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About This Episode
Natty Bumpercar celebrates his favorite holiday – Groundhog Day! In this special episode, Natty welcomes Mr. Groundhog himself to discuss the bizarre American tradition of letting a varmint predict the weather. The conversation takes unexpected turns as Aloysious J. Pig joins in to question the groundhog about the uncomfortable reality of being pulled from a hole by men in top hats. The episode explores the oddity of this enduring tradition, including revelations about Mr. Groundhog's school days with Punxsutawney Phil. Things get chaotic as the show veers into discussions about the flu, shopping lists, and whether the groundhog actually bites the handlers.
Memorable Quotes
“It's the day when we let a varmint come out of a hole and tell us what the weather's gonna be. It's weird why how does this still happen? It's amazing I love it.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“If you're sleeping in your little hole and some dude wearing like a tuxedo jacket type thing maybe a cape… does he have a monocle? Is it terrifying?”
— Aloysious J. Pig
“I found out if he sees his shadow six more weeks of winter and two different groundhog days saw two different things today so what does it mean I have no idea.”
— Natty Bumpercar
Topics: #groundhogday #holidays #traditions #weather #punxsutawneyphil #winter #animals
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Mr. Groundhog, Producer, Aloysious J. Pig
Full Transcript
Natty Bumpercar: hey guys it's my favorite day of the year do you want to know what day it is I'm gonna tell you what day it is because you're gonna be excited too because it's a weird day it's a cool day it's a fun day and we have a special guest to talk about his experience with the day today's Groundhog Day that's right I'm not even gonna bury the lead I'm not even gonna like try to like hold it out for any longer I just want you to know that you should be excited because it's Groundhog Day it's the day when we let a varmint come out of a hole and and tell us what the weather's gonna be it's a weird why how does this still happen it's amazing I love it in this world this weird world that we live in that there's still this weird and I'm just gonna keep saying weird because it's so weird uh thing that people do that I mean it's not really commercialized really I mean it feels like it should at now it should be like groundhog day brought to you by i don't know uh umbrellas there or something i don't know but you know or just like the groundhog should be wearing patches of different uh companies or something like that um but it's not it's not it's not it's people get dressed up in top hats and stuff like that and in giant coats and there's a stage and there's a uh a box essentially and they they reach into it's it's not really i can't imagine it's pleasant for the groundhog but we're gonna find out but they reach into the body they pull this poor animal out and they're like what does he see his shadow and how do they know if he sees his shadow right i've got peripheral vision so i can see somebody coming up to my side and and maybe my set my shadows over there but i'm out of the thing they put him down if he sees his shadow then that means there's six more weeks of winter and if he doesn't see his shadow that means that spring is only six weeks away i might have that completely backwards another question that i'm probably going to need to ask the groundhog but without further ado ladies and gentlemen i'm going to bring to you my friend your friend he's going to be everyone's friend here give it up for mr groundhog
Mr. Groundhog: okay here i just need to move you a little bit closer to the microphone
Natty Bumpercar: okay good because i couldn't i couldn't really hear you so it's so nice to see you i'm sorry about the technical difficulty
Producer: i know so this is
Natty Bumpercar: you're super busy day february 2nd is when groundhog day is and it's just it's just american tradition and it was it's primarily and you can tell me if i'm right on this or wrong but they do it in a place called punxsutawney uh pennsylvania punxsutawney i love that word and there's a guy there i don't know you you okay but is punxsutawney phil that is their uh groundhog who lives in punxsutawney and he's like the most famous he's like the granddaddy he's like the big dude of groundhogs right
Mr. Groundhog: all right so you you know i'm going to school with him that's amazing
Natty Bumpercar: so i so ladies and gentlemen we're getting fun facts about punxsutawney phil in his school days that i didn't was not expecting today i did not know this was going to be an exclusive story but so uh so mr groundhog and so is it it's m-i-s-t-a like mr groundhog all right so um mike hear my questions is it super unpleasant for you to oh speaking of unpleasant hey pig what's going on i was just like who's the best
Aloysious J. Pig: hog that our bubba guy knows and who knows everything about everything and i was just like oh that's me i rolled out of bed i had a little snack oh i brushed my teeth you're gonna took a shower uh-huh i uh dried off did some powder did some lotion you know got really right uh-huh and then i got dressed okay and i came down to stay lotion's important and uh here we are okay hello talking
Natty Bumpercar: to you talking to me hey pig so uh cool well real quick right now we got to hear from our sponsors so we'll catch up in just a second and now a quick word from one of our sponsors i'm so busy but luckily i discovered picnic it is an organizational app for my family i can enter events into a shared calendars we have to-do lists shopping lists and ebooks and we have a whole range of things to do and even recipes so you should totally go do it go get organized just go to picnic.com get started to set up your account and use promo code pod pick for 30 days of picnic premium for free that's picnic p-i-c-n-i-i-c dot com slash get started and promo code pod pick so go and get organized today we now return you to whatever in the world it was that you were listening to just before the commercial here on the bumper podcast good luck
Aloysious J. Pig: you're going to need it oh that's so that's that's so nice yeah still got a sponsor it's so cool right because i was gonna tell you the snack bar yep he's uh empty right now i know you could go get me some oats perhaps just make a list some suet suet and a little bit of uh i don't know honey okay and some uh some donuts donuts i appreciate it i love all this money uh-huh get me some donuts okay back to you hog okay uh groundhog what's your name his name is
Natty Bumpercar: mr groundhog so address him accordingly
Producer: bro is he okay
Aloysious J. Pig: he's hissing he's hissing is this is this groundhog okay is he going through has he got some sort of i don't know groundhog disease or some sort of groundhog issue or some sort of groundhog problem because listen i don't need that in my life right now all right it's bad enough with a flu yeah right it's good to see you too peanut lou i haven't seen or heard or talked to you in a long time but no we
Natty Bumpercar: were actually talking about the flu and man it is brutal this year i mean we're getting notices from school we're getting notices from daycare uh i know people who have it and it sounds like maybe the worst thing ever like oh i i haven't had it in a couple years knock on wood but uh man uh the aches the pains the chills it knocks you out for like a week uh and it went around my office last year and i luckily avoided it there too uh so i i highly recommend here's what i do i don't know if you want health tips from me but i basically i don't know if you want health tips from me but i basically i uh in the morning i get up i sit in the shower i turn the shower on and i just stay there all day and if anyone comes near me i spray uh spray them with uh disinfectant because i don't want i can't i can't deal with the flu i don't want the flu i have a uh a little low grade cold but that happens you know it's it's hot it's cold outside it's snowy but the flu no thank you
Producer: yeah bumper car here's the thing the uh you know i don't want the flu i don't want the flu i don't
Aloysious J. Pig: the uh the little dude over there he's saying that he he's upset that he came all the way in to talk to you about uh groundhog's day and now you're going on and on about the flu he doesn't want to be associated he doesn't want his brand to be associated with getting the flu with the aches and the pains and the chills so he want if we could let's refocus let's re-rack the camera and let's come back and talk about groundhog day so here's i got a couple of quick questions do you mind mr groundhog
Natty Bumpercar: okay go ahead pig i'll let you uh okay okay yeah he's pig's gonna ask you a couple questions so
Aloysious J. Pig: here's the thing uh groundhog mr mr groundhog uh i'm just gonna call you uh mg from now on mr groundhog mr groundhog he's a mr groundhog you know uh uh uh mr groundhog he's a mr groundhog you know oh oh oh i'm working on a song for you we're gonna get it it's gonna blow up it's gonna be the top of the charts anyway if you're sleeping in your little hole and some dude wearing like a tuxedo jacket type thing maybe a cape i don't know does he have a cane what is this dude doing does he have a monocle is this a man who's wearing a monocle does he come to you is it terrifying do then does he do they coax you out are they like here's a carrot or something like that or do they literally like reach into the box and pull you out by your i don't know by your no i don't know what do they how are they grabbing you you ain't got no no handles or nothing
Natty Bumpercar: wow that's serious you get angry you you bite them okay well that's probably not you know it's not a great idea but it might be the most helpful for you ladies and gentlemen this has been groundhog day mr groundhog aloicious jay pig i found out if he sees his shadow six more weeks of winter and two different groundhog days saw two different things today so what does it mean i have no idea but i hope you've had a great day it's been fun hanging out with you bumper pod
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