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Here is the 921st episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, Dec. 9, 2023.
Featuring: StoryTime with Rabbi Sol Solomon, Bunion Watch, Greeley Times, Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Iliff).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Chanukah llama, new toys, skee-ball, pee problem) 01:09:00 GREELEY TIMES 01:50:00 STORYTIME w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon (A Field Guide to the Jewish People) 02:15:00 BUNION WATCH 02:26:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:33:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Iliff, CO) 02:42:00 DAVE GOES OUT
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Here is the 874th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Dec. 24, 2022. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews former politician Debbie Peterson; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Rifle); Today/Yesterday Trivia Quiz (w/ Debbie Peterson, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Vicki Quade).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (sporadics, Zelenskyy) 00:27:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Debbie Peterson 01:00:30 TODAY/YESTERDAY TRIVIA QUIZ (Dec. 24 w/ Debbie Peterson, Vicki Quade, Leslie (Hoban) Blake) 02:08:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (tea, rabbit) 02:26:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 02:52:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Rifle, CO) 02:58:30 Friends of the Daverhood 03:04:30 DAVE GOES OUT
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Here is the 722nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: musician Steve Forbert, Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with musician Steve Forbert, Inside Broadway, Dave Says Bye (Herb Simpson & John Simon), Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Parker), Today Yesterday (Nov. 30).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (Funukkah, Thanksgiving) 00:31:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (Jean Shepherd & Henry Morgan) 01:02:33 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & review (01:04:00; The Inheritance)) 01:30:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Steve Forbert 02:01:30 TODAY YESTERDAY (Nov. 30) 02:26:30 DAVE GOES AWAY (Austin, TX, finale) 02:43:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:55:30 DAVE SAYS BYE w/ Joyce (Herbert Simpson & John Simon) 03:20:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Parker) 03:23:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Nov. 30, 2019 Playlist: “Romeo’s Tune” (01:28:30), “The Magic Tree” (01:57:00) & “It Isn’t Gonna Be That Way” (03:26:30).
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Here is the 676th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday, Dec. 8, 2020. More info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Romola Hodas, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, StoryTime (The Ernie & Bert Book), Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Crested Butte), Dave’s Big Dictionary (fudge), Saturday Segue (in the news).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (red eyes, toilet mug, menorah lighting) 00:26:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 00:55:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:29:00 Sponsors 01:31:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Romola Hodas 02:23:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED – Crested Butte 02:27:00 STORYTIME – The Ernie & Bert Book 02:45:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:52:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY – Fudge 03:02:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News 03:43:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Dec. 8, 2018 Playlist: “Copenhagen, Act 2, Part 15” (01:27:00; Copenhagen 2000 Broadway cast). “F-Troop Theme” (03:30:00; TV soundtrack). “Fancy Funeral” (03:08:00; Lucinda Williams). “Heather Heather” (03:13:00; Magnetic Fields). “Let’s have a P.C. Holiday” (03:18:00; Dottie Burman). “Homosapien” (03:37:00; Pete Shelley). “I Know it’s Over” (03:51:00; The Smiths)
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Here is the 631st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Dec. 9, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: singer Brooke Moriber, Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews singer-actress Brooke Sunny Moriber. Plus: Inside Broadway, Potato News, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (brook), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (Chanukah, In the News).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (w/ Joyce) (graduation n’ grading, seeing scallops) 00:24:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 00:56:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Chanukah 01:17:30 POTATO NEWS 01:23:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:50:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Brooke Moriber 02:33:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (brook) 02:51:30 Friends 03:06:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News 03:47:00 Weather 03:48:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Dec. 9, 2017 Playlist: “Eight Days a Week” (00:58:00; The Beatles). “I Have a Little Dreidel” (01:00:30; Barenaked Ladies). “Hey, Hey Helen” (01:01:30; ABBA). “Anal Dreidel” (01:04:30; Rabbi Sol Solomon). “Chanukah (Shake it Off)” (01:06:00; Six13). “Hero is My Middle Name” (01:43:30; SpongeBob SquarePants 2017 Broadway cast w/ Ethan Slater). “Up All Night” (01:47:00), “99 Days of Rain” (02:29:00) & “The Last Goodbye” (03:51:00; Brooke Moriber). “Apple Suckling Tree (Take 1)” (02:34:30), “”Froggie Went a-Courtin'” (02:37:00) & “Mozambique” (02:43:00; Bob Dylan). “The New Jerusalem” (03:07:30; Luie Luie). “Russia” (03:11:00; Peter Cook & Dudley Moore). “Mrs. Robinson/The Sound of Silence” (03:13:00; Forbidden Broadway, vol. 3). “Christine Keeler” (03:15:30; Phil Ochs). “Hey Joe” (03:17:00; Johnny Hallyday). “Ventura” (03:20:00; Lucinda Williams).
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of December 25, 2016.
Events of the past few months notwithstanding, it is not yet the apocalypse. However, we do have a stunning occurrence coming upon us: as we speak, Chanukah and Christmas have arrived at exactly the same time. I have spoken before, some would say at unconscionable length, about not conflating the two holidays. They come from two very different, irreconcilable religions. I don’t begrudge my Christian brethren and sistren, but don’t put a Jewish star on top of a Christmas tree and expect me to feel grateful.
In fact, the only thing I feel gratitude for these days is that 2016 is coming to a merciful end. I don’t need to tell you what a long, meshuggenah trip it’s been. Or maybe I do, in verse form.
`Tis the first night of Chanukah From Tampa to Tulsa
The candles are burning Just like my ulcer
The dreidels are spinning The latkes are frying
The Muslims are killing The people are dying
The year has been tough That couldn’t be clearer
So Twenty-Sixteen Here’s your rear-view mirror
The campaign for president took a dark journey As Democrat dummies picked Hil and screwed Bernie
Huckabee, Kasich, Rubio, Paul The louder they got, the harder they’d fall
Jindal and Christie, Carson and Cruz But then Donald Trump bubbled up from the ooze
He battered Ms. Clinton for being a female She stumbled and fumbled and mishandled email
Trump lied and insulted and mocked with each Tweet But then he fell in with the party elite
And lo and behold, as he, alone, expected The con-artist clown is the guy we elected
If that’s not enough to make us all retch There’s plenty more reasons about which to kvetch
There’s Brexit and Brussels and murder in Mosul While Syria looks like a garbage disposal
All across Europe, security sucks Who’s teaching these young Arab men to drive trucks?
The Istanbul bomber ignited our fears Another putz shot up a club full of queers
Mosquitoes with zika came in for the kill While lyin’ Ryan Lochte shamed us in Brazil
Hurricane Matthew brought death and disaster A wild Turkish cop shot the Russian ambass’dor
An EgyptAir plane crashed into the sea And North Carolina won’t let trannies pee
All over the world, ISIS steps up attacks While our police fire at black people’s backs
If that’s not enough to make you all wince 2016 took Bowie and Prince
Gene Wilder, George Martin, and Elie Wiesel Scalia and Castro — well, they went to hell
So long, Leonard Cohen Farewell, Harper Lee
Goodbye, Abe Vigoda . . . finally
We lost Garry Shandling, who wasn’t a sick man We lost Alan Thicke, and Alan Rickman
Muhammad Ali is no longer standing And hero John Glenn came in for a landing
Merle Haggard, Ed Albee, and Zsa Zsa Gabor And Fyvush and Blowfly and too many more
But okay, let’s admit the pipeline was stalled The Cubs and the Indians played ball in the fall
The stock market zoomed to new heights every day And Hamilton swept all the Tonys away
Manatees moved from endangered to threatened And a new subway line was built in Manhetten.
So though it was harsh, absurdist, and mean Shalom to the year 2016
The lesson it taught us with every new curse: As bad as things are, they’re bound to get worse.
Happy American Rosh Hashanah everyone! See you in 5778! This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches, in Great Neck, New York. Shanah Tolerable.
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Here is the 586th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 24, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (2016 Farewell), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (Chanukah & Christmas, In the News), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (noise machines, latkes, The Star Wars Holiday Special, kwanzaa, psoas therapy, not-so-crappy year, Carrie Fisher) 00:59:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:27:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (UNC marching band) 01:35:30 SATURDAY SEGUE (In the News) 02:01:30 Sponsors 02:05:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:30:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later 02:50:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #142 (2016 Farewell) 02:59:00 Friends 03:08:30 Sponsors 03:10:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Chanukah and Christmas 03:32:00 Weather 03:34:00 DAVE GOES OUT
“Good Night but not Goodbye” (00:29:00; “The Star Wars Holiday Special” w/ Bea Arthur). “UNC Fight Song” (01:28:00; University of Northern Colorado marching band).”Fireworks” (01:37:00; Do Re Mi 1999 off-Broadway cast). “Bad Ambassador” (01:40:00; The Divine Comedy). “Berlin: Black Hole with Taxis” (01:44:00; Passing Strange 2008 Broadway cast). “Evacuation” (01:44:30; Pearl Jam). “Nuclear” (01:47:30; Ryan Adams). “You’re Timeless to Me” (02:26:00; Hairspray 2002 Broadway cast w/ Harvey Fierstein & Dick Latessa). “Once Upon a Time” (02:35:30), “Dear Landlord” (02:39:30) & “O Come All Ye Faithful” (02:42:30; Bob Dylan). “Anal Dreidel” (03:11:30), “The Twelve Complaints of Christmas” (03:18:00) & “Maoz Tzuris” (03:27:30; Rabbi Sol Solomon) “Santa Quits” (03:13:30) & “Santasia” (03:23:00; Dave Lefkowitz). “There’s no Place Like Home for the Holidays” (03:40:30; Leon Redbone).
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Here is the 536th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 12, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Dave chats with old friend Jeff Goodman; Inside Broadway; Rabbi Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (Hanukkah Haiku); Saturday Segues (Frank Sinatra, vacation); Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Sinatra’s Shadows); Greeley Crimes & Old Times.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: former guest co-host Jeff Goodman, Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (so long semester, snu, temps, Eggley Bagelface, The Soup, Mama Doni, Hawaii Kai, Kaleidoscope, horse head) 01:12:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:47:30 GUEST: Jeff Goodman 02:36:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Frank Sinatra 02:59:00 Sponsors 03:02:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 03:23:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Sinatra’s Shadows) 03:40:30 Sponsors 03:45:30 RABBINICAL REFLECTION #132 – Hanukkah Haiku 03:51:00 Friends 03:46:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Vacation 04:16:30 Weather & Thanks 04:20:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Dec. 12, 2015 Playlist: “Chanukah Fever” (Mama Doni). “Chanukah” (01:08:30; Six13). “The Coffee Song” (02:39:00). “It’s the Same Old Dream” (02:42:00), “It Never Entered My Mind” (02:44:30), “You Make Me Feel So Young” ({live}; 02:47:30), “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (02:51:00) & “I Have Dreamed” (04:22:00; Frank Sinatra). “A Brand New Day” (03:19:30; The Wiz 2015 TV cast). “That Lucky Old Sun” (03:27:30), “What’ll I Do” (03:31:00) & “Stay With Me” (03:34:30; Bob Dylan). “The Draidel Song” (03:50:00; Mickey Katz). “Your Mind is on Vacation” (03:57:30; Van Morrison). “Take a Musical Break” (04:00:30; Dottie Burman). “Albuquerque” (04:02:30; Neil Young). “Take Me Away” (04:06:30; Oasis). “Homeward Bound” (04:11:00; Simon & Garfunkel).
Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of December 12, 2015.
With everything going on in the world – the craziness, the killing, chaos in the GOP, E. coli at Chipotle—which is really confusing because how the hell are you supposed to differentiate noro-virus diarrhea from regular Chipotle diarrhea? Such distinctions are lost on me. But what we must not lose this mid-December is the arrival of Chanukah. Eight days of happiness and food and gratitude, and a reminder that every Jewish holiday isn’t about fasting and wishing you could afford maid service.
Sometimes we win. Sometimes the enemy who is trying to destroy us, or weaken our faith, gets a shank in the ribs. We did it to Egypt in a thousand BC, we did it to the Greeks—who bent over and took it—and one day we’ll do it to ISIS and ISIL and Al Qaeda and Boko Haram, and maybe the first guy who said, “Hey, it’s Halloween soon. Let’s put pumpkin spice in everything. Lattes, pancakes, donuts, beef wellington—doesn’t matter. Pumpkin spice is the new oxygen.” We need to get him.
Anyhoo, Chanukah commemorates a small band of Jews who would not succumb to the hellish Hellenic hellions who tried to hinder our Hebrew historicity. The second temple in Jerusalem was recaptured from the Greeks, re-consecrated as a synagogue, and retrofitted for Wi-Fi. And when the Hashmonaim were cleaning the temple, and making it minty fresh, they had only a drop of oil with which to light the holy candelabra, the menorah. And yet that oil burned day and night for eight straight days. The electric bill must have been horrendous, but the point is: miracles do happen. They happened then, they happen now. It’s a miracle that a computer can digitally print working human organs. It’s a miracle you can stare at a hole in the ground in a city block, come back six months later, and it’s an office building. It’s an astounding miracle that someone like me is on the radio.
So let us delight with our family, our friends—all the people we barely tolerate for fear of loneliness—and cheer the miraculous holiday of Chanukah. To do so, I have written a few short poems celebrating the Festival of Lights in haiku form. Haiku is a Japanese poetry style that is perfectly marvelous because it’s so short. As soon as you get started, you’re finished. Like a teenage boy on prom night. Your entire thought process must fit into a mere 17 syllables, which proves the Japanese not only invented haiku but twitter.
I pray that you enjoy these holiday poems from me, Rabbi Sol. Chanukah Chaikus:
Eight candles burning
On my shaky menorah.
Shit! Call 9-1-1.
Headline: Polish Jews
Suffer Third-Degree Burns When
Bobbing for Latkes
Judah Maccabee
And sons beat the Greek army
Yay for terrorists!
Happy holidays, my friends, and may all your dreidel spins come up hay. I’d say gimel, but why press your luck? This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches, in Great Neck, New York.
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Here is the 489th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 20, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor Eliezer Mayer (aka Elli the King of Broadway). Plus: Inside Broadway, Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Chanukah story (“Little Yomo and the Corned Beef Sandwich”), The Wretched Pun of Destiny (Tree Hall), Dylan – Sooner & Later (winterlude), Saturday Segues (Frank Zappa, John Fry) and the Greeley Crime Beat
Guests: actor Elli the King of Broadway and Dave’s wife, Joyce Weil
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil (Jury Duty) 00:37:30 GREELEY CRIME BEAT 01:11:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – John Fry 01:37:30 Sponsors 01:42:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:04:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Elli the King of Broadway 03:02:30 Friends 03:08:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #17 – Tree Hall 03:12:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Winterlude) 03:30:00 Weather 03:33:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Frank Zappa 03:58:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #113 – Little Yomo and the Corned Beef Sandwich 04:20:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Dec. 20, 2014 Playlist: “The Ballad of El Goodo” (01:16:00) & “September Girls” (01:31:30; Big Star). “Get Up” (01:20:00; R.E.M.). “Little Ghost” (01:22:30; The White Stripes). “Call it a Day” (01:25:00; The Raconteurs). “Alex Chilton” (01:28:30; The Replacements). “Lament” (02:02:00; Into the Woods, 1987 Broadway cast w/ Bernadette Peters). “(I’m Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica” (02:58:30; Tom Lehrer). “Kingsport Town” (03:13:00), “Winter Wonderland” (03:16:30), “Nettie Moore” (03:18:30) & “Winterlude” (03:25:00; Bob Dylan). “For the Young Sophisticate” (03:37:30), “Lonesome Cowboy Burt” (03:41:00), “Pygmy Twilight” (03:44:30), “The Idiot Bastard Son” ({live} 03:47:30), “I’m Not Satisfied” (03:50:00; Frank Zappa). “Chanukah (Shake it Off)” (04:17:30; Six13). “Winter Song” (04:23:00; Harry Chapin).
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
