Happy and You Know It with Penny Lane
How Was Your Week? with Julie Klausner
Forever Dog
4.6 • 755 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Julie talks with filmmaker Penny Lane about Happy and You Know It, her new HBO documentary exploring the world of children’s music and what abandoning “cool” can teach us about creativity, art, and joy.
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| 0:00.0 | Forever |
| 0:02.0 | Dog Hey, everybody. It's Julie Klausner back for another episode of How Is Your Week? |
| 0:34.6 | This is the last interview edition. |
| 0:38.0 | How is Your Week of the year of 2025? |
| 0:40.5 | Without a doubt, the best year that anyone has ever experienced. |
| 0:45.2 | I have a very special guest to wrap out the year and a joy-based one. |
| 0:50.6 | Penny Lane is one of my favorite filmmakers, documentarians. |
| 0:54.8 | She is perhaps impolitely prolific. She is the person behind such documentary films as Confessions of a |
| 1:09.1 | Good Samaritan wherein she donates her kidney to a stranger. |
| 1:13.8 | And I barely rolled out of bed before noon today. |
| 1:17.5 | Listening to Kenny G., which is part of this music box series |
| 1:20.6 | she's been doing for HBO Max. |
| 1:22.7 | And I love that film, Hail Satan, question mark, nuts, exclamation point, |
| 1:27.4 | our Nixon. |
| 1:28.5 | She is outrageously talented and I love, love, love her new film. |
| 1:35.5 | It's called Happy and You Know It. |
| 1:38.2 | It follows several musicians that are, that are, that are, that entertain toddlers, frankly. |
| 1:49.0 | This is an incredibly joyful and inspiring film about different musical artists, |
| 1:55.7 | such as Lori Berkner, The Wiggles, and others, many others. |
| 2:02.2 | And it also tells the story of baby shark. |
| 2:05.7 | And at the very least, it will introduce you to Dorothy, the dinosaur and wags, the dog, |
| 2:10.8 | which are mascots that have since completely taken over my heart. |
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