Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show‪!‬ Jake Deffinbaugh

On Episode 219 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview Julie Johnson!

Many will best know Julie for lending her voice to the character Baby Bop in the long-running Barney franchise, including the Barney & Friends TV series and many home videos, concerts, albums and more! Aside from Barney, she performed in musicals such as Amnesia, Hairspray, Come from Away and Beauty and the Beast and acted on-camera in the films Pure Country and The Apostle!

On Episode 218 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview James Murray!

Early on in James' puppeteering character, he worked on the Jim Henson Company series Dinosaurs. One of his best known projects was co-creating The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth, as well as performing The Cavity Goon and various other characters. He was also an additional Muppet performer with The Muppets on various films, TV series and commercials! James also performed Rabbit in Telling Stories with Tomie dePaola, various characters on the Fox sitcom Greg the Bunny and lent his voice to characters on the Disney direct-to-video film The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars and the Fox Kids series Life with Louie, starring the late Louie Anderson!

On Episode 217 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview Josh Dela Cruz!

Josh is an actor who is best known for playing the lead role of Josh in the Nick Jr. Blue's Clues revival series, Blue's Clues & You! During his time on the show, he performed in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for several years and starred in the Paramount+ movie, Blue's Big City Adventure. Aside from Blue's Clues & You!, Josh has also acted in various Broadway and off-Broadway productions, including the musicals Merrily We Roll Along and Here Lies Love, as well as understudying the roles of Aladdin and Iago in the Aladdin musical! He also made guest appearances on the series Bull and Time After Time!

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

On Episode 216 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview Nigel Plaskitt!

Nigel is a British puppeteer and actor who is best known for his many contributions to The Muppets and The Jim Henson Company. He puppeteered on the special The Tale of the Bunny Picnic and a number of films, including Labyrinth, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island and Muppets Most Wanted! In television, he performed Mew in The Secret Life of Toys and a wide variety of characters in Mopatop's Shop and Bunnytown. As a voice actor, he lent his voice to Tungar the Tiger in the Sesame Street outreach spin-off Panwapa and narrated Rev. W. Awdry's letter at the beginning of a number of episodes in Thomas & Friends. Some of Nigel's on-camera acting work includes playing Mason in the 1976 film Spy Story, Corporal Klein in Owner Occupied, Unstoffe in Doctor Who and many more!

On Episode 215 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview Forrest Harding!

Many will know Forrest for his work on the Sprout network as one of the puppeteers and the voice of the character Chica in the morning block The Sunny Side Up Show and its spin-off The Chica Show! Also on Sprout, he performed Reginald, Sharon and Otis on The Sprout Sharing Show and lent his voice to characters such as Cap'n Tony on Noodle & Doodle and Hatty the Hamster on the first season of Ruff-Ruff, Tweet & Dave. Aside from his work with Sprout, Forrest also acted in various theater productions, including Little Shop of Horrors, Snoopy! The Musical and more!

On Episode 214 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview Billy Aronson!

Early on in Billy's career, he wrote several episodes of the MTV series Beavis and Butt-Head and the Comedy Central series Short Attention Span Theater. He then transitioned into writing for children's series and is best-known for co-creating the PBS Kids series Peg + Cat! He also wrote a number of episodes for Courage the Cowardly Dog, Out of the Box, Johnny and the Sprites, Postcards from Buster, various Sesame Workshop productions and many more. Aside from television, Billy is also a playwright who originated the concept of the successful rock opera Rent and has created a number of his own plays as well!