Hello, and before we get into tonight's epic randcast, I just wanted to catch you up on the final shows I'll be doing in 2023.

The last three, this week, I will be in Stewart, Florida on Wednesday at the Lyric Theater, followed by Thursday in St. Petersburg at the Mahaffy Friday at the Florida

Theater in Jacksonville, Florida. And that will be it. And I hope you can join me if you can.

And then we will begin on January 18th in the Golden State Theater in Monterey, California, on the 19th in Santa Barbara,

and on the 20th. In Santa Barbara, we'll be at the La Brera Theater, a beautiful small theater there that's really a pleasure to play always.

And we end up in Anaheim, California, at the City National Grove of

Anaheim. It's a theater. I promise you, it's not a bank. And we, or maybe the City National Grove,

who knows. But that's where I'll be. And I've performed there before.

And remember, we're wrapping things up.

This is it.

And I will be back in a moment with this week's epic redcast.

This could all go horribly wrong at any minute.

All right, that's the moment.

Here I am again.

And I want to welcome you to the 157 episode of Lewis Blacks' rantcast entitled

Dictator for a Day. Yes, that's Dick Tater. That's spelled D-I-C-K. It could be spelled Tater, T-A-T-R. But it's Dick for sure. And as many of you may or may not have heard, the delightful Donald Trump running for the presidency

is declared that he would just be a dictator for the first day that he's in office.

And I cannot fucking believe people don't stand up in rage by that

type of a comment. It's beyond belief because he is pushing in that direction. And I know that

some things seem to be over the top in the way in which many folks out there describing

what he's got set up. I don't know. I really don't know,

but I do know that you shouldn't be, if you're running for the president, talking about

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