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About This Episode
In episode 449, Natty Bumpercar wakes up from a months-long sleep at his desk to discover everything has changed. Santa visits to deliver some shocking news: Producer now has a successful morning show and seven tadpoles, Aloysius J. Pig is touring with his one-man show called "The Swine and I," and Rufus T. Rufus is in jail. As Natty processes missing the big 450th episode celebration he had planned, he grapples with feelings of abandonment and the realization that his grand plans for interviews and show expansion led to complete burnout. This melancholic yet absurdly funny episode finds Natty covered in dust, missing Turkey's Thanksgiving visit, and spiraling over the lack of background music.
Memorable Quotes
“I get so much momentum in my brain. Brain momentum, I'll call it. Brain-mentum is not what I'm going to call it. And then everything just shuts down.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“I'm so sorry to tell you this nutty… producer is now actually producing a monday through friday morning show, he's married, he has several children. Several yes, it's well you know it's only been a couple of months but frogs they you know it's all very fast.”
— Santa
“I don't like it when there's no background music. That's really starting to freak me out. More so even than the months of no episodes.”
— Natty Bumpercar
Topics: #burnout #friendship #thanksgiving #podcasting #lifechanges #nostalgia #planningvsreality
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Santa, Producer
Full Transcript
Natty Bumpercar: nat natty yeah natty are you natty wake up natty wake up natty yeah i santa i was i was asleep i i don't what day is it i don't even i don't even know yes it's it's towards the end of
Santa: november and from the looks of it you've got a covering of dust oh you've been here for quite
Natty Bumpercar: some time i i don't understand the last thing i remember i was i was here i was reporting the uh bumper podcast and we were um about to have our big 450th episode and yes and i was so excited because i had all these cool things that i wanted
Santa: to do and i was so excited because i had all these cool things that i wanted to do and i to do and and i was gonna have a a theme song and we were gonna have like interviews and um maybe an intern and the the numbers people were listening and it was great all over the world yes i i'm so sorry to tell you this nutty i i apologize i feel like i should have almost just left you sleeping but i think you overwhelmed yourself a bit and probably just fell asleep but that doesn't i was no i was we were making so much progress and now there's there's not even music in the background and there's nobody else here where's producer where's aloesius where's rufus his name is rufus yeah yeah rufus rufus that's his name i i oh i forgot his name it's it's been quite a long time and i i'm sorry to say this but producer is is now actually producing a monday through friday morning show oh um it's both televised as well as simulcast on the radio and he's doing good for him he's doing very well he's married he has several children several yes it's well you know it's only been a couple of months but frogs they you know it's all very fast and aloesius he's he's decided to go back on tour with his one-man show it's uh something called the swine and i oh and uh rufus is great well i feel terrible telling you this but rufus is in jail oh well okay yes i think we all knew that it was going to happen sooner or later okay well i guess huh things make more sense i mean i'm thrilled for producer he has a family he's doing i guess he's still producing so he's doing what he always wanted to do and uh aloesius you know he always loved to travel and he had a story and he wanted to get it out in front of people and i'm happy for him but i'm i mean i'm gonna miss those guys and rufus well if i'm to be honest i guess i'm just glad that he's physically okay even well even if he's in jail um he's not great you know it's he he he lived a tough life rufus and uh i guess it finally caught up to him and he's still alive i guess i'm you know i need i don't know what i don't even know what my next steps are i guess i need to get in touch with rufus to see why he's in jail you don't want to know it's terrible okay yes ah perhaps it's it's horrid yeah i can't even repeat it i don't want to i don't want to hear no um and producer i guess i mean i got a lot of work to do i got a lot of work to do i got a lot of work to do i got a lot of to reach out to all of these these guys you really should i guess i got to send him some some baby presents tadpole yes tadpoles yes tadpole okay yes tadpole presents how many tadpoles how many baby frogs tadpoles i lost baby tadpoles does he have seven i think who's his wife the name is patricia
Natty Bumpercar: and producer and who's who's directing pig's show like how do i even get in touch with him
Santa: i don't i feel like i've lost everything yes it does feel that way and as i was saying you should probably start off by bathing you've been laying here on this desk filthy it's a whole room just needs to be fumigated there should be some windows that are opened the door certainly and yes let's get yourself together before you go reaching out and potentially ruining the lives of well two of them one of them already kind of ruined his own life uh but yes i think that's going to be my recommendation okay that's a good recommendation but i so i'm wondering i mean so i guess this is like the 449th episode of the bumper podcast um which is crazy there i i was looking at it before i guess when i got overwhelmed and not very many podcasts get to this many episodes um especially you know with no one listening and um as far as listening you know i guess we started doing this for a while this like 14 years ago and we're at like 98 000 listens 98 000 that's instead blows my mind why anyone would listen to this that long and and that's why i was so excited to like really like we're gonna step it up a level and and it was the interviews that were gonna be pig interviews which i don't know if you even remember but we used to do pig interviews and he would go out and interview people and we were like oh my god this is so awesome and i'm like oh my god this is We were going to, like, double the length of the show. And then there was going to be, like, whole other just pig interview shows, which, I mean, like, there were plans being made. And, you know, sometimes I get myself so worked up and so excited with these ideas. And then what ends up happening is I just stop. Like, I get so much momentum in my brain. Brain momentum, I'll call it. Brain-mentum is not what I'm going to call it. And then everything just shuts down. And I guess even I just shut down. And I kind of can't believe that they all just left me here asleep on the desk in the studio and all by myself for months. Like, do you even know when the last episode was? Like, I'm looking at the calendar. It says. August. That can't be possible. That's, like, two months ago. Is that how long I've been asleep? God, this dust is terrible. It's making me cough. I'm going to make an admission here, Natty. Yeah? I haven't listened to the show in years. So I don't. But it's just news to me that it's been going on so long. There's so many episodes. Everything. And, you know, as to your friends leaving you, I would argue that perhaps, maybe, potentially, possibly, you actually left them first by falling asleep here at your desk. Oh, okay. I mean, you're not right. I did fall asleep. And, you know, I guess they could have just. . . They could have just tapped me on their way out. Maybe. . . All right. I don't know. Like, anything. Slam the door so that I would have woken up that way. Anything. Anything at all. You know? Because now it's been months. They basically have other lives. I'm sitting here. Why are you even here? It's November. All right. In theory, this is the week episode that. . . The turkey comes in and he gobbles and makes all of the chaos, you know, because of Thanksgiving. Oh, Thanksgiving. What are you thankful for? Like, a lot of times we do that this week. And now I'm waking up and it's Santa, which is great. I love that you're visiting. But also, there's. . . I don't like it when there's no. . . Background music. Like, I think that's really starting to freak me out. More so even than the months of no episodes. The everybody has left the show. That no one is listening probably anymore. That turkey's not here. I just don't like it when there's not a music bed. Yes. Well, I. . . My. . . Hmm. The first thing. . . I'm going. . . I'm going to try to pass all of this is not, not. Now, when you say not, that's a negative. And when you say not, not, then it cancels it out, which means it becomes a positive. So that means it is. So it's. . . It's. . . If I said it's not, then it's not happening. If I say it's not, not. . . Then it is happening. But let's say I really get into the mood and I say it's not, not, not. Not, not, not. Then that goes back, I would assume, to the negative. I don't know. That makes sense. It's a real conundrum, a grammatical conundrum that you've given us, Natty. I didn't mean to. Now, as to the rest. Yes, yes, yes. I think you should be. . . I'm so happy that anyone ever did listen to this show. Okay. You should be proud of yourself, of your past. What you've. . . What is that? What do you. . . What is happening? What is that? That's a. . . Yeah. If you make a word or if you say anything that begins with a P, we don't. . . I guess we don't even have that anymore. We used to have a little screen that would go. . . Over the microphone and it would catch the. . . The. . . The. . . What do you. . . The. . . The. . . The. . . The. . . The. . . The. . . The. . . The. . . The. . . The. . . The. . . The. . . The. . . The. . . The. . . And we had them a lot because of Aloysius J. Pig. I understand. So, we don't have that anymore either, I guess. Yeah, so, again, Natty. It feels like you're. . . Phoning in on the negative. Here are the things we don't have. We don't have a show anymore. We don't have a life anymore. We don't have friends. Man, hey. We don't have listeners. We don't have turkey. Turkey. Really, there's not a lot left. Oh.
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