October 1988 Teen Life: Fat Camp, Jelly Beans & Popcorn Lung

Aug 10, 2021, 09:00 PM

Our treat for October (as the spine line promises) is a brand-new issue, and we're starting things off by discussing its Teen Life topics! Catherine goes to a weight loss camp and collects insights from her fellow female staffers on how to ask out dudes. Karen facilitates as three readers make over their bedrooms in very different styles. Christina returns to the fiction department with a cautionary tale about jelly beans. All that, plus Body Talk; a BUNCH of Help letters from readers signing themselves "Confused"; and a Stuff You Wrote submission that is...not in good taste. Pour yourself a bowl of jelly beans and listen!

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TOPICS

🎧 Hello, It Is October 1988

🎧 In Our Lives + Spine Line

🎧 Feature: Welcome To Fat World

🎧 Feature: How To Ask A Guy Out

🎧 Feature: Big Bedrooms

🎧 Fiction: Jelly Beans

🎧 Body Talk

🎧 Help

🎧 What He Said: How Did You Like Being Asked Out (By A Sassy Staff Member, No Less)?

🎧 Stuff You Wrote

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 On The Road: Salt Lake City

NOTES

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

πŸ₯›Β Luverne, MN's Tri-State Band Festival

πŸ“ΈΒ Sylvia Plachy's website

πŸ“‰Β "3,813 Pounds Down, 6,187 Or So to Go" on NYTimes.com

πŸ₯€Β Alba '77

βš–οΈΒ Weight loss camps still in operation

πŸ•Β Camp Colang alumni group on Facebook

πŸ“Β Camp Colang on LocationsHub.com

πŸ‘©β€πŸŽ¨Β Website for "Jelly Beans" illustrator Betsy Everitt

πŸš΄β€β™€οΈΒ The Presidential Fitness Challenge

🍿 "Do You Risk Popcorn Lung When You Make Microwave Popcorn?" at CSPInet.org

πŸ›£Β "Karen Catchpole Hit The Road 12 Years Ago...And Hasn't Stopped Yet" at the Bare Necessities blog

πŸ›Β "Go To Your Room (and Decorate)" on NYTimes.com

πŸ“·Β Andrew McCarthy on Instagram

πŸ‘©β€πŸ¦½Β Susan Nicastro at Partners for Youth with Disabilities

πŸͺ¦Β Marci Jean Groteler's grave

πŸˆβ€β¬›Β Quiz: How Superstitious Are You?