Origin Stories with Steve Burns

Alive with Steve Burns

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

5.0 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Steve was a recently guest on the podcast Origin Stories and we wanted to share the episode with you. Origin Stories is the ultimate podcast for anyone curious about the workings of the creative mind. Each week, journalist Matthew Shaer talks to a different writer or director about the creation of a work close to their own hearts (and to ours). Nothing is off the table: not the frustrations and the joys, not the setbacks and the successes. In this episode, Steve talks to Matthew about the creation of Alive With Steve Burns, and the learning curve involved in experimenting with a new medium. "I watched like 40 hours of Dick Cavett and then I realized that was not useful to this forum in any way," he says. "And that I'd probably be better off taking some improv classes and understanding what journalism is. Right now, it seems like it's improvisational journalism if it's anything. But I'm still flailing around in a sea of fear when I'm here." You can listen to more episodes of Origin Stories at https://link.mgln.ai/steveburns See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:04.2	Campsite Media.
0:12.1	Hi. You got a second?
0:15.6	In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Steve Burns, the former host of the kids show, Blues Clues, released a short video on Twitter.
0:26.9	Dressed in a striped shirt and hat and his trademark glasses, Burns explained that although it had been a long time since he last saw his friends, he still thought about them.
0:38.0	A lot.
0:41.9	I'm super glad we're still friends. Thanks for listening.
0:44.8	You look great, by the way. The clip rapidly went viral because of the unabashed sweetness of the message and also because
0:50.6	of the nostalgia factor. Millions of people had grown up with Steve.
0:55.6	At a chaotic time, his voice was one of reassurance of comfort.
1:00.2	Five years after that clip was published, Steve is back again, this time with a new podcast called Alive with Steve Burns.
1:08.6	Today, I kind of want to talk about something kind of big, like real big.
1:13.3	Can I ask you, do you ever think about death?
1:18.1	The show in a lot of ways is an extension of blues clues and the viral video with a bunch
1:23.9	of high-profile guests thrown in.
1:26.6	It's intimate, personal.
1:28.6	As Steve likes to say, it's one of the first podcasts on Earth that actually, quote, listens back.
1:34.6	That's this week on Origin Stories.
1:42.6	Let's talk about protein.
1:44.5	It's all anybody seems to talk about lately, and for good reason.
1:48.4	So many people want to build muscle and support their existing muscle, but getting enough
1:53.2	doesn't have to mean eating yet another bland chicken breast at the end of the day to hit your protein goal.
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