Starting From Scratch - 977

On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John talks about starting from scratch, and how to tell if someone is into you

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7/20 Arlington Draft House, Arlington VA
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Episode Transcript

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Well, hello, friend, welcometo the Thought Shower. Intern John is
my name. Feeling good today,got some sleep last night, had not
been sleeping the last week or so. It's a lot going on, you
know, launching the new shows,of course, and then the restaurant stuff
going too. We'll get to allthat, but starting to feel a human.

(00:20):
Also got a facial yesterday. NowI feel I probably sound younger is
part of the deal. Where tobegin? Where to begin? This Wednesday?
Again, If you've gotten tickets tothe comedy, thank you very excited.
I appreciate by reaching out to youabout the restaurant. So I don't
hope I've gotten the full detail yet, but I am invested in a restaurant

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with some good friends of mine that'sgonna be opening in Clarendon this summer,
which I'm very excited about. DoI know anything about the restaurant industry,
No, not even a little bit. Uh. But it's okay because the
folks I'm going in with they doknow. But to me, dope,
it's a spot we're opening and Clarendon, and I think it's you know,

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bars are cool, clubs can becool, but I think the idea of
a lounge is way cooler as Iget into my mid thirties early thirties,
everyonet to call it a place whereyou can go relax with friends, have
a drink, have a cocktail,get some you know, some small bites
as well as opposed to standing crammedin with people, having people scream over

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you, people spill drinks on you. And so we're opening in hopefully a
couple of weeks now, which isscary. Dude. Oh, it's so
cool. I can't wait. Though. I love learning new things and I
tend to put myself fully into thingsas well, So very excited for that.
It's gonna being claring. It's calledhide social, Can I wait?

(01:56):
Comedy show stuff. I'm very excitedtoo. It's kind of coming together.
If you've gotten tickets, thank you. You know, I haven't really had
a chance to talk about these showsyet in depth. I usually do.
You know. When I finished thelast actual tour, find you're happy.
You know. I talked about thisa little bit, but I always liked

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the idea of a trilogy, youknow, I think that's a great way
to tell a story, so tospeak. So there was the peer pressure,
Look what you've done Revival. Iconsider that one one body of work,
if you will. And then therewas What's Next. There was Lost,
there was Find You're Happy? AndI think that, to me is

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probably my favorite piece of work becauseof that point, you know, with
What's Next, was trying to figureout really what snacks of my life,
you know, was I gonna move? Was I gonna stay with Lost?
It was kind of everything being thrownupside down, kind of lost myself a
little bit, certainly with you know, Cane Pass and the show starting,

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and then find your Happy is Ihad kind of thought that I found my
happy, like found like the personthat's gonna be the forever with the and
like had found you know, thatpiece. The plan really was last year,
those last shows, I think thelast shows were Jimmy's was to be

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done, to be done. Wehad said, you know, everything I
needed to say. We had raisedone hundred thousand dollars done. And remember
I had a conversation with the bosswho was this was probably oh December maybe,
who was like, are you reallydump comedy? I said, yeah,
unless a major like tragedy happens andI have to do something. I

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thought, honestly, it'd be likeif she we passed away, I would
want to do like a show toraise money for like a animal shelter or
something like that. Didn't necessarily thinkit'd be a breakup, but here we
are, so that, like,you know, breakup happened early January and
then probably March. You know,was like I started kind of, well,

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yeah, March whenever I was inToronto, because I was supposed to
coincide with Ex's birthday, so it'sprobably, well, yeah, I would
say March. And so then Iwas like, Okay, well maybe maybe
this would help. And I startedwriting down stuff and that kind of helped.
And now here we are, soI'm excited. It's it's been a
lot of fun. I got alot of things to say. You know,

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I keep getting better, dude,you know what I mean. That's
like the the more I listen toother comedians talk, it's like they say,
you don't get really good until you'relike fifteen years in. I'm certainly
not fifteen years in. I thinkthe difference between me and other comedians is
I'm basically doing not four hours astand up every day, but four hours

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of improv certainly with the show everyday. So I think that kind of
gets the brain going a little bit. So what I'm trying to say is
the shows keep getting better. Ifyou haven't come to one yet, I
would love to see you this roundand again. Like there's no plan to
do anything after this, it's justkind of a need to use it almost
as a therapy, if you would. So July twentieth, Arlington draftthose I

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believe tickets start at twenty bucks.That's the only Arlington dates we're doing.
And then August seventeenth, Ram saidLive Again tickets start about twenty bucks for
that as well, and those arethe only venues were not adding other venues.
That's it Internsoncomedy dot com. Andthen the after party for the Arlington
shows gonna be at the bar I'ma part of, which I'm very excited

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for that too. So that's gonnabe funny because usually I'm stressed at the
comedy shows, but now I feellike I kind of got the kind of
got the flow, if you will, So now I'll be stressed at the
bar instead, you know what Imean. That's that's what we'll do.
I want to hit this real quickfor your Wednesday too. The ways to
know someone super into you now.I need this because you know, I

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was never good at picking up whensomebody was farting with you. Like my
ex the August before we started dating, brought up Montgomery County Fair and like,
oh, I love the fair.I'm like, oh my god,
you should go. And I didn'trealize, Oh, that was her hitting
on me. Now that I'm asingle man, I need to polish up
the skills. Number one, Theexperts say their eyes light up when they

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see you. Now maybe it's theLeo in me where I just assume everybody's
eyes light up when they see me. You know what I mean. They
just feel like I bring that muchjoy that everybody's excited to see me.
You know. They remember the littledetails. I think this is probably you.
If you mentioned you love a certaintype of chocolate, you have an

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interesting hobby or rational fear. Ifthey remember something like that, that's a
sign they're into you. I thinkthat's a huge thing, especially when you're
talking to somebody. I try toremember those small things too when it comes
to flirting, that kind of thing. If they go either way to spend
time with you. They say,when someone's really into you, they find
any excuse to be around you.They might rearrange their schedule or I'll offer

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help you with Aerond's. This isa big sign for me because my schedule
is so stupid and it's about toget stupid, or with the bar opening.
But yeah, if I am ableto move things around to spend time
with somebody, that's like a hugething. If I'm like working to fit
somebody into my life, yeah,that's a sign, you know what I

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mean. And I think it doesn'tnecessarily happen right away, but I got
a lot of stuff going, youknow, like if it's the show itself,
is the morning shows a lot oftime. I got but two forty
five this morning, got here aboutthree thirty. I'll leave around hopefully before
I got meeting today, hopefully likeeleven, and then go to the gym

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and then, depending what time ofyear it is, there's hockey, there's
comedy stuff, there's podcast stuff,there's the bar stuff. So it's just
it. It can be a lot. You know. If they shower you
with compliments, again, I justkind of feel it should be happening all
the time, you know what Imean. It's kind of feel like I
should be getting compliments left and right. All time. Fam Yeah, I'm

(08:26):
doing pretty neat things. If they'realways available to lend a helping hand.
Yeah, I mean this goes backto always having an excuse to see you,
right, like, if they willhelp you move. That to me
is a big one. Moving peopleis the worst thing ever, especially if
they're not good planners, because youcan just watch and this is gonna be
a nightmare if they find an excuseto touch you. This therapist explains a

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light touch in the arm, aplayful nudge, jump brush the hand,
also the way somebody might try toinitiate physical contact. I do not realize
this stuff at all, but Itell you what, this summer, anybody
touches me, I'm just gonna belike you like me. I'm gonna stare
at him, make everybody else sharethem too. The last one they got

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is that they introduced you to theirfriends and family. That one's kind of
obvious. I think the family oneshould be real obvious, unless it's like
a just a sibling. But yeah, if somebody aduces you to like the
parents, dude. There was onetime when I first got here, I
was hanging out with somebody who workingpromotions and this is still the craziest couple

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months of my life where we hadthis kind of like firtatious thing going for
a while, and then uh,we had a couple moments in New Year's
no big deal, and she hadtexted me like, hey, I want
you to come meet the important peopleof my life, and so I did,
and then I don't remember exactly wherewhen crazy She tell a bunch of
people in the office that we like, hooked up, hooked up, which

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didn't happen, and then try tosay that I was the crazy you want
to like, ma'am, you literallyintroduced me to your family and your friends
to meet the important people in yourlife. What are we doing? So
hopefully she hears us Jake, Ihave no idea where she is, don't
want to know where she is.Begone, Satan. We don't need that
vibe. In twenty twenty four,Internship on Comedy, I comly grab your

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tickets. I'll see it Friday.