Hi, I'm Stage and Stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast.

Butts and cuts and,

boots and... Hello everybody welcome back to the hamelcast I am Jillian tonight I am here with oh my goodness Mike you know Mike hey guys and

Carl Queensboro from the West

what's up what's up From all the way across the sea. Oh yeah. Look you had quite a journey.

You woke up in London today. Yes, literally. Yeah, I woke up in London. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You had the worst customs experience that I've ever seen. That photo you sent me.

I was, yeah, I was stuck in customs for two and a half hours.

Look, I am so grateful that you even reached out and wanted to hang.

I am even more grateful that after this nonsense

that our city put you through, that you still wanted to come.

And then you got to your hotel and you're like my

phone's not working what the hell yeah the oh two is playing around with me they're not

they're trying to they're trying to mess up my trip but I'm gonna I'm gonna call them

tomorrow and sort all out yeah well, well, I'm thrilled, thrilled that you're here.

Thank you both for joining me.

A couple things before we get started and diving into the Hamilton of it all.

You just had your first slice of New York City

pizza oh my god your first two slices yeah two slices already thinking about the

third yeah I'm ready for it. Um, also better than any pizza. I've honestly, like I'm not just saying this, it's better than any

pizza I've had in London. Like the density, the flavours, just from looking at it, I said, it's it's better than anything I've had

well I didn't know that this is your first time in the States and in New York

city before we we had this whole plan yeah yeah so like we were, you had some time on your hands

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