#660 - Nate Bargatze

Summary

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von — Episode #660: Nate Bargatze (May 27, 2026)

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Episode Overview

In this engaging and wide-ranging episode, Theo Von welcomes stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze for a thoughtful and funny conversation. The pair explore the behind-the-scenes realities of comedy, filmmaking, and touring, with a special focus on Nate’s upcoming film, The Breadwinner, and his ambitious plans to build an amusement park, “Nateland,” in Nashville. The episode blends genuine insights about the entertainment industry with their signature down-home humor, touching on everything from childhood sleepovers to the logistics of multi-million-dollar theme park rides.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

The Comedian's Lifestyle: Routines, Structure, and Self-Discipline

• Nate and Theo reminisce about growing up, sleepovers, and how comedians lack traditional structure (02:13–11:15).
  • Both discuss their struggles with routine and structure, with Nate highlighting how being your own boss can actually make you less accountable.
  • Theo admits:
    “I realized that I work for myself and I’m not the best employee, I realize.” (08:45–08:52)
• They talk about how working on movies forced them into having structure, and how comedians often long for some, even if it goes against their nocturnal instincts.

Comedian as Ticket Seller: Touring and Movie Distribution

• Nate discusses The Breadwinner's release model and securing affordable family ticket prices (14:09–15:20).
• The conversation compares launching a movie to touring as a comedian:
  • Comedians approach films like tours, employing direct outreach and leveraging personal audiences.
• Discussion of Iron Lung, a successful independent film by YouTuber Markiplier, as an example of how fan-driven distribution can work (15:20–16:58).
  • “His fans kept calling their theaters...and it was a huge success.” – Nate (16:16)

The Theater Experience and Changing Audiences

• Both note how going to the cinema is becoming a lost experience, sharing stories of solo moviegoing (17:24–20:00).
  • Humorous anecdote: a fan sent in a video of himself alone in the cinema, shirt off, enjoying a movie.

Live Experience, Authenticity, and Trust in Stand-Up

• Stand-up is uniquely suited for the current era because it can’t be replaced or replicated by AI or technology (25:23–26:22).
• Theo:
  “There’s not a place where you go to get a pure voice anymore… it’s the most authentic.”
• They reflect on why people crave direct, unfiltered live performances—comparing comics to pastors as “truth tellers.”

On Clean Comedy and Artistic Choices

• Nate explains his approach to clean material, noting it allows for broader family access and can still be boundary-pushing (63:24–69:41).
  • Kids might not “get it” during his shows, but they enjoy the adult experience and talk about it after.
  • “If you don’t curse, you can get away with a lot more…Cursing is just kind of like, that’s what people hear that either they check out or they’re like, ‘He’s dirty or he’s this or he’s that.’” – Nate (65:47)
• Theo shares his own perspective: he's not vulgar, but some profanity is just part of his background.

Building “Nateland” — An Independent Theme Park

• Nate shares details about his ambitious plan for Nateland (72:33–79:10):
  • The park will be in Nashville, with “Storyland” (a group with Disney experience) handling design and renderings.
  • Discussing logistics: roller coaster shopping, family experiences, and job creation.
  • Budget: Roughly $350 million for the park; Nate is funding the feasibility studies himself (77:47–82:32).
  • “Right now, it’s just me. If this doesn't go anywhere, I will be in big trouble. I would be touring for the rest of my life, but it's like right now, it's just me.” – Nate (82:30)
• On theme and philosophy:
  • The name “Nateland” is about maintaining trust and ownership with the audience and city, not personal vanity.
  • “If I can keep trust with my audience, with this audience...the responsibility of that park thriving is on me. I need to sell the tickets. That’s what I feel has been bestowed upon me.” – Nate (87:19)
• Amusement park rides: The design process includes visiting other parks, sampling rides, considering unique features, and aiming for full-family accessibility (93:27–99:51).
  • Humorous brainstorms on possible ride themes (“lisp fixer,” “Ozempic spin ride”).

Career Growth and Purpose: “What Do You Do Next?”

• Deep conversation about finding new goals after achieving long-standing dreams (85:18–94:12):
  • Nate explains that after selling out the Bridgestone Arena, he sought a purpose beyond personal achievement.
  • “It can't be about me, right? This life cannot be about me, or I'm gonna go crazy.” – Nate (86:05)
• Both reflect on the entrepreneurial spirit and bravery it takes to tackle something as improbable as building a theme park, even while friends and peers question the logic.

The Business of Touring, Ticketing, and Bypassing the Establishment

• Discussed the efforts of musicians like Oliver Anthony and comedians like Louis CK to bypass Ticketmaster and major platforms, weighing pros and cons for both audience and artist (44:15–47:28).
  • “If you want to go do it this way, you’re going to need to build a system…you have to have people that are going to help.” – Nate (45:26)

Personal Life and Background Stories

• Nostalgic riffing on childhood, working service jobs, and family life—Nate and Theo recount tales from Applebee’s, delivering pizzas, and waiting tables (48:05–55:38).
• Nate describes meeting his wife at Applebee’s, working as a host, and how real-life experiences inform his comedy and business philosophy.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the freedom (and chaos) of comedy:
  • “Working for yourself, you find out real quick if you’re a good employee—and I’m not.” – Theo (08:45)
• The autonomy of stand-up:
  • “The relationship with the audience is, I buy the ticket, you see me…we’re in the ticket-selling business.” – Nate (38:48)
• On Nateland and personal vision:
  • “I don’t come from any world where I should be building a theme park… but what if I do build a theme park, dude? Like, what if I do it? That’s crazy.” – Nate (112:34)
• On taking risks:
  • “Some of it is you’re leaving people behind…they don’t understand it. Some of that is—some of it’s jealousy…you’re moving forward, and I think they just, like, go, why are you doing that?” – Theo (113:41)
• Clean comedy as challenge and legacy:
  • “I just was never going to do it. And then when I started that way it’s like… it would be weird to go [dirty]... I was just never going to do it.” – Nate (69:30)

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Highlighted Segments and Timestamps

• [02:13–11:15] The struggle and desire for structure in comedy; being a “bad boss” to oneself
• [14:09–16:58] Distribution of The Breadwinner, inspiration from Markiplier’s Iron Lung, fan-driven movie releases
• [17:24–20:00] Solo cinema experiences and theater etiquette hijinks
• [24:27–27:05] Rise of live experiential content (Netflix House, theme parks), AI-proofing creativity
• [63:24–69:41] Clean comedy, Nate’s philosophy, and family-friendly artistic choices
• [72:33–79:10, 85:18–94:12, 110:50–113:41] The “Nateland” amusement park: Purpose, design process, and overcoming doubt
• [44:15–47:28] Workarounds to Ticketmaster; challenges and logistics for independent artists
• [48:05–55:38] Early jobs, service industry stories, family beginnings
• [112:34–115:51] Taking risks, responding to skepticism, and following through on audacious ambitions

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Tone and Feel

• Down-to-earth, open, and often hilarious
• Blends introspection with friendly ribbing and Americana nostalgia
• Contains practical wisdom for creatives and entrepreneurs, laced with the hosts’ self-effacing humor

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Summary in a Nutshell

Theo Von and Nate Bargatze deliver a rich, funny, and inspiring conversation about life in stand-up, making movies outside the mainstream, and building legacies that go beyond your own name. From The Breadwinner’s family-friendly big-screen debut to the ground-up creation of Nateland, the episode says: step outside your comfort zone, be willing to take risks, and above all, stay true to the audience that trusts you.

Transcript

[A]

If your business communications are basically a burner phone and a prayer, you know, I'm talking about missed calls, texts that nobody answered, customers following up for the third and fourth time, well, then obviously things are a mess. And at some point you just, you hit that wall and you're like, all right, I'm done with this. Let's fucking Quo. Today's episode is brought to you by Quo. Q U O. The business communication system built so you never miss a call. You're entire team can handle calls and texts from one shared number. So no more missed messages or dropped conversations or somebody's handing it off to this person and they're not receiving it. Everyone sees the full thread, replies are faster and customers actually feel taken care of. Money is on the line. Always say hello with Quo. Try Quo for free. Plus get 20% off your first six months when you go to Quo.comtheo that's Q U O.com Que Theo. Let's fog in Quo. Today's guest is a stand up comedian. He's a host. He's a fixture in the world of comedy. He's, he's a leader. This guy's a leader in the world of comedy and clean comedy. He's one of one, I would say, that's for sure. He has a new film that's coming out in theaters this weekend called the breadwinner. That's Friday, May 29th. You can go check it out. He's building an amusement park, like a real one for amusement right here in Nashville, Tennessee. I'm thankful to spend time with today's guest, Mr. Nate Bargetzi. Yeah, dude, I saw some guys talking about when you would sleep. Remember when you were a kid, you would sleep over at somebody's house? You remember that?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And you woke up before them.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And just like, because you kind of had to pretend you were asleep, like

[B]

you were ready to get up and

[A]

go, but it wasn't your world, it was their universe.

[B]

Yeah. I would think the, the big, you know, that's when you're a kid, then the biggest opposite is when you're older and then everybody's up, you know, and meet the parents. Yeah, that like, scene made me laugh so hard when like Ben Stiller comes downstairs and everybody's been up for like a couple hours because that would. I relate to that. I think even as a comedian, you know, it's like we like, we can stay up late and whatever.

[A]

You're always the guy wandering into the, into the world late.

[B]

Yes. And I mean, people are like, I mean, We. I know people outside comedy, they have like a meeting at like 6:30 or 7.

[A]

Like a meeting in the morning.

[B]

In the morning?

[A]

Yes.

[B]

And you're like, what?

[A]

Yeah, yeah. For what? Like, maybe with God, maybe that's early.

[B]

I could see that. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

You know, or an actual meeting with the son. Like, if you got an email from the sun, it's like, hey, I'm. We're gonna need you there.

[B]

Yeah. Like the literal sun. Yes, yes, yes. If he was like, hey, I'm here.

[A]

Yeah, either son.

[B]

The sun shows up early, though. Yeah, yeah, the sun shows up early. And he's like, I've been here. And you go, now I kind of saw you. I just was like, give me a second. Yeah, just let me get my bearings a little bit. Yeah. 7:30 meetings, they say they have those. I think I want. I would want to be that, though.

[A]

Oh, so that's something. Like, it gets a little bit aspirational. Yeah. Dude, I've been. And I hate to say this because I don't even want to hear myself say this.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I think. Oh, God, it hurts even coming out of my neck. I think I'm a. I think I'm a morning person.

[B]

You know, I could.

[A]

And you know what I'm saying. I'm sorry to say that.

[B]

Well, I think it's, you know, it's.

[A]

I don't want to apologize to people who can't even handle hearing that.

[B]

Yeah. Because they want you to be. At night Person was a comedian. We are night people.

[A]

Right. And I think there's something.

[B]

But I think we go opposite. Like, it's. We want structure. I did, like, not to talk about my movie right now, but like I'm saying, when I shot the movie and you. You just shot a movie, there's like, structure, right? Yeah.

[A]

Breadwinner. That's the movie.

[B]

The breadwinner's the movie. Yeah, but like, when you shot your movie, uh, it's. You gotta be on set at this time. And this, this, this is. And I loved it because I don't think we have structure as comedians. And we don't come from any of it. And we go. I remember I wrote for the Spike Video Game Awards, like, a long time ago.

[A]

And Spikes at Volleyball. What was it?

[B]

No, I remember that TV show or that network Spike. I think it was like, Spike tv.

[A]

Oh, yeah, Spike tv.

[B]

They did like a bunch of like, random. It was like, right when we were like, in New York, like 2008. 2000.

[A]

Oh, yes, I do remember this.

[B]

It was like a dude's channel.

[A]

What were some of their top shows? Look up top three shows on Spike tv.

[B]

The. They had the game show or video game awards. I want to say.

[A]

Oh, Ultimate Fighter started on there. The reality show launched the UFC and modern MMA into the mainstream interest.

[B]

Blue Mountain State.

[A]

What's that?

[B]

Blue Mountain State. That was. That was a show with Reacher. I know his real name. Jack Reacher. I look like Jack Reacher right now. And this is what he would wear.

[A]

Do you. I look like Jack reach around. Oh yeah.

[B]

And my body doesn't. But this is. He wears shirt like this Alan Richardson. I know out like. Oh, dude. Yeah.

[A]

Somebody always talks to me about him.

[B]

Yeah. So he was started out in Blue Mountain State, which is on Spike tv. Wow. And then. Yeah, Spike TV was like a little bit ahead of his time. Like it's. It's almost a channel that. Bar rescue. Some pretty good stuff, man.

[A]

Bar rescue. A thousand ways to die. No, dang. I'll take one way.

[B]

Yeah, but you'd want to know the other.

[A]

I don't need to know a thou. At a thousand. You're just kidding. You. You'll stay alive forever just looking through all of them.

[B]

That is. But that's.

[A]

Maybe that's a reverse psychology. Maybe that's a plan.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, because it's going to be a spider bite. It's going to be. You step on a nail and an artery. I don't know if you. Are you on varies.

[A]

Yeah. If you fall off a building and land like one of your arteries lands on like a little nail or something. Yeah. There's a lot of.

[B]

Yeah. Anyway, there's a lot of ways.

[A]

Bar rescue. Okay. Spike tv. Anyway, go on. Sorry I interrupted you, but I just forgot about Spike tv.

[B]

Yeah. You know, it was. It was a great. It was a good channel. Especially like hidden age demographic, you know. This is on, dude. Entre. We were just. I was just talking about Entourage. Entourage was on during this time. Like, so it was.

[A]

Oh, on television. Not the same channel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know that. Alan Richton even. Just to think that that's like that Blue Mountain State was there, that the UFC kind of like sort of became mainstream by going on a Spike TV and getting like eyeballs that way.

[B]

He was like, we're. Or take whatever you got.

[A]

I didn't understand that. Look up once more.

[B]

Spike TV was this Mountain Dew can. It was everything it represents.

[A]

Oh yeah.

[B]

America. Just American. American dude with Spike tv. Yeah. Thousand ways to UFC his shotgunning. Mountain Dew.

[A]

Blue Mountain State. Yeah, it was all of it.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

What were you. What were we talking about? So we talk about Spike tv. You see, you went into Spike tv, the Strut.

[B]

Like having structure with the movie. Oh, you gotta. Yeah. Like, I do. I'm not a person that has any structure.

[A]

Oh, yeah. And comedians aren't in general. So when you're on set, you were saying, like, yeah, you get this other. Oh, it's great. And they tell you to. Even comedians. I noticed they told. And I don't know if they did this on Breadwoods, but they told me. We told. I lied to myself. But that. To be like, they would set the call time 45 minutes. Really, it was later. Because they knew I was going to be a little bit late.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don't know if we. I think that's. I think that people have done that to me. Yeah. Yep.

[A]

To get you there.

[B]

But I would show up. Like, I've been late to stuff. It depends on what it is. If it's something that I know I should get to, I'll get to. But if it. If it's not, you can. Sometimes it's like. Yeah, it just. There's a lot of stuff. It's. I think it's hard being your own when you're your own boss. Yeah. It's. You can get lost a little bit and you can get, you know, you want to sometimes look for someone to go no or yes, and then you realize there is no one to say no or yes. Yes.

[A]

It's you. Yeah, it's just you. Yeah. I really. I realized that I work for myself and I'm not the best employee, I realize.

[B]

Yeah, that makes sense. Like, it's. Yeah, you. You can. You don't live up to maybe what you're doing, but, you know, then. But if someone sees what you're doing, they're like, you're doing everything right. So then they're like, you're doing great and you're just going to beat up yourself.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Because you think, like, I should be doing more. I mean, I think about, like, that, you know, I should be.

[A]

Oh, yeah. When you're working for.

[B]

I should get structure. I have no structure. Yeah, athletes have structure. They have, like, routines.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. There's no, like, comedy. There's not like a bell that goes off early in the morning where it's like, comedians grab your pins and start your writing. And we.

[B]

Like you said, if you're a morning person, you think that goes against everything that you're supposed to be because your shows are at Night. And when you come up, you're out very late, but then the longer you're in it, you kind of, like, want to just get up earlier and have a routine. Yeah. And then it's like, that's my fantasy, is just to have a routine.

[A]

Oh, to adhere to an alarm clock. That's.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

That's a fantasy of mine.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Not a lot of alarm clock. You know, you don't set alarm clocks. Because it just doesn't. Dude.

[A]

I would set my alarm clock and then hide my phone in between the mattresses on the other side of the bed that I slept on.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So, like, over there. And I would never even hear it because it's quiet.

[B]

Because it's under the mattress, it's quiet.

[A]

It didn't stand a chance. So I wanted structure, but I was just not willing to adhere to it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yes. I'm like, I work for myself, and I'm the worst employee. I would. I would go smoke behind the dumpsters. Like, I was hiding from myself. Like, what are we even doing?

[B]

Yeah. I think you want someone to be in charge.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

I don't know.

[A]

Fortunately, it's you. Every time you had an old show.

[B]

What? I had an old joke where I said, you know, it's like, the thing with comedy is, like, if you wanted to quit comedy, there's no one to quit to. So you, like, can't call Seinfeld and be like, hey, I'm out. Like, there's no one. No one cares if you quit. No one. Yeah. There's no one to say you quit to. And then if you get to a point where you have this giant audience and. And you quit, then you feel like you got to. You can't just quit.

[A]

No.

[B]

Because then everybody's like, where you at? So even if you wanted to quit, you're like, I don't know. You got to. What do you do? Make a video. And then everybody's like, why you quit? And you're like, now you quit into millions of people. Yeah. And you're like, no, I just wanted to kind of slowly fade. Yeah. Daniel Day Lewis, I always think is an act. Like, you don't know anything about that guy. You know, he comes out for, you know, just to basically win an Oscar. And then he goes back. Goes back to whatever he does. And that guy. I don't know what he does.

[A]

Yeah, I don't know what he does either. Daniel Day Lewis.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I mean, he has Day in his name. That's so.

[B]

Probably gets up early for sure.

[A]

If he's putting that in there.

[B]

Yeah. But.

[A]

Yeah, no idea. Comes out. Gets his thing. Boy in the left foot. Red foot.

[B]

My left foot.

[A]

My left foot, dude.

[B]

No, I haven't seen it, but it's pretty good. It's. Have you.

[A]

It's older. Yeah, I've seen it.

[B]

Really? It's about anything to do with his feet. Yeah. Oh, really? It does bring it up.

[A]

Let's just find out. What was it? My left foot. Hold on, let me take a gander at what I thought it was really quick. It was a man, I believe. I think there was, like, a train accident. He gets his. It takes place, like, in the South. He gets one of his feet hit by a train and then he has to operate and fall in love, I guess, with just only his other foot. He has to fall in love with someone else with only his other foot to be able to, like, hand them a fly.

[B]

So his left foot is like. It's like.

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It's necessary.

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It's a big deal.

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Yes. Let's see it. No one expects much from Christy Brown. Daniel Day Lewis, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working class Irish family. Okay.

[B]

No train.

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Little different.

[B]

That's a train.

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With the help of his steely mother and no shortage of grit and discrimination, Christie overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.

[B]

How is it like a true story, though?

[A]

Christie is a spastic, quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of five, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. Oh, yeah, I remember this now. Different movie than I was thinking, but still a great movie. You.

[B]

Yeah, the Train.

[A]

Yeah, I was thinking of Fried Green Tomatoes. That's what I was thinking of.

[B]

I just realized that that has a train in it.

[A]

Yeah. Oh, little crossover.

[B]

Yeah, that's. But that's a good. You know, the only train movie I think of is that one, Denzel Washington. Oh, it's good. John Travolta.

[A]

Training Day.

[B]

I don't think it's Training Day. There's one where. Yeah, there is an actual.

[A]

How is it not training?

[B]

But there's one that. There is unstoppable.

[A]

Oh, I haven't seen that.

[B]

It's great. That's kind of where I'm at. I haven't seen My Left Foot, but I've seen no Pelican. One, two, three. Maybe that's it.

[A]

Oh, Peloton.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Is that Got a train? I think there's a train in that.

[A]

And was There a movie called Training Day.

[B]

There is nothing to do with the train. But that was Denzel. Yeah, that's. He won an Oscar for that.

[A]

Oh, or maybe, maybe we shouldn't go to the theater. I don't think. But. But you haven't.

[B]

This was good.

[A]

You have a new movie. You have. Your movie's coming out.

[B]

Yeah. No trains.

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May 29.

[B]

May 29. Yes.

[A]

Breadwinner. Breadwinner and theaters in theaters. And you have a Nate rate. What did I see? What is this?

[B]

Yeah, we got the. We. We talked to all the movie theaters and got prices lowered.

[A]

Nice.

[B]

So. Yeah. Yeah. Because we want the whole family to come out. It's interesting with movies, man, you know, you start looking at like theaters like, you know, you guys make your. In distribution, all this, like, you know, think about touring like this. It's hard not to think about movies. And touring is kind of like the same kind of thing. You know, you get a promoter, you get this. You go to every town. Like if you make a movie and you go to these theaters and they're in every single town and you kind of go like. Did you hear about that kid on YouTube? He did a horror movie and he's got a bunch of subscribers on YouTube and, and he's. He's a big horror fan, I think. And they made a movie. He made a movie. And I mean it was, you know, it was going to go out to a few theaters. Then his fans just started calling their theaters, being like, no, we want it to come. And it was like a huge success. And he made it for, I want to say 3 million and then. Yeah. Iron is it?

[A]

Yeah, it's like something Iron.

[B]

No, iron something. It was iron something and then Iron Lung. Yeah.

[A]

Was that it?

[B]

Yeah. Grossed over 50 million. I think he made it for three.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

But it was like that's a guy that just basically did it like a tour. Like how we would tour and sell tickets.

[A]

Markiplier. That was in guy's name. Markiplier. And what does it say? Can you take me into the. What happened with the movie?

[B]

He just made it. He said he wanted to make it.

[A]

The Iron Lung movie was independently self financed and created by YouTuber Mark Fischbach. Markiplier, who wrote, directed, produced, edited and starred in operating without a major studio. He shot the film over 35 days using a life size 9000 pound submarine set mounted on a hydraulic motion rig. Wow. After struggling to find traditional Hollywood distribution, he self distributed the film. Massive fan campaigns convinced major theater chains to screen at the indie film Became a massive box office hit, grossing 50 million on a 4 million budget. Wow.

[B]

Sweet. His fans all call. They once he said he wanted to go out, he was in a few theaters and his fans kept calling their theaters and their towns and they said they want to see it. And then he went out and said it. $4 million budget.

[A]

That's amazing. That's incredible, dude.

[B]

But that's where you see movies where you're like, that guy did it kind of like how you would tour on a comedy club. Like you're going and selling tickets just in these towns, right? And so if you got a big following like that, that tours and you go make a movie, I mean, I, you know, it's like, can he go do that? You know, I understand the one time is kind of like, oh, yeah, it's crazy. So it be magic. Can he go do it again? Or can you repeat it?

[A]

And yeah, it's interesting. I mean, even with our own movie, I don't know what we sold compared to, like, if I were touring in a place as opposed to people that came out to go to the theaters. I know it well. I don't think it was close. But I do know that I had a lot of friends who were like, dude, I haven't been to the movie theater in eight years. Yeah, 10 years, right? Yeah, I had a lot of people who went to the movie theaters by themselves. Dude. We had one video of a dude, he sent it in, he went to the movie theater. Nobody else was in the theater, right? He ends up watching. What was this dude's name? I gotta find it. We'll put it in. He ends up just taking his shirt off and sitting there and watching the movie by himself, relaxing. He's the only guy in there watch the whole thing by himself. This dude. I think it's like, it was this guy. It's like this like Latino guy, he's at work and he's like, bro, I'm freaking tired, but I want to go see this movie maybe. I don't know. And then you see him walking, he's like, nobody's even here. And like 10 minutes later, he's like, I guess I'll just enjoy myself. And I don't know what happened after that. I mean, he just. We know he had the shirt off and watched it. Oh, yeah, this is him right here. Dude, this is the guy. Can you pull it up, man?

[B]

I just got off of work. I got this movie I'm trying to go watch.

[A]

Dude.

[B]

I don't feel like doing, to be honest. Look, I still made it in this, but look, check it out. Ain't nobody in this out to myself,

[A]

cuz we come with 365 windows with every tune you purchase. Champion makes buying windows easy.

[B]

He just took it

[A]

and he had to set the phone up somewhere and do this. That's kind of a vibe, though, dude. That's him right there. Golden cheeseburger. Right there. Golden underscore cheeseburger. Shout out. Him being a hard worker, went to catch.

[B]

I've never even thought about wanting to take your shirt off. I think people either don't or do want to take their shirt off. Yeah, I'm a. I'm a not. I don't want to take my shirt off. But I mean, if someone wants to, buddy, they want to.

[A]

Oh, we know a guy.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, we do.

[A]

Yeah, we know a guy.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Sometimes I wish we'd try to go in more theaters, but going to. But yeah, taking your shirt off but going what?

[B]

Going to theater alone, man, that like, it's pretty great. That's something you do a lot as a comic on the road. You can hit some. You know, you get some movie at noon. Yeah. And you just buy yourself in there.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Have you ever had someone come sit right next to you? I've been by my. I've been like, by myself or like maybe one other comic. And then two more people walk in. They sit in the seats in front of us. Oh, drives me nuts.

[A]

And what do you do?

[B]

I'll move.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because I. Or I sit there and just be angry during the whole movie.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because why would you do that?

[A]

Oh, dude.

[B]

Why would you sit right. You know, just go sit. It's empty. Just go sit like somewhere. Somewhere else up and.

[A]

But here's the thing, though. If you sit too far away from that person, you think they feel kind of left out or something.

[B]

I would. No, I would go as far as away from them. I'm one that doesn't want to really be near someone.

[A]

Well, of course near someone in a dark theater that you don't know. That's.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

I think you got to have space. I mean, I would sit. Like when you go with a buddy. Like, we don't sit next to each other. You have that empty seat.

[A]

Thank you.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

When we went to Kevin James movie, you and I sat next to each other and we kept a seat between us.

[B]

We kept a seat between us like civilized people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We were normal. Yeah. And we enjoyed the movie more.

[A]

Oh, yeah. I was good, dude.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like Beetlejuice Ever been a movie?

[B]

You ever see that guy Beetlejuice from Stern?

[A]

We called him up, we offered him money to come on this podcast one

[B]

time, and he said, no.

[A]

This is what he said. This crazy part. He's like, where are you going to? Where are you going to leave the money at? And I couldn't, like, yeah, any.

[B]

He. And just from there, it was like, oh, it's downhill. Yeah. It was so hard.

[A]

He's like, yeah, where are you gonna put the money at?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I was like, oh. And I couldn't explain to him, like, at the bank or whatever.

[B]

Yeah, we're gonna send you a check.

[A]

Yeah. Unreal.

[B]

Yeah. Why? Or anything.

[A]

You know, America's 250th birthdays coming up. Whoo. That's gonna be a big cake. And now who's. Who's even gonna blow out the candles, I wonder? Probably maybe Thomas Jefferson will come down from the clouds and huff and puff a few out. Maybe Betsy Ross or Frederick Douglass. I don't know. Somebody. Somebody from history, Somebody that's regal and admired. It's gonna come on down and just huff and puff them. Cake, candles out. Happy 250th America. And an iconic summer like this deserves an iconic drink. I'm talking about Mountain Dew.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

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[B]

Yeah, I, but I think you're heading more towards that kind of stuff with experience. I mean you're seeing people get. You're seeing a lot of things. Netflix House. You're seeing a lot of things where they want to experience.

[A]

Netflix House, you're saying.

[B]

What does that mean? Yeah, Netflix is doing a. They, they, they're starting to build these Netflix houses which are like movie theaters. No, it's, it's like they, they would have John Wick and they would have like, like I went to one like there you go. Like. So it's like all your favorite Netflix shows and you get to interact with it in some way.

[A]

Oh, but you can also watch the shows in the place.

[B]

No, no, I don't. You not watch them. You're just like a squid game. They have like a squid game thing you can go through and then so you, so you go in and you spend the night or day and you just get to interact with your favorite show. Stranger Things. You get to go through a Stranger Things set or play a little game or in that. This kind of thing. I believe, I believe live experiences are going to go. That's where, that's where it's at. That's why I think stand up comics are in a terrific spot because you're, you Can't AI a live performance.

[A]

Right.

[B]

And you, I mean, I'm. You can do hologram and that kind of stuff, but.

[A]

Well, yeah, we're the only place. I mean, what else? Even outside of stand up comedy, where else are people. Even outside of like pastors at churches. I'm trying to think. Or reverends or.

[B]

That's true.

[A]

Preachers or.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Or rabbis or.

[B]

But who.

[A]

Like, outside of those people, you have musicians, but they, you kind of know what you're getting because it's like their songs. Yeah, but I'm trying to think of where else is there, like. Well, I guess.

[B]

But then you don't know what's influenced with what. So like even if they're songs or if they're singing or whatever it is, I mean, I would think, you know, some folk music like that, you're gonna have to have stuff like that where you're like, straight up, you know, there's nothing added into it and there's nothing. Or it's going to be a very big spectacular spectacle show. You're gonna have to go either super big or you're gonna have to be, I think, like, stand up, where it's just you, me, we're talking to a crowd and there's nothing in the middle, right?

[A]

Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying is like, there's not a place where you go to get a pure voice anymore. There's not that, you know, I'm saying, like, that's not refined or it's not overly produced.

[B]

It's the most authentic. That's why, I mean, I hope young entertainers, I hope stand up comics that are getting into it, get into it and they get in there and create an act and because you're going to be the only place, you know, essentially where you could maybe be actually hearing a real person. Preacher is a good example too. Like, it's where you're going to, you know, have straight on. Like, I just want to. I want to see the person, you know, because there's so much stuff people don't trust. So you're like, I just want to see the person. I want to see the person talking. Yeah, I want to.

[A]

Well, I want the truth. I want that.

[B]

I want humanity like, that I could touch that person.

[A]

Right. And I want what they really believe. I feel like, yeah, like with humor, I think at the base of a lot of our humor, I think a lot of it, I mean, some of you're joking around, but some of your true laurels are in there. Like, these are Some of my, you know, like, some. We all have a backbone of stuff that's in there.

[B]

Yeah. Who you are, like. Yeah. I mean, I think unless you're like a one liner guy or something, right.

[A]

Then that's, that's hard to really know.

[B]

It's. But yeah, but who, yeah, who you are is going to be kind of,

[A]

you know, somewhat in there.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Because yeah, it's hard to get like a true, like, okay, what does this person think? And are they just speaking directly to me without a lot of influence? It's like pastors, comedians. I'm not putting us in some special space or anything. I'm just saying. Oh, here you go.

[B]

Teachers or professors. But I mean, like, look, it's.

[A]

But teachers, some of that stuff is kind of like they have to follow a curriculum. Oh, dude, when somebody's tickling you, that's when you have to tell the truth. Think about that.

[B]

A tickler if.

[A]

No, not the tickler is a creep or whatever.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But the person. If you're being tickled, try. You ever try to lie to somebody while they're tickling you?

[B]

It's impossible.

[A]

Impossible.

[B]

Yeah, maybe I'll be up there.

[A]

It's impossible. That's why when I see all this waterboarding and torture or whatever and all this horrible stuff they're doing to people, sometimes I'm like, dude, tickle.

[B]

Yeah, get in there.

[A]

Unleash them.

[B]

Get under their arm.

[A]

I don't know, unleash them crawdads on somebody and you'll get it.

[B]

Grab your. Try to grab their thigh right there.

[A]

Oh. Oh, dude, bro, where were you? This is our jfk. Where were you people? You always knew you could get tickled like this, right? You knew that, right? And even if there's a chubby kid and you grab that little donut around his midsection, shake the fricking truth out of his little thick ass or whatever. Sorry. And we'll edit that. But when somebody did that to you, how shocked were you? I didn't know that when somebody did that.

[B]

I remember like I used to do it to my daughter too. Like you grab their leg there and then just be like, well, don't smile, don't smile, don't. You know. And then. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Tickling. Maybe it's going to be a big. It'll come back, you know, but you need ticklers. So then when you get. Where are you going to do that? In a safe?

[A]

We'll probably get government issued ticklers. And those people are going to be.

[B]

Yeah, it's.

[A]

We've already.

[B]

They're not going to try.

[A]

Yeah, they're not going to be try.

[B]

You're going to have to be digging into their fingers more like. Because you're like, dude, you're not even trying. Like, you go, here, give me your hand. And then you have to do it. And then you're like, yeah, you're going to be leaning more towards it.

[A]

Dude, that's like, bro, that's so funny. Bro, you're so funny. Dude, that's like, dude, that's like. There's people sometimes at work. We're like, I'm the city. Like a city. I'm like a liaison to the city. And they segway around the town.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But dude, sometimes those people. Like, one time we're trying to get information, and the lady was running from us. She, like, couldn't get her thing to stop or whatever, so she would pass by, but you had to ask her really fast because she was going. And then another time, the guy's his got stuck or whatever, like in a right hand pattern or whatever. He kept. He. He called it right hand pattern. He's like, it's in a right hand pattern. And he's just sitting there just glitching,

[B]

like in a circle, like, just going in circles.

[A]

Yes. And we're trying to, like, you know,

[B]

we're just trying to ask, like, where's the monument?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, dude. It's just like, dude, we're talking about Paul Revere, and he just kept dodging us.

[B]

Yeah. Where's Daniel Boone's house? And it just. And he's got.

[A]

Yeah, dude. We're like, look, dude, we. We heard Harriet Tubmanate ice cream around here.

[B]

Can you just tell me. Yes, her. Davy Crockett.

[A]

Yeah, we heard Davy Crockett and Betty Crocker actually hooked up around here one time.

[B]

They were around the same time.

[A]

Were they?

[B]

I don't know.

[A]

They had to have met up.

[B]

They had to have met up. They would at least known about each other. Oh, yeah, yeah. Davy Crockett was talked about a lot growing up. He was way more than it is now. It was a big deal when I grew up. Yeah.

[A]

Now it's like Travis Scott or whatever.

[B]

Yeah, it is. And Davy Crockett is a good name. I thought. Davy Crockett. Ouch. Here's what I would feel. And I'm going off nothing. But Davy Crockett was. When I was growing up, was the guy. And I think Daniel Boone came in and started a little overshadowing Davey, I

[A]

remember Davy Crockett because he had the paraphernalia. He had the hat. And I think he. I. I don't know if he had a pistol or if he had a.

[B]

Yeah, I feel like he had a gun. Like a. One of those old school guns.

[A]

Like a six shooter or something?

[B]

Yeah. No, no, like a rifle, but like.

[A]

Yes, that's it. Bring him up. Let's get a gander at him because. Yeah, who even knows? Davy Crockett and Betty Crocker are unrelated, except for the shared last name, which isn't even the same last name. Yeah, you want to take us through Davy Crockett there, Nate?

[B]

Yeah. Davy Crockett was a real 19th century American frontiersman and politician. Well, Betty Crocker was created in 1921 and is not a real person, so that's tough. But they were around.

[A]

So she was a catfish, basically, which she probably.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's maybe the original catfish.

[A]

Betty Crocker.

[B]

Yeah. He kept going. What's up? This Betty. Where's this Betty Crocker? They go. She just left.

[A]

Yeah. Oh, she was just here. Can you get me information just about Davy Crockett, please?

[B]

Did him and Daniel Boone know each other?

[A]

Crockett grew up in East Tennessee, where he gained a reputation for hunting and storytelling. So he was. He was kind of like a comedian, I guess. He was made a colonel in the militia of Lawrence County.

[B]

He opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson, where I'm from, Old Hickory, which is named after Andrew Jackson.

[A]

So he was elected to Congress. I didn't even know he was a congressman. In 1836, he took part in the Texas Revolution and died at the Battle of the Alamo. That's why he was popular, too, because the Alamo.

[B]

Yeah. Yes, the Alamo. Yeah.

[A]

Crockett became famous during his lifetime for larger than life exploits popularized by stage plays and almanacs. After his death, he continued to be credited with acts of mythical proportion. And then what about. Let's go. Daniel Boone. When did he rely. When did he slide in there and steal his shine? Daniel Boone born in 1734, while Davy Crock was born in 1786, 52 years apart. So Boone was already an aging frontier legend.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

So probably our grandparents, our great grandparents probably heard more about Boone.

[B]

They did. And then we heard about Crockett.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

And then maybe the truth has come out that it's like, look, we need to go pretty heavy on Boone because he was the originator.

[A]

Yeah. Once that big, big business starts push Pushing Boone.

[B]

I like when they're like. It's like he was born around November 2nd. Like you're. They go wayward keeping stuff back then, dude. In the general area. Yeah, yeah. Like, and then if he was like, I was born in January. And you're like, well, yeah, that's around.

[A]

That counts.

[B]

Yeah, that counts.

[A]

Yeah, dude. He showed up in the springtime. He grew up in a Quaker farming family. He became famous for his woodcrafts, hunting and long range exploration deep into what was in the western frontier of British America. Huh. Pretty cool, man.

[B]

Everybody was kind of an explorer.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

You know, because it was. I mean, I know that, like I'm saying those guys did great, but I bet there was a lot of guys that were like, yeah. Nothing was built. Every step I took was a brand new step.

[A]

Oh yeah, you were just. Yeah. You were just like a Magellan anybody. Dude, if you got a pair of running shoes, you were a Magellan.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[A]

You were Christopher Columbus.

[B]

Imagine when those had hokas back then. I mean, come on. Yeah, dude. You would be above Daniel Boone.

[A]

You were sponsored by the Spanish at that point. You know what I'm saying?

[B]

He came up that way, dude. That's the way he came up. And they were like, we didn't see that coming. Yeah, this guy came through. Yeah.

[A]

Dude. It is kind of crazy. And because there was also a time where there were more woods. Right. Anytime there was woods, you were an explorer. Anytime.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That has a lot to do with exploration because there was more woods that like, less timber had been cut down. So I think you had that. And then. Yeah. Just not knowing where everything was. Being an explorer.

[B]

Gosh.

[A]

You think you. You think you could have been an explorer?

[B]

I mean, I don't think you have a choice. I think you're just it. But it's. Yeah, I think I could. I like exploring. I would like to go find some, you know, trying to really see like what's the path the best way to go. That's what's hard is there's not much left exploring. You know, you see like those untouched tribes they talked about. Then you're like, I don't even know if those. Some of that's real or not.

[A]

It looks fake. A lot of that's fake.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. And so there's. I know in Alaska because they talk about Bigfoot and like in Alaska there's like so much land and stuff like in with woods and like you go up to Washington, it's like got the most trees. Yeah.

[A]

People don't even yeah, it's.

[B]

You can't. There's so much.

[A]

I can go seek for two years.

[B]

Oh, yeah. You couldn't. I mean, there's. If Bigfoot's real, it's like, it would be easy for Bigfoot to hide up there. Up there.

[A]

That's a good point. Whereas, yeah. Like, in other places, like Modesto, it'd be tougher.

[B]

Or,

[A]

you know, up in, like, north Atlanta or something like that. Those are.

[B]

Would be. Yeah. Bigfoot's gonna get seen.

[A]

Oh, dude. In Atlanta. Bigfoot's gonna be at the club. Probably at the club. For sure, dude.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

People would have him feature on their albums in Atlanta.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Just. Yeah. Come up and talk.

[A]

Yeah. You don't think Ludicrous is gonna have Bigfoot pull up.

[B]

Yeah. Why would you not. You have access to him. Yeah. Yeah. And you probably don't gotta pay him. Probably. Food.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I don't know for sure.

[A]

Clean salmon, I'm thinking also. Yeah.

[B]

Clean salmon. You just give him that, and then he drops a.

[A]

But they're gonna push that narrative on him that he's, like, a person of color, too.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That would be like, he has to show up and he has to do, like, he has to. Like, he has to go collab on a track.

[B]

Yeah. Or show up. He has to go to stuff. He. Yeah. He's like, yeah, we need you, bro.

[A]

Yeah, we need you at Diamonds or whatever that place is. Nipple Diamonds or whatever that. Whatever that exotic club there is, I think.

[B]

Oh, yeah. One of them gotten. Everybody got in trouble at. All of them did.

[A]

Yeah. A lot of them.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Well, they found glyphosate there on some of the women.

[B]

I'm always crazy how open they are about talking about that. The NBA, they. Because they talk about going to those clubs, and there's no, like, you know, we feel like there's someone that's like, hey, let's not. Let's keep it a little quiet.

[A]

Right. Like, a lot. Everything else, like, hey, don't talk about that. Don't talk about politics. Don't talk about how you feel about this. Don't be like Kyrie Irving with his. You know.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Don't express yourself. But if it comes to clubbery, like, strip club.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Go all out or throwing tens of thousands of dollars on the back of somebody.

[B]

Yeah. Then please. Then say it. Say it all, then. Yeah.

[A]

Then share it.

[B]

Magic City. That's the one they just got in trouble about.

[A]

Oh, did it.

[B]

Yeah. Because the Hawks used Magic City Night, which is the.

[A]

Where they would go and this is similar, I guess, Magic City Night. Is it. Is that similar to the Nate rate at all, or. No, there's two different things.

[B]

It's. It's along the lines. It's. It's what we were going for originally.

[A]

No, but I love that you're doing this, dude. I love that you were able to make that happen. How do you make that happen with the. With the theaters and then also secondarily, you know, how many theaters you guys are opening up in?

[B]

3,000, I think. 3,000?

[A]

Oh, wow. Really?

[B]

Yeah, I think so. I'm not positive. I think it's like that. I think it's 3,000, but it's. You, you know, it's. Dude, it's like meeting, you know, we've met like, you know, amc, that. That head of Regal Cinemark Cineplex. Like, you just kind of go to them and like, they're all. They're in the same business. I always say this. I'm in the ticket selling business. You're in the ticket selling business? We sell tickets. So it's. It's. You kind of take stuff out of, like, you know, the hands of Hollywood, in a sense, once you're in this ticket selling business, like, that's all. That's my relationship audience is I. You buy a ticket and you come see me. And so when you can kind of do that, I think you can go to these theaters to go. We're all on the same page. They want people coming to theaters. We want. I want them to come see the movie I made. And so then you're. I think you can just. There's ways around it. And now we're in such a new world where you're, you know, you start meeting people and like, everybody just wants their businesses to grow. And I think everybody took it for granted for such a long time because it was. That's just what it was, you know, like. Like growing up was, you know, growing up, you just went to the movie theaters you couldn't do. There was no streaming. There was a. You know, then once all the streaming stuff started happening, it's like then they kind of went hard into that and then I think left theaters. And now you're getting back to where these younger generations that are growing up with phones and they're seeing their parents on the phone all the time and they just want to go somewhere and they want to go do stuff. And so then it's like, there's a chance, I think it will flip back to, you know, I mean, you know, when you feel Like, I think every time I drop my phone, I think, I hope it breaks.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

I always just Someone's like, oh. I'm like, it'd be wonderful. It broke.

[A]

I hope someone steals it. I'll even go to a city that has a lot of crime and drop my phone there a couple ten, see what happens.

[B]

See what happens.

[A]

And I'll even make that sound like.

[B]

And be let down. Yes.

[A]

And be like, oh, that it's.

[B]

You go outside this city had crime. And I was wrong. I'll even do that when I drop point at it. Yeah, but yeah, dude, leave it way out of your pocket. Back pocket.

[A]

Oh, when my phone goes off, dude. Sometimes I used to wet the bed and I would be like an adult, which was the saddest part of it. But after that, there was times where I was like, supposed to, like, get up in the morning or whatever, and then I would urinate all over my phone. It would short out and it would be like the best morning.

[B]

But yeah, especially after something so sad happening as an adult.

[A]

Oh, but then you're, you get past that.

[B]

But then, no, then your phone doesn't work and you're like, man, what a day. Yeah, I leave my phone, like, on the road. I, I, But I'll have like an, you know, you have an Apple watch. You have an Apple watch. Like, you have an Apple watching. Have Apple watch with cellular.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

So you can leave your phone and then like, you know, it's like one of those, like, all right, if someone needed to call me, it's like you could throw AirPods in. Or you can be like, hey, I gotta call you back, or text message or whatever. That's a big thing you do with kids at first. Sometimes you give them an apple watch before a phone because they can't do too much with an Apple watch. But you could, you could get ahold of them.

[A]

My kid. Yeah, my kid would be lucky to get an apple and, and watch what happens if you don't behave.

[B]

That's.

[A]

That's how I'm starting.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That's a start.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Is a good diet. And then like, light threat.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then we'll go from there to see what else they get if they are well behaved. But Oliver Anthony just did something. Can you bring that up? What he was trying to do with ticketing and Congrats, man. On your, on your movie. Yeah, ours just, we, we only got 500 theaters. I wish we'd have gone bigger and I wish we'd gone to more rural theaters. I think we Try to do like too much. Just city stuff.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

But anyway.

[B]

But I mean, like, movies are go back and forth to like streaming is. I kind of think of streaming sometimes as like, it's like block blockbuster in a sense. It's like where your stuff can go live and people can go watch that forever.

[A]

Right.

[B]

I mean, Burt's movie, you know, it's like he went to theaters and then he went crazy and did it destroy it on Netflix?

[A]

Well, I think. And also, man, sorry to kind of made that about me there in our movie for a second. I want to apologize about that.

[B]

No, I'll talk about your movie.

[A]

No, congratulations. So it's going to be open in May 29th. That's this Friday.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And it's in theaters. It's going to be in 3,000 theaters, which means almost everywhere. Yeah, that's a lot of places. Yeah, that's wonderful, dude. It's exciting.

[B]

Also, just there's a chance it's four theaters. If some reason it's not 3,000 idea. I think it's 3,000. But it would be funny if.

[A]

4,000, you mean?

[B]

No, no, I think 4,000 is the max. I think we're at three. I'm just saying we go back and you know, it's in 100 theaters and they go. It could be that too.

[A]

What was Oliver saying? Yeah, I just saw this the other day. Can you just play a little bit of it?

[B]

I could really use your suggestions and your advice. I am looking for venues to play. You know, I've started booking my own shows again. So in April, we did those Virginia's where I just rented the room outright and I sold my own tickets through this West Virginia ticket company. And it was sweet. It was like it bypassed the whole system and it actually worked and it went over pretty well. And so I just announced again for the June 1st through the 3rd, I'm doing Charlotte, Greenville and Raleigh the exact same way.

[A]

But I'm just going on Google and

[B]

trying to find venues. And so I have no idea what's good and bad, but if you have places that you like going to see

[A]

music that can hold. Okay, got it. So he was trying, I guess, some ticketing, I guess, ticketing maybe through the exact venues, I think, because that's a big thing for people. And Oliver's always been like a pioneer of like trying to figure out, you know, how do you get take away from, you know, some of these big groups like Ticketmaster and Live Nation just that have these conglomerates, you know, it's a lot I mean, there's Ticketmaster fees are crazy.

[B]

They're crazy. Here's the, like, you know, they're crazy. No, no, they're insane. I agree. But here's the thing with, like, how much work that was for him to do four or five shows, right? That's a lot of work. So it's like, you got to get. For him to. If he wants to go. If you want to go do it this way, you're going to need to build a system, right? And so you're going to have to have people that are going to be able to help you to go do that. You can go do that, but you have to build a system, or otherwise you're not going to be able to tour, like, the way you want to. If. If everybody wants to go see him. He's wonderful and all this. And it's. It's. It's, you know, it's a lot. It's a lot of work.

[A]

Lou.

[B]

Remember Louie, Louie Myself do it. He did it. He did it.

[A]

He did it for a while.

[B]

He did it a long time ago. You buy tickets through his website and stuff like that. There's many ways that you can go try to do it. And I looked a hard part of this, too, is that some people are like, I'll just. Just let me go to Ticketmaster, dude. I don't. You know, they. It's our StubHub or whatever they're gonna go do. And you're fighting that, too. So it's not like we all want to. I. Look, I always thought of it like this.

[A]

You're right. I never thought about that part of it.

[B]

Yeah, some people. Sometimes you're like, dude, I don't. What do you want? Like, if I really look at it all, even though it's like the. I believe in the thing that you're doing, it's. It's just so much work, and you got to get the word out and people have to find you and see you and all this. I don't know what he. Where he wants to be career wise. Like. Like, you know, does he want to be the most biggest star in the world? I don't feel like he. I feel like he loves where he's at, and, like, I think he just

[A]

loves having that relationship with the people,

[B]

with the audience, with the people, which is. Which is amazing. And so it's like, you should do that, but then there's a mix. You're the thing, you know, it's. You remember doing, like, comedy clubs when you'd go try to do a rock. Like, for me, I would go try to do a rock venue instead of a comedy club. And then you go to the odd. The people that would come out to me, they don't know where this rock venue's at. So they've never heard of this rock venue. They just know where the comedy club is.

[A]

Right now you're doing.

[B]

And then now you're 100 people show

[A]

up under a bench somewhere.

[B]

Yeah, okay. Yeah.

[A]

Oh, you just got word. It's 3300. 300 theaters there, so. Yeah, I think so.

[B]

But, yeah, it's charge all this stuff. Ticketmaster does all this stuff. They. I. It's. It's one of those.

[A]

It's a mafia.

[B]

Yeah, but you're, you know. But the audience, you know. Yes, it's frustrating. We're all frustrated by it. But then it's also, like, people are busy. You got to. How many people can you get that are going to go follow you everywhere?

[A]

I agree. When you. When you make it, like. Yeah.

[B]

You know, and sometimes when you give stuff. You ever notice when I, like, I waited tables and so I used to always think, Applebee's right over here. Thompson.

[A]

Really?

[B]

Yeah. That's where me and my wife met.

[A]

I pray for all those people over there. You met your wife at Applebee's?

[B]

Bees. Thompson Lane. So.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

I don't know where Thompson.

[A]

But, you know, do you remember what day or what. What day it was or was it a holiday?

[B]

Daniel Boone was born around about roundabout. November 2nd. Yeah.

[A]

In the spring.

[B]

In the spring,

[A]

yeah.

[B]

Yeah. So.

[A]

And you met her there, and how'd you meet her? Was she working there?

[B]

She was a waitress and I was the host.

[A]

You were a male host?

[B]

A male host.

[A]

And you've been a host anyway?

[B]

Yeah, I've been host my whole life. And so. But I was. Yeah. Male host. Heck, yeah. You know, shout out to all the. I was easy, you know, when he came in, you know, you just. I was an easy. Like, hey, you know, wasn't aggressive.

[A]

No.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Like, hey, yeah. Hey, what do you want to do? Where do you want to go? You could talk me into where you want to sit.

[A]

Easily, huh?

[B]

Easily. Easily.

[A]

Can we sit over by the window?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. That section's wide open. Can I go over there? Of course. We can walk over there.

[A]

Yeah. Dude. Sometimes you go in this one of the sections that was closed off and they had all the baby seats parked over there. That always made me nervous. I thought something had happened to all the babies.

[B]

Yeah, that's where they get like, what's wrong with this restaurant? There you go. We've had some baby problems here.

[A]

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[B]

Yeah. And that's where they. Were they upside down?

[A]

Yeah, sometimes.

[B]

Sometimes they were.

[A]

Oh, man, when I see that, I still think of that. And sometimes they'd be stacked on each other or something, you know?

[B]

Yeah. The old wood baby seats. They didn't have that anymore.

[A]

Dude. Sometimes they would have a baby's head chiseled his name in the wood.

[B]

Oh, yeah. You know, they came a lot.

[A]

Yeah. Like Ricky Jr. Or something was written in there.

[B]

You're like, dang, how about you come here? Like, when they see his family walk in, they already got it out.

[A]

Yeah. Sometimes it'd be like an unhappy baby would say, like, Brooks was here. Just chiseled in there.

[B]

Yeah. Like, oh, waiting tables is back to. My theory is, you know, you would always think, like, to get a bigger tip. I would, like, try to hook. You'd be like, I didn't charge you for the Coke. I didn't, you know, no charge for. And you thought. I thought, like, me hooking you up would mean a higher tip. And it never did. But if I charged you full price for everything, you would tip me more.

[A]

Got it.

[B]

So it's like, that's kind of how stuff works where in a weird we all. Because in my head, you're like, yo, dude, I'm like, you know, I've taken off. I've done what I can of, like, I can just get you a Coke and put water down. Yeah. You know, that's three, four dollars I just saved you. And then I'll get you what, you know, I don't know, like some random. You're doing these little things that. And you think they're going to be

[A]

like, I'll get you one extra little.

[B]

But they tip off the price.

[A]

They tip off the price and they don't think. And sometimes people's. The math in their head, like, well, I don't even know how much stuff that was worth. And what do I do here? Yeah.

[B]

Because you. They just want to eat and, like, just charge me.

[A]

They want a breadstick and they want to meet a woman.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

You know?

[B]

Yeah. Like Olive Garden where they give you free bread. You know, it's like, do you tip extra? No, Like, I don't think you tip. You don't. You don't wrap that in. That's a big thing. They give you a free. Don't they give free breadsticks and maybe Salad or something.

[A]

I think there's soup even.

[B]

Maybe unlimited pasta. Something like. It's, like, aggressive.

[A]

If you just run in there, they'll give you a half a handful of soup.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. For nothing.

[A]

Yeah, for nothing. Dude, the assistant manager lets you freaking eat it right out of her hand. If she's nice, if she's feeling good that day.

[B]

Yeah. You get complimented. Breadsticks. Yeah. But I wonder if they make you feel the guilty asking for them.

[A]

Yeah. Like, oh, well, let me see. Let me see if we have them.

[B]

Do you ever go to, oh, Charlie's back in the day when they do,

[A]

you know, Ochre's peanut shells on the floor?

[B]

No, no. O. Charlie's was a different restaurant, but they had these great rolls, and, I mean, the rolls were. Oh, Charlie's has great. They have rolls now. They did something to them. They're not as good as they were.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I think they had sugar in them before, and so it was almost like a Krispy Kreme doughnut, but it was unbelievable. And they'd give free rolls, and you would set them down on the table, and then everybody would be like, go ahead and bring another round. And they even had five of them. Yeah, dude. They were the best roles in the world. And everybody would go in and you're just. You're really there for the roles. And, you know, and then you would feel embarrassed to be like, you know, they bring you a basket of five, and you're like, before you turn around, these are gone. So go ahead and send another one out. And I think they had a pace. They had a pacing problem. They had to be like, yeah, we can't drag it out.

[A]

Yeah. People were coming and looking in the kitchen and stuff.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Because they. I mean, they were the best.

[A]

People were texting the plug or whatever. Here's a solid copycat for Charlie's original roles. Warm whole milk, a six, a cup of sugar, dry yeast, a beaten egg, butter, purpose flour, salt. Thank you.

[B]

Yeah. Nice, huh?

[A]

Yeah. Maybe a little bit of sugar in it.

[B]

Oh, dude, maybe they didn't have. Maybe. I mean, I don't know. It might have been all that stuff.

[A]

It could have been the yeast. I don't know. Some yeast has a lot of. It can be.

[B]

If you do this recipe, throw a little sugar in it, too.

[A]

Yeah. And if you're making anything for your

[B]

family tonight, throw a little sugar.

[A]

Throw a little sugar.

[B]

I do. Ain't gonna.

[A]

Dude, pasta sauce.

[B]

No, that says six cup of sugar. It does fit. Oh, yeah, yeah. Sorry. I didn't hear that?

[A]

No. No worries, man.

[B]

Yeah, see, you see what I mean, dude, I think they got rid of that sugar and then they got into. Yeah, probably yeast heavy.

[A]

They might have went yeast heavy, went wet yeast. Oh, that's the worst. When it's real yeast you just put in your mouth and it's like. Just grows in your mouth or whatever.

[B]

Like.

[A]

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[B]

Yeah, great guy.

[A]

I mean, let's just say he's great.

[B]

He's great.

[A]

He's great. Did you also direct it?

[B]

No, no. Eric Capell. He did Eric Capell. He did the Weird Al Yankovic movie. And so it's a. Yeah, it's a great movie. And then so he did that. And then we had Jeremy Lacham was a producer and Sony Tristar. It was a full on, like, big, you know, we did it in Atlanta, Trilith, which is right Outside of Trilla. Trilith. Trilith. So the owner of Chick Fil A, Dan Cathy, he owned. That's where they used to shoot all the Marvel movies. And so they have all these studios and then across neighborhood is housing. So, like a lot of people that shoot there, you can go rent houses and it's like a Truman show type place where you just walk around.

[A]

Would you see other actors and stuff during the day when you're like. They were working on different projects.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, whom did you see? Do you mind?

[B]

Because this is.

[A]

You saw Jaleel White?

[B]

Jill White.

[A]

No way.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. And so he was. He was shooting a game show. You would see a lot of.

[A]

What was he doing? Hooping or playing dice or whatever. What was he doing when you saw him?

[B]

No, he was at. He was just at a restaurant.

[A]

There's a restaurant.

[B]

Oh, there's a bunch of restaurants there. I mean, it's a. It's a town.

[A]

Do they have real names or is it like kind of like an Epcot center type?

[B]

No, no, it's. It's like I. People have houses there, then you rent them out to people that come in. Because when you were, you know, when they're shooting these Marvel stuff, I mean, you'd have to have like, you know, Chris Pratt or Robert and, you know, I mean, you can go live. Not in that town too, but you can. But like, it. It's right across from the studio, so you can just run over there. But they have like, ice cream shop.

[A]

Yeah. I just can't imagine you're like, you go out in the morning or whatever and fricking, you know, Robert Downey Jr. Al Pacino is like, checking his mail or whatever.

[B]

You know, he's like, whoa. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

That would be the weird part for me, dude.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Trilleth Town for Marvel Studios in Georgia could be the future of cities. And do you. Does it come with a pet or anything? Like, what's the whole.

[B]

I think, you know, you can get whatever you want there, but it's. Yeah. So they did all. They did a bunch of Marvel movies. I bet this is an old article, because it's not. I think stuff's coming back, but now Marvel's all in London.

[A]

Okay, got it.

[B]

But it was.

[A]

Yeah, this is an old 2022, but it was.

[B]

Yeah, it's like. So they built those towns for, like, a lot of the workers. Like, the idea of the. The union guys to be able to go live there and like, be able to come sit there and work, and that's Wild. But they did. Yeah. Everything. They did everything there.

[A]

You're too tired when you get home to think about grocery shopping, but that's okay. The delivery robot has just rolled up in front of your house with your weekly order. And this is the Trilith town. The four year old residential portion of Trilith was modeled after the building styles and village feel of European cities. It's a new town for about 5,000 people created using the principles of New Urbanism. A concept that means neighborhoods should be walkable and compact with varied building types and less emphasis on cars. Oh, that's pretty cool.

[B]

And each. And they would have different streets would be like. I think it says European and British style designs while spots are more modern. Or I'll just say facades. What is it?

[A]

Faucets?

[B]

Oh no, facades, facades, facades. And they. So you, you could go shoot actually on that street. So if you had like shoot a British style movie.

[A]

Oh, you could shoot it on your neighborhood.

[B]

You could do in the neighborhood and be like, well these houses look like they're British and these look more modern and stuff like that. Wow. And you could buy, you can rent it out.

[A]

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[B]

Yeah, it's a great idea in the fact that if you were trying to. Which they did. So you're trying, you're creating this studio and you want. The thing is, is like it was, you know, the taxes is like now everything went to London. Like they're all in London now because those, they're making those movies and they're so expensive. So it's like they, they, they shoot a lot of stuff over there now. They want to shoot everything there. There, there was that Rob Lowe talked about that thing where it's like for his game show it was easier to shoot in Ireland and fly the American audience to out to Ireland than it was to cheaper than film in la.

[A]

That's crazy man.

[B]

Which I think it's now that LA is like doing something like. But it got to that point where he was like yeah, will you not. Which this movie was like in Atlanta and I think we would have shot it in Canada or something. But I was fortunate able to be like, well I just wouldn't make a movie. I was like, I'm not just too far away. Well, it's like, yeah, man, I'm touring. And you're able to. The, the. The great thing for any young comedian, if you can you just keep doing what you're doing, you end up getting to hold a lot more kind of power like that. You know what I mean? Because you're like, I'm touring. I have a thing. I can do this. So when you go do make something, it's not that you don't. You have like full control, blah, blah, whatever, but it's like you can. You can say no.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Get the power of no.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So you can be like. It's like, hey, we gotta go make this movie in Canada because it's cheaper. Then it's like, then I'll just either try to make it on my own or I'll figure it out or find something else or I'm touring. So you're like, whatever. Yeah. And then it's like, you know, there comes a balance where you can start. I got a game show. We shoot it here in Nashville. They wouldn't shoot it in Nashville.

[A]

Did you try to shoot the film in Nashville?

[B]

I tried, but this one went so it was moving so quick that it's like we could have probably, but then it was. We needed to get it made and they have everything.

[A]

More infrastructure there for making stuff.

[B]

The thing about Tennessee is we don't have as the. You need the like an A and B team of workers. So like if you're shooting movies, you need like the A, A, the union guys, the guys that make the ones that make the movies. Like you need them working on one, then another team is working on or the second movie and you're kind of

[A]

able to flip flop second movie or different scenes.

[B]

Like a different movie or whatever. No, I mean a different. A whole different movie. You got to have multiple production crews. Oh, when. At that. When that. Their height of that trilith. I mean, I think they were using 12 to 20 studios filming a lot of things.

[A]

Oh, I see. You're saying. So they would have like. As long as you're.

[B]

You gotta have a lot of crew in town, right? We do not have that. We don't have. We have crew here. We don't have enough to handle high demand of movies.

[A]

Got it.

[B]

Like, you know, you got like. They're doing that Rescue 91 1, Nashville 911 or whatever it is here. Well, that's the. That. That's a great crew that's there. But if you have them doing that, you don't Have a crew that's just sitting. That you could also go shoot Batman here. So you need. Right.

[A]

We just don't have the infrastructure. We don't have.

[B]

I think we can.

[A]

Right.

[B]

I think we can get it. I think it takes time. And you got to show that there's.

[A]

Yeah, you got to take.

[B]

You got to show that you're really committed in doing it. Right.

[A]

Yeah, things have to happen. There's these tax incentives, all that type of stuff then. But Atlanta has a ton of that. Even for the example, that neighborhood. It's like they have a neighborhood built where people can stay across the street that are from the studios, where they can all be right there.

[B]

Georgia was a place that jumped on that really, really fast. But, you know, then you see it now. A lot of stuff, you know, even left still wasn't low enough. So then they still go out.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Farther. But, I mean, that's where you're in a movie business that really reliant on these movies that cost $500 million to make or whatever. And you're like, well, then you gotta stop making movies.

[A]

Well, how much did you guys cost to make?

[B]

You said, I think ours was like 38 million.

[A]

Are you serious?

[B]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's a, it's a big studio.

[A]

Wow, I didn't realize all that, man. Congratulations. I mean, that's, that's fascinating. That's wild, dude.

[B]

Yeah, I think it was something like that.

[A]

And Mandy Moore is also in it. She plays your wife. You have a couple of children in it.

[B]

Yep. Yeah, the kids are great. Charlotte, Birdie, and Stella is the oldest. That's Birdie and then. But the kids are great. And it's, it's a movie that's, it's pg. It's the idea of this is, you know, I want you to go take your whole family out to go to it. Take your mom, take your grandma. Like, you know, it's. I, I, I just love that. I love that when people can go out and they can all go together. I want to go to stuff with my family. Like, you know, you want to go. And then. So you go look at a lot of movies now. It's, it's like a lot of horror movies. It's a good point. Horror, it's a big or, it's like a Marvel movie or something. Or it's art, it's animated. Like, there's no live action movies like this, I think, that are being made that are pg and it's kind of the direction that I wanted to head

[A]

in what's been a lot of your direction, it feels like, why is that? Like, overall, like, I get it. 100, right? Like, I get it. And it's been so successful for you, right? Like, I think you're like the top touring comedian last year, maybe, I think. And I don't mean to get that wrong, you know, but, you know, you attract, like, you know, you can attract all ages, right? Your comedy's kind of for everyone. It's for kids, too, even.

[B]

I don't write it for kids, but kids can come. The point is, like, your kids don't have to leave the room.

[A]

Got it?

[B]

Like, so if it's on, like. But it's. When there's tons of kids at my show. Not tons, it's. But there's kids at the show, right? And you see them. But I watch them and I can tell, like, they're not, you know, they don't. Like, a kid's not gonna lie. They don't get everything.

[A]

They don't get.

[B]

Yeah, they like some of the dumb, silly jokes. But if I'm talking about, like, marriage and stuff like that, they're not gonna be laughing at that or. But I know when they get in the car, they're going to just talk about the whole night, right? And we. I hear that from parents. Like, they're just like, oh, they just kept. But, you know, a kid doesn't know how to. It just kind of sits there and stares. But then afterwards, they just are excited. They haven't been to an adult event. And so this feels very adult. Like you're watching because it is. You're being. You're making it for. You know, my stuff is not. I'm not trying to make it, like, yeah, like, it's just kid friendly. Like, the kid can come in. You're just not cursing. You can get away with a lot more when you don't curse. Cursing is just kind of like. That's just what I've found. But it's just.

[A]

What do you mean by that? You can get away with a lot more.

[B]

I think you can say a lot of things and talk about a lot of stuff. And I think if you, if you don't curse, it's.

[A]

I need to hear this.

[B]

It's. It's like the cursing is what I think. Like, it's just. That's what people hear that either they check out or they're like, he's dirty or he's this or he's that. And so if you're control of it, just be in control of it, maybe it's not saying you don't have to curse, but it's. Where is it and when is it? Yeah. Where. It's a lot of, I think the younger comedians now, it's, you know, they, they start on the Internet, then they go to the Netflix. Like, no one's. Like, there's no boundaries. Where, like we came. We did live at Gotham, I think the same year, right around. And when you did that on Comedy Central, you had. You couldn't say whatever you wanted to say. That's not a bad thing. That means you have to be creative in a scenario, not saying don't. You can come on anything else and go say whatever you want to go say. But it's not a bad thing to have. Oh, like some TV boundaries around you.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because then it makes you come at stuff in different angles.

[A]

Oh, yeah. I mean, I fan. I almost fantasize sometimes. Not fantasize, it's probably the weirdest word. But I, I think about that of like, yeah, I would like to get to a place where I don't have to, you know, or not. Because I don't.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But it's just where I don't. Where I don't want to curse.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I think I do it. I don't even know why I do it. I think it's kind of how I operate in a regular day too. So in the end, I think it's probably just.

[B]

I don't think of you as someone that would be dirty.

[A]

I'm not vulgar.

[B]

No, no.

[A]

Right. Like, I'm not like, sexually explicit or like talking about something that I think is gross, but I'll use some profanity, you know.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's just where I'm from and stuff like that, I think. But as an adult and I don't have a family or anything yet, I don't have anybody looking at me across the room saying, why are you saying that in front of the kids, dude? You know what I'm saying? Cuz I work for myself and I'm a shitty employee.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, I'm out back smoking and catching myself. I'll sneak around the corner, smoke, and then run around the corner and be like, what are you doing out here? You know, the deep fryers freaking acting up, you know, so.

[B]

But no, do. Do whatever you want to go do. But by the way, no one think. I don't think anybody thinks of you as a dirty comment.

[A]

Yeah, thanks.

[B]

Like, I don't think, you know, and curse. Do whatever you want. Yeah, do whatever you want.

[A]

But it is a challenge. I agree. I, I love the fact that it's a challenge to yourself. Is there, is there a day do you ever like say, well one day I'm gonna put out. There's gonna be like a dark folder I'm gonna put out of just the other side of things. Have you, are you ever had like, have you ever wanted to have like an only fans where you just say like bad. Some bad words on it?

[B]

No, I just don't think, I think I've just passed the point of where I would. I, you know, look, I like whatever.

[A]

Was it always like that?

[B]

Yeah, yeah. I mean I, we, we grew up. When I grew up it was like cursing was. You know, my parents were. Became Christian when I was born and well, I have a joke about if they were the most Christian and so like you know, growing up here, Southern Baptist, very strict rules. Like it's, it's, you know, I think churches, church is completely different now. Like a lot of it's non denomination and all that. But it's. Then it was like, yeah, you didn't. No one, no, I mean cursing was looked at and no one in my family, my, my parents did not curse, so I wasn't around.

[A]

Yeah, that's awesome.

[B]

Like that. So I have a. Not that I'm, I'm not perfect, but my strictness in it, in my act is just, was like I was just never going to do it. And then when I started that way it's like, yeah, it would be weird

[A]

to go and it doesn't feel like I'm ostracizing you for not doing it doesn't feel like that, does it?

[B]

No, no. I think some people. I don't feel like you do, but it does.

[A]

It doesn't feel like I'm ostracize. Like I'm, I'm envious of it. I don't, you know, and I think it just, it just like. Yeah, it makes it so it's ready for everybody. Right. Like this is something you can. And a parent knows at some point I can turn that on. This is the thing that does get me sometimes if a parent's with their kids, like I don't know if I can turn those podcasts on because it's gonna have profanity in it or they might be talking about some stuff that's gonna be a bit obtuse for kids.

[B]

I think about that sometimes with serious radio where it's like you, you know, you are, you get into some stuff about sports or you want to listen to some sports stuff. And then it's like, some of it gets. They're cursing and you're like, I'm just trying to, like, hear the score of the game UFC had, like, you know, I mean, we're both giant UFC fans, and I. The pay per view events, I'm fine with. But, like, sometimes, even if you have to listen to something about ufc, it can get, like. They can get cursing and all this stuff, and, like, not to. Sometimes you're like, I just wouldn't mind, like, if my daughter's in the car, not really paying attention, and I would, like.

[A]

Right.

[B]

To just hear some UFC stuff. Can we have a channel where it's like, I just know you're not gonna.

[A]

That's very.

[B]

Go nuts.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, you know what I mean? Like.

[A]

Yeah, because the only time she's gonna look up, too, is if she hears a bad word. She look up and she's gonna look at you like, dad, what are you listening to this?

[B]

And you're like, I'm not. You're like, I know. I'm just trying to listen to, like, you just want it to be like, local radio.

[A]

You're like, I'm just a Gaethje fan. What do you know? Give me a chance here.

[B]

You know, I'm a cold. Look, Colby Covington, it's hard to. It's hard to keep him quiet. He's just the word you can listen to. I mean, I have nothing against Scoby. I don't. He says all the craziest things.

[A]

Oh, yeah?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Well, a lot of those guys have to be their own advertiser. When you think about some of those guys, it's interesting because they just wanted to fight, but then they have to. Some of them have to probably. And feel a pressure to become this other thing because you have to be their own PR company in a way.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. And look, I don't feel bad. It's not the fighters. It's like just.

[A]

You wish the commentators. Yeah, they're talking about. You're right.

[B]

Like, I mean, they do a good job, though, on ufc. Like, I. I don't like when Rogan and all them, like, they don't curse.

[A]

Oh, they're pretty clean on there.

[B]

Yeah. I don't think they curse at all now when they go interview them. But that's another thing. That's the fighter. They're in the moment. It's going to be hard not to let loose. And some of that's part of what it is. And. But it's. I do think UFC Does a great job with like when it's Daniel Corman, Rogan. Like, they do not curse with John Anik.

[A]

Those three are the greatest.

[B]

The greatest group that's ever done it.

[A]

And they also have them. They have Bisping, Paul Felder even when those guys aren't doing it. Poirier's on there now. Chris Weidman, Cormier. I mean, yeah. But those guys are awesome.

[B]

Has been great.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, dude. He's been great, dude. He's like. Yeah. I just love, like, I love seeing those guys get to be not just fighters and get to share their personalities. I got to ask you about. I feel like such a freaking reporter now. Got to ask, dude. So tell me about Nateland. It's real.

[B]

Park. It's real.

[A]

The theme park is real.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Where are we at with it? Like, what's going on?

[B]

We're about to. Getting to some investing.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

So we're about to start that kind of process. We have the land or we basically think we. We know where we want the land to be. We have not. We, like, we haven't said anything about the land or where it's at or anything yet, but we. We've narrowed it down to basically this one spot and then so it's. But yeah, I mean, we're. We have the renderings. They're working on it every day. And we have Storyland. Storyland is a group that. Storyland is a group. They did. They've done stuff with everything. They. I think they had some stuff to do with Epic. It's a lot of guys that worked with Disney for a long time and they started their own kind of company and they did all the Disney's in Dubai.

[A]

So Storyland is a company that helps make these things come to fruition. Like they build them and everything.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, got it. And so they, they. They make it. They help you design all that. Designing all that rendering, all that, getting that of the idea of what we're trying to do.

[A]

And is this a real render? Have you seen this before?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Okay. And what is on this runner? Can you zoom in on that photo for me some?

[B]

It's. It's gonna be so like it says nae land the front. Like, so that front area right past the Nateland is gonna be like a retro mall. So that's like, that would be open all year round. And you can go in there and you can have, you know, like we talked like a Netflix house that we talked about earlier. You know, maybe you could have something like that. I'M not saying this is what we are having in there, but you could have some stuff like that, restaurant, stuff like that that's open all year round. You have three sections of the park. You have a section to the left.

[A]

Roller coasters.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, it's crazy, dude. I just went to her. I was in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

[A]

You went to the Hershey? Kennywood?

[B]

No, Hershey Park. Dollywood.

[A]

Now I'm thinking of Kennywood.

[B]

I think I know Kennywood too.

[A]

Kenny was in Pittsburgh.

[B]

Oh, no, we didn't go there. Went to Hershey Park.

[A]

How was that?

[B]

It's. It's awesome. And so we rode some roller coasters which were. It was kind of roller coaster shopping, which was crazy because you're like, man, well, you would just ride. Well, now they had a few that you're like.

[A]

They rolled back the miles on this.

[B]

Yeah, you go. There you go. No, thank you. But it was weird to be riding a roller coaster, being like, yeah, that was. They go. That one felt great. And then you're like, you're, you know, you're kind of like, yeah, yeah, let's do that one. Dude.

[A]

That's wild. And who did you go with? Was that just a family trip, you guys?

[B]

No, no, I was on the road. I was there. I did shows there. And so we had one guy from Storyland who came up and he kind of just walked me through and said, one of. For this one roller coaster we're doing, the roller coaster we're about to ride is very similar to the one that we're looking at. The same people made this roller coaster. So you kind of ride in the roller coaster knowing that that company is who would make that roller coaster. Or this is another one. So you're really riding some stuff and. And getting a, you know, being like, all right, what's this one kind of feel like. What's this one do?

[A]

And. And how much is a coaster? Decent coaster.

[B]

I found out, like, there was one. There was one like. Like a big one. Might be like $30 million. Like. Or. I'm not like, you know, I don't know if it's the biggest one, but like a kind of newer, very, very good coaster they have. We were get someone just trying to guess. There was about 30. They said $30 million. And then there's some other rides that were. One was like a new version of a tilt, a whirl kind of. But it. It was like kind of moved around.

[A]

You tried that out too?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, we rode that. Just seeing what that was And I think that was like $850,000.

[A]

Oh, that's when you can get that

[B]

one that when you get in your house, you know you get just going to lay away. You just have that lay, lay, lay way, way away.

[A]

Yeah. Dang. I bet Kid Rock could get that thing.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Frickin dude. But he probably.

[B]

But it's like yes. So you start going through.

[A]

He'd ruin it.

[B]

And this theme park. I mean he would ruin the kid.

[A]

Sorry, how does that say that?

[B]

He'd put it on the White House.

[A]

There's so many clips of me just roasting him. Even though we're friends. I freaking love roasting him. Oh yeah, he'd ruin it, dude. And he would spend his money on that instead of buying his brother a new leg who's missing one. Shout out, Billy. But yeah, go on.

[B]

He could. Well, he should get a discount and be like, if you get 50 grand off, throw that 50 to that leg.

[A]

That's what I'm saying.

[B]

He already wrapped his head around spending 850. Yeah. And then you know what, you could go like if Kid Rock goes, I'm spending 850 for this. And then he goes to his brother and goes, if you can get any down, you can get that leg.

[A]

Right? Whatever you save, you earn.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, I love that. And limit.

[A]

Oh, if I had a brother missing some, I'd limb his low ass up in a heartbeat. But that's me. But so do you have a budget for how much you can spend on coasters for this thing? Are you.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. It's all budgeted in like. I mean, you know, we're looking. It's like roughly going to be like $350 million. And then. Yeah.

[A]

And is. Will the land be a lease or will it be owning the land?

[B]

It's. There's a lot of that I can't get into.

[A]

Okay. And how hands on with you are all of that. Like some of it. And some of it's obviously this like the minutiae you wouldn't be involved in. But yeah. How hands on with you are all that.

[B]

I'm picking, picking the. I mean it's crazy because you're. I'll be in this, in these meetings and I forget again that we were talking about like being in charge. I forget like story land, like all this stuff when you do this. I'm paying for all this for them to go do the feasibility study and like to economic study and I mean these are giant studies that they do when you do investments to go to show the tax revenue that it can bring, the jobs that you can bring to Nashville. I mean, the reason I love this idea and doing this is the idea of providing jobs. I want. I want it. I want our customer, like the workers to be very much like, you know, it is Disney or like you think like Chick Fil A where you know, they're just great workers. And you want people to be able to come there. Someone like me that wasn't able to go, that couldn't get into college. And like. So you don't know what. You know, my. I just was like, I'm a comedian. But it was before that you're like. I was a water meter reader. I didn't know what jobs. You know, you don't meet people that have other crazy jobs.

[A]

You reading water meters?

[B]

Yeah. Mount Juliet, did you? Yeah.

[A]

They got a lot of water out there, huh?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, a lot of meters. And you had to go do it

[A]

because you can't just guess. Huh.

[B]

Now I think they have it where you can drive by it and it just does it electronically. I had to get out with a crowbar and you would lift up the thing and type in how much water.

[A]

And they have snakes in there sometimes.

[B]

Oh, yeah. I remember one was laid right on top of the water meter. And you got to get it.

[A]

It makes my body nervous.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Spiders. And you never knew. Every time you open one up, you

[A]

ever find anything cool in there? A little. Somebody stash a bag? A little bag of some.

[B]

No, I don't think I ever found anything like that. No.

[A]

But really nothing. Nobody hid nothing. A little spare lunch. I don't think people sack of Christmas ornaments or something.

[B]

It would be a good place to put something because nobody thinks about that. It's so no one thinks about it. Yeah, I don't think they do, but it would have been a good spot to put something.

[A]

But you'd see spiders up in there.

[B]

I mean. Yeah, that was. Every one of them had spiders. No, they loved it.

[A]

And you ever see a clean one, somebody taking care of it, they just.

[B]

Oh, no. I mean, you. It's, you know, I mean, I guess a newer house, like, you know, one. I think it just hasn't been through it yet. Yeah, but. Yeah, but I do remember this snake. Snake was just curled right on top of it. And I had to get it off because I have to lift the thing to read it.

[A]

Gosh. Yeah. I sold Italian food door to door for a while with this fella.

[B]

Dude.

[A]

And that was a dang pizza or

[B]

just all Italian food, huh?

[A]

No, we had bread rolls. We had Italian. It was like this thing called Italian caviar or whatever, but it was really just like raviolis.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then what else? Say, like, pastas. Balinese.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They had our aviata. What else? I think they had vodka sauce. Pizza or something.

[B]

Yeah, Yeah.

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

But we just had, like, pizzas too.

[A]

You deliver pizzas.

[B]

Pizza Hut.

[A]

You work the damn Pizza Hut. Dude, they're redoing. You saw that. They're coming back.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know why? Because. Experiences. Oh, that's a big thing. That's a big reason is to. It's stuff for people to do because they. They.

[A]

We.

[B]

We had that. You remember they used to have a buffet pizza. Buff. Yeah, pizza. It was great.

[A]

You kidding? Where would your mom fight? It's when your parents had a real. Something serious going on in the marriage and take you there.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

That was. Something serious was happening. And it could be something good or bad.

[B]

Ford Waters. And you got a Sprite. Hope they didn't notice with those big red. They didn't know. Yeah, I would buy. I would buy five dozens of those red cups. The Coke, any soda tastes the best out of that.

[A]

It's true, huh?

[B]

It's the best.

[A]

Now, they had a particular type of ice in there too, I think.

[B]

Yes. A little bit like a little shave. Sonic.

[A]

Yeah. It was something different.

[B]

Something was different.

[A]

I think having a unique ice. It's little things like that that can add a lot of texture to a place. A little bit more about Nateland. So. So some things, obviously, you have to get the funding to make sure you can get the space. So some things, it's like, this happens, then this happens. It's like a Dom falling effect.

[B]

Yeah. If they're like. I mean, it's. Right now I'm spending all the money for it.

[A]

And now are you putting your own money in with somebody else or what's going on?

[B]

Just my money.

[A]

So you're the only money right now.

[B]

This doesn't go anywhere. I will be in big trouble. No, I mean, I would be touring for the rest of my life, but it's like right now it's on. It's just me.

[A]

What made you make that choice? It's a big choice and no judgment. And I think it's a cool choice. I think it's a good choice choice. What makes you make it? And I wish you the best of luck with the dude. It's exciting. I'll go over there.

[B]

Thank you. We'd love to have you. It's, you know, my first job was a theme park. I worked at Opryland here in Nashville, and I was 15. And so, I don't know. They, Then they got rid of that my senior year in high school. And, I mean, the whole city kind of was like, why would you do that? Like, it was a profitable theme park. Everybody kind of liked it. I, I, I'm not saying from that day, I was like, I'm gonna build a theme park. But then as I got.

[A]

Why did they close it?

[B]

You know, they, they got a mall. There's a mall there now, Opry Mills Mall. And I don't used to be.

[A]

Opryland. A theme park.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Right there.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't even know that.

[B]

Yeah. I don't even know if it'd be curious to see if there's a reason. I don't know if there'd be a real reason on, on the Internet, to be honest. I think that it was like, maybe pro, like, it was like, just easier to have them all than it would be a theme park for whatever reason.

[A]

Got it. Operand USA closed in 1997 because its parent company, Gaylord Entertainment, wanted to transition. Sorry, crazy name. Gay Lord. Because the Lord, I think, is straight.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Wanted to transition the seasonal theme park into a highly profitable year round retail and entertainment complex. Understandable.

[B]

Yeah. So that was the Wall Bash. Cannonball. The one that goes upside down.

[A]

Oh, that was it. You remember the name of that one?

[B]

I know more. Yeah.

[A]

What's that one?

[B]

Screen Wabash Cannonball.

[A]

The Wabash Cannonball.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Dang. So you were there, Nate.

[B]

Yeah. Screaming. They're the screaming Delta Demon.

[A]

Oh, yeah. I met her before I met her. Dang it. At it. She goes to Mississippi State. For sure. I think she just did 50 days of boozing out there in Knoxville.

[B]

For sure, dude.

[A]

Oh, my God. So you were in the trenches there at Opryland?

[B]

I was a, I was a sweeper and I worked in the dog kennel, and my dad did magic there.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

So, but like, so the reason I thought about this was, like, the idea, it's, you know, when you started, I started doing all these arenas and all the, my, my big daydreaming goal when I was starting, comedy was the headline Bridgestone. And so when I, when I did it for the first time, I remember that night, I really was like. I mean, I remember it was that night. I was like, what am I supposed to do now? Because I just thought about that for 20 years and then. Which is crazy. It was 20 years pretty much, I think, exactly. For me to get there to headline Bridgestone.

[A]

And congratulations on that, dude.

[B]

And we sold 19,365 tickets, which is 20 years. Isn't that crazy? If you're into. I don't know, I'm not even into numbers.

[A]

You sold 19,365 tickets, which is plus 365.

[B]

20 years.

[A]

20 years.

[B]

Dang. And. But so when you. When I got to that, I go, all right, Like, I just felt like, what am I? What's the next. You got to have something else. It can't be, you know, you gotta. I gotta assume that if I keep becoming a great comic, the arenas will come, I'll be able to do Madison Square Garden, I'll be able to do all this stuff. So I have to. I believe in myself that I can do that. But then what's the purpose of me? Like, what's the per. And I. And I thought, it can't be about me, right? This life cannot be about me or I'm gonna go crazy.

[A]

Right?

[B]

And so from that moment is when I started, when I was like, I'm gonna start Nateland, the company. The idea of, like, being able to make some movies that are. The movie that we're making right now, the Breadwinner. And then, you know, I thought of a theme park and thought, like, you know what? I wanna build a place where, you know, maybe all my ideas can go live. This theme park's not gonna be about me. It's about the state of Tennessee, but. Or it's about, you know, it's called Nateland and there's going to be Easter egg ish stuff, but people think it's going to be a. Like a shrine to me. It's not. It's, you know, it's going to represent Nashville and all this stuff. It's like, you just gotta have someone that has the vision to be able to want to go do it.

[A]

Did you guys have choices for different names? Is Nateland because it's the production company? She just named it the same thing.

[B]

It's just always been. Yeah, Nateland is.

[A]

And I get it. Look, I mean, you worked at it. You worked at a theme park. You came up with it. It's like, I certainly get that.

[B]

I think it's the. It's the trust. The reason. The reason it's named after me is the trust. If you get. If I can keep trust with my audience, with this audience that we do. And that's the biggest thing. So if they can Trust that they know that they can see what I'm doing. Then it's like, you kind of need to know who's making. Like, who's behind this.

[A]

I see you're putting yourself.

[B]

I'm putting my. I will sell the tickets. Got it. The responsibility of that park thriving is on me. I need to sell the tickets. I need to keep the trust that I have with this audience. That's on me. That's not anybody else's problem. I'll do it. That's. That's what I feel has been bestowed upon me. That's. I'm just doing what I feel I'm being asked to do. Called to.

[A]

Did you pray about it kind of, too, like, if you had it.

[B]

Because this is.

[A]

Some of. These are big choices. Not that you need to.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. No. Yeah, yeah. A lot of it is. I mean, a lot of it is you feel very much like, you know, doors and. And stuff and your ideas and stuff

[A]

that you think of, or it's not even yours. It belongs. It's kind of like a higher power.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I. Very much. You. You. I mean, you can visualize a lot of stuff, and then I think when you can easily visualize something, you're like. And then the doors start opening in that way, then you go. That's the direction you need to kind of head in, where if you're. If you're. If you want something else, but you're having a hard time visualizing it, then you're probably forcing, and that's probably not the direction you need to go in. You need to just, like. You just kind of follow the lead. And as we did Nateland, and then

[A]

it was just kind of, like, excited. You got me excited now because, yeah, you hear little things, you see things on X and stuff like that, but you don't know, you know? And so I feel so lucky that I'm getting to listen you talk about it.

[B]

Yeah, it's. I mean, you know, one of the things I do. I want, you know, eventually to. I think when you go to Nateland, maybe you don't really know who Nate is. And it's not about that. Like, it's about everything there.

[A]

Oh. One day, that's what everything becomes. It's like you don't even know. It's like you go to, like, Applebee's or whatever. You don't know who Roger Appleby is anymore.

[B]

No.

[A]

You know, or whatever. Or if you go to, like, Tim Hortons, you know, Logan.

[B]

You don't know the Logan.

[A]

Oh, yeah. You don't even know Logan's. I think Ernest lives there now. He's living in one of them.

[B]

Ernest T. Bass?

[A]

No, Ernest freaking.

[B]

Oh, the singer?

[A]

Yeah, Ernesto for Logan's Roadhouse. He's kind of like John Daly is for Hooters.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

I think he, like, lives in the back of one of them. Bless him, brother. Bless Ernest. He has a new album coming out, too. I gotta get him and Willie Robertson in here. So not sit and chop it up. Those guys are funny. But no, dude, I just understand it more now. Take me on some of these rides because I know you've already thought about some of the ride. Wait, first of all, hold on. Is there going to be a water facility? You're not doing the water thing, huh?

[B]

Water part? No, no, because also people get electric. Can't say yes.

[A]

People get electrocuted if you don't water parks.

[B]

Yeah. Really?

[A]

Well, I mean, they're not gonna. If you get electrocuted. This is kind of crazy.

[B]

It rains.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Well, if it rains, it's more water. But if you get. If you get electrocuted. Do you have to have water to get electrocuted? No, I've been electro. I got elected up food truck that was selling seafood. Illegal seafood.

[B]

You know, Portland, you know, Portland would always. I thought of this. That are like. Are like, like, said, like food trucks, right? Like, people make fun of, like, because I'll go to McDonald's and all this stuff. Then people go to food truck and they'll be like. They're raving about this food truck. You're like, this guy had his food in this Honda Civic all night. You got to trust that he took it home. Yeah, dude, you go, who are you to tell me that mine's at least in a building and frozen?

[A]

I've always thought that, yeah, like, they'll call, especially people from the south, like, rednecks. Like, he was like, but, dude, this guy. Yeah. That, you know, close that is to his gas tank. Like he's cooking right over.

[B]

New York City is like, you know, it's like. Then there's been a long line and a food truck. And yeah, you're, you know, and it's like, oh, that's okay. And you're like, McDonald's safer than that.

[A]

Yeah, dude, I don't want a quesadilla that just. That got here at 80 miles an hour.

[B]

Yeah. You know, that's got tire marks on it because he backed it. Because he got in a fight that morning. His wife and he ran out and. Yeah, but he had the plastic over him, so he's like, it doesn't matter.

[A]

Like, like, that changes everything.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

If you put plastic over something, it changes everything. Little Saran Wrap.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

If he's like, oh, dang, this is like three days old. You put some Saran Wrap over it.

[B]

Who knows, dude?

[A]

Like, he just put it together.

[B]

Kids back there. It's like when you get an Uber and there's a car seat and you're like, I don't be a part of your life, man. Yeah, I just want to ride in an Uber.

[A]

Yeah. I didn't know Kevin Hart was in here earlier. Did you get. Did you get us to be on the roast?

[B]

I think. I think. I think so, but, I mean, that's just not my kind of thing.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. So, I mean, it wouldn't have had a show at the same time, too. You did, but. Yeah, they did it. They did the roast.

[A]

Oh. None of the roasters, I don't think, had a problem with the jokes.

[B]

Oh, wait.

[A]

Except for Chelsea Handler did. I think Chelsea Handler came out and said that she has some problem with.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Some of Shane and Tony's jokes, maybe.

[B]

Yeah. I don't think with the roast. I think with Shane and Tony.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think she had a problem with them. Good call.

[B]

She kind of said the. Yeah, yeah. I was like, I don't know about all the jokes. Mainly Shane and Tony.

[A]

Do you feel like, in that kind of instance, if people are signing up for something like that, it feels like it's, like, fair game. Unless it's, like, vile. You know, maybe.

[B]

I think it's got to all be fair game. You're signing up for it. I mean, it's like. Like. I know. You know, it's like one of those, like, where are you going to say the line is the roast have just. They've just. I believe we've gotten to. The spirit of the roast is kind of gone. You're not really having people on there that love each other. And so if there's no love shown, then it's. It's. It just gets mean and, you know, and. But, I mean, not saying that they did. They did what they were asked to do.

[A]

Right.

[B]

I thought they. A lot of them did a great job. You know, I was very happy for Big J. Okerson killed it. Yes, me, too.

[A]

I sent him a message.

[B]

Yeah. Big J. I was very happy. You know, I've been with Big J. We started with him, like, so Jay crushed it. And Naim Lynn, I thought, crushed it. And I like Nylie, but those are. Those people have a connection with Kevin Hart.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And so they. There's. There's there. You can see that the love is there. I thought Shane did very good or like, you know, moving along hosting it. Like, it's a hard thing to. It's a lot to go do. Do. Yeah. People did what they were supposed to do. But I mean, these roasts, it's like they're just mean.

[A]

Some of the feeling. You're right, dude. Some of the feeling that you get with it, it's like, it's intense, it's funny. And some of it is like. Some of it is kind of like, yeah, what feeling do I really leave here with in the end? Right? Like, I leave with some temporary highs, for sure. Oh, that was crazy. That was creative. Even something that's edgy and dark can be. Still be very creative. But, yeah, some of it, it's like, does some of this really make me feel good or does like.

[B]

Yeah, I think I thought Kevin Hart did great handling a lot of it, too, because, yeah, it was like, it wasn't, you know, he, you know, kept saying, like, this is what you signed up for. And yeah, he kept. The messaging was good from him afterwards, like, because, I mean, it was like such a tough, crazy.

[A]

It's a crazy roast.

[B]

But it's like, I mean, you know, you. What you. I think if you do roast, if you go look back at the old roast and stuff, these guys, the. The people that were up there were really. Are you. As far as I knew. But they really knew each other or they were really friends. Are they. There was actually love really shown so you could go do stuff. And when there's no love shown and with some of them, they don't even know them each other, it's like, it's going to be. It's going to be tough. Cheryl Underwood did great. Like, hand what, you know, the stuff they were saying. But how she handled that, she. She has a great laugh and like,

[A]

so it's like he handled it well.

[B]

She handled it very well. And like, yeah, I had a joke.

[A]

I was thinking while she was there, I was like, oh, she looks like Prince put his finger in the new power generation. That was something that I thought of while she was up there, you know, because I like sitting home, were you at it and thinking of just. I wasn't at it. I don't want to go, like, I don't want them catching my face if I see something, if my feelings get hurt or something. I got Enough of that out there. So I don't need any of that. But, yeah, it was just interesting.

[B]

There you go. Yeah. Because you get enough. You just get more calls and text.

[A]

Oh, dude.

[B]

Yeah, they just show your face and they go jump off a building.

[A]

Yeah, he's not doing well. Every week it's like, somebody like, oh, Theo's not doing well. I'm doing fine. In fact, I'm doing great.

[B]

Yeah, well, that's what. That's what people want to hear, though, you know?

[A]

That he's not doing well.

[B]

No, that you're doing great.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I think sometimes people worry about you, but that's a lot of love shown your way that people worry.

[A]

Yeah, but sometimes it's. People take stuff that's kind of normal, and they put it in their own space and put it out there, like, oh, this guy's having a problem. And I think my podcast has always just been, like, a place, like, where I just kind of share what's going on. Right. Like, and I share it pretty transparently, I guess, and maybe I shouldn't do that as much, but I don't share it because I need somebody's acclaim or approval.

[B]

No, I understand that, but I think

[A]

I don't like it. Sometimes people will frame it, like, oh, we can help this guy. It's like, dude, I'm fine. You know? Like, I'm as fine as any human being is. Being a human seems real spooky sometimes.

[B]

Yeah. But start every podcast with I'm fine.

[A]

Yeah, I know. But then here's the crazy part. The more you say, like, then it becomes this thing. So the whole thing is kind of crazy.

[B]

Yeah. You know, do a podcast from the top of a building and just go, I'm fine.

[A]

That'd be a great idea, dude.

[B]

You know my buddy Julian McCollo?

[A]

I actually, like. I don't know. Is this crazy for me to say?

[B]

He's really playing into it.

[A]

I like that idea, dude.

[B]

You know?

[A]

And look, we keep moving the desk closer over to the edge.

[B]

They goes, he all right? He goes, I'm fine. He just starts scooting. Julian McCollough. You know Julian, he has a very funny joke, like, when he gambles, like, when he loses, he goes, hey, do y' all got a bathroom on top of the roof? So he always tells the. The dealer, which is such a funny thing to say after you lose a big, hey, excuse me, y' all got a bathroom on top of the roof?

[A]

Well, we're definitely living. It seems like in the sick circle of hell, these Days. You know, we're getting. These Things have gotten a little. You know, things are getting a little interesting.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

We. Oh, we got to talk about the rides, dude.

[B]

So what?

[A]

First of all, I don't know if

[B]

I'm gonna be able to tell you

[A]

anything about the rides for the rides at that. At Nateland.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But do you know the governor that's gonna be the speed on them or whatever. Have you already decided?

[B]

No, no, no. We. I mean, we're going through. Oh, like, how fast?

[A]

Let me run one of them.

[B]

I'll let you run one of them. I will let me run one. I know.

[A]

Just for an evening. Just do Theo night.

[B]

I do a Theo night. You run it, and then you get on it with them, but you don't pull the safety thing down.

[A]

You go, oh, I say it doesn't work.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. No, I'm saying you sit in it, and you leave yours up, and they go, he's not fine. And that's the. And we just always play into that. There you go. Theo's crazy. He goes, I don't need it. Or you just hold it and you see if you can go do it. But I'll let you do a roller coaster. I don't. Just. Yeah.

[A]

Just to let me DJ it one night or something.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Or what are good rides. I'm trying to think for, like. Even for young. Like, I wish they had a ride that helped you. Like the lisp fix or whatever.

[B]

Oh, like, you'd be a spinner.

[A]

Just something. Like, it just spun you so much, the lisp just flew right out.

[B]

Counterclockwise.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Spinner counterclockwise. House.

[A]

Yeah. Time After Time. Remember that song?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You could rush, you could buy, you could still find me.

[B]

Was that a list after time? Is that a song about lisp?

[A]

I don't know who sang that, but I just think if they had a. Or the underbite fixer or whatever. I'm trying to think of a good. Like, a rod that would, like, you

[B]

know, underbite fix would be just. We have a guy walk around. He just punches you.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Undercut. And you don't ever know where he's at.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And you just know when you go in with an underbite. We've clocked you. Facial recognition, all that stuff. We can tell. And then he's just a guy that's just. You know he's gonna get you, and you know he's gonna get you. Yeah. But he's gonna get you so good that you're never gonna See it coming. And we fix that under bite.

[A]

I like that.

[B]

Yeah. No charge.

[A]

I like that idea. Or. Yeah. Or if they had like the GLP1, the Ozempic ride. Yes. And when you get off and it make. It spins you so fast that you get a little leaner because of how it does your body. Or like when you take a shirt or a towel and you put it in the washer and you do the spin cycle.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And it comes out. It almost stand up itself. It's got so much centrifugal in it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Well, you do that, boy. Get your mama so spun around, you dang. You know what I'm saying? She'll fit into a size one and a half. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[A]

She'll fit into a dang baby.

[B]

At least an hour. You go like it. Maybe it's. I don't think it's going to be forever.

[A]

No, it's not.

[B]

It's at least an hour. Like. Yeah.

[A]

It's not full time.

[B]

Yeah. No, no. If you want to go get married, you're like, you do that. And you better get over to that. You better get to that church quick.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I got to be in nate land at 1pm and then I got to be.

[B]

About that food that you ate, where you feel it expand in your mouth, that's what's going to happen to your body in a wedding dress. But you come in now.

[A]

Yeah. Once the band starts, though, honey, that's your home.

[B]

Yeah. Here. We're not responsible for that.

[A]

Yeah. You get one. I mean, one you could fit in your sixth grade graduation pants if you

[B]

have one for one hour.

[A]

Yeah, I like that.

[B]

That's a good ride.

[A]

And that ride does that to you.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, or something that would just do a bunch of women's hair. I could see that in the south, you know, they put this on you like this. The COVID to cover your body, like, to hold you in.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But then they put that head thing on you. The.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

You know, and then they get out and everybody's beehive and walking out of there looking like Marge Simpson and her two sisters.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That's a good ride, dude, I'm telling you, I can help you.

[B]

I. I would love it.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah. Really?

[A]

It doesn't seem like that right now.

[B]

No, no. I think we have a. I think we're going to have a part where you're going to fit right in. Yeah.

[A]

Let me run that crocodile tank.

[B]

Yeah. It's gonna be a swamp, like his swamp pot.

[A]

Hey, I'm just sitting over there petting a crocodile. And we took all his scales down. We shaped. We, like, used a wood thing to take his scales down low and you can pet him.

[B]

Oh, de.

[A]

Sharpened him.

[B]

Yeah. Good. What about the mouth? You're like, mouth is God. We left the mouth.

[A]

We forgot about that.

[B]

He goes, you know how expensive it was to do the top part? And that's when the guy undercuts him, the carcano. And you go, golly, that guy was worth. Yeah, it's like a butterbean. Remember butter? Yeah, I remember just a butterbean walking around. Just.

[A]

I saw him at Hulk Hogan's funeral, actually.

[B]

Oh, really?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You went to Hulk Hogan's funeral? Did you know?

[A]

I didn't know Hulk Hogan. That's pretty not great. I'm not gonna pretend I knew him great.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But I knew him enough we would communicate and got to podcast with him and got to go down there and see him one time down at his bar and restaurant. And a fan of his son, Nick, Eric David Scott Esch, better known by his nickname Butterbean.

[B]

Was there some just. I mean, everybody at his funeral. There's some big guys there.

[A]

Oh, dude. Tall, like, you know, Mankind was there, I think.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Womankind was there, too, I think.

[B]

Was Undertaker there?

[A]

I hadn't seen her in a while, but, yeah.

[B]

Was it she who.

[A]

Womankind, I think. Whoever that is.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Hacksaw Jim Duggan was there.

[B]

Undertaker.

[A]

Undertaker was not there. That I didn't see, Jim. Vince McMahon was there. We have a band, like a Chuck E. Cheese band or anything like that at Nateland, do you think?

[B]

I think that's all that's open for discussion. Yeah, I think it's definitely open.

[A]

And you gotta have a cool Nate name. Oh, Nate Inch Nails would be good.

[B]

Oh, yeah,

[A]

yeah.

[B]

You laughed.

[A]

That's pretty good.

[B]

Yeah, It's a kid music, but it's all.

[A]

It's rock, but. Yes, it's a rock band doing kid music.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, I like that.

[A]

Thanks.

[B]

That'd be cool.

[A]

I'm trying to think of any other one. Nate Vana. Maybe it sound as good.

[B]

Nate Inch Nails might be it. It might be it.

[A]

Nate. Go back. This is how.

[B]

Yeah, I like that. Okay.

[A]

We have a new segment that we're doing, Nate. It's by. It's. It's our Mountain Dew summer segment. So thank you for being here. Real quick.

[B]

Yeah, thank you, buddy.

[A]

Thank you for being here. And congratulations, dude, on your movie.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And congratulations on your. Your goals to make an amazing theme park in an Amazing city.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

I want to say, awesome, man.

[B]

Yeah, it's cool. I appreciate it.

[A]

It's really inspiring.

[B]

Thank you, dude.

[A]

And I mean that.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

You may have noticed that we have Mountain Dews here, and so they're working with us over the summer and we're working with them. And we just have a couple of questions. You're hosting a barbecue, Right. And these are for you and me.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Because I hadn't seen these. You're hosting a barbecue. What do you say if you burn someone's meat?

[B]

I mean, just like apologize to him. Sorry. Yeah. I'll make you another one. Are you saying I'm gonna. I'll eat that one and you take it. Yeah, yeah. That's what you do. You. I'll eat that one.

[A]

I'll handle it.

[B]

Yeah. Don't worry about it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And for somebody. No, no, no, no.

[A]

And then they'll be.

[B]

I'll give it to my mom who eats everything burnt.

[A]

She does.

[B]

Loves everything burnt.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

There's. There's an old. I think if you're born in the 50s, you're extra well done all day long.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Not even a. Not even a. If you see someone walk in and they're 70, go ahead and start burning that steak.

[A]

Yeah, I agree.

[B]

It's not. They're not doing medium rare. They're not doing medium. The medium wells. Burn it.

[A]

Yeah. Because they're using also prefabricated teeth. A lot of them.

[B]

So they got some chompers.

[A]

They got the ability to get.

[B]

They got the. The just shaking it. Yeah. Like a dog. They want. Yeah. There's a certain age and they, they. Well, well done.

[A]

I agree. That's what I say.

[B]

Just.

[A]

Or say, who likes that dark meat? That's another way to get through to them. Do you remember drinking from a 2 liter bottle of soda? Do you ever remember that? Like as a kid, Like, I remember turning it up and you could see. This is the first time in my life I could drink and see the soda going down as I drank it.

[B]

Yeah, I do we buy a lot. I don't people. I don't think cans were. I think bottle, two leaves. Soda bottle was way more in when I was younger.

[A]

Two liters in cups and.

[B]

Yes. And now it's like, I guess environments cans.

[A]

But. And I remember one time they came out with the wide mouth.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[A]

Two liter. You remember that?

[B]

Yeah. And you could pour it.

[A]

You could pour it faster.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It was like, how much can we even have at once?

[B]

Yeah, there's a ton oh, yeah, it was great. Those are the days.

[A]

Oh, those are the days. Yeah. That was.

[B]

I should drink a diet Mountain Dew. I mean, I would drink it every day.

[A]

Really? And what were you training for?

[B]

Just.

[A]

I mean, just being American. Huh.

[B]

I think just keeping my body where I can. Whatever I put in, it's going to be able to handle it.

[A]

I love that.

[B]

You know what I mean?

[A]

Oh, yeah. Well, also the. I mean, you'll get some.

[B]

I drink that. I could drink in the morning.

[A]

You drink Die Mountain Dew in the morning?

[B]

Yeah, I can. Yeah, that. Or I'll drink a diet something in the morning. Oh, also, I can drink soda.

[A]

Yeah. I'll show them who's boss right off the gate.

[B]

Right out the gate. I. I think if I had to give up soda, I think a breakfast soda would be my hardest to give up.

[A]

Oh, yeah. All right. And shout out to anybody drinking breakfast soda.

[B]

Yeah, Colin Quinn, he drinks it. He drinks Diet Coke with more. Yeah.

[A]

Oh, he's a breakfast soda drinker. Dude, do you know. Did you know Mountain Dew started in Tennessee?

[B]

I think so, but I don't know, you know, I think I knew that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Smoky Mountains is where you put it. Oh, I love that old logo.

[A]

Oh, yeah, Let me see that logo. Mountain. Oh, I never saw that. That throwback. That's beautiful. All right, last one. I feel like diet do is real big in the trades world. You'll see it a lot of times. Electricians, comedians, right?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

You said yourself you were a morning drinker. Plumbers, roadkill guys, Right?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

If you look in the back of the truck, you see 11 of those empty diet new bottles or whatever. They're quietly like the backbone of America, these diet do drinkers. It's the summer you're driving with your windows down and there's a breeze and it only smells a little bit, like maybe a landfill. You're passing by or just. And it just. It's summertime, right. The winters are down. What song or band are you turning on the radio, though?

[B]

You're drinking Diet Mountain Dew.

[A]

Yeah, you can be if you want. I'll have one with you.

[B]

Yeah, you know, maybe some country Toba, Keith.

[A]

Oh, yeah, you know.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, I'm talking about that song. Yeah, Yeah, I agree, man. I'll enjoy that with you.

[B]

Yeah, that'd be a nice drive. All right.

[A]

Thank you so much, dude. I think it's been good. I love learning about Nateland, man. I think I understand it a lot better.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. No, people don't. Yeah. I mean, it was. I think people are. I mean, it's crazy, dude. It's crazy to build a theme park. I think it's crazy. Every time I think about it, I think about it like, you know, where I'm like, what am I doing?

[A]

Yeah. Was there a moment. Take me through some of this, right? Was there a moment, like. Because sometimes you feel like you get to different places in, like, your career and in your life. I think a lot of people go through, like, you know, they call them midlife crisis, quarter life crisis. You'll see, like, a fifth grader going through, like, a fifth grader life crisis. They have now on Tick Tock or whatever they.

[B]

In fifth grade. They do. Yeah.

[A]

Now that's a thing. Or whatever. It's like, all right, but do you, like, graduate?

[B]

I went to. My daughter graduated eighth grade yesterday. Yeah. And I went to that. Did you. I don't. I did not have an eighth grade graduation.

[A]

We had one.

[B]

Really? Yeah. I think they told us to get out. And that was it. Dude.

[A]

It was. Remember when school let out?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

God. That day. Because you'd look so forward to. But then you had not. There was nothing to do.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You lay there all summer and just drool in the middle of your living room and wait for your mom to get home, even though you couldn't. You couldn't wait for her to leave, but you couldn't wait for her to get home.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. God. Yeah. Today was my daughter's first. Her start of summer. But anyway, what do y' all have

[A]

planned for the summer together? Do y'. All. Is it. Some things you guys are gonna do?

[B]

I don't know. She, like. She rides horse. She loves horse riding and all this, so she'll. She'll do a ton of that. And that's what her summer ends up becoming. A lot of, like, going out. We. It's at a. We have a. She goes to this stable that's run by this great. This family. And so she goes there and, I mean, she'll be up there all day. She loves it.

[A]

That's nice.

[B]

Yeah, it's nice.

[A]

You get out there and ride with her sometimes.

[B]

I have. Not a ton, but I have.

[A]

Are you getting better at it, or is it tough for you?

[B]

I've not done it enough to get better. It's a lot. I mean, it's a. It's a lot. Get on horses is a lot. I mean, you know, but she does. She. You know, to tack a horse and put the. Everything on it. It's a whole. Whole thing.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

But, yeah, I definitely plan on getting out there. I mean, last time I tried, it was, like, kind of colder. But now that we're in the summer and I'll try to, you know, go on some trail rides with her.

[A]

Amen. Blast, dude.

[B]

But you're saying there's somebody land, like, the.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything else you can tell me about Nateland kind of before we leave?

[B]

Well, it's. It's like the idea. The hard part is, was.

[A]

Oh, I was saying thank you so much for just for explaining to me what it was like. Like, what? Some of the.

[B]

Yes. And then I'm worried about doing it.

[A]

Yeah. And then you're worried about doing it because. Yeah. I was saying you get to certain points of your career where you're like, well, now what? Like, I just got done with my special. Like, I'd been touring for the past, like, really 20 years. I've been touring. Right. Like, yeah, I was torn 26 weekends a year, like, because I could sell tickets before, like, early, because I've been on TV already, but it was like, I didn't have any comedy. But so I. It's just been. This is like, the first time in my life is like, the second week of it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And it's like, yeah, I don't know what to do. Kind of.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And it's kind of, like, interesting. And my first thought is, just go back out on tour. Like, figure out and go back out. And maybe that is what it'll be, what I'll do. Like, you know, get a new hour and go out. But it's. But do you get to parts in your career where you're, like, ending your life right? Where you're like, well, now what do I do? And then what happened with this, where you're like, okay, this is like. Like a feasible, real thing that I can take on. And maybe you already answered that for me. Sorry.

[B]

No. Well, I would say, you know, the heart. I think the hard part, when you want to do something like this, it's so weird, and it's so different of a thing that you want to go do. So you do get a lot of people just being like, why? Why are you doing this? What do you want? Like, you know, if you're calling it Nate Land, you're like, why are you calling. You got to call it after you get all this kind of stuff like that. And I think that's the hardest part is just kind of sit and wade through those kind of things and not let you. Because it is crazy. But I. I know I'm doing it for the right reason, and I just got to believe that, you know, I'm doing it for the right reason. And so you just got to sit and just kind of like, you know, it feels like it's kind of a joke, and maybe people think it's a joke, and I understand that it could be a joke, but it's like, what if I do build a theme park, dude? Like, what if I do it? Like, that's crazy.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, I'm like, I don't come from any world where I should be building a theme park.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I come from Old Hickory. There's. There's nowhere in my growth of a child to high school, any of this, that you would ever be at a point. There's nowhere that I should even have the success that I should have had. Yeah. So then you got to go to where you start going, like, well, then I'll just start. I'll just keep going until someone says no, until they, you know.

[A]

Well, Mike Lindell had the. My pillow.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And you would have saw that probably out of them.

[B]

I'll sell that. Yeah.

[A]

You wouldn't have saw it out of him, probably.

[B]

Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

[A]

People have all kinds.

[B]

No, but, like. Yeah, like, that's what I think. When. When. When you have these ideas and you want to go do something, it's like just. It's like, you got to just go do it, dude.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And the hardest thing is you got to sometimes, and it's. It's going to be people that, you know, that they're the. You know, that sometimes can be your friends or whatever that can be like, what are you doing? Why are you doing this? Those are the ones that kind of come and they. They. You know, they don't understand it. Some of that is.

[A]

Some of it's jealousy, I think.

[B]

Some of it is you're leaving people behind. That's like that thing that you could see we're getting in shape. I'm not in shape. I want to get in shape, but it's like, I don't know if someone. Or anything. If someone does something that they can. Like, you're moving forward. And I think they just, like, go, why? Why are you doing that?

[A]

Yeah, dude. Well, I mean, I. I even had questions about it. I was curious about it, Right. I didn't know. I was like, oh, this is interesting. But I just heard rumors, right? And I was like, yeah. The name had popped into my head. Like, oh, why would he choose that? What's Going on. Right.

[B]

I choose it because I knew again, like, well, now I get to trust it.

[A]

Oh, dude. After talking to you, like, yeah. I get exactly where it is, you know? Yeah. And it is weird why Sometimes our brains will jump to, like. I think some of it is probably a little bit of jealousy, to be honest, or a little bit of, like, wow, he's brave enough to do that. And I don't even know if some of that's jealousy. Maybe a little bit. I'm not talking exactly about me, really, but I'm just talking, like, it's interesting, man. But then, like, you say nothing happens unless somebody does it.

[B]

No one's. Yeah, no one wants to. No one wants to.

[A]

And look at Walt Disney. It was. He had both of his names in it.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

He went heavy all the way in, dude.

[B]

But you go see these guys, like, people are stuck where they. They. They see stuff get built, and people have these ideas and they think, we can't do it again. You're like, why can't you do it again?

[A]

Right?

[B]

Why can't you? We had a theme park here. I'm not picking a city that's never had a theme park. Nashville and Houston are the two cities that can sustain a full theme park. I already know all the stuff, right? I've already done all this stuff. I'm paying people that know how to do this stuff to do it. I'm not. I'm looking at all of it. I'm not doing anything that I would never. I have a good gut feeling of when I feel overwhelmed or not. And so I can tell when it's like, if I start feeling panicky, like, then I'm like, like, this may be back off or this or that or whatever. And so I very much believe in, you know, what I'm doing and what I'm supposed to be doing. And it's, you know, you have a mix where you go, like, I don't know if I even have a choice. It's like, it's just. I'm doing.

[A]

Do you do this?

[B]

But I'm just doing it.

[A]

Somebody's got to do it.

[B]

Someone's got to do it, and I'm doing it. And then maybe it's going to be good. Maybe it's not gonna be good. Like, oh, like, what if I don't make it? What if I do make it?

[A]

Yeah, but the same with making a movie. It's the same with anything. It's like, what? Maybe, you know, you always think.

[B]

And anybody that says, no, you're like, what does it matter? What does it matter if I. Who cares? Yeah.

[A]

What is the skin off of your back?

[B]

I don't want anything from you.

[A]

Right.

[B]

I don't want anything from. I want people that either buy into what I'm trying to do or just don't.

[A]

Yeah. That's the same way I feel about. Even if it's like trying to ask out a gal or do something like that. It's like when I lay there at the end of it all, I want to be like, man, I tried this, I tried that. I want to smile and think about the things that I tried.

[B]

And you got to think too. With comedians. Look at the success you get where just. You're talking. We're just talking. We don't have movie. We don't have a music behind us. We don't have. That's just us talking.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So, like, if you start, that's why you think about the movies where you're like, yeah, if you go put a movie behind, you know, not that everything's gonna work or whatever, you're like, it's. It's the most purest art form. So if you can get to a high level of just, oh, movie's scary. Trade straight up that.

[A]

Well, movie's scary because you don't know if it's how it's going to be. I know until the day of, dude, it's. And that's very nerve wracking. And I'll say this, dude, we made some mistakes for sure. I'd never watched the movie with an audience until I sat in there and watched it at the premiere.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And that was bizarre, dude, because you're almost like. I'd watch it on my computer a bunch at home, like when I'm editing and putting in notes. But then you're like. It almost felt like. It sounds crazy to say, dude. Like I was watching like something I wasn't supposed to be watching with other people. It's almost like watching porno or whatever. Because you're like, yeah, I should. This is something you watch by yourself. And suddenly I realized as it starts, I'm like, whoa, yeah, I've watched this already. This is something I'm supposed to watch by myself.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't think this is for mass consumption, so. That was so freaking harrowing, dude.

[B]

How we did. Did a premiere, it is very. It's very weird to watch yourself. And you're. You're like, I should have done that. Or I should have done the. You know.

[A]

Yeah. Or just. Yeah. I mean, but to Just do it like.

[B]

Like stand up. You're almost like, I don't watch my stand up or I'll watch it maybe once. But it's like you've done it so much that I think maybe you're kind of used to. But like, yeah, in a movie, you're like. You just feel like. You feel like everybody else is like a real actor and you're like, dude, I don't know what I'm doing. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy.

[A]

Oh, the immense feeling of I don't know what I'm doing.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, but. Well, dude, for somebody that doesn't know what they're doing, man, you're doing a really great job of it.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

And thank you, bro. And, oh, and will the theme park. Will the rides be for all ages or is the rides even just for, like, little children?

[B]

No, no, it's a all a full. We have fun, big rides. Kid part like every. It's like a regular theme park.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So it's going to be. And, you know, shows and stuff like that. It'll be. It'll be the. The real deal.

[A]

I love it.

[B]

So it'll be. Yeah, everybody. Everybody can come out.

[A]

Amen. Nate Bargassi. The movie opens up this week, May 29, in theaters in 3,300 theaters. That's what we found out. The breadwinner, Nate Bargazzi. Mandy Moore, a super mom, lands a shark tank deal. Switching roles with her breadwinner husband. He struggles to adapt as a stay at home dad to their three daughters.

[B]

And it's not like a dumb dad. Everybody gets crazy about being a dumb dad thing. It's not a dumb dad thing. It's a. It's, you know, he ends up taking the dead era. And it's a sweet, sweet, funny, cute movie. And again, something we take everybody out to and that's all. And it's the first one, so see where we go from here.

[A]

Amen, man. Congratulations, bro. Thanks for your time, dude. And congrats on everything.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

Yeah, brother.

[A]

Now I'm just floating on the breeze

[B]

and I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be cornerstone oh but

[A]

when I reach that ground I'll share this piece of my life out I

[B]

can feel it in my bones but it's gonna take a little.