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  • Bumperpodcast #351 – Owly

    Bumperpodcast #351 – Owly

    Our house has turned into a zoo! There are so many animals around that I have to call upon help to tell you all about them. One guest gets a bit out of control. That guest

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

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    About This Episode

    In this chaotic episode of Bumperpodcast, Natty Bumpercar attempts to record with some very unconventional guests – including Owly the Owl, Brownie the Rabbit, and special appearance by Emerson. What starts as a discussion about crazy happenings at Natty's house quickly devolves into delightful mayhem as the animals peck at microphones, chase snowballs, and interrupt constantly. Between the interruptions, Natty manages to share stories about the amazing wildlife visiting their backyard, including a baby deer with its mother, a three-foot garden snake dubbed "Snacky Snake," groundhogs, chipmunks, squirrels, and a protective mama robin guarding her nest of blue eggs. It's a hilariously out-of-control episode that proves why people say "never work with kids or animals."

    Memorable Quotes

    “Don't work with kids or animals, they told me. Look at what I do. Kids and animals all day.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Can the snake's name be Snacky? Snacky Snake? Yeah. Oh, buddy, I'm Snacky Snake.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I eat squirrels and bird seed… We should open a restaurant up called uh snb squirrels and birdseed.”

    — Owly

    Topics: #animals #nature #wildlife #backyard #chaos #spring #family

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: oh well well well hello there bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car and i have been gone for a little while because there's been crazy stuff happening here no not a lazy river like the last episode would make you think but extra super duper crazy stuff but i don't feel like i could tell you all about it myself i need somebody to help me tell you about it um oh hi owl how are you good you're good it's so sweet to see you are you enjoying the spring weather yes oh that's so nice what have you been doing all day sleeping you've been sleeping all day wait do you sleep during the day isn't that when people

    Unknown: get stuff done yes but i kind of wake up when it's 10 o'clock at 10 o'clock in the morning or

    Natty Bumpercar: 10 o'clock at night um

    Unknown: um um

    Natty Bumpercar: eight o'clock eight eight o'clock all right all right so you are awake during the day see i had always heard and you can tell me if i'm wrong because you would know that owls are nocturnal is that true but i am not nocturnal you're on not you're de-nocturnal yeah you're oh oh un-nocturnal well so do you sleep at night then yes oh that's cool um where do you sleep you sleep with who who's oliver i'm oliver dad oh oh you're oliver yeah and who's the uh who's the owl his name is owie owly the owl he's a very sweet little owl i wasn't expecting him to be here today are you pecking at the microphone owie yes that's not appropriate at all this is very expensive equipment this is going to come out of your money owlie go get your wallet i don't have any you don't you don't have a wallet well then you're in big trouble you know what i am not taking bird seed to pay for this stuff hey what what owls eat anyway i eat bird seeds oh you do eat bird seed okay well it's good that what was it two weeks ago or last week we we put the bird feeders out and we started putting a lot of stop eating the cord that's gonna wreck the whole pot you are not good guest owlie oh my goodness what are you looking at what are you doing over there you stop looking over there that's not your stuff oh my goodness you're worse than the kids are anyway owlie i'm so glad that you're here because it's a good um way for us to talk about some other crazy things that have been happening around our house for instance have we had some guests at the house recently yes like in the backyard yes who did we see in the backyard uh a baby deer

    Unknown: with his mom and the groundhog oh he saw a groundhog today i only i only saw a squirrel

    Natty Bumpercar: oh you didn't see you didn't what did you see a squirrel oh you saw a squirrel i wanted to get out and eat you wanted to eat the squirrel owlie relax slow your roll buddy i eat squirrels and bird seed squirrels and bird seed all day we should open a restaurant up called uh snb squirrels and birdseed and then when people walk in we'll be like welcome to squirrels and birdseed come um so we had a baby deer and it was maybe like two days old it was a brand new baby deer and uh remember it was laying down in the grass and it couldn't even stand up where are you going you stay over here you don't have to fly away for owlie um and but then we were worried but then its mommy showed up and what did his mommy do um take care yeah she took care of that little baby it was the sweetest thing i've ever seen oh owlie would you stop it focus on the microphone we're only here for a few minutes um and then oh what did we see what was it three days after the baby deer it was long it was skinny it was terrifying remember mommy saw it in the back by the wall oh and then emerson's oh hey emerson's here too emmer well actually what did we see in the backyard a garden snake so i looked it up and i didn't know if it was a garter snake or a garden snake

    Unknown: garden snake

    Natty Bumpercar: listen evidently there's the same there's the same ones there's a gartner g-a-t-n-e-r gart gardener garter i don't know and a garden snake gardener snake i don't know i don't know what kind of snake it was But it was long, and it was brown, and it had little yellow stripes. And I'm originally from Georgia. Don't you turn that off, Allie. I need that on. We have dirty, dirty clothes. Don't work with kids or animals, they told me. Look at what I do. Kids and animals all day. Would you stop pecking? That's Mommy's sweater. Allie, you're not a moth. Good gravy. So we had, Emerson, come talk about the snake, because I feel like you can talk about that.

    Unknown: The snake was skinny and long.

    Natty Bumpercar: But how big was it, do you think?

    Unknown: It was, like, probably three feet.

    Natty Bumpercar: You think it was that big? Yeah. What are you? Oh, hi, bunny rabbit. Let's not stand on the computer.

    Unknown: My name is Brownie.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, your name is Brownie? Hi, Brownie. How are you? Good. You know what? We've seen bunny rabbits in our backyard, too, haven't we? 50 million. 50 million bunny rabbits?

    Unknown: No, 2,000.

    Natty Bumpercar: Okay. So where did the snake end up going?

    Unknown: In our shed.

    Natty Bumpercar: In the shed. It was very scary. So what did Daddy do to get rid of the snake? Cut the weeds so it can hide. Yep, I got rid of all of the weeds, all of the…

    Unknown: And, hey, there's something where you can, like, just kill them.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, but, see, I wasn't sure if I wanted to kill the snake, because I've read that snakes eat bad pests. Of course, it's this weird thing where, like, it's good to leave, you know, this stuff in the backyard to make a little ecological system.

    Unknown: Does he eat chipmunks?

    Natty Bumpercar: Does he eat chipmunks?

    Unknown: Well, no. No.

    Natty Bumpercar: Who? Who are you talking about, Owly or the snake? I feel like you're talking about Owly. Nah. The snack? Snake! You said snack. Can the snake's name be Snacky? Snacky Snake? Yeah. Oh, buddy, I'm Snacky Snake. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, there is a chipmunk in that. Hey.

    Unknown: Owly is going to stay roundy because he's falling.

    Natty Bumpercar: Oh, no. Brownie the rabbit is falling, and Owly the owl is racing down to catch him right now. Wonderful of you. So we saw a baby deer. We saw a mama deer. We saw bunny rabbits. We saw a groundhog. We saw chipmunks, squirrels, a snake. We have all kinds. We have robins, blue jays. Cardinals. Cardinals, yeah. Woodpeckers. Those little ones. I don't know what the little good.

    Unknown: Ooh, something's happening to them. Oh, that's a good one. It just turned off.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, it's doing good. Owly's keeping track of the washing machine that's going on right now. We also, in the front of the house, there's a bush, and we have, and I was kind of trimming the bush, trying to make it look nice, and a robin flew out at me, rah, really aggressively. And I looked in the bush, and there was, hold on, let me finish this quick. There was a bird's nest inside. There was a bird's nest inside the bush, and I looked in, and there were three baby blue robin's eggs. So, she was just protecting her nest, which I totally understand, and there were like two or three of them that were flying around. They were angry at me. They were going, squawk, squawk, squawk. Oh, Ollie, can you, what did the baby deer sound like? Because this is so important to me. Can you do it? It's very good. I thought it sounded like this. Ready? Like that? Like that?

    Unknown: Like that? Like that? Like that?

    Natty Bumpercar: It sounds like a steer. It sounds kind of like a steer, doesn't it? I don't know anything about his stairs, though. Uh-oh, what is the, uh, Ollie is now chasing a, uh, so Ollie was attacking a snowball and paused the podcast. You know what? I think, are we done for today? Because this owl is driving me crazy. This owl is driving me bananas. I don't think I can handle this. Would you stop trying to kiss me? you, Owl. I would not like to be kissed by… Are you eating my arm? Jeez, relax, bro.

    Unknown: I'm not a snowball.

    Natty Bumpercar: No, we don't have to throw any snowballs. Okay, well, a snowball was still thrown. Hey, this has been the Bumper Podcast, Talking Baby Animals. Emerson, go upstairs. She's here. It's like we live in a zoo. Would you stop it, Owl? You're disgusting. I was pooping you. Okay, end of story. Say goodbye, Owly. Oh my goodness. Okay.

    Unknown: …

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  • Bumperpodcast #323 – Mama Bird

    Bumperpodcast #323 – Mama Bird

    Here it is – the new podcast that everyone is talking about. The Bumperpodcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals!

    Whoa! It’s a first. Cartoon Natty shows up to talk about Spring. Regular Natty is around as well to talk about a bunch of cool happenings – including birds, and grocery store lectures!

    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 Bumperpodcast episode 323, host Natty Bumpercar has a rare on-air conversation with his cartoon counterpart, described as a heart with a crown. The episode takes unexpected turns as Natty shares a remarkable Mother's Day story about a red-tailed hawk in his backyard being harassed by blue jays, which leads to a memorable interaction with local police. Later, Aloysious J. Pig makes a brief appearance to voice his frustrations about Natty's rambling style. The episode concludes with Natty offering earnest life advice to a grocery store cashier about the pragmatic realities of art school and student debt, drawing from his own experiences.

    Memorable Quotes

    “My kid used to call it the aller jesus. He'd wake up and his little face would be puffy and he'd be snuffling and sniffling and sneezing.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “That day I was like that mama hawk. I was trying to protect her nest, and the birds were coming in.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I don't know why you even bother to come in if you don't schedule the time. He's gonna talk over every single thing you try to do.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    Topics: #spring #mother'sday #wildlife #artschool #studentdebt #lifeadvice #allergies #hawks

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Aloysious J. Pig

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: um uh hello uh hello there this is uh me natty bumper car checking in to say to you hi there oh hello there hey it's my little cartoon friend i suppose with the heart and the crown well i'm not sure that's you that's you that's me yeah so hey everybody it's me natty bumper car the real world comedian that you hang out with that you love your best pal in the whole wide world and it's uh also it's it's me natty bumper car a little as you call me heart with a crown king of the elephants the artful otter the doer of stuff and the maker of things but you don't those uh superlatives those aren't all just for you i think that some of those are mine too i'm not entirely sure yeah like the the doer of stuff and the maker of things i think that might be me there might be both of us okay it gets a little confusing well i don't think anybody really cares so anyway natty i'm here to talk about what are you here to talk about spring oh and how spring is finally sprung and here we are and it's time to have some fun okay well I just want to interject real quick because this is i think the first time that you and i have talked on the podcast so this is a momentous occasion episode 323 mark it in your calendars mark it in your books put it in your dream journal because this is a big moment in bumper podcast history i don't have you even been on the bumper podcast well i'm not entirely sure but if i were on the bumper podcast it's been a mighty long time back to can i talk about what you want to talk about spring spring yes spring yeah of course i just wanted to mention because you know it's sometimes it's hard to stay on topic and focus here on the bumper podcast there's a lot of stuff going on that um for me i just wanted to tell my thing yeah i'm gonna let you talk about it too i swear but i just wanted to can i interject well yes but i would like to finish thank you okay spring for me is allergy season my kid used to call it it was very funny he would call it aller jesus dad i've got the aller jesus and he would wake up and his little face would be puffy and his eyes would be watery and he'd be snuffling and sniffling and and sneezing uh and i i man this year it's like being hit with a pollen hammer a hammer full of pollen my nose is gunked my throat is junked my eyes are sore can i say more it's a wonderful rhyme but i was hoping that i could talk about the beauty of spring and the blossoming of the flowers and baby birds oh and baby birds baby birds baby birds i have an amazing story to tell about baby birds you reminded me okay you know what you go ahead and talk okay it's your show i'll be back another time okay well thanks for stopping by to visit it was so cool to see a little heart guy with a crown some people think you look like a strawberry but i know you're a heart anyway this morning out on our fence there was a hawk and he was standing on the fence and he was um he looked disheveled and we were like is there something wrong with the hawk why is there a hawk on our fence what is he doing and then all these blue jays were standing around him on trees and they were yelling at him they were like hey hawk hey hawk hey hawk and then they would dive they would hit him they would dive down from the trees and they would hit him in the head and the hawk would just kind of look at him but he didn't do anything it was actually she she didn't do anything it was a red-tailed hawk and so i didn't know what to do and i let him sit there for like a half an hour and then i finally i called the police because i didn't know what i didn't call 9-1-1 because it was not an emergency ladies and gentlemen here's your public service announcement for the day if you need your police for something if you have a question do not call 9-1-1 because that is the emergency line and that will tie up their systems instead find the phone number for just the police desk you can google it whatever but have that number handy for situations such as this so i called the police desk and he was like uh okay we'll be right over and so he comes over and it was me this dude and we were just looking at the hawk and we were like he keeps walking closer and closer and i was just like i don't know if it should be that close to the hawk because it's a hawk like a big probably i'm gonna say a foot and a half almost two feet tall hawk giant hawk giant bird a raptor basically a dinosaur with wings and feathers which i think they might have had i don't know but i said to him i was just like you understand that if that bird wanted to get us it would be on us before we got there and i was like i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know if we could even move and he's like you know that's a good point and he back he's like we should back away and we did and the animal control people called and evidently the mama hawk sometimes she was she put herself over in this fence where she could be a distraction to the blue jays so to take them away from her nest is what the uh the wildlife protection person said she was like giving up her little body so that the on mother's day this is a mother's day hawk story happy mother's day to all of ye all the yens all of y'all uh and and maybe uh so four or five minutes later she just her wings went out and whoosh she exploded past us it was magnificent it was so cool to see this hawk um and it's funny because he was in our backyard and i was making weird jokes because that's what i do when i'm nervous and he goes look you got two deer and i'm like oh my god i'm so excited i'm so excited i'm so excited over there and you got this hawk over here and i was like yeah and there's a fox that lives in that bush and then there's a bunny that lives in my backyard and he was just like that was it i was like we're like a zoo and he was just like all right enough of this so hawk story phenomenal really cool here's my other public service announcement for the day i was in line at a grocery store i was at the checkout uh the register and i was like oh my god i'm so excited i'm so excited i'm so excited i'm so excited i'm so excited and uh they they said well do you have a card do you have a uh hey i figured i would check no i went to another store can i do my thing now or not related okay can i just bring okay i'm just you

    Aloysious J. Pig: know what we're gonna try this another day yeah i don't know why you even bother to come in if you don't schedule the time he's gonna i'm not gonna talk over you see what i'm saying he's gonna talk over every single thing you try to do that's what he does he's like oh it's the bumping bike it's weird the whole thing is confusing it's all messed up just you gotta go with it schedule the time and then you can do your own show with me if you want oh me aloe is just jpeg yeah and let's go

    Natty Bumpercar: let's go get a sea spirilla i'm more of a root beer kind of guy but sure i'd love to go get a toasty tasty beverage with you all right i'm checking out that i guess you toast toast cheers like that so anyway thanks guys i was in the grocery store and i was like oh my god i'm so in line and uh the girl said you have a card like a store card and i was like of course i do because i love saving cash and uh so she she asked for the number it was 404 that's my the the first three numbers of my phone number 404 now you can find me and she's like 404 where's that i was like atlanta she's like atlanta i love georgia i was like why why would you love georgia that's so far away you're in new jersey and she was just like oh i want to go to school there and i was like all right what where do you want to go to school and she's like down in savannah now savannah is a cool part of georgia it's down in the south it's uh there's a savannah river it's right near the uh the coast it's a nice old town nice old town and uh i was like oh no where do you want to go to school because i had an inkling she said scad now scad savannah college of art and design you may not know this about me but i went to art school i think i've talked to you about it and i was just like oh art school all right what uh what do you want to go to art school for and she was like i want to go for i don't know i don't even know yet i don't know what i want to do maybe i'm gonna do some sculpture who knows and i was just like oh no no no warning signs like bells going off like flags flares because here's the thing and i was just like listen that's great you want to be an artist that's cool but you want to be an artist i was like i went to art school too i have a bachelor's in art and painting i have a master's in art and painting i was like but here's the thing you have dreams and this girl is just kind of staring at me at this point like intently staring like i had a captive audience i said you have dreams and you bumper podcast people i'm assuming you have dreams too and i said listen dreams are amazing you're young you gotta have dreams that's what gets you through the day that's what picks you up when you're down and that's what you work for your entire life your dreams so dreams are important and you should have dreams however i threw in a very important however i got very adult on her i said however while dreams are important i want you to be as pragmatic about getting to those dreams as you can and she's like what does pragmatic mean i was like ah good pragmatic means think it through be logical make sure that what your dreams are don't wreck the rest of your life now what does that mean i went to art school and i explained this to her and i said listen and she told her well real quick she it was going to be sixty thousand dollars a year to go to this school sixty thousand dollars a year to go to a school where she's not entirely sure what she wants to do and i said listen i'm not going to do where she's not entirely sure if she wants to maybe be is some sculpture which is cool it's awesome if you have two hundred and forty thousand dollars roughly laying around to go to school do it do it me i wasn't in that situation and i had to take on a lot of student debt a lot of student loans and i wish that someone in a grocery store line had said to me maybe you should think about this before you do it here's how it can affect you and so what i said to her is i've got this kid here right she's like yeah i see him and i was just like i'm gonna be paying for my school probably for the rest of my life i'm gonna be paying for my school well beyond the time that he starts school and she was just like blink blink blink blink blink and i was like yes start blinking because i could tell by blinking that she was taking some of this in and it's an important lesson and i said i wish i wish i wish that someone had told me this when i was growing up that maybe you don't have to go get a master's in painting maybe that's not going to help you out if you want to move to new york city which i did maybe just move to new york city right maybe don't uh uh tie your horse hitch your horse up to a bar where they're gonna extort you for all the money in the world so that someone so the professors maybe won't even show up and if they do they're like why are you even here and i'm like you let me in the school brah anyway i wish that someone would have said let's think this through kiddo let's think how this is going to affect the rest of your life because i didn't really have a lot of that growing up and and and if i could be the voice of reason for this one random person even just to make her blink blink blink then that's great i'm that day i was like that mama hawk i was i was trying to protect her nest right and i the the birds were coming in

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  • Bumperpodcast 79 – The flies have it

    Bumperpodcast 79 – The flies have it

    Things aren’t going well in Headquarters … Maybe you can help us with it – or – maybe you know someone who can help us with the situation … A critter has potentially passed away in the attic …

    And the flies – oh dear goodness graciousness – the flies.

    Someone help … please.

    If you think that you can help us – then email us at bumperpodcast@nattybumpercar.com.

     

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    About This Episode

    In episode 79 of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar faces a crisis at headquarters involving an unwelcome wildlife situation. After encountering two fearsome squirrels in the attic and backing away slowly to maintain eye contact, things take a turn for the worse. A deceased squirrel in the backyard leads to an invasion of flies that threatens to take over the entire headquarters. Natty's comedic panic and increasingly frantic descriptions make this a hilariously gross episode about dealing with nature's less pleasant surprises.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I came eye to eye mere feet away from a ferocious furry squirrel. I'm the one who left the attic when I saw them and I didn't even turn around I backed slowly down the stairs never breaking eye contact.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “The flies they're everywhere they're huge they're winning they're taking over.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #squirrels #headquarters #wildlife #pests #flies #nature #comedy #panic

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Natty Bumpercar: ladies and gentlemen boys and girls we have a serious problem here in headquarters and i don't even mean a serious problem i mean a super serious problem and i shouldn't even be talking quite as loud as i am because they might hear me it's been overrun there's something terrible happening in headquarters something i think something died in the attic up in the belfry i think some sort of varmint some sort of creature some sort of thing might have happened and by happened i mean something it's gross i don't want to talk about it i'm sorry that i'm telling you guys about it

    Unknown: you

    Natty Bumpercar: hi this is natty bumper car this is the bumper podcast it's dead it's not things aren't going well around here in headquarters today things aren't going well at all um the last few days as a matter of fact so here's the situation maybe you can help me on it maybe you know someone who can help me with it i don't know all i do know is that things are things are getting real real ugly real gross real crazy there's no smell i need you to know that it's not like i live in some sort of hovel headquarters is a very nice place headquarters is very well kept we we vacuum we clean we take care of headquarters but maybe just maybe some type of critter gained access to the attic we're gonna say that happened we know that happened because i can't eye to eye mere feet away from a ferocious furry squirrel yeah i mean it was two squirrels i saw them they saw me i'm just gonna say i'm the one who left the attic when i saw them and i didn't even turn around i backed slowly down the stairs never breaking eye contact until i could get my hand on the door and then i uh burst through the door and i did like a little dance like type of thing but then a couple of weeks later there was a squirrel in the backyard he wasn't doing so well he wasn't with us anymore and i had to he was removed we'll say and then a week after that the fly started and that there ladies and gentlemen bumper cop bumper cod pet i'm so broken up about this the flies they're everywhere they're huge they're winning they're taking over