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The Katie Halper Show

12: CEO Martin Shkreli's hidden tweets, Ethel Rosenberg bday, Strange Fruit & surprising bisexuals

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

News

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of the Katie Halper, we commemorate Bivisibility Day by presenting a "Best-Bi" list of people you probably didn't know were bisexual. Then we discuss Chris Christie's typically nuanced response to the Pope: "He's just wrong." And we ponder the awkward fact that the GOP considers Rosa Parks a hero but she said on the national board of the very organization the Republicans voted to shut down: Planned Parenthood. Oops! Our guests include Robert Meeropol, who is the song of Ethel and Julius Meeropol, who were the only people ever executed in the United States during peace time. He explains how the government used his mother Ethel to pressure his father to name names and when that didn't work, the government put them both in the electric chair. Robert makes an exclusive announcement about an event honoring his mother on what would have been on 100th anniversary, which will take place Monday, Sept 28th at 11AM at City Hall. And and tells us about the man who adopted him and his brother, Abel Meeropol, who wrote the lyrics and the music to the anti-lynching anthem Strange Fruit, made famous by Billie Holiday. Bryan Collinsworth explains how we know that Martin Shkreli and Big Pharma are lying when they claim they mark up the prices of medications to pay for research. And Mexican documentary photographer Rodrigo Jardon talks about his work in the Mixtec Highlands, which will be in an exhibit opening Friday, October 25th at Union Docs in Brooklyn!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 12 of the Katie Halper show. We just want to give you a really exciting

0:05.0

heads up that on October 28th we'll be talking to author Tana Hasey Coates, National Correspondent

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for The Atlantic, the author of Between the World and Me,

0:14.7

and the Beautiful Struggle, and the writer who Tony Morrison has compared to James Baldwin.

0:20.4

And another guest we're really excited to announce who will be joining us this month is

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comedian Judah Freelander. So make sure you check it out.

0:27.0

Coming up at the 6 PM hour will be the Katie Helpers show.

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Hello and welcome to the

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The Hello and welcome to the Katie helper show here every

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Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on W.b.a.I that's W.a.org or 99.5 f5 FM and I'm here as usual with my co-pilots. I got one

0:56.8

co-pilot named Gabe Pacheco Hilarious comedian Gabe Pacheco.

1:00.0

Howdy it's me it's Gabe Pacheco. Katie Halper, I'm feeling pretty good.

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Good, you're looking pretty good.

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Oh, thank you very much.

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He's wearing a tank top, everyone.

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That's right, camouflage tank top.

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Camouflage tank top.

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I had no idea he was here.

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Keeping it classy.

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I thought he was just arms and a head and then like his

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torso I couldn't see. Completely disappeared into the drywall backdrop.

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Into the white drywall because camouflage and white they go together like two birds of a feather and of course on the

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