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  • Bumperpodcast #208: There’s a pirate on this ship!

    Bumperpodcast #208: There’s a pirate on this ship!

    The Bumperpodcast is taken over by a pirate! What’s his name? I have no idea … and neither does he! Listen and learn … On this tyrannical episode of the Bumperpodcast!

    Comedian, Natty Bumpercar talks about some junk with Robot and Pig, and some other junk in today’s edition of the Bumperpodcast.

    Are you pirate-ish? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.


    About This Episode

    In this hilarious episode of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar transforms into a forgetful pirate captain who realizes the organizational challenges of running a pirate ship where nobody knows anyone's name. The rambling pirate contemplates the difficulties of delegating tasks like swabbing the deck and catching fish when every crew member is just "pirate man." After considering solutions like chore boards, continuing education classes, and a gold star reward system, the pirate captain ultimately abandons these civilized ideas and embraces the chaotic pirate life of stealing, looting, and pillaging. This absurdist monologue showcases Natty's improvisational comedy style as he navigates the logical paradoxes of pirate ship management.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I'm going to be stealing your women and your children and your booty and your gold and your frankincense and your myrrh and your Kit Kats, because I love Kit Kats.”

    — Natty Bumpercar (as Pirate)

    “We're gonna have all the different chores of the ship upon the board. It's gonna say, swab the deck, hang the sails, get the fish, you know, all the different things that happen.”

    — Natty Bumpercar (as Pirate)

    “We don't care about names. We don't care about reading. We don't care about writing because we are pirates, and all we care about is stealing and ravaging.”

    — Natty Bumpercar (as Pirate)

    Topics: #pirates #identity #organization #absurdistcomedy #workplacehumor #kitkats #improvisation

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: Did you notice that there was a lot of complaining and whining and hooting and hinting and hinting me in last week on the Bumper Podcast? Well, this is, uh, my name is, uh, I'm a pirate, probably. And my name, yeah, well, my name is, I don't remember my name, because I'm a pirate, and when people see me, people know my name, and so I don't have to go around telling people what my name is. I waff off my ship into the port, and I steal everything, and people know my name, but I would just by my face, and a little bit by my voice as well, but they don't necessarily, I don't have to, I don't have a business card. Why would I? I'm a pirate. Pirates don't, I can't read, and I don't care what my name is anymore. You care what my name is. Because I'm the one who's going to be stealing things from you. I'm going to be stealing your women and your children and your booty and your gold and your frankincense and your myrrh and your Kit Kats, because I love Kit Kats. I don't understand how they're made. There's, there's cookie crisp, and then there's chocolate, and they're all squished together into tiny microcosmic little things, and of the pirate ship, we all break off one for our friends, and we say, give me a break. Har! Give me a break. Break me off a piece of that. There. Har. Bar. But it's difficult, because as we're all pirates, and we, none of us care much about our names, then we look around the pirate ship, and when you have to get something done, it's like, hey, there, you, pirate man over there, and then the one looks around, because no one, everyone's a pirate man on the ship, and so they don't know who's talking to who, because they're all, pirates, and so you never get anything done. It's a, really, we should probably figure out some sort of a naming mechanism so that people know who's talking to who at all times. It makes the ships very difficult. It makes every little thing a lot more difficult than it should have been if you could have just said, hello there, pirate Bob, I need you to go and get me some fish. There's a lot of fish that they would, a lot of, that's a lot of, that's a big job on the ship. Who's gonna get the fish? And if we could have a board, maybe, on the ship. Now, I'm thinking we're probably going to need to take some sort of reading lessons, where we all read, and we have names, and we have a, a chore board. Yeah, that's what we need. We need a chore board, and we're gonna have all the different chores of the ship upon the board. It's gonna say, uh, swab the deck, uh, hang the sails, uh, get the fish, you know, all the different things that happen. And then we can be like, uh, pirate Bob, you do Tuesday. Uh, who's gonna do the laboratories? That's what we call bathrooms on the pirate ship. No, we don't. No, no. We don't call it laboratories. No, we don't. We don't call it laboratories. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. That's right. Over the rail. Because we're pirates. Good joke. Uh, uh, pirate man. No, you. You're the one who said the pirate Right there, I'm pointing at you because, yes, with the stripy shirt, black and white, not blue. Yes, black, white, you. Funny joke. You know what? We're also on the board. We're gonna have gold stars, and if anyone has a funny joke or a good idea, they're gonna get a gold star next to their names. So, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take some continuing education classes. We're going to learn how to read just basic stuff you understand. Nothing too hard. And then from there, we're all gonna get names. What's that? Good point. We're probably going to need to have names before we do the continuing education so that we can fill out all the forms and all the paperwork and take the classes. Are you correct? We can't fill out the paperwork if we don't know how to read and we don't know how to write. This is never gonna work. Is this what we've done? We've never done this. Okay. So, what is your plan? Excellent. We don't care about names. We don't care about reading. We don't care about writing because we are pirates, and all we care about is stealing and ravaging, right? Yes, and looting and pillaging and more stealing. So, no more names. You're a pirate. You're a pirate blue pants. You're a pirate red bird, and I'm the captain pirate of the whole ship, I think. Is that my name? Huzzah!

  • Bumperpodcast #207: Somebody has hurt feelings

    Bumperpodcast #207: Somebody has hurt feelings

    Natty Bumpercar talks about getting his feelings hurt – and is (unsurprisingly) joined by some of his pals from Headquarters. Check in to see if they help the situation – at all.

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


    About This Episode

    In episode 207 of the Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar opens up about having his feelings hurt by someone he considered a friend. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when Aloysious J. Pig, Robot, and Doodle Poodle all assume they are the ones who hurt Natty's feelings. What starts as a heartfelt moment quickly devolves into classic Bumperpodcast chaos, with Pig proudly claiming he lives to offend Robot, Doodle lamenting about sleeping in a crate, and everyone misunderstanding Natty's actual point. The episode explores friendship dynamics, hurt feelings, and the complications of living and working together in the Bumpercast headquarters.

    Memorable Quotes

    “No offense robot but I actually live to offend you and make you feel horrible about yourself… I'm just doing my job and my friendship.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “You walk away and you're just like, I mean are we friends? Are we even friends at all? And it gets a little bit sad.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “They don't let me on their podcast all the time. They make me sleep in a crate.”

    — Doodle Poodle

    Topics: #friendship #hurtfeelings #communication #relationships #livingtogether #misunderstandings #emotionalhonesty

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Aloysious J. Pig, Rufus T. Rufus, Robot, Doodle Poodle

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: hey everybody it's me natty bumper car and this is the bumper podcast of course and today i i want to open my heart a little bit to you i want to i want to tell you i have you guys ever had have you ever had your feelings hurt like by someone you considered a friend like you you went into a situation and you weren't expecting it to happen like just went not the way you were expecting and then all of a sudden you're like standing there like whoa i i thought i thought we were friends and and it and it stinks and it hurts really bad and you kind of walk away and you're like all right well i guess that we're maybe not as much of friends as i as i thought that we were it's me it's not fun at all uh yeah hey bumper car oh

    Aloysious J. Pig: hey pig what's going on yeah you know uh yeah i got my feelings hurt a few times really by somebody that i consider to be a friend i'm okay uh what happened you know well i run a podcast with him oh he's living in the same

    Rufus T. Rufus: headquarters yeah okay i get what you're doing now yeah it's me yeah it's it's you it's you

    Aloysious J. Pig: you can be a little bit stringent i don't think that's the word i could use i don't know if it's

    Natty Bumpercar: a word i could use it doesn't make a lot of sense stringent like maybe you're trying to say salty something i don't i don't know what you were hey oh geez it's me robot hey robot i was listening

    Robot: to the podcast and i decided to run into the studio all right hey tell my story okay oh i see what you're doing

    Rufus T. Rufus: is it is it is it me is it me right you know yeah well i because i see what you're doing

    Robot: yeah what's oh it's definitely you yeah perfect it's 100 percent you what about me huh

    Aloysious J. Pig: yeah i was hoping so because no offense robot but i actually live to uh offend you and make you feel horrible about yourself and what you know everything about your world so if you really want to get down to brass tacks i'm just doing my job and my friendship i'm just doing what i'm supposed to do uh so how are you feeling yeah thanks that's like a compliment it's like you just gave me a gold star it's like you're just like hey pig you all goes on the mount rushmore of uh hurting friends feelings it's you thanks for that i got a statue now a whole mountain of a statue of me pig making fun of you bucking a pulse oh hi everybody that's not a little me

    Doodle Poodle: hey no why are you are you crying what's the matter it's a good analogy

    Natty Bumpercar: huh it's a good analogy

    Doodle Poodle: you know they don't let me do it all the time oh i mean they don't let me on their podcast all the time oh come on make me sleep in a crate you like the crate

    Natty Bumpercar: oh yeah i do like sleeping in a crate yeah you actually said i want to sleep in a crate and so you can't then point at that and say that someone's done something bad to you when all right listen all three of you yeah what's up yeah yes all three of i want i am sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i love you guys all three of you you know what you learned the best thing i've want i am sorry if i ever sometimes in the heat of the moment on the bumper podcast we get into you know craziness and and we start yelling or whatever but this isn't even what i'm really

    Aloysious J. Pig: talking about oh well would you please edify us with your with your big brain and edify would you please just yeah exactly just get on

    Natty Bumpercar: okay well so here's what i'm talking about not i mean just everyday living together stuff we're gonna get under each other's uh skin we're gonna or yes metal and that happens but i'm talking about like you know you if you have people that you consider friends and you do something nice for or or whatever and maybe it's your fault because you've got expectations like oh they're gonna react this way or they're gonna react that way and then they totally don't or you know whatever happens and you walk away and you're just like i i mean are we friends are we even friends at all and it gets a little bit sad

    Aloysious J. Pig: let me keep living here i i guess i am too

  • Bumperpodcast #179: Airport

    Bumperpodcast #179: Airport

    Natty Bumpercar is at an airport and wants to tell you all about his day … He is also coming off the flu – so – it might not make much sense.

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

    Sense is for sensible folk!


    About This Episode

    In episode #179 of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar records from a terrible airport restaurant while waiting for his flight. Dealing with the flu, last-minute travel packing, and a particularly difficult parenting moment, Natty shares the story of missing his four-year-old's field trip and the heartbreaking conversation that followed. Between navigating distant airport parking lots, fire alarms in the bathroom, and questionable shrimp decisions, Natty reflects on the chaos of modern travel and the guilt that comes with work-life balance. This candid, solo episode captures the humor in everyday disasters and the universal experience of feeling like everything is falling apart at once.

    Memorable Quotes

    “He looked more hurt and let down and sad than I think he ever has with me before and so it was one of those parenting moments you know it was just like daddy has to go to work.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “The thing is is I got a flu shot so you know what I shouldn't have the flu but I do and I'm getting on an airplane so I'm guessing I'm gonna be sick for about another year.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I'm gonna eat some shrimp because why not get food poisoning before going on a business trip I think it's probably my best move.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #travel #parenting #airports #guilt #illness #work-lifebalance #comedy

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: hey there bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car and i am coming to you a little bit quiet today and that is because i am sitting in an airport but not just at an airport at a terrible restaurant in an airport because i forgot to eat food and my flight leaves in an hour and oh here comes the waitress hold on thank you very much and um so i figured now it's a good time to say hello to you because it is wednesday it's the day of bumper podcast here is me opening my straw oh yeah this is a big day so let me tell you a little about my day i got up early i uh missed a field trip uh the first time i've had to do that for my uh for baby bumper car now four-year-old bumper car and it was a terrible time around headquarters last night it was one of the most depressing times i've had in a while he looked uh more hurt and uh and let down and sad than i think he ever has with me before and so it was one of those parenting moments you know it was just like daddy has to go to work and i even like threw in i was just like daddy you know to get the food we have and to have the house that we have i did that to him he's four it didn't mean anything to him and so then i uh capitulated i was beaten down and what i went and did ended up doing was uh i was like do you want do you want me to get you a prize from wherever it is that i'm going because i can do that i can get you a surprise which he immediately goes to well what is it i don't know it's a surprise you know well what is it where are you getting it the place i'm going is i'll get it from there you know that general area that town and what it is i haven't seen it i'm not there i'm here so i don't know well what is it okay and this was about a half an hour back and forth so then but today everything was pretty fine he calmed down a little bit i calmed down a little bit uh i also have the flu because why wouldn't i be sick uh i'm at the tail end of it saturday i couldn't move it was one of those things i was laying down just waves washing over me with pains have you ever and but the thing is is i got a flu shot so you know what i shouldn't have the flu but i do um and i'm getting on an airplane so i'm guessing i'm gonna be sick for about another year um so then today drop him off at school uh drop the tiny one off at school i had to slather his face with uh uh neosporin because he's all sick and his face is all bloody yucky it's all raw it's so sad when babies aren't happy it's so sad but he's he's all right he's fine and so then i i went home and i i packed haven't been on an airplane in a couple years so it's kind of exciting but i'm also uh constantly thinking i'm forgetting stuff um but so far so good i got to the airport i went to the uh the overnight parking and found out that it was gonna cost me fifty dollars and i said no no i want your cheapest i'll have your cheapest parking good sir and so then off i drove about four miles away like down roads that weren't even roads and every so often a sign would come up and say um yeah sure there's a parking lot down here and i'm a believing fellow a chap so all i went and i got there got on the bus came to the proper airline and um and i got in everything's great and then i went i went had to go potty because i went to the bathroom and i was in there and the fire alarm went off and i mean the most painful thing ever like ears popping painful and uh it was me and there were three other guys in there and uh they all we all looked at each other and shrugged our shoulders because that's what you do in social situations for instance i had two tables down from me but this kid just looked over at me because i'm recording something so i'm talking to myself and uh he shrugged again because again the shrug is the universal hey what's going on i don't know i don't do you know what's going on i have no idea so now i'm in a terrible restaurant i got an hour and 25 minutes before my flight i'm gonna eat some shrimp because why not get food poisoning before going on a business trip i think it's probably my best move and um i've been caught up you know my day better than i do so i hope you have a good day and that you're not at an airport bye

  • Bumperpodcast #174: Extended Awesome

    Bumperpodcast #174: Extended Awesome

    Hold onto your awsome little shoes – because – by popular demand, we have finally caved in and extended the Bumperpodcast – to almost double! That’s right – 5 minutes of splended aural pleasure for your ears … The possibilities are endless!

    Do you think you can stand the awesomel? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

    Extended awesome for you!


    About This Episode

    In this extended episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar kicks things off by explaining why the show is a day late, spinning an elaborate fib about cats and clocks that quickly falls apart. He reflects on the perils of lying and the disgusting reality of wet cat food. Natty announces an exciting expansion of the show, aiming to double the usual runtime from three to five minutes. However, his grand plans for a "bigger, better" Bumperpodcast are hilariously derailed when he's overcome by an uncontrollable urge to sneeze mid-recording, leading to an unplanned pause and apologies for his unprofessional moment.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I'm not gonna lie to you see that's what happens you start fibbing you start telling lies and then everything falls apart i got too convoluted with my fib there.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “This is the worst day of my life i have to pause for a second and just like that through the wonders of radio technology and informational awesomeness i'm back.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I came to be professional i came to be more awesome i came to be the bigger better bumper podcast.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #lying #timemanagement #cats #showexpansion #sneezing #professionalism #comedy

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: good day to you bumper podcast how are you doing today we're a day late what i don't know my clock is broken i forgot to put batteries into my my clock the normally the cat is supposed to tell me we don't have a cat all right i'm not gonna lie to you see that's what happens you start fibbing you start telling lies and then everything falls apart i got too convoluted with my fib there and uh and so you know like oh wait now i've got a cat it's just like so then i'm thinking all right i've got to get a litter box i've got to get uh some kibble for the kitty cat maybe some some wet food in the cans you know the stuff that's so phenomenal phenomenally disgusting that when you open it up uh it's impossible not to get a little bit on you and then that's on you for the rest of the day you wash your hands it doesn't matter it's there you're gonna smell like uh ocean fresh fish which no one wants to smell like like if you go to the big department store and there's that line of people who are spraying stuff on you oh you know try this why don't you try mine why don't you try this whatever like none of them smell like ocean fresh fish because nobody that's again that's not a scent that people want to smell like oh well i apologize for starting this show off with such uh a lie a fib uh a faux pas it's my faux pas um to to try to mislead you like that this is the bumper podcast i am natty bumper car and we are a day late and a dollar short who said that who said that i did okay uh so if anyone has a dollar we would really appreciate it if you could send it our way via the podcast um we were going to talk today about it's a six it's an exciting week today is an exciting day in the bumper podcast because we're gonna we're gonna kick out the jams we're gonna put the pedal to the metal we're going to we're in uh what is it called uh manifest destiny we're expanding this thing we're going bigger how much bigger i don't know how long do you want to sit there and listen i don't know because you're not sitting here next to me writing numbers on a notepad you know like uh eight maybe i'd like to listen to eight maybe six six seven six seventeen i don't think i could go six seventeen i think that's going to be too much bumper podcast but i think i could do i think i could do you know what i think we could do we could double it so if normally we do three minutes you know what we're going to do today we're going to hit five minutes that's right it's not quite double but it's a good number i feel like i feel like five is a number that people can really uh appreciate it's it's enough your teeth into uh to wet your palate and maybe uh you know you listen to five a few times and all of a sudden you're thinking i do want that eight i do want that 16 seven what is it six seventeen i do want that six seventeen of the bumper podcast i gotta tell you guys i'm having a great day but i'm also having a really hard time right now because ever since i hit record on the bumper podcast today i've had to sneeze like it is right there read it and now i'm talking about it it oh i'm so sorry i'm so unprofessional it's so it's so yucky it's oh i didn't i didn't know that by talking about the sneeze that it was going to happen this is the worst day of my life i have to pause for a second and just like that through the wonders of radio technology and informational awesomeness i'm back my um my nose you heard that right that's we weren't i wasn't on the sheet like i have a sheet of the things that i wanted to do today on the bumper podcast on the brand new extended all more awesome bumper podcast and it nowhere on there does it say sneeze hey bumper car could you make sure to sneeze into the microphone no producers of the show i won't do that because that's not what that's not the kind of thing that these people are here for that's not the entertainment they want i can't do that i can't do that i can't do that i can't do that i can't do that i came to be professional i came to be more awesome i came to be the bigger better bumper podcast

  • Bumperpodcast #170: Birthday Roast Build-Up

    Bumperpodcast #170: Birthday Roast Build-Up

    Is this your favorite day of the week? Of course it is – because today is the day of the Bumperpodcast!

    We talk about the ‘Natty Bumpercar Birthday Roast Extravaganza: A Benefit for PAWS!’ – which is coming up this very weekend.

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

    I’m like a birthday!

    Here is a link to the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/495000327236449/

     


    About This Episode

    In this episode of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar excitedly announces his upcoming Natty Bumpercar Birthday Roast Extravaganza, a charity benefit for PAWS, an organization that helps cats. Natty defends his decision to organize his own birthday party roast, explaining that he'd rather celebrate big than stay home watching Murder She Wrote and eating kettle corn. He humorously describes how friends will roast him for his birthday, saying terrible things about him that may not even be true. Natty promises to tell listeners all about the event next week and hints that it might be filmed for everyone to watch.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I'm not gonna sit at home and watch murder she wrote and eat kettle corn that's not a birthday for me this is i like to blow it out”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “It's a roast like i've gathered all these people to essentially beat me up for my birthday it's very strange thing to do”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #birthday #comedyroast #charity #cats #partyplanning #friendship

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Rufus T. Rufus

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: all right bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car and it is your favorite day of the week what day is it it's the middle of the week that's why it's your favorite day because you had to climb up to get to it and then you slide down to the end to the weekend the weekends are the best i know that now i realize that i don't know why i didn't know that before but i think they're pretty awesome and so that's why uh today no wait that's not why today's your favorite day why is it then oh of course it's because it's the bumper podcast day and today's the day that we get to hang out and chitter chatter and bibble babble well you know what we're gonna talk about today do you do you let me tell you ladies and gentlemen this weekend coming up um i'm terrified because i've put together um uh it's the natty bumper car birthday roast extravaganza and it's a benefit for uh an organization called pause and that place it's uh they help kitty cats so that's a good organization they're gonna help out the kitty cats and the kitty cats need our help uh they need our help to uh to vote they they certainly need our help to to cross the street uh they need our hope our hope they need our hope so please give the kitty cats all of your hope and your dream wait no that didn't make any sense um now some people have criticized me they oh you can you put together your own birthday party

    Rufus T. Rufus: you you don't have you done and people don't you don't have these people i do this for you

    Natty Bumpercar: and i'm like bro i it's a big birthday and i want to make sure that it goes off awesome and so yeah i threw some stuff together you know what i'm not gonna sit at home and watch uh murder she wrote and uh eat kettle corn that's not a birthday for me this is i like to blow it out i like to to to build it up i'm gonna set them up and you're gonna knock them down we're talking bowling terms now i'm going to get the ball out of the baller turn i'm gonna put my hands over the air and uh then i'm gonna throw the ball that made sense i'm not sure i don't i don't know if that made sense at all but it's a roast like i've gathered all these people to uh essentially beat me up for my birthday it's very strange thing to do like normally for birthday you're like look i got some balloons look i got some streamers but this is going to be like why did you say that about me that's a terrible thing to say it's always not even true but it's going to be so much fun and i wish you could be there but trust me i'm going to be there for you tell you all about it next week and i think we're going to have it filmed so maybe we'll let you watch it too i don't know bumper podcast you're my best and you're gonna have some fun