Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - NATE BARGATZE Pushed The Sea Turtles Away

Episode Date: December 19, 2023

So many laughs were had on this episode with the hilarious Nate Bargatze! Nate told Seth and Josh about growing up with a magician father, his take on the long haul drive across Texas, how his family deals with Nate using their life in his comedy specials, a big group trip to Hawaii, and more! Airbnb.com Thanks again to Nissan for sponsoring this episode of Family Trips and for the reminder to find your more. Learn more at NissanUSA.com. Go to usbank.com/altitudego to learn more about how you can earn 20,000 bonus points, worth $200, if you spend $1,000 in the first 90 days of opening your account. Eat out or eat in, with the U.S. Bank Altitude® Go Visa Signature® Card. Limited time offer. The creditor and issuer of this card is U.S. Bank National Association, pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. Some restrictions may apply. Thanks to BetterHelp for sponsoring this episode. Visit BetterHelp.com/trips today to get 10% off your first month.

This episode is brought to you by Airbnb. Hi Pashi. Hi Sufi. How are you? I'm great. We just had our weekend in Pittsburgh. We sure did. With mom and dad.

Yeah. Recorded a podcast episode when we were there. Yeah, super fun. And let me just say, we were at an Airbnb and we had a lot of boxes of podcast gear. I really want to stress to those of you who aren't actually doing a podcast, and I know there's very few of you that aren't, but for the last few remaining humans who aren't doing a podcast, a lot of gear, a lot of gear, an exceptional amount of gear, lots of bubble

wrap, lots of boxes. You know, we're doing a podcast where every member of the Myers family needed their own microphone, a lot of cords, and you really were the hero of the Myers family needed their own microphone, a lot of cords. And you really were the hero of the family setting up the Myers family podcast. So thank you so much. Well, I was there before you, and I certainly wasn't going to give that job to mom or dad. Yeah. I don't think anybody would do that.

Yeah. Also, your kit sort of arrives. And a lot of it's like, here's a box of new headphones. Here's a new microphone, your kit. Someone had like taken out of the boxes, put it all together and labeled it. So it was so dummy proof. Um, no offense. No, I mean, they work with a dummy, so they know, but it was really like this this this is what this machine does in case you're like we don't need this it's like no no no you need this i should uh shout out our tech melissa who basically gets me set up every day and i'm recording from the office you're recording from home and a lot of times this starts and i'm good to go and you still have a few little fine tuning

things and i just want to stress and i hope know, that's because I haven't done jack shit. Yeah. I just come in, put the cans on, and I'm rocking and rolling. Yeah. You sure are. You look like you're rocking and rolling right now. Thanks. Do you like the new plant behind me? Yeah. Is it real? Yeah, I think. I don't know. I don't want to find out. I want to live the dream. So yeah, we had our weekend in Pittsburgh, and everything about it was perfect, except for maybe one of the worst football games either of us has ever been to. Yeah, it was rough. It was really rough. And we sit sort of four across with the four of us. And for the first half, it was mom on the far left, then me, then dad, then you.

And you and dad get so pissy. And you guys are so negative. And mom was like, I don't know if I want to shuffle the deck here at halftime and be next to these guys. She's like, you can't say anything. They jump all over you. You're like, if you just have a question about something, either you or dad will just snap it, mom.

And she's like, it's a beautiful day, and here we are. And we got nice protected seats from the weather. It was crazy weather. There were two lightning delays. It was like being in purgatory because the Steelers were playing terribly, and yet the game kept getting delayed because of thunderstorm. So you would have to wait half an hour for a game you also felt very pessimistic about the outcome for. There was a double rainbow coming out of one of these delays,

which would have been great for us had it been sort of a heavenly sign, an omen, that the Steelers were going to turn it around. But alas, I, in fact, will write off double rainbows as an omen forever now. That was the one chance double rainbows had to show me they were. Now, you know what I'm going to tell you what they are? They're just a trick of the light.

That's it. Yeah. There's no magic behind them. Yeah. That was the last shot to have you be more of an outdoorsy person. And if even a Double Rainbow doesn't do it. I should say, afterwards, we went out to dinner. Oh, man.

And it saved the day. Now, again, I just want to stress, and I hope I made this clear, and I think I made it clear during the podcast with Mom and Dad the day before the game, I don't like that I'm like this. I don't think it's good. Yeah, no, we don't either. Nobody does. It makes me seriously consider whether or not I should try to make my kids Steeler fans

because they've got my DNA and I don't want them to have to live like this. So I was in a bad mood. Oh, the other great thing though, I feel like it was a really good weekend because I burned you and dad and you guys weren't mad when I did. You thought it was funny. And I feel like that was when I realized, you know what? This has been a really good weekend because we left the stadium. like that was when I realized, you know what? This has been a really good weekend because we left the stadium. You were in charge of directions. Dad was driving. Weather was weird. It was dark. Also, Pittsburgh's a weird city to drive around in. A lot of bridges, a lot of weird exits. Leaving a stadium is always tricky. And so dad drove over a curb at one point. Uh-huh. That's where things went wrong. Yeah. Dad drove over a curb. I feel like you were not, Google Maps was also

kind of throwing its hands up. Yeah, it was Waze. I don't know. I don't want Google Maps to take the heat for that. Maybe they're owned by the same people, but they were not doing us a lot of favors. We left, we basically left the city through a tunnel and then had to come back through another tunnel. Yeah. It was bad. It was bad. And we were also in a really bad mood. And then we were going to a restaurant

and we finally got to the restaurant and you had heard the rustling, yes? Yeah, I heard money. I heard you like take your wallet out. Yeah. And dollar bills or bills. Yeah. And mom and I were in the backseat and we weren't talking,

mostly because I didn't want to talk because you guys were doing, there was a lot of back and forth between you and dad about direction stuff. Mom continued to talk in the way she always does, which is, I just want to say like, now's not the time. You have to just pause for a second. There's a lot of, the energy in the car is not, is too negative for you to just have your thing of like, but wouldn't you say the weather was, in the end, it was

just a pretty day? And you're like, not. Now is not the time. Anyway, we pull into the parking lot of the restaurant, and I lean forward with two 20s, and I said, hey, this is just, we just wanted to give you guys a little extra for the tour of the city. And you guys both laughed, and I thought, you know what? I think we're okay, because it was

a real, I was rolling the dice. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but it was? I think we're okay. Because it was a real, I was rolling the dice. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but it was really well played. And it was such a shitty drive. That really like, to get to where we were going, had we done it right, it was going to take like nine minutes to get to this restaurant. The way we did it probably took 13. It wasn't like we really got burned on time.

But it was not a nice 13 minutes of driving. There was a real moment where the entire city was behind us. Yeah, that's true. We were going to the airport. Yeah. It was one of those things, because Pittsburgh is a more manageable city, if we had been in New York, the mistake you guys made would have cost us an hour. Yes.

But instead, it was easier to fix than in a massive matriarch. Now, we had plans. I had done Cam Hayward, the all-pro Steelers defensive lineman's podcast. He has one as well. Highly recommend. Not just football? Not just football.

Thank you. He's a wonderful guy, an affable guy. He's been with the team for a long time. And we had made plans to have dinner after the game. The game, obviously, one went badly, two ended 90 minutes late. And I texted him and said, hey, I totally understand if you want to take a rain check. I know the game's gone late. He has kids. Yeah, totally.

If he was like, yeah, let's just do it next time. He said, absolutely not. Let's go. We went to a great restaurant in Pittsburgh called Fig and Ash. And the great thing about Cam is his brother, Connor, also plays for the team. He's a seven-year tight end. And it was very interesting to see football players after a loss. They were obviously in a very bad mood about the game.

But they also were still human beings. You know what I mean? Yeah. And that gave me such perspective on how I was feeling. Yeah. Because, you know, look, they were guys who had a bad day at the office, but they were still incredible hosts.

And for our family trip to sort of overlap with another family, their mother was there, their stepfather, another one of their brothers, a bunch of nieces and nephews. And man, oh man, it was one of the great dinners of my life. Yeah, it really was. It was, as someone who has a lot of Steeler memories, to come out of such a troubling Steeler memory of that game to then have one of, definitely, one of my top five Steeler memories of all time will be that dinner. Because another thing about being out with brothers

is that they will sort of rip on each other like brothers will. The two of those dudes, like, getting on each other from across the table, from down the table. Because for a while, we were sort of sequestered into little groups. There was sort of like a conversation at one end of the table and a conversation at the other end of the table. And it happens sometimes at long tables. Yeah, it was a long table, a lot of people. But once the Hayward brothers started sort of going at each other, it really opened it up,

and it pulled it together. And it was, it was a great, great night. Cam is about 10 years older than Connor. So it's a different big brother, little brother dynamic, but it was still a big brother, little brother dynamic. And Cam and his mom were on one side of the table and Connor was all the way to the other. And Connor just kept saying things they didn't think it was appropriate for him to say. And it was so funny to just hear Cam Hayward and his mom, the amount they were like, Connor, Connor. Yeah. And also, Connor had a million things to say,

and he had the hiccups, like the whole time. What did you say? Did you ask if he had gotten drunk in the Old West? Cartoon drunk. Cartoon drunk. It did seem like he'd had a little bit too much sarsaparilla. And I don't think, by the way, I should know, nobody was drinking at all.

Yeah. It was an early dinner, and we all got out of there to get a good night's sleep. But it was, I mean, I owed such a debt of gratitude because it did put me in such a good mood. And we have a friend named Kevin Cohen, and he's our Steeler friend. He's from Pittsburgh as well. And we were texting during the game, and he was in such a bad mood. And when it was over, I texted him and said,

you know, we had a great night and it was saved. And he basically was like, I didn't get any of that. I don't care. He was like, I had the worst Sunday ever and I don't want to hear that it was better for you because you got to have dinner with the Steeler. I'm so glad that in my life, I don't have someone, I guess, other than dad. The idea that I would call someone after that game or communicate with them in a way that

I know would only make me angry because I know they're angry and it would make me angry. And yeah, man, I got to give it up for mom because mom keeps that happy face on is optimistic I mean by the time this airs who knows what's gonna happen but we got a short week we're recording this on Tuesday December 5th we play New England on Thursday yeah I will say I wrote Kevin and said let's just agree not to watch Thursday night's game and just look Friday morning like let's just try to see what our life is like if we don't allow it to. Oh, yeah. And he was like, I'm not willing to do that.

I don't know if this will work and if this bumps with the song that you'll sing at the end of the episode. But when I landed in Pittsburgh, I asked Kevin. I told Kevin I was there. And Kevin has the most beautiful singing voice. Oh, yeah. And if you're most beautiful singing voice. Oh, yeah. And if you're from Pittsburgh, maybe you know this song. It makes no difference where I go

Cause you're the best hometown I know Hello, Pittsburgh Hello, Pittsburgh Channel 4 loves you. And this is amazing. He is not currently signed by a major label. Yeah, I mean, criminal. Criminal.

None of that came through in my headphones, so you might have to play it. I think it'll come through on mine. Okay. I was looking. Well, yeah, I didn't hear it there, but I have heard it played for me. And he does have a beautiful voice. In the end. Well, yeah, I didn't hear it there, but I have heard it played for me.

And he does have a beautiful voice. In the end, though, one final thanks to everyone at Airbnb who made our stay so lovely. Yeah. To not be in a hotel and to be in one place. Because I feel like when I have stayed at a hotel with mom and dad, I haven't been able to hear them argue about dad's flip-flops. You know what I mean? Like, you know, I'm aware in the morning there's been an argument, but it was nice to like actually hear it beat for beat. Yeah. Well, I remember the last time we stayed in a hotel in Pittsburgh, they were bickering about

something at breakfast and I just wanted to have a nice morning. And I remember I stood up and spiked my napkin and went up to my hotel room. Yeah. Because I was like, I'll get back with you guys later. But when you're in an Airbnb, you just kind of have, you got to sit there. But there wasn't much of that, I've got to say. Could you, by the way, in the future,

let me know when you're going to like spike a napkin and take off, like just a little nod? Because then I got to sit there. You weren't there. Was I not there for the napkin spike? No. No. It was pretty, I not there for the napkin spike? No. No. It was pretty, I mean, it was really dramatic.

Yeah. I guess what happened here, Josh, is I've seen you be dramatic so many times. I actually thought maybe I was there for that one. I could see you spiking a napkin. Yeah. I also, there's something that offends me about like, oh, here's this $22 bowl of granola. So I feel like I was probably also rankled by that. You were looking to spike a napkin

and they just gave you a reason? Yeah, I think so. I agree with you on it. When you're paying 22 bucks for granola, you can't handle another piece of bad news. Yeah. This is one of our favorite, one of my favorite people working in comedy today.

Yeah, I've been a fan for a long time. Yeah, and I'm really happy, and I think especially based on Nate Bargetzi's SNL episode, there's like nobody left who doesn't know what's going on. Yeah. And that's really exciting, because there were some early adopters, but this guy, he's just got the easiest style,

and we were so happy to get him on this podcast because so much of his act is storytelling with great writing, jokes that are so subtly written you don't even realize you're hearing them until after the fact. He's just the best. Yeah, easy to talk to, easier to listen to.

Yeah. Yeah, funny dude. I think we did a good job of getting out of the way and letting Nate Bargetzi's voice take the lead on this one because he really is something special. He's got a great voice. You know who else has a great voice? Mr. Jeff Tweedy?

You know what? Let's try to prove it. And Mr. Kevin Cohen. Here is, though. Let's see who breaks the tie. Here's Jeff Tweedy, and after that, Mr. Nate Bargetzi. Family trips

With the Myers brothers Family trips with the Myers brothers Family trips with the Myers brothers Here we go Yeah! Hey, what's up? How are you, Nate? How are you? Good, man. Living it up. Nice, What's up? How are you, Nate? How are you? Good, man.

Yeah, living it up. Nice. Living it up. Yeah. I want to start, Nate, because I know you're on tour, and I always think comedians have to really rack their brains to come up with a name for their tour that just sort of exemplifies the work they're doing.

And your current tour is called the Be Funny Tour. Yeah, just a little reminder. So that's a reminder to yourself. Just every day, just to get out there. Sometimes you go, what's the goal here? What the Be Funny is, my wife has always said Be Funny before I go on stage, our whole relationship.

And now my daughter says it. just it's kind of that and it's just be funny you know it was like a mix of all that stuff but yeah it's a very simple you know just get right to it just be funny the audience knows what you're aiming to do there's there's not going to be any miscommunication about what the purpose of the evening is I love it well there still might be any miscommunication about what the purpose of the evening is. I love it. Well, there still might be some miscommunication, but, you know. Does anyone ever accuse you of false advertising? Yes, a lot. And then they go, but he's trying. But I'm trying.

You can tell. You can see how this would be funny for my head, you know. Yeah. I like the confidence of not calling it the try to be funny, trying to be funny tour. No, you're just going after it. We're aggressive on our tour, and that's our goal. Last time I saw you, you were about to embark to Europe to do some shows, including in Amsterdam.

Josh and I used to do comedy in Amsterdam. Oh, yeah. You were originally slated to perform at our theater in Amsterdam, and then I think you moved to a bigger venue. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You were going to do the boom Chicago theater. And I told the guy that runs that theater,

I was like, Oh, you got to check out Nate. He's great. And he was like, awesome. I'm going, um,

it's in my theater. And then you moved somewhere bigger, which no, uh, no harm, no foul. How did you find the Dutch audiences? Because Josh and I spent years with them.

I enjoyed it. I was, I would say Amsterdam was, I thought, the only one. It felt like a little delay. So you'd tell the joke, and then it was just to give it a second, and then the laugh would come. The other ones, it almost was like you could have been anywhere. But that one was the only one I thought there was a little delay.

They were still great. It was like, oh, all right. Just you message your time, and you just got to get used to it. The delay is not because their English is bad. The delay is because Dutch people take an extra second to judge you before they decide if they want to let you. We used to do shows, and part of the deal with our contract is you would hang out in the bar, we had a bar uh at our theater afterwards

and so you'd hang out for half an hour to an hour sort of contractually and talk to the talk to the audience and they're so blunt and they would be like yeah i did not enjoy the show but uh yeah overall it was a fine evening you're like oh okay thank you you for that. And you have to walk around and hear it. Like that's part of the contract. Yeah. I mean, it helps with like before you come out to Hollywood and audition for stuff because here nobody. Yeah. Yeah, they don't care.

They don't care. I had Caroline's. I can't remember if I ever told you this story, but Caroline's on Broadway when it was open. When you first would get like headlining dates, they'd give you like a breakout comment night. I mean, no one knows you, but they would just give you like a Tuesday night. So they would need 20 people to do the show. Anything less, they would cancel the show. And I was in the bar with like 17 people.

I don't know if it was 17, honestly. It might have been 12. And I'm just in the bar at 12, and they cancel my – I'm headlining. They cancel the show with me and the audience. We all find out together that they're like, all right, that's it. The show's canceled, and I walked up with the people. And I don't think they even – they didn't even know they were seeing me. It's like, I'm just walking up those stairs with all 12 people that must have been nice uh anonymity in those moments to be like oh I guess this guy couldn't

sell the seats let's get out of here everybody said let's take one more look at him on the poster I wouldn't even give him the time you know know, let's get out of here. Do your wife and daughter travel when you do a European tour like that? Do they come with you? Yeah, they came to that one. And we went to Australia, and they came to that one. And so, yeah, if it's an unbelievable city, you can imagine they're going to be there. And are you good as someone who is performing in the evening,

being able to put that aside and actually enjoy the city and enjoy the day and go around with your family? I am. It's like up to a point to like, you know, it starts getting like 4 p.m. or not 4. That's kind of late. But around 2, 3 p.m., you kind of like your mind starts like wandering a little bit like on the show. When I went to Europe, we were flying. Well, we try to guess the time i'm telling this joke on stage i don't know if i'll ever work completely on stage but

it was 4 42 our time national time and so we were trying to guess the time you know like what time is it in london and then i i forget what i was 12 42 my daughter was like 9. And then my wife goes 11. And she didn't say the 42. And so then we got to fight about that because I was just like, be a regular person and say the 40. I mean, she never said it. I was like, just say the 42, though. She just wouldn't. You finish it.

You finish my math. You know what I mean. You know what the back half of this is yeah how old is your daughter now 11 so did she have a favorite stop on the international tour yes she loved uh london i had a corporate gig like the day before so i couldn't we were trying to leave like two days before get used to it and all that but i mean i had a fly and then i had a show that night in london and then i had a show the next i mean it was the next three nights so i was i was kind of messed up and we got up and went and saw stuff london we were there for 24 hours and we did a tour we had a wonderful tour guide and she just walked us around i've never been to europe europe is so old. It's something you

don't realize. Every building is from eight. And you're like, God, dude. I mean, just, it's the oldest. You think our country's old, then you go there and you're like, God, I mean, we're nothing. We've barely been here. They're also, it seems aggressive, and you realize they didn't do it to prove a point, but I was in Amsterdam this summer, and just outside of the movie theater, there's a building and it says 1602 on the side. So when somebody in 1602 thought, let's put the date here,

not knowing that it would be a real thumb in my eye. Yeah, just to go, is this updated? She did like Amsterdam a lot. Oh, that's good. I think Amsterdam for a kid, it does feel like a fairy city. You know, like mystical. It's so small.

And little bridges and little boats. I think for kids it's good. Your sister, which I know from your act, is 10 years younger than you? and little bridges and, and little boats. It's a good, I think for kids, it's good. Yeah. Uh, your sister, which I know from your act is, uh, 10 years younger than you.

Yeah. About nine, but yeah. And then where's your brother? He's, uh, three years younger than me. Okay.

Gotcha. And so that's a big, uh, gap. And I should note your last, um, uh, special.

And I know I told you this when you were on my show, hello world is, is just, it makes me jealous. It's so good. It's just a wonderful special. You talk a lot about the big age gap with your sister, but I'm wondering, did you guys go on family trips, the five of you, your parents and you and your two siblings? Yeah, we did. Abigail was always pretty young. So by the time, you know, when we did it, she would have been, you know, below 10. And so then by the time I you know, if we, when we did it, she would have been, you know,

below 10. And so then by the time I left, she went on a bunch of different trips that I didn't get to go on. When we were growing up, we never got to go anywhere. I mean, they just didn't have the money to go anywhere. I do have stories about this, Mac, but like we never flew. I thought airplanes were invented in the nineties like i didn't even i didn't even know that was a possibility we just drove i mean 40 hours to i remember we drove to texas once your whole vacation is the drive you basically just you drive you get there and you're like all right this is dallas you're like we gotta head back because you gotta check it off the yeah mark it down so she went on like some other trip like they and they went to san francisco once and i remember

talking like later on you know this is i was like when i'm doing comedy and i was like i'm going to san francisco and my sister's like oh i love Francisco. I was like, when did you go to San Francisco? Like, who do you think you are? And then she's like, me, mom, and dad went to San Francisco. And I was like, what? I didn't even know they, I didn't realize they took her. And, but she got, cause she's basically an only child, you know, for a few years. Yeah.

Yeah. Six years. That's a long break. Do you think they on purpose didn't tell you that they took her to san francisco or you were just out of the house and out of mind i think you're out of the house and this is again uh there's no texting probably at this point you know i think now you're a lot more in touch but back then it was like you had a i mean you before you didn't have a phone then it was a cell phone and it was like no one just called all day because it was you know so you pick your marks that you're like do we need to tell them we're going to san francisco you're like you know yeah

yeah and also you don't get that fomo that you might have gotten you know as a 21 year old out there in the world and being like oh geez my parents are doing all this cool stuff with my sister. But if you don't, if there's no Instagram, you're not looking at those pictures. And yeah, it's better not to know. It's better not to know. Ignorance is bliss. What was the car you were taking on a 40 hour drive? Trying to remember. I think we had a van at one point. I remember my parents' first car they bought. It had no air conditioning because you could choose because it was cheaper it was stick shift no air conditioning they bought it in the winter you know you when you look back on stuff but you know your parents are 24 25 years old

which is so young so i mean now yeah i mean i'm 44 and're like, that's the youngest age ever. But so their first car they got was maybe a Mazda, but no air conditioning. Because it was just cheaper, which is insane. I don't even know if they sell them with no air conditioning. And a stick shift is kind of hard to buy. But they got into that. And then it was winter, so they thought we'll be fine. And then it gets pretty hot here in the summer and fall. There was no way to predict that was going to happen.

There was no way to know it was going to get hot in Tennessee. It's funny you talk about that age thing. So my parents were 26 when they had me, and I was 42 when I had my first. And you just realize sometimes my dad will say something to me about being a parent, and I'm like, it's different. It's so different because a 42-year-old dad and a 26-year-old dad, our lives, it's like a kid and an adult got to be parents. And I'm just so constantly blown away by what a good job my parents did considering how young they were.

When I think about myself at 26, I would never have been able to. I agree. My parents did a great job. And yes, I mean, it's just a different world. I mean, I live, you know, I'm in the South. I mean, people still get married young out here and have kids pretty young. Kind of get their, you know, they go to college, they get their family started and stuff like that. But it's definitely pushing it now where, I mean, people are 30 and it is, you know, you have more people that are, I'm 44 and I got a bunch of people that have daughters my age, which would have been, would never have happened.

Right. You know, you would have looked like a crazy person. Yeah. Your dad was a magician. He still is. He still is. Yeah.

I guess you never lose that. You don't lose it. He comes on the road with me. Does he open? Yeah. He's going to be at, I'll be at Radio City in like October something.

Oh, great. The beginning of October. If y'all are there, Oh, I would love to come. And then, yeah, he opens. But he does, doesn't he do close-up magic? Or does he do the whole gamut?

He does, but I think they usually have screens, but he has just some other tricks, but he does comedy too in it, so it's very funny, and he brings someone on stage and all that, and it's a good time. How long into your career did you start having him open for you? Oh, like recently. Well, I did my first college.

I got a college, belmont in nashville and i had one tv credit for country music television cmt and they myspaced me and you know they're like do you want to do it how much money and i don't even know how much i mean i've never been paid so at that point you're i you're like, I would do it for free. It's hard to negotiate when you know you're back. You're like, your low number is for, I'll do it free. But I go and I told my dad, I was like, I ended up getting it. And I told dad, I was like, I need you to open for me because I don't have enough time. Because I didn't have an hour worth of material at that point.

And so I probably had like 40 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes. So I was like, I told him to go. My dad's very good, very funny and very good magician. And I was like, look, go do it. Just don't be like, you know, don't, you know, bring it back a little bit. Like, I don't go bring the don't maybe don't bring the heat like i can follow so he goes destroys obviously and he has to do like 20 30 minutes because the show has to be an hour and then uh he destroys and then when he brings me on stage he starts crying so then i gotta follow that wait because he was so proud of you? yeah just in the moment of just like father and son doing a show together so now he's crying

yeah and then so now I gotta go up my dad will still cry before me sometimes now but I know how to get out like I can we can get it moving but back then it's pretty tough to get them going college kids once they see a 50 year old-old start crying.

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And also, because we're in an Airbnb, we've got a big table. We've got a Scrabble board. We're halfway through a game. How are you feeling about your chances? Not good. Really? I had a hot start, but then, yeah. I don't feel good about my letters.

Yeah. Well, you know, the nice thing is it's not really about winning or losing, right? It's about being with your family. It's about having the space to play games. Yeah. Yeah. I'm looking forward to angrily flipping the board. And just hearing the clatter of the pieces on this beautiful hardwood floor.

Yeah. That's definitely, yeah, that'll happen. And in that way of being unreasonable and irrational about a board game makes me feel like I'm in the home we grew up in. I'll also say, you know, this morning I woke up. I woke up first, came downstairs, I made coffee, and then one by one, Mom and Dad came downstairs. We had bagels, we had all our breakfast stuff, we had cereal.

We got to sit around the kitchen island and catch up in our own space, in our own time. Mom and dad did the ceremonial wedding of the counters. They did. They did. Well, it's wonderful. We're having a great time. And we cannot thank Airbnb enough for making us so comfortable. I'm very impressed that you knew to tell your dad to not bring his fastball. Because I would be worried about following a 50-year-old magician who knows what he's doing with college kids.

Do you feel like he did tap the brakes that night? No. Yeah. In front of people, he just couldn't. Well, it's like, you know, you always say stuff like that. Then you're like, what are they going to do? Like, they're just doing their act. Right, right. There's really no way to, you're like, I know, you always say stuff like that. Then you're like, what are they going to do? Like, they're just doing their act. Right, right.

There's really no way to, you're like, I'm going to tell the joke. I don't know how to not tell this joke. You know, if it's a good joke, you're like, it's going to be a good joke. I don't know what to tell. Yeah. Try a different punchline. Yeah. Following a different skill.

It's one thing to follow another comedian. Yeah. But following somebody who's a different skill, like magic one thing to follow another comedian, but following somebody who's a different skill, like magic, is almost weirdly harder. The worst I had, I did a corporate event for Southwest Airlines once, and I was doing stand-up, and right before me, they had an actual flight attendant for Southwest Airlines who would wrap the in-flight announcements. And it had gone viral. And he was basically the Taylor Swift of Southwest Airlines.

He came out. People lost their minds. He wrapped the in-flight announcements. People went crazy. And I just started flop sweating backstage because I realized I had not seen it coming at all. So I didn't had not seen it coming at all. So I didn't have what you had with your dad. You had at least some knowledge that he might be tough to follow.

I had no expectation. Then I realized, oh, I'm going to bomb following the rapid wedding. Well, it's like in two, if they told you, like flight attendants going up, you're like, whatever. Yeah, I don't care. I think I'll be a fine. Yeah, yeah. He's going to do 30 minutes.

You're like, yeah, yeah. Okay. So you're from Tennessee, Old Hickory, Tennessee? Old Hickory, yeah. I mean, were there sort of little day trips that you guys would take when you were younger with just, you know, when your brother was in the picture with your parents? Chattanooga was a big one uh you would dread it's like two hours uh from nashville they have lookout mountain there which is uh you should go talk about you see seven states which to be to be honest i think i mean you can go on top of my house and you can see all 50 states. You know, it's like, it's not like you really see Atlanta or something here.

You're just like, generally, it's like, yeah, that's where Georgia's at. And there's Kentucky. You're like, okay. Yeah. But it's a nice place. It is funny when you're a kid and you hear one of those things about you can see all seven states in your head as a kid you think you're going to actually see the boundaries of the states and they might be different colors the way they are on a map

then you get up there and realize they pulled a fast one on you yeah yeah you get there you're like just trees but i guess so we would go there they have aquarium too chattanooga built an aquarium which was a big that was a big deal to get to go to aquaria when they when that first came uh has a very long escalator oh that's a big deal i remember we used to go to the pittsburgh zoo our father's from pittsburgh and i remember those escalators distinctly being sort of a a feature that we always look forward to sucker for an escline yeah a zoo yeah aquarium and zoo that's a big comic thing is zoos you mean when you're on tour to like go to the zoo yeah i didn't realize i mean for a lot of a lot of guys yeah and is it why do you think

it is what is the allure of zoos i mean i like a zoo but there's something to do and you're just in the town and i'm trying to think about been to pittsburgh zoo it's just like something to do like so you just go and you know 11 a.m you're just walking around zoo and you just do it for a couple hours and go get ready is this like if only when your daughter is with you or is it like if you're solo in a city you'll be like i gotta check out this zoo i won't do it if my daughter's with me uh and she loves her favorite thing that she hasn't earned the right to do it on the road like i have man do you ever when you're with a bunch of so i'm assuming you're with other comics maybe that are opening for you yeah do you ever have when you're with a bunch of, so I'm assuming you're with other comics, maybe that are opening for you. Yeah.

Do you ever have a thing where you do something collectively that day? For example, you all go to the zoo and maybe in your head you think, oh, I've got a good zoo joke, but you also know your openers were at the same zoo. Are you ever worried? Oh, I hope they don't have my observation about the zoo. Yeah. Sometimes you just say it. Yeah. Like, well, because sometimes the joke might be you would make the joke for the group yeah and then you're saying

hey i'm gonna say this about the zoo especially if i'm headlight like if i'm going going last i could like say like if i have a real zoo chunk you know yeah i'm like boys don't mention we did anything today i'm about to let it fly. I don't ever always have a ton of stuff. I'm not the most coming up with something like in the town. So I like when the, sometimes the opening comics would do something just to like, they could do it and then I don't have to worry about it. But yeah, usually just talk about it.

You just go, hey, I got this. You're not going to say this, are you? You know. Do you usually have the same guys travel with you? It changes. It's a lot of guys I started with. So I got a lot of comics in New York and then some that are in Nashville now,

some newer comics, somewhat newer comics. And so it's probably 20 guys. And I just kind of alternate it and whoever comes out different times. I want to loop back to the 40-hour drive to Dallas. Would you go to Dallas just because it was Dallas, or did you visit family? Well, the one time we went to – I just made Dallas up.

I've never been to Texas, Seth. I don't know how to. It's the one place you can't sell tickets. I don't have a family, Seth. I don't know how to. It's the one place you can't sell tickets. I don't have a family, Seth. I don't know. I'm just trying to do the part on this show, man. It's very believable. It's very believable. You had us going. You're the real magician in the family. Let me tell you that. Yeah, thank you. We moved to Del Rio, Texas when we drove there. I was five years old. And that drive, I remember some of it, but we moved to

Del Rio and we lived there for a year. Cause my dad was a teacher. And so he got a job out there and we went to school out there. I remember it snowed in Texas. Cause that was like a big deal in Del Rio. And then they had horned frogs. These frogs had horns on them. And I remember that. Is that probably why you moved back? You saw one frog with horns on it, and you're like, we're not supposed to be here. Let's get out of here.

Let's wrap it up. I'm like, this is enough. Did your dad ever make most of his money from magic, or was that always just a side thing if he was a teacher? He always was a teacher. And then, I mean, now he makes all his money from magic. He also worked for TLSAA, which is the NCAA for high school sports. And he would go to high schools

and got a job there where he would go to high schools in Tennessee and he would talk to the kids about not drinking and no drugs and kind of motivational speaking. And he would do his magic there. It just really worked out because he would just do his magic for the high school and also give motivational speech. So he did that.

And so, I mean, yeah, those last 20 years, I mean, he did shows every day. That's amazing. Is your daughter enamored with your father as a performer? Yeah. I mean, she likes it as much you know it's like me like as much as i realized it growing up because you just don't you're just around it so much that i don't think you think of it like he you know my dad does uh for all the grandkids he's like i'll do one you know he's like I'll do one of your birthday parties, so you just tell me when you want me to perform. And so when my daughter was eight, it's usually around like eight, nine, they ask. He did one of my birthday parties, but it was because we couldn't afford anything.

And I did not like it. Did you know before that you weren't going to like it? Were you looking forward to it? And then when it happened, you realized, or were you always dreading it? No, I knew I wasn't going to like it because it was, or I didn't want it because you're just like, I mean, I see these tricks all day long. Like, you know, you know, I'm in the factory. I'm watching it be made.

And then your friends just love it. And you were sitting there sourpuss in the corner some of them still remember that that's the only birthday i remember is that is that one and uh i was i said it was at a park and so my dad's doing magic and then i just walk away from the group because i just don't want to see it and i was swinging. So if you could see just that image, I looked like a young boy that was told he's not allowed to come watch the magic show. You got to stay over there. You've been banished, but it was self-banishment. Yeah. Yes. Yes.

So your daughter introduces you in your specials. Does she ever see you do the full hour? Yeah. She'll watch, you know, she'll watch some first show she ever see you do uh the full hour yeah she'll watch you know she'll watch some first show she ever came to washington dc and i remember she was like five and so i'm in arlington draft house which is a great comedy club in arlington and then they had i think they opened another one in dc i don't know if it's still there but it was it was kind of a smaller room and so i see them walk in you know, she's five and I go on stage. And I mean, within two minutes, I can see her like whisper to my wife and I can tell that she's being like, can we go? And I watched them leave.

Within five minutes, I watched my family just leave. Do you call that out from stage? No, no, it was, I didn't. But it was, I think I did after. I like, I saw them leave. And then when the time was, I think when I talked about them, I brought it up. Like they left earlier. I watched them leave.

I think my kids right now who have not seen me do anything, my oldest is seven, but people will come up to me every now and then and sort of politely say something nice about me or my work. And so I admit this sweet spot where my kids are impressed, but I know that will only last until the first time they actually see what it is I do. Like, I think they, in their head, they're like, wow, you must be amazing. Strangers come up to you. And then the first time they're going to actually see it, they're going to just shake their heads and wonder why anybody was impressed. It keeps it real. They could insult you in a way that they don't mean to where like someone comes up and they go, oh, do you know that guy? You're like, I don't know this guy. They make it seem like it's your buddy.

And you're like, no, they recognize me. Your dad is doing pretty good. All right. And they recognize me from my TV shows. And I have my friends do it to me all the time. Someone would come up and be like, oh, I am a big fan. They're like, do you know that guy? But at home, sometimes you're like, like i mean i kind of know him i know him a little bit i know his cousin so my netflix special was called lobby baby because our second was born

in the lobby of our building sometimes i'll be with my older boy and uh my my middle son axel who's who's lobby baby and people come up, and when I'm with them, they're like, which one's Lobby Baby? And the oldest one says he's Lobby Baby. I'm Hospital Baby. And I don't have the heart to tell him no one thinks that's cooler. He was almost Uber Baby. He was almost Uber Baby. That would have been better for him.

But he's just Hospital Baby. And I'm like, you've got to stop bragging about that. Nobody thinks that's cool. That it went as planned. Did you almost not make it with both your kids like yardage yeah so the first one we really we should have known based on how close the first one was yeah the second one was it was almost predestined that that baby was going to be born in the lobby of the apartment building and then the third one we just had at home, my wife said, forget this. We'll just have it. I mean, that'd been beautiful though, to be, if you had three kids and none of them made it to a hospital, you're like, your oldest barely made it.

As a comedian, it's pretty good when they, you know. It's the best, dude. I mean, that's, yeah. I mean, anything like that happens, you're like, you know, good. I have 20 minutes now. like that happens you're like you know good i have 20 minutes now do you uh does your wife clock when you are mining content from one of your interactions with her i'll notice it sometimes if we're in a fight or something we're in it like and i'll start thinking about it sometimes in the moment but she's very good and then i'll usually tell her pretty quickly i think that's hard you

know she she does wonderful with it but if we get in a fight i mean within 30 minutes i'm like i might be he goes that's that's funny right like and normally she would she says yes that's funny but it's also you got to give her time to maybe get over it you know yeah and i'm just like huh that's pretty good right you think i could i mean she's me with the neighbor i'm like hey, hey, I just got in this fight. You think it's funny? Like, you're just every, just can't. Like, all right, calm it down.

I think I told you this as well. I showed my wife your special because I knew she would really respond to the fantastic bit you have about how your wife is basically the stereotypical husband role of knowing how everything works and handy and talks to talks to trades people like uh so she she celebrated that uh that bit and now i've seen her show other people i walk in and she's showing other people you doing that bit and saying that's like seth and i and i'm like you know i'm also a also a comedian, and I'd rather my jokes about you are the ones we show people. Not a secondary comedian. I'll decide who sees that and sees comedy. I'm the gatekeeper.

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What would you do with your summer? Were you a camp kid? No, I never did a camp. We didn't do a ton of vacations. I feel like people go on vacation more now than ever. Like traveling is a lot more. I just don't remember traveling being this giant, giant thing growing up. And now you're just everybody's

going everywhere and a big one we had we drive to king's island it's a theme park in cincinnati right outside cincinnati and it's a great theme park so that was like a big one we'd go do and then so my dad wants to ride roller coasters and we were always super scared of them to ride them because we had a fair here in Nashville that had a roller coaster as this old white roller coaster like early 80s and something would break on it the whole I mean the whole time you're riding it they were fixing it it was just you just go down there's like you just see welding it's just I mean they're barely keeping this thing afloat. And so we rode that and it was fun. And then my mom would always kind of be like, I don't know that I don't like them on that.

And like, you know, kind of made us scared about being on it. So we go to Kings Island and we would, A, we could never eat inside the park. That's all I ever wanted to do was eat. You know, I just wanted to eat inside. We'd have to just in the middle of the day take a four-mile hike back to a van to eat a wet sandwich. I just remember seeing the kids in line just ordering regular food. And you're like, can we just do that? And they're like, ah, it's too expensive, so we'd have to go back to this van.

And now I think I have a problem. I'll eat so much at a park just because we couldn't. And then now I'm like, we're staying in line. You're like, I'll get everything. Like, what do they ask? The idea of a pre-made deli meat sandwich that's been left in a van is about as unappetizing. A hot van at a theme park parking lot.

Yeah, and you've got to stop what you're doing. I mean, you're having a good time. Right. And then, you know, your kids, though, as we know now with our own kids, that you can see when they're hungry and it's like they need a break, but you don't want a break. And you're like, no, let's just keep going. And it's like they need a break but you don't want a break and you're like no let's just keep going and it's like all right but what if we we got some maybe have a cookie in the van you know our regular our regular cookies we get every day

you're like not even like a special cookie like uh um would you go on the roller coasters that your dad wanted to go on at Kings Island? Not a lot. There's one called The Beast. And it was at one point it was the longest wooden. It might still be. I don't know. But the longest wooden roller coaster.

And so he told us one year was like, all right, if y'all go ride something, I'll buy you something in the park. So we were very excited about that. And so I, we ended up riding the beast and I got a hat with a, it had like something covering your neck, you know, that said like, yeah, cool, cool hat, a cool hat. It said the beast on it, you know, which I mean, I had to lose immediately. You just, your choices of what stuff you want then are not thought out no we went to florida once and i could get a t-shirt i remember

at a beach and i got a shirt that said like shark attack and there was a big hole out of the side of it yeah so it would like expose your torso. And it was sort of like, there was like blood around the edges. It was just like just a terrible shirt. Yeah. We went to a flea market this summer and it was all this sort of artisan craft stuff, you know, homemade bracelets. And my wife really wanted the kids to each pick something out that they would wear that she thought was cool

and it was supporting local artists and my middle kid just they were these awful like pre-made not you know locally made like factory made nintendo hats and they just the ugliest hat you've ever seen because it was like a baseball cap with mario brother characters on it and also like a mushroom coming out of it the top of it and she just said you're Brother characters on it and also like a mushroom coming out of it, the top of it. And she just said, you're never going to wear it. And he just had a meltdown. And so he bought this awful hat. And immediately it was just,

he put it on and just the sweat started pouring down his face because it was this polyester nightmare. And it is true. You can't let them decide. But you also have to let them decide because they will not take no for an answer. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're losing it. And then you're, you just go, I can't let them decide. But you also have to let them decide because they will not take no for an answer. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, they're losing it. And then you just go, I can't. All right. It's so funny how quickly they, and there's no, they don't admit it. They don't go, you were right. Right. You know, that's all you want from a six-year-old is just acknowledge that your parents are,

you know, we're doing pretty good. Yeah. The other thing is I know if we threw it away the next day would be the first time in a year that he would say, hey, you know, where's that Mario hat? Oh, my sister. So she had her bike and we were at home. I still lived at home. And I was in high school. And so my buddy came over.

And when he was backing out, for some reason, my sister had dropped her bike right behind his car. So she barely, I mean, she never rode this bike. This bike laid in the yard all the time, never rode it. And I mean, I don't know, maybe I moved it over behind behind something i don't even remember what happened but he backs up right rides over her bike destroys her bike and i mean he's barely over it and then my sister just comes out she's like all right let's go ride that bike you know like you're you're like you haven't asked to ride this bike in forever like she has a six cents and then so he he broke the bike do you take family vacations now with your siblings and your parents do they ever all come with you guys we went to hawaii so that was a really really big one that we did and uh it was a wonderful trip for all of you know it's a lot it's like i traveled you know when you travel a lot and you're flying in planes it's hard to fly with people that don't fly a lot right my wife i honestly think

would take a different flight than me she would like it like if we were going somewhere she'd be like you just go i'll go because i'm i mean i'm so like we gotta go we need to be doing this we got this you know i'm like i know everything we got to go. We need to be doing this. We got this. You know, I'm like, I know everything we got to do. And she's just can be in our own world. And so when that one, when we went to Hawaii, I did fly separate. I had a show, fortunately. So I had to come separate from my whole family. I mean, it was like 20 of us.

And so it would have been, I couldn't have done it yeah and they i mean it's like you know between my dad has a hard time because he travels a lot and it's just you know you got you got one part of the family that is so good they have everything ready they're getting through the line and the other part just it's almost like they forgot an airplane was what has to get us there right they get to the airport and they're like, what's this? What's this building? And you're like, well. It is that crazy thing.

You know, when you're in line behind somebody just at the TSA checkpoint and they get all the way up and then they start going to get their wallet to get their ID out. Oh, yeah. And you just can't believe that they did not. Just the pattern. You're in the middle of a pattern right now. I can't believe that they did not. Just the pattern.

You're in the middle of a pattern right now. And that your failure to recognize what the next step was going to be for you is mind-boggling. And when it's family, it's just the most insufferable feeling in the world. Yeah, you just apologize to people behind you. Like, you know, this is on me. I don't know what to do. Yeah, I'm so slow at putting my stuff back together after taking it apart to put it through the scanner. And I always just have to take a bin over to where they have those benches

and I need a minute. And if I have kids, I'm going to have to get so much better and faster at that because I just can't imagine what the extra level is of dealing with all your kids and their stuff. You got to whip a stroller with one hand. I would say my wife's least favorite thing about me is my inability to learn the stroller mechanisms. And a lot of times I will have to call her back to come back through because she will have gone through the x-ray machine first. And I have to say, honey, you got to come back through and fold will have gone through the x-ray machine first. And I have to say, honey,

you got to come back through and fold up this stroller. And it just, the heat of her anger sets off the alarm, I feel like. It's like metal. She's as mad as metal. You're just trying to get it in without folding. You're like. I think it's good.

I think it'll fit. Yeah, I think it's fun. So when you go to Hawaii with 20 people, are you at sort of a resort thing? Are you guys overscheduled? We did Airbnb. So the scheduling, my sister helped plan a lot of it. And the scheduling was good. You end up having a lot of stuff to do.

I'm not one to sit. I don't like sitting. My wife can go and, like, sit on a beach and not move. And I can sit there for a second, and then I'm kind of like, all right. Like, I kind of want to do something. Yeah. So we had a lot of stuff planned, and I'm a big golfer. We golfed a couple days.

And then my sister, all she wanted to see was a turtle, a sea turtle in the ocean. And she never saw one. We were there for like 10 days. And I mean, I couldn't have seen more sea turtles. She was swimming. I saw them so much, I think I had to push one away from me because it was about to hit me. I couldn't. I mean, I honestly saw probably nine of them. And she just never saw one. Wow. And you're snorkeling to see those, I'm guessing? Yeah, yeah.

I mean, it was right on the – it wasn't – I didn't go on an excursion. It was, you know, it was like you just – we were off the beach. You just go jump in the water. And then they were just there. They were everywhere. It's sort of like I'm not a cat person and when i go to my fiance's mom's house i like sit down on the couch and i pay no attention to the cats but instantly i'm surrounded by four or five cats and they just all want to hang out with me and maybe it's the similar thing with turtles. Yeah. Yeah. They just know that you're like, I don't need to see them.

They're like, I'll show you. They're like, yeah. They're very needy. And when someone plays hard to get with a turtle, they've been around a long time. A lot of them are hundreds of years old. They're like, hey, I didn't live this long to be snubbed in my element. Ooh, it's Australia.

I mean, they have tortoises that are like, you know, like one tortoise is like, was friends with Darwin. You're like, how old is this tortoise? You're like, it's like 190. You're like, golly, dude. It's like, it's so old. Do your siblings have kids? Yeah, my brother has four kids. So my brother's younger than me, so he had kids early.

So his oldest is 16, 17. And my sister's oldest, my sister had a kid at 18, so he's 16 too. So there's four kids, and then we have my nephew, my sister's kid, and they have an adopted baby he's he's two now gotcha is everyone in tennessee yeah everybody's in yeah right near each other and oh that's great uh yeah so we're yeah we're very fortunate we're very close and everybody hangs out and comes to shows and i mean i do a joke about it now with my dad on the road you know i'm like you get to travel with my dad so every uh little boy's dream to travel with your dad when you're 44 years old.

Everybody loves it. So we're around our family a lot. Yeah. Will your mom come to see the Radio City shows? Are there shows that she wants to check out if they're in interesting enough places? I know she's going to Salt Lake City. I think she's coming to Radio City. I believe so believe so because i know some my older nieces are coming so my nephew i kind of like let all the kids kind of just say like all right i'll let you you pick a thing that you want

to come to and you know i'll get them a hotel room like they you know kind of their own hotel room and then they can come to the show not that they care that much about the show, but they go to the show, but I'll take them to the city. So my nephew went to Salt Lake City and we went to a jazz game. He's a big NBA fan. And then my nieces,

that are the oldest nieces, are going to come to New York. I've done that with all of them, just trying to like let them all pick something. You know, when they get older. I just did, I had to fly to Vegas for a corporate gig, and I took my daughter, just kind of a little daddy-daughter trip to Vegas.

That's all just room service and hanging out. There's only so much you can do in Vegas with an 11-year-old. Right. It's not famously known for the kids. Yeah. Vegas would probably say otherwise But that's Vegas

And you can't trust Vegas Yeah, you're like, I don't know if I'm buying this, Vegas If you weren't there for a show And you told us you brought your 11-year-old daughter To Vegas for a daddy-daughter trip I think we'd be like, whoa, whoa, whoa Oh, yeah That seems weird

I go, what's up, brought my daughter out here They go, golly, what's up, bro? My daughter out here. I go, golly, what's she, 30? You're like, no, no, 11. So I have a question about if your mom comes to see a show. Because I know that our mom thinks Josh and I are the funniest, most talented people on earth. And she used to think that about my dad but now uh she just rolls her eyes the minute he opens his mouth so if your mom watches your dad open for you does she enjoy both of you equally or do you think like our mom she's just waiting for him to

get off stage so she can watch some nate yeah i think she does enjoy it but i it is definitely she'll walk away so because i mean a big thing with my dad will be afterwards like he'll get going and like start doing magic tricks to everybody like if y'all come to radio city you come backstage like he's going to show you tons of tricks and they're very fun and then we all kind of know we just kind of walk away because it's like she'll just leave sometimes just because it's like how long can you be there yeah but yeah she does she thinks i'm the funniest person to ever like she's always my mom has been i mean always like that obviously you know a great mother that you know believes in her kids and her husband blindly. She'd get kicked out of baseball games all the time.

And if someone threw it, she'd sit behind the catcher, I mean, the umpire. And, I mean, if it was a strike, we're like 10 years old. And, I mean, she would just lose it on this umpire. And they'd make her go sit in the car. and they'd make her go sit in the car. I mean, a good half of the games was just the Yump was like, you got to go. And then we'd just see her mom.

My mom and my dad would park the car right at the fence because you know she's going to end up there. Yeah. And so he parks at the fence, and then you just see in the car, just like, she's still losing it. It was like, we used to go to Fenway growing up in Boston and we would be in the bleachers every now and again. And there would be these guys who would get kicked out and they would come right back in because they would have bought two sets of tickets because they

knew they were going to get thrown. And it was like, they just come in a different gate and they're right back yeah that's pretty smart yeah yeah um and your parents were middle school sweethearts is that right yeah seventh grade they're both from louisville kentucky and then uh my dad ran away from home actually he ran to nashville and then my mom followed and they got married and but yeah they've been together seventh grade and now they're just you know they just can't they do they just rely on each other yeah just so much she's been with him since seventh grade i think it's fair that she can just walk away from him sometimes oh yeah yeah yeah absolutely she's done plenty of time plenty of yeah she's put in the time.

Yeah, the light has been flashing. Our parents met freshman year in college, and so my mom's put in the time as well. And I feel there are times where my dad will start telling a story she's heard so many times that she'll go get a new drink. You know, she'll use that time to fill up her drink. And then oftentimes he'll start telling another story right when she gets back and you she realizes uh she she has a full drink like there's no escape

now oh now you're used to hear it yeah so she's like i might have to just pound this gin and tonic to get myself a second just shoot it back and they're like she's gonna start carrying a straw to get through the ice someone pulls you outside at a party. You know, your mom's been getting after it a little bit. She goes hard just at these specific times, but it's so hard. Yeah. Do you, with your family in Tennessee, is there sort of like, do you guys, is it a regular get together? Is it cookouts?

Is it, you know, we get together once a month or I imagine there's so many kids that there must be like sporting events or, you know, high school things that you go to. Yeah. My parents would come to our daughter's softball game or, you know, they kind of go to all the games, but we do see each other a good bit. My brother would come over to golf and then like his kids might come over and we golf and come back and so we and we see each other you know i'm not seeing my dad obviously on the road all the time and uh so we will get together we'll have everybody over you know something there's a big part of it was uh you know when you switch now we have like christmas

and stuff at our house i think i talk about it in a special but it's like when that switch happens when you kind of just you know you're always at your parents house and then there's finally a switch where you're like all right now y'all gotta you're coming to my house when you your mom watches your daughter play softball she chilled out a little bit on the umpires it's a lot better but she's still she'll still say stuff and you know they're right there because you're you know we're sitting i mean it's kind of crazy because it's like because the fence is there maybe it doesn't feel like they're right there but i mean within they're eight feet away is just a guy that's devoting his time right he doesn He doesn't, you know, it's not like he's like working his way up the,

he's grinding it out, trying to be a major league umpire. He's got a young kid. Yeah. And he's a local man. Also, it should be noted. They don't bring them in from out of state.

Yeah. We see them around town. Yeah. Last time I was in my fiance's hometown, her nephew, Grayson had a baseball game. He's in high school and we went to watch it. And Grayson, had a baseball game. He's in high school. And we went to watch it.

And I haven't watched a baseball game in a long time. I sort of like, once the Red Sox won a couple World Series, I was sort of good and I tapped out from baseball. And it had been so long since I'd seen a baseball game. And I was so into it. And I forgot how much I loved it. But like a kid would just like, would hit a ground ball to shortstop

and wouldn't run to first base. And it was, I was like screaming at a kid. I don't know. It'd be like, run it out. Yeah. Like, do you honestly think that this 14 year old shortstop might not throw it like errantly over to first base

or the first baseman might not drop it? Like you've got to run it out and my girlfriend my fiance had to be like you gotta slow down i wish you would have went and said so you're like and let me just go talk to him yeah i mean i wanted to i that kid would have if i was coaching that team that kid would have sat right away yeah get on the bench i don't care i'm gonna put in the kid who's like you know hasn't had his growth spurt yet he's four foot two and he's you know gonna get broken if a ball hits him but he's gonna play now because you won't run out run out of ground ball yeah yeah i like that and go he's

just good hey can i talk to the kid that's going nowhere and you're like he knows who he is i think we mentioned this before but our dad was our Little League coach. And he is so temperamental and did so much sort of yelling at other people's children. It should be noted he yelled at Josh and I as well. So he wasn't picking favorites. He was just yelling at everybody. And he was sort of taken aside. And it was suggested that he might be better as an umpire

than a coach if he enjoyed yelling so much. And that's what he did. And he umpired for years. He would umpire college games and high school games, pony league games. And you'd get paid, I don't know, 30 bucks a game, 50 bucks a game. And he would put all that money into a jar. And then he and my mom would take an amazing trip amazing trip like at the end of every year. Yeah. With just 30 bucks a game. Something like that. I mean,

he did a lot of games. It was like his workout. Yeah. We're going to Europe. You're like, how much, how many games have you, it's Lichtenstein.

Yeah. There's a deal. There's a deal. We won't see any of the main parts of Europe, which is going to be. Yeah. All right, Nate, we have some questions for you that we ask all of our guests here on family trips. And Josh is going to fire away. All right.

You can only pick one. Is your ideal vacation, are you relaxing? Is it adventurous or is it educational? Probably adventurous. All right. Nice. People always say relaxing. relaxing and they're like who wants to be adventurous i want to be adventurous yeah what's your favorite means of transportation train plane automobile bike boat walking i love walking i love walking around a mall that's another that's why a zoo is great because you walk around the zoo but a mall pretty great human zoo yeah around the zoo, but a mall, pretty great. It's a human zoo. Yeah, it is.

Both pretty empty during the day, during the week. But I have a bus now for touring, and a bus is great. I mean, you have a bed in it. It's obviously much better. It is nice to just kind of sleep. You wake up, you're in the middle, you're the next town. I like a nice bus. Yeah.

How many people do you have on your bus? Probably like seven. Okay. Yeah. So it's a good bit. I just had to go to a mall. I hadn't been in a mall in years, but I went to do a gig and I forgot shoes. And I realized when I got to the town, I got to the city and I needed to go get shoes.

And I went to a mall. And I was so happy to be back at a mall. And I felt as though I was discovering a new thing. Almost like this is like if Amazon was a physical space. Like I was working backwards. But this is so much better. You can actually touch the things you're about to buy. So I, I'm really hoping malls make a comeback because. Yeah. I

mean, what are you going to do if you forget shoes? If it all goes in, you know? Yeah. If you could take a vacation with any family other than your own family, which family would it be? They can be fictional, they could be historical be fictional they could be historical or they could be current day just because i was in australia and i saw the erwin family all right oh yeah we went to there's the erwin erwin zoo or it's australia zoo but it's uh uh steve erwin zoo and then i was such a big fan of crocodile hunter and so i went and like they showed clips of him and obviously his son is his family they they still run it but i mean i was such a big fan of him that like his and his son like i just love everything they do and everything they they're just so just a

wonderful family that uh i think are excited they love what they do and so being that enthusiastic with someone on a trip would be very fun because they would just, you know, every day is like kind of like, yeah, let's go. Great pick. Yeah, great. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? Oh, I mean, I guess it'd be my daughter. I just I'd bring her, you know, I'd still beat her up. She's not bigger than me right now. I have at least a few more years. You'll be in charge of that desert island. That's the one thing.

It'll be very clear. Do you consider Old Hickory, Tennessee, that's where you're from? Uh-huh. Okay. Would you recommend Old Hickory as a vacation destination? It's starting to be. So we have Old Hickory Lake. Now a lot of people starting to be. So we have Old Hickory Lake. Now a lot of people are moving there. So you got a lake, you can go down there. You could Airbnb a house on the water and just go swim and take boats out and all that stuff. So it's a very

fun, you can drive to Nashville if you want to go drive to downtown Nashville. It's a great place to stay. And Old Hickory is everywhere. It's a suburb. It's 25 minutes, 20 minutes to downtown Nashville. But it's starting to get pretty popular of an area because people are everywhere. So many people move to Nashville, they're moving out that way. So, yeah, I would definitely tell. You can go see my old junior high.

I would tell them that too. DuPont Hadley, DuPont Elementary. I mean, I'm sure there are plenty of lakes there. But I went to a wedding in Nashville. And I went straight from the airport to a boat dock. And because I was a little bit later than the rest of the group, there were three of us that were on this flight. And the wedding party had two party boats.

And they were out on the lake. And one party boat drove back to pick us up and we didn't know what we were driving into. And then we just drove out to meet this other party boat and just people were floating around and going off the slide off the back of that party boat and chucking beers, you know, a hundred yards away and then swimming after them and cracking them open. It was just, it was, it was so fun. I love that lake life, that Tennessee lake life. You probably went to Percy priest, but it's, uh, near the airport,

but that's a quick, like getting off a plane and then going down a water slide. Yeah. But it was hit the ground running was sort of the order of the day. So it was, yeah, yeah. You have to be one of the only people that have ever done, like within 30 minutes of getting off an airplane, you're going down a water slide into a lake.

Yeah. I was happy about it. And that was a great wedding. Nashville was a ton of fun. And Seth, you got the last question. All right. My question, Nate, have you been to the Grand Canyon?

I have. And is it worth it? I thought it was not as big as I thought it was going to be. I really appreciate this honesty. It's when you go and it's, when you fly over it, it's like you see how big it is. But that shows you how big it is, is that when you go, you go, I don't know if it's that big.

Because you're just seeing just like a little bit of the end i tell you we went when we did go we loved going and uh we saw these kids the boys i have a joke in my last special about boys having a difference of a boy and a girl and uh like the boys are just like crazy. And we saw these kids, dude, that were running and jumping as if we were not near the Grand Canyon. And you're just like, we had to leave. You know, I'm so uncomfortable. The parents are just, I don't know where they're at, but it was, I couldn't, you know, just're just seeing them. Anytime you see jumping and you just know there's giant cliffs very close. You just, like, it kind of. What were they running and jumping over?

Rocks. They were climbing up rocks and they were jumping. I couldn't tell because they were kind of in front of us, so I couldn't tell how much land they're landing on. I know I just walked and saw the cliff. So it's not like we're in a parking lot. We're the cliff, you know. And it was just, it's like too much where you go, I can't.

You just go, I can't. I can't watch this. You saying that, I could never go there with my kids until I think they're 18 and 20. My boys, especially. Because when I go to the playground with them, they just have no sense of depth of field or heights. And I can't relax at all. And I would never enjoy myself with them. And I like that it's that age.

They're going to hear this now and they go, we can't go until we're 20. Which, by the way, is a perfect plan because I don't really want to go. And I think by the time they're 20, they'll also not want to go. So I think this might have worked out great. Nate, thank you so much. It is just a delight as always to talk to you. And I'm very excited about the Be Funny Tour. I really do want to check you out when you're here. I can't wait. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Come on out. It'll be fun, man. Thank you. Thanks for having me. All right. Thanks, man. Yeah. Thanks so much. Took a trip to King's Island. Dad wants to ride the beast.

But as I look around me, all I can see is a feast. Please, Dad. Can we go get some ice cream? Please, Mom. Or maybe just some fries? Oh, how about we get a pizza pie? That Cinnabon is catching my eyes.

I want to eat inside the theme park I wanna eat here on the inside Why are we walking to the parking lot? Hey, why are we walking so far? Do we really have to eat at the car? Thanks to Airbnb for sponsoring this episode.