As a longtime lurker and someone who really enjoys and feels that I have gained a lot from this site, in both entertainment and knowledge, I have been waiting to make my first post to be something that would spark conversation.
At the beginning of November when driving home from a long weekend in Asheville, NC I stumbled upon a podcast called Serial, that chronicled a rather mysterious murder case from the 90s in Baltimore in which a boy named Adnan Syed supposedly murdered his high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee. The podcast follows a surprisingly unbiased investigative reporter, considering she works on NPR's This American Life, as she digs into the case, interviewing all associated with it, in attempt to clear up a lot of the murkier details of the case, not simply exonerate a poor Muslim boy wrongly convicted in America. She actually seemed to want the truth, no matter what it was. I was hooked and knocked out most of Season 1 on my drive and finished the rest during my commute in the following week.
Today, Season 2 came out. It centers around the Bowe Bergdahl story. The first episode contains phone conversations between Mark Boal, a movie producer (Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty) and Bergdahl. Apparently this is the first released discussion with Bergdahl about his disappearance. In the first episode he claims that his intention was to raise a DUSTWUN while running from his OP to back to a FOB to call attention to poor and in his opinion dangerous leadership and living conditions. I'm calling bullshit, but this should at least be interesting. In the next episode, Sara Koenig, the investigative reporter, calls and interviews one of the Taliban dudes that was around during his captivity. It's pretty enraging to listen to, but interesting all the same. Check it out if you get the chance. It can be found here. [URL=https://serialpodcast.org/]
I hope I linked this properly. I'm sure I'll hear it if I didn't.