Mister Roger’s Neighborhood

It's time for the telecast brought to you by

the Geekcast Radio Network As you said, I am

your host Optimus Solo and I'd like to say hello

and welcome to the 10th, holy cow, 10 already,

10th episode of the Telecast brought to you by

the Geekcast Radio Network. Today we are rounding

up our educational segment and to help do that

is I have with me Steve Megatron Phillips. Hello.

And back with us again is TFG1 Mike. Hello. Hello.

It's been a while. Yes. At least it seems like

it's been a while. I'm not sure. Well, I've called

in with several voicemails, so I get in every

episode almost. What was the last episode you

were on, though? I can't even remember what number.

Oh, um... Four? No. What's a four? You haven't

been on any of the educational ones, have you?

No, but I called in on one of them. Right. Right.

Anyways, today the three of us will be talking

about... It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood

a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be

mine? Could you be mine? It's a neighborly day

in this beauty would a neighborly day for a beauty

would you be mine? Could you be mine? I have

always wanted to have a neighbor just like you

I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood

with you so Let's make the most of this beautiful

day Since we're together, we might as well say

Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won't you

be my neighbor? Won't you please? Won't you please?

Please won't you be my neighbor? That's right

folks We are going to be talking about mr. Rogers

neighborhood and before we get too far into our

discussion Quick background information on the

show that mr. Rogers neighborhood debuted in

1968 good lord the only one of us that was alive

at that point was Mike and it aired until 2001

on PBS there's a 30 minute show and Yeah, 31

seasons and if my count is correct or if my sources

are correct eight hundred and ninety five episodes,

but I have seen another source that said 900

and some episodes So I'm not a hundred percent

sure but either way. It's a lot of episodes For

those of you that don't know mr. Rogers neighborhood

was an educational show obviously since it's

in this section of the telecast aimed at preschool

aged kids hosted by Fred Rogers Episodes did

not have a plot basically consisted of Rogers

speaking directly to the viewer about various

issues. He would take the viewer on tours of

factories. He would do experiments, crafts, music.

He would interact with a few live action friends.

And they would also always have a puppet segment

chronicling the occurrences in the neighborhood

of make -believe. I'll start with Mike. Mike,

what do you remember about Mr. Rogers' neighborhood

from your childhood? First of all, I have to

say, I know Kevin has this whole thing of his

aligning his schedule with different categories

of shows. I always remember watching this immediately

after Sesame Street. Oh yeah, so do I. No, I'm

not saying that you didn't. I'm just saying that

as far as telecast goes, Sesame Street's later.

Sesame Street is in with all the Muppet puppet

shows. But I always remember watching Sesame

Street, then this, and it was just, it was a

great, great show. One of the, if not the, well,

I would say it's one of the best educational

shows ever. Yeah. I mean, if I ever had kids,

heaven forbid, I would be showing them this versus

any kind of purple dinosaurs or blue puppies

or any kind of crap that they have nowadays.

I'm ready to irradiate your existing brain cells.

Yeah, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood was really, really

aw - it was so awesome because one of them -

I could be wrong, but I could've sworn that I

remember him doing an episode where he went to...

The film set of the Incredible Hulk He had blue

Frigno as a guest. So I'm pretty sure he did

do that Okay. Yeah, I heard that that's the one

episode that I remember the most is is Seeing

that episode and then the whole neighborhood

of make -believe stuff Right now is a 31 year

old it's it's okay Have a few issues. I'm sure

that we'll talk about the actual characters and

stuff a little bit later. So Yeah, that's but

that's what I remember overall. It was a great

great educational program for its time and Yeah,

that's it. All right, Steve. What do you remember?

I Remember, of course the land of make -believe

Mr. McFeely the various educational commercials

you could say that were displayed throughout

the Random parts of the episodes. Did you watch

this kind of back -to -back with Sesame Street

like Mike did or did you have a different experience

as far? I pretty much did that and then I Kind

of ended up watching it again later on as my

brother was growing up Yeah. Just because we

had one television in the basement to share and

he decided to watch that and actually usually

there was nothing else on so I just would sit

there and watch it again even though I'd pretty

much seen them all anyway. That is actually a

great point. I don't mean to interrupt you but

I have never thought about that but another comparison

of kids in our generation compared to kids today.

Kids today don't know what it's like growing

up in a house with one television. That is true.

I've never really thought about that, doing all

these episodes, but kids today, they're used

to having a TV in every room, watching whatever

they want. They've got computers and whatnot.

In our day, what was on TV was what was on TV,

and that was the only thing you could watch.

Exactly. You didn't really have a choice. It

was either you watch it or you go without. Or

you go outside or you find something else to

do. Yeah, which most of us did back in the day.

Nowadays, everybody's got a TV in their room

or a cell phone that connects to The iTunes network

or whatever gets online and game systems, whatever.

I mean, there's all kinds of more media in front

of you instead of actually learning something

and going outside. Right. Not only do we have

less channels, but we have less actual TVs. So

it was yeah, I didn't even that's never occurred

to me But that is a huge difference actually

because if you did have kids like brothers or

sisters whether they were older or younger Sometimes

you would be stuck watching them and that makes

more sense now because Mike and I have talked

a couple times on Tooncast and I've remembered

watching cartoons with my older brother and sister

that I would have never watched but obviously

I was watching them because I couldn't do anything

about it if they were watching them I had to

watch it or else I had to do something else On

the flip side of this whole thing though nowadays

you have kids and parents that have the multiple

TVs, that every single TV is tuned into Blue's

Clues or Disney Channel. But you know what I'm

saying, it's something like of whatever educational

shows we have today. So it's like you go into

a house with say three TVs, every single TV is

running some sort of kids educational program

in every room. If they're lucky. Unless it's

the bad ones. I don't know. There's there's some

I won't say all Educational shows in the last

five or you know, six years have been bad But

there has been quite a few that do not match

up to what was available when we were young I

also remember watching this one back -to -back

with last week's or last episodes topic raw reading

rainbow At a certain time obviously reading Rainbow

Sesame Street. Mr. Rogers were all PBS So it

makes sense that at one time or another they

were all shown back -to -back Remember watching

them about around like noon starting with Sesame

Street at noon or at 11 in the morning And then

mr. Rogers right after that and then reading

rainbow after that. That's how my memory serves

me See for me. I remember it it might be that

way. I can't remember cuz when I went to kindergarten

I for like One part of the year for kindergarten.

I went to the morning session and see so did

I? and the other part I went to the afternoon

session. So I think... Could be wrong about this,

but I think they did show them early morning

as well. They might have I do remember though

I was a morning kindergarten person too and I

would get home and you know have my peanut butter

and jelly or whatever I was having for lunch

and watch Sesame Street followed by mr. Rogers

neighborhood maybe followed by reading rainbow

sometimes sometimes not and then after that I

would go outside and you know meet up with friends

maybe that were in the afternoon session or this

or that and do that type of thing and I remember

that crystal clear I even have a picture of me

actually sitting at our We had a table in our

little TV room staring up at the TV and I had

to be watching one of those, so I kind of like

that picture. Any other general memories from

either of you or just things you remember about

Mr. Rogers before we move on? Nothing I can remember.

Mike? No, not really. Alright, sounds good. Then

we will get into the who's who of Mr. Rogers'

neighborhood. I actually entered... this episode

thinking, well, this is going to be an easy segment

because it's just Mr. Rogers. I kind of forgot

about all the other people. Obviously, we'll

get him out of the way. So the first person is

Fred Rogers. And he's basically playing his own

self. And for those of you that don't know, Fred

Rogers was born in 1928. He was an educator.

He was a minister. He was a songwriter, composer,

and then obviously he was a television host.

So he was kind of a man of many different talents.

Um, during the course of his career, he actually

had 40, 40 that's a four zero different degrees.

Some earn some honorary. Um, and I didn't know

this, but he was a red green, uh, colorblind

individual. I did not know that. Um, he's also

why he were blue. That makes sense. Uh, he was

also a vegetarian before that was stylish and

apparently he never smoke or drank. Obviously

that can't be proved, but I'll believe it. It's

Mr. Rogers. Yeah, that would just be wrong. But

what were your guys' feelings of, I know a lot

of people have different opinions about Mr. Rogers

and there are, well I won't get into it yet,

but what are your guys' feelings, I'll let Steve

go first, but what's your feelings on Mr. Rogers

as the type of host he was and even maybe comparing

him to some of the other hosts we've had in the

educational segment like LeVar Burton for reading

Rainbow or even the science guys like Bill Nye

or Beekman's. What was your opinion on Fred?

Definitely I'd have to say that he was pretty

close to the vibe of LeVar Burton or Bill Nye

in the sense that he was more of a calm host

that taught you stuff and he wasn't as in your

face as say Beakman. some of the other like you

know likeness characters like that, but um He

definitely did teach you something, but he also

used it through some of his friends that would

randomly pop in throughout the show whether it

be his land of make -believe or Or through mr.

Mcfeely or whoever else happened to show up yeah,

I agree I I think you're right, I think you pinned

it on the head and I think that's something that

he's known for is being that calm, collected,

even to a more extreme, you said like kind of

like Bill Nye or LeVar Burton and I agree with

that, but he almost even takes it to another

level. And Mr. Wizard was another guy that was

kind of like that, but he was so calm and so

like, if you picture if you're having a conversation

with him in real life that you're completely

comfortable. You know what I mean? He had this

way of just putting you at ease. Mike, what was

your thoughts? Go ahead, Steve. I was going to

say, if you get too comfortable with him, he

was almost enough to put you to sleep. I mean,

not to say anything bad about the man, but you

had to be kind of into that in order to get what

the whole program was supposed to be. Right,

and that's almost why he was in the perfect time.

He if he was trying to start out today He wouldn't

last no because nobody would make it a season

and then they would cut them cut them short Kids

would not be able to sit through it because they

wouldn't have the attention span and like you

said he almost has that calming put you to sleep

thing and I think Dark kids these days have been

so trained or so like conditioned to need Fast

-paced, you know rapid -fire stuff that it just

wouldn't work Why? Why did you mention putting

people to sleep? Because, for some strange reason,

the only thing that's popping into my head now

is Jigglypuff. Why would you bring up Pokemon

during... I know, but that's the first thing

that popped into my head. You are an insulting

pompous fool. And if you were not an ambassador,

I would disembowel you right here. You know what

didn't pop into my head? My head was the old

Kids WB commercial of Batman saying Jigglee -pa.

I think Mike has lived two different lives, actually.

Shut up. No, I'm serious. I think he was a kid

when we were kids. And then I think he was a

kid again, like he went in a time machine and

relived his childhood in the late 90s. Anyway.

What are your thoughts on Mr. Rogers, Mike? I

agree with everything you guys have said. Just

his overall demeanor, his overall character,

he didn't talk down to the audience. You felt

like you were sitting on whatever piece of furniture

was opposite his little chair there or whatever.

But yeah, just great, great educational stuff.

One of the episodes that I did watch today was

one where ... I forget what her name is off top

of my head, but some woman came over and they

were doing exercises. I mean, how often nowadays

do... I saw that same one. Seriously, how often

nowadays do children's programming do exercises?

I mean, nowadays specifically, unfortunately,

I have to admit to watching this because it's

on in the mornings and sometimes there's nothing

else on. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse where it's...

That show is interactive like oh we have to get

this help us get this and it's like really You

know what? The other one that does that and I'm

not afraid to admit this one because I actually

like this show is LazyTown does that? Where they

like get you to like exercise or they like try

to get you to do certain things and I don't care

who dislikes LazyTown that shows kind of cool

Does anybody even know what I'm talking about?

Yeah, I remember LazyTown Lazy town has some

interesting videos on YouTube but uh, you know

Let's get this out of the way though because

since we're talking about mr. Rogers and him

as a character or as a person I Don't understand.

I think this is just something that people have

to do when someone's such a good role model They

feel the need to like tear him down and whatnot

but we need to get the whole everyone thinking

he's like some type of creepy like Monster out

of the way because those people need to rot in

hell And even watching some of the YouTube videos,

I started to scroll through comments. And people

were calling him a racist in comments. People

were calling him creepy and stuff like that.

And it's just like, really? The guy devoted his

entire life to trying to do something good for

children because of what he saw as a person.

He got involved, actually. I don't have this

anywhere, but I read about it. He was actually

working for NBC first and he was so disgusted

with how commercial NBC was that that's why he

actually quit and went to PBS because he thought

that might be a better venue where he could actually

do something because he saw TV as offering nothing

to children back in the 60s and so his whole

goal was to offer something for children to watch

that would be positive and like how can you fault

a guy for any of that? I just I hate people that

make up nonsense about people. But again, Kevin,

the thing about what you just said, it's YouTube.

I mean, I know people are like that in general,

and people have said stuff about him in general,

but specifically geared YouTube, it's YouTube.

There are morons on YouTube that will say the

stupidest darnedest things. I mean, it's like

having 10 ,000 British star screams up your ass.

And Steve will get that reference. I want to

see how many references you can make this episode

that I am not going to understand. So far, we're

at three. But anyways, I want to get into a few

of the guests that I apparently forgot existed.

I'm glad Steve had mentioned one of them and

actually has some memories of them. But these

are the human characters. We're not getting into

the puppets yet. But some of the human characters,

most notable, you had Mr. McFeely, who was the

delivery man. And that's actually named after

his grandpa. And that's Fred Rogers' middle name.

He's Fred McFeely Rogers. So that's not some

type of you know, made up name, that's not a

family name. You had a neighbor, Aber, Lady Aberlyn,

who else? You had the Officer Clemens, Mrs. McFeely,

Handyman. There's probably some I'm forgetting,

but what do you remember about the actual human

characters that interacted with Mr. Rogers at

his house? Either one of you. I know, well, let's

start with Steve, since he had mentioned the

Mr. McFeely. What do you remember about him or

any of the other human characters? Really the

only human character that made an impact that

I could remember was Mr. McFeely and he would

come in and he would deliver mail to Mr. Rogers

and in the process he would usually not only

give a mail but he would bring him random packages

and usually he would be there to teach you about

just miscellaneous things. I mean there was one

of like showing, you know, donut production.

I mean there was one showing, you know, safety.

I mean there was just all different kinds of

things that it would be teaching you some aspect

of something. Yeah and they kind of portrayed

him as someone that was very intelligent. Oh

yeah. Like I remember him calling him for help

and like to help him out with experiments and

stuff like that. So yeah. He always said, didn't

he always say something about speedy delivery

or something like that? Oh, yeah. He would say,

speedy delivery. Drop something off. I do remember

that now, is looking back and seeing that in

preparation for this episode, it started having

little light bulbs go off. Like, oh, I do remember

that. What about any other humans that either

of you remember? Is there anybody else, or was

he the main one? He's honestly the main one.

I mean, it was almost like it's... It's almost

like it's Mr. Rogers and Mr. McFeely's neighborhood

because those are the two main ones. All the

other adults that came in, all the other live

action people that came in were more random.

Well, they were introduced as someone he knew

or someone famous that he might have known, but

specifically that exercise episode that I was

talking about where that woman comes in. You

know, it's like she was part of the neighborhood

or he knew her from somewhere and it was almost

like she was his physical therapist or something

like that, you know what I mean? Those were the

most bizarre exercises ever, by the way. Yeah,

I know. The sad thing is, I actually think I

remember doing those as a kid. Nice, you were

participating. Yeah, when I was watching that

episode as a kid, I remember doing that. It also

lists... It also lists Keith David as one of

the guests. I know Keith David is an African

-American voice actor. I don't remember him ever

being on the show, but that'd be kind of cool

if he appeared. I think he was one of the puppets.

Okay. Which would probably be where that fits

in? Okay, I didn't I wasn't I wasn't 100 % sure

but I'm seeing his name and some of the credits

list But I'm with you guys even after watching

it like I didn't remember mr. Mcfeely before

but now watching it He's the one that I remember

as far as the the human characters, but let's

shift into the neighborhood of make -believe

Which let me first off say that? Those are the

creepiest looking puppets. I've ever seen I know

they're not actually creepy, but looking back,

if you compare those to Jim Henson type stuff,

you're like, I don't know. I had a puppet that

was like one of these that you could put your

hand in and you could make him punch people.

He had two boxing gloves and you could make him

punch and he had that same type of face. I know

there's one in particular that you like, Mike.

I don't really like her at all. I could care

less. Actually, she is my least favorite character

in the entire show. The Elaine character. The

only thing I remember about her is she had these

fiery cheeks and this giant dick nose. That's

a nice way to put it there. Lady Elaine Fairchild.

Mike was all about the dick face. Anyways. I'm

just going to name a couple of them and then

we can talk about any of the ones we want to.

I remember Anna Platypus, Bob Dogg. I remember

Daniel Stripe Tiger. Dr. Duck bill platypus.

I remember Harriet Elizabeth cow Henrietta pussycat

I remember King Friday, obviously Lady Fairchild

and I don't know if I remember any of the other

ones King Friday and Prince Tuesday and Queen

Saturday, but they're all basically voiced by

Fred Rogers or a couple random people That I

don't really I'm not really familiar with any

of the other people except for maybe Michael

Horton Yeah, before we talk about the actual

characters. I'm not trying to rip on this because

they aren't voice actors But the voices were

really bad Well to be fair if you look at this

list I mean, it's it's Fred Rogers for the majority

of the list and and he could sing Somewhat and

he could compose songs and he could do a lot

of different things. He was not a voice actor

Because I know he does King Friday and he does

Lady Fairchild. And watching those two talk to

each other is painful. I don't know. What were

you guys' favorite or least favorite out of these

make -believe puppets, I guess we can call them?

They were okay. It was almost like having two

lessons in one show. And because this was a 30

-minute show, you were able to do that. It's

almost like watching two 15 -minute cartoons.

Because it's a 30 -minute show, you were able

to get two lessons in. And I kind of liked it

because it's coming from two different perspectives.

It's coming from the adult perspective of Mr.

Rogers actually talking to us as an audience.

And then it's also coming from The story of these

make -believe puppet people looking things. Yeah

I Don't know. I remember even as a child though

thinking they were weird -looking Yeah, like

even as a child I was kind of put off by the

appearance, but I still loved this segment for

some reason Now this is we'll get into the segment

in a little bit But as far as the actual characters

go I do remember liking Henrietta pussycat and

Daniel the striped tiger And at times liking

and at times disliking King Friday. And my least

favorite was easy, Lady Fairchild, just because

she kind of scared me. Yeah, she was creepy.

Steve, did you have any ones that you either

liked or disliked, or any thoughts on the actual

puppets? And I'm going to have to agree with

Glade on this one. I would say trolley was the

best part about the... Yeah, that's probably

true. Yeah, the trolley coming in, everybody

wanted... It had its own whistle. Yeah, and everybody

wanted a trolley. Well, it spoke with the whistle.

Yes. Not only did people, I didn't even necessarily

want the trolley, I wanted to be able to hit

the button. And then have it go away. And to

make it either go, you know, to come in or leave

or whatever. That's what I wanted to do. I'm

like, let me hit the button just once, please.

Alright, so I think that does it for the characters.

We're gonna get into a little bit more discussion

as far as The Land of Make -Believe or The Neighborhood

of Make -Believe in the next part, which is...

The Good. The Bad. The Ugly. Alright, that is

right. It is time for The Good, The Bad, and...

The Ugly of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Now, I

have a few things we can go off of that. I actually

have added a few things as I was watching it,

and we'll just kind of see where it takes us.

But I think it only makes sense to start with

the introduction and the theme song, which was

obviously the same type of introduction for each

and every show. For those of you that have never

seen the show, first of all, turn away from the

computer, find a mirror, and slap yourself in

the face. They would always start out with Fred

Rogers entering his television studio house,

singing the theme song, Won't You Be My Neighbor,

which you just heard previously in this episode.

He would hang his coat in a closet. He would

put on a cardigan zipper sweater usually. He

would remove his dress shoes, put on sneakers.

What did you guys think of that whole introductory

scene? Michael, let you go first. Well, my note

for this part was... At the end of your little

his ritual. My note is simple daily ritual dot

dot dot that I never understood. As a kid, I

get it, okay, but as an adult, it's like watching

this back. I'm like, why would you come into

your own house, change your clothes? I never

understood it when I was a kid. It makes no sense

to me whatsoever that he would come in from outside

I mean I can see if you have like a snow suit

on obviously when people come into a house You're

gonna take your shoes off and be in your socks

or your bare feet or you know something like

that similarly unless they were going for Like

he was coming to work like the neighborhood house

was Yeah. Is job? Well, I think part of it, and

I'm not saying this is necessarily an explanation

because I agree with you. Even as a child, I

didn't quite understand why it was happening,

but I did like this. I don't know why. I like

it too, but I just didn't understand it. I think

part of it has to do with it being like when

your age is like two, three, four, and five,

which is where this is aimed for, you're learning

these type of routines, you know, like in your

morning or in your nighttime. You know, you usually

had as a kid, at least I remember having like

a specific order that you did things, whether

it was like brush your teeth, you know, eat breakfast,

you know, change your clothes, you know, whatever

order you did to get ready or to get ready for

sleep or to get ready up for the day. I think

it was trying to like speak to that routine,

but you're right. It was like, and sometimes

I watched one where he was taken off like a one

jacket. He put it in the closet and he put on

another like suit jacket. Yeah. And I'm like,

Why are you changing from one suit jacket to

another? He didn't even go with the cardigan

that time. It almost was the borderline of an

OCD with him too sometimes. That's why I have

OCD. Going back to what you said earlier about

him being red -green colorblind, I think a majority

of every single episode of the entire run of

Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, he has either all white

clothes or light clothes or all dark clothes

because the one that I watched that had the exercise

lady is he comes in with sunglasses, a wig, and

a black leather jacket. I saw that and I was

like, what is this? Another thing I did see somewhere

where he explained why he wore sneakers Because

he said that he didn't like how noisy Dress shoes

were on the set. So we wanted to wear sneakers

so that the sound wouldn't come across But I

always thought it was just because he was home

and he was more comfortable or whatever Yeah,

I'm gonna actually I just thought of this I'm

gonna blame him because I'm someone that never

takes my shoes off when I get home I always keep

my shoes on and even like my mom or like other

people be like Why don't you take your shoes

off and stay a while and I'm always like I like

my sneakers on I'm blaming mr. Rogers What did

you think of the whole intro though Steve What

were your thoughts on his whole coming in or

even we didn't really talk about but the the

song that he sings and everything I thought it

was a nice way of Coming in because I mean it's

kind of like, you know you yourself going into

your house and you know Yeah, it's very soothing

Yeah, it's a nice, calm opening to get you ready

for what he's got going on. Yeah. The song, even

though it's not necessarily this ridiculously

awesome song, it's got to be one of the most

known songs from our generation, as far as kid

stuff. Who doesn't know, won't you be my neighbor?

Yeah, everybody knows that. And who hasn't done

some type of spoof or ripoff on it? I don't know,

I like the intro. Like Mike said, I agree that

it doesn't make 100 % sense and that even as

a kid I was kind of like, why is he taking his

clothes off and putting other clothes on? But

I don't know, for some reason I like the routine.

Another thing I want to talk about that I kind

of have added is they both showed it at the beginning

and at the end of every episode. When they would

show his street, but it would be like the place

that street. Like with the fake houses and buildings

and whatnot. Yeah, I always thought that was

super cool. Yeah, I did too You know, they they

had like these random buildings and they would

show the logo whatever But they'd be taking you

down his street to to his house and I always

thought it was cool because it reminded me of

my own toys You know that your own playset or

your own train with like different houses that

you could put around it or whatever and I was

like It made me connect with the show that it

was like on my level because they also had the

toys Making up the street instead of a real street.

Yeah The funny thing is I have not before this

episode of telecast I haven't watched an episode

of mr. Rogers since I was a kid me neither and

When I watched the intro I remember the song

I remember how it brings you in Because it does

the whole camera pan of like you said going down

the street and then going into his house and

then it shows him Coming into the house afterwards,

but I always thought when you first see it like

that first building. I thought oh, that's his

house Okay, here we are And I'm like, no, you

got to go down this street, down that street,

take a left, take a right, one way this way,

one way that. I was like, oh, OK, cool. And I

guess every building was modeled after a real

building from either his childhood or where he

was living or people he knew, the buildings they

owned. So I guess they weren't just random buildings.

They all represented an actual real place. I

thought that was kind of cool. What did you think

about that part of it, Steve? Or the other thing

we could talk about too is the fake playset castle

that he had that he would bring out before they

went to the make -believe where he'd put it back

on the shelf. I just like the fact that he had

these actual toy playset type things representing

these real things. Yeah, I'd have to say that

I did like that too. Everything he did was very

visual. It was like he was an adult, but he was

still a kid because he was still playing with

these play sets I Mean even though they were

just being used up for to take us to The the

neighborhood of make -believe and to kind of

represent that you're right. Everything was very

visual. I Just kind of I don't know. I just kind

of thought that was cool Let's talk a little

bit more about the world of make -believe because

for me, I don't know why I liked this as a kid

because watching it back I can sit through the

segments of him. I can sit through him doing

an experiment or talking about feelings or teaching

us this or that. I can sit through all that.

The world of make believe is really hard to sit

through. When you guys watch these episodes,

did you still find them watchable or did you

have problems with them? What were your opinions

as your adult self watching the world of make

believe? Every time I ever saw world of make

-believe both now as an adult and both as a kid

I was waiting for one of the adults in the neighborhood

of make -believe to just step on the the trolley

track or to trip over the trolley track or to

hit their head on the just Something to happen

to that damn trolley track introduce Godzilla

for Christ's sake destroy the trolley track I

just I don't know. I just couldn't hardly sit

through it now That's like the one part that

I don't like as an adult. I think what spoils

it is learning that Fred is the voice of the

majority of them. I mean, because honestly, who

really paid attention to voice actors when we

were kids? I mean, you know, we knew the voice

of whatever character we liked. I knew he was

the king. Right. But I didn't know he was almost

all the other characters. Because the king is

basically almost his exact same voice and I picked

up on that but the voicing is so bad Some of

the puppets are just downright creepy looking

and like I wanted to like it because I remember

liking it as a kid But I just can't like it now.

Oh Steve. What are your feelings as like your

adult self about the make -believe place? Honestly,

I can't sit through it. Yeah, this is the part

that's almost impossible to watch One of the

things I have to bring up and this is more of

a biology type of thing okay how the hell does

a puppet and a human mate to have a niece I don't

even want to go there I'm legitimately asking

I'm not I'm not trying to have my mind in the

gut or anything legitimately asking how does

a puppet in a human mate and you get a live human

niece out of it because it's the land of make

-believe where imaginations rule and it's kind

of like I mean Along the lines of the children's

programming that was on at the time, Land of

Make -Believe is technically a cruder, uglier

version of Sesame Street because you have humans

interacting with... The difference is, and I

agree with what you're saying, but the main difference

here is, in Mr. Rogers' neighborhood, he would

go out of his way both before and after to really

hammer home... the fact to the kids the difference

between reality and make -believe. Like he would

do everything he could to be like we are pretending

or that when you pretend you can do this isn't

something we would do and you know like that

type of stuff. Whereas Sesame Street never tries

to do that. Sesame Street blends the two without

ever trying to say to the kids there's a difference

between them. You know what I mean? Sesame Street

completely blends live action and the characters

and you accept that, that that's the world and

that's how it is. Yeah, but I mean, I'm just

comparing the two as far as... Right. No, the

interaction between the humans and the thing.

I was just trying to say, a lot of times people

are hard on cartoons or different stuff these

days because they say kids can't separate. the

reality and the the fiction. It's funny you bring

that up because honestly I've always like you

know you get those like when Jackass first came

out where you have all these copycats trying

to go out and and and do those stunts or what's

another big thing that that people tried to mimic

in the I don't know. Thanks. Yeah, I think, honestly,

Mr. Rogers was where I learned the difference

and knew better versus real life and what you

can actually do versus what's make -believe and

what's fake. Well, it was almost like they weren't

only concerned about the educational part, but

they were also taking into account the psychological

world of a kid. Like how they need to realize

the difference between certain things and you

know his was a lot more about feelings and Emotions

and the proper way to deal with you know things

that come up Whereas Sesame Street was more straightforward

like school educational. Yeah, I guess I mean

that's kind of how I put it But I think it was

good that he tried to make that separation for

us and maybe that's what kids need these days

of someone to At an early age separate reality

from fantasy I don't know. The last thing I want

to bring up before I'll let you guys bring anything

else up, but something I forgot until I watched

these episodes was the picture picture. And I

don't know if you guys know what I'm talking

about, but he had that like painting on his wall

or whatever. Oh yeah. And he would like throw

video tapes into like the side of the wall. And

then all of a sudden the picture would turn into

like a movie. I always was fascinated by that

as a kid just because of how well they made it

look like a regular wall in a regular painting.

And I'm like, where is he sticking that video

tape? Like, how is this happening? It's magic.

But it was another cool thing. It's kind of like

the Reading Rainbow segments where they would

actually go and show the real process of something

happening. The one I watched, one of the episodes

I watched, actually I watched two that showed

picture picture stuff and one showed the process

of how gold bars were made. And the others showed

a fast -forwarded version of the actual Mr. Rogers

set being put together, which was kind of cool

to see. I just remember the picture -picture

being something I liked when I was a kid. Anything

else you guys want to bring up about parts of

the show, things from the show, things you like,

things you didn't like, or anything good, bad,

or ugly? Don't think so. We've covered the ugly

puppets. Yeah, to me it's very simple. The good

isn't the mr. Rogers segments and the bad and

the ugly is the land of make -believe But like

I said before it was a way of getting a double

lesson in yeah Well, I think the reason we liked

it as kids or at least I liked it as a kid Yeah,

I'm gonna say and this is completely talking

about stuff I have no idea about because I'm

not a psychologist or anything like that but

I think the reason we liked it better than is

because Even like kids today, even though we're

older, I think we have also now somewhat been

conditioned to needing things faster paced. And

stuff that's a little bit more, not necessarily,

I'm not calling it boring, but we've been conditioned

to need things like in a different, I don't know,

a different pace or a different something. Right,

yeah. It's sad because I think we liked it back

then because we had more patience for that type

of stuff back then. Like Steve said, that's why

it wouldn't work with kids these days, I don't

think. No, because kids nowadays have no patience.

Damn young whippersnappers. Get off my lawn.

No real attention span anyway. No, not at all.

Part of that's maybe because they're not exposed

to shows like this, but it's kind of like a double

-edged sword because you can't expose them to

shows like this because they won't last and we'll

get no ratings. So, unless you're going to get

them on a channel like PBS, which unfortunately

is hurting, so. Alright, that does it for the

good, the bad, and the ugly of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood,

and now it is time for... That's right. It is

time for things you didn't know about mr. Rogers

neighborhood or things that make you go hmm We

always do this so the first one is gonna be awards

I don't think this is necessary things you might

not know, but maybe you didn't know how many

mr. Rogers neighborhood won a Peabody award nominated

for 48 Emmys Which is and that's like a ridiculous

number. I don't know how it only won four of

them though Like if you're nominated 48 times

shouldn't you win more than four or did it just

lose the Sesame Street every time? Like that

has to be the only way it lost or only one for

it had to have lost to Sesame Street in every

other one Like what other educational show would

have won a daytime Emmy besides mr. Rogers hood

or Sesame Street back in that time period. I

Don't know science shoes Maybe there was a few

science shows. I'm gonna have to go back and

find out who won those years that it did not

win The second thing that you might not know

about Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood is how many crossovers

Mr. Rogers was involved with. First one I want

to mention is the animated cartoon series Arthur.

Rogers actually plays himself as an aardvark

like Arthur. And then later on Arthur appears

as a guest in Hand Puppet on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

That's not the only one. Bill Nye, I actually

did not know about this. And Rogers exchanged

appearances on each other's series. as did Mr.

Rogers and Captain Kangaroo, as did Mr. Rogers

and Big Bird. So I did not realize that all those

guys had that many crossovers. I'd never remember

seeing any of them in each other's shows. I do

remember the Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street crossover.

That is also probably because I remember, as

most of us do, remember watching those two shows

back to back, but I do remember those crossovers.

Apparently, originally Mr. Rogers had asked Carole

Spinney, who is the guy that did Big Bird, he

asked him to appear on his show to show the audience

his real self and to take off the Big Bird costume

on camera. And so everyone would see the inside

workings of Big Bird and how it's really a human

being and all that. But Carole Spinney refused

to do that on screen. So instead they worked

something else into it. I don't remember the

episode but obviously he never took anything

off but it was just another way I think of Mr.

Rogers trying to get people to see the reality

versus the fantasy which obviously like I said

Sesame Street didn't do as much but I never remember

seeing him in Bill Nye or vice versa or Captain

Kangaroo or I didn't watch Arthur so I would

have never seen that. Another third thing that

you might not know about Mr. Rogers' neighborhood

is that Idlewild and Silk Zone, an amusement

park near Rogers' hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania,

actually has an attraction called Mr. Rogers'

Neighborhood of Make -Believe featuring a life

-size trolley ride that was actually designed

by Fred Rogers. Sweet. That would have been interesting

to go to as a kid. I would trip. If I was a kid,

I would have loved riding on that thing. I don't

know if I'll ever go there, though. Road trip.

To Pennsylvania, folks. Fourth thing that you

might not know about Mr. Rogers is there is actually

a statue of Fred Rogers on the north shore of

the Allegheny River near Hines Field, which is

where the Pittsburgh Steelers play. Yikes. Let's

not go there. Keep going. It's cool that he has

a statue of himself. Yeah, yeah. Good statue.

Moving on. Pack your head. Anyways, number five

thing that you might not know about Mr. Rogers'

Neighborhood is that Fred Rogers himself was

inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in

1999. And the last thing I have, and I kind of

mentioned this in the Reading Rainbow episode,

but it is the second longest running series on

PBS in history. And obviously the first one is

Sesame Street. So those are the things that you

might not have known about Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

So let's unfortunately go into a segment where

are they now. Obviously I say unfortunately because

like hopefully most of you know Fred Rogers is

no longer with us. He was diagnosed with stomach

cancer in 2002 like a couple years, I don't even

know if that was like one year after he retired.

He underwent surgery but it was unsuccessful

so he passed away in 2003 at home with his wife

and he was a month before he turned 75. Interesting

On New Year's Day of 2004, Michael Keaton hosted

the PBS TV special, Mr. Rogers, America's Favorite

Neighbor, and it actually was released on DVD

in 2004. This is the part I didn't know, though.

Michael Keaton began his career as a stagehand

on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood before he quit to

become an actor. Okay, now this is where I have

to come in really quick before Steve says anything

when I read this part in the script before we

started this episode I Typed in the group chat

Wow from stagehand on mr. Rogers to being Batman

to being a girl's toy in Toy Story 3 the life

of Michael Keaton Yeah, who I did not realize

that he I don't know how old he was in 1975 Because

I think that was the year he was a stagehand

Was in 75 if I remember seeing that right on

I think I saw him on IMDB but How many people

can trace themselves back to? Mr. Something like

mr. Rogers neighborhood and then like you said

being stuff like Batman and then Toy Story Like

that spans a long time But that's pretty impressive.

He was also awarded the Presidential Medal of

Freedom, which is the highest award that a regular

citizen can get from George W. Bush, who said

about him, Fred Rogers has proven that television

can soothe the soul and nurture the spirit and

teach the very young. The U .S. Senate and the

U .S. House of Representatives passed resolutions

commemorating his life. And I do remember the

day that he died. Actually, and I remember that

hitting news like crazy I was in college at the

time and I just remember everyone being like

holy crap Yeah, like obviously everybody, you

know grows and everybody lives, you know dies

eventually But it's like you never think about

an icon from your childhood passing away Yeah,

that's so true. And I remember this day too.

It was very sad Yeah Michael Keaton would have

been 24 years old. So good lord. I Don't know

if he did anything beside stagehand I don't know

if they ever let him like do one of the puppets

or ever appear on camera so that would have been

cool to see him at that age, but uh it's I don't

know what this was one of those deaths that like

Almost went through the country more than I mean

obviously not like the level of like a Michael

Jackson or something like that but Everybody

was doing stuff for mr. Rogers. There was all

kinds of memorials and special things and like,

and it just proves like how great he was as far

as dedicating so much time to trying to do something

good. See, I don't think you can compare celebrity

deaths in general, but comparing like Roger's

death, and I know it's not what you're trying

to do, but just comparing Roger's death to Michael

Jackson's death because honestly, When Peter

Jennings passed away, I got more emotional over

that than I did Michael Jackson. Well, yeah,

and I got more emotional when Mr. Rogers died

than Michael Jackson. I'm just saying, obviously,

he's not like the pop icon like Jackson, but

I can't remember a lot of celebrity deaths that

hit me as hard as Mr. Rogers, and I don't know

what exactly, I can't explain it, and I definitely

would have never expected it, but I just remember

hearing he died and I was floored. Yeah. I don't

know. Do you remember when that happened with

you, Steve, or did you have a similar reaction,

or did you not necessarily catch that same vibe?

I didn't really have any sort of close feeling

to it. I was like, oh, wow, that's crazy. And

then I just really think about it again. For

some reason, I think, and this may just be me

personally, but I guarantee people always ask

you what your favorite shows are and whatnot.

I guarantee if you would have asked me when I

was like I don't know what age it would have

been if I you know three four Somewhere in there,

but there was a long time where if you would

ask me what my favorite show is This is what

it would have been like at times at one point

in my life I liked this even better than Sesame

Street, and I don't know exactly why but I just

had a connection to this show So that's I think

that's why it hit me is like this was my favorite

show when I was like three so You know, so a

sad note, we're not going to go into any of the

other characters or where they are now because

obviously they weren't really on stage. I guess

I could have gone about Mr. McFeely but I didn't

get that information so unfortunately we'll leave

it as a sad note as far as where they are now

but we will try to cheer it up with some retro

sounds and clips and whatnot during the commercial

break so don't touch that dial because we will

be right back. And that can give you a mighty

good feeling. It's such a good feeling to know

you're alive. It's such a happy feeling you're

growing inside. And when you wake up ready to

say, I think I'll make a snacky today. It's such

a good feeling, a very good feeling, the feeling

you know that I'll be back. When the week is

new And I'll have more ideas for you And you'll

have things you'll want to talk about I will

too You always make each week a special one You

know how? By just your being you Only one person

in the whole world like you And you have friends

too Bye bye This is the brain, and you're listening

to the Geekcast Radio Network. Yes! You won!

Oh, I won! I won! Wow! Isn't that exciting? I

won! Boy, I am so proud! Of course you are. Oh,

no. What? Oh, I just realized something. Oh,

I shouldn't be happy. You're proud. Why not?

Well, I won, but my friend Mr. Snuffleopagus

lost. Why, he's gonna be sad he didn't win. And

he might even be angry because I beat him. Well,

I can understand how he might be sad or angry.

He might be afraid that his friends wouldn't

like him anymore. Oh, his friends wouldn't like

him anymore? He might think that none of his

friends would like a loser. Oh, well, I'd like

him whether he wins or loses. You're still his

friend, aren't you? Sure. Well, it would be very

helpful if you could let him know that. Oh, I'll

tell him. Oh, there's my friend. Oh. Yeah, bye.

Okay, well thank you, uh, Mr. uh - Rogers. Mr.

Rogers, okay. Bye, Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers - I'm

Big Bird! Mr. Rogers! That was Mr. Rogers! Oh

my goodness! That was m - Bye, Mr. Rogers! Hello,

nurses. And friends of nurses. Yakko Warner here,

and you're listening to a podcast on the Geekcast

Radio Network. Lucky you. Do you know that song

that I sometimes sing called, It's You I Like?

Uh -huh. It's you, I like. It's not the things

you wear. It's not the way you do your hair.

But it's you, I like. The way you are right now.

The way down deep inside you Not the thing that's

behind you Not your fancy chair That's just beside

you It's you I like Hey Chad! Pinky here, of

Pinky and the Brain, is the smarter one. You

don't mind saying so. I love listening to the

gate cast radio network. Love. I know you've

been doing work in television for roughly 30

years. Oh, yeah. And how long with Mr. Rogers

now? Well, on the network it's been about 18.

18. Does that affect you as a father and with

your kids growing up? I mean, do you try to be

something... something beyond just a normal father

or I mean any pressure to being a father to kids

growing up with this image? I think you really

have to be yourself. The best thing that you

can do for anybody, and I'm sure you've learned

that, is to just offer one more honest adult

in their lives. See, that's a wonderful thing

to say. One more honest adult in their lives.

That's truly all we have, isn't it? The relationship

with not only the little friends but with adults.

But you do that. through your work and you know

the millions of friends that you have through

your television you offer yourself and that's

why you're here so long and that's why I'm here

so long what about a message thank you by the

way what about a message to your youngsters growing

up oh I hope that they can I hope that they can

feel good about who they are you know there's

there's only one person in the whole world like

them and there's never been any anybody before

and there never will be anybody after Alright,

thanks for staying with us everyone and you may

be wondering how you can watch some of this show

that we've been talking about for the last I

don't know hour or so It's getting close to that.

I think but actually there's a lot of different

options here I'm not necessarily any of them.

I'm not gonna say any of them are better than

the other but first we'll go with the DVD stuff

there are a Few episodes of the series that have

been released by DVD on Anchor Bay Entertainment

but The main way to to get them. I'm not familiar

with this but apparently amazon .com has a video

on demand service and a hundred episodes have

been released as part of that video on demand

service and the the press clipping that I got

when doing research when it was announced. This

is when it was first announced, which was a while

back, but Amazon CreateSpace and the Fred Rogers

Company have announced that, beginning immediately,

Amazon is exclusively selling manufacturer -on

-demand releases of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

on DVD, produced using the CreateSpace DVD on

-demand program. Each disc, this is the weird

part, each disc contains a single half -hour

episode for $9 .95 per title. That's too much.

Dang. Are you serious? That's way too much. They

made 100 episodes available at 10 bucks a pop?

Yeah, Nickelodeon can release 100 episodes of

Spongebob and sell it for 50 bucks. Yeah, so

go figure. Apparently the DVD option's not necessarily

the best option unless you're a millionaire.

But I guess if you're obsessed, you could get

it there. Netflix, I do want to talk about that

for a second. Netflix has four different selections

that you can get sent to your house. From what

I can tell each one that they would send you

would have two episodes So again, not a lot Yeah,

but I guess you could get it on Netflix if you

want As far as iTunes go this might be your best

bet iTunes has a They listed as volume 1 now.

They don't list any other volume. So I don't

know if there's plans for a volume 2 But they

listed volume one of the show available for purchase

on iTunes contains 10 episodes and that's $15

So to me for the number of episodes and the cost

that is your best option Yeah, probably and then

like we said in like I'm gonna let Mike talk

about a little bit, you know YouTube is kind

of an option YouTube really isn't an option I

mean, seriously? I mean, this is a show that,

like Kevin said, that lasted 31 seasons. This

is like epic children's programming. Like eight

to 900 episodes. Yeah, and yet not a lot of it

is on YouTube at all. I'm actually just trying

to type silently here. We're doing this for you

people. Mr. Rogers neighborhood. Okay, that's

all I typed in was mister and I and I typed out

mister I didn't put MR period I type mr. Rogers

neighborhood the first Results the first four

results we get is fans visit mr. Rogers neighborhood

Something about an AP chemistry final project

in 2010 named mr. Rogers neighborhood and it's

got a picture of some guy and some girl Mr..

Rogers introduction theme song mr.. Rogers competition

part one of two so that's an episode there Transformations

those are the two episodes. I saw yeah, I didn't

watch competition at the time, but I did see

the transformations one Fred Rogers acceptance

speech theme song So it's a lot of other stuff.

Yeah, the quality is good of the two episodes

Yeah, it is. It's very clear I would sum it up

this way as far as how you can watch this show

now. If you are a humongous fan and really want

to see a bigger selection, you go with iTunes.

For 15 bucks, you can watch 10 episodes. If all

you want to do is see a little bit just to have

those memories and to see the picture picture,

to see the trolley, to see him coming in and

to see the land and make believe, you can just

watch those two episodes on YouTube and you're

probably fine. You know, yeah exactly that and

and we're gonna transition real quick into IGN

replacement crew Because I'm definitely suggesting

you go with the YouTube route and just watch

those two episodes and be done with it I'll start

off because this one I'm actually gonna give

this one. This was this is my one of my favorite

shows ever when I was a kid I think I got to

give it a two. I I love the show back in the

day I watched two episodes just now or you know

in the last couple days I am fine never watching

it again. What about you Steve? I have to agree

completely with Kevin. I think for me it's nostalgia

factor that's weighing in on this because like

it's something i hadn't thought of in a very

well i mean a lot like i've said this episode

i haven't watched it since i was a kid up until

one right before we record this episode where

i watch those those episodes on youtube i think

it is worth the nostalgia in people to maybe

get that first volume on itunes because it is

ten actual episodes, and you don't have to look

for part one and part two and blah, blah, blah,

blah on YouTube. So I think the $14 .99 price

tag on iTunes does warrant for nostalgia factor

only. But yeah, the only way I would ever watch

this again is heaven forbid I ever had any kids.

If it was 20 episodes with all the make -believe

part cut out. That'll never happen. Basically,

you've got to figure that each show was probably

about 28 minutes long. The make -believe part

was probably, what, 10 minutes of it? That's

a lot of crap to sit through. I'm sorry. That's

how you really feel. I had no idea I was going

to feel this way actually. I thought for sure,

I remember it being one of my favorite shows

as a kid. I thought I'd give it a great review.

I had a lot of trouble sitting through it. I

think you're fine just watching one or two episodes

on YouTube and you'll get the nostalgia. You'll

get the memories of what it was. And I think

you'll have the same opinion as Steve and I.

I don't know. Maybe there's some hardcore fans.

Like you said, the price isn't bad. No, not for

what you get. It's only like a $1 .50 an episode.

Yeah. Which is better than the $10 an Amazon

On Demand wanted to charge you. Oh yeah. But

yeah, it's not bad at all. So are you giving

this one a three, Mike? Yeah, probably a three.

That's fine. You're allowed. We'll let you do

that. I see what I don't get though is if The

Fred Rogers company or who I'm not sure owns

the rights to the actual television show I would

assume it is the Fred Rogers company whoever

of his Family or I don't know if he he was married,

right? I don't know if he had kids. He had kids.

Out of the kids that are probably still alive,

I don't understand why if they own the rights

to it that they don't just release it on DVD

themselves. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know

how the rights go or who has it, how much it

would cost to do it, but it seems like that there's

enough good original copies, maybe not of the

early episodes, but as good as that YouTube clarity

is, somewhere there's good quality episodes.

You could easily put together some DVD sets.

I don't know. Yes, that's a theme though. I mean

a lot of these educational shows there are not

on DVD and that's almost I mean kind of getting

into my last words here to me a show like that

is better almost if you have a DVD set because

Then when you have kids or do whatever, you can

pop some on once in a while and expose kids to

something they can't get now. I'm not going to

say anything bad about the show because I think

the show did wonders for me and for a lot of

kids as far as teaching you the difference between

reality and fantasy, how to deal with feelings,

stuff that you could not get anywhere else on

TV. Right and he was such a good host he was

so soothing and and comforting and He would give

you ways to cope with being angry He would give

you ways to cope with being sad they went through

like death episodes where they could deal with

death You know, they went through all different

things and I don't know This is just a fraction

of what kids today are missing. So What are you

guys's last thoughts on mr. Rogers neighborhood

Steve? I would definitely say it is something

to check out for younger people. At least for

a view for older people, I would say that I actually

grew up with it. I would say it's good enough

for a YouTube revisit, like you were saying,

but I don't know how much you're gonna actually

get out of it nowadays. Yeah, you'll probably

like that. Like I said, I didn't remember Mr.

McFeely. I didn't remember Picture in Picture

before I watched it, so it was cool to remember

those things. But that was about it. I don't

know. Mike? Yeah? Any last words? Like I said,

in the IGN thing, for sheer nostalgia... get

the 10 episodes on iTunes. It's only, yeah, I

know it would probably be better, like Kevin

said, if it was 20 episodes without the Make

Believe stuff, but that's the thing, though.

That's a part of that show. Whether we as adults

don't like the neighborhood of Make Believe,

that was a part of the show, and that's part

of my nostalgia for the show is because I remember

liking that as a kid because of the whole journey

that Charlie takes. Because technically, you

can almost say that it's a story that's being

told through trolley because he always, Fred

always had trolley come up and then technically

trolley was the video camera for the Land of

Make -Believe. I would say that I would be interested

in getting a trolley to go into, that drives

into one of my walls here at my house and I would

also like to make my TV look like a painting

that's in the wall and somehow like stick my

DVDs into the wall. I would be up for that. But

yeah, it's obviously one of the You know, just

from as far as like how long it was on. I mean,

besides Sesame Street, it's basically the longest

running kids show, I think, in not only PBS history,

but it's got to be one of the longest one in

just history, history. And it has its own place.

It was a definite part of pop culture. It always

will be. That's why he has a statue. That's why,

you know, I don't know, he has so many awards

and accolades, but it is what it is. I wish there

was some type of modern version of this for kids,

but that will probably never happen. Alright

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Last year Rogers received the highest civilian

honor presidential medal of freedom He earned

his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and

was honored with an Emmy for lifetime achievement

Oh, it's a beautiful night in this neighborhood.

But Rogers said honors and titles weren't important.

It's what resides inside, he said. I got out

of the cab and said to the cab driver, how much

is it? And he said, it isn't anything, Mr. Rogers.

This is the luckiest night of my life. And I

was so touched. Fred Rogers was 74 years old,

but his show will live on forever. All kinds

of marvelous... Alina Cho, ABC News, New York.

that I kind of was interested in, because I got

a little advance copy from the meeting today,

was what happens when Mr. Rogers goes? What happens

to all those kids out there? How do we explain

that to them? And is that going to be a very

difficulty? You know, we did one program about

death, about the death of one of my goldfish.

And I talked about my dogs dying when I was a

little boy, and how my grandmother comforted

me, and how I cried. What I like children to

know is that there will always be somebody there

to take care of them. And I think that's the

most important message of all because after all,

what are we scared of as far as death's concerned?

We're scared that there won't be anybody there

to feed us or to take care of us. We're scared

of that as adults. Of course. Yeah.