Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show‪!‬ Jake Deffinbaugh

On Episode 220 of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, we interview Haley Jenkins!

Haley first became a Muppet performer on Sesame Street in Season 45. Since then, she has worked as an assistant and background puppeteer, as well as performing the character Karli in various Sesame Street outreach videos and played Marvie for Sesame Studios. Outside of Sesame Street, Haley is best known for performing the title character Donkey Hodie on the PBS Kids series Donkey Hodie. She has also puppeteered in the Fred Rogers biopic A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and performed in various stage productions!

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!