October 30, 2024 • 11 mins
On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John talks the excitement of his album coming out this week, plus the blunders that will keep you alone
On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John recaps his weekend, why he's glad he doesn't live in a big city with dogs, and how to stop caring what others think!
Intern John's debut comedy album "The Album" is available for preorder right NOW! InternJohnComedy.com proceeds benefitting the Fisher House Foundation
Every week Intern John discusses adulting, dating, radio life, and more! You can follow Intern John on social media: @InternJohnRadio. You can listen to past episodes at TheThoughtShower.com
On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John recaps his weekend, why he's glad he doesn't live in a big city with dogs, and how to stop caring what others think!
Intern John's debut comedy album "The Album" is available for preorder right NOW! InternJohnComedy.com proceeds benefitting the Fisher House Foundation
Every week Intern John discusses adulting, dating, radio life, and more! You can follow Intern John on social media: @InternJohnRadio. You can listen to past episodes at TheThoughtShower.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And a happy Wednesday. Friends. Welcome to the thought Shower.
Intern John, it's my name here we are. The pre
sale officially ends tomorrow, my debut stand up comedy album,
Intern John. The album I'm feeling feel a lot of things,
feeling nervous, excited, anxious. I think that you know, I've
(00:27):
always had people say, who couldn't make the comedy shows? You?
Will you stream it somewhere? Will you put it up somewhere?
And the answer was always no at the time, because
I never really thought that far ahead. If you remember,
this was supposed to be a one off show eight
years ago. Never, in my wildest dreams I think we
(00:48):
would do a tour that we'd raise one hundred thousand dollars,
or I'd have the possibility to have a number one album.
I also, too, never quite wanted to have a permanent,
I guess vessel for the comedy online because it's a
highly personal thing, you know, like each individual tour, there's
(01:11):
a certain thing that was kind of going through and
it always kind of felt therapeutic to write it out
and to get it out and even to perform it.
But it never felt like it was that much pressure
because I knew the jokes could never leave that venue
on that night, like people probably wouldn't remember the jokes
(01:32):
well enough to tell the jokes. Plus there is no video,
so it's almost like I could be vulnerable in front
of a set amount of people, which was very nice
and very.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I don't know, comforting, I guess. But now.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Soon everybody's gonna be able to have it forever, which
is crazy to hear about, Like the what was one
of the most challenging years of my life to have
it all kind of play out there in the comedy
format and any factoring. I was sick as a dog
when this whole thing came out, Like I was down
(02:11):
bad in the words of Taylor Swift. So it's nerve wracking,
it's excited. I'm trying to figure out, like on Thursday,
do I stay up until midnight to see how the
album's doing. Do I try to get some sleep. I
don't know. I'm gonna spend the next twenty four hours
figuring out what I'm gonna do that day. Yeah, I'm
(02:34):
getting very excited thinking about it. And again, it's one
of those things where it couldn't happen about you without
you coming to the shows. Listening to podcasts, whatever it
may be. I'm excited for people to hear this. I
was talking to a friend a couple of days ago
and they're like, why do you like doing what you do?
And I said, the biggest thing for me is I
like giving people a distraction from life. Life give me
(02:55):
very hard a lot time. I mean every day, really,
life is hard. And so whether it's the show, whether
it's the podcast, if it's something post on Instagram and
now with the comedy, if I can help somebody forget
about bad things are going through for just a little bit,
that to me is the biggest when it's like one
(03:15):
of the biggest gifts you can give somebody as well.
So I do think this album will be that we'll
give you a chance to escape, chance to lef, chance
to probably know me better as well, and it's a
begod chance. The pre order ends Thursday. Pre order ends Thursday,
Internsoncomedy dot com. The album itself is six bucks, all
(03:36):
going to benefit the Fisher House Foundation Internsoncomedy dot Com.
The pre order also comes with the Jokes to My
Dad and also the Chewy and Skittle song, which is
my favorite thing I've ever written ever. Let me get
to this for your Wednesday. If you don't want to
end up alone, stop making these social blunders.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Oh boy, this might be triggering. Listen.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Been single for almost a year, which is crazy. Uh,
it's not the longest I've been single. I think before
it was like three or four years, but the pandemic
was involved in that.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It feels different in your thirties and your twenties tell
you that. Huh. Dating abs way different now, or so
I've heard. Starting with if you ignore boundaries like they
don't exist, you're probably in aplum.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
They say boundaries of that for a reason. Cross the
number peelee is a fast track to losing people. I
think that makes sense. I think especially too, if you
cross initially don't realize it, and then that person points
it out to you, and then you just still going
across it.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It's like, Okay, you clearly just don't care. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That's not good. If you make every conversation about you.
I've been trying. I think I'm a pretty good listener, huh,
especially on dates and stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I had somebody tell me recently.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
They're like, I thought you'd talk about yourself the entire
time but you listened, and I was like, yeah, I
feel very awkward talking about myself in this serious setting
on the show, A little bit different part of the bit,
but like one on one, I'd rather just listen because
I think it.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
They save every story, comment and conversation always circles back
to you. Don't be surprised when people stop listening. Yeah,
again it goes back to we talking about this with
like friends when it's like the friend always makes something
about them. It's like, why am I a part of
this conversation? Why am I even here? I could talk
to the wall and get more from it. If you
(05:42):
act like you're always right, well, sometimes some of us
tend to be right all the time. It's a curse,
it really is. No, they say being right isn't worth
much if it costs you every friend. Constantly turning conversations
into debates or need to prove your point gets old fast.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
There's times where, like, and I've noticed this, where I
try to let things go. Like if we're talking about
a movie and somebody says, oh, that was from a
bugs life, but I know.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's from ants.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I'm not gonna say anything because my kind of thought
is like, is it worth it to correct somebody over
something that really doesn't matter? Probably not. In fact, I'm
gonna go with absolutely not. It doesn't. So I feel
like when you do that, when you're always correcting again,
it makes you less fun, especially when it's stuff where
again it doesn't quite matter. If we're in a conversation
(06:36):
about a bugs life versus ants. That conversation is not
gonna matter ten minutes from now, ten hours from now.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Is it worth stopping down to correct somebody now showing
up flaking unreliable?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
If you're constantly bailing on plans, don't be surprised when
people stop inviting you. Yeah, I would say, especially in
the romance thing too. I mentioned this on the show.
I think that if you if somebody tries to get
shoot on a date right and match with you, and
then you say, oh, I can't this day, but you
(07:12):
don't offer a follow up day for the date, I'm
gonna assume you just don't want to hang out, which
is fine, but I'm not gonna assume more on that
point too. If you, for me personally, time is I
mean for everybody times? What's viable resource? If somebody is
late for a date, like unless it's an emergency. I'm
not a big fan of that because listen, we all
(07:33):
got things to do, man. So yeah, it's like, if
you are unreliable, why would somebody want to show up?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Why would somebody want to be with you?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
If you forget to say thank you? Oh it's a
pet peeve of mine. Oh I hate that. Hate it
even like if you, uh, let somebody cross the street
and they out wave, you, let somebody merge and they
out wave you hold the door for somebody, don't say
thank you. I hate that, dude. Oh God. And I
(08:05):
know it's like it's not a big thing, but it's appreciation.
It's letting somebody know you see them, you know what
I mean that what they did matter to you. People
need to feel that one hundred percent. And I've been
like in relationships when when it's like I didn't feel
like that was happening, and I don't think the person
(08:26):
was necessarily not grateful. However, it's nice to hear. It's
just nice to know your I think, dude, especially I
mean I know women do too, but dudes want to
feel appreciated obviously, so it's nice to hear, dudes are
a golden triepers. Man, We're here to make you happy
picking up people's flaws for sure. They say, nobody wants
(08:47):
to hang around somebody who constantly points out their flaws. Yeah,
I'm not trying to feel bad all the time. Also,
I put out my flaws better than anybody else, you
know what I mean. That's just like I think, like
in a relationship especially, and I've like my thoughts, like
by the time that you hang out with your person,
(09:08):
you've already had a full day of getting your ass kicked.
Just in life, the last thing you want to do
is get your ass kicked by the person supposed to
have your back, do you know what I mean? Like that,
that to me is the absolute last thing. So yeah,
if you feel like you're getting picked on all the time,
no over sharing right out of the gate.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
To me, this is like the Bachelor Bachelorette when they
get out of the bus for the first time and like, Hi,
I'm Bill, Hi I'm Susie, and I kick puppies and
they just offer up like the darkest stuff right away.
It's like, hey, dude, let's pause a little bit. I
know we all got crazy in us. We all got
things in the closet, you know what I mean, we
(09:49):
all need to divulge that in the first date.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
They say sharing is important, but dump in your life
story too soon can make others feel overwhelmed. Give people
time they get to know you before unloading everything. Yeah,
because I guess too, Like I would assume that if
you're telling me that out the bat, like, maybe it's
not even like that special of a thing to tell
because you're telling me right away. If that makes sense,
(10:13):
you know, I mean, like, it can't be that deep
dark of a secret. If it's the first day and
you're telling me this stuff, I don't know. Last one
I'll get to you is if you're constantly checking your
phone during conversations.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, I mean to me, that's I don't like that.
I don't like that at all.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
They said, nothing says I don't care quite like someone
who's glued to their phone mid conversation. Listen, I tell
stories for a living. I know I got good stories.
But the phone checking thing is always like, if we're
doing that, why are we even hanging out? And that
goes the same with friends too. It's like if we're
having a conversation. You're on your phone. Who are you texting?
(10:52):
Is more important than what we're doing. I can go
home and text you. That means I get your full attention,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
The album is out Friday. The pre order ends tomorrow.
If you get a chance to say please, If you
have not gotten the album yet or pre ordered internshoncomedy
dot com. That's Internsjooncomedy dot Com. I'll see you Friday,
And a happy Wednesday. Friends. Welcome to the thought Shower.
Intern John, it's my name here we are. The pre
sale officially ends tomorrow, my debut stand up comedy album,
Intern John. The album I'm feeling feel a lot of things,
feeling nervous, excited, anxious. I think that you know, I've
(00:27):
always had people say, who couldn't make the comedy shows? You?
Will you stream it somewhere? Will you put it up somewhere?
And the answer was always no at the time, because
I never really thought that far ahead. If you remember,
this was supposed to be a one off show eight
years ago. Never, in my wildest dreams I think we
(00:48):
would do a tour that we'd raise one hundred thousand dollars,
or I'd have the possibility to have a number one album.
I also, too, never quite wanted to have a permanent,
I guess vessel for the comedy online because it's a
highly personal thing, you know, like each individual tour, there's
(01:11):
a certain thing that was kind of going through and
it always kind of felt therapeutic to write it out
and to get it out and even to perform it.
But it never felt like it was that much pressure
because I knew the jokes could never leave that venue
on that night, like people probably wouldn't remember the jokes
(01:32):
well enough to tell the jokes. Plus there is no video,
so it's almost like I could be vulnerable in front
of a set amount of people, which was very nice
and very.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I don't know, comforting, I guess. But now.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Soon everybody's gonna be able to have it forever, which
is crazy to hear about, Like the what was one
of the most challenging years of my life to have
it all kind of play out there in the comedy
format and any factoring. I was sick as a dog
when this whole thing came out, Like I was down
(02:11):
bad in the words of Taylor Swift. So it's nerve wracking,
it's excited. I'm trying to figure out, like on Thursday,
do I stay up until midnight to see how the
album's doing. Do I try to get some sleep. I
don't know. I'm gonna spend the next twenty four hours
figuring out what I'm gonna do that day. Yeah, I'm
(02:34):
getting very excited thinking about it. And again, it's one
of those things where it couldn't happen about you without
you coming to the shows. Listening to podcasts, whatever it
may be. I'm excited for people to hear this. I
was talking to a friend a couple of days ago
and they're like, why do you like doing what you do?
And I said, the biggest thing for me is I
like giving people a distraction from life. Life give me
(02:55):
very hard a lot time. I mean every day, really,
life is hard. And so whether it's the show, whether
it's the podcast, if it's something post on Instagram and
now with the comedy, if I can help somebody forget
about bad things are going through for just a little bit,
that to me is the biggest when it's like one
(03:15):
of the biggest gifts you can give somebody as well.
So I do think this album will be that we'll
give you a chance to escape, chance to lef, chance
to probably know me better as well, and it's a
begod chance. The pre order ends Thursday. Pre order ends Thursday,
Internsoncomedy dot com. The album itself is six bucks, all
(03:36):
going to benefit the Fisher House Foundation Internsoncomedy dot Com.
The pre order also comes with the Jokes to My
Dad and also the Chewy and Skittle song, which is
my favorite thing I've ever written ever. Let me get
to this for your Wednesday. If you don't want to
end up alone, stop making these social blunders.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Oh boy, this might be triggering. Listen.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Been single for almost a year, which is crazy. Uh,
it's not the longest I've been single. I think before
it was like three or four years, but the pandemic
was involved in that.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It feels different in your thirties and your twenties tell
you that. Huh. Dating abs way different now, or so
I've heard. Starting with if you ignore boundaries like they
don't exist, you're probably in aplum.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
They say boundaries of that for a reason. Cross the
number peelee is a fast track to losing people. I
think that makes sense. I think especially too, if you
cross initially don't realize it, and then that person points
it out to you, and then you just still going
across it.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It's like, Okay, you clearly just don't care. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That's not good. If you make every conversation about you.
I've been trying. I think I'm a pretty good listener, huh,
especially on dates and stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I had somebody tell me recently.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
They're like, I thought you'd talk about yourself the entire
time but you listened, and I was like, yeah, I
feel very awkward talking about myself in this serious setting
on the show, A little bit different part of the bit,
but like one on one, I'd rather just listen because
I think it.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
They save every story, comment and conversation always circles back
to you. Don't be surprised when people stop listening. Yeah,
again it goes back to we talking about this with
like friends when it's like the friend always makes something
about them. It's like, why am I a part of
this conversation? Why am I even here? I could talk
to the wall and get more from it. If you
(05:42):
act like you're always right, well, sometimes some of us
tend to be right all the time. It's a curse,
it really is. No, they say being right isn't worth
much if it costs you every friend. Constantly turning conversations
into debates or need to prove your point gets old fast.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
There's times where, like, and I've noticed this, where I
try to let things go. Like if we're talking about
a movie and somebody says, oh, that was from a
bugs life, but I know.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's from ants.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I'm not gonna say anything because my kind of thought
is like, is it worth it to correct somebody over
something that really doesn't matter? Probably not. In fact, I'm
gonna go with absolutely not. It doesn't. So I feel
like when you do that, when you're always correcting again,
it makes you less fun, especially when it's stuff where
again it doesn't quite matter. If we're in a conversation
(06:36):
about a bugs life versus ants. That conversation is not
gonna matter ten minutes from now, ten hours from now.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Is it worth stopping down to correct somebody now showing
up flaking unreliable?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
If you're constantly bailing on plans, don't be surprised when
people stop inviting you. Yeah, I would say, especially in
the romance thing too. I mentioned this on the show.
I think that if you if somebody tries to get
shoot on a date right and match with you, and
then you say, oh, I can't this day, but you
(07:12):
don't offer a follow up day for the date, I'm
gonna assume you just don't want to hang out, which
is fine, but I'm not gonna assume more on that
point too. If you, for me personally, time is I
mean for everybody times? What's viable resource? If somebody is
late for a date, like unless it's an emergency. I'm
not a big fan of that because listen, we all
(07:33):
got things to do, man. So yeah, it's like, if
you are unreliable, why would somebody want to show up?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Why would somebody want to be with you?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
If you forget to say thank you? Oh it's a
pet peeve of mine. Oh I hate that. Hate it
even like if you, uh, let somebody cross the street
and they out wave, you, let somebody merge and they
out wave you hold the door for somebody, don't say
thank you. I hate that, dude. Oh God. And I
(08:05):
know it's like it's not a big thing, but it's appreciation.
It's letting somebody know you see them, you know what
I mean that what they did matter to you. People
need to feel that one hundred percent. And I've been
like in relationships when when it's like I didn't feel
like that was happening, and I don't think the person
(08:26):
was necessarily not grateful. However, it's nice to hear. It's
just nice to know your I think, dude, especially I
mean I know women do too, but dudes want to
feel appreciated obviously, so it's nice to hear, dudes are
a golden triepers. Man, We're here to make you happy
picking up people's flaws for sure. They say, nobody wants
(08:47):
to hang around somebody who constantly points out their flaws. Yeah,
I'm not trying to feel bad all the time. Also,
I put out my flaws better than anybody else, you
know what I mean. That's just like I think, like
in a relationship especially, and I've like my thoughts, like
by the time that you hang out with your person,
(09:08):
you've already had a full day of getting your ass kicked.
Just in life, the last thing you want to do
is get your ass kicked by the person supposed to
have your back, do you know what I mean? Like that,
that to me is the absolute last thing. So yeah,
if you feel like you're getting picked on all the time,
no over sharing right out of the gate.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
To me, this is like the Bachelor Bachelorette when they
get out of the bus for the first time and like, Hi,
I'm Bill, Hi I'm Susie, and I kick puppies and
they just offer up like the darkest stuff right away.
It's like, hey, dude, let's pause a little bit. I
know we all got crazy in us. We all got
things in the closet, you know what I mean, we
(09:49):
all need to divulge that in the first date.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
They say sharing is important, but dump in your life
story too soon can make others feel overwhelmed. Give people
time they get to know you before unloading everything. Yeah,
because I guess too, Like I would assume that if
you're telling me that out the bat, like, maybe it's
not even like that special of a thing to tell
because you're telling me right away. If that makes sense,
(10:13):
you know, I mean, like, it can't be that deep
dark of a secret. If it's the first day and
you're telling me this stuff, I don't know. Last one
I'll get to you is if you're constantly checking your
phone during conversations.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, I mean to me, that's I don't like that.
I don't like that at all.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
They said, nothing says I don't care quite like someone
who's glued to their phone mid conversation. Listen, I tell
stories for a living. I know I got good stories.
But the phone checking thing is always like, if we're
doing that, why are we even hanging out? And that
goes the same with friends too. It's like if we're
having a conversation. You're on your phone. Who are you texting?
(10:52):
Is more important than what we're doing. I can go
home and text you. That means I get your full attention,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
The album is out Friday. The pre order ends tomorrow.
If you get a chance to say please, If you
have not gotten the album yet or pre ordered internshoncomedy
dot com. That's Internsjooncomedy dot Com. I'll see you Friday,
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