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The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

#15: Chernow Chapter 11: Ghosts

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

Arts, Performing Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It's a bummer, but we have to talk about the crazy level of hypocrisy surrounding our Founding Fathers fighting for freedom yet still owning slaves. It sucks. We break down who was the biggest hypocrite and… we hate to say it, but there's a good possibility Alexander and Eliza Hamilton owned some slaves of their own. But we balance things out with some awesome listener emails! Silver lining? Yes, because we have the best listeners of all time.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody. Hi, I'm Hi, I'm Jillian. I'm Bianca. What's up? Thanks for joining us once again on the Hamelcast.

0:17.0

Welcome back. How are you, Jillian? I'm doing well. How are you doing? I'm good. Bianca. Thank you. We haven't done listener

0:25.7

emails in a while. We haven't we should do that. Let's do it. Okay let's do

0:29.2

let's do let's start off with that because we have kind of a little bit of a heavy churn now a chapter.

0:37.0

We're talking about ghosts today and we have to talk about it.

0:41.0

Well it's the next chapter up so we have to. Yeah and there's it's the next chapter up so we have to yeah and there's it's there's a lot it's pretty heavy

0:46.3

there's a lot of slavery stuff you guys those founding fathers they were little hypocritical. Yeah, like very much so, but before we get into that we thought maybe we'd balance. We'd balance it. It's a little bit of a lighter air.

1:01.0

Yeah, because it kind of sucks the turn out chapter or not it's very well

1:06.1

written I'm not saying that I'm just saying this chapter sucks yeah no never

1:11.7

ron sure now I can't wait for you to be a guest one day you will be, I promise.

1:16.0

I promise myself that that's going to happen.

1:20.0

We have a bunch of emails. We've gotten like a lot of emails in the past couple weeks that we really like

1:26.2

So we're gonna pick a few to discuss

1:29.8

Yeah, I know I just can we start with this one because I know it's late because Tax Day already passed it's like I think by the time this episode is up it's May Three weeks ago, but Belinda emailed us Belinda presser she said, I smiled today writing a check to the IRS

1:45.3

because it was made out to the US Treasury and all I could think was, sir, do you want me to run the Treasury

1:49.6

or State Department? Let's go.

1:51.2

I know it's a lot to ask,

1:53.0

Treasury or stay behind the world, you know.

1:55.0

Sir, do you want me to run the Treasury or State Department?

1:58.0

Treasury.

2:00.0

Let's go.

2:02.0

It's a nice spin on tax day.

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