Look, up on the stage, it's a podcast!

It's a musical!

It's Planet Money Live!

Yes, for one night only, Planet Money will be staging a live podcast taping

and world premiere of a superhero economics musical.

That's May 10th in Brooklyn.

You can get your tickets at nprpresents.org.

This is Planet Money, from NPR.

A few years ago, Ty Verdes was in his early 20s, working a day job at a Verizon store in Los

Angeles, and dreaming of becoming a pop star.

But he wasn't having much luck through the traditional roots to musical fame.

I would write a song and then go to these auditions.

I'd wait whatever it is, like nine hours, just a sing for two minutes, and then they'd

known would say anything.

They would just be like, all right, and then you'd go home.

But then, of course, the world shut down.

Like a lot of us, Ty had to shelter in place at home.

And also, like a lot of us, he started spending more and more time on TikTok.

This social media app that has exploded since the pandemic started.

If you aren't totally addicted yet, TikTok is made up of these short punchy videos of

people doing little dance moves, or cooking videos, or hair and beauty routines.

Little trends often set to very particular songs.

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