April 7, 2025 • 9 mins
On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John talks about CHUES-DAY, a dog adoption event for Chuy! And are your high standards holding you back?
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
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):
And a Happy Monday friend. Welcome to the Thought Shower.
Intern John is my name. A weekend was had, That's
all I can say, not kidding. I was in Louisville,
Kentucky this past weekend. Needed a weekend to get away,
kind of reset a little bit. Louisville to me has
(00:20):
always been God's country if you listened to the show
for a little bit. I've always said that, and that
always is nice to kind of get away, you know,
that was a cool thing about And we're on there
in Louisville, on there in Tampa, some other places. Going
to different cities that listened to the show was always
very cool, and so I think, you know, over the
(00:41):
course of how many years did the comedy tour, probably
went to Louisville five or six times. It was always great.
So I was really looking forward to it. The weather
was horrendous, so I landed on Friday. First thing I
did was go to get Skyline Chili. Now, is Skyline
Chili the greatest dish in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
No, it is not. If it was here, would I
go get it? No?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I would not, But it's kind of like you have to.
It means Cincinnati staple. It's basically it's spaghetti, noodles, chili
and then like a handful of cheese on top. That
was fantastic. So did that on Friday, went to the hotel.
Was fairly exhausted. Friday, went and did some dinner. It
was kind of you know, it rained the whole weekend,
(01:29):
which kind of sucks, so I couldn't necessarily do what
I wanted to do, which is I love walk around
the city, loved going to the zoo. However, it was
kind of nice in that I had to kind of
stay still for a little bit, if that makes sense,
because I'm always kind of running around. So Saturday got
more skyline, got some raisin canes, got dinner, did a
(01:53):
lot of sleeping, and then the hotel was very nice.
It had a rooftop pool that like my room kind
of overlooked, and there were people inside the pool, not
inside the pool, but in the pool. It was like
sixty five and rainy, they were still getting their pool,
you see, And I was like, yes, that's the way
you do it, that's the way to go. But you know,
it was an interesting trip because I've never been to
(02:17):
Louisville without you know, sauce hoodie Eric Kyle d and Chewie.
So that part of the trip was I don't know
if weird is the right word, but I can like
I know that city well enough to be like, oh
that hotel we say that this year, that hotel we
say this year. We went to this bar after this,
(02:40):
it was it was a very much like now going
back to your hometown. But it was all sad is
the right word.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I think.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
More so it was weird to feel like alone in
the city, you know, because even without the show being there, like.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Usually Chewy would be there. So that part of it
was odd.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
The other part about Lousville that was odd was I
wanted to get some liquor at the airport for friends.
They have a law you can't sell bottles on Sunday
and tell us like one pm. I'm like, yeoh, Kentucky,
we're Bourbon country.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
What are we doing.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Overall, fantastic trip, and not even overall it was I
love Louisville. It's a great city. Met a listener in
the elevator. They like say their name, So we're in
the elevator. I was going back to my room and
this woman gets off the elevator and goes have a
good day, John, And I was like, hey, well and
then the door closed and I was like, all right,
well I did have a good day, man, thank you
(03:38):
for listening. I also wanted to let you know this
so you know the benef of the podcast is you
tend to hear things first.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I am very.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Excited for this. You know, chewy passed away on New
Year's this year and it sucked. It has been the
absolute worst. And been trying to find ways to keep
his memory alive and also be because I think that
a lot of good can be done in Chewie's name.
And so on April twenty sixth, we are doing a
(04:11):
dog adoption event at the bar that I'm involved with,
Hide Social in Arlington, Virginia. We teamed up with the
Lost Dog and Can't Rescue. They are a group that
kind of ironically, when I first moved here, Chewie and
I did work with them. We would help them go
dog adoption events. And man, it's gonna be a great event.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I think I mentioned this on Instagram. I'm gonna talk
about this on the air too. But you know, the
amount of love you get from a dog is second
to none. That that little dog loved me with every
olence of his seven pound frame. So I'm very excited
that we get a chance to hopefully find some amazing dogs,
(04:59):
amazing homes, you know, and there's information up on our
website why Miss radio dot Com. I'm very excited. I'm
very glad too, we can do it high because we're
gonna be doing drink specials and donating.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
To the group.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So if you are looking at maybe adding a furry
friend to the family or even just donating, you can
donate to their wish list why miss radio dot Com.
But April twenty six, Hide Social Tuesday makes return and
I'm very excited for it. Let me get to this
for your Monday too, because I thought this is really important.
The reasons you're impossibly high standards that you've set are
(05:34):
paralyzed to you.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I am a victim of this.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I yeah, set my standards too high and it kind
of makes it hard to enjoy things, which is why
the first thing off the bat is you have achievement amnesia.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah. I talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I was talking to one of our bosses here and
she's like, your problem is, John, is that you don't
you don't take a second to appreciate yourccomplishments. Then she mentioned, like,
didn't your comedy album go number one last year? I
was like yeah, but and I was like, oh, yeah,
that I really do. They say, you know, that presentation,
(06:11):
close the deal, hit that milestone, Then mysteriously the accomplishment
starts to fade, like invisible ink disappearing from the page
of your life. By next day, it never happened at all.
They say, this achievement, of this achievement, amnesia is not coincidental.
It's a direct result those impossible standards. Yeah, they say,
with nothing you do counts for long, you're constantly starting
(06:33):
from zero, exhausting yourself, trying to prove your worth over
and over. That was kind of me, I mean, I
guess because in my mind I was always like, oh,
people are gonna be like, what's he gonna do next? Now,
what's he gonna do next? And then it's like the
bar keeps raising, although it's only my bar, if that
(06:53):
makes sense, Like the rest of the world. If I
a comedy album again sometime and it goes number two,
is that really a failure?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Does the rest of the world care?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
No? You know, it's so cool so I think I've
struggled with that, trying to get better at that as well.
If rest feels like a punishment, not a reward, when
you finally take a break, instead of feeling relief, you're
flooded with restlessness and guilt. Your mind keeps calculating all
the things you could be doing, you should be doing,
while your body's trying desperately to recover. I realized this
(07:28):
on like late Saturday this weekend, like I was getting
back into work mode. So from like Friday evening to
Saturday day, I was like, Oh, I'm relaxed, you know,
I'm in Louisville, having a great time, eating the finest
cuisine Skyline and raising canes. And then like Saturday evening started,
(07:48):
now I was like, ah, back to business, you know.
And that's that's a problem. Certainly, the word's good enough
make you cringe, Yeah, I just reading that phrase probably
saying shiver down your spine. In your personal dictionary, it's
anonymous with being mediocre, with settling, with not really trying.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Also, I think that you know, Sauce has told me
it's before too, that my good enough is better than
some people's best. And I think that's probably fair. You know,
good enough doesn't have to be settling. It's like, no,
you like, if you take a test and you pass,
you did good enough.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
If you've abandoned more passion projects and you can count.
They say, it's not about lack of follow through. It's
about the impossible standards, making the middle phase of any
project unbearable. The messy middle, where progress is slow, mistakes
are inevitable, becomes intolerable and measured against your vision of perfection.
I think that's true, especially because, like in the beginning
(08:49):
of any project, you have an idea of where you
want to go, and yeah, in the middle, it does
get messy. It does like things don't try out the
way you want and it's incredibly frustrating. Can you see
through that to get to the end? You know, look,
what do I know?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
What do I know?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
The last one? Decision paralysis is become your default state.
They say, making decisions feels increasingly impossible. Whether it's choosing
what to work on next or designing what to have
for lunch, You find yourself caught in the analysis loop.
Wayne Obson's researching possibilities and mentally gaming out scenarios, so
you're completely drained. This is why, like I do meal
prep service because I don't want to choose food. And
(09:28):
this is why like I grab a T shirt in
the morning, because I do think, like I get this
decision fatigue, and like the more you can take off
your plate, the better, you know. I hope you have
a fantastic Monday again. If you get a chance to
come see us April twenty six, hide social for Tuesday.
It's gonna be really special. The info is up ymsradio
(09:48):
dot com. Have a fantastic Monday. This is the thought Shower.
My name, it's in turn John
And a Happy Monday friend. Welcome to the Thought Shower.
Intern John is my name. A weekend was had, That's
all I can say, not kidding. I was in Louisville,
Kentucky this past weekend. Needed a weekend to get away,
kind of reset a little bit. Louisville to me has
(00:20):
always been God's country if you listened to the show
for a little bit. I've always said that, and that
always is nice to kind of get away, you know,
that was a cool thing about And we're on there
in Louisville, on there in Tampa, some other places. Going
to different cities that listened to the show was always
very cool, and so I think, you know, over the
(00:41):
course of how many years did the comedy tour, probably
went to Louisville five or six times. It was always great.
So I was really looking forward to it. The weather
was horrendous, so I landed on Friday. First thing I
did was go to get Skyline Chili. Now, is Skyline
Chili the greatest dish in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
No, it is not. If it was here, would I
go get it? No?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I would not, But it's kind of like you have to.
It means Cincinnati staple. It's basically it's spaghetti, noodles, chili
and then like a handful of cheese on top. That
was fantastic. So did that on Friday, went to the hotel.
Was fairly exhausted. Friday, went and did some dinner. It
was kind of you know, it rained the whole weekend,
(01:29):
which kind of sucks, so I couldn't necessarily do what
I wanted to do, which is I love walk around
the city, loved going to the zoo. However, it was
kind of nice in that I had to kind of
stay still for a little bit, if that makes sense,
because I'm always kind of running around. So Saturday got
more skyline, got some raisin canes, got dinner, did a
(01:53):
lot of sleeping, and then the hotel was very nice.
It had a rooftop pool that like my room kind
of overlooked, and there were people inside the pool, not
inside the pool, but in the pool. It was like
sixty five and rainy, they were still getting their pool,
you see, And I was like, yes, that's the way
you do it, that's the way to go. But you know,
it was an interesting trip because I've never been to
(02:17):
Louisville without you know, sauce hoodie Eric Kyle d and Chewie.
So that part of the trip was I don't know
if weird is the right word, but I can like
I know that city well enough to be like, oh
that hotel we say that this year, that hotel we
say this year. We went to this bar after this,
(02:40):
it was it was a very much like now going
back to your hometown. But it was all sad is
the right word.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I think.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
More so it was weird to feel like alone in
the city, you know, because even without the show being there, like.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Usually Chewy would be there. So that part of it
was odd.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
The other part about Lousville that was odd was I
wanted to get some liquor at the airport for friends.
They have a law you can't sell bottles on Sunday
and tell us like one pm. I'm like, yeoh, Kentucky,
we're Bourbon country.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
What are we doing.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Overall, fantastic trip, and not even overall it was I
love Louisville. It's a great city. Met a listener in
the elevator. They like say their name, So we're in
the elevator. I was going back to my room and
this woman gets off the elevator and goes have a
good day, John, And I was like, hey, well and
then the door closed and I was like, all right,
well I did have a good day, man, thank you
(03:38):
for listening. I also wanted to let you know this
so you know the benef of the podcast is you
tend to hear things first.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I am very.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Excited for this. You know, chewy passed away on New
Year's this year and it sucked. It has been the
absolute worst. And been trying to find ways to keep
his memory alive and also be because I think that
a lot of good can be done in Chewie's name.
And so on April twenty sixth, we are doing a
(04:11):
dog adoption event at the bar that I'm involved with,
Hide Social in Arlington, Virginia. We teamed up with the
Lost Dog and Can't Rescue. They are a group that
kind of ironically, when I first moved here, Chewie and
I did work with them. We would help them go
dog adoption events. And man, it's gonna be a great event.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I think I mentioned this on Instagram. I'm gonna talk
about this on the air too. But you know, the
amount of love you get from a dog is second
to none. That that little dog loved me with every
olence of his seven pound frame. So I'm very excited
that we get a chance to hopefully find some amazing dogs,
(04:59):
amazing homes, you know, and there's information up on our
website why Miss radio dot Com. I'm very excited. I'm
very glad too, we can do it high because we're
gonna be doing drink specials and donating.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
To the group.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So if you are looking at maybe adding a furry
friend to the family or even just donating, you can
donate to their wish list why miss radio dot Com.
But April twenty six, Hide Social Tuesday makes return and
I'm very excited for it. Let me get to this
for your Monday too, because I thought this is really important.
The reasons you're impossibly high standards that you've set are
(05:34):
paralyzed to you.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I am a victim of this.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I yeah, set my standards too high and it kind
of makes it hard to enjoy things, which is why
the first thing off the bat is you have achievement amnesia.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah. I talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I was talking to one of our bosses here and
she's like, your problem is, John, is that you don't
you don't take a second to appreciate yourccomplishments. Then she mentioned, like,
didn't your comedy album go number one last year? I
was like yeah, but and I was like, oh, yeah,
that I really do. They say, you know, that presentation,
(06:11):
close the deal, hit that milestone, Then mysteriously the accomplishment
starts to fade, like invisible ink disappearing from the page
of your life. By next day, it never happened at all.
They say, this achievement, of this achievement, amnesia is not coincidental.
It's a direct result those impossible standards. Yeah, they say,
with nothing you do counts for long, you're constantly starting
(06:33):
from zero, exhausting yourself, trying to prove your worth over
and over. That was kind of me, I mean, I
guess because in my mind I was always like, oh,
people are gonna be like, what's he gonna do next? Now,
what's he gonna do next? And then it's like the
bar keeps raising, although it's only my bar, if that
(06:53):
makes sense, Like the rest of the world. If I
a comedy album again sometime and it goes number two,
is that really a failure?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Does the rest of the world care?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
No? You know, it's so cool so I think I've
struggled with that, trying to get better at that as well.
If rest feels like a punishment, not a reward, when
you finally take a break, instead of feeling relief, you're
flooded with restlessness and guilt. Your mind keeps calculating all
the things you could be doing, you should be doing,
while your body's trying desperately to recover. I realized this
(07:28):
on like late Saturday this weekend, like I was getting
back into work mode. So from like Friday evening to
Saturday day, I was like, Oh, I'm relaxed, you know,
I'm in Louisville, having a great time, eating the finest
cuisine Skyline and raising canes. And then like Saturday evening started,
(07:48):
now I was like, ah, back to business, you know.
And that's that's a problem. Certainly, the word's good enough
make you cringe, Yeah, I just reading that phrase probably
saying shiver down your spine. In your personal dictionary, it's
anonymous with being mediocre, with settling, with not really trying.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Also, I think that you know, Sauce has told me
it's before too, that my good enough is better than
some people's best. And I think that's probably fair. You know,
good enough doesn't have to be settling. It's like, no,
you like, if you take a test and you pass,
you did good enough.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
If you've abandoned more passion projects and you can count.
They say, it's not about lack of follow through. It's
about the impossible standards, making the middle phase of any
project unbearable. The messy middle, where progress is slow, mistakes
are inevitable, becomes intolerable and measured against your vision of perfection.
I think that's true, especially because, like in the beginning
(08:49):
of any project, you have an idea of where you
want to go, and yeah, in the middle, it does
get messy. It does like things don't try out the
way you want and it's incredibly frustrating. Can you see
through that to get to the end? You know, look,
what do I know?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
What do I know?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
The last one? Decision paralysis is become your default state.
They say, making decisions feels increasingly impossible. Whether it's choosing
what to work on next or designing what to have
for lunch, You find yourself caught in the analysis loop.
Wayne Obson's researching possibilities and mentally gaming out scenarios, so
you're completely drained. This is why, like I do meal
prep service because I don't want to choose food. And
(09:28):
this is why like I grab a T shirt in
the morning, because I do think, like I get this
decision fatigue, and like the more you can take off
your plate, the better, you know. I hope you have
a fantastic Monday again. If you get a chance to
come see us April twenty six, hide social for Tuesday.
It's gonna be really special. The info is up ymsradio
(09:48):
dot com. Have a fantastic Monday. This is the thought Shower.
My name, it's in turn John
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