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

After our introductions, Michelle asked me the following questions:

How long have you been doing the podcast?

What is your favorite type of juice to drink?

How and when did we meet?

Going back to our high school years, what is a moment you remember vividly and what do you think it says about who you were back then?

Have you gone back to VHS recently?

Describe your best day, what would a really good day be like for you?

How do you recruit people, how do you decide to ask someone to be on the podcast?

Have you ever done your abuse with people who you don't have a history with or who you've never met before?

What is your favorite episode of the podcast and why?

What do you think is the question you have been asked throughout the podcast history over and over many times?

What have you learned about friendship as an adult that you wish we could have understood about you earlier?

Where's a misconception about autism you are tired of? Would you say it is the one where people think "it's a choice"? Or does something else come to mind? During my answer to this question, I stress the importance of Autism Acceptance and my history with being autistic.

What do you think makes your interviewers great?

If you could design the perfect Juice with Jeff episode, where would you go, who would be there, and what would the primary topic be?

What do you do now before an interview that is different from when you first started the podcast, have you adapted your practice at all?

Have you ever had an episode that went wrong?

If you think of things that comfort you, what type of music makes you feel good?

What movie genres do you like the best?

This episode was recorded on Friday morning April 17, 2026 and it runs 1 hour and 1 minute long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Anastasia Chubarova courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Lee Larue, and Rachel Graham. Enjoy!

On this episode of the podcast, Mara Davis and Leeat Cribbs conduct/co-produce a fantastic, superb, and very conversational interview with me thru Zoom. This is the second time on the show for both Mara and Leeat.

After our introductions, most of this episode focuses on the time all three of us spent at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin as campers and staff members during the late 1980's and 1990's. We do a mix of both Mara and Leeat asking me questions in connection with the time I spent at Ramah Wisconsin, how Ramah has changed us, our reminiscing on the Ramah Wisconsin days, and they asked me a few random questions.

We end the podcast with Mara and Leeat doing a sales pitch to recruit more people to join our Juice with Jeff Family of Interviewers and Co-Producers.

This episode was recorded on Wednesday night April 15, 2026 and it runs 1 hour and 14 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Anastasia Chubarova courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Lee Larue, and Rachel Graham. Enjoy!

On this episode of the podcast, Jenny Dolphino conducts/co-produces a fantastic, superb, and very conversational interview with me In Person. This is Jenny's debut/first time on the show and we recorded this episode at Campbell Recreational Area in Clive.

After our introductions, Jenny asked me the following questions:

What are your thoughts on social media?

What do you do to find balance with your social media?

What is it that shapes your political bend? How did that come about? What or who inspired you? After I answer this question, I ask Jenny to talk about her experience participating in the No Kings Rally in Des Moines over the weekend.

Do you listen to other podcasts besides your own?

Tell me more about your dogs? I ask Jenny to talk about any pets she has.

If I told you to close your eyes and go to your happy place, where would that be?

Have you ever been to Israel?

For someone who doesn't know Hebrew, did you find it a difficult language to learn or do you find that learning other languages comes naturally to you?

Do you prefer to watch Summer Olympics or Winter Olympics?

What do you do to find joy in your life? It's during this question I talk about my intense passions for music, classic and vintage films including the Roadshow Theatrical type of films, and of course spending time with friends and the podcast.

When you are watching movies, what do you snack on?

Were you or are you a Muppet guy?

If you had a magic telephone and you could call your younger self, what would you call your younger self and tell them?

Do you have someone who you would consider your best friend? What would be the characteristics your friends would talk with you about that they would appreciate?

Can you tell me about a time when you were most surprised in your life? (E.g. unexpected happy events or gifts)

Do you like musicals?

Can you describe what a typical day in your life is like?

You said you are a practicing practicing your Judaism. What is a favorite prayer you enjoy saying?

You mentioned it's often challenging living with your parents. I have a son who's moving back into our house for the next few years while he finishes a degree. What advice can you give me as a parent on how to be a good roommate to a son or daughter?

Jenny and I share memories and favorite moments from our VHS days.

During the last 20 minutes of the interview, I perform a whole bunch of my voice impersonations for Jenny.

This episode was recorded on Sunday morning March 29, 2026 and it runs a feature-length 1 hour and 34 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Anastasia Chubarova courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Lee Larue, and Rachel Graham. Enjoy!

On this episode of the podcast, Jennifer Vayhinger conducted and co-produced an excellent and conversational interview with me thru Zoom. This is Jennifer's debut/first time on the show.

After our introductions, Jennifer asked me the following questions:

What is your favorite joke?

What is/are your favorite pizza toppings?

Have you ever watched Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood?

What is your favorite game show? Jennifer wanted me to answer "The Price is Right" but I told her my favorites are "Press Your Luck" and "The Gong Show" and during my answer to this question I do my Bob Barker impersonation.

Who would you want to play you in a movie about your life?

What is a hobby you took up as an adult?

What is your biggest surprise you have found about doing the podcast?

What is the most surprising thing you've learned about one of your guests?

Who would be your dream interviewers and guests for the podcast? Who would you want to interview you on episodes of your show?

Do you read or are you more into movies?

Since you are passionate about Mister Rogers, What do you think of the film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood with Tom Hanks?

What do you think about the conspiracy theories that surround Mister Rogers?

When you read do you prefer a physical book or an E-reader like Kindle or Nook?

Do you ever listen to audio books?

What's the worst movie you've ever seen?

Who is your favorite host on Mystery Science Theater 3000?

Do you have a life motto?

What would be something that people would be surprised to know about you?

Are you familiar with the game? Two Truths and a Lie? What would your three statements be if you were to play that game?

What question do you hope that people do not ask you?

SPEED ROUND questions: For peanut butter do you prefer creamy or crunchy?

Do you prefer movies or TV Shows?

Do you prefer coffee or soft drinks?

Do you prefer winter or summer?

Would you prefer to be Ultra-talented but no one knows about it or everyone thinks you can do something you cannot actually do?

Would you prefer to have Mondays off or Fridays off?

Would you rather breathe underwater or fly?

Would you prefer to pause time or rewind time?

Would you rather have a pie in the face or slip on a banana peel?

Would you rather have an elephant sized squirrel or a squirrel sized elephant? Star Trek or Star Wars?

Would you rather have movies originally made in a different language subtitled or dubbed?

Do you prefer rain or snow?

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

We wrapped the podcast with Jennifer sharing what things she has been up to since graduating from Drake around the same time as me and my summarizing the ways in which the Meredith Hall Basement at Drake has changed significantly.

This episode was recorded on Friday morning March 20, 2026 and it runs 54 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Anastasia Chubarova courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Lee Larue, and Rachel Graham. Enjoy!

On this episode of the podcast, Ann Kaatz LoBue facilitates and co-produces a fantastic, superb, and very conversational interview with me thru Zoom. This is Ann's TENTH time on the podcast.

We spent the entire interview talking in-depth about two movies with our thoughts and lots of trivia about these films:

Fantasia from 1940

Mel Brooks' Spaceballs from the mid to late 1980's

This episode was recorded on Thursday evening March 19, 2026 and it runs 1 hour and 14 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Anastasia Chubarova courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Lee Larue, and Rachel Graham. Enjoy!

On this episode of the podcast, Melanie Wehrmacher conducts/co-produces an excellent and conversational interview with me thru Zoom. This is Melanie's 4th time on the show.

After our introductions and discussing the Blizzard/Winter Storm conditions both of us were dealing with this past Sunday night, Melanie asked me the following questions:

1. What has happened so far during the first quarter of the year that you have been most excited about?

2. If you were going to experience the music, food, art, fashion, and movies of a particular year or time period, what would you choose? Who are some of your favorite musical artists and what are the songs that really grab your heart the most?

3. Do you have a music collection as well and if so what format (CD, Vinyl/records, streaming/computers, mp3) do you like to listen to your music on?

4. Did you ever or do you play any musical instruments?

5. Were you involved with radio or the Drake Broadcasting System when you were at Drake?

6. Talk more about the extensive remodeling that has taken place in the Meredith Hall Basement.

7. What kinds of jobs did you dream of having when you were a kid?

8. If you were to pick a U.S. President that you would most like to have a conversation with alive or dead, who would you choose?

9. Do you believe in ghosts?

10. Do you have any recurring dreams or dreams that pop up for you frequently?

11. Do you visualize?

12. How do you feel about the neighborhood you live in and how long have you lived there? Is it completely residential or are there businesses in it?

13. What are some of your other favorite restaurants? Do you do any cooking?

14. Pesah/Passover is coming up, what are your plans for that and will you be doing any cooking for it? Do you celebrate Pesah with family and/or friends?

15. How did you deal with keeping the Kosher for Passover food requirements when you were a Drake student?

16. You said you don't worry about what the majority of the Orthodox Jewish world says on religious observance, how do you decide what details you will follow in your religious observance?

This episode was recorded on Sunday evening March 15, 2026 and it runs 1 hour and 12 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Anastasia Chubarova courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Lee Larue, and Rachel Graham. Enjoy!

On this episode of the podcast, Laurie Geppert conducts and co-produces a fantastic and conversational interview with me thru Zoom. This is Laurie's debut/first time on the show and with this episode we debut the new intro and outro segments reflecting the funding changes for the 2026-2027 year as my Podbean account gets renewed this week.

After our introductions, Laurie asked me the following questions (more than half of them I've never been asked before):

1. Tell me more about how you chose the Jazz Trio pieces of music used at the beginning and end of your podcast and the voice-overs that go with them?

2. You put in a decent amount of yourself into these podcasts and the time it takes to produce them. What inspires you to put this much time in and have this be something that is your project?

Before the next question, Laurie and I talked about how we grew up for part or nearly all our lives in the Clive area of the DSM Metro.

3. Tell me something from the time you were at Crossroads Park Elementary School that stands out to you as a happy memory?

4. Is there anything you would give as far as advice as far as the best way to support people who are autistic or neurodiverse?

5. Would you rather meet your great-grandparents or your great-grandchildren?

6. Is there any experience you had at Indian Hills Jr High you had that was proven to be really valuable?

7. What other activities were part of during our VHS years besides Bass Clef Choir? I talk quite a bit about my being part of the KWDM radio family during my Junior and Senior years at VHS as well as how my interest in audio equipment goes all the way back to my elementary school days.

8. If you were going to do an advertisement for Drake, what things would you highlight?

9. Before Laurie asks the next question that deals with spirituality, she brings up Rabbi Abraham Heschel's (o.b.m.) book The Sabbath. She asks me if there is anything in practicing Judaism that is a favorite that really connects you more than others? I explain that Judaism is a really comprehensive religion that affects nearly all aspects of daily life and that I don't really have a favorite.

10. Which language besides English would you like to speak fluently and what foreign language did you study during your VHS years?

11. If you were going to name three places in the Des Moines area that someone visiting should definitely check out?

We wrapped up the show with Laurie telling us a favorite memory from her VHS days.

This episode was recorded on Friday morning March 13, 2026 and it runs 1 hour and 4 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Anastasia Chubarova courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Lee Larue, and Rachel Graham. Enjoy!

On this episode of the podcast, Tiffany Welch conducts and co-produces a fantastic and really conversational interview with me In Person. This is Tiffany's fourth time on the show and we recorded this episode in a study room at the Urbandale Public Library.

After our introductions, Tiffany asks me the following questions and we bring up a bunch of side topics related to the questions asked:

1. What is your favorite thing about public libraries?

2. What are most proud of what you've accomplished so far during the first couple months of this year. Part of my answer to this question involves me talking about how we're doing with the podcast and I comment on how this is the 150th episode of the whole show where we have our opening/closing music themes with the scripted voiceovers (we didn't have any kind of theme music on the show until the beginning of 2024). Tiffany offers a "Sales Pitch" designed to urge people to join our Juice with Jeff Family of Interviewers and Co-Producers and conduct the interviews with me during the rest of this year.

3. What are other goals besides the podcast you hope to accomplish during the rest of the year?

4. Tiffany asks me to talk about the episodes I watched of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood last night as part of the "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Marathon" I'm in the midst of over the next few weeks.

5. Do you know why you are named Jeff? If you could go back into time, would you change your name to something else or would you have picked Jeff anyway? Are you into family history or genealogy?

6. What fears do you have right now about what is going on in front of you? During this part of the interview, we go very heavily into politics and the numerous problems both of us have on the way the Trump Administration and today's GOP is doing things, along with related topics.

7. What sources do you turn to for your news and information?

8. What is a compliment you've received recently that has touched you?

9. What is your favorite Pokemon?

10. Do you prefer dogs or cats?

11. What is your favorite dinosaur?

Tiffany shares her answers and thoughts on some of the questions. We wrap the interview with Tiffany sharing what is new in her daily life since our last podcast together back in late August.

This episode was recorded on Friday morning March 6, 2026 and it runs 46 minutes long. Our opening and closing theme music is provided by Anastasia Chubarova courtesy of Pixabay. Funding for this podcast is provided by RandomKid, Lisa Krain, and Wendi Roush. Enjoy!