At 51, Steve Burns is still searching for clues about the meaning of life.
Burns, the actor, musician and writer best known as the original host of Nickelodeon’s “Blue’s Clues,” is launching an original podcast with Lemonada Media called “Alive.” It’s slated to premiere in the fall of 2025 (with an exact date TBD).
“Alive” is a weekly show in which Burns and his guests will discuss “what it means to stay human in a complicated world.” The podcast will touch on themes including mortality, masculinity, loneliness — and success. The inspiration for the podcast came after he shared a viral inspirational video for Nick Jr.’s promotion of the 25th anniversary of “Blue’s Clues” in 2021. It was a moment when Burns “found himself in conversation again with tens of millions of grown-up fans who still considered him a friend,” according to Lemonada.
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There’s a story that a mother, hoping to steer her child toward a successful scientific career in the footsteps of Albert Einstein, asked the famous scientist about the kind of reading that would best prepare her child for such a future.
To her surprise, the scientist recommended "Fairy tales and more fairy tales."
The mother protested that she was serious about her question, and wanted a serious answer.
But Einstein stuck to his answer, adding that creative imagination is the essential element in the intellectual equipment of the true scientist, and that fairy tales are the childhood stimulus to this quality.
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