Keeping It Unapologetically Real with Jamie Lee Curtis

Alive with Steve Burns

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

5.0 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Steve and Jamie discuss what it means to be real and be human in a world of manufactured authenticity. Jamie Lee Curtis is an actress, producer, and children’s author. She has won numerous awards (Academy Award, BAFTA, Primetime Emmy, among others) and is considered one of the original scream queens. She is known for her iconic roles in the Halloween franchise, A Fish Called Wanda, Perfect, and Everything Everywhere All At Once. BetterHelp: Our listeners get 10% off their first month at betterhelp.com/stevealive. ZipRecruiter: Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at this exclusive web address: ziprecruiter.com/ALIVE. Head to ComicConTheCruise.com/ALIVE to learn more and book your cabin — and don’t forget to use code ALIVE for $250 off per cabin on new reservations! Follow Jamie Lee Curtis @jamieleecurtis on Instagram. You can follow Steve Burns @steveburnsalive on Instagram. Watch full episodes of Alive on YouTube. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. If you haven’t yet, now is a great time to subscribe to Lemonada Premium. You’ll get ad-free episodes and bonus content from Steve. Just hit the 'subscribe' button on Apple Podcasts, or, for all other podcast apps head to lemonadapremium.com to subscribe. Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Lemonada
0:02.7	Alive
0:02.8	With Steve Burns
0:16.2	Hey, there you are.
0:19.3	Hi.
0:20.4	Come on in. Welcome to Alive. It's very good to see you. So, uh, I got, I know, I know.
0:46.0	There's tea. I'm making tea. Do you want some tea? Let's have some tea.
0:52.1	So, somebody asked me that question just the other day, and I honestly didn't know how to
0:58.2	answer them.
1:00.0	I think I said something like, it's complicated, which is true, if you think about it.
1:09.6	Because most days I would say, yeah, I think I generally like myself.
1:15.4	That wasn't always true.
1:17.1	God knows.
1:19.0	But nowadays, sure.
1:21.7	I think so.
1:22.6	But it varies still, a little bit, day-to-day.
1:36.9	Moment to moment, mood to to mood does that make sense yeah um but what makes it all really tricky is that we all have so many versions of our self to like or not like now.
1:47.0	You know what I mean?
1:48.0	For example, there's the me that my family knows, and that is totally different in a lot
1:54.0	of ways from the me when I'm at work or the me when I'm online,
2:01.6	for example, which is like a whole other thing.
2:05.6	And then there's the me, me that nobody sees.
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