Dave’s Gone By Skit: STORYTIME w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon – “SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS”

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (7/6/2024): STORYTIME: Rabbi Sol Solomon Reads “Secrets of the Octopus”

For this week’s StoryTime segment on Dave’s Gone By, Rabbi Sol Solomon reads from Sy Montgomery’s book, “Secrets of the Octopus.”

This segment aired July 6, 2024 as part of the 951st “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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Dave’s Gone By #951 (7/6/2024): JILE BAIT

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Here is the 951st episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, July 6, 2024.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews playwright John Jiler. Plus: StoryTime (Secrets of the Octopus), Bunion Watch, Greeley Times, Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Alkire Estates).

Guest: writer John Jiler

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: Sweepy, Squirrel!, Delta diarrhea
00:42:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN: Joey vs. Nathan’s
01:41:00 BUNION WATCH
01:50:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews John Jiler
02:37:30 STORYTIME: Secrets of the Octopus
02:55:30 DAVE GOES EVEN FURTHER IN: shrimp!
03:11:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:18:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Alkire Estates, CO
03:21:30 DAVE GOES OUT

John Jiler
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Joey Chestnut in Fort Bliss, TX
Alkire Estates, CO

Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/6/2024): JOHN JILER & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright JOHN JILER

Topics include: The Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project, Avenue X, theater, novels

Segment aired July 6, 2024 as part of the 951st episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Skit: STORYTIME w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon – Schmegoogle

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (6/29/2024): STORYTIME: Rabbi Sol Solomon Reads “Schmegoogle”

For this week’s StoryTime segment on Dave’s Gone By, Rabbi Sol Solomon skims through Daniel Klein’s book Yiddish-friendly book, “Schmegoogle.”

This segment aired June 29, 2024 as part of the 950th “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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Dave’s Gone By #950 (6/29/2024): NIFTY FIFTY

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Here is the 950th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, June 29, 2024.

Featuring: Dave’s appearance on “Two on the Aisle.” Plus: StoryTime w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon (Schmegoogle), Bunion Watch, Greeley Times, Dave’s Big Dictionary (fecund), Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Alice).

Guest: spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: Sweepy McSweepFace, Joe Franklin, Kooper’s
00:44:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN: Bamboozled, July 4th
00:54:00 GREELEY TIMES
01:35:00 BUNION WATCH
01:43:00 Dave guests on “Two on the Aisle”
02:13:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: fecund
02:32:00 STORYTIME w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon: Schmegoogle
02:54:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:00:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Alice, CO
03:04:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Rabbi Sol Solomon
Alice, CO
Sweepy McSweepface (prototype)

Dave’s Gone By #949 (6/22/2024): BETTER ALL THE TIME

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Here is the 949th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, June 22, 2024.

Featuring: Dave guests on John Suzuki’s podcast, “Finding Better.” Plus: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s new “Aristocrats” joke, Bunion Watch, Greeley Times, Dave’s Big Dictionary (vulnerable), Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Columbine Acres).

Guest: podcaster John Suzuki

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: The Tonys, newspapers, fawn
01:07:30 GREELEY TIMES
01:28:00 BUNION WATCH
01:37:00 GUEST: John Suzuki interviews Dave Lefkowitz on “Finding Better
02:19:30 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: vulnerabe
02:32:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:38:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN: Potato truck, hot-dog showdown
02:49:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #188: The New Aristocrats Joke
02:59:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Columbine Acres, CO)
03:01:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Rabbi Sol Solomon
Takeru Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut
Columbine Acres (Memory Care Home)

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #188 (6/22/2024): THE NEW ARISTOCRATS JOKE

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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #188 (6/22/2024): The New Aristocrats Joke

airs June 22, 2024 on Dave’s Gone By.  

Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for late June 2024.

Just like new plots for movies, there’s really no such thing as a “new” joke, just old jokes packaged in a different way. For example: Why did the fireman wear red suspenders? Because he was shopping at Kohl’s, and it was all they had — plus it was on clearance. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he heard all these people telling jokes about him and he got curious. 

Old Manischewitz: new bottles. So here’s a naughty little joke called “The Aristocrats” that’s been around for decades. Gilbert Gottfried made it famous, and they even did a documentary about it. But I doubt you’ve heard my version.

A guy goes into a talent agent’s office, and he says, “Buddy, have I got an act for you!” 

And the agent says, “Don’t waste your time. Novelty is dead. Nobody watches “Got Talent” anymore. I’m sorry, but — ”

“No, no, no,” says the guy. “This is huge. My family, my friends, strangers — it’s spectacular!”

“You’re wasting your time,” says the agent. “I’m not interested.”

“You will be!” says the guy. “Just gimme a chance. Please!”

The agent sighs and says, “All right, fine. Show me what you got.”

“Thank you!” says the guy. “It’s incredible, I promise!”

So the guy claps his hands, and shouts, “Allahu Akbar.” Suddenly thousands of Arabs appear. He blows a whistle, and the Arabs start attacking Israel. They’re firing rockets, they’re launching missiles, they’re hurling bombs and grenades.

Meanwhile, one group of Arabs go to an Israeli kibbutz where they’re having a music festival. And the Arabs start mowing down Jews with machine guns and rifles. They’re killing women, they’re hacking up children, dogs, pets, birds. And they’re shooting the men and then defiling the corpses and cutting off heads and pissing down the necks. Another group is taking hostages. And they’re torturing them, punching and kicking and stabbing and dragging and frogmarching them into tunnels.

And the women hostages are getting raped. Oh, they’re fucking these women with gun barrels and fists and korans. And they’re fucking the child hostages, too. They’re using dead kids as dildos to ass-fuck the live ones. So there’s blood and cum and baby teeth spraying every which way.

Meanwhile, the living hostages are dragged into daycares and hospitals and elementary schools, where the hidden Arabs are firing rockets and explosives to kill more Jews. This while thousands of other Arabs are butchering and killing and shitting on synagogues and smearing themselves with IDF soldier blood.

“But wait, there’s more!” says the guy to the talent agent. “That’s when all these college students come out and they run on campus with tents and banners and costumes. And they’re all screaming, `Death to Israel’ and `Free Gaza’ and `Stop the Palestinian Genocide’ while dancing around and crying and fucking each other even though they haven’t bathed in a month. And some of them break into hundred-year-old buildings and smash windows, trash furniture, crap on books. And then campus presidents come over, and they just watch. They don’t do anything; they just stand there like a 19th century French tableaux.”

But meanwhile the hostages are still dying in the tunnels, the Arabs are slaughtering every Jew in sight, the students are blocking highways, vandalizing Jewish homes, and jumping on subways to threaten anyone who looks like a kike. That’s when all these other countries around the world come in and start sanctioning Israel and banning Israelis from having passports. And the left-wing media applauds this and weeps for the refugees whose vote for a terrorist government started all this shit in the first place. 

And meanwhile the terrorists murder and torture and rape and kill and kill and kill and kill in a ritual orgy of sadism, savagery, and Islamic frenzy. 

With that, the guy in the office blows his whistle and says, “Well, what do you think?”

The talent agent sits for a minute and finally says, “Wow, that’s quite an act. By the way, what do you call yourselves?”

The college students all start cheering as the guy straightens himself up, Jewish blood still dripping from his sleeves, and says, “Hamas!”

Funny joke, ha? This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/15/2024): BRIAN SCOTT LIPTON

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/15/2024): BRIAN SCOTT LIPTON

On the 19th annual special TotalTheater Broadway special, theater critic Brian Scott Lipton weighs in on the 2024 Musical Revival Tony Award nominations.

Segment aired June 15, 2024 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/15/2024): CAREY PURCELL

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/15/2024): CAREY PURCELL

On the 19th annual special TotalTheater Broadway special, theater critic Carey Purcell weighs in on the 2024 Best Book of a Musical Tony Award nominations.

Segment aired June 15, 2024 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/15/2024): DAVID SHEWARD

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/15/2024): DAVID SHEWARD
On the 19th annual special TotalTheater Broadway special, theater critic David Sheward weighs in on the 2024 Best Lead Actress in a Play Tony Award nominations.
Segment aired June 15, 2024 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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