Lewis Black's Rantcast

266 - Sell Your Blood

06 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Are we great yet? Or are we amongst those people out there in need of having to sell some blood just to get by? Lewis learns Americans are grappling w...

265 - More Weapons Big Ballroom

29 Apr 2026

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Lewis had a plan this week, but the event happening at the WHCD changed up his plans. Prompting him to reflect on his time when he was asked to be a p...

264 - The Lewis Black Invitational Golf Tournament

22 Apr 2026

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Lewis returns from a few days hosting his annual golf invitational which benefits The Luv U Project, a charity he works with to benefit mental health ...

263 - We're The Civilization He's Destroying

15 Apr 2026

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This week Lewis is out hosting his golf invitational for charity. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t things happening in the world that can enrage...

262 - He's Insane

08 Apr 2026

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This weekend people across the world celebrated a holiday. For many in the US we had to endure the overlap of an unhinged person in the White House wh...

261 - Bored

01 Apr 2026

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Bored seems to be he word this week for our leader as he seems over the war he started yet doesn’t know how to finish. Maybe Cuba is next. This week...

260 - March Madness

25 Mar 2026

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While the title suggests this week's Rantcast could be about the popular college basketball tournament. Madness can also describe the current situatio...

259 - What Is The Cost Of War?

18 Mar 2026

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It’s a question Lewis asks on this week’s Rantcast. We have an administration that appears to have not thought long about going to war with Iran. ...

258 - Four Weaks

11 Mar 2026

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Its a week with nothing but war in the news. Seemingly the only bright spot being that Kristi Noem was relieved of her position. For advertising opp...

257 - State Of The Onion

04 Mar 2026

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The State of the Union address just happened. Lewis watched it so you don't have to. Almost two hours of nonsense, broken down for you by Lewis. Let's...

256 - I Can't Hear You Because He's Shouting

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It was a wild week for our leader and he’s grabbing his peepee because he’s so angry. His signature policy was shot down by the Supreme Court he h...

255 - My Puppy Has More Empathy

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Lewis kicks off this week’s Rantcast attempting to figure out how he can possibly remember the amount of bullshit that happens on a weekly basis. Re...

254 - Outrage Outage

11 Feb 2026

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Lewis begins this week’s Rantcast with a fairly straightforward question, where is the outrage? Because this past week some really unforgivable thin...

253 - From Rockford to Gary

04 Feb 2026

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Lewis returned from a weekend of shows out in Indiana but that’s not what he was most eager to talk about because as a fellow funny person he too ce...

#252 - Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

28 Jan 2026

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Lewis is back to help us make sense of a wild week. Starting off with some explosive testimony from Jack Smith in front of Congressional Hearings, our...

251 - Live From The Stand in NYC

21 Jan 2026

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It's Lewis' first ever live version of The Rantcast. Yes of course he's read live rants before during his live stand-up shows in the past. But this is...

250 - In Memory of Renee Nicole Good and Bob Weir

14 Jan 2026

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As Lewis preps for his first ever live Rantcast recording this week he reflects on two major stories of death this week. First being the unfortunate m...

249 - It’s Saturday Morning, Let’s Invade Venezuela

07 Jan 2026

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Lewis had an entire show planned for this first Rantcast of 2026 but he woke up Saturday morning to record and things didn't go as planned because our...

248 - America Is His Coloring Book

31 Dec 2025

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It’s the final Rantcast of 2025 and Lewis reflects on the past year. Mostly attributing it to the political absurdity that’s plagued us and contin...

247 - The Crazy Speech

24 Dec 2025

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Our president recently gave an unhinged address to the nation. Lewis felt the world didn't hear it enough so he's making sure you do, by reading it. ...

246 - Winter Wonderland My Ass!

17 Dec 2025

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225 - Lewis of Arabia

10 Dec 2025

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Lewis is back from his vacation to Morocco, just call him Lewis in Arabia! It was 2 weeks of absorbing the culture, architecture, the religion, and pr...

244 - The Daily Show

03 Dec 2025

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It’s a double meaning title this week. First off Lewis will be on The Daily Show on December 12th and is loving how this current regime over there i...

243 - The Endlessness of The Epstein Files

19 Nov 2025

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Another week brings more conversation about the Epstein Files. But a lot can change in just a few days, for a lot has changed in between the time Lewi...

242 - Meanwhile...

12 Nov 2025

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The government is shutdown but meanwhile the Ice Raids continue. We're approaching 40 days and there's plenty of blame going around, meanwhile there's...

241 - 1 out of 8

05 Nov 2025

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The title says it all. The vast food insecurity that the children in our country is flat out appalling. And while we’re in the middle of a governmen...

240 - Escape to Easton, PA

29 Oct 2025

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Lewis is here to recap the final shows on his farewell tour which happened last weekend in Pennsylvania. Capping decades of the road and a very accomp...

239 - Can't Keep Up

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The title says it all. The news cycle of nonsense keeps coming at us that even taking a week of from things makes it nearly impossible to keep up with...

238 - Honk Honk! Quack Quack! Part 2

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lewis is down in North Carolina but just because he’s not sitting in his public access studio right now doesn’t mean the ridiculousness took a bre...

237 - Yom Kippur: The Day Of Atonement

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Lewis reflects on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Discussing his own personal journey in the Jewish faith. He reads a powerful essay he wr...

236 - Honk Honk! Quack Quack!

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’re back for another week of the great question to be asked, and that’s “where are the adults in the room?” From wild antics at the UN, bord...

235 - Kash Patel Has Crazy Eyes!

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Lewis discusses the recent congressional hearings involving Kash Patel and his  unsettling demeanor and lack of respect during questioning ...

234 - Is This Really The Turning Point?

17 Sep 2025

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Lewis takes a hard look at the idea of this past week’s events actually being a turning point in the US. Mostly because he feels it’s been said be...

233 - Day 232 of WTF

10 Sep 2025

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This week on the Rantcast Lewis delves into the absurdities of current and the chaotic nature of what the Boss is doing in the White House, the silly ...

232 - From The Road

03 Sep 2025

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Lewis is back from vacation and out on the road hitting some tour dates on the West Coast, in fact this episode of the Rantcast comes to you live from...

231 - Wild Animals

23 Jul 2025

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By the time you are reading this Lewis is in South Africa hanging out with some wild animals on a safari. While there are a few parallels between the ...

230 - No Guardrails

16 Jul 2025

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Well, this was a week where a lot of the checks and balances seemed to disappear before our eyes. That's right, guardrails that used to protect us see...

229 - Independence From Empathy

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lewis is back from his week-long comedy curation in upstate New York where he spent his 4th of July performing live. He returned to the madness of the...

228 - Bomb, de Bomb, Bomb, Boooomb!

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s time to celebrate our nation’s independence. But are we in a renaissance of military spectacular-ness? The Boss seems to think so. Because o...

227 - Two Weeks Again?

25 Jun 2025

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It’s take 2 of this week’s Rantcast. Why? Because he completed an entire recording of this week’s episode only to find out the next day enough h...

226 - Toy Soldiers

18 Jun 2025

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Well, this past week was event-filled. Absolutely insane events like The Boss’ birthday parade thinly veiled as a celebration of America’s militar...

225 - Insanity Squared

11 Jun 2025

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We have ourselves a snappy title for snappy times. This past week we caught ourselves in the middle of the Donald Trump/Elon Musk falling out. That’...

224 - Mucho More Madness

04 Jun 2025

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Madness has taken its hold on all of us. In Lewis’ case it’s actually been Mucho More Madness. He’s tired of talking about it, but what “it”...

223 - WTF?

21 May 2025

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WTF might just be the best way to collectively describe what’s happening currently. As we head into the long holiday weekend we’re reminded of how...

222 - But The Pope Is An American

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This past weekend we celebrated our Mothers. While they are the most important people in the world to most, to Catholics around the world the selectio...

221 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

07 May 2025

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Lewis has returned from some shows performed at his Alma Mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Was it a fun visit for nostalgia trip...

220 - STOP!

30 Apr 2025

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There are no pleases here, just a hard statement of STOP! A simple request that Lewis makes on behalf of all of us. Whether it be another Signalgate, ...

219 - What'd I Miss?

23 Apr 2025

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Lewis is back from Georgia where he held his invitational golf outing and has some people to thank for their work in making it all happen and the peop...

218 - The Luv U Project

16 Apr 2025

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This week on the Rantcast, Lewis puts down the messiness of the week and attempts to tell us about his work with The Luv U Project. A non-profit benef...

217 - Sure, Why Not?

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a joke in there somewhere but Lewis can’t seem to find the setup to start it. It’s so psychotic in real life that  you need to be even ...

216 - One A Day, Like The Vitamin

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Like many Lewis has something to look forward to this week because baseball is back and he has a full season of watching the Baltimore Orioles to dist...

215 - O Canada

26 Mar 2025

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Lewis has returned from a run of dates up north in Canada. Tariffs be damned. He reflects on his week up there and how it was against the backdrop of ...

214 - He’s Not The President, He’s The Boss

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s another week of us trying to make sense of the world around us. Turns out it’s a tough task. Lewis hit the road for the first time in a while...

213 - The Incomprehensibility Of The Incomprehensible, pt. 2

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s time for part 2. Lewis finds himself still in the train of thought as last week, just truly baffled by recent events. And since things are a no...

212 - The Incomprehensibility of the Incomprehensible, pt. 1

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Lewis has so much to cover that it’s a 2-parter! Our current state of affairs has us all having the collective experience of living what o...

211 - How Crazy Can Crazy Get?

19 Feb 2025

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Things are getting crazy out there and not just our current political climate. Lewis was reminded of that this week when the fairly simple task of get...

210 - Idiot's Delight

12 Feb 2025

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Lewis has always liked the title of the play Idiot’s Delight and it certainly seems to be describing the times that we are currently in. As the worl...

209 – CHAOS!

05 Feb 2025

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Chaos, it seems to be all around us these days and its pretty much the last thing Lewis wants to talk about though he feel compelled to. Chaos is the ...

208 - Hibernation And The Commanders

29 Jan 2025

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It’s the time of year where Lewis realizes just how smart bears are for just shutting it down for the winter. Commanders because his favorite footba...

207 - hahahahaHaHaHaHaHAHAHAHA

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many might find it funny, but the joke is on us as a new president begins his term. The punchlines seem to write themselves even before Lewis can make...

206 - January 6th

08 Jan 2025

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As Lewis records his first Rantcast episode of 2025 on January 6th, he’s reminded of where we were 4 years ago on this day. Over the years the US ha...

205 - Happy New Year! Really!?

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's the last Rantcast of 2024. Well, technically the first of 2025 and a recap of the year that just wrapped is in order. The difference here is that...

204 - No Drones For Christmas

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's December 25th and it's not only Christmas Day but the first day of Hanukkah. Something that doesn't happen often. In fact, it's so rare that all ...

203 - End Of An Era

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lewis reflects on the closing of the West Bank Cafe in New York. After 40+ years his friend and owner Steve Olsen is closing the location. The West Ba...

202 - Rants From The Road

11 Dec 2024

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Lewis just wrapped up his last tour date of 2024 so he's taking the week off and lying low. But he wasn't going to leave you hanging this week so here...

201 - BRRRRRRRRRRRRR

04 Dec 2024

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Lewis is back in the states after his trip to escape Thanksgiving and not only has the holiday of focus changed, so has the weather. We’re officiall...

200 - Two Hundred!

27 Nov 2024

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It’s Lewis’ 200th episode of The Rantcast! It also happens to be Thanksgiving. The time of year where Lewis heads out of the country with friends....

199 - Live In Seattle

20 Nov 2024

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This past weekend Lewis performed some stand-up shows live in the Pacific Northwest. On a recent stop in Seattle, WA he decided to read some fan-submi...

198 - At Least It's Christmas

13 Nov 2024

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Lewis is on the road and realized that now that the big election has ended the world just collectively decided it was Christmas time. For advertisin...

197 - Live In Salina

06 Nov 2024

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Lewis is out on the Fall leg of his Goodbye Yeller Brick Road tour and this past weekend the show rolled through a few stops in Kansas. On Sunday nigh...

196 - VOTE!

30 Oct 2024

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The anxiety about the election is at an all-time high. But that’s not the most important thing on Lewis’ mind. He’s deep in the week’s NFL gam...

195 - Live In Madison

23 Oct 2024

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Lewis is currently out on the road for the fall leg of his "Goodbye Yeller Brick Road" tour. This past Saturday he read fan-submitted rants live on st...

194 - Will's Place

16 Oct 2024

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Lewis just spent the weekend in Skokie, IL and while there he discovered Will's Place a great restaurant with an even better mission, so let him tell ...

193 - Normalizing Nonsense

09 Oct 2024

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Lewis is back in his public access podcasting studio this week. He returned from the road just in time to catch the Vice Presidential debates, possibl...

192 - Live From The Wilbur

02 Oct 2024

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Lewis on the road for the Fall run of his Goodbye Yeller Brick Road tour. At the The Wilbur Theater in Boston, he read fan-submitted rants live for th...

191 - The Emmys

25 Sep 2024

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Lewis recaps his trip out West to attend The Emmy Awards for the first time in 20 years. Not only did he get to experience a win with his Daily Show c...

190 - Two Minute Drill

18 Sep 2024

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Lewis watched the presidential debates and, whooo boy! Does he have some thoughts about it. Not only did he get particularly enraged about the two min...

189 - The Whale In The Room

11 Sep 2024

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Lewis has returned from some time off celebrating both Labor Day and his birthday and he's doing his best to not lose his cool. A concept that's reall...

The Best Of: Food Rants

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's Labor Day and Lewis also just celebrated a birthday. With those two things in mind we're presenting you a Best Of for this week's episode of The ...

188 - The Vibe? Seriously!?

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lewis is back from Vegas and after the travel nightmare story from last week, there’s still a lot from the travel that pissed him off. In fact, he ...

187 - Insufferable

21 Aug 2024

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Lewis was just in Las Vegas performing and while the shows went great, the flight home was anything but. It was as he described it as one of the worst...

186 - Back on the Yellow Brick Road

14 Aug 2024

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Lewis is back on the road to complete the final leg on his final tour (dates at www.lewisblack.com) and he has a couple warm-up dates lined up before ...

185 - The Myth of Sisyphus

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why that title? Because it’s a great metaphor for Lewis’ golf game. On in which he recently spent time in Maine working on. While there, Lewis too...

184 - JD Stands for "Just Dumb"

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One would think after last week’s whirlwind of news that this week would be somewhat quieter, but you would be wrong. With an election season heatin...

183 - And The Fun Never Stops

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Well, somehow the news was even crazier than it was last week, if that's even possible. The weekend began with computers across the world crashing and...

182 - The United States of Insanity

17 Jul 2024

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Things are insane! It seems we decided to take a speed run through current events this past weekend. One story alone was enough to make your head spin...

181 - What's Next?

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This past week was Independence day and it seems the world has gone mad. Most of the country is in the midst of a heatwave. The press is having a fiel...

180 - The Truth?

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What a wild week, so much has happened in the world. One thing is enough to make your ears bleed, but we in the US are dealing with more than one thin...

179 - Thou Shalt Not Be Stupid

26 Jun 2024

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The 10 commandments have been in the news a lot lately and Lewis is here to tell us there is an 11th one. And it might be the most important of them a...

178 - Inside Out 2

19 Jun 2024

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Lewis stars in the new Pixar film, Inside Out 2 reprising his role as the character of Anger in the film. The film landed atop the box office opening ...

177 - Shut The Fuck Up!

12 Jun 2024

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It's Summer and with that comes a very simple message from Lewis, which is to just keep your mouth shut! Lewis has always lobbied for the politics-fre...

176 - The Most Innocent Man, Ever!

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lewis has returned from performing shows in Europe. One of the first things he learned of upon landing was the 34 guilty indictments handed down to Do...

175 - I Fly Home Tomorrow

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Memorial Day to you all. Hopefully the long weekend treated you well as we all kept those in our armed forces top of mind. Lewis is wrapping up ...

174 - I'm Still In Europe!

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lewis is still in Europe performing some dates long his tour. While he's spending time in a foreign land he prepared some other rants live from a rece...

173 - I'm In Europe

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With Lewis in Europe, it's only fitting to call this episode just that. While those overseas stand-up shows are going well, here's a collection of ran...

172 - Live From Richmond

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lewis is headed overseas, but he left the fans with a stellar episode of The Rantcast. Like many of you, he's having a hard time understanding why a S...

171 - Live from Iowa City

01 May 2024

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Lewis it out on the road and enjoying his time performing in front of the fans. So much in fact that he once again brought back The Rant Is Due live f...

170 - Live In Nashville

24 Apr 2024

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We have a special episode of Lewis Black's Rantcast this week. Lewis is on the road and during a stop in Nashville this weekend (on 4/20) he decided t...

169 - Eclipsed by the Eclipse

17 Apr 2024

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It was a week of happenings, not just for Lewis but for the nation as we experienced not only the Solar Eclipse, but a large earthquake for a swath of...

168 - Escape To The National Comedy Center

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The madness of the year has already gotten to us, and if it’s going to continue through the already-declared politics-free summer, perhaps its time ...