What'd I Miss + Cabinet Battle #1 - Hamilton Unedited Reaction
Added 2024-07-31 03:55:29 +0000 UTC"Mortius delicately tries to talk about indelicate subjects for 5 minutes"
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ive watched hamilton like hundret times, listened to it even more, watched your reactions i think like 3 times, and guess what? doing it again (since i treated myself with access to patreon for OAR) love ya guys so much <33 keep on slayin'
Axe
2024-11-24 14:23:49 +0000 UTCVIRGINIA MENTIONED‼️‼️‼️
Kat
2024-10-01 14:55:50 +0000 UTCI’m apparently super distantly related to Sally Hemmings which I guess shouldn’t have surprised me much as a Virginian that lives fairly close to UVA (university of Virginia) that has one of his houses on it. Doesn’t mean much but I take every opportunity it’s relevant to say it because I can 😂
Kat
2024-10-01 14:39:28 +0000 UTCOpen House Reactions, the profit has spoken!
Jeremy Gares
2024-08-16 17:16:53 +0000 UTCSally Hemmings was not Jefferson's wife. He had one of those too. The two had four children to reach adulthood and Jefferson freed them upon his death. He did not free Sally.
Laura Moore
2024-08-16 07:04:02 +0000 UTCOne cool thing you guys didn't mention, What did I miss uses blues to show that Jefferson is "out of time" and he is using the blues that preceeds rap. But he catchs up quickly and starts rapping.
Larissa Guilger
2024-08-13 22:50:18 +0000 UTCI hit enter again, unthinkingly. The big thing about the Whiskey Rebellion for this story in particular is that President George Washington deputized Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton to ride out with a military unit to collect taxes on Western Pennsylvania corn farmers who had distilled their corn into whiskey, both for ease of transport and for the higher prices whiskey fetched.
ATP
2024-08-12 10:27:10 +0000 UTCNo one has brought up the Whiskey Rebellion? Really? It's Jefferson's dagger line! It's massively important!
ATP
2024-08-12 09:11:38 +0000 UTCI was coming to find this point in the comments, thank you Andrea! Also, to me, Jefferson's purple represents that he is American aristocracy (despite his claims to be in touch with farmers, Jefferson was from one of the original aristocratic American families of Virginia--the Randolphs), while Hamilton's green represents not only the money he was responsible for as the first secretary of the treasury, but also the hustling ((positive)), upwardly mobile nature of immigrants throughout the history of the US, who do the dirty work to advance the country as a whole.
ATP
2024-08-12 09:06:46 +0000 UTCMortius, I love your joy and energy, but I do wish you knew a tiny bit more about US history. You fail to point out that "Monticello" is Jefferson's home, but even worse, you provide no context for Casper to understand slavery throughout these reactions. I know a lot of Danes, and they absolutely have no understanding of the background of slavery in our US culture. This play refers to it repeatedly, and you haven['t pointed it out at all. Jefferson's entire stair walk and subsequent "looking out at these rolling hills, I can't believe that we are free" punctuated by the ensemble playing LITERAL slaves and echoing his words, and you didn't point that out in the slightest? C'mon, man. Do you genuinely NOT know this? If so, I retract my criticism and ask you to look even deeper into why Hamilton is so groundbreaking, beyond it being one of the greatest musical theater masterpieces ever written.
ATP
2024-08-12 08:46:55 +0000 UTCCasper is literally a musical Jesus he just predicts things that's so amazing lol Mortius I feel you it's awesome how he does it lol
Zakksu
2024-08-06 06:56:15 +0000 UTCThis entire video is just "Casper try not to accidentally predict the very next lyric challenge: level impossible"
Ace Trainer Aster
2024-08-05 02:42:23 +0000 UTC"Slaytius" 😆. Already worth the cost of the membership.
Anon E. Mouse
2024-08-04 17:54:07 +0000 UTCAhh! Two of my favorite songs in Act 2. Also, awesome outfit!
Kenzie Wing
2024-08-03 06:46:26 +0000 UTCWhat's the brand of your new headphones Mortius! You can't say they're awesome and not say.
Mellissa Marcus
2024-08-01 18:23:12 +0000 UTCCasper: that was a real nice declaration of Thomas… ✨a few moments later✨ Hamilton: Thomas, that was a real nice declaration… Casper: Jefferson is talking a lot of shit for someone who didn’t show his face in the war at all… ✨a few moments later✨ Hamilton: don’t lecture me about the war, you didn’t fight in it… Casper: “dying is easy, living is harder” I feel like Washington could apply this here, like winning the war was the easy part, but now having to establish the government… ✨Yet a few moments later✨ Washington: ah, winning was easy, young man, governing’s harder Just a few of the best “analysis’s” (prophets moments) in this video. It’s insane.
Elsa
2024-08-01 13:27:15 +0000 UTCRe: Costuming - Off-Broadway, Jefferson’s costume was brown, symbolizing his (self-mythologizing) connection to farming/the earth. After seeing audience reaction to Daveed’s performance, they changed it to purple for the move to Broadway in an homage to Prince. Hamilton was always green, as Lin said, “the color of money”.
Andrea Hunt
2024-08-01 00:25:54 +0000 UTCComing in with more US History/Politics that no one asked for: there are so many legacies from Jefferson and Hamilton’s enmities. But one of those is the fact that SO MUCH of the Federal Government’s powers are still centered in the Treasury Department, that don’t have anything to do with money or finance. Jefferson firmly believed the Executive Branch should do as little as possible, and so he kept the State Department’s remit narrow. Hamilton looked around and said “someone should be do something about this!” and used his power as Treasury Secretary to do them. The Secret Service is under the Treasury’s remit. The Coast Guard started under Treasury, although it didn’t stay there.
Andrea Hunt
2024-08-01 00:18:05 +0000 UTCOn top of all this, Sally was 14 when Thomas raped her for the first time. He was in his forties.
Catherine Jones
2024-07-31 23:54:25 +0000 UTCYou guys should TOTALLY check out Daveed Diggs’s rap group, Clipping. He is insane
Alexis Locknane
2024-07-31 20:37:15 +0000 UTCI'm glad someone already brought up that Sally Hemmings wasn't married to Jefferson. IN FACT - HE NEVER FREED HER. He promised he would free her and her children BY HIM and while some of this children were "White passing" enough to escape into society, others weren't. Here's even more WTFness: Sally Hemmings was the daughter of a slave named Betty and HER master, John Wayles. John Wayles was also the father of Martha with his actual wife. The Martha that would marry Thomas Jefferson. Yes, Sally Hemmings and Martha Jefferson were half-sisters. After Martha's death is supposedly when Jefferson began his relations with her. When he was in Paris, Sally was with him and was actually free and PAID according to French law - she only agreed to come back with him and BACK INTO SLAVERY if any of their children got freed. He sorta kept this promise - his will gave freedom to the surviving children and as I said, a couple 'escaped'. Sally was not emancipated - Martha (Jefferson's DAUGHTER by Martha thus Sally's NIECE) let her go. It was not technically being freed by law, but did give Sally the chance to live near her sons for the last nine years of her life. It was only relatively recently in history that Hemming's descendants have been able to be acknowledged as Jefferson's descendants, and it took them having to fight for it for a VERY long time against obviously racist resistance. It's just an incredibly screwed up story that always gets tiptoed around when it comes to Jefferson. Americans (I am one and raised a southerner no less, I'm not bashing them!) have to face this really complicated reality of our founding fathers being brave, heroic, brilliant, mostly noble....while also being incredibly human and capable of really awful things. There's a lot of nuance there that is very difficult to grapple with and the only way to really approach it is to see them as fully flawed human beings but... not only is that hard, it also really goes against the desire to neatly place people in boxes of 'good' and 'bad'. It means realizing people can exist in murky shades and that's scary because if they can, then we constantly have to examine ourselves to realize that just because we're 'good' in one aspect, we could be not very ethical in another ourselves. Also, the above is still GREATLY simplified because my area of history expertise isn't early American history either. I focused my undergraduate on mythologies and belief systems then got my masters in literature. :P So, if I slipped up on something, I greatly apologize. I did try double checking a bit but that's not always flawless!
Bethany S
2024-07-31 18:54:27 +0000 UTCColor coordinated? New Mortius headphones with new attire? WOW! Great new start to OAR. I’m fascinated watching Mortius introduce Casper not only to musicals but also to American history’s nasty bits. Bravo tap dancing.
Dorothy Rosenberg
2024-07-31 14:47:01 +0000 UTCI love that pattern of the outfit
Maranio
2024-07-31 11:46:04 +0000 UTCFirst thing to say...mortius i love that outfit...it looks so cool
Marius
2024-07-31 09:58:47 +0000 UTCThe prophet doth protest too much, methinks
draeonic 🪼
2024-07-31 05:36:09 +0000 UTC...wtf was my brain thinking during that yeah wow
Open Arms
2024-07-31 05:29:03 +0000 UTCUhm. Sally HEMINGS had children by Thomas Jefferson (I don't think he married her?) Sally Jackson had a son with Wet Hades.
draeonic 🪼
2024-07-31 05:23:43 +0000 UTCOooooh, the black and gold vest! Looking so fancy~
Marianamystery
2024-07-31 05:22:00 +0000 UTCIstg what is Casper?!
Phoenix Mackenzie
2024-07-31 04:53:18 +0000 UTCi love it so much
MJ
2024-07-31 04:51:20 +0000 UTCTo put it into perspective, I'm pretty sure Hamilton had slaves via Eliza's family. Her father owned slaves, and some of them went to Hamilton and Eliza. It isn't addressed at all in the show.
Ashes2Ash
2024-07-31 04:30:05 +0000 UTCSo in your warning at the beginning to Casper (and I don't feel too bad as I know he's already seen a future song so it won't be spoilery), there are 4 major actors not 3 who change roles.
Bridget Beachley
2024-07-31 04:04:59 +0000 UTC'Merica lol
MandaPanda
2024-07-31 04:03:09 +0000 UTCAhhh!!! Yay!!
Bridget Beachley
2024-07-31 03:56:02 +0000 UTC
