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🗓️ 24 December 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | Previously, on cereal. |
0:03.0 | We're like, man, is he like CIA or what? |
0:06.0 | He look at us and then he jump behind our bike. |
0:10.0 | We thought he's drunk, huh? |
0:12.0 | They will kill you just for the amusement of being able to shoot you. |
0:17.0 | And it quickly became very apparent to us that the Taliban knew... |
0:20.0 | This is fucking bullshit. |
0:22.0 | He's in Pakistan. |
0:24.0 | From this American. |
0:30.0 | From this American life in W.B.E.Z. Chicago, it's serial, one story told week by week. |
0:34.8 | I'm Sarah Kaneck. Right after Bo Bergdahl first went missing from his outpost in Afghanistan, |
0:54.0 | word came down that the higher-ups wanted someone from Bo's platoon, |
0:58.0 | Second Platoon Blackfoot Company, to record a message to Bo, |
1:01.0 | that they'd play on local radio. They wanted it to be a voice Bow would recognize. So they chose a guy Bow was friends with, a guy from Louisiana. |
1:08.8 | And he has a very thick Louisiana accent. So, so basically, uh, he, he went up there and they did, I guess they didn't like it. |
1:20.5 | So they came down and they got me. |
1:22.0 | That's Josh Quarter, originally from Pennsylvania. |
1:24.0 | He didn't want to make a message to Bo. |
1:26.0 | He says he felt a little disloyal to his platoon, |
1:29.0 | calling out to the guy who was causing them such turmoil. |
1:31.0 | But the... |
1:32.0 | They told me, come, they brought me up there, two officers brought me up there, and they put a piece of paper |
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