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Sheikh Djibouti posted:I've been passively listening, so I may be missing some detail, but my sense is, at this point, (i) Jay and Adnan did it together or were more involved together than they are letting on and (ii) from a legal perspective there was reasonable doubt. I'm still on the fence re: whether Adnan killed Hae, but this is how I feel—obviously I wasn't on the jury, but I'm seeing tons of reasonable doubt. They had a quote in the first episode from one of the jurors saying she was still confident in the decision they made, didn't they? I would love to hear more about what the jury was actually shown.
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As a former public radio producer, when I am not getting wrapped up in the very excellent story telling job Koenig is doing, all I can think is: Why didn't MY boss let me do something like this? I am so jealous of the ability to drop everything and work on one case for an entire year. I would've been crucified at the CBC if I'd asked for that kind of freedom.
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For how much This American Life/WBEZ relies on public funding, I'm surprised they don't offer a Serial subscription. I'm sure there are a ton of people who would have paid $10-20 for access to all 12 episodes. I'm excited to hear what the Innocence Project brings to the table in future installments.
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effervescible posted:I'm still on the fence re: whether Adnan killed Hae, but this is how I feel—obviously I wasn't on the jury, but I'm seeing tons of reasonable doubt. They had a quote in the first episode from one of the jurors saying she was still confident in the decision they made, didn't they? I would love to hear more about what the jury was actually shown. This most recent episode shows how complicated the thing has got, at least for me. Conflicting witnesses, timelines, faulty memories, many characters and names ... if the whole thing ends with a shrug and "see how complicated justice is?" I'll be disappointed but not surprised. EDIT: having read an NPR blog or two, Koenig maintains she doesn't know where the story is going. Which I'm slightly suspicious of - what if in the second episode they'd discovered something that 100% pinpointed Adnan as the killer? Still, it seems like they are they're headed for an ambiguous end. nonathlon fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Nov 7, 2014 |
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My biggest gripe with Serial is the stupid girl in the MailChimp ad who doesn't know how to pronounce chimp. Chaimp? Really? I don't care if you're a kid, unless it's intentional, you're a loving moron if you can't pronounce chimp.
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Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur posted:My biggest gripe with Serial is the stupid girl in the MailChimp ad who doesn't know how to pronounce chimp. Chaimp? Really? I don't care if you're a kid, unless it's intentional, you're a loving moron if you can't pronounce chimp. Or, y'know, she's Asian and not hugely familiar with the English language.
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Toaster Beef posted:Or, y'know, she's Asian and not hugely familiar with the English language. Yeah, that's not it
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Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur posted:Yeah, that's not it Maybe she's not Asian, but I feel pretty drat sure English isn't her first language.
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Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur posted:My biggest gripe with Serial is the stupid girl in the MailChimp ad who doesn't know how to pronounce chimp. Chaimp? Really? I don't care if you're a kid, unless it's intentional, you're a loving moron if you can't pronounce chimp. [edit]I always took her voice to be hispanic
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Toaster Beef posted:Or, y'know, she's Asian and not hugely familiar with the English language. This made me imagine about a scenario where SK does an intense, emotional interview with members of Hae's family and then has to ask them to read some ad copy for a promo.
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Hoops posted:It's definitely a little girl that isn't a native english speaker, One of the producers of This American Life confirmed it's a young, teenage girl. Nothing on ethnicity, but I think you're right in that English is not her native language.
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Toaster Beef posted:One of the producers of This American Life confirmed it's a young, teenage girl. Nothing on ethnicity, but I think you're right in that English is not her native language. Ok, I didn't know the producers had actually discussed this girl, I'm guessing enough people had an issue with her pronunciation that the producers felt like they should mention it?
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Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur posted:Ok, I didn't know the producers had actually discussed this girl, I'm guessing enough people had an issue with her pronunciation that the producers felt like they should mention it? You should check out #mailkimp sometime, it's a real shitshow.
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The Bunk posted:This made me imagine about a scenario where SK does an intense, emotional interview with members of Hae's family and then has to ask them to read some ad copy for a promo. Aside from that, Mrs Kennedy, how did you enjoy the ride?
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Starting to look like my guess of Jay framing Adnan might be right after all. Possibly add in Jenn as a co-conspirator as well. This seems to be the theory that Rabia and Saad have.
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Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur posted:My biggest gripe with Serial is the stupid girl in the MailChimp ad who doesn't know how to pronounce chimp. Chaimp? Really? I don't care if you're a kid, unless it's intentional, you're a loving moron if you can't pronounce chimp. This bothers me too, but I get more annoyed at the last person, the one that mentions that she actually uses the service, as if they left that on the ad to prove that actual people use it. Does anyone think there's a chance that Adnan's situation changes at the end of the podcast? The cynic in me tells me that nothing will change and it ends on a "but we'll never know the truth for sure"
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I just dislike ads that use overlapping copy reading. "Over one," "One million," "Dipshit," "Dipshit," "Dipshit," "Dipshit assholes use MailKaimp," "...Mail... Chimp??????," "MailKaimp," "To deliver," "To deliver," "To deliver unwanted spam to millions." "Millions," "Millions," "My... my lawns?" "Millions of email addresses."
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radlum posted:Does anyone think there's a chance that Adnan's situation changes at the end of the podcast? The cynic in me tells me that nothing will change and it ends on a "but we'll never know the truth for sure" Yeah, I kinda get this feeling too. I'm sort of hoping that some info about the way the story is being told is being kept from us so there will be some crazy reveal or reversal. But the way Koenig says she doesn't know how it will end, I can't really see anything incredible being uncovered.
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turevidar posted:You must love radiolab I really like Radiolab, but goddammit I hate the jingle.
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radlum posted:Does anyone think there's a chance that Adnan's situation changes at the end of the podcast? The cynic in me tells me that nothing will change and it ends on a "but we'll never know the truth for sure" SK told someone in an interview (Ira Glass I think?) that they're going somewhere with the podcast and it isn't going to end on "see how murky justice can be/who knows what really happened/etc"
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axolotl farmer posted:I really like Radiolab, but goddammit I hate the jingle. The beginning of radio lab and the mailkimp ad both make me feel this weird hybrid of anxious and annoyed. I loving hate it.
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nyuh-nyuh-nyuh-nyuh-nyuh-nyuh- Doubleyou Enn Why Cee. żSi? Cee.
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Gio posted:its really not that bad It is if you're neurotic, and since this show is directed at upper class white people, you'd think they'd realize what a large portion of their demo is being driven to bits.
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Hello, I'm Ira Glass. This week on This Ameriking Life"....
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I just caught up on all 7 episodes of Serial in the last day and a half and I wish I'd waited until it was finished. I have no idea how you people who've been on board since the beginning have been waiting a week between episodes without tearing your hair out. I need more now.
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A new TAL episode and everbody talks about Serial. The story of the bus driver was on a previous episode of Useless Information http://podbay.fm/show/272824755/e/1392080377?autostart=1
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Serial is crazy popular, we should probably get the discussion in this thread split out, or start a new thread.
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