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By: Ron Silver and West Moss
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Over 30 years ago, when co-hosts Ron Silver and West Moss were practically kids, they opened Bubby’s Restaurant in New York City, and while they’re no longer partners, the business, and their friendship have survived the decades.

In the intervening years, both Ron and West have turned their energy to making art – Ron as a visual artist and West as a writer. In interviews, these two old friends (who simultaneously love and want to kill each another) chat with a wide range of artists from playwrights to painters, to jewelers and musicians, about how they set up their lives in weird and fascinating ways that we can all learn from.

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Episodes
  • Tracks in the Dark

    Tracks in the Dark
    Jul 6 2025
    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.

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    45 mins
  • Bulls, Masks, and the Movie That Is New York

    Bulls, Masks, and the Movie That Is New York
    Jun 29 2025

    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).

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    40 mins
  • Bananas, Guitars, and Guns: A Friendship in Four Decades

    Bananas, Guitars, and Guns: A Friendship in Four Decades
    Jun 15 2025

    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.

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    44 mins
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