On today's show, we have a special guest on the show, Alex Blumberg. Alex is a standup comedian, writer, and podcaster. He is also the host of the radio show "The Blame Game Show" and host of "Blame It On Us" on Comedy Central. Alex has been a long time friend of mine and I think he's a great guy. He's been in the business for a long long time and I really appreciate his courage in taking the stand for what he believes in.
00:01:16.000...about two laws that are out that are really oppressive.
00:01:23.000The first one is called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA. And under that, if you so much as write software, release software that anybody can use to copy materials illegally, you could go to jail.
00:01:39.000And there's actually somebody already in jail for this.
00:01:42.000You can go to splashdot.org to find out a little bit of information about the MCA. The new one that's coming out is called the SSSA, and that is a really impressive one.
00:02:03.000One thing that you don't mention, that I agree with everything that you say, and I'm very, and felt very enlightened to watch the program, but one thing that you haven't hit on is the genocide of fathers.
00:02:16.000Eliminating fathers, the head of the house, is the first step to eliminating the leadership, eliminating the unity of the family.
00:02:25.000Thus, it's easy to separate and conquer.
00:02:29.000And the kids have no head of the house.
00:02:36.000If you would give this some thought, and I will write or put some stuff on your email in the future, because I've just now discovered you, and we do need to do some networking.
00:03:47.000I got a comment for you, for all you pig-headed, what you consider highly conservative, very far right-wingers, and your whole view on guns.
00:04:00.000My father is a principal of about 35 years of school, and for the last three years, my father's had a gun pulled on him by as young as a fifth grader.
00:04:10.000Should parents be turned in for having guns in the household?
00:04:14.000I turn in everybody I know under the age of 21 that owns a gun.
00:04:19.000There's not a damn reason for any human being in this country to own a pistol.
00:04:23.000If you can explain a really good one, I think that you would probably impress a whole lot of people because I don't know of any reason why a pistol is made other than to kill another human being.
00:04:33.000I don't see a whole lot of fucking people going out there shooting deers with pistols.
00:04:38.000Guns kill people, not people kill people.
00:04:44.000A fifth grader, who hasn't even had a chance to make up his own mind on what he is or who he is, pulls a gun on a principal because he doesn't like being held out of recess for beating up another kid.
00:04:57.000And you tell me that that doesn't fall on the parents?
00:05:01.000What are you going to do, put the fifth grader in jail?
00:06:20.000I want to tell you, Alex, that your programs are my favorite programs on television.
00:06:30.000And I watch them repeatedly over and over again.
00:06:35.000I search out the entire cable channels daily when I'm home looking for your shows.
00:06:43.000Even though I've seen them repeatedly, I'll keep watching them rather than the garbage that's on all the other channels because I consider your quality programs the only ones that really emanate and give out the full truth and real quality.
00:07:04.000Other than old reruns of Andy Griffiths or I Love Lucy, you're number one.
00:07:12.000I thank you for being there, speaking out, speaking the truth, and I just wanted you to know you have a lot of fans who are trying very hard out there to do something about the things you're saying and make the world better.
00:09:01.000Just saw the show about voluntary human extinction.
00:09:05.000I don't know about complete extinction of the human race, but I think you have to admit that the numbers are ridiculously high and that we need to put incentives into place to make people stop having so many children.
00:09:18.000And I think they make a lot of valid points.
00:09:22.000And I thought you were a little bullying with him, actually.
00:09:34.000Oh, Mr. Jones, I just happened to be watching your program today, and I have a comment about the Austin City utilities, the light, where they charge you an extra amount of money even when you're not using the services.
00:09:54.000I guess that's my complaint because I've called them twice and I feel like they're unjustified in charging me so much because I'm a single lady, I work at night, and there's hardly no one, if there's no one in my home and I'm sleeping most of the day, the thing that's on most would be my TV and I cut my air conditioner off when it stopped being so hot and then they still want to charge me an exuberant amount of money and they never on the bill show.
00:10:20.000Where you sent your payment, they always just add it on.
00:11:46.000She just grabbed it, took a look at it, and wiped it, and then told me it was some kind of new system that they had, and that was the only way that I could buy alcohol there.
00:11:56.000So I was concerned about that, and I wanted to know if you knew anything about it.