Hindsight, Part 2

Serial - Serial S02 - Ep. 7: Hindsight, Part 1

It makes sense if you’re Bowe Bergdahl.

Serial S02 - Ep. 7: Hindsight, Part 1

Yeah, I wanted that adventure, I wanted that action, I wanted that moment of adrenaline,

You know, you can't do anything but just keep going.

And this is the one where I said, and I don't want to see more of this fucking Lawrence

And I said out loud and said, let's do this.

The first thing that comes out of our time, Commander, this mouth is what you couldn't

A false assumption that America doesn't leave America is behind.

Excuse me, can I talk to somebody I need to report a missing person?

Serial returns with a history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of us don’t about what it’s like to be caught inside an improvised justice system.

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0:00.0	Yeah, I wanted that adventure, I wanted that action, I wanted that moment of adrenaline,
0:05.6	I wanted that moment of...
0:07.0	Previously, on cereal.
0:09.4	We all felt like why are we up here?
0:12.2	You know, you can't do anything but just keep going.
0:14.6	Going out and shaking hands and...
0:16.1	Oh yeah, that's a classic.
0:17.5	I love it.
0:18.5	And this is the one where I said, and I don't want to see more of this fucking Lawrence
0:22.0	of Arabia shit.
0:23.0	And I said out loud and said, let's do this.
0:26.6	The first thing that comes out of our time, Commander, this mouth is what you couldn't
0:32.1	shave.
0:33.1	There was a manipulation game going on.
0:34.8	The whole entire army was just pussies.
0:37.2	Everyone's a pussies.
0:38.2	G-A, D-I-A, C-I-A, F-B-I, and...
0:41.2	A false assumption that America doesn't leave America is behind.
0:44.4	Your statement is 380 pages?
0:47.0	Yeah.
0:49.0	Excuse me, can I talk to somebody I need to report a missing person?
0:56.1	In this American life in W.B.
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Serial S02 - Ep. 7: Hindsight, Part 1

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