#64 - Happy New Year! I Sure Hope So

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Stand-up, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In the final Rantcast of the year 2021, Lewis ponders the unfathomable contradictions and conundrums evident in the pluralistic American society. How can a group of people who can't seem to get anything done on time still manage to shop themselves into Yuletide oblivion and get all the Christmas gifts under the tree in time to perpetuate the myth of Santa Claus (or Father Christmas for the Anglophiles)? How can a civic body that would rather go to the dentist than actually vote get their knickers so in a twist about the right to vote? And have we so lost our minds as a country that nothing seems amiss when animated bears sell us toilet paper and a live, costumed emu hawks insurance? Maybe we can all agree that no one is waiting for Sunday night, especially when it involves the Washington Football Team getting trampled by actual Cowboys. With the assaults of insanity from all sides in politics, the media, and the marketplace, Lewis has an important message as we transition to 2022: don't let them get you crazy. You're not crazy, they are. Happy New Year! The live rants come from the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston, NY on February 22, 2020. Submit rants to Lewis https://www.lewisblack.com/live Check out Lewis’ Grammy-nominated special, Thanks For Risking Your Life https://tlbrecords.lnk.to/LewisWE Subscribe to Lewis Black’s Rantcast Apple – https://bit.ly/rantcast Spotify – https://spoti.fi/3oNaPFh Google – https://bit.ly/37Zb35u Amazon – https://amzn.to/37bg8Za Follow Lewis Website – http://www.lewisblack.com Instagram – http://www.instagram.com/thelewisblack Twitter – https://twitter.com/thelewisblack Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thelewisblack Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/OfficialLewisBlack New episodes arrive every Wednesday via The Laugh Button For advertising opportunities email: advertise@thelaughbutton.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the rubber chicken says, this is some country. You figured out how to deliver Christmas gifts, but you didn't figure out how to deliver COVID test. What's the matter with you? But what do I know? I'm just a rubber chicken.
0:39.1	Well, you're a smart rubber chicken, that's for sure.
0:42.1	And maybe you should be in charge of COVID testing.
0:44.8	Well, we'll talk about you running for office some other time because we've got to get on
0:48.9	with Rantcast, number 64 entitled, Happy New Year.
0:55.0	I sure fucking hope so.
0:58.0	God, God, there are lines in New York City wrapped around the block to get COVID tests, which were the, well, that's what we needed to get.
1:07.0	We knew that from the beginning. It was one way to control the pandemic. We knew it from
1:11.8	the very beginning. And two years later, here we are. Huh? We don't have the tests. It's unbelievable.
1:19.1	And if we, and then when we do have the tests, we don't have, there's so many people out there.
1:23.7	Here, Florida, they're racing out in their cars. Yes, sir, Reeve-Bob, all over the place,
1:29.0	apparently. Some places, not at all, but a lot of places. Let's get those tests done there,
1:35.0	screaming. But the labs are all backed up. So my friend Neil Mazzella, who just recently tried to
1:39.9	get one last week for a Christmas party, a small one that we were gathering that we were having.
1:48.2	He was trying to get the PCR test.
1:51.6	Well, he'd done one on Monday, okay?
1:55.9	And it didn't come through the test resulted in he can get till Thursday, which is worthless,
2:02.7	okay, the day after he needed it. And so he was going to try to get some folks to come into his
2:08.9	shop. He helps build the scenery for a lot of New York's shows, the theatrical shows on Broadway. And he wanted to, for his shop and for his friends,
2:24.6	he wanted to getting these folks in to do the PCR and discovered that if they came in to
2:29.1	do it, they wouldn't be able to get the results in time. They'd get them on maybe late on Christmas Day, which
2:35.8	wouldn't fucking help. And if they got them the next day, it would be worthless. So it's
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