102: Nate Jackson Picked Dandelions for Shoplifting | The Wayback #102

Summary

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The Wayback with Ryan Sickler

Episode 102: Nate Jackson Picked Dandelions for Shoplifting
Release Date: December 11, 2025
Guest: Nate Jackson

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Overview

In this lively and nostalgic episode of "The Wayback," Ryan Sickler reconnects with comedian Nate Jackson for a hilarious, heartfelt walk down memory lane. The episode explores Nate’s upbringing in Lacey, Washington, the quirks of his childhood neighborhood, his storied family church (complete with a “Tanisha clause”), run-ins and near-misses with youthful mischief—including shoplifting and a semi-illicit bike-selling enterprise—and reflections on community, temptation, and making your own history as a kid from a small town. The energy is high, the stories are vivid, and the laughs are constant.

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Main Discussion Points

Nate Jackson's Career & Life Update (04:31–05:50)

• Nate’s Comedy & Acting Projects: Nate is on the "Big Dog Tour," has his own comedy/YouTube work, has collaborated musically with hip-hop legends, is acting in major TV and film projects (Netflix, "Good Fortune," "Bad Monkey," "The Paper"), and jokes, "I need a wife."
  • Quote: “Get your laugh on. You deserve to laugh this hard. And so there, there. All that is in a nutshell. I need a wife.” – Nate Jackson (05:46)

Roots in Lacey, Washington (06:01–12:52)

• Childhood Home & Neighborhood Changes:
  • Describes family home, helping his dad build things, pets, and how the property changed hands.
  • Shares how a neighbor converted the property into “Forever Young” hair salon.
  • Calls out differences in property care over time.
• Neighborhood Dynamics:
  • Discusses "Tangle Wild"—a huge development nearby that had its own social distinctions.
    • Quote: “Them kids would be like, you ain’t from Tanglewild. Like, I couldn’t go use the pool or have no summertime fun.” (08:18)
  • Recalls exclusive amenities and daycare ("Kids Choice") that seemed magical as a kid.
• Local Hangouts: Union Mills Grocery & Arcade:
  • Anecdote about the local arcade inside a brick building and avoiding older kids taking their quarters.
• The Family Church – New Life Baptist (10:09–15:12):
  • Largest Black church in South Puget Sound; details on choir, weekly activities, and the strong family and community ties.
  • Memorable “Tanisha Clause” Story:
    • Nate tells how a churchgoer with an impressive figure forced the collection process to change:
      • “People are like, we don’t need to be dealing with temptation when we’re trying to give our money to the Lord.” (14:18)
      • Ryan remarks: “They had a Tanisha clause. She changed the game. Like, they were like, this is too tempting. So now we’re just gonna do it this way, because this lady’s ass…”
  • Comment on the impact of nearby Joint Base Lewis-McChord in creating diversity in Lacey.

Growing Up: Schools, Sports, and Social Life (15:12–22:58)

• Rapid Neighborhood Growth:
  • Reflections on how the area expanded, new fields, and demographic changes.
• Schools Experience:
  • Nate describes the middle and high school setup—e.g., two football teams within one middle school (Nisqually Totems vs. Nisqually Chiefs) and their different reputations ("good kids" vs "badasses").
• High School (River Ridge):
  • Multi-campus layout—“four schools in one”—and the communal nature of student life; late-night parties, gathering at Safeway lot, and school pride.
  • Socioeconomic divisions across neighborhood subdivisions.
  • Quote: “Every school was like, whatever identity, you make it—literally.” (22:48)
• Switching Schools:
  • Sent to new schools as his mom was on the school board, making him a “first of everything.”

Shoplifting Adventure at the Capitol Mall (23:01–31:16)

• Setup:
  • Cousin’s shoplifting antics inspire Nate to try; cousin brags about "easy" scores (“new shoes, new everything”).
• Nate’s Attempt:
  • Puts on extra clothes in Bon Marche fitting room, notices a suspicious "shopper" tailing him; realizes he's being watched.
• Abort!
  • Takes off the stolen goods, but accidentally keeps a $14 t-shirt.
• Busted:
  • Security confronts him anyway—“They paraded me through there like they had caught a goddamn prize peacock” (27:44).
  • Nate’s dad negotiates at the office, pointing out Nate didn’t even intend to steal. Still, Nate gets busted thanks to his cousin’s history and association.
  • Quote:
    • “You got my kid in here, who obviously decided not to steal from you today and you mad over a $14 shirt? The kid had $30 in his pocket.” – Nate’s dad (29:47)
    • “I was a kid, man. I was black, so I did community service. I remember we had to go on the freeway and pick dandelions or something.” – Nate Jackson (30:25)
  • Reflects on racial bias (“how many little black guys are going to keep popping us”) and the reality of youthful mistakes.

Other Hilarious Youthful Mischief: Flipping Stolen Bikes (34:09–39:03)

• Bike Scheme:
  • Nate and friends would steal unlocked bikes (from “rich” neighborhoods), sell them through newspaper ads, and sometimes get a little too ambitious.
  • Anecdote about trying to sell a “futuristic” bike, getting questioned by an obvious undercover type.
  • Would hide bikes at home; mom almost supports “bike business” with tools, not realizing the source.
• Busted Again (Sorta):
  • Newspaper gets suspicious about price changes and asks for photos; fears being exposed by classified “lost bike” ads.
  • Realizes the scheme isn’t sustainable but relishes the thrill and quick cash (“no overhead!”).

Family Fish Tales & Life Lessons (39:03–41:09)

• Fishing in Backyard Pond:
  • Caught bass and even a rare, big brown trout with a Banjo Minnow.
  • Quote: “I caught a steelhead brown trout out of it…you could hit a golf ball across this body of water. This is not a lake…somebody at some point stocked it.”
  • The fish gets taxidermied, but suffers an injury when it falls on Nate’s dad (resulting in stitches).
• Reflection:
  • Even small-town, make-your-own-fun roots yield both wild stories and abiding memories.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On new schools and making history:
  “If you’re in that school, you’re making history in there." – Ryan Sickler (22:48)
• On family, church, and community temptations:
  “Her booty was unreal…they changed [the collection]…because this lady’s ass.” – Nate Jackson / Ryan Sickler (14:18–14:29)
• On getting caught shoplifting:
  “They paraded me through there like they had caught a goddamn prize peacock.” – Nate Jackson (27:44)
• On crafting his own side hustle:
  “We just kept the ad going and we kept selling these bikes…It was a rush. Like, you’re headed out of these people’s neighborhoods with four bikes in the back of your truck.” – Nate Jackson (34:44)
• On the “Tanisha clause” at church:
  “People are like, we don’t need to be dealing with temptation when we’re trying to give our money to the Lord. So they changed it. Buckets now. No more walking up.” – Nate Jackson (14:18)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Nate's career & current projects: 04:31–05:50
• Childhood home & property: 06:01–07:51
• Neighborhood stories & distinctions: 07:51–10:09
• Church, choir, and “Tanisha clause”: 10:09–15:12
• School spirit, sports, social life: 15:12–22:53
• Shoplifting at the mall: 23:01–31:16
• Bike theft and resale operation: 34:09–39:03
• Fishing adventures & trophies: 39:03–41:09

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Episode Tone & Style

The episode is full of warmth, nostalgia, and raucous laughter, with both Ryan and Nate riffing and reminiscing in a conversational, quick-witted style. Even at its most outrageous (church drama, bike hustles), the stories land with heart and humility.

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Closing & Plugs

• Nate Jackson:
  • Website for tour dates and content: natejacksoncomedy.com
  • YouTube, podcasts, music, and current acting credits (“Super Funny” on Netflix, “Good Fortune,” “Bad Monkey”).
• Ryan Sickler:
  • New Comedy Special "Live and Alive," streaming on YouTube.

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This episode offers a whirlwind of genuine memories and candid laughter, perfect for fans of storytelling, comedy, and anyone who remembers growing up with big dreams in a small town.

Transcript

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[Ryan Sickler]

Guys, I want to say thank you very much. We hit over a million views on Live and Alive. Thank you for supporting it. Thank you for watching it. If you haven't yet, go watch it. Share it with your friends. Comment. Like comment all that stuff. Live and Alive streaming now on my YouTube. Thank you guys so much for your support.

[Nate Jackson]

Hey baby, we going to be here all day. We going to be here all day, baby. I like that kind of party.

[Ryan Sickler]

Welcome back to the Way Back. Everybody. Ryan Sickler over here. You know it's Ryan Sickler.com Ryan Sickler on all your social media. Starting this one like I start them all by saying thank you. Thank you for supporting anything I do. I don't care what it is. Thank you. But make sure you go watch my new special Live and Alive streaming on my YouTube now. Thank you for supporting it. But if you haven't yet, go watch it. They told us it matters more if you watch it on your TV. That's something I learned from YouTube. Yeah, how about that? That they value that more than a phone or a tablet. So go watch it on your tv. Like share comment. All that good stuff. It really does matter.

[Nate Jackson]

All right.

[Ryan Sickler]

I'm very excited to have this guest back here. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Nate Jackson. Welcome to the Way Back. Nate Jackson, thank you for being here.

[Nate Jackson]

Thank you for having me.

[Ryan Sickler]

Before we get into your stories, right there. Plug it all. Everything and anything you'd like.

[Nate Jackson]

I'll try to do it fast.

[Ryan Sickler]

Take your time.

[Nate Jackson]

Humbly, there's a lot going on. So I'm on a national tour called the Big Dog Tour. You can find the dates for that at Nate Jackson comedy dot com. Check out the Nate Jackson podcast. Check out Opinionated. That's the podcast. Also there, the crowd work joints. And with the energy that's going into YouTube. Please check that out. Nate Jackson on YouTube. Check out my music on itunes. Nate Jackson. I have a song with Too short and zero. I have another song with Twista. I wanted to fill the space of all the love music that's missing since everybody in R and B keeps going to jail. And then so I'm acting on Bad Monkey season two Vince Vaughn show. It's a really fun show. Please go watch Good Fortune, Aziz Ansari's directorial debut with Keanu Reeves, Keke Palmer and Seth Ross Rogan. I'm in that. And then you can go watch me on the paper, the office spin off. Then make sure you check out Super Funny on Netflix. It's on there right now. It was in the top 10 and it peaked at 3. It's really good. Get your laugh on. You deserve to laugh this hard. And so there, there. All that is in a nutshell. I need a wife.

[Ryan Sickler]

I hear that too. Me too, bro. Look, let's go back to the beginning of all this. Congrats on everything. Let's go back to the start. So where are you born? Where are you from originally?

[Nate Jackson]

So I'm born St. Peter's Hospital, Olympia, Washington. Raised eight minutes from there in Lacey, Washington.

[Ryan Sickler]

Lacey, Washington.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah. The house I lived in up until nine years old is right there. Seven. That's it. So when the house had the red bottom and the. And the green. So I helped my dad as a kid by handing him nails to build that little walk bridge thing on the. Oh, yeah, right here. Yeah. And then what's under there?

[Ryan Sickler]

Is there a koi pond under?

[Nate Jackson]

At a point there was, but this was. Now there's just rocks.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

But there you go. And then whoever that is that lives in the house didn't take care of the lawn because it was luscious and green, but it did not have trees.

[Ryan Sickler]

Real quick, let me ask you also, is that all your property?

[Nate Jackson]

Back then it was, but he sold it to a Korean lady and she opened a hair salon called Forever Young.

[Ryan Sickler]

Forever Young, Yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

And so that. That entrance is backed by that little handicap kid bus that they can come down and park in there. And then you would get your hair done. Now where those sheds are.

No, that these people put that in.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh.

[Nate Jackson]

But when I was a kid, they weren't there. But back where. You see that. That green bush back there? Yeah. A little bit to the right.

[Ryan Sickler]

To the right.

[Nate Jackson]

Right there, that. We had a full dog panel for our two cocker spaniels. A sweet one named Brandy. That was my oldest sister's dog. And then another one named Luke. That was crazy as. Do you cuss on this? Yeah, Luke was crazy as, like, literally insane. Like, would run down the ramp of his dog house and do a full. Remember that? A backflip. And then land on his feet and never. And never stop barking. So. And when I. When I was 7, my dad be like, go feed the dogs. Like, and it was like, there it is.

[Ryan Sickler]

There's forever, y'.

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[Nate Jackson]

Told you. This is like. This is like a horror movie. And so that neighborhood on the other side, storefront again.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, that's crazy forever, y'.

[Nate Jackson]

All.

[Ryan Sickler]

But that was your property originally.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah, it was. And there was nothing over there but the compost pile and then the dog's cage, and so it was just some land there. And then that neighborhood, you see that white house back on, now that we're looking across the other way, all the way back right there across the street. So that even though there's trees, that's a. That's one of the biggest neighborhoods. It's called Tangle Wild. And literally there's like 40, 000 homes in there.

[Ryan Sickler]

Holy.

[Nate Jackson]

Are you serious? This was across from it. So when I went to go do anything.

[Ryan Sickler]

So you were doing the edge of.

[Nate Jackson]

The outskirts, them kids would be like, you ain't. You ain't from Tanglewild. Like, I could. They had a pool in the middle of that that was like. You had to have a Tangle Wild address to use the pool. Yeah. And, like, I couldn't go use the pool or, like, have no summertime fun. So right there, that white built. So that's a daycare. Kids Choice.

[Ryan Sickler]

The blue.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah, they had all the. They built it. It had, like. They had every console. You could play video games, play pool.

[Ryan Sickler]

A bunch of stuff, like a little while.

[Nate Jackson]

Or this is before. Whatever that is. Whatever that is. I'm talking, like 20. I don't know. Yeah. So I think it might say kids choice now if that ever clears up. But everybody wanted to go to kids choice. It does not look like Much right now. But as a kid it was like, oh my God. Like, okay, so let's go to the right. And there was a. There's a place that still exists called Union Mills Grocery Store. And I would walk through the bush. Yeah. So I would walk up through these bushes right there on the right. You see that little construction sign?

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

So on the right you could pop up and then hit that crosswalk and go. And you see that dumpster right there on the street? Yeah, that, like, that's the side of Union Mills. And so that little grocery store or convenience store served all the houses that lived in there and all the houses that lived all back up in there. And so if you look on the right, there's a building that's got shingles.

That is like a little arcade, that little brick building. So if you were to open the door, that there's like five or six, like, you know, Pac man and all that stuff. So you would go up and you playing there until like the older kids would come be like, give me all your quarters.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

You know, I mean, so that's Union Mills. And then. Yeah. So apparently they don't have games in there anymore. But that when I was a kid, it was that and also when my sisters were young. And so you can see where the kids from the neighborhood, if you back up a little bit, you can see.

[Ryan Sickler]

Where they have jump in there.

[Nate Jackson]

They're walking up to it.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, that's a walk.

[Nate Jackson]

Okay. Yeah. So then. Yeah. So the church I grew up at. Let's go to my church. Let's go left. This is the biggest black owned church in South Puget Sound. Can you type in? Can you type in? New Life Baptist Church. Bam. There's the church.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's a nice looking church.

[Nate Jackson]

It's big. I mean, it's big and you know, there's, you know, there's 6, 700 people in there. Full choir. That's. That's where I earned a lot of ass whoopings.

Oh my God.

[Ryan Sickler]

Wait, are you. How many days a week are you in here?

[Nate Jackson]

Oh, we would go. I would go, sure. Sundays and then choir practice was Tuesdays.

[Ryan Sickler]

You sang in the choir?

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah, Tenor for life. Matter of fact, my chair was right. Huh.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, that's not. So sometimes Kirsten has sickler.

[Nate Jackson]

That's crazy.

[Ryan Sickler]

Hold on a second.

[Nate Jackson]

Sometimes pull up three more black people right now and he has to say which one is ready.

[Ryan Sickler]

I promise you she has pictures ready.

[Nate Jackson]

A lot pulled up any random black kid. Anyway, so that was our church. Our family sat in the Same pew my entire life. Still to this day.

[Ryan Sickler]

Are your parents still together?

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah, they're still together.

[Ryan Sickler]

Are they like a Monday to.

[Nate Jackson]

Are they the Monday to Sunday people like my mom? Like, they helped organize to get the church going at the old location. It was down on Puget or something. I don't remember. But so our family would say, you see the pews on the right that have the white strips? So right behind that, because that's like clergy members or whatever I think you call it. But that pew, that's where my family is every Sunday. Like, right. They just know, like, oh, the Jacksons will be there. Mama Jackson still there. It'd be my mom and dad going. So I, I recognize those people. Like, that was. That's minister Katie Hardin right there in the middle. What makes this area interesting and why there's even black people is joint base Lewis McCord is 12 minutes from this. And that's the biggest military installation in the western hemisphere.

[Ryan Sickler]

Is that right?

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah. So a ton of the people at church are. I.

[Ryan Sickler]

Are military.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah. Like you're looking across at where like my mom would be sitting. Not the far wall, but this pew closer. Yeah. And then, and then as a kid in this middle section, there was this family and they had two daughters and the older daughter was like bad. Right. And so I, I would for show, be dressed to go see Shalanda and then Shalonda. Yeah. And then some Sundays, there used to be the Harris family. They would line up, they would. Their whole family. They had. They were from Chicago. They would take up the entire pe. With kids, the aunties and all that. And they had a daughter named Tanisha. Lord have mercy. We used to have to change how we would do.

Offering. So usually they come to your row and then your whole row get up and then you go down and do the money and then you get back into your row. But she would be dressed like her booty would be. Her booty was unreal.

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[Nate Jackson]

And she would they. I don't know how, but she was wearing catsuits and all kind of stuff. Like, catsuits. She was sure. Listen, Thick as.

Tanisha. I miss you. And so wherever you're at and so. But, like, it would be like, people are like, we don't need to be dealing with temptation when we're trying to give our money to the Lord. So they changed it. And then they would just come to your aisle and, like, a bucket would go by. Hold on.

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She.

[Nate Jackson]

Yes.

[Ryan Sickler]

They had a Tanisha clause.

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Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

She changed the game. Like, they were like, this is too tempting. So now we're just gonna do it this way. Because this lady's ass.

[Nate Jackson]

Nobody said anything out loud. But there was a. There had to be. I remember she was dressed, like, in a mini skirt. Like, you could see, like, the back of the. Like, a little bit under the butt cheek. And then the next Sunday was like, we passing the buckets. Like, no more. Yeah, yeah. Because it's one thing, like, if the pastor's preaching, he's expecting all eyes on him. But if he's noticing, all the men are like, God dang it. Like, you can't say church.

[Ryan Sickler]

No. And the women aren't happy about it either.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah. They're like this little temptress, so. Oh, that's my church, man. And I. I love that place. So shout out to Pastor Reeves, the new presiding pastor over there. And then.

[Ryan Sickler]

And was this, like, a elementary through high school type of thing?

[Nate Jackson]

This is still. If I go home.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

Like, if I'm in town and my mom's like, come to church with us. No, I'm not acquiring anything anymore.

[Ryan Sickler]

But you'll go check it out.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah. So then, let's see. So this. See that Regional athletic complex. That's a whole new thing. They, like. It's flat out amazing. There's like, that doesn't even look right. There's probably like, 16 field. Yeah. See, that's soccer and baseball. And then all that's parking lot. Like, that didn't exist.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's mass.

[Nate Jackson]

It is. And it'd be every parking spot you see on.

[Ryan Sickler]

I mean, we look at these maps all the time. And just the way.

[Nate Jackson]

This is huge. It's a full block of just. Yeah. And there's people walking the trails. There's a little basketball court. There's some tennis.

[Ryan Sickler]

Let's go high school. Let's go see your high school.

[Nate Jackson]

Let's look at the high school. The middle school is right there across the street. Caddy corner. So the brown roof.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, yeah. Right here.

[Nate Jackson]

That's. Yeah. And so where you see Ostrom. See Ostrom Avenue? Yeah, that. That. That's the Ostrom's mushroom farm. And so is concrete. Used to be giant pits of.

Manure because you got to grow mushrooms. Manure. And on Wednesdays, they would stir it. They would. They would stir or do whatever. Every Wednesday, when I tell you, if you zoom out a little bit, just. Just zoom out some more. A little bit more. Everybody on that screen could smell ashrams on the screen. Yes. And they finally got rid of it. And so now, like, the area is. Look at how much residential there is.

[Ryan Sickler]

That is crazy. That one neighborhood you're talking, like, so.

[Nate Jackson]

Where I grew up had hoes. So if you go. If you look at mushroom corner. Yeah. So if you zoom in.

[Ryan Sickler]

Hey, girl.

[Nate Jackson]

8100 on the right there. So that's Nisqually Middle School.

Right there. And so there was so many kids went to the school that they had two different football teams at the same school. Yeah. So we had the Nisqually Totems, and then we had the Nisqually Chiefs. Two different quarterbacks, two different. You root for whatever team your kid.

[Ryan Sickler]

Is on, you have enough people to field two football teams. Yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

And the way it felt was like, Nisqually Totems was the school where, like, it was the team. If you played on totem football team, like, you were supposed to be better at sports. But then the Chiefs was like, everybody that was, like, in trouble or suspended, so they felt like the badass. It was like the. The good guys versus the longest yard, literally.

[Ryan Sickler]

So you got Yankees, Mets in house, though. So what did. What did most people root for? Would you say, like, the student body? Were they more totems versus I think.

[Nate Jackson]

That we just 50 or. Yeah, we didn't care.

[Ryan Sickler]

Or we, like this. They're better at basketball. They're better at football. They're better.

[Nate Jackson]

I don't think they had two different basketballs. They may have after I left. I mean, that's middle school. So you're only there for two years. Yeah, but we. When we got to high school, all the. Both teams blended to be on the River Ridge Hawks.

[Ryan Sickler]

And were you guys good?

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah, we were solid. I mean, we had. Jeremy Stevens was our quarterback at the time. He went to the league. Timberline High School's across town. They had Jonathan Stewart. He played for the Carolina Panthers. Okay, keep pounding. Yeah. So you go to River Ridge High School, and you'll see where I was playing football. Baseball. We were under. Yeah. So they've remodeled it now to where it looks like a college campus a little bit.

[Ryan Sickler]

They seem to have continued to put money into this neighborhood and build up this.

[Nate Jackson]

See that? That wasn't there when I was there. There was no.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's what I'm saying.

[Nate Jackson]

Whatever them apartments are. Yeah, that wasn't.

[Ryan Sickler]

More people are moving in, and it's growing.

[Nate Jackson]

And so this was. This is the tennis courts on the left, and then behind that is our football practice, football field, and the track.

[Ryan Sickler]

Is it to a point now where you have multiple high schools in this pocket now, too? Or is everybody.

[Nate Jackson]

No, it's still the three.

[Ryan Sickler]

It's three.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah. It's Timberline, North Thurston, and River Three.

[Ryan Sickler]

On that one pocket.

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[Nate Jackson]

In. In this. In Lacey. And so North Thurston is like the oldest school. It's where all the white kids go. And then Timberline is. It's. It's old, too, but it got remodeled to look for real, like a college campus. And so then whatever school is the newest is where all the parents are trying to send their kids. Right. So the way the school is set up is. That's River Ridge, right? Yeah. So you see that? You see the. The four buildings that are fanned out like playing cards. Yeah. Here's 2002. Got it. So I graduated the year before this. So those four buildings, that's A house, B house, C house, and D house. Oh, and so it was like four schools inside of one school.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, right. This is a community college.

[Nate Jackson]

That's how. That's how it was set up to be. And then out here was the baseball field, the only green patch of grass. That was the varsity baseball field. And then the one that's dirt, that was the JV field. And then those three down there, those are all softball fields. And then that soccer field up Top that was. They went to state for soccer before any other sport or whatever. On the top right, that green patch that, that's the soccer field. We didn't even go over there. There's no need to go over there. Then on the left that. So you see the track down on the left? Yeah. And that's our football field. Now if you go straight up on the screen with your mouse, you don't have to go far but right there a little to the left where you see nothing. Just like a lot of walking paths through the woods. A little higher right there, that's nothing but just like the smoke pit and like where all the bad kids would like go to. Like to walk up to like. So if you zoom out a little bit and go, go left. And so up there above the, the, the road, you see there's a Costco, there's. And so there's like a McDonald's. There was a Dairy Queen, there was all this. So that's where the stretch. That's where everybody would go for lunch.

[Ryan Sickler]

And that's what I want to ask.

[Nate Jackson]

You're allowed to leave the campus until you're a sophomore.

[Ryan Sickler]

We were never.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah, we were allowed to go.

[Ryan Sickler]

We were not. We were only allowed to leave if you got a written permission to work.

[Nate Jackson]

That, that Safeway parking lot. If you zoom in on that Safeway to the left right there. Yeah. All that's a Safeway does all kind of stuff in there. But on a Friday night at like 8.

The whole school with cars would go there and then we will find out where the party is and there'd be like this Mardi Gras style procession to wherever the house is. So it was a small community but our parties would be like a thousand kids.

[Ryan Sickler]

And where are you going? Where are you guys having parties?

[Nate Jackson]

A lot of times the Moisey's house.

[Ryan Sickler]

So it's all. Would you do field parties if nobody had a house?

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah, we had. There was bonfires. Yeah, I threw parties at my house because we had land.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

So it was the one that I can't show but. Oh yeah, but we had. Yeah. So it'd be anywhere. Like you, you would, you would just as long as it was in our air. So it was probably within like you know the region that the school represents for students. But there was a huge subdivision down at the other end on the right called the Meadows. And so over the years each little different subdivision pocket is all now connected. But the Meadows, the Meadows had low income housing at the entrance of the Meadows for like the first, like five minutes driving through there. So that was like where all the. Like, like, literally Meadows, Gangster Crips, like, we had, like, Meadows. If you were looking for it, you could go find it over in the meadows real quick. And down the. Further down that road that you go that you're looking just in like, all that. McALLISTER and all that. Like, that's where all the rich people were. Laurel Oaks, McAllister and all that. So, yeah, so they sent me to Seven Oaks, which is back in that serve this area. I don't know where it is on the map, but Seven Oaks elementary is back in here somewhere. It was where I went after Lydia Hawk. Lydia Hawk served Tango out. Got it right. So I had the option to go right here with these kids in this neighborhood or to the brand new spanking. And with my mom on the school board, she's like, you're going to the new school? Yeah, hell yeah. Right? And so River Ridge was new. They had just built it. They built it in like 1999 or 97.

[Ryan Sickler]

Seven Oaks, right?

[Nate Jackson]

So there's Seven Oaks. Yeah. And so. So I went to all these different new schools, but the schools didn't have crazy history of like, oh, you know, this was. It was there. Every school was like, whatever identity, you make it literally.

[Ryan Sickler]

So that's pretty cool. It's also a way if. If you're in that school, you're making history in there.

[Nate Jackson]

You're the first.

[Ryan Sickler]

Whatever.

[Nate Jackson]

You're the first of everything. But. So both of my older sisters went to Timberline.

[Ryan Sickler]

Tell me about shoplifting. You actually got caught shoplifting.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah. So we went to the Capitol Mall. My cousin was making a whole thing of it. Like, I saw him maybe like five or six times, and he had, like, entirely new outfits on, new shoes, new everything, like. And I'm like, what's going on? Like, how are you going school shopping in the middle of the year, right? Like, he was like, I'm stealing, basically. And I'm like, how? And he was like, we go to the Capitol Mall. We pick a store, you put on all the clothes or whatever in the dressing room, and then you cover it with the outfit you got on.

[Ryan Sickler]

And is this before all the ink things and all that, they put on clothes now, you know, the little sensors and all that, or they got away.

[Nate Jackson]

Then, like, they just had people in the store. Secret shopping. And so we were at the Bon Marche, which was like, that's probably where I up. But the Bon Marche was notorious for having, like, the most security. I didn't Know till after. But they had. They were like, dude, the mannequins got cameras in the eyes. Like, it was like, what? And so, yeah, there's the bond.

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[Nate Jackson]

And so it was one of those big stores on the end where if you went out one entrance, you're outside, and if you go in the other, you pop out near the food court inside. So we're in there. My cousin comes up to me. He's already. He. I'm like, dude, I'm not gonna go in. I'm. So I sit in the food court or whatever. He comes out, and I'm like, what happened? He was like, you mean, what happened? Look at my new shoes and my new this and my new that. You gonna do it or not? You're gonna punk out. I'm like, he's my little cousin, too. So I'm like, I gotta. I got a bad influence.

[Ryan Sickler]

He's been that cocky with it that he didn't run out of the store.

[Nate Jackson]

He walked back next to me. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, can I get.

[Ryan Sickler]

And it's right there. Is the story just over?

[Nate Jackson]

He's like, let me get orange chicken. I'm like, okay. He's like, it's so easy, bro. Like, it's nothing. So I'm like, all right. So I go in the store. I put on two or three, like, Mark Echo shirts. I put on a pair of shorts. I put on my jeans and. And, like. And mind you. Like, I walked in, and I, like. I walked through Drew, and I'm like, hey, ladies. Like, I'm, like, talking like, y' all get. Like, it's a normal day, you know? And so then I go do all that. And I noticed that when I was, like, standing around, look. I stood at jewelry and looked at a ring or whatever. Like, there was, like, this. There was, like, a brunette guy with thick glasses, and he was. He was also looking at jewelry. And so then I went back and I, like, picked the clothes or whatever. And when I came out to look at myself to see, like, that guy was right there shopping, kind of made eye contact right quick, and then was back shuffling through some stuff. And then I. I was like, that was weird that he'd be in two spots. Let me try something. So I go to women's clothing, and I'm just. Literally just with stuff. And I look up. He's shopping for women's clothes everywhere. And I was like, this. That's a cop.

[Ryan Sickler]

Now at this point, you have the clothes.

[Nate Jackson]

Everything's on, still in store. Okay. So then I leave back from women's and I go back to the dressroom and I just start taking off everything. I'm like, all that. And then I come out and then I go.

I go like. I was like, I'm gonna leave out. I feel like that was the police. So I was like, I'm leaving out this entrance, right? And then I was like, ah, my cousin is still in there. So I go back by. I'm like, all right, ladies, y' all have a good day. I just window shop. Didn't get anything. Nobody even asked me.

[Ryan Sickler]

Do you see the guy? Is he following you or nothing?

[Nate Jackson]

Nope. So then I walk out into the food court area and three old, like middle aged, like, white guys run up, like.

Fucking come with us. Oh, my God. I'm like, fuck's wrong with you guys? You went that way. We had. So while I was inside being indecisive, they were running around the entire outside of the mall.

[Ryan Sickler]

Hilarious, right? So waiting for you to go here.

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[Nate Jackson]

And they're like, he's going to start. So I run back through, like. So they grabbed me. Walk me through the store to a security office I didn't even know was in there the whole time. And I'm like, I took off everything. What the fuck? And they're like, dude, we saw you decide not to steal, but we've been running for the last 15 minutes. Give us the T shirt. And I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? Like, we went. We saw everything you put on. We saw everything you took off. And there is a white T shirt still missing. It was a $14.

[Ryan Sickler]

How'd they see what you put on? Are the cameras in there or whatever?

[Nate Jackson]

Mannequins or whatever. But they literally had a list of everything that I had gone in there with. And then they went through that while I was walking around or whatever. The guy went in there was like. And there was a T shirt missing. So they had me strip all the way down. I was like, I took off every. I took.

And I still had on this $14. Like one of those, like, really thin under undershirts. And I don't even remember. And at the time, I'm like, maybe I kept that to be like, I still got something. Like, I still get points with my family or my cousin or whatever. But I was like, man, this. And still got caught for shoplifting.

[Ryan Sickler]

What'd they do to you?

[Nate Jackson]

They had me sitting in the office. They. They paraded me through there like they had caught a goddamn prize peacock.

[Ryan Sickler]

They're walking Back by the jewelry.

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[Nate Jackson]

Yeah, yeah. And I was like, what the? Like, why were you guys following me? They're like, you stop and you talk to everybody in the store. You basically said, I'm about to steal. They're like, it's a characteristic of people who are about to shoplift. Like they overvisit.

[Ryan Sickler]

I watch a lot of that smuggling and shit. And they say, man, the people to chatty and talk a little too friendly.

[Nate Jackson]

And that's the one. Yeah, so I didn't know that obviously. And so yeah, my cousin left me. My dad got called down there. He talked to him like. So let me get this right.

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[Nate Jackson]

A free to play social casino boy where prohibited. Visit spinquest.com for more details. You got my kid in here who obviously decided not to steal from you today and you mad over $14 shirt. The kid had $30 in his pocket. Just take the value of the shirt from cash from him, and let's not ruin his life with some shoplifting on his stuff. And so he, you know, he talked. And my dad was like a legit community member and all that. And so it had a little traction with them because of the effort of me not trying to steal. I still got in trouble and still got like, some. You know, you have to wait seven years for your shoplifting, all that. Is that right? Yeah. And we got it. We got it towards, like.

[Ryan Sickler]

How old were you?

[Nate Jackson]

I was a kid, man.

[Ryan Sickler]

They hit you with that, huh?

[Nate Jackson]

They had to try to throw it all. Yeah. I'm black, so I did community service. I remember we had to go on the freeway and pick dandelions or something. And then it went off my shit. But they. The reason that. And I've never even said this, but they're like, the reason that we're. That he for sure needs it is because there's another little kid that keeps hitting us. And we just saw them sharing orange chicken. And so there it's. Somebody's going down.

[Ryan Sickler]

Saw what you ate.

[Nate Jackson]

He might have had a shirt.

[Ryan Sickler]

Get away with.

[Nate Jackson]

He might have had a shirt, but God damn it, there's five pairs of shoes, three bomber jackets. That's miss. So I got pop on behalf of my cousin, rest in peace. My cousin, he's since passed away, but.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah, sorry.

[Nate Jackson]

No, it's okay.

[Ryan Sickler]

He said they knew, like, you know, he knows some shit.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah. They're like, how many little black guys are going to keep popping us? Like. And then the fact that I. That he walked straight to me out the fuker. Because once you're out, you're out. So they're just standing in the door, like, got us again.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's what we learned, too. My buddy tried to steal rubbers one time and he panicked. And right before we went out to cvs, he put him back, but the security guard came and got him anyway.

[Nate Jackson]

Okay.

[Ryan Sickler]

And I had had some. Whatever I had, I put mine back. But I wasn't out of the store either. And they made this whole example out of him and took him outside. All this. My dad kept telling him, did you leave the store? And he's my friend, Eric, he's like, no. And he's like, you didn't steal. Like, what they did to you was not right.

[Nate Jackson]

Right.

[Ryan Sickler]

You gotta leave the store.

[Nate Jackson]

Yes.

[Ryan Sickler]

You could put whatever the you want in your pockets or whatever I might just be putting in there to carry.

[Nate Jackson]

It up, to carry it to the front. And this is why they were running so much, right?

[Ryan Sickler]

They're trying to get you.

[Nate Jackson]

And I wasn't in the store. I, I was out the store interest. But they had like seating out there. Like this is when like you could sit on the concrete. Like they had seats and they used to have seats in malls. And so I had got to that. Like I was out of the store. Like the case for me having to not been. All of that was made. So that's why it, it was like the judge was like, come on, guys. Like, we have kids that are clearly trying to be bad. This one's not. Like, chill out. Hey, go pick dandelions on the freeway.

[Ryan Sickler]

So wait, this neighborhood you live in, you mentioned we talked before. You have two older sisters. So do you have your own bedroom?

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

Are you sneaking out of the house ever? You ever sneaking out?

[Nate Jackson]

I snuck out the house a couple of times. I remember going just whatever to the homies houses that smoked or whatever. Their parents didn't give a fudge because my parents was on it.

[Ryan Sickler]

And how are you getting out?

[Nate Jackson]

You pushed the car in neutral.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, you're taking the car? You're not just on foot going, yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

By Now I'm like 15, 16, like all the seniors are.

[Ryan Sickler]

Is this, can we look at that house? Is this the house you're sneaking out of? Or is that the one someone.

[Nate Jackson]

No, because I. We left that house at nine. I wasn't sneaking out.

[Ryan Sickler]

I'm talking about the high school house. We can't look at that one though.

[Nate Jackson]

No. Because my parents still live.

[Ryan Sickler]

They live.

[Nate Jackson]

You'll just get everyone shot.

[Ryan Sickler]

I just want to see how you did it. Just tell us how you did it.

[Nate Jackson]

You can send them. Are you just going to be in a long line of rifles? Door.

[Ryan Sickler]

You should. Hey, we saw you on the way back. Yeah, Top floor, bottom floor. How you getting out? Through the window? Through the front door. Basement door?

[Nate Jackson]

Front door.

[Ryan Sickler]

What's your plan? What time do you have to wait till mom and dad are asleep after.

[Nate Jackson]

The news goes off? So 11 o' clock news finishes up. 11:30 by 11:45, you know, kisses on foreheads and. All right, we're calling it a night. They go back to their room. My room was kind of back there too, but then I would be like, I bet you know what I'm saying? I would be in the bed with my clothes on and get out, put my feet in my shoes, come out, open the garage, but manually.

[Ryan Sickler]

Okay. And then just enough like the car.

[Nate Jackson]

To neutral and then push it straight back out of the garage. And then.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, you're lifting the garage all the way up.

[Nate Jackson]

Well, you don't have to do. But just go like that. It's gonna. It does the rest of the. The work for you. And then. And then close the garage quietly and be like. And then get into the car, turn it on, no headlights. And then, like, slowly crawl out, hit the street, turn the lights on, and we out this what we getting into. We'll figure it out after that.

[Ryan Sickler]

And then you got to do the same thing.

[Nate Jackson]

I know. Another thing we were doing. We used to. My dad had a little pickup truck that he was using. It was like his Saturday little work Toyota truck. And we would go steal bikes from the rich people houses because they didn't lock them up. They'd just be on the side of our crib. And. And then we had an article in the. In the classifieds of the Olympian for a bike for sale for $100. And we just kept the ad. We just kept the ad going and we kept selling these bikes. So the reason we stopped wasn't because, like, I swear to God, one night we had.

It's embarrassing. We went to, like, Tumwater, like, where the real rich kids were. Like, we drove 20 minutes and just was driving through these huge neighborhoods with rolling lawns, and you would see just, you know, schwins, and you're like, oh, my God. So we'd just go up, take. My friends were like, yo, we need to start taking barbecue grills. We need to start taking. Like. I was like, yo, chill. Like, like, like, like we did one little bite. Like, I just was trying to get enough money so that I had some pocket money for homecoming that's coming up. Or I just wanted, like, you know what I'm saying? Not have to ask for it. Like, it was. And it was a rush. Like, you're like, headed out of these people's neighborhoods with four bikes in the back of your truck. And then I had to figure out where the house. I would hide them in the back of the rubble part of like, our. The garage. And then the people would come, and then I would wheel the bike out and sell it. And my mom was like, okay, I get that you sold your bike. I'm like, yeah. But then I went and I bought another one and I changed the flipping them and yeah, I'm fixing the tire and the chain. She's like, oh, my God, this is a little business. I want to support you. Let me buy you a set of ratchet. Mama, please don't do that. Don't but, like, we're not starting a bike fixing business, right? And so this was. This would go on for a couple months. So in one day, we. We did good, but we would split everything, spend everything, split everything, spin everything. We didn't have any. Like, there was no overhead. So it was like, if the truck needed gas, we're like, right. Like, we had no way to, like, because we would. There was no, like, hey, put some of that to the side to keep this going. And so my dad would be like, I know I had a half tank of gas. Like, there's a quarter tank now. Something the fuck is happening. Like, you know, he's like, I think he literally had me out there. Like, get. Give me my headlight, and I'm gonna lean up under the truck and see if there's a gas leak out of this damn thing. Because it never made sense. He didn't check the miles or nothing. So we saw this bike.

[Ryan Sickler]

The miles would have told us.

[Nate Jackson]

We saw this bike, right? It was me and my boy. Me and my boy Dante, and we saw this bike. This bike was futuristic. You know how bikes. Like, the bike seat comes on. You know, it's the bike. The seat is on a peg. This bike, there was no peg. It, like, came. It was built different. Like, it came out. The seat was Especially had.

[Ryan Sickler]

Like, do you remember what it was?

[Nate Jackson]

No. It was something that we thought was out of this world. We called the newspaper, like, hey, change the ad to 300. Like, this bike was crazy. It had shocks on it. The shocks were covered so, like, you could get on. It's like, oh, you can't just log.

[Ryan Sickler]

On and do that yourself back then. You got to call and get a person to check.

[Nate Jackson]

Be rich. You hear me?

[Ryan Sickler]

Rich.

[Nate Jackson]

This bike had to be worth it. We're selling it used at 300, so, like, we thought it was worth a thousand easily. Oh, my God. This bike was incredible. I might keep it in, right? If my mom will ask him any questions. Dante. Like, I live too far to be riding bikes. Like, so it was like, all right, well, let's just get it off. So we put it up. Guy shows up, and he just was like. He was just too many questions. Like, he had these thick ass glasses, but he was like. But he was, like, nerdy, but also, like, in shape. So it was like, who the fuck is it? Like, felt just real copish. I don't know if he's a cop to this day, but he was like, dude, this same bike. It's. Yeah, like, yeah, man, 300. He's like, this bike brand new is 150 at Fred Meyers. I'm like, ain't no motherfucking way this bike's 150. You got me fucked up. He's like, so let me get this right. You got this bike and you don't know that it's on sale for one. Where'd you fucking steal this thing, kid? And I was like, didn't steal it. It was a gift. Didn't want it. Got a lot going on. I'm saying I like my old trusty back there. And he was like, yeah, what? I was like, well, man, just mind your music. I'm calling the newspaper dude. Like, I'm telling him to take your ad down. This sketches. Fuck yeah. And he fucked us up. So he was. He called them or whatever, and they were like, that's interesting, because they just called us and asked to raise it to 300. And so they were like, are you price gouging? Like, could you send us a picture of the bike? And I was like, nah, man, don't worry about it, man. Whatever. Because there's also a. Like, hey, our bike was stolen, classified. So if you see, like, I'm two pages over, somebody's like, this is missing. Yeah. But when I tell you this bike to us was a rocket ship, like, we're like, oh, we about to. We about to get paid. Like, we about to fill up the tank, buy some dope outfits, meet some in Tacoma, drive to Seattle. Like, this is all this was. That's. That's big plans for a Lacy kid. You know what I'm saying? But no, after all, I was like, man, you know it. So you know that there it was. There it was. So. But I had. I had a nice fishing pole. I had all the lures. I had all the power bait.

[Ryan Sickler]

What do you get? Where are you fishing?

[Nate Jackson]

We had a pond behind our house.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, you did?

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah. Where it's like three or four. No, someone had.

[Ryan Sickler]

Someone already had.

[Nate Jackson]

A long time before because it was like an average size of a trout that was in there. Rarely you could find. Like, I'm talking. If you fish 30 days straight, you might see one go by. Like, you'll see the spots. A brown trout or something. You might barely catch one.

[Ryan Sickler]

Did you ever catch anything back there?

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah, all the time. If I went down the hill, I was coming back with bass. Bass, bass that were like about this long. They were all sandwiches. So you would catch three or four, and then you good? Or my mom be like, go get me some dinner out of that if we wanted to have some fried fish for dinner or whatever. And then I caught a. There was from. Whenever they stocked it. I caught a steelhead brown trout out of it. This was not. You could hit a golf ball across this body of water. This is not a lake.

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[Nate Jackson]

This is a pot. So somebody at some point stocked it. And so this fish was much. And I remember I use bike money. I saw infomercial for the banjo minnow.

[Ryan Sickler]

I got the badge over there, too.

[Nate Jackson]

Dancing baby. And I remember it was a clear day and I was just. I was. I was just with a green.

[Ryan Sickler]

Bring that up real quick. I was.

[Nate Jackson]

Green. One of those bouncing, like. And from the depths of the pond, this huge trout came up and it hit it. And I saw the entire side of it go by, like. And I was like, oh, my God, this is the biggest fish. And here's the thing. It didn't fight. It literally, like, just pulled it straight out of the water. It was like.

We got a taxidermy. Taxidermied. It is still at the house. Is it? Yes.

[Ryan Sickler]

You have a picture of that?

[Nate Jackson]

I don't. My dad was doing something and it fell on his head. So it's a whole thing where he had to get stitches. And now, like, some of the fins broke off the tail, but it went right back up. But he tells anyone that comes out that fish was in that water down there because the lake is. It's a pond. Yeah. It's so small. You wouldn't expect a 22 and a half inch trout.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's crazy.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah. But that's what it was. But it was one of those perennials that just was probably the last of it stocking. And I caught it on a banjo minnow. Hell, yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

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[Nate Jackson]

Oh, thank you. You got me all heated up talking about the stuff.

[Ryan Sickler]

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Oh, man. Please just go to natejacksoncomedy.com tap in. There's all sorts of good stuff. Make sure you check out my YouTube. If you're on Tick Tock and Facebook and Instagram, you are having an experience and I appreciate you being a part of the family. But if you go to YouTube, you'll see there's much more. And there's also much more coming. So tap in. Go watch. Go watch the Paper, the Office spinoff. Check that out. Check out Good Fortune in theaters and on Apple tv. Check out my Netflix special Super Funny that's still on right now. It was in the top 10 for eight days and it peaked at number three. It's still on there. It's doing great. And then get ready for Bad Monkey Season two, which is going to be amazing.

[Ryan Sickler]

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[Nate Jackson]

Thank you for having me.

[Ryan Sickler]

As always, Ryan Sickler on all your social media, Watch my new special Streaming now on YouTube live and alive. We'll talk to you all next week.

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