234: #234 The Golden Globes (and a Little Elvis)

Summary

The Nateland Podcast: Episode 234 – "The Golden Globes (and a Little Elvis)"

Release Date: January 8, 2025
Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay
Produced by: Audioboom Studios

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Introduction and Casual Catch-Up (00:12 – 01:00)

The episode kicks off with Nate Bargatze welcoming listeners back to The Nateland Podcast. The hosts, Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay, engage in light-hearted banter about their recent absence and speculate humorously on each other's motives for returning to the show.

Notable Quote:

• Dusty Slay (00:35): "A lot of people speculating. The two of you would only agree to do the podcast if the other one wasn't there."

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NFL Talk: Tennessee Titans and Draft Picks (01:00 – 05:30)

The conversation shifts to NFL topics, focusing on the Tennessee Titans securing the number one draft pick. The hosts debate the merits of selecting Travis Hunter versus Shador Sanders, discussing the strategic implications for team excitement and publicity.

Notable Quotes:

• Nate Bargatze (01:00): "At a late night last night, the Golden Globes. We will talk about that."
• Brian Bates (04:12): "Well, that is true. I'm Mr. Yeah."

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Personal Stories and Experiences in Comedy (05:30 – 12:00)

Aaron Weber shares his experiences performing Q&A sessions during his comedy sets, highlighting the challenges and humorous interactions that arise from audience participation. The hosts discuss the nuances of crowd work and the differing comfort levels each comedian has with spontaneous audience engagement.

Notable Quotes:

• Aaron Weber (05:30): "And so ESPN talks about you every day. That's honestly what you need, right?"
• Nate Bargatze (10:04): "Wow, that's terrifying."

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Sponsor Segments (12:00 – 33:18)

The podcast includes sponsored messages interspersed within the conversation. These segments promote various brands such as Unbound Marino, Acorns, and AG1, detailing their offerings and special discounts for listeners.

Notable Quotes:

• Aaron Weber (16:45): "Packing for a trip this holiday season..."
• Dusty Slay (30:01): "I had put on a lot of weight."

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Golden Globes Experience (33:18 – 86:00)

Nate Bargatze delves into his experience attending the Golden Globes, where he presented the award for Best Standup Special, won by Ali Wong. He narrates encounters with celebrities like Jake Gyllenhaal and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, sharing amusing and memorable interactions.

Notable Quotes:

• Nate Bargatze (64:28): "It was awesome, man. I mean, it's the best."
• Nate Bargatze (84:54): "Someone that listens to this podcast sent me some family history stuff."

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Celebrity Encounters and Anecdotes (86:00 – 112:00)

The hosts recount various interactions with high-profile celebrities at the Golden Globes, including conversations with Harrison Ford and Kevin Bacon. These stories highlight the unexpected and often humorous moments that occur when navigating the celebrity-filled environment of high-profile events.

Notable Quotes:

• Nate Bargatze (93:55): "Why would you not talk to people that you were with your whole life?"
• Aaron Weber (100:26): "But you do get the take away. Your most popular song."

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Discussion on Elvis Presley (112:00 – 119:00)

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to a lively debate about Elvis Presley's enduring legacy. Dusty Slay and Aaron Weber express skepticism about Elvis's lasting popularity, while Nate Bargatze defends his iconic status, leading to a spirited and humorous exchange.

Notable Quotes:

• Dusty Slay (97:50): "Nobody's in the car and goes, yeah, put on some Elvis."
• Nate Bargatze (104:16): "But that's the big point, Dusty."

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Upcoming Shows and Tours (119:00 – 123:00)

As the episode nears its conclusion, the hosts promote their upcoming shows and tours across various locations, encouraging listeners to attend their performances. They share details about dates, venues, and cities, fostering a sense of community and anticipation among their audience.

Notable Quotes:

• Brian Bates (121:05): "This Saturday, I'm in Fort Myers, Florida..."
• Dusty Slay (121:51): "I'll see y'all out there."

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Listener Comments and Final Banter (123:00 – End)

The episode wraps up with the hosts interacting with listener comments, addressing feedback, and engaging in final humorous exchanges. They reflect on their experiences, reiterate their appreciation for their audience, and tease future podcast topics, including a potential deep dive into Elvis Presley.

Notable Quotes:

• Dusty Slay (123:05): "Well, we could be adding some shows for the tour,..."
• Brian Bates (123:14): "I'm trying to explain the whole situation."

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Conclusion

The Nateland Podcast Episode 234 offers a blend of sports commentary, personal comedy insights, celebrity anecdotes, and spirited debates, all delivered with the hosts' signature humor and camaraderie. Whether discussing the intricacies of NFL draft picks, navigating high-profile award shows, or debating the enduring legacy of Elvis Presley, the episode provides listeners with an engaging and entertaining experience.

Final Notable Quote:

• Nate Bargatze (121:56): "It's a cool full circle moment."

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Produced by Nateland Productions and edited by Genovations Media.
Listen to future episodes on the AudioBoom platform.

Transcript

[Nate Bargatze]

Hello, folks. And hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nateland Podcast. Nate Bargetsi, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay. All right, it's all of us.

[Brian Bates]

We're back.

[Nate Bargatze]

We're back.

[Brian Bates]

Last time you two been here for a while.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, I was here on the. I was on the episode last.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, together.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. Together. Yeah, yeah. It has been.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

A lot of people speculating. The two of you would only agree to do the podcast if the other one wasn't there.

[Aaron Weber]

And I would fuel the fire. I would go, yes, that's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'd like to go.

[Nate Bargatze]

Absolutely. Yeah. So, yeah, it's not a tape. My voice is a little. Does it sound bad or. No, sounds great. Sounds all right. Sounds good.

[Dusty Slay]

It is what it is.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is what it is. At a late night last night, the Golden Globes. We will talk about that. You know, I don't know what it was. You know, what were you guys doing this week? Is that. That's the General Titans got the number one pick. That's fun.

[Brian Bates]

I know the Titans, they always send us swag before the season starts.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

And I've been waiting all season something to get excited for a victory. So finally I dug it out. Number one pick, baby.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, who do you want? Travis Hunter. Shador Sanders, who do you want?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Maybe Travis Hunter.

[Dusty Slay]

That'd be fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

That'd be fun. But I mean, you know, I think they need just excitement. So it's like, you know, to get Travis Hunter, you get Shador Sanders because you just need publicity.

[Dusty Slay]

Right?

[Nate Bargatze]

I would almost like get Shador Sanders if maybe just to. So ESPN talks about you every day. That's honestly what you need, right?

[Aaron Weber]

You are selling tickets, new stadium coming. Get some excitement.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

I like, do you think, guys, let's be practical.

[Brian Bates]

Trade back, get more picks.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, just.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, we need some linemen.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you think I'm not.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm not tra. Trashing Will Levis, right? I don't. I'm not tra. But do you think it's better?

[Nate Bargatze]

What?

[Aaron Weber]

Like, it's like here's a guy that no one was talking about at all, and then he comes in at the end of the season last year, does some big things and, like, is like front page news. Like, I mean, when they sent out the swag, it was Will Leva stuff, and then to almost immediately go right back down. You think it's better to, like, kind of not even remain talked about or just to get that little flash and then to be brought down pretty.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think to get the flash because you. It'll probably help you if you go to other teams, stay in the league. And you know, his last throw, I mean, threw a touchdown and it was a bomb. So I mean, clearly his last.

[Brian Bates]

It should have been only as good.

[Nate Bargatze]

As your last throw, but. Yeah, but I mean, if you're like looking at a guy with an arm.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm sure someone thinks like, oh, I could work with this guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, he's got an arm. Today, this comes out. January 8th, 25 year anniversary of the Music City Miracle.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, wow. Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

You were there, right?

[Brian Bates]

I was there.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Telling him to get out of bounds, just.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm the one guy that stands like, get out of bounds, get out. Although NFL Network a few years ago did a greatest moments in NFL history and that was one of the top ones. And Jeff Fisher said he was thinking that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if he was saying it, but like, get out of bounds.

[Nate Bargatze]

We were down by what?

[Brian Bates]

I think we were down by two. Either two or three. Either way it would either tied or one with a field goal.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I didn't think he was going to go all the way. So I'm like, just get outbound for the clock runs.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So we kick a field goal.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Fun baits. Fun Bates, Trey. Yeah. Like you said, trade back, get some linemen.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, if Bates was your owner of your NFL team, it would be to, you know, we don't even. We don't want the number one pick. We don't want the pressure of the number one pick. We shoot for a nice eight. Nine, nine.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that is true. I'm Mr. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I always shoot for average 89.

[Aaron Weber]

Is the number one pick that good though? You know, I know obviously ideally it's good and it's fun, but does it pan out?

[Nate Bargatze]

There's. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

Nah. More times than not. No.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean a lot. Williams, Bryce Young, Joe Burrow, Baker Mayfield.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. All doing good.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Dusty Slay]

These are all start. I mean, Andrew Luck retired early. Cam Newton, he's got some fun hats.

[Aaron Weber]

Cam Newton had a good run though.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sam Bradford, man. Yeah. He was offensive rookie of the year.

[Aaron Weber]

Jadavian Clowney, you remember that?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man, when he tacked that tackle, that Michigan guy, we all thought he was. We were like, he should be able to go to pro right out of high school.

[Brian Bates]

Mario Williams, that was the big one because he went over Reggie Bush. Reggie Bush, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And did he ended up. Oh, yeah, and he went to Pro Bowl 1, 2, 3, 4 times.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Eli Manning had a decent career, too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So. Yeah. I mean, I think you want the number.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. All right. No, I'm convinced now. Yeah. Because it feels like they talk about it like it's not good. Like, it is good, but I think.

[Nate Bargatze]

What they talk about, too, a lot is the prevalent. Get the number one pick. You're putting this star athlete into a program that's not good.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so, like, that's what. They're. The. Bryce Young with Carolina Panthers. You're like, the number one just goes in and just, you know, they're like. They don't know what they're doing. They're Right.

[Aaron Weber]

And then Caleb Williams. And then they act like he's a flop because he can't turn the team around.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. You just need excitement. That's what the Titans. I. I believe you got to be. You're selling tickets. I get the idea. I know you. You know, everybody wants to, you know, win by four points and the score to be eight to four. But it's. You know, you selling tickets should be entertainment.

[Brian Bates]

But wouldn't the most entertainment be winning?

[Nate Bargatze]

It would be, but it's just. It's also. You're in a different time now.

[Aaron Weber]

Be realistic.

[Nate Bargatze]

You. Yeah. You got to be your entertainment. You're not like, you know, you're not serving the military.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're not. It's not life or death. You're like, let's. Let's have. You want to win. You can have some fun and you can win. These teams are winning. That are fun. Joe, this. Bengals were super fun. If you're a Bengals fan. I mean, how fun was that? I mean, they didn't get in, but you just. Joe Burrow, you got the. What's the receivers. Yes. And then now they got another receiver, too. That's T. Higgins. Yeah. I mean, just super fun, you know, so. All right. Yeah. No one cares.

[Brian Bates]

Notre Dame, biggest win of your lifetime.

[Dusty Slay]

Biggest win of my lifetime.

[Aaron Weber]

Nobody saw.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, it's crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't see it.

[Dusty Slay]

I almost don't know if I want to win. I don't know if I want to win. You ever think about that?

[Brian Bates]

Because then.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because you don't know. Because what's.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know.

[Nate Bargatze]

What was it all for?

[Dusty Slay]

What is it all for? Maybe if you get the thing that you've wanted your whole life, it won't mean what you thought it would mean. Do you know what I mean? Maybe I'm defined by the journey and not the destination.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You have Notre dame winning a 14th championship.

[Brian Bates]

More than that.

[Dusty Slay]

12.

[Nate Bargatze]

12. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But not since 1988.

[Dusty Slay]

Not since 1988. Three years before I was born.

[Nate Bargatze]

Golly.

[Dusty Slay]

So.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I mean, it's. It's not gonna do anything for your life, but it would be fun.

[Dusty Slay]

You'd be surprised.

[Brian Bates]

I'm the only one at this table that can remember when Notre Dame won a champion.

[Aaron Weber]

I was.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think I probably do. I was. Yeah. I was probably 8. Rocket ishmael. Was it him?

[Brian Bates]

It was after that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I remember Rocket Ishmael.

[Brian Bates]

Rocket ishmael was early 90s, I believe.

[Nate Bargatze]

I remember him very well. Mm. At 88. Was.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, look, I do want to win. I'm just joking. But it's. It was. It was very.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know what you mean.

[Dusty Slay]

It's the best team. It's the best team we've had in a long time. We feel like legit. Doesn't feel like a fluke.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You know, so it's fun.

[Aaron Weber]

It's fun.

[Brian Bates]

It's like when you did Bridget Arena. You finally do it. And what's Now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. What's next? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You find other stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

You do two shows.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You'll win two now.

[Aaron Weber]

Smaller stage next time. Smaller stage.

[Nate Bargatze]

Get a few more chairs around the size of this. This right here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Just a two by two thing. You just gotta stand there and do it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

No room to turn.

[Nate Bargatze]

So this weekend we will get to the Golden Globes. Being there. And then I was at. But I was at Bray impromph, running my new hour.

[Dusty Slay]

Back in the clubs.

[Nate Bargatze]

Back in the clubs.

[Aaron Weber]

How was that?

[Nate Bargatze]

It was great. It was great. It was up to your territory. Did 75 minutes.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, don't plan on that. I mean, yeah, it was up there for a while. It's crazy. I did a Q A. I don't ever really do. You know, I never do them, but in a club, I was like, I did them at Comedy Magic Club and then I did it at. Then I was like, let me just see, like, you know, kind of right before I do the Closer. And so that can last 15, 20 minutes. Like, oh.

[Dusty Slay]

Power one out in the building.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, we're back. We are back. We had the power cut out for second. It's Tuesday now we're recording this. We all went home and. No. So I. Yeah, doing Q A, that's about like 15, 20 minutes. And that's fun to do.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Last time I did Q and the only other time I've ever done Q A while. I was scared of doing it. I've done it twice. One was, I remember doing a show at Florida State and, and I did a Q A and emailing questions. Everybody said they go, no. And then.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow, that's terrifying.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, terrifying that, that was enough to like, I go, I'm not gonna do it. And then once it d. When I was in Washington D.C. at the Warner Theater, I thought, you know what? I'm at a theater. I was like, maybe it's time to do a Q A. Ask question Guy goes, are you really this dumb?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, gosh.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so then that, that scared me off for again, maybe eight years. Wow. And so now, now the clubs have, it's been, you know, I don't think you could really do. You couldn't do them in an arena. It would be kind of too. It's.

[Brian Bates]

You have got a question.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

See, th. Those two responses are why I don't do Q and A. Oh, yeah. I would never want to go, who's got any questions? And they're like, nobody.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Do more jokes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Now you kind of know there. I get asked about SNL or something like that, and.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You like, repeat questions.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Then I, I. Then you. Well, oh, yeah, yeah, kind of. Yeah, you kind of. They can say, what's your favorite joke? They say stuff like that.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, oh, so you could just. They go, oh. You go, are you really this dumb? And then you go, the question was, what's my favorite joke?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's the idea if people like crowd work is. I mean, I am getting different questions, but I'm also getting the same question. So if, like, if you know that they're going to ask, you know, they can only ask so many questions. So I mean, that's essentially what people don't realize with crowd work is to go, yeah, you're going to ask people, what do you do for a living? And it just doesn't really matter what you do. I have jokes that I can. If I've asked enough.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm going to have stuff in there that's going to be an act that.

[Aaron Weber]

Can, you know, you know a great answer to. Are you really this dumb? You go, I don't understand the question.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that would have been great. It would have been great.

[Brian Bates]

Start taking Dusty with you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, but I just, it took me, you know, I wouldn't have had it right there. Ready? But now, now I do. So I hope I get asked that.

[Dusty Slay]

I would have gone, yeah, what you pay for this ticket?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, I am.

[Dusty Slay]

This dumb.

[Nate Bargatze]

One question one lady asked, I liked. She said, do you think. How do you. She was like, what do you think it is to make you this. To be in. As clean as you are and being this way to be as relevant in this industry? That's not. Yeah, no, I think it was that.

[Dusty Slay]

A journalist at the ground.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I thought it was a good question.

[Dusty Slay]

It is. I know, but that's like. Yeah, that's like something you get on a panel.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, it was. It was a. It was a good question.

[Dusty Slay]

And how do you navigate this space?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, but I was able to. You know, it's because of you. It's because of you listeners. Because of the people in that crowd. Like, that's the only reason I'm relevant is because they. Because you come out.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought you're talking to us for a second.

[Nate Bargatze]

Y'all bring me down. It's. Dude, I'd be hanging on Brad Pitt tonight if I didn't fly back and come here.

[Brian Bates]

You're Joe Burrow, and we're the Bengals defense.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Tom Hanks goes, you want to come by the house? I gotta go. Go to go meet Brian Bates.

[Dusty Slay]

Gotta go hear about Brian's weekend.

[Nate Bargatze]

I gotta go see where he was up to. He went and saw big in the theater.

[Brian Bates]

I did.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you big?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was like mid-80s, maybe late-80s.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Talk about the Tom Hanks.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hey, Steven Spielberg. Oh, yeah, dude, I saw E.T. i bought two tickets. One guy didn't show up. You have. Real weird. Yeah. The other guy didn't show up, so just went alone, and it's a whole big story. And then a guy was dressed as E.T. i got a picture with him, an old camera, got his autograph. But, yeah, Bray was good, working, building up the new hour, trying to get it figured out. You know, this next tour is going to be, you know, very exciting. Very, very big. And so I was like, this has got a. I gotta get on it, man. If you get it figured out. But I was a. You know, I didn't do any old jokes, and I did doordash jokes because everybody, you know, actually, they heard my material everywhere. I disagree. They. I know. I talked about community college in my first cd, and I talked about it again. They're two. I'm talking about my life.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you mentioned your wife on your first ever album, so I don't. Yeah, you're not allowed to talk about her ever again.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a journey. It's so Stand up. I hope you watch it in order. I hope. If you can sit. I met some this weekend. They told me that they would. They were suggesting to watch me to someone and there you go. You got to watch it in this order, though. Like the, you know, this. The half hour first, then the 10. Because he. Because he has another story with the Starbucks and then with the Cape Fear service. And that was the point of doing it that way.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because you were hoping to be like, I thought that would be pretty neat. I don't know what. Stand up's done that where you go, hey, I have an add on. It's not the same. It's a completely different joke. It's just a different situation. It's going to be me in situations. So unless I become an astronaut, I'm going to be, you know. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't have a diff. You can't just pull out a different past.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was in community college.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so then I thought of a fun new way to talk about it.

[Aaron Weber]

And it's not the same stories. Not. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

This guy talks about Tennessee a lot.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's just Tennessee.

[Dusty Slay]

Talk about Ohio.

[Aaron Weber]

This guy, a teenager his whole life.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I already got a. I got a closer. It's good. Okay, that's nice.

[Dusty Slay]

That's big.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that was big. Because, I mean. And it's a close. I can sit. Like, it's nice. Like. And so I need a closer. I can do a Q A even to go. I'll save this. I'm, like, sitting on it like an old joke. That's what's so fun about it. You know, like when you are, you know, you got. You know when you got a joke that destroys and you got all. You can be, like, I can. I can make this. I can even open it up to the audience. It might not go the way we want it to go because I know.

[Dusty Slay]

I. I can steer it back.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I got something that's going to steer.

[Dusty Slay]

You do the Q and A in the middle of the closer.

[Nate Bargatze]

I do it at the. Yeah. I go, I'll pull back out. I go, you guys can't handle what's going on. But it's. Yeah, it's been very fun. And so, yeah, Bray was great. Clubs are great. I'm gonna be. There's a few more clubs. I'm going to Vegas. I'll be working on it. Yeah. Getting it going.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's good to be temperate too.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargatze]

So. Yeah. All right.

[Brian Bates]

I was in Lexington, Kentucky this weekend at Comedy Off Broadway.

[Dusty Slay]

That's a big city.

[Nate Bargatze]

Big city.

[Dusty Slay]

Big city. Bates.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great shows.

[Aaron Weber]

Nice hotel there too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I love it.

[Dusty Slay]

Stay at that embassy Suite. Just right.

[Brian Bates]

Walk over.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Can see the club from your room.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot of ducks and swans out there in that.

[Brian Bates]

Yep, yep. It was awesome. Did a little Q A lot of questions.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you do a Q A I.

[Brian Bates]

There's a couple times.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you. You say, do you have any questions? Yeah. And are people like, how long is this show?

[Brian Bates]

One lady asked. That actually was a question.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

One lady asked, do you still drive for Uber? I think she was concerned about my.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Financial future.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you say I keep renewing it? I'm not currently, but I do renew it.

[Brian Bates]

I keep my documents up to date.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I want to be able to.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You're like, why, do you need a ride?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. But it was great shows. Thanks everybody. Came out, made a lot of folks and.

[Dusty Slay]

What a great club that is.

[Brian Bates]

Jordan said I sold more tickets than I did last time, so that's good.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You always want to be building.

[Dusty Slay]

It's all about.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's being built going forward.

[Dusty Slay]

Q and A will get longer every year.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Anything else? You go, well, we just talked to you before the show, so I don't know why I would ask questions during it. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm gonna be in the lobby after. If you want to keep asking.

[Aaron Weber]

You do it multiple times throughout the show. Like, you'll be going along a bit, and you go, you get any questions about that bit?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, we greeted. You greeted us when we showed up. So I thought. I thought I had to go. I got it out of the way.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I've done shows like that where I walk to the green room, and if there's, like, I don't know, 15 people there, I'll just go, what's up, guys? It just feels weird to, like, act like I'm backstage or there's 15 people here. Like, yeah, I might as well just say hi before.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. And they go, who is that? Just look like a crazy person. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank you. I got these tickets.

[Nate Bargatze]

What's up, boy? Got a great show for you tonight. They're like, all right. The manager, I guess, is excited.

[Brian Bates]

Who was that?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, who was that walking? Fifteen people. They don't know who you are. I know what you mean. It's awkward. I've been in this situation. Yeah. You walk in, you gotta. Yeah. I mean, I've. Look, I've walked in with many a crowd. Yeah. Where you just go in. You're in line with people. I remember San Francisco punchline once. I did that. I was walking in, and there was no really other back way in. And I think it was the first time I sold it out. And so the. But I had. I came up and I just had to get in my own line, and I'm just standing in my own line. And, you know, it's. It's. You think it's going to be a ruckus? It's not that big of a ruckus. Like, no one's that surprised that you're in your own line.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

We didn't think you helicoptered in.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. They're just like, oh, hey, man, you get excited for the show. Yeah. Let's hope it's a good one. You know, it's very uncomfortable.

[Brian Bates]

There's a big difference between helicoptering in and standing in your own line for a show.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I'm saying.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. But say now. I helicopter now.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

My helicopter hovers above the show until I make sure everybody's done.

[Brian Bates]

The opener just hears.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. And that's with the helicopter honks to let you know. Let's wrap it up. You think a helicopter has a horn?

[Aaron Weber]

I bet it does.

[Dusty Slay]

I bet.

[Aaron Weber]

Pull down.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Would you ever do a. You're underneath the stage and you rise up onto the stage.

[Brian Bates]

Oh yeah. I could see him doing that more down.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. I guess I would lower the stage down on top of me. No, we're in that and I'm the middle. No, I don't, I don't. I don't think so. I mean, look there. I could never do that.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I know.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I, I couldn't. I mean you could see like. Yeah, I don't know. You do think of it like, oh, that could be cool to come up like that. But you think you want to do it. You've thought about it. Well, yeah. Who wouldn't think that?

[Dusty Slay]

Travis?

[Aaron Weber]

Look, it does.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, we've never had anybody look into it.

[Aaron Weber]

It does seem cool to have all these entrances. But yeah, it's so funny.

[Dusty Slay]

You get like parachuted in and then you're like, yeah, like start talking about ketchup.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. We're a big catch up family. Yeah. Oh, what his parachute said ketchup on head hinds on it. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe that's can and shooting out ketchup packets.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's the next, the next two are big dumb eyes. We're going to be, you know, just coming in. I come into some music. It's cool. Like we.

[Brian Bates]

Material.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, we. We do make it look cool. But it's. Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the music you're coming off to?

[Nate Bargatze]

It's always. I don't know, I don't know what we're do this year, but it's been a bunch of different kinds. But I mean like this special we did Sunday's best.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And you walk out and I would walk to the crowd and I like that. And like, you know, it's just fun to see.

[Dusty Slay]

It never feels like you're beating your chest.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I, I really doesn't feel like. I don't even feel that. Yeah. But yeah, it's, you know, it's. Yeah, it's crazy. Just trying to make a good show. Aaron, you think I did walk. I remember in theaters for a second I walked out the middle of the curtain in the middle instead of the side.

[Dusty Slay]

It's kind of cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Just kind of act like, oh, I don't know how to get out of here. And then.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, it was it was like the thing. Everybody came off the side. Then the curtain would open. I would walk out right the middle. And it just felt still like, I'm like, oh, the curtain would open. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, my gosh.

[Brian Bates]

You're just standing there.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, no. I never raised it.

[Brian Bates]

I know, but you should.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know, but I would have someone. There was a guy that worked on tour. It's very funny because we were talking about songs. We'd be. He would be picking a song to play. You're trying to find the right song that could be with the theater especially. Like, it needs to be kind of quick before it gets to it. And then boom. And it hits and then you go out. And so we're trying to find the song. And then he picked a song. And then I. Then eventually I was like, oh, I think I'm gonna change the song. And then. And I did not think he liked that I was changing his song. And so he would open the curtain for me, and the song will be playing that I picked. And he would be like, this song's not the song. And then he would open the curtain. So the last thing I would hear before I walked out was him upset with me because I changed his song. He's like, the other song's better. And then I'm like, hey. So I did the middle. I tried them. There might have been some people that have seen the middle, but it. It felt a little too. About me. Like, you feel a little too.

[Dusty Slay]

Like it's a weird energy to start a set with. I did.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the middle?

[Nate Bargatze]

The middle of the curtain. So everybody comes on the side.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, not a song.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, no, Jimmy. World.

[Dusty Slay]

Middle. Yeah. I did the Opry once right after intermission. And the way they go. Welcome back. And then they bring you up and then the curtain opens and you're just standing there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And it's such an awkward. You feel like you have to go, tada.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And I'm just going to the set.

[Nate Bargatze]

But, you know, there is a world with that, where you see it with. It's a. It's a show business, you know, it's like a. It is. You're putting on a show.

[Dusty Slay]

It works for everything except the comedian. Any.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I agree.

[Aaron Weber]

This is what I picture. The curtain comes up, you go, I spent $182@ McDonald's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't open with the last line of my closer.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. He's just giving it. Look forward that. In Aaron's special, when it comes out, you see it at the end.

[Dusty Slay]

That's an old, old dude joke.

[Nate Bargatze]

But, yeah, it is.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. I was telling them we talk about at the Opry when you. They're weird about the time. So sometimes you'll finish like, a minute under, and you're like, what do I do for a minute? Well, there's. Because we. You just had that right, where you had, like, squeeze a joke in.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I put in one joke at the end just to fill my time.

[Dusty Slay]

I did once. Or I had a minute left, and I just. I just did a minute of like, oh, man. It's an honor to be here at the Opry. Make some noise. If it's your first time in Nashville, welcome to. I just did that. I was so embarrassed. I couldn't think of what else to do. It kind of played off okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

But, yeah, it wasn't a minute of that. And to do it at the end. Keep it going. Who's excited to be at the opera? Is he done? Because you walk out and did. He walked out and didn't acknowledge us. Like we were a bother to him.

[Brian Bates]

He works backwards.

[Nate Bargatze]

And now it does feel like he needs us. Like, they feel like this guy needs us. Any questions? Any short questions?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't got a lot of time.

[Brian Bates]

But 20 seconds, Q& A in a minute.

[Aaron Weber]

They asked a question. You're like, that's my time.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's all I got.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

So was that it? You did great. Your show was great. Yeah, I did fun.

[Brian Bates]

My shows were great. My shows were fun. Great time drove home Saturday night after my late show because they got a blizzard up there. Came in Sunday morning.

[Dusty Slay]

That's always a good feeling, though, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, you never regret that the next day.

[Nate Bargatze]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

To wake up.

[Aaron Weber]

Always regret it at night, though, when you're driving. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got to kind of just get on the road. Yeah. Because you're on that, you can get an hour back.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it wasn't too bad. I got, like, at 115, you're on.

[Aaron Weber]

The bluegrass highway or whatever, and it's. That's barren out.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's long.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Listen to we're having a Good Time podcast. Listen to you on Fungula podcast. It's fun.

[Dusty Slay]

You ever listen to, like, people you don't know really well?

[Nate Bargatze]

That's fine.

[Aaron Weber]

He's a company, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's a company. Yeah, he is. He is a company.

[Brian Bates]

I bring it all to this.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know what Dusty's ever doing unless I listen to his podcast.

[Dusty Slay]

That's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's my way.

[Nate Bargatze]

He does listen to it. He listens to Dusty's podcast. That's someone he doesn't really know. Yeah, he listens to his podcast to find out about him. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I like to learn about Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

You gotta stay.

[Brian Bates]

I like to learn about my co host.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I had a fun weekend here in town, man. I did. I did the Ryman. They did opera shows at the Ryman.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, that's cool.

[Dusty Slay]

Two sold out showcases here at the Lab. Did one, ran over, did the Ryman, came back and hung out. It was just like a fun one of those really great comedy nights. Everybody here was just in a good mood. We hung out here at this table actually tonight. It was just, it was awesome. So come check out the Lab. Any of these local showcases if you're in Nashville. They've been really great. Yeah, they're just so much fun. Dusty pops in on me.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's what I've been doing. I've been off, so I've been doing these showcases. Yeah, they are great. Really great. I did a couple of shows with the Eric Eaton over the New Year's Eve. The Magic of Eric Eaton. I did some guest spots. It was great.

[Dusty Slay]

Wait, talk about that. Where. Where they didn't know you're. They thought you were doing magic the first show.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, well, the first show. Yeah. I don't know if they thought I was doing magic, but I was just like. I felt like it was just going okay. And then Eric goes out after and he goes, how many people here are here for the comedy? And like two people raise their hand, it's sold out. He's like, how many people are here for magic? And everybody raises it. So the next show I'm just like, hey, I'm not doing magic. And that got a pretty good laugh. And then my set was much better.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh yeah, we were saying with the Dusty's hand motions on, say it kind of looks like he's about to do something.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's always like, kind of. Yeah, like he's.

[Brian Bates]

I saw, I saw what he did.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

When his hand goes up, it's someone's phone number in the crowd and they go, wait a second.

[Aaron Weber]

But you know Eric, he had a great show.

[Brian Bates]

I've heard that. I can't believe you would do a show with magician.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you know, I'm not into magic, but it's, you know, it's tricks. As. As Nate's dad says, it's tricks. It's not.

[Brian Bates]

That's what they tell you. Yeah, Spells.

[Aaron Weber]

I was into it. Though I thought it was fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he was good. He knows your dad.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was great. He was a very nice guy. Was kind enough to give me. I'm working on a thing, so he's nice enough to give me some guest spots. And I appreciate him.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But the thing against magic, what's that you're working on?

[Aaron Weber]

Yes. Yeah, I'm trying to shut it down. I gotta know some inside tips.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Trying to shut it down.

[Nate Bargatze]

Guess that. Do you cut it back to 50?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Well, I asked for 10 and I did 13, but that's.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's fine.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

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[Nate Bargatze]

All right, we're gonna start with you guys comments. And then, and then we're. We're get Golden Globes.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay?

[Nate Bargatze]

If people want to. I mean, I think they want, you.

[Dusty Slay]

Know, I think people want to hear it was a big thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was a big thing.

[Dusty Slay]

I didn't realize Golden Globes is like the super bowl for my wife.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

She prints it out and predicts all.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, really?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was crazy. And she's, you know, she knows Nikki well and knows and so it was like biggest night of the year for her.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, she going to send me a text? Didn't even know. She thought we're pretty good friends. Went over, saw the baby, hung out.

[Dusty Slay]

You did?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It was really nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Loose. Looking at you. Loose. Meredith Granger. Granger. Granger. Isn't there a baseball player?

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe There's a tool company, I think, called Granger.

[Dusty Slay]

Baseball player named Meredith.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes, Meredith Granger. Oh, yeah. Maybe she's from the tool family. Maybe so probably some money.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, big money.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thank you for continuing to put out new episodes, even over Christmas and New Year's. So many other podcasts take a few weeks off during the holidays. You're welcome. Ever. And that's my idea. The rest of the people do not want to do that.

[Aaron Weber]

We beg for time off. We begged for it.

[Nate Bargatze]

They go, these people don't matter. Just replay something. Who cares? That's what. Quote Brian Bates. Yeah. Unquote. Aaron Weber. Still got it. Daniel Earl in 2025. I think Nate will use his new level of success to continue to elevate everyone around him. And we will see big things. The Nateland universe. Not just Nate. Maybe big platform special for Aaron. I was think Dusty will achieve a level of success that will make him disappear into the woods.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, let's hope so.

[Dusty Slay]

From your lips to God's ears, Daniel.

[Aaron Weber]

I like that. Daniel, though. Nothing for Brian.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

No prediction for Brian. Aaron, Dusty. Oh, it's gonna take off.

[Nate Bargatze]

Brian's on borrowed time and he's. He's at where he's at. Brian will always be here where I'm at. Brian will be at it will. Yeah. I hope so too. It's. Yeah. I love. I keep bearing with me with this stuff. I got a plan. You know, everybody gets worried. You go to Hollywood, they think you're going to be weird. Like, why? I've never been. I've never changed now. You know, I talked to someone at the Golden Globes in a ma like that. We brought up. It was someone that we ran in circles in New York, kind of the same a long time ago. Not anybody that you would have seen me with on camera or anything, but. And then they brought up someone and then I go, oh, yeah. I go, you still see them. They're. They just go, oh, I don't really run in those circles anymore. And in my head, I'm like. I mean, I'm. That's all the circles. My circles are just everybody that I've ran with. That's the. I never had. I never got that. You know, where. It's like, you. Why would you not talk to people that you were with your whole life?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You don't. You know, you don't just come. You have acquaintance, you know, But, I mean, maybe this person really wasn't that close with. But it's just a weird way, you know, it's like, sounds like they're embarrassed.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And you're like. Yeah. I mean, my friends. I mean, some of you might. Most friends I start with, they're the opposite of anything that I would ever approve of in my life. But I still was me during all that stuff. Yeah. Look, we're. We. Nateland's a. It's a long. It's a long plan, but it's. We're gonna do it, man. We're gonna. We're gonna. It won't be just me. The point of it is to. Hopefully I will get out, and then.

[Aaron Weber]

We can get Brian's name added to this thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then we start. Bates Land, a few weeks ago. Open for two hours. Opens. Bates land, open for two hours. 6am to 8am 6am to eight a.m. and it's him at the gate. Just asking you, you know what? It'd be great if you guys just went home. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You guys planning to stay the whole two hours?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, there's not that much to do here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. What is Bait Land? Well, you get to walk by my car.

[Aaron Weber]

Then when you walk by that, we'll have a Q and A. Yeah. About it.

[Nate Bargatze]

What was the. What was the basketball player you got autographed?

[Brian Bates]

Carlos Groves.

[Nate Bargatze]

Carlos Groves. You go. Carlos Groves over there in a tent. Y'all want to meet him?

[Dusty Slay]

No, I'm good.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's like. What is that, meet and greet? Carlos Groves.

[Aaron Weber]

Y'all don't want to meet him.

[Nate Bargatze]

He goes, you don't meet him.

[Brian Bates]

He was in my magazine in 1988.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Player to watch. A few weeks ago, Dusty said, come back, Nateland success. A rising, you know, rising tide lifts all boats.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I said. Yeah. I mean, I think I said something like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I was trying to say it, but.

[Brian Bates]

And Aaron and I were arguing that you were the tide. Right.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that would make the analogy make sense.

[Aaron Weber]

I said, nate's boat's rising, and we're all right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Your other boat.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But they want to be you know, they want to be boats in the, they want you to be the whole ocean. I'm like, yeah, we're all boats. He's got a bigger boat, but we're all boats.

[Nate Bargatze]

We're all boats.

[Aaron Weber]

They're like, no, Nate's the ocean.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, what is the ocean in your analogy?

[Nate Bargatze]

He said success.

[Brian Bates]

It's, I think you said good luck.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's good fortune. You know, it's got lucky blessings.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. It will all. Yeah, I'm excited. I, I, I think about it all the time. Everything I think about will be in, you know, I try to think of the audience. I try to think we, I'll, you know, it's. Yeah. Kirkwood, I hate to say this, but Nate and Dusty will be fine with or without this podcast. Brian and Aaron, unfortunately need this too much. Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

What's the context for this?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, this was going on when you.

[Aaron Weber]

Blindsided by this, aren't you?

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, the last commenters, like, get this guy on Netflix.

[Brian Bates]

People are always commenting when you're not here that, oh, he's going to end this podcast soon. So he was just playing off of that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, well, maybe put some context in there for Aaron so he doesn't jump off a cliff tonight.

[Brian Bates]

I think that was very funny.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, he's not, he's not wrong, but it doesn't need to be said.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, we, we need the podcast. It's, you know, podcast. Look, I am going to get busy and I'm going to be here, but I. The point. It's a good anchor of a show. I talk about shows a lot. It's a good thing for us to be here. We're going to have other comics. You know, they're going to come in. We're going to. It is our podcast together. It's. No, it's not Nate's podcast. It's our four podcast. We're all the same.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, I have a hard time calling people folks. I've never been a big. But a lot of Nateland listeners come to my shows and it's very, it's very good. I love. You know, it's a great audience.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That listens.

[Nate Bargatze]

You just, you gotta.

[Aaron Weber]

I know. I just have a hard time with the word. People told me, quit calling us Nateland listeners. We're folks.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Give them a nice hello, folks.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You say dateland people.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Nateland people. Listeners.

[Dusty Slay]

Our friends, podcast subscribers.

[Aaron Weber]

Our friends.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's our three podcasts. Dusty has his own group of people. Yeah. What did the Dusty Nights.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you Know, folks, it's a hard word for me to say.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

First off, it's a tough word for anyone.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a tough word.

[Aaron Weber]

Folks. Feels like the L shouldn't be in there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hello, folks. But you just do it like a. Hello, folks. Yeah, just ignore the L. Let's go, folks.

[Aaron Weber]

Folks. Yeah, if you ignore the L, it's a little easier. Folks.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, there you go.

[Aaron Weber]

Hello, folks.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, maybe put it in there a little bit.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm just.

[Dusty Slay]

Imagine somebody who hasn't listened to the podcast in, like two years, they put on. They're still talking about.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, two years.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, let's go.

[Brian Bates]

And folks. You said, let's go, folks. On your Christmas special.

[Nate Bargatze]

Y'all think I don't think about you?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't get. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Easter egg.

[Nate Bargatze]

We get nice and little credit for that. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You're the only one that even liked that phrase.

[Nate Bargatze]

Ben Ryder. I'm interested in how someone of Nate's size thinks about material that goes into special, like my physical size.

[Brian Bates]

Got a big one over here.

[Nate Bargatze]

He goes, you got a big boy, Nate. As you get bigger, how's your brain? Is it gonna be more fat stuff? Nate is obviously in rare fried air. As someone who's been on SNL and had a reentour and released a special on Netflix all in the same year. Yeah. How does someone think about material that goes into special? You know, people, it's. It's. I. It's all a journey again. I think I. I'm. You know, there's a point I think you start trying to figure out kind of you just. I just gotta do what I think is right. I do worry someone asked that. They're like, you know, because you don't want to just be. Am I getting laughs? Just because it's. Everybody's excited to be there and these jokes are not funny or these stories are not funny. I think about that a lot. It's in my head constantly. I. It's exhausting. You don't ever have to say it. Everything that you would think negative or saying a person say negative, trust me, I already thought about it a thousand. I'm the most scared of phoning it in. And, like, you know, I don't want to do that. I would. I'd rather be out before I would ever get to that point. But it is the way it's got to go now. I think it's just got to evolve. It's like, I mean, if you want jokes, it's like, that's why the Tennessee kid and the earlier Stuff was jokes. That's where you learn how to write jokes. But as, as you grow and evolve and then become as a bigger act and his standup is even becoming into a big. Stand up is as big as it's ever been in the history of stand up. And so as you're seeing all this new kind of way, the point of it is like, it's, I look at myself as like it's a, it's a movie you're watching. I'm just describing a movie. And so it's me in the movie and this is the stuff I'm going through and I'm talking about my family and whatever I've been going. Then you can relate to it on where you can relate to it. Yeah, I don't know if the jokes are. It's, it's not always the same kind of thing, but it's your laughing. I mean, the last hour was completely different than the Tennessee Kid and all that stuff, but it was murdering on the road. And you're like, you know, and it's just, it's almost like a song. It gets to like singing a little bit. And so that's what makes it, that's kind of what you're doing is when you get up there for a while and then you're just kind of like, I'm just trying to make it be like we are just having a conversation. But if I can keep the laughs, boom, boom, boom, boom, keep going. That's when, you know, it's like, that's the one thing that you're like, why can't you guys are laughing, like, constantly, you know, and that's where the joke is. I guess there's now my jokes are probably not. The whole thing's not a joke. The whole thing's a story. And then the jokes are the little, there's, you know, a bunch of little jokes. That's probably how it looks now.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, People get too picky about stuff now. Now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Enjoy it. I mean, or don't enjoy it. I don't care. I'm not saying. I didn't mean to say it like that. It doesn't matter, but in it's. I, I, I just hope, you know, you want, like, you know, this is the first, like, comedy's in a spot where it's like people are able to get to a level with stand up. Only that was not the case when we, even when we were first starting, it was like, but you had Gaffigan and Sebastian and Burr and Louie and you, you know, where it Was like Chappelle, I got, you know, like he did spell show was the biggest thing. But so you had this where guys were just getting, you know, it's, it's kind of a newer thing where comics are becoming just stand up comedy. You know, I've never done anything besides stand up comedy besides like sn all that stuff. So you don't, you don't get it. And hopefully new comics, comics start now can see. You know, we can become a real. You know, we just got nominated for put on the thing for Golden Globes. Stand up comedy. It was like it's two years. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's been since 1940 and it just was two years ago. They acknowledge stand up comedy exists. That it's, it's.

[Dusty Slay]

Who won Ali Wong.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

The award.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I presented the word. I was hosted.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

No. Me and Allie started together in New York. Kind of crazy. Yeah. All right. Corey Buckner in the new special, is Nate wearing a woman's jacket? I noticed the zipper pulls on the left. I'm pretty sure men's jacket always have a zipper pull on the right.

[Brian Bates]

Michael Scott.

[Nate Bargatze]

Michael.

[Aaron Weber]

I saw this.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And see, somebody said like European designers, the zipper will be.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think they do.

[Brian Bates]

That's a woman's jacket. You can tell, huh. The way it's cut.

[Dusty Slay]

That's not a wood.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You want it to be a woman.

[Brian Bates]

I do.

[Dusty Slay]

Real bad.

[Brian Bates]

I do.

[Aaron Weber]

I did see the comment.

[Brian Bates]

A lot more fun than European cut.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that true? Europeans do.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I read that. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Like how they drive.

[Brian Bates]

I wanted to be like Michael Scott when he was wearing women's. A women's pet suit.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's a sharp look.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

And also, who's the, who's Corey Buckner? That he's the fashion police out here. Oh, women. Zippers are on the other side.

[Nate Bargatze]

Are you.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like Corey's wearing a woman's jacket when he's writing this comment.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Don't pick on Corey. It's a good question.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They already asked it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I look, I, I, it is because it's a, I think it is a European. I think some jackets are being made like that. And maybe it's the European jacket. Because I, I do remember. I, a long time ago was the same kind of. I had a jacket that did the same kind of thing and I thought the zipper's on the wrong side. And I asked, is it a woman's jacket? And then that's what they told me. So it is not it is.

[Dusty Slay]

Why would women have the zipper on one side and men on the other?

[Nate Bargatze]

They're not strong. And.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's how you zip with your right hand.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, you zip with your left. I'm joking. Is it. You zip with your left hand. They go. Because they need help to do it. So they. They put it on that side so the man can use his right hand to zip it. Because it's going to be hard. You know, you unzip a woman in the back. A lot of them. You do it in the front, too, because they can't.

[Aaron Weber]

Not a lot of grip strength.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is just science stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't make this stuff up.

[Brian Bates]

Now, people have said the. The poster for that special, your face was AI generated. Have you no heard that?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I haven't. Everybody wants everything to be something right there.

[Dusty Slay]

It looks like it's a little.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, it looks like there's a little touch. I think it's probably a little touched up little. Yeah. All right. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Not even you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's a bad AI.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's not AI. I knew you could see the jacket looks different. I don't think it's.

[Aaron Weber]

I think. I don't think AI can do hands.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's true. So, yeah, it's just probably a little. The face touched up. It's a good. But it looks good. Look straight ahead like a good.

[Aaron Weber]

You look rugged in it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. That's why it's not him.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know. Well, that's why they make it New Year.

[Dusty Slay]

New Brian.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

We live in a weird age where people are just able to just overanalyze everything that's happened, happening all the time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It's all. Yeah, that's what's. It's. I'm starting to get a little bit more of that. It was like, you can. It's funny. You can tell when you just. You can kind of cross over into. People start really talking to you like you're not.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

A human.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then they're just like. Yeah. And you're. Yeah. And I was thinking, I couldn't be more like you.

[Dusty Slay]

Right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But nice stuff, at least. Bates, make sure we see them in the comments.

[Brian Bates]

Or if they're not in here. I'll break it up myself.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Hey. You won't believe what they're saying. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I couldn't even bring this to the public.

[Brian Bates]

Did you read this?

[Nate Bargatze]

Owen Bergstein. Bergstein. My family watched Nate's new special and really managed to bring us together halfway through my Grandma, who loves to make weird comments in the middle of movies, declared, so he has two prosthetic legs, doesn't he? When he. When we asked her what she meant, she calm explained that she thought Nate's leg looked really skinny and assumed they were prosthetic. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

This guy has two prosthetic legs.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Doesn't mention it once.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

For an hour.

[Aaron Weber]

And you're wearing pants. It's not like you're wearing tights.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, my legs are skinny. It's because the top is too. Got too big. That's. That's why you tell your grandmother.

[Aaron Weber]

It's because he Just imagine that though you. You assume because someone's legs are skinny that he has two. He does stand up comedy on two prosthetic legs. He travels the country doing 260 dates a year on prosthetic legs and really.

[Dusty Slay]

Booked it walking up to the stage. Yeah, it's kind of impressive.

[Brian Bates]

Well, their grandmother cut her a little.

[Dusty Slay]

You got to shut that.

[Brian Bates]

You guys are taking everything so serious.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's all. That's what I like to do. I like to attack the commenters.

[Brian Bates]

I thought it was a.

[Dusty Slay]

In defense of other people on the podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Nate Hammerback.

[Dusty Slay]

What?

[Nate Bargatze]

Pretty good name.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what we're doing right now.

[Nate Bargatze]

I just rewatched the Krispy Kreme challenge video from a few years ago. The powdered donut holes record of 5 and 17 second was brought up, and Nate thought he could beat it. I was wondering if Nate will do this donut holes record of 5 and 7. Oh, and powdered in 17 seconds. I would try it.

[Aaron Weber]

You just talking about putting five in your mouth?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, no, no.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. Now I think I'm a little. Now I'm like, yeah, it's probably. It's gonna be hard to get them down.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But powder, you missed.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, there's a saltine cracker challenge that went around years and years ago where it sounds on paper, you're like, I could do that. But something about the dryness of it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you couldn't.

[Dusty Slay]

You couldn't get that down. Yeah, I've matured, dude.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what I mean?

[Dusty Slay]

I'm not even gonna bite on that. I know you're trying to get me roped in here to try to talk about this too, but no, I'm not gonna take the bait.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, he'll do it.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll just do that on my own.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I'll do that off camera because I.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do it on my own time. Anytime there I'm not trying to break records. I do it in 25 seconds.

[Dusty Slay]

I do it for the love of the game.

[Aaron Weber]

Anytime there's a record like that, you. You do got to think you probably can't break it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Because anybody reads that and they go, oh, I can do that. Yeah, you can't do it. You can't do it.

[Brian Bates]

Not with that attitude.

[Aaron Weber]

You can't do it, Aaron.

[Brian Bates]

Bet you can't do it. It's like the four minute Mile.

[Dusty Slay]

I know. I can't do that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Alex Garon. Garn. Garen.

[Dusty Slay]

Alexis.

[Nate Bargatze]

Alexis Garen, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe it's Alex is.

[Nate Bargatze]

I bet that Alexis. You can't get an Alexis in your house.

[Dusty Slay]

You definitely.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Can you change the name on an Alexa? I think there's an option too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, really?

[Dusty Slay]

You can have it answer to a different name. I don't know the other name though. But if you named Alexis, you can't. You can't have that. You can't be talking to Alexa.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

In the house, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I don't know. It's like. Huh? Is it? Yeah, no, the other one.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. To change, you can just change the name of your Alexa to anything else. Yeah, you can. You can call it Alexa, Amazon, Echo Computer. You can't choose custom names.

[Nate Bargatze]

Apparently that's like all Elon Musk's family's name because it's all those things. He goes, well, so I can't have an Alexa, I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

He goes, my computer told me I could have one.

[Aaron Weber]

I like the name Computer. Keep it vague. Hey, Computer equipment.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I like that name. Really Talk down to it.

[Dusty Slay]

I like that's better than humanizing it with it with a human name. Mm.

[Nate Bargatze]

Alexis Garan. On October 30, I gave birth to my third baby. I was trying to find something for late night feedings that wasn't too stimulating. Allowed me easily fall back asleep. I'm happy to say your podcast is now my favorite. Listen while feeding the baby at 2am, your voices are all very soothing and you talk about nothing, so it's perfect to fall back asleep too. Thanks for some great laughs. That's all we're trying to be.

[Aaron Weber]

I've said that many times. I mean the, the. Because I do that a lot in hotels. Especially if I'm like a true By Hilton and there's a lot of demons in there. I need to fall asleep to something not silence. And a good podcast like that where you're just talking, that's the way to go.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm doing the 3am feeds right now. So I've been watching Monk. Oh, put something on. Go off Netflix.

[Aaron Weber]

What a great. I got the whole dvd.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm watching through. Me, too. Yeah, I'm watching through Monk right now, just during that 3am feed. So I get that.

[Aaron Weber]

Monk is one of the best shows ever.

[Dusty Slay]

It's really great.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm gonna. I'm gonna send you a picture.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because you talked about hotels for Dusty. Michael Clay, you know, started comedy with. He was just some. He was wherever and he just. Look at that. Took a picture.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, the Fontaine Blue in Panama City Beach.

[Dusty Slay]

Let me. Let me pull it up before.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Don't show all my text messages.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, it's just like. Sorry, next time. Book you. Next time I'll read them. No new counts. What does negative mean on the ticket count? Wow. He goes, don't read into it. He goes, I think we're going to have a good. You know, the show's in one hour, so I think we'll be all right.

[Aaron Weber]

The Fontaine Blue fountain.

[Nate Bargatze]

Blue.

[Aaron Weber]

That's where my. That's where my. My dad and my stepmom met.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Animal City Beach. Yeah, that's a good. That's a good hotel.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I can tell.

[Dusty Slay]

It looks like.

[Nate Bargatze]

He said they didn't stay there, but they drove. He was driving by it all week, so.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he messed up.

[Dusty Slay]

Is. It looks like it's a former Soviet Union.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, abandoned building here. This is a functional hotel.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a hot spot.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Looks like there's a nuclear blast not too far away.

[Nate Bargatze]

See the ocean?

[Dusty Slay]

Noble Beach.

[Aaron Weber]

Nuclear blast of fun up there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Where they meet on the rooftop.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, they met in the lobby, so I'm Mate, lobby.

[Brian Bates]

Where's the lobby?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, my dad was very.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, where's the lobby? The very small lobby.

[Aaron Weber]

So you saw me more over to the right here.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you say, I saw them meet?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I was there. Me and my dad went down to Panama City with his friend and my friend.

[Brian Bates]

It's like his fifth wife.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I thought you were talking about your dad and your mom.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, no. Okay, okay, okay.

[Dusty Slay]

That's very different.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, my dad and his. Is his fourth wife and current wife.

[Nate Bargatze]

What do you mean his dad and his mom?

[Dusty Slay]

That's why I was like, explain.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's impossible. You were like, explain the impossibility of that. Go ahead, Dusty. Well, I, you know, have been around this earth for a long time.

[Aaron Weber]

This is. My dad was in the lobby and this. My stepmom and this friend were down there. My dad goes. He found out he heard what room they were in, and they were next to ours. And he goes. My dad was like. He goes, now we're gonna be staying right next to you, so don't be making a lot of noise. You know, we need to get. We need to get sleep. And then a little while later, after we got up to the room, those two women came and knocked on the door.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

And wanted to go for a walk with my dad and his friend.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, man.

[Aaron Weber]

And then they ended up locking us out of the hotel room for many hours. Yeah, it was. It got a little cold at night and we were stranded walking around the floors of the Fontaineble.

[Nate Bargatze]

How old were you?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, 12 or 13.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Old enough, but still old. Young enough to need to get back in.

[Dusty Slay]

Old enough to fend for yourself for a while?

[Aaron Weber]

A little while.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We had some saltines or something.

[Brian Bates]

Now, what happened to his friend and her friend?

[Aaron Weber]

I think they, you know, they got together or whatever, but they didn't. They didn't. Didn't carry on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's amazing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Look at that.

[Brian Bates]

And who were you with for a minute?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I was with my friend Adam.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Me and him had, you know, we had a good time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But still friends without him.

[Nate Bargatze]

S. Murphy. I've always loved stand up, but never venture into a comedy club because there's so much raunchy content I didn't care for. The Nateland. What? Oh, oh, okay. Because there's so much raunchy content I didn't care for, the Nateland Network has changed everything. I now buy tickets to shows for a whole list of awesome comics, comments, comics. I can thank you enough for making this genre more accessible.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. Ask Murphy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Thanks for coming to the shows.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's very nice. Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Smurfy.

[Dusty Slay]

Are you. Could you just name a kid one letter like that?

[Brian Bates]

Sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Would they let you do that?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. Legally, I would think so. He could.

[Dusty Slay]

We'll see.

[Brian Bates]

Jb that's right.

[Dusty Slay]

Joan Lee Bonely.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You guys ever look up family history stuff?

[Dusty Slay]

I, I. Yeah, a little bit.

[Aaron Weber]

Somebody that listens to this podcast sent me some family history stuff. They sent me a.

[Dusty Slay]

Of you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, they. I guess they heard me and Brian talking about my grandfather and they looked him up and they said their church is a big family history thing. So I started go. I looked at this link, and then I started looking at other relatives, and I never really gone down my grandmother's lineage, last name tally, and I started going down it last night. And it would be. My gr. My dad's great grandfather on his mom's side is named Samuel Richard Talley. And I named my son Samuel Richard. And. And I just thought that was cool. It's like, you know, several generations ago.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

This guy, I read about him a little bit. There was a little bit in there. His dad and his four brothers were all killed in the Civil War. And he had. In 1865, he had to fight at 14 years old.

[Nate Bargatze]

Golly.

[Dusty Slay]

14.

[Aaron Weber]

Just a 14. Probably all of them were made to do it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Insane.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Should have been in eighth grade.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's insane.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, man.

[Dusty Slay]

Was he a real. Did he have a drum or did they really put him to work?

[Aaron Weber]

It said he was only involved in some small skirmishes.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

And then it was over, but. 14 years old.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm hanging out at the Fontaineble.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

I think I'd rather be in Civil.

[Aaron Weber]

War, but I just found that, like, you know, the tallies are, like, probably Irish.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And my. My wife, we did a. She did a DNA test. 99 Irish. So my kids, we could be. Yeah, my kids are very Irish, apparently, so.

[Dusty Slay]

They don't feel that Irish to me.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you don't spend a lot of time.

[Dusty Slay]

That's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

Big drinkers. Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I mean.

[Aaron Weber]

Pretty fiery tempers.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

These kids.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

These kids are sweet, but they'll let you know when they're not happy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

My son is 1 years old and we were trying to give a banana the other day and he was really mad. He took the banana, threw it on the floor.

[Brian Bates]

That's awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

Kid loves bananas.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway.

[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargatze]

All right, we're to get into the Golden Globes. So, yes, last night I was at the Golden Globes. I presented for best standup special. Ali Wong won. It was, uh. It is kind of crazy. Like, Ali was, uh. Me and her did start together. It is pretty surreal when you get up there and you're like, you've just been around these people for ever.

[Dusty Slay]

Denzel Washington. You just look. You're talking about that. Just the celebrities?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no.

[Dusty Slay]

Just the other.

[Nate Bargatze]

No. But I'm saying, even I've just career.

[Aaron Weber]

Wise, you know how Nate and Denzel are just hanging out all the time. What?

[Nate Bargatze]

Dw he's just like us guys. I go. I watch Glory. That's only one of your movies I'm allowed to watch. And then so I. I wrote this. So I. I did a presentation. I wrote this. I had this story. And I was like. This was like. I had to write it in a joke form because it was. Had to be so quick. The parrot. This was real story, South Dakota. I might have talked about it on here. I don't know.

[Dusty Slay]

Talking parrot at the show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. It did not. It did not say, you're not funny. And I say, where. It would just squawk during, like, I mean, just randomly during the show. It was there for the two early shows, late shows. He would put it to sleep in another room. And then I. That's when it made me ask him. I go, well, why would you not just do that in the early shows? And he goes, well, I like him in the early shows. And so you Just knew you had to deal with.

[Aaron Weber]

So just throughout the show, just go squawk.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, just yell. It's a bird that yell. If you've ever been around a parrot is loud.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, cockatoo, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, cockatoo. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. They don't chill out, you know, so it's. You just don't know when he's gonna do it. And so it's just. You're. It's the worst kind of thing because there's no timing to it. You know, it could be right as you're saying the last word of a punchline.

[Brian Bates]

It's just.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're just like. It was. Yeah, it was. So I was a little nervous doing this joke I. I read. I ran it this weekend at Brea Up Top because it was like, you're making appearance noise. I'm not, you know, it's like doing a little something that I'm not super comfortable doing. But I was. I was pretty nervous before I walked out of. That's one that, you know, they actually get nervous as I'm walking out. I'm pretty nervous. My hands were. I wiped my hands off. They had Kleenex in the back, and I wiped my hands off because they were feeling, like, kind of sweaty right before I went. Because you're just, you know, you're like, golly, if you bomb in this room or, you know, it's just gonna be whatever. The whole experience of the globes, it was. It's awesome, man. I mean, it's. You know, you see this stuff on tv, dude, it's, like, crazy. And it's the. The best. Me and Laura went. Laura looked beautiful. And so we, you know, you did, like, some red carpet and you did.

[Dusty Slay]

That, and you did the legit, like, walking down a red carpet.

[Nate Bargatze]

I did. We did not at the first, because the line was so long and they were only doing the presenters. It's funny. You just see everybody in line, so you see, like, Harrison Ford, Ted Danson, Jason Siegel. They're all just in a line, like, waiting to go through that red carpet. Because it's like, now you go. It's not like anybody just gets to just go, oh, it's not just.

[Dusty Slay]

You walk through. When you show up, you.

[Nate Bargatze]

You walk through. You walk down. The whole red carpet's a whole red carpet. So you're walking down the red carpet and there's people, you know, there's some fans, there's people taking pictures, and you're just in the middle and people are talking. You're waving. You don't you know, I did, like, a quick little interview with the Today show that was about it. I don't, you know, they're tell you. You have a publicist that kind of tells you, like, you know, you can do interviews or don't. Or he's like, don't worry about interviews here, and just kind of keep going and. But today's show, I'm going back to. I'm doing the show with Willie Geist in January, and. And then I just did the Today show, and they've been very nice. So I was like, said, what's up to them? And then talk to them for a second. But it was. The night got started. It got started. So we start walking down the red carpet. I'm going to say all this stuff. I mean, it's. Yeah, this will be named. I'm not trying to, you know everybody, but.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, the whole point of this is.

[Nate Bargatze]

The whole point of it.

[Brian Bates]

But you're telling it like a fan, not as a. Yeah, colleague.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So we're tell it like a colleague. Yeah. These are my friends.

[Nate Bargatze]

These are my peers. I go, oh, Harrison. I go, don't run into those circles anymore, Harrison. I go, harris, how's it going?

[Dusty Slay]

40.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The red Hulk.

[Nate Bargatze]

He goes, what are you doing? I go, harris, what are you doing? He goes, what house you at now? He goes, I'm in between the 12 houses. That's cool, man. He. I did see him at an after party, and he came out and got mobbed.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, with people wanting pictures and autographs. Like, when I came out, I get pictures and I sign autographs, but I mean, it was, like, insane. And I mean, he's old, man. He's old. Like, you see him. Yeah, He. He. Even when he was up there and talking, he's old.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. When you're Indiana Jones and Han Solo. Yeah, that's pretty.

[Brian Bates]

Two of the most iconic movie characters ever.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So fugitive, and now he's the Red Hulk.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you know that now? I didn't know that.

[Nate Bargatze]

What.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't even know what that is.

[Brian Bates]

There's a new Marvel movie, a new Captain America coming out in a couple weeks, and he's Harrison Ford's the Red Hulk.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's just like the voiceover.

[Brian Bates]

No, he become. He's in the movie. He becomes a red Hulk.

[Aaron Weber]

Why is that cgi, though?

[Nate Bargatze]

Why is there another.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, why is it. I don't know. I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think there was in the comments, there was a red Hulk.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. There's all kinds.

[Aaron Weber]

He's real Angry.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's the only other.

[Dusty Slay]

He's being white Batman next year.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's. Yeah, a red Hulk. And then you just got to go.

[Brian Bates]

Like an 80 something year old dude.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. Do you want to be the red Hulk? It's because they make the movies. So that's. That's because they're making the movies. It's costing $50 billion to make that movie. So they got to be like, we got Harrison Ford's in it. Yeah. Walmart's playing one part. They just need everybody, anybody and everybody. Amazon. We got Alexa. Alexa is going to be most voices. We got to try to make our money back on this. So we go. So we're walking down and you're seeing everybody walking in. Angelina Jolie right next to me.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is. This started it off. So it's me, Laura, my manager and my publicist. And then. So we're walking down and then she, like kind of is walking. She looks over and, you know, and we kind of. And I was like, hi. I go, I'm comedian and I'm next. She goes, I know you. You're my favorite comedian. So we started off, I mean, so I got a little pep in my step now.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm like, glenn Powell doesn't stand a chance. I'm gonna walk up to him, be like, glenn, boy, Glenny. I go, ange knows me. Ange knows me. Glenn. So it was. She was very cool and very, like. It was. She was there with her. One of her daughters, Zara, I believe, and that her daughter was very nice, too. And she was. They were just very, you know, it was like crazy. It was like crazy. Like you're just like, oh. And so you, you know, you kind of like, thank you. You know, and you have like a nice little moment for a second. Then she kind of went on and, you know, then I go. Then I go through that. This is all at the beginning. So then I go through there, and then when I get there, I'm making a turn and I get tapped in. Jake Gyllenhaal. And he goes, you know, he's like, what? He goes, I love your son. You know, And I'm like, oh, thanks, man. I go. I go, I loved Roadhouse. That's what I said to him.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I go, I loved Roadhouse. I go, it was. It was the. It was so much fun. He goes, yeah. He goes, thanks, man. I mean, he's even. He's nominated for something. I don't know what it is, but I'm like, I loved Roadhouse. Man, I go, that was super fun. I love fun stuff. This is exactly what I said to him.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I go, how was Conor McGregor? He goes, He's Connor. Yeah. But he was very, very.

[Aaron Weber]

Did Roadhouse not do well and that.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, it did great.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

On Amazon.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, it did great. It's. People don't. It's. If you. If you say it's a bad movie, then you're just. There's no point of you watching the movie. Like, it's not.

[Aaron Weber]

I just wonder why he would have that reaction to you when you say I love Roadhouse.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, he did. He had a nice reaction. But I'm just saying, out of all the stuff, you know, he's a legit, real crazy actor. And just to be like, I love your Fritos commercial.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's like, well, I've done Bubble Boy. Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Which is what I love.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's presumed. I would have said, maybe even the thing he was dominating.

[Dusty Slay]

Presumed Innocent. That show.

[Brian Bates]

That.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what everybody else there is doing. And I'm just walking in, like, Roadhouse. I watch it. It's just Roadhouse is just, you know, it's just a crazy. It's.

[Aaron Weber]

What's the cowboy movie?

[Brian Bates]

Brokeback Mountain.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That would have been a different one to say.

[Nate Bargatze]

That would have been a different one.

[Aaron Weber]

Love Brokeback Mountain.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

My guy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Watch it nightly.

[Aaron Weber]

Can't quit it.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good reference.

[Nate Bargatze]

So then. Now we're. Now we're kind of thinking. But, yeah, Jake, he was super cool. And then. Now we're in kind of the thick of it. And then we're going in. Glenn Powell. I did. Glenn Powell did the Waste Management. I did not meet him. Then the golf tournament. The golf tournament that we. I did a couple years ago. But, yeah, then came as a cool man. I'm a big fan of Glenn Powell. I think Glenn Powell, he lives in Austin, Texas. I think he's doing a lot of what I want to do for Nateland. Like, the stuff that he's making is a lot of Twister. And, you know, it's. It's. It's very fun. Fun movies. And so he. We talked for a second, and it was fun. He had his parents with him. And then I'm trying to think. So then I go in, and I think that after Glenn Powell, it's like kind of we're trying to go the red carpet, go around. I try to think about sawing belts there. So then we go into the. Then we're into the show. And so I'm sitting there watching the show. And so you're like, now we're watching the show and you're.

[Brian Bates]

Do you have assigned seats, I assume yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. So I went and did the. The run. I did my rehearsal the day Saturday. So you go in and just kind of do your thing. And then you see, we had to seat. Our seats were. Laura was on camera out here. This is the video. Did I. You got the.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So look at this. Can you expand it?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So this is Timothy Chalamet and Jake Gyllenhaal. Then look at me in the back. You see my hands shaking my jacket out because I'm hot. Like a fat idiot. I mean, my goodness, if it couldn't look more like just, you know, like I'm at a carnival ride to the.

[Dusty Slay]

Chalamet looks nice and cool.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Everybody. No one does that because they just go, yeah, you sweat it out and just be normal. You don't. You don't air yourself out. This is. And so we were sitting right next to them and just so ridiculous. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

So that close to kind of the main.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, the thick of it, dude. We're in the thick of our. We were with Abbott elementary, everybody. Yeah, they lost. That was.

[Brian Bates]

Who was at your table?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, everybody tables. Abdul elementary and me and Laura.

[Brian Bates]

I was trying to figure out who else was at your table.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And they were nominated. And then they were all very cool. And Janelle's great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Janelle James. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you know her from stand up?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so everybody was like, fun. They. They. The guy that was the producer, I guess, was kind of next to me. And he goes. Because it's embarrassing. Like, it's just like, I'm. I'm in a. I've been doing good this past week. I'm. I'm. I'm. We're serious about losing some weight. You can't be waving your jacket wide open in front of Kylie Jenner and kind of like the. That's the. She's worth $40 billion. She is Hollywood. Yeah. It's getting hot back here. Boy, it was so hot in that room. So Timothy Chalamet went up. Tim, he knew me, said hi. I was. I just told him. I go, you were great on college game day.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. He's unbelievable.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's unbelievable. He goes, I love it. And he was just a Vanderbilt. Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

The day before college.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah, yeah. So with Avid elementary, they lose their thing. And then. So then they're all there and they go, they do a cheers and they're doing cheers for each other. Right. Tabit elementary. And then, so then I'm there and I'm thinking like, oh my. You know, so I hold it up and when I hold up to cheers, I cheers the guy and as I touch his glass, he goes, well, it's for everybody. Abbott elementary. And then I go, I'm. So I just jumped in on their cheers. He didn't want me a part of it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's so weird that he would be like that towards you about it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You're like, I'm just at your table.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm at your table. You guys lost.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm cheersing to you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I thought I was like, what do you want me to do? Be like, you know, I'll be like.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, you guys lost. I don't want to get in on this.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, while you guys cheers, me and my wife are gonna turn her back to the table. Yeah, yeah. He didn't. It wasn't me. It was like kind of just a awkward. Like you know, to your friend Nick Bargetz, like I was like, thank. Yeah, Cheer. Like I was gonna be loud about it and go, cheers, cheers. Yeah, I was just trying to, you know, go with the. What was going on at the table.

[Dusty Slay]

And you're not a big cheers guy. You've talked about that before. You don't like doing a toast.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm not a big fan. I'm not a big fan of it, but I mean I've won that thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Who beat that? Him?

[Nate Bargatze]

Hacks. Hacks. Yeah. Yeah. Edward Norton was right in front of us. Did not talk to him.

[Dusty Slay]

He seems scary.

[Aaron Weber]

I hear Edward Norton's are like real hard to work with.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's just.

[Dusty Slay]

God, unbelievable actor.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's, that's gossip out there. That's why they say he was replaced as the Incredible Hulk by Mark Ruffalo because he's too hard to work with.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, makes sense. Yeah. And so it could be the red Hulk. Yeah, apparently. You know, it's always like you kind of think when people are hard to work with because you hear that and then, you know, I'm always like, how could you be hard? I'm trying to think. I haven't really seen it. I mean I guess I've seen some that are. It's like just a little difficult. They're always going to be late. They're always going to be. It just feels like you're on their time.

[Dusty Slay]

Like there are some stand ups that are nightmares.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's just hard People give a couple of names.

[Brian Bates]

Like who?

[Dusty Slay]

We'll talk about it off air.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, they just show up. When they show up, I. So we're sitting there, we're at the table. We got a. Yeah. A great seat. I mean, I. When I went back to. They come grab you before you go present. And so you go in the back and it was very hot in there. And then. So you go in the back and then you. I was like, seeing the tv and that's when I realized, like, because Laura's sitting there, went gaunt, and I'm. I'm like, I see Laura, like, a few times and I'm like. So I came back, I was like, you're on TV a lot. They had. I mean, the seat was like, we're just up against that rail. Yeah. On that second row. So you're just seeing.

[Brian Bates]

We spotted you immediately.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You're in white, she's in red.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Ruth was like, is that Nathan?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Laura looked really great. And it was so. It was fun. So then it's. The cool thing about the Golden Globes is, like, it is relaxing. So you're in this room with all these crazy people. Now, the fun little story about. I can tell you this one little story about. So this is at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. So something that was cool for me when I was. I remember first going out to la. You always wanted to have to go to la. You know, like, you hear comics just go, like, I gotta go out to LA for stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Got some meetings out there. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And you're. You're always.

[Dusty Slay]

Hollywood's calling, baby.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I mean, that's all you. I wanted was to, like, have a. You know, be like, I gotta go to LA for this thing. Because everybody would say it like, that. They go, pilot season. You ever get hear that? Like, pilots, man, you're like, I'm going out to LA for two months for pilot season. I was like, I never got to go to pilot season. They would be gone for two months. It's like, during the coldest time of the year in New York, we're just staying there, doing spots. And then all your other friends are just doing 40 auditions for every pilot. And then I'm just back, you know. So you always wanted a reason. So then when I. I used to go out, I would go. I stay at Nick's house a lot. For years, I would stay with Nick. No, Vicki. Before he was married and even after he was married. And then. And then I was able to finally get to. I could go and like, like kind of stay at a hotel. If I went out there not too long ago, but I remember the Beverly Hilton, I would always look. And this was, this is 10 years ago. So it wasn't like too crazy. It was like, maybe I forget what it was 200 a night or something like that. Like, I don't think too insane back then. And. But I was like, man, if I can get to where I can just stay in that hotel. Because it's like, that's a faint. That's a famous hotel. It's like in Beverly Hills. It's like, you know, you're just kind of like, I don't know. My brain can only think about the. You know, I would stay in Times Square in New York. Like, I just, that's just how I. And so I remember I. I went and stayed at the Beverly Hilton a lot. I finally got to where I was staying at. The Beverly Hilton is before they have a Waldorf Astoria right across street from it, and it wasn't even built yet. And so I finally got to the point where I stayed at the Beverly Hilton. And so it was always kind of a special thing because it was the first little kind of goal nugget, kind of cool thing that I just kind of had for myself that you're not trying to brag about or anything. But in my head ago, if I can just get it where I could go and afford to stay there and, you know, Laura's not like, where are you staying? And everybody, you know. And so to be back there for this was pretty wild. And I mean, I'm walking by where I checked. I mean, I walked in a hotel a lot and you know, I walked where I check in and I walked into, you know. You know. Yeah, it was like, yeah, it's pretty, pretty, pretty surreal. I was telling Travis, Travis who works with me, you know, that we grew up with the girl because Travis always come out, hang with me. I remember in that hotel is when I told him, I was like, I go, if I can ever get big, I was like, I'll hire you to do something. Yeah. And like, so it's like, there's a lot of stuff that was just pretty special to then be in there presenting.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it's a cool full circle moment.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a cool full circle moment moment. So, yeah. So then, so you're going up and you're seeing everybody. It's, it's. It's everybody. I talk to everybody. I. I'll. I'll send you this. I'll send you this. Picture. This is someone who I met. I will airdrop it to Aaron.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Name drop it. You mean.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, well, don't say that because that makes me feel bad. I told you it was going to be. I apologize for it. I don't see your thing, Aaron. Oh, airdrop. Now I see it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Angelina Jolie thing. Very cool, though.

[Nate Bargatze]

Very cool.

[Dusty Slay]

Unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

Very cool.

[Dusty Slay]

That's unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

Big Tomb Raider fan.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. Laura Cross.

[Aaron Weber]

Salt.

[Brian Bates]

You mentioned Salt to her.

[Nate Bargatze]

Here's my boy.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, which one's the Rock?

[Nate Bargatze]

The Rock was, you know, he's wonderful.

[Aaron Weber]

Tough to get a ring over your whole finger when you're there.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I bet. I was saying as I was watching this, I go, I bet when you meet him, you're like, I get it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, I get it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I went up. So look, I will be honest with you. I got a little confidence when Angelina Jolie said it that I go, I might be able to walk up to some of these.

[Dusty Slay]

I might be the most popular guy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I was.

[Brian Bates]

They're lucky to have me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I'm like. I'm like, all right, all right, let me see. And so luckily he was at the table with Ted Sarandos. Runs, owns Netflix. Like, and so. And I know Ted from Netflix. So I was like, I was like, all right, I have a backup to be if. If he's like, I'm like, really cool to meet you. You know, I always think, like, I'll just go up and say, really cool to meet you. A fan of what you're doing. And then if I don't feel anything, then I just can leave and go to. And then, you know, have a plan so you're not just out and out.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so I was like, saw a little moment. I was like, all right, I'm going to go do it. Right. And then when I went up to him and then he was new me was wonderful.

[Dusty Slay]

He's a big stand up fan, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. And then was a big. He went to McGavock and Glencliff here. We talked about. I go, McGavock talks about you all the time here in Nashville. Because he went there. Yeah, he went to McGavin. He used.

[Brian Bates]

He didn't graduate from there. No, he would go there for a short time.

[Nate Bargatze]

He went to Glencliff in McGavock and he went here. And then he would wrestle at the Nashville fairgrounds.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so. But he was wonderful, dude. You know, I've talked about him being everywhere. I think he's done. I think it's been. It doesn't feel like it as much anymore now, but you get like. I. I will tell you from what the moments I talked to him, I was asking him, you know, look, honestly, a lot of stuff about what I want to do with Nateland was a big. Like, I was like, I really want to talk to someone like that that's built it to be like what he's building. And he was. Would talk to you all day.

[Dusty Slay]

What did you call him?

[Nate Bargatze]

I called him Dwayne when I first.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And then.

[Aaron Weber]

And now as it went on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It doesn't matter.

[Nate Bargatze]

It doesn't matter what you. I. I can show you one other. It's of him, but it's. It was the moment because I talked to him when I was at the.

[Brian Bates]

Who took this?

[Nate Bargatze]

Laura, his daughter.

[Dusty Slay]

Harrison Ford.

[Nate Bargatze]

Harrison Ford. You see it? That's what he's shaking. And then. So that's Nikki. So we went in to Nikki's green room afterwards. Right. We being friends with Nicky. No, Nikki and stuff. So. And then he came in on his own, like, so everybody's gone.

[Aaron Weber]

He needed some help buttoning his shirt.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. But like, it was like, that was like the nice. No one. I did not see anybody else come.

[Dusty Slay]

Back there just to like tell her you did a great job.

[Nate Bargatze]

He goes, they walk in, they go, dwayne Johnson would like to just say. And he walked in and said, you did great. This is impossible. And you bet, like just told her how great she was and how great, you know, because I just want to let you know that and blah. Like, I mean, you know, he goes out, he has to go out a back way because it's like he's too big. Like he's. And so that, that's like seeing that was like to even go like to think about. He said up front, you know, he's going to get made fun of. He didn't win anything.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

He just. But he brought his daughter and they went back there and said. And he just, you know, it was after two. It wasn't like immediate and it, like, it very, very cool. And when you meet him, because you see him in videos and all this and meeting fans and stuff like that, I like, I think he's. He's that guy. Dude. If you see him meet with people and be nice and he's a very nice.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Person. And he's a person that, you know, came up in the wwe loves, you know, the stuff he makes is for everybody.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, when I did Jimmy Kimmel In 2018, he was on there pitching Jumanji and we were in the same room together, and I really wanted to go talk to him, but I was so nervous. I had never done late night, and so I didn't. And I do regret not going over and just saying hey, because, yeah, I mean, I was a huge fan.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was, too. I mean, it was. And you know, it's funny, knowing now, he would have been the most, like, he's the best. He's. He's just a super nice person.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And it would really change your career.

[Dusty Slay]

If you just talked to him.

[Aaron Weber]

I know. I do regret. At least not.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, it's funny.

[Dusty Slay]

This will be dusty land right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

He would have honestly probably stayed in touch with you and followed your career.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I know. I mean, I mean, I already regret it, but I appreciate you guys piling it on.

[Nate Bargatze]

He has. He goes. He has big plans. He goes, what's that long haired woman on your podcast? I go, so. But yeah, he was. He. He was awesome, dude. And then, so it's nice to. It's, you know, I. A lot of, you know, a lot of stuff with Hollywood. A lot of, you know, it's like, look, everything's awesome. And you see the Golden Globes and, you know, stuff's nominated for everything. It's like a lot of the cool stuff wins and all this, and you don't know what you know. You know, it's like, not a lot of people don't see these movies or shows and, you know, war shows. That's been a big thing. But when you, when you, When I met him, you're like, you do feel. You do feel like. You're like, oh, you got a guy on. There's a lot of people I think kind of like, minded, you know, Glenn Powell, like, people that do think about entertainment to be entertainment and to be what it's supposed to be. Not everybody makes mistakes and everybody does stuff wrong. But it was. It's nice to kind of be like, all right. Like, I don't, you know, you don't feel like you're the only one. Not that I'm not. I'm not these guys. But, you know, so it was great. Then we went. So then went to. Yeah, then you went to the after party. Yeah. Netflix has party. Kevin Bacon came up to me. Really? Yeah. He goes. He was like, this is a big. He's like, I'm a fan. Very nice. All that stuff. And he goes. He goes, yeah, I'll come. I want to come see when you're in New York. And I was like, oh, yeah, man. He goes, what do you do when you go to New York? Like the Beacon. And I had like, it's. And I go, I got. I go, well, I'm. I go, I'll be. Madison Square Garden. I'll be there. And he goes, madison Square Garden. I was like, I'm like, apologetic. I'm sorry. I got. I. Did you really feel bad, like, because. Whereas, you know, no one knows the stand up. You know, they're just the beacons, like, like where Jerry Seinfeld goes. So they're like, huge. They don't think of it.

[Dusty Slay]

What are you, middle of the Carolines?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, because I'm. Check you out.

[Aaron Weber]

It is funny to humbly be able to say Madison Square Garden.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. To be. I was like, ah. I really. I said I'm sorry. I got.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know how to tell you that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't. It's.

[Dusty Slay]

What venue are you doing? The venue. The venue. The venue.

[Nate Bargatze]

The venue. So, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You're like, well, this time around, yeah, I've been to the Beacon, but this time around, I'm going to do a little spot called Madison Square Garden.

[Nate Bargatze]

You do feel stupid saying it. And you're like, I'm sorry. I'd say right after. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't know Footloose here.

[Nate Bargatze]

But yeah. So I'm trying to think those were the kind of cool. I'm trying to just tell you the fun, cool stuff that I think people want to hear. I'm not trying to, you know, give.

[Dusty Slay]

Any awkward moments with people because I'm just. I would have said, I don't know. If I'd have met Kevin Baker. I loved Few Good Men. And then I would have nothing else to say.

[Aaron Weber]

Trimmers.

[Nate Bargatze]

Footless. I had. Yeah. The one was.

[Brian Bates]

What do you think he's most known.

[Dusty Slay]

For in the Weber household?

[Aaron Weber]

A Few Good Men, I think Footless.

[Brian Bates]

I would say, because he's like the.

[Dusty Slay]

Fourth lead in that movie.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he's great.

[Aaron Weber]

He's great in everything.

[Brian Bates]

Kevin Bacon, Gooding juniors in there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Y him right here. Data right from the.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

He came up.

[Dusty Slay]

Oscar winner.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Also in Indiana Jones.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Wasn't Indiana Jones and everything everywhere all at once? He won the Oscar for.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

And he came up and said he was a big fan of you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Came up and said yes and was.

[Dusty Slay]

Saying that he looks emotional taking the picture. He's so.

[Aaron Weber]

He.

[Nate Bargatze]

I. The reason I took a picture. He came up and asked to take a picture. And then I was like, well, I mean, I guess I should take one too. Yeah. You know, and then. So we did. But yeah, was very, very nice and complimentary and came over and. Yeah, it was. It was, yeah, pretty crazy. So that was. Yeah, it was. It was. Yeah, the whole thing was. Yeah, Laura had fun. It's like, you know, you see the stuff on tv, it's like, pretty cool, man. Pretty fun. And those were the. Yeah, that's kind of the highlights of it all that. My little thing I wrote about the parrot was, you know, got a laugh, got some laughs, like, you know, got in and out, nothing crazy. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The great thing about yours is I thought Nikki did great off the top. And then they start doing two actors really tight on the camera, off to the side.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And a lot of it just. They were going too long. They just weren't hitting. But then when you came out, you're straight forward on the stage by yourself. It's a little bit wider. It looks more like a stand up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And I don't know how they decide who did what, but yours seemed to really.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, because I write my own. That's the thing with comics. I mean, I don't always write everything. I mean, this one I wrote on my own. I had this story and I was like, all right, I'll try to do a story. And I kind of wrote it out. Then Vecchion, after we take Vecchion special vacuum came to my house and like, next day me and him just kind of like went through it. We had a funny thing with it. The long version of the story I think I have right here that I liked. And then if I do, I have it. Did you send it? I sent it to Bates too, because I. I changed it. Oh, yeah, this where I was like, I love standard comment. I did the whole thing. I go. I for one remember doing a show in South Dakota when I first got started on the road to a small group of people and a parrot. Parrot was in the back. Would not show up in the show. Asked the only other employee in the room, a dog to do something, but he just let it happen. So that was one that. That was a line that I liked.

[Dusty Slay]

That I had to cut for time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And then it was like we were talking about, like, I think the dog confused. You know, it's funny, I told. I read it to Harper and then Harper was like, well, what's the dog? And I was like, the dog's just for the little time I have the dog Kind of confuses.

[Brian Bates]

I ran to Ruth and she didn't get it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, the dog.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And so. So then I was like, all right. Well then I was like, you know. But that was one. That was. That was one that I liked.

[Dusty Slay]

I think the men would have gotten it. But yeah, apparently all these women don't get the joke.

[Nate Bargatze]

So.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that was a joke.

[Nate Bargatze]

That was it. But it was fun. It was. It was the best.

[Brian Bates]

That's awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, kind of different, but similar kind of today.

[Nate Bargatze]

Someone that was never at.

[Brian Bates]

The Golden Globes, but huge entertainer like yourself, Elvis.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, never at the Golden Globes.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think we can call. Not as big as you, then Elvis, though.

[Brian Bates]

Well, we're not done yet, Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

It's gonna be about Golden Globes and some Elvis stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, no, I got.

[Aaron Weber]

We're gonna do another hour, bring up Elvis.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Decided.

[Brian Bates]

Decided. The end of the podcast. What we call it is it. We're just getting going now.

[Dusty Slay]

A documentary about one. A Golden Globe.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do we.

[Aaron Weber]

Big Elvis fan, by the way. I was listening to him in the car on the way.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I want to give a shout out to Brian Smith who wrote in and said, you guys been talking about Elvis last. I want you to do a whole episode on the King. And then I looked and today, Wednesday, January 8th, is Elvis's 90th birthday.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Can we fill Nate in on Aaron's take on.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron hates Elvis and Dusty does too.

[Dusty Slay]

Now, that's not really what I said. I said as big as he is and as much of a cultural icon as he is, I don't think anybody cares about his music now.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, no one's ever. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Nobody's in the car and goes, yeah, put on. Put on some Elvis.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you want to listen to? I don't know. How about some Elvis?

[Dusty Slay]

Whereas, I don't know, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, like those act the music people still care about it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know if anybody cares about.

[Aaron Weber]

Elvis's music because there is a thing that either an Elvis guy or a Beatles guy, but it seems like all the Elvis people are gone. I feel like that's what a thing at some point.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I think they do. I think there's Elvis Channel on Sirius. People play Elvis Christmas.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, the Christmas was the exception we.

[Nate Bargatze]

Talked about and then. But I. I think like. I mean, I watched that one performance of him in that South Dakota we. What's the one song. I mean, that's the best thing you've.

[Dusty Slay]

Ever sweating real bad and everything.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. He's about to die. Oh.

[Aaron Weber]

When he did My Way.

[Nate Bargatze]

My Way. And like, I mean, I use it as I. I show it. We were show it said before we go on stage and have it playing that concert. But just remind yourself, no matter where you're at, that guy was in South Dakota. He died two weeks later. And he went out there and did a show for the people as if it was. He was in New York City and he was in Rapid City, South Dakota.

[Dusty Slay]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Anybody that could phone it in at a point was that guy. When he's that big and he's.

[Dusty Slay]

But this is my whole point. The thing is him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

He's the absolute legend.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But, but, but his music. You're never been in the car with anyone. I, I would say. And they go, what do you want to listen to? How about some Elvis?

[Nate Bargatze]

No. Yeah. I don't think there. Maybe there's people not on mine, but I think his music's great. I mean, I think people more my age. Yeah, Yeah. I think they do too. I think you. You don't.

[Dusty Slay]

I never hear his music talked about in that.

[Nate Bargatze]

That way where. Who are you talking to about Elvis?

[Dusty Slay]

Nobody.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I know, because you're. But you would never be.

[Dusty Slay]

But I listened to.

[Nate Bargatze]

You just wouldn't be in your world.

[Dusty Slay]

I listened to some music from your parents, that era.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Well, now, Elvis was for the people, man. You're. Y'all were the working class. Not the Webers. Yeah. Of course. You didn't like Elvis. He goes, why would you Bach. He go, yeah. You know Elvis. Yeah. Because y'all were. You go, you liked music that didn't have words. Thought Elvis. You go, he's too wordy.

[Brian Bates]

Let's put on some buck.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't like the way he danced. Tasteless.

[Brian Bates]

Despite being dead for over 40 years, Elvis still sells about 1 million albums each year.

[Dusty Slay]

It's all Christmas albums.

[Brian Bates]

Second most paid deceased celebrity.

[Aaron Weber]

Who's first?

[Dusty Slay]

Madonna.

[Aaron Weber]

Michael Jackson.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Madonna's got to be up there.

[Brian Bates]

She's alive.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, well. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Depends on who you ask.

[Brian Bates]

I. I think.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Brian Bates]

I'm trying to explain that. Yeah, he was the biggest, most famous person in the world at one point.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It's still the most famous. Just one name, Elvis. I mean, still that famous.

[Dusty Slay]

I agree with all that.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think people like his music and I think they listen to his music. I. I know what you mean. The idea that you think more people.

[Dusty Slay]

Listen to the Beatles than Elvis.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't think it's even close as.

[Brian Bates]

Far as record sales. It's Beatles one. And then it was him too. But I think Michael Jackson passed him. I think he's third.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, he sold that many.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So someone.

[Dusty Slay]

He sold it all in the 60s and 70s.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Just wanted him. No, one day. It was one day he sold that many. And then every then everybody moved on. You know, he was kind of. What do they call it? A flash in the plane, in the pan. Yeah, yeah. He makes a million dollars. Yeah. He has a better career than you right now.

[Aaron Weber]

But I still.

[Dusty Slay]

None of that's in dispute.

[Aaron Weber]

I still agree with the premise.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That in the car somebody will put on Michael Jackson, someone will put on the Beatles, someone will put on. I don't know. I don't even think anybody's listening to Madonna either.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I think the age group would maybe be. That would listen to Elvis is probably not the same where Michael Jackson was younger and kind of like is. Was more in pop.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then. And so you heard a pop. Yeah, so you heard him.

[Aaron Weber]

But Elvis is the king of movies.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. But it's like rock and roll is kind of, you know. I mean.

[Aaron Weber]

Don't make fun of him though.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't stand for that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, you wrote. You don't like him as a musician.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't stand for that song.

[Dusty Slay]

I think it's. I don't think the music's good at all.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But you.

[Brian Bates]

That's the worst version.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, how.

[Brian Bates]

Dog's probably the worst song.

[Dusty Slay]

Tonight's most popular song. You don't get the take away. Your most popular song.

[Nate Bargatze]

What was wrong with it?

[Aaron Weber]

It's a great song.

[Dusty Slay]

It's fine. It just aged. It sounds so.

[Aaron Weber]

I think he's singing about you.

[Dusty Slay]

Why he's singing.

[Aaron Weber]

Ain't nothing about a hound dog crying all the time.

[Nate Bargatze]

But if something ages that.

[Dusty Slay]

My. That's my whole point is that you.

[Aaron Weber]

Ain'T never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

[Dusty Slay]

Now Elvis is all about the phenomenon, who he was as a person.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Not about his music. Didn't age through the years as well.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Does that make sense?

[Brian Bates]

I think it's the opposite though. I think it skewed you because he is such a phenomenon that you think of him more as a comical.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think you're young and you watch the movie and you didn't like the movie so you just go. The guy was not that great. And you're. That's what I would imagine because you. Your Young age. Y'all imagine there was no world before you.

[Dusty Slay]

That's right.

[Nate Bargatze]

And you go, good, get over this Elvis guy. Because when we. Back when he was doing all this stuff and he does those songs and they're the biggest thing in the world. I mean, it's like, you know, does every Beatles song transcend into the time?

[Dusty Slay]

Like, does every ton of them do.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. He goes. I don't know. I think people leave. You listen to fun country stuff. I mean, it's crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

I was. I was totally on board with you until you started making fun of Elvis's singing and you lost me.

[Dusty Slay]

He just got.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're one guy on the funny voice.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a beautiful voice.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. It's gorgeous.

[Nate Bargatze]

What's the song that he's. It's unbelievable.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, he has a million songs.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. But the one.

[Aaron Weber]

The famous one was Are you lonely tonight?

[Brian Bates]

Love me, Tinder.

[Nate Bargatze]

Love. Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, we're having trouble.

[Nate Bargatze]

What's the five songs from him do? Can you. I don't know if we can play.

[Dusty Slay]

Five seconds of it.

[Brian Bates]

Look up his top songs.

[Nate Bargatze]

South Dakota.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's go to Spotify. Let's look at the hard data.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now go to the. Go to the YouTube of South Dakota where he's.

[Dusty Slay]

I've seen that. That is. That's. That almost proves my point that it's more. Yeah. I can't help falling in love. I mean, that's a good one.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a billion. Plays Burning Love.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I guess that's not that good.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that 48.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let's go to one of his lower places. 198 million million. Let's do that one. Maybe that's the one.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that 48 million monthly listeners.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

48 million monthly listings.

[Dusty Slay]

47 million of those is the 25 days.

[Aaron Weber]

One billion. I can't help falling in love.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a good song.

[Nate Bargatze]

So. All right, it's a good song. Go to. Go to Beatles.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

48 million monthly listeners. Been dead for 130 years.

[Aaron Weber]

33 million.

[Nate Bargatze]

33 million. Look at that. You're Spotify. The Beatles are barely even a band. Out of your mind. You're crazy. Your whole system's falling apart. Spotify is your life. This is all you know.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't believe Here comes the sun, though, has that many.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's 1.5 billion.

[Aaron Weber]

That's. That's not the song that I would think.

[Nate Bargatze]

Look at that, dude. Wow.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Elvis.

[Dusty Slay]

Thanks. I hate that that happened.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think the thing you don't Realize, you know what the problem is? A lot more Asian people than you think. And they love Elvis. True. They love EL.

[Dusty Slay]

Let's dig into the American numbers.

[Nate Bargatze]

45. Let me know when you find one that gets to your boy. Elvis.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Can you beat someone? Taylor Swift?

[Dusty Slay]

96 million.

[Nate Bargatze]

Ah, barely. Barely.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's a shame. That's a shame.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

2.7 billion on cruel.

[Aaron Weber]

That is the saddest.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, but she's alive.

[Nate Bargatze]

She's alive in her peak. In her prime. Not her peak. I don't say peak, but in her.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, you know, Madonna's 39 million.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Unreal, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

Still more than the Beatles.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Eagles.

[Aaron Weber]

36.

[Nate Bargatze]

More than one Beatles.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow. Yeah, man, that's. That's how. I mean, talk about that.

[Dusty Slay]

Look, man, I wish I'd looked up some of the numbers.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is METALLICA.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm guessing 19 million just for the sake of it.

[Dusty Slay]

26 million.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's might be one. It could be a highlight of the podcast. All the. Oh, the people.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, Aaron. Aaron doesn't get shut down much.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, too bad. I make the clips.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. Well, this is for the people that are watching the whole thing. But I mean, getting.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh yeah, that is something.

[Brian Bates]

And he got at the peak of his career, he got drafted into the army and went and had to get served.

[Aaron Weber]

And then he stopped to make a bunch of movies for a while. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Again, that's the point. See, you keep talking about who he is, a renaissance.

[Brian Bates]

I'm just talking about how amazing that would be. Like Taylor Swift gets drafted now and.

[Dusty Slay]

Hasn'T fought in Iraq three years overseas.

[Nate Bargatze]

And she goes, where was that? She took some time off. That was in Afghanistan and she was in Ramadi.

[Aaron Weber]

The. The numbers though really were shocking to see that. I mean, because my argument is, I agree with you that people are not like, put some Elvis on. But when you see that 48 million people a month are listening, that's ed.

[Dusty Slay]

Sheeran's at 90 million, Drake's at 73 million.

[Aaron Weber]

My suspicion is Suspicious Minds. Yeah, I caught in a trap is.

[Nate Bargatze]

That these are fake numbers.

[Dusty Slay]

No, I think a lot of this is skewed to. To Christmas.

[Nate Bargatze]

The most one is not Christmas. A billion of it is. Christmas is not Christmas. You know how much a billion is?

[Brian Bates]

Do see more and see what else he has.

[Dusty Slay]

Jailhouse Rock.

[Brian Bates]

Can you do the Seymour, see whether.

[Aaron Weber]

Something is a hit?

[Dusty Slay]

What do you mean?

[Brian Bates]

Seymour under number five there.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, yeah. Suspicious Minds. And then the rest of it is all. Santa Claus is back in Town. This is your musical hero. I'll be home for Christmas. They all never did a Christmas album. Led Zeppelin.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, well, they were a billion. A billion. A billion listeners. To not be Christmas. He's got. There's three. Chris Jailhouse Rock isn't the one you made. Just made fun of.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So that one. And then Burning Love and Can't Help Falling in love. That's 2 billion.

[Aaron Weber]

I wonder where Hound Dogs. When he made fun of Hound Dog.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, Hound Dog.

[Dusty Slay]

Hound Dogs. What I was making fun of.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's got a rank up there, though.

[Dusty Slay]

It's up there. We'll wait till Christmas season dies down for all these numbers too.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, what? Let's see about Man.

[Dusty Slay]

Hey, man. Put on oh, Little Town of Bethlehem by Elvis. Let's rock out for a bit. Well, absurd.

[Aaron Weber]

That might be a good song. Have you ever heard it, though?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I've heard the Christmas song by Elvis. Yeah. Yeah. No, I haven't heard a guy who's not a good singer sing it. But that's ridiculous.

[Aaron Weber]

Your argument gets worse and worse as it goes along. Now he's not a good singer.

[Dusty Slay]

Getting destroyed.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's got it. He's digging in. He's got. He's just waiting.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't even dislike Elvis.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's deciding if he's going to pull the grenade and just blow himself. He's trying to get us in far enough. He blows us all up.

[Brian Bates]

Well, how about this? Let's look.

[Dusty Slay]

That's. I mean, that's.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a. It's. It's like dang near opera.

[Dusty Slay]

Fun stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm starting to question if you even have spoons under the couch at home. That's what I'm starting to question.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Think they sold them?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know. I'm starting to question the. The whole Weber royalty is un. Unraveling.

[Dusty Slay]

You turned on me. You were an ally with me.

[Aaron Weber]

I know. Until you started making fun of the way Elvis sang.

[Dusty Slay]

It's just it. The way he sings hasn't aged that well. It sounds a little hokey. Sounds a little funny to me. Now that vibrato sounds like. What are you doing? You know, dial it back a bit.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Not a lot of people got it.

[Brian Bates]

There's a lot of Elvis fun facts. Well, first of all, there's a lot of parallels with Elvis and Nate.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

This is the root of the frustration.

[Nate Bargatze]

He goes, let him. Let him talk. Let him talk.

[Brian Bates]

Elvis had an eating disorder.

[Nate Bargatze]

Aaron's gonna leave early.

[Brian Bates]

Elvis had an eating disorder.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know he had it the other way. That's our eating disorder was the other way.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, I'm back.

[Brian Bates]

He gained a lot of weight. At the peak of his career, he.

[Nate Bargatze]

Had a soda machine in his house. And so I'm. I don't have that, but I'm. I'm working on getting a soda machine with different.

[Dusty Slay]

Different flavors.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's amazing. Fountain drink. Yeah, get that. Good. Get sonic ice and have. That's the dream. If I get that.

[Brian Bates]

He said he could destroy eight deluxe cheeseburgers, two bacon less tomato sandwiches, and three milkshakes in one sitting.

[Dusty Slay]

What would he eat with peanut butter? He put peanut butter on something weird.

[Brian Bates]

Peanut butter and bananas.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

He throws some bacon on there, too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, they have Elvis sandwiches. Some at some places.

[Brian Bates]

He like. He ate meatloaf, tomatoes, and mashed potatoes for two.

[Aaron Weber]

I sent you a video I drew. I did a Elvis impersonation thing one time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, man, this is getting better and better. Hold on, hold on. Let me.

[Dusty Slay]

Let me. Let me download that.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so there's a lot of.

[Dusty Slay]

Texts I don't want displayed on the podcast. Just a heads up. Yeah. All right. Wait, this is you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Watch this. You gotta. You gotta.

[Nate Bargatze]

Was this when you were drinking?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Look at it.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a terrible video, but it's.

[Dusty Slay]

Wait, is this Halloween or are you just hanging out?

[Brian Bates]

Go back to that one.

[Aaron Weber]

Elvis karaoke. I was hosting a. Yeah, I was. I had put on a lot of weight.

[Dusty Slay]

I can't even imagine this being you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I did a roll.

[Nate Bargatze]

Look at this.

[Aaron Weber]

I did roller derby karaoke or something.

[Nate Bargatze]

You were the.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's a good.

[Nate Bargatze]

Talk of the town, the life of the party.

[Aaron Weber]

It was a hot video.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's my favorite.

[Aaron Weber]

He has a hot video.

[Dusty Slay]

Elvis Lives wmv. Oh, that's great. I'm sorry I made fun of this voice. Daddy, though. You used to perform.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Everything you do, and then you look back that. And then look at that senior picture.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And you're like. Well, how does. You're changing you.

[Aaron Weber]

Many faces.

[Nate Bargatze]

Change your look the whole time.

[Aaron Weber]

Many faces.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Elvis was really in.

[Nate Bargatze]

He.

[Brian Bates]

He wanted to be a cop, so he was. He had all these guns. He, like, had all these honorary badges. And he would put a light on his car, like a police car, and he would see people speeding, and he would chase them in his car, pull them over, tell them to slow down, then sign them, sign an autograph for it and hand it to him.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I love that. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He had A. He had an entourage of people. Do you know that woman?

[Aaron Weber]

Nah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's you. Yeah. Looks like the woman that your dad met.

[Brian Bates]

Fontainebleau.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. She's the other woman.

[Brian Bates]

You should not make fun of the rock shirt anymore, Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that was a coster. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you're right.

[Aaron Weber]

That's my friend Mark. I do know Mark.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. How tall were you then?

[Aaron Weber]

Mark's tall guy.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Because that woman was taller than you.

[Aaron Weber]

I haven't grown since.

[Dusty Slay]

You'll get taller when you lose weight.

[Brian Bates]

Elvis had an entourage of friends and family that worked. Worked for him. And they call themselves the Memphis Mafia.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So what would you. Would you. The Nateland Nerds. I was trying to think.

[Nate Bargatze]

The Nateland.

[Brian Bates]

The Nate Nerds.

[Nate Bargatze]

We went to. Yeah, we went to Graceland. It's awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He had one guy, one of his entourage guys, they called him Hamburger James because his job was to go out and get him hamburgers at 3am that was his little job, was just a guy that. That he stole some stuff from Elvis. And they found out about it. And then I think they were. They weren't at home. They were somewhere else. And they found out he was trying to get on a plane to fly back to Memphis. They went to the airport. Elvis went in with one of his badges, made him stop the plane. He went on the plane, drug the guy off, and he told him. He said. They said. They both started crying. He's like, if you needed money, why didn't you just tell me? Because we're a family.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Whoa.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, man, that's what you think of Elvis?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. That the airport security is a little lack. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

This pre 9 11, I think.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. This is pre. A lot of stuff.

[Brian Bates]

He had a limo driver, and he said, do you own this limo or do you work for someone else? He said, I work for someone else. He said, well, not anymore. And he bought the limo and gave it to the driver.

[Dusty Slay]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

As a tip.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. So that's very nice. And then that. That limo driver probably ruined that business in little to no time.

[Nate Bargatze]

He goes, yeah. He's like, so you'll be my client? He goes, no, I got a driver. He goes, but go start your own business. He's like, well, I had a good day going right here. Insurance, benefits. There's no insurance.

[Aaron Weber]

And you're gonna have to pay taxes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You want to get your title right with this, you're gonna have to pay down.

[Nate Bargatze]

Third day on the job, Elvis. He goes, I would have never picked you up if I knew you're gonna ruin my life like this.

[Brian Bates]

But it is crazy to think he could still be alive. He's been dead for almost 50 years, and he's 90.

[Aaron Weber]

So there is a preacher out there that they say is Elvis.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that guy.

[Aaron Weber]

That guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, the guy mentioned him. The comment.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I remember. I remember, like An Unsolved Mysteries.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Bob Joyce.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I remember an Unsolved Mystery that was.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And you hear him.

[Dusty Slay]

This guy's already way better than Elvis.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Listen to his voice.

[Dusty Slay]

I want to hear him sing. I mean, he sounds a little bit like.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That'S him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's. I would. I remember watching, like, it was either Unsolved Mysteries or it was like. It was like one of those main shows.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I remember old enough that they're watching, and they were really doing like, is he alive? And, you know, it was like, almost like Geraldo when he did the opening of what? Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Al Capone's vault.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Al Capone's vault. And so it's like that kind of stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

I think he faked his own death.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh. And it was. I mean, it was on the main. Main new channels.

[Dusty Slay]

Why do they think he did that? He just got two.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's like the same way they thought Tupac faked his own death. Same they got. Anybody fix your own? Because they're just so big that you just assume. Trying to get out of it, you know? Yeah. And they're so young, and they can't be. You know, you're like.

[Aaron Weber]

It was a theory on. It was a movie called Coffee and Cigarettes. Old movie. And they said that Aaron or. Or Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron. Now, maybe it was something else. Maybe Aaron's has been on it. But anyway. But it's allegedly his brother. Yeah. Died when he was, you know, born.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But they say that he didn't die. This theory and that once Elvis became too famous, he didn't want it anymore, so he passed it over to his brother. His brother was Elvis. And then that's the brother who couldn't handle the fame. And he's the one that got all fat and out of control, you know?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a fun thing.

[Dusty Slay]

That's fun.

[Brian Bates]

That's fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I mean, imagine being that your. I mean, you know, insane. Can you imagine showing your badge and stopping FAA traffic? They go, what's going on? You go, elvis is here, and he wants to get his buddy on. And they're crying.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, it was just a different world.

[Aaron Weber]

But height of celebrity. Probably the pilot wanted to meet Elvis. Probably.

[Nate Bargatze]

There's the President wanted to meet Elvis. Like, anybody that would ever get in trouble.

[Brian Bates]

Richard Nixon met him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

At the White House. He brought him a gun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They said, I don't know how he got past Secret Service. He gave Nixon a gun as a gift. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I was, you know, like, hanging out with Larry the Cable Guy one time at this. In this little patio at a casino. And then they. The security guard came to kick us out because nobody was allowed to be out there. There. And then Larry Cable guy kind of, like, did the Larry the Cable Guy voice, and they were like, oh, oh, hey. They got so excited. They started taking pictures with him. They were like, stay as long as you want. And that's. That's tiny compared to Elvis.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's tiny compared to. To Elvis stopping a plane.

[Dusty Slay]

Elvis the Cable Guy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That'd be fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. We probably wrapped it up. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Elvis the Cable Guy.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, so we put Golden Globes. A little Elvis.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Little Elv.

[Dusty Slay]

A little Elvis.

[Brian Bates]

You're right.

[Nate Bargatze]

A little El.

[Brian Bates]

Always right.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right, well, we're back. Glad to be back.

[Brian Bates]

Some shows.

[Nate Bargatze]

Got some shows. I'll be in Vegas.

[Brian Bates]

See some Elvis in person.

[Nate Bargatze]

Omaha, D.C. just. Yeah. Doing some clubs, building it back up. Building a new hour. So, yep, there you go. It's all. We could be. Adding some shows for the tour, for the Big Demise Tour. It's gonna be big, and it's gonna be awesome. I'm excited. So, yeah, it's all in there. Can't wait.

[Brian Bates]

Yep. This Saturday, I'm in Fort Myers, Florida. Two shows at the event space called the Workshop. January 25th, I'm in Marietta, Georgia, at LA Stage. January 31st, Stardome Comedy Club in Vancouver. February 7th, Marion, Illinois, at the Little Nashville Cafe.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's cool.

[Brian Bates]

And February 8th in Quinton, Virginia.

[Dusty Slay]

Quentin.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Just outside Richmond.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron Weber here. Detroit, Michigan. I've never done stand up in Detroit. And I'm going to be there at the House of comedy in Detroit January 17th and 18th. And then at the end of the month, I'm back down in Texas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, doing the Creek in the Cave for a full weekend. So that'll be.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

A lot of fun coming out here, Texas or Detroit. I'll see y'all out there.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. Hey. January 17th, I'll be in Birmingham, Alabama, but the show is sold out. That's nice.

[Brian Bates]

Come to my show.

[Aaron Weber]

But then 1-8-18th, I'll be in Pensacola, Florida, and tickets are available. All tickets. Dustyslay.com I'll be coming into Indiana, be in Evansville, Indianapolis, you know, other places coming up. Dusty Slay.com thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. Well, hope your year is going great. How's your year? Remember that. Yeah. All right. Yeah. We love you. We hope you're off to a great start. And see you next week. Bye. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife, Laura on the AudioBoom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nate Land Podcast.