Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show‪!‬ Jake Deffinbaugh

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!

On Episode 207 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview actor Kevin Yamada!

For several years, Kevin worked for the Sprout TV network, first as the host of The Birthday Show, before moving on to becoming one of the original hosts of the morning block The Sunny Side Up Show from 2007-2009! In addition, he also performed the character Ricky on the afternoon block The Sprout Sharing Show. Aside from Sprout, Kevin acted in the Disney film Old Dogs and had guest spots on a number of TV series including 30 Rock, Hawaii Five-0 and more!

On Episode 206 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview puppeteers and puppet builders Patrick and Sean Johnson!

Patrick and Sean's work is best known through their puppet company Swazzle, where they have built puppets for projects such as the Netflix series Waffles + Mochi, the Showtime series Kidding, the Comedy Central adult puppet series Crank Yankers, The Simpsons Christmas episode "The Fight Before Christmas" and many more. Outside of Swazzle, Patrick and Sean puppeteered on various projects with The Muppets including the 2011 film and Muppets Most Wanted, the 2015 ABC series and various commercials, as well as films including The Happytime Murders, the improv comedy show Puppet Up! Uncensored and more!

On Episode 205 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview puppeteer Alice Dinnean!

Alice has performed in many Muppet productions, including puppeteering various characters on Sesame Street, such as Goldilocks, Sherry Netherland, Mama Bear, Phoebe and more. She also performed the characters Julie Woo and Sizzle on The Puzzle Place, Mary on Jack's Big Music Show and various roles on Bunnytown. Some of her roles with The Jim Henson Company include performing Grandma Flutter in the first season of Bear in the Big Blue House, Gabriela and Alice on Sid the Science Kid and with Jim Henson's Creature Shop on the Disney film The Country Bears. Alice is currently a Muppet performer with The Muppets and is also the wife of past guest Peter Linz!