257: #257 - The Breadwinner ft. Will Forte + Mandy Moore & Cast

Summary

The Nateland Podcast: Episode #257 - "The Breadwinner" ft. Will Forte, Mandy Moore & Cast

Release Date: June 18, 2025

In this special episode of The Nateland Podcast, host Nate Bargatze, alongside Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay, delve into their recent experiences working on the movie "The Breadwinner." Featuring guest appearances from Will Forte and Mandy Moore, the episode offers an in-depth look behind the scenes, personal anecdotes, and engaging conversations about the filmmaking process.

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1. Behind the Scenes of "The Breadwinner"

Aaron Weber kicks off the discussion by highlighting the transformation of their podcast into a venture that landed them roles in a real movie set:

“We were just started at this little dumb podcast during COVID. Now we're all movie actors now.” [01:30]

The hosts express their excitement about being part of the film, humorously assigning titles to their characters:

• Nate Bargatze proudly announces his role as Trash Collector One:

  “Trash Collector one is now take.” [01:44]

• Dusty Slay counters with Trash Collector Two, emphasizing his authenticity on set:

  “I am Trash collector number two.” [01:57]

Derek Stroop adds to the camaraderie, acknowledging the generosity of Nate in including them in the film:

“Nate very generously put us in the movie. It's very, very exciting.” [01:37]

Filming on Set

The conversation shifts to the practical aspects of filming, such as wardrobe and safety measures. Nate discusses the rigorous safety protocols they adhered to while shooting scenes involving a garbage truck:

“Brian and I are both wearing... they were worried about me or Brian falling off this garbage truck. So we harnessed in for these shots.” [03:34]

The hosts share humorous moments about adapting to their roles, including wardrobe mishaps and the physical demands of filming:

“Called it the jaws of life.” [02:10]

2. An Unforgettable Encounter: Meeting Christian Bale

A standout moment in the episode is Dusty Slay's remarkable encounter with Christian Bale at the Atlanta Airport:

“He was walking so unassuming in front of us with his family... Christian Bale is Dusty's face. He said, 'Hey, man, I'm a huge fan of yours.'” [17:00]

Derek Stroop reflects on the surreal experience of almost not being believed:

“I'm so glad Brian was there, because if Brian wasn't there, no one would believe this happened.” [19:06]

The group vividly describes the interaction, highlighting Bale's humility and professionalism:

“He was like, 'Are you okay with this?' And then his assistant came and said, 'Hey, where's your mom? Tom really wants to meet her.'” [18:42]

Quotes during this segment capture the awe and excitement felt by the hosts:

“That's insane. That's unbelievable.” [19:10]

3. Guest Segment: Mandy Moore Joins the Conversation

At [23:50], Mandy Moore makes a surprise appearance on the podcast, bringing added star power and warmth to the discussion.

Discussing Her Role

Mandy shares insights about her character and the filming process:

“We jumped into the end of the film, and then we've done a little bit of family stuff, but the bulk... is yet to be done.” [25:26]

The hosts engage in light-hearted banter about the non-sequential nature of movie scenes:

“Nothing's in sequential order. It's all out of order.” [26:01]

Mandy elaborates on balancing her professional and personal life, emphasizing the joy of creating relatable, family-friendly content:

“It's nice that you don't have to worry about just showing them your scene.” [14:28]

Engaging with the Cast

The segment includes playful interactions and questions about acting experiences, fostering a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere:

“Are you pretty happy with that?” [37:37]

“Have you ever met Christian Bale?” [50:00]

4. Special Appearance: Will Forte Shares His Experiences

Will Forte joins the podcast towards the latter part of the episode, offering his unique perspective as both a cast member and a seasoned comedian.

Filming with the Hosts

Will recounts memorable moments from the set, including his interactions with Christian Bale:

“I was bragging to everybody because there was this guy, jlk... I drove him off the leaderboard.” [74:19]

He shares a heartfelt story about meeting his co-star's mother, facilitated by Bale:

“He had my mom over into the very center of it and had somebody come and take pictures. And then a couple weeks later, he sent two framed pictures.” [62:33]

Quotes from Will highlight his humility and admiration for his fellow actors:

“He's like the best there is, right?” [66:11]

Reflections on Acting and Comedy

Will discusses the challenges of acting, especially in emotionally demanding scenes, drawing parallels with his comedic background:

“It's so fun. It was so fun... I had to prepare myself to try. Cause I don't do that usually.” [59:22]

He reflects on the emotional depth required for certain roles:

“You just feel like you're a fraud, you know, like the first time after you're like, I stunk.” [84:37]

5. Listener Interaction and Community Engagement

Throughout the episode, the hosts share and respond to listener comments, fostering a sense of community and inclusivity. Comments touch on various aspects of the filmmaking process, personal anecdotes, and shared experiences, enriching the conversation and making listeners feel connected to the hosts' journey.

“Rich Taylor's. They were filming directly across the street from our house... we got a first look at Nate's acting.” [87:00]

6. Conclusion: Celebrating the Creative Journey

As the episode wraps up, the hosts express their gratitude towards their guests and listeners, emphasizing the collaborative and joyful nature of their creative endeavors.

“Thank you for having me. Dude, you're the best.” [39:50]

They also take a moment to highlight upcoming projects and specials within their community, ensuring listeners are informed and engaged with future content.

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Notable Quotes:

• Aaron Weber: “Trash Collector one is now take.” [01:44]
• Dusty Slay: “I am Trash collector number two.” [01:57]
• Will Forte: “He’s like the best there is, right?” [66:11]
• Mandy Moore: “It's nice that you don't have to worry about just showing them your scene.” [14:28]
• Dusty Slay: “They had to change his shirt after five minutes.” [03:24]

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This episode of The Nateland Podcast offers a captivating glimpse into the making of "The Breadwinner," enriched by the experiences and personalities of its hosts and special guests. From on-set anecdotes to unexpected celebrity encounters, listeners are treated to a blend of humor, heartfelt stories, and insightful discussions that celebrate the art of filmmaking and the bonds it forges among its creators.

Transcript

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Aaron Weber]

Hello, folks, and. Hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nateland Podcast. I'm back.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, There he is.

[Aaron Weber]

Welcome back. I know.

[Nate Bargatze]

What have you been up to?

[Aaron Weber]

Not much. Vacation. It's. Here we are. We're on the set of the Breadwinner.

[Dusty Slay]

How about that?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. We're actually in a real movie set. Ain't that fun? Ain't it fun that this whole.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

Look how crazy it's gotten. Y' all were all just started at this little dumb podcast during COVID Now we're.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

I wasn't even around, as you don't know yet. I don't know if you know. You weren't even around.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. We're all movie actors now. All of you are in the movie.

[Derek Stroop]

That's true.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So we got them all in. And Derek Stroop. Derek Stroop is in the movie as well.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Nate very generously put us in the movie. It's very, very exciting.

[Aaron Weber]

We got. If y' all want to say Yalls title.

[Nate Bargatze]

I do, actually, and I'm pretty proud of it. Trash. Trash Collector one.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes. A Trash Collector one is now take.

[Nate Bargatze]

A wild guess who number two.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I think most people will think Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

But they are incorrect.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I am Trash collector number two. My agent's not quite as good as.

[Derek Stroop]

Aaron's, and that's negotiated, and that's always what I've called you guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Trash Collector one and two. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You want to show the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. We've got some pictures here from. From our day on set. There's me and Brian in uniform.

[Derek Stroop]

All right. And then that's what you guys wore before you joined this podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Here we are taping our scene.

[Dusty Slay]

And, you know, the night before, we went and watched the new Mission Impossible, and Tom Cruise does all the stunts, and Aaron and I were like, we want to do our own stunts, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Did y' all. Did y' all watch that night before? We did. Yeah, we down here. Yeah. That's fun. Yeah. Yeah. So this is very fascinating. We. We Just got to this to the studio part. So you're, you're seeing the house. It's. It's all crazy, cuz. And Dusty's part, we just can't really say what it is, cuz it's.

[Derek Stroop]

It's good though.

[Aaron Weber]

But it's good.

[Dusty Slay]

And you saved on wardrobe for his part. We'll see that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Dusty's wardrobe was just.

[Dusty Slay]

Just wear what you're.

[Aaron Weber]

As you are.

[Derek Stroop]

It is funny when people dress me and then they. And I go, this is what I wore here.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Need this dressing part.

[Aaron Weber]

I've got a lot of clothes that I'm wearing in this that I basically pull off what they give me to put on what they give me. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a bunch of that.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

We were with hair and makeup and they were like, should we put some sweat on a shirt? I was like, just give it a little. Give it a few minutes.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

They had to change his shirt after five minutes.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'll get you the real McCoy here.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, this is Georgia.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was very hot because you just open that door.

[Nate Bargatze]

Brian and I are both wearing. You know, they take safety very seriously here on the set of the Breadwinner. It's a. You know, it's all above board, and so they're worried about me or Brian falling off this garbage truck. So we harness. We are harnessed in for these shots. We had to wear a harness around our, around our legs. We wore it on all day, maybe 12 hours. We had that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Just constantly. Can we take it off? And they're like, well, y' all had the option at one point to go, you can take it off, but you do have to put it back on. And it was. And you all weighed it out. There you go.

[Nate Bargatze]

You can imagine me putting that on is.

[Aaron Weber]

It's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Was all hands on deck.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Called it the jaws of life.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

That's where the sweat comes out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. They got. They had a few grips that worked on rare. And I feel like you wouldn't have had to be buckled up, but Bates, I think I could you. I don't think it's bad for you to be.

[Dusty Slay]

I had two harnesses.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, I think I. I like to see like an actual garbage man watching this going. You had harnesses to hold you on the truck. Come on, guys.

[Nate Bargatze]

There was one shot. I mean, we hit a speed bump going pretty fast, and I was like, oh, man.

[Aaron Weber]

That's why you got the harness.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's right.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, these guys in my neighborhood, they jump off, still moving they're running.

[Aaron Weber]

You got to have that. You got to have that timing down there. You know, I've seen that with. When you do any, like, physical labor or something like that, because you used to be like, your timing of it is, like, good. And then when you don't do it for a while, then you kind of are like, oh, you seem like you're bad at it. I'm not. I'm not actively doing.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got to get your groove back.

[Aaron Weber]

You got to get your groove back.

[Derek Stroop]

I'm not saying I could do it, but I just like to see a trash guy watching this, going, come on, guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we. Yeah, y' all. We all shot all that week. We were all outside. We first three weeks of this movie, we were on location. And so this is the start of the week of the house of being actually in the studio, in the movie studio. But we were. It was very fun. We were in this neighborhood shooting this. We use someone's real house and a lovely family. And we. I met all the neighbors. They would come out and watch. I like to think they. They did it the way I think I would do it. As in your neighborhood.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is. The neighborhood was all on board with this. They were super cool about it, and they would just come sit in the yard and, like, watch. Watch us film. And it was very, like. I was like, man, that is a very. It's a very fun, unique kind of thing.

[Derek Stroop]

I took some pictures with the neighbo. Yeah. It's so fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

They're into it.

[Aaron Weber]

They're into it.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They loved it.

[Dusty Slay]

Can they come and go?

[Aaron Weber]

Not in the movie, like in the set. No, their houses. They can't. I mean, they could walk in their house. These. But it's. No, in general, they're staying at an Airbnb.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. They. You. You. Yeah. I mean, if they. I think people have asked people do this. You make money and you get an experience and your mo. Your house is in the movie. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, it's pretty crazy to be like, oh, that's. That's like, this neighborhood is these houses all right here. I mean, it's going to be like. Yeah, it's your. You're all in this movie.

[Derek Stroop]

One day, people will drive through and go this way. They filmed the breadwinner.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. This is where they film the breadwinner.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

This is where the garbage guys were.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

The scene was.

[Derek Stroop]

This guy was harnessed on.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Even though my. My scene was very. It's not a big scene, but I was still nervous.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry. About that. No, no, I knew.

[Dusty Slay]

I knew as I said it he was gonna spin it that way.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. I try to get you more, but.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I'm joking. Yeah, you were nervous. That makes it. That was very nice. Yeah, but we were.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm. Dude, because I've said this so many times. No, Brian, But I'm backing you up because I've said this. We were talking about it there. You don't realize how big of an operation this is till you show up. Right? So you. Yeah, you get the script and you're like, all right, we had one line. Or like, this will be whatever. And then you show up and there's base camp, and then we had to get shuttled over to here. So it was all, like, kind of overwhelming.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, it was. And I was gonna say two things that kind of helped me. One, you were in the scene with us. I didn't even know the way they shot it. If you would. It'd actually be you or someone. I didn't know how that worked. The fact you were in the scene helped because we all know each other, and it was just fun. And then Eric, the director, he was so nice, and he's having fun. He's laughing. We're sitting back there with him and he's laughing, and it kind of puts you at ease. And the director is having a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

I will say. Y' all seen. I, I, I agree. There was not many lines there, and so I think I learned at the moment. But we added a lot of stuff where it was like, I don't know what will happen. Y' all haven't seen the very much could be in the trailer. I think, like, it's all right. I like, it felt like if it was just kind of like a perfectly little scene. And I don't know if it's going to be in the trailer. I mean, I'm just saying this to be nice, but it's there. No, but I know in the moment you could tell because we didn't have much, but we were able to riff off. So it was like I was like, with y' all scene, I was like, oh. I was much, much happier because I was like, oh, that's a lot more than I thought.

[Nate Bargatze]

Brian got to berate Nate a little bit.

[Aaron Weber]

I loved it.

[Dusty Slay]

I loved it.

[Aaron Weber]

I think everybody. I think all the folks will love it.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I channeled.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's what I was thinking.

[Nate Bargatze]

Five years of.

[Dusty Slay]

I leaned into it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's my backstory myself.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

My backstory is me if you hear.

[Aaron Weber]

The movie, you're going to hear a moo in the background. And that's. I asked for that to be put in. But, Dusty, you're seeing as well. I think you're seeing. Here's what I thought. Pictured your scene, which I don't know if it could be because we can't really say what you're doing yet, but I thought your scene would be a scene that you would show at a. Like, if I go on late night, talk about.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, yeah, I love that.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what was cool about all Y scenes is like, I. You kind of. Like, I saw it where I was like, oh, okay. Like, yeah, yeah. These are, like real scenes.

[Derek Stroop]

I like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Like, you haven't been on late night enough.

[Derek Stroop]

It was fun, though.

[Dusty Slay]

Let me go.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. Now I support it. And, yeah, it was fun.

[Aaron Weber]

It's fun to do, which I don't. When's this come out? Or Wednesday. John. Chris. Tonight's show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, just did a couple hours ago.

[Aaron Weber]

Couple hours. I got a text. I heard he crushed it.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, me too.

[Aaron Weber]

So it'll be out Wednesday.

[Derek Stroop]

You get a text about it?

[Nate Bargatze]

He texted everybody except me.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Texted my wife.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, he knew we'd get to you.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You were on Co Bear last night.

[Aaron Weber]

I was on Co Bear last night.

[Nate Bargatze]

Last night.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. June 17th.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Jeez.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Because we taped it a while ago.

[Dusty Slay]

We have. We talked about. You've been on, I think, once since announced. We forgot to mention you're hosting the Emmys, so.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

It never even came.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, well. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

A lot going on.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot going on. Who's not hosting them? Yeah, right. Exactly. Everybody's doing it. Well, when y' all. When I'm back around y' all, it feels like I've accomplished nothing.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. And well, that's what we're here for.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, it does. It brings it back to reality. Yeah. Back down to earth. I like it.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. It's been a while. The couple months.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you like it? I mean, are you enjoying it? Like, you thought? Okay, I love. Because I thought there was a part of me that thought you might start filming this and hate it and be like, I think I'm done doing movies.

[Aaron Weber]

I was. I. I worried about that because I thought, like, I'm gonna do it and then be like, all right. Because I tend to. I've learned about myself. I tend to. I have something I want to do, and then I do it, and then I kind of go, I don't do that again. And I don't think. I naturally even think I don't want to do it again. But I just always am looking. I like finding a new thing to go figure out.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And. But with movies, I've really enjoyed this. I'm very, very busy and I'm in every scene. So I've liked that. I've said that where. If. If I get to do more movies, which we're hoping so. But if I get to do more, I was like, I need to be in every scene. I need to be pretty busy. Like, I won't do well if I just sit, like. Because, I mean, y' all were there when you. Yeah, there's a lot of waiting. There's a lot of just hanging out. And so if. If I'm. If I'm not busy, I think I would have a pretty tough time because it's like been Running Gun for me for these past few years, and I kind of like, I love it, but I do want to make, you know, I think this. Look, making this movie. I honestly, I think about me growing up as a kid and all the stuff I wasn't allowed to watch, not because my parents were mean, but it was just in general, just wasn't allowed to watch stuff. That's what I think about making movies is like, not that I can answer every. Like, it's going to be, you know, it's like, not that I'm. It's. Nothing's going to be perfect or whatever. It's just a feeling for me that I have. But I think about me like my family would have. We would have came to this movie and watched it and it would have. And what I hope comes off that it'll be exactly like, we would have loved it and watched it a bunch with growing up with our family. And yeah, I want to make that stuff. So it's like with movies you do because they just live so long that I do want to make a few more that can be, you know, stuff that you can go see. I mean, hopefully, you know, you got movies that ours is. I think this movie, we don't, you know, one knows. But it, like, it could be rated. I think it's trying to be rated pg. And I don't. I don't see why it wouldn't be. But that's not really in our control. It's like, that's a whole thing. But, like, I think I can make PG13, but you can make an action movie or you can make it. The whole idea with Nateland is that we can make a scary movie that you know that. Not again. You're not making everything for five year olds or seven year old. But it's like you just want like my stand up. Everybody can be in the room.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Everybody's podcast like this podcast. The whole idea of it is I don't want you to do that. Which we have, you know, which I know we like Peter, our specials. Like, because I get asked that too. Like, is it because it's good, clean, funny. And look, with the stand up it's going to be. There's no cursing. And everything else is like some of them still parents go watch first. You decide because it's not made for kids.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But you can decide. But you know, the ones that listen to this podcast, it's like. Yeah, I mean we're not overall, it's, you know, I hope you can go whether you're. Unless you, you know, I don't know. I can't answer for everybody.

[Derek Stroop]

Someone's going to always complain.

[Aaron Weber]

Someone will always complain. But I. Yeah, I'm writing it for the little me.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So everything I do is for the. The little me that would. That was not allowed to watch a lot of stuff.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, it's very exciting to be in a movie and then I don't have to worry about when it comes out. I can watch it with my mom, I can watch it with my daughter.

[Aaron Weber]

And it's.

[Dusty Slay]

It's nice that you don't have to worry about just showing them your scene.

[Derek Stroop]

If you put it on dvd, I can watch it with my family.

[Aaron Weber]

We will. We'll do one dvd. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's a special on Netflix.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Desi is not going to pay to go to the theater.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

He'll wait six months.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that, you know. And the goal is to go to the theater. Like that was the. You know, that's. We're doing it with Sony and tristar. And a big reason for that is because I want. I loved going to the. I love going to movie theaters. I mean, I could not wait to take Harper to her first movie. I. It is. It was like so fun and exciting.

[Nate Bargatze]

This movie is going to be that for a lot of people. Isn't that cool?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's the. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you hope so. And then. Yeah, I. It's, you know, it's fun to go out. It's fun to watch stuff with people and that kind of throwback because it's, you know, and so hopefully, yeah, hopefully I get to make a few more movies and hopefully they are movies that you can go out. I don't have there. I'll be theatrical or not, but it's. But, you know, this one is. This one's the one you go out and I'm excited. I can't wait for you to see it. It's really fun. It's. I mean, you know, you always worry if stuff's going to be bad, but this movie is very fun. The cast, who you will see soon, is just everybody. I liked it. We got a lot of people in the cast that I am friends with and I've known before, some that I've just met, but we all fit in. And I always think, like, when you cast something, I always want it to be like, I will talk to these people for the rest of my lives. Like, I never understood. I never got. I always thought that with comedy, with comedians.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, I never was like, that's why I'm still with friends with all the people that I've started with from the beginning. Because it's like, why would I. Why would I want to be around someone that I don't want to be around? And so I think we did that with this cast.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Brian and I got there, and you. We watched you and Will Forte film a. Yeah. Scene together, and it was, like, so funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's crazy because you're looking. I mean, it's crazy to see, like, even for me to be. Watch a scene, I'll see Will Forte, like, talking, and you're like.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's talking to you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. You're like, who are you talking. Who are you talking to?

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, I'm in this scene.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we've been gone a little bit. We're going to read some of you guys comments. I know this will be not as long of an episode as you guys.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a very special episode.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a special episode. It's a special episode.

[Dusty Slay]

I do want to say before we get into that, Dusty and I had an interesting trip down today.

[Derek Stroop]

So fun.

[Dusty Slay]

We're at the. At Atlanta Airport, and I'd like.

[Derek Stroop]

I'd like to start it off.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Derek Stroop]

Okay. Check this out. So we're walking.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Through the airport, and I see this guy and I go, I know that guy's famous. And I go, who is that guy? I go. And then I go, oh, it's. I go, oh, it's Christian Bale. I said to Brian, I go, that's Christian Bale right there. And Brian didn't believe me.

[Dusty Slay]

I go, what? And I thought, he's Being funny. I'm like, kind of looks like him, but it's not that much. Like, I don't know why that's such a funny joke.

[Derek Stroop]

I said, that's Christian Bale. And in my head I thought, man, I'd love to get a picture with Christian Bale, but he was with his family. And so Brian kind of creeped up beside him just to confirm that it was Christian Bale. And. And then. And then you can go from there.

[Dusty Slay]

I mean, he was walking so unassuming in front of us with his family and his. Ellen. Airport very busy. We get to baggage claim, and I think we just said, like, let's see which one the cares. And then out of nowhere, Christian Bale is Dusty's face. He said, hey, man, I'm a huge fan of yours.

[Aaron Weber]

No way.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

No way.

[Derek Stroop]

I'm so glad Brian was there, because if Brian wasn't there, no one would believe this happened.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Kept talking about how much she loves Dusty, how he watches his videos, how he.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, my gosh, dude.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's crazy.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, they told me we got a story to tell the podcast and we're gonna wait to tell it to you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, that delivered. That's insane.

[Derek Stroop]

It was so wild. I. I mean, my stomach was hurting. I felt bad. And then that happened. I go, I feel great. Life's good.

[Dusty Slay]

And I said, can. Can we get a quick picture? And I think he doesn't even realize I. Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I think he just thinks I'm a fan. And he kind of looked at me like, what?

[Aaron Weber]

And. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And we're trying to talk here.

[Derek Stroop]

And then he. And then he goes, yeah, he goes, if that's okay with you. He asked that to Christian Bale, said that to me.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, it's amazing. That's insane. Batman, dude.

[Derek Stroop]

I know. I compliment him on the Machinist. That's a movie that I really like. I realize that's a 20 year old movie now, but I felt like it was a good.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's incredible.

[Derek Stroop]

I just didn't want to be like, I loved you in Batman. I wanted to have something better than that. Everybody loves him in Batman.

[Aaron Weber]

That's crazy.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, he was. I mean, he just baggage claim. He just stood there with his family. Nobody, not one person approached him, I.

[Aaron Weber]

Feel, because you would just like, he, like, he kind of blends. Yes. So with everybody.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, Dusty is Dusty from the Goodyear blimp.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And I'm not the guy. I'm not the guy that spots people. I don't And I just.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think I would have picked it up.

[Dusty Slay]

I don't know how you spotted it.

[Derek Stroop]

I was like, that's Christian.

[Dusty Slay]

He was in front of us. We just saw the back of his head. I don't know how dusty.

[Derek Stroop]

I was like, I'd love to get a picture with him. And then he popped up on me. We shook hands.

[Dusty Slay]

And then his, you know, his thick Australian accent. If you. If you weren't 100.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure.

[Dusty Slay]

Once he started talking, you knew he's British, but.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, he's amazing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. That's unbelievable.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

It's wild. It's a wild.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Very exciting.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Very.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm so glad you got. Did you get a picture with him or. No, I'm glad that you got a picture. Yeah. I did not see this story going like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

How we're.

[Aaron Weber]

Just.

[Derek Stroop]

By myself, no one. I could tell people and they go, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, that happened. But, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow, that's great.

[Derek Stroop]

Even. Even a couple of. There was a cop and a security guard that were there. They were all. Everybody. Yeah, they all heard it. We talked about it for a while after he left. Oh, yeah, Me and this one.

[Dusty Slay]

Is that why that cop.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, me and this one cop, we talk. I go, did you just see that? And me and him. His name was Greg.

[Aaron Weber]

And did he know you?

[Derek Stroop]

I don't know. He didn't know me, but he knew Christian Bale.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And then he. Yeah. And we talked.

[Aaron Weber]

I wonder. He's. Yeah. Like. Yeah. I mean, I could see how. Yeah. He could just blend. You just don't. He almost. He's like such a big movie star that you almost probably don't feel like he's a real person. Right. Like, you just would never imagine him standing, doing anything that you just assume he's helicoptered in. In every situation. I don't think like Tom Cruise or anybody.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's that way with Fallon where I. Like when I was looking at him, I was like, oh, my God.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I don't even picture Christian Bale watching comedy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Like, wow, that's.

[Derek Stroop]

Sitting around watching.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, you know what?

[Nate Bargatze]

I wish you could have another go at this picture. Are you pretty happy with that?

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, I'm aware of how I look.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I'm fine with it.

[Aaron Weber]

Did he take. Did you take more than one? Do you do some shuddering?

[Dusty Slay]

I was trying to do it quick, really fast.

[Aaron Weber]

That's how I look.

[Derek Stroop]

My glasses up here.

[Aaron Weber]

If you want to know the difference between becoming a star and not a star, like, who has it. And who doesn't have it? The beautiful man that just probably woke up off a flight. Listen, guys, walk a 50. Probably flew from Australia. I'm a 40 hour flight he just took. You took a hopper. I look 20 minute hopper and you look like you came over on a boat.

[Derek Stroop]

I look good?

[Dusty Slay]

Yes, I think you look good.

[Derek Stroop]

I look good. I mean, I know how I look.

[Aaron Weber]

This is.

[Derek Stroop]

This is a good look for me. Look how happy he is to be standing next to me. Come on.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, he's.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, he's just met his favorite comic.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree. He's thrilled about it.

[Derek Stroop]

And he was like, oh, yeah, this is the guy. This is how I want him to look.

[Aaron Weber]

He is going back home and telling his friends he's everything I wanted him to be. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, exactly, guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's so cool, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

We were baggage claim because Dusty packed some things that he couldn't bring on the plate, so.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah. That's so funny.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Derek Stroop]

Had I not checked a bag, maybe this wouldn't have happened.

[Dusty Slay]

You're right.

[Derek Stroop]

It's a good lesson. Always check a bag.

[Dusty Slay]

You're absolutely right.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Aaron Weber]

All right, first up, we tricked her to be on it. Mandy Moore.

[Mandy Moore]

Such a trickster.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Mandy Moore]

Hi, guys.

[Dusty Slay]

Hi.

[Aaron Weber]

Hello. Hello, hello.

[Nate Bargatze]

Welcome.

[Derek Stroop]

All right.

[Mandy Moore]

Thanks for having me.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They were all in your movie.

[Mandy Moore]

My movie and your movie. We're all in your movie.

[Aaron Weber]

They're. But they. You have Brian Aaron and Dusty.

[Mandy Moore]

You guys have already filmed.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes, we have filmed.

[Mandy Moore]

How'd it go?

[Aaron Weber]

Really a lot of fun. You didn't hear about it. So it went about like that. No, I'm joking. They crushed it.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is Nate's movie, but I didn't think it would be good until we found out you were on it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what I mean? You're like, oh, this is a real thing.

[Aaron Weber]

That is true. Because you don't get, like. I feel like even getting a movie, everybody. It's like, until we said who. My. You were my wife.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like, even your friends are like, oh, this is like a real.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, you're really doing it.

[Aaron Weber]

So it's a real movie.

[Derek Stroop]

This career is working out.

[Dusty Slay]

I am. I looked on IMDb last night, and you're, like, number seven on the list for the Hope for the Breadwinner.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's like, Mandy Will Forte.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, obviously.

[Dusty Slay]

And then I was like, where's Nate?

[Aaron Weber]

And they're like, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, he's down there.

[Aaron Weber]

Just keep going.

[Dusty Slay]

Too below me.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

That is what you want, though.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm just a facilitator.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, I just. If you're bringing it together.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You want it.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. You're like, I don't need to be the number one name.

[Dusty Slay]

Mandy, you've been in a lot of movies. You've had a lot of challenging roles that you played. Is trying to pretend like being married to someone like Nate your most challenging job of all? You're Alzheimer's patient, but now you got to be married.

[Aaron Weber]

This was.

[Mandy Moore]

I feel like we're just getting, like. We're just getting into all of our scenes as, like, husband and wife. We kind of jumped into the end of the film, and then we've done a little bit of, like, family stuff, but I feel like the bulk. The majority of our work has. Is yet to be done.

[Aaron Weber]

It's yet to be done.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We.

[Mandy Moore]

So tbd.

[Aaron Weber]

Tbd. We're coming.

[Derek Stroop]

Good thing we're doing a podcast now.

[Mandy Moore]

Yeah, exactly.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that's a movie. Crazy thing. You shoot stuff we've already shot, like the end scenes.

[Mandy Moore]

Yeah, yeah. And nothing's in sequential order. It's all out of order.

[Derek Stroop]

Quintino, we don't think.

[Aaron Weber]

We don't use words like sequential. Yeah. You're actually next to Notre Dame grad.

[Nate Bargatze]

I love that. That's a great word.

[Aaron Weber]

If you could take it down a little bit. We appreciate it. I had. What is that? It spell word today?

[Mandy Moore]

Fuchsia.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Fuchsia.

[Derek Stroop]

That's a tough one.

[Aaron Weber]

I was thinking. Yeah, I didn't know what it was. Asked what.

[Derek Stroop]

That's one autocorrect color for you.

[Mandy Moore]

That's a tough.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a tough one. When you ask what a word means and someone goes, it's a color.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's one of the main.

[Aaron Weber]

They don't like. You know, I thought they were going to. It's a plant.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Or it's, you know, a bird. No, it's a color. Oh, is it. Wow. Like red. Okay.

[Mandy Moore]

Kind of. All right, General family General.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it red? I.

[Mandy Moore]

It's pink.

[Aaron Weber]

Pink.

[Mandy Moore]

More of a pink pink.

[Aaron Weber]

I was thinking fugue swall or fink shui. Oh, feng shui. Feng shui.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Because that's how. When you build a house, that's how.

[Mandy Moore]

You want a room to sort of.

[Aaron Weber]

You don't want your steps to exit the house to down the stairs. The front door should not open. Yeah.

[Mandy Moore]

I don't know all the rules, but it's like you want your bed facing a certain way.

[Derek Stroop]

There's sand, there's rocks, there's a rake, Right?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Mandy Moore]

I mean, I guess. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

No, that's a good. No, but this is like, when you build a house, your steps shouldn't go through the front door because it's like, almost like all the energy. I don't even.

[Mandy Moore]

The energy is leaving the energy in.

[Derek Stroop]

My house right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. The steps are going right on the front. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That explains a lot.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. That's why I get sad sometimes at home.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, there are people you can hire. You can hire somebody to come into your office and rearrange everything to get good energy there.

[Mandy Moore]

Yeah, Yeah, I believe that.

[Derek Stroop]

I believe it, too. But to know that you can hire people that do that is funny.

[Aaron Weber]

How do you even. What would you type in in Google to find that number?

[Mandy Moore]

Yelp. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But what are you going to use?

[Mandy Moore]

Feng shui consultant.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, there you go. That's. I mean, I would have typed in how to make someone. Is there someone that makes my energy. Energy good in the steps in the Front door. And I would say that. And I would say, I would hope that Google would. Would be like. I would love. I think my Google. Well, my Google is kind of like. Yeah, he. He knows, you know, like, my Google's kind of like. I think I get. His. Google's learned. It's learned to go. Just give me the ballpark.

[Dusty Slay]

He's on a different.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, I know what he's talking about. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

That's a chat. GPT question, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

That's what people are doing now, right?

[Mandy Moore]

That's what the kids are doing.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I asked Mandy a lot about Entourage already.

[Mandy Moore]

Oh, yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was gonna bring it up at some point.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It's hard not to.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You got four dudes here. You got. Three of us watched Entourage. Obviously. One doesn't watch. One lives on a farm. It doesn't watch television.

[Mandy Moore]

Which one? Can I guess.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mandy Moore]

I was gonna get Dusty.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry. Yeah. Who grows it? Yeah. Who grows his. He grows all his own food.

[Mandy Moore]

Really?

[Derek Stroop]

Well, not all of it.

[Aaron Weber]

He does. Yeah. He just does the easy ones.

[Derek Stroop]

I do have a lot of garlic.

[Aaron Weber]

Anything difficult, he goes right to the grocery store.

[Derek Stroop]

We just harvested a lot of garlic yesterday. Oh, wow. So good. A lot of it hanging on the screened in porch now drying out. We can't wait.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it. How long does that take?

[Derek Stroop]

Like, three weeks.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, wow.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You got something coming up garlic wise. Well, so you're playing in a. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, we're excited.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

We're ready to get into it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I got a little jar of garlic and honey. You put. You put all garlic in there, pour honey over it, eat the garlic.

[Mandy Moore]

So good for you.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Mandy Moore]

People. People, swear you don't get sick.

[Derek Stroop]

This is what we've done, like, every day. You need to bring in someone that knows a little bit about this stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Suddenly I'm not so crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. No, no.

[Dusty Slay]

Y' all know about sequential.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Y' all have a lot in common. But just. Just 1%, it's going to steer off the rails pretty good. Yeah. After the garlic. Yeah. I was, like, just talking.

[Mandy Moore]

I'm sure we sort of deviate.

[Aaron Weber]

I would just talk to him about garlic, and then I'd get in your car and head on out. But because that's.

[Dusty Slay]

You're a accomplished singer, too. Have you ever been to Nashville?

[Mandy Moore]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you think of the good question?

[Mandy Moore]

I mean, I feel like such a funny question.

[Aaron Weber]

Mandy, hold on a second, man. Do you sing? Have you ever been to Nashville, Tennessee?

[Mandy Moore]

Never heard of it.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

I Had a followup.

[Mandy Moore]

No, no, go for it.

[Aaron Weber]

Followed up with a better question. I don't think I've ever heard a question.

[Nate Bargatze]

You've been on a plane before, Mandy.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, Mandy, you're a accomplished actor. Have you ever been to Los Angeles? That's the question. Yes. Is that is my crazy.

[Mandy Moore]

Essentially, no. Essentially. Essentially, yeah. Yeah. But no, I mean, fair enough. Yes, I have been to Nashville. I played the Ryman before when I was on tour last time. Yeah. I mean, that's a real feather in one's cap, as they say. But I love Nashville.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Mandy Moore]

I would move there in a heartbeat. I love it. Lots of friends there. I feel like the whole music industry in general has sort of moved to Nashville. Not just, like, country.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Mandy Moore]

All genres.

[Aaron Weber]

How many tours did you go on?

[Mandy Moore]

I've been on a few. I've been on a few.

[Aaron Weber]

But I.

[Mandy Moore]

When I started, I was a kid, I was like, 15, and I toured a little bit then. And then I kind of, like, I started getting more into acting.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Mandy Moore]

And that. That sort of entourage. Yeah, yeah. More or less.

[Nate Bargatze]

So, like, the music entourage.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, no, no. That was. It was all leading to entourage.

[Mandy Moore]

It was all. All roads led to entourage.

[Nate Bargatze]

Exactly.

[Mandy Moore]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's my life motto.

[Aaron Weber]

Eventually, all I auditioned for. Oh, you were telling the movie. Yeah. I didn't get it to play.

[Nate Bargatze]

Vintage.

[Aaron Weber]

Spoiler alert now. Haley Joel Osman. No, it was in the movie. The movie.

[Dusty Slay]

Authorized Movie.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That's where I didn't read the script. And she goes, why didn't you read the script? I go, I'm pretty excited about the movie. I figured I wouldn't get this part, so why would I spoil it? Why would I ruin the movie? Like, you know, That's a great answer. Yeah. It's like, what are you talking about?

[Derek Stroop]

Ruin the movie for myself?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I'm not gonna get the.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm not getting this role. Like, are you? Right. Because I had an acting coach, and right before the. Before I went, the guy. I took a lesson from a guy, and I was going to the audition, and we get done doing. He running it through with me, and I go, what do you think? Am I good? And he goes, I think you should try to get out of this audition. That's how it went. He goes, yeah. He goes, you should try to get out of it. I think it will hurt you more than it will help you in this industry as a whole. He goes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just in general.

[Aaron Weber]

As a general look. He goes, you should just not go. And I was like, I'll be all right. And just typical comedian that goes. I'll figure it out. Yeah. That's how we comedians are. What I've learned with acting is y' all are prepared. And we do not come from a world of preparation. We. I mean, we usually write everything on stage.

[Mandy Moore]

Sure.

[Aaron Weber]

So you. I mean, you go on stage. I mean, you kind of have a general. You think about it a lot, but there's no, like, really writing that. You just kind of. It's pretty crazy.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

To go like, well, I need to be in front of people.

[Derek Stroop]

That's right. Yeah. You think with acting, you go, I got an idea. I got the gist. I know how this goes.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I'll work it out on set.

[Mandy Moore]

I mean, I feel like you have to.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, when you see Dusty's part, you're gonna notice.

[Mandy Moore]

I can't wait.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Mandy Moore]

I feel like you have to be somewhat prepared. Like, I like to know my lines, but I'm not driving myself crazy about it. Cause, like, you still want to show up on set and have the freedom to, like, you know, play around and try different things and not be so locked in and have, like, a certain expectation of what things are gonna look like. Cause then it never ends up, like, turning out the way that you expect.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it's like a. That's what I. I mean, I've had. I. We have. I have an acting coach here, and he's great. Jeff Dockweiler. And he's been with me the whole time. I mean, they just. Sony was like, just go sleep on top of this guy and work on stuff. I just talked to him. Yeah, he's great.

[Dusty Slay]

He said, you should get out of.

[Aaron Weber]

This if you could. He said that's what he did, is you should get out of this.

[Mandy Moore]

It's too late.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you can recast.

[Aaron Weber]

They can recast.

[Derek Stroop]

I was saying when. When we did our scene and we walked up was like, you know, I was like, I had read it over, but then they go. We're just standing there. And then, like, it looked like we're about to just go. And I'm like, well, let me. Let me see those lines one more time. I'm not that ready on it. I didn't know we were going to walk right up and just get started.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what's really helpful?

[Derek Stroop]

I don't do a lot of acting.

[Aaron Weber]

Again, with my acting coach is like, we. It is the story. It's like, if you think. If you just look at the story and not, like, I almost don't even really look at the lines. Yeah. Because the lines are going to be. Especially in a movie like this. Like, we're not. It's not a. You know, it's not Star Wars. So it's. I literally. My name's Nate in it, and so it's your. I'm. It's like almost naturally the only thing you could say in the situation.

[Mandy Moore]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then. So it's like, you just kind of like. It helps you really, you know, because you think about. It's like in Stand up, you know, we do a set list and we write bullet points. So you write, you know, grocery store, groceries. Yes. And then you can go talk about that for three minutes or fire 50 minutes for you. But it's, like, crazy because you just need that one bullet point that, you know, that breaks it all in. And it's essentially that you just kind of have bullet points and you just go, oh, yeah. Then I'll get into that.

[Mandy Moore]

That's a good way of looking at it. That is really helpful that you're just telling the story. And it's so much of it is in your own voice, too, in a way. Like, you get to be yourself.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Mandy Moore]

More or less here. So it's like. It can kind of be whatever you want as long as you're. You have, like, the basic idea of what the line is and what you have to say.

[Aaron Weber]

So.

[Mandy Moore]

Yeah, I take some pressure off.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what I was always wondering about acting, because it was when you see it, and sometimes you see something will be so natural in a movie or something, and you're like, did they write that? Or did it just, like, the person figured that out in that moment?

[Derek Stroop]

And when it's your movie, too, I think you could just go, well, that's how it is now.

[Mandy Moore]

Exactly.

[Derek Stroop]

That's how we're doing it.

[Mandy Moore]

That's what I want.

[Derek Stroop]

I know that wasn't the original story, but that's what we're gonna do now.

[Aaron Weber]

Now I'm.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You know how I say instead of Dad? I say dad. Yeah. Yeah. So that's. That's. Dad is. It's in the movie. Because what are you gonna do? Yeah, you go, you gonna make me not say. I don't know how to not say dead.

[Nate Bargatze]

And there's a list of these words somewhere of all the ones you say wrong just to avoid.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. That they just go with it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. A lot of it is like, well, what are we gonna do? That's how they. I mean, they have a full conversation. Should we ask him to say the way the rest of the world says it or just his way.

[Mandy Moore]

Maybe they'll make you do ADR at the end.

[Aaron Weber]

It might be dad.

[Derek Stroop]

Dad died when you were a little kid. Would you call your dad when you were a little kid?

[Aaron Weber]

No, I called him Dad.

[Derek Stroop]

I called my dad Daddy.

[Aaron Weber]

Daddy.

[Derek Stroop]

Daddy, Daddy, Daddy. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Daddy was just Mr. Weber.

[Nate Bargatze]

At school. My dad was my high school principal. I called him. I called him Mr. Weber at school.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you ever get called in there? A couple times and just you and him?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, he was dad at that point when it's just us in the room, he's dad, and then we just. In the halls, he's Mr. Weber. If I had a question for him.

[Aaron Weber]

Sure, sure. Did you get in trouble a couple times? Yeah. All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was never the guy. I was the guy that was around the people that were getting in trouble, and I was like, come on, guys. I was that guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not a lot of fun.

[Derek Stroop]

Come on. Don't do it.

[Aaron Weber]

Don't do it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I was involved in a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I was never the instigator. I was gonna ask both of y' all real quick. Are we trying.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We gotta. Yeah. Final question.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you find that you enjoy movies? All right.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I'm. I'm serious.

[Derek Stroop]

It just was funny that he said.

[Nate Bargatze]

Final question, because this is your first big movie that you've been around.

[Aaron Weber]

The only movie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And you've.

[Nate Bargatze]

You've been in so many.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you feel like you enjoy movies more or less now that you know how everything works and you're kind of thinking at that as you're watching it?

[Mandy Moore]

I mean, I find it so magical to be truthful, like, each and every time you're. It's not lost on you, like, this is the coolest job. We're so lucky. I'm so grateful.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Mandy Moore]

It's just like, being back at work is always the best. But I'm curious how you feel.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You know, it's funny. I watched a movie this weekend. You want to know what I watched?

[Mandy Moore]

What'd you watch?

[Aaron Weber]

I know what you did last summer. And.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so, yeah, this will be the fifth movie Nate's seen once it's out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. But I noticed, like, the shots, like, covered shots. That's the craziest because I never noticed it. When you, like, if you see. If someone's two people are talking, you see just that person and this person, you're like, well, they had to move so much stuff around.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, that's what I mean. Are you Just thinking about that stuff the whole time or can you kind of get lost in it when you're.

[Aaron Weber]

I noticed it. I could probably get lost, but. I know, but I enjoyed it. Like, I.

[Mandy Moore]

But maybe you're just more aware of it right now because you're in the midst of this process. So you're like, oh, wow, very true. They're shooting at night. Like, what that must have took. And it's just like, yeah. All the details of. Of, you know, the. What goes into making a shoot work. I'm sure it's like just very top of mind for you right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was very fun to watch.

[Derek Stroop]

I like that you said how great the job is and then you said that we get to do this and that's not what we. We. We don't get to do.

[Aaron Weber]

They don't get to do it.

[Mandy Moore]

We collectively.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, we are.

[Mandy Moore]

We're all in this together.

[Derek Stroop]

No, I liked it. I thought it was fun, cuz it was a lot of passion and what you said and I was feeling it and I was like, oh, yeah, I wish I had that job, you know?

[Aaron Weber]

You did. You did have that job.

[Mandy Moore]

Exactly.

[Aaron Weber]

He's not gonna have it again.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Mandy Moore]

I hope you enjoyed it.

[Derek Stroop]

No, I like my job too.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like hoping for bread winner too.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Just around the trash, guys. All right, Mandy, thank you so much for stopping by. Dude, you're the best.

[Nate Bargatze]

Great to meet you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes, thank you. You, you have a podcast too?

[Mandy Moore]

Oh, just a little rewatch podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes. This is us. Yeah. Everybody go watch that. Yeah.

[Mandy Moore]

Oh, thanks. Thanks for having me.

[Aaron Weber]

Absolutely see it.

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Derek Stroop]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Derek Stroop]

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[Nate Bargatze]

And then that's going to transfer over into everything. You do that.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Derek Stroop]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Derek Stroop]

That should be their motto. Good stuff. Oh, man.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, here we are with my lovely daughters in the movie Breadwinner. We got Birdie, Stella, Charlotte. Look at that. Have. We've had very fun. They're this move. We have a lot of stuff. We have. We do a lot of. A lot of stuff together. I've learned a lot from them. I learned how to stand on a T, the marker. Oh, yeah. So they put a piece of tape with a T, and I overheard them telling. I don't know. It wasn't you. It was. Yes, I heard him tell them, Birdie. Just. Just put your. Just make sure you put your feet in the middle of the tea. And I overheard it, and I just was like, you know, it's like, where I. I did learn that in that moment, but I didn't really address it. I didn't go like, oh, good, Chip.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But I was like, you just pretended like you've never. If they talk to y' all, I listen and I will ask y' all questions. Because y' all, you've been in stu. You know, you're the real deal.

[Derek Stroop]

Real pros.

[Aaron Weber]

You're real pros.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. How long have y' all been acting?

[Aaron Weber]

About 25 years for Charlotte. Go ahead, Charlotte. Well, since I was three. Wow. I just. She's four now. I had a lot of personality, and I was just goofing off all the time. And my oldest did acting, and that's how I got it.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's awesome.

[Derek Stroop]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You were in. What were the big thunderbolts, right? Yeah. Was that. Was that awesome? Like, is it.

[Will Forte]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it. When you're doing. When you're on a movie like that, does it feel like this movie, or does it feel like just. It feels different. And it's cool how movies are different and how they get made. Yeah. You think you. What's your favorite movie? This one. Thank you. Look at that.

[Derek Stroop]

Good acting coach.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, why don't y' all go ahead and say, what's your favorite movie? And it better be, like, Charlotte's answer.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's actually.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm gonna be completely serious. It is this one. Oh, all right.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you have to say that now.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It's completely fine. Is it? What. How long have y' all. Y' all both been acting now? I've been acting for four years. Yeah. I've been acting since I was 4, and I'm almost 12 now.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

My dad was. Well, he still is. He's an actor. And then I started asking. Asking all about it, and I wanted to try it, and I tried it, and I loved it. So I've been doing it ever since. Yeah. Yeah, it's. It's a lot of fun. Yeah, you're. And you. School is different for y' all, though, because you go. But you also go to a real school, right? I go to a public high school. You go to public high school. And the. But then when you're on set, you had you. They would have to run off and go, like, learn also something. I should have probably. I should have probably went down with y' all to your class. Yeah, that wouldn't have hurt for me to go, well, what are y' all talking about today? Maybe I can sneak in there and hear and learn some stuff from you guys as well.

[Dusty Slay]

So, Charlotte, when you got cast with Nate, did you tell your agent, I feel like I'm taking a step back in my career?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Dusty Slay]

All right, so we're taping this early, but yesterday was Father's Day. What kind of dad do you think he'd be in real life?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, in real life?

[Mandy Moore]

Well, I mean, didn't you write this.

[Aaron Weber]

Movie after your real life experiences or something or an idea? So, I mean, close to that, but probably better because this is, like, a movie. Thank you. And it was probably exaggerated. I feel like you would tolerate going.

[Will Forte]

Out to, like, dinner, but I feel.

[Aaron Weber]

Like you would want to kind of just, like, chill.

[Will Forte]

That's Very specific.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, on Father's Day. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Very well.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I think I would want y' all out of the house and. No, I'm joking. No, watch us Open. That's Father's Day right there. You watch golf? Yeah, that's what my uncle did. Oh, yeah. It's the best. Oh, yeah, because you're. Yeah, because you're a uncle here right now. And they're. Yeah, I bet he loved it. I'll talk to him about it because it was great. You should have watched it, too. Y' all been awesome. Y' all have been. Y' all have helped me a lot on how to act. Yeah. I can't wait everybody to see them in this movie because they're very. They're very fun. It's all hanging out. We all hang. We have a fun time. We all hang out. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Derek Stroop]

You're all very well. Thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank you for coming.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank you for having you guys. For having us.

[Nate Bargatze]

Red winner.

[Aaron Weber]

Here we go. Watch it, please.

[Derek Stroop]

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[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I have two.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. And we all love it. That is true. I can't read, but that is true. Being out on the road and getting to come back home and get back in my Helix mattress is the best feeling. It is a good feeling. You know what? I also got my sister and brother in law a Helix mat.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Derek Stroop]

That's a nice gift. It was. It was a nice gift. And. But you know what? They had an old mattress they were sleeping on, and they kept complaining to me about how they were not sleeping good. So I go, you know what? I got a fix for you.

[Nate Bargatze]

And you gave them our promo code.

[Derek Stroop]

Well, I probably. I think I used the promo code to buy the mattress, but they love it. They sleep good. They feel good.

[Nate Bargatze]

Love it.

[Derek Stroop]

My brother in law even said that his old mattress, he had his. His, like, body indented into the mattress.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, my gosh.

[Derek Stroop]

And he said that now he doesn't have that.

[Dusty Slay]

Is this your brother in law from Michigan?

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So the bar was very low, but.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, it was low. I mean, I could have got him some cotton pads, but they do love it.

[Nate Bargatze]

But you got him a Helix and.

[Derek Stroop]

I got a Helix mattress, too. I love the Helix pillows.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

It improves how I sleep. Everyone knows how I love their pillows. We talk about it all the time. They are good pillows, though. When sometimes I Go to bed. We have several pillows and some of them are Helix, some of them are other pillows. My wife will have all the Helix and I gotta wake her. I go, whoa, whoa. I gotta wake her up and go, let me get one of the Helix. You know, you will each take one of the bad ones, but we need each one of them.

[Dusty Slay]

Do the Helix maneuver.

[Derek Stroop]

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[Aaron Weber]

The Martin Herlihy. All right. From Please don't destroy. Is that what you get brought up as, like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody says that. Yeah. I don't think I've been in one of y' all sketches. No. Is that because, golly, that hurt. You know, it's kind of an awkward way, you know. Yeah. What's the deal with that, Martin? Maybe that's what we should start this podcast. Where do you get off?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I think we wrote ones for you.

[Aaron Weber]

Y' all did. Yeah. I don't. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

One of the best sketches, one of my favorites of all time. The kids doing Def Jam.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, that's so funny. Have you seen that? Oh, so great. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, man. We wrote that with Gary Richardson. Okay, Shout him out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. So you. We. We. You're playing Peter.

[Nate Bargatze]

Huh?

[Aaron Weber]

On in this movie. You're the like a door dash guy, delivery guy. I forget who. Who do you work? Who is it? Or do we even know? We just say food delivery guy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

We don't really say anybody switching. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so we've been wrong. They were. They've already shot their scenes. I don't think you were there. They. They play because we can say what y' all were. I guess we kind of did. Y' all say it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Trash man number one.

[Aaron Weber]

Trash man number one. Trash.

[Nate Bargatze]

Make that very clear that he's number two.

[Dusty Slay]

Trash collector number two. Not Trash man.

[Derek Stroop]

And get it right.

[Aaron Weber]

Trash collector. And Dusty can't say what you were doing, but you. You were.

[Derek Stroop]

I had a great time.

[Aaron Weber]

You had a great time?

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. It was a lot of fun. It was fun.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty dies in the movie.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Go ahead.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. You know, we got to play around with a bit of a different hair. Hair look.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And that was fun. And his hair, normally, it's like yours.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah. This is a wig.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Extension.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

But, yeah, we. You know, they styled it up a different way, and then they were like. In the. In the trailer, they were like, we like this. And then, fortunately, you were in there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

So I got to be like, do you okay with this? And then you were like, I don't care. And it would look good, though.

[Aaron Weber]

I liked it. Did you like it?

[Derek Stroop]

I did. I wore it that way all the way through the airport back home. And then I. I took it out before I got home. I didn't want my kids to see me.

[Nate Bargatze]

You almost became a different guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, I did. I became a different guy that I. I'm sure I could say. But it would be a, you know, maybe a nice surprise.

[Aaron Weber]

No, it's. Yeah, but you didn't want your kids to see your hair.

[Derek Stroop]

Well, I just.

[Aaron Weber]

What?

[Derek Stroop]

I. You know, I just didn't want to show up off the road with a new look.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Maybe if they saw it happen.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what they say. If you shave your. Have your kids seen you without a beard?

[Derek Stroop]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay, so if I did, that wife.

[Derek Stroop]

Has seen me without it.

[Nate Bargatze]

They probably freak out if they saw you without a beard, right?

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So different haircut.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Who's the strange man in that?

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

How many kids you got, Martin?

[Nate Bargatze]

Dude, I'm working on it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

There used to be a Saturday Night Live sketch. Hurley. He boy. Yes. That related to you?

[Nate Bargatze]

My dad knew Adam Sandler.

[Dusty Slay]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

So it was the name. He had no involvement in it other than Sandler used his name.

[Aaron Weber]

His dad, so. Yeah. That's cool, though, right? With Sandler, it had done Happy Gilmore and, I mean, almost all of. Or a lot of them. Right? Yeah, all the. All the ones we like. I mean, we like all. I didn't mean to say it like that, but you know what I mean. It's the ones that you and, you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Know which ones we're talking about, you know, What?

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, there are some that are better than others. I think that's okay. Yeah, I think that's okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you think your dad would come on this?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Have you ever had a. What jobs have you had?

[Nate Bargatze]

I've only worked in desserts previous to comedy. So I did shaved ice, popsicles, chocolate candy ice cream.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Those are all different establishments. You were like, the shaved ice and the popsicle were the same thing.

[Derek Stroop]

It's like you were running a booth. Yeah, yeah. Outside.

[Nate Bargatze]

Outside. Did the like markets in New York, did corporate events.

[Derek Stroop]

Is this your first job? Your first job was.

[Nate Bargatze]

First job was in a chocolate shop. But then like, first job in college in New York was the shaved ice pop. Is that a coincidence or did you really just zero in on passion? Yeah, I had previous experience.

[Dusty Slay]

Aaron's like, I didn't know we could do that.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. He goes, you messed up.

[Derek Stroop]

You're about to quit comedy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It's not too late for a pivot. I'll tell you that.

[Aaron Weber]

Did. Which one was easier of the desserts?

[Nate Bargatze]

The last one I had was an ice cream store where I would work the opening shift. So, like I would be done at like noon.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So it would only be like the five crazy people. Yeah. Who's getting ice cream?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I could. Yeah. That is funny. To go. Yeah. In the morning, like. Yeah. Is it 10am When y' all would open? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

It'd be like 10 to three maybe.

[Aaron Weber]

And then did. But which one was the easiest to like, scoop? Is ice cream the hardest or is shaved ice easier because it's just you're, you know, shaved ice is harder.

[Nate Bargatze]

Depends on the flavor of ice cream.

[Aaron Weber]

I would not think that. I'm surprised by that. Do you thought ice cream is like, you know when you see go to like Baskin Robbins, I mean they have to like, you have to get into it.

[Nate Bargatze]

They go home with a.

[Derek Stroop]

With a bit of a hand cramp after a night of a lot of ice cream scooping.

[Nate Bargatze]

After a long summer, the one arm would be slightly bigger than the other one.

[Derek Stroop]

You're like two scoops.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm still. How is shaved ice the hardest one?

[Nate Bargatze]

I guess it depended on the flavor.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

If it had a lot of mix ins, you tend to be softer.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you ever have a customer come in and they ask for something and you go, you don't need that?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I would almost every. I think everyone.

[Dusty Slay]

You say a present tense, like, he still works there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I would imagine that's a three out of five situation. It's just. You're like, are you sure, man? Yeah. I don't know.

[Derek Stroop]

What's the most amount of samples you've ever given out to one person? You ever have somebody where you're like.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is a real scourge.

[Derek Stroop]

If I keep giving you samples, you're not going to order anything.

[Nate Bargatze]

You kind of can't stop, or at least not me. I don't have the personality to be like, no, that's enough.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, they go, you know what? I don't like any of the flavors.

[Aaron Weber]

Would people ask for samples then just leave?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, occasionally. Not a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I knew a guy who would go to Mexican restaurants, get water and eat chips and salsa, and then leave. Like, what a dirtbag.

[Dusty Slay]

That guy's at this table.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would never do such thing. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, we. These have all been pretty quick interviews, so we appreciate you jumping on.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thanks for having me. We covered some important ground.

[Derek Stroop]

This has been very fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm an electric podcast.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, desserts are. Yeah, desserts are. Yeah, I'm still.

[Nate Bargatze]

I have a lot more questions.

[Derek Stroop]

I could ask a lot of questions about working at an ice.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sorry, we got to wrap it up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You know what, Martin? We will have you back.

[Derek Stroop]

Not to talk comedy, just ice cream.

[Aaron Weber]

Have we done a dessert episode? No, see, we're dessert. A what? A block of ice, and then you can do it. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

That's how you can make it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, you literally shave it off. Yeah. Yeah, you shave it off. The.

[Aaron Weber]

From a. Oh. Oh, that's why it's harder. Yeah. I thought it was like, oh, this is, like, a real deal place. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

This is New York City. You're getting the best.

[Aaron Weber]

It's like shaved ice was, like, just out of a. Like, they put ice in the machine. It was already.

[Dusty Slay]

I did, too.

[Aaron Weber]

It's already shaved.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, we were shaving it.

[Aaron Weber]

You're like, that's. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

You guys are talking slushies. He's talking shaved.

[Aaron Weber]

Shaved.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm so glad you almost let me go before clearing that up. That would have been such a disaster.

[Derek Stroop]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, it would have been a very. Like, everybody be like that. Who was the weak boy that couldn't hold a cone of water? Well, you're awesome, dude. You've been killing it, obviously, this movie, and we've had a blast having you, so thanks for having me. Great meeting. Thanks for coming.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thank you, dude.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, thanks, guys.

[Derek Stroop]

What a big day, though, huh?

[Aaron Weber]

Go ahead, mention that.

[Dusty Slay]

All right. So, Mike Veone, our good friend Mike. Mike Von has his new special, low Income White, coming out on Nateland June 27th. Even the title is funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Seventh premiere. It was great. The special is great.

[Dusty Slay]

Yep. Yep. Our buddy Ryan Hamilton is shooting.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Dusty Slay]

A Netflix special at Neptune Theater. October 4th.

[Nate Bargatze]

Seattle.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes. Yeah, yeah. It's great. It's gonna be on Netflix. We're taping it October 4th. Ryan Hamilton, extremely funny. He's had specials on Netflix before. Very pumped about that.

[Derek Stroop]

Very funny.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Love Ryan Hamilton.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Love Mike Vacchion, too. I don't want to just say that about Ryan.

[Dusty Slay]

And Nateland presents the showcase.

[Derek Stroop]

And then I gave you a look that made it even weirder. But I love them both.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And I do.

[Dusty Slay]

Oh, that's again this Sunday. Monday, Tuesday. Coming up, Naeland presents the showcase.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Tickets are on sale. We're all hosting tonight.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You guys doing that? So look who walk in. Come on in, everybody. Please welcome Christian Bell.

[Derek Stroop]

All right.

[Aaron Weber]

Thank you.

[Dusty Slay]

We just met Christian Bell.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Will Forte, welcome. Hey, buddy. Hi. How are you? Good to see you.

[Will Forte]

Good to see you.

[Aaron Weber]

You're part of the Nateland crew? Cause we went on the road together. So you're. You fit in.

[Will Forte]

I had so much fun.

[Derek Stroop]

A lot of people were very excited about your national anthem.

[Will Forte]

Oh, really?

[Derek Stroop]

They were.

[Will Forte]

That was. I gotta say, it was terrifying to do the national anthem because I think my. I usually kind of like to over sing stuff. Right, right. And. And I just didn't wanna do anything that seemed like it was disrespecting the anthem.

[Nate Bargatze]

Totally.

[Will Forte]

But just my general way of singing seems disrespectful of any song I'm singing, but. Wow, it was so fun. And to get to see him. I just saw three shows. It was just. Oh, they were just. You know, you would think after the third time, you might get sick of some of the stuff. And it was like. Like it would just even get better.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

Like, I was just watching the master and it's craft.

[Nate Bargatze]

Give it two or three more times.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Did you sing the national anthem three times. Did you do three shows?

[Will Forte]

No, we did three different songs.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, okay.

[Will Forte]

The God bless the usa.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, that's a good one.

[Will Forte]

Which I used to think was just proud to be an American.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Will Forte]

And then that was the second one, and the third one was a mezzanine kind of everything. Like a hodgepodge.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The third one got very. The third one's very fun because it was. It was almost like we were saying, like, as it. At first, we didn't. I Didn't know if he wanted to go. You know, you have it. Like. I'm like, if you want to go up, you can go up. But you're. You know, it's like, he doesn't do standup. I don't know if you have something. You've done some charity stuff, so you've had to obviously be in front of people. And so then. But you. By the third one, we're like, oh, like, you have an act. Like, we basically. He had some. He had jokes.

[Dusty Slay]

Have you ever done stand up?

[Will Forte]

Just stuff like this, which was in a standup setting, but not really stand up, just kind of a bit like this. It was so fun. It was so fun. I'm very excited to stretch it out and come back.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I mean, you're always 20, right? Yeah. You're always welcome. You're always welcome. That's what was fun is sometimes because when you. You were like, you just went and saw your family, your family wasn't here, so you ended up going to be a weekend by yourself down here. Yeah. And so then you're like, I just overheard you. You were just talking like, yeah, I might check a day trip. You might go to Nashville or Savannah or something. Like, just drive to a city that you haven't been to. And then I just throw out. I'm like, well, you can come with me if you want to hop on the bus and we'll go to Roanoke in Norfolk. And it. It was. You know, when you say it, it's like, I honestly want you to come. But then you're always like. Like, I don't. I can't imagine. Why would someone want to.

[Will Forte]

Well, I was. The different version of. That was like, oh, he doesn't want me to really come.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Forte]

It was so much fun. I finally, that night, I was just like, if you meant that, I'm in.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. So, yeah, it's fun.

[Derek Stroop]

I love it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was the best. We had the most fun. So, Will, we were very pumped that you were on this podcast, but that you agreed to do the movie because you were. We were just saying, yeah, our. You know, because it was like when I saw you when I do, like, a scene and then I'm like, talking to you in a movie. It's crazy to be looking at you and just be in a mood. Like, you have it. I know it's probably not a real. It's a hard question to. It's not even a question, but it's probably, you know, but it is crazy because it's just like so much stuff that I love that you do. And then just to be like. Like, I can't believe you're talking to me.

[Will Forte]

Yeah, thank you for saying that.

[Aaron Weber]

That's.

[Will Forte]

I don't often get that reaction.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. People go, I can't.

[Will Forte]

Yeah, I'll come in.

[Aaron Weber]

I can't believe Will's. For. I'm in a Will Forte movie. Is that, what. Is that the reaction to what they get?

[Will Forte]

Oh, man. If you got a Will Forte movie, that is a certain. That's the Kiss of Death. I remember one time I was. I did a tiny part. I did a part in the Sandler movie. That's my boy. And then a tiny part in Rock of Ages. And then I found out which is Tom Cruise. So it's like they were both coming out the same weekend. So I'm like, which one's gonna be number one? And then somehow I tanked both of them. I brought them both down. I forget what it was.

[Dusty Slay]

But like, yeah, prom Cruise is only non hit.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes, he kissed. Because you're the only one. You think he probably remembers you for that every time. Oh, yeah, yeah. He sees you and he goes, this guy, Tom Cruise. You've met Tom Cruise. You met him on that movie, right? He was like, he's the best.

[Will Forte]

He was so nice. So this was shooting in Miami and it was the part that I was in. It was three, I think it was. Yeah, three nights in a row. All night shoots. Yeah. So you're getting in at 8 o' clock at night, something like that. You're going until it turns light. So the first night I'm there, I'm in a scene with him and, you know, he had to drive this motorcycle up to me. And so they would cut it right where he kind of got to me. And so we would chat a little bit after each. Each time he would drop the motorcycle off and they would cut. And then at the end of that night, I was like, okay. I felt just barely comfortable enough to say, hey, my mom is coming to visit tomorrow.

[Dusty Slay]

Would you ever.

[Will Forte]

Could I introduce you to her? Is that all right? And he was like, of course, yes. What's her name? I said, patty. And he's like, patty Forte. Okay, I'm excited to meet her. And I was. And this was like seven in the morning. So then I slept through the day and then went back to set. And then it's that uncomfortable thing. We talked about this where it's like, okay. I asked him, he was cool about it, but now I actually have to like, be annoying and say, you know, Tom, remember what you said? You're gonna say hi to my. And before I could even do that, his assistant came up and said, hey, where's your mom? Tom really wants to meet her. And then in this insane scene, there must have been 400 extras in the middle of the madness of that, he called my mom over into the very center of it and had somebody come and take pictures. And then a couple weeks later, he sent two framed pictures. One for my mom, one for me. Wow. It was a wonderful experience.

[Aaron Weber]

I love it because it's like a. He is. He's like a theme park just as a human, where it's like. You go. It is essentially meeting Mickey Mouse. And it. It's. And I really think if you control the whole situation, like, it's like you're just kind of like, yeah, you take pictures, you get frames. You're just.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're probably gonna want to get this framed. Yeah, Yeah, I do want to get it.

[Derek Stroop]

And it's already printed for you when you get off the ride.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Derek Stroop]

I like the Tom Cruise. I like to picture, though. You go, would you meet my mom? And he goes, yes. And then later that night, he has you fired from the movie. That's the Tom Cruise I have in my mind. That's who I like to picture. He goes, I'd love to meet your mom. And then you're cut from the movie.

[Aaron Weber]

You know who would do that? Christian Bale.

[Dusty Slay]

Did you see his picture with Christian Bell?

[Will Forte]

No, I didn't. Let me see it.

[Aaron Weber]

No. Yeah, he met Christian Bell yesterday.

[Derek Stroop]

Today.

[Dusty Slay]

Today.

[Derek Stroop]

Earlier today, yeah.

[Will Forte]

Oh, wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

How about that?

[Will Forte]

Yeah, He's, I think, the best there is, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

I mean, if not the greatest actor, probably the greatest.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, you haven't seen my role in Breadwinner.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, I haven't yet.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Will Forte]

I apologize for jumping the gun with my opinion.

[Derek Stroop]

He's my new collector.

[Dusty Slay]

Number two.

[Derek Stroop]

Christian Bale's new Gene Hagman. Yeah, Hagman's gone. And that's who previously was the best actor in the world.

[Will Forte]

I. I was in Hawaii on a vacation once, and me and a buddy were jogging on the beach, and then we ran by some kind of heavyset guy. And. And my buddy said, I think we just ran by Christian Bale. And I'm like, so we're probably, like, 50 yards past. And I looked back, and it was, no, that can't be Christian Bale. But it was when he was doing the. The Dick Cheney movie, and he had, like, gained a bunch of weight for It. So I think it definitely was him. Like, we. We figured we spied on him a little bit until we. We didn't go say anything, but.

[Aaron Weber]

So he wasn't a true fat guy because he was running.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, right. He was.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

No, wait, wait. Was he right? No, he was on the beach. We were running.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. All right. Yeah.

[Will Forte]

But he probably was still running. I bet he does that. And he's still probably like, does it in a really healthy way. You know, I bet he's. He's got to have, like, doctors who probably monitor daily.

[Aaron Weber]

Can you tell this story? Is it. I don't. Are you the. The. The. The car chase of 1994.

[Will Forte]

3 OJ oh, yeah. So I. I lived in Los Angeles. I was probably four blocks away from the. The Nicole Brown, the house where she was murdered.

[Aaron Weber]

Rock.

[Derek Stroop]

Wow.

[Will Forte]

So Gretna Green.

[Dusty Slay]

Brett, right?

[Will Forte]

Yeah. Yeah. So I had just graduated from UCLA and. And was down. Lived down there during that period. And my birthday, which is tomorrow.

[Aaron Weber]

Happy birthday. Thank you. This comes out Wednesday. So it'd been yesterday. Yes.

[Will Forte]

Which was yesterday.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

Was the. The day of the Bronco chase. And my girlfriend and I were going down to Disneyland and pass. Pass the Bronco.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow. Yeah. How crazy. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's wild.

[Aaron Weber]

That is crazy.

[Derek Stroop]

You were like, would you meet my mom?

[Nate Bargatze]

And he's the guy. He would meet your mother. He was that kind of guy, too.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, he might have been. Yeah. Maybe right. Then he's like, I mean, soon. Yeah. He goes, did you ever see the footage? Like, did you ever see your car? Like, there's so many cars going there.

[Will Forte]

You know, everybody look for a dark blue Saturn.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you know in the moment what was happening, or did you connect the dots? Later?

[Will Forte]

We kind of heard because in the morning, all the reports are coming out. I just watched the documentary Made in America, so it's all kind of fresh in there. But I remember that day. It was just, like, weird stuff. I think it was the day he was supposed to be turned in. And it was a huge mystery because you're like, oh, he's not there. And then you hear, oh, he's.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, they.

[Will Forte]

They've located him. And it was just weird. And back then, also, the way you got your news, you don't just look on your phone. This is from what I remember. I don't think it was either pre cell phone or just pre. Everybody having a cell phone. And, you know, yeah, you got it on people. But there was no news.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think they could text people. Yeah.

[Will Forte]

So you just, like, hear it on the radio or something?

[Nate Bargatze]

Tv, radio, tv, radio. Anybody was talking about.

[Derek Stroop]

About.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right. So.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, to drive by. That is. It's. Yeah. I mean, there's just. It's so crazy that you drove because it's like the odds of you even meeting someone to drive by that it's.

[Dusty Slay]

Like a Forrest Gump.

[Aaron Weber]

You're the real force, Gump. There you go. You've done. You're part of everything that's ever happened.

[Nate Bargatze]

Christian Bell, he was at Watergate. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

When they invented the wheel. We had. We had not seen that before.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Will Forte]

All of a sudden, there's a wheel.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. It's a wild time.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You remember.

[Will Forte]

Not that old.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. You remember the first thing you said, you go, how'd you get over here so fast? And then that's when you learned about the wheel.

[Dusty Slay]

I looked up some will forte fun facts.

[Will Forte]

Oh.

[Dusty Slay]

It said, tell me this true, Your mom has visited every movie set that you've ever been in?

[Will Forte]

She's. She's. Yes, she had. And then recently, she kind of stopped. No, no, it wasn't because of this.

[Dusty Slay]

Nice way to say it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I get it.

[Aaron Weber]

She goes, this one, she goes, is anybody gonna see it?

[Will Forte]

No, it was. I think it was in Ireland. I was trying to get her to come down. No, Australia. I was. I was like, get down here. So Ireland. She missed out on Australia. But. But maybe because it's domestic, maybe I can get her out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Bring her back.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

Wife and kids just showed up.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I. I do very well with older ladies that like my comedy. So.

[Will Forte]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I could be right up your mom's alley.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There's no. Yeah. There's nobody I meet more than. It's the best.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I love that sort of stuff. Somebody comes up to you and they go, hey, are you. You dusty slaying? And they go, you are my mom's favorite comment or. A lot of times I get very attractive women come up to me and they go, my husband loves you.

[Aaron Weber]

We had a joke in the Christmas special. We were saying, like, I'm your. I'm Nate Borgzi. I'm your wife's favorite comedian.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, yeah.

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[Derek Stroop]

Are you doing the bit of Aaron's bit that Bill Burr stole?

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Derek Stroop]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Dusty Slay]

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[Derek Stroop]

I used to have an identity theft joke.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Will Forte]

Yes. Although the thing I'll say about that, I did. I was working on this movie, good old fashioned orgy. And I was doing something where I was probably only in every. You gotta see it. You just gotta see it. So I was only in every fourth day. And then the other days I would just go. I found this Donkey Kong game down at a local bar and I had nothing to do. So I played a little bit. I get a little obsessive about stuff and I just. I would hit this wall and then I'd go home and look up how you get through that wall. And then I just kept getting better and better. And there was a guy who was a stand in on the movie who was. Have you ever seen King of Kong?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think so. I know what it is.

[Derek Stroop]

I know what it is.

[Aaron Weber]

You got it. I came here for a while.

[Will Forte]

It's really interesting. It's all about these two guys who were donkey, you know, chasing the Donkey Kong record. It's great. And then there's another movie called Chasing Ghosts which is a documentary about like that era of video games, just like on a wider scale like Defender and Space Invaders. And so this guy was one of the people who was. I think he was the defender champ. And he just knew about all those games. Leo Daniels. Yes. Anyway, so I was bragging to everybody because there was this guy, jlk. I always remember he had every high score. And I'm like, I'm gonna get this guy off the leaderboard. And I did. I drove him off the leaderboard. And I was kind of joking around with everybody showing the screen grab of that. And Leo saw it and he said, oh, that's actually pretty good. And then he submitted it to Walter. I think his name was the referee. For people who have seen King of Kong, this is a big deal. Yeah, for you guys. Yeah. Walter's just some. He was this ref who would watch hours of footage. Like, people would send videos of them getting high scores. And he would watch the whole thing real time. He wouldn't even fast forward. He would watch everything till the very end to, like, you know, certify your score. So anyway, this guy registered my score. And it was, I think, number 29 in the world.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Will Forte]

But that's the thing. It's like, is it the 29th best score or just the 29th best score of people who were like, I gotta get this thing certified?

[Aaron Weber]

No, it's the best.

[Derek Stroop]

That's the 29th.

[Aaron Weber]

Is it.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's 29th best ever.

[Aaron Weber]

Is there? Or is it like you're one of 29, the only 29 people that are playing this game?

[Nate Bargatze]

Still?

[Aaron Weber]

Could be.

[Will Forte]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I don't think anybody gets number one on donkey 29. I'm not even gonna tell anybody.

[Will Forte]

I wasn't even in the conversation for that.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you have to video the whole thing, your whole match, or did you.

[Will Forte]

No, I just showed. See, that's the. That was the. The perk of. Of you actor, I guess, because they just said, just take his word for it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, but other guys.

[Derek Stroop]

So we could use mid press.

[Will Forte]

And I lied. I photoshopped the picture.

[Aaron Weber]

No. Yeah. How long is it. How long does it take to play again?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

Man. I would guess that for. For that score, I was probably somewhere like 50 minutes.

[Aaron Weber]

That guy would watch 50 minutes.

[Will Forte]

Oh, yeah. Oh, Derek.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

I mean, I was 29th. Imagine somebody sending in. There are people who. Some of these games I'm sure you're going for.

[Aaron Weber]

Is there an end to that game?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

I did not find it. I didn't see it. No. I bet. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think there is.

[Dusty Slay]

When's the last time you played it? Could you still.

[Will Forte]

It's been a while. I'd do okay, but no, I wouldn't. I forgot all the little hacks.

[Derek Stroop]

And how much did you enjoy the Donkey Kong scene in the new Mario movie based on all this?

[Will Forte]

I didn't see it.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, that seems.

[Will Forte]

I haven't seen it.

[Derek Stroop]

That scene's worth seeing.

[Will Forte]

I'll tell you what I'd be more excited about is playing Mario Kart. That was one. I used to be all over.

[Nate Bargatze]

64 or Super Nintendo.

[Will Forte]

One like this would have been like Super Nintendo.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

99 or.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, whatever.

[Will Forte]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

That was what I like, too.

[Will Forte]

Doing a little power slide now. I. I don't think I could power slide anymore.

[Derek Stroop]

I'm old.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think you figure it out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You get back.

[Will Forte]

Thank.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I got you, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Because you can figure it out. You're Is also unbelievable skier. Really found out. Yeah, I'm.

[Will Forte]

I am a good skier.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Water.

[Aaron Weber]

One thing I can do.

[Derek Stroop]

Water or ice.

[Dusty Slay]

Ice skier.

[Aaron Weber]

But you can do water ski, right?

[Will Forte]

I can do water, but I'm not as good.

[Aaron Weber]

Snow skiing.

[Will Forte]

Snow skiing? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. Not ice.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. Not. I don't do shaved ice.

[Aaron Weber]

Shaved ice out of a helicopter.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What, like that kind of scheme? He's not to brag, but.

[Will Forte]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

It's a renaissance.

[Derek Stroop]

It is.

[Aaron Weber]

It's crazy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Where do you do that?

[Aaron Weber]

Will Forte, I swear to you, no one would believe. Like, we. We've. There's a. There's a restaurant here where you can play. They have. They have indoor simulators, golf simulators. And so then the first night we hung out, we were calling Joe's in the movie. So we're over there, and we come over to play. And then with Will. I don't know if you're going to play or not or, you know, you don't even know if anybody's with golf. You're like, I don't know if people want to play. And then. So we're like, do you want to play? You played, but it's like you're actually playing good. And so then you feel like when you see something where you're like, oh, this guy's like, actually, like, can do a lot of things.

[Will Forte]

Oh, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

You're also a financial.

[Will Forte]

Appreciate that.

[Dusty Slay]

Financial broker.

[Will Forte]

My dad was. And then I started doing that and. But I didn't get very far. So before you have to take a. What's it called? The Series 7. Or at least it was back then. I never got to that stage. The guy who I was working for said, I want. I want to put you through the Series seven. And then you'll be like my Junior guy. And then I just realized, oh, if I do that, I'll never.

[Aaron Weber]

You'll be stuck.

[Will Forte]

Yeah. Because I would, you know, feel this. This sense.

[Aaron Weber]

And do you regret not taking that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I do.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

I do.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

I mean, man, what could have been knowledge to have.

[Nate Bargatze]

But.

[Will Forte]

But I have none of it.

[Aaron Weber]

It.

[Will Forte]

Yeah, I have none of it, but my dad does, so I don't need it. Wait, what's.

[Aaron Weber]

What.

[Will Forte]

What are your video games that you guys are good at? You're asking me all these questions. I want to learn about you.

[Aaron Weber]

What game he was around for? What video games did you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Pong.

[Dusty Slay]

Two weeks ago, when we were on.

[Derek Stroop]

The road together, he got the first Atari.

[Dusty Slay]

There were some. I did have the. I had that Atari. We're about the same age. There was video game in our.

[Derek Stroop]

Area.

[Dusty Slay]

That we hung out there at the arena. And I got the Highest score on Ms. Pac Man.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Forte]

Oh, that's. That's another one that I love.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah. Ms. Pac Man.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a little bit easier. It's a little bit easier than Pac Man 53.

[Will Forte]

Do you do like a.

[Dusty Slay]

Whatever. Yeah, I do.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I did. This guy's. Well, he was born a baby and he's kind of stayed there. He's Benjamin Button. He's going back. He's right in the middle phases right now. Because you just called him at a good time.

[Derek Stroop]

That's the best compliment he's ever got on this.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, that is true. That is true.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, we saw.

[Derek Stroop]

Aaron and I, we don't even know how to take it.

[Nate Bargatze]

I play a lot of World of Warcraft, by the way, if we're still talking video games.

[Aaron Weber]

Really play a lot.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Yeah. I was on a.

[Will Forte]

We had moved on. I'm sorry.

[Nate Bargatze]

I wanted my moment with Will Forte.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

I'm so bad with this new video like Halo. I have friends who would always want to play Halo and I would just.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, it came out 20 years ago, but.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah, it's new constantly. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I had my buddy Kenny, he was ranked high on Halo and. And in NCAA college football. @ one point he was. I think he was like 2, but maybe at least top 5 ranked in the world. Playing online.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

Crazy, crazy online because. I mean, it's crazy. Yeah, yeah. He was always very Halo. He was ranked very high, too. And he played it. He was just very good at it.

[Will Forte]

Yeah, that would be like Michael Phelps being on an NBA championship team.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. After swimming, he's accomplished about as much as Michael Phelps.

[Will Forte]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I used to play the Sims. You guys ever play that?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Derek Stroop]

You take a fan of it. Get it. You get like a guy, and then you build walls all around him. No door. Speed up the Time he dies in that room.

[Will Forte]

Wait, have you seen. What's the black mirror? The most recent season. There's some kind of thing that reminded me of that.

[Derek Stroop]

Nah. If that show freaks me out.

[Will Forte]

It does.

[Derek Stroop]

That show freaks me out.

[Will Forte]

It's weird. It's the future. It's coming.

[Derek Stroop]

I know.

[Will Forte]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Well, yeah. And I already know those things, so when I watch the show, it's just confirmation bias for me. And I think that's the term. And I go, it's all going down.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

It's getting dark.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You don't need black mirror. You have a mirror.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have a black mirror in my pocket. I mean, that's what these are. That's what these are that we carry around. We carry around our own little magic mirrors in here. We just pull up anything we want. You know what I mean?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Mirror, mirror on the wall.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're learning the dynamic here.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Podcast. I love it.

[Aaron Weber]

He fit in so well with everybody on the road.

[Will Forte]

That's a good group of guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it was. It was. It was a good, fun. Fun group that. It was like. It was just like everything and it, like, you know, you just blended in. Like, you're just. With. Like, you just kind of perfectly was like, oh, yeah, you're just part of us.

[Will Forte]

I kept in touch with everybody, too. Yeah, I know that. Tony's coming out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Tony's coming.

[Will Forte]

Yeah, we're going to dinner on the 23rd.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's what I heard. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah.

[Will Forte]

Please join us.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're gonna look. We'll have you sit with us as we're. We get. We take comments from listeners and stuff. So we're gonna read. We should read. Better read a couple comments. Rich Taylor's. They were filming directly across the street from our house, so we got a first look at Nate's acting. We all were really impressed with how much time and work goes into filming. My kids will probably never look at a movie the same way. It was nice of the cast to make time to meet some of the neighbors since it was a mess around here for a few days. One afternoon, I was able to hit Nate with a hay bear from across the street and got a chance to meet him. Him. There you go. Yeah. I remember old Rich Taylor because you. You meet a lot. You met a lot of the neighbors. Yeah, yeah, it was great.

[Will Forte]

I mean, everyone's so nice. There's so many trucks. It just. It's a really takes over the neighborhood, so everyone was so cool, you know?

[Aaron Weber]

It takes over the whole street.

[Derek Stroop]

It spiced the neighborhood up, though. You gotta think, you know, the neighborhood gossip went from, you know, oh, they're not been cutting their grass to, you know, did you see that? That Will Forte was on the roof?

[Nate Bargatze]

The next door app, you know?

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, yeah. There had to be a lot of on the roof sightings.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

Spoiler. Another spoiler.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Not giving too much away. The whole movie is about Will as a roof. He's a. No, we can't. Stephen Bass.

[Derek Stroop]

I go to high school with this guy.

[Aaron Weber]

Really?

[Derek Stroop]

I don't.

[Dusty Slay]

I think this is the guy that we've talked about before that hit the shot and at. At Auburn, like the half court show.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, I know Steve. Oh, I do know him.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

He's a pickle pro. Pickleball player.

[Aaron Weber]

I think I was an extra in the Breadwinner. I was worried Nate's lack of acting experience would show. But in the first scene of the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Day, the extras are worried. The extras are like, well, no, I.

[Dusty Slay]

Don'T want to be in this if I can help it don't show.

[Aaron Weber]

They asked the extras. They gave the extras line. They go, we've never had lines before. They go, well, we need you. We need you to take a few, please. We need you to carry this scene. But in the first scene of the day, Nate had to act like he couldn't read. And let's just say he was the most natural looking thing I've ever seen. See, that's what. When you're in control of what is being done, you're just like, oh, I can ease into this.

[Will Forte]

You just got Bass.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did get. Waited until the end of a long day on set to give Nate a little. Let's go, folks. And he was kind enough to come shake my hand, man. Love being a part of the movie. And looking forward to the premiere. March 13th. Yeah, I do remember saying hi to him. He get. Yeah, that's awesome.

[Derek Stroop]

He lives in Opelika in my hometown. Shout out.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, his. His wife's from Alabama.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, yeah? Your wife's from Alabama?

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

What city?

[Will Forte]

Birmingham.

[Derek Stroop]

Birmingham. All right. We're from Alabama.

[Will Forte]

Oh, really?

[Nate Bargatze]

Montgomery. Opelika.

[Will Forte]

Oh, nice.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Will Forte]

Never been to either of those, but. But never heard of me. Maybe I've gone there. I got to go to Tuscaloosa and go see it. To see a game.

[Aaron Weber]

See.

[Derek Stroop]

What about Auburn University? You ever go there?

[Will Forte]

Haven't been there and I'm not allowed to.

[Derek Stroop]

Auburn's next to Opelika. Your wife would be Familiar.

[Will Forte]

You know what? It's a tough thing because I freaking love Charles Berkeley so much. And so it's like. To, you know. And so I always kind of cheer for Auburn too. Cause I don't. I went to ucla, so what do I care, you know? So it's like, I love Charles Barkley and I'm not gonna hide.

[Aaron Weber]

How do y' all feel about usc, though? Usc, Yalls.

[Will Forte]

You know what I mean? It was a. Growing up, it was a huge thing. Loved hating usc. And it just, you know, like, I think hatred of everything kind of diminishes and you're like, oh, why care that much about that stuff? You know, you can root for your team without hating on other teams.

[Derek Stroop]

See, I agree. I cheer for Alabama and Auburn. Auburn. And everybody tells me I can't do it. Everybody says I can't do it.

[Dusty Slay]

And I do hope Christian Bell didn't hear this.

[Will Forte]

Oh, is he. Is he War Eagle?

[Dusty Slay]

Well, I'm just saying he'd be so disappointed because that's just.

[Aaron Weber]

He's a big Dusty fan.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That could be why he likes Dusty.

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Is because he, you know, I have the ability to cheer for both of them.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. What movie would you. If you met Christian Bell? Have you met Christian Bell?

[Derek Stroop]

No, just on the streets.

[Aaron Weber]

What movie would you say to him? So he does, you know, if you're trying to say. Don't say your movie.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But like if you're, you know, you don't want to say like Batman.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

You know, like, cuz everybody likes Christian Bale Batman. So you don't seem like you really know Christian Bale if you say.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. What was that movie where he.

[Will Forte]

Was it the Machinist?

[Derek Stroop]

Where he was like I said, that's.

[Will Forte]

That was because in the way that he put on weight for Dick Cheney one. I mean, it was unbelievable how much he lost.

[Nate Bargatze]

He did Batman right after the machinist. He got the Batman in three months. After the machinist.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Three months.

[Will Forte]

What was the movie. Where was it called? The Wrestler? The one where he's the fighter.

[Derek Stroop]

Fighter, yeah. That's a good one too.

[Will Forte]

And he's. I forget if that's the one. There's. There was one movie. I just remember thinking, he's so funny too. Like, he's like.

[Derek Stroop]

He was funny in this really.

[Will Forte]

Like he can inhabit any character.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like the Big Short. He played Michael Burry and he had to mess the buy.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, oh.

[Derek Stroop]

And he's just. He can do it all. What's the American Hustle?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that Was a good one too.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is the. The machinist. I've not seen it. Is it involve machines at all?

[Derek Stroop]

He's a. He's a machinist. He works on.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's not about his job.

[Derek Stroop]

No, it's not about his job.

[Aaron Weber]

So if I wanted to watch a movie about machines, that's not the one. This is not the one.

[Nate Bargatze]

I want to watch Wall E. Transformers.

[Will Forte]

It's a pretty brutal movie from what I remember. There's some.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Will Forte]

I mean, really well done and like, well acted and like. But you have to. It's. It's like, you know, you don't come out of Schindler's List going like, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

I.

[Will Forte]

You know, it's that kind of feeling like, wow, what a heavy and deep, you know, deep experience. Chance. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

You gotta bottle that stuff down. Yeah. You don't even let it get in there. Yeah. Open that door. All right.

[Derek Stroop]

What would your answer be?

[Nate Bargatze]

The big short.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I would have said Batman, because I would have probably forgot everything else. I would have said. You know what I would have said? The time where they caught him yelling at someone for being the eye line. I would have said, like, I think that that was. That was not fair that they did that to you, because I understand the moment of that. That that's almost what it.

[Nate Bargatze]

You would meet him and bring up the worst moment of his career right away.

[Aaron Weber]

But I don't think it is. I think it wasn't fair to him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Cuz you. You. I like when. Even when I heard it and I didn't know, you know this before, I was the movie star that I am now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Are you laying the groundwork for this is about to come out about you?

[Aaron Weber]

I yell at Will multiple times.

[Will Forte]

I ask him to love that stuff.

[Aaron Weber]

I told I. Felix was on set once. She. We were in the Nissan shop and I made him move because it was. I didn't even think about it. But I'm like delivering this line and I'm doing it and it just. The way it was, is everything was like split open. And then I'm just staring at Felix just watching. And then you. It is like, you know, we're not doing the machinist. Yeah. But it's. You just like, are kind of trying to be funny and you're just. Or whatever you're trying to do. It was like a. And it's like a serious. It is a serious moment in the movie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And then, I mean, I just got done. I go, yeah, you can. You gotta go. Because it Was only I could see him. And then Stroop when he was on it too, in the Toyota. There was one time I'm doing this scene and the Stroop's sitting where someone told him to sit. But it's like, it was again, like the, it just kind of broke. And that's all you see. And I just see Stroop. Like, I saw him yawning and on the phone. And you're like, all right, well, I can't. You know, that kind of stuff. But that. So I always understood, like, the Christian rebel thing.

[Will Forte]

Can I. One thing I had heard at some point. I don't know if this is the truth or not, but I heard that there was. Whoever he was yelling at maybe had been a little bit of a tyrant and had, like, this could have been from somebody, an apologist. But it was. I thought I heard that it was him just, like, trying to stand up for the crew in a way by doing this, this also. And that was because I'm a big fan of his. That's kind of what I wanted to.

[Aaron Weber]

I bet not. I agree. I, I, I think it is. I, I get it. Like, seeing, especially doing this now you do see. Like, because you have to. I mean, this is a comedy, but it's like, you got to kind of be in the, like, you want this to come off. So when everybody sees it that you're like, it's your family and it's all this stuff. And so you kind of need to, you know, because stand up is such a. Like, we can comment on anything that's happening, but in a movie, you're like, I gotta, I got you to believe this. And you, you want to go, like, you want me to believe that I'm doing this? So, like, I, but even before, I always, I always thought that was not a fair thing. Yeah, because he's doing, like a cry. Like he's crying or something.

[Will Forte]

You guys just stare at a crying scene. And I, I had to, like, prepare myself for a couple days to try. Cause I don't do that usually. You just show up and you kind of do whatever. I'm like, oh, I have to kind of seem like I'm crying. And so it was this scary thing to do. And then I could see how, like. And I didn't even do it. A thousandth of, you know, the quality that he does it. And so, like, what, you know, I can, could see, like, being in that space where you're like, have, have to get super emotional. And then, and then somebody's like, you know, messing around. I don't know.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I agree. Because you. Because you. You can get done with something. Yeah. You can get done with a scene and you just. Right when you get done, you're like, I just want to walk off by myself. Because it's like you almost. There's a. You know, when you're filming something, there's so many people around that when you. If you get done, if you were kind of vulnerable or say, like, if you had to yell, really, like, for. Even for me, that simple of like, I've got to dive into. I got to be the most outgoing in this kind of thing that, like, right when you're done, you're like, yeah, you don't want small talk or, you know, some scenes you can. But then some scenes you're like, yeah, let me just go walk for a second.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And I've always said Christian Bale has great taste in everything and especially, you know, comedy that he likes and people that he likes to yell at. And it all makes sense to me. And I agree. I just, you know, I just wanted to say that I agree.

[Will Forte]

He hosted snl.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't think so. Oh, yeah, yeah. He would just be great at everything.

[Derek Stroop]

We might try to get a co host that maybe me and Christian Bell co host together.

[Aaron Weber]

Maybe. Yeah. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

All right, well, now we know, guys.

[Aaron Weber]

If we do another movie, I'll get you in the other movie and then I'll go out to Christian Bell and say, hey, you know who's in this movie? Dusty.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. Yeah. That's the way you're.

[Dusty Slay]

The way for Nate to get Christian Bell and his.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, he'll go.

[Will Forte]

You're talking about Roofer.

[Nate Bargatze]

I thought that was Judah Freeland.

[Aaron Weber]

All right, we will let you will go with your family.

[Derek Stroop]

Happy birthday.

[Aaron Weber]

Happy birthday.

[Will Forte]

Thank you very much.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes, thanks.

[Will Forte]

Probably going right into. Into town here tomorrow night if anybody wants to join.

[Aaron Weber]

I would like to.

[Will Forte]

You guys still around?

[Dusty Slay]

Yeah, I would like to. I'll come back down. I got nothing going on.

[Derek Stroop]

I will be gone once we figure it out.

[Will Forte]

Okay.

[Derek Stroop]

But it would be one of those where I would go, did he really mean it?

[Will Forte]

Yeah, I do.

[Aaron Weber]

He does.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

After meeting Will, I can tell you he really.

[Derek Stroop]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

He's a lovely person. All right. All right. You're. You're good. You can just get up and walk off.

[Will Forte]

Oh, I get out of here.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah. No, I don't think we have to.

[Will Forte]

Do great to me do this without help me.

[Derek Stroop]

We just have to do what Nate says.

[Aaron Weber]

We're Gonna hit record.

[Will Forte]

See you later.

[Dusty Slay]

Good seeing you.

[Aaron Weber]

Good to see you, buddy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Good to meet you, man.

[Derek Stroop]

All right. Great to meet you.

[Will Forte]

Gotta give a to my boss.

[Derek Stroop]

This has been a big day.

[Aaron Weber]

The best.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sure.

[Derek Stroop]

Will Forte, Christian B, Mandy Moore. It's been Stella.

[Aaron Weber]

You got Birdie, Charlotte.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Martin. Yeah. The whole cast.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I mean, yeah, there's other cast member, but yeah, everybody that's here. We, we. We did a good. This was a big, big old thing. Well, welcome to the breadwinner set. Glad you made it.

[Dusty Slay]

I want to pitch my dates.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, do your. Yeah, we'll get going to. Where you going to be? I will be in Evansville, Indiana, this weekend. Yeah, I've been going. Comedy's been. I've been doing. Shows have been awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

Awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

We've had two. We've had some amazing 3pm shows. Unbelievable.

[Dusty Slay]

Is it hard switching your brain?

[Aaron Weber]

I thought it would be. You know what's funny is I'm, I'm, I'm able to. It's. I think it's, it's making me a better stand up. There's a, there's something that I've always wanted to work on. I, I kind of figured, like, I've had. I have to do it in acting, like giving myself a second to think or something. Yeah. And I've never really done that with standup. And I mean, you just feel like you're a fraud, you know, like, it's like the first time after you're like, I stunk. And now you just feel. And it's. It's something that I don't know if anybody would ever notice, but it's. I, I know it. And it's, it's pretty, it's pretty awesome. I, I, yeah, I'm excited every week to go out.

[Dusty Slay]

Awesome. July 6th, I'm at good Nights Comedy Club in Raleigh.

[Nate Bargatze]

They're actually gonna do. I mean, I like that.

[Derek Stroop]

No, no, you should do it. I only just like that Nate had a whole thing. You go, awesome. Well, listen, I'll be. I just think it was funny. Yeah, I liked it. It was a good. It was good. I liked it. I'm not criticizing.

[Aaron Weber]

Good transition.

[Derek Stroop]

I'm not criticizing.

[Nate Bargatze]

See, where. When are you going to be in Raleigh?

[Dusty Slay]

July 6th.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Dusty Slay]

July 9th, comedy catch in Chattanooga. July 18th 19th, the loony bin in Tulsa. Tulsa, Oklahoma.

[Nate Bargatze]

Awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

July driving doll.

[Nate Bargatze]

Tulsa's a drive.

[Dusty Slay]

I'm flying to Raleigh and Tulsa. I'm driving to Chattanooga.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

I should fly to Chattanooga.

[Nate Bargatze]

I got a couple days with you, Nate.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Coming up. But Chattanooga, Tennessee. Comedy Catch. July 17th through the 19th. Five shows. I mean, can you imagine only doing one? I got five. Five shows.

[Aaron Weber]

Shows.

[Nate Bargatze]

We're trying to add another A6, so come on down. We might cut back shows actually, but yeah, yeah. Comedy catch. See me and Brian Little twofer.

[Derek Stroop]

You know what? My mom told me that they're coming to see you in Chattanooga.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Derek Stroop]

They already got their tickets.

[Dusty Slay]

Nice.

[Derek Stroop]

Well, they just said, Brian.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

So far.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. And thank you. Yeah, my mom's a big fan.

[Dusty Slay]

Well, thank you.

[Derek Stroop]

And then they bring a crew and they're laughers.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

So, yeah.

[Dusty Slay]

That's awesome.

[Aaron Weber]

They only have to go to one show.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'd say they only had to buy half the amount of tickets.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because they were. They're all bogus.

[Aaron Weber]

They go. Well. Yeah. Because they're bogos. They're bogo.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm just kidding.

[Derek Stroop]

My mom's excited about it.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

She said she's gonna come see you. She said she may go see Connor Larson, but she's. But they already have tickets to see you.

[Dusty Slay]

Thank you.

[Derek Stroop]

And then I'm taking a little time off just from the road on June. Just hanging out, family.

[Nate Bargatze]

Could be working.

[Derek Stroop]

Could be working for sure. But I got. I think on the day this podcast comes out, my second half of the year dates will come out. So check those out. Got a lot of dates going to a lot of places. Going to be very fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Love it.

[Aaron Weber]

Great. Love it. All right, well, I have missed you guys. Everybody listening. Thanks for listening. Sorry I haven't been here, but I hope. Thank you for understanding and yeah, I hope you all have a great week. Love you. All right. Bread winner, March 13, 2026. We'll tell you so many more times. You'll hear about it. Yeah. All right, see you.

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[Derek Stroop]

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[Derek Stroop]

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[Derek Stroop]

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