INTERVIEWS
INTERVIEWS
SEASON 2: EPISODE 8
Potatoes, Poets, and the Price of a Painting
In this wide-ranging and hilarious episode of {framed} Interviews, old friends Ron, West, and Michael reunite for a storytelling session that drifts from the Beat Poets to Berlin art scenes, from BBC broadcasts of the Falklands War to a naked woman with a potato in Utah. Along the way, they unpack what it means to collect art, support artists, and chase meaning through creative obsession.
Featuring deep dives into German Neo-Expressionism, wild band tours, early MTV, and near-mythical tales of escape and reinvention, this episode is both a love letter to a life in the arts — and a reminder that some of the best stories are the ones too strange to make up.
SEASON 2: EPISODE 7
Art is the Life: A Conversation with Jill Platner
In this intimate episode of {framed} Interviews, artist and jeweler Jill Platner joins longtime friends and co-hosts Ron Silver and West Moss for a conversation spanning decades of art, work, and community. From welding in rollerblades to creating kinetic outdoor sculptures and running a jewelry business in New York City, Jill reflects on what it means to live an artist’s life on your own terms.
Together, they discuss the early days of Bubby’s, shaping identity through work, the tension between art and capitalism, and how creative friendships evolve over time. This is a warm, deeply personal episode about making things—beautiful things—and building a life around them.
SEASON 2: EPISODE 6
Cloe Galasso: Finding Home in the Studio
Argentine-born, Brooklyn-based artist Chloe Galasso joins us to talk about building an artist’s life after years of constant travel; landing an O-1 “talent” visa, setting up her first dedicated studio in years, and rediscovering routine. We dig into her practice across oil painting and sculpture; why she avoids politics in the work; the metaphysics of “energy” as a guiding motif; and the craft behind surfaces, stretching raw linen, prepping grounds, pigments, and why layers matter. We also touch on community vs. solitude, drawing in museums, classical influences from Velázquez to Sargent, and what it means to feel safe enough to create. An intimate conversation about process, place, and the quiet joy of showing up to paint.
SEASON 2: EPISODE 5
Faulker in the Summer, Dostoevsky in the Winter
In this episode of {framed} Interviews, writer and philanthropist Randy Fertel joins Ron Silver and West Moss for a candid conversation that stretches from the humid streets of New Orleans to the pages of Faulkner and Dostoevsky. The trio reminisce about how they first met through literary circles, the strange joy of crafting a 60-second acceptance speech, and the long-standing rituals that form a writer's life. Fertel opens up about his lifelong dedication to literature, his Southern upbringing, and the emotional truths embedded in storytelling. It’s a warm, meandering conversation filled with charm, memory, and literary passion.
SEASON 2: EPISODE 4
Tracks in the Dark
Ron sits down with his brother Brandon for a raw, reflective ride through family mythology, psychedelic misadventures, and the day Brandon stepped into the subway tracks—then climbed back out. What follows is a winding conversation about control, chaos, healing, and how two brothers reckon with the past from opposite ends of the spectrum. From Skippy peanut butter bongs to spiritual pivots to the quiet decision to stay alive, this episode cuts deep.
SEASON 2: EPISODE 3
Bulls, Masks, and the Movie That Is New York
Painter Juliana Plexxo joins Ron and West for a vivid, wide-ranging conversation about artistic purpose, bullfighting, femininity, and the surreal magic of being in New York City. Born in Colombia, shaped by time in Ecuador and Spain, and trained in the legendary Studio 46—home to Miró, Chagall, and Dalí—Juliana shares how masks, memory, and mourning led her to art.
They talk about the mystical pull of the bull, feminine rage, masculine ritual, copper plates, and the ghosts that live in pigment and paper. It's part travelogue, part artist’s manifesto, and part spiritual download—all soaked in jet lag, beauty, and the chaos of trying to make something true.
Also in this episode: dead laptops, acid baths, gender dualism, and Ron getting dragged (again).
SEASON 2: EPISODE 2
Bananas, Guitars, and Guns: A Friendship in Four Decades
In this wide-ranging and wildly entertaining episode, Ron reconnects with his longtime friend Michael Penhallow to trace a life-spanning friendship that begins on an Israeli kibbutz in 1981 and winds through banana fields, desert hitchhiking, heartbreak, art, and everything in between.
From feeding attack dogs and dodging machine guns to discovering poetry, collecting German expressionism, and getting held at gunpoint (multiple times), this is a story about the strange alchemy of friendship—how two wildly different lives can crash together, split apart, and circle back again.
Also: the world's best beer, a possibly illegal camel, and a few near-death moments courtesy of the American highway.
SEASON 2: EPISODE 1
A Conversation with Hamilton Fish
In this debut episode, Ron Silver and West Moss sit down with publisher and filmmaker Hamilton Fish for a wide-ranging conversation on what it means to live, and create, through crisis. From early documentaries about Holocaust memory and U.S. complicity to the perils of the current political landscape, Fish reflects on art as resistance, community as a lifeline, and why dissent might be our last great hope.
Also on the table: ketamine pancakes, Cannes disasters, family bridges, and the strange comfort of chaos.
SEASON 1: EPISODE 9
Many Mona Lisas
Season 1 concludes with an appearance from Spanish multidisciplinary artist Domingo Zapata. Known for his modern takes on the Mona Lisa and a multitude of other artistic works and accomplishments, Zapata discusses his career, with an emphasis on his catalytic 2021 exhibition in the Louvre Museum.
SEASON 1: EPISODE 8
Plight of the Black Farmer
Ron and West co-host the Provost family, creators of the Provost Farm, a New Iberia, Louisiana-based beacon of farming, activism, and tradition honoring Black and Indigenous heritage.
SEASON 1: EPISODE 7
Sk8 or Live
Featuring Dave Ortiz, quintessential New Yorker and self-proclaimed ex-“graffiti kid.” Ron, West, and Dave reincarnate the effervescence of their city memories and ponder the poignance of art as an underpinning of business and innovation.
SEASON 1: EPISODE 6
Reaganite to Weed CEO
Ron and West sit down with Kim Rael, CEO and cofounder of Azuca, the burgeoning cannabis start-up seeing incredible success. With Kim at the helm, Azuca is rethinking the world of cannabis.
SEASON 1: EPISODE 5
Serenity Now
Serene Jones, esteemed theologian and president of the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, joins the podcast to discuss her book, Call it Grace. Co-hosts Ron and West engage Serene in conversation about her own journey in theology and academia, as well as the application of these practices in education.
SEASON 1: EPISODE 4
Jim Farmer
Ron and West dive into conversation with Jim Farmer, New York-based artist, composer, and playwright. The three muse about what it meant to be an NYC creative in the 1980s and analyze what that same thing means today.
SEASON 1: EPISODE 3
East Meets West
N. West Moss makes her debut; she and Ron discuss Bubby’s in a pre-millennium Tribeca, their unexpected road to success, and revel in the fragrant delights of nostalgia.
SEASON 1: EPISODE 2
The Rat King of NYC
Ron Silver and his son Abe co-host this episode featuring guest Vinny Barille, New York City native and health inspector by trade. The three take a deep dive into Vinny’s life and work, reminiscing on the senses and smells of 1990s New York.
SEASON 1: EPISODE 1
Avunculicide
Co-hosts Ron Silver and N. West Moss, longtime friends and business partners, discuss the history of their Tribeca restaurant, reminiscing on Bubby’s beginnings and providing insight into the ensuing season of podcast episodes.
