Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show‪!‬ Jake Deffinbaugh

On Episode 213 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview Kurt Heinecke!

For many years, Kurt was the music director at Big Idea Entertainment and was one of the most frequent songwriters for the long-running VeggieTales franchise. Some songs he contributed to include writing the music and playing the tuba on the VeggieTales Theme Song, as well as co-writing hit songs like The Hairbrush Song, His Cheeseburger and countless others! Kurt also composed for 3-2-1 Penguins!, the CBN series Superbook, recorded music for various Disney parades and also has a career in photography!

Special thanks to our guest co-host Kev for joining us!

On Episode 212 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview Michael Oosterom!

Michael is a puppeteer and actor whose work as an on-camera actor includes acting on the Nickelodeon series The Amanda Show and in several episodes of the ABC series Help Me Help You. Since 2010, he has puppeteered on various films, TV series and commercials with The Muppets as an additional Muppet performer and performed Cornelius on the Disney+ series Earth to Ned! Michael's other puppetry career consists of projects with Jim Henson's Creature Shop, the puppet improv show Puppet Up! Uncensored and many more. In the voiceover industry, he lent his voice to the character Blurp in the Sigmund and the Sea Monsters reboot!

On Episode 211 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview Belinda Ward!

Belinda is a television writer who wrote for Sesame Street from 1986 to 2021! She wrote dozens of episodes and songs for the show, as well as some of the recurring segments like Monsterpiece Theater, Elmo's World and Elmo the Musical! She also wrote inserts and songs for a number of celebrity guests, including John Goodman, Diane Sawyer, Adam Sandler, Macklemore, The New York Jets and many more. Belinda's other work for Sesame Workshop includes creating the UK spin-off The Furchester Hotel and co-creating the Noggin series The Upside Down Show! She also wrote for The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Between the Lions and Donkey Hodie and served as head writer on Pinkalicious & Peterrific!

On Episode 210 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview director, writer and producer Paul Lally!

Paul is best known for directing over 100 episodes of the long-running PBS series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. He was also a writer for the show and became a close friend of Fred Rogers. Currently, he is an executive producer on the PBS cooking series Ciao Italia. Aside from his work with PBS, Paul also wrote two screenplays for Disney, directed the TV special The Smithsonian Salutes Disney Music and more!

On Episode 209 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview Marc Brown, Tolon Brown and Peter K. Hirsch!

Many will know Marc's work best for creating the successful Arthur franchise, including the original books and the long-running PBS TV series that aired from 1996 to 2022! His son Tolon was a producer on the show and Peter was head writer on Arthur and wrote for numerous other children's TV series. Very recently, Marc, Tolon and Peter came together to create the Max series HOP, which follows a diverse group of friends, each with a different disability!

On Episode 208 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview writer Stephen White!

Stephen started out writing and co-producing shows for the Chuck E. Cheese franchise, before he became a writer for the Barney franchise. During his time with Barney, Stephen wrote dozens of episodes, home videos, live shows, songs and books! Some of his most notable contributions include writing The Treasure of Rainbow Beard episode, where he played the role of Rainbow Beard, as well as scripting the Barney Live! In New York City stage show at Radio City Music Hall, the NBC TV special Barney's Imagination Island and many more!