#66 - My Déjà Vu is Déjà Vu-ing

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Stand-up, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Two weeks into 2022 and the disquieting sense of déjà vu persists. While the title of this week’s episode would be a great title for a disco song, it’s not great as an apt description of the new year. The same issues that plagued 2021, including an actual plague, continue to hamper any sense of progress or anything that doesn’t resemble a rudderless drift. For example, this past week the anniversary of the January 6th Insurrection passed, fortunately without incident, but we still have no idea what exactly happened. All we can say for certain is that the former leader is a poor loser and his behavior wouldn’t be acceptable from a child who struck out in T-ball. It was ever thus with the man. The real news this week was the passing of Bob Saget and Sidney Poitier, and this episode is dedicated to their memory and the great works of art they created. While Lewis was never fortunate enough to meet Sidney Poitier, the effect he had on his view of race and society was possibly equal to that of MLK. Lewis did have a relationship with Bob Saget, working with him many times. He was spectacularly filthy and spectacularly sweet, was a great headliner, and was overall a terrific human. The deaths of both seems to show that some people pass on and our society is not producing people of a similar caliber that have a positive effect on the world. In other news, get vaccinated, whether for Covid, or as your host did this week, against Shingles. The live rants come from the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, VA on February 28, 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	Introducing the McDonald's gift drop.
0:04.0	Find a gift tag and enter a code on the app for daily offers and a chance to win.
0:08.0	You'll find them everywhere. On the telly?
0:10.0	At the bus stop. Find the shops.
0:12.0	End 19 December, app only. One entry per day.
0:16.0	Codes restricted to one use per person. 18 plus. UK only. Terms apply.
0:20.0	Do we really need another computer?
0:22.1	One that's faster, more powerful. Not everyone does. But to reinvent music using a neural processor,
0:28.2	work off the grid with all-day battery, or bring your vision to life with AI-powered co-creator,
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0:38.3	But if you're trying to change the world, even if just your own, we built one for you.
0:42.3	Microsoft Copilot Plus PCs powered by Snapchat.
0:45.3	The fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever.
0:48.3	Bachelor life varies with you switching settings.
0:50.3	The homes of the future need EV chargers, solar panels and energy-efficient heat pumps.
0:57.2	But at EDF, we're not waiting for the future.
1:00.4	Our teams, rated excellent on TrustPilot, are installing them all over the UK.
1:05.5	Right now.
1:11.9	EDF. Change is in our power. And the rubber chicken says
1:42.3	And the rubber chicken says,
1:43.3	Oh, wow. New Year my ass, 2020 seems to be exactly the same as 2021. But what do I know?
1:54.0	I'm just a rubber chicken. Well, it is the same for sure. That sure has nothing seems to have changed, Robert Chicken.
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