Serial Spoiler Special: Extra Spoily Edition
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2014
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
For one episode only, co-hosts David Haglund and Katy Waldman discuss Reddit threads, reporting, blogs, and other sources of information about Serial's murder investigation. Our guest, Slate's June Thomas, has avoided outside sources and joins us today to learn more. WARNING: Contains info not yet reported on Serial.
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| 0:34.0 | Hi, I'm David Hagland, a senior editor at Slate. Welcome to the Spoiler Special podcast about Serial, the multi-part investigative series from This American Life. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm joined, as usual, by Slate staff writer Katie Waldman. |
| 0:47.2 | She joins me from our DC studio. |
| 0:48.8 | Hey, Katie. |
| 0:49.6 | Hey, David. |
| 0:50.5 | And our guest this week is June Thomas, Slate Culture Critic and the editor of Outwards Slate's LGBTQ blog. |
| 0:56.0 | Hey, June. |
| 0:57.0 | Hey, June. |
| 0:58.0 | Hey, T, too. |
| 0:59.0 | So normally on this podcast, we talk about the latest episode of serial, but as you surely know, there is no new episode of serial this week. |
| 1:05.0 | We decided to record an episode anyway because we decided it was a great opportunity for us to dive into some of the things |
| 1:11.8 | that we have left out of our other episodes. Specifically, things we're reading online that |
| 1:16.9 | serial hasn't gotten to yet. In other words, we're going to discuss details from the case, |
| 1:23.3 | surrounding the case, various theories, which you may not want to hear if you're trying to |
| 1:28.2 | keep yourself entirely innocent of information that has not been shared by Sarah Kainag and her |
| 1:33.5 | team. To explain that a little bit further, let me read this email from a listener named |
| 1:39.3 | Anav. Hi there. I have a bit of a dilemma out of your next episode. I've chosen not to go down the internet rabbit hole when it comes to cereal. I guess as a way to reconcile myself with the unease that comes with listening to a real life story about real people. But I do crave a conversation after every new episode. And as someone outside of the U.S., whose mother refuses to dedicate the time to catch up, I rely on your podcast for that discussion. Thanks for |
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