#78 - This Is America

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Stand-up, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode comes from somewhere on I-20 near the Georgia/South Carolina border, possibly the bumpiest stretch of road for a locale that doesn't see much wintry weather. The bumps in the road (sorry) is a theme that carried forward from the previous night in Atlanta, where one of the patrons had had a little too much to drink and not enough talk about the current president. The gentleman in question, disinhibited by the night's imbibing, could not keep that sentiment to himself, and felt that it was his Constitutional right to be heard. Misinterpreting the meaning of the First Amendment, he would not be silenced, and while being removed from the premises declared, "This is America!" Throughout most of America, the audience will be self-policing, using their combined feedback to control the wayward members of the crowd. Unfortunately, this was not the case in Atlanta. Other than this interruption to Saturday evening's proceedings the week was mostly good for your host, highlighted by visiting his mom and then receiving a high honor from his alma mater, having the body of his written work and primary sources archived by the UNC library. The live rants come from the shows in Atlanta, GA and Charleston, SC, where the theater-goers come in a possibly more gentile variety than their Peach State brethren. For more information about Lewis' archive at UNC click here: https://library.unc.edu/2022/04/lewis-black-collection/ 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. For advertising opportunities/contact email: rantcast@thesyn.com SUBMIT RANTS TO LEWIS https://www.lewisblack.com/live SUBSCRIBE TO THE RANTCAST https://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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the rubber chicken says...
0:21.6	Oh, wow.
0:26.6	Hell, I haven't got time for a rant cast.
0:29.6	Easter's coming and I gotta go pop out some eggs.
0:33.6	See you next week. Okay.
0:35.6	See you next week.
0:36.6	Who knew that a rubber chicken made eggs? Well, you learn something new every day. Welcome to rantcast number 78 entitled, This is America. And that's the way you say it. That's the way you should say it. This is America. Say it with anger in your voice, bitterness.
0:55.5	This is the, actually, I'm quoting a heckler who was in the audience in Atlanta, Georgia,
1:03.8	at the Cobb Energy Center just last night where he decided that he needed to express himself, even though I do this long thing
1:14.8	at the beginning, where I try to guide folks to understand that this isn't what we do now
1:20.6	anymore when there's a night where a comic is working, especially in a theater.
1:26.5	And people have paid, and many overpaid, to see entertainment.
1:32.2	And so I've kind of in my own fashion politely said, you know,
1:36.7	you shut the fuck up.
1:39.3	And he had done very well until literally what was the last moments of my act.
1:48.8	And I've been kind of working on getting my special together, and I moved a section of it
1:55.3	to the end, and I've gotten through all of it.
1:57.3	And so I finally was getting a sense of the arc. If you don't mind my using some
2:02.0	professional phrasing. And I finally was getting a sense of it. And he interrupted with the,
2:09.6	what about Biden? Well, I had already talked about, I'd of thrown Biden under the bus very quickly.
2:22.4	And there was no need for this. None whatsoever. None. Uh-uh. And so that I thought was enough,
2:30.9	and I kind of dealt with it. Apparently, it turns out he had been up in the, he's in the balcony.
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