Nate Bargatze
Appearances
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Oh, yeah. This new hour, I've switched it a ton. It's worked because now I'm opening on a joke that I've closed on. So it's great to be opening on a joke that I've actually had the energy and the rhythm of a closer, and then you just move it up, and now it's the front. And you're doing those decisions on the fly. Yeah, you just fill it out. It's kind of like a song.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I'm in love with stand-up right now. I love it so much. The way I've looked at writing, it's a movie. So I'm the main character of this movie. And I'm telling the story. There's a...
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
you know of reason for be saying all this stuff and everything leads into the other thing yeah so you want to make it where people don't realize you're into another joke but in my head i could be on like joke five right but you're trying i'm trying to make it where like you know and then that's how you remember it because the only way you know if you're talking about like riding a car and then you're like my wife bought a car well now that's the only thing i could go into right right and we will be right back
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, well, Cosby was one. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But if you go watch his old stuff, it's very storytelling, all that kind of stuff. I'm a big Seinfeld fan. Seinfeld was... He was... I kind of think... Because I always looked at it like I tell stories, but in a joke form.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Like, so it's, I mean, I try to never be too far from the laugh because the farther you are from the laugh, the bigger the laugh has to be. And I don't want to put that much pressure on a laugh. So if I can just kind of keep it going and let it build, it's like, you know, it doesn't, you're just not putting the weight of the world on this.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
You're like, because if you go silent too long, I mean, there's a point where you're like, well, this joke better be unreal.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And there's no, you're like, no, he's supposed to go, well, he'll never get there now.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, yeah, there's a bunch. I mean, you'd blame it on, I had one one time, I thought it was the shirt I wore, and so I threw that shirt away. I had a button-down shirt, and I tucked it in, and I've never done that since. For real? Yeah, I was like, it wasn't me, I was just like, this shirt, this guy.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
What is this guy's shirt? What is this guy's deal? I've done a cruise ship.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I won a contest and your prize was to set your career back five years and do cruises. And so I go out and I'm doing it. And you got to do like... you got to do a bunch of shows. So you do 30 clean, 30 dirty. I never had dirty. So it's like, I couldn't even, and then you would do one, another show. So you needed honest, because sometimes these people would come back and watch multiple shows.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
So you needed to have, you know, two hours of material or do crowd or be able to mess with the crowd or something. And I remember we go up and you would do one show at the beginning of it. You do like five minutes each. And it's kind of just like it's in the big theater. And you're kind of just letting the crowd know we're comedians. We got a show back here, blah, blah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
So the other guy just was great and knew how to like he shined a fly shot on the crowd, like just knew how to like really play with the crowd.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And he was like, come to my shows. Every show is different. And he made a big announcement how they're all different. And then I went up and I said, I go, come to one. It may be the other one, but the other one will be the same. I was like, do not come to all my shows. Most will be the same. I don't have enough material to have them all be different. So you can go to his shows.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
They will be different. Mine will be... And then I went and did a show and... I started it, and they didn't laugh, and I was like, oh, these people have been to every show. And I'm not a crowd work guy, and I'm like, so what do you do, man? And some guy's like, he's an oil rigger in the ocean. It's actually a pretty crazy job, and I was like, that's cool, and I just moved on.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
It's like an insane... People are saying crazy stuff like I'm a bank robber. I'm like, that's neat, man. What about you, ma'am? I had nothing. No riffing. And then I had to ride in an elevator with these people. I'm in the elevator in the ocean. You think it sounds like I made it.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And I'm just sitting there and I had a hat on and I just hear some guy just trashing me and my shoulder's touching him and I just have to sit there and get off.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, you would just have a show that's like the kids can come to this show, your family can come to this show, and then you'd have like a night at 11 p.m. It's like an adult-only show. You still can't be that dirty, but the idea of it is a little more...
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I got a curse as I talk about parking. I'm like, you guys ever parallel park? And they're like, this guy's filthy. Yeah, I didn't even have any. I didn't even have... I had no dirty jokes. Like, there's no... I don't really... I don't talk about sex or... uh, like political or like, there's nothing like really like, that's kind of like this.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I'll tell her. Yeah. I like, she knows about every joke that comes up. Cause that's something I had to learn to when you make fun of your wife at the beginning is you have to show love. Like you have to show, cause people, cause I remember at the beginning of the reaction would be like, well, why are you married? And so then you're like, well, that's not, that's not what I want.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
You don't need to have that reaction. So you have to then make fun of yourself, but with her and you got to do it in a way that where they can tell that you do love your wife. You love your family. And so it's just kind of like just making fun of each other. But yeah, I'll run by stuff.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah. I just never liked it. Like, I felt bad. I mean, I would, like, make fun of my buddies in comics and stuff.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
But in the audience, I just always felt, you know, it's like, this person's just trying to sit there. They don't need it.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And it'd be, like, big, what's your shirt? Your shirt's stupid. And then I got my shirt on tucked in.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah. I moved back. So I was gone, like, 13 years. And then we've been back for about... nine yeah i hear it's beautiful down there yeah it's so good right yeah i'm born and raised there it's great uh we have as much of a normal life as it can be we're gonna live in a cul-de-sac uh the house at the top so we're the leaders and uh we set the tone for it uh I have a joke. I'll just say it.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
It's my new act, Russ. And we do all in our cul-de-sac, we do all the right things. Like if someone pulls down there, we're like, what are you doing down our street? Any car we don't know, we just run out. You better get out of our cul-de-sac. I mean, just furious if they come down there.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, yeah. My brother's like three years younger than me. My sister's about 10. I've talked about her in a special. And she works for me now, too. So that's fun. I mean, you get yelled at by her. I mean, you got your whole family.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I did say before, don't ask about if I have kids. Oh, all right. I guess we're—okay. Yeah, and I have one 11-year-old daughter.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
It is. But I don't even know where... No one... We don't come from horse stuff. You know?
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
No, there's never horse people, but she loves horses, so right now she's kind of doing that stuff, but she's very creative, very funny, and she, you know, will get me and my wife laughing a lot, you know? I think I gotta teach her where to wear the joke. You gotta be like, all right, well, you gotta be serious.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
until you learn it she can make fun of her friends recent and like i think but then they all got like it was like they did not like it and i was like and it was funny i forget what it was but it was like it was something funny but you're like all right you gotta understand You're like, you got to... Some people will be able to handle it.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Like, you know, she just is all about the joke because it's obviously just our... You know, her grandfather's a magician, a comedian. Like, so it's a lot of joking.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, this is the route. I know we started last night. We were in Philly at the Fargo. It was where the Sixers play.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
It was this big thing. And then it goes Syracuse, and then it'll go Albany. These are the two that Fallon wanted to come to, was Syracuse and Albany. Yeah, of course. Those are big venues. I think he's from up here. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Is that used to be? Yeah, no, I've been to a game there. That's like a huge... I've been to a basketball game there. Even the basketball court's set up. People buy tickets that are like, I don't think they can see the court. They're sitting like behind the court.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, I mean, it's all about how you feel. We have, like, you know, the arenas, we have these big screens. I've put more speakers up so everybody can hear it everywhere. You really do try to make it intimate. I mean, you can tell everybody gets real quiet. I mean, that's the cool, it's one of the coolest things is when you're telling a joke and you're, this many people are quiet. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
You know, and they're just, I mean, you could, I could yell with no microphone and the top person could hear me. It gets that quiet. That's so cool. So, yeah, I mean, I'd imagine if you did a stadium, you know, I could see it getting a little loose.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
You know, and we're in the middle, too, of an arena, so I'm a lot closer to everybody. Do 100,000.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Uh, yeah. I mean, you've done it so long now that you're... I mean, keep your knees bent.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I mean, I've done it now. It's like, yeah, I mean, you think about it. I had an SNL like a little bit when I did the monologue. I was more nervous with the monologue because it's like stand up and you're like, I'm supposed to be good at this. And then you got to kind of deliver the jokes into the camera, but there's the crowd.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And so like, it was very weird to deliver jokes to kind of a spot where no one's at.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, you're like, I could say anything right now, and they're going to hear it right now because it's live, you know? Yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, I didn't use it in my act. You say you do? No, I didn't hang on to your like, I kept it. I still read a joke book when I was five and I'm closing on it. I remember the joke. I said there was a joke book or something, and there was a guy goes, waiter, there's a spider, or there's a fly in my soup. And then the waiter goes, well, don't worry, the spider on your bread will get it.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And it was a picture of a spider web. And so my dad always brings it. I remember that joke. And then my dad brought it up because I was explaining why the joke was funny to him and kind of going through it. Like, here's why this is funny. So that one was the first one. But I let it go.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, I don't know. We've done it at shows, and it's not like a concert. Like I was saying, stand-up's still kind of... It's kind of a newer thing. Cosby's one of the first. He's still alive. He knew Lenny Bruce.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
But you could do it without it. But you get like a deal. So you have promoters and then the... Yeah, you are... I think it's like the promoter is the one that's putting the money for like the... the renting of the venue. And then I'm paying, then it comes out of mine, the show budget of the speakers and all that stuff. And so you can have it go as low or as big as you want it to go.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I think we say it wrong as a family, too. I think it's supposed to be Bargazzi, and we say Bargazzi. It's just we've southerned it up. Oh, I say Bargazzi. Yeah, I think a lot of people would. When I lived in New York, they would always be like, Bargazzi, because it's like Italian. And I was like, you know. Bargazzi. I was like, I don't like tomatoes.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I think we've all agreed to kind of go. We had a family reunion once, and we had family come over from Italy, and we got Kentucky Fried Chicken for them. And I think it was like from that moment was just kind of like, all right, y'all have a good life. We did it. We're going to do our thing. We're going to do y'all's thing. And we've just kind of gone our separate ways.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, I'm a big sports guy, so I watch a lot of golf, like any sports, golf, UFC, watch a lot of UFC. Oh, you do? Yeah, I'm a big fan of UFC.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
It's just the most, the honesty of it, with Dana White and the fighters, they can say whatever they want. And so there's no, you know, like when Tom Brady, is he going to retire or not retire? It's like, it's all kind of a game and a show. And UFC kind of really is like, we just got a dude that just says, I want to fight this guy.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And then it just gets to it. And you're, I don't know, I kind of like, I love it.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
There's the build-up to it, and then they don't like each other, and then you go in there and watch them fight. It's not just watching a street fight. You're watching two professionals that have to fill each other out.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Some. It gets hard because of the shows and stuff. But yeah, I'll play some on the road. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's kind of it. I mean, I don't know. It's like you're just running around, got a lot of stuff. Got a lot of hanging out. Like the road is the most fun because it's just like... A bunch of dudes. And, you know, this morning we went in Syracuse.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
We're in Syracuse, and this place has a hot and cold plunge thing. Sure. Will loves it. So I've never done it. But they let us come in. So, like, we woke up and did that.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Oh, yeah. is that so i this is another i told it on snl i tell it in my act too uh but it boo weekly uh because i have a joke about fighting orangutan at a county fair okay and where i read the story was there's a golfer named boo weekly and when he read uh he said when he was 15 he got in he goes this county fair he's from like georgia like southern southern georgia
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
This is like the 80s, you know, and you could pay $5 to fight an orangutan. An orangutan would be in a boxing ring with boxing gloves. And so dudes would pay $5 to fight them. That's hysterical. Yeah, and then guys would get in there, and this orangutan would just knock people out.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Because when I say this, I tell the whole story in my act, but I say because we didn't have the internet to look up how strong is an orangutan. It was all word of mouth back then. So, you know, you had to meet a guy that just fought an orangutan. And he's like, he's stronger than you think. But the arms are so skinny. I know. That's what I thought as well.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
It's the feet. Look at his feet. His feet's bigger than you. Yeah, that strength comes from somewhere.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Well, that's what Buwiki said. He goes, that's not written everywhere back in 1982 when you're fighting orangutans. The guy that does this doesn't go, you sign a waiver.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah. You don't realize until afterwards, like, that's why he has gloves on. If it gets the gloves off, there's a chance it will rip your head off. So, but you know, what are you gonna do? Ride the scrambler again? That's really funny.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And that one, they were like, you can't do that. We're like, all right. We thought they liked it. I'm glad you just had to tell us. And we got rid of it. Fair enough.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I don't have any, like, I gotta re- I'm messing up some, the order a little bit, so I'll do that a little, and then we'll just hang out and be at the venue if there's, we do try to shoot basketball, like, some of these arenas, if they have a basketball goal somewhere, we'll try to, like, mess around, shoot basketball, just kind of, you know, do whatever until showtime.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I did my last special there. And this one's going to be in the Footprint Center where the Suns play. Wow. Yeah. I mean, it just kind of works out touring-wise. You just hit these towns every two years or so. And so it's just kind of like,
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
They do some. Yeah, yeah. We went to Europe. Like they came to Europe. They come to the, you know, they're not here in Syracuse or Albany, but they, if they're, I'm doing the Boston Garden, they're going to come to Boston.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, on the boat? Yeah. I went, yeah, we went, I got to remember it, but we went to, it happened. We're on the lake, Old Hickory Lake. Is that true? Yeah. And we're in, we're like in the water. And then it's, my wife's ex-boyfriend was on another boat. Right. And I didn't see him. And she pointed out, like, there's no reason to point it out. But she pointed it out.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
So then, yeah, like all I can think of now, like I'm thinking about him. And then I look at her and she's looking at him. And I feel like she's looking at him to see what her life would be like if she didn't marry me. And I was looking at him to see what my life would be like if I didn't marry her. So we're both putting a lot of pressure on this guy.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And then my buddy told me, he's like, you should go fight him. And I was like, what? Like he's on a boat. Like I got to swim over to that fight. Have you ever tried climbing a boat from water? It's not graceful. It's not easy. You don't come in with power. I would need his help to start the fight.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Hang on a second. I know, but that's what made it frustrating. I had no one to go show my wife, well, here's mine. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
No, we started dating like 2021. We met at Applebee's. We both waited tables at Applebee's. I was a host at the time. Oh, that's great.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, we're all in the neighborhood. We're all in the neighborhood or something. But we're big fans. We took our daughter.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And then I'd say put it on the side just so the guy thinks I'm going to eat it. Then he would just take a full plate of broccoli back after. I'd go, ah, I got full on the other stuff. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, we're big chain. I mean, I grew up like we're, you know, I had an old joke about like I was a big, I don't like mom and pop shops because they can close. Just they're like, we don't feel good today. And they close like Walmart. Walmart, you know, they were a mom-and-pop shop at some point, and then they got it together and became unreal. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
They have the great chocolate... Lava cake. If you want one, go to Chili's.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Dr. Pepper's doing some pretty amazing things right now. So if y'all are into Dr. Pepper, die Dr. Pepper. Is that right? They got some real good stuff going on. And some cherry, right? They got some cream soda, strawberry stuff. I mean, it's something, dude. They're showing off over there.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
So I've tried to make a bunch of shows that have never gone. We've had one show that we shot a pilot. And so Greg came in. I did not know him, but he came in. Danielle Sanchez Witzel. She was showrunning it, and she's friends with Greg. And so Greg came in to help us do it. And I knew Greg Garcia's work, but I didn't know him when he first came in.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
So when he first came in, he's like, he's going to help us. And I was like... I don't know who this dude is.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Uh, I gotta listen to this guy. And then, uh, we wrote our whole, rewrote the whole script on his, off just his ideas. Cause they were so good. And, uh, obviously he's unreal.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And, uh, so we just become really close and become friends. I, uh, I was just with him this week, uh, actually, uh, uh, uh, dinner with him. Cause I had to go to LA for a second. And, uh, so, uh, he's, yeah, we became friends like that. And he's, he comes out on the road too. I'm telling you, y'all should, y'all come out on the road.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
If you, if you want to get away and have a little fun trip, come on out, dude.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
If you mean it, it's a fun, if you mean it, I swear Fallon's coming tonight. We have a fun time. It's you just, uh, play cards or you play, uh, You know, like we went to a casino last night in Philadelphia.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Good to see you, Sean. Hey, just a little fun note, never seen Shawshank, so... Well, you're young.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I got a show in Syracuse. This is... Can't make it here. Can't make it anywhere, you know?
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
This is the vacations I can afford in Syracuse. He goes, it's nice. We took a bus, though. But it's... You know...
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, everything went to this. My family of 30 is right off camera. They're just right there. I said, if y'all talk during this, I will kill y'all.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Hmm. Uh, we have, uh, probably like 10 guys. Uh, cause I bring, uh, four openers. Actually tonight, we got a surprise opener. He won't be here till later. Uh, Jimmy Fallon. Fallon is coming to the show. Oh, that's great. He's going to jump on the bus.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Get out of here. Sorry, Nate. Thanks, you guys. Keep going. No, I mean, I grew up around that. I mean, so that was like, you know, I was funny, but then also growing up around, you know, my dad being a magician. You learned patter. Yeah. It just kind of leads you to it, I guess.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, he's a pretty good dude. I don't know the whole backstory, but I just know from what R hanging out is.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, yeah, it was the best. It is, you know, I don't know if I even understood it. Like, I'm sure, I think of it like my daughter and I'm sure your kids, like, it doesn't seem not normal. Like, it just felt like, it's like, that's all I ever knew. And it wasn't until you got older that you're like, yeah, dude, nobody's dad's a magician. Yeah, yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah. So he would make a living doing it? I mean, I have people do magic, like magicians would show me magic tricks. I've just seen them all too. And I just, I'm just not a good, I'm not a good person to perform for because I'm just like, all right. You know, it's like, is this your card? You're like, it's always mine. It's always my card. It's always been my card.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
He did. He was a teacher, too. Like, so he had a day job, and then he would do that, and then we were always in Nashville, and so he's just always done it. And I mean, he's very successful. He's very known in the magic world. He comes with me and opens for me a lot on the road.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And he will do these shows, and... You know, it's every little boy's dream to travel to your dad when you're 44 years old. So you go, got a little CPAP machine hooked up in a tour bus. It's a good time.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah. I mean, we had our bus parked out one time, and it was my dad, my mom, and my aunt. And I was like, people probably go by this tour bus, and they're like, it's pretty rocking in there. And I mean, we got, it's lights off, quiet, just the roar of machines keeping everybody alive.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
No, no, we didn't ever do that. He never did that, go that far. He did Sleight of Hand. A lot of Sleight of Hand, and he does comedy with it. Oh, it's my favorite. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Uh... I think it was just being funny. We would, like, I remember seeing stand-up. It was just trying to make people laugh. I don't think I ever really made fun of anybody.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
But it was like I would make fun of myself a lot, which is what I do now in my comedy show. Yeah, it's the best. You'd be doing stuff like that, making fun of me. He had, I mean, one time, I've talked about this in a special on one of them, but it was like he brought the Easter Bunny home when I was... Like six. He was at a mall doing a show, and the Easter Bunny needed a ride home.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And my dad goes, I'll give you a ride home if you swing by my house. And so I remember the Easter Bunny, we had like, my parents had this old red Mazda stick shift, you know, and the Easter Bunny's head was bent to the side because his head couldn't fit in the car.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
So he was just, he was sitting like this. And then he got out, and I met the Easter Bunny, and then my dad... Drove the Easter Bunny home.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
That was the trajectory. I go, if I can beat that guy, then maybe I can make it.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
My parents have been together since seventh grade. And they, my mom's very funny. But she worked at a bank. I mean, she's just been, I mean, it's just stuff. There's like, growing up, it's buying, you know, she has to go, my dad would be like, go to the store, I need you to buy 12 lemons. And he has to buy for like his magic. are a bunch of newspapers from that day.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
It's like a bunch of random, and it's just normal conversation. You're just like, it's a Tuesday. You're just trying to grab some bread, milk, and 30 oranges, and then you get on out of there.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
He's got a lot of shows this week. It's just stuff like that. That's cool.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Oh, yeah. So I moved to Chicago first for a couple years. And then I moved to New York. And I was in New York for the most, for like eight and a half years. And so I did all the clubs and all the, like, going up every single night. I performed for one guy once. Oh, my God. No way. Like, he wouldn't leave. We tried to get him to leave, and he's like, nah, it's all right.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And we're like, well, we don't think it's all right. He really wasn't about him. You're like, I don't want to stand up in front of a guy. Right. regularly up in front of four people, five, six, like, I mean, six people was like, got pretty good show going on. You know, you were excited about six people.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah. So you just get used to just being in these kind of like, you know, it takes a long time before you're in front of like an actual paying crowd that's
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Well, I had to learn to get people into my rhythm very quickly. So since I talk slower and I'm from the South and all this, I had to figure out... Because I would follow high-energy acts, and then I'd come up and I'm like, well, I got to... come up with a joke or I got to say something.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I just need you to hear my voice for a second so you can go like, all right, readjust and be like, now we're in this rhythm and then get into the first kind of, you know, come up with a good like opening little thing or whatever and just get rolling.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, I go up prepared. I mean, I can't do the other. I can't really do like crowd work and go up and stuff.
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'The Interview': Nate Bargatze Doesn’t Mind if You Think He’s an Idiot
You can tell no one's really invested in what each other's saying. That's like what I like to watch.
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Well, like, I mean, just talk about the state of Tennessee and Nashville alone. Nashville is a great city that's booming and there's a lot to do. There's not a lot to do with your family there. So when you have kids and stuff, you can go to Broadway, you can go drink and the bachelor parties and all this and a Titans game and
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There is great stuff to do, but there's not a lot of stuff that you can do with your family. What I like about when people come to my shows is that it's children to grandparents are at these shows. They're able to go do something as a family. I think a lot of entertainment now is not made for the whole family.
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Even television or movies can be separating in the fact that I'm watching Narcos and my wife watches Housewives and there's not a show that we're necessarily watching together. And so I do think there is a void in that. So I'm just going to, you know, I look at stuff to go do with my daughter. I love when we lived in California, we would go to Disneyland all the time.
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And like, you know, you look at Disney and, Essentially, I would like to be able to build something in that aspect where people can. It's a big one, but you're not lacking in ambition. No, no, I don't care. I mean, it's yeah. I mean, the ambition is like, I don't know. I've done all this. I'm nobody, dude.
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Like and it's like I want to make stuff that people have somewhere to go to with their whole family. And, you know, it's easy to watch and it's fun.
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The plan is, I mean, I'm kind of doing it. It's like the plan is to be, if you found me... And you like what I'm doing in this is I don't want to betray that trust. So the plan is just to trust me. You know, I don't plan on touring forever and doing stand-up forever. I mean, I want to make movies.
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I think you get a lot of times that people can think, like, if you get too big, are you going to change? I mean, look in the South, I can tell you right now, you can be like, oh, you're Hollywood now, or you're this, or you're that, or you're going to... The audience is very much in my mind with everything that I will make, and I will make stuff... hopefully for them and with them in mind.
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I'm not doing it, again, I try not to do it for me. It's not to get my point across. My point does not matter. It's for you. And so I want them to be able to keep coming and see that I'm... trying to do something I think that's a little against the grain right now.
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And weirdly enough, something being broad is, you know, like when I started comedy, some comics were like, well, I'm not for everybody. And I was like, well, why would you not want to be for everybody? I want to be for everybody.
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Like, why you? Oh, I always wonder why you. You know, I mean, I think you're just talking about relatable things. You're talking about, I think, authenticity. Not that I'm going out for authenticity, but you're in a world now where entertainment is, I think, there is no authenticity. You know, it's like you have the...
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I'll have a lot of grandmothers come to my shows, and they love me. I do really good with grandmothers. And I always love that because I don't think there's much being made that they could go to.
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Yeah, it's just different types of comedy. I went on the road for Marc Maron. I opened for Marc Maron. A lot that I do on stage is stuff I learned from him. Marc Maron is very much himself on stage. And so I always try to mimic that to be how close can I be to me offstage to onstage? I think there's a place for that, for Marc Maron doing it. And you need that. You can have that.
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You can also have this. I always joke that I'm a comics parents comic. I stand behind my standup. I work on it very, very hard. But yeah, you do feel sometimes a little like, because I'm clean, like, yeah, you can get looked at like, wow, of course he sells all these tickets. It's easy. Or it's like, he's not doing anything challenging. I mean, I don't know.
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I kind of disagree with that because it's hard to, you know, mainstream is not something that's easy to attain, even with movies. You know what? I mean, Sandler did. That's not easy. That's why there's not 40 Sandlers.
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Wicked's and you have these Avenger movies and you have all this stuff that's great, but there's not like a regular person like on a screen anymore. And where their movies used to kind of be like that, where you would see planes, trains and automobiles and home alone. And you would have someone be like, all right, that's a guy. That's a regular guy in this movie that you enjoy watching.
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I would now if I felt it. So that was the reason I wrote that joke was because everybody was saying they didn't like Trump, every comedian. So all the jokes were saying I didn't like Trump. So then I thought, how can I make a joke that say I do like him and be able to do it on tonight's show where I ride a line? Yeah. where no one's going to get mad.
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I don't want the people voting for Trump to get mad. I don't want the people that are not voting for Trump to get mad. I wanted to say the opposite of what everybody else was saying. So if I have an idea and I can do that, I will do that. I do like that challenge.
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Yeah, I did it with the peanut allergies. I had a joke about airplanes when they say you can have peanuts. Like, who are these adults addicted to these peanuts this bad? These kids are going to die. And so that was one that there's a lot of people that would make fun of the peanut allergy aspect. And so it's just going the opposite way and just defending the kids that have the peanut allergies.
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And I like riding that line and just, when you make it self-centered, it's much easier to ride the line.
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Uh, you know, it is, I've, I'm very driven and, uh, you know, I mean, I don't, when didn't go to college, barely made it out of high school. Like, it's like, you know, I don't understand most business stuff. So you kind of just, uh, maybe it's naive. I'm like, well, why can't we do it that way? You know, when everybody's like, you can't, I'm like, well, why not?
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Yeah. Yeah. I'm good. I'm the, uh, I'm the thinker, the talker, like the visionary, I guess. And then you're good at putting people around you that do know all that kind of stuff. Because that I don't. I never had a real job, so I don't know any of that stuff.
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Um... So on the arena tour, when I first started going, our screens, because you're in an arena, I wanted the screens to be bigger. I was like, they should be bigger because I want the experience for the audience to be as great as it can be. And I was told they can't be bigger. I was like, well, that doesn't make sense.
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And I'm fine with being told no, but I just want to know it went through the whole system. I want to be told exactly like the building's not big enough or whatever. And for this next tour, we do have bigger screens. Because I get a lot of people when I say I want to do a theme park and I've had it with friends where I say I want to do this and they're like, why? Why would you?
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You know, it's like easier to watch and it's just easier to take in. And you just want to be entertained and you don't always want to be thought provoked. And that's something that I've always tried to stay clear of because I realized like, you know, I need to, I'm trying to sell you something. I'm selling you entertainment.
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You basically get told you can't do anything because it doesn't make sense for, I guess, how I've lived to think that I want to go do all this other stuff. What would be in the Nate Land theme park? Just rides. Rides.
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Ideally, I would want it to be like a Universal Studios kind of thing where we can be shooting movies on one part and then you have the theme park on the other and kind of just build that. I just want to build a world where people can be discovered. I think that's a big driving point for me. When I came up, I think a lot of people would not get out of the way for the next younger people.
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Like in comedy clubs, when you're coming up and you can't get spots at that club because the guys that have been there for 15 years are not moving or going somewhere else. And so I want to have places for new artists to be able to, I don't know, come do something.
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Yeah, well, look, we got some stuff we got to get through, you know. I was going to ask you how much money you have, if you could give it to me. We're asking for everyone doing a Venmo. You need a lot of stuff. I do agree. The one thing I've learned, though, is in a business, money's not the problem. People have a lot of money.
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There's a lot of money, and money gets used in a lot of different ways and stuff like that. So hopefully we can get there. This is not something that is going to be tomorrow, but... But I feel, like, driven to do it. So, you know, we're going to give it a go.
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Uh, yeah, I mean, I feel sometimes I'm having it now, you know, I mean, I think that's where the drive and all this stuff is coming from to make sure that you can bring your child to my standup show that I want you to come as a family and you go do stuff. And I think about those moments of.
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You know, I have with my daughter all these little little dumb moments of you going to the movies with your family because it's fun to get on. Watch your kid try to talk you into buying candy and popcorn and all these little silly kind of moments that you think back on. So. I think I'm going through it now.
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I think it's constantly having to work on it, constantly just reminding myself to be out of it and make sure that this life is not about me. So yeah, I mean, it's just a constant going on. So I think I follow what you're saying.
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Yeah. It's a big belief to be, I am second, second to God, second to your family, second to, I believe the audience, second to everybody. You kind of live to serve. So it's very much a calling in that aspect that I feel. But again, it's like, it's trying to ride that balance and And I don't want anybody that's not this or that or whatever, whatever everybody is. That doesn't matter.
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So I need you to be able to come and trust that you're going to get the entertainment that I am showing you that I'm selling you.
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I just want to make something that all of them can be in the room together. And I feel it's driven on a bigger purpose for me. But, you know, it's like everybody has their own things.
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You are nervous about it, about being labeled. You don't want to be this kind of thing because stuff gets faith-based or stuff gets like that. Like, people write stuff off. Or they take it, especially now, in very different ways.
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I mean, that's really what it comes from, is just... I remember our daughter's first movie was Moana. And so going to sit and watch it, we sat in the very back and, you know, it's like I can't, the whole experience of that day is like, that's something that I remember. And that's, you know, that's a dumb day.
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in the grand scheme of things you're not doing no one's in school no one's taking a test no one's it's not this crazy important days but those those are the ones that you tend to go back to and remember and so yeah creating those moments i always see older uh i'll have a lot of grandmothers come to my shows and they love me i do really good with grandmothers
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And I always loved that because I don't think there's much being made that they could go to.
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No, no, no. That's the goal. I'm trying to be only grandmothers. Shows are at 8.30 a.m. That's the late show.
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Do you actually know currently when you'll stop? I do. I could see the next specials will be on Netflix. I could see maybe one more special after that. I don't want to overstay my welcome. I also want to get out of the way. If I preach it and I was frustrated by it, I need to live by that. And so I do think there's a point I need to get out of the way.
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I need to step aside and let the next wave of comedians come up. And I don't want to be just hovering in the spotlight. And, you know, I got this tour and then maybe one more tour. And then just from there, just I got movies I want to do and then do that and then start running Nate Land.
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We're doing this interview in 10 years and I'm like, you know what? I got back into it. All right. I'm only doing stand-up. I don't have a theme park. I have a carnival. I have a carnival that travels. That's all I can make it. It couldn't do a theme park. Still something. There's still some rods.
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I don't know, because I think there's got this weird, I mean, it's just I think kind of in life in general has got this self-importance. You know, I have a platform, so I need to say something on this platform. And I'm kind of anti-platform. I don't need to use this platform to tell you what to do.
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You know, if I go want to give you my opinion and like tell you what I think and all this, I also think that's a lot about me is what I think. And when I go on stage, I try to remind myself this night's not about me. It has nothing to do with me. If it becomes about me, it's too much. I can't handle it. But if I can make it for other people, now I'm just kind of an employee and I'm working.
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And so I'm just making stuff for people. And so it's not about my self-importance or any of that stuff. It just doesn't matter. You don't need me to do that.
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'The Interview': Nate Bargatze Doesn’t Mind if You Think He’s an Idiot
Well, it's about me and the fact that, yes, I'm talking about myself and I'm making fun of myself. But the material is written for you. I mean, I just got a message today about a lady that's like she doesn't like flying. And I get like messages like this all the time. And so she's like, I listen to you and you've helped me fly because it's like this. I don't know.
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It's like takes her mind off of it or whatever. It's the way you watch a show that's comforting. So anytime I think I want to go do something else, it's like I think about the hurt. And go, well, that's not fair to her. I'm not doing it to make myself look good or look better or do this kind of stuff. I'm doing it to make you laugh. I would say you can laugh with me or at me. So it doesn't matter.
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'The Interview': Nate Bargatze Doesn’t Mind if You Think He’s an Idiot
You relate to it or you think I'm an idiot. Either way, I'm here to entertain you.
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'The Interview': Nate Bargatze Doesn’t Mind if You Think He’s an Idiot
Yeah, I think it was, you know, I would do a lot of shows starting out. It'd be midnight. It'd be a show called Uncensored Comedy. And, you know, and I mean, these are some of my friends are like very dirty. Yeah. Most comics I'm around were the complete opposite of everything that I did. I had to learn how to do what I was doing in those rooms, but I didn't want you to notice that I was clean.
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'The Interview': Nate Bargatze Doesn’t Mind if You Think He’s an Idiot
So I think that is something that helped me into the fact that if I can go up and make you laugh and make this crowd laugh, I'm 28 years old in New York City doing a show. It's one in the morning. These people are drunk and then I'm doing it. How can I do this material that's not doing sexual jokes or whatever everybody else was kind of doing? And so you learn how to try to hide it.
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Cause I think if you walked up and said, I'm clean, it's going to be like, well, this guy's not cool. And this guy's not this and that. And, but I think it, I look back at now, I think it, you know, it was like, I was reliable for late night sets because I was clean, uh, Fallon liked me. And so it was like an easy one to go do and rely on.
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Cause you know, I'm not going to say I'm not, I'm not having to like change my act for television.
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Yeah, I'll tell her. Yes. I mean, there's a couple of times I'll go try it first to make sure I even want to. Because if it's not going to work, then maybe there is no reason for me to bring it up to her. But then if it works, you're even in more of a bind. But if it works, then I go and I can figure out how to say it. And I always try to make fun of myself, too, in it.
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'The Interview': Nate Bargatze Doesn’t Mind if You Think He’s an Idiot
When I first started, I would do jokes about my wife and I could tell that the audience didn't. If they don't know you and if you don't show love, then they're not going to go with you. So if you show that aspect of it, then you can get away with quite a bit.
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With my daughter, I'm very sensitive to try to... I haven't talked about her a ton outside when she was a baby because I didn't want her to... I want her to be her own person. I want her to be able to trust that she can come to me as her father, which is the most important thing, and say stuff to me and not think anything she says I'm going to go tell the whole world.
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'The Interview': Nate Bargatze Doesn’t Mind if You Think He’s an Idiot
So it's splitting that balance to be like, I want to be very protective of that for my wife, for my family, for any of them to know that, you know, I'm not just using all of them to gather material.
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He did. So he was a clown at the beginning and then he did magic. He's a magician. And, I mean, he'll tell me, like, jokes and stuff and say, well, you didn't say this and say that. So I can talk to him about comedy and all this. But... Yeah, competitive. I mean, he comes out on the road with me, and he's done a hundred and something shows with me in arenas, and it's, I would say competitive.
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I mean, it's like different. I mean, when he came up, you know, they had three kids, and He had a day job and he did all this stuff. He could have moved to Vegas when we were younger and he chose not to. And so we grew up in Nashville and I think grew up with a very normal, I mean, as normal as you can with your dad being a magician. But he's very proud and he cries when he brings me on stage.
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Yeah, yeah. I'm sure there is like some commitment to us. I mean, there's some when you go travel, like I love traveling with my dad. And then there's times where, you know, you're like, I always joke to be like, it's every little boy's dream to travel with your dad when you're 45 years old. So, you know, got a tour bus with a CPAP machine. Really living it up.
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I don't know if she gets the extent of that. I think we've done a pretty good job. We moved back to Nashville. We live in a cul-de-sac. We're not around a big crazy neighborhood where it's, you know, just everybody's famous or wealthy or whatever. But yeah, but she, I mean, she has stuff. The amount of stuff I wasn't allowed to have versus what she has is it's not even remotely close.
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You know, I want Jordan shoes. But we got some from Dollar General, and they just kind of look like Jordan's shoes. I would get all this stuff, the Super Bowl team that lost. I'd be wearing all that stuff.
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Yeah. According to my family, the Bills won four in a row.
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Yeah. Kids show business showed up and goes, hey, fat. So if you want to make it, you better get you better get your life together. No, I mean, it was it's both. It's a mix. No one told me to do anything. I mean, as a comic, weirdly enough, you're you and you're talking about yourself. So you are going to be you. But I wanted to do it, too. And I'm going through it right now.
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I mean, I you know, I do not have great eating habits. And when I grew up, we just ate because you had to eat. Food was never celebrated. Food was just something you had to do. And so I eat a lot of fast food and a lot of chain food, and I get in on the road. And I do realize it can get in the way, though. I realized that.
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I stopped drinking in, like, 2018 because I knew if I wanted to get where I wanted to get as a comic, this was going to be in the way. And so I've realized that with food, too. If I want to do this thing, I want to do stand up at this high level, possibly make some movies, all this kind of stuff.
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Even for myself, I realize, all right, well, I have to go put in the effort for me to be able to handle all this kind of touring and in the mentality it takes to stay focused.
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I always say, I'm looking forward to the day you can't see my nipples through my shirt. So that's it. That's all we're working towards. One day we're going to get there.
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The thing about nothing to do, that's one that I'm working on. you know that there's nothing to do. So the joke I do is bowling's still around because that's how, if you and your wife and your family is like, let's go do something, you go out to eat and go see a movie and you get to bowling a lot quicker than you probably should be. You know, it's 2025, so we have AI.
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I feel like bowling is a caveman sport that should have faded out, but that's how little there is to do that it's still hanging around.
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Yes, for people to keep their head above water.
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I did think, I thought of it last night as I was watching something like on TV. I'm like, I was like, I think this is when you should be reading like before bed. You know, I was like, I think that's when people do it. That's why there's reading lights and all that kind of stuff. So I was thinking about getting just a fun book, you know, like what's an easy one.
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'The Interview': Nate Bargatze Doesn’t Mind if You Think He’s an Idiot
So it's like, let's start with something super fun and then just get into a habit.
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uh there was i looked up like the most popular books it was like christina agathy is that her name it's like an author uh agatha christie agatha christie so i was all backwards uh i think i'm dyslexic so that should count as i said it correctly in my head wait that wasn't just a bit christina agathy No, I thought that's what it was. I'm sorry. I ride the line.
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You don't know what's a bit, what's not a bit. You know, I'm very protected. No one can really tell what's going on. And then I can, you know, depending on who I'm talking to, I can decide if it was dumb or not.
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Yeah. It's awareness, being aware of just your surroundings and what's going on. Because you're looking for material. You're looking for things that happens to make a joke about or tell a story about. So you're always very alert. I mean, it's exhausting because it just doesn't feel like it turns off. You analyze every interaction you have.
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'The Interview': Nate Bargatze Doesn’t Mind if You Think He’s an Idiot
I like seeing when I see two people talk and I realize that neither one of them really know what they're saying to each other and they're kind of on a different page. That's very fun to watch.
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'The Interview': Nate Bargatze Doesn’t Mind if You Think He’s an Idiot
I mean, one of them was my dad and my buddy, Nick Novicki. Nick, his eyesight's bad, and he just kind of won't be paying attention. And then my dad's older, and they won't. So I watched them one time have a conversation in a hot tub. And so Nick asked him how. He's like, how's everything going? And my aunt was not doing well at the time.
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'The Interview': Nate Bargatze Doesn’t Mind if You Think He’s an Idiot
So my dad's like, well, my wife's sister's not doing that well. Then Nick goes, well, that's good to hear. Because he doesn't hear him. So they won't just acknowledge that neither one of them know what's going on. So they're just having conversations. And then Nick got out, dried off, and threw his towel away in a trash can because he thought it was a towel bin. So something like that.