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This, for me, was the most intense listening experience of the show so far.

Really?

I mean, I actually felt like this episode was one of the first where I was really aware of the show presenting a red herring.

And our guest this week is Wesley Morris.

Good to have you,

Wesley. Hi, y'all. What's going on? A lot, actually. That's how I would put it. Yeah, I'm one of the

few people who gets to listen to the show with no music. The letter, but then the phone call.

You're my executioner. You're my savior. I don't know which.

Altered voices.

And it just sort of brought home how powerful she is.

How much ownership people are going to have the cereal.

These guys are so fucking wily.

Hi, I'm David Hagland, a senior editor at Slate.

And this is the last spoiler special for season one of Serial, the multi-part investigative series from this American life. For the past couple of months,

we've been recording this podcast every Thursday right after the new episode of Serial comes out.

And today we're talking about the final episode of the first season, an episode called What We Know.

As usual, I'm joined by Slate

staff writer Katie Waldman, who's in our DC studio. Hey, Katie.

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