The Juice with Jeff #146

On this episode of the podcast, Inbal Mazar conducts and co-produces an excellent and fun interview with me in person. This is Inbal's very first time on the podcast.

 

Inbal asks me questions that have a Venn Diagram theme since both Inbal and I live in Des Moines, we both either have been or are part of the Drake University community, and we're both Jews and belong to the same synagogue. The topics that Inbal asked me questions on include:

 

Have you ever visited the land of Israel before? I respond by sharing with her highlights from the six weeks that I was in Israel as part of the Ramah Israel Seminar during July-August 1993

 

Any travel that I've done to other places either within or outside of the United States.

 

If you were to pick a place that you've never been to before, where would it be?

 

What are your thoughts on Des Moines and Iowa? And Inbal also asks me to give her recommendations for places she may not have gone to in the DSM area that I think she should check out. When I talk about the Science Center of Iowa, I share with Inbal historical tidbits on how the original location of the Science Center of Iowa is now a private secular K thru 8th grade school called Bergman Academy, and how that private school is a spinoff of a Jewish day school that used to be in Des Moines.

 

Inbal then asks me an unusual "Would You Rather" type of question: Would you rather fart blue smoke or sweat green liquid?

 

After all this, Inbal asks me to share happy memories I have from my Drake University days and then I asked Inbal to talk about what she likes about being part of the Drake community. 

 

And we end the interview with me performing a handful of my voice impersonations: Fat Albert, Mushmouth, the "Let's Get Ready to Rumble" announcer, a very popular member of the DSM Jewish community named Abe Goldstein, and the late Jim Morrison doing a The Doors take on the "Toys R' Us" jingle.

 

We recorded our podcast at Sophie Homonoff's place in West Des Moines on Thursday February 16, 2023 and it's around 33 minutes long. The funding for this podcast is provided by Realty With Ahart. Enjoy!!