{"podcast":{"title":"House of Mystery Radio on NBC","slug":"house-of-mystery-radio-on-nbc-941097","podcast_index_feed_id":941097,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5b7eee3536bf3f4166bc8c11","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5b7eee3536bf3f4166bc8c11/1604165902770-c672866f22f9b75425509ba1ac78e4e8.jpeg","author":"Alan R. Warren","episode_count":1578,"summary":"Many talented people's writings and movies address the deep, dark mysteries of our world — across both Fiction (Horror, Crime, Sci-Fi, Action-Adventure, Romance, LGBT) and Non-Fiction (Crime, History, Science, Paranormal) stories. Please step into the “House of Mystery” 5 nights a week and join us as we go deep into the creative process behind our esteemed guests' works. Past Guests in Non-Fiction have included Marcia Clark (of the O.J. Simpson trial), Robert Kennedy, Jr., Jesse Ventura, Burl Barer, Nancy Grace, Aphrodite Jones, Mark Olshaker, Anne Bremner (on Amanda Knox), F. Lee Bailey, Tom Mesereau (on Bill Cosby, Michael Jackson), Roger Stone (on the JFK Assassination), Dan Abrams, Juan Martinez (on Jodi Arias), Michael Hawley (on Jack the Ripper), and Michael Butterfield (on the Zodiac Killer). Past Guests in Fiction have included Eric Shapiro, George Weir, John Copenhaver, Lee Goldberg, Gregory Ashe, J.D. Horn, Rick Poldark, Greg F. Gifune, Michael Bland, Geoff Symon, Gabriel Rottello, James Polchin, Lev Raphael, and Robert Fieseler. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T12:20:35.533226+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/house-of-mystery-radio-on-nbc-941097"},"episode":{"title":"T.J. Payne - Intercepts","slug":"t-j-payne-intercepts","published_at":"2026-04-30T14:58:50+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/house-of-mystery-radio-on-nbc-941097/t-j-payne-intercepts","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/house-of-mystery-radio-on-nbc-941097","url":"https://shows.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio/episodes/tj-payne-intercepts","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5b7eee3536bf3f4166bc8c11/e/69e8299066c3374f7eed0f5c/media.mp3","summary":"The word-of-mouth BookTok hit about a supervisor at a top-secret government facility running experiments on human beings. He’s always been able to tell himself it’s for the greater good—until the day his work follows him home. “Inventive, scary, wholly entertaining, and deeply thought-provoking . . . T. J. Payne is the real deal.”—Jose Molina, writer/producer on  The Vampire Diaries, Sleepy Hollow,  and  Firefly Joe works for an organization known only as “The Company.” He cannot speak about what he does in public. He and his employees live in a constant state of paranoia that The Company is listening to their phones and watching their search histories. Why? Because on the bottom floor of the facility, rows of padded cells keep a group of humans in a constant state of extreme sensory deprivation. With their minds awake but their senses unable to ground themselves, they have gone insane, oscillating between vegetative states and fits of violent rage. These experiments have a purpose, though—when the minds of these inmates transcend their physical selves, they’re able to “intercept” the sights and senses of anyone in the world. The process, however, is painful. Torturous. Joe likes to think that his work, helping the government track down bad guys, makes the world a better place. He has no regrets. Until the day when his ex-wife dies by suicide. He learns that a woman who looks very much like one of Joe’s inmates had been haunting her. After his ex-wife’s death, Joe’s daughter Riley comes to live with him. And then she begins to have visions of the woman too... Has Joe somehow played a role in turning the government’s most sinister weapon against his own daughter? And, most important of all: how far will he go to save her? Support this show http://supporte…","meta_description":"The word-of-mouth BookTok hit about a supervisor at a top-secret government facility running experiments on human beings. He’s always been able to tell hi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1558,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/house-of-mystery-radio-on-nbc-941097/episodes/t-j-payne-intercepts/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/house-of-mystery-radio-on-nbc-941097/t-j-payne-intercepts.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}