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Host Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: actor Lee Roy Reams, Dave’s wife Joyce.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actor-director Lee Roy Reams, Inside Broadway, StoryTime (more fishy farts), Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Nunn), Greeley Crimes & Old Times.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Hey Norm, Yom Kippur) 00:40:00 STORYTIME – Why Fish Fart, pt. 14 01:06:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:54:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & review (01:59:00; Slave Play)) 02:29:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Lee Roy Reams 03:20:00 TODAY YESTERDAY – Oct. 12 03:48:00 Friends of the Daverhood 04:01:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED – Nunn 04:06:30 Dave Goes Out
Oct. 12, 2019 Playlist: “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (02:28:00), “I Know Now” (03:15:00) & “Top Banana” w/ Karen Ziemba (04:12:00; Lee Roy Reams).
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Here is the 577th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Oct. 8, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Dave Goes Off on Yom Kippur and Hurricane Matthew. Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later, Saturday Segues (Oscar Brand, Matthew).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (technical difficulties, bad times, mother’s cookies!, tooth polish, motel hells) 00:08:30 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #18 – The Beach Boys (originally aired 12/27/14) 00:37:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:19:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Oscar Brand 01:50:00 Sponsors 01:56:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:30:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later 02:57:00 Friends 03:05:00 DAVE GOES OFF – Yom Kippur 03:13:30 DAVE GOES OFF – Hurricane Matthew 03:31:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Matthew 03:53:30 Thanks & Weather 03:57:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Oct. 8, 2016 Playlist: “Other Arms” (01:01:30; Robert Plant). “Brass in Pocket” (01:11:30; The Pretenders). “A Clean Song” (01:28:30) & “I was Born 10,000 Years Ago” (01:37:30; Oscar Brand). “Blinded by Turds” (01:32:00) & “Four Letter Words” (01:34:00; Oscar Brand & Dave Sear). “Paper and Pins” (01:30:30; Oscar Brand & Jeanne Ritchie). “Ugly Nora” (02:26:30; The Soft Boys). “Sally Gal” (02:32:00), “Tell Me, Momma” ({Royal Albert Hall version} 02:41:30), “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” ({Manchester version} 02:46:30; Bob Dylan). “Yom Kippur” (03:07:30; Lewis Black). “Heartache Weather” (03:31:30; Matthew Ryan). “Extraordinary” (03:34:00; Pippin 2013 Broadway cast w/ Matthew James Thomas). “Trouble” (03:36:00; The Music Man 2003 TV cast w/ Matthew Broderick). “Thunderstorm” (03:40:30; Matthew Sweet). “Please Forgive Me” (03:58:30; David Gray).
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #44 (9/23/2012): Atonement
Aired September 22, 2012 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0N1WRgt1zc
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of September 23rd, 2012.
Repent! Repent! The end of the world is nigh! Repent!
Just screwing with you. We’ll be around for awhile longer, but it’s always good to take one day out of the year and apologize for all the crap we pull every other day of the year.
Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, is not a get-out-of-gehenna-free card. You don’t confess and magically find yourself absolved and awarded with a Starbucks Gold Card. Like it or not, you are still the same schmucky you. But at least you have taken a few hours to reflect upon your weaknesses, to wonder whom you might have hurt, and to ask God to take a little pity and keep you in the book of life for one more year.
Notice, I put God on the tail end of that sentence. That is no disrespect to you-know-who. And by you-know-who, I mean God. That’s why I said “you know who” `cause I just mentioned him by name, so you’d know who – he’d be fresh in your mind. If I’d meant Buddah, that would have been a surprise, you would not have known who. Or former Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman – that would have really come out of left field, you couldn’t possibly have guessed who. Unless you were God, who knows everything. He would know who. And in this case, it would be He. Horton would hear a who, but he wouldn’t know which who he heard. Unless God told him. He would say, “Horton, you’re hearing me. Now go hatch an egg. And tell Maisie she needs to atone.”
Which brings me back to my original point: the day of atonement is for people. We pray to God, we ask God’s forgiveness, we repent our sins. But we do this, not just to assuage the rage of a disappointed God, but to become better people. To realize that our actions have consequences that affect everyone around us. If we lie, if we cheat, if we buy retail, we create unhappiness in other people. Sure, most of them deserve it, but that’s not our call to make.
If you shoplift a dress from Ann Taylor, does HaShem care? Maybe, maybe not – he’s busy. But the security guard in the store who’s paid to watch the merchandise: he cares. The employees who make lower wages because lost income affects the bottom line – they care. The family members who see you in that dress at the holidays – they don’t care; they don’t even know it’s stolen. But they still call you a slut because the dress is too small and the color kind of whorish.
Unlike the Catholics, Jews atone, not because of our fear of the next world, but out of love and respect for the people in this one. Yes, in the Kol Nidre prayer, we ask God’s pardon from promises we couldn’t keep, and yes, we don’t eat for 24 hours – which for Jews is a torture worse than being trapped in an elevator with the Dance Moms. Far be it from me to say that Jews shouldn’t afraid of going to hell – or worse, West Hempstead, but as Jean Paul Sartre proved: hell can be other people. This is the planet we’re on for however long we’re on it, so if we are forced to think twice about how we treat our fellow travelers, maybe they will do the same for us. And that makes a better planet for everybody.
So this Yom Kipper, when it’s 4:30 in the afternoon, and you’re tired, and you’re grumpy, and your breath smells like something that malformed in Jerry Stiller’s tuchas, remember that you’re there to do better, to be better, or at least to try harder.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York. Lather, rinse, repent.
Here is the 394th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Sept. 22, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Dave chats with legendary radio deejay Carol Miller;Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author Stephen Schochet (“Hollywood Stories”); Inside Broadway; Saturday Segue (atonement); Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (like in “Rolling Stone”); Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (atonement).
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: deejay Carol Miller, author Stephen Schochet
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:10:00 SATURDAY SEGUE: Atonement 00:29:30 GUESTS: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Stephen Schochet 01:21:00 Sponsors 01:33:30 GUEST: Carol Miller 02:24:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news) 02:38:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION (atonement) 02:45:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (atonement) 03:14:00 Friends 03:17:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Sept. 22, 2012 Playlist: “I’m Sorry” (00:10:30; Brenda Lee). “Apologize” (00:13:00; Peter, Paul & Mary). “All Apologies” (live acoustic; 00:15:30; Nirvana). “Who’s Sorry Now?” (00:19:30; Shooby Taylor). “Atonement” (00:21:30; Lucinda Williams). “Celluloid Heroes” (00:27:30; The Kinks). “Fame” (live “Stage” version; 01:14:00; David Bowie). “WPLJ Medley” (01:28:00; Pat St. John). “Oh Carol” (02:21:30; Neil Sedaka). “Summertime (Reprise)” (02:31:00; Porgy and Bess2011 Broadway cast w/ Audra McDonald). “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” (live “Before the Flood” version; 02:46:00; Bob Dylan & the Band). “Delia” (02:49:30), “Roll On John” (1962 version; 02:55:00), (03:06:00; Bob Dylan). “My Sweetheart” (WPLJ Theme) (Focus).
Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of October 2nd, 2011.
He’s making a list and checking it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty and nice – not Santa Claus; I’m talkin’ about God. This is the time of year when HaShem opens his great big book. And I don’t mean “Harry Potter and the Cauldron of Borscht.” I mean the book of life and death, the book where God inscribes your name for the year. If he writes your name in bold calligraphy, you’re gonna have a fabulous year ahead. If he scribbles your name in pencil and deliberately spells it wrong, you better get health insurance. And if he erases it or just puts your initials in the margin, you might want to go shopping for a good mausoleum.
These are the Days of Awe, between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We call them the Days of Awe because we look at all the crappy things we’ve done and go, “awwwww.” This is a time of reflection, expiation and making amends. If you’ve cheated somebody, or told a hurtful falsehood, or threatened to kick somebody’s tuchas because they won’t let your nine year old be in the school play (even though she’s perfect for it, and she can act rings around that little blonde whore they got for the part because her parents donate ten thousand dollars a year to the school’s PTA fund… bastards!), you need to take a breath, acknowledge that you may have overreacted (even if you haven’t) and apologize to those you have disparaged, and to HaShem for your prideful behavior.
Unlike the Catholics, who do so much sinning they have to confess every week, Jews save up all their misdeeds to talk about them one day a year: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. On this day, we say, “I’m sorry” to God and to everyone we have offended. Granted, there’s some absurdity there, because you’re not allowed to bathe, put on deodorant or use mouthwash, which means if you go to synagogue on Yom Kippur, you’re offending everybody.
In the shul, the cantor sings “Kol Nidre,” a prayer in which we ask God not to take us seriously. Seriously! We tell HaShem, “Look, over the course of the year, we’re gonna make some pretty stupid promises. At a traffic stop, we’ll say, `God, if this patrolman lets me off with a warning, I’ll donate what the ticket would have cost to charity.’ Or we’ll think, `If this dentist would just stop giving me pain, I’ll stop wishing to see him thrown from a tall building onto a steal spike.’ Or we’ll say, `If I could only get this raise, I’ll stop stealing office supplies.’” We won’t. And God knows we won’t. And we know God knows we won’t. So we sing “Kol Nidre” to him to let ourselves off the hook: “God, anything we vow to do over the next 12 months, ehhhh..not gonna happen. So please don’t listen. Put on your iPod. Just nod and wink and realize we’re gonna be back here in a year apologizing for shit we did that we said we wouldn’t, and stuff we didn’t do that we promised we would. And when you write my name in big block letters, remember it’s Solomon with one `L’ and three `O’s.’”
I hope, dear listeners, that we are all inscribed in the book of life and that we don’t do anything to jeopardize that status. After all, these days I’m sure God is using an e-book, so if we’re bad, all he has to do is backspace. At least the Days of Awe allow us to…re-Kindle.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches.
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Here is the 363rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired Oct. 1, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: actress Bonnie Franklin, musician Greg Kihn
Featuring: Dave chats with actress Bonnie Franklin and musician and author Greg Kihn. Plus: Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (paint) and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the Jewish Days of Awe.
Note: Bonnie Franklin passed March 1, 2013.
00:00:00 DAVE GOES IN 00:17:30 GUEST: Bonnie Franklin 01:05:00 Sponsors 01:19:30 GUEST: Greg Kihn 02:00:00 Weather 02:03:00 BOB DYLAN: Sooner & Later – “When He Paints…” 02:41:00 Sponsors 02:44:00 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the Days of Awe 02:50:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news) 02:56:00 Friends 03:01:00 DAVE GOES OUT
October 1, 2011 Playlist: “Do What You Gotta Do” (00:10:00), “Wherever There’s Smoke” (01:30:00), “Jeopardy” (01:16:00), “The Break-Up Song” (01:53:00) & “Little Red Book” (01:57:30; Greg Kihn); “Applause” (00:13:30) & “She’s No Longer a Gypsy” (01:02:00; Applause, 1970 Bway cast w/ Bonnie Franklin); “When I Paint My Masterpiece” (02:07:00), “Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight” (02:10:30), “Desolation Row” (live) (02:16:00), “I Shall Be Free” (Demo) (02:24:30), “She Belongs to Me” (live) (02:29:00) & “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” (excerpt, 02:31:00), “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” (live 1975) (02:35:30; Bob Dylan); “Great Big Love” (03:04:00; Bruce Cockburn).
Bonnie FranklinGreg KihnBob Dylan paintingDays of Awe
