Aloysious J. Pig: i know so i'm super excited because this of course is like our end of the year recap everybody's doing it especially us because it means we don't have to make up new content so it's perfect yeah

Natty Bumpercar: um hey everybody it's me natty bumper car here in the bumper podcast and i'm confused because speaking of making new content what happened to our episode from last week i does any does

Producer: anybody know yes i hello everyone it's me producer and um i think that i i will field this this question um i will i will answer this question i'm going to take the question that you have given me i'm going to uh figure out what do you what do you um

Natty Bumpercar: What are you doing, producer? Just tell me the answer, please.

Aloysious J. Pig: Yeah, so, Natty, I think what producer is trying to say right now, I think what he's trying to impress upon you to elucidate you to with an answer is probably that you, well, I mean, well, come on, you know. I mean, right? Yeah, you know the answer. We're good. Can we just move on? We're going to move along.

Natty Bumpercar: Wow. What is going on? You guys are both being like extra, extra, extra, like strange, even more so than normally. Remember, so a couple of weeks ago, Santa Claus was here and we were talking about stuff. I guess you guys were talking about stuff because I went back and listened and I wasn't around. And then I came in at the last second and then said, oh, I got a huge story to tell everybody. And then, of course, the show ended because that's how it seems to work. And then last week we all got together and I was just telling my whole story, the whole big thing. All the stuff that happened, the reason why we haven't been recording as much, all that stuff. Yeah.

Rufus T. Rufus: Now, Natty, hi, everyone. It's me, Rufus, T. Rufus. That episode was, of course, recorded. You can just look in the logs here of the studio and you can see the time stamp, the signatures, the signatories of the signatures, the signatories of the jurors of the time, special time. And with all that information given, I think that we can all agree that that episode was, in fact, recorded. Yes. It was made. Yes. Made in the shade. I know. Yeah, you know. So it was a great episode, Natty. I listened to it over and over again. It might be one of my favorite episodes. One of the best episodes that I ever had listened to.

Natty Bumpercar: I don't think I believe you. It was a kind of depressing episode because there's been so much rough stuff going on. And I can't imagine that anyone was going to go back and listen to it multiple times. And that's not even the point. The point is I'm looking on, you know, through the feed, which is where all the podcasts live, and it's just it's not there. There's the episode, Santa Claus. Yeah. Yeah. There's a break. And then now we're here. And so you're saying that you remember recording it. Evidently, there's some sort of a log here in the studio where we can see it, but it doesn't seem to exist anywhere that I can find, at least.

Producer: So now I think that comes back to me as the producer of the show. And, you know, we record stuff. Then what happens is I go through and I make the edits and I edit the music. And I do all of the things that I do as my job as a producer. And then I upload it. And I do all the back behind the scenes type of work that, you know, doesn't get appreciated most times, which is fine. But I put the transcript of the words and I make the picture. Oh, boy. And I try to, you know, I just do all the things. Can you just move on? And then people can come and they can listen to the episode. So, yeah. All perfect.

Aloysious J. Pig: What was that? All perfect? Have you been doing more of those online language learning courses? How many accents do you have now, producer? That didn't even make no sense.

Rufus T. Rufus: You know, I heard it as well. It was his voice that went upsy-downsy. That's what we call that in the business. Upsy-downsy. And I hope you're not still, producer, you can answer. My question, I hope you're not still using any of those courses because, you know, we canceled them after the trial period. And if you're still getting access to one, that means we're paying for one, which is going to come right out of the bottom line. And, you know, we can't have that because we have budgetary issues. We have, you know, the book here has all the expenditures and all the earnings and all the… Can you stop?

Natty Bumpercar: Can we just stop, please? Well, all right.

Rufus T. Rufus: Well, calm down.

Natty Bumpercar: Well, no, I'm not going to calm down because you guys are doing the thing you always do where I come in and you act like the thing that I'm talking about doesn't make any sense. And I don't understand. Like, we recorded an episode and you're acting like you know it was recorded and you're saying you listened to it several times. Pig, I don't even know what you're talking about. And, producer, you just started to get into the… I got some bolts of making podcasts, which nobody cares about. Especially nobody on this show. Good one. That was a good one, Aloysius. It wasn't a good one, okay? I'm just trying to figure out what happened to the episode from last week and I guess I'm just not going to find out. I guess maybe there was some sort of mishap, some sort of shenanigan, something that now the episode is gone. We've recorded it, obviously, and now it's… I suppose that it just got eaten up by the internet.

Rufus T. Rufus: Now, hold on a second there, Natty. Now, as the lawyer of the Bumper Podcast, can I tell you that if it was, in fact, eaten up by the internets, as you are postulating, then we might have a case against said internets. So, we might have something and we got to file… I'm going to go file some stuff. So, I'm going to head out. Okay. But you guys are great and I'm going to go figure this thing out, all right?

Aloysious J. Pig: Okay.

Rufus T. Rufus: Sueing the internet.

Aloysious J. Pig: Check you later, Rufus. So, yeah, Natty, looks like Rufus is on the case and it looks like… It feels to me like we can just button this issue up. Okay, we can just move on… No buttoning up. …with the rest of our day. No. And what a glorious day it is. It is a nice day. Don't you know that we're going to do a year-end countdown?

Natty Bumpercar: No, we're not going to… If we're going to do a year-end countdown, here's what it's going to be. The top one show that just disappeared. And you know which one is going to win? It's going to be last week's episode. That's the one that's going to win the whole thing. So, I give up. Do you guys want… Now, I don't even care about the last week's episode and I really don't want to do, like, any kind of year… Year-end review countdown. I'm not into that right now because I'm kind of frustrated. But if you guys want to record something else today, then let's do it. It'll be, I guess, the last episode of the year, probably. But I did so much research

Producer: and I did a lot of… You know, I went and I read things and I made a chart and I made an infographic. Yeah, Natty.

Aloysious J. Pig: Let the guy… He made all this work. Yes. Yeah, can we just see what he's doing?

Producer: Can I just… I'll show you and maybe it'll spark some interest. I… It's the top ten mammals of last year.

Aloysious J. Pig: Listen to that, Natty. That sounds like some real choice episode material there. Can we just… You know what? I would love it if we just could… If we could just listen to what producers put together. Top ten mammals of last year.

Natty Bumpercar: I hate to admit it. I am not a fan to admit it. But listen, you actually got me. I'm actually interested. Can… Can I please hear, producer, whatever you've come up with, whatever it is about the top ten mammals of last year, I guess.

Producer: All right. Great, great. I'm so happy that you're into it. I'm just going to jump right in. And at number ten…

Aloysious J. Pig: Bro, bro, hold on. Hold on. I know this… I know you're behind the booth, but listen, you got to build it up a little bit. You got to give your crew… Criteria, right? You got to tell people why they're here. You can't just run through the list. That's going to drive people crazy. They're going to be like, well, how did it get to be number seven or whatever, all right? So you got to ease us into it a little bit, all right? All right? You know, pique our interest.

Producer: All right. Well, you know, I suppose I could do that. I have no problem with that. So, you know, mammals, they are… Let's see. To be a mammal, you have to be warm-blooded and have a… a backbone, you know, like a ver… ver… vertebrae? I don't know how to say it, but a backbone, you know? And I think, you know, when they feed their young, their babies, a milk. So that's kind of… You know, that's kind of the criteria. And they have to have gone above and beyond what's expected of them in the last year. So that's my list.

Natty Bumpercar: Okay. So you've got your list of ten mammals from last year. That went above and beyond. Let's hear it, producer.

Producer: Okay. I'm so excited that I'm going to get to do this. So coming in at number ten, everybody, I hope you like this, is the giant panda who just barely edged out the finnick fox. All right. Well, my list is already…

Aloysious J. Pig: is already blown. I had giant panda much higher, but I guess we'll see how this goes.

Natty Bumpercar: I'm sad because I had… finnick fox way up there. So, yeah, keep going, producer. Okay, okay, great.

Producer: So the next one on our list, number nine coming in, is, of course, the California sea lion, which is, you know, they did a great job last year, I think.

Aloysious J. Pig: I don't… Are you just… I know we're only on number nine, but I… Mike, are you sure? Yes. California sea lions? Yes. What do they even do?

Producer: Oh, the California sea lions are excellent entrepreneurs, and they do all kinds of things for the community. They do. So they are on the list, you know? They do. Yeah, I agree. Right. So now I'm just going to go into the next one. Number eight is, of course, the hedgehog. Okay. Everybody clap it up for the hedgehog.

Natty Bumpercar: I was having some issues with the list as well, Pig, but now that we're into hedgehog territory, sign me up. Hedgehog at number eight. Let's go.

Producer: Okay, number eight. So number six and number seven, we're actually a tie between the narwhal and the platypus. So they're both a tie, you know?

Aloysious J. Pig: I'm out. You can't have a tie. Happy New Year, bumper car.

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