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  • Bumperpodcast #199: Pig, Robot, and Doodle Poodle are not good at this.

    Bumperpodcast #199: Pig, Robot, and Doodle Poodle are not good at this.

    Pig, Robot, and Doodle Poodle are still running the ship on this episode of the Bumperpodcast … Runnning it right into the ground – that is!

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

    About This Episode

    In episode 199 of Bumperpodcast, Aloysious J. Pig attempts to host alongside Robot and Doodle Poodle while Natty Bumpercar is mysteriously absent. The trio struggles with basic podcast hosting duties as Robot rambles about his soup consumption, Doodle Poodle insists on talking about art and drawing despite never actually drawing, and Pig grows increasingly exasperated with his co-hosts. The episode devolves into chaotic bickering about listener names ("bumper somethings"), whether mittens are an engaging topic, and concerns that Bumpercar may be frozen into an ice cube somewhere in the woods. This improvised episode showcases the puppets' comedic inability to run a show without their usual host.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I'm sitting in a room with a crazy bucket of bolts and a dog who likes to draw and I've never seen him make a drawing. I just hear him talk about drawings all the time.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “Why would he put tears in the name of the people who listen to the show because they're so sad because they're listening to the show?”

    — Doodle Poodle

    “Now you know it sounds terrible this show.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    Topics: #podcasting #hosting #art #drawing #winter #chaos #friendship

    Featuring: Robot, Aloysious J. Pig, Doodle Poodle

    Full Transcript

    Robot: robot what are you doing this is we're starting a second podcast here and this is this is how you

    Aloysious J. Pig: start you don't even say to people like oh hey everybody it's me robot and nothing like that you're just like um oh um you've done this before you know i mean act like you've been to the end zone before robot i i everybody this is a bumper podcast clearly and i'm big and oh that's robot

    Doodle Poodle: over there don't everybody forget about me all at once either because i'm here to it's me i'm doodle poodle i'm the i'm a poodle that likes to to i'm to do

    Aloysious J. Pig: i like to draw i mean i don't understand is this what we're gonna do every episode now we're just gonna establish where we are you i'm a pig you're a robot you're you're a dog that likes to draw it

    Robot: doesn't seem very engaging to the audience the audience wants to know who we are they want to know all about it they for instance they want to know that yesterday i had a can of soup nobody wants to know that um

    Aloysious J. Pig: all right so officially i'm sitting in a room with a crazy uh bucket of bolts and a dog who's likes to i guess to draw and i've never seen him make a drawing i just hear him talk about drawings all the time if you go to his twitter feed he's like oh i think i'm gonna make a drawing or whatever it's a doodle it's actually a doodle all right fine i mean that's the thing i don't care nobody cares let's just do what we do and do the bumper podcast all right what's he call you guys bumper sausages that's not what your name's uh bumper bumper somethings bumper somethings i think that's the people who listen to this show it's the bumper somethings

    Doodle Poodle: that doesn't make any sense at all why would he put tears in the name of the people who listen to the show because they're so sad because they're listening to the show because that doesn't seem like a show that i don't want to listen to i would want to listen to the show that makes me happy like the bumper podcast giggles or something like like that no no more talking for the dog

    Aloysious J. Pig: ever again i think that's it for you go and go eat you go eat some kibble i got some kibble for you to to nosh on and eat it eat it eat as much as you want and it's delicious and just cough or just whatever you say sounds so silly

    Robot: can i talk or do you have any type of stuff that i could eat i could go for some

    Doodle Poodle: and i don't even i don't want i'm not i'm not even really all that hungry right now because i had a bigger breakfast and i don't feel i feel like it's time to do the show and like i want to talk on the show and be like more like talk on the show that was stuff for the for the yeah

    Aloysious J. Pig: all right uh oh wow let's uh see if we can get into any uh topics people love topics on podcasts so maybe we talk about i don't know it's cold now you guys go we got your jackets on you got your hoods your hats your mittens your gloves your scarves you're uh you're really struggling

    Robot: you're really really struggling

    Doodle Poodle: i know i gotta tell you it's not it's not a good show i agree with the robot i think we should talk about art and drawing and stuff because i mean people love art it makes them happy to make drawings sometimes so you see people and they have drawings that they made and they're just smiling and they're so happy you know i don't know if talking about mittens is gonna be a good idea i don't know if talking about mittens is gonna be a good idea make anybody happy at all for really well we we do want people to be happy we'll listen to the

    Aloysious J. Pig: show it's the bumper podcast i'm pig it's robot over there and toodle poodle we uh we're hosting it because bumper cars disappeared we don't know where he went don't know where he gone uh he's probably out in the woods uh ice cubing right now what does that mean he's frozen into an ice cube

    Doodle Poodle: we should really find them that sounds wow it sounds just really terrible i wouldn't want that ever

    Aloysious J. Pig: now you know it sounds terrible this show

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  • Bumperpodcast #198: Bumpercar is missing. His pals take over.

    Bumperpodcast #198: Bumpercar is missing. His pals take over.

    Natty Bumpercar is nowhere to be seen – but – the gang is all here! Pig, Robot, and Doodle Poodle take over the show and make plans … Devious plans!

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

    About This Episode

    In this hilarious episode of Bumperpodcast, Aloysious J. Pig, Robot, and Doodle Poodle discover that host Natty Bumpercar has mysteriously disappeared and has been recording episodes talking to himself. Pig seizes the opportunity to rebrand the show as his own, proposing names like "Pig Pod" and "The Pig Podcast." The trio debates whether to search for their missing host or launch their own competing show. Robot tries to keep everyone focused on finding Bumpercar, while Doodle Poodle offers to draw a map of possibilities. The episode showcases the chaotic chemistry between these three characters as they navigate Pig's ambitious takeover attempt and question their loyalty to the absent Bumpercar.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I'm gonna rise to the top this pig always rises to the top. It's because I float, mostly, because I've got a lot of fat. Let's be honest, people.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “Bumper car has been sitting here recording episode after episode by himself. The guy's talking to himself!”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “This all of a sudden just became a self-help show about Pig and his Lord Jets. You haven't stopped eating since you disappeared.”

    — Robot

    Topics: #mystery #podcastwithinapodcast #loyalty #ambition #comedy #missinghost #friendship #takeover

    Featuring: Aloysious J. Pig, Doodle Poodle, Robot

    Full Transcript

    Aloysious J. Pig: hey everybody get over here come in real quick this is the craziest thing i ever seen no come here i'm serious come here come here come here come here come here all right what do you mean what's so crazy look at this i mean i ain't been here in a long time on the bumper podcast you know me pig you robots but here we are and evidently bumper car has been sitting here recording episode after episode after episode after episode after episode by himself he's talking to himself exactly the guy's talking to himself stop it all right that's enough robot come on no you got one of your weird little loops where you start saying the same thing over and over and over and over again oh hi guys it's me doodle poodle speaking of crazy oh yeah i was looking

    Doodle Poodle: for a natty bumper car because i wanted to be on the bumper podcast no there's this guy

    Aloysious J. Pig: i don't see him anywhere because i don't see him anywhere anywhere okay listen you doodle go to the corner you robot i don't know turn yourself off or something because as far as i can tell what everybody's been clamoring for anyways is uh is the pig show so we're gonna start calling this uh i think the pig pig pod pig a podcast pig a pig a pig the pig podcast big pig pod bag it's hard to say all right just stop just stop just stop

    Robot: we're not done we're not gonna change the name it's still the bumper podcast and what we are gonna do is try to figure out what happened in that bumper car

    Doodle Poodle: you know for once i really think that the robot has the best idea in the whole world you're the smartest robot on the whole planet all right i think what i'm gonna do is draw a map of all the possibilities perfect okay so the dog is gonna draw something i don't really understand what it's gonna be

    Aloysious J. Pig: uh robot you know what i apologize for trying to take over the whole name of the show what i do as a pig sometimes is i see an opportunity and i rush in i run in because you know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna rise to the top this pig always rises to the top It's because I float, mostly, because I've got a lot of fat. Let's be honest, people.

    Robot: Okay, so this all of a sudden just became a self-help show about Pig and his, well, his Lord Jets. Let's be honest. You haven't stopped eating, I think, since you disappeared. But less about you, more about Daddy Bopper Car.

    Doodle Poodle: Has anybody actually listened to any of the shows that he's been doing? Because, I mean, I don't subscribe on iTunes or listen to the Bopper Podcast every single day. All right. It happens because, I don't know, I, um…

    Aloysious J. Pig: There's no reason for you to, you know, kiss up to Bopper Car, Doodle Poodle, because he's not here. It's you, a dog who likes to draw. Robot. Who's… You know, kind of just a robot. And me, I'm just a pig. You know, that's, I think, what we have, is we have some chemistry. Maybe, and this is just throwing out an idea here, I'm just going to spitball. I'm just going to blue sky an idea with you guys. Hey, what is it? We come up with our own show.

    Robot: Oh, you mean a show where there's a pig, a robot, and a dog who likes to draw, and they talk, and we don't even need Bopper Car? And we don't even need the Bopper Podcast at all?

    Doodle Poodle: That means we don't even need to worry about where Bopper Car is, and we don't need to worry about, you know, finding out where he went to and disappeared to, and, I don't know, the other shows and crazy stuff that he's been talking to himself for a long time, right?

    Aloysious J. Pig: That's absolutely correct. And I think, you know, what we do is we start it off right now. We figure out what our show's going to be called. We figure out what our show's going to talk about. And we grab… We gather our audience, our presence, and, you know, right now, this is where we start the show, guys. Let's start off with a bang!

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  • Bumperpodcast #194: The comedy of failure

    Bumperpodcast #194: The comedy of failure

    Natty Bumpercar talks about a night of comedy – and the value of failing … And then, Doodle Poodle stops in for a half a moment on this week’s Bumperpodcast!

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

    About This Episode

    In episode 194 of the Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar apologizes for his delayed posting schedule before diving into his experiences performing stand-up comedy at a challenging bar venue. He reflects on the art of crowd work, discussing how he had to wander table-to-table to engage an increasingly loud audience. Natty shares his philosophy about open mics and failing fearlessly, emphasizing the importance of trying new material without worrying about audience approval. Doodle Poodle makes a brief, uninvited appearance asking about bringing characters back to the show, prompting Natty to promise that friends (not just "characters") will return to future episodes.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I gotta think about the people, I gotta think about you and you're the people and I gotta think about you and that's what I'm doing right now, thinking about you.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “It's not all diamonds in this gold mine of jokes, all right, so it was fun, it was good fun.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Friends are more fun is what I say.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #comedy #stand-up #openmics #crowdwork #performing #friendship #podcastschedule

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Doodle Poodle

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: well well well what do you know when you look up and uh you think it's one day and then it's a different day and then you realize that the day that you thought it was which it's not because you got confused was the day that you're supposed to put your podcast up the bumper podcast why didn't anybody tell me why didn't anyone come knock on my door or give me a phone call or a text or a tweet or anything you guys were probably really worried right i'm so sorry that i did that to you wow how inconsiderate of me i gotta think about the people i gotta think about you and you're the people and i gotta think about you and that's what i'm doing right now thinking about you how you doing i'm doing well thank you so much thanks for asking that's very sweet i uh i did a show last night at a bar and it's a weird room where i no one's listening to you you it's as you start speaking uh the room gets louder which is you know that's fine and so what you're kind of forced to do is almost wander around table to table with your microphone and uh you know hey i'm gonna entertain this table now table number two what are those chicken fingers i didn't little chicken side finger you know that kind of garbage and um what to see if anything like would gravitate word wise towards other things thoughts and everything so just to see if there was any kind of pattern that could be picked up i was it was really just playing with with with the words and hearing them through the microphone i've said that like six times and but there was a look of confusion and i think it's interesting at open mics and stuff uh where you know like this is all comedy stuff okay that's fine uh no but sometimes people feel like you know they got they go into a room and you want to i want to do good i want to i want you guys to love me i want you guys but i think that at a point that becomes counter uh productive because once you know what your jokes sound like and you know how they go together and you've said them 150 000 times or whatever and you go to a room and you know it's not bad to fail i know i fail all the time so i i think it's it's you have to what you do is you go out you try stuff if it works it works if it doesn't work great and then you take from that experience uh the knowledge that okay this stuff doesn't quite work this stuff does and you you know a lot of times what people do will be like hey these aren't all gold here people or whatever they say or sometimes they'll be like you know uh all right this one's no sorry about that and then they say it's not all diamonds in this it's gold mine of they're not all diamonds in this gold mine of jokes all right so it was fun it was good fun uh it used to be that you would have shows like that and you'd be like what am i doing with my life why am i driving to these places and doing these shows and what's the point of them and why i'm just i want to sit at home on the couch and eat ice cream or whatever people do but no man you're on a mic or you have the privilege of talking at a bar random bar to random people and saying things that's amazing right holy cano holy cannoli get away doodle poodle no i'm serious you're not supposed to be on the podcast today but i thought you were gonna start

    Doodle Poodle: uh bringing characters back on the show and stuff and i now we're gonna talk about tomorrow

    Natty Bumpercar: no we're not gonna talk about drawing and yes we are gonna bring people back on the show

    Doodle Poodle: eventually oh okay today no not today what about today no i just said not today oh okay so it's gonna be uh today dude go go outside okay no just go outside right now

    Natty Bumpercar: all right that was doodle poodle yeah so we are gonna bring characters back because not characters we're gonna be our friends back let's be honest i think when you say characters it's a little bit demeaning because it's just me all the time and that's great and fun and everything but it's not as much fun as when you know because friends are more fun is what i say

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  • Bumperpodcast #185: Blibber. Blubber. Blabber!

    Bumperpodcast #185: Blibber. Blubber. Blabber!

    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!

    Do you have any batteries? Let us know if you missed us by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

    Blibber. Blabber. Blubber!

    About This Episode

    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."

    Memorable Quotes

    “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

    Full Transcript

    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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  • Bumperpodcast #181: Fingers

    Bumperpodcast #181: Fingers

    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.

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

    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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