Oh, great. Now I get to be annoyed by two Podcasts?!
I'm quite disappointed in the "interview" I just finished listening to, in which the hosts of True Crime Garage reported (per their show notes) indicated some sort of discussion, banter or discourse which the absolutely did NOT execute on in the slightest.
Outside of ONE measly comment to challenge Don as a reasonable suspect - and, thank you for having some balls on this, Captain - the hosts of True Crime Garage did little to nothing to challenge Brett and Alice on facts, to try to bring up an opposing opinion or idea, or anything other than let Brett and Alice drone on and on to continue their smear campaign against Marilyn Mosby, Becky Feldman, and Adnan.
And the toxin wants a Host. It wants to spread.
That said, since Nick couldn't bring himself to act as though he'd ever given an opinion before today, I'll take you through Part 1 of True Crime Garage's coverage of Alice and Brett's piss poor coverage on The Case Against Adnan Syed.
Brett: "... but we did not come into this thinking that we wanna make, we wanna make sure that Adnan Syed is guilty, we wanna support our friends on the Prospection Team in Baltimore or whatever... We didn't do that."
My question: that's an interesting point, Brett. Given that you're bragged about your novel-length outlines, what would you say to those who don't buy that you had an open mind at the outset, and to those who do believe that you're on a mission to sway public opinion around a brown man?
Alice: "...This case is not out of the ordinary with respect to a major witness having changing stories, It's something you have to deal with."
My question: Do you, though? If you're a detective and you realize the Missing Person's report suggested that Adnan was the prime suspect from go, you don't even have to deal with the changing stories. Jay was looked at not just because he "had Adnan's phone and car that day" - Jay was looked at because Adnan was the Prime Suspect without any consideration of fact, other than the eventual story from Jay Wilds, which continued to change and was only obtained BECAUSE Adnan was the only suspect and the only path the Investigators bothered to follow.
We get some more blow hard banter and it's almost like Alice has saying, "Look, we already brainwashed you over the course of 14 episodes that it's cool that Jay lies. We've normalized it.
Question from Me: During the course of your coverage, you mentioned the TapTapTap people. Can you explain why you disregard the possibility that these Taps were indicative of a false confession from Jay? Did you listen to the tapes? Are you disparaging the good work that Susan Simpson did to unearth this tapping?
Brett and Alice: Will say it's doctored or coincidental.
Brett encourages us to read the trial transcript. No, not transcripts - because they don't want us to remember there was a mistrial, and that Hae's brother testified in both. My question would be around the inconsistencies during his statements. Some problematic thoughts arose in me when I realized the issue.
1. Hae's brother claims the family called LensCrafters to see if Hae had made it to work.
2. Hae's brother claims the person on the phone advises that she has not shown up for work yet.
3. Hae's brother claims that he called LensCrafters before the police were called to report Hae missing.
4. Officer Adcocks report from the evening of 1/13 shows that he was there prior to 6pm.
5. How did Young Lee call LensCrafts and have them tell him Hae didn't show up? Her response would be that she isn't due for work for another hour or so.
Brett loves to talk about pings, hear his own voice, and skirt around the question of pre-mediation. He sure seems to go all-in on it here.
I just can't bear to hear any more of the illogical arguments around pings/ the cops talk to Jen first, and the fact that Adnan admitted to being with that Jay that evening. Alice adores this strategy to trick the jury, and the court of public opinion. (Aside: does she do murders?! How awesome would it be if we could pick apart one of her cases!)
And, anyway, Brett doubles down like always and shows his colors:
"When you combine all those things together - we can bolster the things that matter, and we can surround it with all these other facts."
And next we're reminded how fantastic Jay's attorney was but, there is never any true commentary that Ritz and McGillivrfckfacey landed that attorney for him to keep control on Jay as a witness and the legal proceedings he'd face - there is no world in which Jay gets an attorney of that caliber without their help. It's, for lack of better words, Ludacris to think otherwise.
Brett oddly is choosing to argue, and we saw this in their closing arguments episodes, that if - for instance - Jay was tried for the murder "someday" that he had constitutional rights claim to bring.
Are they insinuating that if exonerated, that Jay might be one ladder above Adnan on the food chain? Say it ain't so; not their sweet, golden boy. We're cool with his getting probation for Conspiracy After the Fact, and but there's some reason we're so excited about Jay having a legal option to appeal?
I mean, I'm ambivalent to Jay - because I don't think he knew anything about anything and I want the RIGHT person (or people) to pay for taking the time of Hae Min Lee.
We're not even halfway through - but I'll try to finish recapping this episode tomorrow. I don't want you to be forced to listen as your ears may likely breathe.
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