1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:07,041 --> 00:00:08,000 RICHARD: What do you like about that boy? 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:08,083 --> 00:00:10,083 ♪ (MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ 5 00:00:10,166 --> 00:00:11,250 CAITLIN: He understands me. 6 00:00:13,250 --> 00:00:14,458 ♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ 7 00:00:18,041 --> 00:00:19,125 ♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪ 8 00:00:26,750 --> 00:00:28,667 [static drones] 9 00:00:28,750 --> 00:00:30,750 [bright tone] 10 00:00:32,458 --> 00:00:35,458 [bright chord] 11 00:00:38,709 --> 00:00:41,709 [machines beeping] 12 00:00:46,709 --> 00:00:48,083 - So you had a heart attack. 13 00:00:48,166 --> 00:00:51,709 You had a very bad blockage with a clot 14 00:00:51,792 --> 00:00:53,709 in the artery on the side of your heart. 15 00:00:53,792 --> 00:00:55,000 Very dangerous. 16 00:00:55,083 --> 00:00:56,375 We sucked it out, 17 00:00:56,458 --> 00:00:58,250 put stents in that area, 18 00:00:58,333 --> 00:00:59,750 and that was a year ago. 19 00:00:59,834 --> 00:01:01,917 - Right. 20 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,542 - So since the last time I saw you, 21 00:01:06,625 --> 00:01:10,375 what have you noticed in terms of... 22 00:01:10,458 --> 00:01:11,709 how you feeling? 23 00:01:11,792 --> 00:01:14,083 - You know, my... 24 00:01:14,166 --> 00:01:17,083 routine has not changed. 25 00:01:17,166 --> 00:01:18,750 [upbeat percussive music] 26 00:01:18,834 --> 00:01:20,542 [speaking Spanish] 27 00:01:20,625 --> 00:01:21,917 Miguel! 28 00:01:23,291 --> 00:01:27,041 I'm probably busier than I was before the heart attack. 29 00:01:27,125 --> 00:01:30,750 Make sure you vote for Letitia James 30 00:01:30,834 --> 00:01:31,834 for attorney general. 31 00:01:38,208 --> 00:01:42,959 And traveling much more than I used to. 32 00:01:43,041 --> 00:01:44,792 This is too fast. 33 00:01:44,875 --> 00:01:47,208 - How's your mental health? 34 00:01:47,291 --> 00:01:48,750 My dad's worked in politics 35 00:01:48,834 --> 00:01:51,542 and been the most efficient guy in the room his entire career. 36 00:01:51,625 --> 00:01:53,959 It felt like the whole thing was a test for this. 37 00:01:54,041 --> 00:01:56,583 - Last question. - Last question? 38 00:01:56,667 --> 00:02:01,250 - But other than that, I have been feeling... 39 00:02:01,333 --> 00:02:04,083 - Tired. A lot. 40 00:02:04,166 --> 00:02:05,917 - Yeah, 'cause I sleep little. 41 00:02:06,041 --> 00:02:08,333 - Exhausted a lot. - So... 42 00:02:08,417 --> 00:02:10,333 - And what time do you usually go to bed, 43 00:02:10,417 --> 00:02:12,125 and what time do you wake up? 44 00:02:12,208 --> 00:02:15,291 - I go to bed 45 00:02:15,375 --> 00:02:17,291 around midnight. 46 00:02:17,375 --> 00:02:19,792 ♪ ♪ 47 00:02:19,875 --> 00:02:23,458 I get up around 5:30, quarter to six, 48 00:02:23,542 --> 00:02:28,333 so I'm sleeping, like, 5 1/2 hours, 49 00:02:28,417 --> 00:02:32,000 which is a little more than I used to sleep. 50 00:02:32,083 --> 00:02:34,083 [breathes deeply] 51 00:02:46,750 --> 00:02:48,542 - I didn't hear about my father's heart attack 52 00:02:48,625 --> 00:02:49,542 until it was almost over. 53 00:02:49,625 --> 00:02:54,083 I was in London with my family, and... 54 00:02:54,166 --> 00:02:56,041 my dad called me, I think from the hospital bed, 55 00:02:56,125 --> 00:02:58,542 and said, "I'm having a-- I had a-- 56 00:02:58,625 --> 00:03:00,625 I had a little of a heart attack." 57 00:03:00,709 --> 00:03:02,500 And really downplayed it. 58 00:03:02,583 --> 00:03:04,333 I didn't realize sort of how serious it was 59 00:03:04,417 --> 00:03:05,834 until later. 60 00:03:05,917 --> 00:03:09,000 That's pretty Luis Miranda, honestly. 61 00:03:09,083 --> 00:03:12,834 He manages the pain, and he keeps moving, 62 00:03:12,917 --> 00:03:16,709 because he's just a relentless motherfucker, 63 00:03:16,792 --> 00:03:18,667 and so it's all about, 64 00:03:18,750 --> 00:03:21,667 "All right, how can I get this part handled 65 00:03:21,750 --> 00:03:22,792 so I can keep going?" 66 00:03:22,875 --> 00:03:25,500 It's not like you're there for the plot. 67 00:03:25,583 --> 00:03:27,166 - [laughing] Right, right, right. 68 00:03:27,250 --> 00:03:29,875 - You know what? You could use a break. 69 00:03:29,959 --> 00:03:32,959 - You have been going nonstop for so long, Luis. 70 00:03:33,041 --> 00:03:34,417 I mean, really. - Nonstop. 71 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:41,500 ♪ ♪ 72 00:03:49,333 --> 00:03:50,667 Where's my wife? 73 00:03:50,750 --> 00:03:52,250 - Right here. 74 00:03:52,333 --> 00:03:55,333 The way my father and I work together is collaborative. 75 00:03:55,417 --> 00:03:56,375 We sort of start 76 00:03:56,458 --> 00:03:58,208 with whatever creative work I'm doing, 77 00:03:58,291 --> 00:03:59,500 and then we find ways 78 00:03:59,583 --> 00:04:01,709 to link it to the world at large. 79 00:04:01,792 --> 00:04:05,375 [cheers and applause] 80 00:04:05,458 --> 00:04:08,417 He's become a gatekeeper for me in a very real way, 81 00:04:08,500 --> 00:04:11,583 which is not ever how I anticipated our relationship. 82 00:04:11,667 --> 00:04:14,667 [cheers and applause] 83 00:04:38,875 --> 00:04:41,875 [wild cheering] 84 00:04:51,166 --> 00:04:52,792 I guess I gotta grow my hair back? 85 00:04:52,875 --> 00:04:55,291 [wild cheering] 86 00:04:55,375 --> 00:04:57,375 It'll percolate. Anyway... 87 00:05:03,792 --> 00:05:05,625 [laughter] 88 00:05:05,709 --> 00:05:08,000 So they spend in Puerto Rico and they come here 89 00:05:08,083 --> 00:05:09,000 and they fly here 90 00:05:09,083 --> 00:05:10,959 and they spend money in the island. 91 00:05:11,041 --> 00:05:13,041 [cheers and applause] 92 00:05:16,083 --> 00:05:19,500 - What? [wild cheering] 93 00:05:21,917 --> 00:05:23,208 [booing] 94 00:05:25,375 --> 00:05:28,458 - Okay, that's disrespectful. 95 00:05:28,542 --> 00:05:31,500 [crowd shouting] 96 00:05:48,083 --> 00:05:50,291 The more things change, 97 00:05:50,375 --> 00:05:53,375 the more things stay the same. 98 00:05:53,458 --> 00:05:56,667 When these kids rushed to the stage, 99 00:05:56,750 --> 00:05:59,083 it reminded me 100 00:05:59,166 --> 00:06:03,959 of the many crazy things that I did 101 00:06:04,041 --> 00:06:08,291 when I was in that same university. 102 00:06:08,375 --> 00:06:09,667 [Latin guitar music] 103 00:06:09,750 --> 00:06:10,875 - Classes were suspended 104 00:06:10,959 --> 00:06:12,333 at the University of Puerto Rico 105 00:06:12,417 --> 00:06:13,667 after a riot last night 106 00:06:13,750 --> 00:06:16,333 in which a 21-year-old girl was shot to death 107 00:06:16,417 --> 00:06:17,834 and 50 people were injured. 108 00:06:17,917 --> 00:06:21,750 The riot grew out of a protest against the ROTC. 109 00:06:21,834 --> 00:06:24,083 - When I studied in the University of Puerto Rico 110 00:06:24,166 --> 00:06:25,250 in the '70s, 111 00:06:25,333 --> 00:06:28,709 it was a volatile time. 112 00:06:28,792 --> 00:06:31,750 - [singing in Spanish] 113 00:06:31,834 --> 00:06:35,417 ♪ ♪ 114 00:06:35,500 --> 00:06:39,208 - I participated in the protest movement. 115 00:06:39,291 --> 00:06:42,041 There were always reasons to protest, 116 00:06:42,125 --> 00:06:44,375 no different from now. 117 00:06:44,458 --> 00:06:46,375 Our island is complicated. 118 00:06:46,458 --> 00:06:47,834 We were a Spanish colony 119 00:06:47,917 --> 00:06:51,583 until the United States acquired us in 1898, 120 00:06:51,667 --> 00:06:55,834 after war, when we became a U.S. territory 121 00:06:55,917 --> 00:06:58,959 and continued to be a colony. 122 00:06:59,041 --> 00:07:00,917 Congress made us citizens, 123 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,917 but we don't have the same rights 124 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,750 as our fellow Americans. 125 00:07:04,834 --> 00:07:06,208 We can fight in wars, 126 00:07:06,291 --> 00:07:09,125 but we can't vote in presidential elections, 127 00:07:09,208 --> 00:07:11,792 and we don't have representatives in Congress. 128 00:07:11,875 --> 00:07:15,750 It's like a two-hour flight to Miami gives you rights 129 00:07:15,834 --> 00:07:19,125 that you don't have in Puerto Rico. 130 00:07:19,208 --> 00:07:21,583 We've suffered through failed leadership 131 00:07:21,667 --> 00:07:24,250 that left us straddled with debt. 132 00:07:24,333 --> 00:07:27,125 And our president throws fucking paper towels at us 133 00:07:27,208 --> 00:07:30,125 when we get hammered by Hurricane Maria. 134 00:07:30,208 --> 00:07:32,083 But you don't choose where you're from. 135 00:07:32,166 --> 00:07:35,917 ♪ ♪ 136 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,250 - Where are you from? 137 00:07:37,333 --> 00:07:39,500 - I am from Puerto Rico. 138 00:07:39,583 --> 00:07:42,458 A little town called Vega Alta. 139 00:07:42,542 --> 00:07:44,792 [upbeat music] 140 00:07:44,875 --> 00:07:47,500 It's a small town. 141 00:07:47,583 --> 00:07:51,083 ♪ ♪ 142 00:08:01,917 --> 00:08:05,625 - Nobody had any money, but they were... 143 00:08:05,709 --> 00:08:09,959 a very scholarly, known family 144 00:08:10,041 --> 00:08:12,291 in the island. 145 00:08:12,375 --> 00:08:14,000 All they wanted me 146 00:08:14,083 --> 00:08:17,291 was to do well in school. 147 00:08:17,375 --> 00:08:20,667 My mother pushed my limits 148 00:08:20,750 --> 00:08:22,500 to no end. 149 00:08:22,583 --> 00:08:27,166 Like, a 95 was unacceptable, 150 00:08:27,250 --> 00:08:30,542 and I would bring a 95 to the house, 151 00:08:30,625 --> 00:08:33,792 and the first question she will ask would be, 152 00:08:33,875 --> 00:08:36,000 "Did anybody get 100?" 153 00:08:36,083 --> 00:08:38,333 I was like, "No, I was the highest grade!" 154 00:08:38,417 --> 00:08:40,500 "Well, you'll have to do a little better next time." 155 00:08:40,583 --> 00:08:42,458 I was like, "Thank you very much, Mom." 156 00:08:59,542 --> 00:09:02,333 - I used to go to the movies every Sunday. 157 00:09:02,417 --> 00:09:04,375 [indistinct shouting] 158 00:09:04,458 --> 00:09:07,583 One day, my father took me to see 159 00:09:07,667 --> 00:09:09,834 "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." 160 00:09:09,917 --> 00:09:12,417 - You're tuckered, Molly. Why don't you quit? 161 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:14,834 - Sure, I'm tuckered, and I might give out, 162 00:09:14,917 --> 00:09:16,000 but I won't give in! 163 00:09:16,083 --> 00:09:17,917 How could anybody say I'm down? 164 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,375 Look! I'm blinkin'! 165 00:09:19,458 --> 00:09:22,041 - When I saw the movie, 166 00:09:22,125 --> 00:09:25,750 I was just fascinated. 167 00:09:25,834 --> 00:09:27,875 - ♪ And then ♪ 168 00:09:27,959 --> 00:09:29,375 ♪ Someday ♪ 169 00:09:29,458 --> 00:09:31,000 ♪ With all my might ♪ 170 00:09:31,083 --> 00:09:33,625 ♪ And all my may ♪ 171 00:09:33,709 --> 00:09:37,041 ♪ I'm gonna learn to read and write ♪ 172 00:09:37,125 --> 00:09:41,250 - In the one hand, it had a bit... 173 00:09:41,333 --> 00:09:43,375 of my own fantasy, 174 00:09:43,458 --> 00:09:45,959 of my own story, 175 00:09:46,041 --> 00:09:50,291 of a little kid in some town 176 00:09:50,375 --> 00:09:52,250 that sort of made it big. 177 00:09:52,333 --> 00:09:54,583 [upbeat showtune] 178 00:09:54,667 --> 00:09:57,750 What was captivating was the drive 179 00:09:57,834 --> 00:09:59,417 that this woman had. 180 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:01,250 [all cheering] 181 00:10:01,333 --> 00:10:05,083 And I sort of identified with that drive. 182 00:10:05,166 --> 00:10:07,625 - There's something about that moment, I think. 183 00:10:07,709 --> 00:10:10,583 The notion that he saw a life for himself 184 00:10:10,667 --> 00:10:13,250 that was bigger than Puerto Rico. 185 00:10:13,333 --> 00:10:15,792 [soft music] 186 00:10:15,875 --> 00:10:19,417 And, you know, you can trace it to Debbie Reynolds 187 00:10:19,500 --> 00:10:21,417 singing in "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," 188 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:24,250 "I'm not worried about down, I'm going up." 189 00:10:24,333 --> 00:10:26,500 You know, he who had these huge dreams. 190 00:10:26,583 --> 00:10:28,583 I think he's raised on a steady diet 191 00:10:28,667 --> 00:10:30,458 of American bootstrap narratives. 192 00:10:30,542 --> 00:10:34,542 [music swells] 193 00:10:35,875 --> 00:10:37,291 - I was gonna study law 194 00:10:37,375 --> 00:10:39,792 at the University of Puerto Rico. 195 00:10:39,875 --> 00:10:42,625 That's what I had decided I was gonna do. 196 00:10:42,709 --> 00:10:46,792 NYU was recruiting Puerto Ricans in the island, 197 00:10:46,875 --> 00:10:51,333 but for the psychology PhD program, 198 00:10:51,417 --> 00:10:53,750 and I said, "What the heck." 199 00:10:53,834 --> 00:10:56,792 So I went. I was interviewed. 200 00:10:56,875 --> 00:10:59,667 I then got the letter of acceptance. 201 00:11:07,208 --> 00:11:11,000 - Classes were starting in September. 202 00:11:11,083 --> 00:11:15,333 I had been married for a number of months 203 00:11:15,417 --> 00:11:19,625 to my seventh-grade sweetheart. 204 00:11:19,709 --> 00:11:21,834 I had an apartment. I had a car. 205 00:11:21,917 --> 00:11:23,041 I had a wife. 206 00:11:23,125 --> 00:11:25,792 I was 18 years old, but I had all of this other stuff 207 00:11:25,875 --> 00:11:27,667 that older people had, 208 00:11:27,750 --> 00:11:29,458 and I realize, 209 00:11:29,542 --> 00:11:34,125 that's not what I wanted my life to be. 210 00:11:34,208 --> 00:11:37,709 And got in a plane 211 00:11:37,792 --> 00:11:40,625 and left. 212 00:11:40,709 --> 00:11:45,166 In my head, I kept playing 213 00:11:45,250 --> 00:11:47,792 "The Way We Were." 214 00:11:47,875 --> 00:11:50,041 [sweeping orchestral ballad] 215 00:11:50,125 --> 00:11:53,250 That day was just very, very sad. 216 00:11:53,333 --> 00:11:57,583 ♪ ♪ 217 00:11:57,667 --> 00:12:01,250 Got divorced shortly after. 218 00:12:03,125 --> 00:12:07,250 I always saw this not as a permanent move, 219 00:12:07,333 --> 00:12:11,166 but as a step in what I wanted to do next. 220 00:12:11,250 --> 00:12:14,375 [smooth music] 221 00:12:14,458 --> 00:12:19,875 ♪ ♪ 222 00:12:19,959 --> 00:12:22,375 - It was a different time. 223 00:12:22,458 --> 00:12:23,959 It was a different experience. 224 00:12:24,041 --> 00:12:26,583 It was, I think, the same DNA 225 00:12:26,667 --> 00:12:29,208 that connects all of us who come from Puerto Rico, 226 00:12:29,291 --> 00:12:32,458 particularly of a certain age. 227 00:12:32,542 --> 00:12:35,041 We share an experience. 228 00:12:35,125 --> 00:12:36,250 It's one of family, 229 00:12:36,333 --> 00:12:39,417 it's one of trying to do better, 230 00:12:39,500 --> 00:12:42,375 and it's one of exploring this other place 231 00:12:42,458 --> 00:12:43,959 that they call Nueva York. 232 00:12:44,041 --> 00:12:49,709 ♪ ♪ 233 00:12:49,792 --> 00:12:52,917 It is a real task 234 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,583 to reconcile that place that you left in Puerto Rico 235 00:12:56,667 --> 00:12:59,417 with this place of skyscrapers 236 00:12:59,500 --> 00:13:02,417 and people speaking a different language 237 00:13:02,500 --> 00:13:04,625 and not very much support system 238 00:13:04,709 --> 00:13:06,542 outside of your family. 239 00:13:06,625 --> 00:13:10,375 ♪ ♪ 240 00:13:10,458 --> 00:13:12,792 - I'd just arrived in New York. 241 00:13:12,875 --> 00:13:15,959 I was living with my aunt. 242 00:13:16,041 --> 00:13:20,125 I don't recall culture shock. 243 00:13:20,208 --> 00:13:24,834 I do recall discrimination. 244 00:13:24,917 --> 00:13:27,000 Every day, I wrote two or three letters 245 00:13:27,083 --> 00:13:28,959 to people in Puerto Rico, 246 00:13:29,041 --> 00:13:30,625 and I would go to the post office 247 00:13:30,709 --> 00:13:31,625 to get packages 248 00:13:31,709 --> 00:13:33,542 that my mother would send to me. 249 00:13:33,625 --> 00:13:36,166 I have been in New York a couple of months, 250 00:13:36,250 --> 00:13:38,959 and the guy looks at me, and he says, 251 00:13:39,041 --> 00:13:41,500 "I'm Miranda too. 252 00:13:41,583 --> 00:13:43,667 But not of your kind." 253 00:13:43,750 --> 00:13:46,125 [laughing] And I'm like-- 254 00:13:46,208 --> 00:13:50,417 I didn't get what he meant until much later. 255 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:53,625 It was like, "Oh, he was Italian American, 256 00:13:53,709 --> 00:13:57,500 not Latino or Puerto Rican." 257 00:13:57,583 --> 00:14:00,375 Not everyone wanted us here. 258 00:14:00,458 --> 00:14:02,500 We couldn't get the same jobs. 259 00:14:02,583 --> 00:14:05,041 It was hard to find housing. 260 00:14:05,125 --> 00:14:07,417 It didn't matter if you were a janitor 261 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:09,625 or a PhD student. 262 00:14:09,709 --> 00:14:12,333 What they saw was Puerto Rican, 263 00:14:12,417 --> 00:14:13,709 some brown person, 264 00:14:13,792 --> 00:14:15,500 some brown kid, 265 00:14:15,583 --> 00:14:18,375 not a real American. 266 00:14:18,458 --> 00:14:20,333 It motivated me. 267 00:14:20,417 --> 00:14:23,500 I always want to right a wrong. 268 00:14:23,583 --> 00:14:26,500 And when I got to NYU, I realized 269 00:14:26,583 --> 00:14:29,458 that minority students had fought hard 270 00:14:29,542 --> 00:14:32,500 to create a diverse student body, 271 00:14:32,583 --> 00:14:34,375 particularly at a time 272 00:14:34,458 --> 00:14:37,333 when affirmative action was under attack. 273 00:14:37,417 --> 00:14:40,417 So I immediately saw it as my responsibility 274 00:14:40,500 --> 00:14:42,083 to join that fight, 275 00:14:42,166 --> 00:14:44,041 to join that struggle, 276 00:14:44,125 --> 00:14:46,792 and make sure that the class behind me 277 00:14:46,875 --> 00:14:49,667 was as diverse as mine was. 278 00:14:52,208 --> 00:14:54,750 - I applied to NYU, 279 00:14:54,834 --> 00:14:57,500 and they had student interviews, 280 00:14:57,583 --> 00:14:59,917 and Luis was supposed to be part of mine, 281 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,917 but he arrived very late. 282 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:03,834 He came in-- 283 00:15:03,917 --> 00:15:06,333 I mean, this is the '70s-- 284 00:15:06,417 --> 00:15:08,542 long hair, jeans, 285 00:15:08,625 --> 00:15:12,000 talking very excited about this protest. 286 00:15:12,083 --> 00:15:13,709 I can remember thinking to myself, 287 00:15:13,792 --> 00:15:16,291 "Oh, this guy's very interesting." 288 00:15:16,375 --> 00:15:18,083 Our first date was 289 00:15:18,166 --> 00:15:21,750 April 22nd. 290 00:15:21,834 --> 00:15:23,709 I know exactly the date. 291 00:15:23,792 --> 00:15:26,709 We went to see Haciendo Punto en Otro Son, 292 00:15:26,792 --> 00:15:29,083 which was this great Puerto Rico band. 293 00:15:29,166 --> 00:15:32,083 [all singing in Spanish] 294 00:15:32,166 --> 00:15:34,375 ♪ ♪ 295 00:15:34,458 --> 00:15:36,583 And then we went dancing at El Corso, 296 00:15:36,667 --> 00:15:38,291 which was this fabulous dance room 297 00:15:38,375 --> 00:15:40,083 on 86th Street. 298 00:15:40,166 --> 00:15:43,041 [upbeat Latin dance music] 299 00:15:43,125 --> 00:15:48,125 ♪ ♪ 300 00:15:48,208 --> 00:15:52,917 The other thing that was just extraordinary about Luis was, 301 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,583 I was a single mom, 302 00:15:54,667 --> 00:15:56,250 and I was a package deal. 303 00:15:56,333 --> 00:15:58,625 Lucecita was 4 at the time, 304 00:15:58,709 --> 00:16:01,458 and every day, he would ask if he could stay, 305 00:16:01,542 --> 00:16:05,500 and she would give him her permission to stay. 306 00:16:05,583 --> 00:16:06,917 And within a week 307 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,834 of Luis being in our house, 308 00:16:10,917 --> 00:16:12,291 she says to him, 309 00:16:12,375 --> 00:16:14,875 "I've never had a daddy like you're a daddy to me." 310 00:16:14,959 --> 00:16:17,458 [soft jazz music] 311 00:16:17,542 --> 00:16:20,375 In May, he says he wants to get married the next month. 312 00:16:22,583 --> 00:16:26,500 And I'm like, "Well, kinda-- that's a little fast for me." 313 00:16:27,625 --> 00:16:28,667 So we get married in September. 314 00:16:28,750 --> 00:16:33,000 Cita's adopted by him by November. 315 00:16:33,083 --> 00:16:35,125 I mean, we fast-tracked this whole thing. 316 00:16:35,208 --> 00:16:42,250 ♪ ♪ 317 00:16:43,583 --> 00:16:46,333 And Lin-Manuel was born a couple of years later. 318 00:16:46,417 --> 00:16:53,417 ♪ ♪ 319 00:17:01,583 --> 00:17:03,875 [upbeat music] 320 00:17:03,959 --> 00:17:07,375 - Luz and I-- we were very much involved 321 00:17:07,458 --> 00:17:11,583 empowering parents in Washington Heights. 322 00:17:11,667 --> 00:17:13,208 Trying to build more schools, 323 00:17:13,291 --> 00:17:15,834 of trying to gain consciousness 324 00:17:15,917 --> 00:17:18,208 of an immigrant population 325 00:17:18,291 --> 00:17:21,041 that was totally disenfranchised, 326 00:17:21,125 --> 00:17:25,208 and came in contact with political people. 327 00:17:25,291 --> 00:17:27,542 Someone told me to apply 328 00:17:27,625 --> 00:17:30,041 to this special advisor position 329 00:17:30,125 --> 00:17:32,375 for Hispanics for Ed Koch. 330 00:17:32,458 --> 00:17:35,542 - In the past, the city was a pushover. 331 00:17:35,625 --> 00:17:36,709 In the past, 332 00:17:36,792 --> 00:17:39,041 these same hired guns gave away the city. 333 00:17:39,125 --> 00:17:40,667 You have to understand, 334 00:17:40,750 --> 00:17:43,583 it makes no difference at all 335 00:17:43,667 --> 00:17:45,375 whether you shout or not. 336 00:17:45,458 --> 00:17:47,250 It doesn't move me. 337 00:17:47,333 --> 00:17:49,000 It doesn't change me. 338 00:17:49,083 --> 00:17:51,250 - Mr. Koch, I must say you are full of shit. 339 00:17:51,333 --> 00:17:53,542 - If you don't wanna hear me, we won't discuss it. 340 00:17:53,625 --> 00:17:56,375 - And I remember in that first interview 341 00:17:56,458 --> 00:17:59,041 raising with the mayor 342 00:17:59,125 --> 00:18:03,709 several things that I did not agree with. 343 00:18:03,792 --> 00:18:06,542 You're in an interview to get a job, 344 00:18:06,625 --> 00:18:08,417 and here you are: "I don't agree with you on this 345 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:10,583 and I don't agree"-- 346 00:18:10,667 --> 00:18:11,583 pair of balls. 347 00:18:11,667 --> 00:18:15,417 And the mayor said to me, "Listen... 348 00:18:15,500 --> 00:18:18,041 "if you agree with me 349 00:18:18,125 --> 00:18:22,083 "in six out of every ten things, 350 00:18:22,166 --> 00:18:24,250 "and then in those other four things, 351 00:18:24,333 --> 00:18:26,750 "you shut your mouth, 352 00:18:26,834 --> 00:18:29,417 we'll be in a good place." 353 00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:32,291 - He came there to be the head of Latino affairs 354 00:18:32,375 --> 00:18:35,000 for Mayor Koch. 355 00:18:35,083 --> 00:18:37,375 He took what had been a token position 356 00:18:37,458 --> 00:18:38,750 and turned it into a real position 357 00:18:38,834 --> 00:18:40,250 with access and influence, 358 00:18:40,333 --> 00:18:42,500 and he became one of Koch's top advisors 359 00:18:42,583 --> 00:18:44,583 and one of the folks that Koch really relied on 360 00:18:44,667 --> 00:18:48,834 and trusted, especially during the stress of a campaign. 361 00:18:48,917 --> 00:18:50,291 - I think Koch loved him 362 00:18:50,375 --> 00:18:51,917 because he was authentic 363 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,667 and he was as brash as Koch was. 364 00:18:54,750 --> 00:18:57,125 I was in the administration already. 365 00:18:57,208 --> 00:18:59,417 I was in a leadership training program, 366 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:04,000 and there is this obnoxious... 367 00:19:04,083 --> 00:19:06,792 leader who wouldn't stop. 368 00:19:06,875 --> 00:19:08,625 You would say something, 369 00:19:08,709 --> 00:19:11,750 respond to his question, 370 00:19:11,834 --> 00:19:13,750 and he was never satisfied, 371 00:19:13,834 --> 00:19:15,959 and he would just get more and more irate 372 00:19:16,041 --> 00:19:17,333 and belligerent, 373 00:19:17,417 --> 00:19:21,417 and so we finished the session. I said, "Who was that asshole?" 374 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:23,458 - I think part of the reason why Koch liked him is because 375 00:19:23,542 --> 00:19:25,917 he was a Puerto Rican version of Koch. 376 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,000 There's a bluntness about Luis. 377 00:19:29,083 --> 00:19:32,333 He can be absolutely unsparing 378 00:19:32,417 --> 00:19:34,792 in his criticisms 379 00:19:34,875 --> 00:19:38,000 of the people that he's trying to bring together. 380 00:19:38,083 --> 00:19:39,875 He doesn't pull any punches, 381 00:19:39,959 --> 00:19:42,375 and I think Koch probably appreciated that. 382 00:19:42,458 --> 00:19:44,333 - You know, I am not someone 383 00:19:44,417 --> 00:19:48,166 who turns the other cheek if you hit me, right? 384 00:19:48,250 --> 00:19:49,333 I hit back. 385 00:19:49,417 --> 00:19:52,500 - Also, one of the things that Luis was able to do 386 00:19:52,583 --> 00:19:54,667 at a critical moment during the Koch years 387 00:19:54,750 --> 00:19:58,000 was to recognize that the story of New York 388 00:19:58,083 --> 00:20:02,333 by the 1980s wasn't just going to be a Puerto Rican story. 389 00:20:02,417 --> 00:20:04,667 - I knew in my position 390 00:20:04,750 --> 00:20:07,166 that Puerto Ricans were 391 00:20:07,250 --> 00:20:12,041 the largest numbers of Latinos 392 00:20:12,125 --> 00:20:14,625 and the one that voted, 393 00:20:14,709 --> 00:20:17,375 but I began to see 394 00:20:17,458 --> 00:20:20,083 the large numbers 395 00:20:20,166 --> 00:20:23,041 of Dominicans, of Colombians, 396 00:20:23,125 --> 00:20:24,583 of Ecuadorians 397 00:20:24,667 --> 00:20:27,875 that were moving into the city, 398 00:20:27,959 --> 00:20:31,166 and then President Reagan approved 399 00:20:31,250 --> 00:20:33,208 the amnesty law. 400 00:20:33,291 --> 00:20:34,625 - President Reagan today signed 401 00:20:34,709 --> 00:20:36,709 a massive immigration reform law. 402 00:20:36,792 --> 00:20:39,542 The new law grants amnesty to illegal aliens 403 00:20:39,625 --> 00:20:42,166 who lived here before 1982. 404 00:20:42,250 --> 00:20:46,208 I saw that as an incredible opportunity 405 00:20:46,291 --> 00:20:49,208 to reach out to other Latinos 406 00:20:49,291 --> 00:20:52,375 to open government to them. 407 00:20:52,458 --> 00:20:53,458 [percussive music] 408 00:20:53,542 --> 00:20:57,250 - What he did was quite innovative. 409 00:20:57,333 --> 00:21:00,583 He used the power of the numbers 410 00:21:00,667 --> 00:21:02,250 by doing research. 411 00:21:02,333 --> 00:21:03,917 How many were registered? 412 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,917 How many were voting? 413 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,583 And then transferring that data 414 00:21:09,667 --> 00:21:10,917 into action 415 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,083 to say to elected officials, 416 00:21:14,166 --> 00:21:17,291 "This is a growing population 417 00:21:17,375 --> 00:21:20,750 "that not only are your constituents. 418 00:21:20,834 --> 00:21:23,417 "We are here, and we're gonna stay here, 419 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:27,917 and we intend to flex our political muscle." 420 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,417 [upbeat music] 421 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:32,041 - There's an indispensable person 422 00:21:32,125 --> 00:21:33,959 in our community. 423 00:21:34,041 --> 00:21:35,792 I nominate Luis Miranda. 424 00:21:35,875 --> 00:21:38,875 [cheers and applause] 425 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,458 - Sorry, Ed, I can't produce the show tonight. 426 00:21:43,542 --> 00:21:44,583 No. [laughter] 427 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:47,709 Okay. 428 00:21:48,375 --> 00:21:52,667 - Luis has this talent of bringing people together. 429 00:21:52,750 --> 00:21:54,458 He also has a gift for fundraising, 430 00:21:54,542 --> 00:21:56,291 which is not unimportant. 431 00:21:56,375 --> 00:21:57,709 [punchy music] 432 00:22:05,083 --> 00:22:08,083 [all singing a cappella] 433 00:22:22,417 --> 00:22:25,667 [cheers and applause] 434 00:22:25,750 --> 00:22:27,083 - I always thought 435 00:22:27,166 --> 00:22:30,667 about my next step, 436 00:22:30,750 --> 00:22:34,166 and now that I have been in this Latino lane 437 00:22:34,250 --> 00:22:36,333 and have pretty good connections 438 00:22:36,417 --> 00:22:39,333 in government, in the nonprofit sector, 439 00:22:39,417 --> 00:22:43,000 it's probably a good moment to move 440 00:22:43,083 --> 00:22:45,667 into doing my own thing. 441 00:22:45,750 --> 00:22:47,875 [upbeat music] 442 00:22:47,959 --> 00:22:49,458 - When I became elected 443 00:22:49,542 --> 00:22:50,500 and when I emerge 444 00:22:50,583 --> 00:22:52,333 as member of the DNC and all this stuff, 445 00:22:52,417 --> 00:22:55,041 Luis was my Sancho Panza. 446 00:22:55,125 --> 00:22:56,208 Let's put it that way. 447 00:22:56,291 --> 00:23:00,041 But Luis was always the guy telling me, 448 00:23:00,125 --> 00:23:01,709 "This is measurable. 449 00:23:01,792 --> 00:23:03,583 "These are the things that are right. 450 00:23:03,667 --> 00:23:05,417 These are the things that are wrong." 451 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:09,709 - Roberto came to me and said, 452 00:23:09,792 --> 00:23:14,000 "I met with this guy who's running for the Senate. 453 00:23:14,083 --> 00:23:16,834 "His name is Chuck Schumer, 454 00:23:16,917 --> 00:23:19,375 "and I think it's a good campaign 455 00:23:19,458 --> 00:23:22,667 for you to begin to do some work." 456 00:23:22,750 --> 00:23:25,041 - Next--what is it--senator? 457 00:23:25,125 --> 00:23:26,750 - Your mouth to God's ears. - [laughs] 458 00:23:26,834 --> 00:23:29,208 - Congressman Charles Schumer has his sights 459 00:23:29,291 --> 00:23:30,417 on the U.S. Senate. 460 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:33,000 Tonight, Schumer is officially in the race 461 00:23:33,083 --> 00:23:34,792 and faces a tough fight ahead. 462 00:23:34,875 --> 00:23:38,041 - The only real thing that I learned 463 00:23:38,125 --> 00:23:41,667 in my psych PhD was statistics, 464 00:23:41,750 --> 00:23:44,417 so I told him, "I wanna see a poll." 465 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:47,750 He was, like, 5%. 466 00:23:47,834 --> 00:23:51,417 So I remember going to Roberto and saying, 467 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:54,250 "Dude, I wanted to go into politics, 468 00:23:54,333 --> 00:23:57,041 "but I don't wanna start my career 469 00:23:57,125 --> 00:24:00,917 with this guy who has not a prayer." 470 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,875 Then I met with Chuck Schumer, 471 00:24:03,959 --> 00:24:06,291 and I was fascinated 472 00:24:06,375 --> 00:24:08,542 by his energy. 473 00:24:08,625 --> 00:24:09,834 - Atta-baby! 474 00:24:09,917 --> 00:24:11,917 - He was a good fundraiser, 475 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,625 and he was relentless 476 00:24:15,709 --> 00:24:18,917 in his conviction that he could do the job. 477 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,208 So I took on the job 478 00:24:22,291 --> 00:24:26,291 doing the Latino part of the campaign. 479 00:24:26,375 --> 00:24:30,333 - When Luis came on the scene, there was a Latino community 480 00:24:30,417 --> 00:24:31,917 that was basically not organized. 481 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,625 They didn't have many elected officials, 482 00:24:33,709 --> 00:24:35,959 they didn't have people in positions of power, 483 00:24:36,041 --> 00:24:40,333 and Luis knew how to take the large numbers of Hispanics, 484 00:24:40,417 --> 00:24:42,291 but more importantly, the needs 485 00:24:42,375 --> 00:24:45,625 and channel it into organizations 486 00:24:45,709 --> 00:24:47,667 that were powerful and had effect, 487 00:24:47,750 --> 00:24:49,500 and you knew as a political leader, 488 00:24:49,583 --> 00:24:52,959 when Luis asked for something, people were gonna listen. 489 00:24:53,041 --> 00:24:54,458 [percussive music] 490 00:24:54,542 --> 00:24:55,959 I ran against Al D'Amato. 491 00:24:56,041 --> 00:24:57,667 He was a giant of the Senate, 492 00:24:57,750 --> 00:24:59,792 conservative Republican, 493 00:24:59,875 --> 00:25:02,291 and no one thought I could beat him. 494 00:25:02,375 --> 00:25:04,166 - And Luz was like, 495 00:25:04,250 --> 00:25:06,333 "Alfonse D'Amato is a good guy. 496 00:25:06,417 --> 00:25:07,709 "Every time we have a problem, 497 00:25:07,792 --> 00:25:09,834 I call his office, and they fix it." 498 00:25:09,917 --> 00:25:14,166 I'm like, "Not even my wife is in favor of my candidate." 499 00:25:14,250 --> 00:25:16,375 - When he took on the Schumer race, 500 00:25:16,458 --> 00:25:17,667 this was a difficult race. 501 00:25:17,750 --> 00:25:19,667 You know, in some ways, it was a bit of a suicide mission. 502 00:25:19,750 --> 00:25:24,375 - The Spanish campaign I did was based on a slogan: 503 00:25:24,458 --> 00:25:28,166 "No te vistas que no vas." 504 00:25:28,250 --> 00:25:30,375 And it was the motto, 505 00:25:30,458 --> 00:25:32,667 "Don't think that you're going places. 506 00:25:32,750 --> 00:25:36,000 You are not, and we're gonna stop you." 507 00:25:36,083 --> 00:25:38,375 We got overwhelming support 508 00:25:38,458 --> 00:25:40,500 in the Latino community, and then... 509 00:25:40,583 --> 00:25:42,125 [cheers and applause] - I'm Chuck Schumer, 510 00:25:42,208 --> 00:25:44,250 the next senator of New York. 511 00:25:44,333 --> 00:25:48,875 - He became the senator. 512 00:25:48,959 --> 00:25:51,375 And here comes Hillary Clinton. 513 00:25:51,458 --> 00:25:54,875 She wants to run for the Senate. 514 00:25:54,959 --> 00:25:57,667 - I am honored today 515 00:25:57,750 --> 00:25:59,583 to announce my candidacy 516 00:25:59,667 --> 00:26:03,709 for the United States Senate from New York. 517 00:26:03,792 --> 00:26:05,333 - I get approached 518 00:26:05,417 --> 00:26:08,375 to work with her campaign. 519 00:26:08,458 --> 00:26:10,709 [patriotic orchestral music] 520 00:26:10,792 --> 00:26:14,041 So now, you know, in a couple of years, 521 00:26:14,125 --> 00:26:17,417 we have the two senators from the state of New York 522 00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:20,250 as part of our portfolio. 523 00:26:20,333 --> 00:26:23,041 - Now Congressman Adriano Espaillat, 524 00:26:23,125 --> 00:26:25,083 Mayor de Blasio, 525 00:26:25,166 --> 00:26:26,208 Tish James, 526 00:26:26,291 --> 00:26:28,709 Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. 527 00:26:28,792 --> 00:26:30,750 - How he evolved 528 00:26:30,834 --> 00:26:33,959 in terms of identity politics, 529 00:26:34,041 --> 00:26:37,291 Luis became a political consultant 530 00:26:37,375 --> 00:26:41,250 that was able to provide advice 531 00:26:41,333 --> 00:26:42,875 and shape a message 532 00:26:42,959 --> 00:26:45,250 beyond the Latino community. 533 00:26:45,333 --> 00:26:47,125 [indistinct chatter] 534 00:26:47,208 --> 00:26:49,917 - It's wild here, because we have a year ahead 535 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,959 with the appropriations bill, with the farm bill... 536 00:26:53,041 --> 00:26:55,250 - As political operatives, there weren't too many 537 00:26:55,333 --> 00:26:58,083 that were Latino that crossed over. 538 00:26:58,166 --> 00:27:01,875 Luis mainstreamed 539 00:27:01,959 --> 00:27:04,083 Latino politics 540 00:27:04,166 --> 00:27:06,583 and Latino culture in New York 541 00:27:06,667 --> 00:27:07,959 in a very, very different way 542 00:27:08,041 --> 00:27:10,333 than anybody that I've known has done. 543 00:27:10,417 --> 00:27:12,250 [soft orchestra music] 544 00:27:12,333 --> 00:27:15,500 - Luis Miranda. Hi. How are you? 545 00:27:15,583 --> 00:27:19,750 ♪ ♪ 546 00:27:19,834 --> 00:27:23,041 [ominous music] 547 00:27:23,709 --> 00:27:26,583 As the hurricane kept getting closer and closer 548 00:27:26,667 --> 00:27:27,834 to Puerto Rico, 549 00:27:27,917 --> 00:27:31,208 I got a huge knot in the pit of my stomach. 550 00:27:42,250 --> 00:27:45,083 ♪ ♪ 551 00:27:50,959 --> 00:27:53,000 - With these winds of 165, 552 00:27:53,083 --> 00:27:54,125 that would make this 553 00:27:54,208 --> 00:27:55,834 the strongest hurricane in history 554 00:27:55,917 --> 00:27:57,166 to make landfall. 555 00:27:57,250 --> 00:27:59,166 - The winds are ferocious right now, 556 00:27:59,250 --> 00:28:02,166 gusting above 120 miles per hour, 557 00:28:02,250 --> 00:28:04,500 severing the tops of the palm trees 558 00:28:04,583 --> 00:28:06,291 and ripping off the boarding that's on buildings. 559 00:28:06,375 --> 00:28:09,375 - [screaming] 560 00:28:12,083 --> 00:28:15,083 [wind howling] 561 00:28:20,625 --> 00:28:23,542 [somber music] 562 00:28:23,625 --> 00:28:30,625 ♪ ♪ 563 00:28:40,792 --> 00:28:42,166 Ugh. 564 00:29:11,166 --> 00:29:15,458 ♪ ♪ 565 00:29:15,542 --> 00:29:19,875 - Hurricane Maria flattened Puerto Rico. 566 00:29:19,959 --> 00:29:22,375 My family lives in the hills of Maricao 567 00:29:22,458 --> 00:29:25,834 in Vega Alta. 568 00:29:25,917 --> 00:29:27,917 There was many days of radio silence. 569 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,750 You know, every cell tower was out, 570 00:29:29,834 --> 00:29:31,208 electricity was gone. 571 00:29:42,041 --> 00:29:47,500 ♪ ♪ 572 00:29:49,667 --> 00:29:52,875 - For me, Puerto Rico, 573 00:29:52,959 --> 00:29:56,125 it's... 574 00:29:56,208 --> 00:29:58,333 it's this untouchable... 575 00:29:58,417 --> 00:30:04,291 ♪ ♪ 576 00:30:04,375 --> 00:30:07,458 Perfect place 577 00:30:07,542 --> 00:30:12,166 that all of a sudden doesn't exist anymore. 578 00:30:12,250 --> 00:30:15,000 So doing 579 00:30:15,083 --> 00:30:20,458 everything we can 580 00:30:20,542 --> 00:30:22,500 becomes the job. 581 00:30:31,208 --> 00:30:35,083 - I was able to open an account 582 00:30:35,166 --> 00:30:38,125 where we could send some money there, 583 00:30:38,208 --> 00:30:40,834 and then I just talked to my brother, 584 00:30:40,917 --> 00:30:43,291 'cause at the end of the day, I trust my brother. 585 00:30:43,375 --> 00:30:44,291 - Right. 586 00:30:44,375 --> 00:30:46,417 - He's actually driving the truck. 587 00:31:07,792 --> 00:31:11,000 [playing piano] 588 00:31:11,083 --> 00:31:14,291 - Our response to Puerto Rico was immediate. 589 00:31:14,375 --> 00:31:16,041 I began writing right away, because that's 590 00:31:16,125 --> 00:31:18,375 my natural response to everything was, "Okay, 591 00:31:18,458 --> 00:31:20,041 "let me write a song, 592 00:31:20,125 --> 00:31:21,542 and we'll just start raising money." 593 00:31:21,625 --> 00:31:23,417 Alex, we got a lot of song left. 594 00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:25,166 - I know, but we need to get this right. 595 00:31:25,250 --> 00:31:26,875 [hip-hop music] 596 00:31:26,959 --> 00:31:28,458 - This was even before 597 00:31:28,542 --> 00:31:31,166 anyone from the administration had weighed in, 598 00:31:31,250 --> 00:31:33,333 before we had heard anything from the island. 599 00:31:33,417 --> 00:31:35,083 I started writing "Almost Like Praying." 600 00:31:35,166 --> 00:31:36,709 ♪ Say it loud ♪ 601 00:31:36,792 --> 00:31:40,709 ♪ And there's music playing ♪ 602 00:31:40,792 --> 00:31:45,041 ♪ Say it soft and it's almost like praying ♪ 603 00:31:45,125 --> 00:31:46,250 And realizing, 604 00:31:46,333 --> 00:31:49,208 "Okay, we've gotta get every Latino we know involved," 605 00:31:49,291 --> 00:31:52,333 and getting yeses before I'd finished writing the track. 606 00:31:52,417 --> 00:31:54,083 ♪ Say it loud and there's music playing ♪ 607 00:31:54,166 --> 00:31:57,250 And then my father on the logistics front. 608 00:31:57,333 --> 00:31:59,750 - We begin at 2:00 in Miami. 609 00:31:59,834 --> 00:32:01,000 [speaks Spanish] 610 00:32:01,083 --> 00:32:02,375 [indistinct chatter] 611 00:32:02,458 --> 00:32:05,125 - Figure out every Latin artist involved, 612 00:32:05,208 --> 00:32:06,917 and he figured out, "Okay, we've gotta fly to LA 613 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,041 and we've gotta fly to Miami," 614 00:32:08,125 --> 00:32:11,083 and solving that equation 615 00:32:11,166 --> 00:32:13,041 to get that done as quickly as possible. 616 00:32:13,125 --> 00:32:14,041 - Great. 617 00:32:14,125 --> 00:32:15,458 Let's have a separate conversation 618 00:32:15,542 --> 00:32:16,625 on that. 619 00:32:16,709 --> 00:32:21,250 Can we work simultaneously rather than sequentially? 620 00:32:26,166 --> 00:32:29,166 - [singing in Spanish] 621 00:32:46,834 --> 00:32:50,125 [all singing in Spanish] 622 00:32:50,208 --> 00:32:51,917 - ♪ It's almost like praying ♪ 623 00:33:01,083 --> 00:33:02,250 - Hey. 624 00:33:02,333 --> 00:33:03,333 - Hi. 625 00:33:21,125 --> 00:33:24,542 We raised about $20 million for the Hispanic Federation. 626 00:33:24,625 --> 00:33:28,000 That's all in over 100,000 small donations. 627 00:33:28,083 --> 00:33:29,500 That's not corporations. 628 00:33:29,583 --> 00:33:31,208 That's people sending 5 bucks and 10 bucks 629 00:33:31,291 --> 00:33:34,166 and lemonade stands and breaking their piggy banks. 630 00:33:34,250 --> 00:33:36,041 [playing piano] So it would be... 631 00:33:36,125 --> 00:33:39,667 [both singing in Spanish] 632 00:33:39,750 --> 00:33:42,667 - [singing in Spanish] 633 00:34:07,458 --> 00:34:11,625 ♪ ♪ 634 00:34:17,291 --> 00:34:20,667 - I'm the only who really had a full life 635 00:34:20,750 --> 00:34:22,333 in Puerto Rico, 636 00:34:22,417 --> 00:34:24,375 so to realize 637 00:34:24,458 --> 00:34:27,875 that it was important to all of my family 638 00:34:27,959 --> 00:34:30,542 to be part of the effort 639 00:34:30,625 --> 00:34:33,375 to rebuild the island 640 00:34:33,458 --> 00:34:36,792 has been the most wonderful discovery. 641 00:34:56,792 --> 00:34:59,250 - I think the most important thing Luis has done 642 00:34:59,333 --> 00:35:01,291 is been an amazing dad 643 00:35:01,375 --> 00:35:04,583 who conveyed to his children the importance of family. 644 00:35:04,667 --> 00:35:07,083 That was always first and foremost for him. 645 00:35:07,166 --> 00:35:10,083 - There's probably gonna be a fundraiser in Miami 646 00:35:10,166 --> 00:35:13,208 for Latino Victory Fund... 647 00:35:13,291 --> 00:35:14,583 - When I'm there? - While you're in Miami. 648 00:35:14,667 --> 00:35:16,542 - Of course there is! 649 00:35:16,625 --> 00:35:19,125 - So I would want you and your husband to go. 650 00:35:19,208 --> 00:35:20,583 - He has all these ideas 651 00:35:20,667 --> 00:35:24,625 and is constantly, constantly just coming up with things 652 00:35:24,709 --> 00:35:28,667 that he thinks are great ideas. 653 00:35:28,750 --> 00:35:31,291 Most of the time, they end up being, you know, 654 00:35:31,375 --> 00:35:33,750 even if at the very beginning, we're like, 655 00:35:33,834 --> 00:35:36,959 "No, that's never gonna work. That's not a good idea." 656 00:35:37,041 --> 00:35:38,959 - My daughter-- 657 00:35:39,041 --> 00:35:41,625 she was great at math, 658 00:35:41,709 --> 00:35:44,417 so I sort of pushed her 659 00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:48,125 into engineering and finance. 660 00:35:48,208 --> 00:35:52,125 - If we're the Corleones, my sister is Michael. 661 00:35:52,208 --> 00:35:53,917 I'm Sonny. I'm too hotheaded. 662 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,792 Hopefully none of us is Fredo. 663 00:35:55,875 --> 00:35:58,625 She's the one who can actually really work with him. 664 00:35:58,709 --> 00:36:00,291 They work really well together, 665 00:36:00,375 --> 00:36:02,959 and they have for a really long time. 666 00:36:03,041 --> 00:36:05,667 I worked for him for a few summers, 667 00:36:05,750 --> 00:36:08,166 and they always ended in screaming matches, 668 00:36:08,250 --> 00:36:11,959 because for better or worse, 669 00:36:12,041 --> 00:36:13,625 I cannot get myself to care 670 00:36:13,709 --> 00:36:15,458 about things I don't care about, 671 00:36:15,542 --> 00:36:18,291 and so I kept getting knocked off important jobs 672 00:36:18,375 --> 00:36:19,333 to less important jobs 673 00:36:19,417 --> 00:36:22,333 until I was just doing data entry 674 00:36:22,417 --> 00:36:23,333 and listening to music, 675 00:36:23,417 --> 00:36:24,500 and that was about the only way 676 00:36:24,583 --> 00:36:25,834 in which I could work for my father. 677 00:36:25,917 --> 00:36:27,458 [indistinct singing] 678 00:36:27,542 --> 00:36:31,792 - Lin-Manuel was the artistic child. 679 00:36:31,875 --> 00:36:33,542 That was his lane, 680 00:36:33,625 --> 00:36:37,750 and supporting him was always important to me. 681 00:36:37,834 --> 00:36:40,709 [singing in Spanish] 682 00:36:40,792 --> 00:36:43,000 ♪ ♪ 683 00:36:43,083 --> 00:36:45,542 - I never really talked to my dad 684 00:36:45,625 --> 00:36:47,500 about his decision to leave Puerto Rico 685 00:36:47,583 --> 00:36:49,333 until I sort of faced 686 00:36:49,417 --> 00:36:51,250 a similar crossroads in my own life. 687 00:36:51,333 --> 00:36:53,542 My first regular job out of college 688 00:36:53,625 --> 00:36:55,041 was teaching at my old high school. 689 00:36:55,125 --> 00:36:56,834 I taught seventh-grade English, 690 00:36:56,917 --> 00:36:59,041 I advised theater, and I loved it. 691 00:36:59,125 --> 00:37:01,625 I mean, that's the secret. I really enjoyed it. 692 00:37:01,709 --> 00:37:04,667 And I got offered a full-time position 693 00:37:04,750 --> 00:37:06,166 at the end of my first year, 694 00:37:06,250 --> 00:37:08,750 and I actually wrote my dad 695 00:37:08,834 --> 00:37:11,083 and said, "I don't know what to do. 696 00:37:11,166 --> 00:37:13,542 "'In the Heights' is moving, 697 00:37:13,625 --> 00:37:15,041 "I have collaborators I like, 698 00:37:15,125 --> 00:37:17,709 "but who knows if that's really gonna go? 699 00:37:17,792 --> 00:37:19,250 "Should I take the full-time job 700 00:37:19,333 --> 00:37:21,000 "and devote more time to teaching, 701 00:37:21,083 --> 00:37:22,667 "or should I work 702 00:37:22,750 --> 00:37:25,875 and really devote myself to writing full-time?" 703 00:37:25,959 --> 00:37:28,166 He wrote me this long letter back, 704 00:37:28,250 --> 00:37:30,417 and he goes, "I want what's best for you. 705 00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:31,792 "I want you to be able to pay your rent. 706 00:37:31,875 --> 00:37:32,875 "I want you to be 707 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,250 "a self-sufficient, functioning adult, 708 00:37:36,333 --> 00:37:39,458 "so I really wanna tell you to teach, 709 00:37:39,542 --> 00:37:42,709 "but then I would be ignoring my own life 710 00:37:42,792 --> 00:37:44,208 "and my own gut 711 00:37:44,291 --> 00:37:46,375 "and what led me to be here and meet your mother 712 00:37:46,458 --> 00:37:49,583 "and take care of you and Lucecita, 713 00:37:49,667 --> 00:37:52,959 so you have to follow your gut." 714 00:37:53,041 --> 00:37:54,625 - ♪ Need to get on the A train ♪ 715 00:37:54,709 --> 00:37:56,792 - I thought "In the Heights" was great. 716 00:37:56,875 --> 00:37:59,917 I loved the student production that Lin-Manuel did 717 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,750 at Wesleyan. 718 00:38:01,834 --> 00:38:03,458 - ♪ I get off and leave the station ♪ 719 00:38:03,542 --> 00:38:05,458 ♪ Finally, a vacation ♪ 720 00:38:05,542 --> 00:38:07,959 - But it could have sucked, 721 00:38:08,041 --> 00:38:10,041 and it didn't matter to me. 722 00:38:10,125 --> 00:38:12,000 I was gonna do everything I could 723 00:38:12,083 --> 00:38:14,792 to help my son be successful. 724 00:38:14,875 --> 00:38:19,125 I remember going to Ken Sunshine, 725 00:38:19,208 --> 00:38:22,208 who I knew from our days in politics, 726 00:38:22,291 --> 00:38:25,166 and I knew he was a bigshot 727 00:38:25,250 --> 00:38:27,125 with the stars, 728 00:38:27,208 --> 00:38:29,625 and sort of going to him and said, "Hey, 729 00:38:29,709 --> 00:38:33,083 "I have this kid who's nobody, 730 00:38:33,166 --> 00:38:35,166 "but he's very talented, 731 00:38:35,250 --> 00:38:38,000 "and I know he's gonna go places, 732 00:38:38,083 --> 00:38:40,917 but he needs someone like you." 733 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,583 - Luis did mention to me, 734 00:38:43,667 --> 00:38:47,500 "I have this son who loves music and theater, 735 00:38:47,583 --> 00:38:49,834 and you're sort of in that world, right, Kenny?" 736 00:38:49,917 --> 00:38:51,959 'Cause I don't think he knew too many people in that world, 737 00:38:52,041 --> 00:38:54,000 even though he personally had this love. 738 00:38:54,083 --> 00:38:56,166 I do the same thing with anybody. 739 00:38:56,250 --> 00:39:00,208 As talented or as not talented as they may be, 740 00:39:00,291 --> 00:39:01,458 follow your dream, you know? 741 00:39:01,542 --> 00:39:04,166 It's a very tough business. 742 00:39:04,250 --> 00:39:07,709 It is--the chances of making it are really slight, 743 00:39:07,792 --> 00:39:10,709 but follow your dream and... 744 00:39:10,792 --> 00:39:13,291 I think at some point I said to Lin-Manuel, 745 00:39:13,375 --> 00:39:15,000 and I said to Luis, 746 00:39:15,083 --> 00:39:16,625 "You know, you can't make any money in this. 747 00:39:16,709 --> 00:39:18,000 "You know, nobody makes any money 748 00:39:18,083 --> 00:39:19,250 "in the entertainment-- 749 00:39:19,333 --> 00:39:20,667 particularly in the theater world." 750 00:39:20,750 --> 00:39:23,250 - Five, six, a-five, six, seven, eight. 751 00:39:23,333 --> 00:39:25,333 - ♪ Yo, check the technique, yo ♪ 752 00:39:25,417 --> 00:39:27,959 [hip-hop music] 753 00:39:28,041 --> 00:39:29,542 - We opened "In the Heights" 754 00:39:29,625 --> 00:39:31,667 in an off-Broadway theater that we owned 755 00:39:31,750 --> 00:39:33,542 in 2007, 756 00:39:33,625 --> 00:39:37,125 and not many people knew about "In the Heights" yet. 757 00:39:37,208 --> 00:39:39,792 It was hard to sell tickets for that show 758 00:39:39,875 --> 00:39:42,083 that didn't have any brand recognition, 759 00:39:42,166 --> 00:39:44,166 that didn't have any stars in it, 760 00:39:44,250 --> 00:39:48,208 that received warm reviews but not over-the-top reviews, 761 00:39:48,291 --> 00:39:51,917 and Luis just jumped in and started selling groups 762 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,500 and helping us to unlock the communities 763 00:39:55,583 --> 00:39:57,375 that don't often go to the theater 764 00:39:57,458 --> 00:39:59,750 that we all knew would love "In the Heights." 765 00:39:59,834 --> 00:40:02,041 - ♪ Up on Washington Heights, up at the dawning ♪ 766 00:40:02,125 --> 00:40:03,542 ♪ I wipe down the awning ♪ 767 00:40:03,625 --> 00:40:05,333 ♪ Hey, y'all, good morning ♪ 768 00:40:05,417 --> 00:40:06,375 - ♪ In the heights ♪ 769 00:40:06,458 --> 00:40:09,875 - Then it was using my contacts 770 00:40:09,959 --> 00:40:11,208 to sell tickets. 771 00:40:11,291 --> 00:40:15,166 So my job became 772 00:40:15,250 --> 00:40:16,875 just to get the word out 773 00:40:16,959 --> 00:40:20,417 that my kid had this play off-Broadway. 774 00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:22,375 - ♪ Yo, you hear that music in the air? ♪ 775 00:40:22,458 --> 00:40:25,083 ♪ Take the train to the top of the world and I'm there ♪ 776 00:40:25,166 --> 00:40:28,917 ♪ I'm home ♪ all: ♪ Home ♪ 777 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,083 What he saw very early on is that 778 00:40:31,166 --> 00:40:34,583 politics and entertainment are very similar in one respect, 779 00:40:34,667 --> 00:40:36,291 particularly Broadway. 780 00:40:36,375 --> 00:40:38,125 You're trying to convince a lot of people 781 00:40:38,208 --> 00:40:40,792 to spend money they're not getting back, 782 00:40:40,875 --> 00:40:43,083 whether that's raising money for a political candidate 783 00:40:43,166 --> 00:40:45,750 or investing in a Broadway show. 784 00:40:45,834 --> 00:40:48,083 - So "In the Heights," successful off-Broadway, 785 00:40:48,166 --> 00:40:50,166 goes to Broadway. 786 00:40:50,250 --> 00:40:52,417 I think Luis and I helped run 787 00:40:52,500 --> 00:40:56,250 the campaign for the Tony like a political campaign. 788 00:40:56,333 --> 00:40:59,250 [percussive music] 789 00:40:59,333 --> 00:41:02,875 ♪ ♪ 790 00:41:18,875 --> 00:41:21,750 - And I remember all of us saying, 791 00:41:21,834 --> 00:41:23,959 "Okay. 792 00:41:24,041 --> 00:41:27,375 "We have to... 793 00:41:29,250 --> 00:41:32,792 "Be in sort of, like, white mode. 794 00:41:32,875 --> 00:41:34,959 "You applaud like this. 795 00:41:35,041 --> 00:41:36,750 "You don't go, 'Ah!' 796 00:41:36,834 --> 00:41:40,917 That is very, very not cool." 797 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,792 - And the Tony Award for Best Score, 798 00:41:43,875 --> 00:41:47,166 which I already opened, goes to... 799 00:41:47,250 --> 00:41:48,750 "In the Heights." [cheers and applause] 800 00:41:48,834 --> 00:41:52,625 Music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda. 801 00:41:52,709 --> 00:41:55,583 [upbeat music] 802 00:42:11,959 --> 00:42:13,083 - And the winner-- 803 00:42:13,166 --> 00:42:17,041 the 2008 Tony Award goes to... 804 00:42:17,125 --> 00:42:18,041 "In the Heights." 805 00:42:18,125 --> 00:42:21,834 [cheers and applause] 806 00:42:21,917 --> 00:42:24,166 - We were all hillbillies. We were all screaming. 807 00:42:24,250 --> 00:42:26,583 I could hear my sister, 808 00:42:26,667 --> 00:42:29,667 who was in first row mezzanine. 809 00:42:37,834 --> 00:42:40,792 - ♪ Mom, Dad, and Cita, I wrote a play ♪ 810 00:42:40,875 --> 00:42:42,583 ♪ Y'all came to every play ♪ 811 00:42:42,667 --> 00:42:44,208 ♪ Thanks for being here today ♪ 812 00:42:44,291 --> 00:42:45,375 ♪ Vanessa ♪ 813 00:42:45,458 --> 00:42:47,083 ♪ Who still leaves me breathless ♪ 814 00:42:47,166 --> 00:42:48,875 ♪ Thanks for loving me when I was broke ♪ 815 00:42:48,959 --> 00:42:50,291 ♪ And making breakfast ♪ 816 00:42:50,375 --> 00:42:51,834 [laughter] 817 00:42:51,917 --> 00:42:54,875 ♪ And with that, I wanna thank all my Latino people ♪ 818 00:42:54,959 --> 00:42:58,125 ♪ This is for Abuelo Wisin and Puerto Rico ♪ 819 00:42:58,208 --> 00:42:59,333 Thank you. 820 00:42:59,417 --> 00:43:02,667 [cheers and applause] 821 00:43:02,750 --> 00:43:07,291 - Lin-Manuel had won the Tony for "In the Heights," 822 00:43:07,375 --> 00:43:10,458 and my friend called me and said, 823 00:43:10,542 --> 00:43:13,959 "Do you think that Lin-Manuel can come to White House 824 00:43:14,041 --> 00:43:16,750 and do one of the 'In the Heights' numbers?" 825 00:43:16,834 --> 00:43:19,583 And Lin-Manuel says, 826 00:43:19,667 --> 00:43:21,375 "Ah, yeah, of course, that'd be cool, 827 00:43:21,458 --> 00:43:23,458 "but do you think 828 00:43:23,542 --> 00:43:26,083 they will let me do something else?" 829 00:43:26,166 --> 00:43:28,583 [cheers and applause] 830 00:43:28,667 --> 00:43:30,709 - My God. 831 00:43:30,792 --> 00:43:31,792 I'm thrilled 832 00:43:31,875 --> 00:43:34,291 the White House called me tonight 833 00:43:34,375 --> 00:43:36,875 because I'm actually working 834 00:43:36,959 --> 00:43:39,000 on a hip-hop album. 835 00:43:39,083 --> 00:43:40,125 It's a concept album 836 00:43:40,208 --> 00:43:42,750 about the life of someone I think embodies hip-hop, 837 00:43:42,834 --> 00:43:45,083 Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. 838 00:43:45,166 --> 00:43:48,125 [intense hip-hop piano] 839 00:43:48,208 --> 00:43:50,291 ♪ How does a bastard, orphan ♪ 840 00:43:50,375 --> 00:43:52,959 ♪ Son of a whore, and a Scotsman ♪ 841 00:43:53,041 --> 00:43:55,709 ♪ Dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot ♪ 842 00:43:55,792 --> 00:43:57,709 ♪ In the Caribbean by providence ♪ 843 00:43:57,792 --> 00:43:59,458 ♪ Impoverished, in squalor ♪ 844 00:43:59,542 --> 00:44:01,875 ♪ Grow up to be a hero and a scholar? ♪ 845 00:44:01,959 --> 00:44:05,792 - Artists reflect the world they live in. 846 00:44:05,875 --> 00:44:07,792 So as "Hamilton" was developing... 847 00:44:07,875 --> 00:44:09,917 - ♪ By being a lot smarter ♪ 848 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,250 - I was always curious to know, 849 00:44:12,333 --> 00:44:17,000 how much of Luis is in the role of Alexander Hamilton? 850 00:44:17,083 --> 00:44:19,000 - ♪ Were being slaughtered and carted away ♪ 851 00:44:19,083 --> 00:44:20,083 ♪ Across the waves ♪ 852 00:44:20,166 --> 00:44:21,959 ♪ Our Hamilton kept his guard up ♪ 853 00:44:22,041 --> 00:44:24,834 The main gift of Ron Chernow's biography is, 854 00:44:24,917 --> 00:44:27,417 he always frames him within his relentlessness, 855 00:44:27,500 --> 00:44:29,458 and that's what I keyed in on. 856 00:44:29,542 --> 00:44:32,834 That notion of, "All right, what else do I have to do? 857 00:44:32,917 --> 00:44:34,083 "All right, what else do I have to do? 858 00:44:34,166 --> 00:44:35,333 All right, what else can I be doing?" 859 00:44:35,417 --> 00:44:37,709 I mean, that is Luis Miranda 860 00:44:37,792 --> 00:44:39,625 as much as it is Alexander Hamilton. 861 00:44:39,709 --> 00:44:41,834 I didn't have to look any farther 862 00:44:41,917 --> 00:44:43,834 than the tree from the apple. 863 00:44:43,917 --> 00:44:45,458 ♪ This kid is insane, man ♪ 864 00:44:45,542 --> 00:44:47,500 When I was playing Hamilton, I was just playing my father. 865 00:44:47,583 --> 00:44:48,834 ♪ Send him to the mainland ♪ 866 00:44:48,917 --> 00:44:50,000 ♪ Get your education ♪ 867 00:44:50,083 --> 00:44:51,709 ♪ Don't forget from whence you came ♪ 868 00:44:51,792 --> 00:44:53,834 ♪ And the world is gonna know your name ♪ 869 00:44:53,917 --> 00:44:55,333 ♪ What's your name, man? ♪ 870 00:44:55,417 --> 00:44:57,792 ♪ Alexander Hamilton ♪ [laughter] 871 00:44:57,875 --> 00:45:00,000 - I don't think anybody's ever seen 872 00:45:00,083 --> 00:45:01,667 a meteoric success story 873 00:45:01,750 --> 00:45:05,500 as rapidly as it happened around "Hamilton." 874 00:45:05,583 --> 00:45:07,041 - ♪ The world ♪ 875 00:45:07,125 --> 00:45:11,333 ♪ Will never be the same ♪ 876 00:45:11,417 --> 00:45:15,917 ♪ Alexander ♪ 877 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:17,166 ♪ Yeah ♪ 878 00:45:17,250 --> 00:45:20,166 ♪ I'm the damn genius that shot him ♪ 879 00:45:20,250 --> 00:45:23,250 [cheers and applause] 880 00:45:25,125 --> 00:45:27,125 Thank you. 881 00:45:32,125 --> 00:45:33,125 So as soon as we realized 882 00:45:33,208 --> 00:45:34,834 "Hamilton" was gonna be a success, 883 00:45:34,917 --> 00:45:39,250 I knew I wanted to bring "Hamilton" to Puerto Rico, 884 00:45:39,333 --> 00:45:42,917 and so with Hurricane Maria, the only thing that changed was 885 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:44,667 the timetable of our announcement. 886 00:45:50,500 --> 00:45:51,458 - [speaks Spanish] 887 00:46:11,583 --> 00:46:14,542 [applause] 888 00:46:17,709 --> 00:46:20,417 - Thank you, Luis. 889 00:46:20,500 --> 00:46:23,792 In January of 2019, 890 00:46:23,875 --> 00:46:26,125 we will welcome a brand-new production 891 00:46:26,208 --> 00:46:28,083 of "Hamilton" 892 00:46:28,166 --> 00:46:31,083 to Teatro U.P. 893 00:46:31,166 --> 00:46:34,291 [applause] 894 00:46:34,375 --> 00:46:37,291 And we will also be here to raise money 895 00:46:37,375 --> 00:46:38,834 for the rebuilding of the island 896 00:46:38,917 --> 00:46:42,959 and for the rebuilding of the arts on the island. 897 00:46:43,041 --> 00:46:44,458 [applause] 898 00:46:44,542 --> 00:46:46,792 - Listen, Puerto Rico's gotta be open for business, 899 00:46:46,875 --> 00:46:50,458 so let's plant the biggest flag we can 900 00:46:50,542 --> 00:46:52,458 and say, "Hey, 'Hamilton's' coming to Puerto Rico, 901 00:46:52,542 --> 00:46:54,041 and the original star's gonna be in it." 902 00:46:56,375 --> 00:46:57,291 - Thanks. [laughter] 903 00:46:57,375 --> 00:46:58,667 And our hope is to raise a lot of money 904 00:46:58,750 --> 00:47:00,250 for Puerto Rico with this, 905 00:47:00,333 --> 00:47:02,625 for arts funding, for the university itself. 906 00:47:02,709 --> 00:47:03,792 - That's disrespectful. 907 00:47:03,875 --> 00:47:07,083 [crowd booing] 908 00:47:18,917 --> 00:47:20,500 - Protestors came onstage 909 00:47:20,583 --> 00:47:22,834 because we had been very active 910 00:47:22,917 --> 00:47:26,709 in Congress passing something to help-- 911 00:47:26,792 --> 00:47:29,917 to allow Puerto Rico to file for bankruptcy, 912 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,000 and you know what? 913 00:47:31,083 --> 00:47:32,125 Valid point, 914 00:47:32,208 --> 00:47:33,667 because what happened as a result of that was 915 00:47:33,750 --> 00:47:35,458 the formation of the PROMESA board, 916 00:47:35,542 --> 00:47:38,166 which basically asked for austerity, 917 00:47:38,250 --> 00:47:39,667 and most of the cuts came at the expense 918 00:47:39,750 --> 00:47:41,375 of the University of Puerto Rico, 919 00:47:41,458 --> 00:47:42,875 and that was devastating 920 00:47:42,959 --> 00:47:45,333 as the education of lots of kids. 921 00:47:45,417 --> 00:47:47,166 And I hate that, but I have to live with it. 922 00:47:47,250 --> 00:47:50,500 [crowd shouting] 923 00:47:50,583 --> 00:47:52,333 - The island was saddled 924 00:47:52,417 --> 00:47:54,667 with billions of dollars in debt 925 00:47:54,750 --> 00:47:57,083 and didn't have the tools 926 00:47:57,166 --> 00:47:59,250 to manage the debt. 927 00:47:59,333 --> 00:48:00,375 Right? Why? 928 00:48:00,458 --> 00:48:02,709 Because it couldn't declare bankruptcy. 929 00:48:02,792 --> 00:48:04,375 It couldn't do what other municipalities, 930 00:48:04,458 --> 00:48:08,417 for example, in the United States, had done. 931 00:48:08,500 --> 00:48:10,208 The decision to get behind 932 00:48:10,291 --> 00:48:12,667 this particular political solution 933 00:48:12,750 --> 00:48:14,208 is not an easy one. 934 00:48:14,291 --> 00:48:16,709 PROMESA ought to be criticized. 935 00:48:16,792 --> 00:48:18,083 The piece is complicated, right, 936 00:48:18,166 --> 00:48:21,041 because the problem isn't PROMESA. 937 00:48:21,125 --> 00:48:23,041 The problem is American colonialism. 938 00:48:23,125 --> 00:48:25,709 - [shouting in Spanish] 939 00:48:25,792 --> 00:48:28,750 [crowd shouting] 940 00:48:30,709 --> 00:48:31,959 - Hey, guys, listen. 941 00:48:40,667 --> 00:48:43,959 Can we do that? Do that? 942 00:48:44,041 --> 00:48:46,500 Hey. Hey, guys. Guys, guys. 943 00:48:54,166 --> 00:48:57,166 [all shouting in Spanish] 944 00:48:58,667 --> 00:49:01,667 [crowd chanting] 945 00:49:17,041 --> 00:49:18,917 I don't have any outside agenda 946 00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,583 other than to make art and make Puerto Rico proud. 947 00:49:21,667 --> 00:49:24,166 [cheers and applause] 948 00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:29,375 [laughter] 949 00:49:34,542 --> 00:49:36,417 [wild cheering] 950 00:49:36,500 --> 00:49:38,709 That's all I've ever wanted to do. 951 00:49:42,875 --> 00:49:45,750 ["The Greatest Showman," "Never Enough"] 952 00:49:45,834 --> 00:49:47,291 [soft piano ballad] 953 00:49:47,375 --> 00:49:50,291 - [whistling tune] 954 00:49:50,375 --> 00:49:51,959 ♪ ♪ 955 00:49:52,041 --> 00:49:54,542 ♪ Never enough ♪ 956 00:49:54,625 --> 00:49:55,500 ♪ Never ♪ 957 00:49:55,583 --> 00:50:02,083 ♪ ♪ 958 00:50:03,083 --> 00:50:05,166 ♪ Never enough ♪ 959 00:50:05,250 --> 00:50:08,041 ♪ Never, never ♪ 960 00:50:08,125 --> 00:50:10,000 ♪ Never enough ♪ 961 00:50:10,083 --> 00:50:17,083 ♪ ♪ 962 00:50:19,250 --> 00:50:20,375 Hi, honey. 963 00:50:20,458 --> 00:50:23,959 ♪ ♪ 964 00:50:24,041 --> 00:50:26,709 - Thanks, baby. 965 00:50:26,792 --> 00:50:27,709 - Morning. 966 00:50:27,792 --> 00:50:29,208 - My daily coffee. 967 00:50:29,291 --> 00:50:33,208 - [laughs] 968 00:50:33,291 --> 00:50:36,542 [knocks on door] 969 00:50:36,625 --> 00:50:38,458 Dude. 970 00:50:38,542 --> 00:50:39,667 Time to get up. 971 00:50:39,750 --> 00:50:44,667 ♪ ♪ 972 00:50:44,750 --> 00:50:46,709 Puerto Rican breakfast. 973 00:50:46,792 --> 00:50:48,917 Hot dog with eggs. 974 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:56,000 ♪ ♪ 975 00:51:00,500 --> 00:51:02,583 ♪ Is never ♪ 976 00:51:02,667 --> 00:51:06,458 ♪ Could never be enough ♪ 977 00:51:07,750 --> 00:51:11,917 - Luis can't help but become very powerfully attached 978 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,417 to whoever is in his life. 979 00:51:14,500 --> 00:51:16,667 - Miguel? 980 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,000 [knocks on door] 981 00:51:20,083 --> 00:51:23,208 How are we doing? 982 00:51:23,291 --> 00:51:26,709 - Miguel came into Luis's life... 983 00:51:26,792 --> 00:51:28,583 - Come, there's hot breakfast. 984 00:51:28,667 --> 00:51:30,250 ♪ Everything ♪ 985 00:51:30,333 --> 00:51:31,500 ♪ Every day ♪ 986 00:51:31,583 --> 00:51:34,750 - At a point where I think he was beginning to feel old. 987 00:51:34,834 --> 00:51:36,208 [laughs] 988 00:51:36,291 --> 00:51:39,583 And Miguel renewed his youth. 989 00:51:39,667 --> 00:51:41,750 It was like, now he was a dad again, 990 00:51:41,834 --> 00:51:43,917 because he's been his legal guardian 991 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,208 from the time Miguel was a baby. 992 00:51:48,875 --> 00:51:50,208 - You need to shave. 993 00:51:50,291 --> 00:51:53,041 - I know. 994 00:51:53,125 --> 00:51:54,750 I keep forgetting. 995 00:51:54,834 --> 00:51:57,834 My mother was in a very, very bad situation, 996 00:51:57,917 --> 00:51:59,959 and Luis and his wife Luz-- 997 00:52:00,041 --> 00:52:03,583 they asked her if she wanted to move in with them. 998 00:52:03,667 --> 00:52:07,083 My mother was pregnant with me when all that happened. 999 00:52:07,166 --> 00:52:10,667 They basically saved her life. 1000 00:52:10,750 --> 00:52:13,834 And that's why I'm here. 1001 00:52:13,917 --> 00:52:15,917 I have midterms next week. 1002 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,375 I am terrified for the first two. 1003 00:52:21,083 --> 00:52:22,000 - Physics? 1004 00:52:22,083 --> 00:52:23,625 - Physics and history. 1005 00:52:23,709 --> 00:52:26,291 - Miguel comes from a lineage of difficulty. 1006 00:52:26,375 --> 00:52:29,458 My brother has ADHD, all his kids have ADHD, 1007 00:52:29,542 --> 00:52:31,333 Miguel's mom has ADHD, 1008 00:52:31,417 --> 00:52:35,000 and he had ADHD and then sensory issues. 1009 00:52:35,083 --> 00:52:37,959 - Tell me next week's order of tests. 1010 00:52:38,041 --> 00:52:39,291 - On Monday, I have-- 1011 00:52:39,375 --> 00:52:41,333 - Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. - Okay. 1012 00:52:43,875 --> 00:52:45,000 - Monday, you have... 1013 00:52:45,083 --> 00:52:47,500 - Science and then history. 1014 00:52:47,583 --> 00:52:48,959 - The same day? - Yeah. 1015 00:52:49,041 --> 00:52:50,333 They redid the schedule, 1016 00:52:50,417 --> 00:52:52,834 so that way we now have two exams a day. 1017 00:52:52,917 --> 00:52:54,834 It's really not fun. 1018 00:52:54,917 --> 00:52:57,166 - Okay. Then on the 18th? 1019 00:52:57,250 --> 00:52:59,500 - I have math and English. 1020 00:52:59,583 --> 00:53:02,959 - And so Luis has shepherded this kid 1021 00:53:03,041 --> 00:53:05,375 who had very special needs 1022 00:53:05,458 --> 00:53:07,333 from the time he was an infant, 1023 00:53:07,417 --> 00:53:09,458 got him into a special needs school, 1024 00:53:09,542 --> 00:53:12,000 and then has worked 1025 00:53:12,083 --> 00:53:15,959 in guiding his education and care 1026 00:53:16,041 --> 00:53:19,333 to the point where this kid has now been on high honors 1027 00:53:19,417 --> 00:53:22,375 in a mainstream school for the last three years. 1028 00:53:22,458 --> 00:53:25,792 - You may get the letter. 1029 00:53:25,875 --> 00:53:28,917 - Or email. 1030 00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:31,542 - You get an email, I probably get CC'd. 1031 00:53:31,625 --> 00:53:35,750 - Just finished the college application process. 1032 00:53:35,834 --> 00:53:39,208 Waiting for the letter just-- is just not fun. 1033 00:53:39,291 --> 00:53:41,667 It's just super stressful 'cause you're waiting 1034 00:53:41,750 --> 00:53:44,417 to hear from a college you wanna go to the most. 1035 00:53:44,500 --> 00:53:46,417 And the anxiety is there. 1036 00:53:46,500 --> 00:53:48,375 What am I going to do if I don't get in? 1037 00:53:48,458 --> 00:53:49,583 - Huh? 1038 00:53:58,291 --> 00:54:02,375 Let me see what my life is like today. 1039 00:54:02,458 --> 00:54:04,709 - Probably busy. 1040 00:54:04,792 --> 00:54:07,250 - [laughs] 1041 00:54:10,834 --> 00:54:14,375 So Manuel is picking you up at 3:15. 1042 00:54:14,458 --> 00:54:16,542 - Mm-hmm. - He's gonna bring you home. 1043 00:54:16,625 --> 00:54:18,250 He's gonna wait for you. - Do you have a key? 1044 00:54:18,333 --> 00:54:19,417 - No, Titi. 1045 00:54:19,500 --> 00:54:22,542 We've been through this. I lost it. 1046 00:54:22,625 --> 00:54:24,417 - Okay, then I'll have to give you my key. 1047 00:54:24,500 --> 00:54:26,542 - Yeah, because there's nobody in the house 1048 00:54:26,625 --> 00:54:28,083 when he gets to the house. 1049 00:54:28,166 --> 00:54:30,083 - Correct. - Yeah, can we handle that? 1050 00:54:30,166 --> 00:54:32,542 Because all you do is complain, 1051 00:54:32,625 --> 00:54:34,625 but you don't do anything affirmatively 1052 00:54:34,709 --> 00:54:37,917 to get a fucking key. 1053 00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,750 - All I know is that, like, my entire life, 1054 00:54:40,834 --> 00:54:43,250 he's been a constant. 1055 00:54:43,333 --> 00:54:45,542 For everything that I've gone through, 1056 00:54:45,625 --> 00:54:49,250 everything that I've done, everything that I've-- 1057 00:54:49,333 --> 00:54:50,750 like, all of the major things 1058 00:54:50,834 --> 00:54:52,458 that have happened in my life, he's been there. 1059 00:54:52,542 --> 00:54:55,625 - Bye, honey. Have a good day. 1060 00:54:55,709 --> 00:54:58,333 - I could never repay him for the fact that he... 1061 00:55:00,792 --> 00:55:03,166 Treats me like one of his own, 1062 00:55:03,250 --> 00:55:07,458 for the fact that he considers me his son. 1063 00:55:07,542 --> 00:55:09,458 Like, you can't repay someone that. 1064 00:55:09,542 --> 00:55:13,542 Not--all the money in the world 1065 00:55:13,625 --> 00:55:15,959 would not be enough 1066 00:55:16,041 --> 00:55:17,583 to, like, fully-- 1067 00:55:17,667 --> 00:55:19,917 to, like, truly thank him for that. 1068 00:55:29,208 --> 00:55:32,750 - [laughs] 1069 00:55:53,166 --> 00:55:56,166 - We are in the theater of University of Puerto Rico. 1070 00:55:56,250 --> 00:55:58,166 This is a special place. 1071 00:55:58,250 --> 00:55:59,834 This is a theater that, 1072 00:55:59,917 --> 00:56:01,667 for everybody that went 1073 00:56:01,750 --> 00:56:03,667 to the University of Puerto Rico, 1074 00:56:03,750 --> 00:56:07,000 have a magic, you know? 1075 00:56:07,083 --> 00:56:08,333 And it's beautiful. 1076 00:56:08,417 --> 00:56:10,834 It's the most beautiful theater in Puerto Rico. 1077 00:56:10,917 --> 00:56:13,291 No doubt about it. 1078 00:56:13,375 --> 00:56:15,500 After the hurricane, Luis asked me, 1079 00:56:15,583 --> 00:56:18,375 "Ender, what do you think bringing 'Hamilton' here?" 1080 00:56:18,458 --> 00:56:21,834 And I said, "You gotta think about it twice, 1081 00:56:21,917 --> 00:56:25,333 "because this theater is damaged. 1082 00:56:25,417 --> 00:56:27,083 So how do you wanna do it?" 1083 00:56:27,166 --> 00:56:30,000 He said, "Yeah, but that's the point. 1084 00:56:30,083 --> 00:56:32,959 We wanna help to fix the theater." 1085 00:57:32,667 --> 00:57:35,625 [somber music] 1086 00:57:35,709 --> 00:57:38,709 ♪ ♪ 1087 00:58:14,500 --> 00:58:16,750 - "Hamilton" go to UPR. 1088 00:58:16,834 --> 00:58:18,834 [laughter] - Yeah. 1089 00:58:20,208 --> 00:58:21,458 - It is election day. 1090 00:58:21,542 --> 00:58:23,250 Republicans and Democrats have made 1091 00:58:23,333 --> 00:58:24,959 their final case to voters. 1092 00:58:25,041 --> 00:58:27,333 Now, for many of you, time to hit the polls. 1093 00:58:27,417 --> 00:58:28,917 - And it goes almost without saying, 1094 00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:29,959 but I'm gonna say it anyway. 1095 00:58:30,041 --> 00:58:32,375 The stakes are high for both parties, 1096 00:58:32,458 --> 00:58:34,166 as Republicans look to hold on 1097 00:58:34,250 --> 00:58:36,166 to their House and Senate majorities 1098 00:58:36,250 --> 00:58:37,500 and the Democrats make the case 1099 00:58:37,583 --> 00:58:38,959 that they are a necessary check 1100 00:58:39,041 --> 00:58:42,041 on President Trump's agenda. 1101 00:58:42,125 --> 00:58:44,125 - Together, we make one. - [laughs] 1102 00:58:44,208 --> 00:58:47,333 - Her right leg, it's busted. 1103 00:58:47,417 --> 00:58:49,875 My left leg-- 1104 00:58:49,959 --> 00:58:52,166 left leg is busted. 1105 00:58:52,250 --> 00:58:55,125 Together, we voted for two Democrats. 1106 00:58:55,208 --> 00:58:56,792 [both laugh] 1107 00:58:56,875 --> 00:59:00,125 For the first couple of years I was here, 1108 00:59:00,208 --> 00:59:03,834 I was still a registered voter in Puerto Rico, 1109 00:59:03,917 --> 00:59:07,583 and that mattered more to me. 1110 00:59:07,667 --> 00:59:09,250 Once I realized 1111 00:59:09,333 --> 00:59:12,834 that this is where I was gonna spend my life, 1112 00:59:12,917 --> 00:59:15,166 I registered here, 1113 00:59:15,250 --> 00:59:18,834 realized that it's really up to Puerto Ricans... 1114 00:59:20,625 --> 00:59:24,667 On the island to decide their political future. 1115 00:59:24,750 --> 00:59:26,041 [percussive music] 1116 00:59:26,125 --> 00:59:27,333 Tish James. 1117 00:59:27,417 --> 00:59:31,542 It's my last big local election. 1118 00:59:31,625 --> 00:59:33,083 [both laugh] 1119 00:59:33,166 --> 00:59:36,375 I'm falling into pieces. 1120 00:59:36,458 --> 00:59:37,375 - Oh, my goodness. 1121 00:59:37,458 --> 00:59:39,166 - For Tish, 1122 00:59:39,250 --> 00:59:42,208 I was on the day-to-day for fundraising. 1123 00:59:42,291 --> 00:59:45,208 That's sort of the piece that I took over. 1124 00:59:45,291 --> 00:59:48,250 Then how to spend that money and the commercials 1125 00:59:48,333 --> 00:59:51,583 and the imaging and all of that. 1126 00:59:51,667 --> 00:59:56,125 Certainly this is the last time I'm doing that. 1127 00:59:56,208 --> 00:59:57,583 - My name is Letitia James, 1128 00:59:57,667 --> 01:00:00,417 and I'm the public advocate of the city of New York, 1129 01:00:00,500 --> 01:00:03,667 and I wanted to come by to say, thank all of you for voting. 1130 01:00:06,834 --> 01:00:11,250 So make sure you look at everything in that ballot, 1131 01:00:11,333 --> 01:00:13,458 and, of course, make sure 1132 01:00:13,542 --> 01:00:17,583 you vote for Letitia James for attorney general. 1133 01:00:17,667 --> 01:00:19,375 [cheers and applause] 1134 01:00:19,458 --> 01:00:23,500 For many, many years, I was the political operator. 1135 01:00:24,959 --> 01:00:26,375 Bye. 1136 01:00:26,458 --> 01:00:28,083 No press conference. 1137 01:00:28,166 --> 01:00:30,959 When you're the political operator, 1138 01:00:31,041 --> 01:00:34,458 today is the busiest day. 1139 01:00:34,542 --> 01:00:38,083 You sort of worked and worked and worked 1140 01:00:38,166 --> 01:00:39,792 for D-Day, 1141 01:00:39,875 --> 01:00:42,291 which would've been today. 1142 01:00:42,375 --> 01:00:45,792 Now, being older and not being the person 1143 01:00:45,875 --> 01:00:48,166 who's in charge of the day-to-day, 1144 01:00:48,250 --> 01:00:50,166 but being the political consultant, 1145 01:00:50,250 --> 01:00:51,625 a day like today, 1146 01:00:51,709 --> 01:00:54,000 you're just basically getting reports 1147 01:00:54,083 --> 01:00:56,792 of what's happening in the field. 1148 01:00:56,875 --> 01:00:58,709 Ugh, God. 1149 01:01:01,375 --> 01:01:03,417 - I know. I know. I know. 1150 01:01:03,500 --> 01:01:07,417 As my dad used to say in Spanish, 1151 01:01:07,500 --> 01:01:10,125 "Life is like a shit sandwich, 1152 01:01:10,208 --> 01:01:13,166 and sometimes you really bite into it." 1153 01:01:13,250 --> 01:01:16,041 Electing a Democratic Congress 1154 01:01:16,125 --> 01:01:20,709 became the goal of 2018. 1155 01:01:20,792 --> 01:01:22,166 Now I can do this. 1156 01:01:22,250 --> 01:01:23,667 Not my president. 1157 01:01:23,750 --> 01:01:27,125 Defeating this motherfucker in the White House 1158 01:01:27,208 --> 01:01:29,500 has to be a call for action. 1159 01:01:29,583 --> 01:01:31,667 We really worked hard 1160 01:01:31,750 --> 01:01:36,166 to support Latino candidates in Georgia. 1161 01:01:36,250 --> 01:01:38,834 - Going door to door in Gainesville. 1162 01:01:38,917 --> 01:01:42,458 It's a lot of distance between the houses here. 1163 01:01:42,542 --> 01:01:43,458 - Knocking on doors. 1164 01:01:43,542 --> 01:01:45,709 - Knocking on doors for Stacey Abrams. 1165 01:01:45,792 --> 01:01:48,667 - So that we can increase Latino turnout 1166 01:01:48,750 --> 01:01:50,500 for the entire Democratic ticket, 1167 01:01:50,583 --> 01:01:54,375 which will include Stacey Abrams. 1168 01:01:54,458 --> 01:01:55,917 Same thing in Florida. 1169 01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:22,291 - Thank you for everything that you've done. 1170 01:02:22,375 --> 01:02:23,917 - Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 1171 01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:25,208 - Thank you so much. 1172 01:02:25,291 --> 01:02:29,250 - I have now been going to Florida 1173 01:02:29,333 --> 01:02:33,667 every two or three weeks for the last several months, 1174 01:02:33,750 --> 01:02:37,375 making sure that we energize Puerto Ricans, 1175 01:02:37,458 --> 01:02:40,291 because so many Puerto Ricans were moving in 1176 01:02:40,375 --> 01:02:42,750 after Hurricane Maria, 1177 01:02:42,834 --> 01:02:46,625 leaving the island as climate refugees. 1178 01:02:46,709 --> 01:02:50,917 If anything has come out of Hurricane Maria, 1179 01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,375 it's that it has brought together... 1180 01:02:53,458 --> 01:02:57,750 [speaking Spanish] 1181 01:02:57,834 --> 01:03:00,750 Our allies in the United States 1182 01:03:00,834 --> 01:03:03,959 with Puerto Rico. 1183 01:03:04,041 --> 01:03:06,792 And now, together, 1184 01:03:06,875 --> 01:03:10,125 we cannot be stopped. 1185 01:03:10,208 --> 01:03:11,375 [cheers and applause] 1186 01:03:11,458 --> 01:03:13,375 They're living in a hotel, 1187 01:03:13,458 --> 01:03:15,667 they're looking for a place or looking for jobs, 1188 01:03:15,750 --> 01:03:18,166 they're looking for schools for their kids, 1189 01:03:18,250 --> 01:03:20,917 and on top of that, we're telling them, 1190 01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:24,291 "Oh, shit, and this is a historical election, 1191 01:03:24,375 --> 01:03:26,375 and you got to be involved." 1192 01:03:37,792 --> 01:03:39,667 We ended up in North Carolina, 1193 01:03:39,750 --> 01:03:41,959 we ended up in Pennsylvania, 1194 01:03:42,041 --> 01:03:45,083 just following the migration 1195 01:03:45,166 --> 01:03:47,291 and how we could be helpful, 1196 01:03:47,375 --> 01:03:49,583 and at the end of the day, 1197 01:03:49,667 --> 01:03:52,959 for me, it always ties in to politics. 1198 01:03:53,041 --> 01:03:56,792 If you elect the people who represent you, 1199 01:03:56,875 --> 01:03:59,542 you have a stake as to what they're gonna do. 1200 01:03:59,625 --> 01:04:03,500 [upbeat Latin music] 1201 01:04:03,583 --> 01:04:07,792 [singing in Spanish] 1202 01:04:07,875 --> 01:04:10,041 Okay. I refreshed it. 1203 01:04:10,125 --> 01:04:15,625 ♪ ♪ 1204 01:04:15,709 --> 01:04:17,583 Let's go to Univision now. 1205 01:04:19,792 --> 01:04:21,166 [laughs] 1206 01:04:21,250 --> 01:04:27,917 ♪ ♪ 1207 01:04:54,583 --> 01:04:55,875 [groans] 1208 01:05:00,458 --> 01:05:02,041 [sighs] 1209 01:05:02,125 --> 01:05:04,041 - Hi. 1210 01:05:04,125 --> 01:05:07,375 Thank you. 1211 01:05:07,458 --> 01:05:09,542 Unfortunately, the Blue Wave is not... 1212 01:05:09,625 --> 01:05:11,208 - It's not happening. - It's not happening. 1213 01:05:11,291 --> 01:05:12,625 - Not yet. - It's scary. 1214 01:05:12,709 --> 01:05:16,875 And it looks like Gillum and Stacey... 1215 01:05:16,959 --> 01:05:18,041 - Are not gonna make it. 1216 01:05:18,125 --> 01:05:19,583 - Ay-yi-yi. 1217 01:05:19,667 --> 01:05:22,250 - 1.2 million for us. 1218 01:05:22,333 --> 01:05:24,417 - And we're at what? 32. 1219 01:05:24,500 --> 01:05:26,041 - Almost 32% reporting. 1220 01:05:28,333 --> 01:05:29,417 - It's official. - They called it. 1221 01:05:29,500 --> 01:05:30,750 - Way to go. - Attorney general elect! 1222 01:05:30,834 --> 01:05:33,834 [all cheering] 1223 01:05:35,458 --> 01:05:39,208 - They called it. 1224 01:05:39,291 --> 01:05:40,792 Let me see. - No kisses. 1225 01:05:40,875 --> 01:05:43,792 - None. - She is ready to go. 1226 01:05:43,875 --> 01:05:44,834 - Ladies and gentlemen, 1227 01:05:44,917 --> 01:05:46,583 it is my honor and it is my privilege 1228 01:05:46,667 --> 01:05:48,583 to bring to you 1229 01:05:48,667 --> 01:05:50,875 the next attorney general 1230 01:05:50,959 --> 01:05:53,458 for the state of New York, 1231 01:05:53,542 --> 01:05:55,750 Letitia James. 1232 01:05:55,834 --> 01:05:56,750 [cheers and applause] 1233 01:05:56,834 --> 01:05:59,458 - ♪ I'm all the way up ♪ 1234 01:06:02,041 --> 01:06:04,083 ♪ I'm all the way up ♪ 1235 01:06:04,166 --> 01:06:07,166 - [speaking Spanish] 1236 01:06:13,500 --> 01:06:17,500 - Luis will often minimize issues around his health. 1237 01:06:19,917 --> 01:06:22,125 - I'm worried about the stress. 1238 01:06:22,208 --> 01:06:25,417 And I don't see an end to his exhaustion. 1239 01:06:25,500 --> 01:06:28,166 He needs to get more rest. 1240 01:06:28,250 --> 01:06:31,000 Since this heart attack, I'll tell him... 1241 01:06:31,083 --> 01:06:32,000 - [grunts] 1242 01:06:32,083 --> 01:06:33,458 - "I don't wanna be a widow. 1243 01:06:33,542 --> 01:06:35,125 "What would my life be like without you? 1244 01:06:35,208 --> 01:06:38,250 And there isn't another you to replace you." 1245 01:06:38,333 --> 01:06:41,333 - [singing] 1246 01:06:47,208 --> 01:06:48,834 I got a text 1247 01:06:48,917 --> 01:06:52,166 that there is 100 people online 1248 01:06:52,250 --> 01:06:54,417 at 4:57 a.m. 1249 01:06:59,250 --> 01:07:01,250 Morning. 1250 01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:11,625 [Jackie DeShannon's "Put a Little Love in Your Heart"] 1251 01:07:11,709 --> 01:07:13,083 [laughs] 1252 01:07:19,125 --> 01:07:20,834 Gracias. 1253 01:07:20,917 --> 01:07:23,959 - Café? 1254 01:07:24,041 --> 01:07:26,417 - ♪ You see it's getting late ♪ 1255 01:07:26,500 --> 01:07:29,166 ♪ Oh, please don't hesitate ♪ 1256 01:07:29,250 --> 01:07:31,041 ♪ Put a little love in your heart ♪ 1257 01:07:31,125 --> 01:07:32,667 - Café. 1258 01:07:32,750 --> 01:07:35,166 - ♪ And the world ♪ - Gracias. 1259 01:07:35,250 --> 01:07:37,500 - ♪ Will be a better place ♪ 1260 01:07:37,583 --> 01:07:39,834 ♪ And the world ♪ - ♪ And the world ♪ 1261 01:07:39,917 --> 01:07:42,500 - ♪ Will be a better place ♪ 1262 01:07:42,583 --> 01:07:44,375 ♪ For you ♪ - ♪ For you ♪ 1263 01:07:44,458 --> 01:07:46,750 - ♪ And me ♪ - ♪ And me ♪ 1264 01:07:46,834 --> 01:07:49,166 - ♪ You just wait ♪ - ♪ Just wait ♪ 1265 01:07:49,250 --> 01:07:51,250 - ♪ And see ♪ 1266 01:07:51,333 --> 01:07:54,709 - Whoo! 1267 01:07:54,792 --> 01:07:56,667 We got our tickets. 1268 01:07:56,750 --> 01:07:58,417 It was worth the wait. 1269 01:08:37,375 --> 01:08:39,875 "You have to reduce your stress." 1270 01:08:39,959 --> 01:08:41,125 [both laugh] 1271 01:08:41,208 --> 01:08:42,375 - Breathe. Start breathing. 1272 01:08:42,458 --> 01:08:46,333 - [speaking Spanish] - "Open Breathe app now." 1273 01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:50,458 [grunts] 1274 01:08:50,542 --> 01:08:52,000 Okay. 1275 01:08:52,083 --> 01:08:55,667 ♪ Let's go on with the show ♪ 1276 01:08:55,750 --> 01:08:57,250 [upbeat music] 1277 01:08:59,917 --> 01:09:06,875 ♪ ♪ 1278 01:09:08,041 --> 01:09:10,959 [all cheering] 1279 01:09:11,041 --> 01:09:17,709 ♪ ♪ 1280 01:09:26,875 --> 01:09:28,250 - I come back tomorrow, 1281 01:09:28,333 --> 01:09:31,375 and tomorrow is the last show, 1282 01:09:31,458 --> 01:09:33,417 but I leave at 1:00 and-- 1283 01:09:37,792 --> 01:09:39,417 - [laughing] Right, right, right. 1284 01:09:41,959 --> 01:09:43,834 - Say hello to Ender. 1285 01:09:43,917 --> 01:09:45,166 - Bro. - Hi, Ender. 1286 01:09:45,250 --> 01:09:46,834 - It's been crazy, but... 1287 01:09:46,917 --> 01:09:49,834 Luis Miranda is 24/7. 1288 01:09:49,917 --> 01:09:52,333 Sometime, he call me at 1:00 a.m. 1289 01:09:52,417 --> 01:09:55,667 and he say, "You have five minutes to talk?" 1290 01:09:55,750 --> 01:09:56,709 "Yes," 1291 01:09:56,792 --> 01:09:59,000 but, I mean, it's 2:00 in the morning 1292 01:09:59,083 --> 01:10:01,041 and he's still texting me 1293 01:10:01,125 --> 01:10:04,625 or telling me things to do. 1294 01:10:04,709 --> 01:10:06,667 He's always on top of everything. 1295 01:10:06,750 --> 01:10:07,834 He's micromanagement. 1296 01:10:07,917 --> 01:10:09,333 He wants to know everything. 1297 01:10:09,417 --> 01:10:11,500 - Last night, when we got home, 1298 01:10:11,583 --> 01:10:14,417 Luz said, "Let's go to sleep." 1299 01:10:14,500 --> 01:10:15,709 I'm like, 1300 01:10:15,792 --> 01:10:18,542 "Honey, I haven't looked at emails all day! 1301 01:10:18,625 --> 01:10:20,875 I cannot go to sleep." 1302 01:10:20,959 --> 01:10:23,208 And she's like, "Luis, 1303 01:10:23,291 --> 01:10:25,041 "we got up 1304 01:10:25,125 --> 01:10:28,375 "at 4:15 in the morning. 1305 01:10:28,458 --> 01:10:31,750 It's a quarter to 12." 1306 01:10:31,834 --> 01:10:33,166 "No, no, no. 1307 01:10:33,250 --> 01:10:36,792 "It's a quarter to 11 in my body. 1308 01:10:36,875 --> 01:10:39,000 "God gave me an extra hour. 1309 01:10:39,083 --> 01:10:40,583 I'ma use it wisely." 1310 01:10:40,667 --> 01:10:47,375 ♪ ♪ 1311 01:10:47,458 --> 01:10:50,458 [whistling] 1312 01:10:53,083 --> 01:10:54,458 [percussive music] 1313 01:11:10,166 --> 01:11:12,458 I get home, we're ready to begin 1314 01:11:12,542 --> 01:11:14,583 the last stretch of "Hamilton," 1315 01:11:14,667 --> 01:11:16,250 look at an email, 1316 01:11:16,333 --> 01:11:18,000 and there is a copy of the letter 1317 01:11:18,083 --> 01:11:20,417 from Hermandad to Lin-Manuel 1318 01:11:20,500 --> 01:11:23,500 advising him that there may be protests. 1319 01:11:26,500 --> 01:11:29,625 Hermandad is the union that represent workers 1320 01:11:29,709 --> 01:11:32,250 from the University of Puerto Rico. 1321 01:11:32,333 --> 01:11:35,250 They have had a beef 1322 01:11:35,333 --> 01:11:39,000 with the administration about their contract, 1323 01:11:39,083 --> 01:11:42,166 specifically the provision that allowed themselves 1324 01:11:42,250 --> 01:11:44,250 and the kids to study for free. 1325 01:11:44,333 --> 01:11:48,333 ♪ ♪ 1326 01:12:01,375 --> 01:12:02,458 - "Hamilton" is bringing 1327 01:12:02,542 --> 01:12:04,792 a union production to Puerto Rico, 1328 01:12:04,875 --> 01:12:07,792 and here we are, embroiled on an issue 1329 01:12:07,875 --> 01:12:10,333 with a union that we actually support. 1330 01:12:10,417 --> 01:12:11,458 We do believe 1331 01:12:11,542 --> 01:12:14,125 workers at a university should study for free, 1332 01:12:14,208 --> 01:12:15,750 and their kids as well. 1333 01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:18,000 Sí. 1334 01:13:25,875 --> 01:13:28,750 - Oh, Luis is here. - Hey! 1335 01:13:28,834 --> 01:13:31,083 - Hey. Good to see you. 1336 01:13:31,166 --> 01:13:33,500 - I see you. - How are things? 1337 01:13:33,583 --> 01:13:35,750 - Ah, I never know. 1338 01:13:35,834 --> 01:13:37,583 - We're doing well here. - I know you are. 1339 01:13:37,667 --> 01:13:39,208 - We're half a day ahead of schedule, I think. 1340 01:13:39,291 --> 01:13:40,208 - You are? - Already. 1341 01:13:40,291 --> 01:13:41,709 And we're gaining momentum, so-- 1342 01:13:41,792 --> 01:13:43,375 - It's amazing. - We're gonna be in good shape. 1343 01:13:43,458 --> 01:13:45,917 The whole deck is down, turntable's running. 1344 01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:48,583 They're gonna start putting walls up right now. 1345 01:13:48,667 --> 01:13:50,417 So doing well. 1346 01:13:50,500 --> 01:13:52,458 - That's fantastic. - Yeah. 1347 01:13:52,542 --> 01:13:55,125 - Now let's see if we have a play. 1348 01:13:55,208 --> 01:13:57,166 If the University's open. 1349 01:14:03,667 --> 01:14:07,750 My heart rate was 84 when I got up this morning, 1350 01:14:07,834 --> 01:14:08,917 and it's 94 now. 1351 01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:10,125 - That's normal? 1352 01:14:10,208 --> 01:14:11,125 That's a range? 1353 01:14:11,208 --> 01:14:12,417 - It is. 1354 01:14:12,500 --> 01:14:15,875 You know, all of this could be in vain. 1355 01:14:15,959 --> 01:14:17,250 [laughter] You understand? 1356 01:14:17,333 --> 01:14:20,083 "Hamilton" may not come to Puerto Rico. 1357 01:14:20,166 --> 01:14:22,542 - Stop it. - All of this hullabaloo. 1358 01:14:22,625 --> 01:14:24,417 Hullaba-hoo. 1359 01:14:24,500 --> 01:14:26,250 - What did you call it? - Hullabaloo. 1360 01:14:26,333 --> 01:14:27,625 [laughter] 1361 01:14:27,709 --> 01:14:28,625 - Oh, my God. 1362 01:14:28,709 --> 01:14:32,375 - And all of the signs and shit 1363 01:14:32,458 --> 01:14:35,333 may be for nothing. 1364 01:14:38,208 --> 01:14:41,500 I want you to spend time with Tim, 1365 01:14:41,583 --> 01:14:42,959 time with Alex, 1366 01:14:43,041 --> 01:14:46,667 time with all of the heads of departments, 1367 01:14:46,750 --> 01:14:48,500 so that you'll see a bit 1368 01:14:48,583 --> 01:14:50,583 of how "Hamilton" comes together. 1369 01:14:50,667 --> 01:14:53,458 - Okay. 1370 01:14:53,542 --> 01:14:56,125 - You should take... 1371 01:14:56,208 --> 01:14:57,125 [grunts] 1372 01:14:57,208 --> 01:15:00,834 A couple of hours every day... 1373 01:15:03,250 --> 01:15:06,125 For homework and review. 1374 01:15:09,583 --> 01:15:10,709 Easy, Miguel. Easy. 1375 01:15:10,792 --> 01:15:14,000 This is too fast. 1376 01:15:14,083 --> 01:15:17,875 - So I don't get to sleep in. 1377 01:15:17,959 --> 01:15:20,166 You told me I could. 1378 01:15:20,250 --> 01:15:22,166 - I lied. 1379 01:15:22,250 --> 01:15:25,500 So... 1380 01:15:25,583 --> 01:15:28,500 well, it's like if you're in school, Pa. 1381 01:15:28,583 --> 01:15:30,000 No different. 1382 01:15:30,083 --> 01:15:32,500 The difference is that you're having fun. 1383 01:15:32,583 --> 01:15:34,291 What I-- 1384 01:15:34,375 --> 01:15:39,000 I'm not gonna have time... 1385 01:15:39,083 --> 01:15:41,333 to be on you 1386 01:15:41,417 --> 01:15:42,709 like I am in New York. 1387 01:15:42,792 --> 01:15:44,667 - I don't want you to be on my ass all the time. 1388 01:15:44,750 --> 01:15:46,000 It's annoying. - I know. 1389 01:15:46,083 --> 01:15:47,583 - So I'm perfectly fine with that. 1390 01:15:47,667 --> 01:15:48,583 - I know, I know. 1391 01:15:48,667 --> 01:15:50,458 - I'm self-reliant when I want and have to be. 1392 01:15:50,542 --> 01:15:52,542 - I know. I am-- 1393 01:15:52,625 --> 01:15:54,375 - You just choose to be on my ass. 1394 01:15:54,458 --> 01:15:56,208 - It is my job to be annoying. 1395 01:15:56,291 --> 01:15:59,542 That's part of parenting. 1396 01:15:59,625 --> 01:16:01,291 I try not to, 1397 01:16:01,375 --> 01:16:03,542 but that's the way you experience it. 1398 01:16:03,625 --> 01:16:07,000 [tense percussive music] 1399 01:16:07,083 --> 01:16:10,000 - We had a big meeting in Fortaleza 1400 01:16:10,083 --> 01:16:12,083 with the head person in the police in Puerto Rico, 1401 01:16:12,166 --> 01:16:13,542 Mr. Pesquera, 1402 01:16:13,625 --> 01:16:15,041 staff from the governor. 1403 01:16:15,125 --> 01:16:19,208 At the other side in here was Jeffrey Seller, 1404 01:16:19,291 --> 01:16:22,542 staff from "Hamilton," plus Lin-Manuel. 1405 01:16:22,625 --> 01:16:24,375 Even Lin-Manuel was in that meeting. 1406 01:16:24,458 --> 01:16:26,417 - I said, "How do you feel?" 1407 01:16:26,500 --> 01:16:28,458 Because he'd been making miracles happen 1408 01:16:28,542 --> 01:16:29,959 to make it happen at La U.P. 1409 01:16:30,041 --> 01:16:31,125 It was-- 1410 01:16:31,208 --> 01:16:34,208 the odds were stacked against us from the start. 1411 01:16:34,291 --> 01:16:36,375 This was a theater in need of a roof. 1412 01:16:36,458 --> 01:16:38,083 This was a-- 1413 01:16:38,166 --> 01:16:42,458 it was a huge undertaking to refurbish that theater. 1414 01:16:42,542 --> 01:16:44,041 I'm really proud of that. 1415 01:16:44,125 --> 01:16:48,250 - Luis and I-- we always were pushing. 1416 01:16:48,333 --> 01:16:50,125 We were pushing 1417 01:16:50,208 --> 01:16:53,709 to leave the event, the play, at the university. 1418 01:16:53,792 --> 01:16:56,125 - Luis's ideal, 1419 01:16:56,208 --> 01:17:00,709 to honor this beautiful venue, to honor this university, 1420 01:17:00,792 --> 01:17:02,750 to support this university, 1421 01:17:02,834 --> 01:17:06,583 and, of course, to make it a homecoming of sorts for him, 1422 01:17:06,667 --> 01:17:09,291 a graduate of this university, 1423 01:17:09,375 --> 01:17:13,667 were honorable, beautiful ideals. 1424 01:17:16,834 --> 01:17:18,500 It didn't work. 1425 01:17:18,583 --> 01:17:22,166 - The fiscal crisis, Maria, 1426 01:17:22,250 --> 01:17:26,542 all the shit that this island goes through-- 1427 01:17:26,625 --> 01:17:31,166 people can't calibrate anymore 1428 01:17:31,250 --> 01:17:35,125 what's the appropriate response to what, 1429 01:17:35,208 --> 01:17:38,125 and so the appropriate response 1430 01:17:38,208 --> 01:17:40,458 for many to everything is, 1431 01:17:40,542 --> 01:17:42,250 "Fuck you!" 1432 01:17:42,333 --> 01:17:45,709 Because they have been stepped on. 1433 01:17:59,583 --> 01:18:02,792 [somber music] 1434 01:18:02,875 --> 01:18:07,500 ♪ ♪ 1435 01:18:07,583 --> 01:18:11,667 - We were put between a real rock and a hard place. 1436 01:18:11,750 --> 01:18:13,834 At the end of the day, the union backed off, 1437 01:18:13,917 --> 01:18:16,709 and the union said, "We will not strike," 1438 01:18:16,792 --> 01:18:18,542 but it was too late. 1439 01:18:18,625 --> 01:18:20,625 It was a risk we just couldn't take. 1440 01:18:23,125 --> 01:18:26,333 I could quote an old theater owner 1441 01:18:26,417 --> 01:18:29,333 named Jimmy Nederlander, who says-- 1442 01:18:29,417 --> 01:18:30,834 who said; 1443 01:18:30,917 --> 01:18:32,709 he passed away three years ago-- 1444 01:18:32,792 --> 01:18:35,500 "People don't go to theaters. They go to shows." 1445 01:18:37,458 --> 01:18:41,166 We could do the show on a concert stage in a park. 1446 01:18:43,542 --> 01:18:46,500 The point here was for Lin to be able to return 1447 01:18:46,583 --> 01:18:48,208 to his family's homeland 1448 01:18:48,291 --> 01:18:50,583 and perform for his countrymen. 1449 01:18:50,667 --> 01:18:53,375 The theater presented some problems, 1450 01:18:53,458 --> 01:18:56,125 exacerbated by the hot political climate 1451 01:18:56,208 --> 01:18:57,709 down here right now, 1452 01:18:57,792 --> 01:19:00,625 and I don't want that to get in the way 1453 01:19:00,709 --> 01:19:02,083 of the greater good, 1454 01:19:02,166 --> 01:19:04,500 because the dog is the show. 1455 01:19:04,583 --> 01:19:07,083 The dog is gonna bark, and it's gonna be great. 1456 01:19:07,166 --> 01:19:14,166 ♪ ♪ 1457 01:19:18,542 --> 01:19:21,250 - The decision was made. 1458 01:19:21,333 --> 01:19:24,583 So now, what was next? 1459 01:19:24,667 --> 01:19:28,542 We find out the possibility of moving to the CBA, 1460 01:19:28,625 --> 01:19:31,208 Centro Bellas Artes in San Juan. 1461 01:19:31,291 --> 01:19:35,000 Now we have to do what we did in the UPR 1462 01:19:35,083 --> 01:19:37,834 in 10 to 12 month in two weeks. 1463 01:19:42,500 --> 01:19:44,375 - The venue change is not just a venue change. 1464 01:19:44,458 --> 01:19:46,625 It is figuring out a new space, 1465 01:19:46,709 --> 01:19:48,250 figuring out how the show fits the new space, 1466 01:19:48,333 --> 01:19:50,417 figuring out hundreds of functions 1467 01:19:50,500 --> 01:19:52,834 that have been scheduled around the show. 1468 01:19:52,917 --> 01:19:54,125 - This is where the receptions are. 1469 01:19:54,208 --> 01:19:55,166 - Beautiful. 1470 01:19:55,250 --> 01:19:56,709 - And where do those go now 1471 01:19:56,792 --> 01:20:00,083 if they were supposed to be at U.P. at the first go-round? 1472 01:20:00,166 --> 01:20:03,583 - These are supposed to be... 1473 01:20:03,667 --> 01:20:05,291 - Like, VIP boxes. 1474 01:20:05,375 --> 01:20:06,959 - Two VIP boxes. 1475 01:20:07,041 --> 01:20:09,750 This one and on the other side, 1476 01:20:09,834 --> 01:20:13,166 but with this, 1477 01:20:13,250 --> 01:20:17,750 we're losing 14 out of these 22 seats. 1478 01:20:17,834 --> 01:20:19,166 - Right. 1479 01:20:19,250 --> 01:20:23,500 - It's reseating 50,000 people. 1480 01:20:23,583 --> 01:20:27,125 So that's a Herculean feat. 1481 01:20:27,208 --> 01:20:30,166 [percussive music] 1482 01:20:30,250 --> 01:20:37,208 ♪ ♪ 1483 01:20:42,917 --> 01:20:44,583 - But everything's gonna be fine. 1484 01:20:44,667 --> 01:20:49,000 Set will be ready by Three Kings' Day. 1485 01:20:49,083 --> 01:20:52,333 - That's all I want for Three Kings' Day. 1486 01:20:52,417 --> 01:20:56,166 How are you? How's your mental health? 1487 01:20:56,250 --> 01:20:57,792 - How's my mental health? 1488 01:20:57,875 --> 01:21:00,500 It's...it's solid. 1489 01:21:00,583 --> 01:21:02,041 - That's good. - It's very good. 1490 01:21:02,125 --> 01:21:03,959 - Things are proceeding at pace 1491 01:21:04,041 --> 01:21:05,583 for the greatest challenge of your career, 1492 01:21:05,667 --> 01:21:08,208 bringing "Hamilton" to Puerto Rico? 1493 01:21:09,875 --> 01:21:12,000 - [laughing] Yes. 1494 01:21:12,083 --> 01:21:13,041 - Would you consider this 1495 01:21:13,125 --> 01:21:15,333 the greatest challenge of your career? 1496 01:21:15,417 --> 01:21:16,959 - Uh... 1497 01:21:17,041 --> 01:21:18,417 - It's up there with Freddy Ferrer-- 1498 01:21:18,500 --> 01:21:19,709 getting Freddy Ferrer elected. 1499 01:21:19,792 --> 01:21:21,041 - Correct. Correct. 1500 01:21:22,792 --> 01:21:25,083 - It's on that scale. 1501 01:21:25,166 --> 01:21:28,375 'cause everybody's anxiety... 1502 01:21:28,458 --> 01:21:30,208 - Yeah. - It's up. 1503 01:21:30,291 --> 01:21:34,333 So what happens when that happens 1504 01:21:34,417 --> 01:21:38,250 is that my anxiety-- it's at its lowest. 1505 01:21:38,333 --> 01:21:40,875 I don't get crazy 1506 01:21:40,959 --> 01:21:42,750 when everybody around me is crazy. 1507 01:21:42,834 --> 01:21:44,542 It's like a dance. 1508 01:21:44,625 --> 01:21:47,417 - It's like a dance. - [sighs] 1509 01:21:47,500 --> 01:21:49,875 - So then, just really quick rundown of this week. 1510 01:21:49,959 --> 01:21:52,000 So the Kaufmans come first. - Okay. 1511 01:21:52,083 --> 01:21:54,417 - Then on Friday, they're going to the show and-- 1512 01:21:54,500 --> 01:21:56,041 - Should we talk about Fallon in the morning 1513 01:21:56,125 --> 01:21:57,041 at the 5th Avenue... 1514 01:21:57,125 --> 01:21:59,208 - So we did, yeah, in the 11:00 to 12:00 slot-- 1515 01:21:59,291 --> 01:22:00,333 - Yep. - For the interview. 1516 01:22:00,417 --> 01:22:01,542 And then we're also inviting them 1517 01:22:01,625 --> 01:22:02,792 to the Pelosi reception, 1518 01:22:02,875 --> 01:22:04,417 if they're here for Sunday night. 1519 01:22:04,500 --> 01:22:06,083 - Okay. - I want the whole contact. 1520 01:22:06,166 --> 01:22:07,250 You know how to do shared contact? 1521 01:22:07,333 --> 01:22:09,250 - Yeah, I did, but I don't... 1522 01:22:09,333 --> 01:22:10,250 - Thank you. - That's weird. 1523 01:22:10,333 --> 01:22:12,083 - You taking vitamins? - Hi, guys. 1524 01:22:12,166 --> 01:22:13,250 - I am. 1525 01:22:13,333 --> 01:22:15,083 Whenever I remember, I put lots of them in my mouth. 1526 01:22:15,166 --> 01:22:16,250 - I think you need some. 1527 01:22:16,333 --> 01:22:18,583 ["Hamilton," "Hurricane"] 1528 01:22:18,667 --> 01:22:21,208 - ♪ She is holding me ♪ 1529 01:22:21,291 --> 01:22:22,750 - It is two days before opening night, 1530 01:22:22,834 --> 01:22:26,917 and we have finished teching the show, 1531 01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:28,709 and now we're gonna start running it 1532 01:22:28,792 --> 01:22:30,458 with the full cast and the orchestra, 1533 01:22:30,542 --> 01:22:32,208 costumes, everything, 1534 01:22:32,291 --> 01:22:34,792 so that we can kinda get the actors comfortable, 1535 01:22:34,875 --> 01:22:37,291 get the crew comfortable with running the show, 1536 01:22:37,375 --> 01:22:39,917 and get ourselves ready to welcome 1537 01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:42,542 2,000 people every night. 1538 01:22:42,625 --> 01:22:46,333 Moving theaters on relatively short notice: 1539 01:22:46,417 --> 01:22:49,166 in my professional career doing Broadway shows 1540 01:22:49,250 --> 01:22:51,208 and national tours all over the country, 1541 01:22:51,291 --> 01:22:52,875 probably one of the most challenging things 1542 01:22:52,959 --> 01:22:55,166 we've ever faced as a team. 1543 01:22:55,250 --> 01:22:58,959 - I wanna bring you a little refrigerator. 1544 01:22:59,041 --> 01:23:01,291 'Cause the refrigerators are really far. 1545 01:23:01,375 --> 01:23:02,291 - Okay, great. 1546 01:23:02,375 --> 01:23:04,375 - And I have... 1547 01:23:06,500 --> 01:23:09,166 - The greatest mind of our generation. 1548 01:23:09,250 --> 01:23:11,458 - That too. 1549 01:23:11,542 --> 01:23:14,625 - Whenever you take a long time in a sentence, 1550 01:23:14,709 --> 01:23:16,500 I'm gonna fill the silence. 1551 01:23:16,583 --> 01:23:17,959 - No, it's--remember, 1552 01:23:18,041 --> 01:23:20,458 there is 17 operations running simultaneously. 1553 01:23:20,542 --> 01:23:22,458 - I know, Pa. You're buffering. 1554 01:23:22,542 --> 01:23:23,625 - I'm buffering. 1555 01:23:23,709 --> 01:23:25,500 - You're a great dad and you're a great man. 1556 01:23:25,583 --> 01:23:27,125 Go save Puerto Rico. 1557 01:23:27,208 --> 01:23:30,208 - I gotta go and save Puerto Rico. 1558 01:23:30,291 --> 01:23:31,333 - Bye. - Bye. 1559 01:23:31,417 --> 01:23:33,583 - Break a leg. - I won't. 1560 01:23:35,709 --> 01:23:38,625 ["Hamilton," "The Story of Tonight"] 1561 01:23:38,709 --> 01:23:41,625 [wistful music] 1562 01:23:41,709 --> 01:23:48,709 ♪ ♪ 1563 01:23:58,917 --> 01:24:00,125 [all speaking Spanish] - Okay. 1564 01:24:00,208 --> 01:24:01,333 Hi. How are you? - How are you? 1565 01:24:01,417 --> 01:24:05,875 ♪ ♪ 1566 01:24:05,959 --> 01:24:07,333 - Luis Miranda. 1567 01:24:07,417 --> 01:24:09,667 - Lin-Manuel Miranda. 1568 01:24:09,750 --> 01:24:11,542 I'm gonna go and change. 1569 01:24:11,625 --> 01:24:12,667 - In my room? 1570 01:24:12,750 --> 01:24:13,875 - All I have to change is this. 1571 01:24:13,959 --> 01:24:16,041 - I flooded my room. - What do you mean? 1572 01:24:16,125 --> 01:24:18,208 - I took a shower, but the seal wasn't right on the shower. 1573 01:24:18,291 --> 01:24:19,208 When I got out of the shower, 1574 01:24:19,291 --> 01:24:22,208 my entire dressing room floor was flooded. 1575 01:24:22,291 --> 01:24:23,667 - Excited? - Yes, very excited. 1576 01:24:23,750 --> 01:24:26,000 And today went great with Jimmy. 1577 01:24:26,083 --> 01:24:27,542 - Congrats. - Hi. Congratulations. 1578 01:24:27,625 --> 01:24:28,583 - We made it! [laughs] 1579 01:24:28,667 --> 01:24:31,542 - We made it. It's gonna be great. 1580 01:24:31,625 --> 01:24:32,834 - Of course. 1581 01:24:32,917 --> 01:24:33,834 How are you? 1582 01:24:33,917 --> 01:24:34,917 - Doing well. - Good to see you. 1583 01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:42,000 ♪ ♪ 1584 01:24:52,333 --> 01:24:53,750 - Hola, everyone. We're here. 1585 01:24:53,834 --> 01:24:55,917 We are so excited to be doing "The Tonight Show" 1586 01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:58,417 from the beautiful island of Puerto Rico. 1587 01:24:58,500 --> 01:25:00,375 Even just walking around, you can feel the energy 1588 01:25:00,458 --> 01:25:01,792 and the spirit of this place. 1589 01:25:01,875 --> 01:25:04,583 The history, the food, the music, the people. 1590 01:25:04,667 --> 01:25:07,166 Puerto Rico is thriving, and it's open for business. 1591 01:25:07,250 --> 01:25:08,583 And what better way to show it 1592 01:25:08,667 --> 01:25:11,417 than Lin-Manuel Miranda taking his whole team on the road 1593 01:25:11,500 --> 01:25:13,250 and bringing "Hamilton" to Puerto Rico? 1594 01:25:13,333 --> 01:25:14,667 They're raising money for the island, 1595 01:25:14,750 --> 01:25:17,458 and they're celebrating all the amazing things 1596 01:25:17,542 --> 01:25:19,333 Puerto Rico has to offer. 1597 01:25:19,417 --> 01:25:22,291 [percussive music] 1598 01:25:22,375 --> 01:25:25,792 ♪ ♪ 1599 01:25:25,875 --> 01:25:27,083 - So why is this the right venue 1600 01:25:27,166 --> 01:25:28,542 to send this message? 1601 01:25:28,625 --> 01:25:30,000 - 'Cause all the press is here, 1602 01:25:30,083 --> 01:25:31,625 and the message that we have to deliver 1603 01:25:31,709 --> 01:25:33,959 is gonna be delivered to the nation, 1604 01:25:34,041 --> 01:25:37,125 that there is 3.3 million American citizens 1605 01:25:37,208 --> 01:25:38,250 in Puerto Rico 1606 01:25:38,333 --> 01:25:40,792 that do not have the rights as every other citizen 1607 01:25:40,875 --> 01:25:43,333 in the continental U.S. and every other state. 1608 01:25:43,417 --> 01:25:46,333 And we send a message to all the United States, 1609 01:25:46,417 --> 01:25:49,208 which we're a part of, and especially to Congress 1610 01:25:49,291 --> 01:25:50,500 that it's time to act. 1611 01:25:50,583 --> 01:25:53,250 We want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state. 1612 01:25:53,333 --> 01:25:56,583 ["Hamilton", "Alexander Hamilton"] 1613 01:25:56,667 --> 01:25:58,667 [orchestral hip-hop] 1614 01:26:00,583 --> 01:26:01,583 Oh, my God! 1615 01:26:01,667 --> 01:26:02,583 - Hey. - Look who it is. 1616 01:26:02,667 --> 01:26:04,125 - Congratulations. - I'm proud of you. 1617 01:26:04,208 --> 01:26:05,875 - [laughs] - Good to see you. 1618 01:26:13,583 --> 01:26:16,542 [cheers and applause] 1619 01:26:16,625 --> 01:26:23,583 ♪ ♪ 1620 01:26:28,875 --> 01:26:31,875 [cheers and applause] 1621 01:27:02,125 --> 01:27:03,750 [laughter] 1622 01:27:04,792 --> 01:27:06,709 It's--it's-- 1623 01:27:06,792 --> 01:27:10,375 miracles happened to make this night happen. 1624 01:27:10,458 --> 01:27:13,542 A lot of people made a-- moved a lot of mountains 1625 01:27:13,625 --> 01:27:16,208 to have us be here in Puerto Rico tonight 1626 01:27:16,291 --> 01:27:18,750 and to raise as much money as we can for Puerto Rico 1627 01:27:18,834 --> 01:27:20,000 while we're here. 1628 01:27:20,083 --> 01:27:23,083 [cheers and applause] 1629 01:27:24,792 --> 01:27:27,583 I'm very proud to say no one moved more mountains 1630 01:27:27,667 --> 01:27:28,834 than Vega Alta-- 1631 01:27:28,917 --> 01:27:31,542 Vega Alta's own, my father, Luis Miranda. 1632 01:27:31,625 --> 01:27:32,542 Come here! 1633 01:27:32,625 --> 01:27:35,625 [cheers and applause] 1634 01:27:48,041 --> 01:27:49,291 - So... 1635 01:27:58,291 --> 01:28:01,291 [cheers and applause] 1636 01:28:10,625 --> 01:28:13,917 So I know how hard 1637 01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:17,542 the "Hamilton" family worked 1638 01:28:17,625 --> 01:28:19,125 to make this happen. 1639 01:28:19,208 --> 01:28:22,625 A local producer, Ender Vega, 1640 01:28:22,709 --> 01:28:24,834 the people at Bellas Artes... 1641 01:28:24,917 --> 01:28:28,083 [cheers and applause] 1642 01:28:28,166 --> 01:28:31,166 And Lin-Manuel always said, 1643 01:28:31,250 --> 01:28:33,667 and I take that to heart, 1644 01:28:33,750 --> 01:28:37,166 that it was not only to experience 1645 01:28:37,250 --> 01:28:40,750 "Hamilton" at an artistic value, 1646 01:28:40,834 --> 01:28:42,000 but also... 1647 01:28:47,583 --> 01:28:51,417 So... [cheers and applause] 1648 01:28:51,500 --> 01:28:53,625 Thank you to my family 1649 01:28:53,709 --> 01:28:56,542 that have withstood all of this madness, 1650 01:28:56,625 --> 01:29:00,000 and, of course, to my genius son, Lin-Manuel. 1651 01:29:00,083 --> 01:29:03,083 [cheers and applause] 1652 01:29:17,709 --> 01:29:19,834 When I had the heart attack, 1653 01:29:19,917 --> 01:29:23,000 I sort of kept telling myself, 1654 01:29:23,083 --> 01:29:26,166 "You cannot die today, 1655 01:29:26,250 --> 01:29:29,333 "because Miguel is still 1656 01:29:29,417 --> 01:29:31,667 "in tenth grade, 1657 01:29:31,750 --> 01:29:34,834 "so pull yourself together, 1658 01:29:34,917 --> 01:29:37,208 do whatever the hell you have to do with the heart," 1659 01:29:37,291 --> 01:29:39,834 because everything else-- 1660 01:29:39,917 --> 01:29:41,083 it's really in place. 1661 01:29:41,166 --> 01:29:44,625 My most important job-- it's to be a parent. 1662 01:29:44,709 --> 01:29:48,959 So until Miguel is settled, I haven't finished that job. 1663 01:29:51,458 --> 01:29:52,667 [grunts] 1664 01:30:06,250 --> 01:30:07,542 Miguel! 1665 01:30:07,625 --> 01:30:09,375 - Miguel! 1666 01:30:09,458 --> 01:30:11,750 Mail came! - Mail came! 1667 01:30:11,834 --> 01:30:14,417 - The mail's here. 1668 01:30:14,500 --> 01:30:16,041 It's a little letter. 1669 01:30:16,125 --> 01:30:17,542 - It's a little letter, Titi said. 1670 01:30:17,625 --> 01:30:19,750 [laughter] 1671 01:30:19,834 --> 01:30:22,083 - Have to sit in the middle. 1672 01:30:26,834 --> 01:30:28,083 - Good, son? 1673 01:30:28,166 --> 01:30:29,625 - Yeah, lean back, lean back, lean back. 1674 01:30:29,709 --> 01:30:32,750 - No, no, no. I'm just touching his heart. 1675 01:30:32,834 --> 01:30:34,041 - Yes! - Yeah! 1676 01:30:34,125 --> 01:30:36,083 - Yes! Yes! 1677 01:30:36,166 --> 01:30:37,583 Yes! 1678 01:30:37,667 --> 01:30:39,250 [cheering] [laughter] 1679 01:30:39,333 --> 01:30:40,917 - Yes! 1680 01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:44,625 Oh, my God! 1681 01:30:44,709 --> 01:30:46,709 - That's a very cool way of letting you know. 1682 01:30:46,792 --> 01:30:50,583 - Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! 1683 01:30:50,667 --> 01:30:51,667 [laughs] 1684 01:30:54,000 --> 01:30:55,291 Oh, we're done! - Oh, my God. 1685 01:30:55,375 --> 01:30:57,792 - We're finally done with this process! 1686 01:30:57,875 --> 01:30:59,083 - Here's the letter. 1687 01:30:59,166 --> 01:31:01,417 - Read it--read it out loud. Read it aloud. 1688 01:31:01,500 --> 01:31:03,375 - "Dear Miguel, it is a special pleasure 1689 01:31:03,458 --> 01:31:04,792 "to notify you of your acceptance 1690 01:31:04,875 --> 01:31:05,792 "to Skidmore College 1691 01:31:05,875 --> 01:31:07,500 "through the Early Decision plan. 1692 01:31:07,583 --> 01:31:08,750 "Congratulations, 1693 01:31:08,834 --> 01:31:10,917 "and we hope that you are as proud of your achievements 1694 01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:12,166 "as we are to have you as a member 1695 01:31:12,250 --> 01:31:13,959 of the Skidmore community." 1696 01:31:14,041 --> 01:31:15,792 ["Never Enough"] 1697 01:31:15,875 --> 01:31:17,000 - Yes. 1698 01:31:17,083 --> 01:31:22,959 ♪ ♪ 1699 01:31:23,041 --> 01:31:25,291 - You'll so never hear it from me! 1700 01:31:25,375 --> 01:31:28,375 [all grunting] 1701 01:31:29,750 --> 01:31:31,125 - You're tuckered, Molly. 1702 01:31:31,208 --> 01:31:32,291 - Pa, you're up? 1703 01:31:32,375 --> 01:31:33,583 - Sure, I'm tuckered... - Yeah. 1704 01:31:33,667 --> 01:31:36,000 - And I might give out, but I won't give in. 1705 01:31:36,083 --> 01:31:38,792 - Come over. Don't eat anything. 1706 01:31:38,875 --> 01:31:40,583 It's too late. 1707 01:31:40,667 --> 01:31:41,667 Water. 1708 01:31:41,750 --> 01:31:44,250 Come. 1709 01:31:44,333 --> 01:31:45,625 Your favorite movie. 1710 01:31:45,709 --> 01:31:48,834 - Oh, God damn it. - [laughs] 1711 01:31:48,917 --> 01:31:51,208 ♪ Unsinkable ♪ 1712 01:31:51,291 --> 01:31:53,500 ♪ Molly Brown ♪ 1713 01:31:53,583 --> 01:31:54,667 - I will never understand 1714 01:31:54,750 --> 01:31:56,834 why you like this movie so much. 1715 01:31:56,917 --> 01:31:58,333 - But there will come a time, 1716 01:31:58,417 --> 01:32:01,834 'cause nothing-- no, nobody wants me down... 1717 01:32:01,917 --> 01:32:03,041 - He's out. 1718 01:32:03,125 --> 01:32:09,125 ♪ ♪ 1719 01:32:09,208 --> 01:32:12,667 - I live my life understanding 1720 01:32:12,750 --> 01:32:17,333 that at some point, I am going to die, 1721 01:32:17,417 --> 01:32:21,250 and I am gonna rest for eternity. 1722 01:32:22,542 --> 01:32:26,792 Like, eternity is, like, forever. 1723 01:32:26,875 --> 01:32:30,542 So as long as I could walk, 1724 01:32:30,625 --> 01:32:31,875 and I could do stuff, 1725 01:32:31,959 --> 01:32:33,333 I'll do shit, 1726 01:32:33,417 --> 01:32:35,750 waiting for that eternity moment. 1727 01:32:35,834 --> 01:32:42,792 ♪ ♪ 1728 01:32:51,625 --> 01:32:56,417 It's, "Okay, let me have another cup of coffee 1729 01:32:56,500 --> 01:32:59,166 "to get a bit more energy 1730 01:32:59,250 --> 01:33:01,667 "to go through 1731 01:33:01,750 --> 01:33:04,709 "14,000 emails 1732 01:33:04,792 --> 01:33:06,375 that I have not opened." 1733 01:33:06,458 --> 01:33:08,417 - ♪ Hey ♪ 1734 01:33:08,500 --> 01:33:11,750 ♪ I was younger than you are now ♪ 1735 01:33:11,834 --> 01:33:15,125 ♪ When I was given my first command ♪ 1736 01:33:15,208 --> 01:33:17,417 ♪ I led my men into a massacre ♪ 1737 01:33:17,500 --> 01:33:21,208 ♪ Witnessed their deaths firsthand ♪ 1738 01:33:21,291 --> 01:33:25,250 ♪ Oh, I made every mistake ♪ 1739 01:33:25,333 --> 01:33:28,750 ♪ I felt the shame rise in me ♪ 1740 01:33:28,834 --> 01:33:30,625 ♪ And even now, I lie awake ♪ 1741 01:33:30,709 --> 01:33:32,750 ♪ Knowing history, history ♪ 1742 01:33:32,834 --> 01:33:36,917 all: ♪ History has its eyes ♪ 1743 01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:38,625 ♪ On me ♪ 1744 01:33:38,709 --> 01:33:43,750 ♪ History, history, history ♪ 1745 01:33:43,834 --> 01:33:47,375 - ♪ Ah ♪ 1746 01:33:47,458 --> 01:33:49,208 [John Legend's "History Has Its Eyes on You"] 1747 01:33:49,291 --> 01:33:52,625 ♪ Let me tell you what I wish I'd known ♪ 1748 01:33:52,709 --> 01:33:55,959 ♪ When I was young and dreamed of glory ♪ 1749 01:33:56,041 --> 01:33:57,917 ♪ Don't nobody have control ♪ 1750 01:33:58,000 --> 01:34:02,792 all: ♪ Who lives, who dies, who tells your story ♪ 1751 01:34:02,875 --> 01:34:06,250 ♪ I know that we can win ♪ 1752 01:34:06,333 --> 01:34:08,917 ♪ I know that greatness lies in you ♪ 1753 01:34:09,000 --> 01:34:11,542 ♪ But remember from here on in ♪ 1754 01:34:11,625 --> 01:34:13,625 ♪ That history, history ♪ 1755 01:34:13,709 --> 01:34:17,792 all: ♪ History has its eyes ♪ 1756 01:34:17,875 --> 01:34:19,625 ♪ On you ♪ 1757 01:34:19,709 --> 01:34:24,625 ♪ History, history, history ♪ 1758 01:34:24,709 --> 01:34:27,166 ♪ Oh ♪ 1759 01:34:27,250 --> 01:34:31,458 ♪ History has its eyes ♪ 1760 01:34:31,542 --> 01:34:32,500 ♪ On you ♪ 1761 01:34:32,583 --> 01:34:35,000 - ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ - ♪ History, history ♪ 1762 01:34:35,083 --> 01:34:36,208 ♪ History ♪ - ♪ Mm ♪ 1763 01:34:36,291 --> 01:34:38,667 - ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ 1764 01:34:38,750 --> 01:34:41,333 - ♪ Yeah ♪ 1765 01:34:41,417 --> 01:34:47,041 ♪ ♪ 1766 01:34:47,125 --> 01:34:49,125 [bright tone]