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I think so, yeah, and I think he didn't think it was interesting, how tall he is, right? Which is kind of the whole point-why do people care about how tall he is? He was trying to add to the mystery because I think he was worried that it would be anti-climactic when the answer comes. It seemed like he was delaying it largely because he almost felt this responsibility to not let this fun mystery end, right? I guess I knew he was going to be game because he agreed to do it, but I didn’t know how game he was. The second I picked up, he was so funny, and so. We talked for over an hour, and he really kept stalling. He said he thought it was like fate, that he should talk to me, after seeing her. He’d been given messages before, and he knew I was looking for him, but it wasn’t until I got her to give him the message. The reason he said yes was because, he said after he saw Sloane in the restaurant, that’s when he knew he would do it. Because that was one of my initial ideas when I was first thinking about the show. I mean, it took a long time to get him to do that phone call. Once he got on the phone, he was immediately into it. They’re really guarded, you know, but he did seem really into it. What got him on the phone, what did it take? I was nervous when I realized we were going to hear the audio, because I’ve had phone interviews with famous people and it’s like the most hollow thing. Then he was really game once we talked, like, amazingly game. You know, he was the one that took the longest. I mean, Jake Gyllenhaal was the most reluctant. I guess I got lucky with him because he, out of all the people that answered, he was this great guy.ĭo most people seem game when you tell them what you’re doing? Are they excited about the prospect of participating in an investigation like that? The Ticketmaster guy was talking about the same stuff that Andrea was talking about when it’s applied to Britney Spears.
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Every person in that story is responding to another person in that story. I’m still very focused on the solution, but instead of there being red herrings that are nothing, that aren’t interesting, why, when you talk to someone, can’t they have a story, too? The Britney episode, to me, thematically, everything locks together.
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It wasn’t even like I was thinking, I’m always going to have digressions. It was kind of before podcasts were big, because podcasts have only been big since last September. Not the whole thing, but a substantial amount. I knew I liked mysteries, so I went out and made a lot of the pilot three years ago. And I didn’t want to do a Story Corps thing, I was kind of tired of doing personal stories and stuff. Starlee Kine: Someone had come to me and asked if I wanted to do a radio show, and I had never wanted to do a radio show, because I couldn’t think of an idea that was different enough from This American Life. Vanity Fair: Tell us about the genesis of Mystery Show. There are references to the outcomes of several episodes here, so if you don’t want to be spoiled, go listen to the show and then come back. Curious to know the mind behind this curious and deeply compelling podcast-which has featured mysteries ranging from a vanity plate with an alarming message to the rampant speculation about Jake Gyllenhaal’s height-we called Kine a few weeks ago to discuss Mystery Show’s origins, how she picks her mysteries, and, of course, Mr. Listening to the five episodes that have run so far, which you should absolutely do if you haven’t already, one gets the sense that maybe we’re the real mysteries. But in the solving, she manages to tap into a fascinating, wistful vein of humanity, creating portraits of disparate lives that are funny and poignant. Yes, as the title would suggest, Kine does solve a mystery in each episode-not murders or anything, not yet anyway, but more seemingly quotidian head-scratchers about missing objects and hard-to-explain photographs. The new podcast Mystery Show, hosted by This American Life producer Starlee Kine, is hard to pin down.