Speaker 1: Joseph, what are you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm practicing my jazz hands for becoming an icon the musical.
Speaker 2: When you're lost and alone and have no one to hold,
Speaker 2: just look at us for guidance.
Speaker 3: Okay, that makes us sound like some weird cult. I
Speaker 3: don't know that I want to be in this musical.
Speaker 2: Well I'm committing to it.
Speaker 3: We do not have budgets. Hello, how many times do
Speaker 3: I have to tell you.
Speaker 2: That don't rain on my parade?
Speaker 1: By the way, I didn't know that you could like
Speaker 1: hit notes like.
Speaker 2: This, sing girl you got? I got a lot up
Speaker 2: my sleeve.
Speaker 3: Every under valuing you as a co host, like what
Speaker 3: is my problem?
Speaker 1: Anyway?
Speaker 2: It's true.
Speaker 3: While Joseph finishes his starring role and becoming an icon
Speaker 3: the Musical, we are here to talk all things Lin
Speaker 3: Manuel Miranda just one last time, and this is our
Speaker 3: last episode with the wonder Kind himself. But before we
Speaker 3: teach you how to say goodbye, we obviously have to
Speaker 3: chat it up to discuss everything we didn't get a
Speaker 3: chance to get to before.
Speaker 2: We've also got a very special guest, more fun trivia,
Speaker 2: and we play favorites with all of Lynn's projects by
Speaker 2: giving you our ultimate ranking cue the lights.
Speaker 1: I'm your host Lilianavosquez.
Speaker 2: And I'm Joseph Carrio and this is Becoming an Icon.
Speaker 3: A weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on
Speaker 3: how today's most famous LATINX stars have shaped pop culture.
Speaker 2: And given the world some extra.
Speaker 1: Subt Sit back and get comfortable.
Speaker 2: Because we are going in the only way we know
Speaker 2: how with Buenagunasrisa's some chees.
Speaker 3: And a lot of opinions as we relive their greatest
Speaker 3: achievements on our journey to find out what makes them
Speaker 3: so iconic. Before we say I have giost too, lin
Speaker 3: Manuel Miranda, we are welcoming a new guest to the
Speaker 3: Becoming an Icon crew.
Speaker 2: She's a New York native Latina Inner Team journalist focusing
Speaker 2: on all things pop culture.
Speaker 1: Let's give a very warm welcome to Kristin Malonado. Hi, Kristen, Hi, Christin.
Speaker 4: Hello, I'm so excited to be here with you guys
Speaker 4: talking about Linn men Moa, Miranda, let's do this.
Speaker 2: We are excited to have you. Well.
Speaker 3: I love this level of energy for Lynn, like here
Speaker 3: we are you guys.
Speaker 2: So, Kristin, I heard a rumor that you invited Lynn
Speaker 2: to your wedding.
Speaker 1: What I did, I did kla in the actual fuckery.
Speaker 2: Is this possible?
Speaker 4: So there's this thing that apparently people do when you're
Speaker 4: getting married, where like you just have so many invitations.
Speaker 4: There's like this spacebook, but that's like, invite the celebrities
Speaker 4: and they probably won't come, but maybe they'll send you something.
Speaker 4: And so I invited to worry Kelly, I invited uh
Speaker 4: Gabriela Glecias. I invited Lin Mamal Miranda and lind Manma Miranda.
Speaker 1: I even brought it up.
Speaker 5: Today to show you.
Speaker 2: He brought.
Speaker 5: He sent me a little picture and a.
Speaker 4: Little note he handwritten wrote to us, saying.
Speaker 5: Thank you for your gracious invitation.
Speaker 4: Although I was regretfully unable to attend, please accept my
Speaker 4: warmest congratulations on your nuptials.
Speaker 5: I hope your ceremony was as beautiful as your love.
Speaker 5: I wish you both a lifetime of happiness and wedded bliss.
Speaker 4: And then he said, and he signed it.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god, We're going to invite
Speaker 2: him to the opening of our musical and yes.
Speaker 5: I will enjoy his musical. I'm ready, girl.
Speaker 1: Do you work for tweets or likes? Or or chips
Speaker 1: and ships, because that's the kind of budget we're working with.
Speaker 5: All the above.
Speaker 1: Now, tell us why you are such a fan of Lynn.
Speaker 6: You know, I mean I grew up as a theater kid, right,
Speaker 6: and I just love how he's been able to really
Speaker 6: like change the theater industry with everything from in the
Speaker 6: Heights to Hamilton and then you know, even going beyond
Speaker 6: that into Hollywood and kind of showing that there's a
Speaker 6: place for Latinos in these different spaces that.
Speaker 5: We don't always necessarily to see ourselves in. And you know, like.
Speaker 4: Hearing this music that he's written that really like celebrates
Speaker 4: Latino culture and identity, it's just like so inspiring and
Speaker 4: it makes you feel seen. And that's why I really
Speaker 4: enjoyed all his music and the projects that he's come
Speaker 4: up with, you know, because he combines a little bit
Speaker 4: of everything. You know, he's got the Broadway roots, but
Speaker 4: then he's got the hip hop and then he's got
Speaker 4: you know, the Latin fusion, and you know, it's just
Speaker 4: things that I feel like we don't always get to
Speaker 4: see and he's like representing us and I just love that.
Speaker 2: Now, did you ever were you ever in theater?
Speaker 4: No? Just in high school and college, like middle school,
Speaker 4: high school, college.
Speaker 5: I did a lot of college.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4: I actually started out as a theater major. Before I
Speaker 4: was like, I need a full time job, so then
Speaker 4: I journalism. But that's what I got me into entertainment
Speaker 4: journalism was that love of like theater and entertainment and
Speaker 4: movies and television and being like, how can I kind.
Speaker 5: Of perform in a way still but make a career.
Speaker 4: I have a little bit more of a stable career,
Speaker 4: you know, And so that's how I got into entertainment journalism.
Speaker 3: Now, as a journalist, you get to cover a lot
Speaker 3: of amazing actors, producers, directors, writers. What we have found
Speaker 3: so interesting about our journey with Lynn is that he
Speaker 3: kind of touches all of those, right, He's like very.
Speaker 1: Close to being a freaking peagot.
Speaker 3: So, with your experience in entertainment journalism, is there anybody
Speaker 3: like Lynn out there?
Speaker 1: Or is he truly like one oak?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, well, how dare you Lilyana that it's
Speaker 2: too much, that's too much for it to handle right now?
Speaker 4: You know, I definitely think that there's people out there
Speaker 4: that are in the same kind of like crew like
Speaker 4: that are building towards that I think of, like someone
Speaker 4: like Lauria Caldron Kellett who writes and show runs and
Speaker 4: you know, I interviewed her and acts. I interviewed her
Speaker 4: a couple of a couple of years ago, and she
Speaker 4: kind of talked about how she first started creating her
Speaker 4: own projects because she wanted to be seen and wanted
Speaker 4: to be in them, and I was like that.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 4: You know, like we don't get to represent, we don't
Speaker 4: get to be represented all the time, so you know,
Speaker 4: we'd write it.
Speaker 5: For ourselves right and put ourselves in it.
Speaker 4: So definitely someone like her comes to mind, someone like
Speaker 4: Michael R.
Speaker 5: Jackson Polletzer Winner.
Speaker 4: Creating a story that represents queer black men, and I
Speaker 4: just I love seeing people who are who are trying
Speaker 4: to break boundaries and and show us in ways, you know,
Speaker 4: people in ways that we haven't been necessarily seen before.
Speaker 4: So that's another person that I think of that's that's
Speaker 4: killing the game.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 5: I love seeing that.
Speaker 3: You know, it feels like Lynn has just this incredible
Speaker 3: mass appeal children. Grandma's me Joseph of like black, white, brown, green, purple,
Speaker 3: it does not matter like, I'd rarely come across somebody
Speaker 3: that does not have something incredible to say about Lynn
Speaker 3: or Lynn's work. Why do you think his work has
Speaker 3: had the success that it has, Because here's the thing.
Speaker 3: If you had pitched me a musical about Alexander Hamilton
Speaker 3: that was wrapped, I would have been like, no, thank you, bye,
Speaker 3: no ooh no.
Speaker 1: But then you see it through Lynn's lens, through his pen,
Speaker 1: through his genius, and all of a sudden, it is
Speaker 1: everything that is in like the cultural lexicon, Like how
Speaker 1: does that happen for somebody? Like what did he do?
Speaker 1: How did he make magic? With Hamilton?
Speaker 4: You know? I think there's so many different levels to
Speaker 4: what needs to come together to create that magic. I
Speaker 4: think some of it is, you know, if you've spent
Speaker 4: like seven years writing that and like you can see
Speaker 4: every little easter egg and detail, And that's something that
Speaker 4: I really love, is like seeing those little easter eggs
Speaker 4: and his music of like oh this is a reference
Speaker 4: to like you know and a Chantiago rule kind of
Speaker 4: kind of song, or like this is a reference to
Speaker 4: this like specific hip hop you know artist, And I
Speaker 4: think stuff like that makes it accessible to people that
Speaker 4: never felt seen in those spaces Like I mean, I've
Speaker 4: watched Hamilton.
Speaker 5: I can't teall you how many times.
Speaker 4: I'm Disney Plus and my husband watches it with him
Speaker 4: because he's a hip hop fan and he connects to that,
Speaker 4: and so he's like, oh, that far goes hard, you know,
Speaker 4: and he's like surprised. But like, how like just how
Speaker 4: much it connects to to even someone that maybe wouldn't
Speaker 4: even necessarily be a huge fan of musicals, you know,
Speaker 4: it makes it really accessible. Then on top of that,
Speaker 4: you're you're bringing in people into like the production like Hamilton,
Speaker 4: having literally like so many different types of people, different
Speaker 4: genders and races, coming together to show the story that's,
Speaker 4: you know, typically been about like very white men. That
Speaker 4: to me is mind blowing and just shows how how
Speaker 4: you can kind of find yourself in these in these people.
Speaker 4: You know, like I might maybe have never connected to
Speaker 4: Alexander Hamilton, but then watching this production right where you're
Speaker 4: seeing people that look.
Speaker 5: Like you on this show, it makes you think that
Speaker 5: could be me.
Speaker 4: Like I could be a person making these changes and
Speaker 4: stuff like that. Really, I think just shows how like
Speaker 4: representation can really influence people to make big changes in
Speaker 4: the world. Just from seeing someone else do it.
Speaker 3: I love that you said that, because you're setting us
Speaker 3: up perfectly for the Little Mermaids.
Speaker 2: So, Joseph, how in the dare I'm not ready? I
Speaker 2: just got the goosebumps when you said that. What yes, Joseph.
Speaker 3: So you know, obviously when we think of Lynn, we
Speaker 3: think of In the Heights, We of course think of Hamilton.
Speaker 3: But let's take it current, right, because we just got
Speaker 3: hit with The Little Mermaid, the live action film. People
Speaker 3: have been waiting for this. Lynn posted such a cute
Speaker 3: Instagram story where he actually showed his VHS Little Mermaid
Speaker 3: cassette that he saved up to buy like in nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety when the film came out, and he was like,
Speaker 3: I remember buying this as a little kid, like walking
Speaker 3: to the video store in like two hundred and second
Speaker 3: Street and he opens it and it gave me goosebumps
Speaker 3: because it's such a full circle moment. Right, It's like
Speaker 3: you said, like, you work really hard seven years, like
Speaker 3: he was a substitute teacher when like In the Heights
Speaker 3: hit like and he's opening this VHS tape, which, by
Speaker 3: the way, you guys, do you still have VHS tage?
Speaker 5: Yes? I do. I don't, well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: What kind of VHS tapes you've got hiding in there.
Speaker 2: The ones I have at my house made it all
Speaker 2: the way to New York, but the other Disney ones,
Speaker 2: they say it at my mom.
Speaker 3: So let's talk about The Little Mermaid because he plays
Speaker 3: such a huge role in this film, obviously not on
Speaker 3: screen but behind the scenes, writing the music. And one
Speaker 3: of the things that he was asked about was obviously
Speaker 3: the controversy surrounding Ariel, right, and it being Chloe Joseph,
Speaker 3: you saw the film, what were your impressions of it?
Speaker 1: And also Kristin have you seen the movie?
Speaker 5: I have, absolutely, So.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go back to lin Manuel in general
Speaker 2: and then we'll go back to Ariel. But it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, what Lynn did for Hamilton is bringing in
Speaker 2: a different side of inclusivity where you're just kind of
Speaker 2: like listen rappers listen to words like they're telling you
Speaker 2: a story, right, And so he was able to get
Speaker 2: a different group of people to listen educate themselves with
Speaker 2: different sound. So now Ariel being a person of color,
Speaker 2: when I went to go see The Little Mermaid, I
Speaker 2: saw a mermaid, is what I will say so because
Speaker 2: I've been I know Lynn's type of stuff. Now, so
Speaker 2: what did you think about the movie since you thought
Speaker 2: what did you feel when you first the opening scene?
Speaker 5: I thought it was incredible.
Speaker 4: I think it's just watching things like that is a
Speaker 4: testament to me of it doesn't matter if you are
Speaker 4: the exact background of that person, but just to see
Speaker 4: another person of color in that space, like it felt
Speaker 4: really magical to me.
Speaker 5: And it made me feel like.
Speaker 4: You know, even as an adult, like I could be
Speaker 4: a little Morman, you know, like I could be whatever
Speaker 4: that is. Like, I just think that there's like this
Speaker 4: real power in seeing things like that, because I feel
Speaker 4: like there's so many times where you watch them things
Speaker 4: and you just think, well, I can't do that, and
Speaker 4: then subconsciously it's because, oh it's because I've only ever
Speaker 4: seen a white person in that role. And I do
Speaker 4: feel that like when I see something like that, when
Speaker 4: I see something like you know, even like six on Broadway,
Speaker 4: I think, oh my gosh, I.
Speaker 5: Can do that. I've been see there's been so many
Speaker 5: productions recently of.
Speaker 4: Legally Blonde that have been done that have black women
Speaker 4: as the role of Elle Woods, and I'm like it
Speaker 4: just it makes me feel like like tingles inside, you know,
Speaker 4: to just be like a wait, could you imagine that?
Speaker 5: Then I think it takes it to another another.
Speaker 4: Level of like, well I could be a part of
Speaker 4: making something like that happen, or I could you know,
Speaker 4: you could be a lawyer or something. You know, and
Speaker 4: like see yourself in spaces maybe that on television or
Speaker 4: movies you don't always necessarily see yourself in, but like
Speaker 4: those people exist doing those jobs in real life.
Speaker 3: I think that's the brilliance and the magic of him.
Speaker 3: You know, he just removes all of these barriers that
Speaker 3: really don't impact the impact of the character or the
Speaker 3: experience of seeing a film or watching a movie. He
Speaker 3: just strips all of that away and just gets right
Speaker 3: down to the core of like who is this person
Speaker 3: as a human?
Speaker 1: Right, And that's how we connect to characters.
Speaker 3: That we see in films, in television, in books, whatever
Speaker 3: that is. Like think about it when you read a book,
Speaker 3: like I don't usually assign a race, right, like I'm
Speaker 3: having an it's a character.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're developing the character exactly.
Speaker 3: And I think that's just what's amazing about him is
Speaker 3: his ability to do that all the time, Like he
Speaker 3: did that with in Gunhal right, like that was the
Speaker 3: first time like I felt seen in a Disney movie
Speaker 3: Joseph too.
Speaker 1: Right, he did it with Hamilton.
Speaker 3: He's doing it with the Little Mermaid and it's not
Speaker 3: like he's just doing it and it's like, eh, it
Speaker 3: was cool, it was okay. It's like he's doing it
Speaker 3: at the highest level, like the big like Disney, like Global,
Speaker 3: Like this man just crushes And I think you know,
Speaker 3: he doesn't just do films and television, he also does
Speaker 3: like documentaries. He brings so much attention to like causes,
Speaker 3: like as somebody who's Puerto Rican, like Chris and I
Speaker 3: know you're Puerto Rican as well. Like that what he's
Speaker 3: done for like our Island is incredible. Like aside from
Speaker 3: like Bad Bunny, nobody's brought that level of attention to
Speaker 3: Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: Like Hamilton's going back to Puerto Rico this summer. Like
Speaker 1: he doesn't stop. It's not like he's showing up when something.
Speaker 3: Bad happens and then he's like all right, peace, got
Speaker 3: my photo, op, I'm out. Like at the core, like
Speaker 3: Puerto Rico's his soul, it's his identity, it's his heritage,
Speaker 3: and like, I love the attention that he brought, love
Speaker 3: that he took the like Hamilton there. I love that
Speaker 3: he was influential on bringing Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight
Speaker 3: Show to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: Like he doesn't stop. And I think that's what's so amazing.
Speaker 3: He just constantly gives back to his community around him.
Speaker 3: And aside from almost being a pegot, which he's gonna
Speaker 3: get it, Like, let's be clear, he's gonna get it.
Speaker 3: He's just he's amazing. So we want to have a
Speaker 3: little fun with you, right, We want to do just
Speaker 3: a little game, okay, because Lynn is known like you said,
Speaker 3: or your husband said, he wouldn't be your husband say
Speaker 3: about his bars.
Speaker 5: Oh he got fire bars?
Speaker 1: Okay, So we know that Lynn has firebars, so we
Speaker 1: want to test your prowess when it comes to his firebars.
Speaker 3: So I have a feeling you know a lot of rap.
Speaker 3: We are going to test your skills. We're going to
Speaker 3: give you a lin Manuel lyric and a rap and
Speaker 3: I want you to tell me which is which. So
Speaker 3: is it rap realness or is this a lin Manuel lyric?
Speaker 3: Let's go such a blunder. Sometimes it makes me one er.
Speaker 3: Why I even bring the thunder? Is that a lind
Speaker 3: Manuel lyric or a rap?
Speaker 5: I think that's a rap.
Speaker 1: It's from Ribleton. Okay, don't worry, you got this, You
Speaker 1: got this.
Speaker 4: Up.
Speaker 3: Okay, between you and me, she's kind of a prima donna.
Speaker 5: I think it's a rap. And god, oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: How do I know know any songs I listen to
Speaker 4: the whole day.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna help you on this one, but I'm
Speaker 3: gonna hurt our listener's ears because I am not a rapper,
Speaker 3: all right, Right, Sometimes it makes me wonder her I
Speaker 3: keep from going under.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's a lin Manuel song.
Speaker 1: No, that's a rap. Isn't it a rap? That's a rap?
Speaker 1: That's the song that's a Grandmaster flash.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what it is? I need my husband
Speaker 5: here because family.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: No, you know what you need is you need me
Speaker 1: not rapping?
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you needed to like the actual sound.
Speaker 3: Bite, correct, Yeah, I need you need the soundwied. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, we're gonna try one more time. All right,
Speaker 3: here's another one. Lind Manuel lyric or rap realness. I'd
Speaker 3: start my life with a brand new lease Atlantic City
Speaker 3: with a Malibu breeze.
Speaker 5: I think it's a line.
Speaker 3: Final answer, Kristen, Yeah, okay, let's call your lifeline, Joseph
Speaker 3: car Joseph.
Speaker 2: It is definitely Linnen in the Heights, Oh yeah, because
Speaker 2: I love I love that part.
Speaker 1: You guys nailed that. Okay, well maybe did it nail it,
Speaker 1: but you had fun doing it, and that's all that matters,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 3: So before we let you go, you're such a lind fan.
Speaker 3: Joseph and I are also huge Lind fans. Our audience listening,
Speaker 3: if they weren't when they started this podcast, they are now.
Speaker 3: So let's rank your top three Linn projects of all time,
Speaker 3: because not only does that give us insight into who
Speaker 3: you are and people can find you and follow your career,
Speaker 3: but it also gives our audience some homework in case
Speaker 3: you pick something that maybe they haven't seen, haven't heard.
Speaker 1: Or didn't even know was attributed to Lynn.
Speaker 3: All right, so rank your top three Linn projects from
Speaker 3: these In the Heights, Hamilton, Mowanna and Ganto Vivl Tick
Speaker 3: Tick Boom in the Heights of the movie and The
Speaker 3: Little Mermaid. Okay, and go backwards, go three, two one, Okay.
Speaker 4: My three is in the Heights the movie. That soundtrack
Speaker 4: is just crazy. I love that soundtrack so much, and
Speaker 4: it's one of those ones that I feel like it
Speaker 4: was a bit underrated when I came out, But the
Speaker 4: more I like watch it again and again, I'm like.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, this is insane, Like it's.
Speaker 3: Just so it's also perfect time to listen hello summer
Speaker 3: on de I feel like they need.
Speaker 2: A release it. They really do. Just need to re
Speaker 2: release it for the summer in select theaters because it
Speaker 2: is everything. I listened to it when I'm walking. Okay.
Speaker 4: Number two, number two incan So I think that was
Speaker 4: such a fun movie. And you know, I actually had
Speaker 4: family visiting and we watched it again, but like in Spanish,
Speaker 4: and like I was like reading the subtitles and you
Speaker 4: could like it really changed the game, Like you could
Speaker 4: there was like so much more emotion.
Speaker 5: It like took it to another level.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be my homework, thank you.
Speaker 2: I have never thought of that.
Speaker 1: That's genius.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it was so it's so good and
Speaker 4: the music's incredible.
Speaker 5: So absolutely, and then number one, I gotta go Hamilton.
Speaker 4: Wow, Oh my gosh, I can't even tell you how
Speaker 4: many times I've listened to that, Like literally that that
Speaker 4: one trio of songs that's like satisfied and helpless.
Speaker 5: And like the opening of on repeat over and over.
Speaker 5: I like do performances in my living room.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna need to post that on it social media. Please.
Speaker 2: We are the same people, Christina, we are the same people. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to put this out there because you know,
Speaker 3: Lynn sent you that note. So, Lynn, if you're listening,
Speaker 3: we would love to know what are your top three
Speaker 3: projects of all time? And also, Joseph, do you want
Speaker 3: to jump in on this. I already know what you're
Speaker 3: going to say, and Ganto's is number one. Let's just
Speaker 3: end it right there.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Okay, but you know what in me
Speaker 2: researching Lynn, remember when we first were talking about Lynne,
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know. Okay, first of all,
Speaker 2: I didn't even fucking know. I was obsessed with Lynn.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to go it would be in the Heights,
Speaker 2: Mowana in Heights the movie, but in Ganto is just
Speaker 2: my I have never loved a Disney movie like I
Speaker 2: like that one.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: You what is yours?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: But It's also kind of not fair because have you
Speaker 2: seen The Little Mermaid justin yet?
Speaker 3: So The Little Mermaid cannot be on my list because
Speaker 3: I had not seen it.
Speaker 1: But I also have a two year old.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to say for me, number three would
Speaker 3: be In the Heights the musical, just because I'm so
Speaker 3: connected to that story. I'm also so connected to like Rent,
Speaker 3: you know, like I go so hard for Rent from
Speaker 3: the rest of my life. So In the Heights was
Speaker 3: kind of like the bridge that I needed, and I
Speaker 3: was like missing that element from my life. So In
Speaker 3: the Heights is just so impactful for me as like
Speaker 3: a young woman who's I don't know, like it was
Speaker 3: going through like discovery.
Speaker 1: I just really loved In the Heights.
Speaker 3: I just love it so much and connected me to
Speaker 3: my culture in a way that like I had never
Speaker 3: seen on the Broadway stage.
Speaker 1: I didn't know we could do that. So In the Heights.
Speaker 3: I'm going to say Mowana too because it is now
Speaker 3: on repeat all the time because I have a child
Speaker 3: and it's brilliant. And then I'm going to have to
Speaker 3: say Hamilton, I mean, I don't again like you would
Speaker 3: have told me fifteen years ago, that I would know
Speaker 3: like ninety percent of the lyrics to the Federalist.
Speaker 1: Papers, Hamilton's biography what, and I would know facts about
Speaker 1: American history. No, yeah, so Hamilton. So there we go.
Speaker 1: We share number one, Kristen.
Speaker 3: But I think for everybody listening, everyone has their own
Speaker 3: experience with it.
Speaker 1: But before we let you go, I do want to
Speaker 1: know what do you.
Speaker 3: Think the future holds for mister Miranda, Like, what do
Speaker 3: you want to see from him?
Speaker 5: I mean, I want another Broadway musical, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Well, you got one New York, New York, that's.
Speaker 4: True, But I want like another like full original, you know,
Speaker 4: like where he's putting everything out in there. I just
Speaker 4: think that it's so important the way that he's like
Speaker 4: telling such authentic stories about like our experiences and like
Speaker 4: owning those narratives and just like really showing how like
Speaker 4: opening like people's eyes to the possibilities for themselves that
Speaker 4: are so limitless.
Speaker 5: And I I want another.
Speaker 4: Like full original musical from him. I would also love
Speaker 4: to see, like I love to see like a Hamilton
Speaker 4: like movie musical adaptation.
Speaker 1: That would be really cool.
Speaker 2: Don't start Wow, Oh.
Speaker 5: That would be awesome. And then I mean I'm waiting
Speaker 5: for his oscar.
Speaker 4: I think, honestly, this is the kind of person that
Speaker 4: he's such a brilliant you know, writer, creator, composer, actor,
Speaker 4: Saint Rappert like everything that like, I can see him
Speaker 4: double peagot it, you know, down the line, maybe he'll
Speaker 4: be the first ever double peagt Damn.
Speaker 2: I literally just left the Zoom meeting.
Speaker 1: Well, Kristin, you have been incredible.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for sharing your passion for Lynn
Speaker 3: with us.
Speaker 1: And where can people follow you?
Speaker 4: You can find me at kmldo okay and the ld
Speaker 4: O everywhere, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok YouTube, and then on my
Speaker 4: website culture planet dot net, where I can for the
Speaker 4: world of entertainment while also shining a light on representation
Speaker 4: and inclusion.
Speaker 1: We love that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. This is so fun.
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna have to listen to the soundtracks a
Speaker 4: little bit more and you know, come back and represent
Speaker 4: for those rap songs down the line, because that was terrible, terrible.
Speaker 1: But so fun.
Speaker 3: Next on becoming an icon another triple threat singer, actor, dancer.
Speaker 2: And a downright inspiration to all.
Speaker 3: He blew open the doors for every Latino artist out
Speaker 3: there now Enrique Martine Moratis aka Ricky Martin. Becoming an
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