June 1988 Pop Culture: Celebrity Crushes, Ziggy Marley & Beetlejuice

Pop culture in June 1988: let's get into it! What Now serves up Weird Al (kind of), newlyweds "Leonard" Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, and beach book recommendations. The reviews introduce you to Feargal Sharkey, Toni Childs, Little Nikita, and the now months-old Beetlejuice. WAS George Newbern One To Watch? Your panel is divided! And we get not one, not two, but THREE features: profiles of Ziggy Marley and Jason Gedrick, and an essay on whether your celebrity boy crushes make the real-life boys in your life feel bad. Turn off that new Stacey Q album and listen to us instead!

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TOPICS

🎧 Hello, It's June 1988

🎧 In Our Lives

🎧 Issue Search Update + Signoffs

🎧 What Now: Weird Al + Andrea = 4EVA

🎧 What Now: Young Celebrity Marriages

🎧 What Now: Bitchin' Beach Books

🎧 What Now: Who's In The Sassy Fan Club (and Who's Not)

🎧 What Now: Love, Jane XXX

🎧 What Now: Who Invented Father's Day

🎧 What Now: Glossary #3: Wanker

🎧 Listen Up: Feargal Sharkey

🎧 Listen Up: Talking Heads

🎧 Listen Up: Stacey Q

🎧 Watch It: This Movie Starring Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis And Winona Ryder, Directed By Tim Burton

🎧 Watch It: Stars & Bars

🎧 Watch It: 18 Again

🎧 Watch It: Little Nikita

🎧 Watch It: Plain Clothes

🎧 Watch It: Sticky Fingers

🎧 One To Watch: George Newbern

🎧 Feature: How I Bored Ziggy Marley

🎧 Feature: Why That Patrick Swayze Poster May Destroy Your Love Life

🎧 Feature: Don’t Call Jason Gedrick A Hunk!

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 What Now: NYCancer

NOTES

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

📺 Ellen Foster on YouTube

👨‍🦰 Father's Day at Wikipedia

🦈 Feargal Sharkey's "More Love" video

🏅 Feargal Sharkey receives the OBE

🎧 Pam's June 1988 playlist at Spotify

🇺🇸 Stars & Bars on YouTube

🎞 A long Stars & Bars scene on YouTube

🔞 18 Again trailer on YouTube

🪆 The Little Nikita trailer on YouTube

👉 Sticky Fingers on Amazon Prime Video

👈 The Sticky Fingers trailer on YouTube

🚑 The Paramedics trailer on YouTube

😳 Scandal on Hulu

💔 "Your Celebrity Crush Might Be Ruining Your Love Life" at StudentLife

🥰 "These Fans Landed A Relationship With Their Celebrity Crush" at Buzznet

🦅 Iron Eagle on Amazon Prime Video

🤠 Jason Gedrick in the series finale of Justified on Hulu

👍 The Everything Is Fine podcast on Patreon

🥒 Rick & Morty #32: "Summer's Eve" on Amazon

🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast