Dave’s Gone By #1012 (12/20/2025): RELEASE THE KAREKEN

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Here is episode #1012 of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Dec. 20, 2025.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews playwright Jeremy Kareken and reads “A Parakeet Named Dreidel”; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Cherry Knolls); My Sick Mind (The Reiners); Bunion Watch.

Guests: playwright Jeremy Kareken; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: balloons, dentist, Chanukah bagel
00:34:00 GREELEY TIMES
01:22:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Jeremy Kareken
02:04:00 STORYTIME w/ Rabbi Sol: “The Parakeet Named Dreidel” (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
02:31:00 BUNION WATCH
02:34:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN: Rob Reiner
02:45:00 MY SICK MIND: The Reiners
02:50:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:57:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Cherry Knolls, CO
03:00:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Jeremy Kareken
your host
Rob Reiner, RIP
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Cherry Knolls, CO

Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/20/2025): JEREMY KAREKEN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright JEREMY KAREKEN

Topics include: The Value of Names, Lifespan of a Fact, playwriting

Segment airs Dec. 20, 2025 as part of episode #1012 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 Interview (6/26/2021): CONSTANCE CONGDON

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Dave chats with playwright CONSTANCE CONGDON, who then plays the Today/Yesterday trivia quiz opposite Lesiie (Hoban) Blake and David Sheward.

Topics include: playwriting, academia, incontinence.

Segment aired June 26, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Connie Congdon

Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/2/2017): RICHARD NELSON & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright Richard Nelson

Topics include: playwriting, The Gabriels, Illyria, Public Theater, Rhinebeck, politics, Judaism.

Segment airs Dec. 2, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/27/2014): ARI ROTH & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews playwright and theatrical producer Ari Roth

Topics include: Theater J, Judaism, Arthur Miller, playwriting

Segment aired Dec. 27, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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