Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/25/2020): WILLIE NILE & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with musician WILLIE NILE

Topics include: Bruce Springsteen, New York, Bob Dylan, coronavirus, Catholicism, rock and roll. 

Segment aired July 4, 2020 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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More about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By #756 (7/25/2020): NILE OF THE JEWEL

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Here is the 756th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, July 25, 2020. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Guests: musician Willie Nile, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with singer-songwriter Willie Nile; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Grover); Today/Yesterday (July 25); Wretched Pun of Destiny (Zoo).

00:01:00 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Oofty’s ashes, new restaurant)
00:54:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:19:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY (July 25)
01:46:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Willie Nile
02:41:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:57:00 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #77 (zoo)
03:02:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:07:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Grover)
03:09:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Willie Nile
Grover, CO
Oofty-Gooft
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Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/18/2020): JEFF GOODMAN

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with old friend Jeff Goodman

Topics include: coronavirus, gastric bypass, trivia game.

Segment aired July 18, 2020 as part of the annual Broadway theater special edition of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio show/podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #755 (7/18/2020): JUPITER PLUVIUS

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Here is the 755th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, July 18, 2020. More info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave chats with old friend Jeff Goodman; Inside Broadway; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Routt); Today/Yesterday (July 18); Wretched Pun of Destiny (hotel)

Guest: old friend Jeff Goodman, Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Jeff, covid swarm, RBG, cow farts)
01:00:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:34:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (streamilton)
01:41:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:55:00 GUEST: Jeff Goodman
02:26:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY (July 18)
03:02:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #76 (hotel)
03:05:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:13:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Routt)
03:14:30 DAVE GOES OUT

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Routt, CO
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Dave’s Gone By #754 (7/11/2020): IS ANYBODY HAPPY?

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Here is the 754th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning July 11, 2020. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon Reads the papers; Inside Broadway; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Dillon); Eating Competition; Today/Yesterday (July 11), Wretched Pun of Destiny (icon); Potato News, Dave’s Gone Canceling (Quick Draw McGraw).

Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (corona at work, Wheat Thin contest, Joey & Miki, new potato, Carl in the kitchen, new shorts)
01:08:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:29:00 POTATO NEWS
01:42:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:05:00 DAVE’S GONE CANCELING (Quick Draw McGraw)
02:13:30 TODAY/YESTERDAY (July 11)
02:44:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:49:00 RABBI SOL READS THE PAPERS
03:10:00 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY (icon)
03:14:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Dillon)
03:18:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Joey Chestnut & Miki Sudo
Baba Looey and Quick Draw McGraw
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Dillon, CO

Dave’s Gone By Skit: DAVE’S GONE CANCELING #002 (7/11/2020): Quick Draw McGraw

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DAVE’S GONE CANCELING #002 – QUICK DRAW McGRAW

((c)2020 David Lefkowitz. This piece first aired July 11, 2020 on the 754th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By.)

Ladies and gentlemen, last week, we inaugurated this new segment of the Dave’s Gone By program, Dave’s Gone Canceling. We here in the Daverhood feel it is important to call out cultural icons who represent the worst kinds of racism, sexism, genderism, and jingoism. It isn’t enough to put questionable content into context, we must erase it! Cancel it! Begin a clean slate so that America can cease its unrest and . . . rest. 

A week ago, we eviscerated musician and painter Joni Mitchell for her appropriation of black-American culture. Sure, she’s one of the great pop songwriters of the 20th century, but she dressed in blackface on an album cover; therefore, she must be banishe’d from the cultural landscape. There’s no room for shades of grey in our black-versus-white society. You either make politically correct art all the time, or you get called out and canceled. 

Which brings us to this week’s offender. Someone white, someone who prides himself for upholding law and order—just like the police, and we all know how wrong they are these days. Someone who not only oppresses a Mexican who serves him, but appropriates Latinx stereotypes whenever it suits him. All of this, by the way, in the name of “fun.” 

I am, of course, talking about that Cancel Criminal, Quick Draw McGraw. Hanna-Barbera’s white cartoon horse who serves as a sheriff in the Old West. His deputy? A little Mexican donkey with a ridiculous accent, a sombrero, and the embarrassing name, Baba Looey—a bastardization of the Cuban song “Babalu.” Granted, Baba Looey is often shown to be smarter than his boss and warning Quick Draw of impending danger, but he is still the lackey, the second banana, the comical sidekick donkey to the great white horse. 

To make matters worse Quick Draw isn’t satisfied with having a best-friend Mexican stereotype; he, himself, takes on a farcical hispanic persona when becoming El Kabong. A masked vigilante, El Kabong conquers his enemies by shouting “Ole’!” and then bashing their heads in with a Spanish guitar. If you don’t think that’s offensive, just imagine El Kabong as a hegemonic Anglo-Saxon. He’d be named Elliot Kabson, he’d shout “Fore!”, and whack his enemies with a golf club. Or a bottle of chilled white wine.

To those of you who say, “Yes, there’s something unseemly about how Mexicans were treated in that animated series. But these things were drawn 60 years ago. Why take offense now?” Because cartoons are evergreen entertainment, and they’re loved best by children—the most susceptible to systemic racist ideology seeping into their post-cradle crania. Do we want our five year olds watching Quick Draw McGraw and then growing up to say, “Hey, where’s my servile donkey with the funny accent? And why is it, when I hit my little brother over the head with an electric guitar, he didn’t go `Kabong!, he just bled a lot and had to be rushed to the hospital?”

We must protect our youth, ladies and gentlemen, and we must also be offended on behalf of our brothers who are Spanish, Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Brazilian, Columbian and all those other countries with diarrhea food. It is therefore with a corazon muy triste that we cancel you, Quick Draw McGraw. Baba-Boo to you! Your 45 cartoons shall be blotted out and erased like Daffy in “Duck Amuck.” Long live political correctness. El Ka-bye. 

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/4/2020): VICKI QUADE & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Chicago actress and playwright Vicki Quade, co-creator of Late Nite Catechism and author/star of Christmas Bingo.

Topics include: Late Nite Catechism, Christmas Bingo, Maripat Donovan, coronavirus, Chicago theater, audience participation. 

Segment aired July 4, 2020 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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More about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By #753 (7/4/20): MID-MORNING CATECHISM

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Here is the 753rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday, July 4, 2020. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright-actress Vicki Quade; Inside Broadway; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Merino); Eating Competition; Today/Yesterday (July 4).

Guest: actress Vicki Quade; Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (hot dogs!, eating contest)
00:26:30 DAVE SAYS BYE (Oofty-Gooft)
01:03:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:13:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & a farewell to Carl Reiner)
01:32:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Vicki Quade
02:30:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY (July 4)
02:49:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Merino)
02:51:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Vicki Quade
July 4th goes viral
Competitive eaters Joey Chestnut, left, and Miki Sudo, right.
Carl Reiner
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Oofty-Gooft