Tag: childhood memories

  • Bumperpodcast #414 – Season 2 – Funny Bone

    Bumperpodcast #414 – Season 2 – Funny Bone

    Natty saves some baby ducklings. It’s truly the sweetest story on the block!

    The Bumperpodcast with Natty Bumpercar 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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    [av_toggle_container faq_markup=” initial=’0′ mode=’accordion’ sort=” styling=” colors=” font_color=” background_color=” border_color=” toggle_icon_color=” colors_current=” font_color_current=” toggle_icon_color_current=” background_current=” background_color_current=” background_gradient_current_direction=’vertical’ background_gradient_current_color1=” background_gradient_current_color2=” background_gradient_current_color3=” hover_colors=” hover_font_color=” hover_background_color=” hover_toggle_icon_color=” size-toggle=” av-medium-font-size-toggle=” av-small-font-size-toggle=” av-mini-font-size-toggle=” size-content=” av-medium-font-size-content=” av-small-font-size-content=” av-mini-font-size-content=” heading_tag=” heading_class=” alb_description=” id=” custom_class=” template_class=” av_uid=’av-l3okc1u4′ sc_version=’1.0′ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_toggle title=’Show Transcript:’ tags=” custom_id=” av_uid=’av-l3okc0ct’ sc_version=’1.0′] Natty Bumpercar 0:04 It finally happened. There I was unsuspecting, naive, maybe even. My youngest nine year old, came down with the COVID. He got the COVID The COVID is in the house and we put him in his room. We said Your, your now, Rapunzel bumper car up here in the room. Here’s a bell. Ring it if you need to look niggling in the evening, if you need food, whatever, ring twice. It’s very hard because this child he likes he likes to hug. He’s a hugger. Every day, I love you and He gives you hugs. And we couldn’t hug him. He was just over there. It was just like Ah, just put those in like a dual hug bank and then when you’re done you can just deposit withdraw all the hugs and then and then give us all the hugs. Please. Sad child. He was fine though. Honestly. He was living his best life. He was in his up in his in his is parapet, I think is maybe where he was we live in a castle. And he was he you know, had food delivered. He had all of his beverages and we would take them up and then we would take them away. We would had multiple screens where he could watch things he could play thing. Like he was doing great. His brother couldn’t get to him to attack him. So it was really I said, How are you feeling? Are you okay? And he’s like, Dad, this is the best vacation I’ve ever had. And I was like, Oh, wow, that’s really bad. Okay. Oh, we’ve been to the beach. No, we’ve been to some mountains. No. Been to a lake. But this is we’ve been to the big city museums. But this is this is this is it. This is the pinnacle. All right. Good to know, good to know. You’re easy, it’s easy to accommodate. Now I want everyone was in their rooms. So he was in his room. My wife was in was in our room. I took the couch with the other child who has a hard time sleeping by himself and the dogs. So we really, we were the core of the house. There were a lot of us down there. And on Wednesday night, what I’ve discovered is the dogs wake up several times a night several times a night. And they Oh, I was exhausted. This was Wednesday night. I was just like, I don’t feel good. I am exhausted because they got up at like 1131 33 Like every two hours or so. Banjo gets up and he was like, I gotta go outside. I’m like, okay, sometimes I’m like no business. Sometimes I do say okay, because if you don’t, he’s he. I mean he’s licking your face. He’s put his pawn yet. Like, hey, hey, and everything and so we got to get him outside. And he runs around in circles, Giants. Would you stop with the yipping in the yapping Producer 3:06 a natty I hate to burst into your story here but your three minutes and hey, I want to welcome everybody. Hello Radio Free Montclair. We’re actually recording this for them. So perhaps you should ask. I know normally on the show. You just kind of jump into a story and everyone’s supposed to catch up. Oh, yeah. But oh, ketchup. fries, ketchup. Right. But right now we want to welcome Hello, Radio Free Montclair. Natty Bumpercar 3:31 You’re right and I apologize. I Radio Free Montclair. This is me Natty Bumpercar at the bumper podcast here at headquarters, and we’re recording this episode. I’ve had three weeks of COVID related shenanigans in my brain that don’t work like it used to. And I was just I wanted to relay my story. Producer 3:52 Okay, perfect. You’re laying is starting the podcast for the radio Freeman. Claire and this one the viral and it’s good like you doing it. But you don’t have to tell us every single little thing you know, just kind of move the story forward. Go quickly and stuff. Natty Bumpercar 4:06 Yeah, I agree. I’m sorry. So kid, got it. And then third went there Wednesday night up. Thursday, I says to positive, didn’t feel great. Call the doctor. She sent me to the urgent care. They did another test. Well, actually, first, the doctor said why are you here? And I was like, because my doctor told me to come here. I didn’t I didn’t know what to I didn’t know what to do. And that’s always weird to me when you go to a doctor’s office and like well, why are you here? And it’s not like hi, how can I help you? Why are you here? It’s why are you here? You’re like, I don’t know. And so they put me on this Madsen deal stuff had crazy dreams like crazy dreams. Rufus T. Rufus 4:44 Sorry. This is me. Rufus to Rufus and I was brought over here by Allah wishes to let you know we cannot discuss the dreams the dreams are dreams and that crazy but they could still implicate some things if you understand what I’m saying. If you get My poor Alright, yeah, fine. Let’s just move along with your story. Natty Bumpercar 5:04 So fine. So the story is I stayed downstairs sleeping with no, I was upstairs for a while for a few days. And then because they put the they like put me in the door and they put tape tape on it to keep the sickness in or something. And after four days or so I ended up on the couch again with a kid and the dog. Why? Well, because the kid tested positive as well. And so now the wife is has sequestered herself up in her tiny little room and the other child was fine at that point go back to school, which is great. But the other child who had tested positive was now home going crazy because the children when they got it, they seem fine. It was you know, you hear stories of people are like God COVID It’s nothing. It’s just a cold and you’re like, No, it hits people in different ways. Did different there’s so many variables if you’re a kid, if you have red hair, if you get it on a Tuesday, I’ve heard it’s especially rough. If you eat Limburger cheese and just lingam or OWL other kinds of cheeses are fine, but if you eat that while you have it Oh, you’re a big trouble. So sorry shout out to the lingo burger Cheese Company. Didn’t mean to call you out. Is that really Lincoln? Burger? Not doesn’t feel kind of cheese. So it feels like a made up cheese Linnaean burger. Producer 6:26 That’s not right as Lynn burger lamb burger. It’s a smelly cheese and a lot of times they use in jokes, like an old cartoons and stuff. Limburger cheese, not Lincoln burger. You’re thinking of Lincoln berries. And then you’re putting that into cheese, which I don’t I mean, it could be possibly Yeah, just but I don’t know. Also, not particularly germane to the story, right? Natty Bumpercar 6:47 Who’s German? I’m kidding. Who’s Jemaine? That’s a joke. So while I was in bed, just crazy fevers, crazy fever, dreams, aches. I developed vertigo, which is where the world feels like it’s spinning around and but for me, they were like it they there was very specific language. They were like that have they have to unlock like, it’s like an a video game. If you go up to the guy and you say, I’d like to scroll, please. And he’s like, there is no scroll and you’re like, ah, I’d like to scroll of Lindenberger. And he’s like, Well, of course he has this scroll of thinking bug that’s how it is with doctors where if you don’t say the exact words and they’re like well this this doesn’t sound like it checks the boxes sorry champ. And so I was trying to describe it I was like, oh I can come up with was my brain feels like wow, wow, wow. Wow. Where it’s going in all different directions and my body feels like it’s going into different directions. They’re like so the room is spinning. And I was like no, it’s more than that. So much more my brain my body has taken dizziness to the to the to the 2020 twos and really has made it so much more than just oh the room is spinning like the room is spinning. That sounds like fun. Now what I was going through was wow what Wow. And it’s just something that we should be copywriting while we’re while we’re while because it’s fit feels like it has legs like something that we could definitely market and brand and get out there. Oh, this isn’t just grandpa’s dizziness. This is now well Wow. Wow. Wow. No. Yeah, I understand. It’s it’s certainly an idea. I love I you know, I love ideas. I love imagination, let people come up with things. But I think probably branding, a new version of dizziness isn’t really what we’re going to be doing. We’re not going to focus on that right now. If that’s okay, Oh, speaking of focusing on things. While I was sick, I managed to I wrote a short story. Friend of mine edited it, edited, edited it in it. It’s just under 1000 words, and I submitted it and it got rejected. And that’s great. That’s fine. It’s very exciting to me. I’ve never, I’ve had all these words in my brain. And sometimes I just have a really hard time getting them on to document and then actually having a friend to edit stuff is I need to I don’t know what you do with people who edit your things. I guess I’m gonna lock her in some sort of the barn here and I’ll bring her bas because people everyone knows people who edit. They love getting A’s. Anyway, and so I submitted that and then I also I made an online store for the CGA thing that I that I do Cedar Grove artists Alliance, and I made all the shirts I think I made like six different shirt variations designs and and and so that exists and I had to go through all the whole process when I when I first was doing web stuff a million years ago, setting up a store was like I’m at a store now it’s like really like there’s a lot But it’s like do you have your this thing? Do you have that thing? We can connect to this? Would you like for us to do this? And it’s all just like, oh, everything was like a huge learning process. But it exists and I actually forgot to have to launch it. Today. I was supposed to do it Monday. But then guess what? This week COVID came back COVID came back. Producer 10:18 I guess so glad you didn’t. I thought you’re gonna do like a song like, the COVID came back and you really don’t feel good. Or something like, Hey, write the cover EVs back. Hey, the coffee. These are the coffee. These are your Natty Bumpercar 10:36 coffee. These are okay. There. I love that producer was so excited to jump in with the AI is that his microphone wasn’t even on and then he kind of clicked in in the middle of it. That was very exciting. Good job. So yeah, I, it was a couple days ago. And listen, I’ve been talking to virtual doctors and I made a virtual Doctor wince. At one point. He was like, ah, when I told her what had been going on, and I said it you just wins. Because you don’t want to see people you don’t want to see wins. You don’t want to see pilots wins. You don’t want to see doctors wins. And you don’t want to see Carson wins. Hell, it’s a football joke. I don’t know who he is, but I know that name. And it just popped into my head anyway. So basically, I ended up in the emergency room for the stuff I still have. They gave me fluids, they gave me medicine. They gave me something called an anti vert vertigo, and everything checks out. I had an EKG and they said that I sound great, which makes me happy. And when they tried to give me the anti vert I said Ooh, wouldn’t be funny if it was an anti Bert. And then they were like what and I was like Hooper. And they were like No, no. Producer 11:49 Yeah, doctors aren’t typically known for their senses of humor. They find your funny. Hey, oh, Natty Bumpercar 11:55 let’s wrap it up with a funny bone joke. Outro 12:09 The bumper podcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp with Natty Bumpercar and some of his pals. It is family friendly, clean and ridiculous. Thanks a bundle for listening. If you love our show, and you’d like to help support the podcast, check out our Patreon page at https colon forward slash forward slash www.patreon.com forward slash Natty Bumpercar also pretty please subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, share it with everyone everywhere. post about it on all of the social medias or leave a rating and review. The bumper podcast is produced at headquarters in coffee can alley it’s recorded mixed and produced by producer. The bumper podcast features contributions from Aloysius jpg Rufus T Rufus doodle poodle, robot trunks and a gaggle of other silly rascals. Our head talker is probably Natty Bumpercar. We also have an absurd newsletter. Check it out and subscribe at Natty bumpercar.com/subscribe Also, you can follow me on Instagram and Twitter at Natty Bumpercar Hugs and hearts See you soon. NonPro 13:29 This has been a non productive media presentation, executive producer Franco Blaue. This program and many others like it on the nonproductive network is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution non commercial no derivatives license. Please share it but ask before trying to change it or sell it. For more information visit non dash productive.com Transcribed by https://otter.ai [/av_toggle] [/av_toggle_container]

  • Bumperpodcast #393 – Season 2 – Toe

    Bumperpodcast #393 – Season 2 – Toe

    It has been way too long. Let me explain why – oh – why. ❤️ The Bumperpodcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals! You should send us an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com. We’re here and we’re listening! Go like our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!! Also, The Bumperpodcast can now be found on the https://non-productive.com/ network. Yay!!!! Also, also, we have a Patreon page now!!! https://www.patreon.com/nattybumpercar

    About This Episode

    In this personal episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar shares stories from his recent whirlwind trip to Georgia. Natty recounts helping his childhood best friend clean out his parents' house in Macon, Georgia, triggering waves of nostalgia from their friendship that began in traumatic swim lessons at age four. The episode features humorous tales of Southern food adventures including barbecue, Brunswick stew, and a leaky fried chicken restaurant, followed by a grueling 25-hour drive to Boulder, Colorado. Between managing his clumsy cone-wearing puppy Banjo, dealing with a broken trampoline, and hosting a virtual drawing session for schoolchildren, Natty ends the episode explaining how he broke his pinky toe by walking into a cabinet.

    Memorable Quotes

    “They put us at the deep end of the pool… walked up behind us and pushed. Sploosh. Down into the water. That's how we learned to swim… that's a scary way to learn how to swim.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “He's got this cone on his head and he hits me right in the back of the calf… he's very insistent like hey hey hey I'm gonna hit you I'm gonna hit you hard.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I stood up and I walked directly into a very heavy cabinet… I yelped I fell on the ground and I was just like rolling around… Banjo came over with his cone and he tried to love me to death.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #friendship #nostalgia #travel #southernfood #childhoodmemories #pets #injury

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Producer

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: Well now I went down to Georgia for a while for about four days and now I forgot how to talk because sometimes when I go back home I just start talking like I used to talk which was kind of like this. It wasn't exactly like this but it was kind of like this and I wait a minute no that's not did I? I mean I did go to Georgia. I was there for for three days two days. It was I had the craziest trip you guys. I know you probably like bumper car. You can't just put out an episode a month. I understand that. I know that but life has been coming at me crazy fast. So here's what's been going on. Step one I had to fly to Georgia to help my best friend out. We had to clean his pants. We had to clean his parents house out. We had a I flew to Georgia and then we drove to a place called Macon Georgia. Macon Bacon. Macon Trouble. Macon Macon. Yeah I don't know um and and we we got a 20 foot uh tall. No that'd be amazing. Do you do you know that you know the difference between tall and long? Uh probably right? Like your height that's how tall you are. Your arms if you stretch them out that's how long I don't know. Hard to explain but you know when you're driving down the road and you see a big truck and it's really long or a train that's really long that's that's that's long. That's not a good description is it? Huh that's fine too. Anyway it was a 20 foot long truck and I mean come to think of it it was probably like 12 or 13 feet tall. It was pretty tall and we emptied out the entire house and we were straightening and cleaning and going room by room. And and and getting rid of stuff um because his mom moved to where he lives and so they were getting rid of the house and it was there were emotions. I had emotions. There was a lot of nostalgia. We we drove around. I've known this friend since we were four years old. I used to say three years old but he contends that it was four or five years old and so now I'm like what? Oh so I did give a little bit of ground on the three so now I'll say four. We met when we were um in swim lessons and this is how the swim lessons used to go so just get ready kids. They put us at the deep end of the pool and our swim instructor was this woman and I can't remember her name but she walked up behind us in the deep end of the pool. A four year old. Several of us and put her hand on her back our backs and pushed. Sploosh. Down into the water. That's how we we learned to swim and then she had this thing that she would kind of reach out into the pool and pull us back and and that's not that's a scary way to learn how to swim. I'm just gonna tell you. And so it was through that trauma through that trial by fiery water that we we bonded and we became pals and so this house it I spent more time in this house growing up than in any other house and um so there were a lot of emotions involved with that just you know walking room to room and uh they have a a separate little room it's a bonus room is what they call it oh look at this your house has a bonus room and it's above the garage and it was never finished it was kind of like a big storage area and um it has this smell and it's not a bad smell it's just like when I open the door to look in and see how much stuff I have I'm like oh my god I'm so I was hit by this smell now smell is cool for memory um like you can walk into someplace or and you can smell something and and your mind will just get flooded with all these memories where you're like I remember you know this place and you can just close your eyes and you just know where you are and it's it's just so cool and so that's how it was and we uh so we were down there and we were in the pool and we were like oh my god I'm so excited I'm so excited I'm so excited we're we're packing stuff we get the truck uh we're going to all these places like to eat like you know oh remember this place let's go get food there or whatever and um one of the places i went by myself well i had a big food day which i do not recommend because my tummy still hurts where we had um barbecue and we had something called brunswick stew which is made in brunswick georgia and it's it's this stewy thing that you get at barbecue places and it's so good and after that i went and i got curly fries seasoned curly fries from this place that i really like and then after that i went to another place a fried chicken place and i didn't get fried chicken but i did get a honey buttered biscuit oh it was so good and uh an order of fried okra which is um magical thing and really one of the only ways i'll eat okra because have you ever had okra it's it can be a little creepy if i'm gonna be completely honest um i do like pickled okra but only on very rare occasions uh stewed okra no thank you too slimy too creepy you keep that over there fried okra every day my friend but i'm standing there and well first when i walk into the uh the fried chicken place you know sometimes when you go to stores people will say something like how are you welcome to my store hello customer hello friend whatever it is uh all she said and she just yelled at she she said um what are you having and i was like ah that's a lot of pressure like i want i didn't get to acclimate i didn't get to get my my feet wet but i did almost get my feet wet because about five feet to the right of the register uh where you're you know where you're going to get your food and get your stuff and she's like oh you're an expert so he's like what just friends i'm like realized that we didn't know what it was and so then we had a sir cramp and i thought to myself that i was going to get my phone bill here you know buying the stuff there's a there was a giant hole in the ceiling um where there's all these exposed uh like air conditioner pipes and there was all this water falling not even just dripping but kind of raining and it wasn't raining outside this was internal raining and there was a giant puddle on the floor so there was a there was a big pan that was full of this sealing water and then there was a big puddle on the floor and the whole time i was i like experiences and to me this is an adventure and an experience i'm getting off so i'll very soon without the trip so i'm going to maybe come back so i'll take me there now if somebody's gonna buy me a little bit and to me this is an adventure and experience and I was just like this this is what I want in the world I want weird stuff like this um and what I ended up with uh not gonna lie again a stomach ache and then that night we went to uh downtown Macon which I mean it existed as a thing but it didn't exist like this and we saw a friend and we had dinner outside and there were lights and it was gorgeous and it was the best thing ever anyway loaded the truck and drove all the way to Boulder Colorado 25 hours so far unloaded the truck returned the truck flew back home so tired but good happy right yeah and then on top of that uh my little puppy dog Banjo who's a pointer he had to go get um a little medical procedure done because he's at that certain puppy dog age he's running around the house with a cone and he's already a pretty clumsy dog right he runs into stuff but now he's got this cone on his head and he hits me right in the back of the calf that's like the bottom back of your leg and it hurts so bad and he's very he's not aggressive about it but he's very insistent like hey hey hey I'm gonna hit you I'm gonna hit you hard I'm gonna continually hit you hey guess what I'm still hitting you and it hurts a lot um but that's okay because he just loves that much right and that's a sweet thing what else is going on well our trampoline broke so that's no good because the kids go on it every single day and our neighbor kids go on it too dun dun dun how did it break well trampolines have these cool poles that go around that have a net somehow they broke one of the poles that's broken cool can we fix that I don't know oh but wait hey look we also somehow managed to put a rip in the actual trampoline okay trampoline is gone then no more trampolines so I have to figure that out and then we're gonna have a yard sale in a couple weeks and then I'm doing all this fun stuff for the school I got to do a virtual it was like an hour long draw along with my kids uh school it was like first graders second graders third graders they were and uh we we drew something for the art teacher and it was really fun and it was really it was a great time and I want to do that more often speaking of that I'm going to show you a little bit of a video of me doing a little bit of a thing more often I want to thank Jessica Sager she is our first Patreon Patreoner Patreonee person who Patreons I don't know how it works but it's fun I didn't say her name last time because I wasn't sure if I was allowed to but then I saw she's at the level I'm supposed to talk about her up and down so Jessica Sager you're the best everybody go to patreon.com slash natty bumper car if you want I'd love it I mean I love you regardless but I would super love that it'd be cool um and then this episode is called toe why because I broke my toe today my little toe my pinky toe on my right foot is that nice no how did I do that I stood up and I walked directly into a very heavy cabinet and it I I was on the ground I yelped I fell on the ground and I was just like rolling around like and then you know what happened of course no Rufus T. Rufus didn't show up neither did Pig but Banjo my dog he came over with his cone and he tried to love me to death

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  • Bumperpodcast #372 – Sick Natty and Football

    Bumperpodcast #372 – Sick Natty and Football

    On today’s Bumperpodcas, Natty has a bit of the sickness, but is joined by one of his favorite children – who asked him to to tell an old story!

    The Bumperpodcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals!

    You should send us an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com. We’re here and we’re listening!

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


    About This Episode

    In episode 372 of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar sounds different because he's caught a cold after his family passed around various illnesses. Natty and his co-host discuss flu shots, the meaning of words like "lemonade" and "Gatorade," and share funny thoughts about favorite family members. The conversation takes a nostalgic turn as Natty tells the story of his brief high school football career with the St. Pius Golden Lions, including a knee injury that ended his season before it began. The episode features the show's signature improvisational humor, complete with Winnie the Pooh playing football and a memorable tale about being thrown to the ground in his only play as a wide receiver.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I'm a panther bear… I said a panda… oh a panda bear you are a little panda bear”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “When I used to live in Brooklyn, my name was Scribble. Because every time I dribbled I would scribble around the court and I would miss the basket.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “He grabbed me with both hands and picked me up off the ground, and he said, get off me. And he threw me down. That was my football experience.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #illness #family #football #highschool #sportsinjuries #childhoodmemories #winniethepooh

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: oh hi everybody it's me natty bumper car and this is how I sound now because I got sick and who is who got me sick was it you no are you sure yes interesting because I feel like you might have been sick a couple of weeks ago with a stomach bug but that was a long time ago yeah I know it was probably Ollie he had a oh wait a minute that's right you had a stomach plug blow a stomach plug and then Ollie had the flu and then ever since then I've had a cold yeah did you know though I got tested for the flu I've been tested twice so far and both times no flu me too you didn't get tested yeah no you didn't get tested at all right sure no I'm not sure of anything are you sure question oh a question mark is in the air let's see I'm gonna walk over to that question block and I'm gonna tap it and what comes out of that question block no one knows it's a mystery well well I

    Unknown: don't know if I took it I think I did you took what the flu shot oh no you definitely had a flu

    Natty Bumpercar: shot oh it hurt yeah now hold on a second you just said you didn't remember if you had it and now you're saying it definitively hurt I don't understand that doesn't

    Unknown: make any sense it did happen but I forgot but now you remember yeah I'm a panther bear you're a

    Natty Bumpercar: panther bear what's a panther bear I said a panda oh a panda bear you are a little panda bear this you know this is not a uh video podcast this is just an audio podcast do you know what audio means um it doesn't show anything audio is sound oh yeah like sound waves sound waves yeah audio is made up of sound waves what was that did you just did you just take a drink and then you choked a little bit yes oh my what are you drinking today minute made lemonade ew I only drink homemade natural lemonade that's made by lemons did you know that no in Georgia probably in Georgia the only kind of lemonade we drink is made by lemons really no did you know that lemon sorry for the cough did you know that lemonade so it's like if it's two words it's lemon and then it's aid and what aid is help I know it's always what help lemon help it's like gator aid gator help is that crazy yeah yeah and so lemon how do you drink lemon help yes that's awesome and gator help gator which is your favorite gator help so I'm going to drink some help or lemon help both i don't care i can't choose you can't shoot they're both your favorite it's kind of like my children you're both my favorite are you sure i'm positive okay thank you yeah who do you think's my who do you think my iso is my most favorite mommy or popcorn and who do you think is my mostest favorite emerson which is me wait no you're my favorite oh wait you and oliver oh no i'm confused you and oliver my favorite popcorn is my most favorite and mommy

    Unknown: is my mostest favoritist why why is popcorn most because she's still just a baby i know you're old

    Natty Bumpercar: you're but she's gonna turn seven uh march 31st that's her birthday i know can you believe that yeah we're like we're in she's almost a year old can you yeah she's probably

    Unknown: six years old right now. Probably. And then she's going to turn seven.

    Natty Bumpercar: So wait, that means she'll be as old as Oliver. Yes, I know. Oh, that's crazy. So there'll be two seven-year-olds in our house.

    Unknown: And then next year she'll be 14.

    Natty Bumpercar: So she'll, and how old will you be? 11? That's, so she's going to be the, she's going to be

    Unknown: the oldest. No, you're not going to

    Natty Bumpercar: really care. No, she won't be my mostest, favoritest anymore because she won't be my baby.

    Unknown: Ollie will. Ollie will. Oh, that's right. He'll only be eight.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, and you'll be 11 and she'll be 14. Yeah. That's kind of bananas. Frank. I don't remember. I didn't call you Frank. Do you remember, do you know your friend Peter? Yeah. So I was talking to him and he had a really interesting concept. He said, um, it was about dog years and, oh, I can't remember it. I can't believe it. But he said something about dog years and then he, um, you know what stinks? I just call, I had to make a phone call because I couldn't remember what he said and then the person that I talked to who I had told it to also couldn't remember. So we have lost an integral part of knowledge. A very special bit of knowledge about dog years and now I'm sad. Are you just going to crunch on ice? Yeah. Is that good? Do you think that's good for your teeth? No. I've heard it's not, but I don't really know. It seems like it's ice. Is it going to hurt them? I don't think it will. Maybe it could. I don't chew ice except for so the ice that you have in your mouth is kind of, it's hard ice, right? No. But it is. But they make this ice that there's like little pellets and they're softer and they're like wonderful to chew on. Like amazing to chew on. That's where you ate today. Did you like it? Yes, it was good. It hurt my stomach. Everything hurts my stomach these days. All I can eat anymore is… It used to.

    Unknown: Remember when it always hurt my stomach when I ever eat? Every time you ate anything

    Natty Bumpercar: you would say, what would you say? Oh, daddy my tummy hurts.

    Unknown: No, my stomach hurts. Oh, my tum-tum. My

    Natty Bumpercar: rummy tum-tum hurts. What's that mean? I don't know. I was just making up a silly word. Yeah, I do remember that. And now daddy's tummy hurts every time he eats. Scribble. Scribble. You know what that is? So, Emerson just found a basketball that's in our basement where we record and it's got the word scribble on it because when I used to live in Brooklyn, New York when I went to Pratt Institute I would go and play basketball on the courts and my name was Scribble. Because every time I dribbled I would scribble around the court and I would miss the basket. Really? Yeah, I love basketball but I'm not very good at it. I didn't play it growing up and so I don't have all those skills that you might

    Unknown: need to have. You played football growing up and then you

    Natty Bumpercar: hurt yourself. No, I played soccer growing up. My whole life I played soccer until I was a sophomore in high school so I was probably 14? 15? 16? No, I was probably 15 and I stopped playing. I didn't make the team so I couldn't play soccer anymore. I know, sad. And then I played senior year I played football. And then he hurt his knee. Knee? Yeah, not my high knee but my knee.

    Unknown: And then he almost died. Nope,

    Natty Bumpercar: that didn't happen. But what did happen it was before, do you know this story? No. So

    Unknown: Oh, you didn't even get to play.

    Natty Bumpercar: I didn't. In junior year I was playing in PE we were outside playing flag football and It was flag? Well, no, no, no so we were playing flag football in PE like in, you know how you have gym? Yeah, gym. Yeah, and so we were outside and we were playing it and our PE coach was the football coach for the next year. He was new. And he came up to me and he had a real southern accent. He said, son, you ever played football before? Like that. And I was just like no? Because I was really skinny and I was really small but I was really fast. And I was like, no, I never played football. Why would I do that? And he's like, next year you're gonna play on the varsity team. Like that. And I was like, okay. And so then I had to start going to practice and practice for high school football was like five, six times a week. It was all the time. The school bought my equipment, like my pads and my helmet, everything. They bought it for me. And then there were football camps over the summer.

    Unknown: Wait, do you still have the stuff around?

    Natty Bumpercar: No, it was so long ago. I don't have any of it. Sad. I know.

    Unknown: Did it have the Georgia sign?

    Natty Bumpercar: No, that was before I went to Georgia. This was in high school.

    Unknown: Oh, what did it look like?

    Natty Bumpercar: It was blue and gold and it was I went to a place called St. Pius and we were the St. Pius, I don't even remember, Golden Lions. We were the Golden Lions. The Golden Lions. And and so

    Unknown: Wendy the Pooh played.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wendy the Pooh played, yeah. And it's hot. And honey broke. And Eeyore, his honey broke? Yeah, and Eeyore's tail fell off. Oh, that's so sad. Did they lose the game? Yeah, but

    Unknown: Eeyore's tail always falls off. Why does it

    Natty Bumpercar: always fall off? I don't know. It feels like they should find a solution for that. And Tigger. Yeah, Tigger's just jumping around. What does he say? And then they got tackled hard. Wonderful thing about Tiggers is Tiggers are wonderful things. Their tops are made out of rubber and their bottoms are made out of springs. They're bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun. But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is I ain't the only one. Oh, I'm the only one.

    Unknown: Um, wait, no. He got tackled and got a concussion. Who did?

    Natty Bumpercar: Tigger? Tigger. Oh, no. So did the doctors take care of him? No. No? Was Piglet? He wasn't on the field, was he? He's too tiny.

    Unknown: He juked everyone out. Really?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yes. What about Kanga and Roo? Did they play? No. Kanga was watching and Roo was rooting? Yeah. And Owl?

    Unknown: Um, we don't want to talk about that. Oh,

    Natty Bumpercar: something awful happened to Owl. So do you know what happened? So I went through we had summer practice. Yeah. And then we had something called two-a-days. And two-a-days are where you have a practice in the morning and then another practice in the afternoon. Wow. So you're practicing for like six hours, eight hours a day. And this is two weeks before school starts. You're at school every day. Eight hours. Boom. Practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice. Because they want you to be ready for the season. And that's in rain. That's in hot. It's everything. And I in the first week I ran straight and then I cut to my right and then I went back to the left. And when I did that, my knee went kablumble. Like that. It went kablumble. And I was like, ow, that hurts. But I was young and I was kind of I didn't know. And I was just like, well, I hurt my knee, but I still played on it for a day or two. And then the team doctor came and I said, hey, my knee feels funny. And he did this little test. And he was like, oh, no. Oh, no. Did your knee go kablumble? And I was like, it did go kablumble. And so then I had to go. They took me to a hospital. And I had to get an MRI. Which, you know, the CAT scan that you were going to get? I hated it. So it's like that. But it was for my knee. So I didn't have to. My head didn't have to go in. But it was like this. It was kind of like a super x-ray is what we'll call it. MRI stands for, I think, magnetic resonance imaging. And it's so scary. But then they found out that my knee was busted. And so they did surgery on it. Orthoscopic. Where they put tiny, tiny, tiny little things in my knee and tried

    Unknown: to fix it. Nothing happened. It didn't work.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, it did not. And then I went to physical therapy and I was on crutches for the whole season. And so I'd get to go to pep rallies. Do you know what a pep rally is? No. So a pep rally is like when all the students gather around in one room and they cheer on the team. Where they're like, Go Golden Lions! And I was out in the middle of the floor like, Yeah, I'm a Golden Lion. Look at me. And then the last game of the season, the coach asked me, he wanted me to dress up in uniform. Dress out. Get in uniform. I was like, okay. And I was standing on the sideline. And then with just, I mean, like 20 seconds to go in the game, he goes, Bump a car. Get in there. And I was like, what? Do what? He was like, get in the game. And I was like, oh no, no. What? Because I didn't know what to do. So I went in the huddle. We were on offense. I was a wide receiver. And I was terrified. And I said to the quarterback, I was like, I don't know what to do. I don't know where to stand. I don't know anything. He's like, just go over there. Stand. When I say hut, run. I was like, I can do that. I know how to do that. So he goes, hut, hut, hut. And he gets the ball. And I run. And as a wide receiver, you're the guy who catches the ball. And there's a guy called a defensive back. And he's the one who tries to stop you from catching the ball. And so, I was supposed to run out, bounce off that guy, and then cut to the inside. That was my plan. But when I went, I bounced to bounce off of him. He grabbed me with both hands and picked me up off the ground, because he was a really big guy. And then he said, get off me. And he threw me down. And then the time of the clock ran off. And the referee whistle went, like that. And the game was over. That was my football experience. Who lost? Oh, we lost by a lot.

    Unknown: No, they cheated.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, they didn't cheat. They just were better than us.

    Unknown: Why did they say, get off me?

    Natty Bumpercar: Uh, I don't know. I think he didn't like that I bounced off of him. But that's what I thought I was supposed to do. That's what I did.

  • Bumperpodcast #223 – Letterman …

    Bumperpodcast #223 – Letterman …

    Bumpercar laments shows that go away and how people are tied to different things in their world. It is a fitting – if slightly disjointed – goodbye to a piece of the past.

    Will you miss Letterman?! Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com


    About This Episode

    In this reflective episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar explores the nostalgia and emotional connections people form with television shows throughout their lives. Natty discusses how the shows we watch help shape who we become, referencing recent long-running TV shows coming to an end and how audiences react to these departures. He touches on the special connection that develops between hosts and viewers, comparing it to the relationship he shares with Bumperpodcast listeners. The episode features Natty's characteristic rambling style as he works through a conversation about someone's contradictory feelings toward a departing talk show, ultimately concluding with genuine appreciation for the shows that talk directly to audiences.

    Memorable Quotes

    “if you ever walked up to me on the street you could be like natty how is doodle poodle doing and i'd be like that dog is crazy”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “we're on at the we're on the choo-choo straight to nowheresville population me”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “what about pig and i'd be like he's my best friend let's not get this twisted”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #television #nostalgia #talkshows #childhoodmemories #podcasting #media #personalgrowth

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: do you guys watch tv do you watch television do you uh watch shows on the on the tube there because man i remember growing up i used to watch i used to watch a lot of tv and you know a lot of shows that i would watch and like i got nostalgia for them because you know like depending on when you watch the show in your life is that that's that's kind of what you you can kind of go back to that time in your head and you can be like man i remember that show and i remember exactly what was going on in my world at that time and and and i and i i remember like ah how that show made me feel and all the different characters and the situations you know and like at least partially how how maybe that molded you a little bit and it made you the person you are today because you know all the stuff in the world that stimulates you through your life whatever books music art uh shows movies uh anything that you you see or do even just being out in the world the people you talk to uh your routines the places you go all these things are you know they make up who you are and so you know a small aspect of that and for some people a huge aspect of that are our shows and they hold on to them and especially you know if you have some sort of show where you know it's on regularly and uh it's it's not like a a written show uh and it's an actual just a person talking to you then it becomes easier to kind of uh connect with that person and to be like i i know that person kind of like you guys and and me like i feel like we're pretty close we're pretty tight like we've been through some serious stuff bumper podcast cateers and you know so if if you ever walked up to me on the street you could be like maddie how is doodle poodle doing and i'd be like that dog is crazy and you'd be like what about robot and i'd be like robot and then you'd be like well what about pig and i'd be like he's my best friend let's not get this twisted let's not get this twisted like his little pig tail he's my best friend so you know it's it's his connect connectivity thing that happens just from hearing people's voices hearing how they talk the cadence of what they say uh you know being able to infer the meaning behind what they're saying and in between the lines and you know recently i think we've we've had a lot of tv uh shows that have been going on for a long time go and they're just going away and and and it's made people sad and i've been i've been reading a lot of articles and watching a lot of clip packages which are just like little snippets of the tv show and uh you know you start to think you're just like wow i remember that show i don't watch it as much as i used to that always seems to be something that people say they always feel like you know i used to love that show back in the day i don't watch as much as i used to but i still love it and it's still a good show and you're like okay i got you uh but uh i was i was talking to somebody and i said man you know that show that's leaving and they were like yeah i was like are you sad about it they were like no no it's like not even a they're like i don't care i was like okay it's like not even from like a cultural standpoint like being in the zeitgeist you don't care about it at all from a nostalgia standpoint oh well from a nostalgia standpoint of course i care about it a little bit well all right that's confusing so you do care but you don't care no i don't care okay all right now i see where we are we're nowhere we're nowheresville we're on at the we're on the choo-choo straight to nowheresville population me no i um you know i i i used to watch that show a lot and you know i don't watch as much as i used to um but i i i'm nostalgic for it and i you know you feel like it's just something that's a constant that's always there every single night it's a talk show and you're talking directly to me and now it's just gonna be gone replaced by something else and maybe that'll be fine but maybe it won't be and does it even matter because i'm at a different point in my life and so you know i don't care as much about such things but i do care because you were talking to me and i was listening and i was watching and you were zany and fun and wacky and you know what i'm gonna miss you

  • Bumperpodcast #222 – Management steps in …

    Bumperpodcast #222 – Management steps in …

    Bumpercar is back after his medical emergency – but – management steps in because it isn’t happy with the show. Why can’t we all just get along?!

    Have you ever had a manager?! Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com

    Comedian, Natty Bumpercar does some junk in today’s edition of the most ridiculous of all weekly podcasts, the Bumperpodcast.


    About This Episode

    In Bumperpodcast episode 222, host Natty Bumpercar attempts to share a nostalgic childhood story about playing by the riverside and his mother's rhubarb pie, but is immediately interrupted by his manager Rufus T. Rufus. Rufus criticizes Natty for taking time off last week due to strep throat and complains that the rambling story won't attract podcast advertisers. The chaos escalates when Fire Plug (real name Tony McKay) arrives to defend Natty, leading to a heated confrontation with Rufus. The episode spirals into complete pandemonium as Doodle Poodle joins the fray, with Natty admitting he's never lost control of the podcast more than in this moment. This short but hilarious episode showcases the improvisational comedy and character dynamics that make Bumperpodcast entertaining.

    Memorable Quotes

    “You can't take a week off last week with your strep throat and come in here talking about rhubarb pie and hiding down in the river grass. Nobody wants to hear none of that.”

    — Rufus T. Rufus

    “I feel like I've never lost control of the podcast more than I've lost control of the podcast right now.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I ain't no trash can. My name's trash come on man. Fire plug is what people call me right now my real name of course is Tony McKay.”

    — Fire Plug

    Topics: #childhoodmemories #podcastmanagement #arguments #chaos #nostalgia #rhubarbpie #control

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Doodle Poodle

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: so you have to understand when i was just a little boy i would go out by the riverside and i would look at all the deep grasses and i would wander about the pussy willows and my mama she would look for me and she would call from the kitchen window and she would call right over the the pie that was in the windowsill and she it was a rhubarb pie and she would say bumsy come on home bumsy bumsy come on home bumsy but i would never come home you on the first or the second or the third call out because i was playing hide and seek you understand hey rufus it's i was just well i don't understand i was doing like a little thing it's a new thing it's a new thing that's not a good enough exceptional excuse okay well but the thing is last you know i didn't as your manager yeah rufus t rufus i know who you are you i know who you are you can't take a week off last week with your i got my strep throat i didn't take a week off though come in here talking about rhubarb pie yes and hiding down in the in the river grass nobody wants to hear none of that they don't want to hear none of that they don't want to hear none of that they don't want to hear none of that you all right nobody's gonna pay i'm trying to get advertising on this podcast people don't pay for this nobody's a little queen uh about your mama looking for you and uh what what did you say all right well listen rufus t rufus i appreciate your feedback on this podcast and i'll see you next and i appreciate you you know being here for the podcast it would have been better if you were here last week because i actually couldn't talk and robot was away and pig had some sort of clue and so if you could have been here and talked and maybe you could have done some big sort of sales pitch for the podcast and then maybe we'd be in a better spot this week but hey boss this is a sudden belly coming here is he bothering you or something what's going on hey it's me fire plug what's going on not much i mean i'm here you're here it's good times i love listening to the bumper podcast thank you i appreciate that you're like a wordsmith which you're like thank you bubbly boobily boom rhubarb i don't mean i ain't never had no rhubarb pie you should have what kind of pie is a pizza pie at a pizza party that i once went to when i was a kid all right you're okay stop talking for a second over there mr jimberry south of the mason forget about stuff all right listen i don't understand who this tiny man is with this big attitude but listen i don't like to look at you i don't like to hear you so why don't you just skadoodle back to where all right where you came from down in the sewers i'm assuming because you look like maybe you're gonna go do some plumbing or something he's not a plumber headquarter come on might want to take out the garbage while you're at it because you guys trash can i ain't no trash can i've got guys my name's trash come on man fire plug is is what people call me right now my real name of course is uh tony mckay tony on all right so you you and me maybe we got some problems all right i feel like i've never lost control of the podcast more than i've lost control of the podcast right now

    Doodle Poodle: what's going on and see what's going on

    Natty Bumpercar: well you're the one who came in here to manage this you kind of bullied us into the whole thing so now you got to deal with it that's toodle poodle that's fire plug your rufus t rufus go