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I know Steve had no intent on insulting any of his former co-performers, but there are people out there who are gonna interpret it that way. Tyler Bunch sadly is one of those people, as I saw on Facebook. So is someone who interviewed Steve as you can see here:

Jarrod Fairclough: My expectations of the new Muppet Show lie only in that I know what this team is capable of. And I know that the love and the dedication that Leigh Slaughter, and Dani Iglesias, and Frank Reifsnyder, and I should say Ryan Dosier as well, that they have for these characters and...

JD Hansel: What I'll say is whatever Matt is doing is definitely working at in-person events as I've experienced myself and I've seen other people have this experience. If you can get people in a room with him, then the puppetry matters a lot more. Like when you're watching a good puppeteer do...

Mathew Soberman: As much as I don't want to keep relitigating Matt Vogel's Kermit, I think the disadvantage Matt has had is whereas with Steve, Kermit was still a very active character in the years following Jim's passing. Matt really hasn't gotten that chance to showcase himself. Jarrod...

I'll be putting more quotes from this podcast in the quote thread, so I hope you'll tune into there. JD Hansel: You have been tired of people not liking the Matt Vogel voice pretty much the whole time. Jarrod Fairclough: I don't care if they don't like it. Stop complaining about it. There's...

This was unexpected! Congrats to Bradley. I met him at the Center for Puppetry Arts a couple years ago, he's a really cool and nice guy. Plus he plays my favorite of the humanoid Muppets introduced to Sesame in the 2020s, Tamir. It's nice that they didn't pick one of the core 6 Muppet performers.

JD Hansel: I think the potential of it is the most exciting thing. Naturally, that's how it goes. But not just the potential of more Muppet Show stuff and more good Muppet stuff and more of the Muppets in their element, more of these characters in the environment that they're from where they...

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm thrilled!

This was a pleasant surprise!

Brian Henson at a Muppet Treasure Island screening two days ago: I like having stuff that works on an adult level but will be over the head of kids. And the big, you know, the main one that you see here is Piggy going, "Oh, hello, Long John." And then Kermit going, "What? Him too?" And you know...

This guy is one of my favorite YouTubers currently:

Years before Peter Linz became Ernie's official performer in 2017, he filled in for Steve Whitmire in this video of a family's visit to Sesame Street made in 2006. It's kinda surreal seeing him play Ernie alongside Kevin Clash as Elmo.

Phil Vischer reads an article about James Dobson: "But Dobson's feverish crusades against p*********y, gambling, divorce, and even SpongeBob SquarePants now seem almost quaint in a party that has fully embraced Trumpism". Skye Jethani: What's wrong with SpongeBob? Phil: I forget. He was probably...

The pitch reel for the unproduced early 2000s Muppet series is no longer lost media. My apologies to anyone offended by the joke Pepe makes at 3:29.

As cute as those baby puppets are, I would've preferred a new version sung by normal Ernie. Peter's version of I Don't Want To Live on the Moon at Lincoln Center was so good, I wanna hear him do Dance Myself To Sleep as regular Ernie.