Tag: Georgia

  • Bumperpodcast #393 – Season 2 – Toe

    Bumperpodcast #393 – Season 2 – Toe

    It has been way too long. Let me explain why – oh – why. ❤️ The Bumperpodcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals! You should send us an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com. We’re here and we’re listening! Go like our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!! Also, The Bumperpodcast can now be found on the https://non-productive.com/ network. Yay!!!! Also, also, we have a Patreon page now!!! https://www.patreon.com/nattybumpercar

    About This Episode

    In this personal episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar shares stories from his recent whirlwind trip to Georgia. Natty recounts helping his childhood best friend clean out his parents' house in Macon, Georgia, triggering waves of nostalgia from their friendship that began in traumatic swim lessons at age four. The episode features humorous tales of Southern food adventures including barbecue, Brunswick stew, and a leaky fried chicken restaurant, followed by a grueling 25-hour drive to Boulder, Colorado. Between managing his clumsy cone-wearing puppy Banjo, dealing with a broken trampoline, and hosting a virtual drawing session for schoolchildren, Natty ends the episode explaining how he broke his pinky toe by walking into a cabinet.

    Memorable Quotes

    “They put us at the deep end of the pool… walked up behind us and pushed. Sploosh. Down into the water. That's how we learned to swim… that's a scary way to learn how to swim.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “He's got this cone on his head and he hits me right in the back of the calf… he's very insistent like hey hey hey I'm gonna hit you I'm gonna hit you hard.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I stood up and I walked directly into a very heavy cabinet… I yelped I fell on the ground and I was just like rolling around… Banjo came over with his cone and he tried to love me to death.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #friendship #nostalgia #travel #southernfood #childhoodmemories #pets #injury

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Producer

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: Well now I went down to Georgia for a while for about four days and now I forgot how to talk because sometimes when I go back home I just start talking like I used to talk which was kind of like this. It wasn't exactly like this but it was kind of like this and I wait a minute no that's not did I? I mean I did go to Georgia. I was there for for three days two days. It was I had the craziest trip you guys. I know you probably like bumper car. You can't just put out an episode a month. I understand that. I know that but life has been coming at me crazy fast. So here's what's been going on. Step one I had to fly to Georgia to help my best friend out. We had to clean his pants. We had to clean his parents house out. We had a I flew to Georgia and then we drove to a place called Macon Georgia. Macon Bacon. Macon Trouble. Macon Macon. Yeah I don't know um and and we we got a 20 foot uh tall. No that'd be amazing. Do you do you know that you know the difference between tall and long? Uh probably right? Like your height that's how tall you are. Your arms if you stretch them out that's how long I don't know. Hard to explain but you know when you're driving down the road and you see a big truck and it's really long or a train that's really long that's that's that's long. That's not a good description is it? Huh that's fine too. Anyway it was a 20 foot long truck and I mean come to think of it it was probably like 12 or 13 feet tall. It was pretty tall and we emptied out the entire house and we were straightening and cleaning and going room by room. And and and getting rid of stuff um because his mom moved to where he lives and so they were getting rid of the house and it was there were emotions. I had emotions. There was a lot of nostalgia. We we drove around. I've known this friend since we were four years old. I used to say three years old but he contends that it was four or five years old and so now I'm like what? Oh so I did give a little bit of ground on the three so now I'll say four. We met when we were um in swim lessons and this is how the swim lessons used to go so just get ready kids. They put us at the deep end of the pool and our swim instructor was this woman and I can't remember her name but she walked up behind us in the deep end of the pool. A four year old. Several of us and put her hand on her back our backs and pushed. Sploosh. Down into the water. That's how we we learned to swim and then she had this thing that she would kind of reach out into the pool and pull us back and and that's not that's a scary way to learn how to swim. I'm just gonna tell you. And so it was through that trauma through that trial by fiery water that we we bonded and we became pals and so this house it I spent more time in this house growing up than in any other house and um so there were a lot of emotions involved with that just you know walking room to room and uh they have a a separate little room it's a bonus room is what they call it oh look at this your house has a bonus room and it's above the garage and it was never finished it was kind of like a big storage area and um it has this smell and it's not a bad smell it's just like when I open the door to look in and see how much stuff I have I'm like oh my god I'm so I was hit by this smell now smell is cool for memory um like you can walk into someplace or and you can smell something and and your mind will just get flooded with all these memories where you're like I remember you know this place and you can just close your eyes and you just know where you are and it's it's just so cool and so that's how it was and we uh so we were down there and we were in the pool and we were like oh my god I'm so excited I'm so excited I'm so excited we're we're packing stuff we get the truck uh we're going to all these places like to eat like you know oh remember this place let's go get food there or whatever and um one of the places i went by myself well i had a big food day which i do not recommend because my tummy still hurts where we had um barbecue and we had something called brunswick stew which is made in brunswick georgia and it's it's this stewy thing that you get at barbecue places and it's so good and after that i went and i got curly fries seasoned curly fries from this place that i really like and then after that i went to another place a fried chicken place and i didn't get fried chicken but i did get a honey buttered biscuit oh it was so good and uh an order of fried okra which is um magical thing and really one of the only ways i'll eat okra because have you ever had okra it's it can be a little creepy if i'm gonna be completely honest um i do like pickled okra but only on very rare occasions uh stewed okra no thank you too slimy too creepy you keep that over there fried okra every day my friend but i'm standing there and well first when i walk into the uh the fried chicken place you know sometimes when you go to stores people will say something like how are you welcome to my store hello customer hello friend whatever it is uh all she said and she just yelled at she she said um what are you having and i was like ah that's a lot of pressure like i want i didn't get to acclimate i didn't get to get my my feet wet but i did almost get my feet wet because about five feet to the right of the register uh where you're you know where you're going to get your food and get your stuff and she's like oh you're an expert so he's like what just friends i'm like realized that we didn't know what it was and so then we had a sir cramp and i thought to myself that i was going to get my phone bill here you know buying the stuff there's a there was a giant hole in the ceiling um where there's all these exposed uh like air conditioner pipes and there was all this water falling not even just dripping but kind of raining and it wasn't raining outside this was internal raining and there was a giant puddle on the floor so there was a there was a big pan that was full of this sealing water and then there was a big puddle on the floor and the whole time i was i like experiences and to me this is an adventure and an experience i'm getting off so i'll very soon without the trip so i'm going to maybe come back so i'll take me there now if somebody's gonna buy me a little bit and to me this is an adventure and experience and I was just like this this is what I want in the world I want weird stuff like this um and what I ended up with uh not gonna lie again a stomach ache and then that night we went to uh downtown Macon which I mean it existed as a thing but it didn't exist like this and we saw a friend and we had dinner outside and there were lights and it was gorgeous and it was the best thing ever anyway loaded the truck and drove all the way to Boulder Colorado 25 hours so far unloaded the truck returned the truck flew back home so tired but good happy right yeah and then on top of that uh my little puppy dog Banjo who's a pointer he had to go get um a little medical procedure done because he's at that certain puppy dog age he's running around the house with a cone and he's already a pretty clumsy dog right he runs into stuff but now he's got this cone on his head and he hits me right in the back of the calf that's like the bottom back of your leg and it hurts so bad and he's very he's not aggressive about it but he's very insistent like hey hey hey I'm gonna hit you I'm gonna hit you hard I'm gonna continually hit you hey guess what I'm still hitting you and it hurts a lot um but that's okay because he just loves that much right and that's a sweet thing what else is going on well our trampoline broke so that's no good because the kids go on it every single day and our neighbor kids go on it too dun dun dun how did it break well trampolines have these cool poles that go around that have a net somehow they broke one of the poles that's broken cool can we fix that I don't know oh but wait hey look we also somehow managed to put a rip in the actual trampoline okay trampoline is gone then no more trampolines so I have to figure that out and then we're gonna have a yard sale in a couple weeks and then I'm doing all this fun stuff for the school I got to do a virtual it was like an hour long draw along with my kids uh school it was like first graders second graders third graders they were and uh we we drew something for the art teacher and it was really fun and it was really it was a great time and I want to do that more often speaking of that I'm going to show you a little bit of a video of me doing a little bit of a thing more often I want to thank Jessica Sager she is our first Patreon Patreoner Patreonee person who Patreons I don't know how it works but it's fun I didn't say her name last time because I wasn't sure if I was allowed to but then I saw she's at the level I'm supposed to talk about her up and down so Jessica Sager you're the best everybody go to patreon.com slash natty bumper car if you want I'd love it I mean I love you regardless but I would super love that it'd be cool um and then this episode is called toe why because I broke my toe today my little toe my pinky toe on my right foot is that nice no how did I do that I stood up and I walked directly into a very heavy cabinet and it I I was on the ground I yelped I fell on the ground and I was just like rolling around like and then you know what happened of course no Rufus T. Rufus didn't show up neither did Pig but Banjo my dog he came over with his cone and he tried to love me to death

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  • Bumperpodcast #312 – Football?

    Bumperpodcast #312 – Football?

    Hi everyone! I talk about football, and boxes that you put stuff into, and mention that I think that we have a sponsor, and other nifty stuff on today’s episode of the Bumperpodcast!

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. The Bumperpodcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals! 

    Send us an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

    Don’t forget to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976.

     

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    About This Episode

    In episode 312, Natty Bumpercar and Rufus T. Rufus discuss the emotional toll of being a Georgia sports fan. Natty shares his heartbreak over back-to-back devastating losses, from the Atlanta Falcons' Super Bowl collapse to the Georgia Bulldogs' overtime defeat in the national championship game. He explores how people invest their emotions in sports teams and other interests as a coping mechanism for life's chaos. Despite feeling sick and sleep-deprived from the emotional rollercoaster, Natty has exciting news: the Bumperpodcast has officially landed its first sponsor after 312 episodes. It's a candid, heartfelt episode about fandom, disappointment, and small victories.

    Memorable Quotes

    “In life people have buckets that you put things in otherwise life is unmanageable there's just too much going on right.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “The bumper podcast finally has a sponsor we got sponsored… 312 episodes in and somebody finally was like you know what we need to give that guy some dollars.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “You ain't built for it bro you're just not exactly yeah you're old.”

    — Rufus T. Rufus

    Topics: #football #sports #georgia #emotions #fandom #sponsorannouncement #sleepdeprivation #disappointment

    Featuring: Rufus T. Rufus, Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Rufus T. Rufus: oh bro you sound rough are you okay what is going on with you bumper car hey hey what is happening huh because of football football it's football football football football and football and and wait listen dude okay so you're a little bit upset about some football is what i'm is what i'm getting that's what i'm hearing and that's totally fine uh me myself i'm a little bit sick so you know not everything's going perfect for everybody in the whole wide world i'm sick too oh okay oh my yeah okay you talk you talk okay thanks so i don't know here's the thing everyone

    Natty Bumpercar: uh this is natty bumper car welcome to the bumper podcast i'm a little bit sickly and i had uh i had a rough week i had a rough week i had a rough week i um i don't know you okay if you know this i have a giant blot in my throat yeah it's a sickness keep swallowing i apologize uh i'm from georgia wait you're from georgia yeah i never knew that i'm a pig

    Rufus T. Rufus: i'm i mean i i know people that live in georgia and now that i think about it you're talking about football that's like pigskin so it makes sense that i'm here now now it all ties together now it all makes a lot of sense perfect perfect keep going keep telling your little story it's good we're good we're fine

    Natty Bumpercar: okay anyway i'm from georgia and and last year was a big year it was an exciting year the uh atlanta falcons and here i'm gonna preface this i haven't been a football person my whole life i don't do a lot of football uh i just never did a lot of sports really but evidently there's some sort of processes in my brain behind the scenes that really get into sports a lot and um so last year the falcons atlanta falcons got into the super bowl and they were winning by a lot of points it was something like 28 to 3 at the halftime and so i i was feeling this euphoria this excitement this i was just like wow this is so cool and you know if you if you parse it down if you go through the whole thing you go well why is it cool i'm i'm not i don't live in georgia anymore i i don't play football i'm not on the street i'm not on the street i'm not on the street i'm not on the team uh but I think it's something deeper inside it doesn't have much I mean it has I guess something to do with football but it has to do with with nostalgia and where you came from maybe and memories uh from when you were growing up and and you know just I don't know bits and pieces of Flotsam and Jetsam Flotsam and Jetsam I'm gonna say kind of come to the you know get unearthed and uh and that was a rough game because they ended up losing to the uh to the New England New England New England I just made that one word New England Patriots New England Patriots um and it was a heartbreaker it hurt hurt hurt hurt a lot and it was a weird thing for me and uh but then this week you the uh the the Georgia Bulldogs of Georgia of the University of Georgia Athens Georgia which is where I went to college played in the national championship so now we have two Georgia teams within the span of a year going to as far along in their respective uh sports as they possibly can that's unprecedented that's amazing that's great um and and Georgia had had beaten in Oklahoma in a in a wonderful Rose Bowl it was super exciting that's I guess I'm just talking about football right now and um so even though they were playing on Monday I was excited but I was trying to temper my excitement but then I discovered I couldn't temper my excitement because it was untemperable it was just there and um so that night I went uh there's a restaurant and they have uh I got little chickens and I had some sweet tea and I got some some lemonade and I took it all home and I'm not gonna say their name because I gotta tell you this on a big note the bumper podcast finally has a sponsor we got sponsored they haven't sent me the information to uh do the read yet but starting the next episode i'm hoping sponsor what how cool is that 300 and whatever 12 episodes in and somebody finally was like you know what we need to give that guy some dollars so good good for us good for me good for the bumper podcast good for

    Rufus T. Rufus: me too and by the way i heard from the sponsor yeah good they yeah they said they want it just to be me okay so of course who does the reads and they want me to get all the money can i go back no yeah well go ahead and go go back and talk about the football but i just wanted to step in as rufus t rufus says that i get a copy so just make sure that you know that we know that i know

    Natty Bumpercar: okay okay okay so anyway sponsor hooray uh back to the uh the football so it was it was last it was monday night and last monday uh january the uh 8th 2017 18 2018 a day that will live in infamy for me uh and and the same thing happened the exact same thing they they were winning at the half by a couple of a couple of the touchdowns and i had people texting me this is it they got it look how they're playing and i was just like oh no no no no no no no no no no no no why why are we getting excited remember what happened remember what just happened in not this stadium but the stadium next door that they tore down the same thing actually wasn't it it was wherever the super bowl was and uh so i i you know but you know you start to feel you start to have feelings oh this could happen this is gonna be great and uh so here's my theory i'm gonna take a pause there in life and i think i've talked about this before i feel like people have buckets right and you have buckets that you put things in otherwise life is is is unmanageable there's just too much going on right and so people put their their their joys and their sorry sorrows in in in buckets so some people do comic books uh they have favorite characters and so they live and die by these things some people have sports some people have uh movies or you know art in general or um or music i guess that's art and uh i even count religiousness and uh i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know and all this because these are things that are outside of you that you invest yourself in that you put yourself in right and so a lot of how you act or how you feel can be in part determined by these things and so with sports what i've come to learn and unfortunately because i don't really love it is there's these buckets and you know how you're feeling i'm doing great my team won all right cool you know did you get anything out of it joy i guess you know the excitement of watching the game but so people make it emotional investments in these things and then when these or even like they place emotional bets i'm betting that i'm putting my my uh emotions into this thing and betting that i'm going to come out of this game feeling better than i did before and sometimes you win that bet and sometimes you don't win that bet so it's it's like a gambler's attitude and i'm going to come out of this game feeling better than i did before and sometimes you win and uh you know monday night it uh we got the second half got crushed and for a lot of different reasons football reasons i could tell you football i could tell you some reasons that i think they they they went with the wrong they had two running backs that they used particularly a guy named nick chubb and who's like a bowling ball and he kept going down the middle and alabama has uh just a wall of defense that he can't get through and another guy named sony michelle who was fast and was getting to four to five yards per run and he's quick and uh for some reason they stopped using him i thought that was a strange thing um i thought our defense started playing sloppy when they brought in another quarterback they had game planned for the other quarterback and when the this new quarterback came in they just seemed to be caught flat-footed and there were no adjustments made on on the georgia sidelines they played great you know uh and i think that's what i'm going to be doing for the rest of the it was a fun game it was exciting um but just didn't work out and it hurt hurt a lot hurt me too bro especially because you know the way it ended it was there was it was overtime georgia had just kicked a 51 yard field goal and so they were up by three and then they sacked the other quarterback on the next uh drive so he was a second down and 26 yards which is a long way took him out of field goal range felt like this is it we're gonna win the next play second down and 26 41 i think yard pass touchdown end of the game all right so your emotions at that point are all over the place not to mention they got into overtime when alabama missed a field goal uh from pretty close in so you're just like you think you lost the game then oh you didn't lose the game you're still in it oh okay so i was so excited i couldn't go to sleep i couldn't go to sleep and i had drunk drank whatever a half a gallon of sweet tea so i was full of sugar and i was awake until 4 a.m or 4 a.m and the kids got up at like 5 30 and then i was at work you know and i just i'm not built for this anymore you ain't built for it bro you're just not exactly yeah you're old and then i had to work the next night it's tuesday until almost two in the morning so now guess what i'm sickly but that's okay because the bumper podcast is back and we've got a sponsor and football's off my chest now and thank you and i love you and high five

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  • The Know Show Episode ten — “Fall on stony ground”

    Now hear this! Now hear this!

    The apple doesn’t far fall from from the tree. It can be transported efficiently by rail, though. Whoa, but watch the gravel! And if one falls into the creek, it floats, because apples are 25% air! Mixed up? Well, we’ve sure mixed it up for big number “one-oh”! With some hot air of our own — in colorful varieties!

    This autumnal episode’s a real scream! We work on preliminary seasonal therapy and laugh about laughing. Our “Social Not-Working” segment is back with impressions of Twitter’s face lift, and we discuss how running a sole proprietorship with the iPhone 4 can keep you on your toes and off your feet! And what’s that smell? If you haven’t already, please throw away those rottin’ decorations. (Halloween’s for kids, punks). Super-special thanks to our engineer, Steven Reines and cred to Pain Teens. E-mail us or call us at (707) 901-SHOW, yo!

  • Bumperpodcast #14 – Spooky Scary

    Bumperpodcast #14 – Spooky Scary

    Spooky Scary!

    I’m probably not afraid – But Maybe you should make sure to listen to this Bumperpodcast in a well lit room – during the day – surrounded by loved ones – because otherwise you may get a bit twitchy and itchy and nervous.

    It’s our Bumperpodcast October frightener. Hold onto your tour guide!

    Boo!

    [Click the title to get to the episode!]


    About This Episode

    In this spooky October episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar shares a chilling ghost story from his former house in Decatur, Georgia. Natty recounts the mysterious appearance of messages scratched into his bedroom door and wood paneling, including the eerie warning "stay out my room" signed by someone named Lachisha, and the cryptic phrase "Bobby Brown is in the house." The terrifying tale leaves Natty so frightened that he pleads with listeners to come over for a sleepover. This short Halloween-themed episode blends Natty's signature storytelling style with supernatural comedy and nostalgic references.

    Memorable Quotes

    “scratched into the door is scrawled into the door it was a message stay out my room well that was my room at this point so i was horrified”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “on that wood paneling it said this message which was moderately less terrifying than stay out my room it was bobby brown is in the house”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “i'm all a shiver i'm all a quiver i'm all a quaking i don't know if i'll be able to sleep tonight”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #halloween #ghoststories #hauntedhouse #georgia #bobbybrown #spookytales #october

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: what did i promise you guys a couple of weeks ago i promised you that it was about to be ghost story time and since it's october i think now is a good time did you guys ever go to my house the one in georgia the one in decatur georgia well i lived there and so i have a tale to tell i used to when people came by the house give them the tour give them the nickel tour where they would give me a nickel and i would give them the tour and sometimes things would happen here is one of those things after this some people had a hard time staying in my house and i've been told through other people because the original people aren't talking to me anymore that it had nothing to do with me or the fact that at a party i made avocado dip guacamole dip we'll call it with bacon here's the story about the ghost one night i was walking around my house and the bedroom door was slightly ajar there was nothing there a few nights later i walked by that same door and what did i see scratched into the door is scrawled into the door it was a message stay out my room well that was my room at this point so i was horrified where did this come from it wasn't there before i you know i ran in i grabbed uh i grabbed my roommate little bird i said look at this and by the time i had done that in pink lettering lachisha who was this lachisha why was she telling me to stay out her room it was my room i bought the what i was party and parcel of buying the house and and it was terrifying and then i went upstairs where we had a wood panel and on that wood paneling it said this message which was moderately less terrifying than stay out my room it was bobby brown is in the house now i don't know about you bumper podcast but i'm all a shiver i'm all a quiver i'm all a quaking i don't know if i'll be able to sleep tonight what does anybody out there want to come i let's have a sleepover a slumber party because i am afraid of the ghosts

  • Driving all Night

    So – here we go again . . .

    I’m on the verge of something that I haven’t done in awhile. Something that I haven’t particularly enjoyed doing – uhm – maybe ever . . . but something that tends to result in good times for all.

    Tonight when I get home from work, I’m aiming my car towards the dirty dirty south with the hope being that I will roll into Atlanta at some point tomorrow.

    The route that I am taking says that it only takes 13 hours and 59 minutes. I think it is fibbing.

    Keep those fingers and toes crossed.