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Hey, oh, it's the NPR politics podcast. So here we are coming off a long holiday weekend

I was just on vacation for a week until recently. We need to ease back into things with something a little bit lighter

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Now we're loud

No, Daniel's gonna sing with it. Anyways musicals

You're doing good. You're doing good. All right. You're almost so when we talk today about musicals and politics

Which means that we of course have to mention that show whatever it's called Harrison

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Anyway, let's say hi. I'm Sam Sanders campaign reporter. I'm Ron Elving editor correspondent

I'm Daniel Kurtzlaven digital political reporter and I'm Bob Mandelo. I'm the movie critic for all things considered

And probably the resident expert in this building on musicals. I am a big fan

I think that everything in the world can be explained through musical comedy

Wow, and I'm convinced about that. I've done pieces about economics about the about all kinds of things and

Politics is something that musicals get into a lot more than you'd think and it's kind of exciting to be talking about it with you guys

Who actually knows something about politics? I talk about this mostly with people who know a lot about musicals

So Ron you also like musicals too and you've been talking to Bob about this and the idea for this episode came from you guys, right?

We had a conversation we started talking about not just musicals such as Ivita

But we started talking about the possibility that Hamilton would actually have a performance or at least a number or two at the Democratic National

Convention this year and we we're also recalling as I have a tendency to do at a past convention 20 years ago

The cast of Brent was flown in one night

The cast of rent has taken their one night off and flown here on their own

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