In 2015, Jessie had shared her instagram link with Gus, completely forgetting the videos she uploaded of her dancing and singing with the puppet she'd recently learned to make at Puppet School. Mortified and embarrassed, she braced herself to never hear from him again. Thankfully, Gus was a fellow fan of puppetry and it sealed the deal. The ice was broken, and that was the beginning of Ragmop & Goose (they just didn't know it yet).

They kicked off their relationship with lots of silly puppet antics. They added googly eyes to Gus' chin while he lip-synced to opera music for their own amusement. When they first moved in together, they called the electric company using a puppet (the man on the other line, of course, had no idea he was talking to a puppet the whole time.) Their first summer together, they wrote and recorded a theme song for the future TV show they dreamt of pitching someday.

Over the years, they'd show up to friends' birthday parties with a bag of puppets, assuming party guests would either love them or hate them (it was always the former) and this is when they noticed just how much joy puppets brought to people, even complete strangers. This inspired them to start teaching mini puppet making workshops for their friends. Students would arrive to class with every intention of gifting their handmade puppet to their niece or nephew, but by the end of class they found themselves too attached to let go. (They still have them to this day, nearly 10 years later!)

When the pandemic rolled around, they both essentially lost their jobs as their industries were shut down until quarantine was over. Jessie spent much of her free time making puppets to help keep her sane. She decided to share the ghost marionette she had made on her Tiktok, and to her surprise, it went viral. Over 1 million views brought her from 200 followers to 30,000 in less than a week. This was the catalyst to everything. Jessie asked Gus for help with filming content and they began posting more videos of Stanley The Ghost.

By early 2022, Jessie felt ready to launch a longtime dream she'd had since college: an "adoption agency" for her handmade characters, inspired by adopting pets. She'd done a small batch of handmade plushies in the early 2010s, but she wanted to upscale it to handmade puppets so that it was more personable and engaging for the customers. Once again, she called on Gus for help and asked him to hold the puppets for their website portraits. Being the natural clown he is, he couldn't help but to add a voice and personality to them. Jessie couldn't stop laughing and knew she had to record the magic. She uploaded a few videos to social media, and those, too, went viral. Gus was able to bring these characters to life in a way Jessie never even considered for her little bespoke business. She asked him to join forces with her full time to see where this journey would go. It's been their full time job ever since.

They hope they can continue spreading joy in the form of puppetry for years to come!