#40 - There Isn't Much American Culture In Native American Culture

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Comedy, Leisure, Stand-up

4.8 • 803 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

After a one-week dental surgery-induced hiatus, the Rantcast is back! A lot happened in that interval, but the eternal question remains: when will we ever get back to being smart? That time is clearly not now as the stupid train rolls on, this time stopping at the door of Rick “Google It” Santorum. The former Pennsylvania Senator propounded the inanity that there was nothing of significance happening on this continent before white Europeans arrived. He seems to be forgetting both the fact that millions of people already lived in the Americas and that the British deemed it a good idea to go to battle wearing bright red coats. The backlash came as expected, with the backlash to the backlash forgetting that there’s a difference between so-called “cancel” culture and the consequences of being dumb as a post. The continuing pandemic revealed more stupidity as the goal of herd immunity slips away because some of the herd have decided they don’t want to wear masks and don’t want to get vaccinated either. This seems like a good moment to point out that the root of the word vaccine comes from the Latin for cow. Speaking of things down on the farm, we now have a chicken wing shortage to add to all our other woes and tribulations. Also infrastructure, lots of infrastructure. The rants (26:06) get off to a fast start with a tryptic covering mask wearing, gendered Happy Meal toys, and how sweet tea has become the default when you ask for iced tea. They pick up steam from there with submissions about fixing the roads (and taxing the rich to do it), the unexpected perils of getting the second vaccine shot (and not in the way you would think), being judged for what you eat, a trip to the auto parts store that becomes a parable of our decrepit infrastructure, privileged parents who have decided the pandemic is over, wasted military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan (somehow also about infrastructure), online shopping and the tyranny of the star ratings system, and a playlet about a trip to Walmart that turned into a math problem for the stupid. And more. The live rants (1:22:00) come from another Vaudeville-era gem, the historic Genesee Theatre in Waukegan, IL, where Lewis performed on Feb. 1, 2020. 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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0:00.0	And the rubber chicken says,
0:23.8	If you idiots aren't going to get vaccinated, then give you vaccination to me.
0:31.0	Hell, I don't want to get COVID, and I'm a rubber chicken.
0:34.9	Yes, you are.
0:36.2	And I'm sure I can pick up some for you because people aren't taking their
0:40.3	vaccine seriously. But we'll talk about that another time. Maybe in this, RADCAST number 40,
0:47.3	that's right, entitled, There Isn't Much American Culture in Native American culture.
0:54.7	No, there is not.
0:57.1	No, there is not.
0:58.4	And it was really extraordinary this week as Rick Santorum, who continues to surprise and
1:06.5	amaze me that the people of Pennsylvania had actually voted and made him a senator.
1:12.6	And he is, I just, he is standing in front of a group of college students and says that, he says,
1:26.6	that there was nothing here before the arrival of white, white Europeans.
1:34.3	I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, he added, but candidly there isn't much Native American
1:40.6	culture in American culture.
1:47.8	It's the kind of thing that just takes your breath away.
1:53.2	It happens 20 to 30 times a day if you really look around and pay attention.
1:57.4	If you spend any time on Twitter, it's amazing that you have any breath at all.
2:03.6	Twitter could be called a C-O-P-D manufacturing system. But this is extraordinary. Really? There's no Native American culture, but because we didn't, we ignored it. We went after
2:11.6	them. We went, we were crying out loud. We slaughtered them, you idiot. Really? You going to bring that up? Yeah, because we didn't pay any attention to them. A culture that was exceptional and extraordinary in its own right. Just as deep and rich a tradition as the European. But, you know, a lot of it, who knows if we've lost a ton
2:36.4	of it because of this madness?
2:38.9	Because at that time, the white people really were whitey, white, white, white, white.
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