The Bumperkids are growing up, and on a momentous day, Natty tries to talk to them about some of the transitions that are happening – like the end of daycare, and riding a giant roller-coaster. And what’s he get in return? A bunch of heartache, and toys getting thrown. Hope you enjoy listening to the ridiculousness!
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About This Episode
In this emotional episode, host Natty Bumpercar marks a bittersweet milestone as his son Oliver completes his last day of pre-K at a school the family has attended for eight years. Joined by his sons Emerson and Oliver, Natty reflects on the joys and challenges of parenting while sharing stories about their recent Six Flags adventure, including a terrifying ride on the El Toro wooden roller coaster. The boys discuss their imaginative daily routine of hunting dragons in the graveyard behind the school, and Natty opens up about the emotional impact of watching his children grow up. This heartfelt episode blends humor with genuine parental emotion as the Bumpercar family prepares for kindergarten and a new chapter ahead.
Memorable Quotes
“We've been with this pre-k for seven years… in total we've been there for eight years. Last night I woke up at four o'clock in the morning and I was crying.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“We went on a big roller coaster that was the stupidest roller coaster in the world… we thought we were gonna die, we thought we were gonna pass out.”
— Emerson
“When you're a parent you're uber present in the moment… but then you don't realize that there's all this really important stuff happening in their lives.”
— Natty Bumpercar
Topics: #parenting #preschool #milestones #sixflags #rollercoasters #childhoodimagination #dragons #family #growingup
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Emerson (Natty's child)
Full Transcript
Natty Bumpercar: hey guys it's me natty bumper car and this is the bumper podcast and this is a brutally sadly excitingly rough but fun but sad day and i don't think i can do it myself so who do i have here with me oh you guys gonna be crazy huh do you know why it's a sad day oliver why why it's an exciting day why why it's a big day why today is oliver's last day at pre-k hooray why is it hooray it's the same pre-k that you went to we've been with this pre-k for seven years i yeah ever since you were like one just before you were one years old you started going to this school and you were there for what four years and that's where you met all your first friends and then ollie went there when did you start all yeah ollie was there for about five years so in total we've been there for eight years so last night i woke up at four o'clock in the morning and i was crying because i was sad because here's a weird thing when you have kids you get it's a little bit not you're gonna you're gonna go to kindergarten next year
Emerson (Natty's child): that's right you're gonna have some of your pals are gonna be in your new school
Natty Bumpercar: so that's exciting right um emerson what did we do yesterday we so we got a crayon no so you're gonna have a crayon and you're gonna have a crayon and you're gonna have a crayon
Emerson (Natty's child): yesterday he got me um a bat bear a bat bear no we did though i call him bat bear we uh
Natty Bumpercar: so emerson and i for the past three years we've been going to six flags and yesterday we went
Emerson (Natty's child): and what did we do a big roll we went on a big roller coaster that was the stupidest roller coaster in the world and and we couldn't and we barely and that and we could barely walk after it we i thought we we thought we were gonna die we thought we're gonna pass out right yeah so
Natty Bumpercar: remember the microphone is right up here so that's what we want to talk to okay um hey um and um i said they almost died it's true we did it was called el toro and it was uh this wooden roller coaster and emerson was like i want to go on that and i was like i don't know if i want to go on that and he's like i want to go on that and a couple of times we walked up to the line we're like no and it was the third thing that we went on so the first thing we went on was this big safari ride and we got to see what kind of animals do we see like crazy animals um oliver they can't oliver keeps putting his bear up to the microphone and having him say hi hi hi but it was another it was another day where you're like you see your kids growing hey guys we can't do that at all you're telling me to shush yeah well we're recording a podcast and you can't fight oliver the bears are going to leave if you don't stop okay look at that i'm having to be parenting right now no we're fine we're good buddy this is this is oh we lost you okay all right we lost emerson he uh he couldn't take the bears talking into the microphone so ollie what is your favorite thing that we do when we go to school how do we go there but in the car that's right we go the secret way to school there's no way we're going to tell anybody there's no way because it's the secret way
Emerson (Natty's child): yeah and it's ours and it's nobody else's
Natty Bumpercar: oh no emerson told us hey uh don't throw anything else buddy and so then uh at the end of school what do we do we go out in the back into the what broom gray what's the what is it it started with emerson remember out back behind the school yes what's back there you have to cross over that bit of grass emerson you used to do that you challenged different schools this is this is so fun we got hats we got infertility we got virtually everything and he was so crusty he goes I've got to go to a big ridingiking range and make a stop for about a while leben I am coming over to my dog look like this is my dog they're taking their limited drag with you used to do this too used to love yeah to the graveyard and what do we love what do we hunt for
Emerson (Natty's child): we hunt for dragons and the dragons kind of have you ever seen a dragon ever since the dragons
Natty Bumpercar: usually hunt for us well once we get to the back of it yeah they come looking for us and then we just run for our lives we totally run for our lives because it's terrifying to have dragons
Emerson (Natty's child): chasing you through a graveyard yeah and there's some i usually grab a rock and then when i throw a
Natty Bumpercar: rock nothing's there because do you think the dragons are scared of your rocks and your rock
Emerson (Natty's child): throwing skills so the dragon kind of ship out like like a visible dragon he shares his visibleness with all the other dragons and all of the dragons share with the other dragons then they have the same powers all of them
Natty Bumpercar: have the same powers is that something they can do they can share powers yeah and they all have the same powers so wait if they're all sharing the powers what's going on here where in our house
Emerson (Natty's child): yeah there's no dragons in our house they only live in the graveyard yeah dragons in the graveyard
Natty Bumpercar: in the natural history museum the person that um
Emerson (Natty's child): the person that had the grave uh-huh persons that were on the deep and was the grave uh-huh had the
Natty Bumpercar: grave over them person the dragons ate the people who were in the graves in the graveyard yeah i didn't know that i've never known that why didn't you ever tell me that i told you a long time ago what we used to so hold on a second i'm taking my kids into a graveyard that's full of graves full
Emerson (Natty's child): that the dragons ate that's terrible parenting yeah you're too yeah but i like it i do too i hope
Natty Bumpercar: that we get to do it today because this is our last day right give me that yankee hat right up there oh it's not for you kiddo cat who's it it's daddy's and it's really old um one of these kids wants to be on a podcast one of these kids wants to disrupt a podcast and that's fine um what are the stories you have to go i don't know did i show you the pictures from the safari yesterday from the animal ride that emerson and i went on no i didn't show you yes you did not show me i'm so sorry i'll show you later i promise so what do you think you're going to do today um school stuff yeah yeah and then what about next week so next week you're starting kindergarten
Emerson (Natty's child): which we talked about a little bit before um i want to be there saturday sunday monday
Natty Bumpercar: that's right monday's a vacation and tuesday's a holiday too i think and so school starts on wednesday tuesday's um oh that's right it's a gg and pop-up day um emery emery emerson has a ruler that he's patting in his hand uh kind of aggressively um i think he's gonna hit my own head i don't think he should do that i think he'll be in big trouble your body
Emerson (Natty's child): what basic who's bardy basics really and he will try to get you with a ruler on your head yeah no no
Natty Bumpercar: jump scares are not my favorite kind of scares yeah i hate him hey wait emerson so you you like jump scares right what do you not like roller coaster scares do you remember yesterday ollie yes i can't i know but do you remember so we got on the roller coaster we waited in line and then we got up to the top and i got we got to the top and i started going i don't want to do this i don't want to be here i don't want to be on this roller coaster i don't want to do this i don't want to do this and i didn't know what to do with emerson and so i said just close your eyes it's gonna be okay you're gonna be okay and it was
Emerson (Natty's child): so high and then when we were about to fall down i looked up and then and then and then and then and then we flew up in the air and then we almost and then it was turning so hard i almost fell off my roller i i almost let go of the thing you're like floating in your seat right
Natty Bumpercar: and then you said when i said don't look you open your eyes and you could see the whole park right yeah like the entire thing yeah but i didn't get scared that part didn't scare you it was the down part and this roller coaster it didn't stop like you went down a giant hill and then down a giant hill and then you went like to the side and it was throwing me around and you said does your neck hurt still it was brutal my neck still hurts i highly recommend that no one ever ride a roller coaster again i think we've done it for everyone no one else we no one no one else needs to do a roller coaster right um wait well wait what do you want to do a roller coaster yeah but not the
Emerson (Natty's child): not the wooden one not the wooden one not the scariest one you guys almost died off i don't
Natty Bumpercar: know if we really almost died off almost died but it was certainly terrifying yeah yeah yeah well you ever need you you're gonna head out yeah okay say goodbye bye say bye-bye last day of pre-k bye-bye last day of pre-k okay you're going over so that's uh that's the thing guys uh having kids is weird i've really i've been up since 4 a.m crying today because um this this daycare huh why don't you take these bears up to mommy she needs to talk to them okay and um man they they they grow up these kids and they do it really fast and when you're not even in if you're not in the moment you do oh good job you sure do my child has an infinity gem i hope it's what oh you let's put that down there's a lot of things happening right now bumper podcast i'm trying to have an emotional moment right now i'm trying to have an emotional moment with you and my children are refusing which is fine it's that's their job um i know it's only three he found a three pound weight so uh it's weird so i think i already said that but like when you're a parent you're uber present in the moment you're always there they're always there you come home they're there you you take them places whatever and then like a lot of it is just the rush and the grind to get from thing to thing and place to place but then like you don't realize that there's all this really important stuff happening in their lives and there's these major milestones that are happening and last night was one of the first times where it like really hit me and hit me hard that this place that i've been going to forever i talk to these people every single day and i wouldn't have kids without them essentially and and what i mean by that is like they've been my community they've been my family they've been my family they've been my family they've been my family they've been my advocates they've been the people who give me advice who give me a shoulder to cry on parenting is rough and i'm gonna miss it desperately but we're in a new chapter we're in a new exciting world and i'm super thrilled for it and i hope that ollie has a good time with it next week and you know it's gonna be a transition and um i'm gonna start crying again but you know what we're all gonna get there together
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