286: Nateland | Ep #286 - For Your Amusement

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Nateland Podcast

Episode 286: “For Your Amusement”

Release Date: January 7, 2026
Host: Nate Bargatze
Co-hosts: Brian Bates, Aaron Weber
Guest: Greg Warren (filling in for Dusty Slay)

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Episode Overview

This week’s Nateland Podcast is filled with classic banter as the crew — Nate, Brian, Aaron, and guest Greg Warren — discuss all things amusement parks, family memories, and Nate’s plans for a Nashville-based theme park. The episode features the familiar energy of the group, listener comments, nostalgic stories, and an in-depth exploration of what makes theme parks memorable. The show also marks a transition for the podcast, with a name change looming as Nate steps back from hosting duties.

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Main Topics & Discussion Breakdown

Podcast Transition News (01:24–02:22)

• Nate confirms he’ll be stepping down, but Nateland Network will continue with a new show name. Tone, vibe, and remaining hosts will stay the same.
• Brian jokes:
  “But the general. That and the tone of the show and the general vibe will be better. Yeah. Besides that.” (01:58)

Greg Warren’s Career & Athletic Stories (03:34–07:28)

• Banter about Greg’s TV appearance and comedy career growth.
• Greg shares stories from his college wrestling days at Missouri, including talk of scholarships, “death penalty” sanctions (college sports punishments), and why some programs bounced back faster than others.
• “Back then, if you had a full ride, you were not allowed to work. You couldn't work during the school year.” (07:18)

Clean Comedy & Audience Interaction (08:53–13:31)

• A listener thanks the guys for keeping comedy clean — a source of comfort for anxious audiences.
• Anecdotes about sitting up front at comedy shows and how audience members’ preferences vary.
• Brian relays a mortifying story about being picked on at Zanies Comedy Club:
  “I was here with my girlfriend and not even sit up front, but in Zany's. And he picked me out and just, you know, asked me some awful dirty stuff...I was so embarrassed.” (11:08)
• The crew discusses how they handle crowd work compared to some comics’ more abrasive styles.

Notable Listener Comments (15:40–22:34)

• Multiple listener messages are read, many appreciating the positive impact of the podcast (e.g., a listener playing the show for psychiatric hospital patients to lift spirits).
• Some humorous confusion over submitted comments meant for other podcasts.
• Suggestion for a Nateland Super Bowl-style competition (Nate vs. Dusty swim race, etc.)
• Another listener describes bringing their son to a show and meeting Aaron’s parents, highlighting the welcoming atmosphere of Nateland shows.

Comedy Tours & Club Stories (24:02–25:52)

• Scheduling banter about their upcoming shows in Texas.
• Announcement of Greg’s “all ages” show format, which includes kids telling jokes on stage:
  “It's almost like a kids talk show kind of.” (25:58)

Why We Love Theme Parks: Identity & Nostalgia (26:31–30:00)

• Listener shares a Jerry Seinfeld quote: “We're cheering for laundry,” noting the arbitrary but passionate attachment to sports teams.
• More nostalgia as listeners and co-hosts recall family memories tied to comedy and amusement parks.

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Main Topic: Amusement Parks & Theme Parks

Defining Theme vs. Amusement Parks (34:14–35:58)

• Aaron distinguishes:
  “A theme park is a collection of rides, attractions and activities connected or bonded by a story, by a certain—by a story.” (35:06)
• Consensus: Disney World = theme park; Cedar Point = amusement park.

Most Popular Parks & Regional Standouts (36:30–38:54)

• Disney World tops global attendance, followed by other Disney and Universal parks.
• Dollywood named #1 theme park by TripAdvisor despite lower attendance; praised for atmosphere and uniqueness.

Funny Free Attractions & Sneaking In (39:40–41:28)

• Discussion of “free” attractions like St. Louis Zoo.
• Greg jokes about friends climbing fences to sneak into the zoo, only to discover it was free.

Naughty Childhood Adventures (42:24–43:05)

• Stories about sneaking into second movies at theaters and childhood pranks, admitting “That’s stealing” but owning up to past mischief.

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Nate’s Nashville Theme Park Dream

Announcement & Philosophy (43:12–51:53)

• Nate confirms progress on his Nashville theme park with Storyland Studios, a company with former Disney Imagineers and Universal creative designers.
• Nate reflects on skepticism:
  “Some people are very nice and they believe in some people...I think they just think it seems crazy and. Yeah, it does seem crazy.” (44:52)
• The motivation: To create a place for lasting family memories and provide jobs for the community:
  “I want to make something that you can go to...I just want to make something that you can go to. And I loved Opryland when Opryland was here.” (45:09)
• Brian shares an anecdote of a family traveling to Belgium just to ride a version of their childhood favorite “Chaos” ride, underscoring the emotional power of theme parks. (48:03)

The Vision for “Nateland” Theme Park (51:08–56:56)

• Joking about “Bates” mascot characters and making fun rides based on their podcast bits—long lines that go nowhere, a “gout station” for Aaron, clocks set 10 minutes fast for Brian.
• Actual design and creative process handled by top-tier industry professionals.
• Nate:
  “I’m just want to be the Mickey Mouse voice that gets you to Nashville and has your moment for your family.” (51:00)

Food, Failed Projects, & Ride Innovations (56:36–59:34)

• Greg requests “good fries” for the park.
• Brian recounts past theme park projects that failed to launch in Nashville, such as the “polar coaster.”
• Nate on ride tech: “Rides are getting crazy, dude...the way like stuff is going now with technology...it’s getting pretty impressive.” (58:26)

Q&A: Timeline and Features (60:27–61:44)

• Nate hedges on timeline specifics but affirms it will be a “theme park” with unique characters, live comedy, and immersive experiences.
  “Comedy is such a. Is the biggest part...Yes.” (60:57)

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Roller Coaster History & Stats

Origins and Progression (64:02–68:20)

• Roller coasters date back to Russia in the 1600s (ice hills); Mine trains in Pennsylvania became early thrill rides.
• Coney Island was home to early American roller coasters, often seen as alternatives to “brothels and saloons.”
• Loop-the-loop coasters were so dangerous spectators paid just to watch others risk it:
  “It was so dangerous that people paid to watch other people ride it.” (67:31)

Record-Setting Roller Coasters (78:18–80:56)

• Ferrari World’s “Formula Rosa” in Abu Dhabi (150mph) overtaken in speed by the new Falcon’s Flight in Saudi Arabia (155mph).
• Dollywood’s “Lightning Rod” is the fastest wooden coaster in the USA.
• The legendary “Beast” at Kings Island cited as the longest wooden coaster.

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Crowd Memories & Personal Reflection (82:31–86:23)

• Nate describes how family moments — like riding “The Beast” as a kid, or his daughter’s first water ride — provide the magic theme parks offer, inspiring his own project.
• “It’s a moment that I’ll never, I mean, like, I don’t know how you can’t. You can’t buy that. You can’t.” (82:41)
• The group reminisce about going on rides together as comics, including a humorous Nick Novicki bit about using disability access for the entire friend group.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Theme vs. Amusement Parks:
  “A theme park is a collection...bonded by a story.” — Aaron, (35:06)
• On family and nostalgia:
  “The moment’s not about Kings island, but it’s about my dad making us ride a ride.” — Nate, (47:14)
• On skepticism:
  “It does seem crazy. It does. But I mean, I, it’s how I...I feel, you know, like I’m supposed to do this.” — Nate, (44:52)
• On clean comedy:
  “As someone with anxiety, the last thing I need at a social event is to feel embarrassed on top of everything else. I truly appreciate you guys for keeping it clean, smart, and actually funny.” — Listener Heather Sorensen, (08:54)
• On amusement park rides:
  “It was so dangerous that people paid to watch other people ride it.” — Brian, (67:31)
• On failed park ventures:
  “You just hear about everything once you’re in this space.” — Nate, (80:38)
• Classic banter:
  “If you can do 14 Kansas City shows...” — Brian
  “We’re trying a couple. We’ll see how it goes.” — Greg, (04:42)
• On being guessed older in an age-guessing carnival game:
  “He guessed 46...Now he’s sad because someone thinks he’s 46 years old.” — Nate, (86:10)

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Key Timestamps for Notable Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | |------------|---------------------------------------| | 01:24 | Podcast transition and Nate’s departure | | 03:34 | Greg’s career and wrestling history | | 08:53 | Listener feedback on clean comedy | | 13:31 | Comedy crowd work stories | | 26:31 | Listener “cheering for laundry” comment| | 34:14 | “Amusement Park vs. Theme Park” debate | | 43:12 | Nate’s Nashville theme park journey | | 60:27 | Theme park details & future plans | | 64:02 | Roller coaster history | | 78:18 | Roller coaster world records | | 82:31 | Personal stories about family & rides |

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Tone & Final Thoughts

The episode radiates the familiar warmth, humility, and humor of the Nateland crew. Nate’s earnestness about his theme park dream is met with the good-natured skepticism and support of his friends. Listeners are reminded that chasing big dreams, making memories, and laughing along the way define both the spirit of the show and the appeal of amusement parks themselves.

For long-time fans or new listeners, episode 286 is a blend of heartfelt reflection, insightful trivia, and the casual riffing that Nateland does best.

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Transcript

[Nate Bargatze]

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That's rocketmoney.com cancel rocketmoney.com cancel. Hello, folks, and hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nateland Nateland podcast. It's one of the final ones.

[Aaron Weber]

One of the final ones. With this name.

[Nate Bargatze]

With this name. Yeah, I want to do. I definitely want to mention that it's been mentioned everywhere else. Podcast is not leaving. It's just. They're going to change the name because I won't be. It's like they're. It's. It's going to be the vibe. It's the Nateland we're still making. Nateland Network is. Is doing the podcast. So the podcast. You're. Nothing's gonna. The only thing that will change is I will not be here. So. But yeah, everything else will be the same. All the other podcasts. So. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But the general. That and the tone of the show and the general vibe will be better. Yeah. Besides that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

From what I heard, some of the. The booking policies are changing too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes, that's definitely.

[Brian Bates]

We're not going to just have anybody.

[Aaron Weber]

Brian rules with an iron fist.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The amateur hour over here.

[Nate Bargatze]

So I'm Nate Borgzi, Brian Bates. Aaron Weber, and. And we have Greg Warren filling in for Dusty. Greg, wearing his hat from work. You didn't take it off.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Otis Elevator Company. You look like you could work at an elevator company.

[Greg Warren]

Thanks, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would see you one of those guys in. I don't think you're in the offices.

[Aaron Weber]

No. You're out inspecting.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

You're in the action.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You're in the action.

[Brian Bates]

I can see you have an Otis elevator joke.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Dusty has one.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I know he does. It's a good one, too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

We covered it on the podcast. We did it as a brand.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Otis is great. Are they the only elevator company?

[Brian Bates]

They're the dominant one.

[Greg Warren]

They're the dominant one. And I think they were the. They started them.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. But I mean, I. I don't retain a lot of that information.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a. Yeah, yeah, Go listen to that episode. Because that is.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I like. It's like probably a company been around for. I mean, for.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. And they. They were. You know. The escalators too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. So they didn't even. Wow. Because they could have ducked out of the escalator business.

[Greg Warren]

No, no. If you're going up and down, Otis has got a pizza.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Anyway, so New Year, man. We're off on a rocket ship. Boom. Stuff's happening.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

How's your year going?

[Aaron Weber]

It's good. Do you have a prediction for Greg for this year?

[Brian Bates]

Well, you're getting ready to be on a network television show.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's pretty big.

[Greg Warren]

And. Yeah, it's. It's. I'm. It was. It was unbelievably amount of fun. It was. It was great, man.

[Brian Bates]

I mean, your career is like a rocket ship right now.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

It was the Challenger.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it is. Oh, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Sorry.

[Greg Warren]

That was not all.

[Brian Bates]

I could either.

[Greg Warren]

I mean, that's not. That's a little insensitive as well.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is the. Man. That's.

[Greg Warren]

It's good.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's like, what do you. I know. Those are the tough ones. When you're like, what do you want me to do? Dude, that's. It's unbelievable. The timing of it was great.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Got a jacket that was probably there. I don't know if that made. I'm just trying to get in on it.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So I think he's gonna be, you know. Greg hit the theater. Theater.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. I mean, if you can do 14 Kansas City shows.

[Greg Warren]

We're trying a couple. We'll see how it goes.

[Nate Bargatze]

All right. I love that. Yeah, we're. Yeah. I wish they were in Kansas City.

[Greg Warren]

I think we might try one in Columbia, Missouri.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that'd be awesome.

[Greg Warren]

I'm opening for you there. That's where I went to college.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

And.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

They want you to come to wrestling practice, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Coach wants you to come.

[Nate Bargatze]

Let's go.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Yeah. He does.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

He wants you.

[Aaron Weber]

You got a plaque or anything up at that gym?

[Greg Warren]

My name's the wall there.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Like, retired his school.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, no, he built it.

[Aaron Weber]

That's good, Nate. They bought his.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I'm saying.

[Nate Bargatze]

Same thing. Greg got paid nil money back then. Yeah. Did you get any money under the table?

[Brian Bates]

When?

[Nate Bargatze]

Back then? No. Did anybody at all?

[Greg Warren]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Really?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Oklahoma State wrestling got the death penalty when I was in.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

But they came back pretty quick because SMU's, like, just now coming back.

[Greg Warren]

They came back like, they were good the next year.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. They had one year and then they were good the next year.

[Nate Bargatze]

But death penalty killed smu.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Killed it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Those guys. Didn't they have Eric Dickerson?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

And who's the other guy?

[Aaron Weber]

Who's Craig?

[Greg Warren]

Craig James. James. In the same backfield.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

And did anybody else get the death penalty?

[Aaron Weber]

Alabama State.

[Nate Bargatze]

When I was a kid, I didn't know Oklahoma State. So just their wrestling.

[Greg Warren]

Wrestling program got the death.

[Nate Bargatze]

But I mean, it just seems weird that it's like, why did it affect SMU so much? But then Oklahoma State just, like, it didn't. Like, I thought the death penalty should. Isn't it. It means, like, what. What I think of the death penalty. I think of SMU, and I think, like, you know, it's taking you 30 years, 40 years to get back on track.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then so it's like almost like Oklahoma State did not get it that bad. They just.

[Greg Warren]

I don't even know what it was.

[Nate Bargatze]

But back then, there was. Kids were getting paid. Yeah, I guess they were.

[Greg Warren]

I didn't know, but there was something. And maybe it was. That was the rumor, and maybe they weren't. But. But yeah, there was. They had a lot of really, really good wrestlers at the same weight class now. Now with nil. That happens. You know, but back then there was. You know, you'd only had, like, nine and a half scholarships per team.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

So you're like, they gotta get some money somewhere.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did you have a full ride the whole time?

[Greg Warren]

I think I was on about. I think I was on maybe like 70 or 80% the first year. And then after that, I had a full ride. But you know what? I didn't take any money on the table. But I did. Back then, if you had a full ride, you were not allowed to work. You couldn't work during the school year.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

And. And I had a summer job at a. At a comedy club, and it bled a little bit into the year.

[Aaron Weber]

And so that was technically an NCAA violation at the time or, like, university, because I.

[Greg Warren]

And I think I, I did get paid a little bit those first, you know, by the wrestling season, was getting into full gear like a month into school. But for maybe those first few weeks, I was like, we're not going to practice. We're, you know, practice. I think I still worked at nominee club.

[Brian Bates]

Did they retroactively strip you of some.

[Nate Bargatze]

Of your, your all American status? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They listen to this, do they? Ncaa. Yeah, they're big fans.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, man.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, we're really worse. You're just, we're really diving into my past.

[Nate Bargatze]

You need to be killing a career every episode. You need to get off podcast. I don't need to be leaving. You need to be leaving. Your whole life is unraveling here.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, but that, Yeah, I, I, I think I'd probably got paid a couple paychecks into the, into the year. But it was, yeah, it was. I mean, that's, that was stupid, though. Like, I think, you know, you could work in the summer. You could work in the summer.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what they would say too. Yeah. Everybody got caught, said, well, a couple. Just a couple. All right, well, yeah, we are, we're just kind of getting into it. Does anybody. You don't have anything that you want to say? No. So we are starting with your comments. Look at that. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Less than 10 minutes in.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Heather Sorensen. I never realized clean comedy was important to me until I find myself physically cringing at a recent non clean show. As someone with anxiety, the last thing I need at a social event is to feel embarrassed on top of everything else. I truly appreciate you guys for keeping it clean, smart, and actually funny. You guys rock. My favorite podcast ever. Thank you, Heather. Very nice. Yeah, I understand that. Not that. Yeah, some go to show some people it's like what you like and what you don't like. I was always would have been someone very embarrassed to sit up front at a conversation. Oh, yeah, I would not like it. But I mean, I know I got, I got a buddy or I know a guy that's like, he will buy a ticket to sit.

[Aaron Weber]

He wants to be around.

[Nate Bargatze]

He wants to be.

[Aaron Weber]

He wants to be involved too.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. Okay. Yes. Like, I mean, like, wants to. I don't. I, you know, I don't. I don't. We, we know each other. I don't know. I haven't seen him show or anything like that. Like, everyone has seen him in like certain situations. He's talked about going to comedy shows and like crowd work show. He talked about Nate Jackson. He's been Nate Jackson. I mean, he'll buy Nate Jackson, I think, sells tickets, like right up front. And I mean, he's buying those tickets up front.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And he's going to sit right there.

[Aaron Weber]

I did a comedy club years ago and the manager told me it's open seating at this club and they could not get people to sit in the first two rows. So their solution was to charge more to sit in those first two rows and call it the splash zone.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

And they were like, if you do crowd worker anything, just do it to those first two rows. And they sell out first every show. Now, isn't that crazy? Nobody was sitting there, like, let's charge more for it. And now people sit there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's what that thing happens, you know, And I think you people like it because you're like, it shouldn't bleed onto you. But I would have been. I'm a person. That would be. That's why I don't do it. I mean, you have it, you've have it, have had it happen. But it's like, I'm just so mortified. Like, I don't want to be.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I got. Before I even started doing stand up, I got picked on by a stand up comic here at Zany's.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, really?

[Brian Bates]

Mortified? Yes.

[Greg Warren]

Who was it?

[Brian Bates]

I think it. I think it was John Morgan, Raging Cajun.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, the Raging Cage.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I was here with my girlfriend and not even sit up front, but in Zany's. And he picked me out and just, you know, asked me some awful dirty stuff. Hey, buddy, you do you do this, this, this? Yeah, I wouldn't do anything. And I was just mortified. And then he came back to me again later in the show.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And. And like, I was a big part of his act that night. And I so embarrassed.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's different comedy.

[Greg Warren]

It's different than the crowd work that you do.

[Brian Bates]

Right.

[Greg Warren]

Because you just ask him a question.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes, he just asked. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You weren't awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

What is that a. Was that a hat? Yeah. All right. Yeah, makes sense. That's exactly right. A lot of people wear hats.

[Brian Bates]

I think the story I told when you were on was like, the guys were in auburn shirt. I was like, you go to Auburn. He goes, now.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I got it.

[Brian Bates]

All right.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I just kept going.

[Greg Warren]

I loved it, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's a tough one, man.

[Brian Bates]

I had an Auburn joke lined up.

[Nate Bargatze]

But you tell that story on the road a lot.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what's a good save line? If you're having a crowd work thing and you can't think of anything, you go why don't we talk after the show?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, like that.

[Aaron Weber]

And then you just get back in.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sometimes I'll. Yeah, I'll say, like, just. Because I. I can start. I. I could Sometimes my nervousness. If I go up and try to say something up top, and I don't really have a plan, but I'm trying to maybe say something about the city, and I am just like. Because I feel like I need to. I can get pretty nervous. Cause I'll start it and it won't go good. And then it's, like, weird. And then I. You had to go like. Then I'll just be like, this show's gonna be bad. I'll say that out loud. I'll say something to get a laugh to. Then just get into my act. Yeah, but. Because sometimes you feel like you need to. But I mean, I. You know, I could start. I could start right at it.

[Greg Warren]

There was a crowd thing with. I think it was Cincinnati. A pretty good crowd moment you had.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. With that couple, the married couple.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. They were sitting. There was a. I walked on stage, and then they started. They were clapping, and then they're. It was a short walk to the stage, and then they start. This person's waving at this person, and it was, like, kind of obvious. And I was like, oh, are y' all waving, like? And it was a wife and a husband that both bought tickets to the show, but I guess didn't say where they were sitting. And they both had front row seats. So they. And then they didn't realize that they were all. Both like. They're like, oh, you're there. I'm there. And so I had a little.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, it was good. Yeah, it was a little. It was a lot of fun.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You know, we could do it. I don't want to do it, but we can do it back. It's against the wall.

[Aaron Weber]

We're Aaron Weber here. Let me tell you about Brunt workwear boots. We all got a pair. I've been loving mine. I don't know if you've tried yours on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargatze]

Alicia.

[Aaron Weber]

It's probably could be Alicia or Alicia.

[Nate Bargatze]

Alicia. Alicia Meyer. I worked in a psych.

[Brian Bates]

Alicia.

[Nate Bargatze]

Alicia. That's what I was thinking. That's a good one. I work in a psychiatric hospital. Many of our patients suffer from depression. Today I decided that we needed some laughter, so I served up root beer floats and turned on signature disc.

[Brian Bates]

Dish.

[Nate Bargatze]

Dish. Sorry. I served up root beer floats and turned on signature dish and boy, did two jump. Hold on, I'm trying to read it right. Windows weren't locked. Hold on, I wanna. It's hard to read. I guess this is a sensitive. A lot of her patients have depression. So they go and they're all gone. What? No, opposite. I hadn't finished scooping the ice cream and they were already laughing. Thanks, Aaron, for helping brighten some folks day.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that?

[Nate Bargatze]

Look at that, buddy.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, it's really nice.

[Aaron Weber]

That's great.

[Brian Bates]

Special. You found your audience.

[Nate Bargatze]

Your audience needs to be deep in it.

[Aaron Weber]

I'll Take that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, they're searching for and eating ice cream.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, there's a. Yeah, there's a lot of that already.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Alex Hoskinson. Hoskinson. Yeah. Sounds like.

[Aaron Weber]

Sounds like a disease, doesn't it?

[Nate Bargatze]

I was going to say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I didn't want to say Hoskinson's lymphoma.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. That's why I didn't say it. Okay. I'm glad you said it. I had in my head, I thought, should I say that or is that.

[Aaron Weber]

How's Alex doing? Yeah, he has Hoskinson.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, man. Oh, no. Is he fine? Is he.

[Aaron Weber]

No, he's got a Hoskinson put on signature dish.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sped it up. They don't even know how that happened. He go, how can a special speak up a disease even? The disease was like, I gotta do this guy a favor. It went straight to the heart. Nobody gets Randy laughing like Bates.

[Brian Bates]

Who's Randy?

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, man, this.

[Brian Bates]

This is all. Somehow a consumer's comment got in.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, wow, this is awkward. This is uncomfortable. I don't know how this happened, but it's. It happens time to time.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So this is from the Consumers Podcast of Greg Warren's podcast. Nobody gets Randy laughing like Bates. His clever, witty comments are unmatched. Said this for years on Nateland. And the same goes here for the Consumers. Consumers loved it. There we go, man.

[Brian Bates]

I'm sorry.

[Greg Warren]

That just wound its way.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know how that got in there, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wires crossed.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Just. Why? It happens, you know, it happens.

[Greg Warren]

Nobody gets. Gets him going like you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's.

[Brian Bates]

That's Randy's.

[Greg Warren]

Our producer.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, he likes Bates. And it's usually cheap.

[Brian Bates]

Laughs.

[Greg Warren]

He's usually taking shots at me sometimes when I'm not there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

But I'm not a cheap guess because Greg paid $763 to fly me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, my golly.

[Greg Warren]

I told Tim I was. It's when I was doing the game show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Only episode I haven't been there. And I said. He goes, can we get Bates to come out?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think that's worth the time or the money.

[Greg Warren]

No, I go get baits. I go get.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, get whatever you got to do to get bait.

[Greg Warren]

I go, what?

[Brian Bates]

He said.

[Greg Warren]

And I have a ton of Southwest Airlines miles. I was like, yeah, man, just get. Get baits. And he go.

[Nate Bargatze]

And he. And he.

[Greg Warren]

He goes, I booked it. I'm like, what do you mean you booked? He goes, you said, book it. I said. I said I would book it. $750 to get Bates to St. Louis.

[Nate Bargatze]

And it would probably been three points because they. Once they find it's Bates, they go, just take three points off the top.

[Brian Bates]

He said in the back. Anyway.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah. And then. And what does he do?

[Nate Bargatze]

He shows up and makes fun and just tease off on me, man.

[Brian Bates]

But it's also like, you're hot.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's in the hole on that.

[Brian Bates]

It's your most viewed episode, probably. And, well, you do. Well, you do real well.

[Nate Bargatze]

You do what they like. It was worth paying. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

It wasn't 750.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, Southwest. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I don't know. You could spend 750 on a Southwest ticket.

[Brian Bates]

Plus, I had Sean Lewis.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I think.

[Greg Warren]

I think that him and Tim got.

[Nate Bargatze]

He goes, how much you think you're in the hole with baits here? All the. When he had two episodes, I fl.

[Aaron Weber]

He had a room at the Ritz.

[Nate Bargatze]

He had the room at the Ritz. He had the. He had a fly. You had to go pick him up at the airport. That was uber money. He probably saved $150 in.

[Greg Warren]

In Orlando.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

300.

[Nate Bargatze]

300.

[Greg Warren]

We went around the whole city.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I mean.

[Greg Warren]

And sat in traffic.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And I paid for lunch, probably 15, maybe two grand.

[Brian Bates]

And when we were leaving, there was some lady collecting money for soldiers or something like that. I'm like, no, thank you. And Greg was like, yeah, I'll give. And I'm like, well, I guess I got to give now.

[Nate Bargatze]

So you asked him to give for you.

[Greg Warren]

In retrospect, that I think you go shake down.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you go. That's from both of us.

[Brian Bates]

That's what I wanted to say, but I couldn't.

[Nate Bargatze]

Guilty, man. Christy Pickens. Halftime of super bowl was nade.

[Brian Bates]

We need.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, sorry. Halftime of Super bowl, we need a Nate vs Dusty swim race. Mike Vecchion vs Greg Warren wrestling match. I like that. And Nick Novicki versus Nick Thune. Dance off. I like all those.

[Greg Warren]

Becky owns in a lot of better shape than I am right now.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know you're an All American, though.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, that's true.

[Nate Bargatze]

In my prime. I know, but you're. He's Vecchion's. He's not, y'. All. It's. I think it's wrestling. You go by age more than weight at this point, so.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Y' all are in the same age class.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I mean, I'm, like, probably six years older than Mike.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. To your mind, I bet you might be 60.

[Greg Warren]

He's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Man.

[Greg Warren]

And I've played basketball.

[Brian Bates]

I think if you.

[Greg Warren]

What you can say what I do is play bad against him. And man, he is solid.

[Nate Bargatze]

He is solid.

[Greg Warren]

He is solid.

[Nate Bargatze]

He is solid.

[Greg Warren]

The guy is. Yeah, I don't want to wrestle back here.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would love to see that.

[Brian Bates]

We gotta do something.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, we gotta do something, man.

[Greg Warren]

I ran a foot race against all you guys.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, and you did good. So you can beat Mike in wrestling.

[Greg Warren]

I don't know, man. Mike and I.

[Nate Bargatze]

This, this comment comes from Mike, so.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, it does.

[Nate Bargatze]

His alter. He said that.

[Greg Warren]

He said. He vacuum. Said he wants a match.

[Nate Bargatze]

He wants some action.

[Greg Warren]

All right, now, I don't know about this.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, he said he wants some action. He goes, Missouri was an easy school to get into wrestling wise. That's a quote. That's a. That's a quote. Direct. Wow. It's crazy.

[Greg Warren]

Say that, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Matthew Graham. I recently took my son to see his first standup comedian in a local club. I was praying for a great experience. We immediately felt at ease when we discovered we were seated. Seated next to Aaron's parents. We were somewhat star struck. Meeting the Webers was certainly worth the price of admission. Mr. And Ms. Weber, if you're listening to the podcast, thank you for making my son's first experience with standup comedy and evening and he will never forget. Is a photo. There he is.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

Is that Bates?

[Brian Bates]

It's Bates.

[Aaron Weber]

Bates on stage, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, it's supposed to be funny. He's making a joke about how he takes his son to see me at the comedy club and their experience is meeting Nate's. Aaron's dad.

[Greg Warren]

Is the experience shot at you?

[Brian Bates]

It's a shot at me. I thought it'd be funny.

[Nate Bargatze]

Are you not on the show? It was just.

[Aaron Weber]

No, no, it was just in Dallas where my parents lived.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, they came to see me. Oh, wow. Yeah, I met. No, that's funny.

[Greg Warren]

They came to Leanne, your sister and your mom.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Lucy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't get to meet them then.

[Nate Bargatze]

Look at that.

[Brian Bates]

Yep.

[Nate Bargatze]

And you do your set with your eyes closed. So that's normal. Yeah, it's easier not to face them.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron's dad's laughing.

[Greg Warren]

He is laughing.

[Nate Bargatze]

He is laughing. Yeah, they got a good picture.

[Aaron Weber]

Took a while to get this pick.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I think they had to finally go, just laugh and I'll take it.

[Brian Bates]

Your dad's like, just get it over with. I'll crack a spot.

[Nate Bargatze]

What do you need me to do? Act like you're having a good time.

[Aaron Weber]

No, they did have a great time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Well, good outfit, too.

[Brian Bates]

I Met the Addison Improv tonight. So tell them to come back out. Are you really?

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's a great club.

[Brian Bates]

January 7th.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think they've seen it.

[Brian Bates]

That was last month. My acts totally changed.

[Nate Bargatze]

Now.

[Greg Warren]

Wait a minute. I think I'm.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's.

[Greg Warren]

I think I'm in Plano.

[Brian Bates]

You and I were at this when I was in. That's. That's in Plano and you were in Tyler the same night, which is.

[Greg Warren]

I mean, no, but I'm Tyler. Dallas as well.

[Brian Bates]

Check that. Oh, you heard me. Ticket sales the last time I'm looking that up.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, boy.

[Nate Bargatze]

And this is where you want to be when you get to do the cities that are not called Dallas.

[Aaron Weber]

No, you're January 9th. Okay. This weekend.

[Nate Bargatze]

Weekend.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, I'm there. The 7th.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

He comes in. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Go to both.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you can. You can go. You can have a big Nateland weekend.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

And go Thursday. Wait, no, Wednesday. Typical Wednesday show. January 7th to Plano, Texas, and I.

[Brian Bates]

Mean to Addison Improv.

[Nate Bargatze]

Addison Improv, Great improv. I love that. Yeah. And then, you know, have Thursday off, digest what you just saw and then go to. Go to Plano and, you know, get through that.

[Brian Bates]

I just.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, he has all ages shows that. The young show.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's pretty fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

So he's doing an all. Greg does an all ages Show. Saturday, January 10th, Plano, Texas. It's. What time is it? 2pm Doors are 2. But it's a very. I have not even got to see this yet. But we're going to have you do it on the cruise. It's fun, man. Because it's fun. But you have kids go up and. Right. Teach them that.

[Greg Warren]

We interview them and let them tell a joke.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

It's like a. It's like we do a regular comedy show.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

But at the end, you know, we bring the kids up. It's almost like a kids talk show kind of.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you have some kids, if you want them to go to a comedy show too, that's a. There you go. That's a perfect one.

[Greg Warren]

It's fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. They get involved. Yeah. Greg can't do all the time. It's hard to fill an hour. So he has to bring kids up.

[Greg Warren]

You don't lose all the tricks, you know? Yeah. There's some of the.

[Nate Bargatze]

How much time you got back there in the blue hat?

[Greg Warren]

So you got birthday coming up.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's cool. That's cool, man. Barry Booker. I think it was Brian who raised the issue of why people become loyal fans of a particular sports team and how arbitrary it seems. Aaron. I remember reading about this in a book by renowned author Jerry Seinfeld. He observed that a player for a team goes from being cheered to being booed by fans if he chooses to change teams. Jerry's conclusion was we're cheering for laundry. Very funny. And a good reminder that many of the things that seem very important are pretty silly when you think about it. Keep the funny coming and go. Doors.

[Brian Bates]

You know Barry Booker?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Oh yeah. From Vandy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's Barry Booker.

[Brian Bates]

That's Barry Booker.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh wow.

[Brian Bates]

Barry Booker, legendary basketball player from Vanderbilt.

[Greg Warren]

Oh really?

[Nate Bargatze]

That's awesome.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Back when I was. I mean I'm still into him, but this is when I was, you know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

When they were playing Swannie, approaching people.

[Brian Bates]

In awkward situations and Barry Booker. Barry Goen, Will Purdue.

[Greg Warren]

Oh wow.

[Brian Bates]

And then for many years he was on SEC Network. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know. Yeah. For.

[Aaron Weber]

I mean long time he's known as the Long Ranger.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Still has the Vanderbilt all time three point shot.

[Nate Bargatze]

I always like to see him too on when he was on TV because it always like Barry Booker and I was like Vandy. Yeah. Like it was always.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. You remember?

[Nate Bargatze]

He's, he's. I don't, I don't know. Ronnie. I mean Ronnie was a color commentator at least.

[Brian Bates]

Yes. That's when I was listening to him.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Remember when I used to rent out my, my condo on Airbnb like when we go on the road and stuff. So I would, I used to rent my condo and I would put it on Airbnb and VRBO and 1,1 time Barry Booker tried to rent my condo. He said he and his wife wanted to come downtown for evening or whatever and be great, but. Right. I can't remember which one he was on. But the, the other one, somebody I accepted right before I saw him and then I go on the other one to cancel it and he just reached out. I'm like, that's Barry Booker. So wanted to cancel the first guy but I couldn't.

[Greg Warren]

So you're a principled.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So sorry, Barry.

[Nate Bargatze]

Sorry, Barry.

[Greg Warren]

Rules are rules.

[Nate Bargatze]

Rules are rules. Does Barry know that or does now? He does now. I think you still owe it to Barry.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. So if you just want to come over my house, Barry, spend the night. That's a lot. Lot.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

That was okay. I don't know how involved he wants to get.

[Brian Bates]

I got a big screen.

[Nate Bargatze]

How fun is that? Barry Booker. Emily Jensen, did Chase ever learn the reason behind why everyone thought he was Nate's son?

[Brian Bates]

So funny. Chase just left the room.

[Nate Bargatze]

Chase just left the room like a typical son would do. I did tell him.

[Brian Bates]

Just.

[Nate Bargatze]

I did end up telling him because once he stopped doing merch and he started working more with us, it was. I kind of told him we had a big long running thing where we told on the podcast because everybody thought Chase was my son. Which is very funny. That like out of. I talk about my family so much that I would never talk about.

[Aaron Weber]

I have an adult son. I've never mentioned.

[Nate Bargatze]

I never mentioned. But we told everybody on the podcast just if you go to see Chase at the merch, just keep saying, like, are you Nate's son? And so then we had everybody. So he did. But he. I think he still gets it occasionally. Sometimes and then when people know. But I eventually did tell him it was a good one.

[Greg Warren]

His family was at one of the shows.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were national.

[Greg Warren]

No, that. There was one that I was on that they were at.

[Nate Bargatze]

I thought.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe.

[Nate Bargatze]

Maybe. No. Yeah. I don't know. Justin Hawks. I got the yips when pitching for my 8 year old daughter's softball team. I nailed one girl right in their side for the rest of the game. Every time she got up to bat, I had to walk off the field so her mom could come in. After that game, she never showed up again. Oh, man, we love some yips story.

[Greg Warren]

That's rough, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. Every time she get up, I mean, just to see her mom come out.

[Greg Warren]

You know, like a manager taking you.

[Brian Bates]

Out of the kitchen.

[Nate Bargatze]

I imagine he just has to stand there. You don't think he doesn't leave the mound cuz he's pitching for the other kids.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So he just kind of stands.

[Greg Warren]

He probably tried to walk him. She's like, no, you stay here.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, I'll get.

[Greg Warren]

I'm gonna do this real quick. I can throw straight.

[Brian Bates]

He says. What? He had to walk off the field.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, he did. Oh, I had to walk off the field so her mom would come. Maybe there's a rule you can't have two adults. Oh, that's so good. Jonathan Bailey. I got the yips when I was playing second base for my church softball team, I was so afraid to throw it to first base that I decided to try and race the pattern to first, which ended up with his shoulder connecting with my face. From what I was told, I got it done. I got knocked off my feet and spun around in the air, ending on my back. When I came to, I was looking up at the batter safe on first. And I had three chipped teeth.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what the yips will do to you. Wow. Is there. They're sending you down a spiral that you just go like. I mean, it's like. And you see, it looks so funny because the person at first, your first baseman's like, just give me the ball.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And he's like, you don't understand, man. I can't. I gotta just. You run.

[Greg Warren]

Chuck Knoblock had that. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Chase is back in here. Chase, someone asked if did you ever learn the reason why everyone thought you were my son?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, they did? Oh, so you knew before I even told you?

[Brian Bates]

No, no, no. It was weeks after.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Made some snitches.

[Nate Bargatze]

But you got. Oh. Oh. So they blew it. But it was for a while and Chase would come back and it just be like, what's up, dude? Everybody Three. Three. This show came up and said.

[Brian Bates]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Nate Bargatze]

All right, so this week.

[Brian Bates]

Talking about amusement parks. Greg, Greg, let me ask you this.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Do you know the difference between an amusement park and a theme park?

[Greg Warren]

I don't know if I can articulate it. I can take a guess.

[Aaron Weber]

That's a big part of answering the question.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. If.

[Brian Bates]

I don't know if I can say it in words, but I could blink.

[Aaron Weber]

What do you have an interpretive dance or something?

[Brian Bates]

You know, Aaron, since Greg can't articulate it.

[Aaron Weber]

Well, a theme park is going to be thematic.

[Brian Bates]

That's right.

[Aaron Weber]

In an amusement park, it's just a loose collection of rides and activities.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I think you can't define a word with the word watch. That's just.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's.

[Greg Warren]

You can't say a theme park has a theme.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, but music park doesn't have a theme.

[Aaron Weber]

Let me. Let me try to do it without the word theme.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

A theme park is a collection of rides, attractions and activities connected or bonded by a story, by a certain. By a story.

[Nate Bargatze]

By a story.

[Aaron Weber]

How about that?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Amusement. Amusing. It's. Everything's on its own. So every. When you walk to it, you go, is this amusing? They go, yeah. And then you go, that's pretty amusing. And then you go to the next thing.

[Greg Warren]

So Disney is a theme park.

[Nate Bargatze]

Six Flags is. I think they would try to be a theme park because they have the Looney Tunes, but it's probably more amusement park.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Is that even correct? Are we right?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, you're correct. I think theme parks. Parks can also be amusement parks, but amusement parks can't be theme parks.

[Greg Warren]

Like Cedar Point's amusement.

[Brian Bates]

That's right.

[Greg Warren]

It's just a bunch of roller coasters. Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

But they might have bought they. Cedar Park. Cedar. I've never been there, but it's killing it.

[Greg Warren]

It's roller. If you like roller coasters.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I know.

[Greg Warren]

Gotta go to Cedar Point, is what I understand.

[Nate Bargatze]

I've been to Kings island, but it's.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I'm in Kings Island.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

They got. They got like. They got some of the best roller. They got a ton of. You just ride roller coasters.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I would love to go to Cedar Point because I would love to see it. I've just heard about it. They have like, some of the biggest in the country, if not the world. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

The most visited theme park in the world is exactly. Probably what you would guess. Disney World.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, Disney.

[Greg Warren]

The one in Florida.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

Followed by Disneyland. Really?

[Greg Warren]

Oh, wow.

[Aaron Weber]

Yep.

[Brian Bates]

In North America, it's You know, it's all. Almost all Disney Magic Kingdoms. 1, Disneyland Park 2, Epcot 3, Disney's Hollywood Studios 4. And you, you know, driving around Orlando, there's a lot of traffic around that area.

[Greg Warren]

Yes, I do. Yes.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

You're going to sit for a while.

[Brian Bates]

Listen to Bates, and then there's like some Universal Studio everything. The top 10, maybe top 15 were all. No, top 10 were all universal or Disney except Knott's Berry farm at number 10.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Not for long, buddy.

[Brian Bates]

I know.

[Greg Warren]

What about. Yeah, baby. What about Busch Gardens? Are they in there at all?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, 13. The Busch Gardens in Tampa. Yeah. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Do they still have one in St. Louis?

[Greg Warren]

No, they never had one. Six Flags there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Oh.

[Greg Warren]

I mean, the brewery's in St. Louis, but yeah, Six Flags is the. Has always been the big one there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Dollywood was number 18 in attendance in the U.S. yeah. Or North America, but TripAdvisor named it the number one theme park that.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I've heard it's great for.

[Nate Bargatze]

It is great. Yeah, it is.

[Greg Warren]

I'd like to go to that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Did a lot of it burn down years ago, or was that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Was that Dollywood? Didn't start out as Dollywood. It was. It's. It was. I forget what it's called. It was like Silver.

[Brian Bates]

Oh, Silver Dollar City.

[Nate Bargatze]

Silver Dollar City.

[Greg Warren]

That's. That's down in Branson.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it is, yeah. And so this. It was that. And then I think Dolly was like, I want to say 2012, but I could be. It could be longer than that.

[Brian Bates]

No, think Dollywood's been around since the 80s.

[Nate Bargatze]

I thought. I remember when they say. I thought I talked about this. And they. It was. Oh, wow, $86. 86.

[Aaron Weber]

She bought the Silver Dollar City and. And reopened it as Dollywood.

[Greg Warren]

That's when I graduated high school.

[Brian Bates]

Could have went there on your senior trip. Could have.

[Greg Warren]

We went to six.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. All right. Yeah, it was. Well, some reason. I thought it was like 2000 something.

[Brian Bates]

Maybe she did something.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, they. No, no, I don't. I don't think she did. But yeah, the Herschends run it. It's a Herschend run park, which I know now because of the theme park stuff.

[Greg Warren]

Is there a Hershey? Don't they have a big one? Yeah, Hershey, Pennsylvania.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Hershey park, number 2020.

[Nate Bargatze]

Okay. It's great. Hershey Park's great. Really, really great. Really great part. And I mean, they. Because their whole town, they have like the. All the street light lights on this. Or Hershey Kisses.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, wow.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's awesome.

[Greg Warren]

Is the factory integrated with it?

[Brian Bates]

The factory tour?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know if I did that.

[Greg Warren]

I heard that's amazing. I heard the chocolate is just. They give you candy.

[Brian Bates]

Aaron, didn't you skip a Civil War tour to go do that?

[Aaron Weber]

I did. I was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and I had to decide between Gettysburg and Hershey World.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, come on.

[Aaron Weber]

The joke I made was, I thought, if I don't go to Hershey World, it's like all those guys died for nothing.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. That's good. Yeah. Wow. Number three, no bells. Amusement Resort. I've even heard of that.

[Brian Bates]

Where? I haven't either. It's an Ellisburg PA. It's free, so that helps.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And TripAdvisor, if you get it for free.

[Greg Warren]

What's it called?

[Nate Bargatze]

No, in K, N, O, E, B, E, L. Nobles. Nobles. Canables.

[Brian Bates]

Knob.

[Nate Bargatze]

Canobals.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, have you been to it? Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

That's what they. That's what they call.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh.

[Greg Warren]

How about Santa Claus?

[Brian Bates]

Indiana?

[Greg Warren]

Holiday World. Are they.

[Aaron Weber]

I've been to Holiday World.

[Brian Bates]

You know what on the top 20.

[Aaron Weber]

You know what makes Holiday World fun? Free drinks.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

There are just drinks. There are just fountain drink machines all over. Oh, that's like. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You get a cup.

[Aaron Weber]

You get a cup.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got to pay for the cup.

[Aaron Weber]

No, you get it with entry.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, wow.

[Brian Bates]

Come on.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you got to keep it.

[Aaron Weber]

I bet you can get another one if you. But I.

[Brian Bates]

You know.

[Nate Bargatze]

That is a good idea. Maybe we'll Write that down.

[Brian Bates]

St. Louis Zoo is free.

[Greg Warren]

St. Louis Zoo is free.

[Brian Bates]

When I come to St. Louis, everything I get is free.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I know.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. We didn't pay a nickel. Got in. Spend a nickel in our town.

[Nate Bargatze]

St. Louis is great.

[Greg Warren]

It's not free for everybody. St. Louis Zoo is zoo.

[Brian Bates]

Is free.

[Greg Warren]

It's an amazing zoo. And my friends Jeff Causey and Mike Ewing in middle school climbed over all these rocks and got all cut up and fenced to sneak into the St. Louis Zoo. And it's free.

[Nate Bargatze]

They snuck into the St. Louis Zoo.

[Greg Warren]

They went through these trees and rocks.

[Nate Bargatze]

Did they not know it was free?

[Greg Warren]

No, they didn't know they got it. And then somebody, they were like, we.

[Nate Bargatze]

Got in the zoo, man. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

They're like, yeah, it's free, dude.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

You don't have to pay to get it.

[Aaron Weber]

I'm trying to think if I've ever snuck into something like that. I've always been a bit of a coward.

[Greg Warren]

No, I know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

It's also it's not honorable.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I, I stealing. Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah. Oh, I guess it is stealing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

You're stealing.

[Brian Bates]

I get, Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I never thought about it like that.

[Brian Bates]

I think he's going to spend money in there that's going to give back to the economy. Yeah. I mean he's gonna buy some drinks and some food and stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's gonna make up for it enough. Yeah. Let me in there.

[Brian Bates]

I'll get lunch.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's gonna be. We saw, he goes, the boy over there snuck in. They go. We encourage him to go, hey, we left that door unlocked for. He goes. Because that boy's gonna let him go to whatever movie he wants to throw the walkie talkie.

[Brian Bates]

Let him through.

[Greg Warren]

Trust me on this one.

[Aaron Weber]

That's probably as bad as I've done, is I remember left a movie as a kid and just walked to another movie.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

I've done a little two for one.

[Greg Warren]

Did you not enjoy the movie or were you just trying to get.

[Aaron Weber]

I think we wanted to see another movie, so we just went and saw another one.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, so you, you saw Completion, so you're getting two for one. Yeah, that's stealing.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it is stealing.

[Aaron Weber]

I was a kid though.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I think I've done that. And I, but I, I, I don't like that I did it. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

We all have stuff we didn't.

[Brian Bates]

Stuff from our past that we're not proud of.

[Greg Warren]

I can't believe that I don't feel that way.

[Nate Bargatze]

So.

[Greg Warren]

Under a lot of pressure.

[Brian Bates]

So you recently made some news with.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes.

[Brian Bates]

Your plans for theme park.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, we're, it's, it's, we're rolling, baby. I mean, I don't know how I like, there's only so much I can say because it's like we're still. But I mean we're, it's, we're. I'm with Storyland. I am.

[Brian Bates]

What is that?

[Nate Bargatze]

Storyland is the company that they did a lot with like uh, uh, Disney, uh, with the, the new uh, was the Epic. No, Epic. Epic. Universal. They did, they helped design a lot of other stuff. Like I'm blinking now. But like all they, the Disneyland, all the Disney stuff. Hollywood. The Universal. The new Epic is the new Universal. They did were a big part of that. And so it's like a lot of them were imagineers and they've kind of came in and started their own kind of thing. And so they are, they, they really built the theme park to help tell the story of why you would want to come to this theme park? I had a, I mean, I, I have. This is what I'm. When I'm home and I'm doing. I'm in a lot of these meetings and, you know, so it's. Yeah. The aspect of this park. Yeah, I, People probably. I mean, we've. And I think we talked about on the podcast one of the first times and so, yeah, people think it's. Some people are very nice and they believe in some people. Not that they're not nice, but they, I think they just think it seems crazy and. Yeah, it does seem crazy. It does. But I mean, I, it's how I, I.

[Aaron Weber]

A lot of the things you already achieved in comedy. If you just said it 10 years ago, it would have sounded pretty insane.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, you know what I mean, it's hard. I mean, when, you know, I'm gonna throw out.

[Aaron Weber]

Sell out. 3. Three shows at Bridgestone Arena.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Everyone go, all right, dude. Yeah, yeah, so do I. I don't.

[Brian Bates]

Think he's gonna do this.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, it's different. Yeah, it's, it's. We're gonna, we're gonna, you know, we're. I don't ever want to be, but I've, you know, I feel, you know, like I'm supposed to do this and, you know, I travel, I go to every. I've been to every city, I've been to every. In a lot of countries and all this have seen, you know, I want to make something. I'm not gonna be a tour forever. It's like I just want to make something that you can go to. And I loved Opulin when Opulent was here and it was my first job. So, you know, it's a. Yeah, it's a pretty giant dream. I think we can be a thing that I like the idea of providing a lot of jobs and all that stuff and, and, yeah. And I mean. But yeah, it's all. Everything's crazy. I mean, everybody. You just get told that all the time. Like, it's hard. That's the only hard. That's the hard part about it is not a hard part. It's. It comes with the character, but it's like, there's. You wanna, like, you do. You have plenty of people that are excited and they do believe in you, but then you just, you do have a lot of, like, you know, it's like, look, I don't think I'm any, like, I don't think it's like, who do you think you are? You're like, I don't think I'm. I don't know. I'm just doing what I'm feel I'm being led to do, and it's beyond me. It's all crazy. I know it's crazy. I'm very passionate about it. I'm very. You know, I want to. I do want to provide jobs there. I do want, like, you know, you'd better drop your kids off this theme park and. And, like, what we used to be able to go do all this kind of stuff that used to be able to go do. You can still. People want to do this. That's what I'm always fighting against. When everybody says, no one goes to the movie theaters, it's all streaming. It's all this. And you go, well, then how come more people. Why are these people at my show if no one wants to go out? Why are they at these shows? It doesn't make sense. They do want to go out, and I think they want to go experience things with their family. Those are the moments that you have, the moments that you will have for the rest of your life that you talk about. You know, when we went to Kings island, we still talk about that as a family. And these are moments that you kind of bring up and you think about and you talk about them when you're 50. And that's a fun. That's a. That's a. That's what's so. Like. That's what I love so much, is, like, the moment's not about Kings island, but it's about my dad making us ride a ride. And we got a hat because we rode that ride. And then we laugh and we joke and we go, well, my mom didn't. We were scared to ride it. My mom made it. My dad was like, you were going to ride it better. Like, you know, it's like when you have those moments that when you're. You know, when you're all grown and you have grandkids, you could tell your grandkids those stories. You know, your. Your granddad did. He made me go do Baba. You know, it's like, that's a family. And so you got to have places for that. I think people still want that kind of stuff.

[Brian Bates]

And so I brought this in. I got this Christmas card yesterday from my buddy, you know, Ben. My buddy Ben Hall. And they went to Bobby Jan Land or whatever that is in Belgium. And I asked him, why did y' all go to Belgium? His wife turned 50. She grew up going to Opryland. Her favorite ride was Chaos. The kiosk. The only other place in the world. They have this ride in Belgium. It. So she want to relive her childhood memory so bad, they went to Belgium to this amusement park.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

So she could.

[Nate Bargatze]

And they have chaos.

[Brian Bates]

It's not called chaos, but it's the same. It's the only place in the world that they have.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's awesome.

[Brian Bates]

That ride.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So, yeah, it shows how much Opryland meant to people, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's. And it's in. It's in. It's opulent. And it's just like, again, I'm just. For. All I'm doing is you can even say if you want to be. You know, I. You know, even if. Even if I'm just competitive, I think the lane for this stuff is wide open, and I don't think anybody is making. So even if I'm just. You want me to be purely competitive, I'm telling you that I think I can compete with a lot of things because I don't think anybody's making stuff for everybody. I know there's these big parks and all this, but seeing Dollywood as number one and TripAdvisors best amusement parks over Disney, over all those other ones, that shows you something. That shows you something that's crazy. And what's great is we don't. This park really won't affect Dollywood. Dollywood is in the Smoky Mountains. Like, the people that go. We're looking at all the information, the people that go there. It's like you go there for different reasons. And you would come to Nashville and, like, so you can. It's not like you're going to sit there and really be on top of these theme parks. And the way Nashville's growing as a city, too, is like, we need this family kind of stuff to have. And so I. And a lot of people want to do it. It's like you just. Someone's gotta. You know, you gotta just be. Look, you got to have someone that's just nuts enough to go do it. But it is. I am kind of like. I don't know. You just go. Yeah. I've had a lot of stuff that's gone on my career. I've worked hard to get it all there. I won't do anything I don't believe in, and I don't believe I'm not. You know, I don't. I haven't done a ton of random stuff. Like, everything's been pretty. You know, I get offered stuff you wouldn't believe that I say no to and so it's. It's what? It's only. I do what I believe can be done, and that's essentially what. And to go create this world that you want to come to that I must. It's not. The world's not even going to be there today. We're just talking about it. Like, I probably can say. I. I probably. I can't tell, but it's like, it's. It's not like I'm having you come worship Nate at a theme park.

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm. I'm just want to be the Mickey Mouse voice that gets you to Nashville and. And has your moment for your family.

[Brian Bates]

That'd be something for me. A section of ride, or we all.

[Nate Bargatze]

Of it will be you.

[Brian Bates]

Okay.

[Greg Warren]

Nate told me when I retire, if I'm forced out of comedy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

That he would let me go work at the theme park, but I had to dress up as a baits character.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

So then they walk around as baits.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And he's not allowed to talk.

[Greg Warren]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

Because the head's on.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I had some notes about that.

[Nate Bargatze]

And then he takes it off, and people see him, and they go, I mean, I would love to meet Greg. And he goes, I'm not supposed to be. He has to put it back down. Yeah, your ride would. Yeah, I think. Yeah. Your rides. I think it's just a long line that goes nowhere.

[Greg Warren]

It's just a really cruel prank.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's just. It's a packed line that. No. Everybody's like, what is this? And then when they get to the end, they go, wait, there's so. There's not a ride.

[Brian Bates]

I'm outside.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You go. It's just a. It's just metal. It's just railing that just goes. And it's just people crowded and packed. But they kind of like it. You know what I mean? Like, it's. They. They don't. They don't hate it. Yeah. And it's hard to get some of them out of it because they just kind of go, no, I like being around. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We're set our ways.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

We. We did talk about this, like, five years ago on the podcast. We threw out a Nate Land theme park.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And we were kind of playing off the jokes then, and, you know, we said there would be a. A gout station for Aaron. Like.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

To come get out your foot check.

[Nate Bargatze]

If you wanted to. Like, what does it get some of that liquid out?

[Aaron Weber]

Blood, the drain. Your uric acid.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. It's like the opposite of a gas station. But for your foot, where it's. You go. You go prop your foot up on a thing and then they go just.

[Greg Warren]

That can't be how you treat gout.

[Nate Bargatze]

I think it is. I think it's the only way.

[Aaron Weber]

I think you can get liquid taken out if you have too much.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah. So that's what. That's what we're doing. All right. It's like if anybody's ever been one of those in a golf course where they have a blower that blows all the grass off your feet. I don't know if you've ever seen one. It's something like that.

[Greg Warren]

So right now you got a ride that isn't a ride, and you got the gout station.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's where we're at.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I'm not even supposed to talk about that, but I did.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He said in honor of me, all the clocks would be 10 minutes ahead, so everybody would be worried.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Look worried.

[Nate Bargatze]

Everybody's just like, we're late.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Those are our popular jokes back then.

[Greg Warren]

Have you gone looking around?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that stuff. I can't say.

[Brian Bates]

We.

[Nate Bargatze]

We have. We have ideas, but. Yeah. Is it fun? Oh, of what a very. Oh, yeah. The whole thing's amazing.

[Greg Warren]

I mean, going. Going to other parks.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh. Oh, I've been to. Yeah. Yes, I did. I went to. When I went. I went. That. I can't say I. I did. We went to Disneyland. Disney World. Epic. And then I went to Knott's Berry Farm kind of on my own. This was just on the road before this stuff was official.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Just to kind of. Because. But it was, like, headed that way just to kind of like, see Knott's Berry Farm. Where. Knott's very farm. Steve Martin worked at that. He had him in a magic shop. Did you know that? Steve Martin. They don't even make it that. They should make it a bigger deal. Yeah. But it's not. It's. It should be a more pro. Whatever that word.

[Greg Warren]

Was he doing that in a film, too?

[Nate Bargatze]

I think so. I think he's had some stuff to it. But he worked at a magic shop.

[Greg Warren]

That's cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

Knott's Berry Farm.

[Greg Warren]

That's like Orange county. Or is it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Or between. Yeah, yeah. It's not too far from Anaheim. It's not like, you know. But Knott's Berry Farm's still up there. Is. It's been around for a very long time. But, yeah, I've gone to other parks and, you know, it's like you kind of just see it's There's a lot of just how it flows and how they go in and you know, the old Disneyland parks used to be this. It's. They were all the spoke spoken hub spoken wheel like, like where you'd have to go down then back up to get to the middle. And so it's like even how they've. Parks is just a way to flow people through it. You started getting into that kind of stuff and. But I've actually seen, you know, I mean, I, I, Yeah, I've seen rides. I've seen all very early. Early. But it's like, you know, it's, it's going, man. And it's. And I love it. And everybody that we have involved Storyland is unbelievable partners. Like, they're, It's. They're insane. And what they've done and how serious they take what they do. So that's how big of a company. I'm not using just like my buddies. Yeah, yeah, I'm using. They were. They. Dubai Universal. And they're so good with telling stories. It's like everything's about. You know, they're storytellers. And so it's like the idea of this is how do we tell this story? And you know, and I, I, I want it to be a story of Nashville. And like, you know, it's a guess. I. It's called Nate Land. As of now. Right now, it's. It's called Nate Land. And I will take you through this. But, yeah, it's. Yeah, it's. It's very, very cool. It's a crazy. It's crazy. It's insane. It feels insane. I don't.

[Greg Warren]

You guys talked about the food yet?

[Nate Bargatze]

No. What would you want us. Yeah, what do you want? Bratwurst?

[Greg Warren]

I like. I'd like to have good. Some good fries. Really? Yeah. I bet you that Belgian.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Park.

[Greg Warren]

I bet you they had some fries. That's the first thing I thought of when you showed that picture. I bet you they got some real good fries at that Belgian park.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. You know. Yeah, we're having Belgian. You may produce some Belgian fries. Yeah, some do. Yeah. Because I've had. We had fries in Belgium and it was. Yeah, yeah, they're great.

[Greg Warren]

Pretzel. Maybe you should have.

[Brian Bates]

I think again, I think I may have made this joke five years ago, but burgers with a bite taken out of it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, yeah. From Lewis. Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Yeah. That's funny. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Iced coffee, whipped cream.

[Nate Bargatze]

Not bad. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

There's been a few proposed theme parks for the Nashville area that didn't pan out since Opryland. A couple I wanted to share with you guys. In 2016, Thrill Corps proposed a polar coaster for downtown Nashville. Can you Google polar coaster, Aaron? It's. It's like a roller coaster. It's just a big pole, go straight up, come back down. It was going to be on I think lower Broadway.

[Aaron Weber]

It's right here. The vertical roller coaster right here.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, yeah. Nashville makes short list for polar coasters.

[Aaron Weber]

That's on the Tennessee's website. I love them.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Bates]

So that's what was proposed. They was going to cost $50 million. I think they raised some money for it. But it just never pounded. It panned out and pounded out sound like some.

[Nate Bargatze]

I would say.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Never pound. Like that's what it sounds like when people hear from. Because that's. I was like that sounds exactly right.

[Brian Bates]

Founder of the company said their attractions, more of an a la carte experience than an all day excursion only occupy a half acre of land as opposed to the sprawling nature of traditional theme parks. But that never panned out.

[Nate Bargatze]

The rides, dude, that like. So IAPA where we announced this, there's. It's an international association Amusement parks. Yeah. Probably about right. And so they re. They introduce all the rides and the new rides and I mean dude, rides are getting insane. So that's when people talk about wanting to go to stuff. You're. The rides are getting crazy, dude. I, we went to Epic. Epic has some unbelievable stuff and they have rides where it looks like the track is broke and you still go across, but it's, it's. And you're on a roller coaster. It's unbelievable, dude. Like it's, it's, it's, it's. They're the way like stuff is going now with technology and just some of the stuff that you can go do and you can do and sometimes in a very small space and it's getting, it's getting pretty impressive. And so you're. You know, there's stuff with Ferris wheels that's crazy. Like there's. It. I mean it's, it's. It's pretty wild.

[Greg Warren]

I would have been the guy that like I would have believed even at the end I'd have been like, it's broke up there. You got. The thing is broke. Yeah, I know we made it, but the track is broken. You guys got to shut this down.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got it.

[Greg Warren]

No, it's part of. I'm telling you, it's broke.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. They go now we hear you. They let some guys just got to listen to one of you every ride. But this IAPA was a big. Yeah. When we announced it, we were a giant. It was a big, big splash at this. I was. I was on the roads, but Felix win and storyline guys were there and. Yeah. Got written. It was very, very exciting. We got written up in a lot of stuff. Rolling Stones and all kinds of magazines and. Yeah. I mean, it seems crazy. I mean, no one's going to believe it and you shouldn't until it's there. I understand. I'm not. But, you know, any kind of timeline.

[Brian Bates]

That you can tell us what you hope for?

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't know. We do. I don't know if I can say it. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Can you say whether it's a theme or amusement park?

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, it's even harder. Okay, so it's a. The amusement park.

[Aaron Weber]

Amusement.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, it's a. It's a theme park.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, it's a theme park. You think there'll be characters?

[Nate Bargatze]

I. I think so, yeah. I think we have characters. There's different ways that we can make it. I mean, all that is still very much early in the creative process.

[Greg Warren]

Anything. Stand up. Comedy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm gonna make sure it's not like I'm gonna be. Not removed from it. It's like lb, but it's. Yeah, we will have. Yeah. Comedy is such a. Is the biggest part. You know, a lot of. Yeah. Yes.

[Greg Warren]

Awesome.

[Nate Bargatze]

You'll be working in seven days a week, brother.

[Greg Warren]

Dude, I got to go somewhere.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got to go somewhere. I'm gonna be. Yeah. All three of you. Y' all gonna be doing four shows a day.

[Greg Warren]

Bring it on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're my day comics. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Stuff.

[Nate Bargatze]

Night, man. No, it's going to be mostly day. I know, but I think by the time this comes out, you're going to be moved more today.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

More of a audience will be. Dusk is like my. The show needs to end by dusk.

[Greg Warren]

But I'm saying if I have some hot sets during the day, we can.

[Nate Bargatze]

Look at it, we can talk about it. Because we'll definitely talk about it. I think you could do some guest spots if you're up, if you're away, because I think definitely we'll get you get some. Some guesties.

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[Brian Bates]

I. I googled the history of roller coasters. You know what came up? The Warren Report from the Bob and Tom show from three.

[Greg Warren]

Oh yeah, yeah. I did. I did a. I did a report.

[Brian Bates]

I watched an 18 minute video of you given the history of roller coaster.

[Greg Warren]

Pretty good.

[Brian Bates]

It was really good. There was some stuff I'm like you could. This is a joke you have in your act. Really?

[Greg Warren]

Because I really looking for those right now.

[Brian Bates]

Well you should go watch it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Should go.

[Greg Warren]

I should go watch some of these. Those. Those old. That's how the consumer started was doing that Bob and Tom report.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

But I remember it being Fun. And I remember we. I found like the fastest and the tallest all over the world.

[Brian Bates]

I'll share some of you, like.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, man. They were. There's. I mean, cedar points. Got one or two, don't they?

[Brian Bates]

Yes. So roller coasters began in Russia early as the 1600s.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

They would have giant.

[Nate Bargatze]

That would be a place that. Yeah, Russia. That's like. They've, you know, the. The bear stuff. It's just what you think of Russia. Yeah. It's like you could see them being. They ain't scared of trying.

[Greg Warren]

No, no. You're just throwing me off a cliff with roller skins.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yes. Go, go, go.

[Nate Bargatze]

What was the. What was it? An ice.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, it was like a giant ice. I mean, it was just basically a hill with ice. Yeah. And they made it into something fun to do. But that was.

[Aaron Weber]

So people definitely died doing that.

[Greg Warren]

Yes, people died, but it was.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

You die, I die.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, everybody die every day.

[Brian Bates]

In the 1850s, mining company in Pennsylvania had a train that would go deliver coal eight miles downhill. And eventually they came up with a better way to deliver coal. So they just turned that train down, let people start riding on it. And that was kind of the first roller coaster.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so it could go down and up.

[Brian Bates]

It's a good question. I guess.

[Greg Warren]

So that was the problem.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

They didn't think that through.

[Aaron Weber]

They had to build a whole new train every time.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Where would you get. Unless you would. Yeah. Can you imagine being on an 8 mile long. Like that's. And that's a ride.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You bring your kids. You bring your kids to probably two, three hours coffin. Yeah. I mean, you're just trapped. How long would. It would. Had to take a while, I guess. I don't think a train could just go flying down back. So I mean, I would think it would take. I mean, you're going downhill and then what are you seeing? If you look right, you see Johnny's hat got stuck in the wall right there. When he got.

[Brian Bates]

Then a guy named Lamarcus Thompson, who was the father of the American roller coaster, he thought roller coasters would be a great alternative to brothels and saloons.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what I'm doing.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I remember this guy.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

He built a roller coaster in Coney island in 1884. He charged a nickel a ride and he made $600 a day. So. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yes. It's Coney island, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Oh, wow. So he invented Coney Island.

[Brian Bates]

He built it in Coney Island.

[Greg Warren]

Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. So. But it was. Yeah, that's why Coney island is.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, man. That's crazy. Nickel a day made $600.

[Brian Bates]

According to Greg Warren on the warren report. Yeah, I didn't fact check.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's our. Yeah, that's our news. Report is we get our news from another comedian sitting next to him. Sitting next to him from 30 years ago.

[Greg Warren]

It's rock solid stuff, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Holds up. Still holds up today. Held up in 1997. Still holds up today.

[Brian Bates]

The first loop de loop roller coaster in America was called the flip flap. It was invented in the late 1800s. It was tested with sandbags and monkeys. It was so dangerous that people paid to watch other people ride it.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, man.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

It was so. I guess loop to loop roller coasters are supposed to be tear shaped. I never thought about it. But they're not supposed to be fully circular.

[Nate Bargatze]

The reason is flat spot.

[Brian Bates]

Well, the reason is they were experiencing 12G force on the way down. Fighter pilots black out at 10G. So everybody's blacking out. Yes.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And they eventually had to just stop it and cancel it. And they didn't do any more loop de loops for 50 years until they could figure out, wow. A better way to do it.

[Nate Bargatze]

You would. I mean, dude, that's so funny. I would have loved to have this in my fair chunk of material. The fact that you could build a roller coaster that people are paying. You have to pay just to watch.

[Greg Warren]

That's great because it's.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Would you ride it?

[Aaron Weber]

No.

[Nate Bargatze]

You don't think so?

[Aaron Weber]

I won't write them now.

[Nate Bargatze]

I know. But you don't think back then is 1895 to 1902. So you had a decent run yet. Seven years. 17 years. 17 years. No. Is that seven? Seven years. You don't think you would have back then. Like I don't know back then. I think now I could maybe be talked into it if I was my age going there. 1902. Do you think you would do it?

[Greg Warren]

No.

[Aaron Weber]

You get a couple drinks in you. Yeah. You could talk me into it.

[Greg Warren]

I love it.

[Aaron Weber]

What are you, a coward?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

They were tested with sandbags.

[Nate Bargatze]

Aaron goes alone. They go sandbags and monkeys.

[Greg Warren]

Sandbags and monkeys.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And I pay to watch that. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

But I wonder if like the. Its first sandbags and they're like this seems good. Get the monkeys and monkeys. Like wait a minute.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Well, the monkeys are fighting the. You get the orangutan. They're all in there in boxing gloves. Yeah. And they're. And they're going upside down.

[Brian Bates]

And then.

[Nate Bargatze]

That's crazy.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I guess that's more of a tear shaped ride.

[Nate Bargatze]

1908. So that one, they figured it out quick.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, this was the same manufacturer. This is their only other roller coaster.

[Nate Bargatze]

So apparently they did it the next year, not 50 years.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah, again, I got this from the Warren Report.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow. Greg was way off. Now it's FUNNIER to say 50 years. Yeah, but we do facts on here we go. Facts before fun. Facts before fun. That's what we've always. That's what this podcast is about.

[Greg Warren]

That's the motto of the theme park too, right?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Facts before fun. Facts before fun.

[Brian Bates]

Should be the name of my special.

[Greg Warren]

Brian Bates. Facts before fun.

[Nate Bargatze]

I could have Brian before every ride, he just walks around just going, I don't know if I'd ride this. And he just talks people out. He just brings the mood down throughout the whole park. We go, man, it's just a down day today.

[Brian Bates]

I'm a cooler. He's a cooler.

[Greg Warren]

A cooler at an amusement park?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. No. You could just go buy McDonald's and put it in your car and go out and eat.

[Greg Warren]

He goes, they're getting too worked out up there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Tastes like RC Diet Coke. Brian undercutting me everywhere. We gotta get him out of the park. I don't know where he's at. He looks like everybody.

[Brian Bates]

Coney island had a roller coaster called the Rough Rider. It was a Spanish American war themed roller coaster.

[Nate Bargatze]

That was before tv.

[Brian Bates]

It's just funny.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hey, I tell you what, I'll tell you what their favorite war was. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

What's your favorite war, sir?

[Nate Bargatze]

And this one became a ride.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

Roller coaster built by William F. Mangles. It's a tough name.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Roller coaster designer ride workers wore Spanish American war uniforms.

[Nate Bargatze]

When they introduce him. This is William F. He goes, that's enough. That's enough. He goes, with me. Say, no, let me finish your last name. No.

[Brian Bates]

Now. Now we're getting into Nate territory.

[Nate Bargatze]

Three people died on June 20th. Oh. Oh. Oh, wow. Yeah, man. Terrible.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I had a tough ending.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

In 1959, Walt Disney went on vacation to Switzerland and he sees the Matterhorn Mountain.

[Greg Warren]

I remember this.

[Brian Bates]

In the Swiss Alps. He sends a postcard back to his guys and all it says is, build this. He just.

[Greg Warren]

Can you. He just goes on vacation, sees this, the biggest ski mountain thing. And they're coming down in like sleds.

[Nate Bargatze]

And stuff like that.

[Greg Warren]

And he just sends a postcard. And, you know, there's guys back in Disney like, what are you talking about?

[Nate Bargatze]

That's what I'M talking about. Yeah. That's essentially what you do. You just go and go, let's build this.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. Yeah. Couldn't he gone on a vacation? Who let him go there? We can't make this. Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

We might have something, but it's. It's. It's simpler than this.

[Brian Bates]

Mount Juliet. Yes.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. He can't even see it from inside the park. Where is it? He goes, it's the lowest point of the park. He goes, I can't even find it. He goes, I think we're on it.

[Greg Warren]

He goes, two kids rolling down.

[Nate Bargatze]

How does it go downhill twice? Yeah, he. But this is. He wanted to create. I mean, the idea when Disney started, it wasn't like it was this IP driven thing. A lot of these theme parks and amusement parks weren't all this IP driven. It was just like. The idea was like Uncle Walt being like, yeah, bring your kids here and family and we have fun and. And all this kind of stuff. So it's. You gotta. You gotta. You know, that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go find something and be like, build me that.

[Brian Bates]

Then in 1972, Kings island opened and they had the racer.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And it became the most popular roller coaster ever. Oh, really popular. The episode of the Brady Bunch.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I remember that. I do remember that.

[Brian Bates]

1973.

[Greg Warren]

Yes. I mean, it was reruns, but I remember.

[Brian Bates]

But that really, like, put it in the spotlight.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. I've rode the racer.

[Greg Warren]

Really? It's Cincinnati, Ohio, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

Until you tell me it stopped in 1979, man. Maybe we did it.

[Brian Bates]

Did you ever go to the Nashville Fair or.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Or whatever. And there was that white roller coaster. That thing was scary.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's what. So we used to ride that. I had a joke about it one time. I was like. It was one that. They'd always be working on it. Even if you wrote it, like, you would just go down and just see welding. And you're like, I don't think this is good. Oh, it was like, just. Oh, yeah. It was like. But we wrote it. Yeah, but it was. It would move. It would, like, you just fall off. You gotta do that.

[Greg Warren]

It's part of the thrill ride is having welders down there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Just, you know, like, broken track. Just have some welders. Yeah, I'll do that.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I'll be a welder.

[Nate Bargatze]

Come in and just.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

So right before the roller coaster goes off, you run in and go. No, no, no, no.

[Brian Bates]

As they pull away.

[Nate Bargatze]

As they pull away.

[Greg Warren]

That's Great, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

That is great. That is a good.

[Brian Bates]

Never mind.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, never mind. No, no, no, no.

[Brian Bates]

I'm just saying after it becomes obvious to him, it's too late. Then he tries to change his story.

[Nate Bargatze]

But we're making be one of those that, you know now, a lot of them shoot you fast. So you start fast. Yeah, that would be good. Because there's no click, click, click. You just like right when you shoot, there's maybe another little ramp and then it's you. Then you come out. All right, we might have.

[Greg Warren]

That might be something.

[Nate Bargatze]

That might be something right there. Yeah, that might be something.

[Greg Warren]

A broken track. That's easy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron Weber]

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[Nate Bargatze]

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[Brian Bates]

Coaster in the world. Up until recently it was the at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi called the Formula Rosa and it would hit 150 miles an hour in five seconds. And But a couple years ago in Saudi Arabia Falcons flight opened and it can hit 155 miles per hour.

[Aaron Weber]

Wow.

[Brian Bates]

So by far faster than any in the U.S. yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm going to go have one. Go 160. There you go. Straight down. It's like the falcons like a giraffe throwing a giraffe out of an airplane.

[Brian Bates]

The fastest, fastest wooden roller coaster is a Dollywood.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh.

[Greg Warren]

Oh really?

[Brian Bates]

A lightning rod. 76 miles per hour.

[Nate Bargatze]

Wow. It used to be the beast was the longest wooden one in Kings Island.

[Brian Bates]

May still be.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, that's the one. That's the big one.

[Greg Warren]

That one I've heard.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I remember riding that one one.

[Greg Warren]

Oh really?

[Nate Bargatze]

That was like an all day thing. My dad, you know Screaming Eagle when.

[Greg Warren]

I was a kid in St. Louis. That was a big deal.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, I remember the name of that. Yeah. Screaming. We had the screaming Delta Demon.

[Greg Warren]

Oh wow. Sounds even.

[Nate Bargatze]

That was a. That was a good one. We had a chaos wall bash.

[Brian Bates]

Cannonball the Grizzly river rampage.

[Nate Bargatze]

Rampage.

[Brian Bates]

And I mean you just get soaked.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

And depending on what you're doing the rest of the day you're just going.

[Nate Bargatze]

To walk around wet with whatever they got some. Yeah, they. Yeah. I mean, yeah. It's. I mean in two like it's where theme parks and you know they talk about like a lot of theme parks not working. And I know exactly the articles when people say it. Like when they're like these ones didn't work in this town and this whatever. And it's. You know, unless you're like this is the beast. It's. It's unbelievable. I mean how fun's that? I mean we were scared to death. But it's wood when you hear it. Yeah, yeah. And it's, it's. Yeah. But you know like with. You gotta believe. I mean because you. I get sent those articles. I've seen those articles. I've had multiple people be like well this one went under and that one went under and why like who's sending you those articles?

[Aaron Weber]

Right.

[Nate Bargatze]

Mostly Some people. My Brian. Well, it's. I mean, like, you guys.

[Brian Bates]

Another one.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't. You just. You just hear about everything once you're in this space.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

And so even if it's. Even if it's. I don't want to say no one's against it, but it's like, yeah, dude. I don't know. Be honest. It's just kind of hard to wrap your head around to go tell people you want to build a theme park.

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

You got to find a certain group of people that are going to agree to go down that road with you. And, you know, again, I'm like, yeah, I don't know, man. It's what I'm looking. Look. I look for reasons not to. I'm waiting. Just give me the reason not to. So. But yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot to put on someone when you tell them that. I've said a lot of things that a lot of times people are like, what? I go, I don't know. I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. But these ones that failed didn't have.

[Nate Bargatze]

Like, a giant comedian behind my argument is why Disney did so well is like, there is. There's direction. So even if it's Mickey Mouse, even if it's, you know, Dolly. Dollywood is Dollywood. But even if it's. Even if you don't have that character, it's like, even the old. The Silver Dollar City and all these. Was like, there was a theme to it of you in the old timey Western. Like, that's what Walt did is like, you go, this is like going to an old Western, and this is like the town he grew up in and stuff. And like, so it was all this. You. You had reasons to go into this part of the roller coaster. And then it's just the experience that you give them is, you know, is what makes it. What makes it great. And so. Yeah. Yeah, man. That's crazy. To seeing this. The beast. I got a hat that had a flap, so it had a. It was like, what's. Like how you'd wear in the Sahara desert.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh. To protect sunburn.

[Nate Bargatze]

My dad. Yeah. Dad told us. He goes, if you ride this ride, you will. I'll buy you something from the shop.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, that's cool.

[Nate Bargatze]

And that was kind of the. That was. Finally. Was like, all right. And I mean, we were scared to death. But, like, it's a moment, like, that's what I love is like, the moment you get to have as a parent, when you get to ride a ride with your kid and they're scared and you're getting to see, like, Harper Road, Jurassic World. The water ride was kind of her first in Universal in la, in California. And so that was one of the first ones that, like, I remember the day I. I got this day I got claustrophobia from the Simpsons ride. If you want to time stamp it, it was. I didn't have that point. I didn't know I had it, but I was like. I was feeling it. I felt it on that ride where I was like, oh, this is a little. But when she came to me and said, I want to ride that ride, that was. I'll never forget that in my whole life. I'll tell hopefully her grandchildren about that being like. And we went down this. I couldn't believe it. She. She came up to me and said she wanted to ride it. We were trying to get her to ride stuff, but that one, she was like, I'm going to. She wanted to do it on her own. Like, it was so me and her went. And I mean, she held on to me as tight as possible. I mean, it's a moment that I'll never. I mean, like, I don't know how you can't. You can't buy that. You can't. And even if it's with friends or it's whatever, it's. You know, we've gone on the road with friends and we have since we buy these pictures, and they're just so funny, and they're moments that you're going to look back and you just see four of your buddies, like, on a ride, and you're like, remember we were in Knott's Berry. We, like, remember we had two shows. For us, it's this memory. But remember, we had a show that day and we went and did this, and then you did that. I remember Nick. And then we got a great story with Nick Novicki at Knott's Berry Farm because he. Nick, I don't know if I've told that about podcast. Yeah, it's with him trying to get us in the. Yeah, the disability line. And so he just had us go up the wrong way. Yeah. Oh, dude. He wrote a. I mean, it's the. Was the funniest thing. He's like, I got us. I mean, he would walk up there trying to bring 14 of us on a ride. Like, where you go. He goes, but I'm a little.

[Aaron Weber]

Little person.

[Nate Bargatze]

And he goes. He goes, can I go in this way? And it's the back way. And they go, all right. And he goes, also my friends, it's just eight of us.

[Greg Warren]

I don't think that's the spirit of the.

[Nate Bargatze]

I don't think that's the spirit of either. That's what, that's what Nick would do. He would. We would go up completely the wrong way. Hey, yeah, do you mind if I go? Yeah, that makes sense. Also my friends. And then just all of us take over this road like it was. And I mean, I'm 46 years old. They also did. They guessed his age and they guessed over his age, which was fun. I mean, that's the. That was such a funny, by the way. That was such a when. Because they guessed. They said he's 42. And so if they get it within two years, then it counts or something. Two years or something like that. And so we're like, well, I bet they get young because they want to be nice. And they said 46. So. So he won because she was four years off. But now he's sad because someone thinks he's 46 years old. And then we start telling him, or I started telling him. I go, that means she thought 50 and she shoots low. She's shooting low. Yeah. So she easily. She goes, all right, obviously this 50 year old dude's here. So 46. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm wrong. You're wrong the other way.

[Greg Warren]

You go in those age guessing nobody's gonna be happy.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, nobody's gonna be happy about it. I mean, I. It's so funny and. Because then you gotta walk around with a big stuffed animal and you're just sad. You're just sad your day's ruined.

[Brian Bates]

How'd you win that? They over guess my age.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

I just thought of a way you could save money on your theme park.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know how they have cameras that take pictures of people coming down the.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

You know, to buy. I could just say, hand me your phone.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. And you're there.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. And I just snap it.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's a lot of trust.

[Brian Bates]

I know.

[Nate Bargatze]

You think people would save them money?

[Brian Bates]

Not you. I thought this through, actually.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, man.

[Nate Bargatze]

No. Yeah. Yeah. We might need on paying for those pictures, but I do like. But you're going to have to do a lot of like. Like right when they come off and they're like excited to see it, then you go that way.

[Greg Warren]

You go do it again.

[Nate Bargatze]

If you, before you look at it, if you want to do it again, I can get you back on.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Before you look at the picture and be a long conversation. Yeah.

[Brian Bates]

Don't be mad.

[Nate Bargatze]

How are you going to be. You would do it every. Just. You would sit at a ride? Yeah. What would you be willing to do at. Will you guys work at the Nateland?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I'll help out however you need, man.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah, I'm in, man. I mean I'd like to do some of those night shows if I prove myself.

[Nate Bargatze]

Some night shows. But what about some. What about work around the park? Like say. No, no.

[Aaron Weber]

Entertainment, sweeping, stuff like that.

[Nate Bargatze]

I started as a sweeper.

[Brian Bates]

I let a dog out and have to.

[Aaron Weber]

But we're a little past.

[Nate Bargatze]

You're a little past where you started? Not much. Yeah. If I could get career wise, my dad was doing magic up there.

[Greg Warren]

If I could get jiff on board.

[Nate Bargatze]

He's about where my dad was at doing magic at Opuland when I was 15.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah. If I. If I could get jiff on board and have some sort of peanut butter and jelly booth or something like that. Yeah, with jiff and sparkles and I serve them up or whatever.

[Nate Bargatze]

Would you be willing to do the. Guess the weight, Guess the age?

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, I'd love to do that.

[Nate Bargatze]

You would? Like let me do people's weights?

[Aaron Weber]

Yeah, I think I'm pretty good at weights.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Only women. What are you talking about?

[Greg Warren]

I'm just saying.

[Nate Bargatze]

Can you get it? Can you guess? I'll let you. You guess my weight right now.

[Aaron Weber]

192, dude.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's pretty. That might be exactly right. Why does it hurt?

[Greg Warren]

He's not happy.

[Nate Bargatze]

It's supposed to be a fun.

[Greg Warren]

Now it's not. This is what I'm telling you right now.

[Brian Bates]

You're supposed to guess.

[Nate Bargatze]

I'm trying to be the most hated.

[Greg Warren]

Person in the park whether you're right or wrong.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Hey, Bates is going to be pretty tough. He's. I think Bates is getting skinny.

[Aaron Weber]

You're at about. You just lost a little bit of weight because you were sick for a while. You're about 171 right now.

[Brian Bates]

No, not that low. I'm about 180N.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, you had.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, you look good.

[Brian Bates]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, heavy feet. Greg, you want to do.

[Greg Warren]

I hadn't been on scale since the NCAA tournament.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah. Well, then this is the best time.

[Greg Warren]

Stop getting on scales.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, do you mind if.

[Brian Bates]

Let him guess and then we'll weigh and film it?

[Greg Warren]

I don't want.

[Nate Bargatze]

No, you don't have to step on a scale. But apparently he's pretty good at it. So you're Gonna get a good.

[Greg Warren]

No, I don't want to know what he thinks. People hate you for this.

[Aaron Weber]

I know.

[Nate Bargatze]

Can you whisper it into the microphone? No, no. Can you turn your head? And he shows and he holds up numbers.

[Greg Warren]

No, no, he goes. You start with a two.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, I.

[Greg Warren]

Why you keep flashing up two?

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, he just did it. So see, that's the games we're going to be playing. We distract you and you people aren't.

[Greg Warren]

Going to enjoy this part of the park.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, they're going to come right to it. Oh, yeah, this is going to be.

[Aaron Weber]

You might to put me in the back, cuz everyone's coming to me. I'm like, the milk. Put me in the back.

[Nate Bargatze]

You hear the milk of our. They go, where's Aaron? Some of people are like, we gotta go to Aaron first. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Make sure they make sure you're walking by the. The T shirt stand or whatever.

[Nate Bargatze]

I move Aaron around just because when I need stuff to be. Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Yeah.

[Nate Bargatze]

Well, there. That was fun. Yeah. You guys want to say where?

[Brian Bates]

Yeah. Tonight I am at the Addison Improv. Tomorrow night I met the Houston Improv.

[Greg Warren]

Oh, wow.

[Brian Bates]

Yeah.

[Greg Warren]

I believe the highest grossing comedy club in the country.

[Nate Bargatze]

Oh, yeah, I think. I believe. I believe. Great club.

[Brian Bates]

I'll fix that. But that's. That's where I'm at. The next two nights I'm going to.

[Nate Bargatze]

Be still in Kansas.

[Greg Warren]

Mike Drop Comedy Club in Plano. Yeah, that's Plano, Texas. That's right. Go see Batestone. Maybe Come see me.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Warren]

Kids show on Saturday.

[Aaron Weber]

Oh, nice. San Francisco, California, at the Punchline this weekend and the Sacramento Punchline on Sunday. So come see me. California. I'm out there.

[Nate Bargatze]

Yes. All right, we love you. See you next week, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. See you next week. Bye.

[Brian Bates]

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