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[distant sirens]

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CHRIS: [beatboxing]

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ANTHONY: Whatever you
want to say, Meredith.

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We'll sing about it.

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We'll sing about it.

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Wow, Meredith's pretty lucky.

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BILL: Absolutely.

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Mm.

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♪ Tiny little purple coat ♪

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♪ Meredith checking
what we wrote ♪

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♪ But not really,
we're singing it on the spot ♪

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♪ Oh, no, she got afraid ♪

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♪ It's okay, Chris,
sing something that you made ♪

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‐ ♪ We'll sing
a lullaby or two ♪

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♪ Want to sing to you ♪

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♪ Hope you're not shy,
just sitting around ♪

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♪ Waiting on five nice guys ♪

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‐ Who's that guy?

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[mellow music]

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ANTHONY:
Taking it to the streets.

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Don't do it.

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BILL:
Frogger, Frogger, Frogger!

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‐ What?

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ANTHONY: All right,
let's bring it in, then.

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Mic check on three,
mic check on three, ready?

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One, two, three.

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ALL: Mic check!

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LIN‐MANUEL: ♪ This is mic two,
this is‐‐this is mic two ♪

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♪ What, this is mic two,
this is microphone two ♪

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♪ This is mic two,
and let's get this turning... ♪

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♪ I'm too pretty, whoo! ♪

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Well, I think the story
we're telling is that, like,

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things aren't linear.
I don't know.

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I mean...

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Real life's
not a linear narrative.

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It's not this and this
and this, like, ascent.

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It's all these side journeys,
and people move away,

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and they come back,
and life gets complicated.

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And you...

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you keep going.

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There's no end point.

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What's that quote?
It's Orson Welles's quote

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that was, "If you want to tell
a story with a happy ending,

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it depends on where
you end the story."

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[mellow music]

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♪ ♪

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LIN‐MANUEL:
How are you?

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WOMAN: Nice to meet you.
LIN‐MANUEL: Nice to meet you.

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MAN: Onto the stage?
MAN: I would prefer

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not to be last
'cause I have to get‐‐

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[overlapping chatter]

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LIN‐MANUEL:
Good morning, good night.

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I can't be your clown.

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[laughter]

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ANTHONY:
Great. Cody, you ready?

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CODY: Yep, take it away.

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ANTHONY: Shall we move
into pet peeves?

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Great.

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And our freestyling‐‐
how many‐‐let's go from this.

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Thank you so very much.
Freestyle Love Supreme.

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How many of you seen us before?

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[mock cheering]

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Yes.
CROWD MEMBER: Single.

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ANTHONY: Well, for those
of you just joining us,

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our freestyling
is slightly different.

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It's not the skiing
or the dancing or the swimming.

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Our freestyling
starts with a beat.

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‐ [blows]

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CROWD MEMBER:
What? That's cool.

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‐ [beatboxing]

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THOMAS:
Great. Let's hold there.

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So, Shock,
when they're ready for us,

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just back up to, like,
just finishing the rewind,

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and then smashing the record.
We can go from there, okay?

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CHRIS: So it's rewind through‐‐
this is all rewind.

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‐ Yep,
start with the rewind cue.

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Yep. Great, great, great.
Let them work.

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One sec.

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CHRIS: [beatboxing]

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MAN: Oh, that switch.

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‐ [beatboxing]

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[laughter]

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Yeah, okay.

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‐ Great, and continuing on,
continuing on.

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I think we decided
to get back together

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because it's probably
the purest expression of joy

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that any of us have ever felt
in doing a show.

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‐ Shall we put
Lin‐Man Wiz Gal into it?

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MAN: Okay.
ANTHONY: Great.

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THOMAS: We hadn't done a run
in New York really since 2004.

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We'd been doing one‐offs
and consistent shows

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for the last 13, 14 years.

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And the last couple years
have been tougher

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to wrangle everybody,
and it just felt like

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there's an opportunity
for us to get together

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for one more ride.

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ANTHONY:
We are Freestyle Love Supreme,

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but we don't love everything.

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Sometimes we downright
just don't like stuff.

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So what are some things
that you don't like?

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CROWD MEMBER: Cold.
ANTHONY: Cold!

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Yes.
BILL: Camouflage.

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ANTHONY: Camouflage!

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LIN‐MANUEL:
I'm gonna take camouflage.

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ANTHONY: Camouflage.

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So over here, U. T. K.,
we have‐‐

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'cause you're gonna be
going first, yep.

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Over here, we have U. T. K.

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‐ Crowds.
‐ Crowds.

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In the middle, we have taxes.

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And over here, we have‐‐

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‐ Camouflage!
Who needs it?

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[laughter]

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ANTHONY: These are a few
of your pet peeves.

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THOMAS: There's an energy
around the show that's unlike

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any of the other things
that we've done.

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And you see a lot of elements
of this energetic field

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in our other work.

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But I feel like it was
cultivated and shaped here,

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so the chance to get back
together as grown‐ups,

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this thing that we started as

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these younger versions
of ourselves...

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LIN‐MANUEL: ♪ You can run
that shit if you want to ♪

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♪ I'll be in Sodi's
restaurant, too ♪

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♪ With my picture
all up in the frame ♪

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♪ 'Cause yes,
I want the fortune ♪

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♪ And yes,
I want the fame ♪

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THOMAS: It felt like
there is a window because

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apparently,
you can be 40 and rapping.

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Here we are,
most of us on this side of 40,

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or just
on the other side of 40.

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And it isn't something
you can do always,

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but it did feel like it's
something we could do now.

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‐ ♪ Oh I'm sorry,
was your name Rambo? ♪

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♪ Were you in the Army? ♪

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♪ Why the fuck
you wearing camo? ♪

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♪ I can't believe
you wear it as a choice ♪

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♪ I wear it on my underwear ♪

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♪ Now listen to my voice ♪

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Whoo!
UTKARSH: ♪ Oh, my God ♪

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♪ That's his balls ♪

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♪ Wish I could camouflage
myself, all of y'all ♪

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‐ ♪ I can see
his middle parts ♪

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♪ His balls have gone missing ♪

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♪ And let me just fill out all
the forms that I'm missing ♪

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‐ ♪ Ah, fill the forms out,
there eat some mutton ♪

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♪ It's the second time I used
my underwear as a button ♪

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[applause]
[indistinct chatter]

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That's twice the subject
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in FLS history.

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BILL: I'll take camouflage.

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That's just
the craziest thing ever.

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Oh!

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You're welcome.

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THOMAS:
Um, this is the squad tonight.

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Lin is gonna jump in
for Day in the Life.

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Just at the end, so we're not
gonna tease that he's here.

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‐ When Lin does stuff,
the audience is gonna, like,

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applaud for a long time,

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so musically and whatever,
let's leave room for it,

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and be prepared for it.

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THOMAS: You know,
the one thing about the show

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that I found to be true
over the years,

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you know,
whether we're doing the show

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for 50 people ten years ago

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or whether
we're doing the show now,

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which is that the way that
you all listen to each other

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and engage
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is the real magic trick.

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Everyone thinks it's the other
stuff and the rhyming,

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but that's actually what it is.

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You know, the show
has a very simple premise,

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which is we are
going to entertain

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the hell out of you
for 78 minutes,

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and then, like, two minutes
are not gonna be great.

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[laughter]

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Something is happening
that should be acknowledged.

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We're all together
doing this thing again.

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It's‐‐I mean, it shouldn't be.
It is.

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Just, like, you guys,
instead of playing ping‐pong,

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the beat is‐‐is Shockwave.

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CHRIS: So it's a mind ball?

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THOMAS:
So there's no ball, okay?

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But you're
sort of doing freestyle

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and going back and forth

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and it looks like
you're playing.

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‐ And I‐‐I'll keep doing this.

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THOMAS:
But all we're gonna see‐‐

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‐ Yes.
THOMAS: Yes, exactly, Sherm.

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‐ ♪ All day,
back and forth ♪

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♪ From south to north ♪

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♪ Pow to north ♪

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♪ All day ♪

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ANTHONY: We had no idea
what we were getting into.

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I don't think any of us
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"Oh, yeah,
this is the beginning

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of this crazy journey,"

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where a lot of the people
in Freestyle Love Supreme

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are shaping what the American
theater looks like now.

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Oh, look at Lin's boxers.
That's not what I expected.

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[laughter]

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THOMAS: You know,
there's a reason why "love"

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is in the middle
of the title of the show.

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And it's in the middle
of what makes the show...

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everything that it is.

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‐ ♪ Excuse me, what did you get
in your groceries? ♪

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♪ Anything interesting,
you could maybe talk to me ♪

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♪ Okay, oh, we freestyle ♪

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♪ You got the orange juice ♪

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♪ Most pulp, so nice ♪

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♪ Your word is pretzel ♪

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CHRIS: [beatboxing]

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‐ ♪ I'm from Philadelph ♪

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♪ We call it soft, pretzel ♪

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♪ Damn, don't you understand ♪

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♪ I need to give you
a headbutt‐zel ♪

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‐ ♪ They give you words,
then you play a little while ♪

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♪ Flip a word
or syllable around ♪

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♪ That is freestyle ♪

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‐ ♪ We taking up too much
of the sidewalk streets ♪

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♪ Sorry, Miss ♪

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♪ Damn‐‐ ♪
LIN‐MANUEL: ♪ Eek ♪

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ANTHONY: The origin story
of Freestyle Love Supreme,

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I went to Wesleyan
with Tommy Kail.

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He was one
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in making things.

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THOMAS: I was this kid
who used to play sports,

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and Anthony was someone
who also played sports,

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who had this
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And Anthony was someone who,
my junior year of college,

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really pulled me
into the theater.

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ANTHONY: And in college,
I did an improv show.

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And this was
the first time that Tommy

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really became a part

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of the theater community
at Wesleyan.

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Prior to that, he was very
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and he was,
like, a sports dude.

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And he loved hip‐hop,

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so we were always, like,
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rapping together.

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‐ I think it was
that next year, '99,

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Anthony and I drove to go help
a friend out with his

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senior film in Iowa,
and it was supposed to be,

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like, a 10‐ or 12‐hour drive.

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We were gonna drive
from Brooklyn.

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Then we ran
into a hail storm.

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And the only way
we could stay awake

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was to put on the B‐side

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of Daft Punk's
"Around the World."

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ANTHONY:
That beat is so pulsing

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that you can't
take time to think.

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‐ And Anthony and I freestyled
for four straight hours.

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That, in some way, was a seed
for Freestyle Love Supreme.

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[Daft Punk's
"Around the World"]

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♪ ♪

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When we got to New York

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and started
this little theater company

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and decided to work
on In the Heights,

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Anthony would grab Lin
at every break

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and just start freestyling.

264
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And I'd be
sort of wrangling them back.

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I was like,
"Okay, let's go.

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We gotta get back
into the thing."

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And this is 2002, 2003,

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and they kept on doing it
and they kept on doing it.

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And they had an idea
to maybe make a show out of it.

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‐ Some people decided that

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we seemed like
we knew what we were doing,

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and so they gave us the keys
to the Drama Book Shop.

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Allen Hubby,
who was the owner

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of the Drama Book Shop
at the time, said,

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"Hey, would you create
theater here?"

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We were so young and dumb.

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We were like,
"Of course.

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We know how
to create theater."

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‐ We spent a lot of time
in that basement,

280
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and Anthony was kind of running
the Arthur Seelen Theater.

281
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That was sort of the job.

282
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‐ We just started
making stuff in...

283
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a small room, much like this,
that was painted black

284
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where nobody
was paying attention to us.

285
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And that was our lab.

286
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We did know, though,
that we could, like,

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paint walls and buy curtains
and I did some electrical work

288
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down in the basement
of the Drama Book Shop,

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which was totally illegal.

290
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BILL: It was, like,
a disaster in the early days.

291
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It was, like, I played
the saxophone during it,

292
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and, like,
that was kind of a disaster.

293
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I didn't really know
how to play the piano.

294
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I still don't really know
how to play the piano,

295
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and so, like, I don't know.

296
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Just seemed like
a bunch of friends

297
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who have been really lucky
and really talented

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and really motivated.

299
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‐ We have all had our little

300
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bumps and bruises
along the way,

301
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but those things
are not anything

302
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that would even threaten
the course of the group.

303
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‐ It's the joy
of falling on your face,

304
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the power of being

305
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unres‐‐unfettered
with your friends

306
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and with people you care about.

307
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‐ None of us know
what's happening,

308
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so it's‐‐we're experiencing it
with the audience.

309
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It's a different
kind of communion

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than you normally
get in theater.

311
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‐ I feel like
if I'm creating a moment,

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I want to be able to pull from
stuff I felt when I was 16,

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from when I was five,
from when I was ten.

314
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You gotta be able
to pull from all of it

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and stay in touch
with all of it.

316
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Now, what I need
from you all tonight

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is a verb,
an action word.

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To cry, to scream,
to laugh, to love.

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Give me verbs,
as many as you can shout.

320
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ANTHONY: We were doing
shows in New York,

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and this producer
came and saw us.

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And he said,
"This would be fantastic

323
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at the Fringe Festival."

324
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‐ Yes.

325
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What does NED stand for,
again?

326
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‐ A NED is like
a little smart aleck kid that‐‐

327
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‐ But it stands
for Non‐educated‐‐

328
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‐ Not Educated‐‐
‐ Deviant, or something?

329
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ANTHONY:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival

330
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is the longest‐running
theater festival in the world.

331
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It was a huge
opportunity for us.

332
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‐ We could really, like,
trace the trail to our house.

333
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[laughter]

334
00:13:06.781 --> 00:13:09.620
This is the longest stoplight
in all of Scotland,

335
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and it terrifies me
to cross it.

336
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BILL: Lin, go!
‐ No, it's not green yet.

337
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BILL: Lin, go.

338
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‐ I will not cross
until it's green,

339
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and they all cross ahead
and it's fine

340
00:13:18.596 --> 00:13:21.142
and I just stand here
like an idiot.

341
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I think about that summer

342
00:13:23.313 --> 00:13:26.361
when you had cameras
on us in 2005.

343
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And it was a great summer.

344
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Everything was happening,
and nothing was happening.

345
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CHRIS: [beatboxing]
BILL: Okay, hallaracket.

346
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Someone who is a hallaracket

347
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is wild, rowdy,
and irresponsible.

348
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Go.
‐ Oh.

349
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♪ I'm a hallaracket ♪

350
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♪ I make hella racket ♪

351
00:13:43.019 --> 00:13:44.272
♪ I don't know what to say ♪

352
00:13:44.272 --> 00:13:46.276
♪ I take it
and pack it up like lunch ♪

353
00:13:46.276 --> 00:13:48.405
♪ And then I bunch
and I munch and I funch ♪

354
00:13:48.405 --> 00:13:50.158
♪ Like a fucking
Captain Crunch ♪

355
00:13:50.158 --> 00:13:52.956
‐ Nickitoms
are straps or strings

356
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secured around trouser legs
below the knee.

357
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‐ ♪ Nickitoms
are straps for legs ♪

358
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♪ Nickitoms,
I'm making millions ♪

359
00:14:01.682 --> 00:14:02.976
♪ With my resilience ♪

360
00:14:02.976 --> 00:14:05.272
♪ So trust me
there'll be billions ♪

361
00:14:05.272 --> 00:14:06.734
♪ Like we were
back at Wesleyan ♪

362
00:14:06.734 --> 00:14:09.405
♪ And rapping about
equestrians and lesbians ♪

363
00:14:09.405 --> 00:14:11.619
♪ With my nickitoms
keep my knackers on right ♪

364
00:14:11.619 --> 00:14:13.873
♪ Wear my long pants,
then I do it all night ♪

365
00:14:13.873 --> 00:14:14.917
‐ All night.

366
00:14:14.917 --> 00:14:16.587
[laughter]

367
00:14:16.587 --> 00:14:18.340
I got to say something.

368
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CHRISTOPHER:
There was always a sense that

369
00:14:19.760 --> 00:14:21.513
what we were
trying to put together

370
00:14:21.513 --> 00:14:26.022
was something that
we could make accessible to...

371
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the masses.

372
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♪ Freestyle
in the evening time ♪

373
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[laughter]

374
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♪ Freestyle Love Supreme ♪

375
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♪ Freestyle Love Supreme ♪

376
00:14:39.131 --> 00:14:42.054
ALL:
♪ Freestyle Love Supreme ♪

377
00:14:42.054 --> 00:14:44.141
♪ Freestyle Love Supreme ♪

378
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CHRISTOPHER:
♪ Your word is Scottish ♪

379
00:14:45.520 --> 00:14:47.106
‐ ♪ The word is Scottish ♪

380
00:14:47.106 --> 00:14:50.445
♪ I'm feeling kind of maybe
lukewarm, hottish ♪

381
00:14:50.445 --> 00:14:52.993
♪ This is
Freestyle Love Supreme ♪

382
00:14:52.993 --> 00:14:56.290
♪ We make up rap songs
while you eat your ice creams ♪

383
00:14:56.290 --> 00:14:59.046
♪ Yes, wolf it down,
I like Newcastle Crown ♪

384
00:14:59.046 --> 00:15:00.967
♪ He's got the little bits
of beer in it ♪

385
00:15:00.967 --> 00:15:03.179
♪ But less than
one percent alcohol ♪

386
00:15:03.179 --> 00:15:05.267
♪ So all please
check out our show ♪

387
00:15:05.267 --> 00:15:07.564
♪ 6:50, it's nifty
if you're tipsy ♪

388
00:15:07.564 --> 00:15:09.108
♪ Don't you know ♪

389
00:15:09.108 --> 00:15:12.031
‐ We're Freestyle Love Supreme.
Please, come see our show.

390
00:15:12.031 --> 00:15:14.035
[applause]

391
00:15:14.035 --> 00:15:17.959
[mellow music]

392
00:15:17.959 --> 00:15:19.796
‐ We're gonna go get
a deep‐fried Mars bar,

393
00:15:19.796 --> 00:15:23.219
which is the height
of Scottish cuisine.

394
00:15:23.219 --> 00:15:25.140
That washed down
with some fish and chips.

395
00:15:25.140 --> 00:15:26.769
Fish and chips.
MAN: If they have it.

396
00:15:26.769 --> 00:15:28.522
‐ And vinegar.
MAN: Where?

397
00:15:28.522 --> 00:15:30.442
‐ Deep‐fried Mars bars,
they only have them here.

398
00:15:30.442 --> 00:15:34.116
We went to Edinburgh
the summer of 2005.

399
00:15:34.116 --> 00:15:35.536
I remember a lot
about being there.

400
00:15:35.536 --> 00:15:39.586
I remember watching
the show find an audience.

401
00:15:39.586 --> 00:15:42.592
I remember the first show
having X amount of people,

402
00:15:42.592 --> 00:15:44.846
the next show having
X plus something,

403
00:15:44.846 --> 00:15:45.848
and then it was 2X.

404
00:15:45.848 --> 00:15:47.226
‐ We had a show that worked,

405
00:15:47.226 --> 00:15:48.729
like Freestyle worked.

406
00:15:48.729 --> 00:15:51.317
We thought we'd have audiences
as soon as we got out there,

407
00:15:51.317 --> 00:15:52.946
and that wasn't true.

408
00:15:52.946 --> 00:15:54.448
We had to work
very hard for them,

409
00:15:54.448 --> 00:15:57.287
but our show worked.

410
00:15:57.287 --> 00:15:59.668
And it's essentially
the show we're still doing.

411
00:15:59.668 --> 00:16:01.880
♪ ♪

412
00:16:01.880 --> 00:16:04.886
[gentle piano music]

413
00:16:04.886 --> 00:16:07.892
♪ ♪

414
00:16:07.892 --> 00:16:09.563
Shit.

415
00:16:09.563 --> 00:16:10.857
Did you zoom in
that I was listening

416
00:16:10.857 --> 00:16:13.027
to "Wanted Dead or alive"
by Bon Jovi?

417
00:16:13.027 --> 00:16:15.365
Which is the perfect soundtrack
for where we are right now.

418
00:16:15.365 --> 00:16:16.702
ANTHONY:
A little more of the beatbox

419
00:16:16.702 --> 00:16:18.079
in the front monitors.

420
00:16:18.079 --> 00:16:20.668
Do you guys need it more?
And also the piano monitor.

421
00:16:20.668 --> 00:16:22.004
‐ Yeah, I think, Bill,
you can take‐‐

422
00:16:22.004 --> 00:16:23.423
you can still
take the time you do,

423
00:16:23.423 --> 00:16:25.343
but it's just that Shockwave
kind of has the last word.

424
00:16:25.343 --> 00:16:26.763
CHRISTOPHER:
Tommy's the architect.

425
00:16:26.763 --> 00:16:29.769
Tommy Kail is somebody who
can make sense out of chaos,

426
00:16:29.769 --> 00:16:32.567
which is,
at any given time,

427
00:16:32.567 --> 00:16:34.278
the best way to describe
Freestyle Love Supreme.

428
00:16:34.278 --> 00:16:36.992
‐ Without him, this group
wouldn't be what it is,

429
00:16:36.992 --> 00:16:38.954
and we wouldn't have gotten
here this far.

430
00:16:38.954 --> 00:16:41.125
LIN‐MANUEL: ♪ So don't think,
push me to the brink ♪

431
00:16:41.125 --> 00:16:43.631
♪ So I get another drink,
and I go into the brink ♪

432
00:16:43.631 --> 00:16:45.091
♪ Of disaster,
I asked you ♪

433
00:16:45.091 --> 00:16:46.427
♪ I passed it,
I'm master ♪

434
00:16:46.427 --> 00:16:48.181
♪ Of the universe,
oh, no the universe... ♪

435
00:16:48.181 --> 00:16:49.768
THOMAS: [exhales]

436
00:16:49.768 --> 00:16:51.312
We didn't necessarily
know what we were

437
00:16:51.312 --> 00:16:53.692
aiming at long‐term,

438
00:16:53.692 --> 00:16:58.869
other than can we make
this one thing better?

439
00:16:58.869 --> 00:17:00.831
‐ [laughs]
[mutters]

440
00:17:00.831 --> 00:17:02.710
Oh, Christ.

441
00:17:02.710 --> 00:17:04.004
I hope that's a fish‐eye lens

442
00:17:04.004 --> 00:17:07.427
and my face looks like
fucking Marky Wahlberg.

443
00:17:07.427 --> 00:17:10.433
[mellow music]

444
00:17:10.433 --> 00:17:11.812
♪ ♪

445
00:17:11.812 --> 00:17:14.943
THOMAS: It just doesn't feel
that long ago.

446
00:17:14.943 --> 00:17:21.957
♪ ♪

447
00:17:28.177 --> 00:17:31.225
STAGE HAND: We're code blue.

448
00:17:31.225 --> 00:17:33.814
MAN: I couldn't care less
about them.

449
00:17:33.814 --> 00:17:35.275
MAN: Bro‐‐

450
00:17:35.275 --> 00:17:37.822
MAN: And who is that man‐‐
oh, Lord.

451
00:17:37.822 --> 00:17:42.749
[overlapping chatter]

452
00:17:42.749 --> 00:17:44.711
‐ We call that a deep dive.

453
00:17:44.711 --> 00:17:47.634
♪ ♪

454
00:17:47.634 --> 00:17:50.138
MAN: 'Cause I've gotta
go in there before you.

455
00:17:50.138 --> 00:17:52.267
♪ ♪

456
00:17:52.267 --> 00:17:53.937
UTKARSH: Can somebody
get a tallboy for Bill?

457
00:17:53.937 --> 00:17:55.190
‐ [laughs]

458
00:17:55.190 --> 00:17:56.192
Bill's fine,
thank you very much.

459
00:17:56.192 --> 00:17:57.528
UTKARSH:
Tall Pabst Blue Ribbon.

460
00:17:57.528 --> 00:17:58.781
‐ The Pabst Blue.
ANTHONY: You see this?

461
00:17:58.781 --> 00:18:00.283
‐ Yeah, look,
we're the real thing.

462
00:18:00.283 --> 00:18:01.536
‐ It's officially a show.

463
00:18:01.536 --> 00:18:03.456
BILL: We have
an assistant director.

464
00:18:03.456 --> 00:18:05.210
[laughs]

465
00:18:05.210 --> 00:18:06.546
ANTHONY: Uh, associate.

466
00:18:06.546 --> 00:18:07.757
BILL: Oh, I'm sorry.

467
00:18:07.757 --> 00:18:10.763
My bad, we have
an associate director.

468
00:18:12.140 --> 00:18:14.061
MAN: And there are some posters
that the rest of the guys

469
00:18:14.061 --> 00:18:15.313
have gotten to,
but you haven't,

470
00:18:15.313 --> 00:18:17.067
so I'll put those
on top for you.

471
00:18:17.067 --> 00:18:19.071
LIN‐MANUEL: Okay.

472
00:18:21.117 --> 00:18:23.747
MAN: This is not something
you normally do.

473
00:18:23.747 --> 00:18:25.668
‐ Never signed anything.

474
00:18:25.668 --> 00:18:27.672
SINGER: [vocalizing]

475
00:18:31.805 --> 00:18:33.809
‐ Oh, wait.
I'm on these.

476
00:18:33.809 --> 00:18:35.061
MAN: Oh, you are on those?
LIN‐MANUEL: Yep.

477
00:18:35.061 --> 00:18:36.523
Now this one's
been signed twice.

478
00:18:36.523 --> 00:18:38.694
MAN: Okay, great.

479
00:18:38.694 --> 00:18:40.948
Let me count out what you need.
MAN: Ooh, a rookie mistake.

480
00:18:40.948 --> 00:18:42.952
‐ Should've been signed twice.

481
00:18:46.041 --> 00:18:47.920
I was working
on this other project,

482
00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:49.632
In the Heights,

483
00:18:49.632 --> 00:18:51.218
which is a musical
I wrote in college.

484
00:18:51.218 --> 00:18:54.183
And Tommy and some of‐‐

485
00:18:54.183 --> 00:18:56.061
his friends had seen it.

486
00:18:56.061 --> 00:18:57.314
Tommy had only heard
the soundtrack,

487
00:18:57.314 --> 00:18:59.736
and so the first time
I met Tommy

488
00:18:59.736 --> 00:19:02.115
was at a fundraiser
for their production company.

489
00:19:02.115 --> 00:19:03.326
And Tommy introduced himself.

490
00:19:03.326 --> 00:19:04.537
He was like,
"Hi, I'm Tommy Kail.

491
00:19:04.537 --> 00:19:05.790
"Oh, you wrote
In the Heights?

492
00:19:05.790 --> 00:19:07.668
"It's great.
Listen, I really think

493
00:19:07.668 --> 00:19:09.964
"the third number
in your show should go first

494
00:19:09.964 --> 00:19:12.052
'cause it really
sets up the world."

495
00:19:12.052 --> 00:19:14.181
Barely met him,
and he's already got ideas

496
00:19:14.181 --> 00:19:16.978
for how to do it,
and so I was very taken aback

497
00:19:16.978 --> 00:19:19.943
the first time
I met Tommy Kail.

498
00:19:19.943 --> 00:19:21.530
But then I realized that

499
00:19:21.530 --> 00:19:23.742
it's not coming
from any kind of bad place.

500
00:19:23.742 --> 00:19:26.748
It's that Tommy
has so many ideas

501
00:19:26.748 --> 00:19:27.959
that they just‐‐
they're just‐‐

502
00:19:27.959 --> 00:19:29.671
they just come out.

503
00:19:29.671 --> 00:19:32.885
First time we sat down
and talked about the show,

504
00:19:32.885 --> 00:19:34.764
we realized
we were on the same page.

505
00:19:34.764 --> 00:19:37.102
My first job was at
the Mickey D's up the street.

506
00:19:37.102 --> 00:19:40.108
[mellow music]

507
00:19:40.108 --> 00:19:47.122
♪ ♪

508
00:20:03.947 --> 00:20:05.701
‐ What I love is the people
that, like, look

509
00:20:05.701 --> 00:20:07.412
and then they see
how unfamous we are

510
00:20:07.412 --> 00:20:08.414
and they're just
so disappointed.

511
00:20:08.414 --> 00:20:09.918
‐ Yeah, they're like...

512
00:20:09.918 --> 00:20:11.420
‐ They peek around.
They're, like, ugh.

513
00:20:11.420 --> 00:20:13.215
‐ Oh, for fuck's sake.
‐ I think he's Jewish.

514
00:20:13.215 --> 00:20:15.136
[laughter]

515
00:20:15.136 --> 00:20:16.765
Looks like a Latin guy
and a Jew.

516
00:20:16.765 --> 00:20:18.476
‐ [laughs]

517
00:20:18.476 --> 00:20:21.482
That's the guy
from American Idol.

518
00:20:21.482 --> 00:20:22.484
‐ That's the guy
from American Idol

519
00:20:22.484 --> 00:20:24.572
and a Mexican Bud Bundy.

520
00:20:24.572 --> 00:20:26.743
‐ A Mexican Bud Bundy!

521
00:20:26.743 --> 00:20:29.707
‐ Does anybody ever say
you look like anybody?

522
00:20:29.707 --> 00:20:31.043
‐ It's always,
like, their brother

523
00:20:31.043 --> 00:20:34.676
or their friend
or their cousin.

524
00:20:34.676 --> 00:20:37.682
TOMMY: There's a good chance no
one will ever know who you are.

525
00:20:37.682 --> 00:20:39.811
LIN‐MANUEL: Right.

526
00:20:43.902 --> 00:20:45.531
TOMMY: We just walk by
and so we're not, like,

527
00:20:45.531 --> 00:20:47.283
staring at ourselves.

528
00:20:47.283 --> 00:20:48.537
And by ourselves,
I mean you.

529
00:20:48.537 --> 00:20:49.789
LIN‐MANUEL:
Yeah, I don't know.

530
00:20:49.789 --> 00:20:51.417
I don't have a problem with it.

531
00:20:51.417 --> 00:20:53.421
TOMMY: It's gonna be a full
month before we move in here.

532
00:20:53.421 --> 00:20:54.549
LIN‐MANUEL: Yeah.

533
00:20:54.549 --> 00:20:57.053
I am a dork

534
00:20:57.053 --> 00:20:58.347
when it comes to rhyme.

535
00:20:58.347 --> 00:21:00.184
I mean,
ever since I was a little kid,

536
00:21:00.184 --> 00:21:02.480
like, I've been
putting words together.

537
00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:05.571
I never‐‐
really actively freestyled

538
00:21:05.571 --> 00:21:07.240
until pretty late in life,

539
00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:09.494
but I remember
singing the theme song

540
00:21:09.494 --> 00:21:11.206
for the "Darkwing Duck"
cartoon.

541
00:21:11.206 --> 00:21:13.628
And there's a little line
in it that goes,

542
00:21:13.628 --> 00:21:16.175
♪ When there's trouble,
you call DW ♪

543
00:21:16.175 --> 00:21:18.387
SINGER: ♪ When there's trouble,
you call DW ♪

544
00:21:18.387 --> 00:21:20.224
LIN‐MANUEL: And being like,
"That's amazing.

545
00:21:20.224 --> 00:21:22.145
"How do you think of,
'When there's trouble,

546
00:21:22.145 --> 00:21:23.732
you call DW'?"

547
00:21:23.732 --> 00:21:26.028
And thinking, "What if they
made up the whole show

548
00:21:26.028 --> 00:21:27.782
just to make
those two couplets rhyme?"

549
00:21:27.782 --> 00:21:29.159
'Cause that's something
I would do.

550
00:21:29.159 --> 00:21:32.123
I would build a whole show
just to make the couplet

551
00:21:32.123 --> 00:21:35.506
"when there's trouble,
you call DW" make sense.

552
00:21:35.506 --> 00:21:38.512
[mellow music]

553
00:21:38.512 --> 00:21:43.187
♪ ♪

554
00:21:43.187 --> 00:21:44.524
TOMMY:
The first freestyle was here.

555
00:21:44.524 --> 00:21:46.110
It was on the day
after the blackout.

556
00:21:46.110 --> 00:21:47.780
And they were
supposed to do it downtown.

557
00:21:47.780 --> 00:21:49.241
LIN‐MANUEL: We were supposed
to do it at the PIT Theater,

558
00:21:49.241 --> 00:21:50.994
but the power
hadn't come back on there yet,

559
00:21:50.994 --> 00:21:53.457
so we got our audience,
put a sign up,

560
00:21:53.457 --> 00:21:55.044
and brought them all here.

561
00:21:55.044 --> 00:21:56.548
TOMMY: It was very
"Cradle Will Rock."

562
00:21:56.548 --> 00:21:57.842
LIN‐MANUEL: Yeah, it was very
"Cradle Will Rock."

563
00:21:57.842 --> 00:21:59.052
We're bringing the rap!

564
00:21:59.052 --> 00:22:01.390
TOMMY:
And there were 14 people.

565
00:22:01.390 --> 00:22:02.977
LIN‐MANUEL: Nah, 16.
TOMMY: Damn it.

566
00:22:02.977 --> 00:22:04.522
LIN‐MANUEL: [laughs]

567
00:22:04.522 --> 00:22:07.152
TOMMY: And we walked into this
room in July of 2001.

568
00:22:07.152 --> 00:22:08.905
But we thought, "Let's make
a place where our friends

569
00:22:08.905 --> 00:22:10.534
can come and, like,
spend time."

570
00:22:10.534 --> 00:22:12.287
LIN‐MANUEL: Right.
TOMMY: And was really

571
00:22:12.287 --> 00:22:14.499
the only person
who did it to that amount.

572
00:22:14.499 --> 00:22:16.003
‐ I did.
I took them up on that.

573
00:22:16.003 --> 00:22:17.463
I might sure they were
as good as their word.

574
00:22:17.463 --> 00:22:19.969
It was like, "Lin, honestly,
come whenever you want."

575
00:22:19.969 --> 00:22:22.348
And he did.

576
00:22:23.727 --> 00:22:26.733
[bittersweet music]

577
00:22:26.733 --> 00:22:32.035
♪ ♪

578
00:22:32.035 --> 00:22:33.495
LIN‐MANUEL: I was wary
coming out of college.

579
00:22:33.495 --> 00:22:34.916
I didn't know
these guys very well,

580
00:22:34.916 --> 00:22:36.293
but as soon as Tommy and I met

581
00:22:36.293 --> 00:22:39.926
and I realized we agreed
on what needed to happen,

582
00:22:39.926 --> 00:22:42.388
I felt very lucky, and then
we kind of just got to work.

583
00:22:42.388 --> 00:22:44.142
‐ I think that
what this room reminds me of,

584
00:22:44.142 --> 00:22:45.478
and one of the reasons
I'm probably as proud

585
00:22:45.478 --> 00:22:47.106
of this room
as I am of anything

586
00:22:47.106 --> 00:22:49.236
that I've ever done,
is that in theater,

587
00:22:49.236 --> 00:22:51.323
you make something
and it goes away.

588
00:22:51.323 --> 00:22:53.285
But that's the booth
that we built.

589
00:22:53.285 --> 00:22:54.622
LIN‐MANUEL: Yeah.
The faders.

590
00:22:54.622 --> 00:22:55.874
‐ These are the walls
that we painted.

591
00:22:55.874 --> 00:22:57.711
Like, these are the curtains
that we hung,

592
00:22:57.711 --> 00:22:59.674
and you don't get do to that.

593
00:22:59.674 --> 00:23:01.886
You put something up,
and it goes away.

594
00:23:01.886 --> 00:23:03.180
This was a launching pad.
LIN‐MANUEL: Yeah.

595
00:23:03.180 --> 00:23:04.850
TOMMY: You know,
this was...

596
00:23:04.850 --> 00:23:06.228
it was a birthing place.

597
00:23:06.228 --> 00:23:09.777
‐ Our nexus is a basement
in a book shop

598
00:23:09.777 --> 00:23:13.660
where we used to play the piano
and make up raps.

599
00:23:13.660 --> 00:23:16.708
And here we are,
15 fucking years later.

600
00:23:20.966 --> 00:23:23.178
I have this problem
that I don't believe things

601
00:23:23.178 --> 00:23:25.349
until they actually happen.

602
00:23:25.349 --> 00:23:27.020
I didn't believe
we were in Scotland

603
00:23:27.020 --> 00:23:30.944
until, you know, yesterday,
and to me...

604
00:23:30.944 --> 00:23:32.948
that's what makes me
stay on my toes.

605
00:23:32.948 --> 00:23:36.706
'Cause you literally‐‐we never
know what's gonna happen.

606
00:23:36.706 --> 00:23:39.795
LIN‐MANUEL:
Bill is‐‐Bill's the man.

607
00:23:39.795 --> 00:23:41.591
Bill's Samwise the Brave.

608
00:23:41.591 --> 00:23:43.970
I met him junior year
of college,

609
00:23:43.970 --> 00:23:47.268
and I‐‐he was musical
directing someone else's show,

610
00:23:47.268 --> 00:23:48.563
and I stole him.

611
00:23:48.563 --> 00:23:50.525
I saw how good he was,
and I said,

612
00:23:50.525 --> 00:23:52.738
"You're working on my show."

613
00:23:52.738 --> 00:23:54.240
BILL: Lin came up to me.
He said, "I don't know you,

614
00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:55.577
"and you don't know me,
but we're gonna work together

615
00:23:55.577 --> 00:23:57.915
for a really long time,"
and I thought,

616
00:23:57.915 --> 00:24:01.672
"Great, that's very optimistic
of you, Yoda, sir."

617
00:24:01.672 --> 00:24:03.425
Hey, photo guy.

618
00:24:03.425 --> 00:24:05.597
Truth to him, we became
really close friends.

619
00:24:05.597 --> 00:24:08.185
We worked
on his stuff in college.

620
00:24:08.185 --> 00:24:10.690
We lived together for way
too long after college.

621
00:24:10.690 --> 00:24:12.318
We're very close
still to this day.

622
00:24:12.318 --> 00:24:13.696
He was there
at the birth of my children.

623
00:24:13.696 --> 00:24:16.869
I was there
at the birth of his children.

624
00:24:16.869 --> 00:24:18.163
It's me.

625
00:24:18.163 --> 00:24:19.583
LIN‐MANUEL: It's literally you
with a wig on.

626
00:24:19.583 --> 00:24:22.046
[laughter]

627
00:24:22.046 --> 00:24:23.758
ARTHUR: Why isn't she wearing
a Rangers jersey?

628
00:24:23.758 --> 00:24:25.386
BILL: She's just grumpy.

629
00:24:25.386 --> 00:24:26.806
ARTHUR: I want to see her
at a hockey game.

630
00:24:26.806 --> 00:24:28.434
LIN‐MANUEL: She's like,
"We having White Russians?"

631
00:24:28.434 --> 00:24:30.146
‐ What's with White Russians?

632
00:24:30.146 --> 00:24:31.816
LIN‐MANUEL: 'Cause your first
freestyle show,

633
00:24:31.816 --> 00:24:33.695
you drank three
White Russians with your dad,

634
00:24:33.695 --> 00:24:35.364
and then played saxophone
for an hour.

635
00:24:35.364 --> 00:24:36.659
BILL: You made that up.
[laughter]

636
00:24:36.659 --> 00:24:38.495
ANTHONY: He had a bottle
of vodka as a set piece.

637
00:24:38.495 --> 00:24:40.584
BILL: I had a bottle
of vodka with Russians.

638
00:24:40.584 --> 00:24:42.713
‐ But consider this,
isn't that better?

639
00:24:42.713 --> 00:24:43.923
‐ [laughs]

640
00:24:43.923 --> 00:24:45.259
‐ We're all out there making
each other laugh

641
00:24:45.259 --> 00:24:46.679
and enjoying each other
and having good times,

642
00:24:46.679 --> 00:24:47.848
so it just feels like,

643
00:24:47.848 --> 00:24:49.100
best way to hang out
with your friends,

644
00:24:49.100 --> 00:24:51.229
why not, like,
do it in front of 100 people

645
00:24:51.229 --> 00:24:53.066
and make everybody laugh?

646
00:24:53.066 --> 00:24:55.488
[indistinct chatter]

647
00:24:55.488 --> 00:24:58.494
[gentle music]

648
00:24:58.494 --> 00:25:02.251
♪ ♪

649
00:25:02.251 --> 00:25:03.546
ANTHONY:
Freestyle Love Supreme

650
00:25:03.546 --> 00:25:06.761
has been around now
for, like, 16 years,

651
00:25:06.761 --> 00:25:11.353
which is insane.

652
00:25:11.353 --> 00:25:13.816
It doesn't seem
like a possibility

653
00:25:13.816 --> 00:25:20.120
that this fun idea
to play with dear friends

654
00:25:20.120 --> 00:25:22.333
would continue to be

655
00:25:22.333 --> 00:25:25.422
this long‐lasting show.

656
00:25:25.422 --> 00:25:27.511
LIN‐MANUEL:
♪ My name is Parallelogram ♪

657
00:25:27.511 --> 00:25:29.430
♪ Combined with an elogram ♪

658
00:25:29.430 --> 00:25:31.811
♪ Yeah,
I'm the writer of Hamilton ♪

659
00:25:31.811 --> 00:25:33.397
♪ What is up, my son? ♪

660
00:25:33.397 --> 00:25:36.486
♪ My father, my brother,
what happening, my mother ♪

661
00:25:36.486 --> 00:25:37.906
‐ Polyglot.
‐ ♪ All right ♪

662
00:25:37.906 --> 00:25:39.910
♪ I'm just feeling like
it's punishment ♪

663
00:25:39.910 --> 00:25:42.248
♪ Because I got so much
polyglot in this ♪

664
00:25:42.248 --> 00:25:43.458
♪ I'm gluttonous, yes ♪

665
00:25:43.458 --> 00:25:45.170
♪ I'm putting
this cake in mouth ♪

666
00:25:45.170 --> 00:25:47.133
♪ It's funfetti,
everyone, shout ♪

667
00:25:47.133 --> 00:25:50.974
At its core,
it's a group of friends

668
00:25:50.974 --> 00:25:55.775
expressing themselves
and in some small way,

669
00:25:55.775 --> 00:25:58.656
saying, "I can't wait to hear
what you're gonna say next."

670
00:25:58.656 --> 00:26:01.119
What we do is totally joy,

671
00:26:01.119 --> 00:26:03.708
and it's also special.

672
00:26:03.708 --> 00:26:05.044
ALL: ♪ And that's okay, kid ♪

673
00:26:05.044 --> 00:26:06.296
♪ And that‐‐and that‐‐
and that‐‐and that‐‐

674
00:26:06.296 --> 00:26:07.716
♪ And that‐‐
and that's okay, kid ♪

675
00:26:07.716 --> 00:26:09.553
UTKARSH: Yep.
CHRIS: [imitates explosion]

676
00:26:09.553 --> 00:26:11.014
ANTHONY: "That's okay, kid"
on three.

677
00:26:11.014 --> 00:26:12.308
LIN‐MANUEL: One, two, three.

678
00:26:12.308 --> 00:26:14.354
ALL: That's okay, kid.
[laughter]

679
00:26:14.354 --> 00:26:15.899
BILL: Let's pick a random word.

680
00:26:15.899 --> 00:26:17.234
CHRISTOPHER: Yeah, love.

681
00:26:17.234 --> 00:26:18.988
And this afternoon,
that's a good one.

682
00:26:18.988 --> 00:26:20.867
Ready? One, two, three.
ALL: Love!

683
00:26:20.867 --> 00:26:22.621
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight.

684
00:26:22.621 --> 00:26:24.165
And one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

685
00:26:24.165 --> 00:26:26.086
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight.

686
00:26:26.086 --> 00:26:27.380
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight.

687
00:26:27.380 --> 00:26:28.633
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight.

688
00:26:28.633 --> 00:26:31.054
One, two, repeat.
One, two, one, two, one, two.

689
00:26:31.054 --> 00:26:32.348
One, two, one, two,
one, two, one, two,

690
00:26:32.348 --> 00:26:35.020
one, one, one, one,
one, one, one, one.

691
00:26:35.020 --> 00:26:37.024
MAN:
Thank you, Cleveland.

692
00:26:39.153 --> 00:26:40.657
‐ [groans]
ASSISTANT: Stand by, guys.

693
00:26:40.657 --> 00:26:41.659
Stand by.

694
00:26:41.659 --> 00:26:43.120
[cheers and applause]

695
00:26:43.120 --> 00:26:45.290
EMCEE:
All right, guess we better...

696
00:26:45.290 --> 00:26:47.629
We better start
the show, then.

697
00:26:47.629 --> 00:26:49.633
ALL: I got your back,
I got your back.

698
00:26:49.633 --> 00:26:51.302
I got your back,
I got your back.

699
00:26:51.302 --> 00:26:53.975
I got your back.
I got your back.

700
00:26:53.975 --> 00:26:55.520
♪ ♪

701
00:26:55.520 --> 00:26:56.522
ANTHONY: Let's bring it in.

702
00:26:56.522 --> 00:26:57.858
Let's do
a mic check on three.

703
00:26:57.858 --> 00:26:59.444
UTKARSH: Oh, yeah.
ANTHONY: Mic check on three.

704
00:26:59.444 --> 00:27:01.824
Everybody in.
One, two, three.

705
00:27:01.824 --> 00:27:04.078
ALL: Mic check.

706
00:27:04.078 --> 00:27:07.168
MAN: This is my own.
This is my own.

707
00:27:07.168 --> 00:27:09.297
CHRISTOPHER:
♪ Hello, this is my seat ♪

708
00:27:09.297 --> 00:27:13.430
♪ Oh, oh ♪

709
00:27:13.430 --> 00:27:15.392
[cheers and applause]

710
00:27:15.392 --> 00:27:18.775
CHRIS: [beatboxing]

711
00:27:21.655 --> 00:27:25.287
‐ Microphone team check.
Microphone. Microphone.

712
00:27:25.287 --> 00:27:28.711
[dramatic music]

713
00:27:28.711 --> 00:27:31.132
♪ ♪

714
00:27:31.132 --> 00:27:33.804
‐ Ladies and gentlemen.

715
00:27:33.804 --> 00:27:35.349
[rolls tongue]

716
00:27:35.349 --> 00:27:37.394
Yes.

717
00:27:37.394 --> 00:27:41.779
And those who identify outside
and in‐between on the spectrum.

718
00:27:41.779 --> 00:27:43.574
LIN‐MANUEL: Mic check
was a fully practical,

719
00:27:43.574 --> 00:27:45.369
"We can't hear each other."

720
00:27:45.369 --> 00:27:47.081
And if we can't hear each
other, we can't do this

721
00:27:47.081 --> 00:27:50.045
because it's so dependent on,
"Oh, that's the idea let's go."

722
00:27:50.045 --> 00:27:52.842
And so it was all about
getting our monitor right,

723
00:27:52.842 --> 00:27:54.470
and hearing everybody
in the monitor.

724
00:27:54.470 --> 00:27:57.184
‐ We are
Freestyle Love Supreme.

725
00:27:57.184 --> 00:27:58.771
ALL: ♪ 'Preme, 'preme, 'preme ♪

726
00:27:58.771 --> 00:28:01.276
‐ And we are in the middle
of a mic check.

727
00:28:01.276 --> 00:28:03.280
ALL: Check, check, check...

728
00:28:03.280 --> 00:28:05.785
‐ And we're gonna need your
help to complete our mic check.

729
00:28:05.785 --> 00:28:07.246
‐ Cool.

730
00:28:07.246 --> 00:28:08.791
‐ Because our show
is totally made up.

731
00:28:08.791 --> 00:28:09.876
‐ Nuh‐uh!
‐ Yeah.

732
00:28:09.876 --> 00:28:11.337
ANTHONY:
This is an improv show.

733
00:28:11.337 --> 00:28:13.843
It's one of the unique
art forms

734
00:28:13.843 --> 00:28:16.932
that can be both cathartic
for the audience

735
00:28:16.932 --> 00:28:19.186
and for the performers
at the same time.

736
00:28:19.186 --> 00:28:22.484
You see because everything
we do in this show

737
00:28:22.484 --> 00:28:25.407
is completely and 100%
new every night.

738
00:28:25.407 --> 00:28:27.453
‐ Hoy estamos inventando.

739
00:28:27.453 --> 00:28:29.332
‐ It's spontaneous.

740
00:28:29.332 --> 00:28:30.585
‐ That's right.

741
00:28:30.585 --> 00:28:32.421
This is all happening
right now.

742
00:28:32.421 --> 00:28:34.760
CHRISTOPHER:
Nobody knows what to expect.

743
00:28:34.760 --> 00:28:36.304
We have the structure
of our games,

744
00:28:36.304 --> 00:28:38.016
We know who's leading,
we know who's supporting,

745
00:28:38.016 --> 00:28:41.439
We know who's playing,
but that's it.

746
00:28:41.439 --> 00:28:43.360
‐ Every sound
you're about to hear...

747
00:28:43.360 --> 00:28:45.657
‐ [beatboxing]

748
00:28:45.657 --> 00:28:47.786
[mimics bird call]

749
00:28:49.163 --> 00:28:52.211
‐ Every key that is
about to be struck...

750
00:28:52.211 --> 00:28:54.591
[keyboard plays]

751
00:28:54.591 --> 00:28:55.968
Ooh!

752
00:28:55.968 --> 00:28:58.766
Every word that is about
to be spoken...

753
00:28:58.766 --> 00:29:01.396
‐ Hi, Mom.
[laughter, cheers]

754
00:29:01.396 --> 00:29:03.901
You look good.

755
00:29:05.863 --> 00:29:07.784
LIN‐MANUEL: No matter how
many times you've done this,

756
00:29:07.784 --> 00:29:10.497
the way your stomach feels
before you go on stage

757
00:29:10.497 --> 00:29:12.669
before a freestyle show
is exactly the same.

758
00:29:12.669 --> 00:29:14.715
The worst part of this month

759
00:29:14.715 --> 00:29:17.554
was that we only had
one bathroom backstage.

760
00:29:17.554 --> 00:29:20.350
Our stomach doesn't know
that we're good at this.

761
00:29:20.350 --> 00:29:22.146
It goes,
"What the fuck you guys doing?

762
00:29:22.146 --> 00:29:23.941
There's no script!"

763
00:29:23.941 --> 00:29:26.320
You know,
your reptile brain understands

764
00:29:26.320 --> 00:29:27.866
that we're going into

765
00:29:27.866 --> 00:29:30.747
an adrenalized,
unsafe situation

766
00:29:30.747 --> 00:29:32.834
even if you can't‐‐
you can't tell it‐‐

767
00:29:32.834 --> 00:29:34.378
you can't tell your stomach,

768
00:29:34.378 --> 00:29:36.132
"Hey, we've done
this a million times.

769
00:29:36.132 --> 00:29:37.552
Something will happen
and it'll be fine."

770
00:29:37.552 --> 00:29:41.894
‐ It's happening for the first
and last time right now.

771
00:29:41.894 --> 00:29:43.188
‐ Now, now, now, now.

772
00:29:43.188 --> 00:29:45.442
‐ So, why don't we get a word
from you guys,

773
00:29:45.442 --> 00:29:47.112
and we're gonna use that word

774
00:29:47.112 --> 00:29:49.283
to complete our mic check,
okay?

775
00:29:49.283 --> 00:29:51.329
ANTHONY: We kept getting
these invitations.

776
00:29:51.329 --> 00:29:52.791
We did
the Aspen Comedy Festival.

777
00:29:52.791 --> 00:29:54.544
We got invited up to Montreal,

778
00:29:54.544 --> 00:29:57.174
but we needed someone to
replace Lin and Chris Jackson

779
00:29:57.174 --> 00:29:59.428
because they were in
In the Heights

780
00:29:59.428 --> 00:30:01.098
and it was opening at 37 Arts.

781
00:30:01.098 --> 00:30:03.938
Turn, stumble, P.

782
00:30:03.938 --> 00:30:05.608
[indistinct yelling]
What is it?

783
00:30:05.608 --> 00:30:08.321
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Swelling.
‐ Swelling?

784
00:30:08.321 --> 00:30:10.325
Is that what I heard?
Swelling?

785
00:30:10.325 --> 00:30:13.206
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yes!
‐ Swelling. Great.

786
00:30:13.206 --> 00:30:15.586
Ladies and gentlemen,
the word is swelling.

787
00:30:15.586 --> 00:30:18.424
ANTHONY: So, we had sort of
our first round of auditions,

788
00:30:18.424 --> 00:30:21.222
and we'd gotten a
recommendation that this guy,

789
00:30:21.222 --> 00:30:23.602
U.T.K., is a great rapper.

790
00:30:23.602 --> 00:30:25.188
He was an amazing
battle rapper.

791
00:30:25.188 --> 00:30:27.944
‐ I was doing improv comedy,
and then I was doing music,

792
00:30:27.944 --> 00:30:32.202
and there was a huge separation
between the two, right?

793
00:30:32.202 --> 00:30:35.041
So, you can either rap
or you can be funny,

794
00:30:35.041 --> 00:30:36.628
and you can't do both.

795
00:30:36.628 --> 00:30:39.008
And then I walk into this room,

796
00:30:39.008 --> 00:30:41.137
and you know, whatever
Freestyle Love Supreme

797
00:30:41.137 --> 00:30:44.769
was doing at that time fit me
like a well‐worn hoodie.

798
00:30:44.769 --> 00:30:48.401
‐ Like the very first second
that Utkarsh started rapping,

799
00:30:48.401 --> 00:30:50.990
we were like,
"Oh, this is the guy."

800
00:30:50.990 --> 00:30:53.286
♪ Next we got
a whole freestyle team ♪

801
00:30:53.286 --> 00:30:56.083
♪ U. T. K.,
tell 'em what I mean ♪

802
00:30:56.083 --> 00:30:58.631
‐ ♪ Ladies and gentlemen,
Caucasian and melanin ♪

803
00:30:58.631 --> 00:31:00.050
♪ Now I'm up on stage ♪

804
00:31:00.050 --> 00:31:01.553
♪ And yo,
I'm coming from Maryland ♪

805
00:31:01.553 --> 00:31:03.056
♪ Got the beat
and the microphone ♪

806
00:31:03.056 --> 00:31:04.391
♪ To keep them all swelling ♪

807
00:31:04.391 --> 00:31:05.728
♪ What the hell
is going on, man? ♪

808
00:31:05.728 --> 00:31:07.230
♪ I'm rocking this song ♪

809
00:31:07.230 --> 00:31:09.694
♪ And right now, what you
see is the freestyle flow ♪

810
00:31:09.694 --> 00:31:12.240
♪ I know this dude right here
up in a music video ♪

811
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:15.413
♪ Yeah, I see ya,
I need to drop it free bro ♪

812
00:31:15.413 --> 00:31:17.961
♪ You better be spending this
right on a Wednesday night ♪

813
00:31:17.961 --> 00:31:19.338
♪ But if you didn't,
all right ♪

814
00:31:19.338 --> 00:31:20.675
♪ Now I gotta story to tell ♪

815
00:31:20.675 --> 00:31:23.806
♪ I'm about to introduce
Mr. Lin‐Manuel ♪

816
00:31:23.806 --> 00:31:25.392
LIN‐MANUEL:
♪ Excuse me, excuse me ♪

817
00:31:25.392 --> 00:31:26.728
♪ Excuse me, excuse me ♪

818
00:31:26.728 --> 00:31:28.022
♪ Excuse me, excuse me ♪

819
00:31:28.022 --> 00:31:29.567
♪ Excuse me, excuse me ♪

820
00:31:29.567 --> 00:31:31.195
♪ I'm sorry,
I've got to come on stage ♪

821
00:31:31.195 --> 00:31:32.657
♪ Before my head is swelling ♪

822
00:31:32.657 --> 00:31:34.619
♪ I like my melon, and yo,
I keep from yelling ♪

823
00:31:34.619 --> 00:31:37.416
UTKARSH:
It was extremely comfortable

824
00:31:37.416 --> 00:31:39.128
to play those games
with those people,

825
00:31:39.128 --> 00:31:43.302
and to bring sort of the
Indian South Asian experience

826
00:31:43.302 --> 00:31:47.144
to that group, and to have
it be embraced was awesome.

827
00:31:47.144 --> 00:31:49.314
♪ Listen to me here
on microphone three ♪

828
00:31:49.314 --> 00:31:51.653
♪ Some of you might
recognize me ♪

829
00:31:51.653 --> 00:31:53.907
♪ Know from
the Team Supreme ♪

830
00:31:53.907 --> 00:31:56.162
♪ And let me rock right now
while we chase the dream ♪

831
00:31:56.162 --> 00:31:58.207
♪ We got the keys and the flow
and the beat, you know? ♪

832
00:31:58.207 --> 00:32:00.671
♪ We do it all day long,
kick it with my bros ♪

833
00:32:00.671 --> 00:32:03.259
♪ My name is U. T. K
and I'm fly, you see ♪

834
00:32:03.259 --> 00:32:05.848
♪ But recognize with ease
and I'ma rock this beat ♪

835
00:32:05.848 --> 00:32:08.269
‐ U. T. K, his verbal dexterity

836
00:32:08.269 --> 00:32:09.647
was always
at the highest level.

837
00:32:09.647 --> 00:32:11.568
He was the person that‐‐
from when I met him

838
00:32:11.568 --> 00:32:13.112
when he was 21
or 22 years old,

839
00:32:13.112 --> 00:32:15.743
I knew something was going
on that I had not seen.

840
00:32:15.743 --> 00:32:19.291
[piano plays]

841
00:32:19.291 --> 00:32:21.588
[laughter]

842
00:32:21.588 --> 00:32:24.259
‐ Yeah!

843
00:32:24.259 --> 00:32:27.683
♪ ♪

844
00:32:27.683 --> 00:32:29.436
‐ ♪ Oh, hey ♪

845
00:32:29.436 --> 00:32:31.023
♪ My name is Maddie ♪

846
00:32:31.023 --> 00:32:32.400
♪ Ooh ♪

847
00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:34.154
♪ And your girl is a baddy ♪

848
00:32:34.154 --> 00:32:35.991
♪ Yeah, my name is Maddie ♪

849
00:32:35.991 --> 00:32:38.246
♪ Yes, and I am oh so frugal ♪

850
00:32:38.246 --> 00:32:41.837
♪ I save my money and I save
of all of my rubles ♪

851
00:32:41.837 --> 00:32:43.172
♪ Okay, I'm here ♪

852
00:32:43.172 --> 00:32:45.051
♪ That's right,
and I'll be freaky ♪

853
00:32:45.051 --> 00:32:47.472
♪ And I'm getting ready for me
and my lady's girls' ♪

854
00:32:47.472 --> 00:32:49.853
BOTH: ♪ Weekend ♪
‐ ♪ We're gonna have fun ♪

855
00:32:49.853 --> 00:32:51.565
♪ Gonna practice
all our twerking ♪

856
00:32:51.565 --> 00:32:53.025
♪ Gonna eat lots
of dessert ♪

857
00:32:53.025 --> 00:32:54.529
♪ And it's gonna be
so dang absurd ♪

858
00:32:54.529 --> 00:32:56.240
♪ And we are going... ♪

859
00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:58.369
Tommy broke it down to me
when I started rapping

860
00:32:58.369 --> 00:33:01.458
'cause my background was
to talk about how good I was.

861
00:33:01.458 --> 00:33:03.672
"Look how great I am.
Look how cool I am."

862
00:33:03.672 --> 00:33:05.216
And Tommy said to me,
he was like,

863
00:33:05.216 --> 00:33:06.720
"That's great,
you have the skill set.

864
00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:08.264
That's not what we do here."

865
00:33:08.264 --> 00:33:11.020
He said, "It's infinitely
more interesting

866
00:33:11.020 --> 00:33:13.817
"if you can rap about
the Incredible Hulk

867
00:33:13.817 --> 00:33:15.738
"or a box of Wheat Thins

868
00:33:15.738 --> 00:33:19.036
"or your parents with
the same amount of dexterity

869
00:33:19.036 --> 00:33:20.706
as you rap about yourself."

870
00:33:20.706 --> 00:33:23.127
BOTH: ♪ What y'all know
about milking a cow? ♪

871
00:33:23.127 --> 00:33:26.133
♪ Milking a cow,
milking a cow ♪

872
00:33:26.133 --> 00:33:28.387
♪ I'm about to tell y'all
about a little dream of mine ♪

873
00:33:28.387 --> 00:33:31.811
♪ I just wanna milk a big,
bad, beautiful bovine ♪

874
00:33:31.811 --> 00:33:34.274
♪ Trying to farm and get
my hands on the udders ♪

875
00:33:34.274 --> 00:33:36.863
♪ 'Cause I got to make sure
that she's a bad old mother ♪

876
00:33:36.863 --> 00:33:39.451
♪ Can't be a man cow,
that's called a bull ♪

877
00:33:39.451 --> 00:33:41.247
♪ 'Cause when you pull
something else comes out ♪

878
00:33:41.247 --> 00:33:42.583
♪ That's not cool ♪

879
00:33:42.583 --> 00:33:44.796
♪ But anyway,
I get it going on the teets ♪

880
00:33:44.796 --> 00:33:47.927
♪ And I give a squeeze and it
tastes so, so sweet, yeah ♪

881
00:33:47.927 --> 00:33:50.181
‐ U. T. K. is, I would say,

882
00:33:50.181 --> 00:33:54.273
the best nuts‐to‐bolts rapper
in the group.

883
00:33:54.273 --> 00:33:56.569
‐ Chris Jackson had a friend
named James Monroe Iglehart

884
00:33:56.569 --> 00:33:58.532
that he had just gotten
done doing a show with,

885
00:33:58.532 --> 00:34:00.661
and they used to, like,
freestyle rap backstage.

886
00:34:00.661 --> 00:34:02.247
‐ Don't get me wrong.
It was not given to me.

887
00:34:02.247 --> 00:34:05.086
I had to audition.
So, walked in, did my thing.

888
00:34:05.086 --> 00:34:08.009
‐ Tommy closed the door
to the audition room

889
00:34:08.009 --> 00:34:09.721
and then we turned it
into a rehearsal,

890
00:34:09.721 --> 00:34:11.390
and we started rehearsing.

891
00:34:11.390 --> 00:34:12.685
‐ ♪ Clap your hands,
snap your fingers ♪

892
00:34:12.685 --> 00:34:14.146
♪ Move your hands to this ♪

893
00:34:14.146 --> 00:34:16.442
♪ I will show you how I do it
as I jettison ♪

894
00:34:16.442 --> 00:34:18.822
♪ I love the little place
and I put it in my rhyme ♪

895
00:34:18.822 --> 00:34:22.287
♪ I can pick a rhyme from you
and I then blow your mind ♪

896
00:34:22.287 --> 00:34:26.253
‐ He's too good for half
of this shit that we do.

897
00:34:26.253 --> 00:34:29.844
James sings and it's like,
"You broke the game."

898
00:34:29.844 --> 00:34:32.808
‐ ♪ So, from the time
I'm in the bathroom ♪

899
00:34:32.808 --> 00:34:36.106
♪ And put the water
on my elbows ♪

900
00:34:36.106 --> 00:34:38.695
♪ Walk out to school ♪

901
00:34:38.695 --> 00:34:42.243
♪ We're ready to see
all the other bros ♪

902
00:34:42.243 --> 00:34:45.793
♪ And the sun hits,
bam, ash ♪

903
00:34:45.793 --> 00:34:48.381
♪ Right all over my body ♪

904
00:34:48.381 --> 00:34:51.387
♪ And those boys will have
a wonderful time ♪

905
00:34:51.387 --> 00:34:54.560
♪ Tapping on me was like
an ashy party ♪

906
00:34:54.560 --> 00:34:56.397
‐ Going forward, like,

907
00:34:56.397 --> 00:34:59.194
if we had stopped
at our initial group,

908
00:34:59.194 --> 00:35:03.494
we'd never have met Daveed,
U. T. K., or Jelly Donut.

909
00:35:03.494 --> 00:35:05.123
‐ ♪ So I'll just
take a squeegee ♪

910
00:35:05.123 --> 00:35:07.795
♪ We'll make you come, yeah,
'cause I'm the boss ♪

911
00:35:07.795 --> 00:35:10.551
♪ It's gonna get poetic,
like we Robert Frost ♪

912
00:35:10.551 --> 00:35:12.303
UTKARSH: The other night,
Jelly was on stage,

913
00:35:12.303 --> 00:35:14.767
and my head goes, "We have
to introduce Jelly Donut.

914
00:35:14.767 --> 00:35:16.186
How are we gonna do that?"

915
00:35:16.186 --> 00:35:17.606
You have "Go Buck,"
and then my brain goes‐

916
00:35:17.606 --> 00:35:19.234
[gasps]
"Donut rhymes with go Buck!"

917
00:35:19.234 --> 00:35:21.363
♪ Mic one
and mic two showed up ♪

918
00:35:21.363 --> 00:35:23.409
♪ We need mic three,
he about to throw up ♪

919
00:35:23.409 --> 00:35:25.748
♪ That's right, and go nuts,
that's right and go Buck ♪

920
00:35:25.748 --> 00:35:28.169
♪ Everybody give it up
for Jelly Donut ♪

921
00:35:28.169 --> 00:35:32.093
‐ ♪ Oh, my God, thank you
for your incredible words ♪

922
00:35:32.093 --> 00:35:34.389
♪ I will chew them up
and regurgitate them ♪

923
00:35:34.389 --> 00:35:37.855
♪ Like you the baby birds,
open your mouth ♪

924
00:35:37.855 --> 00:35:41.613
I came in a little‐‐
a little bit later than‐‐

925
00:35:41.613 --> 00:35:43.575
yeah,
I think Utkarsh and James

926
00:35:43.575 --> 00:35:45.495
came around the same time.

927
00:35:45.495 --> 00:35:50.046
But I've had such a good
experience with these guys.

928
00:35:50.046 --> 00:35:52.008
It's sick, right?

929
00:35:52.008 --> 00:35:54.012
It really is becoming
a little bit, you know,

930
00:35:54.012 --> 00:35:56.391
more of who I am.

931
00:35:56.391 --> 00:35:57.812
‐ Because we...
‐ We...

932
00:35:57.812 --> 00:36:01.193
ALL:
We. Are. Freestyle. Supreme.

933
00:36:01.193 --> 00:36:02.988
[cheers and applause]

934
00:36:02.988 --> 00:36:04.659
‐ Now ladies and gentlemen,

935
00:36:04.659 --> 00:36:06.245
we're gonna take you back
to the beginning.

936
00:36:06.245 --> 00:36:08.542
We're going to
the foundations of freestyle.

937
00:36:08.542 --> 00:36:10.838
You see, first,
there was the beat.

938
00:36:10.838 --> 00:36:14.637
‐ [beatboxing]

939
00:36:15.848 --> 00:36:18.018
[cheers]

940
00:36:19.104 --> 00:36:26.118
♪ ♪

941
00:36:31.253 --> 00:36:34.134
THOMAS: Chris Sullivan,
AKA Shockwave,

942
00:36:34.134 --> 00:36:37.600
He's someone whose ability
to express and tell story

943
00:36:37.600 --> 00:36:40.981
without using words
is on full display here.

944
00:36:40.981 --> 00:36:43.987
He's someone who is the actual
musical heartbeat.

945
00:36:43.987 --> 00:36:47.953
‐ [beatboxing]

946
00:36:47.953 --> 00:36:49.957
CHRIS:
I'm not just the beatboxer.

947
00:36:49.957 --> 00:36:51.753
I am the percussionist.

948
00:36:51.753 --> 00:36:53.924
You know, the drummer that
let's them shine.

949
00:36:53.924 --> 00:36:56.178
[beatboxing]

950
00:36:56.178 --> 00:37:00.729
‐ Uh‐huh! Uh‐huh! Uh‐huh!
Yeah, uh‐huh!

951
00:37:00.729 --> 00:37:02.858
ANTHONY: To go up there and
be able to have a human being

952
00:37:02.858 --> 00:37:04.820
be able to do that
for an entire show,

953
00:37:04.820 --> 00:37:08.160
A, is a feat of athleticism
and vocal capabilities,

954
00:37:08.160 --> 00:37:12.126
but also sheer giving.

955
00:37:12.126 --> 00:37:14.464
[excited chatter]

956
00:37:14.464 --> 00:37:17.680
[cheers and applause]

957
00:37:17.680 --> 00:37:19.642
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Oh, my God!

958
00:37:19.642 --> 00:37:21.729
‐ Yeah,
and you used our words.

959
00:37:21.729 --> 00:37:24.568
ANTHONY: Oh yeah? Which ones?
‐ Unicorn and flabbergast.

960
00:37:24.568 --> 00:37:26.196
‐ Oh, you got two in?

961
00:37:26.196 --> 00:37:27.866
Does anyone else know that?

962
00:37:27.866 --> 00:37:32.208
‐ I think each guy
loves freestyle.

963
00:37:32.208 --> 00:37:35.590
I think each guy
lives freestyle.

964
00:37:35.590 --> 00:37:41.309
But Shock is
the foundation of freestyle.

965
00:37:41.309 --> 00:37:44.734
‐ [beatboxing]

966
00:37:44.734 --> 00:37:46.403
‐ Oh!

967
00:37:46.403 --> 00:37:49.034
[cheers and applause]

968
00:37:49.034 --> 00:37:52.040
‐ And next,
we add in an emcee.

969
00:37:52.040 --> 00:37:53.626
‐ ♪ Oh, is everybody here? ♪

970
00:37:53.626 --> 00:37:55.046
♪ Because if everybody's
here... ♪

971
00:37:55.046 --> 00:37:57.551
[loud cheers]

972
00:37:57.551 --> 00:38:01.893
LIN‐MANUEL:
[rapping indistinctly]

973
00:38:01.893 --> 00:38:04.230
[stammering]

974
00:38:04.230 --> 00:38:08.782
[wild cheers and applause]

975
00:38:11.495 --> 00:38:15.629
‐ Lin‐Manuel
is the verbal gymnast.

976
00:38:15.629 --> 00:38:17.883
He is our poet.

977
00:38:17.883 --> 00:38:19.469
He's unstoppable.

978
00:38:19.469 --> 00:38:21.516
Now on your way in this evening
as you were standing in line,

979
00:38:21.516 --> 00:38:23.603
I think one of our wonderful
stage managers

980
00:38:23.603 --> 00:38:25.941
walked along and said,
"Give us a word."

981
00:38:25.941 --> 00:38:28.738
Now we took those words and put
them in that bucket over there.

982
00:38:28.738 --> 00:38:30.074
See, ladies and gentlemen,

983
00:38:30.074 --> 00:38:34.165
the emcee is gonna use
your words over a beat.

984
00:38:34.165 --> 00:38:37.255
‐ Foundations of freestyle
is in its rawest form

985
00:38:37.255 --> 00:38:38.842
what freestyling is.

986
00:38:38.842 --> 00:38:40.804
CHRISTOPHER: From the moment
that we've gotten here,

987
00:38:40.804 --> 00:38:42.766
we have asked you as
an audience member

988
00:38:42.766 --> 00:38:44.562
to actively participate.

989
00:38:44.562 --> 00:38:46.356
When you write the word
down and you fold it

990
00:38:46.356 --> 00:38:48.528
and you put it in the bucket,
you're making an offering.

991
00:38:48.528 --> 00:38:50.197
And we're collecting it,
accepting it,

992
00:38:50.197 --> 00:38:51.659
and this is what
we want to do with it.

993
00:38:51.659 --> 00:38:52.953
Jazz!

994
00:38:52.953 --> 00:38:54.414
‐ ♪ Yeah, this is like that
free Jazz ♪

995
00:38:54.414 --> 00:38:55.750
♪ Like that Coltrane ♪

996
00:38:55.750 --> 00:38:57.671
♪ Like that Love Supreme,
this is a fucking dream ♪

997
00:38:57.671 --> 00:38:59.717
♪ I can't believe this
is the fucking team ♪

998
00:38:59.717 --> 00:39:02.764
♪ I can't believe I'm‐‐ ♪
‐ Last word is harmony!

999
00:39:02.764 --> 00:39:04.184
‐ ♪ Oh, the word is harmony ♪

1000
00:39:04.184 --> 00:39:05.562
♪ Because there is dissonance ♪

1001
00:39:05.562 --> 00:39:07.023
♪ 'Cause lots of us are
really quite different ♪

1002
00:39:07.023 --> 00:39:08.943
♪ But oh, my gosh,
I think even when I am bored ♪

1003
00:39:08.943 --> 00:39:10.245
♪ We'll make a lot of noise ♪

1004
00:39:10.245 --> 00:39:12.366
♪ Until we make
a perfect fucking chord ♪

1005
00:39:12.366 --> 00:39:14.788
‐ Oh!

1006
00:39:14.788 --> 00:39:17.794
[cheers and applause]

1007
00:39:19.005 --> 00:39:20.634
‐ There's this great footage

1008
00:39:20.634 --> 00:39:21.802
of Questlove
and Black Thought.

1009
00:39:21.802 --> 00:39:23.347
And Questlove's just,
like, tree.

1010
00:39:23.347 --> 00:39:26.061
He's like, "Tree, as I flow
free to the ba‐ba‐ba‐ba‐ba."

1011
00:39:26.061 --> 00:39:27.648
‐ ♪ Peach, peach ♪

1012
00:39:27.648 --> 00:39:28.775
♪ Yo, I am the kid
that got the speech ♪

1013
00:39:28.775 --> 00:39:30.110
♪ That you can't impeach ♪

1014
00:39:30.110 --> 00:39:31.781
♪ Because I am not a leech,
I won't lie ♪

1015
00:39:31.781 --> 00:39:33.576
‐ War!
♪ War, yes, yes, y'all ♪

1016
00:39:33.576 --> 00:39:35.956
♪ Everybody's got a car, yo,
you's gots to kick the ball ♪

1017
00:39:35.956 --> 00:39:37.500
‐ Feet.
‐ ♪ Oh, feet ♪

1018
00:39:37.500 --> 00:39:39.128
♪ So I will not
accept defeat ♪

1019
00:39:39.128 --> 00:39:41.676
♪ The only triumph
I'll just keep on doing it ♪

1020
00:39:41.676 --> 00:39:43.428
♪ Like
Triumph the Comic Insult Dog ♪

1021
00:39:43.428 --> 00:39:44.932
♪ High on the hog ♪

1022
00:39:44.932 --> 00:39:46.978
♪ We cannot kick us off
our lawn with tables ♪

1023
00:39:46.978 --> 00:39:48.523
♪ We got our lightsabers ♪

1024
00:39:48.523 --> 00:39:50.067
♪ So fuck you
and your Padawan ♪

1025
00:39:50.067 --> 00:39:52.029
♪ We keep going on till
the break of dawn ♪

1026
00:39:52.029 --> 00:39:55.537
♪ Yeah,
rocking all night long ♪

1027
00:39:55.537 --> 00:39:57.541
[cheers and applause]

1028
00:39:57.541 --> 00:39:59.503
[keyboard plays]

1029
00:39:59.503 --> 00:40:03.343
‐ Uh, ladies and gentlemen,
that is Lin‐Man‐very‐uel.

1030
00:40:03.343 --> 00:40:05.765
‐ How'd you get
into doing this style?

1031
00:40:05.765 --> 00:40:07.393
‐ Just jumped in,
you know, like him.

1032
00:40:07.393 --> 00:40:09.063
Anthony was one
of the producers.

1033
00:40:09.063 --> 00:40:10.567
Tommy was the director.

1034
00:40:10.567 --> 00:40:12.028
‐ So do you, like,
write the show, like...

1035
00:40:12.028 --> 00:40:14.032
‐ No, when they first
asked me, I thought it was...

1036
00:40:14.032 --> 00:40:15.827
[chuckles]
I thought they were crazy.

1037
00:40:15.827 --> 00:40:18.833
I was like, "I write music.
I don't‐‐I don't freestyle."

1038
00:40:18.833 --> 00:40:21.087
‐ You never freestyled...
‐ But it's scary, yeah.

1039
00:40:21.087 --> 00:40:22.883
‐ You're a hip‐hopper
or you're a singer?

1040
00:40:22.883 --> 00:40:24.385
‐ Yeah, I mean, I love hip‐hop,
but I just‐you know?

1041
00:40:24.385 --> 00:40:27.559
I wasn't‐I wasn't used to,
like, trying to‐‐trying to...

1042
00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:31.984
‐ See, I write music and I
tried to freestyle it, but...

1043
00:40:31.984 --> 00:40:34.155
‐ If you think about it,
you can't do it.

1044
00:40:34.155 --> 00:40:36.577
You just have to try and go.
Yeah.

1045
00:40:36.577 --> 00:40:39.290
Sometimes you‐‐sometimes
you‐‐you jump and you land,

1046
00:40:39.290 --> 00:40:40.835
and sometimes you fall.

1047
00:40:40.835 --> 00:40:42.380
‐ Yeah, sometimes you fall,
mate.

1048
00:40:42.380 --> 00:40:43.716
‐ But it's worth it though.
Yeah.

1049
00:40:43.716 --> 00:40:45.720
‐ It's a good show, man.
‐ Thanks.

1050
00:40:45.720 --> 00:40:47.682
Yeah, I'm glad
you guys enjoyed it.

1051
00:40:47.682 --> 00:40:49.603
I've always been taught that
the stage is sacred.

1052
00:40:49.603 --> 00:40:50.855
No matter what stage you're on,

1053
00:40:50.855 --> 00:40:52.233
no matter where you doing it.

1054
00:40:52.233 --> 00:40:54.028
That's the sacred part.

1055
00:40:54.028 --> 00:40:55.824
That's the part that...

1056
00:40:55.824 --> 00:40:58.621
if you're true to what you're
doing, it doesn't matter.

1057
00:40:58.621 --> 00:41:00.124
You know I'm saying?

1058
00:41:00.124 --> 00:41:01.877
Like it‐‐it‐‐people are‐‐

1059
00:41:01.877 --> 00:41:03.338
you want people to feel
what you're doing.

1060
00:41:03.338 --> 00:41:05.593
You wanna be able to say,
"This is my guts.

1061
00:41:05.593 --> 00:41:07.430
"These are‐‐you know,
this is my heart and my guts

1062
00:41:07.430 --> 00:41:08.683
and my soul."

1063
00:41:08.683 --> 00:41:10.436
And for whatever reason,
you know,

1064
00:41:10.436 --> 00:41:12.566
the universe has spun around,

1065
00:41:12.566 --> 00:41:14.068
and here you are
and here I am,

1066
00:41:14.068 --> 00:41:15.905
and I've got a story to tell.

1067
00:41:15.905 --> 00:41:18.911
[vocalizing]

1068
00:41:18.911 --> 00:41:21.124
♪ ♪

1069
00:41:21.124 --> 00:41:24.255
Can you bring me just a little
bit more in the monitors?

1070
00:41:24.255 --> 00:41:26.050
THOMAS: Chris Jackson
is the person

1071
00:41:26.050 --> 00:41:27.804
that when he opens
his mouth

1072
00:41:27.804 --> 00:41:29.516
you're gonna get this honesty.

1073
00:41:29.516 --> 00:41:30.935
He's gonna take you
back somewhere

1074
00:41:30.935 --> 00:41:32.606
and he's gonna share.

1075
00:41:32.606 --> 00:41:34.526
He's so incredibly open.

1076
00:41:34.526 --> 00:41:37.699
‐ C‐Jack brings a soul
presence to our group.

1077
00:41:37.699 --> 00:41:39.828
He's also the oldest person
in our group

1078
00:41:39.828 --> 00:41:41.372
who brings some sort
of maturity.

1079
00:41:41.372 --> 00:41:42.751
‐ I don't know if
he'll tell you this,

1080
00:41:42.751 --> 00:41:44.796
but he was very hesitant
initially to do freestyle.

1081
00:41:44.796 --> 00:41:46.509
It was something he was
not familiar with.

1082
00:41:46.509 --> 00:41:48.638
He's‐‐he worked in studios
a long time,

1083
00:41:48.638 --> 00:41:52.228
and so smart and so, like,
bright.

1084
00:41:52.228 --> 00:41:53.689
Like he's just got it.

1085
00:41:53.689 --> 00:41:55.359
‐ ♪ Got back together ♪

1086
00:41:55.359 --> 00:41:57.363
♪ 'Cause money always makes
things a little bit better ♪

1087
00:41:57.363 --> 00:41:59.743
♪ But I'm not mad
and I'm not sad ♪

1088
00:41:59.743 --> 00:42:02.206
You're not doing anything
else but performing.

1089
00:42:02.206 --> 00:42:03.876
And ever since I was a kid,
man,

1090
00:42:03.876 --> 00:42:05.337
that's all I've ever
wanted to do.

1091
00:42:05.337 --> 00:42:07.592
I've never wanted to do
anything else.

1092
00:42:07.592 --> 00:42:10.055
And freestyle, even more,
because it's me.

1093
00:42:10.055 --> 00:42:12.351
It's‐‐it's what's coming
out of my brain.

1094
00:42:12.351 --> 00:42:13.938
It's what's on my mind

1095
00:42:13.938 --> 00:42:16.234
that I'm able to share,
and that's pure.

1096
00:42:16.234 --> 00:42:17.696
That's the‐‐I think
in this business, man,

1097
00:42:17.696 --> 00:42:19.533
it's the only pure thing left.

1098
00:42:19.533 --> 00:42:21.369
MAN: ♪ All right, it's C‐Jack ♪

1099
00:42:21.369 --> 00:42:23.958
♪ And your turn is next,
I will slow it down ♪

1100
00:42:23.958 --> 00:42:26.004
♪ So you won't get
too stressed ♪

1101
00:42:26.004 --> 00:42:28.216
‐ ♪ I'm not stressed,
I'm looking at you vexed ♪

1102
00:42:28.216 --> 00:42:31.557
♪ 'Cause you said denouement,
that shit is so complex ♪

1103
00:42:31.557 --> 00:42:33.184
♪ I haven't even got
my mind around it ♪

1104
00:42:33.184 --> 00:42:35.565
♪ Even as I vex this vector ♪

1105
00:42:35.565 --> 00:42:37.694
♪ I find my words
are coming from the floor ♪

1106
00:42:37.694 --> 00:42:39.906
♪ Like the drum,
like the African kid ♪

1107
00:42:39.906 --> 00:42:41.827
♪ I have to be half of me ♪

1108
00:42:41.827 --> 00:42:44.750
♪ Oh, I'm representing
those spectacularly ♪

1109
00:42:44.750 --> 00:42:49.133
‐ ♪ Yeah ♪

1110
00:42:49.133 --> 00:42:51.889
♪ Oh ♪

1111
00:42:51.889 --> 00:42:55.228
♪ Oh ♪

1112
00:42:55.228 --> 00:42:57.651
♪ Freestyle Love Supreme,
here we go ♪

1113
00:42:57.651 --> 00:43:00.155
♪ Want to thank you all
for coming out to the show ♪

1114
00:43:00.155 --> 00:43:02.702
♪ Hope that you had
a real good, good time ♪

1115
00:43:02.702 --> 00:43:05.374
♪ Take a second now,
relax and rewind ♪

1116
00:43:05.374 --> 00:43:07.837
LIN‐MANUEL: My happy place
is watching Chris

1117
00:43:07.837 --> 00:43:09.340
'cause he can really
kind of let it rip.

1118
00:43:09.340 --> 00:43:10.843
Both the lyrical content,

1119
00:43:10.843 --> 00:43:13.516
and let his voice sort of fly
in this very real way.

1120
00:43:13.516 --> 00:43:17.314
‐ ♪ Well, in this country
that we live ♪

1121
00:43:19.736 --> 00:43:23.828
♪ We all come from some
other kind of place ♪

1122
00:43:23.828 --> 00:43:26.750
♪ No, no ♪

1123
00:43:26.750 --> 00:43:31.259
♪ And our history's
replete with ♪

1124
00:43:31.259 --> 00:43:35.434
♪ The streets filled
with anger and tears ♪

1125
00:43:35.434 --> 00:43:39.233
♪ And hopeful years that
we'll make it someday ♪

1126
00:43:39.233 --> 00:43:43.450
♪ 241, going on 242 ♪

1127
00:43:43.450 --> 00:43:47.792
♪ And we know we still got
a lot of work to do ♪

1128
00:43:47.792 --> 00:43:50.464
‐ Also, he was the first
of us to have kids.

1129
00:43:50.464 --> 00:43:52.510
He was the first of us
to get married.

1130
00:43:52.510 --> 00:43:56.058
and so he's had those
responsibilities

1131
00:43:56.058 --> 00:43:57.478
for a long time.

1132
00:43:57.478 --> 00:43:59.023
He's always been,
like, the dad.

1133
00:43:59.023 --> 00:44:02.446
[indistinct yelling]

1134
00:44:04.450 --> 00:44:07.498
‐ He's five.
He's a five‐year‐old.

1135
00:44:07.498 --> 00:44:09.168
And that's why
I love him so much.

1136
00:44:09.168 --> 00:44:11.130
But he's a five‐year‐old.

1137
00:44:11.130 --> 00:44:14.345
It feels like we've been
a theater troupe for 15 years.

1138
00:44:14.345 --> 00:44:17.100
It's like breathing,
it's just part of what we do.

1139
00:44:17.100 --> 00:44:18.646
It's part
of our relationships.

1140
00:44:18.646 --> 00:44:20.942
It's part of our experiences.

1141
00:44:20.942 --> 00:44:22.946
‐ Oh, I hope I get to be
in the show tonight.

1142
00:44:22.946 --> 00:44:24.448
MAN: Clean the floor, yeah.
You get to go to the ball.

1143
00:44:24.448 --> 00:44:26.787
UTKARSH: Keep cleaning
the floor, Lin‐derella.

1144
00:44:26.787 --> 00:44:28.833
No, is it Lin‐derella?

1145
00:44:28.833 --> 00:44:30.460
‐ Lin‐derella!

1146
00:44:30.460 --> 00:44:33.174
‐ Animals dress me
for the show!

1147
00:44:33.174 --> 00:44:34.678
Okay, I'm ready.

1148
00:44:34.678 --> 00:44:36.180
‐ Man, you just don't‐‐

1149
00:44:36.180 --> 00:44:38.769
people don't have
an opportunity to be around

1150
00:44:38.769 --> 00:44:40.188
and love people,

1151
00:44:40.188 --> 00:44:41.984
you know, guys
that you absolutely love,

1152
00:44:41.984 --> 00:44:43.737
who are not related to you,
you know what I mean?

1153
00:44:43.737 --> 00:44:46.952
Like it's just uncommon.

1154
00:44:46.952 --> 00:44:49.331
I think if more people had
this kind of experience,

1155
00:44:49.331 --> 00:44:52.170
truly the world would
be happier place.

1156
00:44:52.170 --> 00:44:54.801
♪ ♪

1157
00:44:54.801 --> 00:44:57.599
BOTH: Rejoicing reunion!

1158
00:44:57.599 --> 00:44:59.519
LIN‐MANUEL:
That was an original musical

1159
00:44:59.519 --> 00:45:01.063
we wrote in the 6th grade.

1160
00:45:01.063 --> 00:45:04.194
‐ I basically wrote a rap.
A nerd rap that went, uh...

1161
00:45:05.948 --> 00:45:08.244
♪ Computers,
they are a pastime ♪

1162
00:45:08.244 --> 00:45:10.457
BOTH: ♪ Calculators,
we used it last time ♪

1163
00:45:10.457 --> 00:45:12.461
♪ To find the square root
of a rhyme ♪

1164
00:45:12.461 --> 00:45:14.006
♪ That was where
we find the time ♪

1165
00:45:14.006 --> 00:45:15.927
[both talking over each other]

1166
00:45:15.927 --> 00:45:17.304
♪ Someone paid us
just in time ♪

1167
00:45:17.304 --> 00:45:19.183
‐ Yeah, that was the one
about the cool kids.

1168
00:45:19.183 --> 00:45:20.811
It was all about the clicks.
‐ Cool kids and‐‐yeah.

1169
00:45:20.811 --> 00:45:22.523
‐ ♪ 'Cause we are cool ♪

1170
00:45:22.523 --> 00:45:24.360
♪ We get good grades ♪

1171
00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:26.364
I've known Arthur
since third grade.

1172
00:45:26.364 --> 00:45:28.619
We went to the same
elementary school.

1173
00:45:28.619 --> 00:45:30.539
And the first time I met him,

1174
00:45:30.539 --> 00:45:33.754
I knew because there was this
rumor that this kid could spell

1175
00:45:33.754 --> 00:45:35.967
supercalifragilistic
expialidocious.

1176
00:45:35.967 --> 00:45:38.639
I went over to my said,
"I hear you can spell

1177
00:45:38.639 --> 00:45:41.185
supercalifragilistic
expialidocious."

1178
00:45:41.185 --> 00:45:44.191
And he said,
"Backwards or forwards?"

1179
00:45:44.191 --> 00:45:47.447
[piano plays]

1180
00:45:47.447 --> 00:45:53.794
♪ ♪

1181
00:45:53.794 --> 00:45:57.384
THOMAS: Arthur the Geniuses
is the mystery element

1182
00:45:57.384 --> 00:45:58.804
of Freestyle Love Supreme.

1183
00:45:58.804 --> 00:46:01.267
He's sitting there creating
these beautiful sounds

1184
00:46:01.267 --> 00:46:02.687
with this fingers,

1185
00:46:02.687 --> 00:46:04.607
and then he just blows your
mind and opens his mouth,

1186
00:46:04.607 --> 00:46:07.446
and then goes back without
even acknowledging the crowd.

1187
00:46:07.446 --> 00:46:08.991
Just sort of floats on
and floats off.

1188
00:46:08.991 --> 00:46:10.410
He's the ethereal one.

1189
00:46:10.410 --> 00:46:12.582
‐ I think it might be a good
time for us right now

1190
00:46:12.582 --> 00:46:14.794
to unplug then and re‐plug.

1191
00:46:14.794 --> 00:46:17.299
‐ Sí, es una buena hora
para desenchufar y enchufar.

1192
00:46:17.299 --> 00:46:18.886
‐ We're gonna get another
word from you.

1193
00:46:18.886 --> 00:46:21.600
‐ Vamos a conseguir
otra palabra de ustedes.

1194
00:46:21.600 --> 00:46:24.939
‐ How about we get something
you couldn't live without?

1195
00:46:24.939 --> 00:46:27.904
‐ ¿Por qué no conseguimos algo
que sin ella no podrías sobrevivir?

1196
00:46:27.904 --> 00:46:29.784
‐ Something you couldn't
live without.

1197
00:46:29.784 --> 00:46:31.745
‐ Algo que necesitas.

1198
00:46:31.745 --> 00:46:34.500
‐ Instant noodles.
Good for you.

1199
00:46:34.500 --> 00:46:36.003
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Nail clippers!

1200
00:46:36.003 --> 00:46:37.715
‐ Nail clippers.

1201
00:46:37.715 --> 00:46:40.721
What else?
Keep 'em coming.

1202
00:46:40.721 --> 00:46:42.099
‐ Mascara.

1203
00:46:42.099 --> 00:46:43.894
‐ Baskara?
‐ Mascara.

1204
00:46:43.894 --> 00:46:45.648
‐ Mascara.

1205
00:46:45.648 --> 00:46:49.238
ARTHUR: It's funny because
True was originally created

1206
00:46:49.238 --> 00:46:51.283
'cause I've been playing
piano in the show,

1207
00:46:51.283 --> 00:46:53.204
and they were like,
"This is stupid."

1208
00:46:53.204 --> 00:46:54.833
Like, "Arthur,
you need to be singing."

1209
00:46:54.833 --> 00:46:57.254
♪ Mascara ♪

1210
00:46:57.254 --> 00:46:59.258
♪ Mascara ♪

1211
00:46:59.258 --> 00:47:03.934
‐ Ladies and gentlemen,
the word is mascara.

1212
00:47:03.934 --> 00:47:06.313
‐ The things that I learned
in the first couple years

1213
00:47:06.313 --> 00:47:09.444
of the group, like,
really, like, created

1214
00:47:09.444 --> 00:47:12.450
an understanding of,
like, performing

1215
00:47:12.450 --> 00:47:15.541
and even, like,
interacting with other people.

1216
00:47:15.541 --> 00:47:19.006
♪ Some people
can't even stand ♪

1217
00:47:19.006 --> 00:47:22.429
♪ To look at themselves
in the mirror ♪

1218
00:47:22.429 --> 00:47:26.437
♪ If it's still too early
in the morning ♪

1219
00:47:26.437 --> 00:47:32.032
♪ And they haven't put on
their mascara ♪

1220
00:47:32.032 --> 00:47:33.409
♪ Mascara ♪

1221
00:47:33.409 --> 00:47:35.581
ANTHONY: True is
a moment where we pull

1222
00:47:35.581 --> 00:47:37.877
an important word
from the audience,

1223
00:47:37.877 --> 00:47:41.133
and that word is then seen
through the lens

1224
00:47:41.133 --> 00:47:44.641
of each emcee
who's involved in the song,

1225
00:47:44.641 --> 00:47:47.437
and something that personally
happened to them.

1226
00:47:47.437 --> 00:47:50.443
♪ When I hear the word
mascara ♪

1227
00:47:50.443 --> 00:47:52.823
♪ Sometimes I know
I think about it ♪

1228
00:47:52.823 --> 00:47:54.827
♪ And I'm mad scared too ♪

1229
00:47:54.827 --> 00:47:58.042
♪ Oh, I was a little brother
to a big sister ♪

1230
00:47:58.042 --> 00:48:01.967
♪ Who clearly didn't
have enough to do ♪

1231
00:48:01.967 --> 00:48:05.849
♪ So, she was always
experimenting on me ♪

1232
00:48:05.849 --> 00:48:10.108
♪ Let me have the kind of
childhood I wanted ♪

1233
00:48:10.108 --> 00:48:12.153
♪ But, oh, I didn't want it ♪

1234
00:48:12.153 --> 00:48:14.283
♪ No, I didn't want it ♪

1235
00:48:14.283 --> 00:48:17.623
♪ But that morning, my mom,
well, she was gone and... ♪

1236
00:48:17.623 --> 00:48:21.046
‐ How much it's
about all of us, like,

1237
00:48:21.046 --> 00:48:23.134
digging into ourselves

1238
00:48:23.134 --> 00:48:25.138
and, like,
just finding the joy

1239
00:48:25.138 --> 00:48:26.766
in the things
we know how to do,

1240
00:48:26.766 --> 00:48:28.895
and turning them into a show.

1241
00:48:28.895 --> 00:48:31.985
♪ I'm getting up
in the morning ♪

1242
00:48:31.985 --> 00:48:34.072
♪ And I need to go somewhere ♪

1243
00:48:34.072 --> 00:48:38.665
♪ And relax my day brain ♪

1244
00:48:38.665 --> 00:48:41.003
♪ Just waking up ♪

1245
00:48:41.003 --> 00:48:43.215
♪ So the things I say
don't make so much sense ♪

1246
00:48:43.215 --> 00:48:46.055
♪ But I know I gotta get
out of the house ♪

1247
00:48:46.055 --> 00:48:48.100
♪ Get on the A train ♪

1248
00:48:48.100 --> 00:48:50.104
♪ A train ♪

1249
00:48:50.104 --> 00:48:51.900
‐ This shit is a hit.

1250
00:48:51.900 --> 00:48:53.987
[laughter]
‐ ♪ A train ♪

1251
00:48:53.987 --> 00:48:56.283
♪ A train ♪

1252
00:48:56.283 --> 00:48:58.412
♪ A train ♪

1253
00:48:58.412 --> 00:49:01.168
‐ True came about because
it just like there's

1254
00:49:01.168 --> 00:49:04.759
a lot of skill
that's being demonstrated,

1255
00:49:04.759 --> 00:49:09.434
but who are we and how can we
make that part of the show?

1256
00:49:09.434 --> 00:49:12.608
'Cause if you can have a comedy
show that makes you cry,

1257
00:49:12.608 --> 00:49:14.194
now we're talking
about something.

1258
00:49:14.194 --> 00:49:15.739
[laughter]

1259
00:49:15.739 --> 00:49:17.450
‐ All right,
I think we've got it.

1260
00:49:17.450 --> 00:49:20.582
‐ Dime.
‐ Yeah.

1261
00:49:20.582 --> 00:49:24.089
The word is vibrator.

1262
00:49:24.089 --> 00:49:27.011
[cheers and laughter]

1263
00:49:27.011 --> 00:49:32.690
‐ ♪ Like my grandmom who's
speaking through my soul ♪

1264
00:49:32.690 --> 00:49:35.612
♪ And I would let that
let me walk ♪

1265
00:49:35.612 --> 00:49:37.700
♪ Through a lot
of different doors ♪

1266
00:49:37.700 --> 00:49:40.163
♪ Don't you know ♪

1267
00:49:40.163 --> 00:49:44.296
♪ And one day I'd sit up
with my best friends ♪

1268
00:49:44.296 --> 00:49:49.306
♪ And vibrator ♪

1269
00:49:49.306 --> 00:49:52.563
♪ Yes, I would ♪

1270
00:49:52.563 --> 00:49:56.821
♪ Vi ♪

1271
00:49:59.493 --> 00:50:01.497
UTKARSH:
Anthony does this thing,

1272
00:50:01.497 --> 00:50:03.459
and he's taught me
how to do it now,

1273
00:50:03.459 --> 00:50:05.379
to take the word
and flip it.

1274
00:50:05.379 --> 00:50:07.175
♪ But here's the thing ♪

1275
00:50:07.175 --> 00:50:08.970
♪ At that time, 2005 ♪

1276
00:50:08.970 --> 00:50:11.475
♪ I had never ever seen him
perform live ♪

1277
00:50:11.475 --> 00:50:13.605
♪ And then I went to Ars Nova ♪

1278
00:50:13.605 --> 00:50:15.066
♪ This is actually a space ♪

1279
00:50:15.066 --> 00:50:17.445
♪ Owned by
the same theater company ♪

1280
00:50:17.445 --> 00:50:20.076
♪ And I placed myself
like in the back row ♪

1281
00:50:20.076 --> 00:50:22.121
♪ 'Cause I was real cool then ♪

1282
00:50:22.121 --> 00:50:23.875
♪ Smoking and drinking
and thinking ♪

1283
00:50:23.875 --> 00:50:25.629
♪ I was the sickest,
my friends ♪

1284
00:50:25.629 --> 00:50:29.845
♪ But then,
they came out on stage ♪

1285
00:50:29.845 --> 00:50:33.018
♪ Holy shit,
the audience was amazed ♪

1286
00:50:33.018 --> 00:50:35.064
♪ If I had a vibe rater ♪

1287
00:50:35.064 --> 00:50:38.070
♪ That vibe would be higher
than anything ♪

1288
00:50:38.070 --> 00:50:40.366
♪ It would be hotter
than the equator ♪

1289
00:50:40.366 --> 00:50:43.999
♪ If that vibe rater
really existed ♪

1290
00:50:43.999 --> 00:50:45.752
♪ That vibe would
be tippy top ♪

1291
00:50:45.752 --> 00:50:47.673
♪ It got my whole mind
twisted ♪

1292
00:50:47.673 --> 00:50:49.217
♪ So we can say ♪

1293
00:50:49.217 --> 00:50:51.263
♪ I love you every single day ♪

1294
00:50:51.263 --> 00:50:52.808
♪ The band is back
to‐fucking‐gether ♪

1295
00:50:52.808 --> 00:50:55.606
♪ And we're here
and we can play, yeah ♪

1296
00:50:57.818 --> 00:51:00.657
‐ Do you get any levels of
stress when you go out there?

1297
00:51:00.657 --> 00:51:01.868
‐ I did today.

1298
00:51:01.868 --> 00:51:03.329
I had a slow show
in the beginning.

1299
00:51:03.329 --> 00:51:04.957
It was like, no,
the words aren't coming out,

1300
00:51:04.957 --> 00:51:06.544
and it's the first time
that happened in this run.

1301
00:51:06.544 --> 00:51:08.632
‐ It's almost like speaking
another language, right?

1302
00:51:08.632 --> 00:51:10.217
Like if you do it enough
where you're immersed in it

1303
00:51:10.217 --> 00:51:12.180
and you, like,
start dreaming in it‐‐

1304
00:51:12.180 --> 00:51:14.225
and I've already started.

1305
00:51:14.225 --> 00:51:15.771
I don't know if you have.

1306
00:51:15.771 --> 00:51:16.856
But when we get into
a run of this,

1307
00:51:16.856 --> 00:51:18.192
usually by
the second or third week,

1308
00:51:18.192 --> 00:51:19.779
I have dreams that are
all in freestyle.

1309
00:51:19.779 --> 00:51:21.239
‐ I just‐‐the thought of‐‐

1310
00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:23.202
the thought of having
to go out there...

1311
00:51:23.202 --> 00:51:25.498
'cause the thought of going out
there and improvising is, like,

1312
00:51:25.498 --> 00:51:27.711
appealing but stressful.

1313
00:51:27.711 --> 00:51:29.297
But the idea of going out there
and having to do it

1314
00:51:29.297 --> 00:51:31.803
and make it rhyme
just seems mental.

1315
00:51:31.803 --> 00:51:36.019
It's like such a perverse bar
to have set for yourselves.

1316
00:51:36.019 --> 00:51:39.527
‐ In terms of the lessons
that freestyle teaches you,

1317
00:51:39.527 --> 00:51:43.660
there's plenty in here
for any artist, right?

1318
00:51:43.660 --> 00:51:47.083
Collaboration, listening,

1319
00:51:47.083 --> 00:51:49.797
fearlessness,
even when you're terrified.

1320
00:51:49.797 --> 00:51:51.216
Just sticking to it,

1321
00:51:51.216 --> 00:51:53.011
and you're gonna get
better at it

1322
00:51:53.011 --> 00:51:54.974
just by getting up on stage.

1323
00:51:54.974 --> 00:51:57.604
There's no substitute
for getting up on stage

1324
00:51:57.604 --> 00:51:59.232
and doing this.

1325
00:51:59.232 --> 00:52:00.569
We were having
tennis balls thrown at us

1326
00:52:00.569 --> 00:52:02.865
at those late night
shows in Edinburgh.

1327
00:52:02.865 --> 00:52:04.159
And then you just keep rapping

1328
00:52:04.159 --> 00:52:05.829
and you fucking throw
the tennis ball back.

1329
00:52:05.829 --> 00:52:09.419
ANTHONY: This is our first bad
press, um, here in Edinburgh.

1330
00:52:09.419 --> 00:52:11.089
‐ Yeah?
‐ Yeah.

1331
00:52:11.089 --> 00:52:13.177
‐ Luckily,
it's really bad, and...

1332
00:52:13.177 --> 00:52:14.513
‐ Really?
‐ Is it really?

1333
00:52:14.513 --> 00:52:16.517
‐ Yeah, it really is.
It really is.

1334
00:52:16.517 --> 00:52:17.895
THOMAS: I remembered
you arrived the day

1335
00:52:17.895 --> 00:52:19.272
that a bunch of reviews
came out.

1336
00:52:19.272 --> 00:52:21.694
And you said, "Tommy,
I don't wanna do anything

1337
00:52:21.694 --> 00:52:23.782
"that's gonna feel like
I'm intruding or invading.

1338
00:52:23.782 --> 00:52:26.161
This is going to be verité.
I'm a fly on the wall."

1339
00:52:26.161 --> 00:52:27.998
Is there any world where
you would read these

1340
00:52:27.998 --> 00:52:31.171
in front of the guys
and I could roll on it.

1341
00:52:31.171 --> 00:52:33.050
No, it's‐‐
I would never do that.

1342
00:52:33.050 --> 00:52:35.179
I'm just‐‐I'm not even here.

1343
00:52:35.179 --> 00:52:38.101
What if you leave them
on the coffee table

1344
00:52:38.101 --> 00:52:41.066
and the guys discover them
and you have to talk about it?

1345
00:52:41.066 --> 00:52:44.657
‐ "Do you hoop and holler when
a man in a baseball cap

1346
00:52:44.657 --> 00:52:46.326
"asks, 'Can you dig it?'

1347
00:52:46.326 --> 00:52:47.788
"Do you scream like a banshee

1348
00:52:47.788 --> 00:52:50.417
"when someone asks you
to say, 'Yo'?

1349
00:52:50.417 --> 00:52:53.800
"If you're so enthralled
to American hip‐hop culture,

1350
00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:57.056
"you might just enjoy
Freestyle Love Supreme,

1351
00:52:57.056 --> 00:53:00.271
"an all‐male hip‐hop
improvised comedy group

1352
00:53:00.271 --> 00:53:02.024
"from New York who make it
their business

1353
00:53:02.024 --> 00:53:03.528
to get funky with words."

1354
00:53:03.528 --> 00:53:05.197
MAN: Believe it.
MAN: Funky!

1355
00:53:05.197 --> 00:53:06.826
[overlapping chatter]

1356
00:53:06.826 --> 00:53:08.872
‐ We're just getting funky
with words.

1357
00:53:08.872 --> 00:53:10.750
ANTHONY: "It's worth
remembering that great rap,

1358
00:53:10.750 --> 00:53:14.758
"like a great symphony or
opera, doesn't come easy.

1359
00:53:14.758 --> 00:53:16.888
"And so improvised rap
is generally a matter

1360
00:53:16.888 --> 00:53:19.142
"of the most simple
and obvious choices,

1361
00:53:19.142 --> 00:53:21.647
making it
instantly disposable."

1362
00:53:21.647 --> 00:53:23.358
[laughter, cheers]

1363
00:53:23.358 --> 00:53:25.279
‐ That's our first bad review.

1364
00:53:25.279 --> 00:53:27.033
ANTHONY:
♪ Easily forgettable ♪

1365
00:53:27.033 --> 00:53:28.578
[rhythmically clapping]

1366
00:53:28.578 --> 00:53:30.039
♪ Easily forgettable ♪

1367
00:53:30.039 --> 00:53:31.751
‐ What?
What'd you say?

1368
00:53:31.751 --> 00:53:33.755
ANTHONY:
♪ Easily forgettable ♪

1369
00:53:33.755 --> 00:53:34.798
[somber music]

1370
00:53:34.798 --> 00:53:36.886
♪ Easily forgettable ♪

1371
00:53:36.886 --> 00:53:39.307
[voices talking indistinctly]

1372
00:53:39.307 --> 00:53:40.894
♪ ♪

1373
00:53:40.894 --> 00:53:43.900
[indistinct chatter]

1374
00:53:45.612 --> 00:53:48.701
‐ Oh, my God.
Speaking of fatty tuna.

1375
00:53:48.701 --> 00:53:51.373
Fucking Anthony with his
[indistinct] just walked in.

1376
00:53:51.373 --> 00:53:54.420
Anthony throws his heart
into everything he does,

1377
00:53:54.420 --> 00:53:55.840
and it's incredible.

1378
00:53:55.840 --> 00:53:57.594
I mean, his enthusiasm
is just infectious

1379
00:53:57.594 --> 00:53:59.890
and empowers a group, I think.

1380
00:53:59.890 --> 00:54:01.644
‐ Because we are
Freestyle Love Supreme,

1381
00:54:01.644 --> 00:54:02.896
ladies and gentlemen,

1382
00:54:02.896 --> 00:54:04.232
and my name is Two‐Touch.

1383
00:54:04.232 --> 00:54:06.194
I will be your host
for this evening.

1384
00:54:06.194 --> 00:54:08.365
Thank you very much.

1385
00:54:08.365 --> 00:54:12.331
‐ I'd say Two‐Touch
is like the daredevil

1386
00:54:12.331 --> 00:54:14.085
of Freestyle Love Supreme

1387
00:54:14.085 --> 00:54:15.672
because he's out in front.

1388
00:54:15.672 --> 00:54:17.299
He has to read the crowd.

1389
00:54:17.299 --> 00:54:19.137
He has to read us.

1390
00:54:19.137 --> 00:54:22.143
He's that middle man,
you know?

1391
00:54:22.143 --> 00:54:24.355
The kid's got such
a wealth of knowledge

1392
00:54:24.355 --> 00:54:27.445
that he‐‐he readily taps into.

1393
00:54:27.445 --> 00:54:29.449
‐ I don't know why,
but they're just‐‐

1394
00:54:29.449 --> 00:54:32.371
I just remember things
about certain countries,

1395
00:54:32.371 --> 00:54:35.085
like geography
and bridges and rivers

1396
00:54:35.085 --> 00:54:37.591
and mountain ranges,

1397
00:54:37.591 --> 00:54:39.595
and it's weird.

1398
00:54:39.595 --> 00:54:41.891
I just noticed your button
right now.

1399
00:54:43.686 --> 00:54:45.690
‐ Yeah.

1400
00:54:45.690 --> 00:54:48.111
‐ I know, but I love it.

1401
00:54:49.615 --> 00:54:53.790
Proud immigrant. Human.
From Canada.

1402
00:54:53.790 --> 00:54:56.002
Where in Canada?

1403
00:54:56.002 --> 00:54:59.383
‐ London, Ontario.
‐ London, Ontario.

1404
00:55:00.553 --> 00:55:03.350
That is a tragic sight

1405
00:55:03.350 --> 00:55:07.233
of a giant elephant dying
in the late 1800s.

1406
00:55:07.233 --> 00:55:09.320
That was the main attraction
to Barnum and Bailey

1407
00:55:09.320 --> 00:55:10.907
that created the story
of Dumbo.

1408
00:55:10.907 --> 00:55:12.744
‐ I didn't know that.
‐ London, Ontario.

1409
00:55:12.744 --> 00:55:15.207
That's the only reason
why I know London, Ontario.

1410
00:55:15.207 --> 00:55:17.169
It's because of this major
train accident

1411
00:55:17.169 --> 00:55:18.631
that happened‐‐
that killed‐‐

1412
00:55:18.631 --> 00:55:21.762
Jumbo was the name of the dog,
or the elephant.

1413
00:55:21.762 --> 00:55:23.724
‐ Oh, that's sad.

1414
00:55:23.724 --> 00:55:26.020
‐ I know why you left now.

1415
00:55:26.020 --> 00:55:28.943
‐ 'Cause of Jumbo.
‐ Tragic.

1416
00:55:28.943 --> 00:55:31.447
THOMAS: Two‐Touch
is the heart and soul.

1417
00:55:31.447 --> 00:55:35.080
Quite simply he is‐‐
he's the engine.

1418
00:55:35.080 --> 00:55:38.086
He's‐‐he's the guts
and the blood

1419
00:55:38.086 --> 00:55:39.590
of Freestyle Love Supreme.

1420
00:55:39.590 --> 00:55:41.384
LIN‐MANUEL: Anthony launches
into the first thing

1421
00:55:41.384 --> 00:55:42.929
that comes out of his mouth,
and he finds that

1422
00:55:42.929 --> 00:55:44.892
and that connects to this,
and that connects to this.

1423
00:55:44.892 --> 00:55:46.436
And it's really‐‐it's‐‐
it's really‐‐

1424
00:55:46.436 --> 00:55:48.608
we're going like this, but we
meet sort of in the middle.

1425
00:55:48.608 --> 00:55:50.319
‐ So who would like
to come up here

1426
00:55:50.319 --> 00:55:51.906
and share their day with us?
Now‐‐

1427
00:55:51.906 --> 00:55:53.450
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
It's my 40th birthday!

1428
00:55:53.450 --> 00:55:54.953
[cheers, laughter]

1429
00:55:54.953 --> 00:55:57.166
‐ Thank you so much!
That's awesome!

1430
00:55:57.166 --> 00:55:58.878
Who would like to come up here

1431
00:55:58.878 --> 00:56:01.049
and share their day with us?

1432
00:56:01.049 --> 00:56:03.721
[laughter]

1433
00:56:03.721 --> 00:56:05.516
ANTHONY:
I love it so much.

1434
00:56:05.516 --> 00:56:07.019
Day in the Life,

1435
00:56:07.019 --> 00:56:09.775
it's one of the things that
I have the most fun doing,

1436
00:56:09.775 --> 00:56:13.156
which is bringing up a stranger
and sitting them down

1437
00:56:13.156 --> 00:56:15.828
and helping them, A,
to feel safe and comfortable

1438
00:56:15.828 --> 00:56:17.666
and like they're a star,

1439
00:56:17.666 --> 00:56:21.548
and then also find ways
to sort of weave our show,

1440
00:56:21.548 --> 00:56:23.468
and the ethos of our show,

1441
00:56:23.468 --> 00:56:26.265
in throughout
their lens of the day.

1442
00:56:26.265 --> 00:56:29.564
THOMAS: Anthony is as facile
and nimble a brain and a host

1443
00:56:29.564 --> 00:56:31.777
as you could ever hope
to imagine.

1444
00:56:31.777 --> 00:56:33.446
Watching him do the interview,

1445
00:56:33.446 --> 00:56:36.160
watching him take words
from an audience,

1446
00:56:36.160 --> 00:56:38.833
decide where we're gonna go,
navigate the group,

1447
00:56:38.833 --> 00:56:40.002
lead from up there.

1448
00:56:40.002 --> 00:56:42.131
He's so much
the on‐field captain.

1449
00:56:42.131 --> 00:56:43.801
‐ As you make your way
up here‐‐

1450
00:56:43.801 --> 00:56:45.470
Oh, yes, smart.
Good‐‐good.

1451
00:56:45.470 --> 00:56:48.018
‐ Whoa, whoa, whoa!
‐ Unseen.

1452
00:56:48.018 --> 00:56:49.646
‐ We all saw that coming.

1453
00:56:49.646 --> 00:56:51.274
‐ Standard operating procedure.

1454
00:56:51.274 --> 00:56:52.986
UTKARSH: He chose
walking up the stairs

1455
00:56:52.986 --> 00:56:54.823
as the time
to take his sweater off.

1456
00:56:54.823 --> 00:56:56.325
‐ Oh, my God.

1457
00:56:56.325 --> 00:56:57.996
[laughter]

1458
00:56:57.996 --> 00:56:59.373
You're not‐‐
‐ Not great at walking.

1459
00:56:59.373 --> 00:57:00.918
No worries.
I'm gonna ask you to sit down.

1460
00:57:00.918 --> 00:57:03.006
So, let's do that.

1461
00:57:03.006 --> 00:57:04.718
THOMAS:
The way that he kneels down

1462
00:57:04.718 --> 00:57:07.640
next to an audience member
when he does that interview,

1463
00:57:07.640 --> 00:57:09.519
and he's perched there with
his arm around them

1464
00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:12.776
and it's just like,
you are so taken care of.

1465
00:57:12.776 --> 00:57:14.070
‐ Just to walk us
through your day.

1466
00:57:14.070 --> 00:57:15.615
So, do you have breakfast
together at some point?

1467
00:57:15.615 --> 00:57:17.367
‐ That's right.
‐ What'd you have?

1468
00:57:17.367 --> 00:57:19.288
‐ Banana smoothies.

1469
00:57:19.288 --> 00:57:20.750
‐ Awesome.

1470
00:57:20.750 --> 00:57:22.879
And that's‐‐
do you use a Vitamix?

1471
00:57:22.879 --> 00:57:24.298
I use a Vitamix?

1472
00:57:24.298 --> 00:57:26.177
‐ We can't afford that,
but, like, a Ninja.

1473
00:57:26.177 --> 00:57:28.389
[laughter]

1474
00:57:28.389 --> 00:57:30.728
‐ Check your privilege,
Anthony!

1475
00:57:30.728 --> 00:57:32.607
‐ Check your privilege.

1476
00:57:32.607 --> 00:57:34.235
ANTHONY: Oh, my God.

1477
00:57:34.235 --> 00:57:37.032
I am so white right now.

1478
00:57:37.032 --> 00:57:38.619
I have a Vitamix.

1479
00:57:38.619 --> 00:57:40.915
I totally have a Vitamix.
Wakanda forever.

1480
00:57:40.915 --> 00:57:42.752
Okay.

1481
00:57:42.752 --> 00:57:45.006
[laughter]

1482
00:57:45.006 --> 00:57:47.177
I'm a terrible person.
I'm a part of the problem.

1483
00:57:47.177 --> 00:57:49.306
‐ I want it.
It's on my Christmas list.

1484
00:57:49.306 --> 00:57:51.269
‐ I know what I'm getting you.
I know what I'm getting you.

1485
00:57:51.269 --> 00:57:53.858
Okay, so you guys use a Ninja.

1486
00:57:53.858 --> 00:57:56.195
You make subpar
banana smoothies.

1487
00:57:56.195 --> 00:57:59.076
Whatever.
And then is there...

1488
00:58:02.416 --> 00:58:06.592
‐ I think that
there's something

1489
00:58:06.592 --> 00:58:09.263
so pleasing about that
for an audience

1490
00:58:09.263 --> 00:58:11.184
just to give over.

1491
00:58:11.184 --> 00:58:13.062
"Okay, they got me."

1492
00:58:13.062 --> 00:58:15.150
And I think that's what
he does in that moment

1493
00:58:15.150 --> 00:58:16.820
that is transcendent.

1494
00:58:16.820 --> 00:58:18.657
‐ Now, I didn't
bring it up here

1495
00:58:18.657 --> 00:58:20.493
because I wanted
to look better,

1496
00:58:20.493 --> 00:58:22.414
but I have a cane
so I walk on a cane.

1497
00:58:22.414 --> 00:58:26.005
‐ Oh, a cane doesn't make you
look any less appealing

1498
00:58:26.005 --> 00:58:27.299
than you are.

1499
00:58:27.299 --> 00:58:28.677
You're an amazing human being.
‐ Thank you.

1500
00:58:28.677 --> 00:58:30.472
Okay, but anyway,
at that point...

1501
00:58:30.472 --> 00:58:32.226
UTKARSH:
You hear the word love,

1502
00:58:32.226 --> 00:58:35.608
but then to see it put into
practice by the guys on stage.

1503
00:58:35.608 --> 00:58:37.110
Anthony, specifically,

1504
00:58:37.110 --> 00:58:39.281
with the way that he carries
the tone as the host,

1505
00:58:39.281 --> 00:58:41.410
and you know, that comes
from Tommy in the way

1506
00:58:41.410 --> 00:58:44.208
that him and Lin and Anthony
put the show together.

1507
00:58:44.208 --> 00:58:47.172
Like, it's like truly
about, like, embracing

1508
00:58:47.172 --> 00:58:50.178
and celebrating
the human experience.

1509
00:58:50.178 --> 00:58:52.182
‐ Well, then
I thought I'd stay up

1510
00:58:52.182 --> 00:58:53.811
and do a crossword puzzle.

1511
00:58:53.811 --> 00:58:56.023
‐ Yup.

1512
00:58:56.023 --> 00:58:59.071
So what crossword puzzle
did you do?

1513
00:58:59.071 --> 00:59:00.741
‐ The Sunday Times,
of course.

1514
00:59:00.741 --> 00:59:02.537
‐ Of course!

1515
00:59:02.537 --> 00:59:05.375
Because‐‐it is Thursday,
thank you.

1516
00:59:05.375 --> 00:59:08.549
Good call. Good catch.
Good catch.

1517
00:59:08.549 --> 00:59:11.638
So, talk to me about
the Thursday crossword puzzle.

1518
00:59:11.638 --> 00:59:13.726
Is it that you were starting
it on Thursday

1519
00:59:13.726 --> 00:59:15.521
out of just some old habit

1520
00:59:15.521 --> 00:59:17.399
or is it because you've been
working on it since Sunday?

1521
00:59:17.399 --> 00:59:19.445
‐ I've been working on it
for months now.

1522
00:59:19.445 --> 00:59:20.698
[laughter]

1523
00:59:20.698 --> 00:59:23.202
‐ Okay, is that what
you wanted to hear?

1524
00:59:23.202 --> 00:59:26.668
Is that why you were‐‐
you feel better now?

1525
00:59:26.668 --> 00:59:30.050
Nancy, can we hang out
after this?

1526
00:59:30.050 --> 00:59:32.012
LIN‐MANUEL: I come home
and my wife asks me

1527
00:59:32.012 --> 00:59:34.183
what happened at the freestyle
show the night before.

1528
00:59:34.183 --> 00:59:35.811
On Hamilton,
she didn't do that.

1529
00:59:35.811 --> 00:59:37.105
The show was the show.

1530
00:59:37.105 --> 00:59:38.650
But I would tell her

1531
00:59:38.650 --> 00:59:40.654
"You've got to hear this
Day in the Life we got.

1532
00:59:40.654 --> 00:59:42.407
"Nancy Hillman.
And Anthony said,

1533
00:59:42.407 --> 00:59:44.746
"'How long you been working on
the New York times crossword?'

1534
00:59:44.746 --> 00:59:48.419
'For months,'" you know,
and Vanessa dies laughing.

1535
00:59:48.419 --> 00:59:51.718
♪ ♪

1536
00:59:51.718 --> 00:59:54.056
She first saw me in
a Freestyle Love Supreme show.

1537
00:59:54.056 --> 00:59:56.185
I mean, she knew of me
in high school.

1538
00:59:56.185 --> 00:59:59.901
I was a theater nerd,
and she was being cool.

1539
00:59:59.901 --> 01:00:02.740
Hi, I'm Lin‐Manuel Miranda,

1540
01:00:02.740 --> 01:00:04.744
and this is
my final competition piece.

1541
01:00:04.744 --> 01:00:07.124
It's called Sound Laser.

1542
01:00:07.124 --> 01:00:08.752
But I invited her on Facebook

1543
01:00:08.752 --> 01:00:10.840
to a Freestyle show
in Ars Nova.

1544
01:00:10.840 --> 01:00:12.510
We started talking then,

1545
01:00:12.510 --> 01:00:14.138
and then she went,

1546
01:00:14.138 --> 01:00:18.187
"That guy's smart.
That's hard to do."

1547
01:00:18.187 --> 01:00:20.024
And that's how I got my wife.

1548
01:00:20.024 --> 01:00:24.826
♪ ♪

1549
01:00:24.826 --> 01:00:26.412
Hi, I'm Lin Miranda.

1550
01:00:26.412 --> 01:00:28.082
I'm the composer, lyricist,

1551
01:00:28.082 --> 01:00:30.336
and star of
In the Heights and...

1552
01:00:30.336 --> 01:00:32.424
Hi, Amer‐‐
[chuckles]

1553
01:00:32.424 --> 01:00:35.263
[somber music]

1554
01:00:35.263 --> 01:00:40.983
♪ ♪

1555
01:00:40.983 --> 01:00:42.486
THOMAS: For In the Heights,

1556
01:00:42.486 --> 01:00:43.906
that was everything we had.

1557
01:00:43.906 --> 01:00:45.618
We just went like this.
That's what we got.

1558
01:00:45.618 --> 01:00:47.370
[upbeat music plays]

1559
01:00:47.370 --> 01:00:49.416
‐ Yeah.

1560
01:00:49.416 --> 01:00:56.055
♪ ♪

1561
01:00:57.057 --> 01:00:58.977
‐ And when that goes back...

1562
01:01:01.148 --> 01:01:03.236
LIN‐MANUEL: Heights,
in a very real way,

1563
01:01:03.236 --> 01:01:05.908
was me trying
to integrate the hip‐hop

1564
01:01:05.908 --> 01:01:07.494
I'd listened to all my life

1565
01:01:07.494 --> 01:01:09.289
and grew up listening to
and loving,

1566
01:01:09.289 --> 01:01:11.252
and matching
that lyrical content

1567
01:01:11.252 --> 01:01:14.299
and lyrical form to musical
theater storytelling.

1568
01:01:14.299 --> 01:01:16.011
MAN:
A five, six, seven, and‐‐

1569
01:01:16.011 --> 01:01:17.264
‐ ♪ Well, check the technique ♪

1570
01:01:17.264 --> 01:01:21.272
♪ Honk your horns ♪

1571
01:01:21.272 --> 01:01:25.739
[vocalizing]

1572
01:01:25.739 --> 01:01:27.075
THOMAS: I mean, In the
Heights was the first time

1573
01:01:27.075 --> 01:01:30.456
I was ever able to make
a living as a director.

1574
01:01:30.456 --> 01:01:33.254
THOMAS: Lin, I was just trying
to talk about you.

1575
01:01:35.091 --> 01:01:37.638
It's a maturity thing.
I feel like when he gets there,

1576
01:01:37.638 --> 01:01:39.141
he's going to be
a phenomenal talent.

1577
01:01:39.141 --> 01:01:40.894
CAMERAPERSON: One day.
‐ Yeah.

1578
01:01:40.894 --> 01:01:42.105
LIN‐MANUEL:
We were realizing,

1579
01:01:42.105 --> 01:01:43.525
"Oh, this
In the Heights journey

1580
01:01:43.525 --> 01:01:45.445
is gonna take a long time.

1581
01:01:45.445 --> 01:01:47.533
‐ I think the dynamic changed
when In the Heights

1582
01:01:47.533 --> 01:01:48.994
started getting really rolling,

1583
01:01:48.994 --> 01:01:51.791
that Tommy, Lin, and Chris
became unavailable

1584
01:01:51.791 --> 01:01:54.797
and started going to
a whole other level

1585
01:01:54.797 --> 01:01:56.216
of the theater world.

1586
01:01:56.216 --> 01:01:57.887
‐ ♪ And I'm there ♪

1587
01:01:57.887 --> 01:02:01.101
♪ I'm home ♪
ALL: ♪ Home ♪

1588
01:02:02.187 --> 01:02:05.986
[cheers applause]

1589
01:02:17.843 --> 01:02:19.346
LIN‐MANUEL:
It was also complicated

1590
01:02:19.346 --> 01:02:20.974
because Anthony was
a part of In the Heights,

1591
01:02:20.974 --> 01:02:22.477
but also not a part
of In the Heights.

1592
01:02:24.356 --> 01:02:26.736
Freestyle was a thing
we all still shared,

1593
01:02:26.736 --> 01:02:28.782
and then he moved
to San Francisco.

1594
01:02:31.830 --> 01:02:34.042
‐ When Anthony
felt compelled to, you know,

1595
01:02:34.042 --> 01:02:36.589
go to San Francisco
because his partner

1596
01:02:36.589 --> 01:02:37.883
was pursuing her studies

1597
01:02:37.883 --> 01:02:39.428
and doing something
really important,

1598
01:02:39.428 --> 01:02:41.306
like, it's life,
it's achievement.

1599
01:02:41.306 --> 01:02:43.269
It's‐‐it's the pursuit
of the achievement.

1600
01:02:43.269 --> 01:02:45.481
‐ [gasps]

1601
01:02:45.481 --> 01:02:47.653
Whoa!

1602
01:02:47.653 --> 01:02:50.241
We did it!
We're on your new bed!

1603
01:02:51.160 --> 01:02:54.124
What do you think, pickle?

1604
01:02:54.124 --> 01:02:56.838
Whoa!

1605
01:02:56.838 --> 01:02:58.592
‐ Daddy!
Daddy!

1606
01:02:58.592 --> 01:03:00.554
‐ It's awesome!

1607
01:03:00.554 --> 01:03:02.265
‐ You know, we still did
freestyle shows.

1608
01:03:02.265 --> 01:03:04.186
I can't think of a year
we haven't done a freestyle.

1609
01:03:04.186 --> 01:03:06.148
At least one or two
freestyle shows.

1610
01:03:06.148 --> 01:03:08.486
But it's different
when your founder

1611
01:03:08.486 --> 01:03:10.323
is on the other side
of the country.

1612
01:03:10.323 --> 01:03:14.832
‐ [vocalizing]

1613
01:03:16.168 --> 01:03:18.088
‐ The show is over.

1614
01:03:18.088 --> 01:03:20.009
‐ That's unusual.

1615
01:03:20.009 --> 01:03:21.763
Usually Chris
would come out and sing.

1616
01:03:21.763 --> 01:03:23.432
MAN: For someone who's, like,

1617
01:03:23.432 --> 01:03:24.936
a big In the Heights fan,

1618
01:03:24.936 --> 01:03:27.900
why is it important that they
sort of get what this is?

1619
01:03:27.900 --> 01:03:29.444
‐ Well, because they
kind of happened

1620
01:03:29.444 --> 01:03:31.031
at the same time, right?
LIN‐MANUEL: Yeah.

1621
01:03:31.031 --> 01:03:32.827
And they‐‐they fed each other.
CHRISTOPHER: Yeah.

1622
01:03:32.827 --> 01:03:36.083
‐ They fed each other.
I mean‐‐

1623
01:03:36.083 --> 01:03:37.753
Yeah, it's funny,
like, when we were‐‐

1624
01:03:37.753 --> 01:03:39.882
when we were doing
the run off‐Broadway,

1625
01:03:39.882 --> 01:03:41.636
and we‐‐anytime
we had a chance,

1626
01:03:41.636 --> 01:03:43.180
and you guys were doing a show,

1627
01:03:43.180 --> 01:03:45.727
we would run over after our
show and just come and do this.

1628
01:03:45.727 --> 01:03:47.146
‐ And now we're running from
the theater and hop‐‐

1629
01:03:47.146 --> 01:03:49.109
‐ Yeah, we'd hop in a cab
'cause it's just like‐‐

1630
01:03:49.109 --> 01:03:51.531
it's the most freeing thing
you can do.

1631
01:03:51.531 --> 01:03:53.785
You know, Chris
is a part of Heights.

1632
01:03:53.785 --> 01:03:55.622
Bill is a part of Heights.

1633
01:03:55.622 --> 01:03:57.000
BOTH: Hi.

1634
01:03:57.000 --> 01:03:59.337
‐ And you're seeing us
on the other side

1635
01:03:59.337 --> 01:04:00.799
of a lot of ups and downs

1636
01:04:00.799 --> 01:04:02.135
and ups and downs
and ups and downs.

1637
01:04:02.135 --> 01:04:04.014
And then we climb back up
on the diving board,

1638
01:04:04.014 --> 01:04:07.020
and we do more
freestyle shows.

1639
01:04:07.020 --> 01:04:10.736
MAN: [singing indistinctly]

1640
01:04:10.736 --> 01:04:12.698
♪ Yes, twice as nice ♪

1641
01:04:12.698 --> 01:04:14.827
BILL: I think that
Freestyle Love Supreme

1642
01:04:14.827 --> 01:04:17.081
is sort of, like,
the sum of its parts

1643
01:04:17.081 --> 01:04:20.505
in that we all have our own
careers and all our notoriety.

1644
01:04:20.505 --> 01:04:22.676
But it's not about
the awards you've won

1645
01:04:22.676 --> 01:04:24.555
or the movies you've been in
or whatever.

1646
01:04:24.555 --> 01:04:27.728
It's about these six guys
with very specific talents,

1647
01:04:27.728 --> 01:04:29.774
like making everybody
enjoy themselves.

1648
01:04:29.774 --> 01:04:32.780
‐ [vocalizing]

1649
01:04:32.780 --> 01:04:39.209
♪ ♪

1650
01:04:40.252 --> 01:04:42.841
♪ You don't got to be fit,
y'all, come on ♪

1651
01:04:42.841 --> 01:04:45.555
♪ I'ma tickle you,
have a ball now ♪

1652
01:04:45.555 --> 01:04:47.768
♪ You might find yourself
in a pickle boy ♪

1653
01:04:47.768 --> 01:04:50.064
♪ But I'll pickle you out
so you can have a bone ♪

1654
01:04:50.064 --> 01:04:52.569
That core of what
Freestyle Love Supreme is

1655
01:04:52.569 --> 01:04:54.030
is always gonna seep
its way

1656
01:04:54.030 --> 01:04:57.830
into whatever project
each guy is doing.

1657
01:04:57.830 --> 01:04:59.875
It just‐‐it‐‐
there's no way it can't

1658
01:04:59.875 --> 01:05:01.838
'cause it's just so‐‐
so much a part of us.

1659
01:05:03.465 --> 01:05:05.428
‐ Give it up
for Chris Jackson.

1660
01:05:05.428 --> 01:05:07.181
Whoo!

1661
01:05:07.181 --> 01:05:09.227
CHRISTOPHER:
We were always doing this.

1662
01:05:09.227 --> 01:05:10.939
This was it.
This was before Hamilton.

1663
01:05:10.939 --> 01:05:12.693
Heights doesn't happen
if it really‐‐

1664
01:05:12.693 --> 01:05:14.655
really, if it isn't for this.

1665
01:05:16.784 --> 01:05:18.454
THOMAS: Yeah, just that one
I guess on the top.

1666
01:05:18.454 --> 01:05:20.249
‐ Yeah.

1667
01:05:20.249 --> 01:05:25.217
♪ ♪

1668
01:05:27.472 --> 01:05:29.309
‐ Nervous?
No.

1669
01:05:29.309 --> 01:05:32.273
I guess we gotta
do it now, but...

1670
01:05:32.273 --> 01:05:35.279
‐ Yeah, we have
to finish the show.

1671
01:05:35.279 --> 01:05:38.160
‐ All right,
if you put the sign up.

1672
01:05:38.160 --> 01:05:40.791
You just burst into tears.

1673
01:05:40.791 --> 01:05:42.836
Come on.
Let's go.

1674
01:05:42.836 --> 01:05:49.850
♪ ♪

1675
01:05:52.898 --> 01:05:55.152
‐ Nobody knew that Hamilton
was going to be what it was.

1676
01:05:55.152 --> 01:05:57.115
Nobody could have known.

1677
01:05:58.200 --> 01:06:00.539
But as far as, like,
the inside track goes,

1678
01:06:00.539 --> 01:06:02.208
it felt like
the most brilliant thing

1679
01:06:02.208 --> 01:06:05.339
I've ever witnessed
or been a part of.

1680
01:06:06.258 --> 01:06:09.890
It certainly felt like it was
everything that was in Lin

1681
01:06:09.890 --> 01:06:14.149
that just couldn't fit the
narrative of In the Heights.

1682
01:06:14.149 --> 01:06:16.486
‐ ♪ I'll write to Congress and
tell 'em you need supplies ♪

1683
01:06:16.486 --> 01:06:19.785
♪ You rally the guys, master
the element of surprise ♪

1684
01:06:19.785 --> 01:06:21.371
♪ Chicka‐boom ♪

1685
01:06:21.371 --> 01:06:23.458
♪ I'll rise above my station,
organize your information ♪

1686
01:06:23.458 --> 01:06:26.173
♪ Till we rise to the occasion
of our new nation, sir ♪

1687
01:06:26.173 --> 01:06:28.260
Okay, you'll see it on Twitter.
Tag yourself.

1688
01:06:28.260 --> 01:06:30.222
[cheers]

1689
01:06:30.222 --> 01:06:32.226
♪ Rise up ♪

1690
01:06:32.226 --> 01:06:33.688
♪ What? ♪

1691
01:06:33.688 --> 01:06:36.527
‐ And is right‐hand man.

1692
01:06:36.527 --> 01:06:38.280
ALL: ♪ Ooh ♪

1693
01:06:38.280 --> 01:06:40.242
[voices fading]

1694
01:06:40.242 --> 01:06:42.539
[somber music]

1695
01:06:42.539 --> 01:06:46.087
‐ Writing Hamilton
was the most frustrating

1696
01:06:46.087 --> 01:06:50.429
and the most cathartic thing
in my life.

1697
01:06:50.429 --> 01:06:52.601
because I knew it was
my best work,

1698
01:06:52.601 --> 01:06:55.732
and I knew it would be ages
before it was right.

1699
01:06:55.732 --> 01:06:58.487
[applause]

1700
01:07:01.034 --> 01:07:04.249
CHRISTOPHER:
You know, never at any point

1701
01:07:04.249 --> 01:07:05.710
when we were doing Hamilton

1702
01:07:05.710 --> 01:07:07.171
did I ever look at
Tommy and be like,

1703
01:07:07.171 --> 01:07:09.843
"Well, Freestyle's dead.
We're never going to do that."

1704
01:07:09.843 --> 01:07:11.722
A very difficult time
for all of us

1705
01:07:11.722 --> 01:07:13.392
in the freestyle,
you know,

1706
01:07:13.392 --> 01:07:16.273
in the collective if you will,

1707
01:07:16.273 --> 01:07:18.485
a distant time.

1708
01:07:18.485 --> 01:07:20.030
We were over here, like,

1709
01:07:20.030 --> 01:07:22.201
we jumped on another
rocket ship.

1710
01:07:23.495 --> 01:07:30.467
♪ ♪

1711
01:07:31.094 --> 01:07:34.058
ANTHONY: I'm not a part of
the Hamilton journey.

1712
01:07:34.058 --> 01:07:35.937
Part of it was I was gone.

1713
01:07:35.937 --> 01:07:38.609
I'd moved away, you know,
I was living in San Francisco.

1714
01:07:38.609 --> 01:07:44.580
‐ You know, Anthony and I have,
in some way,

1715
01:07:44.580 --> 01:07:47.168
you know,
the furthest reach back

1716
01:07:47.168 --> 01:07:49.130
and then
the most divergent path

1717
01:07:49.130 --> 01:07:51.301
'cause when he left,
he was the person that

1718
01:07:51.301 --> 01:07:54.975
I was with all the time
and then I was with not at all.

1719
01:07:55.977 --> 01:07:58.858
ANTHONY: I didn't have a
regular interaction with him.

1720
01:07:58.858 --> 01:08:02.073
And then something
had kind of...

1721
01:08:03.868 --> 01:08:07.375
just ceased to exist
between us anymore.

1722
01:08:07.375 --> 01:08:09.838
‐ In a way, it's like the
furthest I felt from Anthony.

1723
01:08:09.838 --> 01:08:11.132
You know, I just‐‐I‐‐

1724
01:08:11.132 --> 01:08:12.803
it had been the most time
I spent away from him.

1725
01:08:12.803 --> 01:08:14.347
I'd really been spending
so much time

1726
01:08:14.347 --> 01:08:16.101
working this other thing
with a couple people

1727
01:08:16.101 --> 01:08:19.273
he's enormously close to also
with Lin and Chris.

1728
01:08:19.273 --> 01:08:21.779
And I just felt a lot
of that distance.

1729
01:08:22.823 --> 01:08:25.620
ANTHONY: So, I saw Hamilton
at the Public.

1730
01:08:25.620 --> 01:08:28.250
And I sent Tommy an email
the next day,

1731
01:08:28.250 --> 01:08:31.966
and I mentioned one or two
thoughts that I had.

1732
01:08:33.135 --> 01:08:35.139
‐ He gave me his thoughts
on my show

1733
01:08:35.139 --> 01:08:37.184
the day before the show
was freezing.

1734
01:08:37.184 --> 01:08:39.355
It doesn't mean
I don't value his opinion,

1735
01:08:39.355 --> 01:08:40.859
but if I want his opinion,
I'll just say,

1736
01:08:40.859 --> 01:08:42.571
"Hey, can you tell me
what you think about this?"

1737
01:08:42.571 --> 01:08:43.906
That's not what I needed then.

1738
01:08:43.906 --> 01:08:46.286
I needed him to say,
"This is fantastic.

1739
01:08:46.286 --> 01:08:47.747
I'm so proud of you guys."

1740
01:08:47.747 --> 01:08:50.377
ANTHONY: Tommy and I had
a pretty big falling out.

1741
01:08:50.377 --> 01:08:54.343
We had a major difference
around how we wanted

1742
01:08:54.343 --> 01:08:57.183
each other to‐‐to be inside
of a friendship.

1743
01:08:57.183 --> 01:09:00.397
And we couldn't‐‐we couldn't
find the common ground.

1744
01:09:00.397 --> 01:09:03.278
‐ And I remember talking
to him after that

1745
01:09:03.278 --> 01:09:05.909
and acknowledging that
our relationship changed.

1746
01:09:05.909 --> 01:09:09.791
That he was someone who
was incredibly close to me,

1747
01:09:09.791 --> 01:09:12.213
who was a mentor for me,
who pulled me into this.

1748
01:09:12.213 --> 01:09:15.385
And I didn't need mentors
in that same way anymore.

1749
01:09:15.385 --> 01:09:18.601
I needed to be peers with.
I needed to be equals to.

1750
01:09:18.601 --> 01:09:20.772
And when‐‐you know, the way
you identify a relationship

1751
01:09:20.772 --> 01:09:22.191
is often how it can stay,

1752
01:09:22.191 --> 01:09:24.530
and our relationship
had evolved.

1753
01:09:24.530 --> 01:09:27.661
Nothing would ever erase
the things that are true

1754
01:09:27.661 --> 01:09:30.123
about who he is to me,

1755
01:09:30.123 --> 01:09:31.669
who he will be,
who he was,

1756
01:09:31.669 --> 01:09:34.883
what his impact was in
the trajectory of my life.

1757
01:09:34.883 --> 01:09:38.098
And my love for him
has never diminished

1758
01:09:38.098 --> 01:09:40.018
and would never diminish
and I wanted to tell him that,

1759
01:09:40.018 --> 01:09:42.147
but I also need to say,
"But this is who I am now."

1760
01:09:44.778 --> 01:09:47.449
ANTHONY:
There's been a major change.

1761
01:09:47.449 --> 01:09:49.997
Whether it's on his end
or my end,

1762
01:09:49.997 --> 01:09:54.255
I'm not sure, but my
heart center is my family.

1763
01:09:54.255 --> 01:09:59.140
And all the choices that I've
made were to support them.

1764
01:10:00.852 --> 01:10:02.564
LIN‐MANUEL: Are we in
the Rose Garden right now?

1765
01:10:02.564 --> 01:10:04.108
OBAMA: We are.

1766
01:10:04.108 --> 01:10:05.820
Yeah, it must be
a little nerve‐wracking.

1767
01:10:05.820 --> 01:10:08.199
I hope I don't drop
these cards.

1768
01:10:08.199 --> 01:10:10.162
You ready?
We're getting the cue?

1769
01:10:10.162 --> 01:10:13.753
‐ During that very heated
2015, 2016,

1770
01:10:13.753 --> 01:10:15.506
when Hamilton
went from the thing

1771
01:10:15.506 --> 01:10:17.092
that everyone
was whispering about

1772
01:10:17.092 --> 01:10:19.263
to the thing that everyone
was shouting about.

1773
01:10:19.263 --> 01:10:22.771
BOTH: [vocalizing]

1774
01:10:29.993 --> 01:10:32.666
‐ But Hamilton is a unicorn,
and it just‐‐just‐‐

1775
01:10:32.666 --> 01:10:36.214
there's no way to quantify
or qualify the effect

1776
01:10:36.214 --> 01:10:38.426
that it's still having.

1777
01:10:38.426 --> 01:10:40.515
LIN‐MANUEL: I was sort of
cocooned from it

1778
01:10:40.515 --> 01:10:42.727
'cause I'm still doing
seven shows a week,

1779
01:10:42.727 --> 01:10:45.984
and so I can't go out to the
parties I'm being invited to.

1780
01:10:45.984 --> 01:10:48.656
I got two shows tomorrow.

1781
01:10:48.656 --> 01:10:51.829
I already knew who I was by
the time Hamilton came out.

1782
01:10:51.829 --> 01:10:54.041
I think it's hard when you
get hit with that wave

1783
01:10:54.041 --> 01:10:55.795
and you don't have
your shit figured out yet.

1784
01:10:58.968 --> 01:11:01.055
MAN: It's a hoodie.
Zip it up.

1785
01:11:01.055 --> 01:11:02.391
UTKARSH: ♪ I met a gypsy
and she hipped me ♪

1786
01:11:02.391 --> 01:11:04.020
♪ To some life game ♪

1787
01:11:04.020 --> 01:11:05.565
♪ To stimulate then activate
the left and right brain ♪

1788
01:11:05.565 --> 01:11:07.610
LIN‐MANUEL: You know,
U. T. K. was our Burr

1789
01:11:07.610 --> 01:11:08.988
in many incarnations

1790
01:11:08.988 --> 01:11:11.200
because he's got the singing
and the rapping

1791
01:11:11.200 --> 01:11:13.873
and the ability to really act

1792
01:11:13.873 --> 01:11:17.004
that we needed,
which is a high bar.

1793
01:11:17.004 --> 01:11:19.509
‐ Lin came to me,

1794
01:11:19.509 --> 01:11:22.389
and maybe this wouldn't have
panned out in the long run,

1795
01:11:22.389 --> 01:11:26.940
but Lin sort of came to me
with the role of Aaron Burr.

1796
01:11:26.940 --> 01:11:29.278
And we did it at
Lincoln Center.

1797
01:11:29.278 --> 01:11:31.365
And then we did it
New York Stage and Film.

1798
01:11:31.365 --> 01:11:33.913
But the most important things
for me at the time

1799
01:11:33.913 --> 01:11:36.000
were the party.

1800
01:11:37.252 --> 01:11:40.258
I was fully and utterly

1801
01:11:40.258 --> 01:11:44.391
a husk of a person.

1802
01:11:44.391 --> 01:11:46.730
♪ ♪

1803
01:11:46.730 --> 01:11:48.316
Don't film these guys.

1804
01:11:48.316 --> 01:11:52.282
At that point,
my alcohol use was like,

1805
01:11:52.282 --> 01:11:55.790
I couldn't deal and
I couldn't execute the way

1806
01:11:55.790 --> 01:11:58.002
that they needed me to,
and I had to step away.

1807
01:11:58.002 --> 01:12:03.639
And then Hamilton drops and
it's like, it's everywhere.

1808
01:12:03.639 --> 01:12:06.310
It's ubiquitous,
and it's a phenomenon.

1809
01:12:06.310 --> 01:12:10.987
And it's such an interesting
feeling to love people so much

1810
01:12:10.987 --> 01:12:13.283
and to be so happy
for their success,

1811
01:12:13.283 --> 01:12:15.162
and to be‐‐feel apart
of, really.

1812
01:12:15.162 --> 01:12:20.130
Because like Lin and
Tommy, Chris, Daveed,

1813
01:12:20.130 --> 01:12:23.804
I felt taken care of every
step of the way by them.

1814
01:12:23.804 --> 01:12:26.142
♪ But here's something
that I found was true ♪

1815
01:12:26.142 --> 01:12:28.647
♪ I couldn't stop drinking
whiskey every single day ♪

1816
01:12:28.647 --> 01:12:30.860
♪ Deep down,
I knew I had to stop it ♪

1817
01:12:30.860 --> 01:12:32.780
♪ I was falling they saw me
dropping ♪

1818
01:12:32.780 --> 01:12:34.074
♪ Out of the cot ♪

1819
01:12:34.074 --> 01:12:36.412
♪ They saw me falling
with no parachute ♪

1820
01:12:36.412 --> 01:12:38.124
♪ Pair of dudes
saw me falling ♪

1821
01:12:38.124 --> 01:12:40.838
♪ And apparently,
I couldn't carry the weight ♪

1822
01:12:40.838 --> 01:12:42.424
♪ Upon my shoulders
and probably... ♪

1823
01:12:42.424 --> 01:12:45.973
‐ And it really was a moment
that changed his life.

1824
01:12:45.973 --> 01:12:48.228
What happened and what didn't
happen with that show.

1825
01:12:48.228 --> 01:12:50.065
‐ And the positive thing
is‐‐is like,

1826
01:12:50.065 --> 01:12:52.779
"Hey man, like, how come you
don't pick up a drink?"

1827
01:12:52.779 --> 01:12:54.574
"Well, let me tell you about

1828
01:12:54.574 --> 01:12:57.622
this little thing called
Hamilton."

1829
01:12:57.622 --> 01:13:01.295
It's a wonderful, beautiful
gift that God gave me

1830
01:13:01.295 --> 01:13:03.007
or the universe that's like,

1831
01:13:03.007 --> 01:13:07.892
"Hey man, if you ever need a
reason to like stay on a path,

1832
01:13:07.892 --> 01:13:13.486
"that is one of integrity
and self‐care

1833
01:13:13.486 --> 01:13:18.747
"and of being connected to the
people around you, it's there.

1834
01:13:18.747 --> 01:13:20.668
It'll be there
for all of time."

1835
01:13:20.668 --> 01:13:24.676
♪ But now I'm making a new way
and that pain is over ♪

1836
01:13:24.676 --> 01:13:28.182
♪ I'm four years sober
and living wonderfully ♪

1837
01:13:28.182 --> 01:13:30.478
They're family.
They've been there for me.

1838
01:13:30.478 --> 01:13:32.817
I mean,
it's an exceptional connection.

1839
01:13:32.817 --> 01:13:35.238
♪ But anyway, these days
when I'm in pain ♪

1840
01:13:35.238 --> 01:13:37.034
♪ No drinking, no smoking ♪

1841
01:13:37.034 --> 01:13:40.123
♪ Just some water
and two ibuprofen ♪

1842
01:13:40.123 --> 01:13:42.670
[cheers]

1843
01:13:42.670 --> 01:13:44.632
‐ ♪ Ibuprofen ♪

1844
01:13:44.632 --> 01:13:46.093
THOMAS: Now,
seeing him with that skill

1845
01:13:46.093 --> 01:13:47.722
as much life as he's lived

1846
01:13:47.722 --> 01:13:50.895
in what he's chasing now on
stage is really elevated.

1847
01:13:50.895 --> 01:13:54.443
And so I feel like in some way
he might have the largest arc

1848
01:13:54.443 --> 01:13:56.823
in this group of where he
started and where he is now.

1849
01:13:56.823 --> 01:13:59.036
ALL: True!

1850
01:13:59.036 --> 01:14:02.000
[cheers]

1851
01:14:02.000 --> 01:14:05.006
[gentle music]

1852
01:14:05.006 --> 01:14:10.851
♪ ♪

1853
01:14:10.851 --> 01:14:12.772
WOMAN: Step up there, man.

1854
01:14:12.772 --> 01:14:15.068
I moved it to the trash
area, because...

1855
01:14:15.068 --> 01:14:17.990
[continues indistinctly]

1856
01:14:17.990 --> 01:14:21.288
♪ ♪

1857
01:14:21.288 --> 01:14:23.669
ANDREW: It's just, like‐‐
I could go through

1858
01:14:23.669 --> 01:14:26.883
every person in this group
and just be like, "Oh my God."

1859
01:14:26.883 --> 01:14:29.806
It's just like,
"I get to rap with heroes."

1860
01:14:29.806 --> 01:14:31.810
[indistinct chatter]

1861
01:14:34.566 --> 01:14:35.985
LIN‐MANUEL: I feel like
everyone knew how rare it was

1862
01:14:35.985 --> 01:14:37.864
that we were even
getting to do it.

1863
01:14:37.864 --> 01:14:39.951
And I always want it to feel
like that.

1864
01:14:39.951 --> 01:14:42.164
It felt like "pinch me"
for the whole month.

1865
01:14:42.164 --> 01:14:44.752
That's the circumstances under
which I wanna keep doing,

1866
01:14:44.752 --> 01:14:46.590
'cause none of us
has to do it.

1867
01:14:46.590 --> 01:14:49.596
Everyone's got
very full lives.

1868
01:14:49.596 --> 01:14:51.474
But life's a little better
when we do it.

1869
01:14:51.474 --> 01:14:53.060
MAN: Good. How are you?
‐ Good.

1870
01:14:53.060 --> 01:14:55.440
MAN: Happy last one.
‐ Happy last one.

1871
01:14:55.440 --> 01:14:59.114
♪ It's everything we've
worked for now ♪

1872
01:14:59.114 --> 01:15:01.410
UTKARSH: Wanna see
the fastest signature?

1873
01:15:01.410 --> 01:15:04.374
Watch.
Ready?

1874
01:15:04.374 --> 01:15:06.420
Swoop. U. T. K.

1875
01:15:06.420 --> 01:15:10.470
And then I'm gonna just do...

1876
01:15:10.470 --> 01:15:12.474
Tommy Kail.
Done.

1877
01:15:12.474 --> 01:15:14.896
[laughter]

1878
01:15:14.896 --> 01:15:16.858
[indistinct chatter]

1879
01:15:16.858 --> 01:15:21.075
ANTHONY: [vocalizing]

1880
01:15:21.075 --> 01:15:23.664
CHRIS: I hope that
the energy from all of us

1881
01:15:23.664 --> 01:15:27.295
and this whole movement is
enough to inspire other people

1882
01:15:27.295 --> 01:15:29.049
to start similar movements.

1883
01:15:29.049 --> 01:15:30.719
That if it's not
Freestyle Love Supreme,

1884
01:15:30.719 --> 01:15:33.391
it's letting the world know

1885
01:15:33.391 --> 01:15:35.771
that something like this
is possible.

1886
01:15:35.771 --> 01:15:37.984
‐ "Shockwave is important"
on three.

1887
01:15:37.984 --> 01:15:40.071
‐ No, like a final‐‐

1888
01:15:40.071 --> 01:15:42.117
Let's do a final, this is
our last show, something else.

1889
01:15:42.117 --> 01:15:43.244
CHRISTOPHER:
"This is the last show.

1890
01:15:43.244 --> 01:15:44.496
Shockwave,
you are so important."

1891
01:15:44.496 --> 01:15:46.543
One, two, three.
ALL: This is the last show.

1892
01:15:46.543 --> 01:15:48.504
Shockwave,
you are so important.

1893
01:15:48.504 --> 01:15:51.218
‐ On three!
[laughter]

1894
01:15:51.218 --> 01:15:53.807
ANTHONY: This is different
for us, too.

1895
01:15:53.807 --> 01:15:57.230
It's our last show
of the entire run.

1896
01:15:57.230 --> 01:16:00.111
So, thank you so very much for
being the last audience.

1897
01:16:00.111 --> 01:16:01.656
‐ What?

1898
01:16:01.656 --> 01:16:03.117
UTKARSH: I think
we all love it.

1899
01:16:03.117 --> 01:16:05.873
We love it so much
and we need it.

1900
01:16:05.873 --> 01:16:09.004
JAMES: You have to let
yourself be in the moment.

1901
01:16:09.004 --> 01:16:11.300
Well, we could take
a story someplace

1902
01:16:11.300 --> 01:16:14.014
and it doesn't have
to have a punchline.

1903
01:16:14.014 --> 01:16:15.643
We just took it someplace
that takes the audience

1904
01:16:15.643 --> 01:16:17.897
on a journey and they are
satisfied with that journey

1905
01:16:17.897 --> 01:16:19.358
and so are we.

1906
01:16:19.358 --> 01:16:21.153
It just feels good.

1907
01:16:21.153 --> 01:16:23.575
‐ This is already amazing.

1908
01:16:23.575 --> 01:16:27.750
You had an epileptic German
Shepherd named Ramona.

1909
01:16:27.750 --> 01:16:30.088
‐ [indistinct]

1910
01:16:30.088 --> 01:16:32.133
‐ Yup, obviously.

1911
01:16:32.133 --> 01:16:35.098
You accidentally opened
the front door.

1912
01:16:35.098 --> 01:16:37.060
AUDIENCE MEMBER: I was ten,
and she got hit by a car.

1913
01:16:37.060 --> 01:16:39.106
‐ You were ten,
and she got hit by a car.

1914
01:16:39.106 --> 01:16:41.443
‐ Oh, my God.
‐ She didn't die.

1915
01:16:41.443 --> 01:16:43.949
‐ [indistinct]
‐ And she lived to be 19.

1916
01:16:43.949 --> 01:16:45.076
Well, that story has
a little bit

1917
01:16:45.076 --> 01:16:46.913
of a happy ending to it,
doesn't it?

1918
01:16:46.913 --> 01:16:49.334
‐ ♪ Yeah, right now I am ♪

1919
01:16:49.334 --> 01:16:52.257
♪ Home alone and doing
it my own thing ♪

1920
01:16:52.257 --> 01:16:55.973
♪ With my Ramona, yeah ♪

1921
01:16:55.973 --> 01:16:57.225
♪ Oh, Ramona ♪

1922
01:16:57.225 --> 01:16:58.854
♪ She's so great, you see ♪

1923
01:16:58.854 --> 01:17:02.737
♪ The only problem is she
suffers from epilepsy ♪

1924
01:17:02.737 --> 01:17:05.659
♪ Which means she gets to
wiggling from now and again ♪

1925
01:17:05.659 --> 01:17:08.038
♪ And then she gets
to shaking ♪

1926
01:17:08.038 --> 01:17:09.917
♪ Oh, what a pain ♪

1927
01:17:09.917 --> 01:17:12.172
♪ And I don't have
any other siblings ♪

1928
01:17:12.172 --> 01:17:13.800
♪ So she's kinda my sister... ♪

1929
01:17:13.800 --> 01:17:17.140
THOMAS: When I'm watching
the show and I see, you know,

1930
01:17:17.140 --> 01:17:20.773
MacArthur Genius Award
winner on all fours

1931
01:17:20.773 --> 01:17:23.360
playing an epileptic
dog in Arizona,

1932
01:17:23.360 --> 01:17:25.406
I feel like we've done exactly
the right thing.

1933
01:17:25.406 --> 01:17:26.993
‐ [howls]

1934
01:17:26.993 --> 01:17:31.168
[laughter and applause]

1935
01:17:31.168 --> 01:17:34.174
‐ It's really, really good
to be back home, you know,

1936
01:17:34.174 --> 01:17:35.761
with all of it,
'cause this is

1937
01:17:35.761 --> 01:17:39.142
kinda like the nucleus
of all of that creative energy.

1938
01:17:39.142 --> 01:17:41.438
ALL: ♪ Ladies and gents,
we want to thank you all ♪

1939
01:17:41.438 --> 01:17:43.025
♪ For coming out this evening ♪

1940
01:17:43.025 --> 01:17:44.904
♪ Coming out this evening,
this evening ♪

1941
01:17:44.904 --> 01:17:50.498
♪ 'Cause we are
Freestyle Love Supreme ♪

1942
01:17:50.498 --> 01:17:53.839
♪ ♪

1943
01:17:53.839 --> 01:17:56.803
[acoustic guitar music]

1944
01:17:56.803 --> 01:18:03.817
♪ ♪

1945
01:18:07.156 --> 01:18:10.539
LIN‐MANUEL:
All we've got on stage is...

1946
01:18:10.539 --> 01:18:13.168
our lives and each other.

1947
01:18:13.168 --> 01:18:17.553
♪ ♪

1948
01:18:17.553 --> 01:18:20.057
The feeling of freestyling
and trading too

1949
01:18:20.057 --> 01:18:21.393
backstage before we go on,

1950
01:18:21.393 --> 01:18:23.982
that all feels
exactly the same.

1951
01:18:23.982 --> 01:18:25.276
The only thing that's changed

1952
01:18:25.276 --> 01:18:26.779
is we just have
that much more history.

1953
01:18:26.779 --> 01:18:30.494
We have that much more
life to draw from.

1954
01:18:30.494 --> 01:18:35.338
♪ ♪

1955
01:18:35.338 --> 01:18:39.054
I have this weird
memory of, like,

1956
01:18:39.054 --> 01:18:42.226
standing in my hallway mirror

1957
01:18:42.226 --> 01:18:45.316
when I was ten years old.

1958
01:18:45.316 --> 01:18:49.366
Like looking at myself,
I am three feet all.

1959
01:18:49.366 --> 01:18:52.455
I have a bowl haircut.

1960
01:18:52.455 --> 01:18:53.959
And just being, like,

1961
01:18:53.959 --> 01:18:56.756
"Never forget this moment."

1962
01:18:56.756 --> 01:19:02.392
♪ ♪

1963
01:19:02.392 --> 01:19:04.270
[hip‐hop music]

1964
01:19:04.270 --> 01:19:06.734
[indistinct chatter]

1965
01:19:06.734 --> 01:19:08.487
NEWS ANCHOR:
More than 15 years later,

1966
01:19:08.487 --> 01:19:09.991
the hip‐hop improv group

1967
01:19:09.991 --> 01:19:12.955
has taken over Broadway's
famous Booth Theater.

1968
01:19:12.955 --> 01:19:15.418
The show is called
Freestyle Love Supreme.

1969
01:19:15.418 --> 01:19:17.673
Lin‐Manuel Miranda is here.
Christopher Jackson is here.

1970
01:19:17.673 --> 01:19:19.217
[excited chatter]

1971
01:19:19.217 --> 01:19:22.181
MAN: [rapping indistinctly]

1972
01:19:22.181 --> 01:19:29.195
♪ ♪

1973
01:19:30.031 --> 01:19:32.160
[excited chatter]

1974
01:19:32.160 --> 01:19:34.665
JIMMY FALLON:
Now here are our performers,

1975
01:19:34.665 --> 01:19:37.253
Broadway's Freestyle
Love Supreme...

1976
01:19:37.253 --> 01:19:38.631
‐ Ahh.

1977
01:19:38.631 --> 01:19:40.217
FALLON: Let's hear it
for our performers,

1978
01:19:40.217 --> 01:19:43.516
Broadway's
Freestyle Love Supreme.

1979
01:19:43.516 --> 01:19:46.856
Broadway's
Freestyle Love Supreme.

1980
01:19:46.856 --> 01:19:48.526
[overlapping chatter]

1981
01:19:48.526 --> 01:19:50.947
FALLON: Oh, my goodness!

1982
01:19:50.947 --> 01:19:52.910
ALL: [rapping indistinctly]

1983
01:19:52.910 --> 01:19:54.622
FALLON: Wow!

1984
01:19:54.622 --> 01:19:57.669
You can catch
Freestyle Love Supreme

1985
01:19:57.669 --> 01:19:59.632
now at the Booth Theater.

1986
01:19:59.632 --> 01:20:01.426
Yeah, get a standing O.
Why not?

1987
01:20:01.426 --> 01:20:04.390
[indistinct chatter]

1988
01:20:04.390 --> 01:20:07.396
[somber music]

1989
01:20:07.396 --> 01:20:13.535
♪ ♪

1990
01:20:13.535 --> 01:20:15.789
‐ Right there?
‐ Yes.

1991
01:20:15.789 --> 01:20:18.586
‐ Thank you.

1992
01:20:18.586 --> 01:20:20.297
ANEESA:
Broadway has been a dream

1993
01:20:20.297 --> 01:20:22.636
for a long‐ass time for me.

1994
01:20:22.636 --> 01:20:26.351
For this to be my debut,

1995
01:20:26.351 --> 01:20:28.565
I could have never imagined.

1996
01:20:28.565 --> 01:20:31.027
But this is true,
it's real life,

1997
01:20:31.027 --> 01:20:33.658
and I am playing on stage
with these people

1998
01:20:33.658 --> 01:20:36.037
that I've looked up to
for the longest time.

1999
01:20:36.037 --> 01:20:37.541
That means so much to me,

2000
01:20:37.541 --> 01:20:39.587
and it's been a beautiful
experience.

2001
01:20:39.587 --> 01:20:41.423
‐ [indistinct]
‐ Have fun out there.

2002
01:20:41.423 --> 01:20:44.805
♪ ♪

2003
01:20:44.805 --> 01:20:47.393
‐ [humming]

2004
01:20:47.393 --> 01:20:50.399
[water running]

2005
01:20:54.032 --> 01:20:56.077
‐ Michael,
how have you been?

2006
01:20:56.077 --> 01:20:57.664
UTKARSH: ♪ I met a gypsy
and she hipped me ♪

2007
01:20:57.664 --> 01:20:59.167
ALL: ♪ To some life game ♪

2008
01:20:59.167 --> 01:21:00.502
UTKARSH: ♪ To stimulate then
activate the left and ♪

2009
01:21:00.502 --> 01:21:01.881
ALL: ♪ Right brain ♪

2010
01:21:01.881 --> 01:21:03.175
UTKARSH: ♪ Said baby boy
you only funky as your ♪

2011
01:21:03.175 --> 01:21:04.720
ALL: ♪ Last cut ♪

2012
01:21:04.720 --> 01:21:06.139
UTKARSH: ♪ You focus on
the past your ass'll be a ♪

2013
01:21:06.139 --> 01:21:07.433
ALL: ♪ Has what ♪

2014
01:21:07.433 --> 01:21:08.895
♪ I try to just
throw it at you ♪

2015
01:21:08.895 --> 01:21:11.066
♪ Determine your
own adventure Andre ♪

2016
01:21:11.066 --> 01:21:13.070
♪ Got to her station
here's my destination ♪

2017
01:21:13.070 --> 01:21:14.489
‐ Oh, wow.

2018
01:21:14.489 --> 01:21:16.994
‐ Broadway, guys.
What the fuck?

2019
01:21:16.994 --> 01:21:19.207
ALL: I got your back.
I got your back.

2020
01:21:19.207 --> 01:21:20.794
I got your back.
I got your back.

2021
01:21:20.794 --> 01:21:22.631
I got your back.
I got your back.

2022
01:21:22.631 --> 01:21:24.384
I got your back.
I got your back.

2023
01:21:24.384 --> 01:21:25.971
‐ I got your back too.

2024
01:21:25.971 --> 01:21:28.308
UTKARSH: Let's do this.

2025
01:21:28.308 --> 01:21:29.812
Look at you.

2026
01:21:29.812 --> 01:21:31.607
‐ Look at you.
‐ Back where you started.

2027
01:21:31.607 --> 01:21:33.778
‐ Got me going.
‐ I'm as God made me, sir.

2028
01:21:33.778 --> 01:21:35.740
[all talking at once]

2029
01:21:35.740 --> 01:21:37.953
‐ As God made me.
‐ Is your mic on?

2030
01:21:37.953 --> 01:21:41.376
‐ Monday night, seven p. m.

2031
01:21:41.376 --> 01:21:42.754
‐ Ooh, yeah.

2032
01:21:42.754 --> 01:21:44.465
‐ All right, I think‐‐
I think they can hear us.

2033
01:21:44.465 --> 01:21:46.261
The mics are on,
so let's do this.

2034
01:21:46.261 --> 01:21:47.889
‐ Let's go.
‐ Mic check on three.

2035
01:21:47.889 --> 01:21:49.309
Y'all ready?
‐ Uh‐huh.

2036
01:21:49.309 --> 01:21:51.021
‐ One, two, three‐‐

2037
01:21:51.021 --> 01:21:52.273
[funky music]

2038
01:21:52.273 --> 01:21:53.943
SINGER:
♪ Ladies and gentlemen ♪

2039
01:21:53.943 --> 01:21:56.574
♪ ♪

2040
01:21:56.574 --> 01:21:58.327
♪ Ladies and gentlemen ♪

2041
01:21:58.327 --> 01:22:01.834
‐ All right, so let's take
Freestyle Love Supreme.

2042
01:22:01.834 --> 01:22:03.086
‐ Okay.

2043
01:22:03.086 --> 01:22:04.715
♪ It's like 10 or
11 years ago ♪

2044
01:22:04.715 --> 01:22:07.094
♪ These four met at
Wesleyan University ♪

2045
01:22:07.094 --> 01:22:09.390
♪ Though I wasn't there,
I was at NYU ♪

2046
01:22:09.390 --> 01:22:11.896
♪ Doing just what I do,
spitting rhymes here for you ♪

2047
01:22:11.896 --> 01:22:13.357
♪ But then they moved
to New York ♪

2048
01:22:13.357 --> 01:22:15.110
♪ And then they started going,
wouldn't stop ♪

2049
01:22:15.110 --> 01:22:17.866
♪ They did a show at
the Drama Book Workshop ♪

2050
01:22:17.866 --> 01:22:20.120
♪ Yeah, Tommy and Anthony had
a production company ♪

2051
01:22:20.120 --> 01:22:21.456
♪ Called Back House ♪

2052
01:22:21.456 --> 01:22:22.793
♪ What the heck
is that about? ♪

2053
01:22:22.793 --> 01:22:24.170
♪ Anyway, at the same time ♪

2054
01:22:24.170 --> 01:22:25.715
♪ Lin was writing
In the Heights ♪

2055
01:22:25.715 --> 01:22:27.719
♪ Where he met C‐Jack,
and C‐Jack could flow too ♪

2056
01:22:27.719 --> 01:22:30.265
♪ So they decided to go too,
and do a show or two ♪

2057
01:22:30.265 --> 01:22:31.769
♪ At this place called
[indistinct] ♪

2058
01:22:31.769 --> 01:22:33.355
♪ They were spitting rhythms ♪

2059
01:22:33.355 --> 01:22:35.610
♪ That's where they met
Shockwave, AKA Chris Sullivan ♪

2060
01:22:35.610 --> 01:22:37.739
♪ He was running it,
rumbling, and struggling ♪

2061
01:22:37.739 --> 01:22:39.075
♪ At the time
was an artist ♪

2062
01:22:39.075 --> 01:22:40.494
♪ But he could take
the beat farther ♪

2063
01:22:40.494 --> 01:22:42.624
♪ So they got together
and enter Arthur ♪

2064
01:22:42.624 --> 01:22:44.670
♪ Arthur and Lin went to
school together, man ♪

2065
01:22:44.670 --> 01:22:46.590
♪ Went to third grade,
high school, all of it ♪

2066
01:22:46.590 --> 01:22:47.801
♪ Then they met me ♪

2067
01:22:47.801 --> 01:22:49.303
♪ I was doing
a show of my own ♪

2068
01:22:49.303 --> 01:22:51.391
♪ And then they heard I rocked
upon the microphone ♪

2069
01:22:51.391 --> 01:22:53.604
♪ And Lin needed a replacement
for doing this shit ♪

2070
01:22:53.604 --> 01:22:55.650
♪ And I could rap off the
face, man, so I could spit ♪

2071
01:22:55.650 --> 01:22:57.821
♪ And then I joined the group
in like '05 or '06 ♪

2072
01:22:57.821 --> 01:23:00.367
♪ And I've been doing this
shit though ever since ♪

2073
01:23:00.367 --> 01:23:02.079
♪ These are my friends,
we do the television ♪

2074
01:23:02.079 --> 01:23:03.624
♪ We spitting rhythms ♪

2075
01:23:03.624 --> 01:23:05.502
♪ I'm the one and only
Indian revving his engine ♪

2076
01:23:05.502 --> 01:23:06.797
♪ Getting your attention ♪

2077
01:23:06.797 --> 01:23:08.425
♪ And I love you guys,
gentlemen ♪

2078
01:23:08.425 --> 01:23:10.095
♪ Did I mention
anything else? ♪

2079
01:23:10.095 --> 01:23:12.057
♪ I think that's it,
love you ♪

2080
01:23:12.057 --> 01:23:15.063
[cheers and applause]

2081
01:23:22.662 --> 01:23:24.332
♪ And Bill ♪

2082
01:23:24.332 --> 01:23:26.211
[laughter]

2083
01:23:26.211 --> 01:23:29.217
[gentle music]

2084
01:23:29.217 --> 01:23:36.189
♪ ♪

2085
01:25:33.591 --> 01:25:36.555
[seagulls calling]