Serial S01 - Ep. 11: Rumors

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🗓️ 11 December 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Almost everyone describes the 17-year-old Adnan the same way: good kid, helpful at the mosque, respectful to his elders. But a couple of months ago, Sarah started getting phone calls from people who knew Adnan back then, and told her stories of a different kind of boy.

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0:00.0	Hello, serial listeners. This is Sarah Koenig. If you're listening to this show, I'm hoping that means that you're into it, and maybe you want to hear more stories like it. Well, you're in luck, because we've got a brand new show called The Idiot coming at the end of March, 26. Just like or follow this podcast, the serialial podcast, on your podcast app, and you'll
0:23.1	automatically be notified when the idiot comes out. And I am predicting you're going to love it.
0:28.1	Okay, on to Serial, season one.
0:33.6	Previously on Serial, what did he tell you?
0:37.2	He told me that she had broke his heart.
0:40.0	It was extremely wrong for anyone to treat him that way.
0:43.4	He was like the community's golden child.
0:45.7	I think like the odds of you getting the charming sociopath, you're just not that lucky.
0:50.3	You don't think that I know you at all?
0:54.0	I mean, for you to say that I'm a great person.
0:56.1	I mean, it doesn't like a nice person.
0:57.3	I've only talked to you on the phone for you, time.
1:01.2	This is a global tell link prepaid call from...
1:05.9	A non-say-in.
1:08.0	An inmate at a Maryland Correctional Facility.
1:11.9	This call will be recorded and monitored.
1:14.2	If you wish you'd watch any of each of all.
1:20.1	From This American Life in WBEZ Chicago, it's serial.
1:28.8	One Story told week by week.
1:29.7	I'm Sarah Kainag.
1:36.2	For two months now, I've been grappling with rumors about Adnan.
1:41.9	People telling me, there's stuff you don't know about Adnan, stuff you need to know, to understand who you're dealing with.
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