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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with cabaret singer RICHARD HOLBROOK
Topics include: Great American Songbook, New York, cancer
Segment aired Aug. 12, 2023 as part of the 907th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 907th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning Aug. 12, 2023.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright Nancy Redman and with singer Richard Holbrook; Today/Yesterday Trivia Quiz; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Brandon).
Guests: comedian Nancy Redman; cabaret singer Richard Holbrook; theater critics David Sheward and Leslie (Hoban) Blake.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Maui, chattering teeth) 00:28:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Nancy Redman 01:01:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Richard Holbrook 01:31:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY Trivia Quiz (Aug. 12 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Richard Holbrook, David Sheward) 02:35:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 02:56:30 Friends of the Daverhood 03:03:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Brandon, CO) 03:05:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews the daughter of Spanky McFarland, Betsy McFarland
Topics include: Our Gang, The Little Rascals, Stymie, cancer, Michael Jackson
Segment scheduled to air May 16, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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The 26th Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Feb. 21, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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26. When writer Christopher Hitchens died in 2011, his body was donated for medical research.
Two doctors performing the autopsy were shocked to find just how many tumors he had inside his cancer-ridden body.
“He has a perfectly good liver,” says one doctor. “But the tumor attached to it is massive.”
“So,” says the other doctor, “just cut it with a laser.”
“I can’t. It’ll get too close to living tissue.”
The second doctor says, “Well, what about aspirating it with a needle?”
“No, it’s too dense; it’s a big heap of tumor.”
“Well, in that case, just get a sander. Like taking old paint off a boat. Just sand it down slowly until it’s gone.”
“No,” says the first doctor. “I don’t feel right about doing that.”
“Oh, for Pete’s sake,” says the second doctor. “If you can’t sand the heap, get out of the Hitchens.”
Here is the 461st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 8, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actor Armando Riesco. Plus: Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (daylight), Saturday Segues (John Cale, daylight), Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on upskirt photography
Guests: actor Armando Riesco, Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (HairMax, lost shows, Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, Daylight Savings Time, the body can heal) 00:47:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – John Cale 01:25:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:18:00 Sponsors 01:46:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Armando Riesco 02:23:00 More sponsors 02:26:30 Friends 02:39:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (daylight) 03:05:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #095 – Upskirt Photography 03:10:00 Weather 03:11:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Daylight 03:32:30 Thank You, Sam 03:41:00 DAVE GOES OUT
March 8, 2014 Playlist: “Working Where the Sun Don’t Shine (The Colorectal Surgeon’s Song)” (00:23:30; Bowser & Blue). “Reading My Mind” (00:50:30), “The Protege” (054:30), “Buffalo Ballet” ({live “Circus” version}; 00:57:30), “Darling, I Love You” ({live “Fragments” version}; 01:01:30), “Pablo Picasso” (01:05:00) & “Mary” (01:08:00; John Cale). “Lucky to Be Me” (01:43:30; On the Town, 1961 studio cast). “Shalom, Santa!” (02:29:00; Carole J. Bufford). “Watching the River Flow” (02:41:00), “Standing in the Doorway” (02:44:30), “Need a Woman” (02:52:30) & “Time Passes Slowly – Alternate Version #1” (02:58:00; Bob Dylan). “Daylight” (03:12:30; The Kinks). “Permanent Daylight” (03:16:00; Radiohead). “Daylight” (03:18:30; Alison Krauss & Union Station). “Daylight Fading” (03:22:30; Counting Crows). “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” (03:42:00; Harry Belafonte).
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #70 (6/16/2013): Michael Douglas
Aired June 15, 2013 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNNbhdtkQgw
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of June 16th, 2013.
How much do we really need to know about the private lives of celebrities? Everything – these days, it seems. We know what Gwyneth Paltrow eats for breakfast, what Kirstie Alley eats for dinner, and now, what Michael Douglas eats in bed.
No one forced him. No one put a gun to his head – I don’t mean the eating part, I mean telling the world about it. Three weeks ago, Douglas told the Guardian magazine of London that his throat cancer probably did not come from his smoking or his drinking. He said, hint hint, you can also get the Big C from doing the little C: cunnilingus. Until last month, I had no idea what the hell that was. Cunnilingus. I thought it a was low-cost Irish airline.
But it is not. Cunnilingus is when a man, or a woman, or, on certain internet sites, a German shepherd, performs oral sex on a lady. Please don’t get me wrong; muff munching is a normal, enjoyable, intimate part of the sexual experience, providing the woman doesn’t smell like a trench, and the man has muscles in his jaw that don’t lock up after three minutes, or five minutes, or, well, honestly, after ten minutes, the woman should either fake it or lie back and think of Jerusalem.
Even though high-school health teachers, aka gym teachers, taught us that you can certainly contract VD from oral sex, I don’t think people take that as seriously as the other kinds of nookie. A girl on a date figures, “Ehhh, I don’t wanna go all the way with this guy, and Biff doesn’t like to deal with condoms. But if I give him a little mouth love, maybe he won’t dump me for Darlene with the bangs, the boobs and the booty.”
When we think of venereal disease in this country, we think of . . . the Kardashians. But we also think of regular penetrative sex or, perhaps, tushie sex. The more intolerant among us would point to the gays during the AIDS crisis and say, “If you can’t stop doing that, at least wear a condom. And stop writing bad Broadway musicals.” As a culture, we all modified our behavior as a way to stem the plague of HIV, as well as gonorrhea, herpes, and Sunday afternoon phone conversations that started with, “Yes, we did have fun last night. But I noticed this rash…”
In his own paradoxically embarrassing and self-aggrandizing way, Michael Douglas has reminded us that HPV isn’t just a high-definition sister channel of HBO. It’s a disease you can get from licking someone in the place that they pee. Such as the Penn Station men’s room.
Much the way Angelina Jolie made breast-cancer prevention a national conversation when she bid tah tah to her tah-tahs, Michael Douglas may be doing us the same service by telling us where he put his tongue, and where his tongue has put him. How does Catherine Zeta Jones fit into all this? That’s a private conversation for the Douglas home. I certainly don’t see her putting her name on a line of douches anytime soon. Unless they start making them with penicillin. Or industrial-strength Raid.
But I do wish Mrs. Douglas good mental health; we know she’s been struggling with mood disorders. Well, who hasn’t? And I hope Mr. Douglas has licked his cancer. God knows, he’s licked everything else. And I advise all my listeners to be sensible and careful in all your carnal endeavors. If you meet a girl who smells like a petri dish, find another way to stuff her knish. Carry condoms, use dental dams – or, as I like to call them, dental goddamns. In other words, if you can’t eat `em, groin `em.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #62 (4/7/2013): Roger Ebert
Aired April 7, 2013 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAn_bgyfJ7s
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of April 7th, 2013.
Hail and farewell to the respected, prolific and popular film critic, Roger Ebert. On Thursday April 4th, two days after saying he wanted to take things a little slower, he instead came to a complete halt, with cancer doing him in at age 70.
Anyone who loves movies is going to miss Roger Ebert, not just because he warned you what was a stinker before you laid down your six dollars. And then $10. And now $19, or 25 if you throw in popcorn. And not just because Roger could talk intelligently without being patronizing – something I haven’t mastered in 53 years. And not just because Roger’s love for good movies came through even when he pooped on bad ones. The biggest legacy of Roger Ebert – and Gene Siskel – was in remaking the idea of “what is a critic?” Admit it. Before those two, you probably thought of a movie or theater critic as this dreary, sepulchral, Ichabod Crane type, with a Bostonian accent, his nose in the air and his pen in someone’s back. He was better than you, and he sure let you know it. Or he talked so far over your head, sparrows would crash into his verbs on their way to Capistrano.
But not Roger and Gene. Of course they were smart, but they were next-door-neighbor smart, not nuclear physicist smart. And when they explained why Blake Edwards was a genius and dead teenager films are a scourge – even if you didn’t agree, you appreciated their conviction and knew they were treating you like a grownup. Roger may have won a Pulitzer, but he never came off like a pudknocker.
Oh sure, Ebert’s weight made him an easy target for many years. At one point, he was so out of shape, it seemed a miracle he could even lift his thumb. And then, he had to give up TV because of the Big C. The first time I saw a picture of him after all those operations, my jaw dropped. Well, not as low as his, but it was still a shock. And yet, he continued to write. A man who came of age in a time of typewriters and telexes kept himself relevant in our age of tweets and tablets. In fact, he posted more movie reviews last year than he did any year before that. If I had to give that many sermons in a year, my brain would turn to gefilte fish.
And if my cranium did become an amalgam of whitefish, pike, sawdust and carp, would I have the guts Roger Ebert had in being so visible? Of going on Oprah with his new voice or on the internet with his fake chin? If I get a pimple on my nose, I hide for three days.
Among the many quotable quotes of Roger Ebert, he once said that “your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.” Well, I may not be able to follow another Charlie Kaufman movie, but I’m sad that we lost Roger Ebert. I think of Gene Siskel in heaven, waiting all these years for the day he could go, “Awright. No cameras. No censors. Rog, let’s really talk about `Cop and a Half’” Go at it guys; no one did it better.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
Joined by guest co-host Jeff Goodman, Dave Lefkowitz interviews musician and Monkees alumnus Peter Tork
Topics include: The Monkees, Shoe Suede Blues.
Segment originally aired April 22, 2007 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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