Graydon Carter on Leaving Vanity Fair, Creating Spy Magazine, and Picking on Donald Trump (Ep. 275)

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2017

⏱️ 84 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by former longtime Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter to discuss working in a world of satire (6:00), the creation of Spy Magazine (11:00), Trump's threats against Spy Magazine (20:00), the prosperity of the '90s (30:00), the tabloid decade of the 2000s (38:00), Los Angeles as the top American city (52:00), the Vanity Fair Oscars party (1:04:00), and the "grass is always greener" mentality in society (1:12:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:58.8	all right grade carder in the office studio but wait to do this for a long time here busy man
1:14.4	not not not anymore yeah yeah when do you stop being busy um well I you know I'm retiring
1:21.6	no I'm not retiring I'm stepping down from that I'm gonna be fair in the end of the year and um yeah
1:29.1	after 25 years there it seems about time I was still shocked why I don't know I just it's yeah it was
1:37.2	like a learn michael's thing it's yeah you you're just Canadians older jobs a long time
1:43.3	you assume at some point it's gonna happen but you know it's actually gonna happen and it's like
1:46.8	yeah great it's stepping down like what no I thought you know um I haven't had a break in 39
1:52.3	years so we're moving to the province for six months you've rented a house but our youngest
1:59.7	daughter in school there some time to thank them on a listing tour until the end of the year
2:05.6	trying to figure out what I'm gonna do I have a million ideas I've just got to win over them down
2:10.2	so you've had one of my favorite careers oh thanks we've talked we've talked we've never done a
2:15.5	podcast but we've talked I've never done a podcast you've never done a podcast this will be a
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