Pals with Bill Wadman

About Pals with Bill Wadman

I'm Bill Wadman, a commercial portrait photographer in New York City with a lot of amazing and accomplished friends. Occasionally I'll record an hour long interview with one of them about what they do, how they got here, and why it's important to them

Publisher

Bill Wadman

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 May 2018

Latest episode

11 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 46 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   11 Jun 2026

   Episode 46: Frank Basile - Jazz Saxophonist

   Frank Basile is one of the great baritone sax players in NYC today. We discuss his upbringing in the midwest, going to school at North Texas' famous jazz program, and what it's like to play with the best in the world in bands like the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.

2. 

   30 Apr 2026

   Episode 45: Karen Dahlstrom - Singer-Songwriter

   Karen recently released her new album "Love These Days". It's a lovely, meditative, and often deeply personal record that I've had on repeat for the past few weeks. You should to. Find it on all the streaming platforms, or better yet, to to her her site or bandcamp and buy a copy. Links: Karen Dahlstrom Website

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   3 Feb 2024

   Episode 44: Clay Williams - Photographer

   Photographer Clay Williams is well known in culinary circles. He's spent much of the last decade photographing food and the people who make it in NYC and around the world. We discuss how he got his start photographing food carts and restaurants for websites, why he's back into the world of film photography for the joy of it, and how the group Black Food Folks he co-founded connects people within the New York food world.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 5: Michael Malice - Writer, Host

Published 23 Jul 2018 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So maybe the animals aren't going to be weird in the sense of a Bigfoot, which defies biology, or Loch Ness Monster, which defies biology. But there's a lot of weird things out there that we have no idea is out there. And then like extremophiles in the bottom of the ocean, all that kind of stuff. But it's interesting though that that's more of almost a philosophical thing where some people would – cryptozoologists who are on the sort of far end of the site, who believe all the crazy things that people come up with, will say, oh, but here's a couple examples that are reasonable and just because that happened, therefore this could happen, which is not true. […]

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