Episodes

  • Scott King on Showrunning, Story Structure, and Not Fitting In

    Scott King on Showrunning, Story Structure, and Not Fitting In
    Dec 7 2025
    Ron and West catch up with their old friend Scott King (head writer/showrunner: MADtv, The Big Gay Sketch Show, Difficult People, Harlem; co-showrunner of the new series Overcompensating) for a fast, funny deep dive into how TV actually gets made now. Scott breaks down the writers’ room vs. showrunner roles, why today’s shrinking outlets make greenlights tougher, and how notes, production, and post are really three more drafts of the script. They talk strikes, the “writer on set” problem, AI’s limits for comedy cadence, and the craft of turning specific, lived experience into something universal. Plus: Sarah Lawrence origins, Bubby’s memories, 4D Jurassic World, Andrea Martin love, John Waters sightings, and designing a creative life between Palm Springs, Key West, and (maybe) New York—complete with Botox poker face jokes and why owning a home isn’t the only definition of “stable.”

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    52 mins
  • Midwifing Movements: On Art, Capitalism, and the Courage to Cultivate

    Midwifing Movements: On Art, Capitalism, and the Courage to Cultivate
    Nov 23 2025

    In this expansive and deeply personal conversation, Ron and West sit down with Uli Ibargüen Ortiz - a strategist, consultant, and self-described “entrepreneurial midwife” to talk about everything from the origins of the Lomographic Society to the slow beauty of gardening in the Catskills.


    Uli shares how she transitioned from being a trained midwife in Austria to building creative ventures like Lomography USA and Studio 55, working at the intersection of art, culture, and entrepreneurship. Along the way, she explores what it means to truly support artists, why she’s pulling back from capitalism, and how storytelling and slowness might offer a path forward.


    This episode touches on collective visioning, post-capitalist structures, and the sacred power of good ideas; especially when they’re carried, nourished, and eventually birthed into the world. Also discussed: meme coins, herbaceous metaphors, and Ron’s dream of founding a post-apocalyptic art school.

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    57 mins
  • Butter Nannies, Deep Throat, and the Art of Keeping Going

    Butter Nannies, Deep Throat, and the Art of Keeping Going
    Nov 9 2025

    In this episode, we sit down with our dear friend and early Bubby’s alum Maggie De Silva—artist, writer, brunch survivor, and jam-covered arm philosopher. Maggie takes us back to the very beginning of Bubby’s: before coffee, before hot food, before tables—just pie and a dream. We talk about eccentric Tribeca regulars (including a woman who ordered broth for her dog), surviving the infamous brunch shift, and how creativity lives in the margins of working parenthood.


    Maggie also shares how losing a shared studio during the pandemic unexpectedly led her into installation art, why she’ll never hang certain pieces across from someone’s bed, and the joys of collecting weird objects and weirder stories. Along the way we cover JFK Jr., celebrity sightings, secret art hoards, outdoor cafés, artificial intelligence’s failure to replace real writers, and an unexpected tangent into babysitting, VHS porn, and the cow hoof cleaning algorithm of doom.


    This one’s part nostalgia trip, part art world detour, and part tribute to making a life out of whatever scraps you’ve got lying around.

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    48 mins
  • Potatoes, Poets, and the Price of a Painting

    Potatoes, Poets, and the Price of a Painting
    Oct 26 2025

    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.

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    46 mins
  • Art is the Life: A Conversation with Jill Platner

    Art is the Life: A Conversation with Jill Platner
    Oct 12 2025

    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.

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    56 mins
  • Cloe Galasso: Finding Home in the Studio

    Cloe Galasso: Finding Home in the Studio
    Sep 28 2025
    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.

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    55 mins
  • Faulkner in the Summer, Dostoevsky in the Winter

    Faulkner in the Summer, Dostoevsky in the Winter
    Sep 14 2025
    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.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 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