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Episode 167: Kurt Andersen

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Education, Books, Arts, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Kurt Andersen is the co-founder of Spy Magazine, the author of several books, and the host of Studio 360. “As a young person, I never thought of myself as a risk-taker. Then I did this risky thing that shouldn't have succeeded, I started this magazine. And it did encourage me to think, ‘Eh, how bad can it be if it fails? Sometimes these long shots work. So fuck it, try it.’” Thanks to MailChimp, MasterClass, The Message, RealtyShares, and Prudential for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: @KBAndersen kurtandersen.com Andersen on Longform [2:00] The Spy Magazine archive on Google Books [12:00] Private Eye [19:00] "Felkerism" (New York • Jul 2008) [25:00] "When a Magazine Is Too Brash for the Bottom Line" (Robin Pogrebin • New York Times • Sep 1996) [28:00] Turn of the Century (Random House • 1999) [28:00] Heyday (Random House • 2007) [31:00] "The Digital Bubble " (New Yorker • Jan 1998) [33:00] "Inside Out" (Ken Auletta • New Yorker • May 2006) [40:00] Studio 360 [42:00] "Lily Tomlin's Audacious Life" (Studio 360 • Aug 2015) [54:00] "Here Is New York" (E.B. White • 1949) [pdf] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:29.1

Support for this episode comes from Zell.

0:33.0

You'd never fall for an online scam, right?

0:37.0

You use two-factor authentication, ignore calls from everyone named spam risk, and never used the password.

0:45.0

Password.

0:47.0

But, scammers are getting more sophisticated and more active,

0:51.0

which means they're finding millions of new victims every single year.

0:56.1

The good news is that there's a lot you can do to protect yourself on the wild, wild web.

1:01.8

For starters, Zell wants to remind you,

1:04.5

only send money to people you know and trust.

1:08.0

Zell is available to United States bank account holders only.

1:11.1

Terms and conditions apply. Hey it's Max before we get started a few messages from our sponsor and the first

1:18.8

message is from The Message which is a podcast from GE Podcast Theater and our friends at Panapalee.

1:25.0

The story of the Message is the story of Nicky Tomlin, a PhD in linguistics from the University of Chicago,

1:30.5

who is working on deciphering an alien message.

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