Dave’s Gone By Wretched Pun of Destiny #015 (12/6/2014): RESTAURANTS

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The 15th Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Dec. 6, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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The head of Milwaukee’s restaurant bureau was in the hospital recovering from a heart attack.

He didn’t mind the downtime until he heard that a big Hollywood movie was coming to town, and he felt awful that he couldn’t escort the stars to the best restaurants the way he usually did. He begged his doctors, “Please, let me bring them to my favorite places!” But the doctors said, “No, you’re not ready.” “Please!” he said. “It’s George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Bill Murray, Laura Dern — I’ll sleep the whole rest of the day, just let me do my celebrity restaurant tours; it’s what we’re known for!”

He begged and pleaded until finally, against their better judgment, the doctors gave in and let him take the movie stars to dinner. He took George Clooney to a French bistro. He took Julia Roberts to the best Mexican place. He brought Bill Murray to a great burger joint. And everything was fine until the last day, when he collapsed in the delicatessen where he had taken Laura Dern for beer and brats.

The coroner held a press conference, and reporters asked him if the doctors were negligent for allowing the guy to resume the tour. “No, said the coroner, “They checked on him every day, and he was doing great. But then he took a Dern for the wurst.”

Dave’s Gone By #487 (12/6/2014): BAUER HOUR

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Here is the 487th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 6, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with film expert Nan Bauer (Nanettesfeast.com). Plus: Dave and his wife Joyce go Inside Broadway (Peter Pan). Also: Saturday Segues (Waits & Sinatra, Jim Morrison), Dylan – Sooner & Later (Beacon), The Wretched Pun of Destiny, Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection on Bill Cosby, and the brand-new segment, “Greeley Crime Beat.”

Guest Co-Host: Dave’s wife Joyce Weil

Guest: Film expert Nan Bauer.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (k-cups)
00:13:00 GREELEY CRIME BEAT
00:35:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN
00:55:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Jim Morrison
01:15:00 Sponsors
01:23:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:23:30), Peter Pan on TV (01:42:30))
02:05:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Nan Bauer
03:13:30 Friends
03:20:30 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #15 (Restaurants)
03:23:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Beacon)
03:48:30 DAVE GOES OFF – Bill Cosby
04:00:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #112 – Bill Cosby
04:07:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Tom Waits & Frank Sinatra
04:39:30 Weather
04:43:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 6, 2014 Playlist: “Midtown” (00:13:00), “Warm Beer and Cold Women” (04:12:30), “Barcarolle” (04:22:00), “How’s it Gonna End” (04:29:00) & “Lucky Day” (04:49:00; Tom Waits). “Back Door Man” (00:56:30), “I Looked at You” (01:00:00), “Hyacinth House” (01:02:30), “The Spy – Version 2” (01:05:30) & “Love Me Two Times” (01:09:00; The Doors). “I Gotta Crow (Reprise)” (01:42:30) & “Hook’s Waltz” (01:57:30; Peter Pan 1997 Broadway cast w/ Cathy Rigby & Paul Schoeffler). “Like in the Movies” (02:01:30; The Pretenders). “If You were in My Movie” (03:09:00; Suzanne Vega). “Things have Changed” (03:26:30), “Scarlet Town” (03:31:30), “She Belongs to Me” ({alternate take}; 03:38:30) & “Beyond Here Lies Nothin'” (03:42:00; Bob Dylan). “Come Rain or Come Shine” (04:18:00), “I See Your Face Before Me” (04:26:00) & “Old Devil Moon” (04:34:00; Frank Sinatra).

Nan Bauer
Jim Morrison
Tom Waits
Frank Sinatra
Bill Cosby

Dave’s Gone By Interview (11/29/2014): BABY JANE DEXTER & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews singer Baby Jane Dexter

Topics include: cabaret, depression, rape, AIDS.

Segment aired Nov. 29, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Sad Note: Our Friend of the Daverhood, Baby Jane Dexter, passed May 20, 2019. 

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Dave’s Gone By Wretched Pun of Destiny #014 (11/29/2014): TRACY MORGAN

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The 14th Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Nov. 22, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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For his work on “30 Rock,” comedian Tracy Morgan was in London to be knighted by the queen. Unfortunately, right after the ceremony, Morgan begins suffering terrible maladies related to his near-fatal car accident.

They bring him to the Royal Hospital where he complains of dizziness and a burning sensation in his left hip.

The doctor examines Morgan for a few minutes and makes some brief notes on a chart, which he hands to the head nurse. But she stops him in the hall. “I’m sorry, doctor, but I don’t understand your notes,” she tells him.

The doctor says, “It’s simple. We put the patient in a spinning centrifuge to counteract his vertigo. Then we drain off some fluid from his hip to ease the inflammation. It’s all there on the chart.”

“Oh, now I get it!” gasps the nurse. “Spin Sir Tracy, and Catheter in Hip Burn.”

Dave’s Gone By #486 (11/29/2014): WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO BABY JANE

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Here is the 486th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Nov. 29, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with singer Baby Jane Dexter. Plus: Saturday Segue (this week), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Real Live), The Wretched Pun of Destiny (Tracy Morgan).

Guests: singer Baby Jane Dexter, Dave’s wife, Joyce Weil

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil (late start, Thanksgiving with Frendy, Paul Williams)
01:04:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – This Week
01:27:00 More with Dave & Joyce (auto-correct, Sting)
01:35:00 Sponsors
01:53:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Baby Jane Dexter
03:26:00 Friends
03:31:30 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #14 – Tracy Morgan
03:34:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Real Live)
03:54:30 Weather
03:57:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Nov. 29, 2014 Playlist: “Baby Jane” (00:45:00; Rod Stewart). “Jelly Roll Gum Drop” (01:07:30; Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention). “Everybody’s Wrong” (01:12:30; Buffalo Springfield). “Little Wing” (01:14:30; Jimi Hendrix). “Norwegian Wood” (01:17:00; The Beatles). “Gimme Shelter” (01:19:00; The Rolling Stones). “The Kids are All Right” (01:23:30; The Who). “I Got Thunder” (01:50:30), “You Really Got a Hold On Me” (02:11:30), “One Meatball” (02:25:00), “Chickie Chickie Chickie” (02:46:30), “Fifteen Ugly Minutes” (02:51:30), “Everybody Hurts” (03:16:00) & “Zing Went the Strings of My Heart” (04:02:00; Baby Jane Dexter). “Tombstone Blues” ({Real Live version}; 03:44:00), “License to Kill” ({Real Live version}; 03:45:30) & “Ballad of a Thin Man” ({Real Live version}; 03:49:00; Bob Dylan).

Baby Jane Dexter
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Streema
Dylan’s Real Live

Dave’s Gone By Interview (11/22/2014): CHAZZ PALMINTERI & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actor Chazz Palminteri

Topics include: A Bronx Tale, Yankees, theater, Bullets Over Broadway, Robert De Niro.

Segment aired Nov. 15, 2014 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 #013 (11/22/2014): OLD TEA

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The 13th Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Nov. 22, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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An old Asian tea maker took pride in teaching his culinary students a very special blend of his chai tea. The brew had a strong, delicious taste and an oddly delicate bouquet. No matter how his young students tried, even the best ones could not replicate the brew.

What the teacher couldn’t tell them was the real reason his tea had such a distinct flavor: every morning before school, he would wake up, take a dry loofa and scrape the wrinkly, dead skin off one of his buttocks and into the bag of leaves.

All goes fine until one day, a know-it-all student takes a sip of the old man’s signature tea. “Ugh,” says the boy, “when was this tea made, 1937?”

“What you talk about?” says the teacher, “is fresh, new tea!”

“New? This tastes ancient. I don’t wanna make old tea.”

“Old? Is not old! Made right now!”

“Is not!” counters the boy. “What kind of teacher are you?”

“I good teacher!” the old man yells, “and is new tea!”

“No, it isn’t,” says the boy, “I’m outta here.”

The kid turns to leave, but the teacher grabs him by the collar and hollers, “I good teacher! No Chai Old, Left Behind!”

Dave’s Gone By #485 (11/22/2014): ALL THAT CHAZZ

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Here is the 485th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Nov. 22, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor Chazz Palminteri. Plus: Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection (Murder in Jerusalem), Inside Broadway, The Wretched Pun of Destiny (Old Tea), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Rolling Thunder), Saturday Segues (Randy Newman, Thanksgiving Feast).

Guests: actor Chazz Palminteri, Dave’s wife, Joyce Weil

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (Oofty’s Nuts, UNC’s perks, Waste Management Phoenix Open, winter blues, bad-news Bears, Boing!, bad Bard)
01:32:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Randy Newman
01:54:00 Sponsors
01:59:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Chazz Palminteri
02:31:00 Friends
02:36:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
03:02:00 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #13 (Old Tea)
03:04:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later – Rolling Thunder
03:30:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #111 – Murder in Jerusalem
03:39:00 Weather
03:42:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Thanskgiving Feast
04:01:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Nov. 22, 2014 Playlist: “Laugh and Be Happy” (01:34:30), “Shining” (01:37:00), “Real Emotional Girl” (01:43:30) & “Losing You” (01:46:00; Randy Newman). “Have You Seen My Baby” (Chris Smither; 01:41:00). “Disc Jockey” (02:41:00; Mike Nichols & Elaine May). “Tonight, I’ll Be Staying Here with You” ({live 1975 version}, 03:09:00), “Isis” ({Live 1975 version}, 03:16:00) & “Sara” ({live 1975 version}, 03:21:00; Bob Dylan). “Mama, You’ve Been on My Mind” ({live} 03:13:00; Bob Dylan & Joan Baez). “A Lonely Grain of Corn” (03:43:00; Uncle Bonsai). “Pumpkin Soup” (03:46:30; Kate Nash). “Turkey in the Straw” (03:49:30; Neil Morris & Charlie Everidge). “Squash” (03:51:30; Townes Van Zandt). “Saving Grace” (03:53:30; The Cranberries). “Thank You Friends” (04:03:30; Big Star).

Chazz Palminteri
Randy Newman
Mike Nichols
Happy Thanksgiving

Dave’s Gone By Interview (11/15/2014): DANIEL CAINER & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews songwriter Daniel Cainer

Topics include: The Jewish Chronicles, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Germany.

Segment scheduled to air Nov. 15, 2014 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 #012 (11/15/2014): COPPOLA

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The 12th Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired Nov. 15, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Basking in the success of his “Godfather” films, Francis Ford Coppola books a much-needed vacation to Peru. On his first morning, he visits a llama farm, where he watches the ranchers feed and groom a herd of llamas and alpacas. Immediately, Coppola becomes fascinated by the animals’ eating habits. He gets on the phone to his agent and says, “I know what my next film is gonna be! I’m watching these llamas and the adorable way their faces move when they chew. So I wanna make a nature documentary where all you see are close-ups of their faces and their mouths.”

“Okay,” says the agent, “you’re the genius. But what on earth will you call it?”

Coppola replies, “Alpaca Lips, Now!’”