Normal isn’t necessary

Normal isn’t necessary

A daily dose of ranting, a weekly dose of RANDOM. A Podcast for everyone. Daily topics range from moldy food to mental health and hangover history.....These are ”Road Rants”. Creating everyday understanding to things that are trivial while helping others understand the perils and challenges of overcoming adversity in unique ways. Our weekly series ”GTKY” (Get To Know You) Showcases our followers, friends and people we have met along the way. These are studio recorded interviews with a high production value. Always something family focused and mental health related. Our host turns the show into entertainment information and creates a long lasting impression on your gray matter. Whether substance abuse, mental health or process addiction, this podcast can relate to everyone. Send us an email if you would like to hear our take on subject matter or for interview inquiries at: normalisntnecessarypodcast@gmail.com *Disclaimer: Some language may be more suitable for mature listeners

Episodes

May 1, 2025 13 mins
Tattoos take time. Time to decide if you want one, where, of what, is there sigmificance.....color/black and white/grey? Who will do the work? will it become a sleeve or a one off....well sadly-recovery is the same way. see how we correlate the 2 in this podcast....another Road Rant
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A call in with real life inquiries about job choice, and how we come to a positive resolve of our curiosity. Together Light joined us for the drive home with a real life question.... "you've come to a crossroad-which way do you go and why?"
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April 30, 2025 17 mins
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JJ aka Inkshift is an animator, artist and illustrator currently living in Portland Oregon area. He is a lover of robots, cats and his Kim. We love JJ and were thankful enough to get some insight on the grueling lifestyle and timelines of commercial artists. We spoke about our life and our affinity for our romance. 

 

We checked in with him and his progress on his second iteration of Speedo Frog and his adventures. We purchased the...

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This queaky gives a quick shout out to all of our past guests upcoming guests and an advertising plug for modern biking beard care company. This is just a quick podcast, announcing the new segments that we have upcoming.Please stop by and take a listen
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Gumballhead goes to the doctor. A story about taking care of our health, with a road rant approach. live and love yourself. Its all about mindset.
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April 23, 2025 24 mins
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April 23, 2025 20 mins
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Johnny Deeper is a musician that has a deep affinity for music, mental health and women's advocacy. In this episode, we talk about how music and our upbrinings have gotten us to where we are. He speaks highly of advocating for DV Victims in society and we chat about music and it's effects on our individual mental health. 

Johnny is also a worm saver, check him out on Tik Tok @johnnydandghostofpete

 

Johnny has asked us to provide d...

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April 17, 2025 47 mins
Joined by an unexpected guest-we talk a little politics on this episode. Stepping out od our cimfort zone a bit to talk to a comrade. This is one for the record books-check it out!
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April 17, 2025 13 mins
Understanding that society and our surroundings DO IN FACT entice us into making rash decisions, does not help with the fact that we alkne sometimes.....give in out of desperation. Today we chat about the shiny and the dull in thisnepisode of road rants. Stay tuned Monday the 21st for our interview with Johnny Deeper and the Ghost of Pete Seeger!
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April 16, 2025 37 mins
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April 16, 2025 22 mins
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April 15, 2025 19 mins
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April 14, 2025 73 mins

Anarchy 2 Diapers is a Podcast we stumbled across on Podbean and took to them straight away. Dan, from A2D is a musician, artist and Elder Punk from New York-and here we chat with him regarding music, meditation and mental health. This conversation covered many avenues and was an amazing opportunity to talk about art and parenting as well. One of our most unique podcasts to date. 

If you are interested in being on our show, please ...

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April 13, 2025 16 mins
They rioted because they won, destroying a city as a result of a hockey title shame on you Kalamazoo. Who am I to play the blame game. However, I rioted most of my life as a result of addiction in here we correlate rioting because of the win of a hockey game and mental health: when it comes to active addiction. If you're curious, give us a listen.
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April 13, 2025 40 mins
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April 12, 2025 35 mins
multiple variables explored in this one. leave us a comment ibelow and let us know if this information impacted you-good/bad or othereise. Check out our website at www.gumballhead.com and find us on Tik Tok @gumballhead_official
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