Dave’s Gone By Interview (8/22/2015): MICHAEL PAUL SMITH & GILLIAN PENSAVALLE

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (8/22/15) MICHAEL PAUL SMITH & GILLIAN PENSAVALLE

Dave Lefkowitz interviews “The Residuals” creators Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle

Topics include: The Residuals, web series, acting, auditioning.

Segment aired Aug. 22, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #523 (8/22/2015): RESIDUAL EFFECTS

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Here is the 523rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio Aug. 22, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave chats with Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle and with UNC General Manager Matthew Davis. Plus: Rabbi Sol Solomon‘s Rabbinical Reflection on Jimmy Carter, Inside Broadway, My Sick Mind, Saturday Segues (Tori Amos, In the News), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Bob Johnston).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle (“The Residuals”), UNC Radio General Manager Matthew Davis.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (back to school, commercials)
00:19:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Tori Amos
00:44:00 GUESTS: Michael Paul Smith & Gillian Pensavalle
01:24:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:47:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Bob Johnston)
02:13:30 sponsors
02:22:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #131 (Jimmy Carter)
02:32:00 Update: The Miracle of Long Johns
02:38:00 Friends
02:44:30 MY SICK MIND: Jared
02:52:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
03:08:00 GUEST: Matthew Davis
03:41:00 Weather
03:44:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Aug. 22, 2015 “Hey Jupiter” (00:24:30), “You Can Bring Your Dog” (00:30:30), “Original Sinsuality” (00:34:30) & “Crucify” (00:37:00; Tori Amos). “The Entertainer” (01:44:00; Scott Joplin {via piano roll}). “To Be Alone with You” (01:56:30) & “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (01:58:30; Bob Dylan). “Human Bomb” (02:53:00; Donovan). “The Subway Diet” (02:57:00; John Pinette). “Throw the Anchor Away” (02:58:00; By the Beautiful Sea 1954 Broadway cast). “Sad News from Korea” (03:00:00; Lightnin’ Hopkins). “Ashley” (03:03:00; Big Jean). “School Days” (03:50:00; Phil Ochs).

Michael Paul Smith & Gillian Pensavalle
Matt Davis
Bob Johnston
Tori Amos

Dave’s Gone By #522 (8/15/2015): KOSHER PICKLES

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Here is the 522nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Aug. 15, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with Christina Pickles. Plus: Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (in need of a bed), Wretched Pun of Destiny (new planet), Saturday Segues (Colin Moulding, in the news).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: actress Christina Pickles (“Break a Hip,” “Friends”), UNC programming director Matthew Davis, Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (death metal, pickles)
00:26:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:14:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Colin Moulding
01:35:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:52:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Christina Pickles
02:25:00 Sponsors
02:32:00 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY – new planet
02:34:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (in need of a bed)
03:03:30 Friends
03:11:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News w/ Matthew Davis
03:52:30 Weather w/ Matthew Davis
03:55:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Aug. 15, 2015 Playlist: “I’m the Meany” (00:22:30; Wild Man Fischer). “Fruit Nut” (01:17:00), “Generals and Majors” (01:20:30), “Grass” (01:24:30) & “King for a Day” (01:27:00; XTC). “Here I Go” (If/Then 2014 Bway cast w/ Idina Menzel). “Lay Lady Lay” (02:40:00), “From a Buick 6” ({alternate version}; 02:47:30) & “Isis” (02:50:30; Bob Dylan). “Tomorrow is a Long Time” (Sandy Denny; 02:43:30). “You Beat Me to the Punch” (03:11:00; Mary Wells). “I Predict a Riot” (Kaiser Chiefs; 03:14:00). “Funny Cancer Greeting Cards” (03:18:00; Tig Notaro). “Crazy ABCs” (03:19:30; Barenaked Ladies). “9-5 Pollution Blues” (03:23:30; Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band). “How Much is that Pickle in the Window?” (03:46:30; Mickey Katz).

Christina Pickles
Matt Davis
Colin Moulding
Dylan sleeping

Dave’s Gone By Wretched Pun of Destiny #049 (8/15/2015): NEW PLANET

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A French astronomer thrills his colleagues when he calls them over to his telescope and shows them his discovery: a new planet.

“That’s amazing!” they say. “Can you tell what it’s made out of?”

“From what I can see, it’s a bunch of molecular clusters that formed into a giant polymer.”

“We must alert the whole scientific community,” says another colleague. “Hey, have you named it yet?”

“No,” says the astronomer. “I’m stuck on that part.”

“Well, what about naming it after yourself?”

“I thought about that, but my first name is Jean, which would sound silly: Planet Jean. And my last name is Eugenia, which, as you know, already is a planet.”

Another scientist chimes in, “Well, what about naming it based on how it looks?”

“Not a bad idea,” says Jean, looking through his telescope. “Well, its surface is smooth, and the color is yellowish white. It’s slightly more ovoid than round. Maybe we should call it, Planet Egg.”

“Okay,” says the head of the lab. “We should sent out a press release to all the journals, Scientific American, Astronomy Now, Sky and Telescope, and Italian Cuisine Magazine.

“Wait,” says the astronomer. “I get the journals and the science books. But why Italian Cuisine?”

“Because,” says the colleague. “You found an Egg Planet Polymer, Jean.”

Dave’s Gone By Interview (8/15/2015): CHRISTINA PICKLES & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actress Christina Pickles

Topics include: Break a Hip, Friends, Another World, Broadway.

Segment scheduled to air Aug. 15, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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

Dave’s Gone By #521 (8/8/2015): WHAT I LEARNED

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Here is the 521st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Aug. 8, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor-producer Gary Waldman and Dave chats with UNC Radio programming director Matthew Davis. Plus: Inside Broadway, The Wretched Pun of Destiny (Zoo), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Another Side Loaded), Saturday Segues (Buck Owens; In the News).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: entertainer Gary Waldman, UNC Radio Programming Director Matthew Davis, Dave’s wife, Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (dull week, car battery, Trump, sea captain)
00:33:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:08:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (long johns)
01:15:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Buck Owens
01:41:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:04:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Gary Waldman
02:49:30 Friends
02:57:30 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY (zoo)
03:00:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later – Another Side Loaded
03:16:00 Weather w/ Matthew Davis
03:20:00 GUEST: Matthew Davis
03;43:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
04:04:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Aug. 8, 2015 Playlist: “Where Does the Good Times Go” (01:21:30), “Only You (Can Break My Heart)” (01:24:00), “Together Again” (01:26:30), “Buckaroo” (01:28:30) & “It Will Never Be Over for Me” (01:30:30; Buck Owens). “Alexander Hamilton’s Rap Song” (01:59:30; Lin-Manuel Miranda). Musical Excerpts (02:44:00; Gary Waldman). “Motorpsycho Nightmare” (03:03:00), “Driftin’ Too Far from Shore” (03:07:30) & “I Don’t Believe You” ({live Last Waltz version}; 03:11:00; Bob Dylan). “Life in Prison” (03:44:00; The Byrds). “Debate Exposes Doubt” (03:46:30; Death Cab for Cutie). “Broken Aeroplanes” (03:51:00; Richard Butler). “Daily News” (03:56:00; Tom Paxton).

Gary Waldman
Matt Davis
Dylan’s Knocked Out Loaded
David Lefkowitz in “The Miracle of Long Johns” at Studio Theater in Theater Row NYC, October 23, 2015. Photo by Farnaz Taherimotlagh.

Dave’s Gone By Interview (8/8/2015): MATTHEW DAVIS

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews UNC radio programming director Matthew Davis

Topics include: Little Theater of the Rockies, Marathon `33, University of Northern Colorado.

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Dave’s Gone By Wretched Pun of Destiny #048 (8/8/2015): ZOO

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Segment aired April 4, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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A new trainee at the L.A. Zoo is learning the ropes of both the apiary and the small aquatic mammals section.

On his first morning, the supervisor tells him, “You’re in luck. We just got a huge beehive shipped from a zoo in San Francisco. These are great bees to work with because the Bay Area weather makes them very docile. That’s why we’re going to crossbreed them with our more aggressive honeybees from Africa.”

So they spend a productive morning with the bees, and then after lunch, they look at the muskrats and beavers and otters and other small mammals.

The next day, they do the same routine. They check the beehive and see how many are mating, how many aren’t, and how many didn’t survive. Amazingly, only one bee from San Francisco hasn’t survived through the night. The trainee delicately scoops it up in a container and is about to throw it away when the supervisor says, “No time! I just got a text. We have to head over to the mammals.”

They get there and they see one of the otters floating face down. “What happened?” says the supervisor.

“Well, he was old,” answers the veteran zookeeper. “He was getting his medicinal bath when his heart gave out. I’m afraid you two will have dispose of him.”

So the supervisor and the trainee delicately remove the otter from the bath. The trainee then puts the mammal in a crate with the dead bee from San Francisco. He’s about to toss them both in the dumpster when the supervisor stops him. “No, no, no!” he cries. “They have to be separate.”

“How come?” the trainee asks.

“Don’t you know?” says the supervisor. “You can’t throw the Bay Bee out with the Bath Otter.”

Dave’s Gone By Interview (8/8/2015): GARY WALDMAN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actor-director Gary Waldman

Topics include: What I Learned in Fallsburg, Paul Simon, Catskills

Segment aired Aug. 8, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Wretched Pun of Destiny #047 (8/2/2015): CHIMNEY

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Before he moved into his big house in the Hollywood Hills, actor Joaquin Phoenix needed to have the place cleaned out. He hired a crew for the job, who inspected the house and made their report. The crew chief told Phoenix that the interior was in good shape except for the fireplace. “It’s a disaster up there,” he said. “First, there’s all this rotting wood just stacked in a mound halfway up the chimney.”

“That doesn’t sound so bad,” says the actor.

“It wouldn’t be,” replies the chief, “but the rot has been a breeding ground for thousands of insects. In order to kill the bugs, we have to clean and disinfect every inch of the chimney.”

The actor responds, “Well, I’m sure you have your own chemicals. But if you want, I’ve also got two bottles of ammonia under the sink.”

“Sure,” says the chief, who sets his crew to work. A half hour later, he checks on the chimney, only to see his best worker sprawled out with a thermometer in his mouth.

“Oh, boss,” he says, “I don’t feel so hot.”

“What’s the matter?” says the chief.

“Can’t you tell?” says the worker. “I’ve got the Joaquin Ammonia in the Buggy Woody Flue.”