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Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition

Jessica Jones and Meg MacCary

Revisit the crime and culture of NYC in the "80s with BFF Gen-Xers Jessica and Meg.

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48:40

Adventure Play + Training Day

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2026/04/07

Meg explores the Adventure Playgrounds in Central Park and how a Dane in the 1940s changed how NYC kids could blow off steam. Jessica celebrates the origins of the subway system and the arrival of the first “no graffiti” Japanese subway cars in NYC.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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56:37

Return to Innocence + Broadway Mandela Effect

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2026/03/24

Meg revisits the optimistic early days of Stephen Sondheim and Hal Prince’s musical Merrily We Roll Along. Jessica investigates the origins of the apocryphal ad “it was better than Cats, better than E.T." Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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53:44

Women on Top + No Rock For You!

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2026/03/17

Meg introduces the queen of the clitoris, Shere Hite, and her rough ride in gender politics. Jessica tells of New York’s quest to get federal funding by raising the drinking age to 21 and effectively shuttering small rock 'n roll clubs.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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36:26

Book Talk: The CBGB Conspiracy

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2026/03/10

Meg and Jessica discuss The CBGB Conspiracy by Gabriel Rotello, a twisting and turning whodunnit set in the East Village in 1977. Written with meticulous detail about the people, places, and intrigues of the day.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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39:01

Class Act + Roll With It… Again

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2026/03/03

Meg tells of Bill Zanker’s disastrous marketing scheme to promote The Learning Annex. Jessica ponders how Merrily We Roll Along went from flop to runaway hit forty years later.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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55:19

Beach Bum + Last Day of Disco

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2026/02/24

Meg discovers an NYC beach culture she never knew and Peter Stein, the David Hasselhoff of Far Rockaway. Jessica goes behind the velvet rope at Studio 54’s last glorious night.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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56:18

Prep Puzzle + Richard's Rodent

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2026/02/17

Meg investigates the stunning killing of Exeter graduate Edmund Perry on Morningside Drive. Jessica goes deep on the urban myth of Richard Gere and an unucky gerbil.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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50:48

Watch Party: Splash

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2026/02/10

Meg and Jessica rewatch 1984’s iconic mermaid romp Splash: a fairytale that examines true love and demands a major suspension of disbelief. We recommend! 5 stars.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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32:40

Paul's Big Adventure

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2026/02/03

Meg tells Jessica about the rise and fall of Pee Wee Herman: the avant-garde art scene, Paul Rubens' uncompromising artistic vision, and the Wild West world of Saturday morning cartoons.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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51:54

Prettiest Baby + Boy, Interrupted

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2026/01/27

Meg looks into the controversy over Garry Gross’ photographs of a nude ten year old Brooke Shields. Jessica has harsh words for the juvenile justice system’s response to the War on Drugs.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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49:57

Choke Hold + Know Me!

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2026/01/20

Meg tells of how Joseph Porto and his lawyer Barry Slotnick defended his murder of Kathleen Holland. Jessica introduces artist/No Wave innovator Klaus Nomi who inspired Bowie, Hedwig and more.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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34:22

The More We Know: Volume 3

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2026/01/13

Meg and Jessica school each other on wintry New York ghosts that haunt The Palace Theatre and The Ear Inn, plus fun facts about the bird population of Central Park, Bob Dylan's Greenwich Village, and the very first murder in New York.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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48:36

Ed's Bed + The Kitchen Cooks

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2026/01/06

Meg uncovers how Larry Kramer and Rudy Giuliani made strange bedfellows in their attempts to besmirch Ed Koch. Jessica goes deep on how The Kitchen art collective used the Staten Island Ferry to spread the Hip Hop revolution.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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27:49

The More We Know: Volume 2

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2025/12/16

Meg and Jessica school each other on Page Six greatness including snippets about the Sutton Place Christmas tree wars, Saul Steinberg's epic 50th birthday bash, Leona Helmsley's bizarre exercise habits, and the most macabre field trip New York had to offer.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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42:23

Bad Defense + U.S.S. Westie

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2025/12/09

Meg tells the tale of mob lawyer Barry Slotnik who found himself on the wrong side of a baseball bat. Jessica discovers how the Hell’s Kitchen Westies funneled millions out of the U.S.S. Intrepid Museum.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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35:18

The More We Know: Volume 1

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2025/12/02

Meg and Jessica school each other on Michael Kors, the origin of The Big Apple, pigeon pee, John Lennon’s alien sighting, prison ferries, the Harlem tiger, the rules of dodge ball, and West Side Cowboys.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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50:09

Killing Fields + Kooks Against Kink

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2025/11/18

Meg dives into The Killing Fields of East New York by Stacy Horn and uncovers the roots of the downfall of a Brooklyn neighborhood. Jessica tells of the time the moral majority and radical feminists got in bed together to legislate against porn.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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57:51

Wire Hangers + Black Gloves

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2025/11/11

Meg revisits Christina Crawford’s Mommie Dearest, the first of many “tell-all memoirs exposing the rough childhoods of Old Hollywood’s nepo babies. Jessica gets the skinny on Gloria Swanson’s appearance at the New School and why the venue was just as ready for its close-up as its guest.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and

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45:10

FIELD TRIP #12 - Donna and Tara

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2025/11/04

Meg meets up with Donna Kaz and her friend Tara who survived working swing shifts waiting tables at The Saloon, the massive bistro near Lincoln Center which featured roller skating staff, abusive bosses, and occasional Baryshnikov sightings.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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44:42

Watch Party: Vampire’s Kiss

Desperately Seeking the "80s: NY Edition ·

2025/10/28

Meg and Jessica watch Nicolas Cage chew the scenery in this 1988 cult bloody comedy that has less to do with “real” vampires and more to do with the horrors of loneliness and male entitlement.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

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