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  • Bumperpodcast #306 – International podcast

    Bumperpodcast #306 – International podcast

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. We have a great interview, some call-ins, and we finally have a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!!

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

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

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

    We don’t have a special guest, this week – because everything broke – but – we’re hoping to have one soon (fingers are crossed).


    About This Episode

    In this International Podcast Day episode, Natty Bumpercar attempts to record despite feeling under the weather, while Rufus T. Rufus tries to take over hosting duties. Aloysious J. Pig discovers there's no slop anywhere in headquarters and demands someone go shopping, leading to chaos as various characters including Doodle Poodle, Turkey, and Robot drop by the studio. Natty reflects on their busy performance schedule and shares a delightful experience eating soup dumplings in the city. Despite the disorganized recording session, the gang discusses their recent shows and hopes to return to featuring more guests and call-ins soon.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I went to the fridge there's no slop i went to the second fridge there's also no slop i went to the deep freezer there's no slop there's no there's no slop in the pantry there's no slop out in the shed”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “I have a lot of friends who have tried to listen to the podcast and who have said they don't even understand it and they speak of the English. So if you don't speak the English, then it might make more sense to you.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “They had soup inside of them and they were tiny so that when you chopstick them into your mouth, you would bite and it would kind of, this explosion of flavor.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #internationalpodcastday #behindthescenes #food #performing #soupdumplings #chaos #meta-podcast #comedy

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Doodle Poodle, Turkey, Robot

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: now it's my understanding that today is international podcast day and so i rufus t rufus had decided to crack the microphone so i can talk to you the entire podcasting community the entire international world about what the bumper podcast is and what it does and who it's for and what it's about hey oh well look who just rolled up a bed mr netty bumper car himself yeah hey rufus um i'm so i don't feel very good today i'm kind of tired i'm kind of sick and i appreciate very much that you're um here running the show and we haven't done a show in a couple weeks and we haven't been able to get interviews and ah it's driving me crazy because we were on such a good run and we were having all sorts of fun people on the show and then the uh the software broke and we finally got that fixed but now scheduling has become an issue and i don't feel good and so i did i just didn't think i was gonna have it and made to do it today but i heard you down here and so i came downstairs and i was like oh hey bro hey pig what's going on bro not much bro just hanging out you know i hired you guys down here and uh i was going out to the store to get some slop you get me you know he was out of slop like i went to the fridge there's no slop i went to the second fridge there's also no slop i went to the deep freezer there's no slop there's no there's no slop in the pantry there's no slop out in the shed there's no slop like never once supposed to eat huh i'm just a starving pig you calm yourself down as your representation i believe it's in your rider which is your contract there is supposed to always be on hand here at headquarters some slop listen my piggy lou so bumper car yeah i know you're looking peaked i know you don't feel so good but my man he needs something to eat i'm just a starving pig you calm slop okay please get on it if you will fine okay fine fine fine i pig i didn't i don't i don't know how we're not how we're out of slop because there was slop everywhere i mean we had a whole shipment that came in like last week um i'll run to the store even though i don't feel so great and i will get you and and i'm i'm sorry and i just go to the store can you guys finish up the podcast because what are you doing do this okay sorry i'm you go bumper car you should be sorry coming on the podcast and i never heard you do that never i mean i've heard you tired before but that was a legit yawn bro that was like from yawn central from yawn valley from yonder over there go take a nap wow all right fine so i'll take over the stem i'm gonna take over the wheel i'm gonna take over the you talk i'm gonna tell you a little bit about what's been going on with me lately you talk so many shows very popular pig lately i uh hey show sunday yeah we went to the city and hung out on monday i had a show tuesday got a show wednesday oh boy on friday i gotta i gotta go into a show i don't know if we're gonna be on it or not but i gotta go and then sunday another show it's just like show after show after show after show after show after show after show after show after show and the people the people in the crowd they're all like pig aloysius j pig it's pig aloysius pig aloysius j pig that's me that's me that's me that's you i'm pig and it's the craziest thing ever i had a woman last night she came up to me at the show and she was just like i know you i met you before at a show and she was so sweet and she gave me a sweet hug and i was just like i remember you you was at that show you know it was just a nice time it's nice when you make people happy i don't know how i make people happy i'm not like a happy pig magician or nothing i ain't got no magic wand where i could be like poof now you're happy and nothing like that but i uh they may you know they seem pretty happy man i'm getting hungry how do people do this how do people talk this long without no slop i don't even understand i need some help huh okay we ain't coming for me because i got some other business to take care of i got some things i gotta handle some uh business you understand on the side that i don't really want to talk about on the air here so if you would not mind i'm gonna leave you here by yourself oh wait a minute here's somebody to help you good luck with this one

    Doodle Poodle: not what i wanted to have happen it's me don't pull hey don't pull i'm here to help yeah i got what you're doing you love to rhyme do you want to see my i would love to see it of course you want to see my we're on the radio what are you freaking out i don't care

    Natty Bumpercar: how does it even words man what are you doing i just said we're on the radio and it don't make much sense for you to be bringing in well i mean what are you gonna do use descriptive words and be like this yellow on this flower is so yellow that you're not gonna believe uh how yellow it is a bee would fly past this drawing that has a flower and try to pollinate it because that's how but it's not you know you just made a drawing which is cool and everything but again radio audio is a medium audio audio it's not a visual medium so i think we should you should go over there and i should um what should he know for pete's sake crying out loud i just heard

    Turkey: everybody down here and i thought to myself what a better place to live with this video than the color of this house because i can't talk about health health and i can't till this Failure moment fail all of my life no i can't talk about it mission failure i can talk about health in itself is plainly false strindi to be for me than with my friends.

    Unknown: Thank you.

    Robot: Yeah, get it together. I got stuck on friends. Sometimes I get stuck on friends. People say that I get… Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Here you go. They don't say you get stuck on friends. Nobody says that. That's not a thing people say. They say that you come and hang around a lot and maybe you don't offer a lot to the conversation, to the situation, if you understand what I'm saying. But they don't say, oh, robot, you know him. He gets stuck on friends. I never heard nobody say that. Never to nobody. Nobody, nobody. Oh! What is it? Hey, I'm back. I'm back. Yep, bro. Get in here. I'm so hungry right now. I can't even deal with this. How do you deal with this gaggle of characters? It's not easy. I'm going to tell you. But so I'm back. And I think the walk did me pretty good. I feel much better about the world. I don't know what happened on the podcast today, but I'm hoping that something happened, that something was said, that it wasn't just a bunch of fighting and people just walking in and walking out, offering nothing to any kind of story, just being there just for the fact that their voices are on the podcast. Because when that happens, I don't like it as much. I feel like there's no depth. Like when there's a little story that everyone is engaging in, I feel like that's a good podcast. That makes sense. And it's International Podcast Day. I don't even know if you guys knew that, but today the whole world is focused on podcasts internationally. So we are going to probably need to, you know, translate this, I'm guessing. I don't know if we know anybody who can translate this for the other countries. And then everyone's just going to love it because it's going to make a lot more sense to people. Although I will say, being someone who does, live in the America, I have a lot of friends who have tried to listen to the podcast and who have said they don't even understand it and they speak of the English. Okay? So if you don't speak the English, then it might make more sense to you. I don't know. I don't know who this makes sense for. I don't know who the target audience is. I don't know who is supposed to be listening to this. But I do know that I hope that we can get more guests on pretty soon and that we can ramp up the call-in number because I really loved it when people were calling in. And we can review more stuff and we can get more commercials on and we can do all the things that we were getting so good at and so happy with with the podcast. I don't know if Pig told you, but man, we've been having so many shows lately. Like we had a show Sunday and we actually filmed something for something else. And then Monday we went to the city and saw a band called St. Etienne, which was really fun. It was a good time. I had something in the city and it was a soup dumpling. So it was these four little dumplings and they were so hot, but they were kind of steamed, but they had soup inside of them and they were tiny so that when you chopstick them into your mouth, you would bite and it would kind of, this explosion of flavor. Like it was scallion. I think there was some ginger. I don't know, but it was, amazing. Like I don't even ever want to eat anything again. Besides that, I was trying to figure out a way if I could get on a dumpling meal plan, but evidently it doesn't exist. And then I had a show Tuesday. I had a show Wednesday. Got a show Friday. Got a show Sunday. And it's a busy time, man. It's a very busy time, but I love it. It's so exciting. And all I have to do is keep my nose above the water. I just have to maintain just a little bit longer. Just to get to the end of the road that I'm on. And then I'm going to stop just singing this song. Thank you guys so much for listening. Sorry it's been so long. We hope to get on again soon. Maybe with some guests. Got to line it up. Got to get it right. Got to do it all tonight. Tonight. Everybody with a one, two, three, international podcaster.

    Unknown: We'll see you guys next time.

  • Bumperpodcast #304 – Helping is good!

    Bumperpodcast #304 – Helping is good!

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. We have a great interview, some call-ins, and we finally have a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!!

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

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

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

    Oh – and – our special guest this week is Donna Vaicels!

    Go to these places to find Donna:

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DonnaVeeComedy/

    Salon Gossip:

    Website: http://www.salon-gossip.co m

    Camp Fatima:

     

     


    About This Episode

    In episode 304 of the Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar opens with a heartfelt message about helping others in society before things take a chaotic turn when Rufus T. Rufus crashes the show. Rufus claims listeners are upset that Natty's regular puppet friends haven't been appearing as much with the new interview format. After some bickering about show segments and schedules, the episode transitions to another installment of the Pig Interview series. Aloysius J. Pig interviews comedian Donna V. Sells in a hilarious conversation covering topics from fish liberation and cupcake etiquette to Wizard of Oz characters and pescatarianism. The episode wraps with Natty answering a listener's phone question with help from his son Oliver, reflecting on parenthood and the importance of listening to different viewpoints.

    Memorable Quotes

    “We live in a society. A society that doesn't work if we don't help each other out. I'm not saying you have to be best friends with a person… But I am saying you should help.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I like to talk to his friends, so that then I can make them not like him quite as much, because really…”

    — Aloysius J. Pig

    “You're calling me weird, but you, Aloysius, are a pig that does a podcast.”

    — Donna V. Sells

    Topics: #helpingothers #comedy #interviews #parenting #friendship #food #puppetry #family

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: Help someone out. If you see somebody who needs something, who's having a tough time, who's having a rough day, help them out. If you see someone trying to cross the street, who's carrying something, whose baby carriage is going this way or that, say, Hey buddy, you need some help? Because we live in a society. A society that doesn't work if we don't help each other out. I'm not saying you have to be best friends with a person. I'm not saying you have to call them and check in on them later. But I am saying you should help. What day is it? I don't even know what day it is. I'm so confused right now. I woke up and it's still dark outside and it was dark last night when I went to bed. The kids get up so early and I… Well, I have a thing to say. Hello there. Hey, Rufus. I say, I say hello to you, Bubba Cobb. I've been getting a lot of reports, a lot of news feeds, a lot of… Transcribations from people saying that they're upset that none of your character friends are coming on the show these days. They say, who's this highfalutin Bubba Cobb who comes on out here with his pig interviews and his product reviews and his telephone calls. And he does not invite his friends who made the show what it is onto that very… Then I said… Oh, shit. Okay, well, that's valid. And I apologize. I've been so excited with the new format that I haven't been having as many people onto the show with me. I mean, we've had the interviews and the interviews have been awesome. Actually, I was thinking about the interviews the other day where I want to make a page where it kind of highlights who was on the show so far. We had, who was it, Adam Lucidi. We had Sock Cop. We had John Trumbull. Last week we had Darren Patterson. This week we have someone. Finally, we have a woman, which makes me happy because it felt weird. But I want to have, like, all these people highlighted because it seems like the appropriate thing to do so that they get the most play out of the shows as they can. Now, you mentioned, I understood, I heard that you have a pig and pig illusion of you and a woman today. And I assume that the only reason you have not had one in your first four shows is because… None of, none of, none of them agreed. No one agreed to be on the show. Yeah. The, the, the, the, the, the fellas that were on were a little bit more desperate for airtime. No, no, no, no, no, no. Is that what I'm trying to understand? No, no, no, no, no, no. Oh. No, no, no, no, no, no. Well, I see. No, no, no, no, no. Well, I see. You don't see anything. Listen, this is why you're not invited on the show. You say weird things and you get me in trouble. It's just how it worked out with the schedule, okay? Jeez, I'm trying to… I have… I have, like, a huge list of people that I want to get on the show, but, uh, to interview with Pig, because I feel like he's having a great time with it, and people seem to enjoy themselves. Like, as I… I help him produce those segments, so I go on and I talk to people beforehand, and I'm kind of like, hey, you know, Pig's getting ready, here's what's gonna happen, uh, just be ready for this, you know, he's maybe in this kind of a mood today, or… What does that even mean? I'm in this kind of a mood? I'm a… What are you talking about? Some days I wake up, I'm hungrier than other days. Some days I wake up, I'm sleepier than other days, but I don't… Oh, hey, watch out for the Pig. Like, I'm that intimidating? Like, I'm gonna be like, oh, I'm gonna scream at people, guests on my show? Bro, bro, bro, bro, get it together, okay, Bumps? All right? Please, for the love of Pete. Wait, who is this… Now, who is this Pete? Now, is he gonna be on the show as well? Is he signed some sort of an NDA? Some sort of a contract with the… Of a podcast where he's gonna be on the Pig interviews, or does he have his own segment? There's no Pete, no, and there's nobody getting their own segment, okay? Pig has his own segment, and… I was thinking we could have a lawyer segment where I distribute law advice to the people, to the land. I could help some people out. Isn't this whole episode about helping people out? Well, how about we'll call it the Rufus T. Rufus. Rufus, fix your life segment or something like that. That sounds like a great idea. I actually got a few things that I wanted to run by you, okay? Can I do that? Stop, stop, stop. Both of you stop, okay? I don't want… There's no more segments. There's nothing. But we are… What we're gonna do right now, I appreciate you both stopping by, and I appreciate it for putting up air quotes, because I don't really appreciate it because I had a nice flow going, and I had a fun time with my past episodes, and now you're here, and you're making me crazy. But what we're gonna do now is we're gonna have a great interview with some… Someone who's hilarious and fun, and Pig, you did a great job. I'm gonna keep saying it, because you're doing a great job. Ladies and gentlemen, here's this week's Pig Interview! Alright, hey everybody, it's me, Aloysius J. Pig, and I'm here for my next interview. I don't know who it is. Bumpercar lined it up. He says he's a friend of his. You know, I like to talk to his friends, so that then I can make them not like him quite as much, because really… Bumpercar, seriously. Anyway, let's see who it is. I know she's a comedian. I know she's from the Jersey, but let's see who she is. Evidently, she's got a dog in her house. Hey, who is this, anyways?

    Unknown: Hi, Pig, it's Donna.

    Natty Bumpercar: I ain't Donna.

    Unknown: Yeah, Donna V. Sells.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, Vi Sells. Yeah, I know.

    Unknown: Yeah, V. Sells.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, let's see, I'm looking. He handed me a piece of paper with your name. It clearly says V. Sells.

    Unknown: No, it's Pig, it's Donna V. Sells.

    Natty Bumpercar: My name's Aloysius, did you know that?

    Unknown: I didn't know that. We've never been formally introduced.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's my proper name. That's what it says on my christening slip. That's awesome. The slip, did you get a slip? Were you christened?

    Unknown: I was christened.

    Natty Bumpercar: And when they did it, did they say, did they give you a slip of paper and it said, this is to confirm that Donna… Ugh, whatever your last name is.

    Unknown: V. Sells.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, like the Seychelles.

    Unknown: Yes, that's exactly right. It's like, yes, Donna V. Sells, like they sell seashells at the V. Sells.

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm not familiar with what that is exactly. Are you some sort of Dr. Seuss or something? Is that what that is?

    Unknown: Sometime.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay, don't be coy with me, V. Sells.

    Unknown: I love coy. They're such big fish, right?

    Natty Bumpercar: They creep me out, bro. I was at a place last week, a Japanese place, Hibachi, and they had like a fountain. It was a tiny fountain, and Bumper Guy's kid was just like, look at this, there's fish in it. I mean, it was the tiniest thing, and the fish couldn't even turn around. I felt so bad for him. Oh, no. Yes, so we went to the car, we got a hammer, and we liberated him, and we ran out. Yes. That's awesome. I don't know where the fish were. When we left, they were flopping on the floor. I assume that they got an Uber and got to… They got to the water, like big water, but I don't know what happened to them, if I'm going to be honest.

    Unknown: Wow. They might have taken a Lyft.

    Natty Bumpercar: You think that fish are more Lyft-friendly, or I don't know how that works.

    Unknown: I think fish might go in a Lyft instead of the Uber.

    Natty Bumpercar: How do you get yourself around town when you're driving? Like, do you walk? Do you bicycle? Do you paraglide?

    Unknown: I actually just got myself a Volkswagen Bug. It's really cute.

    Natty Bumpercar: A Beetle Bug?

    Unknown: I did. I did. I'm so excited.

    Natty Bumpercar: Is it like an old one or a new one?

    Unknown: It's newer, but it's certified pre-owned.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, well, that means they tacked on a couple grand is what they did for that.

    Unknown: No, it means that somebody else didn't want it, and I was like, that's not nice. I like bugs. I rescue them all the time. I don't kill them. So I rescued this one from the car lot.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, but, Boppa Guy, you got a weird one on the phone this time.

    Unknown: You see what you did to me? Okay. He knows that. He knows that.

    Natty Bumpercar: He ain't. He knows nothing. When he talks to you in public, do his eyes just glass over? Because whenever I'm talking to him, there's not much happening back there. He's a cute guy, but there's nothing going on.

    Unknown: But do you hear me? Everybody's eyes glass over. No.

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm used to it. Well, you have a lot of spunk, a lot of energy. So tell me, so you know Bumps from the jokes? Is that what it is?

    Unknown: Yeah, we totally do comedy together. He's hilarious.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, come on. I don't know why everyone who comes on here has to say nice things about him. Because, listen, you ain't going to get over on me, all right? I live with him. He's terrible. He's so nice. Oh, no. Okay. Now it's gotten weird. Because this is, I got to, when we have people on the show, Bop, you got to tell them right up front. Don't say nice things because it makes me uncomfortable. It makes me look like a mean guy. I don't want to look like a mean guy to you, Donna, you know?

    Unknown: I don't think that's possible. Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, that's fine.

    Unknown: He tries to look all tough in his lumberjack shirts and stuff, but he ain't fooling anybody. He's got Mickey Mouse under there.

    Natty Bumpercar: You know what he shops? He shops at Plaid Zara. It's literally, all he's got is plaid. He shops at, he goes to the place where they make tablecloths. Tablecloths. Yeah, okay. Wow. We just both got a concussion and went into the same joke.

    Unknown: I know. Pinch, poke you, owe me a Coke.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, did you just jinx me?

    Unknown: Yeah, I jinxed you. How do I?

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm not supposed to talk? You can't. Well. What do I do? I'm interviewing. I can't even talk. This is the first time this has happened. Can you un-jinx me?

    Unknown: Okay, you're un-jinxed. Circle, circle, dot, dot. I un-jinxed you on the spot.

    Natty Bumpercar: That ain't how it works. You just gave me a Cody shot.

    Unknown: I did. I did.

    Natty Bumpercar: I mean, come on. You don't know how to un-jinx? I mean, I'm breaking all kinds of rules. I don't.

    Unknown: I don't.

    Natty Bumpercar: All you gotta do is say my name, bro. You just gotta say my name.

    Unknown: Oh, Aloysius?

    Natty Bumpercar: Ah, thank you.

    Unknown: Oh, yay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Papakaza, what are you pacing? You gotta be freaking out. No, it's not. No, I kept talking. You heard me keep talking. He doesn't know what's going on. He can't hear what's going on. Yeah. That's so funny. Circle, circle, dot, dot, dot. Now you got your Cody shot. That's a Cody shot. Yeah.

    Unknown: I know. Well, it's back to school. I want to make sure you got your shots up to date.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yes.

    Unknown: You don't want to get the swine flu.

    Natty Bumpercar: Look, okay. Wow, you came for paid. Holy cow. Yay. No. I'm very, I'm, I'm very well kept. Thank you so much. I do, I do know, I'm not, I do know somebody. I was in a conversation the other day and they're one of those anti-vax people.

    Unknown: Oh.

    Natty Bumpercar: Creeps me out, bro. Because like, as the person's talking to me, I'm shaking my head, nodding because I don't want them to attack me. And, um, every word, I'm just taking another step back, another step back, another, I don't want them to breathe on me.

    Unknown: Please. Don't get a little spittle on you because it could be a contagion.

    Natty Bumpercar: Keep, keep the giant. You got to have the grams to yourself, bro. I don't got no interest. You know, I got these babies up here. They, uh, they're Petri dishes. I know. Yeah. You got, you got kids?

    Unknown: I'm moving my kids to college because of that.

    Natty Bumpercar: Have collagen? How old are they?

    Unknown: No, they're going to college, pig.

    Natty Bumpercar: They eat collards? I love collard greens. Oh my God. I do too. Wait, do you really?

    Unknown: Yes, I do. But unfortunately, I don't eat meat because I'm a, um, pescatarian.

    Natty Bumpercar: Why is it? There's nothing unfortunate about that. You eat pescatarian? I mean, I should have given you those fish I freed. Oh, I'm sorry.

    Unknown: I know. I hope they weren't going to be cooked because you were at Hibachi.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, they were in, like, the thing, the water thing. The pond. Yeah. Do they do that? Can you go and point? I want that one. They're like, his name is Mori.

    Unknown: If they were liberated and they were, like, walking with their little fish, like, feet, their tail. Imagine if they wiggled over. God forbid.

    Natty Bumpercar: Real quick, fish, they don't walk. That's a baseline prime everything. They swim.

    Unknown: They do in Dr. Seuss.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, okay. That's true. I was reading a book tonight to one of the kids, and it was a Lego book, and it had a fish in it. Yeah. So the whole book is there's a parasailor and a windsurfer, sorry.

    Unknown: A parasailor? A parasailor is, like, two of them? No, just one sailor.

    Natty Bumpercar: Uno sailor. No, a Spanish sailor. You're from New Jersey, and you're going to poke fun at me? Your accent is thicker than pea soup, okay?

    Unknown: Poke the pig.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, it's not the name of this segment, for the record. For the record, ain't the name of this segment. So wait, hold on. I've got to finish. So he was a windsurfer, and he was too close to the rocks, and so they had to save him, right? That was the whole story. And the kid was freaked out because the last page, there's a little fish, and he's by the rocks. And he's like, what's going to happen to the fish? And I was like, bro, he's a fish, all right? He's cool. He's in the ocean. He's okay. And he's like, who's that? Who's that, your friend?

    Unknown: That's my dog, Yogi. He doesn't understand that I'm on a very important interview with Aloysius. I'm sorry.

    Natty Bumpercar: You probably ain't going to get the job, I'm just telling you, because dogs freak me out. But so I had to tell him. I was like, bro, fish can swim. So now you're throwing fish can walk into the whole equation. And I feel like it's going to confuse things.

    Unknown: Okay. Well, I'll keep my fish on a leash, and you can keep yours in a bucket of water.

    Natty Bumpercar: It don't make no sense. Don't even make – we record these interviews late, so people will be chilling. What are you doing right now?

    Unknown: Nothing. This is just me. I just worked an 11-hour workday, and this is what I was looking forward to at the end of my night.

    Natty Bumpercar: 11 hours?

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Can I tell you what I did today?

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: I woke up. I got out of bed. I had some breakfast. I went back to bed because I had to – the food had to – whatever it does. Digest? That's the word. I was thinking migrate, but that's not – the food did not migrate. Okay. It could have. It could have done a little migration. And then I went outside for a little bit, and I rolled around in the grass, right? Nice. And then I was hungry, so I had a little bit of lunch. I noshed a little bit, and then – What did you have for lunch? I had some pastries. Nice. Yeah, like a croissant and a corn cob with the corn taken away because I don't eat the corn. I just like the cob. And just a side of slop. I don't want a whole bowl because it's lunch. I don't want to overdo it. Yeah. But it was nice. What about yourself?

    Unknown: Oh, what did I have for lunch today? I had some fruit.

    Natty Bumpercar: You just had fruit?

    Unknown: Yeah. I really didn't eat a lot today. I had a little bit of sushi.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh. Really?

    Unknown: Yeah. It's called a sunshine roll.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't understand why.

    Unknown: Because it's avocado and lemon.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wait. Really? That sounds like a nice thing. Does it got the seaweed or the rice or the quinoa?

    Unknown: And rice. Rice. Oh, quinoa. Why? Do you know where to get that pig? Because I have to tell you. I would love to have quinoa sushi.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. We went. Sometimes we'll go to. Don't look down on me. But we will go to Whole Foods every so often. I love Whole Foods. They have the little pre-mades. And I've had a couple of times the quinoa. And it's pretty tasty.

    Unknown: I've got to try that.

    Natty Bumpercar: It's delish.

    Unknown: You say that so nice too. Quinoa. So many people, they butcher that name. They call it the quinoa.

    Natty Bumpercar: They do?

    Unknown: Yeah. It's like really crazy.

    Natty Bumpercar: No. So you worked 11 hours. What do you do? What do you do for 11 hours?

    Unknown: I do hair in a salon.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't know what that means. What do you do hair? What does that mean?

    Unknown: Well, I cut hair. I color hair. I did somebody's hair. Actually, I did somebody's hair pink that it might have been very close to the color of you.

    Natty Bumpercar: Really?

    Unknown: Yeah. It was really pretty.

    Natty Bumpercar: Now what? Tell me the process. When somebody comes in and they go, hey, I was thinking of dyeing my hair pink like a pig. And you're like, bro, I got you settled here. Right?

    Unknown: I say like Aloysius pink. Yeah. Like porky pink. Oh, no. Like which pig are we matching?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. I mean, I hope it's I had a licensing deal at one point, but I don't know if it felt true or not because I had never heard back from the people. But I'm hoping there's an Aloysius pink out there somewhere. They owe me money.

    Unknown: All right. Well, today, I think I might have nailed it. It was Aloysius pink.

    Natty Bumpercar: And and and so and do you what do you work in a salon?

    Unknown: And where I own a salon pig. Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: You what?

    Unknown: Yeah, I own it. It's mine.

    Natty Bumpercar: You're an SBO.

    Unknown: Small business owner. Yes.

    Natty Bumpercar: Look at look at me making up acronyms. And that was good.

    Unknown: I really I was like, did he just say smelly body odor or and I was like, he would never insult me like that.

    Natty Bumpercar: I would never.

    Unknown: You only insult Natty, which I will say, you know, he's really good to you now. Want to chill out. He gave you the color today.

    Natty Bumpercar: He didn't crawl.

    Unknown: Oh, no.

    Natty Bumpercar: He gave me a pastry. It was a whole lot of long. Oh, yeah. That's what it was. So wait. So you do what you own it. Yes. What's it? What's it called?

    Unknown: Oh, it's called Salon Gossip. It's in Bloomfield.

    Natty Bumpercar: The first part made sense. The second part ain't make no sense.

    Unknown: Why gossip? It means to talk. We talk.

    Natty Bumpercar: And did you just tell me what gossip means?

    Unknown: I thought my version of gossip is. But I also. I also walk by a fish on a beach.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, no.

    Unknown: Gossip is not negative.

    Natty Bumpercar: Your telephone, you just turned into a robot person for a second thing.

    Unknown: Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, there he was. There he is. Okay. Okay. I got worried.

    Unknown: I think it was the government. They come. They scramble my phone calls every once in a while because they know. They know I'm talking to you.

    Natty Bumpercar: You ever have, you know, pescatarian, do you ever have scrambled roe?

    Unknown: No. No. I've never had that.

    Natty Bumpercar: It sounds, sounds disgusting, doesn't it?

    Unknown: Yeah, it does. I don't even know what that is. Scrambled roe?

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, roe, roe is fish eggs.

    Unknown: Oh, no, no, no.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, it sounds horrendous now that you know that.

    Unknown: I say no to roe. Yeah, no.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, no to roe.

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: I like that. And it almost, my brain almost went political, but I don't, I ain't.

    Unknown: Me too. Yeah, but I don't. We're not going to go there.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, but I don't do that on this show, so.

    Unknown: We're not going to wade in that water. Oh, my goodness. Goodness gracious.

    Natty Bumpercar: I was right there with you. I was right there with you. Do you work, do you work in this salon by yourself? Do you have friends?

    Unknown: I have friends. I have friends, and I.

    Natty Bumpercar: Now, wait, when you said that, why did it have a question mark at the end of it? That was very interesting.

    Unknown: Because it's really like this thing. It's kind of like everybody's a friend, but we all work together, so they're kind of employees. Wow. I don't know. It's so weird to say that.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, and you realize this is being recorded, so. Yeah. Let's not end any friendships or anything.

    Unknown: No way, man. No way.

    Natty Bumpercar: They like your family.

    Unknown: Yeah, they are like my family.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's exactly right. Especially since your daughters are all leaving you. See, I just got really mean.

    Unknown: I'm so sorry. Oh, that hurt.

    Natty Bumpercar: They're going to. Oh, my gosh. They're going to college. I know. Bumpercon, I've been talking a lot to, at the kids' daycare, one of the teachers, her daughter, who I've known forever, who babysits around here sometimes, is going to college. Yeah. And so we have similar conversations. There's a lot of raw nerves, a lot of sadness. I know.

    Unknown: It's pretty intense right now to see your kids, like, packing their stuff up, and I'm like, I'm going to be an empty nester. Do you know what that is, Aloysius?

    Natty Bumpercar: Not familiar. Does it have anything to do with birds?

    Unknown: Well, I think it's, like, where it came from, but it means that all of my little baby birds, i.e., my children, are leaving. They're leaving the nest.

    Natty Bumpercar: Now, wait. Are they, like, twinsies? Why are they leaving at the same time?

    Unknown: Well, one's a freshman. Aw. And one's a senior in college, and they're moving out. I don't know what I'm going to do.

    Natty Bumpercar: You're going to cry?

    Unknown: Yeah, I was crying today. I cried today. Oh, God.

    Natty Bumpercar: This is the first interview where we've had a guest on the Virgin TV. I cried on my last interview with a dude, and he got really, he was like, are you okay? And I was just like, I don't know. I don't know.

    Unknown: But, like, I was just, you could cry in front of me any time.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't think it makes me a weaker pig, if I'm to be honest.

    Unknown: I don't think it does. I don't think so.

    Natty Bumpercar: I feel like people look at it, and they're like, that's a pig who's tight with himself, you know?

    Unknown: Yeah. Yeah. You got to be good with your inner self.

    Natty Bumpercar: So, like, when they leave, what are you going to do with the extra time? Do you have stuff that you do for funsies?

    Unknown: Yeah, I do a lot of comedy, and I do, I love to do things like fundraisers, and I like to raise money for different causes.

    Natty Bumpercar: Like, what, like, fun, fundraiser? Like, you go, like, runs, like a 5K?

    Unknown: Well, I actually, no, no, no. That's really funny that you say that.

    Natty Bumpercar: How is it, though? I don't know.

    Unknown: That was ironic, because I won't run a 5K, because I don't really want to, I don't like to run. I mean, if there's a bad guy chasing me, I'll do what I need to do. But as far as, like, running, like, put a number on my chest, and, like, run, like, and then go for a finish line, that's not my style. So.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. I think Donna runs as a mouth. Hey-oh! Sorry.

    Unknown: Aloysius. I know, I know. I get a little bit. Who's getting frisky?

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, I get, I get, what happens is the later the night goes, the longer the interview, I get sleepier, and the sleepier I get, the crankier I get. So watch out, all right? I'm just warning you.

    Unknown: No, don't get cranky.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, I ain't gonna get cranks.

    Unknown: Okay. Well, no, I don't like to run those, but I do like to have fund raisers, but I put the fun in fund raisers. That's amazing. Ew.

    Natty Bumpercar: It's so gross, right? But that's what I do with my comedy.

    Unknown: Hold on.

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm shifting in my seat. That made me uncomfortable. Oh, that's so funny. She puts the fun in fun in fun.

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: This is good. Okay. Wow. No, so that, no, I'm totally messing with you. That's a beautiful thing. I mean, that's one of our favorite things is anytime we do shows, if it's a fundraiser, because, you know, in theory, the audience is there. They're there to support something, and in theory, they're there to have fun. Right. And, you know, it's a different level from going to a show and just telling jokes versus people getting something out of it, you know? Yeah. They're having a fun time, whatever, best night of their lives, but you're actually helping people, too, which is beautiful, I think.

    Unknown: Yeah. Yeah, I have a big one that I'm planning. I just got the A-okay for it, actually. A-okay? Yeah. A-okay. Yeah, I don't know if you want to hear about it, but I can tell you.

    Natty Bumpercar: Nah, I'm good. You know, I like talking about the fish. No, I'm kidding. Yeah, of course. Tell me about it.

    Unknown: So, there's this really amazing place I went and I took a tour of on Monday. The moon? No, not the moon. I wish. That would be amazing. Can you imagine? Yeah, it was amazing. I mean, there's an eclipse coming up. Do you know that?

    Natty Bumpercar: What's an eclipse?

    Unknown: An eclipse is when the moon is…

    Natty Bumpercar: Is that what you do? Is that when you cut people's hair at night?

    Unknown: Yeah. Yes.

    Natty Bumpercar: You use your eclipse.

    Unknown: I use my eclipse. Yes, exactly. Actually, it's like when the moon crosses the path of the sun and it blocks it.

    Natty Bumpercar: The moon crosses the path. Oh, it sounds like science.

    Unknown: Okay, so do you ever go to the movies and somebody is annoying and gets in your way and they get their head in front of the screen and you can't see the movie for a second?

    Natty Bumpercar: You lost me. Hold on. I meant, okay. I like the scenario you were building. So I'm at the movies.

    Unknown: You're at the movies, right? And I think you and I are probably similar in height. We're both kind of short when we sit down.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, I barely… Yeah. One time the seat actually folded back up on me and I fell down the row.

    Unknown: Now, do I have… I get it.

    Natty Bumpercar: What I have to do is I have to bite a big tub of popcorn and sit in the seat next to me to keep the seat down. It's good.

    Unknown: That's awesome. So you're a buttered little pig. Oh, I love that.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. And then I just slide home. It's… That's great. That's awesome. And then I get a stomachache, if I'm to be honest. Whatever they put in that butter ain't butter, butter, you know?

    Unknown: No, it's not.

    Natty Bumpercar: It does not taste good.

    Unknown: No. Wait, no. I'm sorry.

    Natty Bumpercar: It does taste good, but it doesn't feel good. That's what I was trying to say.

    Unknown: No. No, that's not good.

    Natty Bumpercar: So I apologize. I got…

    Unknown: Not good for your cholesterol either, pig.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, my numbers are off the charts. I'm not even going to lie to you. Here's the thing. Bumper car, he has me on his insurance. I think it's like a PPO or whatever it is. And we… I go, you know, for my yearly physicals, and they… It's not looking good, is all I'm saying. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. They said I got to cut back on… Sometimes I'll just open a bottle of Wesson oil and drink it, because I just think it tastes good. No, but it's good. It's an old world recipe. It's called… Grease pig? It's called… I was going to call it oily pig, but grease pig sounds better.

    Unknown: Grease pig?

    Natty Bumpercar: Grease lightning, whatever it is.

    Unknown: Yeah. Well, I'm sure it's like grease lightning. I'm sure that… Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: The… All right, so you didn't go to the moon. No. And there's eclipse and moon. Okay, so tell me about the cool place you went, and I won't interrupt you. I almost promise.

    Unknown: Yeah, I almost promise I won't interrupt myself, because I have, like, focus issues, okay?

    Natty Bumpercar: So… Do you need glasses?

    Unknown: I do. I wear contacts.

    Natty Bumpercar: Have you ever taken something called Focus Factor?

    Unknown: No, what is that?

    Natty Bumpercar: So, in college, Bumper Guy used to go… There were these vitamins, and each bottle was, like, full. It was $40, and it was called Focus Factor, because somebody was just like, you should take these. And I don't know. I think they were full of Ginkgo Bilboa and other things like that, and I don't know what

    Unknown: Wow. Is that Rocky Bilboa's brother?

    Natty Bumpercar: Ginkgo? I think that's his adopted Asian brother. It could be. I mean, I don't know. Like Yoko Ono, Ginkgo Biloba? I don't know why Yoko Ono is in this all of a sudden. Wow, you're as tangential as Pig is. This is the first interview where I've been the one… I've been the straight man, where I've been the one who's like, let's get this shit back on the tracks. Let's reign it in. Let's pull it back.

    Unknown: This is, like, the highlight of my day. I have been waiting for this all day. I'm sorry, Pig. I'm just a little excited.

    Natty Bumpercar: So, hold on. You're telling me that working 11 hours in a mine wasn't the high point of your day? This is it. Okay.

    Unknown: This is it.

    Natty Bumpercar: Seriously. This is a pretty low bar, is what I'm telling you. Like, if you were like, hey, I bought a car today, and I had a cannoli, and then this was the best thing, then I'd be like, oh, that's good competition.

    Unknown: Well, I did just share a Magnolia's cupcake, and that was pretty cool, because I didn't have to drive into the city to get it.

    Natty Bumpercar: What kind?

    Unknown: I had vanilla vanilla. I love vanilla vanilla. Come on, that's my favorite kind. I know, me too.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't want no chocolate near my… It's just like a yellow cake, and it's white frosting. And it's all I want. And back off. Don't call me basic, because it's what it is. It's perfect.

    Unknown: Perfect. And I take the bottom of the cupcake, and I take it in half, and I put it on top and make it like a sandwich, so I can even cake to icing ratio.

    Natty Bumpercar: And you split this? Yes. I mean, I would have tackled the person who brought it in, and then I would have probably eaten the whole thing as I was standing on them, because that's… You got to understand, that's a magical thing, that kind of cupcake. I know.

    Unknown: Oh, I know.

    Natty Bumpercar: I haven't been a magnolia in a long time.

    Unknown: Well, I promise you, if I ever get another interview or I get to meet you in person, I will bring you a cupcake.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay, the first one, kind of doubtful at this point. The second one, though, you never know, right? I could be wandering around Bloomfield. Bloomfield? Bloomfield? Is that what it's called?

    Unknown: Bloomfield. Bloomfield.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, is that because there's so many flowers there?

    Unknown: Oh, that's a good question.

    Natty Bumpercar: Do you ever… You should probably call it Boomfield. It's more fun that way.

    Unknown: Boomfield. Yeah, like, boom!

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm doing doom down in Bloomfield. I like that. I keep it real down in the Bloomfield. Yeah. Yeah, you shouldn't do that. Tell me about your thing. I want to hear about it.

    Unknown: Okay, okay. So, I went on Monday to this place in New Jersey, which I have to keep it undisclosed because it's, like, for the safety of the children, but it's called Camp Fatima. Fatima. F-A-T-I-M-A. All right. And it's New Jersey's only all-volunteer camp for children with disabilities.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, that sounds amazing.

    Unknown: I know. And they just are celebrating their 50th anniversary. Five-zero? Five-zero of providing service to, like, all these kids. And it's amazing because you want to know what? I want to know. It's not funded by the government.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, I… They get all their money.

    Unknown: They get all their money. They get all their money from volunteers. Wow. Yeah, people that donate. And I went, Pig, and it was amazing because there's kids from ages 5 to 21. All right. And they have all different kinds of disabilities from autism to cerebral palsy. I mean, you know, it was just… It was amazing to see these kids enjoy music. I went with my friend, Michael Murphy, who is a musician. Michael Murphy. And, yeah, he's a really talented singer. And he plays the guitar. And we went up there to bring the kids some joy. And just… It was… It was unbelievable. So… Wow. I went… Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: And so is it, like, only during the summer or is it all year round?

    Unknown: Well, they do two-week programs. They do two weeks in the summer. So your child would have to sign up or apply for… It's one week at a time. And then they have four weekends throughout the year. But this is what's really interesting and cool. There's… Each of the kids that go up, they have a five-year program. There's a file that's written about them. And in the file, it's, like, their parents, you know, mom pig, dad pig. And they're, like, nurse pig. Let's just say so that you can understand it. I understand.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right. Thank you. Just want to speak in your terms. Thank you for breaking it down for me. I appreciate that.

    Unknown: Well, you know, I know you stay in that yard over there, bumper cars. You don't get out much, so… I got a sty.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah.

    Unknown: I know. And I heard it's a pig sty. But so they get together, they collaborate, and they put together… They write a file for each of the kids. And then a camp counselor on Saturday receives a file for a child. They read about them. They learn about them. And then Sunday, when the child gets dropped off to camp, that's their buddy for the whole week. Wow. Yeah. So they have one-on-one counselors for each of the kids, like, for the whole week. Wow. So what they do, it's incredible. It's very moving. What they do is they make it like a camp that would be for kids without disabilities. So they have arts and crafts. They have music. They have entertainment. So we were there as the entertainment that day. As you can tell, quite entertaining.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. All right.

    Unknown: But I love this one place, see, because I have issues myself with, like, focusing, as you could tell. And sometimes, like…

    Natty Bumpercar: I didn't pick up on that at all.

    Unknown: Well, that's okay. Well, thank you. I appreciate the fact that you didn't notice that. So they have all these… They have, like, really cool things for these kids that maybe they wouldn't get at home. But it's really neat, too, because it gives the parents an opportunity to have a little bit of respite without it seeming like they're just, you know, running away from the fact that it is challenging when you have, you know, a child with a disability. It's a really rough thing to even say and articulate because it sounds kind of rough for me to say because I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, but it's the truth.

    Natty Bumpercar: I mean, having kids in general. And one of Bumper Guy's kids has been at the grandparents all week. And they switched off. And two weeks ago, they took the little one. And this week, they took the less little one. And as a parent, it don't matter, you know, who your kid is. Every so often, it's nice to have a little break, a little breather. Yeah. And it's especially wonderful if the kids are at a camp where they can experience all these awesome things. Yeah. So, like, do they stay there over… Is it overnight days? Yeah.

    Unknown: It's one… Like, the one… For the summer, it's an overnight experience for the entire week. And each day… This is what's so cool. Each day is, like, they do a theme week. So, the theme week that I was there for was… Oh, my gosh. What the heck is the name of it? We're off to see the Wizard of Oz. So, it was Wizard of Oz. So, all the decorations were Wizard of Oz around the camp. But then each day, they do a different holiday. So, I was there on Halloween, which the people did not tell me because they knew I would dress up. And they didn't want me to be scared. Pretty funny. So, whatever. And then the next day was Valentine's Day. So, my birthday… Yeah. My birthday is February 13th. So, I was like… So, basically, it's my birthday today, which is why I felt really good about being there.

    Natty Bumpercar: So, you made it about yourself. I'm just kidding. No, no, no. I'm just kidding. No, no, no. Hey, everybody. Look at me. My birthday. All right. Look at me. All right.

    Unknown: Well, I felt the gift was that I got to spend it with a kid's pig. You don't have to be such a sassy, Pam. I'm a little sassy.

    Natty Bumpercar: A little sassy.

    Unknown: You are. Stop it. Okay? So, you're like spicy pork right now. Oh, wow. So, what happened… Wait. So, listen to this one. I love this. So, they help the kids make gifts in the craft little area. Uh-huh. And Friday, at the end of camp, it's Christmas. And they have Christmas. So, the kids get to, like, give each other gifts.

    Natty Bumpercar: So, like, the whole… That week sounds insane. It sounds like Nightmare Before Christmas, where you got, like, oh, look, there's Valentine's Day. There's Halloween Day. There's… There's… There's Christmas. And it's all in the same week?

    Unknown: Yes, because these kids sometimes don't really get to experience it with friends in school because they have disabilities at different levels. So, some of them might not get to, you know… You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, remember Pig when you were little and you went to, like, pig school?

    Natty Bumpercar: Little pig school. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    Unknown: Yeah. Right? So, you got to have all those fun, like, holidays with your friends.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah.

    Unknown: Right.

    Natty Bumpercar: And they don't get to experience it.

    Unknown: No. So, they make it happen for these kids. And everything is… Like, volunteerism and everything is donations. So, like, cray paper and crayons and paint. It's, like, people donate to… I know they have, like, an Amazon wish list. I cannot wait to help these people out because we're… So, I'm going to do a comedy show.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, that sounds amazing.

    Unknown: I'm going to produce a comedy show. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but you know what? I'm going to learn and I'm going to make it happen for them because it's important to me because that's what I know. I'm not running a 5K. I love these kids. And it's not like they're less than for anybody. No one's getting me to run. It's just I'm not doing it.

    Natty Bumpercar: You should probably… It sounds like you should involve cupcakes because that sounds like it's something up your wheelhouse. Yeah. Cupcakes. Cupcakes and comedy.

    Unknown: And comedy. Cupcakes and comedy. Oh, my gosh. Pig, you might have just helped me name it.

    Natty Bumpercar: Thank you. You're welcome.

    Unknown: You're amazing. I'm great. And you know what? You know what's more amazing? We could do, like, a bake sale. Yeah. To help raise money for the car. I think you just totally helped me. I hope it's okay if I take that idea. Hold on. I'll give you credit.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Bubba Kai's saying yes. He's nodding yes. You're allowed to.

    Unknown: Hey, that's so exciting, Aloysius.

    Natty Bumpercar: Bubba Kai's also saying he would love anything he could do to help at all. Oh, he's the best. Because just hearing about the kids, you know, close to my heart, it makes me melt a little bit.

    Unknown: Oh, thanks, Pig. Tell him I said thank you.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, I don't want to make, he's, no. He's emotional? I might tell him later. He's a little bit emotional. So, hold on. I got to pull it back a little bit because I got to go to bed soon. You understand? Okay. So, that's a beautiful thing. And when you find out more about it, you're going to tell us about it so that we can promote it more. Obzy. Obzy? You know who I stole Obzy from? Who? You're who? Jackie Byrne.

    Unknown: Oh, my God. Isn't she awesome? Isn't she awesome? Isn't she awesome? Isn't she awesome?

    Natty Bumpercar: She's phenomenal. She is phenomenal. Obzy. And who is, oh, and so, okay, real quick before we wrap. Yeah. You cut A, you do comedy, you got kids going to college, you do wonderful benefits. What is your favorite part of The Wizard of Oz?

    Unknown: Ooh, good question.

    Natty Bumpercar: Because you were just talking about it and it made me think.

    Unknown: My favorite part of The Wizard of Oz.

    Natty Bumpercar: So, I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to put too much pressure. That's a lot of pressure. So, what was the first bit that popped into your head?

    Unknown: I love the scarecrow. I'm a big fan of the scarecrow.

    Natty Bumpercar: You can go this way, you can go that way.

    Unknown: Yeah, I love the scarecrow.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, I can't imagine why. I do, I can't.

    Unknown: I think I identify. Oh, interesting.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wow, this is like a therapy session all of a sudden.

    Unknown: Well, you know, it's funny. That's probably why you and I get along because, you know what, pigs love bales of hay. And I'm stuffed with hay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay, so you got back to being weird again. I like how we came full circle. I feel like being from New Jersey, it's more like you're stuffed with hay.

    Unknown: Hay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Like that.

    Unknown: But you know what? Pig, you know it's funny that you're calling me weird, but you, Aloysius, are a pig that does a podcast.

    Natty Bumpercar: What? It's got alliteration. Pig podcast. Podcast pig. Yes. Yeah, that's true. Ain't nothing strange about that, girl.

    Unknown: No, it's… No, ain't no hollaback, girl.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't know what just happened. He started singing. You literally, you just, in the middle of an interview, you were just like, I'm going to sing some Gwen. Anybody okay with that? All right. Here we go. It's Stefani time. Here we go.

    Unknown: It's like I have musical Tourette's or something.

    Natty Bumpercar: A little bit like that. A little bit like that. A little tiny bit like that.

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: So, okay. All right. You're going to… Oh, you're going to give me links? Yeah. Did you have fun? I hope you had fun on the concert.

    Unknown: I had the best time. I can't believe this. This was so much fun.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, that's amazing. I look forward to meeting you in public, and I'm assuming that you're just always on hand going to have the perfect cupcake, because if I walk into you and you ain't got one, we're going to have problems as well.

    Unknown: No matter what cupcake, I'm going to teach you the proper way to eat a cupcake.

    Natty Bumpercar: Girl, I'm a pig. I know a proper way to eat, okay? It was bred into me. It's what I am. It's what I do. I eat. Trust me.

    Unknown: When's your birthday? Do you have a birthday, Aloysius?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. It was evidently in July, because somebody brought it up, and now I don't even remember. Do you remember it? Was it at the end of July? I think it was beginning of July. I don't know, but somebody on the internet was just like, hey, it's your birthday, pig. Bupka missed it. And I was just like, wait. I missed my birthday, too. So it's fine. I'm a happy go lucky pig. Don't make me get emotional, okay? I'm sorry. Yeah.

    Unknown: I was going to say, because I would get you a cupcake for your birthday, and now I have to wait a while.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. So I think my birthday is August 12th. That's amazing. I love that. That gives you two days to pony up with a cupcake. No, I'm just kidding.

    Unknown: That's amazing. Tell me where to send it, and I will send you a cupcake.

    Natty Bumpercar: You send it to headquarters. Pigo Box. Pigo Box is good. I'm going to give you. You scored a lot of points. If this was at midnight, you would really be racking up points right now. I'm going to tell you. Pigo Box is amazing. Holy cow. Wow. You're really hogging the spotlight on my show is what you're doing, all right?

    Unknown: Oh, my gosh. I'm sorry.

    Natty Bumpercar: You're hamming it up a little too much.

    Unknown: I am totally sorry. I am totally hamming it up.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right. So I got to go.

    Unknown: You're going to be baking me to come back on your show.

    Natty Bumpercar: She's still going. I'm trying to run out of here, and she's still going.

    Unknown: Oh, it's so funny. Wow. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

    Natty Bumpercar: All the way home? Is that what you're doing?

    Unknown: That's what's going to happen.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, my goodness.

    Unknown: I'm going to put a little squiggly pigtail on the back of my beetle. I'm going to make it a pig beetle.

    Natty Bumpercar: A pig beetle? A beetle? A beetle pig. A beetle pig. I was going to tell you. I was supposed to tell you, but then I swear I've got to go. When I got, I went to a salon, not salon gossip, but I went to a salon, and I got my hair cut one day, and she was trimming, and then she's like, I'm just going to trim this, and I was like, that's fine. She nipped the end of my tail off, all right?

    Unknown: Oh, my gosh.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, she thought it was like, hey, I don't know what she thought, but nip, squeal, all right? I did not. That's terrible. I did not tip, and I will not be going back, and they got a poor young-

    Unknown: She already got her tip. Tip of your tail. Oh, my God.

    Natty Bumpercar: Fine. All right. On that, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank Donna so much for coming on the show and for doing such great things. Thank you so much for having me. And you have a great night, and don't work 11 hours. That's too many hours, all right?

    Unknown: I'm going to go count pigs tonight instead of sheep, just in honor of you.

    Natty Bumpercar: In your sleep? Really? That's going to put you to bed? No. Don't count pigs, because you know what that does?

    Unknown: What?

    Natty Bumpercar: It makes you hungry, so don't do it. That's not good. Actually, it wouldn't make you hungry, because you're a pescatarian. Exactly. If it don't count pig fish, or else you'll get hungry, I suppose. Pig fish. Okay. Send over your avails. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. That's a different conversation. Okay. But thank you so much.

    Unknown: Thank you, Aloysius.

    Natty Bumpercar: I hope to talk to you again soon. This was a blast. Thank you so much.

    Unknown: Thank you. Tell Natty I said goodnight.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right. All right. All right. Natty. Blah, blah, blah. All right. And click. Thank you so much, Pig. Thank you so much, Donna. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Like, seriously, Donna's had me on a lot of shows, and a lot of them are benefits. And I did one fairly recently, and this story was heartbreaking. And the mom that we were helping gave her story of her son, and I don't want to go into it because this is the Bumper Podcast, but it was a beautiful story, and she made me cry, and she made me come home and hug my kids. And I do that anyway. I do it as much as I can, and I feel like you should do that, too. I make fun of having kids. And I kind of try to poo-poo it and say, oh, it's terrible. And it is rough. It's hard. Being a parent is very difficult. Life is very difficult. But there's, you know, I get stuff from my kids that I can't get anywhere else. I looked on Amazon. I looked in boxes. I looked in bags. I looked in barrels. And whatever my kids give me, they don't sell there. No, but, you know, it's, you come home, and last night I was even, I looked in on the I looked on the boys when I got home, and I was about to go to bed, and just, just watching them sleep. Just, they're silent, but they're there, and you made them, and they hold your heart, and they hold your, their everything. They are my everything. And the funny thing is, is like, I'm saying this right now, but on the flip of a switch, if one of, if I hear an explosion upstairs, I will start screaming like I've never screamed ever. Um, so there's this, there's this crazy dichotomy is what I'm saying, but, so I was talking to this mom, and she, you know, she brought me to tears, and kind of like the camp that Donna was just talking about. Like, that's a beautiful thing. You gotta help people. People need help. Life is hard. The world is tough. You gotta take care of each other. I've said this before in other Bumper Podcasts, and I know it gets contentious sometimes when Pig or, uh, Rufus shows up, and especially when Robot shows up. Uh, but everybody here loves each other. In the end, we all love each other. We fight like a family, and you know why you fight like a family? You know what that's about? It's because you're all stuck in the same small area together for years and years and years. You see each other every day. There's no break. So you fight like a family. A crazy family. That's what we fight like. But it doesn't matter, because in the end, you love each other. I have friends like that. In comedy. These, friends that, like. I don't, haven't had this, this, this type of friendship that I can ever remember. Where I fight with them. I yell at them. I, we, we don't say nice things. We take, and then we come back and we're best, we're pals again. It's kind of, it's kind of fun. They have different viewpoints. I try to listen to them. I try to counter them. I, I feel like that broadens my depth of perception of the world. By listening, even to stuff that I don't like. Then it, it helps me to see things in a different light. And to react to things. Because then I, I'm more aware, more cognizant that things are out there. I think it's important to listen. I don't think it's, you have to, you know, take things in. But it's, I think you can listen and then disseminate. Take things with a grain of salt. Take what you want. Get rid of the rest. Whatever. I did that a lot in school. Speaking of taking things. We have a call this week. Another call. Same person. She's doing a great job. She's three for three. Let's see what she's got.

    Unknown: Hey, Maddie Bumpacar. My question to you is. How has your life changed since she started doing pig as puppeteering?

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, okay. You're welcome. No, thank you. Seriously, the calls. The calls. The calls are great. So how has my life changed since I started. I'm going to reinterpret the question as hanging out with pig. Uh, because last time he got kind of offended. I didn't, I didn't get offended. I'm here. I'm still here. I'm right here, bro. I'm in the studio. You can, you're looking at me and you're talking about me. I think it's third person. Might be fourth person. I don't even know how many persons is a person. I don't, I'm a pig. All right. Anyway. What is she talking about? How did my life change when I met you? Straight down hell. Right down the tubes. Right down the tracks. Right to the bottom. Right to the base. Where we at? You're going to see your face like that. Uh oh. I think we got somebody coming downstairs. I think we're going to have to answer the call in just a second. Who's here? Oh, it's Ollie. Hold on. Come here, Ollie. Where you at? You want to be on the, you want to be on the show? Oh, okay. So this is, uh, Oliver. You want to say hi? Hi. Hi. You want to listen to the thing? Yeah. Okay. Ollie, uh, we're doing a phone call. How, what, here was her question. How did your life change when you met Aloysius? J-Pig.

    Unknown: I don't know.

    Natty Bumpercar: You don't know? Did your life get better or did it get worse?

    Unknown: Um, worse, I think. You think it got worse when you met Pig? Holy cannoli.

    Natty Bumpercar: I just said, I think. Oh, but it still hurt my feelings a tiny bit, right? Okay.

    Unknown: I'm going to, I'm going to cry. Don't even cry. Why are you even doing this? You're annoying. You're annoying me. I'm annoying you?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. All right, hold on. Hold on a second. Papa Kai, come here. You take this kid. Hey, buddy. What are you doing? Were you talking to Pig?

    Unknown: I think.

    Natty Bumpercar: You think you were talking to Pig? Yeah. You're not, you're not sure, though?

    Unknown: I think I was talking to Piggy.

    Natty Bumpercar: Now, where do you going to be at? Where are you at next week? Somewhere far away.

    Unknown: I'm going to talk.

    Natty Bumpercar: Huh?

    Unknown: Like, wait, wait, wait, what is it again, Dad?

    Natty Bumpercar: You want me to whisper it to you? You want me to tell you a secret? Yeah. Okay.

    Unknown: What is it you're going to tell me? It's Cape Cod.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. What are we going to do there?

    Unknown: Um, I don't know.

    Natty Bumpercar: What do we do at Cape Cod? What's there?

    Unknown: Um, we go to the beach.

    Natty Bumpercar: We go to the beach?

    Unknown: Mm-hmm.

    Natty Bumpercar: That sounds fun. Who's going to be there? Fun people?

    Unknown: Yeah, all our cousins.

    Natty Bumpercar: A lot of our cousins. That's right. There's so many of them, right?

    Unknown: Except for Keegan and Cameron.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, no. We don't have our Keegan and Cameron. I'm so sad. We also, we don't have a lot of our cousins. I mean, there's a lot of them that aren't there, but there's a lot of them that are. What? Are you going to have fun?

    Unknown: Yeah. I think so.

    Natty Bumpercar: Uh, no. Are you afraid of the drive?

    Unknown: Nope.

    Natty Bumpercar: Do you remember how long the drive took?

    Unknown: Uh, I don't know. Okay. I think I should put them.

    Natty Bumpercar: You want to put them back on?

    Unknown: Uh-huh. Okay. There you go.

    Natty Bumpercar: Uh, the drive took five and a half hours.

    Unknown: Five and a half? That's, I want to do five and a half.

    Natty Bumpercar: Five, so there's 60 minutes in an hour. So, if you take five hours and you multiply it by six, then that means you have, so it's 300 minutes. Ah. So, it's, then another half hour. So, it's 330 minutes. 330 minutes. Does that sound right? Does it feel right? It is right.

    Unknown: Until I do it again.

    Natty Bumpercar: Uh, no. We don't want you to touch that. Remember how you? We're messing around with this and you broke that.

    Unknown: Oh.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to do this again. No.

    Unknown: Stop laughing.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah.

    Unknown: Can you just stop laughing?

    Natty Bumpercar: You want me to stop laughing forever?

    Unknown: Yes.

    Natty Bumpercar: But won't I be like a sad daddy at that point?

    Unknown: I think no.

    Natty Bumpercar: You think no? You think not no? Did you eat your breakfast? I think we should go to school soon, don't you think?

    Unknown: Oh, my goodness. Yes.

    Natty Bumpercar: Not school. For you, it's camp. Or it's pre-K. What is it?

    Unknown: Pre-K.

    Natty Bumpercar: Pre-K all day. All day. Come on, everybody. Pre-K. Can you stop saying that? I'm singing a song. You won't let me laugh. You won't let me sing. You won't let me have any fun at all. What are you? A listener of the Bumper Podcast? Waka waka. Just kidding.

    Unknown: I think this is good.

    Natty Bumpercar: Do you want to go upstairs? Are you done?

    Unknown: No. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Are you going to show me something?

    Natty Bumpercar: Are you going to show me something? No. All right. Well, I think what we should do while Ollie goes and shows me something is say goodbye to everybody. Can you say goodbye, Bumper Podcast?

    Unknown: Bye, Bumper Podcast.

    Natty Bumpercar: Can you say thanks, Donna, for being on the show? What? Say thanks, Donna.

    Unknown: Thanks, Donna.

    Natty Bumpercar: For being on the show.

    Unknown: For being on the show.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right, everybody. Thank you so much. Hugs and hearts. Hugs and hearts. Go help somebody today.

    Unknown: Go help somebody today.

  • Bumperpodcast #303 – Doughnuts & Darin

    Bumperpodcast #303 – Doughnuts & Darin

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. We have a great interview, some call-ins, and we finally have a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!!

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

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

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

    Oh – and – our special guest this week is Darin Patterson!

    Go to these places to find Darin:

    Website: http://darincredible.com/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/darincredible
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darincredible/

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    Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thevirginchronicles

     

     


    About This Episode

    In episode 303 of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar celebrates honeybees before diving into his late summer cleaning spree and the trials of being an accidental general contractor. Meanwhile, Aloysius J. Pig conducts an entertaining interview with comedian Darren Patterson, covering everything from roast battles and childhood playground games to Dragon's Lair, Don Bluth animations, and an intense discussion about donuts—particularly tres leches donuts. The conversation meanders through comedy careers, homelessness stories, classic arcade games like Q-Bert and Tapper, and even threatens legal action over podcast format similarities. Natty wraps up lamenting his lack of caller engagement and teasing his upcoming beach vacation.

    Memorable Quotes

    “The next time you see a honeybee on the street, don't go give them a high five, because they are not fans of that. Just give them a point and a wink.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I grab each side of the mirror, and I go, what's shaking? Bacon. What's shaking? Bacon. That's how I wake up every morning. I do it like 100 times.”

    — Aloysius J. Pig

    “I listen to KP on the podcast, and it was like, wow. I appreciate it, how you can do it. It's definitely like an art to it, but I'm sensitive. I can't take all that ribbing.”

    — Darren Patterson

    Topics: #honeybees #springcleaning #homerenovation #comedy #donuts #arcadegames #interviews #1980snostalgia

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: Honeybees, honeybees, everyone loves honeybees, or at least you should. Look around. Honeybees give us flowers, they give us plants, they pollinate everything. They also give us honey, because they're honeybees. So the next time you see a honeybee on the street, don't go give them a high five, because they are not fans of that. Just give them a point and a wink and say, Hey Mr. Bee, Mrs. Bee, you're doing awesome. Thank you so much, honeybee. Yo, it's spring here on Bumper Podcasts, on Bumper Podcasts, on the Bumper Podcasts. And by spring, I mean it's late summer. And by late summer, I mean really there's not much summer left. But it's spring because I've been cleaning. I've been throwing stuff away, left and right. It's insane. Just like bags and bags and bags of stuff. We moved into the house a few years ago. But I'm still going through boxes. I'm like, oh, what's in this box? It's a mystery box. This is a fun box. I found a box the other day. It had penguins in it. Cute little penguins. Why were those not out waving at me every day when I come in? I don't know. There was another little box. It had a kitty cat mom and a little baby kitty cat. And it was like a planter. And it was just, I mean, it was the cutest thing. There was a wiener dog planter that we found. I mean, there's stuff down here that we don't even know we're missing. And then you open it. And it's just like, oh, look at this joy. Look at this joy. We're getting some work done in the house at some point. And by the way, I am not a good general contractor is what I am learning. The plumber, he was just like, how about you be the general contractor? You save yourself some money that way. And now I'm two months into my general contractor tenure. And the work has not started. It's not begun. The permits have not even been done. So lining up an electrician, a plumber, and a carpenter, I guess, difficult. It's a very difficult thing because, hey, I'm on this schedule. I'm on this schedule. Hell, I'm on this schedule. Oh, perfect. Good. Because I didn't actually want any of the work to be done. I just wanted to continuously email you and text you and call you and beg you to get the work started. Oh, wait. You would like for me to pay you a deposit? Great. No, that sounds like a lot of fun, especially considering I don't see any future when the work actually starts. So here, take my money. But whatever. Something's going to happen at some point, I assume. Right? If not, then I've just given them all my money. But another thing that I've had to do is so that the work, I have to move all sorts of stuff, shelves and whatnot. And so that sparked. Kind of a big, a big push to start just getting rid of stuff where I got a big bin and I'm throwing stuff in there for a yard sale. We hope to have an October yard sale, a rocktober yard sale. Get rid of some of this kid stuff, some crib and a changing table and a whatever the doodad is. You put the kids in, you push them around. I don't know what it's called. I can't even remember. I know what it was. I was expensive. I know that. What is it called? A buggy? A baby buggy? Hey, look at your baby. He's in a buggy. Okay. What's up with that? We have an awesome interview today also. I want to point that out. Pig is really tearing it up. I'm trying to think what else we have. We have a bed. I'm just telling you all this so that you can show up here on the second weekend of October. I don't know if that's when it's going to be. And take my stuff away. Take my stuff away, please. We have a pair of old. Marble lamps. Oh, how fancy of you. So maybe they can use that in the Addams Family revival that they are filming. But the thing is, I don't know if you do, but I accumulate so much stuff. I've got like four old computers that I want to go through, make sure everything is pulled off of them, and then I can get rid of those. Old broken printers. An old broken scanner. All this stuff that I just want gone. Just go away. Because I feel like if I get rid of stuff, then my house is going to feel lighter somehow, if that's possible. I don't know if it is, but I think it's just a mental thing where it's just like, oh, I've got all this stuff and it's dragging me down. I don't want to be dragged down. I don't want to be dragged down. I want to be set free, man, like a bumblebee. I heard that commercial at the beginning. I love the commercials. If you ever need a commercial for anything, please just send me an email. BumperPodcast at NattyBumperCar.com and I will make you a commercial for my podcast. But right now, let's listen to Pig's interview because I'm super excited. Hey there, ladies and gentlemen. It's me, Aloysius J. Pig, and this is another one of my interviews. It's like we're just knocking them out of the park. Left, right, left, right, boom, bang, boom. You've got no idea, but it's me talking to all these people. Fun people? I think so. And from what I heard from you, you seem to like them too. Well, this next dude, he's a great dude. He lives here in New Jersey with me. He does a stand-up comedy with me. And from what I've heard from BumperCar, there's a real love of donuts between this dude and that dude. So, with nothing more being said, I want to bring on the show. Welcome, my pal. Hey, Mr. Darren Patterson. How you doing?

    Unknown: Hey, Aloysius. What's shaking?

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, bacon. What's shaking? Bacon. That's what I said.

    Unknown: Yeah. Is that hack? Am I the first? Have you heard that before?

    Natty Bumpercar: That's how I wake up in the mirror. It's like my mantra.

    Unknown: Oh, you look in the mirror and say, what's shaking? Bacon?

    Natty Bumpercar: I grab in the bathroom. I grab each side of the mirror, and I go, what's shaking? Bacon. What's shaking? Bacon. That's how I wake up every morning. I do it like 100 times.

    Unknown: 100 times?

    Natty Bumpercar: That's a lot. And then behind that, I got the Eye of the Tiger playing. So, I'll say it to the beat of that. Oh, wow. It's really a cacophony. The kids can't stand it.

    Unknown: Wow, that's intense. I didn't know you were such an intense pig.

    Natty Bumpercar: You know what? You don't wake up like this, right? You got to work into it. Right. And once I do that, I go do my exercises. Oh, what do you do? I strap myself to a yoke, and I plow the fields. You know, I do that a little bit.

    Unknown: This sounds vaguely like Rocky IV. Are you confusing?

    Natty Bumpercar: No, I don't know what you're talking about. I do CrossFit as well, so I'm just trying to. You know, Blur, you're really close to what I was doing there. So, I flip tires. I volunteer firemen. That's the thing I do.

    Unknown: Volunteer firemen? That sounds like a good job. No, it's an exercise.

    Natty Bumpercar: Is it? Yeah. What I do is I have a scanner so that I can hear whenever there's a fire in the neighborhood. And then I just show up, and I feel like I'm exercising.

    Unknown: So, you're like a vigilante firefighter. Basically, you just kind of show up with a bucket of water and help out however you can.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, I don't even got no bucket, but I do have a cool hat. It's not even really a fire hat. It's just, I don't think it's a cool hat.

    Unknown: It's kind of, yeah. Okay. But you don't go, do you go into the fire? Like, what do you do? You just stand around?

    Natty Bumpercar: No, no, no, man. I just hang out. But the weird thing is this dude from the newspaper, he's been taking my picture with all the different fires, right? Okay. Okay. From what I heard. He's got a theory that I am, in fact, the one who is starting the fires just so I can come and hang out with the firemen. Not true.

    Unknown: Oh, really? No. It sounds like, are you committing to, are you admitting a crime here? Did you indeed start the fire via Billy Joel or no?

    Natty Bumpercar: Here's what happened is we just got Lifetime on the television, and I've been watching a lot of Lifetime movies, and I feel like I'm conflating a little bit, you know? Conflating? Okay. Not igniting, but conflating. So what I'm doing is I'm watching things on TV, and I'm folding them into the real events of my life. Maybe they're not true. I'm going to say they're not here just for the sake of the court case that is pending.

    Unknown: Gotcha. Just keep the legal eagles out of it.

    Natty Bumpercar: Have you, enough about, I mean, we could talk about me all night, all day. You know, everybody loves to talk about pig, of course. But tell me about you.

    Unknown: Who are you, anyway? Oh. Oh, my. I'm a comic. I do shows in New York, New Jersey. Yeah, I try to make people laugh whenever I can. Uh-huh. I'm trying to make people laugh with jokes. Jokes? Whenever I can. Okay. Yeah, like funny talk. Funny stuff.

    Natty Bumpercar: Now, I heard you say you're a comedian, right? Yes, indeed. Do you ever, in conversation, do you ever mix it up? Are you like, I'm a comedian, I'm a comic, I'm a stand-up comedian. Do you mix it around a little bit?

    Unknown: What do you mean? Like the three different titles?

    Natty Bumpercar: I think it's all the same thing in my mind. I don't know if there's a difference.

    Unknown: Yeah. I mean, you could say I'm a comic. I usually say comic around other comics. Oh, wait. What did you say to me? What? No?

    Natty Bumpercar: What? What's going on? What did you say? Originally, did you say you were a comic? What did you say?

    Unknown: I said I was a comic. Oh, what did I say?

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't know. Because if you said comic before, and now you're saying that you usually say comic in front of other comedians, then I feel like you think I'm a comedian. I feel like you think I'm a comedian. I feel like you think I'm a comic, which makes me happy.

    Unknown: Oh, well, of course you're a comedian, right? Like, you just said in the intro, we do comedy shows together. Like, I mean, I haven't really seen your act, but like you said, we must have done it together sometime, so yeah, you're a comic.

    Natty Bumpercar: We're on the scene together. You know, I ain't done no roast battles with you or nothing, so I don't know how happy that we are.

    Unknown: Yeah, I can't do roast battles. I don't have the heart to be all mean to people.

    Natty Bumpercar: I went and I watched, I go watch that. That guy, KP, Burke, you know. KP Burke, yeah. I go to the city, and I've seen him do it a couple, two or three times, I guess, and it hurts. I don't, I'm not even in it, but I'm just like, this seems like a good way to get exposure. It's hot now. People seem to be into it, but I ain't got it. I ain't got it at all.

    Unknown: I know. I listen to, because they have that one at the stand, they have it on the podcast, too, and I listen to KP on the podcast, and it was like, wow. I mean, I appreciate it, how you can do it. It's definitely like an art to it, but I'm sensitive. I can't take all that ribbing.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, I don't need, I get enough from my friends, you know. I'm just hanging out with them, and they're like, That was them poking mean at me.

    Unknown: That sounds just like random noises.

    Natty Bumpercar: They don't even say any actual words. Those are just the noises they're making at me. But even,

    Unknown: They just, Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Just that, as a group of people doing that at me, like, you got to imagine, you got four or five people going, and it hurts. It don't feel good.

    Unknown: Yeah. You need a tough shell, a tough hide in order to do stuff like that. I just ain't got it, man.

    Natty Bumpercar: I like the thing. I got a thick skin, but I think to do that, I need like a tortoise. Like you said, I need a tortoise shell.

    Unknown: A tortoise. Yeah. I could see that. I mean, people, they wouldn't be able to poke you if you had a tortoise shell. They wouldn't be able to ping-pang, pitty-pang on you.

    Natty Bumpercar: It'd bounce right off of me. It'd be like, pitty-pang, pang. Did you, when you, growing up, did you ever play, I don't remember if it was like war or whatever, and people would be like, pew-pew, I got you. And you'd be like, bro, I got my deflector shield on. And you'd be like.

    Unknown: Yeah, yeah, we used to do that. And they'd be like, oh, no, you didn't get me with your gun because I, it bounced off my shield. And then you'd like immediately have a shield. Yeah. Like out of nowhere.

    Natty Bumpercar: And they're looking around. They're like, we're playing with shields now. Nobody told me. Where did you get a shield?

    Unknown: Like I had. Well, you don't have a gun, but, you know, so why can't I have a shield? And then they up it and up it to like, you know, oh, well, I destroy your shield with my rocket launcher. And then you say, oh, I destroy your rocket launcher with my, you know, nuclear bomb. And then that's how war starts.

    Natty Bumpercar: I always, yeah, see, it's like an arms race. Yeah. I always feel like the kid who's got the best imagination should win that game because he can think up anything, right? He's not some basic, you know, but, but then there's, I think a lot of times a kid to the big imaginations, the society beats them down a lot. So they don't have as much confidence. So they can't, they can't. I'm getting deep here. That's what I do, bro. That's what I, you know, I like to, I, what I'd like to do is I like to see the scab and then I just rip it right off. And then we're in there. We're talking. We're talking. I mean, well, I just sound a little bit grosser than I meant for it to sound. I'm going to put a band. I'm going to put some, some, uh, near spawn on there and I'm just going to put that bandaid back on. Now we're safe. Okay. Uh, beautiful. But I think, I mean, like, honestly, that was, was that, that was a legit point, right? Uh, sure.

    Unknown: I mean, I don't feel like you're going with me. No, I, I, I'm not, I'm just trying to follow you. I'm trying to figure out where you're going. Okay. You're talking about kids getting beaten down.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, so like you got, you got your, your, your kids. You got a kid with a lot of imagination, right? Like he's an arty kid. He likes to do art, right? Right. And then there's the kids who, who maybe have less of an imagination, but more muscles we'll say. And so they like to put the little arty kid under the thumb, right? And push him down, which wrecks arty kids, uh, uh, confidence a little bit. Right. Right. So then you're playing this war thing where the arty kid with the imagination should be winning because he can make up anything, but he can't because the big kid's got him under his thumb.

    Unknown: And so, uh, I see what you're saying.

    Natty Bumpercar: And then it gets, you know, I don't know, man, you grow up and then the whole world's against you. And it is like, I just want to be imagination pig. And they're like, you can't.

    Unknown: I, oh, wow. I didn't, I didn't know we'd hit a nerve here. Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, I think I'm going to be, I think I'm just going to take a second, but while I, while I do that. So you do comedy. Tell me a little bit about, about yourself, Darren.

    Unknown: Uh, well, I do comedy in New York, New Jersey, wherever, wherever we'll have me. Uh, I also do a podcast. What? Uh, much like yourself. Yeah. I do a podcast.

    Natty Bumpercar: Now that's fun. What do you do in your podcast?

    Unknown: Uh, well, the podcast I do with my buddy, Evan Morgenstern, uh, it's called the Virgin Chronicles and it's basically about, you know, people coming on our show, comics, you know, uh, writers, performers, whoever. And they talk about their first time doing stuff. Like, you know, first time, uh, yeah. So it's like your first job, first time you got your heart broke, first kiss, first trip. Wow. First time you got, uh, you know, first time you got, uh, drunk, any, any first time thing.

    Natty Bumpercar: The first time I went skydiving.

    Unknown: Yeah. If it's a good story behind that, we'd love to hear it for a time. You've been skydiving?

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, let me, so I haven't done it yet, but I'm saying like, maybe it's going to be a great story and then I'll, and then I'll give you a call is what I'm saying.

    Unknown: I see. Okay. So it's, it's. It hasn't happened yet. Well, we kind of want to have first time stuff that you've already done. Oh. Not, not going to do. Do you. It's a little caveat we have.

    Natty Bumpercar: Do you ever do a thing like where you, um, you could do like, uh, when I, it's not, this is your life, but where you have to guess where you have like, uh, I was a cook in France. I was, I, I was a volcanic, uh, inspector or I, uh, worked at Panera and you have to guess which one it is. And then they tell the story.

    Unknown: Um, that, that sounds like, uh, to tell the truth or you bet your life or something.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's what it was to tell the truth. That's what I was trying to remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

    Unknown: Yeah. That's, we don't, that's nothing like the pot. That's we don't, we don't do that at all.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay. Okay. Maybe. I don't know. We could start. I'm just giving you terrible ideas for your podcast. Maybe you, um, you have a wheel, right. And you have different, uh, subjects on the, do you ever do, you could do it live and it's on stage. And you go clickety clack, like, like, like, like the whole wheel spinning. Right. And then it lands on clowns. We'll say, right. And then you say to the audience, who's got a story about clown. Now this is terrible. Don't listen to any of this.

    Unknown: I say that sounds like wheel of fortune or maybe even the big wheel in price is right. It sounds like one of those.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh man. I love that big wheel in price is right. Cause it's it to the wheel of fortune. It's, it's, it's a laying down wheel. That's just, you know, going around. Yeah. But that price is right. Wheel. It's like, if it came off of it's it's axle, it's coming right at you.

    Unknown: Yeah. That thing is just like a, like a Indiana Jones, that bold or just ready to take out the first row. I don't know. I'm surprised there. You keep that, uh, so that, that thing of death in there.

    Natty Bumpercar: I can't remember, like, I think if you hit a dollar, you get a thousand dollars or something like that. Right.

    Unknown: Or something like that. I mean, I remember this from like all the times I was like home sick from school. So yes. That's what everybody wants to get.

    Natty Bumpercar: Cause like, that's the perfect one is a thousand dollars the most you can get from the wheel.

    Unknown: Uh, I, I believe so.

    Natty Bumpercar: I haven't seen it in a while, but here's the, so here's my plan, right? I'm going to work out a little bit. My, my delts, you know, mostly, and my, uh, my, some, some, some glutes, some quads and then I'm going to go on to price is right. I'm going to win. Of course, I'm gonna get to the wheel, but I'm going to pull it so hard. That I actually rip it over. Now the wheel is going to roll over me, right? Crush me a little bit. I'm going to get hurt. This is not going to be pretty.

    Unknown: Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: I guarantee I'm going to get more than that thousand dollars. What this is. I'm looking for an angle here. I'm looking for a loophole, right?

    Unknown: Uh, so this is, you're trying to like scam, uh, scan the prices, right?

    Natty Bumpercar: People. Hey, you know what? Your wheel broke, bro. What are you doing to me?

    Unknown: I don't know if you should. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if you should be saying all this on a podcast. Like this is. This is like admissible evidence. I mean, I mean, I'm no lawyer, but like this, it sounds like a good, nobody listens to this

    Natty Bumpercar: show from what I understand. I don't know. I mean, bumper car is basically like Netflix. He ain't giving me none of the numbers or whatever. I'm just like, Hey bro, how many people listen to this? And he's just winks at me and I'm just like, I don't know what that means. And I, I look at my paycheck, right? And the, the contract, we have a thing where once we hit certain, uh, levels of listenership, there's a multiplier in there. And I'm always looking at my check and I'm like, bro, it looks the same as last week. You know? What are we doing?

    Unknown: You're getting paid for this? You're making money.

    Natty Bumpercar: We roll. We rolled deep here. Okay. I don't know. I don't know how you get down on your, on your, on your show. You know what? You should, you should do a podcast with your host, right? But the first time you got paid to do a podcast, oh, that I still waiting on that. Okay. We'll see. That's like my skydiving story. It seems like it's all working out.

    Unknown: Very well. Yeah, I guess so. Wow. Right. I guess we will. Yeah. We will have you on then about your skydiving.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. God. I'm just, I'm just messing with it. So let me talk. Okay. You do call me, do a podcast. Uh, I do podcast and you, you move, you move around the, the New York, New Jersey area.

    Unknown: Do you ever go far afield far, like, like farther out somewhere?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Like, like Pennsylvania. I don't know how far, uh, Connecticut.

    Unknown: That's pretty far. Uh, yeah. Yeah, I do. I did a couple of shows in, uh, Yonkers once I just, oh, I just came back from doing a show. Uh, I did one in Buffalo and I did one in Toronto just like a week ago. Wait, really?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. I was in Toronto twice. You've been like, oh, you know, I do New York, New Jersey, but like you went to Toronto, another country, bro.

    Unknown: I know. But I mean, I mainly do New York and New Jersey, like, but like that, that whole, the Buffalo, Toronto, that's like a kind of a one-off thing. Oh. And I did, I was in, uh, Lexington, Kentucky once I did some standup. See?

    Natty Bumpercar: And do you, okay. So do you find, uh, a different crowd response? Like I feel, you know, New York, New Jersey, it's weird. New York's audiences are pretty specific depending on the club you're at, I feel. Um, and then New Jersey audiences are pretty, I mean, you can pretty much, when you go into a room, you can look around and you can be like, okay, this is going to be this kind of room. This is going to be a VFW room. It's maybe going to be a little bit skew, a little bit older, whatever. Right? Right.

    Unknown: Right. Yeah. Like, I mean, I had to learn that the hard way. There was one time I did a show in central Jersey and like the, I, I'm, I mean, I'm like in my, I guess I just turned 40. So I guess I did, I turned 40, but I went in there and like, I was like the youngest person in the room. Like everybody was like in their fifties and stuff. And, uh, but all the jokes I had were kind of, I guess, towards young folks. Yeah. Uh, yeah, they did not get anything. It was, it was, I died a horrible death that night.

    Natty Bumpercar: But I feel like your stuff is accessible. I don't, I mean, I don't, you don't talk about the Twitter tweets and none of that stuff.

    Unknown: I don't, I don't do the Twitter tweets, but I mean, a lot of this stuff, I mean, I do like a whole chunk about, you know, being broke and having no money, but it seems like people in their fifties, they, you know, they're, they're just swimming in it. All types of cash and the gold doubloons and whatnot. So like, they don't relate to my brokenness.

    Natty Bumpercar: Gold doubloons. Was Scrooge McDuck there?

    Unknown: Uh, that's what I imagine. I imagine. I imagine. Well, Scrooge, he's an older man, so he has gold doubloons. So I figure all older people have a gold doubloons. Right.

    Natty Bumpercar: Are you? Oh, of course. I mean, bumper cars got a whole closet full of them. He says he won't even let me look in there. I don't know what's going on. I knew it. Yeah. He's loaded. He's Mr. Moneybags, Mr. Bumpercar Moneybags. That's his name.

    Unknown: He's burning, just burning cigars with dollar bills. I know what he's up to.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. He's the fireplace. It's just got stacks of hundreds and I'm just like, man, and like we ordered a pizza the other day and I was like, bro, because he was out, he was out, he was out on the town and I was just like, bro, how am I going to pay for this pizza you ordered? And he's just like, pull one from the stack in a fireplace. And I was like, very classy bumper car. Very, very classy. Oh man.

    Unknown: That podcast must be paying you some coins.

    Natty Bumpercar: Stacks and stacks and stacks. Stacks upon stacks upon stacks is what I'm at. Gee willikers.

    Unknown: All right. You know, you had it like that. You're like a rapper or something.

    Natty Bumpercar: I, I mean, I, I got a lot of mad chains. I don't know if I had mad chains.

    Unknown: Oh wow. Now you're from the street. I loved it.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh yeah. Yeah. I, you know, the dirty, dirty. That's I, I went to, I went to school. I did get a degree from the school of hot dogs. It was pretty good. It was a rough, rough education.

    Unknown: Got a doctorate in stone cold rocking it.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh wow. That's an old one.

    Unknown: That's an old one. That's an old phrase. I heard it back in the day.

    Natty Bumpercar: I got a doctorate in stone cold rocket. I liked that. That's got a good pentameter.

    Unknown: Yeah. Wow. You, you know, all these big words, you're, you're so scholarly. I'm, I'm shocked.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, Bubba Kai got a master's degree in art. Don't ever do that. But so I guess he's got a lot of big words in his head, but he wanders around the house just basically mumbling to himself. And sometimes I'll pick up on words. That's what happens.

    Unknown: That's yeah. That sounds like Maddie.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Usually I don't even know a lot of times what he's even talking about, but I'm just like, okay, bro. And sometimes I'll, I'll pick up the words and then I say I'm wrong. So, you know? Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. No, it's all right today. I went, I got a, uh, oh, you're going to like, I got a trace late chase donut from the Montclair bread company. Dude.

    Unknown: No, no, no fooling. No. I just, I just had a trail H a not just, but I did get a trail H a donut from the Montclair bakery and a Nutella.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wait. Oh really? Yeah. I got a Nutella. Wait. Oh, the, the trade led J's. It makes me cry a little bit when I get it.

    Unknown: It's divine. Like it's one of my favorite, I mean, I just like trail H a cake in general. Oh yeah. And, uh, yeah, my wife, uh, that's me. We just drove by there this morning and we got like a bunch of donuts and she knows I love trail H a cake that she got me a trail H a donut and she knows I love them to tell us. So I got in this whole donut season today.

    Natty Bumpercar: You did this.

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: This morning. Darren, I had one today, today on this very day.

    Unknown: On this, on this very, on this beautiful Eve.

    Natty Bumpercar: And I even, I, I sat in the restaurant and ate it so that I could, cause I didn't want to, I called my wife and I was just like, bro, I'm going to get a donut. Do I need to bring anything home for them? For the monsters? And she was just like, I don't think that's a good idea. And I was like me either. So I stayed there and I ate it.

    Unknown: Right.

    Natty Bumpercar: Amazing. It was such a good, relaxing experience. I had breakfast. It was delicious.

    Unknown: Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: I mean, I love, I love donuts, but that donut is, there's just something about it. It's just so good.

    Unknown: It is divine. I, I, you know, I mean, I know I'm, now I'm getting old. I'm trying to be healthier, but this is like the little fat kid in me that just loves donuts and cakes and pies and cheeseburgers and all that stuff. I just can't help myself.

    Natty Bumpercar: You can't help yourself. So I was staying in there at the counter and for everybody, don't want it. I don't know. There's a place called the Montclair Bread Company and they make donuts and they're phenomenal. They want some competition, whatever. Yeah. I think they were like Food Network and stuff.

    Unknown: Weren't they? They might.

    Natty Bumpercar: I think so. They had like a big banner outside today and I just, all I, it just, I just saw it say winner. And I was like, yes you are. Yes. Yeah. Yes you are. But so the donuts are all out there on display, the breads and whatever. And I love the, the Tres Leches the most, but they had one today. It was a s'mores. That caught my eye. Right. So I'm looking at it, but then I always want to go back to my, my number one because I only get like one a month because the same me, I'm trying to be healthy. Right. And the girl, she's like looking at me and I'm looking at the donuts and she's like, you're looking at all the donuts. And I was like, yeah, I'm relaxed. Like they're calling me, you know, like the Fruity Pebbles donut wants me to eat it. And she started laughing because I guess I'm a pig in a donut shop and I'm getting one donut. And she said, I says to her, how do you even work in this place? Like how do you handle it? And then the other girl jumps in. She's like, it's not easy. You know, after the first few, you know, a couple of weeks, so you get a little bit sick of the donuts. And I was just like, that's blasphemy. It's not even possible.

    Unknown: It might be. I mean, you're probably best if you're somebody who doesn't, who's like lactose intolerant or doesn't like donuts and sweets, if you work there, that way you can keep yourself at bay. Yeah. Other than that. I don't know those. I mean, do you, do you get like a discount? Maybe?

    Natty Bumpercar: No. So that's the thing she said. She's like, here's the thing. Well, maybe you get discount, but she was just like, the best part is they make us pay for everything. So in my mind I was, yeah, I was just like, man, they even get a discount at the Apple store. How are you not getting a discount here, girl?

    Unknown: Yeah. People that work at the gap get like a half off of like sweaters or whatever.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Yeah. So if you're going to be around the merchandise, you got to get a discount so that you can push the merchandise. Is what I'm thinking.

    Unknown: Absolutely. Like back in the day, I want to date myself. I worked at the Virgin mega store in Manhattan and I got discounts from that.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wait, wait. The one down on 14th or wait, is that what it was? Yeah. No, no. There was. Wait. Yeah.

    Unknown: 14th right by the park. Not Washington square, but. Union. Yeah. Union. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: You worked there? Yeah. Yeah. I did. From 99 to 01 back in my college days. Wait, really? Yeah.

    Unknown: Wow. How bohemian of you.

    Natty Bumpercar: I had no idea. Well, it's sort of, yeah, it was random. I think I may have talked about it before. So real quick, I moved from Georgia to New York to go to grade school. Okay. Financial aid fell through and I was homeless for a few months. Oh wow. It was wonderful. I do not recommend it.

    Unknown: Homelessness, I do not recommend.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. I would say if you can stay away from it, you might want to consider it. Right?

    Unknown: Eventually. If you can get yourself some shelter, go for it.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Even if it's under a bridge. Seriously. So what I would do every so often, there was a couch in the East Village on like, what was it? Ninth? I can't even remember. Ninth? Between first and second. And I'd stay there every so often. But I would stay in the studio at school behind paintings because it was an art school. Ooh. And I would make like a lean-to of giant canvases and I would just sleep behind the canvases.

    Unknown: Oh wow. How inventive. Well, with desperate times, my friend.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Call for desperate. Yeah, you got to do what you got to do. I didn't have all these stacks of cash like I do now.

    Unknown: Bro, I got to tell you, I ain't got no stacks of cash. I just got to be honest.

    Natty Bumpercar: That sounds- You just said you had, so you don't, there is no cash. There's nothing. I mean, like we, I didn't know this could happen, but I went to my online banking account the other day and it had an animated GIF of moths in my online banking account. I was like, that's a good thing. That's a good thing.

    Unknown: That's a good thing. That's a good thing.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's a good thing. That's a good thing. I don't know why would they do that. I think it's because like the bank saying, hey, this guy or gal, they don't have any money. Let's not show them how much money they don't have. Let's show them this little moth gift to, you know, make them smile a little bit before they realize that of their own poverty. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

    Unknown: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then the last time I did it It did the That noise That happens when Pac-Man loses the life You know I like that

    Natty Bumpercar: That's so fun That when The last When a couple times ago When Trumbo was on I He was talking about Q-Bit And we were trying to figure out Q-Bit noises Like when he Oh yeah And now you're doing Well Let's see I guess this is my new thing How does Q-Bit sound When he Passes away

    Unknown: I don't I don't know I know he makes that noise Like when he gets hit with something Where like a little Speak bubbles come down And it's all like You know the symbol That's supposed to be A person And it goes like And it's like Something like that

    Natty Bumpercar: I like that Because all we got We Okay you had a lot more Because all we had was just like But I think yours might be more But we both remember the bubbles But we couldn't remember nothing It was just like And I was supposed to look it up And actually We left a blank spot In the interview For Bumpercar To do producing And put the noise in there But he never did it So

    Unknown: Too busy walking around Mumbling to himself In his robe Yes He got no time for that You know What's he gonna do I gotta walk around and mumble I got time to work On your podcast now Yeah he's like

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah I gotta go You know Research No thank you Thank you

    Unknown: Yeah I remember I remember Q-Bert From my old Arcade days I remember that I remember There was another video game We used to play a lot Burger Time Oh yeah You're stepping on pickles And there was one Tapper Where you're like a bartender And you had to like You had to like serve All these People in the bar Beer Before they like Picked you up And threw you out

    Natty Bumpercar: Yep You had to run From like Counter to counter To counter Yeah exactly Make the beer Throw the beer down And if you don't hold The button down long enough Then it doesn't fill up enough And you lose that one And then they're getting closer And they're getting closer And sometimes they're like There's a bachelorette party Coming down And you're like I can't keep up with this Like how am I supposed to And then sometimes There's like a group of police And they drink You know So it's just like There's a lot There's a lot

    Unknown: It was Yeah In hindsight now I don't know if like A Budweiser video game You know In place of all these children Was maybe the wisest thing to do But

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't know Whatever Yeah you know It was just teaching us Life skills That's what it was doing

    Unknown: It was the 80s It was a different time

    Natty Bumpercar: It was a crazy time Yeah I remember

    Unknown: I remember Dragon's Lair too That was an insane video game

    Natty Bumpercar: Did you watch What was that show It was on Netflix With the kids Stranger Things

    Unknown: Stranger Things Yeah new season Coming in October I can't wait

    Natty Bumpercar: So the new season Has a trailer And they're in an arcade And they're playing Dragon's Lair

    Unknown: I know I remember that I remember that being Like the toughest video game ever Like I don't think I knew anybody That even came close To beating it

    Natty Bumpercar: No It was a CD-ROM game It was like It was on a giant disc Yeah Right right And it was made by Hold on Don Bluth I feel like

    Unknown: Don Bluth Yeah no He ran the 80s I remember like He did like All Dogs Go to Heaven Secret of Nim Like he was The American Tail He was like The animator in the 80s He was like He was running it

    Natty Bumpercar: But where did he go He just disappeared He's got too much money I guess

    Unknown: I guess so It's just you know He got stacked By the fireplace And mumbling to himself In his mansion I guess or something

    Natty Bumpercar: He and Bumper Cushion Started a group Crazy Crazy people who make stuff But Bumper You know Bumper Cushion He's not gonna Nobody's gonna want to Hang out with that dude He's a little off To be honest

    Unknown: He's a nice guy What are you talking about You know

    Natty Bumpercar: I got my problems I don't want to bring him up here Because I mean I know he's never gonna listen here So I think it's okay Right But you know Let's just say Maybe things aren't all perfect All the time You know

    Unknown: Oh wow Alright I don't want to get involved I don't want to get in the middle Of this Lover's quarrel Or whatever it is

    Natty Bumpercar: Bro you are You're not even in the middle At this point You're like You're at 60-40 Okay You're under 60 You're past the middle Okay I feel like You know You know some things So the next time you see him Maybe it's not gonna be As sweet and sour No I don't know I got hungry I literally I got hungry In the middle of that sentence It was such a long sentence That I started thinking About Chinese food

    Unknown: You think about Dipping sauces While I'm talking to you Yeah

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm trying that loud pig Come on I trailed off Into dipping sauces It's like I'm like Hey Darren You know Tell me about your hopes And dreams And ranch And you're like What? What? What are you talking about ranch? What is he talking about?

    Unknown: And spicy chipotle Wait what?

    Natty Bumpercar: What did you say? Man you know what I love Is a I like to do some cooking Is a Chili Chili peppers Chipotle peppers In an adobo sauce Yeah right Because But then you just take That adobo sauce And you mix it in with stuff And it gives you this Deep smoky heat That just makes everything

    Unknown: Pop Oh Mama mia That sounds delicious

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm actually drooling I didn't know This was going to happen tonight I'm drooling

    Unknown: Yeah no We talked a lot A lot of food talk here Like chipotle And donuts Dipping sauces

    Natty Bumpercar: Dipping sauces Wow

    Unknown: It's like a cooking channel Thing over here

    Natty Bumpercar: It really is It feels like It's moving in that direction I um You know I gotta tell you I gotta I gotta go pass it out here Pretty soon But I wanna hear So let's see You got your podcast You do your comedy You live in Jersey You've been All the way up to Toronto Where are you I mean I got so many questions But I feel like I gotta I gotta wrap up Um Do you think you ever Want to come back We could come back You're coming back on the show One day right?

    Unknown: I absolutely will come back Whenever you'll have me Just give me Give me a shout A holler And whatever you Whatever you want

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay so here's what We're gonna do though Uh We're switching The format up I think a little bit After this episode So when you come back on You're gonna tell me About something And it's the first time That you've done something And this is just Off the top of my head I'm just spitballing here Blue sky Go for it So yeah When you The first time You've done something And that you have A good story about Then you can come on this show And you can talk about it Is that I mean does that make sense Is that a good podcast

    Unknown: Uh wait yeah Wait are you asking me To do my podcast On your podcast Is that what's Happening here

    Natty Bumpercar: Now wait a minute Now I feel like yours Is a little bit Different maybe I can't remember Exactly what we was Talking about But this is More like The first time I mean I'm not Explaining it I'm like you know I get excited It's the first time You've done something Right

    Unknown: That No that sounds like Uh Don't make me call My lawyers And get the legalese In here

    Natty Bumpercar: Papa God This dude's got lawyers What are you doing To get me right

    Unknown: I feel like I'm

    Natty Bumpercar: Entangled right now I feel like I'm Entrapped

    Unknown: Well I Maybe not lawyers Just I know one I know one guy That's a paralegal Okay That's about it You met a lawyer once That's fine I know one guy That saw an episode Of Night Court So I feel like He's got the Gist of it

    Natty Bumpercar: I feel like that's Airtight I feel like that's An open and shut case Is what I feel like That he

    Unknown: That's right That's right You better You better lawyer up Alright well Mr.

    Natty Bumpercar: Mr. Darren Patterson Tell me where Can people find you

    Unknown: Uh if you can find me On Twitter and Instagram At Darren Credible And my website is DarrenCredible.com D-A-R-I-N Credible

    Natty Bumpercar: Darren Credible So Bumper Guy's Gonna put all those links On the post Whenever this comes out Which who knows Because he's probably In Barbados Walking around Mumbling to himself But soon We will send you the links When things get up We promise Um Thank you so much again For coming on It was It was really fun Talking to you Hope you had a good time

    Unknown: I had a great time Thank you so much

    Natty Bumpercar: Awesome Alright well Cuuu Lick He's a good dude And he makes me hungry Cause now I want donuts Like I feel like I hope you listen to this At a time and a place Where you can get Where you can access donuts Because I Man Did you hear how Pig was saying Tres leches Like he was doing it wrong And Darren just went He was just like Tres leches Like bro This is That's not how you say the words It's tres leches Tres leches And he's like Okay Okay Fine Don't care As long as it's in my belly I um Those donuts are so good And they're so far away Like if I wanted to get one I'd have to leave right now And I'd have to wait in line And I'd have to get a donut And I'd have to be late to work And then I would get there And they would all be like Oh you didn't bring us any donuts And I'd be like No they're four bucks a piece Back off Relax Give me a Give me a raise And maybe we'll see About some donut action I uh We had to fill in uh The uh Our uh Our goals for next year We found out yesterday Like by Two days Tomorrow I think I have to fill in What are your goals? And uh It was amazing There was this one dude Who was just like I don't have any goals Like in a meeting Like you're in a meeting And uh They were just like We'll make some up And he was just like But I don't have goals Like he stood his ground He was just like This is This is the hill I'm gonna stand on I don't have goals And so somebody was just like Dude just kinda You know Maybe here And then they Rattled off Three or four things Like here Use this Use that Use this Use that And the guy was just like I don't know And I was just like He He's telling you What to put Into the thing Just write Just Take notes right now Go back to your computer Put these things in there And you're done You've done it You've fulfilled The thing That the company Is asking you to do My goal is gonna be Eat more donuts I think And uh Oh You know what my other goal Is gonna be Is uh To get more calls On the podcast I feel like Nobody's calling Uh It's sad I thought I love the calls The calls are really One of my favorite things And also to review More products I considered For a half a second I have a shop vac Here sitting next to me That I could've Been like Oh I don't know It's orange It's It You know It's a vacuum It does vacuum And stuff But I didn't feel like Doing that I wanna give you guys Real reviews I'm surprised I haven't reviewed That iPad Pro yet I've been messing With that thing Oh boy Oh boy I really I can't wait For the new iOS 11 Or whatever It's number is Because it's It's gonna change The world It's not It's not gonna change The world I uh I'm trying to get used To the uh The drawing mechanic Of the whole thing Um I like it a lot Um But I don't know If I love it But it's all You know It's kind of A learning curve And I'm also Trying to figure out I don't know What the proper size To draw stuff on is Uh As far as pixels And DPI And everything And um The vector programs I don't like as much As the sketchy programs Just in terms of Um I don't know I'm just trying to figure it out I don't know what the best one To use is Either But I'm excited to have it I'm very Excited to have it So I can play around I want to make some stuff I want to make some books I've got all these books written I want to make drawings for them Why can't I do that? Why can't I just Do that? Why can't I Follow through? I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I feel like Pig's Following through on his interviews And I'm I'm the one I'm the laggard I'm the one Falling behind here It's fine You know what? It's totally fine Anyway Hey Bumper Podcast Uh Next week I'm going to be at the beach But I have a Cool episode Already lined up So hopefully The internet will actually work And it will post by itself Because I'm not going to have I'm not going to have Wifi I'm not going to have None of it No internet So I could I guess I could Maybe I could I don't know I could figure it out I'm going to figure it out It's going to be awesome Uh Special thanks to Darren Patterson For coming on our show He's top notch And uh Please come back And listen some more And please Call in I don't know the number I'm joking The phone number is 646-847-7976 So please 646-847-7976 There's a lot of sixes There's a lot of sevens There's a couple of fours There's a nine Let's just call it It'll be awesome Leave me a message I'll reply I miss you Alright I'm going to the beach everybody Time to get this thing Moo

  • Bumperpodcast #302 – This Sock Rocks!

    Bumperpodcast #302 – This Sock Rocks!

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. We have a great interview, some call-ins, and we finally have a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!!

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

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

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

    Oh – and – our special guest this week is Sock Cop!

    Go to these places to find Sock:

    Website: http://www.sockcoprocks.com/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/jasonburglar
    Periscope: https://www.periscope.tv/sockcop/
    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQgPHeuIrHIqr4FFu9M0TmQ
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sockcoprocks/

     

     

     


    About This Episode

    In episode 302 of the Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar waxes poetic about clouds before diving into an eventful week. With one of the kids at the grandparents' house, Natty shares a hilarious story about terrorizing his son with tales of a spider wielding utensils. The episode features an extended interview where Aloysius J. Pig sits down with returning guest Asak Cop, a speed-catching police officer from Mobile, Alabama. The two discuss everything from street naming conventions to disco dancing after writing tickets, RV Garfield paintings, and the art of the intimidation strut. Natty also addresses a listener question about how Pig's distinctive voice came to be, leading to a spirited discussion about puppet voices and creative inspiration.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I was like he the spider the spider just pointed at me with one of his arms and then he pointed towards the door with his other arm he's emphatically asking me to leave the room”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I do a little dance whenever I write a good ticket. That's just me. I don't have to go to like a discotheque or anything.”

    — Asak Cop

    “I've been talking this way my entire life ever since I was a little bitty pig a little bitty baby pig you know I was raspy and I had an accent”

    — Aloysius J. Pig

    Topics: #interviews #puppetry #parenting #voiceacting #comedy #spiders #police #creativeprocess

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: Look up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It can be anything at all in the world you want it to be. It's a cloud. If you're lonely, just look up. You've got a best friend. If you're hungry, just look up. You've got a sandwich. Is it a cumulonimbus? Is it a stratus? I have no idea whatsoever. To me, it looks like a bunny rabbit. A free movie in the sky. Thanks, clouds. Thanks for everything. Thanks for everything. We didn't get any calls this week. I was kind of sad about it. There is one call. There's an interview. And in the interview, I talk about the call because I'm not sure if I'm legally allowed to use it. Oh, intrigue. Oh, bumper car. What are you talking about? Well, I feel like someone might have accidentally called in the call-in number. And then it's like a… I'm going to go four to six minutes. You can just hear people talking in a room. Leaving a message. I mean, they do leave a message, but it doesn't pertain to anything. And it doesn't… They're not talking to me. And so I feel like maybe that's not appropriate to use. And also, there's nothing exciting in the conversation. Like, if they were like, you know, hey, here's the thing. In the boxing race, you know, like, you've got to put all your money on the other guy. Or whatever, like… And I would be like, oh, well, I've got to share this with the Bumper Podcast. So that they know they've got to put all their money on the other guy. And, uh, but there's not even that. It's just like, there's some boxes moving around, maybe. And there's some, uh, there's just like, you know, Phillip. Phillip took the week off last week. Phillip, did you hear about him? Took the week off last week. And it's just like that kind of stuff. I ain't nobody. I ain't nobody. And a lot of this kind of unintelligible stuff. So, uh, yeah. I think I'm just going to not play that one. Um, hopefully next week, though, I will get more calls. Because I do love the calls. So, if you do want to call, um, then you, of course, know that the phone number is… 646-847-7976. Again. And I will tell you this later as well. But it's 646-847-7976. That's the call. Call the Bumper Podcast and leave a message. Um, I've been told, though, I don't have an outgoing message. Which is so rude of me. To, for me to ask you to call in and talk to me. And I'm not giving you any, anything. So, I'm going to fix that this week. Um, it's just a constant fixing. The Bumper Podcast is basically like a house. Like, you buy a house and then you're like, oh, look, I gotta fix the windows. Oh, no, I gotta fix the walkway. Oh, no, the roof is leaking. Oh, no, look, the refrigerator. Like, that's what the Bumper Podcast is. And every time you fix something, you turn your head. Something else is broken. And then by the time you get around to fixing everything, guess what? You gotta start off at the beginning again. Um, exciting news this week. The kid, one of the kids is gone. He is at his grandparents' house. We have a week of rest. Uh, one kid? So easy! Two kids? Oh! Not as easy. Not as easy at all. Um. He left yesterday, and I mean, he's gone until Saturday, so it's amazing. It's the best. Uh, but we have an interview coming up. Um, and after the interview, I've got a funny story to tell you about something that happened with him that I think it was, it, I still crack up when I think about it. So I want to make sure to record it so that I remember it when I'm old and living in a cave. Uh, because that's my assumption is that when I'm older, I'm probably going to just have all the Bumper Podcasts on cassette tapes, and, uh, I will fumble around on the shelves, and I'll be like, I want to find that story, the story that I told that one day about the child. Um, so, um, I'm not going to tell you what it's about, though. But what I will tell you is Pig's interview this week, he's doing great with these interviews, by the way, BT Dubs, uh, is, is a lot of fun. Again, I don't want to give it away, but it is someone who has been on the show before, and no, it is not Adam Lucidi again. No, he is always welcome. So, sit back, get ready, get right. Ladies and gentlemen, here is the next Pig interview. All right, hey everybody, it's me, Aloysius J. Pig, and I'm here for my interview show, and this is an episode like 303, and that means I'm three for three, uh, outside the key, you know me. Um, and today we have a fun dude on, he's actually been on the show a couple of times, I think. Uh, he's been on the show a couple of times, I think. Uh, you, I seem to like him a lot. He's really fun to talk to. I enjoy talking to him. You enjoy listening to him, which should make for a good interview show. As long as we don't run out of steam, which makes me a little bit nervous. I, you know, I don't want to open the kettle to see how much steam there is. I'm assuming there's a lot of steam for the interview. We shall see. Ladies and gentlemen, he didn't hear any of this, I don't think. Give it up, uh, for the one, the only, Mr. Asak Cop. Hello, Asak, how you doing?

    Unknown: How's it going there, Pig? Good to see you. Good to see you, my friend. It's good to talk to you again.

    Natty Bumpercar: It is amazing to talk to you. I mean, we haven't talked in so long. How you been?

    Unknown: Oh, yeah, it's been a little while. I've been doing fantastic. I've just been out here catching the speeders, you know. They've been keeping me busy. The summertime, everybody, I think the heat down here, it's very hot down here in the south. Very hot, yeah. Out to the south coast where I live. And I think the heat makes people want to get out of it real fast. You know what I mean? So people start driving real fast and I got to stop them real fast. Where they going? I don't know. I don't know where they're going. Some of them said they go to the beach. Some of them go to the beach. There's a water park. Yeah. It's a very popular place. Some of them just, you know, go to the post office or something like that.

    Natty Bumpercar: Now, where you live, is there like one of them roads that goes all around the town like a donut?

    Unknown: No, no, no. No, that's a, that, you get those in cities that were like sort of planned out.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh.

    Unknown: See, Bradley, I live down here. It's down in Mobile. Basically, what happened is somebody way back in the days, in the pioneer days, had him a tent. Okay. And he was like, I'll just put the tent. And then another person came by. I was like, hey, this place looks cool. I'll just put a tent here too. And it just kept going from there. So they just kept building stuff. And they're like, hey, we need some more stuff. So they just built a road. Yeah. And then there's no plan to it at all. So there ain't no grid? No, there's no grid. The roads are all like sneaky little snakes just going this way and that way. Are they all named the same thing? No, they're not named the same thing. They're just named basically just after somebody.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay. Okay. Because I'm from Georgia originally where everything is like, I'm going to be down on Peach Street. Oh, did you mean Peach Lane? No, I meant Peach Avenue. Bro, were you on Peach Circle last night? And you're just like, I don't know these peaches. I can't keep up.

    Unknown: No, I'm at Peach Tree.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, there's a lot of peach trees too. Like, that's a big differentiator. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, I was on a corner of Peach Tree Avenue and Peach Street. And you're like, bro, I can't even talk to you no more.

    Unknown: That's how you can tell. There's peach people and there's peach three people.

    Natty Bumpercar: Peach three?

    Unknown: No, peach three. Don't make fun of my speech impediment, pig.

    Natty Bumpercar: I didn't. I thought we were counting all of a sudden. Oh, yeah. Pizza one. Pizza one. That's what I was doing too. We just bumped our heads getting into the same joke.

    Unknown: We was rushing there.

    Natty Bumpercar: I think I got a concussion. Speaking of Russian sock-off. No, I'm just kidding. I don't get political. So, I got an A. So, sock cop. Now, most cops I know, they got rankings. Like, rank and file. Is you like a private or a detective or a wizard? What kind of sock are you? What level?

    Unknown: I do like wizard. I wish. I don't know. Maybe I could become a wizard.

    Natty Bumpercar: They give you a cool hat with that.

    Unknown: No, I'm sort of my own.

    Natty Bumpercar: You shall not pass.

    Unknown: I get a big, like, stick with a big glass thing at the top that shoots lightning out and stuff.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's how you check the. Speed is you have to look through the orb, the orb, the orb of speeding tone.

    Unknown: I would do any job that you get that. Here's your magical orb. I think I would take that job.

    Natty Bumpercar: I think they're getting away. Someone called a Kraken and pick them up quick. Is there a Kraken on the force? I don't know.

    Unknown: There's no crack. No, there's no crack. We are. We are like it's next to the sea, but we're not under the sea. So, so a Kraken wouldn't do much good.

    Natty Bumpercar: Don't get it. Don't don't be don't think don't that song.

    Unknown: That's exactly right. Yeah, outside.

    Natty Bumpercar: We have something. Some. I don't know. No words.

    Unknown: I don't know.

    Natty Bumpercar: Under the sea. Yes, I don't.

    Unknown: But I'm says I like to think it's stuck in the head.

    Natty Bumpercar: But since you have a lot of questions for you, do you know anything about just like a blue line of silence? Like, you know what that is?

    Unknown: The blue line of silence.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't know. That's what I heard. Is this like so police officers protect their own and all that? So it is this. Oh, yeah. Hey, there's a code here. Blue line of silence. I live in cop land.

    Unknown: You know, I think I love you talk like a like a NYPD blue type of type of game like that. Some sort of TV police thing.

    Natty Bumpercar: Shung shung that is that in my pity blue?

    Unknown: No, I don't think so. I think that's a different one. I think that was chips.

    Natty Bumpercar: I think as long as it wasn't dance cops or whatever it was.

    Unknown: No, no, no.

    Natty Bumpercar: So do you have two guys ever go dancing, you and your police friends?

    Unknown: You know, we never all go dancing together. I do a little dance whenever. Whenever I write a good ticket. Oh, really? That's just me. Yeah, I mean, I don't have to go to like a discotheque or anything. I just sort of do that on my own, you know?

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, your car has all those cool lights on it. So like once you pull over to a person in front of you, it's like sweating, freaking out. And you're just like, oh, yeah, yeah. That's what I get built up. Yeah, I'm going to give you a ticket. I'm going to get my book out. Going to look you up. Going to look you up. Take you to jail. Oh, here we go. Oh,

    Unknown: but I don't do that because because I have to have to have to do the the strut up to the car. If I'm too pumped up, I can't strut properly. I have you ever. I mean, you've been you've been pulled. Everybody pretty much has been pulled over at some point. All right.

    Natty Bumpercar: I've been pulled over. Up here, which we don't have enough time to say pulled over. So we just go, yeah, I got pulled the other day.

    Unknown: Oh, you just go, oh, you got pulled over.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. And then the cop is like, hey, I'll get me. I'm pulled pork. And I'm like, oh, stop it. What are you doing? It's not nice.

    Unknown: That's not that's insulting to both of you.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. I'm like, you're making puns on me. What are you, a ponzo or something like? I don't know.

    Unknown: No, that's not good. But you know, whenever you get pulled over, there's the strut. You got to let up, sit, sit and sweat for a little bit. Yeah. And then you got to just sort of slowly stroll up to the car like that. You can't you can't be rushing up like you just coming out of some sort of German techno festival. No, you know, you got to just waltz up to him. You know, that's how you get the intimidation.

    Natty Bumpercar: You still got glitter on your uniform or whatever.

    Unknown: Carrying a glow stick. You still got the pacifier. You can't do that. You've lost the game if you do that.

    Natty Bumpercar: It's going to wreck the whole thing. You know, people are going to look at you and be like, I'm just going to go now. And they're like, you can't go.

    Unknown: I'm still giving you a ticket. You know?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. But they but they won't believe me. And then they take you to court and then they'll be like, well, sir, he he did have a pacifier in his mouth. And they'll be like, case dismissed. And then they'll be like, well, you know what? You can't go. I'm still giving you a ticket. You know?

    Unknown: Yeah. But they but they won't believe me. And then I don't. And then, you know, I'm laughing stock of the whole force.

    Natty Bumpercar: I have a picture of this on my dash cam or whatever. Those little cameras.

    Unknown: They have to. Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Yeah. Those dash cam things. Those are fun. And the the judge is looking at and he's like, I'm sorry, Mr. Sarkar. But is you wearing a pacifier? Hold on. I'm doing my sudden voice. Oh, there you go. Excuse me, Mr. Sarkar. But is you wearing a pacifier on you? That's pretty good. Did it remind you?

    Unknown: As a man from Georgia, I would expect you to have an excellent impression of a southern accent.

    Natty Bumpercar: And you definitely delivered that. It reminds you of Boss Hog. Hello. That's another one. We're just going all in tonight.

    Unknown: I do like the I do like that. We do have this one lawyer and he's always wearing like the suspenders, you know what I mean, and the paisley suit. So he likes to strut around. Yeah. And tell tales and stuff. You know, he walks around.

    Natty Bumpercar: we we was driving around in new jersey this is a couple weeks ago and i had never i don't i my mind is still blown weeks later we're driving there was a dude who his his his gut was like a beach ball it was large right and he was he was like five foot four not tall not a tall man but a round man wearing very large jeans and suspenders with no shirt on oh yeah and i was i almost it was like uh a jack tripper where i was on my bicycle and i almost ran into a car because i was turning around looking like i was driving with my kids and i was just like what in the what like what did we just what did i just witness like what yeah it was pretty exciting stuff it's weird the

    Unknown: things you see when you're driving around i was i was driving by the other day there was a there was a rv and it had they uh they had painted and you could tell that they had painted themselves this is not an official officially licensed the merchandise for the rv but they had painted uh garfield you know garfield the cat almost cat he hates mondays i can't he hates mondays but they painted the garfield looking real angry holding a gun oh and it had a word balloon and it said uh something something to the effect of if you unless you're bulletproof don't try to steal this car implying that that i guess garfield would show them with his little musket something like that well so i see that on the side of the rv they go ahead a little bit because i'm kind of stunned you know looking up like what is it on the back they painted it again on the back the same exact change lanes it's on the other side all three sides have garfield with a gun threatening to shoot you if you try and steal this rv you know what i did here though is uh

    Natty Bumpercar: if you have like a geico insurance that's gonna drop your premiums down is if you have more than one gob one garfield's not gonna do it you gotta have multiple garfields right holding a gun and uh threatening people oh yeah that is true that is

    Unknown: true they go they give some wacky discounts i wish that they would have changed the message

    Natty Bumpercar: up on at least one just be like you know if you bulletproof would have a bulletproof fine and then just be like i love lasagna oh just something to keep if there's two things i like

    Unknown: it's lasagna and shooting robbers and

    Natty Bumpercar: protecting you must protect this house it was so weird i just don't understand like garfield

    Unknown: like you have you seen you've seen the truckers that's got like the yosemite sam's mud flaps oh yeah or the like yosemite said he's he's an intimidating character he's a rooting tooting shooting exactly but the garfield just i've seen a lot of garfield i've never seen them get violent

    Natty Bumpercar: in any sort of way he might like move the chair out from od or something but i mean maybe it maybe normal's gonna bother him a little bit yeah normal i suppose i suppose if normal was gonna steal the thing but then he's never packing heat no he's never i don't know i had to go back

    Unknown: to my garfield collection again but i'm pretty sure i don't remember one where he's packing heat

    Natty Bumpercar: you should have gone on snopes.com and check to see if that was a fact or a fiction or whatever

    Unknown: that's what i should yeah i should have done that i should have done that i wish i was it was on the interstate so i wasn't able to uh to take a picture because i've got a very strict so don't

    Natty Bumpercar: drive and gimmick i think uh that we're we're making a lot of cases for why we need dash cams

    Unknown: in this country right oh you know you're exactly right yeah no it's fun some of the times we take the uh the dash cam video if we see something funny we take it back to the station you know on our lunch breaks or whatever we'll put it and we'll make it go and fast forward and we'll play the play the bitty hill music you know it's hilarious it's like look oh look at me look at me give him another ticket oh look that oh no he's crying he's crying and it's it's hilarious when he when you got it sped up like that that's fire and

    Natty Bumpercar: forgot you do audio you do video stuff you like the av club oh yeah i like to i like to do that

    Unknown: kind of stuff it's fun you know got a couple little tricks here and there yeah you got that you know if you if you're gonna make a premium content you know in this day and age i i i don't

    Natty Bumpercar: know nothing about no premium content i read it i hashtag it but man i don't i need no you make

    Unknown: premium cut we're creating premium content as we speak right now wait see maybe that's what it is

    Natty Bumpercar: maybe i can't see the forest for the trees i think that's exactly right i'm looking down at the ground i'm seeing all this pine straw i'm seeing some brush i'm seeing some bramble i'm not even i don't i got no idea i'm right here in the premium content forest i had no this is amazing

    Unknown: yeah that's exactly right you're like i got no time for premium content i'm making premium

    Natty Bumpercar: content over here that's basically what it is it's like i'm in a i'm in a uh i'm in inception is what's happening yeah premium content inception the whole world is folding in on itself i actually didn't see the movie but i saw the preview it looks amazing that's fine that's all you need i i like to pay for movies and then i go and i fall asleep in the popcorn i just my whole head bonk right in the popcorn i i they're like excuse me sir you've been here for two showings of the movie you've got to leave you can't be here anymore yeah it's fine wow that's no good

    Unknown: that seems like uh do you eat the popcorn afterwards it's all stuck to me i don't know

    Natty Bumpercar: you know it's just like they it's like when you go to a bar and they're like hey buddy you can have popcorn at home but you can't have it here and i'm like all right all right don't need to be pushy come on yeah you got to go you know um what is that we were talking about yosemite sam what do you have a favorite saying that he says

    Unknown: that's a weird favorite yosemite sam saying yeah i would i liked it when he says varmint oh he had a lot of different variations on varmint you know varmint varmint you're all varmint i like that i used i brought that into everyday conversations i tried it out uh for a couple of weeks how'd it work out for you it didn't really it didn't catch on like i

    Natty Bumpercar: thought it would it says up here on the road we have these big animals and they're like uh they're not beavers but they kind of look like beavers but they i don't know what that but i call them i call them varmints i'm like oh look there's a varmint or my i think my wife might call them a marmot i don't know what they are and i totally forget hedgehogs groundhogs groundhogs maybe marmot's a thing i don't know what they is but there's these big

    Unknown: brown doodades and they're on the side see now do that that's a good we can work with that one

    Natty Bumpercar: i named my ipad doodade and i thought i liked it it's i was i was pretty happy because like whenever i get a computer or a phone or whatever like my phone is something called like what's he why is it toast no the computer's toast no the computer's foxy and then the ipad is doodade which rhymes and i don't remember the phone's name but it's i'd like to name him because then i pick him up and every so often i'll forget and i'll go into settings and i'm like oh yeah you got a little name don't you that's cool yeah that gives them like uh you know like some personality and stuff i enjoy it so then if they ain't work i could be like foxy what are you

    Unknown: doing to me now come on bro and then it feels bad because it's like well that's true i gotta

    Natty Bumpercar: live up to my name i am supposed to be foxy but then it's embarrassing if i'm at work and have to use my personal computer and i it goes to the black uh the the screen whatever and my boss is sitting there and all of a sudden across the screen it just goes foxy and he's like why why does your computer say foxy and i'm like that's my personal business that's home computer stuff yeah you handle yours i'll handle mine that's another thing you don't

    Unknown: think about uh you know naming stuff if it's going to be out in public this is the same with like a like a dog i noticed would you stop dogs what are dogs doing the dogs is fighting one another's this playing they're doing the things over there would you stop it i hear growling there's growling happening would you stop it there's an old crotchety dog and then the young puppery dog and the puppery dog wants to play yeah old dog wants to nap but old dog's

    Natty Bumpercar: very upset oh it's not it's no good this makes you sad yeah it's a little bit uh it's a little sad you should uh do like i was watching big brother the other day and and last night maybe i don't even know yeah but the producer was like opposite sides of the house because there are people fighting oh you don't yeah you never hear the producer's voice over the speakers but you should do that the dogs just be like opposite sides of the house and see if they actually listen and i doubt it that's right opposite sides of the house what happened they do it it's quiet it's working it's quiet it's working oh look at that reality good idea yeah i need to

    Unknown: watch more reality television that's some good ideas that's gonna set you straight

    Natty Bumpercar: my uh my dog irving brown socks when he was a paparoo we went to dog school and they taught us this thing when he was freaking out and we would have to pat him nice and we go saddle saddle oh and he actually would set like he got it in his brain and this is like now 12 years 13 years later i pulled it out again he was freaking out i was like saddle and he did and i was like how do you remember saddle wow that's amazing yeah he don't even know where his food is half the time but he

    Unknown: remembers saddle this is weird wow that's cool see i don't know that's the thing people take their dogs to dog school it's not really much of a thing uh that we do around here it's it's like it's good enough to put yourself in school he got a diploma if you go so to take the dog it's just like i

    Natty Bumpercar: don't know that's that's rich fancy people talking i think he had to wear a hat like a mortise and

    Unknown: pestle he'd had a thing on that they try they try to sell you graduation picture packages

    Natty Bumpercar: bum bum bum bum bum

    Unknown: come out to the macho man rainy savage theme song and pick up the diploma oh yeah here's your

    Natty Bumpercar: diploma doggie like that yeah a whole deal who let the dogs out of college like that

    Unknown: who let the dogs into debt oh yeah student debt let's not talk about that it's gonna make me cry

    Natty Bumpercar: i actually oh yeah sorry about that somebody i was i was i've known for a long time the other day i was just like i don't want to talk about that he's like are you still and i was like for the rest of my life i'm yeah i'm an intention yeah that's just the way that it goes yeah i'm never getting out of that and then because i'm in this fun situation where i owe so much money and there's so much interest that even when i pay which is every month it still goes up and i'm like i went to a lot of school and i know a little bit about math and i'm pretty sure that this is not how it's supposed to work that's a real deal right there yeah it's just like this is not it's still went up i mean sometimes it's only up by a few bucks but i'm just like that's not a winnable game that's not something we can well you need to pay more than your minimum well i can't because my minimum is too much already thank you so much really good minimum

    Unknown: that that's a misnomer right there minimum my version of minimum and their version of minimum

    Natty Bumpercar: there's two completely different things yeah my version of minimum is can i still defer oh i'm out of those okay you want me to join the army do they take pigs of my size in the army i don't know literally whatever i need to do to get this this elephant off my back this monkey off my back i

    Unknown: will do it that's true no i did not mean to have to bring that up so subject for me too

    Natty Bumpercar: yeah i didn't mean to bring the dogs into it i tried to sell my kids to the uh the student loan people because i figured i could make more kids but i'm never going to get away from these student loans right they they refused i mean they wouldn't they wouldn't even let me send them in and i had them pre-stamped and enveloped and ready to go and they were just like sorry and i'm like well what am i supposed to do with this envelope now you know publisher's clearinghouse hey yo you're gonna send them away there you go you're a winner winner

    Unknown: chicken stuff they must uh they may maybe they listen to your uh to your podcast they hear some stories on the podcast that would make me not want to uh to take the children off your hands

    Natty Bumpercar: yeah that might be i uh somebody i meant the comedy shows they they like to tell me they're like oh yo why none of us want to have kids and i'm like oh that's that okay that's actually good because a lot of comedians probably shouldn't have the kids so yeah that's true yeah they i could only imagine um so let's see what else i was gonna say uh so you you've been on the show what now like a hundred times or so what did this your show yeah i was i mean i don't go to the archives i just know it's been more than a hand i ain't got a hand on it i don't know if it's been

    Unknown: hands but i'm assuming it's more than a handful it's more than a hoof full if uh no this is uh

    Natty Bumpercar: this is number two actually wait this is number two two yeah i had papers drawn up it was but i was telling bumper car was gonna become the bumper car and sock podcast because i thought you'd been

    Unknown: on here like a million times this is toss those jokes out the window you may be thinking of lucid

    Natty Bumpercar: he's maybe lucid he's uh you know no anymore i gotta call rufus t rufus i don't know he's my lawyer he's got to redraw these papers he told him he took this that took him three weeks to write this stuff he's not a very good

    Unknown: lawyer if i'm gonna be honest oh yeah no i'm not uh no i'm not good at math but this is uh what episode 303 and uh that means number two uh for me i don't know the ratio it doesn't seem like

    Natty Bumpercar: it's a very small percent i think it's definitely less than 50 it's a very small percentage definitely less than 50 so i want to so now that i'm finding this out i'm gonna i want i'm gonna shift gears i want to know what people have been asking me about you tell me about sock up before he was sock up before he was a cop when he was just socked wait were you like a baby sock growing up oh yeah yeah yeah i

    Unknown: was a little i was a little baby booty just like everybody else yeah and did you have like a twin

    Natty Bumpercar: i'm assuming because like a little two little pair of you guys running around no no no it's just me i'm an only child okay that's strange to me because in my head i was assuming do you get nervous when you go to laundromat

    Unknown: no i tend not to go i haven't really been to a laundromat in a long time because there's a lot

    Natty Bumpercar: of socks that get lost in laundromats and so that's what i've heard i worry about you that's

    Unknown: what i've heard sometimes i get the uh you know the mail uh comes in you know but that's missing persons i deal with the speeders so that's you know it's a whole nother department wait you got

    Natty Bumpercar: me confused when you said the mail comes in i was just like who is this mail the

    Unknown: six foot mail approximately 200 pounds now on your

    Natty Bumpercar: door at your house do you have it uh marketed like at a 7-eleven where you have like it has the lines on the door so you can see how tall people are when they're leaving no that's a good idea though you could always know you could be like hey my friend is you know he's about six

    Unknown: foot two or something i don't know that's true because you ever think you know if somebody uh you know goes missing or something like that they're like they always say how tall is he

    Natty Bumpercar: i don't know probably big we're going to uh six flakes tomorrow and i already have it in my head uh i'm gonna take a picture of bumper car and i'm gonna take a picture of bumper car and i'm gonna so in case they get lost i could be like they look like this they look oh that's a good idea too yeah picture's good this is what they look like can you find them and then they're gonna be like it shouldn't be hard we'll just announce as a lost pig maybe i mean they're probably looking for you yeah probably so and i'm like bro they ain't looking for me i snuck in the back they don't even know i'm here opposite sides of the house did it work well i think they're wise to me that was an answering but i heard that he was like oh yeah would you go get the job go get a job do something do something with your life yeah you know what the problem is those dogs didn't go to college so they're never gonna get a job yeah they never know they didn't go they didn't do the little

    Unknown: the little graduations and none of that kind of stuff they can't get they can't even get an entry

    Natty Bumpercar: level job in this in this account oh let's talk about this economy huh yeah let's talk about the

    Unknown: economy man

    Natty Bumpercar: jobless numbers are really blowing up huh i don't know what they sure are i don't even know things

    Unknown: i don't know maybe i mean there's still there's still people that have jobs right i i haven't

    Natty Bumpercar: people do i have one and i'm all every day i walk in and i just i i walk in and i look around left and i look right and i'm like they still let me in okay let's keep going in you know there you go

    Unknown: i do yeah every time i think about that sometimes too it's uh you know you get worried there's like a little there's a little gated thing and i got a little badge that i have not like the badge badge but i got the little badge that you got to do to hit you know and but there's about a two second delay before the thing starts opening and i'll always think in those two seconds well they got rid of me yeah that's it there we go they got rid of me don't work no more i guess i didn't even want to tell me i gotta get a new mug because i left it on my desk okay here we go well do you let me do the walk of shame with a box of stuff with a

    Natty Bumpercar: picture frame and stuff you'll get none of it you'll get nothing not at all yeah i mean like i like my job i like but i there's not been a day that's gone by since i started working there that i didn't feel like this is probably the end you know this is like and i don't even i've never i've been there like four years i have no decorations anywhere in my office it's just the most it's you walk in and every day uh i feel my soul to seep out a little bit and i'm just like oh really here we are at this room again perfect maybe i don't know maybe she gets you like a

    Unknown: like a plant or something you know a rubis cube to set there something anything i mean yeah just i don't know maybe that would uh you know bring some happiness to the place i think my fear is

    Natty Bumpercar: you know this is the day that i start moving on in they're gonna be like tap tap tap bt dubs you're out on your you're out of your case done i'm like but what but then what

    Unknown: did you just you just take it back out it's not a big deal what are you afraid of i don't know like it's gonna be too heavy to lift like you got that they're gonna also weaken your muscles you

    Natty Bumpercar: got to take it back out yes bumper cars got me on a very strict uh budget and if he starts seeing that i'm buying aerobics cubes and whatnot you know i'm gonna bring that home what's he gonna throw to me he's gonna and then he's gonna be like tap tap tap you spending money on this stuff add on your keister like that so then i've lost my job i've lost my home what's oh that's no good i know i know so and then i got nothing because so for me i'm i'm a very single pig what about

    Unknown: yourself are you out out on the scene yeah you know i'm on the i'm on the tenders and stuff like that trying to do things yeah yeah you know i'm trying to get some swipes i don't i don't get a whole lot

    Natty Bumpercar: of swipes you ever swiped up that's really that's really real action is no i've never tried swiping

    Unknown: up or down i figured they would bring in some diagonals yeah some sort of crisscross applesauce just drawing like little pictures of who i wish they was or something i don't know look i drew

    Natty Bumpercar: this one to look like a mouse look at that he's got a funny nose now ah whiskers whiskers whiskers i don't even know i've never seen it i don't know what it does but it would be yeah it's just like

    Unknown: a little swiping gimmick and you know it shows you pictures of people and you judge them yeah well

    Natty Bumpercar: that's the world people that's the way that it goes people judge me all i i mean i was just judging a dude in suspenders so i guess that's that's just how i was i was judging an rv on and

    Unknown: i don't even know who it was i didn't even see it was driving it could have been a driverless car one of those new gimmicks so maybe like the people are in the back

    Natty Bumpercar: and yeah just just kicking it let me see there's a diamond in the back a sunroof top kicking in the scene with a gangster lean do you know what that is what is that it's like a poem it's like a snoop dog song i feel like diamond in the back sunroof top oh no no dog stop it these dogs are screaming oh my goodness gracious these dogs have questions

    Unknown: the hounds the hounds have been unleashed oh they're so tiny oh wait is the thing happening

    Natty Bumpercar: the cat is very chill though i'm looking at your cat oh yeah there's the cat

    Unknown: sort of uh kicking it back there wait is that a papa's on chair

    Natty Bumpercar: yeah it's what yeah it's a papa john's chair so anytime i sit in a chair with my kids like if i'm sitting in a chair i'm like hey guys this is a papa's on chair and they're like what i'm like your papa is on this chair oh i get it now i get it it's a tough one and they're like nope and i'm like it's a funny joke and they're like it but it's not and i'm like okay okay no it's a funny joke

    Unknown: i like that i think wordplay right right no it's pretty good well i grew up with uh with uh such literature as uh as hop on pop oh that's it oh you know that's good that's a tight book

    Natty Bumpercar: oh my goodness here we go again we read the book last night the dr seuss book older things you can

    Unknown: think get out of town you read the dr seuss's

    Natty Bumpercar: bro we read several books a night so it's like a big time you know so it's like last night we was reading paint hey how you doing we're doing the things what's in your little bag there no it's okay what are you oh you freaked out because you're seeing okay i understand i and i and i can't comment on it necessarily but i understand why i would freak you out a little bit it's not very often that people get to see what's happening here without other things yeah that's true yeah so you're what you're you're one in a million but actually much less than that like one in ten at this point

    Unknown: i feel like well maybe now that maybe now the dogs will be uh be more behaved well i don't know

    Natty Bumpercar: who know maybe she's gonna you know rile them up or something like that could be because yeah and then everybody's you're gonna have to be like opposite sides of the house and she's gonna be

    Unknown: like what is he talking about you got to listen to everything what is this thing what is this thing come out that doesn't understand the references that we just created you're this fight is gonna

    Natty Bumpercar: go on for like several days and you're just gonna keep messaging me bro when is this thing gonna be out because i just need her to hear the inside joke how much longer can you just put it out what just send me that one part yeah just can you just send me a clip please no sorry bro i've got to make up several other gimmicks to put in the episode before i can put it out live that is true

    Unknown: you've got the the telephone number now yeah how was that you're getting some phone calls or what

    Natty Bumpercar: no you're not getting phone calls i got i've gotten uh three phone calls but then so i've got four two of them from a from a girl she was on the that last episode uh yeah and then um that guy somebody named dennis called which i don't know if it's a dennis that i know i meant to ask him is that the dennis has a podcast that's what i was kind of hoping it was but it didn't say the podcast did it because i wasn't sure i gotta okay then i feel bad because i gotta i gotta tell him he's on the episode uh but then yesterday i get this call and it's like six minutes long and it's a it's like uh i was butt dialed which i was like how was i because then these people these are just having a conversation in the room and i was like am i allowed to put that on the show i feel like i am they called my number right i don't know that i don't know

    Unknown: that's strange yeah that's strange because i've got the i've got a phone number that people could call into the show and stuff like that you know so it's just out there on the internet and every once in a while you know somebody will call that and leave a voicemail

    Natty Bumpercar: or something yeah if i'm not doing a show i put it on the twitters we just got a a facebook page for the bumper podcast and oh get out of there i didn't know you had a facebook page it's like make maybe it's been there a day or two so it's very exciting oh that's cool we started i started putting the uh bumps he started putting the uh episodes on the youtubes so that they could so the facebook so like the lucidi one 300 and the last one the john trumbull and then this one will be on there but so you can get it like through normal podcast places the itunes and whatnot but then you can also go to the other place but uh it's not burning down the scene on the youtubes like i would have liked i think one has three views and one has a zero views so you know

    Unknown: we're growing we're learning that's yeah that sounds like my youtubes yeah like you like you may have actually put on my channel or something like that it's uh

    Natty Bumpercar: like it's a whole bunch of uh goose eggs here's a weird i uh what was it when uh see the periscope of vine i don't know what i did but i imported like a bajillion um different things on and it all went into the youtubes and so i went from having like 30 videos to having like 90 and it made my numbers go because like no one's seen 60 of the videos now oh yeah no that's true

    Unknown: that's a lot of mine too because i took all the vines and then i put them all up on the youtubes whenever the vine whenever they shut it down yeah i took all the downloaded all the vines and i was like well i just put them up on youtubes yeah then i said it where nobody can see it so it's like

    Natty Bumpercar: oh just take some space i miss i miss the vines a lot that was my favorite i love my it was the best oh the vines was pretty good i enjoyed that and especially like once they got to the point where they're adding the functionality so i can do a little do little little bits of stuff i don't massive stuff just little bits of stuff you know and uh i still have like on several days i'll be

    Unknown: like that's a good buy oh never mind i can't buy i still think about that sometimes i'll think in

    Natty Bumpercar: little six second loops yeah because instagram videos or whatever they're too long you can't it doesn't have the same impact like there was something about like uh one two three click one two three click that was like it just had like this real real cool quality i thought but yeah

    Unknown: i liked it a lot i was kind of late to the game i didn't really get into it until uh until later it was like probably just uh just a year or so ago i saw somebody was

    Natty Bumpercar: like this isn't hard to make why doesn't somebody just redo it like with the same functionality and

    Unknown: call it mine or whatever i don't know you know like something else yeah there was there was one i saw there was a clone that popped it was called like kube or something i think about my buddy ogbhs he was a big vine guy and he told me about it he's in jersey right yeah he's yeah he lives in the new

    Natty Bumpercar: jerseys see see he knows oh yeah he lives in the new jerseys yeah he lives in the new jerseys

    Unknown: that's where you stayed yeah yeah yeah i stayed with uh with ogbhs whenever i go up there he's uh

    Natty Bumpercar: he always got a blow-up mattress for me oh that's a good dude i like oh yeah i like that a lot so did you you guys are is he is that is that what a premium content started it was a little

    Unknown: battle between the two of you yeah yeah yeah yeah we're like uh you know we're good buddies but sometimes we'll motivate each other that's good you know create a uh a fake rivalry or some sort of uh or some sort of thing so he so whenever he went from divine to instagrams and he was like i'm gonna get more followers than you still like that and i was like no you're not no you're not but then he he did he really did yeah well he's got like i mean he's got

    Natty Bumpercar: he's got content like he's got he you have to make stuff he has to make stuff too but like yeah

    Unknown: he's got the uh backorder stuff and also he knows how to use robots uh he uses robots how how does i don't know exactly what the robots do i imagine that they are in like some sort of layer and they i don't know what i don't know how it works he won't tell me to see but he's got robots to help him does he go out and take over the world yes yeah it's very much like a robot like maybe you know like it was made out of cans or something like that and with it tapping on stuff and you know this is my this is robot this is the robot from my show i've never seen that bro what what

    Natty Bumpercar: show is this i've never seen it he's on a bumper podcast he's he's he talks every so often oh okay

    Unknown: oh okay i've heard him i've never seen him before

    Natty Bumpercar: yeah he's out of batteries yeah i see if you go to the bumper podcast page there's some photos i think it's called shenanigans in the studio and he's in one of the pictures being crazy oh i love man that is great yeah i mean when i was in grad school i had uh an art installation and it was called robot family and uh that's where i built him and he has a little wife and he has a little baby robot too and they would they were just in this little scene and it made me so and i was like oh that's robot family and my teachers were like no no no did you get the bad grade on him yeah like i went to like undergrad for art school and then i went to graduate school in new york city for art school so you're thinking oh okay you're in art school you make art stuff okay and you can talk about what you make you have stories behind what you make so it means something to somebody whatever but they would still they would look at and they'd be like oh nope nope nope that is not nope and i would get in like fights like yelling and uh once i was just like you let me in this school like you you saw my portfolio before i came up here and you know what kind of stuff i make and now you're telling me it ain't good enough and it was a good it was a good fight it was good fun so oh my goodness great you're gonna

    Unknown: so it's like you're gonna sit here telling me you didn't you didn't see robot family coming from

    Natty Bumpercar: this guy yeah yeah you could see that i used to paint squirrels and now you're telling me that

    Unknown: to you bro so you go to art in art school what is what do you do in an art school you throw money

    Natty Bumpercar: in the drain is what you do yeah i mean what do you want yeah i don't know i just you know i was

    Unknown: just curious i didn't i've never known anybody that went to an art school well so in theory

    Natty Bumpercar: undergrad you're learning a lot of techniques and stuff so like oh here's the different kinds of brushes it's just a flat that is a bright that is around whatever silly stuff like that oh that is a fan um and then you'll learn like the different you learn about pigments and like the the uh how different paints are made so acrylic is it's like all you know play stick and stuff and then oils you got to add like all sorts of tinctures to it to make it work uh and so you learn like how to stretch frames and what it's all made about it's seriously if i was rich it would be amazing and i would love to be like if my parents if my parents are like oh send pig off to school and he'll be fine that'd be great but instead i come from no money and then i go to school like a mope and i'm like i'm in art school look at me now they said i can paint good great great well you're done with school so what are you gonna do now i'm gonna cry no i'm gonna cry and you know but that's i don't know you learn art history stuff and i think there's a lot of things that i've learned in art history stuff and i think there's a lot of things that i've learned in art history stuff and i think there's a lot of there's probably a way that it could be spun so that you would like maybe teach later on or whatever right uh i don't know i'm a pretty big advocate for art i like it a lot um i think it's important to the world like like oh kind of everything is art in my humble imho like you know like you might your little shirts you're wearing or whatever like that's art like it's it's a a textile but still somebody had to draw it then get the color right and it's important to the world like i think it's important to the world like i think it's important so it and so that's uh it's all kind of artistry whatever and then people be like it's not art with a big a it's art with a little a and you're like oh why do we have to differentiate because people like the pigeonhole oh big a's and little a's i can't stand oh wait that's another that's a different uh dr seuss book i was looking at dr seuss abc it goes big a little a what begins with a auntie annie's alligator a a a like that that's stuck in my head pretty good as i go i think dino duck no no i don't know i can't remember never mind i got up to dado so i'm okay that's pretty good there's a lot of the letters i understand that but you know well percentage wise percentage wise it's about as many as as you almost owning the bumper podcast exactly it's like 0.0175 i didn't even hit the one mark no no no not quite will i be getting checks in the mail no because it's nothing it's it's less than one percent you're not gonna see nothing you owe us about yeah yeah for the record yeah we're gonna need we're gonna take your dogs i'm sorry but they look delicious what happened yeah um well sake bro i you guys always i love talking to you so much but it's getting so late here and you know i gotta go night night time oh yeah yeah yeah you got a big day tomorrow look at what you just did i was trying to work into some other joke about beauty sleep but you just knocked it out of the park i don't even have the ball anymore to knock around you just balloons the whamos so uh so where can people find you oh man uh the internet

    Unknown: mostly uh usually on uh i'm on the periscopes a lot uh you just find me suck up on periscopes periscope.tv yeah it's periscope.tv that's the website but it's the app it's the application that you put on your your mobile look at the device i love it i love apples so okay i'll look it's that's similar to that it's like a one piece of a thing that's through the i'll give you go to the website that's uh sock up rocks.com okay and we can that's

    Natty Bumpercar: where we can find you on the twitters and on the uh yeah that'll link to uh to everything the twitter

    Unknown: i spend a lot of time on the twitter i spend way too much time on the twitters now when you're on

    Natty Bumpercar: the twitters i know we were gonna fade now but do you uh put up your own thing and wait for people to comment on that or do you kind of go into other people's things and make comments what are you talking about on the on the twitters yeah because i'm trying to learn like i feel like if i just put something up it gets zero and then if i find somebody who has a thread and especially if it's a volatile thread and i'm like and then people are like and i'm like oh is this how twitters work but then i don't get followers but i get like all these risk mean crash responses and

    Unknown: i'm like oh yeah i guess i won the internet i don't know no there's no i pretty much uh i stick to the uh i just put stuff up on the twitters and i'm like oh yeah i guess i won the internet out there it's you know just like throwing uh some spaghetti up against the wall and you just see what sticks sometimes people like some things and sometimes they don't and then it's uh but that the twitters it's good because there's been i've met a lot of people on there that it just they just do stuff it's cool yeah they just they just do things and they come up with you know little funny witticisms so they maybe do you know like comic-y things and put it out there they just make a weird little video or something they just do it i like just to do it and i'm like hey you're my people because i do that too you make stuff i make stuff we all make stuff together that's exactly right so it's like hey i'll give you a retweet you're gonna be a retweet back and stuff like that and then we talk every once in a while and it's a good time

    Natty Bumpercar: bumper car was saying that you're like the king of the king of the shares he very very much

    Unknown: appreciates it oh yeah yeah yeah no i'm all about the the sharing of things the bumper car is definitely one of those people that does some some cool stuff i go in there every once in a while and look at the look at the ants oh the comic of the ants and stuff i love those

    Natty Bumpercar: the ants are my favorite if bumper car ever gets time he's gonna make a book so it's gonna have the ant like the comic strip in each page and then annotations all around it as to what it could possibly mean oh yeah probably within the next 20 years i guess i'll get to that

    Unknown: i suppose oh wow it's weird that you said 20 because i was willing to pay up to 20 for such

    Natty Bumpercar: a book oh wait a minute yeah so there's one thing is too is it it'd be cool because it probably several volumes because i think i've got several hundred of those things so like i mean i don't know that'd be fun did he ever get like tweeted out why not or maybe they did i might think not but i don't know

    Unknown: i think they were before the twitters oh man you gotta just every once so you don't have to you know don't give away the whole thing but just you know pick a handful and maybe once every couple days just toss you one out there won't like that just yeah this is warm and then uh i love the ants so i'll do a retweetings look at that it's probably some comic book peoples will do some retweetings people be like hey look at his natty bump card character i wonder if there's a pig that talks to people that i can listen to for about an hour and then wham oh there they are and then

    Natty Bumpercar: they go to my website they're like wow wait he's got 300 of these penguin comic strips that ain't make no sense he's got a few hundred of these ant things that make less sense than that he's got three i'm like mr 300 over here 300 podcasts this is who is this guy who is this just just

    Unknown: the genius man that creates things for the world to enjoy i don't

    Natty Bumpercar: i think we should probably end on that because you're gonna make me cry nobody ever says nice things about pump a car oh man who is this sock up anyway all right so they're gonna find you on the twitters they're gonna find you on the periscopes they're gonna find you on your website which is sock cop rocks.com um and that's that's where they're gonna find you right they're gonna find you here too i mean yeah right here because you're gonna be here recording every week we're gonna send you a list of duties okay yeah no that's cool you have a lot of upkeep a lot of stuff to take care of you gotta uh muck the uh stables i hope you don't mind that not good yeah i could do a little mucking okay and you also have to bring the uh the the snickerdoodles

    Unknown: so that's good though snickerdoodle yeah those are good i got uh i've got a great recipe uh that involves buying snickerdoodles and then put them on a tray and i'll try that out for you sounds

    Natty Bumpercar: delicious now with that recipe if you would before you bring me one on a plate drop it in the oven for five to eight seconds but don't tell me and you give it to me i'm gonna be like is this fresh out of the oven and you just say why yes it is pig why yes it is why yes at one point it was all right sock you go to bed because you got to get up early and catch the speeders but thanks again for being on the show i want to have you back sometime okay yeah anytime i'm i have a microphone and i am available i love it all right everybody that was mr sock cop giving us a we will talk to him again i swears on it it's just amazing uh i it's like because pig gets these people on the show and um they their interviews obviously but they they're more like their conversations and you never know where they're gonna go so we've had really good luck so far where uh the three people who have done them and we actually have another one in the can is what they say so for the next show uh a great friend of mine a comedian um but everyone's everyone's doing great talking to pig and that makes me happy because it makes him happy because it gets him off my back speaking of getting people off my back so the kid the kid's gone right at the grandparents uh last week we were we were in the toy room there's carpet in the toy room and there's a there's a table in the toy room right next to the wall and he uh he was he was playing legos and i don't know how it but he looked down in between the table and the wall and there was this spider and the spider was the same color as the carpet so like i didn't even he was just like there's a spider like he's freaking out yelling right and i was just like okay here i'm basically like i'm basically like eeyore around the house because i'm so tired and so beat down uh and they don't seem to be able to do anything for themselves these kids these days and uh so i'm just like okay here i come like that that's it but i was all right what do you want all right and i get in and i see i was like what are you talking about there's no spider and he's like it's right there he's freaking out right point spider there's a spider there's a spider and so i um kind of look down like there's i can't get to the spider because it's behind the table and uh he's like what are you doing your face is down there it's by the spider the spider's gonna get you a spider ah and i was like buddy just relax and i was like no he's coming my way he's coming my way and i was like you know this is a couple minute ordeal but i was just like oh no he's like what he's on a chair he's like standing on a chair like he's in an old uh tom and jerry cartoon and there's a mouse running around the kitchen and he goes i was like he the spider the spider just pointed at me with one of his arms and then he pointed towards the door with his other arm he's emphatically asking me to leave the room and he was just like what like spiders don't what they don't they don't do that like he's he's no he's pointing he's definitely pointing he's just like well you can't leave the room you can't leave me in here in the room without what do you know and i was like god okay i don't know what to do he's still okay no he's coming back he's walking he's walking oh god now he's pointing at you he's pointing at you and he just took out of a fork and a knife i don't even know where the spider got the point he was just like no spiders don't use forks and knives why would he have a fork and a knife it was and this went on for probably like two or three minutes of my favorite most enjoyable torturing my child that i've ever uh ever done and uh you know eventually the spider just kind of disappeared under the carpet but i told him i got the spider i lied about the spider with the fork and the knife uh but i like to uh he's got a great imagination and i like to play with it it makes me happy uh but i hope i'm not gonna send him into therapy when he gets older but he might i don't know the spider didn't have a fork and a knife or did it ah dun dun hey remember earlier how i said i didn't have any calls i forgot i lied about that too evidently i lie a lot i'm sorry no but i uh we have one call and uh i'm excited about it i think it might be by the same person who called before but let's see what she has to ask to say all right

    Unknown: hi naddy i was just calling to a question about pig toys and when did you first acquire or figure it out or settled on one hey this is pig toys and how long I guess did it take for you to I guess I don't know how to say like make it be pig all right that's my question bye

    Natty Bumpercar: all right wow that's a great question this person is two for two on amazing questions the first question was last week about uh who my comedy influencers are uh which I still have to get into that because I that was that was an awesome question but this one is a little bit more of a touchy subject and I um yeah so hi yeah it's me Aloysius I don't think that that's a very important question or necessary question or a question that should be asked uh especially not to you maybe you could ask me that kind of question like hey pig where'd you get your voice you know whatever like that and I'd be like oh you know well lady you know caller I got my voice yeah okay talk how I talk and I stalk how I stalk yeah that's what I said yeah that's how I sing songs we don't have to sing but I don't know but okay you don't have to it's exposition right it's not exposition that's fine okay so uh pig just hold on a second so that's a legit question um because I have and this is not pig is obviously not one of these he's not a puppet yeah but I um I have yeah I have a real hard time with uh I've got uh boxes of puppets uh you do uh that I had the the web comic it was called snowflake and I made a snowflake penguin puppet that I love like I made it and it's like a foot and a half tall and it's awesome and I've never been able to uh to figure out the voice and I used to when I make the cartoons for like spot elliot and peanut lou uh that was the super special that type of thing or peanut louie sounds like this kind of uh uh and it's weird because a lot of times I'll sit there and I'll stare at things I was actually thinking about this just this morning my uh my my in-laws went to I'm gonna say Europe and they brought me home a German pig puppet and it is awesome like I really like it but it is in the uh the the drawer in the little table next to my bed just waiting because it's like the voice has it doesn't just happen I don't I haven't figured out the the ability to just look at it and be like that's your voice but it's more like uh when the right voice happens then I it's there um I used to pig used to hang out with a moose named yetkin he never had a voice he actually had a dog squeaker in his mouth um and I have who else I mean there's a horse named cinnamon and all he does is he kind of walks by and looks at the camera and a lot of it is just because I don't know what they sound like now with all that being said uh pig when I this is years ago he made a video called what does pig sound like and like literally he just we were in Hoboken on on the riverfront and he was walking around and just trying to figure out what he sounded like and but I'm just gonna say by luck something clicked and that was a voice that stuck something stuck something clicked you know what I've been talking this way my entire life and I'm of life ever since I could talk ever since I was a little bitty pig a little bitty baby pig you know I was raspy and I had an accent and I say words the way I say words so when you come in and you're like oh you know I got puppets and everything and I already got people talking to me talking about me saying that I'm a puppet you know I read the internet I hear I hear the comments and so I don't it don't help that they all of a sudden they're like what are you a a linguist are you a voice coach you're none of those things bumps I mean you're my pal we hang out we do the bump podcast but I you ain't you ain't making my voice up but I just want to be clear that'd be as silly as a question as me being like somebody being like hey how did you come up with bumper cars voice and I'd be like well I took a marshmallow and I put it next to some butter and then I put some rice krispies in it you know yeah I'm saying you sound like a rice krispie treat I apologize that might be a little bit ruder than I meant it to be because you're a nice dude again okay we're all lucky we're all yeah it is I think it's fine fine fine fine it's a fine question all right all right moving along can we move along we're done all right well okay yes move you take over you're welcome thank you um so again great question keep sending questions you send great questions and I really enjoy answering your questions um but you know it's just who knows who knows who knows and how long did it take it was when it clicked it clicked and but I wasn't like searching around for it it was just like kind of like I like to keep my eyes open to the universe and what it gives me or whatever and sometimes it gives me things and I know when those things work and then I take them and then I use them and they make me happy so thank you for your call thank you thank you um all right um we did it we did it we did have a call-in segment we didn't have a review today that's fine um we're not always going to have reviews we are trying to figure out other segments even though I feel like the ones we have so far are working out pretty awesomely I think the interviews are going great uh the call-ins when we have the calls are great uh I'm actually at the point now where I have more people lined up that I want to interview than I have time to do which is a good problem to have so I just got to kind of juggle and make sure that I get everybody in that I want to get in and uh you know it's fun it expands it expands the world because we bring in these new people and and we get to hear uh what they what they talk about when what they think um and I will say uh while I was recording this I did look over and I saw a spider and he was giving me kind of the uh the hands across the throat like wrap it up like hey too too long too long in the podcast and I was just like listen look at this guys it's a spider it's a spider and it's a spider and it's a spider and it's a spider spider people seem to like these longer episodes especially when there's people being interviewed in them speaking of people being interviewed i want to thank my pal sock cop for being on the show he's awesome you should go and watch everything he makes you should go and hang out with him on the twitters because he makes great stuff he makes great stuff and uh we need to your stuff and interact with it because it gives it a whole other life a whole other meaning so thank you a million miles for listening to the bumper podcast and for being awesome and i'll talk to you

  • Bumperpodcast #301 – Socially Awkward

    Bumperpodcast #301 – Socially Awkward

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. We have a great interview, some call-ins, and we finally have a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!!

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

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

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

    Oh – and – our special guest this week is John Trumbull!

    Go to these places to find John:

    Back Issue: http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1292
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrumbullComic
    Atomic Junk Shop: http://atomicjunkshop.com/category/john-trumbull/

     

     

     


    About This Episode

    In episode 301 of the Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar kicks off with musings about breakfast and cold July weather before diving into social awkwardness involving awkward handshakes and tea-drinking mishaps. The episode features a delightful interview segment with Aloysious J. Pig interviewing cartoonist and comedian John T. Trumbull, who discusses his work at the Joe Kubert School, his comic book art, and his upcoming Batman: The Animated Series retrospective. Natty also debuts the show's call-in segment, answering listener questions including one about his comedy influences—ranging from Howie Mandel to the Marx Brothers and Charlie Chaplin. The episode wraps with an adorable surprise guest appearance.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I was maybe 20 yards away from her… 10% of the tea decided to dribble out of my mouth… I couldn't even say hello. I wrecked my own hello.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “The eternal middle. It denotes both my life and my career status.”

    — John T. Trumbull

    “I used my left hand and I cupped his hand… it was like I was asking him to vote for me.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #comedy #socialawkwardness #cartoonists #batmananimatedseries #comedyinfluences #podcastcall-ins #interviews #handshakes

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Aloysious J. Pig, John T. Trumbull (Guest)

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: Did you just wake up? Are you hungry? Try breakfast. Breakfast is the first meal of the day and some people call it the most important meal of the day. You could have a waffle, you could have some pancakes, you could have some cereal, maybe some fruit, maybe some juice, a little cup of coffee, a little cup of tea. That sounds great as well. No better way to start your day than breakfast. Breakfast today, every day, for you. Evidently it wasn't made. It was never made. Maybe it's being worked on now. I think by the time this episode comes out, one exciting thing is, well finally, we're gonna have a Facebook page for the podcast. Specific to the podcast. Different from the Natty Bumper Car stuff, different from whatever. Are we gonna have a Twitter thing? I don't know. Probably. That makes sense too, right? This is what you're supposed to do. Hey, you have a podcast? Maybe you should do all these other things too. I don't know. No, clearly, honestly, I really don't know. We have another interview today. A very exciting interview that Pig has done. We have another review. Maybe of an actual thing this time. I don't know. We'll see about that. And we also have something that I forgot to do last episode that I'm super excited about. And that is that we are going to actually, we have calls that people, we have a phone number where people can call in and then you leave messages and then we can play them on the podcast and, you know, actually respond to them. The phone number, just in case you want to call in, we have a call and I can tell that you do is 646-847-7976. Again, that is 646-847-7976. Leave us a message and we'll get back to it. I almost promise you. I can't totally promise you, but I can almost promise you. That much I absolutely can do. So, with all that being said, let's go. Let's talk about stuff. Let's talk about junk. Let's talk about whatnot. What, what, whatnot. I can't believe how cold it is outside. Yes, I'm talking about the weather, but only because it's like July and it's almost August and I had a jacket on today. I will say that we were out in the public, in the public, and a woman's actually, who I didn't, didn't even know, said, really? Like she looked at my jacket. I assumed she was looking at my jacket. If she was just looking at me, then that's, I think I should be even sadder and more offended. But she, she kind of looked at me and she went, ugh, really? Like, really? How could you possibly? It's, and I was like, cause it's, there's a chill in the air. And she's like, well, it does feel like fall. And I was like, oh, so it feels like fall when people wear jackets and you're going to judge me. Awesome. This is a great conversation. I was, I was walking into work the other day and I had a giant, uh, uh, uh, giant jacket. And I was like, a drink, like a tea. It was tea from Dunkin' Donuts. And there was, there was a woman walking from down the hall and I was going to, I'm, I'm nice. I'm a gregarious bumper car. And so I'll, I'll say hello or, you know, whatever. And I walk past people. Hello. I'll give them a little point. I don't give them points. I'm like, Ooh, look at you. But I'm like, hello. Like, I just like to be like, how you doing? That's it. I don't say how you doing necessarily. Uh, but I do say hello. I like to greet people. And, uh, I was maybe 20 yards away from her. And she was like, oh, look at you. And I was like, oh, look her. And I had taken a sip from the straw of the tea. And I'll say 10%, a solid 10% of the tea decided to dribble out of my mouth on, like, it was just the right side of my face was just like, brr. And so then I made this like, uh, hunchback of Notre, Notre Dame, uh, kind of cringe. I was just like, ah, stay away. Like, uh, who's the dude from Frankenstein? I, I can't think of his name. Igor. I was very Igor about it. So sheep attention. She walked by and she was like, hello. And I was just like, brr. I couldn't even say hello. I wrecked my own hello because I was so disgusted with myself. And the fact that the liquid that was supposed to be in my mouth was now dribbling down my chin. These are problems that I have. These are, these are social situations are not one of my better things. I think when we come back from the interview, I, I'm going to tell you other social situations that I have failed at miserably lately. Um, because why? Because then I've talked about them and they make me feel better because then you don't have to live through them. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, get ready. It's pigs next interview right now.

    Aloysious J. Pig: All right. Hey everybody. It's me. Aloysius J pig. And I'm here for my interview part of my show on the bubba podcast. And we got a really fun dude coming up here today. Uh, I don't know a lot about him. I hope to find out a little bit about him and I hope you find out about a little bit. I got, I got confused. I got excited. I, you know, I get excited on these things. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, we have a fun interview for you. You're going to love it. I swear to pieces. Give it up for if he's on the phone, is he on the phone producer? Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jonathan. Is it Jonathan? I don't know his name. John. Oh, it's, Oh, Whoa. Whoa. Agro. This dude just jumps in. It's John T. Do people do this? T. Trumba. Trumba?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Close enough. Yeah, sure. Let's say that.

    Aloysious J. Pig: I can't, I'm reading the paper. It looks like it says Tom Trouble. John Terubble. Like Bonnie

    Natty Bumpercar: T. Rubble. Is that you? That's not your name. Let's see. Everybody. What's so, Hey buddy,

    Aloysious J. Pig: how you doing? It's me. Aloysius. Who are you?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): How I'm my name's John Trumbull. It's nice to talk to you. Should I call you Aloysius or should I call you pig? What do you prefer?

    Aloysious J. Pig: I mean, people who just met me, that feels like they call me something else. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not

    Natty Bumpercar: sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. It feels like they call me some of them either way, honestly. I was going to say it goes one way or the other, but sometimes they call me pig. Sometimes they call me Aloysius.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I think I'll just call you pig for brevity sake. Is that alright?

    Natty Bumpercar: I appreciate brevity.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: I went to school with a girl named brevity. Oh really? Yes. She didn't talk much. Oh yeah.

    Aloysious J. Pig: I see what I did.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): That's a shame.

    Aloysious J. Pig: So, John. What, tell me. Who is you? Are you? Anyways.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Well, uh, gosh, I know a certain meantime, he talked about, you know, um, he's always talking about Aliens. Your producer, Natty. Oh, boy. Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. But I've known him for about, oh, gosh, six years now. We met through the stand-up comedy world. I've seen you do a date or two with him.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, yeah.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): You're a big fan? Oh, absolutely. I mean, he's a very funny guy, a very nice guy.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, no. You're not going to win this interview by buttering him up. Nobody's a fan of him.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I mean, he's still nice. I mean, you know, it doesn't change the fact that he's nice. I'm sorry.

    Aloysious J. Pig: I got a question. So you met six years ago? So you met when you were 12?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yes, yes. Let me think. I was born in 1972. So, yes, I was 12.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's amazing. You've aged like Benjamin Button or something.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah, I'm aging in reverse. So are you nearing the beginning or the end?

    Natty Bumpercar: Are you kind of in the middle?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I think I'm in an eternal middle.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, that should be the name of your comedy album, John, I feel like.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): The eternal middle. The eternal middle. It denotes both my life and my career status.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. I think I really, honestly, I mean, if nothing else, we should end this interview right now because I don't think we're going to get better than the eternal middle.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah, we peaked early.

    Natty Bumpercar: That should be yours. So do you have a web? You draw, right?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I do draw a bit. Yes, yes.

    Aloysious J. Pig: And are you classically trained?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I don't know if I would say classically trained. I went to art school.

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm so sorry to hear that.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I know. I know. It's, you know, I was an art major in college and then I came up to New Jersey to go to the Joe Kubert School, which is a school where you learn how to do cartooning for comic books and animation and all that fun stuff.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Now, at the… At the Kubert School, was there a little orange dude who could only jump on squeeze?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I never ran into him. I was always expecting to run into him whenever I turned a corner. But no, no, I think he's publicity shy.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Now, do you, do you ever, you said you did the comedy. Do you ever do impressions? Could you just whip something up for me?

    Natty Bumpercar: What would your impression, if you got into a talk, would Kubert be? I'll be you. You be Kubert. Okay?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: This is going to be great. And…

    Aloysious J. Pig: Whistle, whistle, my name is John Trombone and I'm walking… Oh, hello.

    Natty Bumpercar: What's going on? What's going on? Seriously, I thought we weren't going to get better than the Eternal Middle, but whatever you just did blew that out of the water.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Well, thank you, Peg. I'm very flattered.

    Natty Bumpercar: Are you classically trained as a video game character as well?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I think I just imprinted… I think I just imprinted on that from playing it on my Atari 2600 10 million times.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Is that really what he sounded like?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I just, I remember the cartoon Profanity coming out of the word balloon out of his head whenever you killed him. And it made a sound something like that. Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack. It was, it was something like that. Maybe your producer could find like a sound clip of that and then like dub it in.

    Natty Bumpercar: That sounds like work, which I don't know if you've ever listened to my show, but we don't do a lot of it. But you know what? I'm going to, I'm going to get a post-it, a post-it note here. It's a pink post-it note. I'm going to write a Qubit sound insert here. Perfect.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah. Maybe you could just, we could just ask people to pause the podcast and then find that sound clip and listen to it themselves and then come back a minute later.

    Natty Bumpercar: I like that. I like that.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Maybe that's more practical.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay. Everybody put your fingers on your buttons right now. Push. Oh, wait, don't push them yet. Push them when I say push them. Because if you push them now, you're not going to get the rest of the instructions. But what you're going to do is you're going to go to the Googs and you're going to put in a Q-Bart sound. And then, and then when you finish with that, you come back here and we'll compare notes. I think, I think that's going to work.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right.

    Aloysious J. Pig: So Qubit. So I went to Qubit school.

    Natty Bumpercar: Was it like, was it like, like Hogwarts? Did you have a sorting hat or something? Like you're, you're going to draw. You're going to draw Hufflepuff things or whatever. You're going to draw skimpy women or whatever people draw.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Well, you know, they, they did have like the, the cartooning illustration division and then the animation division. So you divide up after, after the first year. So yeah, I guess there was a bit of a sorting hat there. And where did you end up? I did the cartooning illustration.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, did you have, was there any, is it called anime? Do they still call it that?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Um, sure. Yeah. As far as I know, it's still called anime.

    Natty Bumpercar: You could walk up to a convention if they had anime and you could go like, Hey guys, I anime not be enjoying this or something. I don't know. You take it, run with it. But I just feel like it's there. It's ripe for the picking, you know?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): It's so ripe for the picking. I'm like, I'm afraid to touch it. I think.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, here's an even better idea.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: You're going to mix anime with, uh, old Westerners. And you're going to have a character named, uh, anime West and you're going to go on, uh, at midnight and it's going to be perfect.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah. Yeah. I think, I think they're really hurting for guests right now. So, uh, I, I think that's the best career advice I've ever gotten.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Hashtag hashtag anime West anime West. Uh, so what do you draw currently?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Um, right now I'm just doing it, uh, more for fun than anything. I, I was, I was doing a thing a couple of years ago, uh, a feature called the line. It is drawn, uh, that runs on cbr.com and actually all the, uh, it used to be comic book resources, but they shortened it up. Um, I don't blame them, but yeah, I'm gonna, uh, I think I'm going to do a guest, uh, a spot on there, uh, next week though. Oh, some more drawing, some more drawing. Yeah. I gotta, gotta work on that this week.

    Natty Bumpercar: You're going to give the link to. Uh, to bumps and he's going to put the stuff up so that people know where to find you. Right.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Okay. Well that, that sounds like work, but yes, I'll, I'll give, I'll give the link to bumps. Okay.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Okay. Uh, do you have any idea? You can't spill the beans. Any idea what you're drawing, what the team is?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Oh, well, let's see. Um, I think when is this going up pay?

    Aloysious J. Pig: Uh, what's today's Wednesday? I would, I would assume.

    Natty Bumpercar: You know what? If we're bold, it's going to be up this week by like Friday. But I'm going to, I'm going to guess by like Tuesday.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Then I'm not gonna, I'm not going to spill, uh, I'm not going to spill any secrets. Um, I can, I can let the people know cause they, they, uh, tell you what the theme is for the next week on Friday. If all goes as planned, it should be a thing I started a few years ago called munch week, which deals with one of my favorite TV characters. Um, John munch, the detective that Richard Belzer plays on. Law and order SVU and a hump before that homicide life on the street where we shunk, shunk. Exactly. Exactly.

    Natty Bumpercar: I didn't know his name was munch. I was hoping you were going for like a Baron von Munchhausen or, you know, you could do

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): that cause it's usually a mashup between characters. So you could have, you know, Sergeant munch meeting Baron von Munchhausen. And that's a great suggestion.

    Aloysious J. Pig: You could also, it was just comic con last week.

    Natty Bumpercar: So you could, you could be like. Uh, stranger munch, uh, girl, Dr. Who, uh, you know, alpha is coming back. I don't know if that happened.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Exactly. Exactly. You could just mash all those things up together. What's that?

    Aloysious J. Pig: Ready player one. You know, it is, I mean, you could do everything. There's all sorts of stuff.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Exactly. Exactly. There's all sorts of comic book stuff. Um, and yeah, just something that, that, uh, we started a few years ago. It's, it's, it's fun. Like with the line is drawn. The, they have, uh, cartoonists draw, uh, according to a different theme every week and people suggest things on Twitter and it's usually like a mashup sort of thing or a gag type of thing. And then the artists pick a suggestion that they like, and then they draw that up. And then every Friday people check and see, it goes up and, and everybody's entertained.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Like a, like a gag me with a spoon type of thing. That kind of gag.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Um, sometimes, you know, if it doesn't go over well. Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Do you ever do, uh, you should do this. Okay. You go to the beach, right? And your, your, your whole, your, your whole, uh, theme for the week for everybody is a line that is drawn in the sand.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Ooh.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. And then people have to make, uh, uh, your arts, uh, but they have to draw it in, in, in, in silica. It's nice. I think.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah. That's, that's, that's a nice medium to work in too. I don't know. Are the beaches reopened now? I know the beaches got closed. A few weeks ago.

    Natty Bumpercar: I would assume they're open, but I don't know. We don't go down there. I don't, I don't, uh, I don't suntan well. I, I, I suntan delicious, but I don't suntan super well. So yeah. Yeah. I don't feel like I should go to any.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah. That's, that's tempting fate, I guess.

    Natty Bumpercar: So when you do stand up, does everybody ever come up to you? I don't know. This is a, it's a joke, you know, take it this way, but are they like, oh, this trombone guy, uh, he doesn't draw so well. Cause he's like, people don't come see you. Or do they come see you? How does that work out? And you're like, actually I draw pretty well. And they're like, what do you draw? Well, a bath. And they're like, stop it. Like that type of thing. I don't know.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Uh, you know, you know, I hadn't, I hadn't thought of drawing that parallel before, but you know, me, me being a draw as a, as a standup comic and me being a draw as an artist. Um, I don't know, you know, that I'm running about 50, 50. I, I, I'm just waiting for success in either field.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wait, you're running about 50, 50. Would you say that you're, I forgot. And what's the, the inevitable middle. That's not what it was.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Oh, the eternal middle. Yes. Eternal middle.

    Natty Bumpercar: You really do run the 50, 50.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I guess so. I guess so. We're discovering so much stuff about me tonight.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's why it's because I'm the, I'm a really good interviewer. Like everybody's always just like, I want to be interviewed by pig. He really gets stuff out of people, you know?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah. Yeah. It's like you, Howard Stern, Charlie Rose.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, Pantheon.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah. Exactly.

    Natty Bumpercar: Walter Cronkite. Yes. He's still really good. I feel.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yes.

    Natty Bumpercar: Top of his game.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Absolutely. He's as good as he ever was.

    Natty Bumpercar: John Carson. He's really good also.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Uh, you know, not as productive as he used to be, but still great.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't like his first name though. If I'm to be honest, I just, I feel like he could have gone with something better than that.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): It's, it's a ridiculous first name. It's, it's, it's given to like corpses, outdoor toilets, and guys who frequent prostitutes. It's not a good name.

    Natty Bumpercar: Don't forget. Of course, this is a kid's show. So these words you're saying, I don't know. I did a bumper commas. Not, I told you that up front, but one, well, at least one of those words, kids look the other way. What just happened? Nothing. Nothing.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): But bumper car, he can work pretty blue though. Don't you think?

    Natty Bumpercar: I, I, the only time I see him blue is when he's held the audience, he's going to hold his breath until they laugh and they never do. And so he turns blue in the face. Oh, that poor guy. Yeah. He sees a terrible human being. No one can stand him. He tries though. Does he though? I feel like I, you know, I don't really, does he, maybe, I don't know. He gives the impression of trying. He does good impressions of trying. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He, he waves his hand in front of his face. Then he spins his face around and he looks at the crowd and he's like, this is my impression of trying.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Does he, does he ever do voices around you?

    Unknown: No.

    Natty Bumpercar: Uh, yeah, he's always, it's, he's, he's like, uh, he's like a gecko, but, but with voices where he's always walking around, is it gecko? Do they change colors? Chameleon.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): He's like, yeah. Do you, do you like his voices?

    Natty Bumpercar: Good. Not so much. The kids get very upset. So then I have to listen to them scream at him because I'm not, he'll do a British and he's like, Oh, look at me. I'm a British bumper car or whatever. I can't, I can't do it as well. But then they, they get there. It's like.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Stop talking like that. Why do you talk? Stop. Talk like daddy.

    Natty Bumpercar: And then he talks like daddy and they, they don't like that either. So they leave the room. So he, it's a no win game.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Do you, do you live with the bumper cars? Yeah. We all live here in headquarters. Of course. I didn't, I didn't realize that you were actually like roommates with. Well, you just like visited a lot. I thought you were buddies. I didn't realize you lived together, bro.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, you're going to get a sweet spot like this in Jersey for free, huh? I mean, There's room included board is include board means food. There's free food. You know, like I hang out here with, with socks, Irving, Irving B socks. There's a robot. There's a, it's a party here really is what it is. It's good fun.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Do you have your own room? Do you have like your own style or something or.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, I got a little space. I keep to myself. It's, you know, it's, it's full of hay and slop. It's what I want in life. I feel like I'm living a dream. It's a, I've, I feel like it's a good place to be. And I've, I've moved just, it's past the eternal middle.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Wow. Wow. I, I dream to have that someday, but you know,

    Natty Bumpercar: I dream of Jeannie with a light brown hair.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): You've got a lovely singing voice.

    Natty Bumpercar: Do you think so? I don't know. Sometimes I just break into the song. It's how I keep myself happy in this cruel, cruel world. Oh boy. Don't get me started. No, seriously. Don't.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Um, so let's see. More about you. Less about me. So you draw, you went to the cube at school. You're doing something for the line is drawn. Uh, I, I, I hired you. You, you do face paint night, not face paint. You do car, car. I can't say it away. Car, car, car, caricatures.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah. Do you do them? Uh, yeah, sometimes, sometimes I do like some, some party caricature work. Yes.

    Natty Bumpercar: Is that fun or is it terrifying?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Uh, it's a mix of both. It's, it's more fun than terrifying. Most people. People are nice.

    Natty Bumpercar: Are you saying it's a melange?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yes. I don't know if I pronounce it. I would say that.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't know what it means, but I feel like it probably pertains, but it sounds really

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): nice. It sounds really impressive.

    Natty Bumpercar: It does. It sounds like something you could get with dessert. Like I'm going to take the, uh, rutabaga pie with us to, if you could just a little, a

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): melange, a little melange on top. Yeah. Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: And not too much like a whisper, please. I don't want to. Yeah.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I'm watching my way.

    Natty Bumpercar: I mean, it is beach. It's the season right now. And beaches are open. A line drawn, a line drawn into sand. So I like to pull everything back together as we go. You're bringing it all together. You're bringing it full circle. I'm like, I'm like, I, I, I don't just interview. I, I crochet as I do. I make a lanyard. I make a friendship bracelet out of my interviews is what I do.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Do you ever quilt? Do you do like any quilting?

    Natty Bumpercar: No, I do a little needle point, but I never done no quilting so much.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Something. I don't know. I just never got into it. The squares, the, you know, the net one pile toe. I don't, I just can't do that stuff. Nah. Nah. So what do you do? So you draw, do you like, I, we were talking about comic con. I do. Are you like a nine? Like you like pop culture stuff?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Uh, yeah. Yeah. I, I, I do like the pop culture stuff.

    Natty Bumpercar: What do you like? What do you get like all excited about?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): What do I get excited about? Let's see. Um, you know, I like, I like. I like a lot of the, the, the shows, the movies. I mean, I'm, I'm a comic book guy. Oh, okay. Cause I like a lot of the comic book movies and the comic book shows. There are a lot of those right now.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's what I was wondering. Cause at first you just said, I like the movies and the shows. And I felt that was too broad, but then you pulled it back. So you like comic book stuff. That's fun.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah. Yeah. And I actually, one of the other things I do is I write for a magazine called back issue.

    Natty Bumpercar: What is that?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): It's, it's all about comic books. Uh, from. From like the seventies, eighties, nineties and up. And it's that, that's the age that's called the bronze age of comic books. And, and we, I tracked down a lot of comic book creators and stuff. And I ask them things like, Hey, why'd you do this thing? 20, 30 years ago. And they'll say, Oh, I don't know. Or leave me alone. Or sometimes they remember stuff. And then they tell me about that. And then I write up an article about that.

    Natty Bumpercar: I feel. I feel like they probably could have just skipped over to nineties. I don't know. I feel like.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Well, you know, the magazine is approaching 100 issues. So we've been kind of like inching towards the nineties. Um, so yeah, there's a little bit of 90 stuff going on and there was some good stuff in the nineties. You know, there's some good stuff in every decade.

    Natty Bumpercar: Of course. But I feel like your hundredth issue, when you're taught, whenever you get to the nineties, the, the, the cover should just be, uh, uh, die cast foil, uh, cut. Uh, covers. What the what?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yes. Yes. Those were big in the nineties.

    Natty Bumpercar: How many, how many of these should I buy? They're all the same thing. Question mark. I don't know.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Were you a big comic fan?

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, bumps used to work in a comic book store for like, uh, from when he was 13 to when he was like 18 or 19. So back in the nineties and, uh, used to just come home with long box at the long box of this, of this garbage. And it's all. In the garage currently, which is sad because I don't feel like it's good for humidity wise, but it has been several points. I wanted to get rid of them, but you're going to get pennies on the book. And with the boys, he's like, I will save him and maybe they'll play with them or whatever. Like we've kind of given up on getting any money out of them. But, uh, you know, uh, it's, I don't know, at some point. And the kids are like, Oh, comic books, let's go look at them. And I'm like, Oh, that's the killing joke. You can't look at that book. You're not allowed to, you don't want, no, that's.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): They're not ready for the killing joke yet.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, no, no. That's not cute. Funny joker. That's like, Oh no. What have we done? Oh yeah.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): That's nightmares for a few years. Joker. Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. When you're, when you're four year old is, is flipping through, uh, you know, Akira stuff and he's just like, what? Not Akira. I messed it up. Uh, I forgot lone wolf and cub. It's a little bloody, even though it's black and white, uh, you know, it's still, it's, it's a bit of an eye opener.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah. Yeah. I never wear red lone wolf and cub. I, I, I, I enjoyed it.

    Natty Bumpercar: I, I, the, just the, the, the, the, the line quality and just, uh, it had, it had some, it was nice. It was a nice quiet moments and it was a nice long journeys. I remember, I mean, it's been 20 years since I read it, so I don't really, but I, since he read it, I, I get confused.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): What did you read it together?

    Natty Bumpercar: He would point to it sometimes, but then I would fall asleep is really, I didn't want to say it, but I'm. I'm not the most literate pig, if I'm going to be honest.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Okay. Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. I like the pretty colors. Uh, I like the pictures.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Wasn't that a black and white book?

    Natty Bumpercar: I mean, I like the pictures. You kind of caught me out there a little bit. We just established that it was black and white.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): So yeah, you know, it's true. That's true. What you just did. So maybe that's why you didn't enjoy it very much. Cause there weren't any of the colors that you like.

    Natty Bumpercar: I liked, uh, what was that other one with the rabbit?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Uh, yo Jim, yo, yo, oh, uh, uh, you can say you Jimbo Jimbo.

    Natty Bumpercar: I knew it was something like that. Yeah. I think that might've been black and white too.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): It's a stance of Kai. I think it's black and white. Honestly, I'm, I'm not sure.

    Natty Bumpercar: Did you ever read, uh, this is, this is newer, but it's, it's called bone.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Uh, yeah, I like bone. It's so good. That that's really good. I've got a nice, there, there's a nice big collection of all of bone. It's like the complete bone.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh yeah. We got that.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): It's really, it's a, it's giant, ginormous. I think there was like a color collection and a black and white collection of that.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh really?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Trying to remember which I had. I think I have the black and white collection. I haven't looked at it in a while. See? You're going to have to pull that off the shelf when we're done talking.

    Natty Bumpercar: See, look at you. I'm, I'm, I'm help. I'm bringing it up. I'm, I'm bringing it out.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah. Yeah. But that, that was a good book. Jeff Smith, very talented guy.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Did he ever do anything after that?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): He did a few things. He did, um, uh, he did a Captain Marvel thing. The, the DC Shazam Captain Marvel, uh, called Monster Society of Evil. Um, I bet I could dig that up and maybe lend that to, uh, to Natty. And then you could, you could flip through it if you're inclined. I would love. Um, and he's done a few other things and I'm blanking on the other things. And I'm probably going to think of them as soon as we're done talking.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's fine. Well, I'm, I'm sure we'll see each other again soon. So.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: That Captain Marvel thing has always been the most confusing thing ever because you got Carol Danvers. Yeah. And then you, you know, do you got. You got the dude with the, the, the, the daisy on his, on his shirt there. And you're like, it was Captain Marvel anyway.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Well, it, it, it does get complicated. There was like, you know, there was the guy with the lightning bolt on his chest, you know, and the red and the yellow, he was the original Captain Marvel. And then. He was owned by Fawcett Comics or something, right? Right. And then he, and then like, there was a lawsuit between, uh, DC and Fawcett because they thought he was like too close to Superman. And eventually they stopped publishing Captain Marvel and then the name was up for grabs and there were a couple other Captain Marvels and then Marvel Comics was like, Hey, we should have a Captain Marvel because we're Marvel Comics. And they've had like a few different Captain Marvels because whenever one character goes away, they have to do another character to hang on to the name. Oh, I didn't know that. And that's, and that's why everybody thinks that the DC Captain Marvel's name is Shazam because they can't use the name Captain Marvel on the comics. When in fact he just says the word Shazam. He says the word Shazam. Well, they, they changed it a bit. Like now, now DC is saying like his name is Shazam and he also says Shazam. Uh, and, but he has to say it with conviction to, to transform it. It's getting complicated, but he's still Captain Marvel as far as I'm concerned.

    Natty Bumpercar: You ever hear that? Uh, I was going to say it is a, is a Kevin Garifo joke. Every time you say it's complicated. Complicated. It reminds me of it.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Really? What, what's, what's, what's the Kevin Garifo joke? I'm not.

    Natty Bumpercar: He goes, he goes, he goes, I changed my Facebook status to, uh, it's complicated with Tom Brady or something like that.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Oh yes. Yes. I remember that joke.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't, I don't really know what it means, but I always got a kick out of it. I don't know.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I don't know if that's still in his act or not.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't know. I would assume so. I don't know.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I don't know. I don't know. I like tracking the changes in Kevin Garifo.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, I like it in anybody. I don't want to single him out because I don't want him to beat me up, but like, uh, pretty much.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I think you can take him pig.

    Natty Bumpercar: I mean, I am pretty squirrely for a pig if I'm going to be honest.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah. You're a tough guy. I think you can take him. You hear that Garifo?

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm coming for you. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming for you. Oh, we could do like a wrestling promo. Listen up, Kevin Garifo of the Shining Wizards podcast.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Yeah. I think you've got it. But you don't got it because I took it when you wasn't looking.

    Natty Bumpercar: So you better understand that pig is going to take you down a peg or two, my friend. That's how they do it in the wrestling world.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah. Can you smell what the pig is cooking?

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, that was, I think that might be copyright. And I don't know. Yeah. I don't, I don't know. This cooking is a chef. This is, I don't know how to work. I'm fine. I'm going to, Hey, can we isolate? That last thing? I want to send it to Garifo to freak him out. He's going to be like, I keep asking him to be, I want to say, can I be in your podcast? And he's like, no, you're a pig. And I'm like, bro, don't be like that.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): You know, you need a podcast crossover. You need to do this cross promotion thing. That's that's everybody loves crossovers. CW. That's all they do. That's right. And you know, the, the Marvel movies, they're crossing over all over the place. Everybody's fighting everybody else.

    Natty Bumpercar: How do you say that dude's name? Is it Kevin Fage? Fahey? Fahey, I think. Fahey. Fahey. It wasn't, he was talking about like, uh, these are going to bring our, uh, our, our movies to a close for a version for, for step one. And there's like 30 movies or something. It's insanity. It's just too much.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah. And if, if you miss one, then you're screwed.

    Natty Bumpercar: You can't, yeah, you're doomed. Like, what are you going to do? You can't go back.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): No, no.

    Natty Bumpercar: I will say I saw that Spider-Man. It was, I enjoyed it very much. Did you? Yeah, I liked that one too. It was, it was loose and it was fun and it started off with a little, you know, the little personal movie thing and, and the last line of the movie got a little chuckle out of me. It was, it was good. It was good. I liked it.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah, it was good. I enjoyed that. That was well done.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Well, hey, you know what, buddy? I'm tired. I got to go tonight. I got to go to sleep, you know?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Oh, okay.

    Aloysious J. Pig: But I've had, did you have fun on the show?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I did. I did. It was good talking.

    Natty Bumpercar: I feel like we really, you know, we, uh, we plumbed some. We plumbed some depths. We covered a lot of ground. We did. We, we've talked about a lot of things and stuff, but was there anything in particular? So you said you was writing this, you're doing the line is drawn. I know that's coming out. Yeah. Is there any like certain stories that are coming out or anything that you want to push?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): There's, there's a, there's a thing with the magazine I mentioned before, back issue, um, issue 99, it's come out in August and we're, we're talking all about Batman, the animated series.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, that's a good show.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Cause yeah, it's the 25th anniversary of Batman, the animated series. And I wrote a couple of articles on the issue there. I did a whole big oral history of Batman, the animated series. I talked to a lot of people behind it. I talked to Bruce, Tim and, uh, Paul Dini and Alan Burnett and Kevin Conroy, who was the voice of Batman. Wow. Um, and, uh, I did a, I did a history of Harley Quinn article and we got other articles about the comic books. Um, about, uh, Mike Parabellum. Mike Parabellum, who, who drew a lot of the Batman animated comics and it's, it's going to be really cool. The whole issue is about it. It's like 84 pages. Wow. All about Batman. So if you're, if you're a fan of that show, um, you should pick it up. You can order it at, uh, two morrows.com and that's T W O M O R R O W S.

    Natty Bumpercar: You just forgot how to spell tomorrow is what just happened. I saw it.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I did. Was that too much of a part? Was in the middle of the word there?

    Natty Bumpercar: No, I could see some smoke coming out of your ears.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yeah. I was actually like sketching out the, the words in, in the air. As I was saying that it was, it was sad.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, so wait, here's the last fun fact. It's a question, but you can say yes or no. Wasn't Harley Quinn invented just for that show?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Yes.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, look at that. So can they also get this back issue thing at like a comic book store?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): Uh, yes. It, you can, you can get it in most comic stores. If not, you can ask them to order it for them. For you from previews. And yeah, they should be able to do that for you.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Phenomenal. All right. Well, ladies and gentlemen, this has been John Trumbull. Or as I like to say, after the whole wrestling thing, let's get ready to, I messed it up. Let's get ready to rumble.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I think that's also copyrighted. I think.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, really?

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): I think we, you know, we're, we're going to get in trouble for the, can you smell what, what pig is cooking? And I think you can get in trouble for that.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right. Well, you know what? This might be the last show. Then we're going to give it to the lawyers. They're going to suss it out. They're going to figure it out. It's going to be fine.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): And we can sue that big business now.

    Natty Bumpercar: I got no, I got nothing. I got to come at me, bro. I got nothing. I'm a very poor pig. Uh, but John, thanks so much for being on the show. I super appreciate it. Thank you, pig. Hope to see you soon, buddy.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): It was nice talking to you.

    Aloysious J. Pig: All right. Click.

    John T. Trumbull (Guest): No.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right. Wow. That was a great. Wow. That was a really good interview. I was actually surprised at how good. That interview was compared to a lot of interviews. Like he asked, pig asked questions. Pig actually got to the root of things. Pig got to the bottom of things. I feel like, uh, the, the, the, the John Trumbull was like an onion and pig just kept pulling it back. Just layer after leave after whatever onion bit, onion bit after onion bit. Uh, so good job to pig. So I was going to tell you guys about the, um, socially awkward, uh, stuff that I've been doing lately, which is great. It involves handshaking. And, uh, there was a guy. Uh, because I was talking about the woman and I had the tea and everything. So this is a, a, a, a dad, a friend of mine, kids, dad that I'm pals with now. And when we were at, we were at the pool, we were having a conversation and, uh, we, you know, like, Hey, get a little handshake. Goodbye. We'll see you later. And then he kind of sat back down cause they were, they're at the table eating. And, uh, I gave it, it gave his wife a hug over here. And then I had already shaken, shooken his hand, shooked his hand. And then I patted him on the head. When I turned to leave and I was just like, Ooh, why would I do that? Why would I pat somebody on the head? It was the weirdest thing. Like it just didn't make any sense. And so now he has that over me. Like he brings it up. Hey, Hey, remember when you patted me on the head type thing? And I'm just like, ah, yes, yes, I do remember. And then, so he and I were standing, uh, there one day we're getting at the pool. A lot of stuff happens at the pool, evidently. Uh, and, um, this person came up and I, I gave them like a handshake, right? I grabbed his hand, shake his hand, which is normal. But then I used my left hand and I cupped his hand in my hand. And then it was like, I was asking him to vote for me. If it was like, I was just like, Hey, you know, this day at the pool, I need you to do something for me. Okay. And he, and he was, he was watching. Cause I guess he's now cognizant, uh, that I'm, that I'm, uh, socially awkward. And he, as soon as he came up to me, I was like, Oh my God. He was just like, that was your handshake. And I was just like, I don't know what happened either because I knew that something weird had happened. And like, just like time after time, after time, after time, after time, uh, these weird handshakes keep happening to the point now where I'm going to become agoraphobic. I'm going to get to the point in life where all I do is I sit here in the studio, in the lab at headquarters and record podcasts, which is going to be no good for anyone. Because if I don't go out in the world, I don't have any funny stories. I have a great imagination. Sure. But it, it, it only extends to a certain amount. So I don't know what to do. I'm at a loss. I'm, I'm at a point in life right now where, uh, when I interact with people, strange things happen. Uh, and when I sit at home, I just get really bored. But speaking of not being bored, this is time for the next new segment that we have for the bumper podcast. We did the intro. We did the interview. Uh, I don't think we're, I don't know if we're going to do all the other ones because we're already at like 40 minutes, but this is, uh, the, uh, the call-in segment. And I think today we have two phone calls. And, uh, so I guess what we'll do is I'll play the calls that people called in and, and then I'll respond to the calls and, and then we'll go from there. It's so fun. Like people actually called my phone number. So, uh, let's see if I can, ah, nope, nope, nope. Wrong number. Wrong button. Not wrong number. Um, how do I fix this? Stop. I want to get to the phone calls. How do I get to the phone calls? How do I get to the phone calls? What do I press? Okay. That's gone. Thank goodness. Okay. I think that was the wrong button. Now we're going to try the right button and there we go.

    Unknown: Hi, Maddie. This is Dennis. Hope all is well. I'm at the Metium. Wanted to provide you some premium content. Hope all is well. And say hi to Pigs.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay. Uh, thanks, Dennis. Um, for providing me with some premium content. That's, that's fine. That's our first call ever. Uh, and I, I, I felt like I had to play that one since it was the first one to come in. Um, he said hi to Pig, which Pig will love. I got a hi. Pig got a hi. So there were two hellos there, which is, which is nice. I think probably a better way to go in the future, and I am not going to not, but is to ask a question. Because then I can actually answer anything. But for now, I can just be like, hey, Dennis, thanks for calling. I appreciate you listening and I appreciate you calling. And Pig, whenever he wakes up here today, is going to be beside himself thrilled that he now has, uh, a friend named Dennis. And I don't know if you're his friend or if you were just kind of, it didn't really sound that aggressive. It didn't sound like you were like, and tell Pig I said hello. You didn't really sound like that at all. Uh, you more just. You were just like, hey, tell, tell Pig I said hi. Here's some premium content. So, uh, thank you again, Dennis. Uh, let's see if we can go to our second call of the day and go.

    Unknown: Hi, Maddie. I was just calling to ask a question. Um, that question is what are your comedy influencers? Which comedians influence you the most? All right. Thanks.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wow. All right. That second caller got it, got it right. I got a, uh, let's see a question, a question. I probably should have listened to that before. Uh, so my comedy influencers, I'm, I'm weird. Uh, I, growing up, uh, when I started doing comedy in college and I didn't really have, I, I loved Howie Mandel growing up, which was always weird to me. He put a glove on his head. And that was hilarious. To me. Look at that. His glove. He does funny voices. Um, I didn't, I, I mean, uh, I didn't, I guess I, I mean, people love Richard Pryor and, uh, they love, I did like Woody Allen and, uh, uh, well, that's not the name I was trying to think of. Uh, who is the other guy? I mean, even back, you know, uh, Carlin, that's the name I was trying to think of George Carlin, but I never grown up. I never watched like comedy specials. I watched Eddie Murphy growing up. Cause it was kind of ubiquitous. It was everywhere. Uh, and I enjoyed the command that he had in the crowd, the material. I was just like, ah, it's terrifying. But then he'd be like, I got some ice cream. And I was just like, okay, that's funny stuff. But I, I didn't, I didn't really even know comedy was a thing. Like, I didn't know that you could go out and do it. I didn't understand that. Uh, and then I went to college and, um, I had never seen, uh, I'd never even heard of really the, the Marx brothers. Uh, I, I, I probably maybe had heard of Charlie Chaplin, but I mean, I did hear, I guess maybe about Mickey Mouse and Charlie Chaplin, that whole thing. And, but I didn't know what Charlie Chaplin was, but then I get to college and I don't know how I even found stuff. But I think I was just like, I found out that in the library, uh, upstairs, the top floor, there was a place you could watch old movies and you just would go in, you'd have your own little, uh, television and you could say, ah, I want to watch this. I want to watch that. And like you could, there was everything like all this, it was a whole new world. It was so cool. And I, uh, so I would go in and I would just watch all these Marx brothers movies. And then I would watch all these Chaplin movies and then, uh, Buster Keaton movies. I never really did Howard, Harold Lloyd, uh, who was another big guy back then. Uh, but I would just watch these and I was just amazed that these, especially like, just that this stuff existed and that these people were making, I don't know. There was something about the internet. There was some energy of it and everything. And I really, uh, glommed onto it. And then I started reading like their, uh, uh, biographies, I think maybe a couple of autobiographies and just to find out about these people. And it kind of really deepened the connection that I felt like to these people. Um, I don't know. And it's so, it's, so it's weird. And then especially in college, I never watched comedy because like I, there was, I didn't have HBO. I had access to these really old things. We didn't have anything, access to any contemporary. Uh, there was no comedy club in Athens. Uh, I was the, uh, president of the UGA standup comedy club. And, um, so I got to hang out with a lot of comedians and I got to watch that, but I never took a class or learned like in a good way. Um, and I feel like, and so like lately though, I've tried to watch more comedy, uh, specials so that I can, as it is, it's just learning. You're learning structure. You're learning cadence. You're learning timing. Uh, just to see how other people do it, to get the reactions that they get. Cause then you can see like, okay, he's slow playing a joke. Oh, he's burning through stuff. He's going fast through stuff. Um, oh no, we have a guest here. Did you want to talk or do you just want him to scare me? He really freaked me out when you poked me in the back because I couldn't hear you. Um, I'm almost, you know what? This is a really great question and I feel like I'm going to come back to it and answer it again. I so appreciate you guys calling. And I'm going to give this a go. I'm going to give this one more thought though, because it's such a good question and it makes me happy to talk about this stuff. Um, so I'm going to come back to this, but for now, are you sure you don't want to say anything? We're at the end of the episode. Okay. Did you have a good weekend? What'd you do? You went to the pool. Did daddy shake somebody's hand strangely? Oh, he probably did.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, did you get dressed already? By yourself? What are you? What are you? Are you some sort of big boy or something?

    Unknown: No.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. What are you like? Hey, you 17 years old, 18 years old, huh?

    Unknown: Seven.

    Natty Bumpercar: You're going to ship you off pretty soon, man. I'm seven. You're seven? Teen? No. Uh, so you went to the pool. What else you did? I felt like you did something else pretty exciting. Um, we went to, um, a hiking place. You went to a hiking place. Do you remember what it was called? Uh-uh.

    Unknown: It had a funny name. Ramapo. Ramapo? Ramapo. Ramapo. Ramap- Is it either Ramapo? Ramapo. Ramapo. I think it's Ramapo. Ramapapapapo. What if you put a lot of papapapapo at the end of it? It would sound like an engine. Yeah. Ready, guys? You put the key in, and then you turn it, and it goes, ramapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapa.

    Natty Bumpercar: Nothing? Nothing. Nothing. Okay, that's fine. All right, well, can you say goodbye to everybody? Bye-bye. All right, Bumper Podcast. This has been Natty Bumper Car, Episode 301, Interview with John Trumbull. Check the place for the links. You're going to go find some fun stuff. And thank you to the people who called into the show. Your phone number to call is 646-847-7976. You call in. You leave a message, preferably a question. And then we answer the question on future episodes. Future episodes, we've got more stuff to review. I mean, like, it's crazy. We haven't even had any of our friends come by lately. They came by and said thanks and hi and whatever last episode. But, like, where's Pig? Where's Rufus D. Rufus? Where's Robot? Where's Doodle Poodle? I don't know. I'm sure they'll come by soon. So, you know what? I think that that's…