Brief descriptions/genres definitely recommended. Please don't be afraid of being :LIB:, I feel like so many podcast recs on this site focus of Political Pods which while fun, I can find myself listening to audio content for 6 hours on some days and I don't always wanna blast politics into my ears, and I know a lot of other people don't either.

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Serial Season 1 - An investigative journalist goes over how the Baltimore PD framed the murder of a young girl in high school as an “honor killing” by her ethnically muslim but not (at the time) religious ex boyfriend. Just got the subject of the podcast released from podcast and inspired me to make this thread.

    Oh damn so that's why Felix was asking about Serial on Twitter, totally missed that. But because he asked about that somebody linked this (https://theintercept.com/2014/12/29/exclusive-interview-jay-wilds-star-witness-adnan-syed-serial-case-pt-1/) which I thought was an interesting read. I remember listening to the podcast when it was new and thinking they were leading towards a theory of "Jay killed Hae and framed Adnan" which never really got resolved in the show as far as I remember, so it was interesting to read his side of things.

    • The_Dawn [fae/faer, des/pair]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, I definitely think the most irresponsible part of that journalism was the suspicions they cast on Jay, not the questioning of Adnan's conviction

      Although, I guess at the end of the day, Jay and/or Adnan has to be involved in some way. He's the key witness and knew key details.