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  • Bumperpodcast #366 – Decade Review

    Bumperpodcast #366 – Decade Review

    Natty invites all of his favorite guests over to talk about their favorite moments from the last decade. It’s a magical journey of reminiscing!

    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!

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    About This Episode

    In this special decade-ending episode of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar celebrates the last show of 2019 and the entire 2010s by inviting characters to share their favorite memories from the past ten years. The episode features appearances from quirky characters including Bargle, Cousin, Heos, Frenchie, and Ullman, who share humorous and touching stories ranging from community kudzu dinners to lactose intolerance discoveries. Regular cast members Aloysius J. Pig, Rufus T. Rufus, and Doodle Poodle also join to reflect on their decade. The episode concludes with a heartwarming surprise appearance from Natty's real-life children, Ollie and Emmy, who share what they're thankful for as the show wraps up a decade of puppet comedy.

    Memorable Quotes

    “You got to live your life. You got to live your life, man. You got to live your life. Because otherwise, you're not going to live.”

    — Frenchie

    “You got to be present. You got to be aware of the world around you. You got to live in it. Otherwise, what are you doing? You're here for a certain amount of time.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “You're bringing in all these random characters. Who's Frenchie? Who's Bargle? They ain't never been on the show. It don't make no sense, man.”

    — Aloysius J. Pig

    Topics: #nostalgia #newyear #reflection #friendship #family #decaderetrospective #gratitude

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Ollie (Natty's son), Emmy (Natty's daughter)

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: well well well hello there bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car and this is the last show not just of 2019 but of the entire decade 10 years of bumper podcasts why i remember when you were just a tiny bumper podcast and now look at you all grown up and big i'm so proud of you um so what i thought would be a fun idea for this episode would be if we um reminisce a little bit if we you know got some of the our pals that are on the show and had them in and kind of you know just reminisce and and and and thought about fun things that happened like maybe their favorite things so without further ado uh i'm gonna bring in our first guest so uh um take it away i guess oh look at that production we have a cool noise hey so um go ahead bargle what's what's what's your yes biggest memory i like it i like it i like it wow really i don't remember that well i'm so glad that you decided to come in and share that i'm not you know what i'm impressed because a lot of people don't put themselves out on podcasts or in friendships or relationships like you just did bargle so i'm i hey i'm glad we made it through the last decade and i can't wait to see what we do next decade cool cool cool well i mean that's gonna be hard to uh to top i mean it's not a competition but let's bring in our next guest to see what what how his decade was and what his favorite memory was well i remember when i was just a knee-high tadpole growing up in the kudzu wood thatту behind my house because i wasn't allowed in the house necessarily and all the kudzu creatures kept me company and one day we were supposed to be having a community kudzu dinner and we couldn't afford none of the food and so what we did was to um we all gathered our resources and we had a talent show and everybody came out from the hills to the valleys and we earned enough money that we all got to share a chestnut which was roasted on an open fire and just made everybody's dicky. That was my favorite moment of them all. That's wonderful. Thanks for having me, Natty. Absolutely, cousin. I'm so glad you could be here. Wow, this is really working out better than I ever would have expected. What great stories we're getting. I mean, they came together as a community. I'm so happy right now. I'm going to keep going because I feel like we're doing amazingly and I don't want to stop. Let's see, who's coming up? Oh, it's Heos. What's going on, Heos? Your name? Your name always cracks me up. I love it when you come on this show. Oh, really? That happened? And was she okay? Oh, thank goodness. I got worried. It turns out funny in the end. Yeah. That's tremendous. Man. Oh, really? Yes. Well, I didn't expect that. It's a real twist. Yes. Ah, thanks, Heos. It's great. Wow. I mean, it's like story after story after story. It's… I feel like everybody's had a pretty great decade. I guess we'll keep going. I don't know. Play the noise, producer. Right. So, I didn't know. I'm just… There. I almost went out of tune. I didn't want to have one of those. You don't. Because I was like, who wants to have breakfast and some lunch? That's too much. I don't believe it's proper. Yeah. And so, what I'm thinking is like, I'm going to go to Antibody. I'm going to have a spotter. You know, just a copper. And I'm going to just take it in and look around a bit. You guys do that sometimes. And so, my last decade, I was like, whoa, I just… Oh, other place. Yeah. And I was like, did you know? I didn't. I didn't know. How could you? And I had to really do to write a book. I did some research. And I did a walkabout. And I was just like, I think this is wonderful. This whole world is just such a big place. Yeah, it's huge. And I was like, look at this. You know, so it's like eye-opening. I was like, oh. I had no idea. I was just going to be like, experience. Everything. And I was just like, oh, stop. Oh. And so, I wanted to tell you that. And I was like, ugh. Yeah. And then, I didn't know. But I was like, really into it. And I was like, oh, man. There's a lot. And so, I didn't tell you. But I wanted to tell everybody about it. It's like, got to get out of there. You got to do your own stuff. All right? Because otherwise, you're not going to live. You got to live your life. Yeah, you got to live your life. You got to live your life, man. You got to live your life. All right. I agree. That's all I got. That's the best. Hey, you're the best, man. No, Frenchie. Listen. I think you hit the nail on the head there. You went out there. You weren't just going to sit around. And you lived your life. And you experienced the world. And it was an eye-opening experience. And I think that's what you have to do in life. I always talk about it on the podcast. But you got to be present. You got to be aware of the world around you. You got to live in it. Right? Otherwise, what are you doing? Like, you're here for a certain amount of time. And you got to, really, you got to keep your eyes open. Keep your ears open. Interact with people. Hear their stories. Get their perspectives. And you may not always agree with it. You may not even like it. But I think it's important to stay aware. Right? Of what's happening around you. This is, I think, my favorite episode that we've ever done. Let's see. I think we've got one more. And then we've got a couple surprise guests coming in. But let's see how your, what your favorite moment of the last decade was. Ullman, get up here. Well, I don't really appreciate it that you say this is my last decade. No, no, no. Because I've been here for much longer. No, not your last decade. The last. The. Excuse me. The. I didn't know what you meant by that. No, yeah, the last decade. My choice is the last decade. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, sorry. Not my last decade. No, no. No. That's a, that's a bit of nomic. I understand now. Okay, good, good, good. Sorry about that. Let me research. My favorite moment of the last decade, I believe, was I fell in love with a beautiful sunset What? What? Named. Named. Sunrise and the clouds and the skies and the butterflies and people saying why, why and all such things as that. And I chose to live that life with sunrise and sunset and the butterflies. You're still rhyming. And also I found out that I'm allergic. To what? What are you allergic to? To milk. Like lactose? Lactose? Lactose. Lactose intolerance. Okay. Lactose intolerance. That was my favorite moment. Oh, no. Because I couldn't eat ice cream anymore. Yeah, I'm sorry. That's my least favorite moment. I couldn't eat ice cream anymore. I'm sorry. And so what I started doing was just buying it by the tub and putting it in my freezer. But why? I currently have 16 freezers in my house full of ice cream that I can't even eat. That's so many freezers. Which is fine. Yeah, it's okay. You know. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. I don't remember what the question was at this point, but I feel like I should have You answered it appropriately. Yes. Thoroughly. You did very well. Willingly. Yes. And entirely. Okay, great. I thank you so much. I'm going to go stir my ice cream now. Okay, Ullman. And not eat it. No, Ullman. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Oh, we had so many nice stories, and then we had kind of a sad story at the end. Oh. I guess maybe Ullman can pick it up by having a big ice cream party, and everybody can come and sample some of the 16 freezers full of ice cream that are in his house. Oh, man. I got a little sad. Hey, man. Uh-oh. Yeah, I got a problem. What? A real problem right now. Who? Yeah, it's me, Pig. I don't understand. So listen. You had your big year in show, your big decade in show. You're bringing in all these random characters. Who's Frenchie? Who's Bargle? Who's Cousin? I don't know none of these people. They ain't never been on the show. And you're wrapping up the entire decade with all these people who ain't ever even been on the show never once before. It don't make no sense, man. It makes perfect sense. Come on. Aloysius J. Pig, I'm your co-host. I'm on the show all the time. You are, but… I don't even understand. No, Natty. None of this makes… It doesn't make no sense contractually. You have not even put these people… You haven't given them key cards. You haven't put them on the registrar. You haven't even given them cubbies in the locker rooms here at headquarters. You don't need cubbies. I don't believe that they should be featured on the Bumper Podcast 2020 year-end, decade-ending, wrap-up episode, last one of the season of the year. I do fear, however, that you are… Perhaps a little loop-de-loop, and maybe that's what's happening. I am not loop-de-loop in the least. Fine. If you guys want to give your big last decade memories, then I guess we can do that. Aloysius, you go first. Yeah, great. So here I am, chopped liver, stuck on the end. I guess this is my least favorite. I'm going to be like that old dude who… Old man, fine. But I don't even know what to say. I guess I'm happy. I wake up in a warm bed of hay every day. I get food. That makes me happy. I have my friends. Some of my friends are not as nice to me today as they were yesterday. Don't know what's going on with that. But overall, I'd say it's a great decade. I was basically, you know, born into the industry in the last decade. So I see a bright future. I do, too. I'm sorry. Please, come on. Okay, we're good. Get it together. Get it together. Get it, get it, get it, get it. I, myself, have had a phenomenal decade. That's good. I've moved over to e-science. I don't have to have as many documents in my bag. Okay. I can just look at my literature on my tablet. Okay. And I can understand that it's all there. And people just put it in their phones. That's cool. It's not much, but it's really helped me out tremendously. Well, that's good, Rufus. I don't have to go to the library to use a fax machine anymore. Okay. My litigious career is over the top, over the roof. That's good. I think we have a couple more. Let's bring Doodle Poodle. Please come here and tell us how your decade was. Also, I made a lot of doodles. So for the last year, I learned how to sharpen a pencil. And I even learned how to make watercolor doodles. So I had a fun time. I always have a fun time. I like being a dog. Thanks, Doodle Poodle. All right. Now I feel a little bit better. We did have a lot of new characters. I don't really know what I was doing. But I had an amazing decade with you guys. The 2010s were pretty swell. And I really hope the world gets to be a better place and more inclusive and nicer to everybody. And, you know, I like progress. I like things moving forward. That makes me happy. You know, I feel like we have a lot of work to do. And I feel like, you know, just if you talk to people, smile at people, acknowledge people, because everyone's going through stuff. And you don't know what they're going through. So if you're at a restaurant and maybe your water doesn't get there fast enough, it's okay. Your water's going to get there. And, you know, it's… Just relax, everybody. It's going to be okay. All right? All right. Happy New Year to you and all of yours. And the Bumper Podcast will be back in 2020 with all kinds of fun episodes. I'm assuming… I'm hoping that you'll be there with me. Share it with your friends. Rate it on whatever you listen to. And give yourself… Give yourself a hug. You deserve it. Or at least a high five. Whatever you want. It's fine. Wait, wait, Daddy. Oh, hey, guys. Did I forget you? Yeah. Oh, I can't believe it. I'm so sorry. Hi.

    Unknown: Hi.

    Natty Bumpercar: You know what I forgot to say my favorite part of the last decade was? Everything. You guys.

    Unknown: Oh. Oh, yeah.

    Ollie (Natty's son): I liked everything.

    Natty Bumpercar: You liked every single thing?

    Ollie (Natty's son): Yep.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't know if that's true.

    Ollie (Natty's son): I liked when we went to Atlanta.

    Natty Bumpercar: You liked when we went to Atlanta?

    Ollie (Natty's son): Yeah. Oh.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, that's sweet. What about you?

    Ollie (Natty's son): I liked everything.

    Natty Bumpercar: Every single thing? Yep. Even when Popcorn was a puppy?

    Emmy (Natty's daughter): Yep.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wow. So, Emmy, you were born in 2009. Well, we don't have to give all that out, but yes. So, here's the cool thing. So, you have now, as of two days from now, been alive in three different decades. Yep. The 0s. Both. The 10s. And the 20s. The 20s. So, three decades is 30 years, but you're only 10 years old. Is that crazy?

    Emmy (Natty's daughter): Yeah, 20 years now.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, Ollie, you were born in 20 what? 13. 13? Are you sure? Yeah. That doesn't make any sense to me.

    Emmy (Natty's daughter): He's only been one decade from now.

    Natty Bumpercar: He's, for right now, it's one decade, but in two days, it'll be two decades. Woo. And I've been alive in 800 decades. No. Because I'm eternal.

    Unknown: No, you're not.

    Natty Bumpercar: Dad. That's yelling. Why are you yelling at the microphone? I don't know. Yeah, you don't know, do you? Well, so, real quick. What are you thankful for from the last decade? Don't say everything.

    Ollie (Natty's son): The Easter Bunny thing.

    Natty Bumpercar: The Easter Bunny thing? Okay.

    Emmy (Natty's daughter): It's Christmas.

    Natty Bumpercar: You're thankful for Christmas and the Easter Bunny and your family?

    Emmy (Natty's daughter): Yes. I'm thankful for the one when we got our dog, and I'm thankful for the one Kalahari.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh. So, your trips we took with your friends.

    Emmy (Natty's daughter): And Atlanta.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wonderful.

    Ollie (Natty's son): Well, guys, Happy New Year. You too, Dad. Happy New Year.

    Natty Bumpercar: I love you guys.

    Ollie (Natty's son): I love you too, Daddy.

    Natty Bumpercar: Let's see. I love you guys more than beans love rice, more than cheese loves mice, more than…

    Ollie (Natty's son): A billion, kajillion dollars.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, that's right. More than a bajillion, kajillion dollars.

    Ollie (Natty's son): I love you more than anything. Me too. I love you. Oh, geese. Oh.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

    Unknown: Good job, guys.

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  • Bumperpodcast #363 – Tips and Tricks

    Bumperpodcast #363 – Tips and Tricks

    Natty shares some golden parenting advice with the world. Hopefully it isn’t fools gold!

    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, or to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976. We’re here and we’re listening!

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    About This Episode

    Natty Bumpercar tackles winter weather woes and parenting challenges in this cozy episode of Bumperpodcast. After shoveling 6.6 inches of snow at 10 PM, Natty reflects on hosting Thanksgiving dinner for 17 people and shares the elaborate menu prepared for guests. The episode takes a heartfelt turn as Natty discusses the importance of verbalizing gratitude at the holiday table and introduces clever parenting techniques for dealing with childhood anxiety and dismissive responses. From sledding preferences to goat impressions, Natty delivers signature humor while exploring the universal struggles of parenting and holiday hosting.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I love to sit in front of a fireplace in a warm toasty cabin and watch as the beautiful snowflakes flitter and flutter… but then what I do not enjoy is walking in it, touching it, falling in it, getting it thrown at me, shoveling it.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I think it's very important to verbalize what you're thankful for. Maybe just saying it makes it more real in my world.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “My kid eats like a goat. He'll eat trash. Wait a minute. My kid is a kid. I was so happy because I never thought of that.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #winter #snow #thanksgiving #parenting #gratitude #family #cooking #mentalhealth

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: oh the weather outside is frightful but the wait that seems like a song I should know oh the weather outside is frightful but the something is so delightful so delightful hey guys it's me natty bumper car and it's it's snowed it's it's snowed why did it snow I uh don't know if you know this about me not a fan of snow I love to look at it I think it's beautiful I love to sit in front of a fireplace in a warm toasty cabin and watch as the beautiful snowflakes flitter and flutter all around the world and then they land and they look so pretty and they they uh they make the whole uh the world just look like a like a crystal castle no they make the world look like a fluffy powdered donut and better better uh but then what I do not enjoy is uh walking in it touching it falling in it getting it thrown at me shoveling it none of that stuff do I enjoy I kind of like sledding if I'm to be honest uh I uh do not like tubing tubing is where you go to a mountain you pay people money to uh go to the top slide down go to the top slide down go to the top slide down and you're like wait a minute natty that sounds like a lot like sledding and I'm like yeah there's so much more you have to pay money and then you have to wait in line and I don't know I like finding a hill finding a pizza box and just sitting on it and slide down here's the thing pizza boxes don't work I don't I've seen people like I use a cardboard to bog it I'm like nope nope that's just gonna get soggy and wet and fall apart what about if you uh hey I use a uh the lid for my trash can do you okay that sounds like a great idea you want to sit in trash can lid ah no thank you what about uh oh you know what here's my favorite actually as uh when mice sit on spoons and they can uh hold the uh the handle of the spoon and slide down that's that's my favorite that's my favorite right there I uh so we we did get we got 6.6 inches of snow I was just told which is a lot of snow and it uh it's one of those things where because we have to shovel the driveway and you have to shovel the walkway and you don't want to do it while it's still snowing because then it's just gonna snow on it again and then you're gonna do it all again no thank you so I waited I didn't shovel last night until 10 o'clock that's late and then I was trying to be a conscientious shoveler and not be loud about it so it's like I don't want this scraping noise to keep the neighbors up and so I tried to to not do that and then I woke up this morning there's more snow are you kidding me let's get on the schedule let's get on the same page all right okay man I listened to the last episode of the bumper podcast which I apologize was like last year and uh my voice was pretty amazing I even I was trying to figure out how to do it and I it's not I think I must have been sick I guess I don't know something something was going on something was in the air something was in the water I'll have what she's having I um so I have to uh the kitties or the kitties were home yesterday oh guys happy Thanksgiving did you did you give thanks can I tell you my menu I made so much food what did you make all the food all the food yes all the food ginger orange honey glazed carrots yeah I made those truffle oil uh caper lemon uh what are they called cauliflower with Parmesan oh yeah I did that Brussels sprouts with bacon and balsamic vinegar yeah I did that too there's a lot of food a lot of food delicious food we had a 17 people over and I was it was just a wonderful day it was a wonderful day y'all here's the thing that I like to do because we we host Thanksgiving every year and once the meal is out and everyone is is you know making their plates I'm the one who uh goes around the table and I force people to uh to say what they're thankful for what they're grateful for and people really get a poo-poo it they're like oh I don't want to do this but here's the thing I think it's very important I think it's it's it's very important to verbalize what you're thankful for you can you can say oh in my head I'm thankful for these things I'm thankful for the person next to you and maybe they don't get to hear it enough right maybe maybe just saying it makes it more real in my world that's what I think so we go around the table and I say you know uh what are you thankful for and then I may may I may even pepper with a couple of follow-up questions I think that's a good thing to do too I think the art of conversation is is dwindling which makes me sad but that's okay we just have to keep working at it um speaking of conversation here's a cool thing that we started doing in my house uh one of my children who shall remain nameless uh if if you say for instance uh hey buddy uh don't hit your brother because that does happen I'm not gonna lie to you hey buddy don't hit your brother the response is fine it's an angry fine you know what that means nothing fine it's a dismissive it's a knee-jerk reaction it's the first thing there fine and you're like oh no and so for years we've lived with fine and we uh and I would get really frustrated with fine and I would say don't say fine to me that doesn't mean anything that means you're just you're not even listening to what I'm asking you to do and so then I finally I came upon a really cool way of dealing with fine and that is if I say hey buddy stop hitting your brother and he says fine I say no I need you to repeat to me what I just said to you so it's kind of the same way as the thankful stuff where it's forcing him to stop and verbalize what I just asked him to do which in theory this is a theory I don't know if it's real uh make it stick a little bit better. Hey, buddy, don't do that thing. I'm not going to do that thing. Awesome, buddy. Thank you so much as you were. We've only had it for like two days, but it's so far. Fingers are crossed. It's working out. Here's another cool trick. Sometimes in my house, there's a lot of dysregulation, a lot of anxiety that goes on, which sometimes leads to unhappiness, explosions as they were. And so one of the ways that we figured out how to help with those moments of anxiety was to get the kid and you say, hey, buddy, I need you to look around the room and find five things that are orange. And he will do that, but he will go that, that, that, that, that. And you're like, nope, nope, nope. I need specifics. That orange ball, the orange dot on the clock, the orange handle of that spoon, whatever it is. Actually, orange is tough. We don't have a lot of orange things in my house, to be honest. I should have gone with red. We have a lot of red things. But it's cool because, in theory, it helps him to get out of whatever's going on in his mind and look around and focus on other things. And so it's kind of two cool techniques that we've started trying to use in the house to help things along a little bit. Now, if only we could find a way to help the puppy dog, because she won't look at anything. Hey, popcorn. Stop eating those socks. Fine. Don't say fine to me. Woof. Don't say woof to me. Say I'm not going to eat the socks. Popcorn, calm down. I need you to find three things that are blue. Woof. No, be more specific. Woof, woof. All right. Good job. I had a show the other week, and I was talking about my kids, and I was talking about how, their poor diet and how they kind of eat garbage. And I was like, ah, they're trying to get my kid to eat good food, and he just wants to eat chips. Chips all the time. He got really upset. He says, hey, I have the worst life ever because you won't let me eat chips. And I was like, that's not, that is not grounds for having the worst life ever. You have a great life. And so I was on stage, and I was talking about, I was relaying this story, and I said, ah, my kid eats like a goat. He'll eat trash. He eats garbage. Wait a minute. My kid is a kid. I was so happy because I never thought of that. And then I was just like, ah, my kid is a kid. And I went, like that, like a goat. And then I was like, ah, don't talk to your mom like that. Ah. Ah. Ah. Weird goat noises I'm making. I usually do better goat.

    Unknown: Ah. Ah. Ah.

    Natty Bumpercar: There we go. Ah.

    Unknown: Ah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Ah. Ah. Clean up your room. Ah. Ah. Put away your iPad. Ah. Ah. Find, find three things in the room that are yellow.

    Unknown: Ah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Ah. Man. What's tougher to raise? Human children or goat kids? I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to go think about it. Maybe come up with another weird solution. Hey, Bumper Podcast, I love you guys. I'm glad I have my voice back. I'm glad I'm feeling top notch. You're amazing. So amazing.

    Unknown: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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  • Bumperpodcast #338 – Turkey! Turkey!

    Bumperpodcast #338 – Turkey! Turkey!

    Hey – better late than never, right?! Turkey shows up, and some of the gang chime in to talk about what they’re thankful for. It’s a splendid little get together for all of your ears!

    The Bumperpodcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals!

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    About This Episode

    In episode 338 of Bumperpodcast, Turkey arrives upset that he wasn't invited for his usual annual Thanksgiving appearances. Host Natty Bumpercar apologizes for the radio silence, explaining he's been overwhelmed with making endless to-do lists. Rufus T. Rufus emerges from a nap to share what he's thankful for, including the judicial system and his career path. Aloysious J. Pig attempts to lighten the mood with dancing and singing, while Natty reflects on a tough year including car troubles and a flooded basement. Despite the challenges, the gang discusses perspective, gratitude, and finding positivity in difficult situations, all while Natty prepares to head to a library for a kids' show.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I have to make lists to make lists. And you know what's on those lists? More lists. That's right. I have to break down my lists.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Rough patches, you know what they do? They float away. They're like little ice cubes. They're out in the ocean. They float away. They melt.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “I'm also thankful for chocolates and clouds and rainbows and whatnot.”

    — Rufus T. Rufus

    Topics: #thanksgiving #gratitude #perspective #cartroubles #challenges #comedy #friendship

    Featuring: Turkey, Natty Bumpercar, Aloysious J. Pig, Rufus T. Rufus

    Full Transcript

    Turkey: Hey, Turkey, what's going on? Okay. I know, I know, I know. Well, that's not fair. Come on.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay, so what Turkey was just saying was he's upset because every single year for the past few years, we've done a fun string of episodes on the Bumper Podcast where he has come in and done his guest spots and he had it on his calendar for this year because I guess we booked him last year, and then we didn't do the episodes.

    Turkey: I know.

    Natty Bumpercar: There's just been a lot going on. I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Are you? How are you doing anyway, Turkey? What's going on?

    Turkey: What? Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Really? So you've had a really busy year. So I'm surprised you even noticed that we didn't call you or book you or anything. I'm really sorry about that. It's just. We haven't been doing a lot of episodes and it's all my fault, really, but it's because I'm triple, quadruple, octuple booked. Like, I'm just booked. I'm so booked. I'm booked, booked, so booked. And I'm behind on a lot of things.

    Turkey: Hey, Bumper Guy.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, get the turkey off the show. I'm sorry, Turk. Your time is done. We didn't have no show, so you didn't come in or nothing, and that's fine. But listen, the thing is, you know. You gotta scoot, because you're really monopolizing a lot of time. And since we're not recording a ton of episodes these days, I need you just to kind of understand who the stories are to show. Thanks, Pig. Thanks, I appreciate that. No, not you, Bumper Guy. It's me. Come on. Oh, come on. Well, anyway. Hi, Pig. Turkey, are you going to stick around? You don't have to. You don't got to listen to Pig. Okay.

    Turkey: Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right, well, thanks for stopping by. It was good to see you.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Bye-bye.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Woo!

    Natty Bumpercar: Talk to you later. Hey, everyone. It's me, Natty Bumper Guy. That was Turkey, and obviously he was upset. And I don't blame him. Usually, he's on every single year. But this year, we didn't even have a Thanksgiving episode. I don't know why. I can't tell you why. I can tell you we've been very busy here, though. Busy doing what? No idea. Have you ever been so busy that you… You do a lot of stuff, but then you're so busy that you don't even know that you did this stuff, so you don't even… Your brain doesn't recognize it? Like, I've started having to make lists. And on my lists are prompts that make me have to make more lists. Like, I have to make lists to make lists. And you know what's on those lists? More lists. That's right. I have to break down my lists. Don't forget to make a list. Hey, on Tuesday, you know what it is? List day. Really? Well, what's Monday and Wednesday and all the other days? Oh, those are different list days. To-do, lists. What are you going to do? Lists. Stuff to do, lists. Lists, lists, lists. It's really all I do is make lists. I don't even get the stuff done that's on the list, except for making the lists. Besides that… Holy cow. I'm Bumpercar. What are you doing? Oh. Hi, pig. Yeah. So anyway, evidently while Bumpercar was away from doing a Bumperpodcast, has any of my episodes been going out on the air? Because I know I've been down here. We've been recording some stuff here in the lab. You know, we've been mixing some tricks. We've been putting some stuff together. And I didn't know if… Really? No, none of them. What am I paying you for? I don't… Okay, well… You don't pay me. I didn't mean to bring that up again. Well, you did, though. So, yeah, you haven't been recording episodes because I… No one's been recording episodes because I've had the computer. And without a computer, you cannot record anything. And so… So, there's been nothing. Radio silence is what's been happening. We should tell everyone what we're thankful for. I ain't thankful for nothing. Nothing. You're not thankful for anything? Not one bit. No. All right. Well, then I'll tell everyone what I'm thankful for. Oh, this is going to be a humdinger of an episode. He's going to be like, I'm thankful for chocolate. I'm thankful for rainbows and clouds. And scene. There's the end of the episode.

    Rufus T. Rufus: Excuse me one second here. It's Rufus. T. Rufus. I was napping back by the closet here. And I heard some people come in. And I believe I heard a turkey bird gobbling, gobbling. And if we're going to be recording an episode as to what we are, in fact, appreciative of, then I think I should hop onto that list as well and tell everyone what I'm thankful for, which is, of course, the judicial system, which has given me a career path and which has given me a goal and which is getting me on a straight. Straight and narrow, straight to the top, all the way we go, hippity hoppity, just don't stop it. I'm also thankful for all of you, of course, as well. And I'm also thankful for chocolates and clouds and rainbows and whatnot.

    Natty Bumpercar: OK. Hey, Rufus, it's good to see you. That's a nice list. I appreciate your list. And I appreciate you waking up and coming and spending some time with us here on the Bumper Podcast. If we're going to do a list, I'm thankful for a lot of things. It's been a tough year. I'm not going to lie about that. What with our car broke, our basement flooded, poor Irving Brown socks went away. Just a lot of stuff on top of stuff on top of stuff. But, you know, we try to take deep breaths and try to keep moving forward and just try to keep maintaining and try to find the positive in things. And so I'm thankful for perspective, I think, is what I'm thankful for. And what that means, if anyone who's listening doesn't know, is the ability to look at situations and look at them from different angles and don't just accept the negative in things. Try to find a little bit of positivity if you can. Try to just take deep breaths and look at things and, you know, hope that you find some good in them. Because it's hard sometimes. Sometimes it feels like there's a lot of bad everywhere. Right. All right. And listen. Okay. Yeah. You're not doing good. All right. Okay. I was trying to. No, you're not. You're trying to give a little lesson, a little life lesson, which is fine. But this is the Bumper Podcast. This is where people come. They tune in on the Teletubes or the Ruby Slippers, wherever you listen to this show. You're coming in here. You're like, how am I going to have fun this week? Oh, yeah. I'm going to listen to the Bumper Podcast. How am I going to have a good time and feel good about the Bumper Podcast? Do you understand? What in the world? A fan just kicked on. Hello. So, it's good teaching little lessons. But let's have some fun, too. Like me, what am I thankful for? I'm thankful for truffles. They're kind of like things you find down next to the trees. And I sound like I'm in an airplane all of a sudden. What's happening to me? I'm also thankful for singing and dancing. Because I have fun when I sing and I dance and I do a little prance and I move around and I shake my little toe. I'll tail around and I do a little bit of this and I do a little bit of that. And, of course, yeah, whatever. We had some rough patches. But rough patches, you know what they do? They float away. All right? They're like little ice cubes. They're out in the ocean. They float away. They melt. And then they're just part of the ocean. Wait. That actually sounded kind of sad. It sounds like those little ice cubes are just going to disappear. I don't like that one bit at all. I don't know what just happened. But I guess I brought it down a peg or two. A peg or two? A peg or two? I'm going to bring this down. I'm going to bring this down a peg or two. All right? All right. You're okay. It's okay. Wow. That was really loud, that fan. How does he have a fan in there? We're not supposed to plug anything into these different places. No, I was going to put a heater in here, but we're not allowed. It does something to the circuits or whatever. Well, listen, everybody. We hope that you're doing great. We're doing pretty okay. We have to figure out how to get our car to move again because the exhaust system fell out. Do you know what that is? Do you know what a muffler is? It's the thing that's under a car that takes the bad air from the engine and it goes through these pipes and it shoots out the back of the car. Well, we recently had a snowstorm a few weeks ago and the muffler hit something and it cracked and broke. And so it's no longer attached to the engine. And so our little car, if you drive it, what happens is all the bad air from the engine goes right into the cabin of the car, which is presumably where you're going to be. It's sitting if you're driving a car. So what does that mean? That means we can't drive that car. Yay. And it caused the repair cost to fix this thing costs more than the car is worth. So there's a little bit of debating going on, right? A little bit of a should we? Shouldn't we? And by should we? Shouldn't we? I don't know what I mean. Should we walk everywhere from now on? Should we get on bicycles? Who knows? It's an exciting adventure. That's what we like to look at. It is that we hope you guys are having exciting adventures and we hope you're there and you're happy to hear from Turkey and you hope that you're happy to hear from us and we hope that you're going to do whatever pig did and do a little dance and shake your little tail and all that jazz. Anyway, this is the bumper podcast and I'm happier now having recorded this than I was before I recorded that and that means that everything is working out well so you have an awesome day me. I'm going to go to a library. I'm going to go to a library and do a kid's show. I have to leave here in about 45 minutes so cross your fingers and wish me luck because by the time you listen to this, it will have already have happened. What? Time travel. The future. Magic.

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  • Bumperpodcast #310 – Turkey is back

    Bumperpodcast #310 – Turkey is back

    Turkey is back – and he is bananas.

    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 310 of the Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar faces a Thanksgiving crisis when Turkey shows up at headquarters in a state of panic. Joined by Aloysious J. Pig, Doodle Poodle, Rufus T. Rufus (acting as Turkey's lawyer), and Robot with his universal Turkey decoder, the gang attempts to calm the anxious bird who fears he'll end up as dinner. Through a chaotic series of misunderstandings and Turkey's rapid-fire gobbling, the team works to communicate and reassure their feathered friend. The episode wraps with a heartfelt message from Natty about gratitude and making it through tough times, while Turkey finally settles down for a nap.

    Memorable Quotes

    “Rufus, Turkey lawyer Rufus, that's my name. And I will be legally representing this Turkey here in the court of law to call a justice the court of the public opinion.”

    — Rufus T. Rufus

    “He thinks the robot looks like an oven, and he thinks that this is all a big setup to get the Turkey back in.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “You should wake up every day and look yourself in the mirror in the eyes. And you should thank yourself for doing whatever you do, for trying hard, for making it through the day.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #thanksgiving #turkey #anxiety #friendship #gratitude #communication #holidaystress #kindness

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

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: well well well if it isn't the bumper podcast and it's me it's natty bumper car and it's that time of year it's that time of year where it's almost thanksgiving and i oh no look who it is

    Producer: hey buddy how are you you're freaking out you're freaking me out there's a lot of freaking out

    Natty Bumpercar: okay you talk

    Aloysious J. Pig: i don't i don't i don't know what i don't know what you're seeing i'm very sorry i'm very i'm

    Natty Bumpercar: very sorry hey hey that's me uh allosius jay pig so anyway so i think what the tardy doodle is trying to say is that he's nervous because you're talking about Thanksgiving. Yeah. And always around this time of year, you know, the turkey comes in, and you're like, gobble, gobble, and you're like, who's this? And turkey, turkey, and blah, blah, blah. I think he just wants to make sure that everything is on the up and up. Oh. That everything is copacetic. Of course. You know what I'm talking about. Okay. That makes sense. Okay. Exactly. Turkey, calm it down. He's freaking out. Take it down two notches. He's freaking out. Turkey, turkey, turkey. You need to settle. Settle. Settle. Turkey. Settle. Somebody got to settle the turkey, I guess. Do we have any turkey whispers in the house? No, there's no turkey whispers in the house.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Okay, just kidding. Oh. Uh-huh.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, you seem so sad, turkey. Listen, it's going to be fine. Nothing bad is going to happen, I promise. We're just going to hang out. We're here at headquarters. It's me, you, and Pig, and we, I, he does, I guess, he kind of, Pig, do you speak turkey? It seems like a little bit. I mean, I, I do dabble a bit. Okay, but not really. No, no, no. Okay, so we, I think that we maybe just need to find somebody who does speak a good turkey, and then we can kind of, kind of go from there. Maybe, does that make sense? I don't know what to do. You still freak it out. Okay, okay, okay. Settle down, turkey. Settle down. Stop it. You're on a, you're on a hot microphone, turkey. Don't say anything you'll regret in the future. Okay, well, calm down. I, uh,

    Aloysious J. Pig: oh. I see. I understand exactly. That's exactly what the turkey is trying to

    Natty Bumpercar: say to everybody.

    Doodle Poodle: Hi, everybody. It's me. It's

    Aloysious J. Pig: a little poodle.

    Doodle Poodle: And I think that I can solve this case. Okay, it's not a case. Perhaps, perchance, probably.

    Natty Bumpercar: He's trying to figure out what he's saying.

    Doodle Poodle: Um, what I'm gonna do is get out some paper. Okay. And make some doodles of what the turkey who is trying to say so that you guys can get a visual representation of exactly what the turkey is trying to tell us. Is that the best idea ever?

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm gonna weigh in on this and say that no, it's actually not the best idea ever. It's not, it's not the worst idea ever. Uh, but, I mean, I guess maybe we could give it a shot. But the thing is, this turkey talks very quickly. And, um, I don't know that you're gonna be able to draw what he's saying fast enough that we'll be able to convey exactly what he's trying to say.

    Doodle Poodle: Oh, look, I drew this unicorn right here. That fast unicorn.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay. I stand corrected. We are gonna give it a shot. We're gonna give it a shot. Okay. That's kind of amazing that you drew that that fast. Okay. I'm very fast

    Doodle Poodle: doodler. I can draw very quickly if I want to. Sometimes I draw slow. But sometimes I draw really fast, too. This is just how it depends. Oh, what the, you know, this is tough. Oh, he's saddled.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Saddled. Saddled. Saddled. Saddled. Saddled. Saddled. Saddled.

    Rufus T. Rufus: Turkey lawyer T. Rufus. Wait a minute, I did that wrong. Rufus, Turkey lawyer Rufus, that's my name. And I will be legally representing this Turkey here in the court of law to call a justice the court of the public opinion on exactly what he wants to do and what he deserves to do and the life that all Turkies in this great country, in this great world, are allowed to pursue and enjoy. If you do get my drift, and I believe you do by the look on your eye, on your face, above your nose, you see what I'm saying? Rufus, Turkey lawyer Rufus, coming in, swooping in, just like I do, to protect you. To protect you, okay? Okay. Call me up. We're going to settle this out of court, lawyer style.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right. All right. Are you being paid by the minute? Because that was quite the soliloquy, I think that was, the monologue. That was a monologue. That was definitely a more monologue than we needed to have at this moment.

    Rufus T. Rufus: It was more of a soliloquy, I believe. It was more of a, you know. Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: But we're just trying to figure out what the Turkey is doing. What the Turkey wants, and what the Turkey needs, and what will make the Turkey happy. So, I appreciate everyone being here, but I don't appreciate you.

    Robot: Hey, but I think you should appreciate me, because I think that I have a solution. I have a universal Turkey decoder inside of my programming.

    Producer: Wait, do you really? That might help. Yeah. Yeah. See? Okay.

    Robot: I am good for something, and so, if the Turkey would just come here and wait, where's the Turkey going? I don't understand.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right. So, what do we… Bro, the robot's completely freaking the Turkey out. Okay. He's afraid of the robot. He thinks the robot looks like an oven, and he thinks that this is all a big setup to get the Turkey back in. Yeah. So, we're going to get the Turkey out of the robot's oven, and then we're going to get the Turkey back in. And, of course, we're going to get the Turkey in the robot oven, and then Turkey dinner, which I have told him is not true. We're not doing that. No. He's a rusty bucket of bolts. He's not a cooking utensil item. So, just go on down. All right. Talk to the, you know, the bones. The robot. No, the bones. The bolts over there. Yeah. And, we can get to the bottom. We can settle. Turkey, settle down. Settle down. Turkey. Turkey. Turkey bro. Seriously. Why is he freaking… I can't even imagine the Turkey. He's still freaking out. I was having a nice relaxing day. You're ruining my day. I don't want to say he's ruining it. Hey, turkey. There he goes. He finally went to sleep, everybody. I think all the activity might have worked him up and got him super anxious. Oh, he's so sleepy. I've never seen a sleeping turkey before.

    Producer: He's so cute when he sleeps.

    Natty Bumpercar: Is he purring? I didn't know turkeys purred. This is very strange. Wow, all right. Well, now that the crisis is averted with turkey, I wanted to say thank you so much to everybody for listening to the Bumper Podcast and for being so awesome. And sometimes the world is a big, mean, scary place, but hopefully you listen here and you feel a little bit better. Or you see how crazy my world is and it makes you feel like your world isn't, you know, all that crazy. You're pretty cool. You're pretty nice. You're pretty fun. Definitely pretty funny. And thank you. And thank you and thank you and thank you. And you should wake up every day and you should look in the mirror and you should brush your teeth and then you should wash your face and then you should look yourself in the mirror in the eyes. And you should thank yourself for doing whatever you do, for trying hard, for, you know, making it through the day, making it through the night, because it's not always that easy. And the world's a big, scary place and there's a lot of big, scary things happening. I mean, as turkey evidences. So, hooray for you. Hooray for me. Hooray for every single body. Right? Right. Anybody else want to say anything? Anybody else on the podcast want to say thank you for anything? Or…

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  • Bumperpodcast #171: Birthday. Birthday. Birthday!

    Bumperpodcast #171: Birthday. Birthday. Birthday!

    We talk about outcome of the ‘Natty Bumpercar Birthday Roast Extravaganza: A Benefit for PAWS!’ – and how awesome it was – even though there were no kitties.

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

    My birthday is now!

    About This Episode

    In this celebratory episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar shares the magic from his recent birthday celebration. Natty recounts the evening's festivities, which included a benefit show for cats featuring comedians who roasted each other and showered Natty with compliments. Despite his disappointment that no actual kitty cats could attend the bar venue due to ID requirements, Natty remains in good spirits with leftover cake and a heart full of gratitude. He debuts his new catchphrase "that's okay" and reflects on getting older while feeling great. The episode concludes with Natty expressing genuine appreciation for his Bumperpodcast listeners.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I've got a lot of magic that I want to spread around today. I'm going to take that magic out of my pocket and I'm going to fling it up into the air and maybe some of it's going to land in your ears.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “We should have had at least a small table for some kitties… the reason that we didn't have any cats is they didn't have any IDs so you know it's a bar you can't come in.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Life is good you know why? I'm gonna say a majority of it is just because of you.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #birthday #comedy #cats #gratitude #celebration #friendship

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: what is going on bumper podcast it is me your natty bumper car and in my pocket right now magic i've got a lot of magic that i want to spread around today i'm going to take that magic out of my pocket and i'm going to fling it up into the air and maybe some of it's going to land in your ears i don't know i i can't control the magic uh all i know is i've got some and i'm and there were comedians there and they all made fun of me and they made fun of each other and then I got to make fun of everybody and it was such a it was like really and then they would say nice things about me and uh and I got a little teary a little like oh my god he was saying to me he's so nice what I can't believe that they said that and then uh uh all my family was there a lot of my a lot of my family and then all these people and we there was a benefit for uh for kitty cats so I mean there were no kitty cats in the audience so which I was honestly a little bit saddened about I was just like you know we should have had at least a small table for uh some kitties and I brought this point up and uh the reason that we didn't have any cats is uh IDs they didn't have any IDs so you know it's a bar you can't come in have given them some cake I have so much extra cake left over and um that I would love to have given out to some kitty cats but I couldn't because they weren't there but that's okay that's okay that's okay that's how I say that's okay now that's my new way of saying it hey everybody that's okay it doesn't matter that it rains every day here it's fine wait fine is a real word so it's my birthday and that's what we should focus on because that's the important thing and I'm older but feeling pretty good feeling pretty great feeling pretty grand um life is good you know why bumper podcast can I tell you why life is good as I'm looking you in the face right now talking to you on the bumper podcast it partially at least I'm gonna say a majority of it is uh just because of you you

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