Space Jam: A New Legacy
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 46 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 senior editor Allegra Frank is joined by Slate staff writer, Karen Han, to spoil Space Jam: A New Legacy, the long-awaited sequel to the original 1997 Space Jam starring Michael Jordan.
This time, LeBron James finds himself trapped in digital space by a rogue AI villain. In order to get back home and save everyone, LeBron must team up with the Looney Tunes gang to win the ultimate high-stakes basketball game and save the day.
Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.
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Podcast production by Morgan Flannery.
Hosts
Allegra Frank is a senior editor at Slate.
Karen Han is staff writer at Slate and you can read her review here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.9 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:08.0 | I see this. |
| 0:11.1 | Silent drain in paper! |
| 0:14.9 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:18.2 | Oh, gosh. What's in the box? I am the father. |
| 0:24.5 | What's in the box? |
| 0:29.7 | You blew it up. |
| 0:31.8 | Damn you all. |
| 0:34.9 | Come on and slam. |
| 0:45.7 | And welcome to the space jam two. Spoiler special. I'm Karen Hein, staff writer at Slate, and I'm joined by Allegra Frank, senior editor at Slate. Welcome Allegra. |
| 0:49.8 | Thank you, Karen. Hello. So glad to be jamming with you. |
| 0:56.7 | So today, as per our intro, we are spoiling Space Jam 2, which is technically not Space Jam 2, |
| 1:03.0 | but Space Jam, colon, a new legacy. So I guess we'll start with some general impressions and then get into the spoiler territory. But first I wanted to say one of the reasons that |
| 1:07.6 | it's exciting that you are here is that you are a huge OG space jam fan. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah, I feel like it's sort of become my entire personality at Slate, at least, for some reason, |
| 1:19.3 | because I find myself vigorously defending the OG SJ. |
| 1:24.0 | It does feel like we have more responsibility to do that because everyone that we work directly with is, I would say, at least five to ten years older than us. |
| 1:32.3 | And I think hates the 1996 space jam on principle. |
| 1:37.3 | Right. |
| 1:37.9 | Like we were the perfect age for it. |
| 1:39.9 | Like when Space Jam came out, 96, you're like a year older than me. |
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