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Dave’s Gone By #744 (5/2/2020): PERL OF WISDOM

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Here is the 744th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday, May 2, 2020. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: educator Don Perl, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews poet Don Perl and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on Social Distancing; Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Inside Broadway; Wretched Pun of Destiny (Boston Pops); Today Yesterday (May 2); Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Palisade).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Covid, where to live, MTA, Tiger King, masks)
00:45:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
00:59:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Don Perl
02:03:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #162 (Social Distancing)
02:13:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:21:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:38:00 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #67 (Boston Pops)
02:41:00 TODAY YESTERDAY (May 2)
03:07:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Palisade)
03:10:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Don Perl
Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops
Joe Exotic and friend
Bernard Gersten
Palisade, CO

Wretched Pun of Destiny #67: BOSTON POPS

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The 67th Wretched Pun of Destiny segment airs on Dave’s Gone By May 2, 2020. Info: davesgoneby.com.

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67.

To broaden the repertory of the Boston Pops, conductor Arthur Fiedler starts booking jazz musicians as guest artists. One of the first is avant-garde legend Sun Ra. Fiedler invites the jazzman to his home to rehearse, and Ra brings along his youngest child Seth to play in the backyard with Fiedler’s dog, a giant St. Bernard. 

Breaking for lunch, Fiedler comes out of the house and delights to see how much fun Seth is having with the dog. Eager to join in, Fiedler tells the boy, “Watch this!” He climbs on the dog’s back and rides him around the yard.

Pretty soon, a neighbor hears the commotion, looks over the fence at the scene, and sighs to his wife, “I wish Zero Mostel could see this.” 

“Zero Mostel?” says the wife. “Why would he care?”

“Because,” says the neighbor, “it’s Sun Ra’s Son Seth, and Fiedler on the Woof.”