October 20, 2025 • 9 mins
On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John talks about the benefits of living alone
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Intern John's new comedy album, "Chuy Forever: The Album" is out! Proceeds benefit the Warrior Canine Connection. You can order the album HERE
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. Was a weekend for sure,
let's get into this. Friday went to the Capitol's wild game.
Always fun to see Minnesota teams in town. It's anytime
it's like the Vikings so Twins once the wild course.
(00:22):
Anytime Minnesota is in town. It's a lot of fun
for me to go and just kind of for a moment,
pretend them at home. And usually Minnesota teams too horrible.
No different. Friday, baby, big old l big old loss.
Had somebody ask like, when the when Minnesota's in town,
who do you root for? I go, well, the Capitals
give me the tickets, so them so did that. They
(00:46):
went to hide afterwards, been trying to do menu items,
had the ruben. It was lovely Saturday, dude, I slept
all day legitimately I think got home Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So a glass week was crazy busy, right last week.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I had a somber concert on Monday, had TV on Tuesday, right, yeah, No,
had the game on Tuesday. Wednesday, Eric killed me on
social media. Also at hockey practice in TV Thursday TV.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
So just a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So Friday and Saturday I slept intil like eleven, which
that never happens. Like for me, sleeping if I'm lucky,
is six o'clock and not because like, oh my kids
wake me up. It was like no, it's like naturally
my body. If I sleep till six, that's four hours
sleeping in right. So I slept into like eleven. I
(01:40):
was supposed to go get dinner my friend gym into
his TV on Fox. I had it canceled, Like dude,
I'm exhausted. I went to bed at eight o'clock on Saturday.
So on Saturday I probably got like twenty hours of
sleep necessary of course, and then Sunday yesterday, get up,
went to the gym, got ripped obviously. Then we had
our doggie Halloween costume contest, which was amazing lot of
(02:03):
fun there. I'm excited this week because this weekend going
back to Iowa, back to Des Moines, you're gonna see
Minnesota play Iowa with my.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Old boss Greg, which will be.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Will be interesting, not interesting, to be a fun time
wise weekend because thirteen years ago yesterday was my first
day on air on the Cane Show. So a chance
to go back to see my first apartment, the one
where chewing and I slept on the floor in eight
tuna packets.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's gonna be powerful.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
That's gonna be I've gone back, hey four times something
like that.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Never brought a girl back, never quite worked out that way.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I do think that's gonna be a big like my
next relationship, bringing the girl to Des Moines to be like, yeah,
this is where like the hustle started. You know, those
were like twenty hour days, you know, sleep on the floor.
And I brought Chewy to work back in the day
because I'm telling my boss like, hey, like I'll do
the work.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That's no issue for me. Like I'm here to grind
and work.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
But it's either I can bring Chewy to the office
and be here the whole time, or I gotta go
home like twice day. And that's when they made Chewy
a little like a station badge and he has wandered
the hall. I wouldn't even see his ass ding day.
He was just like I can get attention here. So
that's really fun. Plus college football can't go wrong. Let
me get to this for you Monday. The weird habits
(03:29):
people pick up from living alone for too long.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I've lived alone for a long time. I love it.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's the best. I love this like being myself. I
can do whatever I want whenever I want. Like on Saturday,
I want to go bed at eight o'clock, I can
go to bed at eight o'clock. You know, that's kind
of like the vibe starting with talking to yourself when
you're alone. Talking to yourself for becomes surprisingly common. It
starts as a way of think out loud, ends up
being a full blown conversation with yourself. I don't think
(04:00):
I really do that. I think because I talk too
much as it is. I'll talk to skittles like little
like all right, man, what do you think about that?
Like that kind of like a vibe, but never like
full on conversations with myself.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Leaving the TV on for company, say, TV becomes war
and just entertainment when you're alone becomes a comforting presence.
I find yourself leaving it on even when you're not watching.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I mean I listen to podcasts a lot and listen
to like music a lot. As far as that though,
I don't think. No mald TV on like have in
the background while I do other things. But I don't
think it's for that reason, creating unconventional meal combinations. Now
(04:49):
I don't either. Yeah, I'm boring. I guess I have
a meal prep service. That's why what I do. Prioritizing
comfort over fashion, well yeah, they say when you live alone,
comfort often takes precedents over fashion. There's something liberating about
not having a dress up unless he choose to. Pj's
become a staple of your wardrobe. I yeah, I think
that's fair to anybody though, who's not going outside, Like,
(05:14):
if you don't have to dress up, you don't want to.
Don't developing strange cleaning rituals. No, I hate cleaning. I
mean my place is clean, I is. To me, it's
like it never it's fun. It's never like, oh this
is a huge release. Nah. Using a pet as a
(05:35):
sounding board absolutely, absolutely, especially because with Skittles, like, he's
just so like a border Collie where he's like if
you ask him like, hey man, so what do you
think we should have for dinner? His mind goes to
like I can just tell He's like, I know I
should know the answers to this, but I don't understand
his language, you know what I mean. He's very much
like I should I should say something. I don't know what.
(06:00):
Rearranging furniture on a whim. Now, living alone means you
have all the freedom to change your environment, whether you
whenever you get the urge. You might find yourself rearranging
your furniture for no parent reason other than you felt
like it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean, I guess I did, like.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Create like a shelf with like chewy stuff, and that
was done like on a whim. Like that was like
one day I was like, all right, I'm doing it now,
and once I got started, I went, yeah, So I
guess probably that otherwise I haven't touched anything in the house,
and even like the furniture I have, it's like not
the best. I'm like, I just probably get a new furniture,
but like I don't want to spend money unless I
(06:37):
know I'm gonna stay at the house for a while.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So there's that singing loudly and proudly. Absolutely, dude, you
gotta throw a concert in your place, you.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Know what I mean. Sometimes you get home it the
fit looks good.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You gotta use the fit to perform for an audience
of five hundred thousand people. The biggest concert of all time.
My god, you know what I mean. Forgetting a closed door,
I am guilty of this. The best is I didn't
realize till next girlfriend told me I would leave like
the linen closet door open, and that was like in
(07:12):
the hallway between the gas bathroom in my room, so
she would walk into it at night when like it
was dark.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Out or dark in the house.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Like, oh yeah, I guess like that makes sense that
you you wouldn't like that. Yeah, taking long luxurious baths,
Hell yeah, dude, baths are sick. I don't care what
anybody says baths are sick. Everyone's like, oh yeah, you're
sitting down your own stew bro. You can't say that
and also be a fan of hot tubs or saunas
(07:43):
because those you also have other people around, you know
what I mean. As long as it's like your juices,
pause your soupiness, you know what I mean. I don't
think it's that bad.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Especially for me.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
It's like after a workout or if I don't feel well,
like that's when it's like kind of like the best.
It's kind of like a relax, you know, think about
the day, think about life, put a little body oil
in there. So your skins silky smooth. Fam we're out
here upgrading, dude. We don't judge the last one's enjoying
complete silence. Yeah, living alone means you have the luxury
(08:20):
of complete silence whenever you want it. You might find
yourself reveling in the quiet, using it is time to reflect.
In my charge, silence is gonna be a powerful tool
for inner peace and mental clarity.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I do think.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I yes, I did that, Like I was, I just
see it's done out for a second, so legit, turn
the volume down on the TV and just kind of
sat in myself and like listen to the pipes, listen
to electricity, like listen to everything.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And it was a kind of zen moment, you know.
So I've always said, like as far as moving into.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Somebody, it's like if I, you know, get married, that's
for life ideally. So I'm trying to enjoy the alone
time because I thrive on a life time. That's like
my go to. Anyway, have a fantastic Monday. We will
see you on Wednesdays. Thotshower
And a happy Monday friend. Welcome to the thought Shower.
Intern John is my name. Was a weekend for sure,
let's get into this. Friday went to the Capitol's wild game.
Always fun to see Minnesota teams in town. It's anytime
it's like the Vikings so Twins once the wild course.
(00:22):
Anytime Minnesota is in town. It's a lot of fun
for me to go and just kind of for a moment,
pretend them at home. And usually Minnesota teams too horrible.
No different. Friday, baby, big old l big old loss.
Had somebody ask like, when the when Minnesota's in town,
who do you root for? I go, well, the Capitals
give me the tickets, so them so did that. They
(00:46):
went to hide afterwards, been trying to do menu items,
had the ruben. It was lovely Saturday, dude, I slept
all day legitimately I think got home Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So a glass week was crazy busy, right last week.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I had a somber concert on Monday, had TV on Tuesday, right, yeah, No,
had the game on Tuesday. Wednesday, Eric killed me on
social media. Also at hockey practice in TV Thursday TV.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
So just a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So Friday and Saturday I slept intil like eleven, which
that never happens. Like for me, sleeping if I'm lucky,
is six o'clock and not because like, oh my kids
wake me up. It was like no, it's like naturally
my body. If I sleep till six, that's four hours
sleeping in right. So I slept into like eleven. I
(01:40):
was supposed to go get dinner my friend gym into
his TV on Fox. I had it canceled, Like dude,
I'm exhausted. I went to bed at eight o'clock on Saturday.
So on Saturday I probably got like twenty hours of
sleep necessary of course, and then Sunday yesterday, get up,
went to the gym, got ripped obviously. Then we had
our doggie Halloween costume contest, which was amazing lot of
(02:03):
fun there. I'm excited this week because this weekend going
back to Iowa, back to Des Moines, you're gonna see
Minnesota play Iowa with my.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Old boss Greg, which will be.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Will be interesting, not interesting, to be a fun time
wise weekend because thirteen years ago yesterday was my first
day on air on the Cane Show. So a chance
to go back to see my first apartment, the one
where chewing and I slept on the floor in eight
tuna packets.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's gonna be powerful.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
That's gonna be I've gone back, hey four times something
like that.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Never brought a girl back, never quite worked out that way.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I do think that's gonna be a big like my
next relationship, bringing the girl to Des Moines to be like, yeah,
this is where like the hustle started. You know, those
were like twenty hour days, you know, sleep on the floor.
And I brought Chewy to work back in the day
because I'm telling my boss like, hey, like I'll do
the work.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That's no issue for me. Like I'm here to grind
and work.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
But it's either I can bring Chewy to the office
and be here the whole time, or I gotta go
home like twice day. And that's when they made Chewy
a little like a station badge and he has wandered
the hall. I wouldn't even see his ass ding day.
He was just like I can get attention here. So
that's really fun. Plus college football can't go wrong. Let
me get to this for you Monday. The weird habits
(03:29):
people pick up from living alone for too long.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I've lived alone for a long time. I love it.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's the best. I love this like being myself. I
can do whatever I want whenever I want. Like on Saturday,
I want to go bed at eight o'clock, I can
go to bed at eight o'clock. You know, that's kind
of like the vibe starting with talking to yourself when
you're alone. Talking to yourself for becomes surprisingly common. It
starts as a way of think out loud, ends up
being a full blown conversation with yourself. I don't think
(04:00):
I really do that. I think because I talk too
much as it is. I'll talk to skittles like little
like all right, man, what do you think about that?
Like that kind of like a vibe, but never like
full on conversations with myself.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Leaving the TV on for company, say, TV becomes war
and just entertainment when you're alone becomes a comforting presence.
I find yourself leaving it on even when you're not watching.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I mean I listen to podcasts a lot and listen
to like music a lot. As far as that though,
I don't think. No mald TV on like have in
the background while I do other things. But I don't
think it's for that reason, creating unconventional meal combinations. Now
(04:49):
I don't either. Yeah, I'm boring. I guess I have
a meal prep service. That's why what I do. Prioritizing
comfort over fashion, well yeah, they say when you live alone,
comfort often takes precedents over fashion. There's something liberating about
not having a dress up unless he choose to. Pj's
become a staple of your wardrobe. I yeah, I think
that's fair to anybody though, who's not going outside, Like,
(05:14):
if you don't have to dress up, you don't want to.
Don't developing strange cleaning rituals. No, I hate cleaning. I
mean my place is clean, I is. To me, it's
like it never it's fun. It's never like, oh this
is a huge release. Nah. Using a pet as a
(05:35):
sounding board absolutely, absolutely, especially because with Skittles, like, he's
just so like a border Collie where he's like if
you ask him like, hey man, so what do you
think we should have for dinner? His mind goes to
like I can just tell He's like, I know I
should know the answers to this, but I don't understand
his language, you know what I mean. He's very much
like I should I should say something. I don't know what.
(06:00):
Rearranging furniture on a whim. Now, living alone means you
have all the freedom to change your environment, whether you
whenever you get the urge. You might find yourself rearranging
your furniture for no parent reason other than you felt
like it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean, I guess I did, like.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Create like a shelf with like chewy stuff, and that
was done like on a whim. Like that was like
one day I was like, all right, I'm doing it now,
and once I got started, I went, yeah, So I
guess probably that otherwise I haven't touched anything in the house,
and even like the furniture I have, it's like not
the best. I'm like, I just probably get a new furniture,
but like I don't want to spend money unless I
(06:37):
know I'm gonna stay at the house for a while.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So there's that singing loudly and proudly. Absolutely, dude, you
gotta throw a concert in your place, you.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Know what I mean. Sometimes you get home it the
fit looks good.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You gotta use the fit to perform for an audience
of five hundred thousand people. The biggest concert of all time.
My god, you know what I mean. Forgetting a closed door,
I am guilty of this. The best is I didn't
realize till next girlfriend told me I would leave like
the linen closet door open, and that was like in
(07:12):
the hallway between the gas bathroom in my room, so
she would walk into it at night when like it
was dark.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Out or dark in the house.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Like, oh yeah, I guess like that makes sense that
you you wouldn't like that. Yeah, taking long luxurious baths,
Hell yeah, dude, baths are sick. I don't care what
anybody says baths are sick. Everyone's like, oh yeah, you're
sitting down your own stew bro. You can't say that
and also be a fan of hot tubs or saunas
(07:43):
because those you also have other people around, you know
what I mean. As long as it's like your juices,
pause your soupiness, you know what I mean. I don't
think it's that bad.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Especially for me.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
It's like after a workout or if I don't feel well,
like that's when it's like kind of like the best.
It's kind of like a relax, you know, think about
the day, think about life, put a little body oil
in there. So your skins silky smooth. Fam we're out
here upgrading, dude. We don't judge the last one's enjoying
complete silence. Yeah, living alone means you have the luxury
(08:20):
of complete silence whenever you want it. You might find
yourself reveling in the quiet, using it is time to reflect.
In my charge, silence is gonna be a powerful tool
for inner peace and mental clarity.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I do think.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I yes, I did that, Like I was, I just
see it's done out for a second, so legit, turn
the volume down on the TV and just kind of
sat in myself and like listen to the pipes, listen
to electricity, like listen to everything.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And it was a kind of zen moment, you know.
So I've always said, like as far as moving into.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Somebody, it's like if I, you know, get married, that's
for life ideally. So I'm trying to enjoy the alone
time because I thrive on a life time. That's like
my go to. Anyway, have a fantastic Monday. We will
see you on Wednesdays. Thotshower
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