This Past Weekend - #660 - Nate Bargatze

Starting point is 00:00:00 Today's guest is a stand-up comedian. He's a host. He's a fixture in the world of comedy. He's a leader. This guy's a leader in the world of comedy and clean comedy. He's one of one, I would say. That's for sure. He has a new film that's coming out in theaters this weekend called The Breadwinner. That's Friday, May 29th. You can go check it out. He's building an amusement Park, like a real one for amusement, right here in Nashville, Tennessee. I'm thankful to spend time with today's guest, Mr. Nate Bargettzee. Yeah, dude, I saw some guys talking about when you would sleep, remember when you were kidding, you would sleep over at somebody's house?

Starting point is 00:00:54 You remember that? Yeah. And you woke up before them. Yeah. And just like, because you kind of had to pretend you were asleep. Like, you were ready to get up and go. but it wasn't your world it was their universe

Starting point is 00:01:09 I would think the the big you know that's when you're a kid and the biggest opposite is when you're older and then everybody's up you know and uh meet the parents yeah that like scene

Starting point is 00:01:23 made me laugh so hard when like Ben Stiller comes downstairs and everybody's been up for like a couple hours because that would I relate to that I think even as a comedian you know it's like

Starting point is 00:01:36 We can stay up late and whatever. You're always the guy wandering into the world late. Yes, and I mean, people are, like, I mean, I don't know people outside comedy. They have, like, a meeting at like 630 or 7, like a meeting. In the morning. In the morning. Yes. And you're like, what?

Starting point is 00:01:56 Yeah, for what? Yeah. Like, maybe with God, maybe that's early. I could see that. Yeah. Yeah. You know, or an actual meeting with the sun. Like if you got an email from the sun, it's like, hey, I'm going to need you there.

Starting point is 00:02:10 Yeah, like the literal son. Yes. Yes. Yes. If he was like, hey, I'm here. Yeah, either son. The son shows up early, though. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:02:18 The son shows up early. And he's like, I've been here. And you go, no, I kind of saw you. I just was like, give me a second. Yeah. Just let me get my bearings a little bit. Yeah, 730 meeting. They say they have those.

Starting point is 00:02:32 I think I would want to be that, though. Oh. So that's something Like it gets a little bit aspirational Yeah, dude I've been, and I hate to say this Because I don't even want to hear myself say this Yeah

Starting point is 00:02:43 I think Oh God, it hurts even coming down to my neck I think I'm a I think I'm a morning person You know, I could And you know what I'm saying? I'm sorry to say that Well, I think it's

Starting point is 00:02:58 You know, it's I don't want to apologize to people Who can't even handle hearing that Yeah Because they want you to be a night person Well, as a comedian, we are night people. Right. And I think there's something.

Starting point is 00:03:09 But I think we go opposite. Like, it's, uh, we want structure. I did, like, not to, you talk about my movie right now, but like, I'm saying when I shot the movie, and you know, you just shot a movie, there's, like, structure, right? Bread winner, that's the movie.

Starting point is 00:03:25 The breadwinner's the movie. But, like, when you shot your movie, uh, it's, you got to be on set at this time, and this, this is, and I loved it. Because I don't think we have structure as comedians. And we don't come from any of it. And we go, I remember I wrote for the Spike Video Game Awards like a long time ago. And Spike, is it volleyball?

Starting point is 00:03:48 What was it? Now, I remember that TV show or that network Spike. I think it was like Spike TV. Oh, yeah, Spike TV. They did like a bunch of like random. It was like right when we were like in New York, like 2008, 2000. Oh, yes, I do remember this. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:04:04 It was like a dude. channel. What were some of their top shows? Look up top three shows on Spike TV. The, they had the game show, or video game awards. I want to say. Oh, Ultimate Fighters started on there. The reality show launched the UFC and modern MMA into the mainstream. Interesting. Blue Mountain State. What's that? Blue Mountain State. That was a, that was a show with Reacher. I know it was a real name. Jack Reacher. I look like Jack Reacher right now, and this is what he would wear. Do you?

Starting point is 00:04:34 I look like Jack, reach around. Yeah. And my body doesn't, but this is, he wear a shirt like this. Alan Richardson. I know, Al. Oh, dude, yeah, somebody always talks to me about him. Yeah. So he was started out in Blue Mountain State, which is on Spike TV.

Starting point is 00:04:52 Wow. And then, yeah, Spike TV was like a little bit ahead of his time. Like, it's almost a channel that Bar Rescue, some pretty good stuff, man. Bar Rescue, a thousand ways to die. no thing. I'll take one way. Yeah, but you'd want to know the other. I don't need to know a thousand. At a thousand, you're just kidding.

Starting point is 00:05:11 You'll stay alive forever, just looking through all of them. That is. Maybe that's a reverse psychology. Maybe that's the plan. Yeah. I mean, because it's going to be a spider bite. It's going to be you step on a nail and an artery. I don't know if you have arteries. Yeah, if you fall off a building and land, like one of your arteries lands on like a little nail or something.

Starting point is 00:05:33 Yeah. There's a lot of, yeah, anyway. There's a lot of ways. Bar rescue. Okay, Spike TV. Anyway, go on. Sorry, I interrupted you, but I just forgot about Spike TV. Yeah, you know, it was a great, it was a good channel, especially like a hidden age demographic.

Starting point is 00:05:49 You know, this is on, dude, entourage. I was just talking about Entourage, but Entourage was on during this time. Like, so it was. Oh, on television, not the same channel. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I didn't know that Alan Richon, even just to think that that's like, that Blue Mountain State was there, that the UFC kind of like sort of became. mainstream by going on a Spike TV and getting like eyeballs that way?

Starting point is 00:06:07 Spike TV was like we'll take whatever you got. I didn't understand that. Look up once more. Spike TV was this Mountain Dew can. It was everything it represents. Oh yeah, Americana. Just American.

Starting point is 00:06:18 American do was Spike TV. Yeah, a thousand ways to die. UFC. Just shotguning Mountain Dew. Blue Mountain State. Yeah, it was all of it, man. What were you talking about?

Starting point is 00:06:31 So we were talking about Spike TV? You went into Spike TV. the structure, like having structure with the movie. Oh, the movie you got to... Yeah, like, I'm not a person that has any structure. Oh, yeah, and comedians aren't in general. So when you're on set, you were saying, like, yeah, you get this other... Oh, it's great.

Starting point is 00:06:47 And they tell you to, even comedians I noticed, they told... And I don't know if they did this on Broadway was, but they told me, we told... I lied to myself, but that to be, like, they would set the call time 45 minutes. Really, it was later. Because they knew I was going to be a little bit later. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I don't know if we, I think that's, I think the people have done that to me. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:07:08 Yep. They get you there. But I would show up, like I've been late to stuff. It depends on what it is. If it's something that I know I should get to, I'll get to. But if it's not, you can, sometimes it's like, yeah, it's just, there's a lot of stuff. It's, I think it's hard being your own, when you're your own boss. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:07:26 It's, you can get lost a little bit and you can get, you know, you want to sometimes look for someone to go, no or yes, and then you realize there is no one to say no or yes. It's just you, yeah. It's just you. Yeah, I realize that I work for myself and I'm not the best employee I realize. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that makes sense. Like, it's, yeah, you can, you don't live up to maybe what you're doing.

Starting point is 00:07:52 But, you know, then if someone sees what you're doing, like, you're doing everything. Right. So then they're like, you're doing great. And you're just going to beat up yourself. Oh, yeah. Because you think, like, I should be doing. more, I mean, I think about it like, you know, I should be, oh, yeah, when you're working for yourself. I should get structure. I have no structure. Yeah. Athletes have,

Starting point is 00:08:10 they have like, uh, routines. Yeah. Yeah, there's no like comedy. There's not like a bell that goes off early in the morning where it's like comedians grab your pens and start your writing. And we, like you said, if you're a morning person, you think that goes against everything that you're supposed to be because your shows are at night. And when you come up, you're out very late. but then the longer in it you kind of like want to just get up earlier and have a routine

Starting point is 00:08:38 yeah and then it's like that's my fantasy is just to have a routine oh to adhere to an alarm clock that's oh yeah that's a fantasy of mine

Starting point is 00:08:48 yeah yeah not a lot of alarm clock you know you don't set alarm clocks because it just doesn't dude I would set my alarm clock and then hide my phone in between the mattresses

Starting point is 00:08:57 on the other side of the bed that I slept on yeah so like over there and I would never even hear it because it's quiet because it's under the mattress, so it's quiet. It didn't stay in a chance.

Starting point is 00:09:05 So I wanted structure, but I was just not willing to adhere to it. Yes, I'm like, I work for myself and I'm the worst employee. I would go smoke behind the dumpsters like I was hiding for myself. Like, what are we even doing? Yeah, I think you want someone to be in charge.

Starting point is 00:09:20 Yes. I had an old joke. And unfortunately, it's you every time. It's the problem. You had an old show, what? I had an old joke where I said, you know, it's like, the thing with comedy is like,

Starting point is 00:09:29 if you wanted to quit comedy, there's no one to quit to. So you can't call Seinfeld and be like, hey, I'm out. Like there's no one, no one cares if you quit. No one. Yeah. There's no one to say you quit to. And then if you get to a point where you have this giant audience and you quit,

Starting point is 00:09:45 then you feel like you got to, you can't just quit. No. Because then everybody's like, where are you at? So even if you wanted to quit, you're like, I don't know. What do you do? Make a video. And then everybody's like, why are you quit? And you're like, now you're quitting to millions of people.

Starting point is 00:09:58 Yeah. And you're like, no, I just wanted to kind of slowly. fade. Yeah. Daniel Day Lewis, I always think, is an act. Like, you don't know anything about that guy. You know, he comes out for, you know, just to basically win an Oscar and then... He goes back.

Starting point is 00:10:16 Goes back to whatever he does, and that guy, I don't know what he does. Yeah, I don't know what he does either. Daniel Day Lewis, yeah. I mean, he has day in his name. That's so... Probably gets up early. For sure, if he's putting that in there. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:32 But yeah, no idea. Comes out, gets his thing. Boy in the left foot, red foot. My left foot. My left foot, dude. No, I haven't seen it, but... It's pretty good. Have you?

Starting point is 00:10:44 It's older, yeah, I've seen it. Really? Is it anything to do with his feet? Yeah. Oh, really? It does. Bring it up. Let's just find out. What was it?

Starting point is 00:10:53 My left foot. Hold on. Let me take a gander at what I thought it was really quick. It was a man... I believe I think there was like a train accident, and he gets his... It takes place like in the south. He gets...

Starting point is 00:11:02 one of his feet hit by a train, and then he has to operate and fall in love, I guess, with just only his other foot. He has to fall in love with someone else with only his other foot to be able to hand them a flower. So his left foot is like, it's like... It's necessary.

Starting point is 00:11:20 It's a big deal. Yes. Let's see it. No one expects much from Christy Brown, Daniel A Boy with Cerebral Palsy, born into a working class Irish family. Okay. No train.

Starting point is 00:11:30 A little different. Uh, uh, That's a train. With the help of his steely mother and no shorters of grit and determination, Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet, and author. Oh, is it like a true story?

Starting point is 00:11:42 Though Christie is a spastic, quadriplegic, and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of five, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. Oh, yeah, I remember this now, a different movie than I was thinking,

Starting point is 00:11:56 but still a great movie. You, yeah, the train. Yeah, I was seeing a fried green tomatoes. That's what I was thinking of. I just realized that. That has a train in it? Yeah. A little crossover. Yeah. But that's a good, you know, the only train movie I think of is that one in Denzo Washington.

Starting point is 00:12:14 Oh. That's good. John Trailing Day. I don't think it's training day. There's one where he had, there is an actual train. How is it not Training Day? But there's one that there is unstoppable. Oh, I haven't seen that. It's great. That's kind of where I'm at. I haven't seen my left foot, but.

Starting point is 00:12:32 I've seen Pelican 1, 2, 3 maybe That's it Oh Pelham 1213 Yeah, yeah Is that got a train? I think there's a train in that And was there a movie

Starting point is 00:12:43 Call training day? There is Yeah, yeah Was it in it? Nothing to do with the train But that was Denza Yeah, that's he won an Oscar for that Oh, okay

Starting point is 00:12:51 Or maybe Maybe he didn't We shouldn't go to the theater I don't think But But you have a new movie You have a new movie You have your movie's coming out

Starting point is 00:12:59 Yeah, no trains May 29th May 29th, Breadwinner Breadwinner And in theaters In theaters And you have a Nate rate

Starting point is 00:13:08 What did us What is this? Yeah, we got the We talked to all the movie theaters And got prices Lowered Nice So yeah yeah

Starting point is 00:13:18 Because we want the whole family To come out It's interesting with movies, man You start looking at Like theaters Like you know You guys make you in distribution All this

Starting point is 00:13:26 Like you know Think about touring Like this It's hard not to think about movies and touring is kind of like the same kind of thing. You know, you get a promoter, you get this, you go to every town.

Starting point is 00:13:37 Like if you make a movie and you go to these theaters and they're in every single town and you kind of go... Like, did you hear about that kid on YouTube? He did a horror movie. And he's got a bunch of subscribers on YouTube and he's a big horror fan, I think,

Starting point is 00:13:52 and they made a movie. He made a movie. And, I mean, it was, you know, it was going to go out to a few theaters. Then his fan just started calling their theaters being like, no, we want it to come. And it was like a huge success. And he made it for, I want to say,

Starting point is 00:14:07 three million and then, uh, yeah, uh, iron, is it, yeah, it's like, something iron, no. Iron something. It was iron something. And then, iron lung, yeah.

Starting point is 00:14:20 Was that it? Yeah. Grossed over 50 million. I think he made it for three. Wow. But it was like, that's a guy that just basically did it like a tour, like how we would tour and sell tickets. Mark a lot.

Starting point is 00:14:30 That was in the guy's name Markiplier. And what does it say? Can you take me into the, what happened with the movie? He just made it. He said he wanted to make it. The Iron Long movie was independently self-financed and created by YouTuber Mark Fishbach, Markiplier, who wrote, directed, produced, edited, and started in operating without a major studio. He shot the film over 35 days using a life-size, 9,000-pound submarine set mounted on a hydraulic motion rig.

Starting point is 00:14:55 Wow. After struggling to find traditional Hollywood distribution, he self-distributed the film, massive fan campaigns convinced major theater chains to screen it. The indie film became a massive box office hit grossing 50 million and a $4 million budget. Wow. So he had his fans all call...

Starting point is 00:15:11 Once he said he wanted to go out, he was in a few theaters, and his fans kept calling their theaters and their towns, and they said they want to see it, and then he went out and said it. $4 million budget. That's amazing. That's incredible, dude.

Starting point is 00:15:24 But that's where you see movies where you're like, that guy did it kind of like how you would tour on a comedy, club. Like you're going and selling tickets just in these towns. Right. And so if you got a big following like that, that tours and you go make a movie, I mean, you know, it's like, can he go do that? You know, I understand that one time is kind of like, oh yeah, it's crazy. So it'd be a major of can he go do it again or can you repeat it? Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, even with our own movie,

Starting point is 00:15:54 I don't know what we sold compared to like if I were touring in a place as opposed to people that came out to go to the theaters. I know it, well, I don't think it was close, but I do know that I had a lot of friends who were like, dude, I haven't been to the movie theater in eight years, 10 years, right? Yeah. I had a lot of people who went to the movie theaters

Starting point is 00:16:14 by themselves, dude. We had one video of a dude. He sent it in, he went to the movie theater, nobody else was in the theater, right? He ends up watching, what was this dude's name? I gotta find it, we'll put it in. He ends up just taking it. his shirt off and sitting there and watching the movie by himself

Starting point is 00:16:31 relaxing he was the only guy in there watch the whole thing by himself this dude I think it's like it was this guy it's like the Latino guy he's at work and he's like bro I'm freaking tired but I want to go see this movie maybe I don't know if and then you see him walking he's like nobody's even here

Starting point is 00:16:47 and then like 10 minutes later he's like I guess I'll just enjoy myself and I don't know what happened after that I mean he just we know he had the shirt off and watched it oh yeah this is him right here dude this is the guy can you pull it up man he's got off of work i got this in the movie i'm trying to go watch i don't feel like doing shit to be honest

Starting point is 00:17:14 look i still made it in this but look check it out there ain't nobody at this bit man this i'm a lot to myself cuss He just took it. And he had to set the phone up somewhere and do this. That's kind of a vibe, though, dude. That's him right there, golden-chiseburger right there, Golden underscore Cheeseburger, shout out him being a horror worker, went to catch the movie.

Starting point is 00:17:44 I've never even thought about wanting to take your shirt off. I think people either don't or do want to take the shirt off. Yeah. I'm a knot. I don't want to take my shirt off, but I mean, if someone wants to, buddy, they want to. Oh, we know a guy. Yeah, we do. Yeah, we know a guy.

Starting point is 00:17:59 Yeah, sometimes I wish we to try to go on more theaters, but... Going to... But, yeah, taking your shirt off. But going what? Going to theater alone, man, that, like, it's pretty great. That's something you do a lot as a comic on the road. You can hit some, you know, you go to some movie at noon. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:15 And you just buy yourself in there. Oh, yeah. Have you ever had someone come sit right next to you? I've been, like, by myself or, like, maybe one of their comic. And then two more people walk in, they sit in the seats in front of us. Oh. It drives me nuts. And what do you do?

Starting point is 00:18:30 I'll move. Yeah. Because I sit there and just be angry during the whole movie. Yeah. Because why would you do that? Oh, dude. Why would you sit right, you know, just go sit. It's empty.

Starting point is 00:18:45 Just go sit like somewhere. Somewhere else up. But here's a thing, though, if you sit too far away from that person, you think they feel kind of left out or something? No, I would go as far as away from them. I'm one that doesn't want to really be Near someone Of course near someone in a dark theater

Starting point is 00:19:03 That you don't know that's Yeah I think you gotta have space I mean I would sit like when you go with a buddy Like we don't sit next to each other You have that empty seat Thank you yeah When we went to Kevin James movie

Starting point is 00:19:14 You and I sat next to each other And we kept a seat between us Like civilized people Yeah yeah yeah Yeah We were normal Yeah And we enjoyed the movie more

Starting point is 00:19:23 Oh yeah I was good dude Yeah Like Beetlejuice. You ever see that guy, Beetlejuice? Mm-hmm. From Stern? We called him up. We offered him money to come on this podcast one time.

Starting point is 00:19:34 And he said, no? This is what he said, this is the crazy part. He's like, where are you going to leave the money at? And I couldn't like. Yeah. And just from there, it was like. Oh, it was downhill. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:19:48 It was so hard. He's like, yeah, where are you going to put the money at? Yeah. And I was like, oh. And I couldn't explain to him like at the bank or whatever. Yeah. We're going to send you a check. Yeah.

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Starting point is 00:23:00 at Acorns.com slash the go. But yeah, I think it's different getting people to go to theaters. It's just, it's kind of a throwback. Yeah, but I think you're heading more towards that kind of stuff with experience. I mean, you've seen people get, you're seeing a lot of things, Netflix house. You've seen a lot of things where they want to experience. Netflix house you're saying? Yeah, Netflix is doing a, they're starting to build these Netflix houses.

Starting point is 00:23:25 Which are like movie theaters? No, it's like they would have John Wick And they would have like I went to one Like there you go So it's like all your favorite Netflix shows And you get to interact with it in some way Oh, but you can also watch the shows in the place? No, no, I don't, you're not watching them

Starting point is 00:23:41 You're just like a squid game They have like a squid game thing you can go through And then so you go in And you just spend the night or day And you just get to interact with your favorite show Stranger Things You get to go through a stranger things set or play a little game or

Starting point is 00:23:58 and that this kind of thing I believe I believe live experiences are going to go that's where that's where it's at that's why I think stand-up comics are in a terrific spot because you're you can't AI a live performance right and you I mean I'm just you can do hologram and that kind of stuff but

Starting point is 00:24:21 well yeah we're the only place I mean what else even outside of stand-up comedy How many, where else are people even outside of like pastors at churches, I'm trying to think, or reverends or preachers or preachers or rabbis? But outside of those people, you have musicians, but they, you kind of know what you're getting because it's like their songs. But I'm trying to think of where else is they're like, well, I guess there's. But then you don't know what's influenced with what. So like even if they're songs or if they're singing or whatever it is. I mean, I would think, you know, some folk music like that.

Starting point is 00:24:53 You're going to have to have stuff like that where you're like straight up, you know there's nothing added into it and there's nothing. Or it's going to be a very big spectacle, spectacle show. You're going to have to go either super big or you're going to have to be, I think, like standup where it's just you, you, me, we're talking to a crowd. And there's nothing in the middle. Right. Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying is like there's not a place where you go to get a pure voice anymore. There's not that, you know what I'm saying? Like, that's not refined or it's not overly produced.

Starting point is 00:25:23 It's the most authentic. That's why, I mean, I hope young entertainers, I hope stand-up comics that are getting into it, get into it, and they get in there and create an act, because you're going to be the only place, you know, essentially where you could maybe be actually hearing a real person. Preacher is a good example, too. Like, it's where you're going to, you know, have straight on, like,

Starting point is 00:25:48 I just want to see the person, you know, because there's so much stuff. people don't trust. So you're like, I just want to see the person, I want to see the person talking. Yeah. I want to have...

Starting point is 00:25:58 Well, I want the truth. I want that... I want humanity. Like, I could touch that person. Right. And I want what they really believe, I feel like.

Starting point is 00:26:05 Yeah. Like with humor, I think, at the base of a lot of our humor, I think a lot of it, I mean, sometimes you're joking around, but some of your true laurels are in there, like,

Starting point is 00:26:13 these are some of my, you know, like, some... We all have a backbone of stuff that's in there. Yeah, who you are, like, yeah. I mean, I think unless you're, like a one-liner guy or something like that.

Starting point is 00:26:21 Right, and that's hard to really know. It's, but yeah, but who, yeah, who you are is going to be kind of, you know. Somewhat in there. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because, yeah, it's hard to get like a true, like, okay, what is this person thinking? Are they just speaking directly to me without a lot of influence?

Starting point is 00:26:35 It's like pastors, comedians. I'm not putting us in some special space or anything. I'm just saying, oh, here you go. Teachers or professors, but I mean, like, look, it's. But teachers, some of that stuff is kind of like they have to follow a curriculum. Oh, dude, when somebody's tickling you, that's when you have to tell the truth. Think about that. A tickler?

Starting point is 00:26:57 No, not the tickler is a creep or whatever. Yeah. But the person, if you're being tickled, you ever try to lie to somebody while they're tickling you? Uh-uh. It's impossible. Impossible. Yeah. Maybe I'll be up there.

Starting point is 00:27:11 It's impossible. That's why when I see all this waterboarding and torture or whatever and all this horrible stuff they're doing to people sometimes I'm like, dude. Tickle. Yeah, get in there. unleash them Get under their arm I don't know Unleash them

Starting point is 00:27:22 Crawdad's on somebody And you'll get it Grab their thigh right there Oh oh dude Bro where were you This is RJFK Where were you People you always knew

Starting point is 00:27:32 You could get tickled Like this right You knew that right And even if there's a chubby kid And you grab that little Donut around his midsection Yeah yeah Shake the freaking truth

Starting point is 00:27:41 Out of his little thick ass Or whatever Sorry And we'll edit that But when somebody did that to you How shocked really I didn't know that when somebody did that.

Starting point is 00:27:50 Yeah, I remember, like, I used to do it to my daughter, too. Like, you grabbed their leg there and then just be like, well, don't smile. Don't smile. Don't, you know. And then, yeah. Yeah, that's right.

Starting point is 00:28:02 Tickling, maybe it's going to be a big, it'll come back, you know. But you need ticklers. So then when you get, where are you going to do that in a safe? We'll probably get government-issued ticklers and those people are going to be. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:28:15 We've already... They're not going to try. It's not going to be. Yeah, they're not going to be. try. You're going to have to be digging into their fingers more. Like, because you're like,

Starting point is 00:28:23 dude, you're not even trying. Like, you go, here, give me your hand. And then you have to do it. And then you're like,

Starting point is 00:28:29 yeah. Yeah, you're going to be leaning more towards it. Dude, that's like, oh, bro. That's so funny, bro.

Starting point is 00:28:36 You're so funny, dude, that's like, dude, that's like, there's people sometimes at work where like, I'm the city, like a liaison of the city, and they segue around the town sometimes.

Starting point is 00:28:46 But, but dude, sometimes those people, like, one time we were trying to get her information and the lady was running from us she like couldn't get her thing to stop or whatever so she would pass by but you had to ask her really fast because she was going and then another time the guys his got stuck or whatever like in a right hand pattern or whatever he kept he called a right hand pattern he's like it's in a right hand pattern

Starting point is 00:29:06 and he's just sitting there just glitching like in a circle like just going in circles yes and we're trying to like you know we're just trying to ask where's the monument yeah yeah dude it's just like dude we're talking about paul revere and he just kept dodging us Yeah. Where's Daniel Boone's house? And it's just... Yeah. Yeah, dude. We're like, look, dude, we heard Harriet Tubman ate ice cream around here.

Starting point is 00:29:29 Can you just... Just tell me. Yes. Heard Davy Crockett. Yeah, we heard Davey Crockett and Betty Crocker actually hooked up around you one time. They were around the same time. Were they? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:29:41 They had to have met up. They had to have met up. They would at least known about each other. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Davey Crockett was talked about a lot growing up He was way more than it is now It was a big deal when I grew up

Starting point is 00:29:55 Yeah now it's like Travis Scott or whatever Yeah it is And David Crockett Is a good name I thought Davey Crockett Ouch here's what I would feel And I'm going off nothing But Davy Crockett was

Starting point is 00:30:10 When I was growing up was the guy And I think Daniel Boone came in And started a little overshadowing Davy Hmm. I remember Davy Crockett because he had the paraphernalia. You had the hat. And I think he, I don't know if he had a pistol or if he had a... Yeah. I feel like he had a gun, like one of those old school guns. Like a six shoot or something? Yeah. No, no, like a rifle, but like... Yes, that's it. Bring him up. Let's get a gander at him. Because, yeah, who even knows? Davy Crockett and Betty Crocker are unrelated, except for the shared last name, which is even the same last name.

Starting point is 00:30:43 Yeah. You want to take us through Davy Crockett there, Nate? Yeah, David Crockett was a real 19th century American frontiersman and politician Well, Betty Crocker was created in 1921 and is not a real person So that's tough But they were around So she was a catfish basically, which she probably Oh yeah, that's maybe the original catfish Betty Crocker

Starting point is 00:31:05 Yeah He kept going, what's up this Betty where's this Betty Crocker out there? She just left. Yeah, dude Yeah, she was just here Can you get me information just about Davy Crockett, please? Did him and Daniel Boone know each other? Crockett grew up in East Tennessee,

Starting point is 00:31:22 where he gained a reputation for hunting and storytelling. So he was kind of like a comedian, I guess. He was made a colonel in the militia of Lawrence County. He opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson, where I'm from Old Hickree, which is named after Andrew Jackson. So... He was elected to Congress. I didn't even know as a congressman.

Starting point is 00:31:41 In 1836, he took part in the Texas... Revolution and died at the Battle of the Alamo. That's why he was popular, too, because the Alamo. Yeah, yeah, the Alamo, yeah. Crocket became famous during his lifetime for larger than life exploits, popularized by stage plays and almanacs. After his death, he continued to be credited with acts of mythical proportion. And then what about, let's go Daniel Boone, wouldn't he be slide in there and steal his shine?

Starting point is 00:32:10 Daniel Boone, born in 1734, while David Crocker was born in 1734, while David Crocker was born in 1786, 52 years apart. So Boone was already an aging frontier legend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So probably our grandparents, our great-grandparents, probably heard more about Boone.

Starting point is 00:32:24 They did. And then we heard about Crockett. Yep. And then maybe the truth has come out that it's like, look, we need to go pretty heavy on Boone because he was the originator.

Starting point is 00:32:34 Yeah. Once that big, big business starts pushing Boone. I like when they're, like, it's like he was born around November 2nd. Like you're, They go, they weren't keeping stuff back in the general area.

Starting point is 00:32:49 Yeah. Yeah. And then if he was like, I was born in January. And you're like, well, yeah, that's a round. It counts. Yeah. It counts. Yeah, dude, he showed up in the springtime.

Starting point is 00:33:01 He grew up in a Quaker farming family. He became famous for his woodcrafts, hunting, and long-range exploration deep into what was in the western frontier of British America. Huh? Pretty cool, man. everybody was kind of an explorer. Yes. You know? Because it was...

Starting point is 00:33:16 I mean, I know that, like I'm saying, those guys did great. But I bet there was a lot of guys that were like, yeah, nothing was built. Every step I took was a brand new step. Oh, yeah. You were just, yeah, you were just like a Magellan. Anybody... Dude, if you got a pair of running shoes, you were a Magellan. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:33:35 You were Christopher Columbus. Imagine when those... Did you had Hokas back then? I mean, come on. Yeah. Dude. you would be above Daniel Boone.

Starting point is 00:33:43 You were sponsored by the Spanish at that point. You know what I'm saying? He came up that way. Dude, that's the way you came up and they were like, we didn't see that coming. This guy came through.

Starting point is 00:33:52 Yeah. Dude, it is kind of crazy because there was also a time where there were more woods, right? Anytime there was woods, you were an explorer. Anytime that has a lot to do with exploration because

Starting point is 00:34:03 there was more woods that, like, less timber had been cut down. So I think you had that. And then, yeah, just not knowing where everything was being an explorer. Gosh.

Starting point is 00:34:11 You think you could have been an explorer? I mean, I don't think you have a choice. I think you're just it. But it's, yeah, I think I could. I like exploring. I would like to go find some, you know, trying to really see, like, what's the path, the best way to go.

Starting point is 00:34:24 That's what's hard is. There's not much left exploring. You know, you see, like, those untouched tribes they talked about, and then you're like, I don't even know if some of that's real or not. It looks fake. A lot of that's fake.

Starting point is 00:34:33 Yeah, yeah. And so there's, I know in Alaska, because they talk about Bigfoot and like in Alaska, there's like so much land and stuff like in with woods and you go up to Washington,

Starting point is 00:34:48 it's like got the most trees. Yeah, people don't even, yeah. It's, you can't, there's so much. People can go seek for two years. Oh, yeah, you couldn't. I mean, there's, if Bigfoot's real, it's like it would be easy for Bigfoot to hide. Up there.

Starting point is 00:35:04 Up there. That's a good point. Whereas, yeah, like in other places, like Modesto, it would be tough. or, you know, up in, like, North Atlanta or something like that, those are going to be... Yeah, Bigfoot's going to get seen. Oh, dude, in Atlanta, Bigfoot's going to be at the club, probably...

Starting point is 00:35:21 Yeah, yeah. At the club, for sure, dude. Yeah. People would have him feature on their albums in Atlanta. Yeah. Oh, yeah, just, yeah. Come up and talk. Yeah, you don't think Ludacris is going to have Bigfoot pull up?

Starting point is 00:35:34 Yeah. Why would you not? You have access to them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You probably don't got to pay him.

Starting point is 00:35:41 He'd probably food. I don't even know. For sure, clean salmon. I'm thinking also, yeah. Clean salmon. He just give him that. And then he drops. But they're going to push that narrative on him that he's like a person of color too.

Starting point is 00:35:55 Yeah, that would be. Like he has to show up and he has to do ball. Like, he has to like, collab on a track or show up. He has to go to stuff. Yeah, he's like, I mean. We need you, bro. Yeah. We need you.

Starting point is 00:36:08 it diamonds or whatever that place is, nipple diamonds, or whatever that exotic club there is, I think. Oh, yeah. One of them got, everybody got in trouble at. All of them did, yeah. A lot of them, yeah. Well, they found glyphosate there on some of the women. I'm always crazy how open they are about talking about that, the NBA.

Starting point is 00:36:25 They, there's, they talk about going to those clubs, and there's no, like, you know, we feel like there's someone that's like, hey, let's not, let's keep it to look. little quiet. Right. Like a lot, everything else are like, hey,

Starting point is 00:36:40 don't talk about that. Don't talk about politics. Don't talk about how you feel about this. Don't be like Kyrie Irving with his, you know, don't express yourself.

Starting point is 00:36:49 But if it comes to clubbery, like strip club, yep. Go all out. Or throwing tens of thousands of dollars on the back of somebody.

Starting point is 00:36:58 Yeah. Then please. Then say it, say it all. Then yeah. Then share it. Magic City. That's the one

Starting point is 00:37:04 they just got in trouble about. Oh, did it? Yeah, because the hawks used Magic City Night, which is where they would go.

Starting point is 00:37:14 And this is similar, I guess Magic City Night, is that similar to the Nate rate at all or no? This is two different things. It's along the lines. It's what we were going for originally. No, but I love that you're doing this, dude. I love that you were able to make that happen. How do you make that happen with the theaters?

Starting point is 00:37:33 And then also, secondarily, do you know how many theaters you guys are opening up in? 3,000, I think 3,000. Oh, wow, really? Yeah, I think so. I'm not positive. I think it's like that. I think it's 3,000.

Starting point is 00:37:46 But it's, you know, it's, dude, it's like meeting, you know, we've met like, you know, AMC, that, head of Regal, Cinnamark, Cineplex, like, you just kind of go to them. And, like, they're all, they're in the same business. I always say this, I'm in the ticket selling business. You're in the ticket selling business. We sell tickets. So you kind of take stuff out of like, you know, the hands of Hollywood in a sense once you're in this ticket selling business. Like that's all, that's my relationship with the audience is I, you buy a ticket and you come see me.

Starting point is 00:38:22 And so when you can kind of do that, I think you can go to these theaters to go, we're all on the same page. They want people coming to theaters. We want, I want them to come see the movie I made. And so then you're, I think you can just, there's ways around it. And now we're in such a new world where you're, you know, you start meeting people and, like, everybody just wants their businesses to grow.

Starting point is 00:38:44 And I think everybody took it for granted for such a long time because it was, that's just what it was. You know, like, growing up, was, you know, growing up, you just went to the movie theaters. You couldn't do, there was no stream. There was a, you know,

Starting point is 00:38:57 then once all the streaming stuff started happening, it's like, then they kind of went hard into that and then I think left theaters. And now you're getting, back to where these younger generations that are growing up with phones and they're seeing their parents on the phone all the time and they just want to go somewhere and they want to go do stuff. And so then it's like there's a chance I think it will flip back to, you know, I mean, you know, when you feel like I think every time I drop my phone, I think I hope it breaks.

Starting point is 00:39:28 Oh yeah. I always just someone's like, oh, I'm like, it'd be wonderful. It broke. I hope someone steals it. I'll even go to a city that has a lot of crime and drop my phone there a couple, 10, 12 times. See what happens. And I'll even make that sound like, and be let down. Yes, and be like, call.

Starting point is 00:39:43 That it's, you go, I thought this city had crime and I was wrong. I'll even do that when I drop. Point at it. Yeah. But yeah, dude. Leave it way out of your pocket, back pocket. Oh, when my phone goes off, dude. Sometimes I used to wet the bed and I would be like an adult, which was the saddest part of it.

Starting point is 00:40:03 But after that, there was times where I was like supposed to like get up in the morning or whatever and then I would urinate all over my phone. It was short out. And it would be like the best morning. Yeah. Especially after something so sad happening as an adult. Oh, yeah. You get past that.

Starting point is 00:40:22 But then no. Then your phone doesn't work and you're like, man, what a day. Yeah. I leave my phones like on the road. But I'll have like an, you know, you have an Apple watch. You have an Apple Watch? Like, you have an Apple Watch. You can have Apple Watch with cellular. Yes.

Starting point is 00:40:37 So you can leave your phone. And then, like, you know, it's like one of those like, all right, if someone needed to call me, it's like you can throw AirPods in or you can be like, hey, I got to call you back, or text message or whatever. That's a big thing you do with kids at first. Sometimes you give them an Apple Watch before a phone because they can't do too much with an Apple Watch, but you could get a hold of them. My kid, yeah.

Starting point is 00:40:58 My kid would be lucky to get an Apple. and watch what happens if you don't behave. That's how I'm starting. That's a start. Is a good diet and then like light threat. And then we'll go from there to see what else they get if they were well behaved. But Oliver Anthony just did something.

Starting point is 00:41:18 Can you bring that up what he was trying to do with ticketing? And congrats, man, on your movie. Yeah, ours just, we only got 500 theaters. I wish we'd had gone bigger and I wish we'd have gone to more rural theaters. I think we tried to do like too much just city stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway.

Starting point is 00:41:35 But I mean, like movies are, go back forward to, like, streaming is, I kind of think of streaming sometimes as like it's like Blockbuster in a sense. It's like where your stuff can go live and people can go watch that forever. Right. I mean, Bert's movie, you know, it's like he went to theaters and then he went crazy and did, it destroyed it on Netflix. Well, I think, and also, man, sorry to, I kind of made that about me there in our movie for a second. I want to apologize about that.

Starting point is 00:42:03 No, I'll talk about your movie. No, congratulations. So it's going to be open in May 29th. That's this Friday. Yeah. And it's in theaters. It's going to be in 3,000 theaters, which means almost everywhere. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:42:13 That's a lot of places. Yeah, that's wonderful, dude. It's exciting. Also, just there's a chance it's four theaters. If some reason, it's not 3,000. I think it's 3,000. But it would be funny. The chance is 4,000, you mean?

Starting point is 00:42:25 No, no, I think 4,000 is the main. Max, I think we're at three. I'm just saying, we go back and, you know, it's in a hundred theaters and they go, it could be that too. Got it. What was Oliver saying? Yeah, I just saw this the other day. Can you just play a little bit of it? I could really use your suggestions and your advice. I am looking for venues to play. You know, I've started booking my own shows again. So in April, we did those Virginia's where I just rented the room outright and I sold my own tickets through this West Virginia ticket company and it was sweet. It was like it bypassed the whole system.

Starting point is 00:42:57 and it actually worked and it went over pretty well and so I just announced again for the June 1st through the 3rd I'm doing Charlotte Greenville and Raleigh the exact same way but I'm just going on Google and trying to find venues and so I have no idea what's good and bad but if you have places that you like going to see music that can hold Okay got it so he was trying I guess some ticketing I guess ticketing maybe through the exact venues

Starting point is 00:43:21 I think because that's a big thing for people and Oliver has always been like a pioneer of like trying to figure out You know, how do you get take away from, you know, some of these big groups like Ticketmaster and Live Nation? Just that have these conglomerates, you know, it's a lot. I mean, there's ticket master fees. They're crazy. They're crazy. Here's the, like, you know.

Starting point is 00:43:40 They're crazy. No, no, they're insane. I agree. But here's the thing with, like, how much work that was for him to do four or five shows. Right. That's a lot of work. So it's like you've got to get for him to, if he wants to go. If you want to go do it this way, you're going to need to build a system.

Starting point is 00:44:00 Right. And so you're going to have to have people that are going to be able to help you go do that. You can go do that, but you have to build a system. Right. Or otherwise, you're not going to be able to tour like the way you want to. If everybody wants to go see him, he's wonderful and all this, and it's, you know, it's a lot. It's a lot of work. Remember Louis, Louis might still do it.

Starting point is 00:44:21 He did it. He did it a long time where you buy tickets through his website and stuff like, that. There's many ways that you can go try to do it. And I looked, a hard part of this too is that some people are like, I'll just, just let me go to Ticketmaster, dude. I don't, you know, it's our step hub or whatever they're going to go do. And you're fighting that too. So it's not like, we all want to. I look, I always thought of it like this. You're right. I never thought about that part of it. Yeah. Some people are okay with it. Dude, what do you want?

Starting point is 00:44:53 Like, if I really look at it all, even though it's like the, I believe in the thing that you're doing, it's just so much work and you've got to get the word out and people have to find you and see you. And all this, I don't know where he wants to be career-wise.

Starting point is 00:45:13 Like, you know, does he want to be the most biggest star in the world? I don't feel like he does. I feel like he loves where he's at. And like, I think he just loves having that relationship with the people. With the audience, with the people, which is, which is amazing. And so it's like, you should do that.

Starting point is 00:45:27 But then there's a mix. You know, it's, you remember doing like comedy clubs when you, you'd go try to do a rock, like for me, I would go try to do a rock venue instead of a comedy club. And then you go to the odd, the people that would come out to me, they don't know where this rock venue's at. So they've never heard of this rock venue. They just know where the comedy club is. Right.

Starting point is 00:45:45 And then now you're, yeah, 100 people show up. Yeah. Under a bench somewhere. Yeah. Okay, yeah. Oh, you just got word. It's 3,300 theaters there. So, yeah, I think so.

Starting point is 00:45:57 But, yeah. They charge all this stuff. Ticketmaster does all this stuff. They, I, it's, it's one of those. It's a mafia. Yeah, but you're, you know, but the audience, you know, yes, it's frustrating. We're all frustrated by it. But then it's also like, people are busy.

Starting point is 00:46:16 You got to, how many people can you get that are going to go follow you everywhere? I agree when you make it like, yeah. You know, and sometimes when you give stuff, you ever know, like I waited tables. And so I used to always think Applebee's right over here, Thompson. Really? Yeah, it's for me and my wife met. I pray for all those people over there.

Starting point is 00:46:36 You met your wife at Applebee's? Applebee's Thompson Lane. So, I don't know where Thompson Lane, but, you know. Do you remember what day it was, or was it a holiday? The day Daniel Boone was born, a roundabout November 2nd. Yeah. In the spring. In the spring.

Starting point is 00:46:56 Yeah. Yeah. And you met her there and how'd you meet her? Was she working there? She was a waitress and I was the host. You were a male host? A male host. And you've been a host anyway.

Starting point is 00:47:06 You've been a host your whole life. Yeah, I've been host my whole life. And so, but I was, yeah, a male host. Heck yeah. You know. I was easy. I was easy, you know, when he came in, you know, I was an easy like, hey, you know. Wasn't aggressive.

Starting point is 00:47:24 No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey. What do you want to do? Where do you want to go? You could talk me into where you want to sit.

Starting point is 00:47:31 Easily, huh? Easily. Easily. Can we sit over by the window? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever. That section's wide open. Can I go over there?

Starting point is 00:47:40 Of course. We can walk over there. Yeah. Dude, sometimes you go in one of the sections that was closed off, and they had all the baby seats parked over there. Mm-hmm. That always made me nervous. I thought something had happened to all the babies.

Starting point is 00:47:52 That's where they get, like, what's wrong with this restaurant? There you go. We've had some baby problems here. Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, and that's where they, were they upside down? Some of all. Yeah. Sometimes.

Starting point is 00:48:05 Sometimes they were. Oh, man. When I see that, I still think of that. And some of it, they'd be stacked on each other or something, you know. Yeah. The old wood baby seats, they didn't have that anymore? Dude, sometimes they would have a baby's head chiseled. name in the wood.

Starting point is 00:48:21 Oh, yeah. You know? They came a lot. Yeah, like Ricky Jr. Something was written. And then you're like, dang. How much you come here? Like when they see his family walk in, they already got it out.

Starting point is 00:48:32 Yeah. Sometimes it'd be like an unhappy baby. It would say like Brooks was here, just chiseled in there. Yeah. Like, oh. It's a lot. Waiting tables, business back to my theory, is, you know, you would always think, like, to get a bigger tip, I would like try to hook.

Starting point is 00:48:48 you'd be like, I didn't charge you for the Coke. I didn't, you know, no charge for, and you thought, I thought like me hooking you up would mean a higher tip. Right. And it never did. But if I charged you full price for everything, you would tip me more.

Starting point is 00:49:03 Got it. So it's like, that's kind of how stuff works. Where you, in a weird, we all, because in my head, you're like, yo, dude, I'm like, you know, I've took it off. I've done what I can of like, I can just get you a Coke and put water down.

Starting point is 00:49:19 Yeah. You know, that's three, four dollars I just saved you, and then I'll get you, I don't know, like some random, you're doing these little things, and you think they're going to be like, I'll get you one extra little, but they tip off the price.

Starting point is 00:49:32 They tip off the price. And they don't think, and sometimes people's the math in their head, like, well, I don't remember how much stuff that was worth and what do I do here. Yeah. Because they just want to eat and, like, just charge me.

Starting point is 00:49:43 They want a breadstick, and they want to meet a woman. Yeah, yeah. You know? Yeah, like, olive, where they give you free bread, you know, it's like, do you tip extra? No, like, I don't think you tip, you don't, you don't you tip, you don't, you don't they give you a free, don't they give free breadsticks and maybe salad or something? I think there's soup even sometimes. Maybe unlimited pasta, something like, it's like aggressive. If you just run in there, they'll give you a half

Starting point is 00:50:04 a handful of soup. Yeah, yeah, for nothing. Yeah, for nothing. Dude, the assistant manager let you freaking eat it right out of her hand if she's nice if she's feeling good that day yeah you get complimented your breadsticks yeah but i wonder if they make you feel the guilty asking for them yeah like oh well let me see let me see if we have them yeah you go to oh charlie's back in the day when they do you know oh charlie's was a different restaurant but they had these great rolls and i mean the roles were oh charlie's has great they have rolls now they did something to them they're not as good as they were yeah i think they had sugar in them before and so It was almost like a Krispy Kreme donut.

Starting point is 00:50:42 But it was unbelievable. And they'd get free rolls. And you would set them down on the table. And then everybody would be like, go ahead and bring another round. And they'd have five of them. Yeah, dude. They were the best rolls in the world. And everybody would go in and you're just, you're really there for their roles.

Starting point is 00:50:59 And, you know, and then you would feel embarrassed to be like, you know, they bring you a basket of five. And you're like, before you turn around, these are gone. So go ahead and send another one out. And I think they had a pacing problem. They had to be like, yeah, we can't drag it out. Yeah, people were coming and looking in the kitchen and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, because they, I mean, they were the best.

Starting point is 00:51:23 People were texting the plug or whatever. Here's a solid copycat for a Charlie's original rolls. Warm whole milk, a six a cup of sugar, dry yeast, a beaten egg, butter, purpose flour, salt. Thank you for Lexington. Huh. Yeah, maybe it had a little bit of sugar in it. Oh, dude. Maybe they didn't have sugar.

Starting point is 00:51:41 Maybe, I mean, I don't know. It might have been all that stuff. It could have been the yeast. I don't know. Some yeast has a lot of, it can be good. If you do this recipe, throw a little sugar in it, too. Yeah, and if you're making anything for your family tonight. Don't throw a little sugar.

Starting point is 00:51:52 Oh, throw a little sugar. I do. Do you, ain't good. Dude, pasta sauce. Oh, that's a six cup of sugar. Yeah, that's it. Oh, yeah, yeah. Sorry, I didn't hear that.

Starting point is 00:51:59 No, no worries, man. Yeah, see what I mean, dude? I think they got rid of that sugar and then they got into, probably yeast heavy. They might have went yeast heavy. Remember a wet yeast. Oh, that's the worst when it's real yeast. You just put in your mouth and it like just grows in your mouth or whatever. Oh, yeah.

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Starting point is 00:53:33 One thing about making the movie you didn't expect, man, because this is your first movie. You made it. You wrote it with Dan Lagana. Is that right? Yeah. Who's a friend of mine. Great guy.

Starting point is 00:53:41 Yeah, yeah, great guy. I mean, let's just say he's great. He's great. Did you also direct it? No, no, Erica Pell. He did Erica Pell. He did the Weird Al Yankovish movie. And so it's a great movie.

Starting point is 00:53:58 And then so he did that. And then we had Jeremy Latcham was a producer and Sony, TriStar. It was a full-on, like, big, you know, we did it in Atlanta, Trillith, which is right outside of... Trillet. Trillith. Trillith. So, the owner of Chick-Fleigh, Dan Kathy, he owned...

Starting point is 00:54:16 That's where they used to shoot all the Marvel movies. Wow. And so they have all these studios, and then across neighborhood is housing. So, like, a lot of people that shoot there, you can go rent houses. And it's like a Truman Show type place where you just walk around... Would you see other actors and stuff during the day when you're... Yeah, yeah, yeah. that were working on different projects?

Starting point is 00:54:35 Yeah. Like whom did you see, do you mind? Erkel. You saw Jalilil White? Jalilal White. No way. Yeah, yeah. And so he was shooting a game show.

Starting point is 00:54:45 You would see a lot of... And what was he doing? Hooping or playing dice or whatever? What was he doing when you saw him? No, he was at... He was just at a restaurant. There's a restaurant? Oh, there's a bunch of restaurants there.

Starting point is 00:54:54 I mean, it's a town. Do they have real names, or is it like kind of like an Epcot Center type of? No, no. It's like, I mean, some people have houses there, then you rent them out to pay. to people that come. I mean, because when you were, you know, when they're shooting these Marvel stuff,

Starting point is 00:55:07 I mean, you'd have to have like, you know, Chris Pratt or Robert Downey Jr., you know, I mean, you can go live not in that town too, but you can, like, it's right across from the studio. So you can just run over there, but they have, like, ice cream shop. Yeah, I just can't imagine you're like, you go out in the morning or whatever,

Starting point is 00:55:24 and you freaking, you know, Robert Downey Jr. Al Pacino is, like, checking his mail or whatever, you know? Yeah, yeah. And it's like, wha! Yeah. Yeah. That would be the weird part for me, dude. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:55:36 Trilleth Town for Marvel Studios in Georgia could be the future of cities. And do you, does it come with a pet or anything? Like, what's the whole? I think, you know, you can get whatever you want there. But it's, yeah, so they did all, they did a bunch of Marvel movies. I bet this is an old article because it's, it's not, I think stuff's coming back, but now Marvel's all in London. Okay, got it. But it was.

Starting point is 00:56:01 Yeah, this is an old 2020. But it was, yeah, it's like, so they built those towns for like a lot of the workers, like the idea of the union guys to be able to go live there and like be able to come sit there and work. That's wild. But they did, yeah, everything. They did everything there. You're too tired when you get home to think about grocery shopping with that's okay. The delivery robot has just rolled up in front of your house with your weekly order. And this is the Trillith town.

Starting point is 00:56:27 The four-year-old residential portion of Trillet was modeled after the building styles and village. feel of European cities. It's a new town for about 5,000 people created using the principles of new urbanism, a concept that means neighborhoods should be walkable and compact with varied building types and less emphasis on cars. Oh, that's pretty cool.

Starting point is 00:56:47 And each, and they would have different streets would be like, I think it says European and British style designs, while other spots are more modern façade, or I just say ficcades, what is it? Fossets. Fossets.

Starting point is 00:57:02 Fasades. Fasades. And they... So you could go shoot actually on that street. So if you had like... Shoot a British-style movie... Oh, you could shoot it on in your neighborhood.

Starting point is 00:57:14 You could do in the neighborhood and be like, well, these houses look like they're British. And these look more modern and stuff like that. Wow. And you could buy, you can rent it out. And this is on Perplexity. AI. Thank you, Perplexity.

Starting point is 00:57:29 According to the article, the town's amenities are... geared toward a walkable self-contained lifestyle, retail, restaurants, a boutique hotel, co-working space, performing arts center, wellness center, and an innovative micro-school. It also has lots of green space, communal parks, and geothermal smart home design features. Wow. Yeah, it's a great idea in the fact that if you were trying to, which they did, So you're creating this studio and you want... The thing is, it was...

Starting point is 00:58:06 You know, the taxes, it's like now everything went to London. Like, they're all in London now. Because they're making those movies and they're so expensive. So it's like they shoot a lot of stuff over there now. They want to shoot everything there. There was that...

Starting point is 00:58:20 Rob Lowe talked about that thing where it's like, for his game show, it was easier to shoot in Ireland and fly the American audience two out to Ireland than it was to... cheaper than film in LA. That's crazy, man. Which I think it's now that

Starting point is 00:58:34 LA's, like, doing something. But it got to that point where he was like, yeah, will you not? Which this movie was like in Atlanta, and I think we would have shot it in Canada or something, but I was fortunately able to be like, well, I just wouldn't make a movie.

Starting point is 00:58:50 I was like, I'm not going to do that. Or just too far away? Well, it's like, yeah, man, I'm touring, and you're able to, the great thing for any young comedian, if you can you just keep doing you're doing you end up getting to hold

Starting point is 00:59:03 a lot more kind of power like that you know what I mean because you're like I'm touring I have a thing I can do this so when you go do make something it's not that you don't you have like full control blah blah whatever but it's like you can you can say no yes get the power of no

Starting point is 00:59:19 so you can be like it's like I we got to go make this movie in Canada because it's cheaper then it's like then I'll just either try to make it on my own or I'll figure it out or find something else or I'm touring So you're like, whatever. Yeah. And then it's like, you know, there comes a balance where you can start.

Starting point is 00:59:35 I got a game show. We shoot it here in Nashville. They wouldn't shoot it in Nashville. Did you try to shoot the film in Nashville? I tried, but this one went so, it was moving so quick that it's like we could have probably, but then it was, we needed to get it made. And they have everything. More infrastructure there for making stuff.

Starting point is 00:59:56 The thing about Tennessee is we don't have is the, you need. the like an A and B team of workers. So like if you're shooting movies you need like the A, the union guys, the guys that make up, the ones that make the movies. Like you need them working on one, then another team is working on

Starting point is 01:00:14 or the second movie and you're kind of able to flip flop. The second movie or whatever. Like a different movie or whatever. No, I mean a different, a whole different movie. You got to have multiple production crews. Oh. When at that, when their height of that trillet, I mean, I think they were using

Starting point is 01:00:29 12 to 20 studios filming a lot of things Oh, I see you were saying So they would have like As long as you're, you gotta have a lot of crew in town Right We do not have that We have crew here

Starting point is 01:00:42 We don't have enough to handle Uh high demand of movies Got it. Like you know you got like they're doing that Rescue 9-1-N-Nashville 911 or whatever it is Here well that's the That's a great crew that's there But if you have them doing that

Starting point is 01:00:57 you don't have the crew that's just sitting that you could also go shoot Batman here. So you need... We just don't have the infrastructure. We don't have the... I think we can. Right. I think we can get it.

Starting point is 01:01:10 I think it takes time and you've got to show that there's... Oh, yeah, you got to take time for that. You got to show that you're really committed in doing it. Right. Things have to happen. There needs to be tax incentives, all that type of stuff. But Atlanta has a ton of that. Even for the example, that neighborhood,

Starting point is 01:01:23 it's like they have a neighborhood built where people can stay across the street that are from the studios where they can all be right there. Georgia was a place that jumped on that really fast. But, you know, then you see it now. A lot of stuff, you know, even left. It still wasn't low enough,

Starting point is 01:01:40 so then they still go out. Oh, yeah. Farther. But, I mean, that's where you're in a movie business that's really reliant on these movies that cost $500 million to make or whatever. And you're like,

Starting point is 01:01:54 well, then you've got to stop making movies. Well, how much? What did you guys cost to make you said? I think ours was like 38 million. Are you serious? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's a big studio. Wow, I didn't realize all that, man.

Starting point is 01:02:06 Congratulations. I mean, that's fascinating. That's wild, dude. Yeah, I think it was something like that. And Mandy Moore is also in it. She plays your wife. She plays a couple of children in it. Yep.

Starting point is 01:02:17 Yeah, the kids are great. Charlotte, Birdie and Stella is the oldest. That's Bertie. And then, but the kids are great. And it's a movie that's, it's PG. It's the idea of this is, you know, I want you to go take your whole family out to go to it. Take your mom, take your grandma. Like, you know, it's, I, I, I just love that.

Starting point is 01:02:46 I love that when people can go out and they can all go together. I want to go to stuff with my family. Like, you know, you want to go. And then so you go look at a lot of movies now. It's like a lot of horror movies. It's horror or it's a big, or it's like a Marvel movie or something. Or it's animated. Like there's no live action movies like this, I think, that are being made that are PG

Starting point is 01:03:08 and it's kind of the direction that I wanted to head in. Well, it's been a lot of your direction. It feels like, why is that? Like, overall. Like, I get it, 100%, right? Like, I get it. It's been so successful for you, right? Like, I think we're like the top touring comedian last year, maybe, I think.

Starting point is 01:03:23 And I don't mean to get that wrong, you know? but, you know, you attract, like, you know, you can attract all ages, right? Your comedy's kind of for everyone. It's for kids, too, even? I don't write it for kids, but kids can come. The point is, like, your kids don't have to leave the room. Got it.

Starting point is 01:03:38 Like, so if it's on, like, but there's tons of kids at my show. Not tons. It's, but there's kids at the show. Right. And you see them, but I watch them, and I can tell, like, they're not, you know, they don't, like, a kid's not going to lie. They don't get everything. They don't get.

Starting point is 01:03:55 Yeah. they like some of the dumb silly jokes, but if I'm talking about like marriage and stuff like that, they're not going to be laughing at that. But I know when they get in the car, they're going to just talk about the whole night. And I hear that from parents. Like, they're just like, oh, they just kept.

Starting point is 01:04:10 But, you know, a kid doesn't know how to, it just kind of sits there and stares. But then afterwards, they just are excited. They haven't been to an adult event. And so this feels very adult, like you're watching it. Because it is, you're making it for, you know, my stuff is not. I'm not trying to make it like, yeah, like it's just kid friendly.

Starting point is 01:04:30 Like, the kid can come in. You're just not cursing. You can get away with a lot more when you don't curse. Cursing is just kind of, like, that's just what I've found. But it's just the way I was. You can get away with a lot more. I think you can say a lot of things and talk about a lot of stuff. And I think if you don't curse, it's...

Starting point is 01:04:48 I need to hear this. It's like the cursing is what I think... Like it's just, that's what, when people hear that, either they check out, or they're like, he's dirty, or he's this or he's that. And so if you're control of it, just be in control of it, maybe it's not saying you don't have to curse, but it's where is it and when is it? Yeah. Where it's a lot of, I think, the younger comedians now, it's, you know, they start on the internet,

Starting point is 01:05:20 then they go to Netflix. Like, no one's, like, there's no boundaries. where like we came, we did live at Gotham, I think the same year right around. And when you did that on Comedy Central, you couldn't say whatever you wanted to say. That's not a bad thing. That means you have to be creative in a scenario.

Starting point is 01:05:39 Not saying don't, you can come on anything else and go say whatever you want to go say. Right. But it's not a bad thing to have, like, some TV boundaries around you. Yeah. Because then it makes you come at stuff in different angles. Oh yeah, I mean I almost fantasize sometimes not fantasize that's probably the weirdest word But I think about that of like yeah I would like to get to a place where I don't have to

Starting point is 01:06:03 You know or not because I don't know you but it's just where I don't where I don't want to curse Yeah yeah yeah yeah I do it I don't even know why I do it I think it's kind of how I operate in a regular day too So in the end I think it's probably just I don't think of you as someone that would be Dirty I'm not vulgar no right like I'm not like sexually explicit or like talking about something that I think is gross, but I'll use some profanity, you know? Yeah, but some of it's just where I'm from and stuff like that, I think. But as an adult, and I don't know about a family or anything yet.

Starting point is 01:06:33 I don't have anybody looking at me across the room saying, why are you saying that in front of the kids, dude? You know what I'm saying? Because I work for myself and I'm a shitty employee. Yeah. You know, I'm out of smoking and catching myself. I'll sneak around the corner of smoke and then run around the corner and be like, what are you doing out here, you know?

Starting point is 01:06:48 The deep friars freaking acting up, you know, so. But, uh... No, do whatever you want to go. But by the way, no one think, I don't think anybody thinks of you as a dirty calling. Yeah, thanks. Like, I don't think, you know. Incurs, do whatever you want. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:07:02 Do whatever you want. But it is a challenge. I agree. I love the fact that it's a challenge to yourself. Is there, is there a day, would you ever, like, say, well, one day I'm going to put out, there's going to be like a dark folder I'm going to put out of just the other side of things. Have you ever had, like, have you ever wanted to have, like, an only fans where you just say, like, bad, some bad words on it? No.

Starting point is 01:07:24 I just don't think I think I've just passed the point of where I would I you know look I like whatever was it always like that yeah yeah I mean I we we grew up when I grew up it was like cursing was you know my parents were became Christian when I was born and I have a joke about it they were the most Christian and so like you know growing up here Southern Baptist it's very strict rules like it's it's you know I think church is that church is completely different now like a lot of it's non-denominable and all that. But it's, then it was like, yeah, you didn't, no one, no,

Starting point is 01:08:01 I mean, cursing was looked at. And no one, in my family, my, my parents did not curse. So I wasn't around. Yeah,

Starting point is 01:08:08 that's awesome. Like, uh, that. So I have a, not that I'm, I'm not perfect. But my strictness

Starting point is 01:08:15 in it, in my act is just, was like, I was just never going to do it. Got it. And then when I started that way, it's like, yeah,

Starting point is 01:08:22 it would be weird to go, And does it feel like I'm ostracizing you for not doing it? It doesn't feel like that, does it? No. No, I think some people, I don't feel like you do. But it doesn't feel like I'm ostracized. Like I'm, I'm envious of it. No, no, no, no. And I think it just, it's just like, yeah, it makes it so it's ready for everybody, right?

Starting point is 01:08:40 Like, this is something that you can, and a parent knows at some point I can turn that on. This is the thing that does get me sometimes. If our parents with their kids, like, I don't know if I can turn the other podcasts on because it's going to have profanity in it or they might be talking about some stuff that's going to be a bit obtuse for kids. I think about that sometimes with serious radio where it's like you you know, are you getting to some

Starting point is 01:09:01 stuff about sports or you want to listen to sports stuff and then it's like someone gets, they're cursing and you're like I'm just trying to like hear the score of the game. UFC had like you know, we're both giant UFC fans and the pay-per-view events I'm fine with

Starting point is 01:09:19 but like sometimes even if you have to listen to something about UFC it can get Like they can get cursing and all this stuff. And like not to, sometimes you're like, I just wouldn't mind. Like if my daughter's in the car, not really paying attention. And I would like to just hear some UFC stuff, can we have a channel where it's like, I just know you're not going to go nuts. Yeah. Like, you know what I mean?

Starting point is 01:09:45 Yeah, because the only thing she's going to look up too is if she hears a bad word, she can look up and she's going to look at you like, dad, what are you listening to this kind of stuff? You're like, I know I'm just trying to listen to... Like, you just want it to be, like, local radio. You're like, I'm just a Gaichi fan. What do you know? Give me a chance here, you know? I'm a Colby. Look, Kobe Covington, it's hard to keep him quiet. He's just the way...

Starting point is 01:10:07 You can listen to you. I mean, I've done anything against Kobe. I don't... Zambi says all the craziest things. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, a lot of those guys have to be their own advert. When you think about some of those guys,

Starting point is 01:10:16 it's interesting because they just wanted to fight, but then they have to... Some of them have to probably feel a pressure to... become this other thing because you have to be their own PR company in a way. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:10:25 And look, I don't feel bad it's not the fighters. It's like just you wish. Oh, the commentators. Yeah, they're talking about you're right. I mean, they do a good job though on UFC. Like I don't like when Rogan and all of them

Starting point is 01:10:34 like they don't curse. Oh, they're pretty clean on there. Yeah, I don't think they curse at all. Now when they go interview them. But that's another thing. That's the fighter. They're in the moment. It's going to be hard not to let loose

Starting point is 01:10:47 and some of that's part of what it is. But it's, I do think UFC he does a great job with like when it's Daniel Cormey, Rogan, like they do not curse. With John Anick, those three are the greatest group that's ever done it. And they also have them, they have Bispeng, Paul Felder, even when those guys aren't doing it.

Starting point is 01:11:03 Porriet's on there now, Chris Widman, Cormier, I mean, yeah, but those guys are all so good. Corriere's been great. Yeah, dude, he's been great, dude. He's like, yeah, I just love, like, I love seeing those guys get to be not just fighters and get to share their personalities. I got to ask you about,

Starting point is 01:11:19 I feel like such a freaking reporter now. Got to ask. Dude, so tell me about Nate land. It's real. It's real. The theme park is real. Yeah. Okay.

Starting point is 01:11:29 Yeah. Where are we at with it? Like, what's going on? We're about to getting to some investing. Okay. So we're about to start that kind of process. We have the land. Or we basically think we know where we want the land to be.

Starting point is 01:11:48 We have not, like we haven't said anything we're about the land. are where it's at or anything yet, but we've narrowed it down to basically this one spot. And then so it's, but yeah, I mean, we have the renderings, they're working on it every day. We have Storyland. Storyland is a group that,

Starting point is 01:12:09 Storyland is a group. They did, they've done stuff with everything. I think they had some stuff to do with Epic. It's a lot of the guys that worked with Disney for a long time, and they started their own kind of company, and they did all the Disney's, Dubai.

Starting point is 01:12:22 So Storyland is a company that helps make these things come to fruition. Like they build them and everything? Yeah, yeah. Got it. And so they make it,

Starting point is 01:12:30 they help you design, all that designing, all that rendering, all that, getting that of the idea of what we're trying to do. And is this a real render? Have you seen this before?

Starting point is 01:12:39 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, and what is on this render? Can you zoom in on that photo for me some? It's going to be, so like it says, Nate Land in the front,

Starting point is 01:12:45 like so that front area right past the Nate Land is going to be like a retro mall. So that's like, that would be open all year round And you can go in there and you can have You know, like we talked like a Netflix house That we talked about earlier You know, maybe you have something like that

Starting point is 01:13:00 I'm not saying this is what we are having in there But you could have some stuff like that Restaurant stuff like that That's open all year round You have three sections of the park You have a section to the left Which is roller coasters? Yeah, yeah yeah

Starting point is 01:13:13 You know what's crazy dude I just went to her I was in Hershey, Pennsylvania You went to the Hershey Park No, Hershey Park. Dollywood? Now I'm thinking of Kenny Wood. I think I know Kenny Wood, too. Kenny was in Pittsburgh.

Starting point is 01:13:26 Oh, no, we didn't go. They went to Hershey Park. How was that? It's awesome. And so we rode some roller coasters, which were, it was kind of roller coaster shopping, which was crazy. Because you're like, nah. Well, you would just ride, well, they had a few that you're like, they rolled back the miles on this. Yeah, you go.

Starting point is 01:13:43 There you go. No, thank you. But it was weird to be riding a roller coaster being like, yeah, that's a lot. That was, they go, that one felt great. And then you're like, you know, you're kind of like, yeah, yeah, let's do that one. Dude, that's wild. And who did you go with? Was that just a family trip?

Starting point is 01:14:01 You guys went as a group. I was on the road. I was there. I did shows there. And so we had one guy from Storyland who came up. And he kind of just walked me through and said, one of, for this one roller coaster we're doing, the roller coaster we're about to ride is very similar to the one that we're looking at. The same people made this roller coaster.

Starting point is 01:14:20 So you're kind of riding the roller coaster knowing that that company is who would make that roller coaster or this is another one. So you're really riding some stuff and getting a, you know, being like, all right, what's this one kind of feel like? What's this one do? And how much is a coaster, decent coaster? I found out like there was one, there was one like a big one might be like $30 million. Like, or I'm not, like, you know, I don't know if this is the biggest one, but like a kind of newer, very, very good coaster they have. We were, someone just trying to guess there was about 30, they said $30 million. And then there's some other rides that were, one was like a new version of a tilt-a-whirl kind of, but it was like kind of moved around.

Starting point is 01:15:17 You tried that out too? Yeah, yeah, we wrote that, just seen what that was. And I think that was like $850,000. Oh, that's one. You can get that one. That one you get in your house, you know. You could just get in lay away. You can just have that.

Starting point is 01:15:30 Lay, lay, lay away. Lay away. Dang, I bet Kid Rock could get that thing. Yeah. Fricking dude, but he'd probably. But it's like, yes, so you start going through. He'd ruin it. And this theme park, I mean, he would ruin the kid.

Starting point is 01:15:46 Sorry, how does that say that? He put it on the white house. There's so many clips of me just roasting him even though we're friends. I freaking love roasting him. Oh, yeah, he'd ruin it, dude. And he would spend his money on that instead of buying his brother a new leg who's missing one. Shout out Billy. But yeah, go on.

Starting point is 01:16:03 Well, he should get a discount and be like, if you get 50 grand off, throw that 50 to that leg. That's what I'm saying. You already wrapped his head around spending 8.50. Yeah. And you know what you could go? If Kid Rock goes, I'm spending $8.50 for this. And then he goes to his brother and goes, if you can get any down, you can get that leg.

Starting point is 01:16:25 Right. Whatever you save, you earn. Yeah. Yeah, I love that and limb him up. Oh, if I had a brother missing something, I'd limb his little ass up in a heartbeat. But that's me. So do you have a budget for how much you can spend on coasters for this thing? Yeah, yeah. It's all budgeted in.

Starting point is 01:16:41 Like, I mean, you know, we're looking at it's like roughly going to be like $350 million. and then, yeah. And will the land be a lease, or will it be owning the land? There's a lot of that I can't get into. Okay, and how hands-on with you are all of that? Like, some of it and some of it's obviously this, like, the minutiae you wouldn't be involved in, but, yeah, how hands-on with you are all that?

Starting point is 01:17:02 I'm picking the land. I mean, it's crazy because you're, I'll be in this, in these meetings, and I forget, again, we were talking about, like, being in charge. I forget, like, story land, like, all this stuff when you do this, I'm paying for all this, for them to go do the feasibility study and like to economic study. And I mean, these are giant studies that they do when you do investments to go to show the tax revenue that it can bring the jobs that you can bring to Nashville. I mean, the reason I love this idea in doing this is the idea of providing jobs. I want it, I want our customer like the workers to be very much like, you know, it is Disney or like you think like Chick-fil-A where you know they're just great.

Starting point is 01:17:44 eight workers and you want people to be to come there. Someone like me that wasn't able to go, that couldn't get into college. And like, so you don't know what, you know, I just was like, I'm a comedian, but before that, you're like, I was a water meter reader. I didn't know what jobs,

Starting point is 01:18:00 you know, you don't meet people that have other crazy jobs. You were reading water meters? Yeah. I read Mount Juliet. Did you? Yeah. They got a lot of water out there, huh? Yeah, yeah, a lot of meters. And you had to go do it. Because you can't just guess, huh? Now I think they have it where you can drive by it,

Starting point is 01:18:17 and it just does it electronically. I had to get out with a crowbar, and you would lift up their thing and type in how much water. And they have snakes in there sometimes? Oh, yeah. I remember one was laid right on top of the water meter, and you got to get it. That makes my body nervous.

Starting point is 01:18:31 Yeah, yeah. Spiders. And you never knew every time you open one up. You ever find anything cool in there? Somebody stashed bag a little bag of a little bag of something. No, I don't think I ever found anything like that, no. But... Really? Nobody had nothing

Starting point is 01:18:45 A little spare lunch Or whatever I don't think people A little sick of a Christmas on them It's just something. It would be a good place To put something Because nobody thinks about that

Starting point is 01:18:53 It's so accessible Yeah I don't think they do But it would have been a good spot To put something But you'd see spiders up in there? I mean yeah That was every one of them had spiders

Starting point is 01:19:03 No They loved it And you ever see a clean one Somebody had taken care of it They just... No I mean it's You know I mean I guess a newer house

Starting point is 01:19:11 Like you know one, I think it just hasn't been through it yet. Yeah. But, yeah. But I do remember this snake. Snake was just curled right on top of it, and I had to get it off because I have to lift the thing to read it. Gosh.

Starting point is 01:19:25 Yeah, I sold Italian food door to door for a while with this fella, dude, and that was a dang. Pizza are just all Italian food. Huh? No, we had bread rolls. We had Italian. It was like this thing called Italian. caviar or whatever, but it was really just like ravioli.

Starting point is 01:19:46 Yeah, yeah. And then what else? They had, like pastas, Bolognese. Yeah. They had araviata. What else? I think they had vodka sauce pizza or something. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:20:06 I don't know, but we just had like this. I deliver pizzas, too. You delivered pizzas? Pizza hut. You were the damn pizza hut, dude. They're redoing. You saw that. They're coming back.

Starting point is 01:20:14 Oh, yeah. You know why? Because experiences. Oh. That's a big thing. That's a big reason. It's stuff for people to do because they, they, we, we had that, uh, you remember they used to have a buffet, pizza, pizza.

Starting point is 01:20:26 It was great. You're kidding. Where did your mom fight? It's when your parents had a real, something serious going on in the marriage. Yeah. Take you there. Yep. That was something serious was happening.

Starting point is 01:20:33 And it could be something good or bad. Ford waters and you got a Sprite. Dude, hope they didn't notice. With those big red cups. Yeah. I would buy. I would buy five dozens of those red cups. The Coke, any soda, taste the best out of that.

Starting point is 01:20:49 It's true, huh? It's the best. Now, they had a particular type of ice in there, too, I think. Yes. A little bit. Like a little shave, Sonic. Yeah, it was something different. Something was different.

Starting point is 01:20:59 I think having a unique ice is little things like that that can add a lot of texture to a place. A little bit more about Nate Land. So something's obviously, you have to get the funding to make sure you can get the space. So some things it's like, this happens, then this will happens. It's like a domino falling effect. Yeah, if they're like, I mean, it's right now I'm spending all the money for it.

Starting point is 01:21:19 Now, are you putting your own money in with somebody else or what's going on here? No, it's just my money. So you're the only money in right now. This doesn't go anywhere. I will be in big trouble. No, I mean, I would be touring for the rest of it. But it's like right now it's on, it's just me. What made you make that choice?

Starting point is 01:21:35 It's a big choice. And no judgment. And I think it's a cool choice. I think it's a good choice. What makes you make it? And I wish you the best of luck with the dude is exciting. I'll go over there. Thank you.

Starting point is 01:21:44 We'd love to have you. It's, you know, my first job was a theme park. I worked at Opera Land here in Nashville, and I was 15. And so, I don't know, then they got rid of that my senior year in high school. And I mean, the whole city kind of was like, why would you do that? Like it was a profitable theme park. Everybody kind of liked it. I'm not saying from that day, I was like, I'm going to build a theme park.

Starting point is 01:22:10 But then as I got... Why did they close it, do you know? They got a mall. There's a mall there now, Opry Mills Mall. But it used to be Opryland a theme park? Yeah. Right there? Yeah.

Starting point is 01:22:21 I don't even know that. Yeah. I don't even know if... It'd be curious to see if there's a reason. I don't know if there'd be a real reason on the Internet, to be honest. I think that it was like maybe probably... Like, it was like just easier to have a mall than it would be a theme park for whatever reason. Got it.

Starting point is 01:22:37 Operiland USA closed in 1997 because its parent company, Gaylord, entertainment wanted to transition sorry crazy name gay lord because the lord i think is straight wanted to transition the seasonal theme park into a highly profitable year-round retail entertainment complex understandable yeah so that was the wallbash cannibal the one that goes upside down right oh that was it you remember the name of that one i know more yeah what's that one scream wall bash cannonball the wall bash cannonball yeah dang so you were there nate yeah screaming they're the screaming delta demon oh yeah I met her before.

Starting point is 01:23:11 I met her, dang it out at, uh, she goes to Mississippi State for sure. I think she just did 50 days of boozing out there in Knoxville for sure. Dude, oh my God, so you were in the trenches there at Opry Lane. Yeah, I was a sweeper, and I worked in the dog kennel. And my dad did magic there. Oh. So, but, like, so the reason I thought about this was, like, the idea it's, uh,

Starting point is 01:23:40 You know, when I started doing all these arenas and all this. My big daydreaming goal when I was starting comedy was the headline Bridgetone. And so when I did it for the first time, I remember that night, I really was like, I mean, I remember it was that night. I was like, what am I supposed to do now? Because I just thought about that for 20 years. And then, which is crazy, it was 20 years, pretty much, I think exactly for me to get there. to headline Bridgestone. And we sold 19,365 tickets, which is 20 years.

Starting point is 01:24:18 Isn't that crazy? If you're into, I don't know, I'm not even into numbers. You sold 19,365 tickets. So 19 years plus 365, 20 years. 20 years. Dang. Amen. So when I got to that, I go, all right, like I just felt like what am I, what's the next?

Starting point is 01:24:37 You got to have something else. It can't be. I gotta assume that if I keep becoming a great comic, the arenas will come. I'll be able to do Madison Square Garden. I'll be able to do all this stuff. So I have to believe in myself that I can do that. But then what's the purpose of me?

Starting point is 01:24:52 Like what's the purpose? And I thought, it can't be about me. Right. This life cannot be about me. Or I'm going to go crazy. Right. And so from that moment is when I started Nate, when I was like, I'm going to start Nate Land the company,

Starting point is 01:25:05 the idea of like being able to make some movies that are the movie that we're making right now, the breadwinner. And then, you know, I thought about a theme park and thought, like, you know what? I want to build a place where, you know, maybe all my ideas can go live. This theme park's not going to be about me. It's about the state of Tennessee. But it's about, you know, it's called Nate Land and there's going to be Easter eggish stuff.

Starting point is 01:25:25 But people think it's going to be like a shrine to me. It's not. It's, you know, it's going to represent Nashville and all this stuff. It's like you just got to have someone that has the vision to be able to want to go do it. Did you guys have choices for different names? Is Nate Land because it's the production company? So you just named it the same thing. It's just always been, yeah, Nate Land is a...

Starting point is 01:25:45 And I get it. Look, I mean, you worked at a theme park. You came up with it. It's like, I certainly get the... I think it's the trust. The reason it's named after me is the trust. If I can keep trust with my audience, with this audience that we do,

Starting point is 01:25:59 and that's the biggest thing. So if they can trust that, they know that they can see what I'm doing, then it's like you kind of need to know who's making. making, like, who's behind this? I see. So you're putting yourself behind. I'm putting my, I will sell the tickets.

Starting point is 01:26:13 Got it. The responsibility of that park thriving is on me. I need to sell the tickets. I need to keep the trust that I have with this audience. That's on me. That's not anybody else's problem. I'll do it. That's what I feel has been bestowed upon me.

Starting point is 01:26:30 I'm just doing what I feel I'm being asked to do. Called to do. Did you pray about it kind of too? Like if you had it, because some of these are big choices. Not that you need to. Yeah. Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, a lot of it is.

Starting point is 01:26:39 I mean, a lot of it is you feel very much like, you know, doors and stuff and your ideas and stuff that you think of or start. Oh, it's not even yours. It belongs. It comes like a higher power. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's like a cable.

Starting point is 01:26:52 I very much, you, I mean, you can visualize a lot of stuff. And then I think when you can easily visualize something, you're like, and then the doors start opening it that way, then you go, that's the direction you need to kind of head in. Where if you're, if you want something else, but you're having a hard to, visualize it, then you're probably forcing. And that's probably not the direction you need to go in. You need to just, like, you just kind of follow the lead. And as we did Nate Land, and then it was just kind of like... Dude, I'm so excited. You got me excited now. Because yeah, you hear little things, and you see things on X and stuff like that, but you don't know, you know. And so I feel so lucky that

Starting point is 01:27:26 I'm getting a listen to talk about it. Yeah, it's, I mean, you know, one of the things I do, I want, you know, eventually to, I think when you go to Nate Land, maybe you don't really know who Nate is. And it's not about that. Like, it's about... everything there. Oh, one day, that's what everything becomes. It's like you don't even know. It's like you go to like Applebee's or whatever. You don't know who Roger Appleby is anymore.

Starting point is 01:27:47 No. You know? No. Or whatever. No, he goes. No, he doesn't know the Logan. Oh, yeah. You don't even know Logan's.

Starting point is 01:27:54 I think Ernest lives there now. He's living in one of them. Ernest 2 bass? No, Ernest's freaking, uh... Oh, the singer? Yeah, Ernest is the singer, dude. For Logan's Roadhouse, he's kind of like John Daly is for Hooters. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:28:07 I think he, like, lives in the back of one of them. Bless him, brother. Bless Ernest. He has a new album coming out, too. I got to get him and Willie Roberts in here, so I'm not to sit and chop it up. Those guys are funny. But no, dude, I just understand it more.

Starting point is 01:28:20 Now, take me on some of these rides, because I know you've already thought about some of the ride. Wait, first of all, hold on. Is there going to be a water facility? You're not doing the water thing, huh? Water part? No. No.

Starting point is 01:28:32 Because also people get electrocuted. I can't say, yes. People get electrocuted. If you're on much. Water parks? Yeah. Really? Well, I mean, they're not going to, if you get electricuted, this is kind of crazy.

Starting point is 01:28:42 Because it rains. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if it rains, it's more water. But if you get, if you get electrocuted, do you have to have water to get electrocuted? No, I've been electrocated. I got electrocuted up on a food truck that was selling seafood, illegal seafood. You know, what are we talking about?

Starting point is 01:28:59 Sorry. Well, you've been in Portland. You know Portland, but always, I thought of this, or like, are like, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, like said, like food trucks, right? Like, people make fun of, like, because I'll go to McDonald's and all this stuff, then people go to food truck, and they'll be like,

Starting point is 01:29:14 they're raving about this food truck, you're like, this guy had his food that's Honda Civic all night. You've got to trust that he took it home. Yeah, dude. And you go, who are you to tell me that? Mine's at least in a building and frozen. I've always thought that.

Starting point is 01:29:27 Yeah. Like they would call, especially people from the south, like rednecks, like he was like, but dude, this guy, yeah, you know, close that is to his gas tank? Like, he's cooking right over. New York City is.

Starting point is 01:29:36 He's like, you know, it's like, then there's a big long line in a food truck and you're, you know, and it's like, oh, that's okay. And you're like, McDonald's safer than that. Yeah, dude, I don't want a case it either that got here at 80 miles an hour. Yeah. You know. That's got a tire marks on it because he backed it because he got a fight that morning of his wife and he ran out. But he had the plastic over him, so he's like, it doesn't matter. Like, that changes everything.

Starting point is 01:30:01 Yeah, it changes everything. If you put plastic over something, it changes everything. Yeah. A little saran rat. Yeah. If he's like, oh, dang, this is like three days old. You put some surround up over it? Who knows, dude? Like, he just put it together. Kids back there.

Starting point is 01:30:13 It's like when you get an Uber and there's a car seat and you're like, that don't be a part of your life, man. I just want to ride in an Uber. Yeah, I didn't know Kevin Hart was in here earlier. Did you get us to be on the roast? I think so. But, I mean, that's just not my kind of thing. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:30:29 Yeah. So, I mean, it wouldn't have. I had a show at the same time, too. You did? Mm-hmm. but yeah they did it they did the roast oh none of the roasters i don't think had a problem with the jokes um oh wait except for chelsea handler did i think chelsea handler came out and said that she has some of a problem with some of shane and tony's jokes maybe yeah i don't think with the roast i think

Starting point is 01:30:50 was shane and tony yeah yeah yeah i think she had problems with them good call she kind of said the yeah yeah i was like i don't about all the jokes mainly Shane and tony do you feel like in that kind In the instance, if people are signing up for something like that, it feels like it's like fair game, unless it's like vile, you know, maybe. I think it's got to all be fair game. You're signing up for it. I mean, it's like, I know, you know,

Starting point is 01:31:13 it's like one of those, like, where are you going to say the line is? The roast is, they've just, I believe, we've gotten to, the spirit of the roast is kind of gone. You're not really having people on there that love each other. And so if there's no love shown, then it's, it just gets mean. and, you know,

Starting point is 01:31:33 and, I mean, not saying that they did, they did what they were asked to do. Right. I thought they, a lot of them did a great job. You know what I was very happy for? Big J. Overson killed it.

Starting point is 01:31:42 Yes, me too. I said to him a message. Yeah, Big J., I was very happy. You know, I've been with Big J., we started with him. Like,

Starting point is 01:31:49 uh, so Jay crushed it. And Naim Lin, I thought crushed it. And, uh, I like Ny'Lean. But those are, those people have a connection with,

Starting point is 01:31:58 uh, Kevin Hart. Yeah. And so they, there's, there's, there's, see that the love is there.

Starting point is 01:32:03 I thought Shane did very good. Or like, you know, moving along, hosting it. Like, it's a hard thing to... It's a lot to go do. Yeah, people did what they were supposed to do. But, I mean, these roast, it's like... They're just mean. Some of the feeling you're right, dude.

Starting point is 01:32:21 Some of the feeling that you get with it, it's like... It's intense, it's funny, and some of it is, like... Some of it is kind of like... Yeah, what feeling you're like... Yeah, what feeling that you get with it? do I really leave here within the end, right? Like I leave with some temporary highs for sure. Oh, that was crazy.

Starting point is 01:32:38 That was creative. Even something that's edgy and dark can still be very creative. But yeah, some of it's like, does some of this really make me feel good? Or does like, yeah. I think so. I thought Kevin Hart did great handling a lot of it too. Oh, yeah. It was like it wasn't, you know, he, you know, kept saying like, this is what you signed up for.

Starting point is 01:32:58 And I thought the messaging was good from him afterwards. because, I mean, it was like such a tough, crazy. It's a crazy experience. But it's like, I mean, you know, you, what you, I think if you do roast, if you go look back at the old roast and stuff, these guys, the people that were up there were really, are you, as far as I knew,

Starting point is 01:33:18 but they really knew each other, or they were really friends, or they, there was actually love really shown, so you could go do stuff. And when there's no love shown, and with some of them, they don't even know them, each other.

Starting point is 01:33:32 It's like it's going to be, it's going to be, if Cheryl Underwood did great, like, what, you know, the stuff they were saying, but how she handled it, she has a great laugh and like,

Starting point is 01:33:42 so it's like, she handled it well. She handled it very well and like, yeah, I had a joke I was thinking while she was the other, I was like, oh,

Starting point is 01:33:47 she looks like Prince, put his finger in the new power generation. That was something I, that I thought of boss who was up there, you know? Because I like sitting who,

Starting point is 01:33:54 were you at it? Are you, and thinking of jokes? Nuh, I wasn't at it. I don't want to go, like, If I see something, if my feelings get hurt, something,

Starting point is 01:34:03 I got enough of that shit out there. So I don't need any of that. But, yeah, it was just interesting. Take us. Oh, yeah, because you get enough. You just get more calls and text. Oh, dude, yeah. They just show your face and they go.

Starting point is 01:34:15 You got to jump off a building. Yeah, he's not doing well. Every week, it's like somebody, like, oh, Theo's not doing well. I'm doing fine. In fact, I'm doing great. Yeah. Well, that's what people want to hear, though. You know?

Starting point is 01:34:27 That he's not doing well. No, that you're doing great. Yeah. I think sometimes people worry about you, but that's a lot of love showing your way that people worry about it. Yeah, but sometimes people take stuff that's kind of normal

Starting point is 01:34:36 and they put it in their own space and put it out there like, oh, this guy's having a problem. And I think my podcast has always just been like a place like, where I just kind of share what's going on, right? And I share it pretty transparently. I guess and maybe I shouldn't do that as much.

Starting point is 01:34:50 But I don't share it because I need somebody's acclaim or approval. No, I understand that. But I think I don't like it. Sometimes people will frame it like, oh, we can help this guy. It's like, dude, I'm fine. You know, like, I'm as fine as any human being is. Being a human seems real spooky sometimes.

Starting point is 01:35:05 Yeah. Start every podcast with I'm fine. I know. But then here's the crazy part. The more you say shit, like, then it becomes this thing. I know. So the whole thing is kind of crazy. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:35:15 You know? Do a podcast from the top of a building and just go, I'm fine. That'd be a great idea, dude. You know, my buddy, Julian McCola. Actually, like, I don't know, this is this crazy for me to say it? It's really playing into it. I like that idea, dude. you know.

Starting point is 01:35:29 I don't do that. And look, we keep moving the desk closer over to the edge. And they go, he goes, he all right? He goes, I'm fine. And he just started to scoot. My Julian McCola, you know Julian.

Starting point is 01:35:42 He is a very funny joke. Like when he gambles, like when he loses, he goes, hey, do y'all got a bathroom on top of the roof? He always tells us the dealer, which is such a funny thing to say. After you lose a big game. Hey, excuse me, do y'all got a bathroom on top of the roof?

Starting point is 01:35:58 Well, we're definitely living, it seems like, in the sixth circle of hell these days. You know, we're getting, things have gotten a little, you know, things are getting a little interesting. Yeah. Oh, we got to talk about the rides, dude. So, first of all, what are the- Well, I don't know if I'm going to tell you anything about the rides. For the rides at that's at Nat land? Yeah.

Starting point is 01:36:19 But do you know the governor that's going to be the speed on them or whatever? Have you already decided? No, no, no. We, I mean, we're going through, oh, like, how fast? Yeah. Let me run one of them. I'll let you run one of them. I will.

Starting point is 01:36:33 Let me run one. I know. Just for an evening. Just do Theo night. I do it Theo night. You run it. And then you get on it with them, but you don't pull the safety thing down. You go.

Starting point is 01:36:43 Oh, I say it doesn't work. Yeah. Yeah. Now I'm saying, you sit in it and you leave yours up. And they go, he's not fine. And we just always play into that. There you go. Theo's crazy.

Starting point is 01:36:57 He goes, I don't need it. Oh, God. Or you just hold it, and you see if you can go do it. I'll let you do it roller coaster. I don't, I'd just to, yeah, just to... Let me DJ at one night or something. Oh, yeah. Or what are good rides I'm trying to think for, like, even for young, like, I wish I had a ride that helped you.

Starting point is 01:37:15 Like, the Lisp fix or whatever. Oh, like, you'd be a spinner. Just something, like it just spun you so much, the Lisp just flew right out of it. Counterclockwise. Yeah. Spinner counterclockwise. Yeah. Time out.

Starting point is 01:37:28 After time. Remember that song? Yeah. You could rush, you could buy, you can still find me. Is that a list? Time after time.

Starting point is 01:37:37 Is that a song about Lisp? I don't know who's saying that, but I just think if they had a, or the underbite fixer or whatever. I'm trying to think of a good, like a ride that would like, you know. Underbite fix would be just we have a guy who walk around

Starting point is 01:37:48 and he just punches you. Yeah. Undercut. And you don't ever know where he's at. Yeah. And you just know when you go in with an underbite, we've clocked you.

Starting point is 01:37:58 Yeah. facial recognition, all that stuff we can tell. And then he's just a guy that's just, you know, he's going to get you. And you know he's going to get you. Yeah. But he's going to get you so good that you're never going to see it coming. And we fix it under bite. I like that.

Starting point is 01:38:13 Yeah, no charge. I like that idea. Or yeah, or if they had like the GLP one. The Ozympic ride. Yes. And when you get off and it spends you so fast that you get a little leaner because of how it does your body. or like when you take a shirt or a towel and you put it in the washer

Starting point is 01:38:30 and you do the spin cycle. Yeah. And it comes out. It almost stand up itself. It's got so much centrifugal in it. Yeah. Well, you do that, boy, get your mama so spun around.

Starting point is 01:38:40 She dang, you know what I'm saying? She'll fit into a size one and a half. Yeah. Yeah. She'll fit into her dang baby outfit. For at least an hour. Like, maybe it's, I don't think it's going to be forever.

Starting point is 01:38:50 No, it's at least an hour. It's not full time. Yeah. No, no. If you want to go get married, you're like, you do that. and you better get over to that. You better get to that church quick.

Starting point is 01:39:01 Oh, yeah. I got to be in Nate land at 1 p.m. and then I got to be up. You're talking about that food that you ate where you feel it expand in your mouth. That's what's going to happen to your body in a wedding dress. But you come in.

Starting point is 01:39:12 Now, yeah, once the band starts, though, honey, that's on your own. Yeah, we're not responsible for that. Yeah, you get one. I mean, but yeah, you get one... You could fit into your sixth grade graduation pants if you have... For one hour. Yeah, I like that.

Starting point is 01:39:25 That's a good ride. And that ride does. does that to you. Yeah. You know? Or something that would just do a bunch of women's hair. I could see that in the South. You know, they put this on you like this, the cover to cover your body, like to hold you in.

Starting point is 01:39:37 Yeah. But then they put that head thing on you, the... Oh, yeah. You know? And then they get out and everybody's beehive and walking out of there looking like Marge Simpson and her two sisters. Yeah. That's a good ride. Dude, I'm telling you I can help you.

Starting point is 01:39:53 I would love it. Okay. Yeah. I would love it. seem like that right now. No, no. I think we have a, I think we were going to have a part

Starting point is 01:40:00 where you're going to fit right in. Yeah. Let me run that crocodile tank. It's going to be a swamp, like a swamp pot. Hey, I'm just sitting there petting a crocodile and we took all his scales down. We shaped,

Starting point is 01:40:11 we like used a wood thing to take his scales down low and you can pet him. Oh, no. Desharpened him. Yeah. Good idea. What about the mouth? You're like, mouth is forgot.

Starting point is 01:40:23 We forgot about that. We forgot about that. He goes, you know how expensive it was do the top part, and that's when the guy undercuts him, the car cut out. And you go, that guy was worth it.

Starting point is 01:40:35 It's like a butter bean. Remember butter bean? Yeah, I remember butter. Just a butter bean walking around just. I saw him at Holkogen's funeral, actually. Oh, really? Yeah. You went to Hulk Cogan's funeral?

Starting point is 01:40:46 Did you know Hulk Cogan? I did know Hulk Hogan. That's pretty crazy. I'm not going to pretend. I knew him great. Yeah. But I knew him enough. We would communicate and got to podcast with him,

Starting point is 01:40:56 got to go down there and see him one time at his bar in restaurant and a fan of his son Nick Eric David Scott Esch better known by his name Butterbean Was there some just I mean everybody at his funeral There's some big guys there Oh dude tall like you know Mankind was there I think

Starting point is 01:41:17 Yeah yeah Womankind was there too I think Was Undertaker there? I hadn't seen her in a while but Yeah was it she Who? Who? Woman kind I think whoever that is. Yeah. Jack saw Jim Dougan was there.

Starting point is 01:41:33 Undertaker? Undertaker was not there that I didn't see. Vince McMahon was there. Will you have a band, like the Chuck E. Cheese band or anything like that? At Nate Land, do you think? I think that's open for discussion. Yeah. And you got to have a cool Nate Neat.

Starting point is 01:41:48 Oh, Nate Inch Nails would be good. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you laughed. That's pretty good. Yeah. A kid music. But it's all... It's rock.

Starting point is 01:41:59 But yes, it's a rock band doing kid music. Yeah, yeah. I like that. Thanks. Yeah. I'm trying to think of any other one.

Starting point is 01:42:06 Nate Vana, maybe. It's not as good. Nate Inch Nails is... Might be it. They might be it. Nate go back. This is how... Yeah.

Starting point is 01:42:17 I like that. Okay. We have a new segment that we're doing, Nate. It's by... It's our Mountain Dew summer segment. So thank you for being here real quick. Yeah, thank you, buddy. Thank you for being here.

Starting point is 01:42:30 And congratulations, dude, on your movie. Yeah. And congratulations on your goals to make an amazing theme park and an amazing city. Thank you. I want to say, awesome, man. Yeah, it's cool. I appreciate it. It's really inspiring.

Starting point is 01:42:43 Thank you, dude. And I mean that. Thank you, man. You may have noticed that we have Mountain Dews here, and so they're working with us over the summer, and we're working with them. And we just have a couple of questions. You're hosting a barbecue, right?

Starting point is 01:42:57 And these are for you and me. Okay. Because I hadn't seen these. You're hosting a barbecue. What do you say if you burn someone's meat? I mean, just like apologize to them, but sorry. Yeah, I'll make you another one. Are you say, I'll eat that one and you take it.

Starting point is 01:43:16 Yeah. That's what you do. I'll eat that one. I'll handle it. Yeah, don't worry about it. Yeah. And there's a lot. No, no, no, no.

Starting point is 01:43:23 And then there'll be. I'll give it to my mom who eats everything burnt. She does? Loves everything burnt. Oh, yeah. There's an old, I think if you're born in the 50s, you're extra well done all day long. Yeah. Not even a, not even a, if you see someone walk in and there's 70, go ahead and start burning that steak.

Starting point is 01:43:43 Yeah, I agree. It's not, they're not doing medium rare. They're not doing medium. The medium wells burn it. Yeah. Because they're using also prefabricated teeth, a lot of them, so they got some chompers. They got the ability to get through them. Yeah. They're just shaking it like a dog.

Starting point is 01:44:02 They want, yeah, there's a certain age, and they, they, well, well done. I agree. That's what I say, just or say, who likes that dark meat? That's another way to get through to them. Do you remember drinking from a two-liter bottle of soda? Do you ever remember that, like as a kid? Like, I remember turning it up and you could see, this is the first time my life I could drink and see the soda going down as I drank it. Yeah, I do.

Starting point is 01:44:30 We buy a lot. I don't think cans were, I think, Botto, so Bada was way more in when I was younger. Two liters in cups? Yes. And now it's like, I guess, environments, cans, but. And I remember one time they came out with the wide mouth. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:44:48 Two liter. You remember that? Yeah, and you could pour it. You could pour it faster. Yeah. It was like, how much can we even have at once? Yeah, there was a ton. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:44:57 It was great. Those are the days Oh, those are the days Yeah, that what? I should drink a Diet Mountain Dew I mean, I would drink it every day Really? And what were you training for?

Starting point is 01:45:07 Just, I mean Just being American, huh? I think just keeping my body Where I can Whatever I put it in it's going to be able to handle it I love that You know what I mean? Oh yeah, well also the end

Starting point is 01:45:20 I mean you'll get some... I drink that I could drink in the morning You drink diet and do in the morning Yeah, I can Yeah, dad or I'll drink a diet something in the morning. Oh, I'll say, I'll show them. Yeah, I'll show them who's boss right out the gate.

Starting point is 01:45:32 Right out of the gate. I think if I had to give up soda, I think a breakfast soda would be my hardest to give up. Oh, yeah. Hey, and shout-out to anybody drinking breakfast soda. Yeah. Colin Quinn. He drinks it?

Starting point is 01:45:44 He drinks Diet Coke in the morning. Yeah. Oh, he's a breakfast soda drinker. Dude, did you know Mountain Dew started in Tennessee? I think so, but I don't know. You know. I think I do that. Knocks it.

Starting point is 01:45:59 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Smokey Mountains. Rocketide. Oh. I love that old logo. Oh, yeah. Let me see that logo. They got a great old logo.

Starting point is 01:46:07 Mountain, oh, I never saw that. That throwback. That's beautiful. All right, last one. I feel like Diet Do is real big in the trades world. You'll see it a lot of times. Electricians, comedians, right? Yes.

Starting point is 01:46:19 You said yourself, you were a morning drinker. Plumbers, roadkill guys, right? Yeah. If you look in the back of the truck, you see 11 of those. Diet Dew bottles or whatever. They're quietly like the backbone of America, these diet do drinkers. It's the summer you're driving with your windows down and there's a breeze and it only smells

Starting point is 01:46:36 a little bit like maybe a landfill you're passing by or just, and it just, it's summertime, right? The winters are down. What song or band are you turning on the radio? And you're drinking Diet Mountain Dew? Yeah, you can be if you want. I'll have one with you. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:46:51 You know, maybe some country. Tobah keith Oh yeah You know Yeah You know You know talking about that song Yeah

Starting point is 01:47:05 Yeah Yeah I agree Yeah I'll enjoy that with you Yeah Nice drive All right Thank you so much dude

Starting point is 01:47:12 Yeah I think it's been good I love learning about Nate Lamb man I think I understand it a lot better Yeah Yeah no people don't Yeah I mean it was

Starting point is 01:47:19 I think people I mean it's crazy dude It's crazy to build the theme park. I think it's crazy every time I think about it. I think about it like, you know, where I'm like, what am I doing? Yeah, was there a moment? Take me through some of this, right? Was there a moment like, because sometimes you feel like you get to different places in like your career and in your life? I think a lot of people go through like, you know, they call

Starting point is 01:47:38 midlife crisis, quarter life crisis. You'll see like a fifth grader going through like a fifth grader life crisis they have now on TikTok or whatever. In fifth grade they do? Yeah, now that's a thing or whatever. It's like, all right. But do you like, do you like, Did you graduate, I went to my daughter graduated eighth grade yesterday? Yeah, I went to that. Yeah, I didn't not have an eighth grade graduation. We had one. Really?

Starting point is 01:48:00 Yeah. I think they told us to get out. And that was it. Dude, it was, remember when school let out? Yeah. God, that day, because you'd look so forward to it, but then you had not, there was nothing to do. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:48:14 You would lay there all summer and just drool in the middle of your living room. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And wait for your mom to get home, even though you couldn't, you couldn't wait for her to leave, you couldn't wait for her to get home. Yeah. Yeah. God.

Starting point is 01:48:26 Yeah, today was my daughter's first, her start of summer. But anyway. What do y'all have planned for the summer together? Do you all, is just some things you guys are going to do? I don't know. She, like, she rides horse,

Starting point is 01:48:38 she loves horse riding and all this, so she'll do a ton of that. And that's what her summer ends up becoming, a lot of, like, going out. We, it's at a, we have, she goes to this stable that's run by this great, this family. And so she goes there and, I mean, she'll be up there all day.

Starting point is 01:48:57 She loves it. That's nice. Yeah, it's nice. You get out there and ride with her sometimes? I have, not a ton, but I have. Are you getting better at it or is it tough for you? I've not done it enough to get better at it's a lot. I mean, it's a lot.

Starting point is 01:49:08 It's a lot. I mean, you know, but she does it. She, you know, to tackle horse and put everything on it, it's a whole, whole thing. Oh, yeah. But, yeah, I definitely plan on getting out there. I mean, last time I tried it was, like, kind of. colder, but now they were in the summer and I'll try to, you know,

Starting point is 01:49:26 go on some trail rides with her. Amen. Yeah. That'd be a blast, dude. But you're saying to something about Nate Land, like the... Yeah, yeah, anything else you can tell me about Nate Land kind of before we leave? Well, it's like the idea, the hard part is... Oh, I was saying thank you so much for, just for explaining to me what it was like, like, what some of the

Starting point is 01:49:43 process is all. And then I'm worried about doing. Yeah, and then you're worried about doing it because, yeah, I was saying, you get to certain points of your career where you're like, well, now what? Like, I just got done on my special. Like, I'd been touring for the past, like, really 20, years I've been touring, right? Like, I was touring 26 weekends a year, like, because I could sell tickets, like, early because I've been on TV already, but it's like, I didn't have any comedy.

Starting point is 01:50:03 But so, it's just been, this is like the first time in my life is like the second week of it. Yeah. And it's like, I don't know what to do kind of. Yeah. And it's kind of like interesting. And my first thought is, just go back out on tour, like figure it out and go back out. And maybe that is what will be what I'll do. Like, you know, get a new hour and go out.

Starting point is 01:50:21 But it's, but do you get to part? in your career where you're like, and in your life, right? Where you're like, well, now what do I do? And then what happened with this? Where you're like, okay, this is like a feasible, real thing that I can take on. And maybe you already answered that for me.

Starting point is 01:50:37 Sorry. No, well, I would say, you know, the hard, I think the hard part when you want to do something like this, it's so weird and it's so different of a thing that you want to go do. So you do get a lot of people just being like, why? Why are you doing this? What do you want, like, you know,

Starting point is 01:50:51 if you're calling it Nate Land, like, why are you calling it? You get a call it after day. You get all this kind of stuff like that. And I think that's the hardest part is just kind of sit and wait through those kind of things and not that you... Because it is crazy.

Starting point is 01:51:04 But I know I'm doing it for the right reason and I just got to believe that, you know, I'm doing it for the right reason. And so you just get to sit and just kind of like, you know, it feels like it's kind of a joke and maybe people think it's a joke. And I understand that it could be a joke, but it's like,

Starting point is 01:51:23 What if I do build a theme park, dude? Like, what if I do it? Like, that's crazy. Yeah. You know, I'm like, I don't come from any world where I should be building a theme park. Yeah. Like I come from old Hickory, there's nowhere in my growth of a child to high school, any of this, that you would ever be at a point. There's no where that I should even have the success that I should have had.

Starting point is 01:51:47 Yeah. So then you got to go to where you start going like, well, then I'll just start. I'll just keep going. so someone says no until they, you know. Well, Mike Lindell had the My Pillar. Yeah. And you want to sell that probably out of them? I'll sell that, yeah.

Starting point is 01:52:02 You wouldn't have saw it out of them probably? Oh, no, no, no, not at all. Or people have all kinds. No, but, like, yeah, like, that's what I think when, uh, when, when you have these ideas and you want to go do some, it's like, it's like, you got to just go do it, do it. Yeah. And the hardest thing is you got to sometimes, you know, it's, it's going to be people that

Starting point is 01:52:19 you know that they're the, you know, that sometimes can be your friends or whatever that can be like, what are you doing? Why are you doing this? Those are the ones that kind of come and they, they, you know, they don't understand it. Some of that is, uh, some of it's jealousy. I think some of it is you're leaving people behind. That's like, that thing that you could see, we're getting in shape. I'm not in shape. I want to get in shape. But it's like, I don't know, if someone, or anything, if someone does something that they can, like, you're moving forward. and I think they just like go, why? Why are you doing that?

Starting point is 01:52:54 Yeah, dude. Well, I mean, I even had questions about it. I was curious about it, right? I didn't know. I was like, oh, this is interesting, but I just heard rumors, right? And I was like, yeah, the name had popped in my head, like, oh, why would he choose that?

Starting point is 01:53:05 What's going on, right? I choose it because I, again, like, well, now I get it. Oh, do, after talking to you? Like, I get exactly where it is, you know? Yeah. And it is weird why sometimes our brains will jump to, like, I think some of it is probably a little bit of jealousy, to be honest,

Starting point is 01:53:22 or a little bit of like, wow, he's brave enough to do that. And I don't even know if some of that's jealousy, maybe a little bit of, I'm not talking exactly about me, really, but I'm just talking like, it's interesting, man. But then, like you say, nothing happens unless somebody does it. Right? Yeah, no one wants to, no one wants to do stuff. And look at Walt Disney.

Starting point is 01:53:42 It was, he had both of his names in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He went heavy. Yeah, he went all the way in. But you go see these guys, like people are stuck where they see stuff get built and people have these ideas and they think, well, you can't do it again? You're like, why can't you do it again? Right.

Starting point is 01:53:57 Why can't you? We had a theme park here. I'm not picking a city that's never had a theme park. Nashville and Houston are the two cities that can sustain a full theme park. I already know all the stuff. Right. I've already done all this stuff. I'm paying people that know how to do this stuff to do it.

Starting point is 01:54:14 I'm not, I'm looking at all of it. I'm not doing anything that I would never, I have a, good gut filling of when I feel overwhelmed or not. And so I can tell when it's like, if I start feeling panicky, like, then I'm like, this may be back off for this or that or whatever. And so I very much believe in, you know, what I'm doing and what I'm supposed to be doing. And it's, you know, you have a mix where you go. Like, I don't know if I even have a choice.

Starting point is 01:54:43 It's like, it's just I'm doing. Do you give this for them? Just doing it. Somebody's got to do it. Someone's got to do it. And I'm doing it. And maybe it's going to be good, maybe it's not going to be good, like, what if I don't make it? What if I do make it?

Starting point is 01:54:53 Yeah, well, it's the same with making a movie. It's similar to anything. It's like, maybe, you know. You always think, and anybody that says no, you're like, what does it matter? What does it matter if I, who cares? Yeah. What does this skin off of your back? I don't want anything from you.

Starting point is 01:55:04 Right. I don't want anything from, I want people that either buy into what I'm trying to do or just don't. Yeah, that's the same way I feel about, even if it's like trying to ask out a gal or do something like that. It's like, when I lay there at the end of it all, I want to be like, man, I tried this, I tried that. I want to smile and think about the things that I tried. Yeah. You got to think, too, with comedians,

Starting point is 01:55:28 look at the success you get where just you're talking. We're just talking. We don't have a movie. We don't have a music behind us. We don't have, that's just us talking. Yeah. So, like, if you start, that's what you think about the movies where you're like, yeah, if you go put a movie behind,

Starting point is 01:55:45 you know, not that everything's going to work or whatever, you're like, it's the most purest art form. So if you can get to a high level of just... Oh, movie's scary. Straight up that. Well, movie's scary because you don't know if it's how it's going to be until the day of, dude. And that's very nerve-wracking. And I'll say this, dude, we made some mistakes for sure.

Starting point is 01:56:08 I'd never watched the movie with an audience until I sat in there and watched it at the premiere. Yeah. And that was bizarre. all are, dude. Because you're almost like, I'd watch it on my computer a bunch at home, like when I'm editing and putting in notes. But then you're like, it almost felt like it sounds crazy to say, dude, like I was watching like something I wasn't supposed to be watching with other people. It's almost like watching porn or whatever because you're like, I should, this is something you watch by yourself. And suddenly, I realize as it starts, I'm like, whoa, whoa, I've watched

Starting point is 01:56:40 this already. This is something I was supposed to watch by myself. I don't think this is for mass consumption. So that was so freaking. and harrowing, dude. How we did a premiere? It is very, it's very weird to watch yourself. And you're like, oh, I should have done that. Or I should have done that, you know. Yeah, or just, yeah.

Starting point is 01:56:57 But to just do it like... Like stand-up, you're almost... Like, I don't watch my stand-up, or I'll watch it maybe once. But it's like, you've done it so much that I think maybe you're kind of used to, but like, yeah, in a movie, you're like... You just feel like...

Starting point is 01:57:11 You feel like everybody else is, like a real actor. And you're like, I don't know what I'm doing. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. Oh, the immense feeling of I don't know what I'm doing. Yeah. You know? But, well, dude, for somebody who doesn't know what they're doing, man, you're doing a really

Starting point is 01:57:25 great job of it. Thank you. And thank you, bro. And, oh, and will the theme park, will the rides be for all ages, or is the rides even just for, like, little children? No, no. It's all a full, we have fun, big rides, kid part. Like, every, it's, like a regular theme part.

Starting point is 01:57:44 Yeah. So it's going to be, you know, shows and stuff like that. It'll be the real deal. I love it. So it'll be, yeah, everybody can come out. Amen. Nate Bargazzi, the movie opens up this week, May 29th in theaters. In 3,300 theaters.

Starting point is 01:58:04 That's what we found out. The breadwinner, Nate Bargatsy, Mandy Moore. A super mom lands a shark tank deal switching roles with her breadwinner husband. He struggles to adapt. as a stay-at-home dad to their three daughters. And it's not like a dumb dad. Everybody gets crazy about being a dumb dad thing. It's not a dumb dad thing.

Starting point is 01:58:23 It's, you know, he ends up taking the dead era, and it's a sweet, sweet, funny, cute movie. And again, something that we take everybody out to. And that's all. And it's the first one. So see where we go from here. Amen, man. Congratulations, bro.

Starting point is 01:58:39 Thanks for your time, dude. And congrats on everything, man. Thank you. Yep. Yeah, brother. the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be cornerstone to reach that ground I'll share this piece of mind I found I can feel it

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