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  • Bumperpodcast #164: Leave rain, leave.

    Bumperpodcast #164: Leave rain, leave.

    Rain and rain and rain and rain … So much rain in the world – and – Bumpercar doesn’t seem to believe in umbrellas.

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

    Rain is everywhere!

    About This Episode

    In episode 164 of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar has to re-record the entire episode after the first take sounds like a tin can inside a mason jar on a ferris wheel rolling on sheet metal with barking puppies. Natty complains about living in a world of constant rain and mugginess, waking up drenched in sweat after Dragon has already gone downstairs to make his legendary poached eggs. Despite everyone saying the trees love the rain, Natty isn't interested in staying perpetually soaked and reveals a deep grudge against umbrellas stemming from a scuffle 15 years ago. This rambling, improvisational episode showcases Natty's signature stream-of-consciousness comedy style.

    Memorable Quotes

    “The sound was horrible. It sounded like I was inside of a tin can inside of a mason jar that was on a ferris wheel that was rolling on a sheet metal with puppies running next to it barking.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Umbrellas and I got into a bit of a scuffle recently, fairly recently, 15 years ago, and I'm not dropping it because those umbrellas know what they did to me.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “When it rains a lot and you go 'god this rain' and somebody says 'well the trees love it,' I wasn't talking to the trees, all right?”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #weather #recordingproblems #rain #dragon #food #umbrellas #complaining #improvisation

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: hey there bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car and i'm not gonna lie to you i actually just had to record it and then i deleted it and now i'm recording it again why because the sound was horrible it sounded like i was inside of a tin can inside of a mason jar that was on a ferris wheel that was rolling on a sheet metal that uh was also had puppies uh running next to the ferris wheel barking at it as it was rolling uh because clearly that's what would happen there were probably even some snap pops involved throw that snap pops throw that snap pop it was loud it was crummy so now i'm re-recording it and i don't even know what i said before which would have been easier if i had uh any short-term memory whatsoever because then i just would have said the exact same thing instead i'm just winging it that's right we're uh we're a bird on a wire with no net right now i think is a proper analogy but i'm not sure hey everybody it's me natty bumper car and uh i live in the world of rain it rains every i think every day and if it doesn't rain then it's muggy it's it's it's the way it's supposed to be this morning i woke up uh and i was drenched in sweat and it's not here's the thing dragon does sleep in the room sometimes and so it does get a little bit steamy a little bit hot uh but that wasn't why because he had already gone downstairs to poach some eggs and let me tell you ladies and gentlemen one day i'm gonna get dragon's poached egg recipe on the uh on the website because it's phenomenal i don't even like poached eggs but there's some magic that this dragon does to these eggs that just makes them delicious back to the muggy back to the sweat back to the rain because we're gonna stay on point today the trees here's the thing when it rains a lot and you go god this rain and then somebody hears you and then they're like well the trees love it i wasn't talking to the trees all right i was complaining about the fact that i can't leave headquarters without getting soaked or or misted or or whatever i don't need all this this this wet i mean that's what hoses are for right that's what rivers are for groundwater i don't need it all we fall all i don't need it all way falling from this sky i don't need it i mean i don't even have i'm a bumper car who doesn't believe in bumper shoots i believe that they exist i just don't acknowledge their existence so it's a little bit um not tenuous that's not the word i want let's just say that umbrellas and i got into a bit of a scuffle recently fairly recently 15 years ago and i'm not dropping it because those umbrellas know what they did to me they hurt me

    Unknown: not too bad you you you you you um oh you

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  • Bumperpodcast # 162 – Rainy day

    Bumperpodcast # 162 – Rainy day

    It’s a rainy day surprise!

    Listen as I dazzle and dodge raindrops … It’ll be magical!

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

    Raindrops have all the power!

    About This Episode

    In this rainy day episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar reflects on why life has been so chaotic lately that he ate a potato chip with the map to headquarters drawn on it. After contemplating the absurdity of taking a trip to his stomach to retrieve the map, Natty abandons the idea as "silly town" territory. He then launches into a humorous rant about the downpour, imagining clouds giving up on carrying water, and being scolded by a tiny bumper car for forgetting his umbrella. Natty boasts about his ability to "dazzle" and dodge raindrops, though he admits he usually finds rain cleansing—except when it ruins his freshly styled hair.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I was out so long that I forgot and I ate the potato chip so I don't have my map anymore. I guess it's in my stomach huh?”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “It's like the clouds have just given up. They're like we carried around all the water for a long time and we don't want it anymore.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I don't go to silly town because that place is weirdo. Silly town you stay over there, I'm gonna stay here in coffee can alley.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #rainyday #headquarters #forgetfulness #absurdisthumor #umbrellas #weather #hairstyling

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

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  • Bumperpodcast #152 – Back in the saddle

    Bumperpodcast #152 – Back in the saddle

    Thrilled to be back in the saddle – with heat and power – Bumpercar talks about things like snowmen cotton candy.

    He also thinks that his fridge smells funny.

    Do you know any snowmen? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com – We’d love to meet them!

    All of the snowmen!

    About This Episode

    In this episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar returns after weather-related delays to share his relief about having heat and power restored. He humorously rambles about the bizarre weather pattern that brought snow right after a hurricane, making the episode late. Natty playfully experiments with different voices while discussing Einstein's E=mc² and reflects on the simple pleasures he missed during the power outage, like taking showers and having food in his fridge. The episode takes a whimsical turn as he contemplates what a snowman might smell like and whether snowmen would enjoy cotton candy.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I have heat thank you I have power thank you and there's snow everywhere there's snow everywhere what there was just a hurricane last like last week”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I'm terrified that if I fill it up again it's all gonna go bad and then smell funny because that's what happens when I put food in my fridge the whole world loses power”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “You know what I want to smell poinsettias and freshly cooked bread and I don't know maybe snowman cotton candy”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #weather #poweroutage #rambling #science #food #snowman #winter

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: all right bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car it is i don't know what today it is i don't know what today it is is what i just said maybe i'm a leprechaun now i don't know i don't know what today it is oh shillily i'm not sure what tomorrow tis well that one actually kind of made sense i don't know what today tis though doesn't really make a lot of sense but i do know a couple of things one i have heat thank you i have power thank you and there's snow everywhere there's snow everywhere what there was just a hurricane last like last week i mean this this this episode is late because of what because of the weather i mean like i i can only use that excuse so many times bumper podcast but here i am talking to you with my big bumper car voice coming at you low coming at you low and i don't know where i'm coming at you low and slow low and slow i'm not sure did you notice am i i sounded i not saying that all people who talk like that sounded but i myself sounded a little bit dumb when i said that let's try it again and see if i can sound smart saying low and slow no e equals mc squared no i can't i absolutely can't do it you have to be like this well e actually equals mc uh squared and what was that noise what was that noise it was like a it was like a like i won something it's like a magical something just happened i was discussing uh how to sound smart and then uh boom boom i don't know how i can't make the noise i i am not a noise maker i am a maker of noise can you tell me a little bit giddy today bumper podcast it's because i've missed you i've missed sitting in this seat i've missed uh feeling my toes i've missed taking showers i've missed having food in my fridge i've missed eating food i've missed eating food i've missed having food in my fridge wait no there is still not food in my fridge because why i'm terrified that if i fill it up again it's all gonna go bad and then smell funny because that's what happens when i put food in my fridge the whole world loses power and then i gotta smell rotten peas and i don't want to smell that you know what i want to smell poinsettias and uh freshly cooked bread and uh i don't know maybe snowman uh cotton candy do they even eat that i don't know it seems to me like the snowman would get all kinds of sticky from the cotton candy oh man poor snowman

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  • Bumperpodcast #151 – Super-stormed out

    Bumperpodcast #151 – Super-stormed out

    Headquarters and all of the lands around Headquarters were attacked by a vicious storm this week and we are just now getting to a place where we have power and heat and a chance to record this ridiculousness.

    We really hope that you were not touched by the tumult of Super-storm Sandy – as – she was particularly unpleasant.

    Were you in the storm? Let us know by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com – because – we want to bond with you.

    That storm was a bear.

    About This Episode

    In this episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar recounts his harrowing experience surviving a major storm that knocked out power at Bumpercar headquarters for nearly a week. Natty describes the chaos of flying shutters, broken windows, mysterious crashes in the night, and exploding transformers that lit up the sky like fireworks. After frantically checking his vehicles in the dark by tapping each window, he and his wife endured three days without power before finally evacuating north to safety. This exhausted but relieved episode gives listeners a firsthand account of weathering a serious storm and the confusion that comes with it.

    Memorable Quotes

    “The shutter flew off the house and then flew back into the house and crash smash bang clang cling glass everywhere broken glass everywhere.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I ran around each car and I would just tap each window tap tap tap tap as I was running in circles around the car to make sure that the windows were intact.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “It sounds like there's trains going by your house and the explosions was the craziest part—those were the transformers, not like the big hollywood production movies.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #weather #storms #poweroutage #homedamage #survivalstory #naturaldisasters

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: whoa bumper podcast this is natty bumper car and i am exhausted i don't know if you heard but we had a little touch of the weather here in the area around headquarters and by the area around headquarters i mean everywhere all around up and down here and there it was miserable uh been without power for a week now or five days i don't even know what today is uh i had to decamp and move further north uh it's very exciting time uh headquarters made out pretty well lost a few shingles had a storm window break which i guess is appropriate since it was a storm had a shutter fall off the house and uh that's what actually broke the window somehow the shutter it flew off the house and then flew back into the house and uh crash smash bang clang cling glass everywhere broken glass everywhere uh we heard broken glass we thought oh no the vehicles have been trounced by some uh tree a limb maybe maybe something flew into them so i ran out because i didn't know what else to do you know figured i'd have to put a garbage bag is that what i don't know what you do when your car window breaks but i figured that's what i was going to have to do and i went out and i couldn't really see because it was really dark and so i ran around each car and i would just tap each window tap tap tap tap as i was running in circles around the car uh to make sure that the windows were intact and they were all fine and i and i couldn't see any broken glass so i ran back in and i was like there's no broken glass i don't know what's happening and and she was like uh wifey was like no there was broken glass and i was like i don't know and then you know i ran back in and i was like there's no broken glass you know you're uh so we went to bed early because he lost power pretty early and um you're just kind of laying in bed and it's there's it's it's it sounds like there's trains going by your house like it's very loud and uh then the explosions was the craziest part uh and it turns out those were the uh the transformers they're called not like the you know big hollywood production movies but like i guess they're boxes that do things with electricity that help me to have lights and heat and such and uh but they were through the night like it was crazy and if you looked out in the clouds it was it was like a light show it was like a firework show and um we tried we stayed three days with no power and then finally uh it was too much to bear we gave up and we had to wait for the roads to be cleared and we traveled north and we're fine and we're safe and we're exhausted and weary and we hope that you are doing well as well

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  • Bumperpodcast 116 – Fluffy stuff holidays

    Bumperpodcast 116 – Fluffy stuff holidays

    Here come holidays … Here come holidays … Right down manic Bumpercar lane! Natty is pretty excited today … perhaps it’s because he has been eating is vitamins?!

    What kinds of holidays do you celebrate? Please tell us by sending an email to bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com – and then – maybe we’ll celebrate it too.

    Holiday!

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    About This Episode

    In episode 116 of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar shares his unique holiday observations from Coffee Can Alley headquarters. Natty discusses his unusual holiday celebration involving an entire bag of strawberry cotton candy marketed as "fluffy stuff" that turned out to be one giant lump instead of individual snowballs. He goes on a hilarious tangent about vitamins, proposing that vitamin manufacturers should make cotton candy-flavored vitamins instead of gummies. Natty also ponders why holidays are scheduled during cold weather and theorizes that summer itself is essentially one long holiday because of the nice weather, while winter holidays exist to give people something to look forward to during terrible weather.

    Memorable Quotes

    “In the olden times everyone thought that bells every time that you heard a bell it meant that you would get a nickel and the crazy thing was is this was before nickels were even invented yet.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Why don't we just have vitamins that are in the shape or the form of fluffy stuff? Hey welcome to the midway kid what are you up to today you look like you have a vitamin d deficiency.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Summer itself pretty much a holiday because it's nice out so we're gonna keep summer where it is.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #holidays #cottoncandy #vitamins #winter #weather #food #health #seasonaltraditions

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: ho ho holidays ho ho holidays hum hum hum hum hum hey everybody it's me netty bumper car and it's a great exciting fun thrilling here day here in uh coffee can alley and headquarters and why is that well i don't know what kind of holidays you have what do you do do you like are you like hey it's banana friday or whatever or like are you like hey in the olden times everyone thought that bells every time that you heard a bell it meant that you would get a nickel and the crazy thing was is this was before nickels were even invented yet so people would hear bells and think that they were going to get nickels but not even know what nickels were but they were excited because people love holidays and people love bells last year last night me what i did to celebrate was i ate an entire bag of cotton candy by myself and it was on the box in the bag it said it said uh snowballs and it said fluffy stuff and i thought that it was going to be like little snowballs that i'd be able to individually eat like a gentleman but no in the company i mean it was in mixed company i was with other people but here's what happened is i opened the bag it was just a giant lump of white white not so fluffy stuff kind of tightly compacted uh any less delicious no clearly not obviously not because my holidays consist of eating delicious stuff delicious fluffy stuff what was the flavor bumper car the flavor was strawberry so at least i know it was healthy for me because you know i need my vitamins i need my fluffy stuff vitamins here's a weird thing i'm supposed to be talking about holidays but i'm gonna go on a tangent can you believe that around headquarters we've been taking vitamins lately a lot of vitamins and i prefer my you know the gummy vitamins so why can't i have vitamins that are in the shape or the form of fluffy stuff fluffy stuff vitamins hey welcome to the midway kid what are you up to today you look like you have a vitamin d deficiency why don't you try some of this fluffy stuff what's that feel better already of course you do because kids love cotton candy they don't love vitamins they love gummies why don't we just stick with gummies let's talk about holidays are you excited about the holidays is it cold where you are a lot of times during the holidays it gets cold i don't know why that happens i don't know why they plan it that way feels like maybe it'd be nice to have you know wait wait a minute i was gonna say it would be nice to have a holiday in a summer but here's the thing uh summer itself pretty much a holiday because it's nice out so we're gonna keep summer where it is i think they put the holidays in the summer because it's nice out so we're gonna keep summer where it is in the middle of this winter stuff even though it's not the middle we've just started it because winter is so terrible and people need something to look forward to and so they're like hey you know summer's not gonna be around for a while so why don't we give them a holiday right now love it