Natty Bumpercar is feeling a might bit better – and is thrilled with modern medical technology. Is it magic – or – is it science? He has no idea!
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About This Episode
In Bumperpodcast episode 180, host Natty Bumpercar shares a humorous update on his battle with bronchitis while juggling single-dad duties. Fresh from a trip to the x-ray store with his four-year-old son in tow, Natty reflects on the simple joy of breathing and navigating medical appointments with a goldfish-eating, iPad-toting toddler. Between bouts of coughing and wheezing, he delivers a lighthearted monologue about rediscovering modern medicine, evolving from a single-cell organism, and the awkward comedy of being a contagious patient. This episode showcases Natty's signature conversational style and self-deprecating humor while dealing with everyday parenting challenges.
Memorable Quotes
“You don't realize how much you love to breathe until there's an elephant sitting on your chest and you can't do it anymore.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“I devolved into a single cell organism and now I'm evolving again. I'm re-evolving into whatever I was before.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“I get it, you don't want me to breathe on you, and she just chuckled like oh that's right sicky.”
— Natty Bumpercar
Topics: #illness #parenting #breathing #bronchitis #x-ray #modernmedicine #familylife #health
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar
Full Transcript
Natty Bumpercar: well well well is it the bumper podcast and am i feeling a little bit better yes and yes double yes yes yes hooray hooray yippy skippy i gotta tell you guys modern medicine kind of amazing uh i mean i'm still sick my throat still hurts i'm still tired i'm still stuffy uh but i still have goop coming out of my eyes uh but with all that i no longer feel um like there's an elephant sitting on my chest which is great because you don't realize how much you love to breathe until uh there's an elephant sitting on your chest and you can't do it anymore i think at that point you're like you know what i miss uh that breathing that breathing was great why i can't i hope i get to breathe again because everybody else in the world seems to be enjoying breathing and i'm looking at them over there and over there doing all their breathing rubbing into my face a little bit that they're just like look at me take a breath oh uh last night i've got so i've got bronchitis that's what i have uh but last night i uh i got to go to the uh x-ray place the x-ray store where you go and get your x-rays and uh and uh first thing that happened it was kind of funny to me because i walked in and i had a four-year-old baby bumper car with me he was toting the ipad and eating goldfish and uh drinking a juice box because that's how we roll but so i get to the front desk and the lady i sign in and everything and and she looks at me and looks down at him and says uh so um did you bring somebody to watch him and i was like oh oh oh i didn't i didn't bring anybody to watch him because the wife was at home with the baby who has all sorts of ear infections happening this is too much so then i was like oh yeah i'm getting an x-ray so he probably can't hang out in the room with me and get exposed to doses of x-ray radiation or whatever it is that they use to take the pictures i'm assuming it's it right is it radiation yes oh so um luckily you know it worked out because uh there was a changing room he sat in there he didn't move more than a half an inch and the lady from the front desk uh just kind of watched him and she was very nice and you know it was it was it was fine it was good but then i go in and the girl says so i had to take two i think two different pictures and she she said all right you gotta put your chest against this thing and she's like pushing contorting my shoulders and neck and chin and moving hands and arms and moving me all around and uh all right take a deep breath hold it hold it i did that and then as soon as it was time to let the breath out because again i'm still getting used to this whole how people breathe thing oh it hurt so bad i was coughing everywhere and uh i tried to get away from her but she had to come over and reconfigure me for a different picture and she said look that way and i said through the wheezing and gasping and coughing i was like i get it you don't want me to breathe on you and she just chuckled like oh that's right sicky i don't want you to breathe on me perfect so then she took the other picture breathe in hold it and that time a little bit better i'm telling you i'm really figuring this whole breathing thing out pretty soon uh i might be able to breathe through my nose which is going to be crazy i mean crazy crazy i'm evolving is what i'm telling you i devolved into a single cell organism and now i'm evolving again i'm re-evolving re-evolving into whatever whatever i was before awesome yeah of course so then i finished the thing go out he's still sitting there grab him we go get some dinner me and a kid it was a great night all the way around um so thanks for sticking in with me glad that you're glad that i'm so much better how are you feeling i realize i've spent this whole time talking about me that's not acceptable
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