S04 - Ep. 5: The Big Chicken, Part 1

Serial

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

A new warden comes to Guantánamo and decides to make some changes. A prison’s a prison, he thinks. How hard could this be?

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0:00.0	Previously on cereal.
0:04.6	They show me like they are here to help us.
0:09.5	Yeah. So they also get some snack type items based on their compliancy status.
0:18.0	We need to gather information.
0:20.0	These are the people that we need to get it from.
0:22.0	They would talk. They would be like, why am I? These are the people that we need to get it from.
0:22.6	They would talk.
0:23.6	They would be like, why am I still here?
0:25.6	Can you send me home?
0:26.8	We don't know what's going to happen.
0:28.4	And it's like there's no, no foreseeable outcome. There's no like how long am I going to stay in this prison. From Serial Productions in the New York Times, this is Serial Season 4, Guantanamo.
0:45.0	One prison camp told week by week.
0:47.0	I'm Sarah Kaneg. Mike Bumgarnarner was on a plane on the tarmac waiting to take off when his BlackBerry buzzed.
1:04.0	He wanted to ignore it, but then he saw it was his boss, a general.
1:07.4	When the general calls, you generally answer.
1:09.9	He scooted to the back of the plane.
1:11.8	So I'm hiding back there from a BlackBerry
1:13.5	and talking to the general.
1:15.1	He says, he says, Mike, he says, I need you to go down to Guantanamo
1:19.6	and take command.
1:21.2	His own command meant he'd be in charge of a whole brigade, boosted into the rare air of the senior officers.
1:27.0	This was the call he'd been waiting for.
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