February 7, 2025 • 10 mins
On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John talks about getting his first tattoo for Chuy
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Intern John's debut comedy album "The Album" is available 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):
Happy Friday, friend, Welcome to the thought Shower. Intern John
is my name, Slowly losing my voice, but you know,
I'm a champion.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm gonna keep on fighting as I do. Who better
than I.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Big day today, Huge day today, your boy getting the tattoo,
which my mom listening to this, not gonna be happy.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm a grown man. I can do what I want.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I always kind of thought about getting a tattoo, didn't
quite know what to get. I can be very not indecisive.
I just get a lot of ideas. I'm an idea man,
you know.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And then.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Obviously Chewy passing, I was like, okay, that's a pretty
big moment.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I've had a lot of time, not really a lot
of time, I guess, but little over a month to
kind of process things and uh sit through my my
my sorrow, my sadness, and realizing obviously how big a
part of my life he was, you know, and I've
been Uh. Saw said this to me the other day,
she said, I don't think people realized how close he
(01:18):
to her. I'm like, I don't think people do either,
uh and not do any fault to their own, but
half my life, really he was there you know, and
the good times and the bad time certainly, and not
just that, but not just half my life. But we
were it was me and him for I mean, we've
(01:40):
had skittles, been in the family now for four years.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So really from.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
When I moved to des Moines at you know, he
was three to hear, it was just me and him,
and like, I didn't quite make friends in des Moines,
and not for any particular reason, mainly because I was
focused on getting not getting out, but focused on the
next step, you know. In des Moines, I was like,
I'm gonna put everything I have into this in case
(02:06):
it doesn't work out, will be good, you know. So
for those eleven and a half months in des Moines,
it was I was at the State the radio station there,
probably sixteen hours a day, maybe maybe less, and I
bring him to work. Then when I first moved here,
I ain't really have friends in the beginning. I mean,
certainly at the radio station, but it was just me.
(02:27):
You know, I haven't lived near family. I mean des Moines,
I think is five hours away from DC from Minneapolis,
so I haven't lived near family in like thirteen years ish, yeah,
be thirteen years and Schuey. Wo've been sixteen on Valentine's Day,
so it was really me and him for the longest time,
(02:48):
and I would bring him everywhere, obviously if you know that.
So which again, it's like it's a unique situation in
that I got to spend so much time with him.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Very lucky in that sense.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I don't think a lot of folks get that chance
just because they have family around. And I also tend
to be kind of reclusive of nature outside of work,
So it was really just me and him for a
long time. So where we at noun tattoo, I thought
about what I wanted to get for a while, and
I wanted to get like his pop print, kind of
(03:21):
like on my wrist. So that was like the first idea,
and then I wanted to get something else, excuse me,
but I didn't quite know what. And years ago, Sace
gave me this really cool gift that was the Weekend
Starboys song. I was in a not fun place when
that song came out, you know, a lot of forrest
(03:43):
is working against me, so to speak, and Sace gave
me a photo of a sound wave, which is basically
what that song looks like if you look at the
actual like if you recorded that song, leads me into
a recorder, what the actual sound way wo look like,
the file would look like. And it's very cool. So
it's like, you know a bunch of like sound way
(04:04):
of files. I'm basically talking circles. And I was like
that was cool. And I was like, oh, you know,
if you've been the comedy shows or if you listen
to comedy album. There's a song on the album called
O Chewy And I wrote that song with my good
friend Andrew O Day probably ah Man, maybe five years ago.
(04:26):
And I wrote it five years ago kind of, I
guess for myself now, the idea being that when he
was gone, I wanted to have something and now here
we are. And there's a line in the song. But
the song itself, it's basically me and Chewy singing back
and forth to each other, although Andrew plays Chewey. Try
(04:49):
to teach Schewey how to sing? Uh, the boy don't
want to learn how to sing. Yeah, it's just it
was a hard enough fight getting to learn how to sit.
But there's a line in the song where I say,
you know, old Chewy, one day you'll be gone. I'll
try my best to carry on and then Chewye says back,
dear Dad, You'll never be alone, and I was thinking
(05:11):
about I was listening to the song a lot last,
you know, a couple of weeks excuse me, after he passed,
and I was like, oh, maybe that's the tattoo.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So I'm gonna play the clip of it right now. Oh,
chew one day will be gone. I'll try my best
to just carry on, Dad never be alone.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So that's the clip, So I'm gonna have that. I'm
a risk the part words Chewy singing, h dear dad
will never be alone, which I'm very excited for. I
think that it's gonna it's gonna be nice to have that.
And as a constant reminder, I was texted with Andrew
Day yesterday and I told him that the tattoo idea.
(06:05):
I'm like, hey, just say you know, I'm getting this tattoo.
I'm basically having you tattooed on me because again, uh,
it's not Chewy singing, it's Andrew singing.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So I'm very excited for it.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
It's gonna be I don't know, I don't necessarily think
it's gonna, you know, close all wounds. I don't think
that's ever gonna happen, but I do think it's nice
to have that with me and not to get too
you know, grotesque. But you know, Chewy passed on New
(06:40):
Year's Eve night, New Year's Day, and so kind of
like the time my events was. You know, had to
bring him into the vet for the cremation process, and
that took like a week, and that week really sucked.
Like that week sucked because that was the big like, oh,
it's just me and skittles, I mean, and I had
(07:01):
put together some stuff on a bookshelf of like momentosy.
I'm very lucky that he was so loved in his lifetime.
Like there's a young lady named mike Lan who painted
me a pair of Jordan's like she bought Jordan's and
painted them Chewy themed, like they have his ears and
(07:21):
they have like, you know, his color on him. So
I put those up there, and I had a listener
for my birthday several years ago and drew this incredible
piece of art where it's me with angel wings, holy
and Chewey. So I had that, and of course I
had the Chewey book, and so I had all this
kind of stuff and then it was just like, okay,
(07:41):
but he's not home yet, you know, and that that
was really tough. And then the my coworkers gave me
this really cool have you ever seen these like three
D photos where it's like a block of glass but
inside his etch three D of something? And so my
boss is here at the radio station gave me one
(08:03):
of those but with Chewy inside, and so I had that.
And then but once I finally got him back from
the cremation service, then it kind of felt like at
least he's home, you know, at least he's there, And
so I think having the tattoo hopefully will be kind
of like a he's always here, you know. And I'm
(08:26):
lucky in that sense too. I can feel his ass. Yeah,
I've been writing down excuse me and my notes my
phone all the different times I think I've not seen him,
although there is times that's where I see him on
the corner of my eye. I think this is my
brain's used to him being there. By times there's been
like something's happened when I go that was probably Chewy,
(08:48):
you know. That was probably that I had a dream
two nights ago about I was with a puppy. Yeah,
I said the dream, Oh this is baby Chewy. I
was like, oh, there he is.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You know what I mean? So will I pass out?
Hopefully not.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I'm more concerned about the upkeep of a tattoo, like
not getting infected. That's more I'm concerned about as far
as my mom goes.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I'm a grown man, mom, a grown man.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Hopefully, I guess sucker afterwards, you know what I mean.
So that's gonna be today. I'm sure I'll post it eventually.
You know, next week's gonna be tough. Valentine's say, he
who had been sixteen, which it's kind of funny you
think of now, not funny, but like, I yea Valentine
and say, the tradition we started to do was I
(09:38):
would get him and Skittles chick fly, both of them
for their birthdays obviously, but you get Yeah, I put
the dog in the hat, birthday hat, birthday tie, bow tie,
and of course.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Chewy hate all that.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You would have thought if you've ever seen photos of
Chewy his birthday, you know, parties quote unquote, that dog
looks like he was forced to run. The idea to
ride that he was forced to run in subdegree weather
for thirty hours instead of just like, no, you slept
your entire life yet to wear a bow tie before
you get Chick fil A.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You know. So, uh, anyway, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's not where I meant to go this podcast, but
I'm trying to be transparent, you know. I think it's
a weird balance of with the radio show. Nobody wants
to hear me be depressy for you know, a month
plus right now. But it's also I think disingenuous too,
especially to him to act like everything's cool, because obviously
(10:39):
it's it's not. That was a huge, huge part of
my life for sixteen years right before his uh before
you guys driver's license. He might have been much better
driver than Sauce too. So anyway, I'll probably post it
excuse me on Instagram this weekend. I appreciate you listening.
Have a great week. Get me at intern John Radio
s Thought Shower
Happy Friday, friend, Welcome to the thought Shower. Intern John
is my name, Slowly losing my voice, but you know,
I'm a champion.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm gonna keep on fighting as I do. Who better
than I.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Big day today, Huge day today, your boy getting the tattoo,
which my mom listening to this, not gonna be happy.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm a grown man. I can do what I want.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I always kind of thought about getting a tattoo, didn't
quite know what to get. I can be very not indecisive.
I just get a lot of ideas. I'm an idea man,
you know.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And then.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Obviously Chewy passing, I was like, okay, that's a pretty
big moment.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I've had a lot of time, not really a lot
of time, I guess, but little over a month to
kind of process things and uh sit through my my
my sorrow, my sadness, and realizing obviously how big a
part of my life he was, you know, and I've
been Uh. Saw said this to me the other day,
she said, I don't think people realized how close he
(01:18):
to her. I'm like, I don't think people do either,
uh and not do any fault to their own, but
half my life, really he was there you know, and
the good times and the bad time certainly, and not
just that, but not just half my life. But we
were it was me and him for I mean, we've
(01:40):
had skittles, been in the family now for four years.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So really from.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
When I moved to des Moines at you know, he
was three to hear, it was just me and him,
and like, I didn't quite make friends in des Moines,
and not for any particular reason, mainly because I was
focused on getting not getting out, but focused on the
next step, you know. In des Moines, I was like,
I'm gonna put everything I have into this in case
(02:06):
it doesn't work out, will be good, you know. So
for those eleven and a half months in des Moines,
it was I was at the State the radio station there,
probably sixteen hours a day, maybe maybe less, and I
bring him to work. Then when I first moved here,
I ain't really have friends in the beginning. I mean,
certainly at the radio station, but it was just me.
(02:27):
You know, I haven't lived near family. I mean des Moines,
I think is five hours away from DC from Minneapolis,
so I haven't lived near family in like thirteen years ish, yeah,
be thirteen years and Schuey. Wo've been sixteen on Valentine's Day,
so it was really me and him for the longest time,
(02:48):
and I would bring him everywhere, obviously if you know that.
So which again, it's like it's a unique situation in
that I got to spend so much time with him.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Very lucky in that sense.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I don't think a lot of folks get that chance
just because they have family around. And I also tend
to be kind of reclusive of nature outside of work,
So it was really just me and him for a
long time. So where we at noun tattoo, I thought
about what I wanted to get for a while, and
I wanted to get like his pop print, kind of
(03:21):
like on my wrist. So that was like the first idea,
and then I wanted to get something else, excuse me,
but I didn't quite know what. And years ago, Sace
gave me this really cool gift that was the Weekend
Starboys song. I was in a not fun place when
that song came out, you know, a lot of forrest
(03:43):
is working against me, so to speak, and Sace gave
me a photo of a sound wave, which is basically
what that song looks like if you look at the
actual like if you recorded that song, leads me into
a recorder, what the actual sound way wo look like,
the file would look like. And it's very cool. So
it's like, you know a bunch of like sound way
(04:04):
of files. I'm basically talking circles. And I was like
that was cool. And I was like, oh, you know,
if you've been the comedy shows or if you listen
to comedy album. There's a song on the album called
O Chewy And I wrote that song with my good
friend Andrew O Day probably ah Man, maybe five years ago.
(04:26):
And I wrote it five years ago kind of, I
guess for myself now, the idea being that when he
was gone, I wanted to have something and now here
we are. And there's a line in the song. But
the song itself, it's basically me and Chewy singing back
and forth to each other, although Andrew plays Chewey. Try
(04:49):
to teach Schewey how to sing? Uh, the boy don't
want to learn how to sing. Yeah, it's just it
was a hard enough fight getting to learn how to sit.
But there's a line in the song where I say,
you know, old Chewy, one day you'll be gone. I'll
try my best to carry on and then Chewye says back,
dear Dad, You'll never be alone, and I was thinking
(05:11):
about I was listening to the song a lot last,
you know, a couple of weeks excuse me, after he passed,
and I was like, oh, maybe that's the tattoo.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So I'm gonna play the clip of it right now. Oh,
chew one day will be gone. I'll try my best
to just carry on, Dad never be alone.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So that's the clip, So I'm gonna have that. I'm
a risk the part words Chewy singing, h dear dad
will never be alone, which I'm very excited for. I
think that it's gonna it's gonna be nice to have that.
And as a constant reminder, I was texted with Andrew
Day yesterday and I told him that the tattoo idea.
(06:05):
I'm like, hey, just say you know, I'm getting this tattoo.
I'm basically having you tattooed on me because again, uh,
it's not Chewy singing, it's Andrew singing.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So I'm very excited for it.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
It's gonna be I don't know, I don't necessarily think
it's gonna, you know, close all wounds. I don't think
that's ever gonna happen, but I do think it's nice
to have that with me and not to get too
you know, grotesque. But you know, Chewy passed on New
(06:40):
Year's Eve night, New Year's Day, and so kind of
like the time my events was. You know, had to
bring him into the vet for the cremation process, and
that took like a week, and that week really sucked.
Like that week sucked because that was the big like, oh,
it's just me and skittles, I mean, and I had
(07:01):
put together some stuff on a bookshelf of like momentosy.
I'm very lucky that he was so loved in his lifetime.
Like there's a young lady named mike Lan who painted
me a pair of Jordan's like she bought Jordan's and
painted them Chewy themed, like they have his ears and
(07:21):
they have like, you know, his color on him. So
I put those up there, and I had a listener
for my birthday several years ago and drew this incredible
piece of art where it's me with angel wings, holy
and Chewey. So I had that, and of course I
had the Chewey book, and so I had all this
kind of stuff and then it was just like, okay,
(07:41):
but he's not home yet, you know, and that that
was really tough. And then the my coworkers gave me
this really cool have you ever seen these like three
D photos where it's like a block of glass but
inside his etch three D of something? And so my
boss is here at the radio station gave me one
(08:03):
of those but with Chewy inside, and so I had that.
And then but once I finally got him back from
the cremation service, then it kind of felt like at
least he's home, you know, at least he's there, And
so I think having the tattoo hopefully will be kind
of like a he's always here, you know. And I'm
(08:26):
lucky in that sense too. I can feel his ass. Yeah,
I've been writing down excuse me and my notes my
phone all the different times I think I've not seen him,
although there is times that's where I see him on
the corner of my eye. I think this is my
brain's used to him being there. By times there's been
like something's happened when I go that was probably Chewy,
(08:48):
you know. That was probably that I had a dream
two nights ago about I was with a puppy. Yeah,
I said the dream, Oh this is baby Chewy. I
was like, oh, there he is.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You know what I mean? So will I pass out?
Hopefully not.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I'm more concerned about the upkeep of a tattoo, like
not getting infected. That's more I'm concerned about as far
as my mom goes.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I'm a grown man, mom, a grown man.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Hopefully, I guess sucker afterwards, you know what I mean.
So that's gonna be today. I'm sure I'll post it eventually.
You know, next week's gonna be tough. Valentine's say, he
who had been sixteen, which it's kind of funny you
think of now, not funny, but like, I yea Valentine
and say, the tradition we started to do was I
(09:38):
would get him and Skittles chick fly, both of them
for their birthdays obviously, but you get Yeah, I put
the dog in the hat, birthday hat, birthday tie, bow tie,
and of course.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Chewy hate all that.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You would have thought if you've ever seen photos of
Chewy his birthday, you know, parties quote unquote, that dog
looks like he was forced to run. The idea to
ride that he was forced to run in subdegree weather
for thirty hours instead of just like, no, you slept
your entire life yet to wear a bow tie before
you get Chick fil A.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You know. So, uh, anyway, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's not where I meant to go this podcast, but
I'm trying to be transparent, you know. I think it's
a weird balance of with the radio show. Nobody wants
to hear me be depressy for you know, a month
plus right now. But it's also I think disingenuous too,
especially to him to act like everything's cool, because obviously
(10:39):
it's it's not. That was a huge, huge part of
my life for sixteen years right before his uh before
you guys driver's license. He might have been much better
driver than Sauce too. So anyway, I'll probably post it
excuse me on Instagram this weekend. I appreciate you listening.
Have a great week. Get me at intern John Radio
s Thought Shower
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