Former ‘Blue’s Clues’ host Steve Burns to launch a podcast for adults
Former “Blue’s Clues” host Steve Burns is beginning a podcast that goals to proceed conversations from the enduring Nickelodeon present, besides now for grown-ups.
Burns, 51, who hosted “Blue’s Clues” from 1996 to 2002, is popping out with a brand new podcast this fall referred to as “Alive” with Lemonada Media, in response to a YouTube video he shared on Wednesday.
“It’s mainly a societal requirement at this level that everybody has a podcast, so why don’t we’ve got one?” he says within the video.
“It may mainly be what we’ve at all times completed. You and I’ve at all times been about this deep and curious investigation of our world seeking these little bits of knowledge that result in better understanding,” he continues.
The weekly present will function the actor talking about grownup subjects.
“It was about shapes and colours and letters and numbers and greens and stuff, however now it may actually be about demise and intercourse and taxes and every part that makes it so bizarre to be alive,” he says within the video.
The podcast comes years after an outpouring of help for Burns following a viral tweet in 2021. In a video, Burns addressed his departure from “Blue’s Clues” because the present celebrated its twenty fifth anniversary.
“I imply, we began out with clues,” he says within the 2021 video. “And now, it’s what — scholar loans and jobs and households? And a few of it has been form of arduous, you understand? I do know you understand.”
“I wished to inform you that I actually couldn’t have completed all of that with out your assist,” he provides. “I’m tremendous glad we’re nonetheless pals.”
The host stated throughout a 2024 graduation speech at SUNY Delhi in New York that he’s repeatedly approached by adults who inform him how a lot the present mattered to them as youngsters.
He additionally has turn out to be a daily presence on TikTok, the place he dispenses recommendation, shares his fears and offers inspiration whereas taking time to take heed to his practically 4 million followers.
Burns hopes for the brand new podcast to proceed what he began with “Blue’s Clues.” On the tutorial youngsters’s present, he performed a fictional model of himself, additionally named Steve, who adopted paw prints that served as clues left by an animated canine named Blue.
He now joins a Lemonada Media lineup that additionally consists of podcasts from the previous Meghan Markle, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and David Duchovny.