#84 - Memorial Daze

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Stand-up, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The 84th edition of the Rantcast is about guns and gun control and the scourge of gun violence in America and the inability of the large majority of the country to summon the political will to keep our schools, churches, supermarkets, streets, and other public gathering places from continuing to be the sites of mass death. It asks when will enough be enough. It asks how many more children have to die before we take action. One impediment to action is semantics. In the recent national discourse about this subject the definition of evil has come into question. On this matter, evil is seeing what is in front of you and knowing what needs to be done, and feigning blindness. Evil is creating a system that protects guns and gun users and gun manufacturers wholly while leaving the people those guns are supposed to protect completely exposed to random and not-so-random acts of gun violence. It is an insidious evil destined to turn every day into a Memorial Day. Lewis’ Rantcast intro may inspire many different reactions, but laughter probably won’t be one of them. If you want to skip to the funny parts, the live rants start at 32:11. And while Lewis’ current thoughts on the guns might not be that amusing, he was able to find the humor in this subject in the past. In his 2016 special "Black to the Future", he gave his prophetic view on the matter, with a bonus insight into his retirement plans: https://youtu.be/QCEMxpjzDHM 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 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 New episodes arrive every Wednesday. 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	I don't know if I really need to be saying this, but I feel like I should.
0:06.7	I was thinking today of redoing my rant cast because I felt like I could clarify a lot of what I was saying and provide a bit more logic to the anger that I was expressing.
0:22.2	And I don't think that's, I don't think I want to do that.
0:28.6	I think all of the facts are very, very obvious.
0:31.2	At times I kind of, you know, I have a slip and slide because of the level of rage that I'm at.
0:39.9	Some people would say that there 90% of us believe in background checks. Some people say there are 80% of us the way in which
0:45.0	I think it came over was that it changed from 90 to 80% and that's not what I meant to say.
0:53.7	There are moments like that through it glitches and stuff.
0:56.0	But what was really, I think, the most honest and true thing that I could express was my anger.
1:03.0	That was more important to me.
1:06.0	We all know the facts. We all know every fucking fact.
1:09.0	I'm tired of going through the facts. I talk about that.
1:13.0	We repeat the facts every time the madness occurs. We come to these watershed fucking moments
1:19.9	after watching a tragedy of epic proportions that no other country wouldn't deal with afterwards
1:28.3	and try to find other solutions rather than the,
1:33.3	how many doors there should be.
1:36.3	I'm not gonna, I don't want to start up again.
1:40.3	I thought what was most important was the expression of my rage in light of what happened.
1:49.0	And that's to me what mattered.
1:52.3	And that's who was needed to come out.
1:56.2	If you really don't want to deal with my anger, don't watch this.
2:02.0	It's fine.
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