Starlee Kine (born April 8, 1975) is an American

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producer and writer. She was the creator and host of the podcast ''

Mystery Show ''Mystery Show'' is a Gimlet Media podcast hosted by Starlee Kine that ran for one season in 2015. In each episode, Kine solves a minor mystery which cannot be solved with search engines alone. It was declared the best new podcast of 2015 by iTu ...

'', which was done in production with

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. Her work has been featured on ''

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''. She was a frequent guest on the CBC Radio show ''

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''. Her writing has appeared in the ''

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'' and '' California Sunday''. On April 30, 2015,

announced Kine would be the host of its new podcast, ''

''. The show's first episode was released on May 22, 2015. In early 2016, she was an artist-in-residence at the

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. On March 4, 2016, she presented a sampling of her work and a teaser of a mystery-in-progress at the Monadnock Cultural Center in

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. In April 2016, Kine announced that ''Mystery Show'' would no longer be produced at Gimlet Media. Kine served as an editorial advisor on Serial Productions's ''

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'' podcast. She has had a few acting roles such as the voice of Tina from the

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webseries ''DIY''. She was part of the cast of the first season of ''

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'', an

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series created by

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. In March 2020, Kine, along with

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and Jon Kimball, returned to host the political podcast ''Election Profit Makers''Election Profit Makers website
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in the lead up to the

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. Kine, Rees and Kimball previously hosted ''Election Profit Makers'' prior to the 2016 US presidential election. Kine was a writer for the television series '' Search Party''.

''This American Life'' work

* Episode 75 – Kindness of Strangers * Episode 146 – Urban Nature * Episode 183 – Missing Parents' Bureau * Episode 205 – Plan B * Episode 208 – Office Politics * Episode 223 – Classifieds * Episode 226 – Reruns * Episode 231 – Time to Save the World * Episode 238 – Lost in Translation * Episode 248 – Like It Or Not * Episode 259 – Promised Land * Episode 261 – The Sanctity of Marriage * Episode 277 – Apology * Episode 283 – Remember Me * Episode 335 – Big Wide WorldThislife.org
Episode Description, Prologue * Episode 339 – Break-Up * Episode 354 – Mistakes Were MadeThislife.org
Episode Description, Act Two * Episode 379 – Return to the Scene of the Crime * Episode 424 – Kid Politics * Episode 514 – Thought That Counts

References

External links

nbsp;– Starlee Kine profile in ''

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'' – Spring 2008
The Moth Presents Starlee Kine: Radical Honesty
Starlee Kine gives a humorous (and honest) account of her attendance at a Radical Honesty workshop. From a 2009

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