Pam]

Well, this isn't. It's not. It's not narcotic. I don't think it would hurt anyone. I guess it would hurt you if you took all of them. But yes, we don't have kids in the house, and if we did, I wouldn't. Give me a break.

[Dave]

What if they took all of them? Became, like, super intelligent?

[Pam]

That could happen, Mother.

[Dave]

I know everything now.

[Pam]

I'll also add, before we move on to our final call, that Kelly left us another message. That was very nice. We all treasure it. I just wanted her to know that even though we're not going to play it, we. We did hear it. And thank you. We love you, too. All right, clip 12.

[Caller]

Hey, guys, this is Sarah from Evanston. I was Swedish deck cleaning this weekend and listening to old episodes and came across Dave talking about the slide whistles again and remembered that I gave slide whistles out for Halloween last year and how everyone was a guest this year. My noisy toy. To go out. I found the little conductor train whistles made out of wood, which at least are noisy, but I'm sure you do people in theory. I'd like to hear your comments. I'll take them offline. Thanks again. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye.

[Dave]

Here they come, clickety clack down the track. It's lots and lots of trains.

[Pam]

Dave, explain in what context a whole box of wooden train whistles came to our house.

[Dave]

Yeah, well, first of all, I'm disappointed in the quality of those train whistles. I knew as soon as I opened the box it was going to be bad news because the one I had is a kid.

[Pam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Was quite big. It was like. And it had three holes that you blow into to make the train whistle sound. These little ones, they came, they were much smaller and they only had two. And they didn't really sound that much like a train, like. But the. The big ones, they really do. But I bought them along with a dozen typical cartoon engine train engineer hats for the Gilded Age watch parties we were having. And as soon as somebody came in the door, you would hand them an engineer's hat and a train whistle so they could come in and enjoy themselves. And by enjoy themselves, I mean have forced fun.

[Pam]

Everyone wore them.

[Dave]

Yeah, they were it. They were popular.

[Pam]

They were not as good as we did. This was also Dave's innovation when we had watch parties for Dr. Odyssey, RIP Dr. Fuckboat, he got like a box of captain's hats from Amazon. And that's what people wore for those yacht rock hats. Yacht rock hats, exactly. So we have been. I was at a gathering last night with a bunch of people who regularly came to watch parties for both of those shows. And they were like, what's the next show? I'm like, I don't know. Networks are not making anything in that, like, specific lane of trash that would fit for a watch party. Like, I don't want to have everyone over to watch ncis. You know what I mean? Like, there's nothing. Although it also has boats, but it's, there's nothing that has like jumped out at me. Like, oh yeah, this is, this is a good show to have people over to like peanut gallery through. So, but, but to anyone listening who has been to our house, I'm. It's on my mind. I'm still looking. Those are fun, Gilded age, great, trashy show.

[Dave]

All right, so that's it.

[Pam]

That's it.

[Dave]

Okay, this intro is going to sound really weird if I don't edit this because there's going to be no music. But here we go. Tara.

[Pam]

Next time we'll be opening up the August 1991 issue and talking about its teen life topics. Learn how to survive your long distance relationship.

[Dave]

Ring ring.

[Pam]

Hang out with Kim and the ladies of American Gladiator.

[Tara]

No sleep.

[Pam]

To the latest on the road in Brooklyn and more from my plug this week. Justin Theroux has been on Fallout Season 2 on Prime Video and I wrote about him at GQ and how several important roles in his filmography are. They kind of epitomized different phases of the business. Psycho from American Psycho literally to. Well, go and read it and you can find out. I will link that in the show notes.

[Dave]

I'm Justin Theroux. That was my sound clip for Justin Theroux.

[Caller]

Good.

[Pam]

That's pretty good. Yeah. You can also call us a headline at 7:20 Sassy.

[Caller]

Go.

[Pam]

Leave us a voicemail about the show or the magazine and we may play it on a future episode. You can find more information about the podcast, links to our visual aids and contact info for all of us too.

[Tara]

Sassy D. No, it's my Adam Sandler. Thank you for listening and we'll see you next time.

[Pam]

Beautiful.

[Caller]

All right.

[Dave]

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