Blue’s Clues host Steve Burns is launching a podcast designed to continue teaching the adults who watched his show as children.
The podcast, titled Alive, will tackle the idea of “adulting” and “what it means to stay human in a complicated world.” The idea was sparked by the viral video Burns released around the 25th anniversary of the show, in which he apologized for leaving the show and praised his former viewers for now navigating the world as adults, including contending with student loans, jobs and families.
“There are a thousand podcasts you can listen to, this is one that listens back. I really want to continue what we started decades ago…. For us, it was all about curious investigation. It was about looking a little closer. About asking the right questions. About following the clues that helped lead us toward greater understanding. Alive is really just a continuation of that same conversation — only now we’re grown-ups, trying to make sense of a world that’s a whole lot more complicated. We’re still searching, still learning, still trying to connect. Still doing our best to lead deeply examined lives, together,” Burns shares. “And, you know, there’ll be less talking furniture, sure, but we’re still going to have a lot of fun along the way.”
Lemonada Media is launching the podcast, which will premiere this fall. The title joins its lineup of podcasts including Wiser Than Me With Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Fail Better With David Duchovny, The Pink House With Sam Smith and more. Lemonada was recently acquired by Sweden’s PodX Group.
“Adults need to be shepherded through life just as much as kids do, and Steve is the perfect person to do it. He taps right into your inner child, helping listeners feel delight, comfort and curiosity. From the moment we saw Steve’s videos on TikTok during the pandemic, we knew we had to work with him,” said Jessica Cordova Kramer, CEO of Lemonada.
Burns is also putting on a solo live show, Steve Burns Alive, which will run July 23 through 25 at the Club at La MaMa in New York.