Desperately Seeking the '80s: NY Edition
Hosted by Jessica and Meg · Jessica Jones and Meg MacCary
5.0from 128 ratings
- 204
- Episodes
- 14
- Transcribed
- 128
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 2K
- YouTube views
About Desperately Seeking the '80s: NY Edition
Revisit the crime and culture of NYC in the '80s with BFF Gen-Xers Jessica and Meg.
- Publisher
- Jessica Jones and Meg MacCary
- Category
- history · society & culture · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 21 Feb 2022
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
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[…] No one. Not the press, not the police. Well, actually, the police did know, but they kept it confidential. When she got to Ohio, her brother-in-law was a lawyer and he was like, you have to call them and tell them that you are this person. But the police kept it completely quiet and there was no other way to track her down. Like literally the press was going nuts. All these articles and all these different papers were like, who is the mysterious blonde? Thinking that that would explain what had happened to Irwin. It had nothing to do with what happened to Irwin. For weeks, everyone tried to piece together exactly who Irwin was and why he'd been shot and who would want him dead. […]
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- YouTube views
- 1,526
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 93 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 35 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100
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- Quality
- 72
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 68
- Engagement
- 92
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