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  • Bumperpodcast #341 – New Year, New Car?!

    Bumperpodcast #341 – New Year, New Car?!

    It’s the beginning of the year as I know it, and I feel fine. This episode is told in 3 acts – and, it’s all about getting a new car. Whaaat?!? Listen and learn!

    Also – before we forget, we’re thrilled to have been picked up by the Shining Wizards Network of podcasts. Double-hooray!!

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

    You should send us an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com, or to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976. We’re here and we’re listening!

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

  • Bumperpodcast #338 – Turkey! Turkey!

    Bumperpodcast #338 – Turkey! Turkey!

    Hey – better late than never, right?! Turkey shows up, and some of the gang chime in to talk about what they’re thankful for. It’s a splendid little get together for all of your ears!

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

    You should send us an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com, or to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976. We’re here and we’re listening!

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

     


    About This Episode

    In episode 338 of Bumperpodcast, Turkey arrives upset that he wasn't invited for his usual annual Thanksgiving appearances. Host Natty Bumpercar apologizes for the radio silence, explaining he's been overwhelmed with making endless to-do lists. Rufus T. Rufus emerges from a nap to share what he's thankful for, including the judicial system and his career path. Aloysious J. Pig attempts to lighten the mood with dancing and singing, while Natty reflects on a tough year including car troubles and a flooded basement. Despite the challenges, the gang discusses perspective, gratitude, and finding positivity in difficult situations, all while Natty prepares to head to a library for a kids' show.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I have to make lists to make lists. And you know what's on those lists? More lists. That's right. I have to break down my lists.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Rough patches, you know what they do? They float away. They're like little ice cubes. They're out in the ocean. They float away. They melt.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “I'm also thankful for chocolates and clouds and rainbows and whatnot.”

    — Rufus T. Rufus

    Topics: #thanksgiving #gratitude #perspective #cartroubles #challenges #comedy #friendship

    Featuring: Turkey, Natty Bumpercar, Aloysious J. Pig, Rufus T. Rufus

    Full Transcript

    Turkey: Hey, Turkey, what's going on? Okay. I know, I know, I know. Well, that's not fair. Come on.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay, so what Turkey was just saying was he's upset because every single year for the past few years, we've done a fun string of episodes on the Bumper Podcast where he has come in and done his guest spots and he had it on his calendar for this year because I guess we booked him last year, and then we didn't do the episodes.

    Turkey: I know.

    Natty Bumpercar: There's just been a lot going on. I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Are you? How are you doing anyway, Turkey? What's going on?

    Turkey: What? Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Really? So you've had a really busy year. So I'm surprised you even noticed that we didn't call you or book you or anything. I'm really sorry about that. It's just. We haven't been doing a lot of episodes and it's all my fault, really, but it's because I'm triple, quadruple, octuple booked. Like, I'm just booked. I'm so booked. I'm booked, booked, so booked. And I'm behind on a lot of things.

    Turkey: Hey, Bumper Guy.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, get the turkey off the show. I'm sorry, Turk. Your time is done. We didn't have no show, so you didn't come in or nothing, and that's fine. But listen, the thing is, you know. You gotta scoot, because you're really monopolizing a lot of time. And since we're not recording a ton of episodes these days, I need you just to kind of understand who the stories are to show. Thanks, Pig. Thanks, I appreciate that. No, not you, Bumper Guy. It's me. Come on. Oh, come on. Well, anyway. Hi, Pig. Turkey, are you going to stick around? You don't have to. You don't got to listen to Pig. Okay.

    Turkey: Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right, well, thanks for stopping by. It was good to see you.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Bye-bye.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Woo!

    Natty Bumpercar: Talk to you later. Hey, everyone. It's me, Natty Bumper Guy. That was Turkey, and obviously he was upset. And I don't blame him. Usually, he's on every single year. But this year, we didn't even have a Thanksgiving episode. I don't know why. I can't tell you why. I can tell you we've been very busy here, though. Busy doing what? No idea. Have you ever been so busy that you… You do a lot of stuff, but then you're so busy that you don't even know that you did this stuff, so you don't even… Your brain doesn't recognize it? Like, I've started having to make lists. And on my lists are prompts that make me have to make more lists. Like, I have to make lists to make lists. And you know what's on those lists? More lists. That's right. I have to break down my lists. Don't forget to make a list. Hey, on Tuesday, you know what it is? List day. Really? Well, what's Monday and Wednesday and all the other days? Oh, those are different list days. To-do, lists. What are you going to do? Lists. Stuff to do, lists. Lists, lists, lists. It's really all I do is make lists. I don't even get the stuff done that's on the list, except for making the lists. Besides that… Holy cow. I'm Bumpercar. What are you doing? Oh. Hi, pig. Yeah. So anyway, evidently while Bumpercar was away from doing a Bumperpodcast, has any of my episodes been going out on the air? Because I know I've been down here. We've been recording some stuff here in the lab. You know, we've been mixing some tricks. We've been putting some stuff together. And I didn't know if… Really? No, none of them. What am I paying you for? I don't… Okay, well… You don't pay me. I didn't mean to bring that up again. Well, you did, though. So, yeah, you haven't been recording episodes because I… No one's been recording episodes because I've had the computer. And without a computer, you cannot record anything. And so… So, there's been nothing. Radio silence is what's been happening. We should tell everyone what we're thankful for. I ain't thankful for nothing. Nothing. You're not thankful for anything? Not one bit. No. All right. Well, then I'll tell everyone what I'm thankful for. Oh, this is going to be a humdinger of an episode. He's going to be like, I'm thankful for chocolate. I'm thankful for rainbows and clouds. And scene. There's the end of the episode.

    Rufus T. Rufus: Excuse me one second here. It's Rufus. T. Rufus. I was napping back by the closet here. And I heard some people come in. And I believe I heard a turkey bird gobbling, gobbling. And if we're going to be recording an episode as to what we are, in fact, appreciative of, then I think I should hop onto that list as well and tell everyone what I'm thankful for, which is, of course, the judicial system, which has given me a career path and which has given me a goal and which is getting me on a straight. Straight and narrow, straight to the top, all the way we go, hippity hoppity, just don't stop it. I'm also thankful for all of you, of course, as well. And I'm also thankful for chocolates and clouds and rainbows and whatnot.

    Natty Bumpercar: OK. Hey, Rufus, it's good to see you. That's a nice list. I appreciate your list. And I appreciate you waking up and coming and spending some time with us here on the Bumper Podcast. If we're going to do a list, I'm thankful for a lot of things. It's been a tough year. I'm not going to lie about that. What with our car broke, our basement flooded, poor Irving Brown socks went away. Just a lot of stuff on top of stuff on top of stuff. But, you know, we try to take deep breaths and try to keep moving forward and just try to keep maintaining and try to find the positive in things. And so I'm thankful for perspective, I think, is what I'm thankful for. And what that means, if anyone who's listening doesn't know, is the ability to look at situations and look at them from different angles and don't just accept the negative in things. Try to find a little bit of positivity if you can. Try to just take deep breaths and look at things and, you know, hope that you find some good in them. Because it's hard sometimes. Sometimes it feels like there's a lot of bad everywhere. Right. All right. And listen. Okay. Yeah. You're not doing good. All right. Okay. I was trying to. No, you're not. You're trying to give a little lesson, a little life lesson, which is fine. But this is the Bumper Podcast. This is where people come. They tune in on the Teletubes or the Ruby Slippers, wherever you listen to this show. You're coming in here. You're like, how am I going to have fun this week? Oh, yeah. I'm going to listen to the Bumper Podcast. How am I going to have a good time and feel good about the Bumper Podcast? Do you understand? What in the world? A fan just kicked on. Hello. So, it's good teaching little lessons. But let's have some fun, too. Like me, what am I thankful for? I'm thankful for truffles. They're kind of like things you find down next to the trees. And I sound like I'm in an airplane all of a sudden. What's happening to me? I'm also thankful for singing and dancing. Because I have fun when I sing and I dance and I do a little prance and I move around and I shake my little toe. I'll tail around and I do a little bit of this and I do a little bit of that. And, of course, yeah, whatever. We had some rough patches. But rough patches, you know what they do? They float away. All right? They're like little ice cubes. They're out in the ocean. They float away. They melt. And then they're just part of the ocean. Wait. That actually sounded kind of sad. It sounds like those little ice cubes are just going to disappear. I don't like that one bit at all. I don't know what just happened. But I guess I brought it down a peg or two. A peg or two? A peg or two? I'm going to bring this down. I'm going to bring this down a peg or two. All right? All right. You're okay. It's okay. Wow. That was really loud, that fan. How does he have a fan in there? We're not supposed to plug anything into these different places. No, I was going to put a heater in here, but we're not allowed. It does something to the circuits or whatever. Well, listen, everybody. We hope that you're doing great. We're doing pretty okay. We have to figure out how to get our car to move again because the exhaust system fell out. Do you know what that is? Do you know what a muffler is? It's the thing that's under a car that takes the bad air from the engine and it goes through these pipes and it shoots out the back of the car. Well, we recently had a snowstorm a few weeks ago and the muffler hit something and it cracked and broke. And so it's no longer attached to the engine. And so our little car, if you drive it, what happens is all the bad air from the engine goes right into the cabin of the car, which is presumably where you're going to be. It's sitting if you're driving a car. So what does that mean? That means we can't drive that car. Yay. And it caused the repair cost to fix this thing costs more than the car is worth. So there's a little bit of debating going on, right? A little bit of a should we? Shouldn't we? And by should we? Shouldn't we? I don't know what I mean. Should we walk everywhere from now on? Should we get on bicycles? Who knows? It's an exciting adventure. That's what we like to look at. It is that we hope you guys are having exciting adventures and we hope you're there and you're happy to hear from Turkey and you hope that you're happy to hear from us and we hope that you're going to do whatever pig did and do a little dance and shake your little tail and all that jazz. Anyway, this is the bumper podcast and I'm happier now having recorded this than I was before I recorded that and that means that everything is working out well so you have an awesome day me. I'm going to go to a library. I'm going to go to a library and do a kid's show. I have to leave here in about 45 minutes so cross your fingers and wish me luck because by the time you listen to this, it will have already have happened. What? Time travel. The future. Magic.

  • Bumperpodcast #334 – The FLOOD

    Bumperpodcast #334 – The FLOOD

    Headquarters has flooded – and not with emotions – but, with disgusting water… Join for some lamenting from the crew – and see how well your empathy muscles are working.

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

    You should send us an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com, or to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976. We’re here and we’re listening!

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    About This Episode

    In this emotional episode of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar recounts the harrowing experience of catastrophic flooding at his house. After five inches of rain in 30 minutes, Natty, his wife, and the puppet crew including Aloysious J. Pig, Rufus T. Rufus, Doodle Poodle, and a newly voice-updated Robot battled rising water for hours. The episode details their desperate three-hour bucket brigade moving nearly 2,000 gallons of water, a failed sump pump, and the heartbreaking aftermath of losing possessions. Natty shares raw emotions about dealing with the disaster while offering humor through the puppet characters' reactions, from Pig's tiny bucket contributions to Rufus's obsession with legal documentation.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I actually grabbed a very tiny bucket because you know I'm just a little pig with little hooves and so I can't move a lot of water but I was there to offer support to everybody.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “You know what makes me keep going? I'm pointing at you Bumperpodcast caters because you're my pals you keep me dry except for my eyes because sometimes I do cry a little bit.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Hey everybody you want to go to my new restaurant? It's called Slop House and Stink Water.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    Topics: #flooding #homedisaster #family #resilience #insurance #emergency #exhaustion

    Featuring: Rufus T. Rufus, Doodle Poodle, Natty Bumpercar, Aloysious J. Pig

    Full Transcript

    Unknown: Oh The floods the floods the floods the floods

    Rufus T. Rufus: I am your lawyer Rufus T Rufus I was been wondering if you have any Documentation maybe a stacks of paper stacks upon stacks upon stacks upon stacks that you might have put your pronometer on your signature at the bottom of which would indicate that there perhaps will be some coverage Situation as the one that we are currently finding ourselves in

    Doodle Poodle: I think I What in the what?

    Natty Bumpercar: Robot can help me No Okay, first things first Rufus I will get to you in a second I'm sorry that I'm crying, but I'm in an upsetting situation second thing more important thing Not really, but kind of robot you sound completely different. What happened to you?

    Doodle Poodle: Somebody completely

    Aloysious J. Pig: updated my vocal Chips and so long Kind of sound like this

    Natty Bumpercar: No Stop stop stop. Okay. Thanks. What no, oh my gosh Okay, I haven't heard you on the podcast in like two years and now you have a completely different voice and it freaks me out And I'm not a fan of it but more importantly I think we should talk about what happened in our house last week because it's a very sad thing and it keeps happening and why does it keep happening and I just

    Aloysious J. Pig: Hey everybody, it's me Aloysius J. Pig what bumper cars having a tough time talking about articulating Of course is that we had a flood in our house It was an epic flood out in front of our house The road was off what and a half deep like literally I couldn't even walk in it or it's over my belly button my piggy belly Button and no one wants to see that believe you me now the river It's not even a river There's a little stream of runoff stream across the road wind up 10 feet and it became part of the road Holy cannoli right

    Doodle Poodle: Did somebody say cannoli. err err err it's me dildo poodle And I was wondering if anybody knows where this water came from Because I don't like to do đil dildos water it's not a fun thing for me to draw okay thanks hi doodle poodle hi pig hi okay everybody

    Natty Bumpercar: everybody's here great listen i'm gonna need a list from all of you of the stuff that you had that got messed up in the flood so that i can i have to give it to the insurance guy and anyway here's what happened bumper podcast we had crazy storms last saturday night and we got like five inches of rain in like 30 minutes something's in just doesn't happen type of thing and there was all this water in front of the house i think pig was talking about the street it was like a foot and a half deep and then the backyard just started filling up with water filling up with water and then there was like a river to the side of our house like it was just like water everywhere and we were watching it and then i went downstairs and i was like okay sump pump's working we're okay if you don't know a sump pump is a little hole in the corner of your basement if you think you might get water and you try to divert the water there so that a little pump which is down in the hole and the hole is called a sump don't know why but that little pump will then pump the water out to wherever you want it to go our little pipe goes out to the street the street that was underwater so the little pump it couldn't do it it couldn't push the water out into the river out there and so it started to back up right okay that's terrifying and then you turn and you look to the back of the house and you see a little pipe and it's like a little pipe and it's like a little house and there are two sinks there right by our washer and dryer and those started to fill up and not slowly like they really they were like water and we were like okay what do we do so we all

    Aloysious J. Pig: grabbed buckets i actually grabbed a very tiny bucket because you know i'm just a little pig with little hooves and so i can't move a lot of water but i was there to offer support to everybody and to really cheer the team on you know and so i was there to offer support to everybody and to know because i didn't want all that water to go everywhere i get allergies i get mold affliction i

    Rufus T. Rufus: don't want none of that now excuse me aloysius i heard you get the mold affliction i believe in my briefcase that i have some sort of documentation that i might need you to sign which will go pro facto ipso facto into the folder the dossier if you will to the loyification to make sure that any of your ailments are prescribed and entraved in a legal fashion you understand what i'm saying he fine whatever uh so

    Natty Bumpercar: the water started coming up through the sink and we all like i had two big five gallon buckets and my wife had a five gallon and like we're just running them up the stairs as fast as we can but by the time it takes us to get upstairs which i'm talking maybe a minute maybe you know like whatever it's not not much time and we're throwing the water out into the yard and we run back down getting it throw the water like up and down up and down for three hours we did this and so we were trying to figure out if we were doing 10 gallons at a time and so she was doing five so i was probably doing let's say i did 40 buckets in an hour so three hours 40 80 120 so that's 1200 gallons of water that i moved and she probably moved about six five about 500 so we're almost at two thousand gallons seventeen hundred whatever a lot of water we were running out and like the floor was getting slippery so you you get so tired and exhausted and you're trying to move all this water you get to the top of the stairs and you slip and fall and then more water would go everywhere it was a nightmare and we couldn't keep up with all the water that was coming out of the sink and so then that's just pouring into the house and pouring into the house and then the sump was over overloaded right it couldn't do anything it was trying to push the water out and it couldn't and then i kind of i didn't know what i just kind of i said i don't know if this sump pump is working and so i just shoved my hand in there and all the stuff that had been coming in through the sink was clogging the sump so i had to like clean it out with my hand right then luckily we had a friend who's a fireman and i called him and i was just like do you have they have these submersible pumps that you can put in for stuff like this and he happened to have one it was a war zone outside of my house there's like just dirt and rocks everywhere and limbs and just fire department and police everywhere and it was a nightmare city right i got the pump i got it home and we put it in and we're still like you know pushing water out getting the water out just bone tired and then

    Rufus T. Rufus: you know finally we were good for the night now when you say you was good for the night is that good in quotations i'm assuming and i'm hoping that you were able to take some sort of a shower something i wouldn't want you getting into that bed of yours all full of stink water and yucky times like that what's

    Aloysious J. Pig: stink water i never heard of stink water i feel like that's something that i could really market and sell to the pig population like hey everybody you want to go to my uh my new restaurant it's called slop house and stink water i don't know it just sounds like something that we could probably you know market put a tag on put a price on put a shell on get it on get it on you know what i'm saying like that and that's our commercial now we got a commercial we got a brand name we got a product we're going to the top with

    Natty Bumpercar: this when i feel like huh well okay so whatever so we went to bed yes i was able to take a shower thank you very much for asking rufus even though it's kind of creepy uh because we were discussed i was disgusting i was so i was covered in just horrible nastiness and i passed out at like 10 30 so tired then 4 a.m comes and the uh i went downstairs at 1 30 just because i was kind of shell shocked and i was terrified i was like i'm gonna make sure that the water's gone water was fine no water some pump was working went back to sleep 4 a.m the wife's like it came back and so we run downstairs and i was like in a dream state i was so beat up tired and i got downstairs and we had another six inches so the first time we got like 15 inches right the second time we got six inches uh luckily we were able to save the water heater and the uh furnace barely like by an eighth of an inch which is not very much we had to have the firemen come the policemen they came and they checked it out to make sure the pilot light wasn't uh off or whatever because then you got just gas coming into your house and then your house can blow up which i didn't i don't want my house to blow up and um the policeman when he came i forgot i was on the top of my steps and it didn't even register in my brain but i was talking to him he was down on the on the sidewalk and i was talking to him eye to eye and then he got up on the steps next to me he was probably seven foot four he was very tall and i was so tired and my brain just didn't know and i went wow you're you're really tall huh and he was just like looked at me like what do you what do you what do you want what are you talking to me for and i was like i don't know you're in my house this is weird i'm tired anyway we come downstairs and he was like why did you call and i was like i thought i was supposed to call because i called 911 and he was just like is it an emergency and i was like yeah my basement's flooded and you know because the last time five years ago our basement flooded for completely different reasons we had an oil tank in the draw under the driveway when we bought the house and when they removed it they excavated which means take out a lot of dirt right because there was leaky oil so they had to fix it they filled all that in with uh gravel but they didn't cap it off they didn't put new uh driveway on top of it for like two months and the water came in that way so this is a completely different situation but we've had floods before and that time it was right after we moved in and so we were using the basement as kind of a staging area and it was really that time was so heartbreaking because we lost everything we lost like all of our wedding pictures and just old mementos and so so much art and stuff and it was it was terrible this time it was terrible also but just for different reasons just for the exhaustion of it like did we lose stuff yes you know we lost a big pile of stuff there was a crib there was a vacuum there was this there was that whatever just stuff um you know you just kind of take pictures of and throw away but it's just it's more the mental anguish of it and then i was talking to somebody and i joke you not this was his reaction to it and it was somebody in a position of power and he went well i don't understand why didn't you just fix it this is like this is not a question that you ask of someone when they're going through a tragedy and bumper podcast caters this was a tragedy this was a horrible miserable bear in mind there are people who have it much worse than we do that did not make it out like their whole houses are wrecked like we got off fairly easy fairly well thank goodness right but there are some people who didn't but he didn't know that and i was like so affected by that and i was like i was like i was like i was like i was like i was like i was like offended i was just like all right and i just had to walk away because i was just like i don't even want to have a conversation with this person because i'm already tired enough but you know what makes me keep going you know what makes me happy i got you know what i'm doing right now i'm pointing at you i'm pointing at you bumper podcast caters because you're my pals you keep me dry except for my eyes because sometimes sometimes i do cry a little bit thank you so much have the best day

    Unknown: and thank you for watching you

  • Bumperpodcast #332 – Rubberband

    Bumperpodcast #332 – Rubberband

    This thing happened, and that thing happened – and I think that maybe something else might’ve happened as well. I’m not entirely sure. But – what I am sure about is that you are awesome – and that I appreciate you listening. Hooray for you!!

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

    You should send us an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com, or to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976. We’re here and we’re listening!

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

     


    About This Episode

    In this heartfelt episode, host Natty Bumpercar returns after a two-week hiatus to explain where he's been—busy recording episodes of other podcasts including The Dumb Fellas, Girls Gone Green, and The Decomposition Podcast, where he discussed Digital Underground's "The Humpty Dance." Natty reflects on his birthday comedy show at Tyranny's Tavern, where he closed (but not headlined) with a 25-minute set, while dealing with brain-fracturing overstimulation from too many simultaneous responsibilities. He opens up about creative challenges, particularly a deadline to write a children's book by September after being encouraged by fellow podcasters. The episode takes a vulnerable turn as Natty uses the metaphor of a rubber band to describe mental stress and resilience, reminding listeners to take care of their own emotional elasticity.

    Memorable Quotes

    “If someone in your life has a birthday make a big deal… it's downright mean to not do anything about it.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I'm like a dinner plate—I want my peas over here, potatoes over here, and I want my salad in another bowl because salad goes crazy when it's on a plate.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “My brain is like a rubber band… every time there's a stress my rubber band gets really snapped and it's starting to lose some of its elasticity.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #podcasting #comedy #birthdays #creativewriting #mentalhealth #stressmanagement #children'sbooks #standupcomedy

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: ah it's been i just looked at my calendar and it has been two weeks two weeks since i sent out a bumper podcast i am so sorry here in the middle of summer you're just sitting there at the beach like what am i doing with myself there's nothing to listen to well i'm back and i apologize and how does that happen well how you know because like i like to record the bumper podcast and it's one of my favorite things to do and then i realized what happened was in the last couple of weeks i recorded a lot of other people's podcasts i did um a couple of episodes of the dumb fellas which is one of my my podcasts with my pals that is not as sweet and family-friendly as this podcast just as a warning uh and then i recorded two episodes of another podcast called girls gone green and that's with two amazing comedians tracy lot and donna v and that was a really big blast it was so much fun it was so nice to hang out with them and then i recorded one more podcast with uh what is it called the decomposition podcast and that's a cool podcast where they take a song and so it's supposed to be like a um a guilty pleasure kind of bad song so bad that it's good type of thing but we did an amazing song we did a phenomenal song we did a song called the humpty dance by the digital underground yeah you know what i'm talking about amazing and we recorded it this week and at the end of it they were just like that was the longest episode we've ever done because you know what bumper car likes to talk and especially i had notes i had five whole pages of notes because i was so excited about doing this song and i went down this cool rabbit hole where i was like where does this come from who said that what's the etymology of this thing so it was a blast but anyway i apologize that i haven't been talking to you from here but i've been talking to you from a lot of other places so hi how have you been me i'm great it's august ah it might be august 2nd i have no idea how did that happen where did my summer go well let me tell you something really cool that happened that i don't think i told you about and in the last few weeks i've been talking to you about this thing called the humpty dance episode was me um lamenting about my birthday and the lack thereof hey people let's just i want to you know put this point to you again if someone in your life has a birthday make a big you don't have to make the huge deal out of it you don't have to get a blimp you don't have to get a clown with flowers to come to the door whatever but like make a deal of it it's it's it's important it's very important and it's it's downright mean to not do anything about it anyway and if someone says hey you don't have to do anything for my birthday that doesn't mean don't do anything that means you don't have to go you know buy me some extravagant thing or go you know really put yourself out but you know what you still do you still acknowledge it anyway so i had a birthday show i had a show where i got to close at tyranny's tavern which is where i am most of the time and i had a birthday show where i got to sunday nights it's where i've been doing comedy for pretty much eight years and if i'm not there hosting i'm on the show and on whatever day it was i actually got to close the show now here's an important distinction if you do stand-up comedy i was the last one on the show some people would be like oh you headlined the show no i am not a headliner yet i understand that and i appreciate that in the pecking order of comedy headliner is a very important distinction and i don't really know when that gets bestowed upon you but i know that i'm not there yet i know i have years to go before i'll be a headliner and i'm fine with that but i did close the show which means i got to do a nice 25 minutes at the end of the show and i had a blast now i also tried to do a little bit too much that night i tried to take on too much uh we recorded we got there at like five o'clock set the room up and then recorded two episodes of the dumb fellas and um then from there finished setting the room up and then had to uh you know kind of just deal with the uh the the production of the show basically and um i wish you know that i could have just been hanging out in a room and having sips of uh tea or whatever but i think my brain got kind of overwhelmed and i was like oh my god i'm not there yet i'm not there yet i'm not overwhelmed and so a weird thing happened where i was super excited about this night i was super super super excited about it and then my brain got so wrapped up in doing so much other stuff that i mean i enjoyed it i had a blast i had a lot of fun but i think that there was definitely a division between the fun and my brain that it wasn't just like i'm just having fun it was like i have to do these things these things are going to be fun i'm just having fun i'm just having fun they're important and i had friends that came to the show and which is great and stupendous but that also kind of puts my brain over here a little bit because then i you know i want to talk to them and i want to see them and i want to thank them for coming out and i want to hang out and then like a lot of comedians came out it was so amazingly sweet that all these people came out to support me which is so nice and so i felt you know like uh not obliged but i felt like you know i wanted to talk to them too like i honestly wanted to talk to them and i wanted to say hi and i wanted to give hugs and hang out and everything but um in the end too i really wanted to focus on the night so did you ever do that do you ever have that problem where there's just so much going on so much stimulus so much happening that like my brain gets fractured is what i like to say and i feel like the older that i get the more fractured my brain gets i do a thing where i compartmentalize what does that mean that's how i'm able to have a nine to five job where i have to go to an office and be office bumper car and then i'm the dad and so i'm dad bumper car and then i'm the comedian so i'm comedian bumper car and then i do this podcast so i'm bumper podcast bumper car and then i do the dumbfellas so i'm dumbfellas bumper car and you know it's just on and on and on and on and i'm kind of like a uh if you give me a dinner plate i want my peas over here i want my potatoes over here and i want my chicken over here and i want my salad probably in another bowl because salad goes crazy when it's on a plate and it's going to start touching everything and i would rather you not salad i'm also going to want maybe a little plate for my roll because i don't want the roll to get in with all that pea you know juice i don't want it to get potatoes on it you know i want my roll to be pristine so what i'm saying is i like things and then when things start to mix together it kind of my brain gets kind of confused and kind of conflation wait conflated at the conflation no exasperated at the conflation that's what i'm trying to say and um that happened a little bit that night and i'm trying to think of other like it's just been so busy but it was a fun night and everyone seemed like they had a blast and like it was just one of those nights where like there were so many of my friends there and everyone was having good good sets like they were up there telling their jokes and like people seemed to enjoy them and they were having fun and they were connecting with a crowd and so like it was really it was it was amazing and um on on top of that so then we move away from that so we did that show um i get to go do a show in the city tomorrow which is exciting because i love going to the city to tell jokes i don't get to do it nearly enough and that's fine and that's fine uh and then i've just i've got a lot of shows coming up which is fun and it makes me so happy uh i'm also so on the girls gone green podcast they were like why don't you make books why aren't you making kids books this seems like something you should be doing all the time and they're not the first people to tell me that like they there's it's been kind of a drum beat in my head that happens constantly hey why aren't you making books you should be making books do you make books why aren't you making books you should be making books i'm just like i know i've written some books and i actually sent some books to a friend of mine who is a writer and she's like hey here's some notes and so like i have to go through those notes now which is nice but i don't know if i'm afraid of making books because but what normally how when i make things i'm very intuitive so what that means is i just kind of go off of my whatever however my brain feels it's like i'm gonna do this and then i do it and then it's done but then a weird thing happens if i start getting feedback or if i start getting like input then my brain doesn't always know how to deal with that stuff and so how to parse like whatever information people are giving me and so i get kind of wonky nervous whatever and then it kind of shuts down and then i move on to something else i'm like come on brain let's finish these things like if you have a like i do a lot of work and then i'll just drop and i'll move to the next and that's not a good way to do things right if you got to stick with things all the way through to the end and then learn from whatever you did and if you made mistakes learn from the mistakes and if you did it super perfect right then good for you you did it super perfect right right right so on the girls gone green they were asking me all about the books and they challenged me and i don't remember the exact date but it's like september 17th or september 25th or something like that uh they were like well the next time i'm gonna do this i'm gonna do this and i'm gonna do this and you come in you're gonna have a book written and i was like oh okay right and now we're at august so we're a month a half month and a half away and i i don't know what to do i don't know what to write like and so then you give me like this deadline and then like writer's block starts to kick in and i'm like come on and then there's been other stuff there's been life stuff life stuff that i don't even want to talk about miserable life stuff that that has taken over me and i've been in my brain and taken some of my focus but it's good it's fun I like having this deadline because it gives me something to work towards so fingers crossed that I will I will keep you guys posted on how things are going with book what book is it I don't know I have some books written but I want to think what I want to do something different for this right maybe anyway back to the stresses of life have you guys been stressed it's summer why why have you been stressed you shouldn't it's a beautiful world out there me I have and I can't really talk about this stuff but it's okay I'm okay I'm all right right right but sometimes I do feel like so here's my analogy my analogy is that my brain is like a rubber band right here's your brain and it's not just your brain this is your entire being you're a rubber band so that means pliable you have to be pliable in this world right so you have to have a little bit of give a little bit of rubber bound rubber band bounce right but I feel like every time there's a stress or there's a trauma my rubber band gets really snapped really pulled a lot and it's to the point where in a way my rubber band is starting to lose some of its elasticity and it's it's not bouncing back as much as it used to and I'm caught up in a lot of this stuff and I'm like oh my god I'm gonna have to do something about this I understand what's happening but what I have to do it's good that I acknowledge that but then I have to figure out how do I make my rubber band band stop snapping how do I because I don't want my rubber band to break because I don't know what happens then right and and I appreciate you guys because you're amazing and I hope you love the bumper podcast and I've missed you and take care of your rubber bands people

  • Bumperpodcast #329 – Wad Of Cash

    Bumperpodcast #329 – Wad Of Cash

    Pig does some doughnut talking, Producer sings a song, and Natty bursts in – typically flustered!

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    About This Episode

    In this chaotic episode of Bumperpodcast, Aloysious J. Pig takes over hosting duties while Natty Bumpercar is away. Pig attempts to discuss socio-political economics but quickly abandons the premise to ramble about his love of donuts, particularly a tres leches donut he purchased that morning. Producer interrupts with a story about finding a mysterious wad of cash on the sidewalk while listening to a song about picking up money, which leads to an unfortunate encounter with the police. The episode takes a twist when Natty returns looking for his lost wad of cash, and it becomes clear that Producer may have found it—and possibly donated it, though his new shoes suggest otherwise. The improvised comedy showcases the characters' chaotic chemistry and comedic timing.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I'm probably in cupcakes, maybe in cookies, maybe in bread. I've heard you can put it on your cereal. I don't know if you eat that. And, obviously, in my slop pit, sometimes there's milk, just because I am very lactose-tolerant. I would almost go so far as to say I require lactose.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “If you see a penny, pick it up, pick it up… If you see a nickel pick it up, pick it up… if you see a 50 bill you should call the police because it's not yours.”

    — Producer

    “Producer, seriously, this is a big deal. Like, this is, like, rent money, this is every kind of money, this is all of our money. This is our bill money.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    Topics: #donuts #money #friendship #misunderstandings #food #music #comedy #chaos

    Featuring: Aloysious J. Pig, Producer, Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Aloysious J. Pig: Uh, hey everyone, it's me, Aloysius J-Pig, and today, uh, Natty Bumper Guy is off and about and about and around and everywhere but here. So, it's gonna be a pig episode, which means probably a little singing, and obviously we're gonna talk about socio-political economics, because that's what I do now. I don't know if you've heard my new show, Pork Barrel Pig, but here we are, and this is what we do. So, huh, the other day I was looking at the market and I was like, oh, what is this, a bear market or a bull market? And the people were just like, I don't know, pig, why don't you tell us? You're the one who's got the show about. It's global, so I forget what it's about already, so I, alright, the joke's over. We're gonna talk about donuts, we're gonna talk about, talk about donuts, what, what, what, what? Donuts, what kind of donuts, bro? You know the best kind of donuts. Donuts, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, donuts, ha, ha, ha, ha, donuts. Donuts, this morning, I woke up, I went to my local donut-taria, and I said, hello, Miss the Donut, and Mr. Donut was just like, oh, hello there, pig, or whatever, I don't know what he said, and he's like, what can I get you? What do you want? What kind of a donut do you want? And I was like, my friend, my friend, my friend, I'll have one of everything, alright, and two or some of them, alright? So you're gonna need some boxes, you're gonna need some crates, what is the biggest receptacle that we can put the donuts in that they're gonna make it home to my house without getting, like, flustered, because the last thing that I want and you want, obzy, is a flustered donut. He said, okay, let me work on that situation, but while I do that, maybe do you want a donut hole? And I was just like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, sir, I do not wish to have a donut hole. No, that's the leftover. That's the leave-ins. I don't want that. I come here for a donut goodness, and if you can deliver, I will receive a donut hole. However, it's not what I meant to. Anyway, we level set, we figured out our relationship, we understood what everybody wanted, and we moved on from there, I assume. I presume, I don't know. So you wanna know? I feel like I've been teasing. You wanna know what kind of donut I got? Today, I got a Tres Leches donut. That's three milk. Three milk donut. And what are the three milks? I don't know. I'm assuming cow milk is one of them. I'm also assuming that, well, I don't know what other kind of milks there might be. There's that weird milk. There's that weird milk. There's that weird milk that Luke drank in The Last Jedi from that alien cow thing. I'm hoping that that kind of milk was not involved in my donuts. And then one of the milks is whipped cream. So that's cream, so that's milk, so that makes sense. I'm hoping there's no cheese on my donut, because that's made from milk, too. Chocolate, also made from milk. Milk is really in a lot of things, is what I'm coming to find out. To all my cow friends listening, to all my cow friends in the… Pasture. To all my cow friends around the world, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta thank you, girl. Hey, cows, what do you know? Hey, cows, what do you do? Oh, oh, oh, hey, cows, how do you say hello? Oh, are you moo? Perfect. Seriously, though, milk, pretty much in everything. I'm probably in cupcakes, maybe in cookies, maybe in bread. I've heard you can put it on your cereal. I don't know if you eat that. I don't know if you eat that kind of stuff. And, obviously, in my slop pit, sometimes there's milk, just because I am very lactose-tolerant. I would almost go so far as to say I require lactose. Anyway, I bibble and babble enough about the donuts. I don't know what else I'm supposed to talk about. How does he do this for 10 minutes a day? How does he, like, what, 12 minutes? I'm four and a half minutes in, and I've already run out of time. I've already run out. I had, like, two songs. I talked about donuts. Did you want to? Okay, hold on a second. Ladies and gentlemen, our producer says he… Um, hello, everybody. No, that's fine. You just start talking.

    Producer: Yeah, I'm going to start talking now. You're talking… Hello? You… Yeah. Okay. Okay. Hi, everyone. This is me, producer. And I am just listening to my friend, which is Jack Pig, and he was having a difficult time with the talking, and so I said, you know what? I've got a pretty funny story to share. So maybe I'm going to hop in to help him out a little bit. And my story involved this yesterday… I don't know when it's yesterday morning. I was leaving my driveway, to go for a little hop around the block, because I'm a frog and I don't run, I hop! So, I was hopping. I was listening to my Bluetooth headset speaker phones, and I had music in them. And the song I was listening to was If you see a penny, pick it up, pick it up… If you see a penny, pick it up, pick it up… it up if you see a nickel pick it up pick it up if you see a dime if you see a quarter

    Natty Bumpercar: if you see a 50 cent piece pick it up if you see a dollar pick it up pick it up if you see a two dollar bill pick it up pick it up if you see a five dollar bill or a 10 or a 20 you know what you should do you should pick it up pick it up if you see a 50 bill you should call the police because it's not yours if you see a hundred dollar bill you should just run away there are certain

    Producer: denominations there are certain sizes of the bill you should pick it up pick it up if you see a money that are always okay for you to pick it up pick it up and lo and behold as I'm listening to this song it's a number one smash summer hit from 1927 pick it up I was hopping and I looked over and I saw a wad of cash on the sidewalk and I say to myself oh my watch out word what should i do and then i thought about the song words the lyrics in this song and i said i

    Natty Bumpercar: know exactly what to do thank you universe and so i called the police and i pointed to it and i said oh would you look at all of this money and they said please put your hands on the car and they knocked my bluetooth headset out of my ears and then i got to ride downtown to the police station where i was interrogated for a long time because they didn't understand why anyone would come across such a pile of money and not uh bro here's the thing it's a great story that you're telling

    Aloysious J. Pig: and the whole song thing everybody's love songs on podcasts so that's good thank you and you get kudos for that everyone has noticed from the beginning of your story to the end of your story you no longer sound like yourself i don't understand what do you mean would you care to explain that or is that something where i don't know something that happened while you

    Producer: were incarcerated or whatever no i think what happens is i don't usually talk for a long time and so when i had the opportunity to talk for an experience period i um got a little bit too excited and maybe i you know like i sang my song and then the voice got a little uh how do you say uh crazy you just said crazy bro that's how you say it perfect oh no hello

    Aloysious J. Pig: what's up um me and uh producer sitting here we're just hanging out doing a little show on our own but we didn't know when you were oh i got the coughs i got the vapors is that a new cologne you wearing oh we didn't know when he was coming back so is that got is that got lavender in it i'm i'm highly alert to lavender i gotta go you i mean you smell nice but you're hurting me i'm so sorry Uh, guys, I'm so sorry that I wasn't here for the beginning of the show, but Crazy Bananas Weird Thing, I was running around, I was on the sidewalk, I was running errands, and, uh, do you, do you remember my stack of cash, my wad of cash? I can't find it anywhere. I do not know where it is, and it was in my pocket, and then it just disappeared out of nowhere, and I can't find it, and I'm freaking out, because that's how I gotta pay all the cows for, uh, their milk and everything.

    Producer: Um, well, first, first off, uh, that is a very clunky way that you try to tie the beginning of the podcast in with this section.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Not, not that, really, come on, yeah.

    Producer: But, uh, I happen to have some information about this wad of cash. You do? Can you describe this wad of cash to me, please?

    Aloysious J. Pig: Yeah, it's, well, sure, it's a wad of cash. It's a lot of money, cash, that has subsequently… …subsequently been wadded up into a wad, like a roll, like it's got a rubber band on

    Natty Bumpercar: What color is the rubber band? I do not know what color rubber band it is.

    Aloysious J. Pig: I'm sorry. What? I do not know. What do you mean? Yeah, it's a… How many… What's your point? Like, did you find a wad of cash? Are you holding out on me for? What, what, what?

    Producer: I'm not, I'm not entirely comfortable talking to you about this, uh, in quotation marks wad of cash, because I feel like maybe you don't know. I don't know what you're talking about, and you're trying to get information for me about the wad of cash that I may or may not have found on the sidewalk right outside of the gate of our house.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Producer, seriously, this is a big deal. Like, this is, like, rent money, this is every kind of money, this is all of our money. This is our bill money. We, I need that money. So if you found it, what did you do with it? Can you get it for me? Can you go find, like, what, please just give me the money if you found it. It's very important. It's hyper important.

    Producer: So I maybe, maybe I found it, and maybe I got taken to jail, and maybe when I got out of jail, I took the money, and I donated it to some other place that maybe said they

    Aloysious J. Pig: needed it as well. Well, I need to know the place. I need to know the place, because I need that wad of cash. It's very important. Can you please just tell me where you donated it to? So I, it's just a misunderstanding. I gotta get the money back. I don't know if it's true. Hey, producer. Thanks for that wad of cash. Look at my new shoes. Wait, what?

    Producer: Pig? Oh, no.