Introducing: In Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett

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🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Is there a cultural moment from your past that looks different in retrospect? Maybe it’s a scandalous tabloid story seared into your teenage brain or a political punchline that just feels wrong now. It might be a very specific red swimsuit that inspired a decade of plastic surgery (see: “Baywatch”) or the inescapable smell of an entire generation of prepubescent boys (Axe body spray, anyone?).

Each week on IN RETROSPECT, Emmy-winning journalist Susie Banikarim and New York Times editor Jessica Bennett revisit a pop culture moment from the 80s and 90s that shaped them — to try to understand what it taught us about the world, and a woman’s place in it. Listen to IN RETROSPECT with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-in-retrospect-with-susie-122206786/

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0:00.0	This is in retrospect, a podcast about cultural moments from the 80s and 90s that shaped us and the way we think.
0:06.7	It's easy to be killed by terrorists and it is to get married over the age of 40.
0:09.7	Doesn't fit you.
0:10.5	I forced her to dance with me right out there on the disco floor.
0:13.5	You blew it, lady, because I'm the best sex you'll never have.
0:16.4	This is my friend Jessica Bennett.
0:18.0	I want you to really smell the ax body spray that emanated during this time.
0:24.0	She's a journalist at The New York Times, a best-selling author, and a professor at NYU.
0:28.5	You called me and I was in Palm Springs.
0:30.5	You know, we had a shop naturally.
0:32.4	And this is my friend, Susie Banna Carram.
0:34.4	I'm very much a product of the pop culture I consume, and I don't think that's a bad thing.
0:38.9	She's an Emmy-winning producer and filmmaker who's run some of the biggest and craziest newsrooms.
0:43.9	I remember once having like a guy friend over and eating like, do you?
0:47.9	Do you, V.R. Oprah?
0:49.2	This is in high school.
0:50.1	Every week we'll revisit a moment in pop culture history that we just can't stop thinking about.
0:54.9	From salacious tabloid headlines and questionable soap opera couples to illicit
0:59.4	student-teacher relationships, and one very specific red swimsuit.
1:03.4	And I love your red bathing suit.
1:04.8	Oh, thank you.
1:05.6	There's something about those one-piece suits.
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