Lewis reflects on the closing of the West Bank Cafe in New York. After 40+ years his friend and owner Steve Olsen is closing the location. The West Bank is a performance space where Lewis began his career on stage. He tells the story about how he began there as an aspiring playwright performing plays and his evolution to a stand-up comedian because of the space Steve fostered for creative types to perform.

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End of an era indeed.

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Lewis just wrapped up his last tour date of 2024 so he's taking the week off and lying low. But he wasn't going to leave you hanging this week so here are some rants from the road when Lewis performed them live on stage in various cities this past year.

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Lewis is back in the states after his trip to escape Thanksgiving and not only has the holiday of focus changed, so has the weather. We’re officially in the stretch of the winter and it seems he’s yet to outrun the madness of everything, holidays, politics, AI chatbots, and even some school prayer. Rantcast #201 might be short, but packed full of rants. 

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It’s Lewis’ 200th episode of The Rantcast! It also happens to be Thanksgiving. The time of year where Lewis heads out of the country with friends. Something he’s done for many years. So, while we celebrate reaching a pretty impressive milestone of the podcast, we also keep traditions alive. It’s also nice that a happy side effect of travelling around this time is it makes the Christmas season just a little be quicker. 

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This past weekend Lewis performed some stand-up shows live in the Pacific Northwest. On a recent stop in Seattle, WA he decided to read some fan-submitted rants. And they were a doozy, ranging from the simple like complaints about food, to worries about the future of America's youth. Enjoy.

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Lewis is on the road and realized that now that the big election has ended the world just collectively decided it was Christmas time.

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Lewis is out on the Fall leg of his Goodbye Yeller Brick Road tour and this past weekend the show rolled through a few stops in Kansas. On Sunday night in Salina, KS he took to the stage at the Steifel Theater for the Performing Arts and read some fan rants. They ranged from hot takes about Daylight Savings Time, political ads, and our never-ending desire for social media attention. Enjoy.

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The anxiety about the election is at an all-time high. But that’s not the most important thing on Lewis’ mind. He’s deep in the week’s NFL games and how his Commanders are performing with a spectacular comeback that broke him out of his sleep-deprived weekend of shows down south. Back on the election front, Lewis has hot takes about the state of things. It forces him to make a decision that he doesn’t take much joy in or does lightly. And that is publicly endorsing a candidate. We end with a piece Lewis wrote some years back about the election. See you on the other side.

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Lewis is currently out on the road for the fall leg of his "Goodbye Yeller Brick Road" tour. This past Saturday he read fan-submitted rants live on stage in Madison, WI. Enjoy.

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Lewis just spent the weekend in Skokie, IL and while there he discovered Will's Place a great restaurant with an even better mission, so let him tell you all about it. Lewis also realized an important anniversary was upon him and probably why he felt off on stage one night. But it's not long before the looming election pokes its head up again and, well that goes about as well as you'd imagine with lies and crime on both the local and national level. Is it election day yet?

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