Payne Lindsey

Up and Vanished in the Midnight Sun is a production of Tenderfoot TV in association with Odyssey.

Your host is Payne Lindsey.

The show is written by Payne Lindsey with additional assistance from Mike Rooney.

Executive producers are Donald Albright and Payne Lindsey.

Lead producer is Mike Rooney, along with producers Dylan Harrington and Cooper Skinner.

Editing by Mike Rooney and Cooper Skinner with additional editing by Dylan Harrington.

Yeah.

Yeah, so Kevin, in the opening scene of the documentary, we see a guy who looks just like Payne Lindsey, but a little more southern.

What did you think of that opening of the whole thing, Kevin?

I think that it basically sets up the whole idea for the documentary, which is great, and that it sets the tone to that this is going to be quirky and intentionally so.

It was the first episode after 200 Disgraceland episodes, many of which, and the majority of which I should say I've written myself, it was the first one where I went into the story with the goal of answering a question that I honestly did not know the answer to before I began researching, and that question was, how did Taylor Hawkins die? Most of the time we tell these stories, like I think back to even the first episode of Disgraceland, the Jerry Lee Lewis episode, I knew, I knew what was ...

I knew what the, what the story was, you know? And I think back to when I did that series Dead and Gone with Payne Lindsey from Up and Vanished, uh, that was a completely different experience because we had no idea where that story was taking us.

Now, that was over, I can't even remember, eight episodes or something.

It turned into two seasons, and, and nothin' ...