Introducing: In Retrospect

Do you have a piece of pop culture from your past that, looking back, makes you cringe? We sure do. Each week on IN RETROSPECT, we’ll revisit a cultural moment from the 80s and 90s that shaped us — and probably you — to try to understand what it taught us about the world, and our place in it. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is in Retrospect, a podcast about cultural moments from
the eighties and nineties that shaped us and the way
we think it's.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Easy to be killed by terrorists and it is to
get married over the age of forty.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
This is my friend Jessica Bennett.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
I want you to really smell the axe body spray
that emanated during this time.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
She's a journalist at The New York Times, a best
selling author, and a professor at NYU.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
You called me and I was in Palm Springs in
a weed shop, naturally. And this is my friend Cezy Bannacam.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I'm very much a product of the pop culture. I consume, yeah,
and I don't think that's a bad thing.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
She's an Emmy Lenning producer and filmmaker who's run some
of the biggest and craziest newsrooms.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I remember once having like a guy friend over and
being like, do you DVR Oprah?

Speaker 1 (00:49):
This is in high school.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Every week we'll revisit a moment in pop culture history
that we just can't stop thinking about.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
From salacious tabloid headlines and questionable soap opera couples to
elicit students your relationships on one very specific red swimsuit.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
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.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Better understand what these moments taught us about the world
and our place in it.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Maybe this was a sensitive handling for the time.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
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.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's also portrayed as romantic. It had been branded on
the uteruses of every single woman from sea to Shining Sea.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
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