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  • Bumperpodcast #199: Pig, Robot, and Doodle Poodle are not good at this.

    Bumperpodcast #199: Pig, Robot, and Doodle Poodle are not good at this.

    Pig, Robot, and Doodle Poodle are still running the ship on this episode of the Bumperpodcast … Runnning it right into the ground – that is!

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


    About This Episode

    In episode 199 of Bumperpodcast, Aloysious J. Pig attempts to host alongside Robot and Doodle Poodle while Natty Bumpercar is mysteriously absent. The trio struggles with basic podcast hosting duties as Robot rambles about his soup consumption, Doodle Poodle insists on talking about art and drawing despite never actually drawing, and Pig grows increasingly exasperated with his co-hosts. The episode devolves into chaotic bickering about listener names ("bumper somethings"), whether mittens are an engaging topic, and concerns that Bumpercar may be frozen into an ice cube somewhere in the woods. This improvised episode showcases the puppets' comedic inability to run a show without their usual host.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I'm sitting in a room with a crazy bucket of bolts and a dog who likes to draw and I've never seen him make a drawing. I just hear him talk about drawings all the time.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “Why would he put tears in the name of the people who listen to the show because they're so sad because they're listening to the show?”

    — Doodle Poodle

    “Now you know it sounds terrible this show.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    Topics: #podcasting #hosting #art #drawing #winter #chaos #friendship

    Featuring: Robot, Aloysious J. Pig, Doodle Poodle

    Full Transcript

    Robot: robot what are you doing this is we're starting a second podcast here and this is this is how you

    Aloysious J. Pig: start you don't even say to people like oh hey everybody it's me robot and nothing like that you're just like um oh um you've done this before you know i mean act like you've been to the end zone before robot i i everybody this is a bumper podcast clearly and i'm big and oh that's robot

    Doodle Poodle: over there don't everybody forget about me all at once either because i'm here to it's me i'm doodle poodle i'm the i'm a poodle that likes to to i'm to do

    Aloysious J. Pig: i like to draw i mean i don't understand is this what we're gonna do every episode now we're just gonna establish where we are you i'm a pig you're a robot you're you're a dog that likes to draw it

    Robot: doesn't seem very engaging to the audience the audience wants to know who we are they want to know all about it they for instance they want to know that yesterday i had a can of soup nobody wants to know that um

    Aloysious J. Pig: all right so officially i'm sitting in a room with a crazy uh bucket of bolts and a dog who's likes to i guess to draw and i've never seen him make a drawing i just hear him talk about drawings all the time if you go to his twitter feed he's like oh i think i'm gonna make a drawing or whatever it's a doodle it's actually a doodle all right fine i mean that's the thing i don't care nobody cares let's just do what we do and do the bumper podcast all right what's he call you guys bumper sausages that's not what your name's uh bumper bumper somethings bumper somethings i think that's the people who listen to this show it's the bumper somethings

    Doodle Poodle: that doesn't make any sense at all why would he put tears in the name of the people who listen to the show because they're so sad because they're listening to the show because that doesn't seem like a show that i don't want to listen to i would want to listen to the show that makes me happy like the bumper podcast giggles or something like like that no no more talking for the dog

    Aloysious J. Pig: ever again i think that's it for you go and go eat you go eat some kibble i got some kibble for you to to nosh on and eat it eat it eat as much as you want and it's delicious and just cough or just whatever you say sounds so silly

    Robot: can i talk or do you have any type of stuff that i could eat i could go for some

    Doodle Poodle: and i don't even i don't want i'm not i'm not even really all that hungry right now because i had a bigger breakfast and i don't feel i feel like it's time to do the show and like i want to talk on the show and be like more like talk on the show that was stuff for the for the yeah

    Aloysious J. Pig: all right uh oh wow let's uh see if we can get into any uh topics people love topics on podcasts so maybe we talk about i don't know it's cold now you guys go we got your jackets on you got your hoods your hats your mittens your gloves your scarves you're uh you're really struggling

    Robot: you're really really struggling

    Doodle Poodle: i know i gotta tell you it's not it's not a good show i agree with the robot i think we should talk about art and drawing and stuff because i mean people love art it makes them happy to make drawings sometimes so you see people and they have drawings that they made and they're just smiling and they're so happy you know i don't know if talking about mittens is gonna be a good idea i don't know if talking about mittens is gonna be a good idea make anybody happy at all for really well we we do want people to be happy we'll listen to the

    Aloysious J. Pig: show it's the bumper podcast i'm pig it's robot over there and toodle poodle we uh we're hosting it because bumper cars disappeared we don't know where he went don't know where he gone uh he's probably out in the woods uh ice cubing right now what does that mean he's frozen into an ice cube

    Doodle Poodle: we should really find them that sounds wow it sounds just really terrible i wouldn't want that ever

    Aloysious J. Pig: now you know it sounds terrible this show

  • Bumperpodcast #197: Bumpercar Blithering

    Bumperpodcast #197: Bumpercar Blithering

    Natty Bumpercar blithers on about a lot of tangents in this weeks episode of the Bumperpodcast. A lot of rocks are kicked – and a lot of bugs came out.

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


    About This Episode

    In episode 197 of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar records while battling a November cold, creating a delightfully rambling episode about post-Halloween recovery. Natty muses about the absurdity of greeting people in song, shares a hilarious story about accidentally leaving Donkey Kong sound effects playing during recording, and confesses to being "patient zero" while trick-or-treating with his kids. The episode takes unexpected turns discussing carbon consumption, failed attempts at making cheesy bread, and the horrors of using a new neti pot. With his signature stream-of-consciousness style amplified by congestion, Natty delivers a relatable and funny meditation on parenting, sickness, and surviving the holiday season.

    Memorable Quotes

    “what i went as is patient zero…when i take your candy i'm also giving you the gift of congestion and uh stuffy noses”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “he looked at my eyes and he said you're not eating enough carbon and i said i am not sure that that's true”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “now i'm a race car driver with a tail boom take that”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #halloween #parenting #sickness #donkeykong #trick-or-treating #nutrition #healthremedies #cooking

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: oh no bumper podcast i have got the sickness i made it all the way to november that was very sing-songy how i just did the introduction did you hear that it was like i was uh singing a song about saying hi we should do that how much more fun would the world be if people whenever they saw each other they were just like hey bob how you doing i like your new shoes hey sue what how are you i guess it would be terrible is what would end up happening uh so you know what we should not i guess we can't you can't if you want i'm not gonna be the the arbiter i'm not gonna be the rule maker if you feel like making songs uh whenever you see people then you should do that i have to pause for a second because something crazy is happening all right we're back and i don't know if you guys are hearing it but what i was hearing somewhere in my browser uh there were like a hundred tabs open and um i i set up on a friend of mine's website uh so that you could play donkey kong uh if you go to a certain page and and because it was broken and i fixed it and blah blah blah anyway it was still open and so randomly every so often i would hear like or the uh donkey kong doing his which actually it works out well that i'm kind of sick because i don't think i would be able to make that noise as effectively as i just did if i wasn't um a little under the weather uh so tell me about yourself bumper podcast did you make it through halloween in one piece are you uh diabetic now because i hope you're not because that doesn't feel like a good way to be are you healthy is what i want to know are you balancing your uh sugary snacks with other snacks like pretzels for instance uh hunks of bread can i tell you what i made myself for food for today uh cheesy bread and i burnt it so the cheese is black on top which is perfect because i need to eat more carbon i think that's exactly i we went to a dietician and he said he looked at my eyes and he said you're not eating enough carbon and i said i am not sure that that's true i don't know a lot about physical science uh but i think and you can correct me if i'm wrong bumper podcast kateers uh but everything is made of carbon and so yes i'm eating carbon is everything made of carbon i don't really know that is everything made of atoms is everything made of molecules yes i mean these things i think are definitely possibly true probably matter antimatter i had no idea we were going to talk about this i would have done my homework uh dark matter dark energy all right all right i'm just saying words at this point let's not talk about science anymore it makes me feel kind of dumb when i because it's one of those things where it was in my brain and you know you start talking about it and you just hear yourself saying the words and you're like no those words don't go together the way that you're saying the bumper car as a matter of fact and then you're like oh my god i don't know what to do with this now i'm officially just talking to myself as opposed to you bumper podcast what was your halloween costume this year mine was uh pretty much anything that my children threw off themselves as we were on the trick-or-treating path dada don't want this hat you wear it all right well now i'm a race car driver dada uh my tail falls off you take all right now i'm a race car driver with a tail boom take that now i'm a race car driver with a tail boom take that now i'm a race car driver i bet you didn't see that coming that kind of monster up on your on your track course driving car i uh so i didn't go as any and i felt bad but i also you know don't care i went as a really tired looking dad is what i went as a tired looking dad who was probably contagious because i was at the very beginning of my sickness and so what i went as is patient zero uh the unknowing un un unbeknownst to everyone else that when i take your candy i'm also giving you the gift of congestion and uh stuffy noses i um do you guys have you ever used a neti pot i just got it's one of those things you put your nose and you squeeze and salt water goes up and it's weird but it makes your brain feel better i got a new one yesterday but it's a different shape and it's horrible it's the worst thing in the world worse even than this

  • Bumperpodcast #196: More Halloween styles

    Bumperpodcast #196: More Halloween styles

    Natty Bumpercar talks Halloween – Halloween – Halloween! Costumes, being a tracker, webs, candy, pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns … And, resumes!

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


    About This Episode

    In this Halloween-themed episode of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar faces a costume crisis just two days before Halloween. The costumes he ordered online for his family—including a blue monster with googly eyes and a bunny rabbit inspired by Richard Scarry's Nicholas—are stuck in transit. Natty humorously discusses his failed attempts at tracking the shipment and jokes about his qualifications as a post-apocalyptic tracker. He also shares the chaos of decorating Bumperpodcast headquarters with spiderwebs, his struggle to find time for pumpkin carving in a busy parent schedule, and his desperate need to roast pumpkin seeds before the season ends.

    Memorable Quotes

    “If the apocalypse ever comes and your group needs a tracker boom bumper car is your man. I will well I mean I'm not doing such a good job at it.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I've tied knives to the dog and I've pointed him towards the pumpkins so I suppose that when we get home we'll see what he's done.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Pumpkin seeds are delicious they're all salt they're just little containers for me to eat salt.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #halloween #costumes #parenting #pumpkincarving #holidays #onlineshopping #timemanagement

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes what's going on everybody it's me natty bumper car and it's the bumper podcast and it's one of the best days of the year why because we're so close to halloween yeah oh boy oh boy oh boy that was real excitement but the thing is i don't have a costume uh the baby bumper car's costume is still in transit so we're two days away now and no one has a costume we're supposed to wander all around town in what nothing we don't have anything this is a real situation that we have i i i live in the future you all know that and so i went online and i i ordered the uh the the costumes we picked stuff out everyone was signed off on it yes i want to be a blue monster with googly eyes and i forget what the rest of the costume is and a beard is what one of them is going to be and the other one's going to be a bunny rabbit because okay richard scary uh what's his name nicholas the bunny those are fine costumes when they get to your house but now they're not here they're in transit i don't know where transit is and i i get numbers tracking numbers and i'm trying like a tracker i'm like a hunter gatherer who has gone out into the wild and is tracking the costumes so if if the world ever ends if the apocalypse ever comes and your group needs a tracker boom bumper car is your man i i will well i mean i'm not doing such a good job at it i want to i don't know if that should be part of my uh resume or part of the interview process i think just the fact that i have the title of tracker is probably good enough i i think that you know that maybe i don't do such a good job maybe you know if you ask me i'm gonna say yeah of course i know how to track and i would rather you not talk to uh any of the people that i'm gonna give you their names for any uh of of my uh or whatever those people are called when you have uh your what are those people called i've been those people before you know hey can you vouch for me vouchers it's not a voucher it's a uh resume people man all right well you know what we're gonna forget that because i have no idea what i'm trying to say anyway tracker bumper car that's me if you need something found i'm your man what are you guys gonna do for halloween what are you gonna be anything are you gonna you're gonna wear costumes are you gonna you're gonna go out and get some candy is your house all decorated we uh we decorated headquarters like pretty well like i got a lot of those webs and i put them on bushes and i put them on the house and i made like you actually have to walk under the webs to get into the house which uh people are not happy with anyone who comes to the house is just like dude why are all the webs everywhere i'm like well it's halloween time this is halloween everybody make a scream halloween halloween halloween time we got three pumpkins that we have not carved yet because who has time to carve pumpkins no one you get up you drop people off at school you go to work you go pick people up from school you can get home you've got homework you've got dinner you've got bath time you've got to read some books sing some songs and then everybody's asleep there's no pumpkin time and then did you hear even a gap a minute a minute um no you did not hear a minute because there's none ah so what i've done is i've i've tied knives i've tied knives to the dog and i've pointed him towards the pumpkins so i suppose that when we get home we'll see what he's done hopefully it's got a scary spooky face and a jack-o'-lantern smile or frown or whatever they have no i don't know i don't know maybe we're just gonna have pumpkins this year maybe we'll paint them i could paint a lot faster than i can cut but if i do that you know what i'm not gonna get pumpkin seeds and i need pumpkin seeds this for the rest the entire year i don't have pumpkin seeds and this is the season of year where i get my my pumpkin seed quota gets filled right now we're in the red i would like to get to the black with pumpkin seeds because they're delicious they're all salt they're just little containers for me to eat so let's do this halloween now

  • Bumperpodcast #195: Halloween guest

    Bumperpodcast #195: Halloween guest

    Natty Bumpercar has a pal hang out on the Bumperpodcast who tells him all about his Halloween costume – and about some junk that he saw on tv that he wants … That’s right … Tiny Bumpercar is back – and – awesome!

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


    About This Episode

    In this adorable episode of the Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar interviews an enthusiastic young guest who can't contain their excitement. The conversation bounces from dinosaurs (including the feathered Xenosaurus and the scary T-Rex) to confusing toy commercials featuring a punching Spider-Man toy and a mysterious wrecking ball contraption. Natty attempts to understand the logic behind toys that punch the air and toys that require extensive setup only to knock everything down. The episode wraps up with Halloween costume plans involving Caillou-inspired monster accessories, capturing the delightful chaos of trying to have a coherent conversation with an excitable child.

    Memorable Quotes

    “That's like if I walked around all the time, all during the day, and I was just like… People are going to think I'm crazy, right?”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “It doesn't punch anything. It's only a toy, because it doesn't punch anybody. It's not walking. It only stays on the ground.”

    — Young Guest

    “So wait, we have to sit there and build all the towers and then this toy just says up and spins around and knocks all the… That seems like a lot of work for me.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #dinosaurs #toys #spider-man #halloween #children #commercials #interview

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Unknown: Oh, what's up, Buffer Podcast?

    Natty Bumpercar: It's me, Andy Buffer. And I've got a little screaming person here.

    Unknown: Yay!

    Natty Bumpercar: Hey, screaming person, what were you talking about just a second ago? What's your favorite book that we just found? Dinosaurs! Yeah, it's a dinosaur book, and that's pretty cool, right? Dinosaurs? What's your favorite dinosaur? Oh, Xenosaurus! There's a Xenosaurus? He's got feathers on his arms, right? What's the scariest dinosaur, do you think?

    Unknown: T-Rex!

    Natty Bumpercar: You don't have to yell it. Do you hear me? I'm not yelling. I mean, I'm just talking right to the microphone. Hey. We were watching television a second ago, too, and you saw something. And what was it that you wanted? Do you remember? Because when the commercial was on, you acted like it was the most important thing in the world. Spider-Man punching? Spider-Man punching? Spider-Man punching? Spider-Man punching? Spider-Man doesn't punch.

    Unknown: He's a toy!

    Natty Bumpercar: What do you mean he's a toy? Why would he punch?

    Unknown: No, he's just a toy.

    Natty Bumpercar: But it doesn't sound very nice, is what I was… Why would a toy punch? It sounds like a mean toy?

    Unknown: No, it's only a toy, because it doesn't punch anybody. It's not walking. It only stays on the ground. It doesn't walk. It can talk, and then it can do this.

    Natty Bumpercar: So that was punching. So if I walk up to this toy, it's going to talk to me? And then it's going to punch me?

    Unknown: No. No, it's a toy!

    Natty Bumpercar: Well… Okay, so it's a toy that walks around, it talks to people, and then makes punching motions. Now, does it beat up other toys?

    Unknown: No.

    Natty Bumpercar: No? Who does it punch, then? It can't just random punch.

    Unknown: It doesn't punch anything.

    Natty Bumpercar: Anything or anybody? No. No. Well, that seems kind of silly. That's like if I walked around all the time, all during the day, and I was just like… People are going to think I'm crazy, right?

    Unknown: No.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yes, they are.

    Unknown: Why?

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, because if I'm just punching the air for no reason, especially if I'm walking around… But can you do it? Do what? Scream! No, don't scream. Screaming hurts the people's ears.

    Unknown: Okay, okay, okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: So, there was another toy that you saw right before that, that you said you absolutely have to have. Which toy was that?

    Unknown: Smashing the blocks down. With the big boat over there. It has a big ball, little big ball. It can punch.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wait, this punches too? No, it… What are all these toys punching for?

    Unknown: Um, it's a rolling thing and an open mouth and then it can spin.

    Natty Bumpercar: It spins? So, but is there punching involved with the spinning?

    Unknown: No, um…

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, you seem to love punching.

    Unknown: It's a key and then a little big thing, like the buoy. It's a leg. It's like a buoy.

    Natty Bumpercar: It's like a buoy, okay, yeah.

    Unknown: It's like a round ball, but it gets all the blocks down like this.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, so it's like a wrecking ball. That's what that's called. And so you have like little blocks and buildings and then it knocks them down.

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: So it doesn't punch anything at all.

    Unknown: But it's black. Um, it's not really black because it has holes.

    Natty Bumpercar: The blocks have holes in them?

    Unknown: Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: And you said it has a mouth. Does the mouth open?

    Unknown: Yeah. What does it say? It says, and then it spins around and then knocks all the towers.

    Natty Bumpercar: So wait, so who has to set all those towers up?

    Unknown: Us!

    Natty Bumpercar: So wait, we have to sit there and build all the towers and then this toy just says up and spins around and knocks all the… That seems like a lot of work for me.

    Unknown: No, it has 15.

    Natty Bumpercar: It has 15? 15? All right. Well, I mean, I guess if it has 15, then that makes a lot of sense. Is it a little bit better? Maybe? No. I don't know. What's your favorite? If you had to guess what was your favorite toy, what would it be?

    Unknown: Smashing.

    Natty Bumpercar: Smashing. What toy is smashing? The car that you don't have?

    Unknown: Um, a big thing.

    Natty Bumpercar: You're so quiet. You got to be a little bit louder. You don't have to yell.

    Unknown: Um, it has to be bigger and it has little round squares. And then when it… It has to talk when it spins and then it opens its mouth and then it spins around the block and then it gets the tower down.

    Natty Bumpercar: Real quick, last question. What do you want to be for Halloween?

    Unknown: Um… Like Caillou. Like the fur and the monster head and the silly glasses.

    Natty Bumpercar: That sounds phenomenal. Sounds like we're going to have a crazy weekend. We're going to have a crazy Halloween here at Bumper Podcast Headquarters. Hope you do too! Pfft! Pfft!

    Unknown: Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

  • Bumperpodcast #194: The comedy of failure

    Bumperpodcast #194: The comedy of failure

    Natty Bumpercar talks about a night of comedy – and the value of failing … And then, Doodle Poodle stops in for a half a moment on this week’s Bumperpodcast!

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


    About This Episode

    In episode 194 of the Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar apologizes for his delayed posting schedule before diving into his experiences performing stand-up comedy at a challenging bar venue. He reflects on the art of crowd work, discussing how he had to wander table-to-table to engage an increasingly loud audience. Natty shares his philosophy about open mics and failing fearlessly, emphasizing the importance of trying new material without worrying about audience approval. Doodle Poodle makes a brief, uninvited appearance asking about bringing characters back to the show, prompting Natty to promise that friends (not just "characters") will return to future episodes.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I gotta think about the people, I gotta think about you and you're the people and I gotta think about you and that's what I'm doing right now, thinking about you.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “It's not all diamonds in this gold mine of jokes, all right, so it was fun, it was good fun.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Friends are more fun is what I say.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #comedy #stand-up #openmics #crowdwork #performing #friendship #podcastschedule

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Doodle Poodle

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: well well well what do you know when you look up and uh you think it's one day and then it's a different day and then you realize that the day that you thought it was which it's not because you got confused was the day that you're supposed to put your podcast up the bumper podcast why didn't anybody tell me why didn't anyone come knock on my door or give me a phone call or a text or a tweet or anything you guys were probably really worried right i'm so sorry that i did that to you wow how inconsiderate of me i gotta think about the people i gotta think about you and you're the people and i gotta think about you and that's what i'm doing right now thinking about you how you doing i'm doing well thank you so much thanks for asking that's very sweet i uh i did a show last night at a bar and it's a weird room where i no one's listening to you you it's as you start speaking uh the room gets louder which is you know that's fine and so what you're kind of forced to do is almost wander around table to table with your microphone and uh you know hey i'm gonna entertain this table now table number two what are those chicken fingers i didn't little chicken side finger you know that kind of garbage and um what to see if anything like would gravitate word wise towards other things thoughts and everything so just to see if there was any kind of pattern that could be picked up i was it was really just playing with with with the words and hearing them through the microphone i've said that like six times and but there was a look of confusion and i think it's interesting at open mics and stuff uh where you know like this is all comedy stuff okay that's fine uh no but sometimes people feel like you know they got they go into a room and you want to i want to do good i want to i want you guys to love me i want you guys but i think that at a point that becomes counter uh productive because once you know what your jokes sound like and you know how they go together and you've said them 150 000 times or whatever and you go to a room and you know it's not bad to fail i know i fail all the time so i i think it's it's you have to what you do is you go out you try stuff if it works it works if it doesn't work great and then you take from that experience uh the knowledge that okay this stuff doesn't quite work this stuff does and you you know a lot of times what people do will be like hey these aren't all gold here people or whatever they say or sometimes they'll be like you know uh all right this one's no sorry about that and then they say it's not all diamonds in this it's gold mine of they're not all diamonds in this gold mine of jokes all right so it was fun it was good fun uh it used to be that you would have shows like that and you'd be like what am i doing with my life why am i driving to these places and doing these shows and what's the point of them and why i'm just i want to sit at home on the couch and eat ice cream or whatever people do but no man you're on a mic or you have the privilege of talking at a bar random bar to random people and saying things that's amazing right holy cano holy cannoli get away doodle poodle no i'm serious you're not supposed to be on the podcast today but i thought you were gonna start

    Doodle Poodle: uh bringing characters back on the show and stuff and i now we're gonna talk about tomorrow

    Natty Bumpercar: no we're not gonna talk about drawing and yes we are gonna bring people back on the show

    Doodle Poodle: eventually oh okay today no not today what about today no i just said not today oh okay so it's gonna be uh today dude go go outside okay no just go outside right now

    Natty Bumpercar: all right that was doodle poodle yeah so we are gonna bring characters back because not characters we're gonna be our friends back let's be honest i think when you say characters it's a little bit demeaning because it's just me all the time and that's great and fun and everything but it's not as much fun as when you know because friends are more fun is what i say