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Here is the 551st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which on UNC Radio, March 26, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor Vincent Pastore (“The Sopranos”); Inside Broadway; Saturday Segue (in the news); Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (best & first boot forward); Greeley Crimes & Old Times.
Guests: actor Vincent Pastore, Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (mic trouble, depression, dog farts, Dylan’s wife, Riddim) 00:49:00 Sponsors 00:55:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:07:00 Alert: The Miracle of Long Johns 01:19:30 MORE GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:57:00 Sponsors 02:02:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:33:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Vincent Pastore 03:13:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Best and First Boot Forward) 03:43:30 Friends 03:49:00 Weather 03:50:30 DAVE GOES OUT
March 26, 2016 Playlist: “Mr. Tambourine Man” (00:41:30; The Starbugs). “Brussells” (01:29:30; Jacques Brel is Alive and Well… 1995 London cast). Set at Comedy Relief (01:32:30; Garry Shandling). “This Ain’t Havana” (01:37:30; Ramones). “Van Tango” (01:40:00; Franz Ferdinand). “Before Easter” (01:43:30; Tracy Chapman). “The Egg” (02:29:30; “1776” film soundtrack w/ Ken Howard, Howard DaSylvia & William Daniels). “Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You” (03:03:00; Bullets Over Broadway, 2014 Broadway cast w/ Vincent Pastore). “Positively Fourth Street” (03:27:00), “Seven Days” (03:31:30) & “Series of Dreams” (03:35:00). “Almost April” (03:52:00; Michael Manring).
Vincent Pastore
David Lefkowitz in “The Miracle of Long Johns” at Studio Theater in Theater Row NYC, October 23, 2015. Photo by Farnaz Taherimotlagh.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actor-playwright Vincent Pastore
Topics include: Mama’s Chair, The Sopranos, Woody Allen, Bullets Over Broadway, Renegade Theater.
Segment aired March 26, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Segment aired March 19, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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All content (c)2016 TotalTheater Productions. More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com * 58. Johnny Cash had just finished a grueling tour and decided to treat himself to an exotic vacation. He chose an African safari that went deep into the jungle. Accompanying Johnny was an old Mexican tour guide, whose lineage stretched all the way back to the Mayan civilization 600 years ago. Still, Johnny didn’t like him somehow.
“Follow me, Señor Cash,” said the guide. “It’s the heat of the day, so all the wild animals are sleeping in the sun. That means if we’re quiet, we can come up close to them without getting hurt.” Johnny Cash nods and follows the guide, and he’s amazed when they sneak right past a sleeping rhino. Minutes later, they come upon a snoozing hyena, and they tiptoe ever so silently by it.
Not long after, they come upon a huge lion, snoring gently in the sunshine. The guide starts creeping past it, but suddenly, the singer runs up to the beast, pulls its tail, and starts screaming in its ear. The lion jerks to attention, grabs the tour guide, mauls him, and chews his foot off. With his dying breath, the guide asks, “Por que, señor? Why?”
Johnny Cash answers, “Because You’re Mayan, I Woke the Lion.”
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Here is the 550th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 19, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: actress Alicia Dattner, friends Fred Cleaver & Wendy Highby & Jeff Goodman
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedienne Alicia Dattner(The Oy of Sex). Plus: Dave chats with Wendy & Fred Highby and former guest co-host Jeff Goodman, Inside Broadway, Saturday Segue (in the news), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (first & home), Wretched Pun of Destiny (Johnny Cash).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (DST, first pitch) 00:30:00 DAVE GOES OFF (politics) 00:49:00 GUESTS: Fred Cleaver & Wendy Highby 01:12:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News 01:37:30 Sponsors 01:40:30 GUEST: Jeff Goodman 02:02:30 INSIDE BROADWAY w/ Jeff Goodman 03:34:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Alicia Dattner 04:26:30 Friends 04:36:00 Sponsors 04:41:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #58 (Johnny Cash) 04:45:00 BOB DYLAN – SOONER & LATER (first & home) 05:02:30 Weather 05:05:00 DAVE GOES OUT
March 19, 2016 Playlist: “Aguas de Marco” (01:13:30; Antonio Carlos Jobim). “Dark Night” (01:17:00; Frank Sinatra Jr.). “Washington DC” (01:21:30; Magnetic Fields). “Springtime in the Rockies” (01:23:30; Tiny Tim). “The World Will Know” (03:28:30; Newsies 2012 Broadway cast). Stand-up excerpt (03:32:30; Alicia Dattner). “Freight Train Blues” (04:49:00), “On the Road Again {Take 1}” (04:51:00) & “Mr. Tambourine Man” (04:54:00; Bob Dylan). “Sex” (05:15:00; Ice T).
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Dave’s Gone By Interview (3/19/16): FRED CLEAVER & WENDY HIGHBY
Dave Lefkowitz interviews his friends Fred Cleaver & Wendy Highby (aka Frendy)
Topics include: Greeley
Segment aired March 19, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio show/podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews comedian Alicia Dattner
Topics include: The Oy of Sex, sex, Judaism, Eugene Mirman.
Segment scheduled to air March 19, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz chats with friend JEFF GOODMAN
Topics include: Broadway, politics, Trump vs. Hilary, Las Vegas.
Segment aired March 19, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 549th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 12, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with musician Paddy Moloney (The Chieftains). Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segue (In the News), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Irish Up). Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Paddy Moloney, Dave’s wife Joyce.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (spring break, fat shack, kmart, TV dog, Irish dancing & Irish towns) 00:35:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:13:00 DUMB QUESTIONS 01:27:30 Sponsors 01:34:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News 02:06:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:33:00 GUEST: Paddy Moloney & Rabbi Sol Solomon 03:32:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce – tap dancing 03:38:00 Friends 03:50:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Irish Up) 04:13:00 Weather 04:15:00 DAVE GOES OUT
March 12, 2016 Playlist: “Saving Grace” (01:22:30; The Cranberries). “Seems So Long Ago, Nancy” (01:35:00; Leonard Cohen). “Because” (01:38:30; The Beatles). “Lucky Man” (01:41:30; Emerson, Lake & Palmer). “The Hat My Father Wore Upon St. Patrick’s Day” (01:46:00; Gene Kelly). “Nurds” (02:30:30; The Roches). “Happy to Meet” (02:33:30), “Loyals March” (02:38:30), “Love Theme (from `Barry Lyndon’)” (02:50:00), “The Walls of Liscarroll” (03:01:00), “Celtic Ray” (03:08:30) & “Shenandoah” (03:27:30; Van Morrison & The Chieftains). “El Chivo” (03:23:30; The Chieftains, Los Cenzontles & Ry Cooder). “Tuesday” (03:40:30; The Schlosser-Kammer Project). “All Over You” (03:52:00), “Million Dollar Bash (Take 1)” (03:59:30) & “Wild Mountain Thyme” ({live 1969}; 04:02:30; Bob Dylan). “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” (03:55:30; Shawn Colvin). “Hard Times Come Again No More” (04:16:30; The Chieftains & Paolo Nutini).
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews musician Paddy Moloney
Topics include: The Chieftains, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Claddagh Records.
Segment aired March 12, 2016 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of March 6th, 2016.
Lost in all the hoopla of the primaries and the caucuses and the polls and the insults—and Donald Trump having his pole insulted—is another news story: a happy one, one that should make America proud. No, I’m not talking about Cam Newton getting spanked in the Super Bowl. I’m referring to Scott Kelly, brave American astronaut, who returned to planet earth last week after spending 11 months in outer space.
Think about that. 340 days floating high up in the universe. I can’t spend an hour in TJ Maxx without wanting to bite my own face off, and this guy willingly survives a whole year living in what is essentially a schmekel-shaped motor home.
Why did he do it? Not for personal gain, not to make a million bucks, not to pick up chicks—although I’ve heard the women on Neptune are kinda slutty. No, he did it for science, for the sheer joy of exploration and education. After all, it’s not like Kelly was setting a record. The longest time orbiting away from earth was 438 days by Valeri Polyakov in 1994. And back then, spending a year and a half away from Russia was a plus! Why come home? To see Boris Yeltsin vomit on his shoes? To rejoice when the supermarket has two kinds of toilet paper?
Of course, it’s easy to make fun of the old Soviet Union. “What a country!” See? I just did Yakov Smirnov’s whole act. But we must ask similar questions about astronaut Scott Kelly. He’s been gone since March 27th of last year. What did he miss? Let’s see: The Mayweather/Pacquiao fight. An Amtrak derailment. Cops killing black people. A redneck killing a church full of black people. An Academy Awards full of token black people. San Bernadino. Planned Parenthood. Isis on the warpath, Jon Stewart and David Letterman off the TV, Mets lose the Series, Bowie goes bye-bye, Chipotle gives you diarrhea, mosquitoes give you babies with tiny heads, and Michigan water kills you. Welcome back to earth, Scott Kelly!
Remember that old song, “Eve of Destruction?” Fifty years ago, P.F. Sloan nailed it with his lyrics: “You may leave here for four days in space / But when you return, it’s the same old place.” (Although gas is a little cheaper.) The point is: after all that time in the stratosphere, Scott Kelly comes back to the same crumbling bridges, the same reality shows, the same divided country, the same big blue marble getting knocked away from the center of the universe.
And if you’re wondering just how prescient “Eve of Destruction” was, look at the other lyrics: “Hate your next-door neighbor” – No need to hate; just build a wall to keep them from becoming our dishwashers and fruitpickers. And “don’t forget to say grace”—because Evangelicals have done so much with their prayers to help and unite this country.
As for Scott Kelly, he still has to re-integrate into what we laughingly call “society.” In fact, before he goes home, NASA will study him to suss out the long-term effects of space travel on mental and physical health. The goal is to figure out what shape astronauts might have to be in to go all the way to Mars. Which again goes back to the good side of space travel. Yes, it costs bazillions of dollars that could go to boosting minimum wage. Yes, it sometimes seems the only thing NASA ever gave us was moon rocks and Tang . . . and that psycho-astrogirl who wore a diaper. But learning more about the universe is always good, even if it’s just to discover that Pluto’s been screwing with us and had no intention of being a planet in the first place. And don’t get me started on Uranus. At least not in public.
So baruch hashav, Scott Kelly! Your home state of New Jersey is giving you a ticker tape parade. No, wait, that’s Governor Christie shredding his career.
In his first interview since touching down on terra firma, Kelly said that without question, he would go back into space again. Who knows? He might stay a year, two years up there. And we still won’t have a new Supreme Court justice.
You know what, Scott? If you do go back, take me with you. I can’t cook, I don’t clean, I can’t fix equipment, and I know nothing about the galaxy. But I can count backwards from 10, I can dress as a banana—so if you’ve still got that gorilla suit, there’s tons of levity right there, and I keep shabbos, so you’d have a day of rest after all that scientific record-keeping stuff. And hey, maybe I can help you colonize Mars. After all, President Trump is gonna need somewhere to put all the refugees.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches, in Great Neck, New York.
