Episode 23: The Birth of Instagram, and Tunisia’s Jihadis

The New Yorker Radio Hour

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Politics, Arts, News, Wnyc, Books, David, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Yorker, New, Remnick

4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week: Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger talks about how Instagram took over the world; the New Yorker’s cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff, shares his three favorite jokes; and George Packer reports from Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, where democratic governance has led to an upsurge in jihadism.

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0:00.0	We're excited to be having a conversation with someone when they have that revelation.
0:11.5	It's making sure.
0:14.1	Packer seems to be interested in that.
0:17.3	John McPhee has brought this up.
0:19.4	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:28.9	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:32.8	Today we're tackling global unrest, the legacy of racism, how technology is changing the way we live
0:39.9	all the heavy stuff. But we'll take a few minutes out to talk with Bob Mankoff, who's a kind
0:45.9	of professor of comedy about some of his favorite jokes. One of them, I understand, involves
0:51.2	a rabbi and God, so I've got a feeling that's going to be okay.
0:55.9	Let's start out on social media, though.
0:57.8	Recently, Nick Thompson, who runs the New Yorker's website and all of our digital stuff,
1:02.7	sat down with Mike Krieger, the co-founder of Instagram.
1:06.7	Instagram is without doubt one of the most influential apps of the moment.
1:11.7	If Facebook seems a little old these days and Twitter is necessary but maybe not that much fun anymore,
1:19.0	Instagram is where people of a certain age really want to be.
1:22.7	They spoke at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.
1:26.7	Thank you so much.
1:27.7	It is a pleasure for me to be here, and it is even more of a pleasure for me to welcome
1:31.8	the men that will be interrogating tonight.
1:34.8	He doesn't have a very long biography because he went to college.
1:40.7	He then found an Instagram, which I'm sure many of you use and love, perhaps all of you
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