SAGAL: You do - well, what kind of detective are you? Are you kind of like a Nancy Drew or are you like a Philip Marlowe? Are you a Sam Spade? SAGAL: Do you think of yourself now as a detective? SAGAL: Six - and you solve every case, right? SAGAL: You've done how many episodes now? KINE: Maybe they told him to quit his job. KINE: Well, I guess of all the things that they might have talked to him about, cooking might have been the least of it. JOBRANI: Isn't there, like, a supervisor? Like, afterwards they'd be like, hey, listen, dude, you can't be talking about cooking with people that call in. MAZ JOBRANI: Doesn't Ticketmaster record the calls? There's like (unintelligible) where he gave me a lot of cooking tips. I'm like, he's not full - he's not worthwhile and then I told him he was worthwhile and he was a good person. And then he started telling me about his family and his dad dying when he was very young and then how he feels very insecure. KINE: And then I just - I asked him if he - he thought about Britney Spears. KINE: (Laughter) I had already - I was calling to see how much time I would have with Britney when I got to the meeting part of the meet and greet. SAGAL: That doesn't happen to anybody else. KINE: Yeah, as Ticketmaster representatives. SAGAL: And you start talking to this guy and he unburdens his heart to you. KINE: She has a meet and greet that she does in Vegas for her Vegas shows, so I paid to do the meet and greet. SAGAL: What you did, if I remember correctly, is you said, all right, I'm just going to pay to meet her and you bought some expensive ticket where you get to go to her concert but meet her backstage beforehand, right? KINE: And then I went to the mall where Britney's regularly photographed and I asked everybody there, and they all had a Britney Spears story. And then the aunt - and then the trail went cold. And then - but the aunt didn't have email or use phones and she had to send a letter to the aunt. KINE: Well, like, one person - like, I put out a call and then someone's aunt was related to Britney's boyfriend. But it was kind of surprising that most people are at least a few degrees connected to Britney Spears. And it turned out a lot of people did have a way to get to her. I went - I asked everybody I knew if they had a way to get to her. And you try to - you go to the mall where Britney Spears shops. SAGAL: You - I mean - and you call up everybody. So in order to do this, you - what's amazing about these podcasts is not so much necessarily the mysteries that you're solving - although that's a very interesting mystery - but how incredibly dogged you are in tracking this down. SAGAL: Right, so your friend wrote this very obscure book, but there's a picture of Britney Spears carrying it. KINE: Why was Britney Spears reading the book - my book that I wrote that no one else has ever read? So let's talk about this - somebody came to you with one question and what was that question? SAGAL: No, well, the Britney Spears one is perhaps my favorite of the ones you've done so far. KINE: (Laughter) What do you mean, the Britney Spears one? You're saying that wasn't about murder? SAGAL: Well, let's talk about the kind of mysteries you're solving because you're not doing murders. SAGAL: So have you become, like, a consulting detective? People are coming to you with mysteries that you're, you know, like, Starlee Kine, you're my only hope. KINE: I love mysteries, and the amazing thing - if you do a podcast about something you love, the things you love appear before you. SAGAL: So, Starlee, can you tell me how you came up with "Mystery Show?" SAGAL: Starlee Kine, welcome to WAIT WAIT. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Singing) Those mysteries. Up until now, there hasn't been anyone to help with this. KINE: Mysteries that can't be solved online, mysteries you can't solve yourself. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Singing) Why is there space? UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Singing) Where is there time? STARLEE KINE: I'm Starlee Kine, and this is "Mystery Show." That's why we think the next big hit in podcasts will be "Mystery Show." So the big surprise hit last fall - the phenomenon - was the podcast "Serial" in which they explored a mystery without ever solving it. And now the game where we ask people who should know better about things they don't know at all.
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