Episode 567 - Ron Placone

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and filmmaker Ron Placone (@ronplacone) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about his new movie Left at Wall, the guy who let venomous snakes bite him hundreds of times for science (kind of), a color no one had seen until now, retinitis pigmentosa and turning lead into gold.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hello and welcome to Probably Science. I'm Andy Wood.
0:13.0	I'm Jesse Case.
0:15.0	I'm Matt Kirshan. We are joined very guest.
0:17.0	I didn't know, I only found out recently. Used to live in Nashville.
0:23.6	So, oh yeah. We go way back. Way back.
0:30.8	Was at one point Jesse's neighbor, Ron Blacon, who is also the creator and star of new movie that is out right now called Left at Wall. You made a film, Ron. And also a comedian,
0:36.6	but you made a film. Tell us about it. It's been, it was a very, Ron. Yes. And also a comedian, but you made a film.
0:38.1	Tell us about it.
0:44.9	It's been, it was a very, very wild ride, but I have a movie out now called Left at Wall.
0:50.0	It's on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, YouTube movies, all kinds of places.
0:58.7	And yeah, it's a movie that kind of calls out the Wall Street machine, and it was inspired by the GameStop incident that happened.
1:02.1	So right after that, incident happened. Like the shorting thing?
1:04.0	The shorting.
1:04.7	Yeah, yeah.
1:05.3	So.
1:05.6	Gamergate.
1:06.8	Or no, not Gamergate.
1:08.1	No, no, different thing.
1:10.1	Yeah.
1:11.3	Yeah. So the shorting thing.
1:13.3	Yeah, so in 2021, a bunch of people bought this video game stock inspired by this guy
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