Authentic “Blue’s Clues” host Steve Burns, who abruptly left the Nickelodeon present in 2002 solely to resurface in a viral video through the pandemic, has introduced plans for a podcast.
Within the sequence, the youthful-looking grownup deftly broke the fourth wall as an animated pet named Blue left a path of clues for a preschool viewers to determine. Burns says his new podcast, “Alive,” will equally invite listeners to participate.
“You know the way there’s like a billion podcasts which you can hearken to? What if we made one which listens again?” Burns, now a 51-year-old with glasses, salt-and-pepper beard stubble and a penchant for carrying baseball caps, mentioned in a TikTok video this week. “It might be half podcast, half dialog — type of like this.”
The podcast, from Lemonada Media, is anticipated to premiere within the fall. It’s billed as a continuation of the dialogue Burns started along with his viewers manner again in 1996 however with extra mature subjects that embody mortality, loneliness, success and masculinity.
The umbrella descriptor for the present guarantees discussions about “what it means to remain human in an advanced world.”
If that sounds slightly heavy, a wistful video Burns launched in 2021 to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of “Blue’s Clues” met with rave evaluations. Within the clip, the musician and actor defined how he left the present, which continued with a unique host, to go to school.
“We began out with clues, and now it’s, what, scholar loans, jobs, and households,” Burns mentioned then. “And a few of it has been type of arduous, ? I do know .”
His podcast will be part of a steady of Lemonada choices that features “Fail Higher with David Duchovny” and “Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.”