Dave’s Gone By Interview (11/4/2023): HELEN WRIGHT & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with rugby coach HELEN WRIGHT

Topics include: rugby, sports, Barefoot Flying

Segment aired Nov. 4, 2023 as part of the 916th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #916 (11/4/2023): WRIGHT NOW

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Here is the 916th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning Nov. 4, 2023.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with rugby coach Helen Wright; Greeley Times; Bunion Watch; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Karval)

Guest: rugby coach Helen Wright

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Halloween, Alzheimer’s Walk)
00:53:30 BUNION WATCH
01:08:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Helen Wright
01:49:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (Daylight Savings)
02:03:30 GREELEY TIMES
02:37:30 Friends of the Daverhood
02:49:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Karval, CO)
02:54:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Rabbi Sol Solomon
your host
Karval, CO

Dave’s Gone By #763 (9/12/2020): COVER STORY

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Here is the 763rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, Sept. 12, 2020. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Guests: sportscaster Troy Coverdale, Dave’s cousins Jeffrey Kirsch, Cynthia Shub Kirsch, Stacey Shub, actor Shyaporn Theerakulstit, critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews sportscaster Troy Coverdale; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Pierce); Today/Yesterday Quiz (Sept. 12 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake vs. the Shubs `n Shy.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (no Potato Day, KFKA, egg timer, safe video)
01:01:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:24:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Pierce)
01:28:30 TODAY/YESTERDAY (Sept. 12 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake vs. the Shubs
02:31:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Troy Coverdale
03:17:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
03:33:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:36:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Troy Coverdale
Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Stacey Shub
Shyaporn Theerakulstit
Cynthia Shub Kirsch
Jeffrey Kirsch
Diana Rigg
Ronald Harwood
Pierce, CO
Rabbi Sol Solomon

Dave’s Gone By Interview (9/12/2020): TROY COVERDALE & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with sportscaster TROY COVERDALE

Topics include: college sports, University of Northern Colorado, KFKA, coronavirus.   

Segment aired Sept. 12, 2020 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #642 (2/24/2018): RESTARANT

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Here is the 642nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Feb. 24, 2018. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: comedian John DiResta, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Dave chats with comedian John DiResta. Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Storytime (A Cow for Hansel), Saturday Segue (in the news), Dave’s Big Dictionary).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (curling, bully)
00:40:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:04:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:23:00 GUEST: John DiResta
02:48:30 STORYTIME – A Cow for Hansel
03:01:30 Friends
03:10:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
03:30:00 Sponsors
03:32:30 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY – Fob Off
03:44:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Feb. 24, 2018 Playlist: “A Girl with a Flame” (01:18:00; Arms and the Girl 1950 Broadway cast w/ Nanette Fabray). “Proud to be White Trash” (01:20:00; John DiResta). “NRA Blues” (03:11:00; Bill Cox). “Forest Lawn” (03:18:30; Tom Paxton). “Hockey Skates” (03:24:30; Kathleen Edwards). “Der Rebbe Elimelech” (03:50:00; The New Shtetl Band).




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Dave’s Gone By #548 (3/5/2016): MARCH MADNESS

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Here is the 548th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio March 5, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (astronaut Scott Kelly), Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (In the News, John Cale), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Tulsa archives).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (the sniffles, pep talks, kale, gravity, the Oscars, Big Sky blahs)
00:23:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:00:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (GPS, good karma)
01:06:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
01:31:00 Sponsors
01:38:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:02:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Tulsa archive)
02:31:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #137 (astronaut Scott Kelly)
02:38:00 Friends
02:50:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – John Cale
03:14:00 Weather
03:18:00 DAVE GOES OUT (ghostopus!)

March 5, 2016 Playlist: “She was Naked” (01:07:00; Supersister). “Ben” ({live}, 01:11:00; Michael Jackson). “Knife” (01:14:00; Robyn Hitchcock). “The Space Race is Over” (01:17:00; Billy Bragg). “Buds Won’t Bud” (01:58:30; Barbara Cook). “Hard Times in New York Town” (02:07:30), “All Along the Watchtower” ({live w/ Tom Petty}, 02:09:30) & “Dignity” ({live} 02:14:00; Bob Dylan). “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” (02:52:00), “Days of Steam” (03:01:30), “Indistinct Notion of Cool” (03:03:00). “Hey Ray” (03:06:00; John Cale). “Empty Frames” (02:57:00; John Cale & Brian Eno). “Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish” (03:22:00; Captain Beefheart). “Octopus’s Garden” (03:25:30; The Beatles).

John Cale
Scott Kelly
Dylan in Tulsa

Dave’s Gone By Interview (3/7/2015): THOMAS HOFFMAN, WILL COSTELLO, ALEX KIRSCHNER

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews University of Northern Colorado students Thomas Hoffman, Will Costello & Alex Kirschner

Topics include: UNC, UNC Mirror, UNC baseball, Biok.

Segment aired March 7, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 500th Anniversary Special radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Thomas Hoffman
Will Costello

Dave’s Gone By #494 (1/24/2015): HALP IS ON THE WAY

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Here is the 494th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 24, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave chats with screenwriter Philip Halprin. Plus: Inside Broadway, Crime Time, The Wretched Pun of Destiny (broccoli), Dylan – Sooner & Later (stay with me), Saturday Segue (Warren Zevon).

Guests: screenwriter Philip Halprin, Dave’s wife Joyce Weil

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil (birthday meal, ramekin, radio training day, staying out of touch)
00:25:00 CRIME TIME
01:03:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce Weil (women’s basketball)
01:55:30 Sponsors
02:02:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:24:30 GUEST: Philip Halprin
03:44:30 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #23 (broccoli)
03:48:00 Friends
03:56:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (stay with me)
04:26:00 Weather
04:27:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Jan. 24, 2015 Playlist: “Trouble Waiting to Happen” (01:37:00), “Numb as a Statue” (01:41:00), “Tule’s Blues” (01:45:00) & “Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead” (01:48:30; Warren Zevon). “Midnight Radio” (02:21:00; Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2007 Australian cast w/ Blazey Best). “Stay with Me” (04:24:30 & 04:31:00) & “What was it You Wanted” (04:10:30; Bob Dylan). “Stay with Me” (04:07:00; Frank Sinatra). “Wanted Man” ({live}; 04:15:30; Johnny Cash).

Phil Halprin
UNC women’s basketball
Warren Zevon
broccoli

Dave’s Gone By #474 (8/2/2014): HAVING ANOTHER BALL

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Here is the 474th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Aug. 2, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor-singer George Ball. Plus: Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (Joseph Spence, Tony Bennett), Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection (Going Great Guns in Gaza) and the Wretched Pun of Destiny (Football).

Guests: songwriter George Ball, Dave’s wife Joyce 

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce
00:30:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Joseph Spence
00:44:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
00:53:00 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY – Football
00:55:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews George Ball
02:03:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #104 (Going Great Guns in Gaza)
02:10:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later: Another Side Knocked Out Again
02:34:00 Friends
02:41:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Tony Bennett
03:01:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Aug. 2, 2014 Playlist: “Good Morning Mr. Walker” (00:30:30), “Yellow Bird” (00:33:00), “Rock Daniel” (00:35:30), “Goodnight Irene” (00:37:30; Joseph Spence). “A New Sun in the Sky” (“The Band Wagon” 1959 film soundtrack; 00:51:30). “Some Enchanted Evening” (00:55:00), “If I Were You” (01:05:00), “The Moon is Still Over her Shoulder” (01:14:00), “Fanette” (01:27:30), “Highway Patrolman” (01:44:30) & “Save the Last Dance for Me” (01:58:00; George Ball). “Ballad in Plain D” (02:40:30) & “Brownsville Girl” (02:23:00; Bob Dylan). “Until I Met You” (02:44:30) “Shakin’ the Blues Away” (02:47:30), “Lost in the Stars” (02:49:00), “For Once in My Life” (02:53:30) & “The Best is Yet to Come” (02:57:00; Tony Bennett). “August Winds” (03:03:00; Sting).

George Ball
Joseph Spence
Tony Bennett

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’s RABBINICAL REFLECTION #80 (11/3/2013): Redskins

RABBI SOL SOLOMON’s RABBINICAL REFLECTION #80 (11/3/2013): Redskins

Aired Nov. 2, 2013 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: http://youtu.be/rInYlSN4Gpg

Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of November 3rd, 2013.

In 1932, the Boston Braves football team changed their name to another Indian-related moniker: the Redskins. A few years later, they moved to Washington D.C., but they kept their name and have ever since. No one really paid attention to whether the name “Redskins” was offensive – not until 1992, when a group of Native Americans filed a trademark lawsuit against the team. The details are too complicated for me to explain here – because I have no idea what the hell they are. But I do know that arguing went back and forth in the courts for nearly two decades, and still, nobody really gave a crap. 

But recent times and sensitivities have changed, and there’s a legitimate movement afoot to get the Washington Redskins to change their name to something that doesn’t bring to mind tomahawks, smoke signals and sunburned skin color.

Team owners remain adamant that the Redskins have an 80-year history that would be needlessly negated by a name change. Not to mention the cost of changing the signage on everything from souvenir jackets to Rex Grossman bobblehead dolls. And let’s not forget having to change all the signs at Washington’s Jack Kent Cooke Stadium – wait, that was changed to FedEx Field in 2000. How terribly sad for the undying legacy of Jack Kent Cooke. I guess.

Anyhoo, people who are against keeping the Redskins ruby tinted always use this example: What if you had the same situation with a different ethnicity? The Florida Yids? The Pittsburgh Polacks? What if there was a basketball team in the NBA called the Darkies? Well, they all are, but you know what I’m saying.

For 80 years, the University of North Dakota nicknamed its team The Fighting Sioux – which sounds pro-Indian until you realize that “Sioux” was a blanket name given by the whites to cover several different Indian tribes. No doubt, the blanket had smallpox on it, too. But hey, if North Dakotans can adapt, why can’t Washingtonians? I realize that asking someone in Washington DC to be flexible is like asking Stephen Hawking to catch a fly ball, but still.

America’s history with its indigenous peoples is one of lies, bullying and bloodshed – which is America’s history with everything. It was only two generations ago that Cowboys and Indians was a game in which the macho anglo, chaps-wearin’, chaw-chewing Cowboys were the good guys trying to tame the savage, sneaky, tomahawk chopping, paint-wearing, ugga-wugga, smoke-signaling red man. Howevermuch scriptwriters tried to make him noble and clever, Tonto was the Lone Ranger’s bitch. Even his name, “tonto,” means stupid in Spanish. I know this because I looked it up – when my junior high school teacher nicknamed me that in Spanish class. I told my parents, and they made her change it. From then on, she called me “hijo de puta,” which she said means “wise one.” I should probably look that one up, too, but I trust her.

Getting back to the Redskins: as someone who comes from an oppressed people – New Yorkers – I empathize with the desire to undo a little piece of ugly history. There’s no good reason not to change the team name if enough people find it derogatory. When teams move, they change – look at the L.A. Dodgers and the Brooklyn Nets. Even the Beatles went through name-revisions. Do you think John, Paul, George and Ringo sat around saying, “No, we can’t change; we have such an important legacy as `The Quarrymen’”?

Of course, the fun part is finding a new name for the Redskins. One blogger suggested “The Washington Monuments,” which is brilliant, especially if it’s a defensive team; you try toppling a monument to get to the end zone. Others have suggested The Washington Warriors, or the Renegades. Then you had the punsters with their government jokes: The Washington Shutdown, The Washington Impasse, The DC Douchebags. And, for those of you getting old enough to eat your steaks in liquid form, how about The Watergates? Or the Reaganomics?

Polls have shown that most people – even Native Americans – are fine with the name “Redskins.” They’re used to it; they’ve even coopted it, the way black people have made the “n” word their own. And by the “n” word, I mean Nikes. Still, why are Americans still eating Aunt Jemima syrup and Uncle Ben’s rice? How many decades have the movies given us fast-talking Hispanic sidekicks, Asian dragon ladies, Italian guidos and Jewish mothers? There’s truth in stereotypes, and even some good things implicit in stereotypes, but there’s also a time to break the mold. So come, Washington Redskins, let’s smoke-um peace pipe and move forward. How? And how.

This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.

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