The Juice with Jeff’s Podcast

The Juice with Jeff #211

On this episode of the podcast, Liz Cox conducts and co-produces a fantastic, superb, and at times fun interview with me in person. This is Liz's second time on the podcast and we recorded this one outdoors at Fairmeadows Park in West Des Moines.

 

During the interview, Liz asks me to talk about the podcasts, music, the significance of Pesah/Passover (which starts Monday night/Tuesday and runs 7 to 8 days), Autism and being autistic. There are times where the interview is very conversational and Liz shares her thoughts on the topics that are brought up. There are moments where Liz injects her sense of humor into the interview.

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Thursday April 18th, 2024 and it runs 1 hour and 3 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 #212

On this episode of the podcast, Micole and Josh Chapman, Carrie England, and Jill Sarcone conduct and co-produce a fantastic, superb, extremely fun, and really unique interview with me in person. This is Micole's sixth time (fourth time in person), Josh's first time, Jill's seventh time (fifth in person), and Carrie's fourth time (second in person) on the podcast and we recorded this one at Jill's house.

 

This episode of the podcast also incorporated a Half Birthday celebration as today is my half birthday (From the date we recorded this super special episode, I would be six months away from turning 50 God willing). Micole, Josh, Jill, and Carrie took turns asking me the following questions:

1.  If you could switch lives with any one person for a day, who would you choose? How about any actor or actress you'd like or love to be for one day?

2.  What was your first paying job and how old were you?

3.  What is on your bucket list?

4.  If your pet could talk, what might they say about you?

5.  If you won the lottery, what would you use it on first? What's something you would do for yourself that no one would expect?

6.  What is your longest running friendship with someone?

7.  What is one thing that instantly makes your day better? Do you have a "Go To" song that is your favorite to get you energized for the day?

8. If you could make everyone in the world follow one rule, what would it be?
And then I perform around 18 of my best voice impersonations for Micole, Josh, Jill, Carrie. We wrap up the podcast with me being given a half birthday gift of a Mister Rogers Figurine that says eight of Mister Rogers' quotes with the push of a button and a little booklet with some of his quotes. They all also surprised me with having special "The Juice with Jeff" T-shirts made for this interview where all of them wore one and gave one to me. 

 

The interview overall was super entertaining. I truly believe that not only was Micole's, Josh's, Carrie's, and Jill's BEST INTERVIEW EVER with me for the podcast, but it's also one of the MOST FUN and SUPER ENERGETIC episodes we've ever done of the show!!!

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Friday April 19th, 2024 and it runs 43 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 #210

On this episode of the podcast, Stephanie Toms conducts and co-produces a fantastic, superb, super fun, and really unique interview with me and Nathan Retzlaff in person. This is Stephanie's third time (second time in person) on the podcast and we recorded this one outdoors in Stephanie's back yard.

 

The theme for this episode is called "Brothers of Autism". Stephanie asks Nathan and I various questions related to autism and about our lives, and she also asks Nathan's mother Julie a question or two. Some of the questions include:

1. How old are each of you?

2. Do you live with parents or alone? What are the positives and negatives?

3. Do you both have jobs? Full or part-time? What are they and what do you enjoy about them?

4. I am interested as I am sure others are if either one of you knew that you had a form of autism when and how did you find out? How did it make you feel?

5. (To Julie) when was your first awareness? What steps did you take and how did you feel?

6. What unique skills do you each have? 
During this part, I perform four of my voice impersonations: Fat Albert, Audrey II the plant from "Little Shop of Horrors", Barry White, and Jim Morrison.

7. What are your plans and goals for the future?

 

The entire interview is very conversational and at times really entertaining. The entire interview overall is very conversational. This episode of the podcast was recorded on Sunday April 14th, 2024 and it runs 54 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 #209

On this episode of the podcast, Dyann Flinn conducts and co-produces a fantastic and superb interview with me in person. This is Dyann's first time on the podcast and we recorded this one outdoors at Campbell Recreational Area in the Clive area.

 

There were a whole bunch of topics we talk about during the interview such as:

A special watch that Dyann has called a WavWatch which is designed to help people heal from illnesses thru sound therapy.

Dyann asks me the following questions:

What things bring you joy?

What was your favorite thing to do as a kid?

Who inspires you?

What is your theme song?

Over the last six months, when have you felt the most alive and electrified, and what items are still on your bucket list?

 

Dyann also briefly talks about a business she runs called The Healing Elixir Sanctuary.

 

There are moments where Dyann shares her thoughts on the questions she asked me 

 

And then before we wrap up the show, Dyann asks me to perform a whole bunch of my voice impersonations.

 

The entire interview overall is very conversational. This episode of the podcast was recorded on Friday April 12th, 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 #208

On this episode of the podcast, Jamie Bricker conducts and co-produces an excellent interview with me thru Zoom. This is Jamie's second time on the podcast.

 

Basically, Jamie and I sum up in nearly 40 minutes what we've been up to. I talk about how these podcasts have come a long way over the last few years, the things I do for Self-Care, my job, and other things I've been up to. Jamie mentions a couple of the things she's been up to. And then we wrap the show up with me performing the following voices for Jamie: Fat Albert and Mushmouth, Michael Buffer the "Let's Get Ready to Rumble!!" guy, Audrey II the Plant, Robin Leach, Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo, Snagglepus, and Jim Morrison singing the Toys R' Us jingle like The Doors would.

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Wednesday April 10th, 2024 and it runs 40 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 #207

On this episode of the podcast, Stephanie Angleson French conducts and co-produces a fantastic, superb, and extremely fun interview with me in person. This is Stephanie's fourth time on the podcast and we recorded this one outdoors at Campbell Recreational Area in the Clive area.

 

Before Stephanie introduces herself, welcomes our listeners to this episode of the podcast, and we go on with the topics/questions; we do something a little different right after I start the digital audio recorder/mic: Stephanie and I do the "It's 106 miles to Chicago....Hit it!!" line from The Blues Brothers with me doing Elwood and Stephanie doing Jake's "Hit it". Then Stephanie and I do our intros and I talk about the special plans for this year's episodes of the podcast including our goal of having at least 50 new episodes produced and recorded during the course of this year.

 

Most of the time is devoted to Stephanie asking me to talk about my HUGE TV Show and Movie DVD Collection, Roadshow Theatrical Presentations, and other things related to my favorite films. There are moments where Stephanie shares her thoughts on the movies I talk about, one of her favorite actresses, and other things about the movies she likes.

 

And then before we wrap up the show, Stephanie asks me to perform a few of my voice impersonations: Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo, Lady Elaine Fairchilde, Danier Tiger, King Friday, the Mighty Favog from the short lived "The Land of Gorch" during the first season of Saturday Night Live, and my Jim Morrison impersonation (where I do a Doors take on the late 1800's/early 1900's song "Hello Ma Baby".

 

The entire interview overall is conversational and really entertaining. This episode of the podcast was recorded on Friday April 5th, 2024 and it runs 1 hour and 1 minute 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 #206

On this episode of the podcast, Angela Becker conducts and co-produces a fantastic interview with me thru Zoom. This is Angela's very first time on the podcast.

 

During the interview, Angela asks me questions like:

If it was your last meal, what would you order?
If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
If you were stuck on an island, what 3 things would you wish you had brought?
If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
If you could go back in time, what century would you live in and why? 
What is the best piece of men’s clothing of all time and why?
If you could meet someone famous who would it be and why?
If you were an animal, which animal would you be and why?
What is something about you that nobody knows or has asked you about?
Why did you decide to start these The Juice with Jeff podcasts?
And then we wrap up the podcast with me asking Angela to talk about what she does in her daily life and about any hobbies/interests she has.

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Tuesday April 2, 2024 and it runs 1 hour and 3 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 #205

On this episode of the podcast, Hailey Homonoff conducts and co-produces a fantastic interview with me in person. This is Hailey's first time on the podcast and we recorded this one at Caspe Terrace in Waukee.

 

Almost the entire interview is devoted to discussing the experiences both Hailey and I had during the summers we went on the Ramah Israel Seminar program. I went to Israel on this program during the summer of 1993 and Hailey went to Israel on this same program last summer. We have lots of two way conversation on each other's Israel experiences on Ramah Seminar. Then Hailey asking me to talk about the summers I went back to Camp Ramah in Wisconsin after graduation from high school as a staff member where I worked in their business office for 3-1/2 summers between 1994 and 1997?And we wrapped up the podcast with Hailey asking me to talk about the beginning of Caspe Terrace (the multipurpose community center building for the Des Moines Jewish Community and Jewish Federation) and its history.

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Tuesday March 26, 2024 and it runs 51 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 #204

On this episode of the podcast, Fabiola Carlin conducts and co-produces a fantastic, superb, and outstanding interview with me in person. This is Fabiola's first time on the podcast and we recorded this one at Lauren Campbell's photography studio in Windsor Heights

 

After our intros and talking about how the last time we saw each other was back in February 2019, Fabiola asks me the following questions and we have lots of two way conversation centered around those questions:

 

What songs do you sing in the shower?, and what songs do you like to dance to in the mirror? 

What dance styles would like to learn? 

Where is the farthest point in the world that you have visited? 

What are cultures around the world that you would like to visit or learn more about? 

Why do you think quite a few people from this country don’t want to visit or are not interested on other countries?

We have a deep two way conversation on all these topics for most of podcast. Then I share some thoughts about these podcasts and we wrap it up with Fabiola sharing a couple interesting things about herself.

 

We've got LOTS of two way conversation throughout the interview. This episode of the podcast was recorded on Friday March 22, 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 #203

On this episode of the podcast, Stephanie Reed conducts and co-produces a fantastic, superb, and outstanding interview with me in person. This is Stephanie's first time on the podcast and we recorded this one at Greenwood Park in Des Moines.

 

After our intros and talking about how the last time we saw each other was 7 years ago, Stephanie recalls with me how I taught her quite a bit about Judaism that night we had dinner at Bonefish Grill in January 2017, and then I talk about how Judaism is very strongly against proselytizing outside of the Jewish community (and that I simply believe in educating people on various Jewish things if they ask or when certain things come up), the bare basics of about how a non-Jew who chooses to convert to Judaism goes about starting the process according to traditional Jewish Law, and what is traditionally called the 7 Laws of Noah.

 

After that, Stephanie and I have a deep and meaningful conversation on a bunch of topics that in a way blend in with each other (i.e. as we get pretty deep into taking about one subject, we then talk discussing another topic). Some of the topics we discussed are: The Israeli-Palestinean Conflict and how things have gotten much more heated with this starting in October of last year, Media Bias and my talking about how I rely on the Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias Fact Check websites to advise one on which media sources are less biased and more factual than others, our VHS days, my "level" of being autistic and the things that make me unique in terms of the autism, how Stephanie and I both feel about society/technology today and how we both actually prefer quite a few things that are "Old School", the types of music I enjoy, and about these podcasts. There is quite a lot of two way conversation during the podcast.

 

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Tuesday March 19, 2024 and it runs 1 hour and 5 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Oleg Kyrylkovv courtesy of Pixabay. As always. funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Ann Kaatz LoBue, Fran Parr, Sarah Stokes, and Renee Whisnant. Enjoy!!