The Suicide Kid with Comedian Ron Zimmerman
Story Worthy
Story Worthy Media
4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2013
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Ron Zimmerman, writer/comedian, attempted suicide multiple times as a kid. It never worked out. Ron talks about his childhood, comics, a new project with Cher, and his early years working with Howard Stern.
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| 0:30.1 | This is Ron Zimmerman. |
| 0:31.2 | You're listening to Storyworthy Bumpers. |
| 0:34.7 | No. |
| 0:35.5 | No. Bumper Welcome to the story-worthy podcast. Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hanna Svinney. |
| 1:07.5 | Welcome to Storyworthy. I am Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanna Spine. |
| 1:11.1 | We're coming to you from the Marvel comic studios in New York City. |
| 1:28.1 | You know, it's about time we come from New York, Hannes. It is, it is. Well, we were banned due to certain legal issues from being in New York. I had certain warrants that were outstanding, but there's no reason to really go into that. And you like to come from Wisconsin. That's really what it's all about. Well, it is. obviously it's cheaper for us to fly our private jet with a studio bus attached inside it to a state like Wisconsin. New York, there's a lot |
| 1:34.1 | of overhead. The storyworthy jet of truth. Yes, yes, the jet of truth. And then the bus, and then |
| 1:39.0 | we have the bus of truth. And we are here because among our guests, many credits are writing for Marvel Comics. That's right. Ron Zimmerman. Ron Zimmerman. He's a comedian. He's a writer and he's also a producer. And an actor. And an actor. But he might best be known for his Marvel comics series, Raw Hyde Kid. Well, anyway, so Ron Zimmerman's here and I'm anxious to hear his story. His story is titled The Suicide Kid. |
| 2:02.1 | The Suicide Kid. |
| 2:04.4 | Before we get into that, I do want to mention folks. |
| 2:06.5 | Speaking of suicide, how about that Twitter? |
| 2:10.4 | You know, in today's hectic world, if you're going to commit suicide, you don't have time to write things on a piece of paper and hope it doesn't blow |
| 2:18.2 | away while your body rots next to it. You got to send out a tweet. I enjoy the Twitter before I go to bed at night. Like I go through tweets between, you know, before I go to bed, like a 10 o'clock, 1030 at night. I'm flipping through. I don't know. Much like your daughter flipping through the, the pictures to make herself, |
| 2:33.1 | just calm herself down. |
| 2:34.7 | You just look at tweets. |
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