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I am typing this blog on my repaired laptop! WOO HOO!!! I did not think it would be ready this soon. They had to replace the mother board. (A piece of information that really makes yesterday’s blog make more sense)

Well now I’m using my mouse like a champ, I posted an encore episode of the podcast, and I was even able to design the FINAL product for Shoptember!

Procrastination T Shirt by TANcast

Hope you enjoyed 30 Days and 30 Blogs 4: Shoptember. Who knows when I’ll be blogging for a whole month again. (Spoiler alert, it will be next week)

Flashback to August 2013 as Noah pees next to a celebrity, the boys discuss pooping at work, and you’ll hear some tv/movie reviews.

00:00 – 01:17 Preshow
01:17 – 03:49 Intro
03:49 – 13:44 TANlaughs (Listener submitted jokes)
13:44 – 15:53 Kick My Feet Back and Forth (“Cute” Kid Stories)
15:53 – 43:16 WTSF (Strange tales from San Francisco)
43:16 – 51:02 Steamn’ Pile of Streamin’
51:09 – 54:26 Random Jibber Jabber
54:26 – 56:07 Wrap Up
56:07 – 60:48 ????

[CONTENT WARNING] TANcast features mature language and immature hosts but is NOT a representation of the stand up act of Tim Babb. Listener discretion is advised.

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As I’ve written about previously, my laptop is broken. That’s why last week’s podcast was a little substandard (even for us).

Well apparently the cosmos REALLY wants to shut down our show because now Noah’s laptop is having issues too. So with two of the three TANcasters’ computers out of commission, we didn’t record a show this week. The closest we came was this iMessage exchange…

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As I type up this blog into my phone, I’m in the green room of the San Jose Improv. Just finished doing 20 minutes of comedy. Now Mr. John Witherspoon is on stage. I’m enjoying the wonderful hospitality of the waitstaff. They just brought me some delicious taquitos.

The opener, Layla, and I talked comedy in the Bay Area for a while. Now I’m alone with my thoughts (unless you count the comedy of John Witherspoon pumping through the green room speakers that keeps making me laugh)

But this is a weird moment. I have an hour to wait. I’ve told my jokes, but now I have to wait until the headliner is done to talk to the audience on the way out…and maybe sell one of these sweet dishwasher magnets…

Tim Babb/TANcast Clean/Dirty Dishwasher Magnet Magnets by TANcast

Ok shilling over, back to the blog…It’s weird because I’ve just done the fun part, telling the jokes. Now I have to wait to talk with the audience and see if I made a lasting impression. It’s a strange nervous energy. I don’t really have anything to prepare for, but I can’t relax for some reason

Ah well, back to the taquitos.

1 hour later…

Now the show is over, everyone has filled out, and I’m waiting to get paid.

The crowd seemed very nice on the way out. No one yelled “you suck!” So, I call that a win.

A few minutes later…

One last update…I just walked to my car and on the way, I saw this on the ground:

SOMEONE clearly was not impressed with my show and won’t be buying a CD. But then…why’d they take the card?

So my wife and I watched the season premier of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. last night. As soon as it was done, I said, “They totally Indiana Jonesed it.”

Oh…before I go any further…

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Warning: This is a cop out blog. It may not be worth your time (unlike the literary gold I’ve been squirting out up until this point)

I am tired! I don’t know why, but I can’t seem to get to bed before 2am anymore. Not sure when THAT started. But even if I’ve done most of the things I need to do before bed, I’ll put off the one last thing while I watch one more video or read one more article…next thing you know, it’s 2am.

And that’s a shame because now I’m too tired to blog. I had a fun idea for pitching the plot of the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I also was planning to do a blog dishing out some serious snark on a Jezebel article. But I don’t have the energy to be creative or snarky. (As these last few paragraphs demonstrate, I clearly don’t even have the energy to be funny.

It doesn’t help that I’m still working on my Windows XP desktop which is maddeningly slow and has a fan louder than a jet engine. How hot can that damn tower be? Throttle back the fan, chief! So it took me forever to design today’s TANstore product…

I Kick My Feet Baby Jumper by TANcast

But it was totally worth it to make yet another “Kicking his feet” joke!

Little known fact, I’m actually a comedian. I know, I don’t really post much about it these days what with the kid and the pregnant wife and all…but I actually am a stand up comic. If you’re in the San Francisco bay area, you’ve got TWO chances to see me coming up! Click on the pictures for details, links to buy tickets, and all that good stuff…

But enough of this shameless self promotion, it’s time for some shameless product promotion. It’s a great gift idea for Dad this Christmas…

World's Greatest* Dad Mug by TANcast

In case you can’t read it, it says:

World’s Greatest* Dad
*Greatness not guaranteed

This design will soon be on a bunch more products because I love it. Stay tuned…

Back in March of 2013, I posted a blog an argument I’d had about the television show The Big Bang Theory. It wasn’t amazing, but I got the point I wanted to make off my chest.

Then, over a year later, some dude came by to comment on it. And since I’ve committed to a new blog every day this month, instead of replying in the comments, I’m writing a whole new blog to respond.

(By the way, this blog is so long that there’s no way I’m waiting until the end to post today’s product, so here’s a link: http://www.zazzle.com/shhhhh_its_a_nappening_shirt-235262421594574911 Okay, back to the blog)

First let’s get a taste of what the guy had to say

The Big Bang Theory definitely offends me as a nerd

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Just finished watching the premier of Gotham, the prequel show to Batman. I wasn’t going to watch it because, much like Smallville, I don’t really care to watch a show before the superhero is the superhero. But positive buzz was enough to get me to check out the pilot.

Gee…never seen that before.

I went in with an “I dare you to try and entertain me” attitude, and this show at least took the dare. (Unlike “Man of Steel” which took a dump on Superman’s legacy…but I digress). I won’t commit to watching it every week yet, but I’ll give episode 2 a try. Maybe the issues I have with the show will fall by the waste side now that the pilot has set everything up.

The first thing that jumped out at me was how they really crammed all the characters into this first episode. A lot of Star Wars prequel-esque coincidences of major baddies crossing paths. Catwoman happens to be in the alley the night the Waynes get shot? The Riddler is a crime tech in Gordan’s police station? The Penguin happens to be working for the gang leader who [spoiler] frames Poison Ivy’s dad for the murder of the Waynes? Oh and the Joker just happens to be auditioning to be a comedian at that crime boss’s club that same week? This is all in the first half of the show! I was half expecting Mr. Freeze to pop out when the characters end up in a meat locker. But I get it. We’ve gotta set these people up so we know them later. Hopefully these amazingly coincidental crossing of paths won’t be as prevalent in future episodes. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m trying to edit TANcast for this week without my trusty ol’ laptop (which is still at the repair shop)

The biggest problem is, my desktop has decided it will only see the internet every so often. Unfortunately, it’s the only machine in the house with a mouse, Audacity, and PhotoShop on it. So I HAVE to use it to edit. But since I can’t connect to the internet, every other step takes 3 times as long.

For instance, I wanted to download an image I sent to myself via email to use as this week’s album art. So I emailed it with my iPhone, downloaded it in my wife’s MacBook, copied it onto a thumb drive, put the thumb drive in my desktop, edited it in Photoshop, put it back on the thumb drive, put the thumb drive back in the MacBook, and finally uploaded it to TANcast.

…and that was just the album art. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Here’s a product, I gotta get back to work.

Sexiest Thing You'll See Today Tshirts by TANcast