October 11, 2024 • 10 mins
On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John talks about his weekend, and people who take themselves too seriously
Intern John's debut comedy album "The Album" is available for preorder right NOW! InternJohnComedy.com proceeds benefitting the Fisher House Foundation
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 debut comedy album "The Album" is available for preorder right NOW! InternJohnComedy.com proceeds benefitting the Fisher House Foundation
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, Hopefully had a great week
getting ready for a long, relaxing weekend. Give me a
crazy weekend in the ij household because the restaurant I'm
a part up were doing the soft launch this weekend,
the soft opening, and it's kind of a good, I
(00:22):
guess test you could say, just for me personally, because
I live in Mocha, Montgomery County. The bar is in Clarendon,
so like forty minutes away. So this weekend's gonna be testing,
like do I stay in the hotel one day? Do
I try to drive and just not drink which is fine?
(00:43):
Do I see how much it is the uber roundtrip?
This is gonna be a trial and error for the
next couple of weeks. That's the downside of the way.
The DMV is kind of laid out. Is nothing is
really close, but nothing's really far unless it's rested. That
(01:03):
is far as hell. Brother, So getting a hotel to
night very exciting. The boys dogs love the hotel. They're
big hotel guys, you know what I mean. They because
for them for Chewy and Skittles, you know, Chewy Bean
fifteen and a half years old, Skittles being nearly eight.
They need relax, they really do. They need a chance
(01:25):
to stretch out and you know, take take the load off,
take their mind off things. They're very stressed out boys.
And I know this because I hear them sigh every
now and then, just the big old because they have
it hard. They have very hard lives. I got them
for Prime Day. I got nothing fun. I've realized that
(01:47):
as the older you buy less fun things. Like the
most fun thing that I got was maybe this new
protein powder that tastes like lucky charms. That's about it.
But the biggest, biggest, say, I got Skittle's dog food
thirty dollars off, which if it's thirty dollars off, tells
you how much that dog food is, you know. But
(02:09):
at least it's a giant bag, like it's it's massive.
I think it's like forty pounds something like that. Maybe
more so at least we're good in that front. But yeah, dude,
I also feel like with the Prime stuff, like the
deals aren't really that good anymore, if that makes sense.
Like I saw there was the Ninja, which is like
the food processing thing, but now it makes smoothies like
(02:31):
that's cool. But I used to have one of those
from Target where it was like a fruit ice cream
machine that an ex girlfriend said be a good idea
to have and we use like four times. Where how
it would work was you would take a frozen banana
cover in cocoa powder and then like put it through
this almost like playto machine that would push you out
(02:53):
in the kind of like ice cream consistency, but it
was still frozen banana. You know, it wasn't that good.
I mean, it wasn't bad, but wasn't that good? Not
that uh, you know, not really the vibe. That's the
one thing I need I become rich personal chef just
to make stuff for me. Cooking. I'm not a fan.
(03:15):
I know it's the first some people it can be
like a relaxing thing to do. Not me, no, sir,
because there's the cooking, but there's also the cleaning, which
I also am not a fan of. And that is
my rant for today. If you get a chance today,
pre order the album Internsoncomedy dot com. The album is
(03:35):
six Bucks benefits the Fisherhouse Foundation, which is a fantastic charity,
fantastic group of people and fantastic timing as well as
we're close to Christmas, so pre order the album if
you please. Internsgoncomedy dot com. I cannot explain how cool
it would be if this thing goes number one, to
have the number one comedy album in the world. How
(04:00):
oh freaking cool and it only be because of you,
So Internsjohncomedy dot com, let me get to this for
your Friday. The phrases people use when they take themselves
too seriously. You know, I try not take myself too seriously. Obviously,
I'm very driven, and you know I take the job seriously,
(04:21):
whether it's the radio job or the podcast, or hockey
or comedy or now the bar. But if you take
your yourself too seriously, what are we doing? And I
do realize that as I get into like public interactions
where you can tell people who take themselves too seriously,
(04:42):
and it's just it's kind of like a buzzkill. I
was out once years ago with somebody who worked in television,
and this was probably ten years ago. We'rede at a
bar so Friday night. I asked her, Hey, do you
want to drink? She goes, no, I can't. People might
recognize me. Yeah, I remember looking around being like, hey,
no offense. You work morning TV, which is a very
(05:04):
fine job. Morning TV is like very prestigious. But I
was like, these are it's midnight right now. Nobody who's
out here is gonna be like, oh that's the girl
from insert station here. I was like, have have fun, relax.
And also even if they saw you having a drink,
who cares? You know, does anybody really care if you
(05:25):
see your new favorite newscaster having a drink and like, oh, okay,
they're they're a person. If they say they're a total perfectionist,
they say with that. When somebody drops this line without
minion a flaw, it's a humble brag in disguise. Yeah,
I would say so. I think if you say it unprompted,
I think on the flip side, I can be perfectionists
(05:45):
when it comes to things. But I would never just
offer that up. I try to do it by my actions,
but yeah, I would never just offer that one hundred percent.
Do you even know who I am? Dude? I people
ask me like, did you tell them who you are?
I will never do that. It could save my life.
I would never be like do you know who I am?
(06:07):
I obviously not, because if I did know who you were,
and you were somebody I thought had prominence, we probably
wouldn't be in this situation. That's one of those things
where it's like, do you really want to ask that
question and then have either a the person not know
who you are or be not recognize you. No, the
(06:29):
answer is no. If they say they don't have time
for this nonsense. When somebody says that they're trying to
end a conversation, they're making it clear they're far too
busy and important to deal with ever you got going on.
I think that's fair. Yeah, I think every now and
you hear that also with the uh, let me be
devil's advocate here. Anytime somebody says that, I just feel like, hey,
(06:51):
you're trying to be a pay in the ass. Yeah,
I mean you're trying to be a pay in the ass. Also,
do you not think I've looked at the issue at always?
Do you know what I mean? Do you not think
that I've done some research? Speaking of which, oh no,
do I sue it to myself. The next one is
I've done my research. They say, we've all heard this one.
(07:14):
They throw it out there, shut down any argument about
a niche topic or a latest trend. They're saying I
know more than you, so don't even try to question me. Yeah,
I don't like again, all these things are just phrases
I would go, hey, I don't want to talk to
you ever. But also sometimes with people, when they give
you this stuff, it's like, thank god, I know that
now I don't want to waste my time with you.
(07:35):
You know what I mean? Like now I know we
will not get along and be friends. If somebody says
I'm a natural leader not a follower, here's the thing
about being a leader. For why it's not fun, I
can tell you that it's not a fun thing. But
being a leader. If you're telling people you're a leader
and not doing it by your actions, you're probably not
(07:56):
a leader. I do think it's funny. Like I think
there's the assumption of being a leader is easy, like
you just you say what you want people to do
and they just do it right because you're the leader.
That's not how it works. And anybody who has said
that has probably had a boss they hated because they
ain't get things done. It's like, nah, dude, if you're
(08:18):
the leader, you gotta work harder. You gotta work so
hard to meet It's almost like that. I tell this
to my hockey kids. It's almost like you have in
the animal kingdom. Nobody Nobody goes after the king lion.
If he's doing his job, if he's you know, protecting
the pride, if he's keeping things in line, if he's
(08:39):
hunting or whatever, Nobody you know, tries to go after him.
When the lion gets a little bit older and the
weaknesses show, that's when somebody tries to take the throne away.
So if you're a leader and you're doing all the
work you'd ask your people do, and you're doing it hard,
you're showing up, it's very difficult for somebody to try to,
(09:00):
you know, question your power, so to speak. I think
I think that's a huge point. If somebody says they
have very high standards, what they're saying is they're impossible
to please. Yeah, I think that's fair. If they say
people are always coming to me for advice, yeah, that's
a weird thing too. Again, I know this's gonna sound
(09:21):
like a counter indictive, but I have people asking for
advice all the time. I just don't broadcast it, you
know what. I mean, I warn this to people on radio.
It's like, be careful of people who are overly eager
to be mentors, you know what I mean? And people
who have a lot of time to be your mentor
are real mentors that I have. They're all very busy,
(09:44):
so they don't have just like oodles and oodles of time.
It's like, no, I gotta kind of fit in their
schedule because they have so much good stuff going on,
do you know what I mean? But I also know
that the people I go to for advice, I'm thinking
of Charla Mane the God being one of them, they
don't brag that go to them for advice. That's a
weird thing, you know what I mean? Because I think
it's like it feels good to help people. It feels good,
(10:08):
especially if in radio, especially to help out people maybe
need advice and guidance, guidance. But I would never try
to like put that feather in my cap. That's weird.
It's a weird thing to do. Anyway, have a great weekend.
Please please please get the album. Internsgoncomedy dot Com and
me a lot to me again. It's about six bucks
(10:28):
going to the Fisher House Internsgoncomedy dot Com,
And a happy Friday friend. Welcome to the thought Shower.
Intern John is my name, Hopefully had a great week
getting ready for a long, relaxing weekend. Give me a
crazy weekend in the ij household because the restaurant I'm
a part up were doing the soft launch this weekend,
the soft opening, and it's kind of a good, I
(00:22):
guess test you could say, just for me personally, because
I live in Mocha, Montgomery County. The bar is in Clarendon,
so like forty minutes away. So this weekend's gonna be testing,
like do I stay in the hotel one day? Do
I try to drive and just not drink which is fine?
(00:43):
Do I see how much it is the uber roundtrip?
This is gonna be a trial and error for the
next couple of weeks. That's the downside of the way.
The DMV is kind of laid out. Is nothing is
really close, but nothing's really far unless it's rested. That
(01:03):
is far as hell. Brother, So getting a hotel to
night very exciting. The boys dogs love the hotel. They're
big hotel guys, you know what I mean. They because
for them for Chewy and Skittles, you know, Chewy Bean
fifteen and a half years old, Skittles being nearly eight.
They need relax, they really do. They need a chance
(01:25):
to stretch out and you know, take take the load off,
take their mind off things. They're very stressed out boys.
And I know this because I hear them sigh every
now and then, just the big old because they have
it hard. They have very hard lives. I got them
for Prime Day. I got nothing fun. I've realized that
(01:47):
as the older you buy less fun things. Like the
most fun thing that I got was maybe this new
protein powder that tastes like lucky charms. That's about it.
But the biggest, biggest, say, I got Skittle's dog food
thirty dollars off, which if it's thirty dollars off, tells
you how much that dog food is, you know. But
(02:09):
at least it's a giant bag, like it's it's massive.
I think it's like forty pounds something like that. Maybe
more so at least we're good in that front. But yeah, dude,
I also feel like with the Prime stuff, like the
deals aren't really that good anymore, if that makes sense.
Like I saw there was the Ninja, which is like
the food processing thing, but now it makes smoothies like
(02:31):
that's cool. But I used to have one of those
from Target where it was like a fruit ice cream
machine that an ex girlfriend said be a good idea
to have and we use like four times. Where how
it would work was you would take a frozen banana
cover in cocoa powder and then like put it through
this almost like playto machine that would push you out
(02:53):
in the kind of like ice cream consistency, but it
was still frozen banana. You know, it wasn't that good.
I mean, it wasn't bad, but wasn't that good? Not
that uh, you know, not really the vibe. That's the
one thing I need I become rich personal chef just
to make stuff for me. Cooking. I'm not a fan.
(03:15):
I know it's the first some people it can be
like a relaxing thing to do. Not me, no, sir,
because there's the cooking, but there's also the cleaning, which
I also am not a fan of. And that is
my rant for today. If you get a chance today,
pre order the album Internsoncomedy dot com. The album is
(03:35):
six Bucks benefits the Fisherhouse Foundation, which is a fantastic charity,
fantastic group of people and fantastic timing as well as
we're close to Christmas, so pre order the album if
you please. Internsgoncomedy dot com. I cannot explain how cool
it would be if this thing goes number one, to
have the number one comedy album in the world. How
(04:00):
oh freaking cool and it only be because of you,
So Internsjohncomedy dot com, let me get to this for
your Friday. The phrases people use when they take themselves
too seriously. You know, I try not take myself too seriously. Obviously,
I'm very driven, and you know I take the job seriously,
(04:21):
whether it's the radio job or the podcast, or hockey
or comedy or now the bar. But if you take
your yourself too seriously, what are we doing? And I
do realize that as I get into like public interactions
where you can tell people who take themselves too seriously,
(04:42):
and it's just it's kind of like a buzzkill. I
was out once years ago with somebody who worked in television,
and this was probably ten years ago. We'rede at a
bar so Friday night. I asked her, Hey, do you
want to drink? She goes, no, I can't. People might
recognize me. Yeah, I remember looking around being like, hey,
no offense. You work morning TV, which is a very
(05:04):
fine job. Morning TV is like very prestigious. But I
was like, these are it's midnight right now. Nobody who's
out here is gonna be like, oh that's the girl
from insert station here. I was like, have have fun, relax.
And also even if they saw you having a drink,
who cares? You know, does anybody really care if you
(05:25):
see your new favorite newscaster having a drink and like, oh, okay,
they're they're a person. If they say they're a total perfectionist,
they say with that. When somebody drops this line without
minion a flaw, it's a humble brag in disguise. Yeah,
I would say so. I think if you say it unprompted,
I think on the flip side, I can be perfectionists
(05:45):
when it comes to things. But I would never just
offer that up. I try to do it by my actions,
but yeah, I would never just offer that one hundred percent.
Do you even know who I am? Dude? I people
ask me like, did you tell them who you are?
I will never do that. It could save my life.
I would never be like do you know who I am?
(06:07):
I obviously not, because if I did know who you were,
and you were somebody I thought had prominence, we probably
wouldn't be in this situation. That's one of those things
where it's like, do you really want to ask that
question and then have either a the person not know
who you are or be not recognize you. No, the
(06:29):
answer is no. If they say they don't have time
for this nonsense. When somebody says that they're trying to
end a conversation, they're making it clear they're far too
busy and important to deal with ever you got going on.
I think that's fair. Yeah, I think every now and
you hear that also with the uh, let me be
devil's advocate here. Anytime somebody says that, I just feel like, hey,
(06:51):
you're trying to be a pay in the ass. Yeah,
I mean you're trying to be a pay in the ass. Also,
do you not think I've looked at the issue at always?
Do you know what I mean? Do you not think
that I've done some research? Speaking of which, oh no,
do I sue it to myself. The next one is
I've done my research. They say, we've all heard this one.
(07:14):
They throw it out there, shut down any argument about
a niche topic or a latest trend. They're saying I
know more than you, so don't even try to question me. Yeah,
I don't like again, all these things are just phrases
I would go, hey, I don't want to talk to
you ever. But also sometimes with people, when they give
you this stuff, it's like, thank god, I know that
now I don't want to waste my time with you.
(07:35):
You know what I mean? Like now I know we
will not get along and be friends. If somebody says
I'm a natural leader not a follower, here's the thing
about being a leader. For why it's not fun, I
can tell you that it's not a fun thing. But
being a leader. If you're telling people you're a leader
and not doing it by your actions, you're probably not
(07:56):
a leader. I do think it's funny. Like I think
there's the assumption of being a leader is easy, like
you just you say what you want people to do
and they just do it right because you're the leader.
That's not how it works. And anybody who has said
that has probably had a boss they hated because they
ain't get things done. It's like, nah, dude, if you're
(08:18):
the leader, you gotta work harder. You gotta work so
hard to meet It's almost like that. I tell this
to my hockey kids. It's almost like you have in
the animal kingdom. Nobody Nobody goes after the king lion.
If he's doing his job, if he's you know, protecting
the pride, if he's keeping things in line, if he's
(08:39):
hunting or whatever, Nobody you know, tries to go after him.
When the lion gets a little bit older and the
weaknesses show, that's when somebody tries to take the throne away.
So if you're a leader and you're doing all the
work you'd ask your people do, and you're doing it hard,
you're showing up, it's very difficult for somebody to try to,
(09:00):
you know, question your power, so to speak. I think
I think that's a huge point. If somebody says they
have very high standards, what they're saying is they're impossible
to please. Yeah, I think that's fair. If they say
people are always coming to me for advice, yeah, that's
a weird thing too. Again, I know this's gonna sound
(09:21):
like a counter indictive, but I have people asking for
advice all the time. I just don't broadcast it, you
know what. I mean, I warn this to people on radio.
It's like, be careful of people who are overly eager
to be mentors, you know what I mean? And people
who have a lot of time to be your mentor
are real mentors that I have. They're all very busy,
(09:44):
so they don't have just like oodles and oodles of time.
It's like, no, I gotta kind of fit in their
schedule because they have so much good stuff going on,
do you know what I mean? But I also know
that the people I go to for advice, I'm thinking
of Charla Mane the God being one of them, they
don't brag that go to them for advice. That's a
weird thing, you know what I mean? Because I think
it's like it feels good to help people. It feels good,
(10:08):
especially if in radio, especially to help out people maybe
need advice and guidance, guidance. But I would never try
to like put that feather in my cap. That's weird.
It's a weird thing to do. Anyway, have a great weekend.
Please please please get the album. Internsgoncomedy dot Com and
me a lot to me again. It's about six bucks
(10:28):
going to the Fisher House Internsgoncomedy dot Com,
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