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One second of just one G'm gonna get one crispy chicken too crrispy for you. 'use I don't not You want to for yourself, okay? No judgment. That's fine M and and ice cream. Do you guys even serve You know what? Do you mind if we just do this after? Welcome it tos an all new S smartlist. Smart We were just talking about Saw Shank, and I was going to say to Will, Jay Bitick came on My philosophy in life is kind of Oh this is good. hang on. No, this is good. This is good. You like that. Everybody pull over and get out the pen. By the way, this is Shawsank Redemption. I think Sank Redemption Tracy. film So the end of the movie. So the whole movie, Morgan Freeman is talking about like You know, he goes in front of the what is it called the panel or whatever the people who p board kind of the board. Yeah the Plboard And he's the pro board And he's like, he tells them what they think they want to hear. He's like, no, I've been know reformed, I'm good. I've learned my lessons and they always deny his bl And then at the end of the movie, finally just is like, you know what, fuck it This is who I am. You peopleople are crazy. I didn't learn anything. blah blah. And then that's when he gets released. That's it. That's my philosophy for life. And that's what full release comes from honesty Well, two ways. Sorry. So everybody, go ahead and put your car back in drive and toss that paper either out the window, if you still have an ashtray in the car, use that Bea we really we really didn't get an end to it. but it's nice that shun. No, that's unli We get like pretty like, you know, don't try to be something you're not. Yeah, exactly. Right. I agree with you. Authenticity a thematic that I'm on a project that that I'm working on right now. Yeah That's the theme of the thing. Oh very good. It's a great evergreen Authenticity Hey Jason, Yeah hi Why did the man fall down the well? Be He didn't see that well. That's exactly right Wait, who wait, Willy, you got, um When we had Jordan Peeel on his film note, Yeah I always just thought it was just a fun way to say No, I'm not comfortable with flying saucers. It says the main character. no m freaks me out. But it's actually an acronym for. It's an acron And well he said it's an acronym. Yeah. I just went and I thought about it for two seconds and I went, not of planet Earth. Planet Earth. R rememember the look on his face? He was a little mad, I think. Well, whatt know what you were saying was the same look that I had, which is total shock at your level of intelligence.. J like that was my stunning surprise. That's what hurt me the most was the stunning the stunned look on everybody's face when I do something. Well, we're gonna to have a stunned look at your guest when he comes. Well, he's gonna to have a stunned look at. H Seana, do you have a lunch He's gonna to have a stud lookook at when heard your joke, for sure, because he tells jokes for a living. Oh. Yeah. here we go. And he doesn't just tell jokes. man. This guy tells This son of a gun. This son of a gun, that's kind of the language that he would use to son of a gun. Dax Shepherard's coming back. Dax does love son of a gun. He does This guy uses, I don't know, there's something about everything they does, his delivery, his turn of phrase, the things he talks about, the way he does it. A lot of people call him the nicest guy in stand up. I think of him as just the funniest dude I've seen in such a long time. And I remember the first time I heard about him was through our old friend, Greg Garcia om yeah. And Greg was like, Greg reached out to me. He's like,. I have to have this guy on B blah. and I made some glibber markark. He's like, you're gonna regret it. I go, I think he's hilarious. Relax, Greg And then JB, you and I had the pleasure of meeting him really going to make really make to repeat the glib remark right in front of. We met him really briefly up at last year up at Peble Beach And he's as nice as he is funny and it's all. I love this guy. He's so funy. I love Ray Romano. I love the T Romano I love the Tennessee Kid. I love his new special Hello world on Amazon. He's about to go on tour a new one. Guys, it's none other than the hilarious Nate Bergazzi. Nate Bgazzi. Hell Even better I was ready for Ray. I love Ray. I forgot. I'll get Ray. Oh, how great. Nate, It's good to see you again. Good to see you, Sean. And just a little fun note, never seen Shaall Shrink. So's Well, you're young. You're too young for it. You know, it's before your time. wait, wait, How old? I'm forty four. I should haveretty young You know what, Nate? I didn't see Shaank until I was forty five. Oh, I'll do it next year. Anyway. Nate Bargotzi Nate. Nate. this is really nice. Great to see you again because we did meet. We did meet up at Peble Do you live in a nice house or are you in a nice hotel room? Where are you? In a hotel ro? I'm in Sracuse Okay Working. I got a show in Syracuse. This is a Can't make it here. C can't make it anywhere. you know That's what they say. They. That's what they say. I like that Date, I like that Sean you said I'm in Sir Gengo's working. No No just This is just hanging out with the orange vacation. This is the vacation I can afford. you go, it's nice. It's took a bus though, but it's you know We spent on the hotel room. Yeah Yeah, everything went to this. Now what kind of? My family of thirty is right off camera. they're just right there. They're. If y'all talk during this, I will kill. When you are traveling around you're doing these shows, what size is your group footprint? What's your posse size U we have probably like ten guys U because I I bring four openers. actually tonight We got a surprise opener. He won't be here til later Jimmy Fallon Fallon is coming to the show. Oh That's great. He's going to j up on all the. Where do I know T tell me what we would know him from That movie Taxi pitch fever. Taxver, pitch. pitch feveraxver with Queen Latifa. I remember Taxi. Jimmy right now, by the way, he's hearing this. he's sharpening his knife, hearing us say this. Well I have to say this, we developed a show together years ago. What? And you were very successful then. to see you over the years just kind of like And then SNL and then like I it's so exciting to finally be like, yes, this guy has been brilliant, has always been brilliant and now more and more people get And you sell Nate and you sell Nate you sell out arenas like twenty thousand at a clip, which is just unbelievable. And on top of this, and I'm going to say this and I really and I've said it a bunch since it aired when your're own SNL Your sketch, your your George Washington sketch Yeah It was me hair, just in my aaom The funniest SNL sketch I've seen in fifteen years. I totally I gonna l that up. I to't agree with that. Remarkably. know your TV just went on, which tells me about board. off the family's board.. The thirty men are getting itchy. There's no one in. It's just you and Jim Beinheim, right? Is that his name? Jim turn it off for it doesn't matter. No, no, let's give me something to watch But you have echo what Sean's saying, you have just like kind of finally than thankfully the rest of America is just like understand what an awesome, awesome, hilarious dude you are So how do you start? You're the Tennessee kid. you're oldld Hickory, Tennessee. Am I right about that Yes Old Hickory Old Hickory Is it next to newew Hickory? No newews a little bit for. Was it ever new Hickory? No He's got's got he's got this great joke in his new special on Amazon Primeary where he says I'm from oldld Hickoryies where Andrew Jackson is from it people were like, he wasn't a good guy and Nate goes, Well, we didn't know him that well, but we didn't know him at all jo. But Nate, talk to me about when you were a kid and stuff like did you were always into the comedy? Did you watch SN andL? Like what were your inspirions? That's what I was thinking. That's what I was getting to. How did you start her? I just got that. It' My dad's a magician What and does come Mine too Mine can disappear in the drop of a hat. San. you are talk so quick. Get out of here. Sorry, Nate. Thanks you guys. Keep going. No. mean, I grew up around that. I mean, so that was like, you know, it was funny but then also growing up around, you know, my dad being a magician Oh You learned pattern bike It just kind of lead you to it. againess Wait wait, wait. So Nate, so you grew up your dad's a magician. He obviously loved you. sorry Sean. and he I mean, to the extent that he wanted to stick around. I'm friends with Seaan's dad. Yeah. Oh, so you know where you are Yeah, yeah, he's a pretty good dude. give you Yeah. I don't know the whole backstory, but I know I just know from what R hanging is. He got no tread left on his tires, but he's a good guy. he tucks you a pen to his location. So what was that like growing up with your dad being a magician P pretty red, an illusionist. Yeah, yeah, it was the best. It is you know, I don't know if I even understood it. likeike I'm sure I think of it like my daughter and I'm sure your kids like it doesn't seem not Normal, Like it just felt Like it's like, that's all I ever knew and it wasn'tntil. You got older that you're like, yeah, dude noobody's dad's a magician. Yeah start saying you don't know when you're asked what your dad does. Right. Yeah. So he would make I mean people do magic like magicians would show me magic trick. I've just seen them all too and I just I'm just not a good I'm not a good person to perform for ' I'm just like, all right, you go You know, it's like is this your card? You're like, it's always my It's always my card. It's always been my c. Every time I see magic, every time I see magic, I frreaking love it. Andll everybody listening loves it. I mean, how can you not love when you see a magic trick? I mean, a good one. a good one wining But but I never think about it. I never and I always make fun of it when I hear about it's like you hear about mimes You know what? you can't take your eyes off of mime or a magician. It it gets a bad rap. You can't take your eyes eyes off of a m. Yeah, that's the quote of the day. Wait. So Nate, so your dad S was going to ask this. so your dad made a living as a magician. He did He was a teacher too. L so he had a day job and then he would do that We were always in Nashville and so he's just always done it. And I mean,'s he's very successful.'s very known in the magic world. He comes with me and opens for me a lot on the road. No We will do these shows and You know, it's every little boy's dream to travel to your dad when you're forty four years old. So ye you go. G got a little CPA machine hooked up in a tour bus. It's a good You got some ramps on the side of that state?'. I mean, we we had our bus parked out one time and I had my it was my dad, my mom and my aunt and I was like, peoplee probably go by this tour bus and they're like, it's pretty rocking in there. And I mean we got it's lights off, quiet just the roar of machines keeping everybody alive And the smell of linament Mhm. U Wait, so did you ever perform in the magic shows with your dad? I did some. Yeah. I would help him with Mad, You ever a cut in hal No, no, we did' ever do that. He never did that go that far. He just slight hand a lot of sight of hand and he does com was my favorite. Yeah. So then when you what age were you when you were like actually kind of to what Jason, you kind of alluded to, but did you start just like Being a wise ass on the side of your dad's stage while he was doing magic, like is that how standandup started for you? I think it was just being funny. We would like I remember seeing stand upp. It was just it was just trying to it was trying to make people, I don't think I ever really made fun of anybody ight It But it was like I would make fun of myself a lot, which is what I do now in my comedy show. It'd be like you'd be doing stuff like that, making funny. He had, I mean, one time, I' talked about this in a special on one of them, but it was like he brought the Easter Bunny home when I was like six. He was at He was at a mall doing a show. and the Easter Bunny needed a ride home. that goes. I'll give you your ride home if you swing by My house And so I remember the Easter bunny, we had like my parents had this old red Mazda stick shift. You know, and Easter bunny's head was bent to the side because his head couldn't fit in the car. sureure. So he was just He would sit like this and then he got out And I met these for buny into my head Jove these Spunny home so that So that started your Easter bundning is it. That was the ye, that was the trajectory go. All I go If I could beat that guy, then maybe I can make it as. Now what was your mom's attitude on on her husband's career My parents have been together since seventh grade and they my mom's very funny And but she she worked at a bank. I mean, it she's just been, I mean, it's just stuff There's like growing up buying, you know, she has to go up, my dad'll be like, Go to the store. I need you to buy twelve lemons and he has to buy for like his magic or a bunch of newspapers from that day. It's like a bunch of random and it's just normal conversation. You're just like it's a Tuesday. You're just trying to grab some bread milk and thirty oranges and then you get on out of there And handkerchiefs and six colors. We got a lot shows this week. I stuff like that. Wait wait,, so Nate. so I want to kind of get again this this is we're the worst interviewers on the planet. We were just voted worst ever interviewers nailed it of all time. Yeah. But I want to go back because we again, because you play these huge arenas and it's amazing. and I don't I don't know if I've ever seen a comic so comfortable. You make it so intimate, even though you're playing a huge, there's something about it that makes it so personal and you're so organic. Yeah you draw us in as opposed to ask. We talk about authenticity. You're very authentic But you that feels like that you that When you started, you must have started in clubs, like in smaller venues, right? Most comics I imagine. Oh yeah. So I moved to Chicago first for a couple years And then I moved to New York. And I was in New York for the most for like eight and a half years. And so I did all the clubs and all the like going up every single night. I performed for one guy once Oh my God. No way. Like he wouldn't leave. We tri try to get him to leave, and he's like, noah, it's all right. And we're like, we don't think it's all right. It like. It really wasn't about him. You're like, what's I don't wan to stand up in front of a guy. Regularly up in front of four people, five, six, like, I mean, six people was like pretty good show going on. you know. You were excited about No way Yeah. so you just get used to just being in these kind of like, you know, it takes a long time before you're in front of like an actual paying crowd that's But what does that do for you what does that do for you like rhythm wise et cera when you're just doing six people? like Well I had to learn to get people into my rhythm very quickly So since I'm talk slower and I'm from the south and all this, I had to figure out because I would follow like high energy acts. And then I'd come up and I'm like, why I got to come up with a joke or I got to say something. I just need you to hear my voice for a second So you can go like, all right, readjust and be like, now we're in this rhythm and then get into the first kind of you know, come up with a good like opening little thing or whatever and just yeah and get rolled. You know what always blows in my mind about standups though, like how you can just walk around the stage for two hours and always have something to about and like how do you is it like a monologue you memorize Or like how can you just go up and speak God, he's gonna to love show business this. Do hour is straight. Yeah, Sean. Where do you get a load of her? He's gonna love showb this. He's gonna love it. Two thirds of the planet is water. couple of hes. No You know what I mean? That always blows a mom. Obviously, you had material that you work on, but do you ever like There's your answer. Go up and you're like, oh my God, I don't know what subject to talk about next, like the flow of it. Well, I don't go up it. Yeah, I go up prepared. I mean, I can't do the other I can't really do like crowd work go up and it's very freestyling, bro. No Ied on it for months. but do you ever switch Nate, do you ever switch the order based on the audience? Oh, yeah, this this this new hour, I've switched it a ton But it's work because now I'm opening on a joke that I haveve closed on So it's like it's great to be opening on a joke that I've actually had to have the energy and the rhythm of a closer. and then you just move it up and now it's the front. And you're doing those decisions on the fly. Uh Yeahah, you just fill it out. It's like I mean, it's kind of like a song. likeike I like I'm in love with standup Right now like I love it so much and it's u The way I've looked at writing kind is like u It's a movie. So I'm the main character of this movie and I'm not I'm telling the story. I'm not there's a there's a you know, a reason for be saying all this stuff and everything leads into the other thing Yeah. So you want to make it where people don't realize you're into another joke. but in my head I could be on like joke five. R R You're trying to I'm trying to make it where like and then that's how you remember it because the only way, you know, if you're talking about like riding a car And then you're like, my wife bought a car. Well now that's the only thing I could go into. Right, right And we will be right back And now back to the show Who was your main inspiration as far as developing that style of telling stories as opposed to jokes? Was it like a George Carlin? or because I seemed to remember he was kind of like that too, right Yeah, well, big Cosby was one. Okay, you know, obviously. But like that if you go like watch his old stuff, it was It's very storytell and all that kind of stuff I'm a big Seinfeld fan. Seinfeld was he was I kind of think because I always look at it I tell stories, but in a joke warm So it's I mean I try to never be too far from the laugh Be the farther you are from a laugh, the bigger the laugh has to be. and I don't want to put that much pressure on a laugh. So if I can just kind of keep it That's interesting. Ging and let it build, it's like, you know, it doesn't You're just not putting the weight of the world on this you're like because if go if you go silent too long, I mean, there's a point where you're like, well, this joke better be unre San tried Sean tried to stand up and we won't get to his opening joke, but he was he started so far from the laugh and then he never got even into the same area code as the laugh. You know what I mean? Like he never never He never had actual direct sight on the laugh They never got a clean look at it. It turned into a lecture and And there's no you're like, no he's supposed to go he'll never now. E with a series of mirrors, he couldn't see the laugh. It was a shot that mered. That's how I drive aroundana. only take a right hand turns Um But Nate, biggest bombing story, like, did you just like, oh my God, this is the worst like Yeah, yeah, there's a bunch. I mean you would blame it on I had one one time I thought it was the shirt I wore and so I threw that shirt away. I had a button down shirt and I tucked it in. I've never done that since. Yeah. I was like, it wasn't me. I was Yeah it couldn't have been a material. Yeah. This fucking shirt is killing a shirt. That is this guy's deal U I've done a cruise ship say no. I w I won a contest and your prize was to set your career back five years and do cruises. so I go out and I'm doing it and you got to do like You got to do a bunch of shows. So you do thirty clean, thirty dirty. I never had dirty. So it's like I couldn't and then you would do one another show So you needed honest because sometimes these people would come back and watch multiple shows. So you needed to have You know, two hours of materure or do crowd or be able to mess with a crowd or something. And I remember we go up and you would do one show at the beginning of it, you do like five minutes each and it's kind of just like it's in the big theater and you're kind of just letting the crowd know, we're comedians, We got a show back here, blah blah. So the other guy Uh just was great and knew how to like he shined a fly shot on the crowd, like just knew how to like, really play with the crowd. always. And he was like coming to bu shows, every show is different And he like made a big announcement how they're all different And then I went up and I said, My, I go, come to one It may be the other one but the other one will be the same. I had to like I was like do not come to all my shows. M will be the same. I don't have enough material to have them all be different. So you can go to his shows. They will be different. mine will be And then I went and did a show and u It was I started it and like they didn't laugh and I was like, Ohh these people have been to every show. And I'm not a crowdw guy, you know, and I'm like, So what do you do man? And you know, some guy's like, he's an ol rigger in the ocean. It's actually a pretty crazy job. And I was like, that's cool. And I just moved on. It's insane. People are saying crazy stuff. Theyre like, I'm a bank robber. That's neat, man. What about you, maam? I had nothing. No riffing. And then I had to rot in an elevator with these people. I'm in the elevator in the ocean You think it sounds like I made it And I'm just sitting thereout a hat on and I just hear some guy just trashing me and I'm my shoulders' touching him and I just s there. Oh my God But they do separate them between clean and dirty on a cruise ship that's exclusive to a cruise ship. Yeah, it you would just would have a show that's like the kids can come to this show, your family can come to this show and then you'd have like a night at you know, eleven PM is like adult only show. Yeah you still can't be that dirty, but it's the idea of it is a little more You know, Yeah, you could have just dropped in a couple F bombs and just as I talk about parking I'm like, you guys have ever pallel part just and theyre like, this guy's filthy. Yeah, I didn't even have any. I didn't even have I had no dirty jokes. Like there's no I don't really I don't talk about sex or like political like there's nothing like really like that's kind of like this What about political sex? Will you ever touch political sex? Is that something that you'd be willing to that I will. Yeah. And the right joke comes up. Sure, sure. You know, it is funny, it is remarkable how clean your stand upp is. And a lot of people it's such a weird thing to have to say to point it out, but I guess it is worthy of pointing out. And it is to me such a testament to how profoundly funny you are. And honestly, and I hope it is a badge of honor for you. It should be because it really you find ways to talk about stuff and you don't need to swear it. I swear like a Cosby never, never cursed. ous Well, let' again, let's not try to you know look at so let's not but No let's go down the avenue of Cosby and Clean, you know? Yeah Yeah This guy So Nate wait, did you so at home, what's it like at home? So like Is your do you check out you run jokes by your wife? Does she okay them? Is she sick of hearing them? Like what is that dynamic at home? I'll tell her. yeah. I like she knows about every joke that comes up. 'a that's something I had to learned to when you make fun of your wife at the beginning is you have to show love, like you have to show because people because I remember at the beginning, the reaction would be like, well, why are you married And so then you're like, well, that's not That's not what I want. You don't need to have that reaction. So you have to then make fun of yourself, but with her and you got to do it in a way That where they like they can tell that you do love your wife love your family and you, you know, And so it's just kind of like just making fun of each other. But yeah, I'll run by stuff. But that comes across and youve you do that bit about the guy coming to replace the water heater in your other special and and you go, finally the guy realizes you don't know what you're talking about. he thinks mayaybe there's a modern relationship. And he says they the guy said, Is your husband here? And then you go, Yeahah, I think she's here somewhere It's so good. And it is, like you said, you're self deprecating. you're the You're the the butt of the joke, which I think is always such a winning Combo U you're not making fun of somebody you're not having a laugh at somebody else's expense. You're not putting somebody else down. to make yourself ny, whichich is g. Yeah. I just never liked it. Like I felt bad. I'm not like make fun of my buddies and comics and stuff. Yeah In the audience, you just I just always felt, you know, it's like this person's just trying to sit there. they don't need it Yeah, ye like big What's your sh your shirt stupid. And then I got my shirt on tucked in. that got right? Th't we all got stupid shirts? Yeah. Do you do you still live in Tennessee I was back. I was going like thirteen years And then we've been back for about Nine down there Yeah it's so good, right? Yeah, I'morn and raised there. It's great. We have as much of a normal life as it can be. We're in live in a cul deac The House of the T, so we have the leaders And We set the tone for it I have a joke. I' just I can say it' about a new act Rress and we do All In our cult is say we do all the right things. Like if someone pulls down there, we're like, what are you doing down our street? Any car we don't know, would just run out of the get out of our c. I I'm just furious that they come down there. Brothers and sisters growing up I have a younger brother and a younger sister. you so you're the oldest of the three. And do they do they are they finding you funny all the time or like Yeah, yeah, my brother's like three years younger than me. My sister's about ten. I've talked about her in a special and She she works for me now To. so that's fine. Let me get yell out by her. I mean, you got your whole family, you got your sisters working for you And then you're on tour with your mom and dad and your aunt And That' be cool though. That's cool. It's pre red I don't think you've said this, but you sorry, do you have kids? Yeah, I have a love you. Why are you so nervous to ask him that? Jason by the way, he's married. He said, he's not available one of the kids ages? I did say before, don't ask about if I have kids.. Oh, all right. I guess you're okay. Yeah, now I have one, eleven year old daughter.. eleven year old daughter. And what does it seem like she's gonna to want to do with her life? Do she want to She loves horses right now I don't that sounds expensive. That's expensive. It is. I don't I don't even know where no one we don't come from horse stuff, you know? You not you're not horse people? No, there's never horse people, but She loves horses, so right now she's kind of doing that stuff, but she's very creative, very funny. and she, you know will get me and my wife laughing a lot, you know. And that good I think I gota teacher where So where the joke, you got to be like, all right, well you got to be serious. Yeah, isn't that funy? It's like there's there's There's the little there's the age when they learn sarcasm, they learn humor and but they don't yet know when to stop the joke. They don't know when to do the joke U, but you don't want to shame them because you don't want to kill their spirit or their sense of humor. So you just got to kind of Green and with so many things in their life, it's so incredible watching kids learearn things that we forgot that we learned, you know? Like it's amazing. you know nothing until you learn it. She can make fun of her friends recent and like I think but then they all got like it was like they did not like it and that was like And it was funny. I forget what it was, but it was like, it was something funny but you're like, all right, you gotta understand You're like, you got to some people will be able to handle it like right. you know, shes just is all about the joke because it's obviously J our, you know, our grandfather is a magician and median like so it's It's a lot of joking. I think yeah, I think that making fun of your friends is not a good path to go down. It's not Unless it's Saanc Unless it' Sea. I mean it'l's a big button to hit. No I thought we were talking about friends. Yeah, Seaan is. Oh, right. Yeah.' feel warm inside. Where's What's after Syracuse? Where do you go next? Albany. So start Of course.. O course. Yeah. And what and just fucks connected you like, what are you doing? dude? Yeah? Yeah, this is the rout. I know we started last night we were in Philly at the it was where the the Sixers play? No way. Big wow thing. And then then it goes Syracuse and then it'll go Albany. and then that's these are the two to Fallon wanted to come to with Syracuse and Albany. Yeah, of course. That's a big those think here. Yeah. He is. he's from upstate New York. where you what what arena or place are you playing tonight in Syracuse The you know, the arena. The Carer Dome probably right? Is that what it is? No's what used to Yeah. now, I've been to a game there. That's like a huge. Okay I've been a basketball game there. You could like in basketball court set up. It's your people buy tickets that are like I don't think they can see the court They're sitting like behind the court. Would there be a crowd that's just too big for a comedy show? it's just like it needs to be a little bit more intimate. L twenty thousand people is like right at the max, maybe or no. Yeah, I mean, it's all about how big feel we have like, you know, the arenaas we have these big screens. We have I've put more speakers up so everybody can hear it everywhere. you really do try to make it intimate. I mean, you can tell everybody gets real quiet. I mean that's the cool it's one of the coolest things is when You're telling a joke and you're this many people are quiet Yeah you know, in this kind and they're just, I mean, you could I could yell with no microphone and the top person could hear me. is it gets that quiet. U That's so cool. So ye, I mean, I'd imagine if you did a stadium, you know, I could see it getting a little Lou you know, and we're in the middle too of an arena. So makes it align a lot closer to everybody Do a hundred thousand, do a Hondo. Come on Do a h do the big do the big house of Michigan. Have you ever had a moment where you kind of scare yourself a little bit by thinking about all the eyes that are looking at you and that they're not talking and that it is silent and that you might be doing well and you can't leave for another friendty Are you scared of the ees? I mean, if you've ever had a panic attack on a stage and know that you can't you can't leave for another hour. Uh, yeah, I mean, you've done it so long now that you're I mean just like bent. It's happened to me. I mean, Yeah, yeah. I mean, I've done it now. It's like, yeah, I mean you think about a. I had an SNL like a little bit when I did the monologue. I was more nervous with the monologue because it's like, stand up and you're like, I'm supposed to be good And at this and and then you got to kind of deliver the jokes into the camera, but there's the crowd And so like it was very weird to deliver jokes to kind of a spot where no one's at Right. And you're right on the heels of sitting of standing back behind that flat, behind the band, right that little narrow little plank. and the whole crowd is silent and they're counting down to that live moment to America Like it becomes really tangible. like you're not just live in front of, you know you know, a crowd, it's beaming across, you know, the planet. Oh yeah. like it's real tangible there. Yeah, you're like I could say anything right now and they're going to hear it right now because it's live, you know, Yeah. Yeah rememember when I used to remember like twenty jokes when I was when I was a kid. I used to love them. And now I can only remember like one or two, but from back No they're not that great. Do you have one, J? Do you have any jokes? Do you want to hear him guys tell a joke inside out? Go ahead. I do get a little tripped up. Do you have a joke from when you were a kid that you'll never forget? You may not use it in your act, but it's just like just a classic that was One of your favorites Uh, yeah, I didn't use it my acc to go. You say you do it? Iin't no. I didn't hang off to you're like I kept it. I still read a Joe book when I was five and I'm closing on it It's I remember the joke it was I said there was a it was a joke book or something and there was a guy goes waiter there's a spider there's a fly in my soup And then the waiter goes, Well, don't worry the spider on your bread will get it. And there's a picture of a spider bread. And so my dad always brings I remember that joke and then my dad brought it up because I would like I was explaining why the joke was funny to him And like kind of going through it likeike here's why this is funny, you know. So that that one was the first one, but I let it go. Iess have jokes from from when you were a kid that you you'll never forget one joke that it's appropriate to tell Is there one like a go to that you remember I had a joke book when I was really little. It was you a joke book now, but h, keep going It was it's not funny. It was funny when I was like six years old. It wass like whereere do dead people? people go in your house and it was the living room. I have one, which is like people always say the ballet is really hard to do. and so I always say just don't do it Yeah, sure I Nate left Nate that. That was Seun's opening joke when he did stand up. what And what is this would probably be interesting for folks, including me. What are the how do you do the economics of being a stand upp? I'm assuming you have to bear all the costs of the trucks and the infrastructure and all that stuff And then you get to keep whatever you don't spend on what it costs to put the show up, right? And you're making your money based on ticket sales and merchandise perhaps, full stop Yeah, yeah. we do I mean merch is not merch is not the biggest thing in standup. Why? Yeah, I don't know. mean we've had it. We've done it at shows and it's just it does it's not like a concert or people don't. L I' saying like standups still kind of It's kind of a newer thing Like like Cosby's like one of the first he's still alive. and like, you know, like he knew Lenny Bruce and then his car. So you got if I could give you one piece of advice, if we could just lose the Cosby if we could get it to multiple. Well if we could get it down to single digits, it would be great. Yeah right. All you know what I'm I'm going to send you a couple articles Harvey Weinstein and I once set up an LLC. But but so So you got this you've got this huge at Yeah apparatus, right? Like the Yeah, but you know, you don knowt you could do it without it. You know, you get like a deal. So you have promoters and then the Yeah, you are I think the it's like the promoter is the one that's putting the money for it like the The renting of the venue. Right. And then I'm paying then it comes out of mind the show budget of the speakers and all that stuff And so you can you can have it go as low or as big as you want it to go Who's your manager? Who whoo are your peeps Bri steam? There the Brillsteam and UTA. Yeah We'll be right back All right, back to the show By the way, backing way up to the beginning of this interview, what is Bargazzi? What is the nationality of Bargotallian? Oh, it is. first of all, don't They't out like likearg my is Hze. Oh the fuck is Sorry, Nate. I never he. I mean, I the way but my fuck is bar. I just never heard of it. It has really been a be in my bonnet for a minute. How do you even spell that? I know, I can't even begin to spell it. I kind of I knew that but I forgot that I knew that alia I think we say it wrong as a family too. I think it's supposed to be Bargotzi And we say Barggeteti. likeike it's just we've southerned it up. Oh, I say Bargazzi. Yeah, I think a lot of people say when I went to when I lived in New York they would always be like Bergazzi because it's like Italian and I was like, you know, Bgi. I was like, I don't like tomatoes. Do you have family in Italy You don't Yeah. I think we've all agreed to kind of go. We had a familyunion once and we had family come over from Italy and we got Kentucky fried chicken. And I think it was like from that moment was just kind of like, all right, y'all have a good life. We did it. We're gonna do our thing and y'all do y'all's thing And we just gota gone our separate ways Nate, what do you like to do do in your free time? and you've got a lot of time like on a bus or you're touring or on the plane or whatever. What do you What do you watch? What are the things are your sports guide? Do like do you watch other standups? candy crush? What's how you occupying your minutes U ye, I'm a big sports guy. so I watch a lot of golf like any any sports golf, UFC on UFC. Oh, you do? Yeah, I'm a big fan of UFC. I wanted I wanted to pg that I wanted to pg you for a big It' just the most the honesty of it with like Dang and White just in the fighters, they can say whatever they want Right. So there's no, you know, like when Tom Brady is he going to retire not retire? It's like it's all kind of a game and a show. And UFC kind of really is like we just got a dude that just says I want to fight this guy Right And then it just gets to it and you're, I don't know, I kind of like like I love there's but there's there's no romance to that too though, right? Like they kind of There's the buildup to it. I mean then they get in, you know, then they don't like each other and then you're, you know, and then you go in there and watch them fight. It's not just watching a street fight. You're watching two professionals that have to like fill each other out. Yeah. So you watch UFC you watch golf, you like to play golf. you play golf when you're on the road Some its gets hard, but it's becausecause the shows and stuff, but yeah, I'll play some on the road Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's kind of it. I mean, I don't know. It's like you just rununning around, got lots of. a lot of hanging out. Like the road is the most fun because it's just like bunch of dudes and, you know, this morning we went in We're in Syracuse and this place has a hot and cold plunge thing. sureure. And Well loveved. So I've never done it. and then so but they let us come in. So like we woke up and did that. Wait, who' who's Boo Weekly I saw something. Oh yeah. what is that? So I this is another I told it on SN I dealt in my act too. But it bw weekly Beause I have a joke about fighting a orangutang at a county fair right And where I read the story was there's a golfer named Boo Weekly. And when he read he said when he was fifteen, he got in He goes this county fair. he's from like Georg like Southern Southern Georgia. this's like the eighties, you know, and there you could pay five dollars to fight in a ranging ting. a ranging ting would be in a boxing ring with boxing gloves. And so doude you pay five dollars five to fight them And that's hysterical Yeah, and then guys would get in there and this orangank would just knock people out. becausecause what I I tell the whole story in my act, but I say ' we didn't have the internet to look up how strong is an orangutank? You have It was all word of mouth back then. So you know, you had to lead a guy that just fought an Oangutank. and he's like, he's stronger than you think. you know you're like But the arms are so skinny Yeah I know. That's the reach as well And theach It's the reachs. It's the jab. It look at the seat his faceer then yeah, that stink comes from somewhere. And they'll rip your face off too if they want. Well, that's what Boo Wek said he go, that's not written everywhere back in nineteen eighty two when you're fighting a Ry. The guy that does this doesn't go all you sign a waiver. sure. Yeah. you don't realize til afterwards, like that's why it has gloves on. If this thing if it gets the gloves off, there's a chance it will rip your head off So But you know, what do you do? Ride the scrambler again? Yeah , I wonder is that still in existence anywhere in the country I think they So they Peta I think Peta got a hold of a lot of S. And they knocked those things down. And that when they were like, you can't do that. We're like, all right. We thought they liked it. I'm glad you just had to tell us. And we got rid of fair enough Nate, what are you going to do today before the show Telling me're busy Uh It was this and then yeah, it was just this. I don't have o like I gotta rewor I'm messing up some the order. A little bit so I'll do that a little and then we're just hang out and be at the venue if there's we do try to shoot basketball like some of these arenas if they have a basketball goal somewhere where try to like mess around you basketball, just kind of do whatever until That's nice time. And then you're going and then you're going on tour you got you got a new special. you're shooting new specials. Phoenix Yeah. you love Phoenix. You love you taught you did another you did your last special in Phoenix. I did my last special there. and this one's going to be in the footprintenter where the s's play. So it's w It's yeah, it's it's Yeah, I mean, it just kind of works out like touring wise. like you just hit these towns like every two years or so And so it just kind of like And your family goes with you or do they stay home or They do some. Yeah,a We went to Europe Like they came to Europe they come to the, you know, they're not here in Syracuse or Albany, but they If they're I'm doing the Boston Garden, they're going to come to Boston. tell them to join you out in Phoenix and for some of the best pizza in the world as voted by the voters the people at Chris Biancco Yeah go can you do? I saw you do this one thing a long time ago. You don't have to do it, if you're like, I got to go But one of the funniest things that I sorry sor, dude' me stand up and do my act. And you mind? I mean, C you just show us your tits real quick and then go to. D you mind doing it topless? Sorry show us your tits. No, one of the funniest things was it was a story about You're meeting your wife's ex boyfriend. Yeah on the boat. Yeah. Yeah. I went Yeah. we went u I got to remember it, but we went to it happened We're on the lake, oldld Hickory Lake. Is that true? Yeah And we're in we're like in the water and then it's my wife's ex boyfriend was on a Another boat And I didn't see him and she pointed out like there's no reason to point it out And but she pointed out so then Yeah, like all I can think of now like I'm thinking about him. like and then I look at her and she's looking at him and I feel like she's looking at him to see what her life would be like if she didn't marry me Yeah. And I was looking at him to see what my life would be like if I didn't marry her. So we're both putting a lot of pressure on this guy And then my buddy told me he wass like, you should go fight him. And I was like, what, like he's on a boat. likeike I I gott to swim over to that fight . Have you ever tried climbing a boat from water? It's not graceful, It's not easy You don't come in with power. I would need his help to start the fight Right. I think that was yeah, that was. it's so funny. But I just mean we can all relate to meaning ex's, you know, our currents exX's. I don't know I'm never good at, but Yeahah, I don't. I don't really have ex's . Well I got What talking about Nate? Hang on. I know. I didn't go. I know, but that's what made it frustrating. I don't I had no one to go show my wife Well, here's mine Yeah As you got to beet. What do you mean? because you what is she your high school sweetheart or something Now we start day like twenty. twenty we met at Applee's We both waited tables at Apple. I was a host at the time, but that's great. look you don't need to scream. Yeah I little stuff is going, you know. Sounds like it's all good in the neighborhood or what do we? We're in the neighborhood. We're in the neborood Absolly in the neighborhood. We' big fans. We took our daughter that What what was your favorite thing on the Apple Bee's menu? Here we go. They the chick chicken broccoli Alfredo, I'd get no broccoli, you know? getet that out of area. I they put it on the side just so the guy thinks I'm going to eat it, then he'll just take a full plate of broccoli back after go I gotta full on the other stuff. It That's so true. Like we like we're worried what they think. Yeah. Yeah. W this? Do you think that's impressive, Seun Apple's menu backwards. Let go Cobbbler, Apple cobbler. Of those kind of those kinds of restaurants Chinese chicken salad? No good.ate that. Every place makes a Chinese chicken salad now. That's like that's kind of like the new you know, molten lava cake. Every place has makes it what makes it a Chinese chicken salad? It's just because of the ginger dressing? They're the ones that don't eat it. They. And those crispy noodles. the crispy noodles and the ye, you get the crispy. Chinin. No, listen, Sean, I don't tell you.ininin Chinin does the best one. One of the best ones. One One of the best ones. San tiling his chin Chin Chin. Wait, so of all those kinds of restaurants I forget what you call them. Are they big box restaurants? No Chain restaurants. Chain restaurants. Have y'all not been to one in a while? Like justs been it's been a minute, but I did like to sit and your new special Nate says everything. Everything I learned, I don't know a lot that came from a big like you like a building, like a higher education building. Everything I learned, I overheard it a target or a low's. The lows line the lows. Every I overheard target. Yeah, we're big chain. I mean, I grew up like we're you know, I an old joke about like I was a big I don't like mom and pop shops because they can close just they're like we don't feel good today and they close. like Walmart Walmart, you know, they were mom and pop shop at some point and then they became they got it together and became unreal. . So ye I like that too. I like mom puff. Here's what I like. I like chilies and I'm not afraid to sayit I love. great mom. They have the great chocolate Lavate if you want one to Chil. Go to Ch And they also have the great they used to have the Southwest egg rolls or whatever. They used to have those things that were Cibean and Dax used to always go to God, I love it Chile. What about outback? A anyint good with the bllooming? Yeah, yeah, we go to outback a good bit.ot Scottty worked at TGIF and he would I used to love it. That's good. Yeah. That's fun. That's an intimidating menu. doror Ppper's doing some pretty amazing things right now. So if you are into Dr. Pepper, die, Dr. Pepper. They got that right goodood stuff going on. Yeah cherry right. They got Like some soda, like cream soda, strawberry stuff. I mean, it's it's something, dude. They're they're showing off over there. Did we ever get any confirmation on No portion of the peppard. Like did they, did we ever see documentation to prove that he had drk diet? kind of doctor was he? Yeah. I mean Ppp was I do like diet doctor I do like diet dor. Peppard too. And I'm going to say this, I like their ads. I like their TV ads Yeah, I think they're funny.s. I think they're real clever. Nate before I let you go, how do you know Greg Garcia? How did that happen? This son of a guns, speaking of son of a guns U so we I've tried to make a bunch of shows that have never gone. We've had one show that we shot a pilot and And so Greg came in I did not know him that he came in, Danielle Sanchez Witzel. She was show running it And she's friends with Greg And so Greg came in to help us Do it And I knew Greg Garcia's work, but I didn't know him way when he first came in. So before he first came in, and he's like, he's going to help us. And I was like I don who this dude is. Yeah. I gota listen to this guy. And then we wrote our whole rewrote the whole script on his off just his ideas because they were so good And obviously's unreal And so we just become really close and become friends. I was just with them this week actually dinner with him I had to go to LA for a second. and So he's yeah, we've getting friends like that and he he comes out on the road too. I'm telling you, y'all should Y'all come out of the ro you if you want to get away and have a little fun trip, come on out. Dude, that would actually be really, really fun if you mean it. It's a fun. If you mean it. I swear Founds coming tonight. I mean we have a fun time. It's you just play cards or you play you know, like we were to a casino last night and, uh I mean, first of all, this is your dream. They go to casino and they're going to chain restaurants. I mean, you know Every Every single every cracker barrel has got sk merch in front from Sun's cararve. Cracker barrels one we didn' touch on. I not been there, but I hear that's the one. Anywhere that can handle bus parking it's all changuff. Well, Greg Gar is one of the all time great guys, super, super funny guys. One of the funniest Franks, he always I'm not really like a big pranks guy, but he is so funny I had a long joke and a prank and I just he's such a great guy. So yeah, that makes sense that you guys would be Pals. Well listen, I'm going to return the offer and say next time you're out here in California Let's go play golf, man and hang out. I would have some lunch. Such a huge fan of yours, dude. Honestly just the funniest funniest funny. So so funny. It's so good to see you. So so exciting to see you, just more and more and more people appreciate you. Really happy for your success. truly truly, truly. Yeah, man. Thank. Yeahah. thanks for having me on. Nate, thank you for doing. What a thrill. Thank you for just saying. What a thrill. All right. the great Nate Bergi. than you buddy. Thank you, Nate. Thanks Nate. Thank you guys See I let have fun M. The G N Great great N great How toay funny old like old school clean, good, hilarious nones You seem like a real kind fella You know? Yeah, I can't see him getting upset. I'm sure you could figure out a way to piss him off How would you, what would be your strategy? if you really wanted to get Nate pissed off? I'd ask I'd ask him questions over I'd ask him the same thing over and over again. likeike I didn't understand. No, I think he'd be very patient with that. I don't think that would be his button pusher. No, like no, but like if you If you just went on and on about something like you just really honestly, truly didn't understand, I think it pisses anybody off wo Like what are you not getting, right? Yeah You know what I mean? No, But we have a pretty highice threshold tope like we have a pretty I the amount of patience for you in that regard. I What is the thing what is the thing that gets you guys to anger quicker than anything else. Stupidity. People think like I do I have a short fuse for stuff. ye I don't suffer I have a short fuse for like peopleeople who are incompetent are like can't like Like like don't have common sense about like easy things. And then in the meantime, I'm the dumbest person on the planet and I probably do the same thing Yeah, yeah. Yeah I hate when I hate when people like Hunch down You know, Yeah And like mean to people because they ye want to be. Yeah so lazy. Yeah, yeah. it is punchd down either either, especially if it, you know, we do do a lot of joking around and we and we love to sort of rib each other and stuff. But but anytime I see somebody who likes to and we talked about with Nate. who likes to get a laugh. It's somebody else's expense.. Or you know what else h's pissing me off confident ignorance H Yeah That can also be super funny though. Yeah, sometimes. Well the character it can be. Right. You have to do it on purpose. But yeah, person who is much smarter or much more confident than they have a right to be is just grading. because you have to spend an effort to convince them that you're buying it Right But but if you have no dog in that fight and you're just observing that person, it can be hilarious. Oh yeah. Yeah that is true. That' true. Yeah. By the way, I love playing those characters. Yeah you know the character that's just just an alpha everywhere. and then the tough guy walks in and then they're beta, Yeah right, right, right, right, right. exactly. But Nate, we should go see his show when he's about. He's so I think we should meet him in Phoenix and go get some of that bianco pizza we should and then play some golf over there or you not you're not playing golf anymore. Notntil October I have to be disciplined. You know I know I mean, we can go we can go to Nate. We can go to his show and like participate or we can go and just be a bunch of Bers. 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