What inspires someone to dress up as Benjamin Franklin and impersonate the Founding Father (some Brits might say traitor, but I won’t dwell on relatively ancient history)? Find out with today’s podcast, my interview with Ralph Archbold. He’s been impersonating Franklin for years and made quite the career out of…

Huzzah, another Where Are They Now? podcast. Today you can listen to my recent brief chat with Margarita Pracatan, finding out what the Cuban singer has been up to following my interview with her. [display_podcast] Hopefully I’ll have a new interview taking place on Sunday night, but given my procrastinating…

My dinner with Cuban singer Margarita Pracatan is now available as a podcast. [display_podcast] A word of caution before you hit “play” above. The interview ended with Margarita and me taking a stab at singing some karaoke staples (“New York, New York” and “Take A Chance On Me”) and sound…

Today’s Where Are They Now? podcast catches up with Jim Piddock. Actor/writer/Brit Jim now lives in Los Angeles. I interviewed him in 2008 during a visit to California, and you can read the article or listen to a podcast of it. More than two years later, what has Jim been…

My attempt to convert all the dinners to podcasts continues with the second interview, my dinner in California with actor/writer/Brit Jim Piddock. [display_podcast] You can listen to the podcast using the player above, or click here to find out more about the podcasts and how to subscribe to automatically receive…

Earlier this week I put up the first Dining With Strangers podcast, my interview with Joseph Matar in New York City. The interview was back in November 2008, so I decided to call Joe the other day to find out what he’s up to these days. [display_podcast] Click on the…

When I launched this site in late 2008, I was too dim to think of the wisdom of making my interviews available in both text and audio form. I realize the dinner interviews are fairly lengthy articles and not everyone is okay with sitting staring at a computer screen for…