#22 The Wife
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What's up, everybody? This is Nate Bargetzi. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. I'm here with Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, as usual. It starts the week of Thanksgiving. It's a pretty fun week. Everybody's trips are canceled. Are y'all going somewhere? No. No, staying here. Yeah. Everybody, like no family or anything? Mm-mm.

Are you doing family and you're just not? You're lying. You're not telling it because the government is listening to the podcast? I would say I don't care. Are you? You're not meeting with them? No, I'm just having Thanksgiving here. Are y'all not seeing your family? Well, we haven't decided exactly. My niece has COVID, so we won't be seeing her. Yeah, that's a big one. Is she fine? Yeah, she's fine. Does she know she has it? No.

Yeah, she got it. She tested about a week ago positive. Did she feel sick? She was some, a little sick. Not too bad, but... How old is she? 20. She's in college. I was going to say eight. Yeah. Yeah.

She's 45 years old. She's 73. You're like, gosh, she needs to be careful. That's just the opposite of what you think. Yeah, dude, keep an eye on her, man. Good night. 20. Yeah, it doesn't matter. 20 seems to be fine. I think we are going to Birmingham. I think we're rolling. I think that's what either people... I know a lot of people's trips are getting canceled, though.

A lot of people are just staying home and doing whatever. It'll be interesting to see. I believe we're trying to do something, but it could also, I understand any moment could be like, no, we're not doing it. I know a couple guys trips, but what are you going to do? COVID, it's a good time. It's making everything fun. I got two shows still next week. Right now, still next week in California, San Diego and Anaheim.

The one night only tour, it's still on as of right now. But I mean, they just keep closing stuff in. I feel like in California, they're like, all right, you can't eat past 10. And then people are like pushing that. And he goes, you know what? No more indoor dining. Like he just keeps throwing more stuff out. No more outdoor dining. Outdoor dining. That just happened. Yeah. Do you feel fortunate that you got your taping in when you did?

I mean, yeah. You know, they said they're still doing Hollywood stuff, like as far as that kind of, of course, they let those guys do whatever they want. Yeah. That's why we're having somebody move to Nashville from California. But they're, so yes, but I am happy because that could have definitely been just pulled. But I mean, these shows, I haven't, I'm trying to find out if they're going to happen. You know, I know people ask, but there's still, no one's telling us no yet.

But that could easily change. So we're seeing. It's all crazy. It's all, when is it going to start? When is it going to be back to normal? You know? You know? I don't know. I mean, unbelievable. It's unbelievable. When do we get it back to regular? Like, it's pretty crazy. What point? When will you consider it back to normal? Is there...

I think back on the road, I guess, would be for me going back to do theaters. When the theaters are open again? Yeah, theaters are back open. At full capacity? Yeah. Oh, man. That might be a year from now. I know. That's crazy, though. At what point? I'm telling you. We'll all start something. At what point do we just go, we're just going back out? And if you can't, then go home. Do whatever you want. I don't know. You know, it doesn't matter. I hope with the vaccine that by the spring, things will be improving. Yeah. Summer, at least. Yeah.

You have to prove that you took it. That's a good time. It's a good time. That makes it real fun. You got to have... I don't know if anybody's familiar with the Mark of the Beast, but this seems like... You remember when we always watched those movies? It was like a Mark of the Beast movie. And you see that. It is funny. Sometimes you always think about that stuff like, oh, because you're like, no, that's never going to happen. And then you start seeing some stuff, you're like, all right, all right. You're like, you have to... I saw somewhere some...

It's like the government won't make you take the vaccine, but businesses could be like, you have to have proof that you took the vaccine before they allow you in. Maybe you fly on an airline. Airlines are going to be like, well, you have to have the thing that said you took it. So then they forced... So now you can't travel. So stuff will just get taken from you unless you have proof that you took the vaccine. Which is... I'd probably take the vaccine. I don't think I care that much. I would take it. But I don't like...

Getting told I have to prove it. I definitely don't like that. It's almost like how you're being told. But anyway, that's a whole different podcast. We'll get into that and conspiracy stuff when we do one on conspiracies. All right. We're going to read some comments. These are from YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Apple Podcast Reviews. And always you can email nateland at natebargetzi.com. First up, Matt Oregon. I feel like I know this guy. He's commented before. Yeah.

There's so much gold in here to comment on. I don't even know where to start. Love the podcast and love you guys. It's been said a ton in the comments, but it really does feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies while listening to you guys. Keep up the great work. Thank you, Matt. That's what it is. That's cool. Just a couple guys just hanging out, being funny or something. Not funny. Wade Cleaver. Aaron is 1,000% too smart for this show. Wow.

When Nate or Breakfast take a stance on almost anything, I can feel Aaron's seething resentment while he's trying to figure out how to dumb down his response. Also, good night, Nate. Listening to you read is like hearing someone start a new sentence every two words. All jokes aside, love the show and keep up the good work.

I could argue that he doesn't love the show. I mean, that's... He seems like a good guy to me, man. Is that true? Is that true, Aaron? I don't know about 1,000%. Wade Cleaver seems like a made-up name that you would have made up and wrote a comment. Wade Cleaver. Ward Cleaver. Oh, Wade Cleaver. Wade Cleaver, the Cleaver family. 1,000% is a lot. But it's up there. That's what you're saying. But it's up there. You went to Notre Dame. You're a big time... You know, you're super smart. I'm not...

I mean, that's what they say. Do you have seething resentment? Nah, it's like, you know. Normal resentment? It's just kind of, yes. I'm just used to it. Just a normal amount of resentment. Just a regular amount of resentment. Because I wouldn't say seething. That's what you, if you and Wade were hanging out, and I imagine y'all hung out when y'all...

We figured out how to word this properly. And you go, I'm going to put seething. It's not seething. I go, I know, but they won't know it's you if you say seething. You got to go higher. And you go, oh, that makes sense, Wade. And then y'all went and caught catfish with your fist. And you noodled. Is that what y'all did after this? Yeah. Me and Wade went out to the lake. Y'all went noodling. You go, we're fishing. Where's your poles? I would love to go noodling. Have you been? No. No.

You got to let a, would you do it? Uh, I would, I mean, maybe I would try it if, if I'm there, I don't think I'm going to search it out. If anybody doesn't know noodling, it's you put your fist in the water and a cat is in a catfish bites your fist and then you pull it out with your hands, with your bare hands.

So I would do it if it all was there and it was happening, I would definitely try it. But I don't think I'm going to go. Well, next time Wade and I go, I'll bring you along. Y'all should do it. I don't know. You know, Wade's going to get just trashed by Wade the whole time. I mean, I don't have to be here, man. You know?

Natalie Walter, Aaron, please don't punish us with camel color jackets. Now, after what we all went through visually last week, we've acclimated and it's truly sick to take that away from us. They like the colors. Yeah. They like the NASCAR jacket. Yeah, that surprised me. I'm surprised the amount of hate I got for that camel jacket. The brown. It's not a good one. But it's... I think people will think maybe it's trench coat length.

It's not, you know, it just stops at the waist. It's not creepy. It's just a nice. It feels like a young, your age. That's being cool is what it feels like. You know, that's like, look at my cool Brown jacket that my dad wore. And everybody's like, wow, you're hipster parties that you go to.

Does everybody have that jacket on when you go to one of your hipster parties? I don't see many people with that jacket, dude. When you and Wade are out partying? We go noodling and then we go to a hipster party afterwards? Well, your noodling is how you really are. They go, what did you guys do today? You're like, oh, not much, man. We didn't do anything.

And then you, you know, I won't wear the jacket anymore, dude. I'll, you know, the Brown one. Yeah. You wear, do what do you, man? If you want, if you like the jacket, if it's comfortable, then you wear the jacket. I do like it. Was it a Brooks brothers? That was Polo. Polo. Okay. Yeah. Brooks brothers. Brooks ain't selling stuff like that anymore. Like that's too nice. I bought a Goodwill. Where'd you get a Goodwill? Yeah. The Polo outlet store. Okay. It's kind of Goodwill. Uh,

It's basically the step before. It's the step before Goodwill. They're like, everything's 85% off. Yeah, it's either buy it here or you can go buy it at Goodwill in a week. But either way, we're trying to get rid of this. That's what the Allen store is. Bob Hafner. Next Netflix documentary. Nate goes 30 days without McDonald's. We starting now. I mean, I couldn't even start. I had Chick-fil-A before I got here. That's a good idea.

Yeah, going 30 days without McDonald's. The opposite of supersize me. Yeah, the opposite. It would have to be all fast food. If I go 30 days without fast food, 30 days just eating home-cooked food, that would be tough. That would be tough. I need to do it, though. I'm going to have a heart attack. That's what I've been thinking a lot lately. I just eat ice cream every night. I go, this is not good.

And so I just think about that. And just do it again the next day? Just see if it happens. Sometimes maybe if it happens, it'll wake me up. So I'm just kind of waiting for it.

Stephanie Crandall, the part where Nate talks about shamefully eating in your car in the back of a random parking lot, then throwing away the evidence so your family doesn't find out was spot on accurate. I was laughing so hard I was crying and gasping for air. When my husband asked what was so funny, I lied and said it was nothing. So he didn't know my secret. I do this every time I'm able to get out of the house without my kids. I think it's a gigantic thing. A lot of people said that. A lot of people do. A lot of people eat.

and, you know, get rid of it all, hide it all away. That's why trash cans out and about the wild, you always see trash cans in the wild. They're always full. It's all fast food. Yeah. And when you come on a trash can or come up on one where you can just reach out the car like a drive-thru trash can. Oh, those things are...

You might as well just throw it on the ground because they're going to be full. They are going to be full. You're going to bounce it off of it. They're huge. I mean, yeah, that's, yeah, everybody, I like that everybody does, you know. I think more people do it than not. I think it's a, I mean, that's what I was saying. Whenever it makes fun of fast food and you're like, people are there, man. People are going there. And I don't think it's just, you know, just they think it's people are in like trailer parks or me. Like it's like, but it's, you know, McDonald's is good.

They're doing good. Yep. Matthew Johnson. Hey, guys. Big fan of the show. The chemistry between Nate Aaron and Breathe Right. Like the Breathe Right strip. Nate Aaron and Breathe Right makes every episode great. The reason McDonald's Coke tastes the best is actually because of the way they filter their water. Every McDonald's restaurant uses state-of-the-art reverse osmosis

filtration to purify their water to ridiculously pure levels, giving it a distinct taste.

Is that true? We got a few comments about the Coke, McDonald's Coke. It's kind of like the buttered popcorn. Everyone gave a little bit different explanation, but they're all kind of similar. That's what I thought McDonald's wants you to do. Everybody thinks they know why, and they're like, maybe. That's what McDonald's would say. He says that to McDonald's, and they would go, maybe. Yeah. Maybe. Probably a little bit of that. I think a big part of it is psychological. I think...

I think if it was, I think a McDonald's cup, seeing the logo, you associate all these things in your brain of like a good meal that you like. I think a lot of it tastes, I don't think so. It tastes different. The cup is, it does taste different. I'm saying that that's part of it. It's in your head, Nate. It's, I know, but it's not, it comes from, they're doing stuff. There's something's different with the coat. It's not, and it's the cup.

If you've ever had Coke, you go to a restaurant, you get a Diet Coke in a glass, like a real glass, it's not good. And that's almost any soda. But if you get it in those red Pizza Hut cups, you know, or those plastic cups, it's way better. And so it's how you...

The cup plays a big factor into it too. Everything plays it. It's all this. I don't think it's just psychological. I don't think you're in there going, this is only good because I agree. Do you not think that's part of it? No, not, I think there, I think it's every, I think,

I think you could put their soda next to everybody and you know it's better. And you're not going to always just be like, I'm so happy with this beautiful cup. And then you're not tricked into your brain. I think you could put it in different cups, maybe, and you would probably taste the difference. Okay. We'll do it with the Krispy Kreme. Whenever we eat Krispy Kreme donuts, we'll have the, can you tell? We're going to be doing a lot that day. That day's going to be a big day, man.

be prepared for that day. Someone commented that their girlfriend or wife used to be a manager at McDonald's and they clean the soda machine like four or five times a week. Like much more than most restaurants they said. Yeah. That's their thing.

But psychologically. They could do that only a couple times and then maybe clean the ice cream machine. Then someone say it takes like four or five hours to clean the ice cream machine. Somebody did say that, yep. Yeah. So that's why they... It's a big deal. So when they clean it, it's like, yeah, we're not doing this again because it's... I get it. If I work there, I get it. I get why I would want to... I work there, I would never turn it on. Yeah. We're not doing this. I understand why, but...

Figure out a new way. Something's got to change. You go to Sonic, you're never worried. Sonic's like, yeah, what do you want? You want ice cream? We have it. 30 degrees outside? We have it. And I'll get it. You're never scared of it. The only time I've ever had Sonic where they didn't, they were out of ice cream. That was the only reason. The machine wasn't broken. They were just out of ice cream. For a guy to have a website is not good for McDonald's. They're so focused on the Coke.

that they're losing sight of the ice cream. But, you know, McDonald's is doing good anyway. So Bryce Hockenberry. Sounds like one of Bates' names. Bryce Hockenberry. My girlfriend manages a McDonald's that has multiple lanes. I'm not sure if it's everywhere, but I know as far as McDonald's, they have cameras in the speakers so they can see who is ordering what and know which order goes out the window for who.

All right. That's pretty good. Yeah. How to do that. That's what I thought it was something to do with cameras. But, you know, I went to Chick-fil-A before here. And they gave me record coke instead of diet. And that's, you know, it's always annoying. Chick-fil-A does a good job. They also, when I was in the big long line and they were walking the food, you know, they like walk your food back. But I was that person where they walk. They almost started behind me.

So I had to wait. It was like a long time. And I mean, people are just peeling off behind me like, oh, wow, that's super quick. Their experience was they go, it's unbelievable. And my experience was I had to wait for all these. It was just me getting food. And I was all these gigantic bags going into vans, you know, where you're like, oh, God. And they and I had to sit and wait the whole time. Yeah.

So normally they're normally they're good. But I thought, you know, that's like if you ever you ever go ride a ride at a theme park and you're at one part and they go, all right, this new lanes open. And then like the guy right behind one guy is really gets no benefit. But 20 people get a huge benefit. And that's what I felt like that guy.

A couple of people commented that last week when I went to get us food and they said no breakfast. Yeah. That guy was just a fan of the podcast and didn't want to serve me. Yeah. No breakfast. All right. And then you just went with it. You might be right. That means they have a camera in the thing and they saw your red nose. They go, I'm going to take a shot. It's either breakfast or Rudolph. And then they didn't. And he just went with it.

Black Daniels.

When I was 17, I got a Discover student credit card with the intention of maxing it out and making payments to build my credit. The day I got it, I told a group of friends to meet me at Hooters, and they could order whatever they wanted because I was buying. We literally hung out for hours, each ordered multiple entrees, and ran up a tab none of us could actually afford. Eventually, the waitress brings the bill, and I confidently say, I'll take that, and drop my newly received card. The waitress looks at it,

Looks at it and looks at me and says, we don't accept Discover. Something back then I didn't even know was a possibility. We sat quietly for an hour waiting for mom to come bail us out, who afterward made me pay her back immediately and coincidentally also did not accept Discover. Oh, for a little fun. Yeah. A little story there, Blagg.

Well, he left out that last part and then someone said, well, what happened? Yeah. And then he finished it up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good little story. Yeah. Uh, I, uh, we also had a discover card. That was one that my wife got and I'm, and I would just be like, nobody takes it.

Everywhere I did there, we don't take Discover. And I kept, we had it for, and I was like, I can't have this credit card. Are they easy to get or something? Easier than other? I don't know. They might charge more or something. Like everybody takes Amex. Amex is usually, but the Amex charges more, I think, or something. So a lot of people don't. That'd be one that they don't want to take Amex.

But Discovery was just a problem, man. Discovery. Everywhere we went was just... We don't take... I mean, it's enough that you notice it. You know what I mean? It's not, oh, okay. It was enough that you go, are you kidding me? No, we don't take Discovery. And you're like, ah. And then you're just done. That's very funny. Ordered that much food. I wonder how much it was. Had to be... I mean, all them ordering probably a couple hundred bucks, something like that. And Hooters. I mean...

Yeah, just to go, we don't take discovery. I mean, golly. Just your whole plan. You had such a good night. What are we going to do? And then you got to call your mom. Brock Lobster. These are all your names. Brock Lobster. Nate spending 13 times the national average on fast food is like Michael Scott going bankrupt for attending multiple magic camps and buying premium bass fishing equipment. Yeah.

That is 13 times the national average. I should be... That's why I'm the greatest average American, which might be the title of the next special. Really? Yeah. Naming a special is... It's hard to do. And...

And then, so I don't know if I'm supposed to say that, but you get it. There were some comments. Nate land. Yeah. That should be the next name. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, well, Nate land listeners just don't say anything to anybody. Just everybody keep be cool about it. Don't post that in the comments. Cause I don't think I'm supposed to say it, but I think it's going to be the greatest average American. Yeah. It worked out. Like I was trying to name it and I had all these other names and,

You always want to name your special. And then they always end up being like, no, they just got a Tennessee kid. Wasn't my choice. I think my manager chose it and they want it to be when people see it. You know, if you're Kevin Hart, Bill Burt, your name that you're so big, everybody knows what they're getting. They know the product.

And then if you're me, yes, a lot of people will know what they're getting, but then people that might not know me, which should be a lot of people, they, why, why would I, what is this? And that's the greatest average Americans. Pretty. Yeah. It's pretty good. I know. I thought of it when we said it and we posted the clip on Instagram. I was like, man, I bet that could be the special. And then they, and I was going to tell them and then they reached out and said, Hey, what about this? And I was like, Oh, that's awesome. Can you give us any of the other names you threw out? Uh,

The Lucky Ones, which is part of a joke that I do. I like The Lucky Ones. But it's about a joke that I do in my act. One Fell Swoop is my closing joke. That could have been one. I just thought about comedy. Just straight comedy. Like being the comedy special. You know, just being like this special is about comedy. It's not about...

Anything else? All this political stuff. I like that. I like the comedy special too. But The Greatest Average American is pretty great. Yeah. So I think it's going to be that. I can't tell you where it's at either. That's another thing that's against the rules. You can probably guess. But don't. Also don't post that.

Lauren Reed. There's a Sonic at the edge of our neighborhood and my dad stops for a Route 44 Coke every morning. And he's done this for all 21 years that I can remember. We were regulars so much so that he was given a Sonic gift card by our car hop many years in a row.

We did the math this summer, and accounting for Sonic five days a week spending about $6 a day, as sometimes one of us would get breakfast to, 50 weeks out of the year, my dad has single-handedly spent at least $31,000 and $31,500 at Sonic on Coke. This isn't including any dinner stops, milkshakes, or anything outside of his morning Coke. Wow.

$31,000. How many years? For 21 years. So for 21 years, he spent $31,000 on just that Coke. That's amazing. You know, good for him, man. Yeah. I love that. Just go do it. That's so much money. If you break it down, you probably made your dad feel terrible. I hope your dad just keeps going and now just goes, well, I wonder how high we can get. I mean, that's, you know, $31,000 just on soda.

That's unbelievable. Not even McDonald's Coke. Yeah, he likes Sonic Coke. Sonic's got good ice. That's their thing. Get that pebble ice. Great ice. And I don't think McDonald's Coke would go good with their ice. I feel like McDonald's, their ice plays into it. Interesting. So Sonic does have good soda products, and the ice is really good. My old job had a pebble ice machine in the kitchen. It's good. Yeah.

I would never get paid on time, but we had a pebble ice machine. You stuck around? What was it? Where'd you work? A little company here in Nashville. Oh, I can't say this. The best part was they had great ice. Yeah, great ice. Don't get paid very often, but great ice. What was it? What did you do? A company here in Nashville. Oh. On Music Row? Yeah, that same place. So you did marketing, and how do they not pay? It's like a real business. It was. Yeah, it was just...

A lot went into it. Yeah. It's a long story, but I wasn't getting paid very often.

Yeah. And it was like, were you like interns? No, man. It's a real job. It's a real job. I'll get paid on PayPal sometimes or like Venmo. Yeah. So there are a lot of red flags, but the ice was unbelievable. So you stuck around. Yeah. Great ice. You're homeless, but the ice is great. And now you're eating at McDonald's where we at McDonald's feed more homeless people than anybody in America. Yeah.

That's where you're... James Elam. I can relate to the Ronald McDonald story. In third grade, Ronald McDonald also came to my school. I have no idea why he was there. I just remember midway through the assembly, he lost his voice, and my principal had to come in and read the rest of the presentation while Ron just set off to the side.

Eventually, he had given up being a part of it all, and we watched him walk off the stage. And some kids said they saw him in the back of the room, full makeup, but took the red wig off. Oh, that's unbelievable. I love it. That's unbelievable. James Elon. He should be a comedian. And they tell that story. Yeah. That's a great story, man.

I mean, that's the guy that's got everything. I love everything about it. I love that he sat there. The principal had to continue to read it. A, to lose your voice. Something else was in the play. I don't think he just lost his voice. Ronald McDonald can't be talking that much. I, you know, I've had one time on stage where my voice was kind of gone and I still did the show, but I was sick or I was just getting sick or coming over being sick.

And so he shouldn't be losing his voice. Ronald, Ronnie might've had a bit of a night the night before is what it seems like. That's like the thing, idea when you see, you never think about it, but for kids, when they see their teachers out in public. Yeah. I mean, that's a big deal. Like teachers have to be careful because they're, you don't want, you know,

You can't really see the parents either. The parents almost don't want to know that you're a regular person if you're a teacher. They don't want to be like, oh, I saw you at Hooters trying to use the Discover credit card. You know, you don't want all this. We've seen Harper's teacher out, and I mean, it would be like if someone saw a celebrity. Yeah. And, you know, Harper's like, you know, just can't believe that they're out. So, see, I mean...

Him just eventually just walk off. He's like, there's no reason for me to be here. And just in the middle of the guy, he's like... And so Ronald... Okay, yeah, you're fine. Yeah. Why does he not just leave either? Ronald McDonald's on the lecture circuit, dude. He's making his way around to these schools. Why can't he just leave? It's like, you want to just go? He's like, I actually need those papers. Okay. Okay.

All right, well, let me just read it, and then I'll bring them to you. He's like, is there like a green room or something? You're like, come on. Do you call him? You're like, Jerry.

Come on. You're calling by his real name at that point. Johnny, just go sit in the classroom. Take your wig off. Cool down. He's like, this is embarrassing. He's like, I know. It's embarrassing for all of us. Here at the Ronald McDonald, Dick Donald Foundation, Tom Morse, I comment every dang episode. You read every commenter's name. You finally read one of my comments and say, some guy said...

My name is Tom Morris. I need to brag to my friends, please and thank you. Tom Morris, Tommy Morris was the Ronald McDonald. Did we just say, we didn't say his name? I didn't catch it at the time, but there was the extra comment there at the end about, he asked about the golf tournament. Yeah. And you kind of went quick. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we were trying to do it kind of quickly, Tom. And so we just breezed through it. But Tom Morris had the comment about the, last week about the golf. Yeah.

So thanks for that. Thanks for this, Tom. All right. I think we're good, right? Yeah. That's it for today. That's all the podcast, everybody. So, yeah, we had, you know, this was a, you got Thanksgiving coming up. We got, we had a sad week with, so my grandmother passed away and she was 87. She was, she's in Bowling Hall of Fame.

And so lived a good long life. Yeah, we talked about her in the sports episode. Yeah, yeah. And so lived a good long life. And we all went to the funeral. And what's funny with the funeral, this is the Bargetzis. So this is the family, if everybody knows, Tuesday. Tuesday was there. My uncle was there, wears no shirt and tuxedo jacket. I mean, just such a fun family.

The Borghetti's are just kind of wild. We got my cousin, little Bob. We call him little Bobby six, eight, but his dad's name is Bob. And he, so we said it when he was in his dad was like a big guy. And then little Bob grew up to be six, eight. And we're like, yeah, we've already committed to the little Bob name.

My cousin Chris, I mean, you know, like Gabe, everybody was there. And Paige, I'm trying to not miss anybody. My brother, my brother's sister there. It's funny, my brother teaches at a school, and they do a lot of mission work. G.O.D. is the Global Outreach Development. That's who these guys all work with. So he, God, yeah, Global Outreach Development. Yeah, they're G.O.D., but they say G.O.D. because they're not being as...

You know, they're not above God. You said it with disdain. Yeah. God. I know. No, it just took me a second to spell it out in my head. Yeah. Do y'all ever say God? Y'all don't say God. You say G-O-D. Yeah, G-O-D International. But they know that spells God, right? Yeah, that's the point of it. But they don't want to go... They don't go, hello, we are God calling. Like, that's not... That doesn't drum up business. I can't believe it took you that long to...

To figure out they spelled God. Well, you know. I feel like. Hello, we are God. And let me tell you something. We don't need your business. My buddy, John Paul, who builds pools. Laura, I just told you. Backyard living. And he does. He builds pool. Very funny. His dad. You've told this story. Oh, I did? Yeah. So John Paul, his whole thing. If anybody hasn't seen it, his dad also has a pool company. And he's now his competitor.

Uh, and, but he was, his whole thing is he goes, we were talking and he's like, look, I don't need your business. We always joke that John Paul says that. And I try to say that he tries to go anybody. He goes to his house to build a pool and they ask any question. He just goes, look, I don't, I don't need your business. All right. And his business cards just say, I don't know how you got this number. Who gave you my number?

And I love the idea of that being your business motto is everywhere you go. Hey, do you mind building a pool? Look, before we get started, just a heads up. I don't need your business. All right. I'll look at it and I'll see, but just understand I don't need it. You need us more than we do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's such a good, why don't you just run on that? Yeah. On that, like I'll just go, look, just head start. I know you're my first client. I don't need you, dude. I don't, you know. Your first customer.

Hey, thank you guys for listening. I don't need you to listen to this podcast at all, all right? That's how this podcast gets started. I don't care. These will be plugged in. I'll talk to myself, all right? But anyway, so my brother, he always ends up doing a lot of the—my dad was always doing it, like any kind of pastor work, any kind of you go be a minister, we need a minister. My dad would always have to do it, read the scripture and all that kind of stuff. So my brother gets there.

And Derek has to go read. My dad, he's going to just read a scripture. Derek's going to read a scripture at the gravesite, actually, not at the funeral. And so the person comes up to him and just goes, all right, so how do you want to do this? And Derek's like, I don't, I'm just reading like a scripture. He goes, you know when someone just is not going to take that as an answer? And they go, okay, so how do you want this service to go? And my Derek's like,

Oh, so I guess I'm in charge of this service now. I'm giving the eulogy. He had to go up there and my dad talked, which was a very moving, great, he was very sweet. So my dad did that bulk of it. And Derek just goes up and he goes, he just said what was happening. That's great. There's a woman there named Di.

There's friends with my grandmother and she always sang karaoke. She wanted to sing. So we didn't, there was, we, there was no hiring of a singer. It wasn't going to be a singer. There was, she just goes, I would like to sing a few songs and we go, okay. And so she's saying, okay,

She sang two songs. And Derek just goes up and goes, so I made a little joke because I guess I'm the minister for our family. And so I'm going to read some scripture and then Di's going to come up and sing a song. And then my dad's going to talk and Di will sing again.

And then we will go and bury our grandmother. Like he just told them. That's an MC, right? Yeah, just going, here's the plan. Here's what we're going to do. So Derek read the scripture. And then he said, Di, please come. Di sings Amazing Grace, something. My Uncle Mike starts clapping. Which no one really does at a funeral. She gets done singing. I mean, there's maybe 20 of us in this room. And he's just like...

And then we all start... Everybody starts clapping for... My grandmother's right there. And then she sings again. And...

And then, uh, die comes back up at the end. And then we, then we start clapping. My dad looked at my uncle. Mike is like, what are you doing? You don't clap at a funeral. Like it's not, not a concert. And then my, and he starts my, uh, then everybody clapped after the second time. Cause we're like, I guess we're clapping. You know, we can't not clap. I mean, poor dies going to be like, well, what happened the second time? You don't think I brought it.

And then, so we, she clapped again and then, uh, yeah. And, and then, and then we went and, uh, we buried her. So that's a, it's a Bargetti.

And that's the Bargettis, man. It's a fun. I love it. Yeah. Yeah. There's always something. It's always, I mean, you know, my funeral, I hope it's something, something just doesn't work. I love that it's just a free for all. Like you, you doing it? Put together. Yeah. Put together real quick. Derek just had no idea. We all drove up, me, Derek and my sister Abigail. And then just we're doing, I guess we're doing this. And didn't you guys go bowling in honor of your grandmother?

They went last night. I didn't go, but everybody else went. Harper went and all the nieces and nephews and Derek and them. Yeah, they all went bowling. That's great. Yeah. So that was good. And they did bowl good. So, all right. This week, I believe we have a ton of questions. We're bringing the producer of this podcast that doesn't know how to separate being a wife and producer sometimes. Yeah.

No, I don't know. We have a very inappropriate relationship as a producer on the podcast. And it's not good for business. And so we got Laura Bargetze. Laura Bargetze or Blair. Laura Blair. It's Laura instead of Laura. People get mad about that. And then people, I mean her. When we did, when we shot the special, or when we did the pilot,

It was Laura. I changed it to Laura. Oh, yes. That was... For my benefit. Yeah. Is there any pilot questions? There was. Okay. So we're waiting. I'll get to that. All right. We can fire... So me and Laura, we need to talk about how we met at Applebee's. We worked at Applebee's together. I was 21. She was at my 21st birthday. We met at Applebee's, and then we've been together since then. I live in Chicago. Okay.

And then I was in New York for two years. And then we got married in 2006, right? And then you moved to New York with me. October. October. 31st, 2006. Yeah. So you guys dated that whole time? Yep. Dated the whole time. We had a break. We had a break.

And then just like every relationship on earth. But when you moved to Chicago, were you guys dating? Yes. And then, so before I ever started comedy, when I told her I wanted to go do comedy. Yeah, he said, I have to tell you something. And I was like, okay, what is it? And I thought, gosh, here's this guy going to tell me.

It could be any number of things. I was like, what could it be? And my mind is racing like he's got, I don't know, something wrong with him. Something's weird in his family. Well, that's true. Just like, what could it be? My dad's a magician. Yeah. He was like, I want to be a stand-up comedian. I was like, oh, okay. All right. Okay, good. Do that. Okay. Because I just never heard anyone say anything to me like, I want to be a...

I want to be a whatever, even living in Nashville. So I was like, okay, sure. Go ahead. Just to vocalize it like that. Yeah. That shows that you were very dedicated out of the gate. Out of the gate. A lot of people are like, I'm going to go try this and see what happens. Yeah. I think when I started, I knew I wanted to be a comedian, but I didn't tell anybody for a while because I didn't want to. It sounded like a secret you had kept. Had you told anyone up to that point?

that point? I mean, you or my parents would have been, you know, but my parents were great with it. Was it a plan though before? I don't know. I think it's always, you know, I say in my, when I wrote where I would be in 10 years. Oh yeah. In my, uh, yeah, we have it like for my senior year in high school. It was like, where are you going to be at 10 years? I think I said playing in the NBA. Yeah.

Because I always wanted to play basketball, which I technically did. Nashville Baptist Association. NBA. Did play for the NBA. Oh, that's fine. Truthfully, yeah. NBA. And then I said I want to perform at Zany's. And so, but I don't ever, I guess there was, when I look back, there's a lot of stuff. My dad always brings up, he remembers the first time I told a joke. I forget what the joke was. The spider? One was the spider. That was the first joke I remember was...

I remember, hey, there's a fly. He said, waiter, there's a fly in your soup. And the waiter says, don't worry, the spider on your bread will eat it. And so I thought it was so funny. And then my dad always just says that I broke it down why it's funny.

Like, here's why it's funny. And so I guess I was fascinated with these jokes, but in my head, I don't remember. There was never, you know, I think people think, is there ever just a big decoration? Like I'm going to do this. I've always wanted to do this. I've dreamed of it, you know, my whole life. And I don't remember that. I was never, it was like, I was never trying to do it. And then it just, I would, but I, there was so many things that were leaning to me wanting to do it. And so it was, it was always there.

And then one day, me and Michael Clay, and then we were going to move to Chicago. And he wanted to go to Chicago. Because I was like doing that. I was reading Watermakers. And I was telling Trey, Trey Pearson, a guy with his... And I told Trey, I was like, I think I want to do comedy. Like, I knew I was doing a job that's like... That was after that. That was after you told me that. Oh. You had that job. And that's when you were like... Then you... Yeah, I started like... You found a friend of yours. I started figuring out... Yeah, like how to do it. I do. I am good at that. If I put... If I want to do something...

I will figure what, whatever it is. If I want to figure something out, if I, or if I want to get some, if I want to buy something, if I want to do anything, I will figure a way to make sure I can end up doing that. And so, yeah, it was like, yes, it was like getting all my ducks in a row. I wasn't doing comedy here. I didn't do that, but I moved. I was reading. I read, I delivered pizzas at night. I, I,

Red water meters of the day and I went and delivered pizzas and I just would put that money away. So I would have, you know, a couple thousand dollars or something before I move. I think I had a couple thousand. I feel like Michael had ten thousand. Like, I feel like Michael's a good saver. I don't know if he had ten thousand dollars, but he had he had way more than me. I got I was like, got five hundred bucks, dude, let's hit it. And I just had nothing. But I was like, this is good.

And so I remember doing that. And then I started. Yeah. But Laura, when he moved, was there any talk about, well, maybe we should break up? Not right then, just because it was so new. And I was like, you should go do that. I'm doing things here. I think I was in school. So I was like, I can't follow your dream. We were just dating. And I was like, you should go do that. And let's see how it goes. Committedly see how it goes, but see how it goes.

And then, you know, Chicago's an easy flight. Yeah. I had money. You know, I had money enough to fly there. I think we did it every three weeks or four weeks or six weeks. We had like an interim and we would alternate and it was easy because he was coming to see his family anyways. Right. So. So the relationship. It just kind of kept going and going. Yeah. You know. Won't die. I'm pretty persistent.

So I don't know. It just. So. She gets what she wants. Yeah. I had a good feeling about it. And then what about when he said he was moving to New York? Because then he must have been pretty serious. That was like a bit. That was a big deal. I was like, well, you know, it just he kept making it and making it and making it. So I just have having to have conversations with myself like, oh, he's really he's doing this. You know, like, what am I going to do? Where's my place in this?

Chicago was like a proof of concept almost. It was like, it was, it was just, I needed someone that goes, if, if someone would have been like, I heard Denver's got a good comedy scene. I would have been like, okay. It was just, I don't know why I didn't start here. I just, I don't think I thought, I remember he said, Michael, or Trey's was like, Hey, Michael Trey Pearson, such a big part of this.

he did so good with, I feel like he was a, he's a guy, he has, they have a ton of kids. They had kids very early and he, I feel, you know, and Trey lives a wonderful life and,

did our t-shirts for a little bit and like, so, but trade I think was, is a guy that's like very supportive of someone that if they go, Hey, I wanted to go do something. He's like, you should go do that. Just a very, he's a perfect person that was just put, you know, into my life at that time. So when I said that, he goes, you know, Michael wants to do that and he wants to move to Chicago. And so Trey was like, y'all need to talk. And I knew Michael, we were friends, but yeah,

I don't know if that would have ever come up. And so then he's like, y'all talk. And then me and Michael started talking. Michael's like, I want to go to Chicago. And he knew Second City was there. And so I go, OK, yeah, I want to do it. I'll do Second City with him. And I took Second City classes for eight weeks, improv. I didn't love improv. Improv is, I didn't like that. It was too many people involved in the comedy.

And I was knew I was going to be clean. And so, you know, improv when people are bad at comedy, their first way to go is dirty. And so every improv class, I feel like would be just somewhat dirty or whatever. And it was just like, I don't like this. I want to do my own thing. And then I took a class, comedy college. Jim Roth still does his class in Chicago and Milwaukee.

And I took his class and it was a great class. And I'm not against classes. I think we've talked about classes, but if someone wants to do comedy, I think class is good because it's, I think it just gives you something at least gives you a start. You know, I don't think you need them. You definitely don't need them, but if you don't know what to do, it's a good to go start with other people that don't know what to do. You know? Yeah.

So, yeah. So I did that. And Chicago was going good. I mean, I was getting up right when I got, I was in the Chicago Tribune right when it first, because they did a story on his class. And I mean, that was a month into starting comedy. And I was like in the Chicago Tribune. My name was in it. I'd like, my parents still have it. And it was because it was like, God, that's crazy. Like, you know, your name's in the news. It's like the Chicago Tribune. When you did a show and Jeremy and I came up.

Jeremy Morrow. Yeah, Morrow P. Came up and watched and I was like, okay, this is funny. Was that your first time seeing him before? Yes. Yeah. Did you think he was funny before even comedy? Yes. Yeah. Just daily, you know. Yeah. Banter, yes. Because I think you said once you liked her because she rode around on a broom like a witch. She was funnier. Yeah. That was my first...

She was sweeping at Applebee's. I could walk you to the booth. I know the booth in the corner. And she was... I thought that was good. Yeah. And she was sweeping, like sweeping up. And then she wrote it like a witch and goes...

I clicked it, like starting it, like a horse or something. Whoa. Motorcycle. Whoa. You know, Laura, do you know that cars? And so, yeah. And so then I always thought that was very funny and cute. And so then that's when I knew I really liked this chick. Thanks. So he moves to New York. He's getting more serious. And then. Then I was kind of like, come up here and let's see if you like New York City.

And so I went up there and I was like, I had always, I mean, I remember being a kid and saying, who would ever want to live in New York City? That's crazy. It's too big. It's dirty. It's expensive. Like who would ever live there? And then they're like, I'm looking at it to be my home. And I was like, this is ironic. Yeah.

And then he said, what happens if I was there? And he said, what happens if you don't like it? And I was like, I don't know. Like, I guess like, do we break up? Like, what's the, I don't know. And then we went around and you could tell that like the vibe was cool and it was exciting. And I was like, okay, this would be exciting. So, but that day actually you had the ring that day.

The first time you went to New York? Yeah. Well, no, not the first time. No. Like the time where he was like, I had gone there once before. But the time where it was like, okay, you either have to move here, you know, we have to figure this out. We've been dating for a long time. Yeah. And what were you doing for a job? I was in corporate. I was at the corporate office here at Applebee's. I was a marketing coordinator.

So I had just gotten hired. I graduated college and that was my first job out of college. So the president of the franchise group here in middle Tennessee thought I was hilarious and crazy because I would argue with him about politics and he would be like, who is this girl? And then he hired me right away. So that was my first job. And then they sold the franchise group. So my job basically dissolved the minute I,

I would have been moving to New York City. And then we went to, yeah. And then I asked you to marry me on the, the, uh, that's what I'm questions on here. Yeah. Oh yeah. Uh, Cassie B wants to know how did Nate propose to you?

So that morning that I said, well, I don't know. I guess we, you know, we, I guess we just ended if, if, if this doesn't work out, he had the ring. I didn't know that. And so he said, I said, what are we doing today? Should I shower? And this is critical for women.

This, this I'll never forgive you for. He said, no, we're not doing anything important. So just wear whatever, you know, do whatever. So I'm super casual. So I put on like jeans and a sweater. It was snowing, sleeting, snowing. And I just like barely did my hair. And then he proposed on a beautiful carriage ride and had a beautiful lunch planned at the Central Park Boathouse with

With like champagne and like a whole thing. Didn't they forget the champagne or something? I feel like they did. They did. Yeah. Because you had it all set up. Yeah, it was like a whole thing. We were going to ask on the horse carriage ride and then go over to that. And they were supposed to have the champagne. Yeah, I feel like it was a package of something you paid for. Like, I'm sure my parents paid for it at the time. I had no money. Yeah.

But he was like, oh, just wear whatever. So, I mean, I looked horrible. But you know, you're not trying to give off. You think everything that you're doing is giving off. I'm about to do this. Right. And so you're trying to. I called your dad that day. Did you ever know that? You may have told me that. Yeah, I called your dad. Yes, you did tell me. And then I called your dad and asked. Did someone just talk about that? I would want someone to call me. 100%. Yeah. I bet that's going away.

Because I don't think kids are respecting parents. It really just a matter of the respect that she, Harper, would have for, you know, as long as she takes us serious. Then she'll show us the respect. I think it's like, yeah, if you raise them like that.

But there, yeah. But you don't want to give anything away. So I wanted to, but I remember, so, and we were on a horse and buggy ride. It's not like you were bundled up. So it's not that crazy. It was crazy. And then, and then we asked and then, yeah, we went to. You have like a, like a terrible photo with it. Like it just a regular click camera. Well, you didn't have anything. Yeah. That's all we had. What year was this? 2005. Yeah. I guess. Yeah.

Yeah, that's all you have is that you don't, you know, we didn't have cell phones with cameras. Yeah, I think we just had a camera and that got super far away, luckily for me. So, yeah, but it was a great, I mean, I was completely shocked. Oh, you were? You didn't know it was coming? No. I thought it was like a, like a second try, you know, like, okay, like this is,

And then I thought it would come after somehow. Yeah, completely shocked. I feel like as soon as you get on a horse and carriage, aren't you thinking maybe? I mean, how often do you guys travel on horse and carriage? Well, we're there on vacation. She's there on vacation kind of. So you're like, let's do some touristy. Yeah. Okay. That makes sense. So I just thought, yeah. Yeah. No, completely shocked. And what did her dad say?

No, that's been the hardest part. Now he said, yes, he's like, he said, I know, you know what to do. And, you know, and just, I know what you know to do and very nice for dad's great. Very soft spoken. It was good with it. So a couple of questions along those lines, Scott H, how did your parents react when you told them Nate wanted to be a comedian and his dad was a magician clown and

And O-Dog06, how great was the day? You got to tell your parents. See, I told you. Comedy made it. It paid off. I would say my dad was, like, measured. But he's a retired military person, a lieutenant colonel from the Army. And he's a preacher. So I think he thinks, you know.

Money is not the end-all, be-all for him. Right. So it didn't really matter about money for him. Because that's a calling to do that. And comedy, you're not going to necessarily get rich, but it's... And my dad is also super funny. He loves comedy. He loves humor. I don't know. He loves my dad. When he saw my dad, it went crazy. But your parents came to that show, my first...

The first college I ever did, Belmont. Oh, yes. Your dad and Beth came. And they were there. And my dad, I remember being like, my dad's going to be there. Because your dad saw my dad somewhere else and then was like, I mean, loved my dad. He still loves him. Because he loves that dry humor. He's a David Letterman kind of fan. Yeah. What about your mom?

She is kind of an old school comedy, so it has to be super jokey. She's not a fan. Not a fan. She thinks date is funny, but she's just physical. Kind of jokey, hacky. I don't think she likes any of us. Actually, she does love Brian. Yeah. She does love him. She put it back on me. She does. She's always like, is Brian going to be there? I don't know.

Well, we're about the same age group. Yeah. Yeah, she loves these old, I love old, easy comics. Dean Martin. Comics that don't, you know, you don't got to take shots. No, you don't. It's that time felony. I think she was the most skeptical of the bunch, though. Yeah. And so I think my cousin gives it to her to answer the next question, like, that I told you, you know, like, see, I did it. Read the next one. Oh, the one that you just read. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, about putting it in your face. Yeah. So my, I think my cousin has told me, Scott has told me a couple of times like, oh, I called your mom and said like, oh, Laura's doing okay. Right. She's got it going on. How's she doing? And what point was that in your career? Well, that's been, you know, where after we moved back to Nashville is when he told me that. Yeah. But Joey, my stepbrother-in-law,

he's the one that really kind of called me. He went on his own to Zany's and saw you at some point later. And he said, he called my dad on the phone and said, don't you worry about it's going to be fine. And I don't know if my dad was at all, but you know, he was just saying like, that's great. He's really good. Like she's going to be okay. Yeah. That's great.

That was very nice for him to do. Yeah. Just to get, yeah. Cause that was, there's always behind the scene, you know, it's like, I don't know. They're not, no one's going to say anything to my face. Glad you didn't phone that set in dude. Yeah. Brought the heat that day. Yeah. He came in and just watched from the back. And then, uh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, everybody we had, cause we never had, you know, I was, people always ask, which I don't know if it's going to be a question, but people always ask, uh, you know, was there ever a time where she was like, Hey, how long are you going to do this? Cause that's a question I get.

for most comedians is they say, you know, what about my girlfriend? You know, whatever, which I've said multiple, I think I've said multiple times, a, if you have some, if you have a girlfriend or boyfriend that is going to be in the way, then it just, you know, then you got to choose. So either you're not going to make it, that's not going to work out and you got to choose. And that's the, you know, this is a thing that's commitment. So I talk about all the time,

I think we're lucky for every single person that listened to this podcast. I'm extremely lucky that they choose to listen to what I have to say. And I have to go perform with that gratitude every time to them. And it's never lost on me. They could easily walk away and rightfully so. I don't deserve them. I haven't, you know, I haven't earned it. Like it's their,

I work for them basically. And so if anybody doesn't have that mentality and you're just going to be like, well, Sundays and Mondays, my girl just wants me to watch a movie. It's like, then enjoy not making it.

Because you're not giving it, you're not, you know, sacrifice. You've got to make sacrifices to hopefully live a life that no one gets to live, you know? So that's what you get to do. And so you've got to do that. And I feel like one time, I thought it was, you said, well, how long would you do it if...

I think it was about being in New York. And I saw like a lot of New York comedians just performing in New York and kind of like getting in a little bit of a comfortable spot. And I thought, how many years would you just perform in New York and not actually start kind of to branch out and tour? Because I just didn't want to be in New York that long because I was like, oh, God, this way, you know, it kind of starts to wear on you a little bit.

And we were broke at that point. And, you know, New York's not that fun if you don't have some spending cash. We probably have lots of stories about being broke in New York. What were you doing for a living? So I was in marketing. So I did a bunch of kind of small marketing jobs. And then someone gave me a – I saw an ad in a paper that

And it was for an event planner. So that's really what I just saw this job. And I was like, that's what I want to do. And I got hired. And past that, I was golden because it was a travel job and I had my own fun. And it was late, you know, late nights. And so I didn't ever have to like wait on him to get home or anything because I had my own thing going on. Laura's independent. She can kind of be alone. Yeah. She's fine being alone, which I think is another thing.

Great quality if you have a job like this is find a partner that can be by themselves. Yes. Because they're going to be by themselves a lot. I see that a lot. Like a lot of people like their girls or their boyfriend, you know, it's like they want to be like now they want to be around all the time. And you're like, there's you really can't be that. But just because everybody's going to be a little different if you're like, hey, my girl's here.

And then you're like, okay. And then you start talking about comedy and you know they don't care about it like we care about it. And so it just kind of interrupts the flow. Like there's just times you need to, you know, do like work talk or whatever. Right. And so that's a huge quality. Something very underrated. Yeah. Someone did ask about Nate's no plan B approach to comedy and said you had to be just as committed as he did. Sounds like you were.

Yeah, any concern that I had, I kept to myself. Just because I knew it wasn't helpful. Yeah, I never knew you had a concern. Just any day-to-day, like, hmm, where's this guy? You know, just any concern, any personal thought. I just knew it wasn't helpful, so why say it? You know, why bring that up and kind of discuss details that either may or may not come true. So just drop it and see where it goes. I don't get credit for that either.

Yeah, for not saying anything. For just like... He just found out. Letting it happen, you know. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know. Laura also is someone that doesn't change much. So wherever we were at, she could kind of be just... She's never going to go, I don't want to do this anymore. She just kind of does it. And then when I'm like, we're changing, we moved to California, it's like she just went with that. And then after two years there, I mean, even moving back here, I feel like I had to convince her

And she wanted to move back here. And I'm like, we're moving home. Like, that should be the most exciting thing ever. I don't think so. I think I was like, yes, what time are we packing? Yeah. I'll take it. Because we also had enough money to, like, put a down payment on a house finally here versus California. We were saving, saving, saving. Yeah. She's a big saver.

I was saving for a house. Yeah. But then when you said Nashville, I was like, oh, done. Cool. Yeah. She and Michael Clay, big savers. Big savers. Big savers. Yeah. You're welcome during COVID.

Yes, she did save and she's, I mean, we had, she always had money. She's the one that had money. If we had, I mean, cause I was making nothing at the, yeah, I, I worked at a hedge fund actually in New York city. And so when they offered me the bonus, a hedge fund bonus, I was like, what? That's more money than I've ever made. Just the bonus. She got, uh, let go cause of the 2008 financial. Oh wow. Yeah. It was in the job that she had was just over. Yeah.

How long have you been in New York when that happened? I was there four years. She was there too. And then I remember comedy did really good during that time. I did a lot of shows. We did a ton of shows. People wanted to go out and laugh. It was just a sad time. Comedy does really good during bad times. It's a pretty cheap

It's cheap and people want to laugh. It's cheaper than a movie, mostly. Yeah, yeah. And it's a good time. People don't think about it enough. I've heard it time and time again that people go to Zany's and they're like, why don't I do this all the time? Because they have fun with their friends or girlfriends or a first date. That's probably a really great first date. Because if your girlfriend or boyfriend doesn't laugh or dependent on what they laugh at, you could be like, this person's not for me.

How often were you going to shows in New York? Me. Of Nate's shows, yeah. Once in a while. I didn't really... I think I wish you would have came more now when I think about it. But when you're there, you're just... I mean, I'm running around. Yeah. So I'm doing five shows a night. And so it is, you get off the train, 7 p.m. is my first show, and I'm not going to be done until 1 a.m. And I am...

you're going right when I get off stage, you're like, all right, good night. And you're like, all right, I'll be back for the second show. And then I'm hopped in a cab or running to the next club. And then I walk in there and you're like, and then you go up and you do your 15 minutes and then you're like, all right, I got to go. And then, so it's so if she did came, she'd sit at like the club I was going to be at last. I would come on the weekends. Cause obviously I had to work.

and then stay at one place and he could... Yeah, like Jay's carload. And there would be other wives, yeah. There would be other wives or girlfriends there who were super fun and hang out with them and then... She was the only consistent one. Yeah. What? Oh. The only consistent girl there. Yeah.

Carla. Carla was there. Carla was there for a while. Big J's ex-wife. But Carla, yeah. So you would hang out with Carla a lot. A lot because she was our neighbor too. They found our apartment. I'm sure you've told that story. I don't think we have actually.

I thought he did about. Yeah, they found. Big Jay left a message for your mom. He left a message for my mom. Hello, is this Nate? Yeah. Is this Nate Bargetti's mother? And we're in Mexico on our honeymoon with no phone. My mom's like, oh, no. And then he goes, oh, no, it's Jay. He's like, we found an apartment. And they were great. She's an awesome cook. And he's a lot of fun, obviously, for people.

or best friends. Yeah. He's my best comedy friend. Yeah, he's her... Laura's... Him and Laura... Because we had Dan Soder and Jay do a show, Bonfire, and they called one day to see... They go, who is... Who's Laura closer to? And it's Jay. I mean...

Jay was just there. Soda wasn't there yet. He was across the street. He was across the street, yeah. And Soda's very close to us, but Jay and Laura had just been forever. And Jay was married at the time. He had a child, which I loved her. So it just clicked more. They were more my speed. I was not out being a crazy person drinking all the time. What does Jay call you? Lar Bar. Lar Bar. Yeah. Yeah.

Jay took her to the hospital. Yeah, we've had a lot of moments. He takes care of me. Yeah, I was... You were out of town. I was out of town. You were here in Nashville and I was dying. Gas overdue. We had a gas leak in our apartment.

And she slept there all night and then had to go to the hospital. I started throwing up. Started throwing up. And my mom was like, get out of the house. Get out of the house. And I was like, Jay, are you home? Can you take me to the hospital? And Carla said, don't take her anywhere but Long Island Jewish. And so he took me all the way out to Long Island to that hospital. And I was okay. I'm still alive. Yeah, I remember calling him. He was like there. I thought I was in Cleveland for some reason. You were here. Yeah. All right. It was almost Christmas. I had to work and then come home after.

Yeah. And then, yeah, he took her to the hospital. Yeah, it's crazy. And then with that lady. So in apartments in New York, if you don't know, you have, it'd be three family homes. It's basically a townhome and it's broken up into three families. So your living room space would be, so our bedroom was, would be someone's living room technically. And then we had a den area. It was a nice apartment. And then the upstairs, so they just break them up.

And so we would control the heat and air conditioning for the entire, the thing was in our apartment. So you could only, so if someone got hot or cold, they would have to ask us to do it. So there's a gas leak and the lady, how she handled the gas leak was to lock the box and then give the key to the neighbor. Like almost like we were the one that messed the gas leak up. Like she tried to do it. And so they didn't trust her.

And then that guy just gave us the key. He was like, this doesn't even make sense. And so, yeah. And we had a guy that was a bit of a drinker that lived below us for a while. And he had a big problem. I don't remember him. Remember him? He would throw up. You would hear him every morning. I do remember him. He was like a construction worker. He was like just a real union guy. And I mean, would come home loud, drunk, 2 a.m. And then every morning you'd hear him just throwing up. And then he'd go back to work.

Just, and you're like, golly, the life that guy lived. Like, cause you could hear, cause you could open our door and there's these stairs that would go to his front door. And so it's like, you could just hear it. And it was just every morning. I mean, every morning, just like having, you know, like six or seven in the morning, he's got to get up early. Yeah. That's crazy. All right. Someone asked if comedy hadn't worked out for Nate, what do you think he would have done for a career?

I don't know, something manual labor-ish. Yeah. I don't know. You know, anything he can do. He doesn't think he can do anything, but he can do anything. So he would have... I never had any doubt that our life would work out, whether he chose not to do comedy or kept... found a job or some other career path. Now, I don't know if that would have made him ultimately happy. Maybe that would have been the downfall. Yeah. But...

he's a worker his whole it's all his whole family is just dedicated to working just like my family you know they're not late they don't have a lazy bone in their body yeah so driven motivated workers so we would have done some you know anything i would have probably started like my own moving delivery company or i'd have done something like that i would have started something

Yeah, I bet it would have been something like that. Work with John Paul. Yeah, it would have never been, it wouldn't have been a normal. No. It wouldn't have been in a building. It wouldn't have been like I work for this company. It would have been something outside, something that's a little different. But you always wanted to do comedy while you were working on that movie company.

yeah I mean I was the thought about it I was like you know if I ever went back to or maybe went back to the water company that's the only other thing I would have done just I think you were bored yeah you would be bored uh

Yeah. But yeah, you know, there was there was definitely parts where I mean, I never had a crazy it's been a very long career and it's still going and it still can be frustrating. It's been very drawn out. There was never these moments of just like this is not working.

No, there was always I was still getting stuff. I got that first CMT thing like four years in CMT comedy stages right behind me. And so it was like I got a TV thing. So I did TV on it. So right from that moment, you're like, all right, I'm good enough to get on this show. So I'm at least doing what I think I should be doing. And then it just kept there was definitely been very long, you know, drawn out.

it's not easy in building this. I've had to do it very slowly and build piece by piece, but that's what happened. That's what Bill Burr told me. I think I've said that. It takes you longer. It's going to take longer, but you're going to gain fans and you're going to gain them for life because you have to go earn every fan. You have to do stuff over and over. So it's just been that. There's been no just immediate jump. It wasn't like you went from

It was like you made, I was making $1,000 a year to then you're famous and rich. I mean, you see people's careers, they go from nothing to within a year, they are mega famous. And that happens. So that never happened. The most common question we got was, are you okay with you being the subject of some of Nate's jokes? Yes. Have you ever had a problem with any of them? It pays our bills, so...

I don't think I should be like, don't say that. No, I'm kind of a, what do you call that when someone picks at someone? A humor. What kind of humor is that? Self-deprecating? Yeah. So I pick at people and that's my love. Like if I'm picking on you, I love you. So it's him picking on me or saying things about me. It's like, oh, he loves me. But I remember doing jokes where I had to, at the beginning, they sound too mean.

And so then people think, well, why are you married? And she's not taking on that way. But I just realized, oh, I need to deliver these in a different way because that's not the point. Because the point is we're talking about one fight. It's not like, you know, if we fought every day, I would have much more material. But I wish we fought every day. And then I would be able to just be getting all kinds of material. Hey, you should let me be whatever I want to be because then you could just have me. I still also want to...

watch tv okay it'd be a nightmare uh yeah it's it's always been fun there there was one time a friend of yours came the sans came actually and they she goes oh he just said he wanted to murder you and i was like he doesn't mean it he's not really gonna murder me so it's fine like she was like oh gosh yeah it's almost like it's not even you

Yeah. In a sense. It's the jokes are, I mean, when everybody goes, you're either I'm you, are you, my husband is him. Yes. Then we're not, it's not like you're, you're going, can you, if I was like, this person's a nightmare in my life and I'm pointing out problems that you're like, nobody has those problems except you. Then we have a problem. Yeah. But when I'm, when things are so relatable, um,

Everyone's laughing. Everybody's laughing. Nobody, it's not a thought that someone doesn't have. And so in a sense, it's a concept. It's a concept. And I just, these concepts have these names and I've had some of these experiences. And so, but that's where we're, that's where it's at. But I don't ever do anything that would be, I don't think I've ever done a joke that would be, I would tell you all the jokes too. Yeah. Before I would say, I'm doing this about this. Do you recognize that it's going to be a bit like in the moment?

Or is it reflecting on you later? Yeah, the One Fell Swoop one, which is new, no one knows yet, so don't say it. But that one is, I think, one that I knew. I think I even said it to you in the middle of the fight. I can recognize it from other people, but not from us. Like if, you know, you guys are, his mom and him are, I'm like, oh, it's going to be a joke. Yeah.

But if it's me, I'm more in the moment. You're wrapped up in it. Yeah. He's talked about this on stage kind of, but how funny is he in day-to-day life?

Not that fun. She says the meanest thing ever. She says, if I do anything fun, she goes, oh, this is our 30 seconds of fun. She's 30 seconds of fun, which is extremely insulting. So he is very analytical and very observant and breaks things down. And he completely, you know, is in his own thoughts. So he can be very serious about

But alternatively, like I said, with his professional comedians, it's a blast. So I love to go out with him there. But, you know, if he's if he's if you're being funny, it's a lot of fun. But day to day, you know, you're talking about a fence, a house. Yeah. He's paying this bill. You don't want him to be on all the time like that. Right. That would be. I kind of would. That would be. I would like it. I would be like. So I don't know.

I'll tell her if I come up with a joke, I'll tell you. And sometimes I can make you laugh. You can make me laugh anytime you want. It's are you in the mood to just be. No one's going to be in the mood. You can't, as comedians, that's what someone always says. If you are a comedian, they go, I can't believe you're the comedian. Those are going to be the comedians because there's a lot that goes into it. There's definitely guys that are, like if I go golfing and someone thinks,

and it's some golf course and they're like, I'm not going to be as funny as your buddy that's a golfer that just does all these rapid jokes that's super fun. That's a completely different thing than what we do. Ours has to...

travel. My joke has to travel. It has to rely on different circumstances, different audiences. I mean, there's so much that goes into it. To make a joke work in 50 different states is a lot harder than I need you on this golf course and I need you to be in this moment.

Like that, you know, it's just a much, it's a much long, it's very long. It's harder to do. Yeah, and I can go crazy. I tell people that if a comedian does voices...

then they're probably a lot of fun in real life. Yeah. Because then they're kind of like goofy. Mm-hmm. Yeah, they can do... Like Dan Soder does voices. That's the first person I thought of. Yeah. Yeah. So Soder's... He can be fun. I don't know. I mean, I don't live with him. But when I see him, he's gregarious and fun. Mm-hmm.

But everybody's going to be funnier. That's not the... I don't think anybody is in a relationship with a comic and goes, oh, it's just the greatest. Same thing. People ask your mom the same thing and she has the same answer. About my dad. Yeah. He's very quiet unless you get him talking about comedy or magic or sports or... Well, you start performing. It's like, I'm not going to come home and perform. I don't want to perform. Right.

We have to do it so much that when you're home, you don't want to do that. But there's moments. There's definitely. And they're good professional moments. Yeah. They're a higher level. So when she does gets it, she gets a much higher level concentrated funny than you're.

average person I'm funny all day so that 30 seconds of fun is like is remarkable it's special it's HBOS special worthy it's it's legit it comes out from a real you know yeah professional level for sure

I was going to say, that's almost when it's, if somebody comes home, a comedian, and they're just on all the, that's where it's almost like you'll get worried about them. Yeah. You know, if they're just never themselves. Yeah, well, you would be. I could see that. Yeah, you would want realness. You would be like, I don't, this doesn't feel, that's someone you date. That's not someone you would marry and live with. Well, so John Wolf asks, how do you deal with Nate when he goes off on one of his obscure rants?

It happens a lot. I would say I just try to be calm through it, try to jump in where I can. He has to get it out. So I try my best to just, yeah. Or she goes, I just want to watch this show and go to bed. No, barely. You do that. Well, that's if it's very late. Well, that's when they usually are. Okay. What time are they? They're like 11. 11.30. Yeah. Yeah.

And she goes, I'm just trying to watch a show. And then I just, I got to go to bed. It's because I also have to do that with Harper. She'll go on rants about her own stuff. So I've already been like, uh-huh, yes, okay, really? No, uh-huh. I just picture them being a lot of the same. A lot of the same rants. Yeah. It could be the same. His are angrier. It's about sour Skittles. Yeah. It's going off.

Yeah, it's about nothing. Right. Some are about nothing. Harpers are also about nothing. Yeah. Some are about absolutely nothing. But you have to, like, that's where comedy is. But I think, yeah, you're trying to be passionate. Yeah, and you're trying to get a joke. A joke could come out of it. So if I shut it down, I could be like,

There goes that purse. Yeah. She doesn't get it. She doesn't buy anything. That's some of my favorite comedy is somebody being very passionate or defending something that's just absurd. Yeah. It's just not worth it. I mean, I feel like that's what a lot of this podcast is. Yeah. It's just talking. It's nothing. Yeah. And you have to be passionate about nothing. And that's where it comes from. She does do money-wise, though, she doesn't spend any money. I've never told her no.

I've never had, I've never, I've never had the joke of going, my wife's spending all my money. Like it would never, I'm, it's her trying to stop me from spending. And I don't think I spend that much, but if I want to. You have big things. If I want to. You have big ticket items. Yes. But I know that I want to get to. You're good. You, you, you're not like, you know, I've heard people are like, oh, he's constantly buying this or that.

We always, as we have business managers, I asked them and I was like, I always ask to go, am I crazy? Do I look crazy? Because they would see every comedian, ones in New York, Russell. Russell would work with every comedian and everybody always worked with him. Every comic worked with him. He had Larry David at a point.

Because everybody was in New York and they've just been there forever. So they would do all the comics taxes. So we all went to this guy. And so I would always ask him, hey, what am I... Because really where you're spending is expenses for touring. So it's all your expenses because you're your own business. So every flight, everything. Well, that also keeps you occupied when you're touring. So when you're not touring, that's when I get a little antsy. Yeah. Because then you're like...

looking at things and shop like thinking about things yeah and that's you're touring you're just spending money on business yeah this house was that yes oh that was that was intermixed with touring yeah but that was it started with being at home and being bored and like starting to look at stuff and be like what if we move and then yeah that's where because if i get bored that's why there's covid i've gone golf that's why i do golf so much your sister is the exact same way you guys are

part apart. Like she gets bored. Something's being added on. A pool's coming. A deck is coming. A new room. Yeah. That's my new joke that I do where she goes,

She bought a boat and she's someone that can't afford a boat. So she bought a boat and a jet ski. Cause that's how, that's those people. They only, they, they really should not be buying a boat and they go, all right, but what if I do a jet ski too? And you're like, yeah, might as well, I guess, you know, might as well go have a lot of fun. If you're going to lose it all, might as well lose two things. Yeah.

What things have changed about Nate since you guys first got together that you either love or gets on your nerves? I mean, Nate is a completely different person, I feel like, than I first met. I felt like when I first met him, he was kind of simple and like,

doe-eyed and like you know kind of an old hickory boy like really just calm and a good old boy yeah just like but not in the good old boy sense like shooting and hunting yeah yeah yeah but just like simple just like a wholesome yes and it just like moving to New York and getting a career and getting older and getting wiser and he's just kind of coming to his own

So imagine kind of like, I don't know, he's become a man. Everyone changes, I feel like, but his has come really full circle. He's just so wise and intelligent, way more than I ever gave him credit for at first. He knows how to use words and he talks. He can talk things out. If I have a problem with Harper that really needs a long, reasonable explanation, I call him because...

His family, Abby, your mom, not really your dad, Derek, you guys are all like big talkers. If you get a text message, it's half a, you know, it's the whole phone long. I could never even, two sentences tops for me. I'm like, yes, no, you know, and they're just good with their words. They're very wise and very heartfelt. So I feel like simple to like extremely complex.

But I don't think there's like a good or bad. Nope. Okay. Just very different. Yeah. Well, you get a career. You got to. Yeah. To want it, to want it, you got to, you just got to change. If you don't change, you will not get it. If you don't have the drive. The drive is intense. Yeah, it's intense. Because I don't have that. I'm pretty, I'm very simple, very calm, very not complex. Just like this table. Yeah. What was like, what's one of the craziest things that we've done that you were like, I can't believe we're doing this?

Because of comedy. Yeah. The Paul Allen Bo Cruz. Yeah, that's one of the questions. Yeah. Who asked it so they can... Oh, let's see. I'll find it. Yeah. All right. That was crazy. And the New Year's Eve celebration with Mark Walter. Yeah.

And Eric Stonestreet. Yeah. Went to Fallon's Emmy after party. Oh, that was way crazy, too. Michael Bird. Actually, that was the first thing. Thank you. The Jimmy Fallon Grammy party. Was it a Grammy party? Yeah. Emmy party. That was crazy. Because we really, you didn't even feel kind of. I just met. You had just met. I just met Fallon. Yeah. And so I did a show.

And then we were going to, uh, it was just when we first met, I did a show and then we were going to try to create a sitcom. And then, uh, we went to the, uh, we went to the Emmy after party and cause we got invited to his, you know, he was doing late night with Jimmy Fallon at the time. And so we got invited to his thing. And,

And then... Everybody who's everybody was there. And so we just stood in the middle of the room and we were kind of dancing and trying to... And, you know, he knew a couple people. You knew David Spade. Yeah, but barely. I don't know him like I know now. Yes. But I knew him. Yeah, I knew his opener. And so we kind of... He was like, oh, yeah, all right, man. And then he kind of went on. So we just... But we sat in the center and just was like...

you know, celebrity, celebrity, celebrity, everybody around us. And that we're dancing at the end. And Eric stone street was actually there. And I high-fived him. I was like, Oh my God, just high-five to Eric stone street. Yeah. It was just, that was pretty crazy. And then you guys went to the AFC championship game in Kansas city with Eric stone street, right? That was crazy. Yeah. Cause I was excited. I,

You knew the show, but you weren't as into it at that point. At the beginning, Modern Family was the, we watched together. That's true, we did. As in the show. So I was, yeah. But I high-fived him and I thought, oh God, that's so crazy. And who, Bill Maher was dancing. Yeah, Bill Maher. And then, I mean, Chris Martin, uh,

Gwyneth Paltrow. Yeah, Gwyneth Paltrow was there. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it was everybody. If I could name everybody that was there. Yeah, Joe Walsh's birthday party. Joe Walsh's birthday party. That was crazy. Yeah, so a lot. Yeah. A lot of stuff. Yeah.

Dustin Clyde asks, it seems Nate golfs a lot, which is fantastic. How do I convince my wife to let me golf more? They currently have three kids. What arrangement, if any, do you have around this time-consuming hobby? Probably got to get rid of two of those kids. Get rid of two kids. Yeah, definitely not three kids. You need to get those kids into golf. Well, he says he takes them with him, but it's hard for him to improve, he said, with three kids out there. Yeah, you can't really golf.

Not three. I would find one. If you get one of them that really wants to do it, I would think that would do it. And to be fair, it's during COVID. And so generally you golf during regular people's work hours. So, you know, nine to four or whatever, you know, actually not nine to four, but you know, whatever time.

So you're gone during the middle of the day, which is no problem, especially she's in school. I help you with this podcast and other stuff. So I'm busy. So it's like you go to work and you come home. And we have one child I can easily –

pick up and drop off one child. If we had two, it might be a little more difficult with activities and stuff like that. People think she's crazy for letting me golf as much. People do think I'm crazy, but their husbands go into an office and work all day. So it's about the same thing. His job is other hours of the day. You know, he doesn't start taking phone calls until four o'clock. Yeah. So...

Because L.A. time. Yeah, L.A. time. And then, yeah, so it's like you do that and then I do do it because the obsession, especially during this time, if I didn't have this, it would be. It would be a problem. Yeah, I would be doing other. His mind just needs to be busy. Yeah. Yeah. So I'd be on to other things. Yeah, like buying things or building things. We'd be buying land. We would have an airplane or he would be taking flying lessons. So it would be something. Everyone would take flying lessons.

Another guy we met on the cruise. Who's that? The bass player for Nirvana, Chris. Yeah, he flies everywhere. He flies, he's got his own license. Flies himself. Flies himself. He would start flying himself to every gig. So I was like, well, I could get my own pilot license and then just fly to these gigs myself. Like, why not do that?

He had him full hook, line, and sinker. We were getting him playing. I was like, oh my gosh. Yeah. I was like, we're going to figure it out. Why not? I mean, I still would maybe do it. Right now, I don't want to give up golf. My stepbrother flies, so I think we could lean on him to be a pilot. He's about to retire sometime. Yeah. That's a funny thing. Nate's running a little late. Hang on. There he is right there. There he is right there. You start the show. Yeah. Let's go ahead and start it. He's coming out on stage. You just land right in front of him. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Winds just blowing. People have a lot of questions about specific jokes and how real they were. When Nate said he peed in the bed, did you really say, I'm not sure if I married you or had you? No. No. That I made up. Yeah. All right. That's the professional comedian. What's your version of the dog medicine story? I mean, the dog medicine story is probably the closest thing to reality.

I mean, that literally happened like that. Except the milk jug. That would be silly to put all the milk in a new milk jug. But you do mix things. You mix ketchup. I mean, I worked in a restaurant for a long time. Laura doesn't use... I don't use the bottoms of things.

And I leave them because I know she's going to scrape out. I mean, to this day, I smear lotions, shampoos, if it's not all the way gone. I always have different lotions in my lotion bottle. I'll just have multiple lotions because if she can put other lotions in, shampoo, anything will just be mixing on top. Nothing expires. Nothing can be wasted. No, I have, yeah, nothing expires. Definitely not dog medicine and definitely not people medicine.

They have a date for a reason. It's a suggestion. I know, but so it's got to expire at some point. I don't think it does. So then what's the point of the suggestion? It's less effective. It's not expired. So it stops working. Less. But it's going to, if it can get less, how can it not get to zero? Got to wait. Got to wait and see. It just keeps working for me. I know, but do you see what I mean? If it gets less. Well, we'll probably use it by the time it gets zero. No. But not like milk. No.

No. Food. I mean, eggs I could go over. Milk, no. Milk, definitely. I mean, if it has a smell, it's more like medicine and lotions and stuff like that. Milk's the one thing I'm skittish about. I smell it. I don't know. I never smell milk unless it's... Did you smell it? Yeah, I smelled it. What does milk smell like? It's very true. You can't tell. Yeah.

Um, someone asked about Nate, Nate's pilot, his TV sitcom. Uh, who would you pick as his TV wife or not as his wife? God, that one, that one you had was really pretty. That was, was that weird though? Seeing someone playing you? It was so weird. Well, that was completely my fault. Well, my fault and your fault. So he said, why don't we just use our own names? Yeah. Yeah. Like, isn't that cute? Yeah. So the, the Katie Azleton was my wife. She was in the league.

her husband came Mark Duplus is her husband and her husband came to the show and her husband was cool her husband's an actor so they're just they've been in acting their whole lives they're just it's none of this is anything to them and when we wrote this show I did have everybody we always talked about it and

Gerard Carmichael who was producing on it I think he used all their real names in his show and he's like it's fine and I he thought it was very nice and like a like a my dad loved it oh yeah he loved it my dad loved it he's a performer I think my mom would go either way she was on the fence about it and then Harper I don't think I don't think Harper minded it but she didn't mind she didn't probably put it together and then it was weird yeah like I didn't really realize it because he kind of talked me into it this is where you have to really kind of be strong with Nate and trust your gut

I was like, I don't know. That doesn't sound good. Like you're going to look at a lady and call her me and it's going to be on TV. And then when I saw the pilot recorded, I had just like a lump in my throat. I was like, this is not good. You know, it just kind of hit me. Like you're looking at a person as if they're your wife and you're an actor. You have to really sell it. So, and he's a way good actor. Like I can't believe that television show never got me, but it was really good. And I was just like,

Oh, no. Like, he's looking at a beautiful woman. She's like, this show's going to go. Oh, I was like, this is going to be a nightmare. Yeah. But I was saying we would say Laura instead of Laura. I was like trying to find little things to go. I was like, change her name. Change her name to something. Yeah. You're like, nature really seems to be into this scene. We should be divorced in the show. Yeah. Well, so the last. I just start scratching out words.

The last scene that we shot, we had to keep doing over and me and her kissed. Me and Katie, the actors. So we kissed and we kept having to redo it. So Laura's just sitting over there with her husband. And I mean, it's funny. It's like you would have gotten used to it. You would have eventually been like, it's normal. You would have. Not with my name. Yeah. It would have been weird. You would have just, it would have been fine. I would have had to do this. Yeah. When we have a helicopter on top of the house. Yeah.

When you have all problems, you'd be telling your personal shopper that you go, I just don't love it that much. As she's putting your jacket on you and you go, I know, it's so crazy, right? And she's got her house that's just her closet. And then she walks to the real house. But they, and there's a lion in the living room. I bet it. And then, yeah. And Harper's on two horses because Harper's obsessed with horses.

And then they, so, but the last scene was the kissing. It was just like a, it wasn't a kissing scene. It was just like a, like a, yeah, quick, you know, a married couple. Which is how we kiss. Yeah. And then she, and so we had to keep doing it over, like, I mean, over and over and over.

And Laura, she said she almost just yelled, cut. I have never. I mean, it was in my, I had to like stop it from coming out. And she's watching on a screen. It

It would almost have been better if you were watching where it's like farther away. You've got a big TV. Yeah, in Nashville. Nick was sitting with you. Yeah, and Nick's like, it's all right. Nick was there for the pee in the bed story and for this story. Oh, yeah? Yeah, Nick was there. That's when she first met him was the pee in the bed. He spent the night with us that night. Oh, okay.

He's the best. Okay. He wasn't involved in this. No. No. He was always on our couch. He was always on the couch. Yeah. And so he was, Nick was there for that. It's funny that Nick was there for that and the other thing. But yeah, it was definitely weird. But that was crazy to go see that where you were portrayed on TV, kind of. Yeah, kind of. But there was not a person I would select or not select. I mean, I would prefer like an ugly person.

Just to play me. The opposite. Cause you feel like he's not. Right. It went like a hot nanny. If you pick a hot nanny, you're dumb. Right.

Yeah, we don't have a nanny. Yeah, that's why. I've got some dude nannies. It's going to be miserable. It doesn't know. I don't know. Brian's her new nanny. I'm your butler. We're involved in a car accident. And that's why he's there. He's the butler. The very... Yeah, that's it. Kat Rockwell. Laura, many women who are married to an artist or entrepreneur typically endure tough times.

This might be my wife that wrote this. Many either encourage their spouse to get a real job, definitely in my life, or end up leaving them. What advice would you give women who are in relationships similar to yours at the beginning of the career? I think you have to decide before you get fully committed that you're willing to stop

see it both directions bad or good and just know that you could do both I know you can't know that I know things will happen but I just think you need to like just do your own thing just be your own person

If you want a bunch of money, go make it. You can make all the money you want. You don't have to depend on him to make the money for you. You may have to have less children or like less time with your family. You know, you may have to sacrifice to get what you want, but it always doesn't have to be on the man, I don't think. You know, if you want your life to be this way, go make it. He's your husband. You know. Yeah.

Right? Is that weird? Is that crazy? No, yeah. Don't, yeah. Well, if you're, yeah, if it's like, you're looking at it like a meal ticket, don't look at it as a meal ticket. Go be your own ticket. And then you can be like, if he makes it, he makes it. And if he doesn't, you support him. She supported, the whole beginning was you supporting me.

You made more money than me for a long time. I enjoyed that. That was the first goal was just, I want to make more money than her. You did it pretty quick. And then it wasn't that quick. Well, not quick. It was 10 years or something. But you squashed me now with my earnings. Well, now we make a point. That's why we started getting some stuff. Now we get some stuff done around here. Now he's Alabama on Kentucky or something. I'm like, okay, I get it. I get it. Now we get it. That's all I get.

a guy, I don't know, I always think you need to make more money than your wife. If you want to do anything, you've got to make more money than her. I know. You're in trouble. Oh, if you want to hold the...

The balance of power. Well, it's like I can't... I mean, I've always done a lot of whatever. I've always done a lot of my own stuff. That's because I was doing my own stuff. Yeah. But there... And then my parents would give me $200 in my bank account. Way to go. And then they... But there... But you always want to make... Once you make more money, I realized like, oh, that changes a lot. It does change. It changes a lot. The power changes. And you have to be... It's not power. It's just being...

I think as a guy, you do want to be the provider and then you want to go, I want to go do these things. And I'm in comedy, so I'm having to go do, I'm having to do a lot more than normal. I'm not just clocking out at 5 p.m. and I'm home. It's like, hey, I'm going to be gone for a while and I want to, you know, do this thing and I want to do this. So you have to have, you've got to make more so you can then, when you say, I want to do these things, they don't go, hey, you're not, I'm having to pay for all this from our job.

And, you know, we've always had a bank account together. I mean, I don't think you can be ridiculous. I mean, if the person is not making a lot and spending a lot, like that's not cool. I mean, everything has to be reciprocal and like,

reasonable i'm not saying like oh yeah you're just you know you're just shelling out money for the guy for him to go do i think there would be mine was eat like you know i'm going to eat why did you why are you going out to eat this much or something i'm pretty tight so i was probably you know yeah which i felt like was good it was good but you know i think there would be a point where you could see the person's not going to succeed maybe but when i got her where she wasn't

just like a hawk at the credit card. That's what I was just... There's little things. I was like, if I could just get her to not just be on every... Why did you go to... You had Krispy Kreme donuts this morning? I used to bounce the... Go through everyone with a check and ride it out. I know. And I just hated it because it's like, what was this? You went to... And I was also doing our taxes. So I would meal... She was doing everything. I would do every line. And I mean, I was like, I just need to get to where...

She's overwhelmed with what she's looking at and she can't detect how much. But I would also say you did work, you know, until you, until I got a good job. So you did work. So if the person can work and, you know, work nights, if you want to do this job that pays nothing. So go work at Pizza Hut or deliver whatever. I don't think she make no money and no effort. Then that would be a deal breaker. But yeah.

If the person's motivated, then you should be supportive. Was it more stressful with him? I mean, it's a dumb question. Of course it was. But when he was gone and once you had a child?

Not so much just because it was one. One is okay. Yeah. I would say a little bit, but, you know, I got to her daycare was on the way to my job and back. But that's the reason why he did say, okay, let's move back to Nashville. So that was giving on his part to say, like, I can see you need this, so I'll make the sacrifice myself.

you know, having to go back to LA and interview or, you know, do auditions and stuff. So he made the sacrifice for us to have a more enjoyable life. So that was good. It's really hard on you too. I mean, I've been with you where we're leaving to go on the road when Harper was little and she would just be crying, begging you not to leave. And it broke my heart. I can't imagine how hard it was for you. She packed her suitcase that one time. That was the worst one. The worst one was, uh, she was two.

and she goes, oh, okay, I'll go with you. And she got her little Disney and just was throwing nothing, you know, toys. Yeah. And she's like, oh. And I mean, I was like, and this is,

You know, now they can come with me a little bit because it's, I work at a bus or it's just easier. And back then you're like, I mean, you're making $1,500, $1,200 for the week. And I'm paying for my whole flight and sometimes hotel. And so you're, I mean, you might be making $600 and that's your money you make for the, maybe that month. It's like, you're not making a ton of money. And, but I remember her, uh, yeah, when she packed her suitcase, I mean, I would have almost quit comedy at that point. Or I would have just brought her and said, all right, well, she's coming.

I'll figure it out. And she does really good. She does very good. It gets hard when I'm home for a while. But she did good when I left this time of the day. She sees other dads home, and she gets a little teary-eyed about that. So-and-so has their dad home. But you try to bounce it out. She gets in a good rhythm. Someone said Tara, which brought up, because I wish we would have had another kid. We just had a kid late, and we were busy, and it just didn't happen.

But having one kid, the great thing is with that, with how crazy my life is in our lives, is I have a relationship with her that I would have had a split up between two kids. And so how much I'm gone. And that was like always if someone, I don't know, maybe someone wants to hear that. When I heard it, it made me, it was like something I needed to hear. And it made sense that it was like, yes, I get to have a wonderful relationship with Harper that is not split up.

And I get to give her, when I get, when I'm home and my time is to her and her mom's time is to her. And so she gets our complete focus. And I'm not frazzled. So I'm not like at my wits end when he comes home and throw, you know, throwing kids at him saying like, I've had enough, you know, I can manage one. It's, you know, that's very manageable for me.

All right, do a... Is there one or two more? Here's one that I've never heard, so I'm curious to hear it. From Roots Attack. Please tell the story of how the Little Mermaid soundtrack helped bring you and Nate together. Okay, I want to know how this person knows this. Did you talk about this on a podcast or something? So this person is very in tune with Nate Bargetzi somehow. Because this is the most... Maybe it's Katie Azleton. Shut up. I don't think who that was. But it's like...

Who knows that? That's the most... I might have talked about it somewhere. Okay, so we were friends at Applebee's and everybody was going out because it's Applebee's. You go out after work. And so we had gone out after work, just friends. You know, maybe like, oh, that's cute, whatever.

He put in the Little Mermaid soundtrack and told his friends to like, shush, shush, I'm listening to this song. And I was like, if anyone can put in the Little Mermaid soundtrack and shush a bunch of 20-year-olds, you know, 20-plus-year-olds to be quiet while he sings it, I thought that was like totally confident. Yeah. And like, you're your own person. These people don't, you know, tell you what to do. I thought that was cool. I mean, not cool, but...

Like, cute, cool. It was so uncool that it was cool. Yeah, it was so uncool that it was cool. True. Can you still sing it? Can you do it for us now? Is it under the seat? No, look at this stuff. Look at this stuff. Isn't it neat? It just was, you know, for someone to... Something in my collection complete. To hold their own. I love that. Disney has such good music. Yeah, and that probably his little sister listened to it a million times, and that just said that he would listen to something she listens to. It was cute, too.

You want to do one more? Yeah, do one more. How many Krispy Kreme donuts could you eat in an hour? Travis White wants to know that. Laura, I was saying, I married a horse that just doesn't ever quit eating. Laura eats so much. Laura's skinny and her metabolism is through the roof. If she doesn't eat, she's going to die. She tells me that. This is true. I'm going to die of a headache. I can't. I'm going to eat this second. I'm going to throw up. I'm going to... And so...

Laura is just, I mean, honestly, it's just like a teenager that I'm feeding that just eats. Her and Harper. I would say I've got two horses at the house that just eat out of a trough and just never stop eating. I feel like I could eat three in a sitting. Three to four. You wouldn't eat it. You would be like it's gross. That's good. It wouldn't be because I don't think you're necessarily full. It would become gross to you.

I would say eight. But you can eat a lot is what he's saying. Eight's impressive. Just in general, you can eat a lot. If it's tasty. I mean, I have a bad appetite. So will you do it with us when we do it? You can do eight? Sure. You're locked down for eight.

I could do it. Glazed or chocolate? Oh, glazed. My mom texted me this week and said, just catching up with the podcast. Please do not do it, Chris. Yeah. Well, I said the same thing. I'm with your mom. I was like, don't. Well, you just agreed to do it now. So now you're doing it. But you're a part of the podcast. So everybody's got to do it. We're having everybody do it. We're flying Mick in. He's going to be doing it. Yeah. The Bigfoot expert. Yeah.

All right, so to wrap this one up, we're going to... Harper. We're going to bring Harper in. She wanted to tell a little story. Is she right there? She's coming. And then, so, Harper's going to tell... Come over here. And then...

She's going to tell a little story. Harper, let me ask you. How do you, people want to know, if you hear a joke about you that I tell. This is Harper Bargetzi. She's, how old are you? Eight years old. Yeah. So what do you think about, what do you think about a joke when I tell a joke about you? Um,

Do you like it? Sure. You like it sometimes. If it's funny. If it's funny. If it's funny. Some jokes you like, some maybe you don't like. Yeah. But are you fine with making jokes? I always tell you that I'll never make a joke if you don't want me to, right? Yeah. Yeah?

Right? Yeah. And you like hearing it. Your friends, you've been on Netflix now. But my favorite joke is the one where you steal your friend's hamburger. Yes, the McDonald's is your favorite. And your friends, they see you on Netflix? Do they ever say anything? No. No. No.

Well, they know, but they just don't care that you're like, oh, hey. Is it weird that your dad's a comedian? No. No? It feels normal. It feels normal. My dad's a magician. It feels normal. So she's going to end this one. We're going to tell a joke. Or not a joke. She'll tell a story about something she did with Nick. Or some people call him Nick.

Yeah, you're a fan of the show. Okay. Hello, folks. Hello, everyone. I am Harper, and I made a joke I want to tell you. One time I said on stage a joke. I went off, and maybe a month or two later, Nick told me, hey, I did your joke today at Zany's. And I told him, better you better...

I told him back, you better not have or I'll call 922 the joke police. She said 922 is the joke police. We actually have this on camera. She made up. She goes, I'm going to call the joke police. And she said the number for the joke police is 922. That's funny. Um...

I was not calling 911. I was calling 922. By the way, my dad was laughing because he thought it was so funny. Anyways, I hope Nick was joking. Well, bye, folks. Bye, folks. Bye, folks. And that's it for us, folks.

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