#73 - No Internet, No Cell Service, But Lots of Pot

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Stand-up, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Coming to you from somewhere along the treacherous, no guardrail road from Loleta to Redding, this week's episode answers the timely question of what kinds of infrastructure in Humboldt County need to be fixed. The answer: all of it. From the bumpy roads to the lack of phone and internet service, the pot basket of America is in sore need of better streets and the ability to connect to the outside world. If it were possible to pave the roads with marijuana, Humboldt would have the best thoroughfares in America. And in this secluded region of the endless expanse of the Golden State, weed is the one thing that unites the left and the right; that and a fervent distrust of authority. But even in that area of agreement, the sides cannot find common ground on which authority they do not like. Some distrust the federal government, some distrust the state government, some distrust the local government, and some distrust religious authority. All of them want the freedom that living in a rural, semi-isolated region seemingly conveys. Perhaps it is the bad roads and poor communications services that gives the locals the Freedom they may not realize they already have. The live rants come from the shows at the Bear River Casino in Loleta and the Redding Civic Auditorium in Redding, where there is much discussion of the price of weed, what weed is called, and how everyone loves weed. Also Cali-bama! Want to see Lewis live? Tickets are available here: https://www.lewisblack.com/tickets 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... And the rubber chicken says...
0:21.6	Oh, wow.
0:26.6	Like many Americans, I don't trust doctors either.
0:31.6	That's why I go to the veterinarian.
0:33.6	But what do I know? I'm just a rubber chicken.
0:36.6	Well, of course you go to the veterinarian. That's where a rubber chickens go.
0:40.8	I didn't even know the rubber chickens went to a veterinarian, but we haven't got time for this.
0:44.6	I've got to get on with Rantcast 73 entitled.
0:50.4	No internet, no cell service, but lots of pot.
0:54.5	We're on the road. We're still on of pot. We're on the road.
0:55.6	We're still on the road.
0:56.6	We're on the road that we were on last week, and we're going to just continue on that road
1:00.8	because we're going to the top of California, and California never ends.
1:04.8	Never.
1:05.1	It's a place.
1:05.7	It's not only a place.
1:06.8	It's a state of mind.
1:08.9	That's what I've discovered here. As you can see, there's nothing but this is where apparently people live inside there, what you're seeing in the background. I have never been in a place. We traveled all day yesterday on this road, and I barely got cell service. I just tried to text Kathleen a few minutes ago and it kept
1:31.5	bouncing back, no can do, no can do. That's the first time that my phone said no can do.
1:37.9	And then I've had trouble trying to get the uh, the internet, you know, Apple.
1:45.0	I'm not advertising Apple because I hate this prick of a, of a, of a computer.
1:50.3	It just fucks with me.
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