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Here is episode #1020 of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Feb. 14, 2026.
Featuring: Greeley Times; Bunion Watch; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Clayton); Song: “The Worst Song Ever Written”; Dave’s Big Dictionary (Canoodle); StoryTime (“Ann’s Big Muffin”); Wretched Pun of Destiny (English King).
Guest: spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: Olympic curling, Yule Log, capybaras, Judit Polgar 01:09:30 BUNION WATCH 01:12:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN: salad, jury duty 01:33:30 GREELEY TIMES 02:00:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: canoodle 02:15:00 Cornhole Break! 02:22:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #201: Noam Chomsky 02:35:00 STORYTIME: Leslie McGuire’s “Ann’s Big Muffin” 02:45:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:59:00 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #95: English King 03:03:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Clayton, CO 03:06:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Feb. 14, 2026 Playlist: “The Worst Song Ever Written” (02:29:30; Dave)
Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #201 (2/14/2026): NOAM CHOMSKY
This Rabbinical Reflection first aired Feb. 14, 2026 on the Dave’s Gone By video podcast.
Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflections are heard on the long-running Dave’s Gone By radio/video podcast program (davesgoneby.com) and then archived as text and audio on the Rebbe’s blog, Shalomdammit.com, where a transcript of this Reflection may be read.
Rabbi Sol is also the creator of the stage show, “Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon,” which played in NYC in Nov. 2011 and Aug. 2012.
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TRANSCRIPT: Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for mid-February 2026.
I had no idea! I was completely in the dark. There were rumors, but who listens to gossip?
We’ve heard these excuses from everyone from children who deny taking the last cookie to Polacks living a mile away from Auschwitz: “we were oblivious.”
That same convenient blindness now attaches itself to so many people whose names are in the unredacted files of one Jeffrey Epstein, handsome rich guy, philanthropist, party animal and, oh yeah, sex trafficker and pedophile. From Donald Trump to Prince Andrew to Woody Allen to Bill Clinton to New York Giants owner Steven Tisch, the elite were happy to hobnob with this hobgoblin because he could write a check and make your dreams come true. Or at the very least invite you to his idyllic island, complete with fruity drinks and hot-and-cold-running concubines.
Did these millionaire celebrities really know-know that what their friend was doing was a no-no? Benefit of a doubt: probably not to a full extent (Prince Andrew excepted). But there’s also not wanting to know what you know, you know? And that’s where we are with the latest name to crop up in the Epstein Chronicles: Noam Chomsky. Blathering intellectual, cunning linguist, and relentless Israel basher — he was an enemy of the state even before it became de rigueur on college campuses.
When it came to Jeffrey Epstein, however, this know-it-all, knew it not. And it isn’t that, back in the day, he hung with Epstein at social gatherings and probably looked down Ghislaine Maxwell’s blouse a time or two. No, Epstein and Chomsky exchanged letters long after the former was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor. What he was doing in in a mine, I don’t know. But the point is, Jeffrey asked Noam, “Hey, I’m in legal tzuris here, and the press is up my tuchas. What do I do?” And Chomsky’s advice was not, “Don’t pimp children.” (Or he might have found a more syntactically interesting way to put it.) Instead, the professor told him, “Ignore the press. Shtup the hysterical media. It’s all hashtag-Me-Too overreach. Don’t they know what a fantastic wealthy decent wealthy entertaining wealthy influential wealthy man you are? And by the way, your wife has an okay rack.”
Following a stroke in 2023, 97-year-old Chomsky is unable to communicate — which may be the best news so far this year. But his wife, a translator and legal analyst, has piped up in Noam’s defense. She says, yes, in retrospect, their pal Epstein was a weentzy bit evil. She chalked her husband’s ignorance up to “careless research.” Hmm. Makes you wonder what else this M.I.T. academic, who published over 150 books, got wrong. Could it be everything? An anti-Communist who defended Pol Pot, an anti-capitalist with a very profitable stock portfolio, and a Jew, whose defense of free speech was really helpful to Holocaust deniers, Noam Chomsky can’t tell the heroes from the villains. Which means that perhaps his positing of Israel as the boogeyman proves he’s the bullshit-man.
So let the leftists quote him, let the intifadans venerate him. I say shtup him, which I guarantee you’d have to pay a 15-year-old girl from Saint Thomas a huge bonus to do.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
