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  • Bumperpodcast #453 – Season 3 – Oil & Water

    Bumperpodcast #453 – Season 3 – Oil & Water

    In this episode of the Bumperpodcast, Natty and the crew try a song and realize why they haven’t been recording as much Tune in for laughs, lessons, and lots of laughs as they navigate the paperwork jungle!

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    About This Episode

    Natty Bumpercar reunites with Aloysious J. Pig, Rufus T. Rufus, and Producer after a long hiatus from recording the Bumperpodcast. The gang struggles with technical issues including microphone popping sounds and missing equipment, leading to humorous discussions about "paschetti" pronunciation and cooking oils. Aloysius attempts an impromptu rap song that goes hilariously wrong, prompting the crew to question whether they still have chemistry together. The episode devolves into playful arguments about offensive language, workplace safety, and whether they're like "oil and water" as a team. Despite the chaos and rust from their time away, the characters' signature banter and absurd humor shine through.

    Memorable Quotes

    “Everything's good. Everything's fine. We made a terrible song. And that's gonna happen. We haven't made a song in a long time, and the one we just did was terrible.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “I'm starting to wonder if this is why we hadn't recorded a bumper podcast in a long time. Maybe we just don't gel anymore. Maybe we're like oil and water.”

    — Rufus T. Rufus

    “Is there such a thing as soy oil? Can we start soil? What'd you cook your food in? I cooked it in soil! Million dollar plan!”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    Topics: #podcasting #music #friendship #comedy #cooking #workplacehumor #improvisation

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

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: so i have an idea i have several ideas but only one idea that really pertains to you guys at this moment and so what i've been doing is listen i've been listening to so many podcasts like upwards of four five podcasts and um not all the way through i have to say that just partially um because who has the time honestly uh i would understand it if you if you are about to turn this one off you ever no one has time no one has time to listen to things to bibble babble to jibber jabber no so i i had i had an idea and my idea was um i just before you say your idea

    Aloysious J. Pig: uh i just wanted you to know that the uh listening numbers have come in and uh it won't Don't be an issue because it looks like everybody gave up on this podcast because you stopped making it. So it kind of makes a little bit of sense. So right now you're just talking into the void. You're talking into the ether. You're talking into, I don't know, like somewhere where no one is. The, the, the, Mari, Marin, what is it? Marinara? I think it's Marinara. Mariana, right? Not Marin, yeah. No. Mariana Trench.

    Rufus T. Rufus: Is it, did we decide here? No, this is Rufus. T. Rufus. And did we actually decide on if it's Marinara Trench? Now, hold on a second. I believe the Marinara Trench is when you make a pot of spaghetti and you just family style, you put it down the middle of the table. Oh. Hold that paschetti. And then you come along.

    Natty Bumpercar: Rufus, are you saying paschetti? Because I, the first time I think you actually said spaghetti, which I appreciate. But then the second time you, you just went on with paschetti. Paschetti.

    Producer: Yeah. Right? Yes. Paschetti. But Natalie, it's me, producer, and ye, I heard it as well. I was going to, you know, I, I like to mark things on notepads so that at the end of the episode, if I'm, you know, if I have to go back in and, you know, edit anything or whatever, but I, I wrote in there this exact time stamp that these men said, a paschetti like that, you know?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Okay. Thank you very much, producer. Wow. You, your accent got a little bit, what's happening today? This is, this is very strange. You got, you got, you got very, I would say Italian, but I don't really know. I don't, you know, accents are weird to me. Everything kind of sounds dissimilar. Oh.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, you Sophie. Fancy. Yo, look at me. I'm Natty Bumpercar. I got so much wit. I got so much, uh, like whatever, but, uh, I gotta say, paschetti, Rufus, you sound like, you know, like you're a three-year-old or seven, uh, three-year-old or seven. Not, not four, not five, not six. You're either a three-year-old or you're seven. And, and that's who I understand is it's in their, their language. It's in what they say. They say paschetti, like that.

    Producer: I wanted to thank you, Aloysius, for, because everybody who is saying the paschetti, they're really going into the microphone and they're saying it very loud. So they're getting that, that, that, that noise, that pop noise that you get because we don't have a pop, uh, uh, uh, barrier anymore, like a pop screen. And so I do appreciate, uh, if everyone else could follow Aloysius. Aloysius. Aloysius, hey, sample, and then we, it'll make everybody happy because, you know, I agree that no one is probably listening at this point anymore, but if they were, uh, we just want to give them a high quality, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, product to, did I just do it? Yeah. Oh, man. Okay. This is very difficult. It's very difficult.

    Rufus T. Rufus: I was listening to my, my headphones here. Do you know we used to call headphones cans? Like that. We said, what? I can't hear you through the cans. That's when we were back on the radio long time ago, long, long time ago for you, uh, Piggy Lou before you even born. Now here's the thing. I think what we got to do until we get ourselves a, uh, a pop God is, uh, just avoid any words that might be, uh, associated or, uh, integrated or, uh, reverberated, uh, through the, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. the microphone with the issues that are associated with not having a pop filter.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Okay. Yeah, that works for me. It's going to be very difficult because we don't have a script like some of these odd casts. I mean, that has a P at the beginning but I didn't want to say it. So now, that's all I'm thinking about now. Hold on. You're good.

    Unknown: Do you hear this? Pig, I think that there's some music happening. Do you think there's going to be a song?

    Producer: There could be. Drop the beat, pretty please. Oh. Okay.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Sounds like we're doing something. Let's go. Ready? I'm rolling. Riding. Sitting. Poseidon. Looking for Poseidon. Okay, that's rhymed. I'm chasing. You're hiding. I'm barely even trying. So clean off your face. You're in last place. The geese. The gaggle. The geese will never haggle. A wiggle. A waggle. Alright, I'm

    Rufus T. Rufus: jumping in here. I don't know if you're just like, out of practice. If you forgot how to do this. Or what the problem is right now. Can you cut that music? Can you cut it off, please?

    Producer: Producer, I'm talking to you. Yeah, sorry about that. I didn't know if you were like, doing part of this song. You know, like a spoken word kind of thing where you come in and you're like, Mr. Top Guy or whatever. You know, I noticed that you were not paying attention to the music or the beat or anything that was said before, so I was guessing that you weren't doing that, but… Yes, yes. Sorry, sorry, sorry. It's okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wow. I mean, you just cut it. It wasn't even like, we're gonna fade it out or anything. It was just like, and gone. Music just gone. It's fine. I'm sorry. It's fine.

    Producer: I just thought I was supposed to do it. The lawyer man here, Rufus D. Rufus, says, you got to get rid of the music. You're not doing a great job. I just pushed the button and it's gone. It's fine. It's just my job. It's just my life. It's just my dream.

    Aloysious J. Pig: But that's fine. That's fine. Listen, producer, it is okay. I don't want anybody to get worried. I don't want anybody to get worked up. Alright? Everything's good. Everything's fine. We made a terrible song. And that's gonna happen. We haven't made a song in a long time, and the one we just did was terrible. And that's, again, it's okay. We're gonna move on. Probably. Do we have anything else planned for this episode? Was that it? I don't know.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, we didn't even plan for that. Come on. It's okay. Everybody calm down.

    Rufus T. Rufus: Now, I'm starting to wonder if this is why we hadn't recorded a bumper podcast in a long time. Maybe we just don't gel anymore. Maybe we're like oil and water. There's several. Now, you can be the water, and then we can be different kinds of oil. Myself, I think I'm gonna be an avocado oil. Uh, Aloysius, what are you thinking over there? What are your thoughts?

    Aloysious J. Pig: Well, you know, it's a good point. Oil and water. Yeah, he is absolutely water over there. Uh, your avocado. I'm gonna, you know, I wanna stay away from seed oils, because as I understand, those are out of uh, out of vogue at the moment. Is there anything like a… I know they do milk, but is there like a an almond oil? Or a soil? Oh, soy oil? Soil! Let's start that business! Is there such a thing as soy oil? Can we start soil? What'd you cook your food in? I cooked it in soil! There we go! Ho-ho! Million dollar plan!

    Producer: Yeah, I don't really want to be, uh, oil, necessarily, but, here's a thing I could be, is, um, I could be uh, butter, maybe? You know, just, it tastes good, you can still cook in it, it doesn't have as high of a um, burned temperature, as the other ones, and especially the avocado oil, you know, you can really get that pan hot. Uh, soil, I don't, I'm not too overly familiar with, um… We? Yeah, we're gonna… Are we determining if that's a real thing, or… Yeah, I think

    Natty Bumpercar: we should get an intern for the podcast, because a lot of the shows that I was watching or listening to, whatever you do, um, they had people off to the side who were actually like, um, they would say stuff, and then the people over on the side would look it up, and so, like, you know, they're sitting here like how you're just talking about soy oil, soil, they would be able to just, like, put it up in front of you, so you would know right then if, if it was actually a real thing or something that could be done, as opposed to how we seem to do it, which is, something is mentioned, we have no idea if it's valid or if it's real, and then we're supposed to remember the next week, uh, what we said, and to have actually looked it up, and how many times has that actually happened, and do you think we can count it on one hand?

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, here we go, here we go, here we go, count it on one hand, very, very, very, very insensitive, Natty, I don't have hands, I've got little hooves, look, look, look at me, look at me, little hooves, alright, and, and producer, why don't you jump in here? Oh, hey, come on, man, I didn't mean

    Producer: that. Yeah, but it wasn't necessary, you're like, you could have said anything really, but now you're just like, oh, hey, frog, why don't you jump into the conversation, I mean, like, what are we doing, are we just going around the room now, and and, and, and, and

    Rufus T. Rufus: picking things out, I guess? Oh, so now you, so I don't, I'm not trying to, uh, I don't want to say P-I-L-E, pile on, but you, uh, producer just did the, the, the P, the pop thing, so I guess it's, it's gotten everybody, and I also wanted to point out that, uh, Aloysius, if you, and, uh, if you, producer, want to have a meeting after, uh, this session, um, then we could maybe come up, uh, draw up some diagrams, draw up some, uh, I don't know, little, you know, good old-fashioned litigation to, uh, address the situation which I myself just saw, I myself was hurt by, I myself was quite offended by. I'm not sure, if I actually feel safe

    Natty Bumpercar: in this place of work. What? Really? You don't feel safe? Okay. You know what? I don't even remember who it was at this point who said, like, oh, maybe we all, it's oil and, it was you, wasn't it, Rufus? Oil and water. Yeah, that's it. I'm water. Maybe this is why we haven't recorded the podcast in a long time because, because it's, it's hard. It's walking on eggshells. It's walking on, walking on broken glass.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, that was, actually, that was a pretty good pull in the middle of everything. That was good. Good job to

    Rufus T. Rufus: your brain, one point bumper car's brain. Now, yeah, I can see why you're giving them compliments. You know, I understand the creative process, but now I gotta deal with the legal paper probably from that. I got, I got, I got people breathing down my necks. I got letters in my mailbox filling up. I can't even close my mailbox, which means all of my catalogs are getting wet and musty and moldy. And I, you know, I can't even look at that. I don't even, what is the summer fair this year? I don't know, because I can't look at it. All right? So, now Natty, that's what you got me in. You got me in the situation where you're talking about hands, and we're talking about jump right in. And now, I gotta deal with the legalese of this whole, this whole, this whole, conflagration.

    Producer: I'm actually okay with the whole thing, now that I think about it. It was a, it was a, it was an accident. I'm good. Oh, I'm glad you're good. Pig, are you good? No! Oil and water! The Bumper Podcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp with Natty Bumpercar and some of his pals. It is family-friendly, clean, and ridiculous. Thanks a bundle for listening. If you love our show and you'd like to help support the podcast, check out our Patreon page at https colon forward slash forward slash www.patreon.com forward slash Natty Bumpercar. Also, pretty please subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Share it with everyone everywhere, post about it on all of the social medias, or leave a rating and review. The Bumper Podcast is produced at headquarters in Coffee Can Alley. It's recorded, mixed, and produced by a producer. The Bumper Podcast features contributions from Aloysius J. Pig, Rufus T. Rufus, Doodle Poodle, Robot, Trunks, and a gaggle of other silly rascals. Our head talker is probably Natty Bumpercar. We also have an absurd newsletter. Check it out and subscribe at nattybumpercar.com slash subscribe. Also, you can follow me on Instagram and Twitter at nattybumpercar. Hugs and hearts. See you soon.

  • Bumperpodcast #363 – Tips and Tricks

    Bumperpodcast #363 – Tips and Tricks

    Natty shares some golden parenting advice with the world. Hopefully it isn’t fools gold!

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

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    About This Episode

    Natty Bumpercar tackles winter weather woes and parenting challenges in this cozy episode of Bumperpodcast. After shoveling 6.6 inches of snow at 10 PM, Natty reflects on hosting Thanksgiving dinner for 17 people and shares the elaborate menu prepared for guests. The episode takes a heartfelt turn as Natty discusses the importance of verbalizing gratitude at the holiday table and introduces clever parenting techniques for dealing with childhood anxiety and dismissive responses. From sledding preferences to goat impressions, Natty delivers signature humor while exploring the universal struggles of parenting and holiday hosting.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I love to sit in front of a fireplace in a warm toasty cabin and watch as the beautiful snowflakes flitter and flutter… but then what I do not enjoy is walking in it, touching it, falling in it, getting it thrown at me, shoveling it.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I think it's very important to verbalize what you're thankful for. Maybe just saying it makes it more real in my world.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “My kid eats like a goat. He'll eat trash. Wait a minute. My kid is a kid. I was so happy because I never thought of that.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #winter #snow #thanksgiving #parenting #gratitude #family #cooking #mentalhealth

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: oh the weather outside is frightful but the wait that seems like a song I should know oh the weather outside is frightful but the something is so delightful so delightful hey guys it's me natty bumper car and it's it's snowed it's it's snowed why did it snow I uh don't know if you know this about me not a fan of snow I love to look at it I think it's beautiful I love to sit in front of a fireplace in a warm toasty cabin and watch as the beautiful snowflakes flitter and flutter all around the world and then they land and they look so pretty and they they uh they make the whole uh the world just look like a like a crystal castle no they make the world look like a fluffy powdered donut and better better uh but then what I do not enjoy is uh walking in it touching it falling in it getting it thrown at me shoveling it none of that stuff do I enjoy I kind of like sledding if I'm to be honest uh I uh do not like tubing tubing is where you go to a mountain you pay people money to uh go to the top slide down go to the top slide down go to the top slide down and you're like wait a minute natty that sounds like a lot like sledding and I'm like yeah there's so much more you have to pay money and then you have to wait in line and I don't know I like finding a hill finding a pizza box and just sitting on it and slide down here's the thing pizza boxes don't work I don't I've seen people like I use a cardboard to bog it I'm like nope nope that's just gonna get soggy and wet and fall apart what about if you uh hey I use a uh the lid for my trash can do you okay that sounds like a great idea you want to sit in trash can lid ah no thank you what about uh oh you know what here's my favorite actually as uh when mice sit on spoons and they can uh hold the uh the handle of the spoon and slide down that's that's my favorite that's my favorite right there I uh so we we did get we got 6.6 inches of snow I was just told which is a lot of snow and it uh it's one of those things where because we have to shovel the driveway and you have to shovel the walkway and you don't want to do it while it's still snowing because then it's just gonna snow on it again and then you're gonna do it all again no thank you so I waited I didn't shovel last night until 10 o'clock that's late and then I was trying to be a conscientious shoveler and not be loud about it so it's like I don't want this scraping noise to keep the neighbors up and so I tried to to not do that and then I woke up this morning there's more snow are you kidding me let's get on the schedule let's get on the same page all right okay man I listened to the last episode of the bumper podcast which I apologize was like last year and uh my voice was pretty amazing I even I was trying to figure out how to do it and I it's not I think I must have been sick I guess I don't know something something was going on something was in the air something was in the water I'll have what she's having I um so I have to uh the kitties or the kitties were home yesterday oh guys happy Thanksgiving did you did you give thanks can I tell you my menu I made so much food what did you make all the food all the food yes all the food ginger orange honey glazed carrots yeah I made those truffle oil uh caper lemon uh what are they called cauliflower with Parmesan oh yeah I did that Brussels sprouts with bacon and balsamic vinegar yeah I did that too there's a lot of food a lot of food delicious food we had a 17 people over and I was it was just a wonderful day it was a wonderful day y'all here's the thing that I like to do because we we host Thanksgiving every year and once the meal is out and everyone is is you know making their plates I'm the one who uh goes around the table and I force people to uh to say what they're thankful for what they're grateful for and people really get a poo-poo it they're like oh I don't want to do this but here's the thing I think it's very important I think it's it's it's very important to verbalize what you're thankful for you can you can say oh in my head I'm thankful for these things I'm thankful for the person next to you and maybe they don't get to hear it enough right maybe maybe just saying it makes it more real in my world that's what I think so we go around the table and I say you know uh what are you thankful for and then I may may I may even pepper with a couple of follow-up questions I think that's a good thing to do too I think the art of conversation is is dwindling which makes me sad but that's okay we just have to keep working at it um speaking of conversation here's a cool thing that we started doing in my house uh one of my children who shall remain nameless uh if if you say for instance uh hey buddy uh don't hit your brother because that does happen I'm not gonna lie to you hey buddy don't hit your brother the response is fine it's an angry fine you know what that means nothing fine it's a dismissive it's a knee-jerk reaction it's the first thing there fine and you're like oh no and so for years we've lived with fine and we uh and I would get really frustrated with fine and I would say don't say fine to me that doesn't mean anything that means you're just you're not even listening to what I'm asking you to do and so then I finally I came upon a really cool way of dealing with fine and that is if I say hey buddy stop hitting your brother and he says fine I say no I need you to repeat to me what I just said to you so it's kind of the same way as the thankful stuff where it's forcing him to stop and verbalize what I just asked him to do which in theory this is a theory I don't know if it's real uh make it stick a little bit better. Hey, buddy, don't do that thing. I'm not going to do that thing. Awesome, buddy. Thank you so much as you were. We've only had it for like two days, but it's so far. Fingers are crossed. It's working out. Here's another cool trick. Sometimes in my house, there's a lot of dysregulation, a lot of anxiety that goes on, which sometimes leads to unhappiness, explosions as they were. And so one of the ways that we figured out how to help with those moments of anxiety was to get the kid and you say, hey, buddy, I need you to look around the room and find five things that are orange. And he will do that, but he will go that, that, that, that, that. And you're like, nope, nope, nope. I need specifics. That orange ball, the orange dot on the clock, the orange handle of that spoon, whatever it is. Actually, orange is tough. We don't have a lot of orange things in my house, to be honest. I should have gone with red. We have a lot of red things. But it's cool because, in theory, it helps him to get out of whatever's going on in his mind and look around and focus on other things. And so it's kind of two cool techniques that we've started trying to use in the house to help things along a little bit. Now, if only we could find a way to help the puppy dog, because she won't look at anything. Hey, popcorn. Stop eating those socks. Fine. Don't say fine to me. Woof. Don't say woof to me. Say I'm not going to eat the socks. Popcorn, calm down. I need you to find three things that are blue. Woof. No, be more specific. Woof, woof. All right. Good job. I had a show the other week, and I was talking about my kids, and I was talking about how, their poor diet and how they kind of eat garbage. And I was like, ah, they're trying to get my kid to eat good food, and he just wants to eat chips. Chips all the time. He got really upset. He says, hey, I have the worst life ever because you won't let me eat chips. And I was like, that's not, that is not grounds for having the worst life ever. You have a great life. And so I was on stage, and I was talking about, I was relaying this story, and I said, ah, my kid eats like a goat. He'll eat trash. He eats garbage. Wait a minute. My kid is a kid. I was so happy because I never thought of that. And then I was just like, ah, my kid is a kid. And I went, like that, like a goat. And then I was like, ah, don't talk to your mom like that. Ah. Ah. Ah. Weird goat noises I'm making. I usually do better goat.

    Unknown: Ah. Ah. Ah.

    Natty Bumpercar: There we go. Ah.

    Unknown: Ah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Ah. Ah. Clean up your room. Ah. Ah. Put away your iPad. Ah. Ah. Find, find three things in the room that are yellow.

    Unknown: Ah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Ah. Man. What's tougher to raise? Human children or goat kids? I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to go think about it. Maybe come up with another weird solution. Hey, Bumper Podcast, I love you guys. I'm glad I have my voice back. I'm glad I'm feeling top notch. You're amazing. So amazing.

    Unknown: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  • Bumperpodcast #277 – Thanks

    Bumperpodcast #277 – Thanks

    So much to catch up on. Thanksgiving, Elfie’s arrival, fear of death – and a need for love. On this weeks Bumperpodcast!

    Did you like to play catch? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

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

    And now, we’re featured on the http://www.laughable.com/ app. Go get it (laughable.com/download)!


    About This Episode

    In this episode, Natty Bumpercar catches up after a two-week hiatus, sharing exciting updates about his painting for an ACLU benefit art show. He reflects on his evolving artistic process, from layered paintings to more distilled works with vibrant colors and textures. Natty recounts hosting Thanksgiving for 16 people at headquarters, detailing his extensive meal prep and cooking adventures, including a 21-pound turkey and homemade stock. The episode takes a touching turn as Natty describes a heartfelt conversation with his son Emerson about mortality and making the most of every day. The episode also announces Bumperpodcast's acceptance to the Laughable podcast platform.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I wanted to impress on him… you have every single day of your life to be the best you that you can be, to be the nicest, to be the most inclusive.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “There's no relax. I don't know when this ends and I want to make sure that I do everything that I can to make the world even a half of a one-tenth better.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Orange honey ginger carrots. Oh god they're so good. I'm not even joking they're so good.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #art #painting #thanksgiving #cooking #parenting #mortality #creativity

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: so here's the thing bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car and there's been so much going on that i haven't told you about because i haven't been here in a couple of weeks because there was there was a holiday and i got busy and i don't know so i gotta jam pack a lot into this episode i apologize for the weird laugh the very beginning i understand that was weird um man i uh i i'm in an art show uh it's a benefit for the aclu which is nice i made a painting it's got it's it's it's nice i like it it made me happy because i uh i uh i was getting down to the deadline where i wasn't you know i was like i gotta get this thing made i gotta get this thing made and so what i did was i i did the design in my head and i even made revisions in my head where i was just like oh i think this should be good i think this should be good i think this should be good i think this should happen no i think this should happen i think this this and then like i i just haven't done that in a while uh because what i used to do when i was painting especially is i would do a lot of layers uh and so like i would make a painting and then i would essentially paint over that painting and it would just be uh with transparencies and stuff it would be like a window to a window to a window into this deeper thing so you could like stare at the painting and be like i'm seeing a lot of different things uh and that's awesome and i do love that and i do kind of miss that um it was also a really good idea to do a painting of a painting of a painting of a painting of a painting also a heartbreaking and treacherous way to make paintings because sometimes i would make stuff that i really liked and it would get obliterated and i would be like but i think that's also kind of what gave those paintings uh a little bit more gravitas at least to me because there was substance behind them there was kind of not whatever but there was like destruction like because there was this nice thing like oh let's say there was a bunny right and then uh half the bunny's going away and now there's an octopus and now the octopus has kind of gone away or different colors come in uh and i would keep working and reworking the uh the structure and the layout of of the painting and until it became what it whatever it was supposed to be i guess and um and that's and that's not how i get to do it these days because i don't have as much time to spend on paintings uh and so i kind of hit a a fork in the path and i and i have gone over to where i'm making uh uh i like to say that they're distilled versions of the old paintings and what that means is i i'll take one of the layers and then uh put it on a painting like on a board or on a piece of paper whatever and a canvas and um and so instead of doing layer on layer on layer then i just kind of split the layers into different um which you're like oh but isn't that making it miss out on something well a long time ago i really thought it did but then i got to start adding stuff like patterns and i got to really start working on um where things were in the paintings and how they interact with each other and how the different colors interact with each other and um texture and stuff like that and so it's it's different but i this on this one especially i was really happy with how it turned out because like in my brain i would be like all right this is gonna go here and this is gonna go here this is gonna go okay and then it worked out and i took enough time where i i did the drawing is on a board and then i uh i was able to actually prime it so that means you put down some white uh gesso which is white paint kind of it's a base and then uh and i did that so that when i put the uh the bright colors on it wouldn't get soaked up into the wood and because sometimes if you paint on wood uh it's got you know the wood has holes where like it it's a tree and so it it sucks up the uh the the liquid and the pigment and sometimes it makes things a little bit more dull but the gesso causes the paint to be on top of the board so it's like color oh and then after i got all the color on i went through and i uh i got colored pencils and so i was able to go through and do little texture and do little lines and little you know marks or whatever to kind of give a little bit more depth so yay painting yay being in an art show very happy yay to being in a benefit i like that that's what i liked i like doing benefits uh when i do the comedy i like doing benefits when i you know it's it's nice to know that the stuff that i make is maybe helping people that makes me feel good um and then we had thanksgiving we had 16 people here at headquarters and i cooked for everybody and i i started cooking on tuesday so i was doing prep like i uh i would have i did a bag of carrots bag of onions some uh celery like anything that i could do in advance i did the cranberry sauce i did um i forget what else one or two other things but i had a lot of stuff ready oh i had uh i made like a sausage stuffing and so there was half i did half sweet sausage and then i had to break the casings for the spicy sausage and i cooked all that down uh and i put some uh white wine into it and i put it in the in the fridge so that it wouldn't dry out and then i did the other stuff and i did the other stuff out and um then wednesday came around and i worked from home and so it was like i do this thing i do uh carrots with citrus honey and wait what is it orange honey ginger orange honey ginger carrots oh god they're so good i'm not even joking they're so good and then i started working on some cornbread stuffing and then i started working on the uh the other stuffing which is like just regular bread stuffing and then i started i made some uh green beans and i blanched because those are going to go in the green bean casserole and then i cooked a whole thing of bacon uh and did some uh brussels sprouts in in the bacon grease and then uh then thursday came around and it was um the 21 pound turkey and i put butter and thyme and sage and um what else was it not parsley thyme sage rosemary uh i cut all that stuff really fine and some garlic and i put that all under the skin salt and pepper and then uh in the cavity there was uh lemons and oranges and then in the pan there was uh white wine so that it would cook up through god was so good and sad today's actually the last day for of leftovers like uh i've eaten everything else i still have uh some turkey left but and then we also so uh thursday so saturday i uh i took the rest of the turkey and i made i had this huge huge pot and i made uh i made stock which i'd never made before so here's what you do with stock which i didn't know it's a lot of water and then you throw the uh the turkey in there and i had celery i had onions i had carrots i had uh other stuff probably oh uh peppercorns black peppercorns and some salt and i let all that for a long time and uh boil and i guess it's you know soaked up all the yummy stuff and then ran it through a cool ran it through a strainer and now i've got like i would say a solid two gallons of uh of stock and i tasted it and it tastes insane so good so i'm happy about these things these are things that i'm happy about um elfie elfie has shown up at our house that officially happened this morning so hooray for that shenanigans who knows that elfie's gonna get into every year the advent calendar is up which you know means i gotta go get stuff for the advent calendar and start putting stuff in there and threatening the children that if they're not good that maybe the advent calendar won't be full maybe elfie's not gonna come he's gonna go back to santa claus and he's gonna tell him what you did what did we do you were naughty no yes the other night i was sitting in emerson's room and i was putting him in the bathroom and i was like oh my god i'm gonna put him to bed and um he he was having a rough day i guess and uh he says to me he goes i mean no i got him into bed he was he was done right and and and he was laying there and then he starts sobbing and i was just like buddy what is what's going on with you and he goes uh hey i just don't want to die and my little my heart my heart it broke right it i was just like buddy he's like and i don't want you to die and i was just like emerson listen everybody dies right as a parent i had to i wanted to immediately say you know get that out of the way this is a thing that happens this is reality this is life um but then you know once i kind of lay out this thing i said but you know you have every single day of your life you have every single day of your life that you are here on this planet that you are around your family that you are around your friends everyone who loves you so much to to be the best emerson that you can be to be the nicest to be the most inclusive to not push anyone out to not uh denigrate anyone or be mean to anyone or bully anyone you have this time that you've been given to be the best you that you can be and it was a real it was one of those moments where i i was just like i am parenting so good right now and all the words that were coming out of my mouth i could tell that he was listening to and and i just really wanted to impress on him and i think it's super important for everyone and this is where i kind of bring you know what i'm talking about because you don't have unlimited time you don't have all the time in the world um sometimes i get made fun of not me know what i've poked fun at because i go constantly i make constantly i do constantly right i'm either doing comedy or doing the podcast or painting or anything i make as much stuff as i can and they're like just relax i'm like there's no relax i don't know when this ends and i want to make sure that i do everything that i can and everything that i'm supposed to to make the world even a half of of a one-time 10 better because that's all we have hey and real quick this is natty bumper car back again first time we've ever done this a little after the scratch uh we are thrilled that the bumper podcast has been accepted on the laughable podcast platform and thank you so much we're super excited and if you have an iphone there's a great new app it's called laughable and you should go get it and look for bumper podcast look for natty bumper car uh and it's it's a good curated way to find cool uh podcasts that you'll enjoy um there's thousands of them all right so you can search for your favorite comedians on the laughable thing and it's shows that they're either on like their shows or shows that they've been guests on so do it right hooray thank you laughable let's do this oh my washer's singing a song to us thanks washer

  • Bumperpodcast #197: Bumpercar Blithering

    Bumperpodcast #197: Bumpercar Blithering

    Natty Bumpercar blithers on about a lot of tangents in this weeks episode of the Bumperpodcast. A lot of rocks are kicked – and a lot of bugs came out.

    Do you blither? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.


    About This Episode

    In episode 197 of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar records while battling a November cold, creating a delightfully rambling episode about post-Halloween recovery. Natty muses about the absurdity of greeting people in song, shares a hilarious story about accidentally leaving Donkey Kong sound effects playing during recording, and confesses to being "patient zero" while trick-or-treating with his kids. The episode takes unexpected turns discussing carbon consumption, failed attempts at making cheesy bread, and the horrors of using a new neti pot. With his signature stream-of-consciousness style amplified by congestion, Natty delivers a relatable and funny meditation on parenting, sickness, and surviving the holiday season.

    Memorable Quotes

    “what i went as is patient zero…when i take your candy i'm also giving you the gift of congestion and uh stuffy noses”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “he looked at my eyes and he said you're not eating enough carbon and i said i am not sure that that's true”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “now i'm a race car driver with a tail boom take that”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #halloween #parenting #sickness #donkeykong #trick-or-treating #nutrition #healthremedies #cooking

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: oh no bumper podcast i have got the sickness i made it all the way to november that was very sing-songy how i just did the introduction did you hear that it was like i was uh singing a song about saying hi we should do that how much more fun would the world be if people whenever they saw each other they were just like hey bob how you doing i like your new shoes hey sue what how are you i guess it would be terrible is what would end up happening uh so you know what we should not i guess we can't you can't if you want i'm not gonna be the the arbiter i'm not gonna be the rule maker if you feel like making songs uh whenever you see people then you should do that i have to pause for a second because something crazy is happening all right we're back and i don't know if you guys are hearing it but what i was hearing somewhere in my browser uh there were like a hundred tabs open and um i i set up on a friend of mine's website uh so that you could play donkey kong uh if you go to a certain page and and because it was broken and i fixed it and blah blah blah anyway it was still open and so randomly every so often i would hear like or the uh donkey kong doing his which actually it works out well that i'm kind of sick because i don't think i would be able to make that noise as effectively as i just did if i wasn't um a little under the weather uh so tell me about yourself bumper podcast did you make it through halloween in one piece are you uh diabetic now because i hope you're not because that doesn't feel like a good way to be are you healthy is what i want to know are you balancing your uh sugary snacks with other snacks like pretzels for instance uh hunks of bread can i tell you what i made myself for food for today uh cheesy bread and i burnt it so the cheese is black on top which is perfect because i need to eat more carbon i think that's exactly i we went to a dietician and he said he looked at my eyes and he said you're not eating enough carbon and i said i am not sure that that's true i don't know a lot about physical science uh but i think and you can correct me if i'm wrong bumper podcast kateers uh but everything is made of carbon and so yes i'm eating carbon is everything made of carbon i don't really know that is everything made of atoms is everything made of molecules yes i mean these things i think are definitely possibly true probably matter antimatter i had no idea we were going to talk about this i would have done my homework uh dark matter dark energy all right all right i'm just saying words at this point let's not talk about science anymore it makes me feel kind of dumb when i because it's one of those things where it was in my brain and you know you start talking about it and you just hear yourself saying the words and you're like no those words don't go together the way that you're saying the bumper car as a matter of fact and then you're like oh my god i don't know what to do with this now i'm officially just talking to myself as opposed to you bumper podcast what was your halloween costume this year mine was uh pretty much anything that my children threw off themselves as we were on the trick-or-treating path dada don't want this hat you wear it all right well now i'm a race car driver dada uh my tail falls off you take all right now i'm a race car driver with a tail boom take that now i'm a race car driver with a tail boom take that now i'm a race car driver i bet you didn't see that coming that kind of monster up on your on your track course driving car i uh so i didn't go as any and i felt bad but i also you know don't care i went as a really tired looking dad is what i went as a tired looking dad who was probably contagious because i was at the very beginning of my sickness and so what i went as is patient zero uh the unknowing un un unbeknownst to everyone else that when i take your candy i'm also giving you the gift of congestion and uh stuffy noses i um do you guys have you ever used a neti pot i just got it's one of those things you put your nose and you squeeze and salt water goes up and it's weird but it makes your brain feel better i got a new one yesterday but it's a different shape and it's horrible it's the worst thing in the world worse even than this

  • Bumperpodcast #149 – Pea Soup

    Bumperpodcast #149 – Pea Soup

    What is on Bumpercar’s mind today? Pea soup – that is what … and why?! Well – because of the weather and also because he is hungry.

    Do you know any good recipes? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com – because – we are keeping track!

    Why am I always hungry?!


    About This Episode

    In Bumperpodcast episode 149, Natty Bumpercar sits outside headquarters on a foggy day, pondering what lies beyond the thick mist. This contemplation leads him down an unexpected culinary rabbit hole as he defends pea soup's reputation and attempts to reverse-engineer a pea soup recipe on the spot. Despite not having an actual recipe on hand, Natty enthusiastically improvises ingredients including peas, chicken stock, cream, butter, onions, and garlic. His cooking advice takes a questionable turn when he suggests adding copious amounts of flour to make it "thick like pea soup" until it resembles play-doh. The episode showcases Natty's charming stream-of-consciousness style and his talent for turning simple observations into delightfully absurd comedy.

    Memorable Quotes

    “It's as thick as pea soup which i gotta say pea soup really gets a bit… bad rap it's really more delicious than you would ever expect it to be”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “How was your pea soup well it was quite unctuous thank you bumper car must have used his olive oil oh well of course he did”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “We're gonna put just a lot of flour just a lot of flour because that'll thicken it up and turn it into play-doh and that's a good idea right”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #cooking #food #recipes #fog #improvisation #peasoup #humor

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: what what what what what what what what what hello there bumper podcast i said hello bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car and i'm feeling a little better than last week is it a feeling a little better than last week i said i got stuff in my throat hey guys what's going on it's natty bumper car it's me your pal natty bumper car and i'm sitting around right now outside of headquarters uh in the wilds of the world look at some trees look at some fog it's a foggy day fog of war i wonder what's happening right over there i wonder what's happening right over there i wonder what's happening right over there i wonder what's happening right over there it's hard to tell because of all the fog it's as thick as pea soup which i gotta say pea soup really gets a bit… bad rap it's really more delicious than you would ever expect it to be i mean here's the thing you like peas right yes of course i like peas they're green they're little circles little balls they're delicious so i don't know what goes out in pea soup but it's probably other tasty stuff and so i'm guessing i don't know what's in pea soup why don't i have a pea soup recipe this is weird i feel like i should have just on hand at all times a pea soup recipe like that just seems like something that would come up where i'd be in conversation someone would say oh what are the ingredients of pea soup and i would just have it handy like on a note card and i could be like well you uh use a little bit of this and a little bit of that and some peas and mash them up but i don't have that on me i'm gonna take a guess let's pretend let's reverse engineer bumper podcast pea soup if you will uh peas all right and then i'm gonna go with some vegetable stock maybe some chicken stock i am a fan of chicken stock personally so i'm gonna go with some chicken stock a little salt a little pepper uh i think pea soup is maybe a little creamy so maybe i'm gonna put a little cream in there a tiny bit of butter maybe or maybe if not butter then a little bit of olive oil just to give it a little bit of unctuousness yeah i can say words like that how was your pea soup well it was quite unctuous thank you bumper car must have used his olive oil oh well of course he did um as always i'm probably going to put some onions in it maybe some garlic i'm talking we're gonna put them in a pan we're gonna sweat them down get them to translucent and then we're gonna i mean all the stuff's gonna get mashed up so you're not gonna see it but it's gonna be in there gonna give it some body right thick we gotta make it thick thick like pea soup and then you know we're gonna put just a lot of flour just a lot of flour because that'll thicken it up and turn it into play-doh and that's a good idea right