The Juice with Jeff’s Podcast

The Juice with Jeff #249

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

 

Elise and I basically have a free flowing conversation where we each talk about how we've been doing, past experiences I've had during the years I went to the Iowa State Fair between 2013-2019, about how this year has been the most amazing and special year for these Juice with Jeff podcasts, and the several ways I am celebrating my 50th birthday year: having as many episodes as possible of this podcast this year, trying to have a small group or one-on-one get together with friends during my birthday weekend, and watching the Roadshow Theatrical Film Minyan DVD's in the weeks leading up to my 50th birthday.

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Sunday September 15, 2024 and it runs 1 hour and 12 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Oleg Kyrylkovv courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Ann Kaatz LoBue, Fran Parr, Sarah Stokes, and Renee Whisnant. Enjoy!!

The Juice with Jeff #248

On this episode of the podcast, Angie Spann and Lisa Jimenez conduct and co-produce their fantastic, superb, outstanding, really fun, and very conversational interview with me in person. This is both Angie and Lisa's second time (the first in person for Lisa) on the podcast and we recorded this episode at Campbell Recreational Area in Clive.

 

We had a deep two way conversation on a whole bunch of topics during the interview in a free flow manner such as music (especially concerning Stevie Wonder, The Blues Brothers, and the Brass Rock/Horn Rock type of Rock/Pop music), the 40th birthday celebration that was held around my birthday time back in 2014 that Angie was at with me, karaoke and the karaoke equipment I use to have for a dozen years (until Summer 2022), how I do my social in person life with Covid continuing to rage on, a little bit about the public radio program Music from the Hearts of Space hosted by Stephen Hill and another public radio program called Blues Before Sunrise hosted by Steve Cushing, the podcast and how this has been the MOST AMAZING YEAR and BEST YEAR EVER we've ever had and are having with The Juice with Jeff, our Juice with Jeff Inc. board of directors and what happens during our annual The Juicys Awards event each December, what exciting things I would like to do "before my time comes", Angie and Lisa sing an Early Happy Birthday to me, Angie asks me several "Rapid Fire" type of questions related to candy/sweets, a discussion on a Candy/Sweets related place in Valley West Mall I went to in the past called The Candy Clubhouse, fruits and ice cream, and we wrap the interview recording session up with my performing my Jim Morrison voice impersonation (doing a The Doors take on the Toys R' Us jingle).

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Tuesday September 12, 2024 and it runs a FEATURE LENGTH 1 hour and 34 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Oleg Kyrylkovv courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Ann Kaatz LoBue, Fran Parr, Sarah Stokes, and Renee Whisnant. Enjoy!!

The Juice with Jeff #247

On this episode of the podcast, Howie Hoffman conducts and co-produces a fantastic, superb, and very conversational interview with me thru Zoom. This is Howie's debut/first time on the podcast. A special thanks and shout out goes to Dana Leman for recruiting Howie to be part of our Juice with Jeff Family of Interviewers and Co-Producers!!!

 

Before we started talking about the topics we planned on, we take a moment to pay tribute to James Earl Jones who just died at the age of 93 on the date we recorded this episode. After the James Earl Jones reflection, Howie and I had a two way conversation about various things related to animation, being autistic, and movies; a huge chunk of stuff we talked about on this episode is stuff we've not really talked about before on the podcast.

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Monday September 9, 2024 and it runs 1 hour and 14 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Oleg Kyrylkovv courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Ann Kaatz LoBue, Fran Parr, Sarah Stokes, and Renee Whisnant. Enjoy!!

The Juice with Jeff #246

On this episode of the podcast, Angela Fie conducts and co-produces a fantastic, superb, and conversational interview with me thru Zoom. This is Angie's debut/first time on the podcast.

 

Angie asks me to talk about my Passions and also my Concerns. For the Passions part, I talk in detail about my favorite types of music, my impressive collection of vintage and classic films and TV shows on DVD and the Roadshow Theatrical Presentation kind of movies, and about these podcastsm On the Concerns part, I talk a bit about highly airborne viruses like Covid, wealth inequity, and the like. Then we wrap up the podcast with Angie sharing her passions and concerns.

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Friday September 6, 2024 and it runs 1 hour and 10 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Oleg Kyrylkovv courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Ann Kaatz LoBue, Fran Parr, Sarah Stokes, and Renee Whisnant. Enjoy!!

The Juice with Jeff #245

On this episode of the podcast, Hannah Sznes conducts and co-produces a fantastic, superb, and very conversational interview with me in person. This is Hannah's debut/first time on the podcast and we recorded this episode at Greenwood Park in Des Moines.

 

We had a deep two way conversation on a whole bunch of topics during the interview such as concerning the podcast and the multiple ways this year is the MOST AMAZING YEAR and BEST YEAR EVER we've ever had and are having with The Juice with Jeff, about my being autistic and neurodiversity, about how exciting it is for Hannah and I to see each other for the first time in almost five years, about my near lifelong fascination with audio equipment and electronics along with the Radio/TV production experiences I had during my high school and Drake days, about Greenwood Park, and about my being a Cinephile and my significantly impressive DVD film/TV Show collection. Hannah shares her thoughts and comments regarding all of these topics.

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Sunday September 1, 2024 and it runs an EPIC 1 hour and 52 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Oleg Kyrylkovv courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Ann Kaatz LoBue, Fran Parr, Sarah Stokes, and Renee Whisnant. Enjoy!!

The Juice with Jeff #244

On this episode of the podcast, Carrie Lewis conducts and co-produces a fantastic, superb, really unique, and very conversational interview with me thru Zoom. This is Carrie's debut/first time on the podcast.

 

We had a deep two way conversation focusing on College/University Admissions, the process of applying to colleges, and things concerning the experiences I had during my Drake University years. Carrie asked me the following questions:

1. Did you go thru a traditional college search?

2. What do you think were the most important factors for you in your college search? As I answered this question, I explained to Carrie about the Disability Resource Center at Drake and the accomodations they arranged for me to have for some of my tougher classes.

3. Are there any examples you can think of specifically having to take the initiative yourself to go get additional support from the Disability Resource Center or from any of your professors?

4. As far as transitioning from living at home to living on campus (most of the time), tell us about your experience when you lived in the dorms at Drake with some of the specific challenges as well as some of the learning opportunities and your takeaway experiences from that.

5. Tell us about the other connections you made in addition to the staff members and Amy Desenberg-Wines and how do you go about finding or making those? It's during this part where I also share with Carrie the significant changes and major renovations that have taken place in Meredith Hall (especially with the J-School audio and video production facilities on the basement level). I share my experiences of recording an in person interview last October where Sandy Henry and I tour Meredith Hall and other parts of the Drake campus to discuss all the changes.

6. Looking back and knowing what you know now, is there anything you would change about your undergraduate experience?

7. As someone who grew up in Des Moines and went to Drake; in going thru the "Parks Circuit" over the last 3-1/2 years, were there any surprises that you've discovered as you recorded/record these podcast episodes?

8. For others who are searching for colleges/universities that may have special needs or are looking for support services, what advice do you have regarding things for them to consider as they're looking at their college search?

9. Is there anything else in thinking about your Drake experiences that you want to share?

 

Carrie shares her thoughts on the answers I gave in responding to her questions. And to wrap up the interview, I ask Carrie to share any exciting or special things that have been going on in her life since we last saw each other almost five years ago?

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Sunday August 25, 2024 and it runs 1 hour and 11 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Oleg Kyrylkovv courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Ann Kaatz LoBue, Fran Parr, Sarah Stokes, and Renee Whisnant. Enjoy!!

The Juice with Jeff #243

On this episode of the podcast, Ali Harms conducts and co-produces a fantastic, superb, outstanding, really fun, and very conversational interview with me in person. This is Ali's fifth time on the podcast (4th in person) and we recorded this episode at Pappajohn Sculpture Park in Downtown Des Moines.

 

We had a deep two way conversation on a whole bunch of topics during the interview such as the multiple ways 2024 is the MOST AMAZING YEAR and BEST YEAR EVER we've ever had and are having with these podcasts, Ali shares with us a couple special exciting things she's been up to this year in her life, I re-share the story on how Ali and I met and moments we've had together besides these podcast interviews, we each share our favorite quotes from Mel Brooks super hilarious film Spaceballs, and I perform a whole bunch of my voice impersonations for Ali: Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Louie Armstrong, Jim Morrison singing a Doors take on the Toys R. Us Jingle, my Barry White deep speaking voice, and I perform (for the first time in quite a long time) my The Simpsons medley of voices. Ali asks me how I became interested in doing voice impersonations.

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Thursday August 22, 2024 and it runs 1 hour and 26 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Oleg Kyrylkovv courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Ann Kaatz LoBue, Fran Parr, Sarah Stokes, and Renee Whisnant. Enjoy!!

The Juice with Jeff #242

On this episode of the podcast, James Alsup conducts and co-produces a fantastic, superb, and very conversational interview with me in person. This is James' second time on the podcast (first time in person) and we recorded this episode at Campbell Recreational Area in Clive.

 

After talking about how it was so exciting for us to see each other for the first time since 1997, we proceeded to talk about how both of us continue to take Covid and other airborne viruses/infectious diseases really seriously, James shows us several pieces of Covid protection technology he has, we discuss a few ways Des Moines and Central Iowa have changed since the 1990"s (we both went to Drake University during the mid to late 1990's), we then talk really heavily about classic and vintage films and I explain to James how deeply passionate about those movies which were designed and initially presented as Roadshow Theatrical Presentations, and we end with my talking about the other things which bring me the most joy.

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Sunday August 18, 2024 and it runs 55 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Oleg Kyrylkovv courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Ann Kaatz LoBue, Fran Parr, Sarah Stokes, and Renee Whisnant. Enjoy!!

The Juice with Jeff #241

On this episode of the podcast, Sarah Graf conducts and co-produces a fantastic, superb, outstanding, and very conversational interview with me in person. This is Sarah's second time on the podcast and we recorded at a park that's really close to the Cedar Bridge section with The Bridges of Madison County.

 

We start off the podcast by describing the environment we are recording from and Sarah shares a story from her participating in RAGBRAI during the last full week of July 2024. Then I talk a bit about the history of Cedar Bridge. Sarah then asks me to talk about how what I've been up to that is along the lines of my passion for Mister Rogers Neighborhood and Fred Rogers o.b.m.

 

And then we spend most of the rest of the podcast discussing my passion for vintage and classic films and my tremendous TV Show and Movie DVD Collection. We go even deeper in talking about the movies which were designed to be shown as Roadshow Theatrical Presentations than we ever have during previous episodes of the podcast.

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Sunday August 11, 2024 and it runs 1 hour and 17 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Oleg Kyrylkovv courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Ann Kaatz LoBue, Fran Parr, Sarah Stokes, and Renee Whisnant. Enjoy!!

The Juice with Jeff #240

On this episode of the podcast, Kara Sparks conducts and co-produces a fantastic, superb, and very conversational interview with me in person. This is Kara's second time on the podcast and we recorded this one outdoors at Riverview Park along the Des Moines River.

 

Kara and I talked about a bunch of different topics like a bit about the amazing year we've had with The Juice with Jeff podcasts so far this year, the River Bend neighborhood in Des Moines, Riverview Park and it's history including how for a long time (until the mid to late 1970's) it was an amusement park, the neighborhood I grew up in and the parks I went to as a child and teenager, several of my favorite parks nowadays, our thoughts on this year's weather, learning about a body of water called an oxbow that's smaller than a river, I give Kara a "crash course" on a few Jewish concepts like what a minyan is and the two to three sets of formal Jewish prayer daily, a bit about our favorite types of humor and laughter where I quote lines from both the Airplane 1 and Spaceballs movies, and about movies (including telling Kara a bit about my impressive huge TV Show and Movie DVD Collection.

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Friday August 9, 2024 and it runs 1 hour and 8 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Oleg Kyrylkovv courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Ann Kaatz LoBue, Fran Parr, Sarah Stokes, and Renee Whisnant. Enjoy!!