"Nate Bargatze"

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Speaker 2 We were just talking about Shawshank, and I was going to say to Will, Jay, before he came on, that my philosophy in life is kind of... Oh, this is is good.
Hang on. No, this is good.
This is good.

Speaker 2 You'll like that.

Speaker 3 Everybody pull over

Speaker 4 and get out the pen. By the way, this is Shawshank Redemption, I think.
Shaw Shank Redemption.

Speaker 2 So the end of the movie. So the whole movie, Morgan Freeman is talking about like, you know, he goes in front of the, what is it called? The panel or whatever, the people who

Speaker 2 kind of the board.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the way. Parole board.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And he's the parole board. And he's like, he tells them what they think they want to hear.
He's like, no, I've been

Speaker 2 reformed. I'm good.
I've learned my lesson.

Speaker 2 And they always deny his parole. And then at the end of the movie, he finally just is like, you know what? Fuck it.
This is who I am. You people are crazy.
I didn't learn anything. Blah, blah.

Speaker 2 And then that's when he gets released.

Speaker 3 That's it. That's my philosophy for life.
And that's what full release comes from, honesty. Well, two ways.
Sorry.

Speaker 4 So everybody, go ahead and put your car back and drive and toss that paper either out the window. If you still have an ashtray in the car, use that.

Speaker 3 Because

Speaker 4 we really didn't get an end to it.

Speaker 3 Um, but it's nice that Sean's life is

Speaker 3 so like, yeah,

Speaker 2 like you know, don't try to be something you're not.

Speaker 3 Yeah, exactly, right.

Speaker 4 I

Speaker 4 agree with you. Authenticity is

Speaker 4 a thematic that I'm on a project that we're that I'm working on right now.

Speaker 3 That's the theme of the thing. Oh, very good.

Speaker 4 It's a great evergreen.

Speaker 3 Authenticity.

Speaker 2 Hey, Jason.

Speaker 4 Yeah, hi.

Speaker 2 Why did the man fall down the well?

Speaker 3 Oh, boy. Because

Speaker 3 he didn't see that well that's exactly right

Speaker 4 wait who wait willie you got um

Speaker 4 when we had jordan peel on his film uh nope yeah i i always just thought it was just a fun way to say yeah no i'm not comfortable with flying saucers as the main character and

Speaker 3 it freaks me out but it's actually an acronym for it's an acronym he and what he said it's an acronym yeah and i just went and i thought about for two seconds and i went not of planet earth planet Earth.

Speaker 3 And remember the look on his face? He was a little mad, I think.

Speaker 4 Well, no, what you were seeing was the same look that I had, which is a total shock at your level of intelligence.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Just like that was my stunning surprise.

Speaker 3 That's what hurt me the most was the stunning, the stunned look on everybody's face when I do something.

Speaker 2 Well, we're going to have a stunned look at your guest when he comes.

Speaker 3 Well, he's going to have a stunned look at Sean.

Speaker 4 Sorry, Sean, did you have a lunch?

Speaker 3 He's going to have a stunned look at your joke when he heard your joke for sure, because he tells jokes

Speaker 3 for a living oh yeah here we go and he doesn't just tell jokes i man

Speaker 3 he this guy tells this son of a gun this son of a gun and that's kind of the language that he would use too son of a gun dax shepherd's coming back he dax does love son of a gun he does um this guy uses i don't know there's something about his everything that he does his delivery his turn of phrase the things he talks about the way he does it a lot of people call him the nicest guy in stand-up i think of him as just the funniest dude i've seen in such a a long time.

Speaker 3 And I remember the first time I was, I heard about him was through our old friend, Greg Garcia.

Speaker 3 Yeah, and Greg was like, Greg reached out to me. He's like, you have to have this guy on, blah, blah, blah.
And I made some glib remark. He's like, you're going to regret it.

Speaker 3 I go, I think he's hilarious. Relax, Greg.

Speaker 3 And then, JB, you and I had the pleasure of meeting him really. I'm going to make you really briefly.

Speaker 4 I'm going to make you repeat the glib remark right in front of me.

Speaker 3 We met him really briefly up at last year up at Pebble Beach. And he's as nice as he is funny and it's all I love this guy he's so funny I love Ray Romano I love the Tennessee

Speaker 3 I love the Tennessee kid I love his new special hello world on Amazon he's about to go on tour in a new one guys it's none other than the hilarious Nate Bergatzi Nate Bergazzi

Speaker 3 even better

Speaker 3 I was ready for Ray I love Ray Berg I'll get Ray

Speaker 3 oh how great Nate it's good to see you again Good to see you, Sean.

Speaker 5 Hey, just a little fun note: never seen Shaw Shank.

Speaker 3 Well, you're young. You're too young for it.

Speaker 4 You know, it's before your time.

Speaker 3 Wait, wait, how old are you?

Speaker 5 I'm 44.

Speaker 3 I should have. You're pretty young.
You know what, Nate? I didn't see Shaw Shank until I was 45. Oh, I'll do it next year.
Anyway, Nate Bargazzi. Nate.

Speaker 2 Nate, this is really nice.

Speaker 3 Great to see you again because we did meet. We did meet up at Pebble.

Speaker 5 Yep.

Speaker 4 Do you live in a nice house or are you in a nice hotel room?

Speaker 5 Where are you? In a hotel room. I'm in Syracuse.

Speaker 3 Okay. Working?

Speaker 5 I get a show in Syracuse.

Speaker 3 This is,

Speaker 5 can't make it here. Can't make it anywhere, you know?

Speaker 3 I guess what they say. They don't.
That's what they say.

Speaker 3 Dave, I like that Sean said you said I'm in Syracuse. She goes, working.
Nah.

Speaker 4 He's just hanging out with the Orange.

Speaker 5 This is the vacations I can afford in Syracuse. He goes, it's nice.
We took a bus up.

Speaker 3 But it's, you know.

Speaker 4 We spent on the hotel room.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. Everything went to this.

Speaker 5 Now, what kind of my family of 30 is right off camera?

Speaker 3 They're just right there.

Speaker 5 I said, if y'all talk during this, I will kill you.

Speaker 4 When you are traveling around, you're doing these shows, what size

Speaker 4 is your group footprint?

Speaker 3 What's your posse size?

Speaker 5 We have

Speaker 5 probably like 10 guys.

Speaker 5 Because I bring

Speaker 5 four openers. Actually, tonight,

Speaker 5 we got a surprise opener. He won't be here until later.
Jimmy Fallon. Fallon is coming to the show.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's great. He's going to jump on the bus.
Where do I know him?

Speaker 4 Tell me what we would know him from.

Speaker 5 That movie.

Speaker 5 Pitch Fever. Taxi.

Speaker 3 Fever Pitch. Pitch Fever.

Speaker 4 Taxi Fever with Queen Latifah.

Speaker 3 Yes, I remember Taxi.

Speaker 3 Jimmy, right now, by the way, he's hearing this. He's sharpening his knife hearing us say this.
Well, Nate, I have to say this.

Speaker 2 We developed the show together years ago. What? And you were very successful then.
But to see you over the years, just kind of like, and then SNL. And then like,

Speaker 3 it's so exciting to finally be like yes this guy has been brilliant has always been brilliant and now more and more people get and you sell nate you and you sell nate you sell out arenas like 20 000 at a clip which is just unbelievable and on top of this and i'm going to say this and i really and i've said it a bunch since it aired when you were on snl your sketch your your your george washington sketch is to me

Speaker 3 just in my opinion

Speaker 3 the funniest s n l sketch i've seen in 15 years i i totally agree with that

Speaker 3 up. I totally agree with that.
Remarkable. Now, your TV just went on, which tells me

Speaker 3 that I'm not going to turn it off.

Speaker 2 The family's bored.

Speaker 4 The 30 men are getting itchy. There's no one in with you.

Speaker 3 It's just you and Jim Benheim, right?

Speaker 5 Is that his name? Jimmy, turn it off, or does it matter?

Speaker 3 No, no.

Speaker 4 Let's give me something to watch.

Speaker 3 But you have, to echo what Sean's saying, you have just like kind of finally,

Speaker 3 thankfully, the rest of America is just like, understand

Speaker 3 what an awesome, awesome, hilarious dude you are. So how do you start? You're the Tennessee kid.
You're from Old Hickory, Tennessee. Am I right about that?

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 3 Old Hickory. Old Hickory.

Speaker 4 Is it next to New Hickory?

Speaker 3 No, News is a little bit farther.

Speaker 4 Was it ever New Hickory?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 He's got this great joke in his new special on Amazon Prime where he says, I'm from Old Hickory. It's where Andrew Jackson's from.
And people are like, he wasn't a good guy.

Speaker 3 And Nate goes, well, we didn't know him that well, but we didn't know him at all.

Speaker 3 Hilarious joke.

Speaker 2 But Nate, talk to me about when you were a kid and stuff.

Speaker 2 Were you always into comedy? Did you watch SNL? Like, what were your inspirations?

Speaker 3 That's what I was thinking. That's what I was getting to.
How did you start?

Speaker 2 I just got there fast.

Speaker 5 My dad's a magician. What? And does comedy.

Speaker 3 Mine too.

Speaker 2 Mine can disappear in the drop of a hat.

Speaker 3 Sean.

Speaker 3 You are talking about it. So quick.
Get out of here. Sorry, Nate.

Speaker 2 Thanks, you guys.

Speaker 4 Keep going.

Speaker 5 No, I mean, I grew up around that. I mean, so that was like, you know, it was funny, but then also growing up around, you know, my dad being a magician.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's just like, yeah, it just kind of leads you to it, I guess.

Speaker 3 Wait, wait, wait. So, Nate, so you grew up, your dad's a magician.
He obviously loved you. Sorry, Sean.
And he,

Speaker 3 I mean, to the extent that he wanted to stick around.

Speaker 5 I'm friends with Sean's dad.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, so you know where he is.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, he's a pretty good dude.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I don't know the whole backstory, but I know.

Speaker 5 I just know from what our hanging out.

Speaker 4 He's got no tread left on his tires, but he's a good guy.

Speaker 2 He's texts you up pinned to his location.

Speaker 3 So what was that like growing up with your dad being a magician? That's pretty rad.

Speaker 5 An illusionist. Yeah, yeah.
It was the best.

Speaker 5 It was, you know, I don't know if I even understood it. Like, I'm sure, I think of it like my daughter and I'm sure your kids, like, it doesn't seem not normal.

Speaker 5 Like, it just felt like it's like, that's all I ever knew. And it wasn't until you got older that you're like, yeah, dude, nobody's dad's a magician.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Start saying you don't know when you're asked what your dad does.

Speaker 3 Right. Yeah.
So he would make it.

Speaker 5 I mean, I have people do magic, like magicians would show me magic tricks.

Speaker 5 I've just seen them all too, and I just, I'm just not a good, I'm not a good person to perform for because I'm just like, all right, you know, you know, it's like, is this your card?

Speaker 5 You're like, it's always mine. It's always my card.
It's always been my card.

Speaker 4 Every time I see magic, every time I see magic, I freaking love it. And I'll bet everybody listening loves it.
Well, I mean, how can you not love when you see a magic trick? I mean, a good one.

Speaker 3 It's a convincing.

Speaker 3 But I never think about it.

Speaker 4 I never, and I always make fun of it when I hear about it. It's like you hear about mimes.
But you know what? You can't take your eyes off a mime or, or a magician.

Speaker 4 It's, uh, it, it, it, it gets a bad rap.

Speaker 3 You can't take your eyes off. Your eyes off of a mime.
Yeah, that's the quote of the day. Wait.

Speaker 3 So, Nate, so your dad, Sean was going to ask this. So your dad made a living as a magician.

Speaker 5 He did. He was a teacher, too.
Like, so he had a day job, and then he would do that. And then we were always in Nashville.
And so he's just always done it. And I mean, he's, he's very successful.

Speaker 5 He's very known in the magic world. He comes with me and opens me a lot on the road.
And he will do these shows.

Speaker 5 And, you know, it's every little boy's dream to travel to your dad when you're 44 years old.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 5 you go. We've got a little CPAP machine hooked up in a tour bus.
It's a good thing.

Speaker 3 He's got some ramps on the side of that stage.

Speaker 5 I mean, we had our bus parked out one time, and it was my dad, my mom, and my aunt. And I was like, people probably go by this tour bus, and they're like, it's pretty rocking in there.

Speaker 5 And I mean, we got, it's lights off, quiet, just the roar of machines keeping everybody alive.

Speaker 4 And the smell of liniment.

Speaker 2 Wait, so did you ever perform in the magic shows with your dad?

Speaker 5 I did some.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I would help him with magic.

Speaker 4 You ever get cut in half?

Speaker 5 No, no, we didn't ever do that.

Speaker 5 He never did that, go that far. He did a sleight of hand.

Speaker 5 A lot of sleight of hand, and he does comedy. He was my favorite.

Speaker 3 Yeah. So then when you, what age were you when you were like,

Speaker 3 actually kind of to what Jason, you kind of alluded to, but did you start just like being a wise ass on the on the side of your dad's stage while he was doing magic like is that how stand-up started for you

Speaker 5 I think it was just being funny we would like I remember seeing stand-up it was just it was just trying to it was trying to make people laugh I don't think I ever really made fun of anybody right it was but it was like I would make fun of myself a lot which is what I do now in my comedy show it'd be like you'd be doing stuff like that making funny he had I mean one time I've talked about this in a special on one of them but it was like he brought the Easter bunny home when I was like six He was at the

Speaker 5 mall doing a show and the Easter Bunny needed a ride home. And my dad goes, I'll give you a ride home if you swing by my house.

Speaker 5 And so I remember the Easter Bunny, we had like, my parents had this old red Mazda stick shift, you know, and the Easter Bunny's head was bent to the side because his head couldn't fit in the car.

Speaker 5 Sure. So he was just, he was sitting like this.
And then he got out and I met the Easter Bunny. And then my dad drove the Easter Bunny home.

Speaker 3 So that started your the Easter Bunny.

Speaker 5 That was the yeah that was the trajectory I go.

Speaker 3 All right. I go if I can beat that guy then maybe I can make it as now what

Speaker 4 was your mom's

Speaker 4 attitude on on her husband's career?

Speaker 5 My parents have been together since seventh grade and

Speaker 5 they my mom's very funny.

Speaker 5 But she she worked at a bank. I mean she's just been I mean it's just stuff.
There's like growing up it's buying you know she she has to go. My dad will be like, go to the store.

Speaker 5 I need you to buy 12 lemons. And he has to buy for like his magic or a bunch of newspapers from that day.
It's like a bunch of random, and it's just normal conversation.

Speaker 5 You're just like, it's a Tuesday. You're just trying to grab some bread, milk, and 30 oranges.
And then you get on out of there.

Speaker 3 And handkerchiefs and six colors.

Speaker 5 He's got a lot of shows this week.

Speaker 5 It's just stuff like that.

Speaker 3 Wait, wait.

Speaker 3 So, so, Nate, so I want to kind of get, again, this, this is, we're we're the worst interviewers on the planet we were just voted worst ever interviewers we nailed it of all time yeah um but i want to go back because we again because you play these huge arenas and it's amazing and i don't i don't know if i've ever seen a comic so comfortable you make it so intimate even though you're playing a huge there's something about it that makes it so personal and you and you you're so organic yeah you draw us in as opposed to ask for and we're talking about authenticity you're very authentic but you that feels like that you that when you started, you must have started in clubs, like in smaller venues, right?

Speaker 3 Like most comics, I imagine. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 So I moved to Chicago first for a couple years, and then I moved to New York. And I was in New York for the most, for like eight and a half years.

Speaker 5 And so I did all the clubs and all the, like going up every single night. I performed for one guy once.

Speaker 3 Oh, my God. No way.

Speaker 5 Like, he wouldn't leave. We tried to get him to leave.
And he was like, nah, it's all right. And you're like, well, we don't think it's all right.

Speaker 5 It really wasn't about him. You're like, what's up? Like, I don't want to stand up in front of a guy.

Speaker 5 Regularly up in front of four people, five, six, like, I mean, six people was like, got a pretty good show going on.

Speaker 3 You know,

Speaker 5 you were excited about six people.

Speaker 3 No way.

Speaker 5 Yeah. So you just get used to just being in these kind of like, you know, it takes a long time before you're in front of like an actual paying crowd that's good.

Speaker 3 But what does that do for you? What does that do for you like rhythm-wise, et cetera, when you're just doing six people?

Speaker 5 Like, uh, well, I had to learn to get people into my rhythm rhythm very quickly.

Speaker 5 So since I'm talk slower and I was from the South and all this, I had to figure out, because I would follow like high energy acts and then I'd come up and I'm like, well, I got to come up with a joke or I got to say something.

Speaker 5 I just need you to hear my voice for a second so you can go like, all right, readjust and be like, now we're in this rhythm. And then get into the first kind of...

Speaker 5 you know, come up with a good like opening little thing or whatever and just

Speaker 3 get rolling.

Speaker 2 You know what always blows my mind about stand-ups though, like how you can just walk around the stage for two hours and always have something to talk about.

Speaker 2 Like, how do you,

Speaker 2 is it like a monologue you memorize? Or like, how can you just go up and speak for two hours?

Speaker 3 God, he's going to love show business. For two hours straight.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Sean. Way do you get a load of her.

Speaker 3 He's going to love showbiz. He's going to love it.

Speaker 4 Two-thirds of the planet is water.

Speaker 3 There's a couple of polls.

Speaker 2 No, you know what I mean? That always blows my mind. Obviously, you had material that you work on, but do you ever like

Speaker 2 go up and you're like, oh my God, I don't know what subject to talk about next? Like the flow of.

Speaker 3 Well, I don't go up it.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I go up prepared. I mean, I can't do the other.
I can't really do like crowd work or go up.

Speaker 5 It's very.

Speaker 3 It's not freestyling, bro. No, I've been working on it for months.
I know. But do you ever switch it? Nate, do you ever switch the order based on the audience?

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 This new hour, I've switched it a ton. But it's worked because now I'm opening on a joke that

Speaker 5 closed on. So it's like, it's great to be opening on a joke that I've actually had to have the energy and the rhythm of a closer.
And then you just move it up and now it's the front.

Speaker 4 And you're doing those decisions on the fly.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you just fill it out. I mean, it's kind of like a song.
Like, I'm in love with stand-up right now. Like, I love it so much.
And it's

Speaker 5 the way I've looked at writing kind of is like...

Speaker 5 It's a movie. So I'm the main character of this movie.
And I'm not, I'm telling a story.

Speaker 5 I'm not, there's a, there's a, you know, a reason for me saying all this stuff, and everything leads into the other thing.

Speaker 5 So you want to make it where people don't realize you're into another joke. But in my head, I could be on like joke five.
Right.

Speaker 5 But you're trying to, I'm trying to make it where like, and then that's how you remember it. Because the only way, you know, if you're talking about like riding a car

Speaker 5 and then you're like, my wife bought a car. Well, now that's the only thing I could go into.

Speaker 3 Right, right.

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Speaker 1 Don't miss Sebastian Maniscalco's new stand-up special, It Ain't Right, premiering on Hulu, November 21st. Filmed live at the sold-out United Center Arena in Chicago.

Speaker 1 Sebastian's newest special features his larger-than-life presence, one-of-a-kind physical comedy, and hilarious everyday observations that will keep you laughing non-stop.

Speaker 1 Sebastian goes all in on family chaos, aging, non-existent manners, and life's most relatable and frustratingly funny moments.

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Speaker 2 And now back to the show.

Speaker 4 Who was your main inspiration as far as developing that style of telling stories as opposed to jokes? Was it like a George Carlin? Because I seem to remember he was kind of like that too, right?

Speaker 5 Yeah, well, Big,

Speaker 5 Cosby was one.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 5 You know, obviously. But like that, if you go like watch his old stuff, it was, it's very storytelling and all that kind of stuff.
I'm a big Seinfeld fan.

Speaker 5 Seinfeld was, he was, I kind of think, because I always looked at it like I tell stories, but in a joke form.

Speaker 5 Like, so it's, I mean, I try to never be too far from the laugh because the farther you are from a laugh, the bigger the laugh has to be. And I don't want to put that much pressure on a laugh.

Speaker 5 So if I can just kind of keep it

Speaker 5 going and let it build, it's like, you know, it doesn't, you're just not putting the weight of the world on this.

Speaker 5 You're like, because if they go, if you go silent too long, I mean, there's a point where you're like, well, this joke better be unreal.

Speaker 3 Sean tried to stand up, and we won't get to his opening joke, but he was, he started so far from the laugh, and then he never got even to the same area code as the laugh. You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 Like, he never, he never, he never had actual direct sight on the laugh they never got a clean look at it turned into a lecture and there's no way you're like no he's supposed to go well he'll never get out now even with a series of mirrors he couldn't see the laugh it was so amazing

Speaker 2 that's how i drive around town i only take right-hand turns um but nate biggest bombing story like did you just like oh my god this is the worst like

Speaker 5 yeah yeah there's a bunch i mean i you blame it on i had one one time i thought it was the shirt i wore and so i threw that shirt away i had a button-down shirt and i tucked it in.

Speaker 5 And I've never done that since.

Speaker 3 For real?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 I was like, it wasn't me. I was just like.

Speaker 3 It couldn't have been the material.

Speaker 4 This fucking shirt is killing me.

Speaker 5 What is this guy's deal?

Speaker 3 I've done a cruise ship.

Speaker 3 Say no more.

Speaker 5 I won a contest, and your prize was to set your career back five years and do cruises.

Speaker 5 And so I go out and I'm doing it. And you got to do like, you got to do a bunch of shows.
So you do 30 clean, 30 dirty. I never had dirty.

Speaker 5 So it's like I couldn't even, and then you would do one, another show. So you needed, honestly, because sometimes these people would come back and watch multiple shows.

Speaker 5 So you needed to have, you know, two hours of material or do crowd or be able to mess with a crowd or something. And I remember we go up and you would do one show at the beginning of it.

Speaker 5 You do like five minutes each and it's kind of just like

Speaker 5 it's in the big theater and you're kind of just letting the crowd know we're comedians.

Speaker 5 We got a show back here blah blah so the other guy uh just was great and knew how to like he shined a fly shot on the crowd like just knew how to like really play with the crowd always and he was like come to my shows every show is different and he like made a big announcement how they're all different and then i went up and i said my i go come to one it may be the other one but the other one will be the same i had it like i was like do not come to all my shows

Speaker 5 most will be the same i don't have enough material to have them all be different so right right you can go to his shows they will be different mine will be

Speaker 5 and then i went and did a show and uh

Speaker 5 it was i started it and like they they didn't laugh and i was like oh these people have been to every show and i'm not a crowd work guy you know and i'm like so what do you do man and i you know some guys like i'm an he he's an oil rigger in the ocean it's actually a pretty crazy job and i was like that's cool and i just moved on he's like an insane

Speaker 5 people are saying crazy stuff like i'm a bank robbery i'm like that's neat, man. What about you, ma'am?

Speaker 3 I had nothing. No riffing.

Speaker 5 And then I had to ride in an elevator with these people.

Speaker 5 I'm in the elevator in the ocean. You think it sounds like I made it.
And I'm just sitting there and I had a hat on, and I just hear some guy just trashing me. And my shoulder's touching him.

Speaker 3 And I just have to sit there

Speaker 3 and get off.

Speaker 4 But they do separate them between clean and dirty on a cruise ship. That's exclusive to a cruise ship?

Speaker 5 Yeah,

Speaker 5 you just would have a show that's like the kids can come to this show, your family can come to this show and then you'd have like a night at you know 11 p.m.

Speaker 5 It's like an adult only show Yeah, they you still can't be that dirty, but it's the idea of it is a little more you know Yeah, you could have just dropped in a couple F-bombs

Speaker 5 just I got a curse as I talk about parking. I'm like you guys have a parallel part just and they're like this guy's filthy

Speaker 5 Yeah, I didn't even have any I didn't even have I had no dirty jokes like there's no I don't really I don't talk about sex or

Speaker 5 like political or like there's nothing like really like that's kind of like this.

Speaker 3 What about political sex? Will you ever touch political sex? Is that something that you'd be willing to do? That I will.

Speaker 5 If the right joke comes up.

Speaker 3 Sure, sure. Sure.

Speaker 3 You know, it is funny. It is remarkable how

Speaker 3 clean your stand-up is. And a lot of people, it's such a weird thing to have to say to point it out, but I guess it is worthy of pointing out.

Speaker 3 And it is, to me, such a testament to how profoundly funny you are.

Speaker 3 And honestly, and I hope it is a badge of honor for you. It should be, because it really, you find ways to talk about stuff and you don't need to swear.
I swear like a.

Speaker 4 Cosby never, never cursed.

Speaker 3 Famously never came. Well, again, let's not try to, you know, look at, so let's not.
Yes.

Speaker 3 No, let's go down the avenue of Cosby and Clean, you know? Yeah.

Speaker 3 This guy.

Speaker 2 So, Nate, wait, did you, so at home, what's it like at home? So, like, is, does your, do you check out, do you run jokes by your wife? Does she okay them? Is she sick of hearing them?

Speaker 2 Like, what is that dynamic at home?

Speaker 5 I'll tell her. Yeah, I like, she knows about every joke that comes up.
Because that's something I had to learn to when you make fun of your wife at the beginning is you have to show love.

Speaker 5 Like, you have to show, because people, because I remember at the beginning, the reaction would be like, well, why are you married? And so then you're like, well, that's not.

Speaker 5 That's not what I want. You don't need to have that reaction.
So you have to then make fun of yourself, but with her, and you got to do it in a way that where they can tell that you do love your wife.

Speaker 5 You love your family. you, you know, and so it's just kind of like just making fun of each other.
But yeah, I'll run by stuff.

Speaker 3 But that comes across, and you've got you do that bit about the guy coming to replace the water heater in your other special, and you're, and you go, finally, the guy realizes you don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 3 He thinks, maybe this is a modern relationship. And he says to Nate, they go, the guy said to me, is your husband here? And then you go, yeah, I think she's here somewhere.

Speaker 3 It's so good. And it is, like you said, you're self-deprecating.

Speaker 3 You're the butt of the joke which i think is always such a winning combo uh you're not making fun of somebody you're not having a laugh at somebody else's expense you're not putting somebody else down to make yourself funny which is great yeah i i i've just never liked it like i felt bad i mean i'll like make fun of my buddies and comics and stuff yeah in the audience you just i just always felt you know it's like this person's just trying to sit there they don't need to yeah yeah

Speaker 5 like big what's your shirt your shirt's stupid

Speaker 5 and then I got my shirt on tucked in.

Speaker 3 I go, right?

Speaker 5 Don't we all got stupid shirts?

Speaker 4 Do you do you still live in Tennessee?

Speaker 5 Yeah, I moved back. So I was gone like 13 years.
And then we've been back for about

Speaker 5 nine.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Here it's beautiful down there.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's so good, right?

Speaker 5 Yeah, I'm born and raised there. It's great.

Speaker 5 We have as much of a normal life as it can be. We're living a cul-de-sac,

Speaker 5 the house at the top. So we have the leaders.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 5 we set the tone for it.

Speaker 5 I have a joke. I'll just say about a new act, Russ.
And we do all, in our cultural, we do all the right things. Like, if someone pulls down there, we're like, what are you doing down our street?

Speaker 5 Any car we don't know, we just run out of back. You very good out of our course.

Speaker 3 I mean, I'm just furious if they come down it.

Speaker 2 Brothers and sisters growing up?

Speaker 5 I have a younger brother and a younger sister.

Speaker 2 So you're the oldest of the three?

Speaker 2 And do they, do they, are they finding you funny all the time?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Yeah.
My brother's like three years younger than me. My sister's about 10.
I've talked about her in a special and

Speaker 5 she she works for me now, too. So that's funny.
I mean, you get yelled at by her.

Speaker 3 I mean, you got your whole family. You got your sisters working for you, and then you're on tour with your mom and dad and your aunt.
And

Speaker 3 it's pretty rad.

Speaker 4 I don't think you've said this, but you've got kids. Sorry, do you have kids?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I have an 11-year-old kid. Why are you so nervous to ask him that, Jason?

Speaker 3 By the way, he's married. He said he's not available.
What are the kids' ages?

Speaker 5 I did say before, don't ask about if I have kids.

Speaker 3 Oh, all right. I guess we're okay.

Speaker 5 Yeah, now I have one, 11-year-old daughter. Oh, okay.

Speaker 4 11-year-old daughter. And what does it seem like she's going to want to do with her life? Does she want to?

Speaker 5 She loves horses right now.

Speaker 5 I don't know.

Speaker 3 That sounds expensive.

Speaker 4 That's expensive.

Speaker 5 It is.

Speaker 5 I don't even know where no one, we don't come from horse stuff, you know?

Speaker 3 You're not horse people?

Speaker 5 No, there's never horse people, but

Speaker 5 she loves horses. So right now she's kind of doing that stuff.
But she's very creative, very funny. And she, you know,

Speaker 5 will get me and my wife laughing a lot, you know. And

Speaker 5 I think I got to teach her where...

Speaker 4 to where the joke you got to be like all right well you got to be serious yeah isn't that funny it's like there's there there's there's the little there's the age when they learn sarcasm they learn humor and but they don't yet know when to stop the joke they don't know when to do the joke um but you you don't want to shame them because you don't want to kill their spirit or their sense of humor so you just got to kind of grin embarrass with so many things in their life it's so incredible watching kids learn things that we forgot that we learned you know like it's amazing you know nothing until you learn it she can make fun of her friends recently and like i think but then they all got like

Speaker 5 it was like they did not like it. And I was like, and it was funny.
I forget what it was, but it was like, it was something funny. But you're like, all right, you got to understand.

Speaker 5 You're like, you got to, some people will be able to handle it.

Speaker 5 You know, she just is all about the joke because it's obviously just our, you know, her grandfather's a magician, a comedian. Like, so it's.
It's a lot of joking.

Speaker 3 I think, yeah, I think that making fun of your friends is not a good path to go down. It's not

Speaker 3 a successful thing. Unless it's Sean.

Speaker 4 i mean it's such a big button to hit

Speaker 3 no i thought we were talking about friends yeah sean is oh right yeah you know what i mean you feel warm inside where's that what where what's after syracuse where do you go next uh albany so albany started

Speaker 5 of course yeah of course yeah and what and just fucks connected to you like what are you doing dude yeah yeah this is the route i know we started last night we were in philly at the Fargo, like it was where the Sixers play.

Speaker 3 No way. It's a big thing.

Speaker 5 And then it goes Syracuse, and then it'll go Albany. And then these are the two the Fallon wanted to come to was Syracuse and Albany.

Speaker 3 Yeah, of course. That's a big one.
I think he's from up here. Yeah.
He is. He's from upstate New York.

Speaker 3 What arena or place are you playing tonight in Syracuse?

Speaker 5 The, you know, the arena.

Speaker 3 The carrier dome, probably, right? Is that what it is?

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 3 That's what it used to be.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 5 Yeah. No, I've been to a game there.
That's like a huge.

Speaker 5 Okay. I've been to a basketball game there.
You could be. Like even when the basketball court's set up, it's your people buy tickets that are like, I I don't think they can see the court.

Speaker 5 They're sitting like behind the court.

Speaker 4 Would there be a crowd that's just too big for a comedy show? It's just like, it's, it, it needs to be a little bit more intimate. Like 20,000 people is like right at the max, maybe?

Speaker 5 Or no? Yeah, I mean, it's all about how we feel. We have like, you know, the arenas, we have these big screens.

Speaker 5 We have, I've put more speakers up so everybody can hear it everywhere. And

Speaker 5 you really do try to make it intimate. I mean, you can tell everybody gets real quiet.
I mean, that's the cool.

Speaker 5 It's one of the coolest things is when you're telling a joke and you're, this many people are quiet. Yeah.

Speaker 5 You know, and this kind of, and they're just, I mean, you could, I could yell with no microphone, and the top person could hear me.

Speaker 5 It gets that quiet.

Speaker 3 That's not cool.

Speaker 5 So, yeah, I mean, I'd imagine if you did a stadium, you know, I could see it getting a little loo.

Speaker 5 You know, and we're in the middle too of an arena, so I'm it makes it a lot a lot closer to everybody.

Speaker 3 Do a hundred thousand, do a hondo. Come on, do a hondo.

Speaker 3 Do the big house in Michigan.

Speaker 4 Have you ever had a moment where you kind of

Speaker 4 scare yourself a little bit by thinking about all the eyes that are looking at you and that they're not talking and that it is silent and that you might not be doing well and you can't leave for another 45 minutes?

Speaker 3 Are you scared of the eyes?

Speaker 4 I mean, have you ever had a panic attack on a stage and know that

Speaker 4 you can't leave for another hour?

Speaker 3 I have.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Yeah, I mean you've done it so long now that you're it's

Speaker 3 just like

Speaker 4 it's happened to me.

Speaker 5 I mean yeah yeah I mean I've done it now it's like yeah I mean you you think about it I had an SNL like a little bit when I did the monologue I was more nervous with the monologue because it's like stand up and you're like I'm supposed to be good and at this and and then you got to kind of deliver the jokes into the camera but there's the crowd and so like it was very weird to deliver jokes to kind of a spot where no one's at right and you're right on the heels of sitting, of standing back behind that flat, behind the band, right?

Speaker 4 That little narrow little plank. And the whole crowd is silent, and they're counting down to that live moment to America.
Like it becomes really tangible.

Speaker 4 Like you're not just live in front of, you know,

Speaker 4 a crowd. It's beaming across, you know, the planet.
Oh, yeah. Like it's real tangible there.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you're like, I could say anything right now, and they're going to hear it right now because it's live, you know?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Remember when I used to remember like 20 jokes when I was when I was a kid. I used to love them.

Speaker 4 And now I can only remember like one or two, but I

Speaker 4 from back then, no, they're not that great.

Speaker 3 Do you have one, Jay? Do you have any jokes? You want to hear a guy tell a joke inside out? Go ahead.

Speaker 4 I do get a little tripped up.

Speaker 4 Do you have a joke from when you were a kid that you'll never forget? You may not use it in your act, but it's just like just a classic that was one of your favorites?

Speaker 5 Yeah, yeah i didn't use it in my act to go you say you do i hang no i didn't hang on to your like i kept it i still read a joke book when i was five and uh i'm closing on it uh

Speaker 5 it's i had i remember the joke it was i said there was uh it was a joke book or something and there was uh a guy goes uh waiter there's a spider or there's a fly in my soup and then the waiter goes well don't worry the spider on your bread will get it

Speaker 5 and it was a picture of a spider bread and so my dad dad always brings it i remember that joke and then my dad brought it up because i would like i was explaining why the joke was funny to him and like kind of going through it like here's why this is funny you know so that that that one was the first one but i i let it go you guys have jokes from your from when you were a kid that you you'll never forget one joke that's appropriate to tell

Speaker 3 is there one like a go-to that you remember I had a joke book when I was really little.

Speaker 2 It was funny.

Speaker 3 You have a joke book now, but anyway, keep going.

Speaker 2 It's not funny. It's, it was funny when I was like six years old.
It's like, where do dead people, people go in your house? And it was the living room.

Speaker 3 I have one, which is like people always say that ballet is really hard to do. And so I always say, just don't do it.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, and see, Nate laughed.

Speaker 3 Nate laughed at that. That was Sean's opening joke when he did stand up.

Speaker 3 And what is the,

Speaker 4 this would probably be interesting for folks, including me.

Speaker 4 What are the, how do you do the economics of being a stand-up? I'm assuming you have to bear all the costs of the trucks and the infrastructure and all that stuff.

Speaker 4 And then you get to keep whatever you don't spend on what it costs to put the show up, right? And you're making your money based on ticket sales and merchandise, perhaps?

Speaker 3 Full stop.

Speaker 5 Yeah, yeah. I mean, merch is not, merch is not the biggest thing in stand-up.

Speaker 5 Why? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, we've had it.
We've done it at shows, and it's just,

Speaker 5 it's not like a concert, or people don't, like I was saying, like, stand-up's still kind of

Speaker 5 a newer thing. Like, Cosby's like one of the first, he's still alive.
And, like, you know, like, he knew Lenny Bruce. And then Carl.

Speaker 3 Don't. You've got to.
If I could give you one piece of advice. If we could just lose the Cosby references.

Speaker 3 Well, if we could get it down to single digits, it would be great. Yeah.

Speaker 3 He goes, all right. Or, you know what? I'm going to send you.

Speaker 3 I'm going to send you a couple articles. Harvey Weinstein and I once set up an LLC.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 you've got this huge apparatus.

Speaker 3 Yeah, apparatus, right?

Speaker 3 But

Speaker 3 you could do it without it.

Speaker 5 You get like a deal. So you have promoters, and then

Speaker 5 yeah, you are,

Speaker 5 I think it's like the promoter is the one that's putting the money for like the

Speaker 5 renting of the venue.

Speaker 5 And then I'm paying, then it comes out of mind of the show budget of the speakers and all that stuff. And so you can have it go as low or as big as you want it to go.

Speaker 3 Who's your manager? Who are your peeps?

Speaker 5 Brillstein. They're the Brillstein and UTA.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 We'll be right back.

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Speaker 2 By the way, backing way up to the beginning of this interview, what is Bargazzi? What is the nationality of Bargazi?

Speaker 3 Italian. Oh, it is? First of all, don't spit it out like that.

Speaker 3 What the fuck is Hayes?

Speaker 3 The fuck is Haze?

Speaker 3 Sorry, Nate. Jesus.

Speaker 3 I mean, I know what my fuck is Bargazi.

Speaker 3 I've just never heard of Bargaria. This has really been a bee in my bonnet for a minute.
How do you even spell that?

Speaker 2 I know. I can't even begin to spell it.

Speaker 2 I knew that, but I forgot that I knew that.

Speaker 3 Italian.

Speaker 5 I think we say it wrong as a family too I think it's supposed to be bargazzi and we say bargetti like it's just we've southerned it up.

Speaker 5 Oh, I say bargazzi Yeah, I think a lot of people would say when I went to new when I lived in New York They would always be like bargazzi because it's like Italian and I was like, you know,

Speaker 5 you know, I was like, I don't like tomatoes.

Speaker 4 Do you have family in Italy?

Speaker 3 I don't, you know, you don't know. Yeah.

Speaker 5 I think we've all agreed to kind of go.

Speaker 5 We had a family reunion once, and we had family come over from Italy, and we got Kentucky Fried Chicken for them.

Speaker 5 And I think it was like from that moment was just kind of like, all right, y'all have a good life. We did it.

Speaker 3 We're going to do our thing. Y'all do y'all's thing.
And we just kind of gone our separate ways.

Speaker 3 Nate, what do you like to do? Do you, in your free time? And you've got a lot of time like on a bus or you're touring or on the plane or whatever.

Speaker 3 What do you watch? What are the things? Are you a sports guy?

Speaker 3 Do you watch other stand-ups?

Speaker 4 You got Candy Crush.

Speaker 4 How are you occupying your minutes?

Speaker 5 Yeah, I'm a big sports guy. So I watch a lot of golf, like any sports, golf, UFC, Lonsla UFC.

Speaker 3 Oh, you do?

Speaker 5 Yeah, I'm a big fan of UFC.

Speaker 3 I wanted to peg that. I wanted to peg you for a big fan.

Speaker 5 It's just the most,

Speaker 5 the honesty of it with like Daniel White, just in the fighters, they can say whatever they want. And so there's no, you know, like when Tom Brady, is he going to retire or not retire?

Speaker 5 It's like it's all kind of a game and a show. And UFC kind of really is like, well, you just got a dude that just says, I want to fight this guy.
Right. And then it just gets to it.

Speaker 5 And you're, I don't know, I kind of like, I love it.

Speaker 3 But there's no, there's no romance to that too, though, right? Like the kind of the buildup to it.

Speaker 5 I mean, then they get into, you know, then they don't like each other. And then you're, you know, and then you go in there and watch them fight.
It's not just watching a street fight.

Speaker 5 You're watching two professionals that have to like fill each other out. Yeah.

Speaker 3 So you watch UFC, you watch golf. You like to play golf.
You play golf when you're on the road?

Speaker 5 Some. It gets hard, but it's because of the shows and stuff but yeah i'll play some on the road and

Speaker 5 yeah yeah i mean that's it's kind of it i mean i don't know it's like you're just running around got a lot of stuff a lot of hanging out like the road is the most fun because it's just like a bunch of dudes and you know this morning we went and we're in syracuse and this place has a hot and cold plunge thing sure and uh well love so i've never done it and then so but they let us come in so like we woke up and did that wait who's who's boo weekly i saw i I saw something.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 What is that? So,

Speaker 5 this is another, I told it on SNO, I'd tell it in my act, too. Uh, but it's Boo Weekly, uh, because I have a joke about fighting orangutan at a county fair.

Speaker 5 And where I read the story was there's a golfer named Boo Weekly. And when he read, uh, he said when he was 15, he got in, he goes to this county fair.

Speaker 5 He's from like Georgia, like southern, southern Georgia. Uh, it's like the 80s, you know, and there, you could pay $5 to fight an orangutan.
Orangutan would be in a boxing ring with boxing gloves.

Speaker 3 And so

Speaker 5 dudes would pay $5 to fight them.

Speaker 3 That's hysterical.

Speaker 5 Yeah, and then guys would get in there and this orangutan would just knock people out.

Speaker 5 Because when I say, I tell the whole story in my act, but I say because we didn't have the internet to look up how strong is an orangutan.

Speaker 5 It was all word of mouth back then.

Speaker 3 So,

Speaker 5 you know, you had to meet a guy that just fought an orangutan.

Speaker 5 And he's like, he's stronger than you think. You know, you're like, well, but the arms are so skinny.

Speaker 3 I know. That's the reach.

Speaker 3 As well. And the reach.

Speaker 4 It's the reach. It's the jab.
It's the feet.

Speaker 3 Look at his feet. His feet's bigger than you.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that strength comes from somewhere.

Speaker 3 And they'll rip your face off, too, if they want.

Speaker 5 Well, that's what Boo Weekly said. He goes, that's not written everywhere back in 1982 when you're fighting orangutan.
The guy that does this doesn't go, you sign a waiver.

Speaker 5 and sure yeah you don't realize till afterwards like that's why it has gloves on if it if this thing if it gets the gloves off there's a chance it will rip your head off

Speaker 5 so but you know what are you gonna do ride the scrambler again uh

Speaker 3 that's real i wonder if that's still in existence anywhere in the country i bet there's state so they peta i think peta got a hold of a lot of this sure and uh

Speaker 3 they knocked those things down And that one, they were like, you can't do that.

Speaker 5 We're like, all right, we thought they liked it. I'm glad you just had to tell us.
And we got rid of it. Fair enough.

Speaker 2 Nate, what are you going to do today before the show?

Speaker 4 Tell them you're busy.

Speaker 5 It was this. And then,

Speaker 5 yeah, it was just this.

Speaker 3 I don't have any.

Speaker 5 I got to re-wear. I'm messing up some of the order a little bit, so I'll do that a little.
And then we'll just hang out and be at the venue.

Speaker 5 We do try to shoot basketball like some of these arenas if they have a basketball goal somewhere we're trying to like mess around shoot basketball and just kind of you know do whatever until that's showtime and then you're going and then you're going on tour you're gonna you got a new special you're shooting a new special in phoenix uh yeah you love phoenix you love you've taught you did another you did your last special in phoenix i did my last special there and this one's gonna be in the footprint center where the sons play so it's uh

Speaker 5 it's yeah it's it's yeah i mean it just kind of works out like touring wise Like you just hit these towns like every two years or so.

Speaker 5 And so it just kind of like and your family goes with you or do they stay home or they do some. Yeah, yeah, we went to Europe.
Like they came to Europe.

Speaker 5 They come to the you know, they're not here in Syracuse or Albany, but they if they're going, I'm doing the Boston Garden, they're going to come to Boston.

Speaker 4 Tell them to join you out in Phoenix for some of the

Speaker 4 best pizza in the world as voted by the

Speaker 4 voters

Speaker 3 at Chris Bianco's. At Chris Bianco's Pizza.

Speaker 2 Go get some people. Nate, can you do, I I saw you do this one thing a long time ago.
You don't have to do it if you're like, I got to go. But one of the funniest things I ever saw,

Speaker 5 sorry, dude, you want me to stand up and do my act?

Speaker 3 Did you mind? I mean,

Speaker 4 if you just show us your tits real quick

Speaker 4 and then go to the shop.

Speaker 3 Did you mind doing it topless?

Speaker 3 Sorry, show us your tits.

Speaker 2 No, one of the funniest things was it was a story about your meeting your wife's ex-boyfriend.

Speaker 5 Yeah, on the boat.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 I went, yeah, we went,

Speaker 5 I got to remember it, but we went to, it happened. We're on the lake, Old Hickory Lake.

Speaker 3 Is that true?

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 And we're in,

Speaker 5 we're like in the water. And then it's, my wife's ex-boyfriend was on another boat.
Right.

Speaker 5 And I didn't see him. And she pointed out, like, there's no reason to point it out.
And but she pointed it out. So then, yeah, like all I can think of now, like, I'm thinking about him.

Speaker 5 Like, and then I I look at her and she's looking at him. And I feel like she's looking at him to see what her life would be like if she didn't marry me.

Speaker 5 And I was looking at him to see what my life would be like if I didn't marry her.

Speaker 5 So we're both putting a lot of pressure on this guy.

Speaker 5 And then my buddy told me, he's like, you should go fight him. And I was like,

Speaker 5 he's on a boat. Like, I got to swim over to that fight.

Speaker 5 Have you ever tried to climb in a boat from water?

Speaker 3 It's not graceful. It's not easy.

Speaker 3 You don't come in with power i would need his help to start the fight

Speaker 3 right right i think that was it yeah that was it's so funny but i just i mean we've we can all relate to meeting ex exes you know our our current exes i don't know never good but i i yeah i don't my i yeah i i don't really have exes but all right well i got my what are you talking about

Speaker 3 hang on i know

Speaker 5 i didn't go i know but that's what made it frustrating i don't i i had no one to go show my wife well here's mine he He was, I was going to be.

Speaker 1 What do you mean?

Speaker 3 Because, what, is she your high school sweetheart or something?

Speaker 5 No, we started date like 2021. We met at Applebee's.

Speaker 5 We both waited tables at Applebee. I was a host at the time.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's great.

Speaker 4 You don't need to scream.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Well, stuff is going, you know.

Speaker 3 Sounds like it's all good in the neighborhood.

Speaker 5 Yeah, we're all in the neighborhood. We're all in the neighborhood.

Speaker 5 But we're big fans. We took our daughter.

Speaker 4 What was your favorite thing on the Applebee's menu?

Speaker 5 Here we go. They had the

Speaker 5 chicken broccoli Alfredo. I'd get no broccoli, you know?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Get that out of the way.

Speaker 5 And then I'd say put it on the side just so the guy thinks I'm going to eat it.

Speaker 3 Then he would just take a full plate of broccoli back after. I'd go, ah, I got full on the other stuff.

Speaker 3 That's so true.

Speaker 2 Like we're worried what they think. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Watch this.
Do you think that's impressive, Sean? Applebee's menu backwards.

Speaker 3 Go.

Speaker 3 Cobbler. Apple Cobbler.

Speaker 3 Of those kind of those kinds of restaurants.

Speaker 5 Chinese chicken salad? No.

Speaker 3 Pretty good. I'll eat that.

Speaker 3 Every place makes a Chinese chicken salad now.

Speaker 3 That's kind of like the new

Speaker 3 molten lava cake. Every place

Speaker 3 is a Chinese salad.

Speaker 2 What makes it a Chinese chicken salad? It's just because of the ginger dressing.

Speaker 5 They're the only ones that don't eat it.

Speaker 4 And those crispy noodles. The crispy noodles and the

Speaker 3 crispy.

Speaker 4 Chinchin. Listen, Sean, I don't have to tell you.
Chinchin.

Speaker 3 Chin Chin.

Speaker 4 Chin Chin does the best one.

Speaker 3 Yeah. One of the best ones.

Speaker 4 One of the ones. Yeah, one of the best ones.

Speaker 3 Sean's highlighting his Chin Chin Chin. Wait, so of all those kinds of restaurants, I forget what you call them.
Are they big box restaurants?

Speaker 5 No, chain restaurants. Chain restaurants.
Have y'all not been to one in a while? Like, just get it.

Speaker 3 It's been a minute, but I did like to say, and your new special, Nate says,

Speaker 3 everything I learned, I don't know a lot that came from a big, like, in like a building, like a higher education building. Everything I learned, I overheard at a Target or a Lowe's.
The Lowe's music.

Speaker 3 overheard.

Speaker 5 Yeah, we're big chain. I mean, I grew up, like, we're a,

Speaker 5 you know, I had an old joke about, like, I was a big,

Speaker 5 I don't like mom and pop shops because they can close just they're like, we don't feel good today, and they close.

Speaker 3 Like, Walmart.

Speaker 5 Walmart, you know, they were a mom and pop shop at some point, and then they became, they got it together and became unreal.

Speaker 3 So, yeah, I like those too.

Speaker 5 I like mom and pop shops.

Speaker 3 Here's what I like. I like chilies, And

Speaker 3 I'm not afraid to say it. I love chili.

Speaker 5 They have the great chocolate lava cake.

Speaker 3 If you want one, go to chilies. Go to chili.
And they also have the great, they used to have the southwest egg rolls or whatever. They used to have those things.

Speaker 3 Me and Dax used to always go to, God, I love a chili.

Speaker 4 What about Outback? They any good with the bloomin'?

Speaker 5 Yeah, yeah, we go to Outback a good bit. Outback.

Speaker 2 Scotty worked at TGIF, and he would have, and he, oh, I used to love that.

Speaker 3 That's good, too. That's funny.

Speaker 4 That's an intimidating menu.

Speaker 5 Dr. Pepper's doing some pretty amazing things right now.

Speaker 5 So if y'all into Dr. Pepper, Diet Dr.
Pepper, they got

Speaker 5 good stuff going on.

Speaker 3 And some cherry.

Speaker 3 They got

Speaker 5 cream soda, strawberry stuff. I mean, it's something, dude.
They're showing off over there.

Speaker 3 Did we ever get any confirmation

Speaker 3 on the doctor portion of the Pepper? Like,

Speaker 3 did we ever see documentation to prove that he

Speaker 5 suggests diet?

Speaker 3 What's this kind of doctor, was he? Yeah, I mean... Dr.
Pepper, he was a doctor.

Speaker 3 I do like Diet Dr. Pepper, too.
And I'm going to say this, I like their ads. I like their TV ads.

Speaker 3 I think they're funny, the college football ads. I think they're real clever.

Speaker 3 Nate, before I let you go, how do you know Greg Garcia? How did that happen? This son of a gun, speaking of son of a guns.

Speaker 5 So

Speaker 5 I've tried to make a bunch of shows that have never gone. We've had one show that we shot a pilot.
And

Speaker 5 so Greg came in. I did not know him, but he came in, Danielle Sanchez Witzel.

Speaker 5 She was show running it, and she's friends with Greg. And so, Greg came in to help us do it.
And I knew Greg Garcia's work, but I didn't know him when he first came in.

Speaker 5 So, before he first came in, he's like, He's going to help us. And I was like, I don't know who this dude is.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 I got to listen to this guy. And then

Speaker 5 we wrote the whole script on his, off just his ideas because they were so good. And obviously, he's unreal.

Speaker 5 And so, we just become really close and become friends.

Speaker 5 I was just with him this week, actually,

Speaker 5 at

Speaker 5 dinner with him because I had to go to LA for a second. And so

Speaker 5 he's, yeah, we became friends like that. And he comes out on the road too.
I'm telling you, y'all should, y'all come out on the road. If you want to get away and have a little fun trip, come on out.

Speaker 3 Dude, that would actually be really, really fun if you mean it.

Speaker 5 It's a fun if you mean it. I swear, Fallon's coming tonight.

Speaker 5 We have a fun time. You just play cards or you play,

Speaker 5 you know, like we went to casino last night.

Speaker 3 Sean, I mean, first of all, this is your dream. They go to casino and they're going to chain restaurants.
I mean, you know,

Speaker 3 every single, every Cracker Barrel has got ski merch in front from Sean's car.

Speaker 4 Cracker Barrel is one we didn't touch on. I've not been there, but I hear that's the one.

Speaker 3 Anywhere that can handle bus parking is all chain stuff. Well, Greg Garcia is one of the all-time great guys.

Speaker 3 super super funny guy one of the funniest pranks he always i'm not really like a big pranks guy but he is so funny at a long joke and a prank and i just he's such a great guy so yeah that makes sense that you guys would be pals um well listen i'm gonna return the the offer and say next time you're out here in california let's go play golf man and hang out grab some lunch uh

Speaker 3 such a huge fan of yours dude honestly you're just the funniest funniest funniest so funny it's so good to see you so exciting to see you.

Speaker 2 Just more and more and more people appreciate you.

Speaker 3 Really happy for your success. Truly, truly, truly.
Yeah, man. Thank you.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Thanks for having me on. Nate, thank you for doing this.

Speaker 3 What a thrill.

Speaker 4 Thank you for saying that.

Speaker 3 What a thrill. All right.
The great Nate Bergazzi. Thank you, buddy.
Thank you, Nate. Thanks, Nate.

Speaker 5 Thank you, guys.

Speaker 3 See you, buddy. Have fun.
Bye.

Speaker 4 The great Nate.

Speaker 3 The great Nate. The great

Speaker 3 funny.

Speaker 3 Yep.

Speaker 2 Old, like old school, clean, good, hilarious, non-stop.

Speaker 3 God.

Speaker 4 He just seems like a real kind fella, you know?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I can't see him getting upset.

Speaker 4 I'm sure you could figure out a way to piss him off.

Speaker 4 How would you, what would be your strategy if you really wanted to get Nate pissed off?

Speaker 2 I'd ask him questions over. I'd ask him the same thing over and over again, like I didn't understand.

Speaker 4 No, I think he'd be very patient with that. I don't think that would be his button pusher.

Speaker 3 No, like, no, but like if you...

Speaker 2 If you just went on and on about something like you just really, honestly, truly didn't understand, I think it pisses anybody off

Speaker 3 i wonder like what are you not getting right yeah yeah you know what i mean no but we have a pretty high right threshold like we have a pretty decent amount of patience for you in that regard

Speaker 4 what is the thing what is the thing that gets you guys to anger quicker than anything else stupidity people don't think like i do

Speaker 3 i have a short fuse for stuff i i yeah i don't suffer I have a short fuse for like,

Speaker 2 yeah, people who are incompetent or like can't like

Speaker 2 like like don't have common sense about like easy things and then in the meantime I'm the dumbest person on the planet and I probably do the same thing yeah yeah yeah

Speaker 4 I hate when I hate when people like punch down you know and like mean to people because they're

Speaker 2 so lazy yeah yeah it is

Speaker 3 punch down either

Speaker 3 either especially if it you know we we do do a lot of joking around and we and we love to sort of rib each other and stuff but but anytime I see somebody who likes to, and we talked about it with Nate, who likes to get a laugh at somebody else's expense.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Or, you know what else pisses me off? Confident ignorance.

Speaker 3 That can also be super funny, though.

Speaker 2 Yeah, sometimes. Well, in a character, it can be.
Right.

Speaker 4 You have to do it on purpose. But yeah, a person who is much smarter or much more confident than they have a right to be

Speaker 3 is just grading.

Speaker 3 Because you have to spend spend an effort to convince them that you're buying it right but but but if you have no dog in that fight and you're just observing that person it can be hilarious oh yeah yeah that is true that is true

Speaker 4 by the way i love playing those characters yeah you know

Speaker 4 the character that's just just an alpha everywhere and then the tough guy walks in and then they're beta hi yeah yeah

Speaker 2 right right right right right exactly but nate we should go see his show when he's out he's so funny i think we should meet him in phoenix and go get some of that Bianco pizza.

Speaker 3 We should, and then play some golf over there.

Speaker 3 You're not playing golf anymore. Not till October.

Speaker 4 That's when I have to be disciplined.

Speaker 3 You know,

Speaker 3 I know. I mean, we can go, we can go to Nate's.
Here it comes.

Speaker 3 We can go to his show and participate, or we can go and just be a bunch of Bister.

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