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We Can Be Weirdos

Café del Weirdo: Dylan Jones and the 100 Kevins ft Buttons

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9736 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Dylan Jones OBE (born 1960) is a British journalist, author, and former long-time editor of GQ (1999–2021). He previously held senior roles at i-D, Arena, and The Face, later serving briefly as editor-in-chief of the Evening Standard. Author of books including David Bowie: A Life and his memoir These Foolish Things, he has won multiple editor of the year awards and remains an influential voice in culture, fashion, and media.

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0:00.0

A safe trip begins with TRIP.

0:03.0

Take a road trip with your family, get there safely.

0:06.0

Do your trip checks.

0:08.0

T, drop up on island fuel, R, rest every two hours to

0:13.0

I inspect your pressure and tread.

0:16.0

P, preparing for the weather ahead.

0:18.0

A safe trip begins with TRIP. Oh, yes, that's, oh, yes, a safe trip begins with TRIP.

0:21.9

Oh, it's, always.

0:23.7

A safe trip begins with T RRIZE.

0:25.8

Do the four trip checks before every journey, National Highways.

0:32.1

This is a Global Player Original Podcast.

0:42.3

Thank you. Global Player Original podcast. Hey everyone, welcome to Cafe del Weirdo. This is the little chill-out episode where we like to put the bat shit list down to one side and just have a casual chat with someone that I find interesting

0:54.5

and want to learn more about. On today's episode, I'm getting to sit down with Dylan Jones,

1:00.1

OBE. He is an English journalist. He's a musical journalist. He was also the editor of the UK version

1:08.2

of GQ magazine, which he did from 1999 to 2021. He's worked as a journalist

1:14.8

for many, many places, but perhaps his best known work is if you walk into a bookshop,

1:20.6

into a music section, you can't help but see about 20 different Dylan Joan books staring

1:25.4

out at you. He has written, I believe, over 30 books.

1:28.9

They cover every major rock star that you can think of. So there's Elvis, there's the Velvet

1:35.2

Underground, there's Jim Morrison, and there's Bowie, of which he's done a few biographies on.

1:41.5

And it's how I first discovered Dylan Jones at all. I bought a biography

1:45.7

called David Bowie, A Life, which is an oral biography, which means Dylan went around interviewing

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