#53 - Idi-f*ck-its

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Stand-up, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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A week off did nothing to temper Lewis’s anger or his sense that history has folded in on itself. Twenty years of US intervention in an Asian nation and it all ends in an ill-planned fleeing on overcrowded flights. Kabul in 2021 or Saigon in 1975, either way the images of departing Americans should forever dispel any further imperialist notions. Your host has himself visited Afghanistan, having performed there on two USO tours. From his observations from flying over the country, it was obvious from the haphazard nature of the terrain that the country could never be conquered. So here we are, unable to get our act together to defeat enemies foreign or domestic or viral, each attempt at a solution confounded by our own idiocy and delusional sense of self-worth. While the Taliban overwhelms the Afghan forces, COVID continues its resurgent march through the unvaccinated. America leadership seems to be defined by a hubristic inability or unwillingness to accurately assess any problem beyond what the personal political consequences might be. How else to explain certain governors stopping local schools from having mask mandates? These leaders look only to their own political advantage and criminally refuse to comprehend that their job is first and foremost to protect those who are unable to protect themselves. Instead they are willing to gamble the lives of children to make a nebulous virtue-signaling point about “freedom”. What about the freedom to not get COVID? The vaccination situation has become so ridiculous that some people in Missouri are wearing disguises when they go to get vaccinated. So, there’s freedom for those who won’t wear a mask or won’t get vaccinated, but not for those who choose to get vaccinated. But, it’s not all bad news on the vaccination front, some dominatrices are demanding that their submissives get vaccinated. Whatever it takes. From one end of the English-speaking world to the other, Lewis’ global reach persists as this week we have a Kiwi’s perspective of American politics likening it to the death rattle of a failed state, some fan appreciation from down under, and from north of the border, a discursive deconstruction of how Canadian politics isn’t so much better than American politics, they just do it in a quieter fashion. We have several perspectives on vaccination and the pandemic, and from Texas, a local’s view of Gov. Greg Abbott’s destructive antebellum governing strategy. Plus, what’s up with all the shopping cart traffic jams in the aisles of Sam’s Club? Lewis’ latest 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: rantcast@thesyn.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the rubber chicken says,
0:05.0	And the rubber chicken says
0:22.2	I think freedom's just another word for making shit up and calling it real but what do I know
0:34.1	I'm just a rubber chicken God that'll make a hell of a song.
0:38.8	Oh, and you can sing it for me later because we've got to get on with a Rancash 53.
0:44.9	Louis Black's Rancash 53, by the way, entitled Itty Fuck It's. Yes, sir, E. We certainly are. It is rolling along. We don't know how to. Do we know how to do
0:56.1	any fucking thing at all? Anything? Do we anything? Is there anything that is within our grasp?
1:02.8	As we turn on the TVs and watch this week is apparently yes, we have to get out of Afghanistan.
1:08.3	It's absolutely vital. Three thousand troops there and whatever, and I get it.
1:12.6	I was in Bagram and Kandahar, and I've talked about this, and Kathleen and I were there,
1:17.6	and we were in Kabul, for Christ's sake.
1:20.0	It was just a scary fucking town.
1:23.5	And, you know, we put it out on Twitter. Kathleen put it out.
1:32.8	She and Robin, I'd forgotten this, were standing on the roof of the Kabul,
1:36.9	the embassy, the American embassy that we were at.
1:49.1	And you could look up on the mountain and see a swimming pool that was made by the Russians so that they were going to have the Olympic team or something, practice high diving there,
1:54.8	had a big giant fucking diving board.
2:00.4	And the Taliban took over, and that was the way they killed people is they sent him
2:05.1	off there.
2:05.8	And I made him brought this up last week.
2:07.9	You know what?
2:08.4	I wish I could remember this shit, but it bears repeating.
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