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What's up, everybody? Welcome to Nate Land, the Nate Land podcast. I am Nate Bargetze. I'm sitting here, Aaron Weber, Brian Bates, as always. Been trying to get them off, but they keep coming. They keep showing up.

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First part two podcast we did. And so that's pretty fun. It's exciting. Yeah. And it's moving along. So we're going to start off, as usual, with some of the comments from you guys. See how mean you guys have been. Nice. All of it. All above. First up, Randall Grisham.

At the beginning of every episode, Nate says they are still trying to figure out the podcast. I'm not sure what there is to figure out. This is already one of my favorite podcasts. It feels like you're sitting in the room having a conversation with these three guys. Keep doing what you're doing. That's nice. Yeah, that's very nice. We do. So we know what we're doing. Apparently. I think we know what we're doing. I think we're still always trying to make it perfect. It's...

Yeah. You know, you never want to stop trying to improve. Yes. We're always, we're always improving. I hope by like 20, we're just doing something different. Like we're in a hot air, but like we're a hot air balloon podcast and like, we just talk about hot air, but like you don't realize that there's that much stuff to talk about hot air balloons. Yeah.

We could change completely. Someone tell me a comic, Ari Shaffir. I was talking to him about when I was going to start this podcast. And he was like, always be open to it can change. And maybe I'm a little too open to it. I'm like looking for it to change more. But we have a great system. And I'm glad. It is nice to hear that. Yeah. Sometimes I need to hear that. So I quit tinkering.

Christopher Stanley. These first 10 episodes have been amazing. I like how Brickles and Aaron are finding their niche roles in this production. Aaron, the reluctant genius, and Brisket is the self-deprecating setup man. Brigade even smiled and laughed out loud a few times on this one. Wow, we got some life out of Brigade. Breakfast is moving around.

Calvin, I spit my coffee out when you guys said someone called Bryson breakfast. I already, I've kind of, that's very funny. You guys did the, uh, I ruined that guy's joke was saying breakfast earlier. My fault, Calvin.

I spit my coffee out when you guys said something called Bryson Breakfast. You guys are the best. Not to mention, not to be morbid, but you started the podcast the week I was wanting out and the most depressed I've ever been after the death of my best friend. This podcast literally saved my life. Not to be too dramatic, but seriously, you're doing the Lord's work. Listening to Stand Up always helps, but this podcast is the best. You dudes are crushing it. Please keep them coming. Bates and Weber now have gained a lifelong fan.

Nate was obvious how I found you guys, so he is okay too. Parentheses, favorite comedian. Thank you, Calvin. That is unbelievable. And yeah, stay with us, Calvin. Come on, man. I mean, I killed that one guy. You're trying to kill Calvin. But now I'm back. Oh. We're back to even. Oh, now you saved a life. Yeah. Yeah. I don't mention that in my trial. That's nice, Calvin. We love you, buddy.

yeah that's you know comedy is great for that kind of stuff and it is not take your life as serious it kind of helps you do it I mean I know everybody has you know it's tough man you lose your best friend and that's you know something no one can even really probably hard to talk to you about you know no one can relate to that but I'm glad that you're listening to this and Calvin you're the best buddy we love you so thank you he's got you know he's a big fan you got to

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

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

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

The teacher's lounge. The teacher's lounge. Just like, hey guys. And it's like, hey. And then the real teacher's like, you don't work here full time, man. I know you're here for a while because Miss, you know, whatever. Miss Smith is going through some stuff. Yeah. She's got, because Miss Johnson's going through a divorce and she can't be bothered by teaching. So, but you don't work here. I feel that way too. Could you be a substitute teacher? No. No.

No. You'd get run over. I agree with that. I mean, the kids would just... I agree. Yeah. And I want to be like everyone, so... Yeah, let's do it. They just learn nothing. Yeah. I agree. KP, does Aaron only wear rejected prototype Notre Dame caps? Notre Dame has a lot of nice gear. Help them out. Thank you. Yeah. Now you're wearing NBC Sports.

Yeah, I thought there were some good hats that I had. That's very funny, dude. Rejected prototypes. I mean, that's unbelievable. Yeah, that's really funny. Well, they match his starter jacket, so that's why he wears them. That is very funny to think, just the rejected. You're like, you know, like they always say, there's comics that make jokes about the third world, like a third world country, like you have like the Raiders won the Super Bowl and all this stuff.

That's where he gets his Notre Dame hat. He goes to that same store. Tony Ott. I love that Nate had the Seinfeld. It's the last time I'm going to tell you. Memorized. Not sure I believe that. I did have it memorized. I don't know if I could do it now, but at the time...

I watched it over and over and over and over. The joke he's making is, and I think you said that two straight weeks, the title is, I'm telling you for the last time. It's the last time I'm going to tell you. You said you had it memorized and you said the title wrong. Well, it's been a long time. You know what else I had memorized? Scream.

The first Scream movie. Yeah? I could... The whole movie? Me and my buddy John Paul, the whole movie. We could go through it all and do it all. Wow. Yeah. Could you do it now? Maybe. I could do some of it. I mean, I'd have to get some... I'd have to get it going, you know? But I think I could do some of it. Yeah. But I mean, it was high school. So 75 years ago. I don't have it memorized now. But Scream was a big one that I had.

Jared 81. I got you, Nate. Buddy and Aaron should have had this one. Buddy. Buddy's a great one. It's not my bag is an expression common in the 1960s to indicate a lack of interest. Originated in U.S. jazz slang where the metaphorical bag was a category that might hold likes or dislikes.

Yeah, that's what you had in mind, right? 1960s jazz slang? It doesn't matter. I don't know the rule. I don't know what it means or how I heard it. I'm just saying it's a saying. Maybe I hung around with people not like you guys. This guy just looked it up on Wikipedia. Somebody pointed out Austin Powers said it.

It's not my bag. It's not my bag, baby. I'd say it's more likely you got it from Austin Powers. I think we all agree that. Yeah. Louis Armstrong. Well, what I was doing in New York, we would do comedy in the jazz rooms. That's what y'all said. I don't know if we did. They did do that. Like in the forties, they did that, but I don't, I didn't, but yeah.

It's not my bag. Elaine Ralph Henry. Aaron, I also have to listen to an album in the car. Sound. Oh, all right. Let me start over. I was starting to race. Half of these are like, I started a race and I'm like, hold on, hold on, hold on. I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready. Aaron, I also have to listen to an album in the car. Good sound. No distractions. AC blowing. It really is a good time. It's the best, man.

I think I get the idea of it. It's not my thing. But I like AC blowing. I always like being in a car. I love how you can get it at the perfect temperature. I've done that. I've had to let Holly, our dog, out. She always wants to go out at 1 a.m. It'll be right before I go to bed. So I'll let her out. I'll go stand outside some nights. I'll be like, it's the perfect temperature right now. It's crazy to me to be

And this giant Earth in this moment, you stand outside, you have no shirt on, and you're like, it's the best. How is that? Isn't that crazy? It's a big area. It's a large area, the Earth is. Earth, yeah. Earth is a gigantic area. It's a big spot, for sure. It's a big spot to get perfect. Yeah. It's pretty unbelievable. I think about that a lot. Saw Mars the other day, too. Really? Yeah, right next to the moon.

They were hanging out together. I was like, what's he up to? Ran into Mars the other day. Yeah, Mars. The moon is like, oh, look at you. I haven't seen you in a while. I always see Jupiter and Saturn every night. Do you have a telescope or you just got a good eye? No, pretty good eyes. They had LASIK.

He sees stars and he just... No, I looked. I did the sky guide on the phone. Oh, that app where you can... That's pretty cool. Yeah, that you can look at it and see. And so I was able to... You can go and do... It shows you a lot of stuff. There's a lot going on up there. Yeah. But I would see two bright lights and they were just always in the same spot. And so I thought, I bet they're planets. Yeah.

And then they started moving. And turns out. Oh, that's just the U.S. Airways. I saw they were blinking. And I was like, it's getting lower. I thought maybe Jupiter is falling. Is that a movie? Yeah. Is it Jupiter is falling? Yeah. No, not Jupiter. Isn't it? It's something. I want to say, yeah. Sky is falling. No, it's a planet. It's like Neptune or Jupiter. I don't think so. Let me look it up.

Jupiter's fallen. Jupiter has fallen. Jupiter has fallen. I don't, it's something else has fallen. I don't think so. You're talking about the movie of Channing Tatum. He saves the world. Yeah. Jupiter ascending. It's ascending. It's not falling. It's ascending. The opposite of falling. Ascending means it's rising. That's what I'm saying. What is the has fallen movie? The sky has fallen. No, it's something else. Well, that might be true, but there's something else has fallen. Okay.

What is it? Olympus has fallen. Olympus has fallen. So not a planet at all. It sounds like a moon, maybe, of Jupiter. Maybe that's where I got confused. Yeah. I don't know. These poor guys have to sit through us every week just like, God, I just want to tell. They do right away. He's finally like, I got to say it. I just got to say it. Jep. J-E-P-P-E. How would you say that? I'd say Jep. You just hit it really hard, baby. Jep. I like the name Jep.

You know, I'd like to have a friend named Jep. I think that's very... Just because you like saying it? I think Jep is a perfect friend name. I think Jep is someone that, like his buddies, a lot of them have their wives are tired of being...

Where are you going tonight? Me and Jep are going out to play some pool. And then she's like, oh, God. Jep's not married. Jep is your friend that never got married. Right. And he hangs out at pool holes. Yeah. Jep. Nate's pronunciation of Nielsen is actually way closer to being accurate than the other way. We don't say Nielsen in Denmark where the name is from. So...

And he's from Denmark. Jep's from Denmark. So it's probably Jep-ay. Jep-ay. Jep-ee. Jep-ee. Probably something like that. It should be just Jep. That's how he should do it. It's just Jep. We got through these comments super quick. No, there's more on the back. Oh, there is? Oh. I was like, golly, we're just flying through these. Oh, printing on... Oh, I was printing them on one piece of paper for the environment. Saving the earth. Yep. One paper at a time. This is how...

This is how the earth gets saved, dude. That's right. This is so you can look your grandkids in the face when they're born and go, see what we did? As they go, what is that? It's paper. And they're like, we don't even use that anymore. You think they're using paper? Grandkids? Like my grandkids? Your grandkids? Your grandchildren? No. You think they're writing? Cursive? Anything? I think every... Oh, yeah, they're probably learning. I don't know. They don't even learn cursive now, do they?

I don't think they'll learn cursive anymore, but everything will be digital. They won't even have paper money. Then. Yeah. You just be. Yeah. I don't like that. You like having the money? I like, I always have cash. I like having cash. But, and I don't, it's like, you want to, you want to see something when it's all just on a computer. It's like, that scares me to be, if you wake up, it says zero.

And you're in, you can go, are you like, there's not like you could go, there's a, there's actual stuff in that safe. That's my, like, it's just going, well, it says zero on this screen. And then you got to be like, well, something's wrong. You'd like to just have gold bars with all your money. You know, you see those commercials and why are they getting to be commercials? If they're not true, they have to be true.

It's always the older celebrities that are buying the gold. But it's always a guy that was in MASH. That's right. Alan Alda. Yeah, and he's like, I bought a bunch of gold. And you're like, I don't know. That's his... It's a Fred Thompson. Who's going to be... Because I think they're going after the people that like those people. So who would be... If Kevin James...

When I'm 80s going, I bought gold, I'm going to be like, oh, I'll buy gold too. I loved Kevin James. That's who they're going after. He's not going after a new person. You're going after the people that like those people to buy gold. That's right. Alex Tobin. Broomsticks.

Broomstick. They're not even trying to be names anymore. I love it. Broomstick looks like he thought hanging with Nate would be more fun. That's true. Broomstick always looks like that. I admit that. He thinks it's going to be a good time when you sign up for the Nate train. It's not always fun. It's a bumpy ride. Some of the railroad tracks are broke. Is that how they say it? What about T-Bone? T-Bone. I look like a T-Bone guy, right? You look like a T-Bone guy.

I want to go by, what is it called? Coco. Coco the monkey. Coco the monkey. It's a Seinfeld reference. Oh, okay. If you're a Seinfeld fan, Aaron. I got to study up, dude. Yeah, you don't watch Seinfeld? You wear the hat? No. They were on NBC. They weren't on NBC Sports. Apparently you're a fan. I know, but your father worked for NBC, so what are you...

I know I'm a fan, but not to y'all's level. I need to get there. Yeah. Just to hang in these conversations. So we don't have any West Wing comment. Yeah. I was going to say, dude, if you were to start, they were on NBC too. You want to start talking West Wing? I looked at West Wing cause I never watched it. And I, it's on, what's it on? It's on Netflix. It's on Netflix. Yeah. So I thought about, I was like, Oh, maybe I'll go through West Wing to try to cause it do, but it just seems, I mean, is it, it's a lot.

It is a lot. And I almost don't want you to watch it because I don't think you'd like it if you just trash it relentlessly. And then you got to... And then I would feel worse about it. It's too smart. Yeah. Is that what you're saying? Would you then possibly not like it? Because I'll poke holes. As you're sitting, as you're driving down Interstate 65 and you're watching... The West Wing. You're watching the West Wing. Well, I would be a lot less vocal about liking it. I'll tell you that much. Yeah. Yeah.

James Lackey, Nate started a story about Seinfeld bumping Gaffigan. Can you finish it? We cannot, James. I'm sorry. That was the story. It is what it is. Seinfeld, when he bumped Gaffigan, it was at Gotham Comedy Club, and Gaffigan came in. So Gaffigan obviously gets to go up whenever he wants. He's at that level, and that's the level you're always striving for. So he was going to come in, and they said, yes, you can go up, but you do 10 minutes because Seinfeld's coming down.

And so Gaffigan did 10 minutes and then got off stage. And Seinfeld and I saw them. They were like, he was like, hey, Jim. He was like, hey, Jerry. How you doing? And then Jerry went on and that was it. And then I think Gaffigan went to do another show. But yeah, that was the moment that you were always so worried about when you were, and I was like kind of running these rooms, was when two big guys come in.

Who do you say, you know? Two guys with competing egos, probably, and you don't want to... Yeah, and then so who do... But, I mean, Seinfeld to me is, I would say, the number one, you know? Yeah. I'm, you know, and yeah. You know, I mean, he's just been around a lot. I'm not even saying he might not be your favorite comedian, all that stuff. That doesn't really matter. I'm talking about...

Comedy always has a hierarchy in a sense that the people that are older than you and done it longer, there's respect shown to those guys. And that's what I like. And so I would think Seinfeld's, you know, now that Cosby's out, you got Seinfeld's the guy. Seinfeld's the oldest. Leno too. Seinfeld probably let Leno go, like let Leno decide what he wants to do. But they've kind of started around the same. So maybe, you know, they could see.

I mean, yeah, I think like an Eddie Murphy, unless it's like Steve Martin. If something unusual comes in, the fact that they're not doing stand-up, if they pop in, everybody's got to kind of be like, you guys are back. And those were the two biggest comics in the world. So then you let them go. But it's an interesting, like you imagine if you're listening to this, if you're running a comedy club and just pick two people, who do you think, you know,

Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle walk in at the same time. Who are you going to put up first? Who gets to go? Who gets to decide it? But it's up to them. Right. That's what you do. You just hold up to them versus Dave Chappelle. And I mean, trying to think, uh,

If Chappelle and, you know, Pat and Oswald walk in together, it's like, well, I think Chappelle gets to go. He, you know, he gets to go first. He gets to do whatever he wants to go do. And maybe he's nice enough to, you know. First name, last name. When you watch this podcast, turn on the subtitles. It's always funny to see what closed captioning thinks Nate is saying. I bet that is good. I bet they have a hard time, you know, just, I mean, I always think when they're doing it live,

When you watch a live show, it's close. I mean, someone's listening and just type and stuff out. That's got to be, you know, tough. Yeah. That's like in the jury. Do they do it that way? Or just, I figure some computer that just somehow. I mean, maybe. For TV broadcasts, there's probably somebody there transcribing it. But for like YouTube, closed captioning, it's all automatic, obviously. But I always think about those stenographers that,

Yes. In like a courtroom. Yeah. Have you seen what those keyboards look like? They're not traditional keyboards. Yeah. They're like keys. Each key has multiple letters on it, and then they, so they can type super, they just use like each hand. They're not even using fingers. It's amazing. Wow. It's like a monkey just. Dude, if you watch them, they're just like. I bet you have to learn to let a mistake go if you're in that business. Yeah, you can't backspace. Yeah, you can't. Why it out? Why?

Yeah, you can't just be like, you got to be like, look, it is what it is. It's going to be kind of crazy. And then I wonder if there's like one that's the best. A stenographer? Yeah. Someone that's like, oh, he's good. They come in and bump the other stenographer. I mean, yeah. He's just like, this is what he does. He's been doing it a long time. Or she. Or she. Brings in, might be a she. Yeah. Probably could be. I think a woman would be much better. I think it's a field dominated by women. Yeah. Stenography. Stenography.

So if you're a guy, it's tough to get into. It may be. I did mock trial in high school. And I remember we did. There's one trial we were doing where the stenographer told us that we were arguing back and forth. And she was like, I can't keep up. I had never seen a stenographer break character like that. Wow. Yeah, y'all got to slow down. Yeah, this is too much. One at a time.

I never had that kind of stuff. I don't think I was ever in classes that... I was never being prepared for the real world. I was just get to high school, get through it, and then send me out. I never had like... It was never like, we're going to...

do mock trials in case one of y'all are a lot. Would you have done mock trial? I think you would have been good at it. Maybe. Yeah. You could have been a witness. Yeah. I would have loved to have been there. You know, just a witness. But I never had... Did you have classes? You'd be the bailiff. Yeah, I don't even know what the bailiff is. Please rise. Oh. Oh, yeah. You could do that. I would like to... Because you feel you're kind of... You're protecting of the judge. That's right. The bailiff's the...

One that walks over to you and goes, you need to quiet down. Yeah. Yeah. I could be the bailiff. I would. I mean, I did. We did one play and I had one. I had one line. What was it? Do you remember the line? Is it from screen? Yeah. Yeah. No, I was like, I don't even remember now. I remember I worked at a. These pretzels are making me thirsty. Yeah.

I remember I worked at Gaines Fitness in Nashville, but it was the Gaines brothers. It's all these brothers that they played football, Vandy, and one of them played for the Seahawks. They're the most wonderful family. I mean, their dad was Buddy Gaines.

And he worked at, uh, when I worked at Hermitage golf course, when I was 15 and his dad, uh, was like retired and, you know, work there, which I, that's why when I retire, I want to go just work at a golf course, like just be in charge of the carts going out. I mean, I would love it. I would do it now. I, so he would, he would, he worked there and the family's just, everybody knows them. They were in Nashville. They were just a big sports family. And, uh,

I always see one of them, Brad, and they're just like, they're just Southern dudes, man. Just real Southern dudes. And I love nice Southern, just a family that the whole town knows. Yeah. And you talk to them like, well, how are you doing? Like, and I worked for Gaines Fitness and I had to do, we had this play. So when I worked at Gaines Fitness, I worked, I watched the kids. That was my job.

I would be in the daycare. So you brought your, if you had to have your kid watch, I would sit. That's all I was able to do was just to go in there and I'd be like, I would just be in charge of the children. Yeah. You read them stories. Yeah. They'll let them play games or whatever. And, uh, and you had to play with them. And this is before you didn't have a phone to mess around on. You just had to sit with children. You had to actually work. You had to work. Yeah. And so I had to, I had to play and I told him, I was like, Hey, I can't come to work Thursday. Cause we're having a play. And he's like, are you,

you having a play just real Southern? He's like, what, you got a line in this play? And I was like, yeah, I got it. And I'm probably super Southern too. And I got a line and he's like, what's your line? And I forget. It was like, I'm making this line up, but it was as simple as this, where it was like, I go, well, some guy asked me, where am I going? And I say, well, I'm going to the store. And that was it. And he goes, yeah. He goes, let's hear. I don't hear. I go, well, you got to say, where are you going? He goes, all right. All right.

He goes, where are you going? And I go, I'm going to the store. And he goes, all right. He goes, Nate, you get out of here, man. That was a great job. You did great. Get on out of here, buddy. He was like so happy for me. And I was like, all right, man. And that's always stuck with me. Don't remember the line. Did the play go that well? Yeah, I mean, I had one line. You couldn't mess it up. I mean, look, it led to all this, you know. That was the start. That was the start. But they were just –

I love a nice, if you have a town, just one family, everybody knows. And you're like, the Gaineses. They're wonderful. I saw them not too long ago.

Zachary Morrow. Love that you guys did an episode on standup. Something I would love to hear you guys discuss. Do you ever get chastised for being a Christian in the comedy scene? New York, especially. I know that Anthony has a lot of respect for Nate as a comedian, despite being basically the opposite person as him. I find that super interesting. Funny thing that I would, I would always joke about with Anthony about that is I would, I would, I love that me and Joseph, we were friends. I mean, we're comedians. So we have the common meaning. Anthony were, uh,

Very good friends. We hung out a lot together. But I would tell Anthony, I was like, look, I think we should hang out as much as we can because I know once we die, we'll never see each other again. And that was always my... Being a Christian, him not. Yeah. So... That's funny. I... You know, yeah, for being a... You know, I mean, a lot of comics do grow up in a Christian home. A lot of people... A lot of comics are Jewish. So whether they're practicing or not, but they would...

I mean, I would have a lot of friends that would, Jewish is, you know, it's very family oriented. They go to church quite a bit. So yes, there's a mix. I definitely dealt with

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

you know, wasn't, didn't believe in God or wasn't a Christian. So there was definitely times I had, you know, I would think I would get judged, prejudged the same way I always said that they think the way they judge people.

they think that Christians judge people. They would judge me that way to just, they write you off being like, Oh, you're Southern. You were Southern Baptist. Oh, I bet you're all these things. And you're like, I'm not any of those things. I went to a normal church. You know, they're like, what's Southern Baptist church. They think we're like have rattlesnakes. And you're like, dude, is it normal? It was like a high school. Like I don't, it was a regular place. We didn't do anything. Didn't bother anybody. So we do get,

All right. I mean, I definitely got stuff for being Christian, but I mean, overall, I don't think anybody truly cares. You know, that's how I believe. That's how I, I don't think anybody really cares. Comics. When you're hanging out, everybody gets made fun of for everything. Yeah. That's how it's been for me. It's been like no more than me being overweight. Yeah. You know? Yeah. He, uh, one funny, like, so when I was being around Patrice O'Neill and, uh,

They said, someone told him he's from the South and he's a Christian. And Patrice asked me if I believed in dinosaurs. And so which is that is an insane question. But I would just go out like I do not. I would just say whatever he asked, I would just agree with it. And so one day we're supposed to go to his house.

And someone said, someone told Big Jay that I can't come for some reason. And Jay was like, that doesn't make sense. Like, Patrice, his friend likes Nate.

And so Patrice asked Nate was like, I mean, as a big J asked Patrice and said, Hey, he said, Nate can't come to the party. Like, do you care if Nate comes? And Patrice was, he was like, are you crazy, dude? He goes, that guy doesn't believe in dinosaurs. You don't think that I want that at my house. And I always thought about that. That's what I think about. I've almost tried to live by that. Like if someone doesn't believe something you believe, I'm like, you don't think I want to be around that? Like,

I want to hear that's way better than just us talking about stuff that we all agree with. I would love to, you know, I just love that. He's like, you don't, that guy doesn't believe in dinosaurs. You don't think I want that in my house. I want that all over my house. Just some guy that doesn't believe in dinosaurs. But in hindsight, I'm 50, 50 on dinosaurs. Sarah Panagopoulos, man, Panagopoulos, P-A-N-A-G-O-P-O-U-L-O-S.

Sarah. You want to jump on this one? What if she married into that name? Sarah P. Sarah P. What if her name was Sarah Johnson and then that's her husband and she's like, oh, man. Panagolopoulos? Yeah. Panagolopoulos. I bet it's a name that once you figure it out, you're like, I got it. It's Greek. Yeah. Yep.

I think it's really cool that when Laura asked you how long you would do stand-up if you didn't make it, you said forever. That's some legit grit. I'm glad you said previously that she deserves everything you have because that's some legit loyalty to support a dream that might not manifest. She's a boss. Brian's response to the jabs is so subtle and yet sassy. Love it. Thanks for making my virtual work days much less productive and way more enjoyable on Wednesday's game. Well, that's a wonderful comment.

Thank you for calling me Brian. Yeah. I appreciate that. She respects you. Thank you. Unlike most people. Yes. Laura. Yeah. Laura has been the ride or die, you know, there from the beginning. She didn't know what she signed up for, but now she has a thousand dollars. And that's something that she can buy whatever hat she wants to. No, she doesn't ever want to like, she's tough to buy presents for because she's,

she's not into uh you know i could buy her tools and she would love it yeah i could honestly go buy her uh anything you think you would buy your dad i could buy my wife when i have to buy my wife presents i look up what to buy for father's day and then i go buy her something because that's what she wants ties i mean ties yeah socks

Madison Hill. Last year, our fantasy football punishment was the loser had to do a five minute standup bit at an open mic night at a local comedy club. As y'all were sharing all that goes into standup, I now realize even more why he bombed. It was both amazing and painful to watch. What y'all do is so hard. Thanks for this podcast. It got me through a long Wednesday at work. Wednesdays apparently not, not big in the work life. Uh,

Yeah. You see that a lot where guys go, but that's where open mics are for. You can go try it. And that's where, you know, I wish more people would try it just to see. They don't, people don't realize that when you get up there, how it's, it gets real. And then how quick you can say something, something that you think could time out to 10 minutes could be two. And that's, it's unbelievable how fast that time goes. Yeah.

especially when you get no laughs and that's how it gets to two minutes so i yeah i think everybody yeah go try it that's a popular thing though i think we've both experienced that open mics i hate that to be honest with you yeah it used to when they do it yeah i used to run a show right next to vanderbilt yeah and i think a few times it was somebody lost their fantasy football and they had to come to a spot and it's like this thing that you've i devoted my life to and i'm like

This is my passion. And then it's somebody's punishment. You know, and then they show up and do it and leave. But doesn't that make you, that's why you want to be good at it. Because then you separate yourself from that to go, I am better than this. And that's when, and that's too, as you look at open mics, I would look at that as an open mic going, I don't want to be in this, I don't want to be in this room anymore.

where this stuff can happen. Those guys are not getting on a regular show. Oh, sure. So then it's motivation that you go, well, I don't want to deal with this. And also it would be like if that happens, that guy's probably bringing a bunch of people, so then you get a real audience. Right. And so that's where we as comedians can take advantage of that because then we're like, oh, he's got 15 guys coming.

I mean, that's, you know, all the shows you would do where the guy that brings the most people, you're like, well, you got to go last because we can't have your people leave. We need a real audience, you know? And then everybody's throwing people in front of that. That's what, you know what? Even if you want to, if you have that, something like that, where the loser gets to do a five minute stand of it, the nicest thing you could do for those comics is to go, hey, we did this bet. We're doing five minutes, but we're bringing a bunch of people and we will go last.

And then that way you guys can watch a real, you can perform in front of a real crowd. That would be, you would be, I mean, with open arms. Or it's okay as long as you stick around. Yeah. They want you to stick around. Yeah. But once they do it, the guy wants to go talk to his buddies about it. I mean, you can't, I understand that. You're not going to want to just be like, go sit quietly. Yeah.

But if the crowd's terrible, if they're annoying, then we'll put that guy up early. Yes. Well, that's how you'll be able to tell. If you're like, oh, we said last, and now we're going, that's because your crowd is drunk and yelling. Burlingo. Saw Nate first time live, 7-15, 2017. Headlining at the Tacoma Comedy Club. Tacoma. Tacoma. Tacoma. Headlining at the Tacoma Comedy Club. Tacoma, Washington. I knew that one. I don't know what happened.

We'd love to know if the dead horse and getting lapped at Mount Rainier by the elderly and people with baby stories were new. Like, did you develop them that trip loving Nate land? That was the weekend it happened. So he's the exact date with Brian, right? With Brian. Yeah. July 15th, 2017. We went to Mount Rainier, right? We drove out and then we saw the dead horse. When we've talked about, you get asked a lot about this. You want to tell it? Cause you get asked a ton about how that joke.

Yeah. They don't ever ask me a ton, but they ask you because I would always say you were with me. Yeah, so I was driving. We had a rental car. I was driving. And like he said, it was only like one long stretch. Out to Mariner. It's one road that goes out. And he's like, oh, man, there's a dead horse over there in that field. And he kind of talked about it a little bit. Yeah, your brain starts going. And then we went to Mariner. All that stuff happened. Yep, got up there. And we were just...

die and huffing up that mountain. And then there was an older couple that came down and the baby's thing just was added on is just, yeah. Yep. And then, um, and then on our way back, we stopped to eat and at the restaurant, Nate said, I think I maybe got two bits from today, the dead horse we saw. And, uh, the lady who said, well, I'm 70 and I, I did it.

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

And was one of the healthier horses. Yeah, we've ever seen. I think you said the line. I did say that. So the healthier line. That's the healthiest horse I've ever seen. Yeah. And so anyway, so then I thought to myself, well, the dead horse joke's gone because that horse ain't dead. And then that night at the club, he starts telling it. And I was like, why is he telling this dead horse joke? The horse isn't dead. And then he did it the way he did it, which was great.

It was that weekend. Yeah. But that, and that's how lines get in too. Some people always would think you write and stuff. That was Brian said, well, that's the healthy horse. I've healthiest horse I've ever seen. And so then that came in from him saying that. So that was bait. It wasn't like really tagging it, but he was like, that was, I wasn't gonna say anything better than that. Yeah. Yeah. Most of his best lines come from me. Yep. Yep. He's the man behind the curtain. How quickly did you know that that was a bit?

It murdered that weekend and I was opening with it, but I, and so I thought it was doing really good maybe because I was talking about a local thing and, uh,

And so when we left, I was like, man, I hope this can work everywhere. So that's what you do when you get a joke. Some jokes can be very just... It's like it works in that town. It's not going to really work everywhere else. And then some you're trying to be like, man, I hope I can make this work. I mean, it really wasn't about the town. It was just going to Mount Rainier. So everybody knows Mount Rainier. That was like a fun thing. But I think...

after that weekend, I did it like the next weekend too. And it was like starting to work and then it was like, Oh, okay. And then you start building, maybe a little stuff gets added to it and you know, it gets longer than it was, but I mean, it was doing so good. Reopening with it. Yes. That weekend. Do you like to do that? I like to open with it. Uh, if I have a new, if I have a new joke, I mean, unless it fits somewhere, especially when it's local, but when it's local, I'm going to open with it. Yeah, for sure. Uh,

But I do like opening with new stuff. When I did Tampa with you, the Olivia story had just happened, I think, that morning. That morning, yes. And you opened with it. Yes. I remember that. Yeah, yeah. For the first time. Well, it was such a perfect joke to open. You could tell that this joke would be perfect

at the beginning yeah and I was excited to try it and that one I called a few people on the way there I might have called you and just to say the story happened because it was funny to say and then that way I could say it a couple times before I hit the stage that night and then I can give it more and then a fight broke out that's right in that Tampa thing

In the back, big fight. The guys started going at it. I was like 25 minutes into my set. Nate brings that out of people, his comedy. We get it, you're riled up. People don't care because this guy's not good. He goes, I agree with you. And then they fight about how not good it is. JT, great show as always, Nate. My favorite part was when Aaron and Breadpan shared their comedy stories during the last 45 seconds of the show. Keep up the unbelievable work, guys.

Yes, you guys knocked it out. We're going to let y'all tell some more of your stories this time. But y'all got it in, last 45 seconds. Sneak it in. Bread pan. Cameron Moore, I've commented before, but I want to make sure you hear it. Do not do too much material on here. You want to take it on stage. It stinks going to see a comedian. You already know his entire act because of podcasting.

Uh, Cameron, that is something that I think about a lot. That's something that I think doing a podcast helps you be funny. And I'm hoping to get some material probably out of this, but I will, uh, am very aware of that. And I tried to, I would try not to, uh, do that. I would, if I felt like something was going to happen, maybe you see the beginning of it. I'm like, Oh, that could be something. And maybe it goes, uh, obviously I don't know, but that's why even this format is, I don't think I'm going to get a ton, like,

Maybe I get some stuff, some add-on stuff, but the way we're doing this and talking about specific things, I don't know. That's something that's completely on my mind. It's something that I was scared about doing a podcast because I was afraid that would be too much. But yeah, I'm glad that he...

I'm glad he said it. I mean, that's something I think about a lot. So I hope it won't. And I'm sure, I'm sure it can at some point, this next hour probably won't have anything. Cause I had the hour before this, but then the hour after that might just be us three on stage. Brad McCurdy. You guys always kill it. Can't wait for you to get back on the road and see you live. Maybe bring Aaron and what's his name with you.

Uh, yeah, we're seeing, I doubt it, but, uh, no, we will go out and we will, uh, we're going to be doing some of those driving shows and y'all will be on some of those. Uh, so we will, um, we will be doing those, uh,

Coming up, I mean, starting September 24th to October 25th, we're doing drive-in movie theaters. And I think y'all are doing the back half of them with me, October 8th to the end of that run. So we're going to see how those are going to be. Some are drive-ins, some are just in parking lots. It'll be nice to get back out and be doing the hour again. But, yeah, it's going to be interesting. I mean, you know, I'm going to some cities that I've already been to.

but I think the way you got to look at this is a bring your old family. Like someone mentioned about bringing a baby, like, yeah, bring a baby, man. This is the time you can bring a baby to us. You can throw them in the car. Like there's, you're going to be in your car. It's going to be, you know, it's where the way these are all getting done is because I think people are like, there's nothing, people can't go do anything. And this is a night out. And so we're going to have, you know, uh, we're going to give you the best show that we can possibly give you. And, uh,

Hope it goes really good. And it's going to be interesting to see if with the crowd, you know, cause you can't, ours is so important about the crowd and you can't do it. You can't hear the crowd. So, well, there's the comments. Thank you guys as always. Keep them coming. We'd love, I'd love reading comments. I like the comments a lot. Yeah. It's very fun.

Uh, the rest of the podcasts, I do not care. Uh, we should be just a comment podcast, just comments on other comments, which Chad Ryden did that with, uh, a comic. Uh, yeah, he commented on our podcast. He, so he did a live reaction to our live reaction to our podcast and then did another one off his, a reaction, a live reaction to his reaction, which is very, very funny. Chad Ryden, one of my favorite people, uh,

All right, so this week, we're not playing a clip because this is part two. We played the quick last week with all the kids. A lot of people loved the little sketch video we shot with all the neighborhood kids. Sorry about the audio. Oh, yeah, the audio did not work if you're listening on just the audio. For some reason, it didn't play. I got blamed for that. Yeah. Look, it's not Brian's fault. It probably was.

No, we're figuring out why. I don't know why I messed up. I don't think I asked. We are aware of it, and we know it did. And so if you want to see the video, you can go to my social media or Nate Land and...

that we posted the whole video up there. So you can see what we were talking about and what we did, but a lot of, a lot of fun comments about that, which was good. Cause it's, you know, a bunch of kids acting in that and they did really good. Yeah. And, uh, they enjoyed it. And we were, you know, we had nothing to do during this COVID time. So we made some videos. Uh, so, all right, well, here's part two. We're going to get into a standup comedy. All right. So many of these questions we get to a lot of people submitted questions this week. Uh,

Sorry, I couldn't get to everybody, but kind of did combine questions here. First one's from Hazard. He, or I guess it could be a she, asks, what do y'all suggest comics who still haven't reached the quitting your day job phase do to further their careers in comedy during this pandemic? What do y'all suggest comics who still haven't reached the quitting your day job phase do?

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

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

until I can't. Because why would you not just keep making the money and you can save up more money? And I think it can go either way. I mean, some guys, I think, quit. Some guys hang on too long and I don't think they jump in enough. But if you can do your day job and then be doing shows every night and no one even knows you have a day job, that's how you got to do your day job. You got to do it to where nobody knows you even have it. You can't be affecting your life. I would see people, new comics, I would be like, when can you go on stage? And they would wait tables at night

And they're like, well, I can't go up, you know, Tuesdays and Wednesdays because I got to work. And you're like, that's got to stop. You got to quit that job and find a job during the day that you can go up every night if you're trying to make it, if you want to make it. Because as always, you're not owed this thing about being stand up. That's a big thing.

I think comics think they're owed something and they think, well, I shouldn't have to work. Why do I have to work? Why do I have to be like, because no one cares that you're doing comedy. No one cares that I do comedy. So I have to constantly just try to do as good enough to make people want to watch it. Everybody does.

If you're in, it's not a regular job. You're trying to win the lottery. If you're lucky and you win the lottery, then you get to live in a may. It's crazy, but that's, what's fun about the risk of starting comedy. You might not ever pan out to anything and you might, and then you might pan out to be Jerry Seinfeld. That's what's wonderful. Seinfeld wasn't promised that he didn't enter a program that led him to, you know, it's not, it's not a regular job. It's, you know, like athletes, right?

they're not you know they're trying to make it they give it all hope it works out if it doesn't if it does then you live a unbelievable life if it doesn't then you go do whatever you got to do go back to a regular life you know uh but during the pandemic i mean you know it's like hard to keep writing stuff i'm sure you can you you know got to think outside the box and make videos and just feed you'd

just do what you, I don't know, further your career. It's like, don't try to just look, do this time to ask people for stuff to give you, figure out a new thing, whether it's making videos or whatever you can do, but just take charge and be like, what can I do to build my career up or to build my people being aware of me, uh, starting a podcast. I mean, do something. Don't just think,

It's when you look out and you're looking for an answer from someone. If you're sitting there during this pandemic and you're going like, someone needs to do something for me, then go do something for yourself. You can put anything you want out. Maybe it's not going to get the traction you want, then keep doing it. Keep making it better. It can get the traction. If it's good enough, it will get the traction. Go be on TikTok and figure that out. Whatever the new formula is, try to write stuff and try to be funny and try to give something to people to watch.

that stuff works. So you got to go do it, but you got to do it yourself. You can't be asking. I mean, he can ask this question, but you can't be relying on someone to be like, well, no one's giving me work. I mean, when we'd go on the road, when you first start and you're like, well, no one's booking me. I can't. You're like, well, that's going to stop you. And some people, it does stop because they want the excuse to be like, they didn't make it.

So they want to be able to be like, well, no, it was political. No one would book me. You're like, well, I mean, no one booked anybody. I didn't get booked. No one booked me. You know, no one booked anybody. And you just, I was around. You stay around. That's when guys, I remember guys would move to New York and move back and they'd be like, ah, New York is, I didn't like it. It was, it's all political, whatever. You didn't make it, dude.

You didn't give it a chance. So don't downplay all the other people that did make it to New York. No one did anything any different. No one was, you know, when I moved to New York, I was a Christian from the South, the opposite of everybody that moved to that city. And, you know, but I just stuck around. I just hung out, been 17 years, just hanging out, being around, keep doing comedy, keep trying to get better, watch other comics, try to get a lot, you know,

It's like, you're not promising. Like that's the, when you choose a career, any career, singing, acting, it could be anything. You're not promised anything. You know, you're not, when I was reading water meters, that was my, was going to go back to just a job for the County for Wilson County. And I would have been fine. I would have done that, but that's a job that you're, I feel like I'm reading water meters. I should, I'm owed insurance and owed like, you know,

$40,000 a year, whatever it is. That's a job that you can be like, well, you have a boss and you have whatever. You got to have that mentality. I never wanted to not be able to get something because someone was in my way. When I was in New York doing all those comedy clubs, that's when I moved to LA. I never wanted to be so reliant on someone else for work. I wanted to be able to create my own

thing that i don't you don't want to be just well i only get up because if this person lets me and if all your you know stuff is in that bucket i don't know that's saying either what's all your there's some buckets saying eggs in one basket eggs in one basket or in a bag or in a bag bag i like bucket don't put all your rocks in one bucket is what i'm saying all right

Gray wants to know, Nate, you mentioned Louis CK giving you feedback on your structure. How do you balance feedback with maintaining your own voice, the spirit of your act? You got to just listen to the feedback. I mean, you got to listen to what he says and see what you can do. Really good comics are usually pretty good at

knowing they give you the idea and then you can kind of make it into your own, you know how you say it. But you got to know when to be comfortable to say something. Like when you said, we were talking about the horse earlier, when you say...

That's the healthiest horse and I can say that line. That's just one tiny line. That's what I can say about it. I couldn't have taken his whole idea, whatever he had. But if it's like a line that I can fit in and it fits in the way that I talk and what I say. So you just got to know when to do it and you take it. I don't remember if I did what he said do. Sometimes you're just like, if it doesn't click in your head, then you're not going to do it.

So you just, but you just listen to what he said and you're like, and maybe you take it as a different angle. You don't have to take anybody's when they tell you something. I mean, I've, I've given tags and you know, I, and I, in my head, I think, I guess it's a great tag. You should do it. And then sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. It's hard when someone else comes up with something and you're talking, especially when you're, you already, you're doing personal stories. It's hard to take,

that from someone. Now, if you've got a joke joke, like if you're setting up something and I'm talking about just a regular joke, that's not personal, then yeah, you can probably tag, like, you know,

Stephen Wright or Mitch Hedges, one-liner guys, they could probably take jokes. Larry the Cable Guy, you could take joke ideas because they're kind of rattling off jokes. And so they're not as personal. But when it's personal, I think it's harder to... I don't know. Do you all agree with that? For sure. Yeah, yeah. I don't personally like getting together, writing with other comics because you want it to be your voice and if it's personal stories, it just doesn't work for me.

Do you like writing with other comics? No, I've never really done it. Yeah. Yeah. I'd never, I'd never liked it either. I know a lot of comics that do it, but I tried it and the idea of it, but it's, I, if everybody can have a line in the joke, I don't think it's that personal of a joke. Yeah. If, if you can be like, Oh, 15 guys wrote this, then I mean, you're, you're doing a monologue. I mean, you're, you should be a late night host. Also, when we get jokes, we were talking about this earlier downstairs, but if we ever get jokes, uh,

from regular people, non-comics, we get that all the time. You should do this as a joke. The problem with that is I would say majority of the jokes, if you're a regular person, that you're going to come and tell a professional comic are going to be the jokes that the comic would have come up with in year one of comedy. They've usually been done.

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

my own way, but the idea is very good. I think comics would rather that like, don't tell me here's the joke, but be like, have you ever looked in, you know, like if you tell them the idea that would be better. We don't need help with the joke, but yeah. And it's always, it's always something, at least the ones I get, it's always something they think is super original and it's just not, but it's not their fault. They don't spend all day thinking about jokes and all night hearing them, you know?

It's just their fault that they give it to you and think you can do this joke. That's where you get told a joke, someone tells you something, and then in between shows, and then they're going to watch you the next show, and you're like, do I have to do this tag because he's looking?

Cause you don't want to get off stage. And he's like, dude, what happened? I gave you a, I gave you a dime. You didn't even, you know, like another comic. Yeah. Other comic, regular person. It doesn't matter. I've had, I've done corporates where the CEO of the company will come up to me right before I go on stage and say, Tom there. Oh man, he just went through his third divorce. You got to give him a hard time. And he's sitting right up front. And I'm like, I don't, that's not really what I do.

Yeah, a lot of corporates, they do that. I'll point out who to make fun of. I always tell people, if you want that comic, that comic is out there. But I'm not that comic. I'm a guy that does my act. I build an act and I take it out. Stuff can happen. Maybe you can make fun of somebody. I'm open to the idea of making fun of something. But I'm not going to go on stage and just be like, huh?

I heard you guys a third time you got divorced, you know, who's called it. Some shambles over here. And everybody has a, yeah. And you don't, that guy cries, you know? And then you're like, oh, they told me to make fun of you. And they're like, he's fine. He's fine. I have a lot of people just say, oh, you're convenient. Tell me a joke.

And I'm like, well, it doesn't really work quite that way. What do you say? Someone famous had it. They said when someone says that, they always go, oh, tell me a joke. He goes, you're so good looking. You say that to the person that said it. It's pretty good. Yeah, it's funny. It's a good little Seinfeld reference, too.

Yeah, that. Yes, it is time for reference. But it's just funny to be like, you immediately put that person down. That's good. I just give them a tight 10. Yeah. Oh, you want to dive in? To the point where they're like, all right. Hosting set. Yeah. Where you from? Yeah. You know, a lot of people used to not, would you tell someone you're a comedian if they ask what you do? I try not to. You try not to. Do you have a job that you tell them? If it's something I fill out, I just put writer. Yeah. Yeah.

But I mean, if they asked me, well, I mean, I could say Uber driver. You should say I work for News Channel 5. I used to. Yeah. But I would just... Because the problem with saying that is you can't go down a job. Keith Alberstadt, very funny comedian from Nashville, has that joke about he makes stuff up and then someone, I think, keeps asking him about it. And so that always got in my head that I'm too scared that I'm going to start something that then they want to know more about. Yeah. And then...

Because every job I've had is not, my jobs are all kind of, someone would ask more about it. I was, I recycled tires. They're going to be like, well, what's that? I read Waterman. Like, I don't have, I'm not like, I'm going to consult it. Like, I've never had an adult job.

that when i get a say at someone i saw you know i work for a pharmacy and we do like i've had all like jobs that you might be like really like i mean you would be at 41 being like i recycle tires you still recycle every job i have everybody goes you do that full time i've never not had a job that someone doesn't question i've done full you do make money doing that yeah well you should like guard or something like that yeah i'm doing that as an adult at 41 you're a lifeguard

New Channel 5 is certainly going to get questions too, though. That's right. I know, but you would know the answers to that because you worked there for so long. Yeah, but now they're just yelling at me about some story. Why are y'all still doing it? I'm like, oh, God.

Yeah. Well, I'm figuring you're on a plane. I just figured you got to pick a job. New Show on 5 is interesting enough. Yeah. And you're not going to get bombarded with comedy questions. And then you know enough about it that you could actually talk about it. And you might enjoy talking about it because it's not your life anymore. And so that's why. That's true. That's what I'm saying.

Sonny Collins wants to know, has any of your jokes caused conflict between your spouse or family members when they are the butt of the joke? My wife is terrific about that. And I'm lucky in that aspect of it that she's always fine with it. Always, you know, never gets upset about it, never complains about it. So there's, I've never, in my other, my family, you know, I'll talk about Tuesdays.

They... You know, they love it. They're... I come from a very fun family. You know, my dad's a magician. My whole family's very funny. And so we're... I think they're... I mean, as far as I know, I think they love it. I mean, the uncle...

An aunt that fist fought each other at the wedding. I think he died now, but the aunt is still around. There's a chance we don't know if they've seen that joke. I just asked my dad that recently. I was like, do you think they've seen it? Because she's remarried. And so I don't know if they have. I mean, I would imagine they've had to. Someone had to have told them. That's what I was going to say. But, you know, I don't think that they... I don't think they have...

But no one said anything to me. Like if they had, you know, and they all come to the shows and they're, you know, I think, I think a lot of people want to be in the joke. They're excited to be in the joke. People have a better sense of humor than you think. And, you know, and I do with my daughter. So what I kind of tell my daughter, because I talk about her. And so I tell her a lot because to build trust, you know, I'm like, look, I will never say anything that if you do not want me to say.

I would never, I would never in a million years, if she was embarrassed by something would ever put something out that would, you know, I want her to really hear everything. And even if the joke was funny and if she didn't want me to do it, I wouldn't, I just would never, I would never say it. And I overly tell her that. So she never feels uncomfortable. I don't want everyone. I don't want everyone not to come talk to me as a dad because she's afraid I'm going to go then. Yeah.

Use it in your act. Use it as my act. And I make her, you know, I mean, she introduced me on the last special and I, you know, I try to keep her very involved with all that stuff. And she'll, she gives me joke ideas as well. It's always very funny. It's always like, I mean, it's kind of out there, you know, it's an eight year old joke idea, but I always love hearing them. So if someone, I would never want to hurt anybody's feelings.

So if anybody ever came up to me and said they were no, and I asked before the two thumb, you know, any of that stuff, I always ask, that's my dad. I'm like, well, they care. Will they be upset about it? Like I would never. And I tried to say the joke where I'm not making fun of them. It's like making fun of the situation, but I'm not like,

You know, it's my family. I'm a part, it's part of my family. That's a big, I think, aspect to be like, well, I'm part of this family. So if you're going to be, if you're going to laugh at them, then you're laughing at me because I'm no different than them. We're all the same. Instead of, instead of, and that's the way you can present a joke. If you present the joke as going, listen to my buffoon family member that did blah, blah, blah. Or if you're like, this is where I come from. We're all doing this. Then that way it's like, you're making, you know, we get all stand together as a family.

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

Like how great. I always think that sometimes with a dirty comedian, like I've seen their parents come. I always joke and say, I'm a comics parents, comic,

So they're saying is if people don't know a comics comic is... I mean, probably everybody knows that saying. It's like that I'm a comics parent's comic. I'm always the comic that other parents... Because most comedians are dirty. And they're like, well, go watch Nate. He's not. And so I'm always the one that's like, I'll be at a show and be like, we're whoever's parents. And he told us to come watch you. But they...

I always think that I see them say some crazy stuff and I've seen them with my friends in the crowd or their parents would be in the crowd. And I mean, they're just talking about just sex and dirty. And I'm like, dude, your parents are here.

Is that crazy? And sometimes you meet their parents and you're like, okay, they're fine with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Their parents love it. Yeah. But some of them you're like, good night. Just nice, sweet parents. Yeah, like don't you ever, do you ever just, you know they're here, just like tone it down? The idea of cussing in front of my parents makes me, I get the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Oh, yeah. I couldn't do it. Yeah. Yeah.

Not Derek Thomas wants to know if someone told you the way you delivered a joke was so funny that it doesn't matter what you say. Would that be an insult or a compliment? That's a good question. I think it's a compliment. I mean, I can sometimes take stuff. I know because I've seen that. I get that a lot.

And it's when they overdo it, they're like, I mean, if you look at the joke, it's awful. But he says it's so funny. And so that's, I get that a lot. But I think it's, and I can be, defend of my joke, I think the joke is written very well.

Because I'm coming up with it. So I'm going to like it. But I think when those two things can come together, that's when you're kind of, you're really at a place where you got your voice. And so when you can have the joke in that,

And you got to not take advantage of that. That's a big thing that you got to, because there, there, you can get to a point where people, that's when you first go out and people just think you're funny. So they're going to your first little bit. They're just laughing at you saying, hello, love your town. Like you're saying nothing. And they're laughing because they're like, they're just like happy to hear your voice and all this stuff. And you got to be careful not to take advantage of that because you can end up writing a bunch of bad jokes and just rely on that. And that's, I, that's,

Taking advantage of that crowd. They're paying to see you. You should give them the highest level of comedy that you can give them. So I try to make sure that the jokes still stand up. And a good way for me to see that sometimes is when you pop on shows, if we're at Zany's and they're doing like comedy all-stars and I'll go on that show, that crowd...

most will not know who I am and they're not there to see me. And so then you can try those jokes in front of those crowds. And that's how you can really tell if your jokes are still working. Cause you're like, all right, this crowd doesn't know me. I got to win them over. And that works versus if I'm in front of my real crowd, you know, I mean, cause shows would be like, I mean, you would do when you do comedy clubs or, you know, in theaters, I mean, they're so excited that it's, you know,

they're happy to see you and you're like oh you could probably get away with a lot yeah you could get away some bad jokes so yeah i i think when all that stuff combines is is a good thing and i wouldn't take it as an insult i mean maybe in my head i take it you know i would never openly i think a lot of people just don't know how to give a compliment and it's not their fault at all it's like if i saw a tarantino movie and then i saw tarantino on the way out like i don't know

I don't know how I would intelligently give him a compliment on the movie. I'd probably sound dumb if I were like, man, the plot was great plot. I don't know. Yeah, if you're like, I thought it was shot so good. The special effects were so good. The plot was obviously not as good, but the way it was shot. And you could think the plot's good. Sometimes people want to give comments. The thing is, they want to just say something. Yeah, exactly. And so they're going to say whatever they can to just say it.

And a lot of times, just go with your first instinct. If you see someone that says something, just be like, I loved all of it. I think you've...

I don't know. Just say what you don't try to, I think sometimes they're trying to sound like they know what they're talking about, where just you, maybe you don't know what you're talking about. So just say it. I mean, I, again, I, we have to do, I have to do it. If I saw Tarantino, I don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah. So you have to go, I love the movie. I thought it was awesome. Right. And like, you just do a very broad cause I did love it instead of trying to, yeah, I'm like trying to pick it apart, you know?

What do you guys talk about when you're on a cruise together? I've met Quentin Tarantino. When I did my cruise in the South China Sea and he was on it, the funniest thing, I had to do that second show. And the funniest thing is what I did, he would write. I'd see him on the cruise. We were on this cruise for like nine days. And he's sitting there writing. He was working on a script, I guess. And he would have a red pen and a black pen.

And he would just, he would write, you know, whatever he's doing, he's writing it by hand. Both hands at the same time? Same time. No, no, I'm just, no, I know. It looked like I was doing that. I was like, wow, that's wild. Yeah. He's crazy, dude. These guys are crazy. So, but you would see him write. And then we were hanging out and I, when I had, I did one show that I had to do a second show. And I was like, man, I hope this show goes good. I don't know. And so I do the second show and it didn't go good. And when I'm walking out, Quentin Tarantino comes out of the bathroom and he just goes, did you go on yet?

which is a very funny joke to say to someone after the, and I was like, and I, but I didn't, you know, I only knew him from this little moment of that week. And I was like, yeah, I just went on. He's like, I'm just kidding, man. I saw it. It was great. Like, and then he kind of kept walking. So it's very funny. Yeah. Uh, but that's my Quentin Tarantino. Uh, Justin Burrell, Nate's comedy involves a lot of personal stories. What are coming rules on how much of a personal story can be made up? Can it all be made up or happen to someone else?

Mine are not made up. Mine are all pretty exact. The only time I'm making something up, if I'm talking about what I think would happen, you know, like my McDonald's burger story where Lewis took the bite. I said I took a bite out of Lewis's burger. The one thing, Dan Soder was with us, another comedian, and he actually took the bite out of the burger. It was my idea. I said, take a bite out of his burger.

And so Soder took the bite out of his burger. And then that's when Lewis came and like lost his mind. And then I kind of walked away from the table because I was about to start laughing. And so I, when I first started telling that joke, it was, that was a joke that was all three of our experiences. Any of us could have told this joke. The only time we ever kind of did it was when we were on shows together. And then I finally one day got it worked out right. So I kind of got the joke. And since we all do it and that's how it kind of works. We're,

We have one experience that could be a very funny joke, but it happens to three comedians, so you're like, who gets the joke? And it was kind of just whoever can come up with the best. Whoever's actually going to use it in their act and come up with the best thing.

So I ended up getting that joke, but I used to say Dan took the bike, but then the only thing with that, it was getting too complicated for people to follow the story. So that's the only time that is to me, I think a lot of stories can be untrue and they're not untrue, but I may be just trying to uncomplicate the story. Like it was getting too hard to follow with three people. So I just made it two people.

And that way it makes it a lot easier. And the end of that, when I'm saying, what do you, if you, uh, you think you could beat up a guy that's so confident he's taking bites out of burgers and just handing them out to whoever, like, that's me. Obviously that's made up, but I'm just commenting on what I think he's thinking. Uh, but I think all my stuff is, I mean, I think exactly true. I mean, I try to pretty much stay. But, but what do you think generally speaking is a good, do you think,

I noticed a lot of comics when they first start, myself included, your stories are almost all made up and they're kind of outrageous. The crowd might think it's funny, but they know this isn't really true. And then as you get better, you can make true stories funny to the point where they're like, this is funny because it's true. Yeah, I have a hard time. That was when I was writing these TV shows. I always had a hard time

not coming from truth like just straight up making stuff up there's comics that i mean all of it's made up and i think you if you do that you got to do that like that's what you do and you got to create that world in your head because then when you write that stuff you know where you're coming from and you can't balance back and forth you can't go you know so it's easier to

I mean, I have a hard time not, yeah, like telling the truth. So all my stuff ends up being true. But, you know, if something fits, because sometimes you can't make it too perfect either.

That's where when someone says something and you're like, God, that is perfect. That's when I have to... Sometimes I don't trust it. It'll take you out of it as a listener. Yeah. It's too perfect. It sounds like it's made up. So the sloppiness is sometimes what makes it even better because that's way more relatable.

And then maybe you just, you know, I mean, when I talk about these fights with my wife, you know, everybody's like, do y'all fight all the time? You're like, well, no, we don't. We can't. I've talked about these specific fights. So we have fights, but we're not just like, I walk in the door and just like, you know, just going crazy. You have these kind of fights. So you just pinpoint them. But I mean, you do whatever you, you know, any comic, look, you can do whatever you want to do. You can make up all of it. You can not make up, you know, but,

I think to constantly create stuff, you got to come from some kind of truth. I do. And... What you do well is you share a personal story that's funny in itself and then you do, but what if this had happened? Yeah. And then you can...

Even your baseball story about a home run off a walk. Yeah. It's very funny, just what happened. But then you do... What's everybody thinking from a parent's perspective. Yeah. Right. Right. Which makes it... Yeah. So you do... And that is kind of made... That is completely made up. But it's off a real situation. So...

That McDonald's story, a new comic might be like, and then my buddy went up there to fight him. There was a guy with his hand in the fryer. Like he would tell it like it's real. And then he'd be like, I don't know if I believe this. Yeah. Yes. Yes. I say like, this guy's in the back, he's got his hands in the fryer. Yeah. I'm making a fictional guy to be like this scary guy. That's a great example. Yeah. Great example. Yeah. And yeah, you would try to convince, no, he had his hand in the fryer. Yeah. And then everybody would be like, no, that's, I don't know if he, it would kill him. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Chris Webb, Nate, you talked about the guy at Fallon being a good booker. Can you tell us civilians what a good booker is versus a bad booker? And for that matter, without specifically naming out the comedian, what kind of comedians do you think, do you guys look at and like and respect? What do they do or do not do that makes them good to you guys, people in the craft? A good booker is, they just are very good at telling you what would work on the show.

I don't think they're overdoing it. They know to back off and when to come onto you. They're not, it's not, it's not like they're over, they're not over like explaining like, no, you got to do the joke like this. It doesn't work here. They, they give you guidance to go, here's what I think you got to do to get this joke. And it's going to be different for when you first do it and not, you know, what's funny is I never got a Letterman and that McDonald's story, but the guy that booked Letterman, I sent him that McDonald's story.

And I was like, I taped it and I was kind of trying to get on Letterman. I just couldn't. And I already did Conan, but I couldn't do Letterman. And they told me the McDonald's story. They go, that's too mundane, which I did not know what mundane meant. But I the tone made me think it wasn't a compliment. So I looked up mundane and I took that.

Like I was pretty upset about it. I was like, well, this joke murdered. I was like, what are you talking about? It's too mundane. And I did it on Conan three weeks later. And that, and then, and that was the last time I tried to get on Letterman. I was like, well, it's just not for me. They're not. And that's the, you know, that's, that's the mentality you got to have when you do like, you take stuff, you got to take some stuff personal and you go, oh, okay. Is it not? Well, I'll go get it somewhere else then. Cause I knew it was like, well, it's working. I'm open to listening to you.

But I mean, I'm doing this. I'm closing on this joke on the road. It's my closer. It's working that good. So it can't be mundane, which I think is boring. Right. Isn't that what mundane means? Generic. Every day. Generic. Yeah. Every day. Yeah. Every day. Generic eating burgers. Yeah. Yeah. So a good booker, I think is someone that knows how to not make it about them. It's about, it's about the comedian and it's giving them guidance and,

And I mean, I know a lot of people that book and bookers are, it's hard because the comics send them all these tapes and they're always like, why are they, you know, they don't email me back. They don't respond to me. It's taken for, yeah, that's what it is, man. That's again, it's not prime. You don't, you don't, you're not owed to be on Conan or Fallon on the tonight show. You're not, what do you promise to be on it? Like, you're like, the guy doesn't email me back. He doesn't have time. He's got 500 comedians trying to get on his show. Yeah.

Maybe you're not going to get on it. It took forever to get on this. It is what it is. Sometimes you submit, they never respond back to you and you got to hope to see them again to try to resubmit a whole different set. You got to move on past that and be like, that one didn't work.

You don't have to email me back. Some of the jobs, like I always hate when people are like, you could at least email me back. Show me the decency to email me back. You're like, that guy's busy, dude. Just because you rattle off 50 emails doesn't mean everybody owes you this response to go, I'm sorry, we can't. Just take it as no, and then go figure out your new way to get on it.

It's not like, you know, that, all right. Sorry. All right. And there's any, what type of comic do you like really like and respect? Not specific names, but just, I mean, I think you've already kind of touched on it. Yeah. I mean like Burr,

Chappelle, obviously. I like original guys. I think it's coming up with original stuff and original thought and not just talking about the... And also, I appreciate fun. We talked about Attell. David Attell is very fun to me. Very, very just rapid jokes. Super funny, dude. I mean, just so funny. I appreciate that. I appreciate people that love what they do, the commitment that they have for it.

And the guys that dive in, I mean, you know, the one thing you see in a lot of open mic comedy scenes are the comedians that just make fun of the room or this situation or the, the art of comedy. And that's like kind of their thing. And that's why that guy gets stuck and stays where he's at because he doesn't take it serious. And you're, you're performing for an audience. So your job is to do the best I can for that audience.

And if I don't give that audience the best, it's show business. Like that's, that's when it starts feeling like real show business business. When you're seeing people at a theater and they're buying popcorn or, you know, drinks and they get to their seat and they go and sit and you're like, you're a show. You're like a movie. You're, you need to, it's about them. It's not about anybody else. It's not being cool to the other people in the back of the room. It's, it's, it's to them. You need to give those people a great show. That's what those guys are paying for. And,

And that's in, you know, you got to show your worth so that when they get done, they go, man, I had an unbelievable time. That's a loss. It doesn't get lost. But the people that do anything as far as an entertainment, the people that have the audience in mind are my favorite people. Those are the those are the those singing, acting, writing movies. I'm thinking about my audience and I'm delivering. What can I deliver to them? Great. It's not about the the cool, the cool kids, you know? Yeah. Yeah.

Kelsey C., do you find that in-person attendance at a live show has suffered since everything is so easily accessible online now? I think there's more to that. She's a huge John Chris fan, and she's watched everything he'd ever done. So then when she goes to the show, she'd already seen a lot of the material. So she said she was, you know, I don't know if she said disappointed, but she mentioned meeting Aaron after the show was one of the highlights. Yeah.

Oh, that's nice. That's nice. So her question is, if you're a huge fan. I thought she'd come up to you and be like, I've never seen you or heard of you at all. But I thought you were great. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's her. She's basically saying if you're a huge fan of someone, if you've watched everything they've ever done online, is it hard as a comic when people already know

uh, your material. Yeah. But you have to have a new show. You have to have a new hour and that's what you do. I mean, you know, one thing that people have to realize is that when two, when they catch comedians, sometimes if you're, say you're aware, a lot of you listening to this, maybe you're really into comedy. And so you catch on to guys way before they blow up. You know, they would always say like Bill Burr was like when he first blew up and he's like 40 and they're like, man, this guy, where did he come from? Well, he's been doing it for 20 years.

So a lot of people might've seen him for 10. And then by the time when he gets super known in the audience, it goes from, let's just say it's 10,000 people to 4 million people. Well, those 10,000, you might have to sit through some of those jokes that you've already seen before. Cause he's got such a giant audience now. So he's got to let them see all this stuff, you know, and, uh,

But when you do shows, that's why you don't want anything filmed. You don't want people filming stuff on their phones because you're protecting it for your audience. And I know people comment on all these YouTube videos. It's like I'm doing the same jokes over and over again. But when you first start, man, when I first started, YouTube was new. And so you were just putting...

stuff up on YouTube, hoping that someone sees it, it goes viral. And then you get big from that. So a lot of, you have a lot of videos of you doing the same jokes over and over again. And, uh, that was just a collection of me trying to make it. Yeah. So you're going to, so I'm doing, and I'm doing a show. So I'm trying to do good on this show and this show, but this, and both shows film and put those shows on YouTube. So I'm doing the same act in both of them.

because it's like, yeah, it is what it is. So I know a lot of people listen to my stuff online, but that's now where I'm at now. I know that I have to have a new hour. So I, now when you come see me, uh, if you see me before you see the special, or I mean like if you come see me now on tour, uh, unless I've been to your town, you've seen the new hour, but I have, I have a new hour and the new hour is going to hope to be taped as a special. So, uh,

You that's what you end up doing, like you end up building this new hour and then you go travel around with it and then you build it and then you do it until you take the special and then you start getting a new hour. But that's why you got to have new stuff. So when they come see you live, it's different. And maybe, you know, I'll do an encore. Sometimes I do old jokes that people want to hear.

But overall, the full hour is new. I mean, when I taped that special, Tennessee Kid, by the time it came out, I want to say I had like 40 minutes new. And then maybe I had to do some, because we taped in October and it aired in March. So I would say 40 minutes were new. And then maybe I had to do some old stuff. If you saw me very early into that, it's as quick as you can...

get new stuff gaffigan's the best at that as far as when his stuff comes out he has a new hour very quickly and uh i think one of the quicker comics that does it and he puts it out and just was ready to go yeah all right i'm gonna skip ahead a little here who's the most uh famous persons to ever attend in one of your shows did you know they were there on stage and if so were you nervous uh i mean that cruise ship had everybody quentin t. jr and all those people uh on it

As far as a regular show, Bruce Willis was at a show at Caroline's in New York. And we knew before I was headlining, you know, it wasn't sold out as maybe 100 people. And he his friend was a big fan of mine. And so he Bruce was called and got a reservation. They told me because when I got there, they told me they go Bruce Willis is here.

here but they said bruce willis called and said uh i'd like a reservation for three tickets he was with a another couple and he goes to and they go all right what's the name they go bruce willis and then caroline goes all right but just give us your real name he goes it's bruce willis and they're like oh and so bruce he came hung out with the crowd like out in the audience

You know, because at Caroline's, you'd hang it by the bar before they go sit everybody. Yeah. And he was just sitting there and they set him with everybody else. He was sitting right kind of back in the middle. I couldn't really see him, but I could see like his head a little bit. Yeah. And I did know he was there. I didn't address it that he was there. Sometimes people address it, sometimes they don't. I did not address it. And I didn't have the sixth sense joke at the time. I would have done it.

But I've done the Sixth Sense joke in front of Haley Joel Osmond, the kid in Sixth Sense. Yeah. That's cool. That's on video. Kansas City, I did a show for Kansas City, the Children's Hospital. They do an amazing charity, Big Slick. If you're ever donating to anything, the Kansas City Big Slick, they do amazing stuff at this big children's hospital. Is that the softball game? Where you struck out? I struck out in the softball game. Struck out, folks. Remember that? Yeah.

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

Was it Matt Damon at one of your shows? I did a show with Tom Papa and Matt Damon is Tom Papa, our friends. And so Matt Damon was there and then we hung and then he stayed and watched the side. He loved the McDonald's jokes. And that was a joke where I was like, I'm going to murder.

So I knew he was there and I'm, and we're only doing like 10 minutes. And so I was like, I am bringing the heat. And so, uh, he, and then I got off stage and then he did, he was the best to, I mean, just a regular guy and was, you know,

was like, he afterwards is like, so what's up, man? What's your deal? Like, what's going on? Like, how's it going for you? I mean, dude, you were so, he's like, that joke might've been my buddies that came up, like all this stuff. It was just a super, super nice, super nice guy. Uh, I'm trying to think if there's anybody else, you know, and I did Joe Walsh's 70th birthday. That's the most. Tom Hanks was there. Tom Hanks was there. Ringo Starr, uh, Brad Paisley, uh, Aaron, who's yours? Yeah. Uh,

The mayor of Nashville came to some shows. Fresh off a... Oh, you guys did a show in front of Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman. That's true, yeah. Yeah, they came to the show. Yeah. I didn't meet them afterwards.

Tom Hanks, though, too, that time. You kind of brushed off when I said that. Well, I felt bad because I set him up and then I was trying to help him out there. You were trying to do a joke? No, I thought you were trying to be funny. I asked him. No, I just... Because you just cut me off. I was like, Ringo Starr, and you're like, Aaron, go ahead with yours. And then you were serious. You're like, Tom Hanks, Ringo Starr. Who have you had here? You just cut me off. I'm sorry. I thought you were trying to think of somebody. I was like, let Aaron speak while you were thinking. I'll have you know, former mayor of Nashville,

Megan Barry is a big fan of mine. Oh, that's good. I mean, she's seen me. I don't know if she'd like me. Mine would be Belmont basketball coach Rick Bird. Oh, man. I was in the stage one night, and I saw him out there, and I got nervous. No one knows who that is, but luckily I'm a big fan. He's a Hall of Fame coach at Belmont. All right, so...

We told the story about you recognizing other people. Yes. That's still the best. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was at Zany's last week and Monty Mitchell said that was his favorite story. It's my favorite too. Just going up. No, you were at my show last night. Oh, yeah. How are you guys doing?

So let's talk bombing. Let's share some good... Is this it? We're wrapping it up with this, right? Yeah. Yeah. We're about an hour and 36 minutes in. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. All right. I do like this question, though. Can you talk about how you craft and memorize your material? How do you determine your comedic style? From Josh Parrott.

how you craft to memorize your tune. You memorize it by just saying it. I mean, you say it over and over again, but you just know the bullet points. I think it's like memorizing a song, I would imagine. You just kind of know. And then you get into a rhythm of saying it. So it's all like a rhythm and you kind of know where it's going to go. And I don't... There's no like special trick to memorizing it. And I forget it. I definitely forgot it. But...

I don't think there's anything special about memorizing it. We have set lists. I write a set list out. My jokes always try to go together. So I try to make sure everything can lead into something else. And then that leads me through the set list. That'll help you remember where to go, right? Because there's only nowhere else to go except this obvious next step. The transition makes sense. So you try to make the transition be there without it being too obvious. You try to make it

And that's how you memorize, you know, we always talk about that. Like you got, you got a lot. I don't memorize. I don't remember a lot of things. I don't think I have a good memory, but I do memorize. I know these jokes, but I feel like it's your memory. Your brain is just so got so much nonsense. It's just constantly walking around with two hours of material just in it. So sometimes you get, you know, a new thing and unless it's interest, unless it's,

going to work for your act i feel like i just it plops right out it doesn't stay unless i think it can you know unless i can use it in my act i think about that sometimes when i sleep sometimes i'll try to i will wake up and put it in my phone because i don't want to forget it and then sometimes i will try to make myself see if i remember it i like almost try to almost like a brain exercise i'm trying to go all right try to remember this joke and see if you can memorize it

when you wake up and I'll wake up and then sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. So it's not that good of an exercise. I do some other weird. Yeah. I'll try to put something somewhere sometimes that's different and see if I can remember to go get it. Like if you say your keys, I'll put them in a weird space place to see if you remember, see if I can remember where they're at.

It worked, I would assume. Huh? Does it work? We're using Laura's keys right now. We have no idea where they're at. I haven't found it. Have you guys seen them? I was trying to ask you. Do you remember me talking about this at all? Any chance have you seen these keys? I haven't. All right. So finally, what are you saying? Bombing. Bombing. Should I go first? I don't think I'm going to have it. I think you have some good bombing. You might be better than me.

You just assume? Yeah. Bates, you better have some good bombing stories. Mine, I'm trying to think. So the ones I think I've talked about, I did a cruise ship, Carnival Cruise. And so when you do these cruise ships, you have to do five shows, five 30-minute shows. Two clean, two dirty, three clean.

So the clean or anybody's coming to one, the dirty ones are supposed to be adult. Obviously I'd never, never had dirty material. So I like, it just, I don't know what, uh, I don't do anything. Maybe I try to throw a curse word in just to, so I can sound like I'm being edgy. So we would do the shows. And when I was doing them, I did not have five 30 minute shows. I mean, what is that? Two and a half hours of material. Uh,

Yeah, it's a lot. So I never had that much stuff and I was never doing crowd work. So I was never good at crowd work. A lot of comics that are really good on cruise ships are the ones that can just, every show's different because they're just asking the crowd questions and they can make stuff up. And those are, they're built for cruise ships. And people come back to these shows. The worst part is when you would go, so you'd fly to like Florida and you'd get on a boat with people and you'd go to, or you'd go to Jamaica.

or wherever they're going. So when you get on those, people are still excited to be on the boat. So people might come to one of your shows. That crowd you could kind of get away with doing the same material. But then you'd get on a different boat in Jamaica, and people that are going home, those people are coming to all the shows because they've kind of done everything on the boat. So then you've got to do five shows for them. So I remember doing – I go do it, and I did – I mean, I basically did –

the shows and I'm kind of out of material. I have one 30 minute show left. And I would, the comic I was on, he would always tell the crowd, you can come to every show, come to everyone. They're all different, whatever. And then when I would get done, my show go guys, you could probably come to the one Tuesday night. That might be different. But after that, I, and I mean, I would make full on like warnings. I'd go, I don't have this much time. Yeah.

So do not come expecting a different act. I'm not, I've only been in comedy for five years. I only have, I have as much as I have. It is what it is. Yeah. Probably shouldn't even be on this boat, but be careful. Don't come thinking you're going to be seeing a bunch of new stuff. I mean, I would overly tell people stuff. So I come to do the last show and it'd be 500 people. And I'm like, I'm going to do the kind of, it's a big show. It's a big show. I'm going to do like a greatest hits.

So I start my act, nothing on the first show, nothing on the second show. I mean, 500 people silent. And I asked, I go, have y'all been to every show? And the whole crowd, it goes, yes. And then I go, well, I don't have more jokes. I'm out of jokes. And then I start doing it. I go, I guess we're going to have to just talk to the crowd and see how far back we can get.

And I remember asking the first guy, I'm like, so what do you do for a living? And you're looking for like interesting jobs, you know, for people to have that you can maybe talk about. And the guy goes, he is, I work on an oil rig. I'm like, yeah, that's crazy. So what about you? I have nothing on an oil rig. I should, I mean, that should be the show. It's just asking that guy oil rig questions.

Yeah. And now I think I could ask him, but at that, at that moment, I'm just like petrified. No oil material. I'm like, Oh, rig. All right. Yeah. Wow. That's crazy. Yeah. Well, you buddy, he's like, I sell insurance. I'm like, man, that's, I'm just literally asking people what they do. Just taking a poll. Goes terrible. And I remember getting on the elevator and, uh, the crowd and I hear, and I got my hat on. I didn't have a hat on Sage. I got a hat on. We're sitting in the elevator. People get on.

And I mean, it feels like I'm in an elevator in the ocean.

Kind of crazy. Right in an elevator on the ocean. And I just hear this... The guy next to me, there's a group of three. And they're talking. They go, have you gone to any of the comedy shows? And the guy goes, yeah. He goes, one guy with the flashlight, because the other guy had a flashlight and he would shine on the crowd. He goes, he is unbelievable, man. He goes, the other guy was, I mean, terrible. Just terrible. And I mean, my shoulder's touching this guy. I just get off on the next...

And I think they realized. On your way out, they saw it was you? I think they finally realized it. And I just go. Didn't you say he said something like, I don't even know if that guy was awake. Yeah. My energy, that guy sounded like he was asleep. And I just went back to my room. And you stayed in a room that was in the middle of the ship with no windows.

And I went back and watched Fantastic Four, which I still defend that movie because that movie got me through that. I just, cause they play it on repeat. I just kept watching it over and over again. You can hear the people in the room right next to yours talking about you. Oh no, you're in the, you're in the bottom of the ship. You don't hear it. Oh yeah, it's loud down there. You hear dolphins talking about how you bombed. Do you really hear fish and stuff? No, no. Sorry. It sounds like a Nate question, Aaron. You should be embarrassed. I've never been on a cruise, man. I mean, that was, you know.

This is the only time I've ever felt smarter than you. So that was a nice... I don't remember if there's another one. You got some more. We'll come back. Yeah. Because you got some good friends bombing story. What's one for you, Aaron? Or have you ever bombed? Yeah, I bombed a couple days ago. I did too. Yeah. I've done plenty of shows that are just train wrecks where...

But for me, it's like when the stakes feel really high and you bomb, that's when it really hurts. I always think of, I was like five months into comedy. I got offered to open for James Gregory at a theater in Gallatin. Two shows, first shows at 4 p.m. And I'm a few months in, I have maybe five minutes. James Gregory is a big deal, especially here in the South. Yeah, that's all part. It felt like a huge, I couldn't believe that I was getting to do this. Yeah.

And it's like a four or 500 person theater sold out. And I meet James. He's very nice. He says, you can do 15 minutes, do at least 15. Don't do 20, but do at least 15. And here's the only thing I need you to do.

is take the mic stand with you off the stage because he uses a lapel mic. So I was like, all right, man. And just so being, that's not crazy for James Gregory to tell you don't do 20, do 50. Like it's not just if anybody thinks like, well, that means, you know, that's again, like you're, you're the headliner of the show. So you, what you need in front of you is you're like, yeah, I don't need a guy up there doing 30 minutes. Exactly. Yeah. Perfectly reasonable, reasonable question. Okay. So I walk out there first show,

I said, "How's everybody doing?" And it was nothing. I mean, I got-- - They weren't doing at all. - This is a 4:00 show. It's a 4:00 show. Very old crowd. And I was 24 years old. And dude, I bombed so bad. I can still feel the way it felt. I got literally nothing.

And I did my closer, and I look at my phone, and I'd done seven minutes. So I was like, I'm not even halfway done. Because I got to do at least 15, right? And I just stumbled through the next eight minutes, and then I forgot to take the mic stand off the stage. So he had to call me back out on stage to get the mic stand. And it was just so... I remember thinking, they're going to fire me for the next show? Like, why would they even...

So I go back to the green room and it's just this big room and I'm sitting there by myself. And my girlfriend, who's now my fiancee, was in the crowd. And she had sent me a text during my set and just said, wow. Yeah. So I just read that and I sat back there. And then you got to sit there for an hour while he's on stage, right? Just stewing it. And that was my worst one because it felt like the biggest thing in the world for me. Yeah. To do this huge show and I just tanked. Yeah.

Yeah, there's those type of shows. There's terrible, terrible bar shows, but then you're kind of like, well, I never really had a chance. Yeah, right. And then there's those. I did a show Friday night for some college kids in an auditorium, and they're all wearing masks. There's 100 kids in a 1,000-seat auditorium. Yeah.

I'm 48. I got some things working against me, against all freshmen. And yeah, it was... You're older than their dad? Yeah. I mean, yeah. At least they're at dad's age. I got friends my age who have kids in college now. So that happens a lot. The one that I most tell, I guess, is when I got hired to do a show in my hometown of Lebanon, Tennessee...

And it was the only reason, in retrospect, why would I agree to do such a terrible show? It's because I knew the guys who asked me to do it. So I think I got blinded by that and just didn't want to say no. It was for the Wilson County Livestock Association. And it was their annual fundraiser.

And for, for, they raise money to help future farmers go to college and stuff like that. And they said, we're going to do this, uh, auction and we'd love it if you donate some CDs to, to, to auction off. And I said, sure. And then they want you, we'd love for you to come and induce perform for us. And I said, sure.

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

It's at the, uh, Wilson County fairgrounds in a picnic pavilion. So it's outside. It's about five o'clock in the afternoon in the summertime. So it is 90 degrees outside and which was also the average age of the people there. And there was no stage. So, excuse me. I just sit down on the, I just stood down on the floor. The guy went up before me from, was from the County property assessor's office talking about proposed tax increase. Um,

And I just remember thinking, well, at least I can tell the mic's working. I was like trying to gauge it, how well they could hear and stuff. That's how low the bar is. Tax increase. At least the mic is working. They're talking about raising taxes. Yes. His opener is getting taxes raised. Yes. Which I thought, well, at least they'll like me better than the guy who's talking about a tax increase, which...

I was dead wrong. I get up there, and I mean, they just... There's these huge fans blowing, because it's outside. It's 90 degrees, which I say, at least with the fans, it helped keep the tears in my eyes. They would come out, and just blow back in. And I mean, I just bombed, and I bombed, and I bombed. And a couple of times, I would make eye contact with my mom. And I mean, it's the worst thing ever, because, oh gosh, she is now just...

Disassociating herself with me. She's worried. She is. She's the one that's worried. I mean, we both had the look on our face and I bombed so bad and it just, nothing's working. And I'm trying to do crowd work and I'm just digging myself deeper in a hole. Cause I'm talking about farm stuff. I have no idea what I'm talking about. So finally I just have to get done and just like, thanks guys. I'm done.

And you know how you go like hide in the green room and you just, or your whatever. There's nowhere to hide. There is no green room. They're all at picnic. I just have to sit back down and I have to have them like scoot over so I can like throw them and just sit down between guys that just hated me. All right. So now they're starting an auction and the guys do the auctioneers up there and they're bidding on bags of feed and, and, uh, just all this stuff, farm, farm stuff. And they're into it. I mean, they're going at it and I don't care. I'm so, I'm,

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're bidding and like... And it's all like tractors and horses. It's exciting. Like the grandpas, I remember, was a live... Like a heifer. That's what they... A live cattle. Yeah. I mean, it wasn't there, but the winner was going to get a donated cow. Wow.

I don't care. I'm just so happy no one's focused on me. I kind of had my head down, just kind of like maybe pretend like I'm eating or whatever. And then he goes, all right, now we're going to bet on the CD from the comedian you saw. And he gets quiet again. I mean, silent. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, I just want to hide so bad.

and no one will bid on it. And I was like, please, just somebody buy this CD. Finally, the auctioneer just like, I tell you what, I'm going to get this for myself just to throw me a bone. He just, he just, after a while, cause he had to move on. Not even your mom or your family? Um, no, no. My mom was, I looked at her. She was like, I did not want to buy the CD. Yeah.

So it was painful. That was basically it. It's over. I just want to get out of there. My mom's at a different picnic table talking to people, so I can't immediately get out. I just remember it was the worst night. Did you have –

didn't after that first CD didn't go, you had another CD? I did. I did. He had two CDs. I did. And like, they didn't even go back to back. They mixed it up with some other stuff and then he put up the other CD. And, uh, So he has to just, the auctioneer just has to go, you know what? I'll buy this one. They leave.

They talk about farm stuff and they go, guess who's back? And then another, which I think I have the CD. Oh boy. This time the guy who, well, that was great. Easy out. I had, we had the CD. I thought we had it sitting in here.

Maybe we hid it. Maybe someone took it. Harper used to want it just to have something put in her purse. Oh, yeah. When she was real little. Yeah. We just got a CD. Had to buy it. The second time, the guy who hired me to do the show, he just took the CD just to be nice. I mean, nobody wanted it. I don't even think they knew. I think they didn't even know I was a comedian. Yeah. I think they thought, Harper, you said, I think this is the mayor. Why is he talking about his dating life so much? They sit there and they go, is this guy a comedian? They're like, I don't know. He's trying is what I hear. Yeah.

You do those weird... I did my buddy's... They wanted me to do some of my act for... I was his best man, Travis, at his wedding. But they didn't tell everybody I was a comedian. So I just started doing it, and I'm making fun of marriage at a wedding. Yeah.

And no one gets it. And so I just bought, they think this is the weirdest speech. I'm like, you told me to do my act, dude. Like, and there, I just remember one lady just cackling, like just, and she loved it. She loved it. But you loved her. Yeah. I still think about her. I can still hear her laugh just in the darkness. Just one person giving it to you.

Tell the, uh, a couple of stories I want you to tell. Joe List when. Yeah. Joe List. Uh. When he's at the bar. When he's at the bar. Joe List has a great, uh, very funny comedian. Joe List just had a special, has a special on YouTube. You can go check out, uh, Comedy Central. Uh, but they put it on YouTube. Look up Joe List special doing great. I mean, came out maybe two, three weeks ago. Yeah. But he always had a great, not to tell his story, but he had a great one. He would have, I mean, super fun ones.

One day he's on, he's middle, he's the middle act. He's the feature. He's sitting in the back of this room and they got an MC. MC goes up and him and the headliner is sitting at the, like they're facing the bar, the crowd's behind them and the stage is behind them. So they're facing the bar and Joe's like sitting there, he's like, ah, this guy's just brand new at comedy. You know, see how it goes.

And so they're doing it. He gets a big pop. And then Joe's like, I guess he's not that bad, you know? And then someone comes over. He looks over and MC's just standing next to Joe. And he goes, what are you doing? He goes, oh, I brought you up. And Joe turns around.

And the whole crowd is looking back at the room at Joe. And he's like, what? And the guy, the pop he got was him introducing Joe. He thought the guy was supposed to do seven minutes and he did one minute. And then just goes, all right, everybody, first comic, Joe List. And then just left the stage.

Did he say, you said he's like, Joe, you're up. No, that was another guy that would say he would say his name and he would be like, he'd go, all right, your first comic, Joe List is very funny comedian from Boston. He's been doing a lot of stuff. He moved to New York recently and he's got put on a great show. And then Joe would be sitting there and then he goes, Joe, I said your name. And you're like, you're like, we just want to say the name at the end. And they don't say the name at the end.

And Big J, I mean, Big J has a bunch. I don't want to go through all, like... Can you tell that one about him getting off stage and didn't want to go back out? Where he didn't know. Well, the best one, one of my favorite with Joe, with Big J, when Big J taped, Big J Oakerson, another very comic, super, he's very dirty if you're into clean comedy, but he's one of the best comics.

if that stuff doesn't bother you. But there, so, uh, Jay did a show when he first, first TV thing he did was comedy jam, comedy def jam where they just did those shows. And so they filmed it. He flies down. He does it. His uncle comes to the show. And uncle, he like kind of knows, doesn't know great. His uncle comes to the show and, uh, it was crazy. He was on the flight with pink that big, big Jay flew with pink and, and they like talked and, uh,

Jay Pink was like he was like talking to you he's like where are you I'm going to the comedy she's like oh I'm a musician I'm doing stuff and he's kind of like whatever like at this point she's not known cut to I mean it was maybe three months later he said he was working at 7-Eleven and the People magazine come in and she's on the cover and

She's enormous. And so he goes and does the show. His uncle comes to the show. So he gets a hotel. It was his first TV gig, and it's kind of cool. He gets to fly there and get to stay in a hotel. That stuff is so fun when you're a comedian. When you first start and you're like, they're flying me, I'm getting paid, and I get my own hotel? That's crazy. So he gets to the show.

His uncle comes to the show. And then after the show, his uncle's like, come stay. The family wants to see you. Come stay at our house. He's like, I live near here. And he's like, well, I got a hotel. I'll just stay at the hotel. He's like, no, no, no. They wouldn't take no for an answer. You've got to stay with us. My whole family's up waiting for you to come. And so he's finally like, okay. And then he's like, I'll just...

crash at your house, I guess. So he leaves. They drive his ass way farther than expected. He's like, we'll get food there and all this stuff. So there's no food. Nothing's open. They go open the door. It's completely dark. The guy's family doesn't know that he's coming.

He goes and like wakes him up and he's like, ah, this is little Jay. Like it's big J. He's like, remember Jay? It's, and they're like, ah, okay. Like, what are you, why are you here? And he's like, ah, he wanted to come see everybody. Like no one's up. No one was expecting him to be there at all. So then he's like, well, just sleep on the couch. So now he's got to see, he's like, I had this hotel and I got to sleep on the couch.

And so he's got to sleep on the couch. They have this giant dog, the dog, just like staring at him. And then he starts like itching and starts waking up and they have fleas on the couch. So now he's getting, I mean, he's like just ripped apart and just can't itching and

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

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

Unbelievable. Unbelievable turn of events. And I love a nice turn of events. How did I get here? How did this happen? It was going so good. So fun. That is crazy. I thought you were going to tell the story about him crawling through the wall. One, he gets done with a show in Philly. He does really, Big Jay does very bad. I always feel weird telling some of these stories because they're not my stories. But Big Jay tells me he gets done doing a show in Philadelphia, open mic, it goes really bad.

And he leaves and he's seen people leave through the kitchen and he's he walks to the back and he's like, I'm going to go out to the kitchen. There's like there's nowhere to go out. And he goes, people are leaving, man. I see people go back here and they never come back. So they're clearly leaving this back way. I can't I don't want to walk through that crowd. They booed me. They hated me. And they're like, dude, I don't know what to say. There's not an entrance here.

And so he kind of goes and there's like a little way behind this wall. It's like this drywall. So he kind of goes through it and he gets through the drywall and he's touching all the drywall. So he's just going through drywall as he just slowly goes through it. And it's just rubbing on his shirt and he can't get it. And he hears the noise and he just ends up pushing and the drywall falls to the ground and he's at, he's in the restaurant that's attached to it.

And so they're just sitting there like, what are you doing? Like, you can't just come. And he goes, I don't, I don't, I mean, and just leaves through that restaurant. There was no back entrance, but he was convinced that there was. And he just ends up getting, he's seeping through that. I love mommy stories so much. Even if it's, I mean, if it's me, the story about the guy who performed at the funeral and,

So let's be done. All right, we're in on... Did you have anything else you wanted to... No, these are great. Some of these are ones I've heard. I had one I opened for my dad. My dad had me open for him. It was like 10 a.m. at Opryland. And he calls me to do it. And I go up and people are eating. And I'm doing my act. And I'm just watching people eat breakfast. I'm seeing people hug each other like, oh, how you been doing? I haven't seen you in so long. I just bombed. And my dad just woke me up.

like I was home visiting and he just, he's like, you want to make a hundred bucks? And so I go, okay. And I go just bomb, you know, and I'm just getting done with it. And I'm like, why would you make me do that? He likes, he like made me, you know, I put my dad in a lot better situations than those. So the, one of the funniest ones, I, this kid, I can't, I can't remember his name. Yeah. But he did comedy and like, it was in Florida and Jacksonville.

And he's one of the first gigs he did. This is probably the best story I've heard. And I wish I ever remember his name. We can put it in the Nate land thing or something. But he is doing a show gets called to do a show, this kind of biker bar. And so apparently one of the bikers just died.

And so they were doing, they were having this funeral and then they were going to go to the bar and drink and they wanted to do a comedy show. The guy like was a fun guy that died. And so they're like, we don't want it to be this miserable, just, just,

bad night. So we want to make it, we want to make it is what it is and make it, you know, celebrate the guy's life. So he loved, the guy loves comedy. He loved making people laugh. We're going to put on this great comedy show. It's going to be great. So the, this kid was just booked. It was like another guy that was, was more known in the Florida scene, but comic for a long time. And he tells, he's like, look, come do this gig with me. Uh, it,

It might be weird. A lot of gigs you do take that you're going, this is probably going to be terrible. We can make $200. Who cares? Let's just get through the gig. It's going to be fun. The guy's like, I'll go up. I ride bikes. I ride motorcycles. I knew the guy. I'll make it where it's good.

So the guy gets to it. The bikers are all in there and they walk in. That guy goes up, folds completely, does maybe 30 seconds. And it's so uncomfortable that he's like, he can't do it. And then he just brings up this other comic who's kind of a new comic.

And so the guy goes up and he's on stage and he's sitting there and he's doing his act, spotlights on him. And it just, I mean, he's bombing like it's because it's a horrible situation. It's as most ideas, most of the times when someone tells you, hey, let's try to do comedy. It's let's try not to do comedy. It's not going to work. And this is not working. And he's bombing, he's bombing, can't get it going. He's just, you know, the spotlights on him, nothing's going good.

And then he's like, he finally just like has to walk off stage, walks off stage, looks back at the stage. The spotlight that he is standing in is a picture of the guy's face that died. It's projecting the guy's face on him. So the whole time he's doing standup, it's just a picture of the guy that died. I mean, that's brutal, brutal. Just sitting there.

Oh, it's so good. Reminded me of another one that I always heard. An old magician one. This magician's doing...

this show. And so, you know, they always make doves come out. So it's a big trick. This guy does where he is. He pulls these doves out of this hat. So this guy's doing it. And the crowd is sitting there and he's like, he started, he gets to the tree, look at the hats empty. And he gets the hat and he starts pulling doves out. And they just, I mean, they just keep coming. And the crowd's like, and the guy can't really see the crowd because the lights are on him, but he's hearing them like go, ha ha ha. Like, and he's like, guys, this is just thing. Joke is crushing, dude.

So it's crushing until finally he realizes there's a ceiling fan above him and he's just throwing pigeons into the ceiling fan and just murdering pigeons. So there's no, they're not, it's not happiness. It's just, they're horrified. He just, cause they keeps coming. It's not, or like, it just keeps like, boom, just hits it. And then, and then they're like, no. And he goes another one.

and just the crowd is just horrified as he keeps throwing them up it's wonderful oh gosh that's so funny magicians have wonderful we need I get my dad on like and hear some of the

Old magic. That'd be great. I mean, yeah, because they, you know, they're so wonderful. Bombing is a wonderful thing, and if you're a new comic starting, enjoy it. Enjoy it. Soak it up. Hope it's good enough that you can, you know, my new next act, I talk about a bombing story in it. I won't tell it now. But hopefully you can get something out of it.

And I can tell you what bombing teaches you is to be comfortable in uncomfortable situations. And that's what comedy is. You got to be super comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation. So it teaches you doing that. You're going to do a lot of shows where people, they leave the TV on. I did plenty of shows. I've done shows where I've watched a game on TV as I just blurted out the joke because no one was listening. Yeah.

And you're just, so you're just up there, you know. Going through the motions. Just going through the motions. Yeah. Yeah. And so, yeah. All right. Well, I mean, that was, there was another long one. Can you mention my shirt? That's why I brought them to you. Huh? That shirt? Oh, we did get a shirt by a guy I met doing comedy and a friend of mine, he's been, you know, he's come to some shows. He goes to a lot of comedy shows. He's a friend of a lot of comics and all that stuff. And he made a shirt.

what's your source huh we got something something we got something uh they're not for sell they're there's for us but this was uh this was made uh kevin best he also painted the uh the painting you see behind here nice uh yeah so we hung that up and uh yeah kevin's the best man he's uh he's sent some other shirts and stuff that's very cool uh he's on instagram t-shirt kevin i believe

But, yeah, very cool that he made that shirt. And also this super serious comedy book. I'm in this book. Mandy Johnson, they ran a show super serious in Los Angeles. And it was a show you wanted to be on. It was the I mean, an unbelievable show. And they had every I mean, every comic on it. And they would always take these pictures afterwards of.

you'd always do one serious and one, and one not serious. Oh, there's, there's me. I turned it right to me. How about that? And there's one of mine. Uh,

And so this talks, this book's about the oral history of Los Angeles independent standup comedy. Cool. She didn't ask me to do that, but I just, it's a very, but I'm in the book. So that's fun. I've never been in a book. So I was excited about that. All right. Hopefully we got your standup stuff. Hopefully these guys got to talk more. I know that's a big complaint is people don't hear enough from you. Check out their spinoff podcast called Bates and Aaron Land. Yeah.

It's called Morning Breakfast. Or I don't know. Secret Genius Breakfast. Secret Genius Brunch. Still working on a name. Still spitballing some names. But all right. We love you as always. Thank you guys for everything. All the listening, all the nice rating and stuff. And go buy a Helix mattress as our first ad. Yeah. I like first. So I was excited about that. All right. See you guys next week. Bye.

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