Dave’s Gone By Interview (2/11/2023): BEA FRANKLIN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with library BEA FRANKLIN

Topics include: aging, Judaism, Pep Boys, WWII, photography

Segment aired Feb. 11, 2023 as part of the 881st episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #881 (2/11/2023): BEA HIVE

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Here’s the 881st episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, Feb. 11, 2023. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews librarian Bea Franklin; Today/Yesterday Trivia Quiz (Feb. 11 w/ Bea Franklin, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Don Perl); Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Fraser); StoryTime (“Brave Potatoes”).

Guests: librarian Bea Franklin; theater critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake; educator Don Perl.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (free book, Oreo, commonality of experience)
00:30:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Bea Franklin
01:01:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY Trivia Quiz (Feb. 11 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Don Perl, Bea Franklin)
02:02:30 STORYTIME (Brave Potatoes)
02:25:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
02:52:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:06:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Fraser, CO)
03:09:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Bea Franklin
Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Don Perl
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Fraser, CO

Dave’s Gone By Interview (8/17/2019): IRIS DORBIAN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author IRIS DORBIAN

Topics include: New Jersey, Shakespeare, Sentenced to Shakespeare, theater, drama, business, WWII.

Segment aired Aug. 17, 2019 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #89 (1/26/2014): Hiroo Onoda

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Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of January 26th, 2014.

Old soldiers never die, they just – well, no, old soldiers do die. They die all the time. Just try looking for World War I veterans.

Eisenhower died, Sherman died, Patton died, and two weeks ago, Israel’s Ariel Sharon died. And now, Japan’s Hiroo Onoda has died. He fought in World War II from 1941 through 1974. As Lewis Black would say: let me repeat that: Hiroo Onoda fought the Second World War for 33 years, approximately 29 years after World War II ended for everybody else.

Yes, this is the guy they made fun of on “Gilligan’s Island.” He’s the crazy loon living in the jungle so cut off from the world, no one’s told him about color TV, liquid paper, hula hoops or the end of armed military hostility between eastern and western civilization. Hey, it happens.

Ironically, Hiroo Onoda was an intelligence officer. Well, what was it George Carlin said about military intelligence? Anyhoo, at age 22, Onoda was stationed in the Philippines and told under no circumstances to surrender. Not even if they torture him with paddles and cigarette butts and Barbra Streisand movies. Being a good little soldier, Onoda followed his orders to the letter. And since Japanese letters are weird symbolic shapey things, I guess he never figured out that the Emperor surrendered.

Onoda didn’t even give up when the allies scattered leaflets over the Philippines reading, “Come out, come out wherever you are. There’s free barbecue. Or, as we like to call it, Hiroshima.” This loyal-to-a-fault yutz didn’t believe the authenticity of the leaflets, so he and his band of stragglers kept on fighting and killing and living off coconuts.

In 1974, a Japanese hippie – who apparently didn’t realize that hippies were over in 1971 – this hippie tourist visits the island, finds Onoda and gives him the bad news that the land of the rising sun sank in 1945. Onoda sort-of believed him but still wouldn’t surrender until he got official notification from higher up. His old Major had to fly to the island and officially relieve him of duty. Heh heh…I said “duty.”

Even though he murdered people in the jungle, Onoda was pardoned by Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos – I guess he didn’t want to be the pot calling the kettle – and Mr. What-Year-Is-This actually came home to Japan something of a national hero. After all, that level of devotion and honor is pretty rare in people. Granted, that’s because most people are sane, but still…

Hiroo Onoda actually didn’t like all the attention – even the adulation – possibly because the more people inquired into his activities during his three decades on Lubang Island, the more skeletons were dug up – literal ones. Onoda started spending half the year in Brazil, presumably because he liked to be surrounded by sexy women, Jacaranda trees and fellow war criminals.

On January 16th of this year, at age 91, Hiroo Onoda succumbed to pneumonia – the first time he surrendered to anything. Well, that’s arguable; he was married, after all. And while there is something to admire about his willingness to sacrifice everything for his country, including common sense, let’s not make too much of this loser. He was part of the army and the nation that attacked us for no reason in 1941. He fought against American soldiers and may have killed a couple before he went off to pineappleville. Try asking anyone who survived Okinawa or Iwo Jima how amusing they find Hiroo Onoda or the Nipponese mindset that made him. Ask them to think of anything nice to say, and they might ponder for a moment and then say, “I give up. Too bad Hiroo Onoda didn’t.”

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

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Dave’s Gone By #455 (1/25/2014): BLAVAT OR NOT

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Here is the 455th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Jan. 25, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with radio legend Jerry Blavat. Plus: Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection on Hiroo Onoda, Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Kansas), Saturday Segues (Lucinda Williams & Lloyd Cole).

Guests: radio host Jerry Blavat, Dave’s wife Joyce

00:00:01 Pre-Show
00:02:00 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil (birthday, AARP, couponing, cloth newspapers, birthday meals, UNC TV)
01:00:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Lloyd Cole
01:27:30 Sponsors
01:32:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:53:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Jerry Blavat
02:49:00 Sponsors
02:53:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Kansas)
03:17:30 Friends
03:29:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #89 – Hiroo Onoda
03:34:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Lucinda Williams
03:57:30 Weather & Thanks
04:02:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Jan. 26, 2014 Playlist: “Morning is Broken” (01:03:00), “Why I Love Country Music” (01:08:00), “Man on the Verge” (01:11:00), “Rattlesnakes” (01:14:30), “So You’d Like to Save the World” (01:18:00) & “Don’t Look Back” (Lloyd Cole; 01:21:30). “Rock of Ages” (01:51:30; Forbidden Broadway – Alive & Kicking 2012 off-Broadway cast). “The Impossible Dream” (02:44:00; The Temptations). “Meet Me in the Morning” (02:54:30), “The Ballad of Donald White” (03:04:00) & “Union Sundown” (03:08:30; Bob Dylan). “Wanted Man” (02:58:30; Nick Cave). “Something About What Happens When We Talk” (03:34:00), “Lately” (03:37:30), “Still I Long for Your Kiss” (03:42:30), “Sharp Cutting Wings (Song to a Poet)” (03:46:30), “Which Will” (03:50:00) & “Overtime” (04:04:00; Lucinda Williams).

Jerry Blavat
Lloyd Cole
Lucinda Williams
Hiroo Onoda
Kansas
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