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Lewis Black's Rantcast

#62 - Tornadoes in December? Mother Nature Must Be Pissed

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Stand-up, Leisure, Comedy

4.7843 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week's Rantcast comes from an undisclosed location in Florida. As your host tours the Sunshine state, it's important for him to not just maintain social distancing, but to hide from the sun-baked masses entirely. The citizenry there acts as though there's no global pandemic occurring and mask wearing is not even an afterthought. Despite this alternate reality, the shows in Florida have gone well, with audiences who have not forgotten how to behave in a theatre and may be the only people in the state who civilly comply with a mask requirement. The only downside is that tickets for the show in Jacksonville have not sold well (this is not something new) leading Lewis to wonder what other excitement is to be had in Jacksonville. Meanwhile the news this week was dominated by the tornadoes in Kentucky and surrounding states, a meteorological phenomenon rarely seen at this time of year. Something is clearly terribly wrong with the climate for this to be happening as winter approaches. Not so rare, unfortunately, was that there was yet another school shooting, a event that can't even be called a tragedy any more, because a tragedy is something that you actually try to prevent, but it happens anyway. The responses from certain members of Congress were as predictable as the calls for thoughts and prayers, with one representative, coincidentally, sending out holiday cards asking Santa for ammo for Christmas. Would they be used to defend the Douglas fir in living room? This kind of holiday card leads one to wonder what kind of weaponry the wise men brought the baby Jesus along with the myrrh and the frankincense. Also, Lewis notes the passing of Bob Dole and recounts his own encounter with the former Kansas Senator and presidential candidate. The live rants come from Princeton, NJ with submissions about traffic, bad drivers, and bats. 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

And the rubber chicken says, and the rubber chicken says,

0:21.0

I just had my seventh booster shot.

0:27.8

But what do I know?

0:29.2

I'm just a rubber chicken.

0:31.2

Well, better safe than sorry.

0:33.6

You'll probably get your...

0:34.5

Who you are getting your eighth next week.

0:36.6

Well, good for you.

0:37.8

Two hippos have come down with COVID.

0:40.0

Don't worry, don't worry.

0:41.3

They're fine.

0:42.2

Have the sniffles.

0:43.3

Seriously.

0:44.1

Oh, but if we can't talk now, I've got to get on with Rant-Tas 62 entitled Tornadoes in December.

0:52.6

Mother Nature must be pissed.

0:55.0

And we've got so much to talk about that I'm going to skip it, because we're in Florida

1:01.0

and I've got to get out there because the sun is out, and I'm just taunting you with that.

1:05.0

That's why I'm wearing more relaxed clothing.

1:08.0

Something I never really put on, I don't know if you can see it.

1:11.3

My squirrel here, which is a squirrel constellation on a horse,

1:19.0

gift from Kathleen Madigan, my pal who likes to taunt me with squirrels

1:23.3

because she knows that I find them disturbing and believe that they will bring us to her knees

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