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  • Bumperpodcast #359 – Chillin’ with Brody

    Bumperpodcast #359 – Chillin’ with Brody

    It has been awhile since we recorded – as Natty had some serious throat going on … But, we’re back – and Natty runs into someone new. Someone ridiculously interesting? Get yourself ready!

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

    You should send us an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com, or to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976. We’re here and we’re listening!

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    About This Episode

    In this hilarious episode of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar returns to his studio only to discover a surfer-bro podcaster named Brody recording his own show, "Chilling with the Bros." Natty learns that Aloysious J. Pig has been renting out the studio to other podcasters to keep the lights on. The situation gets even more chaotic when Rufus T. Rufus appears, still managing the studio's paperwork despite previous attempts to steal Natty's podcast. Brody shares wisdom from his various podcast episodes covering everything from banana storage to personal space, while trying to launch his own podcast network called BroNation. The episode explores themes of entrepreneurship, unexpected houseguests, and the surprisingly deep philosophy of bro culture.

    Memorable Quotes

    “Time is like a bow that wraps around the boxes of your life with all your memories and all your whatnot.”

    — Brody

    “It's stardust. The universe was formed, and straight up from that, you were formed as well. It's the ultimate dichotomy.”

    — Brody

    “I'm glad I ran into you in my own headquarters, Brody.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #podcasting #entrepreneurship #business #studiorental #broculture #self-help #confusion

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: Yum Yum! So it's you know it's like in the summer and so I'm like we should do a recap of like all the cool adventures we had and just like where we went and what we did and just like some killer waves and like all the food we ate and you know just like put everything into a nice box and then wrap it up into a bow and like just put it into the time capsule because time is not linear. Time is like a bow that wraps around the boxes of your life with all your memories and all your whatnot. Hey bro what's going on? Hey not much um who who are you? Man my name is Brody. Okay yeah what are you doing here? I'm doing my podcast. I'm dealing with the bros because you can't spell bro without Brody. Brody without bro you know and it's like a podcast that I do for all my bros where I tell them everything that's been going on man and all the cool things that they should be into and what they should not be into as well unless they so choose. Okay. Obviously. Obviously. I'm sorry. Um cool. It's really nice to meet you and I apologize if I seem confused. I just don't know what you're doing in my house. Bro. This is supposed to be where I record my podcast. I'm sorry uh Natty. Hi everybody. It's me. Hello. Hey pig. That is Brody. He's recording his podcast. We rent the studio out every so often so that other people can come in and put you know do the production work. We do the podcast. Right. Okay. We do the editing. We do all the all the stuff. We rent it? People ain't normally want to go for the podcast and Brody you can see on this piece of paper on the wall. Oh. That's my name. Brody. Brody's it? He's he's chilling with the bros because you can't spell Brody without your bro you know but so I it's what I record here. I pay money. I hope you don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't want to do it. I don't want to kick me out. Oh no. I just. My listenerships all my bros and and bro that. So appreciate it one day man. No man. We we are not gonna kick you out. Don't worry. You almost got me talking in your style. Uh Brody why don't you uh so Natty this is how we pay for things. This is how we keep the lights on. This is how we have ice pops in the freezer. This is how you know we do it. We we we keep the lights on. It's right. We keep the air conditioning on. We keep the uh the the uh the clothes I don't know. We keep bananas in the fridge. Whatever we do. This is one of the ways we do it, okay? You guys got bananas in your fridge, bro? I think that causes them to oxygenate and brown quicker. I think what you should do, according to episode 47, Bananas in Our Mist, that you're supposed to hang those nanners off of a hook where they're not touching nothing, and then they're going to keep for a lot longer, bro. Wait, I feel like I just learned something from you, Brody. This podcast is actually much more educational than you ever would have anticipated, if I'm to be honest. Yeah, man, so we haven't been picked up yet, but we're in discussions and talks to get on some serious podcast networks because the stuff that we're pumping out, people want to listen to, and they're like, I want to know how to be a bro, or even if they don't want to be a bro, they just want to know how to live like a bro or a bro. I'm very inclusive, so I'm just like, you know, finances, episode 32. Okay. Scratch them pennies, okay? You should listen to that one. Podcasting 101. That was episode 101, all right? Wow. And that's just telling anybody, how they can get in on the game, okay? My voice doesn't have to be the only voice out there. Yeah. Like, I want everybody to, what? Uh, yeah, excuse me there, son. Uh, I hope you is not tracking sand into my studio. Uh, oh, hey, well, the natty bumper car, it's me, Rufus, T. Rufus. I don't want you here, Rufus. You're not, you kicked me. Oh, now we haven't gotten over all of that yet. No, you tried to steal my podcast, and you tried to steal everything. E pluribus hunum. E pluribus hunum, that's what it was. What are you doing here? Hey, natty, natty, natty, natty, relax, back up. Don't forget, he's a man of the law, all right? So he's, don't touch, don't even get in his personal space. Man, episode 71 was about personal space, and did you know that, like, if you hold your arms out and spin in a circle, like, that's yours, man. That's your land, and know that he can take it from you, and nobody owns it at that moment other than you and your eternal flame, right? Yes, so that's what I guess I'm here to talk about, to discuss, natty. The reason I am here is I am still the protractor-nator of all of the logistical paperwork for this whole environment, this whole studio, this whole platform, if you will, and this young gentleman here, this Baro, Brody, I believe, he has some miscalculations, misappropriations, misstatements, if you will, on his ledger, on his documentation. Okay, that's, how in the world are you still managing everything if you tried to kick us out? That doesn't make any sense to me. Like, you tried to get everyone out of the studio, you tried to take my podcast away from me because you said I was being a loop-de-loop. You just like loop-de-loops on? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Right. Well? No, I'm not saying I'm that now. Okay. But I'm saying that's what you did and we still trust you, why? Well, now it all comes down to documentation and well, we have a con-tract, and it is unbreakable, unbondable, undeniable. And in this contract, it states heretofore that I, 324, shall not 567 ever be, uh, terminated if you understand. So I am here, I am illog, and I am here to am in a charge and i will be handling your business moving forward sir man natty i feel like you should totally listen to episode 12 i don't 12 12 12 a we had a missed number so it's 12 a but it's um all about it says uh contact your contract and what it's all about is reading over your your you want to get in contact with yourself you for what you want your contract to be and where it should go does that make sense that's don't forget everybody on chilling with the bros with me your host brody okay uh i feel like i should start subscribing to your podcast pig i want to talk to you quick sidebar no you said sad but that's a legal language so should i be involved no you actually shouldn't i need you could you just leave the room and you know what we'll have our people contact your people you don't have to be so hands-on i would appreciate if from now on we just mail back and forth that's acceptable do you do email of course i do i do whatever i i pone express i i will uh i have a line line line i have a pager i have every form of communications that this natural technology and technological world have provided to everyone so sir i will see you when i see you if you understand what i'm saying and that's why it's an i emoji will see the letter c u the letter u win and that looks like a little clock i again another i c the letter c you that's how advanced i am i can cut language down left and right so to make Time go faster. Time is going so fast these days. Let me tell you about my children. No, you're out. You're done. He has kids. That's the first I've ever heard of that. Yeah. Known the guy for like 15 years. Okay. So, Pig, I just want to get a couple of things straight. So, anyone can come here and record at any time? Yeah, there's a sign-up sheet. They put the name on it. They play. Okay. And then they come in. And how do they schedule it? And they're in the house? Yeah, they're in the studio headquarters. Headquarters? Yeah, headquarters. Okay, I forgot. You're fine. Okay, I forgot we called it that. It's a little weird, but fine. No, you're fine. You're fine. Listen, so it's a lot of things you're going to pick up on. I know your memory, your brain is a little bit flustered still, but you're doing much better. So, yeah, anybody can come in. They schedule it. They come in. They record. We do the thing, and then they do the stuff, and then it's up there in the cloud, wherever it goes, and then they listen. Yeah, man. My listenership, it's spiking. People listening to this? Like, it's going through the roof, dude. Okay. Like, bro. We did this one episode where a bunch of comedians got together, and they listened to other comedians' sets, right? Okay. And it was, like, comedians listening or something, right? Okay, that's a good concept. It was episode. But we might make a whole other podcast. That's the beauty of Podcast Nation, is you can just record stuff, put your mind in there, put your heart and soul in. You get that? And when you gain an audience, man, you can splinter. Pretty soon this time next year, maybe, I'm going to have my whole platform. Like, it's all going to be just me and all my different podcasts. So it's going to be like Brody Nation. Bro Nation, right? And so you should totally, if you want to hook up, I don't know if you do any kind of podcasting. You have this sweet studio, so maybe you should. Cool. Thank you. Did you just offer me a spot on your podcast platform? Because it's the Bumper Podcast. That's why we're all here. That's why the studio is here in headquarters. Pig helps out. Rufus, I don't want to say his name too often because he'll just show up. But, yeah, I would be honored, I guess, because you seem like you know what you're doing. Very versed in a lot of different subjects. So I'm kind of more, I'm beyond impressed. So thanks. Thanks for, I'm glad I ran into you in my own headquarters, Brody. So, cool. Hey, everybody. You know, I'm Natty Bumpercar. And as I'm really starting to learn, I've got a lot to learn about podcasting, about what goes on in my own house, and all the different people that show up in my house. And, yeah, I'm kind of still a little bit freaked out about all of this. But, man, I'm telling you, there's no reason to be freaked out. The universe is inside of you and around you. And what you want to do is, like, just get in touch with your chakras. Like, look into a mirror in a dark room, and all you're going to see isn't just the darkness. What you're going to see is what's inside of you, man. And it's what's inside of me. Okay. You know what that is, bro? No, I don't, and I'm terrified to find out. But, hey, we're here. Why not? I'll take a guess. Is it, like, oxygen or H2O? Corpuscles? No, man. Blood? I don't know. What is it? I want to find out. Yeah, man. So, it's even inside of you, little Al. It's stardust. Am I right? The universe was formed, and straight up from that, you were formed as well. As was I. As was everything around us. So, at any time you're breathing in, it's just the universe, and it's holding you together, and it's forcing you apart at the same time. It's the ultimate dichotomy. Episode 89, Ultimate Dichotomy. Listen to Chilling with the Bros. Sorry, I got a bug in my throat. I got to recut that. Listen to Chilling with the Bros. Man, Brody right here on BroNation. Okay, cool. Did you already, because you just mentioned BroNation, but now it's already yours, or you move really fast. Really fast. World ain't wait for snails, bro.

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  • Bumperpodcast #332 – Rubberband

    Bumperpodcast #332 – Rubberband

    This thing happened, and that thing happened – and I think that maybe something else might’ve happened as well. I’m not entirely sure. But – what I am sure about is that you are awesome – and that I appreciate you listening. Hooray for you!!

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

    You should send us an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com, or to call in and leave a message – 646.847.7976. We’re here and we’re listening!

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    About This Episode

    In this heartfelt episode, host Natty Bumpercar returns after a two-week hiatus to explain where he's been—busy recording episodes of other podcasts including The Dumb Fellas, Girls Gone Green, and The Decomposition Podcast, where he discussed Digital Underground's "The Humpty Dance." Natty reflects on his birthday comedy show at Tyranny's Tavern, where he closed (but not headlined) with a 25-minute set, while dealing with brain-fracturing overstimulation from too many simultaneous responsibilities. He opens up about creative challenges, particularly a deadline to write a children's book by September after being encouraged by fellow podcasters. The episode takes a vulnerable turn as Natty uses the metaphor of a rubber band to describe mental stress and resilience, reminding listeners to take care of their own emotional elasticity.

    Memorable Quotes

    “If someone in your life has a birthday make a big deal… it's downright mean to not do anything about it.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I'm like a dinner plate—I want my peas over here, potatoes over here, and I want my salad in another bowl because salad goes crazy when it's on a plate.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “My brain is like a rubber band… every time there's a stress my rubber band gets really snapped and it's starting to lose some of its elasticity.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #podcasting #comedy #birthdays #creativewriting #mentalhealth #stressmanagement #children'sbooks #standupcomedy

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: ah it's been i just looked at my calendar and it has been two weeks two weeks since i sent out a bumper podcast i am so sorry here in the middle of summer you're just sitting there at the beach like what am i doing with myself there's nothing to listen to well i'm back and i apologize and how does that happen well how you know because like i like to record the bumper podcast and it's one of my favorite things to do and then i realized what happened was in the last couple of weeks i recorded a lot of other people's podcasts i did um a couple of episodes of the dumb fellas which is one of my my podcasts with my pals that is not as sweet and family-friendly as this podcast just as a warning uh and then i recorded two episodes of another podcast called girls gone green and that's with two amazing comedians tracy lot and donna v and that was a really big blast it was so much fun it was so nice to hang out with them and then i recorded one more podcast with uh what is it called the decomposition podcast and that's a cool podcast where they take a song and so it's supposed to be like a um a guilty pleasure kind of bad song so bad that it's good type of thing but we did an amazing song we did a phenomenal song we did a song called the humpty dance by the digital underground yeah you know what i'm talking about amazing and we recorded it this week and at the end of it they were just like that was the longest episode we've ever done because you know what bumper car likes to talk and especially i had notes i had five whole pages of notes because i was so excited about doing this song and i went down this cool rabbit hole where i was like where does this come from who said that what's the etymology of this thing so it was a blast but anyway i apologize that i haven't been talking to you from here but i've been talking to you from a lot of other places so hi how have you been me i'm great it's august ah it might be august 2nd i have no idea how did that happen where did my summer go well let me tell you something really cool that happened that i don't think i told you about and in the last few weeks i've been talking to you about this thing called the humpty dance episode was me um lamenting about my birthday and the lack thereof hey people let's just i want to you know put this point to you again if someone in your life has a birthday make a big you don't have to make the huge deal out of it you don't have to get a blimp you don't have to get a clown with flowers to come to the door whatever but like make a deal of it it's it's it's important it's very important and it's it's downright mean to not do anything about it anyway and if someone says hey you don't have to do anything for my birthday that doesn't mean don't do anything that means you don't have to go you know buy me some extravagant thing or go you know really put yourself out but you know what you still do you still acknowledge it anyway so i had a birthday show i had a show where i got to close at tyranny's tavern which is where i am most of the time and i had a birthday show where i got to sunday nights it's where i've been doing comedy for pretty much eight years and if i'm not there hosting i'm on the show and on whatever day it was i actually got to close the show now here's an important distinction if you do stand-up comedy i was the last one on the show some people would be like oh you headlined the show no i am not a headliner yet i understand that and i appreciate that in the pecking order of comedy headliner is a very important distinction and i don't really know when that gets bestowed upon you but i know that i'm not there yet i know i have years to go before i'll be a headliner and i'm fine with that but i did close the show which means i got to do a nice 25 minutes at the end of the show and i had a blast now i also tried to do a little bit too much that night i tried to take on too much uh we recorded we got there at like five o'clock set the room up and then recorded two episodes of the dumb fellas and um then from there finished setting the room up and then had to uh you know kind of just deal with the uh the the production of the show basically and um i wish you know that i could have just been hanging out in a room and having sips of uh tea or whatever but i think my brain got kind of overwhelmed and i was like oh my god i'm not there yet i'm not there yet i'm not overwhelmed and so a weird thing happened where i was super excited about this night i was super super super excited about it and then my brain got so wrapped up in doing so much other stuff that i mean i enjoyed it i had a blast i had a lot of fun but i think that there was definitely a division between the fun and my brain that it wasn't just like i'm just having fun it was like i have to do these things these things are going to be fun i'm just having fun i'm just having fun they're important and i had friends that came to the show and which is great and stupendous but that also kind of puts my brain over here a little bit because then i you know i want to talk to them and i want to see them and i want to thank them for coming out and i want to hang out and then like a lot of comedians came out it was so amazingly sweet that all these people came out to support me which is so nice and so i felt you know like uh not obliged but i felt like you know i wanted to talk to them too like i honestly wanted to talk to them and i wanted to say hi and i wanted to give hugs and hang out and everything but um in the end too i really wanted to focus on the night so did you ever do that do you ever have that problem where there's just so much going on so much stimulus so much happening that like my brain gets fractured is what i like to say and i feel like the older that i get the more fractured my brain gets i do a thing where i compartmentalize what does that mean that's how i'm able to have a nine to five job where i have to go to an office and be office bumper car and then i'm the dad and so i'm dad bumper car and then i'm the comedian so i'm comedian bumper car and then i do this podcast so i'm bumper podcast bumper car and then i do the dumbfellas so i'm dumbfellas bumper car and you know it's just on and on and on and on and i'm kind of like a uh if you give me a dinner plate i want my peas over here i want my potatoes over here and i want my chicken over here and i want my salad probably in another bowl because salad goes crazy when it's on a plate and it's going to start touching everything and i would rather you not salad i'm also going to want maybe a little plate for my roll because i don't want the roll to get in with all that pea you know juice i don't want it to get potatoes on it you know i want my roll to be pristine so what i'm saying is i like things and then when things start to mix together it kind of my brain gets kind of confused and kind of conflation wait conflated at the conflation no exasperated at the conflation that's what i'm trying to say and um that happened a little bit that night and i'm trying to think of other like it's just been so busy but it was a fun night and everyone seemed like they had a blast and like it was just one of those nights where like there were so many of my friends there and everyone was having good good sets like they were up there telling their jokes and like people seemed to enjoy them and they were having fun and they were connecting with a crowd and so like it was really it was it was amazing and um on on top of that so then we move away from that so we did that show um i get to go do a show in the city tomorrow which is exciting because i love going to the city to tell jokes i don't get to do it nearly enough and that's fine and that's fine uh and then i've just i've got a lot of shows coming up which is fun and it makes me so happy uh i'm also so on the girls gone green podcast they were like why don't you make books why aren't you making kids books this seems like something you should be doing all the time and they're not the first people to tell me that like they there's it's been kind of a drum beat in my head that happens constantly hey why aren't you making books you should be making books do you make books why aren't you making books you should be making books i'm just like i know i've written some books and i actually sent some books to a friend of mine who is a writer and she's like hey here's some notes and so like i have to go through those notes now which is nice but i don't know if i'm afraid of making books because but what normally how when i make things i'm very intuitive so what that means is i just kind of go off of my whatever however my brain feels it's like i'm gonna do this and then i do it and then it's done but then a weird thing happens if i start getting feedback or if i start getting like input then my brain doesn't always know how to deal with that stuff and so how to parse like whatever information people are giving me and so i get kind of wonky nervous whatever and then it kind of shuts down and then i move on to something else i'm like come on brain let's finish these things like if you have a like i do a lot of work and then i'll just drop and i'll move to the next and that's not a good way to do things right if you got to stick with things all the way through to the end and then learn from whatever you did and if you made mistakes learn from the mistakes and if you did it super perfect right then good for you you did it super perfect right right right so on the girls gone green they were asking me all about the books and they challenged me and i don't remember the exact date but it's like september 17th or september 25th or something like that uh they were like well the next time i'm gonna do this i'm gonna do this and i'm gonna do this and you come in you're gonna have a book written and i was like oh okay right and now we're at august so we're a month a half month and a half away and i i don't know what to do i don't know what to write like and so then you give me like this deadline and then like writer's block starts to kick in and i'm like come on and then there's been other stuff there's been life stuff life stuff that i don't even want to talk about miserable life stuff that that has taken over me and i've been in my brain and taken some of my focus but it's good it's fun I like having this deadline because it gives me something to work towards so fingers crossed that I will I will keep you guys posted on how things are going with book what book is it I don't know I have some books written but I want to think what I want to do something different for this right maybe anyway back to the stresses of life have you guys been stressed it's summer why why have you been stressed you shouldn't it's a beautiful world out there me I have and I can't really talk about this stuff but it's okay I'm okay I'm all right right right but sometimes I do feel like so here's my analogy my analogy is that my brain is like a rubber band right here's your brain and it's not just your brain this is your entire being you're a rubber band so that means pliable you have to be pliable in this world right so you have to have a little bit of give a little bit of rubber bound rubber band bounce right but I feel like every time there's a stress or there's a trauma my rubber band gets really snapped really pulled a lot and it's to the point where in a way my rubber band is starting to lose some of its elasticity and it's it's not bouncing back as much as it used to and I'm caught up in a lot of this stuff and I'm like oh my god I'm gonna have to do something about this I understand what's happening but what I have to do it's good that I acknowledge that but then I have to figure out how do I make my rubber band band stop snapping how do I because I don't want my rubber band to break because I don't know what happens then right and and I appreciate you guys because you're amazing and I hope you love the bumper podcast and I've missed you and take care of your rubber bands people

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  • Bumperpodcast #276 – Ruggy

    Bumperpodcast #276 – Ruggy

    Bumpercar lays out the trials and tribulations of Ruggy are laid out to the court of public opinion.

    Did you know Ruggy? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

    The Bumperpodcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals! We’re trying to stay positive here, people!

    About This Episode

    In this hilarious episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar shares a relatable parenting saga about his son Emerson and a beloved rug named Ruggy. After accidentally tracking dog poop onto the boys' bedroom rug, Natty faces days of complaints from Emerson about the soiled carpet. When Natty finally removes the rug, Emerson has an emotional meltdown over losing Ruggy, despite having complained about it for nearly a week. The situation escalates into a 15-minute parenting negotiation involving options, signatures, and the threat of Ruggy going to the curb forever. Natty also reflects on the challenge of telling each child he loves them equally, and reveals the incident may have been triggered by filming a Hershey chocolate eating challenge for their YouTube channel.

    Memorable Quotes

    “He's given the rug a name, the rug is named Ruggy, which I've never heard this rug have a name before.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I love you more than any Emerson in the whole entire world. That's how I have to get around that, because if I say I love you more than anything, then he immediately takes that as an affront against his brother.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “You have two options: rug in the basement, rug gets clean this weekend, happy rug, happy life. Or if you complain about said rug, Ruggy is gonna go away forever.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #parenting #familylife #kids #dogs #cleaning #humor #podcasting #brothers

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: oh well if it isn't the bumper podcast hey it's me natty bumper car and it is a good day you know why because i'm here and i'm talking to you and that's all i want to do really if i could if i had my druthers if uh if the money truck pulled up here to headquarters uh and said hey bumps guess what you can do with anything you want you know what i would be doing boom this talking to you probably other stuff too i'm not gonna lie i have to eat all right leave me alone for just a few minutes i've got tea upstairs it's waiting for me no uh how's how are you i've missed you since last week uh last week we had a special guest that was uh emerson he did a great job like afterwards i was just like that was the best because you actually there was give and take like you talked to me you did little funny bits his little whisper bit i was i loved it loved it so much so what that tells me is i am grooming the next generation of podcasters i apologize for that uh that is that is going to be on me it's my fault i uh speaking of him here's a crazy thing that happened uh his his in in in the boy's room there's a rug it's a white rug it's got circles on it uh they're kind of uh uh a really low uh not tone but color uh not not pastel quite but it's almost like they put colors like they're circles like it's like blue and yellow uh red and purple whatever and then they and then they like put the transparency on so they're there but they're kind of not there but they're it's just a nice simple rug uh and evidently someone uh my wife this is my wife she said someone was outside and tracked in what i can only assume is dog poop and there were two people in the room and they were like oh my god they're like oh my god they're like oh my god they're like oh my god they're like oh my god they're in the room when she had that conversation and she was looking directly at one of them and that one was me so she's under the assumption that i went out into the yard and uh put i think it's like six little spots of of dog poo on the kid's rug which i didn't mean to do and i was like fine i'll clean it i just hadn't had a chance emerson uh discovered the uh the soiled rug on i mean like seven days ago eight days ago and he's been freaking out ever since every single night get me away from this rug this rug's got dog poop i can't be on this rug i don't want to be near this rug why is there why is this in my room this is horrible this is disgusting and he would like make uh he would walk around like he would have to shimmy against the wall to go around and then in the morning he would scream somebody has to come get me out of this bed because i can't walk across the road and it was just horrible right every single night and every single day it was the saga of the uh of the rug so finally two nights ago uh i think i was putting him to bed no two nights i don't know who was i can't remember but i i i got infuriated i got mad and i said fine and i i balled up the rug which is tough to do because it's like an eight by ten rug but i balled it up and i took it out of the room and he was just like what what what are you and he starts like in that way that kids get when they're like they can't even process what is happening and i threw the rug into uh in the spare bedroom and uh and he was just like what would you do with my rug rug and then he screams ruggy he's given the rug a name the rug is named ruggy which i have i've never heard this rug have a name before and i was just like ruggy and he's just like why did you take ruggy away and i was just like you you're the reason i took ruggy away why i would never and i was just like you've complained about the rug for six at this point it was and for six days straight you have complained about the rug being in your room you have screamed at the rug because it has it is dirty you you you have been anguishing over this rug being in your room and so i have now removed the rug from the equation i have taken the rug out of your room what are you gonna do with it when is it gonna come back i miss ruggy i was just like buddy i am going to vacuum the rug and then i am going to use the uh wet the uh called the the rug vac uh shampooer whatever we have it's one of these things you put water in you put shampoo in you shampoo the rug that's what we have why because we have a dog and what does the dog do he makes horrible messes so what do we have to do shampoo the rugs plus they need them anyway because the house smells terrible let's be honest if you've ever been here i'm sorry the house smells bad it's not that i don't clean all the time every day it's just that the dog smells really bad and two little boys smell there's a lot of smells happening in his house so he uh he was just like you're gonna clean it tonight and i was just like no i'm gonna clean it on saturday saturday that'll take for a long time that's forever from now and i was just like that's in two days two days and he was like well what am i supposed to do if i fall out of my bed and i don't have ruggy to roll around on and i was just like i don't i think you're making problems up at this point i think that you're inventing problems at this point and he was just like like still he was freaking out this is a solid 15 minute freak out to the point where i said okay i will bring the rug back into your room i will put the rug back down so that ruggy is here and he was like okay and i was like however this is my big however however if you complain about ruggy if i hear you say one thing about ruggy being dirty ruggy is going to go to the curb and he's like to the trash and i was just like to the trash my wife is looking at me like what are you doing and i was just like no he has two options he can either i can put it in the basement and clean it this weekend which is in two days or if i bring it back and he loses his mind again it's gone because i just can't i reached the point as a parent where i just couldn't deal with it anymore it was too much he didn't get it all he heard was the rug is in the trash the rug is gone the rug is in the garbage the rug is done and i was just like no so i ran downstairs got a piece of paper got a pen drew like almost like a comic strip i was just like here's step one ruggy's in your room you're happy here's step two ruggy gets dirty you're freaking out here's step three takes the rug away now you have two options and i drew arrows from the options option one then i just laid everything out again rug in the basement rug gets clean this weekend happy rug happy rug happy life or whatever it is and option two and i made sure i had him sign off on option one as in do you understand what option one is sign here yes okay perfect we can now move on to option two option two if daddy brings the rug back into your room the rug which is still dirty i will still clean it this weekend however if you complain about said rug in quotes ruggy then ruggy is gonna go away forever it was bad parenting on my part i think uh because again all he focused on was ruggy's going away ruggy's gone ruggy's out of his life i have effectively taken ruggy away from him and he was just like you're taking ruggy away from me because you hate me and i was just like i love you more than anything and then he goes more than ollie and i was just like i can't play that game right now i love you're my favorite emerson in the whole entire world on the whole planet i love you more than any emerson ever that's how i have to get around that because if i say i love you more than anything then he just immediately he has to take that as an affront against his brother i love you more than anything more than him no like come on i love you guys equally well then you don't love me more than anything ah well then i love you more than any emerson how about that at which point ollie goes but what about me and i'm like well i love you more than any oliver ever and ever in the whole world in the whole planet more than any oliver so basically i got him calmed down ruggy was still in the other room and he woke up in the morning like nothing had ever happened nothing ruggy's in the basement right now awaiting his cleaning which will happen now tomorrow morning and then he'll go back in the room he'll be bright fresh ready for a new day a brand new ruggy for a brand new year uh and my wife was like why did this happen and i was just like i don't know and then we looked back on the events of the evening and for our youtube channel which is still happening we all we do is film stuff for it i have to film it for you i'm still learning how to edit uh we had done the hershey challenge what is that that's where you eat as much chocolate as you can in two minutes so maybe that's what happened huh

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  • Bumperpodcast #229 – Waking up from a long nap

    Bumperpodcast #229 – Waking up from a long nap

    Bumpercar is back at Headquarters – where nothing works and everything is a mess. Strap in for chaos on this week’s Bumperpodcast – with Pig, Robot, some pirate, and Doodle Poodle!

    Chaos? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com. 

    About This Episode

    Natty Bumpercar returns to the Bumperpodcast after taking a week off for travel, reflecting on their recent interview episode with Mad from Homestar Runner. The episode quickly descends into controlled chaos as Aloysious J. Pig, Doodle Poodle, and Rufus T. Rufus (as Parrot Orange Beard the pirate) interrupt with their own agendas. Pig wants to talk about rain, Robot malfunctions and talks to himself, and a dog appears causing allergic concerns. What starts as Natty's attempt at a structured comeback episode transforms into a hilarious disaster that has the characters wondering if this might be the worst Bumperpodcast ever. It's a perfectly imperfect example of the show's improvisational comedy style.

    Memorable Quotes

    “you've been gone a week and this is what you come back with”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “listen if you guys are gonna come on the show and interrupt which is fun because i do like it when i have more people on you gotta bring something to the”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “is this the worst bumper podcast ever oh no we started from the top and now we're all the way down here in a well”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #chaos #podcasting #travel #improvisation #homestarrunner #rain #pirates #dogs

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Aloysious J. Pig, Doodle Poodle, Rufus T. Rufus

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: yay this is natty bumper car and we are back after last week we took a week off because we were traveling and there's a lot of stuff going on and you know we're just trying to put the pieces back together that's what we're always trying to do here um if you listen to the last episode it was our first interview episode ever we had my friend mad on from homestar place runtime runtime homestar to runville you tire popper lationer home strong but i don't know and and it was great and it was fun and uh hopefully we'll be doing more interviews at some point because uh even though i didn't have any of my equipment uh it's i it was fun i had fun i i miss i miss my pals i was in atlanta where i'm originally from kind of originally not really originally originally i'm from someplace else but let's not get into that

    Aloysious J. Pig: long story uh we were visiting friends and hey bumsy what's going on hey how you doing it's me yeah it's me peg what's going on oh you know i was just gonna do some periscoping and people are like hey pig what are you doing i'm gonna be on the podcast

    Doodle Poodle: to be on the bumper all right i'm sure everybody loves the would love to hear from you guys and i would love to hear what

    Natty Bumpercar: you did on vacation oh really this is too much

    Doodle Poodle: i almost said my name was peg that's so silly but clearly not okay robot robot stop all right are you just talking to yourself what

    Natty Bumpercar: somebody hit him he's broken some he's okay he turned off all right whoa yeah sorry about that everyone yeah man i'm sorry

    Aloysious J. Pig: right this is crazy anyway so this is pig and i'm here on the bumper podcast and you know today we're gonna talk about i don't know like what do we talk about today rain what do you so does

    Natty Bumpercar: rain a lot here are you serious and stuff so you're just gonna come on to my show now and talk about nothing you have nothing to talk about and you're talking about rain it's not even raining today and then you just and stuff listen if you guys are gonna come on the show and interrupt which is fun because i do like it when i have more people on you gotta bring something to the

    Rufus T. Rufus: bumper car oh it's me parrot on parrot on parrot orange beard the parrot coming here to the bumper podcast wanting everyone to know that i've got plenty to talk about oh hi you brought your dog with you did you come here well i'm afraid of dogs because i'm allergic

    Doodle Poodle: get the dog away from me i'm hypoallergenic i don't think there's anything for you to be nervous or allergic to i don't have any doggy candor or nothing and i think it's okay for me because i live here you're just a mean pirate who is i just want to go and draw

    Natty Bumpercar: listen here bumper car okay what's up i ain't here to tell you your business yeah i'm sure but

    Aloysious J. Pig: i mean like i got i do the thing i do my show yeah yeah and this is a disaster oh come on like yeah i i you you've been gone a week and this is what you come back with all right well i'm just saying yeah maybe if you let me talk about rain a little bit seriously we would have had some sort of

    Natty Bumpercar: structure really rain structure really or something well at least anything right okay well i will contend i will contend i will agree that today was kind of a mess it was a bit of a disaster but you know i think it was probably good for everyone to at least come to the mic and talking to the mic and say something that made sense to them i mean it was good in some way right i'm sure it had to be good in any way is this the worst bumper podcast ever oh no we started from the top and now we're all the way down here in a well

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  • Bumperpodcast #223 – Letterman …

    Bumperpodcast #223 – Letterman …

    Bumpercar laments shows that go away and how people are tied to different things in their world. It is a fitting – if slightly disjointed – goodbye to a piece of the past.

    Will you miss Letterman?! Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com. 

    About This Episode

    In this reflective episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar explores the nostalgia and emotional connections people form with television shows throughout their lives. Natty discusses how the shows we watch help shape who we become, referencing recent long-running TV shows coming to an end and how audiences react to these departures. He touches on the special connection that develops between hosts and viewers, comparing it to the relationship he shares with Bumperpodcast listeners. The episode features Natty's characteristic rambling style as he works through a conversation about someone's contradictory feelings toward a departing talk show, ultimately concluding with genuine appreciation for the shows that talk directly to audiences.

    Memorable Quotes

    “if you ever walked up to me on the street you could be like natty how is doodle poodle doing and i'd be like that dog is crazy”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “we're on at the we're on the choo-choo straight to nowheresville population me”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “what about pig and i'd be like he's my best friend let's not get this twisted”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #television #nostalgia #talkshows #childhoodmemories #podcasting #media #personalgrowth

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: do you guys watch tv do you watch television do you uh watch shows on the on the tube there because man i remember growing up i used to watch i used to watch a lot of tv and you know a lot of shows that i would watch and like i got nostalgia for them because you know like depending on when you watch the show in your life is that that's that's kind of what you you can kind of go back to that time in your head and you can be like man i remember that show and i remember exactly what was going on in my world at that time and and and i and i i remember like ah how that show made me feel and all the different characters and the situations you know and like at least partially how how maybe that molded you a little bit and it made you the person you are today because you know all the stuff in the world that stimulates you through your life whatever books music art uh shows movies uh anything that you you see or do even just being out in the world the people you talk to uh your routines the places you go all these things are you know they make up who you are and so you know a small aspect of that and for some people a huge aspect of that are our shows and they hold on to them and especially you know if you have some sort of show where you know it's on regularly and uh it's it's not like a a written show uh and it's an actual just a person talking to you then it becomes easier to kind of uh connect with that person and to be like i i know that person kind of like you guys and and me like i feel like we're pretty close we're pretty tight like we've been through some serious stuff bumper podcast cateers and you know so if if you ever walked up to me on the street you could be like maddie how is doodle poodle doing and i'd be like that dog is crazy and you'd be like what about robot and i'd be like robot and then you'd be like well what about pig and i'd be like he's my best friend let's not get this twisted let's not get this twisted like his little pig tail he's my best friend so you know it's it's his connect connectivity thing that happens just from hearing people's voices hearing how they talk the cadence of what they say uh you know being able to infer the meaning behind what they're saying and in between the lines and you know recently i think we've we've had a lot of tv uh shows that have been going on for a long time go and they're just going away and and and it's made people sad and i've been i've been reading a lot of articles and watching a lot of clip packages which are just like little snippets of the tv show and uh you know you start to think you're just like wow i remember that show i don't watch it as much as i used to that always seems to be something that people say they always feel like you know i used to love that show back in the day i don't watch as much as i used to but i still love it and it's still a good show and you're like okay i got you uh but uh i was i was talking to somebody and i said man you know that show that's leaving and they were like yeah i was like are you sad about it they were like no no it's like not even a they're like i don't care i was like okay it's like not even from like a cultural standpoint like being in the zeitgeist you don't care about it at all from a nostalgia standpoint oh well from a nostalgia standpoint of course i care about it a little bit well all right that's confusing so you do care but you don't care no i don't care okay all right now i see where we are we're nowhere we're nowheresville we're on at the we're on the choo-choo straight to nowheresville population me no i um you know i i i used to watch that show a lot and you know i don't watch as much as i used to um but i i i'm nostalgic for it and i you know you feel like it's just something that's a constant that's always there every single night it's a talk show and you're talking directly to me and now it's just gonna be gone replaced by something else and maybe that'll be fine but maybe it won't be and does it even matter because i'm at a different point in my life and so you know i don't care as much about such things but i do care because you were talking to me and i was listening and i was watching and you were zany and fun and wacky and you know what i'm gonna miss you

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