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Desperately Seeking the '80s: NY Edition

Desperately Seeking the '80s: NY Edition

By: Jessica Jones and Meg MacCary
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Revisit the crime and culture of NYC in the '80s with BFF Gen-Xers Jessica and Meg.© 2023 Desperately Seeking the '80s: NY Edition Social Sciences True Crime World
Episodes
  • Immoral Authority + Pop Art Tchotchkes
    Apr 14 2026

    Meg uncovers the time when the Moral Majority tried to infiltrate New York City. Jessica gets lost in Sotheby’s catalogue for Andy Warhol’s tchotchkes and nicknacks.

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    48 mins
  • Adventure Play + Training Day
    Apr 7 2026

    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.

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    49 mins
  • Return to Innocence + Broadway Mandela Effect
    Mar 24 2026

    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."

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    57 mins
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