The Wardrobe Malfunction

Our first live show! Mike tells Sarah about Janet Jackson, the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime show and the 9/16ths of a second that destroyed her career. Digressions include Puff Daddy, Jessica Simpson and Edward James Olmos. Like all positive developments regarding this show, performing live is something we feel weird about and so we spent the first few minutes talking about it!

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Links!

• Broadcast Indecency Regulation in the Era of the Wardrobe Malfunction
• Everything you forgot about Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake’s 2004 Super Bowl controversy
• ‘Nipplegate’ revisited 
• Nipple Ripples: 10 Years of Fallout From Janet Jackson’s Halftime Show
• The Les Moonves story

 

‘Yoko Ono Broke Up The Beatles’

Mike tells Sarah how the myth of meddling wives serves to exonerate terrible husbands. Digressions include “50 Shades of Grey,” Marie Antoinette and the end of the 1960s. This episode, we’re sorry to say, contains descriptions of domestic abuse.

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Links!

• Tim Riley’s “Lennon”
• Philip Norman’s “John Lennon: The Life”
• Jonathan Gould’s “Can’t Buy Me Love” (good on The Beatles, terrible on Yoko)
• Cynthia Lennon’s “John”
• “Feminism and 1960-1970s Popular Music”
• “Why The Beatles Broke Up”