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I’m seeing Hamilton stuff on my dashboard, and it’s reminding me of a big regret I have. See, back in 2016, I won cheap front row tickets to see Hamilton’s original cast twice. But the second time wasn’t as cut and dry, and involved me denying someone else.

The first time, my now wife and I just won the $10 tickets from the online lottery. We were living in NYC, so we had plenty of opportunities. We actually won the tickets the day they got their Tony nominations! We hadn’t listened to the soundtrack, and by the third song we were looking at each other asking “is this the best musical we’ve ever seen?” Naturally, we got super into it. I looked up all the Hamilton things. I planned a day trip all around the city, going to different important places related to Hamilton (his grave, his house, and the scene of the crime that led to him and Burr sharing a case). I listened to Chernow’s audiobook. I was ENTHUSED.

A few weeks later, I needed to get something looked at by Apple tech support. I went into Manhattan, and it was a Wednesday - they had the live Ham4Ham going on, I figured I’d drop by myself. Nice time, fun stuff! And then they started drawing winners, and an older woman next to me was also alone. She turned to me, and said, “hey, if you win, take me, and if I win, I’ll take you!” Sure, okay, right? I said yeah! Chances are super low, but why not double them? Well, then the woman won! So I was going to see Hamilton a SECOND TIME with the original cast! Front row! Super pumped! So the woman leaned in and asked, “hey, can you give me $100 for this?” I mean. Yeah. Kinda bad to ask after the fact, but at this point, Hamilton was at PEAK popularity and tickets were going upwards of $1000. I’m not sure the lady was even aware of this, but yeah. I’d pay $100 for front row, “I could pet Hercules Mulligan if I reached out just a bit” seats. I told her yes. And then I fucked up.

As we formed the line to grab the tickets, a young woman and her dad walked up to the lady. They looked to me like they were probably tourists. And apparently, she’d made the same deal with them. They were excited. The young woman, clearly also enthusiastic, thought she’d just scored her ticket. And then the woman who had won the tickets gestured to me and said “well, he said he’d pay me.”

What.

Guys, I froze. Fight and flight both completely failed to kick in and I went full deer in the headlights. I’d already had my chance to see the show, this was probably this girl’s one shot, pun not intended when I wrote it but fuck it it’s staying in. But guys. I wanted it bad. And I hesitated at doing the right thing. I didn’t immediately volunteer my ticket. And the young woman and her dad, giving me dirty looks, decided not to get into a bidding war, and quickly departed. The whole interaction probably lasted 30 seconds.

Once we were out of the line, I looked around. Maybe the girl was still around and I could give her my ticket? No, she wasn’t. I was kicking myself pretty hard for not acting when I should have. From there, I had to stick with the woman who had won the tickets until the show, so we had a quick cheap lunch together, where someone commented on how expensive Hamilton tickets were, and her price went up to $200. I said sure. I wasn’t going to say no at this point - but I was feeling awful. When we made our way back to the theater, I kept looking around to try to find the would-be ticket winners. I was very confident I would be able to recognize them - they’ve faded from my memory now, but at that moment, they were just SEARED into my mind. But no such luck. They had fully moved on. And so I got to see Hamilton, on Broadway, with the original cast, in the front row, for the second time. The woman who’d won the tickets was surprised that I knew the songs, which… surprised me?

And it was great! I felt terrible the entire time, but I mean, it’s a great show! I couldn’t, and still can’t, believe I got to see the show twice that way. At the time, I don’t think I even fully appreciated how lucky this was - I knew it was, of course, but the magnitude didn’t really dawn on me until I started getting reactions from people. I’ve heard a lot of incredulous shouts of “TWICE?!” since then. But when I tell my anecdote of unbelievable Broadway luck, I typically leave out the part where I unintentionally swooped in and stole something from someone else.

I know it doesn’t count for much, but I’d love to be able to tell that young woman that I’m sorry. She had no way to know either that this was my SECOND TIME. It’s 8 years on, and no one follows this dead tumblr of mine, but if somehow this reaches your eyes, I think you’ll know who you were. And I should have done better.

#hamilton #alexander hamilton #broadway #musical #ham4all #ham4ham #lin manuel miranda #i don’t know what tags people use

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The time has come!  At 7 PM EST, we're doing the youtube premiere of our final fight against the Elite Four, and our Rival Patient 0!  Join in, it should be a lot of fun, and we'd love to see you there!

#watch party #pokemon #nuzlocke #elite four #champion #coronavirus #coronaquarantine #kanto #gen 1 #pokemon gen 1 #coronapocalypse #covid 19 #withme #stayhome #pokemon blue #pokemon red and blue #pokemon blue nuzlocke #pokemon nuzlocke #nuzlocke challenge #let's play #nuzlocke let's play #pokemon let's play #finale #raticate #dragonite #lapras #hypno #electrode #nidoqueen

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Today, we're doing some final prep for our Elite Four run, which we are doing as a youtube premiere watch party on our channel on Tuesday, 4/28 at 7 PM EST!  Let us know if you're going to be able to make it, we're planning stuff for it and it should be a lot of fun!  In the meantime, for this particular episode, we're looking back at how the quarantine has been for us, how it's progressed, and how're we're doing nearly 7 weeks into this.

#elite four #grinding #pokemon #nuzlocke #couple's consoling #nuzlocke challenge #nuzlocke rules #nuzlocke let's play #pokemon let's play #let's play #pokemon gen 1 #pokemon blue #pokemon red and blue #pokemon red & blue #final team #coronavirus #covid 19 #coronaquarantine #coronapocalypse #stayhome #withme

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Our battle against the Elite Four is coming - and to achieve that, we'll have to get through victory road, and through one extra spicy chicken.  As a reminder, please tell us if you'd like us to twitch stream our elite four run, or do a youtube premiere watch party!  Right now, the votes are leaning towards watch party, our level cap is currently recommended for level 56, and we've gotten a BUNCH of input on who should be on our team.  Let us know if you have anything you'd like to add, nothing's set in stone yet!

#moltres #victory road #pokemon #nuzlocke #let's play #couple's consoling #nuzlocke challenge #nuzlocke let's play #nuzlocke rules #pokemon nuzlocke #pokemon red and blue #poketuber #pokemon blue #pokemon gen 1 #gen 1 pokemon #kanto victory road #elite four #gen 1 elite four #legendary birds #coronavirus #coronaquarantine #covid 19 #withme #stayhome #coronapocalypse

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Today, we take on our Rival, the gross Patient 0, one more time, before taking our first steps on Victory Road!  Also, we've got a big announcement: we're going to do our fight against the Elite Four on Tuesday, April 28th, at 7 PM EST!  We'd like people to weigh in on whether we should do a youtube premiere watch party, or try our first live twitch stream!  We're also continuing to seek input on who should be on our final team and what our level cap should be.  We'll be deciding what we'll do before filming our episode Sunday around 3 PM EST.  We'd love to hear from you!

#victory road #elite four #pokemon #nuzlocke #couple's consoling #coronavirus #covid 19 #coronaquarantine #withme #coronapocalypse #pokemon gen 1 #pokemon blue #pokemon red and blue #classic pokemon #nuzlocke challenge #nuzlocke rules #nuzlocke run #rival battle #let's play #pokemon let's play #nuzlocke let's play

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We have victory road in our sights, but first, we've got some loose ends to tie up, including a couple fossils, a couple catches, and one big yellow bird.  Also, we're beginning to ramp up to the Elite Four, and we very much want to hear from you about who our final team should contain!  Tune in and weigh in!

#pokemon #pokemon blue #aerodactyl #omanyte #nuzlocke #nuzlocke challenge #nuzlocke let's play #pokemon let's play #couple's consoling #zapdos #legendary birds #pokemon gen 1 #pokemon red and blue #coronavrius #stayhome #coronaquarantine #coronapocalypse #cinnabar island #daycare man

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BIG EPISODE!  We had Blaine's fire gym to take on today, but then we realized... Giovanni's opens in Viridian City IMMEDIATELY afterwards.  And we can just fly there.  So today, we're taking on gym leaders for our last two badges!

#gym leader blaine #gym leader giovanni #pokemon #nuzlocke #coronavirus #coronaquarantine #coronapocalypse #withme #pokemon blue #pokemon red and blue #pokemon gen 1 #blaine #gioovanni #team rocket giovanni #8th badge #7th badge #8th gym #7th gym #nuzlocke challenge #nuzlocke let's play #pokemon let's play #couple's consoling

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The Seafoam Islands are now in the rear view mirror, and now we can turn our attention to Cinnabar Island and the mysterious burnt mansion full of confusing lore there!  And by the way, people might be interested what I was up to today?

#pokemon #nuzlocke #mewtwo #mew #let's play #coronavirus #coronapocalypse #covid 19 #covid 19 log #coronaquarantine #nuzlocke challenge #nuzlocke let's play #pokemon let's play #cinnabar island #seafoam islands #pokemon blue #pokemon red and blue #pokemon gen 1 #couple's consoling

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Thanks to those of you who answered our question last time, we know what to do when/if we run into Articuno!  Well, let's be honest.  When.  And no one on our team is above level 45.  Man, it'd be REALLY lucky if we got out of this in one piece.

#pokemon #nuzlocke #let's play #couple's consoling #coronavirus #articuno #coronapocalypse #nuzlocke challenge #nuzlocke let's play #pokemon let's play #pokemon blue #pokemon gen 1 #pokemon red and blue #legendary birds #covid 19 #seafoam islands #lord frieza

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Time for us to set sail for Cinnabar Island, with a LOT of new team members!  Also, we've got an important question we want people to weigh in on, regarding how we should be handling some birds we're likely to run into...

#pokemon #nuzlocke #couple's consoling #coronavirus #let's play #let's play pokemon #let's play nuzlocke #nuzlocke challenge #pokemon blue #pokemon red and blue #pokemon gen 1 #coronapocalypse #coronaquarantine #lapras #hitmonlee #dratini #victreebell #tauros

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With a BUNCH of grinding done, we're now feeling good about taking on Sabrina for our Sixth Gym badge.  And this means facing our old nemesis: teleporters.

#sabrina #pokemon #nuzlocke #let's play #coronavirus #couple's consoling #nuzlocke challenge #nuzlocke let's play #pokemon let's play #pokemon blue #pokemon classic #pokemon gen 1 #gen 1 pokemon #pokemon red and blue #pokemon 1999 #saffron city #gen 1 nuzlocke #nuzlocke gen 1 #coronapocalypse #coronaquarantine #gym battle

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Okay, we've been saying for episodes that we're under leveled.  So this episode, we're taking on a bunch of trainers we skipped, and talking about the politics and history that influences how we're handling the economic relief efforts in the time of coronavirus.  Oh, and we might get a fighting type at the end of this.

#pokemon #gen 1 #coronavirus #nuzlocke #let's play #pokemon gen 1 #pokemon blue #pokemon red and blue #nuzlocke let's play #pokemon let's play #coronaquarantine #coronapocalypse #withme #hitmonchan #hitmonlee #saffron city #fighting gym #covid 19

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So, we BADLY need to do some leveling up, but we've been away for a few days, and didn't want to return to a grinding episode so... how about we go fight the SUPPOSEDLY POISON TYPE gym?

#pokemon #koga #coronavirus #nuzlocke #let's play #coronaquarantine #coronapocalypse #covid 19 #quarantine #pokemon blue #pokemon red and green #pokemon gen 1 #kanto #kantooooooooo #fuchsia city #nuzlocke challenge #nuzlocke let's play #pokemon let's play #poison #psychic

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We've been trapped in Silph Co for DAYS and today we will get out or DIE TRYING.  Wait, our Rival's Ace is what level now?

#silph #pokemon #nuzlocke #let's play #coronavirus #coronaquarantine #coronapocalypse #covid #pokemon blue #pokemon gen 1 #pokemon red and blue #nuzlocke challenge #nuzlocke death #giovanni #pokemon giovanni #team rocket #pokemon let's play #nuzlocke let's play

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We couldn't get through Silph Co yesterday, so we're back at it again!  But funny thing about staying in here with all these enemies - sooner or later, one's going to hit us where it hurts.

#silph co #pokemon #nuzlocke #couple's consoling #coronavirus #covid 19 #coronaquarantine #saffron city #silph #pokemon silph #pokemon gen 1 #pokemon blue #pokemon red and blue #nuzlocke challenge #nuzlocke let's play #pokemon let's play #nuzlocke death

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With our boxes newly full of interesting new Mons, we're back to battling people, now in Silph co!  We've been avoiding a lot of fights, and we're a bit underleveled.  Also, Ali's got a questionable sense of direction.  I wonder how this is gonna go?

#pokemon #couple's consoling #let's play #coronavirus #withme #pokemon blue #pokemon red and blue #pokemon gen 1 #nuzlocke #nuzlocke challenge #nuzlocke let's play #pokemon let's play #let's play pokemon blue #silph #silph co #team rocket #electrode #covid 19 #coronaquarantine