Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett met a decade ago in a newsroom, and have gone on to hold some of the most prestigious jobs in journalism. But they’re also pop culture obsessives and trash-TV addicts who can spend hours going down any rabbit hole. They often unravel cultural moments together, over late-night phone calls and edibles. Now you get to listen, too. Time to meet your hosts (hi!).

FOR MORE:
Enemies of the People: Trump and the Political Press (Susie’s film) 
Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace and This Is 18 (Jess’s books)
Monica Lewinsky Is Back, But This Time It’s On Her Terms (NY Times)

Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett met a decade ago in a newsroom, and have gone on to hold some of the most prestigious jobs in journalism. But they’re also pop culture obsessives and trash-TV addicts who can spend hours going down any rabbit hole. They often unravel cultural moments together, over late-night phone calls and edibles. Now you get to listen, too. Time to meet your hosts (hi!).
FOR MORE:
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<li aria-level="2"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa85N6c28n8">Enemies of the People: Trump and the Political Press</a> (Susie’s film) </li>
<li aria-level="2"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062689037/keywords=business?tag=harpercollinsus-20">Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-18-Jessica-Bennett/dp/1419741233">This Is 18</a> (Jess’s books)</li>
<li aria-level="2"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/style/monica-lewinsky-is-back-but-this-time-its-on-her-terms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">Monica Lewinsky Is Back, But This Time It’s On Her Terms</a> (NY Times)</li>
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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.

Talk to us at @inretropod, @susiebnyc and @jessicabennett on Instagram. New episodes each Friday.

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.
Talk to us at @inretropod, @susiebnyc and @jessicabennett on Instagram. New episodes each Friday.

In Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett

Meet Your Hosts (Hi!)

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