#54 - God Must Really Hate Haiti

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Stand-up, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

While the tribulations of the world were on an endless loop of Haiti, COVID, and Afghanistan, Lewis' anger this week comes from a very personal place, but with a universal lesson. After a year and a half of being extra careful with everything germ-related, Lewis and a group of fully-vaccinated, often-tested friends had dinner together last week, only to find out the next day that one of their fellow diners has COVID. And that friend was supposed to go on a well-deserved trip to Italy the next day. The unfairness of it all made him angry. Very angry. So, there was some yelling that happened, and thus the lesson. What we hear a lot of in the public discourse is the fevered fanaticism of a loud minority, whether about vaccines, masks, guns, or climate change. Their reactionary amateurish spewing brings neither beneficial relief for themselves nor does it serve any higher societal function. It is just noise going out into the unmediated void, propped up by ads for gold, CPAP machines, and catheters. In contrast, your host proffers this professional advice: the true purpose of yelling should be the healthy expression of anger. Not in and of itself, but as a means to find your own vulnerability. He’s an expert on the subject. So, send in your rants and get that anger therapeutically out. You'll feel better. The rants this week offer their own range of personal anger therapy, with submissions about pooping geese, bad manners, e-scooters, flat-earthers, pandemic hygiene, Cuomo-esque unwanted touching, the Davenport IA police department, an insightful lesson on the meaning of the 1st Amendment, and Germans. Also, a doleful rant about the seasonal confusion caused by retail establishments having already started playing Christmas holiday music even though it is 150˚degrees outside. And more! 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,
0:21.4	You don't name a Hurricane Henri.
0:28.2	But what do I know?
0:29.2	I'm just a rubber chicken.
0:31.6	And you don't name a Hurricane Bob.
0:33.9	No, you don't.
0:35.4	And we'll be talking about this and a lot of other things in this week's
0:39.7	rantcast number 54, Louis Blotch rantcast number 54 entitled, God Must Really Hate Haiti.
0:49.3	We'll be getting to that in a minute because there's a lot going on here today. We've got
0:53.6	we've got a lot of
0:55.2	news this morning. I guess it's been, is it coming right at us this hurricane. Henri. You don't
1:02.0	name a Hurricane Henri, as my trusty partner said, that's ridiculous, okay? What kind of a name
1:08.0	is that for a potential hurricane? Maybe a tropical storm.
1:12.2	I'll reworks for that.
1:13.5	I get that.
1:14.6	But you shouldn't be naming tropical storms anyway.
1:17.5	What do you name every shower of something?
1:19.9	No, you don't.
1:21.1	Okay?
1:22.1	But you don't name a hurricane.
1:23.9	You might name a Hurricane Hammer and, a Robespierre. Hurricane
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