Serial Season 2, Ep. 6: Slate's Spoiler Special
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Gabe and Katy are once again joined by former Army officer Adrian Bonenberger to discuss the realities of life on base in Afghanistan, and whether Bowe’s concerns were realistic or idealistic. Plus: fond memories of Season 1, as awakened by today’s surprise release of a mini-episode updating us on Adnan’s retrial hearings in Baltimore.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.3 | This episode is sponsored by Casper. |
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| 0:24.2 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:31.4 | Hello and welcome to Slate's Serial Spoiler Special. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm Slate Senior Editor Gabriel Roth. Joining me from Washington, D.C., is Slate's words correspondent Katie Waldman. Hey, Katie, how's it going? Hey, Gabe, how are you? I'm good. So, big week for cereal, right? If you're joining us for the first time, this is the podcast where Katie and I discuss season two of serial episode by episode going deeper into the show's |
| 0:54.9 | themes, exploring its characters and situations, looking at the ways in which the podcast |
| 0:58.8 | reverberates in the world. A little bit later today, we'll be joined by Adrian Bonenberger, |
| 1:03.6 | who you might remember from our first episode of this season. Adrian was twice deployed to |
| 1:07.3 | Afghanistan as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army, and we'll be getting his perspective on the wide range of first-person accounts from soldiers in this week's episode. |
| 1:16.4 | But first, Katie, how did you feel when you opened your podcasting app this morning? |
| 1:21.6 | Oh, my God. It was a revelation. It was the return of the repressed, except the unhappily repressed and now |
| 1:30.3 | fraught to the sunlight. And I was so happy. I hope that doesn't sound like a glib way to talk about something very serious, which is the post-conviction hearing of a convicted murderer, Adnan Syed. But, you know, you got the theme music back, the original theme |
| 1:45.0 | music, you got the phone call announcement. Anyway, yes, I'm going to stop gushing now. Gabe, |
| 1:50.8 | did you have any reaction to this reappearance in your feed? Well, I should say if you're one of |
| 1:56.0 | the super fans who listens to the Slate Serial Spoiler Special podcast before listening to Serial, then you probably |
| 2:01.6 | don't even know that Serial dropped in addition to an episode of season two of Serial, |
| 2:07.9 | the first of a series of daily updates to season one of Serial, in which Sarah Koenig attended a court |
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