This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.

Today on the James Altiger Show.

You were the Cookie Monster, you were Grover, you were Miss Piggy, you were a bunch of characters on the Muppets,

and then of course you were Yoda on Star Wars and each character had so many relatable characteristics.

For me as a child watching this, the Burton Ernie relationship or the Cookie Monster.

These characters, they could be beyond human.

They could be really kind of these platonic ideals of certain personality traits.

And I think that's what happened in many cases.

There's also, there's a certain aspect of the society that is not accepting of people that aren't considered equal to what's normal.

And none of the Muppets are normal.

None of them are straight down the middle.

They all have their own flaws, their own insecurities, their own weirdnesses.

And I think people respond to that.

I asked you before the podcast, if it was okay, if I had asked you to do a voice.

And I said it was fine to ask me.

So I asked you, can you do a voice?

No.

Frank Oz, I grew up on you.

Like I grew up listening to your voice.

My parents from the age of two or three on would put me in front of Sesame Street,

or they would put me in front of the Muppets.

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