Tag: parenting

Natty Bumpercar: it's a good letter it's october and so always my favorite letter right now and i'm natty bumper car and this is the bumper podcast and holy beans ladies and gentlemen uh how are you doing do you have your pumpkins yet um have you been eating pumpkin spice things that every store in the planet is like look at our we brought pumpkin back look at what we've got we made this pumpkin drink for you with the wheat with your pumpkin muffin and oh don't forget to have your pumpkin juice with your pumpkin pie pumpkin pumpkin pumpkin i mean i get it it's pumpkin season right but never in my life have i ever experienced such a marketing blitz blitz yes as as this year with uh with pumpkins they're everywhere it's like everywhere i turn everywhere i look there he is old jack old lantern wait no because that's i mean that's a pumpkin but that's like a dude so let's try the there he is old pile of pumpkins that works i guess better i don't know there's pumpkins everywhere is what i'm saying and and it's it's it's a bit much all right i i have not had a pumpkin uh muffin strudel uh what's it called latke i don't know what a latke is uh i have a uh i don't drink lattes pumpkin spice i haven't had any of this stuff uh and i don't i don't intend to i don't think but i just feel like i'm being bombarded by it i don't feel like i'm part of society because i'm not taking in the pumpkin we're living in a pumpkin world right now and i'm not part of it and i don't know how i feel about being on the outside looking in but i guess i'm gonna have to take it um i did not just come here to talk about pumpkins with you guys i've missed you did you know i had bronchitis again yeah oh what the respiratory problems are such a treat it's that much fun oh you can't breathe all the time oh it's great oh hey look you're allergic to your dog that's wonderful your dog's 12 years old you can't breathe all of a sudden how does that happen hey dog i've had you for almost 10 years but now my body has decided that it's allergic to you so we're going to have to take you i don't know where i mean like nowhere because you're the dog i can't you can't get rid of the dog because you can't breathe i mean i guess you could

Unknown: breathing is pretty important but oh you know the dog is part of the family he's part of our extended family and he's gonna stay with us until he goes to college and then it's up to him what happens after that the dog's not gonna go to college

Natty Bumpercar: not unless he starts getting those grades up because i gotta tell you he is terrible at arithmetic uh he's pretty good at home ed so he can he can whip up some pretty mean pumpkin treats is what i'm telling you people he's part of the pumpkin bandwagon uh tiny bumper car the other day he was we were trying to we were trying to talk about seasons like what are the different seasons and he's like well it's still summer because for him he associates uh the sun with summer well here's the thing people the sun pretty much comes out every day so there's always going to be a sun up in the sky so but anytime he sees it when he wakes up in the morning and like there's sunlight outside he's like hey everybody time to get up it's summer and you're like no it's it's not it's okay so i said it's fall and he was like what's that and i was like it's fall what does that mean data and so i started looking at pointing around the leaves and i was like see how the leaves are changing colors they were green and now they're red and they're blue they're blue now they're orange and brown and it's like what happens is uh in this season all those leaves are going to fall down on the ground and he was just like oh my god i'm gonna fall down on the ground i'm not getting this and i was like it's in they fall it's fall now bumper podcast do you understand he was like i'm still not with you and i was like come on kid it's fall