Lewis Black's Rantcast

[@judithrapier7500]

I lived in Freeport, Texas for a year. During that time I began noticing the trains leaving Dow Chemical Company. I would count the tanker cars and noted the chemical cards on each car. Every day train after train left Freeport with well over a 100 cars of poisonous, toxic, corrosive, or combinations of each liquid left the yards. The contents smell would infest my vehicle and the students in the school bus never complained. Said they live in Freeport and just got use to the smell permeating the town. If you have ever seen a tanker truck you might notice a slight movement when the truck starts out or is coming to a stop. Liquid moves like waves in the ocean. Back and forth putting pressure on the body of the driver of the truck. Now consider the movements of a train, curves, breaking and accelerating. Now add 150 cars all doing this at the same time. I won't even talk about the breaking systems on each car...same used one a hundred years ago. Just saying...corporate greed.

[@Jen7867]

Thanks for sharing this story, Judith!! 🤗 I have to agree with your conclusion: corporate greed, indeed. To me it seems America has become a corporatocracy.

[@jakeolthof]

It's the weight, not the state of what's in the cars that effects the braking efficiency.

[@robinmiller5256]

Same with IOWA….and then there’s the deadly chemicals going down the Mississippi…😳

[@ken0272]

Wow I was in the middle of typing my comment when I saw yours...quick story you may be interested in, in 1992 in Sarnia Ontario, the Dow plant there was looking at shutting down a number of facilities (including the one I worked in), the plan was that the remaining facilities would operate, but where necessary, the feed supplies lost from the shutdown units would be replaced by materials shipped by railcar from Dow in Freeport; now, in an effort to keep our facilities running, I dug up a study Dow had done previously showing why shipping some of these materials from Texas to Ontario by rail was a significant increase in risk to US communities along the route, and should be avoided. We sent the study up the chain of command....and...crickets..... our facilities were shut down anyways. the bottom line is what companies are (and inevitably have to be?) all about.

[@cloefauna]

Jesus 🤢😰😣😞😒

[@robertmseay7641]

Just a short note to indicate my support for the return of the Rubber Chicken 🐔.

[@debiesubaugher]

One of my earliest memories is Flip Wilson on Sesame Street as Geraldine counting. I can still hear him in her voice ❤

[@shannonmcstormy5021]

Serious Jail Time for corporate officers and employees, and existence-threatening fines.

[@MrSnoozo]

Lewis Black, the representation of my thoughts. A comedic approach, to the idiocy we all face.

[@vorpalbunny4091]

Thanks as usual for the post, Lewis, really enjoyed it. 👍🏻👏 But I do miss the Rubber Chicken. 💔🐔 🇺🇦

[@hopedamon7116]

I do not miss the chicken...at all

[@RainFall-2022]

Award winning! Perhaps even Oscar-worthy. Thanks, Lew.

[@joanclawser5990]

I thought there was some deregulation by the former leader which removed the need for railroads to install a new brake system which would mitigate derailment?

[@markcobb7040]

The hilarious ironic joke is that banned book sales go up due to them being banned.

[@lindarivas1506]

You and the late George Carlin are the best. You both are the comics of the people. Thank you for your humor. We surely need to laugh.

[@jimjett9996]

A lot of that is going around lately Lewis . As long as they can save a buck , they don't care about the safety, or the people that will suffer for their stupidity !

[@549BR]

Railroads fought putting air brakes on rail cars because it was much cheaper to pay the death benefits to brakemen's widows; how's that for bottom line thinking.

[@theemporersnewclothes]

180 cars, one operator WTF ❗what the fire!?🌋

[@c-v-n3322]

It's an embarrassment when such a developed country as the U.S. that you still don't have safe trains.

[@vanessawhitneypro]

Much love, Lew!

[@monkeegyrl6788]

Omg I miss the rubber chicken! Bring him back please!

[@rosanna5515]

Thank you from Montreal.

[@By_Rant_Or_Ruin]

It doesn't matter if you eat meat or not. That company should have been shut down and the ceo or owners put in jail.

[@maddiefeliciano6283]

Hi Lewis. Just had major back surgery and was looking forward to the rant cast. Thank you God Bless

[@Jen7867]

Wishing you a speedy and full recovery, Maddie. 🤗

[@robinmiller5256]

I think the railroad should move the town, and compensate for losses and future medical expenses.

[@hopedamon7116]

Gee...that would be called taking responsibility.

[@549BR]

Dream on.

[@robinmiller5256]

@@549BR towns have been moved for airports, military bases, and natural disasters, as well as chemical disasters such as Love Canal in NY.

[@grimkeeper35]

You can't win as a woman. If you're like me and don't have kids everyone always asks you why. If you're like a few of my friends and have more than 3 kids people judge you for having too many kids and they question that too. Why do we have or not have kids? NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!

[@xuhongmao7292]

The perfect number of children is 2.4 after all. 😂

[@549BR]

What would stupid and inconsiderate people converse about if the subject of children was ruled out?

[@grimkeeper35]

@@549BR oh I'm sure they'll think of something. they always do :)

[@TheWeatherbuff]

Same thing in the airline industry: "Body Count Legislation". When enough people die or get hurt, they finally take action.

[@mikestone9129]

Lewis Black reminds me so much of George Carlin.

[@theemporersnewclothes]

Truth!

[@ssgtmole8610]

The railroads have been a mess in america since the congressional non-regulated giveaway to the original rail barrons, almost 200 years ago.

[@susanforrest128]

I really enjoy rail travel particularly in GB and Europe!

[@brianne8258]

My way of dealing with the kids bs: "All questions about children must be accompanied with a $100 donation to their education fund."

[@johnfronek738]

Like a boss 😎👍Lewis B

[@jerrycratsenberg989]

Love you Lewis!

[@Parnelli1963]

This and always has been the, mind set of the corporate world. Give less and charge more. Have you bought a Baby Ruth candy bar lately? In this case, it spend less on safety and charge more for the service. Corporate greed. More money, more money.

[@leonessity]

So, how long will it be, before the Bananican Republic demand that all school kids be taught to march, en masse? And will it be to the American styled cadence - Left... left... left, right, left? Or will it emulate the stiff back, early '40s, German youth march? Mad love and much respect to you, Lewis Black, from west coast, Canada!

[@juliusadkinsx]

Thanks Lewis! We kind of just continually operate something that's broken. I learned that through my job that repairs were needed to get through the week every week.. It's kind of like a cheap user mentality embodied by corporations.

[@joanclawser5990]

I’m guessing the 1.5 million dollar fine won’t go to the children?

[@shelleyrosser]

Missed the rubber chicken! Red did dress in drag.

[@daviddorais6071]

You need to look into Heinlein's Crazy Years era in his Future History anthology- The Past Through Tomorrow. He predicted via his SF short stories and a few novels back in the 1950s/early 60s. many things you talk about.

[@daviddorais6071]

BTW You Tube censored what I really wanted to say, they are now just as bad at this as FB.

[@JPS47]

The rant about the ketchup hater made my morning. You can put whatever you want on a hotdog. Why would anyone else should care?

[@michaelcaraway2305]

You left out that great Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon movie "Some Like it Hot".

[@robbennett2829]

Precision and accuracy are two different things!

[@nv631]

I miss the rubber chicken :( I hope he has found himself in the darkness

[@barbarawalsh2875]

With Aaron Rodgers

[@drick5493]

It’s not just about regulations, it’s about PUNISHMENTS. If we would simply punish the people in charge, these issues would subside. But slapping them on the wrist with millions in fines when they make billions, does NOTHING.

[@SylvesterCarl]

They could use left-hand thread security fasteners (those Allen heads with the post in the middle) on those toilet seats. A common thief would then have to go to the trouble of bringing a cordless die grinder with them and then the risk of being heard in the commission of the crime.

[@markgigiel2722]

Capitalism and corporate charters REQUIRE maximizing profit over everything else at all costs. PERIOD. It can't be fixed. It needs to be completely changed.

[@MJ-fm4wy]

Absolutely, Safety 🚨First please! Money 💵💰2nd… Lives count more!

[@hollywoodclark9578]

The balcony! what a great idea! I'm a tad bitter.

[@joanclawser5990]

DJT heard from the railroads that these brakes were too expensive

[@TamTran-vw7zm]

No chicken??? Awwwwww...

[@debrahelmlinger6256]

Never heard the clock ticking, love kids became a Children's Librarian and didn't have to have the kids all day like a teacher and am to the Great, Great Aunt stage. Love having the kids over but in the end they go home with their parents

[@ingridwheeler3180]

DeSantis banning a book written by a person who details the racism he has endured, is compounding that racism by denying the author his voice, his place in history, and his ability to Sell his book, which also impacts the company which publishes his book. I think there is more than one actual law being broken by the autocratic governor.

[@birdsdaword]

Drag queen story time is held in many libraries in the San Francisco Bay area. Particularly the main San Francisco library. And yes, the kids absolutely love it and the drag queens read wonderful books to the children.

[@549BR]

Nothing perverse about that, at least in SF.

[@birdsdaword]

@@549BR not anywhere 😃

[@vorpalbunny4091]

And what about that wonderful "Sisters" scene in the 1954 classic White Christmas, performed by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye? IN drag --incredibly classy drag, but drag nonetheless. Or would that be their best attempt at justification? Too classy to count? Distinction without a difference. But I'd still love to hear that one play out. Ooh, how about, in an entirely different vein, To Wong Fu? Hells, I'd pay and bet good money to be at that debate, that even the smartest republican, in regards to those 3 actors and the movie's message, couldn't score one damn point. But I would still dearly love to watch 'em fail.

[@nathanosland1179]

I love trains too brother!

[@hollywoodclark9578]

i"M HITTING THAT BUTTON!!! AND LISTENING TO MY BOBBLE HEAD!!!!

[@Myparentdepot]

According to an AP article, February 17 this year, "The fine PSSI paid on Thursday, $15,138 for each minor, is the maximum allowed under federal law." There apparently IS a limit. Not only should there NOT be a limit for something so egregious, where the legislators come up with the $XX,138 is beyond me. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[@TheGuinever]

Wow! The similarities in Red Skelton's and Lewis Black's voices is rather striking! Hadn't occurred to me.

[@anthonydebski5814]

...may I add, again...the US, like the UK, has REPLACED QUALITY by QUANTITY!

[@flamingonut]

"Rampant Insanity"; sounds like you've found the name of a future tour...

[@musicman3158]

Ketchup does NOT belong on a hot dog. Ever.

[@pamelanichols804]

Instead of fed and state governments hiring enough inspectors politicians would rather vote themselves raises. If the on!y raises they earned were by votes from the public, whoa!

[@paulclissold1525]

South gippy dairy country has the largest earthworms in the world.

[@NewYorkPickers]

A certified media specialist is a sub librarian specialty. Gotta confirm. Let kids read any book. Yep. Not be any gender. Mickey Rooney wore a dress. Did not do a drag show. Red wire drag. Did not do a drag SHOW.

[@davidg813]

Gee maybe it's not a good idea to have two people driving a train that's two miles long. Why that must be saving those railroad companies a ton of money, 2 people to pay to move all that hundreds and hundreds of tons of stuff down a railroad track. This country still in the nineteenth century when it comes to railroads compared to Europe. You couldn't pay me enough to write on Amtrak today which is pretty sad

[@imagesbyepstein]

Everything in my opinion that is bad usually falls under one umbrella. It's called - GREED.

[@mariemelansongundy-vx4ox]

It's a good thing he didn't hear of another wreck as he was speaking, in Alabama

[@patrickskramstad1485]

21:55

[@allancooperman4042]

ROBERTO CLEMENTE died in a plane crash sending help to Puerto Rico in a plane crash failure from a hurricane. Pittsburgh Pirate all star.

[@deborahd8455]

And yet another rant where what you say, and how you react is my mirror image - word-for-word. My first reaction - how in holy hell are there not appropriate and enforces train safety laws in place already? The only answer is greed (on the part of the railway owners), and corruption (on the part of government). It turns my stomach and deeply saddens me when an avoidable and predictable disaster happens. Then the verbal bullshit commences. Wrong, morally wrong, and insulting to our intelligence.

[@rainydaze1538]

Hi Lewis

[@TheOldHippiebilly]

I remember watching Bugs Bunny in drag. I really don't think it fucked me up. Looking back, there was some racism that I now find disturbing....but Looney Tunes did not turn me gay.

[@s.k.richards3967]

Ohio River flows to the Mississippi toxicity filling our Gulf Mexico. 😶😔🙏

[@teresajohnson142]

I know it probably goes against everything you believe in I really wish you were involved in government somehow. You make sense.

[@heathcotepursuit8]

When oh when will they get round to banning the broadcast of the movie 'Some like it hot'? After all Curtis & Lemon spend a good deal of time in dresses, the latter even sails off with a guy who doesn't seem to mind that he's a man! Won't somebody think of the children?!?!

[@RainFall-2022]

C'mon, Lew, everyone knows that the almighty dollar is more valuable than human life. At least in America.

[@chainweaver3361]

My short rant is i had tix for the feb show in fargo & was postponed until, get this, THE OPENING DAY OF FUCKING DEER HUNTING IN NOV! GODDAMMITANYFUCKINGWAY! So i got a refund 😠😡🤬

[@desiraecampbell3547]

FAKE IT TILL U MAKE IT.... SMFH.. HAVE A FABULOUS DAY 😘😋🥰❤️

[@debrahelmlinger6256]

But, but didn't dumpy say he was the one and the only one to fix everything in his inaugural speech

[@ticthak]

Lewis, you''re from down that-a-ways, you KNOW it's pronounced "No-FUCK Southern"...

[@lindasalin5845]

Hey Lewis ,what is worse, a drag show where someone has a wig, tons of makeup, a long gown, shoes and probably long gloves,, OR a POLE DANCER with almost nothing on!! Why don't they come down hard on pole dancing??

[@crowfoot7355]

Sago Lewis 😅 😅

[@patriciahorner9913]

You're absolutely right! Why worry about an entertainment show instead of actually doing their jobs and handling the real crime. It's pitiful how much they go after drag shows, and the LGBT people instead of the criminals that cause so much harm in our country. People who I remember dressed in women's clothing and makeup to entertain, Flip Wilson, Milton Berle, Red Skeleton, they were hilarious! Imagine there were many more, just can't remember right now. But when we had fun variety, entertainment shows, they were always funny, respectful, and happy to do whatever it took to get laughs. Wonder if I Love Lucy had men dressed up as women, know the women did it. So what is the big deal with this? Think it's their own scared, little boy fears of their own bodies. I loved going to a drag show, had a fantastic time and laughed all night. I'm a woman and don't have any desire to be anything else but don't get my panties in a bunch over it. They should be left alone. Loved your Nashville, In. Show!! It was awesome, fantastic and full of laughter. Thank you for giving us a fun time. Watch Randy Rainbow sometime, he's really funny.

[@bobtube81]

deport Murdoch?

[@549BR]

Lewis doesn't realize that a smaller number of safety inspectors equals a greater amount of safety noted on the bottom line; out of sight is out of mind. Railroads used to have rail walkers to pound in loose spikes; no more, just guys cruising down the tracks in their air conditioned hi-railer trucks not seeing many loose spikes; again, out of sight is out of mind. I could go on...

[@rchydrozz751]

Thanks to Trump. He cut back on Train Safety Regulations.

[@JohnSmith-pn2vl]

child labor or school, whats the difference really

[@dr.m.hfuhruhurr84]

Next door neighbor who had been in the merchant marine during WW2 took my 7 years old dumbass young developing mind on a ride in the engine (with parental permission) during the 1970s. Taught me much that time and much more over the years, as have you & Upton Sinclair though the engine riding more allegorical. TYVM Mr. Louis! Sincerely stay well & ⓡ𝕆Č𝓀 ᵒή ✌😷👍

[@ur22much2]

Drag shows are for entertainment, and it is an art form. They worried about a piece of candies sex and what she revealed, and what her color meant.... BLAH

[@frankiehouston8398]

lewis i was lucky to see him play short lived as his life was but desantis banning his life couldn't even shine robertos cleets

[@mikegregory7780]

Flip Wilson

[@susanforrest128]

Or no costumes! Easy peasy!

[@prodigalknitter1]

🤗😘

[@dannyratliff1847]

Tom Hanks......tv sitcom playing a woman to get a cheap place to live .......I thought it was funny then and now.

[@barbarawalsh2875]

Bosom Buddies. Tom Hanks and Peter Scholia. Sorry for the misspell.

[@alvinaboatright]

😂😂😂

[@ronin_returns]

@Lewis Black, to be honest, (and I don't want you to take this the wrong way), I knew it was only a matter of time before you choked your rubber chicken to death, you can only choke your chicken just one so many times. Being on the road, touring and performing so much each year, can get lonely, and after this many decades in comedy, even the closest of friends and performers find their act strained by the stress. At first, I thought the rubber chicken may have defected to Russia, was now performing solo under the stage name Chicken Kiev, or as is generally known in Russian and Ukrainian cuisines and comedy, côtelette de volaille, or even suprême de volaille à la Kiev, since he always did have a flair for the dramatic. I pictured him entertaining the troops in Ukraine or at the front on tour. That made no sense though, even for a rubber chicken, to charge floppy headlong into such a war zone. But then I realized that like many performing rubber chickens, the fame, fortune, and his alcohol and drug problems had likely gotten the best of him. We are all glad to know though that he is receiving the best of treatment at the Betty Crocker Ford Center, and wish him the speediest of recoveries as he dries out, he had been staying marinated for far too many years out on the road.

[@ronin_returns]

Skokie ( / ˈskoʊki /; formerly Niles Center) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, neighboring the City of Chicago's northern border. Its population, according to the 2020 census, was 67,824. [3] Skokie lies approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of Chicago's downtown Loop. Its name comes from a Potawatomi word for "marsh." [4] Wow, you've really hit the big time Lewis, don't go getting a huge ego on us! Of course our local town here in South Boston, Virginia, only boasts an estimated population of 7,993 people, so those city slickers there in Skokie, Illinois, probably think they are hot stuff walking around in shoes, with their own original teeth. I bet they don't know a dang thing about chewing tobacco though, or have a two-seater his and hers outhouse. You should come on down here and perform at our local theater and cultural arts center located at The Prizery, because if there is one thing I know our town will appreciate, it is a liberal Jew comedian from the big city, and we can share with you the finer things in life like shooting a possum on your front porch at night, and preparing such haute cuisine. (Just a little culinary secret: you want to marinate that possum overnight, before you add it to the stew!) Also, while you are here, we can enlighten you as to the ways and rich tradition of NASCAR, the fine technique of driving a race car in circles at high speed for hundreds of miles around a speedway. I know it is a lot to take in, but after Skokie, I'm sure you'll be able to handle the fast pace, and delightful charm and amenities our town has to offer.

[@barbarawalsh2875]

My guess to all of you people who think you can put ketchup on a hotdog you have a been harassed like the people harassed you in the city of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. I don’t know who started this shit it’s been around for long as I can remember. But you take your hot dog you got your steamed Rosen poppyseed bun I just got mustard tomatoes, onions, then you “drag through the garden“ and finish it with celery salt. And that is a Chicago style hotdog and God help you if you try to order it any other way. I could be starving to death, and I would never eat a hotdog not because of the strange and archaic rules of living in the city of Chicago, and wanting a hot dog, I just don’t like them. And I don’t like ketchup either, which is neither here nor there since I’m not putting it on a hotdog I’m not going to eat, but people in Chicago. Have this idea we let them have it, so be prepared for it if you order a hotdog Chicago style or god for bed ask for ketchup

[@alvinaboatright]

Our farmland states at that!

[@rebeccalea0725]

Lewis, will you marry me? 🥰❤️🤷‍♀️

[@alvinaboatright]

🎉🎉🎉

[@blackscreenstories3704]

Ronda Santas wants to regulate how you carry books but not regulate how you carry your firearms..... And yes I mispelled his name purposely

[@janetread7196]

IT IS ALL GREED!!!

[@alvinaboatright]

I eat meat too. I get it

[@alvinaboatright]

Right?!?

[@alvinaboatright]

Definitely not!! Are you kidding me?

[@alvinaboatright]

Wtf?!?