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The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

#6: Chernow Chapter 4: The Pen and the Sword

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

Arts, Performing Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary


Gillian and Bianca talk Broadway bootlegs and Chapter 4 in Chernow: "The Pen and the Sword." Also, Gillian's Hamilton FOMO made her temporarily lose her mind so she tells a cautionary Craigslist tale. Yikes. "My Shot" instrumental provided by Bao Vu.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. Welcome to the Hamelcast. I'm Jillian. I'm Bianca. It's just us this week. Yeah, no guess. We'll have guests in a couple more episodes probably. Yeah, Chernow's getting really dense. Lots of information. So so much all the information I think I've reread the

0:26.4

chapters multiple times and I keep being like how did I miss that entire part I know

0:31.2

whenever we go through our prep I'm always it just

0:34.6

feels like I've never read it before for the show I'm always like wait who was

0:38.1

that what was that guy's name I know I read this more than once and I'm still learning new things it's just a lot of

0:44.8

information but it's great it's all very interesting it's just a lot packed into

0:49.0

that tiny font and all those pages it's a lot and my I take so many notes as I'm reading to right.

0:56.6

I am the same way where I because to me everything's important

1:00.3

because if it was put in the book it must be important.

1:03.0

And then I'm like, well, I want to talk about everything,

1:05.0

but I'm not just going to turn this into the like Ron Chernau reading hour,

1:08.0

because that would be a long time.

1:11.0

And I think, I don't know if we said this either on Twitter or in one of our other podcasts, there's a reason, I mean the show would be days and days long if we kept everything in.

1:20.0

Eternal. There's so much and every new name I'm like who's what is he how important. I know. I know. I mean they're all they're all everyone's important. Of course. We're all snowflakes. But today we thought we'd get into the bootleg debate because it's all

1:37.9

it's all over the internet and see I didn't even know it was all over the internet until I saw Lynn address it, I guess.

1:47.0

Somebody mentioned something to him on Twitter and he wrote back.

1:50.0

I hadn't said I had no idea this was even going on because to me

1:54.3

the Hamilton bootleg and specifically correct yeah yeah I mean the fact that there

1:59.2

are bootlegs happening of Broadway shows in general is astonishing The fact that people are doing it and

2:04.9

getting away with it is what's crazy to me because you would think that that

2:10.8

there would just be those ushers would just be all over you.

2:14.3

Like they yell at you for taking a picture.

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