serial's back, motherfuckers.

Our first season was about a murder case few people had heard about. Season Two is a story a gazillion people have heard about: the story of Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was captured and held by the Taliban for nearly five years. It’s been in the newspapers and on TV; it’s been the subject of congressional investigations (in fact, this very day, the House Armed Services Committee is releasing a report on the Bergdahl trade)—and it’s an active case in military court.

LISTEN TO IT.

speaking of podcast trends

melissa thinks you should read the first ever on the record interview with jay from serial.

CHUCKLES - SERIAL - SNL PARODY

Nailed it.

"My producer Dana and I built a sleigh..."

sarah koenig on colbert

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mail kimp

this story about the mailchimp ad that precedes each episode of serial (tomorrow!!) is acually not that uninteresting:

How collaborative was the process to create the ad between you and the Serial producers?
Pretty collaborative, actually. We gave them the copy for the ad, and then they made the ad itself. Dana Chivvis took the copy and went out in the streets of New York and recorded a bunch of different people reading the ad and then cut it together the way that she did.

That last part of the ad with the woman saying she actually uses MailChimp was unscripted, right?
As far as I know! [laughs] I mean, that was not in the copy. I was surprised as much as anyone else. It worked out really nicely, but we didn’t plan it that way.

happy serial day!

Rare picture of Jay on the witness stand #Serial pic.twitter.com/rOJoYiQ7hM
— Michael Francis (@MichaelFrancis) November 13, 2014

are you listening to "serial" yet?

we all are! if you're not convinced, just spend 10 mintues listening to this interview with creators ira glass and sarah koenig, and see if you can still resist! (joel said he audibly gasped when he heard the tidbit at the end of this)

want to go on a new podcast adventure with me?

i just heard of this on the internet. sarah koenig from this american life is doing a new podcast called serial.

Serial is a podcast where we unfold one nonfiction story, week by week, over the course of a season. We'll stay with each story for as long as it takes to get to the bottom of it.

the first season, of which 4 eps have been released, follows a mURdEr mYsTErY!!

On January 13, 1999, a girl named Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, disappeared. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She'd been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. The case against him was largely based on the story of one witness, Adnan’s friend Jay, who testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae's body. But Adnan has always maintained he had nothing to do with Hae’s death. Some people believe he’s telling the truth. Many others don’t.

let's listen, together!