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Lena Dunham

lines on the record: 81
first: 2015-09-28
most recent: 2015-09-28
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Lists of lists. I have all of our, I have like Lenny to do, a casual romance to do, girls to do, and then it's just, but my boyfriend goes insane because he's like, I have my special, like, deleting things off my list time before bed. Which makes it better. Makes me feel better and him feel worse”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And one time Jenny made a list, and I was like, one time Jenny made a list. And then she was like, I was so happy. She was like, I'm not making any more. You liked it too much. It was too arousing for you. But it allows me to have my lists on my phone and my list on my computer. And they sync to each other. And so when I change one and one, and so I always have my lists with me and my schedule there. And so simple note, linked to notational velocity if you are a list freak.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have simple note on my phone and notational velocity on my computer, and I'm obsessed with to-do lists and lists about my to-do lists.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can I say more amazing thing about the Kindle? Absolutely. I just want to say this about the Kindle. I do. I love my Kindle. But also my mom had a stroke like 20 years ago and is quadriplegic and had a crazy thing happen with her eyes where she couldn't read books. And actually Audible.com has been amazing for that too. But once they invented the Kindle for whatever reason, people with strokes can read a Kindle in a way they can't read a paper book. Like it's something about the bouncing light and the bouncing eyes. Obviously I'm a scientist, so I know exactly what I'm talking about. Whatever the case, it's like brought reading back into her life, which has been incredible. Well, that's cool. Yeah, that is amazing. So if people are listening who don't necessarily think, I can still read Caper.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I had to teach him, like, I sat with him, and I was like, see that email? You can dress right back. Yep. You can just write back. Sure. And it's just...”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's so cute because my dad has just got email like a year ago, I would say. He just started using his email and he checks it like every four days, but he does it like people did letters in the 1800s. Like he checks it every four days and spends like five hours crafting careful responses. And one day he was like, I'm really sad because I write everyone really long emails and then they just write me back okay or sure and I was like you have to understand like everyone else is checking it every second and responding and you're going on twice a week and writing long letters that are stressing people out and”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There you go. He was freaking out about it so much. And then he also got confused Googling it. He's eight. And he was like, thought it cost $17,000? One of the big.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Especially when you're going through your plowing. I was like plowing through summer thrillers in Tokyo, like nobody's business. And I was like, I'm not carrying around a summer thriller. I don't need that on my bookshelf.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Rude. And so, and it was funny because we were in Japan together and I kept trying to give Jenny a paper copy of a book. And she was like, don't give that to me. I'm going to buy it on my Kindle. Yeah, exactly when you're.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know. And then Jenny got me a Kindle and I have it, but it's just like I can't get over my thing with my fucking books and touching them.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love all those sisters, brothers, dads, and mothers, and I love them all. The gadget I want to want is that Jenny bought me a Kindle because she was like, you have to stop carrying 19 paperback books and then telling me how much you're going to.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We love her. And I bought every copy of Selfish that I could and gave it out. And we're hoping to do something on Lenny that's selfish inspired. And I reached out to Kim. I wasn't able to get in contact with her. I will help you. I would love your help with that because I reached out to Kim”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm obsessed with him. We met her at the Variety Power of Women event, and I don't, Jenny and Care With you. Yeah, of course. And we were reducing him.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You should be there. But they didn't call it lunch hunch. That's what Jenny did the dream. And she was like a billionaire. You literally woke up and you were like, I invented something. And I was so impressed. The gadget I watch is the one I just heard.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Lunch hunch An app where you go to a restaurant. And instead of like when they give you those chain restaurants, when they give you those things that light up or whenever you just put your phone in. And you click your phone and it registers you and it gives you like a 10 minute heads up when your table's gonna be ready. Yeah, they do that.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'd like to tell you that Jenny's invented not one but two apps in her dreams. She dreams apps, she dreamed up the app forbid which we had on girls, which was which we never actually made, but which was an app that where you pay, you have to pay a bunch of money. It's free.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, here's what I would like to be invented, and this is not really for me now, but I think it would have been really helpful for me in my 20s and especially now with social media. I think there should be a breathalyzer phone and a breathalyzer computer so that you have to breathe into it. And if your blood alcohol level is high, it shuts it down.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Here's the thing about the First Amendment that's complicated. It's like if you believe in it, you have to believe in it. And so it's like finding that line between trolling and sort of people saying things you really don't like is complicated. I don't want to be the person making those decisions. And I think that what's really dangerous that Twitter has to figure out is that they can be a tool for sort of like the desiccation of the egos and souls of human race is good. What I was going to say, like the egos and souls of teenage girls, you know, there's marked incidences of girls committing suicide after massive Twitter bullying. And Facebook. Yeah. And so it's like, how do you”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you know, I've wondered, and I've been in, I have a relationship with the people at Twitter and they can help me block people and they can help me. But at the end of the day, that's not, it's also a really complicated line where when is it violence and when is it speaking your mind and when is someone saying like you know Lena Dutham's the fattest horn town”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And if I literally, if I was being attacked by just, I would be upset every day if I was reading tweets from 13 year old girls. It was like, you're fat and Justin Bieber's our angel. But I'm not, so I don't have to be stressed about it. I've never thought about it once.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't care. Like, I said something about Justin Bieber last week, and supposedly massive, there's been massive trolling by Justin Bieber fans. I don't know, so I don't know.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Man my own Instagram, but and that's kind of because it's a little bit more positive community and it's more, it's really immediate. I take a picture I post it, I move on. And yeah, I think that I've kept one cautious toe in the water. I didn't want to be like driven away, but I also want to stop.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And there's a few people who I go and I check out, but I'm not involved in the Twitter community in the way that I used to be. I very rarely respond to people. I still like the format as just a way to express ideas. And I really appreciate that anybody follows me at all. And so I didn't want to cut off my relationship to it completely, but it really truly wasn't a safe space for me. I think that even if you think you can separate yourself from the kind of like verbal violence that's being directed at you, that it creates some really kind of cancerous stuff inside you, even if you think like, oh, I can read like 10 mentions that say I should be stoned to death and kind of like relaug and move on. Like those aren't words that, that's verbal abuse. Those aren't words that you would accept in interpersonal relationship. And those aren't words that should be directed at you ever. And so for me personally, it was safer to stop. And I still...”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't have any access to. I don't even know my Twitter password, which Which may make me seem like I'm no longer a sort of genuine community user, and that would be true. I go to the Jenny's page once a week and laugh and catch up on her tweets. And there's a few people where I'll text her. I'll be like, finally caught up in your tweets. Great work.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I don't I guess I have pulled back in a sense because I don't look at Twitter anymore. I have a really great person”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No. And when they do, it's actually so fun and so great. I think it's a really, really good place for comedy. There's so many comedians tweeting and Instagramming and, you know, like Amy Schumer's is so funny and really personal. And we get to see her with Ellen, but then we also get to see her with her sister and some weird place looking unglamorous and being a human. Right.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really good, really personal listicles, and you can also go on and be like open list nine ways to fit Cura Sunburn and like there's, you know, like three MDs, a really funny comedian, and a DJ answer you. And it's just a really, and so I think he's going to be going public with that. He's going to be opening that up to the larger community later this year and corps.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's just really fun. It's like lists that are incredibly helpful, like, you know, 10 places to go in Tokyo that you haven't heard of, and also like a list that's like. How to break someone's heart, and then it's just a very personal, beautiful story written by someone, but in 10.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, we have our Lenny Letter Facebook. Then I have a Lena Dunham sort of, I guess, one of those public pages, and I push all my Instagrams and tweets to it, and sometimes I go on. And if I'm in a funny mood, like interact with people, and then I do. I do Instagram and Twitter and then In Snapchat now at”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Newly coming back to it. I sort of had a personal thing, which was like, I went on it when everyone else went on it a million years ago and then found out which ex-boyfriends had gained lots of weight and reconnected with the one person I wanted to reconnect with. And then it was just like too much coming at me. But so I just for brand.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just joined Instagram this year, though, because I sort of thought, oh, well, that's pictures and I'm words that there was some sort of distinction. I love it. I'm crazy about it. Do you stop Twitter?”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Jenny started Twitter the first summer we were shooting girls. She got her Twitter account and I just remember she really took to Twitter like a fish to water and she was like she got her Twitter account she came up later and she was like I can't stop Twit”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I do it just to engage with the world. I have no idea if it helps our show. There's been very few things actually that HBO has asked us to specifically to do. So I know it helps shows. Like I know I've read things about how scandal. And I am a huge scandal. We are both huge scandal fans. We're scandalous.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Our favorite thing to do in college was go on GoDaddy and buydisgusting.com because it's like $3 and you have just like sausage daddies or whatever stupid things. I don't know where all my dot coms went, but my roommate Willie Thurlow and I used to sit around buying $3.coms. And so...”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know. No, no, no. Years ago, I was at a party, a VC party, and there was all this food, and this really guy who looked like did not belong, looked like a homeless guy who walked in off the street. And I said, what are you doing here? Because you don't look like all the VCs and your Chinos and khaki pants. And he had sold food.com to them for $8 million.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Did we want? Well, I think that there was Lenny.com is owned by a man named Lenny, but also maybe Lenny Kravitz is trying to buy.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Actually, have it on Audible. That's so nice. It's that easy. LennyLetter.com. And if you didn't pick up on it Lena plus Jenny equals Lenny.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is what he said. He said, I looked so unattractive. He said it was more shocking than anything I've ever done because he said I looked like a hideous corpse being like he, a man who loves me and tells me I beautiful all the time was like, I've never seen anything like”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I often find myself the victim of his Snapchat without knowing it. Me asleep on a plane. The other day I was asleep on a plane with my mouth really wide open, and he was like, I could have taken a photo and made a viral meme and really ruined your life.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's so excellent at Snapchat. I don't think he's the king numbers wise, but he's very coming up with a really great premise for his Snapchat and really making a story out of it.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She's game and attractive. She's a game gown. She is. We had the best time. I don't know about this periscope, but I feel pretty periscope.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sort of falling into walls and like doing weird spraying stuff and guys dressed as cops' faces and exactly what would titillate an eight-year-old boy. And weirdly me too.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I do. I actually, Jenny's son made me watch a collection of, he was like, here's 10 minutes of vines. I'll put like the best vines of the year. And I kept being like, this is inappropriate. And then like laughing so hard, I couldn't turn it off. They're all people falling into water.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we also recognize that this is the clearest way to reach a larger audience of young women with something that's free. And full of information that we know that they need. And we also just felt really passionately about the way that this allowed us to engage with other writers. I mean, the reason we started a production company was because we were interested in having control of our own work, but also nurturing other voices.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is it called CPC? There's all kinds of things. What else do we know? There's also a lot of, like, I didn't interview a fast company and in it I was like. I used a lot of like voice brand position space space space is”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I like the way I read the internet generally aside from the New York Times is that I find links to things through other things I like. I don't go to BuzzFeed ever. If I read BuzzFeed, it's because someone's got a link.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The time. And it's funny, I do hear men say a lot like, I watch girls because it helps me understand my daughter. You know what I mean? And I'm not saying that there's like, there isn't necessarily a rich history of men reading women's magazines to better understand their wives, but I would like to think that men who are politically engaged and interested in feminist issues would want to read Lenny. I forced my teamster driver Brian to sign up. At first, he was like, I don't want to. It's so girlish. I don't seem really girly. But he did it. I was like, we need to drive those subscription numbers, Brian. I need your help.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Through firstly, our conversation is about raising money through advertising. We haven't talked about going to venture capitalists because the fact is we want to own our business outright.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, there was a whole around when my book was leaked and then people knew what my book advance was. It was like a full-scale like, you rich whore. And it was like, you know, I can take it, but there's no reason to welcome more of those conversations. And that being said, the reason that we want to raise money is...”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's funny. I'd love to be in that meeting. Firstly, when I had my, I don't want to talk about it, part of that is that I've been so bruised by conversations around my income on the internet. They've been so vitriolic and so disgusting.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT