Nate Bargatze On Going From Tire Recycler To Touring With Chris Rock

Boys and girls, loved ones of all ages. We are here. We are back with another episode of Busting with the Boys, Episode two thirty five. Lots to talk about, Oh you put your hand on like five, two thirty five. Lots to talk about, But you know what, I am a

Hey, how nice is it when we do Collin Uber and it is a Chevy Silverado.

There's nothing better. It makes the bogs go a whole lot better because we know what we kind of have to do on the back end. Can't be showing those other vehicles, but we're in a drive those big conversations like from New York to Vegas when I was really putting my place in the best way possible. I grew as a man during that And if we weren't in a Chevy, we might not be able to capture those

How did this most recent bunny pass just national causes?

I don't know, he's only two years old. I have no idea. We're still we're gonna we're gonna send him in. We're gonna send him in and we're gonna figure out what happened to this poor bunny. Because bunnies, if you're looking up how long bunnies live, it's about eight years in captivity. I've already checked that because I thought, is

Do you want to?

You want to make him a grave? And she's like sniffling yes, and I'm like, okay, yeah, well we'll build him a grave, sweetie. Like it's gonna We're gonna have a nice little eulogy for the bunny. It's seven forty five at this point. Like my kids, I started to put them down at six forty five, all right, they get themselves. They get an easy twelve hours of sleep every single day. That's kind of that I am, because we have fucking a good little regiment going. But at

Brother, I was just gonna say you talking about how shallow it was. I feel like, uh, Wayne's gonna be running around in the backyard.

She like, trip over the mouth, dude. Okay, it's all tucked away where they don't really run. So that's one positive. But this morning it was I want to see easter. I want to see it's already raining outside, and I know that a predator's probably dug down by the rock. I haven't been out there. I haven't been to the site yet. You know, Willow's feet were a little money this morning, which makes me a little worried. She was

The whole like you guys wrestling in the pool I thought was hilarious.

I love that, But I mean we were all kind of sober dealing with a bunch of drunk people.

So yeah, that had to be a fucking deal for you guys, huh for sure? Yeah, anybody else, just feel good about it.

God, you got it.

This has had nothing to do with beer Olympics, but it took place at it.

The boys are obviously.

Grinding all day didn't get to eat much. And at one point during the end of the day, me and Mitch went absolutely house on this to go thingle wings from Martin's and we're like, we're just gonna like one or two, and like, no, lie, we probably both took down like twelve wings in like ten minutes. Yeah, just kept going one more, one more, and like we're just walking around ear and so for me personally, that was a great moment.

And then getting food during beer Olympics was your first moment? Yeah, I get that, I get it.

I wish I wish we would have thought sad a little more. But he should give out some accolades. Yeah, yeah, some superlatives I'm gonna have for Google superlatives later. Is that's essentially the word for accolades?

Yeah? Yeah, okay, okay, okay, Yeah, I'm super down with that. Is there something that comes to mind of Nah?

Yeah, And would you saying an MVP to me based off the footage has gotta be dfo really?

Yeah, he crushed it every game, dude, seeing him hit that shot glass and getting the slow moo shot. Who got that shot? Uh? Yeah, wasn't it Mitch? Nice work, dude? Because it was perfect. I watched that video before it came out with Nick Bennett and his father and literally he throws it on the ping pun ball and they hit and he thinks a shot and he's like, man, it would have been great if he had slow mo. Seriously cuts right to the slow mo. I was like, Fuck,

Yeah, I mean, dude, divorce like that whole all of the beer ball games, he's not missing and like they were getting screwed a lot with like how much was left in his thing.

Yeah, there's gotta be a rule on that, for sure. We gotta we got to iron out some rules for sure. I play. I was at Kittle Fests a week after, two weeks after, and he's got a whole different way he plays beer ball, where you literally have to like like blowing the can, make sure there's not one drop and hold it over your head for three seconds, and if there's one drop, you have a whole new beer. I think that's a fucking I like the way because

You'd be hosting two events and ten teams. A lot of people like bring out here.

And they wouldn't be at my house. We just go somewhere. We would just go to if we'd go to the old shed, the old shed we were at behind the abandoned church. But yeah, dude, what a fucking time? What a time? Is there anything I'm missing before we hit some of these pet peeves or anything like that. Yeah. One thing that actually was a sponsor of Beer Olympics was Lucy. Dude, have you ever heard of Lucy? By the way, have you guys ever even heard of that Lucy? Nicotine?

My shout out no free shout out. This morning, I was at Cracker Barrel and we had an amazing waitress, Roberta, and she even just my shot. No free shoutout goes to waitresses that make you feel like they're almost like act like your mom.

How they talk to you, They're like, what can I get for you today? Baby?

Yeah?

You just start rubbing your shoulder and like exactly. It just makes you feel so good, you feel so welcome, you feel so safe. So I would like to shout out those waitresses that make me feel like they're little boy.

Shout out over handsy waitresses, Yes, I love that.

How many stars did you have on our a prind you now?

Oh?

I don't know because the cracker brower waitress. They have like a ranking system. I think in how many years you've been if you get a five star waitress, like you're dealing with some shit older. No.

I mean she's probably forties maybe, but looked like she was in her twenties.

Wow, Roberta. So she was kind of a rocket too. Huh. Who are you with? Uh?

Donnie and some other guys you know those roommate Donnie, extra mate, extra made Donnie.

Yeah, I love Donnie. He's the best. Did you when I go.

My uh my shout?

I don't know if your shout out this week goes to uh, just like a fresh loaf of bread that's super soft. It just makes your sandwiches so much better. It's just like it just takes your sandwiches to the next level. You know, you're got to get that like not stale, but it's just like a little bit more like crusty or a little bit like just not as soft, but you get that that's soft bread.

That's soft bread.

Cut it yourself like typically it's like that, like like or a potato bread like that. Ship's always soft. But I mean fire fire me up with some soft bread. And like one thing my mom taught me is this is a little uh pro tip.

When you go to your your like, uh, grocery store.

Look and you're getting like white bread or wheatbread or whatever it is, Look at the top of the loaf. The whiter it is, the more fresh it is, and the softer it is. So you mean what, that's exactly what That's exactly what it is. That's exactly how it works.

But the whiter the bread and the better the the softer it is, the softer it is.

Shout out soft bread.

Wow. People want to say, I don't go to the grocery store. He didn't even know the word grocery store. That is kind of crazy. Yeah, I you know, it's been a busy week. It's been a week. I gotta go. I gotta go. I gotta go to the grocery store, and we run a little on grocery. I should probably head over there today. I go the Whole Foods in Green Hills. Actually, thanks for asking, Gay. Yeah, I know

My shout out, no free shout out this week is So I was at Nickelback on Tuesday Monday with Tuesday and just scanning the crowd, like I'm a casual Nickelback fan. I guess know the popular ones, but the people in the crowd that were having the time of their life. I just kind of like had an appreciation, like you just kind of see from a distance like yo, they're

Yeah, so that's my shout out. Sohow diehard fans, diehard fans, I love it. The tier ones of Nickelback, Yeah, fucking in it, just like for Blank Now I do that. I was gonna ask that question sponsor wise, take away all the guests they had, because I did. I really walked into rehab the next day and the receptionist at the desk she said she went to Nickelback, said, Ernest was out there, Hardy was out there. Seven people, just a wild amount of people. So take that away. It

Same?

Same but different? Which one would would you rather go to?

I mean I would rather go to Blink Good, But Nickelback is pretty wild.

It flames and ship. There was flames at the thing at the plank with a too. They had the fog thing come.

Up to Yeah, I mean, but it was like I could feel it and I was in the nosebleeds.

Was there was there a drummer suspended in the air.

No, but they were on the pod and so it felt like I knew them a little.

That is true at the callback of having a familiar face when you see him on stage having a good Yeah, she was.

Getting a double pedal and everything. It was like they were kind of do but I get it. Yeah, Travis is the best drummer of all time. I don't it's arguable. Yeah, No, not at all. No, but but it was sick. You should have gone.

Yeah, I wish I could have with these kids. Man, these bunnies, these bunnies out here. It's fucking I gotta keep this livestock alive. I'm rolling Jack. Have you gathered your thoughts? Holy fuck? This is I mean, gee, I mean gee, usually he he's had this happen to him twice. This happened to you once. This is very unlike you.

This would be the first time. But no, I think my shadout goes to and you. You will not understand this, unfortunately, because you're rich. Shout out to when you are folding your laundry, Yeah, and.

Go ahead, and you.

Fold the very last piece, whether it's like a shirt or usually for me, I leave the socks to the end to match them all up. And it's one. Your laundry is officially folded, and you were done with it. It's like completing a process or a task is very like calming to me. So once that's done and it's all lit on the bed, or even just like the last time you put it into the drawer, it's like, all right, I accomplish what I needed to do today. Let's move on to the next next thought.

I wish I could share the same experience.

But but can we jump the pet beef?

We can? In a second, I need to kind of unpack the fact that the boys in the back don't think I do anything fucking coup. I do laundry. You do laundry through my laundry put in the hamper, for God's sake, in the hamper the last.

Time you washed and folded laundry.

And it's okay.

I want to get to the point where I don't have been about a decade.

No, not a decade, but it's been about five years since I've actually done my own laundry.

How do you I think everybody wants to get to the point where they don't do their laundry anymore. That's like I've made it.

I hated doing laundry, and I hated color coordinating socks so much that I never even tried it once.

I don't color coordinate.

I just washed, like like, oh you you just throw socks together. Yeah, they're two white socks. Maybe they have a different tower of different heel them. Boys are going together, enjoy each other, make friends because you guys are gonna be there for a minute. Okay, you justually want to put socks on. They go for about forty eight hours. I'm just gonna let you know. But dirty boy, Yeah, I fuck up that grocery store though, I'll tell you that.

Even, don't fucking say that, dude, nine years and then a couple of years, I'll say ten, nine years in the league.

There's a cafeteria in there. So I also didn't eat my food in the cafeteria. Had my food made for me and I brought that from home. But I go in the dining hall, Yeah, I would eat there. God damn it. We gotta send Taylor to camp thru summer camp. Yeah damn yeah, I do. Uh kind of hate myself right now. But let's start with g on pet peeve of the week.

Yeah, so, going off of the momentum of Jack's shout out, when you finish your laundry, this is something that just comes with having roommates, But it's when your roommate starts laundry but then leaves the house and this stuff is in both the washer and the dryer see mcpheerson. So I've had a delayed you know, my schedule's shown off.

Yeah, nothing pisses me off more than when my roommates leave their shit in the washer and dryer. That bugs the shit out of.

Me and let me just it wasn't just. I left like normal clothes. I did my sheets and my comforter, and normally I'll do the comforter every other time I wash the sheets because it's just the comfort is huge and it takes a lot. So I had the comforter being washed, and then I put it in the dryer and it's so big I can't fit the other stuff in it. And so the my throw blanket and sheets are still in the wash soaking what because it didn't spin them correctly. And then my actual comfort is in

Yeah, it's the comforter too, Yeah, it's on the comforter. Yeah no, no, you're right.

I I wanted the my sheets to be soaking wet all night.

Most of us do, so, yeah, that's Uh, that's wrong, man.

Sorry, ge.

Some pet peep of the week.

Oh, my pet peeve of the week is when you're on the interstate and there's a lot of cars out there and it's at night, and the person behind you has their high beams on. There's no reason to have their high beams on. It's not like they're trying to send a message to get over. It's clearly they just like forgot that they're on. And it just pisses me off because I feel like I checked the rearview mirror even more when I know their high beams are on.

Yeah. Uh yeah, got to move the thing up a little bit.

Yeah, you sart adjusted. But then you're like, I wonder if they're still on the off and.

You're staring at two of those little balls light balls, if you're standing to a light for a while.

Yes, yeah, when's the last time you started at a light?

Bob man, Man, I do got to go to camp, Mitch.

My peppiat of the week is when you get a new app on your phone and you just have to reorganize your entire app layout.

This miss is the very first world problem.

Uh, but like we had to get like the Google calendar app for work and stuff, and it's just just grinds my gears now that I have to figure out where everything else is and just have to make it all fit in the way that I want it.

But super first, super first world problem.

But I just hate getting new apps because I know I'm gonna have to reorganize my phone.

I don't organize any of my ship at all. All right, Uh, my pet peep of the week is going to go. When you have ankle socks on and you're walking and you're traveling with the boys, and that sock comes off of your heel and then slowly inches down towards your toes and sit it's like in the middle of your foot and the rest today it's like a very soft rock just kind of pressing into the soft point of your of your foot. That ship pisses me off. That is my pet peep of the week. Thank you.

I believe we have to do a tear talk though, because we didn't do it with Nate.

Fuck yeah, I'm all about a tear talk.

You do best things about camp.

Let's do the best grocery store items. Do you guys want to do camp or grocery store items? Let's do camp. All right, let me take you a couple of minutes. Did you in the back of mine.

I've been to camp and this is not like a slot.

I've been to camp. I've been to camp. I was at camp for a week when I was fourteen, no twelve, I used to I went to go see my grandparents and I got a little too much, so they sent me to camp for a week. That was not as fun as you think. But yeah, it say five. All right, we're back with tier talk. Tear talk today is going to be best things to do at camp. After we talked about telling that most of the camp counselors do at camp that drinks some whiskey boys. Some Friday summer

We will.

You know what I want to go first? I would like to go first and all of my three go together, my Tier three of being at camp, and I'm taking myself back to being a child. The one week I was at camp twelve years old was nighttime telling scary stories with your friends. That to me, dude, the sheer terror. After you're done telling scary stories and the shittiest kind of scary stories, and everyone's kind of sitting there in the light spots say it's time to go to bed.

Didn't even remember that I've been doing that bit and so that was just an authentic solid.

I will take that. I think you're lying, but I'll take it. I swear to god. I was like, oh shit, Mitch Garret, you guys are up next. Here's the closest ones to me, all.

Right, So my tiers are hour Tier three is uh, it's just being outside, just the.

Little kid, like just when you're kids and stuff.

At that age, all you want to do is just be outside and like being with like what like you said, making new friends and stuff, just doing random shit outside probably like stuff you shouldn't be doing, but like just running around, ripping.

Around my Tier two hour. Tier two.

That camp lunchtime is different, in my opinion, do you get the softest bread at the same time, Like you're like all morning, you're just out there doing activities and stuff, and then like you build up this massive appetite and then you just go back to like your dining hall or wherever you're like where your home base is, and you eat lunch and you're just surrounded by like your buddies and stuff that you make, and you just recapping the morning, be like, oh, I can't wait to what

Stuff like that, just getting excited.

And then Tier one it's just the games and stuff that you play at camp are games that you'll never ever play again, like different sorts of tags and stuff like that. But like when you are humble brag like the most athletic person, I can't you just feel like you just feel like you just like you're winning everything. You're always kind of getting picked first. It's just a little self tap on a pat on the back. I mean,

That camp. That's that is over tear.

Talk, elitist, thank you, Yeah, testosterone.

Solid, humble brag. But you're the most athletic at camp. Get the funk out of here, dude. One highlight tape surfaces with Mitch Camp.

I'm sure everybody here is probably the most athletic.

We are the most athletic podcast in the game.

Everybody at the camp, they went to their respective ones. They were the.

Yeah, yeah, we should talk about golf too, but I want to hear guys, it's your talk.

Those those were solid list you guys, y'all did leave out the most crucial, but we will get there. Honorable Mention goes to camp chance and it usually takes place in the dining room, so in all the boys, it's right in that sweet spot of lunch when everyone's still little juice from like maybe a little pretty intense flag football game or whatever you're playing. You get in there, you start beating on the tables, you know, like whatever

So there is a moment where you do believe that you will end up with your camp crush, like our past will cross again, God.

And please uh going back to our second that last night that you get out, sometimes if you're lucky, the girl counselor girl counselor gets to go out as well, and you guys meet up under the moonlight sare a little you know, intimate kiss.

The shirt stuff.

Yeah, you go back home, tell all the boys, You're like, he'll never even believe what happened to camp this year. So yeah, it's fair camp, dude, It's oh, it's fair game. Like, yeah, I had a boyfriend like you. Whenever I love you more.

The thing is when we when we say camp crush, I know everybody in the US immediately thought of one name, which is a cool bond to have.

Hayley, please take me back. I miss you so much. You want to talk about golf, Yeah, I do want to talk about golf. I owe the golf worlds an apology. I'm not saying I'm a country club guy, so don't fucking don't get it twisted. But I will. I will say. We were in an arbor, Michigan this past weekend seeing the twenty twenty three twenty twenty four national champion University of Michigan Wolverines during a couple of little pods, little things that will live on YouTube, but can't I for

Now.

They put a club in my hand. It looked like a driver, Like what was it? It was a fairway would whatever that means? And uh, And I'm trying to be you know, I pick it up like a baseball bat and think I'm funny in my head and I swing that ball. I hit it pretty good. I hit the ball pretty good. Dude. It overshot the green by twenty yards. But that's just I'm just given I'm using the weapon that was given to me in this type

When we go out and play a full eighteen, that is when I will decide.

Yeah, nine nine nine shots on the ADHD right there, A victim, Okay, But I am willing. Not only am I no longer wildly against golf, I am willing to actually pick up some clubs and go play. I don't want to get my own clubs. I think that's ridiculous. I think that's way too much of an investment for no reason. Because although people want to talk about my income in the back of the bus, I don't like to spend it like that.

So we should get a Troubadour. Yeah, I'm sure you got to get us in. Can you get us in?

Is the real question. I'll call some people. One of the one of the competitors in Beer Olympics lives in Troubadour, so maybe we can call him play play around a golf with him. But yeah, dude, I was I was wild.

Uh, you like Drew Rour because you can wear exactly what you're wearing right now and it will be the nicest course you've ever played.

Nicer than the one in Michigan, because g was saying that's the nicest club he's ever played that there. I haven't been to Troubadour, but that course was pretty insane. Yeah, I wish I could understand the beauty I was looking at. It looked like grass to me. Yeah, but well mode grass absolutely, I will say that. Yeah, a lot of textures we got to talk about, you me. We went to Trevor Keegan and Zack Ziner's hole and they were teeing off. So we were there right from the beginning.

Yeah, definitely should have kept the club I had, but it was a good shot.

Yeah, you did get a little cocky with the club choice. I did see you had the six in your hand and then there you're like, I'm think the seven, Well, Homie was scoffing behind me.

Pot launched that one over the green and I was like, all right, yeah, he didn't feel the wind behind us.

Yeah, you gotta be able to you gotta be a waterman. Yeah, when you're in there.

Yep.

So that happens, puts that bitch on the fringe. And then did you putt it or chip it?

I had a horrible bump and run, but then the second one I hit and it hit the flag stick and that's the one that you've.

That's right, that's what they end up using anyway. So you played the whole hole for them, helped them because they would have been in hell. Yeah, Trevor can hit it far, it just doesn't go straight. What matters, dude? You're right, you know, who gives a shit about going far? You want that, then you go straight? If I'm not mistaken, not a golfer, but I feel like I'm much better hit it straight than far. That's fair. Get a combination of both. Now you're talking about PGA tour, Yeah, exactly,

Uh?

I like this, you know.

I used to work this area. I used to do that. Was a delivery guy.

Uh.

And we used to deliver appliances and stuff like that. And we I was over I would do it over here, and I mowed and I and I worked for a guy to cut grass once and his thing was right back over here too.

So I used to be over here a lot. Yeah, Mowen job. You had Mowen jobs.

I had one. It's Mowen's the worst, dude. It's it's uh, you know, like I would cut grass going up like your neighbor's yard.

Ors.

I had this old lady, excuse me, I got five bucks. They cut her grass and then Uh, this was nineteen fifty three, you got.

Yeah, that's a whole bunch of salary right there.

Back then, I remember I could go there was a candy store. This is I mean, I'm forty four, it's not like I'm one hundred. But there was a candy store in old Hickory, and uh, you could go.

Five bucks was a lot. Five bucks was.

Like the twenty I think now like if you give a kid, if you give a kid five now, I feel like they don't even respect it.

But twenty is.

You know, it's like we were like, eh uh, but we had so I mowed grass for a little bit, but I mean just doing businesses and it's just man people that mow, you know, like landscaping all that that is brutal work. It's so hot and you're just out in it all day.

I quit after one day of landscaping. Yeah.

Yeah, it was brutal. It was like a hot ninety eight degrees. Like my mom wanted me to go do this.

You know.

I was a lifeguard the summer before the next summer, I gotta thrust it into a landscaping job and I quit immediately.

The first day. Yeah, we went, we went and got lunch and got sandwiches or whatever. I text my mom, I said, you gotta get me out of here, dude. The first I've never mowed along in my entire life. Really, not one.

I grew up in Arizona. Yeah, only rich people had yeah brass and so you get the turf. Yeah, yeah, people got turf or people got rocks. Like that's really what you could deal with out there.

So coming out here or even being up in Michigan, the maintenance is nuts. Yeah, And I feel like land like a landscaping deal isn't as bad because they have like the cool mowers can kind of move around. You're sitting the whole time. Yeah, they're all. They got the whole garment and everything on. I'm sure as a boy.

You were just short, so short I was, yeah, I was never I wasn't that high up, so you'd be you weed eating, which is I mean, just no fun or you're doing all the weird kind of like where you gotta be like you got to push it because they can't get a thing on it. Landscaping, though, was the if you have, uh no college, if you have no chances of going to college, always starting a landscaping company was talked about pretty heavily.

Dude, I have like four friends that have a landscaping company. They you just go in town.

Yeah, when you're like I can't I'm not smart enough to go really, I can't get in college or any stuff. And you just have a group of people that'd be like, let's start a landscaping But if somebody doesn't high school, they're the man for a minute because they can afford all the when they go.

Yeah, because you're you're collecting a lot of money being mowing lawns. But then they're doing it still because they're you know, didn't go to college.

I have a buddy mind his brother, he actually owns a landscape company.

Now.

He was a he was a kid that just started cutting yards. Was like smart enough to realize like, oh, let me start building this up into a thing.

And it is.

And they got money, like they saved money, and like you're like, you know, someone's got like three grand and you're like what, yeah, yeah, like unheard of, Yeah, unheard of is someone sixteen, Yeah sitting on three grand?

And then they pull like you know, a business gig or a corporate gig and their mom in those yards like you rid with them.

My parents get that money. Three thousand dollars. Imagine seeing three thousand dollars in high school. It would have been unimaginable. No, that's that'd be way too much. Is that the worst job you've ever had? Being a landscaper?

Uh?

I Also, so the guy I used to deliver with over here, we did another job where we recycle tires. That job was on dirty jobs and how do you recycle a tire? So you would go and pick up uh you remember, I don't know if you remember, but there's a big Ford. Uh they did the where they did a car all back or recall on all the tires.

For Ford one. Uh, Chevy would never and.

Then uh there's and and so we had to go get all the tires. So you go get all the tires and then you pick them up and you take them to Australia. I'm in Australia. I'm going to Australia this week.

It's on.

You take them to Atlanta and then they have a thing and then they cut them up and you know whatever they do recycling, whatever cycling is.

I'm pretty sure sure fields have like tire pelotin them.

Yeah, yes, yeah, So that's where they don't know what to do with it, so they just like put it in the field. Uh yeah, So what why was so hard? Uh So you have to go pick up all these tires. Water sits in the bottom of a tire, and that's where mosquitoes lay eggs, and that's where it are. So the whole time you're just getting lit up a mosquitoes. That's just your day. I was doing this shop when nine to eleven happened. That's just like it was.

It was.

Remember when I remember when, Yeah, I remember it very well. You heard that Alan Jackson song. You're like, I will forever know where I Yeah, and.

Uh so I did did the mosquitoes there. And then we had one time we had to go pick up tires out of a cave. So if someone would pay you to come get the tires and then you would go recycle them and then hopefully make some profit. But one guy would just get the tires and then just go dump them in a cave and he wasn't getting them recycled, so so he's just making straight profit from taking tires. Well, they found out that guy would ended

Too where you got to pick up fucking you see a big trick. You're like, oh, let's go do the shop and get a couple of tires. And then they're massive tractor tires.

Uh yeah, I don't remember that.

I don't necessarily ours were all car tires because this was again the recall, so it was like everybody around here had so many tires because all these tires got recalled, so they everybody was like it was a big kind of booming business at that moment. And uh this when this one guy just figured like I just dump them in a cave Jesus. And we I mean, there was

How was you? Would it started the toes like you get the toes a.

Little quick you kind of Yeah, you just kind of run it up and it's all in one motion and then it's probably a worker. Now you probably pay you to get a trainer to make you do it, but yeah, you just do it and you roll it back and then you got to stack the tires like kind of criss crossed.

Oh you found that physique of yours, dude, that muscle memory you have.

You know, you're probably probably was a pretty strong. Yeah, you're strong, like you're like, uh, you know, like uh blue collar strong where you're country boy weird strength.

The meat your hands throwing the haybales out there, they just got a grip like a motherfucker.

Yeah, that's a tough job. Another job that'd be tough is like, uh, have you ever like college hunks and junks that company? Uh No, it was like two man are Uh yeah, it's kind of like that. But like their whole promo of the whole thing is essentially hot college guys come and pick up your trash. Yeah, and we use them and they come in and they're like they're not hot, Like they're like thirty five, forty years old, like, yeah, bad tans. You hired them? Oh yeah, I called him up.

I don't even know if I remember, I mean not, I mean nothing, like, uh, you know enough, I was twenty, so it's like enough to give like whatever. Yeah, you know you're living. I might used have lived at home or you're at an apartment. I mean back then it was just everything was so it was you know, you your rent was probably four hundred a month or some five undred a month, like if you had an apartment.

I don't remember being that crazy. Yeah when you were, when you were twenty years old, you were still here. I know you guys talked about the last podcast, but When did you make the trip to New York? When did you decide that's where I'm going.

For So, I moved to Chicago first, and then uh because had a buddy. We were reading water meters in uh Mount Julia, and so he wanted to go to Second City in Chicago. It's where a lot of SNL people come out of it. Farley came out of Yeah.

And so we went to Uh.

So I was like, oh, I think I want to start comedy, and so we went to Chicago and uh uh moved up there and I did that very briefly that I kind of started doing stand up and then Uh, there's a there's a great documentary with Seinfeld called Comedian. It's on Netflix. It's when he's like he's starting a new hour and so he's writing it and shows all this New York He's going to all these New York clubs and doing this stuff. And so then I saw that, and when I saw that, it was like I got

We just had to Steffan on the podcast and he was talking about how like New York is the spot there's no other place like that. You have to like literally run through like five thousand dudes to even make it out of there.

Because he was saying he would never move away from New York because it's all, yeah, you can make it out of New York.

He is New York. He's New York. Yeah, and then I grew up there. Yeah. I can't imagine being a Tennessee boy and then going up to New York.

It was Yeah, it was a lot like Christy's like a lot younger than me. But I remember when he got a great dude and then when he came on the scene, you do, you have to go.

It's the best.

The big saying was like go to New York to get good in LA to get famous. That's saying I heard once in that but it always made a ton of sense to me. But New York is like it is where you go and you're just grinding out in these comedy clubs and just we're all doing spots, you're all doing shows for five people. I mean it's a lot like the beginning is most of your careers in front of five six people, you'd be happy.

Yeah, Because you talked about how you'd stand outside and handoff flyers just to get a few people in.

Yeah, one of your boys is performing. You're like, hey, come check it out.

Yeah, yeah, that's and you and you get paid in stage time, so you you would just do that and then at the end of the night you get to go on stage like midnight and do five minutes, and then you go do it and the next day. But it's a world, I mean, you become you. You just you fall in love with it because you're seeing like back when I did it was like you're seeing Bill Burr.

I'd imagine in your world.

Like it's like you think, like you know, if you're in high school and you're the top football player in your house and then you go, oh, there's other people that are so good yeah, and then you like and it makes you love it because you go, oh, this it's a whole nother level, Like it's.

Let me see if I can make it here. Let me see if I.

Can make it yeah, because you can be whatever in your own little small thing, but you gotta always change it up so then you can be like, let me see if I can run with these guys.

I'm with you.

Growing up in Bontero, when I went to college, I was like, oh ship, yeah, white guys play football. Yeah, you know, let me see if I start. Yeah, let me see if I can run with these guys.

Yeah. How to work out for you at first in college? Yeah, you know it's intimidating. Yeah, you know how it is, absolutely, Yes, like.

It's it's intimidating, but it's like once you get that first compliment, dude, hey, this white boy can play.

That's all. Hey, you're pretty this for a white guy. It's okay. We've we're making it out here.

That's why that's why it might be one of the best athletes of all time. Yeah, yeah, there's no question about it. You are you really think you're him at that point?

Yeah, when you're in New York and you're sifting through this, you're seeing guys like Bill Burr, who wasn't Bill Burr at the time. How do you when you're trying to find your own voice, not steal from these other guys, or not get influenced too much by being around all these other people all the time, because I'm sure you watch a set and you're like, damn, that's shit. That is funny, and it's kind of up your alley of humor because it's such a subjective like career. Like some

Uh, well, steal your bit, you wouldn't do because it's, uh, their cadence is a big thing, so you can sound like them. So the way someone tells a joke and makes it funny is, uh, there's something that that's that's something that can get taken that I would always talk with my buddy Yannis about it. Are Heanness would always bring up like that's worse than stealing a joke because it's like you're stealing the way to tell the joke.

If you're sifting through the comment section in one of your posts on Instagram, is that one of the more insulting things to see is oh, you sound like so and so.

If they do, uh yeah, I mean I don't know if I can distinctly remember. I would have some like uh, you know, people tell you they or they've heard this joke before they the jokes stealing thing they got all started. I don't it's not as I think, as crazy as people think it is, Like it wasn't. It's it's just not you know, they made it into this big thing. A lot of times when jokes are stolen, you can really look at the joke and be like, uh, it's a it's not a super original idea, and you're like,

If you're in a.

World that like you're single and you're going out and you're drinking, well that's fifty comics that are single, going out and drinking.

So what are they gona talk about? They're gonll you're gonna all.

Talk about the same kind of things, right, So that stuff gets thrown in a lot that it's you know, you're like, I don't know. I think it happens in movies though, something like that that's over him, like Star Wars and Harry Potter, like any yeah, like writers in a movie, like I would say, writ a TV show writer, like you could.

There's stuff like that that I I mean, I don't know if I could.

You could ever, I don't know if there's an example to say it, But like that stuff you get nervous about because I mean, someone writing a movie, like they could just grab a joke from some comic and just the joke in the comic.

You're talking like, if I happen to be some writer and I'm liking your stand up a story you tell, it's like, oh, I'm gonna put this in that movie.

Yeah, or it could be influenced by it. It could be there's a lot of thing and I mean that's and that's masked so much that I mean, you can't even how you're gonna, you know, be like that that's my joke and you're like, well they say it, Like.

I want to say, that's that's been talked about.

That really be wall Uh that Wahlberg's uh the Boston bombing the movie Wahlberg about the Boston Boston bombers. I think there's a joke about an iron or something at the beginning of it, and I want to say that joke might be something that's like from a comic.

And now that I'm thinking about it, I want to say it was like THEO talking about uh yeah, oh yeah it was the the show Dave right, yeah, yeah, yeah, but he was digesting it.

I mean you could tell he was alluded to it. He wasn't.

I don't think he was being like, all this is fact because ultimately I guess you you don't.

Right, yeah, right, but yeah, that's a good point.

You hear something he says that of yeah, and you're like, I mean they're gonna you got the and how do not saying all these writers are writers are not doing the majority of we're not doing it. But it's like I been you know, yeah, it's like they're gonna be. You're gonna be influenced by people. You wanna hear things here. There's so much content now, so you're hearing stuff all the time. You you might not realize like where you would have possibly heard that.

Yeah, but the still in the joke thing seems like you other commenting it, like I mean, there was there was one reference like I was a big dang cook guy growing up. I was like right around my middle school time and Dan Cook. We all loved it. We all loved them. There was a big time where people were like, Dan Cook stole a joke, the same joke

Yeah, I think there's another like his itchy butthole or something was another joke like that, and it was uh yeah, I mean I remember all that stuff going on Amy Schumer. I was around Amy a lot, and people would blame but it's like, I just it's some of it you're I mean, the Dane and the Louis thing. I look, I don't know. I mean maybe they did it's and they maybe subconsciously did it. I don't know if I just find it hard to believe people are like on

You know? Yeah, where you're gonna get caught.

You're going to get especially now with And then the thing that was frustrating is it makes it then everybody like, so if you have a joke similar to someone else, someone's like, do you steal that joke from that person? You're like, no, dude, we're all talking about the same thing. Like, no one's stealing a joke. They're just people are talking about stuff. It usually goes to you gotta look at what the joke is to be like, is it that original of an idea? And a lot of times it's not.

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You just you hear the rain get even harder, and you're just like, fuck the one hour we're getting Nate on? Yeah, perfect, As he's telling a story, you just hear her get louder and louder.

Yeah, when uh, make doesn't Yeah we don't need that. Yeah, we definitely didn't not need that in our lives. Do you catch that it's absolutely going on? There's like flood warnings the median. Do you ever get just tired of being funny?

Like when you're doing you're like, you know, you kind of fall in love with it in New York and you're grinding through it and even now it's just like you're just you've blown up. Like as a comedian, I've always I don't know why I never asked them, but I'm just thinking, do you guys just ever get tired of just being like everybody?

Every room I step into, I'm expected to be funny? Yeah, I mean you have to be on. That's the part of that's hard. But I think you all would experience that. You know how many times you got to feel like you're on? So when you go out to a public event, when you go to something or like that kind of thing, or you meet people and like it's it's the being on is the thing that gets exhausting.

That's for anybody.

I mean, people can feel that if they go to work and they feel like they have to kind of be like all right, I gotta turn it on a little bit.

I gotta be better, you.

Know, I'm we're gonna die about this fucking funny that like out of this stuff we're in like a garage. Also, stuff that I don't think you're supposed to be in inside of a storm. Is we're in a garage and you're like, all right, well that you should be in there, but at least you're not in a bus inside of it. You're like, oh, we're in a bus, one of the old buses that look like it's driving around trying to be struck by lighting.

Uh. Yeah, yeah, we're in danger right now. We are in danger.

The being on thing, the being on things true because anytime you come across like fans and everything else, you want them to be like you know, you don't want to like let people down or all of a sudden you're like an ass on that You're like, you know that you're fucking not even.

Yeah, because it only takes one bad impression for them to be off you forever. Yeah. Yeah, you know, you meet somebody, it's you. It's either you or not you.

So like usually when you meet if someone meets someone famous and they're kind of stand offish whatever, you're like, yeah, man, that person's probably like that in real life.

Yeah, And otherwise it's yeah, it's.

Like the crowd and the audience should not feel my tiredness or my whatever, like that's not on them to do any of that stuff. Yeah, So there's like little moments like that. But I mean I don't have to I ever feel with an audience. You feel it with like, you know, the business side of sometimes just because you're like the audience you're like grateful for because that's the reason you're here.

Sometimes you gotta go do the business side of things, and then you're like yeah, but business side you can like kind of turn it on and off. I feel like the being on thing is like when you're just walking somewhere and someone's like, hey, I like you for this, and then you feel like, Okay, I have to make sure this person has a good experience. Yeah, that way that it's like the move It Forward or what's that movie? Hey,

Be nice and the mide. That's what's so, that's the easiest part about it. It's really a lot easier just to be nice and move on. And it's like, it is funny if you someone that doesn't want to be like that, you're like, well, you make it much harder bout being kind of mean. Yeah, you could just be nice and it would move very quickly, no doubt.

Has there ever been a person that you've like kind of looked up too and then you meet him and you're like, fuck, don't meet your hero type thing. You brought up one person that universally seems like people are not a huge fan of that's Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah.

I so I've only been I've talked to him once. I'm a giant sein Fold fan. So I still want to go to so I don't have. There was a lot of people that have said that they didn't he can be kind of staying officer. He can be and they would be that with comics and stuff like that.

Like not that I'm an open by, but you know what I mean.

Like it's like you're so if you were having talking to some seventh grader about being a lineman there's something like playing football, you'd be like, what do we go talk about?

Dude? Like I don't, I can't, you're knew, So.

Sometimes like I think of it like that, like people were like, ah, he wasn't not like comics specifically, could think like I didn't like the way he left, and you're like, what do you want him to do?

Like just I don't know? Like that, So I've had no Louis c.

K thought I had a little bit with when I first started.

Now it's not.

I mean, obviously he's come back down to reality a little bit. Uh, that happens, a little bit. That happens a little bit.

Have you heard Pete Davidson's a bit about that he talks about I guess. Uh. Luisy K was hosting SNL and then Pete Davidson got high and he was walking through to go to the elevators, and like Luisy K caught up with him and he was like, hey, stop getting high, you're ruining your fucking life. Blah blah blah blah, like kind of dug into him and Pete's high' is like that didn't happen. There's no way that actually just happened.

Yeah, it's like he, uh, Louie's been I have like now, it's not been back when I was when I I remember I opened for him once a long time ago, and uh, he was just kinda like I don't know, he was just I mean like at one point Louis was on top of the world, like so in you know, we're in New York, like, I mean, he is the biggest comic on the planet and uh, and it.

Would come off.

Sometimes you can meet him and he'd be kind of like jerkier, like you know, just not nice, not being nice, and you're like, you know, and you're a young comic and you're just thinking, like I'm just said, I'm nobody, dude, like just I'm not in you know, I'm not trying to have You're trying.

To get out of his way.

You're trying to do all these things, and he would just you know, I remember he would just say, like you I brought him up on stage and you'd be like, all right, everybody York sided to see, uh your headliner tonight, please welcome Louis c K. Like and then I brought him on sage and he's like, don't introduce me like that and look in a weird way, there's a valid point and to be like they are there to see him.

Dude?

How how'd you introduce him? You just where you're like, all right, y'axcite you know I'm from.

You're like giving his credits and all this stuff, and it's just like you don't have to sell all my credits.

You don't.

They know who they're here to see, which is true, and that makes you don't need to say it, like yeah, but it would just be like he come tell you that, but in like kind of an aggressive way, and you're like, Louis, I don't know what to do, dude. I'm know I'm so nervous about this whole experience. I just don't want you to be mad. Yeah, yeah, like I I and you're mad clearly. And then now I don't know nothing. He's that mad. But it's just being like, just be regular, man,

Like I'm trying my best.

I'm trying to like, hey, I'm just doing whatever I can do. I did a joke and then he went up and made fun of my joke, and that made me so mad. I was so mad about this. I was so mad about this for a long time because it was just like it was like, dude, we're nobody's man. I'm I'm I got paid seventy five dollars that night, like I think for hosting, so pray seventy five bucks. That's it, and I'm fine, and I it's I would do that, would do that game for free.

But you're like, what do you I'm again, I'm not.

I'm just so when you got off the stage, he came up and made funny and make.

Fun of the Yeah, I was pretty upset about that.

You remember the joke. Yeah, it was a joke.

The joke I had about uh uh, if if I don't have a gun in my house, I have like a knife or something in my next to my bed. So if my if but I have my wife sleep next to the door so if someone broke in, I can shove her at it. And then it was something like that joke, I'm not great at memory, and then other ones that would I take a bullet for my wife? That was it, and I was like and I said yes,

And that was like kind of the joke.

And then he was like, well, you stand in front of him when the person holds a gun, you then get in front of her. He like, just like he described it the way like my wife would describe it and make it like not fun, like the way you have like your parent would just be like, well, I don't know if it's gonna work like that. You're like, yeah,

Right?

Like, please leave me out of this.

Yeah, you're I'm just doing a spot, dude, I'm hosting. Hannibal was supposed to be on that show too, Burst and he didn't even show up to the first show and uh he was hosting and then like that was mad at that. I'll tell you that. I was mad at the whole night. You start snowballs me and I'm like, I'm here, Yeah, we Hannimal didn't show up like I did, like a little more time, yeah, because handle want to

That show up? You're like, texta, Hannibal, did you know this is gonna happen?

Yeah? Yeah, Well you guys fucking had it out for me. Huh d yeah, Hannibal. Well, Hannibal was late because of thirty Rock.

But I remember I just remember thinking why, like I'm the one here, yeah, and I'm just getting trashed.

If I wasn't here, there be no one else but you on the show.

Yeah, you know, you're just sayingthing to Hannibal. He was excited, hannimals on the show. Hannibal was like again starting to kind of rise off and do good. So it was like it was cool to have Hannibal. Were you thinking your head at the time, I'm never doing this again. No,

He should have remember it.

I was really there's no reason he would know me at the time, you know what I mean, Like, I don't expect, but these are moments that I would use. I would be I was so mad about the situation. And then you're like, all right, all right, well, then this is where I'm at in comedy, So I need to be get to a level that like, I'm not gonna get treated like this, and so you just use that drive to like.

Chip on your shoulder, Yeah, telling yourself whatever you can whatever. Yeah, make sure that hey, people will know someday. But I'm laughing now.

Yeah, someone other person could probably look at that situation and be like, dude, he like said he liked you, and maybe he was making a funny joke at the beginning about you. It was all very sweet. In my head. It's like, I mean, it's armageddon. I'm like, right, But someone else could be like, no, well he was being nice.

You know, man, I wonder what you were feeling during has like whole what if he did an hour or whatever, just kind of sitting there and slowly like that seed of a started. Oh by the end of that hour, it had to be a full plant, like you had to be fucking ready. Oh.

I was like, yeah, I mean I think I did one more show. We're doing a show for his school, for his daughter's school, like a fundraiser. Uh so, uh because he was at We're at Carolines and he wouldn't be because I mean he's at this point, he's doing massive square garden, so he's just doing this for a fundraiser and uh.

So yeah, I mean it all built in.

I mean I sit there watching them though too, Like I mean obviously he's he's unreal like so he was like, you know, you're sitting there watching me, and that's you know, that's part of you that it hurts, is like because it's like the dude you're like sitting there going like that's the main guy.

Like Burr I always had much.

Burr was very nice to me and would say things and like be very so you just would have like little parts of you know where you got treated by this person. And I'm not trying to reflect on what they are now or anything, but it was like these were little things that you'd be like, they really stick with you.

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Who is a comic or a couple comics that have been like the most encouraging that you actually think about back then when you're younger and building these chips on your shoulders and people have kind of pulled you aside or given you any kind of advice or something where it's like, man, this really stuck with me. This this comic might have no idea. Bill Burr, this stuck with me throughout my entire career.

Yeah, Burr was. Burr was a big one because Burr I rememberer. Uh he told me. Uh again it was at Carolines and uh because we go watch Burr like before he blew up, and he'd be like you could go sit in the back of the room and watch because it wasn't sold out. And then I remember the next year it was it was like they wouldn't even let us come in the room because it was too sold out.

And like so but Burr like.

When you just when he knew your name, when he like he knew he knew you, and uh, it was it was a really big deal. And then I remember him saying like look it Uh it takes the route that guys let us go. It takes us a long time, but you gain fans and you gain fans for life.

And I remember and.

I always thought about that throughout my whole career, like how like you know, like this build up it take. I've been coming twenty years and uh it's all just like a slow like kind of just always going up. Not a bad thing, but it can be frustrating. It doesn't happen as fast as another one one said was like it's not as it's uh not as fast as you want, but quicker than you think, like, and so you have these moments that just like it kind of takes a slow kind of thing and you got to

You know?

Is that process different though? When you like you've been doing it for twenty years, you see a guy's been doing it for maybe five or six years and they're trying to accelerate their career. Do you ever sit with those guys and be like, hey, just take your time. Like some dudes are you know, trying to do too much too early?

I think a lot. I think sometimes people can do they can go too they can do too much stuff that's like, uh, you know, they're like, I'm gonna do sketches, i wanna do a podcast, I'm gonna do stand up, I'm gonna do impro like and it's like, well, go be great at one thing. If you can be great at one thing, you can do all the other things. But you have to you can't just be kind of

Uh, so you can see.

That I'm a big like younger comics like, I'm a big I'm I'm a big act person. Like there's a lot of crowd work stuff. I've look. I know people can do crowd works. It's easiest to post content on social media's the crowd work and stuff like that. But I'm a creating an act is Ah, if you can create an act, it's uh, it's it's it's the best thing you can do, and it's it's the most reliable and it's Uh when people come see you in d a live show, they I mean they want to see

I didn't see the taping. Yeah we saw in Vegas.

Was dudeah, I I really I think feel the smiles creeping up on our faces the minute he said Shane ye like we.

Means the I mean so Shane.

Is yeah, like I mean, I uh, Shane's I wasn't really there when Shane was there.

I don't.

I think I was gone. I've been a comedy forever. Shane's like Shane's also reminder how old I am, Like when you used to realize like I mean, he's been a comedy for a little bit now, and uh he was just he was like I remember hearing about him when he first came out. He would go out with Dan Soder a lot. Another comic. That's an unbelievable comedian.

If you look at Louis or Carlin.

Or Chris Rocker all this kind of stuff, you know, you're you're you're building these hours that you can go specials. Gaffkin's just putting out a new special. It's I think it's coming out this week maybe, Uh it's his tenth hour. It's you know how hard it is to write ten hours of material. It's basically impossible. There's no one that's really that you know, that can do it. The limited amount that can do it. It's a very small group.

Because you're never actually like working on something.

Yeah, I'm going to your next show thinking you can not like write, I don't know, I'm assuming like you're just not writing things down or trying to work on bits and be like I'm gonna go take it here.

You're just leaning on the fact that you can do crowd working.

You can go sit and like yeah, and I mean that stuff's super fun. I mean it's like I and guys are really really great at Big Jay Orgerson's un Big J's one of the funniest people I've ever met in my entire life. And he's the best and he does all like he does it and not and it, it and it. But Big Jays can tell stories and he's so great at stories and all this stuff. So

But we saw his stand up in Austin and shortly after he him on the bus for the first time. We really didn't know about Shane, like we knew he got fired from SNEL. We know he's a comedian on the up, and we're like, hey, we're excited to have him. He crushed it on the podcast. He was so funny. So then we took the time to like go watch his YouTube special in Austin and it is like, I'm

Bro.

I've told him that a dozen times, like you've got to rewatch it. But then I'll rewatch it, and then I'll hear the Trump stuff and I'm like, hey, maybe he shouldn't watch it, Maybe he shouldn't gay sit down your gay bro. The military bit that he does with the Taliban. When people get that you were with him in Saney's weeks ago, right, y'all.

I bet the people at Zany's were so fired up because he had hit us up.

It was after beer Olympics.

Yeah, he's like, hey after Yeah, the day after we're recovering and he's like, hey, Nate and I are gonna we're gonna go on a Zanies at like nine thirty or ten thirty or something like that.

I was like, oh, man, Like I'm like, y'all had a pretty big day.

Yeah.

Yeah, Like I was fucking hurt, bro. He was bruised up. Probably Prime telling you about.

He kept showing us, He kept showing us his body. That's more on him, though, But I saw him because you tackled in the photo.

Yeah, and like you're it's like y'all just don't like realize, like because Shane's big too, but he's not like strong like y'all, and so I feel like he gets beat. It's like a big dog, Like it's a dog that you're like that tries to play with them and then you're like, well, just I don't know if i'd play with hecase, don't go, don't go full on.

You don't have to laboratory retreat.

Yeah, show on Instagram man just being on top of Shane and fucking.

Because it's started off. If him, like you know, he gets there, he seems very unenthusiastic to be there. He's like, we're gonna get buried. Whatever it is, what it is he gets, he does one chug like the first event was was a chug, and then after that anytime he lost an event, he be behind me and will just talking shit like you guys are bad hosts. You guys are nasty quick being that they're all laughing at you. I'm gonna remind you they're all laughing at you when

Leather?

Yeah, Leather's tough, it's durable, it's reliable. It's like the Chevy Silverado. If you don't ever go out in the sun like one little hey, how you doing a little slap on the lake, there's gonna be a welt there. Luckily Will got some nice thighs and he's got a little sun tent on there. Shane just welted up.

Easily told him like that. I've never heard anything like that. It's it's like, well, you know, bruises get on the sun right there?

Just jumping this cit a little bit and then bruised. You just make that up. Did essentially make that out, But it gotta makes sense when you really think about it. Yeah, I guess it does. Chandler on me, dude, Michael Chandler. I mean, he could stand up on this bus, no problem. I have plenty of room, little or guy. But he wrestled me in the pool and I almost drowned about six times. And the rest of the day it was like he was being Yeah he's a little bit. It

That would be That would be the people always wondered, like a fight would be, like you and him would eyes even anything out?

But if I had any training, I'm sure there'd be more of an even fight. Yeah, but no training, right me? Yeah, No, I'm getting bank. Yeah, he's gonna absolutely take me. I've wrestled him and spinning backfish. Yeah, we were in the Oxgon one time. I did sneak him with a spinning backfist. Luckily for him, I stopped, Yeah, because my I the awareness, but that would have probably taken him out. I would take him out, but he's got he takes me to the ground. It's over and he's gonna get to These

But the whole whoever was at Zany's, I mean that was a surprise, right.

Yeah, so we did.

We were hanging out because I knew he came down because I talked to Shane quite a bit, like Shane's going, uh not that I just like talking to him because he's I mean he's I think he's very funny and then like he's just where he's at in his career and it's starting to like really, I think after this next fishal I mean, Shane's going to really be uh one of the top touring act. I mean he already is a very top touring act. He's gonna be one of the top and so he's a good dude and

There's no way. He thought. That's what you have a moment, dude.

You just you know, when you put yourself out there a little bit and you're like, what if it doesn't.

Like imposter syndrome, yeah, like yeah, and you.

Think like you're like, all right, me and Shane gonna do a show and then everybody's like we're good. I mean because it was in let me make a call at like four thirty and the show's at nine or nine thirty. How quickly did it sell out? I think in fift in like ten minutes or it was like it was like.

Oh, if you're going out the yeah, well you're in Nashville.

You have to catch that. You're fired the fuck up getting to watch Shane and you.

It was I want to do it again because it's like the people that I, uh, we went in there. Actually we had did some work I needed to. I needed to like kind of run my hour and like pull something. I needed to figure out some time stuff with my hour, and then Shane just went up there. And but we went up there together at the end. And that's what I think people like the most is just me and him on stage hanging out and talking.

Possibility you guys tour together now. I mean, the only thing I'm clean.

So it's like I couldn't the audience that comes to see me, even though a lot of people that would see me love Shane but I wouldn't. I mean, I my kids can come to my show, like it's all ages, so it's I wouldn't want to put that much, you know, like someone if that's our part of being clean, you kind of on your own. And the fact that like there's only so many I mean them bring out with me, not that they're all they're not all clean outside of me, but they have to be clean when they come to

Completely understand that this is like an anomaly.

Of Nate and shit, it's like coming out there, it's not like there's versus like you know, I might have an entire my real show, like there's be an entire family. Come is, bring your grandparents, the grandchildren. You're not going to be like they're ready for Shane, and I think they think we'll find Shane very funny. But they also might be like, we didn't expect to hear all those words.

I mean, dude, we had that situation this past weekend. The last atter read of the day and that is Duke can and we like to talk to you about your shower game for a minute. Here's the fact the bodywater you're using right now is weak, water down and probably smells like a JV locker room. Simply put, it's just not getting the fucking job done. The boys need a shower with substance after a hard day's work, and that's why we use thick, high viscosity body wash from

And Will are like probably standing there like smiling doing this.

So I mean, it's funny.

Spur a crowd that you know RiPPs Marlboros and wears Nascar, you know what I mean.

Like it's you're not scared of hearing the language, but then some people are can be surprised at how dirty something can actually get.

Yeah, brings out us Harmonica that talks about one's the pussy and one's the ass, and that's how he learned to eat out chicks. And I'm just looking at the grandma and she's like yeah, she's looking like leans over her husband, like did he's got.

The harmonica playing that it gets him out of that? Can just get you out of harmonica?

All right. It was so funny because he didn't hold back, he didn't look at the crowd and go, I should probably tighten a couple of things up. He went futtle bored right into it, no doubt that.

I fully believe his eyes glazed over and he knew the situation he was in.

He's like, I just gotta fucking get through this. Yeah, gotta run.

Yeah, some of you get you're like, it is what you do. So it's like just go do what you do and then you know they get their laugh.

Or they won't. Well, was a choice for you to go clean.

I just started that way, like uh, it was just how you know, grows up the South Southern Christian like, well, I wasn't allowed to watch anything that stuff like that, and so my teen yeah we saw.

That we were watching some of your bits before that ship was hilarious. Yeah, yeah it wasn't.

I mean I wasn't allowed to watch and there's so many movies I've missed because I just was never allowed to watch them and never watched soft Yeah, and I still I know, Uh, I never watched it.

Uh.

When we weren't allowed to watch Simpsons, that was a big deal. When I was young, Simpsons came out. It was like because Bart was like against authority, Like it's like a lot of parents didn't like that.

He was like this kid, did your dad watch the Simpsons? No? No, No, one's like Sunday night football is over, Simpsons, come on. Yeah. No.

It was Yeah, it was just very I mean I I just when I grew up, it was just a lot. It was just different. It was the South was pretty strict and like what you could do. I mean you couldn't dance or I went to donaldsal Christian Academy that they did.

We didn't have a prom.

We had a like a banquet, and then you couldn't dance because it was like dancing was not and it wasn't like the parents don't believe dancing is bad. They believe dancing is bad. But it's like you just would have you know back then, I mean an eighty year old in nineteen ninety seven that she thinks dancing is bad, so you're kind of like not doing it to be like kind of you.

Can get a little space, leave some room for the lord. Yeah, you just go, well we would, we could, you could go.

The parents would then rent, they would rent out of room, and then everybody could have like a more of a prom dance kind of after you would do a banquet, like it's kind of a proper thing for like, you know, those older people to be like we're not you know, and then you go do the dance thing after it was you know. So it's like I grew up. You just grew up in under those like, uh standards. So

Now, did you've had a glow up about you?

I remember seeing you Nascar and you had that your haircuts not that way, but you were laced up with a skin fade.

Yeah.

Compared the years past, I mean your stand up a couple of years ago, the way you were a couple of years ago, You've aged very well. Your skin I've noticed the entire time is phenomenal. But you're like you were like one of the dads where you show up at the barbecue and you're like, oh, I hey, Nates here, this will be a fun time. Now it's like you show up at the barbecue. I hate Nates here. He's you guys, he's pretty fucking big takeing. I'm going no bread?

Yeah, what's what's the glow up? Like, I'm not fun. I brought my own food.

Dor Yeah, you know you don't talk to anymore?

Yeah?

Yeah, yeah, it's been I mean the whole you know, my whole run.

I'm forty four, so, uh.

I quit drinking in twenty nineteen, and uh A big part of that was like I was just getting I knew I was like starting to go to the theaters and all this stuff. I knew if I wanted to get where I wanted to go, I couldn't drink. Like I wasn't able to when I drank. It's like it's not like I just drank at home or did all

To stop that.

So that was that was the when the first one happened because I just stopped drinking and some I mean just literally drinking will just help a lot of things. I still don't eat great, and I'm trying now that's the second one I'm trying to overcome because it's like being on the road again. It's like hard on your body.

You're like, no, I did all I did what you're doing right now, I did.

I already did all this, and you just weren't. You were not old enough to be there. But yeah, you're like, I already went and did all this and it was a fun time and I had a great bad And then there's an you just hit a point where you get older and you're like about forty, start going like all right, You're like, I mean, just stuff starts hurting like you just You're like I can't wake up and feel like this every day, Like this is brutal.

It's a brutal feeling that fog. That fog is terrible. But it's the most fun in during it, for sure. It is the was fun.

I mean the Senior's Beer Olympics like that looked like it's the It's a wonderful, wonderful time.

It was awesome. It was so much awesome. Man.

You ever want to come out of retirement for a day, Yeah, I know, I'm more than welcome. Yeah.

There's always moments where you're like, you know, I hung out this weekend that I feel like I could get you. Uh not to his football because I did the American Century Championship. John Elway. John, we're meeting John Alway, who's back on Alway is a good time.

Oh yeah.

And I was telling Dance Owder is a giant uh John Alway fan.

Just he's from Denver.

And I was like telling Dan, I was like, John Elway could make you quit drinking, come out of retirement drink. Dan doesn't drink either, and uh because he's like just like a good like you're like this dude's the most fun and you don't think have you met him?

No, I've never met John, but I hear a bunch of stories.

You don't stories like you think he's gonna be His son is awesome to His son's a big Shane Gills fan. Uh, his son's great, big comedy fan Roy, big Fanny you got. I was like, does Shane know that his sons a big Shane Gillis family. I think so, I don't know, you know, yeah, Shane nuts over football players and you know, but he was like someone that you're like, you know, this dude's the bad I mean, you just think he's gonna be stowing like this.

I don't know.

It's John Elway, so you just you just think he's going to be like you'll meet him. Was like, how you doing this? And you're like, this guy is a good time man, just like what a lot of charisma, A lot of charisma, like laughs, a lot you say anything, he's laugh at it. Fun Like you just feel like you're gonna just be with him. And he'd be like You're like yeah, he's like they take the boat out and you're I didn't go on the boat, but he's like you just he's talking about it, like, oh, the

Room with John.

Didn't John Elway You're gonna be like, yeah, I'll go, dude, you're the best.

That's fucking cool. Man. Who else? Like, who else have you met? This been? Like, oh dude, you are fucking because that is the best feeling. Like we talked about the people you meet and you're like, man, don't meet your heroes, but the people you meet and they're either exactly like you thought they would be or even better, Like you're saying, yeah, that's the best feeling.

A lot of like Cable guys like that, Larry Cable guy, Larry's awesome, bro.

Yeah, I would have loved to join you in that enthusiasm. He's obviously a massive Nebraska fan.

So when we had our one of our tailgates last year at Nebraska, well, he came on the uh we had the podcast out there at Nebraska and he's just the nicest fucking dude.

Man.

He's just so funny, just salt of the earth, exactly like what you kind of see on camera and even better just like you're hanging out with him.

Yeah.

That that's the part that you want, is like when you can see when you meet someone and they're like super nice and they're just it seems like they're like a girl. I met Devonte Adams this week and he was awesome. He was like kind of a funny dude, like uh and just like kind of quiet, and but just my experience with him was very nice to talk to and like it was just super fun. Vrabel was there. I meant rave Rabel is a good time. Yeah, you see why you want to Yeah, you can see why

And there's a totally different dynamic though when you're his player like him. Now, Yeah, I thought this is great. Like we had him on the podcast very recently. He came on yesterday. I know, but I'm trying to play because this this comes out or whatever. Yeah, on yesterday and the three of us have a group chat, Me and Will and Braves and it's our podcast. Was every bit of that group chat, Like it can be awkward

That alpha energy and you could just tell, like the dynamic even on him on yesterday, you just you know, there's still those nerves of like, you know, is.

He Yeah, we're growing mad at this. Yeah. Will's turning thirty thirty three this year, right, Yeah, I literally turned thirty two in less than a week. Yeah, and we're there's literally nerves where I'm being around the other man like, hey, yeah, but he can't hurt us anymore, can't. There's nothing he can do.

We started joking about fighting that I really thought is he does, he's legit for the second yeah, h no, but he is like a good time.

Rabel has got to be the best time. Yeah, he's a guy that dynamic, you know.

I but I've always liked the New York comedy had a dynamic like that. Like you always like the people that started that were the bigger comics above you, and not even necessarily like fame wise, but just the you know, there's guys that started before you. There's always a there's always like a respect that you're like, you know, like you just the older guys. I remember Robert Bobby Kelly who does uh Poka, who does a bonfire now with

A natural just subtle power dynamic that happens that you just never really get n.

Talks about Keith Robinson, like Keith Robinson was in Is in New York Comic that was like with he you know Jay Big Jay and Kevin and they would he did, he helped him a lot, and uh, you know, Kevin Art's obviously the most famous person on the planet and Keith is most people would not know who Keith is.

You And that hurts, like it hurts to agree with that, but it's totally true. Got them pizza feet and I was just like, yeah, he did say that to you.

Yeah, that was tough.

Yeah, who's somebody. Who's somebody that you've met that you've been absolutely fired up to fucking meet.

I met Tiger Tiger Woods. That's a solid one.

And that was h before or after after again, very humble, very cool.

Uh tell you what, people just need.

A little people need a little I can tell you if you think someone's like getting a little too high on the horse. Uh yeah, there could be. I got the you got the pill to make that all better.

Uh.

But he was Yeah, he was awesome. I mean yeah, he just felt like I did a corporate gig for the PGA or something. It was him and Rory were there. This was and uh, I didn't get to meet Rory. I would like to meet Rory, and uh, I just didn't get to meet him. But Rory seemed very nice.

Uh.

And then but Tiger was there and they I was like kind of like it'd be really cool to meet him, and the lady was like, yeah, we're having and he kind of came up and I just got to briefly talk to him and then we just talked about it. He went on the Tonight Show and talked about Foulon and uh, kind of quick, we gotta I gotta picture,

A very very nice, very nice. I wonder what Tom Cruise is about. I wonder what he's think.

I've heard scientology, right, Yeah, it's like that's like I do movies and then scientologist.

That's the thing.

I'd be scared to meet him because I would probably become a scientist.

Have you been on the Scientology building on eighth Avenue. No I haven't. There's one right on eighth. You go down and every once in a while there'll be a little thing out there that says free personality test. I've been tempted to just pull over.

Yeah, there's a there's a I get nervous signs like they're they're good, dude, And I think they could go in there, and you're like, all right, all right, they can they Yeah, they go, yeah, if you if you just have any which I think is how you should live with any question of anything, just question everything a little bit. Uh. And then you go see they go into the Scientology and then Tom Cruise was in there. You're like, that dude's the most charming person the people that I've met him.

I knew a guy that.

Worked as a director and a writer and they had him writing on one of the Mission Impossibles a while ago, and they said that they told him when he when they met him, they go, look, when you meet Tom, they go just say, no, you're gonna think y'all are going to be best friends.

Like that's how charming.

He is is He's just he takes over and you were just like this dude's the best, and you're like, we're gonna you're like, we might be hanging out every day every home. Yeah, and that's just what it's going to feel like because that's that's what he is. It takes that kind of charm to be that. And then they were he was he went into a hotel room on the top floor. Uh, they rented the whole floor out. You know, I mean, you can't that guy like is

But you know, like when he gets on a motorcycle, like just all of a sudden, music starts playing too, like as he drives off.

Right, So my buddy said, he's sitting in Uh, he's sitting in the hotel.

So they tell him that.

So Tom Cruise is here and he's facing the window and they're sitting on the couch looking at Tom and they're talking about like all right, we'll go do this for mission. But then we're gonna and Tom's kind of going to the whole thing. And then they see Tom start to squint because the sun was setting, so the sun's coming in the window and it start a squint. So then they say he says, Tom just pushes.

A button on. I don't even know.

It might have been like an iPad, or it might have been something pushes a button. Two people come in with sunglasses. He's got an option, so they both have a pair, and he just looks and then grabs this pair and puts it on, and but just keeps talking the whole time and then never says, yeah, yeah, those are my sunglasses people, or whatever you should say to go like hey, what was that like high light diversion people? It doesn't make sense, Like you're like, are they just

They leave, and then he still just keeps going. You know, like if you're in there and you just kind of like look around. Nobody says you're gonna ask. I would say, like, hey, who were they? It's probably one of those moments where you look around you see everybody still die.

Then you're kind of just too scared to say anything. He's I think he's taken over the situation. He's talking so much, and he's probably and he's into it, like because he's like doing these stunts.

Yeah, he does all this stuff himself, so.

He's like, you know, and you're just kind of like caught up in it, and you might almost expect it.

To be honest, you might sit there and go, yeah, yeah, that's what. They should have.

Brought him sunglasses And that's insane that y'all made him push the button.

Should you should have just felt it. Somebody just got fired. You know what, it's five o'clock, the sun's starting to set.

Let's go be around Tom with sunglasses and then you just get on that side, you could.

I remember one.

Time talking to the super rich dude that said like he was running by a house and uh he said, you know, because the master bedroom only had one bathroom and he said that like that, and I was like, what, like master bedrooms only like they have two full bathrooms. And but then the moment when they say it, you're like, yeah, dude, screw that house.

Are you out of your mind?

Why were you embarrassing? Is that that they build a house with just one bathroom in the master bedroom to thirty square foot house? Yeah, he's like they didn't have two bathrooms in the master bedroom. You're like, well, that's I'm glad you didn't buy it. Yeah, you know what they deserve.

Yeah they sell. Yeah, and that's a good point.

Yeah, you start realizing, like my stupid house, I got one bathroom in the master bedroom, and.

I look like an idiot, hopeing god he never comes over, I hope. Yeah, yeah, you can't invite him. Yeah, man, that's crazy. You look at the window. Yeah yeah I changed my bathroom. Yeah.

I didn't even know that was a possible to one two bathrooms. Like that's a dream that you're like, I didn't know you I could even have that dream. But now I'll think about every day, like two full bathrooms. Look, two bathrooms, two showers in.

The master bedroom. That didn't make any sense. Well, that's unpractical.

And next time you look at your dumb wife brushing your teeth next to you, like you should be in your own bathroom, and you're just furious, like you go, what are we doing all scrammed in here?

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Uh, there's been a bunch. Uh, it's trying to think I bombed on a cruise once and uh, and so you're on the boat with these people and get up. I remember, like I had to do three shows, and so I do the first two shows. One show goes the point when you would do them you have to do three shows of half an hour, so you'd have to do a half hour clean, half hour dirty, and then you'd have another show that's like a half hour.

God, that would be brutally somebody being on a cruise ship.

He did.

He did some shows and he bombed and he's on the elevator and the guy the gentleman.

Next time there's a you know, crowd on the elevator.

He's wearing a hat, so they can't they don't recognize who he is, and they're talking about how you know this one comic they loved him, and then but that last one, like.

He just wasn't very good and he said he's he's just standing there. That's tough. You ever get over that? Uh?

Yeah, you remember, you know, it's always funny afterwards because you're like, you're glad it happens like, uh, you're glad in the sunset. It's a funny story to tell, like you know, Uh, but yeah, it's pretty tough.

I'll tell you.

One of the ones that hurt me the most was I auditioned for Last Comic Standing when Gialdo hosted, and uh uh and Craig Robinson was on it because he had his had a movie, very funny joke that Gido said, Craig Robinson had the movie a hot Tub time Machine and uh and so write and you see because I got a new movie, hot Tub time Machine. And Drada goes, oh, what's it about. Uh, it's very funny because obviously it's about a hot tough time there's no way to describe

Yeah, it's just another but man, when it, you know, when it, when you're in it, you're like what am I doing? Dude? Like it's so frustrating.

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But I pas have so much alcohol and then so if you drank them like bud lights, you know, it's like it's just like I got caught up in that where you're like you're having you're just getting smashed and like black though. I when I pas started becoming around, that was that was the end. That's when I was like, all right, that's gonna fit perfect into this question.

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Uh.

I mean some of this I've talked about on my in my act. So usually anything that I've already talked about, it was uh. I mean one was at uh uh I guess an Indian casino or Native American casino. Uh canceled Washing Football team casinos Washington Football. Yeah, why didn't they keep Washington Football?

I know it's a good name and the commanders good Washington Football.

I was like, you may just think, well every team we should be the Tennessee football team.

Yeah, I was stupid, makes it easy, yeah, uh.

But so I went to that and I I remember it was like three hour drive from Phoenix, and so I was out in Arizona. I drove to this casino to do this little one night er. I mean, this is you know, I'm nobody making no money talking stickers at Uh.

I wish this was not even that. This is.

I think I did some other kind of It was like it was something I was making one hundred and fifty dollars. But it was like, you know what, I'll just go drive to the middle of nowhere, Arizona and then go back to Phoenix and then fly home.

Uh.

So I go out and I was like, oh, it'll be fun, and uh, you know, I'm thinking, like I'll just go to bed early, get up, have a nice drive back because I'm like, I'm not gonna be hanging out with anybody. And then so we get doing the show that I'm hanging on, Likexino. Then you just end up meeting like some fun dudes. And next thing you know, it's like it's five in the morning and I'm just trying to.

Go to bed.

I gotta get up at like eight to drive three hours back. So I get up and I'm driving back and I mean, I'm so I feel so awful and uh and when I and I have this in my joke, I walked out at the casino and there's like wolf, Like, uh, and this really happened. There's a wolf like in my path to go to my car in the parking lot and just sitting there staring at me. And I was like, uh, you know, like I don't know what this is. Like it made me really dude, and I swear it was

Is it a wolf?

Is it the guy I hung out with last night? I don't know? And so I went, yeah, he turned into a wolf, and now he's like, good day, sir.

Yeah.

So I just went back inside and I remember I just rolled my stuff back in the casino and I just stood there. I'm not talking to anybody, like it's and I just kind of stood inside for a second, and then I went back out and then the wolf was gone. And so then I went to my car

Like annoy it.

I'm like, here we go, like you know, I mean, I've never had a to stop for helicopter in my life. I don't expect to ever do it ever again. And I handled that moment hung over, just like and want look at this every day, every day, every helicopter, every day there goes every day. I'm looking at that. I'm not I should have video of this, I should have pictures. I didn't do any of that. I just was like, hey, we I was like, can I get around him? Like it's a hell. I mean, he's just in the middle

I I think so, I.

Really, yeah, cause it was it was the day after Uh. It feels like so far away now, but yeah, that I do believe that all that stuff happened. And that was stuff like when I drank like I cause I talked about that my special and like, uh on one of my specials. But uh it's uh yeah, those are moments that you're like, such fun moments that you think for when you first start drinking.

Stop drinking. You're like, well, I'm not gonna not be fun anymore, but.

You gotta you want the moment to live forever. Keep it going, keep it going. Yeah, ma'am, dude, thanks for coming on. I know you have a hard stop at five, so we'll let you get out of here. Thank you for coming on and think this fly for being with us as well. That motherfucker's around, he's been living his best life. Yeah, just rips around on just sitting and you hit that damn light about Yeah, but thanks a lot, man. This has been fucking awesome. Absolutely, man, congrats you guys

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