Soos Cast is a one off podcast hosted by Soos that was released in 2017. It was accessed using a QR code inside of the Gravity Falls Coloring Book "Don’t Color This Book! It's Cursed!" Scanning the code took you to its video file on Disney XD's website. The Podcast is 4 minutes and 55 seconds long. It follows Soos interviewing Grunkle Stan on the roof of the Mystery Shack.
Synopsis[]
The podcast starts with Soos welcoming listeners to the first episode of Soos Cast. He introduces himself as the host and then his first guest, which is Stan. Stan then reveals that the two of them are on the roof of the Mystery Shack. Soos then explains to him what a podcast is, after he mistakes it for a Polecat.
The podcast has two different segments. The first is called "Soos' Solutions," where he gives life advice to people. The first question he gets is from an anonymous person who says that he believed his boss (who he sees as a father figure) had installed an employee bathroom and was using it, only to discover that it was actually a utility closet which now was damaged. When Stan starts explaining that he would have fired this employee if it was one of his, he realizes that Soos actually was referring to himself and is left shocked. Soos quickly changes to another question submitted by a listener named Shooting Star (most likely Mabel using her in cipher wheel alias), who is asking about how to tell if a boy likes you. Soos and Stan both give different answers for it. The final question Soos gets is from someone saying that his wife is leaving. Soos then starts giving some good advice about how to deal with it, only to realize that he misread it, and that the person was actually saying that his life is weaving. Soos then says it's not a problem as you can never have too many baskets, with Stan adding that baskets are his ideal snake containment method.
The second segment is called "Soos' Snoozes." In this segment, Soos and Stan start making soothing ASMR like noises to help their listeners fall asleep (Stan adding that they're all likely asleep already if they're listening to this podcast). Soos starts by whispering about imagining a dream in which they're on the beach and are collecting shells. Stan then reluctantly joins in. With no whisper voice, he starts making ocean sounds. It doesn't go too well as Stan is pretty bad at it.
Eventually the buzzing noise can be heard. Soos, thinking it's Stan making the bee noises, tells him there's none at the beach, to which Stan responds by saying it's not him and that there's an actual bees nest on the roof of the shack. In a panic, Soos accidently falls of the roof, breaking his arm. Stan tells him that he'll need a cast, to which an injured Soos says would make that a Soos Cast (playing on the name of the podcast). With that, Soos says it's the end of one Soos cast and the start of another. He bids farewell, saying he'll be back after heading to the hospital. The outro music plays and the podcast ends.
After a nearly 20 second pause, Stan asks if they're still recording and uses it to plug the Mystery Shack, before the podcast officially ends.
Availability[]
QR code in the coloring book that originally could be scanned to access Soos Cast
When the coloring book was released, Soos Cast could only be accessed by US citizens using a QR code found at the end of the Coloring Book. That's because scanning the code would take you to a page on Disney XD's US locked website, on which you could then listen to the podcast. Due to it being blocked internationally, fans eventually reposted Soos Cast to YouTube and Tumblr, from where international fans could listen to it.[1] [2]
Shortly after its release, the QR stopped working. Now, scanning it will redirect users (both in the US and internationally) to DisneyNOW. This is due to various changes to Disney websites in 2018 (this problem also affected the mystery page in the Guide book and the Mystery page in Time Pirates' Treasure book) that these pages were never updated along with to work on the new site. This short time of availability, being region blocked to US fans only and alongside the coloring book being a lesser known book to begin with that now also has been discontinued has made Soos Cast a niche and lesser known piece of Gravity Falls media that survives only due to it being reuploaded elsewhere by fans.
Trivia[]
- The art for the image was done by Emmy Cicierega.
- Soos Cast marked the last voice appearance of Soos in any official new Gravity Falls content until the release of the full version of We'll Meet Again.