Serial Spoiler Special: Sarah Koenig on The Gist
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3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2014
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
With Serial on hiatus this week, Mike Pesca of The Gist reflects on the success of the investigative podcast. Plus: Hear a longer version of Mike's interview with Serial host Sarah Koenig, recorded just before the release of episode 5, "Route Talk."
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| 0:24.5 | Hi. Spoiler and using the promo code, spoiler. Hi, I'm Mike Pasca from the Slate podcast, The Gist. |
| 0:27.3 | If you are a fan of our spoiler specials about cereal, |
| 0:30.3 | the investigative podcast from this American life, |
| 0:32.5 | you are probably hungry for more. |
| 0:34.3 | After all, you are listening to a podcast about another podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | On my podcast, The Gist, I talked to a podcast about another podcast. On my podcast, the |
| 0:38.6 | gist, I talked to Sarah Koenig of the serial podcast, and now I want to play that on this podcast. |
| 0:44.8 | So if you're scoring at home, this podcast, about a podcast, is playing content from a third |
| 0:49.5 | podcast where I talk to the creator of the first podcast. But what you're going to hear is a much |
| 0:54.0 | longer version of what we aired on the gist, |
| 0:56.0 | because on the gist we edit interviews in this case, |
| 0:58.3 | we were thinking maybe not everyone listening has heard or even heard of cereal. |
| 1:02.7 | But for some reason, I think that everyone listening to the Slate Serial Spoiler Special |
| 1:07.2 | will have heard about cereal. |
| 1:09.3 | I recorded the interview with Sarah between episodes |
| 1:11.7 | four and five. So that was before what's the deal with Jay? That was before, hey, wait, |
| 1:16.5 | the Innocence Project, you're not going to believe this. They think the guy could be innocent. |
| 1:20.0 | That was before the Nisha call. And I want to say three things before we air the interview. One, |
| 1:24.8 | Slate has a lot of content about cereal. There's a brand new piece from Amanda |
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