The Nateland Podcast - 264: #264 Sitcoms feat. Leanne Morgan & Greg Warren

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

Nate and Dusty are MIA so Brian and Aaron are joined by Nateland favorites Leanne Morgan and Greg Warren to talk about sitcoms. Greg does his best Redd Foxx impersonation, Aaron does his worst Fonzie impersonation, and Leanne shares stories about her new hit Netflix sitcom "Leanne". Chime: chime.com/Nate Make everyday purchases count with Chime’s Secured Credit Builder Visa® Credit Card. Get started today at chime.com/Nate .Chime. Feels like progress.   Ridge: https://www.Ridge.com/NATELAND Get 10% Off your entire order & take advantage of Ridge’s Annual Sweepstakes by going to https://www.Ridge.com/NATELAND #Ridgepod #ad   IQBAR: Text NATE to 64000 to get twenty percent off all IQBAR products, plus FREE shipping. Message and data rates may apply.   DeleteMe:  joindeleteme.com/Nate Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to  joindeleteme.com/Nate and use promo code NATE at checkout.

Hello, folks, and hey, Bear, as always, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber. The core. The core of the Nate Land podcast is here. We don't forget where we come from, right? We have no idea where Nate or Dusty is. But. Dusty, you don't even look into it. You're like, he's gone. Who knows where he is, you know? Yeah, he's underground. He's, what's going on? Something has happened to spook him. But he'll be back.

He'll be back next week. But filling in, we're joined by the lovely and talented Greg Warren. And former college, All-American wrestler, Lee and Morgan, oh, wait, these interns, they get the intro wrong. Lee and Morgan, Greg Warren. I said to Aaron, I don't think we've ever had. episode where it's just two host with two guests. And Aaron said, Greg and Leanne don't even feel like guests. They don't. That's nice. He said, Greg just shows up. Yeah. Leanne's just here promoter show. But I do feel like y'all are my family. We feel the same way

too. That's why that's why they trusted me and Brian to run things today because I figure y'all are going to be carrying the show for the most part. Yep. Yeah. Greg, you've probably, well, I know you've been the most frequent guests we've had. Yeah. What do you think he's been like 15? I don't know. I don't know if it's 15. That seems high. It seems high. I bet he's been here close to 15 times. How many have we done total? 30?

Yeah. I mean, got a 260-something episode. Oh, okay. That may, that sounds about right. I owe you an apology right away, buddy. Okay, let's hear it. Last time I was here, you had inadvertently stolen something from a restaurant, right? Correct.

Yeah, and I rode you a little bit about that. Yes. Said you're a bad person. Yes. I basically did it yesterday. same thing i went to um bridgestone with nate and laura and his family and harper and saw dude perfect yeah and they have the the convenience store thing where you just grab bunch of stuff and set it on a thing and it rings up you know well i set them up there i got some pork rinds and uh some

a bag of peanuts and a water and i was going through my receipts this morning doing my accounting and it only charged me for the water and the pork grind. So I stole a bag of peanuts inadvertently from Bridgestone. And I'm going to make it right. I'm going to make it right. You're going to do a show at best. You made a living selling peanut butter. Now you're stealing peanuts.

I know, I know, man. It's not good. It's not a good look. I don't feel good about it. It's out there. If somebody from Bridgestone is listening, tell me how I can make it right. But I need to make it right with you because unlike you a man of principle. Like I want to say, when I do wrong,

I said I do wrong. That's right. I was in the Raleigham airport and, you know, now it's hard to get a real person. You scan the thing and, you know, when a robot brings it to you and all that stuff. And I got ready to pay and I thought it was successful. And then I get to my gate and it's still spinning. And then it says, I don't know, like it didn't go through. And I went back. I couldn't find a live person.

Oh, you went back. It was right next door to my gate. But still, I did go back. Yeah. And, but I wanted to catch my flight. Yeah, you're still low carb. Is that what that means? Because you ate pork rinds and peanuts.

He's still training for the Olympics. I like pork rinds. Yeah, yeah, low carb. They were barbecued pork rinds. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because we've been together lately at the Ohio State Fair, and you ate a turkey leg, and I ate a funnel cake.

Turkey leg, I bought a Tess and I each had a bite of a deep, fried Twinkie, I've never had before. Yeah. And then mostly I just do these gigs with Land because they have these gluten-free crackers back there that I go through about a box every time. We're really not gluten-free. We, you know, we ask for them trying to do better. Well, they're good.

But we don't mean it. Yeah. He loves them. I do. I used to always have crustables on her. Yeah, that was a bad time. Uncrustibles. And I shouldn't have uncrustables.

Did you call them crustables? That was not a good time. Uncrustables. And I was inflamed. The smucker's product, which owns Jiff, it's disrespectful. Once again. Crustable. It's just only the crust.

Well, I think that sounds delicious. You ever see that... You ever see that movie, the movie that's the gangster movie with Kevin Costner? Godfather. No, the touchables. Craig, come on. You're a guest. We enter the red eyes.

to get here today to be with us, guys. Thank you. And it was awful. You're welcome. It was awful. Well, I mean, I had to. It was either that or get off stage, do a meet and greet, and then go to a hotel in California, and then drive an hour to LAX and turn in a rental car at 3.45 a.m.

And then get on a flight. So I said, why don't we just do the meet and greet before and then hit to the, but it was all awful, you know. But I'm fine. handling. I'm tickled to be with y'all. I'm okay. It's a big week. It's a real big week. It's a big week. I mean, a huge week. We've talked on the podcast about, you know, it's been a big weekend for net, our big week for Netflix. Dusty special came out. We talked about that. We've also been talking about Leanne, Leanne's new sitcom now, now on Netflix. Unbelievable. Congratulations. Thank you, my darling. It's awesome. We watched it. Yeah. No, no, no. You're right. I'm shaking because we, Ruth and I know, we never have anything to watch at home. And this last week, we watched. Dusty special, great. Yeah. And then we're, we want to binge Leanne, but we also want to take it slow because we

want to take it in and absorb. I've seen four episodes so far. Okay. 16, right here. Out of 16. Benged it for the whole thing. So you're four times better than I am. I'm just saying it's nice.

We're also single and going to see Dude Perfect with Nate's daughter. What's Dude Perfect? What is Dude Perfect? They're like the Beatles for 12 year olds and Greg. Oh. I'm telling you. They're good. They're real good.

Yeah, it's like YouTubers for kids. And I was skeptical. I went with Nate's family, and it is amazing. Do they sing? Is it like the, well? It's like the modern-day Globetrotters. Singing might be the one thing they don't do. But they're funny.

They're really funny. And it's, it is kids going crazy. Yeah, it's not for adults. Yeah. It's for kids and their parents. I was invited. I was invited. I had a good time.

Did they sell out the Brinchstone? Yeah. I mean, it looked like it. Yeah. I don't think they didn't sell as many tickets as Nate. We got treated real well when we went there. I bet. Yeah, yeah.

That's great. Yeah, Tim Tebow was there. Really? Yeah. Sweet Tim Tebow. Tim Tebow was there, yeah. Oh. Yeah, that was kind of cool.

Oh, I'm bad. Little Tim Tebow. Little Tim Tebow. His little britches. Yeah. He's got big bridges, though. Isn't he a big man? He's a big man.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Leanne, it's great, though. The show, I loved it. I honestly, I was like, you're going to, obviously I'm going to watch it because it's you and my friend Mark Gross wrote on it. And, you know, so I was like, I need to watch this.

And then after about episode four, I forgot why I was watching. I just watched it. And I loved it. And I thought you were great. Yeah. The casting is really, really good. Thank you. It's, there's something, you know, I've always thought,

Chuck Lorry's shows are sort of like they're he there's just there's sort of an even pace to him and it's very watchable I tend to watch a lot of you know Chuck Lory's stuff when I'm like Saturday afternoon yeah just getting ready for a show you know it's like oh mom's on or you know and I think uh but it's always on network TV but because it's on Netflix like Chuck stuff is the most bingeable stuff you don't you don't even it's just an even pleasant watch and uh yeah I think everybody's going to go through I mean Brian didn't but I think that um Yeah, I think everybody's just going to go right through it and watch a ton of episodes. Thank you.

We're getting a lot of comments that people have binge watched it. It's so good, man. And maybe even looking at it a second time. And they're asking if we can get a second season. I hope we do. Currently number two on Netflix, at least this morning when I check. That's got to be. That's crazy.

That's a relief. I'll tell you what that is. That's a relief. It's the fourth day, number two. Yeah. It's behind this nasty show that I'm, I can't compete with, but I'm number one in comedy. Let's say that.

Yeah, I can't compete with all that nasty. Somebody was switching back and forth between that nasty show and your show. It was Aaron's wife. Lucy. She said she was watching both of them. Yeah, she's a balance in her life. It's also, man, I mean, it's just, and I guess I'm old or whatever, but it is one of those things where it's, it just.

I'm going to be a little vulnerable here but you just watch it and it's one of those things you're like well everything's going to be okay you know like like it's just like bad stuff happens to you but at the end of the whole each episode and everything like there's enough

shows right now where it's just horrible people doing horrible they're great actors but it's horrible people doing horrible things to each other that's every show it is it's like after a while like I Ozark is a really well shot show it's incredibly good acting. And by the third season, it's like, I can't watch these terrible people doing terrible

things anymore. I do get lost into the story. But with yours, it's like, it just makes you feel good. It's great. Thank you, Greg. You did great. Thank you, my daughter. Well, Chuck Laurie said, when he came to me with that concept at first, I kind of bucked it.

And then he said, but even if, because we don't want it based on my real life because that would be weird. Yeah. But it is called Leanne. And so a lot of my fans were like, oh, my gosh, she's left Chuck Morgan in real life. And then people were commenting... Your daughter's a drunk and everything. Yeah, and people were commenting like, well, Chuck Morgan, he's intimidated by the money she's making.

I mean, people were saying all kinds of stuff, and Chuck goes, laying and do something. But then once that was okay. But Chuck Lori said this is a universal theme. Like, even if you're not going through a divorce or something like that, everybody has to start over sometime in their life. You know, life gets hard and things happen, but you've got to pull yourself up. And so that is the universal theme. And I think it is inspirational to people. I hope it is.

Yeah. Yeah, I got a tear in my eye on the last episode, on the last two, actually. I did. No spoilers. Okay. Now, I'm not going to tell you what's happened. You're going to have to watch more than four episodes for that one. I guess I'll keep going then.

I call in, let's just say more than I should. She regrets ever giving me her phone number. But who calls you more these days? me or Jerry Seinfeld. Probably about the same. The fact that it's even a question is crazy. Yeah. Wow.

Probably about the same. We both harass you a lot, don't we? I wouldn't call it that. Y'all both support me. That's what happens. But yeah, he's been calling me and helping me through this. And it has been wonderful. And he called me the other night I was going on stage in San Jose.

And he said, land, this meant the world to me. He goes, land, because I was torn up. And I mean, my manager's in here. I've kept her torn up. We're all torn up, and I've fretted, and I'm like, is anybody going to like it? And I've tormented my family. And he said, Leon, promise me that you will live in this moment because think about how many people have had a sitcom with their name on it.

And he said, Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore, Lucille Ball. When he said that to me, that's a lot right there. And he said, please know that you've won. It's not a real big deal. Roseanne. Allen. He said that you won. You know, have it because it's such a small.

Yes. group and that helped me you know because this has been a lot yes i lived away from my family for seven months right keenan and kell now is this man i love that show that was a good one has this been a goal or something in the in the back of your mind that you've wanted to do for your whole career or how have you always thought about that okay since i was a baby it's amazing i grew up loving television loving sitcoms and loving comedic actors loved s and ale yeah but loved lucille ball, all of that, every sitcom. I've grieved over Lonnie Anderson, WKRP in Cincinnati.

Oh, that happened yesterday, right? Yes. And I'm, you know, I'm older than y'all, but that was a wonderful sitcom. I don't know if you remember. I don't know if you're pretty close. And Greg and I probably both had posters of Lonnie Anderson a while. At least I did. I still do. I liked whoever played Bailey Quarters, though, was equally as, uh, yeah, was the other, you know, sort of the other. That worked in the radio station. Yeah, she, you remember the other? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, she was, but yeah, I love that sitcom. But you didn't act before this. Well, she was in a movie. I've just done one little movie. Yeah, I mean, I went to the live taping, and then I watched this, and I'll challenge you to, there's seasoned actors on that show, and you can't tell who the person who... That is true. It is, it's so... I'm so proud of you. It is like, I went and watched a live taping, and I'm like, she is going to toe to to with Krista Johnson.

Kristen Johnson is great. She's awesome. She's been in like 300 episodes of television. You know, network television. It was, it's, I don't, you made some kind of deal with the devil or something. I swear I didn't read. It's crazy. Thank you.

I mean, yeah, you. It's really, really good. Yeah. Thank you. But they've all told me in Hollywood that comedians make good actors. I can show you some audition tapes from a few years ago, but might not. necessarily be there. But like, I've been watching Happy Gilmore, too, and I loved it.

And I thought about Adam Sandler and Spanglish, and then this one had a lot of heart to it. And I love watching him. He can do drama. Spanglish is great. Uh-huh, wonderful. Yeah. So I hope I can be like that.

You are. You are. Thank you. No, Erin and I were sitcom stars. Did you know that? I bring it up almost every episode. Yeah. It was a great Greg Garcia project, right?

Yeah, yeah. Sprung a few years ago. Neither of us had character names. right doesn't matter prison guard number one stole the scene

though from what I understand he was in the trailer yeah I don't know if I had a name or not but I was basically a Hannibal Elector character

I had a mask in prison but point is we get it you know yeah we get the grind we get what you're

we get what yes Greg does it but we get it no I don't mean it's not even something I can really talk about

I'm more of just a viewer well today's episode's about sitcom so we're gonna get into it but let's uh well first of all let's talk about where we were this weekend okay uh i was in goshen indiana at the funny farm comedy club and that's one reason i called me in multiple times because it is a drive but and we talked for a couple of hours yeah yeah yeah you talked her for two hours she kept said i got to go did you really bugged her for two hours the the biggest week of

her life well i kept calling her back yeah i was like i think we got cut off lian baits Scorsesey was trying to call her. She's got to talk to you about your Goshen, Indiana gig. Come on, man. I have stuff to say. I have to stuff to say. And I'm sorry. We go a long way back.

We do. And I'm sorry I didn't give you a chance much to talk about what's going on with you. I forgot that you had a show that came out. You, dang, we talked about it, my darling. Yeah. I was like, yeah, yeah, let's move on. Yeah, Netflix, Goshen, Indiana. Now, you need to understand.

It's a lovely place, and I had a great time. Oh, good. And a lot of folks came out. You see any Amish? Do you see them around? I didn't. I know they're all around that area, but I didn't. It's a lot of, you know, it's close to South Bend.

A lot of Notre Dame fans. Oh. Didn't really care for that, but it's very close to South Bend. Yeah, it is super close. I like looking for the Amish. It's fun to see it. I do too. I'm fascinated by them.

Yeah, it's wild. Supposedly there's a Walmart there that they've built a place for the Amish. Like a park to park their. Buggy? Buggies, yeah. Oh. Just like a pole to hit. ditch it on or what?

I don't know. I always Google every town I go to and read about it. And there was a movie shot there. Oh, really? It was like Casey Affleck or something. And then it said it was the only Walmart that had a place for Amish to hook their bags. Oh, good for that. Oh, nifty.

Thoughtful. So that's where I was, Leon. I'm sure you had something similar. Go ahead. I was in San Jose, Bankersfield, California. Oakland, California, and then Thousand Oaks. Wow. I did five shows in four days.

Wow. Yeah, they were all darling. Not one buggy parking space. No. No. But a lot of almond, you know, trees and drive it through. They're beautiful. Yeah.

I heard you killed it in Thousand Oaks. Thank you. My buddy Mark and brought his neighbors and his wife to the show. They loved it. Oh, good. Mark Gross? Yeah. There was a lot of crew there.

Basically. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I thought me and you were friends. we are we are i'm sorry go ahead it was you know a lot of my crew came and and blake clark was there that plays my day he's so good in that show man he's great he's so good in it and he's good in happy go more too you know he said adam sandler's been so good to him but yeah he's precious that thing that thing in your show sorry to interrupt but in your show when he does

it like he just mumbles or whatever every time i thought that was great i know he's wonderful and celia that plays my mother they steal the show. They're great. They're wonderful. She played my mom in the movie with Reese Witherspoon and Wilfair. So we had a chemistry and that's why they had her. Isn't that wonderful? It was great. Yeah, it was great. Where were you, Greg? Well, earlier in the week, I was opening for Leanne at the Ohio State Fair. Oh, yeah, we were at the Ohio State Fair. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah, it was my first state fair. Nice. It's pretty awesome. Outdoors? It was indoor. Oh, wow. And it was wonderful. About 8,000 seats. Jeez. So it was, what is it, a theater?

like a big kind of aunt like what is it like a big fair venue like almost a giant barn with like eight nine thousand people I mean that's awesome it was packed with her fans and um you know I thought I had pretty good show yeah um but Leanne brings her daughter test to a lot of these shows and she talks about her daughter so there's some people that come backstage you know Leanne's people that want to meet Leanne and man they could not push me out of the way quick enough like hey I was Oh, Tess. It's Tess. It's Tess.

I had a bit I did about fishing. Tess. Look, it's Tess. You're bringing your bits up to him? Remember that fishing bit? I just, it was like an hour ago. Which Kills?

Which Kills? That fission bed. Kills. It doesn't matter. Not when Tess is. Oh, it's Tess. Just pushing me out of the way. I know.

And what was Tess doing, sitting up there? Yeah. She could be bothered with people or not. Yeah. She's over. it, man. Yeah. And then I did Madison with Nate. Yeah. The night before I did a, I spoke at the National Wrestling Coaches Association. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah, it was pretty cool. A big week for you.

It was a big week. It was a gig, you know, in the afternoon after lunch. And if I was ever going to kill at a gig, it would be the perfect, perfect crowd for you. It is national wrestling coaches. I know a lot of them. Yeah. And I did, okay. I did. I mean, it was fine. It was fine. Well, had they eaten lunch and they were tired? Were then in a slump or what was it? Did you say? You said after lunch and I didn't know if maybe they had had bread.

They had some bread. Man, I would love to blame it on the bread. I bet it was the sourdough. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, now that I think of a lot of these bits I've eaten it at, there was bread. Yeah, no, there was, it was just like a big, they were, it was a big giant thing, you know, and right, the closest person is 50 yards away from me. Oh, yeah, but they, but they went well, but I was like, they're going to carry me out of here. Like, this is, yeah, it went okay.

What about you, Aaron? I had a corporate in Denver, made a weekend out of it, took, took the baby, took the wife, and, uh, what's a Rockies game? Three or four days out in Denver, Colorado. Yeah, it was awesome. So it's just kind of a low-key weekend. Now we're back at it. So that's pretty much it. Nothing crazy.

Since we're being vulnerable, I stopped at the bank on the way here and was in line. And then when I was walking away, the guy behind me, the lady, the teller said, sorry for your wait. And he said, that's okay. It's fine to wait when there's a celebrity in the building. And I stopped. And I looked back and I pretended like, she was like there's celebrity. And he's like, yeah.

And I was pretend like I was looking at my receipt, you know, like, is this right? Waiting for the punch, you know. And then he goes, yeah, the guy in front of that guy, that was Felix Cavalieri lead singer of the Young Rascals. Wow. And then I just went ahead and left. But I looked this guy up. I saw him too. He's got a lot of big hits.

Yeah, Cavalry? Yeah. The Young Rascals did. They were on Ed Sullivan's show, like songs that you would know. Yeah. And he's 82. Eighty-two. Yeah.

You didn't get Cavalry's autograph right now? I didn't know it was him, but I almost gave a guy an autograph who did not know who I was, is what I'm saying. Oh, they thought you were him. Yeah. You didn't get that part? No, no, no, no, no. I thought, no, this guy was actually at the bank. This guy was at the bank.

See? But when I hear someone say, oh, we got to, I think they're, of course, I'm about to say me. So I linger. in the moment. Brian's like, guys, guys, guys. I'll take a picture with whoever wants it. Yeah. I'm like fiddling with a pen or whatever.

The guy that just cast a check for $30. But there was someone much bigger than me in the line right in front of me. That's rough, man. Yeah. I remember, I mean, they're older, but I remember. That's, I can, I think I know who that is. The young rascals. If you played some of their songs, you would know them.

You would know the songs. Okay. I'll take my word on it. I mean, he's a cute little lady. something you're all mine in. There's a, one of the Dr. Pepper songs they say. The jingle?

I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper? No, not that one. Good song. It is a good song. I mean, yeah, if you're, if you're getting upset about being not recognized over the I'm a pepper, you're a pepper. You got high,

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Results may vary. All right. Should we get in these comments? Let's do it. Comments have come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast reviews, and Nate Lan at Nate Bargatsi.com. Marsha Coke. please schedule

Leanne Morgan and Greg Warrant as guests on the same show I would love to see them at the table how about that dreams come true we made it happen Marcia Coke Marcia thank you Marcia

we do have a wonderful chemistry don't we do Marsha Marcia Marcia what is that from Marcia Marcia Brady much oh boy oh Marcia

yeah the sitcom episode's going to be tough this guy out here but you can tell us about current Keenan and Kel. I'm happy to get into that. Aaron Britt, my wife and I went to the Leigh and Morgan show in Indy.

She was on Dusty Time. I had her at a tight 86. What did I did? 86 minutes? I bet I did. Dusty loves to tell us how far he's going and it keeps going up. Oh, he does. Oh, really? Well, I shouldn't. I'm just unorganized. Yeah. And then you know Tess is in the back going.

Oh, yeah. Get off. I know she gets so mad at me. I went out and watched in the Ohio State Fair. She did about two hours at the Ohio State Fair. Did I? Surely not. I mean, it was great, though. I'm sorry.

If I did that, you know, I'm a talker. It's great, though. It's so conversational. It's so natural. Well, thank you. It makes me sick. Oh, Greg, but I need to cut it down. Or maybe great.

No, you just cut his time. Hey, come on, man. What do you do? I'm trying to sell tickets here. Michael. Oh, Tito? Tito. As a doctor, I can confirm, Greg Warren's laugh is the cure for all physical and middle illness.

That's very sweet, Michael. This is a switch. I don't know if I want this guy as a doctor. It's because Leanne's here and I'm trying to be nice. I know, man. Thank you. Because the last time I was here, you opened with like five derogatory comments about me. One of them was that somebody saw, they said, I walked by and I'm pretty sure I saw Greg

Warren after a show eating. a subway sandwich in his car, and I figured it wasn't alone, and I figured it probably wasn't a good time to bother. Guess who was really entertained by that clip? All of America? Yeah, I would say. One in particular, Nate Bargettzi, he thought that was just about the best that he walked. Yeah, he walked on the place. He's like, man, I served about that sub sandwich you're in the car. Yeah. So this is a nice change. Thank you. I'm glad to hear Nate's watching. Mr. Hokey 21. I didn't know about Nate Lan until Leanne's first episode.

I'm a fan of hers and now the band too. I live in Jonesboro. The National Storytelling Festival is a pretty big deal around here. And my absolute favorite teller is Donald Davis. He is a legend. Everyone should check him out. I have been to that on my children's film trips. When they get in, when they would get in fifth grade at the Christian Academy of Knoxville,

we would all take a buzz to the. the storytelling festival in Jonesboro, and I've seen Donald Davis, and he kills. Double D. Double D with a little bow-tie-owned storytelling festival that will mesmerize you. Unbelievable. Are they funny stories? Yes, yes. And you have your head between your knees.

Yeah, some of them, not all of the storytelling is funny. It's some, you know, other, but all of it's fascinating. Okay. It's not what we do, but it's fascinating. And there's a bunch of little women with campers and homeschool little children, and people don't shave their legs. But it's fascinating. There's a good ice cream shop there, had a ball.

Jonesboro, oldest city in Tennessee. Yeah, and I think there's like a little museum where you can go in and see all that kind of stuff. My kids loved it. Yeah. Well, my boy, dad, I don't know if the girls, they were tickled to get to go on a field trip. But yeah, Donald Davis Leanne tells something interacts, one of my favorite parts

is I hope you're doing on a special. You talk about the lady up in the Asheville, I think, that was in the... Oh, the CBD, the woman that on the CBD store. That didn't shave her armpits. And then she... And then Leanne says that she's like a little hippie chick

or something like that. And then you just do like this weird physical impression of her. Did you do that on your special? I can't wait. She just does it. I'm like, you just act out. She's like, a little... hippie chick.

You're like a little hippie chick. That's when I took that CBD that I think was laced with LSD and went on a trip and saw snakes. In the night. And I've never done another one. Horrible. I make sure I try to walk in the room every time when you do that joke because you set it up with whatever the CBD shops are in Knoxville, but it's illegal. And you go, the dope is a coming. Because we don't have dope in Tennessee yet.

But I've heard the dope is coming here. I'm not going to take it. You're not? I'm not going to take any dope. Okay. Me neither. No. It feels weird for me to start at this age.

I just want to say I legalized marijuana in Tennessee as youth governor of Tennessee in 2010. Really? Yeah. I was pretty ahead of my time. Really? I legalized medical. I think I just decriminalized it. And how'd you become youth governor?

I ran. I ran for, and I won. How are you ahead of your time? Because it's still not legal. Because I did it way before any, I mean, did it before any state did it. Oh, okay. And everybody's doing it anyway. Aren't they all? Everybody's on dope. Everybody's going and doing. Yes.

It's just so weird for me at my age, because we grew up with dare. Right. Right. And don't do dope. And I was just in Colorado. And it's just like, there's no stigma about it. No. You smell it. ever wear it's almost like you're gross if you didn't drink a beer it's like you should just smoke out there yeah it's how they treat it's crazy trait you think it's trace trey it's french oh i thought you're reading i thought you're reading the next name i was like it's very grace oh

okay uh tress lawless tray tray it's tray lawless meaning very lawless oh okay home before dark okay sounds like a great name for breakfasts next tour i have a lot of tour these ladies this weekend all wore matching shirts that said just outside of tour because everywhere I go is just outside of a major city so they all had these matching shirts all these ladies

that's pretty cool yeah and then last week I went pitching my shows coming up a lot of them my selling point is you'll be home before dark I like a little bit earlier start so do I man I said Greg is kind of inspiration because I'm trying to do more all-age of shows and stuff like that. Yeah.

I mean, my personal favorite for your tour name was the easier to drive. Yeah, well, that's the one that Nate came up with. I thought that was. Yeah. And this past weekend, that was so true. I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. I think you're like, I'm just going to drive.

Yeah, there's nowhere that you would either, you'd have to fly somewhere and still rent a car and drive a few hours. You didn't fly direct into Goshen? Grace. The reason Aaron is such a nice young man is because his parents took the time and care to teach him manners. I still remember that episode where he talked about calling a friend and said, good morning, miss so-and-so. May I please speak to so-and-so? Obviously, Aaron was taught to be polite, reflecting in his phone manners. Good job, Mr. and Miss Weber. All right. Thank you, Grace. That's really nice. So what was that? Who did you? You called a girl? I want to ask the two of you I had like a script I had to say when we answered the phone

growing up like it was a Weber residence may please ask who's calling or something like that we were just taught to say that

really and then you call like some near do well kids house and it's just like hello and I'm like

come on yeah yeah but there's a lot of little stuff I think about it now that I have my own kid there's a lot of stuff

that was kind of beaten metaphorically into me yeah like my mom We were walking into a store, and my mom would just stand by the door until I opened it for, like, little things like that. So stuff that I still think about today.

I think I remember not opening the door from my mom one time, and it was beaten, not metaphorically into me. I do think manners are important, and you are so precious. He is, he's precious. It's just like it's almost royalty. He's got an air of royalty. And he's got those twinkling eyes. Richard gear. Richard gear eyes.

I'm always saying it. People say it looks like Brad Pitt. Well, Brad Pitt with an insulting modifier usually. Fat Brad Pitt, bloated Brad Pitt. Something like that, but I'll take it. Brad Pitt's still a good-looking guy. This might be the nicest episode of the history of Nateland. Yeah, I don't know about these.

You got to switch it up. These comments are going to take a turn. Cynthia Copperdarder. I'd love some Greg Warren merch with peanut butter boy on it. Yeah. The special that I did with Nate called The Salesman, he stepped in and named it that. I wanted to call it Peanut Butter Boy. I think it was probably a good decision. I don't know. Peanut Butter Boy is pretty fun. I thought so. We all liked it too. Nate was not having it. Oh. You can re-release it. Groucho T. When you guys are doing multiple shows a day, I'll let you guys take this one. Do you feel like your set? is better. The first show, because it is fresh or earlier and you're less tired, or the second

show, because you already ran it once that day and have adjusted to how the first show went. I can never decide when I buy tickets to comedy shows if I should do the early or late. Leanne? I think the later one. I think I kind of run the first one, and then I feel better on the second one, I think. Yeah. And then the 4 o'clock, they're good for me, the matinees.

I love them at night, but I feel like it's just a little more energy at the seven. Well, see, I will answer this. The shows I'm doing, the second show starts at 9.30, and there ain't nobody will see what that's at 930. I'm doing 1030 shows sometimes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I do I think everybody's tired. Yeah. Liam, were you out on the road when they had you do sometimes on the Saturday of the midnight?

There was a three show night and you'd have to do the midnight. Yes. That was awful. I repeated jokes sometimes. Oh, I would. Yeah. I remember repeating a joke and just look at him. I was like, did I already say that?

They're like, yeah, yeah. Because that's your third show of the day. Yeah, man. Yeah, that's hard to keep track of it. But I'm going to say the late just because we're a little low on some sales for some of those late shows out there. That's when you want to see it. I'm going to tell you. This is, here, you're real funny.

I wouldn't even bother going on those early. we're not to see you just sold out two shows is it this weekend we we uh Charleston yeah yeah yeah um nice soon yeah it's uh we're having a good run now um it doesn't hurt when you go in front of uh 30 thousand people uh that are Nate Bergetzi fans and after you're set you say I'll be in uh you know Charleston or Raleigh or something like that doesn't hurt or uh yeah I went in front of Leanne's fans at the Ohio State Fair and got to say I was coming back to Columbus. So it's nice.

It's real night. It's real. You know, some, my manager said something like, well, we know we can sell those tickets in that market. And I was like, I mean, we hope. It's like if we go in front of 30,000 people for some reason. But no, no, it's, yeah, it's going, it's going great. Thanks to people like Nate and Leanne.

Oh, honey. Well, you're getting up there. doing that chair. Yes. That's what's doing it. Oh, it's Tess. Gregory Dunn. Can we get a Chuck Morgan and Leanne podcast?

Chuck Morgan got some stories, I bet. No. First of all, I was on Kelly and Mark Rippa, which let me say, darling, beautiful. They are both the prettiest people I've ever looked at. their teeth, her arms, I've never. And they go, we need to get Chuck Morgan on here. And I thought, my heart dropped. Because Chuck Morgan says like four words a day.

And it's very introverted. And I don't think, I mean, I think that would scare him to death. And I don't think he would want to. Well, maybe. I don't know. Because this last special that I just shot, Chuck came out like that on stage. So maybe. Really?

Maybe he would, you know, he did. You were just on Amy Poehler's podcast, and you were talking about how Chuck came out and really lived it up. Yeah, he did. He did. Did you ever see an episode of Family Feud? We did, and it comes out in late August. Oh, man. And he loved it, but he also took it very seriously because he's very competitive.

And he said, we're going to rip their throat out. And took it just like he would a job. And who were you playing against? Lainey Wilson, that dumb, darling. Not dumb. I didn't mean to say, Darling, I was going to say Devlin, her, duck, her

fiancé, that's what I was trying to say. Duck, who is a doll, who, you know, was a quarterback at Sanford. Oh, really? Yeah, when Tess was there. And then went to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Wow. Yeah.

So Little Laney and her family, and they were darling. But, you know, I've gotten to know her, and she's precious. We've done a couple things together. So we had a ball. It was so fun. If y'all ever get to do it, you need to do it.

And Steve Harvey? I'll be sure, too. I'll see if I'm fitted in, Leanne. Steve Harvey, though. I've been thinking about it, and I'm not sure if I'm... Have y'all loved Steve Harvey, though? I love Steve Harvey. I love Steve Harvey.

It's for me, pound for pound, the greatest game show host of all time. I think so, too. Like, that show is, it's just him riffing the whole time. The show, there's probably 30 seconds of gameplay on the whole episode, but he's just so great. That's very cool. that you got to do that. I know, and I've always been a big fan, and when they asked me years ago,

what do you want out of this? I said, I want to be Steve Harvey. Because you think about what all he's done. Yeah, yeah. Tours and stand up and talk show and he's done everything. You're on your way. Thank you. You're right there with Steve Harvey. I think I could do a game show if it didn't have math in it.

Yeah. You know, if there's math, I can't do it. So where will that air? Well, that'll make the host do it. That airs on. ABC? Is it ABC? What kind of game show

would they make the host do math? Would you stop? You're ruining the... Remember, what's his name? Howie that's got germ-thing, Howie Mandel. Didn't he do that wall?

Little Megan Markle would hold up... Was that him? I can't even think. Deal or no deal? Yeah. Did he do dealing no deal? I forgot Megan Markle. And little Megan Markle was in a little...

You're ruining the whole thing. Howie Mandel's not doing the math. Would you shut up? Leanne. Leanne thinks that there's no staffers back there in his ear telling him the answers or the, like, she's like they're really smart. Well, that would make me nervous. You think Regis is writing the questions on who wants to be a million?

The whole illusion is gone now. She's not going to want to do it. I'll back off. Yeah. And then you're going to sell popcorn at a racetrack. I do want to sell popcorn. When I retire, I would like to sell popcorn at a NASCAR track because I think that would be. Nifty.

Nifty and to get to stare at people. Yeah. I wish somebody could sort of get the popcorn right, though, at these live events. I'm not sure I've had – I mean, because I'll do a stovetop popcorn just in the pan with some oil, you know, I think, and maybe a little more oil than you're supposed to have. And I'm telling you, the right amount of salt, that's good popcorn. I've yet to see any movie theater or any sporting event match it. You don't like movie theater popcorn?

It's not as good as the stuff that I can pop. No, I have a hard time believing. that, dude. So it's like dusty, dude, I'm telling you. You put liquid butter on the top of it? No, I don't, no, I don't want that. I don't like, I don't, I think the popcorn should be moist, just enough popped. You don't need the butter to moisten it.

I don't like butter on mine. Neither do I. See? We go to the movies. Me and Leanne, just going to movies. Chuck. You bring your own popcorn into the movie. I have offered to carry a baby for Greg Moore in years.

I've done it because I want him to have a wrestling baby. me. And I said, Chuck Morgan, what you said, I don't think Chuck Morgan wouldn't want you to. But he is a huge Greg Warren fan. And when I told him

that he was going to go on tour with me and open for me, he goes, you can't follow him. That's what Chuck goes. He goes, what? Are you crazy? You cannot follow Greg Warren.

Well, no, what he said was, you should open for Greg Warren. And I told you, tell Chuck that you don't play funny bones anymore. Yeah. Tuck's a, he's a real big guy.

He's, yeah, he's an intimidating figure. He has, but he's down in his back. I don't think he could whip anybody right now. No, now's my chance. Christine Wynens. I think Greg Warren should make bang, bang, chew, chew, train, his catchphrase at least this year. Funniest thing I've ever heard.

Thank you. Wow. Yes. Thank you, Christine. I noticed on this Nate tour, they'll do a recap, you know, at the end of the week and photos and every one of your shoulders kind of tilted. I was coached when I was doing that bit by, by Adrian over there, that I was not getting enough shoulder and hip movement into the cheer. So, and I had a high school cheerleading coach work with me on that cheer. Wow. Yeah. That's awesome. If you don't know

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After you purchase, they'll ask you where you heard about them. Be honest with them and tell them that we're the ones who did that. So support our show and tell them we say you. Yeah. Ridge. Ryan Helwig. I'm a fairly new listener to the podcast, so maybe this has been discussed before, but wondering how a Southern boy like Aaron ended up at Notre Dame just doesn't seem right. Is he wondering why I went there or how I?

Catholicism, right? Probably more why. Okay. Yeah, Catholicism was a part of it, I guess. My dad went, my two older siblings went. I had a bunch of cousins. It was like a family thing. It's a lot of that at Notre Dame. It's all people whose family went there. So that's a big reason wine. Do you remember? You were on that, I got to go when Burt Kreischer did that big. I do remember that. And you were there and there was these big old linemen

from Notre Dame that had their little shorts were up in their crack. And their little fannies were between their shoulder blades. Those big old line. It was the entire offensive line came to the show. The entire offensive line that's the biggest on boys I've ever seen. And they're hanging out with

So they're shirtless and they're getting after it, dude. But they, yeah, especially as a pack, them moving around, you're like, geez, dude. There's a photo with you and them, right? Yeah, I have a picture of me in the middle. And they're looking so small. I look like a child. Yeah. It's crazy, man.

Yeah. Big fannies. The big fan of tour. Right. Up in between their shoulder blades. That's how those boys are built. Mm-hmm. Sweet.

Mm-hmm. Lauren M. Weller Watson. Leanne's show is so nostalgic. Reminds me of watching Mama's family with my grandmother, who passed away in June. Oh, Lauren. I got a little tear in my eye during the opening credits when Leanne popped up on the screen. Oh, sweet. I haven't seen that far, but...

Leanne! Yeah. Yeah. It grows on you. Yeah, in between episodes. Leanne. It does. And is the color scheme reflect anything?

Because it's always different colors. Um, no, I did not know they were going to do that, but I love it. Yeah, I thought it was all going to be pink, but it's, every episode's got a different, um, color. And, um, Mo, Keb, wrote, Keb, is it? Keb Mo. Keb Mo. Yeah. And another woman wrote that music. And he came to the, and he's, you know, a unbelievable artist. And I didn't even realize that we're going to do that for me. That's awesome. When you're in it trying to learn lines and what camera blocking is,

you don't know what's happening because you're overwhelmed and you think you're going to get the shingles. But I didn't. I made it. What would you say, I mean, I'm sure we're going to get into my new show of it, but I'm just curious, what was the hardest thing for you to get down? Like, what would you say was the biggest hurdle to get into filming the show? Was there one thing in particular you really had to work at or did it all kind of come naturally for you?

Um, the, the timing and being in front of a live audience was saved me. I felt good about that. I felt like I got that down, whatever happens. Yeah, that's stand-up. Yeah. But, yeah. But the learning a script every week was daunting. And then camera blocking, because I didn't know, you know, all the cameras and I didn't

know all the terminology and I'd have to stop and go, what are y'all talking about? You know, because they would say something and all these other people knew what they were talking about. So I had to learn that. And then I thought it ended up, I know now what they mean by it, but it was very daunting at first when they would say, it'll get in your body land. So when they would say, say this line and end this on this word while you pick up the creamer and then go put the creamer in the refrigerator and end on this. So, and I would go, no, I mean, whatever. And then you, but you rehearse it several times and it gets in your body. They would say it's going to get in your body and it does.

And then if they change it, then it's almost like you can't do it because. it's in your body. So I didn't know that was going to happen. But the whole, you know, it was daunting, but then I settled into it. But the, every week learning a script, they said to me, you're going to build this muscle. It's a muscle and you're going to build it. And I was like, no, I want. But I did.

Over time, I realized how to learn it. And, you know, they change it every night. Because if the jokes aren't working. I mean, we do a run through every day, then they'd change them. I'd get new lines the next day. And then while you're shooting it, if something doesn't work in front of a live audience, the writers start walking toward you're like, oh, no, they're going to give me a new line. And that, you know, can mess with you.

Right. Because one line, you know, changes and it's got something behind it that makes you think of that. But anyway, that would, I got used to that, you know, and it would change on a dime. And you just got to go with it. Now, when you do the run through, who's that in front of? one day it'll be in front of the writers and then the next day it would be Netflix and the writers and Warner Brothers people

and they'd give you notes like let's change this or change that yeah there's like little facial and things that you do in your act like Leanne isms and pretty early on I started to see like oh she's incorporating that into her acting

which is pretty cool yeah that I was like oh now she's Now she's got it, man, because it was like, it was like, there's just, you're real good at that. Like, you do some physical stuff that's when you're not talking that a lot of comics can't do. And I saw it in the show. It was really, really cool. And I'm like, and it seemed very natural. And I was like, yeah, that's.

Well, thank you. No, my buddy who writes on a show told me, like, after the first week, she's like, she's a star. She's a star. Yeah. So, Brian, when you were prisoner number two, what did you find is the hard? thing that you had to get used to? The Hannibal Electra mask that was on my face. That's what I thought.

Yeah, it was pretty hot in there. I'll tell you, I know you didn't ask, but the hardest part for me is I broke. I was laughing the entire time. Yeah. I was in one scene where I was just, I was just standing there. And I ruined like two takes because I was just laughing. The scene I was in. The scene you were in.

Yeah, everybody was making me, I was like, does nobody else find this funny? I was like, guys, this is hilarious. But they're all professionals. And then we'll see what makes it in the movie But in the movie We're supposed to be laughing And to a degree When we were ad-libbing at least, right?

And Aaron is so good at Either fake laughing or real laughing That he was making me look good Because You were killed He was nailing the laughter part So We're glad to say

What the name of the characters are In the movie I'm trash collector number two Okay There's a theme I think you can see Yeah I'm trash collector number

one yeah that's great when will that be out march 13th oh my gosh in theaters yeah yeah oh wow yeah yeah yeah that's exciting so uh this week we're talking about sitcoms i looked on rotten tomatoes and you have the number one uh as far as fans sitcoms as far as the highest what's the tomato meter i made a meter yeah yeah yeah yeah it's like 100 or yeah high 90s yeah yeah yeah it was 100 i voted it's at 90% right now there's just there was some things I don't want to get into it now it's good

I'm not saying it's not good I'm just there's a couple things I would have done it's not Goshen good bitch I love you I like your sitcom baits things yeah man Kempmo's gonna have to go a different direction

Yeah, a little baits. Aaron, I think I emailed you that, uh, I mean, it's a who's who of you're beating the bear. Really? Yep. At least amongst the fans. I went from the bear to you. Look at that.

Look at that. Yeah. Right up there at the top. Unbelievable. Yeah. Yeah. The people have spoken. You're beating King of the Hill. Oh, wow.

Yeah. Do you try not to, I was like, have you looked at a lot of this stuff or do you try not to look at it? I mean, I haven't seen, I've only heard people saying they love it, but do you like, do you seek this kind of stuff out? No, I try not to. And Kristen Johnston said, don't do it, Lee, and get off of it and let everybody else deal with it. I have seen a couple of things about, well, we just don't like Ken laughter. And that just tears me up because it's filmed in front of a live audience. I know.

That drives me. They're like, I don't like the laugh track. It's a play in front of a live audience. Right, right. And that one, my buddy that wrote on your show, it enrages him. Yeah. He's like, it's not. It's not.

It's a play. I know. And then you think that when I saw what went up on Netflix like the last month, mom went up on there. Chuck Laurie's mom went straight to the top. Reba's first sitcom, straight to the top. George and Mandy or Young Sheldon, other Chuck Lorry Shuck.

People love a sitcom and find comfort in that with that live in front of a live audience, filmed in front of a live audience. And then other people, I don't know if they've gotten used to like Parks and Rec and Office and they think that it's can, but it's not. Yeah, it's a different thing.

It's a play. And when it's well done, it's awesome. But all those sitcoms, they debuted. They built momentum years ago. I know. And you can tell people, still love them. When is the last time they had a multi-cam sitcom debut on Netflix?

I mean, it's... Was it the ranch with... Yeah. That might have been in it. But is that... Is that multi-cam? I think that might have been a multi-cam. Well, can you talk a little bit about what multi-cam means versus single camera?

What does that mean? Hmm. Let me think. What would that be? I bet one of them's more. I'm sorry. I'm feeling it for Nate. We're throwing around all this industry terminology.

I'm just trying to bring the people into this. But when I hear multicam, I think, like, oh, your show's film, where it's almost like you're looking at a house, like half a house. You only have a few sets. Okay. You know, and it's on a soundstage by the studio. Okay. And you know, it's a play, basically. Why is it called multi-cam?

Do you know? There's multi-cams. Okay. Filming you. And like a single cam is like a movie. You know, it's like filming a movie, and then everybody's got to do their part like I did in my movie. But they use multiple cameras in a movie, too, right? Yeah, but you're, I think the best way, and I'm not the guy for this, we need a better guy.

I'm not the girl for this. Well, then I'm going to try, okay? So it's basically like you have a set that's staged, okay? Right. And the thing that moves is the cameras around you. But when you're, you can go anywhere with, if you're shooting modern family or you're talking right to the camera. do a lot of that sort of talking to the camera in between the scenes and they'll go they'll go the cameras move all around okay it's it costs a lot of money to build a sound stage right right so you can't

really move you know you got to build the sets right there okay um that's as good as you're gonna get i mean for me i you know i don't like to be the spokesperson on this but i think i got it mine was filmed where friends was filmed oh that's so cool and lisa kudrow is filming um the comeback right now on it. Wow. And full house, it's a historically successful sound stage.

I thought that was crazy. That's amazing. I know. There's a plaque out front and it tells what all was filmed. It was, that blew me away. Did you take any,

do you have anything? I know you said you're hoping for season two. It looks like everything's going to be good for that. But did you take anything from the set? I was wondering, do you have any like mementos or stuff?

No, I got a bunch of clothes. I took some of her clothes. Well, there's a big one. Yeah. And then, but there are things that we all want on that set. because it was beautiful. And if you haven't watched it, I mean, the house was beautiful.

And I wanted it to be a pretty southern home because I'd had deals in the past where people wanted to write us as like downtrodden and pitiful. And we were, you know, and it just, I said, I wish y'all could depict the South in a, you know, wonderful way. And they did. And that is a beautiful home and the beautiful kitchen and like a Nancy Myers kitchen. and I just thought they did a beautiful job. So there's a lot of stuff everybody wants. There's a Kitchen A Mixer. We're all going to fight over.

Who's Nancy Myers? She did all those movies. All right, Judy, what's one of those that there was Merrill Streep? Something's got to give. Oh, yeah, man. You remember how beautiful they all were? What Women Want? Man, that was a great movie.

Yeah. I haven't watched it in a while, but I remember liking it. So there was a. it's all it porn for women. Okay, okay. It was somebody did, I think it was SNL when that movie came out. They did a what, what men want? No, it was, it came out the same week as a movie called What Women Want,

and then it was, we were men, we were soldiers. No, yeah, yeah. It came out the same week. Is it the same week? Or something SNL said that they were doing a combo thing called, we were soldiers who knew what women wanted. I can't remember who did. Yeah, it was a great joke.

Yeah, it was a great joke. A weekend update. Yeah, like a weekend update. Yeah, yeah. It's probably like Neeling or somebody like that. Yeah. This episode is proudly brought to you by IQ Bar, our exclusive snack sponsor. IQ Bar is better for you, plant protein-based snacks that are made with brain boosting nutrients to refuel, nourish, and satisfy hunger without the sugar crash.

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so let's talk about a little bit about the history of sitcoms okay um the first sitcom at least from american television was amos and andy and i watched it recently it holds up uh he watched it when it was out he pulled me in he watched it recently yeah it does not hold up that was a joke but uh one of the first huge sitcoms was i love lucy yeah and they had a lot of rules then that there was a it was called the hayes code he was the president of the motion pictures producers and he came up with what you could and couldn't do in film and television some of these are pretty funny it was just a guy named hayes yep this was his code will hayes he was

president the motion pictures producers and distributors of america he was a church elder and they felt like he had a good moral compass so he came up with these rules you know in live lucy are obviously married in real life married on the show they sleep in separate bed They couldn't say pregnant They couldn't say the word pregnant They had to say with child Or expecting Wow

Yeah Bun in the oven They had to get creative I'm pretty sure that's not gonna There were a lot of sitcoms where people slept in twin bands Dick Van Dyke show Yeah Dick Van Dyke show

And that was because of the Hayes coat They couldn't share a bed Wow Well I share a band with Tim Daly Yeah with your sister With your husband And Kristen She's getting me through a hard time

And your mom in one of the episodes, all three of you in there. But Tim Daly, man. He's a good-looking guy, huh? Uh-huh. Oh, yeah. He was beautiful. He was all of our boyfriend on the set. We just all stared at little Tim Dightly, and he was darling.

Yeah, he's really good in it. I'm a fan. Oh, wonderful. Yeah, wings. Madam Secretary. Madam Secretary. Yeah. The practice.

Tess watched that. She loves a good medical. The practice was after Gray's Anatomy, same producer, right? Is that what that? Chandra wrong. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So here's some of the don'ts. No profanity. And they list it. It's stuff nowadays. You wouldn't even think about it being profanity. No ridicule of the clergy. Ridicule of the clergy. Yeah.

Some be carefuls was the use of the flag. Make sure it's, you know, not disrespected. And not disrespecting it. Yeah. Any theft, robbery, safe cracking, or dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, etc. Make sure it's. It's not too detailed description of these may have upon a moron. A moron.

Basically saying, make sure you don't go too detailed or some dumb dumb will try to do it. That would be a single cam. If you're doing a train robbery. Okay, sure. It's going to be hard to put a train robbery on a soundstage. Yeah, with an audience. Yeah. But I love Lucy was one of the first shows filmed in front of a live studio audience.

The Honeymooners was another big one. It's funny because the 50s, all live studio audience, the 60s, it goes to single cam, Andy Griffith Show. Nobody complains about that laugh track, but that is a serious laugh track, a single cam with a laugh track. I dream a jean. I never thought about that. So is it just fake laughter?

Did they just have a crowd watch the? No, I think it's just canned laughter. Wow. Yeah. That's a good show. show, though. That was a good show. Andy Griffith? Yeah, it's great show. I just met Goober's mama in an airport, and she was precious.

You met Goober's mama still alive? Uh-huh. Goober's, I mean, y'all, I'm crazy. I'm tired. Gomer? Goomber's daughter. Oh, okay. Yeah. And she said, my dad would have loved you. Yeah, he would have. And that meant the world to me. You know, George Lindsay's daughter? Um, yes. And, you know, he died. He was here in Nashville at the end of his life.

George Lindsay was my great-grandmother's first cousin. No way. I met him once at a... Goober? Yeah. I met him at a wedding and Gaston, Alabama one time. How about that? If this is the right guy, I know there's Goober and Goomer.

Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure this. I'm pretty sure. Because he's from, he was from Alabama. I always thought, you know, honestly, for your age, you're awful good at stand-up. Awful good at stand-up for how young you are. But you're royalty. he had no idea who I was but I mean it's in your jeans

man you come from Goober I feel like everybody has somebody in their family like oh we're related to him but we didn't hang out with him I knew you had something I just kind of yeah it'll make sense now yeah yeah well just know his people

have done way all right amazing good to know okay the three of us grew up in the 80s what was your favorite sitcom growing up give me some examples of what went on in the 80s so I'll remember well let's see

give me a break give me a break Facts Alive. I love Facts of Life. My favorite was Barney Miller, probably. Okay. That's 70s into maybe a little 80s. It was in the 80s?

I think news radio, is that more 90s? I love news radio. I thought news radio is awful good, man. Oh, there they are, y'all. Okay. Murphy Brown. Oh, I didn't have a lick of sense over. Murphy Brown.

Cheers. Was Cheers the 80s? Cheers is 80s. Cheers is 80s. And cheers is great. Wonderful. The Golden Girls. Charles in charge.

Yeah, that's Scott Bayo. Yeah. And what's her name? Cosby Show, unfortunately. Such a great show. Yeah. Was Seinfeld in the 80s or early 90s? I think late 80s at start, 89, so technically 80s.

Coach was a definite. Coach was 80s, and I enjoyed coach. I loved it, too. Major Dad, 227. That was Jack A. Jack A. Jack A was 227. Yeah, they were, yeah.

Oh, well, Sanford and son. was more um 70s 70s and that uh man that that show is hilarious it's in some ways it doesn't hold up because of the stuff they say but other ways it does hold up because red fox's timing is so good and on esther yes on esther yes on esther i still my favorite episode of television was fred and grady and those guys they wind up in jail okay and lamont the three of them are in jail and they got to call on esther uh to get them out you know she's the only one that get them out and she makes them read scripture before they get out and they had given them they'd given them a sack lunch in jail yeah and the sack lunch had a uh a tootsy pop uh in there

you know a lollipop or whatever and uh so they were uh eating their tozipops and fred uh on esther was giving it to him you know and and fred said something that she didn't like she said you better keep sucking on that sucka sucker sucker they were all stand-ups. Yeah. Luanda Page. Lawanda Page was a stand-up, and Luanda Page,

they're from St. Louis. They're from East St. Louis, him and Luana Page. And he knew he could give it to her hard and she could take it. And they told her, they told her like, they wanted to get rid of her.

First season, they were like, and he said, well, then we're not going to have a sitcom because they cast somebody else in there. And he was like, well, because they wanted an actor instead of a comic. And Fred said, no.

Either she stays or I stay. I mean, if you look at pictures of Luanda Page when she was like young, she's stunning, man. She's like, you know, the whole thing is she's on Esther and, you know, we're going, we're going to take your face and put it in the cookie dough, have gorilla cookies, you know. Yeah. I was one of our first early bits, by the way, it was a red fox impression. Let me give you guys. Was it really?

Let me give you guys this. Did this on BET? No, no. This was a little bit earlier. Before that. This, none of the. this this bit uh i can't believe didn't go viral uh maybe it will now yeah um here we go but this is some real thinking i don't know if you guys know back in the day there was a lot of red

beers in the 90s do you remember that like red stripe that's that was beforehand but it was like um red logger there was uh red zappal ale yeah a lot of it was all this red stuff a june you yeah it was red beers i can't remember there's like 10 of them and i said uh this is this is a this is a stand-up comic thinking right here. I said, again, I was a young comic. I said, they ought to have a red fox beer. And then I'd go right into my red fox impression, right into it, Aaron. I'd do it. I'd go and I'd be like, Lamont, go in the kitchen and get me a red fox beer. And yeah, that was the bit. And I can't believe it didn't take off. I mean, that's... Bring it back. Yeah, you probably weren't good enough comic there. Red wolf, red dog was a popular beer. I think I just...

didn't set the stage right for you guys. Yeah, Red Dog. No, I loved it. Yeah, I mean, and I went right into that impression. Yeah, just right. Go in the kitchen, son. Give me a red fox beer. You see, see what I'm doing? I do. You understand? Yeah, it's the, it's the red beer juxtaposed with his name is Red Fox. High-level stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's some pretty good stuff. Yeah, it's a classic. Yeah, those are, they're all great. Do you have any other stand-up comics in your show? Blake Clark Blake Clark

Okay I didn't know he did stand up Yeah man Hannah that plays my daughter Has opened for Paul F. Tompkins some Oh wow That's cool It's a great stand-up comic

Yeah Yeah I love him Yeah I wouldn't Let me I'm trying to think of Who's guest starred no Uh huh

All comedic actor There's some great guest stars There is some great guest stars I mean insanely good The guy that plays Pastor Tom I think his name is Jay Ferguson He was, he was, had a big role in, uh, uh, Mad Men. That guy.

Wonderful. Unbelievable good actor. I mean. I know. And then Jack McBrayer. Jack McBrayer was that episode was great. Um, I think one of my favorite. Jamie Mays, little red head. Okay. Yeah. Neighbor. The neighbor. She's not the, Mary? Mary is. She's great, man. I know. It's so funny because she and she, I mean, I saw the, yeah, I was there for an episode and why. She's very pretty, too.

Uh-huh. Dull. Yeah, very, but they kind of play her real goofy or whatever, but yeah. And her voice is that, it is, that's a really good role. My favorite thing, one of, one of my favorite things is when they had that episode, I bet it was hard to film, but they had Blake and the woman who plays your mom kind of talking over each other. Like, it was like, they were, did that.

That gag was hilarious. Hilarious. And I bet it was really tough to get. But I thought that was really funny. Yeah. I can't even remember. But are they not wonderful though? Unbelievable.

There's a scene where they talk over each other. And, you know, my little mom and daddy will talk to me at the same time. You don't know what they're saying. And then at the end, Celia goes, I hate that Daniel Day Lewis retired. Like, it makes no sense. Yeah, it's great. They are wonderful in it. I see so many, I know it's not based on your life, but I see so many things I know you put in

because it is something related to your life. I mean, he said. Well, they wanted it to come from my stand-up. you know from my stand-up but not based on my real life yeah i mean even uh your ex-husband saying i'll be over in clarksville and i i assume maybe you chose that because you're it's where your sister lives um that you know susan mcmartin the showrunner came to see me in clarksville at that arena and she put that in okay there's a lot of little leannisms in there yeah oh yeah we just when you just say because the way you talk about your mama and daddy it's the same it is yeah yeah yeah yeah

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That's join Deleteme.com slash Nate code Nate. Anybody want to guess the longest running sitcom of all time? Simpsons. You are correct. The longest, not animated sitcom, still going right now. SNL? No, I mean, the Simpsons is a sitcom, then what does the word even mean? I think the Simpsons is more of a sitcom than S&M.

What does that even mean, though? I thought we were talking about. Situation comedy. That's Simpsons count for that. Yeah. S&L one. What's a comedy that's not a sitcom then? What's...

S&L? S&L. I don't know if I understand what a sitcom is, if we include The Simpsons. Well, the S&L is a sketch show. It's a variety show. It doesn't have a through line through it where the Simpsons has an episode, it has an episode of TV. There's a situation going on.

Yeah. What is the one, though, that I'm thinking of? It's still on, you're sure? I think it's still on. It's always sunny in Philadelphia. Yeah. But how is that? There's not an audience in that.

Well, that's a moment. multi-camp. It's a single-cam. Single-cam. What? Sunny in Philadelphia? It's always sunny in Philadelphia. Yeah. I've never watched it. Everyone says it's great. Yeah, it's got Danny DeVito in it. Yeah. It's been on 16 seasons. 16. Where is it? Where do you watch? FX. This is where she's going to get competitive, man. She's not. Going for 17. We don't get 17 seasons. I can't get competitive.

Yeah. But I do. I do hope we go another season. I was going to I was saying one of them that I love the Jeffersons. Yeah. I love the Jefferson. All those Norman Lear shows were great. Oh, and the family, good times. Do you know the Florence, the sort of wise crack and made on the Jefferson's? She's still alive.

Is she really? She was on 227 too. But there's an old Bill Hicks bit. I don't even know if he did it as a bit. I started doing stand up with a lot of the guys that knew him. And he would say, I think he was just a bit around the green room because she would be like, oh, Mr. Jefferson, you know, like, you know, And he would be like, yeah, Florence, I need to, oh, Mr. Jeff.

And he goes, well, then you're fired. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. I looked up some of the.

I'm just worried about Marla Gibbs now that Brian talked about her. Yeah. I have a tendency of killing off 98-year-old people and getting blamed for it. She's only 94, dude. Yeah. Okay. Excuse me. Marley Gibbs.

And Fred's effort. girlfriend Donna just passed away like two weeks ago. Yeah, I'm not so sure. She might have been the person that they wanted to play on Esther, actually. I'm not sure about that. She was very attractive too. Yeah, I love the

Jeffersons. Do you think that's the best theme song of any sitcom? That was a good one. What would you say? I think Golden Girls has a better one. Golden Girls has a good one. Oh, Gilmore Girls has a good theme song. It does? Oh, yeah. All right.

Is it, it's, uh, I mean, give me a break was pretty good, too. If you lead, I will follow. Carol King. Oh, really? That's a, yeah. Yeah. What about, uh, happy days? Yeah.

Monday, something. Happy days. I never really watch happy days. That's Opie. Yeah. Fran Howard. Yeah, Howard. It's a weird way to say it, but yeah, among others.

Richie Cunningham. We saw, we were in, uh, Milwaukee a couple weeks ago, and we saw, they have a, the bronze Fonz. Oh, really? It's just a bronze statue of Fonsie. That's great. I think it's life size and he is so much shorter than he think he's going to be. Henry Winkler? Yeah. Because he's just big kind of commanding presence. Very cool, man.

And then you see him and he's like four foot. I think that was a little more dice clay? I think that was Andrew Dice Clay that you were doing there? That's not that's not Arthur Fonzarelli man. Oh, yeah. It's not.

Yeah. Oh! All right. That was terrible, man. I'm going to throw out a few more things. That was better than your Red Fox. What are you talking about? It was dead on.

I want to make the point that I went right into the impression after the joke. I don't think you'd get the joke. It's very high level. I'm going to do a few more theme songs. And Greg, you sing them for us, okay? I like this. Andy Griffith Show. Oh, my goodness.

That's great. Unbelievable. It's first chair. I mean, you should have done to do that on stage. That's unbelievable, dude. Okay, tell me. Now you lost it. Starring Andy Griffith.

Ron Howard. the Andy Griffith Show that's incredible oh wow yeah this was filmed in front of a live studio audience you would have gotten a huge applause you think so yeah

I was first chair clarinet as a sophomore like it's not a yeah it's yeah have some musical what have you not done well you're so talented I didn't have a sitcom with my name on

yet I would say yet yet did I tell you guys a story what would you what would the sitcom of your life be Greg I know you've thought about it. Oh, that there's just a show called.

I'm sure there's a horrible, like treatment somewhere that was like so obvious and terrible. I do remember. Yeah, yeah, the one report. Yeah, I did. One time there's this guy, Ron Ramey, Ron's not with us anymore. He was a comic and he would just kill. And he decided when he was just hanging out. He was the headliner.

He was like, it was like an off night in St. Louis. He's like, I'm going to host. I'm going to host. So he hosts. And Ron liked to embellish a lot. of stuff and he hosts and he brings me up like it's all lies it's all he it's like this and this dude he is this this brother is killing it he has got all kinds of things going on he's got an HBO special I'm like I just did three tonight shows and he has his own sitcom coming out

next fall on ABC so I go up I go up none of this is true none of this is even close to being true Okay, so I go up and I have a good set or whatever and there was at St. Louis Funneybone and there was a club next door and I was a little younger back then and I met a girl and there was a dance floor and we were on the dance floor together and I forgot everything. I forgot everything. We were dancing and she goes, what's the name of the sitcom? And I go, Warren? That's all I can come up with. Good answer. I said, I said, I was like, I was about to say, well, you know, he was kind of embellishing. And then she was really pretty. And I was like, Warren. She's still watching for that.

Yeah, she is. I swear it's coming out. It will this fall. I'm not going to ask you singing more because you can't. that over there. I don't think so. I will mention a few great... We'll do a Red Fox. The greatest American hero, you remember?

The show didn't last long, but the theme song, Believe it or not. Oh, yeah. Walking on air. What year was that yet? It was early 80s. Yeah. That was immortalized in Seinfeld.

Believe it or not. I know that. I'm walking on air. That was George's answering machine. Who could it be? Believe it or not. It's just George. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's great, man. Fresh Prince of Bel Air Oh, darling, that was wonderful. Okay, Leanne, here's some sitcom terms. I want you to explain some of these to us. Oh, Lord, Brian. Okay, let's move on. Well, you can try, I can try, but Greg can help me.

Okay. I kind of messed up. I might have to call in a line with Judy. Yeah. Okay. Well, let's start with the easy one. Cold open. Oh, that's the first scene of the episode.

before the credits I mean that's credit the open rolls Brian you and I know a lot about cold opens Come on Come on It's called the warm up act Ice cold And they're still cold at the end

Leave them cold That's what we like to do I miss a good theme song from a sitcom And nowadays You know it's just get to it Get to it They say you got to get to it

Yeah When I worked in TV news they used to roll credits after the news of people there. And my mom would love to see my name on there. And then they cut that out because they're like, we need every second for everything, just whittle it down, you know. But I like a good thing.

But like you said, it gets stuck in your head. Liam. The little flower comes down. Aaron did it pretty well. I love the flower. I thought that was sweaty. Did I just watch episode where you're all watching the Vols game.

Did, was there any restrictions? do you know what y'all could wear um no i don't think so and the and the university of tennessee got his footage yeah i saw that it gets yukon yeah so yeah they yeah they've been wonderful to me about all that and you know i'm of all for life mm-hmm mm-hmm uh three act structure uh this says the common format for a sitcom is consistent of a setup which is act one a rising action and complication act two and resolution in act three yeah that makes science. Are these the beats of storytelling or a lot of this was a lot of this because of commercial breaks? I think even in movies there's basically three acts. I know we're talking

about the structure of a cold open, all of that. How much of that has just been grandfathered in because we used to have to worry about commercial. Yeah, I think you're right. Versus now you just do whatever, right? Yeah. Nowadays, I mean, it's not, it's been a while sitcoms just on TV, just roll from one right in the other. They don't give you a chance to go to commercial and turn away. Well, that's, I mean, I've been talking about all day, so I can't remember what I said on this episode. But I, we'll tell you. Brian will. Yeah, Bates.

Brian remembers everything. Steel trap. I didn't know that joke a couple of weeks ago. Oh, pretty good Bates. You should do Brian Bates has a beer and then you should do the whole bit about him. Yeah, I'll have a Brian Bates light. Actually, in episode 14 referenced being in the band. That's funny at all.

Didn't find it funny then. I don't like it in the way this is going. I don't appreciate you laughing at Lee. Just be my friend. No, but I think there's something about those, they just, it's just all, it's rolls all into, I mean, I watched, I knocked off like five episodes yesterday. Yeah. And it's, it's just. I know that is helpful.

Yeah, it's great. I think it's, that's why I think you're, this thing's going to be a hit. Because you just, you just wash the whole, you know, the whole thing. It's great. It's awesome. Thank you, my darling. Mm-hmm. a button, a joke at the very end of a scene

offered delivering a final punchline before a cut or commercial break. I guess that's a little dated commercial break. Yeah, I don't remember hearing a button. You've got several of them. For instance, a button would be at the end of the Red Fox joke when I do that. When I go into the impression for a third time,

that's sort of the button. Did you feel like you became a better actress as the show went on? Yes. Better in episode 16 than you were at one? Yes. I mean, I was just so nervous in the first. I want people to, and everybody says I did fine, but I do feel like I got better. Because, you know, I was learning a whole new thing.

I mean, it was a lot. But, you know, about 16 episodes. And Jerry, Seinfeld said, you will feel like you are stepping into your own home, and it will feel like it'll feel natural to you and I thought no but it did yeah it ended up feeling that way and I feel yeah I do hope that people continue to watch it because I do feel like I get better and I know what's you know how to even it even works yeah do you feel it come out in your stand-up now since you filmed it like do you do anything differently in your act I may probably like emode a little more yeah yeah I'd ask because I've I've 100% seen that

in Nate since he filmed the movie He is, man. Everything, like visually, even little small things. And I think that's just from acting. It's like, so I was just curious. That closing bit, he's doing some majorly acting. Even if it's just little stuff that he was never doing. He's taking some crazy pauses too.

And he wasn't afraid to take pauses anyway. But yeah. You always did sort of act within your stand-up more than most people. You're already very facially expressive. Yeah. You do those things. Yeah, that's those Leannisms that I think that's probably part of why they wanted you to do a sitcom, or early on why show business was like, that's, you know.

Yeah, because you've had development deals over the years, haven't you? This one would have been my fifth, I think. Wow. But I say that. One probably wasn't even, you couldn't even call it one. So say four. Sony, ABC and Warner Brothers was the first one. And then Nick at night with Matt Williams was the second one.

that created Roseanne and Home Improvement, and then Sony, and then this one. But this one, I mean, Chuck Lorry said, I want to do, we went into that Netflix meeting, and I mean, they basically said, what do y'all want to do? Wow. You know, they were, yeah, and it went quick and fast, and the other ones, you know, would take, you know, two years. Right. And things would be slow, even though Matt Williams was wonderful.

I mean, everybody I've ever dealt with has been wonderful. but something about Chuck Lurie. Everybody wants to be in business with him. Netflix was in business with me too. They've been good to me. And so it went quick. And it was like all of a sudden, I'm renting a house and I'm living in Studio City and it's going.

How long from, we're going to make, let's make a show together till the show debuts. What's the timetable there? What was that, Judy? They said yes in January of last year. Wow. And we were shooting as of October that same year. Wow.

From January to October. And then it premiered July of this year. And I don't know. Maybe they wanted me to go earlier. I don't know, but I was touring. But maybe he was doing another show or something. And they had to write all 16. And they had to write all 16.

That's so many, too. I mean, nowadays, so many sitcoms, eight episodes is a full season. I know. It's 16. Yeah. I know. It's awesome. Thank you.

It's amazing. this past weekend was the first time out since the shows premiered last time on the road did you talk about a lot in your act or people yeah i've been i've been saying stuff before it came out i've been telling people about it and they've been um putting uh running a trailer the trailer behind me before i go on stage yeah yeah and then um and i've been talking a little bit about it and then this weekend i mean you could just tell people watched it oh that's great yeah that's great yeah um here's uh some spinoffs that didn't go so well there's some good frazier's probably the best spinoff yeah most people don't even know that's a spinoff that's how crazy successful it was right

fraser came from cheers that's right yeah wow morke and mindy had to be a big one of the best spinoffs right yeah it's happy days yeah robin williams that's where he yeah but uh happy days also had Joni left Chachi. Yeah. Do you remember that? No. Hey, is that him? No, Andrew Dice Clay did not have a...

Oh! But there's a scene... Dickery, Dickery, God. I'm going to stop you right there. Yeah, yeah. I won't finish that one. Joni was Richie's sister. Okay. Yeah.

She fell in with Chachi. Then they had their... Aaron Michael? Aaron Moriarty. Something like that. You've seen Dodgeball? Yeah, sure. There's a scene.

like a little boyfriend girlfriend seen in it and then Ben Stiller nails him with a Dodge Bond and he goes Joni loves Chachi Oh, I have heard that I don't exactly what you're talking about It was Scott Bayer

Wow Yeah Scott Bayo You know How many references I've missed like that The Fonz had his You know Characteristic Yeah

And but you know what They tried to have Scott Bayo Say when he was the Fons As a little nephew Nephew Yeah You know what he said Whoa

Like that Just to be clear Joni Loves Chashi was not an animated show Aaron has no respect for 80 sitcoms He said he said Wah wah Oh yeah

Yeah that's less ridiculous I remember that It was It felt like they were reaching a little bit like that We gotta get his version of Hey You can't force a catchphrase, dude.

It's got to click with people. Well, I've tried so many. Different strokes. Remember those little boys in different strokes? Yeah, Gary Coleman. He said, you're killing me, small. What do you say? What you're talking about, Willis?

And then they did, Webster. I mean, it's amazing how in the 80s at least, they would just not even try to hide. They're doing the same format. Yeah. They just, you know, we didn't know any better. Right, right. Aftermash, that finale of

MASHes, Aaron points out every week, was the most viewed show in the history of the world. It was the most viewed at that time, the most watched show. I think it's still the most in America besides Super Bowl. More than the moon landing. Is that right? Yeah, I doubt that's true. But I watched it. Sounded right.

With my parents in their bedroom. Wow. I watched the MASH finale. It was that big of a show. I remember it. Yeah. Yeah. So it must have, it didn't trail off.

The show was still a huge hit when they ended it. It wasn't like the show wasn't getting canceled. I don't. No, I mean, but, I mean, the thing, even if it wasn't a hit, and it was, but like, there's only three stations. Like, you know, like, it was, it was huge. I remember they made a point of like, you need to, it was up late and you can come in here and watch because this is history. But I know, and all I remember was Alan, all the kissed, um, hot lips, Loretta Swit. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah, recently, right? Yep. I didn't do it. Yeah. I did not do it.

But they had a spinoff show aftermash. and it lasted just a few episodes and they're like, this ain't going to work. Where they come back to the states and, you know, it was like three of the people in it. Joey on there,

the Joey one? Yep. Joey lasted a few seasons. Did it really? Didn't hate Joey. Oh, wow. Did it last a few seasons? I thought everybody hated it.

I did not hate Joey. Joey, what did Joey come from? Friends. Oh. Yeah, they did the show with just him. Yeah. Oh. It was him and,

um, maybe, oh, uh, the lady from, uh, Sopranos Yes

Dre Dreade Mattie DeMateo Yeah Something like that Yeah Yeah

Yeah Uh Three's company Had two Spinoffs The Ropers Yeah Which I love

The Roper's Company Didn't love the show Right After that And then After the three's company Ended Three's a crowd

When Jack's Married And Man I don't remember that Yeah Wasn't that like A scandalous show When it came out

He was considered, like, crazy that it was on TV? Yeah. What was the plot of it? Just a dude living with two women? Very sexual. Oh, yeah. Wasn't it a lot of innuendo? Yeah, he was pretending to be gay.

Whoa. Yeah. Okay. And Suzanne Summers didn't have him on a bra. Mm-hmm. Because, um, furtely, Don Nott's, who was before Mr. Roper. Don Nott's, Barty Fifee. He was after the Ropers.

You're right. You're right. Who, uh, so Mr. Roper that was the landlord and he didn't want to, of that, you know, tomfoolery, that kind of thing going on. So as long as Jack was gay, it wasn't going on. Oh, okay. And, yeah, and Roper, they mostly, for the most part, they pulled the wool over his eyes. Okay.

But he was a little suspicious every now. Yeah. That's fun. Yeah. But it was kind of racy. You know, they talk. Oh, yeah. Wasn't he wonderful in it?

John Ritter. John Ritter was wonderful. Yes. Unbelievable. I met Larry. you did yeah Larry was like the the dirtbag neighbor that was Richard Klein yeah Richard Klein was it no Richard Klein is Richard Klein is Robert Klein

He was Larry Dallas and three's companies Yeah yeah yeah yeah I met Larry one time Oh yeah he was great Yeah he was he was like a little bit Lecivius with the with the two girls You know Couldn't think of another word I don't even know what that means

Is that too much Yeah I love it That was the ultimate show though it gets kind of made fun of now we watch it every episode with some misunderstanding that would so easily get resolved if you just ask somebody. Dramatic irony, I believe, is the device.

It's the Safaklian irony. Yes, it's when the audience knows what's going on. Right. But the people in the production do not. Oh, man. Yeah. It's frustrating. It frustrates me. It frustrates me too.

Yeah, I'm like, just, it's easy. Just tell them the truth. Yeah. Yeah. some cultural moments in sitcoms. Ellen coming out. Yeah.

That was like national news when that episode aired. Murphy Brown. Dan Quill criticized her for having a character, you know, raising a child by herself. Yeah.

And it was a big deal. And then I think she addressed it on the show. Corey and Topanga get married. Is that on there? I don't know what that is. It's a big one. Anyway, keep that.

What year were you born, Aaron? 91. I could have birthed you. Boy means 12. I had my first baby in 93. Wow. 93? Mm-hmm.

Charlie Morgan. He'll be 32 in August. Oh, man. He's got my babies, my two grandbabies. Yeah. So as we wrap it, Leah, what advice would you give us if we want to start our own sitcom? Become massively successful.

Yeah. That helps. Yeah. If I want Chuck Lori Would you want to do one, Brian Bates? Have you ever had that dream? If Bates had a show... Because a lot of people don't have that dream, but I did.

Your show is like your show and like your stand-up, it feels like a hug. Like you're being hugged by it. Brian's show would have a much different energy. You'd feel like somebody's holding you down. This isn't a good pitch. It's not a good pitch. We're pitching right now.

Yeah, is this a by elevator pitch? It'd be a dark, be a dark comedy. It has to be. Well, that's what's in right now. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Too much so, really.

That's why your show's so refreshing. I agree. Like Greg says, everything's so dark now. That's what people are saying. I can't get over y'all's high school pictures. I know I keep looking and they're precious, all of y'all. Did you ever have the dream? Because when I started stand-up, 25 years ago, I remember saying I wanted to be a stand-up

because to me, Ray Romano, Seinfeld, all that meant the world to make. Did y'all ever have that desire? To have a sitcom? Yeah. Because a lot of people don't. and don't want to do that. But I did from the time I was little. I mean, I think I definitely did when I knew it would make you a bigger stand-up or whatever.

But stand-up's always been the first thing for you. I don't know. Sometimes I don't think strategically I'm a little more tactical. What's the next thing? Jerry Seinfeld said to me, Lynn, I didn't. He goes, I didn't. I honestly did not like sitcoms and did not want to do one, but I thought maybe it'll help me sell tickets in a club.

And then he busted out laughing. But he said he really didn't. Wow. Yeah. That's. But I, you know, I would see Bill Cosby, Roseanne, all that. And I thought, that's got to be the height. Right.

That's the boom. I'm going big. Yeah. If I'm doing this, I'm going big. Right. And of course, I'd like to do movies. Of course, yeah. We already done them with Reese Wethersman.

Yeah, Will Ferrell. Yeah. I thought Bob Newhart was, I love Bob. Newhart. Yeah, I loved his stand-up, and I love his, I love two of the shows. They're both great. Best series finale ever. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hmm, okay. No, I don't, I don't think. Nate did, didn't he? I think so. Yeah. He didn't want to have. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, for sure, for sure.

He wanted, I think he really, he grew up on everybody loves Raymond and those types of Seinfeld. In Seinfeld, of course, but as far as his family, I think he wanted a family-type show like everybody loves Raymond. Yeah. All right. Well, we got to wrap it up here, guys. I forgot to mention, I should have did this at the start of the podcast, some little Nateland news here. Nateland presents the showcase season three is here.

This Friday, tune into the Nateland YouTube channel for the premiere of Trish Sir. Oh, yeah, it's your friend. She's great. Oh, um, oh. Yeah, she's got a stand-up set for Nate Lamb. I hosted that episode, and she killed. She did great. She's really a wonderful.

Her episode debuts this Friday. A wonderful. I just saw her yesterday in Thousand Oaks. Yeah. And don't forget Dusty's Netflix special, wet heat. It's so funny. It's so great. It's so great.

Just premiered, check it out. Wet Heat. Dusty's killing it. Yeah, man, it's really. Where is he today? Y'all don't know. I don't know. I don't know. You can only try to track him down.

Is it for him? Is it for him? He's probably in the sun somewhere. He's grounding somewhere. But big week for Netflix and the greater Nateland universe, I would say. Yeah. So very fun. It's been fun to watch.

All right. So this week, let me think. Oh, August 17th, I'm at Levity Live in Huntsville, Alabama. Prices just got lower there. On my tickets? No, on the food and beverage. Oh, right, right, right. and 6 p.m. show.

So if you got work or school or whatever, you'll be home before dark. August 31st. It's my birthday. Zanies in Chicago. Last week I said that was 6 p.m. show. It's actually a 4 p.m. show. Woo.

So it's 16 and up. So come on out to that one. September 5th, Commonwealth Comedy Club in Cincinnati. September 7th, healing in Indianapolis. awesome wonderful that's great great room yep yep yeah so you seem so surprisingly yeah we don't all have judy mom as a manager

but some of us are doing okay no I was sitting there I was just in Fisher's Indiana but I stayed in Indianapolis in that helium I saw that helium club you're going to be there right downtown yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah where are you going to be I'm going to be touring through November

a lot of places Liamorgan dot com but I'm going to be at the win the next place I'm going to be is the three shows at the win in Las Vegas. And then Rome, Georgia, Asheville, Corbyn, Kentucky, Dallas, Shreveport, Boston, a bunch of places. We're going to be doing a lot in August, September, and October. And then my Netflix special, the new one will drop in the fall. So I'm touring until that drops.

Little Rock, Arkansas. Shreveport. Got any more shows with Greg? I'm going to be on a lot of those that she just said. Nice, nice. Dallas, Little Rock, Asheville. Yeah.

That's awesome. Rome. Yeah, I'm going to be in Boston for the first time. How about that? I know, and I'm doing like three shows. Wow. At the, um, Wang.

Oh, that's awesome. I know. I've never gotten to be up there. So I'm tickled over that in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I did a show with Leanne one time. I don't know if I should say where.

Where? But, but the place. we did two shows and the second show they came in and said we can start early because everybody's here and you said well but there's nobody else might maybe coming off the street they're like no we're pretty sure we're good to know we started the show early do you remember that no where were we Albany New York at the I guess the oh in the mall yeah yeah yeah was that right before a big panty tour I think so yeah it's still a little COVID pre-COVID

COVID time. It was a little COVID. That was a good mall, though. I like working in a comedy club where you can also show off. Yep, yeah. Greg, where are you going to be? This week I'll be in Naples, Florida, and Sarasota, Florida. And then next week I'm doing a bunch of Carolina gigs.

We added a show in Charleston. I had a third show in Charleston, South Carolina. Whits End? Yeah. And Greenville, South Carolina. Charlotte, North Carolina, Cherokee, and then, oh, well, we sold out in Raleigh. How about that? Yeah.

And then I'm out with Leanne after that for a while. Where are you going to be in Cherokee? At a casino there. Harrah's? Yes. Yeah. I'm going to be at the casino there. Mm-hmm.

So. I'll tell Chuck Morgan. Oh, Chuck. He loves you in a casino. Yeah, man. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Is that not far from Knoxville? Uh-uh. No. Really? Yeah. Man, I hope there's some people that show up. Chuck Morgan will come. Yeah.

What about you, Aaron? I'm going to be, this Aaron Weber speaking. I am going to be end of this month, Lowell, Arkansas. Northwest Arkansas, the Grove Comedy Club, followed by Phoenix, Denver, Atlanta, Huntsville, Charleston, Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse, Tampa. I'm traveling the globe. This is Aaron. I'm traveling the globe, mostly the Eastern United States, performing stand-up comedy this year. Come see me.

And that's it. That's how you do it. Thanks, man. Yeah. Well, Nate and Dusty will be back next week, as far as I know. But if they're not, we'll call you guys. We'll call you. Don't call us.

Thank you all for having me. My boyfriend. Thank you for taking a red eye to be with us. Well, I would never not be with y'all. You know, I love y'all. Thank you. I feel cool being here. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Well, thank you so much. We'll see y'all next week. Bye. So, you know, Thank you.