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Serial

S04 - Ep. 6: Part 2, Asymmetry

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

After the worst happens at Guantánamo, the warden tries to explain it to the outside world – and to himself.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A heads up before we start that this episode deals with suicide, which I know can be a hard

0:07.4

thing for some people to hear about in any context.

0:10.9

So if you're not ready for that right now, this might be one you want to come back to later.

0:17.0

You're not leaving.

0:18.0

Previously, on Cereo.

0:20.0

You're going to be here, and I can try to help make your life a little better while you're here or you continue to be miserable.

0:27.0

So they were like, hey, I thought we were friends.

0:29.0

Yeah, in a way, like why you're complaining and...

0:32.0

Just beating, dragging you on the floor. why you're complaining and just beating me

0:32.7

dragging you on the floor

0:34.4

beating everywhere.

0:36.3

Maybe I'm giving the wrong message that this guy they just wanted

0:41.3

better food and better treatment.

0:43.2

You're going to think that we are okay.

0:45.0

You can keep us here for the rest of our lives.

0:47.5

It was peaceful as could be. From Serial Productions in the New York Times, it's Serial Season 4, Guantanamo.

0:58.0

One prison camp told week by week, I'm Sarah Kaneg.

1:01.4

This is part two of Colonel Mike Bumgartner and the worst year. Early on May 18th, 2006, Bumgarnar was in his morning meeting when someone came in with urgent news.

1:24.7

So the meeting was interrupted with,

1:26.7

hey, we got a suicide attempt here.

1:30.6

Three minutes later, another one came here.

1:31.7

We got another suicide attempt here. and they were being found unconscious, frothing at the mouth, I think in both instances.

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