The Good Whale - Trailer

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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After the movie “Free Willy” became a hit, word got out that the star of the film, a killer whale named Keiko, was sick and living in a tiny pool at a Mexican amusement park. Fans were outraged and pleaded for his release. “The Good Whale” tells the story of the wildly ambitious science experiment to return Keiko to the ocean — while the world watched. An epic tale that starts in Mexico and ends in Norway, the six-episode series follows Keiko as he’s transported from country to country, each time landing in the hands of well-intentioned people who believe they know what’s best for him – people who still disagree, decades later, about whether they did the right thing.

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0:00.0	Hello, serial listeners. Sarah Koenig here, recording this on Tuesday Election Day, with the good news that we have a new show that has nothing to do with the election or politics. That's a relief to me. Maybe it is to you, too. The show is called The Goodwale, and it's about a captive orca named Keiko, who became famous after starring in the kids' movie Free Willy.
0:21.9	Our story, The Good Whale, is six beautiful episodes about what happened to the real killer
0:27.0	whale who played the Hollywood killer whale. And it's so good. It's emotional in the best way,
0:32.7	not sappy, but it gets you right in the solar plexus. And you're going to be newly fascinated by marine science.
0:39.3	And it's a little genre bending, which you'll see as the story rolls out. Danielle Elarcon is the host.
0:45.4	He's a New Yorker writer and a novelist and the host of the Spanish language podcast, Radio Amulante.
0:51.2	The Goodwill comes out next week on Thursday, November 14th, and we've got a trailer
0:56.2	here for you. But first, I want to tell you about something else new and good that's going on
1:01.2	over here at Serial, which is that if you subscribe to the New York Times, either an audio
1:06.0	subscription or an all-access subscription, either way, if you subscribe, you can listen to the Goodwale all at once.
1:13.1	No waiting week to week. And I don't think you're going to want to wait on this one.
1:16.9	To be clear, you don't have to subscribe to hear the Goodwill. You can still catch new episodes every Thursday, like always.
1:22.9	But if you do subscribe to the Times, you get the whole show right away, and you'll be able to listen
1:27.5	to Serial's entire archive, all the past seasons of the Serial podcast, all the other shows
1:32.7	that Serials produced. Plus, when you subscribe, you get the archive of all the Times shows,
1:37.4	too. It's a pretty good deal. You can subscribe through Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or if you're
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1:45.1	and you're done. You can also go to NYTimes.com slash podcast and find everything there or find the
1:51.7	link in our show notes. So please sign up. The fact is, we need you. Your subscription makes our work
1:58.9	possible. Okay, business complete, over and out.
2:02.9	Here's the trailer for the Goodwale.
2:04.3	We cannot wait for you to hear this show.
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