May 5, 2025 • 9 mins
On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John talks his weekend: tattoos and dogs. Plus, what hapens when you outgrow old friendships
Intern John's "Chuy Forever" is a weekend of comedy shows 6/20 & 6/21 in Arlington, Va benefitting Warrior Canine Connection. They train puppies to be service animals for veterans! Tickets are on sale now, InternJohnComedy.com
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
Intern John's "Chuy Forever" is a weekend of comedy shows 6/20 & 6/21 in Arlington, Va benefitting Warrior Canine Connection. They train puppies to be service animals for veterans! Tickets are on sale now, InternJohnComedy.com
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 Monday friend. Welcome to the Thought Shower
intern John is my name? A week it was let's
get through this. A lot going on. What happened A
big week this week as well, because my dad and
I go on vacation this week together.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Very exciting.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Monday kind of relaxed, you know, chill day if you will,
sun or see me. Saturday, big day, woke cup haircut,
very exciting. Also, got more tattoos. And my mom's gonna
hear this and not be a happy camper. But Mom,
I'm an adult. I'm a grown man. I can make
(00:38):
decisions now. I got two of them. I'm an inner
arm and I love them. They're amazing. They're like thin
and one is an outline of the of Chewy, my
dog Chewy, which is very very cool. The other one
is an outline of the state of Minnesota. Hometown boy,
(00:58):
you know rocking that. And I'll say this again, I
am I'm not a fan pain, right, I know. Not
many people are so like tattoos. I think on the
show it comes across like I was afraid of tattoos.
It's not that I'm afraid of like the pain. It's not.
It's just I don't. I don't prefer the pain, you
(01:20):
know what I mean, I don't. I'd rather not it hurt.
Kind of like that. It's not like I was like, oh,
this is sick, let me get this done. But it
went well and shouts to MC girl Patty who does tattoos,
she's amazing a listener of the show, listener of the podcast.
So it went, it went very well. I was very
very excited with it, and yeah, well I get more.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I don't know. Sauce keeps trying to tell.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Me to get a sleeve, which is like, you know,
your whole arm based The covered problem with that is
I don't think. I'm like, I don't I have enough
designs in my head, you know, So like I don't
know if that's gonna be the journey for me.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That's kind of part one of that. Part two is
it takes forever.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Like the tattoos I have are fairly small, so it
doesn't necessarily like hurt to get done in the moment,
but like some tattoos man that people get like take forever,
and like I've I've heard people now like getting underneath
like under like anttesia to uh to get tattoos, which
that to me seems like a lot not my vibe.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Then Saturday had a bit of a.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Not issued I mentioned this before, but dog owners, you know,
we make fun of cat owners, Obviously, dog owners can
be just as dumb. So I'm walking Skittles. Skittles is
a Border Collie. Skittles is very protective. He just is
love that bottom of people.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
He loves. If I'm in the bathroom, he'll stay in
the doorway. That kind of protection.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
In this small dog office, leash and took a run
at Skittles, and the owner, instead of chasing it down,
Kya instead was like, you know, scream sprinkles, spring colts,
thinking that the dog was gonna stop and come back.
If you ever have a dog take off, you know,
there's nothing you can do, like saying why he's talking
wise to make them stop. Once they're in that motion,
(03:12):
they gone. And so dog goes off and the guy's like, oh,
don't worry, he won't bite, and I look at him, I.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Go, minewell, minewell, why wouldn't he.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I just don't think dog owners get that it's not
cute when your dog takes a run at my dog,
because my dog doesn't know if yours is friendly. And
the example I always use is if a human being
you don't know takes a run at you, a stranger
starts running at you, your first reaction is not gonna
be this will be a hug, this will be a
(03:47):
high five. Your first reaction is I'm in danger. So
thank god I was able to pick skills off the
ground and hold him and we were good to go.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So that was that.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
You know, make sure dog's a a leek. You know,
we all us to do it. Dump at our dogs
in bad spots. You know, would love to see you.
June twentieth. June twenty first, the comedy show is in Arlington.
Intern John's Chewy Forever benefiting the Warrior Canine Connection, an
amazing charity that helps puppies be put with well trains
(04:22):
puppies to be service dogs, to get the veterans. There's
not many tickets left. Once these shows sell out, we
are done. It's Internjohncomedy dot com. Tickets are fifteen bucks.
Internjohncomedy dot com My Chewy Forever shows.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Let me get to this for your Monday.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
The truths about outgrowing your friend group, which at some
point everybody's gonna be there, right. At some point the
friend groups grow apart. And I've mentioned in this before
is that when you're a kid, you don't necessarily realize,
you know, the reason you have the friendships you do
is because of convenience, because they are in the same
school as you or play on the same sports team,
(05:02):
and you see them every day. And then it's once
you get into college and you kind of have control
over your own schedule where you realize, like, oh, okay,
when I have to choose to maintain friendships, it becomes
a little bit more difficult. You know, when I know
I'm not going to see them every day and I
have to make plans. That's when you know it's real.
(05:24):
If your conversations feel like groundhog Day. They remember you
couldn't wait to spill the latest tea of a brunch.
Now it feels like you're trapped in a loop of
the same conversations that someone hit pause a meaningful dialogue.
They say friendships have become stagnant often indicate personal growth.
We're interest and desirous and longer in line. I've noticed this,
(05:45):
like with my friends that have kids, we don't relate
to a lot anymore, you know, like all you really
have is the past and kind of like nostalgia, and
that's not a bad thing. It just kind of is
what it is. I don't know anything about childcare, daycare, marriage.
I can't really contribute that way. They can't contribute to
(06:07):
dating apps. So in a way, it's like, yeah, this
is kind of what happens. It's natural. You know, if
their drama is no longer entertaining, they say, we used
to be juicy gossip not feels like a rerun of
a show. You've outgrown the drama That ones hatching the
edge of the seat may just cause eye rolls and yawns.
You found their real life already packs enough drama theatrics.
(06:27):
When your friend group seeming less errantainment and more like
unnecessary stress, I think that's srure, especially as the older
and you get more responsibility. It's funny, I was talking
to a friend, but we have a similar schedule and
this is maybe a couple of years ago, and like
we're busy all time, Like we're busy. We had another
friend who was like complaining about how busy we are,
(06:48):
and it's like, you know, we all kind of came
up together with the goal of like one day, we'd
be running things. You know, we be the responsible ones
and we'd be the heads of our various fields. And
it's like we don't realize that is when you get that, yeah,
work all the time. It's kind of like, you know,
the more responsibility you get, more power you get, the
more you have to work. And this friend didn't realize that.
(07:10):
It's like, yo, like we were busy, man, and if
we weren't busy, things weren't wouldn't be good. You know,
if you're starting to feel like a spectator, they say,
ever been at gathering and felt as though you're watching
a movie rather than being in it, that's a telltale
sign your connection to the group is waning. You're physically
president but emotionally checked out, more of a spectator to
(07:32):
their lives than participant. I think there's also contenency, Yeah,
like you're growing out of it if other things going on.
And I think the big thing to me is this
isn't necessarily a bad thing. It doesn't have to be.
And I think that I've had friends that we've grown apart,
and I'm not mad at them, and I don't think
they're mad at me. And I certainly wish the best
(07:54):
for them, and there was a time in my life
where they played a big impact. It's just that things
have changed, you know, we both kind of moved on again.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
That's not bad. It's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
If you dread toxic group chats, they say group chats
and once a lifeline, a way off of connected even
when you couldn't be together. Now the constant thing is
fuck an obligation rather than a comfort. You find yourself
muting notifications and responding a duty rather than desire. Again,
I think it just kind of goes to you realize
(08:27):
that now you have to maintain that stuff. You have
to like, yeah, put the work and to maintaining. And
it can be a lot because it's like, think of
your week this week. You're busy, you know. Like to me,
even if I wasn't leaving town this week, I would
still be like, man, I have a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's hard to move things in.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Like I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I did
the baseball game, in golfing the hockey game. Like that
was a taxing, taxing week. If you get a chance
of vote, voting is open right now. The Baltimore Sun
Best of Baltimore Issue Radio Host of the Year. Your
Boy is up for that, as well as Sauce for
her contributions to the Broadcasting World. Podcasts of the Year.
(09:09):
The Thoughts Showers up as well as Hoodies Crisis Podcast.
I'm also up for several social media awards. If you
get a chance to you can vote every day until
the sixteenth Vote yms dot com. That's vote yms dot
com would mean a lot to win. Be a very
very cool. I hope you have a fantastic Monday. I
will see you on Wednesday. This is the Thoughts Shower.
(09:32):
Have fantastic time.
And a happy Monday friend. Welcome to the Thought Shower
intern John is my name? A week it was let's
get through this. A lot going on. What happened A
big week this week as well, because my dad and
I go on vacation this week together.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Very exciting.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Monday kind of relaxed, you know, chill day if you will,
sun or see me. Saturday, big day, woke cup haircut,
very exciting. Also, got more tattoos. And my mom's gonna
hear this and not be a happy camper. But Mom,
I'm an adult. I'm a grown man. I can make
(00:38):
decisions now. I got two of them. I'm an inner
arm and I love them. They're amazing. They're like thin
and one is an outline of the of Chewy, my
dog Chewy, which is very very cool. The other one
is an outline of the state of Minnesota. Hometown boy,
(00:58):
you know rocking that. And I'll say this again, I
am I'm not a fan pain, right, I know. Not
many people are so like tattoos. I think on the
show it comes across like I was afraid of tattoos.
It's not that I'm afraid of like the pain. It's not.
It's just I don't. I don't prefer the pain, you
(01:20):
know what I mean, I don't. I'd rather not it hurt.
Kind of like that. It's not like I was like, oh,
this is sick, let me get this done. But it
went well and shouts to MC girl Patty who does tattoos,
she's amazing a listener of the show, listener of the podcast.
So it went, it went very well. I was very
very excited with it, and yeah, well I get more.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I don't know. Sauce keeps trying to tell.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Me to get a sleeve, which is like, you know,
your whole arm based The covered problem with that is
I don't think. I'm like, I don't I have enough
designs in my head, you know, So like I don't
know if that's gonna be the journey for me.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That's kind of part one of that. Part two is
it takes forever.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Like the tattoos I have are fairly small, so it
doesn't necessarily like hurt to get done in the moment,
but like some tattoos man that people get like take forever,
and like I've I've heard people now like getting underneath
like under like anttesia to uh to get tattoos, which
that to me seems like a lot not my vibe.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Then Saturday had a bit of a.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Not issued I mentioned this before, but dog owners, you know,
we make fun of cat owners, Obviously, dog owners can
be just as dumb. So I'm walking Skittles. Skittles is
a Border Collie. Skittles is very protective. He just is
love that bottom of people.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
He loves. If I'm in the bathroom, he'll stay in
the doorway. That kind of protection.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
In this small dog office, leash and took a run
at Skittles, and the owner, instead of chasing it down,
Kya instead was like, you know, scream sprinkles, spring colts,
thinking that the dog was gonna stop and come back.
If you ever have a dog take off, you know,
there's nothing you can do, like saying why he's talking
wise to make them stop. Once they're in that motion,
(03:12):
they gone. And so dog goes off and the guy's like, oh,
don't worry, he won't bite, and I look at him, I.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Go, minewell, minewell, why wouldn't he.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I just don't think dog owners get that it's not
cute when your dog takes a run at my dog,
because my dog doesn't know if yours is friendly. And
the example I always use is if a human being
you don't know takes a run at you, a stranger
starts running at you, your first reaction is not gonna
be this will be a hug, this will be a
(03:47):
high five. Your first reaction is I'm in danger. So
thank god I was able to pick skills off the
ground and hold him and we were good to go.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So that was that.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
You know, make sure dog's a a leek. You know,
we all us to do it. Dump at our dogs
in bad spots. You know, would love to see you.
June twentieth. June twenty first, the comedy show is in Arlington.
Intern John's Chewy Forever benefiting the Warrior Canine Connection, an
amazing charity that helps puppies be put with well trains
(04:22):
puppies to be service dogs, to get the veterans. There's
not many tickets left. Once these shows sell out, we
are done. It's Internjohncomedy dot com. Tickets are fifteen bucks.
Internjohncomedy dot com My Chewy Forever shows.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Let me get to this for your Monday.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
The truths about outgrowing your friend group, which at some
point everybody's gonna be there, right. At some point the
friend groups grow apart. And I've mentioned in this before
is that when you're a kid, you don't necessarily realize,
you know, the reason you have the friendships you do
is because of convenience, because they are in the same
school as you or play on the same sports team,
(05:02):
and you see them every day. And then it's once
you get into college and you kind of have control
over your own schedule where you realize, like, oh, okay,
when I have to choose to maintain friendships, it becomes
a little bit more difficult. You know, when I know
I'm not going to see them every day and I
have to make plans. That's when you know it's real.
(05:24):
If your conversations feel like groundhog Day. They remember you
couldn't wait to spill the latest tea of a brunch.
Now it feels like you're trapped in a loop of
the same conversations that someone hit pause a meaningful dialogue.
They say friendships have become stagnant often indicate personal growth.
We're interest and desirous and longer in line. I've noticed this,
(05:45):
like with my friends that have kids, we don't relate
to a lot anymore, you know, like all you really
have is the past and kind of like nostalgia, and
that's not a bad thing. It just kind of is
what it is. I don't know anything about childcare, daycare, marriage.
I can't really contribute that way. They can't contribute to
(06:07):
dating apps. So in a way, it's like, yeah, this
is kind of what happens. It's natural. You know, if
their drama is no longer entertaining, they say, we used
to be juicy gossip not feels like a rerun of
a show. You've outgrown the drama That ones hatching the
edge of the seat may just cause eye rolls and yawns.
You found their real life already packs enough drama theatrics.
(06:27):
When your friend group seeming less errantainment and more like
unnecessary stress, I think that's srure, especially as the older
and you get more responsibility. It's funny, I was talking
to a friend, but we have a similar schedule and
this is maybe a couple of years ago, and like
we're busy all time, Like we're busy. We had another
friend who was like complaining about how busy we are,
(06:48):
and it's like, you know, we all kind of came
up together with the goal of like one day, we'd
be running things. You know, we be the responsible ones
and we'd be the heads of our various fields. And
it's like we don't realize that is when you get that, yeah,
work all the time. It's kind of like, you know,
the more responsibility you get, more power you get, the
more you have to work. And this friend didn't realize that.
(07:10):
It's like, yo, like we were busy, man, and if
we weren't busy, things weren't wouldn't be good. You know,
if you're starting to feel like a spectator, they say,
ever been at gathering and felt as though you're watching
a movie rather than being in it, that's a telltale
sign your connection to the group is waning. You're physically
president but emotionally checked out, more of a spectator to
(07:32):
their lives than participant. I think there's also contenency, Yeah,
like you're growing out of it if other things going on.
And I think the big thing to me is this
isn't necessarily a bad thing. It doesn't have to be.
And I think that I've had friends that we've grown apart,
and I'm not mad at them, and I don't think
they're mad at me. And I certainly wish the best
(07:54):
for them, and there was a time in my life
where they played a big impact. It's just that things
have changed, you know, we both kind of moved on again.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
That's not bad. It's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
If you dread toxic group chats, they say group chats
and once a lifeline, a way off of connected even
when you couldn't be together. Now the constant thing is
fuck an obligation rather than a comfort. You find yourself
muting notifications and responding a duty rather than desire. Again,
I think it just kind of goes to you realize
(08:27):
that now you have to maintain that stuff. You have
to like, yeah, put the work and to maintaining. And
it can be a lot because it's like, think of
your week this week. You're busy, you know. Like to me,
even if I wasn't leaving town this week, I would
still be like, man, I have a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's hard to move things in.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Like I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I did
the baseball game, in golfing the hockey game. Like that
was a taxing, taxing week. If you get a chance
of vote, voting is open right now. The Baltimore Sun
Best of Baltimore Issue Radio Host of the Year. Your
Boy is up for that, as well as Sauce for
her contributions to the Broadcasting World. Podcasts of the Year.
(09:09):
The Thoughts Showers up as well as Hoodies Crisis Podcast.
I'm also up for several social media awards. If you
get a chance to you can vote every day until
the sixteenth Vote yms dot com. That's vote yms dot
com would mean a lot to win. Be a very
very cool. I hope you have a fantastic Monday. I
will see you on Wednesday. This is the Thoughts Shower.
(09:32):
Have fantastic time.
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