Episode 189 - A Conversation with Elyse Willems

For the first time in a LONG time, we're starting a new show! It's The Jim Henson Hour and it doesn't have a single baby anywhere in it, at least so far. But does that mean it's any good? We'll see.......  Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @Kermitment.com, where we'll post fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im-sam-schultz  

This week we're joined by Tough Pigs writer, podcast host, and Sesame Street expert Becca Petunia to talk about more of Sesame Street anniversary specials. These fools LOVED celebrating their anniversaries with self-congratulatory specials! Thanksfully this time we've got Becca on to fill in the gaps and tell us all the stuff we don't know about Baby Natasha and Rodeo Rosie! If you need more Becca, check out A Prarie Dawn Companion on Tough Pig's podcast feed and Here Comes Tomorrow, a podcast exploring Grant Morrison's excellent X-men comics run! Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @Kermitment.com, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im-sam-schultz  

We completed anohter lap around the Earth, though a little slower and closer to the Reaper's cold grasp. Time to celebrate with some truly terrible puppet-based TV shows and then upload our conversation about them to the internet in a pathetic bid for immortality!  Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @Kermitment.com, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im-sam-schultz

We're joined by comedian, writer, podcaster, puppeteer, and Muppet superfan Elyse Willems to talk about the Ice Capades, Space Jam, and Ghostbusters. We also talk about the Muppets a lot, so don't you worry! And Matt wrote some trivia games for us to play! Check out Elyse's podcast, Answer For It, and check her out in her starring role as Barry the Beaver in the new PBS show How Are We Today? Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @Kermitment.com, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im-sam-schultz  

We're joined by writer, film editor, co-creator of The Muppets Mayhem Jeff Yorkes to talk about making the show from the inital pitch to its release, the future of the Muppets, and the joy of creating with your friends!  Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @Kermitment.com, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im-sam-schultz

Craig Shemin, author and President of the Jim Henson Legacy, joins us to talk about his new book, The Sam and Friends Script Book, as well as his time working on The Jim Henson Hour, the upcoming celebration of Jim Henson's birthday in NYC, his thoughts on the movie Saturday Night and lots more! A tresure trove of an interview! You can preorder The Sam and Friends Script Book here And you can visit the Museum of the Moving Image's website to get tickets for the upcoming Henson birthday festivites! Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @Kermitment.com, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im-sam-schultz

We actually watched some stuff this episode! Of course, it's a bunch of newly-surfaced stuff from years we've already covered, so it doesn't actually move us foreward in our Kermitment in any way and in fact prolongs it BUT still. Join us as we celebrate the life of MuppetVision 3D with some cool interviews and footage of the opening day parade, and also we watched some dumb stuff for babies. And Gene Shalit is here too for some reason.  Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @Kermitment.com, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im-sam-schultz

So this week... we're playing Dungeons and Dragons, but with Muppets! And we brought some of Kermitment's best friends along: Songsmith Tuna Metesh, Classic Guest Nick Jenkins, Podcast Royalty Ceri Riley, and Introducing Aimee Roberts!  It's a pretty big, weird swing but it was lots of fun to put togehter! If you like it, please let us know and we'll do some more! And if you don't... be kind!  Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @Kermitment.com, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im-sam-schultz

Matt had a baby! Sam got married! Only one of those things is the reason that we haven't made an episode in a while. Can you guess which one?  Da Boys are back to tell you how their summers have been, talk too much about babies and Marvel movies, and give you a little taste of what's next and when you can expect it. All recorded live in front of a studio audience sort of! We missed you! Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @Kermitment.com, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im-sam-schultz

Big Bird's going on a trip and you know waht that means: he's going to wear a tie, and he's going to meet God.  THis will be our last normal episode for a bit because MATT HAD A BABY. We're thinking up some special episodes to post while he figures that whole thing out. We'll have updates for you on our social accounts, which you can find below! We'll be back sooner than you think! Check out http://kermitmentstuff.com/ to get your Kermitment merch! Kermitment has a Patreon! Running a podcast is deceptively expensive work, so by becoming our Patron, you help us cover those costs and allow us to do funner, cooler stuff in the future! Find out more here! Visit our website to find a link to the Kermitment Patreon and more fun stuff at http://Kermitment.com! If you can't get enough Kermitment, follow @Kermitment.com, where we'll tweet fun stuff and interact with our listeners! And you can follow each of us individually: Matt: @MatthewGaydos Sam: @im-sam-schultz