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  • Bumperpodcast #308 – Whoo-wee!

    Bumperpodcast #308 – Whoo-wee!

    I missed you . I missed you. I missed you.

    There is no interview, guests, or junk. Just little old me. 

    And – after recording this, I discovered that my site was broken. Hooray for difficulties!

    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! 

    It’s almost too much to bear – isn’t it? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

    Don’t forget to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976.

     

    Go like our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!!

     


    About This Episode

    Natty Bumpercar returns after a long hiatus to catch up with Bumperpodcast listeners in this solo episode. He opens with his signature silly banter about bananas before diving into why the podcast has been on hold and the challenges of scheduling interviews. Natty shares his hectic life updates, including attending a Wizards basketball game, getting a new car, and dealing with absurdly scheduled 8:30 AM and 5:00 PM work calls. He humorously recounts his exhausting Halloween schedule, juggling multiple school parades for his kids Ollie and Emerson, trick-or-treating, and the inevitable candy-induced stomach ache. Despite the chaos, Natty reminds listeners how much he's missed connecting with his Bumperpodcast friends.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I just tried bananas with bananas and it's my favorite thing even though I'm allergic to bananas.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “What were you for Halloween? What was I? I was tired.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “The 8:30 call they're like well what do I do? I'm like well no updates because we last talked at 5:30 last night and everyone went home.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #halloween #parenting #worklife #schedulingchaos #trick-or-treating #familylife #podcasthiatus

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: oh my beans on my bananas look at you you're looking bananas i just tried bananas with bananas and it's my favorite thing even though i'm allergic to bananas hey everybody it's me it's natty bumper car and the bumper podcast has been gone for so long so long and i think i get all twisted up and jumbled up and sad because i'm like oh i want to do these interviews i want to do this thing i want to do that thing and then when i set it all up and then i can't do that thing for whatever reason technology or scheduling then i kind of like it goes on the back burner and then a couple of weeks goes by and i start to freak out because i'm like oh my goodness i haven't done a show in a long in a long time is what i just said not a long time but a long time don't two two wongs don't make a right is what's happening i'm dropping my r's you that's a good sound um and then so i start freaking out because i'm like i haven't done a show i want to do a show i like to talk to the bumper podcast friends you're my friends you're my bumper podcast coutures and uh so this morning i was like fine i can't i'm just gonna have a show i'm gonna do a show and i'm gonna talk i'm gonna uh do it do an update did i tell you about the yard sale i don't even know did i tell you that we went to a uh a wizard's basketball game wizards probably not did i tell you that we got a different car probably not there's a lot going on is what i'm telling you did i tell you that for some reason at work we have a client that is scheduling calls at 8 30 in the morning and then other calls at five at night definitely i didn't tell you that because i never talk about work and i'm not going to talk about it now but really that's a weird schedule like why would you do that to people and then here's the best part of it uh the 8 30 call they're like well what do i do i'm not going to talk about it now i'm not going to the updates i'm like well no updates because we last talked at 5 30 last night and then everyone went home and no one's in the office yet because it's 8 30 in the morning and they're like well that doesn't make any sense i'm like sure it does um what else is going on i mean like there's a lot it's it's it's november october went by halloween happened i mean what what did what were you for halloween what was i i was tired i was so tired because i had the 8 30 call and then i had wait what was is that yesterday no yesterday okay yes so we had the 8 30 call and then i had uh a 9 30 uh parade at ollie school and then at noon no 11 30 we had to pick emerson up from school to take him to lunch and get him home get him dressed in his costume take him back to the school by 12 30 and then his and then we just stood around and then his thing was at one o'clock his parade and then at four o'clock he was at school and then at five four thirty you gotta go out and you gotta start trick-or-treating and then it's like what in the world is going on and then there's all this candy and so you're eating all this stuff and then you have a stomach ache and i don't know man it's crazy i'm just telling you that a lot of crazy stuff is going on but you know what i miss you so much

  • Bumperpodcast #307 – Parent Trap

    Bumperpodcast #307 – Parent Trap

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. We have a great interview, a ridiculous story from a birthday party, and we finally have a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!!

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

    It’s almost too much to bear – isn’t it? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

    And – don’t forget to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976.

    Oh – and – our special guest this week is David Godbey!

    Go to these places to find David:

    Website: https://www.dudewheresmykarma.com/

    Tickets: http://unitedsolo.org/us/dudewheresmykarma-2017/

     


    About This Episode

    In episode 307 of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar recounts the chaotic saga of hosting a "spooky Star Wars" birthday party for 70 guests that descended into Lord of the Flies-style mayhem, complete with pool float battles and crying children. Meanwhile, Aloysious J. Pig conducts an engaging interview with actor and playwright David Godbey, who discusses his one-man show "Dude, Where's My Karma?" about his journey from Kentucky to New York and his experiences at Renaissance Fairs. The conversation takes unexpected turns through couscous, cankles, Shakespeare, and the etymology of Godbey's surname. Pig demonstrates surprising depth as an interviewer, creating one of the podcast's most thoughtful segments while maintaining his signature humor.

    Memorable Quotes

    “It was Lord of the Flies. It was Doomsday. It was the end of times. We were 18 minutes into the party at that point. 18 minutes! Into a 90 minute party.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “You're like a helicopter parent but only to pick up your kids refuse. You're soaring proudly over a huge garbage pile of leftovers.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “I'm burly from the knees down. Everywhere else I'm spindly. I'm very thick and hardy from the knees down.”

    — David Godbey

    Topics: #birthdayparties #parenting #starwars #theater #one-manshows #acting #renaissancefairs #interviews #newyork #comedy

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Aloysious J. Pig

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: oh hey bumper podcast it's me it's it's me and and we're back with a full episode an episode that's got it had the commercial and and it had it has an interview with pig that he lined up finally he got he did something he talked to somebody and and we we don't have call-ins we don't have a review that's fine you know what we build little baby steps little baby steps we're gonna get there how are you doing what have you been up to me oh me oh so much oh so much like what well last week we had a birthday party here at the house and here at headquarters and so by the numbers it was an eight-year-old's birthday party and it was a spooky Star Wars party because he likes Star Wars and it's in October so I just crammed spooky in front of it thinking oh well that makes sense what does spooky Star Wars mean no idea I have no idea I don't know but it worked for me and so what it meant was I got to do a lot of Star Wars type of decorations and activity type things and then I got to make some things that were kind of spooky like little touch boxes they're called where you stick your hand in a box you can't see what's in there and I made all these cool drawings for like or wampa hearts so all these like Star Wars things and you'd stick your hand in there and ah what is it it's creepy uh that was the intention of course but of course the way kids work uh what what happened was exactly kind of what I didn't want to have happen um one of the things I assumed was they would run by the boxes and ignore them and be like who cares which I would have been fine with but um one of the kids stuck his hand into the box of of toes and he was like oh my god I'm wookie toes it was wookie toes and he grabs me he goes oh and then he pulls his hand out holding all the baby carrots that were inside the box and I was like oh no no put the and he just turns and flings them like hard throws them into the face of another child carrots have been thrown I just want to point out there was something there were 25 28 I don't know how many kids uh exactly and then all the uh parents that come with those kids there were 70 people roughly at my house 70 people at my house for a spooky Star Wars party it didn't rain it rained a lot the next day but it didn't rain so that's good um I had bought uh pool floats because Target has sales like super duper sales this time of the year and so I bought like 10 beach balls for 58 cents each and like all these pool toys and stuff and I threw them all in the backyard and I um and when the kids all got here and like I had a table set up and we had made masks so dear Etsy don't ever make your own masks especially if you're making 30 of them why because it takes forever and so like you draw the thing you cut the thing out you cut out the eye holes and then you have to click click put the holes in the sides and then get the rubbery string and then you have to tie the rubbery string I mean it's like it was it was an ordeal it was an ordeal and while we're doing it the entire time we're making masks they were stormtrooper masks I was like they're they're not even gonna look at these they're not even gonna they're gonna run right they don't care why would they care they're masks so they were on the table when they came in and the goodie bags were on the table and the little light up sword things were on the table right kids ran past that stuff to start attacking the uh the pool floats and then then they started attacking each other with the pool floats so I had bought these three things you know like outside of businesses when there's like a new business and uh they put the like the the blow up guy who has kind of like crazy hair and he like wiggles and waves everywhere so they had those but they were pool floats and they were like seven feet tall and pretty you know they were they were huge and um so I had put them in the backyard I didn't really know what kids were gonna do with them I on I mean honestly I had no idea but what they did with them was insane and I'm gonna tell you all about it right after the pig interview

    Aloysious J. Pig: all right hey everybody it's me Aloysius J. Pig and finally bumper car got the software figured out so I can start interviewing people again which is great because that means I ain't gonna talk to him as much and I can talk to very interesting people I suppose the person who's on the phone right now is probably a very interesting person I know his name is David I know his name is David G and after that I get a little confused but I think it's David Godby so Mr. David Godby are you on the line I am how are you Aloysius I'm flammable how about how about yourself I'm doing pretty well a little gassy but thanks for asking I didn't ask about that hey what's going on what'd you eat lately

    Unknown: oh everything

    Aloysious J. Pig: mostly my kids leftovers oh you're like a you're like a carrion you're like a vulture you're like an American eagle it's it's true it's true you're soaring over you're like a helicopter parent but

    Unknown: only to pick up your your kids refuse that's true I'm soaring proudly over a huge uh garbage

    Aloysious J. Pig: pile of leftovers now what kind of food do your kids eat oh

    Unknown: a lot of couscous they're big pizza eaters tonight we had uh bagel pizzas for dinner

    Aloysious J. Pig: do you ever say like when they're eating couscous do you ever like you're talking to them and you're like what do you want they're like couscous and you're like you sound like a pigeon this is like

    Unknown: couscous are they no we don't do that so much we do have a babysitter that um it's what whenever uh whenever she's trying to get them to eat it always sounds like she's forcing it because they try your couscous well you don't like you don't like the couscous how about the queen noah

    Aloysious J. Pig: you don't want the queen noah I like how she sounds is she available I mean I don't mean to get in your business but she's her accent reminds me of something oh she's a she is a um

    Unknown: she's very uh taken I don't I don't know if you could handle her Aloysius she's a

    Aloysious J. Pig: that's a lot of lady oh wow oh well all right you know maybe I'm just a pig to fit the bill is all I'm saying well that's hey that's possible that's the uh the course of true love never runs smoothly so is that a bumper sticker what do you what is that like a t-shirt

    Unknown: uh no that's Shakespeare who I William Shakespeare he's a famous playwright oh

    Aloysious J. Pig: Billy Shakespeare oh wait a minute nice segue speaking of playwrights help me a little bit yourself and what you're up to that's what I do right gosh thanks for asking um I actually I have

    Unknown: uh I am um I'm an actor and I have started doing solo performance so I I write uh plays based on uh things that happen in my life oh like couscous is that gonna make it into a play couscous could very well make it into the next show yeah um things that happen in my life and then I write a play about them but what's interesting is I'm the only actor in the play it's called it's called a solo performance or a one-man show where I play all the different characters that have that um that happen in these different

    Aloysious J. Pig: scenes from my life wait a minute so you're like talking to yourself and you're like I'm the man in the mirror no I'm the man in the mirror like that kind of like that only I have

    Unknown: to be the man in the mirror and then I have to be the mirror too

    Aloysious J. Pig: my mind just exploded what did you talk about pick up your mind you're gonna need that I lost all my marbles I lost it I you know what I do the same thing I do what I call a one pig show every day in the shower and I'm like right now I'm the one who's washing my tootsies like that

    Unknown: is that that kind of show it is I don't know it's it's similar only there's less soap involved it's a dirty show well no it's just not quite as clean as your shower show that's all

    Aloysious J. Pig: well here's the thing I shower in mud again I am a pig I gotta keep the flies off you understand yeah that's a good point yeah because here's the thing the flies they know how sweet I am

    Unknown: they look at me they know yeah they want to sink their teeth into some aloe issues right who does

    Aloysious J. Pig: it at this point I look around the corner I gotta be like is the coast clear otherwise I'm not going because I don't want somebody grabbing me and taking a bite you know right because you know

    Unknown: I'm the one with the bacon and put it in a pan yeah you don't want it to be you I don't want it

    Aloysious J. Pig: to be me so wait you're an actor that's true okay let's do some act I took some acting classes and you know back in uh Juilliard and I went to this for a while so let's do some acting classes let's see here uh be happy good good I like what you went with that okay do you like that yeah it was

    Unknown: It's an understated choice.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Act like you're amazed. See? This guy's for real. For real. So now we got that half on chest. Now you write these stories?

    Unknown: I do. I started a few years ago writing a story that happened to me once. And I had so much fun doing it. I knew I wanted to perform it in front of my friends and see if they liked it. And I got such good feedback. People enjoyed it so much. I thought, oh, I should write this whole story. I should expand this. So now the show that I have coming up is actually almost an hour long. It's about 50 minutes long.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Whoa, whoa, whoa. How many commercial breaks we got?

    Unknown: Not one.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Okay, because my bladder is very tiny. And sometimes, you know, I got to go potty. So what am I going to do? Am I going to miss the whole thing? Can I pause? What are we doing?

    Unknown: You should bring a small sack.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Okay. All right. Careful. I see what you're doing.

    Unknown: Or other sponge-type material.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, the theater's not going to appreciate that. But okay. All right.

    Unknown: You know what? We have to live for today, Aloysius. We can't. No day but today. Did you just YOLO me? I might have.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Did you just accidental YOLO me?

    Unknown: Yeah, it wasn't on purpose. I'm not young enough to do that on purpose. If that happens, it's an accident.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Accidental YOLO on the 47.

    Unknown: Can we get a YOLO card? Yeah.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, you're definitely you're back on the bench, sir. If you YOLO like that at your age, you're probably going to break a hip or something. I just want you to be careful. Careful.

    Unknown: I should really look twice before I YOLO.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Because we don't have that kind of insurance on this podcast. So if somebody, you know, has a YOLO accident, I can't do nothing for you. You're not going to sue me. I'm just going to hang up the phone and be like, I never talked to him.

    Unknown: Can I get workman's comp for it? Yeah, sure. We'll pay you double what you're making right now. What is that? Absolutely nothing.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Perfect. All right. Life of an actor. Time zero. Did you, did somebody, Bumper Guy told me, I'm going to come back to this. But did you used to do, speaking of Shakespeare, what's it called? You're out in the mud. You're a jester. You're eating turkey legs. Oh, yeah.

    Unknown: I used to work at Renaissance Fairs.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Really?

    Unknown: Oh, yeah. That's when I was young.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Now, do they have rides at Renaissance Fairs?

    Unknown: They do. They have human powered rides. So it's kind of rides, kind of like what you would find at an amusement park. Only instead of being powered by electricity or machines, they're all powered by big burly guys named Raven.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Hold on a second here. Big burly guys, you say, huh?

    Unknown: Yeah. With multiple piercings.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Yo-lo. You know what I'm saying? I'm just like, so what did you do at the place? Were you one of the burly? Are you burly? I don't even know.

    Unknown: I'm burly from the knees down. That's I'm very thick and hardy from the knees. Down everywhere else. I'm spindly knees down.

    Aloysious J. Pig: So you got cankles. Is that what we're talking about?

    Unknown: Well, I don't like to brag, but yeah, there's I mean, there's there's definitely some some thickness going on down there. There's some tree trunk action now.

    Aloysious J. Pig: So bumper car. One time he bought new shoes. He was so excited and he took a picture of the shoes and he was like, hey, everybody, check out my new shoes online. And people were like, nice cankles bumper. And like he I didn't he didn't even know what it was. And he's all crying to me. And I was just like, bro. You got some thick ankles happening.

    Unknown: Like, he should know better than to post pictures of his ankles. Here's the thing. The cankles is just a very hip insult. So even if you don't have them, people like to say that you do, because that insult, that insult hasn't been around as long as, you know, fat butt. Fat butt. What's that? Well, if you have if you have a big butt, people have been saying fat butt for a long time. Cankles is relatively new on the internet. And I think that's what's happening on the on the on the insult scene.

    Aloysious J. Pig: I've never heard the term fat butt. Hey, what's up, fat butt? I never heard that.

    Unknown: That's something people say. Oh, oh, really? You've never heard the term fat butt? What?

    Aloysious J. Pig: What? You got a fat, fat what? What? What?

    Unknown: You got a big fat butt.

    Aloysious J. Pig: You got a fat, fat butt. Yeah. Okay. I mean, it's fun, but I never heard it.

    Unknown: Wow. Well, Alan, it's just I'm really sorry, but if you've never heard the term, it means people it means people say it when you're not listening. No.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Wait a minute. No. Wait a minute. I'm feeling more self-conscious than I ever felt have on my on my own.

    Unknown: You know what? You know what? Let's not let's not keep talking about this because you are you are a beautiful creature. You are a child of the universe. You are a beautiful pig son of God. You have nothing to be ashamed of.

    Aloysious J. Pig: I'm beautiful. No matter what they might say.

    Unknown: Hey, Aloysius, I want you to know big is beautiful.

    Aloysious J. Pig: The world is in the world of the world's the world. The word. Can't keep me down.

    Unknown: I think it's where words the words can keep me.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Yeah. I don't know the words to this song, but it's making me cry.

    Unknown: Aloysius, I want you to take a second. Just give yourself to take your take your tiny pig arms and just give yourself a big old hug. Just self hug.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Okay. This is awkward. I don't even got arms, but I'm going to imagine I do and I'm going to give. Okay. See how nice that feels. You know what? I think that maybe one day I'm going to sit down and I'm going to write my own play about this conversation and I'm going to perform it in front of my friends and see what they say. Then I'm going to expand it. And then I'm not. Wait a minute. So tell me, what is your play about? I was trying to bring it back.

    Unknown: I it's it's called Dude, Where's My Karma? And it's a movie.

    Aloysious J. Pig: That's a movie, right? No.

    Unknown: No. Well, no, that's just it. It that it sounds like the title of a movie, but I I added ma to the end instead of dude, where's my car? It's dude, where's my karma?

    Aloysious J. Pig: Now, is that like you added ma like manamana like that? Very.

    Unknown: It's very much like that.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Manamana. Like that. Okay. Okay. Here's my karma. Oh, yeah. Manamana. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

    Unknown: I don't know. It's a, have you ever felt? Have you ever been somewhere where you felt like, wow, I just, I don't know if I belong here. Every word I'm here is a little bit different than me. I don't really fit in. Have you ever had that experience?

    Aloysious J. Pig: Bro, I'm a, I'm a two foot tall pig hanging out in a world that doesn't really, you know, acknowledge or look at. Yeah, yeah.

    Unknown: Yeah. So all the, all the time.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, basically my whole life. Yeah.

    Unknown: Oh, that's sad. So that's what it was like for me growing up.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Really?

    Unknown: People were nice to me, but I kind of felt like, I don't know if I fit in around here. I'm a little different.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Where'd you grow up? The moon?

    Unknown: Kentucky.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Basically what I said, right?

    Unknown: Pretty much. It is a different planet.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Are there any craters in Kentucky?

    Unknown: Yes.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Okay, so you might have been on the moon. That's what I'm just saying. There's a parallel here. Was Lance Armstrong the first astronaut to ever be in Kentucky?

    Unknown: No, he was the second. John Glenn was the first.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Tom Glenn was the first. Lance Armstrong was the second. Tom Ford was the third.

    Unknown: No, Lance Armstrong was the first one to bike to the moon. You're getting your astronauts confused.

    Aloysious J. Pig: I conflate. Sometimes I do conflate. I do.

    Unknown: Hey, that happens. This is the best of us, and me.

    Aloysious J. Pig: So you grew up in Kentucky. Kentucky.

    Unknown: Do you know that's a Shawnee word that means sacred hunting ground?

    Aloysious J. Pig: Kentucky does?

    Unknown: Yes, the Kentucky.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Really? And the Shawnee, they were the Native American, their original.

    Unknown: Native American tribe, yeah.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Now, so where you, oh, where Bubba Crow grew up, it's in Macon, Georgia. And there was the Okmulgee Indians there, a tribe. And they had, what do they have, the doodads? Oh, there were these giant mounds. What was it called? It was called, I don't remember. But we used to take field trips there, and it was wonderful. Were they big burial mounds? I want to say maybe, but I don't know if they were. I can't, I can't. It was 100 years ago when I was there, so I don't really know.

    Unknown: Were they mounds of chocolate syrup?

    Aloysious J. Pig: No, none of that I would remember. There was no whipped cream. There was no cherries on top. There was just.

    Unknown: That is disappointing.

    Aloysious J. Pig: And I feel like it was like a National Parks thing where you could actually go in, and maybe they had done some sort of, not renovating, but it's not a bungalow, but like they had made a reenactment of a, you know, whatever. I can't remember, but it was Okmulgee Mounds. Something, I got to look it up. I don't know. I'll figure it out. But so what kind, did you have stuff like that?

    Unknown: No, we didn't have stuff like that. Kentucky has one of the largest, maybe the largest natural indoor caves in the world, Mammoth Cave, that has like stalactites and stalagmites in it.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Which ones are on the top? Which ones are on the bottom?

    Unknown: Stalactites with a C is on the ceiling. Stalagmite with a G. And the G is on the ground.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, so the G, oh, I see what you did there. The C stands for ceiling and the G stands for ground.

    Unknown: That's my mnemonic device. Excuse me? My mnemonic device, my phenomenon device.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Now what is a mnemonic, that word, device?

    Unknown: Mnemonic is something that helps you remember something else.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Okay, so how am I going to remember that word? What's my mnemonic device for mnemonic?

    Unknown: That's just it. You don't get one. You just have to memorize it. Isn't that ironic?

    Aloysious J. Pig: Yes. Just like that song by that Canadian girl whose name I can't, Amy Mann, I think her name is.

    Unknown: Yeah, I don't think that's it.

    Aloysious J. Pig: It's probably not it. She was Moose on You Can't Do That on Television.

    Unknown: I think you're conflating again.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Okay, it happens a lot is what I'm saying. The mind wanders. The mind gets confused.

    Unknown: That's true.

    Aloysious J. Pig: So you were born in Kentucky?

    Unknown: Kentucky. So the gist of the show is I grew up in a wonderful, loving household. My dad and my two sisters, a very loving, welcoming family. Everything about them is great. But my dad is very Christian. We grew up Methodist. Oh, okay. And mainly because, you know, his dad was before him. And generally, the kind of household you grow up in is kind of the religious path that you take.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, Bumpa Kai's kids are doomed then.

    Unknown: It's true. I know, right? That guy, he's doing a number on those guys.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Womp womp. They're going to join the circus religion or whatever that is.

    Unknown: Debbie Downer theme music. They're like, oh, look, gypsies are coming back. Here we go. But the… So one of the things that was really important to my dad is that, you know, we go to church every Sunday and that we kind of embrace the teachings of the church and that we have a very genuine relationship with God. He really emphasized that. Making it very personal and, you know, figuring it out for yourself. You have that personal connection yourself. And so the more I explore that notion, kind of really figuring out what…

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, no. You just… Robot it off. Say that last sentence again.

    Unknown: Oh, the more I explore the notion of kind of defining my own personal relationship with God and figuring out what that is for me, the more I realized I wasn't really getting that out of the church that we were going to and what we were… Christianity that we were practicing that I was learning all about. So it was a difficult decision, but I started exploring other… Spiritual paths, other kinds of faith. And I didn't just go… I didn't think, oh, well, Methodist isn't quite it. Let me try Baptist or let me try Catholic. I just completely ditched Christianity altogether and I kind of went to the other side of the world. And even though it was weird, it's really difficult for my family. You know, initially they thought it was just kind of a phase and, oh, it's something he's going through. So I didn't really talk to them very much about it until after I finished college. So kind of like seven or eight… Eight years, because this started early in high school.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Okay.

    Unknown: And I kind of, you know, spent kind of some formative time figuring out what it is that I wanted to do. And, you know, I still didn't figure that out at that point. But once I finished college, I was going to move away to New York City.

    Aloysious J. Pig: That's a den of evil up there, you know?

    Unknown: Yes. Thank goodness. Bring it on. Yuck. But I got to… So I had to talk with my dad because that was the really kind of the… You know, the most important relationship for me. And, you know, I told him that it wasn't my path and I needed to figure out what my path was going to be. And it was really hard for him to hear. But over the years, we've always kind of maintained an open dialogue about it so that if he ever wants to ask me about what it is that I'm practicing, we don't want to get to a point where we feel like, oh, we can't talk about it. It's too difficult or it's too weird. Oh, okay. We want to try to, you know, at least be able to discuss what's going on.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Wow. And so the whole show is about just like this journey, this whole path that you were on and everything?

    Unknown: Yeah, very much so. So that's kind of… That's really how things started. And then when I moved to New York, when I moved to New York City, I started volunteering and then working at a place that taught a lot of different kind of spiritual practices. And it was, you know, they taught yoga, but it's more than just yoga. It was also meditation and, you know, Kabbalah and drawing on the right side of the brain. Almost any kind of alternative or, you know, different kind of spiritual path you can think of, they offered some kind of class in. So it was really kind of a crash course. I almost think of it as like a master's degree in spiritual studies because I, over the course of several years, I studied so much. I studied so many different things that really kind of opened my eyes and gave me a better sense of, you know, kind of what's out there and what are different people practice and what are the things about those practices that appeal to me.

    Aloysious J. Pig: So I'm curious. So you grew up in Kentucky and it was a fairly religious family and then you moved to New York and you kind of just dove in and just what you just said, it was like you got like a master's in like… So are you a very spiritual person? Like you look for that stuff?

    Unknown: I do. I really, this is one of those things that I don't… People now, it's kind of a cliche nowadays. A lot of people like to say, oh, I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual, you know, and their eyes get really moist and dewy when they say that as if that makes them a wonderful person. But that's kind of how I feel. Like I'm very into…

    Aloysious J. Pig: Wait, did your eyes just get dewy when you said that? I'm just checking.

    Unknown: Yeah, they did. A little bit? Yeah, just a bit. But that's, you know, that's very much how I think I'm very into finding what feels like an authentic connection to, you know, how to God or goddess. Some people, some people refer to refer to God as in the female form, the goddess as opposed to God. I'm really into, you know, whatever, finding that authentic connection. And in whatever way feels real and genuine for you. And I think that's very different for each individual. If you're really, if you're really kind of digging deep and trying to find what, what works for you, as opposed to just kind of, I think, I think a lot of people stick with the path that they grew up with because it's easy. They don't have to challenge anything and they can just kind of sit back and, you know… You know, check that in their mind, like, check that little box of, well, you know, God's taken care of. I got, I got my religion out of the way.

    Aloysious J. Pig: I think they do that with politics and with their food, too, I think.

    Unknown: Yeah, yeah. I think it's easier to not think and just kind of accept what, you know, what other people tell you.

    Aloysious J. Pig: It's like, Daddy ate mashed potatoes. I eat mashed potatoes. You're like, all right, bro. Have you ever tried a scallop potato? Like, there's a whole other world out there.

    Unknown: Throw a sweet potato in there. Get a little beta carotene.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Now, I call those yams. Is that okay?

    Unknown: That's okay. I want you to know, though, because I like you, yams and sweet potatoes are not the same thing.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Nope. I'm not going to… Nope. Nope. Nope. Tell me the difference. They look like potatoes and they're kind of orange, right?

    Unknown: Well, I don't exactly know the difference. It's kind of like toads and frogs. I know they're not the same, but if you ask me which one is bigger and more brown, I don't know.

    Aloysious J. Pig: I know toads kiss better. This is just a personal experience. It was a weird time in college. That's all I'm going to say.

    Unknown: That was a crazy weekend, wasn't it?

    Aloysious J. Pig: Experimentation. Okay, there. We're going to leave it at that. Moving on. So, I was wondering, you've got kids, you were saying now, right?

    Unknown: Yes. Would you like one of mine?

    Aloysious J. Pig: No. But see, I hear plenty of them here. I'm good. I'm like that uncle pig, you know, who just kind of walks into the room, looks around, does something funny, and then leaves while the kids cry. I got no interest in having any of my own right now, maybe in the future. I don't know. But you got this play. It's about your journey and everything, and then you come to New York. Now, does it button up into a bow with your kids? Like, how do you treat this whole thing with them?

    Unknown: Actually, I haven't, only because this story, for me, kind of came to a natural conclusion. Years ago, you know, before I had the kids. So, I don't really talk about them in this show at all, but I am hard at work on my next script, which is, you know, deals with being a dad today in Brooklyn and kind of what that's like and how it's different for better or for worse than the way. I was raised, you know, 30, 40 years ago, growing up in Kentucky, in a very different time, in a very different place. And so, I'm working on a show where I kind of explore some of that stuff. And right now, the title is What the Father.

    Aloysious J. Pig: I got nervous. I thought you were going to say something else.

    Unknown: That's the idea.

    Aloysious J. Pig: You really make some good punny words with your titles, huh?

    Unknown: Oh, I've got to have a hook.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, here. Oh, okay. Let's see. You were talking about couscous earlier. You should. So, the woman that you had these kids with, you should write a story about how you met her and whatever. And you can call it chickpeas. Like, if your first date. I'll take the chickpeas. If your first date was at a Mediterranean place or whatever, and you'd be like, chickpeas.

    Unknown: You know what's bad? Is that you love that more than you want. I want to. I can hear it in your laugh. That's my begrudging laugh. Yeah, I do that a lot to people. They're like, oh, I hate that I'm laughing at this, but I can't stop. You got me with that one, pig. And then the pig said, chickpeas.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Well, hey, listen. This has been amazing. I'm so sorry I have to go to bed because, you know, I've got to get my beauty sleep. A lot of beauty sleep I need.

    Unknown: Yes, you do. Yes, you do.

    Aloysious J. Pig: This is really where I can see this show. Because it sounds really, I mean, like, I got to say, all the interviews I've had on the Bumper Podcast, a lot of comedians, a lot of whatnot, and here we go. But this is very deep. Like, I felt like I was on the edge of my seat listening to you about this stuff.

    Unknown: Oh, that's so nice. Thanks, Aloysius. Oh, no. Well, if you or anyone listening is interested, it's going to be part of a theater festival that's taking place in Manhattan in September and October. Right now, there's one performance, and it's on Wednesday, October 25th at 7.30 p.m. And if you want to get more information or get tickets, you can go to dudewheresmykarma.com and get more info about it.

    Aloysious J. Pig: So Bumper Guy, he's going to reach out to you and get all the department links. But that one, that was pretty easy. We can remember that, I think. Of course. So, well, listen, when you get your next show, or maybe even if you just want to chat at some point, you know, we can workshop, chickpeas, whatever you want to do. You can teach me more about Kentucky or whatever. Or maybe I'll see you at the show. I don't know.

    Unknown: That would be great, Aloysius. I've had a great time chatting with you. I must say, I know a lot of talking animals, and I think you might be the funniest, pig I know.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, wow. I'm going to, you know what, that felt a little backhanded, but I'm just assuming. It's just because you're kind of from the south, and I know that's how those people do it down there, where they're like, come here, sweet pea.

    Unknown: I think you might be the funniest animal I know, but there is this one ocelot that is just, I mean, you just have to meet him. I can't.

    Aloysious J. Pig: I can't hang with an ocelot. I mean, just right off the bat, the name is funnier than mine, so the audience is like, cool, it's the ocelot, whereas when I walk up, they're like, oh, it's a pig. Like, they don't care, right? Ocelot? Come on.

    Unknown: You guys could, like, have a throwdown, because that would be a good contest to see who's funnier.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Is his name Lancelot Ocelot? Because that would be pretty awesome. He should be a rapper.

    Unknown: No, but he should change it to that. That is a much better name.

    Aloysious J. Pig: My name is Lancelot, and I'm an ocelot. And I do lots of things. Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots.

    Unknown: It's actually Ozzy.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Ozzy, the ocelot. Yeah, that's okay, too. It's just not as, I don't know.

    Unknown: It's not as good. Well, you can't be born with a perfect name, right?

    Aloysious J. Pig: My name is Aloysius J. Pig. I feel like I did a pretty good for myself, you know?

    Unknown: Well, not all of us have the best name in the world.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Yeah. I got it off, I got my name, actually, off of a Wu-Tang name generator. So, yeah, you don't know. That joke you didn't get. That's fine. That's fine. That's where Childish Gambino, do you know who that is? He's a rapper. That's where he got his name. Never mind. Okay. We were doing so well.

    Unknown: It was. Up to then. Off the rails. One swing and a miss.

    Aloysious J. Pig: That's what happens when I get sleepy. All right. So, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. David Garvey, he has a wonderful play called Dude, Where's My Karma? And you can find out more information at dudewheresmykarma.com. Bumperguy's going to put all the pertinent links into place when he puts the thing up. For this. And I am Aloysius J. Pig. And thank you so much again, Mr. Garvey.

    Unknown: Thank you, Aloysius. It was a treat talking to you. I hope your skin didn't get too dry. Do you need to go take a mud bath?

    Aloysious J. Pig: No, bro. I'm going to just spritz some water on me and go lay under the shed, because that's where I sleep. Sounds delightful. Real quick. I just realized your name is Garvey, and you're writing this show about, like, your God stuff. That's so weird, because I should have pulled that up about 20 minutes ago. Oh, well, next time.

    Unknown: You want to hear a quick story? I do. In the days of yore, when my family first came to this country, they settled in, they created a little village in Virginia, and they all got together, and they were very religious, even back then, and they called their little town, their little hamlet, God Obey, because they thought it was super important for everyone to obey God. And so everyone that lived there took the last name of God Obey. What? You know, Sally God Obey and John God Obey. But it was just so hard to say that after a couple hundred years, they were like, oh, let's get rid of this middle syllable. And so God Obey turned into God Be.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Did you ever hear that song by Otis Redding? It's like, sitting by the God Obey. Like that? Yeah.

    Unknown: That's my theme song.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Just watching my time away. Watching my time away. Watching my time away. Watching my time away.

    Unknown: I don't roll away.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Oh, I don't understand this again. I don't know the word. I just make up words. I don't care, but nothing. That's really cool, though. I want to hear more about the God Obeys, because that's neat. Wow. You say so much. You're like an onion. I just keep pulling back. Lay us and lay us and lay us an onion.

    Unknown: And you're crying the whole time. Wow. That's just for personal reasons.

    Aloysious J. Pig: Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, this has been Aloysius J. Pig, Pig Interviews, Mr. David Godbey. Go see his play. Thank you. Thank you so much. And click.

    Natty Bumpercar: Whoa. That was the God Interview. I mean, I feel like I took you to church. I feel like we, I mean, that was, that was great. That was, that was the most serious. That was the most, like, Pig was actually sitting there. I could hear. He was just sitting there listening, and it felt like he was learning something. Like, he was a little pig sponge or something like that. Like, he was just taking it all in. Sounds like, I mean, you should go see the play. Do you live in New York? I don't know. But you, you should go see it. I don't know. I forget if it's even called a play. Did Pig even ask that? It's a one-man show. One-man stage play. It's a play. We're going to call it a play. You should go see the play. I have all the information in the post for it, for Mr. David Godbey's play. Dude, where is my karma? Good job, Pig. Keep it up. Keep getting cool people on the show. So, I left you with a teaser. I didn't even mean to do that. But I saw on the little. I saw on the little time thing that I was running out of time before the Pig interview. And when we last talked, there were the pool floats in the backyard. We're back at the birthday party. Back at the spooky Star Wars birthday party with 70 people in the yard. And the kids immediately grabbed all the pool floats. And what did they start doing? They started attacking each other. And not in like a fun, cute, we're attacking each other, ha-ha way. No, no, no. And I want to send people to the hospital. I want to ruin your day, your party. I want to break that child with a pool float kind of way. It was Lord of the Flies. It was Doomsday. It was the end of times. It was really bad. At one point, we had four children on the ground, screaming, crying, holding their faces, rolling around. Parents shocked, aghast. At one point, one of the parents. So, a kid. Hit his kid in the tooth. In the tooth, specifically. With a pool float. And it took me a while to figure out what that meant. Because a pool float is kind of, you know, this. It's a balloon. But it's a hard balloon. I get it. But at the end, there is the blow-up nozzle. And that is hard. And I think that when Kid A swung viciously pool float. The pool, the nozzle part. Which was pushed in, as it is supposed to be. Is the part that actually hit the kid in the tooth. And that would hurt. It would hurt a lot. You know, especially if you turn around and all of a sudden, bam! You get hit in the face with a pool nozzle float thing. So, the dad went out. And he said something to the effect of. And I am paraphrasing here. Because I was distracted by other party things. But said something to the effect of. Hey! You know. Play nicer. Calm down. Don't be so violent. Whatever. At which point, the other child's mom came out. And snapped at the dad. Don't pick my kid out. Don't do it. You know, type of thing. And here's the thing. We were 18 minutes into the party at that point. 18 minutes! Into a 90 minute party. And there were children on the ground crying. And there were parents snapping at each other. It was not what I expected. It was not what I wanted in a party. The pool floats all went away. All went away. And pretty quickly, I would say within a minute or two. You know, the kids have stopped crying. And now they're playing. Playing kid games. Capture the Flag was a big kid game that was played. My kid was like, Dad, we should play Capture the Flag. We should really play Capture the Flag. And I was just like, how do you even know what Capture the Flag is? How do we play it in this? In this? In Medlum. Medlum. Medlity of Bedlum. In this Bedlum. Medlum? What is Medlum? I don't even know where that came from. Medlum. I like Medlum. I feel like it was a pretty big Medlum. And he's like, I'll just. And he goes inside and he grabs toys. He's like, these are the flags. I was like, don't bring toys outside. We've got outside toys for outside stuff. But whatever. It happened. And so they do that for a while. Right? And. We're counting down the clock. And then like, you know, at. The party starts at four. At five. So now 30 minutes into the party. We were like, oh, when can we do pizza? And I was like, we can't do pizza until at least 515. You know, you have to time everything out. These little animals. You can't. You can't just bring pizza out. That'll wreck the whole flow of this Medlum. And so 515. I stand up and I go, okay. Let's get over here and have pizza. Whatever. And they, they lined up in a straight line. And I was just like, wow, wow. Look at them straight line. They, we had trays of pizza. They walked by, they grabbed their pizza off. They went, they grabbed their pizza off. They went now. I will say, because we did not have like specific places for them to sit. This was a very, this was a very, very loose party. I'm going to tell you, uh, they were just kind of hanging out. And sometimes a piece of pizza just got dropped. On the ground. That's fine. I don't care if you want another one. You don't, you're good. Fine. All right. I pick it up. I throw it away. And, uh, then they go and they play some more. And then, you know, it's time for the, uh, the cake and the, uh, blowing out of the candles and the cupcakes. And they were, they were not as straight lined, uh, about that as they were about the pizza. But they, uh, they were pretty, they were pretty good at that point, you know? Well, and, and then they got all sugared up and then they, so the, the rumor that I heard was, uh, one child said, uh, fist fight and somebody yelled fist fight. Like it's a prison yard and this is after the sugar, I guess, and just punched a kid in the ear, which is, I mean, what is going on? So, um, yeah, it was rough. It was, it was a rough party. It might be the last party that we have. If I'm to be honest, cause I don't need, I don't need it. I don't need that kind of fun in my life. Uh, we'll, we'll go to Chuck E. Cheese next year. We won't go to Chuck E. Cheese next year. We'll, we'll take them down to the track. Don't kids go to the track for a party? I don't know. Pet, petting zoo? What? You're too old for a petting zoo? Ah, all right. Sleepover? No, I don't want people sleeping in my house. Get away. Um, so I don't know what we're going to do, but this year's party. So then I'm looking at it on, I'm looking on Facebook. Uh, and on like the parent groups, I'm looking for like blind items to see if we showed up as like, so-and-so did so-and-such at so-and-so's party. Ooh. And, but I didn't find anything, but I really wanted that. Like I would have, I would have screen captured that and I would have, I would have gotten a tattoo of it. I would not have done that. Um, anyway, so that was the party. Next weekend, we've got a, uh, we've got a yard sale and then I have shows upon shows upon shows. Uh, and I actually, I can't even tell this story right now because we're running out of time, but I had to cancel a show and I didn't have to cancel it. It was canceled on me. Oh, uh, Ooh. Will I talk about it later? I don't know. Ooh. Maybe I will. Maybe I won't. Anyway, this ladies and gentlemen has been the bumper podcast and you are my best friends and I hope to talk to you soon. And, uh, hopefully we'll get more interviews soon, right? Go check out David Gobby. He's awesome. Great interview and have a.

    Unknown: Thank you.

  • Bumperpodcast #305 – Jumbled-up!

    Bumperpodcast #305 – Jumbled-up!

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. We have a great interview, some call-ins, and we finally have a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!!

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

    It’s almost too much to bear – isn’t it? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

    And – don’t forget to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976.

    We don’t have a special guest, this week – because everything broke – but – we’re hoping to have one next week (fingers are crossed).


    About This Episode

    In this episode, Natty Bumpercar returns after a two-week hiatus caused by a disastrous OS beta upgrade that broke his recording equipment. He shares stories from his family vacation to Cape Cod, including getting moved to the less convenient cabin number seven with creepy carpeting, rescuing a crab named Mr. Crabs from seagulls, and crying during a screening of Shaun the Sheep. Natty also vents about the challenges of tile flooring, the chaos of kids with scooters, and his frustrations with contractors after three fell through on his home bathroom renovation project. This candid, rambling solo episode showcases Natty's signature storytelling style as he catches listeners up on his life.

    Memorable Quotes

    “If you have a beach cabin don't carpet it, it's creepy. Just make it hardwood. I don't want your tile, your cold cold tile. It feels like it's sucking the soul out of my body.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “So if you're upstairs stealing my stuff keep it down because I'm recording a podcast unless you want to be interviewed.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “We watched Shaun the Sheep and I cried. You're sitting next to your kids and there's a song about summer and it's summer and oh man what are you doing.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #vacation #technologyproblems #capecod #family #homerenovation #beach #parenting

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: oh bumper podcast i just yawned so big i mean like right before i clicked the button it was the biggest longest it was like hey you're about to do something you're here's the yawn here's the biggest jawn you've ever yawned in your entire yawn um but that's not because i'm not excited it's not because i'm not thrilled because i am i'm wonderfully happy to be here i missed you i went on vacation i put out uh an episode while i was on vacation and then i came back to find out that the uh the software and the hardware the technology the things were broken things didn't work i don't know what happened okay i do know what happened i uh i got excited i got giddy and i upgraded my computer's uh os which means operating system to the newest uh uh beta it's called oh it's a beta it's gonna be released in like a few weeks and i was like oh that's safe that's fine even though the whole time there's all these warnings that are like don't don't do this don't do this on your main computer if this is your only computer we highly recommend against you doing this and i was like ah it's fine of course it's gonna be fine what could possibly that's what happened no recording i had interviews set up with people and uh that's how i actually discovered that it didn't work i was like oh i'm so sorry hold on one second uh no it's still not working uh could you please hold on one second i think i've got this uh just need to oh no it's still not hmm okay let me just i'm gonna call you back in a couple of minutes and uh no it never worked so it's fine we rescheduled some stuff actually reached out to the company and it's a specific part of the whole uh of the ordeal uh that records the interviews for pig and everyone seems to like these pig interviews and i certainly enjoy listening to them so um i was i was like well what do i do so i spent like the week trying to figure out everything see if there was new software different software anything that i needed to get or do and there was not company reached back out to me and they said oh looks like you've downloaded the beta and i was like ah you yeah i did how'd you know that so um you know they fixed they made a patch which is very nice of them a little patch uh to fix the beta and now and now it's back up and running so uh that's exciting but what that means now is it's been two uh two weeks since uh an interview uh since a podcast and so i was like i don't even i'm jumping on i gotta talk to my peeps i was on vacation they don't know nothing about nothing right i went to cape cod with the babies and the family and we had a lot of fun it was a lot more fun this year it was a lot of uh well here's a weird thing i'm gonna go first i swear to god the dog is walking around upstairs it sounds like he's uh a gang of people destroying my house there's only a dog here but the amount of noise that i'm hearing above me makes me think i should probably call the police but i'm not because i'm recording and i don't want to miss out on another week so if you're upstairs stealing my stuff keep it down because i'm recording a podcast unless you want to be interviewed i'm not going to be interviewing you interviewed because i can't enter i couldn't interview that'd be great so you break into houses how tell me how you got into that oh really uh-huh and when you when you saw my house what made you think there would be anything of value here oh you're looking at my computer i see interesting should i should mention to you before you're trying to take it i see but i should mention it's on the beta so maybe you don't want to take it that's right i know i don't know why i downloaded it's my only computer ah thanks good interview um so we went to cape cod and the way it works is my my wife's aunts and uncle aunt and uncle have been going there for no joke like 45 years or something amazing like that and then they have their kids and uh so how does it work there's there's there's ocean and there's a hill and there's one cabin two cabin three cabin and then they are number four and they have a nice deck and they can see everything and they have this nice cabin within cabin five six seven are their kids who bring their significant others and their kids we're talking about a lot of people here is what i'm saying and then for the last seven years this was our eighth year for the last seven years we were cabin number six boom boom right there right right at the top of the hill you can go out on there's a little deck in front so you can sit and you can watch the kids playing and we were very excited this year because it was gonna be the first year where we knew that we could just hang out and we could we could see everything that was going on and our kids wouldn't really need us to uh keep them alive as much but some double booking going on i'm assuming the soft wear for the booking engine was in beta i'm just gonna keep saying beta because it makes me happy uh and and uh our cabin got booked our cabin got booked we've been there the last seven years there was a contract but anyway we got moved to cabin number seven which i know you're thinking that's not such a big deal but it's it it was because uh you're that we're cut off by about you know whatever it is 30 yards or whatever no not 30 yards 30 yards 30 yards 30 yards 30 yards that's 90 feet i don't know we'll say 50 say 50 50 60 feet from the other cabins which means you can't get to the kids when they fall off their scooters or when they ram their scooters into other children or when they pick their scooters up and use them as weapons what i'm saying is scooters are really the issue here scooters are the problem and uh to get to them we actually the steps to get off of our little uh cabin you had to go back to the cabin and we had to go back to the cabin and we had to go back to the cabin backwards to get to the steps to then come back the other way which added another 30 or 40 feet which meant it took you a solid if you were hustling it took you about 45 seconds to get down to the kids screaming the whole way what are you doing why would you do that you stop that leave your him alone leave her alone get away from each other i don't know but so the new cabin was weird it was also carpeted which ladies and gentlemen if you have a beach cabin don't carpet it it's creepy all right just letting you know i'm just right up front letting you know i don't know what kind of people listen to this show but if you have a cabin just make it hardwood all right make it tile don't make it tile let's not make it tile tiles cold let's make it wood all right make it nice old wood let's seal it and let's just keep it real i don't want your tile your cold cold tile when i'm walking on tile with my bare feet it feels like it's sucking the soul out of my body it feels like the tile is is a vacuum and every step i take it's just sucking it's just taking the life out of me it's like a crypt i don't want to walk on tile just stop it with a tile and even if there's tile in your bathroom i'm gonna need you to put a little rug in there a little throw rug whatever it's called one of those really furry little rugs all right because i want as little time stepping on tile as i can possibly get anyway it was a great vacation it was nice it was one of those vacations where you're there for a long time and i mean we're there for a week i guess but it feel it felt like longer like some of the times we've been there it's been like you blink your eye and you're like that was so fast that vacation is already over but this one it actually it felt like an extended play it was a remix it was great um and we go i'll one day i'll get the kids in here and they can tell you all about it but if i ask the kids about it because it was already two weeks ago they'll be like what's going on and i'll be like oh my god i'm what'd you do on vacation they'll be like i didn't go on vacation you're like yeah you did you went to cape cod and be like i don't know what did you do i don't know we watched it was one day it was a little bit uh gonna be a little bit rainy so there's a movie theater and they show kids movies and at i think it was like something insane like 8 30 in the morning it might have been 9 30 i don't know it was early we were at a movie theater and we watched sean the sheep oh and i cried it's a movie makes me cry it's sean the sheep it's sean the sheep you should watch that movie it's a great movie oh now i'm crying again it's like because you're sitting next to your kids and there's a song about summer and it's summer and oh man what are you doing oh we also found crabs giant crabs just hanging out on the beach we saved a crab from some seagulls put it in a bucket put it when there's some sand and some water and some seaweed and stuff and we named them crabby or mr crabs i don't know it switched and then we took them to a different place we took them to a place called red river we set them free in the in the beach grass and he walked away and then two days later we were back at red river and there was a giant crab almost twice the size of crabby and i was like look crabby grew my kids were like he must have eaten a good meal and i was like what you guys are so smart and now we're back in school there's been a lot going on is what i'm saying next week i'm excited though because we're gonna be back with the regular bumper podcast with the interviews i'm just trying to catch you up i did a roast battle i was at a comedy show and i did a roast battle i'm gonna talk about more of that and that more uh next week i'm building a bathroom in my house you should i want to tell you about that because why because the contractors all fell through how many three well two fell through and then the last guy his estimate was no joke three times more than the than the other guy and i'm gonna be back with the regular bumper podcast with the interviews guys and i was just like no what are you what are you building what are you what are you building this out of gold i'm i don't need a gold wall that would be pretty nice if i had a gold wall though i'm not gonna lie um but lots going on lots to talk about lots of interviews coming up lots of good stuff coming up let's go bumper podcast

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  • Bumperpodcast #304 – Helping is good!

    Bumperpodcast #304 – Helping is good!

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. We have a great interview, some call-ins, and we finally have a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!!

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

    It’s almost too much to bear – isn’t it? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

    And – don’t forget to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976.

    Oh – and – our special guest this week is Donna Vaicels!

    Go to these places to find Donna:

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DonnaVeeComedy/

    Salon Gossip:

    Website: http://www.salon-gossip.co m

    Camp Fatima:

     

     


    About This Episode

    In episode 304 of the Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar opens with a heartfelt message about helping others in society before things take a chaotic turn when Rufus T. Rufus crashes the show. Rufus claims listeners are upset that Natty's regular puppet friends haven't been appearing as much with the new interview format. After some bickering about show segments and schedules, the episode transitions to another installment of the Pig Interview series. Aloysius J. Pig interviews comedian Donna V. Sells in a hilarious conversation covering topics from fish liberation and cupcake etiquette to Wizard of Oz characters and pescatarianism. The episode wraps with Natty answering a listener's phone question with help from his son Oliver, reflecting on parenthood and the importance of listening to different viewpoints.

    Memorable Quotes

    “We live in a society. A society that doesn't work if we don't help each other out. I'm not saying you have to be best friends with a person… But I am saying you should help.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I like to talk to his friends, so that then I can make them not like him quite as much, because really…”

    — Aloysius J. Pig

    “You're calling me weird, but you, Aloysius, are a pig that does a podcast.”

    — Donna V. Sells

    Topics: #helpingothers #comedy #interviews #parenting #friendship #food #puppetry #family

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: Help someone out. If you see somebody who needs something, who's having a tough time, who's having a rough day, help them out. If you see someone trying to cross the street, who's carrying something, whose baby carriage is going this way or that, say, Hey buddy, you need some help? Because we live in a society. A society that doesn't work if we don't help each other out. I'm not saying you have to be best friends with a person. I'm not saying you have to call them and check in on them later. But I am saying you should help. What day is it? I don't even know what day it is. I'm so confused right now. I woke up and it's still dark outside and it was dark last night when I went to bed. The kids get up so early and I… Well, I have a thing to say. Hello there. Hey, Rufus. I say, I say hello to you, Bubba Cobb. I've been getting a lot of reports, a lot of news feeds, a lot of… Transcribations from people saying that they're upset that none of your character friends are coming on the show these days. They say, who's this highfalutin Bubba Cobb who comes on out here with his pig interviews and his product reviews and his telephone calls. And he does not invite his friends who made the show what it is onto that very… Then I said… Oh, shit. Okay, well, that's valid. And I apologize. I've been so excited with the new format that I haven't been having as many people onto the show with me. I mean, we've had the interviews and the interviews have been awesome. Actually, I was thinking about the interviews the other day where I want to make a page where it kind of highlights who was on the show so far. We had, who was it, Adam Lucidi. We had Sock Cop. We had John Trumbull. Last week we had Darren Patterson. This week we have someone. Finally, we have a woman, which makes me happy because it felt weird. But I want to have, like, all these people highlighted because it seems like the appropriate thing to do so that they get the most play out of the shows as they can. Now, you mentioned, I understood, I heard that you have a pig and pig illusion of you and a woman today. And I assume that the only reason you have not had one in your first four shows is because… None of, none of, none of them agreed. No one agreed to be on the show. Yeah. The, the, the, the, the, the fellas that were on were a little bit more desperate for airtime. No, no, no, no, no, no. Is that what I'm trying to understand? No, no, no, no, no, no. Oh. No, no, no, no, no, no. Well, I see. No, no, no, no, no. Well, I see. You don't see anything. Listen, this is why you're not invited on the show. You say weird things and you get me in trouble. It's just how it worked out with the schedule, okay? Jeez, I'm trying to… I have… I have, like, a huge list of people that I want to get on the show, but, uh, to interview with Pig, because I feel like he's having a great time with it, and people seem to enjoy themselves. Like, as I… I help him produce those segments, so I go on and I talk to people beforehand, and I'm kind of like, hey, you know, Pig's getting ready, here's what's gonna happen, uh, just be ready for this, you know, he's maybe in this kind of a mood today, or… What does that even mean? I'm in this kind of a mood? I'm a… What are you talking about? Some days I wake up, I'm hungrier than other days. Some days I wake up, I'm sleepier than other days, but I don't… Oh, hey, watch out for the Pig. Like, I'm that intimidating? Like, I'm gonna be like, oh, I'm gonna scream at people, guests on my show? Bro, bro, bro, bro, get it together, okay, Bumps? All right? Please, for the love of Pete. Wait, who is this… Now, who is this Pete? Now, is he gonna be on the show as well? Is he signed some sort of an NDA? Some sort of a contract with the… Of a podcast where he's gonna be on the Pig interviews, or does he have his own segment? There's no Pete, no, and there's nobody getting their own segment, okay? Pig has his own segment, and… I was thinking we could have a lawyer segment where I distribute law advice to the people, to the land. I could help some people out. Isn't this whole episode about helping people out? Well, how about we'll call it the Rufus T. Rufus. Rufus, fix your life segment or something like that. That sounds like a great idea. I actually got a few things that I wanted to run by you, okay? Can I do that? Stop, stop, stop. Both of you stop, okay? I don't want… There's no more segments. There's nothing. But we are… What we're gonna do right now, I appreciate you both stopping by, and I appreciate it for putting up air quotes, because I don't really appreciate it because I had a nice flow going, and I had a fun time with my past episodes, and now you're here, and you're making me crazy. But what we're gonna do now is we're gonna have a great interview with some… Someone who's hilarious and fun, and Pig, you did a great job. I'm gonna keep saying it, because you're doing a great job. Ladies and gentlemen, here's this week's Pig Interview! Alright, hey everybody, it's me, Aloysius J. Pig, and I'm here for my next interview. I don't know who it is. Bumpercar lined it up. He says he's a friend of his. You know, I like to talk to his friends, so that then I can make them not like him quite as much, because really… Bumpercar, seriously. Anyway, let's see who it is. I know she's a comedian. I know she's from the Jersey, but let's see who she is. Evidently, she's got a dog in her house. Hey, who is this, anyways?

    Unknown: Hi, Pig, it's Donna.

    Natty Bumpercar: I ain't Donna.

    Unknown: Yeah, Donna V. Sells.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, Vi Sells. Yeah, I know.

    Unknown: Yeah, V. Sells.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, let's see, I'm looking. He handed me a piece of paper with your name. It clearly says V. Sells.

    Unknown: No, it's Pig, it's Donna V. Sells.

    Natty Bumpercar: My name's Aloysius, did you know that?

    Unknown: I didn't know that. We've never been formally introduced.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's my proper name. That's what it says on my christening slip. That's awesome. The slip, did you get a slip? Were you christened?

    Unknown: I was christened.

    Natty Bumpercar: And when they did it, did they say, did they give you a slip of paper and it said, this is to confirm that Donna… Ugh, whatever your last name is.

    Unknown: V. Sells.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, like the Seychelles.

    Unknown: Yes, that's exactly right. It's like, yes, Donna V. Sells, like they sell seashells at the V. Sells.

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm not familiar with what that is exactly. Are you some sort of Dr. Seuss or something? Is that what that is?

    Unknown: Sometime.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay, don't be coy with me, V. Sells.

    Unknown: I love coy. They're such big fish, right?

    Natty Bumpercar: They creep me out, bro. I was at a place last week, a Japanese place, Hibachi, and they had like a fountain. It was a tiny fountain, and Bumper Guy's kid was just like, look at this, there's fish in it. I mean, it was the tiniest thing, and the fish couldn't even turn around. I felt so bad for him. Oh, no. Yes, so we went to the car, we got a hammer, and we liberated him, and we ran out. Yes. That's awesome. I don't know where the fish were. When we left, they were flopping on the floor. I assume that they got an Uber and got to… They got to the water, like big water, but I don't know what happened to them, if I'm going to be honest.

    Unknown: Wow. They might have taken a Lyft.

    Natty Bumpercar: You think that fish are more Lyft-friendly, or I don't know how that works.

    Unknown: I think fish might go in a Lyft instead of the Uber.

    Natty Bumpercar: How do you get yourself around town when you're driving? Like, do you walk? Do you bicycle? Do you paraglide?

    Unknown: I actually just got myself a Volkswagen Bug. It's really cute.

    Natty Bumpercar: A Beetle Bug?

    Unknown: I did. I did. I'm so excited.

    Natty Bumpercar: Is it like an old one or a new one?

    Unknown: It's newer, but it's certified pre-owned.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, well, that means they tacked on a couple grand is what they did for that.

    Unknown: No, it means that somebody else didn't want it, and I was like, that's not nice. I like bugs. I rescue them all the time. I don't kill them. So I rescued this one from the car lot.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, but, Boppa Guy, you got a weird one on the phone this time.

    Unknown: You see what you did to me? Okay. He knows that. He knows that.

    Natty Bumpercar: He ain't. He knows nothing. When he talks to you in public, do his eyes just glass over? Because whenever I'm talking to him, there's not much happening back there. He's a cute guy, but there's nothing going on.

    Unknown: But do you hear me? Everybody's eyes glass over. No.

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm used to it. Well, you have a lot of spunk, a lot of energy. So tell me, so you know Bumps from the jokes? Is that what it is?

    Unknown: Yeah, we totally do comedy together. He's hilarious.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, come on. I don't know why everyone who comes on here has to say nice things about him. Because, listen, you ain't going to get over on me, all right? I live with him. He's terrible. He's so nice. Oh, no. Okay. Now it's gotten weird. Because this is, I got to, when we have people on the show, Bop, you got to tell them right up front. Don't say nice things because it makes me uncomfortable. It makes me look like a mean guy. I don't want to look like a mean guy to you, Donna, you know?

    Unknown: I don't think that's possible. Okay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, that's fine.

    Unknown: He tries to look all tough in his lumberjack shirts and stuff, but he ain't fooling anybody. He's got Mickey Mouse under there.

    Natty Bumpercar: You know what he shops? He shops at Plaid Zara. It's literally, all he's got is plaid. He shops at, he goes to the place where they make tablecloths. Tablecloths. Yeah, okay. Wow. We just both got a concussion and went into the same joke.

    Unknown: I know. Pinch, poke you, owe me a Coke.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, did you just jinx me?

    Unknown: Yeah, I jinxed you. How do I?

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm not supposed to talk? You can't. Well. What do I do? I'm interviewing. I can't even talk. This is the first time this has happened. Can you un-jinx me?

    Unknown: Okay, you're un-jinxed. Circle, circle, dot, dot. I un-jinxed you on the spot.

    Natty Bumpercar: That ain't how it works. You just gave me a Cody shot.

    Unknown: I did. I did.

    Natty Bumpercar: I mean, come on. You don't know how to un-jinx? I mean, I'm breaking all kinds of rules. I don't.

    Unknown: I don't.

    Natty Bumpercar: All you gotta do is say my name, bro. You just gotta say my name.

    Unknown: Oh, Aloysius?

    Natty Bumpercar: Ah, thank you.

    Unknown: Oh, yay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Papakaza, what are you pacing? You gotta be freaking out. No, it's not. No, I kept talking. You heard me keep talking. He doesn't know what's going on. He can't hear what's going on. Yeah. That's so funny. Circle, circle, dot, dot, dot. Now you got your Cody shot. That's a Cody shot. Yeah.

    Unknown: I know. Well, it's back to school. I want to make sure you got your shots up to date.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yes.

    Unknown: You don't want to get the swine flu.

    Natty Bumpercar: Look, okay. Wow, you came for paid. Holy cow. Yay. No. I'm very, I'm, I'm very well kept. Thank you so much. I do, I do know, I'm not, I do know somebody. I was in a conversation the other day and they're one of those anti-vax people.

    Unknown: Oh.

    Natty Bumpercar: Creeps me out, bro. Because like, as the person's talking to me, I'm shaking my head, nodding because I don't want them to attack me. And, um, every word, I'm just taking another step back, another step back, another, I don't want them to breathe on me.

    Unknown: Please. Don't get a little spittle on you because it could be a contagion.

    Natty Bumpercar: Keep, keep the giant. You got to have the grams to yourself, bro. I don't got no interest. You know, I got these babies up here. They, uh, they're Petri dishes. I know. Yeah. You got, you got kids?

    Unknown: I'm moving my kids to college because of that.

    Natty Bumpercar: Have collagen? How old are they?

    Unknown: No, they're going to college, pig.

    Natty Bumpercar: They eat collards? I love collard greens. Oh my God. I do too. Wait, do you really?

    Unknown: Yes, I do. But unfortunately, I don't eat meat because I'm a, um, pescatarian.

    Natty Bumpercar: Why is it? There's nothing unfortunate about that. You eat pescatarian? I mean, I should have given you those fish I freed. Oh, I'm sorry.

    Unknown: I know. I hope they weren't going to be cooked because you were at Hibachi.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, they were in, like, the thing, the water thing. The pond. Yeah. Do they do that? Can you go and point? I want that one. They're like, his name is Mori.

    Unknown: If they were liberated and they were, like, walking with their little fish, like, feet, their tail. Imagine if they wiggled over. God forbid.

    Natty Bumpercar: Real quick, fish, they don't walk. That's a baseline prime everything. They swim.

    Unknown: They do in Dr. Seuss.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, okay. That's true. I was reading a book tonight to one of the kids, and it was a Lego book, and it had a fish in it. Yeah. So the whole book is there's a parasailor and a windsurfer, sorry.

    Unknown: A parasailor? A parasailor is, like, two of them? No, just one sailor.

    Natty Bumpercar: Uno sailor. No, a Spanish sailor. You're from New Jersey, and you're going to poke fun at me? Your accent is thicker than pea soup, okay?

    Unknown: Poke the pig.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, it's not the name of this segment, for the record. For the record, ain't the name of this segment. So wait, hold on. I've got to finish. So he was a windsurfer, and he was too close to the rocks, and so they had to save him, right? That was the whole story. And the kid was freaked out because the last page, there's a little fish, and he's by the rocks. And he's like, what's going to happen to the fish? And I was like, bro, he's a fish, all right? He's cool. He's in the ocean. He's okay. And he's like, who's that? Who's that, your friend?

    Unknown: That's my dog, Yogi. He doesn't understand that I'm on a very important interview with Aloysius. I'm sorry.

    Natty Bumpercar: You probably ain't going to get the job, I'm just telling you, because dogs freak me out. But so I had to tell him. I was like, bro, fish can swim. So now you're throwing fish can walk into the whole equation. And I feel like it's going to confuse things.

    Unknown: Okay. Well, I'll keep my fish on a leash, and you can keep yours in a bucket of water.

    Natty Bumpercar: It don't make no sense. Don't even make – we record these interviews late, so people will be chilling. What are you doing right now?

    Unknown: Nothing. This is just me. I just worked an 11-hour workday, and this is what I was looking forward to at the end of my night.

    Natty Bumpercar: 11 hours?

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Can I tell you what I did today?

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: I woke up. I got out of bed. I had some breakfast. I went back to bed because I had to – the food had to – whatever it does. Digest? That's the word. I was thinking migrate, but that's not – the food did not migrate. Okay. It could have. It could have done a little migration. And then I went outside for a little bit, and I rolled around in the grass, right? Nice. And then I was hungry, so I had a little bit of lunch. I noshed a little bit, and then – What did you have for lunch? I had some pastries. Nice. Yeah, like a croissant and a corn cob with the corn taken away because I don't eat the corn. I just like the cob. And just a side of slop. I don't want a whole bowl because it's lunch. I don't want to overdo it. Yeah. But it was nice. What about yourself?

    Unknown: Oh, what did I have for lunch today? I had some fruit.

    Natty Bumpercar: You just had fruit?

    Unknown: Yeah. I really didn't eat a lot today. I had a little bit of sushi.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh. Really?

    Unknown: Yeah. It's called a sunshine roll.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't understand why.

    Unknown: Because it's avocado and lemon.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wait. Really? That sounds like a nice thing. Does it got the seaweed or the rice or the quinoa?

    Unknown: And rice. Rice. Oh, quinoa. Why? Do you know where to get that pig? Because I have to tell you. I would love to have quinoa sushi.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. We went. Sometimes we'll go to. Don't look down on me. But we will go to Whole Foods every so often. I love Whole Foods. They have the little pre-mades. And I've had a couple of times the quinoa. And it's pretty tasty.

    Unknown: I've got to try that.

    Natty Bumpercar: It's delish.

    Unknown: You say that so nice too. Quinoa. So many people, they butcher that name. They call it the quinoa.

    Natty Bumpercar: They do?

    Unknown: Yeah. It's like really crazy.

    Natty Bumpercar: No. So you worked 11 hours. What do you do? What do you do for 11 hours?

    Unknown: I do hair in a salon.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't know what that means. What do you do hair? What does that mean?

    Unknown: Well, I cut hair. I color hair. I did somebody's hair. Actually, I did somebody's hair pink that it might have been very close to the color of you.

    Natty Bumpercar: Really?

    Unknown: Yeah. It was really pretty.

    Natty Bumpercar: Now what? Tell me the process. When somebody comes in and they go, hey, I was thinking of dyeing my hair pink like a pig. And you're like, bro, I got you settled here. Right?

    Unknown: I say like Aloysius pink. Yeah. Like porky pink. Oh, no. Like which pig are we matching?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. I mean, I hope it's I had a licensing deal at one point, but I don't know if it felt true or not because I had never heard back from the people. But I'm hoping there's an Aloysius pink out there somewhere. They owe me money.

    Unknown: All right. Well, today, I think I might have nailed it. It was Aloysius pink.

    Natty Bumpercar: And and and so and do you what do you work in a salon?

    Unknown: And where I own a salon pig. Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: You what?

    Unknown: Yeah, I own it. It's mine.

    Natty Bumpercar: You're an SBO.

    Unknown: Small business owner. Yes.

    Natty Bumpercar: Look at look at me making up acronyms. And that was good.

    Unknown: I really I was like, did he just say smelly body odor or and I was like, he would never insult me like that.

    Natty Bumpercar: I would never.

    Unknown: You only insult Natty, which I will say, you know, he's really good to you now. Want to chill out. He gave you the color today.

    Natty Bumpercar: He didn't crawl.

    Unknown: Oh, no.

    Natty Bumpercar: He gave me a pastry. It was a whole lot of long. Oh, yeah. That's what it was. So wait. So you do what you own it. Yes. What's it? What's it called?

    Unknown: Oh, it's called Salon Gossip. It's in Bloomfield.

    Natty Bumpercar: The first part made sense. The second part ain't make no sense.

    Unknown: Why gossip? It means to talk. We talk.

    Natty Bumpercar: And did you just tell me what gossip means?

    Unknown: I thought my version of gossip is. But I also. I also walk by a fish on a beach.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, no.

    Unknown: Gossip is not negative.

    Natty Bumpercar: Your telephone, you just turned into a robot person for a second thing.

    Unknown: Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, there he was. There he is. Okay. Okay. I got worried.

    Unknown: I think it was the government. They come. They scramble my phone calls every once in a while because they know. They know I'm talking to you.

    Natty Bumpercar: You ever have, you know, pescatarian, do you ever have scrambled roe?

    Unknown: No. No. I've never had that.

    Natty Bumpercar: It sounds, sounds disgusting, doesn't it?

    Unknown: Yeah, it does. I don't even know what that is. Scrambled roe?

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, roe, roe is fish eggs.

    Unknown: Oh, no, no, no.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, it sounds horrendous now that you know that.

    Unknown: I say no to roe. Yeah, no.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, no to roe.

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: I like that. And it almost, my brain almost went political, but I don't, I ain't.

    Unknown: Me too. Yeah, but I don't. We're not going to go there.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, but I don't do that on this show, so.

    Unknown: We're not going to wade in that water. Oh, my goodness. Goodness gracious.

    Natty Bumpercar: I was right there with you. I was right there with you. Do you work, do you work in this salon by yourself? Do you have friends?

    Unknown: I have friends. I have friends, and I.

    Natty Bumpercar: Now, wait, when you said that, why did it have a question mark at the end of it? That was very interesting.

    Unknown: Because it's really like this thing. It's kind of like everybody's a friend, but we all work together, so they're kind of employees. Wow. I don't know. It's so weird to say that.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, and you realize this is being recorded, so. Yeah. Let's not end any friendships or anything.

    Unknown: No way, man. No way.

    Natty Bumpercar: They like your family.

    Unknown: Yeah, they are like my family.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's exactly right. Especially since your daughters are all leaving you. See, I just got really mean.

    Unknown: I'm so sorry. Oh, that hurt.

    Natty Bumpercar: They're going to. Oh, my gosh. They're going to college. I know. Bumpercon, I've been talking a lot to, at the kids' daycare, one of the teachers, her daughter, who I've known forever, who babysits around here sometimes, is going to college. Yeah. And so we have similar conversations. There's a lot of raw nerves, a lot of sadness. I know.

    Unknown: It's pretty intense right now to see your kids, like, packing their stuff up, and I'm like, I'm going to be an empty nester. Do you know what that is, Aloysius?

    Natty Bumpercar: Not familiar. Does it have anything to do with birds?

    Unknown: Well, I think it's, like, where it came from, but it means that all of my little baby birds, i.e., my children, are leaving. They're leaving the nest.

    Natty Bumpercar: Now, wait. Are they, like, twinsies? Why are they leaving at the same time?

    Unknown: Well, one's a freshman. Aw. And one's a senior in college, and they're moving out. I don't know what I'm going to do.

    Natty Bumpercar: You're going to cry?

    Unknown: Yeah, I was crying today. I cried today. Oh, God.

    Natty Bumpercar: This is the first interview where we've had a guest on the Virgin TV. I cried on my last interview with a dude, and he got really, he was like, are you okay? And I was just like, I don't know. I don't know.

    Unknown: But, like, I was just, you could cry in front of me any time.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't think it makes me a weaker pig, if I'm to be honest.

    Unknown: I don't think it does. I don't think so.

    Natty Bumpercar: I feel like people look at it, and they're like, that's a pig who's tight with himself, you know?

    Unknown: Yeah. Yeah. You got to be good with your inner self.

    Natty Bumpercar: So, like, when they leave, what are you going to do with the extra time? Do you have stuff that you do for funsies?

    Unknown: Yeah, I do a lot of comedy, and I do, I love to do things like fundraisers, and I like to raise money for different causes.

    Natty Bumpercar: Like, what, like, fun, fundraiser? Like, you go, like, runs, like a 5K?

    Unknown: Well, I actually, no, no, no. That's really funny that you say that.

    Natty Bumpercar: How is it, though? I don't know.

    Unknown: That was ironic, because I won't run a 5K, because I don't really want to, I don't like to run. I mean, if there's a bad guy chasing me, I'll do what I need to do. But as far as, like, running, like, put a number on my chest, and, like, run, like, and then go for a finish line, that's not my style. So.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. I think Donna runs as a mouth. Hey-oh! Sorry.

    Unknown: Aloysius. I know, I know. I get a little bit. Who's getting frisky?

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, I get, I get, what happens is the later the night goes, the longer the interview, I get sleepier, and the sleepier I get, the crankier I get. So watch out, all right? I'm just warning you.

    Unknown: No, don't get cranky.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, I ain't gonna get cranks.

    Unknown: Okay. Well, no, I don't like to run those, but I do like to have fund raisers, but I put the fun in fund raisers. That's amazing. Ew.

    Natty Bumpercar: It's so gross, right? But that's what I do with my comedy.

    Unknown: Hold on.

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm shifting in my seat. That made me uncomfortable. Oh, that's so funny. She puts the fun in fun in fun.

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: This is good. Okay. Wow. No, so that, no, I'm totally messing with you. That's a beautiful thing. I mean, that's one of our favorite things is anytime we do shows, if it's a fundraiser, because, you know, in theory, the audience is there. They're there to support something, and in theory, they're there to have fun. Right. And, you know, it's a different level from going to a show and just telling jokes versus people getting something out of it, you know? Yeah. They're having a fun time, whatever, best night of their lives, but you're actually helping people, too, which is beautiful, I think.

    Unknown: Yeah. Yeah, I have a big one that I'm planning. I just got the A-okay for it, actually. A-okay? Yeah. A-okay. Yeah, I don't know if you want to hear about it, but I can tell you.

    Natty Bumpercar: Nah, I'm good. You know, I like talking about the fish. No, I'm kidding. Yeah, of course. Tell me about it.

    Unknown: So, there's this really amazing place I went and I took a tour of on Monday. The moon? No, not the moon. I wish. That would be amazing. Can you imagine? Yeah, it was amazing. I mean, there's an eclipse coming up. Do you know that?

    Natty Bumpercar: What's an eclipse?

    Unknown: An eclipse is when the moon is…

    Natty Bumpercar: Is that what you do? Is that when you cut people's hair at night?

    Unknown: Yeah. Yes.

    Natty Bumpercar: You use your eclipse.

    Unknown: I use my eclipse. Yes, exactly. Actually, it's like when the moon crosses the path of the sun and it blocks it.

    Natty Bumpercar: The moon crosses the path. Oh, it sounds like science.

    Unknown: Okay, so do you ever go to the movies and somebody is annoying and gets in your way and they get their head in front of the screen and you can't see the movie for a second?

    Natty Bumpercar: You lost me. Hold on. I meant, okay. I like the scenario you were building. So I'm at the movies.

    Unknown: You're at the movies, right? And I think you and I are probably similar in height. We're both kind of short when we sit down.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, I barely… Yeah. One time the seat actually folded back up on me and I fell down the row.

    Unknown: Now, do I have… I get it.

    Natty Bumpercar: What I have to do is I have to bite a big tub of popcorn and sit in the seat next to me to keep the seat down. It's good.

    Unknown: That's awesome. So you're a buttered little pig. Oh, I love that.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. And then I just slide home. It's… That's great. That's awesome. And then I get a stomachache, if I'm to be honest. Whatever they put in that butter ain't butter, butter, you know?

    Unknown: No, it's not.

    Natty Bumpercar: It does not taste good.

    Unknown: No. Wait, no. I'm sorry.

    Natty Bumpercar: It does taste good, but it doesn't feel good. That's what I was trying to say.

    Unknown: No. No, that's not good.

    Natty Bumpercar: So I apologize. I got…

    Unknown: Not good for your cholesterol either, pig.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, my numbers are off the charts. I'm not even going to lie to you. Here's the thing. Bumper car, he has me on his insurance. I think it's like a PPO or whatever it is. And we… I go, you know, for my yearly physicals, and they… It's not looking good, is all I'm saying. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. They said I got to cut back on… Sometimes I'll just open a bottle of Wesson oil and drink it, because I just think it tastes good. No, but it's good. It's an old world recipe. It's called… Grease pig? It's called… I was going to call it oily pig, but grease pig sounds better.

    Unknown: Grease pig?

    Natty Bumpercar: Grease lightning, whatever it is.

    Unknown: Yeah. Well, I'm sure it's like grease lightning. I'm sure that… Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: The… All right, so you didn't go to the moon. No. And there's eclipse and moon. Okay, so tell me about the cool place you went, and I won't interrupt you. I almost promise.

    Unknown: Yeah, I almost promise I won't interrupt myself, because I have, like, focus issues, okay?

    Natty Bumpercar: So… Do you need glasses?

    Unknown: I do. I wear contacts.

    Natty Bumpercar: Have you ever taken something called Focus Factor?

    Unknown: No, what is that?

    Natty Bumpercar: So, in college, Bumper Guy used to go… There were these vitamins, and each bottle was, like, full. It was $40, and it was called Focus Factor, because somebody was just like, you should take these. And I don't know. I think they were full of Ginkgo Bilboa and other things like that, and I don't know what

    Unknown: Wow. Is that Rocky Bilboa's brother?

    Natty Bumpercar: Ginkgo? I think that's his adopted Asian brother. It could be. I mean, I don't know. Like Yoko Ono, Ginkgo Biloba? I don't know why Yoko Ono is in this all of a sudden. Wow, you're as tangential as Pig is. This is the first interview where I've been the one… I've been the straight man, where I've been the one who's like, let's get this shit back on the tracks. Let's reign it in. Let's pull it back.

    Unknown: This is, like, the highlight of my day. I have been waiting for this all day. I'm sorry, Pig. I'm just a little excited.

    Natty Bumpercar: So, hold on. You're telling me that working 11 hours in a mine wasn't the high point of your day? This is it. Okay.

    Unknown: This is it.

    Natty Bumpercar: Seriously. This is a pretty low bar, is what I'm telling you. Like, if you were like, hey, I bought a car today, and I had a cannoli, and then this was the best thing, then I'd be like, oh, that's good competition.

    Unknown: Well, I did just share a Magnolia's cupcake, and that was pretty cool, because I didn't have to drive into the city to get it.

    Natty Bumpercar: What kind?

    Unknown: I had vanilla vanilla. I love vanilla vanilla. Come on, that's my favorite kind. I know, me too.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't want no chocolate near my… It's just like a yellow cake, and it's white frosting. And it's all I want. And back off. Don't call me basic, because it's what it is. It's perfect.

    Unknown: Perfect. And I take the bottom of the cupcake, and I take it in half, and I put it on top and make it like a sandwich, so I can even cake to icing ratio.

    Natty Bumpercar: And you split this? Yes. I mean, I would have tackled the person who brought it in, and then I would have probably eaten the whole thing as I was standing on them, because that's… You got to understand, that's a magical thing, that kind of cupcake. I know.

    Unknown: Oh, I know.

    Natty Bumpercar: I haven't been a magnolia in a long time.

    Unknown: Well, I promise you, if I ever get another interview or I get to meet you in person, I will bring you a cupcake.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay, the first one, kind of doubtful at this point. The second one, though, you never know, right? I could be wandering around Bloomfield. Bloomfield? Bloomfield? Is that what it's called?

    Unknown: Bloomfield. Bloomfield.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, is that because there's so many flowers there?

    Unknown: Oh, that's a good question.

    Natty Bumpercar: Do you ever… You should probably call it Boomfield. It's more fun that way.

    Unknown: Boomfield. Yeah, like, boom!

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm doing doom down in Bloomfield. I like that. I keep it real down in the Bloomfield. Yeah. Yeah, you shouldn't do that. Tell me about your thing. I want to hear about it.

    Unknown: Okay, okay. So, I went on Monday to this place in New Jersey, which I have to keep it undisclosed because it's, like, for the safety of the children, but it's called Camp Fatima. Fatima. F-A-T-I-M-A. All right. And it's New Jersey's only all-volunteer camp for children with disabilities.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, that sounds amazing.

    Unknown: I know. And they just are celebrating their 50th anniversary. Five-zero? Five-zero of providing service to, like, all these kids. And it's amazing because you want to know what? I want to know. It's not funded by the government.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, I… They get all their money.

    Unknown: They get all their money. They get all their money from volunteers. Wow. Yeah, people that donate. And I went, Pig, and it was amazing because there's kids from ages 5 to 21. All right. And they have all different kinds of disabilities from autism to cerebral palsy. I mean, you know, it was just… It was amazing to see these kids enjoy music. I went with my friend, Michael Murphy, who is a musician. Michael Murphy. And, yeah, he's a really talented singer. And he plays the guitar. And we went up there to bring the kids some joy. And just… It was… It was unbelievable. So… Wow. I went… Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: And so is it, like, only during the summer or is it all year round?

    Unknown: Well, they do two-week programs. They do two weeks in the summer. So your child would have to sign up or apply for… It's one week at a time. And then they have four weekends throughout the year. But this is what's really interesting and cool. There's… Each of the kids that go up, they have a five-year program. There's a file that's written about them. And in the file, it's, like, their parents, you know, mom pig, dad pig. And they're, like, nurse pig. Let's just say so that you can understand it. I understand.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right. Thank you. Just want to speak in your terms. Thank you for breaking it down for me. I appreciate that.

    Unknown: Well, you know, I know you stay in that yard over there, bumper cars. You don't get out much, so… I got a sty.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah.

    Unknown: I know. And I heard it's a pig sty. But so they get together, they collaborate, and they put together… They write a file for each of the kids. And then a camp counselor on Saturday receives a file for a child. They read about them. They learn about them. And then Sunday, when the child gets dropped off to camp, that's their buddy for the whole week. Wow. Yeah. So they have one-on-one counselors for each of the kids, like, for the whole week. Wow. So what they do, it's incredible. It's very moving. What they do is they make it like a camp that would be for kids without disabilities. So they have arts and crafts. They have music. They have entertainment. So we were there as the entertainment that day. As you can tell, quite entertaining.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. All right.

    Unknown: But I love this one place, see, because I have issues myself with, like, focusing, as you could tell. And sometimes, like…

    Natty Bumpercar: I didn't pick up on that at all.

    Unknown: Well, that's okay. Well, thank you. I appreciate the fact that you didn't notice that. So they have all these… They have, like, really cool things for these kids that maybe they wouldn't get at home. But it's really neat, too, because it gives the parents an opportunity to have a little bit of respite without it seeming like they're just, you know, running away from the fact that it is challenging when you have, you know, a child with a disability. It's a really rough thing to even say and articulate because it sounds kind of rough for me to say because I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, but it's the truth.

    Natty Bumpercar: I mean, having kids in general. And one of Bumper Guy's kids has been at the grandparents all week. And they switched off. And two weeks ago, they took the little one. And this week, they took the less little one. And as a parent, it don't matter, you know, who your kid is. Every so often, it's nice to have a little break, a little breather. Yeah. And it's especially wonderful if the kids are at a camp where they can experience all these awesome things. Yeah. So, like, do they stay there over… Is it overnight days? Yeah.

    Unknown: It's one… Like, the one… For the summer, it's an overnight experience for the entire week. And each day… This is what's so cool. Each day is, like, they do a theme week. So, the theme week that I was there for was… Oh, my gosh. What the heck is the name of it? We're off to see the Wizard of Oz. So, it was Wizard of Oz. So, all the decorations were Wizard of Oz around the camp. But then each day, they do a different holiday. So, I was there on Halloween, which the people did not tell me because they knew I would dress up. And they didn't want me to be scared. Pretty funny. So, whatever. And then the next day was Valentine's Day. So, my birthday… Yeah. My birthday is February 13th. So, I was like… So, basically, it's my birthday today, which is why I felt really good about being there.

    Natty Bumpercar: So, you made it about yourself. I'm just kidding. No, no, no. I'm just kidding. No, no, no. Hey, everybody. Look at me. My birthday. All right. Look at me. All right.

    Unknown: Well, I felt the gift was that I got to spend it with a kid's pig. You don't have to be such a sassy, Pam. I'm a little sassy.

    Natty Bumpercar: A little sassy.

    Unknown: You are. Stop it. Okay? So, you're like spicy pork right now. Oh, wow. So, what happened… Wait. So, listen to this one. I love this. So, they help the kids make gifts in the craft little area. Uh-huh. And Friday, at the end of camp, it's Christmas. And they have Christmas. So, the kids get to, like, give each other gifts.

    Natty Bumpercar: So, like, the whole… That week sounds insane. It sounds like Nightmare Before Christmas, where you got, like, oh, look, there's Valentine's Day. There's Halloween Day. There's… There's… There's Christmas. And it's all in the same week?

    Unknown: Yes, because these kids sometimes don't really get to experience it with friends in school because they have disabilities at different levels. So, some of them might not get to, you know… You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, remember Pig when you were little and you went to, like, pig school?

    Natty Bumpercar: Little pig school. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    Unknown: Yeah. Right? So, you got to have all those fun, like, holidays with your friends.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah.

    Unknown: Right.

    Natty Bumpercar: And they don't get to experience it.

    Unknown: No. So, they make it happen for these kids. And everything is… Like, volunteerism and everything is donations. So, like, cray paper and crayons and paint. It's, like, people donate to… I know they have, like, an Amazon wish list. I cannot wait to help these people out because we're… So, I'm going to do a comedy show.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, that sounds amazing.

    Unknown: I'm going to produce a comedy show. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but you know what? I'm going to learn and I'm going to make it happen for them because it's important to me because that's what I know. I'm not running a 5K. I love these kids. And it's not like they're less than for anybody. No one's getting me to run. It's just I'm not doing it.

    Natty Bumpercar: You should probably… It sounds like you should involve cupcakes because that sounds like it's something up your wheelhouse. Yeah. Cupcakes. Cupcakes and comedy.

    Unknown: And comedy. Cupcakes and comedy. Oh, my gosh. Pig, you might have just helped me name it.

    Natty Bumpercar: Thank you. You're welcome.

    Unknown: You're amazing. I'm great. And you know what? You know what's more amazing? We could do, like, a bake sale. Yeah. To help raise money for the car. I think you just totally helped me. I hope it's okay if I take that idea. Hold on. I'll give you credit.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Bubba Kai's saying yes. He's nodding yes. You're allowed to.

    Unknown: Hey, that's so exciting, Aloysius.

    Natty Bumpercar: Bubba Kai's also saying he would love anything he could do to help at all. Oh, he's the best. Because just hearing about the kids, you know, close to my heart, it makes me melt a little bit.

    Unknown: Oh, thanks, Pig. Tell him I said thank you.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, I don't want to make, he's, no. He's emotional? I might tell him later. He's a little bit emotional. So, hold on. I got to pull it back a little bit because I got to go to bed soon. You understand? Okay. So, that's a beautiful thing. And when you find out more about it, you're going to tell us about it so that we can promote it more. Obzy. Obzy? You know who I stole Obzy from? Who? You're who? Jackie Byrne.

    Unknown: Oh, my God. Isn't she awesome? Isn't she awesome? Isn't she awesome? Isn't she awesome?

    Natty Bumpercar: She's phenomenal. She is phenomenal. Obzy. And who is, oh, and so, okay, real quick before we wrap. Yeah. You cut A, you do comedy, you got kids going to college, you do wonderful benefits. What is your favorite part of The Wizard of Oz?

    Unknown: Ooh, good question.

    Natty Bumpercar: Because you were just talking about it and it made me think.

    Unknown: My favorite part of The Wizard of Oz.

    Natty Bumpercar: So, I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to put too much pressure. That's a lot of pressure. So, what was the first bit that popped into your head?

    Unknown: I love the scarecrow. I'm a big fan of the scarecrow.

    Natty Bumpercar: You can go this way, you can go that way.

    Unknown: Yeah, I love the scarecrow.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, I can't imagine why. I do, I can't.

    Unknown: I think I identify. Oh, interesting.

    Natty Bumpercar: Wow, this is like a therapy session all of a sudden.

    Unknown: Well, you know, it's funny. That's probably why you and I get along because, you know what, pigs love bales of hay. And I'm stuffed with hay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay, so you got back to being weird again. I like how we came full circle. I feel like being from New Jersey, it's more like you're stuffed with hay.

    Unknown: Hay.

    Natty Bumpercar: Like that.

    Unknown: But you know what? Pig, you know it's funny that you're calling me weird, but you, Aloysius, are a pig that does a podcast.

    Natty Bumpercar: What? It's got alliteration. Pig podcast. Podcast pig. Yes. Yeah, that's true. Ain't nothing strange about that, girl.

    Unknown: No, it's… No, ain't no hollaback, girl.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't know what just happened. He started singing. You literally, you just, in the middle of an interview, you were just like, I'm going to sing some Gwen. Anybody okay with that? All right. Here we go. It's Stefani time. Here we go.

    Unknown: It's like I have musical Tourette's or something.

    Natty Bumpercar: A little bit like that. A little bit like that. A little tiny bit like that.

    Unknown: Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: So, okay. All right. You're going to… Oh, you're going to give me links? Yeah. Did you have fun? I hope you had fun on the concert.

    Unknown: I had the best time. I can't believe this. This was so much fun.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, that's amazing. I look forward to meeting you in public, and I'm assuming that you're just always on hand going to have the perfect cupcake, because if I walk into you and you ain't got one, we're going to have problems as well.

    Unknown: No matter what cupcake, I'm going to teach you the proper way to eat a cupcake.

    Natty Bumpercar: Girl, I'm a pig. I know a proper way to eat, okay? It was bred into me. It's what I am. It's what I do. I eat. Trust me.

    Unknown: When's your birthday? Do you have a birthday, Aloysius?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. It was evidently in July, because somebody brought it up, and now I don't even remember. Do you remember it? Was it at the end of July? I think it was beginning of July. I don't know, but somebody on the internet was just like, hey, it's your birthday, pig. Bupka missed it. And I was just like, wait. I missed my birthday, too. So it's fine. I'm a happy go lucky pig. Don't make me get emotional, okay? I'm sorry. Yeah.

    Unknown: I was going to say, because I would get you a cupcake for your birthday, and now I have to wait a while.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. So I think my birthday is August 12th. That's amazing. I love that. That gives you two days to pony up with a cupcake. No, I'm just kidding.

    Unknown: That's amazing. Tell me where to send it, and I will send you a cupcake.

    Natty Bumpercar: You send it to headquarters. Pigo Box. Pigo Box is good. I'm going to give you. You scored a lot of points. If this was at midnight, you would really be racking up points right now. I'm going to tell you. Pigo Box is amazing. Holy cow. Wow. You're really hogging the spotlight on my show is what you're doing, all right?

    Unknown: Oh, my gosh. I'm sorry.

    Natty Bumpercar: You're hamming it up a little too much.

    Unknown: I am totally sorry. I am totally hamming it up.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right. So I got to go.

    Unknown: You're going to be baking me to come back on your show.

    Natty Bumpercar: She's still going. I'm trying to run out of here, and she's still going.

    Unknown: Oh, it's so funny. Wow. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

    Natty Bumpercar: All the way home? Is that what you're doing?

    Unknown: That's what's going to happen.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, my goodness.

    Unknown: I'm going to put a little squiggly pigtail on the back of my beetle. I'm going to make it a pig beetle.

    Natty Bumpercar: A pig beetle? A beetle? A beetle pig. A beetle pig. I was going to tell you. I was supposed to tell you, but then I swear I've got to go. When I got, I went to a salon, not salon gossip, but I went to a salon, and I got my hair cut one day, and she was trimming, and then she's like, I'm just going to trim this, and I was like, that's fine. She nipped the end of my tail off, all right?

    Unknown: Oh, my gosh.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, she thought it was like, hey, I don't know what she thought, but nip, squeal, all right? I did not. That's terrible. I did not tip, and I will not be going back, and they got a poor young-

    Unknown: She already got her tip. Tip of your tail. Oh, my God.

    Natty Bumpercar: Fine. All right. On that, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank Donna so much for coming on the show and for doing such great things. Thank you so much for having me. And you have a great night, and don't work 11 hours. That's too many hours, all right?

    Unknown: I'm going to go count pigs tonight instead of sheep, just in honor of you.

    Natty Bumpercar: In your sleep? Really? That's going to put you to bed? No. Don't count pigs, because you know what that does?

    Unknown: What?

    Natty Bumpercar: It makes you hungry, so don't do it. That's not good. Actually, it wouldn't make you hungry, because you're a pescatarian. Exactly. If it don't count pig fish, or else you'll get hungry, I suppose. Pig fish. Okay. Send over your avails. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. That's a different conversation. Okay. But thank you so much.

    Unknown: Thank you, Aloysius.

    Natty Bumpercar: I hope to talk to you again soon. This was a blast. Thank you so much.

    Unknown: Thank you. Tell Natty I said goodnight.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right. All right. All right. Natty. Blah, blah, blah. All right. And click. Thank you so much, Pig. Thank you so much, Donna. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Like, seriously, Donna's had me on a lot of shows, and a lot of them are benefits. And I did one fairly recently, and this story was heartbreaking. And the mom that we were helping gave her story of her son, and I don't want to go into it because this is the Bumper Podcast, but it was a beautiful story, and she made me cry, and she made me come home and hug my kids. And I do that anyway. I do it as much as I can, and I feel like you should do that, too. I make fun of having kids. And I kind of try to poo-poo it and say, oh, it's terrible. And it is rough. It's hard. Being a parent is very difficult. Life is very difficult. But there's, you know, I get stuff from my kids that I can't get anywhere else. I looked on Amazon. I looked in boxes. I looked in bags. I looked in barrels. And whatever my kids give me, they don't sell there. No, but, you know, it's, you come home, and last night I was even, I looked in on the I looked on the boys when I got home, and I was about to go to bed, and just, just watching them sleep. Just, they're silent, but they're there, and you made them, and they hold your heart, and they hold your, their everything. They are my everything. And the funny thing is, is like, I'm saying this right now, but on the flip of a switch, if one of, if I hear an explosion upstairs, I will start screaming like I've never screamed ever. Um, so there's this, there's this crazy dichotomy is what I'm saying, but, so I was talking to this mom, and she, you know, she brought me to tears, and kind of like the camp that Donna was just talking about. Like, that's a beautiful thing. You gotta help people. People need help. Life is hard. The world is tough. You gotta take care of each other. I've said this before in other Bumper Podcasts, and I know it gets contentious sometimes when Pig or, uh, Rufus shows up, and especially when Robot shows up. Uh, but everybody here loves each other. In the end, we all love each other. We fight like a family, and you know why you fight like a family? You know what that's about? It's because you're all stuck in the same small area together for years and years and years. You see each other every day. There's no break. So you fight like a family. A crazy family. That's what we fight like. But it doesn't matter, because in the end, you love each other. I have friends like that. In comedy. These, friends that, like. I don't, haven't had this, this, this type of friendship that I can ever remember. Where I fight with them. I yell at them. I, we, we don't say nice things. We take, and then we come back and we're best, we're pals again. It's kind of, it's kind of fun. They have different viewpoints. I try to listen to them. I try to counter them. I, I feel like that broadens my depth of perception of the world. By listening, even to stuff that I don't like. Then it, it helps me to see things in a different light. And to react to things. Because then I, I'm more aware, more cognizant that things are out there. I think it's important to listen. I don't think it's, you have to, you know, take things in. But it's, I think you can listen and then disseminate. Take things with a grain of salt. Take what you want. Get rid of the rest. Whatever. I did that a lot in school. Speaking of taking things. We have a call this week. Another call. Same person. She's doing a great job. She's three for three. Let's see what she's got.

    Unknown: Hey, Maddie Bumpacar. My question to you is. How has your life changed since she started doing pig as puppeteering?

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, okay. You're welcome. No, thank you. Seriously, the calls. The calls. The calls are great. So how has my life changed since I started. I'm going to reinterpret the question as hanging out with pig. Uh, because last time he got kind of offended. I didn't, I didn't get offended. I'm here. I'm still here. I'm right here, bro. I'm in the studio. You can, you're looking at me and you're talking about me. I think it's third person. Might be fourth person. I don't even know how many persons is a person. I don't, I'm a pig. All right. Anyway. What is she talking about? How did my life change when I met you? Straight down hell. Right down the tubes. Right down the tracks. Right to the bottom. Right to the base. Where we at? You're going to see your face like that. Uh oh. I think we got somebody coming downstairs. I think we're going to have to answer the call in just a second. Who's here? Oh, it's Ollie. Hold on. Come here, Ollie. Where you at? You want to be on the, you want to be on the show? Oh, okay. So this is, uh, Oliver. You want to say hi? Hi. Hi. You want to listen to the thing? Yeah. Okay. Ollie, uh, we're doing a phone call. How, what, here was her question. How did your life change when you met Aloysius? J-Pig.

    Unknown: I don't know.

    Natty Bumpercar: You don't know? Did your life get better or did it get worse?

    Unknown: Um, worse, I think. You think it got worse when you met Pig? Holy cannoli.

    Natty Bumpercar: I just said, I think. Oh, but it still hurt my feelings a tiny bit, right? Okay.

    Unknown: I'm going to, I'm going to cry. Don't even cry. Why are you even doing this? You're annoying. You're annoying me. I'm annoying you?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. All right, hold on. Hold on a second. Papa Kai, come here. You take this kid. Hey, buddy. What are you doing? Were you talking to Pig?

    Unknown: I think.

    Natty Bumpercar: You think you were talking to Pig? Yeah. You're not, you're not sure, though?

    Unknown: I think I was talking to Piggy.

    Natty Bumpercar: Now, where do you going to be at? Where are you at next week? Somewhere far away.

    Unknown: I'm going to talk.

    Natty Bumpercar: Huh?

    Unknown: Like, wait, wait, wait, what is it again, Dad?

    Natty Bumpercar: You want me to whisper it to you? You want me to tell you a secret? Yeah. Okay.

    Unknown: What is it you're going to tell me? It's Cape Cod.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. What are we going to do there?

    Unknown: Um, I don't know.

    Natty Bumpercar: What do we do at Cape Cod? What's there?

    Unknown: Um, we go to the beach.

    Natty Bumpercar: We go to the beach?

    Unknown: Mm-hmm.

    Natty Bumpercar: That sounds fun. Who's going to be there? Fun people?

    Unknown: Yeah, all our cousins.

    Natty Bumpercar: A lot of our cousins. That's right. There's so many of them, right?

    Unknown: Except for Keegan and Cameron.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, no. We don't have our Keegan and Cameron. I'm so sad. We also, we don't have a lot of our cousins. I mean, there's a lot of them that aren't there, but there's a lot of them that are. What? Are you going to have fun?

    Unknown: Yeah. I think so.

    Natty Bumpercar: Uh, no. Are you afraid of the drive?

    Unknown: Nope.

    Natty Bumpercar: Do you remember how long the drive took?

    Unknown: Uh, I don't know. Okay. I think I should put them.

    Natty Bumpercar: You want to put them back on?

    Unknown: Uh-huh. Okay. There you go.

    Natty Bumpercar: Uh, the drive took five and a half hours.

    Unknown: Five and a half? That's, I want to do five and a half.

    Natty Bumpercar: Five, so there's 60 minutes in an hour. So, if you take five hours and you multiply it by six, then that means you have, so it's 300 minutes. Ah. So, it's, then another half hour. So, it's 330 minutes. 330 minutes. Does that sound right? Does it feel right? It is right.

    Unknown: Until I do it again.

    Natty Bumpercar: Uh, no. We don't want you to touch that. Remember how you? We're messing around with this and you broke that.

    Unknown: Oh.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to do this again. No.

    Unknown: Stop laughing.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah.

    Unknown: Can you just stop laughing?

    Natty Bumpercar: You want me to stop laughing forever?

    Unknown: Yes.

    Natty Bumpercar: But won't I be like a sad daddy at that point?

    Unknown: I think no.

    Natty Bumpercar: You think no? You think not no? Did you eat your breakfast? I think we should go to school soon, don't you think?

    Unknown: Oh, my goodness. Yes.

    Natty Bumpercar: Not school. For you, it's camp. Or it's pre-K. What is it?

    Unknown: Pre-K.

    Natty Bumpercar: Pre-K all day. All day. Come on, everybody. Pre-K. Can you stop saying that? I'm singing a song. You won't let me laugh. You won't let me sing. You won't let me have any fun at all. What are you? A listener of the Bumper Podcast? Waka waka. Just kidding.

    Unknown: I think this is good.

    Natty Bumpercar: Do you want to go upstairs? Are you done?

    Unknown: No. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Are you going to show me something?

    Natty Bumpercar: Are you going to show me something? No. All right. Well, I think what we should do while Ollie goes and shows me something is say goodbye to everybody. Can you say goodbye, Bumper Podcast?

    Unknown: Bye, Bumper Podcast.

    Natty Bumpercar: Can you say thanks, Donna, for being on the show? What? Say thanks, Donna.

    Unknown: Thanks, Donna.

    Natty Bumpercar: For being on the show.

    Unknown: For being on the show.

    Natty Bumpercar: All right, everybody. Thank you so much. Hugs and hearts. Hugs and hearts. Go help somebody today.

    Unknown: Go help somebody today.

  • Bumperpodcast #302 – This Sock Rocks!

    Bumperpodcast #302 – This Sock Rocks!

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. We have a great interview, some call-ins, and we finally have a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!!

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

    It’s almost too much to bear – isn’t it? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

    And – don’t forget to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976.

    Oh – and – our special guest this week is Sock Cop!

    Go to these places to find Sock:

    Website: http://www.sockcoprocks.com/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/jasonburglar
    Periscope: https://www.periscope.tv/sockcop/
    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQgPHeuIrHIqr4FFu9M0TmQ
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sockcoprocks/

     

     

     


    About This Episode

    In episode 302 of the Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar waxes poetic about clouds before diving into an eventful week. With one of the kids at the grandparents' house, Natty shares a hilarious story about terrorizing his son with tales of a spider wielding utensils. The episode features an extended interview where Aloysius J. Pig sits down with returning guest Asak Cop, a speed-catching police officer from Mobile, Alabama. The two discuss everything from street naming conventions to disco dancing after writing tickets, RV Garfield paintings, and the art of the intimidation strut. Natty also addresses a listener question about how Pig's distinctive voice came to be, leading to a spirited discussion about puppet voices and creative inspiration.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I was like he the spider the spider just pointed at me with one of his arms and then he pointed towards the door with his other arm he's emphatically asking me to leave the room”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I do a little dance whenever I write a good ticket. That's just me. I don't have to go to like a discotheque or anything.”

    — Asak Cop

    “I've been talking this way my entire life ever since I was a little bitty pig a little bitty baby pig you know I was raspy and I had an accent”

    — Aloysius J. Pig

    Topics: #interviews #puppetry #parenting #voiceacting #comedy #spiders #police #creativeprocess

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: Look up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It can be anything at all in the world you want it to be. It's a cloud. If you're lonely, just look up. You've got a best friend. If you're hungry, just look up. You've got a sandwich. Is it a cumulonimbus? Is it a stratus? I have no idea whatsoever. To me, it looks like a bunny rabbit. A free movie in the sky. Thanks, clouds. Thanks for everything. Thanks for everything. We didn't get any calls this week. I was kind of sad about it. There is one call. There's an interview. And in the interview, I talk about the call because I'm not sure if I'm legally allowed to use it. Oh, intrigue. Oh, bumper car. What are you talking about? Well, I feel like someone might have accidentally called in the call-in number. And then it's like a… I'm going to go four to six minutes. You can just hear people talking in a room. Leaving a message. I mean, they do leave a message, but it doesn't pertain to anything. And it doesn't… They're not talking to me. And so I feel like maybe that's not appropriate to use. And also, there's nothing exciting in the conversation. Like, if they were like, you know, hey, here's the thing. In the boxing race, you know, like, you've got to put all your money on the other guy. Or whatever, like… And I would be like, oh, well, I've got to share this with the Bumper Podcast. So that they know they've got to put all their money on the other guy. And, uh, but there's not even that. It's just like, there's some boxes moving around, maybe. And there's some, uh, there's just like, you know, Phillip. Phillip took the week off last week. Phillip, did you hear about him? Took the week off last week. And it's just like that kind of stuff. I ain't nobody. I ain't nobody. And a lot of this kind of unintelligible stuff. So, uh, yeah. I think I'm just going to not play that one. Um, hopefully next week, though, I will get more calls. Because I do love the calls. So, if you do want to call, um, then you, of course, know that the phone number is… 646-847-7976. Again. And I will tell you this later as well. But it's 646-847-7976. That's the call. Call the Bumper Podcast and leave a message. Um, I've been told, though, I don't have an outgoing message. Which is so rude of me. To, for me to ask you to call in and talk to me. And I'm not giving you any, anything. So, I'm going to fix that this week. Um, it's just a constant fixing. The Bumper Podcast is basically like a house. Like, you buy a house and then you're like, oh, look, I gotta fix the windows. Oh, no, I gotta fix the walkway. Oh, no, the roof is leaking. Oh, no, look, the refrigerator. Like, that's what the Bumper Podcast is. And every time you fix something, you turn your head. Something else is broken. And then by the time you get around to fixing everything, guess what? You gotta start off at the beginning again. Um, exciting news this week. The kid, one of the kids is gone. He is at his grandparents' house. We have a week of rest. Uh, one kid? So easy! Two kids? Oh! Not as easy. Not as easy at all. Um. He left yesterday, and I mean, he's gone until Saturday, so it's amazing. It's the best. Uh, but we have an interview coming up. Um, and after the interview, I've got a funny story to tell you about something that happened with him that I think it was, it, I still crack up when I think about it. So I want to make sure to record it so that I remember it when I'm old and living in a cave. Uh, because that's my assumption is that when I'm older, I'm probably going to just have all the Bumper Podcasts on cassette tapes, and, uh, I will fumble around on the shelves, and I'll be like, I want to find that story, the story that I told that one day about the child. Um, so, um, I'm not going to tell you what it's about, though. But what I will tell you is Pig's interview this week, he's doing great with these interviews, by the way, BT Dubs, uh, is, is a lot of fun. Again, I don't want to give it away, but it is someone who has been on the show before, and no, it is not Adam Lucidi again. No, he is always welcome. So, sit back, get ready, get right. Ladies and gentlemen, here is the next Pig interview. All right, hey everybody, it's me, Aloysius J. Pig, and I'm here for my interview show, and this is an episode like 303, and that means I'm three for three, uh, outside the key, you know me. Um, and today we have a fun dude on, he's actually been on the show a couple of times, I think. Uh, he's been on the show a couple of times, I think. Uh, you, I seem to like him a lot. He's really fun to talk to. I enjoy talking to him. You enjoy listening to him, which should make for a good interview show. As long as we don't run out of steam, which makes me a little bit nervous. I, you know, I don't want to open the kettle to see how much steam there is. I'm assuming there's a lot of steam for the interview. We shall see. Ladies and gentlemen, he didn't hear any of this, I don't think. Give it up, uh, for the one, the only, Mr. Asak Cop. Hello, Asak, how you doing?

    Unknown: How's it going there, Pig? Good to see you. Good to see you, my friend. It's good to talk to you again.

    Natty Bumpercar: It is amazing to talk to you. I mean, we haven't talked in so long. How you been?

    Unknown: Oh, yeah, it's been a little while. I've been doing fantastic. I've just been out here catching the speeders, you know. They've been keeping me busy. The summertime, everybody, I think the heat down here, it's very hot down here in the south. Very hot, yeah. Out to the south coast where I live. And I think the heat makes people want to get out of it real fast. You know what I mean? So people start driving real fast and I got to stop them real fast. Where they going? I don't know. I don't know where they're going. Some of them said they go to the beach. Some of them go to the beach. There's a water park. Yeah. It's a very popular place. Some of them just, you know, go to the post office or something like that.

    Natty Bumpercar: Now, where you live, is there like one of them roads that goes all around the town like a donut?

    Unknown: No, no, no. No, that's a, that, you get those in cities that were like sort of planned out.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh.

    Unknown: See, Bradley, I live down here. It's down in Mobile. Basically, what happened is somebody way back in the days, in the pioneer days, had him a tent. Okay. And he was like, I'll just put the tent. And then another person came by. I was like, hey, this place looks cool. I'll just put a tent here too. And it just kept going from there. So they just kept building stuff. And they're like, hey, we need some more stuff. So they just built a road. Yeah. And then there's no plan to it at all. So there ain't no grid? No, there's no grid. The roads are all like sneaky little snakes just going this way and that way. Are they all named the same thing? No, they're not named the same thing. They're just named basically just after somebody.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay. Okay. Because I'm from Georgia originally where everything is like, I'm going to be down on Peach Street. Oh, did you mean Peach Lane? No, I meant Peach Avenue. Bro, were you on Peach Circle last night? And you're just like, I don't know these peaches. I can't keep up.

    Unknown: No, I'm at Peach Tree.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah, there's a lot of peach trees too. Like, that's a big differentiator. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, I was on a corner of Peach Tree Avenue and Peach Street. And you're like, bro, I can't even talk to you no more.

    Unknown: That's how you can tell. There's peach people and there's peach three people.

    Natty Bumpercar: Peach three?

    Unknown: No, peach three. Don't make fun of my speech impediment, pig.

    Natty Bumpercar: I didn't. I thought we were counting all of a sudden. Oh, yeah. Pizza one. Pizza one. That's what I was doing too. We just bumped our heads getting into the same joke.

    Unknown: We was rushing there.

    Natty Bumpercar: I think I got a concussion. Speaking of Russian sock-off. No, I'm just kidding. I don't get political. So, I got an A. So, sock cop. Now, most cops I know, they got rankings. Like, rank and file. Is you like a private or a detective or a wizard? What kind of sock are you? What level?

    Unknown: I do like wizard. I wish. I don't know. Maybe I could become a wizard.

    Natty Bumpercar: They give you a cool hat with that.

    Unknown: No, I'm sort of my own.

    Natty Bumpercar: You shall not pass.

    Unknown: I get a big, like, stick with a big glass thing at the top that shoots lightning out and stuff.

    Natty Bumpercar: That's how you check the. Speed is you have to look through the orb, the orb, the orb of speeding tone.

    Unknown: I would do any job that you get that. Here's your magical orb. I think I would take that job.

    Natty Bumpercar: I think they're getting away. Someone called a Kraken and pick them up quick. Is there a Kraken on the force? I don't know.

    Unknown: There's no crack. No, there's no crack. We are. We are like it's next to the sea, but we're not under the sea. So, so a Kraken wouldn't do much good.

    Natty Bumpercar: Don't get it. Don't don't be don't think don't that song.

    Unknown: That's exactly right. Yeah, outside.

    Natty Bumpercar: We have something. Some. I don't know. No words.

    Unknown: I don't know.

    Natty Bumpercar: Under the sea. Yes, I don't.

    Unknown: But I'm says I like to think it's stuck in the head.

    Natty Bumpercar: But since you have a lot of questions for you, do you know anything about just like a blue line of silence? Like, you know what that is?

    Unknown: The blue line of silence.

    Natty Bumpercar: I don't know. That's what I heard. Is this like so police officers protect their own and all that? So it is this. Oh, yeah. Hey, there's a code here. Blue line of silence. I live in cop land.

    Unknown: You know, I think I love you talk like a like a NYPD blue type of type of game like that. Some sort of TV police thing.

    Natty Bumpercar: Shung shung that is that in my pity blue?

    Unknown: No, I don't think so. I think that's a different one. I think that was chips.

    Natty Bumpercar: I think as long as it wasn't dance cops or whatever it was.

    Unknown: No, no, no.

    Natty Bumpercar: So do you have two guys ever go dancing, you and your police friends?

    Unknown: You know, we never all go dancing together. I do a little dance whenever. Whenever I write a good ticket. Oh, really? That's just me. Yeah, I mean, I don't have to go to like a discotheque or anything. I just sort of do that on my own, you know?

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, your car has all those cool lights on it. So like once you pull over to a person in front of you, it's like sweating, freaking out. And you're just like, oh, yeah, yeah. That's what I get built up. Yeah, I'm going to give you a ticket. I'm going to get my book out. Going to look you up. Going to look you up. Take you to jail. Oh, here we go. Oh,

    Unknown: but I don't do that because because I have to have to have to do the the strut up to the car. If I'm too pumped up, I can't strut properly. I have you ever. I mean, you've been you've been pulled. Everybody pretty much has been pulled over at some point. All right.

    Natty Bumpercar: I've been pulled over. Up here, which we don't have enough time to say pulled over. So we just go, yeah, I got pulled the other day.

    Unknown: Oh, you just go, oh, you got pulled over.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. And then the cop is like, hey, I'll get me. I'm pulled pork. And I'm like, oh, stop it. What are you doing? It's not nice.

    Unknown: That's not that's insulting to both of you.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. I'm like, you're making puns on me. What are you, a ponzo or something like? I don't know.

    Unknown: No, that's not good. But you know, whenever you get pulled over, there's the strut. You got to let up, sit, sit and sweat for a little bit. Yeah. And then you got to just sort of slowly stroll up to the car like that. You can't you can't be rushing up like you just coming out of some sort of German techno festival. No, you know, you got to just waltz up to him. You know, that's how you get the intimidation.

    Natty Bumpercar: You still got glitter on your uniform or whatever.

    Unknown: Carrying a glow stick. You still got the pacifier. You can't do that. You've lost the game if you do that.

    Natty Bumpercar: It's going to wreck the whole thing. You know, people are going to look at you and be like, I'm just going to go now. And they're like, you can't go.

    Unknown: I'm still giving you a ticket. You know?

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. But they but they won't believe me. And then they take you to court and then they'll be like, well, sir, he he did have a pacifier in his mouth. And they'll be like, case dismissed. And then they'll be like, well, you know what? You can't go. I'm still giving you a ticket. You know?

    Unknown: Yeah. But they but they won't believe me. And then I don't. And then, you know, I'm laughing stock of the whole force.

    Natty Bumpercar: I have a picture of this on my dash cam or whatever. Those little cameras.

    Unknown: They have to. Yeah.

    Natty Bumpercar: Yeah. Yeah. Those dash cam things. Those are fun. And the the judge is looking at and he's like, I'm sorry, Mr. Sarkar. But is you wearing a pacifier? Hold on. I'm doing my sudden voice. Oh, there you go. Excuse me, Mr. Sarkar. But is you wearing a pacifier on you? That's pretty good. Did it remind you?

    Unknown: As a man from Georgia, I would expect you to have an excellent impression of a southern accent.

    Natty Bumpercar: And you definitely delivered that. It reminds you of Boss Hog. Hello. That's another one. We're just going all in tonight.

    Unknown: I do like the I do like that. We do have this one lawyer and he's always wearing like the suspenders, you know what I mean, and the paisley suit. So he likes to strut around. Yeah. And tell tales and stuff. You know, he walks around.

    Natty Bumpercar: we we was driving around in new jersey this is a couple weeks ago and i had never i don't i my mind is still blown weeks later we're driving there was a dude who his his his gut was like a beach ball it was large right and he was he was like five foot four not tall not a tall man but a round man wearing very large jeans and suspenders with no shirt on oh yeah and i was i almost it was like uh a jack tripper where i was on my bicycle and i almost ran into a car because i was turning around looking like i was driving with my kids and i was just like what in the what like what did we just what did i just witness like what yeah it was pretty exciting stuff it's weird the

    Unknown: things you see when you're driving around i was i was driving by the other day there was a there was a rv and it had they uh they had painted and you could tell that they had painted themselves this is not an official officially licensed the merchandise for the rv but they had painted uh garfield you know garfield the cat almost cat he hates mondays i can't he hates mondays but they painted the garfield looking real angry holding a gun oh and it had a word balloon and it said uh something something to the effect of if you unless you're bulletproof don't try to steal this car implying that that i guess garfield would show them with his little musket something like that well so i see that on the side of the rv they go ahead a little bit because i'm kind of stunned you know looking up like what is it on the back they painted it again on the back the same exact change lanes it's on the other side all three sides have garfield with a gun threatening to shoot you if you try and steal this rv you know what i did here though is uh

    Natty Bumpercar: if you have like a geico insurance that's gonna drop your premiums down is if you have more than one gob one garfield's not gonna do it you gotta have multiple garfields right holding a gun and uh threatening people oh yeah that is true that is

    Unknown: true they go they give some wacky discounts i wish that they would have changed the message

    Natty Bumpercar: up on at least one just be like you know if you bulletproof would have a bulletproof fine and then just be like i love lasagna oh just something to keep if there's two things i like

    Unknown: it's lasagna and shooting robbers and

    Natty Bumpercar: protecting you must protect this house it was so weird i just don't understand like garfield

    Unknown: like you have you seen you've seen the truckers that's got like the yosemite sam's mud flaps oh yeah or the like yosemite said he's he's an intimidating character he's a rooting tooting shooting exactly but the garfield just i've seen a lot of garfield i've never seen them get violent

    Natty Bumpercar: in any sort of way he might like move the chair out from od or something but i mean maybe it maybe normal's gonna bother him a little bit yeah normal i suppose i suppose if normal was gonna steal the thing but then he's never packing heat no he's never i don't know i had to go back

    Unknown: to my garfield collection again but i'm pretty sure i don't remember one where he's packing heat

    Natty Bumpercar: you should have gone on snopes.com and check to see if that was a fact or a fiction or whatever

    Unknown: that's what i should yeah i should have done that i should have done that i wish i was it was on the interstate so i wasn't able to uh to take a picture because i've got a very strict so don't

    Natty Bumpercar: drive and gimmick i think uh that we're we're making a lot of cases for why we need dash cams

    Unknown: in this country right oh you know you're exactly right yeah no it's fun some of the times we take the uh the dash cam video if we see something funny we take it back to the station you know on our lunch breaks or whatever we'll put it and we'll make it go and fast forward and we'll play the play the bitty hill music you know it's hilarious it's like look oh look at me look at me give him another ticket oh look that oh no he's crying he's crying and it's it's hilarious when he when you got it sped up like that that's fire and

    Natty Bumpercar: forgot you do audio you do video stuff you like the av club oh yeah i like to i like to do that

    Unknown: kind of stuff it's fun you know got a couple little tricks here and there yeah you got that you know if you if you're gonna make a premium content you know in this day and age i i i don't

    Natty Bumpercar: know nothing about no premium content i read it i hashtag it but man i don't i need no you make

    Unknown: premium cut we're creating premium content as we speak right now wait see maybe that's what it is

    Natty Bumpercar: maybe i can't see the forest for the trees i think that's exactly right i'm looking down at the ground i'm seeing all this pine straw i'm seeing some brush i'm seeing some bramble i'm not even i don't i got no idea i'm right here in the premium content forest i had no this is amazing

    Unknown: yeah that's exactly right you're like i got no time for premium content i'm making premium

    Natty Bumpercar: content over here that's basically what it is it's like i'm in a i'm in a uh i'm in inception is what's happening yeah premium content inception the whole world is folding in on itself i actually didn't see the movie but i saw the preview it looks amazing that's fine that's all you need i i like to pay for movies and then i go and i fall asleep in the popcorn i just my whole head bonk right in the popcorn i i they're like excuse me sir you've been here for two showings of the movie you've got to leave you can't be here anymore yeah it's fine wow that's no good

    Unknown: that seems like uh do you eat the popcorn afterwards it's all stuck to me i don't know

    Natty Bumpercar: you know it's just like they it's like when you go to a bar and they're like hey buddy you can have popcorn at home but you can't have it here and i'm like all right all right don't need to be pushy come on yeah you got to go you know um what is that we were talking about yosemite sam what do you have a favorite saying that he says

    Unknown: that's a weird favorite yosemite sam saying yeah i would i liked it when he says varmint oh he had a lot of different variations on varmint you know varmint varmint you're all varmint i like that i used i brought that into everyday conversations i tried it out uh for a couple of weeks how'd it work out for you it didn't really it didn't catch on like i

    Natty Bumpercar: thought it would it says up here on the road we have these big animals and they're like uh they're not beavers but they kind of look like beavers but they i don't know what that but i call them i call them varmints i'm like oh look there's a varmint or my i think my wife might call them a marmot i don't know what they are and i totally forget hedgehogs groundhogs groundhogs maybe marmot's a thing i don't know what they is but there's these big

    Unknown: brown doodades and they're on the side see now do that that's a good we can work with that one

    Natty Bumpercar: i named my ipad doodade and i thought i liked it it's i was i was pretty happy because like whenever i get a computer or a phone or whatever like my phone is something called like what's he why is it toast no the computer's toast no the computer's foxy and then the ipad is doodade which rhymes and i don't remember the phone's name but it's i'd like to name him because then i pick him up and every so often i'll forget and i'll go into settings and i'm like oh yeah you got a little name don't you that's cool yeah that gives them like uh you know like some personality and stuff i enjoy it so then if they ain't work i could be like foxy what are you

    Unknown: doing to me now come on bro and then it feels bad because it's like well that's true i gotta

    Natty Bumpercar: live up to my name i am supposed to be foxy but then it's embarrassing if i'm at work and have to use my personal computer and i it goes to the black uh the the screen whatever and my boss is sitting there and all of a sudden across the screen it just goes foxy and he's like why why does your computer say foxy and i'm like that's my personal business that's home computer stuff yeah you handle yours i'll handle mine that's another thing you don't

    Unknown: think about uh you know naming stuff if it's going to be out in public this is the same with like a like a dog i noticed would you stop dogs what are dogs doing the dogs is fighting one another's this playing they're doing the things over there would you stop it i hear growling there's growling happening would you stop it there's an old crotchety dog and then the young puppery dog and the puppery dog wants to play yeah old dog wants to nap but old dog's

    Natty Bumpercar: very upset oh it's not it's no good this makes you sad yeah it's a little bit uh it's a little sad you should uh do like i was watching big brother the other day and and last night maybe i don't even know yeah but the producer was like opposite sides of the house because there are people fighting oh you don't yeah you never hear the producer's voice over the speakers but you should do that the dogs just be like opposite sides of the house and see if they actually listen and i doubt it that's right opposite sides of the house what happened they do it it's quiet it's working it's quiet it's working oh look at that reality good idea yeah i need to

    Unknown: watch more reality television that's some good ideas that's gonna set you straight

    Natty Bumpercar: my uh my dog irving brown socks when he was a paparoo we went to dog school and they taught us this thing when he was freaking out and we would have to pat him nice and we go saddle saddle oh and he actually would set like he got it in his brain and this is like now 12 years 13 years later i pulled it out again he was freaking out i was like saddle and he did and i was like how do you remember saddle wow that's amazing yeah he don't even know where his food is half the time but he

    Unknown: remembers saddle this is weird wow that's cool see i don't know that's the thing people take their dogs to dog school it's not really much of a thing uh that we do around here it's it's like it's good enough to put yourself in school he got a diploma if you go so to take the dog it's just like i

    Natty Bumpercar: don't know that's that's rich fancy people talking i think he had to wear a hat like a mortise and

    Unknown: pestle he'd had a thing on that they try they try to sell you graduation picture packages

    Natty Bumpercar: bum bum bum bum bum

    Unknown: come out to the macho man rainy savage theme song and pick up the diploma oh yeah here's your

    Natty Bumpercar: diploma doggie like that yeah a whole deal who let the dogs out of college like that

    Unknown: who let the dogs into debt oh yeah student debt let's not talk about that it's gonna make me cry

    Natty Bumpercar: i actually oh yeah sorry about that somebody i was i was i've known for a long time the other day i was just like i don't want to talk about that he's like are you still and i was like for the rest of my life i'm yeah i'm an intention yeah that's just the way that it goes yeah i'm never getting out of that and then because i'm in this fun situation where i owe so much money and there's so much interest that even when i pay which is every month it still goes up and i'm like i went to a lot of school and i know a little bit about math and i'm pretty sure that this is not how it's supposed to work that's a real deal right there yeah it's just like this is not it's still went up i mean sometimes it's only up by a few bucks but i'm just like that's not a winnable game that's not something we can well you need to pay more than your minimum well i can't because my minimum is too much already thank you so much really good minimum

    Unknown: that that's a misnomer right there minimum my version of minimum and their version of minimum

    Natty Bumpercar: there's two completely different things yeah my version of minimum is can i still defer oh i'm out of those okay you want me to join the army do they take pigs of my size in the army i don't know literally whatever i need to do to get this this elephant off my back this monkey off my back i

    Unknown: will do it that's true no i did not mean to have to bring that up so subject for me too

    Natty Bumpercar: yeah i didn't mean to bring the dogs into it i tried to sell my kids to the uh the student loan people because i figured i could make more kids but i'm never going to get away from these student loans right they they refused i mean they wouldn't they wouldn't even let me send them in and i had them pre-stamped and enveloped and ready to go and they were just like sorry and i'm like well what am i supposed to do with this envelope now you know publisher's clearinghouse hey yo you're gonna send them away there you go you're a winner winner

    Unknown: chicken stuff they must uh they may maybe they listen to your uh to your podcast they hear some stories on the podcast that would make me not want to uh to take the children off your hands

    Natty Bumpercar: yeah that might be i uh somebody i meant the comedy shows they they like to tell me they're like oh yo why none of us want to have kids and i'm like oh that's that okay that's actually good because a lot of comedians probably shouldn't have the kids so yeah that's true yeah they i could only imagine um so let's see what else i was gonna say uh so you you've been on the show what now like a hundred times or so what did this your show yeah i was i mean i don't go to the archives i just know it's been more than a hand i ain't got a hand on it i don't know if it's been

    Unknown: hands but i'm assuming it's more than a handful it's more than a hoof full if uh no this is uh

    Natty Bumpercar: this is number two actually wait this is number two two yeah i had papers drawn up it was but i was telling bumper car was gonna become the bumper car and sock podcast because i thought you'd been

    Unknown: on here like a million times this is toss those jokes out the window you may be thinking of lucid

    Natty Bumpercar: he's maybe lucid he's uh you know no anymore i gotta call rufus t rufus i don't know he's my lawyer he's got to redraw these papers he told him he took this that took him three weeks to write this stuff he's not a very good

    Unknown: lawyer if i'm gonna be honest oh yeah no i'm not uh no i'm not good at math but this is uh what episode 303 and uh that means number two uh for me i don't know the ratio it doesn't seem like

    Natty Bumpercar: it's a very small percent i think it's definitely less than 50 it's a very small percentage definitely less than 50 so i want to so now that i'm finding this out i'm gonna i want i'm gonna shift gears i want to know what people have been asking me about you tell me about sock up before he was sock up before he was a cop when he was just socked wait were you like a baby sock growing up oh yeah yeah yeah i

    Unknown: was a little i was a little baby booty just like everybody else yeah and did you have like a twin

    Natty Bumpercar: i'm assuming because like a little two little pair of you guys running around no no no it's just me i'm an only child okay that's strange to me because in my head i was assuming do you get nervous when you go to laundromat

    Unknown: no i tend not to go i haven't really been to a laundromat in a long time because there's a lot

    Natty Bumpercar: of socks that get lost in laundromats and so that's what i've heard i worry about you that's

    Unknown: what i've heard sometimes i get the uh you know the mail uh comes in you know but that's missing persons i deal with the speeders so that's you know it's a whole nother department wait you got

    Natty Bumpercar: me confused when you said the mail comes in i was just like who is this mail the

    Unknown: six foot mail approximately 200 pounds now on your

    Natty Bumpercar: door at your house do you have it uh marketed like at a 7-eleven where you have like it has the lines on the door so you can see how tall people are when they're leaving no that's a good idea though you could always know you could be like hey my friend is you know he's about six

    Unknown: foot two or something i don't know that's true because you ever think you know if somebody uh you know goes missing or something like that they're like they always say how tall is he

    Natty Bumpercar: i don't know probably big we're going to uh six flakes tomorrow and i already have it in my head uh i'm gonna take a picture of bumper car and i'm gonna take a picture of bumper car and i'm gonna so in case they get lost i could be like they look like this they look oh that's a good idea too yeah picture's good this is what they look like can you find them and then they're gonna be like it shouldn't be hard we'll just announce as a lost pig maybe i mean they're probably looking for you yeah probably so and i'm like bro they ain't looking for me i snuck in the back they don't even know i'm here opposite sides of the house did it work well i think they're wise to me that was an answering but i heard that he was like oh yeah would you go get the job go get a job do something do something with your life yeah you know what the problem is those dogs didn't go to college so they're never gonna get a job yeah they never know they didn't go they didn't do the little

    Unknown: the little graduations and none of that kind of stuff they can't get they can't even get an entry

    Natty Bumpercar: level job in this in this account oh let's talk about this economy huh yeah let's talk about the

    Unknown: economy man

    Natty Bumpercar: jobless numbers are really blowing up huh i don't know what they sure are i don't even know things

    Unknown: i don't know maybe i mean there's still there's still people that have jobs right i i haven't

    Natty Bumpercar: people do i have one and i'm all every day i walk in and i just i i walk in and i look around left and i look right and i'm like they still let me in okay let's keep going in you know there you go

    Unknown: i do yeah every time i think about that sometimes too it's uh you know you get worried there's like a little there's a little gated thing and i got a little badge that i have not like the badge badge but i got the little badge that you got to do to hit you know and but there's about a two second delay before the thing starts opening and i'll always think in those two seconds well they got rid of me yeah that's it there we go they got rid of me don't work no more i guess i didn't even want to tell me i gotta get a new mug because i left it on my desk okay here we go well do you let me do the walk of shame with a box of stuff with a

    Natty Bumpercar: picture frame and stuff you'll get none of it you'll get nothing not at all yeah i mean like i like my job i like but i there's not been a day that's gone by since i started working there that i didn't feel like this is probably the end you know this is like and i don't even i've never i've been there like four years i have no decorations anywhere in my office it's just the most it's you walk in and every day uh i feel my soul to seep out a little bit and i'm just like oh really here we are at this room again perfect maybe i don't know maybe she gets you like a

    Unknown: like a plant or something you know a rubis cube to set there something anything i mean yeah just i don't know maybe that would uh you know bring some happiness to the place i think my fear is

    Natty Bumpercar: you know this is the day that i start moving on in they're gonna be like tap tap tap bt dubs you're out on your you're out of your case done i'm like but what but then what

    Unknown: did you just you just take it back out it's not a big deal what are you afraid of i don't know like it's gonna be too heavy to lift like you got that they're gonna also weaken your muscles you

    Natty Bumpercar: got to take it back out yes bumper cars got me on a very strict uh budget and if he starts seeing that i'm buying aerobics cubes and whatnot you know i'm gonna bring that home what's he gonna throw to me he's gonna and then he's gonna be like tap tap tap you spending money on this stuff add on your keister like that so then i've lost my job i've lost my home what's oh that's no good i know i know so and then i got nothing because so for me i'm i'm a very single pig what about

    Unknown: yourself are you out out on the scene yeah you know i'm on the i'm on the tenders and stuff like that trying to do things yeah yeah you know i'm trying to get some swipes i don't i don't get a whole lot

    Natty Bumpercar: of swipes you ever swiped up that's really that's really real action is no i've never tried swiping

    Unknown: up or down i figured they would bring in some diagonals yeah some sort of crisscross applesauce just drawing like little pictures of who i wish they was or something i don't know look i drew

    Natty Bumpercar: this one to look like a mouse look at that he's got a funny nose now ah whiskers whiskers whiskers i don't even know i've never seen it i don't know what it does but it would be yeah it's just like

    Unknown: a little swiping gimmick and you know it shows you pictures of people and you judge them yeah well

    Natty Bumpercar: that's the world people that's the way that it goes people judge me all i i mean i was just judging a dude in suspenders so i guess that's that's just how i was i was judging an rv on and

    Unknown: i don't even know who it was i didn't even see it was driving it could have been a driverless car one of those new gimmicks so maybe like the people are in the back

    Natty Bumpercar: and yeah just just kicking it let me see there's a diamond in the back a sunroof top kicking in the scene with a gangster lean do you know what that is what is that it's like a poem it's like a snoop dog song i feel like diamond in the back sunroof top oh no no dog stop it these dogs are screaming oh my goodness gracious these dogs have questions

    Unknown: the hounds the hounds have been unleashed oh they're so tiny oh wait is the thing happening

    Natty Bumpercar: the cat is very chill though i'm looking at your cat oh yeah there's the cat

    Unknown: sort of uh kicking it back there wait is that a papa's on chair

    Natty Bumpercar: yeah it's what yeah it's a papa john's chair so anytime i sit in a chair with my kids like if i'm sitting in a chair i'm like hey guys this is a papa's on chair and they're like what i'm like your papa is on this chair oh i get it now i get it it's a tough one and they're like nope and i'm like it's a funny joke and they're like it but it's not and i'm like okay okay no it's a funny joke

    Unknown: i like that i think wordplay right right no it's pretty good well i grew up with uh with uh such literature as uh as hop on pop oh that's it oh you know that's good that's a tight book

    Natty Bumpercar: oh my goodness here we go again we read the book last night the dr seuss book older things you can

    Unknown: think get out of town you read the dr seuss's

    Natty Bumpercar: bro we read several books a night so it's like a big time you know so it's like last night we was reading paint hey how you doing we're doing the things what's in your little bag there no it's okay what are you oh you freaked out because you're seeing okay i understand i and i and i can't comment on it necessarily but i understand why i would freak you out a little bit it's not very often that people get to see what's happening here without other things yeah that's true yeah so you're what you're you're one in a million but actually much less than that like one in ten at this point

    Unknown: i feel like well maybe now that maybe now the dogs will be uh be more behaved well i don't know

    Natty Bumpercar: who know maybe she's gonna you know rile them up or something like that could be because yeah and then everybody's you're gonna have to be like opposite sides of the house and she's gonna be

    Unknown: like what is he talking about you got to listen to everything what is this thing what is this thing come out that doesn't understand the references that we just created you're this fight is gonna

    Natty Bumpercar: go on for like several days and you're just gonna keep messaging me bro when is this thing gonna be out because i just need her to hear the inside joke how much longer can you just put it out what just send me that one part yeah just can you just send me a clip please no sorry bro i've got to make up several other gimmicks to put in the episode before i can put it out live that is true

    Unknown: you've got the the telephone number now yeah how was that you're getting some phone calls or what

    Natty Bumpercar: no you're not getting phone calls i got i've gotten uh three phone calls but then so i've got four two of them from a from a girl she was on the that last episode uh yeah and then um that guy somebody named dennis called which i don't know if it's a dennis that i know i meant to ask him is that the dennis has a podcast that's what i was kind of hoping it was but it didn't say the podcast did it because i wasn't sure i gotta okay then i feel bad because i gotta i gotta tell him he's on the episode uh but then yesterday i get this call and it's like six minutes long and it's a it's like uh i was butt dialed which i was like how was i because then these people these are just having a conversation in the room and i was like am i allowed to put that on the show i feel like i am they called my number right i don't know that i don't know

    Unknown: that's strange yeah that's strange because i've got the i've got a phone number that people could call into the show and stuff like that you know so it's just out there on the internet and every once in a while you know somebody will call that and leave a voicemail

    Natty Bumpercar: or something yeah if i'm not doing a show i put it on the twitters we just got a a facebook page for the bumper podcast and oh get out of there i didn't know you had a facebook page it's like make maybe it's been there a day or two so it's very exciting oh that's cool we started i started putting the uh bumps he started putting the uh episodes on the youtubes so that they could so the facebook so like the lucidi one 300 and the last one the john trumbull and then this one will be on there but so you can get it like through normal podcast places the itunes and whatnot but then you can also go to the other place but uh it's not burning down the scene on the youtubes like i would have liked i think one has three views and one has a zero views so you know

    Unknown: we're growing we're learning that's yeah that sounds like my youtubes yeah like you like you may have actually put on my channel or something like that it's uh

    Natty Bumpercar: like it's a whole bunch of uh goose eggs here's a weird i uh what was it when uh see the periscope of vine i don't know what i did but i imported like a bajillion um different things on and it all went into the youtubes and so i went from having like 30 videos to having like 90 and it made my numbers go because like no one's seen 60 of the videos now oh yeah no that's true

    Unknown: that's a lot of mine too because i took all the vines and then i put them all up on the youtubes whenever the vine whenever they shut it down yeah i took all the downloaded all the vines and i was like well i just put them up on youtubes yeah then i said it where nobody can see it so it's like

    Natty Bumpercar: oh just take some space i miss i miss the vines a lot that was my favorite i love my it was the best oh the vines was pretty good i enjoyed that and especially like once they got to the point where they're adding the functionality so i can do a little do little little bits of stuff i don't massive stuff just little bits of stuff you know and uh i still have like on several days i'll be

    Unknown: like that's a good buy oh never mind i can't buy i still think about that sometimes i'll think in

    Natty Bumpercar: little six second loops yeah because instagram videos or whatever they're too long you can't it doesn't have the same impact like there was something about like uh one two three click one two three click that was like it just had like this real real cool quality i thought but yeah

    Unknown: i liked it a lot i was kind of late to the game i didn't really get into it until uh until later it was like probably just uh just a year or so ago i saw somebody was

    Natty Bumpercar: like this isn't hard to make why doesn't somebody just redo it like with the same functionality and

    Unknown: call it mine or whatever i don't know you know like something else yeah there was there was one i saw there was a clone that popped it was called like kube or something i think about my buddy ogbhs he was a big vine guy and he told me about it he's in jersey right yeah he's yeah he lives in the new

    Natty Bumpercar: jerseys see see he knows oh yeah he lives in the new jerseys yeah he lives in the new jerseys

    Unknown: that's where you stayed yeah yeah yeah i stayed with uh with ogbhs whenever i go up there he's uh

    Natty Bumpercar: he always got a blow-up mattress for me oh that's a good dude i like oh yeah i like that a lot so did you you guys are is he is that is that what a premium content started it was a little

    Unknown: battle between the two of you yeah yeah yeah yeah we're like uh you know we're good buddies but sometimes we'll motivate each other that's good you know create a uh a fake rivalry or some sort of uh or some sort of thing so he so whenever he went from divine to instagrams and he was like i'm gonna get more followers than you still like that and i was like no you're not no you're not but then he he did he really did yeah well he's got like i mean he's got

    Natty Bumpercar: he's got content like he's got he you have to make stuff he has to make stuff too but like yeah

    Unknown: he's got the uh backorder stuff and also he knows how to use robots uh he uses robots how how does i don't know exactly what the robots do i imagine that they are in like some sort of layer and they i don't know what i don't know how it works he won't tell me to see but he's got robots to help him does he go out and take over the world yes yeah it's very much like a robot like maybe you know like it was made out of cans or something like that and with it tapping on stuff and you know this is my this is robot this is the robot from my show i've never seen that bro what what

    Natty Bumpercar: show is this i've never seen it he's on a bumper podcast he's he's he talks every so often oh okay

    Unknown: oh okay i've heard him i've never seen him before

    Natty Bumpercar: yeah he's out of batteries yeah i see if you go to the bumper podcast page there's some photos i think it's called shenanigans in the studio and he's in one of the pictures being crazy oh i love man that is great yeah i mean when i was in grad school i had uh an art installation and it was called robot family and uh that's where i built him and he has a little wife and he has a little baby robot too and they would they were just in this little scene and it made me so and i was like oh that's robot family and my teachers were like no no no did you get the bad grade on him yeah like i went to like undergrad for art school and then i went to graduate school in new york city for art school so you're thinking oh okay you're in art school you make art stuff okay and you can talk about what you make you have stories behind what you make so it means something to somebody whatever but they would still they would look at and they'd be like oh nope nope nope that is not nope and i would get in like fights like yelling and uh once i was just like you let me in this school like you you saw my portfolio before i came up here and you know what kind of stuff i make and now you're telling me it ain't good enough and it was a good it was a good fight it was good fun so oh my goodness great you're gonna

    Unknown: so it's like you're gonna sit here telling me you didn't you didn't see robot family coming from

    Natty Bumpercar: this guy yeah yeah you could see that i used to paint squirrels and now you're telling me that

    Unknown: to you bro so you go to art in art school what is what do you do in an art school you throw money

    Natty Bumpercar: in the drain is what you do yeah i mean what do you want yeah i don't know i just you know i was

    Unknown: just curious i didn't i've never known anybody that went to an art school well so in theory

    Natty Bumpercar: undergrad you're learning a lot of techniques and stuff so like oh here's the different kinds of brushes it's just a flat that is a bright that is around whatever silly stuff like that oh that is a fan um and then you'll learn like the different you learn about pigments and like the the uh how different paints are made so acrylic is it's like all you know play stick and stuff and then oils you got to add like all sorts of tinctures to it to make it work uh and so you learn like how to stretch frames and what it's all made about it's seriously if i was rich it would be amazing and i would love to be like if my parents if my parents are like oh send pig off to school and he'll be fine that'd be great but instead i come from no money and then i go to school like a mope and i'm like i'm in art school look at me now they said i can paint good great great well you're done with school so what are you gonna do now i'm gonna cry no i'm gonna cry and you know but that's i don't know you learn art history stuff and i think there's a lot of things that i've learned in art history stuff and i think there's a lot of things that i've learned in art history stuff and i think there's a lot of there's probably a way that it could be spun so that you would like maybe teach later on or whatever right uh i don't know i'm a pretty big advocate for art i like it a lot um i think it's important to the world like like oh kind of everything is art in my humble imho like you know like you might your little shirts you're wearing or whatever like that's art like it's it's a a textile but still somebody had to draw it then get the color right and it's important to the world like i think it's important to the world like i think it's important so it and so that's uh it's all kind of artistry whatever and then people be like it's not art with a big a it's art with a little a and you're like oh why do we have to differentiate because people like the pigeonhole oh big a's and little a's i can't stand oh wait that's another that's a different uh dr seuss book i was looking at dr seuss abc it goes big a little a what begins with a auntie annie's alligator a a a like that that's stuck in my head pretty good as i go i think dino duck no no i don't know i can't remember never mind i got up to dado so i'm okay that's pretty good there's a lot of the letters i understand that but you know well percentage wise percentage wise it's about as many as as you almost owning the bumper podcast exactly it's like 0.0175 i didn't even hit the one mark no no no not quite will i be getting checks in the mail no because it's nothing it's it's less than one percent you're not gonna see nothing you owe us about yeah yeah for the record yeah we're gonna need we're gonna take your dogs i'm sorry but they look delicious what happened yeah um well sake bro i you guys always i love talking to you so much but it's getting so late here and you know i gotta go night night time oh yeah yeah yeah you got a big day tomorrow look at what you just did i was trying to work into some other joke about beauty sleep but you just knocked it out of the park i don't even have the ball anymore to knock around you just balloons the whamos so uh so where can people find you oh man uh the internet

    Unknown: mostly uh usually on uh i'm on the periscopes a lot uh you just find me suck up on periscopes periscope.tv yeah it's periscope.tv that's the website but it's the app it's the application that you put on your your mobile look at the device i love it i love apples so okay i'll look it's that's similar to that it's like a one piece of a thing that's through the i'll give you go to the website that's uh sock up rocks.com okay and we can that's

    Natty Bumpercar: where we can find you on the twitters and on the uh yeah that'll link to uh to everything the twitter

    Unknown: i spend a lot of time on the twitter i spend way too much time on the twitters now when you're on

    Natty Bumpercar: the twitters i know we were gonna fade now but do you uh put up your own thing and wait for people to comment on that or do you kind of go into other people's things and make comments what are you talking about on the on the twitters yeah because i'm trying to learn like i feel like if i just put something up it gets zero and then if i find somebody who has a thread and especially if it's a volatile thread and i'm like and then people are like and i'm like oh is this how twitters work but then i don't get followers but i get like all these risk mean crash responses and

    Unknown: i'm like oh yeah i guess i won the internet i don't know no there's no i pretty much uh i stick to the uh i just put stuff up on the twitters and i'm like oh yeah i guess i won the internet out there it's you know just like throwing uh some spaghetti up against the wall and you just see what sticks sometimes people like some things and sometimes they don't and then it's uh but that the twitters it's good because there's been i've met a lot of people on there that it just they just do stuff it's cool yeah they just they just do things and they come up with you know little funny witticisms so they maybe do you know like comic-y things and put it out there they just make a weird little video or something they just do it i like just to do it and i'm like hey you're my people because i do that too you make stuff i make stuff we all make stuff together that's exactly right so it's like hey i'll give you a retweet you're gonna be a retweet back and stuff like that and then we talk every once in a while and it's a good time

    Natty Bumpercar: bumper car was saying that you're like the king of the king of the shares he very very much

    Unknown: appreciates it oh yeah yeah yeah no i'm all about the the sharing of things the bumper car is definitely one of those people that does some some cool stuff i go in there every once in a while and look at the look at the ants oh the comic of the ants and stuff i love those

    Natty Bumpercar: the ants are my favorite if bumper car ever gets time he's gonna make a book so it's gonna have the ant like the comic strip in each page and then annotations all around it as to what it could possibly mean oh yeah probably within the next 20 years i guess i'll get to that

    Unknown: i suppose oh wow it's weird that you said 20 because i was willing to pay up to 20 for such

    Natty Bumpercar: a book oh wait a minute yeah so there's one thing is too is it it'd be cool because it probably several volumes because i think i've got several hundred of those things so like i mean i don't know that'd be fun did he ever get like tweeted out why not or maybe they did i might think not but i don't know

    Unknown: i think they were before the twitters oh man you gotta just every once so you don't have to you know don't give away the whole thing but just you know pick a handful and maybe once every couple days just toss you one out there won't like that just yeah this is warm and then uh i love the ants so i'll do a retweetings look at that it's probably some comic book peoples will do some retweetings people be like hey look at his natty bump card character i wonder if there's a pig that talks to people that i can listen to for about an hour and then wham oh there they are and then

    Natty Bumpercar: they go to my website they're like wow wait he's got 300 of these penguin comic strips that ain't make no sense he's got a few hundred of these ant things that make less sense than that he's got three i'm like mr 300 over here 300 podcasts this is who is this guy who is this just just

    Unknown: the genius man that creates things for the world to enjoy i don't

    Natty Bumpercar: i think we should probably end on that because you're gonna make me cry nobody ever says nice things about pump a car oh man who is this sock up anyway all right so they're gonna find you on the twitters they're gonna find you on the periscopes they're gonna find you on your website which is sock cop rocks.com um and that's that's where they're gonna find you right they're gonna find you here too i mean yeah right here because you're gonna be here recording every week we're gonna send you a list of duties okay yeah no that's cool you have a lot of upkeep a lot of stuff to take care of you gotta uh muck the uh stables i hope you don't mind that not good yeah i could do a little mucking okay and you also have to bring the uh the the snickerdoodles

    Unknown: so that's good though snickerdoodle yeah those are good i got uh i've got a great recipe uh that involves buying snickerdoodles and then put them on a tray and i'll try that out for you sounds

    Natty Bumpercar: delicious now with that recipe if you would before you bring me one on a plate drop it in the oven for five to eight seconds but don't tell me and you give it to me i'm gonna be like is this fresh out of the oven and you just say why yes it is pig why yes it is why yes at one point it was all right sock you go to bed because you got to get up early and catch the speeders but thanks again for being on the show i want to have you back sometime okay yeah anytime i'm i have a microphone and i am available i love it all right everybody that was mr sock cop giving us a we will talk to him again i swears on it it's just amazing uh i it's like because pig gets these people on the show and um they their interviews obviously but they they're more like their conversations and you never know where they're gonna go so we've had really good luck so far where uh the three people who have done them and we actually have another one in the can is what they say so for the next show uh a great friend of mine a comedian um but everyone's everyone's doing great talking to pig and that makes me happy because it makes him happy because it gets him off my back speaking of getting people off my back so the kid the kid's gone right at the grandparents uh last week we were we were in the toy room there's carpet in the toy room and there's a there's a table in the toy room right next to the wall and he uh he was he was playing legos and i don't know how it but he looked down in between the table and the wall and there was this spider and the spider was the same color as the carpet so like i didn't even he was just like there's a spider like he's freaking out yelling right and i was just like okay here i'm basically like i'm basically like eeyore around the house because i'm so tired and so beat down uh and they don't seem to be able to do anything for themselves these kids these days and uh so i'm just like okay here i come like that that's it but i was all right what do you want all right and i get in and i see i was like what are you talking about there's no spider and he's like it's right there he's freaking out right point spider there's a spider there's a spider and so i um kind of look down like there's i can't get to the spider because it's behind the table and uh he's like what are you doing your face is down there it's by the spider the spider's gonna get you a spider ah and i was like buddy just relax and i was like no he's coming my way he's coming my way and i was like you know this is a couple minute ordeal but i was just like oh no he's like what he's on a chair he's like standing on a chair like he's in an old uh tom and jerry cartoon and there's a mouse running around the kitchen and he goes i was like he the spider the spider just pointed at me with one of his arms and then he pointed towards the door with his other arm he's emphatically asking me to leave the room and he was just like what like spiders don't what they don't they don't do that like he's he's no he's pointing he's definitely pointing he's just like well you can't leave the room you can't leave me in here in the room without what do you know and i was like god okay i don't know what to do he's still okay no he's coming back he's walking he's walking oh god now he's pointing at you he's pointing at you and he just took out of a fork and a knife i don't even know where the spider got the point he was just like no spiders don't use forks and knives why would he have a fork and a knife it was and this went on for probably like two or three minutes of my favorite most enjoyable torturing my child that i've ever uh ever done and uh you know eventually the spider just kind of disappeared under the carpet but i told him i got the spider i lied about the spider with the fork and the knife uh but i like to uh he's got a great imagination and i like to play with it it makes me happy uh but i hope i'm not gonna send him into therapy when he gets older but he might i don't know the spider didn't have a fork and a knife or did it ah dun dun hey remember earlier how i said i didn't have any calls i forgot i lied about that too evidently i lie a lot i'm sorry no but i uh we have one call and uh i'm excited about it i think it might be by the same person who called before but let's see what she has to ask to say all right

    Unknown: hi naddy i was just calling to a question about pig toys and when did you first acquire or figure it out or settled on one hey this is pig toys and how long I guess did it take for you to I guess I don't know how to say like make it be pig all right that's my question bye

    Natty Bumpercar: all right wow that's a great question this person is two for two on amazing questions the first question was last week about uh who my comedy influencers are uh which I still have to get into that because I that was that was an awesome question but this one is a little bit more of a touchy subject and I um yeah so hi yeah it's me Aloysius I don't think that that's a very important question or necessary question or a question that should be asked uh especially not to you maybe you could ask me that kind of question like hey pig where'd you get your voice you know whatever like that and I'd be like oh you know well lady you know caller I got my voice yeah okay talk how I talk and I stalk how I stalk yeah that's what I said yeah that's how I sing songs we don't have to sing but I don't know but okay you don't have to it's exposition right it's not exposition that's fine okay so uh pig just hold on a second so that's a legit question um because I have and this is not pig is obviously not one of these he's not a puppet yeah but I um I have yeah I have a real hard time with uh I've got uh boxes of puppets uh you do uh that I had the the web comic it was called snowflake and I made a snowflake penguin puppet that I love like I made it and it's like a foot and a half tall and it's awesome and I've never been able to uh to figure out the voice and I used to when I make the cartoons for like spot elliot and peanut lou uh that was the super special that type of thing or peanut louie sounds like this kind of uh uh and it's weird because a lot of times I'll sit there and I'll stare at things I was actually thinking about this just this morning my uh my my in-laws went to I'm gonna say Europe and they brought me home a German pig puppet and it is awesome like I really like it but it is in the uh the the drawer in the little table next to my bed just waiting because it's like the voice has it doesn't just happen I don't I haven't figured out the the ability to just look at it and be like that's your voice but it's more like uh when the right voice happens then I it's there um I used to pig used to hang out with a moose named yetkin he never had a voice he actually had a dog squeaker in his mouth um and I have who else I mean there's a horse named cinnamon and all he does is he kind of walks by and looks at the camera and a lot of it is just because I don't know what they sound like now with all that being said uh pig when I this is years ago he made a video called what does pig sound like and like literally he just we were in Hoboken on on the riverfront and he was walking around and just trying to figure out what he sounded like and but I'm just gonna say by luck something clicked and that was a voice that stuck something stuck something clicked you know what I've been talking this way my entire life and I'm of life ever since I could talk ever since I was a little bitty pig a little bitty baby pig you know I was raspy and I had an accent and I say words the way I say words so when you come in and you're like oh you know I got puppets and everything and I already got people talking to me talking about me saying that I'm a puppet you know I read the internet I hear I hear the comments and so I don't it don't help that they all of a sudden they're like what are you a a linguist are you a voice coach you're none of those things bumps I mean you're my pal we hang out we do the bump podcast but I you ain't you ain't making my voice up but I just want to be clear that'd be as silly as a question as me being like somebody being like hey how did you come up with bumper cars voice and I'd be like well I took a marshmallow and I put it next to some butter and then I put some rice krispies in it you know yeah I'm saying you sound like a rice krispie treat I apologize that might be a little bit ruder than I meant it to be because you're a nice dude again okay we're all lucky we're all yeah it is I think it's fine fine fine fine it's a fine question all right all right moving along can we move along we're done all right well okay yes move you take over you're welcome thank you um so again great question keep sending questions you send great questions and I really enjoy answering your questions um but you know it's just who knows who knows who knows and how long did it take it was when it clicked it clicked and but I wasn't like searching around for it it was just like kind of like I like to keep my eyes open to the universe and what it gives me or whatever and sometimes it gives me things and I know when those things work and then I take them and then I use them and they make me happy so thank you for your call thank you thank you um all right um we did it we did it we did have a call-in segment we didn't have a review today that's fine um we're not always going to have reviews we are trying to figure out other segments even though I feel like the ones we have so far are working out pretty awesomely I think the interviews are going great uh the call-ins when we have the calls are great uh I'm actually at the point now where I have more people lined up that I want to interview than I have time to do which is a good problem to have so I just got to kind of juggle and make sure that I get everybody in that I want to get in and uh you know it's fun it expands it expands the world because we bring in these new people and and we get to hear uh what they what they talk about when what they think um and I will say uh while I was recording this I did look over and I saw a spider and he was giving me kind of the uh the hands across the throat like wrap it up like hey too too long too long in the podcast and I was just like listen look at this guys it's a spider it's a spider and it's a spider and it's a spider and it's a spider spider people seem to like these longer episodes especially when there's people being interviewed in them speaking of people being interviewed i want to thank my pal sock cop for being on the show he's awesome you should go and watch everything he makes you should go and hang out with him on the twitters because he makes great stuff he makes great stuff and uh we need to your stuff and interact with it because it gives it a whole other life a whole other meaning so thank you a million miles for listening to the bumper podcast and for being awesome and i'll talk to you