Topics include: My Son the Waiter, Judaism, George Carlin, Joan Rivers, acting
Segment scheduled to air Oct. 18, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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The 9th Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Oct. 18, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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It’s the last day of a couple’s vacation. Alas, they immediately start to argue over which final tourist attraction to see before making their plane.
The wife says, “I want to see the Botanical Gardens.”
“Boring!” the husband says. “I want to see the Museum of Celebrity Artifacts.”
“Oh,” that’s just trash,” says the wife. “It’s perfect weather for the gardens. And I want to see the buttercups while they’re in full bloom.”
“Again, boring!” says the husband. “They’ve got all these curios at the celebrity museum, like Hank Williams’s radio and Marlon Brando’s shoes. And they just got in a cup of Reese Witherspoon’s urine from when she was arrested for drunk driving.”
The wife huffs, “Are you telling me you’d rather look at Reese Witherspoon’s urine than a flower garden?”
“That’s right,” says the husband. “Reese’s Pee, Not Buttercups!”
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Here is the 481st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Oct. 18, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Part two of Dave’s chat with Dick Cavett. Plus: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with Brad Zimmerman (My Son, the Waiter: A Jewish Tragedy), Inside Broadway, the Wretched Pun of Destiny (Reese), Dylan – Sooner & Later (lyrics), Saturday Segues (Chuck Berry, Wait Staff)
Guests: comedian Brad Zimmerman, broadcast legend Dick Cavett
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (ebola) 00:23:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Waiter 00:39:30 Sponsors 00:51:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Brad Zimmerman 01:35:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY – Reese 01:37:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:55:30 Friends 02:03:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Lyrics) 02:33:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #109 – Ebola 02:38:30 GUEST: Dick Cavett (part two) 02:57:30 Weather 03:00:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Chuck Berry 03:19:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Oct. 18, 2014 Playlist: “Waiter” (00:24:00; Nellie McKay), “Waitress” (00:28:30; Jane Siberry), “Dear Catastrophe Waitress” (00:31:00), “Tip That Waitress” (00:33:30; Loudon Wainwright III). “I Will Never Leave You” (01:51:30; Side Show 2014 Bway cast w/ Erin Davie & Emily Padgett). “Tombstone Blues” (02:09:00), “Tombstone Blues” ({alternative version}; 02:15:00), “Tangled Up in Blue” (02:18:30) & “Tangled Up in Blue” ({live 1975 version}; 02:24:30; Bob Dylan). “Roll Over Beethoven” (03:03:30), “Havana Moon” (03:06:00) “Oh Baby Doll” (03:09:00), “Almost Gone” (03:11:30) & “Vaya Con Dios” (03:24:00; Chuck Berry).
Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews comedian Vicky Kuperman
Topics include: comedy, Russia.
Segment aired Oct. 11, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews broadcast legend Dick Cavett
Topics include: Groucho Marx, Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, TV, theater.
Segment scheduled to air Oct. 11, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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The 8th Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Oct. 11, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com * 8. So the March of Dimes is having its annual fundraising push, and they come up with a contest where they get all these famous women in media to help raise money for the cause. The winner, who signs up the most pledges, gets to be that year’s fundraising “queen.” She’s flown to the annual meeting for a big ceremony, gets to wear a tiara, and even has a song written and sung about her.
All these famous women in media compete: Oprah, Ellen, Kathie Lee Gifford, Tina Fey, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric… And yet, surprisingly enough, the winner is Bloomberg Financial anchor Jane King. So they fly her to the big ceremony, make speeches, she gets to wear the tiara and, best of all, the one and only Bob Dylan is there to perform a song about her. What does he sing?
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Here is the 480th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Oct. 11, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Dave chats with broadcast legend Dick Cavett and Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedian Vicky Kuperman. Also: Saturday Segue (Siberry & Simon), Dylan – Sooner & Later (Manchester in the Heart) and the Wretched Pun of Destiny (Tiara).
Guests: broadcast legend Dick Cavett and comedian Vicky Kuperman
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN – Tailgating 00:26:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Siberry n’ Simon 00:51:00 Sponsors 01:00:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Vicky Kuperman 01:31:00 Friends 01:39:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Manchester in the Heart) 01:50:30 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY – Tiara 01:51:30 GUEST: Dick Cavett (part one) 02:19:30 Thanks 02:22:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Oct. 11, 2014 Playlist: “Goodbye, My Sweet Pumpkinhead” & “Sail Across the Water” (Jane Siberry). “Goodbye, My Sweet Pumpkinhead” (00:32:00) & “Sail Across the Water” (00:40:30; Jane Siberry). “Song About the Moon” (00:36:30; Paul Simon). “Keep the Customer Satisfied” (00:46:00; Simon & Garfunkel). “untitled” (00:57:30 & 01:28:30; Vicky Kuperman, from youtube). “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” (01:42:00) & “Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat” (01:45:00; Bob Dylan). “Gone, Movin’ On” (02:29:00; Paul Revere & the Raiders).
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of September 28, 2014.
You know how you can never eat only one potato chip? Or M&M? Or pound of brisket? Well, a chef at a Chinese restaurant in China dreamed up a way to keep his customers coming back for more. And more. And more. A fella named Zhang wanted to make sure hungry diners chose his noodle shop over all the others in his province, so he did what any entrepreneurial sociopath would do: he went out and bought several pound of poppy buds. That’s the stuff you make opium with—for those of you who don’t live in California or Colorado.
Anyhoo, he pounded the poppies into a powder and sprinkled it into the flour for his noodle recipe. Since opium has a narcotic, addictive effect, Zhang figured customers would start eating his entrees, develop cravings, and return for more. Considering that Chinese food automatically makes you crave more of it an hour later, Zhang seemed to have a foolproof scheme. That is, until one of his diners decided to drive home. Police made a routine traffic stop, gave the guy a breathalyzer, and lo and behold, he was high, and he be holdin’.
The poor shlub was arrested and held in prison for two weeks. All the while, he protested, “It was the noodles! It was the noodles!” You can imagine how that went over with the warden. But the customer convinced his family to go eat at the noodle shop a couple of times. Police then agreed to test the family, and—you got it—they had more poppies in `em than Dorothy, the Tin Man and all those midget eunuchs combined!
The police—or, sorry, this is China—the po-rice, allested the lestaulaunt owner and put him in jail for two weeks. Now the driver is suing the city for wrongful arrest, and the restaurant owner is saying, hey, poppy seeds were actually common in Chinese cooking before they were banned a few years ago. I guess they were poppy-lar. Heh heh heh dammit.
What I don’t get about this story is two things: aleph: why you would buy a hundred-dollar bag of drugs to sell 24 cents worth of noodles. And beth: why any restaurateur would think you need opiates to get people hooked on noodle soup. Ask any Jewish grandmother. If you’re sick, if you’re under the weather, if you’re just plain ravenous: put a bowl of chicken noodle soup in front of you, already you feel better. Just from the smell, let alone the heat, the taste, the slurpy lokshen.
Real Kosher chicken soup is its own addiction, especially with those giant matzoh balls that are heavy but light but heavy but light but heavy but light. And for those who think chicken soup is not a drug, why do you think they call it Jewish Penicillin?
Now, let me be clear: I am against any chef or anybody tampering with food by using harmful ingredients, be it hippies sharing funny brownies at Woodstock or Monsanto shpritzing everything with growth hormones and high-fructose corn syrup. But at the same time, it’s not as if we can cast the first stone. The guy who invented Coca Cola was a morphine addict who was crushing coca leaves into his wine. In the late 1800s, a local prohibition forced him to change his recipe – not to take the cocaine out, just the alcohol. However, on his own volition, he nixed the cocaine and replaced it with syrupy sugar — which, as we know from our children, has no addictive or drug-like properties whatsoever.
Nevertheless: let the story of Zhang be a lesson to anyone who wants to turn chow mein into cow-caine: desist and resist! Or, put another way, you can use your noodle, but don’t turn us into noodle users!
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
Topics include: Band of Gold, jazz, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr.
Segment aired Sept. 27, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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The 7th Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Sept. 27, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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7. Neighbors are finally getting fed up with the new guy who moved into their suburban town.
Among his many eccentricities, he fertilizes his lawn once a month with raw garlic, which raises a stink that permeates the town for days. Worse, he’s got a brother in and out of jail, and whenever the felon’s on parole, he comes to visit the new guy and camps out on his front lawn in a ratty old tent.
Finally, the block association can take no more and beg the local police chief to arrest their new neighbor. “But on what charges?”, asks the cop. “Using smelly fertilizer and having a guest?”
“Absolutely!” says the neighborhood spokesman. Get him for: “Lawn Odor: Criminal in Tent.”
