#68 - In the Heart of the Heart of the Heart of the Country

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Stand-up, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Coming to you from somewhere near the Kansas-Oklahoma border, this week's episode features your host using words that only someone who has spent too much time in the flat part of the country would use. Gussied? Check. Crinoline? Check. And while Lewis was not able to visit Tulsa's own Oral Roberts University, he did have time to address the current great effort at overweening religiosity, book banning. And all he asks of those banning books is that they turn their censorious eyes toward his literary contributions. It can only help sales. The rants come from the past weekend's shows in Salina KS and Tulsa OK, where Lewis greatly enjoying getting back to reading rants in front of a live audience again. Check out Lewis’ Grammy-nominated special, Thanks For Risking Your Life 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,
0:21.8	Now you're banning books?
0:27.6	Oh boy, if there was an Olympics for stupidity, you'd give every country a run, wouldn't you?
0:34.4	But what would I know?
0:35.9	I'm just a rubber chicken. Yes, and I don't agree with
0:39.9	banning books either. Next time we'll talk about it maybe. Well, I'm going to talk about it today.
0:44.1	No, we're not having a discussion about this. I've got to get on with RANCES 68, entitled in the
0:50.3	heart of the heart of the heart of the heart of the country. Yes, here we are in the very, very heart of it,
0:57.0	because we just finished up last night in Salina, Kansas, and now we're under a bridge,
1:03.0	I think, here in somewhere in the middle of nowhere. We get out from under this bridge.
1:08.2	You cannot be under a bridge anymore. You don't want to be under a bridge. Move it, move it. Okay, we're safe now. We're moving on to, we're moving on to Tulsa,
1:18.2	Oklahoma, also in the heart of the heart of the heart of the country. We would have been in
1:21.8	Oklahoma City, another in the heart of, but we didn't, we had some ticket sale problems there,
1:26.9	like people just said, but no,
1:29.4	we're not buying them. They're not buying any tickets there for apparently anything, or the
1:34.8	powers of B are lying to me, but that will allow me next week to take a little bit of a break.
1:41.3	And so there'll be, there'll be kind of another short rant cast.
1:47.7	It was great to be back being able to do the ranches due.
1:51.0	You're going to be hearing that.
1:52.8	And that's quite exciting, I think, for all of us.
1:55.0	And we are banning books, which is also quite exciting.
1:58.4	I wish they'd ban a few of my books.
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