The Juice with Jeff #185

On this episode of the podcast, Melanie Wehrmacher conducts and co-produces a fantastic interview with me thru Zoom. This is Melanie's second time on the podcast.

 

There is quite a bit of two way conversation between Melanie and me. During the first 45 minutes or so of the interview, Melanie asked me questions along the lines of:

 

1. What are your traditions or rituals for New Year's Day? In other words, how did you spend New Year's Eve and New Year's Day?

2. Are you a Resolution person or a Goal person? What are your goals for 2024?

After I gave my response to Melanie's questions, I asked her the same question for the first two questions.

3. If you could change any three things in the world, what would they be?

4. Are there any podcasts you've come across in the last year that you really enjoyed and that you would recommend?

5. Have you had any chances to play around with your impressive karaoke setup recently? (Note: I actually got rid of my karaoke and portable sound system setup about a year ago and donated it to our local Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines)

6. Were you part of that local Jewish day camp when you were a kid that you just mentioned? (And after I tell Melanie about the several years I went to that Jewish day camp during the 1980's, I then tell her a little bit about the years I was a camper and staff member at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin).

7. Do you remember the Hodag in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, what is it?

8. Do you speak any other languages, which ones and how fluent are you on them?

9. What is your cooking style?

 

For the remaining 25 minutes of the podcast recording session, I talk with Melanie about the movies I have on DVD, about how I have become significantly more of a Cinephile over the last year, and about how I've especially become super passionate over the last year about movies that were designed to be Roadshow Theatrical Presentations. I list the criteria for what it would take for a movie to be considered a Roadshow Presentation and the movies I have on DVD which are considered Roadshows. We end this discussion with my asking Melanie how many of those 30 Roadshow films she is familiar with and what she likes or admires about any of them.

 

It is with this episode of the podcast where we debut the scripted opening and closing which includes professionally produced theme music composed and performed by Oleg Kyrylkovv. This episode of the podcast was recorded on Sunday January 7, 2024 and it runs 1 hour and 12 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Oleg Kyrylkovv courtesy of Pixabay. As is the case with all of "The Juice with Jeff" podcasts, funding for this podcast is provided by Realty With Ahart and RandomKid. Enjoy!!