June 20, 2025 • 10 mins
On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John reflects on this weekend's Chuy Forever shows
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 Friday friend. Welcome to the Thought Shower.
Internshohn is my name, and we're here. This is going
to be quite the weekend. My Chewy Forever Show has
happened at the Arlington Draft House tonight Friday at seven pm,
Tomorrow Saturday at six thirty and nine pm. And it's
(00:25):
crazy that it's here. You know, it's been a whirlwind
of the last six months. You know, Chewy passed on
New Year's Eve and then kind of going through that
shock of you know, him not being there. I mentioned
it a little bit on this podcast before, certainly, but
(00:46):
you know, it was quite the shock for me because,
you know, yet he was fifteen, he was going to
be sixteen on Valentine's Day. But up until those last
couple of days, he was fine, you know, and we
were with the each other basically every day for those
fifteen years. And I think that the sudden shock and
(01:07):
realization that he was just gone was a lot and
I wish I knew, you know, It's it's crazy what
trauma does, what grief does to the brain. There's so
much that I don't remember from the last six months,
which is crazy, and I guess I shouldn't say it
(01:27):
the last six months, but certainly those that first thirty
six hours. There's a lot I just don't remember. I
blacked out. I know I talked to Sauce, I talked
to my parents. There's a lot I don't remember. I'm
not even too sure when the idea for the show came.
I'm not I want to say, babe, late March I
(01:50):
kind of had the idea, and I suppose to it
was because I saw the outpouring I mean again, tens
of thousands of messages about how people this loved him
and the impact he made, and I knew that I
could use this as a chance for a couple of things.
So one talk about pet grief. I think that pet
(02:13):
grief sometimes gets looked down on. I think if you
don't have a pet, you just don't necessarily understand it.
But for me, he was my entire world. You know.
I moved here by myself with Chewye you'll be thirteen
years in October, and not having family here and not
(02:33):
having friends here. It was just him, and then he
was gone. So I wanted to use this to be
if I could help other people who are going through
the same thing. Certainly if I could help people who
have pets who are blessed to have him alive, to
appreciate the fact that one day they're going to be gone.
And then there's the aspect, of course, of helping out
(02:54):
an amazing charity in the Warrior Canine Connection, and their
sole purpose is to raise dogs to be service animals
for veterans. And that's the idea came of Chewy Forever,
you know, and that was it kind of started. And
then yeah, if I'm being honest, it's been an odd
couple months because with the comedy stuff especially, he was
(03:17):
always there for it. We would go to the woods
in West Virginia right the shows he'd come on tour,
and so there's a big part of me that was like,
do I even want to do this without him? Can
I do this without him? You know, it's radio can
be a very lonely world. You know. You do the
show and we're blessed to have a million some listeners.
(03:39):
Then you go home it's just you. You have the worst show,
could have everybody mad at your work, but go home
and there he was as happy as see me. It
was like, I don't know if I can do this
and then it just became a bit you know, therapeutic
of like he deserves to be memorialized that way. And
(03:59):
so I'm excited for this weekend. You know, I'm excited,
I think, I mean, actually, I know this is I
was thinking about this the other day. This is the
greatest piece of I don't know if called art, but
the greatest. This is the greatest thing I've ever done
is the show. And I know that deep in my heart.
(04:19):
I've never had a show where going into it, I've
been so confident that it is bulletproof. And I think
it's just because too, you know that, I think the
previous tours and stuff, I certainly tried to tell a story.
I've always loved the idea of a trilogy, right the
(04:40):
first show is peer Pressure, Then it was look what
You've Done, Then it was Revival, and then we get
into That was the first trilogy. Then it was What's Next,
and then Lost and then Find You're Happy. That was
that trilogy. And I think, you know, with this one,
(05:01):
it just feels different. I think those other ones, you know,
mainly was going through breakups, and I think I thought
that was lost and that's nothing compared to what this
has been so I don't know, it's I don't quite
know what to expect this weekend. I don't it's gonna
(05:21):
be emotional. I know that it's gonna be hard to
get through. I know that too, but it's important again,
like he deserves that, you know, he deserves that for
everything he did for me, and not just me, as
I learned for thousands of other people, the happiness he
brought them as well. Man, I'm trying to make it
(05:51):
a sad thing. I know you're not looking for a
sad podcast. I was very lucky to have them, you know.
(06:17):
I don't know. I mean, I'm sorry, I'm all over
the place. The what I'm trying to get to is
that I'm very excited for this weekend. I think, certainly
seeing if you're coming to the show, seeing you in
person's one of the best parts about doing the shows.
And I'll say that always like seeing listeners in person
and then helping out the charity obviously, I think for
(06:38):
me getting a chance to sit in my feelings for
a little bit and really think about what I wanted
to say. You know, I think my first made the
announcement on the show, I didn't quite have a time
to think about it. It was just kind of like
I had to get out, you know, and that was
(07:01):
very wrong. I've I watched back that video of the
announcement and it's like it's it's a weird out of
body experience sometimes where like I think back to the
night that I found him and then the announcement, it's
like I watch it like I feel really bad for
that guy, you know, he lost his dog. And then
I realized, like, oh, that's me, Like I went through that,
(07:25):
you know. And so I think over the last couple
of months, I've had a chance to, I don't know,
go through the stage as of grief, I suppose, And
I wouldn't say that I'm coming out the other side fully,
but at least maybe understand it more and really just
appreciate the time that we had. You know, how lucky
(07:45):
was I to nearly have sixteen years with Chewi In
sixteen years where we were got to do everything, you know,
I because of his size and his popularity, me and
Chewie got to do a lot of really cool things.
I got to bring him to Florida, he went to Minnesota, obviously,
(08:09):
he went to Iowa, he went to Tennessee. He went
to Kentucky, he went to Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia. You know,
Chewy went a lot of places, and I'm very lucky
to have those memories which I wouldn't be able to
(08:31):
have it wasn't for you listening to the show, listening
to the podcast, coming to the comedy shows. So this
weekend's going to be a positive. This is gonna be
It's a good thing. It's an exciting thing. And believe
me when I say this, you know it's gonna be
the best thing I've ever done in my life. And
(08:51):
to me, as far as comedy goes, this is a perfect,
perfect moment to hang it up. You know, I've thought
about that a lot. And when I started doing stand up,
the goal was just to raise money for the Fisher House.
And then we did. And then it was okay, I
can I take this on the road and tour it?
(09:11):
And we did that. Can we play big venues? Well,
we saw at the Warner Theater twice we saw that
baseball team. Okay, can we get one hundred thousand dollars
raise a Fisher House? I mean first it was fifty
and one hundred. Did that? Can we do a comedy album,
but number one did that, and I was lucky to
have a Chewy along with me the entire way. And
I think for me, now, this is kind of everything
(09:36):
I wanted to accomplish I did, you know, and I've
been very blessed to do that. I think the greatest
part for me was traveling in different cities and seeing
people who listened to the show, whether it be in
Tampa or Louisville or Harrisburg, wherever we go. And meeting
people that listened to the show somewhere else was a
very special experience. And I can't think of a better
(09:58):
way to go out than to you do it honoring Chewye.
With that being said, were coming to the show tonight.
I'm very excited for you to see it. So tonight's
show doors open shows at seven, Doors open at six,
The meet and greet is after the show for anybody
who wants a photo, and then I believe Saturday, the
show is six thirty and then the second show is
(10:19):
at nine. Again, there's a couple of tickets left. Internshooncomedy
dot com. If you can make it awesome. If you can't,
I know you wish you could. It's it's gonna be
a special night for my boy. I promise the next
podcast will be way happier. And yeah, this is a
it's a huge, huge celebration and I'm very excited for
(10:41):
you to see it. Stashower
And a Happy Friday friend. Welcome to the Thought Shower.
Internshohn is my name, and we're here. This is going
to be quite the weekend. My Chewy Forever Show has
happened at the Arlington Draft House tonight Friday at seven pm,
Tomorrow Saturday at six thirty and nine pm. And it's
(00:25):
crazy that it's here. You know, it's been a whirlwind
of the last six months. You know, Chewy passed on
New Year's Eve and then kind of going through that
shock of you know, him not being there. I mentioned
it a little bit on this podcast before, certainly, but
(00:46):
you know, it was quite the shock for me because,
you know, yet he was fifteen, he was going to
be sixteen on Valentine's Day. But up until those last
couple of days, he was fine, you know, and we
were with the each other basically every day for those
fifteen years. And I think that the sudden shock and
(01:07):
realization that he was just gone was a lot and
I wish I knew, you know, It's it's crazy what
trauma does, what grief does to the brain. There's so
much that I don't remember from the last six months,
which is crazy, and I guess I shouldn't say it
(01:27):
the last six months, but certainly those that first thirty
six hours. There's a lot I just don't remember. I
blacked out. I know I talked to Sauce, I talked
to my parents. There's a lot I don't remember. I'm
not even too sure when the idea for the show came.
I'm not I want to say, babe, late March I
(01:50):
kind of had the idea, and I suppose to it
was because I saw the outpouring I mean again, tens
of thousands of messages about how people this loved him
and the impact he made, and I knew that I
could use this as a chance for a couple of things.
So one talk about pet grief. I think that pet
(02:13):
grief sometimes gets looked down on. I think if you
don't have a pet, you just don't necessarily understand it.
But for me, he was my entire world. You know.
I moved here by myself with Chewye you'll be thirteen
years in October, and not having family here and not
(02:33):
having friends here. It was just him, and then he
was gone. So I wanted to use this to be
if I could help other people who are going through
the same thing. Certainly if I could help people who
have pets who are blessed to have him alive, to
appreciate the fact that one day they're going to be gone.
And then there's the aspect, of course, of helping out
(02:54):
an amazing charity in the Warrior Canine Connection, and their
sole purpose is to raise dogs to be service animals
for veterans. And that's the idea came of Chewy Forever,
you know, and that was it kind of started. And
then yeah, if I'm being honest, it's been an odd
couple months because with the comedy stuff especially, he was
(03:17):
always there for it. We would go to the woods
in West Virginia right the shows he'd come on tour,
and so there's a big part of me that was like,
do I even want to do this without him? Can
I do this without him? You know, it's radio can
be a very lonely world. You know. You do the
show and we're blessed to have a million some listeners.
(03:39):
Then you go home it's just you. You have the worst show,
could have everybody mad at your work, but go home
and there he was as happy as see me. It
was like, I don't know if I can do this
and then it just became a bit you know, therapeutic
of like he deserves to be memorialized that way. And
(03:59):
so I'm excited for this weekend. You know, I'm excited,
I think, I mean, actually, I know this is I
was thinking about this the other day. This is the
greatest piece of I don't know if called art, but
the greatest. This is the greatest thing I've ever done
is the show. And I know that deep in my heart.
(04:19):
I've never had a show where going into it, I've
been so confident that it is bulletproof. And I think
it's just because too, you know that, I think the
previous tours and stuff, I certainly tried to tell a story.
I've always loved the idea of a trilogy, right the
(04:40):
first show is peer Pressure, Then it was look what
You've Done, Then it was Revival, and then we get
into That was the first trilogy. Then it was What's Next,
and then Lost and then Find You're Happy. That was
that trilogy. And I think, you know, with this one,
(05:01):
it just feels different. I think those other ones, you know,
mainly was going through breakups, and I think I thought
that was lost and that's nothing compared to what this
has been so I don't know, it's I don't quite
know what to expect this weekend. I don't it's gonna
(05:21):
be emotional. I know that it's gonna be hard to
get through. I know that too, but it's important again,
like he deserves that, you know, he deserves that for
everything he did for me, and not just me, as
I learned for thousands of other people, the happiness he
brought them as well. Man, I'm trying to make it
(05:51):
a sad thing. I know you're not looking for a
sad podcast. I was very lucky to have them, you know.
(06:17):
I don't know. I mean, I'm sorry, I'm all over
the place. The what I'm trying to get to is
that I'm very excited for this weekend. I think, certainly
seeing if you're coming to the show, seeing you in
person's one of the best parts about doing the shows.
And I'll say that always like seeing listeners in person
and then helping out the charity obviously, I think for
(06:38):
me getting a chance to sit in my feelings for
a little bit and really think about what I wanted
to say. You know, I think my first made the
announcement on the show, I didn't quite have a time
to think about it. It was just kind of like
I had to get out, you know, and that was
(07:01):
very wrong. I've I watched back that video of the
announcement and it's like it's it's a weird out of
body experience sometimes where like I think back to the
night that I found him and then the announcement, it's
like I watch it like I feel really bad for
that guy, you know, he lost his dog. And then
I realized, like, oh, that's me, Like I went through that,
(07:25):
you know. And so I think over the last couple
of months, I've had a chance to, I don't know,
go through the stage as of grief, I suppose, And
I wouldn't say that I'm coming out the other side fully,
but at least maybe understand it more and really just
appreciate the time that we had. You know, how lucky
(07:45):
was I to nearly have sixteen years with Chewi In
sixteen years where we were got to do everything, you know,
I because of his size and his popularity, me and
Chewie got to do a lot of really cool things.
I got to bring him to Florida, he went to Minnesota, obviously,
(08:09):
he went to Iowa, he went to Tennessee. He went
to Kentucky, he went to Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia. You know,
Chewy went a lot of places, and I'm very lucky
to have those memories which I wouldn't be able to
(08:31):
have it wasn't for you listening to the show, listening
to the podcast, coming to the comedy shows. So this
weekend's going to be a positive. This is gonna be
It's a good thing. It's an exciting thing. And believe
me when I say this, you know it's gonna be
the best thing I've ever done in my life. And
(08:51):
to me, as far as comedy goes, this is a perfect,
perfect moment to hang it up. You know, I've thought
about that a lot. And when I started doing stand up,
the goal was just to raise money for the Fisher House.
And then we did. And then it was okay, I
can I take this on the road and tour it?
(09:11):
And we did that. Can we play big venues? Well,
we saw at the Warner Theater twice we saw that
baseball team. Okay, can we get one hundred thousand dollars
raise a Fisher House? I mean first it was fifty
and one hundred. Did that? Can we do a comedy album,
but number one did that, and I was lucky to
have a Chewy along with me the entire way. And
I think for me, now, this is kind of everything
(09:36):
I wanted to accomplish I did, you know, and I've
been very blessed to do that. I think the greatest
part for me was traveling in different cities and seeing
people who listened to the show, whether it be in
Tampa or Louisville or Harrisburg, wherever we go. And meeting
people that listened to the show somewhere else was a
very special experience. And I can't think of a better
(09:58):
way to go out than to you do it honoring Chewye.
With that being said, were coming to the show tonight.
I'm very excited for you to see it. So tonight's
show doors open shows at seven, Doors open at six,
The meet and greet is after the show for anybody
who wants a photo, and then I believe Saturday, the
show is six thirty and then the second show is
(10:19):
at nine. Again, there's a couple of tickets left. Internshooncomedy
dot com. If you can make it awesome. If you can't,
I know you wish you could. It's it's gonna be
a special night for my boy. I promise the next
podcast will be way happier. And yeah, this is a
it's a huge, huge celebration and I'm very excited for
(10:41):
you to see it. Stashower
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