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About This Episode
In this introspective episode of the Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar opens up about his recent absence from recording. He candidly discusses his struggle with prioritizing creative work when life gets overwhelming, describing his tendency to take on multiple projects while pushing aside the things he truly loves—like making the podcast. Natty introduces his "rock tumbler" theory of creativity, explaining how he mentally processes ideas while juggling responsibilities. He reflects on the challenge of seeking validation, doing things for others versus himself, and finding happiness in chaotic times. Despite feeling overwhelmed, Natty reaffirms his love for the show and his commitment to returning, ending on an optimistic note about eating tiny seedless oranges and declaring that the Bumperpodcast is back.
Memorable Quotes
“I like to push away the things that I care about that I really want to do and that are meaningful to me and uh slotting in some silly stuff that I know I can accomplish.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“The joy at finishing the thing is nowhere near the depths of uh of depression and annoyance in myself at not doing the thing that I really want to be doing.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“I miss doing the podcast and and i don't know where everybody is right now i hope they didn't give up on me.”
— Natty Bumpercar
Topics: #creativity #mentalhealth #procrastination #work-lifebalance #self-reflection #podcasthiatus #creativeprocess #happiness
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar, Producer, Robot
Full Transcript
Natty Bumpercar: so i'm not saying that like i have a problem or anything necessarily but i will say that something weird is going on where i haven't had the will or i will i was going to say the desire but i've really had the desire i just haven't had the will to come and record i don't know what's going on like every day i'm like i really want to go in and make a new bumper podcast i miss doing the bumper podcast and then invariably inevitably indubitably something else would come up and say hey i'm a bigger priority right now you gotta take care of me or else everything's fall apart and i don't know necessarily if that's the case or if my brain is just so overwhelmed by this this cacophony of other priorities in life and responsibilities that for some reason it uh it just kind of swept the podcast into the corner i don't like that because you i think i've told you before i love making the bumper podcast it's my it's one of my favorite things to do it's high on the list of favorite things to do like like very high i don't know what else is on the list but i know that this is very high i don't feel like i know i've been overwhelmed and i feel like i've been a little bit down maybe a little bit depressed um just with life you know sometimes you you just it gets to be a bit too much and um i i don't like to admit it but but sometimes normally okay well normally what i like to do when life gets to be too much and i get to be too stressed is i just kind of keep pushing forward and adding more to my plate because that's a great idea right it's like hey i'm about to fall to pieces why don't i take on six more projects oh those have deadlines oh great and they're all oh great like so i should just never sleep again perfect oh wait i'm also gonna be doing a lot of shows and you know just like thing on top of thing on top of thing um which even by themselves feel like they're kind of a a large undertaking and you know i'm not like well that large undertaking is going to be enough for me for right now no no i'm like let's spin the die and see how many other things that i can take on and i was i was talking to somebody about it and they said well you you must enjoy that and i was like why they're like well you always enjoy that and i was like why you're always seem to do it you always seem to be really busy you always seem to be doing a lot of stuff and i said yeah i don't know if i enjoy it because i think what i'm doing and uh you can call me out on this if you want to but i like to push away the things that i care about that i really want to do and that are meaningful to me and uh slotting in some silly stuff that i know i can accomplish um and i know i can kind of you know feel great because i finished something and then the stuff that i really want to do is still sitting over there uh like hey what about me i'm like oh yeah yeah okay you're next and i start making my way over to that thing i want to do and i'm like oh you know what i gotta do i gotta do this other thing make that appointment go to this thing do that thing and for the most part I'm pretty on top of that stuff but just just because I'm moderately organized doesn't mean that I'm getting done the stuff that I want to get done and it's it becomes a really annoying loop because what happens is I push off the thing that I want to do for instance making a podcast and then even though I feel good that maybe I finished this other thing I feel bad and I feel guilt that I didn't do the podcast or whatever it is and so and it doesn't even like even each other out right the uh the joy at finishing the thing is nowhere near the depths of uh of depression and annoyance in myself at not doing the thing that I really want to be doing and um so like even though I'm getting stuff done I'm I'm coming in at a feel-good negative is what I'm going to call it um the the bank has been depleted of good feelings and we've actually we're we're in debt from feeling good wise um so it's weird I need to stop doing that um and every so often what I like to do because I used to really beat myself up about this like I would and because I've done this forever is I would have the thing I want to do but then I do other stuff but I would have the thing that I want to do in my mind kind of rolling around and I always try to make it like a uh a rock tumbler if that makes sense where the things I really want to do I put them in the rock tumbler of my brain and even though I you know I'm not looking at the rocks because they're in the rock tumbler but they're they're just spinning and rolling and going and doing their thing and becoming like you know pretty little rocks and the hope is that when I finally get to do those things I'm going to be able to do them that it's weird because sometimes I will just knock out five or six things and then then whoa I feel amazing I feel like look at me look at natty bumper car and people are like how did you do where'd all this stuff come from and I was like it came from my rock tumbler and they're like I don't know what that means and I don't know if I want to know what that means and I'm like I gotcha so I just have to kind of accept that things are in my rock tumbler and try not to force them because when I force stuff out it never turns out the way I really want it to and it feels like even though if it's done and it doesn't turn out the way I want it to it feels underwhelming and that's kind of pointless so it's a real juggling act for me mentally to have stuff I want to do and I want to do it and I want to do it and I want to do it and I want to do have stuff I have to do get stuff done get the stuff done I want to and not drive myself bananas doing all that so you know and I I'm not complaining I said I think there's a lot of life going on there is but everybody's got a lot of life going on right but sometimes I have stuff in life that like I don't know I would like to be better and I put a lot of energy and effort and emotion and time into trying to make things better uh for other people um and it doesn't always translate it doesn't always work out and so then you have the thing where it's like all right I've poured all this energy into helping this situation or trying to make this thing better or whatever it is and it didn't work out and it didn't work out and it didn't work out and it didn't work out and it didn't work out and it's hard to reconcile with myself that that that's okay you know like you gave it you gave it your best shot there bumper car you really tried you really went in there and and you gave it your all and that's all you can do it's not always going to work out in your favor it's not always going to be uh you know end up great but even if it doesn't end up great that's okay because you still went through it and so you still have to acknowledge the experience and I don't know a lot of times it feels like I'm doing smoke and mirrors with my brain where I'm like you you got through it you made it that was a good experience you learned from it next time's gonna be better but you don't I don't know that next time could be worse you know like but I do like to try to come at things with a little bit of a silver lining and hope that you know you're putting all this effort in or trying to do all these things and what are you doing them for are you doing them for yourself are you doing them for other people you know and then why would you do it for other people like are you trying to gain their acceptance or their love or you know their appreciation and you know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't and there's zero you know percent you know positive chance that that's gonna happen because they're their own people and they're going through all these other things by themselves so you can't look to other people to make yourself feel good that's you know to get validated by other people that's that's hard so you just gotta like do things for the sake of doing things that make you happy right and i don't know i'm just mostly i'm just saying i miss doing the podcast and and i don't know where everybody is right now i hope they didn't give up on me and um hopefully you know the next episode won't just be me uh bibbling and babbling as it were about not doing stuff and doing stuff and you know being happy and satisfied i i certainly don't know the answer to being happy anymore feels like the world's on its ear and so yeah i kind of you have to live life and look for all the positives and look for all the happy things because if you don't oh boy it weighs you down right oh i think i need to go eat i don't know what i want to eat maybe like oh you know what i want to eat we have some of those little oranges in the house those tiny little oranges that don't have seeds that are delicious and you can eat like five in a sitting i think maybe it's time for me to go and peel an orange or two and then i'll have energy we don't have vitamins and i'll be ready to hit the ground running and take the world by storm because can i tell you what the bumper podcast is back
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