Segment aired Jan. 31, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Segment aired Jan. 25, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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* 22. A head of cauliflower and a head of broccoli are strolling through a field when they come upon a herd of donkeys. “Move, please,” says the cauliflower, but the donkeys won’t let them pass.
“Please move!” says the vegetable, a little louder, but again, the rude animals won’t budge.
“Let’s go find the leader,” the cauliflower tells his friend.
So they walk all around the herd until they find the head donkey, who’s obviously the leader because he wears an ermine robe and a crown over his ears. “Your highness,” begs the cauliflower, “we ask that you order your subjects to move!” But the king donkey just brays and completely ignores the intruders.
Fuming, the cauliflower strides up behind the donkey and, with all his might, kicks the mule in his nether parts. The donkey falls to the ground, writhing. At which point, the cauliflower jumps on the animal and beats him senseless. When he’s done, he lifts the crown off the burro’s head and, together, he and the broccoli carry it home as a trophy.
“That was amazing,” the broccoli gasps, “but don’t you think you went too far?”
“Nope,” says the cauliflower. “He was Ass King, Floret.”
Here is the 494th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 24, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Dave chats with screenwriter Philip Halprin. Plus: Inside Broadway, Crime Time, The Wretched Pun of Destiny (broccoli), Dylan – Sooner & Later (stay with me), Saturday Segue (Warren Zevon).
Guests: screenwriter Philip Halprin, Dave’s wife Joyce Weil
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil (birthday meal, ramekin, radio training day, staying out of touch) 00:25:00 CRIME TIME 01:03:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce Weil (women’s basketball) 01:55:30 Sponsors 02:02:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:24:30 GUEST: Philip Halprin 03:44:30 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #23 (broccoli) 03:48:00 Friends 03:56:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (stay with me) 04:26:00 Weather 04:27:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Jan. 24, 2015 Playlist: “Trouble Waiting to Happen” (01:37:00), “Numb as a Statue” (01:41:00), “Tule’s Blues” (01:45:00) & “Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead” (01:48:30; Warren Zevon). “Midnight Radio” (02:21:00; Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2007 Australian cast w/ Blazey Best). “Stay with Me” (04:24:30 & 04:31:00) & “What was it You Wanted” (04:10:30; Bob Dylan). “Stay with Me” (04:07:00; Frank Sinatra). “Wanted Man” ({live}; 04:15:30; Johnny Cash).
Dave Lefkowitz interviews screenwriter Philip Halprin
Topics include: Snow Dogs, The In-Crowd, The Wild, New York University, University of Southern California, film.
Segment aired Jan. 24, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews theatrical designer Lloyd Burlingame
Topics include: Broadway, New York University, David Merrick, Brian Friel, Thornton Wilder, blindness, seeing-eye dogs.
Segment aired Feb. 21, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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The 21st Wretched Pun of Destiny aired Jan. 17, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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* 21. A young female screenwriter lucks out and scores a meeting with the biggest producer in Hollywood. Her jealous colleagues don’t warn her, however, that he’s incredibly impatient and quite old-school sexist, and that she shouldn’t be surprised if he shows little interest in plot, character or dialogue but is mainly concerned with the tone and overall milieu of the story’s locations.
So the writer begins the pitch meeting by complimenting the producer on his many awards, but he cuts her off and says, “Skip all that, honey. Just get to the script.”
She starts reading the first page and the character list. “Skip that crap,” says the producer. “What’s it about?”
Flustered, the actress begins explaining the movie’s synopsis. But 20 seconds in, the producer is at her again. “Skip the plot, sweetheart. They’re all the same; you know that.”
“Well, what about the dialogue? The love story? The action sequences?”
“Boring,” says the producer. “Just tell me about the sense of place.”
“Really?” says the actress. “You want me to ignore everything but the mise-en-scene?”
“Exactly!” says the producer. Or, as he sings: “Skip, Skip, Skip to Milieu, My Darling.”
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Here is the 493rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio Jan. 17, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with musician Harry Wayne Casey (KC and the Sunshine Band), Plus: Greeley Crime Beat, Inside Broadway (Ervin Drake), Saturday Segues (Susanna Hoffs, Jan. 1964), The Wretched Pun of Destiny (producer), Dylan – Sooner & Later (Tim Drummond).
host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: Harry Wayne Casey (of KC and the Sunshine Band), Dave’s wife, Joyce Weil
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil (disco, nebula & horror, tattoos) 00:36:00 GREELEY CRIME BEAT 00:55:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce Weil 01:15:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Susanna Hoffs 01:49:00 Sponsors 01:55:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news, Ervin Drake (02:12:30)) 02:25:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Harry Wayne Casey 03:35:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Tim Drummond) 04:01:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #21 (Producer) 04:03:00 Friends 04:15:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – January 1964 04:32:30 Weather 04:34:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Jan. 17, 2015 Playlist: “Wishing on Telstar” (01:30:30; Susanna Hoffs), “James” (01:34:30) & “Grateful” (01:40:30; The Bangles), “Sunday Morning” (01:37:00; Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs). “Overture” (02:15:30; Sophisticated Ladies Bway cast). “The Friendliest Thing” (02:20:30; What Makes Sammy Run? 1964 Bway cast w/ Sally Ann Howes). “Sound Your Funky Horn” (02:23:00), “I Like to Do It” (02:31:30), “That’s the Way (I Like It)” (02:39:00), “Keep it Comin’ Love” (02:57:30), “Please Don’t Go” (03:12:30) & “Shake Your Booty” (03:24:00). “Saved” (03:41:30), “Gonna Change My Way of Thinking” (03:45:30) & “The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar” (03:50:30; Bob Dylan). “Glad All Over” (04:16:30; The Dave Clark Five). “Before the Parade Passes By” (04:19:30; Hello, Dolly! 1964 Bway cast w/ Carol Channing). “Don’t Bother Me” (04:22:30; The Beatles). “Needles and Pins” (04:25:00; The Searchers). “You Better Move On” (04:27:00; The Rolling Stones). “It was a very Good Year” (04:39:00; William Shatner).
Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews musician Harry Wayne Casey (of KC and the Sunshine Band)
Topics include: KC and the Sunshine Band, music, drugs, Hawaii.
Segment scheduled to air Jan. 17, 2015 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 January 11, 2015.
Where’s the King of Cartoons when you need him? Remember him, from the Pee-Wee Herman show? He was a big old schvartze with a super 8 projector, and he’d show nostalgic animations to the kiddies at home. It wasn’t exactly “South Park,” but at least, the cartoons had a big brother, an overseer, someone who would, presumably, also protect harmless, defenseless cartoonists.
Protect them from what? What else? Muslims. Crazy-ass, psychopathic, radical Muslims. Muslims who stormed into the offices of a satirical newspaper in Paris and methodically killed a dozen people, wounded a dozen others, and got away in their black Mohammed mobile while shouting “Allahu Akhbar,” which, of course means, “whose turn is it to pay for White Castle?”
Seriously, though, I am getting so tired of hearing, “Oh, it’s just a small faction. You can’t fault the whole religion. A zillion people follow Islam all over the globe, and they’ve never killed anyone . . . Yet.” Sure, that’s true. But why is it every time you turn on the news, and some lunatic causes mayhem and chaos, 99 times out of 103, it’s a douchebag in a black hood shouting how much he loves him some Allah?
And God forbid we should say there’s a pattern. God forbid we should profile towelheads at the airport. No, better we should blame the cartoonists for riling up our enemies with naughty pictures. You know, if I tracked down and shot every schmuck who made an anti-Semitic comment on youtube or Huffpo, I’d be a killing machine to rival Chuck Norris. I’d have to hire my accountant, Morty Birnbaum, just to keep a ledger of all the worthless bastards I’d executed. I’d walk through every school in the middle east with bandoleers criss-crossed over my chest like Pancho Villawitz. And I’d put a bullet through the head of every man, woman and child who ever said a word against me, Israel, or “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” I’d leave so many bodies lying around, the 2004 Indonesian tsunami would look at me and go, “Dude, I’m not worthy.”
Homicidal fantasies aside, I do not do these things. I dream about them. I rant about them. But I do not do them. Why? Because I’m a coward. And also a human being. Occasionally. I know there’s a difference between right and wrong, and that committing mass murder to prove how religious you are is like drinking three sixpacks to prove you’re not an alcoholic. But someone in Arabia didn’t get the memo. And he certainly didn’t forward it to his gun-toting, Koran-spewing buddies.
If I sound like a broken record, it’s because I’m a broken-hearted record. Every couple of weeks I have to do one of these Rabbinical Reflections, not about a Jewish holiday, not about social causes, but always about Arabs with a mental defect and a death wish. But when I call a spade a spade, I’m a racist, I’m part of the problem, I’m promoting the crypto-zionist western-fascist Jew-owned police state that’s oppressing the poor little Bedouins and their cutesy-wutesy oil wells. Well, shtup that and shtup them.
As of this writing, one of the terrorists has given himself up, and authorities are on the trail of two French-born, Islamic brothers who helped pull off the bloodbath. May all three be caught, strapped to an easel and stabbed in the throat with a sharpened Faber Castell polychromos yellow. And, at the moment of their deaths, may the King of Cartoons draw a thought bubble, in permanent marker, next to their heads, with the words inside reading, “Suck it, Allah. Mohammed’s a joke!” Or whatever the Arabic version of that might be.
Then, may his highness, the King of Cartoons erase these three Islamic smudges from the book of life, and may God create another tsunami, this one in the middle east, wiping out every terrorist and enabling Muslim caliphate, leaving just Israel intact, surrounded by millions of miles of pure, pristine sand. “Well,” God will say to the King of Cartoons, “back to the drawing board.”
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
The 20th Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Jan. 10, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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* 20. During their time in India, the Beatles are sent to a forest by the Maharishi. He instructs the lads to wander through the foliage and collect various foods to create their evening meal, with each Beatle responsible for a different course.
After their pilgrimage, the Fab Four gather in the kitchen of the ashram to share their finds and prepare their dishes. John Lennon goes first and says, “I’ve got all sorts of leaves and carrots and mushrooms, so I’ll prepare an amazing salad.”
Next up, Paul McCartney goes, “I’ve got mushrooms and leeks and all these herbs, so the soup’s on me.”
George Harrison then holds up two rabbits and says, “I caught these guys, and if you share some of your herbs and veggies, we all get a yummy stew for an entrée.”
Meanwhile, in the corner, Ringo is smiling beatifically, holding a basket brimming with marijuana plants. “Good job,” says John. “Nice to have a bit of hemp for an after-dinner smoke. But how does that help us with dessert?”
“I’ll tell you,” says Ringo. “I can make a big pie just by cutting off the top stalks of the plants.”
“Really?” says Paul. “You can bake a whole pastry from the tips of those leaves?”
Ringo replies, “Yes, I Get Pie with a Little Hemp from My Fronds.”
The 21st Wretched Pun of Destiny aired Jan. 17, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
