The Digression Sessions - Ep. 179 - Nate Bargatze! (@NateBargatze)

Episode Date: February 1, 2016

Hola, Digheads! This week the guest is comedian, Nate Bargatze! Josh has a one on one with Nate in the green room of the Magooby's comedy club in Maryland. It's a fun talk about starting comedy in New York, asshole comedians, and an Eddie Bauer jacket. There are some interruptions in this one and some special appearances by comedians Damo Hicks and Mike Finazzo. Finazzo just happens to have a movie premiere on 2/4 in Baltimore! Go see his film, Wits End! Follow your boys, Mike & Josh, on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.  Josh - @JoshKuderna on Twitter and @JoshKuderna on Instagram Mike - @MikeMoranWould on Twitter The Pod - @DigSeshPod on Twitter The Pod's Facebook page - Dig Sesh on Facebook For live stand up and improv dates, check out - DigressionSessions.com/Calendar Thanks for listening, all! Do us a favor and rate and review us on iTunes & Stitcher plz!  

hey everybody i'm josh kaderna and i'm mike moran and you're listening to the digression sessions podcast a baltimore-based comedy talk show hosted by two young, handsome stand-up comedians slash improvisers. Join us every week as we journey through the world of comedy and the bizarreness of existence. As we interview local and non-local comedians, writers, musicians, and anyone else we find creative and interesting. Yes. Who's the guest this week? Nate Marg who's the guest this week nate margatze is the guest this week uh thank you for tuning in sorry for the delay but uh there was a lot of snow and uh some crazy life events are happening which uh delayed me from uh making uh humorous podcasts but god damn it, I'm back.

That's right. Knock on fake wood. Who's knocking on fake wood? Josh, I heard you have life events going on. Oh my god, who's in the basement? Oh my gosh, it's me, your friend Mike Fidazzo. Oh, I was just about to start a podcast. How crazy. Do you have a microphone in your hand?

Oh my god. Wow. I'm not taking the opposite approach of being terrified that you're in the basement like most podcasts do. What? I live down here now. Oh, my God. Since when? It's been three years.

You owe me so much rent money. Holy shit. When you moved in, I was already living here. Jesus Christ. living here jesus christ uh well nate bargatze is the guest this week and uh comedian nate bargatze who you can find on twitter at nate bargatze and uh he has a great album uh special out called full-time magic and i hosted for him this past weekend at mcgoobies and we recorded this podcast uh in a couple parts um backstage in the green room at mcgoobies in between shows and uh he was just the the fucking coolest guy he was so nice so down to earth one of uh the only

headliners i've worked with that introduced himself first was like hey i'm nate and i was like hey he's like uh you know nice to meet you and then like asked about like the feature and how much time he has but just like totally down to earth uh really nice yeah our buddy umar came to the show last night and he was kind of just standing around and he did the same thing he's like hey man are you a comic and like it was just cool he was just so nice and uh yeah so it was cool to to have him do the podcast because i saw him in new york like four or five years ago maybe maybe a little more at ucb east and then uh i ran into him in dc last year when we did the sean padden podcast so it was cool to actually like sit down and talk with him about comedy and all that stuff and uh and uh got to give him a ride to the hotel a couple nights which

was fun mike uh i don't think we mentioned on the podcast but we talk about like corporate events and uh how much they pay and he knows that ray romano turned down a corporate event uh for those that don't know like when you do stand up if you're doing a corporate event it's like you know some business has a comedian come in and perform at like their holiday party or whatever it is for usually an astronomical amount of money now uh ray romano turned down a gig for how much money do you think uh i mean i've heard like what like regan and stuff makes during that so i've like what did he turn out like 50 grand you think 50 grand yeah half a million dollars wow that's crazy he has that much money

that reminds me of when i turned down the nva christmas party for the second year for a hundred dollars look i'm above that now yeah all right all right i i could donate that money to charity but i'm above it you understand you understand so why did he turn was he just didn't want to do it i think so yeah and this could be hearsay too this is maybe allegedly i don't know it was really 50 bucks. Yeah. Dude, it was $50 million, bro. It was the Goldman Sachs fucking holiday party, and he didn't want to do it. You're going to be at Sidebar next week and hear somebody retell the story as he turned down $100 billion. Yeah. It was the Illuminati holiday party, and he didn't want to do it, bro.

It was in international waters. He returned it down. But yeah, so it was really cool to talk to him and then uh the feature comedian uh for the weekend was damo hicks and i talked to him for a couple minutes at the end too but now i got my good buddy uh mike fanazzo here in the basement with me somehow hello josh hey and i think you got something going on i do what's going on with you pal bad can we stop we stop this fake organic conversation? This is how I talk all the time.

Yeah. Well, I just don't have the energy right now. But I have a movie coming out, Josh. I think you've heard of it. Oh, my God. By the way, with that riff, we filmed in your basement. So if I hypothetically lived here, how did you not notice? Well, I'm a very oblivious man, apparently.

The most oblivious landlord. Yeah, who somehow records and uploads a podcast completely obliviously. You know, that's how I operate. I'm the Mr. Magoo of fucking podcasts, apparently. Accidentally, I posted to iTunes. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Anyway, yeah, we filmed a scene for your film, which is entitled...

Wits End. Hey Now. That's the full title, right? Yeah. Wits End colon Hey Now. Yep. But no, we filmed a scene right here in the basement at Dig Sesh HQ, and I got to play a dumb asshole podcaster.

And the credits are Josh Kuderta. Yeah, okay. As Josh Kuderta. Okay, well. As Josh Kuderta. Yeah. Well, people read them between the lines. Well, it's just funny because I was going to give you a fake name, but your first line is, I'm Josh Kuderta. Yeah.

So I'm like, all right, I guess he's Josh Kuderta. There goes that. Well, the script is pretty loose, too. So it's like, yeah, whatever. And I mean, the real podcast logo and all the stuff's in there so it's like why the fuck not i keep referring to it as bizarro digression um but uh yeah so uh the film is premiering this thursday february 4th yeah we're doing an advanced screening at the creative alliance in baltimore at 8 p.m uh 7 30 7 30 because it's

a thursday you want to get there a little early yeah so it'll be the movies at 7 30 we'll do a short q a after so everybody could be gone by like 9 30 or 10 yeah it's fucking exciting man yeah it's like uh it's a it's a real deal that's that's a real uh venue you know it is it's got a projector chairs uh it does have chairs they've upgraded sure uh but yeah it's uh it's very very cool to do the screening there they're uh the people are really nice like local artists and i like that you're sinking into director mode now yes you're getting quieter and you're like it's a really great venue i can uh it's weird when i'm riffing and having fun about living in

your basement i'm very boisterous but somehow i'm wearing a cardigan right now yeah and in two seconds yeah and you can't stop looking at the floor right well you know it was a really fun project and uh but in in all honesty it was a really fun project and um yeah i think it's a good movie everybody uh that we've shown it to so far seems to like it i think uh i'm very nervous about showing it for a bigger group of people on Thursday, but hopefully it goes really well. Yeah.

So the thing that is, that's weird about it, not in a bad way is that it's chock full of comedians, but it's not a funny movie. It's not. And it's a movie about standup or a standup comedian. And it's not funny. Yeah.

I mean, there's funny parts for sure, but it's not like the next dirty grandpa's funny parts for sure but it's not like the next uh dirty grandpa oh yeah well that's the thing like it probably has more laughs than grandpa and ride along too yeah and robert de niro is in it right yeah he plays jason weems which is he does really well yeah i never would have known um but yeah, it's a movie about a comedian, but it really could be any other job. We kind of demystify stand-up,

but it's more about it could be anything else he's doing. And yeah, we filled it with comedians and then made the saddest movie about a comedian. I was like, did I tell you what Ronald James told me when he watched the movie? No, what did he say? Well, he was like, yeah, I just watched your movie. I watched it twice.

I kind of had to watch it twice because you're funny and you're a comedian. I know all these comedians at it. And then like halfway through the first time watching it, I'm like, what the fuck am I watching? You're going to put that on the poster? Ronald James says, what the fuck am I watching? And he's like, it's not that it was bad. it was just more of just like the expectations were one thing yeah and then what i told him was just hopefully that's like something like it's with like people we know

that's gonna be an issue but hopefully the movie moves outside of baltimore yeah yeah so it's like we're showing it at film festivals that's not gonna be a problem yeah but like for the screening thursday when it's like our friends and stuff i can see how uh they would come in expecting oh jason weems tommy sabazo justin schleichel yeah yeah kadir does it like it's gotta be funny yeah yeah and then it's something else completely completely yeah um so are you gonna intro the movie on thursday then nice yeah i'll intro the movie and then we'll do the q a after kind of just let people know like... All right.

Well, at that point, they're in their seats. You should just double down, like strap in for a laugh riot. Yeah. I hope your knees are ready for slapping. Uh-huh. Because you're going to piss your pants too.

So you better just bring an extra pair of pants. Right. To wit's end, hey now. I feel like we've tried to warn people that we just put a clip online, which you can find on YouTube, and the teaser trailer doesn't portray the movie as a comedy and like outside of like marketing stuff like we've tried to like show it's not that like yeah like we actually at one point like uh our friend chris la bartina was like you should show a

trailer in front of driven to succeed uh i was just like ah and he's like do he's like do like a funny version of the trailer yeah which was another movie where i play a podcaster did you really yeah it's this same setup too yeah mike and i are in it too i didn't we play each other yeah so i'm just derivative now well yeah i mean it's a good way to get the podcast out or you're being typecast that too that's fine i'm a real josh kaderna type i'm fine with that i can roll i can't wait till somebody starts beating you out for those jobs what if it's mike moran god damn it um but yes so like uh labertina is just like hey you should like do like a funnier version of the trailer you could get people to go then it was just like

ah that's just but then you trick them yeah yeah and it's not even yeah it's like the movie is funny but it's just like we're not going to trick people going to see a comedy that this is another it's like a laugh right like made to be a comedy right especially for like the people it was like a lot of like that movie like driven to succeed yeah it's yeah like that movie is a straightforward comedy yeah you know people are going to like that movie and want to see another movie like that this is it's done well so shout out to uh mark call colgrove as well the director yeah talented dude too yeah absolutely so um no i'm excited man i'm really excited to see it and i know that you know uh if some people hear like oh it's kind of sad but it's done really well and you know this is your third movie uh like two and a half yeah like i keep saying it's kind of sad but it's done really well and you know this is your third movie like two and a

half yeah like i keep saying it's my second just because there were two unfinished ones in the middle but yeah it's like yeah yeah it's like my second or third movie yeah so you know what you're doing for the most part you know it's good this one's the first grown-up one though i think okay yeah and you've done some sketches in between and uh yeah, you took some time off stand-up to do it. And yeah, people should definitely go fucking check it out. So come to the Creative Alliance. Come see it. And get to see me in a camouflage tank top, which is nice.

Yeah, you're a real character. Yeah, I really am. I really am. And if you can't make it to that screening, look at my website, because we do have other screenings coming up. ThatMike finazzo.net.com.com look at you uh but yeah like you can see all the other information like we got a screening in virginia and new york coming up really are you going to those nice we'll do q and a's for is there plan to do like uh like a vimeo version or like digital download yeah

well definitely it's going to be available on streaming and uh it'll be on dvd at some point but we'll wait until after we do like festivals and stuff like that so probably by the end of the year you can find it streaming that's so exciting so i'm happy for you man because i mean how long did you work on it it actually was a really quick turnaround for the movie. Like I thought of the movie last March. Yeah. Wrote it in May. We were filming by September and now it's coming out.

Yeah. February. So less than a year. Yeah. Like 10 months. Yeah. And, uh, but yeah, it's the last like few months in particular, like it's been hundreds of hours.

Yeah. Editing is a real motherfucker. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but no, dude, particular, it's been hundreds of hours. Yeah, editing is a real motherfucker. Yeah, yeah. But no, dude, I'm so happy for you, so proud. I mean, the movie's really good. I've seen it. The performances are great. And you're great in it.

Oh, stop. I'm in it for like two minutes. No, you're in it more than that. Four minutes. Well, that's the great thing about having an ensemble movie with one character in every scene. Because you're in the movie for 10 minutes and you're like fourth Bill. Yes. And I think like Tommy's in a similar position.

He's in like 15 minutes and he's third Bill. Right. But yeah, Jason Weems is the guy in every scene. But like him, you, all the comedians ended up being so good. And one non-comedian actually. Tracy F farrar is really great in the movie yeah and uh yeah it was it was fun like my role didn't have to be serious which was nice yeah it's like i got to be a dick which is fun which is uh for better or worse i'm it's easier to do that right well i wanted it to be like uh and this is a movie you and i reference all the time it's like this was uh the scene in bookie nights where john c riley and mark walberg are torturing the like record guy yeah the engineer yeah yeah the sound engineer so yeah that was like the dynamic

we had i think we came pretty close pretty close you guys were both obnoxious i almost said you got the touch i almost said it I almost said feel the heat. Bass is drowning out the vocals, isn't it? Turn it down, turn it down. Well, fucking A, man. Well, I'm so excited to go to your movie premiere on Thursday, and I hope other people come out. And if you live in, you said Virginia, New York, it's going to premiere there.

Yeah, we'll do a Winchester, Virginia at the Alamo Drafthouse in March, and then we'll do the Creek in the Cave in New York sometime in's going to premiere there. Yeah, we'll do Winchester, Virginia at the Alamo Drafthouse in March and then we'll do the Creek in the Cave in New York sometime in April I think. Oh, that's exciting. And then we applied to some other festivals and we'll know soon about those. But they'll be throughout the summer. Cool. And then people can check your website, thatmikefinazzo.com

for upcoming dates and all that stuff. Yep. Yes. I'm so excited. Thanks, buddy. I'm so excited. So, alright, well now we can talk to nate uh let's go to the mcgoobies uh green room somehow i feel like you're gonna pop up in there too like hey yeah i'm always in the mcgoobies i'm always in the basement that's my vacation home from basement to green room i think there is some, like some comedians pop in, and then the owner, Andrew Unger, popped in. There's a moment where we have to take a break

before we start the second show, because I have to go up and host, but Andrew comes in, the owner, to the green room, and he kind of makes a sign like, whoops, I didn't mean to walk in in the middle. And then he goes, wait a minute, you work for me. Fuck you. That was also Andrew's role in the movie. Yeah, he's great. Yeah, he's in the middle and then he goes wait a minute you work for me fuck you that was also

andrew's role in the movie yeah yeah he's great yeah he's in the movie too yeah he's great so all right so let's talk to nate and uh everybody if you want to check out digression sessions.com slash calendar got a bunch of live upcoming dates for stand-up and improv for mike moran and myself i'll be at the harrisburg Comedy Zone this weekend, Friday and Saturday. And then the weekend after that, I'll be at the Noda Viva Vineyards in Virginia with Jason Weems of Wits End on Friday and Sunday.

And then Saturday, I'll be at the Auto Bar closing out the second Saturday shit show on the 13th. So people should come to that. So a bunch of stuff going on. And then we got the mashup show on February 6th that so people should come to that. A bunch of stuff going on, and then we've got the mashup show on February 6th that Mike

Moran is hosting here in Baltimore. All that stuff's on AggressionSessions.com slash calendar. Find us on Twitter and Facebook and all that good stuff. Promoting. So much to promote, Mike. So much to promote. Hey, Mike, thanks for coming by. Josh, thanks for letting me live in your basement.

No problem. Let's talk to Nate Bargett. Oh! Oh! well hey mike thanks for coming by josh thanks for letting me live in your basement no problem let's talk to nate bargett all right so we're in the green room of uh the lovely mcgoobies joke house in between shows i'm sitting with with the great Nate Bargatze. That's what a lot of people say. He asked me to say that for him. Yeah, I wrote it out. It's fair.

It's in his rider. He just bought a great jacket, crushing it in Towson. The big jacket was very excited about the jacket. Yeah, it looks good, man. It's an active jacket. There's not, like, it's it's got no like every picture for this jacket was like someone on a mountain and i will never be on a mountain no well i mean you made it to towson so that's like a mountain of comedy yeah yeah right yeah that's one way to

look at it something yeah so uh yeah man i'm uh i was very excited to uh to host for you this weekend yeah and uh doing great oh man. You've been murdering. Hey. It's been good. I paid you to say that. So that's nice. I said it. I told you I'll say it in the first 30 seconds.

Thank you. So we can wrap this thing up pretty soon. I didn't know you were going to. That's all you're going to use. I didn't know you were going to put it in there. And they're going to be like, who's that comic that no one knows that said those nice things about that other guy that no one knows? No one knows this. The guy that, I love hosting because people think you just work for the club yeah the

question you get all the time is like hey man good set where's the bathroom or most of the time it's just where's the bathroom or they look at you like hey you weren't funny in a city too like this like dc like our baltimore but like dc right here yeah it's such a big comedy scene like new york was it's like the hosting's like a real i don't know what it but it's big comedy scene like new york was it's like the hosting's like a real i don't know what it but it's a real thing in new york it was like yeah that you could make the most money hosting and that's who does like the most time too right yeah yeah like they would do because you're doing it all you're always bringing everybody else is doing like 15 minutes yeah and you're doing you know you would do like 12 and then you're really just supposed to keep

the show going but something happens you gotta move stuff on but it would pay you the most because it would you would be stuck at that club the entire night so you couldn't run around to other clubs I would always think that like Caroline's which is a club that's like a club like this like a headliner club

but some good headliners would bring their own feature and I feel like the feature you could always hear stories like a feature like talking to the MC you know some headliners are like bring their own feature and i feel like the feature you could always hear stories like a feature like talking to the mc you know like almost like thinking like i'm a little bit farther than you know and then you're like you don't realize like the mc's like no no he's much farther like he's this is the best gig right right uh dude carolines is the best you know yeah as i guess that's where like well i mean new york's different like comedy scene wise from a lot of spots but like here it's like i'm the least guess that's where like well i mean new york's different like comedy scene wise

from a lot of spots but like here it's like i'm the least experienced guy it's like well why don't you uh fly the no no yeah it still is like everywhere else isn't it like though canada is it canada that's like uh yeah hosting's like uh-huh i want to say it might be but or maybe like uh in europe like london like oh it hosting is the most experienced guy because he's got to run the show. Yeah, and I hear in England, too, they're more about the heckling and stuff. It's just part of the show. Yeah, they like it. Yeah, and it's expected.

I don't know how. I don't ever think I would like it. Yeah, well, I mean, you don't do that much crowd work. No, I've learned you can keep it at, you know, mean you don't do that much crowd work no i've learned you can keep it at you know if you don't talk to them then that's how like if you don't do like hey you guys ever do that like yeah if you go if you just open the door to being like you know whatever yeah to like at you know like you guys drinking tonight what are you drinking buddy like you're having a couple drinks yeah yeah it's and there's Who's drinking tonight? Yeah. And there's nothing wrong,

but if you do that, I think you just have to be like, you're going to expect like, someone could yell something. Because yeah, you're subconsciously kind of training them too. Like, it's a call and response thing now. We're having fun.

Yeah, yeah. I'm a part of it, right? But yeah, you're working on some stuff. And so like the bit you're working on involves a sickle but some people are saying it's called a sith like the thing the grim reaper has or yeah yeah so what did you think i think it's sickle i like saying sickle better yeah but yeah tonight was weird people like dude it's a sith it's like i've never heard that i said sith i was saying sith yeah last

night i said sith and the girl up front goes sickle because i didn't know like if that was like a built-in crowd work thing because you're like i don't even know what it is i mean it happened last night so it was like it was one of those like it's funny it's like it's like a little built-in like because it just happened the past couple nights so then you just do it again tonight yeah and then you know maybe i don't know it's like a point of like when you're like maybe i'll you keep it in just to now just because the joke is like nothing right well yeah and you're just figuring it out so it's like let's talk this one out yeah yeah it's one of those you're like i hope that's not if that's ever the only thing that's like good about that joke i'm gonna that's when you're like well it's got other problems you have crowd work i like you didn't know that word

and you asked us all in the room what that word was. That was cool. We kind of talked that over for a few minutes. Yeah. So, yeah. So, you're from Nashville, right? Yeah. And then you went to New York for a while.

Yeah. Chicago's where I started. Oh, really? I never started in Nashville. I left Nashville. Started in Chicago in Nashville. I left Nashville, started in Chicago in 2003. Was there for about a, was there for two years, did comedy about a year and a half there. Went back to Nashville for a couple months to save money and then moved with a guy from

Chicago to New York and was there for about nine years. Then LA for two and then now we're back in Nashville and I and i go i kind of split yeah la and new york nashville i'm sure people ask all the time but is that tough like living in nashville because like i mean i was worried about when i first did it when i first was thinking about doing it we have a daughter we have three-year-old daughter and like i was and i was just starting to go like uh the past two years i've been really going on the road a lot and uh so it was almost just like when i was in la it's like i would go to spots on my off nights yeah but it was just like i don't know it just felt it was just so i don't know it was like flying from la is not fun

right if you had to come here to baltimore from la you would have to go the day before leave at six in the morning or take a red eye yeah it not a fun, like, you're just adding so much. And it was an hour and a half flight from Nashville. Right. So it's just easy to go, like. Yeah, if you're in the middle of the country, like, you're not going coast to coast all the time. So when I first did it, though, I wasn't telling. I, like, kind of, like, I didn't tell anybody.

I like that it's a secret. Yeah. Like, yeah, I live here. That's fun. Well, no one knows where anybody lives. Right. Because they're like, Nate, we'll come over on Saturday. Like on saturday like yeah i'll be there i'm on the road you realize like once you like the longer you get all your friends they they ended up like they end up like uh everybody's

on the road so no one sees anybody yeah like even in la or new york like there's guys you just don't see anymore because we're all out or we're all just you do your spot yeah but that's is that like the bittersweet part when all it's like oh i'm glad my friends are doing well but i don't see anymore because we're all out or we're all just, you do your spot. Yeah. But that's, is that like the bittersweet part when all it's like, Oh, I'm glad my friends are doing well, but I don't get to see them anymore. You miss like doing that. But yeah,

you're happy. You're doing, you're on the road and like, you know, uh, you just, everybody talks and you just see, you see each other at festivals and stuff.

So it was for a little bit. I did the first few months. I didn't tell anybody. And, uh, no one knew no one people were i still there's people that honestly still booked me for or asked me to do a new york show right because they could still think i live on like a weekday or something like that yeah run a show in astoria you want to come by you're like totally yeah uh so i was like and then i was

like it was like dumb to even like i was like i'm not, I'm tired of even doing this dumb lie. But I was worried. I had a fear that if I move, people are going to think that I quit. Yeah. And then I'm just out of the business. Yeah, because people talk about like Chappelle. It's like, do you know he lives in Ohio? That's crazy.

It's like, why not? He can do whatever he wants. Yeah. Yeah, it's not like I can do whatever I want, it was uh i i was worried that i couldn't and then i when i did it i realized that like i you know no one thought that i was quitting yeah uh so i was like a little relaxed on it and then i was like that's then i just was that something you were worried about like on your shoulders like i'm living with this secret no one can know i lived uh i was in nashville and i just didn't tell i mean uh but at rory scoville uh not to be yeah yeah rory's from the dcc

rory uh nick thing not trying to say but i got friends that i would talk to a lot yeah uh some other close to friends and some other close friends i did tell and like but then i didn't roryory, I didn't tell. I was going to just see. Rory, he came to Nashville, and he had no idea, and I picked him up from the airport. He just thought I was there. Was he doing a weekend or something? He was doing something.

He might have been at Zangief. I was just in town, and then I drove him. I just drove him over to my house without like telling him like but i really had a big i mean i i truly was worried that like people would like think oh the out of sight out of mind like oh he doesn't live here no oh yeah he's giving up that's a signal that he's signal that he's done right and uh so that was the big fear but now you know yeah i'm not worried about it and so was it like for family reasons too it's like i'm sure you have a bunch of family around my entire family lives there yeah my wife i mean i was just leaving my wife and daughter like by themselves in la in a town like they don't really know anybody yeah

they don't know anybody and like uh it's so it's like it's just you know what yeah we were able to do it and it's nice i guess you know it's hard i'll have to go to la sometimes for a week or something to do stuff yeah but even when you go to la now it's a little more thought out like uh you know i plan stuff more if i'm gonna do spots i like right plan the spots or plan the meetings or whatever you got to do yeah i can't see you as a guy with an itinerary though like you see you seem like a pretty pretty lax guy yeah i don't mind an itinerary though like but i i am like like sometimes you don't like think about it but i uh yeah i don't know if i have it i i get an itinerary

like for what you're gonna do i like to know like yeah you know what i really am like kind of a guy that likes to have like i just like to know right i don't want to be surprised with something that like because if i'm like checked out in my head yeah we're not doing anything yeah i don't want it to be like oh we're doing this you have to do this thing at right like a podcast in a green room or something yeah i thought i was gonna sit here and watch tv and i'm sorry nate i'm sorry i'm sorry but you can still watch tv yeah um but yeah i actually saw you now i think about i saw you in new york like a few years ago at ucb east um i think emily heller was on the show uh michael che was on the show and it was yeah it was really good you were hilarious it was uh i remember the bit you did about uh

the stoplight and like going up to it like basically what was it like uh something like the guy wasn't moving you're like well i don't even know what i'm gonna do when i get up there or something like that oh yeah like honking yeah no one honks yeah and like i'm not gonna go like yeah something yeah yeah it was good though you were really funny so you know it's just cool nice like uh it's just like when there's like fun like nice easy like you know it's not like an easy you know what i mean but it's like a good like soft jazz yeah it's a good it's a good one to put with something like you know just a little something at the top that's like it was like almost something that's like a joke that's like

you're not really expecting thing it always gets like more of a laugh sometimes than you would even expect it to get yeah and then you're like oh that's fun that's nice yeah that's fun it's just a fun one that That's a fun one. That one's for me. There goes 10 seconds I don't got to worry about. But I like that they like it. Yeah. Yeah, that's good.

Yeah. So, okay, so Chicago, so did you start out with other people, like, that are kind of on the scene now, like the T.J. Millers, Hannibal Buresses, and Kumails and stuff? I want to see if I can get a water. Will this thing go? Yeah. Is there one right in the- There might not be one in the fridge. This is how crazy the green room gets, guys.

We're looking for a fucking water in that mini fridge. I grabbed the one. That's fine. Do you want to pause? Get a water? No, it's all right. All right. I can get one later.

I started with... Yeah, TJ was there. TJ, Pete Holmes, Hannibal, Kumail, Nick Vatterot, Jared Logan. Yeah. Bronger and Kyle Kinane left, I think, about right before I got there. And then, yeah, so it was like a lot of those guys. And then I don't ever get counted as a Chicago guy. But I was there a year and a half.

But I moved with Pete, moved about six months before I did to New York. Pete Holmes, yeah. Pete Holmes and Pete got me. We started barking, handing out flyers at the Boston Comedy Club in New York. Yeah. And he got me in, handing out flyers there. And so me and him used to stand in the corner. That's so crazy.

It's like, yeah, he hooked me up. I could hand out flyers. Yeah. I know. It's like, but it was like, you know, at that time you're like, oh, can you get me, you know, I really thought like they would be like, no, no, you're not even, you can't even hand out flyers. I've seen your hands, bro.

There's no way you're handing out. I was not good at it. Throwing them on the ground yeah well he was like he would just be hey guys we got a great comedy show tonight you know just like

constantly like handing there but I was there so it was like yeah so I was there with them and then it was pretty special

that place like this guy my buddy Dustin Chaffin ran it and he did good like cause we would hang out as far as we'd do spots

at the end of the night but you would do it every single night seven days a week and i was working you know like i uh delivered for fedex at the time in new york right so some nights i would just stay up because i would for a little bit i was driving a like a truck because i was a delivery guy in nashville right so sometimes i would drive a truck then that was getting too late so i'd switch to like just loading boxes and you'd have to be up at like 5 a.m, sometimes I would drive a truck and that was getting too late so I'd switch to like just loading boxes and you'd have to be up at like 5 a.m.

So, sometimes I would just stay up and then go to work. with the comedy schedule in New York, that's fucking brutal because you're getting home at what,

like midnight one, something like that? Oh, I mean, no, three, easy, three or four.

Holy shit. Because you would like, our show, Boston would just, it was like the perfect like breeding ground to watch and then learn, not breeding perfect, like, breeding ground to watch and learn. Not breeding ground. Like, it was the first place to watch and learn comedy.

Right. Because this was, Chappelle's show was going on. So, Chappelle would drop in every night. This was before he was doing hours and hours. But, like, he would just come in. He would pop in all the time. Yeah. Then guys would all go up.

Like, the big guy, like, Burr was uh i was i was at burr's hbo one night stand like so burr was like burr was like everybody in the city knew he was unbelievable but he wasn't selling out right he's not like a known name patrice yeah uh patrice would go and uh it was like i mean it was like unbelievable like so i would watch i remember patrice i would go he'd just park his car right in the, and I would sit in his car. So if he's going to get a ticket or something, I would drive it around the block. Oh, wow.

And I remember telling Patrice when he was, because him and Bill Burr taped their HBO One Night Stand, and we went to it. But I remember when they were running it, like watching them run it, they had to do 30 minutes. So seeing that kind of stuff, like seeing someone run a set for something like I've never really seen any of that stuff. Right.

And like seeing like kind of behind the scenes, like, oh, this is going to be on TV and then seeing what the final product is and then kind of like cutting away and working on it. I remember telling Patrice, like, uh, cause I like, it's not like I was going to be great friends, but I was like, I knew him. Uh, I got to go over his house. He came over my house to a barbecue once. Cause he was barbecue once because I'm good friends with Big Jay Oakerson. Oh, okay. Who was, like, really good friends with Patrice.

So I got to go because of that. But I remember telling Patrice, I was like, I'll time your set out to tell you how much time you did. And he's just smiling, like, sure. He does it, like, whatever. That makes you feel good. Yeah. Like, you know. But he was, like, nice, like, just smiling, like, sure. Like, he does it, like, whatever. That makes you feel good. Yeah. Like, you know, but he was, like, nice, like, about it. Like, I mean, you know, it's just, I mean, I'm just, like, glowing of new comic off of me.

Right. He's just, it's like from the mouth of babes. Yeah. Like, that'll really help me, Nate. Yeah. Thanks, pal. Nate, thanks, buddy. Like, and, you know, you'd sit there and, like, time, you know, time my watch and I'd be like, if you were at 32 minutes, he's like, oh, okay.

Wow. I don't even understand that it's, you know. You're worried about it on the way home. He's got to trim those two minutes. HBO's going to have his ass. They're not going to show it. He needs to get it down. Picture it like a workout, like montage scene, and you're in a stopwatch.

Like, we got to work on this. Trace says, get it down, buddy. Come on. I'm here to help. Probably the best comedian that's ever lived. Could we get it down a little bit? I've got some pointers for you, if we could work on that. Yeah.

Speed it up. Yeah. I believe Ben Bailey, Judah Friedlander, his credit was he was the hug me guy from the Dave Matthews band. Yeah, from that video. Yeah. So you would see all those guys, Ben Bailey. You know, they would all just come in because they would go to the cellar and they'd come over to the Boston. The Boston would just kind of run from like 8 to like 2 in the morning, just whenever.

And people would just pop in constantly and like so you would just sit back and like you know you you know you kind of learn how a show works and then you just learn from so many people i mean it was it was perfect and i don't and it was funny it's like new york then they started doing like street teams not that flyering is like i learned from flyering but it was just it helped being stuck at a place, at a good club. Gotcha. It helped. I had somewhere to go.

So you wouldn't get lazy and be like, I'm not going to go out tonight because I don't want to. I had to go out. Right. And so that helped me go, make sure I went out every night. Yes, so you have a home base. to sit and watch i mean every big comic that's out now like just sit there and just watch them all play in front of c chapelle play in front of four people jesus christ and just you know just seeing everything like it was unbelievable right right now is somebody hosting that like you were saying is somebody hosting from 8 p.m to 2

a.m i remember when pete graduated from handout flyers to hosting. You were like, fucking A, Pete. It's a big move. There's one of my other buddies, John F. O'Donnell, who lives in- Yeah, I know him. John's great. Yeah, he's on the podcast. Yeah, he started barking. I used to get so mad because he came in and he was good at Handout Flyers.

He's Mr. Personality that way. He loves that stuff of being like, hey. So he got all these. He got moved up quick. Like he would get good spots on the show because he was bringing people in. If you bring more people in, you get more stage time, right? Yeah, just you would be like, I remember Dustin would take him on the road. And we would just, I mean, the most jealous I've ever been in my life just being, he just showed up here.

That guy doesn't, how's he going to go up and do all these fun spots? And I got to sit back and hang out fires all day. So, but it was like, yeah, it was unreal. Like I can like and so yeah one person would host kind of the whole night wow that's a long time uh yeah but you get chops that way i mean i guess you have to yeah we performed for one guy once he just did we were like sure you want to do this man and he was like yeah yeah like open mics in dc where there'll be like four people and like you guys what are you what are you doing they're like we're having fun like yeah okay like to us it's like insane i'm like why are you here yeah like if i wasn't a comic i don't know if i would go to open mic comedy shows

you know what i mean no i almost wish i could go back now i mean i think i remember going to an open mic and watching like What's up, Mike? Mike Stork's here. Oh, it's fine. I like your beard. Mike, this is Nate. Nate, Mike Stork. Hilarious dude.

Damo Hicks is sitting here, by the way. You know, it's just a crazy green room right now. It's a crazy green room. Crazy. Okay. Okay. Cool. See you, Mike. So we would go and, like uh yeah yeah i don't know i waited tables once

because there's a server they didn't show up but i knew how to wait to like so i waited tables before so i remember one night like were you like suck it john f o'donnell i got this shit yeah exactly i waited tables then went on stage and got back off and waited it you know what is it there wasn't a ton of people in there how How was that of being like... It was fine. It was weird. I mean, you already get used to them seeing you run something.

That was always the weird part of you're having to sit people and do all this stuff and then you go up. Yeah. They're kind of... It's like you would be like, oh, what's the guy?

The mystique's not there. It's like, yeah. You're not like the cool guy on stage. It's like, weren't you just the one outside begging for me to come inside yeah like no no i remember one time chapelle came in and uh i remember someone walked up and when he would go in we would just go out there and be like chapelle's on stage if you want to go in for free yeah and i remember these people and normally it would go from four people to 80 damn like because you know people are this is chapelle shows like yeah it's like the height of his like crazy fame so uh i remember one time

these people came by and i was like chapelle's on stage they're like we don't believe you and i'm like i mean we're in front of a comedy you know he's a comedian like it's not the most insane thing it's not like an applebee's and there was like these four steps that went up and there's a glass window on the door and we're like just walk up the steps and look in the if he's not there turn around and come back and they were like no we're not we're not falling for that and they left and i was like why would i like i'm not you know not at a restaurant being like chapelle popped in yeah stand up and also they still probably wouldn't even be that crazy that still could be a thing that could happen yeah like oh like, oh, dude, Chappelle's at the bar?

I'll go check it out. But yeah, also literally when they can go up four steps and be like, we'll see. I don't know what they thought. Let me just take a peek in there. Yeah. They're like, no, no.

Maybe you just don't have a trustworthy thing about you. I don't know. I don't know, Nate. We were like, yeah, he starts getting to the point when you're getting over-convincing that then they're probably like,

well, something's up. Yeah, like, I swear to God, he's overly convincing me. Are we gonna wake up in a tub're probably like, well, something's up. Yeah. I swear to God. Why are you overly convincing me? Are we going to wake up in a tub of ice missing fucking organs? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Could be. So what was it like in New York?

It had to be crazy seeing all that stuff. But at the time, did you know that you were a part of something that's kind of really big? No. If you look at Chicago, all those guys in Chicago when they're all starting how did you know you you're you're not even thinking yeah that like you're just you're all just nervous and starting and you're all just starting yeah no one's like tj was like tj i would say is like one that he was just a funny funny guy like he was just so funny yeah indifferent and so tj was like a guy you were like oh you're you could see you know you could be like that guy's like going to be in movies it's like it's not

what he's doing but it's not like surprising like it's not surprising though uh you know but it all happens like you know i don't know you don't you kind of when you're first starting out you're just like you just want to get up yeah so in new york you're just like it's all about just having a good joke and you want to get up and then all the other guys that are famous are not even famous but like that that was a big eye opening to me was like yeah when i was in chicago i first heard of brian regan right and i remember uh hearing that and thinking like and just thinking like how good he was and you're like how is he not the most famous person on earth right and like so my eyes were open to like oh it's not just seinfeld or cosby or these famous guys that you know yeah it's these other people that you're like it's mind-blowing how good they are metzger

is uh another real good friend of mine but metzger was a big kurt met kurt and jay they were like guys that i would see that you were like i mean i was just blown away yeah and uh so you would just watch them and not everybody know you know knows who they're people know who they are now like but like not as much like and then burr and like you see those guys in like i don't know i think it was like you didn't know you're just trying to get up but it just you know i don't know it's like a long when you're in it it happens slowly aziz was a guy that came and i remember aziz getting passed to the cellar and then he's hosting the mtv movie awards yeah like holy so aziz was like he shot up i don't really know him but like i just yeah he came in and was just like boom boom and then like gone right uh schumer

amy was like amy we're around doing stuff like she went to college in towson by the way yeah oh yeah yeah like oh cool man it's uh yeah seeing amy's it's pretty wild seeing her now because you're just like you know it's like it's just pretty crazy she's like the most famous person on earth catching a ton of shit and uh yeah yeah that's all crazy like yeah but like they're uh but like seeing that stuff is like i don't know it's pretty wild to see yeah but that's what's good about being there is like you do see a path so you can like whether it's someone goes real quick or someone goes you know a longer like you know burr where it's like it's no like immediate quick thing yeah to

where patrice was like probably about i mean his elephant in the room was unreal and like that was he was probably about to go to like a whole nother level yeah uh but like you know you just i don't know it's good to see these different paths right right that there's no one way to be like oh this is how i become a superstar immediately or you're not around it you don't like you know it's like how do you get on tv or something like that if you're not yeah if you don't see like how something like that could happen or like see that it's like there was an audition at a club and they came to watch and that's how people got at least seeing some logic to like what's happening right right like instead of like you know i feel like it's hard just where it's like a complete mystery of show business.

So what happened with you where it was finally like, oh, this is kind of happening for me? This TV just cut off. I was trying to turn this TV on forever ago. That's it, yeah. What the fuck was that? I tried to have the volume on the TV, I mean, probably an hour ago. And it just came on. Yeah.

Is that when we wrap it up? Is that the light? Yeah, that was the light. When the ESPN snowboard stuff? Snowboard. So what did you say? Like, when did, for you, when did you start to be like, oh, maybe this could be something for me of like, like becoming real in the way of like-

I mean, I feel like you always feel that it could not, you always have like a, I mean, I definitely like, I think now I feel a little more like, always feel that it could not uh you always have like i mean i'd be like yeah i definitely like i think now i feel a little more like i feel like i could make money at this whether i can become huge or not is one thing but like i feel like there's some kind of path where i can at least do this and make money somehow right whether it's doing corporates or get that half mil gig yeah have to fall back to if i have to go do cruise ship like you know there's like just something that like i can there's something i can do so i that little bit of like you know before recently you just had the biggest fear of like being like i don't know i could just all go away and i could have to quit and go get a regular job christ uh you just don't know you

know it's like so but uh so i don't know it's just slow i mean but there's like in new york uh i was talking about it earlier like uh but like you know there was time like after i did a presents and i had like four conans and yeah i remember i fired i left a manager and uh when i did three conans and he was like maybe you know get another conan this was just to meet an agent right just to have a meeting with an agent and he was like, maybe get another Conan. This was just to meet an agent, just to have a meeting with an agent. And he was like, let's do another Conan. I was like, so you think the fourth Conan would be the one that's going to push me over? That's what they say in show business. Once you get that fourth Conan, I mean, three, anybody can get three.

Anybody. Anybody can get three. You get five Konans, you're a superstar. Then you're good. Yeah. Yeah. Jesus Christ. So it was, you know, and I had like a presents and it just was like, you know, I couldn't really have an agent.

Couldn't like. Yeah. And it's not like it was like down the dump. It was just frustrating and just like where you're like. Yeah. I've always had stuff like I always had something that was happening. But. Right.

What's up, Andrew? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can interrupt, Andrew? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you can interrupt, Andrew. Yeah. Andrew. Perfect.

Perfect. Thank you. When are we going to start, Andrew, for the 10 bad minutes? All right, I'll let you know. Jesus Christ. All right, fine. I mean, Nate,

I want to apologize for that. Yeah. I want to apologize for the owner. He's a real piece of shit. He's a real piece of shit. Um, all right. Well,

yeah, let's, uh, you want to put it on pause and then, uh, wrap it up during demo set. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. All right. Do you want to fill in? the thing is like i hadn't heard of you before this weekend so i was like pleasantly surprised pleasantly that's all you want yeah yeah no i've worked with like some fucking assholes for sure yeah but um yeah they're out there they're out there but no you uh you get it like on the like i wonder sometimes i try to like now think like sometimes like you guys hey but there's no reason to be just the worst like for comics yeah that are just like you know but a lot of them it's like

there's something like either they're not good i feel like a lot of guys that are good are nice. Yeah. Some, I guess. But I think they just get bitter, too. Yeah. A lot of guys get bitter. But it is hard. If you go out every weekend, it's hard to be like, sometimes you could be like, I don't want to talk to anybody. Yeah, especially as you get older, too.

You're like, fuck, I didn't think I'd be 50. You know what you want, too? You want whoever you're working with, this has been terrific this weekend. Like, everybody be normal. Yeah. And, like, at least understand comedy. Yeah.

Like, you know, like, so when you're talking about comedy, it's not just, like, you know, you can tell when someone's, like, you don't even know. Right. Like, they wouldn't know who bill burry is or something where you're like that blows me away like how can you be a comedian you're like who yeah who is that i haven't seen man i should check him out you may you might you maybe you should check is he a local guy yeah i haven't seen him he's a local yeah um yeah i'll i'll say this i mean because it's a little bit later in the podcast now but uh i worked with bobby slayton uh here

and the uh the pit bull of comedy yeah which was my name which i kind of feel like he stole but um it was the week that uh robin williams committed suicide oh yeah and they i think they started out together i don't think they were as tight like as they were like but good friends yeah yeah so and then it was a thursday night show and thursday was like a little light in the numbers and like so i think he wasn't thrilled about that and um so he showed up and i was like mr slayton you know like because it's always weird too like when you meet comedians that are older you don't be like hey bobby like who the fuck are you like so i was like i was like hey mr slade i'm josh i'm hosting and like he didn't even break stride he's like yeah and i was like

okay yeah that's fine maybe he's a little you know like not feeling good or whatever yeah and uh so then he's just kind of like not around and then the feature's wrapping up and i don't have his credits or like what you know what i'm supposed to say when i bring him up and so finally i see him and i was like hey mr slayton um he's wrapping up now what do you want me to say when i bring you up he was like well i fucking did four hours of fucking shit radio this morning my fucking dvds aren't here robin's dead and my wife's a cunt it's like so like just in that order and like i just didn't know what to fucking do it's like cool okay yeah and like everything i said to him was just the wrong thing that weekend like like uh i think it was that was thursday

and then the friday show in between shows i think it was the second show i was coming backstage to grab a water and he was leaving i think to maybe like go get ready and he's like how are they i was like they're good man like i feel like the first show they were a little tight you know like they're just getting off work and he goes why don't you fucking tell me how comedy works dude that's not what i was i'm sorry that's like it sounds like you got him on a bad i don't i've never met him so i don't know how he is normally yeah yeah so it was just it was like at first i was like am i am i fucking up here yeah and then like i think i just caught him on a bad week because everything was like. But it's interesting.

You learn like it's weird. And this is like, it's funny. It's like, that's all stuff like you just learn and like just you learn how to like then act around, you know, in a weird way. Like, yeah, because it is like the comedians can be so they can be, you know, because you could see them on stage. And, you know, know it's funny too because comics are like they're they don't they look the same a comic looks the same you still think sometimes you think that they're not as old so you see someone and then you'll be like you know you kind of picture them and then you're like he's 50 yeah so it's like you know it's like

they could be slow to get up or something or 60 and you're like well that's because he's 60 yeah in your head there's almost like they're not even in age. Yeah. They're just the same person. They're just comedian, which is like the same thing as you. So you're like, oh, we're kind of in that same realm. Yeah, they don't like, they always look the same. Like Bobby Slayton would be a guy that like, I've never, he would look the same.

Maybe if you see him in person, you'd be like, he's older than you think. But like he'd be a guy that you would think think, he just looks like Bobby Slayton. So you think, I don't think that he's 60. Yeah. I think like, you know. He's just a comedian. You just feel like Bobby Slayton's always been Bobby Slayton. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Since he was like 12 to like 60. He's always been like the pit bull. So yeah, it was just like, and he, I mean, he was kind of cool like in between shows and stuff, but like certain stuff, it was just just like like i tried to be like uh uh i think it was thursday i was like amen and i because i always try to check out like the comedian i'm working with like the latest thing they're working on just because like what you were talking about earlier i'm interested to see what they're working on on stage what's new what's old that type of thing and uh so i got his latest cd and i was like hey uh bobby i got your latest cd and

he goes what fucking cd it's like and i was like um uh it's called being bobby he goes that's not a cd it's a fucking dvd it's like well i got it on itunes and he goes those motherfuckers that wasn't supposed to be a cd god damn it they fucked me and then he just walks away and i'm like sorry i supported you like just a bit did you also tell him robin williams died yeah and then i was like you think your wife's cool she's a cunt you broke all the news to him like he's like what what but he was nice with the ladies like yeah so like the the town we're in is uh timonium and so there was somebody working up front one of the

door girls and he's like what town is this she's like it's timonium he's like okay and as he's walking away she goes like yeah and you can't find it on the periodic table and i was like oh boy he's gonna rip into her because i've been making like jokes like that all week and he's like what's your problem and he turned around he goes that is so funny i was just about to say that yeah it's like god damn it if i would have said that he would have told me to like fucking kill myself so it's like sometimes you just catch guys and like i don't know like when like you're excited about comedy you know for them it's just a job so it's not like i'm like oh mr slayton can we be friends and i don't know for him it's just like

another fucking weekend you know it's another town another week yeah it's like yeah they go in and just you're like uh i don't care and then yeah i mean you know it's another town another week yeah it's like yeah they go in and just you're like uh i don't care and then yeah i mean you know it's like you look at like used to see like you know it's just stories about like topalo like losing his mind on stage yeah nick topalo you never understand it and the longer you do it you're like i don't know maybe i could kind of understand like just snapping on an audience just because when it's like they're all the same if someone's drunk and talking you're, you're not new and different. Yeah.

You're just the 50th one I've seen. Yeah. And so at what point does a comic just go like, I can't do this. Yeah. Just this is you. But I can't see you doing that, though. No. I think it'd have to take a lot for you.

It would take a lot. Your DVDs would have to not show up. Your wife would have to be a cop. Yeah, there'd be a lot. Ron Williams says to come back and die again uh yeah no it would be uh yeah i think i don't know if i yeah i think i could lose it it's in there but it's just like yeah yeah but then you you know you're just like i'm not gonna i'd rather just go yell at about them backstage back here yeah right right um so do you feel like like and we're wrapping up now but like as you're because it seems like there's a push to like once like you're kind of popping like to go out there and kind of get that money like touring and

stuff like do you feel like the grind coming in on you as like because you're out like you said like 35 to 40 weeks a year yeah it's a's something like that. Do you get burnt out? Yeah. Yeah, I do. I was like, just talking like, you know, but it's funny. It's like, that's a problem that like, I remember last year, like I get, you know, I was talking to my agent and like, it was like the summer and I was like basically almost like, Hey, I don't, I can't do any more this year. Wow. And, uh, because we already had it all planned and not to i'm not trying to act like that but i remember it's like being but then i remember like this is what you wanted like there's a there's a time where i couldn't even an agent would never meet

with me right in a time of not having any gigs it's time of like when you start you know i remember just wanting to not be handing out flyers that's all i wanted yeah so it's like little things that you just go i just want the next step to be like, you know, I would like to be in theaters now. Like now you're like, and I mean, I can't, but it's like, but you're like, that would be the next goal to be like just theaters and doing one show and like not having to do, you know, a bunch of shows. A whole weekend.

Yeah. And, uh, so it's like little, you know, and then being the, you don't want to lose it. Yeah. You don't want to like, you kind of like, you want to like, uh, I don't know. You don't, you don't want to lose it yeah you don't want to like you kind of like you want to like uh i don't know you don't you don't want to lose you want to stay in the clubs to stay fresh and like yeah but like yes there's a now it's like there's so much and you're on the road so much that yeah you hit a point of going like i would like to like try to like be normal for a little bit like you know it's like i would love to get like a i mean obviously but like like a sitcom even though it's a lot of work but just the idea of like being able to go home and like not have to like be going out

on the road would be amazing just to have you know you get in this job because you don't almost want consistency right then you get a point of going like i miss i would love some fucking consistency you just love like i know i go to work this time i get off at this time like especially when you have a family too i'm sure it's like yeah it'd be nice to be like okay i i have like a nine to five basically yeah i'll be home and i'll be home from school and i can we can go do something yeah you know there's a bit you know it's a lot of it's uh there's a lot of other good things that right okay you know it's always weird that you can't like complain about it because someone else is like dying to take over who you

have to travel on the weekends jesus christ over there you had to work one hour oh my god jesus christ uh so yeah so it is getting like uh it's it gets a lot you know yeah you get tired but then you're happy for you know you're happy for it and then when you get up there and do it and like that's why it's like you just try to like you know not that i still do a lot of stuff for my special but like trying to interchange like you know almost like because i still have a mix of like there's majority of the people don't know who i am yeah and then the ones that do a lot of them just know me from one joke on the or one set on the tonight show or yeah or like a conan or they don't know how to special yeah and then you got the few that have listened to everything.

Yeah. And so then those people, like you're trying to like, you know, you don't want to just be like doing the same jokes, but then, you know, you want to do the jokes. It's, you know, that, that are good. And some of them are still newish. Some of them could be a couple of years old and yeah. But mix it in people that haven't seen you it's all new to them and when that's the majority of the crowd you can't just be like all right let me try this new thing i got a night that's like i think listened to a lot of stuff and i thought he told me he said he felt it was 50 50 and i was like well that's at least you know that's a good yeah i think it could be a little bit more. In my head, I'm like a little bit more than 50-50.

Because you're like, I got a little, I could, you know. But maybe it's not. I don't know. Like if we broke down the game film, we're probably 64, 65. Give me something. Yeah. Yeah. If we meet in the locker room and kind of go over this.

But, you know, that's fine. It's fine. Yeah. That's a weird dynamic, too. And he's like, I love you. It's like 50-50. You're like, well, hold on. Yeah.

Come on, dude. I've been working hard on these other things come on man um okay so then you have the pilot happening now so hopefully yeah so we'll see what happens that could go as far as us talking about it right now yeah when do you when are you gonna hear back uh i don't know we're dealing with it now we did some phone phone calls this weekend and just getting it like prepared and like getting ready. It's kind of, we're doing it kind of different like because we shot a presentation pilot. So instead of like, so we still haven't like really turned it into anybody yet. So I don't know. I mean, it could be one of those things that like, you know, in a couple of weeks we could be trying to shop at the networks

or we could be you know there's two ways that there could be next cycle the next right now yeah but you know Netflix and all that's you know who know I don't yeah those you can go to whenever you want right cable you can throw they're like kind of always open but like the big networks usually tend to like yeah around like the end of January is when you kind of got to have your draft, your script in. Right. And then they, January to February is when they decide what pilots they're going to make. Nice.

And then May, June, I want to guess is like when the bout, they, everybody shot their pilots and then they decide what they're going to pick up. Nice, man. So, so yeah, I don't know. Cool, man. Well. Yeah. Good luck with it, dude. Cause it's a great, great concept. Yeah. I don't know how much you want to say about it if it don't know. Cool, man. Well, good luck with it, dude, because it's a great concept.

Yeah. I don't know how much you want to say about it if it doesn't happen. Yeah, it's like a time, it's based off my time travel joke. Yeah,

so you basically get stuck in the past. Yeah. Yeah, so dude, thank you for doing this. Is there anything else you want to plug

or you're on Twitter? Twitter, all that stuff. Yeah, Nate Bargatze. Well, you just want to plug Twitter, like all that stuff, Instagram. Instagram. If peoplegatze. Yeah, Nate Bargatze. Well, you just want to plug Twitter, like all that stuff.

Instagram. Instagram. If people haven't been on it, they should check it out. Yeah, I'm not good at Instagram, so don't go there and get your hopes up. Okay.

Website? Website. Website has all the tourist stuff on there. Cool. I'll be at the other draft house here. Oh, okay. In D.C. When are you coming back?

I think it's the March 18th and 19th. Oh, nice. Wow, that's soon. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. So are you coming back? I think it's March 18th and 19th. Oh, nice. Wow, that's soon. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. So if you came to this weekend, don't come there expecting anything different. Same guy's like,

dude, it was 50-50 again. What the fuck? Yeah, 50. Is that the name of your next special? 50-50? Now it's all. 100-0, bro. 100-0.

All right, Nate. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. Yeah. A little something here. So, Damo Hicks, comedian, hilarious fella, Panthers fan. Die hard. Ever since, like, what?

Like, week nine? Week 90? No, I don't think so. 19, 95. As in 21 years ago? Are you from Charlotte? Yeah. Why are you a Panthers fan?

I make good life decisions. That's what I tell people. Well, all of a sudden. Well, I don't know if you heard a joke of mine or not, but those, I'm just playing. No, yeah. Why are you a Panthers fan? Here's the thing. I was a 49ers fan in high school for Ronnie Lott.

Okay. I played free safety. I wanted to be the guy. So once he left Yeah That era was over I didn't know what to do They had won their last Super Bowl

And they're like What do I do now? Right I was lost Alright by the way Real quick This is a quick addendum So Nate just did the podcast We had Mike Fonazo on as well

Which you Fonazo Yeah Fonazo's on He's plugging his movie Which is premiering on the 4th At the Creative Alliance Okay So go see that shit

And Check that shit out Check that shit out But this is a quick little addendum because Damo you're a hilarious dude and you've been crushing it all weekend as the feature so I wanted to have you on on the podcast as well so this is a little little addendum so people can check you out too because you're back in

the Maryland, D.C., Virginia area. Just moved back Thursday so I'm out here ready to hit some stages I got a ton of new shit To work on And I didn't work on Any of it in New York Because

You can't I just don't I just don't like The comedy scene there I mean it's cool for people Like I think that If you're new And you go up there

And it's cool But I think I don't know I just didn't like it It wasn't for me Well that's what I mean that's what you hear But I still get booked there

I literally just got A text message Booking me to do Laugh Out Loud in Times Square. Nice. A couple days in February. Cool. What days? The 22nd and I believe the 27th. Good.

All right. Well, and then you'll put that on your website because I'm sure you're diligent about updating your website. Well, I don't have a laptop. I wish I did. All right. So it fell off my lap and broke. And broke the top. All right.

Well, if those are the dates, people in New York, go see Demo. Yeah, yeah. I appreciate it, man. Hey, you crushed it tonight, by the way. Oh, thank you, man. Thank you. No pass host. Thank you.

Hey, I try. Hey, man. I try. I'm a fan. I have been one. I've told you this before. Yeah, I've been a fan of yours, too. I think you were on board ever since you saw me do the, we talked about this, but Morgan Freeman impression that I used to do.

I remember doing a mic at a, I think it was like, it was an all black room, but it was an open mic. And it was like the end of the night. So there were like 10 people there. Somebody went up and did a freestyle before me. And I think it was like the fourth time I ever did stand up. And I think you were in the back with Marcus Brown brown just like morgan freeman just do morgan freeman yeah it's like all right okay that shit is great so yeah i've been on board since then man but but yeah so it was cool like we've never worked together in a professional way so it's been great to hang dude but we've we've we've slaved together

for free at Open Mike's. Yeah, and then this is what it pays off for. A couple of sold-out show, nearly sold-out show tonight. I'm proud of you, dude. Your podcast is doing great. I keep seeing it posted everywhere. People talk about it. Oh, that's cool.

So that's me, dude. And I just got some fries. Things are happening. That's me this time. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. It was probably him last time. Dude's back.

Yeah, I just make up names. I'm like can you give those to miles uh you know what i don't know where he is but i'll find him you know just give him to me oh yeah yeah mine had cheese too can you bring miles some extra honey mustard miles loves that miles loves napkins yeah and baby pictures of small white children so if you could bring those to miles and those aren't my thing wherever he may be leave them in the green room i'll make sure Miles gets it Don't you worry about it alright

Thank you dude I appreciate it Proud of the podcast proud of what you're doing dude I keep hearing great things about you And seeing things posted that's pretty Decent about you dude and I'm like I knew it Josh Coderna That guy's Morgan Freeman impression is gonna take Him places He's gonna do Cosmos next.

Do Neil deGrasse Tyson next. Yeah, fuck that guy. His voice sucks. But guys, what if Morgan Freeman hosted Cosmos? I think it'd go a little something like this. It would sound exactly like. The universe is four billion years old. Andy Dufresne.

And the crawl out of Saturn. We lived on Mars in the Milky Way. But yeah, tell the people where they can find you and if they want to see you. Oh man, Facebook of course. Damo Hicks. Twitter at Comic Damo Hicks.

Website is DamoHicksOnline.com because someone had already taken Damo Hicks for some reason. And I want him dead. So if you're listening, I'm coming to kill you. Or what if they just gave you the website? Would that be better?

No, I have it already. I have a website. I just want the domain name. Right, that's what I mean. But if they gave that to you... Oh, not good enough. Not good enough. They still need to die. I took it in the first place. I had to go outside of my way. Yeah, you can't take that back. I mean, not good enough. Not good enough. They still need to die. No, you should have never took it in the first place. Right, yeah. I had to go outside of my way. Yeah, you can't take that back. I mean, that's a fatal misstep.

Yeah, you're going to die, Damo Hicks. Well, dude, but yeah, it's been a pleasure hanging and working with you, man. Thanks. Appreciate it. It was a great weekend.

Love you, dude. You too, man, and I'm glad we got to work together. Glad you're back and I'll be seeing you around. So thank you to everybody for listening. As always, check us out on Twitter, the podcast is at DigSeshPod.

I'm at Josh Cadern on Twitter and Instagram, digressionsessions.com slash calendar for upcoming dates. And David Koechner, take us out. David Koechner. Digressions Sessions, coming to an end. Thank you. Oh, yeah.