Natty Bumpercar is flummoxed to start the show and have guests show up … It’s a bit of a cacophony … Pig and Robot throw us immediately of of the rails. This show is already broken. Yay!
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Blibber. Blabber. Blubber!
In this chaotic episode of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar's plans for a structured comeback show are derailed when Robot unexpectedly returns after being stored in a closet with dead batteries. Robot reveals that someone gave him new batteries, much to Natty's dismay, as he had hoped Robot would stay powered down longer. Meanwhile, Aloysious J. Pig chimes in with his support, though he's dealing with a cold that makes him sound "husky like a dog." The episode devolves into classic Bumperpodcast chaos as the characters bicker about who should be on the show and what makes it entertaining, with Robot getting stuck in binary mode and everyone accusing each other of just doing "blibber blabber blubber."
“robots do not sleep and robots do not dream maddie bumper car we are robots we are all binary all the time”
— Robot
“i left for a couple weeks hoping that by the time i got back your batteries would have been run down completely which they were”
— Natty Bumpercar
“when pig is on the mic people know it's going to be right even if i don't sound exactly like myself”
— Aloysious J. Pig
Topics: #robots #batteries #friendship #chaos #comeback #podcasting #improvisation
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Robot
Natty Bumpercar: awesome so we're back what one week and all of a sudden robots back this is insane ridiculous silly come on we were on good foot we were gonna we were a bumper guy it's a mean pig i totally agree with everything that you've been saying all about a robot showing up on the bumper pocket when maybe he shouldn't even that's what i'm saying exactly no i didn't say anything and you you're not supposed to be here number one and number two you don't even sound like yourself you sound like some this is supposed to be eventually i was gonna get you guys back on the show and but it's too soon and i'm not ready really to have you on the show and we haven't discussed what we're gonna talk about and i i
Robot: just but maddie do you remember the last time that i was here and my batteries were running out and you said you were gonna put new batteries in me and then you didn't put new batteries in me and then i've been sitting in the corner of the closet for so so so so long and eventually somebody came in and gave me new batteries and i have new batteries and i feel much
Natty Bumpercar: better okay stop just stop talking just stop that was me thank you okay stop stop i can't stop talking stop okay no i yes i do remember the last time that i saw you and your batteries are running out and you know i said i was gonna go get you new batteries but i left for a couple weeks hoping that by the time i got back your batteries would have been run down completely which they were and then i stored you i didn't just throw you in the closets that's not how i operate you know that uh and uh i thought you were comfortable no i thought you were happier in there you know sleeping your robot sleep doing whatever robots do when their batteries run out um dreaming
Robot: your robot dreams robots do not sleep and robots do not dream maddie bumper car we are robots we are all binary all the time we are all robots we are all robots we are all robots we are all robots one zero zero one one one zero zero zero one one one one one one one one one one zero zero one one one zero no three just numbers but don't you forget about me maddie i've known you for so long
Natty Bumpercar: he's stuck i think he's stuck there he's better thank you you're welcome so anyway bumper car what i was saying about myself over here was uh you know it's great that you got the band back and you cracked the microphones which you know means you turned them on everyone knows that and uh it's just it's very fun it's not that fun and by the way yes i do have a cold that's why i sound like this i sound a little bit husky today like a dog yeah husky like a dog all right you get it yeah that's what they say husky but it's still just me pig this is what i guess what i sound like for right now i don't know okay well that's okay i mean that's fine and everything but like it's just hard because you know how it is i wanted to have the first show which was great come back and then i wanted to have the second show kind of build on that and kind of establish like some structure and like so you know this is what we're gonna do bumper podcast you know what it is you know how it works you know what to do boom boom boom bumper podcast whatever and uh bumper god father bumper podcast the tears
Robot: you know and then you guys jump in and we make the show so awesome people listen when we're on the bumper podcast natty when you're honest
Natty Bumpercar: alive it's more like it's awesome it's what pig is trying to say i mean i don't like to agree with the tin can alley over here but when pig is on the mic people know it's going to be right even if i don't sound exactly like myself people know that it's like oh there's big what's pick gonna do Pig and a bee, you know, like, yeah, blibber blabber, blabber blubber, blibber blabber. That's what I'm saying, blibber blabber blubber, that's all you guys do, blibber blabber blubber. I'm a robot. Yeah, thanks. Well, so I guess I'm Natty Bumpercar, that's Pig, that's Robot, and all we do is blibber blabber blubber.
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Natty Bumpercar is so back that it hurts … Hopefully not your ears – but – something. It definitely hurts something. We play a bit of catch up. Try to steer away from whining – and all is right in the world.
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Details. Details. Details!
Natty Bumpercar returns after a six-month hiatus to explain his extended absence from the Bumperpodcast. In this candid and humorous episode, Natty reveals the tumultuous year he's experienced, including moving to new headquarters, dealing with audio equipment issues, starting a new job, and surviving a devastating basement flood that destroyed his studio equipment. Despite the chaos of life with two young boys and boxes everywhere, Natty reconnects with his Bumperpodcast Kateers and promises that familiar puppet friends like Robot, Pig, and others will return soon. This heartfelt comeback episode showcases Natty's signature rambling style as he works through technical difficulties and stuffy nose troubles to bring joy back to his listeners.
“Did I go camping and get lost in the woods? Did I fall down a crevasse? Did I just wander out of the house one day and get lost and forget where I lived? Kind of, that's actually kind of what happened.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“The house flooded. Guess what was in the basement where the flood was? Two feet of water. My studio where I make everything. All my equipment, all my recording stuff, everything gone.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“You know what's gonna make me happy? The bumper podcast. You know why? Because of my bumper podcast Kateers.”
— Natty Bumpercar
Topics: #comeback #podcasting #lifeupdates #moving #flooding #technicaldifficulties #behindthescenes #newbeginnings
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar
Natty Bumpercar: oh my gosh bumper podcast where have you been where have you been where have you been where have you been where have you been i'm natty bumper and this is the bumper podcast and it has been so long how long so long way too long seriously where have i been did you hear that police siren well that's where i've been in jail no um i just fixed the microphone a little bit because i discovered that i was over modulating a little bit it's been a long time since i did this i forgot how it works i apologize it's been a big year bumper podcast i mean i've been gone i think it's like six months which is horrendous i i build up this wonderful thing on a weekly basis we get together we talk about things i tell you things i ask you things so much saliva in my mouth right now and then uh i don't know where poof i disappear where did i go i mean did i go camping and get lost in the woods did i fall down a crevasse did i just did i just wander out of the house one day and get lost and forget where i lived kind of that's actually kind of what happened we got a new headquarters brand new headquarters well it's not brand new it's like a 70 year old house but we we moved we moved we packed everything up it was very tumultuous i will get more into detail on these things in in the future but you know so uh the last year big year around here uh we had a new we had a new there's a new baby and then uh so that's two years ago we had a new baby and then uh so that's two years ago two of them uh two boys right and then we got this we've got a i got a big job big job where i don't get to sit at headquarters and work all day i have to go someplace and take showers and terrible things like that ah wear shoes talk to people face to face ah and then uh i don't know what else happened well we got the house i think i already said that that was very tumultuous things in boxes blah blah blah and then we get this house we're moving in i mean this is just gonna be a wine session but not really a wine session i'm just trying to tell you what happened i'm just trying to catch you up on everything so that you know so that you have a re you're like oh well now it kind of makes sense that he hasn't done a podcast in the last six months the house flooded we got a house two months later it flooded guess what was in the basement where the flood was two feet of water my studio where i make everything so ergo i don't know if that's how that works but all my equipment all my recording stuff all like everything gone so um i'm still trying to pick up the pieces and throwing things away and digging through boxes and and and then i was like what would make me happy and and then i you know what happened i said you know what's gonna make me happy the bumper podcast you know why because of my bumper podcast kateers my nose is so stuffy right now it wasn't stuffy all day but now that i'm talking to you guys my nose is deciding to revolt revolt nose the nose knows when to revolt follow the nose because he knows when to revolt um you know yeah so it's it's been it's been bananas bananas flambé bananas cray cray i'm natty bumper car this is the bumper podcast i have my uh i got my new microphone set up i got my little uh doodad to plug into the doodad so guess what we're back on track uh it makes me happy to sit here and talk to you so and that's what i'm i'm looking for right now you making me happy i do a little talking and then we're all a little bit happier together you know what i'm saying okay based on frames um you know exciting things to come hopefully now that we're back we'll start to unpack some boxes and find some old friends maybe robot maybe pig maybe uh we can talk about irving brown socks a little bit i mean there's a lot it happens at headquarters that i'm sure you've missed because i've missed it you know even if i'm the only one listening which i'm not because i've seen the numbers there's gonna be some happy people coming up you better bet
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I’m Natty Bumpercar, and I’m a stand-up comedian who currently lives in New Jersey (you are at my website – maybe you already know this). I realized that I go onstage to tell jokes to people, a lot. So, I thought that it would be cool to make this podcast to try to document every show, open-mic, and whatnot that I do. Some of it is going to be repetitive – but – I’ll add commentary – and it might be interesting to see how different variables – locations, crowd, the lights, the sound system, the producer, my relationship with the other comics, me – affects how things turn out. It’ll also be nifty to see what kind of evolution there is to my act as time goes on.
I’ll post full sets, with the dates and location of the show – so that you can keep track on your “What is Bumpercar up to?” peg board. I’ll update as new shows happen and each podcast will vary in length – depending on how long each show was.
Maybe it’ll be a disaster. Maybe it’ll be fun. At the very least, I think it’ll be a cool experiment.
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Natty Bumpercar has a stuffy nose. He talks about the new year being a hill that he is ready to climb … Until he has a piece of gum.
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There are no wheels on this show!
In Episode 183, Natty Bumpercar kicks off the new year with a stuffy nose and an optimistic hill-climbing analogy that quickly derails. What starts as a motivational metaphor about starting at the bottom and going up becomes complicated when Natty discovers a piece of gum with paper stuck to it. The episode follows Natty's struggle with the gum while attempting to explain the purpose of Bumperpodcast to listeners. Between discussing cavity-fighting gum innovations and lamenting constant sickness, Natty concludes that 2014 might just be "the year of the rude Natty Bumpercar." This short, stream-of-consciousness episode perfectly captures the show's improvised and charmingly chaotic style.
“We're at the bottom of the hill and so the only place we can go on the hill is up unless I suppose we want to go somehow around the hill.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“I'm the kind of guy who opens up a piece of gum and just eats it, eats it right up.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“Maybe 2014 is the year of the rude Natty Bumpercar.”
— Natty Bumpercar
Topics: #newyear #illness #gum #comedy #rambling #self-deprecation #improvisation
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar
Natty Bumpercar: well happy happy happy happy to you happy to you and you and you and you and you hi bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car and i have a stuffy nose because what better way to start off the new year than with a stuffy nose that means that's how you know that things are going to go uphill from where you are at the point on the hill where you're starting at you know because like wait so if you're on the hill you're starting the new year okay this is our analogy over the new year is a hill and we're at the bottom of the hill and so the only place we can go on the hill is up unless i suppose we want to go somehow around the hill um we don't have any kind of shovel or pickaxe so we cannot go through the hill uh we also don't have any mode of transportation to like carry us over the hill we have our really our only option is to go up the hill so that's pretty exciting you know uh i i think it portends some good things i uh oh well here's a piece of gum i guess it would be my first piece of gum for the new year a little piece of uh bubble bubble bubble gum okay i'm just that's not oh oh all the paper sticking to the gum i can't and now i can't well this is no good thing how do i like it's breaking off in little itty bitty pieces inside the piece of gum and uh uh now i don't think there's any um almost almost got it wait to no no oh okay wait okay yeah that's good we got a big piece off but there's still paper in the gum that's not what i want my first piece of gum of the new year to be and i gotta sit here and pick paper out of gum that's not the kind of guy i am the kind of guy who opens up a piece of gum and just eats it eats it right up wow how is how is how is you bumper podcast you know what answer away because i am going to be eating my new paper-free piece of gum oh it's delicious it might be watermelon it might be just sugar i think it's probably just sugar have we invented gum yet that um that kills cavities or like plaque killing gum like maybe put a little bit of grit inside the gum so that it'll take care of your teeth this is a lot juicier than i was expecting it to be i'm not gonna lie i probably should not have um started chewing this piece of gum while i was talking to you so that's a point off on me so i'm already starting the new year off with negative points um do you have any points yet oh that's funny you're asking what the whole point of the bumper podcast is well the whole point of the bumper podcast is it's a weekly fun time our gum is terrible wow where you get to hang out with me natty bumper car and you know we talk about things we discuss things a lot of the time it seems to be um how sick i am pretty constantly sick upper respiratory nose throat ear ear nose throat i need to go to an ent now he'll take care of me wow what a horrible mistake so at this point we're on the hill and the only place we can go is up the hill however what we've decided to do is just sit down at the base of the hill and not go anywhere we're not even on the hill we're on the hill we're on the hill the hill anymore i think we're pre-slope we're like on the path to the hill we're not even we might still be in our cars because well who eats a piece of gum i'm rude i feel very rude right now maybe this is me maybe 2014 is the year of the rude natty bumper car the bumper podcast the wheels i would say the wheels have come off but they really haven't because they're stuck on there with gum oh this is a gum this is bad idea i have a lot of bad ideas
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