1000 w/ Ron Placone
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1000 Stories. 1000 Journeys. Each week I interview somebody who is living a creative, fulfilling life, and doing inspiring work amidst the backdrop of a society in decline. For the freethinkers and those going against the tide.
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Dennis Kucinich is a public official. He’s been a Mayor, State Senator, Congress Member, and Candidate for President of the United States. He is, in my opinion, one of the few out there who has genuinely tried to use public office, as corrupt as it is, for good. We talk about his history, the current state of affairs, and even a few points of disagreement.
Craig Pasta Jardula is a Journalist and YouTuber. Also, we’re friends, at one point we were roommates. Pasta and I were both part of the Bernie movement. When that fractured, we went different ways. I’ve been curious about that fracturing, so I decided Pasta was somebody I needed to ask about it. We see things differently. We’re not aligned on issues such as Covid, Kyle Rittenhouse, and social issues. We talk about it, and its impact on the splintering of a movement that once, at least in my opinion, had potential, and hopefully will again.
Jake Flores is a comedian and podcaster. I first cross paths with Jake when he was a guest on The Jimmy Dore Show many years ago (when it was a much different show), and have been following his path ever since. He’s a huge contributor to the left podcasting space, and he’s never been shy to call out what’s been happening politically in the stand-up comedy world amidst this fascist rise.
David Rovics is a musician, songwriter, anarchist, and activist. I’ve been listening to David for over 20 years, having first discovered his music when the Iraq War jolted me awake and I started participating in the anti-war movement in the United States. If you’re not familiar with him, you are about to learn why this is the perfect episode for St. Patrick’s Day.
Last week we had Zac Polston, well, this is the other half of the Vanguard. Gavin Charles is a YouTuber, Journalist, and Filmmaker. He’s the creator of the Found Footage Indie Horror series, No Clip, and, as mentioned, he’s the co-host of the YouTube Breadtube show, the Vanguard.
Zac Polston, known on YouTube as Zac from the Vanguard, is a YouTuber, Journalist, and Filmmaker. He’s the co-host of the Lefty Breadtube show, The Vanguard. They do a news show from a progressive point of view, and dissect the inter-fightings of indie lefty media. Also, they talk film, sports, and culture as 2 dudes from Kansas City.
John-Michael Bond is a writer and comedian. He’s had quite a life. The son of a preacher, Americore, being held up at gun point, and that’s barely scratching the surface. Punk rock, public broadband in Chattanooga, philosophy, politics, religion, and cats. This is everything 1000!
Sarah O’Connell is a show host, writer, and movie reviewer. I had the honor of being a guest on her show, she’s an incredible interviewer. She noticed things about Loner and Left At Wall that I didn’t even think of. She’s interviewed some of the biggest actors in the world. This is her story.
Jesse Ortiz is a med student and activist. He is the founder of the Instagram account, Italians for Zohran, an account in support of the election of Zohran Mamdani. It remains active post-Mamdani’s victory, as an outlet for leftist and progressive Italian-Americans (and everybody else, too) to gather and exchange ideas, and pushback against the commonly held generalization that Italian heritage in the US automatically means right-wing conservative.
Matt Lech is a podcast producer and media maker. He’s best known for Jacobin, Left Reckoning, and the Majority Report. We both dwelled or currently dwell in similar YouTube spaces and we’re both anti-capitalist. Lot of talk about the current state of affairs in this one.
Matt Kirshen is a comedian, writer, and podcast host. He’s one of the co-hosts of Probably Science, one of my favorite comedy podcasts that incorporates science news. Matt and I first met at a live show of the Infinite Monkey Cage and then reconnected when I moved to LA. He’s one of my favorite comics to watch.
Ramsey Kanaan is a musician, anarchist, and publisher. He is the founder of AK Press and, later, PM Press. I’ve been a fan of PM Press for many years, I highly recommend diving into their catalog if you’re not already familiar, it’s one of the best out there. They’ve tabled at some of our events over the years. We talk Ramsey's origin story from Scotland to San Francisco, what it means to him to be an Anarchist, the contemporary state of Socialism, and, of course, punk rock.
David Whitney is a London-based actor and comedian. He helps run one of my favorite comedy clubs in the world, not an exaggeration, the Backyard Comedy Club in London. Turns out David went from Drama School, to getting booked to do stand-up in LA, only problem was, David had never done Stand-up. What? We go through it, buckle in for a wild creative journey!
Mary Houlihan is a comedian, writer, and artist. She’s the host of the Mary Houlihan Show and she paints live on Twitch. She had an interview with Martin Shkreli that I thought was hilarious and exposed and unmasked him.
Sara Kay Godot is an actress, comedian, and producer. Her and I have collaborated on an awful lot. She was in Loner, Left At Wall, and Termination Fee. Termination Fee began as a read through at a pizza place. It went on to do the Hollywood Fringe, sold out 60% of the run, got nominated for an award, and its film version is currently in post-production. Sara was a driving force behind all of that, so we’ve had quite a year.
Tim Warner is a comedian, podcaster, and filmmaker. Most importantly, though, he’s Tim Warner. I’ve known Tim for a long time. We did comedy together in Seattle when I was first starting out, he had been doing it in New York a few years prior. Tim released a short film on YouTube called Quitter. I loved it. It captured what I was trying to do in a short film we did (also on YouTube), Loner, but, at least in my opinion, didn’t quite capture. Quitter was done, exclusively, on a phone. We dive into it.
Chris Liatsis is an artist and illustrator. He is the other half of Lucy & Ron. I would write them, Chris would draw them. Lucy & Ron was a labor of love for us for a long time, out of necessity, it was an on-again off-again pursuit. At one point in our professional and personal relationship, I messed up. Fortunately, we were able to reconcile, and we revisit that time in this interview. This is an episode about friendship, collaboration, love, loss, art, and growing up Greek.
Andrew Saxena. You’ve heard that name before on this show, Andrew does the music for 1000. Andrew Saxena is a filmmaker, musician, actor, and podcaster. Andrew and I met a few years back in the lefty creator space in San Pedro. He was a huge part of Left At Wall, Frank Azurri, Termination Fee, and there’s another project we’re working on that has to do with cats. Also, we’ve become close friends over the past few years. We talk online media and young Andrew's escape from the Alex Jones cult, discovering punk rock in middle school, hanging out with David Lynch, CATS....This episode is everything that 1000 holds dear!
Jesse Case is a comedian, writer, and podcaster. Jesse’s one of the best comedians I know, and he’s a good friend. We spent our early comedy days in Seattle, Jesse went off to LA, and then, he was diagnosed with Stage 4 Colon Cancer in his late 20s. He documented the whole thing in a podcast series called Jesse vs. Cancer, it’s absolutely brilliant. His journey’s wild, and we go through it.
Steve Cerulli is an Italian-American Historian. Like Steve, I’m an Italian-American, too. The Italian-American identity seems to be very right-wing-presenting, at least in the mainstream. But, that is far from reality. Steve’s work has exposed why that is the case in the contemporary United States, the scam that is Columbus Day, and so much more. In a landscape where all of the most powerful Italian-American organizations are praising Trump, Steve is among the voices of opposition.
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