The Belief - 1082

On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John recaps his weekend, Glizzy tower and all. Plus, why you need to bet on yourself

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And a happy Monday friend. Welcome to the Thought Shower.
Intern John is my name. It was a busy, busy weekend,
let's see on Friday. Friday wasn't so much busy in itself. However, Severance,
which is my favorite show currently, the season finale was

(00:20):
on Friday and it was Man, if you have not
watched Severance, you need to the season one finale. Huge cliffhanger.
This one very well done as well. I would say
if you haven't watched it yet, now's the best time
because you can binge every single episode back to back

(00:40):
to back to back. Now. The beauty is the first
season ended three years ago and ended, and then there
was the writer's strike, so yeah, pushed back and it
was like the worst thing ever. When that ended, it goes, hey,
you're not getting new season until twenty twenty five. Allegedly
it's not gonna happen this time. I certainly hope not.
It is so stinking good. So that was Friday. On Saturday,

(01:02):
went to the gym early because I knew it was
gonna be a big food day. My restaurant them involved
with we launched our new brunch menu, which I was
posting on Instagram a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
We have a hot dog tower that is sick.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
You like when you go to a fancy restaurant and
they have like the Tower of Seafood and it looks
very fancy.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
We have a hot dog tower, a glizzy tower, if
you will.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
So the bottom has hot dogs with buns of course,
potato buns. Then there's a row of just waffle fries,
the never condiments.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
On top.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
We had these things called pizza pockets, which is like
an epignata, but it's pizza inside.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Fantastic.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
So went to the bar for a couple hours, went home,
took a nap, I ate myself into a food come
up because we were doing some video shoots as well.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Went back to the bar. Saturday, had dinner with my
good friend Justin. Was a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Then Sunday was a rest and recovery day, one of
those days where I slept like in every floor of
my house. Started the bedroom, went down, the main room,
I went down into the basement. It's kind of went
everywhere and did it that way. So and now here
we are. Also, I'm pretty excited, so I got a
lot coming this next week. We have a huge announcement

(02:09):
on the show today, a big concert coming our way.
Very excited about that. Then the week after that, next weekend,
not this weekend. Next weekend, I'm going to Louisville, which
my Louisville peeps, you know, I love you. It's my
favorite stays in the world. And I've been trying to
get out and didn't get a chance to go last year.
Going this year just chance to get away, kind of

(02:31):
like reset and do you like a solo trip. Obviously
it's been a lot of a year with Chewy passing,
and so I wanted a chance to get away and
just kind of be by my sols right where. But
you know, with Louisville, it was always fun. The day
of the show, I get I can't sleep in ice
can so for me, sleeping in is like six o'clock,

(02:52):
which is to be fair, it's like three hours sleeping in,
so it's pretty good. So in days of the shows
in Louisville, I would get up around six or seven,
just around downtown. And so I'm excited to do that
again and just kind of be back out with my peeps,
if you will. I want to get to this too.
For your Monday people who excuse me, dream big always
go after what they want, share these fifteen beliefs. I've

(03:14):
been told I am a dreamer. I guess that's probably true,
you know, if you look at things that we've been
lucky to do, certainly with the comedy stuff and this
podcast and the show. Yeah, so I guess that kind
of makes sense. It starts by saying they know and
ignore the haters. They say, you've heard the warnings, that's
too risky. Nobody from here does that, YadA YadA. Big

(03:37):
dreamers understand and recognize the criticism. Awesome comes from people
who abandon their own ambitions long ago. I think that's true.
All I will say, I do believe you need to
have somebody in your circle where you trust their advice.
So if nine people tell you it's a bad idea,
or ten people tell you it's a bad idea, there

(03:58):
asks me somebody in there where they say it's bad.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
To you go, okay, it's bad. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
I mean I have people in my life where if
it's an idea for the show or for whatever, if
this one person says bad idea, then I tend to
believe them. A million people could tell me it's bad,
but this one person, like Okay, there we go. They
see value in the messy middle. They see the beginning
of any journey is exciting, the end is rewarding, but
that messy middle can be confusing, They said, most people

(04:25):
give up precise who or dream chasers thrive. They understand
the middle stage, where nothing seems to be working, is
actually where the most critical growth happens.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
I do think that.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Maybe I've learned the last couple of years that like
to trust that part of the process, you know what
I mean, Because it is like in the beginning, having
the idea is very exciting. It's like I have an idea,
this is gonna be great. And the end is like okay,
ideas finished. But in the middle it is a bit
like okay, now, it's like progressing is to happen, you know.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
I do like that now.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
I think this is a but I can see that
they make mistakes probably, and openly say, most people try
to hide their failures. Big dreamers showcase their battle scars.
They understand that mistakes are just inevitable, they're essential.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
They say.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Each misstep contains valuable data about what works, what doesn't,
and how to adjust towards something better. I think that's
probably true. Again, I'm not trying to make this a
big old pat in my back. I think that there
is something like last week in the show that I
want to do that I said, like, hey, if this
doesn't work out, you know, it's okay. I'll take the

(05:33):
blame for it. I think that's good to know. And
I always say this too before we coach coach high
school hockey. Before each game most games, I'll say the
Fellas Fellas stuff is gonna go wrong today. It just
is We're gonna make mistakes, the coaching staff, we're gonna
make mistakes, Referees gonna make mistakes.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Things are gonna go wrong today. And that's okay. Now.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
I think as long as you embrace that and you
know that, like, hey, son's gonna go wrong, it is
what it is. When it does go wrong, you just
kind of go all right, yeah, I mean we knew
this what happened. I think that's a huge, huge mindset.
Have they remember why they started when things get hard?
This is so true when novelty wears off reality sets

(06:14):
in Big dreamers do on abandoned ship. Instead, they reconnect
with the original motivation, the core reason that began the
journey in the first place. I think that's so true.
I always tell folks too who want to start a podcasts,
I always say, like, hey, listen, it's not necessarily the
most fun thing. There's a lot of podcasts right now, obviously,

(06:38):
So it's one of those things where if you can
just enjoy it and have fun with it, then you
should do the podcast.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
If your idea for the podcast is it's the.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Time for me to like talk with my friends and
kind of be creative, you're gonna enjoy it awesome. If
your idea for a podcast is I'm gonna get rich
and famous and everybody's gonna listen, you're gonna have a
rough go.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
It just is, especially now because it's like there's so
much stuff trying to get people's attention. You know what
I mean that you really really have to enjoy it
to make it work. They ask what if it works
more than what if it fails? I like this, Yeah,
I think so often. You know, I hate when people
I ask people something, can we do this and the

(07:21):
answer is just no. And it's not no but or no.
Here's why, it's just no. They say. Most people obsess
over everything that could go wrong, effectively taking themselves out trying.
Dream chasers flip this dynamic completely. They spend their mental
energy visualizing success scenarios and planning for them, rather than
rehearsing disasters that may never happen. I think that's true.

(07:44):
What if it works out? Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
We if it works out, I also would offer it
to you.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
I think that so many people think the other way,
it's gonna fail. You know, I don't want to fail
where it's like it gives you more of a chance
to succeed because most of your competition is taking themselves out.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Uh. You know.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
They refuse to shrink themselves to make others comfortable. So true,
At some point every dream chaser realize is an uncomfortable truth.
Their growth sometimes triggers insecurity others. Instead of dimming their light,
they choose to shin anyway. They understand that making yourself
small doesn't actually help anyone. I would offer that This
is why I need to have a good group of
friends around you, A good group of people who are

(08:25):
also motivated were also ambitious, because I think they will
understand that and they will thrive. I'm very lucky that
I have friends who are doing really big things. My
friend Dante, who is the first head hockey coach at
Tennessee State University, which is HBCU, which is is the
first hockey program for an HBCU, which is also crazy.

(08:47):
Dante and I always kind of joke they're racing against
each other, and I think that there's no idea he
could have that I'd be like ooh, and vice versa.
Like his opening weekend, they're playing one of the best
programs in the country, which is crazy because a lot
of times a new program you think like, all right,
we'll ease into this. Yeah, we'll play some some easier teams.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Up.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
He's going to gets the biggest team in the country,
am I. I'm like, all right, dude, go for it.
I think that's great. I also understand why he's doing it.
Give his team on the map, give his name out there.
It makes sense to me. You need that. There'd be
nothing worse if I had told somebody years ago, like hey,
I'm on your stamp comedy for charity and they were like, oh,
are you sure you want to do that, because that's

(09:28):
uh not gonna go well, you know what I mean,
That would have like shut her of the dream and
that's not fun. When nened people that lift u up,
you know you only got one life as far as
we know.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
I appreciate you listening. As always. I hope you have
a fantastic week. If you get a chance to follow
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Be safe, be happy. I'll see you on Wednesday. This
is the Thought Show hour