{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6838a2e4964166a365ca0c88/683a068d708e9fc9b451a52b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Bananas, Guitars, and Guns: A Friendship in Four Decades","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6838a2e4964166a365ca0c88/1750368441250-f3aba545-a9af-4d1c-9607-fd51605884f5.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>Also: the world's best beer, a possibly illegal camel, and a few near-death moments courtesy of the American highway.</p>","author_name":"Ron Silver and West Moss"}