"I won't be the only person to vote for Mystery Show, and I'm sure I have nothing new to say about what a pleasure it is to listen to. This vote is inspired almost entirely by Starlee Kine's monologue about the passage of time in Episode 5, "Source Code": "Seasons passed. Winter came. Planets rotated. Stars died. Innumerable Gallons of ice cream were consumed. Countless spoons were bent. Babies learned how to crawl. Teenagers learned how to kiss. Podcasts went from being popular in a niche way to popular in a mainstream way. But still, older people could not figure out how to listen to them on their phones..."

- Morgan Childs, The Europeans/True Spies

Mystery Show was a short-lived but beloved exploration of life’s oddly ungoogleable questions, approached with wonder, warmth, and a gently comic sensibility. Hosted by Starlee Kine, the show treated each minor mystery—why a video store closed, how a belt buckle ended up in a sidewalk—as a portal into deeper human connection. What set it apart wasn’t just the sleuthing, but the digressions: moments of vulnerability, unexpected humor, and emotional candor that turned each case into something larger than its premise. Mystery Show proved that storytelling doesn’t need stakes to be meaningful—just curiosity, empathy, and a willingness to linger.