Dave’s Gone By Skit (7/27/2024): STORYTIME: Rabbi Sol Solomon Reads “Secrets of the Octopus,” Part 2
For this week’s StoryTime segment on Dave’s Gone By, Rabbi Sol Solomon continues to read from Sy Montgomery’s book, “Secrets of the Octopus.”
This segment aired July 27, 2024 as part of the 953rd “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. Full episodes also available on youtube, Facebook (davesgoneby), and on DavesGoneBy.com.
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Segment aired April 4, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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48. A new trainee at the L.A. Zoo is learning the ropes of both the apiary and the small aquatic mammals section.
On his first morning, the supervisor tells him, “You’re in luck. We just got a huge beehive shipped from a zoo in San Francisco. These are great bees to work with because the Bay Area weather makes them very docile. That’s why we’re going to crossbreed them with our more aggressive honeybees from Africa.”
So they spend a productive morning with the bees, and then after lunch, they look at the muskrats and beavers and otters and other small mammals.
The next day, they do the same routine. They check the beehive and see how many are mating, how many aren’t, and how many didn’t survive. Amazingly, only one bee from San Francisco hasn’t survived through the night. The trainee delicately scoops it up in a container and is about to throw it away when the supervisor says, “No time! I just got a text. We have to head over to the mammals.”
They get there and they see one of the otters floating face down. “What happened?” says the supervisor.
“Well, he was old,” answers the veteran zookeeper. “He was getting his medicinal bath when his heart gave out. I’m afraid you two will have dispose of him.”
So the supervisor and the trainee delicately remove the otter from the bath. The trainee then puts the mammal in a crate with the dead bee from San Francisco. He’s about to toss them both in the dumpster when the supervisor stops him. “No, no, no!” he cries. “They have to be separate.”
“How come?” the trainee asks.
“Don’t you know?” says the supervisor. “You can’t throw the Bay Bee out with the Bath Otter.”
Joined by guest co-host Jeff Goodman, Dave Lefkowitz interviews Grow-a-Frog owner Paul Rudnick
Topics: aquatic African frogs.
Segment originally aired Feb. 24, 2008 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 261st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Feb. 24, 2008. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest co-host: Jeff Goodman Guest: Paul Rudnick of Grow-a-Frog
Featuring: Dave and guest co-host Jeff Goodman chat with Grow-a-Frog frog keeper Paul Rudnick. Plus: the satirical News Gone By.
00:00:01 Pre-show Excerpts: Not Gay and Oprah’s Big Give 00:07:00 DAVE GOES IN 00:16:00 GUEST: Grow-a-Frog’s Paul Rudnick 00:42:00 NEWS GONE BY – includes Mets Rant & Pig Farmers 01:10:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Feb. 24, 2008 Playlist: “Stand By Your Ham” (UK pig farmers), “Bein’ Green” (Van Morrison).
