Dave’s Gone By #928 (1/27/2024): MICKEY D’S

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Here is the 928th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, Jan. 27, 2024.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author Evelyn McDonnell, Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Tall Timber), Greeley Times, Inside Broadway.

Guest: writer Evelyn McDonnell

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (birthday, Fellowship)
00:21:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Evelyn McDonnell
01:06:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (bad garments, turning 60, gifts, warm in Baltimore)
02:04:00 GREELEY TIMES
02:33:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & reviews Prayer for the French Republic 02:40:30) & Harmony 02:48:30)
03:07:30 BUNION WATCH
03:11:00 DAVE GOES EVEN FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (mobile van)
03:23:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:32:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Tall Timber, CO)
03:34:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Evelyn McDonnell
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Prayer for the French Republic
Harmony
your host
Tall Timber, Co

Dave’s Gone By Interview (1/27/2024): EVELYN McDONNELL & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author EVELYN McDONNELL 

Topics include: academia, Joan Didion, writing

Segment airs Jan. 27, 2024 as part of the 928th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (1/20/2024): DAVID LEVINE

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 Dave Lefkowitz chats with his cousin, DAVID LEVINE

Topics include: Prague, San Francisco, aprons 

Segment aired Jan. 20, 2024 as part of the 927th episode of the Dave’s Gone By radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. 

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Dave’s Gone By #927 (1/20/2024): BIRTHDAVE SUIT

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Here is the 927th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, Jan. 20, 2024.

Featuring: Dave chats with his cousin, David Levine and with old friend Ozer Teitelbaum; Dave Goes Away (NYC), Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Ophir), Today/Yesterday Trivia Quiz (w/ David Levine, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, David Sheward).

Guests: entrepreneur David Levine, theater critics Leslie (Hoban) Blake and David Sheward, old friend Ozer Teitelbaum.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (turning 60)
00:23:00 DAVE GOES AWAY: New York City
01:01:00 GUEST: David Levine
01:15:30 TODAY/YESTERDAY Trivia Quiz (Jan. 20 w/ David Levine, David Sheward, Leslie (Hoban) Blake
02:37:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN: potato hotel
02:56:30 Friends of the Daverhood
03:07:30 GUEST: Ozer Teitelbaum
03:36:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Ophir, CO)
03:39:00 DAVE GOES OUT

David Levine
Ozer Teitelbaum
Leslie (Hoban) Blake
David Sheward
your host and the Sock of Wonder
Pestana Park Avenue
Ophir, CO

Dave’s Gone By Interview (1/20/2024): OZER TEITELBAUM

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 Dave Lefkowitz chats with OZER TEITELBAUM

Topics include: radio. 

Segment aired Jan. 20, 2024 as part of the 927th episode of the Dave’s Gone By radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. 

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (1/13/2024): MARISSA MULDER & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with singer MARISSA MULDER 

Topics include: cabaret, Steve Ross, Tom Waits, strong women

Segment aired Jan. 13, 2024 as part of the 926th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #926 (1/13/2024): MULD OVER

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Here is the 926th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, Jan. 13, 2024.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with singer Marissa Mulder, Dave’s Big Dictionary (pyrolysis), Bunion Watch, Greeley Times, Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Animas Forks).

Guest: cabaret’s Marissa Mulder

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (it’s about the meat, SMEG, Mr. Blobby)
00:52:30 BUNION WATCH
00:59:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Marissa Mulder
01:55:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (new from Art Paul Schlosser)
02:06:00 GREELEY TIMES
02:25:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #181 (new jokes)
02:35:30 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY (pyrolysis)
02:49:30 Friends of the Daverhood
03:01:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Animas Forks)
03:04:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Marissa Mulder
Animas Forks, CO
Rabbi Sol Solomon
your host

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #181 (1/13/2024): New Jokes

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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #180 (1/11/2024): New Jokes

airs Jan. 13, 2024 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk70q6FrnN8

Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection to start the new year. A week or so after the new year. 

What better way to get 2024 rolling than to have you, my beloved acolytes, rolling in the aisles with hilarious punch lines? I will share with you some Jewish jokes — brand new! written by yours truly! Or, if you hate them, written by Jo Koy.

Please note that if you are politically correct or take offense easily, these jokes are not for you. Then again, what jokes are?

Joke number one: Two Arabs are shopping for prayer rugs at a giant bazaar in Jerusalem. A little Jewish shop owner comes out and says, “Please! We have the best rugs! You must see!”

The Arabs are skeptical — what does this Jewish merchant know about prayer mats? — but they say, “Sure. What’ve you got?”

The salesman rolls out two small rugs and says, “My brother and I, we don’t sell any old schmattes like the others places. These are magical flying carpets.”

“Oh, come on,” the Arabs say.

“No, please! These were woven by the purest virgins and blessed by the highest Imams in all of Turkey and Iran. Sit!”

So the first Arab kneels on the carpet and waits. And waits. He says, “It’s nice, but it’s not flying.”

“Oh,” says the Jew. “That’s because you haven’t said the secret words. You have to think really hard of a phrase that has meaning to you. Whisper those words into the carpet. Then, when you’re ready, shout the phrase as loud as you can, and you will take flight!”

The Arab rolls his eyes. But then he shrugs, thinks a moment, leans forward, and whispers into the fringes of the rug. 

“Get in position!,” calls the merchant. “And scream it out!” 

The Arab takes hold and yells, “Free Palestine!” Suddenly, a big wind starts up, and the carpet rises off the ground, two feet, three feet, ten feet in the air. “This is incredible!” says the Arab. “Ahmed, you have to try it!” 

His friend gets on the other carpet, whispers to it, then sits up and yells, “Death to Israel!” Another wind gust comes, and his carpet goes five feet, ten feet, fifteen feet high. 

“How do I go up like him?” says the first Arab.

“You can both go much higher,” calls the Israeli. “You just have to close your eyes, concentrate, and keep shouting your secret words over and over.”

“Race you to the sky!” says Ahmed, as both Arabs close their eyes, think real hard, and start screaming, “Free Palestine!” “Death to Israel!” “Free Palestine!” “Death to Israel!” Both carpets go higher and higher: 30 feet, 50 feet, 70 feet off the ground.

The shop owner’s brother comes out from behind the counter and says, “Shmuley, should I do it now?”

“Nah,” says Shmuley. “Wait till they’re 100 feet up. Then turn off the blowers.”

Now, what do we learn from this joke? Well, first of all, if a person wants to believe something strongly enough, he or she or they will put aside rational judgment and go with it. This not only explains religion, and how we all worship to fairy stories written thousands of years ago, but it’s the reason we leave the house without an umbrella, even after the weatherman’s warned us: 60 percent chance of rain. We think: “It’s not gonna rain the ten minutes I’m outside.” It will, it does, you’re soaked.

Next joke: an Englishman, a Frenchman, and a Palestinian all die and find themselves at the gates of hell. The Englishman peeks in for a moment and says, “Well, it seems rather unpleasant, but so long as I can have my afternoon tea and spend the evening watching telly, I should get by all right.” 

The Frenchman opens the gate of hell, wanders around a bit, then storms back, saying, “Mon dieu! Zis is an outrage! Ze heat, ze hard work! Soon as I can, I am starting ze labor union and everyone goes on strike!” 

Finally, it’s the Palestinian’s turn. He takes a deep breath, throws open the gates, stomps in, and marches straight up to the devil. Then he says, “Honey, I’m home!”

This joke does not play well on college campuses, but then again, I do not play well on college campuses. They see me as a brutal colonizer, which is unfair. I’ve had many brutal colonics, but that’s not what they mean. 

Anyway, these are difficult and ridiculous times for Jews everywhere. Our enemies surround us, sometimes they are us, and many are so naive they think they’re helping us by helping our enemies. As I said: ridiculous times. The best way to muddle through is to laugh — sometimes through gritted teeth.

Hey, how many Hamas militants can you stuff into an open grave? 

I don’t know, but I sure hope we find out.

This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.

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Dave’s Gone By #925 (1/6/2024): CIVIC DUTY

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Here is the 925th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, Jan. 6, 2024.
Featuring: Dave Goes Off (jury duty), Dave’s Big Dictionary (inexpiable), Bunion Watch, Greeley Times, Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Douglas).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (airplane window, snow)
00:42:30 DAVE GOES OFF on the best jury duty ever
01:50:00 GREELEY TIMES
02:16:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY (inexpiable)
02:29:00 BUNION WATCH
02:36:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:47:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Douglas, CO)
02:50:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Douglas County, CO

Dave’s Gone By #924 (12/31/2023): DAVERHOOD NEW YEAR: Hello 2024!

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Here is the 924th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday night, Dec. 31, 2023.
Featuring: Our annual New Year’s Eve celebration featuring Zoom-ins, Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection, a festival bunion watch, and and a pointy orb dropping at midnight.
Guests: spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon, actors Vicki Quade, Ronald Rand, Nancy Redman, Stephanie Trudeau, musicians Judi Mark, Moshe Denburg, Steve Herbst, author Iris Dorbian, critics Charles Gross, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Eva Heinemann, old friends Jeff Goodman, Ozer Teitelbaum, and Stephen Fisch, Dave’s cousin Adam Glass, Dave’s aunts Bonnie Pinkow and Esther Brower, Dave’s mom Brenda Lefkowitz. Dave’s mother-in-law Rosemary Weil.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce
02:02:00 CEREMONIAL NOSE & EAR-HAIR SHAVING
00:04:30 GUEST: Nancy Redman
00:20:00 GUEST: Stephanie Trudeau
00:27:00 GUEST: Iris Dorbian
00:33:00 GUEST: Moshe Denburg
00:42:00 GUEST: Judi Mark
00:47:00 GUEST: Leslie (Hoban) Blake
00:58:30 GUEST: Bonnie Pinkow
01:01:30 GUEST: Esther Brower
01:07:00 GUEST: Charles Gross
01:16:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (log-in issues)
01:26:00 GUEST: Ronald Rand
01:32:00 GUEST: Eva Heinemann
01:42:00 GUEST: Adam Glass
01:51:30 GUEST: Vicki Quade
01:55:00 GUEST: Jeff Goodman
01:58:00 POINTY ORB COUNTDOWN!
02:07:00 BUNION WATCH
02:14:30 GUEST: Brenda Lefkowitz
02:16:00 GUEST: Rosemary Weil
02:23:00 DAVE SAYS BYE: Passings of 2023
02:33:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #10380: 2023 Farewell
02:48:00 GUEST: Steve Herbst (“The Whistler”)
03:04:00 Shout Outs
03:08:00 GUEST: Ozer Teitelbaum
03:18:30 GUEST: Stephen Fisch
03:26:00 DAVE GOES OUT

your host
Nancy Redman
Stephanie Trudeau
Iris Dorbian
Moshe Denburg
Judi Mark
Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Bonnie Pinkow
Esther Brower
Charles Gross
Ronald Rand
Eva Heinemann
Adam Glass
Vicki Quade
Jeff Goodman
Brenda Lefkowitz
Rosemary Weil
Steve Herbst
Ozer Teitelbaum
Stephen Fisch
Rabbi Sol Solomon