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  • Bumperpodcast #320 – Tests

    Bumperpodcast #320 – Tests

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. The Bumperpodcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals!

    The world is being tested my the universe – which is being tested by the multiverse – which is on the head of a needle being used to crochet a macrame owl – and for the moment, Bumpercar is ready to ride the storm. Hang on, kittens!

    You should send us an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com, or to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976. We’re here and we’re listening!

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    About This Episode

    In episode 320 of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar reflects on surviving life's tests, particularly a rough week at headquarters. After a water sensor alerts him to flooding, Natty rushes home to discover two inches of water in his basement—triggering traumatic memories of a much worse flood from four years ago. The episode takes a comedic turn as Natty recounts his heartbreaking battle with an REI employee over a beloved torn jacket that fell just outside warranty coverage. He also shares college-era stories of creative problem-solving at a Wendy's salad bar and announces his upcoming stand-up comedy show where he'll perform a full hour of material. Throughout the episode, Natty's storytelling blends vulnerability with humor as he navigates basement disasters, retail disappointments, and the challenges of parenthood.

    Memorable Quotes

    “He put his hand on my shoulder and he said ma what's wrong with that what's wrong with that that's how he used to talk to me”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I'm not a missy elliott video from the aughts i'm not okay i want my jacket”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Daddy is kind of like peter rabbit but without the vest”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #flooding #homedisasters #parenting #retailexperiences #stand-upcomedy #collegestories #lifechallenges

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: so this is a test this is a test i feel from the universe from everything around me from everything around you what am i talking about well do you feel like every so often uh something bad happens right and then inexplicably another bad thing happens and then another bad thing and then another bad thing to the point where they're all piling up on top of each other and you're like why is all this bad stuff happening at the same time and then you're like ah if you're self-aware enough that is you go ah this is a test i'm being tested for what i don't know how do you pass you muddle through for me here's what my week was this week we had a lot of rain up here at headquarters and uh i got an alert because i had installed a doodad in my basement a water sniffing doodad and i got an alert at 11 17 in the morning water water water water water in the basement so i ran home i got here at 11 44 so that's a difference of oh i don't know i don't know like 30 30 minutes 28 minutes i don't know i can't count 27 minutes i'm just guessing at this point but i got home as quick as i could two inches of water in the basement now anyone who's listening to the bumper podcast for years and years and years knows that we love our house but three weeks after we moved into our house we got two feet two feet of water in our basement which is insane that's a banana's amount of water that was four years ago still traumatized by it lost a lot of stuff my art studio was down here and um i still remember i was i was cleaning and cleaning and cleaning but then there was a point where i was so exhausted that i was sitting on on the stairs leading down to the basement head and hands and uh emerson who at that point would have been like four and that means that ollie would have been like one oh babies uh emerson came down and put his hand on my shoulder and he said ma what's wrong with that what's wrong with that's how he used to talk to me ma what's wrong with that what's wrong with that these you call me dad which is a sweet thing to call if you ever have hey if you're ever a kid and you want to go up to talk to your father call him dad it's a nice thing hey dad hey dad what are we doing dad i love you dad i can't stand you dad get out of my room dad uh and he put his hand and he said what's what's wrong dad are you sad and i just i was i was actually i was sobbing because i was so so so overwhelmed and so sad and i i just kind of put my hand on his hand and i said yeah buddy daddy is sad um but this time you know we got two inches away and we threw away so much stuff but this time uh you know you live you learn we had most stuff pretty higher up uh he lost a basket of clothes and by the time i got home i was like oh my god i'm gonna die i'm gonna die lost i mean i had to rewash them um and then there were some uh a lot of stuff is in those those those plastic bins uh but there were you know there were a few things got thrown away the issue is and i don't know how it didn't happen last time because we had so much more water um like it was so deep last time that when i was i was down here working in it it was it was almost to my knee like it's it's that's it's it was insane how much water there was um but this time you know you're walking around and you're walking around and you're walking around and you're walking around in it and using the wet back and everything and uh uh but it's now we did not have this last time have it this time the smell oh the smell which is bad because that it's a moldy smell and i do not want mold in my house because i have asthma and my kid has asthma and mold is bad so because especially i mean we have a the humidifier going dehumidifier i'm glad it's not a humidifier where um and we have some fans going but oh the smell it's brutal so yeah so that happened and then like uh maybe i'm gonna say a day or two after that i have a jacket it's from from a store called rei that i go to and i never buy anything because i can't afford it but i always look at the stuff and i'm like oh this stuff is neat look at all this neat stuff that they have and at some point someone uh gave me a membership to rei uh which i guess means you get special sales and deals and i don't really understand what it means but they always say are you a member and it's like a an exclusive club and so i feel like i'm like yeah i'm a member i'm a member i don't know what that means but i love being a member and and i got a jacket like a uh well it turns out it was one year and 17 days ago how do i know this because their uh warranty policy lasts for one year of course it doesn't last for one year and 17 days how do i know this well i went to zip my jacket up last week and the zipper caught the inside of the jacket and ripped the whole jacket and i was just like oh no no no no no no no no no my jacket i love my jacket my favorite little jacket and it was blue i love it and it was orange on the inside it was the best oh oh jacket and so i called the the phone number and i explained my situation and the the woman was just like oh well that's just not right that's just not right at all you need to take that check is there an rei near you and i was like yeah there's an rei dear me and she's like well you need to just take it over and tell them what you told me and it's gonna work it is gonna work out and i was like okay so i went to the store waited in line got to the front and i i made sure i didn't want to wear my jacket into the store because i wanted them to understand that this jacket was unwearable at this point and uh so i got to the front and i was just like hey blah blah blah here's my story here's the rip and they were like oh well do you are you a member and i was like yeah yeah yeah i'm a member and so then she looked me up and then she's like i found the purchase and i was like i knew you would and uh and and then she was like all right well let's uh figure out uh how to get you a replacement and i was like okay i need a replacement and so she uh starts looking through the computer and uh no they don't have my size they don't make it anymore all they have is 2xl and 6xl or something crazy like that and i was like i guess i could try the 2xl and she was like you can't and i was like please i want my jacket i want my jacket so i was like all right so she put you know the money back on my credit card but then i don't have a jacket and then i uh i'm wandering around the store and they don't have jackets because it's not jacket season anymore they've gotten rid of all their jackets and here's the thing i don't have a jacket i don't have a jacket i don't have anything with rei jackets most of them are like these poofy puffy things i don't like poofy puffy most of them also are shiny i don't want a shiny jacket i'm not a missy elliott video from the the aughts i'm not okay i want my jacket the reason i liked it because it wasn't shiny and it wasn't poofy puffy and and i went back to the register and i was like oh i don't i don't see anything right you know and my jacket was still there and she was like okay well you know you got your money back so you can just uh you know keep looking and maybe you'll find something soon i was like okay and then my hand landed i put my hand on my jacket and she and she starts she pulled it away she was like and you know it's like it's it's time it's gone he's he he didn't make it your jacket let me have your jacket and i was like no and she's like let me have i was like no so i wish that i uh you know what i should have done i should have camped out by the the garbage can and uh and been like i bet they're gonna throw my jacket away because then i could have gotten the money back and and worn a garbage jacket as well i would have done that i have no problem no problem at all i uh one time here's an old story that you know you've never heard before i was in college and um i'd gone spelunking which is i'd gone caving you go into a cave i'll tell you that story another day because it's terrifying and i'm don't want you to do it because it's a bad idea but i was in i think it was in north carolina or tennessee or south carolina or alabama or virginia i don't know where i was let's just i think that we should establish that i was somewhere in the south and i'm gonna say south carolina actually and uh and and and we we did this the caving spelunking and then we went to uh wendy's and at that time wendy's the restaurant had a salad bar it was all you can eat salad bar uh but i was not a man of means i had no money and i had some mud on me because i had been in the cave and um so we get there and i was just like ah i don't know what to do don't know what to do i looked over and their garbage can had kind of filled up uh a bit and on top of the garbage can so they had special trays that you would use or plates for the uh for the all you can eat salad bar and somebody had um they just put their tray and it had two plates uh from the salad bar right on top so it wasn't in the garbage but it was you know part of the garbage because it was on top of the garbage uh and they both plates were relatively clean so my friend and i who i was with at the time we looked at each other and we kind of shrugged and we're like yeah yeah should we should we yeah we should do this we should definitely do this we got some uh some napkins cleaned them up and then uh i think you know because we didn't want to be complete scalawags we went we bought some biggie drinks or something like that i wanted i would like a beverage please probably some tea because i do love tea and uh and then we proceeded to uh to eat from the uh all you can eat uh salad bar so those were different times in my life uh these are stories that i don't necessarily want my kids to hear or maybe i do i don't know i don't i do i not i don't i don't know because it's kind of like a hey you can make it if you try type of story but it's also like a ah daddy kind of swiped some salad so ah but then they saw that peter rabbit movie that recently came out and peter rabbit was all about swiping that salad so i guess if they ever called me on it i could be like daddy is kind of like peter rabbit but without the vest and they'd be like i see where you're i like what you're screaming here i like what you're saying so what else is going on i have a show this weekend this very weekend and i am doing an hour an hour of stand-up comedy that means i get to stand in front of people and talk to them for an hour and hopefully they will laugh for some portion of that uh it's by far the longest i've ever done i'm super excited i don't have any details on this show somebody was like where's it at and i was like i don't know what time you have to be there i don't know all i know is that it's saturday and uh i have i've been paid already which is nice and um and i do keep i keep emailing the people hey hey can you send me some details some deets i call them deets on this thing and they're like sure deets are coming i'm like cool it's it's it'd be great if they would be here now just so i can buy all that stuff away in my brain so i don't have to freak out about it quite as much uh and so that's this weekend i'm sure i'll tell you all about it next week and then uh last night i went to a show and i wasn't supposed to be on it i was supposed to help somebody with web stuff but two comedians didn't show up and so i got thrown up uh the second comic and it was a blast and it was in a bar and there were tvs on but it was still fun but not as fun as you

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  • Bumperpodcast #319 – Sprang

    Bumperpodcast #319 – Sprang

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. The Bumperpodcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals! 

    Hooray for chitter-chatter! Pig talks about getting organized, and then Natty pops in, and then Rufus pops in. It’s a regular treat!

    You should send us an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com, or to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976. We’re here and we’re listening!

    Go like our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!!

     


    About This Episode

    In episode 319 of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar and Aloysious J. Pig discuss the arrival of spring and their shared frustration with winter lasting far too long. Their conversation is interrupted by legal counsel Rufus T. Rufus, who sounds under the weather and launches into a rambling defense of contracts and his privileged position in society. Natty shares updates on his creative projects, including webcomics called Rants and Snowflake, before delivering an earnest message about watching out for predatory people who take advantage of others. The episode blends absurdist humor with unexpectedly sincere advice about protecting yourself and your loved ones from exploitation.

    Memorable Quotes

    “Here's my thing, I like winter because of christmas so I get some stuff under the tree… but then I don't want to go out in it and I don't want to drive in it.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “I was born on third base, and the ball is in left field, and I'm just gonna walk on home, if you understand.”

    — Rufus T. Rufus

    “There's people in the world who want to take advantage of you. Don't let them do that. They're gonna try to take your cotton candy. They're gonna try to pop your balloon.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #spring #winter #seasons #contracts #socialcommentary #webcomics #exploitation #friendship

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Rufus T. Rufus

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: now you see so what i was telling them was that you gotta take a little bit from column a and a little bit from column b and then at the bottom of the chart what's gonna happen is you're gonna those are gonna conflagrate you know i don't do a lot of math terms hey pig oh hey bumsy what's going on not much what are you talking about a little bit from column i love it when people say that you take a little bit from column a and a little bit from column b because it just makes it things sound very uh organized and very there's a logic structure that's behind it and things are making sense and you've got columns you might even have rows i don't know but i am not that organized and and and that's not how i live my life but i'm glad that there are people who who are like that so good for them well here's the thing too is like for me uh i'm not organized neither but uh i i'm not we're not doing spring cleaning but we're doing is we're springing forward if you understand so we spring the spring is sprang sprung sprung sprung yeah fine that's fine yeah okay so the spring is sprung oh so you're saying that we're not necessarily doing cleaning around here we're not cleaning house but that uh we were we were coiled up for the winter we were uh burrowed in we were uh hiding under the blankets and now maybe the sun is going to come out and the snow is going to melt away and there's going to be blue skies and then we can finally get on with our lives after this long winter is that is that what you're essentially that's what i'm saying but the winter's been so long it seems like it's been like 18 months of long winter i didn't move to mars all right mars is a terrible place to raise a pig and so i don't want to go there what i like i like seasons not seasoning i like just uh hey guess what it is it's full oh you know what's coming up next a little thing we call winter and then hey after winter uh how about we do some spring and then some summer yeah here's the thing that's four months or four seasons yeah you got it and then it is 12 months calendars no months 12 months and hold on all right now here i think i i i i like what you're screaming over there pig so let me i'm going to take over for just a second here what you're saying is there's four seasons per year uh fall winter spring summer all right cool and then there's 12 months 12 divided by four is going to it should be three i want three months of spring i want three months of fall i want three months of summer and most importantly i want no more than three months of winter yes if i can have it winter is my least favorite why because i get chilly i get chilly cold i have normally i'm walking around during the winter with five to six jackets on that's too many jackets i can't even fit through most doors too many jackets too much it's too much it's too much i can't and the kids are always like hey are we going to the pool now oh the pool's outside we can't go to the pool why not they're like i'd go swimming it's like you would you would you would freeze it would be terrible it'd be the worst thing ever here's my thing uh i i like winter because uh of uh christmas so i get some stuff under the tree we have the tree and it smells nice and i do like if i'm sitting by the window i like it when it snows because it looks really pretty like there's street lights out street lights on the street and um you can see the snowflakes flittering and fluttering through the street lights because the street lights have kind of a lot of light and it's kind of a little bit of an orange orange glow orange yeah orange yeah and it just looks really pretty but then i don't want to go out in it and i don't want to drive in it and i know you don't want to shovel it because you get sick of that it's just too much it's terrible but then you know they're like what's the groundhog he's just like hey bro you got six more weeks of winter and you're like oh okay i guess i can handle that i guess i can deal with it and then you're into week eight you're into nine and it's still winter and you're like bro bro we had a contract like we had an agreement

    Rufus T. Rufus: hold on a second here this is rufus t rufus and did i hear someone talk about a contract well my friend my friend my friend i am the one around the bumper podcast headquarters who talks about contracts excuse me i got a little bit of a cold that's why i don't sound quite normal today you understand because winter has not ceased to exist and so i am still feeling a little bit cold and not feeling too well however i can and i will defend your honor in court of law and i will take that contract that that varmint has put together and i will take that contract and i will take that contract and i will take that contract and i will Take it to the magistrate, and we will make it so, so, not good, but great, if you understand what I'm saying, if you understand what I mean.

    Natty Bumpercar: How you doing, Rufus? You sound, you sound really kind of sick, like you got a frog in your throat. Rufus, have you been eating frogs again? Because we told you that's not, that's frowned upon. You know, considering that I am an anthropomorphic pig, and we got dogs that talk and everything, we're asking you not to eat too many animals, because you never know. Hold on a second, I just remembered, producer from my Periscope show is a frog, please tell me that producer is not in your throat. Oh no, oh no, this is, speaking of breaking contracts, specifically in his contract, it said, do not eat me, so that's, that's against the law. You're breaking the law, you're breaking the law, you're breaking the law, you're breaking the law, you're breaking the law, you're breaking the law!

    Rufus T. Rufus: I would never break the law! You understand, I do not break the laws, I make the laws, and every so often I swoop in and I take the laws, because that, you see, you see, you see, you see, my friend, is how it works in our society. Well, we have a bit of a pyramid, and there's people that are working, there's people that are working, and then there's other people like myself that are born into a situation. That are born into a stature, you understand, where I don't have to work if I don't want to. I was born on third base, and the ball is in left field, and I'm just gonna walk on home, if you understand, and I'm going to, I know I did not hit the ball, I was hit by a pitch, which got me on the first base, and then there was a passed ball, which ended me up on second base, and then, lo and behold, one of the infielders, he, he, he, he booted the ball, which moved me on to third base. So I got here by not doing anything in particular other than being a part of the game. I was born, I was put into the game, and now I'm on third base, and I'm walking home, because that is how our society works. I was put here for a reason, and that reason is, I was put here for a reason, and that reason is, to score points, so my friend, my friend, my friend, I'm sorry if it sounds like I have a frog in my throat, but I will not be besmirched by the likes of you or your little pink friend.

    Natty Bumpercar: Hey, uh, lip bro, no one's besmirching you, you gotta understand, you come into the kitchen, it's kind of a little bit… it's kind of a little bit warm. We're just recording a podcast, and you slipped in when you heard the whole thing about contracts, which is totally understandable, it makes a whole bunch of sense. However, we just gotta, you know, maybe point out to you, though, relax a little bit, we're having fun. This is a bumper podcast, so it's his show, and he's just gonna bibble, and he's gonna babble, and he's not necessarily gonna talk about anything in particular. But you're gonna listen to it, because you love it, because every week it comes out, and it's so much fun! Right, bro? Yeah, bro, of course, bro, bro, bro. Uh, yeah, so this is the Bumper Podcast, and I am Natty Bumpercar, and that is my friend, I'm turning your mics off just so you know, Aloysius J. Pig, he gave you a wave, and thank you for coming in, as always, Rufus T. Rufus, he is the legal counsel for all of us here at, uh, headquarters for the Bumper Podcast, and everything else that we do, including… We've been making some cool webcomics, uh, drawing some, uh, my little ants, I don't know if you've ever seen them, but they're cute, and they're, but they, sometimes they yell, and so, I think I have to maybe do a little bit more research, but we're calling that webcomic, Rants, now, because, ants, I saw that somebody had taken the name, Ants, for their comic, and I was like, ahhh, but I've been doing this for years, but I just never, I never grabbed it, I guess, and so, uh, I think Rants is kinda cute, because it makes sense. And then, on the sideline, we're, I'm trying to figure out how to, uh, I don't know if you guys ever read Snowflake, it was my comic, and it's so great, it's my, it's one of my favorite things I've ever done. But, I'm trying to figure out how I can make Snowflake, uh, uh, start it up again, but then I think I might also take all of the, uh, the strips, and cut them up so we, they can be on Instagram, and so they can be their own, uh, their own thing. and so they can be their own, uh, their own thing. and so they can be their own, uh, their own thing. and so they can be their own, uh, their own thing. and so they can be their own, uh, their own thing. right? and I, cause I see, there's these webcomics that are on Instagram, and they're super cool, because, like, you can swipe on them to get the different, uh, the different panels, and I was like, I want, I want my little dudes to do that! I wish I had an intern. Does anyone wanna be an intern? Cause then you can sit around and you can cut up, I think there's roughly, like, 200 or so of these comics that need to be cut up. Uh, I'll pay you handsomely in experience! That's what, that's a funny thing they do in stand-up, uh, comedy, is, uh, people, so there's, I, I've talked about it before, but there's a lot of bad people, and they're like, hey, you wanna come do my show? And you're like, ah, I don't know, what, you know, and you're like, we gotta bring five people, and they gotta, you know, there's a ticket admission at the door, then they gotta buy drinks, and you're like, ah, my friends are gonna be out, like, $70? You know, do I get paid? And they're like, paid? Paid? Yeah, you get paid in exchange. You get paid in experience, and you're like, that's not paid! That's not, no, that's, you're taking advantage. Ladies and gentlemen who listen to the Bumper Podcast, what I want you to take away from this show, if you, if you will, is watch out, because there's people in the world who want to take advantage of you. Don't let them do that. They're predatory, mean people, who will see people coming down the, uh, boardwalk, walking around with their balloon and their, uh, their cotton candy, and they, they're like, that one, I'm gonna take that one for everything they've got. Don't let them. Don't let them. Stand up for yourself, alright? Don't, I'm not saying get in fights or get in a huff, but just be cognizant that sometimes people don't have your best interests at heart. Uh, and you want to go into the world, you don't want to be jaded, you don't want to be like, oh, the world's out to get me, but you've just got to go into the world. You've got to understand that, take care of yourself, and take care of the people around you, and your friends, and your loved ones, because, otherwise, who's gonna do it? Not, not random people. Random people are gonna try to take your cotton candy. They're gonna try to pop your balloon. And that's not acceptable. They're gonna try to take your bumper podcast away, and we just won't let them!

    Unknown: We won't let them.

  • Bumperpodcast #312 – Football?

    Bumperpodcast #312 – Football?

    Hi everyone! I talk about football, and boxes that you put stuff into, and mention that I think that we have a sponsor, and other nifty stuff on today’s episode of the Bumperpodcast!

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. The Bumperpodcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals! 

    Send us an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

    Don’t forget to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976.

     

    Go like our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!!

     


    About This Episode

    In episode 312, Natty Bumpercar and Rufus T. Rufus discuss the emotional toll of being a Georgia sports fan. Natty shares his heartbreak over back-to-back devastating losses, from the Atlanta Falcons' Super Bowl collapse to the Georgia Bulldogs' overtime defeat in the national championship game. He explores how people invest their emotions in sports teams and other interests as a coping mechanism for life's chaos. Despite feeling sick and sleep-deprived from the emotional rollercoaster, Natty has exciting news: the Bumperpodcast has officially landed its first sponsor after 312 episodes. It's a candid, heartfelt episode about fandom, disappointment, and small victories.

    Memorable Quotes

    “In life people have buckets that you put things in otherwise life is unmanageable there's just too much going on right.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “The bumper podcast finally has a sponsor we got sponsored… 312 episodes in and somebody finally was like you know what we need to give that guy some dollars.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “You ain't built for it bro you're just not exactly yeah you're old.”

    — Rufus T. Rufus

    Topics: #football #sports #georgia #emotions #fandom #sponsorannouncement #sleepdeprivation #disappointment

    Featuring: Rufus T. Rufus, Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Rufus T. Rufus: oh bro you sound rough are you okay what is going on with you bumper car hey hey what is happening huh because of football football it's football football football football and football and and wait listen dude okay so you're a little bit upset about some football is what i'm is what i'm getting that's what i'm hearing and that's totally fine uh me myself i'm a little bit sick so you know not everything's going perfect for everybody in the whole wide world i'm sick too oh okay oh my yeah okay you talk you talk okay thanks so i don't know here's the thing everyone

    Natty Bumpercar: uh this is natty bumper car welcome to the bumper podcast i'm a little bit sickly and i had uh i had a rough week i had a rough week i had a rough week i um i don't know you okay if you know this i have a giant blot in my throat yeah it's a sickness keep swallowing i apologize uh i'm from georgia wait you're from georgia yeah i never knew that i'm a pig

    Rufus T. Rufus: i'm i mean i i know people that live in georgia and now that i think about it you're talking about football that's like pigskin so it makes sense that i'm here now now it all ties together now it all makes a lot of sense perfect perfect keep going keep telling your little story it's good we're good we're fine

    Natty Bumpercar: okay anyway i'm from georgia and and last year was a big year it was an exciting year the uh atlanta falcons and here i'm gonna preface this i haven't been a football person my whole life i don't do a lot of football uh i just never did a lot of sports really but evidently there's some sort of processes in my brain behind the scenes that really get into sports a lot and um so last year the falcons atlanta falcons got into the super bowl and they were winning by a lot of points it was something like 28 to 3 at the halftime and so i i was feeling this euphoria this excitement this i was just like wow this is so cool and you know if you if you parse it down if you go through the whole thing you go well why is it cool i'm i'm not i don't live in georgia anymore i i don't play football i'm not on the street i'm not on the street i'm not on the street i'm not on the team uh but I think it's something deeper inside it doesn't have much I mean it has I guess something to do with football but it has to do with with nostalgia and where you came from maybe and memories uh from when you were growing up and and you know just I don't know bits and pieces of Flotsam and Jetsam Flotsam and Jetsam I'm gonna say kind of come to the you know get unearthed and uh and that was a rough game because they ended up losing to the uh to the New England New England New England I just made that one word New England Patriots New England Patriots um and it was a heartbreaker it hurt hurt hurt hurt a lot and it was a weird thing for me and uh but then this week you the uh the the Georgia Bulldogs of Georgia of the University of Georgia Athens Georgia which is where I went to college played in the national championship so now we have two Georgia teams within the span of a year going to as far along in their respective uh sports as they possibly can that's unprecedented that's amazing that's great um and and Georgia had had beaten in Oklahoma in a in a wonderful Rose Bowl it was super exciting that's I guess I'm just talking about football right now and um so even though they were playing on Monday I was excited but I was trying to temper my excitement but then I discovered I couldn't temper my excitement because it was untemperable it was just there and um so that night I went uh there's a restaurant and they have uh I got little chickens and I had some sweet tea and I got some some lemonade and I took it all home and I'm not gonna say their name because I gotta tell you this on a big note the bumper podcast finally has a sponsor we got sponsored they haven't sent me the information to uh do the read yet but starting the next episode i'm hoping sponsor what how cool is that 300 and whatever 12 episodes in and somebody finally was like you know what we need to give that guy some dollars so good good for us good for me good for the bumper podcast good for

    Rufus T. Rufus: me too and by the way i heard from the sponsor yeah good they yeah they said they want it just to be me okay so of course who does the reads and they want me to get all the money can i go back no yeah well go ahead and go go back and talk about the football but i just wanted to step in as rufus t rufus says that i get a copy so just make sure that you know that we know that i know

    Natty Bumpercar: okay okay okay so anyway sponsor hooray uh back to the uh the football so it was it was last it was monday night and last monday uh january the uh 8th 2017 18 2018 a day that will live in infamy for me uh and and the same thing happened the exact same thing they they were winning at the half by a couple of a couple of the touchdowns and i had people texting me this is it they got it look how they're playing and i was just like oh no no no no no no no no no no no no why why are we getting excited remember what happened remember what just happened in not this stadium but the stadium next door that they tore down the same thing actually wasn't it it was wherever the super bowl was and uh so i i you know but you know you start to feel you start to have feelings oh this could happen this is gonna be great and uh so here's my theory i'm gonna take a pause there in life and i think i've talked about this before i feel like people have buckets right and you have buckets that you put things in otherwise life is is is unmanageable there's just too much going on right and so people put their their their joys and their sorry sorrows in in in buckets so some people do comic books uh they have favorite characters and so they live and die by these things some people have sports some people have uh movies or you know art in general or um or music i guess that's art and uh i even count religiousness and uh i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know and all this because these are things that are outside of you that you invest yourself in that you put yourself in right and so a lot of how you act or how you feel can be in part determined by these things and so with sports what i've come to learn and unfortunately because i don't really love it is there's these buckets and you know how you're feeling i'm doing great my team won all right cool you know did you get anything out of it joy i guess you know the excitement of watching the game but so people make it emotional investments in these things and then when these or even like they place emotional bets i'm betting that i'm putting my my uh emotions into this thing and betting that i'm going to come out of this game feeling better than i did before and sometimes you win that bet and sometimes you don't win that bet so it's it's like a gambler's attitude and i'm going to come out of this game feeling better than i did before and sometimes you win and uh you know monday night it uh we got the second half got crushed and for a lot of different reasons football reasons i could tell you football i could tell you some reasons that i think they they they went with the wrong they had two running backs that they used particularly a guy named nick chubb and who's like a bowling ball and he kept going down the middle and alabama has uh just a wall of defense that he can't get through and another guy named sony michelle who was fast and was getting to four to five yards per run and he's quick and uh for some reason they stopped using him i thought that was a strange thing um i thought our defense started playing sloppy when they brought in another quarterback they had game planned for the other quarterback and when the this new quarterback came in they just seemed to be caught flat-footed and there were no adjustments made on on the georgia sidelines they played great you know uh and i think that's what i'm going to be doing for the rest of the it was a fun game it was exciting um but just didn't work out and it hurt hurt a lot hurt me too bro especially because you know the way it ended it was there was it was overtime georgia had just kicked a 51 yard field goal and so they were up by three and then they sacked the other quarterback on the next uh drive so he was a second down and 26 yards which is a long way took him out of field goal range felt like this is it we're gonna win the next play second down and 26 41 i think yard pass touchdown end of the game all right so your emotions at that point are all over the place not to mention they got into overtime when alabama missed a field goal uh from pretty close in so you're just like you think you lost the game then oh you didn't lose the game you're still in it oh okay so i was so excited i couldn't go to sleep i couldn't go to sleep and i had drunk drank whatever a half a gallon of sweet tea so i was full of sugar and i was awake until 4 a.m or 4 a.m and the kids got up at like 5 30 and then i was at work you know and i just i'm not built for this anymore you ain't built for it bro you're just not exactly yeah you're old and then i had to work the next night it's tuesday until almost two in the morning so now guess what i'm sickly but that's okay because the bumper podcast is back and we've got a sponsor and football's off my chest now and thank you and i love you and high five

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  • Bumperpodcast #310 – Turkey is back

    Bumperpodcast #310 – Turkey is back

    Turkey is back – and he is bananas.

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. The Bumperpodcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals! 

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    About This Episode

    In episode 310 of the Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar faces a Thanksgiving crisis when Turkey shows up at headquarters in a state of panic. Joined by Aloysious J. Pig, Doodle Poodle, Rufus T. Rufus (acting as Turkey's lawyer), and Robot with his universal Turkey decoder, the gang attempts to calm the anxious bird who fears he'll end up as dinner. Through a chaotic series of misunderstandings and Turkey's rapid-fire gobbling, the team works to communicate and reassure their feathered friend. The episode wraps with a heartfelt message from Natty about gratitude and making it through tough times, while Turkey finally settles down for a nap.

    Memorable Quotes

    “Rufus, Turkey lawyer Rufus, that's my name. And I will be legally representing this Turkey here in the court of law to call a justice the court of the public opinion.”

    — Rufus T. Rufus

    “He thinks the robot looks like an oven, and he thinks that this is all a big setup to get the Turkey back in.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “You should wake up every day and look yourself in the mirror in the eyes. And you should thank yourself for doing whatever you do, for trying hard, for making it through the day.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #thanksgiving #turkey #anxiety #friendship #gratitude #communication #holidaystress #kindness

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Producer, Aloysious J. Pig, Doodle Poodle, Rufus T. Rufus, Robot

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: well well well if it isn't the bumper podcast and it's me it's natty bumper car and it's that time of year it's that time of year where it's almost thanksgiving and i oh no look who it is

    Producer: hey buddy how are you you're freaking out you're freaking me out there's a lot of freaking out

    Natty Bumpercar: okay you talk

    Aloysious J. Pig: i don't i don't i don't know what i don't know what you're seeing i'm very sorry i'm very i'm

    Natty Bumpercar: very sorry hey hey that's me uh allosius jay pig so anyway so i think what the tardy doodle is trying to say is that he's nervous because you're talking about Thanksgiving. Yeah. And always around this time of year, you know, the turkey comes in, and you're like, gobble, gobble, and you're like, who's this? And turkey, turkey, and blah, blah, blah. I think he just wants to make sure that everything is on the up and up. Oh. That everything is copacetic. Of course. You know what I'm talking about. Okay. That makes sense. Okay. Exactly. Turkey, calm it down. He's freaking out. Take it down two notches. He's freaking out. Turkey, turkey, turkey. You need to settle. Settle. Settle. Turkey. Settle. Somebody got to settle the turkey, I guess. Do we have any turkey whispers in the house? No, there's no turkey whispers in the house.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Okay, just kidding. Oh. Uh-huh.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, you seem so sad, turkey. Listen, it's going to be fine. Nothing bad is going to happen, I promise. We're just going to hang out. We're here at headquarters. It's me, you, and Pig, and we, I, he does, I guess, he kind of, Pig, do you speak turkey? It seems like a little bit. I mean, I, I do dabble a bit. Okay, but not really. No, no, no. Okay, so we, I think that we maybe just need to find somebody who does speak a good turkey, and then we can kind of, kind of go from there. Maybe, does that make sense? I don't know what to do. You still freak it out. Okay, okay, okay. Settle down, turkey. Settle down. Stop it. You're on a, you're on a hot microphone, turkey. Don't say anything you'll regret in the future. Okay, well, calm down. I, uh,

    Aloysious J. Pig: oh. I see. I understand exactly. That's exactly what the turkey is trying to

    Natty Bumpercar: say to everybody.

    Doodle Poodle: Hi, everybody. It's me. It's

    Aloysious J. Pig: a little poodle.

    Doodle Poodle: And I think that I can solve this case. Okay, it's not a case. Perhaps, perchance, probably.

    Natty Bumpercar: He's trying to figure out what he's saying.

    Doodle Poodle: Um, what I'm gonna do is get out some paper. Okay. And make some doodles of what the turkey who is trying to say so that you guys can get a visual representation of exactly what the turkey is trying to tell us. Is that the best idea ever?

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm gonna weigh in on this and say that no, it's actually not the best idea ever. It's not, it's not the worst idea ever. Uh, but, I mean, I guess maybe we could give it a shot. But the thing is, this turkey talks very quickly. And, um, I don't know that you're gonna be able to draw what he's saying fast enough that we'll be able to convey exactly what he's trying to say.

    Doodle Poodle: Oh, look, I drew this unicorn right here. That fast unicorn.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay. I stand corrected. We are gonna give it a shot. We're gonna give it a shot. Okay. That's kind of amazing that you drew that that fast. Okay. I'm very fast

    Doodle Poodle: doodler. I can draw very quickly if I want to. Sometimes I draw slow. But sometimes I draw really fast, too. This is just how it depends. Oh, what the, you know, this is tough. Oh, he's saddled.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Saddled. Saddled. Saddled. Saddled. Saddled. Saddled. Saddled.

    Rufus T. Rufus: Turkey lawyer T. Rufus. Wait a minute, I did that wrong. Rufus, Turkey lawyer Rufus, that's my name. And I will be legally representing this Turkey here in the court of law to call a justice the court of the public opinion on exactly what he wants to do and what he deserves to do and the life that all Turkies in this great country, in this great world, are allowed to pursue and enjoy. If you do get my drift, and I believe you do by the look on your eye, on your face, above your nose, you see what I'm saying? Rufus, Turkey lawyer Rufus, coming in, swooping in, just like I do, to protect you. To protect you, okay? Okay. Call me up. We're going to settle this out of court, lawyer style.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right. All right. Are you being paid by the minute? Because that was quite the soliloquy, I think that was, the monologue. That was a monologue. That was definitely a more monologue than we needed to have at this moment.

    Rufus T. Rufus: It was more of a soliloquy, I believe. It was more of a, you know. Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: But we're just trying to figure out what the Turkey is doing. What the Turkey wants, and what the Turkey needs, and what will make the Turkey happy. So, I appreciate everyone being here, but I don't appreciate you.

    Robot: Hey, but I think you should appreciate me, because I think that I have a solution. I have a universal Turkey decoder inside of my programming.

    Producer: Wait, do you really? That might help. Yeah. Yeah. See? Okay.

    Robot: I am good for something, and so, if the Turkey would just come here and wait, where's the Turkey going? I don't understand.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right. So, what do we… Bro, the robot's completely freaking the Turkey out. Okay. He's afraid of the robot. He thinks the robot looks like an oven, and he thinks that this is all a big setup to get the Turkey back in. Yeah. So, we're going to get the Turkey out of the robot's oven, and then we're going to get the Turkey back in. And, of course, we're going to get the Turkey in the robot oven, and then Turkey dinner, which I have told him is not true. We're not doing that. No. He's a rusty bucket of bolts. He's not a cooking utensil item. So, just go on down. All right. Talk to the, you know, the bones. The robot. No, the bones. The bolts over there. Yeah. And, we can get to the bottom. We can settle. Turkey, settle down. Settle down. Turkey. Turkey. Turkey bro. Seriously. Why is he freaking… I can't even imagine the Turkey. He's still freaking out. I was having a nice relaxing day. You're ruining my day. I don't want to say he's ruining it. Hey, turkey. There he goes. He finally went to sleep, everybody. I think all the activity might have worked him up and got him super anxious. Oh, he's so sleepy. I've never seen a sleeping turkey before.

    Producer: He's so cute when he sleeps.

    Natty Bumpercar: Is he purring? I didn't know turkeys purred. This is very strange. Wow, all right. Well, now that the crisis is averted with turkey, I wanted to say thank you so much to everybody for listening to the Bumper Podcast and for being so awesome. And sometimes the world is a big, mean, scary place, but hopefully you listen here and you feel a little bit better. Or you see how crazy my world is and it makes you feel like your world isn't, you know, all that crazy. You're pretty cool. You're pretty nice. You're pretty fun. Definitely pretty funny. And thank you. And thank you and thank you and thank you. And you should wake up every day and you should look in the mirror and you should brush your teeth and then you should wash your face and then you should look yourself in the mirror in the eyes. And you should thank yourself for doing whatever you do, for trying hard, for, you know, making it through the day, making it through the night, because it's not always that easy. And the world's a big, scary place and there's a lot of big, scary things happening. I mean, as turkey evidences. So, hooray for you. Hooray for me. Hooray for every single body. Right? Right. Anybody else want to say anything? Anybody else on the podcast want to say thank you for anything? Or…

  • Bumperpodcast #308 – Whoo-wee!

    Bumperpodcast #308 – Whoo-wee!

    I missed you . I missed you. I missed you.

    There is no interview, guests, or junk. Just little old me. 

    And – after recording this, I discovered that my site was broken. Hooray for difficulties!

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. The Bumperpodcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals! 

    It’s almost too much to bear – isn’t it? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

    Don’t forget to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976.

     

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    About This Episode

    Natty Bumpercar returns after a long hiatus to catch up with Bumperpodcast listeners in this solo episode. He opens with his signature silly banter about bananas before diving into why the podcast has been on hold and the challenges of scheduling interviews. Natty shares his hectic life updates, including attending a Wizards basketball game, getting a new car, and dealing with absurdly scheduled 8:30 AM and 5:00 PM work calls. He humorously recounts his exhausting Halloween schedule, juggling multiple school parades for his kids Ollie and Emerson, trick-or-treating, and the inevitable candy-induced stomach ache. Despite the chaos, Natty reminds listeners how much he's missed connecting with his Bumperpodcast friends.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I just tried bananas with bananas and it's my favorite thing even though I'm allergic to bananas.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “What were you for Halloween? What was I? I was tired.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “The 8:30 call they're like well what do I do? I'm like well no updates because we last talked at 5:30 last night and everyone went home.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #halloween #parenting #worklife #schedulingchaos #trick-or-treating #familylife #podcasthiatus

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: oh my beans on my bananas look at you you're looking bananas i just tried bananas with bananas and it's my favorite thing even though i'm allergic to bananas hey everybody it's me it's natty bumper car and the bumper podcast has been gone for so long so long and i think i get all twisted up and jumbled up and sad because i'm like oh i want to do these interviews i want to do this thing i want to do that thing and then when i set it all up and then i can't do that thing for whatever reason technology or scheduling then i kind of like it goes on the back burner and then a couple of weeks goes by and i start to freak out because i'm like oh my goodness i haven't done a show in a long in a long time is what i just said not a long time but a long time don't two two wongs don't make a right is what's happening i'm dropping my r's you that's a good sound um and then so i start freaking out because i'm like i haven't done a show i want to do a show i like to talk to the bumper podcast friends you're my friends you're my bumper podcast coutures and uh so this morning i was like fine i can't i'm just gonna have a show i'm gonna do a show and i'm gonna talk i'm gonna uh do it do an update did i tell you about the yard sale i don't even know did i tell you that we went to a uh a wizard's basketball game wizards probably not did i tell you that we got a different car probably not there's a lot going on is what i'm telling you did i tell you that for some reason at work we have a client that is scheduling calls at 8 30 in the morning and then other calls at five at night definitely i didn't tell you that because i never talk about work and i'm not going to talk about it now but really that's a weird schedule like why would you do that to people and then here's the best part of it uh the 8 30 call they're like well what do i do i'm not going to talk about it now i'm not going to the updates i'm like well no updates because we last talked at 5 30 last night and then everyone went home and no one's in the office yet because it's 8 30 in the morning and they're like well that doesn't make any sense i'm like sure it does um what else is going on i mean like there's a lot it's it's it's november october went by halloween happened i mean what what did what were you for halloween what was i i was tired i was so tired because i had the 8 30 call and then i had wait what was is that yesterday no yesterday okay yes so we had the 8 30 call and then i had uh a 9 30 uh parade at ollie school and then at noon no 11 30 we had to pick emerson up from school to take him to lunch and get him home get him dressed in his costume take him back to the school by 12 30 and then his and then we just stood around and then his thing was at one o'clock his parade and then at four o'clock he was at school and then at five four thirty you gotta go out and you gotta start trick-or-treating and then it's like what in the world is going on and then there's all this candy and so you're eating all this stuff and then you have a stomach ache and i don't know man it's crazy i'm just telling you that a lot of crazy stuff is going on but you know what i miss you so much