Natty Bumpercar is excited to talk all about something – but then gets confused about fingers … This is something that happens often – as you may imagine.
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I get so confused – sometimes!
About This Episode
In episode 181, Natty Bumpercar explores the existential question of pointing in this characteristically rambling solo episode. He contemplates whether you can point with fingers other than your pointer finger, debates the hierarchy of being pointed at with different digits, and gets lost in a philosophical tangent about finger names. Natty ponders whether thumbs count as fingers and realizes the middle finger is only truly 'middle' if you include the thumb. He also briefly shares contrasting recent comedy experiences—his worst show ever with a terrible headliner, followed just days later by one of his best performances in front of a large, enthusiastic crowd. By the end, Natty decides that talking about fingers has made everyone best friends.
Memorable Quotes
“You got to feel like if you're getting the pointer finger you're at the top of the charts. But you got pointed at with a thumb? You shouldn't even acknowledge that.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“The middle finger is not a middle finger unless you include that thumb because if you just go pointer, that one, that one, pinky, there is no middle finger because there's four.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“Now that we've all talked about fingers this whole time, I feel like we're all best friends too, right?”
— Natty Bumpercar
Topics: #pointing #fingers #anatomy #comedy #stand-upcomedy #friendship #philosophy
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar
Full Transcript
Natty Bumpercar: bumper podcast bumper podcast bumper podcast it's me your best pal and uh i have got i'm i'm pointing at you right now and you i'm pointing at a couple people i well let's think of something really quick here uh so if you got pointer fingers right does that mean that you're limited to only pointing at two people at a time like can i be like point point or are you allowed to point with other fingers like can i pinky point so like you got your uh your pointer finger over here and then my pinky finger boom across the room i got you too and then look at this uh-oh here comes another finger coming up and another one and a and a thumb who wants a thumb point and this is i mean like you got to feel like if you're getting the pointer finger and you're pretty you're feeling like you're at the top of the ladder there you're at the top of the charts you're like he just pointed at me with his pointer finger it actually has the word point in in the name of the finger so he clearly thinks more of me than the person that he pointed to oh with his thumb you got pointed at with a thumb what you shouldn't even acknowledge that you shouldn't even recognize just act like the because the thumb you just act like it's there don't act like it's pointing at you don't like because you know like when somebody will point at you sometimes you'll have that look in your face like you'll raise your eyebrows and you're like oh oh oh are you i think he's pointing at me i think i'm being pointed at right now it don't you know your brow furrows a little bit you maybe get a little little glow in your eyes because you're it's just like you're on deck you've been pointed at you are it's official that you you're part of there's communication happening you're in the inner circle you're uh you're you're mount everest somehow uh but then somebody's gonna throw their their stubby meaty little thumb at you yeah that's not a point that's not even a half point that's just like oh you're an afterthought you didn't make now i'm looking at my fingers do they all have a point? names i mean like so you got your thumb you got your pointer finger uh is it just middle finger i don't know and then i guess it's ring finger but i don't think it's ring finger if it's on your right hand and then it's definitely pinky i've got thumb and pinky and pointer i've got i know those names does any can can everybody out you got fingers everybody listening how many fingers do you can you tell me what the uh the two fingers in between the pointer and the pinky are is the one next to the pinky always a ring finger and then is that one just the middle see but that's the thing too all right look at this now i'm looking at my hand and if this one is if this one's called the middle finger right then that's saying the thumb is a finger because sometimes i hear like the thumb's not a finger it's thumb and i'm just like but i i think it's i think it's just like a little finger right it's used for gripping thing i don't know it's it's fingerish it's got finger like qualities so and the middle finger is not a middle finger unless you include that thumb because if you just go pointer uh that one that one pinky there is no middle finger because there's four you know there's no middle and four and uh i really feel like i was going to talk about other things today i was going to tell you guys that in the last couple weeks i last week and a half really i had uh the worst comedy experience that i've ever had uh it was terrible i i had i was um the i was the host of a show and and the headliner couldn't have been a worse and i don't speak ill of people but he could not have been a worse uh human being to me uh and he he kind of sabotaged i felt and wrecked the show and i did not enjoy my evening at all but then let's blink our eyes uh fast forward a mere one two three four days and i had one of the best nights that i've ever had like the most fun in front of a lot a lot of people like a like a like a hundred but more and they were all my best and now that we've all talked about fingers this whole time i feel like we're all best friends too right
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