No, I think that —I’m just kidding. But that may be the difference between working in print and radio. I’m just so used to everything being recorded, you kind of get over it.

You’re working on this story as you release it, and you don’t know how it ends. Do you think you’re taking a big risk by making this show without knowing for sure whether Adnan Syed, the man convicted of killing his former high-school girlfriend in 1999, is guilty? I’m not being fake-naïve or something, but I really don’t — the end was never the thing of it for me. It does not keep me up at night. It may keep up my producers more.

You have said that you don’t feel the responsibility to give a satisfying ending. But aren’t we trained to want one after being told a story like this? No, I said it’s not my responsibility to make a perfect ending. I do want a solid ending that is based in my reporting. But I don’t feel a responsibility to make it the kind of entertainment that you would get on some TV drama. No way. That would be crazy. That’s not what I do. I’m a reporter.

But the podcast is a hybrid of journalism and entertainment. You have a lot of information, and it seems you’ve structured it for maximum suspense. I don’t think that’s fair. I’m still reporting. It’s not like I have everything in a big basket and I’m just sort of stringing it up on the line at my whim. What we know how to do is structure a story well. To us, it just didn’t feel that different from a really long magazine story or — you know, any story that you would take care in structuring.

An interview you did with a retired detective raised the idea of confirmation bias: that we value evidence confirming our personal theories over evidence that contradicts them. Do you worry that, having started an investigation into Syed’s possible innocence, you might experience confirmation bias, too? I don’t think so. There are a lot of people out there who have no problem believing that Adnan is guilty, regardless of what I do. So many pieces of tape that I play, people hear them in completely, diametrically different ways. Also, I’m not doing this by myself. There are checks and balances.