179: #179 Christmas Traditions feat. Nic Novicki

2023/12/20

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right after I did the Manning cast. So when I did it, it was the next day. And so, you know, I was, you know, I got pretty, I was a little fired up to be honest. And I don't remember what I, what I said, but the Manning, we actually saw the Manning cast tonight that day is December 18th. So they actually apologized to my dad on the Manning cast. So I felt,

I'm going to leave in what I said. It was very nice that Peyton did apologize about that. It was the setup. It was the whole thing. In this way of doing it, I don't mention my dad. They made a couple jokes about my dad's trick. I didn't know my dad had seen that part of him doing it. I know, and obviously he listens to our podcast.

So I didn't want to really make it about that, but that's what really drove it all was just protecting my... I don't need to protect my dad. My dad took it way better than I did, to be honest. But, yeah. You're fired up when your dad's involved, when family's involved. Exactly. It's not just you. Exactly. And it was right after we did it. You did black out with rage. Yeah. We don't know. Yeah, we don't know. And so I hope...

I don't know. Don't take anything too serious. It's like anything. We're being ridiculous. I'll leave it in. You can decide if it's too. I didn't mean to be too mean. Graham's here. Graham's, by the way, has nothing to do with any of this.

- I came over for dinner. - Yeah, Graham K. He's, yeah, Nick Novicki's actually in this episode that you're gonna see today. So no, Graham, there's really not a point for him being here other than he was the reason I did it. He talked me into it. Hope you're happy. - This is gonna ruin my career, isn't it? - Probably. He's going back to Canada. All right, all right, enjoy the episode. eBay Motors is here for the ride.

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Nick Novicki. He's back. Old friend of the podcast. It's been a while since you've been on here. I know. I'm excited to be back. I think it's been almost two years. It's been a while. Yeah. And a lot has happened. It hasn't been two years. I think it's been close because I don't think you've been on since Dusty's been a regular. Yeah. And Dusty started episode 100 and this is like 170. Had you had your kids since you were here last? I don't think so. No, I think I...

I think you have, but she's almost three, right? She's two. Yeah, two. Yeah. Yeah. So I had. So not three. Yeah. Yeah. She's almost three. Two. So she's two. That's like a positive way to tell someone they're wrong. Yeah. Yeah. She's two. Yeah. Yeah. She's three. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's two now. Just positive. Well, welcome everybody. We're glad to have Nick back.

Christmas episode. This is the Christmas episode. We're all in the holiday spirit. Happy Festivus. Yeah. Festivus. I brought in that pole for you. Oh, wait.

I got a lot of problems. Yeah, that's why I brought it in. Yeah. I'll share some grievances. Variant of grievances. We can start it off with it. We did the Manning cast last night. So I'll share all my grievances. I'm going to start with you, Cougar. So me and my dad did the Manning cast last night. And, you know, I don't think it was good. But I'm just annoyed by it because it's –

The setup is not great. There's a very... There's a big delay. And I get you... I was not used... Like, you know, you hear it and you don't realize it. I couldn't get that ear thing in my ear. Whoever designed it. Like, you see that problem on TV a lot. You're like, let's figure it out. It shouldn't be, though, because, I mean, a lot of times it's when some quarterback or somebody just left the field and they're on the field doing an interview and they throw it on real fast. But...

I mean, news anchors, it should be. There's no reason, unless you sat down five seconds before it started. No, I sat down. No, I had it in and it was in and then it started coming out. Then it kept coming out. Now, I don't put it in. Like, I mean, but I wasn't told how to put it in. Well, they should do that for you. Well. I mean, it should be. It should be.

put in for you probably taped out or strapped down somehow. It wasn't strapped. Yeah. I think it was clipped to my hoodie or something. And I was trying to like lift it up. It just got off to a weird, like, yeah,

Once an earpiece starts to come out too, it's like, let me try to get that back in. You still open up the door. I even tried to turn my head at one point because it pops out. Yeah. And so I tried to turn my head because I was trying to be like, all right, if it pops out while I'm talking, I just don't want that distraction of it popping out. So I'll try to hide it. But I mean, you can see it. It was, yeah, the whole thing was...

You know, I don't know. Like, I met Peyton recently. And so I don't really know him. I was actually weirdly, maybe, I couldn't end up going. I was supposed to have dinner with Eli Manning and a few other people the week before. And I couldn't go to it. And I always thought, like, should I went to it just to – because in my head I did think that, like, should I go with it just to be like, I need to, like –

So he gets to know your voice. Yeah. So he gets to know, yeah, my vibe and like, you know, cause that's the hard part when you do interviews is if the person, they don't know anything that I do and I'm not saying that they should, I'm not blaming them for that, but they know nothing. I do. They know I am a comedian. I'm a, they're being, whatever they're being told. I don't, I would bet my life. They have not watched a second of my comedy. They may be seen once. Maybe, but,

I don't, I would say none of it. So you don't know. So they don't know me and don't know like how, you know, the first time I brought the center thing, I was actually, I was pretty proud of that. Like, cause I was like, y'all keep talking about the center. Like you brought them off the, you don't know him. And then, you know, be like, would you, you know, the blindfold thing and all that. And they got to like, that got to think, but it's like, when you say that it's not a good, it didn't, I thought it would keep going and be like, all right. I'd like,

I saw the questions they asked. You don't understand the comic. You're going to go like, I can just talk. Let's just talk. I'll be okay to do this. You have two games going on. I'm also trying not to

I don't know what to do with the games. It's like I'm seeing – they can see both games. I can only see what you're seeing on TV. So sometimes they would see both games and then be like, wow, the Titans got – blah, blah, blah. And also a lot of those too you think –

Do you want me to talk football? Like, I thought that's the whole point. Like when we're on game day, it's like, that's annoying to go, you know, if you have a comedian on and I'm telling you my real thoughts on football, that's stupid. They all do that.

So that's what I thought of this was like, all right, well, I'll just be funny and just try to bring up random stuff. Like the, when I said the, does the receiver, when he runs away early, does that mean he doesn't know? Like that was a whole thing to try to get that in. Cause it's like, we kept cutting each other off. Right. Cause you're so delayed. Yeah. And then when I asked that, like, you know, I'm just trying to ask fun questions. Like, I don't know. I'm just trying to be silly.

I thought that was the whole point. Yeah, there's a delay between the two of them, and then they add a third person in. Yeah, but do they have a delay? I don't think they do. There's no way. I don't think they do. They don't have a delay on the game, but they have a delay with you, I think. They have a delay to me. I'm saying they don't have a delay to each other. I don't know, but even a Zoom that has no delay is a little bit... It's not obviously the same as... Yeah, but I'm saying they don't... I don't think they have a delay to each other.

So they're, they're, they can talk. Cause when you see interviews on TV, you can tell when there's a delay, then you can tell when they're, you know, it's like, all right, they're at, they're both at studios basically. So you can shoot an interview with no delay, right? Like on PTI. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah. So like I, they have no delay, but then we, then we have a delay. And so it's just, you know, and I don't, I'm not trying to complain about,

This feels like I'm complaining. Well, I was annoyed by it. To be honest with you, I was a little just it's annoying to, you know, like it's I know like, you know, they think like we're not, you know, it's like I'm not a good guess. Mark Wahlberg, they said was not a good guess. I know it's not for a I don't think it's fair to throw all that stuff on us. Why are what do we do? We're not doing anything.

You're asking us the questions. Why are we there? Well, plus, it's like you got two games going on. So they'll be like, so tell us about your wife. Like, wait a minute, touchdown, touchdown. That's the other problem. That's the first time I've ever had two games. Yeah. They didn't even need guests on that one. Yeah. It's too much football. Well, they didn't have Kirk Cousins on. Y'all sit and talk about football. They enjoy talking to football players. Right. Yeah. That's what they enjoy. They enjoy, you know, uh,

You know, it's like I could feel like because they were saying like Mark Wahlberg's energy was not good. You're like you can feel it because then when you feel how off it is, you just then go you kind of have an I don't care attitude like in your, you know, because it's just like I mean, yeah.

I'm trying to get like a something off. I'm trying to get a rapport of being like, let's see if if I was in the room with them. Be totally totally different. Yeah. But they also liked what you were doing, too. It was like, you know, when you were talking about the receivers, you could see Eli. He's like, oh, wait a minute. Yeah. Maybe the receiver does wait too long, you know, or it goes out too early. You know, there was a moment, but he just didn't say anything where it was like. Yeah, they don't.

And then when my dad's magic trick, they had it cut away. So he didn't even show the trick. My dad's just trying to do a quick trick that works. They had a thing written in there. They wrote this script. They had a thing in about something with my dad. And then we're like, well, he could do a magic trick. You feel like it's a looser kind of thing. It's set up and everything's pretty loose. It's not a... This isn't a...

you know, well scripted. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, that's what's funny too. You do some stuff at some, you think it's going to be this super high level kind of thing. And then you're like, Oh, it's a run and gun kind of setup. Yeah. And then, so if it's run and gun, you're going to be the one that's got to figure it out. And I should have figured it out. I should have, you know, if I, I didn't, you know, it's, it was a perfect problem, which is I had a really crazy weekend and,

You know, we did a podcast and then immediately kind of went to that. And I was just feeling a little, I was like a little burnout. I was excited to do it. And then, and then I'm seeing like the hurdles. I'm as I sit there, I didn't, I couldn't win. I should have went out there earlier. I should have sit there and realize what was going on. There's a little stuff I didn't pre-plan, um,

but like when I went out there and then I heard the delay and then the, the, your thing, then you're like, Oh, this is, you're like, this has a chance of not being good. And then I was trying to say, you know, I'm just trying to say dumb stuff. Right. I mean, that's why I said the center thing. Yeah. Like,

Like, cause it was like, I'm just trying to, who cares that it doesn't matter what that is, what I'm saying. I'm not talking about the game. I don't, what do you want me? It's a good question. Yeah, it is. I thought it was a funny question. Cause they had just been harping on about it for a long time. You were listening to what they were saying. Yeah. Yeah. And I, and I've been pre thinking questions that, uh, the, the receiver one, I always thought about, cause you see there a receiver that doesn't really get in the huddle and he takes off.

And you're like, Oh, this is a run play. Yeah. Like, I mean, does the defense not go like, well, that guy's clearly not a part of this play. He's, I mean, he didn't even kind of hear what was going on. And I always think that. So that's why I asked that question. Yeah. And then it's like, my dad's trick is like, they, you know, they just cut away right at the thing. And then it's, it's, it's like, well, that's not his fault. You're it's the setup is not in our favor. Yeah.

And it should be a little bit more in, you should at least explain it. If we have a guest on and it's not, and it wasn't good, that's not the guest fault. That would be our fault for not making it good. You know what I mean? Unless it's Nick. Unless it's Nick. Then it's probably Nick's fault. A little bit me. Yeah. But everybody understands it would be Nick's fault. Everybody listening knows Nick and goes, well, I think everybody goes, obviously Nick, Nick would, you know.

It was, yeah. I'm not venting about it. How did you even... Did they approach you about being on there? How did it even come about? When I talked to Peyton at CMAs. So to me, yeah, Peyton's not going to take the time to do a ton of research, watch all your specials, but he should at least know a little bit. It doesn't... It's...

Sometimes when you do this stuff, it's like you just need to get know like, hey, this is very loose. Just be told there's going to be a delay. Very loose. You know, like just they will talk about football. It's they they sent the questions before.

And I'm trying to read them, try to see if I can come up with something. And some of them trying to be like, well, I'll just flip it and just ask, like ask the questions I ask, like, and see if that kind of gets a thing going. It's hard to get a conversation going when there's that much of a delay. And then because I got a delay and then I don't know if they're, if they talk over each other or something like it's, it's very hard to kind of like really be like get into a good rhythm. Like you can really only talk.

Then you're just sitting there watching a football game. Two games. Two games. What's my face supposed to look like? Honestly, I sit there going like, all right, try not – because I would see it and it looks like I'm mad. I'm like, well, I'm just at home watching a game. No one – you don't sit and go –

I don't know how to do that and feel like it would be stupid. At least you have good vision, though. If I was watching, I'd be like just squinting the whole time. Like, what is that? That'd probably be a lot more fun. Yeah. When they showed the graphic of you as a Miami thing kid, Nick wouldn't be able to see it. Like, I don't get it. Yeah. Yeah. They it was, you know, like that joke was. Yeah. They had me do the free range chicken joke.

Eli loved it. Eli is fun. I'm a lifelong Giants fan, and I love Eli Manning. He's great. The Mannings are... I'm wearing all veiny stuff to make a point today. But it's...

Yeah, and we got a lot of Tennessee, you know, obviously probably tons of Tennessee fans. Ole Miss fans. Everybody loves the Manny fans. I get it. Like, they're great. That show should not have nothing but their friends, their football players. Like, you either need to know them so that you can have rapport. Taylor LeJuan and Will Compton's interview was better.

They know each other and they're talking football and they're telling variable stories and the Mannings light up about that because they like that stuff. Just do that. Well, that's kind of how you've approached having guests on this podcast from day one, right? Yeah. We've never done anything over Zoom and it's all people you already have a relationship with. Yeah, I'm doing Zoom. You know how crazy that is to do Zoom? Yeah.

On that it's on ESPN 2 and I'm on and it says zoom That's insane. Yeah, like that. You mean what are we doing? And it's not it's not a good zoom. Yeah

It's not the Zoom that you wanted to be like a Zoom, like a work Zoom that we've all figured out how to do. It's a Zoom that's delayed. So then you're just sitting there. And I know from my TV days when they do stuff like that, I don't know for sure, but usually they outsource it. They hire some company in whatever town they're in to send a guy over who gets. So that guy, I'm assuming, did not work for ESPN. He was just someone they hired. They were. I mean, the two guys were very nice.

Two older dudes, they were very nice. But yeah, I mean, I don't, no one cares. Here is my lesson, or younger comics, maybe younger, in any field you do, no one cares if you look good. Just always remember that. No one really cares. So you got to do your best part to look good in whatever you do. And I think really anything. No one, and it's no one, and by the way, it's not their responsibility to care.

I mean, you they just they're everybody's trying to do their best kind of thing.

And I, that should, if they're trying to do their best, they should care how it looks. It's on them. I know, but they're not going to care if it goes bad. Maybe that's what I'm being there. No one's going to really, if you don't do good, they're just, they write it off as like, I'd imagine they write that as like, we're never going to like, it was pointless to have Nate on. So like, that's marked that off. I'll never get asked to do it again where, you know, you want to go in. That's fine. I shouldn't ever do it again. It's not the right, I think I could be really good on it, but I can't in that situation.

And, you know, it's hard to be like, you know, it's, you know, I, it's, you know, it's like, you just realize no one, I just, you just can tell they, they just don't know who, when, when you're a comic,

and you're on a show, if a person doesn't know anything that you do, it's usually radio interviews are like that. Where sometimes if interviews have got easier for me, just as more people have realized who I am. But at the beginning, that's the hardest part for comics because they don't,

they don't care who they're interviewing. Right. And they, so it's like, you got to interview this guy's doing the comedy thing. They go, okay, whatever. Like, you know, and you know, and then they do it. And then it's just not like, there's no work. And I don't know if the mannings are, well, I mean, I think they probably put, they put work into that, that pre-taped audition thing. They sent me, they already, they like, I had to, I had to film that. We filmed it. I was going to,

film it on stage. Like I could have set up stuff to be really fun. And that's what I should have done. Taken control and be like, if you want me to do this, I'm going to send you the stuff that I want to do. Cause this will be better. I could have filmed that at State Farm Arena. That, that question made fun of Peyton on stage in front of 13,000 people. Yeah. And then videoed it. It would have been funny and it would have been, and it would have just been a fun kind of thing. But it was like, they do this audition thing. They send me their answers. Yeah.

Like pre. So now I have to do it their way because they've already pre-taped these answers. So now it's like, all right, so I got to go stand in front of a camera and do my joke. And, you know, it's because I would imagine most people that they deal with want it that way because they're not a creator. But when you're a creator, you're just like, what? No, I don't want to do that. Do it this way.

But then, you know, it's like, who am I to start bossing them around and telling them to do it? Yeah. I remember when you were doing it and, you know, the forehead bit, I was like, Ooh, I don't know how that's going to get up. They wrote that. After he's like, yeah, that was his idea about the forehead. I was like, I don't know. You know? No, they, they, that's the bit that the, the, my joke is obviously the football joke. And then they, all the stuff I said about Peyton, they wrote.

So I just did it because I mean, you I had to do I had to make fun of them. I'm not trying to say it in like some other way, but I had to make fun of them because, you know, that's what it was. There was a lot more questions we were going to talk about, too. But I mean, it's it's it's just a tough situation. Like you're just not, you know, and I mean, it's like, you know, I don't know. I really don't want to feel like I'm.

I hope because this episode comes out next week so though I've already been another Manning cast by the time this comes out I hope it goes great for the I hope they still I hope they blast you on that one and like boy the guy we had last week was the worst it would be funny yeah I don't want to it's it's not a pro I don't want to

I know this, you know, it's like I'm complaining. I just, I was like, it's just annoying. Like, it's just like, it's kind of annoying. Well, this just happened. So we're just talking about it. It happened hours ago. Yeah. We're pre-recording this. So yeah, this, I mean, this, it happened last night and I was just so like, it just like, it's a, it's a, just not a good situation.

And you want, and I, but I should have figured it out. It's not on them. If you know, that's what I mean. When you go to do something, it's not going to, you don't, I don't, whatever you think you want your appearance to be, they, you're just a peg in this, whatever that saying is. Cogging the wheel. Cogging the wheel. So you're not really important. If you, if I canceled immediately, they would have been like, okay, same amount of viewers watch whatever. They, it doesn't mean anything to them.

So you, I should have been more prepared. It made me realize that like, all right, I need to be, I should have been more prepared to do it more. Like, what are we doing? Like, what are you know, I did it. So then, then I get myself in a situation like I was in, I should have done that. And then it made me realize too, like, all right, if I'm doing something, I need to make sure that the other people are getting the best treatment that they could, you know, that they could get.

And, you know, to put them in the best light. And if it doesn't go, then it's not really on me. Side note, I had to wait outside for the last four hours. Nate was like, you're not coming in until you're ready here. Yeah. So I'm like in the cold. You're already ruining this project. Here we go. I'm bombing. To your point, I mean, you got to, yeah, no one cares how you, production wise. I mean, these guys here. Yeah.

The nose whistle. I mean, I'm like, if they're not going to care about it, then I'm just going to have to stop the nose whistle myself. You have to. Yeah, because they don't care. They'll just let it whistle all day. Or there'll be a public outcry. Yeah. So I see here where you're coming from. Yeah. We've all been there. Yeah. Your day is full of to do's responsibilities and balancing work with spending quality time with loved ones.

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I mean, you're getting asked these questions. It's like, I can only make the questions, the answers so fun, you know? And it's like, you get a mix of how is Saturday Night Live to, so when did you know you were funny? And you're like, you still answer those questions. You're like, well, what am I supposed to answer? Like, just be mad at the guy and be like, what is this question? Yeah, I don't know. Well, it's over now. But I

But I was glad to get – I wanted to get this off my chest. There you go. And I wanted to do it publicly. There you go. Yeah. Maybe I'll see the Mannings again. See if it gets weird. I'll make it as weird as they want to make it. I'm wearing this Vanderbilt. I could care less now. The whole next episode is about, you know, we just love Nate Bargatze. It's already come out. It's already come out.

Wait a minute. We got to do a little editing, you know? Yeah, that would be funny. The whole episode. So, yeah.

I think you got to move that. Yeah. A little loud. Yeah. Move it. No, he brings some energy to the table. It's what we could use for you. You can push it. All right. Yeah. What is that? You don't lean towards it. I'm not leaning towards it. Remember this weekend at the arena? Yeah. Remember when you were talking on stage and the mic was not even near you, but you were still? You got to, you got to, your voice, your voice is good. You project. You project. You're like, because you do theater. Yeah. Yeah.

You do theater. I do. Yeah. Just, you know, this weekend we were just talking. We were just randomly talking and the mic is six feet away on a stool. Yeah. And it's just picking Nick's voice up. It's like going all over the thing. We had fun. So, all right. All right. Well, that's the Manning cast.

So that's how it went. It went like that. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be fun to see if I ever see him again. Why would I? I don't know. Why would I cross paths? Oh, you're going to go to dinner with Eli? I was supposed to. I would go now. Yeah. I really would. I would love it now. Honestly, if I got asked to go again, if they set it up, I would go because I would want to feel how... And not that they would... I don't think he would even...

feel anything, but I would and I would make it awkward. It's, you know, I would have a hard time not saying anything. I would say something.

I would try to do it in a nice way, but it would be on my mind. I can't ever just let stuff go. That's all I would think about. They'd be like, we'll have a nice little dinner with a bunch of people. I would just be... On a delay? Yeah. Is everybody's food going to come out at the same time? Eli?

Are you going to finish early and then be mad at us because we're not done yet because you got your food first, Eli, Peyton? Yeah. All right.

Yeah, I feel like you're going to – Catch me next week on the Manicats. Do the Titans win? Hey, the Titans won. Yeah, you're the good luck charm. That was great, game. That's all that mattered. Will Levis, dude, I'm pumped about Will Levis. Oh, yeah, man. He's exciting. Again, all the Tennessee fans, when we drafted Will Levis, the Tennessee fans – Trashed him, dude. Trashed him. I know. And, like, he's been fun. I didn't know – I was excited that we got him. And the Tennessee fans who know everything. Yeah. And they know everything about everything. Mm-hmm.

they said he was like bad. Well, this dude's been fun to watch and he's at least energetic and he's pumped up and he's excited. And yeah, it's a fun thing. It's a fun vibe that we got going on the Titans. It made me, I want to watch the rest of the seat, you know? I mean, it's, it's super exciting. It's exciting to be like, all right, dude, like I'd,

Is this guy going to like, I don't know what he may work out, but if you're that excited and pumped up, I don't care. I know. Like, that's all I want. It's fine. Now, again, they've already played another game. Yeah. So we'll let us in the hospital with. We'll let us pray. One at 327 passing yards. Yeah. It's fun. It's fired up on that last. Yeah. Hopkins has been not dude. It's been the Titans are we're fun.

We've been fun. That's what we needed is just some good energy in there. Well, that game was super fun. Yeah. And look, I loved it. We won. I mean, that game, we were down two touchdowns with four minutes left. I think three minutes left, right? Yeah. Three minutes left. Yeah, the Dolphins had a 99. How old's your kid? Two. Three? Two. But they said it was the first time in 700 and something games. 67 games. Oh, well, that's a little bit different than what I just said. But...

It was like every team's been down by this for this much time left. I thought it was like 700-something.

I said 767. Oh, I thought you just said 67. I was like, no, I'm off by 700. At one point, the Dolphins in the fourth quarter, 99.7% win probability. Yeah. That's pretty close to 100. Pretty close to 100. He was like a professional wrestler, though, at the end of that. That was the probability of the Manning cast going bad. Once I sat down and realized.

realized, oh, they're on a giant delay. There's a 99.7% this is going to go bad. Taylor LeJuan said it. He just wrote it again. He goes, all right, that's kind of... And he did it very well because he goes, all right, that's the lag we're going to be dealing with. Okay. He made that joke and said that. And they did good. They just talked over him. They did a much better...

They know them, so they were really, really good. Everybody was really good outside. Yeah, I enjoyed it once you got off. It was really short. I understand that. You should have. I understand that. Kirk Cousins was great. And that's completely right. That's completely right. Now, the delay is so funny because even after the game, Scott Van Pelt's – I mean, you see it every night on ESPN. He's interviewing Will Levis, holding a mic, and there's a slight delay. So Scott Van Pelt will say something funny –

And then he gets serious, but we'll love us. We'll start laughing during the serious part because he's on a delay. You see it all the time. See it all the time.

All right. Well, thanks. Yeah. Thanks for, I know, you know, you guys don't have to hear this venting. Sorry. I just had to get it out. I felt safe doing it with all you, with all the folks. Yep. See my good, everybody's good people. We get it. Yeah. They get it. All right. That's it. It's a show. It's going to be just a bonus episode. Yeah. What if I get paid and Eli come up? What if I should ask him?

To come on the podcast. Both of them? Yeah. Me and Dusty are gone. And just. The Mannings across the table. Oh, yeah. And then you're in another room. Yeah, they have to be downstairs. Just ask them all the questions. Why is this? Why don't y'all get more of a heads up? It's one of those things where it's like someone, and you do something where someone invites you to do something and they think you just know how it works. And you want to go, hey, I've never done this.

So like, maybe like let's, we should have definitely talked more about, it was very, it's a very loose invite. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, we did it. Did it. You can check it off. I'll make sure to be better in other stuff.

So that's what I was doing. I was in Delaware this weekend. Yeah. Shows were great. Standing ovation, which is rare at a corporate, but standing ovation every show. Standing ovation. You know, I did the University of Delaware right after Joe Flacco got drafted. Really? Yeah. I brought that up on there. They cheered. One of the first colleges they did. They got cool colors. Blue and white? Yeah. I guess that's cool. It is cool.

It's just pretty basic. Yeah. Well, I mean, every school is basic. Every color is basic. It's what you do with it. And they do fun stuff with it. Yeah. It was, yeah. Look at that. That's fun. Blue and yellow. Blue and yellow. That's fun. My high school is blue and yellow. Some big games this week. Rutgers got a big bowl game. Notre Dame got a big bowl game. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Do you care about Rutgers? No.

Okay. I don't know if this is known on the podcast. I'm a Notre Dame fan. Nick's a fellow Notre Dame fan. Well, I know he's a fellow. Didn't he go to Rutgers? No. Oh, well, never mind. She's two. She's two years old. Why not think he went to Rutgers? All right. I looked at Nick at Rutgers big game and he's like, okay, who cares? Yeah, I didn't know why you were bringing up Rutgers. Where'd you go to college? Temple in Philly. Oh, it's the same thing. There you go. It's only another state. Philadelphia, New Jersey. It's all the same.

Actually, my wife went to Rutgers. That's why I knew your wife. Oh, really? Yeah. That's cool. How about that? Nick, Bill Cosby. Both went to Temple. He's my idol. Yeah. Use that. You use it how you want to use it.

All right. Yeah. What do you want to... I was at Sidesplitters in Tampa. Yeah. All right. Thank you to everybody who came. Thank you. Nick, you were at home. Yeah. Really fun time with you. Yeah. Thank you. I mean, it's crazy. Yeah. We had a fun time. It's insane. I mean, these like...

It's wonderful. The people that come out are wonderful. And I can't thank them enough. And I appreciate. We've got a nice thing. I think everybody has a wonderful time. It's truly, truly a special thing. And I'm blown away. We got to play hockey, too, in Tampa. We play. Yeah. So it turns out, Nick, that's his sport. Is it really? Yeah.

Yeah. So they had this, it's like you play floor hockey. Yeah. And so they had like a little rink. So we, they, they set up, these guys came up, it was like Tampa Bay, something, uh,

No, the Lightning. I was saying to the guy that they did a putt-putt course, which was awesome. A guy brought in a putt-putt course and set it up. We played the full... We played a bunch. And then they also had this little rink. And it was probably double the size of a bedroom. Whatever. It wasn't huge. And they had the wall in glass. And they had a real goal. And then they had sticks in there. And you could shoot pucks at it. So then...

We were like, all right, let's just, you know, let's play. We played two on two. We've never really done it. Well, Nick is unreal. Like Nick's like can, you know, get the puck and like shoot it high, shoot it low. And he's very aggressive. I did. I played against Nate. So I did a little check on him. I got checked. I got hit in the shin with a stick. Yeah.

Bye, Nick. Bye, Nick. I got one up in the air that almost hit Nick in the face. It went by. That was the thing. We were switching who was going to be the goalie. So I had to go on goal. And I was like, I can do it. And then one, literally, I went like, I just turned a little bit. I was like, all right, Eric, you want to hop back to the goal? Yeah.

Yeah, we really made Eric and Chase be the goalies because that's the two faces that could be ruined. Yeah. And the show could still go on. Yeah. And it was, yeah, it was so fun. But it's funny. So when we play sports with Nick, there's usually like something to make it a level playing field. Like when you play basketball, you got to let the ball drop. Yeah. And it's got to hit first. No, nothing. This is a straight up.

You play hockey with him, it's every man for itself. Rules are the rules. Wow. And he's, and I mean, he, Nick just beats down. Like, I mean, you get fighting for the puck. It was, we had a lot of fun. Yeah.

It was a little dangerous, though. Like Nick Thune, who was also on the shows, he literally hit a like slap shot against your dad. Just right in the chest. My dad's at the Dungoli where everybody's just trying to be silly. And then, yeah, then Nick just, I mean, just drills my dad in the chest with a real puck. With a real puck. Yeah. Oh, gosh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So I made myself a bruise from that real puck. But yeah, it was a special, special weekend. It really was. Do we need to do one? No, the first one was already pre-recorded. So we got a little time. All right. Let's start off with you guys' comments. Judd Johnson. That's a good name. Judd Johnson. Yeah, that's a good name. That guy lives.

Yeah, Judd Johnson does not live in the neighborhood. No. He lives, you know, he's got a long driveway. Is Judd short for something? Or are you just named Judd? Judson. Juddson? No, I think you just named Judd. Judd Apatow, Judd Johnson. Judd Hirsch? Judd Hirsch. I'd imagine Judd Johnson and Judd Apatow would have trouble having a conversation together. Yeah.

This podcast is authentic and it's always refreshing break from all comics who just pretend to be stupid. All right. We're authentically stupid. We're authentically stupid. Yeah, I like that. We are. We're not ashamed either. Last week's episode, which we recorded yesterday, I said co-met too. Right as we're rolling the credits, Aaron pointed out.

Looked up. That's not accurate. It means equal. Work together, but not two. We will humbly fact check ourselves. Yeah. And I also looked up when I got home, NOAA, when it established, since that was a theme, 1970. 1970.

Well, it said 200 years. On their website. On their website. It says over 200 years of doing it. I believe you, but I don't know why they said over 200 years. There was something like in the early 1800s where they patrolled the coastline. It was called something else, but Noah was- Flat, straight up on the front of their website. Yeah. Highlighted, said over 200 years. Well, you can't say that on your website. I'll find it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so-

Maybe it wasn't. No, it was on here somewhere. Yeah, we saw it. Maybe they got it off already. They don't. These guys are taking stuff too seriously. Yeah, NOAA's roots reach back more than 200 years. But I mean, that's, yeah. Look, Noah's roots in 1807. Yeah, Thomas Jefferson found them. Yeah. Come on. Come on. Come on. What are we doing? Darren Cheney.

My girlfriend and I love your show. We love it so much that it has become a good way for us to spend what she calls quality time together for a couple hours. Just so you know, every Wednesday I'll get a text from my girlfriend that says, don't forget tonight is worried face Wednesday. Keep up the good work. I like that. The worried face is a good, that was such a great thing. It's so funny. Yeah. Why does your boy look worried?

And that was first done by a couple of girls from McGavock High School on my senior trip to Panama City. Yep. Look, they can see you now. I know. Maybe they're watching. Maybe they're watching. There's the guy. There's the guy. Do you think that those girls thought about that?

The next day. Oh, they called me that all weekend. Okay. Cause I kept seeing them. Okay. Maybe like a week later. Do you think that they still think about it? I bet they still do. Did they, they know the impact that had on you? I don't know that. They just love calling me worried. I mean, I think you would, but you probably look the same. That's the hair. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean like you would, I mean like you'd be like, Oh yeah. Yeah. I know that guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like you're losing weight. Are you losing weight?

Yeah, I wish. Oh, thank you. Thank you. I do look good. A little less worried on the face. Yeah. Yeah. Look, you get some work done.

Yeah. Bates would go get work. I wish you would be the one to go get work. Like you just, every week you sit at the end of the table and people are like, man, his lips are like just the collagen. Yeah. You're just doing like a lot of stuff. Like Bates has got to keep up with the Joneses. Yeah. Yeah. Great cheeks. Great cheeks. Uh, Jamie Osborne.

I saw Nate Knoxville. Amazing show. Hilariously, though. I'm sorry. I'm trying to ask Aaron if he has this picture. Did I send you this? Oh, yes. Stuff we should have done. Privately. What are we, the Manning cast? There we go.

Jamie Osborne. I saw Nate in Knoxville. Amazing show. Hilariously, though, I bought my tickets the minute they went on sale earlier in the year and was so happy with my floor seats only to realize I accidentally bought four in a row, one in front of the other.

Instead of in a row together, here's our memorable selfie. We will laugh about this for a long time. Great show. This is the family. That's so funny. That's awesome. I wonder if they switched or they stay like that. No, he said he cut out a little bit. He said he tried to switch it and couldn't. So they just did it. And he's, you know.

That's so funny. They all just enjoyed the show by themselves in front of each other. Although the guy in the front looks a little bit like he's upset about it. Well, that's Jamie. Yeah, that's just the dad that bought the tickets. Yeah. No, that's so funny, though. Hey, if you ever come to the Nate show, that's how you're going to come to the show. Yeah, yeah.

The kids probably love it, actually. I would think the kids are like, this is the greatest thing. You know, you're like, you can just, your parents are in front of you. Yeah. And then, you know, you want to see, I think the fun part though is, the fun part is laughing with each other, but it's, yeah. But I mean, that makes it. The boy in the back just starts smoking a cigar. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. That makes me happy. Connie DeCrescenzo. I bet you would say that.

Connie DeCrescenzo. DeCrescenzo. DeCrescenzo. DeCrescenzo family. Yeah. I woke up one morning after my husband had left for work. I walked out to the kitchen and found a puddle of water with a note next to it. The note said, water.

My dear husband spilled some water and then took me down to find a pen and piece of paper and scribbled the word water on it. When I questioned about it, he said he did it so that I wouldn't slip and fall. Isn't it sweet how much he loves me? That's a good guy right there. Just letting them know. Just letting them know there's water. Also, don't be alarmed. It's not gasoline. It's just water. Just water. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that she knows how to clean it up later. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This is a one-person job. Yeah. It's just regular water. I'm not the person you are. If you leave there long enough, it's going to go away, right? Oh, eventually. It'll evaporate. Seeps into the floorboards. Yeah. Mold. Yeah, yeah. Why even do it? Why the rush? Doug Venata. Venata. I like that last name.

I would like to know everyone's opinion on Hallmark movies. My wife makes fun of me for liking them, but I bet at least one of you is also a fan. We talked about it. I liked them. Mm-hmm.

Well, you talked about one of your area of grievances was the way the woman parked in that Hallmark movie. Yes. It was crazy. I've never seen that. Yeah. This was the one where Cole was on with us. Yeah. And Sonny Gray came on later. But yeah, we had the video and a woman kind of parked in the middle of the street in this Hallmark movie. It just gets out of it. I watched the whole. That feels pretty realistic.

Yeah. Based on how my wife works. I like Hallmark movies. I think they're very pleasant. I know they had something come up, some controversy, right? Recently. Probably. They were showing a scene or probably something they should have

which is just something that doesn't make sense. But yeah, Hallmark movies are very, you know, and I don't mean it in a bad way. It's a very simple thing to watch. And it's, you know, it's a, it's like the opposite of the Manning cast. It's just very pleasant. Not everything needs to have the weight of the world. Yeah, that's right. That's why I mean, I mean, you could leave.

I think you could leave the Hallmark channel on your TV just at all times and you would catch people really watching the whole thing and really getting invested because it's just great. My wife, like on a Saturday or something, she's doing stuff around the house. She just has it on the, every story, the formula is kind of the same. So she can kind of tune in and out and kind of still know what's going on. Yeah. She watches great American family now. I think that's another Hallmark similar. Yeah. I mean, anytime I've,

Saw it on. It's been hard for me to turn it off. Like you just end up going like, well, I want to see what happens. It's like a catchy pop song. Yes. There's nothing wrong with it. It is what it is. It's great. It's fun to just enjoy. It's pleasant. And it's nice to, you know, watch something that's like they have a

crime movies so many movies man i'm looking i always just see the hall the like now they're getting into horror looking at a list of them now these are movies and mysteries there's sub genres too there's like you know christmas hallmark is a huge thing yeah yeah yeah well i was joking about the horror that's from snl yeah but but yeah i i i don't mind them i always i always found myself just being like man this is nice it's a nice thing just to kind of

Yeah, you just that entertainment like entertainment is so trying to be thought provoking now that it's like exhausting. And you want to go when you watch a Hallmark movie, it's just telling a little story. You're going to have a fun time. Like, man, you get done with it. You're like, I really enjoyed that.

They get together always at the end. Yeah, it's going to be a happy ending. Yeah, it's just fun and pleasant. It's nice and it looks good. They always look nice. Makes small towns look good because the bustling big city is not all it could out to be when the love of your life is in this small town and the local theater is about to close. Yeah, I mean, you can catch yourself just before you know it, you're like, man, I've watched.

a few of these because they just kind of keep going. Like they're just into the next movie. And the next thing you know, you're like, I'm halfway in this movie. Yeah. I like, uh, Addison Hubley as a kid, my dad brought a, hold on as a kid. My dad brought a drone to a party and,

Then bragged about how it was $25 and just as good as the expensive ones. He then began to fly it directly into a jet stream that took the drone miles away. My dad then conducted a search party for all the people at the dinner party because he was unable to track his drone. After about 30 minutes of trespassing on their neighbor's land, we found it and celebrated it.

You know what's crazy about me with this? Is to hear it say, it's an old story. As a kid, my dad brought a drone to a party. Well, a drone, you're like, have they been around that long? Yeah, I feel like maybe 10 years. I mean, I could see it. It's funny to, as a kid...

I guess. Oh, look at that. They started the same time Noah did 200 years ago. I mean, I think people just actively having drone sets have been that long. Yeah. Like the last 10 years.

Yeah, but I mean, so that mean for her. Yeah, it would be like as a kid. It just it's crazy to sometimes hear that stuff where you're like, that's a very funny story. That's a very funny story. Also that it could get that high to where it's in a jet stream. Yeah. You know, I mean, it's one thing for $25. That's a pretty good one. And I mean, it's crazy to have found it. Yeah, that's a fun dinner party. I bet all those people remember that dinner party for the rest of your life. Yeah. You know,

Yeah. It just turns into the movie Twister where they have like all the surveillance. Well, I guess the beginning of a Hallmark movie. She said that. Yes, she said that after Aaron talked about his drone, he said those are the worst people at the parties. I can see your house. Yeah. But she's saying that was a party to remember. That was a party to remember. Nick Lawton.

How's the South represented in film and TV from your perspectives? Can y'all talk about any movies or shows that you feel have depicted the South really well and any shows that have completely missed the mark? Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of stuff misses the mark because a lot of times stuff's written by people that are not they don't live here.

Yeah. So dating bride does a good job. He lives in Charleston. That's all you got to do is you got to live there and be around regular people. And that's the stuff where it gets missed.

I don't think anything specifically. Even I was thinking like eastbound and down with Dan McBride. He is an over the top caricature of a Southern guy. Yeah, but it doesn't. But the setting around him is just normal. It's just like, it's very realistic. Yeah. It feels very normal. Like, you know, Hmm.

I think of the Southern. Well, it's the guy who I can't think of his name now. The actor who I think was the quarterback in Friday Night Lights. The movie Lucas Black. Lucas Black.

He's from like, I think Northern Alabama and his Southern accents authentic. So good. Yeah. Sling blade too. He's the kid in sling blade. I forgot about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where, uh, you're like, well, that's authentic. And some of these are just bad. So bad, dude. Yeah. Some, when they, who is a bad, uh, I thought Brad Pitt had a good one and he's from Missouri.

I thought his Inglourious Bastards, where he has that accent, he's supposed to be a guy from the Tennessee mountains. And that's unlike any Tennessee accent I've ever heard. It's also a guy from the 40s, so who knows how people talked back then. But I remember thinking, he's great in spite of this accent. That was my opinion. They say a lot of British actors end up sounding like they're from the 30s. You know, where they're trying to do American accents like, eh, see? They end up in really kind of

It's a whole thing. You're looking at me like it's nothing. No, no, I believe. No, I believe. Lake Beach. I didn't like that. Kind of stereotyped the South as just a bunch of guys. I've never heard of Lake Beach. Is it like Deliverance? Similar. Not so much a movie, but I guess it was a TV. It was more of a TV series. Never heard of it. Really?

Well, just you put in Lake Beach movie as prize. I'm coming up.

Talking about the SNL sketch. Yeah. I was thinking in my head, I was like, are they talking about that? And no one else, literally, I was like, maybe it is a show. I don't know. A movie. That's crazy there's no movie Lake Beach. That would be a good name for it. Come a movie. Sometimes SNL movies come out of a sketch. Yeah, well, you can tell that's written, you know, it was with James Austin Johnson. It's written by someone that is from here. Yeah.

And that's where it becomes really, really relatable. And then people are just like, yeah, I know exactly what that is. Yeah, I'm always sensitive to the South. I mean, I remember getting stuff, auditions with the South. I just want to do them when you're just making the Southern guy look like what they think the South is. And you just are like, it's just annoying. Yeah.

Dan Bean. There's been a bit of a debate in our house for a while now, and I'm hoping you guys can solve it. We need to know the correct pronunciation of pecan. Thanks for your help on this very important topic. I say pecan. I say pecan. This is one of those words it's talked about so often. I don't know.

How I would just naturally say it because I'm always thinking about how I pronounce it. Yeah. Caramel is the same way. Caramel. I don't know how I say it because I'm always thinking about it. Pecan. Pecan. Yeah. How do you say it? Pecan. So it's a regional thing. That's not what you say. Pecan. You say pecan pie. Pecan pie.

No, you don't say that. I say it. There's no way. Is that pecan pie? Say pecan. Pecan. Say it pecan, though. I can't. You can't even say it? Just say it as an actor. This is actor Nick. Pecan. That's how you say it. I would say pecan. You're out of your mind. I would say pecan. Pecan pie. I've never... I would have...

There have been a lot of jokes about it. If I ever heard you say pecan. He's probably never said it. Yeah, it doesn't come up a lot where I'm like, hey, pecan. You love dessert. I do. It comes up a lot. It's like a lactose-free pie. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Nick's on the hunt for dessert. Any dessert pops up, Nick would be like. Do you really say pecan? I really say pecan. It's spelled that way, too. It's spelled pecan, too. You know, we're not making a crazy leap. Yeah.

But maybe people from the Northeast, that's where they... It's probably a regional thing like everything else. Pecan. People go to Rutgers. That's how they say it. Yeah. Yeah. I've never even heard it said pecan. I mean, I think that's why he's saying that. I bet that was the debate in their house. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've never even heard someone say that. Pecan. Pecan pie. Pecan pie. Pecan pie.

We don't say that. I do say we can. I say it. I believe you. I don't believe you. Mandy McKnight. Nate, have you ever considered that your McDonald's obsession stems from your family and family friends making fun of you for not getting to Happy Meal as a kid?

Now you feel the need to rebel and get as much Mickey D's as you can. I'm sure better help would have more to say about this. Could be true. I guess is that, yeah, I could see it. I mean, I think a lot of stuff is like when you grew up and you just, you know, it's like, we just couldn't afford to do anything. And like, uh, and so it does make you want to be, well, I want to do everything now and I want to, and then my taste are not high end taste, uh,

So I don't, you know, with food, I don't, we, you know, it's like we don't, we just didn't eat. You don't go eat these nice, crazy meals. And so my taste is just like for McDonald's or for that kind of stuff. And now I can go get it whenever I want. Yeah, could be. That's all I ever wanted was to go get McDonald's. Eating inside of a theme park, I do think of that.

Cause we never could eat inside of it. Went to Kings Island. It's just so expensive. So now when I, I mean, that was, that's definitely something. Now when I go like, I'll, I want to spend money inside. Like I want to eat lunch inside that park.

I want, you know, I'm here. You have food delivered in. Yeah. Well, I want, I mean, I want, if I go to the zoo for a day, like I want to eat lunch there. I want to go eat, go sit at the table and buy. And I think that is, I think of it cause we just, it was never, we just couldn't afford it. Did I ever tell you about the guy who ordered Outback Steakhouse to his table at the Jacksonville Comedy Zone? A guy ordered it on the app delivery to his table.

During a show. Well, I'm in the lobby setting up my little merch stand and the Outback delivery guy walks in and he goes, is there a show going on? I was like, yeah. And he goes, I'm supposed to bring it to table.

He got instruction. He brought it in. Somebody got out back to the table. Wow. Who was on stage? Henry Cho. Oh. Did Henry say anything? No. I told him about it afterwards, though. He's like, oh, man, I would have loved to have known that was going on. And there must have been food at the club, right? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And he might have just been like, it's not good food. Yeah. I want a steak and a blooming onion. Yeah. Yeah.

That's power. Yeah, that's confidence. Because they have burgers at every comedy club. Yeah, chicken fingers. And they got everything you need to watch a show. Yeah, that's like an oblivious confidence to go to do something like that. How do you feel? Yeah, I don't know how someone could feel comfortable. I felt bad for the delivery guy because I go, well, you got to go in the showroom. Yeah. And there's a show going on. He had to walk in with a big bag of stuff.

Yeah, I guess the club let him inside. I guess so. Well, no one was. It was just you out there. It was just me in the lobby. I'd just gotten off stage. Yeah. Crazy. Was he sitting up front or something? He couldn't have been. I feel like if he were up front. Henry would have seen. Oh, my God. Henry would have gone off. How did he find the guy, I guess? I don't know. I think there were instructions in the app. You can tell him how to get there. I wish Henry had seen. Can Zordas decline that?

Can they go like, I mean, cause you know, I feel like they don't get to see what they're getting to do, but can, can the guy go, I'm not doing that. Like, I don't mind delivering to the club. I'm not giving it. I'm not bringing it to the show. Yeah. Yeah. And look like a lunatic. Cause I mean, he looks like, you know, unless you walk in, you go, I don't,

I don't know what to say. This guy's got a problem. That's the crazy thing, too, because you just put the address in. So he probably didn't say comedy club. It's just the address. And he sees the address. And then he's got to walk in. He ordered that while Aaron was on stage. Probably. That's true. This is so boring. Let me just get me some at least good food. Ethan Goodman. In my government class, I'm teaching about the powers of Congress. And among them are to fix...

the standard of weights and measures in order to demonstrate what that means. I use Nate's SNL sketch to illustrate the point. Now, if Nate could just go back to do a sketch on dead weight loss, dead weight loss for my AP economics class, that would be great.

I don't know what dead weight loss is. A dead weight loss is a cost to society created by market inefficiency, which occurs when supply and demand are out of equilibrium. So there you go. Sounds like an easy bet. When you order too many t-shirts for merch and nobody wants to buy them. Maybe. Yeah. Well, or in my case, well, that too. Is that an actual example of it? I think that might be a good one. Or like...

I got a ton of CDs still left at my house that obviously I ordered more than people wanted because now nobody even does CDs. It sounds like something like that. Maybe the government spends a lot of money on something in the budget more than they needed. I bought, I printed posters to sell after the show.

And I only tried to sell it one show and I didn't sell any and I just gave up. There's just a hundred. How many do you have? 150. I'd like one. I'll give you one. I'll give you one. All right.

Did you see where, I think it's crack.com, pick that sketch as the top sketch of the year? They rank the top 23 comedy sketches of 2023. Look at that. All right. Look at that. Could understand stand-up Nick Bargetzky. Understated.

Understated stand-up Nick Bargetzi. Could understated stand-up Nick Bargetzi make the transition to full-blown sketch comedy? Yeah. Shades of Early, Bob Newhart. How about that? That's nice. They got his name right. Yeah. This is what I mean about even with the Manning thing. No matter what.

no matter what you think you are or whatever you do, that you're still Nick Bargutzi. And it's like, that's what I would tell everyone. Even when you're number one on the list. Even when you're number one on the list, I would tell every comic that you're still going to be Nick Bargutzi. You're just, you're always going to be Nick Bargutzi.

People, you know, it's whatever you do, how much you, you know, you got to just put in the work and and you just know you're doing a good job and know, like, keep moving forward and keep plugging away. But it just doesn't matter. It can go into that high of a thing.

to be, you know, your number one, a host at SNL as a comic, like all this stuff, you know, and then just be like, and they're like, yeah, dude, you stole the whole season with how great you were, Nick. You're always, you're just always going to be, no one cares. And you just got to go and you're doing it for the audience. The audience is what cares. I mean, it's a very, the guy obviously cares, but it's like, yeah, that's what I mean. Like they don't,

I think it's a good name, you know? Yeah. I've been Nick a bunch. Take that K off, right? Mm-hmm. I go by Mick, you know? Oh, yeah, that's true. You're Mick. Yeah, yeah. From the podcast, fans of the podcast, people will say Mick, and I'm like, okay, I know. And then also, it still happens because I say my name and people hear Mick. Yeah. So it's like a combo. I would say any comics listening to this too, you got to remember, that's still... It just...

No one knows what you do. I think comics think when they put out a CD and then they think, I got to come up with a new one and all this stuff. And you're like, no one's heard your CD. When you go do a show, a local show, no one's heard your set. Go murder on that show.

You think well, I mean, you know these comics in the back of the room were there last week just destroy for the audience Just do everything for the audience if it's all comments your open mics I understand that you're kind of like trying to come up some new jokes and open mics to say but even the open mics No one remembers what you said last week. They don't they just can't they can't remember it. They don't remember it. They don't remember anything

And it's, you know, and so there's a lot of times you can, instead of sitting and trying to learn how to make something great, it's like you're just doing kind of a quantity over quality thing. And you're just trying to pump out a bunch of stuff. Nobody knows what you have done at all.

I could probably go do a lot of, I mean, the, the people that are real fans and fine for long term. I mean, you know, I've, I've had it where I've closed on the, my baseball, the third, the triple home run off and inside the park. I've closed on that in arenas and it destroys. And yeah, I would say some people know that that's a joke from full-time magic. Most people, they, and they've never heard me tell that joke. I,

I would say a good majority of them. I don't know. Cause it's just an old kind of thing. And you can't be offended by that. You know, it's like, that's just how it is. It's like, why, why would they know everything? You know? Yeah. And so, yeah. All right. Yeah. I feel like you've been doing, uh, great for so long. Cause you have, but it's when I see these comments, a lot of times people say, I learned about Nate,

after the Tennessee kid or even sometimes even later than that. A lot of SNL was. Yeah. And it's just amazing to me. I've never seen this guy, but you know, it's, yeah, it's, it's, you know, that's the, and that's the interesting part is because you can be,

You know, I mean, like you said, we're going at the tickets. I know I talked about last week, but it's like you can be selling 50,000 tickets and then you just can have that person write that article. And then they're just like, and they go, Nick Bargetts. And they would be like, they probably are like, I'm a big fan. And I'm not, I'm not mad at that guy for doing that. It's like whatever reason they just thought, you know, it was Nick or, you know, just whatever. But yeah, it just doesn't.

It doesn't matter. That's like, you go do that mannequin. Yeah. They don't know. They don't know what I do. They don't know at all. They know he hosted SNL. He got probably told, you know, their producers like, yo, this guy's kind of hot right now. He's SNL. He did game day. Like he'd be fun to have on. They had me and they don't know who I am. They don't know anything. They readings, you know? And so then it, and you, so that, but that's the part that's my fault.

that I gotta go. I gotta be like, all right, they don't know me at all. I need to be really in control of this interview because I know they don't. And I wasn't. And then that's why it ends up not being as good. The other thing I've noticed is how quickly people, they just, they've gotten, not gotten over how big you've gotten, but it's just so hard to, after SNL, which impressed everybody,

Like you done game day, which was a huge deal to me. You did the Manning cast was huge deal. And I'll tell my friends and they're like, Oh, that's cool. Like to me, I'm like, why wouldn't everybody watch this? But they just quickly, like you get to a certain status and it takes so much to impress people. Yeah. Well, that's the, and that's my idea with when you're creating, if you're creating stuff small, like that's the online stuff. So yeah,

when you're seeing comics do like all these, like the crowd work stuff like that, you're creating these small things that everybody's like, Oh yeah, I saw that one. I've seen a bunch of those and I liked that person and it's funny, but it's, it's not a substantial kind of thing that they can go back to. Like the specials,

I, people can go back to them. They can watch them. They can go back to them. They can do this, a podcast. Essentially they could probably go back to. And I was thinking about it today. Like, you know, we do the best of every year. Like people really like that. And they look forward to that. And you're kind of like a TV show. That's,

Like, you know what you're just doing, you know, you're putting it in and the best of them, people go through it and they just enjoy it. And that's why creating something is, is you want it to be substantial and you want it to be able to stay in. That's the goal with Nate land is to be able to eventually create all this stuff.

with content and whatever that's, you know, some of it. Yeah. I don't, I don't really know what it's going to end up being, but it's, it's, you just don't want to put so much effort into, it takes a lot of effort to create something. And when you're creating something that's just going to get scrolled by for two seconds, I don't know if that's worth your time. That's that's because then it's when they come see you, it's like when they come finally go like, all right, I've been scrolling. I'm in.

What do you got? And then a lot of times people don't have a ton to put behind it because they because that takes too much effort to put do that stuff. Yeah. And so you're not doing this. You know, I thought another thing to tell you young comics is a big thing is like a lot of people say, what do you got to do first when you do comedy, like start a show, run a show? I disagree with that.

If you learn how if you if your first thing as a comic is really learning how to run a show and trying to get people into a show, that's not a I just don't think it's depending on what you want to do. But if you're looking to be a straight up stand up comedian, I don't think that's a good path to go down.

I don't think it builds the right you at the beginning. You need to be so absorbing and you don't need to be the star of something. And you're kind of the star of something because you're the star of a show, even though it's a very small scale. But you now move up from no one knows you to like now every comics like, well, we got to get on that show.

And then you got to run that show. So you got to probably host that show. It just builds, you have a lot more stuff to build. Some bad habits comes from that. You've got the pressure of every week. Like I got to go get all these people to come into this show. I got to get all the, you know, I got to book all these comics. I don't think that,

provide you at, if you're at the beginning, that shouldn't be your first. Oh, it guarantees you stage time though. That's why people do that. I don't think it's good stage time. I think it's, I don't, I don't think it's the best stage time for you and you should figure out how to get on other people's shows. That's the part. I understand the entrepreneur part of it to be like go create. And that's like, you need to be able to work within a system. There's a giant system, right? So wherever I'm at,

In my career, I can think I'm the biggest person or whatever. And then I go do Manning cast. Nobody knows who I am. I do SNL. No one knows. Right. So you got to learn that. Like you go, oh, OK. I think I'm could be something. But I there's no I can't have an ego in this because I there's another level where I am just they're like, who who are you?

I mean, I see these arenas. I see names that I don't know who they are. And the guy's doing two shows too. And you're like, well, I've never even heard of that guy. Well, he's doing two arenas. It doesn't mean... It's like, so if I want to go farther, then I have to understand that I have to go work and...

I got to build my thing. And I'm realizing like, look, I, I have this thing, but you know, it's like, yeah, if I did a TV show or movie, just like SNL, you go, you get a little more into that mainstream and a little more into that celebrity kind of thing or whatever, which I might need to do for, if I want to, you know, rise everything up, I might need to, I still have ways to go that I need to do this so I can then,

pull other things up because it's hard to do it it's a matter of like how do you want to do it and I think when comics so when you start out you know I understand that you're in cities maybe you're in a town that doesn't have anything like I understand you might have to do it in those situations I'm not there's either right or wrong way but I you know

If you're going to move to a town that has some... You could, you know, if you have to start showing a small town because you literally, there's nothing to do. I understand that. But you then eventually need to...

Move somewhere. Don't just sit there and start a show Maybe that's what I'm saying. Don't sit and start a show then just like that's your life Start it for however long you got to start it And then you need to go try to get on other people's shows And you shouldn't be getting on the shows just because you're giving each other stage time because that's not an honest Trade it's not a you're not getting something out of your pure talent So then if you get that you're never having to work on your pure talent

Cause you're not getting it. That that's, you're not, you know, no one's like, well, I got to have this guy on the show. Cause he murders.

I got to have this guy on the show because he has another show. And I do his show. New York started becoming, right before I left, it was becoming that a lot. Where it was like, you know, everybody's getting on these shows. Spot trading, it's called. Yeah. So everybody's, and so it's pretty hard to get on shows. Because if you're not in that system and running a show, well, then you're out of the system. And so the other comics don't get up.

And they start their own shows. I mean, essentially, but then it doesn't do... I mean, that's not helping anybody. It can seem like it because you're getting stage time, but that's how stage time... If the stage time is not earned, then you're not going to go be very precious about that stage time. And you need to be precious. Like when you're on stage in front of an audience, I don't care if it's six people, you should be trying to do the best job for those six people. And if...

If you're getting on stage easily because you're just trading off shows, that stage is not as precious as it should be in your head. And then you just go. That's the problem with the crowd work stuff. They're having to shoot a bunch of stuff to get these clips. The crowd work, no one can just be... I mean, Ian Bagg does a great job of it because he's been doing it for years.

And I would say so, like in bag does all crowd work. And I believe that Ian Bagg does a great job with Steve Byrne does it too. We just went Steve Byrne. So when you watch Steve Byrne's show with crowd work, he's destroying the whole it's it's he goes back and forth. He has been doing comedy for over 20 years. Both of them have. So they know how to be on stage and like all that.

and to carry a show and the younger is and i'm not talking about anybody specifically this is just a vibe of comedy the way it's going it's but the younger way is you know like they haven't been on stage that long they haven't been doing comedy you can think you're doing comedy eight years that's nothing that's nothing i promise you it's nothing it's a lot for where you're at right now but you're nowhere i'm at 20 years i'm nowhere guys have been doing it for 45 years

You guys have been, I mean, I'm not saying I'm nowhere, but it's like, you know what I mean? Like, but it's, it's, I'm still learning. I'm still having to go. When I go on stage, I still have to learn every night. That's why I'm so excited about it. Cause now I'm like trying to be like, all right, well, how do I go to a newer level? How do I keep like going forward? That's the fun part of, you know, and with comedy, you can do this for as long as you can do it until you feel satisfied.

Until you go, you know what? Maybe you get older and you just go like, it's a lot. It's hard. But you've always loved comedy too. Yeah. Doing it, watching it, everything about it. I mean, who would watch these comics? You know, Bill Burr, Chappelle. And I feel like you've always loved it. I've loved it. Well, I think it's just such a fun thing.

It's just, I mean, man, it's, I mean, making that many people laugh and, you know, and doing it in a, you got to create that world. And so the whole time you're, it's, it's, you're basically making a movie that takes 20 years to make. So when people go watch you, I got to figure out who I am as a character and I got to not as a character, I'm myself, but you know, it's like getting my groove and, uh,

you know, tell these stories and building this world. And this new hour is like very fun because it all kind of blends, you know, I'm trying to, you know, and I want to be murdered. I want people to be like their, their stomach hurts, they're laughing. So it's, you know, consistent. And you, I think you can, that's very fun and exciting to do. And it takes a long time to build up to that. And if you haven't act, you know,

If you can, I mean, just being around the older comics, there's a lot of older comics that maybe people are not where they want to be or they thought their careers could have been. But the ones that have an act, you will be able to do comedy the rest of your life because you have something that you can sit on and rely on.

And so if you get need to be hired for a cruise ship or a corporate gig or anything, you know, I have I'm sitting on a house that is built. Yeah. A solid house. Right. I know this house over here looks amazing.

fun and flashy and that's the parties at that house and everything's fun at that house. Yeah. That house can't stand forever. There's black mold. Yeah. It's built on glass. It's built on, but if you just sit in the weeds of it and just my house is going to be built on concrete and it's not going to go away. It's, it's, it's not as,

the ride will be as the ride is funner than you're ever can imagine. It can be, it just is not going to be as fast. And so like, that's the thing is that when you're a young comic,

When you're on that stage, every time you go on that stage, that really matters. It's not always going to be great. It's not always going to be fun. It's not going to go good. But you should be on it so much. And you should be, when you get done, it's like, all right, I'll try this joke out. And you go, okay, I know what this did. This didn't work. All right, let me think about that joke. And then you just think about it and just think about it.

What can I do? Can I put it? It's not like I'm even, I don't ever sit down and write. You just, but I mean, I think of 24 hours, you just kind of go in. I just, that's why I can't remember my old jokes because when I'm in the new jokes, it's like I'm thinking about this set and whatever. If you're a young comic, try to build a Tonight Show set. That's almost a good, even if you're just starting. If you're starting, that's probably the best thing. Just picture you're, if you're starting from zero, you might not get this,

You might never be on The Tonight Show or you might be on it in five years. But build a set for a five-minute set. Think about that. And that gives you direction to go like, all right, if you got asked to do The Tonight Show, what set would you do? And even if you have an hour of material, you think you have an hour of material. And I said, you got to do five minutes. What are you going to do? How are you going to do that? Because you know you have jokes in your head.

that you would go, oh, yeah, I would do this one, that one. And so you would easily pull stuff. Well, then what does that say about all those other jokes? That means those other jokes maybe need some work, you know, and they might not fit for whatever reason and they might be too long. There could be a million things. But, you know, it was interesting this hour. I closed on three different things.

I've closed on three different jokes a few times. And I, it's been kind of fun to do that. Cause it's now I'm like, Oh wow. I have three jokes in this hour that have closing energy. Cause I've had to close. Yeah. Yeah. Put a joke at the end, have to close on it. You're going to find some real. Yeah. I mean, you know, yeah, you're going to, it's, it's real. Try to like, if you, you know,

it's it's hard i mean i i did a video of it i messed up where i tried thought i could close on a new thing and it didn't go good and i had to do an old joke yeah try to close on a joke it's i mean it's in it's interesting we can skip that last question and get into it uh i'll i'll put it in a future episode okay uh you want to tell us about ag1 ag1 uh i've been you know this has been a

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before I ever got into comedy from the get go, you know, uh, the Bargett's he's, you know, we're not the easiest family just to jump in. Bates gets it. Yeah. It's a lot. We are a lot. And she's always, uh, she's done it. She's been there, you know, she's a great, uh,

wonderful wife, wonderful mother. And yeah. And as to like, lets me, you know, I get fired up about something like that Manning cast. Don't worry. She's already heard everything. Imagine you listen to that Manning cast. That's if you want to be like, what being married to Nate's like, you have that Manning cast, but you have it at 12 at midnight. And I'm like, all right, wake up.

I'm so upset about this thing and I can't let it go. That's what it is being married, but I'm fortunate and happy birthday to you. I mean, I felt that way about my wife because of the Bargatzis. I've said that before. The first time I ever told my wife I loved her was after leaving a Bargatzi family party because she hung in there and I'm like, you can do that. You can do that. You're the one. Yeah. Yeah.

Welcome to the show. Yeah. Well, this week we're talking about Christmas traditions. It's our Christmas episode. It's also Festivus, of course. Happy Festivus, everyone. Happy Festivus. Now, I told Nick, I said, we're going to do a Christmas tradition episode.

episode, he's like, you know, I've been in a lot of Christmas movies. So I went on last night doing some searching and I didn't want to stereotype, but when I was going through the scenes, you know, I tended to stop on the Christmas. He didn't tell me what role he was playing, but I kind of had a vibe, maybe what he was doing. So that's the only one I could actually find. Yeah. So I look at that hair, dude. Remember that hair? I used

to have long hair. So I've been in the Santa buddies trilogy. Yeah. So three movies, um, that play all the time during free form. So yeah, I mean, I get recognized all the time from being in these movies, kids see them all the time. They were fun. I played an elf

But it was a fun. But this is like right now is a hot season for you. You're just on TV. I am literally. If you watch Freeform, the Countdown to Christmas, I am on all the time. You should have been on the main cast. They probably know you. The funny thing, too, about it, too. See if you look at what's airing on Freeform right now. I mean, if you look up Santa Buddies, search for Santa Claus. Santa Claus 2. You know, Puppy Star Christmas. You know, Netflix. It doesn't like all over. Disney Plus.

all these things. But you know, I had such a great time doing these movies, these movies. It's like Hallmark movies. There's always like, there's similar themes that end up happening. We need to save Christmas. There's a Christmas icicle. We've got to protect and Santa Claus. And I'm always like the sort of the Lieutenant. I'm like, right.

away boss i got your boss i'm like that you know and just all that but you know what we had such a great time with charlie's movies in vancouver there was a community too of other elves so there was like subculture and i think some of these guys were kind of mad that i got flown into canada and i had like a featured role yeah uh because we're all like kind of become friends and like family but it is kind of you're separated like you remember from from snl you know you're

They just have to do it. It's part of the union. So they call you in, first team coming in. And then all of a sudden, you know, people are kind of like, who is this guy just coming in to save these lines? Coming in late. And it was, you know, there's subcultures too. There was one elf that literally we call the Marlboro elf because every time we would yell cut, you know, he would just be smoking cigarettes. And he had his...

Like bad Santa. It was like real bad Santa. We're like, yeah, what's for dinner today? You know, he had the great smoker voice. Did he smoke inside? It was like he would smoke outside, but the smoke would come inside. Yeah. And then it would be, you know, because there's always mist and all that stuff. But I had so much fun doing those movies. Yeah, it's great. That's awesome. And they just stay. They stay forever. And you know what? Kids love it.

You know, just like what we were saying too about, you know, everything doesn't have to solve a problem. These are just fun, easy movies. You know, there's Santa Claus. I'm going to throw a couple lines in, you know, here or there. And honestly, the dogs are the stars of the movie. Everybody else is...

of background the dogs talk yeah you know airbud franchise and they play in every country because of that they can these dogs are the biggest divas i've read about they're what's what's wild too is certain dogs they're the best trained dogs in the world so literally you're talking about giant sound stages where they film you know big avatar things like that you could this one dog

knows how to hit its mark about a mile away, will run and just turn around and flip and just go and just bark on camera. And then they CGI his mouth. And I was like, man, that's crazy. I'm like, I don't know where I'm going. You know, my eyesight's terrible. I'm trying to hit a mark. So I'm like, where is that mark? Where is it? This dog is like a mile and a half and just knows exactly where to be. How close are you to a mark before you see it?

You know, I never see it. I just hope I'm in a ballpark. Yeah. I just hope that, you know, speaking to a Christmas traditions, you know, I stayed at Nate's last night.

And his neighborhood has great, you know, lights everywhere. And so I was like, Hey, I want to take a little bike ride. I want to roll around the neighborhood. Cause I bring my bike with me while I'm on tour. Cause the arenas are giant. It's just hard for me to get around. So I went for a little ride around the neighborhood. I want to see the lights. And,

And I it was freezing last night. So I have my jacket on and I have just my hood on, too, because my ears are cold and I'm just riding my bike in the neighborhood. And I hear this car going really fast. So I just kind of move to the right and it slows down a little bit. And so now I'm just like, well, let me just get off the bike. And the lady is now she's still pulling up closer and closer. And she just goes, are you all right?

And she thought I was a kid, you know, because of like the stuff and everything. And I just turned around. I'm like, I'm fine. I mean, I didn't say it like that. I just was like, I'm good. You know, but she like she was so shocked. And it wasn't like, hey, like, I'm going to just hide and never see this guy again. She pulls into the neighborhood. Yeah. And it's like, I'm going to see her at some point. And I was like, look, it's fine. You know, I'm fine.

I'm not awkward about it, but I couldn't stop laughing because I was like, it's so funny. And I did it to myself. Yeah. Yeah. I have the hood on. I'm in this, you know, my bicycle has high handlebars. Yeah. I mean, it, it, it looked, you know, I get it. It's not like a crazy thing. It's very sweet. I checked on you. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. Don't worry about it. Smoking a cigarette? You have a cigarette? I just turned into Marlboro Elf. Yeah. I'm good, sweetheart. How are you doing? How you doing, toots? Yeah. You just take it. That's Seinfeld when he goes, when...

Mickey? Yeah, Mickey lays in the van. Good night. Danny Woodburn is also in all that Santa Buddies trilogy. Yeah, you're friends with him. He's one of my best friends, and we've filmed so many times together. Yeah, that's fun. Now, were you on some SNLs too? I did. I tried to find it because Peacock has all the SNLs. Elijah Woods. Yeah. So actually, and Jimmy Fallon is how I got into Screen Actors Guild.

So I was in a sketch where it was called Top of the Morning to You. And Jimmy Fallon plays an Irish guy with somebody else. And they go, top of the morning to you, top of the morning to you. And there's a point where they go, whatever you do, don't call Alfie over there a leprechaun.

And I'm just drinking a beer in the bar. And they're just like, maybe, you know, like I'd be sensitive to it. And they were like, you could just be mad about it while you're drinking the beer. Now, this is the first time I've ever done anything. So I am so fired up about this. I'm like, this moment needs to change my life. All right. So now they're like, whatever you do, don't call outfit leprechaun. And I got the beer in my mouth. I go.

I just spit it. You know, it hits Jimmy in the face. It hits all these things. He starts laughing. It gets like a huge moment. But now they all have beer on them. And it's like completely not what you're supposed to be doing in the scene. And they were like, is this a rehearsal? This was the one right before the dress rehearsal. So they go, that was great. Just don't spit on anybody. Is this it? It's I think so. I don't know.

Top of the morning to you. There's a moment. No, I mean, I think they're just... I'll keep looking. Don't worry about it. Selma Hayek was the host. Well, the one that I found, well, I couldn't find the clip, but did you do one where Elijah Woods was the host? I did like four. But a lot of times they would do like pre-tapes.

And I got cut out of a couple of them. So Jimmy actually had me come back the next year to do another. And I was so excited and I was going to have a line. They cut it and I didn't, you know. What have you been cut out of? Was there anything crazy that you're...

Well, I've been, yeah. I mean, I was supposed to be in a movie, like it was going to be Kate Hudson and like I hired to be in it. Yeah, I remember this. And then literally I'm like telling everybody, I tell my mom, she's like crying. She's like, I'm so proud. So before I even go, they replaced me and Peter Dinklage ends up playing that part. Yeah. So like things like that. What movie was that? Game of Thrones. Yeah, it was Game of Thrones. I think it was called...

A little bit of heaven. Yeah. And I don't even know. I think they changed the title. Yeah. But yeah. No. So I've had a bunch of stuff like it. But the crazier thing is I've been in certain TV shows and you do all these different extra bits and they're like, we're keeping all that.

and and you start telling people you put it online and everything's gone and there's just you're just like what's up and that's all that's just because there's timing and everything too just like all goes back to the manning cast you never know you're part of it unless it's you're the main character you're part of that scene for other people yeah so you have to keep the storyline going so that's the kind of wild thing too is that you just never know what you're going to get cut out of

Yeah. And you, I mean, it really even could be something great, but it doesn't matter. It's like, well, we have to cut, you know, SNL is like that. I mean, SNL was, you could have a sketch. It's like, well, this is a funny sketch. And you're like, it just doesn't fit with what we're trying to do right now. And so it's just not going to happen. Or,

Or if you just end up looking too much like somebody else, there's certain parts too, where it's like that, you know, if you, if there's already somebody that looks exactly like you, even in with little people and certain things, like they're just like, we already have somebody that looks like that. I'm like, I'm three foot 10. Yeah. Yeah. We already got somebody three 11. Yeah. Unfortunately Peacock doesn't put the whole episode on there. Cause I,

The ones I started to look through it. Not that episode, but I looked through the other one with Lodge of Woods and that particular sketch didn't look like it made it. Oh, bummer. That is a bummer. Yeah. I mean, I just saw you go through it. Yeah. Seen him get cut real a ton. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cut out of this episode. But I went down a real Nick Novicki rabbit hole last night. I was up so late working on this, but I kept watching his clips. He's got some impressive stuff like from Boardwalk Empire. Yeah.

There's one scene where you're killing a guy, stabbing him. One scene where you got shot by a gun. Yeah. It's got some range. I've been murdered, you know. I've killed, you know, I've done it all. Done it all, yeah. Yeah, that's awesome. Are you disappointed when you realize you're being killed?

Uh, no, because I think it's like, you know, you kind of want like a memorable thing. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I think it means you're done. Yeah. I mean, honestly, I wish I got killed on Boardwalk Empire. That'd be awesome to be like, you know, instead you're just like, yeah, we're just not going to. At one time I was supposed to be shot in it and I was so excited. And then they're like, hey, we're going to have to cut that you getting shot thing. I'm like, gosh, you know, because it's like it would have been fun, you know, in that. Yeah.

But that's the kind of crazy thing, too, because you're always you're always still doing other stuff, you know, at the same time. So you have other jobs, you have other things. I've had the craziest jobs, you know, in the world throughout all of this. And it's fine. You know, you're just always in that spot. Yeah. All right. So Christmas. Yeah.

Are you guys gift-wise Christmas morning, Christmas night, Christmas Eve? What do we do? I feel like I asked this before. We do Santa. Yeah, I think. Have we talked about it? Like three years ago. Yeah. Santa does something different for everybody. Santa would always bring us three presents unwrapped, and we would see those, and then we'd do the wrapped presents from family later, like after breakfast.

Was there any semblance behind the three presents? I just, something y'all came up with. I was like, is it like the wise man or something? No, I don't know. Just what Santa, but that was all Christmas morning. Yeah. Yeah. And then later sometimes you, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's always Christmas. Yeah. And then later that day you unwrap from family. Yeah. We would do, we'd open one present Christmas Eve. We get to pick it. Yeah. Oh, we do that, but it'd always be a game.

Oh, okay. Yeah. We would just go whatever, whatever you're most excited about. That's the one you want to open Christmas Eve. And that was probably just to my parents to just get us to stop. Yeah. Yeah. Yapping, you know, but then yeah, Christmas morning is when we, we go to mass Christmas morning. I think, well, when will we go to church?

We'd go to church at some point. When the kids got older, we'd go to midnight mass, go to church at midnight. But I know we weren't doing that when we were kids. Maybe we open up presents early enough and then go to church later. Yeah. But I don't remember. I don't have memories. You're not that old. You should be able to remember this. I know, but I don't remember. It's like five years ago. Maybe it's a reflection of me, but I don't remember church being a big part of my Christmas mornings. Yeah. And I feel like we just. Was midnight mass fun though? Because you got to stay up so late?

Even if it was Massey, or at least you're getting to this. I've never really had fun at mass, to be honest with you. That's not what it's about, but I don't, I don't know. By the time you're old enough to be brought, you're not like, this is cool. You're like, I'd rather be at home. The spirit of Christmas over here. Yeah. That's what it's all about. He's like, I'm just in it for the toys. Mr. Scrooge. What about you, Nick?

We would do Christmas. We did big Christmas Eve party. My mom would throw. Yeah. And so we would have like a whole, you know, party where there's like little gifts that we give. And there's like, you know, swimming shoes that are like dirty that end up everybody wants to re gift it because that's like the fun prank gift. And then everybody actually smoked cigars after too. Oh, yeah. That's like my great grandfather smoked cigars. He was 104.

Wow. So it was like a tradition. I got to smoke a cigar when I was like 13. Yeah. Like, is this a good idea? I was like, Poppy smoked it, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Did you ever smoke with him? No. I wish. He died when I was like 12. But it's pretty crazy. Yeah. You know, he literally was born, I think, in...

1880s. Yeah. 60 years after Noah. 60. Yeah. Noah was, yeah, 60 years old. Yeah.

You could have worked for Noah and had a full career. Not Noah's Ark, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association or whatever. They got started, so he would have been the... He'd go, yeah, they've been around for a long time. He would have said that at some point. Well, they did a poll of American families. 18% open on Christmas Eve, 31% before breakfast.

Um, there's there a 16% after breakfast. Dude, imagine having kids and you wake up and they, you know, they run down to the presence and you go, Nope, we're going to eat breakfast first. Yeah. That's probably, it probably breaks down. Yeah, we would do it, but that's all we, we, we would use Santa's toys.

Yeah. And then Santa's toys would be unwrapped so you can play with it. Then the other ones you do it later. But Christmas Eve, who's opening on Christmas Eve? Yeah, that's pretty bizarre. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like I'm having flashbacks. I feel like I remember you saying this three years ago. You're very consistent. Oh, yeah. That's how my mom's family did it growing up. Yeah. My mom's family, Santa Claus would come on Christmas Eve. Yeah. And then they'd open the presents Christmas Eve. And then Christmas Day itself was all about Christmas.

Yeah. So the presence and everything was the day before. I don't know if that's what 18%. I mean, it's a fifth of people do that. Yeah. That's a lot to throw on Santa. It depends. I know. Santa's got 18% of people that he's like, oh, golly. Can we get him a day early? That's true. I feel like this poll also depends on how old your kids are.

Cause all the presidents are right away in the morning. Like you're, it's tough to get like a six year old. Hey, just wait. We were, we got this ham. We're going to make, it's going to be three hours. Yeah. I think Aaron just made that point, Nick.

Yeah. I mean, the day before. So I feel like I'm going this spirit of Christmas over here. Was there structure to you guys opening presents as kids or was it just chaos? Everybody? I think we did. You do one at a time and you go like a send. We do that now. So I think so. Surprise me. I feel like the Bargatze's would be chaos. We're chaos. But now it's a.

You know, so we do the kids. Right now, it's, I mean, I'm going off now. Yeah. I can't really remember. But it's like, we would do it. Yeah, you just go in an order and everybody, you know, it's like, I mean, I think we would do youngest. So you do youngest to oldest kid. Yeah. And then. But it's like one present at a time and the whole family's watching it happen. Right. I remember watching a Christmas story as a kid. Mm.

And they wake up, they run downstairs and it's just, they're just going at it. And you're like, what family operates like that? Maybe some, I don't know. I've never seen one like that. Would your dad also have a lot of Santa? Like, I feel like your dad also theatrical, you know, like elements or no. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. I mean, I don't, you know, Santa, Santa come drop presents. Yeah. Yeah.

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It's just, you know, fake, fake, least amount of work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We ain't going to do that. No, I got to do it. Well now, yeah, now you can do it where, I mean, it always has lights on it and everything. We have that now. Oh, isn't that part of the fun is decorating it together as a family. Yeah. You decorate with ornaments.

The lights are just already kind of... I thought the lights was part of it too. It was, but it's just, it's a lot. We had a real tree when we were growing up and my brother had asthma. So they had to take down the tree like the night before Christmas he had like an asthma. So we went like regular. You had a reaction to the tree? Traumatizing. We're like the night before Christmas. Christmas is canceled. You were the festivus. I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one I had.

But so did another man. As I rain blows upon him, I realized there had to be enough for the rest of us. There it is. Yeah. It must have been some doll. She was.

So I think I was about to ask you something. So you removed the tree on Christmas Eve. So it had to get removed. My brother's seven years older, so I was really young. But, you know, I was upset about it from the tree, from from the regular tree. So then we went back to artificial. So now I'm like, I get a real tree every year.

Oh, you do? Yeah, I do. I love it. I go pick it out. Just so your brother can't come over. Yeah. My brother. You can't go. It's the best, though, to pick out a tree. Go to a tree farm? Go to a tree. Like, basically, a parking lot that has trees. I live in L.A. It would be, like, quite a commute. But it's awesome. You pick it out, and you have to just look at each tree and be like, does this one look like it's going to die before this one? I have to ask them. You know? They're all great. That one, not so much, though.

Is there no party that wants to get kind of the beaten down one and just go, let's get this. Yeah. Charlie Brown. Yeah. There's none of that one. There's none of that in you. It's also very funny too, because it goes by if it's five foot or under,

it's a certain price but if it's so you know you're tipping the the guys to be like well that one's about four or seven right and i'm 310 it's like it's just so much bigger than me i'm like no no no because if you tip them and they all know me too from the year before i'm a good tipper and so you know it's i got a whole thing what did you give them 20 bucks yeah i

But no, that's good. On a $60 tree, you know, that's a giant. I didn't, I didn't know if you're like, you know, you're like a couple of bucks because you give them $2 to go. I think there's trees for 11. Well, load it up for me. They got to do a little bit more work for me than they do for other people too. Cause they're carrying the tree. They're putting it in the car. You know, how do you get it in? We just throw it in. So it's like sticking out, you know, I know. But how do you get in your house?

Somebody else off the street, you know, bring them in. Yeah. A neighbor or somebody. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, can you imagine around Christmas? It's like, don't go get near the no victims. Why? You won't believe what you're going to. Yeah. You're going to. He wants a real tree. He wants a real tree every year. So he comes in and the whole neighborhood's got to carry it in. It's a tradition. It's a tradition for your neighbors.

So most real Christmas trees come from two states. You want to guess what the number one state is? Oregon and Washington. I don't think I care.

All right. So one vote for Vermont, Oregon, Washington, one for, I don't care. Nick's correct. Oregon, Washington. I'm in the tree business. I've worked in a lot of fields. Hallmark, you see, like those are the movies where you see them and they go get a tree. They go get like cut one day. It's like someone's own land. And they're like, this is in there. And they're, I mean, it seems like they're 30 miles out in the mountains. Yeah.

And you're like, that would be a nightmare. I think on the East Coast, North Carolina is one of the big trees. You sent me a link to this study. Oh, yeah. From Michigan State University. Michigan State. This is what Michigan State's doing. They're doing studies. I thought you would like this. Christmas trees, dude. Which one's right for you? It kind of breaks down. Michigan State University. Yeah. For the tree collection.

Just helps you kind of figure out what kind of tree fits you best. So this is, see, this is what they're getting into. Michigan. I think Douglas fir is a popular one. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have a good for them? You have a real, Oh, you have a fake. Yeah. They wrote, this is, they wrote. Yeah. This is a sanctioned, sanctioned department of horticulture, academic research. Yeah. From Michigan state. Yeah. That's great. Updated from an original article. Yeah.

Yeah, they're just revamping old stuff. Yeah, good. Go Spartans, huh? You know, somebody sent us Dusty. No, I think they mailed it to us. The Christmas ornament, Nateland Christmas ornament. And I got home yesterday and put it on the tree. You have a star on the top of your tree or an angel? An angel. Angel. I've never had a star. Do you have anything in your house right now that's Christmas related? We would always have an angel. I think. We got a couple of things. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you probably have that pole.

Well, I mean, Lucy is Jewish. Lucy's Jewish. Do you have a menorah? We have a menorah at the house. It's a tonic going on right now. Yeah. But I mean, you kind of fit in where it's like you're not going to be a...

You're fine with just... It would be great if somebody came and did it for me, but I'm not going to set up a bunch of stuff. People do that with the lights on the house. You pay companies to come and they do that. I think I've told this story before. My dad, we did Christmas lights one year and he left it up for probably three years. Christmas lights just at our house. I think I would do that too. Just like a star that he made on the roof. He's like, I'm not going back up there. Three years those lights were up.

I don't blame him. Just turn them off. Well, you know, like they've been coming to neighborhoods. And so the companies that put these, that put lights on houses, people, you know, they put them on like before Thanksgiving because they just have so many to do. But it's, I don't understand. Why do people turn them on?

You're like, just don't turn them on until after Thanksgiving. Well, if there's so much that it's already visible either way, it's like you might as well just crank them on. No. I'm with him. If you have it, why not? If you got a big inflatable snowman in the front yard, just blow it up. November 17th. I'm listening to Christmas music middle of November. Yeah, I don't know if I mind it being that early, man.

It's like, God forbid we have a little holiday, you know, a little like fun and good. Yeah. It's the fun and the good spirits. It's like the Christmas. It's, it's, it's a lot going on. Yeah. And it's just a whole, and Thanksgiving is like, you're just kind of overriding. Christmas is such a bad, like in your face and Thanksgiving is a little understated and you're just crushing Thanksgiving where you're just going, you know, it's like Thanksgiving's got to step it up.

Thanksgiving is not about, it's about giving, it's about, what is it, about fellowship. Well, they got to sell their soul a little bit like Christmas did. They got to commercialize themselves a little better. They got to step up. It goes from Halloween to Christmas as far as the commercialization. Well, yeah. I mean, what do you expect Halloween and Christmas to back down? Because Thanksgiving is... No, I mean, Dusty doesn't even want them to exist. So we had to do this episode. Dusty's out of town. His ears are burning right now. Yeah.

Uh, the reason Christmas trees even became a thing, um,

The legend is a 16th century evangelist, famous. That's the 1500s. It is. Martin Luther, not Martin Luther King, Martin Luther. The bad one. I'm just kidding. According to the Catholics. Yeah, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. He was great. He was walking through the woods, saw stars and lights, I guess from the stars, shining through a tree and brought it home and started decorating the tree. Martin Luther. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. He invented the Christmas tree. That guy did a lot. According to this. The guy did a lot. He didn't just break down the Catholic church. I never heard that before. Yeah, I never. That's pretty crazy. I would have thought St. Nicholas would have been the whole, you know. Right. Yeah. Well, he did some stuff too, but...

Anyway. And I learned this from Peppa Pig. Does your daughter watch Peppa Pig? What does she watch? She watches Cocoa Melon and Miss Rachel. Yeah. Miss Rachel's on YouTube. She's like a rock star. Yeah. She's got an empire. She does. She does. It's unbelievable. Yeah.

She could care less when I come in the room. I'm like, no, she's just wants to keep going. Yeah. My daughter's same way. Even when there's no TV on. No, I'm kidding. I wonder if they met, if she met that Rachel. Miss Rachel. I mean, get it.

Would they? They, Miss Rachel will post videos sometimes of her doing stuff with other kids. When I went to New York for SNL. Yeah. I was trying to tell them, I'm going to where Miss Rachel lives. And wouldn't that be amazing? I mean, she is a rock star to. It's, it's crazy. Two or three. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, she loves Miss Rachel so much, my daughter. She just, she could care less when I come in. She's just like, get out of the way. Yeah. I wonder if the kids would probably go to her. I think they would. Because they just would feel very comfortable with her. Yeah.

Well, on Peppa Pig, which is British, I learned that they don't call it Santa Claus. They call him Father Christmas. In England, they call him Father Christmas. That was British. I don't like that. You don't like that? Father Christmas? Yeah.

I also learned this, that they would call you a Clever's Clog. You ever heard that? What? Clever's Clog. What is that? It's someone like the smart one in the group. A Clever's Clog? Can you Google Clever's Clog? Yeah. I'd be happy to. As the Clever's Clog, I'd be happy to do that for you. They also say Happy Christmas instead of Merry Christmas. Oh, Clever Clogs. I got the... Clever Clogs. Got it backwards. Yeah. Oh, I know what it is.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. They said, happy Christmas. Remember Shane from the Bagot Inn? Yeah. This Irish, they go, happy Christmas, you know, and they were instead of Merry Christmas. Yeah. It's like a little thing, but you just don't hear that. Yeah. And in Hawaii, they call him Kanakaloka. Kanakaloka.

Kind of like, I'm not going to work here anymore. Office space. Yeah. They say, mele kalaka maka, which means Merry Christmas. I kind of butchered that. Don Ho had a song. That'd be weird if you nailed it, to be honest with you. Don Ho. Yeah. Yeah. You know that song? I don't know.

I don't know. Who's Don Ho? He's like the only Hawaiian singer I can tell you about. But in, I mean, it's a very, you would know the song. I think about Christmas Vacation when Clark Griswold's looking out his window at his imaginary swimming pool. Yeah. That's the song that's playing. Yeah. Do you have a favorite Christmas song that you like listening to Christmas music? Ah,

I'm just down with it. I mean, the Ariana Grande song. I've never turned that off. Yeah, I don't think that's what people expected. Oh, my gosh. I love it. I don't even know what you're talking about. She's got a great... Santa Tell Me? Santa Tell Me. Oh, I do know that song. I love it. I will just kind of play it and kind of... I just love it. I think everybody listening was expecting to hear like...

Oh, Holy night. Yeah. Yeah. And then say a silent night. And then you just give Ariana Grande. Santa tell me. Santa sounds great. Oh, there's a naughty version of it too. Second Christmas album. That's the one he likes. His daughter listens to it. Why would you do that?

A naughty version? Yeah. It's already a hit. Let's just make it unappealing to a lot of people. You know the song Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree? Yeah. So that was done by Brenda Lee when she was 13. She lives here in Nashville. And...

65 years later, it's now the number one song on the radio. Oh, wow. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, I thought I heard about this. Yeah. Billboard number one song, I think for the last two weeks. Yeah. It's the longest length of time any song's ever been between being number one. That song stinks too.

What? What are you talking about? I mean, that's one of those. That's bottom five Christmas. It's a great song. Why is it? Why are you rocking around the tree? What are you doing? Dancing around it? Like some kind of. Yeah. Who does that? Yeah, but it's fun. The song never. Probably. The song was never successful, right? Oh, I thought it got to number one when it was first released. Oh, no. I thought it was like, like that was the whole thing is like it did it. And now it's very successful, which is cool. But.

you know, I can't find that. Yeah. It did not sell well until Lee became a popular star a couple of years later. Okay. So yeah, 1960, it was released in 1958. Yeah. Yeah.

Big resurgence due to the movie Home Alone. I like this. It's a fun song. I have to watch it. Maybe it's Jingle Bell Rock I'm thinking of that I don't like. That's a great song too. They both stink. What's your favorite? Santa Baby? I like Katy Perry's Christmas Silence. The Mariah Carey.

All for Christmas. I don't mind silence. I think it's, I think sometimes it's good to be silent. I think it's great to be silent. Yeah. I think you should, I try to, I'm trying to work on that. Yeah. I think you should sit. I know you should go. Everybody should go. You should go sit in silence.

Because it's a very important thing to do. I've realized we just need a break. But I'm saying for Christmas, that would be your favorite song is Silence. Just don't turn it already. I would say Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Yeah. Something like that. What's that about? It's about the angels singing. What's the Sandy Patty? She sings a Christmas song.

I don't know. I think that's, I feel like. What about Tennessee Christmas by Amy Grant? Never heard. Yeah. You never heard that? Christmas. Okay. I think White Christmas is the best selling song of all time. Really? It's a great song. Bing Crosby. I'm dreaming of a White Christmas. Oh, okay. That's a sad song, isn't it?

What's the one that's like really is actually a sad song? Blue Christmas. I'll be home for Christmas if I'll be. Yeah. Yeah. That's a sad one. Yeah. Because he's not home. He's in his dreams. Right. But isn't he going to be home? So I don't know. Is that sad? I'll be home for Christmas. I'm coming home. If only in my dreams. That's the next line. But if your wife's like, when are you coming home? I'll be home. Yeah. At the very end. In my dreams. Oh, well. Oh, yeah. I'll be in spirit. If only in my dreams. Yeah.

I mean, this is the positive of not listening to the lyrics. None of it means anything. Was he at war? Was it like a wartime? Maybe. I mean, when was Bing Crosby? I feel like this song is getting dark for the only time ever. It's like the happiest song. Like, I'll be home for Christmas. He's saying, I'll be home for Christmas. You can count on me. There'll be presents under the tree. I'll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams. So he's like, I'll do all that. But like...

It might just be in spirit. A bit of a letdown. Again, to his family. Yeah. Expected him home. Yeah. He's out with the boys. That's pretty crazy. You have a favorite Christmas movie? Favorite Christmas movie. Like a movie that's about Christmas? It can be either one. Okay. Yeah. Die Hard. Christmas Story is a big one for me. Yeah. That was a big one for our family. Yeah, I like Christmas Story. I like Home Alone a lot too. Yeah, Home Alone. Home Alone's kind of come back. That's great. Yeah.

Never seen it. Wonderful Life, my favorite. It's Wonderful Life. I'm not sure they make fun of me for that. Maybe top five greatest movies ever. It's such a good movie, dude. The end gets me every time. Jimmy Stewart. The original Miracle on 34th Street. I just watched that for the first time. It's so good. It's very good. It's crazy. I did bring you guys some

Christmas gifts. Did you really? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Nice bag. Yep. Yep. Yep. It's a Target bag. Aaron, for you. Oh, look at that. Milky Way. King size Milky Way. Love them. Share size. It's his favorite. That's lunch. You can share if you want.

Nick, for you, some toothpaste. Look at that little cortisone. Don't tell him. I actually need it. He needs it for the thing that he's doing. And of course, Nate, for you.

Got you something here. Oh, wow. That's awesome. A donation has been made in your name to the Human Fund. Money for people. That's a perfect gift. Thank you. You're welcome. That's cool. I didn't even think about getting you something. I wish I had something for you, Brian. Yeah. Well, that's all right. I'll give you this. I just got this. Thank you. Yeah.

it comes with my best of us. Yeah. It's a Christmas gift. No, I like it. Merry Christmas, everybody. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. I hope everybody has a wonderful Christmas or, uh, except Peyton and Eli. Yeah. I hope the Mannings have a beautiful, beautiful Christmas and hope they talk and they get, there's not a delay. And, uh, now I hope, uh, I hope they have a great, I really, I hope everybody has a wonderful Christmas. Uh,

Christmas is a wonderful time, everybody. You got anything? I'm January 4th, 5th, and 6th. I'm in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Looney Bin. Headlining there first time. So I'm really excited about that. So come start the new year with me in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There you go. This weekend, I'm right here in Nashville. Hometown show, Zany's Comedy Club. I'm co-headlining it with a couple of buddies, Laura Peek and Casey Shornima. We're doing all weekend. So come on out to Zany's this weekend.

Yeah, I got a bunch of comedy shows coming up. I'm going to be touring with Nate a bunch next year, but I'm very excited that the 11th annual Easter Seals Disability Film Challenge is going to be launched next month. The dates are going to be April 2nd to April 7th. If you know anybody that's interested in film, people with disabilities that want to get involved, go to disabilityfilmchallenge.com. Yep.

Yeah. Yeah. It's always very fun. Yeah. It's become a huge thing. It's becoming very big. People have been getting jobs from it. And I'm very excited, very proud of everybody that takes part in it. So yeah, you did a great job. If anybody with a disability wants to make a video or make a movie,

A little short. Yep. How long are they using? They have to be between one to five minutes. So if you go to disabilityfilmchallenge.com, you can learn about how you register, put a film together, a team, but also you can go to our YouTube page and watch. We have over 600 films that have been created from around the world. Yeah, it's awesome, man. All right. We love you. Really. Have a Merry Christmas.

And we'll see you next week, right? I don't think you're here next week. All right. I'm not here, but I'll be at the New Year's Eve show. Yeah. But yeah, as always, we love you. See you. Bye. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife, Laura, on the Audioboom platform.

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179: #179 Christmas Traditions feat. Nic Novicki

The Nateland Podcast

Chapters

How Did the Manning Cast Experience Go?

What Are the Christmas Traditions in the Bargatze Family?

Nick Novicki's Experiences in Christmas Movies and SNL

Christmas Tree Traditions and Personal Stories

Favorite Christmas Songs and Movies

Shownotes Transcript

179: #179 Christmas Traditions feat. Nic Novicki 02:00:25 Share

The Nateland Podcast

Chapters

How Did the Manning Cast Experience Go?

What Are the Christmas Traditions in the Bargatze Family?

Nick Novicki's Experiences in Christmas Movies and SNL

Christmas Tree Traditions and Personal Stories

Favorite Christmas Songs and Movies

Shownotes Transcript

179: #179 Christmas Traditions feat. Nic Novicki