Natty Bumpercar talks about roller coasters, life, kittens, clouds in the sky, ice cream, apologies, and about a hundred other non-related things …
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About This Episode
In Bumperpodcast episode 186, host Natty Bumpercar takes listeners on a stream-of-consciousness journey through his surprisingly good mood and the anxiety that comes with feeling happy. Natty uses a roller coaster metaphor to explore his emotions, worrying that what goes up must come down. The episode meanders through topics including kittens with needle-like claws, funny accents he's collected from strangers, and a sweet moment cloud-watching with Baby Bumpercar. True to form, Natty reflects on how many times he's apologized across 186 episodes and whether he can just issue one blanket apology instead. It's a charmingly scattered episode showcasing Natty's trademark improvisational humor and self-aware rambling.
Memorable Quotes
“I was having a really good day I was pretty happy right when the show started and now that I'm talking about it I'm realizing that maybe there's terrible things on the horizon. God, and now wait here's what I just did to myself is wow who's being really manic today this guy.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“I wonder how many times in this show I've apologized. There's like 186 episodes now and I wonder out of those 186 episodes how many times in those I have apologized.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“It was one of those days where there were clouds everywhere and he was like 'where the shapes' and I was like I've got a decent imagination but I couldn't there was just nothing to work with.”
— Natty Bumpercar
Topics: #anxiety #happiness #kittens #accents #parenting #rollercoasters #cloudwatching #self-reflection
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar
Full Transcript
Natty Bumpercar: what's going on bumper podcast how you doing it's me natty bumper car and i gotta say i don't know what's going on maybe something in the air maybe it's something in the water maybe it's something in my food but i'm feeling pretty fantastic these days and the scary part of that is like now i've ridden the mine cart all the way to the top of the hill and i can see the whole world and i can see the sun is shining and i can see the birds are chirping and where do i have to go from here i hope it's not down but the thing is with a roller coaster is it really doesn't go you know just laterally or laterally straight for very long like you don't go click click click click click click click click click click click up the hill and then all of a sudden it's just sit at the top of the hill like that's not how it works you go up the hill then down the hill and maybe go around the corner then you do a loopy loop and then maybe go up a hill again and then you're done um so now i just made myself nervous huh i was having a really good day i was pretty happy right when the show started and now that i'm talking about a little bit and i'm realizing that maybe there's terrible things on the horizon god and now wait here's what i just did to myself is um wow who's being really manic today this guy uh so just by saying oh maybe something bad is gonna happen have i then invited something bad into to happen i hope not i i think i'd rather talk about kittens do you guys have any kittens i used to have kittens kittens are fun and adorable and cute and cuddly and their little claws are just like little needles they climb up your pants like when kittens are fun and adorable and cute and cuddly and their little they're first born and they can't even really walk i'm having some real uh uh dry throat thing happening i don't know if you heard that when i'm gulping uh to talk to talk uh i was at a show the other night and i guess this is non-tangental as if they ever aren't uh and uh this woman i was at a show and for some reason i got into the subject of uh dogs and cats and i said are you a dog person or a cat person and the one was like dog and said it in the most like i have an accent that you can't even believe dog and i was so thrilled by that because i love it when i hear people with like crazy thick accents because then i can put i try to remember what they are and i put them in my brain so that i can use them but the fun thing is is like if you're talking and you like want to put on an accent or whatever to talk to people you know i'm going to put on a funny voice to talk to you all right uh you know if i wanted to speak in a different manner such as this for instance um then i guess i could um but i like to go for the really extreme ones and then people are like oh people don't talk like that and it's just like no i really met a person and they talk crazy town like this and they're like all right all right all right um i don't feel like we've really talked about much today i feel like we've talked about well let me rephrase that a lot of things that didn't really make sense or relate to each other and i apologize i wonder how many times in this show i've apologized there's like 186 episodes now and i wonder out of those 186 episodes how many times in those i have apologized where i'm just like oh i'm sorry the mic wasn't working i'm sorry music didn't work or i'm sorry it's been four months since my last episode or whatever like um can i just do a general apology and then we'll go back and scrub all those other ones out god that just sounds like so much work i can barely manage to put up a new episode and all of a sudden i'm talking about scrubbing old episodes it's not going to happen bumper podcast cateers it just isn't how's your summer how's your kitten i mean i'm just asking these are questions that people ask people is it cloudy there the other day i was in the back porch with baby bumper car and we were looking up in the sky and we were looking at the clouds and we were trying to find different shapes but it was one of those days where there were clouds everywhere and he was like that where the shapes and i was like i and like i've got a decent imagination but i couldn't there was just nothing to work with and i was just like i i don't know that maybe looks like an ice cream cone and he was like what where ice cream man and i was like no ice cream cone in the sky and he's like i want
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