Here is the 809th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, July 31, 2021. Info: Davesgoneby.com.
Guests: directors Timothy Douglas and Leslie (Hoban) Blake, actress Vicki Quade.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews director Timothy Douglas; Rabbi Sol reads the Papers; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Eckley); Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Today/Yesterday trivia quiz (July 31 w/ Timothy Douglas, Vicki Quade, Leslie (Hoban) Blake).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (new potato, sev & rusk)
00:38:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
00:58:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon & Timothy Douglas
01:32:30 TODAY/TODAY Trivia Quiz (July 31 w/ Timothy Douglas, Vicki Quade, Leslie (Hoban) Blake)
02:42:30 Friends of the Daverhood
02:47:30 RABBI SOL READS THE PAPERS
03:17:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Eckley, CO)
03:19:30 DAVE GOES OUT (Mason & Popeil)
Month: July 2021
Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/25/2021): LILLIAS WHITE & Rabbi Sol Solomon
Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actress & singer LILLIAS WHITE
Topics include: Get Yourself Some Happy, cabaret, The Life, Cy Coleman, How to Succeed, racism.
Segment aired July 25, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program #807 hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave’s Gone By #808 (7/24/2021): LILLIAS, NO YOGA, AND YOU
Here is the 808th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, July 24, 2021. Info: Davesgoneby.com.
Guests: actresses Lillias White and Vicki Quade; theater critics Leslie (Hoban) Blake & David Sheward.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actress Lillias White; Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection (Ben & Jerry’s); Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Hoehne); Greeley Crimes & Old Times
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (hotspot)
00:30:30 TODAY/YESTERDAY Trivia Quiz (July 24 w/ David Sheward, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Vicki Quade)
01:50:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
02:17:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Lillias White
02:51:30 Friends of the Daverhood
03:00:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #170 (Ben & Jerry’s)
03:08:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Hoehne)
03:11:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Dave’s Gone By Skit: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #170 (7/24/21): BEN & JERRY’S
(This Rabbinical Reflection first aired July 24, 2021 on the Dave’s Gone By video podcast. youtube link: https://youtu.be/2l4v4oXw2Xc)
Rabbi Sol Solomon offers his Rabbinical Reflection on a cream-curdling decision by Ben & Jerry’s.
Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflections are heard on the long-running Dave’s Gone By radio/podcast program (davesgoneby.com) and then archived as text and audio on the Rebbe’s blog, Shalomdammit.com, where a transcript of this Reflection may be read.
Rabbi Sol is also the creator of the stage show, “Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon,” which played in NYC in Nov. 2011 and Aug. 2012.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for July 24, 2021.
I scream, you scream, we all scream — at Ben and Jerry’s!
Back in the late 1970s, a couple of underachieving Jewish slobs, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, raised $12,000 to open an ice-cream store. Combining their very different skills and sensibilities — did you know Ben Cohen has no sense of smell? Finally, someone who can sit next to old men at the synagogue on Yom Kippur. But in a couple of years, Ben & Jerry’s became a serious brand and, eventually, a world-famous hoo-ha.
To their credit, these nice boychiks always tried to be socially conscious. They donated to oodles of charities and non-profits. They made their packaging more eco-friendly and objected to using growth hormones in their cows. For a while they had a policy that nobody at their company could make more than five times what the lowest-paid worker made. That didn’t last. But Ben & Jerry’s stood as a model for visionary capitalists who could create something people want, be funny and hip about it, improve the world, and still make a bundle. The most conservative, right-wing neo-fascist could sneer at Cherry Garcia and Chunky Monkey — but they still ate it and had to marvel at the company’s success.
Messrs. Cohen and Greenfield sold Ben & Jerry’s to Unilever two decades ago. it is said that they have no connection to the company beyond their first names still being on the buckets. So the horrible things I’m about to say are, I assume, not directed at them. But they certainly are to current CEO, Matthew McCarthy. Well, he can kiss the blarney stone’s tuchas for his leftist, radical, stupid decision-making. He wants gender equity in the workplace? Fantastic. He wants to give black people reparations for slavery? He’s welcome to write a check. But his decision to stop selling ice cream in East Jerusalem and the settlements in the West Bank is more “half-baked” than their most popular flavor.
In a statement last week, Ben & Jerry’s said that selling their product in the “occupied” West Bank was, quote, “inconsistent with our values.” So boycotting a country that annexed land it won in a war against perpetual enemies and then building citizens’ houses on that land, is inconsistent with the values of making people obese and giving them heart disease?
In response to Ben & Jerry’s BDS bullshit, the Israeli government is very likely to do what all Jewish people do when threatened — call their lawyers. They did it three years ago when airbnb, the company for people who don’t think they’re good enough to stay in hotels, airbnb banned listing properties in the territories. Benjy Netanyahu got on the phone to Moskowitz, Moskowitz, Moskowitz, and Flywheel. They put up a flurry of lawsuits, and airbnb reversed its policy. To save face — well, one of their faces — airbnb promised to take any money coming in from those properties and funnel it to humanitarian aid. I just hope the CEO of airbnb gets AIDS.
But I digress. In current times, when even ice cream is politicized, Ben & Jerry’s is facing a backlash over its anti-Zionist actions. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called them “the anti-Israel ice cream.” South Florida politician Lavern Spicer tweeted, “I will never buy Ben & Jerry’s again. They might as well change their name to Hamas and Adolf’s.” A little hyperbolic Lavern, but appreciated nonetheless.
The BabylonBee satire magazine created a new Ben & Jerry’s flavor: Push the Jewish into the Sea Salt and Caramel. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has as much reason to eat his feelings as anyone, says he’s reluctantly giving up Cherry Garcia. And right here on Long Island, Town of Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin bashed Unilever in a speech. He vowed to remove every Lipton teabag and Hellman’s mayonnaise jar from government offices. And let’s not forget Breyer’s ice cream, which is for people who don’t think they’re good enough to eat Super Fudge Chunk.
Uniloser has opened up a pint of worms with its decision to punish Israel simply for treating land in Israel like Israeli land. It’s time for Unilever, airbnb, and all these suddenly “woke” enterprises, that have no trouble doing business in China, Russia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia; it’s time for them to think real hard about who the good guys and the bad guys really are in this world. Until then, it’s up to us reasonable people to boycott them. Ben & Jerry’s go peddle your lumpy shit-cream elsewhere. We won’t buy it, we won’t eat it, and we’ll make sure your economic future hits a very rocky road.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York. Whatever happened to Sealtest?
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Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/17/2021): ADAM GLASS
Show host Dave Lefkowitz chats with his cousin, ADAM GLASS
Topics include: workweeks
Segment aired July 17, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/17/2021): ANN GREYSON & Rabbi Sol Solomon
Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author ANN GREYSON, who stays on to play the Today/Yesterday trivia quiz with Leslie (Hoban) Blake and David Sheward
Topics include: ballet, horror fiction, writing
Segment aired July 17, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program #807 hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave’s Gone By #807 (7/17/2021): AMAZING GREYS
Here is the 807th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning July 17, 2021. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Guests: author Ann Greyson, theater critics David Sheward and Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Dave’s cousin Adam Glass.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews author Ann Greyson; Today/Yesterday Trivia Quiz (July 17 w/ Ann Greyson, David Sheward, Leslie (Hoban) Blake); Dave Chats with his cousin Adam Glass; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (La Junta, CO); Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Dave Goes Off (Restoration Playhouse, air fryer).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Restoration Playhouse
00:30:00 INTERVIEW: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Ann Greyson
01:02:30 TODAY/YESTERDAY Trivia Quiz (July 17 w/ Ann Greyson, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, David Sheward
02:27:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
02:43:00 GUEST: Adam Glass
03:14:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:18:00 DAVE GOES OFF (air fryer)
03:35:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED
03:39:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Dave’s Gone By #806 (7/10/2021): JOSE CAN YOU SEE
Here is the 806th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast Dave’s Gone By, which aired live Saturday morning, July 10, 2021, on Facebook. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Guests: playwright Jose Rivera, actors Stuart Zagnit and Vicki Quade, theater critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright Jose Rivera; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Dave Goes Off on ESPN, Today/Yesterday Trivia Quiz (July 10 w/Stuart Zagnit, Vicki Quade, Leslie (Hoban) Blake).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce
00:13:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Jose Rivera
00:54:30 TODAY/YESTERDAY trivia quiz (July 10 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Stuart Zagnit, Vicki Quade)
02:42:30 DAVE GOES OFF (ESPN)
03:19:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
03:30:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:39:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/10/2021): JOSE RIVERA & Rabbi Sol Solomon
Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright JOSE RIVERA, who then stays to play the Today/Yesterday trivia game with Stuart Zagnit and Leslie (Hoban) Blake.
Topics include: writing, Lunar, Motorcycle Diaries, Puerto Rico, Diff’rent Strokes
Segment aired July 10, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program #806 hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/3/2021): CLIFF EBERHARDT & Rabbi Sol Solomon
Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with musician CLIFF EBERHARDT who then stays on to play the Today/Yesterday trivia quiz with panelists Leslie (Hoban) Blake and David Sheward.
Topics include: folk music, Bob Dylan, John Gorka
Segment aired July 3, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program #805 hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com