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David Friend

lines on the record: 105
first: 2018-01-15
most recent: 2018-01-15
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“It was a great magazine of the years. Jane Prepp. Yeah. But then Graydon just sort of came back to me and said, let's do it. And I said, I'm really, I can't. I'm just starting this job at life. I love it. I was there for 20 years as well. Then in 98, we just sort of said, let's do it. And I came over, and he gave me this job. He said, look, I want you to be the news editor. I said, Graydon. I've been the news editor. I don't even need to be the news editor again. You know me as a news editor. I'd like to, and I invented a job. I said, I want to do the extra shit. That's the job. Can I say this on Riga? Yeah, you can say. I said, why don't I be the editor of the extra shit? Right. You don't do books. You don't do television. You don't do the web. Let me do those things.”
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“Pi was the 80s, great magazine, still funny. It still holds up, and Donald Trump was on many, many of the covers. Yeah, he's alone. And the phrases”
2018-01-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: David Friend, author, ‘The Naughty Nineties’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Always worse on you Exactly. No, I remember him pitching me in 92 saying, you know, I was with. I was with Princess Diana at a party last week. You're going to go to parties. You're going to be doing this and that. Oh, I got Diana. He told me some great reasons to come over there. We're going to have a great time. It's like a club, which is what he was saying when you were starting SPY. And I said, I can't. That was the 80s.”
2018-01-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: David Friend, author, ‘The Naughty Nineties’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Over 15. Yeah. And I said, Look, I can't. I'm having a great time. He said, David, nobody reads life anymore. You know, why do you come on to work with me? And he eventually...”
2018-01-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: David Friend, author, ‘The Naughty Nineties’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The New Life magazine for me. I started in 1978. And Graydon Carter was there as a young writer when I was a young reporter running around the... World with photographers, and we got to know each other. And he kept trying to get me to come to Vanity Fair. And I said, look,”
2018-01-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: David Friend, author, ‘The Naughty Nineties’ · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT