Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hi, Micah.
How are you? Good. How are you doing?
Where are you right now in the world, Micah?
I am in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Center for Puppetry Arts.
Oh, you work with puppets. Maybe you've heard of it. I'm going to say I don't think I've heard of it, but tell me this is a puppet museum. What is it? What are we doing here? Are we storing puppets? Are we displaying them? What's happening in your puppet world?
Yeah, we're a museum, a puppet museum.
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Chapter 2: What is the Center for Puppetry Arts and what do they do?
We're also a performing arts center, so we have performances that involve puppets on stage, but then I work in the museum side of things. So I'm the collections manager, which essentially just means I take care of the puppets in the museum.
Okay, are we talking famous puppets here? Yes. Would these be puppets that I know?
Yes, we have about 500 of the Jim Henson, original Jim Henson puppets.
Oh, we call those Muppets, don't we?
Yes, we do call them Muppets.
Well, I'm sorry. We in the business puppetry call that Muppetry. So you have Muppets. You have 500 Muppets?
Yes, we do. We have 500 Muppets, Miss Piggy, Kermit, the Sesame Street characters, puppets from the Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
Wow.
Among others. So, yeah, stuff you would recognize.
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Chapter 3: How does Micah manage the collection of puppets?
So you have a lot of Jim Henson stuff. That's amazing. Any other famous puppets that I would know?
Yeah, we have Lamb Chop. We just got a Lamb Chop and Friends puppet, which Sona, maybe you remember from our childhood days. I sure do.
Didn't we do a Lamb Chop? I was. What was her name? Her name was?
Oh, God.
Chapter 4: What famous puppets are part of the museum's collection?
What was the Lamb Chop?
Sherry Lewis.
Sherry Lewis. Sherry Lewis. Very famous. Yeah.
And Lamb Chop was her puppet.
Yeah. I remember Lamb Chop.
Uh-huh.
And we have the Mystery Science Theater 3000 puppets. Oh, wow. Which you can see behind me. That's cool.
Oh, look at that. You just moved your head a little bit and Chucky is there.
Oh my God. oh my god look at chucky you just buried the lead you have chucky is that the chucky it is the chucky a the chucky um there are multiples this one is from the newer tv show on that was i think on sci-fi um so it's a newer one but yes it is the chucky all of our puppets are originals usually performed okay before they're they're gifted to us so Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What challenges do puppets face in preservation?
Obviously, there was nothing going on.
Well, the thing is, these puppets aren't dumb. They know that when you bring someone else, they got to clam up. So that's what they do.
They freeze and they clam up.
And then your friend leaves and they're like, yeah, we're going to get you. We're going to get you.
Yeah, that's why I have Chucky right here behind me so that, you know, I figure if he's out in the open, I don't have to worry. I always know where he is.
Yeah, why do you have your back to him the whole time, though? That's the thing you're doing, Micah, that I would never do. You have him located. Chucky's right behind you, and I think he's holding a weapon. Is he holding a weapon?
Yes, he is holding a knife. Yes. But you know what?
Miss Piggy is right next to him. Miss Piggy would fuck Chucky up. She would.
How do you know Miss Piggy doesn't also want to be freed from her human overlord?
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Chapter 6: Can everyday puppeteers donate their puppets to the museum?
You know, dismembered sometimes. Yes, yes.
And so, I mean, it must be ghastly sometimes, the puppets you get. You know?
Yeah, well, you know, they're just puppets. But yeah, you kind of want Elmo to look like Elmo. You don't want him to be like, you know, hollow or something.
No, it's like when, I mean, God forbid, but sometimes, you know, you have to go to a wake and the person, you know, was in a bomb accident. You just hope that they look like themselves. You know what I mean? So sometimes you are like the mortician for these puppets. You have to make them look presentable so their loved ones see them in the correct state and not like Snuffleupagus all...
Really did some damage there.
Plastic surgeon. Yeah. We do actually take needles to some of the foam latex puppets. Foam latex is a lot of the dark crystal labyrinth puppets. And it sort of dries out over time. Oh, trust me. I know. As we age. Yeah.
So the foam kind of dries up and they wither. These puppets wither and then you guys have to pump them up.
Oh my God. Sort of like puppet Botox.
Yeah, puppet Botox. Well, and I just want to touch on this briefly because I know we don't have tons of time, but you're also very much into fan fiction. You love... Harry Potter fan fiction, is that right? So sometimes when you're with the puppets late at night and you're trying to calm down because you're nervous, because you're pretty sure you just saw Chucky sharpening his knife.
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