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In this episode we discuss the musical Hamilton. You can watch it on Disney+ or listen to the soundtrack online on places like Spotify.
Content warnings for strong language, discussions of adultery, slavery, suicide, parent death, child death, historical uncertainty about queerness, and questions of queerbaiting.
We reference or spoil: 200-year-old history, Got Milk’s “Aaron Burr” commercial, J.R.R. Tolkien‘s Lord of the Rings, A Bit of Fry and Laurie‘s “Themes: What good are they?” sketch, Drunk History “Hamilton” episode, “Muppet” version of Hamilton, “Lin-Manuel Miranda Breaks Down His Biggest Songs, from Hamilton to Moana”, Make Stuff’s “Hamilton and Motifs: Creating Emotional Paradoxes”, Shakespeare‘s Hamlet, Three Minute Hamlet, Company “Getting Married Today”, the works of Stephen Sondheim, Lawrence Sterne‘s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Notorious B.I.G.’s “Ten Crack Commandments“, South Pacific “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught”, The Pirates of Penzance “Major-General’s Song”, The Last Five Years “Nobody Needs to Know”, Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy“, Ira Alexandre‘s “Miles Vorkosigan and ‘Excellent Life Choices’: (Neuro)Divergence and Decision-Making in Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga“, the work of Joss Whedon, “Hamilton Mixtape” from the 2009 White House Poetry Jam, “murder your darlings“, Community “Paradigms of Human Memory“, Sleepy Hollow “Root of All Evil“, Supernatural, Gundam Wing, G Gundam, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter‘s Hamilton: The Revolution, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Eternal Champions, Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, Connie Willis‘s To Say Nothing of the Dog, The Good Place, Connie Willis’s The Doomsday Book, 1986’s Peggy Sue Got Married
The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.
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