#660 - Nate Bargatze

33:14Wouldn't he slide in there and steal his shine? Daniel Boone, born in 1734, while Davy Crockett was born in 1786, 52 years apart. So Boone was already an aging frontier legend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So probably our grandparents or great-grandparents probably heard more about Boone. They did. And then we heard about Crockett. Yep. And then maybe the truth has come out that it's like, look, we need to go pretty heavy on Boone because he was the originator. Yeah. once that big business starts pushing Boone. I like when they're like, it's like he was born around November 2nd. Like you're, they go, they weren't keeping stuff back then, dude.

33:54They go, in the general area. Yeah. Yeah. And then if he was like, I was born in January. And you're like, well, yeah, that's around. That counts. Yeah. That counts. Yeah, dude. He showed up in the springtime. He grew up in a Quaker farming family. He became famous for his woodcrafts, hunting, and long-range exploration deep into what was in the western frontier of British America. Huh. Pretty cool, man. Everybody was kind of an explorer. Yes. You know? Because it was—I mean, I know that—like I'm saying, those guys did great. But I bet there was a lot of guys that were like, yeah, nothing was built.

34:31Every step I took was a brand new step. Oh, yeah. You were just—yeah, you were just like a Magellan. Dude, if you got a pair of running shoes, you were a Magellan. Oh, yeah. You were Christopher Columbus. Imagine when those— If you had hokas back then? I mean, come on. Dude, you would be above Daniel Boone. You were sponsored by the Spanish at that point. You know what I'm saying? He came up that way. Dude, that's the way you came up, and they were like, we didn't see that coming. Yeah. This guy came through. Yeah. Dude, it is kind of crazy because there was also a time where there were more woods, right?

35:05Anytime there was woods, you were an explorer. anytime yeah that has a lot to do with exploration because there was more woods that like less timber had been cut down so i think you had that and then yeah just not knowing where everything was being an explorer gosh you think you you think you could have been an explorer i mean i don't think you have a choice i think you're just it but it's yeah i think i could i like exploring i would like to go find some you know trying to really see like what's the path the best way to go that's what's hard is there's not much left exploring you know you see like those untouched tribes they talked about, and then you're like, I don't even know if some of that's real or not.

35:39It looks fake. A lot of that's fake. And so, I know in Alaska, because they talk about Bigfoot, and in Alaska, there's so much land and stuff with woods, and you go up to Washington, it's got the most trees. Yeah, people don't even, yeah. You can't. There's so much. People hide and go seek for two years. Oh, yeah. You couldn't. I mean, there's... if Bigfoot's real, it's like, it would be easy for Bigfoot to hide up there. That's a good point. Whereas, yeah, like in other places like Modesto, it would be tougher. Or, you know, up in like North Atlanta or something like that. Those would be, yeah, Bigfoot's going to get seen.

36:24Oh, dude, in Atlanta, Bigfoot's going to be at the club probably. Yeah, yeah. At the club for sure, dude. Yeah. People would have him feature on their albums in Atlanta. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Just, yeah. Come up and talk. Yeah. You don't think ludicrous is going to have Bigfoot pull up? Yeah. Why would you not? You have access to him. Yeah. Yeah. You probably don't got to pay him. He'd probably food. Yeah. I don't even know. For sure. Clean salmon. I'm thinking also, yeah. Clean salmon. He's just giving him that. And then he drops a. But they're going to push that narrative on him that he's like a person of color too.

37:03Yeah. That would be. Like he has to show up. and he has to do ball, like he has to like collab on a track or show up. He has to go to stuff. Yeah, he's like, we need you, bro. Yeah. We need you at Diamonds or whatever that place is, Nipple Diamonds or whatever that, whatever that exotic club there is, I think. Oh, yeah. One of them got in, everybody got in trouble at. All of them did. Yeah, a lot of them. Yeah, well, they found glyphosate there on some of the women. I'm always crazy how open they are about talking about that, the NBA. Yeah, yeah. They, there's, they talk about going to those clubs and there's no like you know we feel like there's someone that's like hey let's not let's keep it a little quiet.

37:46Right like everything else they're like hey don't talk about that. Don't talk about politics. Don't talk about how you feel about this. Don't be like Kyrie Irving with his you know don't express yourself. But if it comes to clubbery like strip club. Yep. Go all out. Or throwing tens of thousands of dollars on the back of somebody. Yeah. Then please, then say it all. Then yeah, then share it. Magic City, that's the one they just got in trouble about. Oh, did it? Yeah, because the Hawks used Magic City Night, which is where they would go. And this is similar. I guess Magic City Night, is that similar to the Nate raid at all or no?

38:25There's two different things. It's along the lines. It's what we were going for originally. No, but I love that you're doing this, dude. I love that you were able to make that happen. How did you make that happen with the theaters? And then also, secondarily, do you know how many theaters you guys are opening up in? I think 3 ,000. Oh, wow, really? Yeah, I think so. I'm not positive. I think it's like that. I think it's 3 ,000. But it's, you know, it's, dude, it's like meeting, you know, we've met like, you know, AMC, that. Head of Regal, Cinemark, Cineplex. You just kind of go to them, and they're in the same business.

39:08I always say this. I'm in the ticket-selling business. You're in the ticket-selling business. We sell tickets. So you kind of take stuff out of the hands of Hollywood, in a sense, once you're in this ticket-selling business. That's my relationship with the audience is you buy a ticket, and you come see me. And so when you can kind of do that, I think you can go to these theaters to go, we're all on the same page. They want people coming to theaters. I want them to come see the movie I made. And so then you're, I think you can just, there's ways around it. And now we're in such a new world where you're, you know, you start meeting people and like everybody just wants their businesses to grow.

39:51And I think everybody took it for granted for such a long time because it was, that's just what it was. What do you mean? like growing up was you know growing up you just went to the movie theaters you couldn't do there was no streaming there was a you know then once all the streaming stuff started happening it's like then they kind of went hard into that and then I think left theaters and now you're getting back to where these younger generations that are growing up with phones and they're seeing their parents on the phone all the time and they just want to go somewhere and they want to go do stuff and so then it's like there's a chance I think it will flip back to, you know, I mean, you know, when you feel, like, I think every time I drop my phone, I think I hope it breaks.

40:35Oh, yeah. I always just, someone's like, oh, I'm like, it'd be wonderful if it broke. I hope someone steals it. I'll even go to a city that has a lot of crime and drop my phone there a couple, 10, 12 times. See what happens. See what happens. And I'll even make that sound like, oh. And be let down. Yes. And be like, oh. That it's, you go, I thought this city had crime, and I was wrong. I'll even do that when I drop it. point at it yeah but yeah dude leave it way out of your pocket back pocket oh when my phone goes off dude sometimes i used to wet the bed and i would be like an adult which was the saddest part of it but after that uh there was times where i was like supposed to like get up in the morning or whatever and then i would urinate all over my phone it was short out and it would be like the best morning but yeah especially after something so sad happening as an adult oh but then you're you get past that but then no then your phone doesn't work and you're like man what a day yeah i leave my phones like on the road i i but i'll have like an you know you have an apple watch uh you have an apple watch like you have an apple watch you can have apple watch with cellular yes so you can leave your phone and then like you know it's like one of those like all right if If someone needed to call me, it's like you could throw AirPods in or you can be like, hey, I got to call you back or text message or whatever.

41:57That's a big thing you do with kids at first. Sometimes you give them an Apple watch before a phone because they can't do too much with an Apple watch, but you could you could get a hold of them. My kid, yeah, I could be lucky to get an Apple and and watch what happens if you don't behave. That's that's how I'm starting. Yeah, that's a start. Yeah, is a good diet. And then like light threat. Yeah. and then we'll go from there to see what else they get if they're well behaved. But Oliver Anthony just did something. Can you bring that up, what he was trying to do with ticketing? And congrats, man, on your movie.

42:31We only got 500 theaters. I wish we'd have gone bigger, and I wish we'd have gone to more rural theaters. I think we tried to do too much just city stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway. But I mean, movies go back and forth, too. like streaming is i i kind of think of streaming sometimes as like it's like block blockbuster in a sense it's like where your stuff can go live and people can go watch that forever right i mean burt's movie uh you know it's like he went to theaters and then he went crazy and did uh it destroyed it on netflix well i think and also man sorry i kind of made that about me there in our movie for a second i want to apologize about that no i'll talk about your movie no congratulations so it's going to be open in May 29th that's this Friday and it's in theaters it's going to be in 3 ,000 theaters which means almost everywhere that's a lot of places yeah that's wonderful dude it's exciting also just there's a chance it's four theaters if for some reason it's not 3 ,000 I think it's 3 ,000 but it would be funny the chance is 4 ,000 you mean?

43:32no I think 4 ,000 is the max I think we're at three I'm just saying we go back and you know it's in 100 theaters and they go it could be that too Got it. What was Oliver saying? Yeah, I just saw this the other day. Can you just play a little bit of it? I could really use your suggestions and your advice. I am looking for venues to play. You know, I've started booking my own shows again. So in April, we did those Virginias where I just rented the room outright. And I sold my own tickets through this West Virginia ticket company. And it was sweet. It was like a bypass the whole system. And it actually worked and it went over pretty well.

44:07And so I just announced again for the June 1st through the 3rd, I'm doing Charlotte, Greenville and Raleigh the exact same way. But I'm just going on Google and trying to find venues. And so I have no idea what's good and bad. But if you have places that you like going to see music that can hold. OK, got it. So he was trying, I guess, some ticketing, I guess, ticketing maybe through the exact venues, I think, because that's a big thing for people. and Oliver's always been like a pioneer of like trying to figure out, you know, how do you get, take away from, you know, some of these big groups like Ticketmaster and Live Nation, just that have these conglomerates, you know, it's a lot.

44:42I mean, those Ticketmaster fees, they're crazy. They're crazy. Here's the like, you know. They're crazy. No, no, they're insane. I agree. But here's the thing with like how much work that was for him to do four or five shows. Right. That's a lot of work. So it's like you got to get for him to, if he wants to go, if you want to go do it this way, you're going to need to build a system. Right. And so you're going to have to have people that are going to be able to help you to go do that. You can go do that, but you have to build a system. Or otherwise, you're not going to be able to tour like the way you want to.

45:18If everybody wants to go see him, he's wonderful and all this. And it's, you know, it's a lot. It's a lot of work. Remember, Louis might still do it. Louis did it for a while, I think. He did it a long time ago. You buy tickets through his website and stuff like that. There's many ways that you can go try to do it. And, look, a hard part of this, too, is that some people are like, I'll just let me go to Ticketmaster, dude. I don't, you know, it's our StubHub or whatever they're going to go do. And you're fighting that, too. So it's not like we all want to. I always thought of it like this. You're right.

45:56I never thought about that part of it. Yeah. Some people are okay with it. Sometimes you're like, dude, what do you want? Like, if I really look at it all, even though it's like the, I believe in the thing that you're doing, it's just so much work and you got to get the word out and people have to find you and see you and all this. I don't know what he, where he wants to be career-wise. Is it like, you know, does he want to be the most biggest star in the world? I don't feel like he, I feel like he loves where he's at. And like, I think he just loves having that relationship with the people, with the audience, with the people, which is, which is amazing.

46:33And so it's like, you should do that. But then there's a mix. You're the thing, you know, it's, you remember doing like comedy clubs when you'd go try to do a rock, like for me, I would go try to do a rock venue instead of a comedy club. And then you go to the odd, the people that would come out to me, they don't know where this rock venue is at. So they've never heard of this rock venue. They just know where the comedy club is. Now you're doing it. Now you're, yeah, a hundred people show up. Under a bench somewhere. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Oh, you just got word. It's 3 ,300 theaters there. Yeah, I think so.

47:05They charge all this stuff. Ticketmaster does all this stuff. It's one of those. It's a mafia. Yeah, but the audience, yes, it's frustrating. We're all frustrated by it. But then it's also like people are busy. You got to, how many people can you get that are going to go follow you everywhere? I agree. When you make it like, yeah. You know, and sometimes when you give stuff, you ever notice, like I waited tables. And so I used to always think Applebee's right over here, Thompson. Really? Yeah. That's where me and my wife met. I pray for all those people over there. You met your wife at Applebee's?

47:45Applebee's Thompson Lane. So. Oh my God. I don't know where Thompson Lane is, but you know. Do you remember what day it was, or was it a holiday? It was the day Daniel Boone was born, around about November 2nd. In the spring. In the spring.

48:03Yeah, damn. Yeah, so. And you met her there, and how'd you meet her? Was she working there? She was a waitress, and I was the host. You were a male host? A male host. And you've been a host anyway. You've been a host your whole life. Yeah, I've been a host my whole life. But I was, yeah, a male host. Heck yeah. you know shout out to all the I was easy you know when you came in you know I was an easy like hey you know wasn't aggressive no yeah yeah like hey yeah hey what do you want to do where do you want to go you can talk me into where you want to sit easily huh easily easily can we sit over by the window yeah yeah yeah whatever that section's wide open can I go over there of course we can walk over there yeah dude sometimes you go in this one of the sections that was closed off and they had all the baby seats parked over there that always made me nervous I thought something had happened to all the babies that's where they get like what's wrong with this restaurant there you go we've had some baby problems here yeah that's what I thought yeah and that's where they were they upside down sometimes yeah sometimes sometimes they were oh man when I see that I still think of that and sometimes they'd be stacked on each other or something.

49:19You know? Yeah. The old wood baby seats. They didn't have that anymore. Dude, sometimes they would have a baby that had chiseled his name in the wood. Oh, yeah. You know? That came a lot. Yeah, like Ricky Jr. or something was written in there. You're like, dang. How about you come here? Like when they see his family walk in, they already got it out. Yeah. Sometimes it'd be like an unhappy baby. It would say like Brooks was here just chiseled in there. Yeah, yeah. Like, ugh. It's a lot. Waiting tables, back to my theory, is you would always think to get a bigger tip, I would try to hook. You'd be like, I didn't charge you for the Coke.

49:59No charge for it. I thought me hooking you up would mean a higher tip, and it never did. But if I charged you full price for everything, you would tip me more. Got it. So it's like that's kind of how stuff works. where you in a weird we all because in my head you're like yo dude i'm like you know i've taken off i've done what i can of like i can just get you a coke and put water down yeah you know that's three four dollars i just saved you and then i'll get you what you know i don't know like some random you're doing these little things that and you think they're going to be like i'll get you one extra little but they tip off the price they tip off the price and they don't think and sometimes people's the math in their head like well i don't even know how much stuff that was worth and what do i do here yeah because you they just want to eat and like just charge me they want a bread stick and they want to meet a woman yeah yeah you know yeah like olive garden where they give you free bread you know it's like you tip extra no like i don't think you tip you don't you don't wrap that in that's a big thing they give you a free don't they give free breadsticks and maybe salad or something i think there's soup even maybe unlimited pasta something like it's like aggressive.

51:10If you just run in there, they'll give you half a handful of soup. Yeah. For nothing. Yeah, for nothing. Dude, the assistant manager will let you freaking eat it right out of her hand if she's nice, if she's feeling good that day. Yeah, you get complimentary breadsticks. Yeah. But I wonder if they make you feel guilty asking for them. Yeah, like, oh, let me see if we have them. Did you ever go to O 'Charlie's back in the day? Throw the peanut shells on the floor? No, no. O 'Charlie's was a different restaurant, but they had these great rolls. And I mean, the rolls were, oh, Charlie's has great, they have rolls now.

51:43They did something to them. They're not as good as they were. Yeah. I think they had sugar in them before. And so it was almost like a Krispy Kreme donut. But it was unbelievable and they'd get free rolls. And you would set them down on the table and then everybody would be like, go ahead and bring another round. And they'd even have five of them. Yeah, dude. They were the best rolls in the world. And everybody would go in and you're just, you're really there for the rolls. And, you know, And then you would feel embarrassed to be like, you know, they bring you a basket of five and you're like, before you turn around, these are gone.

52:15So go ahead and send another one out. And I think they had a pace. They had a pacing problem. They had to be like, yeah, we can't drag it out. Yeah. People were coming and looking in the kitchen and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Because they, I mean, they were the best. People were texting the plug or whatever. Here's a solid copycat for Charlie's original rolls. Warm whole milk A six a cup of sugar Dry yeast A beaten egg Butter Purpose flour Salt Thank you for mixing it Oh yeah Nice Huh Yeah maybe add a little bit of sugar in it Oh dude Maybe they didn't have sugar Maybe I mean I don't know It might have been all that stuff It could have been the yeast I don't know Some yeast has a lot of It can be good If you do this recipe Throw a little sugar in it Yeah And if you're making anything For your family tonight Throw a little sugar Throw a little sugar I do I ain't gonna name you Dude pasta sauce No It says six a cup of sugar Yeah, I said it.

53:05Oh, yeah, yeah. Sorry, I didn't hear that. No, no worries, man. Yeah, see what I mean, dude? I think they got rid of that sugar, and then they got into probably yeast heavy. They might have went yeast heavy. They might have went wet yeast. Oh, that's the worst when it's real yeast. You just put it in your mouth, and it just grows in your mouth or whatever. Oh, yeah. Like Pop Rocks or whatever, like Pop Rock bread or whatever. Today's episode is brought to you by Manscaped, the men's grooming brand trusted by over 13 million men. And, God, that's a lot of fellas. Father's Day is coming up. And, again, it's the same problem every year.

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54:53No no Eric Capel. Eric who? He did Eric Capel. Eric Capel. He did the Weird Al Yankovic movie. And so it's a great movie. And then so he did that. And then we had Jeremy Latchen was a producer and Sony TriStar. It was a full on like big, you know, we did it in Atlanta. Trillith, which is right outside of. Trilla? Trillith. Trillith. So the owner of Chick-fil-A, Dan Cathy, he owned. That's right. They used to shoot all the Marvel movies. and so they have all these studios and then across uh neighborhood is housing so like a lot of people that shoot there you can go rent houses and it's like a truman show type place where you just walk around would you see other actors and stuff during the day when you're like they were working on different projects yeah uh like whom did you see do you mind because this is urkel you saw jaleel white jaleel white no way yeah yeah and so he was he was shooting a game show you would see a lot of uh what was he doing hooping or playing dice or whatever what was he doing when you saw him no he was at he was just at a restaurant there's a restaurant oh there's a bunch of restaurants there i mean it's a it's a town do they have real names or is it like kind of like an epcot center type no no it's it's like uh i mean some people have houses there then you rent them out to people that come because when you were you know when they're shooting these marvel stuff i mean you have to have like you know chris pratt or robert you know i mean you can go live not in that town too but you can but like it's right across from the studio so you can just run over there but they have like ice cream shop yeah i just can't imagine you're like you go out in the morning or whatever and you freaking you know robert downey jr al pacino is like checking his mail or whatever you know yeah it's like yeah yeah that would be the weird part for me dude yeah Trillith Town for Marvel Studios in Georgia could be the future of cities and do you does it come with a pet or anything like what's the whole I think you know you can get whatever you want there but it's yeah there's so they did all they did a bunch of Marvel movies I bet this is an old article because it's uh it's not I think stuff's coming back but now Marvel's all in London okay got it but it was uh yeah this is an old 2022 but it was yeah it's like So they built those towns for a lot of the workers, the idea of the union guys to be able to go live there and be able to come sit there and work.

57:20That's wild. But they did everything there. You're too tired when you get home to think about grocery shopping, but that's okay. The delivery robot has just rolled up in front of your house with your weekly order. And this is the Trillith town. The four-year-old residential portion of Trillith was modeled after the building styles and village feel of European cities.

57:43It's a new town for about 5 ,000 people created using the principles of new urbanism, a concept that means neighborhoods should be walkable and compact with varied building types and less emphasis on cars. Oh, that's pretty cool. And they would have different streets would be like, I think it says European and British style designs, while other spots are more modern facades. Or I was going to say facades. What is it? Faucets. Oh, no, facades. Facades. Facades. and they, so you could go shoot actually on that street. So if you had like, shoot a British style movie. Oh, you could shoot it all in your neighborhood.

58:21You could do it in the neighborhood and be like, well, these houses look like they're British and these look more modern and stuff like that. Wow. And you could buy, you could rent it out. And this is on Perplexity AI. Thank you, Perplexity. According to the article, the town's amenities are geared toward a walkable self-contained lifestyle, retail restaurants, a boutique hotel, co-working space, performing arts center, wellness center, and an innovative micro school. It also has lots of green space, communal parks, and geothermal smart home design features. Wow. Yeah, it's a great idea in the fact that if you were trying to which they did so you're trying you're creating this studio and you want the thing is is like it was uh you know the taxes is like now everything went to london like they're all in london now because those they're making those movies and they're so expensive so it's like they they they shoot a lot of stuff over there now they want to shoot everything there there was that uh rob lowe talked about that thing where it's like for his game show it was easier to shoot in Ireland and fly the American audience to out to Ireland than it was to cheaper than film in LA.

59:38That's crazy, man. Which I think it's now that LA is like doing something like, but it got to that point where he was like, yeah, will you not? Which this movie was like in Atlanta and I think we would have shot it in Canada or something, but I was fortunately able to be like, well, I just wouldn't make a movie. I was like, I'm not just too far away. well it's like yeah man I'm touring and you're able to the great thing for any young comedian if you can you just keep doing what you're doing you end up getting to hold a lot more kind of power like that you know what I mean because you're like I'm touring I have a thing I can do this so when you go do make something it's not that you don't you have like full control blah blah whatever but it's like you can say no get the power of no So you can be like, it's like, we got to go make this movie in Canada because it's cheaper.

1:00:30Then it's like, then I'll just either try to make it on my own or I'll figure it out or find something else. I'm touring, so you're like, whatever. And then it's like, you know, there comes a balance where you can start. I got a game show. We shoot it here in Nashville. They wouldn't shoot it in Nashville. Did you try to shoot the film in Nashville? I tried, but this one went, it was moving so quick that it's like we could have. probably, but then it was we needed to get it made. And they have everything. More infrastructure there for making stuff. The thing about Tennessee is we don't have you need the like an A and B team of workers.

1:01:11So like if you're shooting movies, you need like the union guys, the guys that make the ones that make the movies. Like you need them working on one, then another team is working on the second movie, and you're kind of able to flip flop. The second movie or a different scene? Like a different movie or whatever. No, I mean a different, a whole different movie. You got to have multiple production crews. Oh. When at their height of that Trillith, I mean, I think they were using 12 to 20 studios filming a lot of things. Oh, I see what you're saying. So they would have like, as long as you're, you got to have a lot of crew in town.

1:01:46Right. We do not have that. We don't have, we have crew here. We don't have enough to handle high demand of movies. Got it. Like, you know, you got, like, they're doing that Rescue 911, Nashville 911, or whatever it is, here. Well, that's a great crew that's there, but if you have them doing that, you don't have a crew that's just sitting that you could also go shoot Batman here. So you need, you know. We just don't have the infrastructure. We don't have the, like. Yes, I think we can. Right. I think we can get it. I think it takes time, and you got to show that there's. Oh, yeah, you got to take time for that.

1:02:20You got to show that you're really committed in doing it. Right. Things have to happen. There needs to be tax incentives, all that type of stuff. All of it. But Atlanta has a ton of that. Even for the example of that neighborhood, it's like they have a neighborhood built where people can stay across the street from the studios where they can all be right there. Georgia was a place that jumped on that really, really fast. But then you see it now, a lot of stuff even left, still wasn't low enough, so then they still go out farther. But I mean, that's where you're in a movie business that's really reliant on these movies that cost$500 million to make or whatever.

1:03:00And you're like, well, then you got to stop making movies. How much did you guys cost to make, you said? I think ours was like$38 million. Are you serious? Yeah. I mean, it's a big studio movie. Wow, I didn't realize all that, man. Congratulations. I mean, that's fascinating. That's wild, dude. Yeah, I think it was something like that. and Mandy Moore is also in it she plays your wife you have a couple of children in it yep the kids are great Charlotte Birdie and Stella is the oldest that's Birdie and then but the kids are great and it's a it's a movie it's PG it's the idea of this is you know I want you to go take your whole family out to go to it take your mom take your grandma Like, you know, it's, I just love that.

1:03:54I love that when people can go out and they can all go together. I want to go to stuff with my family. Like, you know, you want to go, and then, so you go look at a lot of movies now. It's like a lot of horror movies. It's a good point. It's horror or it's a big, or it's like a Marvel movie or something. Or it's animated. Like, there's no live action movies like this, I think, that are being made that are PG. and it's kind of the direction that I wanted to head in. Well, it's been a lot of your direction. It feels like, why is that? Like overall, like I get it 100%, right? Like I get it and it's been so successful for you, right?

1:04:26Like I think you were like the top touring comedian last year, maybe I think. And I don't mean to get that wrong, you know? But, you know, you attract like, you know, you can attract all ages, right? Your comedy is kind of for everyone. It's for kids too even? I don't write it for kids, but kids can come. The point is like your kids don't have to leave the room. Got it. Like, so if it's on, like, but it's when there's tons of kids at my show, uh, not tons it's, but there's kids at the show and you see them, but I watch them and I can tell like, they're not, you know, I, they don't like a kid's not going to lie.

1:05:00They don't get everything. They don't get, yeah. They like some of the dumb, silly jokes, but if I'm talking about like marriage and stuff like that, they're not going to be laughing at that or, but I know when they get in the car, they're going to just talk about the whole night. Right. And I hear that from parents. Like, they're just like, oh, they just kept. But, you know, a kid doesn't know how to, it just kind of sits there and stares. But then afterwards, they just are excited. They haven't been to an adult event. And so this feels very adult, like you're watching. Because it is, you're making it for, you know, my stuff is not, I'm not trying to make it like, yeah, like it's just kid friendly.

1:05:37Like a kid can come in. You're just not cursing. You can get away with a lot more when you don't curse. Cursing is just kind of like, that's just what I've found. But it's just the way I was. You can get away with a lot more. I think you can say a lot of things and talk about a lot of stuff. And I think if you don't curse, it's... I need to hear this. It's like the cursing is what I think, like it's just, that's what people hear that. Either they check out or they're like, he's dirty or he's this or he's that. and so if you're in control of it just be in control of it it's not saying you don't have to curse but it's where is it and when is it where it's a lot of I think the younger comedians now it's you know they start on the internet then they go to Netflix like no one's there's no boundaries like we came we did live at Gotham I think the same year right around and when you did that on Comedy Central, you couldn't say whatever you wanted to say.

1:06:41That's not a bad thing. That means you have to be creative in a scenario. Not saying don't, you can come on anything else and go say whatever you want to go say, but it's not a bad thing to have some TV boundaries around you. Because then it makes you come at stuff in different angles. Oh yeah, I mean I almost fantasize sometimes, not fantasize is probably the weirdest word, but I think about that of like, yeah, I would like to get to a place where I don't have to, you know? Because I don't have to curse. Yeah, but I don't think you... But it's just where I don't want to curse. I think I do it.

1:07:17I don't even know why I do it. I think it's kind of how I operate in a regular day, too. So in the end, I think it's probably just... I don't think of you as someone that would be dirty. I'm not vulgar. No, no, no. Like, I'm not like sexually explicit or like talking about something that I think is gross, but I'll use some profanity, you know? Yeah, but you're not still not. It's just where I'm from and stuff like that, I think. But as an adult, and I don't have a family or anything yet. I don't have anybody looking at me across the room saying, why are you saying that in front of the kids, dude?

1:07:45You know what I'm saying? Because I work for myself, and I'm a shitty employee. I'm out back smoking and catching myself. I'll sneak around the corner, smoke, and then run around the corner and be like, what are you doing out here? The deep fryer is freaking acting up. Do whatever you want to go do. By the way, I don't think anybody thinks of you as a dirty con. Yeah, thanks. like I don't think you know and curse do whatever you want but it is a challenge I agree I love the fact that it's a challenge to yourself is there a day do you ever like say one day I'm going to put out there's going to be like a dark folder I'm going to put out of just the other side of things have you ever had like have you ever wanted to have like an OnlyFans where you just say like bad some bad words on it no I just don't think I think I'm just past the point of where I would, I, you know, look, I like whatever.

1:08:39Was it always like that? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, we, we grew up when I grew up, it was like cursing was, you know, my parents were, uh, became Christian when I was born. And when I have a joke about it, they were the most Christian. And so like, you know, growing up here, Southern Baptists, very strict rules. Like it's, it's, uh, you know, I think churches, church is completely different now. Like a lot of it's non-denomination and all that but it's then it was like yeah you didn't uh no one no i mean cursing was looked at and no one in my family my my parents did not curse so i wasn't around yeah that's awesome like uh that so i have a not that i'm i'm not perfect but my strictness in it in my act is just was like i was just never gonna do it got it and then when i started that way it's like yeah it would be weird to go and it doesn't feel like i'm ostracizing you for not doing it doesn't feel like that does it no no i think some people i don't feel like you do oh but it doesn't it doesn't feel like i'm ostracized like i'm i'm envious of it i think it's awesome you know and i think it just it just like yeah it makes it so it's ready for everybody right like this is something that you can and a parent knows at some point i can turn that on this is the thing that does get me sometimes i if our parents with their kids like i don't know if i can turn those podcast on because it's going to have profanity in it or they might be talking about some stuff that's going to be a bit obtuse for kids.

1:10:02I think about that sometimes with serious radio where it's like you you know you are you get into some stuff about sports so you want to listen to some sports stuff and then it's like some of them gets they're cursing and you're like I'm just trying to like hear the score of the game. UFC had like you know I mean we're both giant UFC fans and uh uh, I, the pay-per-view events I'm fine with, but like sometimes even if you have to listen to something about UFC, it can get like, they can get cursing and all this stuff. And, and like not to, sometimes you're like, I just wouldn't mind. Like if my daughter's in the car, not really paying attention.

1:10:40And I would like to just hear some UFC stuff. Can we have a channel where it's like, I just know you're not gonna. That's very fair. Go nuts. Yeah. Like, you know what I mean? Like, Yeah, because the only time she's going to look up, too, is if she hears a bad word, she's going to look up, and she's going to look at you like, Dad, what are you listening to this kind of stuff? And you're like, I know, I'm just trying to listen to... Like, you just want it to be like local radio. You're like, I'm just a Gaethje fan. What do you know? Give me a chance here, you know? I'm a Colby. Look, Colby Covington, it's hard to keep him quiet.

1:11:13He's just the worst. You couldn't listen to him. I mean, I have nothing against Colby. I don't... He says all the craziest things. Oh, yeah. Well, a lot of those guys have to be their own advertiser. When you think about some of those guys, it's interesting because they just wanted to fight, but then they have to, some of them have to probably feel a pressure to become this other thing because you have to be their own PR company in a way. Yeah, yeah. And look, I don't feel bad. It's not the fighters. It's like just you wish. Oh, the commentators. Yeah, they're talking about, you're right. I mean, they do a good job, though, on UFC.

1:11:39Like, I don't, like, when Rogan and all them, like, they don't curse. Oh, they're pretty clean on there. Yeah, I don't think they curse at all now when they go interview them. But that's another thing. That's the fighter. They're in the moment. it's going to be hard not to let loose, and some of that's part of what it is. But I do think UFC does a great job with, like, when it's Daniel Cormier and Rogan. Like, they do not curse. With John Anik. Those three are the greatest group that's ever done it. And they also have Bisping, Paul Felder. Even when those guys aren't doing it, Poirier's on there now, Chris Weidman, Cormier.

1:12:14I mean, yeah, but those guys are all so good. Poirier's been great. Yeah, dude, he's been great, dude. He's like, yeah, I just love, like, I love seeing those guys get to be not just fighters and get to share their personalities. I got to ask you about, I feel like such a freaking reporter now. Got to ask. Dude, so tell me about Nate Land. It's real. It's real. The theme park is real. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Where are we at with it? What's going on? We're about to getting to some investing. Okay. So we're about to start that kind of process. We have the land, or we basically think we know where we want the land to be.

1:12:55We haven't said anything about the land or where it's at or anything yet, but we've narrowed it down to basically this one spot. And then so it's, but yeah, I mean, we have the renderings. They're working on it every day. We have Storyland. Storyland is a group that, Storyland is a group. They've done stuff with everything. I think they had some stuff to do with Epic. It's a lot of guys that worked with Disney for a long time, and they started their own kind of company, and they did all the Disneys in Dubai. So Storyland is a company that helps make these things come to fruition? Like they build them and everything?

1:13:34Yeah, yeah. Got it. And so they make it. They help you. All that designing, all that rendering, all that getting that of the idea of what we're trying to do. And is this a real render? Have you seen this before? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, and what is on this room? Can you zoom in on that photo for me some? It's going to be, so like it says Nate Land in the front. So that front area right past the Nate Land is going to be like a retro mall. So that's like, that would be open all year round, and you can go in there and you can have, you know, like we talked about, like a Netflix house that we talked about earlier, you know, maybe you could have something like that.

1:14:07I'm not saying this is what we are having in there, but you could have some stuff like that, restaurants, stuff like that. That's open all year round. You have three sections of the park. You have a section to the left. Do you have roller coasters? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You know what's crazy, dude? I just went to, I was in Hershey, Pennsylvania. You went to the Hershey Park? Kenneywood? No, Hershey Park. Oh. Dollywood? No, I'm thinking of Kennywood. I think I know Kennywood, too. Kennywood's in Pittsburgh. Oh, no, we didn't go there. We went to Hershey Park. How was that? It's awesome. And so we rode some roller coasters, which were, it was kind of roller coasters shopping.

1:14:43which was crazy. Because you're like, meh. Well, you would just ride. They had a few that you're like. They rolled back the miles on this one. Yeah, you go. There you go. No, thank you. But it was weird to be riding a roller coaster being like, yeah, that was, they go, that one felt great. And then you're like, you know, you're kind of like, yeah, let's do that one. Dude, that's wild. And who did you go with? Was that just a family trip? You guys went as a group? No, no, I was on the road. I was there. I did shows there. And so we had one guy from Storyland who came up, and he kind of just walked me through and said, for this one roller coaster we're doing, the roller coaster we're about to ride is very similar to the one that we're looking at.

1:15:25The same people made this roller coaster. So you're kind of riding the roller coaster knowing that that company is who would make that roller coaster, or this is another one. So you're really riding some stuff and being like, all right, what's this one kind of feel like? What's this one do? And how much is a coaster, decent coaster? I found out, like, there was one, there was one, like, like a big one might be like$30 million. Like, or I'm not, like, you know, I don't know if it's the biggest one, but like a kind of newer, very, very good coaster they have. we were getting someone just trying to guess there uh was about 30 they said 30 million dollars and then there's some other rides that were one was like a new version of a tilt-a-whirl kind of but it was like kind of moved around you tried that out too yeah yeah we rode that just seeing what that was and i think that was like 850 000 oh that's when you can get that one that one you get in your house, you know?

1:16:35You just got to lay away. You just have that. Lay, lay, lay away. Lay away, lay away, yeah. Dang, I bet Kid Rock could get that thing. Yeah. Freaking dude, but he'd probably. But it's like, yeah, so you start going through and. He'd ruin it. And this theme park, I mean, he would ruin the, sorry, how does that say that? He'd put it on the white house. There's so many clips of me just roasting him even though we're friends. I freaking love roasting him. Oh yeah, he'd ruin it, dude. And he would spend his money on that instead of buying his brother a new leg who's missing one. Shout out, Billy. But, yeah, go on.

1:17:10Well, he should get a discount and be like, if you get 50 grand off, throw that 50 to that leg. That's what I'm saying. He already wrapped his head around spending 850. Yeah. And then, you know what, you could go, like, if Kid Rock goes, I'm spending 850 for this, and then he goes to his brother and goes, if you can get any down, you can get that leg. Right, whatever you save, you earn. Yeah. Yeah, I love that. And limb him up. Oh, if I had a brother missing something, I'd limb his little ass up in a heartbeat. But that's me. So do you have a budget for how much you can spend on coasters for this thing?

1:17:47Yeah, yeah. It's all budgeted in. I mean, we're looking at roughly going to be like$350 million. And then, yeah. And will the land be a lease or will it be owning the land? There's a lot of that I can't get into. okay and how hands-on with you are all of that like some of it and some of it's obviously this like the minutiae you wouldn't be involved in but yeah how hands-on with you are all that picking picking the line i mean it's crazy because you're i'll be in this in these meetings and i forget again though we're talking about like being in charge i forget like story land like all this stuff when you do this i'm paying for all this for them to go do the feasibility study and like to economic study.

1:18:28And I mean, these are giant studies that they do when you do investments to go to show the tax revenue that it can bring, the jobs that you can bring to Nashville. I mean, the reason I love this idea and doing this is the idea of providing jobs. I want, I want it, I want our customer, like the workers to be very much like, you know, it is Disney or like you think like Chick-fil-A where, you know, they're just great workers and you want people to be able to come there someone like me that wasn't able to go that couldn't get into college and like so i you don't know what you know my i just was like i'm a comedian but it was before that you're like i was a water meter reader i didn't know what jobs you know you don't meet people that have other crazy jobs you were reading water meters yeah i read from mount juliet and did you yeah they got a lot of water out there huh yeah yeah a lot of meters and you had to go do it uh because You can't just guess, huh?

1:19:22Now I think they have it where you can drive by it, and it just does it electronically. I had to get out with a crowbar, and you would lift up the thing and type in how much water. And they have snakes in there sometimes? Oh, yeah. I remember one was laid right on top of the water meter, and you got to get it. That makes my body nervous. Yeah, yeah. Spiders. And you never knew. Every time you opened one up. You ever find anything cool in there? A little somebody stashed a bag, a little bag of something? No, I don't think I ever found anything like that, no. But really nothing. Nobody had nothing.

1:19:52A little spare lunch. No, no. I don't think people. A little second Christmas ornaments or something. It would be a good place to put something. Because nobody thinks about that. It's so accessible. No one thinks about it. Yeah. I don't think they do. But it would have been a good spot to put something. But you'd see spiders up in there. I mean, yeah, that was every one of them had spiders. No. They loved it. And you ever see a clean one, somebody taking care of it? They just. No, no. I mean, it's, you know, I mean, I guess a newer house, like, you know, one, I think. it just hasn't been through it yet yeah but uh yeah but i do remember this snake snake was just curled right on top of it and i had to get it off because i have to lift the thing to read it gosh yeah i sold italian food door to door for a while with this fella dude and that was a dang pizza or just all italian huh i wouldn't know we had bread rolls we had um italian it was like this thing called Italian caviar or whatever, but it was really just like raviolis or whatever.

1:20:55And then what else? Like pastas, Balinese. They had arraviata. What else? I think they had vodka sauce pizza or something. Yeah, yeah. I don't know, but we just had like this. I deliver pizzas too. You deliver pizzas? Pizza Hut. You worked the damn Pizza Hut, dude. They're redoing it. You saw that? They're coming back. Oh, yeah. You know why? Because of experiences. Oh. That's a big thing. That's a big reason. It's stuff for people to do. Because we had that. You remember they used to have a buffet, pizza. Yeah. That pizza. It was great. You kidding? Where would your mom fight? It's when your parents had a real something serious going on in the marriage.

1:21:37Yeah. They'd take you there. Yep. That was something serious was happening. And it could be something good or bad. Ford Waters and you got a Sprite. Dude. I hope they didn't notice. With those big red cups? Oh, they didn't notice. Yeah. I would buy five dozens of those red cups. The Coke, any soda tastes the best out of that. It's true, huh? It's the best. Now, they had a particular type of ice in there, too, I think. Yes. A little bit. Like a little shave, Sonic. Yeah, it was something different. Something was different. I think having a unique ice, it's little things like that that can add a lot of texture to a place.

1:22:12A little bit more about Nate Land. And so some things, obviously, you have to get the funding to make sure you can get the space. So some things, it's like this happens, then this happens. It's like a domino falling effect. Yeah, if they're like, I mean, it's right now, I'm spending all the money for it. And now are you putting your own money in with somebody else or what's going on here? No, just my money. So you're the only money in right now. So right now, this doesn't go anywhere. I will be in big trouble. No, I mean, I would be touring for the rest of them. But it's like right now, it's just me.

1:22:41What made you make that choice? It's a big choice. No judgment in it. I think it's a cool choice. I think it's a good choice. What makes you make it? And I wish you the best of luck with it. It's exciting. I'll go over there. Thank you. We'd love to have you.

1:22:55It's, you know, my first job was a theme park. I worked at Operland here in Nashville. And I was 15. And so, I don't know. Then they got rid of that my senior year in high school. And, I mean, the whole city kind of was like, why would you do that? Like, it was a profitable theme park. Everybody kind of liked it. I'm not saying from that day I was like, I'm going to build a theme park. But then as I got... Why did they close it? Do you know? They got a mall. There's a mall there now. Opry Mills Mall. It used to be Opryland, a theme park? Yeah. Right there? Yeah. I didn't even know that. Yeah. I don't even know if...

1:23:31It'd be curious to see if there's a reason. I don't know if there'd be a real reason on the internet, to be honest. I think that it was like maybe... Like it was like just easier to have a mall than it would be a theme park for whatever reason. Got it. Operland USA closed in 1997 because its parent company, Gaylord Entertainment, wanted to transition. Sorry. Crazy name. Gaylord, because Lord, I think, is straight. Yeah. Wanted to transition the seasonal theme park into a highly profitable year-round retail entertainment complex. Understandable. Yeah. So that was the Wabash Cannonball, the one that goes upside down right there in the middle.

1:24:05Oh, that was it? You remember the name of that one? I know them all. Yeah. What's that one? Wabash Cannonball. The Wabash Cannon Bowl? Yeah. Dang, so you were there, Nate. Yeah, the Screaming Delta Demon. Oh, yeah, I met her before. I met her, dang it, out at, she goes to Mississippi State for sure. I think she just did 50 days of boozing out there in Knoxville for sure. Dude, oh, my God. So you were in the trenches there at Opry Lane. Yeah, I was a sweeper, and I worked in the dog kennel, And my dad did magic there. Oh. So the reason I thought about this was the idea it's, you know, when I started doing all these arenas and all this, my big daydreaming goal when I was starting comedy was to headline Bridgestone.

1:24:56And so when I did it for the first time, I remember that night, I really was like, I mean, I remember it was that night. I was like, what am I supposed to do now? Because I just thought about that. for 20 years and then uh which is crazy it was 20 years pretty much i think exactly for me to get there to headline bridgestone and uh congratulations on that dude and we sold 19 ,365 tickets which is 20 years isn't that crazy if you're into i don't know i'm not even into numbers you sold 19 ,365 tickets so 19 years plus 365 which is 20 years 20 years and but uh so when you when i got to that I go alright like I just felt like what am I what's the next you gotta have something else it can't be you know you gotta I gotta assume that if I keep becoming a great comic arenas will come I'll be able to do Madison Square Garden I'll be able to do all this stuff so I have to I believe in myself that I can do that but then what's the purpose of me like what's the purpose and I thought it can't be about me this life cannot be about me or I'm gonna go crazy and so from that moment is when I started Nate, when I was like, I'm going to start Nate Land, the company, the idea of like being able to make some movies that are the movie that we're making right now, The Breadwinner.

1:26:17And then, you know, I thought of a theme park and thought like, you know what, I want to build a place where, you know, maybe all my ideas can go live. This theme park is not going to be about me. It's about the state of Tennessee, but it's about, you know, it's called Nate Land and there's going to be Easter egg-ish stuff, but people think it's going to be a, like a shrine to me. It's not. It's, you know, it's going to represent Nashville and all this stuff. It's like you just got to have someone that has the vision to be able to want to go do it. Did you guys have choices for different names?

1:26:47Is Nate Land because it's the production company? So you just named it the same thing? It's just always been, yeah, Nate Land is a... And I get it. Look, I mean, you worked at a theme park. You came up with it. It's like, I certainly get the... I think it's the trust. The reason it's named after me is the trust. If you get, If I can keep trust with my audience, with this audience that we do, and that's the biggest thing. So if they can trust that they know that they can see what I'm doing, then it's like you kind of need to know who's behind this. I see. So you're putting yourself behind. I will sell the tickets.

1:27:21Got it. The responsibility of that park thriving is on me. I need to sell the tickets. I need to keep the trust that I have with this audience. That's on me. That's not anybody else's problem. I'll do it. And that's what I feel has been bestowed upon me. I'm just doing what I feel I'm being asked to do. Called to do. Did you pray about it kind of too? Because some of these are big choices. Not that you need to. No, yeah, yeah. A lot of it is. I mean, a lot of it is you feel very much like doors and stuff and your ideas and stuff that you think of. Oh, it's not even yours. It's like a higher power.

1:27:58Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a cable. I very much, you, I mean, you can visualize a lot of stuff. and then I think when you can easily visualize something you're like and then the doors start opening that way then you go that's the direction you need to kind of head in where if you're if you're if you want something else but you're having a hard time visualizing it then you're probably forcing and that's probably not the direction you need to go in you need to just like you just kind of follow the lead and uh as we did Nate land and then it was just kind of like excited you got me excited now because yeah you hear little things you see things on x and stuff like that but you don't know you know and so i feel so lucky that i'm getting to listen you talk about yeah it's i mean you know one of the things i do i want you know eventually to i think when you go to nate land maybe you don't really know who nate is and it's not about that like it's about everything there oh one day that's what everything becomes it's like you don't even know it's like you go to like uh applebee's or whatever you don't know who roger applebee is anymore no you know or whatever.

1:28:56Or if you go to like Tim Hortons. Logan's. You don't know the Logan. Oh, yeah. You don't even know Logan's. I think Ernest lives there now. He's living in one of them. Ernest T. Bass? No, Ernest. Oh, the singer? Yeah, Ernest the singer, dude. For Logan's Roadhouse, he's kind of like John Daly is for Hooters. Oh, yeah. I think he like lives in the back of one of them. Bless him, brother. Bless Ernest. He has a new album coming out too. I got to get him and Willie Robertson in here so I'm not going to sit and chop it up. Those guys are funny. Um, but no, dude, I just understand it more. Now take me on some of these rides.

1:29:29Cause I know you've already thought about some of the ride. Wait, first of all, hold on. Is there going to be a water facility? You're not doing the water thing, huh? Water park? No, no. Because also people get electrocuted. I'm trying to say what I can't say. Yes. People get electrocuted. In water parks? Yeah. Really? Well, I mean, they're not going to, if you get electrocuted, this is kind of crazy. Because if it rains. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if it rains, it's more water. But if you get electrocuted, do you have to have water to get electrocuted? No, I've been electrocuted. I got electrocuted on a food truck that was selling seafood, illegal seafood.

1:30:05What are we talking about? Well, you've been to Portland. You know Portland would always, I thought of this, or like said, like food trucks, right? People make fun of like, because I'll go to McDonald's and all this stuff. the people go to food truck and they'll be like they're raving about this food truck you're like this guy had his food this honda civic all night you got to trust that he took it home you go who are you to tell me that mine's at least in a building and frozen i've always thought that yeah like they would call especially people in the south like rednecks like it was like but dude this guy yeah that you know how close that is to his gas tank like he's cooking right over new york city is like you know it's like then there's been a long line in a food truck and yeah you're you And it's like, oh, that's okay.

1:30:50And you're like, McDonald's is safer than that. Yeah, dude. I don't want a quesadilla that got here at 80 miles an hour. Yeah. That's got tire marks on it because he backed it. Because he got in a fight that morning with his wife and he ran out. But he had the plastic over him, so he's like, it doesn't matter. Like that changes everything. If you put plastic over something, it changes everything. A little saran wrap. Yeah. If he's like, oh, dang, this is like three days old. You put some saran wrap over it. Who knows? Who knows, dude. Like he just put it together. Who knows? Kids back there. It's like when you get an Uber and there's a car seat and you're like, that don't want to be a part of your life, man.

1:31:25Yeah. I just want to ride in an Uber. Yeah. I didn't know Kevin Hart was in here earlier. Did you get us to be on the roast? I think so. But, I mean, that's just not my kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, it wouldn't have. I had a show at the same time, too. You did? Mm-hmm. But, yeah, they did it. They did the roast. Oh, none of the roasters, I don't think, had a problem with the jokes. Oh, wait, except for Chelsea Handler did, I think. Chelsea Handler came out and said that she had a problem with some of Shane and Tony's jokes, maybe. I don't think with the roast, I think it was Shane and Tony.

1:31:58Yeah, I think she had a problem with them. Good call. She kind of said, yeah. I was like, I don't know about all the jokes, mainly Shane and Tony. Do you feel like in that kind of instance, if people are signing up for something like that, it feels like it's fair game, unless it's vile, maybe. Maybe. I think it's got to all be fair game just signing up for it. I mean, it's like, I know, you know, it's like one of those, like where are you going to say the line is. The roasts have just, I believe have gotten to, the spirit of the roast has kind of gone. You're not really having people on there that love each other.

1:32:32And so if there's no love shown, then it just gets mean. and, you know. And, I mean, not saying that they did what they were asked to do. Right. I thought a lot of them did a great job. You know what I was very happy for? Big Jay Overson killed it. Yes, me too. I sent him a message. Yeah, Big Jay, I was very happy. You know, I've been with Big Jay. We started with him. Like, so Jay crushed it, and Naeem Lin, I thought, crushed it. And I like Naeem Lin. But those people have a connection with Kevin Hart. Yeah. And so you can see that the love is there. I thought Shane did very good. Or like, you know, moving along, hosting it.

1:33:15Like, it's a hard thing to do. It's a lot. It's a lot to go do. Yeah, people did what they were supposed to do. But, I mean, these roasts, it's like they're just mean. Some of the feeling, you're right, dude. Some of the feeling that you get with it, it's like it's intense, it's funny, and some of it is like, some of it is kind of like, yeah, what feeling do I really leave here with in the end, right? Like I leave with some temporary highs for sure. Oh, that was crazy. That was creative. Even something that's edgy and dark can still be very creative. But yeah, some of it it's like, does some of this really make me feel good or does like, yeah.

1:33:55I thought Kevin Hart did great handling a lot of it too because it was like he wasn't, you know, he you know kept saying like this is what you signed up for and yeah he kept the energy the messaging was good from him afterwards like because i mean it was like such a tough crazy it's a crazy but it's like i mean you know you what you i think if you do roast if you go look back at the old roast and stuff these guys the the people that were up there were really are you as far as i knew but they really knew each other or they were really friends are they there was actually love really shown so you could go do stuff and when there's no love shown and with some of them they don't even know them each other it's like it's going to be it's going to be tough cheryl underwood did great like hand what you know the stuff they were saying but how she handled that she she has a great laugh and like so it's like she handled it well she handled it very well and like uh yeah i had a joke i was thinking while she was there i was like oh she looks like prince put his finger in the new power generation.

1:34:58That was something that I thought of Vosky was up there, you know? Because I like sitting at home. Were you at it? And thinking of jokes. Nuh-uh, I wasn't at it. I don't want to go, like, I don't want them catching my face if I see something. If my feelings get hurt or something, I got enough of that shit out there. So I don't need any of that. But, yeah, it was just interesting. Take us. Oh, yeah, because you get enough. You just get more calls and texts. Oh, dude, yeah. That would be fun. They just show your face and they go, you have to jump off a building. Yeah, he's not doing well. Every week it's like somebody's like, oh, Theo's not doing well.

1:35:28I'm doing fine. In fact, I'm doing great. Yeah. Well, that's what people want to hear, though. You know? That he's not doing well. No, that you're doing great. Yeah. I think sometimes people worry about you, but that's a lot of love showing your way that people worry about you. Yeah, but sometimes people take stuff that's kind of normal and they put it in their own space and put it out there like, oh, this guy's having a problem. And I think my podcast has always just been like a place where I just kind of share what's going on, right? I share it pretty transparently, I guess, and maybe I shouldn't do that as much.

1:35:57But I don't share it because I need somebody's acclaim or approval. No, I understand that. But I think I don't like it. Sometimes people will frame it like, oh, we can help this guy. It's like, dude, I'm fine. I'm as fine as any human being is. Being a human seems real spooky sometimes. Yeah. Start every podcast with I'm fine. Yeah, I know. But then here's the crazy part. The more you say shit, then it becomes this thing. So the whole thing is kind of crazy. Yeah. You know? Do a podcast from the top of a building and just go, I'm fine. That'd be a great idea, dude. You know, my buddy Julian McCullough.

1:36:29Actually, is this crazy for me to say it? It's really playing into it. I like that idea, dude, you know? I don't do that. And look, we keep moving the desk closer over to the edge. And he goes, is he all right? He goes, I'm fine. And he just starts scooting. Julian McCullough, you know Julian. He has a very funny joke, like when he gambles, Like when he loses, he goes, hey, do y 'all got a bathroom on top of the roof? That's what he always tells the dealer, which is such a funny thing to say. After you lose a big hand, hey, excuse me, do y 'all got a bathroom on top of the roof? Well, we're definitely living, it seems like, in the sixth circle of hell these days.

1:37:12You know, we're getting, things have gotten a little, you know, things are getting a little interesting. Oh, we got to talk about the rides, dude. So, first of all, what are the— Well, I don't know if I'm going to be able to tell you anything about the rides. For the rides at Nate Land? Yeah. But do you know the governor that's going to be the speed on them or whatever? Have you already decided? No, no, no. I mean, we're going through, oh, like how fast? Yeah. Let me run one of them. I'll let you run one of them. I will. Let me run one. I know. Just for an evening. Just do Theo Knight. I do a Theo Knight.

1:37:45You run it, and then you get on it with them, but you don't pull the safety thing down. you go oh I see it doesn't work yeah no I'm saying you sit in it and you leave yours up and they go he's not fine and that's we just always play into that there you go Theo's crazy he goes I don't need it or you just hold it and you see if you can go do it I'll let you do a roller coaster just to yeah just to let me DJ at one night or something oh yeah or what a good rise I'm trying to think for like even for young I wish they had a ride that helped you like the Lisp fixer or whatever oh like a spinner just something like it just spun you so much the lisp just flew right out of you counterclockwise spinner counterclockwise time after time remember that song you can rush you can fly you can still find me time after time was that a song about Lisp I don't know who sang that but I just think if they had a or the underbite fixer or whatever.

1:38:50I'm trying to think of a good, like a rod that would like, you know. Underbite fixer would be just we have a guy walk around, he just punches you. Yeah. Undercut. And you don't ever know where he's at. Yeah. And you just know when you go in with an underbite, we've clocked you. Yeah. Facial recognition, all that stuff we can tell. And then he's just a guy that's just, you know, he's going to get you. And you know he's going to get you. Yeah. But he's going to get you so good that you're never going to see it coming. and we fix that underbite. I like that. Yeah, no charge. I like that idea. Or, yeah, or if they had, like, the GLP-1.

1:39:26The Ozempic ride. Yes. And when you get off, and it spins you so fast that you get a little leaner because of how it does your body. Or, like, when you take a shirt or a towel and you put it in the washer and you do the spin cycle. Yeah. And it comes out. It'll almost stand up itself. It's got so much centrifugal in it. Yeah. Like, you do that, boy, get your mama so spun around, She'll fit into a size one and a half. She'll fit into her dang baby outfit. For at least an hour. I don't think it's going to be forever. No, it's not. But it's at least an hour. It's not full time. Yeah. No, no. If you want to go get married, you're like, you do that, and you better get over to that.

1:40:06You better get to that church quick. Oh, yeah. I got to be in Nate land at 1 p.m., and then I got to be up. You're talking about that food that you ate where you feel it expand in your mouth. That's what's going to happen to your body in a wedding dress. But you come in. Now, yeah, once the band starts, though, honey, that's on your own. Yeah. We're not responsible for that. Yeah, you get one. I mean, but yeah. You get one. You could fit into your sixth-grade graduation pants if you had. For one hour. Yeah. I like that. That's a good ride. And that ride does that to you. Yeah. You know? Or something that would just do a bunch of women's hair.

1:40:38I could see that in the South. You know, they put this on you like this, the cover to cover your body, like to hold you in. Yeah. But then they put that head thing on you. Oh, yeah. You know? And then they get out and everybody's beehiving, walking out of there looking like Marge Simpson and her two sisters. Yeah. That's a good ride. Dude, I'm telling you, I can help you. I would love it. Okay. Yeah, I would love it. Really? It doesn't seem like that right now. No, no. I think we're going to have a part where you're going to fit right in. Yeah. Let me run that crocodile tank here. It's going to be a swamp pot.

1:41:14I'm just sitting over there petting a crocodile and we took all his scales down we like used a wood thing to take his scales down low and you can pet him oh de-sharpened him yeah good idea what about the mouth you're like mouth is forgot we left the mouth we forgot about that he goes do you know how expensive it was to do the top part and that's when the guy undercuts him the crocodile and you go golly that guy was worth it's like a butter bean remember Butterbean yeah I remember Butterbean just a Butterbean walking around just I saw him at Hulk Hogan's funeral actually oh really yeah you went to Hulk Hogan's funeral did you know Hulk Hogan I did know Hulk Hogan that's pretty crazy not great I'm not gonna pretend I knew him great yeah but I knew him enough we would communicate and got to podcast with him and got to go down there and see him one time down at his bar and restaurant and a fan of his son Nick Eric David Scott Esch, better known by his nickname Butterbean.

1:42:17Was there some just, I mean, everybody at his funeral, there was some big guys there. Oh, dude. Like tall, like, you know. Mankind was there, I think. Yeah, yeah. Womankind was there, too, I think. Was Undertaker there? I hadn't seen her in a while, but. Yeah, was it? She. Who? Womankind. Oh. I think whoever that is. Yeah. Hacksaw Jim Duggan was there. Undertaker? Undertaker was not there that I didn't see. Vince McMahon was there Will you have a band Like the Chuck E. Cheese band Or anything like that At Nate Land Do you think I think that's open For discussion Yeah I think it's definitely open And you gotta have a cool Nate Oh Nate Inch Nails Would be good Oh yeah Yeah He laughed That's pretty good And it plays Yeah It's a kid music But it's all It's rock But yes It's a rock band Doing kid music Yeah yeah I like that Thanks That'd be cool I'm trying to think of any other one Nate Vonna maybe it's not as good Nate Inch Nails might be it they might be it Nate go back this is how yeah you remember I like that okay we have a new segment that we're doing Nate it's by it's our Mountain Dew summer segment so thank you for being here real quick yeah thank you buddy thank you for being here and congratulations dude on your movie yeah And congratulations on your goals to make an amazing theme park in an amazing city.

1:43:47Thank you. I want to say awesome, man. Yeah. I appreciate it. It's really inspiring. Thank you, dude. And I mean that. Thank you, man. You may have noticed that we have Mountain Dews here. And so they're working with us over the summer, and we're working with them. And we just have a couple of questions. You're hosting a barbecue, right? And these are for you and me. Okay. Because I hadn't seen these. You're hosting a barbecue. What do you say if you burn someone's meat?

1:44:15I mean, just like apologize to them, but sorry. Yeah, I'll make you another one. Or you say, I'll eat that one, and you take it. Yeah. Yeah. That's what you do. I'll eat that one. I'll handle it. Yeah, don't worry about it. Yeah. And they go, no, no, no, no. And then there'll be, yeah. I give it to my mom, who eats everything burnt. She does? Loves everything burnt. Oh, yeah. There's an old, I think if you're born in the 50s, you're extra well done all day long. Yeah. Not even a, not even a, if you see someone walk in and they're 70, go ahead and start burning that steak. Yeah, I agree. It's not, they're not doing medium rare.

1:44:53They're not doing medium. The medium wells, burn it. Yeah. Because they're using also prefabricated teeth, a lot of them. So they got some chompers. They got the ability to get through that. Yeah. They're just shaking it. like a dog. They want, yeah, there's a certain age and they well, well done. I agree. That's what I say. Just say who likes that dark meat? That's another way to get through to them. Do you remember drinking from a two liter bottle of soda? Do you ever remember that like as a kid? I remember turning it up and you could see, this is the first time in my life I could drink and see the soda going down as I drank it.

1:45:35Yeah, I do. We would buy a lot. I don't think cans were, I think two liters soda bottle was way more in when I was younger. Two liters and cups. Yes. And now it's like, I guess, environment's cans. And I remember one time they came out with the wide mouth. Oh, yeah. Two liter. You remember that? Yeah, and you could pour it. You could pour it faster. Yeah. It was like, how much can we even have at once? Yeah, it was a ton. Ugh. Oh, yeah. It was great. Those were the days. Oh, those were the days. Yeah, that what? I used to drink Diet Mountain Dew. I mean, I would drink it every day. Really? And what were you training for?

1:46:15Just, I mean. Just being American, huh? I think just keeping my body where I can, whatever I put in it, it's going to be able to handle it. I love that. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Well, also, I mean, you'll get some. I drink Diet Mountain Dew in the morning. You drink Diet Mountain Dew in the morning? Yeah, I can. Yeah. Yeah, that or I'll drink a diet something in the morning. Oh, I'll say. I'll drink soda. Yeah, I'll show them who's boss right off the gate. Right off the gate. I think if I had to give up soda, I think a breakfast soda would be my hardest to give up. Oh, yeah. Hey, and shout out to anybody drinking breakfast soda.

1:46:49Yeah. Colin Quinn. He drinks it? He drinks Diet Coke in the morning too. Yeah. Oh, he's a breakfast soda drinker. Dude, did you know Mountain Dew started in Tennessee? I think so but I don't know you know I think I do that Knoxville yeah yeah yeah Smoky Mountains is where you put it I love that old logo oh yeah let me see that logo they got a great old logo Mountain Dew oh I never saw that that throwback that's beautiful alright last one I feel like Diet Dew is real big in the trades world you'll see it a lot of times electricians comedians right yes you said yourself you were a morning drinker plumbers roadkill guys right yeah if you look in the back of the truck you see 11 of those empty diet dew bottles or whatever they're quietly like the backbone of america these diet dew drinkers um it's the summer you're driving with your windows down and there's a breeze and it only smells a little bit like maybe a landfill you're passing by or just and it just it's summertime right the windows are down what song or band are you turning on the radio and you're drinking diet Mountain Dew.

1:47:55Yeah, you can be if you want. I'll have one with you. Yeah. You know, maybe some country.

1:48:03October Keith. Oh, yeah. You know? Yeah. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about? That song? Yeah. Yeah, I agree, man. I'll enjoy that with you, man. That'd be a nice drive. Alright, thank you so much, dude. I think it's been good. I love learning about Nate Lamb, man. I think I understand it a lot better. yeah yeah no people don't yeah i mean it was i think people are i mean it's crazy dude it's crazy to build a theme park i think it's crazy every time i think about it i think about it like you know where i'm like what am i doing yeah was there a moment take me through some of this right was there a moment like because sometimes you feel like you get to different places in like your career and in your life i think a lot of people go through like you know they call it midlife crisis quarter life crisis you'll see like a fifth grader going through like a fifth grader life crisis they have now on TikTok or whatever.

1:48:54In fifth grade, they do? Yeah. Now that's a thing or whatever. It's like, all right. But do you like - I went to my daughter graduated eighth grade yesterday. You went to that? Yeah, and I went to that. Did you? I did not have an eighth grade graduation. We had one. Really? Yeah. I think they told us to get out and that was it. Dude, remember when school let out? Yeah. God, that day. Because you'd look so forward to it, but then there was nothing to do. Yeah. You would lay there all summer and just drool in the middle of your living room? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And wait for your mom to get home, even though you couldn't wait for her to leave, but you couldn't wait for her to get home?

1:49:30Yeah. Yeah. God. Yeah, today was my daughter's first start of summer. But anyway. What do y 'all have planned for the summer together? Is it some things you guys are going to do? I don't know. She loves horse riding and all this, so she'll do a ton of that, and that's what her summer ends up becoming. a lot of like going out we it's at a we have a she goes to this stable that's run by this great this uh family and so she goes there and i mean she'll be up there all day she loves it that's nice yeah it's nice you get out there and ride with her sometimes i have not a ton but i have are you getting better at it or is it tough for you i've not done it enough to get better it's a lot i mean it's a it's a lot getting on horses a lot i mean you know but she does it she you know But to tack a horse and put everything on it, it's a whole, whole thing.

1:50:24Oh, yeah. But, yeah, I definitely plan on getting out there. I mean, last time I tried, it was, like, kind of colder. But now that we're in the summer, and I'll try to, you know, go on some trail rides with her. Hey, man. That'd be a blast, dude. But you're saying there's something about Nate Land. Yeah, yeah. Anything else you can tell me about Nate Land kind of before we leave? Well, it's like the idea, the hard part is. Oh, I was saying thank you so much for just for explaining to me what it was like. like what some of the processes are. Yes, and then I'm worried about doing it. Yeah, and then you're worried about doing it because, yeah, I was saying, you get to certain points in your career where you're like, well, now what?

1:50:56Like, I just got done with my special. Like, I've been touring for the past, like, really 20 years I've been touring, right? Like, I was touring 26 weekends a year, like, because I could sell tickets, like, early because I've been on TV already, but it was like, I didn't have any comedy. But so it's just been, this is like the first time in my life is like the second week of it. Yeah. And it's like, yeah, I don't know what to do, kind of. Yeah. And it's kind of like interesting. And my first thought is just go back out on tour, like figure it out and go back out. And maybe that is what it'll be, what I'll do it.

1:51:26Like, you know, get a new hour and go out. But do you get to parts in your career where you're like, and in your life, right? Where you're like, well, now what do I do? And then what happened with this where you're like, okay, this is like a feasible real thing that I can take on. And maybe you already answered that for me. Sorry. No. Well, I would say, you know, I think the hard part when you want to do something like this, it's so weird and it's so different of a thing that you want to go do. So you do get a lot of people just being like, why? Why are you doing this? What do you want? Like, you know, if you're calling it Nate Land, you're like, why are you calling it?

1:52:01You get to call it after Nate. You get all this kind of stuff like that. And I think that's the hardest part is just kind of sit and wade through those kind of things and not let you, because it is crazy. but I know I'm doing it for the right reason and I just got to believe that, you know, I'm doing it for the right reason. And so you just got to sit and just kind of like, you know, it feels like it's kind of a joke and maybe people think it's a joke and I understand that it could be a joke but it's like, what if I do build a theme park, dude? Like, what if I do it? Like, that's crazy. You know, I don't come from any world where I should be building a theme park.

1:52:39Yeah. I come from Old Hickory. there's there's nowhere in my growth of a child to high school any of this that you would ever be at a point there's no where that i should even had the success that i should have had yeah so then you got to go to where you start going like well then i'll just start i'll just keep going until someone says no until they you know well mike lindell had the my pillow yeah and you would have saw that probably out of them i'll sell that yeah you wouldn't have saw it out of them probably oh no no no no not at all people have all kinds no but like yeah like that's what i think when uh when when you have these ideas and you want to go do something it's like just it's like you got to just go do it dude yeah and the hardest thing is you got to sometimes you know it's it's going to be people that you know that they're the you know that sometimes can be your friends or whatever that can be like what are you doing why are you doing this those are the ones that kind of come and they, they, you know, they don't understand it.

1:53:39Some of that is, uh, some of it's jealousy. I think some of it is you're leaving people behind. That's like that thing that you could see we're getting in shape. I'm not in shape. I want to get in shape, but it's like, I don't know if someone or anything, if someone does something that they can, like you're moving forward. And I think they just like go, why, why are you doing that? Yeah, dude. Well, I mean, I, I even had questions about it. I was curious about it, right i didn't know i was like oh this is interesting but i just heard rumors right and i was like yeah the name had popped into my head like oh why would he choose that what's going on right um i choose it because i knew you again like well now i get it trust it oh dude after talking to you like yeah i get exactly where it is you know yeah um and it is weird why sometimes our brains will jump to like i think some of it is probably a little bit of jealousy to be honest or a little bit of like, wow, he's brave enough to do that.

1:54:34And I don't even know if some of that's jealousy maybe a little bit. I'm not talking exactly about me really, but I'm just talking like it's interesting, man. But then like you say, nothing happens unless somebody does it. No one wants to do stuff. And look at Walt Disney. He had both of his names in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He went heavy. Yeah, he went all the way in, dude. But you go see these guys, like people are stuck where they, They see stuff get built, and people have these ideas, and they think, well, you can't do it again. You're like, why can't you do it again? Right. Why can't you? We had a theme park here.

1:55:06I'm not picking a city that's never had a theme park. Nashville and Houston are the two cities that can sustain a full theme park. I already know all the stuff. Right. I've already done all the stuff. I'm paying people that know how to do this stuff to do it. I'm looking at all of it. I'm not doing anything that I would never – I have a good gut feeling of when I feel overwhelmed or not. and so I can tell when it's like if I start feeling panicky like then I'm like like this may be back off or this or that or whatever and uh so I very much believe in you know what I'm doing and what I'm supposed to be doing and it's uh you know you have a mix where you go like I don't know if I even have a choice it's like it's just I'm doing do you do this for I'm just doing it somebody's got to do it someone's got to do it I'm doing it and then maybe it's gonna be good maybe it's not gonna be good like what if I don't make it what if I do make it yeah well it's the same with making a movie it's the same with anything it's like what maybe you know you always think anybody that says no you're like what does it matter what does it matter who cares yeah what does it skin off of your back I don't want anything from you right I don't want anything from I want people that either buy into what I'm trying to do or or just don't yeah that's the same way I feel about it even if it's like trying to ask out a gal or do something like that it's like when I lay there at the end of it all, I want to be like, man, I tried this, I tried that.

1:56:30I want to smile and think about the things that I tried. Yeah. You know? And you got to think, too, with comedians, look at the success you get where just you're talking. We're just talking. We don't have a movie. We don't have music behind us. We don't have, that's just us talking. So, like, if you start, that's what you think about the movies where you're like, yeah, if you go put a movie behind, you know, not that everything's going to work or whatever, you're like, it's the most purest art form so if you can get to a high level of just oh movie's scary straight straight up that well movie's scary because you don't know if it's how it's gonna be i know until the day of dude it's and that's very nerve-wracking and i'll say this dude we made some mistakes for sure um i'd never watched the movie with an audience until i sat in there and watched it at the premiere.

1:57:21Yeah. And that was bizarre, dude. Because you're almost like, I'd watch it on my computer a bunch at home, like when I'm editing and putting in notes. But then you're like, it almost felt like it sounds crazy to say, dude. Like I was watching like, something I wasn't supposed to be watching with other people. It's almost like watching porno or whatever. Because you're like, I should, this is something you watch by yourself. And suddenly I realized as it starts, I'm like, whoa, whoa. Yeah. I've watched this already. this is something I'm supposed to watch by myself I don't think this is for mass consumption so that was so freaking harrowing dude we did a premiere it is very weird to watch yourself and you're like I should have done that or I should have done the you know yeah or just yeah I mean yeah but to just do it like like stand up you're almost like I don't watch my stand up or I'll watch it maybe once but it's like you've done it so much that I think maybe you're kind of used to but like yeah in a movie you're like you just feel like you feel like everybody else is like a real actor and you're like i don't know what i'm doing yeah yeah it's crazy oh the immense feeling of i don't know what i'm doing yeah you know um but well dude for somebody who doesn't know what they're doing man you're doing a really great job of it thank you and thank you bro and um oh and will the theme park will the rides be for all ages or is the rides even just for like little children no no it's a all a full We'll have fun, big rides, kid park.

1:58:48Like every, it's like a regular theme park. Yeah. So it's going to be, you know, shows and stuff like that. It'll be the real deal. I love it. So it'll be, yeah, everybody can come out. Amen. Nate Bargassi, the movie opens up this week, May 29th, in theaters, in 3 ,300 theaters. That's what we found out. the breadwinner Nate Bargatze Mandy Moore a super mom lands a shark tank deal switching roles with her breadwinner husband he struggles to adapt as a stay at home dad to their three daughters and it's not like a dumb dad everybody gets crazy about being a dumb dad thing it's not a dumb dad thing it's a it's you know he ends up taking the dad era and it's a sweet sweet funny cute movie and again something we take everybody out to and that's all and it's the first one so see where we go from here Amen man congratulations bro thanks for your time dude and congrats on everything thank you yeah brother now I'm just falling on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be cornerstone oh but when I reach that ground I'll share this peace of mind I found I can feel it in my bones But it's gonna take Thank you.