264: #264 Sitcoms feat. Leanne Morgan & Greg Warren

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Nateland Podcast | Episode 264: Sitcoms feat. Leanne Morgan & Greg Warren

Episode Overview

In Episode 264 of The Nateland Podcast, hosted by Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay, the conversation centers around the world of sitcoms with special guests Leanne Morgan and Greg Warren. Released on August 6, 2025, this episode delves deep into the intricacies of sitcom creation, the evolution of the genre, and the personal experiences of the hosts and guests within the comedic landscape.

Apologies and Light-Hearted Banter

The episode kicks off with Nate Bargatze offering a humorous apology to Brian Bates for inadvertently "stealing" a bag of peanuts from a Bridgestone convenience store, saying, "I want to make it right" ([03:39]). This light-hearted exchange sets a jovial tone for the episode, showcasing the camaraderie and playful teasing among the hosts.

Touring and Recent Performances

Brian Bates shares his recent experience performing at the Funny Farm Comedy Club in Goshen, Indiana ([17:06]), while Leanne Morgan discusses her whirlwind tour across California, including performances in San Jose, Bakersfield, Oakland, and Thousand Oaks ([18:59]). Nate Bargatze recounts his debut at the Ohio State Fair, highlighting the challenges and rewards of performing before a large audience of approximately 8,000 attendees ([20:14]).

Leanne Morgan’s New Sitcom on Netflix

A significant portion of the discussion focuses on Leanne Morgan's newly released sitcom on Netflix. Nate expresses his admiration, stating, "It's so conversational. It's so natural. Makes me sick" ([10:34]). Leanne elaborates on the show's development, influenced by Chuck Lorre, emphasizing its universal themes of starting over and overcoming life's challenges ([12:00]). She shares insights into the creative process, including the incorporation of personal experiences and the dynamic interactions with the cast and crew.

Understanding Sitcom Formats: Multicam vs. Single Camera

The hosts delve into the technical aspects of sitcom production, distinguishing between multicam and single-camera setups. Greg Warren provides clarity on the terminology, explaining that multicam involves multiple cameras filming a staged set, often in front of a live audience, akin to traditional sitcoms like I Love Lucy ([57:43]). In contrast, single-camera setups, common in shows like The Office and Parks and Recreation, offer greater flexibility in shooting locations and narrative styles without live audience reactions.

Historical Evolution and Cultural Impact of Sitcoms

Brian Bates takes a nostalgic turn, tracing the roots of American sitcoms from classics like I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners to modern hits such as The Simpsons and Always Sunny in Philadelphia ([63:31]). The conversation highlights how cultural shifts and societal norms influenced sitcom content, citing the Hays Code's impact on early shows that restricted certain topics and behaviors ([63:31]). Leanne reflects on significant moments, such as Ellen DeGeneres's coming out and Murphy Brown addressing single motherhood, underscoring sitcoms' role in mirroring and shaping societal attitudes ([98:17]).

Personal Anecdotes and Experiences in Sitcoms

The episode is peppered with personal stories from the hosts and guests. Nate shares humorous anecdotes about attending live tapings and interacting with fellow comedians, while Leanne recounts her challenges in transitioning from stand-up to scripted acting, including learning scripts and adapting to camera blocking ([50:29]). Greg Warren discusses his frequent appearances on the podcast, emphasizing the supportive environment that fosters creative discussions about sitcoms and comedy.

Advice on Creating a Successful Sitcom

As the conversation progresses, the hosts and guests offer invaluable advice for aspiring sitcom creators. Leanne emphasizes the importance of authenticity and drawing from personal experiences to create relatable characters and storylines. She advises, "It's gonna come naturally to you," highlighting the need for genuine emotion and connection with the audience ([88:54]). Greg adds that understanding the structure—such as the three-act format comprising setup, complication, and resolution—is crucial for crafting compelling narratives ([85:55]).

Conclusion and Upcoming Projects

Wrapping up the episode, the hosts discuss their upcoming tours and projects, promoting Leanne's sitcom and their own stand-up shows. Leanne expresses gratitude for the support and shares her excitement for future seasons, hoping to inspire others through her work. Nate and Brian preview their next episodes, ensuring listeners stay tuned for more engaging conversations and comedic insights.

Notable Quotes

• Nate Bargatze [03:43]: "I want to make it right."
• Leanne Morgan [12:00]: "But Chuck Lorre said, this is a universal theme... you got to pull yourself up."
• Brian Bates [63:31]: "I Love Lucy was one of the first Audience shows filmed in front of a live studio audience."
• Leanne Morgan [50:38]: "The timing and being in front of a live audience was saved me."

Key Takeaways

• The Nateland Podcast Episode 264 provides an in-depth exploration of sitcoms, blending historical context with personal experiences.
• Leanne Morgan's transition from stand-up to sitcom acting offers valuable insights into the creative process and industry challenges.
• Understanding different sitcom formats, such as multicam and single-camera setups, is essential for aspiring creators.
• Sitcoms play a pivotal role in reflecting and influencing societal norms and cultural shifts.

This episode serves as a comprehensive guide for anyone interested in the art and evolution of sitcoms, enriched by the hosts' and guests' personal anecdotes and professional expertise.

Transcript

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargatze]

You guessed it. Nate, baby.

[Brian Bates]

Hello, folks, and hey, bear. As always, Brian Bates. Aaron Weber.

[Nate Bargatze]

The core.

[Aaron Weber]

The core of the Nateland podcast is here. We don't forget where we come from. Right.

[Brian Bates]

We have no idea where Nate or.

[Aaron Weber]

Dusty is, but Dusty, you don't even look into it. You're like, he's gone. Who knows where where he is, you know?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, he's underground.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's.

[Brian Bates]

Something has happened to spook him. But he'll be back. He'll be back next week. But filling in, we're joined by the lovely and talented Greg Warren and former college All American wrestler. These interns, they get the intro wrong. Leanne Morgan, Greg Warren. I said to Aaron, I don't think we've ever had episode where it's just two hosts with two guests. And Aaron said, Greg and Leanne don't even feel like guests.

[Aaron Weber]

They don't.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's nice.

[Brian Bates]

You say Greg just shows up. Yeah, Leanne's just here. Promoter show.

[Leanne Morgan]

But I do feel like y' all are my family.

[Aaron Weber]

We feel the same way, too. That's why. That's why. That's why they trusted me and Brian to run things today because I figure y' all are going to be carrying the show for the most part.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Greg, you've probably. Well, I know you've been the most frequent guest we've had.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What do you think it's been like 15?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know. I don't know if it's 15. That seems high. Seems high.

[Brian Bates]

I bet he's been here close to 15 times.

[Aaron Weber]

How many have we done total? 30.

[Nate Bargatze]

30. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Out of 260 something episodes.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. That. Man. That sounds about right.

[Nate Bargatze]

I owe you an apology right away, buddy.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, let's hear it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Last time I was here, you had inadvertently stolen something from a restaurant, Right?

[Brian Bates]

Correct.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And I. I wrote you a little bit about that.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Said you're a bad person.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

I basically did it yesterday.

[Brian Bates]

Same thing.

[Nate Bargatze]

I went to Bridgestone with Nate and Laura and his family and Harper and saw. Dude, perfect. And they have the convenience store thing where you just grab a bunch of stuff and set it on a thing and it rings up. Well, I set them up there. I got some pork rinds and a bag of peanuts and a water. And I was going through my receipts this morning doing my accounting, and it only charged me for the water and the pork rind. So I stole. I stole a bag of peanuts inadvertently from Bridgestone. And I'm gonna make it right. I'm gonna make it right.

[Brian Bates]

You're gonna do a show at Bristow.

[Aaron Weber]

You made a living selling peanut butter. Now you're stealing.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know, I know, man. It's not good. It's not a good look. I don't feel good about it. It's out there. If somebody from Bridgestone is listening, tell me how I can make it right. But I know I need to make it right with you. Because unlike you, I'm a man of principle. Like, I want. I want to say. I say, when I do wrong, I say I do wrong.

[Aaron Weber]

That's right, Leon.

[Brian Bates]

I was in the Raleigh and Airport and, you know, now it's hard to get a real person. They. You scan the thing and you know when a robot brings it to you and all that stuff. And I got ready to pay and I thought it was successful. And then I get to my gate and it's still spinning. And then it says, I don't know, like it didn't go through. And I went back, I couldn't find a live person, so I like, oh, he went back. Well, it was. It was right next door to my gate. But still I did go back.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And. But I wanted to catch my flight, so.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, you're still low carb. Is that what that means? Because you ate Pork rinds and peanuts.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like.

[Brian Bates]

Still training for the Olympics.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like pork rinds.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, yeah. Low carb.

[Nate Bargatze]

They're barbecued pork rinds. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Because we've been together lately at the Ohio State Fair and you ate a turkey leg and I ate a funnel cake.

[Nate Bargatze]

Turkey leg I bought Tess and I each had a bite of deep fried Twinkie I've never had before. And then mostly I just do these gigs with Leanne because they have these gluten free crackers back there that I go through about a box every time.

[Leanne Morgan]

We're really not gluten free. We ask for them, trying to do better.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, they're good, but we don't mean it. Yeah, he loves them. I do. I do.

[Brian Bates]

We used to always have crustables on her.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, that was a bad time.

[Aaron Weber]

Uncrustables.

[Leanne Morgan]

And I shouldn't have. Uncrustables.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you call them crustable?

[Leanne Morgan]

That was not a good time.

[Brian Bates]

Uncrustables.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I was implying the Smucker's product, which owns Jif. It's disrespectful. Once again, crustable.

[Aaron Weber]

It's just only the crust.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I think that sounds delicious.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you ever see that?

[Brian Bates]

Seem wrong to me.

[Nate Bargatze]

You ever see that movie? The movie? That's the gangster movie with Kevin Costner.

[Aaron Weber]

Godfather?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, the Touchables.

[Brian Bates]

Craig, come on.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're a guest.

[Brian Bates]

We enter the red eye to get here today. To be with us, guys. Thank you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

It was awful. You're welcome.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was awful.

[Leanne Morgan]

Well, I mean, I.

[Nate Bargatze]

It.

[Leanne Morgan]

I had to. It was either that or get off stage, do a meet and greet, and then go to a hotel in California and then drive an hour to LAX and turn in a rental car at 3:45am and then get on a flight. So I said, why don't we just do the meet and greet before and then hit to the. But it was all awful, you know, But I'm fine. I've got adrenaline. I'm tickled to be with y'. All. I'm okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a big week.

[Aaron Weber]

It's a real big week.

[Nate Bargatze]

Big week. I mean, a huge week.

[Aaron Weber]

We've talked on the podcast about, you know, it's been a. It's a big weekend for Net. Our big week for Netflix. Dusty Special came out. We talked about that. We've also been talking about Leanne, Leanne's new sitcom now now on Netflix. Unbelievable. Congratulations.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank you, my darling.

[Aaron Weber]

We watched it.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no, you're right. I'm shaking because we, Ruth and I We never have anything to watch at home. And this last week we watched Dusty special. Great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then we're. We want to binge Leanne, but we also want to take it slow because we want to take it in and absorb. I've seen four episodes so far.

[Leanne Morgan]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

16 right here. Out of 16. Binged it. The whole thing.

[Brian Bates]

So you're four times better than I am.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm just saying it's not single and.

[Brian Bates]

Going to see Dude Perfect with Nate's daughter.

[Leanne Morgan]

What's Dude Perfect? What is Dude Perfect?

[Brian Bates]

They're like the be for 12 year olds and gray.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, I'm telling you, they're good. They're real good. Yeah, it's like a YouTubers for kids. And I. I was skeptical. I went with Nate's family and it is amazing.

[Leanne Morgan]

Did they sing? Is it like the.

[Brian Bates]

Well, it's like the modern day Globetrotters.

[Aaron Weber]

Singing might be the one thing shots and.

[Nate Bargatze]

But they're funny. They're. They're really funny. And yeah, it's. It's. And it is. Kids going crazy. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's not for adults.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's for kids and their parents.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was invited. I was invited. I had a good time.

[Leanne Morgan]

Did they sell out the Bridgestone?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I. I don't. I mean, it looked like it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think they didn't sell as many tickets as Nate. Yeah. We got treated real well when we went there.

[Brian Bates]

I bet.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. Tim Tebow was there. Really? Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Sweet. Tim Tebow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Tim Tebow was there. Yeah. Yeah. That was kind of cool.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, I bet.

[Brian Bates]

Little Tim Tebow.

[Leanne Morgan]

Little Tim Tebow.

[Brian Bates]

His little britches.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

He's got big britches though. Isn't he a big man? He's a big man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah, he. Leon, it's great though, the show. I loved it, honestly. I was like, you're gonna. Obviously I'm gonna watch it because it's you and my friend Mark Gross wrote on it and, you know, so I was like, I need to watch this. And then after about episode four, I forgot why I was watching. I just watched it and I loved it and I thought you were great.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Um, the casting is really, really good. Thank you. It's. There's something. You know, I've always thought Chuck Lorre shows are sort of like. They're he. There's just. There's sort of an even pace to them and it's very watchable. I tend to watch a lot of, you know, Chuck Lorre stuff when I'm like Saturday afternoon just getting ready for a show. You know, it's like, oh, mom's on. Or you know, and I think. But it's always on network tv. But because it's on Netflix, like Chuck's stuff is the most bingeable stuff. You don't, you don't even. It's just an even pleasant watch. And yeah, I think everybody's gonna go through. I mean, Brian didn't, but I think that, yeah, I think everybody's just gonna go right through it and watch. Watch a ton episode.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank you. We're getting a lot of comments that people have binge watching.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's so good, man.

[Leanne Morgan]

And maybe even looking at it a second time. And they're asking if we can get a second season. I hope we do.

[Brian Bates]

It's currently number two on Netflix. @ least this morning when I check.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's gotta be. That's got to be.

[Aaron Weber]

That's crazy.

[Leanne Morgan]

That's a relief. I'll tell you what that is. That's a relief. It's the fourth day. Number two.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

It's behind this nasty show that I can't compete with. But I'm number one in comedy. Let's say that. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I can't.

[Leanne Morgan]

All that nasty.

[Nate Bargatze]

Somebody who's switching back and forth between that nasty show and your show. Aaron's wife. I was talking. She said, she said she was watching both of them.

[Leanne Morgan]

Well, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Some balance in her life.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's also, man. I mean, it's just. And I guess I'm old or whatever, but it is one of those things where it's. It just. I'm gonna be a little vulnerable here. But it just. You just watch it and it's one of those things you're like, well, everything's gonna be okay. You know, like, like it's just like bad stuff happens to you. But at the end of the whole. Each episode and everything, like there's enough shows right now where it's just horrible people doing horror. They're great actors, but it's horrible people doing hor things to each other.

[Aaron Weber]

That's every show.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is. It's like after a while, like I. Ozark is a. A really well shot show. It's incredibly good acting. And by the third season, it's like, I can't. I can't. I can't watch these terrible people doing terrible things anymore. I. I do get lost into the story, but with yours, it's like, it just makes you feel good. It's great.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank you, Grant.

[Nate Bargatze]

You did great.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank you. My daughter well, Chuck Lorre said when he came to me with that concept, at first I kind of bucked it. And then he said, but I. Even if. Because we don't want it based on my real life, because that would be weird.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

But it is called Leanne. And so a lot of my fans were like, oh, my gosh, she's left Chuck Morgan in real life. And then they were called, your daughter's.

[Aaron Weber]

A drunk and everything.

[Leanne Morgan]

And people were commenting like, well, Chuck Morgan, he's intimidated by the money she's making. I mean, people were saying all kinds of stuff. And Chuck goes, leanne, do something. But then once that was okay. But Chuck Lorre said, this is a universal theme. Like, even if you're not going through a divorce or something like that, everybody has to start over sometime in their life. You know that life gets hard and things happen, but you got to pull yourself up and. And so that is a universal theme, and I think it is inspirational to people. I hope it is.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. I got a tear in my eye on the last episode. On the last two, actually. I did.

[Brian Bates]

No spoilers.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. I'm not going to tell you what's happened. You're gonna have to watch more than four episodes for that one.

[Brian Bates]

I guess I'll keep going. Then I call in foreign, let's just say more than I should. And she regrets ever giving me her phone number. But who calls you more these days, me or Jerry Seinfeld?

[Leanne Morgan]

Probably about the same.

[Aaron Weber]

Fact that it's even a question is crazy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Leanne Morgan]

Probably about the same.

[Brian Bates]

We both harass you a lot, don't we?

[Leanne Morgan]

Now, I wouldn't call it that. Y' all both support me. That's what happens. But, yeah, he's been calling me and helping me through this, and it has been wonderful. And he called me the other night. I was going on stage in San Jose, and he said, leanne, this meant the world to me. He goes, leanne. Because I was torn up. And, I mean, my manager's in here. I've kept her torn up. We're all torn up. And I fretted, and I'm like, is anybody going to like it? And I've tormented my family. And he said, leon, promise me that you will live in this moment. Because think about how many people have had a sitcom with their name on it. And he said, bob Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore, Lucille Ball. When he said that to me, that's.

[Nate Bargatze]

A lot right there.

[Leanne Morgan]

And he said, please know that you've won.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's not a real big deal.

[Leanne Morgan]

Roseanne that he said you won, you know, have it. Because it's such a small.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. Group.

[Leanne Morgan]

And that helped me, you know, because this has been a lot.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Leanne Morgan]

I lived away from my family for seven months.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right. Keenan and Kel now.

[Aaron Weber]

Man, I love that show.

[Leanne Morgan]

That was a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

Has this been a goal or something in the. In the back of your mind that you've wanted to do for your whole career or how have you always thought.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. That's.

[Leanne Morgan]

Since I was a baby.

[Aaron Weber]

It's amazing.

[Leanne Morgan]

I grew up loving television, loving sitcoms and loving comedy. Comedic actors. Loved snl, but loved Lucille Ball. All of that. Every sitcom. I've grieved over Lonnie Anderson. WKRP in Cincinnati.

[Nate Bargatze]

That happened yesterday, right? Yes.

[Leanne Morgan]

And I'm, you know, I'm older than y', all, but that was a wonderful sitcom.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if y' all were pretty close. And Greg and I probably both had posters of Lonnie Anderson along. At least I did.

[Nate Bargatze]

I still do. I liked whoever played Bailey Quarters, though, was. Was equally as. Yeah. Was the other, you know, sort of.

[Leanne Morgan]

That worked in the radio station.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. She. You remember that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She was. But. Yeah. No. Yeah. I love that sitcom. But you didn't act before this.

[Brian Bates]

Well, she was in a movie.

[Leanne Morgan]

I've just done one little movie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I mean, I went to the live taping and then I watched this and I'll challenge you to. There's seasoned actors on that show and you can't tell who the person who.

[Brian Bates]

That is. True.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is. It's so. I'm so proud of you. It is like I went and watched a live taping and I'm like, she is going toe to toe with Kristen Johnson. Johnson, Great.

[Brian Bates]

She's awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

She's been in like 300 episodes.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Television, you know, network television. It was. It's. I don't. You made some kind of deal with the devil or something where I did crazy. I mean. Yeah, it's really, really good. Yeah. Thank you.

[Leanne Morgan]

But they've all told me in Hollywood that comedians make good actors.

[Nate Bargatze]

I can show you some audition tapes from a few years ago. Might not necessarily be there, but like.

[Leanne Morgan]

I've been watching Happy Gilmore too, and I loved it. And I thought about Adam Sandler in Spanglish and then in this one. Had a lot of heart to it. And I love watching him. He can do drama.

[Nate Bargatze]

Spanglish is great.

[Leanne Morgan]

Uh huh. Wonderful.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

So I hope I can be like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

You are. You are.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank you, Erin.

[Brian Bates]

And I Were sitcom stars. Did you know that? I bring it up almost every episode.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Greg Garcia project, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Sprung a few years ago.

[Aaron Weber]

And neither of us had character names, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

It doesn't matter.

[Aaron Weber]

Prison guard number one stole the scene.

[Nate Bargatze]

Though, from what I understand. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He was in the trailer.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if I had a name or not, but I was basically a Hannibal Elector character. I had a mask in prison.

[Aaron Weber]

But point is, we get it, you know?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We get the grind.

[Aaron Weber]

We get what you're going.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know what?

[Brian Bates]

Yes, Greg does it. But we get.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I don't need. It's not even something I can really talk about. I'm more of a. Just a viewer.

[Brian Bates]

Well, today's episode's about sitcoms, so we're gonna get into it, but let's. Well, first of all, let's talk about where we were this weekend.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

I was in Goshen, Indiana, at the Funny Farm Comedy Club. And that's one reason I called Leanne multiple times, because it is a drive. But.

[Leanne Morgan]

And we talked for a couple hours.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You say for two hours.

[Nate Bargatze]

Bugged her for two hours. The. The biggest week of her life.

[Brian Bates]

Well, I kept calling her back.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I was like, I think we got cut off.

[Nate Bargatze]

Leanne Bates. Scorsese was trying to call her. She's got to talk to you about your Gosh in Indiana gig. Come on.

[Brian Bates]

Stuff to say I have to have to say. And I'm sorry.

[Leanne Morgan]

We go a long way back.

[Brian Bates]

We do. And I'm sorry I didn't give you a chance much to talk about what's going on with you, but I forgot.

[Nate Bargatze]

That you had a show that came out.

[Leanne Morgan]

We talked about it.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I was like, yeah, yeah, let's move on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Netflix. Go shin Indiana. Now, you need to understand, it's a.

[Brian Bates]

Lovely place, and I had a great time.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, good.

[Brian Bates]

And a lot of folks came out.

[Aaron Weber]

See any Amish? Did you see them around?

[Brian Bates]

I didn't. I know they're all around that area, but I didn't. I saw a lot of. You know, it's close to South Bend. A lot of Notre Dame fans didn't really care for that. But it's very close to South Bend.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, it is super close.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like.

[Aaron Weber]

I like looking for the Amish. It's fun to see it.

[Leanne Morgan]

I do, too. I'm fascinated by it.

[Aaron Weber]

It's wild.

[Brian Bates]

Supposedly there's a Walmart there that they've built a place for the Amish, like a part to park their buggy. Buggies yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, just like a pole to hitch.

[Nate Bargatze]

It on or what?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know. I, I, I always Google every town I go to and read about it. And there was a movie shot there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

Like Casey Affleck or something. And then it said it was the only Walmart that had a place for Amish to hook their bike.

[Leanne Morgan]

Nifty.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thoughtful.

[Brian Bates]

So that's where I was. Leanne, I'm sure you had something similar.

[Nate Bargatze]

Go ahead.

[Leanne Morgan]

I was in San Jose, Bakersfield, California. Oakland, California, and then Thousand Oaks. Wow. I did five shows in four days.

[Brian Bates]

Wow.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, they were all darling.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not one buggy parking space.

[Leanne Morgan]

No. But a lot of almond, you know, Trees.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

And driving through. They're beautiful.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I heard you killed it in a Thousand Oaks.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

My buddy Mark and brought his neighbors and his wife to the show. They loved it.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, good.

[Nate Bargatze]

Mark.

[Brian Bates]

Gross.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

There was a lot of crew there.

[Brian Bates]

Basically.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thought me and you were friends. We are. We are.

[Brian Bates]

I'm sorry, go ahead.

[Leanne Morgan]

It was, you know, a lot of my crew came, and Blake Clark was there that plays My day.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's so good in that show, man.

[Leanne Morgan]

He's so good in it. And he's good in Happy Gilmore too. You know, he said Adam Sandler's been so good to him, but, yeah, he's precious.

[Nate Bargatze]

And he came that thing in your show. Sorry to interrupt, but in your show, when he does it, he just mumbles or whatever. Every time. I thought that was great.

[Leanne Morgan]

I know. He's wonderful. And Celia, that plays my mother, they steal the show.

[Nate Bargatze]

They're great.

[Leanne Morgan]

They're wonderful. She played my mom in the movie with Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell. So we had a chemistry, and that's why they had her. Isn't that wonderful?

[Nate Bargatze]

It was great. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Where were you, Greg?

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, earlier in the week, I was opening for Leanne at the Ohio State Fair.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, yeah, we were at the Ohio State Fair.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It was my first state fair.

[Brian Bates]

Nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's pretty awesome outdoors.

[Leanne Morgan]

It was indoor.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, wow.

[Leanne Morgan]

And it was wonderful. About 8,000 seats.

[Nate Bargatze]

Gee.

[Aaron Weber]

So it was. What is it, a theater? Like a big kind of like, what is it?

[Nate Bargatze]

Like a big fair venue? Like almost a giant Barn with like eight, 9,000 people. I mean, it's awesome. It was packed with her fans, and, you know, I thought I had a pretty good show, but Leanne brings her daughter Tess to a lot of these shows, and she talks about her daughter. So there's some people that come backstage, you know, Leanne's people that want to meet Leanne. And man, they could not push me out of the way quick enough. Like, hey, I was. Oh, test. It's Tess. It's test. I had a bit I did about fishing. Test. Look, it's Tess.

[Aaron Weber]

You're bringing your bits up, too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, an hour ago.

[Leanne Morgan]

I mean, which kills that fishing bat.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not when Tess is run. Oh, it's just pushing me out of the way.

[Leanne Morgan]

I know. And what was Tess doing sitting up there? Yeah, she could be bothered with people.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or not. Yeah. You know, she's. She's over it. Yeah. And then I did. Did Madison with Nate. Yeah. The night before I did, I did a. I spoke at the National Wrestling Coaches Association.

[Brian Bates]

Nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. It was pretty big week for you. It was a big week. It was a gig, you know, in the afternoon after lunch. And if I was ever going to kill at a gig, it would be the perfect.

[Aaron Weber]

Perfect crowd for you.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is. National Wrestling coaches. I know a lot of them.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I did okay. I did. I mean, it was.

[Brian Bates]

It was fine.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was fine.

[Leanne Morgan]

Why had they eaten lunch and they were tired? Were they in a slump or what was it, did you say. You said at the. After lunch, and I didn't know if maybe they had had bread.

[Nate Bargatze]

They had some bread, man, I would love to blame it on the bread.

[Brian Bates]

But I bet it was the sourdough.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, that was it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Man, if I'm. Now that I think of a lot of these bits I've eaten it at. There was bread. Yeah, yeah. No, there was. It was just like a big. They were. It was a big giant thing, you know, and.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

The closest person is 50 yards away from me. Oh, yeah. But they. But it went well. But I was like, they're gonna carry me out of here. Like this is. Yeah, it went okay.

[Brian Bates]

What about you, Aaron?

[Aaron Weber]

I had a corporate in Denver, made a weekend out of it. Took. Took the baby, took the wife and.

[Brian Bates]

What's a Rockies game?

[Aaron Weber]

Three or four days out in Denver, Colorado. Yeah, it was awesome. So it's just kind of a low key weekend. Now we're. Now we're back at it. So that's pretty much it. Nothing. Nothing crazy.

[Nate Bargatze]

I.

[Brian Bates]

Since we're being vulnerable, I stopped at the bank on the way here and was in line. And then when I was walking away, the guy behind me, the lady, the teller, said, sorry for your weight. And he said, that's okay. It's fine to wait when there's a celebrity in the building. And I stopped and I looked back and I pretended like she's like, there's celebrity and he's like, yeah. And I was pretending like I was looking at my receipt, you know, like, is this right? Waiting for the punch, you know?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then he goes, yeah. The guy in front of that guy, that was Felix Cavalieri, lead singer of the Young Rascals.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

And then I kept. I just went ahead and left. But I looked this guy up. I saw him too. He's got a bit. A lot of big hits.

[Nate Bargatze]

Cavalieri.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, the Young Rascals did. They were on Ed Sullivan show, like songs that you would know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And he's 82.

[Leanne Morgan]

82, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You didn't get Cavallari's autograph.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't know it was him, but I almost gave a guy an autograph who did not know who I was, is what I'm saying.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, they thought. They thought you were him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You didn't get that part.

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Nate Bargatze]

I thought.

[Aaron Weber]

No, I. This guy was actually at the bank.

[Brian Bates]

This guy was at the bank.

[Aaron Weber]

See?

[Brian Bates]

But when I hear someone say, oh, we got. I think they're obviously me. So I linger in the moment.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian's like, guys, guys, guys, it's okay. I'll take a picture with whoever wants to it. Yeah, like what?

[Brian Bates]

I'm like fiddling with a pen or whatever, the guy that just cast a check, but there was somewhere much bigger than me in the line right in front of me saying.

[Nate Bargatze]

That'S rough, man.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, I remember. I mean, they're older, but I remember that's. I can. I think I know who that is.

[Brian Bates]

The Young Rascals. If you played some of their songs, you would know them. You would know the song.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

But you'll have to take my word on it.

[Leanne Morgan]

I mean, he's a cute little 80 something year old man.

[Brian Bates]

There's a. One of the Dr. Pepper songs, they.

[Nate Bargatze]

Say the jingle, I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper.

[Brian Bates]

No, not that one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Good song. It is a good song. I mean, yeah, if you're. If you're getting upset about being not recognized over the I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper guy. You got high. Yeah. You got to adjust your expectations. I know, I know.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron, can I chime in for a second? Tell you about chime?

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

You know, sometimes you forget that small spending has an impact on your long term financial stability.

[Aaron Weber]

I don't, but I could see how you could.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I do.

[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Leanne Morgan]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Leanne Morgan]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

All right, should we get in these comments?

[Aaron Weber]

Let's do it.

[Brian Bates]

Comments come From Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews and Nate [e-mail] Marcia Coke please schedule Leanne Morgan and Greg Warren as guests on the same show. I would love to see them at the table.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that Dreams come true. Made it happen, Marsha.

[Nate Bargatze]

Marcia thank you, Marcia.

[Leanne Morgan]

We do have a wonderful chemistry, don't we?

[Nate Bargatze]

We do. We do.

[Aaron Weber]

Marcia. Marcia Marshall what is that from? Marcia Marshall Ready Bunch.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh.

[Brian Bates]

Oh boy.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, Marcia.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, the sitcom episode's gonna be tough for this guy down here. But you can tell us about current Keenan and Kel.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm happy to get into that.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron Britt My wife and I went to the Leanne Morgan show in Indy. She was on Dusty time. I had her at a tight 86.

[Leanne Morgan]

What did I did 86 minutes. I bet I did.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty loves to tell us how far he's going and it keeps going up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. Oh, really?

[Leanne Morgan]

Well, I shouldn't. I'm just unorganized.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

And then you know, Tess is in.

[Nate Bargatze]

The back going, oh yeah, Tess is.

[Leanne Morgan]

I know. She gets so mad at me.

[Nate Bargatze]

I went out and watched in the Ohio State fair. It was. She did about two hours at the Ohio State.

[Leanne Morgan]

Fairly not.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, it was. It was great, though. Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

I'm sorry if I did that. You know, I'm a tall girl.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's great, though. It's so conversational. It's so natural. Makes me sick.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, Greg. But I need to cut it down.

[Brian Bates]

Or maybe Grace cut his time mates.

[Nate Bargatze]

Come on, man.

[Aaron Weber]

What are you doing?

[Nate Bargatze]

Trying to sell tickets here?

[Brian Bates]

Michael Otito.

[Aaron Weber]

Tito.

[Brian Bates]

As a doctor, I can confirm Greg Warren's laugh is the cure for all physical and mental illness.

[Aaron Weber]

That's very sweet, Michael.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is a switch because I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

Know if I want this guy because.

[Brian Bates]

Leanne's here and I'm trying to be nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know, man. Thank you. Because the last time I was here, you open with, like, five derogatory comments about me. One of them was that somebody saw. They said, I walked by, and I'm pretty sure I saw Greg Warren after a show eating a Subway sandwich in his car. I figured it wasn't alone, and I figured it probably wasn't a good time to bother him. Guess who was really entertained by that clip.

[Brian Bates]

All of America.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Is what I would say. One in particular, Nate Bargetze, thought that was just about the best thing he. Yeah, he walked on the plane. He's like, man, I started with that sub sandwich. Yeah. So this is a nice change. Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

I'm glad to Hear Nate's watching Mr. Hokey 21. I didn't know about Nateland until Leanne's first episode. I'm a fan of hers and now the band, too. I live in Jonesboro. The National Storytelling Festival is a pretty big deal around here. And my absolute favorite teller is Donald Davis. He is a legend. Everyone should check him out.

[Leanne Morgan]

I have been to that on my children's field trips when they get in. When they would get in fifth grade at the Christian Academy of Knoxville, we would all take a bus to the storytelling festival in Jonesboro. And I've seen Donald Davis and he kills. Double D. Double D with a little bow tie on. Storytelling festival. That will mesmerize you. Unbelievable.

[Aaron Weber]

Are they funny stories?

[Leanne Morgan]

Yes. Yes. And. And you are. Have your head between your knees.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah. Some of them. Not all of the storytelling is funny. Yeah, it. It's some, you know, other. But all of it's fascinating.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Leanne Morgan]

It's not what we do. I love, but it's fascinating. Then there's a bunch of little women with campers and homeschooled little children and people don't Shave their legs. But it's fascinating. There's a good ice cream shop there. Had a ball.

[Brian Bates]

Jonesboro, Oldest city in Tennessee.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah. And I think there's, like a little museum where you can go in and see all that kind of stuff. My kids loved it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Well, my boy. Dad. I don't know if the girls, they were tickled to get to go on a field trip, but. Yeah. Donald Davis.

[Nate Bargatze]

Leanne tells something in her act. It's one of my favorite parts is. I hope you do. On the special. You talk about the lady up in Asheville. I think that was in the cbd. The woman didn't shave her armpits. And then she. And then Leanne says that she's like a little hippie chick or something like that. And then you just do, like, this weird physical impression of her. Did you do that on your special?

[Leanne Morgan]

I did.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's. I can't wait. Because she just does. I'm like. You just act out. She's like. She's like a little hippie. You're like a little hippie trick.

[Leanne Morgan]

That's when I took that CBD that I think was laced with LSD and went on a trip and saw snakes in the night. And I've never done another one that I will. Horrible.

[Nate Bargatze]

I make sure I try to walk in the room every time when you do that joke because you set it up with whatever. The CBD shops are in Knoxville. But it's. It's illegal. And you go. The dope is a coming.

[Leanne Morgan]

Because we don't have dope in Tennessee yet. But I've heard the dope is coming here. I'm not gonna take it.

[Brian Bates]

You're not.

[Leanne Morgan]

I'm not gonna take any dough.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Me neither. No. It feels weird for me to start at this age.

[Aaron Weber]

I just want to say I legalized marijuana in Tennessee as youth governor of Tennessee in 2010.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I was pretty ahead of my time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

I legalized medical. I think I just decriminalized it, but.

[Nate Bargatze]

And how'd you. How'd you become youth governor?

[Aaron Weber]

I ran. I ran for. And I won.

[Brian Bates]

How are you ahead of your time? Because it's still not legal.

[Aaron Weber]

Because I did it way before anybody. I mean it. Before any state did it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, so.

[Leanne Morgan]

And everybody's doing it anyway. Aren't they all. Everybody's own dope.

[Brian Bates]

Everybody's going in and doing. Yes.

[Leanne Morgan]

It's just so weird for me at my age because we grew up with Dare.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Leanne Morgan]

And don't do dope.

[Aaron Weber]

And then Colorado and that's just like there's no stigma about it.

[Nate Bargatze]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. It's almost like you're gross if you didn't drink a beer. It's like you should just smoke out there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's how they treat it. It's crazy.

[Brian Bates]

Trait.

[Nate Bargatze]

What do you think?

[Brian Bates]

It's Trace. Tress.

[Nate Bargatze]

Trey. It's French.

[Aaron Weber]

I thought you're reading the next name, Grace. Oh, okay.

[Brian Bates]

Tress. Lawless.

[Aaron Weber]

Trey.

[Nate Bargatze]

Trey. It's Trey Lawless, meaning very lawless.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Home before dark.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Sounds like a great name for breakfast's next tour. I have a lot of tour names. These ladies this weekend all wore matching shirts that said just outside of tour. Because everywhere I go is just outside of a major city. So they all had these matching shirts, all these ladies.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's pretty cool. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then last week I. When pitching my shows coming up, a lot of them.

[Nate Bargatze]

My.

[Brian Bates]

My selling point is, you'll be home before dark. I like a little bit earlier start.

[Nate Bargatze]

So do I, man.

[Brian Bates]

Greg is kind of inspiration because I'm trying to do more all ages shows and stuff like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I mean, not my. My personal favorite for your tour name was the easier to drive.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Well, that's the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's the one that Nate came up with. I thought that was.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And this past weekend. That was so true.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. You're like, yeah, I'm just gonna drive.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. There's. There's nowhere that you would either. You'd have to fly in somewhere and still rent a car and drive a few hours.

[Aaron Weber]

So you didn't fly direct into Goshen. Grace.

[Nate Bargatze]

There you go.

[Brian Bates]

The reason Aaron is such a nice young man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hey.

[Brian Bates]

Is because his parents took the time and care to teach him manners. I still remember that episode where he talked about calling a friend and said, Good morning, Ms. So and so. May I please speak to so and so? Obviously, Aaron was taught to be polite, reflecting in his phone manners. Good job, Mr. And Ms. Weber.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. Thank you, Grace. That's really nice.

[Brian Bates]

So what was that? Who did you. You called a girl.

[Aaron Weber]

And I want to ask the two of you. We. We had. I had like a script I had to say when we answered the phone growing up like it was a Weber residence. May I please ask who's calling? Or something like that. We were just taught to say that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really?

[Aaron Weber]

And then you call like some ne' er do well kids house. And he's just like, hello. And I'm like, come on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

But there's a lot of little stuff. I think about it now that I have my own kid, there's a lot of stuff that was kind of beaten metaphorically into me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, like my mom we walking into a store and my mom would just stand by the door until I opened it for her. Like little. Little things like that. So. Stuff that I still think about today.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I think I remember not opening the door for my mom one time and it was bad beaten, not metaphorically into me.

[Leanne Morgan]

I do think manners are important. And you are so precious. Aaron.

[Brian Bates]

He's precious.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's just like it's almost royalty. He's got an air of royalty. Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

And he's got those twinkling eyes.

[Brian Bates]

Richard Gere.

[Leanne Morgan]

Richard Gear eyes. I've always said it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

People say it's like Brad Pitt.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, Brad Pitt with a insulting modifier. Usually fat Brad Pitt, bloated Brad Pitt, something like that. But I'll take it. Brad Pitt's still a good looking guy. This is. This might be the nicest episode of the history of Nateland.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I don't know about. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So switch it up.

[Nate Bargatze]

These comments are going to take a turn. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Cynthia Carpenter. I'd love some Greg Warren merch with Peanut Butter Boy on it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that might. The special that I did with Nate called the salesman. He stepped in and named it that. I wanted to call it Peanut Butter Boy. I think it was probably a good decision.

[Leanne Morgan]

I don't know. Peanut Butter Boy is pretty fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think so. I thought so. We all like Nate was not having it.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, you can re release it. Groucho. T. You guys are doing multiple shows a day. I'll let you guys take this one. Do you feel like your set is better? The first show because it is fresher earlier and you're less tired or the second show because you already ran it once that day and have adjusted to how the first show went. I can never decide when I buy tickets to comedy shows if I should do the early or late. Lynn.

[Leanne Morgan]

I think the later one, I think I, you know, kind of run the first one and then I feel better on the second one, I think. Yeah. And then the four o'. Clock. They're good for me, the matinees. I love a matinee but I feel like it's just a little more energy at the 7.

[Brian Bates]

See, I will answer this. The shows I'm doing, the second show starts at 9:30 and there ain't nobody that's at 9:30.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm doing 10:30 shows sometimes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

I do. I think Everybody's tired.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Liam, were you. Were you out on the road when they had you do. Sometimes on the Saturday, the midnight. There's a three show night. You'd have to do a midnight. Yeah. That was awful. I repeated jokes sometimes. Yeah. I remember repeating a joke and just look at him. I was like, did I already say that? They're like, yeah, because that was your.

[Aaron Weber]

Third show of the day.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

That's hard to keep track of it.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's. But I'm going to say the late. Just because we're a little low on some sales for some of those late shows out there. That's when the. That's when you want to see it. Let me tell you, this is. Yeah, they get real funny there. I wouldn't even bother going to those early.

[Brian Bates]

Where did I just see? You just sold out two shows. Is it this weekend?

[Nate Bargatze]

We. We. Charleston. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What's in.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, nice. Yeah, it's. We're having a good run now. It doesn't hurt when you go in front of 30,000 people that are Nate Borghetzy fans and after you set, you say, I'll be in, you know, Charleston, Raleigh, or something like that. Doesn't hurt or. Yeah, I went in front of Leanne's fans at the Ohio State Fair and got to say I was coming back to Columbus.

[Brian Bates]

So it's nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's real night. It's real. You know, some. My manager said something like, well, we know we can sell those tickets in that market now. I was like, I mean, we hope if we. If we go in front of 30, 000 people for some reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, no, it's. It's. Yeah, it's going. It's going great. Thanks to people like Nate Leanne.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, honey. Well, you're getting up there doing that chair. Yes, that's what's doing it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, it's Tess.

[Brian Bates]

Gregory Dunn. Can we get a Chuck Morgan and Leanne podcast? Chuck Morgan got some stories, I bet.

[Leanne Morgan]

No. First of all, I was on Kelly and Mark Ripa, which, let me say, darling, beautiful. They are both the prettiest people I've ever looked at. Their teeth, her arms. I've never. And they go, we need to get Chuck Morgan on here. And I thought my heart dropped because Chuck Morgan says like four words a day and is very introverted. And I don't think. I mean, I think that would scare him to death and I don't think he would want to. Well, maybe. I don't know, because this last special that I just Shot. Chuck came out like that on stage, so maybe. Really, maybe he would. You know, he did.

[Brian Bates]

Heard you. You were just on Amy Poehler's podcast, and you were talking about how Chuck came out and really lived it up.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, he did.

[Brian Bates]

He did an episode of Family Feud.

[Leanne Morgan]

We did. And it comes out in late August.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man, that's.

[Leanne Morgan]

And he loved it. But. But he also took it very seriously because he's very competitive, and he said, we're going to rip their throat out, and took it just like you would a job.

[Brian Bates]

And who were you playing against?

[Leanne Morgan]

Lainey Wilson. That dumb darling. Not dumb, darlin. I was gonna say Devlin. Her duck. Her fiance. That's what I was trying to say. Duck. Who is a doll. Who, you know, was a quarterback at Sanford.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, really?

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah. When Tess was there and then went to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah. So little Laney and her family, and they were darling, but, you know, I've gotten to know her, and she's precious. We've done a couple things together, so we had a ball. It was so fun. If y' all ever get to do it, you need to do it Steve Harvey.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll be sure to.

[Brian Bates]

I'll see if I'm fitted in Leanne.

[Leanne Morgan]

And I'm not sure. Have y' all love Steve Harvey, though.

[Aaron Weber]

I love Steve Harvey. It's for me, pound for pound, the greatest game show host of all time.

[Leanne Morgan]

I think so.

[Aaron Weber]

Like, that show is. It's just him riffing the whole time the Show. There's probably 30 seconds of gameplay on the whole episode, but he's just so great. That's very cool that you got to do that.

[Leanne Morgan]

I know. And I've always been a big fan. And when they asked me years ago, what do you want out of this? I said, I want to be Steve Harvey. Because you think about what all he's done.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Tours and stand up and talk show and. And he's done everything.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're on your way. You're right there.

[Leanne Morgan]

I think I could do a game show if it didn't have math in it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

You know, if it. If there's math, I can't do it.

[Brian Bates]

So where will that air?

[Aaron Weber]

Well, that'll make the host that airs on.

[Leanne Morgan]

Abc.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What kind of game show would they make the host do?

[Nate Bargatze]

You stop. You're ruining the.

[Leanne Morgan]

Remember, what's his name? Howie. That's got germ thing. Howie Mandel. Didn't he do that wall? Little Megan Markle would hold up. Was that him? I can't even say dealer.

[Nate Bargatze]

No.

[Brian Bates]

Deal?

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah. Did he do dealing?

[Nate Bargatze]

No deal.

[Leanne Morgan]

And little Megan Martin. Oracle was in a little.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're ruining the whole thing.

[Aaron Weber]

Howie Mandel's not doing them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Would you shut up? Leanne thinks that he's. There's no staffers back there in his ear telling him the answers or the. Like. They're really smart.

[Leanne Morgan]

Well, that would make me think Regis.

[Aaron Weber]

Is writing the questions on who wants to be.

[Nate Bargatze]

The whole illusion is gone now. She's not going to want to do it.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll back off.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And then you're going to sell popcorn at a racetrack.

[Leanne Morgan]

I do want to sell popcorn. When I retire, I would like to sell popcorn at a NASCAR track because I think that would be nifty. Nifty. And to get to stare at people.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I wish somebody could sort of get the popcorn right, though, at these live events. I'm not sure I've had. I mean, because I'll do a stovetop popcorn just in the. In the pan with some oil, you know, I think. And maybe a little more oil than you're supposed to have. And I'm telling you, the right amount of salt, that's good popcorn. I've yet to see any movie theater or any sporting event match it. Okay, you don't like movie theater popcorn. It's not as good as the stuff that I can pop. It's just not.

[Aaron Weber]

I have a hard time believing that, dude.

[Nate Bargatze]

So, like, dusty dude, I'm telling you. And.

[Aaron Weber]

And you put liquid butter on the top of it.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, I don't know. I don't want that. I don't like. I don't. I think the. The popcorn should be moist, just enough popped. You don't need the butter to moisten it.

[Leanne Morgan]

I don't like butter on mine.

[Nate Bargatze]

Neither do I. See, we go to the movies. Me and Leanne just go in the movies.

[Aaron Weber]

Chuck, bring your own popcorn into the movie.

[Leanne Morgan]

I have. Me and Lee carry a baby for Greg Warren years. I've done it because I want him to have a wrestling baby. And I said, chuck Morgan. You said, I don't think Chuck Morgan would want you to. But he is a huge Greg Warren fan. And when I told him that he was gonna go on tour with me and open for me, he goes, you can't follow him. That's what Chuck goes. He goes, what are you crazy? You cannot follow Greg Warren.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, no, what he said was, you should open for Greg Warren. And I told you, tell Chuck that you don't play Funny Bones anymore. Yeah, Tucks, he's a real big Guy, he's. Yeah, he's intimidating.

[Leanne Morgan]

Figure he is, but he's down in his back. I don't think he could whip anybody right now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now's my chance.

[Brian Bates]

Christine Winans. I think Greg Warren should make Bang Bang Choo Choo Train his catchphrase. At least this year. Funniest thing I've ever heard.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thank you.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Thank you, Christine.

[Brian Bates]

I noticed on this Nate tour, they'll do a recap at the end of the week of photos. And every one of your shoulders are kind of tilted.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was coached when I was doing that bit by Adrian over there that I was not getting enough shoulder and hip movement into the cheer. And I had a high school cheerleading coach work with me on that cheer. Wow. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

So what's called yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I just want to make sure. Oh, yeah, you're right. It is.

[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

Brian Helwig. I'm a fairly new listener to the podcast, so maybe this has been discussed before, but wondering how a Southern boy like Aaron ended up at Notre Dame just doesn't seem right.

[Aaron Weber]

Is he wondering why I went there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or how I. Catholicism, Right?

[Brian Bates]

Probably more why.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Catholicism is a part of it, I guess. I had. My dad went. My two older siblings went. I had a bunch of cousins. It was like a family thing. So it's a lot of that in Notre Dame. It's all people whose family went there. So that's a big reason why.

[Leanne Morgan]

Do you remember. Weren't you. You were on that. I got to go. When Bert Kreischer did that big.

[Aaron Weber]

I do remember that.

[Leanne Morgan]

And you were there. And. And there was these big old linemen from Notre Dame that had their. Their little shorts were up in their crack and their. Their little fannies were between their shoulder blades. Those big old.

[Aaron Weber]

It was the entire offensive line came to the show.

[Leanne Morgan]

Entire offensive line. That's the biggest on boys I've ever seen.

[Aaron Weber]

And they're hanging out with Bert, so they're shirtless and they're getting after it, dude. But they. Yeah. Especially as a pack. They're moving around. You're like, geez, dude, there's a photo.

[Brian Bates]

With you and them, right?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. I have a picture of me in.

[Brian Bates]

The middle, and Aaron looks so small.

[Aaron Weber]

I look like a child.

[Brian Bates]

It's crazy event.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Big fannies. The big fan up and. Yeah. Up in between their shoulder blades. That's how those boys are built. Sweet.

[Brian Bates]

Lauren Emsweller Watson. Leanne show is so nostalgic. Reminds me of watching Mama's Family with my grandmother who passed away in June. Oh, Lauren, I got a little tear in my eye during the opening credits when Leanne popped up on the screen.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, swank.

[Brian Bates]

I haven't seen that far, but Leanne.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It grows on you.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

In between episodes.

[Brian Bates]

It does. And is the color scheme reflect anything? Because it's always different colors.

[Leanne Morgan]

No, I did not know they were going to do that, but I love it. Yeah. I thought it was all going to be pink, but it's. Every episode's got a different color. And Mo Cab wrote Mo Keb Mo.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

And another woman wrote that music. And he came to the. And he's, you know, unbelievable artist. And I didn't even realize they were going to do that for me.

[Aaron Weber]

That's awesome.

[Leanne Morgan]

When you're in it trying to learn lines and what camera blocking is, you don't know what's happening because you're overwhelmed and you think you're going to get the shingles, but I didn't. I made it.

[Aaron Weber]

What would you say? I mean, I'm sure we're going to get into the minutia of it, but I'm just curious. What was the hardest thing for you to get down? Like, what. What would you say was the biggest hurdle to. To get into filming the show? Was there one thing in particular you really had to work at, or did it all kind of come naturally for you?

[Leanne Morgan]

The. The timing and being in front of a live audience was saved me. I felt good about that. I felt like I got that down. Whatever happened.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's standup.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah. But the Learning a script every week was daunting. And then camera blocking, because I didn't know, you know, all the cameras and I didn't know all the terminology, and I had to stop and go, what are y' all talking about? You know? Cause they would say something, and all these other people knew what they were talking about, so I had to learn that. And then I thought it ended up. I know now what they mean by it, but it was very daunting at first when they would say, it'll get in your body land. So when they would say, say this line and end this on this word while you pick up the creamer and then go, put the creamer in the refrigerator and end on this. So. And I would go, nah, I mean, whatever. And then. But you rehearse it several times, and it gets in your body. They would say, it's gonna get in your body. And it does. And then if they change it, then it's almost like you can't do it because it's in your body. So I didn't know that was gonna happen, but the whole, you know, it was daunting. But then I settled into it. But the. Every week learning a. They said to me, you're gonna build this muscle. It's a muscle, and you're gonna build it. And I was like, no, I won't. But I did. Over time, I realized how to learn it. And, you know, they change it every night. Cause if the jokes aren't working, I mean, we do a run through every day. Then they'd change them. I'd get new lines the next day. And then while you're shooting it, if something doesn't work in front of a live audience, the writers start walking toward you and you're like, oh, no, they're gonna give me a new line. And that can mess with. Because one line, you know, changes and it's got something behind it that makes you think of that. But anyway, that would. I got used to that, you know, and it would change on a dime, and you just got to go with it.

[Brian Bates]

Now when you do the run through, who's that in front of?

[Leanne Morgan]

1. One day it'll be in front of the writers, and then the next day it would be Netflix and the writers and Warner Brothers people.

[Brian Bates]

And they'd give you notes like, let's change this or change that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, the. There's like little facial and things that you do in your act, like lianisms. And pretty early on, I started to see, like, oh, she's incorporating that into her.

[Brian Bates]

I did too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Which is pretty cool. Yeah. That. I was like, oh, now she's. Now she's got it, man. Because it was like. It was like, there's just. You're real good at that. Like, you do some physical stuff. That's when you're not talking. That a lot of comics can't do. And I saw it in the show. It was really, really cool. And I'm like. And it seemed very natural. And I was like, yeah, that's.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now, my buddy who writes on the show told me, like, after the first week, she's like, she's a star. She's a star. Yeah. So, Brian, when you were prisoner number two, what. What did you find is the hardest thing that you had to get used to?

[Brian Bates]

The Hannibal elector mass that was on my face.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what I thought. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It was pretty hot in there, I'll tell you.

[Aaron Weber]

I know you didn't ask, but the hardest part for me is I. I broke. I was laughing the entire time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I was in one scene where I just. I had. I was just standing there and I ruined, like, two takes because I was just laughing.

[Brian Bates]

The scene I was in.

[Aaron Weber]

The scene you were in. Yeah. Everybody was making Me, I was like, does nobody else find this funny? I was like, guys, this is hilarious, but they're all professionals.

[Brian Bates]

And then in. We'll see what makes it in the movie. But in the movie, supposed to be laughing. And to a degree, when we were ad libbing at least. Right. And Aaron is so good at either fake laughing or real laughing that he was making me look good because.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, you were killing.

[Brian Bates]

He was nailing the laughter part.

[Nate Bargatze]

So are you allowed to say what the name of the characters are in that? Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I'm Trash collector number two.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

There's a theme you can see.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm trash collector number one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. That's.

[Leanne Morgan]

When will that be out?

[Brian Bates]

March 13th.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, my gosh. In theaters.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Aaron Weber]

It's exciting.

[Brian Bates]

So this week we're talking about sitcoms. I looked on Rotten Tomatoes, and you have the number one as far as fans. Sitcoms as far as the highest. What's Tomato Meter?

[Nate Bargatze]

I guess Tomato Meter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like 100. Yeah. High 90s. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It was 100. I voted. It's at 90% right now. There's just. There were some things. I don't want to get into it now. It's good. I'm not saying it's not good. I'm just. There's a couple things I would have done.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's not Goshen good.

[Aaron Weber]

I love.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I like your sitcom, dude.

[Brian Bates]

Batesy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, man. To get Kemmo's gonna have to go a different direction. Yeah, a little bit.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron, I think I emailed you that.

[Aaron Weber]

All right.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, it's a who's who of. You're beating the bear.

[Leanne Morgan]

Really?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

At least amongst the fans.

[Nate Bargatze]

I went from the bear.

[Aaron Weber]

Look at that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Right up there at the top.

[Aaron Weber]

Unbelievable.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

The people have spoken.

[Nate Bargatze]

King of the hill.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you try not to. I was like, have you looked at a lot of this stuff or do you try not to look at it? I mean, I haven't seen. I've only heard people saying they love it. But do you like. Do you seek this kind of stuff out?

[Leanne Morgan]

No, I try not to. And Kristen Johnston said, don't do it, Lynn. Get off of it and let everybody else deal with it. I have seen a couple of things about, well, we just don't like canned laughter. And that just tears me up because it's filmed in front of a live audience.

[Aaron Weber]

That's crazy.

[Nate Bargatze]

That drives me. They're like, I don't like the. The laugh track. It's a. It's a play in front of a live audience, right? That and that one. Yeah. My buddy that wrote on your show. It enrages him.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's like, that's not one thing. Not. It's a play.

[Leanne Morgan]

I know. And then you think that it. When I saw what went up on Netflix, like, the last month, mom went up on there. Chuck Lorre's mom went straight to the top. Reba's first sitcom, straight to the top. George and Mandy or Young Sheldon, Other Chuck Lorre shows. People love a sitcom and find comfort in that. With that. Live in front of a live audience. Filmed in front of a live audience. And then other people, I don't know if they've gotten used to, like, Parks and Rec and Office, and they think that it's Cannes, but it's not.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It's a different thing. It's a play, and when it's well done, it's awesome. But all those sitcoms, they debuted, they built momentum years ago. Like.

[Leanne Morgan]

I know. And you can tell people still love them.

[Nate Bargatze]

When is the last time they had a multicam sitcom debut on Netflix? I mean, it's.

[Leanne Morgan]

Was it the Ranch with that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is that. Is that multicam?

[Brian Bates]

I think that One Day at a Time was multicam.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, can you talk a little bit about what. What multicam means versus single camera? What is. What does that mean?

[Nate Bargatze]

Hmm.

[Brian Bates]

Let me think.

[Nate Bargatze]

What would that be?

[Brian Bates]

I bet one of them's more.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm sorry.

[Brian Bates]

Well, like, for Nate, we're throwing around.

[Aaron Weber]

All this industry terminology. I'm just trying to. Trying to bring the people into this. When I hear multicam, I think, like. Like how your show's filmed, where it's almost like you're looking at a house, like half a house.

[Nate Bargatze]

You only have a few sets.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, you only. And it's. And it's on a soundstage by the studio. Okay. And, you know, it's. It's a play, basically.

[Aaron Weber]

And why is there called multicam?

[Leanne Morgan]

Do you know there's multi. Multi cams filming you in, like, a single cam is like a movie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

You know, it's like filming a movie, and then everybody's got to do their part. Like I did in my movie.

[Aaron Weber]

These multiple cameras in a movie, too, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. But I think the best way. And I'm not the guy for this. We need a better guy.

[Leanne Morgan]

I'm not the girl.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, then I'm going to try. Okay. So it's basically like you have a set that's staged. Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

And the thing that moves is the cameras around you. But when you. You can go anywhere with. If you're shooting Modern Family or you're talking right to the camp, they do a lot of that, sort of talking to the camera in between the scenes. And they'll go. They'll go. The cameras move all around. It's. It costs a lot of money to build a sound stage.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

So you can't really move. You know, you got to build the sets right there. Okay. That's as good as you're going to get. I mean, for me, I. You know, I don't like to be the spokesperson on this, but I think I got it.

[Leanne Morgan]

Mine was filmed where Friends was filmed.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's so cool.

[Leanne Morgan]

And Lisa Kudrow is filming the Comeback right now on it.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Leanne Morgan]

In Full House. It's a historically successful soundstage. I thought that was crazy.

[Aaron Weber]

That's amazing.

[Leanne Morgan]

I know. There's a plaque out front, and it tells what all was filmed. That blew me away.

[Aaron Weber]

Did you take any? Do you have anything? I know you said you're hoping for season two. It looks like everything's gonna be good for that, but did you take anything from the set? I always wondered, do you have any, like, mementos or stuff that, you know.

[Leanne Morgan]

No, I got a bunch of clothes. I took some of her clothes and then. But there are things that we all want on that set because it was beautiful. That. And if you haven't watched it, I mean, the house was beautiful. And I wanted it to be a pretty Southern home because I'd had deals in the past where people wanted to write us as, like, downtrodden and pitiful. And we were, you know, and it just. I said, I wish y' all could depict the south in a, you know, wonderful way. And they did. And that is a beautiful home and the beautiful kitchen and, like, a Nancy Meyers kitchen. And I just thought they did a beautiful job. So there's a lot of stuff everybody wants. There's a KitchenAid mixer we're all gonna fight over.

[Nate Bargatze]

Who's Nancy Myers?

[Leanne Morgan]

She did all those movies. All right, Judy, what's one of those? That there was Meryl Streep.

[Aaron Weber]

Something's Got to Give.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah. Man.

[Leanne Morgan]

Remember how beautiful they.

[Aaron Weber]

What Women Want. Man, that was a great movie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I haven't watched it in a while, but I remember liking it.

[Brian Bates]

So there was a.

[Leanne Morgan]

They call it porn for Women.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay, okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was. Somebody did. I think it was SNL when that movie came out.

[Aaron Weber]

They did a What? What Men Want.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, it was. It was it came out the same week as a movie called what Women Want. And then it was We Were Men. We Were Soldiers.

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, it came out the same week and the same week or something. SNL said that they were doing a combo thing called We Were Soldiers. Who knew what women wanted? I can't remember who did it. Yeah, it was a great joke. Yeah, it was a great joke.

[Brian Bates]

So a weekend update.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, like a weekend update. Yeah. Yeah. It's probably like Nealon or somebody like that. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Brian Bates]

So let's talk about a little bit about the history of sitcoms.

[Leanne Morgan]

Okay?

[Brian Bates]

The first sitcom, at least on American television was Amos and Andy. And I watched it recently. It holds up.

[Nate Bargatze]

He pulled me in.

[Aaron Weber]

He watched it recently.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it does not hold up. That was a joke. But One of the first huge sitcoms was I Love Lucy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And they had a lot of rules then that there was a. It was called the Hays Code. He was the president of the motion pictures producers and he came up with what you could and couldn't do in film and television. Some of these are pretty funny.

[Aaron Weber]

It was just a guy named Hayes and this was his code.

[Brian Bates]

Will Hayes. He was president the motion pictures producers and Distributors of America. He was a church elder and they felt like he had a good moral compass. So he came up with these roles, you know, in livelihood. Lucy are obviously married. In real life, married. On the show, they sleep in separate beds. They couldn't say pregnant.

[Aaron Weber]

They couldn't say the word pregnant.

[Brian Bates]

They had to say with child or expecting.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Bond in the oven. They had to get creative.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm pretty sure that's not gonna.

[Leanne Morgan]

There were a lot of sitcoms where people slept in. Twin Bendyke Show. Yeah. Dick Van Dyke Show.

[Aaron Weber]

And that was because of the hayscope. They couldn't share a bed. Wow.

[Leanne Morgan]

Last year, a band with Tim Daley.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. With your sister. With your. With Kristen.

[Leanne Morgan]

She's getting me through a hard time.

[Nate Bargatze]

And your mom in one of the episodes. All three of you. But Tim Daly, man, he's a good looking guy, huh?

[Leanne Morgan]

Huh?

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah, he was beautiful.

[Leanne Morgan]

He was all of our boyfriend on the set. We just all stared at little Tim Daly and he was darling.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, he's really good in it. I'm a fan.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, wonderful.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Wings.

[Leanne Morgan]

Madam Secretary.

[Nate Bargatze]

Secretary, yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

The Practice. Tess watched that. She loves a good medical.

[Nate Bargatze]

The Practice was after Grey's Anatomy. Same producer, right? Or is that what that.

[Leanne Morgan]

Shonda Rom. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So here's some of the don'ts. No profanity and they list it stuff nowadays you wouldn't even think about being profanity. No ridicule of the clergy.

[Aaron Weber]

Ridicule of the clergy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Some be careful, as was the use of the flag. Make sure it's, you know, displayed properly and not disrespecting it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Any theft, robbery, safe cracking or dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, et cetera, make sure it's not too detailed. Description of these may have upon a. Basically saying, make sure you don't go too detailed or some dumb dumb will try to do it.

[Nate Bargatze]

That would be a single cam if you're doing a train robbery.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay. Sure.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's going to be hard to put it a train rivalry on a soundstage.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. With an audience.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I Love Lucy was one of the first Audience shows filmed in front of a live studio audience. The Honeymooners was another big one. It's funny because the 50s, all live studio audience. The 60s, it goes to single cam. Andy Griffith show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Nobody complains about that laugh track. But that is a. Yes, serious laugh track. A single cam with a laugh track. I Dream of Genie.

[Aaron Weber]

I never thought about that. So is it just fake laughter? Did they just have a crowd? Watch the.

[Brian Bates]

No, I think it's just canned laughter.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a good show, though.

[Leanne Morgan]

That was a good show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Andy Griffith. Yeah, it's great.

[Leanne Morgan]

I just met Goober's mama in a airport and she was precious.

[Brian Bates]

You met Goober's mama's still alive. Goobers.

[Leanne Morgan]

I mean, y', all. I'm crazy. I'm tired. Gomer Goombers daughter.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

And she said, my dad would have loved you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

And that meant the world to me.

[Aaron Weber]

George Lindsay's daughter.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yes. And you know, he died. He was here in Nashville at the end of his life.

[Aaron Weber]

George Lindsay was my great grandmother's first cousin.

[Nate Bargatze]

No way.

[Aaron Weber]

I met him once at a Goober. Yeah. I met him at a wedding in Gaston, Alabama, one time.

[Brian Bates]

How about that?

[Aaron Weber]

If this is the right guy, I know there's Goober and Gomer. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm pretty sure this. I'm pretty sure he's from.

[Leanne Morgan]

He was from Alabama.

[Nate Bargatze]

I always thought, you know, honestly, for your age, you're awful good at stand up. Awful good at stand up for how young you are. But you're royalty. But I mean, it's in your jeans.

[Aaron Weber]

You know, every.

[Nate Bargatze]

You come from Goober.

[Aaron Weber]

I feel like everybody has somebody in their family. Oh, we're related to him, but we didn't hang out with him.

[Nate Bargatze]

I knew you had something.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that makes sense now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Well, just know his people have done well.

[Aaron Weber]

All right. Amazing. Good to know.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, the three of us grew up in the 80s. What was your favorite sitcom growing up?

[Leanne Morgan]

Give me some examples of what went on in the 80s, so I'll remember.

[Brian Bates]

Well, let's see.

[Nate Bargatze]

Give me a break.

[Brian Bates]

Give me a break. Facts alive.

[Leanne Morgan]

I love Facts of Life.

[Nate Bargatze]

My favorite was Barney Miller probably okay.

[Brian Bates]

Seventies into maybe a little eighties in the eighties.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I think news radio was that. More nineties. I love news radio. I thought was news radio is awful good, man.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, there they are. Okay. Murphy Brown. Oh, I didn't have a lick of sense over Murphy Brown. Cheers was cheers was that 90s cheers.

[Nate Bargatze]

And cheers is great.

[Leanne Morgan]

Wonderful. The Golden Girls.

[Aaron Weber]

Charles in charge.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's Scott Baio. Yeah, yeah. And what's her name?

[Aaron Weber]

Cosby show, unfortunately. Such a great show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Seinfeld. Was seinfeld in the 80s or early 90s, I think. Late 80s.

[Aaron Weber]

It start 89. So technically 80s.

[Nate Bargatze]

But coach was a definite. Coach was a 80s. And I enjoyed coach.

[Leanne Morgan]

I loved it too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Major dad. 227. That was Jack A. Jack A. Jack A. Was 227. Yeah, they were, yeah. Oh, I. Well, Sanford and son was more 70s. 70s. And that. Man, that, that show is hilarious. It's.

[Brian Bates]

In some ways it doesn't hold up because of some of the stuff they say, but other ways it does hold up because Red Fox's timing is an.

[Nate Bargatze]

On Esther. On Esther. Yes, on Esther. I still. My favorite episode of television was Fred and Grady and those guys, they wind up in jail, okay. And Lamont, the three of them are in jail and they got a call on Esther to get him out. You know, she's the only one that get them out. And she makes them read scripture before they get out. And they had given them. They'd given him a sack lunch in jail. Yeah. And the sack lunch had a, A Tootsie Pop in there, you know, lollipop or whatever. And so they were eating their Tootsie Pops and Fred, Aunt Esther was giving it to him, you know, and. And Fred said something that she didn't like. She said, you better keep sucking on that sucker. Sucker.

[Brian Bates]

They were all stand ups.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Page was a stand up. And Luanda Page, he's. They're. They're from St. Louis. They're from where? East St. Louis. Him and Luana Page. And he knew he could give it to her hard and she could take it. And they told her, they told her like they wanted to get rid of her first season. They were like this thing where he said, well, then we're not gonna have a sitcom because they cast somebody else in there. And he was like, well, because they wanted an actor instead of a comic. Yeah. And Fred said, no, either she stays or I stay. I mean, if you look at pictures of lawanda Page when she was like, young, she's stunning, man. She's like, you know, you know, the whole thing is she's on Esther and, you know, we go, we gonna take your face and put it in a cookie dough, have gorilla cookies, you know. Yeah. It was one of our first early bits, by the way, was a Red Fox impression. Let me, let me give you guys.

[Aaron Weber]

Was it really?

[Nate Bargatze]

Let me give you guys this.

[Aaron Weber]

Is this on bet?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, no, this was a little Bit early before that. This. None of the. This, this bit I can't believe didn't go viral.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe it will now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, here we go. But this is some real thinking. I don't know if you guys know back in the day, there was a lot of red beers in the 90s. Do you remember that? Like Red Stripe. That's. That was beforehand, but it was like Red Lager. There was Red Zappa Ale. Yeah, a lot of it was all this red stuff. Adrian. Yeah, it was red beers. I can't remember. There's like 10 of them. And I said, this is, this is a stand up comic thinking right here. I said again, I was a young comic. I said, they ought to have a Red Fox beer. And then I'd go right into my Red Fox impression. Right into it. Aaron. I do it, I go. And I'd be like, lamont, go in the kitchen and get me a Red Fox beer. And yeah, that was the bit. And I can't believe it didn't take off. I mean, that's.

[Aaron Weber]

Bring it back.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You probably weren't a good enough comic there, but now you off.

[Nate Bargatze]

Red Dog was a popular beer. I think I just didn't set the stage right for you guys. Yeah, Red Dog, I loved it. Yeah. I mean, and I went right into that impression. Yeah, just right. Go in the kitchen, son. Give me a Red Fox beer. You see, See what I'm doing?

[Brian Bates]

I.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you understand? Yeah, it's the, it's the red beer juxtaposed with his name is Red Fox.

[Aaron Weber]

High level stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah. It's a pretty good stuff.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it's a classic. Yeah, those are. They were all great. Do you have any other stand up comics in your show?

[Nate Bargatze]

Blake Clark.

[Leanne Morgan]

Blake Clark.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. I didn't know he did stand up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, man.

[Leanne Morgan]

Hannah that plays my daughter has opened for Paul F. Tompkins.

[Nate Bargatze]

Some.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, wow, that's cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a great stand up comic book. Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, I love him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

I wouldn't let me. I'm trying to think of his guest starred. No, all comedic actors.

[Nate Bargatze]

There's some guest stars. There are some great guest stars. I mean, insanely good. The guy that plays Pastor Tom, I think his name is Jay Ferguson. He was. He was. Had a big role in Mad Men. That guy, Wonderful, unbelievably good actor. I mean, I know.

[Leanne Morgan]

And then Jack McBrayer.

[Nate Bargatze]

Jack McBrayer was. That episode was great. I think one of my favorite Jama Mays.

[Leanne Morgan]

Little redhead.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Neighbor.

[Nate Bargatze]

The neighbor. She's not The Mary.

[Leanne Morgan]

Mary.

[Nate Bargatze]

Mary is. She's great, man.

[Leanne Morgan]

I know.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's so funny because she and she. I mean, I saw the. I was there for an episode and watched. She's very pretty too. Yeah. Yeah, very. But they kind of play her real goofy or whatever, but. Yeah. And her voice is that. It is. That's a really good role. My favorite thing, one of my favorite things is when they had that episode, I bet it was hard to film, but they had Blake and the woman who plays your mom kind of talking over each other like it was like they did that. That gag was hilarious.

[Leanne Morgan]

Hilarious.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I bet it was really tough to get, but I thought that was really funny.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah. I can't even remember. But are they not wonderful, though?

[Nate Bargatze]

Unbelievable.

[Leanne Morgan]

They have. There's a scene where they talk over each other and you know, my. My little mom and daddy will talk to me at the same time. You don't know what they're saying. And then at the end, Celia goes. I hate that Daniel Day Lewis retired. Like it makes no sense.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

They are wonderful in it.

[Brian Bates]

I see so many. I know it's not based on your life, but I see so many things I know you put in because it is something related to your life. I mean, he said they wanted it.

[Leanne Morgan]

To come from my stand up. You know, from my stand up. But not based on my real life.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, even your ex husband saying, I'll be over in Clarksville. And I assume maybe you chose that because you're.

[Leanne Morgan]

Your sister lives that. You know, Susan McMartin, the showrunner came to see me in Clarksville at that arena and she put that in.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. There's a lot of little leanisms in there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah. We just. When you just say. Because the way you talk about your mama and daddy, it's the same. It's the same. It is. Yeah. That.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

That's join DeleteMe.com nate code nate. Anybody want to guess the longest running sitcom of all time?

[Nate Bargatze]

Simpsons?

[Brian Bates]

You are correct. The longest. Not animated sitcom. Still going right now.

[Aaron Weber]

Snl?

[Nate Bargatze]

Not.

[Brian Bates]

No, actually.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, I mean, if the Simpsons is a sitcom, then what does that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think the Simpsons is more of a sitcom than.

[Aaron Weber]

What does that even mean, though?

[Brian Bates]

I thought we were talking about situation comedy. That Simpsons count for that?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Snl.

[Aaron Weber]

What is not. What's a comedy? That's not a sitcom.

[Nate Bargatze]

Then what.

[Brian Bates]

What's snl?

[Nate Bargatze]

What snl?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know if I understand what a sitcom is if we're. If we include the Simpsons.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, the. The. The SNL is a sketch show. It's a variety show. It doesn't have a through line through it where the Simpsons has an episode. It has an episode of tv.

[Brian Bates]

There's a situation going on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. What is.

[Aaron Weber]

A ton of situations, dude.

[Nate Bargatze]

What is the one, though, that I'm thinking of? That's. It's still on. You're sure?

[Brian Bates]

I think it's still.

[Aaron Weber]

It's always Sunny in Philadelphia. Yeah, but how is that. There's not an audience in that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, that's a multi cam.

[Brian Bates]

It's a single cam.

[Nate Bargatze]

Single camera.

[Leanne Morgan]

What? Sunny.

[Brian Bates]

It's always sunny in Philadelphia.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I've never watched. Everyone says it's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's got Danny DeVito in it. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

It's been on 16 seasons.

[Leanne Morgan]

16. Where. Where is it? Where do you watch?

[Nate Bargatze]

This is.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, my gosh.

[Nate Bargatze]

This is where she's gonna get competitive, man.

[Aaron Weber]

She's not going for 17 if we.

[Nate Bargatze]

Don'T get 17 seasons, you know? Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

I can't get competitive.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

But I do. I do hope we go another season. I was going to say one of them that. I love the Jeffersons.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All those Norman Lear shows were great on the family. Good times.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do you know the. That. You know Florence, the sort of wise Kraken maid on the Jeffersons?

[Brian Bates]

She's still alive.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is she really? She was on 227 too. But there's an old Bill Hicks bit. I don't even know if he did it as a bit. I started doing stand up with a lot of the guys that knew him, and he would say he. I Think he was just a bit around the green room was because she would be like, Mr. Jefferson. You know, like. And he would be like, yeah, Florence, I need, ah, Mr. Jefferson. He goes, well, then you're fired. You're fired. Well then you're fired. You're fired. Florence, you're fired.

[Brian Bates]

I looked up some of the.

[Aaron Weber]

I was worried about Marla Gibbs now that Brian talked about her.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I have a tendency of killing off 98 year old people and getting blamed for it.

[Aaron Weber]

She's only 94, dude.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Okay. Excuse me. Marley Gibbs and Fred Sanford's girlfriend Donna just passed away like two weeks ago.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I'm not so sure. She might have been the person that they wanted to play on Esther. Yeah. Actually, I'm not sure about that. She was very attractive too.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I love the Jeffersons. Do you think that's the best theme song of any sitcom?

[Leanne Morgan]

That was a good one.

[Brian Bates]

What would you say?

[Aaron Weber]

I think Golden Girls has a better one. The Golden Girls.

[Leanne Morgan]

Golden Girls has a good one.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, Gilmore Girls has a good theme song.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dude. Is it. It's. I mean, give me a break. Was pretty good too.

[Aaron Weber]

If you lead, I will follow. Carol King.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, really? That's a guy. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What about Happy Days?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, Monday.

[Brian Bates]

Something.

[Aaron Weber]

I never really watch Happy Days. That's Opie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Fron. Howard.

[Nate Bargatze]

Howard.

[Brian Bates]

It's a weird way to say it.

[Nate Bargatze]

But yeah, among others.

[Brian Bates]

Richie Cunningham.

[Aaron Weber]

We saw. We were in Milk Milwaukee a couple weeks ago and we saw they have a. The bronze fawns.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, really?

[Aaron Weber]

It's just a bronze statue of Fonzie.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's great.

[Aaron Weber]

I think it's life size. And he is so much shorter than.

[Brian Bates]

You think he's going to be Henry Winkler.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, because he. He's just big. Kind of commanding presence.

[Nate Bargatze]

Very cool, man. Hey.

[Aaron Weber]

And then you see him and he's like four.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think that was a little more Dice Clay. I think. I think that that was Andrew Dice Clay that you were doing there. That's not. That's not Arthur Fonzarelli, man. It's not. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Nate Bargatze]

That was terrible, man.

[Brian Bates]

I'm gonna throw out a few more things.

[Aaron Weber]

Better than your red.

[Nate Bargatze]

What are you talking about? It was dead on. I want to make the point that I went right into the impression after the joke. I don't think you get the joke. It's very. It's high level.

[Brian Bates]

I'm do a few more theme songs and Greg, you sing them for us. Okay. I like this Andy Griffith show.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, my goodness.

[Brian Bates]

That's great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Unbelievable.

[Brian Bates]

It's for a chair.

[Nate Bargatze]

You were.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean, you should have done do that on stage. That's unbelievable, dude. Okay, tell me now you lost it. Starring Andy Griffith. Ron Howard. The Andy Griffith Show.

[Brian Bates]

That's incredible.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's filmed in front of a live studio audience. You would have gotten a huge applause.

[Nate Bargatze]

You think so?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I was first chair clarinet as a sophomore. Like, it's not a. It's. Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

What have you not done? Well, so talented.

[Nate Bargatze]

I didn't have a sitcom with my name on it yet.

[Leanne Morgan]

I would say yet.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did I tell you guys a story about that?

[Aaron Weber]

What would you. What would the sitcom of your life be, Greg? I know you've thought about it. Oh, if there was just a show called.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sure. There's a horrible, like, treatment somewhere. Like, that was, like, so obvious and terrible. I do remember. Yeah, yeah. The Warner portion. Yeah, I did one time. There's this guy, Ron Ramey. Ron's not with us anymore. He's a comic, and he would just kill. And he decided when he was just hanging out, he was the headliner. He's like. It was like an off night in St. Louis, and he's like, I'm gonna host this. I'm gonna host. So he hosts. And Ron liked to embellish a lot of stuff. And he hosts, and he brings me up like, it's all lies. It's all. It's like. And this dude, he is. This brother is killing it. He has got all kinds of things going on. He's got an HBO special. I just did three Tonight Shows, and he has his own sitcom coming out next fall on abc. So I go up. I go up. None of this is true. None of this is even close to being true. Okay, So I go up, up, and I have a good set or whatever. And there was a St. Louis funny bone, and there was a club next door, and I was a little younger back then, and I met a girl, and there was a dance floor. And we were on the dance floor together, and I forgot everything. I forgot everything. We were dancing, and she goes, what's the name of the sitcom? And I go, warren. That's all I could come up with.

[Brian Bates]

Good answer.

[Nate Bargatze]

I said. I said. I was like. I was about to say, well, you know, he was kind of embellishing. And then she was really pretty, and I was like, warren.

[Brian Bates]

She'S still watching for that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, she is.

[Brian Bates]

I swear. It's coming out. It will this fall. I'm not gonna ask you singing more, because you can't top that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't Think? I don't think so.

[Brian Bates]

I will mention a few great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do a Red Fox, the Greatest American Hero.

[Brian Bates]

You remember the show didn't last long, but the theme song, Believe it or Not.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Walking on Air.

[Leanne Morgan]

What year was that?

[Brian Bates]

It was early 80s.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That was immortalized and signed Believe it or Not. I know that as George's answering machine. Could it be Believe it or Not?

[Nate Bargatze]

It's just George. That's great, man.

[Brian Bates]

Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, darling, that was wonderful.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, Leanne, here's some sitcom terms. I want you to explain some of these to us.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, Lord.

[Leanne Morgan]

Brian.

[Brian Bates]

Okay, let's move on.

[Leanne Morgan]

Well, you can try. Try. Greg can help me.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

I kind of missed.

[Leanne Morgan]

I may have to call in a line with Judy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Okay.

[Brian Bates]

Let'S start with the easy one. Cold open.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, that's the first scene of the.

[Brian Bates]

Episode before the credits. I mean, that's credit the open rules.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian, you and I know a lot about cold opens.

[Nate Bargatze]

Come on.

[Brian Bates]

It's called the warm up act.

[Nate Bargatze]

Ice cold and they're still cold at the end. Leave them cold.

[Aaron Weber]

That's what we like to do.

[Brian Bates]

I miss a good theme song from a sitcom. And nowadays, you know, it's just get, get to it.

[Leanne Morgan]

Get to it. They said you got to get to it. Yeah, people turn it off.

[Brian Bates]

When I worked in TV news, they used to roll credits after the news of people there. And my mom would love to see my name on there. And then they cut that out because they're like, we need every second for everything. Just wibble it down, you know, so. But I like a good theme, but like you said, it gets stuck in your head. Leanne, that little flower comes down.

[Nate Bargatze]

Aaron did it pretty well.

[Leanne Morgan]

I love the flower. I thought that was sweaty.

[Brian Bates]

Did I just watch episode where y' all watching the Vols game? Did. Was there any restrictions on. Do you know what y' all could wear?

[Leanne Morgan]

No, I don't think so. And the. And the University of Tennessee got us footage.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I saw that against UConn.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah. So, yeah, they. Yeah, they've been wonderful to me about all that. And, you know, I'm of all for life.

[Brian Bates]

Three act structure. This says the common format for sitcom is consistent of a setup, which is Act 1, a rising action and compilation complication, Act 2 and resolution in Act 3.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, that makes sense.

[Aaron Weber]

Are these the beats of storytelling or a lot of this was a lot of this because of commercial breaks.

[Brian Bates]

I think even in movies, there's basically three acts.

[Aaron Weber]

I know we're talking about the structure of A cold open. All of that. How much of that has just been grandfathered in? Because we used to have to worry about commercial.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think now you can just do whatever.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Nowadays, I mean, it's not. It's been a while sitcoms just on tv just roll from one. Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

And the other.

[Brian Bates]

They don't give you a chance to go to commercial and turn away. But.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, that's. I mean, I've been talking about all day, so I can't remember what I said on this episode. But I.

[Brian Bates]

We'll tell you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Remembers everything.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Steel trap.

[Nate Bargatze]

That joke a couple of weeks ago.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, pretty good face. You should do Brian Bates has a Beer. And then you should do the whole bit about him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Brian Bates light, actually in episode 14 referenced being in the band.

[Brian Bates]

That's funny at all.

[Nate Bargatze]

Didn't find it funny then.

[Brian Bates]

I don't.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm liking the way this is going.

[Brian Bates]

I don't appreciate you laughing at Lee. Must be my friend.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, but I think there's something about those. They just. It just all. It rolls all into. I mean, I watched. I knocked off like five episodes yesterday. Yeah. And it's. It's. It's just.

[Leanne Morgan]

I know. That is helpful.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It's great. I think. I think it's. That's why I think you're. This thing's going to be a hit because you just. You just watch the whole. You know, the whole thing. It's awesome.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank you, my darling.

[Brian Bates]

A button. A joke at the very end of a scene, often delivering a final punch line before a cut or commercial break. I guess that's a little dated commercial break, but.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah. I don't remember hearing the button.

[Nate Bargatze]

You've got several of them. For instance, a button would be at the end of the Red Fox joke. When I do that, when I go into the impression for a third time, it's. That's sort of the button.

[Brian Bates]

Did you feel like you became a better actress as the show went on? Like, better at episode 16 than you were at one?

[Leanne Morgan]

Yes. I mean, I was just so nervous in the first. I want people to. And everybody says I did fine. But I do feel like I got better. Cause, you know, I was learning a whole new thing. I mean, it was a lot, but, you know, by 16 episodes and Jerry Seinfeld said, you will feel like you are stepping into your own home, Lynn. And it will feel like it'll feel natural to you. And I thought, no, but it did.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

It ended up feeling that way. And I feel. Yeah. I do hope that People continue to watch it because I do feel like I get better and I know what's. You know, how to even. It even works.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Do you feel it come out in your stand up now, since you filmed it? Like, do you do anything differently in your act?

[Leanne Morgan]

I might probably, like, emote a little more.

[Aaron Weber]

I ask because I've 100% seen that in Nate since he filmed the movie.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Just on the road. Everything, like, visually, even little small things. And I think that's just from acting. It's like. So I was just curious.

[Nate Bargatze]

That closing bit, he's doing some majorly.

[Aaron Weber]

Even if it's just little stuff that.

[Nate Bargatze]

He was never doing. Crazy pauses too. And he wasn't afraid to take pauses anyway. But yeah, you always did sort of act within your stand up. Yeah. More than most people.

[Aaron Weber]

You're already very facially expressive.

[Nate Bargatze]

You do those things. Yeah. That's those lianisms that I think that's probably part of why they wanted you to do a sitcom early on. Why show business was like, that's, you know.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Because you've had development deals over the years, haven't you?

[Leanne Morgan]

This one would have been my fifth, I think. But I say that one probably wasn't even. You couldn't even call it one. So say four. Sony, ABC and Warner Brothers was the first one. And then Nick at Night with Matt Williams was the second one. That created Roseanne and Home Improvement and then Sony and then this one. But this one, I mean, Chuck Lorre said, I want to do. We went into that Netflix meeting and I mean, they basically said, what do y' all want to do? We'll do it. You know, they were. Yeah. And it went quick and fast. And the other ones, you know, would take, you know, two years and things would be slow. Even though Matt Williams was wonderful. I mean, everybody I've ever dealt with has been wonderful. But. But something about Chuck Lorre. Everybody wants to be in business with him. Netflix was in business with me, too. They've been good to me. And so it went quick. And it was like, all of a sudden, I'm renting a house and I'm living in Studio City and it's going, how long from.

[Aaron Weber]

We're gonna make. Let's make a show together till the show debuts. What's the timetable there?

[Leanne Morgan]

What was that? Judy basically said, yes, in January of last year.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Leanne Morgan]

And we were shooting as of October that same year.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Leanne Morgan]

From January to October.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And then it premiered July of this year. Wow.

[Leanne Morgan]

And I don't know, maybe they wanted me to go earlier, I don't know, but I was touring. But maybe he was doing another show or something and they had to write all 16.

[Brian Bates]

That's so many, too. I mean, nowadays, so many sitcoms, eight episodes is a season 16.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I know.

[Aaron Weber]

It's awesome.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank you. It's amazing.

[Brian Bates]

This past weekend was the first time out since the show's premiered. Last time on the road, did you talk about a lot in your act or people?

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, I've been saying stuff before it came out. I've been telling people about it, and they've been putting. Running the trailer behind me before I go on saying, yeah. And then. And I've been talking a little bit about it. And then this weekend, I mean, you could just tell people watched it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, that's great.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, that's great. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Here's some spin offs that didn't go so well. There's some good. Frazier is probably the best spin off.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Most people don't even know that's a spin off. That's how crazy successful it was.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right. Frazier came from Cheers. That's right. Mork and Mindy had to be a big. One of the best spin offs, right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Happy Days. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Robin Williams. That's where he started. But Happy Days also had Joanie Loves Chachi.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Do you remember that?

[Nate Bargatze]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, is that him?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, Andrew Dice Clay did not have.

[Brian Bates]

A. Oh, but there's a scene.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm gonna stop you right there.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah, I won't finish that one.

[Brian Bates]

Joanie was Richie's sister.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

She fell in love with Chachi. Then they had their Aaron. Michael, Aaron Moriarty, something like that. You've seen Dodgeball?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, sure.

[Brian Bates]

There's a scene, like a little boyfriend, girlfriend scene in it. And then Ben Stiller nails him with a dodgebot and he goes, joni loves Chachi.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I have heard that. I know exactly what you're talking about.

[Nate Bargatze]

It was Scott Baio.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, Scott Baio.

[Aaron Weber]

You know how many references I've missed? Like that?

[Nate Bargatze]

The Fonz had his, you know, characteristic. Yeah. And. But you know what they tried to have Scott Baio say when he was the Fonz's little nephew.

[Brian Bates]

Nephew.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you know what he said?

[Aaron Weber]

Whoa. Like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just to be clear, Joanie Loves Chachi was not an animated show. It was.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron has no respect for 80 sitcoms.

[Nate Bargatze]

He said. He said, wah, wah, wah. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

That's less.

[Brian Bates]

I remember that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it was. It felt like they were reaching a little bit like that. We gotta get. We gotta get his version of of.

[Aaron Weber]

Hey, you can't force a catchphrase, dude. It's gotta click.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I've tried so many different strokes.

[Leanne Morgan]

Remember those little boys in Different Strokes?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Gary Coleman.

[Aaron Weber]

He said, you're killing me, Smalls. What do you say?

[Nate Bargatze]

What?

[Brian Bates]

You're talking about Willis. And then they did Webster. I mean, it's. It's amazing how in the 80s, at least, they would just not even try to hide they're doing the same format.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They just, you know, we didn't know any better.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Brian Bates]

Right after mash, Matt, that finale of mash, as Aaron puts out every week, was the most viewed show in the history of the world. It was the most viewed at that time. The most watched show. I think it's still the most in America besides Super Bowl.

[Aaron Weber]

More than the moon landing. Is that right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I doubt that's true, but okay, I watched.

[Aaron Weber]

It sounded right.

[Nate Bargatze]

With my parents in their bedroom. I watched it. I watched the MASH finale.

[Aaron Weber]

It was that big of a show.

[Nate Bargatze]

I remember it. Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So it must have.

[Nate Bargatze]

It.

[Aaron Weber]

It didn't trail off. The show was still a huge hit when they ended it. It wasn't like the show wasn't getting canceled.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know. I mean, but I mean, the thing. Even if it wasn't a hit and it was, but like, there's only three stations. Like, you know, like, it was. It was huge. I remember they made a point of like, you need to. It was up late and you can come in here and watch because this is history. But. And all I remember was Alan. All the Kissed Hot Lips, Loretta, Swit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Recently, Right? Yep.

[Brian Bates]

I didn't do it. I did not do it. But they had a spin off show after mash and it lasted just a few episodes. And they're like, this ain't gonna work. Where they come back to the States and, you know, it was like three of the people in it.

[Aaron Weber]

Joey on there. The Joey one.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

Joey lasted a few seasons.

[Aaron Weber]

Did it really?

[Nate Bargatze]

Didn't hate Joey. Oh, wow.

[Brian Bates]

Did it?

[Aaron Weber]

Everybody hated.

[Nate Bargatze]

I did not hate Joey.

[Leanne Morgan]

Joey. What did Joey come from?

[Aaron Weber]

Friends.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

They did a show with just him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Oh, it was him. And maybe. Oh, the lady from Sopranos.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Three's Company had two spin offs. The Ropers.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Which I love the Ropers on Three's Company didn't love the show right after that. And then after the Three's Company ended, Three's a crowd. When Jack's married and living with his wife.

[Nate Bargatze]

And man, I don't remember that. Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Wasn't that, like, a scandalous show when it came out?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Considered like crazy that it was on tv.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

What was the plot of it? Just a dude living with two women, but very sexual. Okay, okay.

[Leanne Morgan]

Wasn't it a lot of innuendo?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. He's pretending to be gay. Whoa. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Okay.

[Leanne Morgan]

And Suzanne Summers didn't have on a bra.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. Because fertily. Don Knotts, who was before Mr. Roper.

[Aaron Weber]

Don Knotts. Barney. FY.

[Brian Bates]

He was after the Ropers.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're right. You're right. Who. So Mr. Roper. That was the landlord, and he didn't want any of that, you know, tomfoolery, that kind of thing going on. So as long as Jack was gay, it wasn't going on.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, okay.

[Nate Bargatze]

And. And, yeah. And Roper, they. They. Mostly, for the most part, they pulled the wool over his eyes. Okay. But he was a little suspicious every now, and that's fun. Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

But it was kind of racy. You know, they talk and.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Wasn't he wonderful in it?

[Brian Bates]

John Ritter.

[Leanne Morgan]

John Ritter was wonderful.

[Brian Bates]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Unbelievable. I met Larry.

[Brian Bates]

You did?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Larry was like the. The dirt bag neighbor. That was Richard Klein. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Richard.

[Nate Bargatze]

No. Was it? No, Richard Klein is. Richard Klein is Robert Klein.

[Aaron Weber]

He was Larry Dallas and Three's Company.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I met Larry one time. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, yeah, he was great.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, he was. He was, like, a little bit lascivious with the. With the two girls, you know, Couldn't think of another word.

[Brian Bates]

I don't even know what that means.

[Nate Bargatze]

That too much? Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I love it.

[Brian Bates]

That was the ultimate show, though. It gets kind of made fun of now. And you rewatch it every episode was some misunderstanding.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That would so easily get resolved if you just ask somebody.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dramatic irony, I believe. Is that the device? It's the Sophoclean irony. Sophocle. Yes. It's when the audience knows what's going on. Right. But the people in the production do not. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's frustrating. It frustrates me.

[Brian Bates]

It is. It frustrates me, too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I'm like, just. It's easy. Just tell them the truth. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Some cultural moments in sitcoms. Ellen coming out.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That was, like, national news when that episode aired. Murphy Brown, Dan Quell criticized her for having a character, you know, raising a child by herself.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And it was a big, big deal. And then I think she addressed it on the show.

[Aaron Weber]

Corey and Topanga get married. Is that on there?

[Brian Bates]

I don't know what that's a big one.

[Aaron Weber]

Anyway.

[Leanne Morgan]

What year were you born?

[Aaron Weber]

91.

[Nate Bargatze]

I could have Boy Meets World, buddy. It's Boy Meets World.

[Leanne Morgan]

I had my first baby in 93.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow. 93.

[Leanne Morgan]

Charlie Morgan. He'll be 32 in August.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, man.

[Leanne Morgan]

He's got my babies, my two grandbabies.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So as we wrap up, Leah, what advice would you give us if we want to start our own sitcom.

[Aaron Weber]

Become massively successful?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

If I want. Check.

[Leanne Morgan]

Lori, would you want to do one? Brian Bates, have you ever had that dream? There's a lot of people don't. Don't have that dream, but I did.

[Aaron Weber]

Your show is like your show and like your stand up.

[Nate Bargatze]

It.

[Aaron Weber]

It feels like a hug, like you're being hugged by it. Brian's show would have a much different energy. Yeah, you'd feel like somebody's holding you down.

[Nate Bargatze]

This isn't a good pitch. This isn't. It's not a good pitch if we're pitching right now. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Is this about elevator pitch?

[Nate Bargatze]

It'd be. It'd be a dark. It'd be a dark comedy. It have to.

[Brian Bates]

Well, that's a. Of what's in right now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Too much so. Really? That's why your show's so refreshing.

[Aaron Weber]

I agree.

[Brian Bates]

Like Greg says, everything's so dark now.

[Leanne Morgan]

That's what people are saying. I can't get over Yalls high school pictures. I know. I keep looking and they're precious. All of y', all, did you ever have the dream? Cause when I started standup 25 years ago, I remember saying I wanted to be a stand up because to me, Ray Romano, Seinfeld, all that meant the world to me. Did y' all ever have that desire.

[Nate Bargatze]

To have a sitcom?

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, because a lot of people don't and don't want to do that, but I did from the time I was little.

[Nate Bargatze]

I mean, I think I definitely did when it. When I knew it would make you a bigger stand up or whatever. But I.

[Aaron Weber]

But stand up's always been the first thing for you.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know. I don't. Sometimes I don't think strategically I'm a little more tactical.

[Leanne Morgan]

What's the next thing Jerry Seinfeld said to me? Leanne? I did. He goes, I didn't. I honestly did not like sitcoms and did not want to do one, but I thought maybe it'll help me sell tickets and a club. And then he busted out laughing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

But he said he really didn't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow. Yeah, that's.

[Leanne Morgan]

But I, you know, I would say Bill Cosby, Roseanne, all that. And I thought that's got to be the height.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right?

[Leanne Morgan]

That's the boom. I'm going big.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

If I'm doing this, I'm going big.

[Nate Bargatze]

Right.

[Leanne Morgan]

And of course I'd like to do movies.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, we already done them with Reese Witherspoon. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Will Ferrell.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I thought Bob Newhart was. I love Bob Newhart. Yeah. I loved his standup and I. I love his. I love two of the shows. They're both great.

[Brian Bates]

Best series finale ever.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

H. Okay. No, I don't.

[Leanne Morgan]

I don't think Nate dead. Didn't he. Because he's had development deals. He didn't want to think.

[Nate Bargatze]

So.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. For sure. He wanted. I think he really. He grew up on Everybody Loves Raymond and those types of Seinfeld and Seinfeld, of course. But as far as his family, I think he wanted a family type show like Everybody Loves Raymond.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

All right, well, we gotta wrap it up here, guys. I forgot to mention, I should have did this at the start of the podcast. Some little Nateland news here. Nateland presents the showcase. Season three is here this Friday. Tune into the Natland YouTube channel for the premiere of Trish. Sir.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah, that's your friend.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, she's doing. She's great. Oh. Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

She's got a stand up set for. For Nateland.

[Brian Bates]

I hosted that episode and she killed. She did great.

[Leanne Morgan]

She's wonderful.

[Brian Bates]

Her episode debuts this Friday.

[Leanne Morgan]

Oh, wonderful. She was. I just saw her yesterday.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

In Thousand Oaks.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And don't forget Dusty's Netflix special, Wet Heat.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's so outstanding.

[Brian Bates]

It is so great. It's so great. Just premiere. Check it out. What Heat. Dusty's killing it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, man, it's really.

[Leanne Morgan]

Where is he today? Y'? All don't know he's missing?

[Aaron Weber]

I don't know, you know, hardly trying to track him.

[Leanne Morgan]

Is he farming? Is he foreman?

[Aaron Weber]

He's probably in the sun somewhere.

[Brian Bates]

He's grounding somewhere.

[Aaron Weber]

But big week for Netflix and the greater Nateland universe, I would say.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

So very fun. It's been fun to watch.

[Brian Bates]

All right, so this week, let me think. Oh, August 17th, I'm at levity Live in Huntsville, Alabama.

[Aaron Weber]

Prices just got lower there.

[Brian Bates]

On my tickets?

[Aaron Weber]

No, on the food and beverage.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, right, Right, right. And 6pm Show. So if you got worker school or whatever, you'll be home before dark. August 31st, it's my birthday. Zany's in Chicago. Last week. I said that was 6pm show. It's actually a 4pm show, so 16 and up. So come on out tonight. When? September 5th, Commonwealth Comedy Club in Cincinnati. September 7th, Helium in Indianapolis.

[Leanne Morgan]

Wonderful.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's great. Great room. Yep. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So you seem so surprising. We don't all have Judy Marlowe as a manager, but some of us are doing okay.

[Leanne Morgan]

No, I was sitting here. I was just in Fisher's, Indiana, and I was. But I stayed in Indianapolis in that Helium. I saw that Helium Club.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're gonna be there.

[Brian Bates]

It's right downtown.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Yep, yep. Where are you going to be?

[Leanne Morgan]

I'm going to be touring through November. A lot of places. Liam morgan.com. but I'm going to be at the W. The next place I'm going to be is the three shows at the WN in Las Vegas and then Rome, Georgia, Asheville, Corbin, Kentucky, Dallas, Shreveport, Boston, bunch of places. We're going to be doing a lot in August, September and October. And then my Netflix special, the new one will drop in the fall, so I'm touring until that drops. Little Rock, Arkansas, Shreveport.

[Brian Bates]

You got any more shows with Greg?

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm going to be on a lot of those that she just.

[Brian Bates]

Nice, nice.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dallas, Little Rock, Asheville.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, that's awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

Rome.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah. I'm going to be in Boston for the first time.

[Brian Bates]

How about that?

[Leanne Morgan]

I know when I'm doing like three shows.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Leanne Morgan]

@ the Wang.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Leanne Morgan]

I know. I've never gotten to be up there, so I'm tickled over that. In New Brunswick, New Jersey.

[Brian Bates]

I did a show with Leanne one time. I don't know if I should say where, Where. But. But the place. We did two shows and the second show they came in and. And said, we can start early because everybody's here. And you said, well, but there's nobody else might maybe come on off the street. They're like, no, we're pretty sure we're good to go. We started the show early. Do you remember that?

[Leanne Morgan]

No. Where were we?

[Brian Bates]

Albany, New York, at the. I guess. Oh, in the mall, huh?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Leanne Morgan]

Was that right before Big Panty tour?

[Brian Bates]

I think so. Yeah. It's still a little Covid. Pre. Covid time.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, it was a little coveting.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yep, yep, yep.

[Leanne Morgan]

That was a good mall, though. I like working in a comedy club where you can also show up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yep, yep, yep. Greg, where are you going to be this week? I'll be in Naples, Florida, and Sarasota, Florida. And then next week I'm doing a bunch of Carolina gigs. We. We Added a show in Charleston, had a third show in Charleston, South Carolina.

[Brian Bates]

Wit's end.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wit's end, yeah. Yeah. And Greenville, South Carolina. Charlotte, North Carolina, Cherokee. And then. Oh, well, we sold out in Raleigh.

[Brian Bates]

How about that?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And then. And then I'm out with Leanne after that for. For a while.

[Leanne Morgan]

Where are you going to be in Cherokee?

[Nate Bargatze]

The casino there.

[Leanne Morgan]

Harrah's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. Yeah, I'm gonna be at the. I'll be casino there.

[Leanne Morgan]

So I'll tell Chuck Morgan. Oh, Chuck, he loves you in a casino.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, man.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, he should go to Cherokee.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is that nothing?

[Leanne Morgan]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really?

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Man, I hope there's some people that show up.

[Brian Bates]

Chuck Morgan will come.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

What about you, Aaron?

[Aaron Weber]

I'm going to beat this. Aaron Weber speaking. I am going to be, end of this month, Lowell, Arkansas, Northwest Arkansas, the Grove Comedy Club, followed by Phoenix, Denver, Atlanta, Huntsville, Charleston, Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse, Tampa. I'm traveling the globe. This is Aaron. I'm traveling the globe. Perform mostly the eastern United States performing stand up comedy this year. Come see. And that's it.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's how you do it.

[Aaron Weber]

Thanks, man.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, well, Nate and Dusty will be back next week as far as I know. But if they're not, we'll call you guys. We'll call you. Don't call us.

[Nate Bargatze]

And.

[Brian Bates]

No.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank y' all for having me. My boyfriend.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you for taking a red eye to be with us.

[Leanne Morgan]

Yeah, well, I would never not be with y'. All. You know, I love y'.

[Nate Bargatze]

All.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank y'.

[Brian Bates]

All.

[Leanne Morgan]

I feel cool being here.

[Brian Bates]

Appreciate it.

[Leanne Morgan]

Thank you.

[Brian Bates]

Well, thank y' all so much. We'll see y' all next week.

[Nate Bargatze]

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