Dave’s Gone By #990 (7/12/2025): VAN GO

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Here is the 990th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, July 12, 2025.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actor Ned Van Zandt and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on airport shoes; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Burns); Greeley Times; Dave’s song “Thumb in My Bum”; StoryTime (“So You Want to be President?”).

Guest: actor-playwright Ned Van Zandt; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: happy show, summer’s over, Fiddle Faddle, bees, The Filling Station
01:04:00 GREELEY TIMES
01:35:30 STORYTIME: So You Want to be President? (Judith St. George & David Small)
02:00:00 GUEST Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Ned Van Zandt
02:49:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #197: Airport Shoes
02:59:30 Friends of the Daverhood
03:14:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Burns, CO
03:20:00 DAVE GOES OUT
03:24:30 SONG: “Thumb in My Bum”

July 12, 2025 Playlist: “Thumb in My Bum” (Dave; 03:24:30)

Ken Van Zandt
His Eminence, Rabbi Sol Solomon
Burns, CO

Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/12/2025): NED VAN ZANDT & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor NED VAN ZANDT

Topics include: Del Valle, Chelsea Hotel, Doris Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Townes Van Zandt

Segment airs July 12, 2025 as part of the 990th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (6/28/2025): STORYTIME: Dave Reads “A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken”

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STORYTIME: Dave Reads “A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken”

For this week’s StoryTime segment on Dave’s Gone By, Dave reads Hannah Holt’s book, “A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken”

This segment aired July 5, 2025 as part of the 989th “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 #989 (7/5/2025): FORD MOTORS

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Here is the 989th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, July 5, 2025.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews poet Devon Fulford and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on Danielle Khalaf and the ACLU; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Burkett); StoryTime (“A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken”); Greeley Times.
Guests: poet Devon Fulford; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: lawn animals, July 4th at Nathan’s, Richard Greenberg
01:14:00 GREELEY TIMES
01:44:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Devon Fulford
02:25:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #196: Danielle Khalaf and the ACLU
02:35:30 STORYTIME: “A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken” (Hannah Holt)
02:57:30 Friends of the Daverhood
03:04:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Burdett, CO
03:07:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Devon Fulford
Danielle Khalaf
Rabbi Sol Solomon

Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/5/2025): DEVON FULFORD & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with poet DEVON FULFORD

Topics include: poetry, English, university, tattoos, illness

Segment airs July 5, 2025 as part of the 989th 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: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (6/28/2025): STORYTIME: Dave Reads “Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva”

For this week’s StoryTime segment on Dave’s Gone By, Dave reads the religious children’s book on Buddhism, “Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva” This segment aired June 28, 2025 as part of the 988th “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 #988 (6/28/2025): AKA PABLO

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Here is the 988th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, June 28, 2025.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews comedian Pablo Lewin and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on Zohran Mamdani; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Bunyan); Bunion Watch; StoryTime (Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva)

Guests: comedian Pablo Lewin; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: flying sloths, exercise, dentistry, hummingbirds, frog refuse, Riverside Tower
01:18:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Pablo Lewin
01:58:00 GREELEY TIMES
02:24:30 STORYTIME: “Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva”
02:53:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:08:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #195: Zohran Mamdani
03:20:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Bunyan & BUNION WATCH (03:21:30)
03:25:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Pablo Lewin
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Bunyan, CO
your host and his Froggo friend
Potato takes in the view from the Riverside Tower Hotel

Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/28/2025): PABLO LEWIN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedian PABLO LEWIN

Topics include: stand-up comedy, aviation, ham radio, Israel.

Segment airs June 28, 2025 as part of the 987th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #987 (6/14/2025): PACKER OF THE LEAD

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Here is the 987th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, June 14, 2025.

Featuring: Dave interviews theatrical Randy Packer; Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on Sly & Bri; StoryTime (Alien Tomato); Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Buckeye).

Guest: director Randy Packer, spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, Come Blow Your Horn, Dr. Demento
01:14:30 GUEST: Randy Packer
01:58:30 GREELEY TIMES
02:23:30 STORYTIME: Alien Tomato (by Kristen Schroeder)
02:40:30 Friends of the Daverhood
02:53:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #194: Sly & Bri
03:01:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Buckeye, CO
03:04:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Randy Packer
your host (left) meets a fan
Sly Stone (top), Brian Wilson.
Rabbi Sol Solomon
original Broadway cast
Buckeye, CO

Dave’s Gone By #986 (6/7/2025): THE 20th ANNUAL TOTALTHEATER TONY SPECIAL

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Here is the 986th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, June 7, 2025.

Special Broadway edition! Featuring: Host Dave Lefkowitz chats with Muny artistic director and executive producer Mike Isaacson and with theater critics Leslie (Hoban) Blake, David Finkle, Charles Gross, Brian Scott Lipton, Jonathan Mandell, Carey Purcell, David Sheward, Raven Snook, Zachary Stewart about the Tony Award nominees; critics Robert Viagas, David Sheward, and Eva Heinemann play Tony Trivia; Rabbi Sol Solomon offers his Rabbinical Reflection on the Tony nominations; and Dave offers a quick season overview and Says Bye to theatrical friends of the Daverhood who have left us.

Guests: artistic director Mike Isaacson; theater critics Leslie (Hoban) Blake, David Finkle, Charles Gross, Eva Heinemann, Brian Scott Lipton, Jonathan Mandell, Carey Purcell, David Sheward, Raven Snook, Zachary Stewart, Robert Viagas; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:09:00 Other Awards
00:18:00 GUEST: Jonathan Mandell
00:27:00 GUEST: Carey Purcell
00:43:30 GUEST: Mike Isaacson
01:01:30 GUEST: Brian Scott Lipton
01:15:00 GUEST: David Finkle
01:30:00 TONY TRIVIA w/ Eva Heinemann, David Sheward, Robert Viagas
02:19:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #193: Tony Awards 2025
02:29:00 GUEST: Charles Gross
02:39:30 GUEST: Zachary Stewart
02:52:00 DAVE SAYS BYE: in memorium
02:57:00 GUEST: Raven Snook
03:08:30 GUEST: Leslie (Hoban) Blake
03:19:30 The Season Overview
03:30:00 DAVE GOES OFF

June 7, 2025 Playlist: “Blossom Time” (00:00:01; Joseph C. Smith); “Oh, Lady Be Good” (03:38:30; Carl Fenton)

Leslie (Hoban) Blake
David Finkle
Charles Gross
Eva Heinemann
Muny artistic director Mike Isaacson
Brian Scott Lipton
Jonathan Mandell
David Sheward
Raven Snook
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Zachary Stewart
Robert Viagas
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