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How Muppets Work | August 27, 2009
Chuck Bryant
I could go on for hours.
Josh Clark
I know you could. I’ve got to stop you right here. I’m going to press stop on the stopwatch, okay?
Chuck Bryant
Okay.
Josh Clark
Chuck, are we doing any listener mail today?
Chuck Bryant
No, Josh. No listener mail. This is a special episode. We want to play it out with a little treat for the fans, a little snippet from a song we all know and love. Without further ado, take it away.
Josh Clark
Thanks for coming, everybody.
It’s time to play the music. It’s time to light the light. It’s time to meet the Muppets on “The Muppet Show” tonight.
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Chuck Bryant
Yeah. We should write a book called A World Without Muppets.
Josh Clark
Like some alternate realty fiction. Yeah.
Chuck Bryant
That’d be awful.
Josh Clark
It’s nothing but war.
Chuck Bryant
Thank you, Jim Henson, who everyone knows, sadly, in 1990, passed away of a kind of pneumonia. They said it wasn’t actually pneumonia, but it was a bacterial infection that shut his organs down, basically. He complained of flu-like symptoms to his ex-wife, who he was still close with. I think they were separated at the time. He went to the hospital and 20 hours later died. It was very, very sad. But his children continue that tradition.
His son does not actually do the voice of Kermit, as many people thought. His son, Brian! A lot of people thought he took over for Kermit. It was actually me. I took over for Kermit.
Josh Clark
Yes you did.
Chuck Bryant
That’s my side gig.