Pals with Bill Wadman

Grant has had many adventures in almost 20 years of getting his hands dirty and writing about it for New York Magazine, Men's Health, Playboy, The New York Times, and Nerve.com. Come along for the ride as a disarming, young-at-heart adventurer with a British accent tells us where he's been and how he got there. WARNING: This episode gets a little racy at times so it's NSFW and not for the kiddies among you. Enjoy!

Magazine Editor-in-Chief Meg Wachter was a photographer and a retoucher long before she started Got A Girl Crush, a "magazine about women, by women, for everyone", back in 2009.

They say to never discuss politics or religion, unless you've got Buddhist scholar and practitioner Michael Kaup in the chair to have a lively but intellegent discussion about the line between philosophy and religion, differing definitions of enlightenment, and how all people are at times the same and very different.

Paul Gurdak, the only man I would go up in a small plane with is my guest today. He's a single-engine private pilot, a world-class mechanic, and a great storyteller. We had 45 minutes before I had to head to the airport last week so we sat down, setup the mics and had an impromptu podcast session. Enjoy.

The most well-read person I know and until recently the Chief Learning Officer of ETS (Educational Testing Service). TJ has had quite the journey from the Bronx to Princeton. Come along for the ride while he recounts the opportunities and lessons he's learned along the way.

Legendary portrait photographer William Coupon sits down to discuss his upcoming book, what it was like to start his career in New York in the late 70's, and regale us with stories about his forty plus years in the business.

Links:

• William Coupon Portraits on Amazon

I'm very pleased to have the host of Slate's Hit Parade podcast, Chris Molanphy in the chair today. Chart analyst and pop critic, Chris sees connections and parallels along the history of popular music that would make a mere mortal music fan say 'Uncle!', and that's why we love him. Buckle up for a 100 minute trip up and down the Hot 100.

Here's a nerdy one for all you computer geeks out there. My buddy Evan Jones sat in the chair across from me to discuss his education in his native Canada, doing his PhD at MIT, working at Google, starting three companies, taking venture capital, and lastly explaining what a pivot table is. Lots of use of the terms 'abstracted' and 'C++'. In the process I got answers to questions I've been saving up for years. Hope you do too.

My old friend Liz Hara is at the kitchen table at the end of a short trip from LA where she writes for the CBS show "Life In Pieces". A job Liz got after years as a puppet builder and writer at the perennial favorite "Sesame Street". She knows Big Bird for real.

Fellow photographer Kent Miller stops by to talk about his love of expired film, the experience of being part of the shift to digital, and his BMX racing skills (who knew?!).