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Some of you may be familiar with the joke in my act where I overhear someone at Disneyland asking “What time does the 3 o’clock parade start?” In fact there’s even a t-shirt of it in the Tim Babb COmedy Shop (That you can get for 25% off when you use coupon code “HOLLY” at check out before 9pm PST on 12/3/10: http://www.cafepress.com/dd/37612178)

Get that deal, baby!!

But thanks to the lovely Jennifer, I have recently learned that Disney has stolen my joke! Observe this t-shirt currently for sale at Walt Disney World:

Really Disney? I have so little and you have so much? Did you really have to Carlos Mencia my t-shirt idea? Plus you added Goofy! How can I compete with Goofy?! Now everyone will think I’m ripping YOU off instead of the other way around. You hurt me, Disney, you hurt me real bad today. A hurt that can only go away if a bunch of people go to the Tim Babb Comedy Shop and buy the ORIGINAL, Babb designed, 3 O’clock Parade Shirt! (Makes a great Christmas present…and I am shameless)

If I truly wanted to be honest, I would point out that Netcot had a 3 O’clock Parade shirt in their store before I did…but I’m not going to because
a) I was doing the joke in my act long before there even was a Netcot Podcast
b) Netcot no longer has that shirt available
c) It makes me look like a huge hypocrite

This week: The boys talk turkey (day), dead celebrities are discussed, Andy encounters a nonsensical racist, Noah’s Audacity fails, and Tim goes all nutty about the Podcast Award nominations.

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This week: Noah gets a dog, the boys talk movies and tv for a while, Andy compares Georgia to California, and the boys enjoy naked celebrities.

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The boys diss Justin Bieber, Noah learns about Rhyming Slang, Tim and Andy run afoul of a litigious douchebag, Noah Reviews the GDGT event in San Francisco, the boys review some movies (Unstoppable, Megamind and Due Date), and talk television (Sherlock and Conan).

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This week Tim hates on iPhoto, Noah visits Pixar, Glee causes some controversy, the guys talk TV, and the boys talk candy.

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This week the guys (over) analyze the Die Hard Films, take some “spooky” topic suggestions from the listeners, talk Halloween, and discus Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.

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Somehow spammers have gotten it in to their tiny little heads that they need to try to flood TANcast with spam comments.

I know admins of real sites will scoff, but 6 months ago we were averaging about 20 spam comments per day. In October we averaged 120 per day before I turned reCAPTCHA on. It’s too soon to tell whether that made a difference, but I think we’re at least back to double-digits. Since it is still coming, though, I must conclude that either there is a way to post a comment without solving the CAPTCHAs (a flaw in the site or the plugin) or else these fucktards are actually solving them.

The thing is, Akismet catches pretty much every single piece of spam posted to the site, even without reCAPTCHA tossing up an extra step. I think I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen something slip through. There is simply no reason to spam us. Nobody will ever see their penis-enlargement come-ons except Tim, Noah, and me, and Noah’s penis is plenty big for all 3 of us.

On the flip-side, Akismet does occasionally flag a valid comment, so Tim tries (and, infrequently, I do as well) to scan the pile of spam for any ham that slipped in. That’s annoying when there’s 20 to check a day. It’s more like a job when the spam really starts to flood in.

My solution is 1-fold: From now on, if your IP address has posted multiple spam comments to TANcast, we’ll just block that IP address.

Forever.

Fuck you, that’s why.

I added the first 2 dozen IPs to our block list this evening, including an entire Class B subnet. An unsurprising number were located in Chinese-owned blocks. It’s probably the same lowlifes that killed my cat.

If I did this correctly, anyone trying to hit the site from any of these addresses should now get absolutely no response from our server. We’ll see if this helps.

If you’re suddenly unable to see the site from your home computer (presumably you’re reading this via RSS or on another machine), some piece of shit spammer fuck has pwned either you or someone on your ISP (and you inherited their IP address). Get your machine checked, then email me your IP when you know it’s not hosting a bot.

My address is easy to guess. Don’t try to spam it; Google has an excellent filter.

This week, comedian Bo Burnham steals our thunder, Tim and Noah review Jackass 3D, the boys do some baby talk, Noah rails against gift cards, Tim rants about his Halloween Costume woes, the great colorless soda debate, Noah learns about the cops, TANcast listeners jump ship, and finally a salute to the rich film history of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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This week Andy pisses and moans about technology, Tim and Noah review “Red,” Tim pronounces “Busby Berkeley” wrong and no one corrects him, the boys search for the illusive Dunkin’ Donuts, Andy and Noah talk video games, Andy pisses off his wife, product placement invades prime-time TV, and Noah takes a poop (in more ways than one).

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As featured on TANcast episode 121, here is Noah’s recipe for Tamale Casserole…

Tamale Casserole

Filling:
1 package of ground turkey
1 large yellow onion
2 large bell peppers
1 can diced tomatoes
1 (small) can tomato paste
1-2 tbsp chili powder
1-2 tbsp cumin
1 tbsp ground red pepper
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