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FANTI

Based on a True Story…Sorta (ft. Michael R. Jackson)

FANTI

Maximum Fun

Jarrett Hill, Culture, Fanti, Comedy, Tre'vell Anderson, Journalists, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Michael R. Jackson created the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning Broadway musical A Strange Loop, and he joins jarrett and Tre’vell for a nuanced conversation about making art that’s based on one’s own life…kinda. Michael doesn’t consider A Strange Loop to be autobiographical, so much as self-reverential.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, before we get into this episode,

0:01.4

I wanna let you know that this episode was taped

0:03.8

on Tuesday afternoon, if things have gotten interesting,

0:07.3

if the world is not even here anymore.

0:09.0

We don't know, but we won't be discussing the election

0:11.7

until probably the next episode, so just be aware.

0:14.9

Now let's get into it.

0:16.0

Hey there, beautiful people, welcome to Fantasias Pockets

0:22.2

for all those complex and complicated conversations

0:24.2

about the great areas in our lives.

0:26.0

As I'm entertainment journalist, editor, author,

0:27.9

rest, all of the things trivial.

0:29.4

Anderson.

0:30.2

And I am a Queer Black man, hosting a Queer Black show

0:33.4

with a Queer Black guest talking about their Queer Black

0:36.2

play, about a Queer Black man, running a Queer Black

0:38.9

show.

0:41.0

Coming up on the show today, we thank you.

0:44.0

I was doing it in real time, and I was like,

0:46.6

I think this is working.

0:48.0

We are gonna be talking to Michael R. Jackson,

0:50.0

the writer creator of a strange loop a little bit later.

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