Recode Decode: David Friend, author, ‘The Naughty Nineties’

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

David Friend, Vanity Fair’s editor of creative development, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido.” Much of today’s social and political unrest can be traced back to the sea change in who Americans voted for and how they consumed entertainment in the 1990s — and it’s no accident that the world wide web was born in that decade. He explains why today’s #MeToo movement owes a debt to Anita Hill, who unsuccessfully tried to stop Clarence Thomas’s nomination the Supreme Court in 1991, and how everyone from Bill Clinton to Lance Armstrong ushered in an “age of lies” that paved the way for Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode coming to you from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:06.2	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:11.0	You may know me as someone who spent all of the 90s in shoulder pads, but in my spare
0:15.1	time I talk tech, and you're listening to Recode Decode a podcast about tech and media's
0:19.2	key players, big ideas now they're changing the world we live in.
0:22.1	You can find more episodes of Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music,
0:26.7	wherever you listen to podcasts or just visit recode.net slash podcasts for more.
0:32.6	Today in the Red Chair is David Friend, the Editor of Creative Development at Vanity Fair.
0:38.0	He's also the author of a new book called The Naughty 90s, The Triumph of the American
0:42.7	libido.
0:43.7	I had to have one on the show for that.
0:46.2	It's about the culture wars of the 1990s and the sexual history of the Clinton years,
0:50.2	and we're going to talk also about the internet because that's when the internet was invented.
0:53.2	David, welcome.
0:54.2	Welcome.
0:55.2	Welcome to Recode Decode.
0:56.3	I'm going to do a quick disclaimer.
0:57.6	I've written for Vanity Fair.
0:58.6	I'm not currently writing for, well, I could, but I have a time.
1:02.7	But they, I write for them just, you know, but I'm not going to be any nicer to you because
1:06.0	of that.
1:07.0	So, why don't we go over, you've been working for any fair for a long time, right?
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