The Juice with Jeff #58

On this episode of the podcast, Nicole Voeller Brooks conducts and co-produces a fantastic audio interview with me. We start off the interview with Nicole bringing up a "Small World" story about how one of the parents of a friend of her oldest daughter went to Camp Ramah in Wisconsin with me (during the late 1980's thru mid 1990's) and how Nicole knows a friend from my Ramah Wisconsin days named Matthew Litwack. I told Nicole about how I indeed know Matt Litwack very well from the Ramah days. I then talk with Nicole about how I spent 8 weeks at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin between the summers of 1989 thru 1992 as a camper and again as a staff member between the summers of 1994 thru 1996 for 9 weeks each of those summers and for 4 weeks during the summer of 1997. I also talk with Nicole about how Ramah Wisconsin is one of the many summer camps that are not opening their physical camps at all during the summer of 2020 because of COVID-19 and the physical distancing guidelines that go with it but that they are offering certain camp programs this summer virtually thru the internet and Zoom. I then mention several other things about my involvement with Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, including how my years at camp have played a significant role in changing my life in terms of my social skills and also with my decision to take Judaism seriously 24-7 all year round. Nicole then asks me about keeping kosher and I tell her about how I try my best to observe the basic minimum requirements of what keeping the rules of Kosher involve (including how I deal with it at restaurants and at the Iowa State Fair). Then Nicole asks me "Rapid Fire" questions on three topics: If I had to only have one snack food for the rest of my life, what would I pick?; What is my most commonly used emoji if I use them for text messages, etc.; and What is my favorite restaurant in Des Moines? Nicole ends the interview with words of positivity. This interview was recorded on Tuesday June 2, 2020 and it runs around 33 minutes. As is the case with all of the "The Juice with Jeff" podcasts, funding for this podcast is provided by Realty With Ahart and RandomKid. Enjoy!!