The Nikki Ogunnaike Interview with Throwing Fits

Throwing Fits

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Our interview with Nikki Ogunnaike sure is some nice talking. Nikki—editor-in-chief of Marie Claire and host of the Nice Talk podcast—popped by ahead of New York Fashion Week to politic on shiesty’s for her, buying men’s clothing, Prada sample sales, year of the yap and manifesting this very conversation, who the hell was Marie Claire, women’s issues becoming fashionable in women’s media, to cover or not to cover Melania Trump, hate mail, the role of an EIC in 2025, joining us in the podcasting trenches, influencing and promoting real work on grid, saluting all the Instagram boyfriends, Marie Claire’s Power Play summits, the stress of managing people, publishing Royals content vs. resistance content, print isn’t dead or back it just is, her goat Rhianna and the trial of A$AP Rocky, AI’s role in media, her media diet, the New Right, her latest cover star mogul Alex Cooper, at the end of the day and regardless of by-lines writers are writers, rating Condé Nast and Hearst in a variety of categories having worked at both, lots of Bravo talk, what’s the point of NYFW, personal style should not be a trend and is not that deep, her watch rotation and much more on Nikki Ogunnaike’s interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

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0:00.0	Throwgang, we are joined by the byline boss bitch, the word count wizard, the madame of the
0:04.0	masthead, must be in therapy how she's dropping these issues.
0:06.9	Call her the Mexican army how she's drafting these essays.
0:09.3	The walk mean, but the talk nice.
0:10.9	The copy queen, first lady of the looks, the article admiral, the EIC MVP, putting in that
0:15.3	hard work.
0:15.9	Yeah, she pitching a content.
0:17.5	You icky, no fun sloppy.
0:18.7	She Nikki Ogunaki. Your clickbait is brick takes,
0:21.2	her drip, make pricks break. Digital content, get the dough and cream. That's at E. Claire.
0:25.3	Oh, you're not fucking with Marie Claire. How about you Marie Declared these nuts? All these top
0:29.1	stories but no subhead. She puts the OG in blog. Not a little boy, but when she pods,
0:33.1	she goes nuts on Mike. Editor-in-chief of Marie Claire magazine and host of the Nice Talk podcast. Nikki Ogunaki, Nikki, how the hell are you?
0:40.2	Incredible.
0:41.0	Like, really fucking incredible.
0:43.1	That is better than I could have ever imagined.
0:45.3	You're not been waiting for this moment.
0:47.0	So it's like, you manifest it.
0:48.3	We're going to talk about that.
0:48.9	We had to do the yap-agenda.
0:50.3	So that's why we had to keep it going.
0:52.3	Yeah. Is that just going to be January or we're yapping all year long? Oh no.
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