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Dave’s Gone By #1028 (4/11/2026): ASH SATURDAY

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Here is episode #1028, “Ash Saturday,” of the Dave’s Gone By podcast, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, April 11, 2026.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews playwright S. Asher Gelman; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (College Hills); StoryTime (Potato Pants); Dave’s song “Don’t Bugger Me.”

Guests: playwright and director S. Asher Gelman; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: naughty producers, Art Paul’s paintings, Passover onions
00:49:30 DAVE SAYS BYE: Terry Schreiber, David Gersten
00:59:30 GREELEY TIMES
01:33:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews S. Asher Gelman
02:14:00 STORYTIME: Potato Pants (by Laurie Keller)
02:42:00 MY OLD PHLEGM: Aladdin’s lamp
02:48:30 Friends of the Daverhood
02:59:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: College Hills, CO
03:02:30 DAVE GOES OUT

April 11, 2026 Playlist: “Don’t Bugger Me” (02:38:30; Dave)

S. Asher Gelman
S. Asher Gelman & Rabbi Sol Solomon
Art Paul Schlosser, Painting for Day 348: “When You’re Feeling Blue”
College Hills, CO

SONG: Don’t Bugger Me

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DON’T BUGGER ME

(c)2026 David Lefkowitz

(Sung to the melody of The Beatles’s “Don’t Bother Me” by George Harrison)

The judge said, “Hey, you’ll have to pay, you did the crime.”
I’m in the pen with many men all doing time.
So go away, leave me alone
Don’t bugger me.

I live in fear `cause people here are queer and black
They look so tough I know they’d roughly stuff my crack
So put away your throbbing bone
Don’t bugger me.

I’m crying nightly without hope
I hold on tightly to my soap
Because I know if I bend low
That’s where these friends will go

Yes, I am cowed by this whole crowd so well-endowed
One of these weeks they’ll spread my cheeks and I’ll get plowed
Don’t make me share my derrière
Don’t bugger me

So get a life, I’m not your wife
Don’t bugger me

Although my butt is firm and cute
I don’t want sperm in my poop chute
Because my ass is just a vent
For gas and excrement

It’s fair to say men locked away still have a need
But if they jump upon my rump, I’ll scream and bleed
So listen here, steer clear of my rear
Don’t bugger me
Don’t bugger me
Don’t bugger me
Don’t bugger me

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NOTES & BACKSTORY:
[April 2026]: Another song that came to me partially one late afternoon, marinated in me overnight, and then got finished and recorded the next day (April 9, 2026, to be exact). I’m proud(?) to say this is my 14th Beatles parody yet not the first to reference sodomy (cf. “Chester’s Gay”). I think the “plowed” rhyme is my favorite, followed by “I’m not your wife.” Note – `twas only during the recording process that I hit upon adding Ned Beatty’s “Deliverance” squeals during the karaoke instrumental, which I believe takes the tune to a whole other, even lower, level.

Dave’s Gone By Interview (11/22/2025): BEN BRANTLEY

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with theater critic BEN BRANTLEY

Topics include: theater, Follies, Peppermint, Ivo van Hove, theater, Broadway, New York Times

Segment aired Nov. 22, 2025 as part of episode #1008 of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (10/11/2025): MANUEL IGREJAS & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with writer MANUEL IGREJAS

Topics include: Blue Man Group, playwriting, health

Segment airs Oct. 11, 2025 as part of episode #1003 of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #991 (7/19/2025): BOTT MITZVAH

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Here is the 991st episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, July 19, 2025.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actor David Dean Bottrell; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Two Buttes); Greeley Times; Dave’s song “The Pervert’s Song (As Rears Go By)”; StoryTime.

Guest: actor-playwright David Dean Bottrell; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: laser beams, Korean game show, Steiff squirrel
00:50:00 GREELEY TIMES
01:15:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interview David Dean Bottrell
02:02:00 STORYTIME: “So You Want to Be President?”, pt. 2 (Judith St. George & David Small)
02:14:30 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: devise
02:33:30 SONG: “The Pervert’s Song (As Rears Go By)”
02:37:30 Friends of the Daverhood
02:48:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Two Buttes, CO
02:55:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN: Deeds Indeed, Ground Squirrels
03:09:30 DAVE GOES OUT: Show #1000

July 19, 2025 Playlist: “The Pervert’s Song (As Rears Go By)” (Dave; 02:33:30)

David Dean Bottrell
Rabbi Sol Solomon
your host
Two Buttes, 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 Interview (1/23/2021): MICHAEL LEVINE

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with urban planner MICHAEL LEVINE

Topics include: NYC urban planning, Stonewall, Greenwich Village and Soho, Aunt Sadie.

Segment aired Jan. 23, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Note: Farewell to our Friend of the Daverhood, Michael Levine, who passed Feb. 24, 2025.

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Dave’s Gone By #782 (1/23/2021): 57 VARIETIES

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Here is the 782nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Jan. 23, 2021.

Guests: city planner Michael Levine, Dave’s cousin Adam Glass, theater critics Leslie (Hoban) Blake & David Sheward, and friends Fred Cleaver & Wendy Highby.

Featuring: Dave chats with his two cousins, urban planner Michael Levine and Adam Glass; Inside Broadway; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Beulah Valley); Today/Yesterday theater quiz (Jan. 23 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Fred Cleaver & Wendy Highby, & David Sheward).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (my birthday–looking forward and backward)
00:33:00 GUEST: Rosemary Weil
00:34:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:00:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:17:00 GUEST: Adam Glass
01:36:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY Trivia Quiz (Jan. 23 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake, David Sheward, Fred Cleaver & Wendy Highby)
02:31:00 GUEST: Michael Levine
03:20:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:28:00 Birthday Wishes
03:54:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED
03:57:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Jan. 23, 2021 Playlist: “Happy Birthday” (03:29:00; Art Paul Schlosser)

Dave’s Gone By Interview (4/4/2020): KEITH SHERMAN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with publicist KEITH SHERMAN

Topics include: Broadway, Frank Sinatra, COVID-19, 42nd Street. 

Segment aired April 4, 2020 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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More about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com.