Best of the Bus: Nate Bargatze On Going From Tire Recycler To Touring With Chris Rock

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: Bussin’ With The Boys
Episode: Best of the Bus: Nate Bargatze On Going From Tire Recycler To Touring With Chris Rock
Date: December 6, 2025
Host(s): Will Compton, Taylor Lewan
Guest: Nate Bargatze

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Episode Overview

This episode features comedian Nate Bargatze, known for his clean, observational humor and recent rise to arena-sized comedy tours. The discussion is wide-ranging, from Bargatze’s rough-and-tumble blue-collar jobs before comedy, to the grind and competitiveness of the New York stand-up scene, the challenge of staying original, and the impact of mentorship and kindness in the entertainment industry. The group also swaps stories on drinking, bombing onstage, and meeting celebrity idols. Throughout, the episode is packed with laughs, humility, and insights on success, failure, and the evolution of a stand-up career.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Nate’s Early Jobs & Blue-Collar Hustle

• Nate reminisces about mowing lawns, recycling tires, and working deliveries in his hometown.
  • [02:09]: “I used to work this area. I used to do. I was a delivery guy and we used to deliver appliances.”—Nate Bargatze
• Mowing and landscaping were tough work, with physical exhaustion and low pay. Observes how high schoolers running landscaping businesses were “rich” in their world.
• Memorable: “Moen’s the worst, dude. It’s, you know, like, I would cut grass growing up, like your neighbor’s yard or. I had this old lady, she gave me. I got five bucks, they cut her grass.”—Nate Bargatze [02:31].
• Detailed story about the tire recycling job: picking up recalled tires, fighting off mosquitoes, and retrieving dumped tires from a cave.
  • “We had one time we had to go pick up tires out of a cave... We just drove back up in there... There’s the most tires and you’re like, all right.”—Nate [07:12-08:37].

2. The Leap to Stand-Up & New York

• Started with open mics in Chicago, inspired by Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedian” documentary to move to NYC in 2004.
  • [10:37]: “I moved to Chicago first... did that very briefly. Then I kind of started doing stand up... then I saw [‘Comedian’] and... I gotta go to New York.”
• New York described as the true bootcamp for comedians: lots of competition, tough crowds, and learning resilience.
  • “Go to New York to get good and LA to get famous.”—Nate [11:46].
  • Describes grinding: handing out flyers for stage time, doing midnight spots for tiny audiences, and being inspired by seeing unknowns like Bill Burr and Patrice O’Neal.

3. Finding a Unique Voice in Comedy

• The importance and challenge of not unconsciously mimicking successful comics around you.

  • “Their cadence is a big thing... with my buddy Giannis about it... that’s worse than stealing a joke because it’s a... you’re stealing the way to tell the joke.”—Nate [14:35].
  • Shares how he caught himself adopting rhythms—a subtle but critical danger for comics finding their voice.

• Joke theft and originality:

  • “A lot of times when jokes are stolen, you can really look at [if] it’s a... not a super original idea. Like, I could see two people coming up with this thing and you really look at it like that.”—Nate [15:55].
  • Examples: Dane Cook/Louis CK, Amy Schumer—discussed as often more about similar premises than conscious theft.

4. Expectations, Success, and Staying Grounded

• On being ‘on’ and fan interaction:

  • “Being on is the thing that gets exhausting. That’s for anybody... when you go to work and... gotta turn it on a little bit.”—Nate [21:43].
  • Discusses importance of always making a good impression, as one bad meeting can put a fan off forever.

• Handling fame, business pressures, and staying clean:

  • Nate outlines his conscious choice to remain a clean comic, rooted in his Southern, Christian upbringing and family approachability.
  • “The audience should not feel my tiredness or my whatever. Like, that’s not on them to do any of that stuff.”—Nate [24:34].

5. On Heroes, Mentorship, and Disappointments

• Meeting heroes who live up—and those who don’t.

  • Talks about meeting Jerry Seinfeld and Louis CK; describes brief, sometimes chilly interactions. Louis CK story: being chided for his intro and having a joke mocked onstage, which fueled his motivation. [27:58-34:35]
  • “I would use it for, like, I hate this dude. And, like, I will make sure he knows me.” –Nate [33:22].

• Comics who gave a helping hand:

  • “Burr was... a Big one. When he knew your name... it was a really big deal. And I remember him saying... the route that guys like us go, it takes us a long time, but you gain fans for life.”—Nate [36:10].
  • Others: Marin, Fallon, and their impact on his confidence and career direction.

6. Stand-Up Philosophy: Act vs. Crowd Work

• Advice to younger comics: “Go be great at one thing. If you can be great at one thing, you can do all the other things, but... you need to really learn how to be great at one thing.” [38:22]
• Expresses skepticism about comics relying on crowd work over developed written material; says crafting a lasting, reliable act is what builds a lasting career (citing Carlin, Gaffigan, Rock).
• “When people come see you and do a live show... they want to see an act. They want to see a whole kind of thing.” [41:31]
• Praises Shane Gillis for both great material and crowd performance: “He’s unbelievable as a comedian. And like, seeing him... his next special is going to be... great.”—Nate [42:24].

7. Comic Camaraderie, Vulnerability, and Recovery

• Trading stories of bombing, drinking, and ridiculous gigs:
  • Bombed cruise gig: “I wrote an elevator with guys... and on me, they go, that other guy is like, not good. And I mean, my shoulder is touching that man...” [81:12]
• Stories of quitting drinking for health and career, giving up hard-partying to maintain energy and output as a touring comic.

8. Celebrity Meet-Ups & Power Dynamics

• Memorable meetings: Tiger Woods (“very humble”), Larry the Cable Guy (“exactly like what you see on camera”), Tom Hanks (“good dude”), and John Elway (“most fun”).
• On natural social hierarchies—comparing comedy’s “older comics” to NFL coaches; there’s always someone who commands respect.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On mowing lawns for $5:
  “I got five bucks, they cut her grass. And then this was 1953. Yeah, it was.” —Nate [02:31]
• On finding your comedy voice:
  “Their cadence is a big thing...with my buddy Giannis about it, or Giannis would always bring up. That’s worse than stealing a joke because... you’re stealing the way to tell the joke.” —Nate [14:35]
• On peer validation:
  “You want the validation from your peers. I mean, that’s all that really matters is what other comics... think of us.”—Nate [37:49]
• On his clean brand:
  “My kids can come to my show. Like it’s all ages... That’s the hard part of being clean. You’re kind of on your own.”—Nate [54:41]
• On a low moment:
  “I wrote an elevator with guys... they’re like, but that last one, like, he just wasn’t very good. And I mean, my shoulder is touching that man who’s saying that.” —Nate [81:12]
• On quitting drinking:
  “When I drank, it’s like... When I started, I didn’t know how to stop... I knew if I wanted to get where I wanted to go, I couldn’t drink.” —Nate [62:27]
• On seeing Shane Gillis succeed:
  “When I saw Shane for the first time... I watched him and I was like, oh, man, this is crazy, dude. This is like... this dude’s gonna be... super funny... But he has an act and he goes up with an act and goes out and destroys.” —Nate [45:01]
• On meeting Tom Cruise:
  “When you meet Tom, they go. Just so you know, you’re gonna think y’ all are gonna be best friends. Like, that’s how charming he is.”—Nate [73:38]
• On comics’ respect dynamic:
  “Bobby [Kelly]... I feel like Bobby told me to go do something, I would just have to go do it... You just looked up to him so much when you started.”—Nate [69:35]
• On bombing at sea:
  “I was in an elevator in the ocean... a moment you would think you’d be happy and instead you just... got off whatever floor was the next floor. I just walked off.” —Nate [82:21]

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Standout Stories, Humor, and Tone

• The episode is classic “Bussin’ with the Boys”—locker-room camaraderie meets real vulnerability, self-deprecating stories, and tangible advice.
• Nate’s signature deadpan humor carries the show, making even tales of bombing or grueling manual labor hilarious.
• The group’s well-earned respect for Nate is palpable, especially as they discuss the grind, mentorship, and the difference between viral moments and true craftsmanship.

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Nate’s early jobs and tire recycling: [02:09] – [08:37]
• Move to New York & starting stand-up: [10:37] – [13:20]
• Finding your voice, joke theft: [14:35] – [16:49]
• “Being on” and audience expectations: [21:43] – [25:31]
• Meeting comedy idols—Louis CK, Burr: [27:15] – [35:39]
• Peer mentorship & carving a path: [36:05] – [38:49]
• Crafting an act vs. crowd work, comedy philosophy: [38:22] – [46:40]
• Shane Gillis, spontaneous Zanies show: [42:24] – [54:06]
• Going clean, drinking stories: [60:00] – [65:09]
• Bomber cruise & low moments: [80:45] – [84:09]

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Conclusion

This episode is an inspiring, brutally honest, and often hilarious look inside the mind and journey of Nate Bargatze—one of the cleanest and most respected comics working today. It blends behind-the-scenes stories of blue-collar struggle, the cutthroat NYC comedy scene, fan expectations, and the importance of kindness and perseverance. Whether you’re a comedy fan, an aspiring performer, or love a good underdog success story, this conversation is insightful, accessible, and full of wisdom—and plenty of laughs.

Transcript

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[Nate Bargatze]

I like this. You know, I used to work this area. I used to do. I was a delivery guy and we used to deliver appliances and stuff like that. And we, I was over, I would do it over here and I mowed and I. And I worked for a guy to cut grass once, and his thing was right back over here, too. So I used to be over here a lot.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

Mowing job. You had mowing jobs?

[Will Compton]

I had one.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's. Moen's the worst, dude. It's. It's, you know, like, I would cut grass growing up, like your neighbor's yard or. I had this old lady, she gave me. I got five bucks, they cut her grass. And then this was 1953. Yeah, it was.

[Will Compton]

That's a whole month salary right there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Back then, I remember I could go. There was a candy store. This is. I mean, I'm 44. It's not like I'm 100, but there was a candy store in Old Hickory, and you could go. Five bucks was a lot. Five bucks was like the 20. I think now, like, if you give a kid. If you give a kid 5 now, I feel like they don't even respect it. But, yeah, 20 is, you know, it's like five. You're like. But we. So I mowed grass for a little bit. But I mean, just doing businesses and it's just, man, people that mow, you know, like landscape and all that, that is brutal work. It's so hot, and you're just out in it all day.

[Co-host/Guest]

I quit after one day of landscaping.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

It was brutal. It was like a hot 98 degrees. Like, my mom wanted me to go do this, you know, I was a lifeguard the summer before. The next summer, I got thrusted into a landscaping job and I quit immediately.

[Will Compton]

The first day.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah, we went. We went and got lunch and got sandwiches or whatever. I text my mom, I said, you got to get me out of here.

[Will Compton]

Do the first. I've never mowed a lawn in my entire life.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really?

[Will Compton]

Not one. I grew up in Arizona.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Only rich people had grass.

[Co-host/Guest]

And so you got the turf.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah. People got turf or people got rocks. Like, that's really what you get to deal with out there. So coming out here or even being up in Michigan, the maintenance is nuts.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And I feel like land, like a landscaping deal isn't as bad because they have, like, the cool mowers that they can kind of move around. You're sitting the whole time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, they're all.

[Will Compton]

They got the whole garment and everything on. I'm sure as a boy, you were just short sleeves and shorts.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was. Yeah. I was never. I wasn't that high up. So you'd be you weed eating, which is, I mean, just no fun. Or you're Doing all the weird. Kind of like, where you got to be, like, you got to push it because they can't get a thing on it. Landscaping, though, was the. If you have no college. If you have no chances of going to college, always starting a landscaping company was talked about pretty heavily. Dude.

[Will Compton]

I have, like, four friends that have a landscaping company.

[Nate Bargatze]

They. You just go in town. Yeah. When you're like, I. I can't. I'm not smart enough to go. Really. I can't get in college or any of this stuff. And you just have a group of people that'd be like, what's our landscape coming to, dude?

[Co-host/Guest]

But if somebody does in high school, they're the man for a minute because they can afford all the. When they go, oh, yeah, they're billionaires.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

Because you're collecting a lot of money being mowing lawns, but then they're doing it still because they're, you know, didn't go to college.

[Wolf Tactical Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I have a buddy of mine, his brother, he actually owns a landscaping company now. He was a. He was a kid that just started cutting yards. Was, like, smart enough to realize, like, oh, let me start building this up into a thing. And it is. I mean, they got money. Like, they save money. And, like, you're like, you know, someone's got, like, three grand, and you're like, what? Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, unheard of. Yeah. Unheard of as someone's 16.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sitting on three grand, and then they.

[Co-host/Guest]

Pull, like, you know, a business gig or a corporate gig, and they're mowing those yards like.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, you're richer than my parents get that money.

[Will Compton]

$3,000. Imagine seeing $3,000 in high school.

[Nate Bargatze]

It would have been unimaginable.

[Will Compton]

No, that's. That'd be way too much. Is that the worst job you've ever had being a landscaper?

[Nate Bargatze]

I also. So the guy I used to deliver with over here, we did another job where we recycle tires, and that job was on Dirty Jobs. And it's.

[Will Compton]

How do you recycle a tire?

[Nate Bargatze]

So you would go and pick up. I don't know if you'd remember, but there's a big Ford. They did. Where they did a callback or recall on all the tires for Ford. One Chevy would never. And then there's.

[Will Compton]

And.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so we had to go get all the tires. So you go get all the tires, and then you pick them up and you take them to Australia. I'm in Australia. I'm going to Australia. And this week, it's all my. You take them To Atlanta. And then they have a thing and then they cut them up. And, you know, whatever they do, recycle whatever recycling is.

[Will Compton]

I'm pretty sure turf fields have, like, tire pellets in them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. So that's where they don't know what to do with it. So they're just like, put it in the field and have your job. Yeah. So why was so hard? So you have to go pick up all these tires. Water sits in the bottom of a tire, and that's where mosquitoes lay eggs. And that's where it are. So the whole time you're just getting lit up by mosquitoes. That's just your day. I was doing this job with 9. 11 happened that just like, it was. It was.

[Will Compton]

Remember when?

[Nate Bargatze]

I remember when. Yeah, I remember it very well.

[Will Compton]

You heard that Alan Jackson song, you're like, I will forever know where I was. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so I did the mosquitoes there. And then we had one time we had to go pick up tires out of a cave. So if someone would pay you to come get the tires and then you would go recycle them and then hopefully make some profit. But one guy would just get the tires and then just go dump them in a cave. And he wasn't getting them recycled, so he's just making straight profit from taking tires. Well, they found out. That guy ended up going to jail. But then we had to go get those tires, and they were all in a cave. So we had a backup trucks just in this cave. And you gotta like, run them up your chest and like bump them. And then they. And then. Then stack them up into the back of a. Like a.

[Co-host/Guest]

Is it too where you got to pick up fucking. You see a big. You're like, oh, let's go do this job and get a couple of tires.

[Will Compton]

And then.

[Co-host/Guest]

They're massive tractor tires.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I don't remember that. I don't necessarily. Ours were all car tires because this was again, the recall. So it was like everybody around here had so many tires because all these tires got recalled. So they. Everybody was like. It was a big kind of booming business at that moment. And this one guy just figured, like, I'll just dump him in a cave. And we had got. I mean, there was so many tires in this cave, dude. We just drove back up in there and just. There's the most tires and you're like, all right. And you just like, all right. Guys would be good at it. They would. You would run it up your body and then bounce the tire off your chest.

[Will Compton]

How would you. Would it start at the toes? Like, you get the toes give a.

[Nate Bargatze]

Little flick, you kind of. Yeah, you just kind of run it up, and it's all in one motion. And then it's probably a work. Now you probably pay to get a trainer to make you do it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But, yeah, you just do it and you roll it back. And then you got to stack the tires, like, kind of crisscross or.

[Will Compton]

You found that physique of yours, dude.

[Nate Bargatze]

That muscle memory you have, you know, you're probably. Probably was pretty strong. Yeah, you're strong. Like, you're like, you know, like blue collar strong where you're.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Country boy strong.

[Nate Bargatze]

Weird strength.

[Co-host/Guest]

Your hands throwing the hay bales out there. They just got a grip like a motherfucker.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's a tough job. Another job that'd be tough is like. Have you ever heard, like, college hunks and junks? That company?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I was like, two band or two guys in a truck.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it's kind of like that. But, like, their whole promo of the whole thing is essentially hot. College guys come and pick up your trash.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And we use them, and they come in and they're like, they're not hot. Like, they're like 35, 40 years old. Like.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Bad tans.

[Co-host/Guest]

You hired them?

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah. I call them up. I want to see what this is all about. This is your branding. They were not the guys on the flyer when I called them up, and they go.

[Nate Bargatze]

You go, y' all are not hot.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. What's the deal with that?

[Nate Bargatze]

Promise.

[Will Compton]

The funny thing is they'll just look at all the trash you have, and they'll go, 300. Like, all right. And they just take it and they leave. And that's their job. That's a wild job to have.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah. No, it is living.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

For your tire one. Would you get paid?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't even know if I remember. I mean, I mean, nothing. Like. Or what? You know, enough. I was 20, so it's like, enough to get by. Like, whatever. You know, you're living. I might still lived at home or you're at an apartment. I mean, back then, it was just. Everything was so. It was, you know, your rent was probably 400amonth or some 500amonth. Like, if you had an apartment. I don't remember being that crazy. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

When you were. When you were 20 years old, you were still here. I know you guys talked about in the last podcast, but when did you make the trip to New York? When did you decide that's Where I'm going for.

[Nate Bargatze]

I saw. I moved to Chicago first, and then because I had a buddy, we were reading Water Meters in Mount Juliet, and so he wanted to go to Second City in Chicago. It's where a lot of SNL people come out of.

[Will Compton]

Farley came out of.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And so we went to. So I was like, oh, I think I want to start comedy. And so we went to Chicago and moved up there, and I did that very briefly. Then I kind of started doing stand up. And then there's a. There's a great documentary with Seinfeld called Comedian. It's on Netflix. It's when he's like, he's starting a new hour, and so he's writing it, and it shows all this New York. He's going to all these New York clubs and doing this stuff. And so then I saw that, and when I saw that, it was like, I gotta go to New York. And then I just went. So I moved to New York in 04.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

We just had to Stephano on the podcast, and he was talking about how, like, New York is the spot. There's no other place like that. You have to, like, literally run through, like, 5,000 dudes to even make it out of there.

[Co-host/Guest]

Because he was saying he would never move away from New York because it's all, yeah, you can make it out of New York.

[Wolf Tactical Advertiser]

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[Co-host/Guest]

You can.

[Will Compton]

He is New York.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's New York.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I grew up there. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I can't imagine being a Tennessee boy and then going up to New York.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was a. Yeah, it was a lot like, Chrissy's, like, a lot younger than me, but I remember when he got a great dude, and then when he came on the scene, you do. You have to go. It's the best. The. The big saying was like, go to New York to get good in la, to get famous. A saying I heard once in that, but it always made a ton of sense to me. But New York is like. It is where you go and you're just grinding it out in these comedy clubs and just. We're all doing spots. You're all doing shows for five people. I mean, that's a lot. Like, the beginning is most of your career is in front of five, six people. You'd be happy.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah. Because you talked about how you'd stand outside and hand out flyers just to get a few people in.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

One of your boys is performing. You're like, hey, come check it out.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, that's in you. And you get paid in stage time. So You. You would just do that. And then at the end of the night, you get to go on stage like midnight and do five minutes, and then you go do it. And the next day. But it's a world. I mean, you become. You just. You fall in love with it because you're seeing. Like, back when I did, it was like, you're seeing Bill Burr. Bill Burr is probably doing comedy. Ten years when I was in New York at the beginning, and so, like. But no one knows who he is and Patrice o' Neill and all this. So you're. You're. You're like, kind of like, I can't believe these dudes exist. I'd imagine in your world, like, it's like, you think, like, you know, if you're in high school and you're the top football player in your house, and then you go, oh, there's other people that are so good.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then you, like. And it makes you love it because you go, oh, this. It's a whole nother level. Like, it's.

[Co-host/Guest]

Let me see if I can make it here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let me see if I can make it. Yeah, because you can be whatever in your own little small thing, but you got to always change it up so then you can be like, let me see if I can run with these guys.

[Co-host/Guest]

I'm with you. Growing up in Bontera, when I went to college, I was like, oh, yeah, black guys play football.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You know, let me see if it start.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah, let me see if I can run with these guys.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. How do you work out for you.

[Co-host/Guest]

At first in college?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Wolf Tactical Advertiser]

You.

[Co-host/Guest]

You know, it's intimidating.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

You know how it is, right?

[Will Compton]

Absolutely. Yes. Like, it's.

[Co-host/Guest]

It's intimidating, but it's like, once you get that first compliment, dude, hey, this white boy can play.

[Will Compton]

That's all it takes. If you hear, hey, you're pretty. This for a white guy. Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

We've.

[Will Compton]

We're making it out here. That's where that's.

[Nate Bargatze]

I might be one of the best athletes of all time.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

There's no question about it. You are. You really think you're him at that point.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

When you're in New York and you're sifting through this, you're seeing guys like Bill Burr, who wasn't Bill Burr at the time. How do you. When you're trying to find your own voice, not steal from these other guys or not get influenced too much by being around all these other people all the time? Because I'm sure you watch a set and you're like, damn, that's. That is funny. And it's kind of up your alley of humor because it's such a subjective, like, career. Like, some guys you just don't think are funny. Some guys you do. Like, when you see a dude and they do a bit, you're like, man, how do you not steal it?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, stealing a bit you wouldn't do because it's. Their cadence is a big thing.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So you can sound like them. So the way someone tells a joke and makes it funny is there's something that that's. That's something that can get taken that I would always talk with my buddy Giannis about it, or Giannis would always bring up. Like, that's worse than stealing a joke because it's a. You're stealing the way to tell the joke. So it's like the other stuff doesn't really matter. It's like, you know, Ron Regan has a distinct, like thing when, you know, when, like, you know when to laugh, you know when to do it. David Tell does, too. Yeah. And so you'd have to catch yourself sounding like them. David Tell is a big one that. When I was. A lot of people sounded like David Tail. I could catch myself in a little rhythm of David Tail. My accent would hide it, so I don't think anybody realized it, but I could feel it. Like, I was like, oh, I'm, like, watching him too much. And so you gotta. And you don't want to start writing jokes like that because then that's when you can see a comic. If they get too far, you're like, oh, you sound like this guy. Like, even though you're doing jokes that are different, but you sound like him. And that's the part that you want to. If you want to be your own voice, you got to be super aware of that.

[Will Compton]

If you're sifting through the comment section and one of your posts on Instagram is that one of the more insulting things to see is, oh, you sound like so and so.

[Nate Bargatze]

If they do. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if I can distinctly remember. I would have some, like, you know, people tell you they. Or they've heard this joke before. They. The joke stealing thing. They got all started. I don't. It's not as. I think, as crazy as people think it is. Like, it wasn't. It's. It's just not. You know, they made it into this big thing. A lot of times when jokes are stolen, you can really look at the joke and be like, it's a. It's not a super original idea. And you're like, I don't know, dude. I mean, like, I could see two people coming up with this thing and you really look at it like that. I mean, there's comics. There's only so much. We're all doing the exact same thing. There's only so much anybody's doing. If you're in a world that, like, you're single and you're going out and you're drinking, well, that's 50 comics that are single going out and drinking. So what are they gonna talk about? They're go all. You're gonna all talk about the same kind of things.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

So that stuff gets thrown in a lot that it's, you know, you're like, I don't know. I think it happens in movies, though. Something like that. That's the old boy.

[Will Compton]

Like Star wars and Harry Potter.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like any. Yeah. Like writers in a movie, like I would sit rise TV show writer. Like you could. There's stuff like that that I. I mean, I don't know if I could. You could ever. I don't know if there's an example to say it, but like that stuff you get nervous about because, I mean, someone riding a movie, like, they could just grab a joke from some comic and just be like, oh, I got you the joke in the con.

[Co-host/Guest]

You're talking like, if I happen to be some writer and I'm liking your stand up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

A story you tell. It's like, oh, I'm gonna put this in my movie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Or it could be influenced by it. It could be. There's a lot of. And I mean, that's. And that's masked so much that I mean, you can't even. How you gonna, you know, be like that? That's my joke. And you're like, well, they say it like I want to say that's.

[Co-host/Guest]

That's been talked about.

[Nate Bargatze]

Might be without. Heard that really be wall that Wahlberg's.

The. The Boston bombing. The movie Wahlberg about the Boston. Boston bombers.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think there's a joke about an iron or something at the beginning of it. And I want to say that joke might be something that's like from a comic.

[Co-host/Guest]

And now that I'm thinking about, I want to say it was like Theo talking about.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

Was Theo the show Dave, Right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

But he was digesting it. I mean, you could tell he was alluding to it. He wasn't. I don't think he was being like, all this is fact. Because ultimately, I guess You.

[Will Compton]

You don't feel away.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right. Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

Right. But yeah, that's a good point. You hear something.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. He says it of. Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

And you're like.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, they're gonna. You gotta. And I'm not saying all these writers or writers are not doing. The majority of them are not doing it, but it's like you. I bet. You know. Yeah. It's like they're gonna be. You're gonna be influenced by people. You're gonna hear things. You hear. There's so much content now. So you're hearing stuff all the time.

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[Nate Bargatze]

You might not realize like, where you would have possibly heard that. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But the stealing, the joke thing seems like talking to other comments. Like, I mean, there was. There was one reference like I was a big Dane Cook guy growing up that was like right around my middle school time. And Dane Cook, we all loved him. We all loved him. There was a big time where people are like, Dane Cook stole a joke. The same joke as Louis CK Told. It's about having a kid. He doesn't have a kid right now, but when he has a kid, he's going to name something ridiculous like just the one letter, five of them. And then he. Like, allegedly. I haven't really looked too much into it, so I'm kind of just speaking out of pocket here. But Dane just changed the letter essentially and did his like his cadence and all that because they're totally different comments.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I think there's another. Like his itchy butthole or something was another joke like that. That was. Yeah. I mean, I remember all that stuff going on. Amy Schumer. I was around Amy a lot. And people blame. But it's like, I just. It's. Some of it. You're. I mean, the Dane and the Louis thing. I. Look, I don't know. I mean, maybe they did it's.

And they maybe subconsciously did it. I. I don't know if I just find it hard to believe people are like on purpose doing this stuff.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not saying that's right. Subconsciously do it. Like, you should somewhat try to check. But it's. Overall, you're like, I don't know, dude. Like, they're not. Comics are not just taking each other. Said, where are you gonna go do this? You know. You know.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Where you're going to get caught. You're going to get.

[Will Compton]

Especially now with.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then the thing that was frustrating is it makes it. Then everybody like, so if you have a joke similar to someone else, someone's like, do you steal that joke from that person. You're like, no, dude, we're all talking about the same thing. Like, no one's stealing a joke. They're just. People are talking about stuff. It usually goes to. You got to look at what the joke is to be like, is it that original of an idea?

And a lot of times it's not. And then it's like, something that's kind of like. And there's jokes out there where you're like, I think I've heard my uncle say that joke. You know, like, that person's not stealing that joke. It's like just telling kind of a hacky joke.

[Co-host/Guest]

Jp, are you catching all that rain?

[Will Compton]

In the headphones, I keep seeing Garrett look back forth and stuff like that.

[Co-host/Guest]

You hear the rain get even harder. You're just like, the one hour we're getting Nate on.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think he's going to start hailing soon.

[Will Compton]

Perfect.

[Co-host/Guest]

As he's telling a story, you just hear it get louder and louder.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just make sure the tornado doesn't.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we don't need that. Yeah, we definitely do not need that in our lives. You catch that? It's absolutely going off. There's, like, flood warnings.

[Co-host/Guest]

As a comedian, do you ever get just tired of being funny? Like, when you're doing it, you're like, you know, you kind of fall in love with it in New York and you're grinding through it, and even now, it's just like, you're just. You've blown up. Like, as a comedian, I've always. I don't know why I never asked him, but I'm just thinking, do you guys just ever get tired of just being, like, you know, everybody. Every room I step into, I'm expected to be funny?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I mean, you have to be on. That's the part that's hard, but I think y' all would experience that. You know, how many times you got to feel like you're on. So when you go out to a public event, when you go to something, or, like, that kind of thing, or you meet people and, like, it's. It's the. Being on is the thing that gets exhausting. That's for anybody. I mean, people could feel that if they go to work and they feel like they have to kind of be like, all right, I gotta turn it on a little bit. I gotta be better.

[Will Compton]

You know, are we gonna die.

[Nate Bargatze]

That, like, out of this stuff we're in, like, a garage. All stuff that I don't think you're supposed to be in inside of a storm is. We're in a garage and you're like, all right, well, that shouldn't be in there. But at least you're not in a bus. Inside of it, you're like, oh, we're in a bus.

One of the old buses that look like it's Dr. Trying to be struck by lightning.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we're in danger right now. We are in danger.

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Co-host/Guest]

Being on thing. The beat on thing's true because anytime you come across like fans and everything else, you want them to be like, you know, you don't want to like let people down. Or all of a sudden you're like an ass on that. You're like, you know that you're fucking not even.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Because it only takes one bad impression for them to be off you forever. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You know, you'll meet somebody and it's you. It's either you or not you. So like usually when you meet, if someone meets someone famous and they're kind of standoffish, whatever, you're like, yeah, man, that person's probably like that in real life.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And otherwise it's, yeah, it's like The. The crowd and the audience should not feel my tiredness or my whatever. Like, that's not on them to do any of that stuff.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So there's like, little moments like that. But I mean, I don't think I ever feel with an audience, you fill it with, like, you know, the business side of sometimes just because you're like the audience you're, like, grateful for because that's the reason you're here. Sometimes you got to go do the business side of things. And then you're like, yeah, but business.

[Will Compton]

Side, you can like, kind of turn it on and off. I feel like the. The being on thing is like when you're just walking somewhere and someone's like, hey, I like you for this. And then you feel like, okay, I have to make sure this person has a good experience.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. That way they.

[Will Compton]

It's like a. The Move it Forward or what's that movie, Pay it Forward. And they're just like, one person tells two people. It's like, we got to make sure.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

This person's happy with their experience and move on. If that happens too many times, that's when it kind of gets a little draining.

[Nate Bargatze]

Be nice. And that's what's. That's the easiest part about it. It's really a lot easier just to be nice and move on. And it's like, it is funny if you. Someone that doesn't want to be like that, you're like, well, you make it much harder by being kind of mean.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You could just be nice and it would move very quickly.

[Co-host/Guest]

No doubt.

[Will Compton]

Has there ever been a person that you've, like, kind of looked up to and then you meet him and you're like, fuck, don't meet your heroes type thing. You brought up one person that universally seems like people are not a huge fan of. That's Jerry Seinfeld.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So I've only been. I've talked to him once.

I'm a giant Seinfeld fan. So I. I still want to go to. So I don't have. There was a lot of people that have said that. They didn't. He can be kind of standoffish or he can be. And they would be there with comics and stuff like that. I mean, I don't look at that too much because the year is 60 something years old, like doing comedy for 40 years or more. So some of that I look at, like. Yeah. Does he want to talk to, like. I mean, I'm an open micr to him. Like, you know, he's done comedy so much longer than me. Like, not that I'm an open mind, but you know what I mean? Like, it's like, you're so. If you were having. Talking to some seventh grader about being a lineman or something, like, playing football, you'd be like, what are we gonna talk about, dude? Like, I don't. I can't. You're too new. So sometimes, like, I think of it like that, like, people were like, oh, he wasn't. Like, comics specifically could think. Like, I didn't like the way he left. And you're like, what do you want him to do? Like, just. I don't know. Like, yeah, that. So I've had. No. I. Louis C.K. i had a little bit with when I first started. Now it's not. I mean, obviously he's come back down to reality A little bit.

[Will Compton]

That happens a little bit.

[Nate Bargatze]

That happens a little bit.

[Will Compton]

Have you heard Pete Davidson's a bit about that he talks about. I guess Louis CK Was hosting snl and then Pete Davidson got high, and he was walking through to go to the elevators, and, like, Louis CK Caught up with him, and he was like, hey, stop getting high. You're ruining your fucking life. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, kind of dug into him. And Pete so high is like, that didn't happen. There's no way. That actually just happened.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And the next day, whoever. Who's the guy. Is it Lauren that. Yeah. He calls Pete into the office, and essentially he's like, people have done coke here before. Like, just, I guess, don't let Louis CK Smoke. And then his whole bit is going into. So you'd be so happy when I found out on one great day that he was jerking off in front of ladies and stuff like that. And it's a pretty funny deal.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. It's like, he. Louie's been. I. I have, like, now. It's not been bad. When I was. When I. I remember I opened for him once a long time ago, and he was just kind of like. I don't know. He was just. I mean, look, at one point, Louis was on top of the world. Like, so in. You know, we're in New York. Like, I mean, he is the biggest comic on the planet, and. And it would come off. Sometimes you can meet him and he'd be kind of like, jerky or, like, you know, just not nice. Not being nice. And you're like, you know, and you're a young comic, and you're just thinking, like, I'm just. I'm nobody, dude. Like, just, I'm not. And I'm not trying to ask. You're trying to get out of his way. You're trying to do all these things. And he would just, you know, I remember you just say, like, you, I brought him up on stage and you'd be like, all right, everybody, y' all excited to see your headliner tonight. Please welcome Louis ck Like, and then I brought him on stage and he's like, don't introduce me like that. And look, in a weird way, there's a valid point. And to be like, they are there to see him. I don't really need to say anything, but please welcome Louis CK but the other side of it, I've been doing comedy six years. At this point, I don't know what to do. I'm nervous. Like, like, as part of you, like, why don't you think about the situation that we have? I'm getting. I can't believe I'm here. I can't believe I'm getting to go up in front of you. This is, It's a sold out room. I've never been in front of a sold out room. There's a lot of things playing into it. So you're like. There was like that kind of stuff with Louie where he would just, like, say to you, like, what do you want me to do, dude?

[Co-host/Guest]

How'd you. How'd you introduce him?

[Nate Bargatze]

Just where you're like, are y' all excited? You know, I'm from. You're like, giving his credits and all this stuff. And he. It's just like, you don't have to say all my credits. You don't. They know who they're here to see, which is true. And that makes. You don't need to say it. Like. Yeah, but it would just be like, he'd come tell you that, but in, like, kind of an aggressive way. And you're like, louie, I don't know what to do, dude. I'm. No, I'm so nervous about this whole experience. I just don't want you to be mad.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, I, I. And you're mad, clearly. And then now. Or I don't need. No, not that he's that mad, but it's just being like, just be regular, man. Just be normal. You don't even. I don't even know the green room.

[Co-host/Guest]

Like, I'm trying my best.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm trying to like, hey, I'm just doing whatever I can do. Like, I did a joke and then he went up and made fun of my joke, and that made me so mad. I was so mad about this. I was so mad about this for a long time because it was just like. It was like, dude, we're nobodies, man. I'm. I got paid 75 that night, like, I think for hosting, so price. 75 bucks. That's it. And I'm fine. And I. It's. I would do. I would do that gift for free. But you're like, what do you. I'm. Again, I'm not. I'm just.

[Co-host/Guest]

So when you got off the stage, he came up and made fun of your joke?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I was pretty upset by that.

[Will Compton]

You remember the joke?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it was the joke I had about.

If.

I don't have a gun in my house, I have, like, a knife or something in my. Next to my bed. So if my. If a. But I have my wife sleep next to the door, so if someone broke in, I can shove her at it. And then it was something like that joke. I'm not great at memory. And another one's like, would I take a bullet for. For my wife? That was it. And I was like. And I said, yes, because how could I ever take a bullet? That's pretty fast, you know, for a gun to be. You can't, like, hear a gun go off, then jump in front of it. It would hit her so quick. So you're like, I just would say, yeah, I will take a bullet. I'll take a bull for anybody, because I'm never going to be able to get in front of that bullet.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And that was like, kind of the joke. And then he was like, well, you stand in front of him when the person holds a gun, you then get in front of her. He, like, just like. He described it the way, like, my wife would describe it. Make it, like, not fun. Like, the way you have. Like, your parent would just be like, well, I don't know if it's gonna work like that. You're like, yeah, it's a joke. We're just trying to have fun.

[Co-host/Guest]

Just knows the whole crowd's gonna laugh.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because it's like, them making fun of me. And then you're like. And then you're just, like, sitting there like, you know, I'm 27 years old. Like, why would you. What do I have to do with anything? Right?

[Will Compton]

Like, please leave me out of this.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I'm just doing a spot, dude. I'm hosting. Hannibal is supposed to be on that show, too. Burris. And he didn't even show up to the first show. And he was hosting. And then, like, that was Mad at that. I'll tell you that. I was mad at the whole. His death night snowballs me. I'm like, I'm here.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

We. Hannibal didn't show up. I like, I did, like, a little more time.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because Hannah want to show up and you're still making fun of me. This was. Hannibal is, like, starting to. Because I started with Hannibal and Hannibal was like. He started writing for SNL at this point. He was on 30 Rock, I think, or writing for 30 Rock. Man. Hannibal's great. And so he was, like, starting to, like, really kind of blow up. And we were. And I was just, you know, still at the bottom, so I didn't care for the whole thing. But now it's been fine. I've never told Louis that, but why would I Hopefully watches the show.

Up.

[Co-host/Guest]

You're, like, texting Hannibal. You know, this is going to happen.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

You guys fucking had it out for me, huh?

[Nate Bargatze]

Dude. Yeah, Hannibal. Well, Hannibal was late because of 30 Rock, but I remember. I just remember thinking, why? Like, I'm the one here.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I'm just getting trashed.

[Will Compton]

He didn't say nothing to Hannibal.

[Nate Bargatze]

If I wasn't here, there'd be no one else but you on the show. Yeah. You know now you didn't say anything to Hannibal. He was excited. Animals on the show. Hannibal was like, again, starting to kind of rise up and do good. So it was like, it was cool to have Hannibal.

[Co-host/Guest]

Were you thinking in your head at the time, I'm never doing this again?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I mean, I. You would use that. I mean, honestly, I would use it for, like, I hate this dude. And, like, I will make sure he knows me. Right. Like you. Honestly. Not to act like a brag and. Or anything, but then your head at the moment, I would always just flip it to, like, all right, I'll. I will be positive that, you know, and he would never. Louie would never remember any of this, as he probably shouldn't. He shouldn't remember it. I was really. There's no reason he would know me at the time. You know what I mean? Like, I don't expect, but these are moments that I would use. God would be. I was so mad about the situation. And then you're like, all right, all right, well, then this is where I'm at in comedy, so I need to be. Get to a level that, like, I'm not going to get treated like this. And so you just use that drive.

[Co-host/Guest]

To, like, chip on your shoulder.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Telling yourself whatever you can.

[Nate Bargatze]

Whatever. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Make sure that, hey, people will know someday, but I'm laughing now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Some other person could probably look at that situation and be like, dude, he, like, said he likes you, and he was making a funny joke at the beginning about you. It was all very sweet. In my head. It's like. I mean, it's Armageddon. I'm like, right. But someone else could be like, no, he was being nice. What are you talking about? Like, I could have read the whole situation wrong.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I did, and I read it the way I read it. And then you just, like, kind of go, all right, I'm gonna grind it.

[Will Compton]

You know, Man, I wonder what you were feeling during his, like, whole. What if he did an hour or whatever, just kind of sitting there and slowly, like, that seed of anger started?

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh.

[Will Compton]

By the end of that hour, it had to be a full plant. Like, you had to be ready.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh. I was like, yeah. I mean, I think I did one more show. We're doing a show for his school, for his daughter's school, like a fundraiser.

So. Because he was at. We were at Caroline's, and he wouldn't be, because, I mean, he's at this point, he's doing Mass Square Garden. So he's just doing this for a fundraiser. And so. Yeah. I mean, it all built in. I mean, I sit there and watch him, though, too. Like, I mean, obviously, he's. He's unreal. Like, so he was like, you know, you sit there watching him, and that's. You know, that's part of you that would hurt is like. Because it's like, the dude that you're, like, sitting there going, like, that's the main guy. Like, Burr. I always had much. Burr was very nice to me and would say things and, like, be very. So you just would have, like, little parts of, you know, where you got treated by this person.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And it. And I'm not trying to reflect on what they are now or anything, but it was like, these were little things that you'd be like, they. They really stick with you. Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

Who's somebody now? Might be Bill Burr. But who are. Who are. Who is a comic or a couple comics that have been, like, the most encouraging that you actually think about back then when you're younger and building these chips on your shoulders and people have kind of pulled you aside or given you any kind of advice or something where it's like, man, this really stuck with me.

[Nate Bargatze]

This.

[Co-host/Guest]

This comic might have no idea. Bill Burr. This stuck with me throughout my entire career.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Burr was. Burr was a Big one. Because Burr, I remember Burr, he told me again, it was at Caroline's and because we'd go watch Burr like before he blew up, and it'd be like you could go sit in the back of the room and watch because it wasn't sold out. And then I remember the next year, it was. It was like they wouldn't even let us come in the room because it was too sold out. And like, so. But Bird, like, when you just. When he knew your name, when he, like, you knew he knew you, and.

It was. It was a really big deal. And then I remember him saying, like, look.

Takes the route that guys like us go. It takes us a long time, but you gain fans and you gain fans for life. And I remember and I always thought about that throughout my whole career, like, how like, you know, like this build up. It take. I've been in comic 20 years and.

It'S all just like a slow, like kind of just always going up. Not a bad thing, but it can be frustrating. It doesn't happen as fast as. Another one someone said was like, it's not as fast as you want, but quicker than you think. Like. And so you had these moments that just like, it kind of takes a slow kind of thing and you got to just kind of grind it out. And so, yeah, Burr was a big part of that ad. Marin. Marin was very nice to me and Fallon obviously did a lot of stuff for me. And so there's just a world of people that end up, you know, doing things that are very. They're just nice to you or they're. They see it and they go like, no, this dude's like the real deal. And you're, you know, you just need that little confidence that.

[Co-host/Guest]

Right. That just that, like a little bit of that.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're doing the right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You want the validation from your peers. I mean, that's all that really matters is what other comics.

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[Nate Bargatze]

At the beginning that you feel like, what do they think of us? You know.

[Co-host/Guest]

Right.

[Will Compton]

Is that process different, though, when you, like, you've been doing it for 20 years, you see a guy that's been doing it for maybe five or six years and they're trying to accelerate their career. Do you ever sit with those guys and be like, hey, just take your time. Like some dudes are, you know, trying to do too much too early.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think a lot. I think sometimes people can do.

They can go to. They can do too much stuff that's like, you know, they're like, I'm Gonna do sketches, I wanna do a podcast. I'm gonna do stand up, I'm gonna do improv. Like, and it's like, well, go be great at one thing. If you can be great at one thing, you can do all the other things, but you have to, you can't just be kind of fine at a bunch of things. You need to really learn how to be great at one thing. And that's. Then you know how to be great at other things because you know what it takes to become great or really good at one.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So I think sometimes like younger comics can spread themselves out and there's too much stuff that they're trying to do.

So you can see that I'm a big, like younger comics. Like, I'm a big, I'm, I'm a big act person. Like, there's a lot of crowd work stuff. I've. Look, I know people can do crowd works. It's easiest to post content on social media as a crowd work and stuff like that. But I'm a. Creating an act is, if you can create an act, it's, it's, it's, it's the best thing you can do and it's, it's the most reliable and it's. When people come see you and do a live show.

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[Nate Bargatze]

They, I mean, they want to see an act. They want to see a whole kind of thing. And Stand up is in such a great spot right now where like we're doing arenas and they're doing. There's a lot of comics doing arenas and doing these big kind of venues and Stand Up's in a pretty wonderful spot. And, you know, guys are selling out and doing big things. And so it's. You want them to be like the exhausting part. You got to create. You got to create an act. You got to constitute stuff. Come coming up with stuff on the fly. Like, you look at like, Shane, like, I know y', all, you know, with Shane Gills, but Shane Gills is like, I haven't seen someone like Shane in a long time. And he's. I. He's unbelievable as a comedian. And like, seeing him, like, I know his, what his next special is going to be, and it's like, it's gonna be great. And he's seen it. I've. I mean, I've seen the hour he's run. I didn't see the taping.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah, we saw, we saw him in Vegas. It was. Dude, I, I really. I think he's one of the best.

[Will Compton]

Smiles creeping up on our faces the minute you said Shane.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, like we, I mean, so Shane is. Yeah, like, I mean, I.

Shane's. I wasn't really there when Shane was there. I don't, I think I was gone. I've been to comedy forever. Shane's like, Shane's also a reminder how old I am. Like, when you realize, like, I mean, he's been in a comedy for a little bit now and.

He was just, he was like. I remember hearing about him when he first came out. He would go out with Dan Soder a lot. Another comic. That's a unbelievable comedian. That's. Soter's really hitting the road now. Soder is a great comedian that if you go watch. Like, me and Soder are very close friends. And, like, he's friends with Mike McDaniels. Soder is. And. But Soter was doing the Bonfire with Big J, and then now he's doing comedy. He's really gonna go hit the road really hard. So Soder, like, that's what you gotta do. Like, you gotta go on the road and you gotta just stay in these and build this stuff up. And if you build. These are guys that. If you build these acts, and they will. Because they. Their acts are gonna be. You start producing hours. If you look at Louis or Carlin or Chris Rock or all this kind of stuff, you know, you're building these hours that you can go. Specials. Gafkin's just putting out a new special. I think it's coming out this week. Maybe it's his 10th hour. You know how hard it is to write 10 hours of material. It's basically impossible. There's no one that's really, you know, that can do it. The limited amount that can do it. It's a very small group. And so it's like, go try to be in that group. Like, that's what. That's what I look at. Like, Stan, try to be in that group to go produce stuff. That's why I think some people get. It's. It's hard to do. It's tiring. And so then you can flip into. Slide into this other stuff where it's like. Whether it be like, if your whole act becomes. I'm not trying to cry. Some people are so great at crowd work. But if your whole act becomes that, then it's like you're not really creating. You know, it's like you're just. I think you get stuck.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Versus if you build an act. I think an act can go. Because people want to go watch a show. I mean, you can't go really in an arena and just be, like, sitting in the top watching a guy get made fun of, you know, in the front row. That's not going to come across as fun for that person up at the top. So there's always as big as it can get, I think. And so, like, the ones that are creating the ax because you're never actually.

[Co-host/Guest]

Like, working on something.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

I'm going to your next show thinking, witty. You can. I like.

[Wolf Tactical Advertiser]

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[Co-host/Guest]

I don't know. I'm assuming like you're just not writing things down or trying to work on bits and be like, I'm going to go take it here. You're just leaning on the fact that you can do crowd work.

[Odoo Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You can go sit and like. Yeah. And I mean, that stuff's super fun. I mean, it's like. And guys are really, really great at Big J. Okerson's un. Big J is one of the funniest people I've ever met in my entire life. And he's the best. And he does all like, he does it and not and it. But Big J has. Can tell stories and he's so great at stories and all this stuff. So it's. I always think I'm trash. I trash crowd work more than most people. But I just see with younger. I just hope that some still. Like, that's why I was so great seeing Shane. And like, when I saw Shane for the first time, I came. He came to Zany's and I went down and watched him before I really knew him and. But I've heard about him. We've kind of like said, what's up? And I watched him and I was like, oh, man, this is crazy, dude. This is like. And it was. And I've got very excited because it was like, yeah, yeah, dude. Like, this is. This dude's gonna be, you know, obviously super funny in this situation, all that. But he has an act and he goes up with an act and goes out and destroys. I mean, we saw him in Charleston and it was like, dude. I mean, they stand up and you could just get a stand ovation immediately. Like you just saw. People are so excited to see him and he's so fun and funny and it just feels different and it's like, it doesn't feel serious. And I think comedy's going that way back that way. Which is a good thing. Where it's comedy that's like being like, yeah, dude, I'm not. No one's trying to tell you what to do or, you know, Shane's not telling you how to vote. He's not telling you how to do any of this stuff. It's like just being funny and like, anybody can watch it. Anybody can, like just, you know, it's like, I'm just having fun, man.

[Will Compton]

Not everybody.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not everybody.

[Will Compton]

I had a. I had a close boy, dude. Yeah, he's the boy. But I. We saw his stand up in Austin shortly after he came on the bus for the first time and we really didn't know about Shane. Like, we knew he got fired from snl. We know he's a comedian on the up, and we're like, hey, we're excited to have him. He crushed it on the podcast. He was so funny. So then we took the time to, like, go watch his YouTube special in Austin. And it is like, I'm by myself, laughing my ass off. And so I go to Arizona and see this family that I lived with.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And one, like, the dad is, you.

[Co-host/Guest]

Know, Fox News dad.

[Will Compton]

He's a Fox News dad. And his bit about Fox News Dad, I was like, hey, you've got to watch this. Stand up. And I put it on, and in the first five minutes is him essentially making a fun of Fox News dads and, like, the wall and all that. And I'm laughing still. It's like the fourth or fifth time I've watched it. And he doesn't laugh, doesn't make a noise, and he just grabs the controller and goes, let's watch something else. And literally turns it off without taking a vote from anybody else. I thought, man, you got to open up.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got to open it up a little bit, bro.

[Will Compton]

I told him that a dozen times. Like, you've got to rewatch it. But then I'll rewatch it, and then I'll hear the Trump stuff. And I'm like, maybe he shouldn't watch it. Yeah, maybe he shouldn't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did that.

[Co-host/Guest]

You're gay, yo.

[Will Compton]

What?

[Co-host/Guest]

He does that. You're gay, bro. The military bit that he does with the. The Taliban, when people get to see that.

[Will Compton]

You were with him in Zany's a couple weeks ago, right?

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah. I bet the people at Zany's were so fired up because he had hit us up. It was after Beer Olympics.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

He's like, hey, day after. Yeah, the day after we're recovering, and he's like, hey, Nate and I are gonna. We're gonna go on at Zany's at, like, 9:30 or 10:30 or something like that. I was like, oh, man. Like, I'm like, I'm.

[Nate Bargatze]

Y' all had a pretty big day.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

Like, I was. I'm hurt, bro. He was bruised up, probably prime. Telling you about.

[Nate Bargatze]

He kept showing us. He kept showing us his body.

[Will Compton]

That's more on him, though.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know, but I saw him. Because you tackled him or something in the photo. Yeah. And, like, you're. It's like, y' all just don't, like, realize, like, because Shane's big, too, but he's not, like, strong like y'. All. And so I feel like he gets beat up. It's like a big dog. Like, it's a dog that you're like, that tries to play with. And then you're like, well, I don't know if I'd play with because don't go. Don't go full on.

[Co-host/Guest]

You're like Labrador, retriever, show on Instagram, man. Just being on top of Shane because.

[Will Compton]

It started off if him, like, you know, he gets there. He seems very unenthusiastic to be there. He's like, yeah, we're gonna get buried. Whatever. It is what it is he gets. He does one chug. Like, the first event was a. Was a chug.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And then after that, anytime he lost an event, he'd be behind me and Will just talking like, you guys are bad hosts. You guys are nasty. Quit being nasty.

[Co-host/Guest]

They're all laughing at you. I'm gonna remind you. They're all laughing at you when you chug your.

[Will Compton]

So I go in one of my one rooms and he's there talking, sitting on a chair, and he's like, you, dude. You're a dude. I'll beat your ass right now. So I start wrestling him, and the whole rest of the day, like, turned into that. And then he's talking about all the bruises. Like, buddy, you got to get out in the sun if you don't want to bruise like that. Like, he literally has Michelin Man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Type of skin.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is that what you have to do?

[Will Compton]

I mean, I feel like you got to weather it up a little bit, right?

[Co-host/Guest]

Is that what you have to do?

[Will Compton]

I think. Well, you say older dudes. You see older dudes, you're like, what does their skin look like?

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[Will Compton]

Yeah, Leather's tough. It's durable, it's reliable. It's like the Chevy Silverado if you don't ever go out in the sun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Like one little, hey, how you doing? A little slap on the link. There's gonna be a wealth there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Luckily, Will got some nice thighs and he's got a little suntan on there. Shane. Shane just welted up easy.

[Nate Bargatze]

They told him that. Like that. I've never heard anything like that.

Well, you don't bruise. Just get out of sun right there.

[Will Compton]

Just jump in the sun a little bit.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then also bruised.

[Co-host/Guest]

He goes, that's all you gotta do. Did you just make that up?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think I did.

[Will Compton]

I did essentially make that up. But it makes sense when you really think about it.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah, I guess it does. I guess it does.

[Will Compton]

He got Chandler on me, dude. And Michael Chandler, I mean, he could stand up on this bus no problem and have plenty of room. Little or guy. But he wrestled me in the pool and I almost drowned about six times. And then the rest of the day, it was like he was being.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah, he's a little pit bull, man. He's a bit.

[Will Compton]

It was his right hand, man. It was his guard.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but people. So strong.

[Will Compton]

Oh, dude.

[Nate Bargatze]

Chandler's just. And the best dude.

[Will Compton]

The nicest guy.

[Co-host/Guest]

You're way too nice to be in the octagon like that.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's a wild dog. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But he, like, enjoys it. We were at his. His house for Labor Day weekend last year. His pool was, like four feet deep.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And it's the late night. Everyone's been drinking a little bit. And I see somebody, something, dive into the pool. But their feet don't go in the water. So he essentially dove in the pool and hits his face and comes up. And I'm in the middle of a conversation with somebody. I look back, I'm like, hey, Mike, did you just hit your face on the floor of the pool? And he's like, no, no. He's, like, laughing, just having a good time. And then all of a sudden, his face just starts bleeding everywhere.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh.

[Will Compton]

And I'm like, you gotta go wipe your face. He's like, don't tell my wife. Don't tell my wife. And I was like, she's gonna fight. Look at you. Yeah, she's gonna fight. You look like you just got done with a fight.

[Co-host/Guest]

Dude had a scab from forehead to chin, road rash.

[Will Compton]

And he's like, help me out of the pool. So I literally grab him by his hips, like, right. Like here. And I just remember thinking he's just a dense ball of muscle. That's all this dude is.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

He's just so goddamn strong.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's so strong, Bear.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And then he takes my big ass and throws me around the pool like a child. I was humbled. It was a humbling experience for me.

[Nate Bargatze]

That would be the. That would be the people. I was wondered. Like, a fight would be like, you and him. Which size? Even. Anything else.

[Will Compton]

But if I had any training, I'm sure there'd be a more of an even fight.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. No training, right? It's me. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

No, I'm getting banked. Yeah. He's gonna absolutely take me.

[Co-host/Guest]

I've wrestled him and will that spinning back fish, you guys.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. We were in the octagon one time. I did sneak him with a spinning backfist luckily for him, I stopped.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Because my. The awareness. But that would have probably taken him out.

[Nate Bargatze]

That would take him out.

[Will Compton]

But he's got. He takes me to the ground, it's over, and he's gonna get to these legs. Maybe not an issue at all.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's. He's excited about it. No.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. He sees these little sticks, and he's like, I'm gonna take advantage of for sure.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

But the whole. Whoever was at Zany's, I mean, that was a surprise, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So we did. We were hanging out because I knew he came down because I talked to Shane quite a bit. Like, Shane's going. Not that I. I just like talking to him because he's. I mean, he's. I think he's very funny. And then, like, he's just where he's at in his career, and it's starting to, like, really. I think after this next special, I mean, Shane's gonna really be.

One of the top touring. I mean, he already is a very top touring act. He's gonna be one of the top. And so he's a good dude. And just. So we were just in town. So we were hanging out just that day, and then I was like, I kind of was. I've been kind of wanting to go up. And then I was like, you want to go up? And then he's like, yeah. So we were like, let's just see. And then so we. You know, it was one that people, I don't think, expected me and Shane to do something. And then so we just called Zany's, and they were like, yeah. And they put it on sale, and it sold out immediately. Which we both. You never get used to that. You're both like, in your head, like, is this gonna sell? Like, you think, like, there's no way you thought that. You have a moment, dude.

[Podcast Announcer]

You just.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know when you put yourself out there a little bit and you're like, what if it doesn't? Like, imposter syndrome. Yeah. Like, yeah. And you think like, you're like, all right, Me and Shane gonna do a show? And then everybody's like, we're good. I mean, because it was in. Yeah, let me make a call at like, 4:30. And the show's at 9 or 9:30.

[Will Compton]

How quickly did it sell out?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think in like, 10 minutes or so. It was like. It was like, oh, if you're going.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah, yeah, you're in Nashville, you got to catch that you're fired. The up getting to watch Shane and.

[Nate Bargatze]

You was, I want to do it again because it's like the people that I. We went in there actually we had did some work. I needed to. I needed to like kind of run my hour and like pull some. I needed to figure out some time stuff with my hour. And then Shane just went up there and. But we went up there together at the end and that's what I think people like the most. Is it just me and him on stage hanging out and talking and so I mean, yeah. I hope we talked about. We want to do it again. Like it was. Because we both really enjoyed it and I really like him and he's a. And he's a great. I mean he's a truly great, great comment possibility.

[Co-host/Guest]

You guys torn together?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I mean the only thing I'm clean. So it's like I couldn't. The audience that comes to see me, even though a lot of people that would see me love Shane, but I wouldn't. I mean, I. My kids can come to my show. Like it's all ages, so it's. I wouldn't want to put that much, you know, like someone. If that's the hard part of being clean. You're kind of on your own in the fact that like I. There's only so many. I mean the comics I bring out with me, not that they're all. They're not all clean outside of me, but they have to be clean when they come do my shows. So outside of that, it's. It's like kind of hard to be like. Because it's like my crowds are. I just can't. I just really can't do it. But. So it's like. That's why a situation like that where we just like kind of pop on last minute.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is because then, you know, I think it's people that are comedy fans and.

[Co-host/Guest]

Right. They completely understand that this is like an anomaly of Nate and.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Coming out there. It's not like there's versus like, you know, I might have an entire. My real show. Like there's be an entire family come. Let's bring the grandparents, the grandchildren. And I'm gonna be like, huh, get ready for Shane. And I think they think we'll find Shane very funny. But they also might be like, we didn't expect to hear all those words.

Dude.

[Will Compton]

We had that situation this past weekend with what Kittle Fest and Laser.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You know who Uncle Laser is?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think I've heard his name.

[Will Compton]

He's a. He's a comedian out of Austin, Texas. Yeah, he's hilarious. And I went and saw him at Zany's a few weeks ago and it's all, you know, pussy eating ass. It's as dirty as it gets.

[Co-host/Guest]

Single mom jokes, young gun.

[Will Compton]

Like, yeah, yeah, exactly. So Kittle meets Laser at beer Olympics and reaches out to Lasers, like, hey, I have Kittle Fest coming up. Would you like to come to it and do some stand up like 10 minutes? And laser's like, absolutely, I'll go. And so once I caught wind of this, I caught wind of it at the party and I have seen his standup and it's, you know, me and Will are there. A bunch of our friends are there, but there's also his aunts, his uncles, his grandparents. Like, there's an older crowd as well, buttoned up, wearing their Sunday best type of stuff at a frat party. Essentially. I told him, I was like, brother, have you heard Laser stand up? He's like, no, yo, all right, okay. And he's the first person to go up and dude, it was probably the most mixed review thing I've ever watched in my life because there's like me.

[Co-host/Guest]

And Will, like probably standing there, like smiling, doing this.

[Will Compton]

I mean, it's funny.

[Co-host/Guest]

It's for a crowd that's, you know, rips Marlboros and wears nascar, you know what I mean?

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, it's, they're not scared of hearing the language. But then some people are, are, can be surprised at how dirty something can actually get.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

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[Nate Bargatze]

IBM.

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[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Brings out his harmonica. It talks about one's the pussy and one's the ass. And that's how he learned to eat out chicks. And I'm just looking at the grandma and she's like, yeah, she's looking like, leans over her husband like, did we.

[Co-host/Guest]

See what he's got the harmonica playing though? That gets him out of that can.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just get you out.

[Co-host/Guest]

You just hit harmonica.

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[Will Compton]

It was so funny because he didn't hold back. He didn't look at the crowd and go, I should probably tighten a couple things up. We went full bore right into it.

[Co-host/Guest]

No doubt that I fully believe. His eyes glazed over and he knew the situation he was in. He's like, I just got to fudgeing get through this.

[Will Compton]

Just got to own it.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just got to run it. Yeah. I mean, so you get. You're like, it is what you do. So it's like, yeah, just go do what you do. And then, you know, they either get their laugh or they won't.

[Will Compton]

What was the choice for you to go clean?

[Nate Bargatze]

I just started that way. Like it was just how, you know, grows up in the South, Southern Christian. Like, well, I wasn't allowed to watch anything that stuff like that. And so my 13th.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we saw that. We were watching some of your bits before. That was hilarious.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. It wasn't. I mean, I wasn't allowed to watch. And there's so many movies I've missed because I just was never gonna watch them. I never watched South Park.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I still have. I know. I never Watched it when we weren't allowed to watch Simpsons. That was a big deal. When I was young, Simpsons came out. It was like, because Bart was like against authority. Like. Yeah, it's like a lot of parents didn't like that. It was like this kid.

[Co-host/Guest]

Did your dad watch the Simpsons?

[Nate Bargatze]

No. No. No one's back.

[Co-host/Guest]

Sunday Night Football's over. Simpsons, Come on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, now it was. Yeah, it was just very. I mean, I just. When I grew up, it was just a lot. It was just different. It was. The south is pretty strict and like what you could do, I mean, you couldn't dance or. I went to Donaldson Christian Academy. But they did. We didn't have a prom. We had like a banquet. And then you couldn't dance because it was like dancing was not. And it wasn't like the parents don't believe dancing is bad. They believe dancing is bad. But it's like you just would have, you know, back then, I mean, an 80 year old in 1997 that she thinks dancing is bad. So you're kind of like not doing it to be like kind of.

[Will Compton]

You can get a little space, leave some room for the Lord.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you just go. Well, we would, we could. You could go. The parents would then rent. They would rent out a room and then everybody could have like a more of a prom dance kind of after you would do a banquet. Like that's kind of a proper thing for like, you know, those older people to be like, we're not, you know. And then you go do the dance thing. Yeah, it was, you know, so it's like I grew up. You just grew up in. Under those like standards. So it's like I just started. I just started clean and then I was always clean and. And then, you know, once you start, it's like kind of just the only way I go now did you've had.

[Co-host/Guest]

A glow up about you. I remember seeing you in NASCAR and you had that your haircut's not that way. But you were laced up with a skin fade.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

Compared to years past. I mean your stand up a couple years ago, the way you were a couple years ago, you've aged very well. Your skin, I've noticed the entire time is phenomenal. But you're like, you were like one of the dads where you show up at the barbecue and you're like, oh, hey, Nate's here. This will be a fun time now. It's like you show up at. You like, hey, Nate's here. He's. You guys, he's pretty big.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'M going. No bread. Yeah. What's. What's the glow up Been like, I'm not fun. I brought my own food.

[Co-host/Guest]

You know Nate, you don't talk to him anymore.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been. I mean, the whole. You know, my whole run is. I'm 44, so I quit drinking in 2019, and a big part of that was, like, I was just getting. I knew I was, like, starting to go to the theaters and all this stuff. I knew if I wanted to get where I wanted to go, I couldn't drink. Like, I wasn't able to. When I drank, it's like. It's not like I just drank at home or did all these things. Some people can drink, and they. You might think you don't have a problem because you're not. Like, you go a week without drinking. But it's like, I didn't. When I started, I didn't know how to stop and, like, all that stuff. And so I knew when I'd go on the road, it's like, I start. Thursday night would be a fun night out at a club, but then you drink that night, and then you're just hungover the rest of the weekend. So then you're. Then. Then you're just trying to get through the shows because you don't feel great. And so I was like, if I need. If I want to produce the material that I want to produce and tour and all that, I needed to stop that. So that was. That was the. When the first one happened because I just stopped drinking. And so, I mean, just literally, drinking will just help a lot of things. I still don't eat great, and I'm trying. Now that's the second one I'm trying to overcome. Because it's like being on the road again, it's, like, hard on your body. You kind of gotta treat it like. Not an at. Like, not a full athlete, but as both y' all like. But it's like half of it. You have to somewhat be so mentally you can handle all the things that you have to go do. And so you can be in good moods and. And be fun and then not be, like, just on edge all the time and all that. So I'm trying to work on that as well. But, yeah, man, we had a good time. I mean, the whole beginning of it. Yeah, there was a lot of drinking. I mean, me and Hannibal said we. Because I don't think he drinks anymore. I don't know if he does now or not, but he didn't a few Years ago, and we were talking about it, Hannibal said something that always stuck with me. He was like, you know, he goes. I look at it. He's like, we. We put up some good numbers because we did good. Because a lot of times when you quit drinking, everybody thinks, like, why you're not being fun. You're like, no, I did all I did. What you're doing right now.

[Odoo Advertiser]

I did.

[Nate Bargatze]

I already did all this. You just weren't. You were not old enough to be there. But, yeah, you're like, I already went and did all this, and it was a fun time, and I had a great bet. And then there's a. You just hit a point where you get older and you're like, about 40. You start going, like, all right. You're like. I mean, just. Stuff starts hurting. Like, you just. You're like, I can't wake up and feel like this every day. Like, this is brutal.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it's a brutal feeling. That fog. That fog is terrible.

[Nate Bargatze]

But it's the most fun in the.

[Will Compton]

End, during it for sharing.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is the most fun. I mean, the seniors Beer Olympics, like, that looked like it's the. It's a wonderful, wonderful time.

[Co-host/Guest]

It was awesome.

[Will Compton]

It was so much fun, man.

[Co-host/Guest]

You ever want to come out of retirement for a day?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I know you're more than welcome. Yeah. There's always moments where you're like, you know, I hung out this weekend that I feel like could get you not to. It's football because I did the American Century championship. John Elway. John. I've been meeting John Elway, who's back. John Elway is a good time.

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I was telling Dan Soto's a giant John Elway fan. Just, he's from Denver. And I was, like, telling Dan, I was like, john Elway could make you quit drinking, come out of retirement drinking. Dan doesn't drink either. And because he's like, just like a good. Like, you're like, this dude's the most fun. And you don't think. Have you met him?

[Will Compton]

No, I've never met John, but I hear a bunch of stories.

[Co-host/Guest]

You don't think he's seen him in.

[Nate Bargatze]

Front of a kid? Like, you think he's going to be. His son is awesome, too. Son's a big Shane Gills fan. His son's great. Big comedy fan. I'm very big fan of you guys. Like, just.

[Will Compton]

Does Shane know that his son's a big Shane Gillis fan?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think so. I don't know.

[Co-host/Guest]

You know?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Shane nuts over football players.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You know, legends.

[Nate Bargatze]

But he was like someone that you're like, yo, this dude's the. I mean, you just think he's gonna be stowe. Like this. I don't know, it's John Elway. So you just. You just think he's gonna be like, you'll meet him. He's like, how you doing business? And you're like, this guy is a good time, man.

[Co-host/Guest]

Just like, what? A lot of charisma.

[Nate Bargatze]

A lot of charisma. Like, laughs a lot. You say anything, he's laughing at it. Fun. Like, you just feel like you're going to just be with him and he'd be like, you're like, yeah. He's like, they take the boat out and you're. I think, on the boat. But he's like, you just. He's talking about it like, oh, you.

[Will Compton]

The boat, though.

[Nate Bargatze]

Showed me the boat he mentioned about. I think I could have gone out on this boat. But it was just like. It was just like a very surprising meeting someone that you're like, oh, did. You're not what I thought. Like, you realize Peyton Manning going to Denver, you're like, yeah, dude, yeah, yeah. Put anybody in a room with John Denver, John Elway, you're gonna be like, yeah, I'll go, dude, you're the best.

[Co-host/Guest]

That's cool, man. Who. Who else, like, who else have you met that's been like, oh, dude, you are.

[Will Compton]

Because that is the best feeling. Like, we talked about the people you meet, and you're like, man, don't meet your heroes, but the people you meet. And they're either exactly like you thought they would be or even better. Like you're saying, yeah, that's got. That's the best feeling.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, A lot of, like, cable guy is like that. Larry. Cable guy.

[Co-host/Guest]

Larry's awesome, bro. Yeah, man.

[Will Compton]

I would have loved to join you in that enthusiasm.

[Co-host/Guest]

He's obviously a massive Nebraska fan. So when we had our. One of our tailgates last year in Nebraska, he came on the. We had the podcast out there at Nebraska, and he's just the nicest fucking dude, man. He's just so funny. Just salt of the earth. Exactly like what you kind of see on camera. And even better just like, you're hanging out with him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that. That's the part that you want is like, when you can see when you meet someone and they're, like, super nice, and they're just. It seems like they're like a great. I met Devonte Adams this week, and he was awesome. He was like, kind Of a funny dude, like, and just like kind of quiet and. But just my experience with him was very nice to talk to and like, it was just super fun. Vrabel was there. I met Vrabel's a good time.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You see why you want to like, you can see why you'd want to play for like, you get it. Like, that's what's interesting is like when you, when you go, oh, this is why people like, like you and want to play. Like, because you're like, you're, you're. He just feels like he'd be one of. He'd be you. Like, he'd be like, if you played for me, you'd be like, he's just you. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

There's a totally different dynamic though, when you're his player.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

Like, him now with us is great. Like, we had him on the podcast very recently.

[Co-host/Guest]

He came on yesterday.

[Will Compton]

I know, but I'm trying to play because this, this comes out.

[Co-host/Guest]

Oh yeah.

[Will Compton]

For whatever.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

He, he was literally on yesterday. And the three of us have a group chat, Me, Will and Braves. And it's our podcast was every bit of that group chat. Like, it can be awkward at times. It's funny at times. He gets serious. Like, you just don't. He like, Rabel's a guy that dictates how the conversation is going to go, especially when you're the player.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

In the first year we said 2018.

[Co-host/Guest]

He's got that alpha energy. And you could just tell like the dynamic even on him on yesterday, you just, you know, there's still those nerves of like, you know, is he.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we're grown man. Will's turning 30, 33 this year, right?

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I literally turned 32 in less than a week.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And we're, there's literally nerves around being around another man. Like, hey, yeah, but he can't hurt us anymore.

[Nate Bargatze]

We can't.

[Will Compton]

There's nothing he can do.

[Co-host/Guest]

We started joking about fighting. Then I really thought, is he. Does he.

[Will Compton]

He's trying to legit for a second.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

No, but he, he is like a good time variable has got to be the best time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. He's a guy in that dynamic. You know, I, I, but I've always liked the New York comedy had a dynamic like that. Like you always like, but that were the bigger comics above you and not even necessarily like fame wise, but just the, you know those guys that started before you. There's always, there's always like a respect that you're like, you know, like you just older guys. I remember Robert Kelly. Bobby Kelly, who does podcast, does the Bonfire now with Big J. Bobby's, like, so funny and. But Bobby's like, a guy that, like. I feel like Bobby told me to go do something, I would just have to go do it because he was. He's. You know, it's. You just looked up to him so much when he started. I opened for him a lot and did this stuff. So, like, the. I've always liked that, like, kind of like, in. In stuff. I think it's a good thing.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah, they're like a. Like a natural or just subtle power dynamic that happens that you just never really get.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Kevin Hart talks about Keith Robinson. Like, Keith Robinson was in. Is a New York comic that was, like, with he. You know, J. Big J, and Kevin. And they would. He did. He helped them a lot. And, you know, Kevin Hart's obviously the most famous person on the planet, and Keith is. Most people would not know who Keith is, but I think Kevin's gotta feel like a little. You know, it's like, there's a little. Like, Keith could. Keith can say whatever he wants to Kevin. Like, the situation variable could sit down and say whatever he wants to you. Whatever. Like, you're still gonna feel like you gotta just take it and, like, no question.

[Will Compton]

And that hurts. Like, it hurts to agree with that, but it's totally true.

[Co-host/Guest]

Got that pizza feed. And I'm just like, yeah, yeah, he.

[Will Compton]

Did say that to you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

That was tough.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

Oh, who's somebody. Who's somebody that you've met, that you've been absolutely fired up to meet?

[Nate Bargatze]

I met Tiger.

[Co-host/Guest]

Tiger Woods.

[Will Compton]

That's a solid one.

[Nate Bargatze]

And that was before or after? After. Again, very humble, very cool. I tell you what. People just need a little.

[Will Compton]

People need a little.

[Nate Bargatze]

I can tell you if you think someone's, like, getting a little too high on the horse.

Yeah, there could be. I got the. You got the pill to make that all better.

But he was. Yeah, he was awesome. I mean. Yeah, he just felt like I did a corporate gig for the PGA or something. It was. Him and Rory were there. This was. And I didn't get to meet Rory. I would have liked to meet Rory, and I just didn't get to meet him. But Roy seemed very nice, and then. But Tiger was there, and they. I was like. Kind of like, it'd be really cool to meet him. And they were. The lady was like, yeah, we're having. And he kind of came up and. And I just got to briefly talk to him, and then we just talked about. He went on the Tonight show and talked about Fallon, and it's kind of quick. We got a. I got a picture. Like, that's not just me and him. It was just taking picture of kind of the moment and the best kinds. Candidate.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Where you, like, just take a bunch of pictures. Like.

[Will Compton]

I know.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't want to ask.

[Will Compton]

He's coming. Make sure you have your camera out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so that would. That. I mean, that was like one that I was like, you know, Jordan would be another one. But Tiger is probably the. Is the biggest for me because Tiger, I watched his whole thing, like, when he turned pro. I mean, I'm. He's 48 or 9 or something like that, and I was just the age of, like, watch that guy's whole existence. So, yeah, Tiger was one that we was like, you're like, this is crazy, dude.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'd imagine meeting, like, Tom Cruise would be like, there's like, big ones.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's very nice. Yeah, he's. He's his night. He's someone that you should want. You should meet Tom Hanks. Yeah, one of them. Like, he's like one though, that you're like, go. You. You like. If you. If it's like, if you saw him out and someone's like, you know, don't meet your hero. Like, you can go meet time. That dude's a good dude. Yeah, he's. He's a. He was very, very nice. Very nice.

[Will Compton]

I wonder what Tom Cruise is about. I wonder what his.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think I've heard Scientology, right?

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah, it's like, that's like those good movies and then. Scientologist.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's the thing. I'd be scared to meet him because I would. Would probably become a Scientologist.

[Will Compton]

Have you been on. You've seen the Scientology building on 8th Avenue?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I haven't.

[Will Compton]

There's one right on 8th. You go down, and every once in a while there'll be a little thing out there that says free personality test. And I've been tempted to just pull over.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, there's a. There's a.

[Will Compton]

Check it out.

[Nate Bargatze]

I get nervous times. Like, they're. They're good. And I think they could. You go in there and you're like, all right, all right. Yeah. They go, yeah, if you. If you just have any. Which I think is how you should live with any question of anything. Just question everything a little bit. And then you go see, they go into Scientology. And then Tom Cruise was in there. You're like, that dude's the most charming person. The people that have met him. I knew a guy that worked as a director and a writer, and they had him writing on one of the Mission Impossibles a while ago. And they said that they told him when he. When they met him, they go, look, when you meet Tom, they go. Just so you know, you're gonna think y' all are gonna be best friends. Like, that's how charming he is. Is. He's just. He takes over, and you're just like, this dude's the best.

[Will Compton]

I love the way you're saying, I know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And you're like, we're gonna. You're like, we might be hanging out every day of our life, and that's just what it's gonna feel like, because that's. That's what he is. It takes that kind of charm to be that. And then they were. He was. He went into a hotel room in the top floor. They rented the whole floor out. You know, I mean, you can't. That guy, like, is a walking Walmart. Like, he's a billion dollar. Like, he's just like. You have to be like. And I think he tries to, like, get on a motorcycle alone and just drive off. You're like. You're like. You're like the most important person alive, dude. You're. You're. All these movies, all this stuff. You can't just run away from us like that. Yeah, but, you know, like, when he.

[Co-host/Guest]

Gets on a motorcycle, like, just all of a sudden music starts playing, too, like, as he drives off, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

So my buddy said he was sitting in. He's sitting in the hotel. So they tell him that. So Tom Cruise is here, and he's facing the window, and they're sitting on the couch looking at Tom, and they're talking about, like, all right, we'll go do this for mission. Then we're gonna. And Tom's kind of going through the whole thing, and then they see Tom start to squint because the sun was setting. So the sun's coming in the window. Yeah. And it's starting to squint. So then they say. He says, Tom just pushes a button on. I don't even know. It might have been, like, an iPad or it might have been something pushes a button. Two people come in with sunglasses. He's got an option. So they both have a pair. And he just looks and then grabs this pair and puts it on and. But just keeps talking the whole time and then never says, yeah, yeah, those are my sunglasses people or whatever. You should say to go like, hey, what was that?

[Will Compton]

My light diversion people.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it doesn't make sense. Like you're like are they just back there? Does that button just for sunglasses, right? Like you have people just for sunglasses or like how would they know they came out of A room offered two.

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Nate Bargatze]

Still talking and just goes and puts it on. They leave and then he still just keeps going.

[Co-host/Guest]

You know like if you're in there and you just kind of like look around, nobody says nothing.

[Nate Bargatze]

You gotta ask?

[Will Compton]

I would. I would say, hey, who were they?

[Co-host/Guest]

It's probably one of those moments where you look around, you see everybody still dialed in. You're kind of just too scared to say anything.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think he's taken over the situation. He's talking so much, and he's probably. And he's into it, like, because he's, like, doing these stunts. He does all that stuff himself. So he's like, you know, and you're just kind of, like, caught up in it, and you might almost expect it to be honest. You might sit there and go, yeah, yeah. That's what they should have brought him. Sunglasses. And that's insane that y' all made him push the button.

You should have just felt it.

[Co-host/Guest]

Somebody just got fired.

[Nate Bargatze]

Someone should have said, you know what? It's five o'.

[IBM Advertiser]

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[Nate Bargatze]

The sun's starting to set. Let's go be around Thomas. Sunglasses. And then you just get on that side. You could. I remember one time talking to super rich dude that said, like, he was trying to buy a house, and he said, you know, because the master bedroom only had one bathroom. And he said it like that. And I was like, what? Like, master bedrooms only, like, they have two full bathrooms.

[Wolf Tactical Advertiser]

And.

[Nate Bargatze]

But in the moment when they say it, you're like, yeah, dude, screw that house.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Are you out of your mind? How embarrassing is that? That they. They build a house with just one bathroom? Yeah. In the master bedroom. It's a 30,000 square foot house.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's like, they didn't have two bathrooms in the master bedroom. You're like, well, that's. I'm glad you didn't buy it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what? They deserve it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Never sell.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah, that's a good point.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You start realizing, like, my stupid house. I got one bathroom in the master bedroom, and I look like an idiot.

[Will Compton]

It hope you got. He never comes over, I hope.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. You can't invite him.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Man, that's crazy. You look out the window.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Change my bathroom.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I didn't even know that was a possibility. To want two bathrooms in a minute. Like, that's a dream that you're like, I didn't know you. I could even have that dream. But now all I think about every.

[Will Compton]

Day, I'm doing, like, two full bathrooms.

[Nate Bargatze]

When I look at my two bathtubs, two showers in the master bedroom.

[Will Compton]

Doesn't make any sense. That's unpractical.

[Nate Bargatze]

And next time you look at your dumb wife brushing her teeth next to you, you're like, you should Be in your own bathroom and you're just furious. Like you. What are we doing? All crammed in here?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

Pissed off.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

You gotta share a scene, ma'.

[Will Compton]

Am. We got a. I know.

[Co-host/Guest]

I feel like we're.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Co-host/Guest]

I know. Yeah. We have a heart.

[Will Compton]

You wanted the first one.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is the shittiest moment of your career?

[Nate Bargatze]

There's been a bunch.

Kind of thing. I bombed on a cruise once.

And.

And so you're on the boat with these people and can't get off. I remember, like, I had to do three shows and so I do the first two shows. One show goes. The point when you would do them, you'd have to do three shows of half an hour. So you'd have to do a half hour clean, half hour dirty, and then you'd have another show that's like a half hour. And so this is a show actually that a lot of crowd work, comics that can do crowd work are very good at because it's like, that's kind of the best thing because you can just go do. Talk to the crowd. Every. Every crowd different. Every show is different because you're talking to the crowd. But for me, I didn't have like enough. I'm not a crowd work person. I didn't know how to do it. And then I'm not great at it. And then I only had material. So I go do it and like, I just bomb, like, because they. They've all heard the jokes because I've only had like basically an hour. So I split them up into the two of those 30 minute shows. And then the third show I was like, well, maybe those people won't come back. Well, they come back and they just. And I wrote. I remember after show I wrote an elevator with guys and they were saying, they're like, yeah, there's just two comics and they go, this one comic was great. The other guy, they loved him. And on me they go, that other guy is like, not good. And I mean, I'm. My shoulder is touching that man who's saying that. But I have like my hat on. And not that he would know me. So that was a pretty tight. Like, I was in. I was in an elevator in the ocean. I think it's a moment that you would think you'd be happy and instead you just. I mean, I'm just. And I just got off whatever floor was. The next floor. I just walked off.

[Co-host/Guest]

God, that would be brutal. He's talking about being on a cruise ship. He did a. He did some shows and he bombed. And he's on the elevator. And the guy. The gentleman next to him, there's a, you know, crowd on the elevator. He's wearing a hat, so they can't. They don't recognize who he is. They're talking about how, you know, this one comic, they loved him, and they're like, but that last one, like, he just wasn't very good.

[Will Compton]

And he said, he's just me.

[Co-host/Guest]

He's just standing there.

[Will Compton]

That's gotta be tough.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's tough.

[Will Compton]

You ever get over that?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You remember it's always funny afterwards because you're like, you're glad it happens. Like, you're glad in the sense that it's a funny story to tell. Like, you know? But, yeah, it's pretty tough. I'll tell you, one of the ones that hurt me the most was I auditioned for Last Comic Standing when Geraldo hosted, and.

Craig Robinson was on it.

[Odoo Advertiser]

It.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because he had his. Craig had a movie. Very funny joke that Gerardo said. Craig Robinson had the movie A hot tub time machine. And. And so right when you say, he goes, I got a new movie, Hot Tub Time Machine. Geraldo goes, oh, what's it about? This is very funny because obviously it's about a hot tub time. There's no way to describe it, but hot tub time machine.

So when I auditioned for that, I did not get it. And I thought. I always thought, like, being clean, I was like, oh, I'm gonna get. Get like, all the. You know, I'm the only one clean.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So, like, I can do this stuff. And I didn't get it. And they. And I. And I never got close with Last Conversation. And that. That was a one. That. That was like a one that was like. It. It hit me in my. Like, it hurt. It really hurt. Because you just think, like, all right, I'm gonna go on this show. I'm gonna do this. You kind of get your career kind of mapped out a little bit. You think all this stuff's gonna happen, and then it just doesn't happen.

[Will Compton]

Another chip for the shoulder.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's just another. But it, man, when it. You know, when it. When you're in it, you're like, what am I doing, dude? Like, it's so frustrating.

[Co-host/Guest]

But, yeah, then our last one.

[Will Compton]

Drunkest you've ever been.

[Co-host/Guest]

Where the scariest just eat you up. And you're like, man, I gotta correct you.

[Will Compton]

Wake up the next day, you have to dim the lights, get a quill and some ink out, dude, and write some freehand poetry while the candles are lit, that type of stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean some of this I've talked about on my. In my act. So usually anything that I've already talked about it was. I mean one was at.

I guess an Indian casino or Native American casino.

[Co-host/Guest]

Washington football team casinos.

[Nate Bargatze]

Washington football thing. Yeah. Why didn't they keep Washington football? Dude, I know it's the good name.

[Co-host/Guest]

The commander sucks a good Washington football.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was like, you made you think, well, every team's. We should be the Tennessee football team.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was like, these names are all stupid.

[Will Compton]

Easy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but so I went to that and I, I remember I. It was like three hour drive from Phoenix and so I was out in Arizona. I drove to this casino to do this little one nighter. I mean this is, you know, I'm nobody making no money.

[Will Compton]

Hawking stick resort.

[Nate Bargatze]

I wish this was not even that. This was. I think I did a. Some other kind. It was like. It was something. I was making 150, but it was like, you know what? I'll just go drive. Drive to middle of nowhere Arizona and then go back to Phoenix and then fly home. So I go out and I was like, oh, it'll be fun. And you know, I'm thinking like, I'll just go to bed early, get up, have a nice drive back. Because I'm like, I'm not gonna be hanging out with anybody. And then so we get done with the show, then I'm hanging on the casino. Then you just end up meeting like some fun dudes. And next thing you know it's like it's five in the morning and I'm just trying to go to bed. I gotta get up at like, like eight to drive three hours back. So I get up and I'm driving back and I mean I'm so. I feel so awful. And, and when I. And I have this in my joke. I walked out of the casino and there's like wolf like I was. And this really happened. There's a wolf like in, in my path to go to my car in the parking lot and just sitting there staring at me. And I was like, like, you know, like. I don't know what this is. Like, it made me really. Dude, I. And I swear it was a wolf. And so I was like, this is insane. You know, because I was like, I don't, you know, what is that? Is it a wolf? Is it the guy I hung out with last night? I don't know.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so I went.

[Co-host/Guest]

Twilight.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. He turned into a wolf. And now he's like Good day, sir. So I just went back inside. And I remember I just rolled my stuff back in the casino, and I just stood there. I'm not talking to anybody. Like, it's. And I just kind of stood inside for a second. Then I went back out, and then the wolf was gone. And so then I went to my car, and then I drove back. And. And then when I was driving back, I'm in the. I mean, middle of nowhere, Arizona, just on a road alone. And a helicopter lands in front of me and picks up, like, a life support, some guy on the side of the road and then takes them and flies. And I have to wait for that to happen. And so. And I'm so hungover that I'm, like, annoyed. I'm like, here we go. Like, you know, I mean, I've never had to stop for a helicopter in my life. I don't expect to ever do it ever again. And I handled that moment hungover, just like. And one. Look at this every day, every day, every helicopter, every day, every day. I'm not. I should have video of this. I should have pictures. I didn't do any of that. I just was like, yeah, we. I was like, can I get around him? Like, it's a hell. I mean, he's just in the middle of it. There's no buildings. There's just me. This helicopter's five of us, and it's the helicopter people, that guy and me. And. And then finally it took off and I kept driving. And so that was, like. That was a tough one.

[Will Compton]

That was all that happened.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think so. I really. Yeah. Because it was. It was the day after. It feels like so far away now. But. Yeah. That. I do believe that all that stuff happened. And that was stuff like when I drank. Like, I. Because I talk about that in my special and, like, on one of my specials or something. But it's. Yeah, those are moments that you're, like, such fun moments that you think if. When you first start drinking, you're like, stop drinking. You're like, well, I'm not gonna now be fun anymore.

[Co-host/Guest]

You want the moment to live forever? Gotta keep it going.

[Nate Bargatze]

Gotta keep it going. Yeah. Ma'.

[Odoo Advertiser]

Am.

[Co-host/Guest]

Dude, thanks for coming on. I know you have a hard stop at 5, so we'll let you get out of here. Thank you for coming on. Thank this fly for being with us as well.

[Nate Bargatze]

Has been around us.

[Will Compton]

He's been ripping. He's been living his best life.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Guest]

But just rips around. I'm just sitting there.

[Will Compton]

You hit that damn light about six times.

[Co-host/Guest]

Yeah. But thanks a lot, man. This has been awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

Absolutely, man. Congrats to you guys too, y'. All. It keeps blowing up. I love seeing it.

[Co-host/Guest]

Thank you, bro.

[Will Compton]

Man, thank you, man. All right.

Let'S get Nathan out of here, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

That fly was pissing.

[Co-host/Guest]

You gotta. You gotta host something.

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