December 1988 Pop Culture: Tom Waits, Jason Bateman & R.E.M.’s Green

Time to unwrap another holiday-season podcast, this time about the pop culture topics of the December 1988 issue! What Now serves up smog, some Sassy superfan sisters, a book giveaway, what the stars want for the holidays, and "grotty"! Reviews include R.E.M.'s Green (featuring a legendary gaffe by our fearless leader Jane), Mystic Pizza, Clara's Heart, Bon Jovi's New Jersey, and Tom Waits's Big Time, which we talk about...a lot. One To Watch is certified A-lister -- well, okay, B -- Christian Slater! And the feature profiles go deep on R.E.M. -- more Green content -- and a truck-racing Jason Bateman seconds before he gave up the sport forever. Take off your fuzzy earmuffs and listen!QUICK LINKS
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TOPICS
🎧 It Is December 1988
🎧 What Now
🎧 Watch It: Clara's Heart
🎧 Watch It: The Beast
🎧 Watch It: Mystic Pizza
🎧 Listen Up: R.E.M.
🎧 Listen Up: Tom Waits
🎧 Listen Up: Bon Jovi
🎧 Listen Up: Anthrax
🎧 One To Watch: Christian Slater
🎧 Feature: How To Make An R.E.M. Record
🎧 Feature: A Boy And His Truck
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🍆 "Ozone In Air Found Damaging To Condoms" at APNews
☎️ Wicomico County Health Department's HIV/AIDS program, current owner of 1-800-234-TEEN (8336)
🍕 Mystic Pizza on Netflix
🎪 Big Time on Paramount Plus
🎧 The December 1988 mixtape on Spotify
🏛 Athens, GA - Inside/Out on FlixFling
💥 Jason Bateman's bad racing crash on YouTube
🛣 "How We Started a Racing Series That Almost Killed Jason Bateman" at Road And Track
🛻 Bateman himself discussing the crash on his podcast, Smartless (starting 01:07:30)
🌴 The Again With This podcast on Patreon