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Hey! Well....um...haha here's the recording of the livestream that we did to cover the last couple seconds of the movie and the end credits. There are so many topics covered. Who wrote the lyrics? What of ceiling fans? Is there any fanfiction that Erin (who claims she didn't write it) could read on the air, what did we get each other for Christmas, an FMK, and like 3 announcements of things that are either well-established or even over by now. So....yeah! We had a great time on this show. Don't stop telling your Newsies loving friends about it! We love new listeners!

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"Wait," you say. "I though Newsies Minute was over! They finished the movie! They did a whole livestream about it!" Well, that's true. But we weren't *entirely* done. We had one more interview to do. We got the chance to sit down with Michael John Hughes, who plays Romeo and Spot in the Arena Stage production of Newsies: The Musical: The Stage Version, and have a really interesting conversation about what it's like to come into the Newsies fandom from the other direction. Michael John is a lovely person and it was a really fun interview, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

In this, the final minute of the podcast proper (join us tomorrow night for the livestream where we'll cover the rest!), James's voice sounds like absolute trash. Pointy Pokey takes Jack's stuff back to the Boarding House, maybe?, Jack sees Skittery, David is a Newsie now (you can tell by the hat), Crutchie misunderstands, Sarah gets some, An Erin Mystery is Solved, and the process of what happens when a Newsie kisses someone is finally explained, James ruins the whole podcast and then he makes the same joke as he did in Minute 108, and finally, we discuss credits (actually weirdly opening credits) and specifically James Bond credits, and then we talk about Hunchback of Notre Dame, which James claims to have not seen, and he hadn't when we recorded, but now he has seen it (he did a newsletter about it for December on the Patreon!)

A few months ago, we had the amazing opportunity to sit down with Michael Goorjian, who played Skittery in Newsies, and pick his brain about hanging out on set, creating character backstory, and making movies that aren't Newsies...technically. The audio on this one is a little bit rough, but the conversation is worth it. Thank you so, so much to Michael for taking the time to chat with us, and to our friend Katy for knowing that he's on Twitter and suggesting we reach out.

Jack gets out of a carriage. David is really a newsie now. Spoilers for M*A*S*H and season 1 of The Good Place.

The Jacobses are BEREFT. H.H. Holmes is NOT in this movie. Kid Blink is Skittery. Crutchy is Jack. What is happening.

Some guys in the background are evil! We learn a thing about something we’ve assumed to be true all along. Mush(?) carries around Jack’s stuff.

Crutchy gets out on his own. James spoils a very old Simpsons episode, and then confuses a joke. We’ve been operating under a false assumption for months.

Not a lot going on in this minute, everyone. There’s a crowd. It’s cheering. Denton does Jack a concern. We explore an alternate universe where Bill Pullman is acting better than we realize in most of his movies. Ten Pin returns! (Probably.)

In this episode, Pulitzer goes through a wide range of emotions, a compromise is struck and then vastly overstated, then we basically outline Newsies: Aftermath, then Erin talks about a rabbit hole she fell down. Then James accurately predicts when the credits start.

In this episode, Seitz is a stand-up (and stand-still) guy, Pulitzer's hearing is investigated, Pulitzer is out of touch with the youths, we discover another Significant Other of Jack's, Medda is FINE, we figure out how many hours it was before Jack broke the deal, Jack gleans some information from one encounter, Erin "No But"'s James's amazing joke about Seitz as a hitman (she was right to do so), then we talk about coffee cake for a little bit. Then I imagine someone ELSE as a hitman. Then social media leads us to a discussion of date order in the United States vs date order in other countries (MOST other countries?), James continues his streak of talking about cutting things he doesn't end up cutting. Also examples of bonus bonus content.

In this episode, LET THE GREAT DEBATE COMMENCE

In this episode, we figure out who carries whom, Erin wins a math thing, Racetrack has a catchphrase(?), we consider some Newsies Minute merch, who is Papa Seitz disgruntled with?, The Decimator messes up a name and Kenny Ortega doesn't call cut, then he takes a swing at a joke and does it bad, and Jack aims for Max(casella)10 swagger

In this episode, Luke Edwards is known for his ability to say "NO", THE TRIUMPH, James posits a theory, Erin SLAMS New York City (SLAM a la Finish It), The 3-part Boots Manifesto, Girls Still Want Rights, David looks dirty, possibly because of a fun-loving Inkfight, and finally, James makes a BAD JOKE/REF THAT MAKES NO SENSE, but I (James) couldn't cut it because it leads to the 5.5 minute discussion about protests, war, tv, pop culture messing up our headcanons of whent things happen, and John Lennon & Yoko Ono that consumes the rest of the show

James tells us all about Teddy Roosevelt (you know, the guy from Newsies). Erin forgets the format of the show for about 9 minutes. We have no idea how there is as much of this movie left as there clearly is.

Someone says Denton’s name, just, so strangely. James is still frustrated with Boots. A surprising number of boys are able to read in this movie.

What is the geography of the area around the World distribution center? James gets extremely frustrated with Boots. A cart is literally put before a horse.

The newsies have to be very, very quiet while they do some very loud activities. Erin is baffled by some paper. Also, how does *time* work in the Piano Basement? Is Ben Franklin a ghost? James researches printing presses.

Today’s minute ends so nicely it’s just *chef’s kiss*. David is a Tik-Tok star, and just so sarcastic. Denton is a big huge printing press nerd. James make a Spanish-American war joke, and we write a deleted scene.