Spy Magazine was co-founded in 1986 by current Studio 360 host Kurt Anderson and current Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter.

Spy was notable for its satire, mostly at the expense of politicians' high society and the entertainment industry.

And throughout its 12-year run, one person caught spy's collective imagination more than anyone else.

Guess who?

Bruce Firestein, a former Vanity Fair contributing editor,

described the magazine's obsession in a vanity fair piece last summer.

Quote, over the course of our years at spy,

we fact-checked his books and his finances,

with predictable results,

trolled him by sending minuscule checks,

as low as 13 cents,

to see if he cashed them, he did,

and wrote up his all-but-forgotten business debacles.

Remember the Trump Castle World Power Boat Championship?

The magazine folded in 1998, but was back in the news this year because of another little

habit of theirs, epithet creating. In this case, short-fingered Vulgarian. On this week's podcast extra, we're highlighting a piece from an upcoming Studio 360 show, which will be all about Trump.

Host Kurt Anderson reminisces with his erstwhile colleague Susan Morrison.

So when Graydon and I, that's Graydon Carter and I,

were creating spy, you were the very first editorial person we recruited, the first person

other than the publisher. Of course, we started reporting on and ridiculing Donald Trump in

the very first issue, which I had to look up to see what the cover

story was. It was jerks, the 10 most embarrassing New Yorkers.

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