1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Ron Placone is a comedian who can be seen regularly on&amp;nbsp;The Jimmy Dore Show&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;The Young Turks. He&amp;nbsp;hosts the world’s first viewer-curated streaming news show,&amp;nbsp;“Get Your News On With Ron.” He’s been on SiriusXM and seen on TMZ, RT, and FreeSpeechTV.&amp;nbsp; He also produces the web comic Lucy and Ron about his long time relationship with Lucy the cat. Ron is an avid music lover and a champion and activist for a free and open internet and net neutrality. In this episode Ron goes through how he approached going for his art in life and pursuing comedy full time after graduate school.&amp;nbsp; In the second half of the interview we get into progressive politics and a perspective that is above and beyond the political party divide. Ron has teamed up with Graham Elwood to bring the Progressive Comedy Tour across the nation in 2020.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Check out RonPlacone.com for tickets, clips and a lot of laughs. The Art Podcast http://theart.libsyn.com/website <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/12989213/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/12989213