In which Grace and I discuss Saginaw, mortgages, schools, education, the state of the middle class, and many other topics.

In Part 3, Grace and I talk about a potential future Potts family home in Saginaw, and by extension, home design.

In Part 2, Grace and I talk about Saginaw, and reveal our tentative plan to move there. I delayed releasing this part until we felt prepared to talk about this plan outside our immediate family.

In Part 1, Grace and I talk about the so-called ACORN scandal. My apologies for the sound quality; the original was extremely noisy. Izotope RX did a great job cleaning up most of the road noise, but the remaining audio has some phasing artifacts. Also, audio broadband noise does not really play well with compressors.

Baby Joshua is upset because his mom has left for an errand and he is teething. But my four-year-old girl and I figure out a way to distract him. Listen on headphones for maximum effect.

After the epidural kicks in and she gets some rest, Grace's labor progresses through the morning until the moment of the birth itself arrives with startling speed. Note: may not be suitable for young children.

Take my 13-year-old son, have him sing a Jonathan Coulton song about adolescence, love, and robot armies. Screw around with it. Listen to the results. Add some tracks. Screw with it some more. Add some cowbell. Then, since it is already incredibly screwed-with, screw with it one more time. Finally, it seems right! So, here it is. Isaac sings the main vocal line, although his voice is Cher-ized and heavily processed. There is a scratch vocal track of mine in there, but it is beaten to a pulp. Then, an sweet and mellow acoustic guitar turned into something not so sweet, and a fretless bass that grew tentacles and tried to strangle me as I mixed it.

Grace's labor is not progressing well, but the pitocyn drip keeps her contractions going and an epidural helps greatly with the pain. Note: may not be suitable for young children.

Grace labors on into the wee hours of the night and the conversation meanders into votesmart.org, the bailout bill, economics, and the notion of GDP, inspired in part by reading Joseph Pearce's book _Economics as if Famiies Mattered_. Note: may not be suitable for young children.

Joshua is a fully web 2.0-compliant baby: his birth has been twittered, blogged, and now, podcast! You can hear my status reports and audio recorded right in the delivery room. May not be suitable for young children. NOTE: revised to improve the mix and remove some dead space at the end of the file.