Dave’s Gone By #946 (6/1/2024): GERSH AGENCY

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Here is the 946th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, June 1, 2024.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews jazz musicians Janis Siegel and Yaron Gershovsky; StoryTime with Rabbi Sol Solomon (“The P Word, part 2”), Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Alder); Dave’s Big Dictionary (svelte).

Guest: jazz singer Janis Siegel and musical director Yaron Gershovsky

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: glowy squid, who killed New Poo?, smoked pastrami
00:47:00 BUNION WATCH
01:00:00 GUESTS: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Yaron Gershovsky and Janis Siegel
01:39:30 STORYTIME w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon: “The P Word,” part 2
02:03:30 GREELEY TIMES
02:25:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:39:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Alder, CO
02:47:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: svelte
02:59:30 DAVE GOES OUT: a poem is an egg with a horse in it

Yaron Gershovsky & Janis Siegel
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Alder, CO

Dave’s Gone By Skit (5/25/2024): STORYTIME: Rabbi Sol Solomon Reads “The P Word” (part 1)

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (5/25/2024): STORYTIME: Rabbi Sol Solomon Reads “The P Word,” Part 1

For this week’s StoryTime segment on Dave’s Gone By, Rabbi Sol Solomon reads the first part of David Hu’s book, “The P Word.”

This segment aired May 25, 2024 as part of the 945th “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 #945 (5/25/2024): A SENSE OF HUBER

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Here is the 945th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, May 24, 2024.

Featuring: Dave chats with retired theater professor Robin Huber. Plus: StoryTime with Rabbi Sol Solomon (“The P Word”), Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Akin); Dave Says Bye (Morgan Spurlock).

Guest: director Robin Huber

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: Kandide, lobster, Mr. Trashwheel, fox den, The Ring
00:56:00 GREELEY TIMES
01:18:00 BUNION WATCH
01:24:00 STORYTIME w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon: “The P Word”
01:44:00 GUEST: Robin Huber
02:25:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:37:00 SONG: “Stupid Pupil”
02:40:00 DAVE SAYS BYE: Morgan Spurlock
02:52:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Akin, CO
02:54:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Robin Huber
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Akin, CO
your host and his lobster

SONG: Stupid Pupil

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SONG: Stupid Pupil

(c)2024 David Lefkowitz

(sung to the tune of Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield’s “Stupid Cupid”)

Stupid Pupil you’re a real disgrace
You don’t contribute; you just take up space
You go to college on your parents’ dime
But you ain’t learnin’, you’re just wastin’ time.
Hey hey, brainless punk
Stupid Pupil, get ready to flunk

Can’t do your homework and you can’t think straight
Too busy watching TikTok while you masturbate
Sitting through classes with your earbuds in
Looking so dead they call your next of kin
Boo-hoo, throw your fit
Stupid Pupil, your pronoun is “it.”

You mixed-up little twerp, with your protest sign upheld
But you can’t read or write, so the words are all misspelled

You think you’re curing social-justice ills
But meanwhile mom and dad are paying all your bills
You’re chugging Red Bull and you’re vaping weed
the only things you learn are from your Twitter feed
You don’t work, you don’t pay rent
Stupid Pupil, come out of your tent

Your hair is greasy and your armpits stink
You think that other people really care what you think
And if you graduate, then you’ll be through
`Cause you’ll be serving burgers to the likes of you
Hey hey, don’t you see
You just crapped on your Bachelor’s Degree

Hey hey, higher ed
Stupid Pupil, I wish you were dead.

Dave’s Gone By #944 (5/18/2024): PLAYING TAG

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Here is the 944th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, May 18, 2024.

Featuring: Jessica Taghap’s 2015 podcast interview with Dave; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Agate); Dave’s Big Dictionary (lucrative).

Guest: podcaster Jessica Taghap

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (raining in Baltimore, free coffee, spicy chip, fox family, King Charles on canvas)
01:10:00 GREELEY TIMES
01:32:30 BUNION WATCH
01:45:30 GUEST: Jessica Taghap interviews Dave (Nov. 2015)
02:51:30 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: lucrative
03:01:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:12:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Agate, CO
03:15:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Jessica Taghap
Agate, CO

Dave’s Gone By Interview (5/11/2024): CAROLYN MONTGOMERY & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with cabaret singer CAROLYN MONTGOMERY

Topics include: Rosemary Clooney, American Songbook Association, life change, religion

Segment aired May 11, 2024 as part of the 943rd episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #943 (5/11/2024): THE FULL MONT

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Here is the 943rd episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, May 11, 2024.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews singer Carolyn Montgomery; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Adena); StoryTime (Sam, Bangs, & Moonshine).

Guest: cabaret’s Carolyn Montgomery

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: vanishing books, grey weather, Repticon, Mission BBQ, wildlife
01:02:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Carolyn Montgomery
01:49:00 GREELEY TIMES
02:16:30 STORYTIME (Sam, Bangs, & Moonshine)
02:43:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:56:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Adena
03:01:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Carolyn Montgomery
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Adena, CO

Dave’s Gone By Interview (5/4/2024): BRUCE VILANCH & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedy writer BRUCE VILANCH

Topics include: The Oscars, Bette Midler, Johnny Carson, Dolly Parton, Judaism.

Segment aired May 4, 2024 as part of the 942nd episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #941 (4/27/2024): READY AND WILLING

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Here is the 941st episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, April 27, 2024.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews writer-director David Willinger and offers a Rabbinical Reflection Passover Prayer; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Ackmen); Bunion Watch; Dave’s Big Dictionary (assail).

Guest: writer-performer David Willinger

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: no filter, defunct things, films
01:01:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews David Willinger
02:02:00 GREELEY TIMES
02:25:30 BUNION WATCH
02:30:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #184: A Passover Prayer
02:35:30 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: assail
02:50:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:59:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Ackmen, CO
03:02:30 DAVE GOES OUT

David Willinger

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #184 (4/27/2024): A Passover Prayer

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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #184 (4/27/2024): A Passover Prayer

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Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for these last few days of Passover 2024. 

A zissen Pesach my friends, and I hope you are having a fun holiday, with maximal contemplation and minimal constipation. Actually, this year is less likely to afflictus with intestinal binding than gastric reflux: we want to throw up at everything around us. 

That’s why I’ve written this little prayer that you can append to your Haggadahs this Passover. It’s an appeal to God to get off his lazy tuchas and help us, just as he did in Egypt. He doesn’t have to show himself as a burning bush; he could set Ilhan Omar’s public hair on fire: same thing.

Anyway, here is a Prayer for late Pesach:

Blessed art thou, Oh Lord, our God. King of the Universe. (Or Queen, He can be gender-ridiculous). Blessed be He who sanctifies us with a holiday that deprives us of bread yet consoles us with Joyva Ring Jells; where we are scourged by horse radish, soothed by charoses, and confused by putting them together; and where we learn morality by letting a child hide the Afikoman and then rewarding him for thievery and blackmail.

Dear God, in these times of woe, when the land of Israel rages and Jew-haters have slithered from their cages, we implore thee to restore righteousness in the world. To vanquish our foes, as you did the Amalekites and the Canaanites, and sometimes the Monday nites. Oh Lord, protect the tiny nation of Eretz Yisroel and smite our enemies. For example:

May Hamas fighters see their tunnels turn to caskets, their caskets turned to dust, and their dust hoovered up by your ugliest cleaning lady.

May you lift the Palestinians up, up, up out of Israel and deposit them in a galaxy far, far away. Or at least Kuwait.

May Iraq get so fed up with Iran for being only one letter different, that the two blow each other to bits, which will be especially amusing to Jews named “Ira.” 

May the United Nations vote to sanction itself out of existence and have to relinquish its New York headquarters to a Judaica superstore.

May every Western woman who supports the Arab world actually have to live, as a woman, in the Arab world. 

May the marching students of Columbia and New York Universities be boiled in acid and then, ironically, fail their chemistry exams.

May the idiots posting anti-Zionist misinformation on TikTok be forced to use Dos dial-up just to get WiFi. 

May the members of “Queers for Palestine” be bent over and their assholes stuffed with razor wire. And AIDS.  

May every troglodyte who scrawls “Death to Israel” in graffiti on a public edifice be given a 1972 station wagon and forced to circle the building eternally looking for parking. 

May every Arab who danced a jig on October 7th have their legs hacked off and fed to starving woodchucks, and may those marmots come back while the cripples are sleeping and vomit in their mouths.

May every Jew who betrays Israel in favor of “Palestine” be forced to eat matzoh made of ground glass and soaked in rat poison. In thy mercy. 

And may whoever becomes President of the United States live four more years — and that’s a stretch right there — to see Israel triumph, her children multiply, her enemies divide and die, and her friends figure out a way to make even a bacon cheeseburger Kosher for Passover. 

V’yimeru, Amen.

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

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