Infamous's 100th Episode!
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What milestone is celebrated in this episode?
Again, that's infamous at campsidemedia.com. Here's that conversation now. So we're coming up on 100 episodes of Infamous. Oh my God. So exciting. That's crazy. So if you can think back a couple years ago, what was it that attracted you both to working on this series in the first place? I think we wanted to do a series that represented what we loved about old school magazines. Tina Brown used to call it the mix. What's in the mix this week? And, you know, there'll be some politics, there'll be some scandal, there'll be some sort of trend piece. Like what are people talking about before Instagram and TikTok and all of this? People actually discussed what they had read in magazines at cocktail parties. We would often describe, you know, in editorial meetings like, oh, that seems like a good cocktail chatter piece. That seems like something somebody would say to somebody else at a party like, oh, hey, did you read blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's crazy what's happening there.
So I have long been associated with Vanity Fair, worked there a bunch, and I really thought there's a place in the audio universe for Vanity Fair as a magazine. So that was my initial concept. What about you, Natalie? Yeah. I actually started a little more behind the scenes on Infamous as a writer and reporter. And what I loved about it was kind of the mix of high and low of subjects where we're dealing with pop culture figures, somebody like Kylie Jenner, who I reported a lot on when I was at Forbes before working in podcasting.
What inspired the creation of the podcast?
And we actually did a bunch of episodes on all of the scandals surrounding, is she a billionaire? Isn't she a billionaire? And her sort of Kylie Cosmetics fortune. But I loved that we kind of like take... pop culture figures and treat them seriously and do a whole mix of both business and scandal, whether we're talking about Mr. Beast or Johnny Depp or a new kind of true crime story, that high-low mix was very appealing to me. Right. Like, I mean, again, I can't believe I'm referencing Tina Brown twice in this conversation, but, you know, she used to say, every good publication needs a little bit of bad taste. Right. And so the idea of mixing something like Gabe Sherman, who just put out The Apprentice, which is an amazing movie about the relationship between Roy Cohn and Donald Trump.
What if you lost your fortune today? Well, then maybe I'll run for president. I don't know. He was on Infamous speaking about his relationship with Steve Bannon, which is long and wide ranging. And he traveled to Tokyo on a private jet with Steve Bannon to see populism sort of at work, quote unquote, in Japan while he was meeting investors. To take this really accomplished writer and his experience with one of the biggest political influences of our time and mix that with something like, why does my eight-year-old love Mr. Beast? Do you remember when you asked me to DM Mr. Beast? Yes.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What milestone is celebrated in this episode?
1:25–2:53
2
What inspired the creation of the podcast?
2:53–11:39
3
What are some favorite episodes discussed?
11:39–14:53
4
What is the significance of the 'Satanic Panic' episode?
14:53–17:26
5
How do the hosts choose their stories?
17:26–19:02
6
What themes are explored in the podcast?
19:02–20:14