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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And a happy Friday. Friend.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome to the thought Shower. Intern John is my name.
It was a week short week, good week. Got a
lot done this week. I did a lot of cleaning
I guess really over the weekend, but the trash company
took it away.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
And that's important.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Sometimes I feel self conscious about my trash because like,
I'll have neighbors who'll put out like a ziplock bag
for the trash. Here I am with like four bags.
I'm like, am I doing something wrong? How is it possible?
This family of four has a sandwich zip block bag
full of trash and I'm here with four big bags?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
What am I doing? What's going on? So? There was that.
Got a lot done for the comedy shows. I'm so
excited for that.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Man I post about last night, but you know I
was going through it yesterday. Well, yes, a couple of
days and it's good. It's really good. It's gonna be powerful,
it's gonna be a fun, fun weekend. The June twentieth,
June twenty first, this weekend, got a lot going on too.
Got dinner tonight, very excited about that. Haven't been downtown
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for a dinner in a minute. If you're not in
the DC area. Going downtown is paying the ass as
it is anywhere. But doing that then gotta go to
the restaurant this weekend, gotta do some things there. There
is an EDM Vessel Project glow this weekend. Trying to
say if I want to go, I mean, obviously, like
eight it's a great show, it's a great festival. But man, again,
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it's just like do you want to put up with
the crowd for it?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I went to see Megan Maroni with Sauce two weeks ago.
I mentioned that, but the floor of the anthem was pecked.
I mean probably there's like seven thousand people, but I
would bet you that the floor was like two to
three hundred people deep, like rose and like, man, I
don't know if I could do that, even from my
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favorite artists, I don't know if I could do that.
I think I get claustrophobic. I saw David Ghetto once.
This is years ago, and the person I went with
wanted to stand on the floor and it was a
nightmare because I felt bad being somewhat tall ish and
blocking people's views. I have a hand in my wallet,
so I didn't get robbed and the other hand in
front of me, So somebody grinded on me and then
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he got sweaty bodies all over you that you don't
know who is who, Like, ah, it's not for me,
not really my vibe. I also got the itch to
travel again. You know, haven't been in the woods in
a minute, and probably since last year, and usually I
would go like once every couple of months. It's been
hard this year because now owning the restaurant, but I
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kind of want to do that too, and then hopefully
it's a little better weather because Skittle has been kind
of locked inside because of the rain.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So that's what we're doing, that's what we're looking forward
to you. That's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Let me hit this for your Friday reasons to be
grateful for your quote average life.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I think this is important.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I think we all kind of fall in the trap
of you see somebody's life on social media and you go, man,
like they're just really doing it. You know, they're doing
so many great things, and you forget to realize Instagram
is the highlight reel that your Instagram looks like you're
way more interesting than you are, and you know you're
not same with me, by the way, Like I know
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that most of the time it's me playing Xbox with skittles,
and he's really bad at Xbox. Starting with your life
isn't a constant crisis, they say. It's easy to romanticize chaos,
but living in a constancy of high drama is a
fast track for burnout and emotional exhaustion. Now, the funny
thing is the funny thing is I've had friends where
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I've noticed that, like they constantly need the drama. Where
it's like, no, having peace is okay. It's okay. If
I don't know the goss, it's okay. If I can
go out and not worry about who I bump into,
that's fine. That's fantastic, you know what I mean. It's
fun to be the observer of the S Show circus,
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not a participant in the S show circus. You know
how to actually enjoy the little things, they say, the
quieter small moments of life often slipped by unnoticed when
you're chasing big goals or high stress milestones. But the
small things like in morning coffee, long walk, good book,
or what buill of life you actually want.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I need to get better at this.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I do I think that I fall in the trap
of I chase the big things because I think that's
what other people want me to do, or like expecting me.
I think you for a while, that's why I was
doing so many comedy tours, like actually like doing fifteen
shows and travel and it's like, oh, because I already
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did this many venues. Now people are don't expect me
to do this many venues and like, yeah, I got
burned out and no doubt in that. So it is
enjoined the small things, like a dog fall asleep on you,
you know, it's kind of adorable, or thinking you're out
of like a snack and you realize there's one more
left that right there will oh, change your life.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I got these freezer dried like yogurt popsicles from Target
last week. They're so good. I don't know why freezer
dried foods forever reason and my mind tastes better even
though they're literally the exact same thing. But for some reason,
in my mind they just taste different. I don't know,
and it's probably just my own mental. If you will,
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you're not constantly hustling for validation, they say, the chase
for more, more money, more recognition, more status can be intoxicating.
It's also trapped that often leaves people feeling empty. There's
a great comedian, Jimmy Carr, who was talking about somebody
asked them, you know why you're so happy when there's
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other people who are trying to get more, and he says,
I have something they'll never have enough, and I was like, damn,
it's so true.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You know I mentioned this before too.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I think that we get the thought that if I
just get this next level, if I just get this
money or this promotion, things will change.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I'll be happy.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And not to be too dark, but obviously you have
a Chewy Passing on New Year's was fairly depressed still, Am,
and I kind of threw myself in the hockey and
I was like, well, if the boys win a championship,
surely that'll make me feel better. And they won the championship,
and did I feel better. I felt happy for them,
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but it didn't quite take away I mean not even quite.
It didn't even remotely take away the pain of losing Chewy.
You know, it's kind of like, oh, okay, you can't
just like break your ankle and then yeah, but Tam,
I'm gonna do biceps. Okay, I mean you can do that,
but the sore, the pain is still gonna be there,
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you know what I mean. Yeah, I fix it. You're
not living somebody else's dream. Yes, many people get caught
in the trap of chasing goals that aren't even theirs,
just expectations that by family, culture or social media. Oh man,
sneeze break Golly, the studio is so dusty. Living a
quote average life often that means you stepped off that shreadmill. Yeah,
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I think that's important. I was lucky my parents never
really pushed that kind of stuff. They just kind went
and be happy, which still gross. But I've seen friends
or it's that way where it's kind of like they
just aren't doing things they want to do. And I
think that, you know, money is not gonna make you
happy from what I've learned.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Do I have money?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Would it make things easier?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Certainly, have everything in auto pay seems pretty sick, seems
pretty lovely. But I do think kind of like with
the broken ankle analogy, it's like those pro problems will
still be there, so you might as well do something
you want to do.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You're less likely to burnout.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, I say burnout is a badge of honor in
some circles, but it's also a symptim of a broken system.
When your life is more average, you're not constantly pushing
yourself for the brink for the sake of productivity. Now,
I'll say this, is there anything wrong with wanting an
average life?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
No? Is there anything wrong with wanting more?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
No? I think that for me, I tend to want more.
I think a lot of it has to do with
the people I'm surrounded by. Like I have gotten myself
in a position where there's people that depend on me,
and that's just it's the reality of it. And I
like that. I prefer people depend on me, then I
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depend on somebody else. So that reality is it is like, yeah,
I kind of gotta burn myself out a little bit,
you know, you know, with whether it's with the the podcast,
whether it's with the radio show or comedy or hockey. Like,
there's people that depend on me, and because of that,
I can't afford to not be busy all the time.
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And that's not a bad thing, but I want this,
you know. I think that's what it comes down to.
It's like nobody's forcing me to do the podcast, the
radio show, the comedy, the hockey. It's because I want
to do it, and I've had that conversation before folks
where it's like, no, this is something I want to do. Though,
like I if I wasn't doing all this stuff, I
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don't quite know what I would do, And I've talked
about when I first moved here, I had nothing else
going on. It's like, I'll know what I did with,
you know, twelve hours a day, I don't know. I
would love to see you June twenty. If June twenty
first the Arlington Draft House, Schewey Forever. It's gonna be emotional,
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there's no doubt about that. But it's gonna be a
great night out. We're gonna have a lot of fun,
and it's gonna be a chance to immortalize Showy but
also raise money for the Warrior Canine Connection, a fantastic
group of true heroes who are raising puppies to be
service animals for our military, which is again something that
I'm blessed enough to not have to worry about.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You know, other folks aren't as lucky.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
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Speaker 1 (10:18):
I'll see you Monday. Stash ower