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From Sony Music Entertainment and Campsite Media, this is Infamous. I'm Lily Houston-Smith, and my voice might not be the one you're expecting. If you've been with us for a while, you may have heard me chime in before. I've been one of the producers on Infamous since pretty much the beginning, back when we were putting together stories like Girls Gone Wild and NXIVM.
Recently, we hit a pretty big milestone, 100 episodes. So we thought it'd be a great time to do something a little different, to look back and reflect on all the stories we've covered over the last few years.
So I sat down with our co-hosts, Vanessa Grigoriadis and Natalie Robomed, and they talked about how the show got started, what some of their favorite stories were, and how they both use their backgrounds as magazine writers to bring a little print journalism magic to every episode.
They'll also give you a little peek behind the curtain at how we choose stories and what goes into putting them together for you each week. Then, at the end of the conversation, we'll play you a short clip from next week's episode. If you want to get in touch with us to propose a topic, send us a tip, or just say hi, we love hearing from you. Email us at infamous at campsidemedia.com.
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.
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