Natty Bumpercar keeps it simple today on the Bumperpodcast – with an explainer. Then, he talks about an open-mic that he went to.
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About This Episode
Natty Bumpercar kicks off 2015 with episode 203 of Bumperpodcast, offering listeners a meta look at what the show is all about. After visitors from the future crashed last week's year-end wrap-up, Natty uses this episode to explain the podcast's format and philosophy. He discusses the rotating cast of puppet characters including Pig, Doodle Poodle, and Robot, shares insights from a recent comedy open mic performance, and reflects on the improvisational nature of both stand-up comedy and the podcast itself. It's a lighthearted, stream-of-consciousness episode that perfectly captures the show's spontaneous spirit and Natty's comedic approach to making listeners' weeks "awesomer."
Memorable Quotes
“For breakfast I did have a couple balloons so I'm trying to keep light for this year. The helium from the balloon makes me lighter.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“That's what the bumper podcast is about, just putting as much stuff out there as you can and hoping that you enjoy it and hoping it makes your day awesome and your week awesomer.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“Ladies and gentlemen tonight at the restaurant we'll be having a fine pairing of cheese and crackers for you and some huawei which is what we call water around here.”
— Natty Bumpercar
Topics: #comedy #podcastintroduction #improvisation #openmic #newyear #stand-upcomedy #metacommentary
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar
Full Transcript
Natty Bumpercar: it goes a one it goes a two it goes a one two three four like i mean that's how you count that's how it goes hey everybody it's me your best pal and the whole town of coffee can alley uh netty bumper car uh why is my voice so high today i don't know you know for breakfast i did have a couple balloons so uh i'm trying to keep light for this year the helium from the balloon makes me lighter no um welcome to this show this is the bumper podcast it's the year two thousand one five and this is the first show of the year uh we did of course do our year-end wrap-up last week which didn't work out quite as i expected because i had a visitor from the future actually two visitors from the future uh one was me from the future the other was of course big from the future um so what i wanted to do was use this episode as kind of an explainer an explanation of what is the bumper podcast because a lot of times people say uh you know uh why do you do that show why do you do that every week what is it why do you why you know why should i listen to that what is it why do you do that every week why do you do that every week why do you do it as always they always end whatever question they're asking they always end with uh kind of an angry uh what is it what is it like that and uh well you know it's a podcast it's the bumper podcast uh by by myself natty bumper car recorded here in headquarters um and sometimes a cavalcade of pals will come by we got uh we have uh pig of course you you know him from you can find that at natty bumper car uh there's a doodle poodle uh he's got a twitter account i don't know what it is i can't fathom what it would be it's probably at doodle poodle if i was to guess uh robot comes by he he also has a twitter i think it's awesome robot maybe at awesome robot you can find all these things if you just go to uh at natty bumper car uh and and and so here in headquarters who else we have sometimes some of the kids stop by uh we have two of those and they'll come and they'll say strange inane things into the microphone which is not very different from what i say into the microphone so it works out well it's a good uh pairing kind of like a fine cheese and whatever you eat with fine cracker and a fine cracker ladies and gentlemen tonight at the restaurant we'll be having a fine pairing of cheese and crackers for you and some huawei which is what we call water around here uh is it a funny podcast i don't know you know sometimes it is sometimes it ain't uh last night i i had an open mic which is what you do you go for comedy you go to these rooms and it's open mic anybody can just put your name down and come up and tell some jokes and so i did that and uh because you gotta otherwise you get rusty and that's the weird thing with comedy is you get rusty fast you haven't done it in a week that's too long get get back on stage and you know you gotta you gotta you gotta work work the instrument is is not what i want to say you gotta you gotta you gotta be good that's i don't know what i'm trying to say you gotta work out a little bit you know you gotta stretch the old muscles and say the old words and put them all together and say what happens so i i i went up uh with a blank piece of paper i didn't really know what i wanted to do so much it had been the holidays and a couple weeks had gone by and here's what happened is i was excited to be there and then i got you know you're there and it's hours are going by and you're having fun you're laughing whatever you're enjoying the night and then it's your turn and you're like oh wait i gotta go up there and talk and there was no structure uh it was just it was like this avalanche of of uh premises and uh semi-formed things just exploded out of me and uh you know it was fun it was fine you got because the things get in your head and then they all have to get out of your head and you see what what happens and what happened last night was a lot of words were crossed out on a piece of paper and and that's what the bumper podcast is about just putting as much stuff out there as you can and you're like oh my god i don't know what there as we can and hoping that you enjoy it and hoping it makes your day awesome and your week awesomer
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