The Graffiti Machine

Bus166 & Kub
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Our goal is to uplift the graffiti culture by sharing personal development information from a graffiti writer's perspective; improve the culture by helping writers improve themselves.

  1. Weird Shit I've Seen: Ghost Stories

    12/12/2025

    Weird Shit I've Seen: Ghost Stories

    I've seen a lot of weird supernatural shit since I was a little kid. This is a departure from the normal stuff we talk about here, but I wanted to document it and figured some people might like hearing these stories.

    32 min
  2. One Day, You'll Miss Them

    12/03/2025

    One Day, You'll Miss Them

    I have a little ritual in the morning. After I walk my dog while carrying a kettlebell, I make a cup of coffee and read while drinking it. A lot of times, my dog interrupts the reading session. She's still hyped up from the walk and gets excited when I sit down. She'll jump on my lap and get pets. Sometimes I just want to get my reading done, but I have to remind myself that one day I'll miss her interrupting the reading. Nothing is permanent in this life. It's hard to remember that we won't always have everything and everyone we love. Don't waste the moments. One day you'll miss them.

    3 min

  3. 11/06/2025

    Your Compass is Resistance

    In the War of Art by Steven Pressfield, he talks about how we feel the strongest resistance when the task is the most meaningful to our soul's evolution. This shows up as different things like procrastination, fear, doubt, and excuses. This can be both a blessing and a curse. The curse is it's so hard to make ourselves do the things we want to do when resistance is so strong. The blessing is the resistance can help identify the things you should be focused on. There are many ways to overcome, but that doesn't make it easy. One thing he talks about is shifting your mindset from amateur to professional. An amateur will stack all kinds of reasons to not do the tasks. A professional gets it done no matter what. This is one of my favorite quotes from the book: "How many pages have I produced? I don't care. Are they any good? I don't even think about it. All that matters is I've put in my time and hit it with all I've got. All that counts is that, for this day, for this session, I have overcome Resistance." Professionals get the work done regardless of how strong the resistance is. — Bus

    6 min

  4. 10/07/2025

    Motivation isn't the starting point.

    We all can find ourselves in a rut from time to time, lacking motivation and having difficulty getting things done. When this happens to me, I try to remember the best way to find motivation is to make progress. While motivation might pop up from time to time, that isn't reliable. The most reliable way to find motivation is to create it with action. If you feel like you can't get yourself to move forward, just write a list of a few things that will move you forward. A little bit of progress and checking the tasks off the list will not only create motivation over time, it'll compound. A little bit every day turns into a lot over a week, month, or year.

    10 min
  5. Don't Take Criticism From Someone You Wouldn't Ask for Advice

    09/27/2025

    Don't Take Criticism From Someone You Wouldn't Ask for Advice

    I saw a quote today that felt like it would be helpful for people. It said, "don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't ask for advice". In recent years, criticism doesn't really bother me, but when I first got serious about posting content around 2019, it did tend to bother me. Before posting a video, I would wonder how it would be received and often second guess it. If I had this quote back then, I feel like things would have been easier. Most of the negative comments are either from anonymous accounts, so those don't matter at all. The ones that you can see are never people I would take advice from. I would imagine you will find the same. If criticism is holding you back on anything you want to do, be sure to ask the question: Would I take advice from this person? Then act accordingly.

    16 min
  6. Foot to the floor!

    08/22/2025

    Foot to the floor!

    I saw this video the other day. It was a race car driver saying "I'm just gonna put my foot on the floor and I'm not lifting until I see god or the checkered flag". It got me thinking about this kind of all in mentality that can be really difficult to achieve. How do we get this kind of mindset when the shit we need to do is the last thing we want to do? I'm still trying to crack that code—one thing that might help is to shift our thinking to focus on the payoff of the action rather than the effort. This was something a guy named Scott Adams talked about. The reason a lot of us don't go all in on things is we get trapped into thinking about everything it will take. The actions aren't fun. The work is hard. If we focus on the payoff, it might push through the procrastination.

    12 min

  7. 08/14/2025

    Do we have more time than we think?

    A couple months ago, I woke up with this crazy feeling and thought 'I'm running out of time!'. I must have had some crazy dream or something. The thoughts were about running out of time to accomplish my goals and things of that nature. At 51 years old, I'm pretty fit and healthy for my age, but you never know how much time you have left regardless of your age. Then I saw a video that changed my perspective. It was an 80 year old man hitting a heavy bag. This dude had super clean strikes for someone at any age. The caption said something like, "if I stopped training at 50, I would have missed out on 30 years of staying fit". Nothing wrong with staying urgent and aggressive about getting your shit done, but we may have more time than we think!

    16 min

  8. 06/26/2025

    153 - Stop Scrolling and Get Your S**t Done

    Lately I've been paying closer attention to what gives me energy and what drains it. The biggest thief? My phone. In this episode, I break down how scrolling kills momentum, what I've been doing to snap out of it, and a simple trick to get back on track fast.

    24 min
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Our goal is to uplift the graffiti culture by sharing personal development information from a graffiti writer's perspective; improve the culture by helping writers improve themselves.

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  • Creator
    Bus166 & Kub
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    160
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    The Graffiti Machine

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