Soul
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Slate’s Karen Han is joined by Slate writer and editor Dan Kois to spoil Soul, the new animated film from Pixar. After landing himself in the realm of the “great beyond”, middle school band teacher Joe Gardner tries desperately to make it back to Earth in time for his Jazz gig. But his journey takes a turn when he tries to help a new friend find their passion. Will Joe make it back to Earth and get to his gig on time? Or is he doomed to remain in the great beyond forever?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.2 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:06.9 | I see this. |
| 0:10.0 | Silent trade is people. |
| 0:13.9 | No. |
| 0:15.4 | I am the father. |
| 0:17.8 | Oh. |
| 0:19.9 | What's in the box? What's in the box? |
| 0:25.6 | You get it. |
| 0:27.6 | You blew it up. |
| 0:29.3 | Damn you all the hell. |
| 0:33.2 | Hello and welcome to Slate's spoiler specials. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm Karen Hahn, staff writer at Slate, and I'm joined by Dan Cois, writer and editor for Slate. Welcome, Dan. |
| 0:42.4 | Thanks, Karen. I'm excited to be here. So today we're spoiling Soul, the new Pixar movie, directed by Pete Doctor, and co-directed by Kemp Powers. We'll go over the general plot first. Uh, I think as anyone who's seen the trailer |
| 0:55.0 | knows this focuses on a band teacher, uh, named Joe, played by Jamie Fox, who pretty much right |
| 1:02.1 | after scoring the jazz gig of his life as part of the Dorothea Williams quartet, uh, |
| 1:07.4 | unfortunately falls through a manhole and die slash falls into a coma and his soul goes into the |
| 1:13.5 | great beyond. Dan, do you want to talk a little bit about what he finds in the quote unquote afterlife? |
| 1:20.1 | Sure. The afterlife he finds is not quite the afterlife he potentially has imagined. It's a very Pixarian invention of a ramp |
| 1:31.5 | leading to a sort of great whirl in the sky that suggests, well, there's Balhalla or heaven or |
| 1:38.2 | whatever it is that you think he might be going to. But Joe doesn't think he belongs there. |
| 1:49.2 | And so he, instead of peacefully making his way up the ramp toward the real afterlife, |
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