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  • Bumperpodcast #286 – Selling Cars

    Bumperpodcast #286 – Selling Cars

    Rufus T. Rufus is back, and selling blue cars? Meanwhile, Bumpercar jibber-jabbers!

    Do you like blue?

    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! 


    About This Episode

    In episode 286 of Bumperpodcast, Rufus T. Rufus attempts to sell used blue cars as podcast sponsorships while host Natty Bumpercar is away. Natty returns to discover Rufus's car sales scheme and shares his obsession with blue cars versus his current green vehicle. The episode takes a personal turn as Natty recounts a chaotic week of illness, snow days with his kids, sledding adventures, and the challenges of parenting exhausted children. He also discusses his recent comedy shows including performances at an American Legion and a club audition in the city. The episode captures the show's signature blend of puppet humor and real-life parenting struggles.

    Memorable Quotes

    “Every day I wake up, and I look at the green car, and I'm like, oh, you're not a blue car. Not a blue car. Not a blue car. And it's caused me to have a very difficult time to make an emotional connection to this car.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “You can't be alone when there's two you can be alone when you're by yourself and he was like no that's his debating technique no and I was just like ah foiled again.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “Act quickly. Act now. Act right. Act tight. I'm Rufus T. Rufus, and I am selling you cars.”

    — Rufus T. Rufus

    Topics: #parenting #snow #cars #comedy #entrepreneurship #winter #familylife #exhaustion

    Featuring: Rufus T. Rufus, Natty Bumpercar

    Full Transcript

    Rufus T. Rufus: world where will it isn't rufus d rufus and as i see it nobody using this podcast for nothing and so what i've done is i've gone out and i have sold us some sponsorships to bring some money into my wallet of course into the piggy bank for everybody as well you're gonna get your cut but uh we are gonna be selling used vehicles here uh since bumper car ain't been making no bumper podcast i figured i would slide in and take opportunity of the opportunity if you understand what i'm saying so with that being said who is in the market for a two thousand uh i don't even know a blue car who who would like a car from the year 2000 it's it's it's i can make a very good deal on it i've got four of them what different shades of blue one is more of an aquamarine one is more of a i don't know a tear course i suppose so go come and get those let me know in the comments hey rufus what are you doing oh rufus well Hello there, bumper, bumper, bumper car. How you doing today?

    Natty Bumpercar: I'm fine, but did I just hear you selling cars on the bumper podcast? Because I kind of need a car, and I like blue cars. Normally, I would get really upset with you and yell at you or whatever. Hey, what are you doing here? But, you know, I have a weak spot for blue cars. My other car is a blue car, and then when we got a new car, I wanted the blue car, but they didn't have any blue ones, and so it was going to be three weeks, and we didn't have three weeks to wait, and so we got a green car, and every day I wake up, and I look at the green car, and I'm like, oh, you're not a blue car. Not a blue car. Not a blue car. And it's caused me to have a very difficult time to make an emotional connection to this car. Is that weird? Yeah, it's a little strange. I don't know. You tell me.

    Rufus T. Rufus: Well, it's completely understandable, because as your listeners have heard, I have four blue cars. What's that? We have three. Now, we have sold one. We have four. We have four blue cars left. Three, excuse me. I get excited. So, if you want to get in on this deal, you got to get in while you can. The turquoise one is gone. That's the one. They said that's high on the market, and that's what people want to buy. And so somebody slipped in and took it away from me.

    Natty Bumpercar: Well, I don't even… That's fine with me, because I don't care about turquoise. I mean, I got like blue, blue. Like a navy blue. Like a midnight blue. Like, it's like blue. Like, I like turquoise to me. Not blue. Kind of islandy. Which is fine if you're from an island, but I just want… I want to pick out the crayon in the box, and I want it to say blue. Not teal, not turquoise, not blue-green, not green-blue. Okay. Just blue.

    Rufus T. Rufus: Well, it just so happens that in this series of cars that I have here to sell, that there are now three, and two of them are what I would define as blue. As plain old blue, as you call it. As blue as the night sky and the sweetest of months. And the sweetest… So, with that being said…

    Natty Bumpercar: What's the sweetest of months mean? I don't understand. You confuse me. Listen, here's what we're going to do. Here. Because I do have to record an actual bumper podcast now. I understand, I understand.

    Rufus T. Rufus: No problem.

    Natty Bumpercar: I appreciate you having cars. I will come and take a look at them, the ones that are blue, after. If they're still left, if they're still left. And good on you for showing some initiative. Trying to… I assume this was all going to go to the bumper podcast, to headquarters, to everyone here, and all the money you were going to make?

    Rufus T. Rufus: Oh, well, no. No, we did have a deal. We had an agreement that I needed you to sign. You understand? There was dividends and functionalities of monies that were… We're going to be passed around to everybody. So, we were going to figure that out on the back end, if you understand what I'm saying here. I guess I do. I don't know. So, I'm going to go. I got to go. I got another phone call coming in. Oh, nice. Hopefully, if it's for one of these cars, if you want to get in, act quickly. Act now. Act right. Act tight. I'm Rufus T. Rufus, and I am selling you cars.

    Natty Bumpercar: Thank you so much, Rufus T. Rufus. So, that was interesting. So, I'm Natty Bumpercar, and this is the Bumper Podcast, and it's been a couple of weeks, and I hate it when that happens, but I was sick. The kids were sick. Last week, we actually had snow, and I sat down with the kids to record a podcast about the snow, because they went sledding, and there was all this big fun, and man, it was a disaster. It was the most train wrecky of train wreckies ever. Like, I've got one set ahead for me, and I've got one set ahead for my kids, and they both want the headphones, so they both fight over the headphones, which means it's on one's head, and the other is pulling them, and then lets go, and it snaps, and then it hits the ear, and then there's crying, and then there's a punch. Ha, ha, ha. It's just, it's not a good, a conducive environment for creating a podcast, is what I'm telling you. We got like, I don't know, like 10 or 11 inches, which isn't crazy, and it's really only, I mean, our second snow of the year, but the day it's snowing, it's real wet outside, and it's really windy. It was super cold windy, but the first snowflake started to fall. The kids were like, we gotta go outside. We gotta snowball fight, snowman, sledding, and I was just like, no. It was like blizzard-ish. Like, you would look out the window, and all you, it was just like a whiteout, where all you would see is snowflakes everywhere, and I was just like, I'm not going, I'm not going out in that. Like, and this was at nine in the morning, that they wanted to go outside. And I was like, we're gonna have to wait a little while, but the snow's gonna be gone. The snow's not gonna be gone. It's here for a few days. Relax. So, it was a big fun day. I think at 11 or 12, I went out and had to shovel the driveway, and the front walk thing, drive park, what is it called? Sidewalk, that's what it's called. So, and that's like, 60 feet away. So, and that's like, 60 feet long, which is really long. So, by the time I was done, I felt like I was gonna die. And, and, and, and M was furious at me, because he was like, you wouldn't snowball fight with me. And I was like, I was shoveling. Daddy is tired and I was shoveling. Leave me be, boy. And then, later in the day, they finally, they, fine, we're gonna go sledding. So, we packed everything up, drove in the treacherous roads to the hills, the, and there's a hill in town that everyone goes to. And, we were there for an hour, 45 minutes an hour, it was, it was fine. I was freezing, I did not enjoy it. I don't like cold, I'm not good at cold, I'm not built for cold. And, but they were fine, they went up and down the hill, and up and down the hill, and up and down the hill. And, I need, I need new boots, I need new gloves, I need to move. move to the beach that's really you know what i could i could do without the gloves and the boots uh i just need to move to warmer climates is what it turns out uh i'm not i'm just not not built not built for it and then we got home and i think we i mean like we did everything for the kid we're like yeah here's this yeah here's this he played a little video games which is a special treat because we don't do that during the week and he was just like you guys don't ever let me do anything we're like but we but we did and i oh and i went i got him chinese food i went out to the place and i got him chinese food and i was like but we played in the snow and then we went sledding and then you got chinese food and uh oh then you played video game like i was just giving him the list the rundown and he was like no and i was just like yes so what i'm saying is you should have kids if you want to go crazy you should have kids it's fun it's great they don't sleep they keep you awake i was so tired last night i was in the um i was in the begging mode please just go to sleep daddy is so tired no i want you to sleep in here with us no i'm so tired please please please let daddy sleep no we're all alone in here and i was like you're not alone in here there's two of you you can't be alone when there's two you can be alone when you're by yourself and he was like no that's his debating technique no and i was just like ah foiled again so i finally got him down to sleep and then man i was i slept great i felt like a champ when i woke up and now i got tired again why is that why do i get tired so much so quickly because i ate that bagel oh what's up bagel time love me some bagels i had a big week last week too i had um uh what did i have last week i had three shows i had a show i had a show friday saturday sunday and monday but friday i had to cancel because we had plans um which is weird to can't i don't like shows but the uh saturday show was great it was at an american legion it was for a benefit the sunday show was great fun and then monday was like an audition for a club in the city and i haven't heard anything back but that night they seemed like they liked me so i don't know i don't know you know it's weird you just keep putting yourself out here's what comedians do it'll be like man i'm putting myself out there i'm grinding i'm doing this to work i'm putting in work and you're just like just gosh just go tell jokes silly boy or girl just what are you doing nobody don't don't tell me about you grinding i don't want to hear about you grinding man i was grating what were you grating cheese i was grating cheese putting in work for my pizza what you were doing what

    Unknown: you did to me it was really it was it was full of crap you you you you you you you you you you you

  • Bumperpodcast #199: Pig, Robot, and Doodle Poodle are not good at this.

    Bumperpodcast #199: Pig, Robot, and Doodle Poodle are not good at this.

    Pig, Robot, and Doodle Poodle are still running the ship on this episode of the Bumperpodcast … Runnning it right into the ground – that is!

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


    About This Episode

    In episode 199 of Bumperpodcast, Aloysious J. Pig attempts to host alongside Robot and Doodle Poodle while Natty Bumpercar is mysteriously absent. The trio struggles with basic podcast hosting duties as Robot rambles about his soup consumption, Doodle Poodle insists on talking about art and drawing despite never actually drawing, and Pig grows increasingly exasperated with his co-hosts. The episode devolves into chaotic bickering about listener names ("bumper somethings"), whether mittens are an engaging topic, and concerns that Bumpercar may be frozen into an ice cube somewhere in the woods. This improvised episode showcases the puppets' comedic inability to run a show without their usual host.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I'm sitting in a room with a crazy bucket of bolts and a dog who likes to draw and I've never seen him make a drawing. I just hear him talk about drawings all the time.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    “Why would he put tears in the name of the people who listen to the show because they're so sad because they're listening to the show?”

    — Doodle Poodle

    “Now you know it sounds terrible this show.”

    — Aloysious J. Pig

    Topics: #podcasting #hosting #art #drawing #winter #chaos #friendship

    Featuring: Robot, Aloysious J. Pig, Doodle Poodle

    Full Transcript

    Robot: robot what are you doing this is we're starting a second podcast here and this is this is how you

    Aloysious J. Pig: start you don't even say to people like oh hey everybody it's me robot and nothing like that you're just like um oh um you've done this before you know i mean act like you've been to the end zone before robot i i everybody this is a bumper podcast clearly and i'm big and oh that's robot

    Doodle Poodle: over there don't everybody forget about me all at once either because i'm here to it's me i'm doodle poodle i'm the i'm a poodle that likes to to i'm to do

    Aloysious J. Pig: i like to draw i mean i don't understand is this what we're gonna do every episode now we're just gonna establish where we are you i'm a pig you're a robot you're you're a dog that likes to draw it

    Robot: doesn't seem very engaging to the audience the audience wants to know who we are they want to know all about it they for instance they want to know that yesterday i had a can of soup nobody wants to know that um

    Aloysious J. Pig: all right so officially i'm sitting in a room with a crazy uh bucket of bolts and a dog who's likes to i guess to draw and i've never seen him make a drawing i just hear him talk about drawings all the time if you go to his twitter feed he's like oh i think i'm gonna make a drawing or whatever it's a doodle it's actually a doodle all right fine i mean that's the thing i don't care nobody cares let's just do what we do and do the bumper podcast all right what's he call you guys bumper sausages that's not what your name's uh bumper bumper somethings bumper somethings i think that's the people who listen to this show it's the bumper somethings

    Doodle Poodle: that doesn't make any sense at all why would he put tears in the name of the people who listen to the show because they're so sad because they're listening to the show because that doesn't seem like a show that i don't want to listen to i would want to listen to the show that makes me happy like the bumper podcast giggles or something like like that no no more talking for the dog

    Aloysious J. Pig: ever again i think that's it for you go and go eat you go eat some kibble i got some kibble for you to to nosh on and eat it eat it eat as much as you want and it's delicious and just cough or just whatever you say sounds so silly

    Robot: can i talk or do you have any type of stuff that i could eat i could go for some

    Doodle Poodle: and i don't even i don't want i'm not i'm not even really all that hungry right now because i had a bigger breakfast and i don't feel i feel like it's time to do the show and like i want to talk on the show and be like more like talk on the show that was stuff for the for the yeah

    Aloysious J. Pig: all right uh oh wow let's uh see if we can get into any uh topics people love topics on podcasts so maybe we talk about i don't know it's cold now you guys go we got your jackets on you got your hoods your hats your mittens your gloves your scarves you're uh you're really struggling

    Robot: you're really really struggling

    Doodle Poodle: i know i gotta tell you it's not it's not a good show i agree with the robot i think we should talk about art and drawing and stuff because i mean people love art it makes them happy to make drawings sometimes so you see people and they have drawings that they made and they're just smiling and they're so happy you know i don't know if talking about mittens is gonna be a good idea i don't know if talking about mittens is gonna be a good idea make anybody happy at all for really well we we do want people to be happy we'll listen to the

    Aloysious J. Pig: show it's the bumper podcast i'm pig it's robot over there and toodle poodle we uh we're hosting it because bumper cars disappeared we don't know where he went don't know where he gone uh he's probably out in the woods uh ice cubing right now what does that mean he's frozen into an ice cube

    Doodle Poodle: we should really find them that sounds wow it sounds just really terrible i wouldn't want that ever

    Aloysious J. Pig: now you know it sounds terrible this show

  • 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

  • Bumperpodcast # 161 – We’ve really lost it

    Bumperpodcast # 161 – We’ve really lost it

    Yay! It’s a new Bumperpodcast …

    Hold on to your britches.

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

    Pants are awesome!


    About This Episode

    In episode 161, Natty Bumpercar records while driving hands-free and shares his stream-of-consciousness thoughts on everything from talking to oneself to the podcast boom. Fresh off a brutal winter at headquarters with sky-high heating bills and seemingly windowless offices, Natty celebrates the arrival of spring weather. He goes on entertaining tangents about ferocious animals, dinosaur taxonomy, and whether the plural of brachiosaurus might be "brachiosauri." This rambling, affectionate solo episode showcases Natty's spontaneous comedy style as he reconnects with listeners after some time away.

    Memorable Quotes

    “I'm assuming that everyone talks to themselves as much as I talk to myself, is this true or not? You'll have to let me know, but what I'm saying is you can record yourself, so that's good, and then you, look, you've got a podcast!”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “I've missed you guys, and I don't even mean just missed you a little bit. I mean, ferociously. Ferociously like a badger. Ferociously like a wolverine. Ferociously like the most ferocious dinosaur to ever roam the land.”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #spring #podcasting #dinosaurs #talkingtoyourself #winter #streamofconsciousness

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar

  • Bumperpodcast # 158 – I’m the boss

    Bumperpodcast # 158 – I’m the boss

    I fell into a crevace of jelly and got stuck and have missed the beans out of you guys … Seriously.

    Also – Headquarters has gotten a bit more full.

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

    Eating is an important thing!


    About This Episode

    Natty Bumpercar returns to Bumperpodcast after falling into a jelly-filled crevasse that froze over, leaving him trapped and blinking for what felt like 16 years. Upon his return to headquarters, Natty discovers chaos: the holidays have passed, there's now a second baby bumpercar who may have given him bronchitis, and he's been passing out from illness. As he struggles to adjust to life with two baby bumpercars (whom he temporarily nicknames Blue and Yellow), Natty hilariously attempts to establish parental authority while dealing with bath time incidents and contemplating how to keep the kids in line. This episode showcases Natty's signature rambling storytelling style as he processes the absurd changes that occurred during his frozen absence.

    Memorable Quotes

    “i've just been down there blinking that's all i could do was blink obviously i can't even breathe it's still there's jelly stuck in my uh in my throat”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “i'm not gonna say he gave me bronchitis because i don't know if babies have that power but he might have gotten me really sick”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    “the more guilt that i can have on this baby the more check marks against them the easier it's going to be for me to keep them in line down the road”

    — Natty Bumpercar

    Topics: #parenting #illness #babies #winter #jelly #headquarters #holidays #responsibility

    Featuring: Natty Bumpercar