Steve Burns Announces a New Podcast He Says Is 'the Same Thing' as Blue's Clues — Featuring This Celebrity Guest (Exclusive) Virginia ChamleeSeptember 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM 0 Everett Collection; Lemonada Media Steve Burns in Blues Clues; Burns in 2025 Blue's Clues host Steve Burns is launching a new p...
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Blue's Clues host Steve Burns is launching a new podcast, Alive, which launches September 17 with Lemonada Media
Speaking to PEOPLE in an exclusive interview, Burns says the podcast "feels very much like a public access cable show from the late '90s"
The podcast, he adds, builds on the conversations sparked by Blue's Clues and his viral TikTok videos
Steve Burns is back — with a new podcast that the former Blue's Clues host tells PEOPLE builds on the "joy and wonder" so present in the iconic children's show.
Speaking to PEOPLE in an exclusive interview, 51-year-old Burns explains how the new podcast, called Alive, spun out of the viral TikTok videos he posted during the COVID-19 pandemic — videos in which he didn't speak much, but instead "checked in" on his followers.
"I had that viral video during the pandemic [and] I guess since then, I had been kind of thinking I should do something with this access that I did not know I still had with this generation that I have," he muses. "It seems that there was an opportunity to just continue the conversation — to simply scale it up for adults, which was a revelation to me."
Burns adds that the virality of his social media videos demonstrated that there was a way to break through in this modern era. The new podcast, he says, "feels very much like a public access cable show from the late 90s."
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Steve Burns in 1999
And while that descriptor might call to mind another iconic kids' show host — Fred Rogers — Burns is quick to draw the line at any comparisons
"To the degree that I think about Mr. Rogers and making this podcast, it's more about making sure people know that I am nothing like Mr. Rogers, right?" he says. "That is a weight that I do not wish to carry around, and that is a bar that I cannot possibly — no one could possibly — live up to."
He adds, "That dude should be on our money. Mad respect for Fred Rogers. But he really was like a bodhisattva, like that was his ministry, and he had wisdom to share. And I do believe that he will be remembered as much more than a children's television show host. I think he will be remembered as a great teacher of human beings, right? I'm just a neurotic bald guy who is sitting next to you, a fellow traveler on the struggle bus."
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Burns' new podcast — which debuts September 17 from Lemonada Media — will see him connect with guests as diverse as hospice nurses, elected officials and celebrities (Jamie Lee Curtis is an upcoming guest, he tells PEOPLE). But much like Blue's Clues, it invites the audience itself to be part of the show.
"It really is kind of the same thing [as Blue's Clues]," he says. "I'm not gonna be speaking to furniture, and there are no magical, felt-puzzle-solving puppies to be found. But this is a podcast about you, and you are the celebrity guest on every episode. I am asking your opinion."
Burns adds that it took him "years" to recognize the significance of Blue's Clues and why it broke through the way it did.
"I didn't even realize how cool Blue's Clues was until I really started thinking about it in hindsight, all these years later, but it always was about running around with joy and wonder and making an attempt to lead an examined life," he says. "About looking around your universe for little bits of information that lead to greater understanding. And then you sit down in a chair with your homie and think about it and talk about it, and that is exactly what this podcast does. So in a way, it's just scaling."
Blue's Clues, he adds, was "always about the important stuff, and the important stuff used to be shapes and colors and letters and numbers and vegetables and graham crackers and stuff, and now it's student loans and, 'Oh my God, my parents are old and sick and I'm terrified' and 'Why does money freak me out?' and 'What is the future of truth?' and you know, all the stuff that we're all wrestling with all the time and don't always think critically about."
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Burns tells PEOPLE that fans of Blue's Clues often say that he served as a formative part of their childhoods.
"They tell me that I raised them, which I didn't, but it's an interesting thing that they feel that way — we are relating to media, we are absorbing it into our DNA," he says. "And that's why I think it's imperative that we start showing up as people and we start remembering that there's a human person on the other side of the screen, always, and that person has a fragile human soul."
He continues: "And I personally believe that we have a certain responsibility to those fragile human souls. I think that this technology is about to swallow us whole. I can't imagine we'll just put it away, but we need to humanize it in some way."
The first two episodes of Alive will be available on Wednesday, September 17, with new episodes released weekly on all platforms and video available on YouTube.
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