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The Katie Halper Show

275 - Pulitzers & Rent Strikes with Michael Jackson and Ava Farkas

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

News

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Michael Jackson talks about winning a Pulitzer Prize for his musical "A Strange Loop" and struggling to pay the rent. Ava Farkas tells Michael what his rights are as a tenant during covid and tells me why Cuomo is so bad.

Transcript

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And I'm here talking to Pulitzer Prize winning musical theater, writer, composer,

0:07.8

lyricist, and playwright, and book writer.

0:11.6

I never know how to phrase these musical theater terms but you wrote

0:16.8

it's another language for sure. You didn't write the book you wrote book? Well yeah you can say it I wrote book. Well, yeah, you can say it either way. I wrote book.

0:25.0

Yeah. I wrote the book for either way.

0:27.0

Sounds Russian.

0:28.0

Wrote book. He wrote book.

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He wrote book for a strange loop.

0:32.0

Or strange loop. He wrote a strange loop then helped Donald Trump win election.

0:38.0

Great election through strange loop, achieve election status, victory of Donald Trump.

0:45.0

Yeah, the show is going to get cancelled right now.

0:48.0

I know.

0:49.0

Terrible, we just got cancelled.

0:58.0

Hello and welcome to the Katie helper show. On today's show I interview Michael Jackson who just won a Pulitzer Prize for his musical A Strange Loop.

1:04.4

Then I talk to Ava Farkas, who's the executive director of the Met Council on Housing,

1:10.0

and Michael and Ava talk to each other, and she offers him some great tips on how to organize for your housing rights.

1:16.8

Please rate and review the Katie Halper show on iTunes.

1:19.8

You can also support the show on Patreon that's patron

1:23.0

dot com slash the kady helper show again that's patreon

1:26.1

that come slash the kady helper show so Michael R Jackson holds a BFA and

1:30.9

MFA and playwriting and musical theater writing from the

1:33.8

NYU Tish School of the Arts as a songwriter he has seen his work performed

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