Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Nate Bargatze

Episode Date: December 27, 2019

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And for right now, enjoy the episode. In here, we pour whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk. episode. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people on earth. I say that for all my guests, but I mean it once again. Today is Mr. Nate Bargatze. Nate? Yes. I love your Italian last name, Bargatze.

Yeah, you know what's funny? We did 23andMe. Oh, shit. It's 0.0% Italian. Not even a little bit? No. i might make this a joke just so you don't but yeah yeah we'll blank this out uh no you could have just i don't want if someone's like oh this is doing material you and your wife 23 and mead no i just did it she got it for me for christmas or something and last year and uh That was a good present.

That is a good gift. It's a good gift. It's hard to buy, I think, for husbands and wives. She got me that and we did it. My uncle, my second cousin, he's older, but he just wasn't.

He was like, well, that's wrong. He didn't believe it didn't believe it yeah well my old bag did it uh she did it and i told her i wouldn't do it with her because i'm not gonna i don't want to give my dn i don't want to give more dna to a company i know nothing about yeah who are these people who what are they going to do with it i don't know but the idea that i don't know is like it could be you know I think far down the line

you know say in 40 years we could be this car like I wish I would have done it yeah because they're going to be like yeah we made you

we made a bunch of you's yeah we copied your DNA we made like 14 Nate's yeah we're out there just killing it though yeah maybe

well not all of them some of them are probably doing really bad shit yeah I just think it's creepy to give somebody yourna that you don't know there's no voucher it's not like a regulated industry so it just creeps me out a little bit what are they doing with it when it's over my assumption is that you're there they have a business right so they're doing it for profit because you pay them yeah but that can't be the only reason why like why would they really want it's like selling your when they can sell your info and stuff yeah it's basically the same thing yeah except you're

selling your like your little your life source yeah i could see yeah uh yeah i mean so they already have it so yeah they have it i think they get anything that anybody can get anything and your dna is pretty tough to acquire unless they really hunt you down to try to find it but i mean you electively were like here fuck it take it i said i mailed it off i paid i paid you paid them to have more information your wife did it too no no so she just gave it to you a little like you i don't think uh conspiracy yeah like loves the idea of people having your stuff i just you know i mean like if I murder someone, then I'll be pretty upset that I did it. Would you ever murder somebody, you think?

I don't think so. I mean, I just don't see where the reason would come up. But, you know, I'm not saying. You're not going to count it out. Never say never. Yeah, don't count it out. Don't count it out. Don't count it out.

Never say never. Justin Bieber, never say never. Never say never. Maybe you do murder someone. Don't count it out. Never say never. Justin Bieber, never say never. Never say never. Maybe you do murder someone. I think there's a reason to murder people. Don't you think somebody pisses you off enough in your life where you think, maybe I just got to take care of this person? Yeah.

I mean, if they do something to someone in your family. I always think, like, how many people do you think in your neighborhood, do you think anybody remotely near here murdered someone? We looked up the, when we first moved in here, we looked at the Megan's Law. You know what that is? Like for perverts. Yeah. All over the place.

Really? All, it's everywhere, by the way. There's like this all over the place. But convicted sex offenders aren't just people that like touch kids. It's also like. Public urination. Yeah. Yeah. And decent exposure can be be a lot of different things.

It's not just to kids. It could be drunk outside of a bar. Do something. There could be a million different reasons that you get in trouble. So they're not all kid touchers. But I think it's weird to look at the map when you see how many people close to you are like creeps.

Yeah. It kind of freaks you out a little bit. You live in a really remote location though, huh? No, no, no. No? We're in a neighborhood. You're in a neighborhood? Yeah.

And I haven't looked it up. Look it up. I don't know. If it pinpoints your own home. Yeah, I don't know. It's like it's you, Nate. It's, yeah. It's Emma.

We know more. Yeah, Emma? Questioned a little bit? Yeah. I's like, it's you, Nate. It's, yeah. It's Am I? Yeah, am I? Questioned a little bit? Yeah. I did that when I watched The Joker. When I watched The Joker, I questioned if I was a psychopath too. Did you watch that movie?

I have not. When I watched it, I was like, am I? Well, they say comics are. Yeah. Comics have the tendency. And I think it's like if you can wrap your head around it. Like, you know, it's like how much stuff can you wrap your head around?

I could see what it gets to that point. I remember someone telling me about people that kill their kids, which is insane. But then there's parents that are like, when you have a kid crying, you can see when someone's just like, I can see how a kid could drive you to the point of it of murdering them like you have to be crazy but so if you have the

craziness in you a kid can be relentless yeah and like so you can see how like it can you know it's a dog barking that never stops like it just can you can see where they get to that point how many kids you have just one we used to have two no but did it bark too much yeah yeah i did yeah i killed the other one so then we'll take it right back you did kill one of your family members well i didn't think that counted well it's on camera and you know recorded so yeah that's that you have one little kid is it joyous seven or is it trust it's the greatest thing ever it is yeah it's the it's the uh the the best thing ever i mean they're you know just how do you know i'm in their face there you just love this thing more than anything does it look like you or your wife it can it can

switch at the very beginning it was my wife all day long and then she i mean she's seven now now you can i can see you can see more of me in there yeah are you nervous that it's a girl no i think i you know i mean you definitely like uh i was excited to have a girl because i think you have a father-daughter relationship is pretty special and um so i really wanted a girl or i, I mean, I was very happy to have a girl and then, but then now when you like, there's some stuff I was like, yeah, I wouldn't mind having a boy. Like we have a lot, you know, cause then our daughter wants all girl stuff and like, I feel like our dog's a girl and like, you just, everything's a girl and like a lot of girl

stuff around a lot of girl stuff. And then, uh, when you go buy toys, I like girl stuff. So it worked out. Yeah. stuff and then uh when you go by toys stuff too i like girl stuff so it worked out yeah but it's when you go by toys you know for christmas you're like i wish it'd be fun to be going by you know ninja turtle whatever guns footballs yeah just guns that's what kids like is guns footballs i try to roughhouse with her a little bit like just want her to have... Pull her hair, punch her a little bit, pull out a tooth when she's not looking. Yeah, just get after it.

Let her know what's up. Always let her know that I am stronger than her. Don't forget, right when she goes to sleep, you close the door, you go, I'm stronger than you. I'm unbelievably stronger. You'll never be able to beat me. I'll let my wife know the same thing.

Constantly just pulling her hair punching her always going i am stronger than you i am the strongest one in this house there's something there's something inside of me that thinks that your wife might be stronger than you no she's pretty tiny she's weak yeah yeah i think she's she probably has some strength but she's just very small we worked with someone today the the the woman was jacked the wife was jacked yeah and arguably in my mind maybe could hurt most of the men in the room that i was like this woman is so jacked she had to get big because her husband's big he's a mr jacked muscle guy yeah but the wife was so big like she was i mean she had her arms were the size of my waist it was

ridiculous yeah and she scared me a few times but she was like joking around she got real aggressive she had those like spikes you know steroid spikes when someone's like anyway i'm just kidding and you're like yeah i don't know i think that's real yeah they're going about to go after it yeah like she almost felt like almost a couple of snaps yeah really sweet but i did get nervous i was like she could beat the shit out of me i've never i don't there was never when were kids, it was never, no moms were into CrossFit. There was no jacked moms.

Now there's like jacked moms. Yeah. With massive legs. Well, they were, you just had moms. Yeah, they were just a mom. Yeah. Yeah. At the most, they did the floor slidey exercise shit.

Yeah. You know, what was that, like all that, those videotapes, those VHS tapes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did your mom do that stuff when you were a kid? No. Never? No, my mom didn't. But yeah, I think moms would.

You would see it. Would your mom stay at home, mom? She did a mix of, she did some of that, and then she worked at a bank for a long time. As a teller? Yep. I'm always fascinated by that. Yeah, we have. It seems like such a boring job for somebody.

Well, my mom likes to talk. She's a people person. Yeah. So you're getting to really talk to people and see people every day. And then she worked at a bank that was a smaller bank. I mean, they're big now in Nashville. But they were, you know, it felt like a very family-oriented bank. It was a bank that you knew everybody. And when we bought our house in Nashville, they did something.

I forget what they did pinnacle bank they um did something to because we we whatever we have to sign to buy a house i don't know even buy a house i was just gonna say did you buy a house i did i bought we've had two different houses we've moved and i've yet to walk into it before it was bought i was out of town both times this sounds like when you ask a kid how much a house costs and they have no you know when you're like how much and like 40 dollars and you're like yeah that's exactly right there was a comic jason good in new york and uh he always had a joke about a horse and he said he's like how much does the horse weigh he's like i don't know two thousand pounds hundred pounds like he's like it's very funny to be like i don't know how much a horse

like you just have no idea how could you yeah it's such funny to be like, I don't know how much a horse is. Like you just have no idea. How could you? Yeah. It's such a ridiculous thing. You have no idea what to gauge it off of. Right. They just talk about cars, like the weight. Yeah. Do you know how much a car weighs? I know big ones I think are like 5,500 or like is a very heavy car.

That's a heavy car. Yeah. Yeah. That's very big. But like, so how much, you know, it's like, but I just saw that. And so I wouldn't know, you you know it's like how much is a honda accord what you're like i don't know two thousand forty eight thousand pounds is it no i don't know why i believe that super 5500 was that i just said 5500 is it yeah you just i was

thinking it was thinking 4800 yeah but it has to be three thousand pounds yeah a couple thousand yeah depending on the car for sure yeah but what pininnacle Bank did what for you guys when you moved in? They gave us, like, it was the loan that we had to do. It was, like, on a weekend, and they, someone, like, went and did it. Like, was able to, like, I think almost, like, front us the money just until a couple days later so we could get the house. Ah. And. Those Netflix checks aren't coming in, huh?

This was just the stand-ups netflix check so it was uh but it was it was very nice and it was like a bank that would like you know it wasn't just this enormous bank it was a bank that you could call someone and they could be like yeah we'll just do it they're at home they have to put on some shoes to come finish the loan i'm at home i'll be there yeah yeah i figured out i live in the back it's nice to have businesses like that's like a mom and pop shop type it's a real mom live in the back it's nice to have businesses like that's like a mom and pop shop type it's a real mom and pop the the new idea of mom and pop is so phony now when you hear someone like especially here in la when they're like it's a mom and pop and

you're like there's 17 of them yeah and it's a corporation that owns them i know but they're small yeah it's like a friend you own a franchise yeah like mcdonald's or some of them are technically mom and pops because they're owned by a guy. Yeah. And they're franchised out. So they're all mom and pop in the world. But it's a- A lot of pop and pops though.

A lot of pop and pop. A lot of pop pop. A lot of gay couples own McDonald's. You know that? It's the largest- McDonald's? It's the largest franchise owned by gay couples. What?

Yeah. That's made up. I have no idea. That's not true at all. That's pretty good. But Chick-fil-A is the opposite. Chick-fil-A doesn't allow gays. That the polar opposite yeah yeah is that big by you yeah not a lot of gays not yeah yeah no the chick-fil-a i didn't i never had it it was i grew up in chicago

didn't mean anything to us never even heard of it yeah came to the west Coast. All I heard was people like, oh, Chick-fil-A's coming. It was like such a big deal. It was huge. It was, we had it. I don't remember as much growing up, but like, you know, it was definitely a big deal, but it wasn't as like, when I was in high school,

it wasn't, I don't think. It was just a thing. It was like Taco Bell. It's like a thing that was around that you'd eat sometimes. Yeah, when did Chick-fil-A... I don't even remember going to it growing up. Maybe we didn't have it.

And then I had it on this trip. You did? Yeah. Do you like fast food? I do. Is that your vice? Yeah, ice cream has become a real big problem. It's getting out of control.

Yeah, it's real. It's not good. I eat it every night at home. If I'm in a hotel too, I'll eat it. Will you go buy it, bring it to the hotel? I won't go buy it and bring it to the hotel. I'll hopefully order it. But now, like, if you get some nice hotels that are like gelato,

and I'm a pretty chocolate, just chocolate ice cream. I don't need a bunch of stuff. I don't need it to be. You don't want the fries? I don't want your take on it. I want what chocolate ice cream i don't need a bunch of stuff i don't need it to be you don't you don't want the i don't want your take on it i want what chocolate ice cream is you know supposed to be it's what it's supposed to be nothing added nothing added so ben and jerry's is like your nightmare yeah i don't like that they put they put in like a whole cabinet every you can't even get regular just like straight up and even sometimes chocolate is like double

chocolate and you're like just be chocolate chocolate even sometimes chocolate is like double chocolate. And you're like, just be chocolate. Chocolate is- They won't do regular chocolate. They just, everything's got like a little twist to it. Yeah, because, well, because at some point we went too far, right? Like, what was it, 31 flavors? Yeah. Like I think-

32, man. No, it was 31, 32. I don't know. Baskin-Robbins, 31 flavors, right? Yeah. Such a rude number. Just be 30. Why not be a round number?

This doesn't make sense. But 31 flavors. I remember thinking as a kid, it's like, there yeah such a rude number just be 30 why not be around number this doesn't make sense but 31 flavors i remember thinking as a kid is like there's so many flavors i'll never be able to get through all of them but then you realize just like cable channels you don't you you won't like 85 of them yeah you're like i'm only gonna like the top five yeah so the other things are just for show i never understood that like we were at a fancy we were in saint louis uh saint louis me and ali mckoski and we were traveling around town we went to one of these that. We were at a fancy... We were in St. Louis. St. Louis? Me and Allie Makowski. And we were traveling around town. We went to one of these famous ice cream shops, kind of like McConnell's out here.

And it was fancy, fancy, fancy. Like lavender ice cream and all that stuff. And I ended up just getting mint chocolate chip. I was just like this good old-fashioned mint chocolate chip. But all the other ones I tried, I wanted to try them all. And then once you try them, you're like, this is cool.

I can't eat a cup of this. It'll make me sick. It's like, I don't want to eat a whole cup of this weird honeysuckle pomegranate. It just didn't make, it never made sense to me. I was like, nobody could eat that much. I go to those places and get just chocolate. Just the regular old, if they even have it. If they have it, I'll get the closest to that i can i can do sunday too but with i just like chocolate syrup on you should open up an ice cream shop nate's just chocolate i've i've wanted to open a restaurant

called no onions and just have we don't do onions and just have no like it's just pretty straightforward no i don't like uh i've gotten a little better with onions if they're fried or if they're like... What is it? Salted? Like where they're... Oh, yeah, yeah. Soft. If they're cooked in a pan.

I don't like tomatoes. Tomatoes I don't like either. I would do no tomatoes, no onions. Can't do tomato. Makes me nauseous. Yeah, I don't... And people always say ketchup. They're like, how do you like ketchup?

It's cooked. What's completely different? It's cooked tomato. Yeah. Do, how do you like ketchup? And you're like, well, that's completely different. It's cooked tomato. Yeah. Do you know the science behind this? No. The chemical composition of tomatoes when they're cooked changes for your taste buds very drastically, much different than most vegetables. So when you cook tomato, or tomatoes are fruit, isn't it?

No. Isn't it? No. Isn't it? Is it? Yeah, it is. It has seeds. It's a fruit? It has seeds. Fruits have seeds.

Vegetables do not. Yeah. Tomatoes have seeds. It's a fruit, just like an apple. Yeah, it's one of those weird things. Anyway, they suck. But when you cook them, the chemical composition changes so drastically that your taste buds react to it significantly differently.

So it receives it different. Not like when you cook broccoli yeah nothing really changes that drastically and except it brings out some of the more health aspects yeah but with tomatoes it physically tastes different for people cook so cooked tomatoes love like on a pizza yeah i like i like sun-dried tomatoes i like cook just cooked tomatoes any version but raw no i won't do it i wonder if i could do sun-dried tomatoes then i don't think i even i just don't even try i would try those you'd like them yeah they're really good yeah sun-dried tomatoes i like stewed tomatoes like like chunks of tomatoes in an italian sauce yeah i can do that too yeah you try it for me will you text me and let me know when you try i will I will. Yeah, because I didn't know that was even a door open to me.

I know. I watched your eyes light up a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know, I still don't, I'm not, you know, I don't want to dive into them. I don't need them in my life that much. You don't, you're not going to attack tomatoes head on? No, I'm not like, you know, my wife my wife likes tomatoes but i don't i try to do stuff

i will try anything you'll try any food yeah you know i've had alligator and when i'm trying all the names like ostrich or uh trying anything weird i've had snake snake is good actually when it's cooked right it's good there's a place here in LA called Animal have you ever heard of it you eat meat though right in your note yeah if you eat meat

you should go it has all sorts of weird meat crazy different traditional stuff yeah but also weird off the beaten path yak

stuff like that oh wow yeah it's kind of cool though I mean yeah everything comes with so much flavor it's funny that it would be here.

In LA? I just feel like this is such a hell, like, you know, it's like not on board with so much stuff. This is a massive city. Yeah. Yeah. I think people lump us into this Hollywood thing all the time. They do.

They do. You know, there's also like another 20 million people here that don't work in Hollywood. Yeah. So it's like LA gets a shitty rap. That is true. It's like saying New Yorkork is times square it's like uh i guess that's a thing that's there yeah but it's not even close to being new york everybody's like regular everyone's just a human being yeah not everyone's a lot more normal people yeah

that's la there's a lot more like working class people than they could give any credit for nobody knows that they're like what do you mean everyone's out there the hollywood phony you're like yeah okay i guess in what i guess around us well the you know the perspective is that the right word right perspective that you give i think it felt like i was searching for another word uh but it's it's that you see you see on tv you see this that's the stuff that you see. I mean, I've lived here, so I know. But I think you just think it's this. And then when I come out here, I'm just completely in that world. Yeah.

You think that's all it is. It's hard to escape when we work in it. But that's why it's nice. I moved away from a lot of it so i could live in my own little nook yeah i just wanted to be kind of not in the hustle and bustle i lived in it next to the comedy store for years i wanted to be able to walk there and it was nice to live in west hollywood but i just it's it's really hard you have to get out of that scene and it's really interesting the moment i go back over the hill i feel different because it's the the vibrant the the like the frequency is different

of like people and what's going on and you you do feel like it's all kind of the the flow and the hustle and bustle is so different and so i understand why from people from places where they don't have all of that when they come here they're like whoa it's weird it's nuts here i get it like i do but also I love it. I don't know if I could ever, I don't know if I could ever disappear completely from it. It'd be hard. New York was like that where I lived the most. And when I go back to New York, I don't know how I could live there again.

In Manhattan? Did you live in Manhattan? No, I lived in Queens. Yeah. And it was like that. It was like very normal. A lot of people were normal. But it's just so hectic.

Yeah. And so when I go back now and I'm in Manhattan, it's just like so much. It's a lot. And then you're like, I don't think I could go back now and live there. Well, and to be fair, too, you moved to a big, small city is what I want to call it, like Nashville. I'd never really done I'd never done Nashville. I played a club for the first time a month ago. And, you know, it's different than I thought, really.

I never got to explore the city as much the first time I ever went there. But it's a city city, but it's not a big city. It's more like a little, it's like a little town city. It's interesting. Yeah, like Charlotte. You still get the vibe of like having all the city stuff but i mean yeah people could live there i mean people live downtown now or in the gulch is this cool area it's a walking area like in the city i went down there yeah so you could go live down there and i think you would have a completely

different experience than what i have which is in the suburbs of Nashville. You're way out. Yeah. Yeah. Not way out. No, I mean, it's 20 minutes to downtown. But you just would never go downtown. Like, there's no... You don't.

You would never go. I mean, if someone's in town and you might go, or maybe you go eat at a restaurant and they're down there, but you're not... I'm not really going downtown. Yeah, there's nothing really to do. Well, let me say this. This is not don't don't take offense to this if you're a titans fan i'm going to games sunday okay well that stadium

it's yeah it's like they didn't finish it well it's like something's missing we were coming over the bridge and i was like what is it what happened yeah it's what's because open they need a loan or something it's the weirdest looking uh it's you know it's been it's 20 the middle. Do they need a loan or something? It's the weirdest looking thing. It's 20 years now. 97, I think, is when they built it. Maybe 99 or something like that. So they need it updated, I believe. It's pretty good, yeah. It's been there for a little bit.

I feel like we built it right before stadiums started becoming what they are now yeah and now they're you know you got atlanta and dallas and so you have all this i think everything should be domes yeah for everything you do i do i no one you don't like cold weather football people that say they like it don't are not at that game well yeah i don't need to go to the game but i want to watch them do it yeah you want to watch them do it but like if you want people to go to the game which is fun then you can't it can't be 10 degrees outside sure i mean i grew up in chicago going to freezing games yeah and it's like i get that you'd be your

you're miserable and now we're in such a comfortable like life that no one's like once you do that you got these tvs that are 60 inches everybody has 60 inch tvs or something so you can watch it perfectly i mean even when i watch my teams the titans or vanderbilt or i do i like watching them on tv because then too i want to hear them what they're going to say about all this stuff and you you want to be able to see all that stuff. You like play-by-play. Yeah, you like to hear them, especially at Vanderbilt. I feel like we don't get talked about a ton.

So I like to hear, especially if we're – we played Notre Dame last season, and I was excited to listen to that because you're hearing people that you never talk about Vanderbilt talk about Vanderbilt. Right. And do they know what they're talking about no no i don't think anybody knows what like because they they don't cover vanderbilt like they don't cover so i always think that with the titans too like i mean i love pardon the interruption and uh when you hear them talk about the titan sometimes they can say stuff like Tannenhill took over from Marriott,

and they're like, I don't know why they're doing that. And you're like, because you're not watching them regularly. And so that happens everywhere. If anybody talks about your team, they're not in it as much as you. Unless it's a big market. Unless it's Chicago or New York. Well, I mean, even us, we just get trampled on. We just get made fun of all the time.

But, I mean, that's just because of our history. But you're right. Especially SportsCenter, you're talking about East Coast programming. So they really favor the Northeast. Oh, yeah. They talk about the Redskins all the time. And you're like, nobody cares. Nobody cares.

Nobody cares. Most people don't even know where that team is. You know that? They took a poll. Most people don't know where the Redskins play. Yeah, they have no idea. Oh, wow. Well, D.C. throws off most Americans.

I feel like you ask most Americans where D.C. is, they're like, hmm, near New York, I think. Yeah, it's its own little thing. Yeah, I think people forget how geographically challenged most Americans are. Yeah. You know, have you ever seen those polls when they do like Kimmel does that sometimes

where they're like, how many states in the United States? Everyone gets it wrong. They're like, 46 or 48. We added the two. Nobody knows. I always wanted to say 52 sometimes just because it sounds like we added to yeah people love the attitude alaska and hawaii right i forgot about it yeah yeah so i say 54 yeah i say we added them twice just in case yeah just to make sure we like them it's like getting remarried you've been remarried you're gonna get remarried but i'm saying if you propose again yeah you got

to do it yeah do you Would you ever do that? Get married again to your wife? I always think I owe my wife another wedding. Was your first one bad? It wasn't bad. I've talked about it in my act, but it was not bad. We had a lot of stuff. It was just not expensive.

But that's okay. Yeah, it's okay. I don't think it wasn't this big party. It wasn't this big. You go to all these other weddings. It wasn't just, it was just, it was fun. It was fine and like nothing crazy. Yeah, it sounded like it was perfect.

Yeah, no, it was, I mean, it wasn't big. We didn't have a, you know, I got married in 2006. So it was fine. But I always just thought like, you know I got married in 2006 so it was it was it was fine but I always just thought like you know we could have done one that's like throwing a big big bash yeah could have done a bigger of a bash like all my friends because it was like at home and uh it was on we did it on a Friday Friday the 13th uh oh that's good luck. Yep. And then we did Friday the 13th. We had people die. People died from that wedding.

People died at the wedding? No, from the wedding. The guy that sold us the ring died, committed suicide. And then because of the wedding, that's how bad it was. He was like, it was just not fun? Because it just was a brutal time. And I mean, not a lot of people even invite the person that sells them the ring, ring but we did you did no i was like what a strange thing to do just to go like but man i would love for you to come to this wedding he's like he's like oh god i'd rather kill myself and

then he did um and then we had the guy the photographer he died he had cancer like uh but it was just anybody else you knocked off the list? any other grandparents died? no not yet fingers crossed you had a 10 year reunion your 10 year anniversary that's what I used to call it did you do something big for that? did we do anything?

I don't think we did anything big sounds like a no my regular life I feel like in this business is big and stuff. You go to places. Yeah, but I mean for her. I didn't do, what did I, no, I got her, yeah, I got her earrings, like very nice earrings. What's the best gift you've ever bought in your life?

I get, I mean, I was always a pretty good gift giver, but I don't ever remember anything now. These diamond earrings I got her, and they were, because she wanted, you know, nice diamond earrings. They're nothing crazy, but they were. Hangies? No, no, no. But they, like, had a story behind them and, like, how they're made. And it was an earring that, like, is not really a cut or something that's not done anymore. Ooh.

And yeah, but you can't even tell. Well, you, well, yeah, right. People wouldn't know. No one's going to walk up. But like the lady that we got them from, it's just all her stuff is, she's on her own and she just finds stuff that's pretty unique and has like something to it. Oh, that's cool. A little bit more.

So it's not. You're a good gift giver then. Yeah. I don't think I'm as good now. I'm falling off. I'm terrible. But I was... I could usually come up with something. I'm so bad.

But I'm forgetting everything right now. I have no idea what I'm going to give the bag for Christmas. It sucks. Just not calling her the bag, maybe. No, no, no. See, that's her name. That's her name. Yeah, her name's the bag.

I introduced you to her. That is true. Yeah. I thought we were just being fun in there. No, no, no. That, that's her name. That's her name. Yeah, her name's The Bag. I introduced you to her. That is true. Yeah. I thought we were just being fun in there. No, no, no. That's her real name, The Bag. Yeah. The Bag.

Yeah, no. I have no idea what I would give her. I have no clue. I'm so bad at that shit. It's unbelievable. I try as hard as I can to try to cultivate something in my mind that would be worth it or meaningful. And I'm stupid when it comes to that stuff.

I don't know. I just want you to tell me. What do you want? I need you to tell me what you want because I'm going to it comes to that stuff. I don't know. I just want you to tell me. What do you want? I need you to tell me what you want because I'm going to get it for you. That's why when she got me the 23andMe, it was like a good... I think now you got to give a gift

that's something that they're not going to do themselves. It's almost like something cool. Something that's like, oh yeah, you know what? I would have wanted to try this. I just can't figure out what that is though. Yeah, it's like an experience., you know what, I would have wanted to try this. I just can't figure out what that is though. Yeah,

it's like an experience. Yeah, experiences are cool. I guess that's smart. Yeah, live stuff. I should just write this down. You should just tell me

what to do. Yeah, yeah, well luckily we're recording it. This isn't, none of this stuff's running. I just wanted to come hang out with you for an hour.

Yeah, I like it. I said, come over man, can you kill some time tonight and come over to the house? Yeah, and that's,

you know, before you leave LA are you excited to go back to Nashville yeah I go back home have a week and go get all

Christmas stuff and do that and then you're back on the road not till January January 21st unless you need people to go out to

it's like Joliet Illinois Green Bay Wisconsin Joliet dude wait what's in Joliet is there a theater out there yeah Joliet yeah have you Wait, what's in Joliet? Is there a theater out there? Yeah.

In Joliet? Yeah. Have you ever played? It's a big one. Is there a club there? Not in Joliet that I know of, but people like me, we don't go to Joliet. Peoria is a club.

That's down south. Yeah. Another place I don't go. I stay right near the city. Yeah. I started in Chicago, which I know we've talked about. You did?

I did. Yeah. Why would you go down to Joliet about it. You did. I did. Yeah. Why would you go down to Joliet? Why Joliet? And why Peoria? That's so, you don't want to just play the city. I think we will go back to the city probably later in the year. But you're just hitting these other markets.

I mean, it's about hitting markets. Yeah, you got it. You got to go to different places. They have places to play. How big is the theater down there in Joliet? I think it's big. I want to say it's close to two uh and so then these are the markets that are going to be interesting to see because some of them you know i don't i don't know i don't know how it's gonna how they're gonna do

you're a great fucking comic people like to see your shit they'll come out joliet they'll come out to see a joliet well a shout out i've never i've never really been to joliet but and or down south i never went to southern illinois because for me as a kid it was like there was I don't know there was not unless you went to school down there it was hard to go down it was no reason to go down there but I'd imagine Chicago y'all you know think pretty high yourself we do on the other state parts of the we look yeah we are like New York City you know yeah it's like upstate New York I mean they don't they don't care for that. It's just more like if it weren't for us, they wouldn't exist.

Yeah. So that's kind of like just an honest... Yeah, yeah. It's like, you know how we're the literal means of any sort of income is a booming metropolitan area, you know? Especially with the whole weight of the city. The whole weight of the Midwest really relies on Chicago's shoulders. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. I don't think Cleveland's getting it done. Indianapolis isn't really fucking pulling their weight. You know, Milwaukee is blacked out on cheese. So, not that I don't love these places. Bucks, though, ringing Milwaukee around. Yeah, kind of. Oh, yeah.

Greek freak. You think that's the revenue that's changing Milwaukee? Greek freak? You don't think Greek freak's good? I like him not. Bringing heat to the... He is a little bit. Yeah.

Until he leaves. Until he's like, I got to get out of here. He's a dude that acts like he doesn't want to leave. I wonder why that is, though. I think, you know, now what I like is all these smaller cities are able to, like, look, Cleveland was not anything. LeBron made Cleveland.veland yeah he did and then so you have like in milwaukee you go there i mean if they're smart like why if you come live here the taxes i mean bryce harper not coming to los angeles because the taxes which i think was a

mistake because sometimes you do need to do stuff for your career but the greek freak he gets talked about as much as anybody on uh espn no one you know it's not like people don't know who he is and if he goes and wins and does stuff then why would they not and then he can his money goes so much farther yeah he can yeah he can have you know a mega mansion in milwaukee yeah yeah and it's a city and you probably not bothered like everywhere else there's not the pressure of everywhere else. Everything's expanding. People don't, people can not live in Los Angeles or New York anymore.

That's like you live wherever. Yeah. I mean, Atlanta shoots everything down there and New Orleans. I mean, when people shoot movies, I've not, I've done movies, but like, it seems like they're, everybody's in other, they're all over the place. No. So people are never even here. All these movie stars are not here.

They're having to go somewhere else and shoot. If you're a famous movie star. Yeah. If you're a peddler in the business like me, then you got to stick around. Yes. Well, the auditions and stuff are all here. I'm kicking stones around here.

I still got to stick around. But don't you do a lot of video auditions, like send-in? Sometimes, but a lot of times you go you go it is still better to go yeah i mean look if i was up to me i'd live somewhere in the midwest yeah i love i do love the midwest i think it's like the greatest people on planet earth you know i really do like miss that vibe like and i tease all the other places but like fucking i love wisconsin it's a it's a wonderful place with a ton of great lakes uh it's just like The vibe is just different than

Midwest. I love all the people down there. I miss it a lot, but there's a piece of me that's like, I can't do it right now. I don't have the ability. Yeah, it's definitely... If you want to still do TV, I kind of still like doing TV sometimes. Yeah. That's easier to do TV from here, you know? No, it's all made here. So, I mean, you have to do it. I started touring, and that was the route that I took. And so it's brutal to tour out of here.

And how much I was going to do it, I didn't want to do it out here. Yeah. And then I was leaving them by themselves out here. it out here yeah and then i was leaving them by themselves out here so i was like now they're home and then you know my daughter has a life and her friends and we're you know these little girls that she has in her neighborhood they just run over in between the houses that's so nice yeah and so it's nice to be in nashville luckily is a cool town right now and it's a i mean i love nashville and so it's it's a cool place to be it's not like i was moving back to some weird town there was like right it was like a place where all the agencies are at and you can oh yeah that's right there is well and because the music industry

too yeah there's a lot of industry that's down there yeah people are moving there people have houses there and do you uh did you have that kind of same childhood when you grew up there as far as in the industry no no no i mean like this whole like this this idea of like running around the neighborhood the neighbor's houses and all that stuff yeah yeah we would i mean we had it uh we weren't in the neighborhood as much uh as we were we had like i remember we we would play football like in our, we had three yards. And so we would play football in those three yards.

And then there was a guy across the street that had an enormous yard. And, uh, it was just very deep. And we would just play in his yard and never asked. Yeah. No, never asked one time. Never asked.

I don't even know, you know, but he was, I broke my car. I cracked my car rolling in his yard. Uh, he was cool about it. Yeah.. I cracked my car rolling in his yard. He was cool about it. Yeah. He was mad about us playing in his yard.

Never asked. He did it. No, we, my brother tackled me. And then, but yeah, I remember it was very funny. You would just play in their yard and like, yeah, that's a vibe. I would mow my neighbor's yard. She'd pay me $5. Five bucks for the whole lawn.

Yeah. I mean, she was in. Five bucks for the whole lawn. Yeah. I mean, she was in her 80s, Miss Givens. And then I would cut her grass and my grass. And then I'd go up and she'd give me $5, which was a lot. That's a good amount of cash back. Then they could buy you a lot of soda. Yeah, yeah.

Did you have your grass cutting shoes? Yep. Yeah, you had your grass cutting shoes. had a hill or like just a very small one but it was very steep and i remember i had a hard time cutting that because it was you know but you just figured it out like the weight of the mower you're saying yeah it would go over yeah i couldn't i wasn't strong enough to hold on to it so you would just be a lot of like it just the mower tips you remember the first time you you pulled this pulled you pulled a mower string and it went on? Yeah, I remember the first.

It wasn't like that. You know what I mean, though. Yeah, I remember doing it. When you become like a young man and you can do it, you feel like a badass. We were out there just trying it. I remember days not wanting to mow the grass and just hoping there was no gas in it. And then being like, there's no gas. And then he's like, he doesn't want to go get gas.

And then you just didn't have to mow the yard that day yeah that's perfect but you i mean you know mowing the yard was you just did it you had to do it i did i did it you know growing up and now here we pay people yeah i don't mean i wouldn't you mow your own lawn no isn't that funny yeah we we did uh my wife would mow or The first house we moved back, she would do it. And she would do it. Equal rights. Right when I come home. That's right.

From the road. She wouldn't do it while I'm gone. She'd do it as I'm pulling up from the airport. And she'd just get started. And I think she was doing that on purpose. To like, I've got to mow the grass. I'm like, yeah, you could have mowed it. I was gone for four days.

Yeah. Why do you have to do it? This sounds like a fight. Yeah. You could have mowed it. I was gone for four days. Yeah. Why do you have to do it? This sounds like a fight. Yeah. You could have done it before. You could have done it before, and you're doing it in front of me because I think you're doing it to show me that you're – that's how I would take it is that she's showing it to me.

You know, like, well, I'm mowing the grass. I'm working. You're not working. She's saying that you just got off the road, but now you're not working. I'm working. Well, I think it's a hard time for them to think the road is work. I think it's a hard time for sometimes. A lot of people don't think it's work.

They don't think it's work. It's a lot. Someone said, I heard recently, you get paid to travel. That's what you get paid. I've heard a lot of different versions. You get paid to pick up checks. You're getting paid to do the task, which is do stand-up comedy, but 90% of what you're doing is really maneuvering to get to a place

to get the thing done so you can earn a living to go back home. But the hard thing, too, is they see it as like it's a party, where you're out drinking, you're having fun. So they think you're living your dream. And so when someone sees someone living their dream, they don't look at it as work and it's hard for them to like wrap their head around sure and you're like well it is work this is it's kind of like when you go see a professional athlete like they are working yeah

but you're like well how much work goes into it well then too i always think people see comics and they think it's easy and you're like yeah because we make it look very easy if you work hard if you work hard it eventually it's never easy but you can just make it look easy and you're like yeah because we make it look very easy if you work hard as you work hard it eventually it's never easy but you can just make it look easy you know when you feel nervous on stage if you mess up you know like i messed up and everybody's like i don't know where did you mess up but you know where you messed up and then it's like that and they just think like well i mean that's why everybody thinks they can do we do the one thing i did a corporate show for real estate agents recently

and i told him i go i think we have a lot in common and we both have jobs that everybody thinks they can do that's true everybody thinks they can be a comedian everybody thinks they could do real estate i think i could do real estate i mean every everybody tries to do real estate because you're just selling a house you cannot sell a house many more people can do real estate they can do stand-up comedy that is true that's way more yeah but we have everybody that thinks they can do it right yeah that's the same thing people do think they can do stand-up comedy and when they tell you about it's very frustrating when they're like i'm kind of funny yeah and they think i just don't want to go on stage like well that's part of it that's like that's a huge that's a huge piece that they're like well i just don't

want to go i always remember people when i was it happened too when i moved back to nashville like nashville comics because i think that they see you back in Nashville and they're like, well, you live here. And you're like, yeah, man, I was gone 13 years. I moved to Chicago with a buddy, and I've never lived outside the state of Tennessee. And I'm just in Chicago. Where'd you live? We lived in Bucktown.

Yeah, Bucktown's great. On Damon Avenue, and then Chicago and Ashland, the corner of that. I worked at, my first place I did comedy was Coyole's Tippling House, and then it became Orange Crush. Yeah. But you would do those shows, but I was in chicago and it's like this crazy city that like i just it was like wild then i remember going to new york and i remember going around new york when i moved to new york and i remember just being like i was just so confused

on where i was like you would come out of the subway and you're like i don't know where tennessee is from here i don't know where anything's like i don't know the directions of anywhere. You're just like, it's just, you walk out of that subway and you're like, it's just buildings and it's just chaos. And just people are just walking by

and people are yelling and you're just like, what is going on? It's overwhelming. But that's, you know, but then you go like, yeah, I did that. And then all these comics sometimes that never move from their hometowns and then they're just like well i just didn't new york it's all political there like they always say stuff like there's a bunch of excuses usually yeah there's and you're like yeah it is

man and that's that's why you have to stay there until it's not until you're a part of it or or until you feel like, I just feel like you people know when they're like, I wonder if I should go. It's like, you'll know when you need to go somewhere

if you need to go somewhere. Yeah. How long were you in Chicago? Two years. And then New York? Almost nine. And then here? Two.

Damn. That's wild. Nine in New York. I didn't know it was that long for you in New York for some reason. Yeah. Because I don't associate you as a New York comic.

Oh, yeah. I don't know why. There's some weird ownership that I think you're kind of like a West Coast comic for some reason. Oh, really? I never got that. Because when I saw you. When we started hanging out, I was out here. Yeah.

No, I'm a New York guy. I'm a big New York guy. That's so funny. Everything I learned was in New York. Your attitude is not New York. No, but that's, I mean, I'm not New York guy. I'm a big New York guy. That's so funny. Everything I learned was in New York. Your attitude is not New York. No, but that's, I mean, I'm not from there. I know, but a lot of guys adopt that personality. A lot of people that move there from somewhere else.

Well, I think everybody's better. I mean, I can have that attitude of like New York. I do have an ownership of the New York scene. I mean, when I moved there, you know, I would see Burr and like I would watch all these guys, Patrice. I used to sit in Patrice's car, Patrice O'Neal,

which if anybody hasn't watched his Elephant in the Room special, Patrice would have probably been one of the best ever, which he died and that hurt him. Yeah, dying kind of stops you a little bit. Yeah, that really stopped it. died and that hurt him and that dying kind of stops you a little bit yeah that you know that really stopped it uh but seeing those guys giraldo i mean i was you know just around everybody

it was uh unreal and i i just think new york guys la i never know who i don't know who's your guys out here well burr is out here i know but burr's new york to me burr's in new york you think he's a la comic he's been out here for so long he lives that doesn't matter he was already huge though he was already like really that's not true not huge huge but he was by the time he left new york unless he left before i realized by the time he left new york he was already started i think he already sold out like town hall i think i think he i think he was i think he developed really into like this the booming thing he became when he when he was living out here maybe that's just my opinion but i do think he but that's when stuff comes together yeah he built all that in new york i guess this is a new york versus los angeles thing

then rogan rogan's massive rogan's rogan's an la guy yeah he is inherently an la guy out there eliza i mean there's a lot of people whitney yeah i mean yeah there's a lot of top comics i'm a big uh alley yeah alley well alley was new york though alley was in new york i was in your busted here i know but it does do you think it doesn't really matter where you pop it's like where you do the work yeah where but you keep doing the work until you pop so it doesn't like i know but most of the the groundwork you know is where i think you are it's it's i guess it's each it's maybe it's not us to decide it's the person where they feel yeah you know because everybody's going to be more somewhere you know i mean they could live i mean i'll probably there's

a chance i could be in nashville more than i'm in either of those cities so you know i don't but i but i learned in new york that's where i learned that's where that's where you got your that's where i cut your teeth yeah chops yeah when i well when i met you out here it was kind of like you were that's when you i think you were you were in a great groove it was kind of like you know maybe a confluence of things that were happening that you were really kind of starting to pop really hard. Well, the big saying that I think is true is always like, you moved to New York to get good, moved to L.A. to get famous.

It was always the saying I heard. And I always liked that saying because it was like, it makes sense. saying like because it was like it makes sense and you know and uh new york is a good place to is a great place to get i think really good but there's not a lot of industry in new york even though people think it seems like it is but it's not remotely like here no one's coming to the shows la is that idea that there could be you never know who's in the crowd new york you know who's in the crowd it's no one's there like picking people out like going like you're gonna be bit you know whatever that's all out here is a lot more of that la's got you know it is they do have a tosh was it isn't easy he's all la yeah but i you know i don't see him around the scene anymore too he kind of is so isolated

but he was a guy that would have been yeah without a doubt i mean dalia yeah chris i mean it's hard for i started here so it was weird you know i grew up in chicago and then started here so it was hard you guys have the grind here was really hard you know people like oh you get good in new york it's like you get good here because the competition is unbelievably thick because you have just the best of the best who are already professionals and there's not a lot of space for you as a young comic so i had to do so much bullshit before i even got even a little bit of recognition and and i sometimes i wish i went to new york because i knew i would have gotten a lot uh a lot more sets i would have gotten around more yeah here you really had it's a fist fight to get on

these i mean back then it's not i don't know what it is now yeah but i just think it's like that it was it was gut it was a gut-wrenching experience that I don't wish on my enemy because it fucking sucked. It was hard to get spots out here. Once a Night was big out here. If you could get up Once a Night as a young comic,

that's huge. In New York, that's a fucking joke. Yeah. So it's almost like, you know. At the beginning, you could do,

if you did mics, you could do more than that. So I mean, like a book show here was so hard to get yeah that's where i think in new york that's why it's so good with you do so much stage time i mean you're doing once you get into the rooms and when i first moved to new york it was all clubs like there wasn't you know they had refifi or they had like some other little did you catch a rising was that still around when you were there? No. Or Dangerfields?

None of that stuff was around. Dangerfield's still there. Is it still there now? Oh, shit. I did Dangerfield. That was the last club I got passed at. Who passed you first? Probably like officially.

I went to Boston Comedy Club, but I was like barking to get on stage. That's something that people don't really know what that is too if the internet's unfamiliar that you have to physically stand out front and then yell and you haven't got a great comedy show tonight it's what it's pete holmes crashing i did that with pete pete got me barking at boston and uh yeah you stand out and i remember just thinking i don't want to be on this i want to get where I don't have to stand on this corner. Like your goals, when you first moved to New York, you're not thinking I want a special. No.

You're like, I don't want to be on this corner. Right. Can I get inside? What can I do? Yeah. If I could just be the guy that like at least takes the ticket at the door, that would be huge. That's a big deal.

And then just because I remember being just freezing cold and just, you know, I mean, just standing out there. And it was just brutal. It was brutal. And you're just like, hey, we got a great comic show tonight. And no one cares. Is it free? Yeah. That's it, right?

Is it free? Free? No one cares at all. That's a hard testament to New York comedy that L.A. comics don't really have to do. L.A. comics had to like bring friends you had to like go get friends

they had bringer shows there but then that was tough because you're like I don't I moved here I don't have any friends I don't have any friends well we don't have any friends

either here it was just like LA was like convincing someone at your day job is really what it was it was like can you bring everyone

from the day job to come to my fucking show and that's what it was for me it's convincing everyone in my shitty office day job to please come watch me and i felt beholden to them then from then on because you're like even if you were good even if i did very well yeah and i was strong it still felt like i owed them something for doing that for me so it was like oh it was like such a a cycle i had to live through all the time of like can you guys come to

this show it'd mean a lot you know what I mean I hated doing that even when they were like you were funny I was like it doesn't matter I feel fucking like I held you hostage to come see me you know and they had to watch the whole show well that's the hardest part because there's a lot of other shit on the show even if they like you they're like oh those other guys were really

fucking bad when you got bigger and then you were able to do bringer shows but as just like the pro on the show those were the best shows to get tape set 100 because it was like the crowd you know as long as they didn't sometimes the crowd can feel like ownership over their person so like it's hard for them to like not laugh at this whole show yeah because they feel like they got to do good for their guy and then but like once you got out of that

I remember going to Caroline's and they would those bringer shows were the best shows because it was when you went up you were no threat

to their friend because you were the professional on the show and so you could just go it was like always a place that you always wanted to get it

and they taped all the shows so you could get a good like a great tape to submit for like a late night set and they were happy to the shows so you could get a good like a great tape to submit for like a late night set and they were happy to see you because you were actually solid you were so to them they were like holy shit this is good yeah i love to see the surprise in a room like that when they go oh like they're they're like they're they're so uh they're so excited that you're you're actually good that now they really get into it yeah you know they love it

yeah they were already nothing better i remember seinfeld saying that where the only thing that he misses from starting is the crowd not knowing him and it is like you that's something that you got to like really enjoy when you're in it because if you blow up then it you know then it kind of goes away but uh i mean now like when i do these shows and now I know this, you're in a theater, these people are here for me. It's kind of beautiful though. It's beautiful.

And now you're, the thing you're going for is like, I got to be as good as what they think I am. That's great. And so that's, so you still have that drive, but like I still do corporates and these people don't know me. And like,

it's, it's pretty fun. The one guy that booked you knows you. Yeah. Oh no, man. And the other guy's like, who the fuck is this guy? Yeah. And they oh he's great dude he's big and like you know

i was like no they don't care at all yeah uh but doing those shows corporates you can still feel it where then you sometimes i'll do old jokes because they don't know anything and then you're just like and you just start murdering like real hard and you can just feel where people are like what i remember i went to burr's hbo one night stand taping which was one of the first things that he did that really took off and i remember just the crowd when he got done uh you could tell that they were like what like just didn't you know like it was just like a moment. Like, you could, they're like, I mean, it was, they, when he was done, it was still just like so much, everybody's talking. And you could see everybody being like, what was that?

Like, you know, like, I didn't know that that could even be a thing. They're just thinking, oh, we're going to this taping. Like, it'll be, yeah, I'm sure it's fun and funny. But then to be like, all those people left going like no i gotta know that guy's life like if he's near here and and then you got they people have to bring people to they just didn't understand that right this guy was so good and that was very fun to sit in the crowd because i knew how good he was and just be like watch all these people and i'm sure a lot of people didn't know who know him at that point but then watching other people react to going like, what was that?

Yeah, that's a wild feeling to see. But I think you're right, though, that it's cool to do a place where all your fans are because the challenge is you have to be as strong as you can, which I think makes you a significantly better comic than you were when you are doing rooms where they don't know you because I think sometimes we can get lazy where you don't, you know, when you first start touring

and you're selling out, I mean, I'm sorry sorry you're not selling out at all you know you're doing you're selling half a room you know what i mean it's a half yeah and they don't even know they're just they don't know you so it's just kind of it almost impedes on your ego sometimes where you're like well fuck it what do i give a shit i gotta go you know i gotta plow through these but you want to but i would always want to win those people like oh yeah i would try my hardest yeah yeah but it does check your ego sometimes when it's like when they kind of don't give a fuck and they're there for the chicken wings and it's a bachelorette party and it's like at your best light you still couldn't outshine their kind of discontent because they're just got it for free or you know like that's the hardest

thing so then i find myself i used to find myself at those moments being like, all right, I got to get through it as best as I can. Instead of like, now I feel like now I have people paying to see me and fans that I've cultivated. I'm so excited to work hard for them. So I'm like, I put way, I throw my back out. You know, like the first time I ever opened for Rogan, I realized what it meant to like play a room of those, that scale.

And it really meant working I mean hard like I know people don't really understand how hard you work on stage when you're doing an hour material and you're and you're really pushing it when you go into those big rooms you really have to fucking deliver and stay in a great rhythm and keep them captivated because it's not like when you're on your way in and you're meandering through what you've kind of started there's no pressure on you it doesn't matter yeah like when you're opening for you know yeah when you're opening for people like when i opened for chris rock on his last tour see a new couple shows young guy new guy yeah uh and he like going out

like there's you know i'm going out i always get i always like respected that chris rock would bring us like he and jessica before hannibal he'd bring like you know i'm not saying we're this great comp but we're guys that headline on our own and he would have us open for him because that's tough because like we're coming out and like we're all going to do really good we're doing 15 minutes and we're in a room of 3 000 so he would have to go up after us and i thought i was like that that's cool that he does rogan the fact that he takes you know a lot of you guys and comics that are can sell out places on that sell out places on their own across the country and when anyone's hanging out with his friends but that's uh that's

a big deal because like rogan doesn't have to do that he can bring a younger comic that's going to be fine and then well he's at a level where he could bring nobody he could just be like someone intro me i'm going to do an hour and 25 minutes but i think it's good that he brings he has to make himself follow you have to like go like all right i gotta go bring it because i've got to like i know like when i take guys on the road and they do good and they're very funny it's like i gotta make you forget them like because otherwise you shouldn't if i get done with an hour you shouldn't be like man that opener was great like that should be your first thought like well i hope it's a thought i hope it's a thought no i'm not saying you want it but i'm that's yes you want

the opener to be great i want the whole show to be great yeah but it's the pressure of like if you were headlining and every comic is like when they get done and they're just talking about how funny the opener is that's not good that's not a good sign that's not a good look yeah you that means you're doing something wrong so if you bring strong openers then that makes you stay on top of your game yeah to then you're that person's pushing you and then the people leave going yeah you want to be like the whole show was unbelievable who do you bring with you i got a guy in nashville brian bates very funny then i'd say i'd take some new york guys who do we know gary veder oh i love gary gary's very funny gram k gary and i bombed at a venue together so hard we did a corporate in vegas with Alonzo Bowden and Joe McHale.

Oh, wow. I should say, I bombed a lot harder than he did. I mean, he did probably just fine, but it was miserable. It was a room full of Maker's Mark. It was bought by Suntory Whiskey, and it was all Japanese dudes. It was a banquet hall in Vegas filled with Japanese men eating at a circular table. Oh, wow. And I just...

How many people was it? Three to five. It was around three to five. You know what I mean? Like, you couldn't really tell. It was a massive banquet hall. A hundred? Yeah, three to five hundred.

Three to five hundred in a banquet hall but spread out so bad. You know, the tables are like they're these massive round tables. It's like, how... Yeah, they're in suits eating steak. They don't give a fuck about me at all.

And I remember thinking, I was like, this is going to be fine. I don't give a, I've done these kind of things before. It's not that big of a deal. Couldn't get their attention to save my life. And they told us to stay clean, stay clean, stay clean. I told the story before, but Alonzo Bowden came out swinging. Did not stay clean. He was like, I'm not going out like that. that he's like y'all never seen an n-word this big before and they lost it yeah they and i was like i should have just said the n-word when i came yeah that's

what everybody did everybody else start saying like everybody like the doors yeah no but i mean those those they'll make you they'll make you stronger for sure, those kind of things. But I try to take out people that I know are really funny just because I want to show them to the world, which is kind of nice for me. Yeah, yeah. And it's like, well, good. I get to have someone go, dude, amazing. And also, I love the people that you were with. I want to impress them with like, we did this for a reason, not just like.

You want the whole show to be good. Yeah. It's stupid when somebody does that. like we we we we did this for a reason not just like you want the whole show to be good yeah it's stupid when somebody does that i don't i never understood when someone's like oh god the first word that was terrible but you know i mean the so-and-so was good but like oh it's like why would you want that i never understood yeah people do i would if i had a uh opener which i mean some of the openers can it can be not be great or they'd bomb or something but i remember uh when it's sometimes i take something i would get i was like you got to do good man like i was like i don't want to follow you bombing no it's way that's that's not fun at all like just go do good

so the whole show is then great instead of just going up and like people are you know they just hate it having to follow someone that does poorly significantly harder than someone who murders yeah because the energy is good oh my god yeah because at least you get to walk up to some something positive you get to ride it and which is which is so great that uh yeah i would i remember being in uh oh i was gonna say about opens too what's tough too sometimes though when you so when you're when people are starting to come see you now too like they're i always feel bad because like sometimes like the openers hacking they have a tough time because they can't go out waiting for you their people are very excited to see you yeah and. And so that's hard.

Because, I mean, I think everybody knows that there's openers. You think, like, it's not like it's a thing. They're like, what? Where is he? Yeah. Everybody knows that there's an opener there. And then there's also, like, people can still be seating. Oh, that's tough.

You know, you try to wait, and sometimes you have two shows, and you're like, we can't. Yeah, you don't have a choice. So you got to go do 10 minutes. You try to make everything else, and the judges pay them good. You're like, sorry, man, that's how it goes. Yeah, and it is what it is.

I've had it go up when people are still seating. Fuck yeah. I do it with Rogan still. Sometimes when they're seating, we were, I don't're seating we were at some casino or something and they're still seating and we wait as long as we could

but they're drunk they're rolling in from a casino so it was like you gotta go and a lot of times people do yell out even when they're so excited and I'm doing well in the middle of a transition to a joke someone's like where's Rogan they're so excited and i'm doing well yeah you know in the middle of a in the middle of a transition to a joke someone's like where's rogan you're like they just they're just excited yeah they're excited and you want to go do you think he's not here yeah do you think i'm just gonna

take all this time like it would be really funny for me to just do like an hour and a half and then we just leave together and he's like yeah fuck it yeah he's not rogan never shows up he just doesn't come out rogan you're like oh i don't know man I don't know, man. He didn't show up. Didn't make it. How much time do you do? Two, three hours. Yeah. No. Yeah, when I go in front of Joe? Yeah.

We usually, if it's Tony and I, we usually do around 30 a piece. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. But I guess y'all are, I mean, y'all are headliners. So it's like, and then these people know you. From him, a lot of them do. Yeah.

Yeah. Because of his fan base. I mean, you know, I don't, they don't all like you, but you know you from him a lot of them do yeah because his fan base is i mean you know i don't know they are they don't all like you but you know the ones that do are dope comedy fans that i've yeah i'm i'm glad i've taken from him that have been like oh shit i like that too but tony and i usually do anywhere from 20 to 30 depending on the venue in the show and if we have a second show and all that shit but joe loves that shit dude he's the first person to be like when it's just me and him he's like yeah just fucking stretch

and in my mind i'm always like no just stick to a tight time stick to a tight time but he's always like no fucking if i wanted to do 40 he'd be like do it yeah he just wouldn't fucking care i just his mentality is more like go out there and just beat the shit out of them so then when i come out it's like i mean they're just they're like just juiced and ready to fucking go. I think that's what he likes. But yeah, I, you know, I'm happy to do those shows. They're, they're, I've, doing arenas is, is hard to articulate. That's the weirdest thing I've ever experienced in my life.

Yeah. Being in arenas as a fan of seeing like music. I've never seen an arena comedy show, but being in an arena comedy show, very strange. You know, 12,000 people is very strange. Is the the yeah i'm trying to think i've no i did rock did one in vancouver but i want to say it's like seven uh it would you know it was like it was an arena they they they're high local hockey arena or something right and uh so i just got to do that i didn't get to do any of his seven seven's a shitload of people it's a lot of people and uh so i just got to do that i didn't get to do any of his seven seven's a shitload of people it's a lot of people and uh like i just did atlanta and it was 2800 that i just did and but

like that was like the that was the around that number 2800 3000 is when the laugh is different that you hear that's right like anything below that two and below is it can feel like the laugh is kind of just normal but then above three there's a delay and the laugh kind of you you feel it go back and so the time your timing has just got to be different and which i'd imagine in front of that many people it's really strange the timing is a little it's uh yeah you're just hearing it it's just so weird well thank god for for uh you know those uh those kick those monitors the feedback monitor so you can hear yourself and it checks me to slow myself a little bit so i because i can know my natural rhythm is quick in a club i'm

very fast i'm usually extremely quick but when i do those i like have to be patient because you just learn that you're like i'm gonna step on myself and it's gonna fuck up my next joke so i had to learn it especially in the round when we were in the round was really strange yeah you're circling you're like you're trying to hit all the corners but you're like i want to be conscious over where i start a start a setup and end a punch line i was i began to be very conscious as i was learning it to do it yeah because I didn't want to stay stagnant on one side because I was like, well, they're not going to get any of this for some reason. Even though you're on these monitors. I like a round.

It's cool. I'm doing the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix, and I've done it before. Yeah. And never on my own, but we're doing it on our own, and we did it in a round. And I think the round is almost – I think it's a great – I mean, they can't see you at all times, so that's not great. Well, they have the screens and stuff. But, like, even if you're the last row, you're always pretty close, and you can get so many more people.

Yeah. And then, like, you're just kind of always like – well, it makes you move more. I don't move – I'm not a big mover. I do a lot of pacing back and forth. you move more i don't move i'm not a big mover i do a lot of pacing back and forth but so it makes me turn a little bit more and uh and try to like you're having to like you know go around and uh very funny thing i saw on the round though because it's very confusing when you get done so when you you say good night in the round as you know it's hard to remember where you're supposed to lead yeah yeah and uh i watched we did like a benefit show at the round in phoenix

and the guy's like all right good night and so there's all these ramps that go off right and so he just heads down a ramp it's just a locked door and so it's just like uh he had to like sit there for a second and then you just see him walk back up and then walk off the other way. And like, because he just, he chose the one way where there's like. Nothing. There's nothing. You can't even like go through the crowd if you don't. So he just has to come back on the stage.

Wave again. Hey everybody. And then just walk back off. Because it's like you get disoriented. Yeah, you don't know where you are. Yeah, there's not like a huge thing that's like you get disoriented but you don't know you don't know where you are yeah there's not like a huge thing that's like exit

here no that doesn't exist and so you just have like where you know when are you when are you doing celebrity Valentine's Day

ooh that's lovely that's a gift for your wife that she'll never forget right yeah I performed I think every Valentine's Day

yeah I'm about to as well I'm gonna be in Vancouver and she was like is that Valentine's Day weekend I was like I think it I guess unless they moved, I think it, I guess. Unless they moved it, I think it's, yeah. I think they have to.

You know, my wife's never. You just do it after. Like, you tend to celebrate whatever, unless it's like Christmas or something. Or you tend to do this stuff just days later. Those are fake holidays. I believe in the birthday, and I believe in Christmas with family, but outside of that, I don't really give a shit about Valentine's Day.

It doesn't mean... Any of these things where they're fabricated to make you feel bad, like Mother's Day, Father's Day, it's like, okay. I'm nice to you all year round. I don't know how I'm going to pick one date. Anyway, I do that too i'll travel

on those days because it is what it is but you know it's like i got i've got to golf on mother's day past two mother's day that's a great day to golf uh yeah you go out there and because i ran because my wife would go to with her mom and her and our daughter and her mom her mom would go and she wanted they do it like a mom's. And so I'm like, I mean, like, yeah, what am I? You're like, all right. Like, I don't know. I guess.

And I just get to go do. Go do your thing. I got to do my thing. I'm sitting home by myself. Mother's Day is Nate's day. It's my day. It's really about you. Mother's Day has always been about you.

Yeah, I love it. Yeah. Father's Day is great. US Open's on Father's Day. Yeah. And I always think that's fun. Then it's really about you. Yeah. And you sit there and watch the US Open. Like, it's Day is great. U.S. Open is on Father's Day. Yeah. And I always think that's fun. Then it's really about you. Yeah.

And you sit there and watch the U.S. Open. It's a fun, you know. It's a me day. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to be left alone on those days? No. I usually try to golf.

I'll golf like my brother and my dad. We'll golf in the morning and watch U.S. Open and then have everybody over. I like having people over. I like having like, you know. Come to the house. Come to the house. Let's all get together like we my me and my family are close and so i i enjoy when we all get to hang out and uh do stuff yeah you know yeah it's nice big you're a lucky man to live close to home man

and uh i'm jealous i will say i'm jealous of that you're uh you're lucky for that you get to tour from where you're from and are you close to your family? Yeah, I am close, but they're all in Chicago. I don't get to see them. But when I get to get on the road, it's really nice. If I'm ever near Chicago, I go home. I play Madison. I'm playing Minnesota in the new year. I'm going to jet home.

It's nice to be able to do it because the Midwest has so many gigs, so many places to just make it a pinpoint. So, yeah, I'm doing this tour uh chicago's easy to go to it is i'm doing a tour next year and i'm gonna stop by a few times man you're uh how many dates do you have a ton of dates coming up uh we're doing a whole massive cities 50 50 till may and then we'll probably do another 50 in the the we haven't nailed down the fall yet but uh well there's only 48 cities in the u.s so that that'll be tough to do. You'll figure it out. Yeah, not 54.

Oh, is that what it is? Two more, double, twice? Double, twice. There's a callback, and people will remember it. You want to see this. Yeah, they're all sleeping. If you want to see this sexy beast,

Nate Bargatze, live, I highly recommend it. You don't need my voucher. He's a phenomenal comedian that I'm sure most everyone has already been aware of. Specials on Netflix. Another one that's going to come out.

When? Oh, it probably won't be out till 21. We don't even have it. It's not even done. My goal is to tape one next year. Yeah, you're going to do another one. Let's be real. You're hot as a pistol, kid.

Yeah. You got to do it. Where do they got to go? NateBarguesi.com? Yeah. Nothing funky. I always funny when somebody's like. I have an IamNate too. Yeah. You got to do it. Where do they got to go? NateBarguesi.com? Yeah. Nothing funky? I always funny when somebody's like... I have an IamNate too.

IamNate? .com. I did that a long time ago just because... So people... Like if you're doing morning radio and you can just go, go IamNate.com. Oh, that's smart. Yeah. It's just that...

But, you know, nowadays I think you should be able to... Someone told me today, he tweeted something to me and he's like... And then he's like, and just so you know, before I tweeted this, I couldn't remember your name. And I just Googled Tennessee comedian and you came up. That's huge that you're the guy. Yeah. That you're the Tennessee comedian guy. The Tennessee comedian. You have that market.

Can't do that. LA comedian. See how that works. See how that goes. You know who? It was someone that when I first started, I remember I looked up New York comedian and he was almost like a guy that figured out the website very early.

Right. And this is when I first moved to New York in 2004. And if you Googled New York comedian, he would come up. That's insane. And it was, but this was 2004. So it's like, I think before people figured everything out and he just knew how to direct that. It's like what Dane Cook did with all that shit. But this was 2004, so I think before people figured everything out,

and he just knew how to direct that. It's like what Dane Cook did with all that shit. Dane Cook learned how to drive traffic from MySpace. Yeah. He learned how to do all that shit. He beat the game. It was like every search on MySpace for comedian would go right to him. He was like the number one comedian on MySpace.

I never had any of that ingenuity. I still don't. I'm so, so dumb with that stuff. I'm so bad. Like, yeah, it's a whole process. But go to NateBargetti.com. Go see this dude. You're a funny dude, man.

I'm very happy for your success. I want it to continue. You as well. I think you're a big fan of you. My sister's not because of the one show she went to. One show, yeah. His sister went to a show and I didn't do that well in Nashville.

It was my worst show. She said it was great. I don't, but it's very funny that you were like, that was the worst one. It really was. But you know,

you know when somebody, you know sometimes when somebody goes, I loved it. And you're like, I didn't enjoy almost any of it. I mean, not that I didn't do, or they didn't,

it's not like, oh, I didn't get any laughs. It was like, it was fine. It was just for your, your internal barometer of comedy i was like this isn't as good as i wanted it to go you can tell sometimes when they leave you're like i bet they had fun oh but i bet they will say they would never know but i did not give my best yeah i hate that but you can but you can tell but you get you realize that's why i always think you got to learn how to murder when you first start like you gotta really learn what get, you realize that's why I always think you got to learn how to murder when you first start. Like,

you gotta really learn what like telling a joke that's like uncontrollably laughter sounds like. Yes. Cause if you don't know what that sounds like, you're never chasing that sound. And so once you learn what it sounds like and you are always chasing that sound, that's the best comics are chasing that.

So you see a lot of comics sometimes that have never, I remember one guy one time, he went up and it was terrible. And then I was about to, Say what it was. No, I don't remember. This was a New York first starting. I just remember the,

Gary Veeder. It was Gary Veeder. I remember, you know, we're doing a bar show, so it was like whatever. But he came off and I was about to say like, man, this crowd, you know, we're doing a bar show, so it was like whatever. But he came off, and I was about to say, like, man, this crowd, you know, who cares? This crowd stinks.

Everybody's bombing. And right before I could say it, he's like, that was great. And I was like, oh, this guy's never done good. Because he thinks that's great. Because you can train yourself to be like, every time you go up, you only get this level of sound what you hear on stage is different than what you can hear other people do yeah so to him he's like yeah it's great and you're like oh i get maybe it is probably great to you but you want to go like but it's not great like you need to realize that it's not great great yeah you

should be chasing a louder laugh it's just as painful when someone who does very poorly all the time when you first start out and you get off and you don't mention anything and then they're like i had fun and you're like no don't yeah you're like i know you didn't have fun you didn't there's no way please don't tell me that's your fun's terrible it's a bad fun yeah you have a sad, sad fun. You enjoy cutting yourself. You're like, that's fun when you cut yourself. That's fun. The blood is neat.

The blood's neat. And you're like, oh, man, you got to get on a roller coaster or something. You got to get some adventure in your life. Ladies and gents, we're tying out. We're off soon. I'm done for the year, man. This is it for me. I'm going to hang out until the new year. Go to AndrewSantino.com. I'm going to be in Denver. I'm the end the year man this is it for me I'm going to hang out until the new year

go to andrewsantino.com I'm going to be in Denver I'm the end of 2019 huh I'm the end of 2019 well I think we have we might have one more I don't know

I think you might be the last one you just lined everybody no well we'll see we'll see I got some surprises in store for some of these people but

yeah go to andrewsantino.com for tickets go to natebargetzi.com we'll put the description in the link below so you can go

this dude's incredible I'm happy that you came and I wish you continued success thank you say hi to your

sister in Nashville and tell her I said sorry I need to get the money back that's what she wants okay I think the

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