Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show!

This week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Mark Saltzman! Mark had the pleasure of writing for the Sesame Street show from 1981-1990. Some of Mark's contributions while working on the show are songs such as A New Way to Walk and Caribbean Amphibian and creating the Muppet character Placido Flamingo. He also co-wrote the TV special, Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever...

Also this week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Ken Field! Ken's music has been played and heard in many different outlets! Him and his wife, the sadly passed Karen Aqua, contributed to a number of animated inserts for Sesame Street, including Move to the Beat, Parade of Numbers, Dancing with Elmo and others. He also plays the saxophone, flute and is a percussionist as well! Together, they dis...

This week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Taylor Bibat! Taylor wears many different hats, working in puppetry, production, writing, teaching and tons more! With puppetry, she had the pleasure of performing at various Chicago venues including the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Pritzker Pavillion and with production, Taylor served as production assistant on projects such as The Addams Family movies and...

Also this week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Jennifer Barnhart! Always being fascinated with the arts, Jennifer became hooked on puppetry from being a huge fan of the Henson projects and taking puppetry classes in college. Some of Jennifer's best known roles include performing Cleo Lion on Between the Lions, Zoe, Gladys the Cow, Mama Bear and various others on Sesame Street, Miss Maxwell on...

This week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Pat Fraley! From TV and film to video games, theme parks and commercials, Pat has done it all! Some of his best known voice roles include Krang, Casey Jones, Baxter Stockman and numerous others in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ace in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and Denver in Denver, the Last Dinosaur, as well as various characters on Goof Troop, Bonker...

Also this week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Michael Bell! Michael has appeared in numerous on-camera projects but is best known for his voiceover roles! Some of his major roles include voicing Chas, Drew and Boris in Nickelodeon's Rugrats, Quackerjack in Darkwing Duck and various characters in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Together, they discuss the continued legacy of Rugrats, working w...

This week, Jake, Chris, Matt and guest co-host Margo speak with Louise Gold! Louise is one of the original Muppet performers who has had the great pleasure of performing in various Muppet projects, dating all the way back to The Muppet Show with one of her most well-known characters, Annie Sue! She also performed Funella Furchester on The Furchester Hotel, various characters on Sesame Street and T...

Also this week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Kathleen Kim! Originally having a career in production, Kathleen first joined Sesame Street in 2015 after attending a puppeteer workshop, first as an additional puppeteer, eventually getting her own characters, Elena, mother of Autistic Muppet character, Julia and most recently, Ji-Young, Sesame Street's first Korean-American Muppet character! To...

This is the pod that never ends! This week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Mallory Lewis! Trying to keep an iconic character's legacy alive is important and Mallory has done just that! She first got the chance to work closely with her mother, the great Shari Lewis, as a producer on her series, Lamb Chop's Play-Along and its spin-off, The Charlie Horse Music Pizza. Since her mother's d...

Also this week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Pam Arciero! Attending a large open call for new puppeteers landed Pam on Sesame Street, inheriting the role of Oscar the Grouch's girlfriend, Grundgetta, as well as various other characters and right-handing Telly Monster. She is also best known as the performer of Leona Lion on Between the Lions (starting in Season 3), Lindi on Allegra's Wi...

This week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Paul Rudolph! Paul's longtime career with the Muppets began as assistant music director for ABC's Muppets Tonight, where he met his wife, Muppet performer Leslie Carrara-Rudolph! Since 2008, Paul has had the great pleasure of being the vocal music director and vocal arranger for the beloved Sesame Street franchise! Paul is also the founder of the...

Also this week, Jake and Chris speak with Matt Hill! Matt's acting career started in his early teenage years with his childhood crush, Lindsay Wagner, then landing the voice of Ed in the long-running Cartoon Network series, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III and Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation and tons more! Together, they discuss working with Noel MacNeal, recording...

This week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Carmen Osbahr! Carmen's long puppetry journey started with Sesame Street's Mexican co-production, Plaza Sésamo, eventually working on Sesame Street itself, getting her own characters, Rosita, a bilingual monster and Ovejita, a Spanish-speaking lamb! Carmen's credits also include The Puzzle Place, Bear in the Big Blue House, Johnny and the Spri...

Also this week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with William Electric Black, aka Ian Ellis James! Ian's extensive writing work includes writing for Sesame Street from 1992 to 2002. During his Sesame Street days, Ian worked with various celebrities such as Patti LaBelle, Queen Latifah and Arrested Development, created the character Kingston Livingston III and tons more! Together, they also discuss w...

This week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Robby Merkin! Robby served as music director for Sesame Street from 1993 to 2000, from scoring street scenes and scoring their films and animations to composing and writing songs for the show. Together, they discuss Together We Make Music with Garth Brooks, music directing and arranging one of Disney's most iconic films, The Little Mermaid, his work f...

Also this week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Pat Fry! Pat is a Canadian actor and voice actor whose on-screen credits include The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Misguided Angels, September Runs Red and tons more! In voiceover, Pat is most well known as the voice of Caillou's daddy, Boris, in the long-running children's series, Caillou! Together, they discuss Caillou's Holiday Movie, w...

Also this week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Cheryl Chase! Cheryl is a voice actress and children's book author who, since 1991, has provided the voice of Angelica Pickles in one of Nickelodeon's most long-running franchises, Rugrats, including the original series, it's spin-off All Grown Up and its 2021 reboot. Together, they discuss her audition process for Rugrats, how Angelica&#...

This week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Dan Garza! Dan is a puppeteer and art director who recently took over the roles of Junior Gorg and Philo in the Fraggle Rock revival, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. He also puppeteered on Splash and Bubbles, The Happytime Murders and tons more! Together, they also discuss Dan's career working in production, his work with The Walt Disney Company and m...

Also this week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Ben Rudnick! Ben is a musician, singer-songwriter and composer who has performed and recorded family music with his band, Ben Rudnick and Friends, since 2000! Some of their hit songs include A Frog Named Sam, Sally Salamander, Chicken Soup Ballad and tons more! Together, they discuss turning A Frog Named Sam into its own musical, filming the music vi...

This week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Annie Evans! Annie has been a writer for television, theater and books for several decades, her longest-running role being on Sesame Street from 1993 to 2015! Through her days on the street, she wrote fan-favorite episodes such as when Elmo gives up his binky, home videos including Sesame Street Goes to the Doctor and Zoe's Dance Moves and being a par...

Also this week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Ralph Covert! Ralph has been performing and writing music for several decades as the lead singer of children's music group Ralph's World and lead singer of Chicago based indie-rock band The Bad Examples! Together, they discuss Ralph's music being played on Playhouse Disney for several years and doing the Playhouse Disney in Concert tour,...

This week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Holly Gauthier-Frankel! Holly is a Canadian voice actress and voice director who is best known for voicing the roles of Fern Walters in the long-running Arthur franchise, the titular character Sagwa Miao in Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat and Julie and DeeDee the Squirrel in Caillou. Together, they discuss the continuing legacy of Arthur, some of Holly&#39...

In the 100th episode of Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Christopher Cerf and Norman Stiles! Christopher and Norman have collaborated on hundreds of songs for Sesame Street, including hit songs such as Put Down the Duckie, Monster in the Mirror, Dance Myself to Sleep, The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree and a whole lot more! They also co-created the series Between the...

This week, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with Debi Derryberry! Debi is another legend in the voiceover industry, who many will most know as the voice of Jimmy Neutron in Nickelodeon's Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius franchise! She also lent her voice to characters such as Clay (the host of Playhouse Disney), Weenie and Catrina in Nick Jr.'s Oswald, Jay Jay the Jet Plane and various others in Jay Ja...

This week, celebrating its 20th anniversary, Jake, Chris and Matt speak with some of the cast members from Bird Call Radio! Previous guest, Calvin Lester, returns with Kelsey Brady, Chris Faulkenberry, Luke Gerdes and Tyler Campbell joining for the first time! They discuss their thoughts about Bird Call being 20, doing Bird Call: The Musical, projects they've worked on outside of Bird Call and...