Hey, all you glee gals and geeks! We’re bringing a very special episode to you this week — Hamilton the Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda!

We know, we know. Last episode, we said we were taking the week off to read Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Rest assured, we’re reading every bit of that billion-page book, but we’ve still got time to gush over one of our favorite musicals of all time.

Did you know that without Hamilton, there would be no Lit Society Podcast? In the summer of 2019, we started a real-life book club because Alexis wanted to read Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow before seeing the musical in London’s West End. The rest is history, much like this, the story of a founding father without a father who got a lot farther by working a lot harder and being a self-starter.

Listen to this before or after watching the film on Disney Plus.

Enjoy!