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Puppet Masters of None
by Ben and Will
Two former puppeteers (who know absolutely nothing) talk puppets, entertainment, and life. Join the discussion on our discord! https://discord.gg/JDtWJrhPF6 Follow us on twitter @PMoNPodcast and Instagram and Threads @puppetmastersofnone Find out more about the puppet masters on our website: https://puppetmastersofnone.wixsite.com/puppetmastersofnone Original Music Composed by Taetro. @Taetro https://www.taetro.com/
Episodes
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Episode 110: Project Hail Mary
This week, your favorite former puppeteers blast off to the Tau Ceti system to talk about the true breakout star of Project Hail Mary—the lovable, five-legged alien engineer known simply as Rocky. In an age when Hollywood can render just about anything with a mouse click, the filmmakers made a...
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Episode 109: Puppet History: Opera Dei Pupi
This week, your favorite former puppeteers trade foam and fleece for wood, steel, and centuries of tradition as they journey into the spectacular world of Opera dei Pupi—Sicily's legendary marionette theater where every performance is packed with clashing swords, heroic knights, treacherous...
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Episode 108: The Muppet Show: Gilda Radner
This week, your favorite former puppeteers revisit The Muppet Show episode featuring comedy legend Gilda Radner, where the biggest scene-stealer isn't Kermit, Miss Piggy, or even Gonzo—it's a bottle of Muppet Labs Super Adhesive. What starts as another "perfectly safe" demonstration from Dr.…
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Episode 107: Team America World Police, Interview with Kevin Carlson
This week, your favorite fake puppeteers sit down with real puppeteer Kevin Carlson to pull back the strings on one of the most ambitious—and gloriously outrageous—marionette productions ever put on film: Team America: World Police. From precision facial manipulation and explosive action…
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Episode 106: Farscape
This week, your favorite former puppeteers blast off into the strange, slimy, and spectacular universe of Farscape—the cult sci-fi show that boldly asked the question: what if space opera had more puppets… and weirder ones? Created by Rockne S. O’Bannon and brought gloriously to life by Jim...
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Episode 105: Gremlins 2 Part II: Gizmo's Revenge
In this episode of Puppet Masters of None, your two former puppeteers return to the felt-lined battlefield to tackle one of the strangest creature features ever unleashed on an unsuspecting audience: Gremlins 2. But this isn’t just a casual chat about mogwai mayhem — it’s a wager. Will boldly...
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Episode 104: The Muppet Show: Loretta Lynn
This week, your favorite former puppeteers climb aboard one of the strangest stops in The Muppet Show canon: episode #308 featuring country icon Loretta Lynn, staged not in the familiar Muppet Theater… but on an abandoned train platform. Yes, really. Through a series of very Muppet-y mishaps, the...
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Episode 103: Gullah Gullah Island
This week, your favorite former puppeteers grab their sunscreen and head to the sandy shores of 90s children’s television to revisit Gullah Gullah Island — the Nickelodeon gem that gave us catchy songs, cultural celebration, and one of the most joyfully chaotic frog puppets ever committed to...
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Episode 102: The Valentine's Day That Almost Wasn't
This week, your favorite ex-puppeteers crack open a heart-shaped box of early-’80s television weirdness and revisit the 1982 holiday special The Valentine’s Day That Almost Wasn’t—a delightfully scrappy, foam-and-felt fairy tale that asks the eternal question: what if Valentine’s Day… just didn’t...
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Episode 101: The Muppet Show; Sabrina Carpenter
They're back! You know they couldn't miss this one! This week, your favorite former puppeteers step back into the beloved chaos of The Muppet Show — but not the one that aired in the 1970s. Nope, it’s the glammed-up, vaudeville-meets-pop-star spectacle of the 2026 Muppet Show special featuring...
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Episode 100: Season 1 Space to Carol Spectrum
One hundred episodes! How time flies! In honor of the hundredth Puppet Masters of None, the PMoN boys recap all the movies and shows that they have placed on the Space to Carol spectrum over the years. Which ones shall stay put, which ones shall be knocked down a peg or two, and which ones shall...
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Episode 99: Chucky, Part 1
This week, your favorite ex-puppeteers head straight into the uncanny valley to talk about the most homicidal hunk of plastic ever stitched together: Chucky from the Child’s Play franchise. From his humble beginnings as a “Good Guy” doll to his long career of gleeful murder sprees, we’ll explore...
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Episode 98: The Muppet Show: Señor Wences
This week, your favorite ex-puppeteers once again spin the magical monthly muppet wheel, where it landed on guest star Señor Wences proving that sometimes the funniest puppets are literally on the back of your hand. Armed with his fist-faced friend “Johnny” and the ever-squished “Pedro,” Wences...
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Episode 97: The Muppets Go to the Movies
This week, your favorite ex-puppeteers grab their popcorn and a bucket of felt as they revisit the 1981 television special The Muppets Go to the Movies. Part clip show, part genre spoof, and all chaotic charm, this special saw Kermit, Piggy, and the gang lampoon Hollywood’s greatest hits—from...
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Episode 96: Mac and Me
This week, your favorite ex-puppeteers tackle the foam-rubber fiasco known as Mac and Me—the 1988 E.T. knockoff so brazen, it makes you wonder if anyone at the studio had actually seen E.T. (or sobriety). We dig into the wobbly alien puppetry, the animatronics that look like they were powered by…
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Episode 95: The Muppet Show: Peter Sellers
This week, our two former puppeteers revisit the delightfully bizarre—and terribly provocative—Peter Sellers episode of The Muppet Show. Sellers arrives not as himself, but as every outrageously caricatured persona you can imagine: a fiddle-playing Romani, an overbearing German masseuse…
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Episode 94: Puppet History: Zozobra
This week, your favorite ex-puppeteers turn up the heat—literally—as they dive into the towering, flame-bound tradition of Zozobra, the giant puppet who goes up in smoke every year at Santa Fe’s legendary Fiestas de Santa Fe. Standing over 50 feet tall and packed with gloom (and a lot of...
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Puppet Masters of None! A podcast where two former puppeteers talk Muppets, puppets, and everything in between. Join us as we kick off season 2! Join the discussion on our discord! https://discord.gg/JDtWJrhPF6 Follow us on twitter @PMoNPodcast and on Instagram and Threads @puppetmastersofnone…
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Episode 93: Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince
This week, on PMoN your favorite ex-puppeteers leap headfirst into The Frog Prince—the 1971 Muppet television special that proved true love’s kiss is even weirder when the smooch involves felt. We revisit Kermit in his pre-Muppet Show side hustle, meet Robin the Frog in his debut role, and marvel...
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Episode 92: Dinosaurs
This week, your favorite retired puppet wranglers stomp into the latex-and-foam wonderland of the 1991 ABC sitcom Dinosaurs—the prehistoric family comedy that was part TGIF hug-fest, part biting social satire, and entirely animatronic absurdity. From Earl Sinclair’s mating dance to Baby’s wooden...
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Episode 91: Shrek: The Musical
Annnnnnnnnd WE'RE BACK! And what a triumphant return it is! In this ogre-sized episode, your favorite former-puppeteers-turned-podcast-hosts dive headlong into the swampy world of Shrek the Musical—because nothing says "puppetry" like a talking gingerbread man and a 25-foot-long fire-breathing...
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Episode 90: The Muppet Show: John Cleese
It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights, it's time to SPIN THE MUPPET SHOW'S MAGICAL MONTHLY MUPPET SHOW OF THE MONTH! And this time it landed on (drum roll) JOHN CLEESE! Premire member of legendary comedy troupe Monty Python, Mr. Cleese and the Muppets are a match made in...
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Episode 89: Handmade Puppet Dreams: Amaterasu
**SMASH** **BREAKS GLASS** Well folks, here we are with another emergency pod, reviewing another one of Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams films. This time we opted to forgo spinning the wheel to just go ahead and watch a film suggested to us by a friend over on the discord! (shout out to...
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Episode 88: Judy and Punch
Don't you just love it when you are searching through the endlessly growing maze of streaming titles and stumble upon a puppet movie you've never even heard of before? We here at Puppet Masters of None sure do! This week Ben was fortunate enough to discover the Australian movie, Judy and Punch.…
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Episode 87: Avenue Q Part 2
"The sun is shining it's a lovely day, but you've got lots of bills to pay." Welcome one and all to Puppet Masters of None's second explicit episode! While we try to keep it family friendly on this show, the content we are review today is so adult, so vile, so incredibly depraved, we can't even...
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Episode 86: Avenue Q Part 1
"The sun is shining it's a lovely day, but you've got lots of bills to pay." Welcome one and all to Puppet Masters of None's first explicit episode! While we try to keep it family friendly on this show, the content we are review today is so adult, so vile, so incredibly depraved, we can't even…
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Episode 85: The Muppets Valentine Show
Love is in the air! This week on PMoN, the boys go back to the Muppet roots with the first Muppet Show pilot episode, The Muppets Valentine Show! For those counting this is ANOTHER pilot separate from the Sex and Violence pilot they discussed in episode 43. This silly holiday romp guest stars the...
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Episode 84: Handmade Puppet Dreams: Cosmic Fling
**SMASH** **BREAKS GLASS** Well folks, while we promised some puppet history on Chinese dancing dragon puppets, unfortunately, life got in the way. (Now that Ben has a baby, we expect that to happen A LOT.) Since we didn't have time to do proper research, and we want to make sure to do Chinese...
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Episode 83: The Muppet Show: Steve Martin
It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights, it's time to SPIN THE MUPPET SHOW'S MAGICAL MONTHLY MUPPET SHOW OF THE MONTH! And this time it landed on (drum roll) STEVE MARTIN! Once again, the PMoN boys have quite differing opinions on this one! While the boys both appreciate the...
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Episode 82: Puppet History: What even is a puppet? Part 1
Welcome back Ben, and welcome back to another installment of Puppet History! In this episode we attempt to answer that age old question: "What the heck even is a puppet anyways?!?" You'd think with a combined 10 years of formal puppet education and an over 30 years combined in the business, we'd...
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Episode 81: The Thing
Who goes there?! While Ben is away, Rob joins us again as we talk about the classic 82’ suspense horror The Thing, directed by John Carpenter. This iconic movie shocked audiences with its grotesque and horrifying practical effects and puppetry. Can the puppet masters sit through the ickiest,...
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Episode 80: Gremlins 2
This week on Puppet Masters of None, things get a little mischievous! While Ben gets some much-deserved R and R, guest Puppet Master, Rob Cutler, returns to the show to guest host this week’s episode on Gremlins 2 (1990). Join Will and Rob as they discuss this anarchic cult classic filled with...
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Episode 79: The Christmas Toy
Happy Holidays everybody! While Ben takes some much needed time off to spend with his family, Will gets the pleasure of continuing the puppet master’s tradition of spending the holiday season with their good friends from What The Muppet Podcast. Join Will, Briah and James as they discuss the 1986...
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Episode 78: The Muppet Show: Ethel Merman
It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights, it's time to SPIN THE MUPPET SHOW'S MAGICAL MONTHLY MUPPET SHOW OF THE MONTH! And this time it landed on Ethel Merman! Oh boy friends, do the PMoN boys have differing opinions on this one! One of the Puppet Masters recognizes the iconic...
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Episode 77: The Worst Puppets in Film
Ever watch a film and think, "Man. That's a bad puppet."? Well, we most certainly have! This week on PMoN, the boys are join by the one, the only, Aaron Smith (aka Will's film buff brother) to talk about the worst puppets in film history! Maybe we should have done this one for spooky season…
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Episode 76: Mystery Science Theater 3000: Interview with Crow Puppeteer, Kelsey Ann Brady
Two great interviews back to back weeks?!?! What a time to be alive! This week, the boys get the amazing pleasure of sitting down and talking to professional puppeteer and theme park entertainer extraordinaire, Kelsey Ann Brady! You might recognize Kelsey from her work as Crow in Netflix's…
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Episode 75: UNCUT: Interview with Martin P. Robinson
Have we got a show for you! This week the Masters of None are back with a true Puppet Master: Sesame Street, Little Shop, Muppet, and everything else in between puppeteer, Martin P. Robinson. Probably most known for the iconic Mr. Snuffleupuagus and Telly Monster, Martin has had his hand (pun...
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Episode 74: D.C. Follies
It's election season! Do you know who you're voting for??? Well, we here at PMoN are never disappointed with politicians because we have such a deep love and admirations for puppets everywhere! Sorry, bad joke. But this election season we choose puppets every time with our review of D.C. Follies!...
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Episode 73: The Muppet Show: Vincent Price
It's the end of Spooooooky season ahahah! This week on PMoN, the boys continue their series of the magical wheel's monthly Muppet Show of the month, where we gather favorite guest stars chosen by our discord fam and spin the wheel to decide what Muppet Show episode we will be discussing. This…
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Episode 72: An American Werewolf in London
Hang on to your hats people because boy do we have a hair-raising one for you! This week the Puppet Masters celebrate spooky season with a true horror classic, An American Werewolf in London. Join monster movie aficionado, Will, as he tries to convince horror-hating Ben that this 1980's classic…
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Episode 71: Ernest Scared Stupid
It's officially Spoooooky season, and you all know what that means; spooky puppets on PMoN! For this year's first monstrous puppet film, the boys sit down with a truly terrifying film, Ernest, Scared Stupid! In this 90's classic, legendary comedian, Jim Varney, bring his classic redneck…
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Episode 70: The Muppets Take Manhattan
Look at us, here we are, right where we belong! The PMoN boys are back with another deep dive into a movie on the Space to Carol Spectrum. This week, Ben and Will discuss the much debated, The Muppets Take Manhattan! Will Will (hehe double wills) be able to convince Ben that this is actually a...
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Episode 69: The Muppet Show: Leo Sayer
You make me feel like dancin'! This week on PMoN, the boys continue their series of the magical wheel's monthly Muppet Show of the month, where we gather favorite guest stars chosen by our discord fam and spin the wheel to decide what Muppet Show episode we will be discussing. This week, the…
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Episode 68: Puppet History: Wayang Kulit
From the silly to the sacred, puppets can do anything! This week Ben and Will dive into our third P-MoN installment of PUPPET HISTORY! For this episode in our illustrious world puppetry series, the Puppet Masters will be talking about the awe inspiring Indonesian shadow puppets known as Wayang...
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Episode 67: Muppet Vision 3D
Did somebody say cheap 3D tricks?!?! This week on Puppet Masters of None, Ben had the great pleasure of heading down to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida to experience the great Muppet extravaganza that is Muppet Vision 3D! With all the rumors of its potential closing, (and these are JUST...
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Episode 66: Puppet Up: Interview with Raymond Carr
It's time to...PUPPET UP!!! Have we got a show for you! This week Ben and NOT Will (sorrynotsorry) had the great pleasure of talking to Henson puppeteer extraordinaire, RAYMOND CARR!!! Raymond has had such an amazing career with the Henson company and has worked on so many projects, it was...
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Episode 65: The Muppet Show: Harry Belafonte
Day-Oh! This week on PMoN, the boys continue their series of the magical wheel's monthly Muppet Show of the month, where we gather favorite guest stars from our discord fam and spin the wheel to decide what Muppet Show episode we will be discussing. This week, the wheel landed on HARRY BELAFONTE!...
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Episode 64: Lambchop and Mallory
Oh. My. Gosh. When Will and Ben started this podcast almost a year and a half ago, they never imagined the sheer number of amazing guests that they would have the privilege to interview. But never in their wildest dreams did they believe that they would be able to sit down and have a conversation...
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Episode 63: Lambchop and Shari
This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friends........Well folks, we finally did it! A show about the American cultural icon, none other than the wonderfully sassy and oh so adorable, Lambchop! And this one is so big we decided to make it a two part-er! For our first...
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Episode 62: The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth: Interview with Kevin Carlson and James Murray
I LOVE ADVENTURE!!! And so does Timmy the Tooth! This week, Ben and Will are giddy with excitement for one of their childhood classics, The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth! For those of you who were not lucky enough to be children during the glorious heyday of direct to VHS puppet entertainment in...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Two former puppeteers (who know absolutely nothing) talk puppets, entertainment, and life.
Join the discussion on our discord! https://discord.gg/JDtWJrhPF6
Follow us on twitter @PMoNPodcast and Instagram and Threads @puppetmastersofnone
Find out more about the puppet masters on our website: https://puppetmastersofnone.wixsite.com/puppetmastersofnone
Original Music Composed by Taetro. @Taetro https://www.taetro.com/
HOSTED BY
Ben and Will
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Two former puppeteers (who know absolutely nothing) talk puppets, entertainment, and life. Join the discussion on our discord! https://discord.gg/JDtWJrhPF6 Follow us on twitter @PMoNPodcast and Instagram and Threads @puppetmastersofnone Find out more about the puppet masters on our website:...
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