#37 - And the Beat Goes On

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Comedy, Leisure, Stand-up

4.8 • 803 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The signs of spring and renewal are in the air, as Lewis forgoes celebrating Passover and Easter isn’t his thing either. So, no hunting for eggs and no mom’s brisket (not a big loss as Jeannette’s version involved boiling the meat until it was the consistency of rubber). Another sign of spring comes from the start of the baseball season, where Lew’s Baltimore Orioles opened the season with a sweep of the hated Boston Red Sox. Despite this early season success, they are still an insult to birds nationwide. In other baseball news, the 2021 All Star Game was moved out of Georgia as a protest against their recently enacted restrictive voting law. This is not cancel culture, but an otherwise conservative organization understanding which side of history they want to be on. Renewal was also a theme in the political world, as the Biden administration proposed a sweeping (but not sweeping enough for some people) infrastructure bill. Will it cost a lot of money? Yes, but it’s necessary to bring us into the 21st century. You get what you pay for, and right now we are paying just enough to be 13th in the world. And in further signs of renewal, a gay pride-themed lifeguard tower in Long Beach, CA that had been burned down will be rebuilt “gayer” then before, and Lewis ventured out into his bustling metropolis and got a haircut. A bevy of rants arrived this week, so there’s no live replay. Instead, we have diatribes about the struggle to retrieve a forgotten iPad password, New York legalizing weed, gay self-identification, car auctions, assembling furniture from an unnamed (Swedish) store, escargot, the hematological dangers of blister packaging, and the importance of doing your research. We also had several pandemic-related rants including ones about online dating, working at a supermarket, and neighborhood games. Also f*&k Ted Cruz. Lewis’ new special, Thanks For Risking Your Life is available now! https://tlbrecords.lnk.to/LewisWE New episodes arrive every Wednesday. SUBMIT RANTS TO LEWIS www.lewisblack.com/live SUBSCRIBE TO THE RANTCAST www.lewisblacksrantcast.com FOLLOW LEWIS www.lewisblack.com www.youtube.com/officiallewisblack www.instagram.com/thelewisblack www.facebook.com/thelewisblack www.twitter.com/thelewisblack www.tiktok.com/@thelewisblack For advertising opportunities/contact email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.7	And for God's sakes, I'm an underage rubber chicken.
1:02.4	No, you're not.
1:04.6	Matt Gates, hashtag Matt Gates.
1:07.8	Enough said.
1:08.6	It certainly is enough said.
1:10.0	You're making this stuff up. You're just crazy, rubber chicken. We got a show to do. This is Louis Flack's rantcast number 37 entitled, and the beat goes on. It certainly does. Well, things must be changing just a little because it's Monday and it feels like a Monday.
1:30.1	And I don't know how that's possible because most days have always felt like the same day.
1:34.4	For some reason, today really feels like just another, like that beginning of the work week.
1:40.6	And I'm already behind.
1:43.0	I guess it's coming out of the big, you know, the Eastern
1:46.6	Pasach holidays. And let me wish you all a happy Easter and a very happy
1:54.0	Pasach. First Passover, I was not invited to a service or a Seder, which is fine, because usually I have to beg off because
2:04.5	it's really, ours is different. No, it's not. I know everybody thinks theirs is different,
2:12.3	and it's more up-to-date. And I understand why people do it, and I get it. But I just went through it.
2:19.0	And a lot of the times, some of the memories are a little traumatic.
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