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#84 - Memorial Daze
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54 minutes
Released:
Jun 1, 2022
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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
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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
Submit rants to Lewis
https://www.lewisblack.com/live
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
Subscribe to Lewis Black’s Rantcast
Apple – https://bit.ly/rantcast
Spotify – https://spoti.fi/3oNaPFh
Google – https://bit.ly/37Zb35u
Amazon – https://amzn.to/37bg8Za
Follow Lewis
Website – http://www.lewisblack.com
Instagram – http://www.instagram.com/thelewisblack
Twitter – https://twitter.com/thelewisblack
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thelewisblack
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/OfficialLewisBlack
New episodes arrive every Wednesday via The Laugh Button
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Released:
Jun 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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