Topics include: Tom Lehrer, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Brother Theodore, Stan Freberg.
Segment originally aired Dec. 18, 2011 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews musician and “Jewmongous” creator Sean Altman
Topics include: Rockapella, Jewmongous
Segment originally aired Dec. 17, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews author Steve Stoliar, author of “Raised Eyebrows: My Years in Groucho’s House”
Topics include: Groucho Marx, The Marx Brothers.
Segment originally aired Dec. 17, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews comedian Gilbert Gottfried
Topics include: 9/11, the Hugh Hefner Roast, The Aristocrats, the Holocaust.
Segment originally aired Dec. 17, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our friend of the Daverhood, Gilbert Gottfried, passed April 12, 2022.
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Here is the 371st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 17, 2011. Info: davsegoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: comedian Gilbert Gottfried, writer Steven Stoliar, musician Sean Altman.
Featuring: Dave chats with comedian Gilbert Gottfried and author Steven Stoliar (“Raised Eyebrows: My Years in Groucho’s House”) and Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with musical humorist Sean Altman (“Jewmongous”). Plus: Inside Broadway and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on Newt Gingrich.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:13:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news) 00:32:30 GUEST: Gilbert Gottfried 01:07:00 GUEST: Steven Stoliar 02:11:30 Sponsors 02:19:45 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on Newt Gingrich 02:29:00 Weather 02:34:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with Sean Altman 03:29:30 Friends & Thanks 03:37:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Dec. 17, 2011 Playlist: “Elegy for the Brave (from Henry V)” (00:17:30; William Shatner). “Together” (00:25:00; William Shatner & Lemon Jello). “Dinner with Manson” (00:31:00) & “Joan Rivers’ Vagina” (01:01:00; Gilbert Gottfried). “Hello, I Must Be Going” (01:06:00) (Groucho Marx in “Animal Crackers”). “Property” (02:07:30; Groucho & Chico Marx in “The Cocoanuts”). “Torch Song (Newt)” (02:25:30; Jay Rogers in When Pigs Fly original off- Broadway cast). “What the Hell is Simchas Torah?” (02:31:00), “Taller Than Jesus” (02:49:30), “Hanukah with Monica” (02:55:00), “Christian Baby Blood” (03:05:30), “Blame the Jews” (03:10:00) & “The Chosen People” (03:18:00; Sean Altman). “Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?” (02:44:30; Rockapella). “I Have a Little Dreidel” (03:27:00; GrooveBarbers).
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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #32 (12/11/2011): Post Office
Aired Dec. 10, 2011 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: Post Office
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of December 11th, 2011.
Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor gloom of night, nor budget cuts will stay these couriers from the swift completion of – oh, wait, the budget-cut part. Yeah, that’ll keep them from their appointed rounds.
Starting in 2012, the United States post office will continue doing what every other company in America is doing – charging more and giving less. First, they’re gonna raise the price of a stamp from 44 cents to 45 cents. A penny for your thoughts? Oh, I think they know what we’re thinking.
But okay, it’s only a cent, and it’s easier to make change with 45 than 44 anyway. But wait, there’s more. They’re also going to close processing centers and fire workers, meaning that delivery of first-class mail will slow down by a day or two. Just what customers in a society that demands everything yesterday want. No wonder people are P.O.’d at the P.O.
But, let’s be honest. Does anybody really send a first-class letter expecting it to be there the next day? If it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight, you empty your wallet and you give it to FedEx. Or a courier service. Or a really stocky carrier pigeon.
Honestly, this whole business of first-class mail not getting first-class service – we’re used to that. If you still pay bills the old-fashioned way, write the checks a day or two earlier, just to be on the safe side. And if you’re expecting pharmaceuticals in the mail, well, you can suffer a few hours of pain and distress. It’ll just make you appreciate the medicine more when it finally arrives.
But it won’t arrive on a Saturday. That’s right, Uncle Sam will also do away with all weekend delivery. While it’s nice that they want to take Shabbos off, does it occur to you like it does to me that the post office is making cuts that will only result in people using them less? It’s a vicious cycle: revenues are down, so prices go up and services get cut, leading customers use more email, fax and Skype. This brings revenues further down. Prices go even higher, more services get cut, customers start using snail mail only for emergencies. Which makes revenues go down, prices go – all right, you get what I’m saying.
How about a new model? The post office is almost bankrupt anyway, so why not try something radical? Five cents to mail a postcard. Ten cents for a letter, $3 to mail a Christmas gift. Already, overnight mail is half the price of UPS and FedEx, but add guaranteed delivery and tracking. Make the USPS the first choice rather than the last resort. Give people a reason to run to the Post Office – “Ooh, I can send my uncle a birthday card for a dime.” “Wow, I can send my kid a care package for camp and have money left over to throw in two more candy bars.” “Hey, if I send an envelope filled with anthrax to a politician, I know it’ll be there in time for me to alert the media.”
I realize the postal service is in terrible, $14 billion debt, and that mail carriers would rather face a backyard full of Dobermans than the digital revolution. But you have two options in this world. Either you adapt and change. Or you keep doing what you’ve always done at your highest standard – and somehow find ways to make that as appealing as it used to be. Think about it. People either want a brand new Honda Civic with heated seats, satellite radio, anti-lock brakes, or they want a 1958 Plymouth Fury, painted, restored and polished to a T. What they don’t want is a 1972 Ford Pinto with a broken aerial and just enough horsepower to get you to the Safeway in one piece.
I just hope the post office brings its jalopy to the shop before it crashes on the information super highway. And when those 28,000 workers get laid off next year, well, the post office can save about 13 grand if they send the pink slips via email. Just a thought.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches.
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Here is the 335th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 11, 2010. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Dave chats with guitarist and songwriter Keith Nelson of the rock band Buckcherry. Plus: musical segues about finals week and Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (finishing touches).
host: Dave Lefkowitz
guest: Keith Nelson (Buckcherry songwriter & guitarist)
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:15:00 SATURDAY SEGUE (finals) 00:32:00 Dave on Finals Week 00:40:00 SATURDAY SEGUE (abandoned brains) 01:03:00 GUEST: Keith Nelson (of Buckcherry) 01:37:00 F-Bombs n’ Crazy Bitches 01:47:00 Sponsors & Weather 01:57:00 Bob Dylan in the news 02:34:30 Bob Dylan: “Sooner & Later” (finishing touches) 00:53:00 Is Dylan too Old? 02:55:30 Dave Says Bye: John Leslie 02:58:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Dec. 11, 2 010 Playlist: “It’s All Over Now” (00:14:30; The Rolling Stones), “Overs” (00:18:00; Simon & Garfunkel), “It’s Over” (00:20:00; Tom Waits), “Finishing Touches (00:24:30; Warren Zevon), “Goodbye Yesterday” (00:28:30; Jimmy Cliff), “The Abandoned Brain” (00:40:00; Robyn Hitchcock), “Brain Dead” (00:43:00; “A New Brain,” off-Broadway cast), “Who are the Brain Police?” (00:45:30; Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention), “Alejandro” (00:56:30; Lady Gaga), “Slit My Wrists” (01:04:30), “All Night Long” (01:08:30), “Sunshine” (01:12:30), Crazy Bitch” (01:30:30) & “Lit Up” (01:33″30; Buckcherry). “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” (00:51:00); “The Times They are A-Changin’” (02:02:00; demo version), “Isis” (02:05:00); “Day of the Locusts” (02:11:30), “Going Going Gone” (02:15:00; live at Budokan), “Restless Farewell” (02:24:30; Bob Dylan), “I Shall Be Released” (02:20:00; Bob Dylan & Joan Baez).
Dave Lefkowitz interviews New York radio host David Kenney
Topics include: Everything Old is New Again, WBAI, radio, cabaret.
Segment originally aired Dec. 10, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews veteran New York radio host Pete Fornatale
Topics include: FM radio, WFUV, Woodstock, Simon & Garfunkel.
Sad Note: Our friend of the Daverhood, Pete Fornatale, passed away April 26, 2012.
Segment originally aired Dec. 10, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 370th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired Dec. 10, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: broadcasters Pete Fornatale & David Kenney
Featuring: Dave chats with radio veterans David Kenney (WBAI’s “Everything Old is New Again”) and Pete Fornatale (WFUV’s “Mixed Bag”); Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the post office; Bob Dylan: Sooner & Later (Woodstock); Saturday Segue (Hubert Sumlin tribute); Inside Broadway (news).
Note: Pete Fornatale passed April 26, 2012.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:17:30 Guest: Pete Fornatale 01:05:00 INSIDE BROADWAY: News 01:26:30 Guest: David Kenney 02:03:00 Sponsors & Upcoming Guests 02:12:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Woodstock) 02:43:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #32: the post office 02:49:00 SATURDAY SEGUE: Hubert Sumlin tribute 03:01:30 Friends, Thanks & Weather 03:11:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Dec. 10, 2011 Playlist: “America” (00:13:30) & “Bookends Theme” (00:40:00; Simon & Garfunkel). “Falling Slowly” (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova). “Songbird” (01:17:00; Eva Cassidy). “It Might as Well Be Spring” (01:19:30; Rosemary Clooney). “Everything Old is New Again” (01:23:30; Hugh Jackman in The Boy from Oz original Broadway cast). “Someone to Watch Over Me” (01:59:30; Frank Sinatra). “Hills of Mexico” (02:14:30), “Under Control” (02:17:30), “The Bells of Rhymney” (02:23:00), “Joshua Gone Barbados” (02:26:00), “I’m Not There (1956)” (02:29:00) & “This Wheel’s on Fire” (02:34:00; Bob Dylan). “Katie’s Been Gone” (02:20:30; The Band). “Smokestack Lightnin'” (02:49:00), “You’ll Be Mine” (02:58:30) & “Wang Dang Doodle” (03:13:30; Howlin’ Wolf). “Rockin’ Daddy” (02:52:00; Kenny Wayne Shepherd).
Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews musician and “Jewmongous” creator Sean Altman
