This is Sarah Koenig, host of the serial podcast.

If you're hooked on this show, and I'm guessing you are, then I'm hoping my job here is pretty easy, to get you to subscribe to the New York Times, so you can listen to the rest of it.

My father was an ad man, who taught me the best ads are declarative, no puffery.

So here goes. Serial shows are

expertly reported and inventive. Nobody makes them like we make them. But cereal's great cereals

aside, when you subscribe, you get all the Times shows. The daily, as recline, wirecutter has a new

podcast. My advice, though, don't just get an audio subscription.

Go big. Subscribe to the paper, all access, the whole megilla. Serial is part of the time, so technically

I work at the Times, and honestly I'm kind of cheap, but I subscribe for the news, obviously,

and the games, and the cooking, and the magazine, and cereal. I games and the cooking and the magazine and cereal.

I think of the Times as a staple.

Even my kids who are not budding journalists and who don't even really listen to cereal,

they both asked me for Times subscriptions.

All the cool kids are doing it.

So please, sign up.

You can do it through Spotify or Apple Podcasts,

or if you're already a time subscriber, sign in. You can do it through Spotify or Apple Podcasts,

or if you're already a time subscriber, sign in.

It's worth it.

Why don't you go ahead and tell us what you know about the death of Haley?

Previously, on cereal.

So he wanted an alibi?

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