#88 - Bang! Bang! Bang!

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Stand-up, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Happy 4th of July! Don't we all feel super patriotic right now? Another day in America brings us another mass shooting at a parade in Chicago while we get the second opportunity to witness folks in the city of where our Declaration of Independence was signed run in fear from more gunfire as the Rocket's Red Glare fills the night sky. As if that wasn't bad enough, airlines are kicking us in the nuts as the biggest nuts in country right now, SCROTUS is taking its conservatism all the way back to the 1930s. Wooohooo, Let's celebrate! Where's the BBQ? This week Lewis reads rants submitted from his fans, some the night he recorded his most-recent comedy special and others from fans that just had to get some things off their chests. Lewis’ Grammy-nominated special, Thanks For Risking Your Life is available now! 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	This could all go horribly wrong at any minute.
0:07.0	And the rubber chicken says,
0:10.0	If the Supreme Court keeps ruling the way the Supreme Court's been ruling,
0:18.0	it is soon gonna feel here like it's 1776, but what would I know?
0:22.6	I'm just a rubber chicken.
0:25.3	Yes, you are, but you are a very bright rubber chicken, but 1776, we will not be, no, we will not.
0:31.2	It is going to be 1956 is what it'll feel like.
0:34.8	It's feeling like 1961 around now.
0:37.2	Please, okay, we have not got time for this.
0:39.4	We've got to get on with Lewis Flacks Randcast, all right? Louis Flack's Randcast number 88 entitled
0:45.9	Bang, Bang, Bang. Happy Fourth of July, because that's what it is. It's the Fourth of July.
0:52.4	I'm trying to get this done now so I can get some other things done this week.
0:56.5	And I chose the Fourth of July to work it on because it's not fun to wander around New York City on the Fourth of July.
1:02.9	To be honest with you, during the day, yes. In the evening, nope, it gets cray craye here as the folks just seem to throw firecrackers and all other forms of they,
1:16.2	as they shoot these fireworks off anywhere and everywhere.
1:19.1	And it's on the other side of town and I don't want to go through and you don't know which street will be kind of look like a war zone.
1:26.1	Because smoke will be everywhere and rockets will be
1:29.2	flying through the air and bang bang bang. I'm calling it. I had better titles for this.
1:37.0	But if I hadn't picked today to work on, that's why I chose bang for that. And then all of a
1:43.0	sudden we find out today, of course, there's a Fourth of July parade.
1:46.9	And a mass shooting takes place in Highland Park, Chicago.
1:52.5	And, oh, they think it could be someone between the ages of 18 and 20.
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