Dave’s Gone By Interview (1/6/2018): ROBERT KLEIN

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with legendary comedian Robert Klein

Topics include: Judaism, Israel, the Holocaust, Rodney Dangerfield

Segment airs Jan. 6, 2018 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #634 (12/31/2017): UNC RADIO NEW YEAR V – Hello 2018!

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Here is the 634th episode–a New Year’s Eve special–of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on UNC Radio and Facebook Dec. 31, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: Dave’s wife Joyce, writers Lisa Arata and Bruce Kluger, Chicago expert Bill Endsley, musician Brian Gari, Dave’s aunt Esther Brower, Dave’s mom and dad Philip & Brenda Lefkowitz.

Featuring: New Year’s Eve celebration with Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #152 (2017 Farewell), Inside Broadway, Best of Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (Passings, In the News), Guest call-ins.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce
00:03:00 GUEST: Esther Brower
00:16:30 GUEST: Bruce Kluger
00:26:00 GUEST: Brian Gari
00:46:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:14:30 GUESTS: Philip & Brenda Lefkowitz
01:17:30 SUNDAY SEGUE – Farewells
01:38:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #152 (2017 Farewell)
01:44:00 GUEST: Bill Endsley
02:15:00 GUEST: Lisa Arata
02:28:30 Sponsors
02:29:30 SUNDAY SEGUE – Passings
02:52:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
03:15:00 Friends
03:23:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 31, 2017 Playlist: “President” (01:18:00; Robyn Hitchcock). “Hurricane” (01:21:30; Leona Naess). “Fight Fire” (01:25:00; The Golliwogs). “Eclipse” (01:27:30; John Denver). “Age of Consent” (01:33:00; New Order). “Big Balls” (02:31:00; AC/DC). “Let Yourself Go” (02:34:00; Tom Petty). “William Wilson” (02:38:00; The Smithereens). “Books About UFO’s” (02:40:00; Husker Du). “What a Party” (02:43:00; Fats Domino). “Every Day We Rock and Roll” (02:45:00; Chuck Berry). “For Forever” (03:10:30; Dear Evan Hansen 2017 Broadway cast w/ Ben Platt). “I’m 18” (03:20:00; Alice Cooper). “I Think “Heroes” {live} (David Bowie).




(pictured: Esther Brower, Bruce Kluger, Brian Gari, Brenda & Philip Lefkowitz, Bill Endsley, Lisa Arata, the Lighting of the Lefkowitz)
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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/31/2017): LISA ARATA

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews writer Lisa Arata

Topics include: novels, travel

Segment aired Dec. 31, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 2017 New Year’s special radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/31/2017): BILL ENDSLEY

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews arts consultant Bill Endsley

Topics include: theater, restaurants, arts, Murakami
Segment aired Dec. 31, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 2017 New Year’s special radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/31/2017): BRIAN GARI

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews songwriter Brian Gari

Topics include: music, New Year’s Eve. Don Ciccone

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/31/2017): BRUCE KLUGER

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Writer Bruce Kluger joins Dave for the 2017 New Year’s Eve special.

Topics include: satire, Playboy.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/31/2017): ESTHER BROWER

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Dave’s aunt Esther Brower joins Dave for the 2017 New Year’s Eve special.

Topics include: 2017, family.
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Dave’s Gone By Skit: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #152 (1/1/2018): Farewell 2017

RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #152 (1/1/18): Farewell 2017

(Aired Dec. 31, 2017 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube: https://youtu.be/LZok1OAX8Gk)

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Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of January 1, 2018.

Hard to believe, but the tumultuous, ridiculous year of 2017, or, as I like to call it, 5777-5778, is coming to an end. We’ve made it through 365 days without a nuclear war, an ice age, and a new Renny Harlin film, so why grouse?

As I did last year, I have chosen to summarize the events of the past annum in a poetical-artistical form, so I hope you will bear with me as we bid shalom to the current year and, well, shalom to the next. Seriously, whoever invented Hebrew really dropped the ball on word coinage. Anyhoo, here goes:

`Twas the night before New Year’s and throughout this great land,
Americans took about all they could stand

The country was split between blue states and red
And folks on each side wished the other side dead

The Democrats never imagined they’d lose
To a man who refers to the truth as “fake news”

A man who will speak without filters or grace
Though he could not repeal and he could not replace

And so, onto migrants Trump’s temper did fall
But Mexico said, “We won’t pay for your wall!”

“Now, folks,” said The Donald, “I’m just getting warm!
I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll do tax reform!”

And just before Christmas, the bill it did pass.
It’s great for the rich, not the poor and middle-class.

The stock market soared, the jobless claims fell
And still we all feel like we’re going to hell

Big hurricanes drowned with their winds and their waves
And statues came down `cause their subjects owned slaves

The national anthem brought teams to their knees
While Hollywood drowned in an ocean of sleaze

Oh Spacey, oh Keillor, oh Lauer, oh Franken
A few should get jailtime, the others a spankin’

The Democrats grinned when Fox News canned O’Reilly
Till the axe fell on Schwartz, Hockenberry, and Smiley

And suddenly hashtags were filled with “Me Toos”
Against a whole passel of rich, horny Jews

Yet Hollywood shlock remained vegetative
“Star Wars” 26 – how innovative!

But at least cinema took our minds off our woes
Prince Harry did, too, when he chose to propose

But still there were shootings by Muslims and crazies
With Jason Aldean fans all pushing up daisies

Now, that Vegas massacre was not by a Muslim
But they sure got mad at a Jewish Jerus’lem

And speaking of mad, how about North Korea
Which seems like it’s ready to start World War Threea

The pundits were urging our chief to stay calm
While Rocket Man threatened to liquidate Guam

But Trump was no Scrooge, no fiend out of Dickens
Why, he tossed paper towels at wet Puerto Ricans

He railed against Clinton, he’s threatening DACA
He kisses hot women but won’t use Binaca

He seated Neil Gorsuch upon the high court
To make it much harder for girls to abort

He praised Neo-Nazis so white folks were mollified
And all his appointees were ultra-unqualified

That said, he bombed Syria for murder by gas
So why does he Tweet and kiss Putin’s ass?

O.J.’s a free man until his next trial
And Mary Tyler Moore turned off her smile

This year we lost Domino, Berry, and Petty
And Allman and Cassidy and enough already.

2018 is just up ahead
With midterm elections to fill us with dread

The Winter Olympics will bore us with thrills
So doctors, please don’t ban our opioid pills

We’ll need them to get through each day and each night
Happy New Year to all, and to all a “La-La-Land.” I mean, “Moonlight!”

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

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/31/2017): PHILIP & BRENDA LEFKOWITZ

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Best wishes for the new year from Dave Lefkowitz’s mom and dad, Philip & Brenda Lefkowitz

Topics include: New Year’s Eve.
Segment aired Dec. 31, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program (birthday special) hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Sad Note: Our father of the Daverhood, Philip Lefkowitz, passed May 5, 2021. 

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