October 24, 2025 • 9 mins
On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John talks about his trip to Des Moines, and how we can be happy
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
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 Friday friend. Welcome to the Thought Shower.
Intern John is my name. Been a week about to
be a big weekend. Busy day today for your boy
after the show today, flying to des Moines, Iowa.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I've been listening to the podcast is a Week. You know.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I'm going back to des Moines. I was in Des
Moines for eleven months before I moved to DC. Going
back because University of Minnesota plays University of Iowa in
college football. Gonna be a lot of fun, should be
go again. I think it's their homecoming game as well.
That's gonna be fun, gonna be emotional, certainly. The plan
today is to land. That's step one. That's a pretty
(00:36):
big part of today's plan is to have the airplane
land safely. That's yeah, that'd be ideal, ideal situation for
the pilots if they could. And then gonna go back
to my first apartment ever kind of check it out
and just see where it is. The crazy thing is,
like I haven't been des Moines, having lived there for
thirteen years, I can still basically know my way, and
(01:01):
I've only gone back maybe twice, but I can basically
like I'm pretty good with that kind of like photographic memory.
So excited to go back see the first apartment. Gonna
be kind of like a surreal experience, you know, really
thirteen years ago was starting here, so to see where
we were thirteen years ago in Chewy back then. And
then Saturday going to the game, which should be fun
(01:23):
because both teams are doing well and I think college sports,
there's something special about it. To be fun for me
too because go with my old boss Greg, who uh,
without him, there is no intern John in the morning show,
he took me in as I was twenty one, I think,
was in Des Moines and young, hungry, excited certainly, but
(01:46):
he kind of took me in and molded me and
looked out for me.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So it's cool to see him.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Also, like I would spend so much time at his
house because I again, like I mentioned last podcast, dink
Wout didn't party, was working, So like seeing his kids
is crazy for me because when I first started, they
were like, you know, six and four. Now they are adults.
So gonna be a lot of fun. Follow along on
the Instagram this weekend at intern Genre Radio. But it's
gonna be a very cleansing is the right word. But
(02:15):
I think it's good every now and then to see
how far life is gone. Yeah, life, how far you've grown,
and how things have changed. So I'm excited for this weekend.
Let me get to this for your Friday. Though, the
reasons many folks are secretly scared of happiness. I've told
friends this recently, that there's a couple of friends where
it's like, hey, like, just so you know, you deserve
(02:38):
a happy ending.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And I mean that.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I have some friends who I feel like almost block
themselves off from that happiness, and it's like.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Hey, like you deserve it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Though, like who's to say you don't get the happy
ending you want. I think that's important. Let yourself have
the chance of being happy. The first thing is we
fear the other shoe dropping. I do think that's fair.
When happiness shows up, it can feel like a storm ighting.
The follow you start living on the edge, anticipating the
next bad thing. Because life is taught you the good
times are often followed by bad I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Gonna be honest.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, good times are always followed by bad and bad
times followed by good. There's like a Tom I think
it was Tom Hanks. I saw it didn't interview this
too shall pass. And that's like, yeah, when you're in
the good moments, eventually those are going to go away.
When you're in the bad moments, those who go away too.
It's kind of life, you know. But at least like
the good moments you can look back on and be happy.
(03:29):
I think that as far as you know, it's chewy.
I've learned to look back at the good moments, and
I'm very lucky that we have so many of those,
and wouldn't trail that for anything in the world. You know,
we feel guilty for feeling good, they say. Sometimes happiness
makes you feel guilty, especially when others around you are struggling.
You might think, who am I to feel happy when
(03:49):
someone else is hurting? I felt this in relationships sometimes,
where it's like I got things going my way, whether
it be you know, work or various I guess, well,
it's all work for me.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
The Bar podcast All stuff. Where do you feel like awkward?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Like I want to talk about it, but I do
think like you got to still celebrate your happiness, you
know what I mean? You can still feel bad for others,
but celebrate your happiness. We feel the vulnerability hangover, they say,
happiest can lead you feeling exposed, which is kind of
a vulnerability some find uncomfortable. It's like opening a door
to your innermo self and that's scary as people prefer
to keep their guard up. That is true, Like golly,
(04:26):
there's nothing worse than like when you start talking to
somebody or seeing somebody and then you can tell your
walls or starting to come down, and it's like no, oh.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
At that moment you realize you're screwed.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's one of the worst movie, one of the worst
moments of all time in relationship where you realize like,
oh no, this person cracked the code. I'm gonna fall.
You know, we're caught in the social media comparison trap.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
They say.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Social media is turned comparison the full time occupation. When
you're happy, it's easy to follow the trap of comparing
your joy with somebody else's highlight reel. You know, I've
had that happen before. There's times I got catch myself
where it's even like when I had the number one
and number two comedy album in the world. I was
on social media. I saw somebody else post something like
oh but I want that, and I was like, hey, man,
like we're doing okay. I've had to start doing that
(05:13):
more recently, and maybe it'll help you. Where I'm very
positive or try to be uplifting to the people around me. However,
to myself, I'm as hard as can be on myself.
If I was as hard on everybody else as I
am myself, i'd have zero friends. Where I've had to
start telling myself like hey man, but just me saying
it like hey, we're doing good like you're we're doing
a good job, and that's helped. It has It has
(05:36):
helped me realize like talking to yourself like you would
a friend is helpful, even like it's for me like
nothing's ever good enough, especially with the show. If I
get like one word wrong or I feel like I,
you know, jumble my words up, I will beat myself
up for it. And it'say man, if I was treating
somebody else like I treat myself, I'd have nobody working
for me, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
What I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The next one is we worry about jinxing it. They
say you might avoid knowledging your happiness out allow for
fear jinxing it. This superstitious belief is more common than
you think, where people worry about expressing enjoy somehow lead
to its disappearance. I do think that's true. I get
I think that that comes from certainly trauma right in
like past experiences where you feel like okay again, kind
of to the point of like the shoe dropping, where
(06:19):
it's like I'm happy things are working out. Certainly, it
can't work out this well for this long, you know
what I mean. And it's almost like the second you
say it, something's gonna happen. I mean, I remember too,
like when I had the albums, I was almost afraid
to post it because I was afraid that what it
goes away, which is so crazy to think about, because
(06:42):
it's like, here it is number one, number two comedy
albums in the world, but don't post it because what
if somebody else sees it and they try to get
their album number one? And it's like, even if that
did happen, it doesn't take away from the fact that
I accomplished that, you know what I mean. So I
think that's huge. I think that sometimes we can talk
ourselves out of it. It's like, I do believe everybody
(07:03):
deserves to be happy. I mean that, and that's always
been the goal of the show. It can happy healthy
relationship with yourself, family, friends, whomever. I think that's yeah,
don't let somebody else.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Run your happy. Life's too short.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, we misunderstand the meaning of contentment, they say. Many
confused happiness with the constant excitement, overlooking the value of
being content. This misunderstanding these people to chase after thrills
in search of happiness, leave them all the time dissatisfied.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So here's the thing, they say.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Being contempt might not be flashy, but as a stable,
lasting form of happiness, by recognizing it's worth, people find
deeper sense of peace. I feel like this happens more
so in relationships where it's like, Okay, maybe the butterflies
are gone, like the thrill is gone whatever. But it's like, yeah,
but as long as you're happy, that's still good. Like
(07:57):
maybe the sugar rush wore off. But being contempt in
a relationship is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It means you're happy, means you feel safe. That's a
good thing. We don't need to have butterflies all the time,
you know. We feel burdened by expectations, they say. People
around you might have expectations about your happiness, adding pressure
to feel a certain way.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I feel that.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
A lot, especially because like with the show, like you know,
when you are the leader of anything, your mood kind
of sets the tone. And so like there's been times
where I've felt that pressure to where it's like, yeah,
I always have to be in a good mood, and
that can be a lot where it feels like people
(08:42):
will pick up on things in not even a bad way.
Especially I think again with going through breakups or chewy passing,
I can tell people around me are not necessarily on edge,
but they are like guards up worried, which is a good.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Thing to have.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But that is a bit pressure though it feels like, Okay,
I need to be happy all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The last one is we fall in for the myth
of the pursuit. The belief that happiness is something to
be chased can lead to endless pursuit. The chase implies
that happiness is always just out of reach, constantly moving
further a way. The idea need to actuately pursue happiness
can be exhausting and counterproductive.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, I get.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I think it goes to like sometimes man, enjoy the moment.
You know, there's a quote that you've survived one hundred
percent of your worst days so far, and it's true.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You know. I also think it's fun to find happiness
in small things.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You know, whether it is like your cup of coffee
in the morning or like a funny Instagram video. You
can have small wins, you know what I mean. I
think that's important to have. Stack up the small wins
has some big ones. I hope you have a fantastic weekend.
If you get a chance to follo along this weekend,
it's gonna be powerful. Man, it's gonna be I don't know.
I'm excited, I'm nervous, all those things that go back
(09:52):
to the roots at Internshohn Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Have a fantastic weekend. I'll see a Monday. It's Thas Shower.
And a happy Friday friend. Welcome to the Thought Shower.
Intern John is my name. Been a week about to
be a big weekend. Busy day today for your boy
after the show today, flying to des Moines, Iowa.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I've been listening to the podcast is a Week. You know.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I'm going back to des Moines. I was in Des
Moines for eleven months before I moved to DC. Going
back because University of Minnesota plays University of Iowa in
college football. Gonna be a lot of fun, should be
go again. I think it's their homecoming game as well.
That's gonna be fun, gonna be emotional, certainly. The plan
today is to land. That's step one. That's a pretty
(00:36):
big part of today's plan is to have the airplane
land safely. That's yeah, that'd be ideal, ideal situation for
the pilots if they could. And then gonna go back
to my first apartment ever kind of check it out
and just see where it is. The crazy thing is,
like I haven't been des Moines, having lived there for
thirteen years, I can still basically know my way, and
(01:01):
I've only gone back maybe twice, but I can basically
like I'm pretty good with that kind of like photographic memory.
So excited to go back see the first apartment. Gonna
be kind of like a surreal experience, you know, really
thirteen years ago was starting here, so to see where
we were thirteen years ago in Chewy back then. And
then Saturday going to the game, which should be fun
(01:23):
because both teams are doing well and I think college sports,
there's something special about it. To be fun for me
too because go with my old boss Greg, who uh,
without him, there is no intern John in the morning show,
he took me in as I was twenty one, I think,
was in Des Moines and young, hungry, excited certainly, but
(01:46):
he kind of took me in and molded me and
looked out for me.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So it's cool to see him.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Also, like I would spend so much time at his
house because I again, like I mentioned last podcast, dink
Wout didn't party, was working, So like seeing his kids
is crazy for me because when I first started, they
were like, you know, six and four. Now they are adults.
So gonna be a lot of fun. Follow along on
the Instagram this weekend at intern Genre Radio. But it's
gonna be a very cleansing is the right word. But
(02:15):
I think it's good every now and then to see
how far life is gone. Yeah, life, how far you've grown,
and how things have changed. So I'm excited for this weekend.
Let me get to this for your Friday. Though, the
reasons many folks are secretly scared of happiness. I've told
friends this recently, that there's a couple of friends where
it's like, hey, like, just so you know, you deserve
(02:38):
a happy ending.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And I mean that.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I have some friends who I feel like almost block
themselves off from that happiness, and it's like.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Hey, like you deserve it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Though, like who's to say you don't get the happy
ending you want. I think that's important. Let yourself have
the chance of being happy. The first thing is we
fear the other shoe dropping. I do think that's fair.
When happiness shows up, it can feel like a storm ighting.
The follow you start living on the edge, anticipating the
next bad thing. Because life is taught you the good
times are often followed by bad I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Gonna be honest.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, good times are always followed by bad and bad
times followed by good. There's like a Tom I think
it was Tom Hanks. I saw it didn't interview this
too shall pass. And that's like, yeah, when you're in
the good moments, eventually those are going to go away.
When you're in the bad moments, those who go away too.
It's kind of life, you know. But at least like
the good moments you can look back on and be happy.
(03:29):
I think that as far as you know, it's chewy.
I've learned to look back at the good moments, and
I'm very lucky that we have so many of those,
and wouldn't trail that for anything in the world. You know,
we feel guilty for feeling good, they say. Sometimes happiness
makes you feel guilty, especially when others around you are struggling.
You might think, who am I to feel happy when
(03:49):
someone else is hurting? I felt this in relationships sometimes,
where it's like I got things going my way, whether
it be you know, work or various I guess, well,
it's all work for me.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
The Bar podcast All stuff. Where do you feel like awkward?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Like I want to talk about it, but I do
think like you got to still celebrate your happiness, you
know what I mean? You can still feel bad for others,
but celebrate your happiness. We feel the vulnerability hangover, they say,
happiest can lead you feeling exposed, which is kind of
a vulnerability some find uncomfortable. It's like opening a door
to your innermo self and that's scary as people prefer
to keep their guard up. That is true, Like golly,
(04:26):
there's nothing worse than like when you start talking to
somebody or seeing somebody and then you can tell your
walls or starting to come down, and it's like no, oh.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
At that moment you realize you're screwed.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's one of the worst movie, one of the worst
moments of all time in relationship where you realize like,
oh no, this person cracked the code. I'm gonna fall.
You know, we're caught in the social media comparison trap.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
They say.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Social media is turned comparison the full time occupation. When
you're happy, it's easy to follow the trap of comparing
your joy with somebody else's highlight reel. You know, I've
had that happen before. There's times I got catch myself
where it's even like when I had the number one
and number two comedy album in the world. I was
on social media. I saw somebody else post something like
oh but I want that, and I was like, hey, man,
like we're doing okay. I've had to start doing that
(05:13):
more recently, and maybe it'll help you. Where I'm very
positive or try to be uplifting to the people around me. However,
to myself, I'm as hard as can be on myself.
If I was as hard on everybody else as I
am myself, i'd have zero friends. Where I've had to
start telling myself like hey man, but just me saying
it like hey, we're doing good like you're we're doing
a good job, and that's helped. It has It has
(05:36):
helped me realize like talking to yourself like you would
a friend is helpful, even like it's for me like
nothing's ever good enough, especially with the show. If I
get like one word wrong or I feel like I,
you know, jumble my words up, I will beat myself
up for it. And it'say man, if I was treating
somebody else like I treat myself, I'd have nobody working
for me, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
What I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The next one is we worry about jinxing it. They
say you might avoid knowledging your happiness out allow for
fear jinxing it. This superstitious belief is more common than
you think, where people worry about expressing enjoy somehow lead
to its disappearance. I do think that's true. I get
I think that that comes from certainly trauma right in
like past experiences where you feel like okay again, kind
of to the point of like the shoe dropping, where
(06:19):
it's like I'm happy things are working out. Certainly, it
can't work out this well for this long, you know
what I mean. And it's almost like the second you
say it, something's gonna happen. I mean, I remember too,
like when I had the albums, I was almost afraid
to post it because I was afraid that what it
goes away, which is so crazy to think about, because
(06:42):
it's like, here it is number one, number two comedy
albums in the world, but don't post it because what
if somebody else sees it and they try to get
their album number one? And it's like, even if that
did happen, it doesn't take away from the fact that
I accomplished that, you know what I mean. So I
think that's huge. I think that sometimes we can talk
ourselves out of it. It's like, I do believe everybody
(07:03):
deserves to be happy. I mean that, and that's always
been the goal of the show. It can happy healthy
relationship with yourself, family, friends, whomever. I think that's yeah,
don't let somebody else.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Run your happy. Life's too short.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, we misunderstand the meaning of contentment, they say. Many
confused happiness with the constant excitement, overlooking the value of
being content. This misunderstanding these people to chase after thrills
in search of happiness, leave them all the time dissatisfied.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So here's the thing, they say.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Being contempt might not be flashy, but as a stable,
lasting form of happiness, by recognizing it's worth, people find
deeper sense of peace. I feel like this happens more
so in relationships where it's like, Okay, maybe the butterflies
are gone, like the thrill is gone whatever. But it's like, yeah,
but as long as you're happy, that's still good. Like
(07:57):
maybe the sugar rush wore off. But being contempt in
a relationship is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It means you're happy, means you feel safe. That's a
good thing. We don't need to have butterflies all the time,
you know. We feel burdened by expectations, they say. People
around you might have expectations about your happiness, adding pressure
to feel a certain way.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I feel that.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
A lot, especially because like with the show, like you know,
when you are the leader of anything, your mood kind
of sets the tone. And so like there's been times
where I've felt that pressure to where it's like, yeah,
I always have to be in a good mood, and
that can be a lot where it feels like people
(08:42):
will pick up on things in not even a bad way.
Especially I think again with going through breakups or chewy passing,
I can tell people around me are not necessarily on edge,
but they are like guards up worried, which is a good.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Thing to have.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But that is a bit pressure though it feels like, Okay,
I need to be happy all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The last one is we fall in for the myth
of the pursuit. The belief that happiness is something to
be chased can lead to endless pursuit. The chase implies
that happiness is always just out of reach, constantly moving
further a way. The idea need to actuately pursue happiness
can be exhausting and counterproductive.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, I get.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I think it goes to like sometimes man, enjoy the moment.
You know, there's a quote that you've survived one hundred
percent of your worst days so far, and it's true.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You know. I also think it's fun to find happiness
in small things.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You know, whether it is like your cup of coffee
in the morning or like a funny Instagram video. You
can have small wins, you know what I mean. I
think that's important to have. Stack up the small wins
has some big ones. I hope you have a fantastic weekend.
If you get a chance to follo along this weekend,
it's gonna be powerful. Man, it's gonna be I don't know.
I'm excited, I'm nervous, all those things that go back
(09:52):
to the roots at Internshohn Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Have a fantastic weekend. I'll see a Monday. It's Thas Shower.
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