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.”
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Here is the 479th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Sept. 27, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with singer Freda Payne, plus: The Wretched Pun of Destiny (Lawn), Saturday Segues (Jerry Lee Lewis; Off with their Heads), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Time Out of Mind), Rabbi Sol on OpiYum.
Guest: singer Freda Payne , Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil 00:51:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Jerry Lee Lewis 01:06:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY – Lawn 01:07:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Freda Payne 02:11:30 Sponsors 02:21:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #108 – OpiYum 02:27:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later – Time Out of Mind 02:51:00 More Sponsors 02:53:00 Friends 03:03:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Off with Their Heads 03:33:00 Weather & Upcoming 03:40:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Sept. 27, 2014 Playlist: “Put Me Down” (00:52:30), “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (00:54:30), “Big Legged Woman” (00:57:30), “Big Blon’ Baby” (00:59:30) & “What’d I Say” (01:01:30; Jerry Lee Lewis). “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” (01:08:00), “Out of this World” (01:17:00), “Unhooked Generation” (01:34:00), “Band of Gold” (01:39:00), “Bad Manners” (01:50:00), “I’d Rather Drink Muddy Water” (02:05:30) & “Sweet September” (03:42:30; Freda Payne). “Can’t Wait” (02:34:00), “Make You Feel My Love” (02:40:00) & “Trying to Get to Heaven” (02:43:30; Bob Dylan). “Head Over Heels” (03:06:30; ABBA). “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” (03:10:30; Warren Zevon). “Head Over Feet” (03:14:00; Alanis Morissette). “Tear Off Your Own Head” (03:18:30; The Bangles). “Head Held High” (03:22:00; The Velvet Underground). “Head Over Heels” (03:25:00; The Go-Go’s).
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Jerry Lee LewisDylan’s Time Out of Mindnoodlesin tent
Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews journalist Ivor Davis
Topics include: The Beatles, Charles Manson, Ronald Reagan, Brian Epstein
Segment aired Sept. 20, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Segment aired Sept. 20, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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6. A food writer is compiling a book about the best cups of tea from all over the world. He sends a first draft to his editor, who writes back, “Great job. You’ve been to India, China, Sri Lanka, Russia – but I notice you haven’t been to Australia. You need to go and report on this incredible tea I’ve heard about that’s only served in one tiny shop in the western outback. We can’t do a proper book without it. I’ll extend your deadline, just get there asap.”
So the writer books a plane ticket for Australia where he winds up taking two trains, three puddle-jumpers and a rickshaw before reaching a tiny village. Worried that he’s been sent on a wild goose chase, the writer asks a woman at the local market if she’s heard of this fabled tea shop. “Oh, of course! Best tea in the world.”
“What makes it so special?” asks the writer, grabbing his notebook.
“Well, the shop is owned by Johnny Murphy, this Irish fella who moved here thirty years ago and has been making tea ever since.”
“Fine, but what’s so great about the tea itself?”
“It’s not just the leaves; it’s what happens to them. They grow high on these gum trees. And the koala bears climb all over them and chew on them making them really tender. That’s why no other leaves have their flavor.”
Intrigued, the writer asks the woman for directions to Murphy’s Tea Shop. After a three-mile trek, he arrives at this little hut where a burley, deeply suntanned Irishman stands at the counter.
“A cup of tea, please,” the writer orders.
Murphy nods and sets a kettle on the stove. He then produces a small teacup and a wee bag of brown leaves. He pours two heaping spoonfuls of dry leaves into the cup, and, when the water boils, sloshes the hot water into the tea. “Here you go,” he says, handing the writer the cup and a plain napkin.
The writer looks into the cup but isn’t particularly enthused. Though the beverage smells okay, visually it looks like muddy brown water, with twigs and dirt and dead things floating about. “Whatsamatter?” says the Irishman. “Too strong for ya?”
“No,” says the writer, making a face. “It’s just so unfiltered. Why don’t you use a strainer?”
“Sir,” gasps the owner, affronted. “The Koala Tea of Murphy Cannot Be Strained!”
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Here is the 478th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Sept. 20, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with journalist Ivor Davis (“The Beatles and Me on Tour”). Plus: Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection (“Gwyneth”), Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Oh Mercy), Saturday Segues (Cohen n’ Cave, The Beatles), The Wretched Pun of Destiny (Murphy)
Guests: journalist Ivor Davis, Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce 00:46:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Cohen n’ Cave 01:29:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:52:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Ivor Davis 02:53:00 Friends 02:59:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #107 (Gwyneth) 03:08:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – The Beatles 03:27:30 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY – Murphy 03:30:30 Sponsors 03:33:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Oh Mercy) 03:47:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Sept. 20, 2014 Playlist: “Faraway, So Close” (00:55:00), “Nobody’s Baby Now” (01:01:00) & “Cassiel’s Song” (01:10:00; Nick Cave). “On That Day” (00:59:00) & “Closing Time” (01:13:30; Leonard Cohen). “Famous Blue Raincoat” (01:05:00; The Handsome Family). “Who Will Love Me as I Am?” (01:50:00; Side Show 2014 Broadway cast). “Please Please Me” (02:49:00), “Come Together” ({Anthology version} 03:09:30), “Hey Bulldog” (03:13:00), “That Means a Lot” (03:16:00), “Good Morning, Good Morning” (03:18:30), “Golden Slumbers” (03:21:00) & “In My Life” (03:23:00; The Beatles). “Most of the Time” (03:36:00) & “Where Teardrops Fall” (03:41:00; Bob Dylan). “Ring Them Bells” (03:43:30; Barb Jungr). “On a Golden Autumn Day” (03:51:00; Van Morrison).
