This is in Retrospect, a podcast about cultural moments from the eighties and nineties that shaped us and the way we think it's.
Easy to be killed by terrorists and it is to get married over the age of forty.
I forced her to dance with me right out there on the disco floor. You blew it, lady, I'm the best sex you'll never have.
This is my friend Jessica Bennett.
I want you to really smell the axe body spray that emanated during this time.
She's a journalist at The New York Times, a best selling author, and a professor at NYU.
You called me and I was in Palm Springs in a weed shop, naturally. And this is my friend Cezy Bannacam.
I'm very much a product of the pop culture. I consume, yeah, and I don't think that's a bad thing.
She's an Emmy Lenning producer and filmmaker who's run some of the biggest and craziest newsrooms.
I remember once having like a guy friend over and being like, do you DVR Oprah?
This is in high school.
Every week we'll revisit a moment in pop culture history that we just can't stop thinking about.
From salacious tabloid headlines and questionable soap opera couples to elicit students your relationships on one very specific red swimsuit.
And I love your red bathing suit. Thank you. I shall think about those one piece suits. We'll unravel it all the context, the behind the scenes, the subtle and not so subtle messaging, to.
Better understand what these moments taught us about the world and our place in it.
Maybe this was a sensitive handling for the time.
Where this story really begins is the place where all good revolutions begin. With the ladies row Oh, Jessica. They weren't shying away from how violent it was.
It's also portrayed as romantic. It had been branded on the uteruses of every single woman from sea to Shining Sea.
Listen to in Retrospect, a new podcast from iHeart and the Media. Find it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Do you think we're going to get canceled for this