Podcasts about spy magazine

Susan Morrison (Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, SPY Magazine, The New Yorker) is a journalist and author. Susan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss never wanting to subject her children to a life of moving around, marrying comedy and journalism into irreverant reporting at SPY Magazine, and loving the idea of walking through New York City as time travel. Susan and Dax talk about why humor is just the language we all speak to get by in the world, how Saturday Night Live is a monopoly for comedy, and that she could draw a line from all of Lorne's life experiences straight to the producing skills he would later develop. Susan explains that Lorne is a master of teaching people how to be in a room, why listening for the laugh during dress rehearsal is his secret sauce, and how Lorne's strategic instincts directly contributed to SNL being the longest running entertainment show in history.Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard/ now.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Graydon Carter is the co-founder of Spy Magazine and Air Mail, and for 25 years, he was the editor of Vanity Fair. His memoir, When The Going Was Good, chronicles a time when the going was extremely good for glossy magazines and their star editors. During the golden age of magazines, Vanity Fair combined celebrity profiles with deeply reported journalism to great acclaim, and Carter, arguably, became more famous than many of his extremely talented writers.  He and Kara discuss everything from office politics at Vanity Fair to Canadian politics, including President Trump's (possible) descent into madness, the artistry involved in making a restaurant cool (as opposed to hot), and why anxiety is an essential ingredient for editors.   Questions? Comments? Email us at on@voxmedia.com or find us on Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky @onwithkaraswisher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bryan kicks off the week with a conversation with Graydon Carter, who comes on to discuss ‘Spy Magazine' going to ‘Vanity Fair' and more. They discuss the following: The idea behind 'Spy Magazine' (2:46) Who took the stories the hardest from 'Spy' (9:57) His perception of Donald Trump (10:36) If Spy could have worked in the early 2000s (13:20) Being offered a choice between 'Vanity Fair' and 'The New Yorker' (14:19) How writers were treated like stars (23:26) How 'Vanity Fair' was able to land the”deep throat” story, the source behind the Watergate scandal (29:10) Creating the Vanity Fair Oscar Party (38:00) Why he left 'Vanity Fair' in 2017 (40:50) What we lost from the magazine era (43:33) Host: Bryan Curtis Guest: Graydon Carter Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, the podcast where nostalgia comes alive!In today's episode, we chat with writer and author, Ellis Weiner. From his early days as an editor at National Lampoon and columnist for Spy Magazine, to his work with the Muppets (including writing the mock behind-the-scenes book The Great Muppet Caper!: The Making of the Masterpiece!), Ellis has left his mark on comedy. But he's also touched the lives of countless children through his work in television. He co-created the beloved PBS series The Puzzle Place and contributed his writing talents to shows like Reading Rainbow, Shining Time Station, The Noddy Shop, Clarissa Explains it All, Bear in the Big Blue House, Barney & Friends, and Between the Lions.

Time for a change of mood with this terrific 1947 romantic comedy, The Philadelphia Story, based on the 1939 Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry.  Spy Magazine wants to get an exclusive story on the wedding of a socialite Tracy Lord, but can't get their journalists 'inside'. Enter ex-husband, Dexter, who has unresolved feelings for Tracy. He helps the journalists get invitations to the wedding, and then things get very interesting.  This Screen Guild Players production was performed before a live audience and stars Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Cary Grant. Join us for this star-studded romp! Thank you for listening! If you like the show, please share us with your friends and family AND give us a review! If you have a suggestion for a show or a question, please drop it in the comments!Watch us on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@shivershowpodcastFollow The Shiver Show https://www.facebook.com/theshivershowor check out our website at https://www.timewarpstudios.com Other podcast platforms: https://linktr.ee/theshivershow

This week my guest is Laura Belgray, author of the national bestseller Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst. Laura is also an internet-famous copywriter, founder of Talking Shrimp, and co-creator, with Marie Forleo, of The Copy Cure. Laura started her writing career at Spy Magazine, New York Magazine, and then VH1 before starting her own copywriting and teaching business almost by accident. That business went on to earn a million dollars the year she turned 50–an achievement Laura wrote about for “Business Insider.” Fun fact: Laura taught Sherman Helmsley, aka George Jefferson from The Jeffersons, how to moonwalk. We covered: • How she finagled a job for herself that involved her watching a lot of TV (one of her favorite things to do) • Why getting paid to ‘'write emails to friends'' is her dream job • How inspiration comes from writing--not the other way around • The magical powers of writing on the fly • Her morning routine which includes iced coffee, a walk outside, and dicking around • The website she swears by to get her writing every day • How she deals with bouts of talker's block on social media Connect with Laura at talkingshrimp.com. For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. Thank you for listening! And thanks to this week's sponsor, Air Doctor Pro. Visit airdoctorpro.com and use code KATE to save 30% off an amazing indoor air filter *and* receive a free three-year warranty (an $84 value). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bruce Handy joined me to discuss how to write picture books; children's literature; his book on the subject Wild Things; Goodnight Moon, Judy Blume, Willy Wonka; his first TV memories of the JFK assassination and Romper Room; reading Mad Magazine and starting his own at 10 years old; writing for the Stanford Chaparral; All the President's Men; National Lampoon; college humor mags; starting at Vogue; his Spy articles on Yuppie porn, Eric Breindel and the Playboy Mansion; Spy Magazine's 1990 tv special; most likeable Americans in 1990; Harry Shearer; The Day the Clown Cried; Jerry Seinfeld; Paul Simms; working on a Spy Prank show with Kevin Nealon; Nealon gets him an interview with Lorne Michaels to help write Update; not knowing he was hired until seeing his name in the credits; writing Mr. Subliminal for Kevin; writing jokes and a Looney Tunes desk piece for Rob Schneider; did not understand how SNL works and it leading to that piece not working; a cut bit where Kevin Nealon shows a clip of him doing Weekend Update in the 50's; Herb Sargent; Weekend Update bagel breakfasts; his affection for Norm MacDonald, Michael Che, and Colin Jost; meeting Luke Perry as a host; his wife being excited by seeing Mick Jagger perform; writing the promo for Alec Baldwin / Paul Mccartney episode; Paul's legendary Thursday rehearsal; being in the read through for Matt Foley and Unfrozen Cave Man Lawyer; how he loved to use his imagination on read through; COVID vs. WWII rationing

THE GREATEST STARTUP IN THE HISTORY OF MAGAZINE STARTUPS—We've always had a thing for magazine launches. They're filled with drama and melodrama, people behaving with passion and conviction, and people ... misbehaving. Anything to get that first issue onto the stands and into the hands of readers.Some new ventures seem to sneak in the back door. Who saw Wired or Fast Company coming?Others are to the manner born, and from the most elite print parents. But, even with that pedigree they never gain traction, never display the scrappiness and experimentation that we've come to expect from anything new. (You know who you are).But then, one day, along comes The Greatest Startup in the History of Magazine Startups. A magazine that dares to mercilessly, and humorously, vilify high society. The one that big time journalists pretend to ignore but were first to the newsstand each month to grab their copy. The one that created packaging conceits: Separated at Birth, Private Lives of Public Enemies, Blurb-o-mat, and Naked City. Plus, the adorable nicknames — “Short-fingered vulgarian” — that persist to this day.That's right, we're talking about Spy.And in this episode we'll meet Kurt Andersen who, along with Graydon Carter and Tom Philips, founded what became an instantaneous cultural phenomenon: SPY magazine. The axis of the publishing world tilted when it hit the stands.“Spy was the most influential magazine of the 1980s,” the author Dave Eggers wrote. “It definitely changed the whole tone of magazine journalism. It was cruel, brilliant, beautifully-written and perfectly-designed — and feared by all.”There had never been anything like Spy before.Nothing since has come close. Print Is Dead (Long Live Print!) is a production of Magazeum LLC & MO.D ©2021–2024

In this episode of the podcast, we speak with Laura Belgray, a successful copywriter and founder of Talking Shrimp. She shares her journey from writing for Spy Magazine and TV promos to creating her own copywriting business. Laura has this incredible ability to fuse her sizzling personality into her business, and trust me when I say, it's as entertaining as it gets! We discuss the importance of authenticity and personality in your business, challenges in navigating the online marketing world, and how to boldly differentiate your business from others. There's a lot of wisdom to unpack, many laughs to share, and significant epiphanies to encounter. So, buckle up for an episode full of sparks that might just ignite your creative juices and change your perspective on how you approach your business.Links: toughtittiesbook.com talkingshrimp.com/story-goldmine I'd love to hear from you!DM me on Instagram @iamjackieellisOr send me an email at hello@jackie-ellis.com

Marissa's guest is noted writer David Kamp, who (along with Marissa) is an alumnus of Spy Magazine, which famously coined the term “short-fingered vulgarian” to describe New York real estate celebrity Trump. David discusses his recent editorial for the New York Times where he argues the stakes for our democracy are too high and it's time to stop laughing at Trump. Which isn't to say Marissa and David don't share a chuckle or two on the podcast. Chocolate chip and halvah cookies are baked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marissa's guest is noted writer David Kamp, who (along with Marissa) is an alumnus of Spy Magazine, which famously coined the term “short-fingered vulgarian” to describe New York real estate celebrity Trump. David discusses his recent editorial for the New York Times where he argues the stakes for our democracy are too high and it's time to stop laughing at Trump. Which isn't to say Marissa and David don't share a chuckle or two on the podcast. Chocolate chip and halvah cookies are baked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marissa's guest is noted writer David Kamp, who (along with Marissa) is an alumnus of Spy Magazine, which famously coined the term “short-fingered vulgarian” to describe New York real estate celebrity Trump. David discusses his recent editorial for the New York Times where he argues the stakes for our democracy are too high and it's time to stop laughing at Trump. Which isn't to say Marissa and David don't share a chuckle or two on the podcast. Chocolate chip and halvah cookies are baked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EPISODE 92 | Octopus's Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10) A number of unusual deaths, law enforcement software, mob families, casinos, drug running, arms dealing, and a possible nationwide, possible international, conspiracy known as the Octopus – this wild and complicated tale reads like a whole series of thriller novels and is further proof that the world is weird indeed. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 01:59 - Complicated Life - 1977: The weird death of Charles “Chuck” Morgan, Don Devereux investigates 08:48 - Herbie Goes Bananas - 1990: Joseph Bonanno aka Joe Bananas aka Don Peppino, Devereux helps Unsolved Mysteries on a story about Morgan, Doug Johnston dies across the street from Devereux's house, Dan Casolaro contacts Devereux in 1991 12:58 - Squid Game - 1973-1991: Dan Casolaro, dilletante & part-time journalist, starts poking around into rumors around INSLAW's PROMIS software, the 1980 October Surprise theory, Iran Contra and the BCCI Scandal 21:36 - Danger Man & the Octopus - 1989-1991: Casolaro encounters Michael Riconosciuto ("Danger Man"), begins to see the shape of the Octopus, starts getting threats 25:43 - Meeting in Martinsburg - 1991: Casolaro goes to Martinsburg, West Virginia but never makes it home, weirdness at his funeral, unanswered questions and "missing" files 32:47 - You Better You Bet - 1978-1981: Cabazon murders in Rancho Mirage, the the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino  in Indio, secret government dealings, mafia dudes, INSLAW and Michael Riconosciuto again, Wackenhut, drug running, software trojan horses, hitman James Hughes 40:35 - Giant Octopus Kraken - 1982-1991: Riconosciuto's roommate is killed, NSA guy Alan David Standorf is killed, Riconosciuto's lawyer is killed, journalist Anson Ng Yong is killed in Guatemala while researching much of all this, arms running, INSLAW, BCCI, and the DOJ 44:33 - Death & Espionage - 1976-2001: John Munson tries to frame Riconosciuto, then his girlfriend dies; the Spiro family are killed in Southern California; arms dealer turned Israeli spy Ari Ben-Menashe, counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen turns double agent 50:10 - Trying to make some sense of it all Music by Fanette Ronjat Lapsus Linguae: I consistently mispronounce the name of Michael Riconosciuto thruoghout this episode, only finding out after I had recorded and edited that it should be closer to "Re-con-SHOO-toh" My bad. More Info: The Odd Mystery behind Charles C. Morgan's Death Cold Case: Strange evidence found in '77 on, near man's body Joe Bonanno Tuscon Arizona Crew Members video  The Kinship of Killers FBI Phoenix History The Odd Death of Charles C. Morgan on Unsolved Wiki Chuck Morgan on Unsolved Mysteries A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Strange Death of Doug Johnston Devereux Reports website Danny Casolaro on Alchetron Danny Casolaro on Unsolved Mysteries The Last Days of Danny Casolaro article plus several links The Strange Death of Danny Casolaro New York Times article, reprinted What Killed Danny Casolaro? Washington Post article THE STRANGE DEATH OF DANNY CASOLARO in Vanity Fair FBI files on Dan Casolaro Dan's file titled CIA Frank Terpil Renegades Danny Casolaro's files and notes Danny Casolaro Died for You backstory The Mysterious Death Of Danny Casolaro The INSLAW File The INSLAW Affair - chapter 17 of The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal by Cheri Seymour The INSLAW Affair documents Federal Corruption: INSLAW by Harry V. Martin The Promis Threat: An Octopus Slouches Toward Mena, Arkansas, Area 51 and The International UFO Congress in Las Vegas by Kenn Thomas, Steamshovel press, #7 Octopus Revisited by Kenn Thomas The Undying Octopus: FBI and the PROMIS affair Part 1 Black Arcadia - Danny Casolaro and the Octopus - Parts 1-3 Parts 4-7, Lindsay Biziak Murder parts 1-2 Parts 8-10 The INSLAW Octopus in Wired Code for PROMIS software BCCI SCANDAL: BEHIND THE 'BANK OF CROOKS AND CRIMINALS' in the Washington Post The Dictator-Run Bank That Tells the Story of America's Foreign Corruption BCCI Scandal document Danny Casolaro and the Octopus Syndicate video Casolaro Murder excerpts from The Village Voice Cabazon: How 'Indian gaming' began - LaRouche article Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery Badlands - article in Spy Magazine about many of these stories Worldwide Conspiracy, Or Fantasy? -- Felon's Story Checks Out - Kind Of Journalist Investigating Bank Was Second To Die Guatemala: Journalist's Murder May Be Linked With Bcci Scandal Murder in Rancho Santa Fe Investigators closed a mysterious murder case Wednesday and blamed... Secret Government Program Linked To Local Murders? KESQ new story on murders, INSLAW and more Transcript of interview with Ari Ben-Menashe for Journeyman.tv Justice Department records confirm PROMIS scandal's ties to Israel How an FBI Sting Took Down KGB Spy Robert Hanssen on Spyscape How Robert Hanssen Spied for the Soviets Because there's a LOT more to this, the timeline from Danny Casolaro Died for You Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it's a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it's going. It's Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER

This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined once again by co-host emeritus and Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to talk through national security news stories from the Holy Land to the Lone Star State, including:“Rebel Aviv.” Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's efforts to dramatically reform Israel's legal system hit a roadblock this past week in the form of widespread popular protests. After sacking his defense minister for suggesting that the reforms should be delayed, Netanyahu did just that—even as he also took steps to allow his most far-right allies to set up their own militia. What does this all mean for the future of Israeli democracy? “Wake Up in the Mornin' Feelin' Like J Biddy.” President Joe Biden may be poised to try and ban TikTok from the United States in light of the Chinese government's opposition to efforts to force a sale. And if he doesn't take such steps, Congress might. But is either step legally viable? What policy approach is best for this particular moment? “Whacko We Do.” Former President Trump held his first major campaign rally this past week in Waco, Texas. Among the headliners were controversial shock-rocker Ted Nugent and a literal chorus of individuals being prosecuted for participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Trump followed with extended remarks that dug deep into conspiracy theories and put rival Ron Desantis clearly in his crosshairs. What should we make of the event? And what does it tell us about the 2024 race? For object lessons, Alan urged listeners to check out the world historical 2010 NPR interview with none other than Ke$ha. Quinta welcomed the return of her Succession overlords. Scott offered a double-header: an endorsement of the Maximum Fun podcast network, which is currently holding its annual MaxFunDrive; and the perfect recipe for spring time, Melissa Clark's pasta primavera. And Ben issued his own double-header of recommended listening/viewing: Margaret Thatcher's 1992 reading of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait; and Spy Magazine's 1993 article "Are You Next?" on whether you are likely to be the next target of government repression.Here are a few more articles we referenced:Lawfare series on Israeli judicial reformsJameel Jaffer's op-ed in the New York Times about TikTokQuinta's essay about WacoDavid French's column on Trump's Waco rally Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There's a secret society called the Bohemian Club that holds a two-week exclusive event every year at Bohemian Grove in the Redwoods just north of San Francisco. Tim Chizmar (of The Game fame) returns to discuss this invitation-only, elite club that offers membership exclusively to rich and powerful men (most of whom are white). Famous actors, musicians, artists, business men and politicians are among the members who dress like druids and worship a 40-foot giant Owl god voiced by Walter Cronkite. Alex Jones infiltrated Bohemian Grove in 2000 and filmed one of their rituals, the Creation of Care. Journalist Phillip Weiss from Spy Magazine also snuck into Bohemian Grove in 1989, and wrote an in-depth piece on their activities and location. And Tim Chizmar has three first-hand accounts about Bohemian Grove from former employees. But the real question to ask is, is Bohemian Grove just a summer camp for powerful, rich men or is there something else more sinister and nefarious going on among the trees and in the elaborate tunnels rumored to run beneath the forest? Thank you for supporting our sponsors!FanDuel: download the FanDuel app & use promo code JERICHO to get up a “No Sweat First Bet” up to $1,000 dollars.eBay Motors: get the right parts, the right fit, and the right prices. https://ebaymotors.comToyota: Visit https://toyota.com/GRFamily to find your perfect Toyota!Cynch: download the Cynch app or go https://www.cynch.com/ and get your first tank exchange for $10 with code JERICHO.Bosch Tools: learn more at https://www.boschtools.com/us/en/SlingTV: check out https://www.sling.com/ for special offers  STAY CONNECTED:TikTok: @TalkIsJerichoInstagram: @talkisjericho @chrisjerichofozzy Twitter: @TalkIsJericho @IAmJerichoYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisJerichoFozzyWebsite: https://www.webisjericho.com/

3:12:38 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Spy Magazine, smashing TVs, e-waste, subcultures that are no more, Clever 4Ever, LAMA, Pink Taco, mobile game monetization, Winter Village, Overwatch 2, vegan hoardings on 42nd, coffee machines busted, Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous (1990), Grand Central Madison, dimensional travel, newsstand without […]

3:12:38 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Spy Magazine, smashing TVs, e-waste, subcultures that are no more, Clever 4Ever, LAMA, Pink Taco, mobile game monetization, Winter Village, Overwatch 2, vegan hoardings on 42nd, coffee machines busted, Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous (1990), Grand Central Madison, dimensional travel, newsstand without […]

Socialite divorcee Tracy Lord is engaged again to the nouveau riche George Kittredge, which puts her back in the spotlight of Spy Magazine's writer and photographer, who've been put on the scent by Tracy's ex-husband in a transparent bid to win her back. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY helped reverse Katharine Hepburn's slumping career, but it's also a fun rom-com that leverages class politics (old money, new money, and no money) in punchy scenes with writing matched only by its delivery. PROTOTYPES FOR THE ROM-COM (Dec 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/prototypes-for-the-rom-com/ As of this recording, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY is available to stream on HBO Now. If you don't have that or don't want to use it, click here: https://archive.org/details/nupcias-de-esandalo_1940 Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: Title sequences by Franz Waxman from the THE PHILADELPHIA STORY soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 203: THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) 4:24 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:29 - Dialogue, writing, and the unraveling performance of class 15:35 - Meeting messy and nuanced characters 38:20 - The ending 46:00 - The Junk Drawer 57:42 - Cody's Noteys: Trylibs – Cukorian Romance (ad libs)

Many episodes of this show grapple with the perhaps unanswerable question: why is America the way it is? Is there something inherent in American culture that answers where we're going? Kurt Andersen has been exploring the nature of American culture throughout his varied career, from co-founding Spy Magazine, writing for Time and The New Yorker, writing several novels, hosting the public radio show Studio 360, and most comprehensively through his recent two volume history of America: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire and Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America. He's here today in conversation with Tom Knoblauch about his intellectual journey and the answers he has found in both our fantasies and our histories—and what this means for America's future. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/riversidechats/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/riversidechats/support

In a special episode of Deep State Radio, David Rothkopf talks with Kurt Andersen about where his "evil geniuses" are now and the state of the country as we head into the midterms. They are joined by Nell Scovell and Marissa Rothkopf who both worked for Kurt at Spy Magazine. How have the Republican party and the media been corrupted? Why are Harvard and Yale graduates railing against the "elites"? Is Spy Magazine ultimately at fault for the political rise of Donald Trump? Find out during this exciting episode. Join us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a special episode of Deep State Radio, David Rothkopf talks with Kurt Andersen about where his "evil geniuses" are now and the state of the country as we head into the midterms. They are joined by Nell Scovell and Marissa Rothkopf who both worked for Kurt at Spy Magazine. How have the Republican party and the media been corrupted? Why are Harvard and Yale graduates railing against the "elites"? Is Spy Magazine ultimately at fault for the political rise of Donald Trump? Find out during this exciting episode. Join us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lance Gould has a pretty terrific story to tell. He began as a journalist covering the UN and ended up becoming Arianna Huffington's “bestie,” managing the opinion section for the Huffington Post. (He says only the Pope refused to take his call.) Now he is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Brooklyn Story Lab (BSL), a media-strategy firm that teaches purpose-driven organizations how to be more effective storytellers, particularly around their SDG-related work. And quite a bit of his work revolves around world food issues. He was previously a journalist who held newsroom-leadership positions at The Huffington Post (Executive Editor), The Boston Phoenix (Editor in Chief), The New York Daily News (Deputy Managing Editor), and Spy Magazine. In 2016, Lance received a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award for his editorial work related to the SDGs. In 2017, Lance was named to the Leadership Council for the UN's Media for Social Impact Summit. He is on the Board of World Elephant Day and for four years has been a volunteer commissioner for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Commission on Education and Communications.Photo Courtesy of Lance Gould.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Let's Talk About Food by becoming a member!Let's Talk About Food is Powered by Simplecast.

This week's episode of our New York City special is something of a departure from our normal service, in that it's much more about storytelling than menswear. You can blame Aleks for this; the chance to quiz Air Mail deputy editor and New York Times bestselling author Michael Hainey on on his extraordinary career was just too much to handle.So, in this conversation Aleks explores Hainey's career, gets his take on ‘finding your voice', and hears Hainey's thoughts on why the best journalists write up what they see, rather than what they think. The pair also chat through Hainey's cathartic experience in writing his extraordinary memoire, After Visiting Friends.If you enjoy listening, don't forget to follow us on Instagram @handcutradio, and leave us a five star review – it boosts us up the podcast charts, and helps other listeners to discover HandCut Radio.---HandCut Radio is produced by Birch, the London based creative office of James Allen. Our theme music is by Joe Boyd.HandCut Radio is proud to be sponsored by Thomas Mason, an historic mill that's been supplying famous designers, shirtmakers and tailors with world class shirting fabrics since 1796.---Show Notes:Michael Hainey — Website | Instagram[10:33] Airmail[10:48] Spy Magazine (defunct)[12:55] Graydon Carter[17:30] Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis[17:31] Bret Easton Ellis[24:10] Adam Rapoport[32:22] L'Etiquette Magazine[40:13] Stephen Glass, ‘Loving Lies' (article)[41:03] Shattered Glass (film)[43:05] Joseph Bullmore[48:29] After Visiting Friends by Michael Hainey (book)

We've always had a thing for magazine launches. They're filled with drama and melodrama, people behaving with passion and conviction, and people ... misbehaving. Anything to get that first issue onto the stands and into the hands of readers. Some new ventures seem to sneak in the back door. Who saw Wired or Fast Company coming? Others are to the manner born, and from the most elite print parents. But, even with that pedigree they never gain traction, never display the scrappiness and experimentation that we've come to expect from anything new. (You know who you are). But then, one day, along comes The Greatest Startup in the History of Magazine Startups. A magazine that dares to mercilessly, and humorously, vilify high society. The one that big time journalists pretend to ignore but were first to the newsstand each month to grab their copy. The one that created packaging conceits: Separated at Birth, Private Lives of Public Enemies, Blurb-o-mat, and Naked City. Plus, the adorable nicknames — “Short-fingered vulgarian” — that persist to this day. That's right, we're talking about Spy. And in this episode we'll meet Kurt Andersen who, along with Graydon Carter and Tom Philips, founded what became an instantaneous cultural phenomenon: SPY magazine. The axis of the publishing world tilted when it hit the stands. “Spy was the most influential magazine of the 1980s,” the author Dave Eggers wrote. “It definitely changed the whole tone of magazine journalism. It was cruel, brilliant, beautifully-written and perfectly-designed — and feared by all.” There had never been anything like Spy before. Nothing since has come close.

Occam's razor states that "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.” This hour is all about Occam’s razor: where the principle came from, how it impacts science, its role in medicine, and how it shapes our daily lives. GUESTS: Johnjoe McFadden - Author of “Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe.” Kurt Andersen - Co-founder of Spy Magazine and he was the host and co-creator of Studio 360; his newest book is “Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America -- A Recent History.” Dr. Lisa Sanders - A Clinician Educator in the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program at the Yale School of Medicine. She is also the author of the “Diagnosis” column for “The New York Times Magazine,” and is behind the Netflix show “Diagnosis.” She was also a technical advisor for the TV show “House,” which was based on her column. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pat talks to Kurt Andersen about his book: Evil Geniuses, the Unmaking of America. Andersen is the author of novels such as Fantasyland. He co-founded Spy Magazine, was managing editor of Time magazine, lead host of NPR's studio 360 and he's covered the politics and architecture beat for various publications. While he was aware of the widening wealth gap throughout the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, it wasn't until he wrote Fantasyland and started research for Evil Geniuses that he saw the intentionality and deviousness of the systematic way in which corporate interests have shaped our political economy over the last 50 years. Evil Geniuses examines coordinated efforts to achieve conservative economical and political changes in the United States from the 1970s to 2020, and discusses how the resulting unfettered laissez-faire approach to capitalism has resulted in an extreme level of economic inequality. In addition to talking about the history of how the system was rigged, how Americans were taught to distrust the government, and how taxes and regulations have been systematically slashed since the 1970s, Andersen explains in the interview some potential solutions to wealth inequality: Universal Basic Income, Boosting Union membership and Union power, worker Co-operatives, removing the profit motive from healthcare, and more. In the open, Dan is back! We went for a longer discussion this episode to provide plenty of discussion around some of the key issues that Pat and Kurt Andersen discuss in the interview. We discussed the current Infrastructure Bill as well. This episode was edited, mixed, and mastered by CMoney Burns. For help with your audio needs, feel free to contact him on Twitter at @CMoneyBurns Further reading on this topic: The Powell Memo: https://law2.wlu.edu/deptimages/Powell%20Archives/PowellMemorandumTypescript.pdf Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan by Kim Phillips-Fein https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2751831-invisible-hands Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30011020-democracy-in-chains --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/trickledownsocialism/support

On this Best of 2020: Sam hosts author, radio host, and Spy Magazine founder Kurt Andersen to discuss his latest book Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History and how the last 50 years have turned the clock back on economic equality and progress in America. Andersen and Sam begin their conversation discussing the power of nostalgia and how it took such a hold in American culture after the 60s counterrevolution and civil rights movement. The two continue their conversation discussing the Lewis Powell memo and how corporate leaders wanted to change public sentiment towards corporate capitalism. Sam also explains his appreciation of Andersen’s novel Turn of the Century and Andersen shares how his political attitudes changed during that period at the beginning of the 21st century. Andersen and Sam conclude the conversation as to what lies ahead for younger generations of Americans and how does Joe Biden help usher in change, maybe.

Sam hosts author, radio host, and Spy Magazine founder Kurt Andersen to discuss his latest book Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History and how the last 50 years have turned the clock back on economic equality and progress in America. Andersen and Sam begin their conversation discussing the power of nostalgia and how it took such a hold in American culture after the 60s counterrevolution and civil rights movement. The two continue their conversation discussing the Lewis Powell memo and how corporate leaders wanted to change public sentiment towards corporate capitalism. Sam also explains his appreciation of Andersen's novel Turn of the Century and Andersen shares how his political attitudes changed during that period at the beginning of the 21st century. Andersen and Sam conclude the conversation as to what lies ahead for younger generations of Americans and how does Joe Biden help usher in change, maybe. And in the Fun Half: Trump is mad at John McCain and the military-industrial complex he empowers, Louis DeJoy is in hot water over campaign finance laws, updates from a teacher at the frontlines of the new Covid frontlines, Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com Check out the Brand New Majority Report Merch Shop https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ (Merch issues and concerns can be addressed here: majorityreportstore@mirrorimage.com) The AM Quickie is now on YouTube Subscribe to the AM Quickie at https://fans.fm/amquickie Make the AMQ part of your Alexa Flash Briefing too! You can now watch the livestream on Twitch Check Out Today's Sponsors: Magic Spoon is a new cereal company that’s discovered a way to recreate your favorite childhood cereals with 0 sugar, 12 grams of protein, and only 3 net grams of carbs in each serving. Go to magicspoon.com/majorityreport to grab a variety pack and try it today, and use promo code MAJORITYREPORT at checkout to get free shipping. Native deodorant is formulated without aluminum, parabens, or talc, and made with ingredienAs you’ve actually heard of, like coconut oil and shea butter.  For 20% off your first purchase, visit nativedeodorant.com and use promo code MAJORITY during checkout. sunsetlakecbd is a majority employee owned farm in Vermont, producing 100% pesticide free CBD products. Great company, great product and fans of the show! Use code Leftisbest and get 20% off at http://www.sunsetlakecbd.com Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.substack.com/ Subscribe to AM Quickie writer Corey Pein’s newsletter at theend.substack.com Check out The Nomiki Show at patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Matt’s podcast, Literary Hangover, at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover, or on iTunes. Check out Jamie’s podcast, The Antifada, at patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or at twitch.tv/theantifada Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @MattLech @NomikiKonst @jamie_elizabeth @BF1nn

Hearing from Graydon reminded me of the good old days of New York publishing and magazine life—his decadent parties at the Puck building were absolutely unforgettable, equipped with mountains of pâté, all-girl swing bands, and filled with women in Madonna-style bubble dresses.  Once co-founder of the satirical Spy Magazine and editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, Graydon has escaped New York for the Cote d’Azur, where he has been staying with his family and surrounded by an international crowd of friends and acquaintances. Currently writing a memoir that he anticipates will be both “illuminating” and “slightly mortifying,” the editor is also working on his weekly digital publication, “Air Mail", and loves seeing his team on Zoom every Friday evening for the office’s Happy Hour tradition.  I spoke to Graydon over Zoom about why he loves newsstands, how he imagines Cannes becoming a drive-in film festival, and why he stays off of social media altogether. 

Writer Kurt Andersen joins Lisa Birnbach to talk about his important new book "Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History" and how we got to where we are. Then of course - The 5 Things that make their lives better. Part 1 of 2 (listen next week to episode 112)

Thursday, April 23, 2020, 12 noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.org Host: Duo Dickinson Winston Churchill famously said, “We shape our buildings, then they shape us.” That was a reassuring idea for architects, who have long believed that they could define culture. These last weeks may prove the opposite. What shapes our culture, shapes what we build, and what we build shapes architecture. The order is rarely shuffled. This past month has seen our world dramatically change. A virus exploded into the global population, because in part the world has shrunk: in many places people live in a greater density than ever before. The impact of Covid19 is just the latest extreme break in our cultural evolution, and its impacts are seismic, and will change the way we build things. These events could mean that our culture is at the beginning of a flattening of a much older curve. This curve did not start with “thought leaders” it was created by commerce and technology. The world has exploded in connection since World War 2. The number of those flying went from 100 million passengers in 1966 to 1.4 billion in 2018. We connected. We became denser, and we became more vulnerable. What happens to “Density” and New Urbanism in the Post COVID19 world? What happens to architecture’s “International School”‘s base default Canon of Modernism? Will we continue to aspire to an architectural, even cultural Esperanto? Will the vernacular in all aesthetics become desirable? Will our reduced footprint in Mid-COVID19 sequestration be desirable once we all get vaccinated? Join 3 exceptional thought leaders in architecture, culture and urban visioning. Kurt Andersen helped created Spy Magazine, the Studio 360 Radio program, was the architecture critic of Time Magazine, and has recently written “Fantasyland” among many best selling books. Nikos Salingaros is a math professor at the University of Texas, architecture critic and urban designer, who has written and talked worldwide on all things aesthetic. Patrick Pinnell, FAIA, has taught at the University of Maryland, Yale University, and is an architect, urban designer, writer and speaker on New Urbanism, design and history in architecture.

Probably two things that elicit the same reactions; eye-rolls, confusion and maybe disinterest. But together there's a fantastic cheeky story. After the show read the full story at the Spy Magazine link below.   Listening on Apple? Leave a review when you get a chance. You can suggest topics by email - hi@nearly.com.au   Links to the Answer Spy Magazine (July 1990) Vanity Fair   Somehow Related is produced by Nearly, a podcast network. The robot's voice comes from Google Home. They're pretty good. Original theme music by Kit Warhurst. Artwork created by Stacy Gougoulis.   Looking for another podcast? Post Pandemic - expert insight into what's ahead after Covid-19 10 Questions with Adam Zwar - The same 10 questions with answers that vary wildly. The Clappers - Pop culture insights with Karl Quinn and Andrew Young.

If Don Rickles were a woman with a slight weight problem and a well-documented fondness for having sex with African-American men, he'd sound an awful lot like comedienne Lisa Lampanelli, comedy's lovable queen of mean. Lampanelli studied journalism at Syracuse University and Harvard, and briefly enjoyed a successful career in the magazine industry, working at 'Popular Mechanics," "Spy Magazine," and was contributor for "Hit Parader" and "Rolling Stone." Deciding journalism was not for her, she quit and became a party DJ in 1990, entertaining partygoers via the microphone. Following a trip to a comedy club, she took a course in improvisation, which led to her first successful stand-up performances in New York City in the early 1990s. Lampanelli's real rise to fame began in 2001, where she made a stand-out appearance on Comedy Central's Friar's Club Roast of Hugh Hefner and was invited back in 2002 as the only female comedian invited to roast Chevy Chase at the New York Friars club which would air on Comedy Central. One of the few white comedians to perform on BET's comic view, she became a regular guest on Howard Stern's radio show, produced her first stand-up special, "The Queen of Mean" in 2002, and her first album, "Take it Like A Man," tied into another cable special with the same title in 2006 peaked at #6 on the comedy charts. In 2006, Lampanelli made her movie debut along side fellow comic Larry the Cable Guy in his film "Health Inspector," and issued her second album, "Dirty Girl," in early 2007, with the simultaneous release of a concert DVD featuring the same material, which reached #4 on the charts and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album of the year...culminating in being named "Maxim Magazine's" Bachelorette of the year. In 2008, she served as roastmaster for the Larry the Cable Guy Roast, and also performed at Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall. In 2009, Lisa published her first book, a memoir "Chocolate, Please: My Adventures in Food, Fat, and Freaks." Lampanelli's other comedy albums include "Long Live the Queen," "Tough Love," and most recently was again nominated for a Grammy Award-her second- for "Back to the Drawing Board." She was a contestant on "Celebrity Apprentice," where she raised $130,000 for gay men's health crisis.

If Don Rickles were a woman with a slight weight problem and a well-documented fondness for having sex with African-American men, he'd sound an awful lot like comedienne Lisa Lampanelli, comedy's lovable queen of mean. Lampanelli studied journalism at Syracuse University and Harvard, and briefly enjoyed a successful career in the magazine industry, working at 'Popular Mechanics," "Spy Magazine," and was contributor for "Hit Parader" and "Rolling Stone." Deciding journalism was not for her, she quit and became a party DJ in 1990, entertaining partygoers via the microphone. Following a trip to a comedy club, she took a course in improvisation, which led to her first successful stand-up performances in New York City in the early 1990s. Lampanelli's real rise to fame began in 2001, where she made a stand-out appearance on Comedy Central's Friar's Club Roast of Hugh Hefner and was invited back in 2002 as the only female comedian invited to roast Chevy Chase at the New York Friars club which would air on Comedy Central. One of the few white comedians to perform on BET's comic view, she became a regular guest on Howard Stern's radio show, produced her first stand-up special, "The Queen of Mean" in 2002, and her first album, "Take it Like A Man," tied into another cable special with the same title in 2006 peaked at #6 on the comedy charts. In 2006, Lampanelli made her movie debut along side fellow comic Larry the Cable Guy in his film "Health Inspector," and issued her second album, "Dirty Girl," in early 2007, with the simultaneous release of a concert DVD featuring the same material, which reached #4 on the charts and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album of the year...culminating in being named "Maxim Magazine's" Bachelorette of the year. In 2008, she served as roastmaster for the Larry the Cable Guy Roast, and also performed at Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall. In 2009, Lisa published her first book, a memoir "Chocolate, Please: My Adventures in Food, Fat, and Freaks." Lampanelli's other comedy albums include "Long Live the Queen," "Tough Love," and most recently was again nominated for a Grammy Award-her second- for "Back to the Drawing Board." She was a contestant on "Celebrity Apprentice," where she raised $130,000 for gay men's health crisis.

At some point in the past decade, Kurt Andersen felt like he had to figure out America. Coming from a professional career rooted in satire and troublemaking, Kurt had a pretty good vantage point to examine the tug of war between reason and magical thinking that has become a chronic American condition. Kurt talks with Marc about putting this all into his book, Fantasyland, and recalls the founding of Spy Magazine, where he and Graydon Carter took pleasure messing with public institutions like the New York Times, Hollywood, and Donald Trump. They also talk about Kurt's time at the Harvard Lampoon and how he came to host Studio 360. This episode is sponsored by Lights Out with David Spade, Stamps.com, and ZipRecruiter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast.

Nell started her career writing for Spy Magazine and Vanity Fair. Since then, she’s written for The Simpsons, Letterman, Murphy Brown, Newhart, NCIS, she created Sabrina The Teenage Witch, she was the executive producer on Charmed. She has written jokes for Obama. She co-wrote Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s best-selling book, Lean In. And her autobiography, Just the Funny Parts, is an enthralling book. If you’re ever stuck, or feeling alone as a writer, dip into Just the Funny Parts, and I’m certain it’ll bring you out of your funk and inspire you to stay the course. It certainly did that for me. I interviewed Nell in Sydney in front of a live audience at the invitation of Jungle Entertainment where she is working with a bunch of Australian writers.   Socials Twitter - Adam Zwar Facebook - Adam Zwar   10 Questions with Adam Zwar is produced in party by Nearly. On the web -10questionswithadamzwar.com

Kurt Andersen is a writer, radio host, and journalist. He's the author of novels True Believers, Heyday, and Turn of the Century, and has written for film, television, and stage. He is the host and co-creator of arts and culture radio show Studio 360, co-founder of Spy Magazine, and author of Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire. Oh, he was also the design critic at Time for eight years. In this episode, Jarrett and Kurt talk about how he started writing about design, how design is a constant theme that runs through all of his, and why Fantasyland might be a book about design. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm.

Here's a phone convo I recently had with longtime Facebook friend and TV-writer extraordinaire Nell Scovell. Since she'll be in town this weekend for the Ann & Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival (https://www.erjcchouston.org/arts/jewish-book-arts-festival/), we talk about her memoir Just the Funny Parts: ... And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys' Club. We also discuss her years at Harvard, her time writing for Spy Magazine, how she got into the TV-writing game and how things have changed since then -- if at all. The Sour Hour airs Wednesday nights, 9/8c, on KPFT HD2. You can listen live at http://kpft.org/listen.

As the founder of The Onion, Scott Dikkers practically invented "fake news."  He discusses the origins of the satirical news site as a print newspaper on college campuses, how he drew inspiration from National Lampoon and Spy Magazine, and the article about Bill Clinton and the War in Bosnia that prompted The Onion to finally go online.  He recalls creating cable news parodies with a young Stephen Colbert on the Dana Carvey Show, how the Onion fooled Mahmud Ahmadenijad, and the article that led Donald Trump to threaten to sue.  Then Scott shares why he’s turning his sharp wit on billionaire Elon Musk in his new book Welcome to the Future Which Is Mine. Order Welcome to the Future Which Is Mine on Amazon, Audible, or wherever books are sold.  Read the latest sidesplitting headlines on the Onion at www.theonion.com, and keep up with Scott at www.ScottDikkers.com or on Twitter at @ScottDikkers.  Today's episode was sponsored by Heineken.  Visit Kickass News at www.kickassnews.com, subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts, and follow us on twitter at @KickassNewsPod.

Rae was lucky enough to have this powerful duo in the studio at the same time. Kurt Andersen, founder of Spy Magazine, host of Studio360 and NYT best selling author, talks about his latest book FANTASYLAND, working with Alec Baldwin, the state of our union under Trump and how Angelina Jolie hit on him. For his part, Doug Liman, (acclaimed director of Swingers, Bourne Identity, Fair Game and the new film with Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley called CHAOS WALKING) reveals secrets from the set of Mr and Mrs Smith, how he crafts unique action sequences on his films and managing his very Jewish mother.

September 11-18, 1970 FALL PREVIEW ALERT! Today Ken welcomes TV writer and author of the new book "Just the Funny Parts", Nell Scovell to the show. Ken and Nell discuss New England, The Marx Brothers, Newhart, Bill Fiends, perfume smelling from the head down, Mark Harmon, the first color show, Batman '66, Get Smart, When Things Were Rotten, Mary Tyler Moore, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Star Trek, My Man Godfrey, Warehouse 13, Murphy Brown, Outlander, Fringe, product placement, women in comedy, Designing Women, Carol Burnett, going through the looking glass, JFK Jr., Spy Magazine, the lagoon from Gilligan's Island, Joel Hodgson, TV Wheel, Mad Magazine, parody, Monty Python, Kate & Allie, loving Jane Curtain, SCTV, SNL, Albert Brooks, Obama as comedian, writing jokes for Hillary, the wonders of Caroline Rea, remaking McCloud with Brett Butler, saving up your TV time and dreading The Wire.

Nell Scovell has written for a Murderers' Row of television comedies - including The Simpsons, It's Garry Shandling's Show, Murphy Brown, and Newhart - created Sabrina the Teenage Witch, wrote for Vanity Fair and Spy Magazine, and co-wrote the mega-hit book Lean In. But as she tells Marc, and outlines in her new memoir, Nell also worked hard to change attitudes in male-dominated writers rooms and challenge the lazy biases of Hollywood. Also, Bill Hader returns to talk about his new show Barry, where he plays a hitman not unlike himself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast.

Geoff Reis, General Manager of Sports at Oath, joins Joe and Tom to talk about digital sports content Geoff Reiss is the General Manager of Sports at Oath. With his career in media spanning digital, print, television and live events, he has helped shape some of the most innovative businesses in sports. After spending six years at Spy Magazine, he joined Starwave, the digital media and technology company founded by Paul Allen. While at Starwave, Reiss oversaw the launch of ESPN.com, NFL.com, NBA.Com and Nascar.com and managed the creation of ESPN's Fantasy and Insider products. While at ESPN, Geoff managed ESPN the Magazine, oversaw the development and acquisition of the Peabody Award winning documentary Black Magic, and led ESPN's licensing efforts which included the company's groundbreaking deal with Electronic Arts. Geoff talks about his groundbreaking work at Oath, streaming deals with the NFL and the NBA and his amazing sports story! Be sure to download the Yahoo Sports app on your phone! The Facts The CUSP Show is a production by the faculty of Sports Management at Columbia University. You can get in touch with the program on Twitter @CU_SPS_Sports Our presenters are Joe Favorito (@Joefav) and Tom Richardson

HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by former longtime Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter to discuss working in a world of satire (6:00), the creation of Spy Magazine (11:00), Trump's threats against Spy Magazine (20:00), the prosperity of the '90s (30:00), the tabloid decade of the 2000s (38:00), Los Angeles as the top American city (52:00), the Vanity Fair Oscars party (1:04:00), and the "grass is always greener" mentality in society (1:12:00).

Episode #57 - Muckraking Hollywood journalist Marc Ebner Scientology, David Carradine, & Hollywood's Gay Mafia INTRO w/ a Skeleton crew 6min - Helped break Cosby story - BLACKBALLED Tamara Green, Joan Tarshish https://duckduckgo.com/?q=list+of+cosby%27s+alleged+victims 10min - Bill O'Reilly, & FOX News' "not-so SEXY" $13 million bailout 11min - Fun & games @ The Playboy Mansion 13min - Dr. Marc "FEELGOOD"? Saginor, James Caann 16min - Cosby & Spanish Fly 18min - Disco biscuits 19min - Playboy Mansion's "Secret" tunnels? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=playboy+mansion+secret+tunnels Ebner goes "GONZO" in Hef's robe 22min - Bunny Tales https://www.amazon.com/Bunny-Tales-Behind-Playboy-Mansion/dp/0762432306 25min - Meeting & collaborating w/ Andrew Breitbart https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Ebner/e/B001IXNZG4 30min - Brietbart's "MYSTERIOUS" death, Coroner quickly following suit https://duckduckgo.com/?q=brietbarts+last+tweet+pizzagate+podesta https://duckduckgo.com/?q=breitbart+coroner+poisoned 34min - Louis Theroux's New Documentary https://duckduckgo.com/?q=louis+theroux+my+scientology 36min - Scientology postergirl Jenna Elfman ambushed on REDDIT 40min - South Park's "Trapped in the Closet" 43min - SPY Magazine's 1996 - "Do You Want To Buy A Bridge?" https://duckduckgo.com/?q=do+you+want+to+buy+a+bridge+ebner 49min - Freelancing for Rolling Stone - the suicide of MIT's Phillip Gayle "Death Of A Nethead." http://gawker.com/5061091/death-of-a-nethead 51min - A popular author among America's prisons 54min - The BLING RING 56min - David Carradine's mysterious "death by auto-erotic asphyxiation", Murder or suicide MYSTERY? plausible deniability, motive, means, opportunity https://duckduckgo.com/?q=david+carradine+murdered+suicide+misadventure 1hr8min - 1989's Sunnyboy w/ Carradine in drag 1hr9min - Carradine's father & Hollywood's notorious Hellfire Club? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hollywood+hellfire+club 1hr10min - Lord Stompy makes it into the Crowsnest, Marc tells a Pirate story https://www.youtube.com/results?q=ching+shih 1hr12min - Trump, the DPRK & WTSHTF 1hr15min - Hollywood's GAY MAFIA no longer exists? Milo on the Joe Rogan Show 1hr17min - Brian Singer's "TWINK" parties 1hr20min - Legal WEED in the DPRK, TWITTER WARS with Seth Rogen. WE WON !!!!! https://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com

It's the most wonderful time of the year of course, by wonderful, I  mean living in the state of total, unending, frantic chaos and constantly forgetting that you have to buy stamps and your out of Scotch tape. BUT we have an amazing show providing two very interesting looks inside the beautiful business that we call show to wrap up the 2016 year. Pete Aronson is here. Pete is the head of programming and development at the Independent Film Channel, not only is the executive who shepherded my show Stan Against Evil through development and production, he is also is an old friend of mine, who I met first as a writer, and I thought, as we wrap up the year, who better to give you an executive's perspective on the TV business, but in the way regular people can understand and relate to. Pete is smart, funny and a profoundly decent human being, but he's managed to stay working in show business despite that. Also, Kliph Nesteroff and Drew Friedman are here. Kliph wrote one of my favorite books of 2016, The Comedians, a history of stand up comedy in America, now in paperback, and Drew Friedman, Drew is something of a legend. He is an cartoonist and caricature artist. You've seen his work on the cover of The New Yorker, the New York Observer, the late, great, SPY Magazine, but his notoriety goes all the way back to the underground comics of the early '80's like Weirdo and Screw. His book Any Resemblance To Persons Living Or Dead Is Purely Coincidental is one of the single funniest things I have ever read, and his new book, More Heroes Of The Comics, is out right now. http://DanaGould.com

Getting emotional at the office is typically a big no-no. Expressing anger can be particularly nasty. But is it really healthy to keep it all in? (Black Mirror Season 3 watchers will know the answer to that.) Maybe Trump really is right (yes, that's not a typo) and what happens at work IS, in fact, only business? Cue Anne Kreamer, one of the founders of Spy Magazine, a Fast Company columnist, and author of the book (cue drumroll)...It's All Personal. Anne gave us the full frontal on anger at work, and we didn't cry once. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If Don Rickles were a woman with a slight weight problem and a well-documented fondness for having sex with African-American men, he'd sound an awful lot like comedienne Lisa Lampanelli, comedy's lovable queen of mean. Lampanelli studied journalism at Syracuse University and Harvard, and briefly enjoyed a successful career in the magazine industry, working at 'Popular Mechanics," "Spy Magazine," and was contributor for "Hit Parader" and "Rolling Stone." Deciding journalism was not for her, she quit and became a party DJ in 1990, entertaining partygoers via the microphone. Following a trip to a comedy club, she took a course in improvisation, which led to her first successful stand-up performances in New York City in the early 1990s. Lampanelli's real rise to fame began in 2001, where she made a stand-out appearance on Comedy Central's Friar's Club Roast of Hugh Hefner and was invited back in 2002 as the only female comedian invited to roast Chevy Chase at the New York Friars club which would air on Comedy Central. One of the few white comedians to perform on BET's comic view, she became a regular guest on Howard Stern's radio show, produced her first stand-up special, "The Queen of Mean" in 2002, and her first album, "Take it Like A Man," tied into another cable special with the same title in 2006 peaked at #6 on the comedy charts. In 2006, Lampanelli made her movie debut along side fellow comic Larry the Cable Guy in his film "Health Inspector," and issued her second album, "Dirty Girl," in early 2007, with the simultaneous release of a concert DVD featuring the same material, which reached #4 on the charts and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album of the year...culminating in being named "Maxim Magazine's" Bachelorette of the year. In 2008, she served as roastmaster for the Larry the Cable Guy Roast, and also performed at Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall. In 2009, Lisa published her first book, a memoir "Chocolate, Please: My Adventures in Food, Fat, and Freaks." Lampanelli's other comedy albums include "Long Live the Queen," "Tough Love," and most recently this year was again nominated for a Grammy Award-her second- for "Back to the Drawing Board." She was a contestant on "Celebrity Apprentice," where she raised $130,000 for gay men's health crisis. Lampanelli is currently performing in the world premiere of her off-broadway play, "Stuffed," which explored the complexity of women's relationship to food and body image through her signature comedic style. At the Mcginn/Cazale Theater at 2162 Broadway at 76th street.  

In this week’s episode: 1 Kings 12-15.  We continue in the Book of Kings with appendages, aggressiveness and aggrandizement. And ICYMI, here's the "Nice" Issue of Spy Magazine from 1988.

Kurt Andersen is the co-founder of Spy Magazine, the author of several books, and the host of Studio 360. “As a young person, I never thought of myself as a risk-taker. Then I did this risky thing that shouldn't have succeeded, I started this magazine. And it did encourage me to think, ‘Eh, how bad can it be if it fails? Sometimes these long shots work. So fuck it, try it.’” Thanks to MailChimp, MasterClass, The Message, RealtyShares, and Prudential for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: @KBAndersen kurtandersen.com Andersen on Longform [2:00] The Spy Magazine archive on Google Books [12:00] Private Eye [19:00] "Felkerism" (New York • Jul 2008) [25:00] "When a Magazine Is Too Brash for the Bottom Line" (Robin Pogrebin • New York Times • Sep 1996) [28:00] Turn of the Century (Random House • 1999) [28:00] Heyday (Random House • 2007) [31:00] "The Digital Bubble " (New Yorker • Jan 1998) [33:00] "Inside Out" (Ken Auletta • New Yorker • May 2006) [40:00] Studio 360 [42:00] "Lily Tomlin's Audacious Life" (Studio 360 • Aug 2015) [54:00] "Here Is New York" (E.B. White • 1949) [pdf]

Ellis Weiner, former writer and editor at National Lampoon, columnist at Spy Magazine, and currently a contributor at The New Yorker, joins Laurie Winer and Seth Greenland on this week's show. They discuss Weiner's prolific career as a humor writer and the history of humor writing in America.

Henry Alford is a very funny writer. I've been laughing at his writing since about 1990, when he erupted in Spy Magazine, with hilarious speculative pieces like, "What If The Pope Were A Dog?"Not long ago, he was asked to review a collection by another funny writer, Garrison Keillor. He did it, keenly aware that many people who find him funny are the kinds of people who find Keillor tiresome. And, maybe a bigger problem, Keillor had written some columns about gays and atheists that riled up not just Alford's fans, but people he knows pretty well. So what's a critic to do? Alford actually admired some things about the book, and said so. There was pushback. We'll talk about that today on The Scramble. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.