Bumpercar is back and filling you in on all of the reasons why he has been gone. He seems to be in good spirits – so – let’s enjoy it while we can!
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About This Episode
In episode 236, Natty Bumpercar returns after a long absence to share what's been happening in his life. He opens up about the recent passing of his 95-year-old grandmother, a painter who studied at the University of Georgia before moving to New York City—a path Natty himself would later follow. He explains how a series of unfortunate events including a computer breakdown and a bout of bronchitis kept him away from the podcast. Despite dealing with anxiety, illness, and falling behind on life, Natty remains optimistic and excited to reconnect with his listeners. He promises to return to a regular schedule and shares his enthusiasm about new social media strategies.
Memorable Quotes
“It has been anaconda snake long it has been snake river long it has been as long as an anaconda and the snake river and the summer breeze long.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“The hip is evidently the key to life it's the cradle it's where everything you know can go wrong.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“I'm pretty happy right now. I'm pretty excited to be back. I missed you so much, Bumper Podcast Coutures.”
— Natty Bumpercar
Topics: #lossandgrief #familyhistory #illness #catchingup #personalstruggles #resilience #anxiety
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar
Full Transcript
Natty Bumpercar: oh bumper podcast it is natty bumper car and it has been so long it has been so far too long incredibly long how long has it been it has been anaconda snake long it has been snake river long it has been as long as an anaconda and the snake river and the summer breeze long it's a lot of snake references really don't know what's going on there um i have missed you so much it has been so long and i'm so sorry i uh a lot of stuff happened let's just get some things off our chest bumper podcast uh my name is natty bumper car this is the weekly bumper podcast you weekly yes i realize that several weeks have been missed i know this let me tell you what happened first one's sad first one is really sad you know i'm not looking i'm not looking for i mean i pity i appreciate uh thoughts and prayers and everything uh so uh my my my grandmother died she passed away she's 95 years old she fell and broke her hip and it's that's what happened to my other grandmother too the hip is evidently the key to life it's the cradle it's where everything you know can go wrong and it was it's very sad it was it was like a month ago uh maybe three weeks and um so it was unexpected uh obviously uh but you know she fell broke her hip went to the hospital got that fixed went to rehab uh that didn't work out and here we are sadness sadness sadness a couple cool things uh about my grandmother um she was a painter i'm a painter she went to the university of georgia i did the same thing and then she moved to new york city after she got her painting degree from the university of georgia she studied under a guy named lamar dodd the uh art school at the university of georgia is named after lamar dodd that's kind of cool i don't know if you've seen that one and i'm not satisfied with that one that' noughts dot dot dot dot dot an 800 including a iphone fifty 50 again and never saw a cop for them that's kind of cool to me that she was like in the in the beginning right and then she moved to new york and that's and here's a weird parallel i ended up going to university of georgia for painting and then moving to new york to paint weird stuff weird crazy stuff um so that happened recovered from that had a had a pack up real quickly fly down to georgia do all that stuff came right back and then my computer broke just died this is the second time this year this sad computer's had a hard time but it's back it's better it's a happy computer again please stay happy computer after the computer now we're in a week and a half in i got bronchitis this is one thing on top of another thing on top of another thing and normally i bounce back pretty quickly from all the things i'm pretty resilient when it comes to things but for some reason this series of unfortunate events was enough to really knock me on my tuchus and we're just now getting back into the swing of things i uh i i don't know i'm really i'm behind in life i'm behind on a lot of things and i don't like that it drives me crazy it means i have nightmares at night because i have uh anxiety it's like oh gosh i gotta do all this thing and this thing and then my brain's like oh don't forget about that thing that thing too and then i'm like ah and then obviously you throw in the job and the kids and everything doing shows here and there and it's brutal and that's the thing i haven't even been able to do shows in the past couple weeks because i've been so silly sick i've been on antibiotics and a steroid and last night i had to have emergency do an abuteral treatment which you take for asthma which i have bronchitis asthma seasonal uh what is it called seasonal allergy onset asthma is what i call it I think the doctor called it or something silly like that. And I got home and I couldn't breathe at all. Like even right now talking. I'm talking a little bit too much. Which, it's awesome. Means I'm probably going to have to take a little thing before I go to work. Yay! It's a great time. But I think you can hear it in my voice. I'm pretty happy right now. I'm pretty excited to be back. I missed you so much, Bumper Podcast Coutures. And I'm thrilled that I'm going to get to chat with you again. And we'll do it again next week. And we're going to get bigger. And we're going to get better. And I figured out a cool thing with Periscope last night. Where I can actually cut my videos up and put them on Vine. And put them on Instagram. And that way even more people won't actually see my videos. It'll be amazing. Hooray!
Unknown: Hooray!
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