The Nateland Podcast - #11 Stand-Up Comedy Part 2

Episode Date: September 9, 2020

This episode, we continue our discussion of Stand-Up Comedy. The guys discuss comedy topics like quitting their day job, when is it okay to tell a joke about a family member, how much of your comedy should be real as opposed to made up, and their worst bombing moments on stage. Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.allthingscomedy.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail] Find your perfect mattress at HelixSleep.com/Nate   Download the DraftKings app NOW and use code NATELAND to get a FREE shot at the ONE MILLION DOLLAR top prize with your first deposit! 

what's up everybody welcome to nateland the nateland podcast i am nate bargetzi i'm sitting here aaron weber brian bates as always been trying to get them off, but they keep coming. They keep showing up. We got, we're going to start this up. All right. Today's is part two. First part two as well. First part two podcast we did. And so that's pretty fun.

It's exciting. Yeah. And it's moving along. So we're going to start off as usual with some of the comments from you guys. See how mean you guys have been. Nice. All of it. All above.

First up, Randall Grisham. At the beginning of every episode, Nate says they are still trying to figure out the podcast. I'm not sure what there is to figure out. This is already one of my favorite podcasts. It feels like you're sitting in the room having a conversation with these three guys keep doing what you're doing that's nice yeah that's we do so we know what we're doing i think we know what we're doing i think we're still always trying to make it like you know perfect it's yeah you know you never want to stop trying to improve yes you know we're always we're always improving. I hope by like 20,

we're just doing something different. Like we're in a hot air, but like we're a hot air balloon podcast. And like, we just talk about hot air, but like, you don't realize that there's that much stuff to talk about hot air balloons. We could change completely.

I had someone tell me a comic, Ari Shafir. I was talking to him about when I was going to start this podcast. And he was like, always be open to it can change. And maybe I'm a little too open to it. I'm like looking for it to change more. But we have a great system. And I'm glad.

It is nice to hear that. Yeah. Sometimes I need to hear that, so I quit tinkering. Christopher Stanley. These first 10 episodes have been amazing i like how brickles and aaron are finding their niche roles in this production aaron the reluctant genius and brisket is the self-deprecating setup man brigade even smiled and laughed out loud a few times on this one wow we got some life out of Brigade. Breakfast is moving around.

Calvin, I spit my coffee out when you guys said someone called Bryson Breakfast. That's very funny. You guys are the... I ruined that guy's joke with saying breakfast earlier. My fault, Calvin. I spit my coffee out when you guys said someone called Bryson Breakfast. You guys are the best. Not to mention, not to be morbid, but you started the podcast the week I was

wanting out and the most depressed I've ever been after the death of my best friend. This podcast literally saved my life. Not to be too dramatic, but seriously. You're doing the Lord's work. Listening to stand-up always helps, but this podcast is the best. You dudes are crushing it. Please keep them coming.

Bates and Weber now have gained a lifelong fan. Nate was obvious how I found you guys, so he is okay too. Parentheses, favorite comedian. Thank, Calvin. That is unbelievable. And yeah, stay with us, Calvin. Come on, man. I mean, I killed that one guy.

You're trying to kill Calvin. But now I'm back. Oh. We're back to even. Oh, now i'm back oh we're back to you oh now you're now you saved a life yeah yeah i don't mention that in my trial uh that's nice calvin we love you buddy uh yeah that's i you know comedy is great for that kind of stuff and it is not take your life as serious it kind of helps you do it i mean i know I know everybody has – you know, it's tough, man. You lose your best friend. That's, you know, something no one can even really –

probably hard to talk to you about. You know, no one can relate to that. But I'm glad that you're listening to this. And Calvin, you're the best buddy. We love you. So thank you. He's got, you know, he's a big fan. You got to –

It's a lot of pressure now. From you all two? Yeah. You got to. It's a lot of pressure now. From y'all two? Yeah. You got lifelong fans. Nelson Bernard. Ironic that the comedy episode was the least funny so far. Now we're back. Because we take comedy serious, Nelson.

Yeah, I don't know. You know what? I thought the comments were very funny last week yeah we opened up super funny and then it was uh you know and then we talked about comedy yeah look we look at everything to be funny or interesting that's how i almost look at stand up like that when you're doing stand up it needs to be either unbelievably funny or you need to be saying something that's keeping people's attention and so that's what uh i think this needs to be either unbelievably funny or you need to be saying something that's keeping people's attention. And so that's what I think this needs to be.

It's either funny or interesting. Ironically, I think his name's Nilsson. Yeah, which was the biggest laugh we've ever got. And it's historic. Colin Lippard. Brad looks like the substitute teacher that desperately wants the approval of the full-time teachers. That's a great, that's like a real comment. You look like a substitute teacher that you walk in the teacher's lounge just like, hey, guys.

And it's like, hey. And then one of the real teachers is like, you don't work here full time, man. I know you're here for a while because Miss, you know, whatever, Miss Smith is going through some stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's got it because Miss Johnson's going through a divorce and she can't be bothered by teaching, but you don't work here. I feel that way too. Could you be a substitute teacher?

No. No. You'd get run over. I agree with that. I mean, the kids would just. I agree. Yeah. And I want to be like everyone, so.

Yeah, let's do it. They just learn nothing. Yeah. I agree. KP, does Aaron only wear rejected prototype Notre Dame caps? Awful. Notre Dame has a lot of nice gear help them out thank you yeah now you're wearing nbc sports yeah i thought there were some good hats that's very funny rejected bro i mean that's unbelievable yeah that's really funny well they match some stuff they match his starter jacket so that's really funny. Send me some stuff. They match his starter jacket, so that's why he wears them. That is very funny to think, just the rejected.

You're like, they always say, comics have made jokes about the third world country. You have the Raiders won the Super Bowl and all this stuff. That's where he gets his Notre Dame hat. He goes to that same store. Superbowl and all this stuff. That's where he gets his Notre Dame hat. He goes to that same store. Tony Ott.

I love that. I love that Nate had the Seinfeld. It's the last time I'm going to tell you memorized. Not sure. I believe that I did have memorized. I'm not, I don't know if I could do it now, but at the time I watched it over and over and over and over,

you know, he's the joke he's making is, and I think you said that two straight weeks. It's the title is I'm telling you for the last time it's a lot oh it's oh oh you had to memorize and you set the title wrong well it's been a long time uh you know what else i had memorized scream the first scream movie yeah i could i could the whole movie me and my buddy john paul the whole movie we could could go through it all and do it all. Wow. Yeah.

Could you do it now? Maybe. I could do some of it. I mean, I'd have to get some, I'd have to get it going, you know, but I think I could do some of it. Yeah. But I mean, that was high school. So 75 years ago.

I don't have it memorized now, but i scream was a big one that i had jared 81 i got you nate buddy and aaron should have have had this one buddy buddy's a great one it's not my bag is an expression common in the 1960s to indicate a lack of interest originated in u.s jazz slang where the metaphorical bag was a category that might hold likes or dislikes. Yeah, that's what you had in mind, right? Yeah. 1960s jazz slang? It doesn't matter.

I don't know the rule. I don't know what it means or how I heard it. I'm just saying it's a saying. I hung around with people that are not like you guys. This guy just looked it up on Wikipedia. Somebody pointed out Austin Powers said it. It's not my bag. It's not my bag, baby.

I'd say it's more likely you got it from Austin Powers. I think we all agree that. And get out with, yeah, Louis Armstrong. Well, what I was doing in New York, we would do comedy in the jazz rooms. That's what y'all said? I don't know if we did. They did do that.

Like in the 40s, they did that. But I didn't. But it's not my bag elaine ralph henry aaron i also have to listen to an album in the car sound oh all right let me start over i was like starting a race half of these are like i started a race and i'm like hold on hold on i wasn on. I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready. Aaron, I also have to listen to an album in the car. Good sound, no distractions, AC blowing. It really is a good time. It's the best, man.

Yeah, I think it is. I think I get the idea of it. It's not my thing. But I like AC blowing. I always like being in a car. I love how you can get it at the perfect temperature. But I like AC blowing. I always like being in a car. I love how you can get it at the perfect temperature.

You know? I've done that. I've had to let Holly, our dog, out. She always wants to go out at like 1 a.m. And it'll be right before I go to bed. And so I'll let her out. And I'll go stand outside some nights. And I'll be like, it's the perfect temperature right now. It's crazy to me to be in this giant earth in this moment.

You stand outside. You have no shirt on. And you're like, it's the best. How is that? Isn't that crazy? It's a big area. It's a large area, the earth is. Earth, yeah.

Earth is a gigantic area. It's a big spot for sure. It's a big spot to get perfect. Yeah. It's pretty unbelievable. I think about that a lot. Saw Mars the other day, too. Really?

Yeah, right next to the moon. They were hanging out together. I was like, what's he up to? They were, yeah. Ran into Mars the other day. Yeah. Mars, yeah. The moon is like, oh, look at you.

I haven't seen you in a while. I always see Jupiter and Saturn every night. Do you have a telescope? Or you just got a good eye? No, pretty good eyes. They had LASIK. Uh, he sees stars and he just,

no, I looked, I did the sky guy on the app that you can, yeah, that you can look at it and see. And so I was able to, you can like go into, it shows you a lot of stuff.

There's a lot of going on up there. Yeah. Uh, but I, I would see two, you know, bright lights and they were just always in the same spot and so i thought i bet they're planets and they started moving and turns out that's just a u.s airways i saw they were blinking and i was like it's getting lower i thought maybe

jupiter is falling is that a movie yeah is it jupiter's falling yeah no not jupiter isn't it it's something sky is falling oh it's a planet it's like neptune or jupiter i don't think so yes uh jupiter's falling jupiter has fallen jupiter has fallen i don't it's something else has fallen i don't think so you're talking about the movie with channing tatum he saves the world uh yeah jupiter ascending it's ascending it's not falling it's the opposite of falling ascending means it's rising that's what i'm saying what is the has fallen movie there the sky has fallen no it's something well that might be true but there's something else has fallen what is olympus has fallen olympus so not a planet. Well, that might be true, but there's something else that's fallen.

What is it? Olympus has fallen. Olympus has fallen. So not a planet at all. It sounds like a moon, maybe, of Jupiter. Maybe that's where I got confused. Yeah. I don't know. These poor guys have to sit through us every week just like,

God, I just want to tell. They do right away. He's finally like, I got to say it. I just got to say it. Jep. J-E-P-P-E. How would you say that? I'd say Jep.

You just hit it really hard. It made me laugh. Jep. I like the name Jep. You know, I'd like to have a friend named Jep. I think that's very... Just because you like saying it? I think Jep is a perfect friend name.

I think Jep is someone that, like his buddies, a lot of them have their wives are tired of being, where are you going? And me and Jep are going out to play some pool. And then she's like, oh, God. Jep's not married. Jep is's like, oh, God. Yeah. Jep's not married. Jep is your friend that never got married. Right.

And he hangs out at pool holes. Yeah. Jep. Nate's pronunciation of Nielsen is actually way closer to being accurate than the other way. We don't say Nielsen denmark where the name is from so and he's from denmark jepp's from denmark so it's probably jeppe jeppe jeppee jeppee probably something like that should be just jepp that's how he should do it it's just jepp we got through

these comments super quick no there's more on the back oh there is oh i was like golly we're just flying through these oh printing on always printing them on one piece of paper for the environment saving the earth one paper at a time this is how this is how the earth gets saved that's right this is so you can look your grandkids in the face when they're born and go see what we did as they go what is that it's paper and they're like we don't even use that anymore but i don't you think they're using paper well grandkids like my grandkids or your grand your grandchildren um no you think they're writing cursive anything i think every oh yeah they're probably learning i don't know i don't even learn cursive now do they i don't, they're probably learning. I don't know. They don't even learn cursive now, do they?

I don't think they learn cursive anymore, but everything will be digital. They won't even have paper money. Then. Yeah. You just be... Yeah. I don't like that.

You like having the money? I always have cash. I like having cash. Mm-hmm. It's like you want to see something. When it's all just on a computer, it's like that scares me to be if you wake up it says zero yeah and you're and you can go are you like there's not like you could go there's a there's actual stuff in that safe that's mine like it's just going well it says zero on this screen. And then you've got to be like, well, something's wrong.

You'd like to just have gold bars with all your money? You see those commercials. Why are they getting to be commercials if they're not true? They have to be true. It's always the older celebrities that are buying the gold. But it's always like a guy that was in MASH. That's right. Alan Alda. Yeah yeah and he's like i

bought a bunch of gold and you're like oh did you like that's his it's a fred thompson like who's gonna be yeah who's gonna be that's because i think that's they're going after the people that like those people's like so who would be you know if if sign for if kevin james when i'm 80s going i bought gold i'll be like, I'll buy gold too. I loved Kevin James. That's who they're going after. He's not going after a new person. You're going after the people that like those people to buy gold.

That's right. All right. Alex Tobin. Broomsticks. Broomstick. They're not even trying to be names anymore I love it broomstick looks like he thought hanging with Nate

would be more fun broomstick always looks like that I admit that he thinks it's going to be a good time when you sign up for the Nate train it's not always fun, it's a bumpy ride some of the railroad tracks are broke what about T-bone T-bone It's not always fun. It's a bumpy ride. Some of the railroad tracks are broke. Is that how they say it? What about T-Bone?

T-Bone. I look like a T-Bone guy, right? You look like a T-Bone guy. I want to go by, what is it called? Coco. Coco the monkey. Coco the monkey. It's a Seinfeld reference.

Oh, okay. If you're a Seinfeld fan, Aaron. I got to study up, dude. Yeah, you don't watch Seinfeld? You wear the hat? They were on NBC. They were on NBC Sports. Apparently you're a fan.

I know, but your father worked for NBC, so what are you? I'm a fan, but not to y'all's level. I need to get there just to hang in these conversations. So we don't have any West Wing comments. Yeah, I was going to say, dude, if you were to start, they on nbc too you want to start talking west i looked at west wing because i never watched it and i it's on what's it on it's on netflix on netflix yeah so i thought about i was like oh maybe i'll go through west wing to try to because it do but it just seems i mean is it it's a lot it is a lot and i almost don't want you to watch it because i don't think you'd like

it if you just trash it relentlessly. And then I would feel worse about it. It's too smart, is what you're saying? Would you then possibly not like it? Because I'll poke holes. As you're driving down Interstate 65 and you're watching the West Wing. Well, I would be a lot less vocal about liking it, I'll tell you that much. Yeah.

James Lackey. Nate started a story about seinfeld bumping gaffigan can you finish it we cannot james i'm sorry that was the story it is what it is uh seinfeld when he bumped gaffigan i was at gotham comedy club and uh gaffigan came in so gaffigan obviously gets to go up whenever he wants he's at that level and that's the level you're always striving for. So he was going to come in and they said, yes, you can go up. But could you do 10 minutes? Because Seinfeld's coming down. And so Gaffigan did 10 minutes and then got off stage.

And Seinfeld and I saw them. They were like, he was like, hey, Jim. He was like, hey, Jerry. How you doing? And then Jerry went on and that was it. And then I think Gaffey went to do another show but yeah that was that was that was the moment that you were always so worried about when you were and i was like kind of running these rooms was when two big guys come in who do you say

you know two guys with competing egos probably and you know you don't want to yeah and then so who but i mean seinfeld to me is i would say the number one you know i'm you know and yeah you know i mean he's just been around long i'm not even saying he might not be your favorite comedian all that stuff i'm that doesn't really matter i'm talking about comedy always has a hierarchy in a sense that the people that are older than you and done it longer there's respect shown to those guys and that's what i like and so i would say i would think seinfeld's you know now that cosby's out you got seinfeld's the guy seinfeld's the oldest leno to seinfeld probably let leno go like let leno decide what he wants to do but they've kind of started

around the same so maybe you know they could see i mean i yeah i think like an eddie murphy unless like something steve martin if something unusual comes in the fact that they're not doing stand-up if they pop in they everybody's got to kind of be like, you guys are back. And those were the two biggest comics in the world. So then you let them go. But it's an interesting, like you imagine if you're listening to this, if you're running a comedy club and just pick two people, who do you think, you know, Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle walk in at the same time? Who are you going to put up first?

Who gets to go? Who gets to decide it? But it's up to them right that's when you do you just hold up to them versus if dave chappelle and i mean trying to think uh if chappelle and you know pat and oswald walk in together it's like well i think chappelle gets to go he's you know he gets to go first he gets to do whatever he wants to go do. And maybe he's nice enough to, you know. First name, last name. When you watch this podcast, turn on the subtitles.

It's always funny to see what closed captioning thinks Nate is saying. I bet that is good. I bet they have a hard time, you know, just, I mean. I always think when they're doing it live, when you watch a live show and it's closed, I mean, someone's listening and just type and stuff out. That's got to be, you know, tough. Yeah.

That's like in the jury. Do they do it that way? Or just, I figure some computer that just somehow. I mean, maybe. For TV broadcast, there's probably somebody there transcribing it. But for like YouTube, closed captioninging it's all automatic obviously but i always think about those stenographers that yeah in like a courtroom yeah have you seen what those keyboards look like they're not traditional keyboards they're like keys they each key has multiple letters on it and then they so they can

type super they just use like each. They're not even using fingers. It's amazing. Wow. It's like a monkey just... Dude, if you watch them, they're just like... I bet you have to learn to let a mistake go if you're in that business. Yeah, you can't... Backspace.

Yeah, you can't... Wipe it out. Yeah, you can't just be... You got to be like, look, it is what it is. It's going to be kind of crazy. And then... I wonder if there like one that's the best. A stenographer? Yeah.

Someone that's like, oh, he's good. They come in and bump the other stenographer. I mean, yeah. He's just like, this is what he does. He's been doing it a long time. Or she. Or she. Brings in, might be a she.

Yeah. Probably could be. I think a woman would be much better i think it's a field dominated by women yeah it's always so so if you're a guy it's tough to get into it maybe i did mock trial in high school and i remember we did there's one trial we were doing where the stenographer like told us that we were arguing back and forth and she was like i can't keep up yeah i had never seen a stenographer break character like we were arguing back and forth. She was like, I can't keep up. I had never seen a stenographer break character like that.

Wow. Yeah, y'all got to slow down. Yeah, this is too much. One at a time. I've never had that kind of stuff. I don't think I was ever in classes that I was never being prepared for the real world. I was just get to high school, get through it, and then send me out. Yeah.

I never had like, you know, it was never like, we're going to do mock trials in case one of y'all are lost. Would you have done mock trial? I think you would have been good at it. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. You could have been a witness.

Yeah. I would have loved to have been there, you know, just a witness. But I never had – did you have classes? You'd be been a witness. I would have loved to have been there. Just a witness. Did you have classes? You'd be the bailiff. I don't even know what the bailiff is. Please rise. You could do that. Because you feel

you're protecting of the judge. That's right. The bailiff's the one that walks over to you and goes, you need to quiet down. Yeah. I could right the bailiff's the one that walks over to you and goes you need to quiet down yeah just yeah i could be the bailiff i would i mean i did we did one play and i had one i had one line what was it do you remember the line uh is it from screen yeah yeah no i was like uh i don't even remember now i remember i worked a – These pretzels are making me thirsty. I remember I worked at Gaines Fitness in Nashville,

but it was the Gaines brothers. It's all these brothers that they played at football, Vandy, and one of them played for the Seahawks. They're the most wonderful family. I mean, they're just – dad their their dad was buddy gains and he worked at uh when i worked at hermitage golf course when i was 15 and his dad uh was like retired and you know worked there which i that's why when i retire i want to go just work at a golf course like just be in charge of the carts going out i mean i would love it i would do it

now uh i so he So he would work there. And the family's just, everybody knows them. They were in Nashville. They were just a big sports family. And I always see one of them, Brad, and they're just southern dudes, man, just real southern dudes. And I love nice southern, just a family that the whole town knows yeah and you talk to them like well how are you doing like and i worked for gains fitness and i had to do how we had this play

so when i worked at gains fitness i worked i watched the kids that was my job i would be in the daycare so you brought you if you had to have your kid watch i would sit that's all i was able to do was just to go in there and i'd there and I would just be in charge of the children. Yeah. You read them stories and stuff? Yeah, let them play games or whatever. And you had to play with them. You didn't have a phone to mess around on.

You just had to sit with children. You had to actually work. You had to work. Yeah. And so I had to play and I told him, I was like, hey, I can't come to work Thursday because we're having a play. And he's like, are you? You're having a play? Just real Southern. He's like, hey, I can't come to work Thursday because we're having a play. And he's like, are you? You're having a play?

Just real Southern. He's like, what? You got a line in this play? And I was like, yeah, I got it. And I'm probably super Southern too. And I got a line. And he's like, what's your line? And I forget.

It was like, I'm making this line. But it was as simple as this where it was like, I go, well, some guy asked me, where am I going? And I say, well, I'm going to the store. And that was it. And he goes, yeah. He goes, let's hear. I don't hear. I go, well, you got to say, where are you going?

He goes, all right, all right. He goes, where are you going? And I go, I'm going to the store. And he goes, all right. He goes, Nate, you get out of here, man. That was a great job. You did great. Get on out of here, buddy.

He was like so happy for me. And I was like, all right, man. And that's always stuck with me. Don't remember the line. Did the play go that well? Yeah, I mean, I had one line. You couldn't mess it up. I mean, look, it led to all this, you know.

That was the start. That was the start. But they were just, I love a nice, if you have a town, just one family everybody knows. And you're like, the Ganges, they're wonderful. I saw them not too long ago uh zachary morrow love that you guys did an episode on stand-up something i would like love to hear you guys discuss do you ever get chastised for being a christian in the comedy scene new york especially i know that anthony joseph nick has a lot of respect for

nate as a comedian despite being basically the opposite person as him i find that super interesting funny thing that i would i would always joke about with anthony about that for Nate as a comedian, despite being basically the opposite person as him. I find that super interesting. Funny thing that I would, I would always joke about with Anthony about that is I would, I would, I love that me and Joseph, we were friends. I mean,

we're comedians. So we have the common meaning. Anthony were, uh, uh, very good friends. We've done a lot of hung out a lot together, but I would tell Anthony,

I was like, look, I think we should hang out as much as we can. Cause I know once we die, we'll never see each other again. And that was my, being a Christian. Yeah. So funny.

I, you know, yeah. For being, you know, I mean, a lot of people, a lot of comics do grow up in a Christian home. A lot of, you know, a lot of people are, a lot of comics are Jewish. So whether they're practicing or not, but they would, I mean, I would have a lot of friends that would, Jewish is, you know, it's very family oriented. They have, they go to church quite a bit. So yes, there's a mix. I definitely dealt with, when I first moved from Nashville to Chicago, it was the first time I ever heard someone really question Christianity.

I mean, you know, I grew up in the South. So, I mean, I would say you drive around the street and everybody's a Christian. I mean, you're like that guy. I don't know what that guy's in that car, but I bet you he's a Christian because everybody was. Everybody went to church. It was very normal. Everybody was. Everybody went to church. It was very normal. And so when I moved was the first time I ever saw someone that did not believe, you know, wasn't didn't believe in God or wasn't a Christian.

So there was definitely times I had, you know, I would think I would get judged, prejudged the same way. I always said that they think the way they judge, they think that Christians judge people. They would judge me that way. They write you off being like, oh, you're Southern. You were Southern Baptist. Oh, I bet you're all these things. And you're like, I'm not any of those things. I went to a normal church. You know, they're like, what's Southern Baptist church?

They think we have rattlesnakes. And you're like, dude, it was a normal, it was like a high school. It was a regular place. We didn't do anything didn't bother anybody so we do get um all right i mean i definitely got stuff for being christian but i mean overall i i don't think anybody truly cares you know that's how i believe that's how i i don't think anybody really cares you feel feel like comics, when you're hanging out, everybody gets made fun of for everything. Yeah.

That's how it's been for me. It's been like no more than me being overweight. Yeah. You know? Yeah. One funny, like, so when I was being around Patrice O'Neill, and they said, someone told him he's from the South and he's a Christian,

and Patrice asked me if I believed in dinosaurs, which is an insane question. But I would just go i'd be like i do not i would just say whatever he asked i would just agree with it and uh so one day we're supposed to go to his house and someone said someone told big jay that i, I can't come for some reason. And Jay was like, that doesn't make sense. Like Patrice, his friends likes Nate. And so Patrice asked Nate was like, I mean, as a big J asked Patrice and said, Hey, uh, he said Nate can't come to the party. Like, do you care if Nate comes? And Patrice was, he was like, are you crazy, dude? He goes, that guy doesn't believe in dinosaurs.

You don't think that I want that at my house? And I always thought about that. That's what I think about. I almost try to live by that. If someone doesn't believe something you believe, I'm like, you don't think I want to be around that? I want to hear. That's way better than just us talking about stuff that we all agree with. I would love to.

I just love that he's like, that guy doesn't believe in dinosaurs. You don't think I want that in my house? I want that all over my house. Just some guy that doesn't believe in dinosaurs. But in hindsight, I'm 50-50 on dinosaurs. Sarah Panagopoulos. Man. Pana Goupoulos. P-A-N-A-G-O-P-O-U-L-O-S.

Sarah Panagopoulos. Do you want to jump on this-G-O-P-O-U-L-O-S. Sarah Panagoupoulos. Do you want to jump on this one? I wonder if she married into that name. Sarah P. Sarah P. What if her name was Sarah Johnson and then that's her husband and she's like, oh, man. Panagoulopoulos? Yeah.

Panagoulopoulos. I bet it's a name that once you figure it out, you're like, I got it. It's Greek. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. I think it's really cool that when Laura asked you how long you would do stand-up if you didn't make it, you said forever. That's some legit grit. I'm glad you said previously that she deserves everything you have because that's some legit loyalty to support a dream that might not manifest.

She's a boss. Brian's response to the jabs are so subtle and yet sassy. Love it. Thanks for making my virtual work days much less productive and way more enjoyable

on Wednesday's game. Well, that's a wonderful comment. Thank you for calling me Brian. Yeah. I appreciate that. She respects you. Thank you. Unlike most people.

Yes. Laura, yeah. Laura's been the ride or die, you know, there from the beginning. She didn't know what she signed up for, but now she has $1,000. And that's something that she can buy whatever hat she wants to, you know. She doesn't ever want to, like, she's tough presents for because she's she's not into uh you know i could buy her tools and she would love it yeah i could honestly go buy her uh anything you think you would buy your dad i could buy my wife when i have to buy my wife

presents i look up what to buy for father's day and then I go buy her something because that's what she wants. Ties. I mean, ties, yeah. Socks. Madison Hill. Last year, our fantasy football punishment was the loser had to do a five-minute stand-up bit at an open mic night at a local comedy club. As y'all were sharing all that goes into stand-up, I now realize even more why he bombed.

It was both amazing and painful to watch. What y'all do is so hard. Thanks for this it got me through a long wednesday at work wednesdays apparently not not big in uh the work life uh yeah you see that a lot where guys go but that's where open mics are for you can go try it and that's where you know i wish more people would try it just to see. People don't realize that when you get up there, how it gets real. And then how quick you can say something. Something that you think could time out to 10 minutes could be two. And it's unbelievable how fast that time goes. Yeah, true.

Especially when you get no laughs. And that's how it gets to two minutes. So I, yeah, I think everybody, yeah, go try it. That's a popular thing though. I think we've both experienced that open mics.

I hate that to be honest with you. Yeah. It used to, when they do it, I used to run a show right next to Vanderbilt. Yeah. And I think a few times it was somebody lost their fantasy football and they had to come to a spot.

And it's like this thing that you've, had to come to a spot and it's like this thing that you've i devoted my life to and i'm like this is like this is my passion and then it's somebody's punishment you know yeah show up and do it yeah leave and you but doesn't that make you that's why you want to be good at it because then you then you separate yourself from that to go i am better than this and that's when and that's too as you look at open mics i would look at that as an open mic going i don't want to be in this why i don't want to be in this room anymore where this stuff can happen those guys are not getting on a regular show oh sure so then you it's motivation that you go well i don't want to deal with this but and also would be like if that happens that guy's probably bringing a bunch of people so then you get a

real audience right and so that's where we guy's probably bringing a bunch of people. So then you get a real audience. Right. And so that's where we as comedians can take advantage of that. Because then we're like, oh, he's got 15 guys coming. I mean, that's, you know, all the shows you would do where the guy that brings the most people, you're like, well, you got to go last because we can't have your people leave. We need a real audience, you know. And then everybody's throwing people in front of that. That's what, you know what? that that's what you know what even if you want to if you have that something like that where the loser gets to do a five-minute stand of it the nicest thing you could do for those comics is to go hey we did this bet we're doing five minutes but we're bringing a bunch of people and we will

go last and then that way we you guys can can watch a real you can perform in front of real crowd that would be you would be oh i mean with open arms or it's okay as long as you stick around yeah they want you to stick around yeah yeah but once they do it the guy wants to go talk to his buddies about it i mean you can't i understand that you're not going to want to just be like go sit quietly yeah but if the crowd's terrible if they're annoying then we'll put that guy up early yes you know well that's how you'll be able to tell. If you're like, oh, we said last, and now we're going, that's because your crowd is drunk and yelling. Yeah.

Berlingo. Saw Nate. First time live. 7-15-2017. Headlining at the Tacoma Comedy Club. Tacoma. Tacoma. Tacoma.

Headlining at the Tacoma Comedy Club. Tacoma, Washington. I knew that. Headlining at the Tacoma Comedy Club, Tacoma, Washington. I knew that one. I don't know what happened. Would love to know if the dead horse and getting laughed at Mount Rainier by the elderly and people with baby stories were new. Like, did you develop them that trip? Loving Nate Land. That was the weekend it happened.

So here's the exact date. With Brian, right? With Brian. Yeah.uly 15th 2017 we went to uh mount rainier right we drove out and then we saw the dead horse when we've talked about you get asked a lot about this you want to tell it because you get asked a ton about how that joke yeah they don't ever ask me a ton but they ask you because i say you were because i would always say you were with me yeah so i was driving we had a rental car i was driving

and uh like he said was on like one long stretch to out to mariner it's one road that goes out and he's like oh man there's a dead horse over there in that that field he kind of talked about it a little bit yeah just yeah you know your brain starts going and then we went to maverneer all that stuff happened yep got up there and we i mean we were just dying huffing up that mountain and then there was an older couple that came down and the baby's thing just was added on is just yeah yep and then um and then on our way back we stopped to eat. And at the restaurant, Nate said, I think I maybe got two bits from today. The dead horse we saw and the lady who said, well, I'm 70 and I did it.

And we kind of talked about it a little bit. So we get back in the car and we're driving back. We get close to that dead horse. He's like, I want to show you. It's over here. Because you didn't see it. That's right. I didn't see it because I was driving. But he's like, slow it's slow down it's coming up i know it's right up here slow down and we saw that and the horse is just standing up eating like a normal horse and was one of the healthier horses yeah we've ever seen

i think you said the line i did say that so the line that's the healthiest horse i've ever seen yeah and uh so anyway so then i thought to myself well the line that's the healthiest horse i've ever seen yeah and uh so anyway so then i thought to myself well the dead horse joke's gone because that horse ain't dead and then that night at the club he starts telling it and i was like why is he telling this dead horse joke the horse isn't dead and then he did it the way he did it which was great it was that weekend yeah but that and that's how lines get in to some people always think you write and stuff that was brian said well that's the healthy horse i've healthiest horse i've ever seen and so then that came in from him saying that so that was bait it wasn't

like really tagging it but he was like that was i wasn't gonna say anything better than that yeah yeah most of his best lines come from me yeah yeah he's the man behind the curtain how quickly did you know that that was a bit it murdered that weekend and i was opening with it but i and so i thought it was doing really good maybe because i was talking about a local thing and uh and so when we left i was like man i hope this can work everywhere so that's what you do when you get a joke that some jokes can be very just, it's like, it works in that town. It's not going to really work everywhere else. And then some you're trying to be like, man, I hope I can make this work. I mean, it really wasn't about the town. It was

just going to Mount Rainier. So everybody knows Mount Rainier. That was like a fun thing. But I think after that weekend, I did it like the next weekend too. And it was like starting to work. And then it was like, oh, okay. And then you start building. Maybe a little stuff gets added to it and, you know, it gets longer than it was. But, I mean, it was doing so good.

Were you opening with it? Yes. Do you like to do that? I like to open with it if I have a new joke. I mean, unless it fits somewhere else. Especially when it's local. But when it's local, I'm going to open with it. Yeah, for sure.

But I do like opening with new stuff. When I did Tampa with you, the Olivia story had just happened, I think, that morning. That morning, yes. And you opened with it. Yes. I remember that. Yeah, yeah. For the first time.

Well, it was such a perfect joke to open. You could tell that this joke would be perfect at the beginning yeah and i was excited to try it and that one i called a few people on the way there i might have called you and just to say the story happened because it was funny to say and then that way i could say it a couple times before i hit the stage that night and then i can give it more and then a fight broke out uh in that tampa thing uh in the back big fight just the guys started going at it i was like 25 minutes into my set nate brings that out of people his comedy we get it you riled up people don't care because this guy's not good he goes i agree with you and then they fight about how not good it is uh jt great show as always nate my

favorite part was when Aaron and Breadpan shared their comedy stories during the last 45 seconds of the show keep up the unbelievable work guys yes

you guys knocked it out we're gonna let y'all tell some more of your stories this time it was but you know y'all got it in

last 45 seconds sneak it in Breadpan Breadpan Cameron Moore It was, but you know, y'all got it in last 45 seconds. Sneak it in. Bread pan. Cameron Moore. I've commented before, but I want to make sure you hear it. Do not do too much material on here.

You want to take it on stage. It stinks going to see a comedian. You already know his entire act because of podcasting. Cameron, that is something that I think about a lot. That's something that I think doing a podcast helps you be funny. And I'm hoping to get some material probably out of this, but I will, uh, am very aware of that. And I tried to, I would try not to, uh, do that. I would, if I felt like something was going to happen, maybe you see the beginning of it. I'm like, Oh, that could be something. And maybe it goes, uh, obviously I don't know, but that's why even this format is, I don't think I'm going to get a ton. Like maybe I get some stuff, some add on stuff,

but the way we're doing this and talking about specific things, I, you know, I don't know. I am, I'm, that's something that's completely on my mind. It's something that I was scared about doing a podcast because I was afraid that would be too much. But, uh, yeah, I'm glad that he, I'm glad he said it.

I mean, that's something I think about a lot, so I hope it won't. And I'm sure, I'm sure it can at some point, this next hour probably won't have anything. Cause I had the hour before this, but then the hour after that might just be us

three on stage brad mccurdy you guys always kill it can't wait for you to get back on the road and see you live maybe bring aaron and what's his name with you uh yeah we're seeing i doubt it but uh no we will go out and we will uh we're going to be doing some of those drive-in shows. And y'all will be on some of those. So we will be doing those coming up. I mean, starting September 24th to, like, October 25th, we're doing drive-in movie theaters. And I think y'all are doing the back half of them with me, October 8th to the end of that run.

So we're going to see how those are going to be summer drive-ins summer at summer, just in parking lots. It'll be very, it'll be nice to get back out and be doing the hour again. But it's, yeah, it's going to be interesting. I mean, you know, we're going to some, I'm going to some cities that I've already been to, but I think the way you got to look at this is a bring your whole family like someone mentioned about bringing a baby like yeah bring a baby man this is the time you can bring a baby to us you can throw them in the car like there's you're going to be in your car it's going

to be you know it's we're the way these are all getting done is because i think people are like there's nothing people can't go do anything and this this is a night out. And so we're going to have, you know, we're going to give you the best show that we can possibly give you and hope it goes really good. And it's going to be interesting to see if, with the crowd, you know, because you can't, ours is so important about the crowd and you can't do it. You can't hear the crowd. So, all right.

Well, there's the comments. Thank you guys as always. Keep them coming. We love, I love reading comments. I like the comments a you guys as always keep them coming we love I love reading comments I like the comments a lot yeah it's very fun

the rest of the podcast I do not care for we should be just a comment podcast just comments on other comments which Chad Ryden did that with a comic I saw that yeah

he commented on our podcast so he did a live reaction to our podcast live reaction to our podcast and Live reaction to our podcast. And then did another one off his. A reaction to his reaction. A live reaction to his reaction. Which is very, very funny.

Chad Ryden, one of my favorite people. All right. So this week, we're not playing a clip because we have, because this is part two. We played the quick last week with all the kids. A lot of people loved the little sketch video we shot with all the neighborhood kids. Sorry about the audio.

Oh, yeah, the audio did not work if you're listening on just the audio. For some reason, it didn't play. I got blamed for that. Yeah. Look, it's not Brian's fault. It probably was. No, we'll figure it out. i don't know why i messed up i don't think i asked but uh we we are aware of it and we know it did and so if you want to see the video you can go to my social media or

nate land and uh that we posted the whole video up there so you can see what we were talking about and what we did but a lot of a lot of fun comments about that which was good because it's a you know a bunch of kids acting in that and they did really good yeah and uh they enjoyed it and we were you know we had nothing to do uh during this covet time so we made some videos uh so all right well here's part two we're gonna get get into stand-up comedy. All right, so many of these questions we get to.

A lot of people submitted questions this week. Sorry, I couldn't get to everybody, but kind of did combine questions here. First one's from Hazard. He,

or I guess it could be a she, asks, what do y'all suggest comics who still haven't reached the quitting your day job phase do to further their careers in comedy during this pandemic? What do y'all suggest comics who still haven't reached the quitting your day job phase due to further their careers in comedy during this pandemic what do you also just comics who still haven't reached

the quitting a day to face uh i mean look this pandemic i wish i could you know well let's look pandemic aside what do you what would you say i was gonna say i don't know you did comedy during the spanish flu brian what did you guys What kind of shows did you guys do back then? Well, the pandemic's what makes it unique. I mean, as far as if there's no pandemic, I mean, you got to just keep going. And you'll know when to quit. I mean, you'll know when you can quit. I remember Ben Bailey, who hosts Cash Cab.

And I remember Ben was, cause he was one of the guys that didn't quit his day job until he had to. And so he lived by that motto. And the fact that other comics want to quit, I mean, quitting your day job is a prideful thing when you're like, I'm making enough money that I can quit my job. But some comics lived by the, they didn't want to quit the job. They were like, well, I'm going to keep it until I can quit my job. But some comics lived by the, they didn't want to quit the job.

They were like, well, I'm going to keep it until I can't. Cause why would you not just keep making the money and you can save up more money? And I think it's, it can go either way. I mean,

some guys, I think quit, some guys hang on too long and I don't think they, they jump in enough, but if you can do your day job and then be doing shows every night and no one even knows you have a day job, that's how you got to do your day job. You got to do it to where nobody knows you even have it.

You can't be affecting your life. I would see people, new comics, I would be like, when can you go on stage? And they would wait tables at night. And they're like, well, I can't go up Tuesdays and Wednesdays because I got to work. And you're like, that's got to stop. You got to quit that job and find a job during the day that you can go up every night if you're trying to make it if you want to make it because as always you're not owed this thing about being stand-up that's a big i think comics think they're owed something and they think well i i shouldn't have to work why do i have to work why do i have to

you like because no one cares that you're doing comedy no one cares that i do comedy so i have to work? Why do I have to be like, because no one cares that you're doing comedy. No one cares that I do comedy. So I have to constantly just try to do as good enough to make people want to watch it. Everybody does. It's not a regular job. You're trying to win the lottery. If you're lucky and you win the lottery, then you get to live in a, it's crazy. But that's what's fun about the risk of starting comedy. you might not ever pan out to anything and you might and then you might pan out to be jerry seinfeld that's what's wonderful seinfeld wasn't promised that he didn't enter a program that led him to you know it's not it's not a regular job it's you know like athletes they're not you know they're trying to make it they give it all hope it works out if it doesn't if it does then you live a unbelievable life if it doesn't then you go do whatever you got to do

go back to a regular life you know uh but during the pandemic i mean you know it's like hard to keep writing stuff i mean sure you can you you know got to think outside the box and make videos. Just do what you... Further your career. It's like, don't try to just do this time to ask people for stuff to give you. Figure out a new thing, whether it's making videos or whatever you can do. But just take charge and be like, what can I do to build my career up or to build my people being aware of me? Starting a podcast. I mean, do something. Don't just think, it's when you look out and you're looking for an answer from someone. If you're sitting there

during this pandemic and you're going like, someone needs to do something for me, then go do something for yourself. You can put anything you want out. Maybe it's not going to get the traction you want, then keep doing it and keep making it better. Like it's, it can get the traction. If it's good enough, it will get the traction. Go do be on Tik TOK and figure that out. Go whatever the new formula is, try to write stuff and try to be funny and try to give something to people to watch that, that stuff works. So you got to go do it, but you something to people to watch. That stuff works. So you got to go do it, but you got to do it yourself. You can't be asking.

I mean, he can ask this question, but you can't be relying on someone to be like, well, no one's giving me work. I mean, when we'd go on the road, when you first start and you're like, well, no one's booking me. I can't. You're like, well, that's going to stop you.

And some people it does stop because they want the excuse to be like they didn't make it. So they want to be able to like, well, no, it was political. No one would book me. You're like, well, I mean, no one booked anybody. I didn't get booked. No one booked me. You know, no one booked anybody. And you just I was around.

You stay around. That's when guys I remember guys would move to New York and move back, and they'd be like, ah, New York, I didn't like it. It's all political, whatever. You didn't make it, dude. You didn't give it a chance. So don't downplay all the other people that did make it to New York. No one did anything any different.

No one was, you know, when I moved to New York, I was a Christian from the South, the opposite of everybody that moved to that city. But I just stuck around. I just hung out, been 17 years, just hanging out, being around, keep doing comedy, keep trying to get better, watch other comics, try to get a lot. It's like you're not promised anything.

When you choose a career, any career, singing, acting, it could be anything. You're not promised anything. You know, you're not. When I was reading water meters, that was my was going to go back to just a job for the county, for Wilson County. And it would have been fine. I would have done that. But that's a job that you're. I feel like I'm reading water meters.

I'm owed insurance and like, you know, $40,000 a year, whatever it is, you know, it's like the year that's a job that you can be like, well, do you have a boss and you have whatever it's, you gotta have that mentality to, you know, I don't want anybody to, I never wanted to not be able to get something because someone was in my way. You know, that's why when I was doing these, when I was in New York doing all these comedy clubs, that's when I moved to LA.

It's like, I never wanted to be like so reliant on someone else for work. I wanted to be able to create my own thing. That, you don't want to be just, well, I only get up because if this person lets me. And if all your, you know, stuff is is in that bucket i don't know that saying either what's all your there's some bucket saying eggs in one basket eggs in one basket or in a bag or in a bag bag i like bucket yeah don't put all your rocks in one bucket is what i'm saying

all right uh gray wants to know n Nate, you mentioned Louis C.K. giving you feedback on your structure. How do you balance feedback with maintaining your own voice, the spirit of your act? You got to just listen to the feedback. I mean, you got to listen to what he says and see what you can do.

Really good comics are usually pretty good at knowing they give you the idea and then you can kind of make it into your own, you know how you say it, but you got to know when to be comfortable to say something. Like when you said, we're talking about the horse earlier. When you say that's the healthiest horse and I can say that line, that's just one tiny line. That's what I can say about it.

I couldn't have taken his whole idea, whatever he had, but if it's like a line that I can fit in and it fits in the way that i talk and what i say so you just got to know when to do it and you take it i don't remember if i did what he said do sometimes you're just like i don't it if it doesn't click in your head then you're not you're not going to do it so you just but you just listen to what he said and you're like and maybe you take it as a different angle you don't have to take anybody's when they tell you something. I mean, I've,

I've given tags and you know, I, and I, in my head, I think, I guess it's a great tag. You should do it. And then sometimes they do.

Sometimes they don't. It's hard when someone else comes up with something and you're talking, especially when you're, you already, you're doing personal stories. It's hard to take that from someone now if you've got a joke joke like if you're setting up something and i'm talking about just a regular joke that's not personal then yeah you can probably tag like you know uh stephen wright or mitch head like one

liner guys they could probably take jokes larry the cable guy could probably take you could take joke ideas because they're, they're kind of rattling off jokes. And so they're not as personal. But when it's personal, I think it's harder to,

I don't know, do y'all agree with that? For sure. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't personally like getting together writing with other comics because you want it

to be your voice and if it's personal stories, it just doesn't work for me. Do you like writing with other comics no i've never really done it yeah yeah i'd never i'd never like to do i know a lot of comics that do it but i tried it and the idea of it but it's i i if everybody can have a line in a joke i don't think it's that personal of a joke yeah if you can be like oh 15 guys wrote this then i mean you're

you're doing a monologue i mean you're you should be a late night host uh also when we get jokes we were talking about this earlier downstairs but if we ever get jokes uh from regular people non-comics we get that all the time you should should do this as a joke. The problem with that is I would say the majority of the jokes, if you're a regular person, that you're going to come and tell a professional comic are going to be the jokes that the comic would have come up with in year one of comedy. They've usually been done.

And that's always the hardest because someone goes, that's really funny. You're like, it is. And it was done a lot in the 80s. And so now it's not. So that's always the hardest part when you get like a regular person coming up and telling you a joke yeah you know you're like yeah yeah it is you know and then it's hard to take the joke i mean look maybe randomly they come up

with some idea that you're like oh that is a good idea i like that idea i'm gonna take it and do it my own way but the idea is very good i think comics would rather that like don't tell me here's the joke but be like have you ever looked in you know like if you tell them the idea that would be better yeah we don't need help with the joke but yeah and it's always it's always something at least the ones i get it's always something they think is super original and it's just not but it's not their fault they don't spend all day thinking about jokes yeah and all night hearing them yeah you know so it's just their fault that they give it to you and think you can

and they think you're gonna you ever that's where you get a total joke someone tells you something and then like in between shows and then you then they're going to watch you the next show and you're like do i have to do this tag because he's looking because you don't want to get off stage and he's like dude what happened i gave you i gave you a dime you didn't even you know like another comic yeah other comic regular person doesn't matter i've had i've done corporates where the ceo of the company will come up to me right before I go on stage and say, Tom there, oh man, he just went through his third divorce. You've got to give him a hard time about that.

And he's sitting right up front, and I'm like, that's not really what I do. Yeah, a lot of corporates, they do that. I'll point out who to make fun of. I always tell people, if you want that comic, that comic is out there. Yeah. But I'm not that, I'm not that comic. I'm a guy that does my act.

I build an act and I take it out. Stuff can happen. Maybe you can make fun of somebody. I'm open to the idea of making fun of something. But I'm not going to go on stage and just be like,

huh? I heard you guys, a third time you got divorced, you know, who's called it? Some shambles over here. And everybody has, yeah.

And you don't, that guy cries, you know? And then you're like, oh, they told me to make fun of you. And they're like, he's fine.

He's fine. I have a lot of people just say, oh, you're a comedian. Tell me a joke. Just, yeah. And I'm like,

well, it doesn't really work quite that way what do you say what's your go to who's someone famous had an they said

when someone says that they always go oh tell me a joke he goes you're so good looking you say that to the person that said it it's pretty good

yeah it's funny it's a good little Seinfeld reference too yeah that yes it is Seinfeld reference yeah Yeah That Yes It is Seinfeld reference Yeah But it's

But it's just funny You immediately put that person down That's good I just give them a tight 10 Yeah Wherever Oh you want to dive in To the point where they're like

Hosting set Yeah Where you from Yeah You know a lot of people Would you tell someone You're a comedian They ask what you do

I try not to You try not What do you Do you have a job That you tell them If it's something if they ask what you do? I try not to. You try not to. Do you have a job that you tell them? If it's something I fill out, I just put writer. Yeah. But, I mean, if they ask me, well, I mean, I could say Uber driver. You should say, I work for News Channel 5.

I used to. Yeah. But I would just, because the problem with saying that is you can't go down a job. Keith Alberstadt, very funny comedian from Nashville, has that joke about he makes stuff up and then someone, I think, keeps asking him about it. And so that always got in my head that I'm too scared that I'm going to start something that then they want to know more about.

Yeah. And then, because every job I've had is not, my jobs are all kind of someone would ask more about it. I recycle tires. They're going to be like, well, what's that? I read Waterman. job i've had is not my jobs are all kind of someone would ask more about it i was i recycled tires they're gonna be like well what's that i read waterman like i don't have i'm not like i'm gonna consult it like i've never had an adult job that when i get a say at someone i saw you know i work for a pharmacy and we do like i've had all like jobs that you might be like really like i mean you would be at 41 being like i recycle tires you still recycle every job i have everybody goes you do that full time i've never not had a job

that someone doesn't question i've done full you do make money doing that yeah well you should lifeguard or something like that yeah you're doing that as an adult at 41 you're a lifeguard new channel 5 is certainly going to get questions too though that's right yeah i know but you would know the answers to that because you worked there for so long yeah but now they'll just like yelling at me about some story why are y'all still doing them yeah well i'm figuring you're on a plane i just figured you got to pick a job yeah new channel five is interesting enough yeah and you're not i mean you're not going to get bombarded with like comedy questions and then you know enough about it that you could actually talk about it and you might enjoy talking about it because it's not your life anymore and so that's why that's true um sunny collins

wants to know has any of your jokes caused conflict between your spouse or family members when they are the butt of the joke my wife is terrific about that and uh i'm lucky in that aspect of it that uh she's always fine with it always you know never gets upset about it never complains about it uh so there's So in my family, I talk about Tuesday's wedding. They love it. I come from a very fun family. My dad's a magician. My whole family's very funny. So I think they're – I mean, as far as I know, I think they love it. I mean, the uncle and aunt that fist fought each other at the wedding,

I think he died now, but the aunt is still around. There's a chance we don't know if they've seen that joke. I just asked my dad that recently. I was like, do you think they've seen it? Because she's remarried. I don't know if they have. I would imagine they've had to. Someone had to have told them.

That's what I was going to say. to someone had to have told that's what i was gonna say uh but you know i don't think that they i i don't think that uh but i no one said anything to me like if they had you know and they all come to the shows and they're you know i think i think a lot of people want to be in the joke they're excited to be in the joke people have a better sense of humor than you think and uh you know and i do with my daughter so what i i kind of tell my daughter because i talk about her and so i i tell her a lot because to build trust you know i'm like look i will never say anything that if you do not want me to say i will never i would never in a million years if she was embarrassed by something would ever put something out that would

you know uh i want her to really hear everything and uh even if the joke was funny and if she didn't want me to do it i wouldn't i just would never i would never say it and i overly tell her that so she never feels uh uncomfortable i don't want everyone i don't want everyone not to come talk to me as a dad because she's afraid I'm going to go then use it as my act. And I make her,

you know, I mean, she introduced me on the last special and I, you know, I try to keep her very involved

with all that stuff and she gives me joke ideas as well. It's always very funny. It's always like, I mean mean it's kind of out there you know it's an eight-year-old joke idea uh but i always love hearing them so uh if if someone i would never want to hurt anybody's feelings so if anybody ever came up to me and said they were no and i asked before the two thumb i you know, any of that stuff.

I always asked, that's my dad. I'm like, well, they care. Will they be upset about it? Like I would never. And I tried to say the joke where I'm not making fun of them.

It's like making fun of the situation, but I'm not like, you know, it's my family. I'm a part, it's part of my family. That's a big, I think aspect to be like,

well, I'm part of this family. So if you're going to be, if you're going to laugh at them, then you're laughing at me. Cause I'm different than them we're all the same instead of instead of and that's the way you can present a joke if you present the joke as going listen to my buffoon family member that did blah blah or if you're like this is where i come from we're all doing this then that way it's like you're making you know we get all stand together as a family

have y' all had that? I mean, I have 80 jokes about my wife I've ran by ahead of time, and she's been fine with all of them. And my mom, I have a few jokes about my mom, and she likes them. She's fine with it. Yeah, just how you, you know. I mean, there's times I see comics and they say crazy stuff, and I'm always like, dude, is your family? I always think that sometimes with a dirty comedian.

I've seen their parents come. I always joke and say I'm a comics parent's comic. So the saying is if people don't know a comics comic is, I mean, probably everybody knows that saying. It's like, and I'm a comics parent's comic. I'm always the comic that other parents, because most comedians are dirty. And they're like, well, go watch Nate. It's like, and I'm a comics parent's comic. I'm always the comic that other parents, because most comedians are dirty, and they're like, well, go watch Nate.

He's not. And so I'm always the one that's like, I'll be at a show and be like, we're whoever's parents, and he told us to come watch you. But they, I always think that, I see them say some crazy stuff, and I've seen them with my friends in the crowd, or their parents parents would be in the crowd and i mean they're just talking about just sex and

dirty and i'm like dude your your parents are here is that crazy and sometimes you meet their parents and you're like okay they're fine with it yeah yeah yeah their parents love it yeah but some of them you're like good night just nice sweet parents yeah like don't you ever do you ever just you know they're here just like tone it down the idea of cussing in front of my parents oh it makes me man i get the hairs on the back of my neck stand up oh yeah i couldn't do it yeah yeah um not derrick thomas wants to know if someone told you the way you delivered a joke was so funny that it doesn't matter what you say, would that be an insult or a compliment?

That's a good question. I think it's a compliment. I mean, I can sometimes take stuff I know cause I've seen that. I get that a lot. And it's when they overdo it. They're like, I mean,

if you look at the joke, it's awful, but he says it's so funny. And it they're like i mean if you look at the joke it's awful but he says it's so funny and so that's i i i get that that a lot but i think it's and i and can be defend of my joke i think the joke is written very well and uh because i'm coming up with it so i'm gonna like it but i think when those two things can come together, that's when you're really at a place where you got your voice.

And so when you can have the joke in that, and you got to not take advantage of that. That's a big thing that you got to, because you can get to a point where people, that's when you first go out and people just think you're funny. So they're going to, your first little bit, they're just laughing at you saying, hello, love your town. Like you're saying nothing just think you're funny so they're gonna your first little bit they're just laughing at you saying hello love your town like you're saying nothing

and they're laughing because they're like they're just like happy to hear your voice and all this stuff and you got to be careful not to take advantage of that because you can end up writing a bunch of bad jokes and just rely on that and that's i that's taking advantage of that crowd they're paying to see you should give them the highest level of comedy that you can give them. So I try to make sure that the jokes still stand up. And a good way for me to see that sometimes is when you pop on shows, if we're at Zany's and they're doing like comedy all-stars and I'll go on that show, that crowd most will not know who I am

and they're not there to see me. And so then you can try those jokes in front of those crowds. And that's how you can really tell if your jokes are still working. Because you're like, all right, this crowd doesn't know me. I got to win them over.

And that works versus if I'm in front of my real crowd. You know, I mean, because shows would be like, I mean, you would do, when you do comedy clubs or you know in theaters i mean they're so excited that it's you know they're happy to see you and you're like oh you could probably get away with a lot yeah you could get away some bad jokes so yeah i i think when all that stuff combines is is a good thing and i wouldn't take it as an

insult i mean maybe in my head, I take it, you know, I would never openly. I think a lot of people just don't know how to give a compliment and it's not their fault at all. It's like, if I saw a Tarantino movie and then I saw Tarantino on the way out, like,

I don't know. I don't know how I would intelligently give him a compliment. Yeah. On the movie. You know, I'd probably sound dumb if I were like, man, the plot was great plot. Yeah. I don't know how I would intelligently give him a compliment on the movie. I'd probably sound dumb if I were like, man, the plot was great plot. I don't know. Yeah, if you're like, I thought, I mean, it was shot so good.

The special effects were so good. The plot was obviously not as good, but the way it was shot. And you could think the plot's good. Sometimes people want to give comments. The thing is they want to just say something. Yeah, exactly. and so they're going to say whatever they can to just say it and uh a lot of times just go with your first instinct if you see someone that says something just you know like i loved all of it i think you you know i don't know just say we don't try to i think sometimes they're trying to sound like they know what they're talking about, where just maybe you don't know what you're talking about, so just say it.

I mean, again, we have to do – I have to do it if I saw Tarantino. I don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah. So you have to go, I love the movie. I thought it was awesome. Right. And you just do a very broad – because I did love it instead of trying to – I'm trying to pick it apart. What do you guys talk about when

you're on a cruise together i've met quentin tarantino when i did my cruise the in the south china sea and he was on it the funniest i had to do that second show and the funniest thing is well i did he had a he would write he would i'd see him on the cruise we were on this cruise for like nine days and he's sitting there writing uh He was working on a script, I guess. And he would have a red pen and a black pen. And he would just write whatever he's doing. He's writing it by hand. Both hands at the same time?

Same time. No. No, I'm just kidding. It looked like I was doing that. I was like, wow, that's wild. Yeah, he's crazy, dude. These guys are crazy. But you would see him write.

And then we were hanging out and i when i had i did one show that had to do a second show and i was like man i hope this show goes good i don't know and uh so i do the second show and it did it go good and when i'm walking out quentin ternoon comes out of the bathroom and he just goes did you go on yet which is a very funny joke to say to someone after the and i was like and but't, you know, I only knew him from this little moment of that week. And I was like, yeah, I just went on.

He's like, I'm just kidding, man. I saw it. It was great. Like, and then he kind of kept walking. So it's very funny.

Yeah. Uh, but that's my Quentin Tarantino. Uh, Justin Burrell, Nate's comedy involves a lot of personal stories. What are comedy rules on how much of a personal story can be made up? Can it all be made up

or happen to someone else? Mine are not made up. Mine are all pretty exact. The only time I'm making something up if I'm talking about what I think would happen. You know, like my McDonald's burger story where Lewis took the bite. I said I took a bite like my McDonald's burger story where Lewis, Lewis took the,

I said, I took a bite out of Lewis's burger. The one thing that Dan Soder was with us, another comedian, and he actually took the bite out of the burger. It was my idea. I said, take a bite out of his burger. And so Soder took the bite out of his burger. And then that's when Lewis came and like lost his mind. And then I kind of walked away from the table because I was about to start laughing. And so I, when I first started telling that joke, it was,

that was a joke that was all three of our experiences. Any of us could have told this joke. The only time we ever kind of did it was when we were on shows together. And then I finally, one day got it worked out. Right. So I kind of got the joke. And since we all do it, and that's how it kind of works.

We have one experience that could be a very funny joke, but it happens to three comedians, so you're like, who gets the joke? And it was kind of just whoever can come up with the best. Whoever's actually going to use it in their act and come up with the best thing. So I ended up getting that joke. But I used to say Dan took the bite. But then the one one thing with that it was getting too complicated for people to follow the story so that's the only time that is to me i think a lot of stories can be untrue and they're not untrue but i may be just trying to uncomplicate the story like it was getting too hard to follow

with three people so i just made it two people and that way it makes it a lot easier. And the end of that, when I'm saying, what do you, if you, uh, you think you could beat up a guy that's so confident, he's taking bites out of burgers and just handing them out to whoever.

Like that's me. Obviously that's made up, but I'm just commenting on what I think he's thinking. Uh, but I think all my stuff is, I mean, I think exactly true. I mean, I try to pretty much stay but but what do you think generally speaking is a good do you think i notice a lot of comics when

they first start myself included your stories are almost all made up and they're kind of outrageous and you can kind of the crowd might think it's funny but they know this isn't really true and then unless you get better you can make true stories funny to the point where they're like this is funny because it's true yeah i have a hard time that was when i'm writing these tv shows i always had a hard time not coming from truth like just straight up making stuff up. There's comics that, I mean, all of it's made up. And I think if you do that, you got to do that. Like that's what you do. And you got to create that world in your head

because then when you write that stuff, you know where you're coming from and you can't balance back and forth. You can't go, you know, so it's easier. I mean, I have a hard time not, yeah, like telling the truth. So all my stuff ends up being true. But, you know, if something fits, because sometimes you can't make it too perfect either. That's where, you know, when someone says something and you're like, God, that is perfect.

That's when I have to sometimes i don't trust it i don't take you out of it as a listener yeah you're like it's too perfect yeah it sounds you know it sounds like it's made up yeah so you the sloppiness is sometimes what makes it even better because that's way more relatable. And then maybe you just, you know, I mean, when I talk about these fights with my wife, you know,

everybody's like, y'all fight all the time. You're like, well, no, we don't, we can't. I've,

I've talked about these specific fights. So we have fights, but we're not just like, I walk in the door and just like, you know, just going crazy. You have these kind of fights. So you just pinpoint them. But I, I mean, you do whatever you, you know, just going crazy. You have these kind of fights. So you just pinpoint them.

But I mean, you do whatever you, you know, any comic, look, you can do whatever you want to do. You can make up all of it. You can not make up, you know, but I think to constantly create stuff, you got to come from some kind of truth. I do. And what you do well is you share a personal story that's funny in itself and then you do but what if this had happened yeah and then you can even your your baseball story about

a home run off a walk yeah it's very funny just what happened but then you do whatever was everybody thinking yeah parents perspective yeah right yeah right which makes yeah so you do yeah and that is that is kind of me that is completely made up but it's off a real situation so that mcdonald's story a new comic might be like and then my buddy went up there to fight him there was a guy with his hand in the fryer like he would tell it like it's real and then he'd be like i don't know if i believe this yeah yes yes i say like this guy's in the back his hands yeah i'm making a fictional guide to be like this scary guy that's a great example yeah great example yeah and uh and yeah you would try to convince no he had his hand in the front yeah and then everybody would be like no that's i don't know if he it would kill him right yeah

chris webb nate you talked about the guy at fallon being a good booker can you tell us civilians what a good booker is versus a bad booker and for that matter without specifically naming out the comedian what kind of comedians do you think do you guys look at and like and respect what do they do or do not do that makes them good to you guys people people in the craft? A good booker is they just are very good at telling you what would work on the show. I don't think they're overdoing it. They know to back off and when to come on to you. It's not like they're over explaining like, no, you got to do the joke like this.

It doesn't work here they they give you guidance to go here's what i think you got to do to get this joke and it's going to be different for when you first do it and not you know what's funny is i never got a letterman and uh that mcdonald's story but uh the guy that booked letterman i sent him that mcdonald's story and i was like, I taped it and I was kind of trying to get on Letterman.

I just couldn't. And I already did Conan, but I couldn't do Letterman. And they told me the McDonald's story. They go, that's too mundane, which I did not know

what mundane meant, but the tone made me think it wasn't a compliment. So I looked up mundane and i took that like i was pretty upset about i was like well this joke murder i was like what are you talking about it's too mundane and i did it on conan uh three weeks later that's awesome and that and then and that was the last time i tried to get on letterman i was like well it's just not for me they're not and that's the you know that's that's the mentality you gotta have when you did like you

take stuff you gotta take some stuff personal and you go oh okay is it not well i'll go get it somewhere else then because i knew it's like well it's working i'm open to listening to you but i mean i'm doing this i'm closing on this joke on the road it's my closer it's working that good so it can't be mundane which i I think is boring, right? Isn't that what mundane means? Generic. Just everyday generic. Yeah, everyday.

Yeah, everyday generic, eating burgers. Yeah. So a good booker, I think, is someone that knows how to not make it about them. It's about the comedian. It's giving them guidance. And I mean,

I know a lot of people that book and bookers are, it's hard because the comics send them all these tapes and they're always like, why are they, you know, they don't email me back. They don't respond to me. It's taken for,

that's what it is, man. That's again, it's not prime. You don't, you don't, you're not owed to be on Conan or Fallon on the tonight show. You're not, what do you promise to be on it or Fallon on the Tonight Show.

What, do you promise to be on it? You're like, the guy doesn't email me back. He's got 500 comedians trying to get on his show. Maybe you're not going to get on it. It took forever to get on this. It is what it is. Sometimes you submit, they never respond back to you, and you've got to hope to see them again to try to resubmit a whole different set you got to move on past they'd be like that one didn't work you don't have to

email me back some of the jobs like i always hate like when people like you could at least email me back show me the decency to email me back you're like that guy's busy dude just because you rattle off 50 emails doesn't mean everybody owes you this response to go i'm sorry we can't just take it as no and then go figure out your new way to get on it it's not like you know that all right that's sorry all right and there's any any what type of comic do you like really like and respect not specific names but just i mean i think you've already kind of touched on it yeah i mean like burr chapelle obviously is it guys i like original guys yeah i i think it's coming up with original stuff and original thought and not just talking about the you know and also

appreciate fun like we talked about a tell like david tell is very fun to me. Very, very just rapid jokes. Super funny, dude. I mean, just so funny. I mean, I appreciate that. I appreciate people that love what they do, the commitment that they have for it, and the guys that dive in. seeing a lot of open mic comedy scenes are the comedians that just make fun of the room or this situation or the the art of comedy and that's like kind of their thing and that's why that guy gets stuck and stays where he's at because he doesn't take it serious and you're you're performing for an audience so your job is to do the best i can for that audience and If I don't give that audience the best, it's show business. That's when it starts feeling like real show business.

When you're seeing people at a theater and they're buying popcorn or drinks and they get to their seat and they go and sit, and you're like, you're a show. You're like a movie. It's about them. It's not about anybody else. It's not being cool to the other people in the back of the room. It's to them. You need not about anybody else. It's not being cool to the other people in the back of the room. It's to them.

You need to give those people a great show. That's what those guys are paying for. And you got to show your worth so that when they get done, they go, man, I had an unbelievable time. That's a loss. It doesn't get lost. But the people that do anything as far as in entertainment, the people that have the audience in mind are my favorite people. Those are the singing, acting, writing movies. I'm thinking about my audience and I'm delivering.

What can I deliver to them? Great. It's not about the cool kids. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kelsey C., do you find that in-person attendance at a live show has suffered since everything is so easily accessible online now? She – I think she – there's more to this.

She had been to – she's a huge John Chris fan, and she'd watched everything he'd ever done. So then when she goes to the show, she'd already seen a lot of the material. So she said she was – I don't know if she said disappointed, but she mentioned meeting Aaron after the show was one of the highlights, she'd already seen a lot of the material. So she said she was, you know, I don't know if she said disappointed, but she mentioned meeting Aaron after the show was one of the highlights. Yeah. That's nice. So her question is,

I thought she'd come up to you and be like, I've never seen you or heard of you at all. But I thought you were great. I get that all the time. She's basically saying if you're a huge fan of someone, if you've watched everything they've ever done online, is it hard as a comic

when people already know your material? Yeah, but you have to have a new show. You have to have a new hour and that's what you do. I mean, you know, one thing that people

have to realize is that when two, when they catch comedians, sometimes if you're, say you're aware, a lot of you listening to this, maybe you're really into comedy and so you catch

on to guys way before they blow up you know they would always say like bill burr was like when he first blew up and he's like 40 and they're like man this guy where did he come from well he's been doing it for 20 years so a lot of people might have seen him for 10 and then by the time when he gets super known in the audience goes from let's just say it's 10 000 people to 4 million people well those 10 000 you might have to sit through some of those jokes that you've already seen before because he's got such a giant audience now so he's got to let them see all this stuff you know and uh but that uh, but that, but when you do shows, that's why you're very, you don't want anything filmed. You don't want people filming stuff on their phones because

you're protecting it for the, your audience. And, uh, I always get, I know people comment on my, on all these YouTube videos. It's like, I'm doing the same jokes over and over again. But when you first start, man, when I first started, YouTube was new. And so you were just putting stuff up on YouTube, hoping that someone sees it goes viral and then you get big from that. So a lot of you have a lot of videos of you doing the same jokes over and over again. And that was just a collection of me trying to make it. Yeah.

So you're going to so I'm doing and i'm doing a show so i'm trying to do good on this show and this show but this and both shows film and put those shows on youtube so i'm doing the same act in both of them uh because it's like yeah it is what it is so i know a lot of people listen to my stuff online but that's now where i'm at now i know that i have to have a new hour so, now when you come see me, uh, if you see me before you see the special, or I mean, like if you come see me now on tour, uh, unless I've been to your town, you've seen the new hour, but I have, I have a new hour and the new hour is going to hope to be taped as a special. So, uh, you, that's what you end up doing.

Like you end up building this new hour and then you go travel around with it and then you build it and then you do it until you take the special and then you start getting a new hour, but that's why you got to have new stuff. So when they come see you live, it's different. And maybe that, you know, I'll do an encore. Sometimes I do old jokes that you you that people want to hear but uh but overall the full hour is new i mean something when i take that special tennessee kid by the time that came out i want to say i had like 40 minutes new and then maybe i had to do some because we

taped in october and it aired in march so i i would, I would say 40 minutes were new and then maybe, you know, I had to do some old stuff. If you saw me very early into that, it's as quick

as you can get new stuff. Gaffigan's the best at that. As far as when his stuff comes out, he has a new hour

very quickly. And I think one of the quicker comics that does it. I mean, he puts it out and just was ready to go yeah all right we'll skip ahead a little here who's the most uh famous persons to ever attend one of your shows did you know they were there on stage and if so were you nervous uh i mean that cruise ship had everybody quentin t. jr and all those people uh on it uh as far as our regular show uh bruce willis

was that uh show at caroline's yeah uh in new york and we knew before i was headlining you know this wasn't sold out as maybe 100 people uh and he his friend was a big fan of mine and so he bruce was called and got a reservation. They told me, because when I got there, they told me. They go, Bruce Willis is here. But they said Bruce Willis called and said, I'd like a reservation for three tickets. He was with another couple.

And he goes, all right, what's the name? They go, Bruce Willis. And then Caroline goes, all right, but just give us your real name. And he goes, it's Bruce Will's the name they go Bruce Willis and then Caroline goes alright but just give us your real name and he goes it's Bruce Willis and they're like

oh and so he came hung out with the crowd like out in the audience you know because at Caroline's

you'd hang it by the bar before they go sit everybody and he was just sitting there and they set him with everybody else he was sitting right kind of back in the middle.

I couldn't really see him, but I could see his head a little bit. And I did know he was there. I didn't address it that he was there. Sometimes people address it. Sometimes they don't. I did not address it. And I didn't have the Sixth Sense joke at the time. I would have done it.

But I've done the Sixth Sense joke in front of Haley Joel Osment, the kid in Sixth Sense joke at the time. I would have done it. I've done the Sixth Sense joke in front of Haley Joel Osmond, the kid in Sixth Sense. That's cool. That's on video. Kansas City, I did a show for Kansas City, the Children's Hospital. They do an amazing charity, Big Slick.

If you're ever donating to anything, the Kansas City Big Slick, they do amazing stuff at this big children's hospital. Is that the softball game? Where you struck out? I struck out in the softball game. Struck out, folks. Remember that?

Yeah, in front of everybody. The only one that struck out. They let everybody else keep trying until they got a hit. For some reason, I slipped through. But they, so yeah, Bruce Willis was probably. Did you meet him? Yep, and then afterwards, they came back and i met him and uh his friend was his friend was the big fan he's i think he's from nashville he's like a doctor or something and uh so i talked to him and he was but he was very cool very nice and just

kind of sit there and then we did have them leave they went to out through the back uh wasn't matt damon at one of your shows i did a show with tom poppin matt damon uh is tom popper our friends and so matt damon was there and then uh we hung and then he stayed and watched the side he loved the mcdonald's jokes and that was a joke where i was like i'm gonna murder so i knew he was there and i'm and we're only doing like 10 minutes and so i was like i am bringing the heat yeah and so uh he and then i got off stage and then he dude he was the best too i mean just a regular guy and was you know was like he afterwards he's like so what's up man what's your like what's going on like how's it going for you i mean dude you're so he's like that joke have been my buddies that came up. Like, all this stuff. It was just a super, super nice guy.

I'm trying to think if there's anybody else. You know, I did Joe Walsh's 70th birthday. That's the most... Well, Tom Hanks was there. Tom Hanks was there. Ringo Starr. Brad Paisley. Aaron.

Who's yours? Yeah. The mayor of Nashville came to some shows fresh off a oh you guys did a show with in front of Keith Urban

and Nicole Kidman that's true yeah they came to the show yeah they came to the show yeah I didn't meet them afterwards

Tom Hanks though too that time you kind of brushed off when I said that well I felt bad because I set him up and then I was trying to help him out you were trying to do a joke?

no I thought you were trying to be funny I asked him I thought you were trying to be funny no I just because you just cut me off like Ringo Starr and you're like Aaron go ahead with yours and then you were serious

like Tom Hanks, Ringo Starr who have you had here you just cut me off I'm sorry I thought you were trying to think of somebody I was like let Aaron speak while you were thinking. I'll have you know, former mayor of Nashville, Megan Berry,

is a big fan of mine. Oh, that's good. I mean, she's seen me. I don't know if she'd like me. Mine would be Belmont basketball coach Rick Bird. Oh. Yeah. I was in the stage one night, saw him out there and i got nervous

no one knows who that is but just but i'm luckily i'm a big fan hall of fame coach yeah yeah belmont all right so let's get this we told the story about you recognizing other people yes yeah that's still the best yeah yeah i was at Zaney's last week, and Monty Mitchell said that was his favorite story. It's my favorite, too. Just going up. No, you were at my show last night. Oh, yeah. How you guys doing?

So let's talk bombing. Let's share some good. Is this it? We're wrapping it up with this, right? Yeah, yeah. We're about an hour and 36 minutes in. Oh, really? Oh, yeah.

All right. Oh, oh, oh. I do like this question, though. Let me... Can you describe how you craft and memorize your material? How do you determine your comedic style? From Josh Parrott. Describe how you craft and memorize your material. You memorize it by just saying it.

I mean, you say it over and over again, but you just know the bullet points. I think it's like memorizing a song. I would imagine you just kind of know, and then you get into a rhythm of saying it. So it's all like a rhythm and you kind of know where it's going to go. And I don't, there's no like special trick to memorizing it. Uh, and I forget it. I've definitely forgot it. But I, yeah, I mean, I don't think there's anything special about memorizing it,

but if we have set list, yeah, I write a set list out. I do try to, my jokes always try to go together. So I try to make sure everything can lead into something else. And then that leads me through this. That'll help you remember where to go, right? Because there's only nowhere else to go except this obvious next step. The transition makes sense. So you try to make the transition be

there without it being too obvious. You try to make it. And that's how you memorize. We always talk about that. I don't remember a lot of of things i don't think i have a good memory but i do memorize i know these jokes but i feel like because your memory your brain is just so got so much nonsense it's got it's just constantly walking around with two hours of material just in it so sometimes you get you know a new thing and unless it's interest unless it's going to work for your act i feel like i just it plops right out it doesn't stay unless i think it can you know unless i can use it in my act i think about that sometimes when i sleep sometimes i'll try to i will wake up and put it in my phone

because I don't want to forget it. And then sometimes I will try to make myself see if I remember it. I like almost try to almost like a brain exercise. I'm trying to go alright, try to remember this joke and see if you can memorize it when you wake up. And I'll wake up and then sometimes I do, sometimes

I don't. So it's not that good of an exercise. Yeah. wake up and then sometimes i do sometimes i don't so it's not that good of an exercise i do some other weird yeah i'll try to put something somewhere sometimes that's different and see if i can remember to go get it like if you say your keys i'll put them in a weird space place just to see if you remember see if I can remember where they're at it worked I would assume huh does it work

we're using Laura's keys right now uh there's we have no idea where they're at I haven't found it have you guys seen them

I was trying to ask you do you remember me talking about this at all by any chance have you seen these keys uh I haven't alright so finally

what are you saying bombing bombing this uh trying to think. Should I go first? I don't think I'm going to have it. I think you have some good bombing. You might be better than me.

You just assume. Yeah. Bates, you better have some good bombing stories. Mine, I'm trying to think. So the ones I think I've talked about, I did a cruise ship, Carnival Cruise. And so when you do these cruise ships you have to do five shows five 30 minute shows two clean two uh two dirty three clean so the clean or anybody's coming the one the dirty ones are supposed to be adult obviously i've never had

dirty material so i like it just i don't know what uh i don't do anything maybe i try to throw a curse word in just to so i can sound like i'm being edgy uh so we would do the shows and when i was doing them i did not have five 30 minute shows i mean what is that two and a half hours of material uh yeah it's a it's a lot so i never had that much stuff and i was never doing crowd work so i was never good at crowd work a lot of comics that are really good on cruise ships are the ones that can just every show's different because they're just asking the crowd questions and they can make stuff up and those are they're built for cruise ships uh and people come back to these shows the worst part is when you would go so you'd fly to like florida and you get on a boat with people and you'd go to or you'd go to jamaica or wherever they're going so when you get on those people

are still excited to be on the boat so people might come to one of your shows so that way there you could that crowd you could kind of get away with doing the same material but then you'd get on a different boat in like jamaica and people that are going home, those people are coming to all the shows because they've kind of done everything on the boat. So then you've got to do five shows for them. So I remember doing – I go do it, and I did – I mean, I basically did the shows, and I'm kind of out of material. I have one 30-minute show left.

And the comic I was on, he would always tell the crowd, you can come to every show, come to every one. They're all different, whatever. And then when I would get done, my show go, guys,

you could probably come to the one Tuesday night. That might be different. But after that, I, and I mean, I would make full on like warnings. I'd go, I don't have this much time.

So do not come expecting a different act. I'm not, I've only been in comedy for five years I only have I have as much as I have it is what it is yeah

probably shouldn't even be on this boat but be careful don't come thinking you're gonna be seeing a bunch of new stuff I mean I would overly

tell people stuff so I come to do the last show and it'd be 500 people and I'm like I'm gonna do kind of a those are big shows it's a big show I come to do the last show and it'd be 500 people. And I'm like, I'm going to do the kind of, it's a big show. I'm going to do like a greatest hits.

So I start my act, nothing on the first show, nothing on the second show. I mean, 500 people silent. And I asked, I go, have y'all been to every show?

And the whole crowd, it goes, yes. And then I go, well, I don't have more jokes. I'm out of jokes. And I, then I start doing it. I go, I guess well i don't have more jokes i'm out of jokes and i then i start doing i go i guess we're gonna have to just talk to the crowd and see how far back we can get and i remember asking the first guy i'm like so what do you do for a living and you're looking for like

interesting jobs you know for people to have that you can maybe talk about and the guy goes he's i work on an old rig i'm like yeah that's crazy so what about you i have nothing on oil rig i should i mean that should be the show it's just asking that guy oil rig questions yeah and now i think i could ask him but at that at that moment i'm just like petrified no oil material i'm like oil rig all right yeah wow that's crazy yeah well you buddy he's like i sell insurance i'm like man that's i'm just literally asking people what they do just taking a poll goes terrible and i remember getting on an elevator and uh the crowd and i hear and i got my hat on i didn't have a hat on sage i got a hat on we're sitting elevator people get on and i mean it feels like i made i'm in an elevator in the ocean. Kind of crazy. Right in an elevator on the ocean.

And I just hear this, the guy next to me, there's a group of three. And they're talking. They go, have you gone to any of the comedy shows? And the guy goes, yeah. He goes, one guy with the flashlight, because the other guy had a flashlight and he would shine on the crowd. He goes, he is unbelievable, man. He goes, the other guy was, I mean, terrible. Just terrible. And I mean, i my shoulders touching this guy and uh i just get off on the next the next and i think they realized on your way out they saw the way like i think they finally realized it and they and i just go uh and i didn't you say he told he said something like i don't

know if that guy was awake. Yeah. Like they, my energy that I got sounded like he was asleep and I just went back to my room and you stayed in a room that was in the middle of the ship with no windows. And I went back and watched fantastic four, which I still defend that movie because that movie got me through that. I just,

cause they plan on repeat. I just kept watching it over and over again. You can hear the people in the room right next to yours talking about, Oh no, you're in the, you're in the bottom of the ship. You don't hear it. Oh yeah. It's loud. You can hear the people in the room right next to yours talking about you. Oh, no, you're in the bottom of the ship. You don't hear it. Oh, yeah, it's loud down there. You hear dolphins talking about how you bombed.

Do you really hear fish and stuff? No, no. It sounds like a Nate question, Aaron. You should be embarrassed. I've never been on a cruise, man. I mean, that was, you know, this is the only time I've ever felt smarter than you. So that was a nice

I don't remember if there was another one we'll come back you got some good friends bombing story what's one for you Aaron or have you ever bombed yeah I bombed a couple days ago I did too yeah

I've done plenty of shows that are just train wrecks where but for me it's like when the stakes feel really high and you bomb that's when it really hurts i always think of i was like five months into comedy i got offered to open for james gregory at a theater in gallatin two shows first shows at 4 p.m and i'm a few months in i have maybe five minutes james gregory's a big deal especially here in the south yeah that's all part it felt like a huge i couldn't believe that i was getting to do this yeah and it's like a four or five hundred person theater sold out and i meet james he's very nice he says you can do 15 minutes, do at least 15. Don't do 20, but do at least 15.

And here's the only thing I need you to do is take the mic stand with you off the stage because he uses a lapel mic. So I was like, all right, man. And just so you know, that's not crazy for James Gregory to tell you don't do 20, do 15. It's not just if anybody thinks, well, that means... That's, again, you're the headliner of the show, so what you need in front of you is you're like, yeah, I don't need a guy up there doing 30 minutes. Exactly.

Yeah, perfectly reasonable. Reasonable question. Okay. So I walk out there, first show. I said, how's everybody doing? And it was nothing. I mean, they weren't doing at all. This is a 4 o'clock show. It's a four o'clock show, very old crowd. And I was 24 years old and dude,

I bombed so bad. I can still feel the way it felt. I got literally nothing. And I did all my, I did my closer and I look at my phone and I'd done seven minutes. I'm not even halfway done. Cause I got to do at least 15. Right. And I just stumbled through the next eight minutes. And then I forgot to take the mic stand off the stage. So he had to call me back out on stage to get the mic stand.

Yeah. And it was just so, I remember thinking they're going to fire me for the next show. Like, why would they even, so I go back to the green room and it's just this big room and I'm sitting there by myself and my girlfriend who's now my fiancee was in the crowd and she had sent me a text during my set and just said wow yeah so i just read that and i sat back there and then you gotta sit there for an hour while he's on stage right just stewing it and that was my worst one because it felt it felt like the biggest thing in the world

yeah yeah to do this huge show and i just tanked yeah brutal yeah there's there's those type of show there's terrible terrible like bar shows but then you're kind of like well i never really had a chance yeah right and then there's those i did a show friday night for some college kids an auditorium and they're all wearing masks there's 100 kids some college kids in auditorium and they're all wearing masks. There's a hundred kids in a thousand seat auditorium and I'm 48. I got some things working against me against all freshmen. And yeah,

it was, you're older than their dad. Yeah. I mean, yeah, at least their dad's age. I got friends my age who have kids in college. So, so that happens a lot. The one that I mean, yeah. At least they're dad's age. I got friends my age who have kids in college now. So that happens a lot.

The one that I most tell, I guess, is when I got hired to do a show in my hometown of Lebanon, Tennessee. And it was the only reason, in retrospect, I'm like, why would I agree to do such a terrible show? It's because I knew the guys who asked me to do it so i think i got blinded by that and just didn't want to say no it was for the wilson county livestock association and it was their annual fundraiser and for for they raised money to help future farmers go to college and stuff like that and they said we're going to do go to college and stuff like that. And they said, we're going to do this auction, and we'd love it if you donate some CDs to auction off.

And I said, sure. And then they want you to come and perform for us. And I said, sure. So I called my mom. My mom doesn't – she can't drive to Nashville or see me she rarely gets to see me perform I said mom I'm coming home to do a show for the Wilson County Livestock Association I'll come pick you up and take you to the show and she called our friends and our family and and very dressed nice um yeah just had I mean it was a big deal. She was very excited.

So I go pick up my mom. It's at the Wilson County Fairgrounds in a picnic pavilion. So it's outside. It's about five o'clock in the afternoon in the summertime. So it is 90 degrees outside, which was also the average age of the people there. And there was no stage so excuse me i just sit down on the i just stood down on the floor the guy went up before me from the county property assessor's office talking about proposed tax increase and i just remember thinking well at least i can tell the mic's working i was like trying to gauge it how well they could hear and stuff.

That's how low the bar is. Tax increase. They're talking about raising taxes. Yes. His opener is getting taxes raised. Yes. Which I thought, well, at least they'll like me better than the guy who's talking about a tax increase, which I was dead wrong.

I get up there, and I mean, they just... There's these huge fans blowing, because it's outside. It's 90 degrees. Which I say, at least with with the fans that help keep the tears in my eyes they would come out and just blow back in and i mean i just bombed and i bombed and i bombed a couple of times i would make eye contact with my mom and i mean it's the worst thing ever because, oh, gosh, she is now just disassociating herself with me. She's worried. She's the one that's worried. I mean, we both had the look on our face. And I bombed so bad, and it just – nothing's working.

And I'm trying to do crowd work, and I'm just digging myself deeper in a hole because I'm talking about farm stuff I have no idea what I'm talking about. So finally, I just have to get done and just like thanks guys i'm done and you know you go like hide in the green room and you just or your yeah whatever there's nowhere to hide there is no green room they're all at picnic i just have to sit back down and i have to have them like scoot over so i can like throw them and just sit down between guys that just hated me. All right. So now they're starting an auction and the guys do the auctioneers up there and they're bidding on bags of feed and,

and just all this stuff, farm, farm stuff. And they're into it. I mean, they're going at it and I don't care. I'm so yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're, they're bidding and like, it's all like tractors and horses. It's exciting. Like the grandpa, as I remember, was a live cat, like're bidding and like. Hey, hey, hey, hey. And it's all like tractors and horses. It's exciting. Like the grandpa, as I remember, was a live, like a heifer.

That's what they, you know. A live cattle. Yeah. I mean, it wasn't there, but the winner was going to get a donated cow. Wow. I don't care. I'm just so happy no one's focused on me. I just, I kind of had my head down, you know, just kind of like maybe pretend like I'm eating or whatever.

And then he goes, all right, now we're going to bid on the CD from the comedian you saw. And he gets quiet again. I mean, silent. And I'm like, oh my gosh, I just want to hide so bad. And no one will bid on it. And I was like, please, just somebody buy this CD. Finally, the auctioneer just like, I tell you what, I'm going to get this for myself, just to throw me a bone.

He just, after a while, because he had to move on. Not even your mom or your family? No, no. My mom was, I looked at her. She was like, I did not want to buy this CD. So it was painful. That was basically it. It's over.

I just want to get out of there. My mom's at a different picnic table talking to people, so I can't immediately get out. I just remember it was the worst night. After that first CD didn't go, you had another CD? I did. I did. You had two CDs.

I did. They didn't even go back to back. They mixed it up with some other stuff, and then he put up the other CD. So the auctioneer just has to go, you know what? I'll buy this one. go back to back. They mixed it up with some other stuff and then he put up the other CD. And... So he has to just... The auctioneer just has to go, you know what? I'll buy this one.

They leave. They talk about farm stuff and they go, guess who's back? And then another... Which I think I have the CD. Oh, boy. This time the guy who...

I don't have it. I have it. Well, that was great. I would have bought it. Easy out. We had the CD. I thought we had it sitting in here. Maybe we hid it.

Maybe someone took it. Harper used to want it just to have something put in her purse. Oh, yeah. When she was real little. Yeah. We just got a CD. Had to buy it. The second time, the guy who hired me to do the show, he just took the CD

just to be nice. I mean, nobody wanted it. I don't even think they knew. I think they didn't even know I was a comedian. Yeah. I think they thought,

I think this is the mayor. Why is he talking about his dating life so much? They sit there and they go, is this guy a comedian? They're like, I don't know,

he's trying is what I hear. You do those weird, I did my buddy's, they wanted me to do some of my act for i was his best man buddy travis at his wedding but they didn't tell everybody i was a comedian so i just started doing it and i'm like making fun of marriage at a at a wedding and no one gets it and so i just bought they think this is the weirdest speech i'm like you told me to do my act dude like and there i just bought they think this is the weirdest speech i'm like you told me to do my act dude like and there i just remember one lady just cackling like just like at every and she loved it she but you loved her yeah i still think about her i can still hear her laugh just

in the darkness just one person giving it to you tell the uh there's a couple stories i want to tell joe list when yeah joe list uh when he's at the bar when he's at the bar joe list has a great uh very funny comedian joe list just had a special has a special on youtube you can go check out uh comedy central uh but they put it on youtube look up joe list special doing great i mean came out maybe two three weeks ago yeah but he always had a great not to tell his story

but he had a great one he would have I mean super fun ones one day he's on he's middle he's the middle act he's the feature

he's sitting in the back of this room and they got an MC MC goes up and him and the headliner is sitting at the – like they're facing the bar. The crowd's behind them.

And the stage is behind them. So they're facing the bar. And Joe's like sitting there. He's like, oh, this guy's just brand new at comedy. You know, see how it goes. And so they're doing it. He gets a big pop. And then Joe's like, I guess he's not that bad, you know.

And then someone comes over, he looks over, and the emcee's just standing next to Joe. And he goes, what are you doing? He goes, oh, I brought you up. And Joe turns, and the whole crowd is looking back at the room at Joe. And he's like, what? And the guy, the pop he got was him introducing Joe. He thought the guy was supposed to do seven minutes

and he did one minute. And then just goes, all right, everybody, first comic, Joe List, and then just left the stage. Did he say, you said he's like, Joe, you're up. No, that was another guy. Oh. That would say, he would say his name. And he would be like,

he'd go, all right, your first comic, Joe list is very funny comedian from Boston. He's been doing a lot of stuff. He moved to New York recently and he's got put on a great show. And then Joe would be sitting there and then he goes, uh,

Joe, I said your name. And you're like, you're like, we just want to say the name at the end. And they don't say the name at the end. And big, I mean, big J has a bunch.

I don't want to go through all of that. You know that one about him getting off stage and didn't want to go back out? Where he didn't know. Well, the best one, one of my favorite with Big J, when Big J taped, Big Jay Oakerson, another very comic, super, he's very dirty if you're into clean comedy, but he's one of the best comics. If that stuff doesn't bother you. But there, so Jay did a show when he first, first TV thing he did was comedy jam, comedy def jam, where they just did those shows. And so they filmed

it he flies down he does it his uncle comes to show an uncle he like kind of knows doesn't know great his uncle comes to the show and uh it was crazy he was on the flight with pink that big jay flew with pink and and they like talked and uh jay pink was like he was like talking he's like where you i'm going to the comedy she's like oh i'm a i'm a musician i'm doing stuff and he's kind of like whatever like at this point she's not known cut to i mean it was maybe three months later he said he's working at 7-eleven and the people magazine coming and she's on the cover she's enormous and uh so he goes and does the show his uncle comes to the show so he gets a a hotel. It was his first TV gig, and it's kind of cool. He gets to fly there and get to stay in a hotel.

That stuff is so fun when you're a comedian. When you first start and you're like, they're flying me, I'm getting paid, and I get my own hotel? That's crazy. So he gets to the show. His uncle comes to the show. And then after the show, his uncle's like, come stay. The family wants to see you. Come stay at our house. He's like, I live near here, his uncle's like, come stay. The family wants to see it.

Come stay at our house. He's like, I live like near here. And he's like, well, I got a hotel. I'll just stay at the hotel. He's like,

no, no, no. You got to like, they wouldn't take no for answers. You got to stay with us. My whole family's up waiting for you to come. And so he finally like,

okay. And then he's like, I'll just crash at your house, I guess. So he leaves. They drive his ass way farther than expected. He's like, we'll get food there and house, I guess. He leaves. They drive his ass way farther than expected. He's like, we'll get food there and all this stuff. There's no food.

Nothing's open. They go open the door. It's completely dark. The guy's family doesn't know that he's coming. He goes and wakes them up. He's like, ah, this is little Jay. It's big Jay. He's like, remember Jay?

They're like, okay. Why are you here? He's like like i wanted to come see everybody like no one's up no one was expecting him to be there at all so then he's like well just sleep on the couch so now he's gonna see he's like i had this hotel and i gotta sleep on the couch and so he's gotta sleep on the couch they have this giant dog the dog just like staring at him. And then he starts like itching. He starts waking up and they have fleas on the couch. So now he's getting, I mean, he's like just ripped apart and just can't itching.

So they have to get up. He has to wake the whole house up. They've got to knock on their door. Like, you know, like you don't really know. It's like, even though it's his family, it's like something they're super close he's gotta wake them up and they're like what's going on and he's like i mean he's having an allergic i mean a reaction to these fleas or something and his whole body's just just i mean littered with bites and they have to put him in the shower and just turn cold water on him so now he's just naked in the shower just getting bathed and he didn't want to and all this started with he didn't want to, and all this started with,

he didn't want to go there. He's like, I got a hotel. And that's a turn of events that I love. That you get done taping this great night. It's this magical night. And you would never think in a few hours, I'm going to be naked in a shower with family I don't know watching me as they host and damn. Because of fleas. Because of fleas.

Because of fleas. Unbelievable. Unbelievable turn of events. And I love a nice turn of events. How did I get here? How did this happen? It was going so good. So fun.

That is crazy. I thought you were going to tell the story about him crawling through the wall. One, he gets done with a show in Philly. He does really, big j does very bad and uh i always feel weird telling some of these stories because they're not my stories but they're uh big j tells me there's a very he gets down doing a show in philadelphia open mic it goes really bad and uh he just leaves and he's seeing people leave through the kitchen and he's he walks to the back and he's like i'm gonna go out to the kitchen there's like there's nowhere to go out and he goes people are

leaving man i see people go back here and they never come back so they're clearly leaving this back way i can't i don't want to walk through that crowd they booed me they hated me and they're like dude i don't know what to tell you there's not an entrance here and so he kind of goes and there's like a little way behind this wall it's like this drywall so he kind of goes through it and he gets through the drywall and he's touching all the drywall so he's just going through drywall as he just slowly goes through it and it's just rubbing on his shirt and he can't get it and he hears the noise and he just ends up pushing and the drywall falls to the ground and he's at he's in the restaurant that's attached to it and so they're just sitting there like what are you doing like you can't just come and he goes i don't i don't i mean i and just

leaves through that restaurant there There was no back entrance, but he was convinced that there was. And he just ends up getting, he's seeping through that. I love mommy stories so much. Even if it's, I mean, if it's me, the story about the guy who performed at the funeral. So let's be done.

All right, we're in on. Did you have anything else you wanted no these are great some of these are ones i've heard i had one i opened for my dad my dad had me open for him uh it's like 10 a.m at opryland and he calls me to do it and i go up and people are eating and i'm doing my act and i'm just watching people eat breakfast there i'm seeing people hug each other like oh you've been doing i haven't seen you in so long. I just bomb. Yeah.

And my dad just woke me up. I was home visiting, and he's like, you want to make 100 bucks? And so I go, okay. And I go just bomb. And I'm just getting done with it. And I'm like, why would you make me do that? He made me.

I put my dad in a lot better situations than those. So one of the funniest ones i this kid i i can't i can't remember his name yeah uh but he did comedy and like he was in ford and jacksonville and he's one of the first gigs he did this is probably the best story i've heard uh and i wish i have i ever remember his name we can put it in the nate land thing or something uh but uh he uh he's doing a show he gets called to do a show this uh kind of biker bar and so apparently one of the bikers uh just died and so they were doing they were having his funeral and then they were going to go to the bar and drink and they wanted to do a comedy show the guy like was a fun guy that died and so they're like we don't want it to be this miserable just bad night so we want to make it we want to make

it is what it is and make it you know celebrate the guy's life so he loved the guy loves comedy he loved making people laugh we're going to put on this great comedy show it's going to be great so the this kid was just booked it was like another guy that was more known in the ford has seen the comic for a long time and he tells he's like look come do this gig with me uh it's it's yeah it might be weird you know some a lot of gigs you do take that you're going like this is probably gonna be terrible we can make 200 bucks let's just who cares let's just go through get through the gig it's gonna be fun so the guy's like i'll go up i'll i i i ride bikes i ride motorcycles i kind of knew the guy like i'll make it you know where it's good so the guy gets to it the bikers are all in there and uh they walk in that guy guy goes up, folds completely, does maybe 30 seconds. And it's so uncomfortable that he's like, he can't do it.

And then he just brings up this other comic who's kind of a new comic. And so the guy goes up, and he's on stage, and he's sitting there, and he's doing his act, spotlights on him, and he's bombing. Because it's a horrible situation. As is most ideas. Most of the times when someone tells you, hey, let's try to do comedy, let's try not to do comedy.

It's not going to work. And this is not working. And he's bombing. He's bombing. Can't get it going. He's just, you know, the spotlight's on him. Nothing's going good. And then he finally just has to walk off stage.

Walks off stage. Looks back at the stage. The spotlight that he is standing in is a picture of the guy's face that died. They were projecting. They were projecting the guy's face. On him. On him.

So the whole time he's doing stand-up, it's just a picture of the guy that died. I mean, that's brutal, dude. Brutal. Just sitting there. i mean that's brutal dude brutal just sitting oh it's so good remind me of another one that i always heard an old magician one the uh this magician's doing uh this show and so you know they always make doves come out so it's a big trick this guy does where he is he pulls these doves out of this hat so this guy's doing it and the crowd is sitting there and he's like he started he gets to the tree look at the hat's empty and he gets the hat and he starts pulling doves out and they just i mean they just keep coming and the crowd's like and the guy can't really see the crowd because the lights are on him, but he's hearing them like go, ha, ha, ha. And he's like, guys, this is just a joke.

It's crushing, dude. So it's crushing until finally he realizes there's a ceiling fan above him, and he's just throwing pigeons into the ceiling fan and just murdering pigeons. So there's no – they're not – it's not happiness. Yeah, they're horrifying. It's just they're horrifying. He just – because it keeps coming.

It's not, or like, it just keeps like, boom, just hits it. And then they're like, no. And he goes, another one? Who? And just the crowd is just horrified as he keeps throwing them up. It's wonderful. Oh, gosh. That's so funny.

Magicians have wonderful. throwing them up it's wonderful oh gosh that's so funny magicians have wonderful we i get my dad on like and hear some of the uh old magic that'd be great i mean yeah because they you know i yeah they're they're they're so wonderful bombing is a it's a wonderful uh thing and if you're a new comic starting enjoy it enjoy it soak it up hope it's good enough that you can uh you know my new next act i talk about a bombing story in it i won't tell it now uh but you hopefully you can get something out of it uh and it's i can tell you what it bombing teaches you is to be comfortable in uncomfortable situations and that's what comedy is you got to be super comfortable in uncomfortable situations. And that's what comedy is. You got to be super comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation.

So it teaches you doing that. You're going to do a lot of shows where people, they leave the TV on. I did plenty of shows. I've done shows where I've watched a game on TV as I just blurted out the joke

because it just, no one was listening. Yeah. And you're just, so you're just up there, you know. Going through the motions. Just going through the emotions.

Yeah. Yeah. And so, yeah. All just up there, you know. Going through the motions. Just going through the motions. Yeah. Yeah. And so, yeah. All right. Well, I mean, that was, there was another long one. That's why I brought them to you. That shirt? Oh.

We did get a shirt by a guy I met doing comedy and a friend of mine, he's been, you know, he's come to some shows. It goes a lot of comedy shows. He's friend, a lot of comics, no, and stuff. And he made a shirt.

What's your source? Huh? We got something. We got something. They're not for sale. There's for us, but this was, this was made as Kevin best.

He also painted the, the, the painting you see behind here. Nice. Yeah, so we hung that up. And yeah, Kevin's the best, man. He's sent some other shirts and stuff that's very cool. He's on Instagram, T-shirt Kevin, I believe.

But yeah, very cool that he made that shirt. And also this super serious comedy book. I'm in this book. Mandy Johnson. They ran a show super serious uh comedy book i'm in this book uh mandy johnson they ran a show super serious in los angeles and it was a show you wanted to be on it was the i mean an unbelievable show and uh they had every i mean every comic on it and they would always take these pictures afterwards of comics you'd always do one serious and one and one not serious oh there's there's me i turned it right to me how about that and there's one of mine um and so this talks this

book's about the oral history of los angeles independent stand-up comedy cool uh she didn't ask me to do that but i just it's a very but i'm in the book so that's fun i've never been in a book uh so i was excited about that uh all right uh hopefully we got your stand-up stuff hopefully these guys got to talk more i know that's a big complaint is uh people don't hear enough from you uh check out their spinoff podcast uh called baits and aaron land uh it's called uh morning breakfast or I don't know what to, uh, secret genius breakfast. Yeah. Secret genius brunch. Still working on a name,

still spitballing some names, but, uh, all right. We love you as always. Thank you guys for everything. Uh, all the listening,

all the nice, uh, the rating and stuff and, go buy a Helix mattress as a first ad. Yeah. I like first. So I was excited about that. All right.

See you guys next week. Thanks, everybody, for listening to the Nate Land Podcast. Be sure to subscribe to our show on iTunes, Spotify, you know, wherever you listen to your podcasts. And please remember to leave us a rating or a comment. wherever you listen to your podcasts. And please remember to leave us a rating or a comment. Nate Land is produced by me, Nate Bargetti, and my wife, Laura, on the All Things Comedy Network.

Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovation Consulting in partnership with Center Street Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nate Land Podcast.