Everything I've Waited for :) - PART EIGHT- Professional Composer + Vocalist Reacts - Hamilton

[@fluterify]

Hamilton payed the black mail with his own money not the governments.

[@DefenestrateYourself]

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[@lindal7385]

The text is Washington's actual farewell speech written by Hamilton

[@Handwritten-vu]

With Hamilton - “I never spent a cent that wasn’t mine.” - He didn’t embezzle.

[@marcus_jb]

On the unconscious of intentional errors, he’s just saying he didn’t purposefully do anything wrong

[@AdamNisbett]

In other language: To the best of my knowledge I haven’t done anything wrong, but I’m sure I’ve probably made unintentional mistakes along the way.

[@michellelamar8965]

I'm not sure if it's obvous to other people or not, but I always took "George Washington's going home" to mean both leaving office for retirement AND his death, because he sadly only got about 2 years of retirement. I think that's why the end of that song is so emotional, because time passes quickly in this musical, and I believe that is referring just as much to his death as to his retirement

[@Ameria]

They put so much thought into the staging of "Burn" that they literally experimented with and found just the right kind of paper and amount for Eliza to use where as long as she lights it at the exact right moment in the song, it would burn through and extinguish right when the song ends so there would be a lingering flicker of light from the bucket on the stage and then it would go out. It's so cool to see live.

[@SantosoWijaya]

What Hamilton was showing Jefferson et al was the accounting showing that he paid Reynolds his hush money out of his own personal account, not the government's. So it's not embezzlement, but still morally wrong (but not illegal).

[@__Black_Sheep__]

I know you're more focused on the music but please just rewind and take the time to actually listen to what's being said. It would answer so many of your questions.

[@0_ello_010]

literally like it WAS his own money hamukton literallt said that

[@dlweiss]

Embezzlement refers to someone stealing money from an organization they work for. Hamilton used his own personal money to pay off Reynolds. So it's *immoral* but not *illegal* in any way.

[@__Black_Sheep__]

You paused right in the middle of the greatest song of the entire show. That one did hurt for sure lol

[@ethanlivemere1162]

When you've finished the musical, you should watch the performance of One Last Time at the White House, given around the time of Obama's end of term. There was some real emotion there: Chris Jackson could see Washington's portrait while he was performing.

[@yonukdeh]

But watch the original Poetry Slam w/ Obama & LMM's proto-Hamilton first!!

[@auriellis]

He didn't spend any government money on the payoff so it wasn't embezzlement. He used his own money.

[@AdamNisbett]

Yeah, was surprised he missed the line: “I never spent a cent that wasn’t mine” Guess he was just too busy getting onto Hamilton for claiming it wasn’t embezzlement.

[@auriellis]

@AdamNisbett the one thing I've noticed is that he doesn't really pay attention to the lyrics haha

[@AdamNisbett]

@@auriellis yeah, It’s understandable when he’s in the midst of noting something about the music or an unrelated topic but it seemed like the whole song he just kept refusing to acknowledge what he’d heard. Alexanders’s like “It wasn’t embezzlement” and Nick: “Yes it was!” Hamilton “I didn’t commit treason” Nick “It was treason!” Hamilton: “Do you agree I haven’t misused my government position?” Jefferson, Adams: “Yeah sure whatever”. Nick “why are they not pushing more?”

[@ms_scribbles]

Heh, I know it's confusing, but he was quoting an actual 18th century speech from Washington that Hamilton wrote the first draft of. The language is going to be a little confusing. It's not early 17th century Shakespearean language, but it can be a little brain melting anyway. What he's saying is that despite knowing he made mistakes, none of them were intentional. As in, he didn't do anything wrong on purpose.

[@ms_scribbles]

You are correct. It's a direct recital of George Washington's Farewell Speech when he left office. He knew he was not clever with words, so he used Hamilton's skills. He gave him the outline of what he wanted to convey, and Hamilton used his writing skills to make it into a great speech.

[@JaggerG]

I interpreted it as him not being cognizant of any errors, but assuming he likely made some and remaining humble, to encourage his successors to make improvements and corrections.

[@ms_scribbles]

NO! It is not embezzlement to use your OWN MONEY to pay off a blackmailer. They were accusing him of using the tax payers' money. He didn't. He used his own.

[@ms_scribbles]

WTF? Why do you keep saying that paying off a blackmailer with your OWN money is treason?? I'm so confused by what you're saying. It's starting to piss me off now. What he did was a PERSONAL FAILING. It was not treason, it was not misuse of government funds, it was not ANY of that. They tried to accuse him of it, but they were wrong. That's WHY THEY LEFT. They had suspicions that were proven wrong. WTF is going on????

[@ms_scribbles]

Sorry, I'm just getting frustrated. They spell out exactly what is going on and you seem to be deliberately misunderstanding. Jefferson and crew: "We believe you've committed this crime." Hamilton: "No, I haven't, and this is my proof." Jefferson and crew: "Oh..." Hamilton: "I've done things I'm not proud of, but I haven't committed a crime." You: "AHA! SO HE HAS COMMITTED TREASON!" What??

[@tyrabrown4524]

In the Reynolds Pamphlet, Hamilton goes as far as to argue that James Reynolds, along with his wife, had conspired the scheme to "extort money from me."

[@talesyuki]

Which is... Quite a possibility. It wouldn't work had he not cheated, but may have been the plan all along.

[@tyrabrown4524]

Maria Reynolds was the wife of James Reynolds, and was Alexander Hamilton's mistress between 1791 and 1792. She became the object of much scrutiny after the release of the Reynolds Pamphlet and central in America's first political sex scandal.

[@__Black_Sheep__]

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Lin said that the deep voice that goes "damn" in Reynolds pamphlet is representing John Adams. It's the same voice used to call Hamilton "Creole Bastard" in Adams Administration

[@felixhenson9926]

'i am unconscious of intentional error' = I don't think I made a mistake I was aware I was making. Like, if I made a mistake it wasn't intentional or knowing. And yes, Hamilton wrote it for Washington's resignation. 'he sings again!' HE NEVER STOPPED YOU JUST BLUEBALLED US MID-SONG 🤣

[@AdamDray]

"I am unconscious of intentional error" = I do not know of an error I made intentionally

[@JaggerG]

If it's intentional, is it an error? Perhaps he meant "evident error" or some such.

[@carsonelliott6522]

@@JaggerG Errors=mistakes, which can be purposeful/done with malicious intent or accidental/done with good intent, just with different outcomes than expected.

[@NovaKnight_]

you’re not ready for the next songs after this 🤭

[@LauraVivian]

me and my mom were speechless in the end of One Last Time, she doesn't like musicals but she was stunned.

[@MewDenise]

Washington's speech was his ACTUAL speech

[@corvus1374]

I'd recommend First Burn, which is the version of Burn, which is the version that Lin did not release in the play.

[@laurenm.7264]

yes my favorite version !!!

[@wendydarling5790]

For me, One Last Time is the masterpiece within the masterpiece. It always makes me cry. The country is relatively great in some ways, but also falls short of some ideals.

[@st4rpt_603]

Phillipa Soo is an amazing singer....goddamn.

[@eva44940]

the point of the reynolds panflet is that hamilton wanted to make sure people knew that he didnt embezzle from the government. he was willing to sacrifice his marriage to prove that he never stole money from the government because that financial system was his baby. if people lost faith in it the whole thing could have crumbled cause it was still a new idea. he paid reynolds from his own pocket and his family didnt have much money at all, even after he dies eliza lives off of kindness from friends at points cause they didnt have any big nest egg of money

[@Stormed95]

Burn was the first song I heard from this show and I fell in love

[@Huntress59]

The song “ In the eyes of a Hurricane, portrays his arrogance . He thinks his writing or Bull can solve everything.

[@corinnecivish7673]

Will forgive you for the early cut off. King George, when he was advised that Washington was stepping down that, reportedly said "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.". Maria Reynolds divorced James Reynolds shortly (in contemporary time) after all this came to light. It was much harder for women to get divorces then. Burr was her lawyer! Reynolds was known to have been a violent man, who turned that violence on his wife and daughter.

[@felixhenson9926]

jussayin, from the point of view of a British person, none of us have heard of him rly before this show. We definitely know who George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are.

[@perrimadden6964]

King George upon hearing that Washington was stepping down, said that if Washington actually gave up power like that, that Washington might be the greatest leader ever.

[@b2ickwall978]

Fellow NC resident here. Enjoying these reactions! Next up I would love to see you react to the comedy musical Twisted from Starkid.

[@ElizaConstantino-l1m]

He didn’t know he made mistakes when he made them, but he know he must have done them being human…

[@pandorasboxbraids]

Hahaha, been waiting for you to realize the mistake since the last video! Yes, the spoken text is from Washington's real final address. I'd encourage you to look up the cast's performance of One Last Time at the White House in 2016. It was a farewell performance for the Obama administration. Not a dry eye in the house.

[@kendrascott8083]

You should cover Congratulations and First Burn, deleted songs from this part of the play.

[@the_eating_of_the_socks]

YES PLEASE DO THEY'RE SO GOOD ALSO THE FIRST VERSION OF 'SCHUYLER DEFEATED'

[@mangacraz00]

Random fun fact about the staging of ‘The Reynolds Pamphlet’ During the show they hand a copy of the pamphlet off to the conductor of the orchestra. You can see Jefferson do it right near the end of the song. On the tour I saw, the conductor was sitting too far away for a handoff to happen so instead the conductor pulled out a copy that was hiding behind his music. It was a total surprise 😂

[@mistybenjamin9009]

I saw that too

[@ElizaConstantino-l1m]

He didn’t know he made mistakes when he made them, but he know he must have done them being human…. Also John Adams was the American Ambassador to England, same as Jefferson was to France… He kept records to show he spend personal funds not government monies..

[@MewDenise]

Hamilton the musical always makes me wonder if people enjoy it more if they know history or not?

[@DefenestrateYourself]

Washington would have died without Casimir Pulaski to save him. Look it up ;)

[@askme2469]

You should watch were the cast sang one last time ar the White House when Obama was leaving

[@marc68521]

I feel like sometimes you get lost in trying to react and miss what is clearly being said. Which can definitely be caused by being in front of the camera but your lack of understanding what is going on does take away from the reaction. I do love watching your reaction to this but also figured I would give you my genuine thoughts.

[@felixhenson9926]

Bruh did you just ENTIRELY misunderstand the Reynolds subplot haha? Bc John Reynolds letter extorting him was read aloud to you like twice, and as other ppl said he didn't in fact engage in speculation and ABSOLUTELY not treason, that's a WILD claim lol.

[@MysticMyths]

So, a couple of things, then Jefferson, Madison, and Burr accuse him of speculation, that's what insider trading was called at the time. Second, Hamilton technically did a gray area thing: he used the government money then immediately replaced it when he could, so he did technically use government funds but also technically used his own money, so while what he did wasnt right, they didn't tell antone because the end result was nothing was missing. That's also why he said, "I never spent a cent that wasn't mine."

[@ms_scribbles]

Where did you get that in the musical? He DIRECTLY STATES "I never spent a cent that wasn't mine." He did *not* take government money and then repay it with his own.

[@meagancall5005]

@@ms_scribbles I think the comment is talking historically. And that would explain how Jefferson's people managed to uncover it in the first place.

[@MysticMyths]

@ms_scribbles If he wasn't taking from the government, Jefferson's people wouldn't have been able to find anything for Jefferson to have gone to him with accusations in the first place. If you check again, Jefferson says he has "the cheque stubs from different accounts", and hamilton says check his list against the stubs and see the consistency, then says he never spent a cent that wasn't his. He essentially took a loan from the government funds and then repayed his loan, probably because he didn't have the cash by the deadline Reynolds gave him, so he took, then on payday repayed. He kept his own list so that if anyone tried to say he committed treason, he could prove he put it all back. If he never took anything, then Jefferson wouldn't have cheque stubs or anything that would look like Hamilton took money.

[@AdamNisbett]

@@meagancall5005 no, historically what happened is that James Reynolds got into other trouble with the law for unrelated schemes and as an attempt to bargain his way out he tried to use his knowledge of Hamilton’s affair to leverage things. In the follow-up, Maria Reynolds also handed over notes she’d kept of the payments that Hamilton made. Monroe along with a few other men became aware of the payments from this. In real life Jefferson was not a part of the confrontation with Hamilton but rather Monroe and the other investigators confronted him but were convinced that it wasn’t illegal. However Monroe shared the documentation Hamilton had provided with his close friend Thomas Jefferson, who then later used it to start rumors 5 years later after which a journalist/tabloid writer managed to get a copy of and published some of the documents that Hamilton had handed over to Monroe but claimed that the rumors about this were actually just a distraction from more serious financial corruption of Hamilton misusing his government position. This is what led to Hamilton responding with the “Reynolds Pamphlet”.

[@battlegirldeb]

Did you realize you cut this off in the middle of a song? He knows now.

[@linaibarra416]

You should also listen to the cut songs from Hamilton, there is also another version from Burn and others that might like you

[@mistybenjamin9009]

It's George Washington's actual words.

[@adamlane5321]

Here for it!

[@jaynayoung108]

Just like Mordis guys. 😂

[@busylawbee]

I really wish you'd listen to the lyrics sometimes. You're quick to pause the songs to talk but then you talk over important information 🤷🏽‍♀

[@JanPopieluch]

I honestly can't understand how someone can be so bad in text comprehension. You have clear facts stated in lyrics (and subtitles), yet you completely disregard what they're saying, and then go on a tangent about something that's completely opposite to what's actually happened. And all that, while being an American, thus having at least some context about the history of your own country. I'm not from US, I'm not even a native English speaker. Yet I don't remember having any issue with understanding the events of Hamilton on my first watch.

[@ms_scribbles]

As an American, I don't get it either.

[@corinnecivish7673]

@@ms_scribbles Are you guys new to the internet? LOL People miss things, especially when they are trying to analyze them on the fly, and on several different layers. Lighten up.

[@busylawbee]

@@corinnecivish7673 If you believe that this is the first time he's watched or listened to Hamilton then I've got a bridge to sell you. I've yet to see one single reaction video to anything where I genuinely believe they are watching for the first time

[@SantosoWijaya]

Yo, chill.

[@violetception]

my guy... hamilton directly states that he never used government funds, all of the payments came out of his own money and personal accounts. that is, in fact, not speculation or embezzlement. i hope that if you're confused in the future you just rewind and pay attention to subtitles

[@jennym2276]

You really lost the plot. Hamilton used no money that wasn’t his to pay the blackmail.

[@StoryMing]

You should have tagged the first few minutes of this video onto the end of the previous one. Come on! -don’t tell us you couldn’t have re-edited what you recorded all in the same session! _”I never spent a cent that wasn’t mine“_ - Hamilton used his own money, not embezzled government funds, to pay off the blackmail. And he brought out the receipts to prove it.

[@BrandonCatalano-wq4sm]

Hamilton was fired by John Adam’s, he was admitting to the affair to avoid prison for stealing money before he was fired. All the money was his but it seemed like he was stealing money

[@moxishi]

It's really annoying when you don't pay attention to the lyrics....