Dave Lefkowitz interviews actress and singer Rita Gardner
Topics include: The Fantasticks.
Segment originally aired Sept. 17, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our friend of the Daverhood, Rita Gardner, passed Sept. 23, 2022.
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Here is the 361st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Sept. 17, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Actress Rita Gardner
Dave chats with actress Rita Gardner of the original Fantasticks. Plus an autumnal Saturday Segue, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (fall) and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (9/11).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:08:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Autumn 1 00:33:30 GUEST: Rita Gardner 01:16:00 Sponsors 01:24:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Autumn 2 01:39:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:55:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Fall) 02:33:00 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on 9/11 02:41:00 DAVE GOES OFF – on Potato Day 02:52:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Sept. 17, 2011 Playlist: “Fall” (00:08:30; Bruce Cockburn); “The Leaves That are Green” (00:11:30; Simon & Garfunkel); “Autumn” (00:14:00; Moondog); “Summer’s Gone” (00:16:00; Frogs Gone Fishin’); “When Summer’s Ended” (00:20:00; Bill Morrissey); “The Summer of My Wasted Youth” (00:23:30; Amy Rigby); “The Last Rose of Summer” (00:27:00; Tom Waits); “Much More / I Can See It” (00:31:30) & “Try to Remember / They Were You” (01:11:30; Rita Gardner). “Much More” (00:47:00; The Fantasticks, 1960 off-Broadway cast); “Falling Leaves” (01:25:00), “Heart Full of Leaves” (01:29:00), “Autumn Sea” (01:30:30) & “Autumn is Your Last Chance” (01:34:30; Robyn Hitchcock); “Hotel California” (01:46:30; Eagles); “Golden Loom” (01:55:30), “Sitting on Top of the World” (02:00:00), “Spirit on the Water” (02:04:00), “Cat’s in the Well” (02:12:00), “The Wicked Messenger” (02:15:30) & “Idiot Wind” (02:17:30; Bob Dylan); “Hot Potatoes” (02:37:30; The Kinks); “Autumn Leaves” (02:57:30; Eva Cassidy).
Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon, with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of September 11th, 2011.
Boy, just hearing that date gets you in the kishkes, doesn’t it? September 11th 2011. Somehow that just sounds more meaningful than September 11th 2009 or September 11th 2003 – even though more time has passed. I suppose a ten-year anniversary makes you realize that, no matter what, life goes on, years pass; while at the same time, you recall how much younger you were a decade ago, and what an impact the event had on your life.
Ten years ago, Wall Street was destroyed, not by corruption from within – that came later – but by evil from without. Arabs, in airplanes, with box-cutters. How these scumpuppets were able to circumvent the FAA, the Air Force, the civil defense and any air-traffic controller with eyes remains a mystery greater than how Drakes gets that crème filling into Yodels. I mean, it’s all rolled up; how the hell do they do that?
Anyway, this week we’re hearing a lot of talk about closure. Ten years – it’s almost another generation. The world moves forward, the dead are not coming back, and, of course, we got Bin Laden. When the bullet sailed through his forehead, it made a satisfying parallel to those planes pushing through the buildings. As I mentioned in a previous Reflection, Osama’s death was a wonderful thing, but killing him kills him, not Jihad, not terrorism, not the memories.
As we all know, grief does not follow a time-table. Time heals wounds, but you never know when a scab will come off and start bleeding again. Looking at downtown Manhattan, remembering the 3000 victims, watching any movie that opens with a shot of that old New York City skyline – it all kicks up a sandstorm of memories.
And much as we all want mental therapy and ways to feel better about 9/11, let’s not go overboard making believe something good came out of the attacks. Nothing good came out of that. It was a nightmare; we suffered emotionally, financially, physically. Don’t be looking for feel-good post-mortems because how could there be a silver lining from such a thing? Well, maybe if one of those airplanes had the Kardashian family on it, but it would have to be the whole family, including Bruce Jenner, you know what I’m saying?
Seriously, though, at least there has finally been some progress rebuilding Ground Zero, and it is already possible to foresee a time when our children will think of 9/11 as “mom and dad’s Pearl Harbor Day,” rather than that day. Whether or not we fudged the endgame in Afghanistan, I’m glad we killed a lot of people there. Iraq may have been a blunder, but I’m glad we killed a lot of people there, too. God, I sound like a homicidal Andy Rooney.
On the other hand, they’re saying pretty soon we can once again go through airports keeping the shoes on our feet. Why? Because those feet kicked some ass.
Somewhere, in hell, there’s a dozen Arabs being mocked and brutalized by 72 appallingly ugly virgins, all of them holding box cutters in one hand and Moslem shmeckels in the other. Happy goddamn anniversary.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches.
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Here is the 360th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Sept. 3, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Dave welcomes Labor Day weekend with a Saturday Segue (finest worksongs), Inside Broadway (news), Dylan – “Sooner & Later” (work), Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (on Reb Levin). Plus: Dave Goes Off on the Telethon.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:09:30 GUEST CALLER: Dave’s wife Joyce 00:43:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Finest Worksongs 01:35:00 INSIDE BROADWAY – News & Porgy Problems (01:41:00) 01:53:30 Weather & Sponsors 01:59:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later: Labor 02:36:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #22: Reb Levin 02:44:30 DAVE GOES OFF on the MD Telethon 02:54:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Sept. 3, 2011 Playlist: “Hot Potato” (00:27:00; The Wiggles); “The Potato Song” (00:28:30; Cheryl Wheeler); “Work” (00:43:30; Bob Marley & the Wailers); “Don’t Talk to Me About Work” (00:47:00; Lou Reed); “Work for Your Money” (00:49:30; Howlin’ Wolf); “Go to Work You Jerk” (00:52:00; Benny Bell); “Why Don’t You Get a Job” (00:54:00; The Offspring); “Finest Worksong” (01:00:00; R.E.M.); “Working Class Hero” (01:04:00; Richie Havens); “Take a Job” (01:09:00; Do Re Mi 1999 off-Bway cast); “A Job of Work” (01:12:30; Tom Paxton); “Force on the Workforce” (01:15:00; Keith Hancock); “Get a Job” (01:17:30; The Silhouettes); “Losing Our Job” (01:20:30; The Roches); “Woman’s Work” (01:24:30; Tracy Chapman); “Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)” (01:26:00; Randy Newman); “I Loves You Porgy” (01:49:30; James Brown); “Talkin’ New York” (01:59:30), “North Country Blues” (02:02:30), “Cantina Theme (Workin’ for the Law)” (02:07:30), “You Gotta Serve Somebody” (live) (02:16:30) & “Workingman’s Blues #2” (02:22:30; Bob Dylan); “Tangled Up in Blue” (02:10:00; Robyn Hitchcock); “Rock Me Jerry Lewis” (02:42:00; Mike Elliot & Bud LaTour); “I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work to See My Baby” (02:56:30; Tom Waits).
Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #22 (8/28/2011): REB LEVIN
Aired Aug. 27, 2011 on Dave’s Gone By. watch on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItywotfPBcg
Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon, with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of August 28th, 2011.
My friends, there are so many wonderful Jews who have contributed so much to the world: Jonas Salk, Albert Einstein, Irving Berlin, me… And yet, every once in awhile, we’re confronted with a yiddle, who doesn’t know his tush from his middle. Jews who are evil or ignorant or who merely seem to deny the existence of soap and deodorant.
And so, for every hundred Baruch Spinozas, we get a Bernie Madoff. For every thousand Bob Dylans, we get a Kenny G. So now it pains me to say there’s a Jewish leader going viral on the internet with a homophobic rant. Rabbi Yehuda Levin – and I use the word “Rabbi” loosely, like the way I use the phrase, “I’ll pay you next week,” Rabbi Levin took to the web a few days ago, specifically the day an earthquake struck northern Virginia, and shockwaves were felt all the way up to Manhattan. Loony Levin took this as a sign that HaShem was punishing New York for legalizing gay marriage.
Don’t take my word for it – here’s the Flatbush flake himself:
(transcript of audio) “There’s a direct connection between earthquakes and homosexuality.”
Really? So the Japanese are all gay? The Chinese in 1976? San Francisco in 1906? All right, San Francisco I get, but Peru? India? Portugal – well, it happened in Lisbon, so maybe God got confused and thought they said “Lesbian.”
Rabbi Levin goes on to say:
(transcript of audio) “In New York City and State, where they opened especially on Sunday early after they passed the homosexual marriage law. They couldn’t wait until the regular Monday, but all the county clerks had to open early to service the homosexual couples who wanted to get married.”
Hey, you should be happy. At least they didn’t open Saturday. And that is an interesting choice of words. The clerks had to “service” these homosexual couples. That’s not marriage, that’s a threesome.
The Rabbi goes on to draw a spurious comparison between the new marriage laws and the story of Sodom, where strangers threatened to rape Lot’s family. To Reb Levin, the intruders weren’t wicked because they terrorized the family with sex and violence. No, the wicked part was that their targets were buttholes instead of mouths and twats.
We then get that old saw about natural disasters being God’s response to sinners. Usually, this claptrap comes out of the mouths of born-again goyim on Sunday morning TV. Shameful! Not so much for being delusional, but for pre-empting Matlock.
Still, Rabbi Levin saves his best line about homosexuality till near the end – no pun intended.
(transcript of audio) “You have your shaken your male member in a place where it does not belong.”
Learn this phrase now, because you will no doubt be hearing it on Jimmy Kimmel, Tosh O., The Soup, and, strangely enough, “Bob the Builder.”
(transcript of audio) “You have your shaken your male member in a place where it does not belong.”
Let me tell you something. If you ever had to take a pee in the Port Authority men’s room, you have shaken your male member in a place where it does not belong.
Look, I am not gay, but some of my best friends have acquaintances who know people who are gay. So why can’t people live and let live? The only good thing this Jewish jughead says in the whole video is, “We do not hate homosexuals.” He feels bad for them. Well, so do I. Now that they can get married, they’ll be as miserable as the rest of us.
As for Rabbi Levin, his greatest worry is that legalized homosexuality is just another rung on society’s downward spiral. Or, as he puts it:
(transcript of audio) “We want everyone to understand that if these kinds of activities, and continuing to legislate it, until the moral fiber of this country is forced down the throats of the religious people…”
Leaving aside that that sentence has the grammatical clarity of a Thomas Pynchon novel, what an interesting choice of words the Rabbi uses: “Moral fiber forced down the throats of religious people.” By any chance, Rabbi, would that moral fiber be pink, swollen, blue-veined and have hairy balls underneath it? And if it does, would that be your lucky day?
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches. (transcript of audio) “You have your shaken your male member in a place where it does not belong.” Never gets old.
Dave Lefkowitz and Rabbi Sol Solomon interview radio host Joe Salzone
Topics include: radio, WGBB.
Segment originally aired Aug. 20, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Segment originally aired Aug. 20, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews Too Slim (Fred LaBour), Ranger Doug (Douglas B. Green) and Joey the Cowpolka King (Joey Miskulin) of Riders in the Sky
Topics include: Western music, Toy Story, television.
Segment originally aired Aug. 20, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 359th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Aug. 20, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: Riders in the Sky, comedian Aaron Berg and broadcaster Joe Salzone.
Featuring: Dave chats with comedian Aaron Berg and with Too Slim, Ranger Doug and Joey the Cowpolka King of the western swing band, Riders in the Sky. Plus: A chat with broadcaster Joe Salzone, Inside Broadway, Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (downturn) and a brief Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later segment on schooldays.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:13:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – While We Were Out 00:42:30 GUESTS: Riders in the Sky (Ranger Doug, Too Slim & Joey the Cowpolka King) 01:31:30 GUEST: Aaron Berg 02:08:30 Sponsors 02:11:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the economic downturn 02:19:30 INSIDE BROADWAY – news 02:24:00 Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (schooldays) 02:31:30 GUEST: Joe Salzone 02:57:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Aug. 20, 2011 Playlist: “Time is on My Side” (01:10:30; Rolling Stones); “When Summer’s Ended” (00:13:00) & “You’ll Never Get to Heaven” (00:20:30; Bill Morrissey); “Wake Up Alone” (00:17:00) & “You Know I’m No Good” (00:27:00; Amy Winehouse); “Pata Pata” (00:24:00; Miriam Makeba); “The Land Beyond the Sun” (00:39:00), “Saddle Up” (00:54:30), “Song of the Trail” (01:09:30), “There’s a Blue Sky Way Out Yonder” (01:25:30), “He Walks with the Wild and Lonely” (03:02:00; Riders in the Sky); “Carry That Weight” (01:30:00; The Beatles); “The Untitled (aka The Hardy Boys at the Y)” (02:02:30; Loudon Wainwright III); “Subterranean Homesick Blues, Take 1” (02:24:00) & “Life is Hard” (02:27:00) (Bob Dylan).
Riders in the SkyAaron BergJoe SalzoneRabbi Sol Solomon
Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon, with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of August 21st, 2011.
It’s 12pm – do you know where your money is? First it’s up, then it’s down, then it’s up, then it’s down. If you have your money in the stock market, your portfolio is bouncing up and down faster than a hooker on an epileptic.
I go away for a few weeks, take a little time off, and what do I miss? Oh, nothing. Just America going bankrupt.
How does that work anyway? If we’re supposed to pay three billion dollars to Brazil, and we don’t have it, what do they do? What can they do? Send some guy to the White House – “Hola. My name’s Jorge; I’m supposed to break the President’s legs. If you give me one billion now, I can just break his toes.”
I mean, what does going bankrupt really mean? China won’t loan us any more money? Why are we borrowing from them in the first place? I don’t even like Chinese money. You spend a hundred yen, an hour later you feel like shopping again.
But seriously, if the United States crashes to the floor, every other country crashes to the sub-basement. So maybe they can forgive a loan or two; give us another year to pay off. Let us get to that middle period between our current recession and our next corporate fraud.
You gotta love the arrogance of Wall Street. Last month, all the politicians get together, frantically making a deal to raise the debt ceiling. They’re borrowing from Peter to pay Paul – or, in my lingo, borrowing from Faivel to pay Moish – just so we’re spared embarrassment, shame and having to raise goats and churn our own butter.
America stays solvent, and what happens? Two days later, the stock market plummets a thousand points. We go from a triple-A credit rating to double A. What does that mean? What, we have to get our parents to co-sign a loan – fine, dig up George and Martha Washington, will that be enough?
All the topsy-turvy turbulence of the Dow Jones has nothing to do with jobs or debt or wages or social security. It’s all about rich people playing a game with money that doesn’t exist. That’s all Wall Street is – monopoly played by frat-boy pricks. Which is why, even when 90 percent of us are suffering, 10 percent are making money by the bucket and paying taxes by the thimble.
As for the double-dip… Remember what I said half a year ago about gas prices? Go look it up, I’ll wait. But I’ll also refresh your memory. I said that the country would be fine and recover from the George Bush years – unless gas prices went up. If they hit four dollars, we’re shtupped. So what happened weeks ago? Gas prices zipped past 3.50, people shut their wallets, businesses got scared, supermarkets jacked their prices – voila! economic downturn.
The only good news? Now that the market’s in a lull, oil prices are taking a hit. Sure enough, people will start to spend again – so long as they’re not spending it all on the brown crap the Arabians pump out of the ground.
You want houses to sell again? Make it so it doesn’t cost 500 bucks a month to heat them in the winter. You want folks to take vacations? Make it so the airlines don’t have to charge 50 bucks for luggage to offset gasoline they’re just gonna dump over the Atlantic Ocean anyway. You want Americans to have jobs? Make it so you’re not paying people a measly minimum wage to fry McNuggets and scrape canola from a fryer. Come to think of it, we don’t have to frack in Pennsylvania to strike oil; just hit the kitchen of a Denny’s.
Maybe the answer is: instead of borrowing money, we should just borrow oil. Borrow it, use it, refine the waste product back into petroleum, and then return it to OPEC with a few quarts of ethanol for interest. Of course, it still doesn’t pay the Arab world back for 9/11 but, like with everything else nowadays, we’ll write them an I.O.U.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches.
