Off-the-Record: Toy Story 5 Did NOT Make Mary Cry
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🗓️ 3 July 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
WARNING: This episode spoils Toy Story 5.
Right on the heels of two new directors with two fresh new films, comes a five-installment franchise: Toy Story 5. But the consensus is split on this big screen screentime critique.
Guest: Sam Adams, Slate senior writer and editor.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday Slatesters. |
| 0:04.7 | This is the time when the show goes off the record just for you are Slate Plus friends and neighbors and fans. |
| 0:12.9 | We spend all week long getting answers from experts on the biggest stories out there. |
| 0:17.5 | Sometimes we need answers to more pressing questions, though, more real-world questions for our lives. |
| 0:23.4 | Stuff like should I spend my holiday weekend actually going to see the new Toy Story movie. |
| 0:27.7 | So my guest today for a movie club version of Off the Record is The Incomparable Sam Adams. |
| 0:33.9 | Hello, Sam. |
| 0:35.5 | Hello, Mary. |
| 0:36.8 | I get called Incomparable nearly enough, so thank you. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm here for you, 100%. |
| 0:41.3 | I know you're going to have a ton of answers for me about this film and whether you |
| 0:45.9 | loved it or hated it. |
| 0:47.6 | Our colleague, Dana Stevens, called it the best Pixar sequel in years, which I'm going to |
| 0:54.0 | talk to you about that. But I do want to remind our |
| 0:57.4 | listeners before we really get into it that if they have questions for us, things they want answers to, |
| 1:02.2 | they want to know about the show, how it works, they want to suggest something. They can always |
| 1:06.7 | write to us at what next at slate.com. Okay. |
| 1:11.6 | Sam. |
| 1:13.7 | Can we just right away say? |
| 1:15.7 | I have seen the new Toy Story movie. |
| 1:17.2 | Toy Story 5. |
| 1:18.2 | Yeah. |
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