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The Best One Yet

🇺🇸 Hamilton: From Founding Father To Broadway Star

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In 2008, Lin-Manuel Miranda badly needed a vacation. He’d just won the Tony for his musical “In The Heights,” he’d been going nonstop. So he took a break, bringing a book with him for poolside lounging: the 800-page biography of America’s first treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton. But what started as a light beach read soon became an obsession. Lin HAD to bring this man’s incredible life to the stage. Thus began an epic journey: from the White House, to Lincoln Center, to (eventually) Broadway. “Hamilton” became a massive success, scoring a record 16 Tony noms, the Pulitzer Prize, and $1B+ in revenue. But along the way, Lin and his team had to reckon with a problem: when your show about democracy becomes too exclusive, how do you bring it back to the people? Find out how Ham4Ham broke the B’way mold, how a streaming deal with Disney+ set the stage for Taylor Swift, and why “Hamilton” is the best idea yet. 


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0:00.0

Yeah, it is Nick and Jack here from the T-Boy Studio.

0:03.0

Happy birthday, America.

0:05.0

249.

0:07.0

We whipped up a really special present for your Fourth of July weekend.

0:11.0

It's actually our most patriotic episode ever.

0:13.0

We're talking a 45-minute deep dive on Hamilton, the musical.

0:17.0

You'll hear more in a second, but we both consider this play the greatest creative work

0:22.4

of all time. It's about patriotism, ambition, money, and the city in New York. And the story of how

0:28.0

Lynn Manuel built this billion-dollar Broadway business. Oh, it's wild. So without further ado,

0:33.3

drop the curtains, Jack, and let's pop some profits over there. Here's our full episode on Hamilton the Musical from our weekly show, The Best Idea Yet.

0:41.4

And then Besties, after it's done, go subscribe to the best idea yet.

0:44.9

Because if you love T-Boy, you're going to love that show, too.

0:53.3

Nick, did I ever tell you about Mr. Kipp?

0:55.7

One of the great teachers of all time.

0:58.3

And he was a contact men's hockey player on the side.

1:02.2

Body checking by day, grin papers by night kind of a thing.

1:05.0

His focus was the civil rights movement.

1:07.3

And taking this class, honestly, opened my eyes and made me like aware of politics and the

1:12.6

world. It was my political enlightening. As a great teacher does. He highlighted this moment during a

1:19.0

civil rights protest where a man simply held a sign that said, I am a man. Wow. I have never

1:26.3

forgotten it. Well, I dressed up as Paul Revere once for history class,

1:30.6

and I cried when someone thought I was a pirate. So it wasn't quite as deep as what you were thinking,

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