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Bumperpodcast #416 – Season 2 – Interview

Not to excite you too much, but Pig is finally back at it with his stellar interviewing. Or is he?!?
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Hi, everybody, it’s me Natty Bumpercar And this is the bumper podcast. Now, you might be wondering, why are you so excited Natty? What can possibly be so great that you’re so excited? Well, we decided that we’re going to bring back a cool new segment here on the bumper podcast, with our pow Aloysius J pig. It’s called pig interviews. And so without further ado, I’m gonna Aloysius J. Pig 0:34 Hey, Natty. What did we do? What are you doing? I do want an intro for the pig interviews thing. Natty Bumpercar 0:38 Yeah, I’m super excited. Like, we haven’t done an interview and so long like, and people used to love those. And we did the interviews and so I’m, Aloysius J. Pig 0:47 I’m super excited. Yeah, excitement might be a little bit premature, as they say in the business. As I know, we talked about doing an interview, but I actually don’t have any kind of interview set up. We we never actually did that. Oh, Natty Bumpercar 1:03 wait, but I thought we talked about doing it. And I figured that since it’s your second segment that you were just gonna go and like find somebody to interview and, and do it. Like, you set everything up. Aloysius J. Pig 1:15 I we’ve known each other for a long time. Now, I think and I think it’s, it’s very presumptuous of you to assume that I’m going to discuss, we kind of talk about something that I’m then going to just get up and go do it. Like, you know, I need I need a list. It’s a bullet point or something No, like an actual call to action or something. But But I Natty Bumpercar 1:39 I don’t want to waste the podcast on this. But we had a meeting. And everybody was like, you know, how can I be more involved and producer we talked to him about what he can do. Which was I think, like make new music beds because this was getting kind of old. We talked to Rufus about I don’t remember what I talked to him about honestly, but we talked to you about we talked to do to poodle about making new artwork for every episode. And but we talked to you and we said okay, pig, you want to thing you had this pig interviews and just go go and do that again. And I did you did you did you need more? Like, like, yeah, like I said, Aloysius J. Pig 2:15 I wanted I wanted some bullet points. You know, I mean, I work off of lists, and I work off of bullet points. So if you could just put that into bullet points and I think I would very much appreciate it and then I could be up be out on my way out my business and Natty Bumpercar 2:30 whatnot. Okay, cool. So here’s your bullet list. Ready? Go do an interview. That’s it. Bullet go do an interview Aloysius. That’s, that’s that’s your list. Really. If you want me to break it down, find someone to interview and then interview them. That’s really it’s all you have to do. And then we will put the segment pig interviews back into the show. Is that okay? I sound mad. I think I sound Do I sound angry? Rufus T. Rufus 3:00 Me Rufus. Rufus. I just heard there’s an argument going on in here and I just wanted to make sure everything was okay. You know, as the resident lawyer and also sometimes the HR department, I like to stay on top of things tipped up things and I’m trying to make sure that everything is smooth like butter. So Is everything okay? Aloysius J. Pig 3:21 Yeah, no, it’s so it’s not okay. Cuz Bumpercar Over there. He evidently we had some meeting and I mean, I don’t know, you know, we have all these meetings. It’s always like, Oh, look at my schedule. It’s like, oh, we have a meeting. Oh, we have another meeting. Meeting. The meeting. I have an email about the meeting about the minutes too many meetings. So I kind of might maybe I zoned out. I don’t know. I don’t remember. But evidently, he’s expecting me to interview here today. And I ain’t got one so and he’s all you know, he’s all up in arms about it. And I don’t know what to do. Well, yeah, I’m Natty Bumpercar 3:52 frustrated. But I don’t want to make the whole show about this. So we’re just going to move on. We’re not going to have an interview. And that’s fine. It’s we’ll just talk about something else. I’m gonna have any ideas? Yeah, I Rufus T. Rufus 4:05 got me an idea. It’s gonna make everybody happy. Aloysius, you’re gonna get your interview. And Nana you’re going to you’re going to be able to calm down a bit. Why don’t Natty Bumpercar 4:18 we’re not going to interview you Rufus. Absolutely not. That’s not it. No, absolutely Rufus T. Rufus 4:22 not. I wasn’t saying that. What I was saying was, you know, I’ve got an idea. Why don’t you interview one of your children bumper car? Aloysius J. Pig 4:31 Are they still around? Are they still okay? I’m fine with that if that’s what we want to do. Go bumpy go rascal wrangler one year, kids. Let’s do this. Natty Bumpercar 4:40 Bumpy. Okay, I’ll be right back. You guys do what you will. Aloysius J. Pig 4:43 Yeah. Huh. I don’t really know what oh, hey, wait, there’s one of them. Now go grab Rufus. Go grab that one. You wait would child please come on over here. We’re Rufus T. Rufus 4:54 gonna Aloysius wants to say hi to you. Aloysius J. Pig 4:57 Okay. Hi, Al. At wacky I always forget I get you to mixed up. Which one? Which one? Are you? Are you? Are you being? Are you rice? Are you? Chicken? Are you rice? I’m very hungry evidently. Emerson 5:11 No, I’m Emerson. Aloysius J. Pig 5:13 Wait, are you serious? That’s actually your name? Emerson 5:16 Yes. Aloysius J. Pig 5:18 Great. So I guess I’m supposed to end have you weigh anything going on in the world that you get excited about? Maybe Emerson 5:27 summer? Natty Bumpercar 5:28 Hey, guys. Good. You found Emerson pig. So are you? Are you just going to talk to him? Or is that what’s going on? Aloysius J. Pig 5:34 Yep. Yeah, so you can go on about your day. Bumpercar And I’m gonna sit here and we’re gonna, I’m gonna interview with a kid you know, so we can talk about whatever we talk about, right? Yeah, that’s fine. That’s fine. Emerson if he says anything mean to you just let me know. Rufus T. Rufus 5:49 Okay, hold on a second. Yeah, that’s fine. He’s not gonna say anything mean to you? Not with I’ll stand here. I’ll be God. So I’ll protect you from this pick. Yeah, all right. Aloysius J. Pig 5:59 Yeah, it’s gonna be fine. Anyway, so you said your name was Sam or something? Emerson 6:04 Emerson? Aloysius J. Pig 6:05 That seriously? Your name? Emerson 6:07 Yes. Aloysius J. Pig 6:07 Okay. All right. I know what it does. Every time I say it. I’m just like, is that really his name? But it is so Emerson good to get to meet you. How do you spell that? Is that like, Emerson 6:20 E R? S O N? Aloysius J. Pig 6:21 e m e r s o s like a song? It is doing it don’t let me write e m e r y FQ I know. Emerson 6:31 E M E RR. Aloysius J. Pig 6:33 e m e os. That’s e n e r s o m e. S O N. Sun. The last three letters of your name is son. Who’s your brother moon? Rufus T. Rufus 6:49 Hold on Allah wishes that we talked. There was good one. No, we don’t bump a god and we’re gonna be nice to this job. Don’t Don’t be making fun of note. None of the kids. Okay, if there’s just got to be nice. Yeah. All Aloysius J. Pig 7:01 right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, fine. Okay, so and my son I’m Aloysius we’ve met before, correct? Emerson 7:09 Yes, Aloysius J. Pig 7:09 yes. Is there anything in particular that you’re excited about? Yeah. What do you any any fun things? Emerson 7:15 Summer. Aloysius J. Pig 7:16 You said it with a question mark at the end. You were like summer? Emerson 7:19 No. Aloysius J. Pig 7:22 You’re gonna do anything big this summer. Emerson 7:23 Legoland. Aloysius J. Pig 7:24 You’re gonna. What? Buy it? No, you’re gonna. You’re gonna move to Legoland bumper cars gonna be so sad. Emerson 7:32 No, no. Stay there Aloysius J. Pig 7:34 for a day. Oh, like a day trip? Emerson 7:37 Yeah. Aloysius J. Pig 7:38 Oh, that’s fun. What do you do it like a land? Did we’ll eat Legos. No. Ice cream made of Legos. Hot dogs. Hot dogs. Now, cucumbers made of Legos. Are you a vegetarian? No. It’s interesting. Okay. What about the pool? Do you go to the you like go into the pool? Emerson 8:01 Yes. Aloysius J. Pig 8:02 And what do you do they I mean, that’s that’s the basic answer. Yeah, but if you like do do run around the pool. Emerson 8:11 Yes. Aloysius J. Pig 8:12 Well, you’re not supposed to run around the pool. Isn’t that the rule? No running. No horseplay. No shenanigans. Emerson 8:19 No. Aloysius J. Pig 8:20 Do you get into shenanigans at the pool? Emerson 8:22 No. Aloysius J. Pig 8:23 Okay, well, that’s good. I was worried that you might do Can you do a game? Have you ever done a side flip? Emerson 8:32 No, but I’ve done a front flip. Aloysius J. Pig 8:34 A front flip. How’s it is so terrifying because like you’re you’re looking and you’re flipping in your eyes and you’re spinning up in the air? No. Wow. That’s very impressive. Are you going to take any any big trips this summer? Emerson 8:51 Yes. Aloysius J. Pig 8:52 Oh, well, you’re gonna go Emerson 8:53 Cape Cod. You’re not coming? Aloysius J. Pig 8:55 I can I please I know. You guys would always go there. But can this you know let me come Can I please come to the beach? I don’t want to talk to him. He’s mad at me right now because of this whole interview situation. Fine. I’ll talk to natty You got any other things you want to say on pig interviews today? Emerson 9:14 No. Aloysius J. Pig 9:15 Nothing to promote nothing to to put out there. No. Are you dropping any new albums? Emerson 9:21 No. Aloysius J. Pig 9:21 No. Okay, any? Are you doing any movies coming up? No. Does your restaurant have any cool specials that you want to promote? I don’t know. I’m just struck by man. I’m just I’m just struggling it you know? Well, listen. I want to thank you for coming by. Did you have any fun? Yes. Okay. Well, you’re you’re a man of few words. Really. This is I appreciate that. You’re succinct. That’s what they say in the business. Well, good to meet you son of Emma. And my son used to get that son of Emma. It makes you sound like you’re from Thor or something like that. Odin son. Mr. Sun, maybe maybe, okay, well, you out you run along and do all that good stuff. We’ll check you later. Okay. Emerson 10:08 Yeah, Rufus T. Rufus 10:09 well, there he was. I mean, that was a legitimate interview it went a few minutes and we really found out a lot about. He’s gonna, child is gonna go to the pool where he’s going to swim. He’s not going to engage in horseplay. He is going to break the rules of running a little bit, which we do not approve of, honestly, but hold on. It comes next. Let me yeah, we’re done. Come Natty Bumpercar 10:30 on. Come on in. Hey, hey, hey, guys. How did it go? I sent my kid just ran past me was that was a yo k was everything. Okay. You Aloysius J. Pig 10:38 know, it was good. Yeah, he was good on the microphone. He actually answered some questions. You know, it’s, what are these kids? Sometimes it’s like, yes, no, no, Natty Bumpercar 10:49 maybe it’s like, it’s like you’re you’re interviewing a scantron test or something. But that’s, you know, it’s fine. Because, you know, he seemed to enjoy it. He seemed to have fun. I don’t know whether he ran out it really? Yeah. But I mean, it wasn’t he wasn’t like running out crying or anything. So the great, awesome, so that you know what, fine, you win, Rufus. That was a great idea. We had a pig interview. And but normally, so I think let’s try to figure out some more. If there’s anybody out there who wants to be interviewed by pig and be on the bumper podcast, we’d love to have you. And, you know, if you whatever you do, if you make stuff if you don’t make stuff if you like stuff if you don’t like stuff, let us know. And and pig would love to talk to you. He’s normally an expert Interviewer I have to listen to this one at the end to see how it went. But I think it’d be fine. How did we produce it? We haven’t done that in a while. How Producer 11:43 are the levels? You know, I’m surely not evil, either child who’s kind of fired from the mic, but I think I can boost it up and I can make it work because you know what, that’s what the producer does. Make it work. Natty Bumpercar 11:55 You do get it get it. Outro 12:09 The bumper podcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp with Natty Bumpercar and some of his pals. It is family friendly, clean and ridiculous. Thanks a bundle for listening. If you love our show, and you’d like to help support the podcast, check out our Patreon page at https colon forward slash forward slash www.patreon.com forward slash Natty Bumpercar also pretty please subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, share it with everyone everywhere. post about it on all of the social medias or leave a rating and review. The bumper podcast is produced at headquarters in coffee can alley it’s recorded mixed and produced by producer. The bumper podcast features contributions from Aloysius jpg Rufus T Rufus doodle poodle, robot trunks and a gaggle of other silly rascals. Our head talker is probably Natty Bumpercar. We also have an absurd newsletter. Check it out and subscribe at Natty bumpercar.com/subscribe Also, you can follow me on Instagram and Twitter at Natty Bumpercar Hugs and hearts See you soon. NonPro 13:29 This has been a non productive media presentation, executive producer Franco Blaue. 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June 25, 2022
Bumperpodcast #367 – Time is a flat circle

Natty starts talking about time, and baubles, and then gets a bit nostalgic, and also a bit flustered. It’s almost like deja vu!

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About This Episode

In episode 367 of the Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar reflects on post-holiday blues and the passage of time after all the festive decorations come down. Host Natty explores deep concepts like "time is a flat circle" and nostalgia, sharing humorous stories about conflating memories of family dogs Popcorn and Irving Brown Socks. The episode takes listeners through Natty's personal experiences with déjà vu, cave crickets in a Georgia crawl space, and his children's nostalgia for "the good old days" at the brown house. Natty wraps up with motivational thoughts about using time wisely and the mysterious Tree Wolf who takes away Christmas trees each year, leaving pine needles everywhere.

Memorable Quotes

“Did you know in school in my yearbook I was labeled the one who likes fancy doodads the most? My middle name is sparkly doodad bumper car. It's not but…”
— Natty Bumpercar

“The tree wolf comes out of the forest and he takes our tree and he drags it back into the forest. The tree wolf is not a clean wolf, he's a dirty wolf.”
— Natty Bumpercar

“Time is a flat circle and time is not linear. Your memories, the older you get they all build up and sometimes they start to get a little bit combined.”
— Natty Bumpercar

Topics: #time #nostalgia #post-holiday #memories #philosophy #family #dogs #motivation

Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

Full Transcript

Natty Bumpercar: oh woe is me woe is me woe is me it is that time of year when all of the beautiful sparkly baubles go away the lights the trees the ornaments all the fancy doodads and it makes me so sad because i love fancy doodads why did you know in school in my yearbook i was labeled the one who likes fancy doodads the most did you know that my middle name is sparkly doodad bumper car it's not but guys it's it's hard because we just went through all the big holidays you had your thanksgivings you had all this stuff in december we had new year's and now we're just in june january oh january it's this cold month that's just here and it's fine it's good i'm not gonna knock january why one of my sweet beautiful children was born in january but it's it's it's it's not the best month because i mean what do i yeah all the fun stuff just to happen now we gotta wait we gotta wait for what's the next thing valentine's day all right did you know i was at the grocery store the other day and uh they were taking all the christmas stuff down so this was december 26th and they were putting the valentine's day stuff up in december and i was just like no grocery store i will not buy your heart-shaped candies yet not until february 12th in a rush a mad rush that's when i get my cards and whatnot you know here's the thing it made me think of time and and i read i there was a cool uh little not slogan little saying call it says time is a flat circle and i was like what does that mean what is a flat what does that mean like a flat circle i guess if it was a 3d circle it would be a ball but time is a flat circle and so it was just kind of like the things that you have done will come back around and you'll do them again and again and again throughout your entire life i don't and i don't know really what the point of it is i guess it's just to say to pay attention you know also time is not linear what does linear mean it means like a straight line so time can fold back on you on itself and i know that doesn't make any sense but time is weird if you think about it you know you're born you live you do your life and then you're in you go away i guess i don't know i don't know what happens i haven't been there yet but you have memories and you have nostalgia and what that is is when the holidays come and maybe you smell a candle that smells like a tree and then you have another time that you smelled a candle that smelled like a tree and the time kind of folds in on itself and your memories and the older you get your memories they all build up right and so sometimes they start to get a little bit combined um especially my brain loves to conflate things what does conflate mean it means to just kind of squish things together a little bit sometimes unintended it's like how i uh you know i'll look at our dog popcorn who's uh 10 months old beagle black lab maybe you've met her i hope you have and uh just seeing her uh the way she'll run in the backyard sometimes will uh make me have little flashbacks to memories of irving brown socks my my puppy dog uh and then i start to think about things that socks did but things that popcorn did and then i can't remember which of the dogs actually did that thing and then i start to conflate them and then i just put them in the uh dog folder in my brain i'm like well that's a dog activity i'm just gonna put it in the dog box this is where the memories of dog things go and sometimes if it gets jostled or shaken up or moved around i'm just gonna put it in the dog box and then i start to think about then uh you know maybe one of the two of the thoughts will get a little confused um now that's a funny thing because it can get confusing have you ever had deja vu do you know what that is deja vu is super cool that's when you're doing something and then you kind of your brain goes wait a minute haven't i been here before haven't i done this thing before already wasn't i already in this exact spot or you know somebody will say to you like uh uh oh i'll have a fruit smoothie and you're like yeah you will how did i know you were gonna say that i feel like i've been in this very moment already and i don't know what deja vu is is it just your mind working quicker than the world around it is it just you know maybe you were kind of not focused not paying attention and then you come back to the world and it's kind of overwhelming and your brain is just like ah this is that okay here we are and this is what's happening i don't know is it is it uh shadows of whispers of memories of of things that are happening i don't know i don't know we're not learning i mean we're learning all kinds of fun stuff what we learned so far time is a flat circle time is not linear the one i just said deja vu that one conflation that was a big one to learn today um but so the older you get it's it's it's fun even my kids they uh you know 10 and 7 they they they will get nostalgic for things in their past i mean emerson's only 10 years old but he'll be like oh i remember the good old days remember the good old days i'm like what is the good old what does that mean to you what are the good old days you're 10 years old all your days have been pretty good what are the what are the good old days he's like ah the good old days where we lived in the brown house i'm like ah yes the brown house uh emerson has a a few touchstones uh that he likes to his memories go back to they flow back to and the brown house is one of them remember the brown house dad and i'm like yeah you were four how do you like what kind of foundational memories were you making at the brown house i remember the brown house was cold i remember the brown house was uh uh dark and it had um those cave crickets in the basement what are cave crickets they're horrifying monstrous little bugs that have these four legs and when they bounce they go boom like that and they're aggressive they'll come at you they're not bugs that are like i'm gonna scurry away i don't want to see people no they're bugs that are like like hey hey hey you hey hey you're like no no thank you i don't want no thank you please no go away bug not a fan not a fan when we used to live in georgia this was pre-children uh i had to do a lot of work under our house we had a crawl space a crawl space is a space under a house uh it's usually like three i think ours is maybe two and a half three feet so not not not a lot dirt you know it's the the ground is under the house dirt yucky dirt dirt dirt dirt and i had to go under there and clean out the whole space take everything that was out in there out and then i put in uh a new uh i put stuff called lime which is just some stuff you put in the dirt i don't know it changes the ph what does that mean i don't know so i was told to do and then i had to put this new liner on the ground to keep the moisture from the ground away from the house and as i'm doing all this work by myself in the dark these crickets would come at me constantly like boing boing boing what are you doing boing what are you doing boing what are you doing boing and i was just like please leave me alone i couldn't even sit up in there so i'd have to roll away from them and they would follow me and they were faster at hopping than i was at rolling and it was just not pleasant it was just not pleasant at all i'm hoping that that is not something if time is in fact a flat circle that is going to come around to me again and again i don't want to have any more confrontation i don't want to have any more confrontation i don't with cave crickets don't want to at all back to the point and time use it preciously use it wisely don't dawdle get as much stuff done as you can don't overextend yourself because if you do you might get sick and i don't want you to get tired okay i want you to live to your potential with and use your time as best you can and i don't want you to get tired okay i want you to live to your best as you can make yourself happy do good things for yourself do good things for other people use your time wisely right right this has become a motivational speech and i'm fine with that time is not infinite your your your time is finite finite finite finite infinite finite finite no finite uh what does that mean that means there's a beginning and there's an end so use all the time that you have as best as you can and and it'll be great it'll be great even if you have to rest a little bit that's still using your time just be cognizant be aware that you're using your time it'll be good it'll be good i uh i was reading all these quotes like famous people quotes and it was just they were all basically like um you know what was it uh this is uh charles darwin said a man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life okay so don't waste your time charles we got it charles darwin one day you should look him up he's cool he went to the galapagos islands there were turtles there there's more to them but that's that's that's just the high notes we're just hitting the high notes guy named uh let's see thomas jefferson you ever heard of him he's a big name says determined never to be idle no person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any it is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing so just do stuff i mean these guys are much wordier than i am i'm basically like uh you should do some stuff maybe you should do some stuff like i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know like that but um anyway guys you know what i'm gonna go be nostalgic about my my my baubles my tree my christmas lights i'm gonna go uh clean up the glitter that fell on the ground as i was moving things oh and i'm gonna tell you one one more quick story so in our house here at headquarters every year the uh when it's time to take the tree down we take we have to take everything off the tree we take all the ornaments we take the lights off and uh then the tree wolf comes out of the forest and he takes our tree and he drags it back into the forest and i don't know what happens after that do you guys have a tree wolf where does your tree go how did who how does your tree leave the house my kids they some of them they were like dad you take the tree out and i was just like that's not even possible i can't pick this tree up it's too big doesn't even fit through the door the tree wolf does it and the worst thing about the tree wolf is that when he drags the tree out of the house he leaves all the needles everywhere the tree wolf is not a clean wolf he's a dirty wolf but anyway collecting trees for all these years out in the forest out in the woods i don't know what his plan is i don't know what his angle is but i know the tree wolf means business and i do too and you do too you know why because you're the bumper podcast cateers and it's a new year new year what does that mean we're getting stickers made pretty soon i'll tell you how you can get a sticker so just keep listening keep being awesome i love you you're my best friend all right

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January 16, 2020
Bumperpodcast 204: Who pays the bees?

First there is a donkey – and then – Natty Bumpercar hosts an advice segment – and then there is some talk about bees. Why does it always go back to bees and donkeys?

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About This Episode

In this energetic episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar opens with a brand new donkey-noise intro and spirals into a hilarious caffeine-fueled monologue about honey peanut butter. What starts as a comedy podcast quickly transforms into an impromptu self-help session complete with breathing exercises and life advice. Natty bounces between topics including Eastern European poetry, bee economics, and the philosophy of excitement. After mentioning some recent technical difficulties, he shares his enthusiasm for behind-the-scenes improvements and wraps up with an oddly profound lesson about when it's appropriate to be excited for others. This stream-of-consciousness episode perfectly captures Natty's trademark rambling charm.

Memorable Quotes

“This became like a self-help podcast there we started off with a donkey noise and now 2015 the bumper podcast you know what it's about it's about everything it's about you it's about me it's about them it's about all of it”

— Natty Bumpercar

“I'm wondering if i should just skip the peanut butter all together and just have straight straight honey just have a spoonful of honey every day”

— Natty Bumpercar

“Always be excited if other people are excited unless those people are excited for something bad happening to you or someone else in the world”

— Natty Bumpercar

Topics: #self-help #food #philosophy #excitement #podcasting #streamofconsciousness #improvisation

Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

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Natty Bumpercar: that's our new intro i i just wrote it this week i wasn't sure do you how do you guys feel about it do you like it does does it does it is it what you is it the good is it a good thing that you want to listen to every day wow sorry i had uh honey peanut butter this morning peanut butter with honey in it and i feel like things are kind of uh uh off the charts a little bit oh like if the meter is over here in the kind of left hand side then it kind of went up to the very middle and then boom over all the way to the right side it's like buried in the right side um that's kind of funny it's been this is natty bumper car and i think we should all just take some deep breaths through our nose and out of our mouths and through our nose and out of our mouths and everybody exhale wow this became like a self-help podcast there we started off with a donkey noise and now 2015 the bumper podcast you know what it's about it's about everything it's about you it's about me it's about them it's about all of it okay so if we're gonna cover all that ground we're gonna jump around a little bit we're gonna skip around we're gonna do a little a little dance probably maybe even two or three little dances did you hear that i talked so much that i i uh i had to swallow do you ever have you ever been in a conversation hi everybody it's me natty bumper car how are you doing today i'm doing a little dance i'm doing a little dance i'm doing a little dance are you doing this week i missed you so much like really i feel like what we should just do is have a 24 hour seven day a week bumper podcast where uh i can i'm just talking to you and and wondering what you're thinking and what you're saying back to me do you ever talk back to me ever that was a spot there where you could have you could have done it if you hadn't ever done it before i wanted to make sure you had enough time to be like yeah bumper car you know what i do talk back to you sometimes or whatever however you talk you're like oh yeah i'm trying to talk to you as much as i would like to talk to you mr bumper car or uh uh i think that was an eastern european language which i i really i don't dip into as much as i as i should um from what i understand poetry much better when read in eastern european uh dialects and uh numbers also which is you know two things that are kind of opposite spectrum numbers and poetry but both this is rumor that i've heard better eastern european wow i i'm wondering if i should just skip the peanut butter all together and just have straight straight honey just have a spoonful of honey every day and how do what do we pay the bees to to make this honey do they get the honey or do they get the honey some sort of compensation or do the bees just make it and we take it oh they make it we take it you bought it you break it if you break it you make it we take it you bought it if you break it um so this is a bumper podcast and after a few weeks of technical difficulties on the back end that you don't need to know about we've got some things figured out and it's pretty cool i'm gonna say and by saying i mean i'm not gonna say because it's kind of boring because it's behind the scenes but i'm excited and since i'm excited i'm hoping you're excited too because you should always be excited when other people are excited you should not be jealous when other people are excited unless they're excited at something bad that happened to you or somebody else in which case you can in fact be not excited that they're excited i got lost in my train of thought there so the lesson for today is always be excited if other people are excited unless those people are excited for something bad happening to you or someone else in the world it's a good lesson i think that's a good thing to live by i hope that this week there's a lot more excitement in the world and i hope that that you're i mean i feel like what self-help see we're turning it back around we're bringing it back i just hope that we don't go back to the um to the donkey ha

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January 14, 2015
Bumperpodcast #181: Fingers

Natty Bumpercar is excited to talk all about something – but then gets confused about fingers … This is something that happens often – as you may imagine.

Do you have fingers? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

I get so confused – sometimes!

About This Episode

In episode 181, Natty Bumpercar explores the existential question of pointing in this characteristically rambling solo episode. He contemplates whether you can point with fingers other than your pointer finger, debates the hierarchy of being pointed at with different digits, and gets lost in a philosophical tangent about finger names. Natty ponders whether thumbs count as fingers and realizes the middle finger is only truly 'middle' if you include the thumb. He also briefly shares contrasting recent comedy experiences—his worst show ever with a terrible headliner, followed just days later by one of his best performances in front of a large, enthusiastic crowd. By the end, Natty decides that talking about fingers has made everyone best friends.

Memorable Quotes

“You got to feel like if you're getting the pointer finger you're at the top of the charts. But you got pointed at with a thumb? You shouldn't even acknowledge that.”

— Natty Bumpercar

“The middle finger is not a middle finger unless you include that thumb because if you just go pointer, that one, that one, pinky, there is no middle finger because there's four.”

— Natty Bumpercar

“Now that we've all talked about fingers this whole time, I feel like we're all best friends too, right?”

— Natty Bumpercar

Topics: #pointing #fingers #anatomy #comedy #stand-upcomedy #friendship #philosophy

Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

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Natty Bumpercar: bumper podcast bumper podcast bumper podcast it's me your best pal and uh i have got i'm i'm pointing at you right now and you i'm pointing at a couple people i well let's think of something really quick here uh so if you got pointer fingers right does that mean that you're limited to only pointing at two people at a time like can i be like point point or are you allowed to point with other fingers like can i pinky point so like you got your uh your pointer finger over here and then my pinky finger boom across the room i got you too and then look at this uh-oh here comes another finger coming up and another one and a and a thumb who wants a thumb point and this is i mean like you got to feel like if you're getting the pointer finger and you're pretty you're feeling like you're at the top of the ladder there you're at the top of the charts you're like he just pointed at me with his pointer finger it actually has the word point in in the name of the finger so he clearly thinks more of me than the person that he pointed to oh with his thumb you got pointed at with a thumb what you shouldn't even acknowledge that you shouldn't even recognize just act like the because the thumb you just act like it's there don't act like it's pointing at you don't like because you know like when somebody will point at you sometimes you'll have that look in your face like you'll raise your eyebrows and you're like oh oh oh are you i think he's pointing at me i think i'm being pointed at right now it don't you know your brow furrows a little bit you maybe get a little little glow in your eyes because you're it's just like you're on deck you've been pointed at you are it's official that you you're part of there's communication happening you're in the inner circle you're uh you're you're mount everest somehow uh but then somebody's gonna throw their their stubby meaty little thumb at you yeah that's not a point that's not even a half point that's just like oh you're an afterthought you didn't make now i'm looking at my fingers do they all have a point? names i mean like so you got your thumb you got your pointer finger uh is it just middle finger i don't know and then i guess it's ring finger but i don't think it's ring finger if it's on your right hand and then it's definitely pinky i've got thumb and pinky and pointer i've got i know those names does any can can everybody out you got fingers everybody listening how many fingers do you can you tell me what the uh the two fingers in between the pointer and the pinky are is the one next to the pinky always a ring finger and then is that one just the middle see but that's the thing too all right look at this now i'm looking at my hand and if this one is if this one's called the middle finger right then that's saying the thumb is a finger because sometimes i hear like the thumb's not a finger it's thumb and i'm just like but i i think it's i think it's just like a little finger right it's used for gripping thing i don't know it's it's fingerish it's got finger like qualities so and the middle finger is not a middle finger unless you include that thumb because if you just go pointer uh that one that one pinky there is no middle finger because there's four you know there's no middle and four and uh i really feel like i was going to talk about other things today i was going to tell you guys that in the last couple weeks i last week and a half really i had uh the worst comedy experience that i've ever had uh it was terrible i i had i was um the i was the host of a show and and the headliner couldn't have been a worse and i don't speak ill of people but he could not have been a worse uh human being to me uh and he he kind of sabotaged i felt and wrecked the show and i did not enjoy my evening at all but then let's blink our eyes uh fast forward a mere one two three four days and i had one of the best nights that i've ever had like the most fun in front of a lot a lot of people like a like a like a hundred but more and they were all my best and now that we've all talked about fingers this whole time i feel like we're all best friends too right

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November 13, 2013
Bumperpodcast #163: I just don’t know

Spring has sprung around Headquarters!

And – Natty Bumpercar realizes that he doesn’t know everything in the world – which is disturbing. So – a mission is sent out to all of my pals … Tell me all of the things in the world that I don’t know.

Do you know things? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

We’ll be awsomer!

About This Episode

In Bumperpodcast episode 163, Natty Bumpercar celebrates the arrival of spring at headquarters, though the season brings challenges like allergies and constant sneezing. As he contemplates the mysteries of pollen, Natty spirals into philosophical territory, questioning whether grass has pollen, what to call airplane skywriters, and if almonds are fruits or nuts. The episode takes a humorous turn as Natty realizes how much he doesn't know after missing a few weeks of podcasting due to babies. He enlists his listeners—not as minions, but as pals—to help uncover life's mysteries and make everyone "bigger better stronger smarter more and more awesomer."

Memorable Quotes

“This might be my new life's goal i might switch up everything that i'm doing in life right now drop everything just to find out just to get to the bottom of this mystery”

— Natty Bumpercar

“Is an almond a fruit or uh a nut i i don't know like there's a lot of things i don't know is what i'm finding out today”

— Natty Bumpercar

“Go and find out all the things that i don't know that you don't know and tell me what they are so that then i'll know them”

— Natty Bumpercar

Topics: #spring #allergies #pollen #knowledge #mysteries #nature #philosophy #listenerinteraction

Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

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Natty Bumpercar: well well well what is up bumper podcast my name is natty bumper car and i am thrilled to be here so thrilled how thrilled really thrilled really thrilled so how's it going guys it's spring finally here around headquarters and what does that mean it means allergies it means i sneeze all the time it means i have to take funny little pills with funny little names that make my eyes stop feeling like there's sand in them oh boy oh boy oh boy no really it's crazy town all these trees with their pollen it's like listen trees you got some pollen i got it i get it you need pollen to stay alive you flowers too okay grass i think you need pollen but i'm not really entirely positive about that any grass people out there in the crowd that listen that can tell me grass has pollen right it's got chlorophyll i know that because it's green but i don't know if it has pollen interesting we're a minute into the episode and we've already hit our major stumbling block does grass have pollen this is something that i may never be able to answer like this might be my new life's goal i might switch up everything that i'm doing in life right now drop everything just to find out just to get to the bottom of this mystery because i'm not going to be able to answer this mystery because i'm not going to be able to answer i can't live like this i have to know you know everything clearly and this is a thing that i am now pronouncing to not know so i have an issue a major issue i have a major major issue and a problem if only i had minions that i could send out to find out things for me hmm that brings up an interesting point minions perhaps i should put an ad out via uh what is it called airplane skywriter i don't know what it's called jeez there's another thing i don't know is is an almond a fruit or uh a nut i i don't know like there's a lot of things i don't know is what i'm finding out today in the bumper podcast i mean this is what happens when you don't do a lot of when you miss a few weeks because of babies and stuff is you realize that there's a lot out there that you just don't know and as someone who is supposed to know everything that's very difficult but you know what i've got you guys out there not as minions but as pals to help me out to back me up and to let me know things so bumper podcast you have a mission this week go and find out all the things that i don't know that you don't know and tell me what they are so that then i'll know them and what will we be bigger better stronger smarter more and more awesomer

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May 15, 2013