June 1989 Pop Culture: Anthrax, Tiffany & Turtles

Have you ever wanted to: know what's in a lava lamp? Get Sassy to approve of your taste in music? Find out where Karen and Tiffany stand one year after the disaster that was Karen's attempted profile? What Now covers all of this and more. Watch It reviews The Dream Team and Troop Beverly Hills (among others), but which is the Hit and which is the Bomb? The answer may surprise you! Opinions are split on Hugo Largo's second (and apparently final) album Mettle, while Cowboy Junkies' breakout album The Trinity Session is rightly fêted. One To Watch gets it right once more with a profile of a 21-year-old pre-When Harry Met Sally Harry Connick Jr. Then it's on to the features: Sing star Peter Dobson impresses Catherine; Christina remains unimpressed by Anthrax. Plop down with a bag of M&Ms and join us!

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is June 1989

🎧 What Now

🎧 Watch It

🎧 Listen Up

🎧 One To Watch

🎧 Feature: Peter Dobson Was Born Too Late

🎧 Feature: I Spent 48 Hours With Anthrax

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 The Nadir Of This Episode

NOTES

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

💇🏻‍♂️ Mystify: Michael Hutchence on Amazon

👧 Sweet Baby's "It's A Girl" on YouTube

🗽 Lou Reed performs the album New York live, on YouTube

🐢 Hugo Largo's Mettle on YouTube

💊 "What if a man takes birth control pills?" on HowStuffWorks.com

🫃 "What happens if a guy takes birth control?" at PlannedParenthood.org

💥 "The Tug Of War Over Tiffany" at WashingtonPost.com

📝 "A Note From George Tobin" [upon the re-release of Tiffany's Dreams Never Die] on Tiffany.org

🏝 Lonely Heart [Palm Beach Prep 1] on AbeBooks.com

🌴 Palm Beach Prep on CliqueyPizza.Wordpress.com

🤪 The Dream Team trailer on YouTube

🧨 Miss Firecracker on Tubi

🏢 Rooftops on Peacock

🛍 Troop Beverly Hills on Showtime

💿 Hugo Largo's Mettle on Wikipedia

🧧 Royal Court Of China on TrouserPress.com

🎙 Joe Blanton interview on YouTube

🏆 The "Accolades" tab on the Wikipedia page for The Trinity Sessions

🔪 Cowboy Junkies' "Murder Tonight In The Trailer Park" on YouTube

🎧 The June 1989 Mixtape on Apple Music

🎶 Sing (1989) on YouTube

🐔 "Keep Fucking That Chicken" on YouTube

📻 Anthrax [starting at 15:03] in NewsRadio S02.E08: "The Negotiation"

🪆 Tara's review of Russian Doll S02 at VanityFair.com