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  • Bumperpodcast #230 – Buying a car

    Bumperpodcast #230 – Buying a car

    Bumpercar talks about the process of buying a car – and one of the bad experiences that he has had along the way.

    You are my friend? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com. 

    About This Episode

    In episode 230 of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar flies solo to share his latest adventures and misadventures. He riffs on the pronunciation of "230" and how it sounds like a bear growl at the dentist's office, leading to confusion about appointment times. Natty discusses his love of simply sitting outside in gorgeous weather, struggles with pronouncing the word "envelope," and updates listeners on his busy show schedule ahead. The highlight of the episode is his frustrating experience at a car dealership where a manager became aggressive and refused to honor advertised pricing, turning what should have been a simple transaction into an adversarial encounter. It's a relatable, humorous solo episode showcasing Natty's improvisational storytelling style.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I don't want to play outside, I don't want to run around outside, I certainly don't want to work outside or exercise outside. I just want to sit in a chair and let the outside just envelop me.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “This guy tried to bully me, like tried to be aggressive with me, and I guess I was supposed to just lay down and be like here's all my money, just give me a car. But no, that's not how it works, mean car salesman.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #carbuying #dentist #weather #cardealerships #customerservice #pronunciation #liveshows

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: what's going on bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car just me all by myself natty bumper car doing the bumper podcast doing what i love to do every week i'm talking talking to you and this is episode 230 which is more fun than anything because when you say 230 it sounds like you're saying 230 it's what i say when i go to the dentist i'm like bro why are you here and he's just like oh wait he says that to me and then i'm like well you know 230 and he's like well that's strange you're supposed to be here at 3 15 you're early and i'm like 230 and he's like stop growling at me sir i am not a bear dentist i went to school for human dentistry and i will not be growled upon by someone who is 45 minutes early for their appointment anyway um so i mean it's we're having a it's gorgeous weather outside i all i want to do is sit outside i don't want to play outside i don't want to run around outside i certainly don't want to work outside or exercise outside i just want to sit in a chair and let the outside just envelop me envelop and my mouth did not want to say envelop envelop that's a tough word to say envelop because you try to say it really fast envelope envelop and then you hit that p hard huh all right envelope envelope envelope envelope envelope maybe it's just good talking to a microphone i don't know what's going on anyway what's news around here um i'm trying to work on my website i'm trying to work on patreon i got like four shows next week which is gonna totally freak my wife out um because i didn't do anything this week and that's weird for me i like doing shows every week because then otherwise i get crazy um trying to get a car that's been the worst ordeal ever i went into a place so the here's my story for the week i had an email that said hey we're a competitive we like to match any prize you'll give us for a car and i was like you will and we'll beat it by five hundred dollars and i was like what all right and i called him even to confirm this is this true you'll match meet and beat my price all right so then i i went in and i printed out the emails because that's what they asked me to do and it had like here's this prize boom it's the lowest price ever hey and we're gonna give you an additional five hundred dollars off boom and i was just like this is the greatest prize ever and then these people are gonna beat it by another five hundred it's a bidding war who wants my money well i sit down with a young gentleman and i'm showing him all this and he gets kind of odd skittish nervous and he's like let me go get my manager now i was like sure thing go get your manager we're good and the manager comes back he's like an older guy he sits down he pulls the papers out from in front of me doesn't ask for him just reaches over and takes him which is weird and he goes hey you know what we like to be competitive uh dealership however we can't do that puts the papers down as he says with fake numbers boom as if i manufactured made up the numbers and i was just like what do you mean okay well then how much would it be well um and he wouldn't tell me like four times i was like all i'm trying to do is find out how much this car is gonna be well you know we uh we can give you numbers you know and then uh we got this number we got that number and he got really like aggressive he's like listen when do you figure that you're gonna uh be coming back when you're gonna be buying a car and i got really mad i got riled and i was like i don't know maybe next week maybe next month maybe next year all i'm trying to do today is find out how much a car is gonna cost and you evidently won't tell me and he pushes away from the desk and he goes well thank you for your time and walked away and i was just like what just happened this guy tried to bully me like tried to be aggressive with me and i guess i guess i was supposed to just lay down to be like here's all my money i just give me a car but no that's not how it works mean car salesman you gotta be nice to me you gotta butter me up and give me sweet treats in order for me to buy a car from you cars are expensive crazy expensive god that's what makes people don't want to go to car dealerships i guess because it's like it's not as happy adversarial it's just just like hey this is a process let's go through it let's be friends i mean you guys are my friends right

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  • Bumperpodcast #206: Apologies to an angry pig

    Bumperpodcast #206: Apologies to an angry pig

    There are some apologies on this episode for all of the yelling last week … Pig leads the charge and Natty Bumpercar follows suit. Not much gets done.

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

    Comedian, Natty Bumpercar talks about some junk with Robot and Pig, and some other junk in today’s edition of the Bumperpodcast.

    About This Episode

    In episode 206 of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar and Aloysious J. Pig address listener feedback about too much yelling in the previous week's episode. The duo defends their comedic approach while humorously contradicting themselves throughout the conversation. They discuss the recent non-blizzard weather event that caused school cancellations and working from home, with Pig sharing his failed attempt at social media fame with a "pig in a blanket" photo. The episode features the characters bickering about what constitutes "angry" comedy, with Pig ironically becoming increasingly agitated while accusing Bumpercar of being too angry. Their meta-discussion about podcast tone and SEO strategy provides plenty of laughs.

    Memorable Quotes

    “It was a hysterical mess… look at that wordplay come on and get it”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I took a funny picture and I was like look at me look at me I'm a pig… and then I tweeted it and nobody, no one, not a single person, no one follows me on the twitter”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “You might as well have called the episode like I'm angry and angry angry angry… what should be in the title? Angry angry angry angry”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    Topics: #listenerfeedback #weather #blizzard #comedy #socialmedia #podcastmeta-commentary #friendship

    Featuring: Aloysious J. Pig, Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Aloysious J. Pig: yeah so hey everybody it's me peg and i got bumper car here i wanted to start the episode off because you know last week there was a lot of yelling there was a lot let's be honest there

    Natty Bumpercar: was a lot of yelling yeah okay and hi everybody this is me uh natty bumper car and oh yeah here's the thing there was a lot of yelling last week and evidently uh we got some feedback that uh there was too much yelling and um i'm sorry all right we were just playing doing a little character yeah having a little fun being silly you know how it is right i quit we all know that

    Aloysious J. Pig: mama got it sometimes people say that i i yell too much because they say my voice is a little you know of course you know whatever they say yeah but i think it was the tone in which you yeah the episode that people that's a bad people so so much so much upset you understand yeah okay

    Natty Bumpercar: so i i get that and it makes sense to me and but i think if you listen to the word yeah it was a it was a total made-up situation there was a guy who was on a dock and he had spent his it was vacation and all his money and all his time and then there was a monster and then at the end it turns out there wasn't a monster at all uh you know spoiler alert if you want to go back and listen to it but uh there it wasn't a monster what he told him yes it was a lot exactly yeah it was just a lot he was confused and it made up fun words like banu i do like which i use now all the time like this is the real banu situation whoa whoa don't don't jump

    Aloysious J. Pig: okay i'm not i was just saying don't start new okay it is but no it's a fun way to say hey this is me ready uh party the other night

    Natty Bumpercar: was really banu everybody good job so uh all right that's last week's episode and uh now let's start this week's episode right i feel like we move on we have fun we talk about the blizzard that wasn't we just had oh it was supposed to be historical amounts of snow up here near headquarters and instead it was a hysterical mess oh look at that wordplay come on and get it come on and get no we really uh there was there was no snow there was schools were canceled uh working from home there was all the the chicanery that goes on our fridge was full we ate really well uh for a day when you know there was some playing outside we started building a fort out of snow all you know these things that you do uh but blizzard no blizzard no no blizzard there was

    Aloysious J. Pig: no blizzard i remember i was i thought i was gonna be really cold and so i put on uh i got a blanket yeah i took a funny picture and i was like look at me look at me i'm a pig yeah and then i'm like all right and then i put it i tweeted it and and uh nobody no one no

    Natty Bumpercar: one's not a single person no one follows me on the twitter i actually i think but it was a great

    Aloysious J. Pig: picture all right you gotta admit yeah it was like hey look at me i'm a pig yeah okay i know

    Natty Bumpercar: but i just wanted to say you didn't have to do it again no i didn't want you to do it

    Aloysious J. Pig: okay this is what people are looking for is nice funny things nice funny things not angry like

    Natty Bumpercar: look at me i'm on a dog come on make some scare i don't want to scare anybody and i thought we were having fun last week and i as cute as your pig in a blanket picture is i um i i don't it's whatever you made that thing i made this thing we're 205 episodes in and you tell me there's gonna be a little bit of you know yelling and it wasn't even like angry yelling it was it was very angry oh you think it was angry so angry all right well so angry no it was not oh

    Aloysious J. Pig: come on it was angry you were like i'm i'm angry you might as well have called the episode like i'm angry and angry angry angry come on i'm gonna be so angry and angry and then i'm angry look at me how angry i am when i'm angry angry angry angry angry angry angry i'm not what should we put in this one oh i know angry what should be in the title angry angry angry angry okay perfect and what other seo words have we got you do seo now angry yeah nice okay well see

    Natty Bumpercar: none of that's true and pig if i'm to be honest with your little rant that you just put on that little screaming match that you just did uh you sounded a little bit angry i don't even know what

    Aloysious J. Pig: you're talking about

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  • Bumperpodcast #182: Snow

    Bumperpodcast #182: Snow

    Natty Bumpercar doesn’t love snow, and he’s afraid of alligators.

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

    Alligators are dinosaurs!

    About This Episode

    Natty Bumpercar returns to headquarters for a special recording session in episode 182 of Bumperpodcast. After setting up his equipment at home, Natty shares his strong opinions about snow and the exhausting process of getting children ready to play outside in winter weather. He humorously describes the irony of spending thirty minutes bundling up kids who only last a minute and a half in the snow. The episode takes an unexpected turn when Natty recounts a harrowing childhood encounter with an alligator while riding his bicycle through Florida marshlands, adding his characteristic comedic storytelling to the tale.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I love watching it on tv maybe getting some sort of status update from the snow. It's like hey I'm falling, I'm like cool good for you.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Really we just spent the last half hour getting you ready to come out here and play in the snow and now you're done really?”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “You're going downhill you see this thing you can't stop you can't turn around so you just gotta gun it and I did and I'm still here to tell the tale.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #winter #snow #parenting #childhoodmemories #florida #alligators #weather

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: after many moons and many stars and many far away things i'm back in headquarters and i'm recording on my actual recording equipment which is the best news ever for me and the best news for you but don't get used to it because it's probably for just this week i forgot something at home and i had to come all the way back to headquarters and then i looked at the time and i was like oh i've got time and i was like do i have time and i was like oh i have got some time and so i fired up the old equipment and then nothing worked and so then i used all the time that i thought i was gonna have to uh set everything back up and get everything working and it was so exciting and so thrilling that i was like i can't not record i have to record how could i not i'm here everything's set up and if i leave then everything's gonna get unset up and then it's all gonna vicious cycle i you know what i had to do wipe the slate clean and so here we are bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car coming to you as live as i get from headquarters on a very snowy day outside uh the uh the snow is deep and cold and icy and not pleasant not a fan of snow uh i love watching it on tv maybe getting uh you know some sort of status update about from the snow it's like hey i'm falling i'm like cool good for you good falling hey look at me i'm adrift now oh you're adrift that's great good for you love to hear it love to hear your update you know or maybe like get my end of the year kind of like here's what happened with the family this year oh great oh cool snow that sounds like so much fun but to actually be around it not so much no to walk through it to drive through it to uh have uh uh the tiny bumper cars that are like look at the snow and then you all right let's go out in the snow and then you got to get them all dressed up and here's your boots and here's your jacket i don't want to wear my jacket you put your jacket on i don't want to put my jacket on if you want to go outside you're gonna put your jacket on i don't want to put my jacket on i want to play in the snow what so you want to play in the snow naked because that's not allowed like i will go to jail if i allow my children to play in the snow naked and i you know what i'm not even uh boycotting that or saying that's a bad thing i think it's good that parents who send their kids out in the snow naked go to jail kids gotta have clothes on it's cold you can get frostbite you can lose tiny fingers tiny baby fingers and i don't want that to happen so then you go through the whole process getting them dressed and then they like burst out of the the front door like little cannonballs and then like they slip fall face first into the snow inside i want to go in so really we just spent the last half hour getting you ready to come out here and play in the snow and now you're done really all right let's go back inside nope can't go in the house yet let's stand here in the foyer and uh start uh unlayering and brushing the snow off and you know then the only one who's covered in snow at the end of the whole thing is daddy that's me meanwhile the they get to luxuriate they get to hang out in a nice warm bathtub uh that i i've filled for them and i also uh if i'm feeling really nice i'm gonna make them hot chocolate for what for being out in the snow for a minute and a half it's silliness god do you have snow where you are is it snowing there now just move we should all move i don't know where does cal does california have snow i know they like to party but i don't know if they have snow florida a little muggy little too many alligators can't do that i'm afraid of alligators did i tell you by the time when i was riding my bicycle this was a long time ago and i was like probably 12 14 through some woodland trails like in some marshes down near florida and uh and then i see up on the trail what is it i don't know i don't know oh a crocodile or an alligator it's an alligator and i was just like but he was probably like uh you know 15 18 whatever he was a little ways away from me and i was riding a bicycle as fast as i possibly could you know but it was a situation where you're going downhill you see this thing you can't stop you can't turn around so you just gotta gun it and i did and i'm still here to tell the tale he didn't even move i don't even know if he blinked he probably was just some sort of a uh statue

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  • Bumperpodcast #168: Oddly liked

    Bumperpodcast #168: Oddly liked

    Oh – the weather outside is delightful! It is so sunny that Bumpercar went ahead and put his galoshes away …

    Then – he talks about how weird it is when people aggressively like the stuff that he is working on – which is an odd thing to be nervous about – right?!

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

    I get so twitchy!

    About This Episode

    In Bumperpodcast episode 168, host Natty Bumpercar celebrates the arrival of sunny weather and reflects on his daily wardrobe of wool sweaters. Despite the nice weather, Natty explains his unusual cooling method of constantly eating ice cubes to stay comfortable in his signature sweater. He shares a humorous anecdote about his time digging for dinosaur bones in the Sahara Desert, where sweaters proved impractical. Natty also discusses his recent foray into Vine social media and his bewilderment at receiving enthusiastic, rapid-fire comments and likes from an overly engaged follower. The episode showcases Natty's characteristic quirky observations and social awkwardness in this brief, improvised comedy segment.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I just eat a lot of ice cubes I'm pretty much constantly chomping down on ice cubes just to keep myself cool and I do it fast because I really get annoyed when my ice cubes melt”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I'm not used to all this liking is what i'm saying. I'm used to a little bit less liking you know and either way is fine… it just makes me nervous to be liked”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #fashion #weather #socialmedia #vine #icecubes #sweaters #dinosaurs #comedy

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: hooray hooray hooray today is the bumper podcast kind of day it's sunny out the clouds are gone and we are i think officially on that's right bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car and it it's nice out finally i i put away my uh galoshes i put away um my wetsuit and my um yeah my helmet thing my snorkel helmet thing i don't know the bell i put away my my diving bell and uh and i can just walk around in the world in the sun and the sun it hits my skin and it feels good but the problem is I don't know if you guys know this about me but I wear sweaters pretty much every day every single day that's why I had such a hard time when I was digging for dinosaur bones in the deserts of the Sahara because sweaters aren't very conducive to desert weather you understand that of course and this is a nice you know wool so if it's breathable but it's so hot so what I've what I've taken to doing is I I just eat a lot of ice cubes I'm pretty much constantly chomping down on ice cubes just to keep myself cool and I do it fast because I really get annoyed when my ice cubes melt and there's just water at the bottom of my cup no thank you I did not please in order for any water I asked for a cup of ice cubes ah don't even get me started how are you guys doing I talked to you last week about vine and I'm still doing that like a champ I love it it's fun but I get weird comments now and this isn't ever happened like mostly you know you bumper podcast guys are pretty passive we're not really interacting with the show which is fine you do what you gotta do but on this vine thing people leave comments and I've had a couple of people one in particular who I'm terrified where it's just like comment comment here's another comment here's another comment look at me I'm commenting again I just commented on another comment I'm commenting on my comment from another comment on another comment and it's just like I don't think he's commentaning….he's having a conversation with himself through my little videos stop it stop commenting and then he likes and he likes and he likes which is great because it's nice to be liked but it's just like oh wow you did that eight hours ago and then you did it six hours ago and then you did it five hours two hour one hour eight minutes you're just constantly liking i'm not used to all this liking is what i'm saying uh i'm used to a little bit less liking you know and either way is fine you know what no i don't know it just makes me nervous to be liked

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  • Bumperpodcast #165: Diapers ahoy!

    Bumperpodcast #165: Diapers ahoy!

    We are so overrun with diapers in headquarters that we have decided to start using them for everything.

    Are you overrun? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

    Diapers are the future!

    About This Episode

    In episode 165 of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar deals with relentless rain and comes up with an absurd solution involving diapers. Faced with never-ending precipitation, Natty decides to build a raft out of baby diapers, dismantling an entire diaper castle, diaper crib, and diaper furniture in the process. He enthusiastically explains his engineering process, including using diaper tabs to hold everything together and fashioning diaper oars and a captain's hat. The episode showcases Natty's trademark creative problem-solving and comedic storytelling as he learns the hard way why absorbent materials make terrible boats.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I built a raft a diaper raft and uh which you know i guess in theory was a good idea no you know what probably not even in theory it was never a good idea”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “It's like having a ham sandwich that someone shoved into my peanut butter and jam jam sandwich who in the planet says peanut butter and jam not me not ever again”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I made oars out of diapers i made a captain's hat out of a diaper and then i went to set sail and immediately the first thing that happened was i sunk”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #weather #rain #diapers #boats #parenting #technology #absurdinventions

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: good day to you bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car and i know for a fact that you probably are like i hope he's not going to talk about rain again i hope he's not going to talk about any uh rain precipitation none of it no fog no clouds we're done well guess what uh it's still raining it's never ever stops raining here and um what i've had to start doing is uh the baby is now naked because we've taken all of his diapers we're putting them under the doors where i've built a raft a diaper raft and uh which you know i guess in theory was a good idea no you know what probably not even in theory it was never a good idea to make a raft out of diapers because you know what diapers do they absorb the water and that is not what anyone wants i hope that there was just a loud noise that came into my ear and i hope that you didn't hear that noise but maybe you did i don't know computers are so weird sometimes so needy and the problem is so i'm on one of those apple computers but i'm running this thing called parallels so that i can see um i can use windows at the same time because there's some programs that they don't make for apple but they do make for windows that i have to use blah blah blah blah not important not exciting but it's i don't like it just having this windows it's like having a whole other computer on top of my computer it's like having a ham sandwich that someone shoved into my peanut butter and jam jam sandwich who in the planet says peanut butter and jam not me not ever again that was just something that came that happened and it'll never happen again back to the diapers i had to take down we we had a diaper castle i had so many diapers that like the baby slept in a in a in a diaper crib uh there's like a diaper rocking chair that we had built uh every like there was a diaper trash can that was made out of diapers so i'm like you think that this is a little excessive on the diapers it's extremely excessive on the diapers it's extremely excessive on the diapers it's extremely excessive on the diapers that's what happens when you have hundreds or however many kids you there's a lot of diapers in the world so i had to figure out stuff to do with them you know and i'm looking out the window and it's constantly raining and i was like i've got it i'm gonna build a boat out of diapers so i built it inside and um i used they diapers have those little tabs so that it sticks to each other and uh so i didn't have to use glue or anything it was like it made sense look it makes sense all right it looks like a boat i sat in it i made oars out of diapers i made a captain's hat out of a diaper and then i i went to set sail and immediately the first thing that happened was i sunk

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