Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamelcast.

Boots and cuts and boots and cats.

Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Hamelcast. I'm Jillian. Today I am joined by Mike. You know Mike.

Hi, everyone. Welcome back. Thanks. It has literally been a while. It's been a really long time.

Yeah. How's it going? Good. I would have been here sooner, but correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the pandemic and everything being virtual, it made it logistically

harder to have me jump in on a recording when you're already recording virtually with someone

else. Yeah. So we've moved twice since lockdown. So the original apartment that we did all of this.

Also, this is just a back to basics episode. We're just going to chat. Lots to talk about. Lots to talk

about. We're doing peep questions. This is kind of the last time we can really speak to everyone kind of directly and get kind of sappy. So that's what it is. It's a little bit of a walk down memory lane, a little bit of Back to Basics. But yeah, so we, the apartment that you know, like all the cabinet came over when everyone was coming over. That was two apartments ago.

Andy Blank and Bueller was the last person to come on in real life. It was Alex Brightman.

And then Andy Blankin Bueller and it was kind of like, thank God I got him when I did because I don't think it would have really been the same.

And then lockdown happened. And my first lockdown interview conversation was Jason Crystal, a sound guy. So the universe was like, okay, this kind of threw everything for a loop, but at least the universe sent me

someone who was like, oh, like I can help you. And he did. He helped you troubleshoot during the

recording. Yeah. And of course he had like a mic and he sounded great and it was a very nice sort of

introduction to this new virtual world. And then yeah, we've been, when Lynn came on virtually, you did pop in to say hi. Just to say hi. I'm not sure if that was on or off mic, but you were like, you just like popped in next to me on like the riverside screen. Yeah. I asked him an off the record hip hop question and got an off the record answer, which cracked me up. And I can't say it because it's off the record. But that's all I wanted to do. Yeah. So I don't think you even made it on to those Eps officially. I think it was just you saying hi. Just saying hi. We lived in a 400 square foot apartment that everyone came to. And then we had an apartment. And now we're here. And so we've, yeah, it it's the whole it's been an evolution but speaking

of back to basics there's a cocktail here there is a cocktail here i insisted on making one um

the name of the cocktail is very simply one last lime oh cute and it is a variation on the good

old-fashioned soko lime shot oh come Oh, come on. It's Soco. Back to basics, indeed. Yes. Soco lime juice, lemon lime soda, lemon seltzer, and garnish with a lime wedge. Wow. I love it. Or lime wheel. I think a lime wheel is step. At first, it looks like brown liquor on the rocks, which is not something I do.

Doers on the rocks. I was kind of like, what kind of joke cocktail is this for our one last time? How dare he? Cheers. Salute. Yeah, that'll hunt. Isn't that nice? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. we became friends with the bartender at our local, as we often do.

And it came up somehow talking to him

that going to Marymount in my college years, I was not a drinker. And I certainly wasn't doing

like the college style shots that everyone does in college. I wasn't doing it. Well, you didn't

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