A Special Announcement from Gillian + Lin-Manuel Miranda's First Appearance on the Pod (2017!)
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The news is out! After nearly ten years and what will be 500 episodes, The Hamilcast will be coming to an end on January 26th, 2026, the podcast's official ten-year anniversary. While the community isn't going anywhere and the archive will always remain available, the weekly episodes you've come to expect will soon be wrapping up. Until then, this is going to be a PARTY. Let's celebrate this journey with memories, special events, plus a few repeat episodes to bring things full circle and look back on some extraordinary moments on the pod. While there is plenty of time to get emotional, I do want to make sure that I say I've loved making this show for you for all these years. Thank you for always being excited about things with me. It's been such a fantastic ride and I'm so happy to be celebrating with you.
As we kick off the final stretch of The Hamilcast, let's revisit when we fanned that spark into a flame, otherwise known as the time Lin-Manuel Miranda came over and ate popcorn with me and Mike for four hours while drinking a custom cocktail inspired by the bodegas of Washington Heights.
We're going back to October 2017, when Lin-Manuel Miranda himself first joined me on the podcast. It all started with a Twitter DM, which led to Lin visiting my tiny New York City apartment (slanted floors, whistling toilet, the works) to record one of the biggest conversations of my life. It was a monumental moment for me, for the podcast, and for the listeners. What followed became known as #Lintoberfest: five episodes filled with the excitement, stories, and rare audio from that unforgettable day.
Below you'll find today's relevant links including the rest of Lin's episodes, as well as the original description from when Episode 88 originally dropped in 2017.
Aaron Burr Panel at the South Street Seaport
/// Lin-Manuel Miranda on The Hamilcast (so far) ///
#88: Lin-Manuel Miranda // Part One
#89: Lin-Manuel Miranda // Part Two
#90: Lin-Manuel Miranda // Part Three
#91: Lin-Manuel Miranda // Part Four // The B-Sides
#92: Lin-Manuel Miranda // Part Five // The B-Sides
#225: Lin-Manuel Miranda Returns! // Part One
#226: Lin-Manuel Miranda Returns! // Part Two
/// Original description and links from October 1st, 2017 ///
Lin-Manuel Miranda came over to my apartment and we had so much fun that I have FIVE episodes for you! Welcome to #Lintoberfest, with my husband Michael Paul Smith joining me for these episodes. In Part One, I try to get over the fact that Lin is recording in my living room – spoiler! I don't! – But regardless, we tell the story of how Lin ended up on the podcast, details of the early days of Hamilton, why Lin is a Hamilton/Burr hybrid, and quote The West Wing a LOT. We also eat popcorn and drink the Spark Into a Flame cocktail, made especially for Lin and inspired by his Inwood, NYC roots. Stay tuned for four more episodes: two more with Lin and then the Lin B-Sides which will be outtakes, non-sequiturs, and commentary by me and Mike (you know Mike). And no, I'm still not over the fact that this happened! No chill whatsoever!
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Previous episodes referenced:
Shockwave Part One
Shockwave Part Two
Mandy Gonzalez
Ian Weinberger Part One
Ian Weinberger Part Two
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamelcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Boots and cuts and boots and cuts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, friends. Welcome back to the Hamelcast. I'm Jillian. And you might be a little confused to see a repeat from 2017 in your feed right now since I don't think I've ever dropped a repeat episode ever. But yeah, something big is happening. And I wanted to make sure you knew what was going on. You might have seen this on Playbill or on the official Hamilton socials, but in case you didn't, after what will be 10 years and 500 episodes, the Hamelcast |
| 0:42.8 | will be coming to an end on January 26, 26th, which is the actual 10-year anniversary of the podcast. |
| 0:51.7 | Yeah. Well, I've been thinking about this for a long time and I've been talking about it a lot for pretty much all of 2025, but it is very surreal to be saying it out loud and to have made it official and to be talking into my microphone telling you about it. I have said this no less than one |
| 1:13.4 | million times. I love making this podcast. I really did give this decision a lot of very, very |
| 1:20.0 | careful thought over a very long time, but it just feels right to end it after 10 years and 500 |
| 1:26.0 | episodes, you know? I keep saying that it's either that |
| 1:28.8 | or 20 years and a thousand episodes and there's no in between, right? 10 years, 500 episodes, |
| 1:34.3 | it just, it feels good. It sounds good, but it feels good. And it just, it feels right. And actually, |
| 1:40.3 | I'll tell you what I told the Patreon peeps a few weeks ago over Zoom, because, of course, I told them before making the official announcement. |
| 1:47.3 | There are two things I can tell you for sure that are not going anywhere, the community that we've made and the podcast feed itself. |
| 1:54.2 | It was so sweet. |
| 1:55.2 | A lot of the peeps were like, wait, no, my comfort episodes. |
| 1:58.2 | Look, they're not going anywhere. |
| 2:00.0 | You can listen and relisten and introduce people |
| 2:02.8 | to the old Epps, like whatever you want to do. The episodes will stay as they are in the feed. |
| 2:07.2 | So wherever you listen to your podcast or this podcast or whatever, that's not going anywhere. |
| 2:12.1 | You can go back and relisten. And the website is going to stay up as well. Also, I absolutely |
| 2:17.4 | reserve the right to drop a |
| 2:19.1 | random episode here and there. I've learned a lot making this show. One of the things I've learned |
| 2:25.0 | is to expect the unexpected. So this is not to say that there will never, ever, ever, ever, |
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