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This week: first it’s an update on Tim’s newest baby, then an encore presentation of when Andy’s mom stopped by to be a guest on the episode (yet the boys STILL behaved horribly).

00:00 – 00:28 Preshow
00:28 – 01:10 Baby Babb Update
01:10 – 03:75 Intro
03:75 – 12:39 Explaining This Horrible Show To Andy’s Mom
12:39 – 17:00 Andy Talks About His Baby
17:00 – 19:05 Tim Preps For a Comic Book Podcast
19:05 – 22:49 Swearing Around Andy’s Mom
23:51 – 28:12 Wrap Up
28:12 – 28:29 ????

[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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Now that we have the second child, we’re pretty grateful that we saved so much stuff from when our first child was a baby. But one thing we seemed to have lost was the mirror for the car.

For you non-parents, babies have to be in a special car seat that faces backwards…because that’s safer for some reason. Anyway, if your kids is facing the other way, it kinda makes it hard to check on them, so you put a mirror on the seat and then you can see his reflection.

So I went and got a new mirror today.

It’s fine. I didn’t think much of it until I went to take it out of the package and READ some of the package…

Wait…the “clear sight” part of this mirror is “new?” What did it do before you added this new feature? If you’re mirror doesn’t give a “vivid image” you’ve failed at the one thing you were supposed to do. It’s a mirror. Does it reflect? No? Then you’re not done yet.

Yeah…nothing lets you “connect” with a baby who barely has ANY idea what’s going on like bouncing his image off a mirror in the back seat and your rear view mirror. That’s why so many people communicate through a series of mirrors.

Just put on the box, “Yup, It’s a mirror. It does what you’d expect. Buy it now!”

Marketing accomplished.

Being a parent isn’t easy. There’s the crying, diapers, temper tantrums, sickness, the cost of daycare…but NOTHING is harder than these…

I dunno who designed these baby clothes snaps, but they suck.

They’re very deceptive. When times are good, the baby is happy, and you’re not in a rush…they work fine. But as soon as the baby is crying and you’re trying to snap that stupid thing in a hurry, it WILL. NOT. SNAP! And there’s always like 50 of them! Snap, you pieces of s***!!!

Come on, people. We can take pictures of our junk with our phones, send those pictures to other people’s phones, and even post the pictures someone sent to us from their phones to the internet, but we can make a snap that always snaps?! Phone people, stop working on the phones and make a damn snap that ain’t crap!

This is the first blog I’ve written after our newest son was born. Now I remember why I didn’t blog much when Michael was born. I was TIRED (and kinda busy). They say “sleep when the baby sleeps”…ok, but when does this little poop factory ever sleep?! Let’s look at last night…

It’s 11:06pm and all 4 members of the Babb household are trying to sleep at the same time…let’s see how long that lasts

12:05am …not quite an hour before the baby pissed all the way through his diaper, pajamas, and swaddle blanket. Then he insisted on some fresh tittay juice!

12:48 Baby is changed, breastfed, and back to sleeping…now the toddler is coughing

4:31am The baby is up and hungry again. Mommy is feeding him while I “check my eyelids for holes.”

5:20am He’a dozed off while feeding. And also pooped. Time to change his diaper before we put him down

5:25am He pooped AGAIN. Less than a minute after I was done changing him

5:30am All these diaper changes have woken him back up and he’s hungry again. We have less than an hour and a half before his brother wakes up

6:00am Finally back to sleep. Less than an hour before big brother wakes up. We hurry back to bed.

6:10am Baby needs to burp. Takes 5 to 10 minutes. I run back to bed

7:19am Michael sleeps in by a few minutes, but there’s no stopping it now…the day has begun. Night time is over.

So I guess we got a few hours in there, but I assure you, we are still tired.

Must…sleep…

Well, it finally happened. I’m one of those dads who drives around in a minivan. On Saturday, we bought ourselves a Honda Odyssey.

Aw…c’mon. With a name like “Odyssey,” we couldn’t make it look any cooler?

That’s more like it. So when my wife goes back to work, this will be the vehicle I’ll be tooling around in. Yup…I’m that guy. But I have the advantage, I wasn’t particularly cool BEFORE I was minivan guy. Not like the ladies were doing double takes when I drove by in my Yaris.

Speaking of the Yaris, we’re actually keeping it because my wife gave up her car so the family could upgrade. So I’d like to give props to my lovely wife for that. She’s had her old Carolla since it was brand new in 2004. I know it’s just a car but you build up a lot of memories driving around in these things.

I gotta admit, though, this new minivan is pretty sweet. Leather seats, remote doors, cool box for drinks…and minivans kinda remind me of Star Trek shuttle crafts Although I’m a little worried about the computer interface on the “Odyssey”…

Yup, it was a long way to go for that sight gag. Oh, full disclosure, none of these pictures are of the actual van. It’s sitting at the dealership as I write this. We get to pick it up when we come home from the hospital with Baby Babb 2. A lot will be happening at the Babb household on Friday.

Today, I’m continuing my series of blogs taking a more critical eye to books that are aimed at the younger set. This one has been a favorite of mine since I can remember. It’s The Monster at the End of This Book, featuring Grover from Sesame Street.

If you had parents that hated you, I’ll describe the book for you. Grover is “in” the book and realizes the title is “The Monster at the End of This Book.” That scares him, because he’s afraid of monsters, so he tries to reason with you… Read the rest of this entry »

Today is voting day here in America. It’s the midterm elections which we traditionally don’t care about. But I’m getting up there in years and I have kids now (had to mention kids in this blog somehow). So I had to muster up enough energy to at least give the tiniest of craps about this election.

Then, as I was filling out my ballot, something caught my eye…

…woah, County of San Mateo. You just made it real. “Vote Both Sides.” It’s about time someone said it. We can’t keep entrenching ourselves as Democrats or Republicans. We’ve got to vote BOTH sides. Occasionally you have to come out of your little shell and acknowledge that the other side may have the better idea. Don’t just watch the TV and read the papers that you agree with. Challenge yourself by hearing another point of view from time to time. Read the rest of this entry »

As you read this, my wife and I are in the hospital meeting our new son for the first time.

Unfortunately, I can’t tell you his name, or weight or any of that stuff because as I type this we are sitting at home and my wife is still very pregnant. I’m writing this in the past and sending it into the future so that I don’t have to waste time blogging while I should be taking care of my wife and newborn.

I’ve been sitting here trying to remember what the day was like when Michael was born. It’s such a blur. I remember that it my wife had been in labor for 2 days. Woosh…that was rough. I’m glad she won’t have to go through that this time.

I remember we didn’t come up with Michael’s name until the moment he was born. I imagine we’ll do something like that again.

I remember we were both exhausted (her more than me) and we were both focusing what little energy we had on learning to take care of this new little thing. Both grandmas were there to meet the little guy as soon as he and mom where wheeled out of surgery. This time, both grandmas will be there and bring that same little guy to meet the new, littler guy.

I was an only child. I’m not really sure how to raise brothers. This is gonna be a strange new experience. Then again, going from just a guy to “dad” was a strange experience too.

Well…the next few blogs are still gonna be from the past, but as soon as we’re home and things are under control. I’ll tell you all about the wonderful kid who was born today.

Happy birthday, son.

So this month’s blogs are all supposed to be about kids and parenting. But the big day isn’t until tomorrow…so now…we wait and talk about other things.

We were singled out as on of the top 100 “Comic” blogs to watch. When I heard this, I thought, “Finally! I’m getting a little recognition as a stand up comic. Odd that’s it’s for my seldom-funny blog, but whatever. I’ll take any love I can get.”

Then I saw the other blogs on the list and realized it’s about comic BOOKS. Oh…well…that’s good too. I don’t know if we talk about comics enough on this site. (Good thing we did a Batman vs Iron Man fight on this week’s show)

Well, it was nice to get some love for our geek cred. Especially if we got this honor for s***ing on Man of Steel!

Well, thank you, to the team at Rebateszone for including us in your graphic. FOr those of you who haven’t seen it, you can check it out right here. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s Batman vs Iron Man on the return of Monday Night TANfights. Also this week, the boys recap Halloween, Andy sees Riddick, and Tim reviews Gracepoint and The Flash.

00:00 – 00:39 Preshow Randomness
00:39 – 06:22 Intro
06:22 – 08:33 Marvel Lovefest Part 1
08:33 – 14:02 TANlaughs (Listener submitted jokes)
14:02 – 17:59 Marvel Lovefest Part 2
17:59 – 38L15 How the F*** Was Everyone’s Week?
38:15 – 45:56 Steamin’ Pile of Streamin’ (Online/On Demand Reviews)
45:56 – 58:23 Monday Night TANfights: Ironman vs Batman
58:23 – 61:06 Wrap Up
61:06 – 63:26 ????

[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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