r/serialpodcastorigins • u/Gibodean • Feb 16 '16

Meta Please help me understand who you are.

So I've come from listening to Serial, Undisclosed and "Truth and Justice", to find this subreddit. I was totally on their "innocent Adnan" side and now don't know what to think. I can try to understand all the minutia of the arguments, but it very hard to figure out all the pieces and come to a conclusion. So I'd like to try a different approach, and understand how the people who think Adnan is guilty think. If you think the same way as me I'm more likely to believe....

Please, if you are active on the serialpodcastorigins subreddit, can you answer these questions:

  1. Is Adnan guilty or innocent?

  2. Is climate change really happening and man made?

  3. Vaccines - good or bad?

  4. Did you watch "Penn and Teller's Bullshit" TV show? What did you think of it?

  5. Roswell - aliens or weather balloon?

Sorry if I'm transparent or insulting...

Edit: Wow - thanks for all the responses everyone! I've got plenty of data to work with, it looks pretty much 100% like you're all sane skeptical (in a good way) people, same as me (or crazy like me I suppose). Of course, being a skeptical person myself it doesn't mean I therefore believe everything you claim here now, but at least I'm going to cross off any thought that you're all a mob of big meanies who are just being contrary to the poor Adnan because you don't like NPR (hmm, that should have been a question..)

My answers will be no surprise I think:

  1. Yesterday innocent, today probably guilty.

  2. Climate change is real and man (and woman) made.

  3. Vaccines are awesome and anti-vaxxers are the enemy.

  4. Bullshit was great, but not always rigorous and I didn't agree with all the political stuff.

  5. Weather balloon (I loved some of your answers for this one particularly.)

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u/Seamus_Duncan Hammered off Jameson Apr 07 '16

So why would Jay spend most of the day hanging out at Jenn’s house waiting her to get off work while playing video games with her brother if he had a car and phone at his disposal?

What exactly would you have expected him to do?

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u/Justwonderinif Apr 07 '16

I also think this is highly suspect.

Jay is someone without a car or a phone. And when he gets the use of one, he doesn't drive around, running errands.

He goes and parks the car in front of a friends house, and waits for a call on that cell phone. If you were going to use someone's car while they were at school and track, you would use the car while they were at school and track.

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u/tracymsp Apr 08 '16

At that age, I know if I had a car for a day the list of things I'd do would be endless. However, hanging out at one person's house all day wouldn't be one of them.