#65 - Lots of Tools, Lots of Fools

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Stand-up, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Lewis rings in the new year by taking a look back at all the wonderful and joyous events of 2021. And like many things in the media today, that previous sentence bears only a partial resemblance to the truth. While some ostensibly good things happened last year, it has mostly left us with more questions than answers. For instance, why will people refuse to get vaccinated but will avail themselves of every ounce of modern medicine that can be found in an emergency room? Who knew about the Insurrection beforehand and why wasn't more done to stop it? Why does the state of Texas have its own electrical grid? Why do people think it's a good idea to mass themselves in Times Square during a pandemic? And rhetorically, if three billionaires can launch into "space" but we can't continue the child tax credit, does that mean we have a problem with inequality? On the plus side, the usage of profanity has exploded which means that at least some of the populace is getting a better handle on their anger issues. And as studies have shown, the use of profanity is a sign of intelligence. So, F.U. to 2021, and onwards to a better 2022. The live rants come from the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts in Virginia Beach, VA on February 27, 2020. 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

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0:00.0	And the rubber chicken says,
0:24.7	what I learned from 2021 is that human beings get dumber by the second.
0:31.7	And 10 seconds have just passed.
0:33.7	So now they're even dumber.
0:34.8	But what do I know?
0:36.1	I'm just a rubber chicken. Well, many people
0:40.2	believe that 2022 is going to get better. Oh, so you're laughing at us, oh, rubber chicken? Okay,
0:48.4	okay. I may agree with you, and maybe you're smarter than us. I know, I know, I know.
0:54.7	We'll talk about this some other time.
0:56.9	We haven't got that kind of a luxury because we've got to get on with RANDCAST number 65 entitled,
1:06.0	Lots of Tools, Lots of Fools.
1:09.7	Yes, sir, we begin at 20, 22 22 in the midst of a fucking shitstorm again.
1:17.1	The numbers are rising, but we have better tools in our toolbox. I keep hearing that over and over and over again.
1:24.0	And I'm kind of sick of hearing it, but I'm glad we do have better tools in our toolbox.
1:27.1	But we also have still tools in our toolbox.
1:40.7	But we also have still a massive amount of fools out there who will just, who do not think that, you know, they either, they're afraid of, they don't, they have trouble with going to a doctor.
1:44.4	They don't trust them. They don't trust science anymore. I don't know if it's because they failed all their science classes and therefore fear it. But they'll show up in an
1:50.0	emergency room and take whatever the hell they're giving them and wander down the aisles of a
1:55.7	supplement. Oh, what supplement should I be? God damn it. But they won't take the shots. Nope.
2:04.0	It won't take the shots. So we're the oh my God variant now. I'm not blaming them, but it does
2:09.2	not help. It is the one thing that kind of stands between us and what appears to be just a
2:14.7	fucking, we're like in that, the hamster in the wheel,
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