June 30, 2025 • 9 mins
On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John talks about how to know if a guy is insecure
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And a Happy Monday friend. Welcome to the Thought Shower.
Intern John is my name. The show is live today
from Universal Orlando Resort. Very excited for that. We had
a chance to come down to Orlando, and if you've
never been to Universal Studios, they have an actual radio
(00:21):
studio inside the park, which like basically every day of
the week there's a radio show from somewhere in the
country that comes out and does their show here, which
to me me is genius for a couple of reasons,
mainly because it's easy to do the show, Like it's
(00:41):
very easy for us to come down here and do
the show. It's a perfect setup, full on station. Everything works,
it's it's very cool. It's awesome. So we're gonna do
excuse me, the new park, Epic Universe, the old Park,
I don't want to say old, but whatever. And this
is cool because about Universe, Disney is obviously all the
(01:02):
Disney stuff. Universal is more of like the adult rides,
like they got you Harry Potter and they got Donkey
Kong and they got more Harry Potter. So very excited
for that. Good chance to get away, and then later
this week going to Nashville. Haven't been in Nashville. I
guess pyly since Christmas, so chance to see family and
(01:24):
friends and do all that stuff. So exciting. Although I'm
gonna be honest, dude. I one of my biggest claims
I have made. I make predictions every now and then
of things I think will happen in the future. One
of them I predicted Disney plus uh Doan Bragg it
is what it is. I remember Eric tell me no way,
and I was like, Eh, why would Disney let their
(01:45):
stuff go to other services? When they make this they
make the content right. I do think we are pushing
towards a world where there is a chip or a
retina scan that acts as your password to everything. Because
I just almost by ten minutes is trying to get
my work email because I couldn't remember what the password
(02:06):
was where I change it to. I'm like that eventually
is going to be like, yeah, we'll get so fed
up we'll do just swipe it. Yeah, I mean, we'll
do like a swipe and then that will be how
we get into things. Oh my god, this showed Megan
on TV. The doll Golly, that thing is scary. Scary.
I'd say a no go for your boy. But anyway,
(02:29):
we're here, we're doing it. I hope you're having a
great Monday. Let's get into this. The things insecure men
do to hide what they're really feeling. I don't really
think I'm that insecure. I think I'm fairly secure. Sometimes
I think I'm more like I have a speech issue,
(02:49):
So I don't like get insecure about it, but I
get over critical of it, Like I will redo things
four or five times just to make sure nothing's wrong,
if that makes sense. They overcome and say by buying
expensive toys, Yeah, you probably encountered men who flaunt their
last luxury watch a car, hoping to impress. It's easy,
interpret its vanity, but it's off in a shield against
(03:11):
feeling less than. I will say that I've never seen
I've seen people do that, right. I never thought, oh
they're cool, or oh they're good, everything's good in their life.
My usual thought is like, oh, this is like a
cry for help. But also I think to like, being
a Midwest guy, flashy stuff has never really appealed to me.
(03:31):
And if that's if that's your journey, good for you.
But I got a watch from Amazon, and I have
people asking, oh, what kind of watches that I was like,
I mean it was twenty dollars in Amazon. Oh No.
Kind of the same with cars where I don't know
the ins and outs of cars. I don't know any
(03:51):
of that stuff. And again, if that's your thing, awesome,
it's not really on mine. They resort to hyper masculine behavior. Yeah,
when the arc type of a real man looms large,
some men double down on exaggerated masculinity, the idea that
strength means suppressing vulnerability and pushes them and embrace aggressive
or demeaning behaviors. I have said this when it comes
(04:11):
to like fighting, especially, any dude who's looking for a
fight in public has clearly never been in a fight before.
And I'll say that my brother and I started boxing
like seventh grade, then we did mma training through college.
I never once went looking for a fight because I
think anybody who actually knows how to fight knows you
(04:35):
can get hurt, Likeel Jimly, it's not like the movies
where you can just swing and your racky takes thirty
chops to the face and is good to go. You
can get hurt. And I think that that to me
has always been a huge Like there it is that's
how you know. Guys are constantly looking for fights, looking
for altercations, even in the animal kingdom, like gorillas don't
(04:57):
want to fight each other. They know like they're going
and to get seriously hurt. Yes, they look for validation
on social media, yeah, they say. In the digital aid,
social media becomes a stage where one man shows a
curate perfection unfold. For some men, the quest for likes
and comments is a desperate bit of validation. Behind the
filtered selfies and stats updates is underlying desire to affirm
(05:20):
that they matter. I've seen that kind of stuff. I've
also seen more so like with phishing posts where you'll
post a story that you know, like I know they
nuntbelieve in, but they're doing because they think it's going
to get attention. And to me, it's like, come on, dude,
fake pretending to care about stuff you don't. I think
(05:41):
it's called woke fishing, where you will pretend to care
about a cause you don't care about just because you're
trying to get somebody's attention. I think it's obvious for
me at least to see that. What happens they start
flexing past achievements. Yeah, they say, some men cling on
the past. Gloria's a lifeline. Recounting tails of the high
(06:02):
school football days are college exploits. This nostalgia isn't just
a fine trip to memory lane. It's a fortress built
against built against present insecurities. I've noticed this too, and
I try to be it's harder to say this out
sound like a douche. I've been very blessed that nearly
(06:25):
every venture I've gotten into, I've had some type of success.
You know. With coaching hockey, we've won three championships in
three tournament championships in eight years, three or four conference
championships in eight years. Very blessed. The podcast is one
best podcast. I think three times we well overred a
(06:46):
couple of million listeners, radio shows doing well, comedy certainly
doing well with the number one album, and sold out
shows and all that. And I try to not bring
that stuff up in real life because I think it
sounds raggedocious and it sounds like I'm trying to brag,
but I'm actually not. I'm also too, I always caveat
(07:08):
that with I know that none of that's possible without
the people around me, including you listening. Like the podcast,
wouldn't be what it is if you didn't listen the show,
wouldn't the comedy wouldn't. I'm very blessed that way. I
think what they're seeing with this in particular is the
person in question is kind of taking all the glory
for themselves. You know, I don't really think back to
(07:33):
high school achievements or college achievements, and even like it's funny.
I had a meeting with a boss gollay a couple
months ago. I've told the story on here before, but
she was like, you know, I was talking about like
what's next and I want to do next and YadA YadA.
She's like, didn't you just have your album go number one?
And I was like yeah, but that was November and
(07:54):
she's like that's a big deal, and I was like, yeah,
yeah it is. You know, it kind of took me
a second to realize. And I'm not trying to judge
by the way. I hope it doesn't sound like that,
but yeah, to me, it's an obvious FLEXI on that.
Your sauce match of the guy on dating app somewhat
recently whose photos were of him playing football in college
(08:15):
and he was in his thirties He's like, dude, come on,
my brother, Yeah, find something else, Find something else. They
churn conversations into a comedy skit. Ah, there's a guy
who always plays a class clown during every serious moment
in a comedy skip. While humor can be a valuable
social tool, can also serve as a smoke dream for
deeper insecurities. I think that do I have that? Sometimes?
(08:38):
Maybe it's possible, you know, uh, don't we? All though,
I don't like awkward conversations, Like that's like the main
kind of part of it. I don't want to have
things be awkward. I prefer everybody us to kind of
have fun and you know, enjoy themselves, keep things easy,
if that, If that makes sense. Listen, I hope we
(09:00):
have a fantastic Monday. If you get a chance to
follow along, I would appreciate that all you do is
search intern genre radio on the Instagram. Have a fantastic day.
I'll see you Wednesday.
And a Happy Monday friend. Welcome to the Thought Shower.
Intern John is my name. The show is live today
from Universal Orlando Resort. Very excited for that. We had
a chance to come down to Orlando, and if you've
never been to Universal Studios, they have an actual radio
(00:21):
studio inside the park, which like basically every day of
the week there's a radio show from somewhere in the
country that comes out and does their show here, which
to me me is genius for a couple of reasons,
mainly because it's easy to do the show, Like it's
(00:41):
very easy for us to come down here and do
the show. It's a perfect setup, full on station. Everything works,
it's it's very cool. It's awesome. So we're gonna do
excuse me, the new park, Epic Universe, the old Park,
I don't want to say old, but whatever. And this
is cool because about Universe, Disney is obviously all the
(01:02):
Disney stuff. Universal is more of like the adult rides,
like they got you Harry Potter and they got Donkey
Kong and they got more Harry Potter. So very excited
for that. Good chance to get away, and then later
this week going to Nashville. Haven't been in Nashville. I
guess pyly since Christmas, so chance to see family and
(01:24):
friends and do all that stuff. So exciting. Although I'm
gonna be honest, dude. I one of my biggest claims
I have made. I make predictions every now and then
of things I think will happen in the future. One
of them I predicted Disney plus uh Doan Bragg it
is what it is. I remember Eric tell me no way,
and I was like, Eh, why would Disney let their
(01:45):
stuff go to other services? When they make this they
make the content right. I do think we are pushing
towards a world where there is a chip or a
retina scan that acts as your password to everything. Because
I just almost by ten minutes is trying to get
my work email because I couldn't remember what the password
(02:06):
was where I change it to. I'm like that eventually
is going to be like, yeah, we'll get so fed
up we'll do just swipe it. Yeah, I mean, we'll
do like a swipe and then that will be how
we get into things. Oh my god, this showed Megan
on TV. The doll Golly, that thing is scary. Scary.
I'd say a no go for your boy. But anyway,
(02:29):
we're here, we're doing it. I hope you're having a
great Monday. Let's get into this. The things insecure men
do to hide what they're really feeling. I don't really
think I'm that insecure. I think I'm fairly secure. Sometimes
I think I'm more like I have a speech issue,
(02:49):
So I don't like get insecure about it, but I
get over critical of it, Like I will redo things
four or five times just to make sure nothing's wrong,
if that makes sense. They overcome and say by buying
expensive toys, Yeah, you probably encountered men who flaunt their
last luxury watch a car, hoping to impress. It's easy,
interpret its vanity, but it's off in a shield against
(03:11):
feeling less than. I will say that I've never seen
I've seen people do that, right. I never thought, oh
they're cool, or oh they're good, everything's good in their life.
My usual thought is like, oh, this is like a
cry for help. But also I think to like, being
a Midwest guy, flashy stuff has never really appealed to me.
(03:31):
And if that's if that's your journey, good for you.
But I got a watch from Amazon, and I have
people asking, oh, what kind of watches that I was like,
I mean it was twenty dollars in Amazon. Oh No.
Kind of the same with cars where I don't know
the ins and outs of cars. I don't know any
(03:51):
of that stuff. And again, if that's your thing, awesome,
it's not really on mine. They resort to hyper masculine behavior. Yeah,
when the arc type of a real man looms large,
some men double down on exaggerated masculinity, the idea that
strength means suppressing vulnerability and pushes them and embrace aggressive
or demeaning behaviors. I have said this when it comes
(04:11):
to like fighting, especially, any dude who's looking for a
fight in public has clearly never been in a fight before.
And I'll say that my brother and I started boxing
like seventh grade, then we did mma training through college.
I never once went looking for a fight because I
think anybody who actually knows how to fight knows you
(04:35):
can get hurt, Likeel Jimly, it's not like the movies
where you can just swing and your racky takes thirty
chops to the face and is good to go. You
can get hurt. And I think that that to me
has always been a huge Like there it is that's
how you know. Guys are constantly looking for fights, looking
for altercations, even in the animal kingdom, like gorillas don't
(04:57):
want to fight each other. They know like they're going
and to get seriously hurt. Yes, they look for validation
on social media, yeah, they say. In the digital aid,
social media becomes a stage where one man shows a
curate perfection unfold. For some men, the quest for likes
and comments is a desperate bit of validation. Behind the
filtered selfies and stats updates is underlying desire to affirm
(05:20):
that they matter. I've seen that kind of stuff. I've
also seen more so like with phishing posts where you'll
post a story that you know, like I know they
nuntbelieve in, but they're doing because they think it's going
to get attention. And to me, it's like, come on, dude,
fake pretending to care about stuff you don't. I think
(05:41):
it's called woke fishing, where you will pretend to care
about a cause you don't care about just because you're
trying to get somebody's attention. I think it's obvious for
me at least to see that. What happens they start
flexing past achievements. Yeah, they say, some men cling on
the past. Gloria's a lifeline. Recounting tails of the high
(06:02):
school football days are college exploits. This nostalgia isn't just
a fine trip to memory lane. It's a fortress built
against built against present insecurities. I've noticed this too, and
I try to be it's harder to say this out
sound like a douche. I've been very blessed that nearly
(06:25):
every venture I've gotten into, I've had some type of success.
You know. With coaching hockey, we've won three championships in
three tournament championships in eight years, three or four conference
championships in eight years. Very blessed. The podcast is one
best podcast. I think three times we well overred a
(06:46):
couple of million listeners, radio shows doing well, comedy certainly
doing well with the number one album, and sold out
shows and all that. And I try to not bring
that stuff up in real life because I think it
sounds raggedocious and it sounds like I'm trying to brag,
but I'm actually not. I'm also too, I always caveat
(07:08):
that with I know that none of that's possible without
the people around me, including you listening. Like the podcast,
wouldn't be what it is if you didn't listen the show,
wouldn't the comedy wouldn't. I'm very blessed that way. I
think what they're seeing with this in particular is the
person in question is kind of taking all the glory
for themselves. You know, I don't really think back to
(07:33):
high school achievements or college achievements, and even like it's funny.
I had a meeting with a boss gollay a couple
months ago. I've told the story on here before, but
she was like, you know, I was talking about like
what's next and I want to do next and YadA YadA.
She's like, didn't you just have your album go number one?
And I was like yeah, but that was November and
(07:54):
she's like that's a big deal, and I was like, yeah,
yeah it is. You know, it kind of took me
a second to realize. And I'm not trying to judge
by the way. I hope it doesn't sound like that,
but yeah, to me, it's an obvious FLEXI on that.
Your sauce match of the guy on dating app somewhat
recently whose photos were of him playing football in college
(08:15):
and he was in his thirties He's like, dude, come on,
my brother, Yeah, find something else, Find something else. They
churn conversations into a comedy skit. Ah, there's a guy
who always plays a class clown during every serious moment
in a comedy skip. While humor can be a valuable
social tool, can also serve as a smoke dream for
deeper insecurities. I think that do I have that? Sometimes?
(08:38):
Maybe it's possible, you know, uh, don't we? All though,
I don't like awkward conversations, Like that's like the main
kind of part of it. I don't want to have
things be awkward. I prefer everybody us to kind of
have fun and you know, enjoy themselves, keep things easy,
if that, If that makes sense. Listen, I hope we
(09:00):
have a fantastic Monday. If you get a chance to
follow along, I would appreciate that all you do is
search intern genre radio on the Instagram. Have a fantastic day.
I'll see you Wednesday.
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