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  • Bumperpodcast #300 – Finally!

    Bumperpodcast #300 – Finally!

    There is an interview. There is a review. There is excitement. It’s our 300th episode!

    I’ve been working on this podcast for over 100 years – not just this episode – but all of the episodes – and, I’ve loved every second of it. Even when my kids broke my wind screen – and when Pig tried to sell the rights to the show to a lawyer. It’s all been a blast. Thanks – so much for listening – and keep on listening for another hundred years!!

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

    Can you believe it at all? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

    Oh – and – our special guest this week is Adam Lucidi!

    Go to these places to find Adam:

    Periscope: https://www.periscope.tv/adamlucidi
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamlucidi
    Instagram: http://instagram.com/adamlucidi
    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/muttley738
    Website: http://adamlucidi.com/

     

     

     


    About This Episode

    Natty Bumpercar celebrates the milestone 300th episode of the Bumperpodcast with mixed emotions when his entire team abandons him for the beach. Flying solo for most of the episode, Natty kicks things off with energy before handing the mic to Aloysius J. Pig, who interviews comedian Adam Lucidi. The conversation hilariously spirals through Pokemon trivia, sandwich debates, casting call roleplay, and Adam's upcoming move. Natty debuts a new "Reviews" segment where he enthusiastically reviews an unopened iPad Pro box, savoring the anticipation rather than actually using the product. Just when it seems the celebration is a bust, Rufus T. Rufus and Producer surprise Natty at the end, though their late arrival doesn't quite save the underwhelming milestone party.

    Memorable Quotes

    “You would think this is the 300th episode that there would be loads of characters… But guess what, people? Ain't nobody showing up here today. They all went to the beach.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “You're a monster to dissect a sandwich like that. What does it say? Bro, it's a salad at that point.”

    — Aloysius J. Pig

    “I'm not going to open it, because I just want to review the experience of holding this box. It's magical. It feels expensive.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #milestoneepisode #pokemon #comedy #friendship #food #technology #interviews

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Producer, Rufus T. Rufus

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: are you looking for premium content of course you are we'll look no further than sockcoprocks.com that's right sockcoprocks.com go and have fun with all of his antics all of his shenanigans what's the animal of the day i don't know but you'll find out if you go also find them on periscope and on the twitters at jason burglar and don't forget to mention that you heard it first here on the bumper podcast welcome to the bumper podcast ladies and gentlemen my name is natty bumper car this is the 300th episode of my show the bumper podcast i am blown away at how excited i am i am freaking out at how excited i am i can't even believe that there are 300 of these at this point i can't believe that on the 300th episode we have a new logo i cannot believe that we started off with a commercial for my friend sock cop oh hello sock cop i see you over there doing your thing catching your speeders there's going to be an interview in this episode we have reviews of things in this episode i'm not going to give anything away i'm not going to give away any spoilers i clearly am very energetic i just woke up from a nap which makes me pretty happy um i'm overall i'm pretty happy i'm pretty happy i'm pretty happy i'm pretty happy i'm pretty happy overall i'm blown away it's been many weeks since the last uh episode of the bumper podcast and it's because i've been trying to figure out stuff i've been trying to you know toy with the music obviously there's some new music happening at this point honestly not a fan of it now that i'm listening to it i kind of miss the old music that's fine things can go back a little bit the way they were before you know what we take a few steps forward i don't care if we take a couple of steps back that's fine you would think This is the 300th episode that there would be loads of characters. Maybe Pig would show up. Maybe Producer would show up. Maybe Robot would show up. Maybe Rufus T. Rufus would show up. But guess what, people? Ain't nobody showing up here today. They all went to the beach. Everybody went to the beach without me, which is another reason why I'm sitting here recording this by myself. I'm fine with it. I'm actually excited by it because it means that I get to drive the ship that I initially made. Sounds like we've now gotten rid of the music completely. Okay, that's an… What is this? It's like on a weird random where they're just grabbing weird loops. Is there anybody in the booth right now? Like, who is running the music? It's just, I guess it's just doing it itself because it is dark in there. There is nothing happening in there. This is abominable, though. For a 300th episode, I was hoping for confetti. I was hoping… Honestly, if I'm to be honest, I like to be honest, and when I'm honest, I like to be honest. I was hoping for some sort of cake. Maybe, like, everybody was going to come in, surprise me, like, oh, hey, we got you a cake, and look, here's a bag of goodies. But that didn't happen. 300 episodes, and I feel like you probably know at this point, I certainly know at this point, that my team doesn't respect me. They don't, you know, care what I want. They don't care what I think, and that's fine. I completely understand that. That's… I was talking to my son the other day, and he got this weird, concerned look in his eye, and he just, he started shaking his head, and he's like, sometimes there's just too much, right? And I was like, you're seven. Don't you say sometimes there's just too much. Like, I know sometimes there's just too much, but I don't need my seven-year-old to start, you know, backing me up on that. A teacher at my kid's daycare the other day just said, you're going to break, right? And I was just like, ah, yeah, I might break. You know, like, sometimes I feel like I'm going to break. I'm not going to break. I feel like I'm feeling pretty good. I did just, again, wake up from a nap, because I was excited about the 300th episode. I feel like I used all my energy right at the beginning of the show, and now I'm kind of at a point where I'm a little bit low energy. I think what I might do, if you're okay with this, is I might kick it over to my friend and yours, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Aloysius J. Pig wrangled up. A good friend of mine, a comedian that you have heard on the show before. I talk about him often. Big fan of him. He recently went through some changes. That's all I'm going to say. I don't know if they talk about it in the interview. I haven't listened to it. What I do is I take the audio that I'm given, and then I plug it into the show, and then I look to see what people say about it. I can't be bothered to listen to it, because Pig, he says mean things about me sometimes, but he's a good friend of mine. He's going to say great things about his guest. I'm not going to spoil it, but I will let them get into it. Ladies and gentlemen, here is Aloysius J. Pig interviewing Mr. Adam Lucidi. I just gave it away. God, I'm so terrible at this. Man.

    Producer: Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know where he is. He's supposed to be interviewing somebody. It's me, producer, and I am sitting here just waiting. I think the guest is actually… I don't know the line, but I don't know, because I don't know how to work the machine. Piggy… Hey, get away from the… Okay. No, I said get away from the… Okay. Well, I'm sorry. I just was trying to be nice to the guest.

    Natty Bumpercar: Who is the… We have a guest? I thought we stopped doing that on the show. It was too much work. I don't actually like talking, but who's… Give me the sheet. Give me the sheet of paper.

    Unknown: Who is it?

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, seriously? All right, fine. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, you know what? We… We probably had to stew it on a few times. I hope you ain't getting sick of him. I certainly ain't, because he's a hoot. He's a holler. Everybody loves him. Please give a warm… I know… What? They can't give a warm welcome? But, like, in the cars, wherever they listen to this. Nobody listens? Okay, perfect. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, this is going to be big for his career. I can tell already. Give it up for the one, the only… Andrew Insidi! Is that what he said? No, it's not what it says. What does it say? Uh… Adam! Adam! Adam, my pal! We're going to cut all this, right? Perfect. Go ahead and start talking. Hey, Adam, how you doing?

    Unknown: I'm good, Pic. That was… Uh… I don't know if I should be, uh, upset or offended or happy or… No, no. Because I heard… I heard you say, you know, seriously? Like, you know, you didn't want me as a guest. You want me as a guest?

    Natty Bumpercar: I… Wait. You were supposed to be on mute. You're in the green room, and that's supposed to be a soundproof booth, so what are you talking about?

    Unknown: I don't… You need to… Yeah, you need to re-soundproof it.

    Natty Bumpercar: What part did… Did you… So you heard where I was all, like, excited that you was going to be on a show?

    Unknown: I heard you were excited, but then I also heard that you were, like, irritated. Yeah, okay. So I… I heard the two…

    Natty Bumpercar: Two feelings. That was a little bit of a… It was a test, because I was… I never got… I never got excited. I was… Oh. I know. And so you… You know, you passed… You passed the flying colors. You're a nice guy. Clearly too nice for this room, so it was great having you. And… What? We can't get rid of him? Okay. Well, then, you know what? We're going to keep talking to you. Tell me about yourself. What's your favorite food? What's your favorite color? Anyway, so what… How about the weather? I don't… I don't know what to talk about. No, seriously.

    Unknown: Tell me about yourself. Well, I mean, you know, I'm not Andrew Moomsidi, or, you know, that's… That's one thing about me. Is this the most aggressive I've ever…

    Natty Bumpercar: The most aggressive I've ever been with you?

    Unknown: I don't know. I think it is. Yeah. You… I feel like you… You've gone Hollywood or something on me. You're…

    Natty Bumpercar: You're too big for me now. Well, I just put the kids to bed, and they really get me into a stressful mood. I probably shouldn't interview people right after that, because I… They… I'm like, Bumper Cop, please don't make me put the babies to bed. And he's like, you know, do it. And I'm like, ugh. And then, you know, so I got a lot of… I'm wearing a lot of hats. I'm spinning a lot of plates. So your name's not Andrew. We know that already. You're the dude… You're the dude who eats food? Is that… Is that… What's your gig? I… I eat foods. I drink… I drink drinks. Oh. You're really multitasking there at the same time?

    Unknown: Yeah. Yeah. I breathe air. Oh. I see things. I hear things. Do you do stuff? I do so much stuff.

    Natty Bumpercar: Tell me one thing that you do, and that nobody knows about you. This is a little secret. It's just between you and me. Nobody's listening, probably.

    Unknown: No. Okay. I still play Pokemon Go. No. That… They shut that down a while ago, like months and months ago.

    Natty Bumpercar: No. It's still a thing. It still happens. I don't know. Hold on.

    Unknown: Hey, producer. Can you get the CEO of Niantic on the line?

    Natty Bumpercar: I want to see. You can't? Okay. This is actually our own line. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

    Unknown: Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

    Unknown: I mean, this was our only line, so we can't. Well, now I feel like you still dabble in Pokemon Go, because you remember the name of the business. I don't even know the name of the… I didn't know the name of the company.

    Natty Bumpercar: I was at a trade fair, and I got a temporary tattoo of Niantic, and I'm a pig, so I didn't shower that much, so it's still on there a little bit.

    Unknown: All right. Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, I'm just kidding. I mean, I dabble. You know, I dabble. Actually, tonight I found out. Do you know when Pokemon first started?

    Unknown: Wasn't it in, like, 97?

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, it was 96. That's very impressive. Okay. Now we're doing Pokemon trivia. Do you know who the first Pokemon was?

    Unknown: First? Well, in the Pokedex or, like, in the universe?

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm not talking Bulbasaur here, okay? I'm talking, it's a dude you're not going to know. You might know him. I mean, you might know his name.

    Unknown: Wasn't the first one Mew?

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm helping you out.

    Unknown: I didn't know if you were going to say Ro-Ro-Ro-Wrong or Ro-Ro-Ro-Right.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, this is how I get things out of my kids. Ro-Ro-Ro-Ro-Right-Right-Right-Right-Right-Right-On. It's Right-On.

    Unknown: He was the first. The first ever?

    Natty Bumpercar: That's what the internet told me tonight. The babies, they was like, we can't go to bed until you tell us who the first Pokemon was. And I was just like, oh, fine. And then they were like, ask Siri. Because they know how Siri works. And I was just like, dear Siri. Because that's how I address her.

    Unknown: So you're talking, are you talking, like, first one, like, created? Or, like, first one in existence? Like, what, I don't know. I don't know where you're going with Right-On. I don't think that that's accurate.

    Natty Bumpercar: Bro, I said to the dude, Ed, I was just like, tell me who the first Pokemon was. And it told me.

    Unknown: And it said Right-On. Yes. Not Rhyhorn. Rhyhorn comes before Right-On.

    Natty Bumpercar: It's not the number in the deck, bro. It's, it's, it's like, so, okay. Question. Question. Who is the first Pokemon? Quote. Anti-quote. In real life. If it's an anti-quote, then it's not real. Now you, now you're being aggressive.

    Unknown: I'm saying, I'm, I, you're saying, you know, anti-quote, that obviously means it's not real. I, I, I. Anti-quote means no.

    Natty Bumpercar: I, I, I feel like we didn't really get into your wheelhouse until we started talking about Pokemon. Because I feel like you think you know some things. When, in fact, you don't know. And I quote, my friend. In real life, the first Pokemon is not what appears in the Pokedex first, which we all know is Bulbasaur. Uh, or what legendary Pokemon is said to have created everything. I ain't sure who that is, if I'm to be honest. In fact, the first Pokemon ever designed in real life. It says real life here. The first monster. Did you know they was monsters? Yeah, pocket monsters.

    Unknown: Pokemon.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's where the name came from? Yeah. Oh, now see, I feel like I'm learning something, too.

    Unknown: There you go.

    Natty Bumpercar: I was just trying to make you feel better. I knew that. Uh, in fact, the first Pokemon ever designed in real life. The first monster written into the code of the original games. Dash. Is surprising. What's this word? Surprisingly ordinary. Period. It's Rhydon. And I close quote.

    Unknown: Huh.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. That's what, that's what, that's what it says here.

    Unknown: And is it? I guess there's a circle right underneath it that says the first Pokemon ever created isn't what you think.

    Natty Bumpercar: Uh-huh. See? Wait, what are you doing? You're Googling? Are you doing this now, too?

    Unknown: I'm Googling now. Because you got me concerned and interested.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, you don't believe me, is what it comes down, is what it boils down to.

    Unknown: I couldn't believe you.

    Natty Bumpercar: I know things. I have facts. I walk around the street and people are very impressed with me. They're like, that pig knows things.

    Unknown: That pig is going places. That pig knows that Rhydon is the first Pokemon.

    Natty Bumpercar: You know what? I bet by the time my head hits my hay pillow tonight, I'd probably forget it, if I'm to be honest.

    Unknown: I don't know. You're going to be all comfy in bed. And then all of a sudden, it's going to hit you. You're going to go, I can't Rhydon.

    Natty Bumpercar: I see. I'm going to look up. I want to see if I have a Rhydon in my Pokedex. Now we're literally just talking. Hey, what's up, Niantic? I like your little logo. It's right here on my ankle. Niantic. Oh, who is this? Oh, man. I don't know. I don't know what's happening. There's loading going on.

    Unknown: Oh, yeah. There's been a lot of updates.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, I ain't launched in a long time. So, speaking of updates, why don't you give the crowd some updates about yourself? What's going on in your world? I heard you was getting rid of an air conditioner. I bet you regret that tonight, huh?

    Unknown: Well, I'm holding on to it until the last day that I have to be here.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, it's smart. That's smart.

    Unknown: Yeah, that's part of the deal. You know, the person can get it for free, but I get to hold on to it until the very last possible second.

    Natty Bumpercar: I like that idea. All right. Now, how do I play it? It's we've loaded. I'm pushing the ball. I'm pushing the Pokedex. I don't know how to find it, though.

    Unknown: I think he's like 100. No, maybe not. I don't know.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, I think he's in 120s.

    Unknown: No. Yeah, because they did the update with, like, now there's the Generation 2 Pokemon.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, no. There's a whole big bunch of them.

    Unknown: Yeah. I can't.

    Natty Bumpercar: I can't. You know what?

    Unknown: There's ones where it says that, you know, Pikachu is an evolved form. So, yeah, I don't know. I only acknowledge one through 151.

    Natty Bumpercar: I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Did you know Bumpka in grade school, when he was in grade school, one of the projects he did is called 60 Second Pokemon. And what just happened? Was that your glass case that you're trying to sell? Ladies and gentlemen, if anyone wants to buy a glass display case, go to Edom's house.

    Unknown: I dropped my Pokedex.

    Natty Bumpercar: Your phone?

    Unknown: No, I have a real Pokedex. Huh? What the? Huh? They had that. They had that. It was a real Pokedex, and it had, like, a little screen on it. And it would, you know, you could look up all the different Pokemon. It would tell you about them and stuff like that. And it was shaped like the actual Pokedex.

    Natty Bumpercar: Really? Mm-hmm. Is your last name Ketchum? I wish. Andrew Ketchum. I think. What? What happened? Andrew Ketchum. Andrew Ketchum. That's my name.

    Unknown: I'm going to say your next comic, Andrew Ketchum.

    Natty Bumpercar: I switched it to Ketchup already. I already made it even funnier.

    Unknown: Oh, you switched it?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, you might have seen your next comic on Amazon Prime. Give it up for Andrew Ketchum. There he is. There he is. What did you eat for dinner tonight? I'm so hungry.

    Unknown: What did I eat? I had, like, a beef wellington kind of gimmick. It was some white rice with some beef tips.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, oh, well, hello, fancy man, huh? I had no idea. Somebody gets a girl, and all of a sudden, he's eating beef wellington. And he'll have a spot of Earl Grey as well, I suppose.

    Unknown: It's a quick little… You just, you know, put some rice in a pot, and then there's this thing you can get at Walmart or Acme, and it's the Hormel beef tips. You just pop it in the microwave for three minutes, mix the beef tips with the rice, boom, you got a nice little quick meal.

    Natty Bumpercar: Sounds like you got a very healthy meal. There's a lot of greens to it. There's a lot of… Sounds like a lot of vitamins and minerals. No, no, there's none. You're literally, you're just, you're not. You're not even trying.

    Unknown: It's colorblind. And so the, I mean, the beef tips could be green. I don't know.

    Natty Bumpercar: I assumed the white, the rice was white rice, bleached.

    Unknown: As far as I know, I'm colorblind. I don't know.

    Natty Bumpercar: You're colorblind?

    Unknown: No.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, you have, you trick, you pull my leg. You pull my leg, my hoof right off from under me.

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: I think I'm going to, I'm going to stop being people's personal trainer, so personal chef and whatnot. So maybe I'm going to, you want to hire me? I can, I can tell you how to eat food that you're not going to like to eat.

    Unknown: I mean, what kind of, what kind of dishes do you make? Have you heard of Brussels sprouts?

    Natty Bumpercar: Raw. Raw Brussels sprouts.

    Unknown: I don't know. Well, I don't know. Raw. I tried to put them in the oven once. They shrink. I didn't realize that they.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh. Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah, they're good. If you do, if you take Brussels sprouts, you put them in the oven, you quarter them, bing, bing, bing, cut the bottom off, you know, a little bit, and then quarter them, boom, boom, bing. And then you put them in the oven with maybe a little bit of garlic or whatever, some olive oil. Come on. What are you doing? Oh, oh, some red pepper, like, you know, like shake, like pizza pepper, whatever it's called, red pepper. Oh, it's so good. Oh. I didn't know that.

    Unknown: I don't know what you're talking about.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Oh, I cook. Oh, I'm, I'm a very culinary pig, you know? And if you leave them in there a long time, since, since they're quartered, sometimes they'll get like crispy.

    Unknown: Oh, it's so good. Yeah. I do like them a little crispy, but I didn't realize that they shrink so small. I didn't know that.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. They're tiny. You know why? Because they're full of water. Cause they're little plants. And so you put them in the oven, all the water evaporates. They get tiny. Huh? You're like, see you later. Mashed potato like that.

    Unknown: Yeah. Ooh, mashed potatoes. Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: See? Yeah. Potatoes are grot. Yum. Oh, this is pretty much any potatoes. I like potatoes. Here's what blows my mind about the kids here. Cause I cook for them sometimes. They're like, yeah, we want French fries. Yeah. We want chips. And that's it. They don't understand the beauty of the potato. It can go to anywhere. Right?

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Mashed. Mashed. Utter. I don't know. Other. Tarts. Oh, they don't, they don't do tarts.

    Unknown: What?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. I don't know.

    Unknown: Why do they not do tarts?

    Natty Bumpercar: Bro, they ain't, I mean, I ain't going to say nothing because this is bumper car show, but they ain't, I'm not very smart. You know, they're cute as buttons, but they're just, you're just like, you can put all the potatoes in the world in front of them and they'll be like, nope, none of that potato. That potato. Yeah. One potato. Yeah. Two potato. Yeah. Three potato.

    Unknown: They've been, they've been. They've been exposed to tarts. Have they not?

    Natty Bumpercar: Are you trying to, is that like a Dr. Seuss thing you're doing?

    Unknown: No, I'm just, I'm just, I guess it would be, but have they, they've experienced them before, right? They've been around them.

    Natty Bumpercar: Tarts and tarts. A lot. A lot. They eat them. No, they eat them. Not. Let's see what I just did. No. Yeah. They, they, we've tried. We bought a big bag of tarts and, uh, it's actually in the, it's, it's, it's called bag of tarts and they won't even do it.

    Unknown: Like a pillowcase.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. And they won't, they won't touch them. But I mean, sometimes, I mean, every so often they'll, they'll, they'll give it a shot, but really they, they, they fight it and they don't understand.

    Unknown: Yeah. That's bizarre. I thought all kids and man children love tarts.

    Natty Bumpercar: You thought all animals in the world love tater tots. Yeah. It's like you would walk into a Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head's dinner and they'd be eating a potato tart and you'd just be like, that makes sense. Yeah.

    Unknown: They would still be. Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: It makes sense. They, Pringles, of course they're going to eat tater tots. Ugh.

    Unknown: I'm kind of disappointed in the, the baby bumper cars.

    Natty Bumpercar: So that's what took, that's what it took to disappoint you. None of the stuff that I said last night on stage, that didn't, you were fine with that.

    Unknown: Yeah. All right. That's absolutely fine. No. But, ugh. Tater tots. The lack of tots is just mind boggling.

    Natty Bumpercar: Maybe it'll come back in. You know, it's maybe over the summer, maybe, because here's the thing, they have stages. So all of a sudden they'll just be like, you know what? I eat, uh, I eat fish now. Whatever. No, like they'll, what are they eating?

    Unknown: They just start their day by declaring things like that. I eat fish now.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yes. That's what they do. Like we, I go to, uh, Jersey Mike's a lot and I get sandwiches, sandwiches. And, uh, I get, uh, I forget what I get. It's delicious or whatever I get. And, uh, one day we went there like a few weeks in a row and Emerson was like, I want part of your sandwich. And I was like, whoa, bro, you sure? It's got all the, you know, and I was like, and he was like, let me take a bite. And he did. And I didn't tell him I was in it cause I didn't want to ruin him. So he, he, a couple of times he tried and he tried, he was like, I'm going to get me a sandwich. And I was like, okay. And he was like, but keep the onions off. And I was like, oh, he did know he did know there were onions. Okay. So he's figuring things out. Wow. So, but I was just out of the blue. He's just all of a sudden I was like, yeah, I'm gonna eat a sandwich. I was like, okay, who, who are you?

    Unknown: Yeah. What have you done with my kid?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. And here's the thing. If I put all this stuff that was on the sandwich in a bowl in front of him, it would walk away. It would be like, I'll eat the bread and that's about it.

    Unknown: Well, why would you, you're talking about taking a sandwich, dissecting a sandwich and putting it in a bowl.

    Natty Bumpercar: Deconstructed sandwich. Okay. Watch a little bit more food network. No, it'd be, it'd be terrible.

    Unknown: You're a monster to, to dissect a sandwich like that. What does it say?

    Natty Bumpercar: Bro, it's, it's a salad at that point.

    Unknown: What are you doing? I mean, who wants a, who wants a sandwich salad?

    Natty Bumpercar: Um, sounds like you just invented a new population. Pop-up stand at the mall, sandwich salad. Who wants it? Get in. Actually, I ate a sandwich today and the dude behind me, they were like, how can we help you, sir? And he went, I'll have a tossed salad. And they were like, huh? What do you mean? We turned, cause they do, they turn sandwiches into salads and they were like, which number would you like? And he was like a tossed salad, like angry that they weren't getting what he was saying. And it was, and so I just kind of stood back and watched the whole. Interaction.

    Unknown: Well, I mean, I, I guess you could have, like, now that I'm thinking about it, I guess you could have like an antipasto is like a, a sandwich, a sandwich salad.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay. So, so maybe somebody is coming back around a little bit.

    Unknown: Cause you got the ham and the salami.

    Natty Bumpercar: Excuse me. Excuse me. Uh, uh, I heard, I heard cheese. Is that the only thing I heard there?

    Unknown: Salami.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay. What's that one? I don't, um. Salami. Oh, no. No, no, no, no. Bro. Turkey. A chicken. That's about it. That's all we're doing. All right. Maybe, maybe a grilled vegetable.

    Unknown: I just, I mean, I was just saying there's, there is ham in there.

    Natty Bumpercar: Why do you keep, why do you hate me? Is that what this is now? You're just being mean?

    Unknown: Why? Don't you have like a, a sensor butt? You can bleep that out later. Oh, that's true. A producer.

    Natty Bumpercar: Do the button thing.

    Producer: Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: He's still over there in the corner. He's upset from earlier. Um, so listen, you know what? We, I, this is fun. I gotta, but I gotta go. Cause. Was it, was it because I said ham too much? Yeah. I mean, it, well, if I'm to be honest, we're on the clock. Number one. Number two. I did feel like after you found my weak point, you kind of kept prodding it. You kind of kept poking it. Right.

    Unknown: I didn't even, you know, it was, it was an honest mistake.

    Natty Bumpercar: If I was just like, Hey, I'm a pig. I'm a comedian. I wear hats backwards. Hey, everybody look at me. Why is the male, the male boy here? Whatever your joke is. I don't know. It's funny though.

    Unknown: The male boy. You turned me into a stripper.

    Natty Bumpercar: Why is the male boy here? Have you noticed? So in this interview, uh, I had laryngitis for a while. So I didn't talk that my voice ain't, it don't sound quite like how it used to sound.

    Unknown: No, I didn't notice. No. Okay, good.

    Natty Bumpercar: Then nobody else is going to notice. We're going to edit that part out too. Okay. Yeah.

    Unknown: I didn't notice. So listen, uh, you, this is for episode 300. Thank you for being our special guest, right?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Are you going to have 300 Spartans run in on your episode too? Yeah. We've been, I've been trying to learn all the lines and I'm actually shirtless right now. If I'm feeling. Yeah. I wish.

    Unknown: I wish. I wish. I wish. I wish.

    Natty Bumpercar: I wish. I wish. I wish. I wish. I wish. I wish.

    Unknown: I wish.

    Natty Bumpercar: I wish. I wish I could pull a line from the movie. That seems like it would've been a good part.

    Unknown: I mean, I really only just, this is Sparta and that's about it. It's really not a memorable line.

    Natty Bumpercar: Are they robots? Is that why they sounded like that?

    Unknown: Yeah. They're 300 robots. This is Sparta.

    Natty Bumpercar: Is that why you do comedy and don't do acting?

    Unknown: Boob beat. This is Sparta.

    Natty Bumpercar: What's my line again? This is Sparta. Perfect. And scene.

    Unknown: What would you say, Pete? What would people want out of it? How would you I would be like, I'd be all like, I don't know. I'm the I'm the the casting director. Welcome. How are you doing today? No, thank you.

    Natty Bumpercar: I didn't get to say the line. You didn't even you didn't say speed.

    Unknown: I'm just say I listen. I'm just looking at your look. You're a pig. Not what we're looking. I've been working out for this. Not what I'm sorry. It's not what we're looking for.

    Natty Bumpercar: I've been working on my roar. Do you know what that is? Please, sir. This is all I got. This is all I got.

    Unknown: A hundred and twenty two other people to look through that. We're probably going to say no to also.

    Natty Bumpercar: But how many pigs?

    Unknown: You're the first one. But I say say not what we're looking. You have a unique look. We'll call you if we have any openings in the future for anything.

    Natty Bumpercar: I just don't want you to worry about typecasting me is what I'm saying. I'm tough. I can handle it. Just pigeonhole me. Put me in there and I will make the audience's squeal.

    Unknown: Like I'm not going to. We're not going to say like a pig. We might piggyhole you, but we're not going to pigeonhole.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't know what just happened. I don't even know what just happened.

    Unknown: Please don't cry. Please just leave my.

    Natty Bumpercar: I was on a podcast. I have a lot of experience with this. We did 300 episodes and I was all like, this is Sparta. I like that. See, I practiced.

    Unknown: You did. But I mean, your second mistake was you brought up your podcast during this casting session and everyone has a podcast.

    Natty Bumpercar: Why do you listen to it?

    Unknown: No. Oh, wow. I saw it on your resume. I saw it on the back of your headshot. And I'm going to assume based off of the backdrop that. New Jersey comic Mike Salona did your headshot.

    Natty Bumpercar: True. True. Now, listen, I got to ask you if I do, you know, get the part because I feel like we're really vibing right now. Is is this Niantic tattoo going to be a problem or not?

    Unknown: Well, we're going to have to do some sort of makeup. But I mean, you're you're not getting this part.

    Natty Bumpercar: I feel like you're starting to shine to me is all I'm saying. I feel like there's some sort of, you know, thing. Thing happening right now.

    Unknown: I've already I've already spent way too much time on you. I have seven hundred and forty seven people to look through now.

    Natty Bumpercar: You know what? I'm going to do you a favor. I'm going to head on out of here, but I'll give you a call back. OK, I'm going to call you back.

    Unknown: No, please don't. Please don't. I get flooded with emails. I get flooded with emails. They go right to my spam. Now, did I get it? Did I? Hello. Just checking in. Thanks so much. I don't read them. I don't read them.

    Natty Bumpercar: You must be mistaken. I'm not going to email you. I know where you live. I'm going to stop by. We're going to nosh, you know, maybe have a salad sandwich. I don't know what we're going to do, but it's going to be a nice time. And scene. All right. Well, listen, episode three hundred. This is Sparta. And I am. I wish to say, Peg, you are.

    Unknown: Adam Lucidi.

    Natty Bumpercar: Are you sure? Well, that is not what the paper says. That is not what this piece of paper says.

    Unknown: I know, but it was a typo and your autocorrect doesn't work for some reason.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right. And Andrew Ketchup is here, everyone. Hey, so when you are you going to still be you'll still be part of the show moving into the future, huh?

    Unknown: What show?

    Natty Bumpercar: This podcast. Not like I mean, I'm not asking you to be part of the show. I'm just saying every so often we might call you and talk to you because you seem to. Talk, OK.

    Unknown: Oh, yeah. Yeah. You can call me if you need to.

    Natty Bumpercar: You got you got good words. You're not going to like, I don't know, move and change your number. Nothing, huh?

    Unknown: No, no. I'm not going to change my number, change my name or anything like that. You know how to get a hold of me.

    Natty Bumpercar: OK, because I worry about you, you know, big world out there.

    Unknown: I know it's a big world. It's a big, scary world. But, you know, I mean, I'll always be your best pal.

    Natty Bumpercar: You literally just tonight found out the Brussels spouts. Drink in the oven. So, I mean, I feel like you've got a lot to learn.

    Unknown: And I'm excited. I'm excited to learn things like that out there.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, here's your next. Here's your next tip. Beef Wellington.

    Unknown: Not really beef. But it says beef tips on the box.

    Natty Bumpercar: Did you read the back of the front? The front. OK. OK. OK. You have a good night. All right. I want you to have a good night. Just don't flip the box over. Don't. Dig in the trash and pull the back out. All right. OK. Because, you know what? You just ate my friend. What? Beet tips. They're actually rutabaga beets. That's what you.

    Unknown: Well, then there you go. There's my little bit of healthy then. Oh, look at you bringing it around.

    Natty Bumpercar: Look at you. All right. Producer, are we done? Why don't you talk? Just you nodding. OK. Yeah, he goes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Adam Lucidi. Thank you so much. Always a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. So 300. And click. OK. So that was the end of the interview, I guess. Aloysius J. Pig, I want to thank Adam Lucidi for being on the show, the big 300th episode. Very happy to always have him here. A lot of stuff was talked about. I heard some stuff about Pokemon. I heard some stuff about Adam leaving. I had no idea about that. So that was news to me. And, oh, cool. The music started up again. Good. Because I was worried. I was worried that that was going to be gone for the whole episode. Anyway, I don't care. Episode 300. We are here. We made it. I'm happy. You're happy. You heard from Adam. Everyone loves Adam. You heard from Pig. Everyone loves Pig. I would love for Pig to be here so that I could do, like, that kind of thing that we did. OK. After some of the old episodes where he would be like, hey, Pig, what did you think of the interview? Whatever. He would probably say mean things. He'd be like, rah, rah, rah. I'm Pig. I don't like blah, blah. Whatever he says. I don't know. Anyway, it is now time, because we're just rocketing through. We have new segments. And I'm excited. I'm digging into my toy chest here. And we have a new segment right now. And it's called Reviews. And that's where we review cool things. And this review, I'm pretty excited about myself, because I've been excited to get this thing in the house for a long time. So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, here it is, the Reviews. All right. Hey, everybody. It's me again, Natty Bumpercar, with the Reviews. Today, we have a bag. You hear this bag? That's a bag. I'm going to take the first thing out of this bag. It is a white bag. I'm taking the box out of the bag. I'm going to hold this box up to the microphone, even though you cannot see it. It is a box. An unopened iPad Pro 10.5 inch. The newest of the new. The happiest of the happiest. The best of the best. I am so excited. I am so excited about this. I have been waiting for Apple to update the iPad Pro into this new version, because I've always drawn with a Wacom tablet, and haven't always, but for the past few years. And so, I was waiting for one that I could carry around. Well, now I have it. So, here it is. I'm not going to open it, because I just want to review the experience of holding this box. It's magical. It feels expensive. It feels like it's very expensive, is how it feels. Oh, and look. Hold on. In the box, also, we have another little tinier box. It's a smaller box. This is a box. This is the cover. The smart cover. So, it's got like a little keyboard here. It's thinner than the other box. It's also white. So, that's cool. It feels expensive, also. Not as expensive as the iPad, obviously. Rooting around in the box. And… Oh! Oh, yeah. Okay. Look at this. We have a receipt. That's always exciting to get. And, of course, one more box. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the Apple Pencil. It's a white box, also. I can't not wait to use them. Alright, so that's sort of the new episodes. New episodes. New sections of the podcast. It's reviews. I feel like it went pretty well. I got an iPad Pro. It's not opened yet. You know. What can I say? It's in a box. I like staring at the box. It gives me the feeling of potential. Right? Something exciting is going to happen. Until my children come along, rip it out of my hands, and break it like they do everything else in my life. I have so many stories to catch you guys up on. So much stuff has happened since the last time I recorded. But, I feel like we've been talking long enough. This is almost 40 minutes. Happy 300th episode, everybody. I've been Natty Bumpercar, and I, um… Oh.

    Rufus T. Rufus: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, Bumpercar. You didn't think that we was going to let you have this little party all by yourself, did you? With a Rufus T. Rufus jumping up in the pool. Jumping up in the scene. Jumping up in the spot.

    Natty Bumpercar: If you know what I mean. Yeah, well… We did a rap song here. That was good. Hey, Bumpercar, happy 300th ep… Episode. Happy 300… What's wrong with you? 300… I can't. Are you okay? Happy three. Happy number three. I'm done. This is me. How was that interview? Did you like it? It was great. Adam's was great. The review you did was great. I accidentally broke the box. What? What? The thing that was in the box shattered. I'm sorry. I didn't know.

    Producer: I'm happy to be here, too. I'm so happy that I was invited.

    Natty Bumpercar: You actually weren't invited. Just so you know, bro. Let's be nice. Oh, that's fine. I'm happy about that, too. Thanks. Okay.

    Producer: We've been hiding in the booth your whole time you were recording your show, and it was so good. You did a wonderful job. Thank you. Even without producer. Yeah, well. You barely need me. I actually wrote you a song. Oh, a song? That's cool. Do you want to hear how it goes? Do you want to hear how it goes?

    Natty Bumpercar: Honestly, I'm good. I think we're at the end of the show, and we don't really need to hear the song right

    Producer: now. Okay. No, that makes sense. That's good. That's fine. Okay. Okay. Well, that's the end of the episode, anyway. Thanks. Really? Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay. I'm going to finish the episode. Okay. So, anyway, guys, again, what I was saying, it was so cool to have you and everything, and I was just…

    Unknown: Thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you in the next episode.

  • Bumperpodcast #298 – Laser Lightning Muffins

    Bumperpodcast #298 – Laser Lightning Muffins

    Lasers – Lightning – Explosions – Muffins! It’s a hyperactive and hyper-short edition of the Bumperpodcast!

    This is a ‘Laser Lightning’ version of the Bumperpodcast – which is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals! 

    Do you think about muffins? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.


    About This Episode

    In this laser lightning edition of the Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar celebrates the incredible muffin bounty left over from Mother's Day at his house. Unable to contain his excitement, Natty breaks into an improvisational song about muffins, passionately singing about eating muffins for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He then provides a detailed inventory of the various muffin types enjoyed, including blueberry, orange cranberry, cinnamon, corn, chocolate, and the mysteriously named 'morning glory' muffins. Natty also discusses his desire for a 'squish of espresso' and mentions the scones and cheesy grits that rounded out the feast. This episode is a hilarious celebration of baked goods and post-holiday leftovers.

    Memorable Quotes

    “The only way I feel like I can explain my excitement about these muffins to you is through song.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Why don't we have squishes espresso? I want a squish espresso man. I don't even drink coffee but I think I would definitely drink a squish espresso.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “This podcast is about making you hungry. This podcast is about feeding your soul.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #muffins #mothersday #food #baking #songs #leftovers #breakfast

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: oh it is natty bumper car and this is your laser lightning edition of the bumper podcast where i wish put the light do the sounds laser laser lightning lightning and today we're going to talk about muffins why because we had mother's day at my house and we had so many people and we had so many muffins and you know what they left so many muffins and the only way i feel like i can explain my excitement about these muffins to you is through song so hit it oh all right okay we go muffin muffin muffin we say muffin muffin come on muffin muffin muffin muffin muffin muffin muffin what kind of muffin my muffin i'm eating all the muffins i'm eating all the muffins all day all night eat muffins for dinner for breakfast for lunch for time all times i don't eat muffins i go muffin i go muffin i go muffins now go like this come on come on we go muffin come on come on i say muffin one time muffin two times muffin three times all the time with the muffin go muffin go muffin i say muffin go muffin you're gonna walk around all day all night and all you're gonna think about is muffins muffins now stop boom ladies and gentlemen here's what kind of muffins i had i had blueberry muffins i had orange cranberry muffins i had cinnamon muffins i had corn muffins i had something called a what was it it was a weird name it was like morning highlight muffin that's not what it was called though i'll have one of your morning highlight muffins please and if i could just have a squish of of a squish of espresso please why don't we have squishes espresso i want a squish espresso man i don't even drink coffee but i think i would definitely drink a squish espresso i had other kind of muffins morning morning that's what it was called weird that's in my head uh oh man i want some morning glory muffins right you guys got some i just want a whole case of them a baker's dozen if you will of your morning glory muffins gonna take them to the office and have everybody eat up on them um there were other muffins too there was chocolate muffins obzy ob totes obziously um i think that was it is that really it i feel like there's gonna be a lot more muffins oh well you know what there were a lot of muffins and you know what else there were you know that we had those scones those scones we had a lot of scones we had one scone two scone maybe a few other scones we had so much food i made grits cheesy grits what i'm just making you hungry this podcast is about making you hungry this podcast is about feeding your soul it's bumper what's happening who's doing that make that stop turn that thing off come on if we can't act right we can't act at all this episode of the podcast laser lightning episode expedition has been brought to you by the one the only the muffin council of the world

  • Bumperpodcast #297 – Kid Chaos

    Bumperpodcast #297 – Kid Chaos

    Oh no. After a successful appearance, the kids are back – and so is the chaos. Pig stops by to help as well!

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

    Do you like chaos? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.


    About This Episode

    In this chaotic episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar is joined by his two young sons for an unpredictable conversation that ranges from cutting down a backyard tree to imaginary dog treat pizza. The boys discuss their father's tree-cutting adventures, their recent trip to the city for a comedy show, and their excitement about joining a pool. The episode features plenty of sibling banter, microphone mishaps, and Oliver's increasingly wild stories about driving dogs and bone guns. Natty struggles to keep the conversation on track while his sons create elaborate fictional scenarios involving their dog Socks eating special pizza and breaking health codes.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I didn't go to the city. You went to the city? We went to a show. What show? You and me did jokes.”

    — Unknown (child)

    “So let me get this straight. You can't sit next to Emerson eating strawberries but you can sit next to Socks eating dog poop pizza?”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Welcome to Distraction City. Population, those two.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #family #kids #parenting #comedyshow #summeractivities #pool #pets #chaos

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: hey bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car and i have some exciting news the tree is gone i'm not i'm not even gonna bury the lead i'm just gonna come right out and i'm gonna tell you the tree is gone i hear feet above me which means that there are people running to be on the show which is very exciting because oh there's two people coming i can't do a podcast without you guys that's right oh boy ladies and gentlemen we have two special guests here today three i was not oh we have three because the dog came in too that is this morning very exciting i was asleep and uh the dog got away he did and i had to go save him come back the dog's now okay all right so all right the dog's gone the dog is no longer

    Unknown: on the show so the dog is scared what's the dog scared of i don't know maybe this

    Natty Bumpercar: hey why don't you put your butt right here there you go my dog what are you talking about hey is that what you're gonna talk is that what you're gonna say what he's

    Unknown: gone

    Natty Bumpercar: what are you gonna talk about were you guys so surprised yesterday when you came home went out and why were you surprised because i was here or were you just surprised that i brought

    Unknown: you home come on bo i didn't i wasn't surprised nothing happened no nothing nothing happened

    Natty Bumpercar: no or did something big happen um the backyard is not different at all oh the backyard's different daddy daddy cut the tree down no he did done done done why is that ollie why did i cut the

    Unknown: tree down why did i cut the tree down cosズ he's the cutting man, wat is the cutting man and all of her cuddys

    Natty Bumpercar: daddy is the cutting 162 00rj what does a cutting man do

    Unknown: he cuts down the tree

    Natty Bumpercar: chops down trees like a boss

    Unknown: whut, that doesn't make no sense

    Natty Bumpercar: does that mean anything to you

    Unknown: all of the cutting man no he's not no i'm

    Natty Bumpercar: he's the chopping boy

    Unknown: chopping boy and i have a little tweezer that baby snaps those branches up its my tree

    Natty Bumpercar: no you don't have a tree

    Unknown: a tree. They don't make no sense. Daddy, do you remember? When I showed you that tree, you said, be careful. No. He's going to break you. Watch out.

    Natty Bumpercar: We're going to switch over to here, but you can still keep talking to Emerson.

    Unknown: So, anyway. So, Emerson,

    Natty Bumpercar: if Oliver was the shopping boy, what were you?

    Unknown: I know his name. I don't want to tell.

    Natty Bumpercar: You don't want to tell everybody? The dreamy. Oh, good job. That's why he broke the microphone. I told you he was going to do it. That's why we don't touch things all the time, guys.

    Unknown: Now he broke it forever? Yes, forever.

    Natty Bumpercar: There's no need to yell, because the microphone's right there. And you've got headphones on, so you can hear yourself talk.

    Unknown: Yeah, that's creepy.

    Natty Bumpercar: Remember how he just broke it by touching it?

    Unknown: Oh, yeah. I remember how he broke it. So, you're still touching it. It's amazing.

    Natty Bumpercar: Why does he keep touching it? Whose children are these? So, you were surprised by the tree being gone? Yeah, a little bit. I didn't show you guys the photos and videos of it, did I? Yeah, you did. Oh, I showed you at school. That's right. Here, here's what you guys can do. You didn't show Oliver. Did you show the little one? I'm going this ear. Because he didn't see the tree. There, does that work? I guess you're not talking about the tree anymore. I don't know what's happening. This is a weird episode. See, isn't it weird how you can hear yourself talk anyway? Well, it's headphones. It's not that weird. So, what else did Daddy do yesterday?

    Unknown: Oh, yeah. Imagine he took a nap or something. He's making me so hurting. He's hurting. Fix the boy. You definitely didn't touch it. Take a shower. I can tell that. Oliver, I'm not going to wear the microphone. All right, take them off. I wish I could tell my story. Why are you touching the microphone? I just get excited. I don't know. I love animals really much like that. I like animals, too.

    Natty Bumpercar: Do you have animals on your shirt? Why are you trying to climb?

    Unknown: Because I want to get to the microphone.

    Natty Bumpercar: Do you want to stand, too? Wow, you guys are

    Unknown: out of control. They're out of control. Daddy just hit the microphone.

    Natty Bumpercar: Welcome to Distraction City. Population, those two.

    Unknown: Daddy's distracted. Stop spitting.

    Natty Bumpercar: Did you spit?

    Unknown: No, Oliver keeps on making the breath on me. What's he doing? Stop making the breath on me. It smells bad, I guess.

    Natty Bumpercar: Does it pig breath? It's just talking to the microphone.

    Unknown: Don't yell.

    Natty Bumpercar: What did Daddy do yesterday besides a tree? Something you're both excited about.

    Unknown: Is it food?

    Natty Bumpercar: Man, you guys are good at answering questions today. I'm trying. You know what? After your last appearance, everyone's excited about you being on the show. I mean, I was.

    Unknown: Stop putting your breath on me. I see the backyard. That's the front yard. Yeah, it's the front. So anyway, I want to tell us…

    Natty Bumpercar: Oliver keeps on putting his breath on you. Hey, Ollie, can you stop putting your breath on people? It's so much cleaning. It smells like… Come on. He just woke up. He just ate some food. Can a dog smell a little bit?

    Unknown: It smells like rotten teeth breath.

    Natty Bumpercar: Ollie, do you have rotten teeth breath? Oh, no. Done, done.

    Unknown: He's going to have to go to the doctor.

    Natty Bumpercar: Now I have rotting teeth breath. Wait, is it catching?

    Unknown: Somebody smell my breath. Smell my breath.

    Natty Bumpercar: We're going to have to go to the dentist and get all of our teeth pulled. Oh, yeah, the dentist. I said doctor. No, I don't want to do that. Golly gee. Golly, golly gee. Good voice you're doing. You're so heavy. I can't hold you like this. Daddy? Yes, sir. Oliver.

    Unknown: What are you… Wait, on Sunday… Oliver. On Sunday, are we having a babysitter? Babysitter?

    Natty Bumpercar: No, on Sunday, we're having the whole family over. Who? No, come on.

    Unknown: Not all of them. It's Mother's Day.

    Natty Bumpercar: Mother is a pig. That's on Sunday, again. What's Saturday? I've said that a few times. Do we have a babysitter on Sunday? No, we do not. I just said… On Saturday? We don't have a babysitter this weekend. There's no babysitter this weekend.

    Unknown: But you said… Can I babysit?

    Natty Bumpercar: Oliver, what day do we have a babysitter?

    Unknown: I don't know. It's like a mystery now. Oh, June 10th.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. I know. June 10th. June 10th is the worst. I can't believe it.

    Unknown: I can't believe it.

    Natty Bumpercar: No. That would be the worst thing ever.

    Unknown: The worst?

    Natty Bumpercar: Why would you say that? Oh, my goodness.

    Unknown: Then Mommy would never see you again. That'd be so sad.

    Natty Bumpercar: And Mommy would cry.

    Unknown: Could I have his bed? I'm joking. That was a hilarious joke.

    Natty Bumpercar: Never mind. Guys, where did we go last weekend? We went to the city. And what did we do?

    Unknown: I didn't go to the city. You went to the city? We went to a show. What show? You and me did jokes.

    Natty Bumpercar: I did jokes and you guys came? You went to a show? Did you have fun?

    Unknown: Comedy show? Maybe.

    Natty Bumpercar: Maybe.

    Unknown: Socks came too. No, he did not. Yes, we did.

    Natty Bumpercar: Was Socks in the back seat of the car?

    Unknown: Yeah, probably. No, he wasn't. No. Oliver ate… Socks ate pizza. Oliver ate pizza. Why did he eat pizza? Because he was sneaking in.

    Natty Bumpercar: You ate pizza because you were sneaking in?

    Unknown: This is ridiculous. Socks ate pizza with me.

    Natty Bumpercar: You guys went to a pizza parlor together?

    Unknown: No.

    Natty Bumpercar: What kind of pizza did you get?

    Unknown: I don't know.

    Natty Bumpercar: Cheese pizza. What kind of pizza did Socks get? Dog treat pizza.

    Unknown: There's no such thing as dog treat pizza. Dog treat pizza. That sounds yummy.

    Natty Bumpercar: It's only for dogs. It's my favorite kind though.

    Unknown: That smells yucky. Dog treat pizza? Depends on what they're on. It's only for dogs. So if I went into a pizza place and I ordered a dog treat pizza, they wouldn't give it to me? No way. Only for Socks.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, man. What if… So I'd have to have Socks next to me. Or maybe I'd have to pay Socks to buy the dog treat pizza so that I could go outside

    Unknown: and eat it. How are you going to pay the dog?

    Natty Bumpercar: He doesn't even have a wife. He doesn't even have a wife. He doesn't even have a wife. It tastes like poop dogs. Ew. Dogs don't eat that. That sounds disgusting.

    Unknown: There's no way. It tastes for people. It's only for dog treats for only dogs.

    Natty Bumpercar: There is no way that the health code is not being violated by him selling dog poop.

    Unknown: There's no way that they're going to let him do that.

    Natty Bumpercar: They don't even have a dog. They don't even have a dog. They don't even have a dog. They don't even have a dog. They don't even have a dog.

    Unknown: They didn't even let me in restaurants.

    Natty Bumpercar: Did you sit next to him while he ate that pizza?

    Unknown: And I ate mine cheese.

    Natty Bumpercar: So let me get this straight. You can't sit next to Emerson eating strawberries but you can sit next to Socks eating dog poop pizza?

    Unknown: It doesn't make sense. No. It's the dog treat pizza. Then I'll try it. I drove Socks back here.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wait, you drove the dog back here? That doesn't make any sense at all. You can't even reach the pedals.

    Unknown: That kid's going straight to jail.

    Natty Bumpercar: You're so tiny. you said door to open the door how did you get out of the car like a delinquent uh-oh i had a gun

    Unknown: he had a what what in the world what are you teaching these kids

    Natty Bumpercar: i don't even believe what i'm hearing right now this is not my ollie this is not who you are you do not move out drive dogs around with guns that you shoot to the pizza place that's too much no

    Unknown: i got out how i got out i got a gun and he got out come on did you break our car do you think mommy's gonna like you talking no she ain't like no not even a little bit if you if you push you down there what are you gonna push people down what what now what are you talking

    Natty Bumpercar: about that's the second time even on the show and you've done uh an infringement of copyright that we cannot you can't afford

    Unknown: it's batman i see batman little one's leaving i see batman everybody what is he talking about batman the bobblehead oh he's over there and i have and i have and i have a star wars guy what is it's like a real divergence that's a good transition i'm glad that we went from the and he has a bone gun a what he has a bone what is a bone gun i don't even know what words i mean

    Natty Bumpercar: it's like a bone gun does it shoot bones so did you emerson did you go to the city as well yeah and what was your favorite part

    Unknown: we go with everything i don't know well i mean did you like the show the whole experience i like the show and i liked everything were you embarrassed no i would be embarrassed scared no did you like

    Natty Bumpercar: that they put daddy up first yeah i wish i would have put me up first that's okay um and then we came home right and we played a little bit we've been playing we've been scootering right

    Unknown: we were scootering yes you guys been going outside all the time in the front driveway

    Natty Bumpercar: well that is true thanks thanks thanks for backing me up on that one that one's true

    Unknown: but uh the pool i wish i could have told a story oh yeah the pool but it makes so much more sense we joined the pool yeah yeah yeah which means

    Natty Bumpercar: but you're not gonna bring me what is he saying ollie that is not polite what is this kid on we're gonna go as soon as we can oliver not polite sir uh whenever whenever the pool joins then we i mean whenever uh words words are you gonna bring socks to the pool

    Unknown: you know there's no dogs allowed i i trust you but there's a german shepherd one no it wasn't at the pool no no that was at the mystery icon

    Natty Bumpercar: whose friend who's whose dog was that who's friend of yours um me it was michelle's dog and his name is name is michelle's dog and his name is michelle's dog and his name is Dog and his name is name zoo name and name

  • Bumperpodcast #296 – Laser Lightning Trees

    Bumperpodcast #296 – Laser Lightning Trees

    Lasers – Lightning – Explosions – Trees! It’s a hyperactive and hyper-short edition of the Bumperpodcast!

    Do you like trees? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

    This is a ‘Laser Lightning’ version of the Bumperpodcast – which is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals! 


    About This Episode

    In this laser lightning episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar shares the exciting (or "inciting") news that a dying oak tree in his backyard is about to be removed. The giant three-story tree has been dropping branches and threatening to fall on his house, so professionals are coming to take it down. Natty reflects on the tree's long history and how it's been there much longer than his three years at the house. He recounts his children's hilarious reactions to the news, with one son spiraling through various concerns about the house, the swing set, and even their dog Socks potentially being traumatized by the tree removal. This charming episode captures the comedy of everyday family life and childhood anxieties.

    Memorable Quotes

    “i got so excited that i actually said inciting so this is so inciting that i can't even stand it”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “he was like change i don't like change and i was like bro relax and he was just like but they're gonna drop it on our house”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “his next one was like what about socks that's our dog obviously and i was just like what why are we worried about him”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #trees #family #homemaintenance #children #pets #anxiety #change

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: okay bumper podcast this is another laser lightning episode of the bumper podcast and today i gotta tell you it's something it's inciting inciting that's not the word i wanted to say i was trying to say exciting but i got so excited that i actually said inciting so this is so inciting that i can't even stand it in fact oh it's inciting excitement that's where we are right now uh so today the excitement that has been incited is that there is a tree in our backyard is a giant tree it is an oak tree it has a sickness it is dying it is dropping branches everywhere it thinks that it wants to sleep on my house i do not want it to sleep on my house the man is going to come with his tools maybe several men i don't know maybe a truck i don't know maybe a robot i don't know and uh the tree is going to be removed now it's kind of sad to me because this is a tree that is big it's probably uh three stories tall about 35 feet or whatever uh but i and so it's been there a long time it's been it's been here a lot longer than i've been here i've only been in this in this place uh three years or so and uh this tree it's been there all right it was it was maybe it was a little acorn is that what oaks would what oaks come from oak nut maybe it was you're gonna granola i don't know maybe it was but maybe it was here maybe it like a bird ate something a seed flew over and then deposited the seed and then the little sapling came up and then the people said oh that would look nice in 30 years or 40 years or however i don't know how old 100 years i don't know how old the tree is it won't tell me it's not polite for me to ask how old the tree is but uh the tree is going to go away and i told my children this and they freaked out not because the tree was going although one of them did because he was like change i don't like change and i was like bro relax and he was just like but they're gonna drop it on our house and i was like well we're hoping they don't do that okay that's kind of the goal is to not drop the tree on the house and then he was just like but what about art and he starts looking around the yard for things to freak out swing set and i was like the swing sets on the other side of the yard it's not gonna not gonna hit that and then he his next one was like what about socks that's our dog obviously and i was just like what why are we worried about him and i don't he couldn't really articulate what he was trying he was worried about but he was kind of freaked out that the dog is gonna be upset about it maybe you know like oh that's the dog's tree that's his best friend he hangs out with well no he's a dog he's a dog he's a smelly smelly dog the uh the uh we were we were putting some clothes away i mean my wife and i this little transition and uh i couldn't figure out whose clothes were whose whose clothes belonged to who and she i was just like which one is which one does this go to

  • Bumperpodcast #295 – Bring your kid to work

    Bumperpodcast #295 – Bring your kid to work

    It’s ‘Bring Your Kid to Work’ day on the Bumperpodcast – and – if he keeps it up, he’ll be a regular. It’s the best appearance yet by one of the smaller Bumpercars!

    Have you everbrought your kid? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

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

     


    About This Episode

    In this hilarious episode of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar attempts to celebrate Take Your Kid to Work Day with his son Emerson, albeit a day late. The duo discusses the mishaps of missed communication involving skywriting, a dog delivery service, and secretaries that don't exist. They debate Oliver's alleged strawberry allergy, the absurdity of "Lettuce Fridays" at work, and Natty's new job as a garbage man. Emerson struggles with sitting still while Natty spins increasingly ridiculous tales about workplace lunches, from soup that's just warm water to sharing a single lettuce leaf. The episode showcases the playful father-son dynamic and improvisational comedy that makes Bumperpodcast so entertaining.

    Memorable Quotes

    “There's a cart that comes around the hallways pushed by this really tiny old man. And all it has on it is lettuce and we each get one leaf of lettuce.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I'm very good at sitting.”

    — Emerson

    “I'm a garbage man. I hold on to the back of the truck.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #takeyourkidtoworkday #father-sonrelationship #foodallergies #worklife #garbagecollection #schoolrules #lunch #childhood

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: oh hey everybody it's me natty bumper car and i have a uh guest a friend a guest a compadre somebody who's helping me out with a show today who are you emerson you're emerson and you're here because it's take your kid to work day and so i decided to bring you to work right here at the bumper podcast but that was yesterday well but we're gonna pretend it was today okay because there's a lot of pretending it was yesterday and i was forgot i did not forget i was too busy at work and i was not able to you just told me i know i should have told you there was a there was a lapse in communication i sent a note to your secretary did she not give it to you

    Unknown: no what your secretary to me oh come on secretary i actually

    Natty Bumpercar: i I did a skywriting. I had an airplane right up in the sky. Did you look in the sky yesterday?

    Unknown: No.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, so that's what the note was. The airplane in clouds wrote, dear.

    Unknown: It did not.

    Natty Bumpercar: And it just said EM because I didn't have enough money to spell out Emerson because that's too long of a name. Is that even your name? Yes. Of course it is. Did you just fall off of a chair?

    Unknown: No.

    Natty Bumpercar: You're not good at this. Yes, I am. You are not good at sitting, my friend.

    Unknown: I'm very good at sitting.

    Natty Bumpercar: I think we should get you into some sitting classes.

    Unknown: No, I don't want to be. It's so boring. No, you could become a professional sitter. No.

    Natty Bumpercar: You could get a college scholarship in sitting. No way. Some of the best schools in the nation, in the country, have sitting teams. All right, fine.

    Unknown: Never, never, never, never.

    Natty Bumpercar: So you didn't get my note in the clouds yesterday. Yeah, I did not. That's very sad. I feel terrible about that.

    Unknown: I was in class already. What time was it at?

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, it was at 11.37. And then the airplane.

    Unknown: I ate lunch then.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, you were in the lunchroom? See, I messed up. I messed up. See, see. Did, did, wait, did. I also, I also, because just in case you didn't get the skywriting, I sent Socks with a note on his collar. Did he come to school? He was supposed to come to school.

    Unknown: He's not. There's no dogs allowed in school.

    Natty Bumpercar: They didn't. You didn't let him in?

    Unknown: No.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, that's not fair at all. How am I supposed to deal with that?

    Unknown: Do you know the sign that says no dogs allowed?

    Natty Bumpercar: There is no sign that says no dogs allowed.

    Unknown: You better check at school, Daddy.

    Natty Bumpercar: You better check at school.

    Unknown: I checked it already.

    Natty Bumpercar: It said no dogs at school. I don't feel like you checked it. I'm not so sure that you checked it.

    Unknown: I did check it.

    Natty Bumpercar: And what does the sign say?

    Unknown: Don't bring your pet to school.

    Natty Bumpercar: That says, there is no way that there is a sign that says it.

    Unknown: But you can bring cats or birds or anything else.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, this doesn't make any sense, then.

    Unknown: I don't know if they're dogs. People might be allergic to cats or dogs, birds, or snails.

    Natty Bumpercar: People are not allergic to snails, I don't think.

    Unknown: People are allergic to strawberries.

    Natty Bumpercar: Who's allergic to strawberries?

    Unknown: Nobody.

    Natty Bumpercar: I feel like there's somebody that you're thinking of that is specifically.

    Unknown: No, no, no, no, no.

    Natty Bumpercar: But is he actually allergic to strawberries, do you think? No. We are speaking about Emerson Smallbrook. His little brother, Oliver, who claims to be allergic to strawberries. And what happens?

    Unknown: He froze up, but he's not allergic because he never, ever, ever, ever tried them.

    Natty Bumpercar: Emerson.

    Unknown: What?

    Natty Bumpercar: I feel like there are some foods that have strawberry in them that Oliver eats. And he does not get sick. He does not freak out. Did you know this?

    Unknown: Yes, I did know that.

    Natty Bumpercar: What foods do you think he eats that actually have strawberries in them?

    Unknown: I, um, donuts, strawberries.

    Natty Bumpercar: Strawberry donuts? The pink ones?

    Unknown: Yeah, and, and, and ice cream.

    Natty Bumpercar: Strawberry ice cream? Yeah, uh, I don't know if he's actually had any of that. He has. What's his favorite ice cream flavor?

    Unknown: Cookie Monster? What color is it?

    Natty Bumpercar: Um, blue.

    Unknown: And what's in it?

    Natty Bumpercar: Chocolate chips. No, there's cookies in it.

    Unknown: What?

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh. Oh, maybe chocolate chips. Maybe it's like chocolate chip cookies. And I like chocolate chip mint. That's new.

    Unknown: That's a new thing.

    Natty Bumpercar: Because I used to not like mint. I know. You used to be like, mint's not good. Mint's no yum. I don't like mint. I don't like mint. I don't like mint. I don't like mint. I was little then. Yeah, but now you're big. Now you're in the big world where you, you eat mints. What just happened? Did it just hurt your leg?

    Unknown: Nope.

    Natty Bumpercar: Is that, you know what? Is that another sitting issue that we're having? No, no, no. It feels like if you could just sit in your seat, like maybe this would go much better. I don't know. I'm actually kneeling because you took my chair. Oh, sorry.

    Unknown: This is kneeling.

    Natty Bumpercar: But you're too big for the chair. No, I'm, the chair is perfect size for me. It's my, it's my chair and I fit in it pretty well. It's probably mine.

    Unknown: It's my chair too.

    Natty Bumpercar: Is it? Well, I, if I share it, it's your chair.

    Unknown: We share chairs.

    Natty Bumpercar: There's no, I don't think there's any reason to move that. So what do you think we're going to do today when we take, take our Emerson to work?

    Unknown: Um, um, daddy's going to do lots of work and then we're going to get lunch and then.

    Natty Bumpercar: Nope. No lunch today. Aw. On Fridays, we're not allowed to eat lunch. They don't let us.

    Unknown: Yes, they do.

    Natty Bumpercar: No. They, you know what they do? What? There's a cart that comes around the hallways. And it's, it's pushed by a cart. It's, it's pushed by this, uh, really tiny old man. And all it has on it is lettuce and we each get one leaf of lettuce.

    Unknown: That's bad.

    Natty Bumpercar: And they say, enjoy your lettuce. Like that. Well, he's not that good.

    Unknown: I think you're lying, daddy. No, but here's what, the sad part is, is they're not going to have enough lettuce for you.

    Natty Bumpercar: So you and I are going to have to share a lettuce leaf for lunch.

    Unknown: Ew. But what about the dressing on it? There's no dressing on it.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, there's no dress, they don't have, there's no, there's no funding for dressing. I'm not going to eat it. I mean, I'm going to, I'm just going to bring, um, um, I'm just going to bring a fruit roll

    Unknown: up and eat it. Where, where are you going to get this fruit roll up? Because we don't have any more. No. Okay. I'm just going to get, uh.

    Natty Bumpercar: Have you seen your bag? It's full of snacks. I have so.

    Unknown: I'm going to eat all my snacks. You're going to snack it up?

    Natty Bumpercar: And daddy's going to get lettuce. Yeah.

    Unknown: I'm, well, I'm excited for lettuce Fridays. I don't like lettuce Fridays. I like, um. You like gummy sundaes.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, I like. And taco Tuesdays. And, and taco and, and pizza Thur. Pizza, pizza Fursday?

    Unknown: Thursday. Yeah. Pizza, pizza Thursday? And, and, and, um.

    Natty Bumpercar: Fish, fish steak Monday?

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: What about meatball Wednesday?

    Unknown: Oh, spaghetti and meatball Monday, um, and. And, and, and? And, and, and?

    Natty Bumpercar: And, and, and? And, and.

    Unknown: And, and.

    Natty Bumpercar: And, and?

    Unknown: And, and. Um. And, and.

    Natty Bumpercar: And, and. And, and.

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: And, and. And, and.

    Unknown: Yeah, and, and. And, and. you're really thinking about this huh what about peanut butter and jelly no no no peanut butter and jelly is allergic we're just allergic but you're you can have them here but everybody's gonna have them where huh you said it's um peanut butter jay um peanut butter jelly

    Natty Bumpercar: we're gonna have to edit that out they do not sponsor this podcast so we are not giving them any money no additional advertising for that for that corporation now it's today so it's gonna be lettuce friday and you know what tomorrow we're gonna start a new thing it's soup saturday but the soup we don't have anything to put in it so it's It's really just warm water. Is that okay? I think it'll be delicious.

    Unknown: Hi, Daddy. I have to go pee.

    Natty Bumpercar: What?

    Unknown: I don't have to go pee. Do you really?

    Natty Bumpercar: But you just said that to everyone. That's inappropriate. Sorry, everyone. This is now a not safe for work podcast.

    Unknown: Daddy's fine. He didn't say anything about that.

    Natty Bumpercar: I didn't say that we have to keep it clean?

    Unknown: No, you didn't say any of that to me.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wait, it was in the note that I sent you. Did you get the note?

    Unknown: No.

    Natty Bumpercar: I gave it to your secretary. Did she not give you this note either?

    Unknown: She did not. Either? I was at 12.

    Natty Bumpercar: It was at 12?

    Unknown: No. Wait, what did you say again?

    Natty Bumpercar: Which one?

    Unknown: Oh, I was in recess. I was at recess.

    Natty Bumpercar: They give you recess?

    Unknown: Yeah, they give me recess.

    Natty Bumpercar: I told them that you're supposed to work during lunch. I want you outside mowing the grass, picking up trash.

    Unknown: They don't even have that. There's no trash anywhere.

    Natty Bumpercar: There's no trash at your school?

    Unknown: Yeah. What about garbage?

    Natty Bumpercar: What about garbage?

    Unknown: There's no garbage.

    Natty Bumpercar: What about recycling?

    Unknown: There's no recycling.

    Natty Bumpercar: There's none of that?

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay, well, I don't know if I believe you, but I don't feel like you would fib to me.

    Unknown: Uh, but maybe there is garbage.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, wait a minute. You've been caught. You've been caught in a trap.

    Unknown: Maybe. Maybe we do. Only in the schools, not outside. Bye. I thought you were talking about outside.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wait, you have it inside? You have garbage inside?

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's the last place that I would expect you to have garbage. Why do you have garbage inside?

    Unknown: I don't know.

    Natty Bumpercar: Is this your stuff? Are you putting garbage inside? No, I'm not. Well, it's a good thing to bring it back around that we are going to take your kid to work day because you know what my job is?

    Unknown: What? Don't, don't make a garbage tool anywhere.

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm a garbage man.

    Unknown: I never seen a garbage man. I hold on to the back of the truck. I know. I've seen you last year and you never had a garbage truck.

    Natty Bumpercar: This is a new job. The only reason we're still at home right now at headquarters is we're waiting for my truck to come around and get us.

    Unknown: No, I already saw the truck.

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm especially worried that you're not going to be able to hold on to the back of it. Like when it goes around a corner and if you fall off the truck, man, mommy's going to get really mad at me.

    Unknown: And what if I have to go to the bathroom?

    Natty Bumpercar: No, well, you don't get to. Here's the thing. Sometimes when the lettuce man comes around and gives me lettuce, I do sneak out and I go potty. But that's only once a day that I'm allowed to do that.

    Unknown: Daddy, do you want to share food today?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Okay, how about I'll take one bite of lettuce and then you can have the rest because you're a growing boy and I want you to have all the nutrients and everything. Okay. Is that a good plan? Yes. Do you think you're going to make it through the whole day? Yes. Are you going to fall asleep? Maybe take a nap? Are you going to? Are you going to hide under my desk?

    Unknown: Maybe.

    Natty Bumpercar: My desk in the garbage truck?

    Unknown: Oh, no.

    Natty Bumpercar: No?

    Unknown: But you do have a garbage can.

    Natty Bumpercar: I do have a garbage can. I actually have two garbage cans in my tiny office.

    Unknown: I never… It doesn't make any sense to me. Do you know if you're going to make this into a Star Wars thing?

    Natty Bumpercar: The Star Wars thing?

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, I do. I don't know if he's going to be there today.

    Unknown: Aw.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's one of the good reasons that we were actually able to take you to work today is I found out that no one is going to be there.

    Unknown: Yay.

    Natty Bumpercar: This is going to be me and you. You know why?

    Unknown: Why? What about that guy?

    Natty Bumpercar: You know why?

    Unknown: What about…

    Natty Bumpercar: Because today's Saturday.

    Unknown: Yeah. Today's not Saturday. Today's Friday. Yesterday was Thursday. Womp womp.