Final Thoughts on Career and Projects

Today's guest is a stand up comedian. Um he's a host. Um he's a fixture in the world of comedy. He's he's a leader. This guy's a leader in the world of comedy and clean comedy. Um, he's a one of one, I would say. That's for sure. He has a new film that's coming out in theaters this weekend called Breadwinner. That's Friday, May 29th. You can go check it out. He's building an amusement park. Like a real one for amusement. Right here in Nashville, Tennessee. Uh, I'm thankful to spend time with today's guest, Mr. Nate. Barghetsi. Yeah, dude, I saw some guys talking about. When you would sleep remember when you were a kid and you would sleep over at somebody's house? You remember that? Yeah. And you woke up before them. Yeah. And just like 'cause you kinda had to pretend you were asleep. Like you were ready to get up and go. But it wasn't your world, it was their universe. Yeah. I would think the the big we know that's when you're a kid, then the biggest opposite is when you're older. And then everybody's up. You know in uh Meet the parents. Yeah. That like scene made me laugh so hard when like Ben Stiller comes downstairs and everybody's been up for Like a couple of hours. 'Cause that would I relate to that I think even as a comedian. You know, it's like we like we can stay up late and whatever. You're always the guy wandering into the into the world late. Yes. And I mean people are Like I I mean we I I know people outside comedy, they have like a meeting. At like six thirty or seven. Like a meeting. In the morning. In the morning. Yes. And you're like what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. For what? Yeah, maybe with God, maybe that's early. I could see that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You know, or an actual meeting with the sun. Like if you got an email from the sun, it's like, hey, I'm all We're gonna need you there. Yeah. Like the literal sun. Yes. Yes. Yes. If he was like, hey, I'm here. Yeah, either son. The sun shows up early, though. The sun shows up early. And he's like, I've been here. And you go, No, I kinda saw you. I just was like give me a second. Yeah. Just let me get my bearings a little bit. Yeah, 730 meetings when they say they have those. I think I want I would want to be that though. Oh, so that's something. Like it gets a little bit aspirational. Yeah, dude, I've been And I hate to say this because I don't even want to hear myself say this. Yeah. Think Hurt's even coming out of my neck. Um I think I'm a Think I'm a morning person. You know, I could and you know what I'm saying? Sorry to say that. Uh well I think it's you know it's uh And I want to apologize to people who can't even handle hearing that. Yeah. Cause they want you to be a night person. Well, as a comedian, we are night people. Right. And I think there's something. And I think we go opposite. Like it's uh We want structure. I did like not to talk about my movie right now, but like I'm saying when I shot the movie and you know you just shot a movie, there's like structure, right? Breadwinner. That's the movie. The Breadwinner's the movie. Yeah but like when you shot your movie uh it's You got to be on set at this time, and this, this, this is and I love it. I don't think we have structure as comedians. Yeah and we don't come from any of it and we go I I remember I wrote for the Spike video game awards like a long time ago. Mm-hmm and Spike is it volleyball? What was it? No, I remember that TV show or that T network Spike? I think it was like Spike TV. Oh yeah, Spike TV. They did like a bunch of like random It was like right when we were like in New York, like two thousand eight, two thousand. Oh yes, I do remember this. Yeah, yeah. It was like a dude's channel. What were some of their top shows? Look up top three shows on Spike TV. The they had the g uh game show or video game awards. I wanna say. Oh Ultimate Fighter started on there. The reality show launched the UFC. And modern MMA into the mainstream. Interesting. Blue Mountain State. What's that? Blue Mountain State. That was uh That was a show with uh reach uh I know his real name. Jack Reacher. I look like Jack Reacher right now. And this is what he would wear. Do you I look like Jack Reach around. But Yeah. I don't know. And my body doesn't, but this is he wears shirt like this. Alan Richardson. I know Alan. Like dude, yeah, somebody always talks to me about him. Yeah. So he was started out in Blue Mountain State, which is on Spike TV. Wow. And then um yeah, Spike TV was like a A little bit ahead of its time. Like it's it's almost a channel that pr bar rescue. Some pretty good stuff, man. Ball rescue a thousand ways to die. No thing. I'll take one way. Yeah, but you would want to know the other. I don't need to know a thousand. At a thousand, you're just getting you're you'll stay alive forever just looking through all of them. That is. But that's maybe that's a reverse psychology. Maybe that's a plan. You can see I mean, 'cause it's gonna be a spider bite, it's gonna be you step on A nail and an artery. I don't know if you have arteries. Yeah, if you fall off a building and land like one of your arteries lands on like a little nail or something. There's a lot of yeah, anyway, there's a lot of ways. Bar rescue. Okay, Spike TV. Anyway, go on. Sorry I interrupted you, but I just forgot about Spike TV. Yeah. You know it was a it was a great. It was a good channel, especially like uh hidden age din demographic. You know, this is on dude Entoure we were just I was just talking about Enterage Entourage was on during this time. Like so it was Oh, on television, not the same channel. Yeah. I didn't know that Alan Richon, even just to think that that's like Blue Mountain State was there, that the UFC kind of like sort of became mainstream by going on a spike T V and getting like eyeballs that way. I didn't understand that. Look up once more. Spike T V was this Mount Ducan. It was everything it represents. Oh yeah, American. Just American. American do with Spike TV. Yeah. Thousand ways to UFC. Shotgun and Yeah. Blue Mountain State. Yeah, it was all of it. Yeah. Um what what were you s what were we talking about? So we're talking about spike TV. You see you went on a spike T V Uh, the stru like having structure with the movie. Oh the movie. Yeah. Like it I do I'm not a person that has any structure. Oh yeah, and comedians aren't in general. So when you're on set, you were saying like yeah, you get this other Oh, it's great. And they tell you to even comedians unnoticed, they told. And I don't know if they did this on Brewers, but They told me we told I t lied to myself, but that uh to be like they would set the call time forty five minutes really it was later because they knew I was gonna be a little bit late. Oh yeah. Uh yeah, I don't know if we I I think that's I think that people have done that to me. Yeah. They get you there. But I would show up Like I've been late to stuff. It depends on what it is. If it's something that I know I should get to, I'll I'll get to. If it's not you can Sometimes it's like, yeah. It just there's a lot of stuff. It's I think it's hard being your own When you're your own boss. Yeah. It's it you can get lost a little bit. And you can get, you know, you want to sometimes look. For someone to go no or yes. And then you realize there is no one to say no or yes. Yeah, it's just you. Yeah. It's just you. Yeah, I real I I realize that I work for myself and I'm not the best employee I realized. Mm-hmm. I That makes sense. Like it's yeah, you You could you don't live up to maybe what you're doing. But you know, then but if someone sees what you're doing, they're like, you're doing everything. Right. So then they're like, you're doing great. And you're just gonna beat up yourself. Uh yeah. Because you think like I should be doing more. I mean, I think about like that, you know, I should be Oh yeah. When you're working for you should get structure. I have no structure. Yeah. Athletes have structures. They have like teens. Yeah. Yeah. There's no like comedy. There's not like a bell that goes off early in the morning where it's like comedians grab your pins and start your writing. And we like you said, if you're a morning person You think that goes against everything that you're supposed to be 'cause your shows are at night. And when you come up, you're out very late. But then the longer you're in it, you kinda w like want to g just get up earlier. And have a routine. Yeah. And then it's like that's my fantasy is just to have a routine. Oh To adhere to an alarm clock. That's Oh yeah. That's a fantasy of mine. Yeah, yeah. Not a lot of alarm clock, you know. You don't set alarm clocks because it just doesn't Dude, I would set my alarm clock and then hide my phone in between the mattresses on the other side of the bed that I slept on. Yeah. So like over there. And I would never even hear it. Cause it's quiet. It's quiet. It didn't stand a chance. So I wanted structure, but I was just now willing to adhere to it. Yes. I'm like I work for myself and I'm the worst employee. I would k I would go smoke behind the dumpsters like I was hiding from myself. Like what are we even doing? Yeah, I think you want someone to Be in charge. Yes. I had an old joke. That's the problem. You had an old show, what? I had an old joke where I said uh You know, it's like with the thing with comedy is like if you wanted to quit comedy, there's no one to quit to. So you like can't call Seinfeld and be like, hey, I'm out. Like there's no one no one cares if you quit. No one. Yeah. There's no one to say you you quit to. And then if you get to a point where you have this giant audience and you quit, then you feel like you gotta you can't just quit. No. Cause then everybody's like, where are you at? So you even if you wanted to quit, you're like I don't know, you gotta what do you gonna do? Make a video and then everybody's like, Why you quit and you're like now you're quitting to millions of people. Yeah. And you're like, No, I just wanted uh Kinda slowly fade. Yeah. Daniel Day Lewis, I always think is an act like you don't know anything about that guy. You know, he comes out for You know, just to basically win an Oscar. And then he goes back. Goes back to whatever he does and that guy. I don't know what he does. I don't know what he does either. Daniel Day Lewis. Yeah. I mean he has day in his name. That's so probably gets up early. For sure if he's putting that in there. Yeah. Um, but yeah, no idea. Comes out, gets his thing, boy in the uh. Left foot, red foot. My left foot. My left foot, dude. No, I haven't seen it. It's pretty good. It's have you? It's older, yeah, I've seen it. Really? It's about anything to do with his feet. Oh, really? It does. Bring it up. Let's just find out what was it? My left foot hold on let me take a gander at what I thought it was really quick. It was a man. I believe I think there was like a train accident. He gets his it takes place like in the south. He gets p one of his feet hit by a train. And then he has to operate and fall in love, I guess, with just Only his other foot. he has to fall in love with someone else with only his other foot to be able to like Hand them a foot. It's like It's necessary. It's a big deal. Yes. Let's see it. No one expects much from Christy Brown, Daniel A Lewis, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working class Irish family. Okay. No train. Little different. Uh that's a train. With the help of his steely mother and no shortage of grit and determination, Christy overcomes his inf infirmity to become a painter, poet, and author. Oh, is it like a true story? Christie's as spasta quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when at the age of five he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. Oh yeah, I remember this now. Different movie than I was thinking, but still a great movie. You, yeah. The train. Yeah. I was thinking of fried green tomatoes. That's what I was thinking of. I just realized that. That has a train in it? Yeah. Oh. A little crossover. Yeah. Um That's but that's a good You know, the only trained movie I can think of is that one Denzel Washington. It's good. Training day. I don't think it's training day. There's one where yeah, there is an actual training. How is it not training day? But there's one that there is uh unstoppable. Oh, I haven't seen that. It's great. That's kinda where I'm at. I haven't seen my left foot, but I've seen uh no Pelican one two three maybe. That's it. Oh Pellows. Is that got a train? I think there's a train in that. And was there a movie called Training Day? There is. Is Dendel Washington in it? Nothing to do with the train. But that was D won an Oscar for that. Oh. Or maybe D. We shouldn't go to the theater, I don't think. But uh this was good. You have a new movie. Your movie's coming out. Yeah. No trains. May twenty ninth. May twenty ninth, yes. Breadwinner. Breadwinner. And in theaters. In theaters. Um and you have a nate rate. What did I see what is this? Yeah. We got the we is we w we talked to all the movie theaters and uh Prices lowered. So yeah, yeah, just 'cause we want the whole family to come out. It's interesting with movies, man. You start looking at like theaters, like, you know, you guys make your in distribution, all this. Like, you know, think about touring. Like this it's hard not to think about movies and touring as kinda like The same kind of thing. You know, you get a promoter, you get this, you go to every town. Like if you make a movie and you go to these theaters and they're in every single town and you kinda go like did you hear about that kid on uh YouTube, he did a horror movie. And he's got a bunch of subscribers on YouTube. And uh he's he's a big horror fan, I think, and they made a movie. He made a movie, and I mean It was, you know, it was gonna go out to a few theaters, then his fans just started calling their theaters, being like, No, we want it to come and it was like a w huge success. And he made it for I wanna say three million and then uh Yeah. Uh iron is it Yeah, it's like something iron. Iron something. It was iron something. And then Iron lung, yeah. Was that it? Yeah. Grossed over 50 million. I think he made it for three. Wow. But it was like, that's a guy that just basically did it like a tour. Like how we would two words sell tickets. Markplier. Mm-hmm. That was in guys named Markiplier. And what does it say? Can you take me into the the the what happened with the movie? He just made it. He said he wanted to make it. The Iron Long movie was independently self-financed and created by YouTuber Mark Fishbach. Markiplier, who wrote, directed, produced, edited, and started and operating without a major studio. He shot the film over thirty five days using a life size, nine thousand pound submarine set mounted on a hydraulic motion rig. Wow. After struggling to find traditional Hollywood distribution, he self distributed the film. Massive fan campaigns convinced major theater chains. uh to screen it, the any film became a massive box office hit grossing fifty million on a four million dollar budget. Wow. So we had his fans all call up they once he said he wanted to go out, he was in a few theaters and his fans kept calling their theaters and their towns. And they said they wanna see it and then he went out and said it. Four million dollar budget. It's amazing. It's incredible dude. But that's where you see movies where you're like That guy did it kind of like how you would tour. on a comedy club. Like you're going and selling tickets just in these towns. Right. And so if you got a big following like that and that tours and you go make a movie. I mean, I you know, it's like, I can't he go do that. You know, I I understand the uh one time is kinda like, Oh yeah, it's crazy. So it'd be major of can ego do it again or can we repeat it? And Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, even with our own movie, I don't know what we sold compared to like if I were touring a place as opposed to people that came out to go to the theaters. Um I know it w I don't think it was close. Do know that I had a lot of friends who were like, dude, I haven't been to the movie theater in eight years. Yeah. Ten years. Right? Yeah. I had a lot of people who went to movie theaters by themselves. Dude, we had one video of a dude. He sent it in. He went to the movie theater. Nobody else was in the theater, right? He ends up watching uh. What's this dude's name? I gotta find it. We'll put it in. He ends up just taking his shirt off and sitting there and watching the movie by himself relaxing. He's the only guy in there. Watch the whole thing by himself, this dude. I think it's like It was this guy, it's like this like the Latino guy he's at work and he's like, Bro, I'm fucking tired, but go see this movie maybe. I don't know. And then you see him walk in, he's like, nobody's even here. And then like ten minutes later he's like, I guess I'll just enjoy myself. And I don't know what happened after that. I mean he just we know he had the shirt off and watched it. Um Oh yeah, this is him right here, dude. This is the guy. Can you pull it up? No, I just got off of work. I got this f I don't feel like doing shit to be honest. But look, check it out. Ain't nobody in this big man. And he had to set the phone up somewhere and do this. That's kind of a vibe, yeah. That's him right there, golden cheeseburger right there. Golden underscore cheeseburger. Shout out him being a hard worker went to catch. I've never even thought about wanting to take your shirt off. I think people either don't or do want to take their shirt off. Yeah. I'm a I'm a not I don't want to take my shirt off, but I mean If someone wants to, buddy. They want to. Oh, we know a guy. Yeah. Yeah, we do. Yeah. We know a guy. Yeah. Sometimes I wish we'd have tried to go in more theaters, but Going to uh but t yeah, taking your shirt off. Going what? Going to theater alone, man, that like it's pretty great. That's something you do a lot as a com. on the road. You can hit some you know, you go to some movie at noon. Yeah. And you're just by yourself in there. Oh yeah. Have you ever had someone come sit right next to you? I've been by my I've been like by myself or like maybe one other comic and then two more people walk in, they sit in the seats in front of us. Oh drives me nuts. And what do you do? I'll move. Yeah. Ca or I'll sit there and just be angry during the whole movie. Yeah. Cause why would you do that? Oh, dude. You know. Just goes to It's empty. Just go sit like somewhere. Somewhere else up. And but here's the thing though, if you sit too far away from that person, you think they feel kind of left out or something. I would no, I would go as far as way from 'em. I'm one that doesn't want to really be Near someone. Well of course near someone in a dark theater that you don't know. That's Yeah. I think you gotta have space. I mean I would sit like when you go with a buddy, like we don't sit next to each other, you have that empty seat. Thank you. When we went to Kevin James movie, you and I sat next to each other and we kept a seat between us. We kept a seat between us. Like civilized people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're normal. Yeah. And we enjoyed the movie more. Oh yeah, it was good, dude. Yeah. Like Beetlejuice. You ever been to a movie you ever see that guy, Beetlejuice? Mm-hmm. Stern? We called him up, we offered him money to come on this podcast one time. And he said no. This is what he said, this is the crazy part. He's like, Where you gonna where you gonna leave the money at? And I couldn't like Yeah and he And just from there it was like Oh, it's downhill. Yeah. It was so hard. He's like, Yeah, where you gonna put the money at? Yeah. And I was like, oh And I couldn't explain to them like at the bank or whatever. Yeah. We're gonna send you a check. Yeah. Unreal. Yeah, wire. Anything. You know, America's 250th birthday's coming up. Whew, that's gonna be a big cake. 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Yeah, I but I I think you're heading more towards that kind of stuff with experience. I mean you've seen people get it uh you've seen a lot of things, Netflix house. You've seen a lot of things where they want to experience a Netflix house, you're saying? Yeah, Netflix is doing a They they're they're starting to build these Netflix houses. Which are like movie theaters. Uh no, it's it's like they go they would have uh John Wick And they would have like like I went to one like there you go. Like it's so it's like all your favorite Netflix shows and you get to interact with it in some way. Oh, but you can also watch the shows in the place. No, no, I don't you're not watching 'em. You're just like a squid game. They have like a squid game thing you can go through. And then so you so you go in and you s spend the night or day and you just Get to interact with your favorite show Stranger Things. You get to go through a Stranger Things set. Play little game or that this kind of thing I believe I believe live experiences are gonna go that's where that's where it's at. That's why I think standup comics are in a in a terrific spot. Because you're uh you can't AI a live performance. And you I mean I'm j you can do Hologram and that kind of stuff. But Yeah, we're the only place I mean, what else even outside of stand up comedy, where else are people even Outside of like pastors at churches, I'm trying to think. Or reverends or Preachers or rabbis or but who like outside of Those people, you have musicians, but they you kinda know what you're getting because it's like their songs. Yeah. But I'm trying to think of where else is there like well I guess And then you don't know what's influenced with what. So like even if there's songs or if they're singing or whatever it is. I mean, I would think you know, some folk music like that, you you're gonna have to have stuff like that where you're like straight up, you know there's nothing added into it and there's nothing All right it's gonna be a very big spectacle. Uh spectacle show. You're gonna have to go either super big Are you gonna have to be, I think, like stand up where it's just You Me we're talking to a crow. And there's nothing in the middle. Well yeah, that's what I'm saying is like there's not a place where you go to get a pure voice anymore. There's not that you know I'm saying like that's not refined or it's not overly produced. It's the most authentic. That's why I mean I hope Young entertainers, I hope stand up comics that are getting into it. Get into it and they get in there and and create an act and 'Cause you're gonna be uh The only place You know, essentially where you could maybe be actually hearing a real person. Preacher is a good example too. Like It's where you're gonna, you know, have straight on like I just want to I wanna see the person. You know, 'cause it there's so much stuff people don't trust. So you're like, I just wanna see the person. I wanna see the person talking. Yeah. I want to Well I want the truth. I want the I want I want humanity. Like that I could touch that program. Right. And I want what they really believe, I feel like. Yeah. Like with humor, I think base of a lot of our humor, I think a lot of it I mean sometimes you're joking around, but Some of your true laurels are in there. Like these are some of my you know, like some we all have a backbone of stuff that's in there. Yeah, who you are. Like, yeah. I mean I think unless you're like a one liner guy or something. Right, then that's it's hard to really note. It's but yeah, but who yeah, who you are is gonna be kind of, you know, somewhat in there. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah because yeah, it's hard to get like a true like Okay, what does this person think? And are they just speaking directly to me without a lot of influence? It's like pastors. comedians. I'm not putting us in some special s space or anything. I'm just saying Oh, here you go. Teachers or professors, but I mean e like look it it's But teachers, some of that stuff is kind of like um they have to follow a curriculum. Um oh dude, when somebody's tickling you, that's when you have to tell the truth. Think about that. A tickler? No, not the tickler is a creep or whatever. Yeah. But the person, if you're being tickled, try to ever try to lie to somebody while they're tickling you? Yeah. It's impossible. Impossible. Yeah. Maybe they'll be up there. It's impossible. That's why when I see all this waterborning and torture or whatever, and all this horrible stuff they're doing to people's minds, I'm like, dude. Tickle. Yeah, get in there. Unleash them. Get under their arm. I don't know. Unleash them crawl dads on somebody and you'll get it. Grab your grab their thigh right there. Oh, oh dude. Bro, where were you? This is RJFK. Where were you? People, you always knew you could get tickled like this, right? You knew that, right? And even if there's a chubby kid and you grab that little doughnut around his midsection and shake the frickin' truth out of his little thick ass or whatever. Sorry. And we'll edit that. When somebody did that to you. How shocked were you. I didn't know that. When somebody did that. Yeah, I remember like uh I used to do it to my daughter too. Like you'd grab their leg there and then just be like, Well don't smile. Don't smile. Don't you know, and then yeah. Yeah, that's right. Tickling maybe it's gonna be a big um it'll come back. You know? We need ticklers. So then where you g where you gonna do that in a safe We'll probably get government issued ticklers and those people are gonna be Yeah it's we've already got They're not gonna try. Yeah, they're not gonna be trying you're gonna have to be digging into their fingers more. Like 'cause you're like, dude, you're not even trying. Like you go, here, give me your hand. And then you have to do it. And then you're like, Yeah. Yeah, you're gonna be leaning more towards towards it. Dude, that's like bro. That's so funny, bro. You're so funny, dude. That's like dude, that's like there's people sometimes at work were like, I'm the city, like a city of fa I'm like a um liaise onto the city and they segue around the town sometimes. But dude, sometimes those people like one time we're trying to get of information and the lady was running from us. She like couldn't get her thing to stop or whatever. So she would pass by, but you had ask her really fast because she was going. And then another time the guys his got stuck or whatever, like in a right hand pattern or whatever. He called a right hand pattern. He's like, it's in a right hand pattern. He's just sitting there, just glitching like in a circle. Like just going in circles. Yes. And we're trying like, you know, we're just trying to answer. Where's the monument? Yeah, yeah, dude. It's just like, dude, we're talking about Paul Revere and he just kept dodging us. Yeah. Where's Daniel Boone's health? And it just... Yeah. Yeah, dude. We're like, look, dude, we we heard Harriet Tubman ate ice cream around here. Can you just tell me. Yes. Heard Davey Crockett. Yeah, we heard Davy Crockett and Betty Crocker actually hooked up around it one time. They were around the same time. Were they? I don't know. They had to have met up. They had to have met up. I b they would at least known about each other. Oh yeah. Yeah. Davy Crockett was talked about a lot. growing up. He was. Way more than it is now. It was a big deal when I grew up. Yeah. Now it's like Travis Scott or whatever. Yeah. It is. And in Davy Crockett. It's a good name. I thoug Davey Crockett out sh here's what I would feel and I'm going off nothing. Davy Crockett was When I was growing up was the guy And I think Daniel Boone came in and started a little overshadowing Davy. Hm. I remember Davy Crockett because he had the paraphernalia, he had the hat, and I think he I I don't know if he had a pistol or if he had a Uh yeah. I feel like he had a gun. Like a One of those old school guns. Like a six shooter or something? Yeah. No, no, like a rifle, but like Yes, that's it. Bring him up. Let's get a gander at him, because yeah, who even knows? Davy Crockett and Betty Crocker are unrelated except for the shared name, which isn't even the same last name. Yeah. You want to take us through Davy Crockett there, Nate? Yeah, Day Davy Crockett was a real nineteenth century American Tearsman and politician, but Betty Crocker was created in nineteen twenty-one and is not a real person. So that's tough. But they were around uh she was a catfish, basically, which she probably Oh yeah, that's a maybe the original catfish. Betty Crocker. Yeah. Um He kept going, What's up this Betty? Where's this Betty Crocrat? They go, She just left. Yeah, dude. Yeah. He goes, Oh, she was just here. Um, can you get me information just about Davy Crockett, please? Did he and Daniel Boone know each other? Crockett grew up in East Tennessee, where he gained a reputation for hunting and storytelling. So he's he's kind of like a comedian, I guess. He was made a colonel in the militia of Lawrence County. He he uh opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson where I'm from Old Hickory, which is named after Andrew Jackson. Hm. So he was elected uh to Congress. I didn't even know he was a congressman. In eighteen thirty six he took part in the Texas Revolution and died at the Battle of the Alamo. That's why he was popular too, because the Alamo Yeah yes, the Alamo, yeah. Crockett became famous during his lifetime for larger than life exploits popularized by stage plays and almanacs. After his death, he continued to be credited with acts of mythical proportion. Um, and then what about uh let's go Daniel Boone? When did he relo wouldn't he slide in there and steal his shine? Daniel Boone, born in seventeen thirty four, while David Crock was born in seventeen eighty six, fifty two 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. Yeah. And then maybe the truth has come out that it's like, look, we need to go pretty heavy on Boone. Originator. Yeah. Once that big big business starts push pushing boon. Uh I like when they're like it's like he was born around November second. Like you're they go, We weren't keeping stuff back then, dude. They go in the general area. Yeah. Yeah. Like And then if he was like, I was born in January. And you're like, Well, yeah, that's around It counts. Yeah. It counts. Yeah, dude, uh he showed up in the springtime. Um 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. I bet there was a lot of guys that were like Yeah, the the nothing was built. Every step I took was a brand new step. Oh yeah. You were just Yeah, you were just like a Magellan. Anybody dude, if you got a pair of running shoes, you were a Magellan. Oh yeah. You were Christopher Columbus. Imagine when those had Hokas back then. Oh 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 he came up, and they were like, We didn't see that coming. Yeah. This guy came through. Yeah. Dude, it is kind of crazy. And because there was also a time where there were more woods, right? Anytime there was woods, you were an explorer. Anytime. That has a lot to do with exploring 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. You think you you you think you could have been an explorer? I 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 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, then you're like I don't even know if those some of that's real or not. It looks fake, a lot of that's fake. Yeah, yeah. And so there's uh I know in Alaska 'Cause they talk about Bigfoot in like in Alaska. There's like so much Land And stuff like in with woods. And like you go up to Washington, it's like got the most trees. Yeah, people don't even yeah. It's you can't there's so much people seek for two years. Oh, yeah. You couldn't I mean there there's Bigfoot's real. It's like it would be easy for Bigfoot to hide up there. Up there. That's a good point. Whereas yeah, like in other places like Modesto it would be tougher or Um you know, up in uh like North Atlanta or something like that. Yeah, Bigfoot's gonna get seen. Oh, dude, in Atlanta, Bigfoot's gonna be at the club, probably. At the club for sure, dude. Yeah. People would have him feature on their albums in Atlanta. Yeah. Oh yeah. Just yeah. Yeah, you don't think Ludic is gonna have Bigfoot pull up? Yeah. Why would you not? You have access to 'em. Yeah. And you probably don't gotta be em probably food. I don't even know. For sure, clean salmon. thinking also, yeah, you just give him that. And then he drops a But they're gonna push that narrative on him that he's like a person of color too. Uh yeah. That would be Like he has to show up and he has to do ball like he has to like uh collab on a track or show up. He has to go to stuff he yeah, he's like we need you, bro. Yeah. We need you at Diamonds or whatever that place is, nipple diamonds or whatever. Whatever that exotic club there is, I think. Oh, yeah. One of them got in very big 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. 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. Right. Like a lot everything else are 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. Yeah. Like strip club. Go all out. Or throwing tens of thousands of dollars on the back of somebody. Yeah. Then please. Then say it. Say it all. Then yeah. Then share it. Magic City. That's the one they just got in trouble about. Oh, did it? Yeah, 'cause the Hawks used m uh Magic City night. Which is the where they would go. And this is similar, I guess Magic City night is it is that similar to the Nate rate at all or no? This two different things. It's 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 uh with the theaters. And then also secondarily, do you know how many theaters you guys are opening up in? Uh, three thous I think three thousand. Oh wow, really? Yeah. I think so. I'm not positive. I think it's like that. I think it's three thousand. But it's you you know, it's uh dude, it's like meeting uh, you know, we've met like uh, you know, AMC, the head the that, head of Regal, Cinemark, Cineplex, like you just kinda go to them and like they're all they're in the same business. I always say this. I'm in the ticket selling business. You're in the ticket selling business. We sell tickets. So it's it's you kinda take stuff out of Like you know the hands of Hollywood in a sense, once you're in this ticket selling business. Like that's all that's my relationship with the audience. is I you buy a ticket and you come see me. And so when you can kinda 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. We want 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 businesses to grow. And I think everybody took it for granted for such a long time. 'Cause it was That's just what it was. You know, like. Like growing up was, you know, growing up, you just went to the movie theater. 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 I uh 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. Oh yeah. I always just someone's like, oh, I'm like, it'd be wonderful 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 of ten, twelve times. And I'll even make that sound like And be let down. Yes. And it's you go outside this city Crime. And I was wrong. I'll even do that when I drop 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 would short out. And it would be like the best morning. 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 cellular. Like yeah, 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 someone needed to call me, it's like You can throw AirPods in or you can be like, Hey, I gotta call you back or text message or whatever. Um That's a big thing you do with kids at first. Sometimes you give them an apple watch before a phone. 'Cause they can't do too much with an apple watch, but you could you could get a hold of 'em. My kid, yeah. My kid'll be lucky to get an apple. And uh and watch what happens 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 are well behaved. But um Oliver Anthony just did something. Can you bring that up what he was trying to do with ticketing? And congrats, man, on your on your movie. Yeah, ours just we w we only got five hundred theaters. Um wish we'd have gone bigger and I wish we'd gone to more rural theaters. I think we try to do like too much just city stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um But anyway, like movies are Go back and forth to like streaming. is I l I I kind of think of streaming sometimes as like it's like block blo Blockbuster in a sense. It's like where your stuff can go live and people can go watch that forever. Right. I mean Bert's movie, uh, you know, it's like he went to theaters and then he went crazy and did uh it destroy it on Netflix. Well I think and and also man sorry to uh I kind of made that about me there in our movie for a second. I won't apologize about that. No I'll talk about your movie. No congratulations. So it's gonna be open in May 29th that's this Friday. Yeah and it's in theaters. It's gonna be in three thousand theaters which means almost everywhere. That's a lot of places. Yeah, that's wonderful, dude. It's exciting. Um also just there's a chance it's four theaters. If for some reason it's not very kind of an idea. I think it's three thousand, but it would be funny if we is four thousand you mean? No, I think four thousand is the max. I think we're at three. I'm just saying We go back and you know It's in a hundred theaters. 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. Um, you know, I've started booking my own shows again. So in April we did those Virginia's um 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 it bypassed the whole system. Um and it actually worked and it went over pretty well and so I just announced again for the June first through the third. 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. 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 it's just that have these conglomerates, you know, it's a lot. I mean those ticket master fees are crazy They're crazy. Here's the like, you know. They're crazy. No, no, they're they're insane. I uh I 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 gotta 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 Uh tour like the way you want to. If if everybody wants to go see him, he's wonderful. And all this and it's it's it's You know, it's a lot. It's a lot of work. Lou remember Louie Louis might still do it. 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 I 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, they it's our stub hub or whatever they're gonna go do. And You're fighting that too. So it's not like we all want to I look I always thought of it like this. You're right, ever thought about that part of it. Yeah. Sometimes you're like, dude, I don't what 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 uh it's just so much Work. And you gotta get the word out and people have to find you and see you and all this. It I don't know what he where he he wants to be career wise. Like if like, you know, does he want to be the most biggest star in the world? I d I don't feel like he d I feel like he loves where he's at. I think he just loves having that relationship with the people with the audience, with the people, which is which is uh amazing. Uh, and so it's like you 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 f you'd go try to do a rock like for me I would go try to do a rock venue uh 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 there's rock venues at. So they've never heard of this rock viny. They just know where the comedy club is. Right. Now you're doing it. Now you're under 100 people show up under a bench somewhere. Yeah. Okay. Oh, you just got word is 3300 theaters here. But yeah, to charge all the stuff, Ticketmaster does all this stuff. They uh it's it's one of those. It's a mafia. Yeah, but you're, you know, but the audience. You know, yes, it's frustrating. We're all frustrated by it. But then it's also like People are busy. You gotta how many people can you get that are gonna go follow you? Everywhere. I agree, when you when you make it like Yeah. You know, and sometimes when you give stuff You ever notice when I like I waited tables. And so I used to always think Uh, Applebee's right over here, Thompson. Yeah. That's where me and my wife met. I pray for all those people over there. You met your wife at Applebee's? Applebee's Thompson Lane. Uh so my I don't know where Tom Celine is, but you know, it's like Do you remember what day or what uh what day it was, or was it a holiday? The day Daniel Boone was born. A roundabout. Round about November second. Yeah. In the spring. In the spring. Uh Yeah, 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. Yeah, I've been a host my whole life. And so but I was, yeah, male host. Heck yeah. You know. Shout out to easy. That was easy. You know, we came in. You know, you just that was an easy like Hey. You know. Was it? Aggressive No. Yeah, like hey. Hey. What you want to do? Where you wanna go? You could talk me into where you want to sit. Easily. Easily. Easily. Can we sit over there by the window. That section's wide open. Can I go there? 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. Mm-hmm. That always made me nervous. I thought something had happened to all the babies. Yeah. That's where they get. They're like, What's wrong with this restaurant that you go? We've had some baby problems here. Yeah, yeah. That's what I thought. Yeah. And that's where they And were they upside down? 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. You know? Yeah. The old wood baby seats. They didn't have that anymore? Dude, sometimes they would have a baby's head chiseled his name in the wood. Oh yeah. You know? They came a lot. Yeah, like Ricky Jr. or something was written in there. You're like, dang, how much you come here? Like when they see his family walk in, they already got it out. Yeah. Sometimes you it'd be like an unhappy baby, it would say like Brooks was here, just chiseled in there. Yeah. Like, oh waiting tables back to my theory. Is uh You know, you you would always think like to get a bigger tip, I would like try to hook. You'd be like, I didn't charge you for the Coke. I didn't, you know, no charge for and you thought I thought like me hooking you up. would mean a higher tip. Right. And it never did. But if I charged you full price for everything You would tip me more. So it's like that's kind of how stuff works. Where you in a weird we all 'cause in my head, you're like, Yo, dude, I'm like You know, I've 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 f 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 that and you think they're gonna be like I'll get you one extra little bit. 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 remember how much stuff that was worth and what do I do here. And like Just charge me They want a breadstick and they want to meet a woman Yeah, yeah. You know? Yeah, like Olive Garden where they gave 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 free Don't they give free breadsticks and f maybe salad or something? I think there's soup even. Maybe unlimited pasta, something like it's like aggressive. If you just run in there, they'll give you half a handful of suits. Yeah. Yeah. For nothing. Yeah, for nothing. The assistant manager let you frickin' eat it right out of her hand if she's nice, if she's feeling good that day. Yeah, you get uh compliments your breadsticks. Yeah. But I wonder if they make you feel the guilty asking for them. Yeah, like oh well let me see let me see if we have 'em. You ever go to O Charlie's back in the day? And they do you know O'Neil shells on the floor? No, no, O'Charley'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. They did something to 'em. They're not as good as they were. Yeah. I think they had sugar in them before. And so it was almost like a crispy cream donut. But it was unbelievable. And they'd give free rolls and you would set 'em down on the table. And then everybody would be like, Go ahead and bring another round. And he and they have five of them. Yeah, dude. It was they were the best roles in the world. And and a everybody would go in And you're just you're really there for the roles. And you know, and then you would feel embarrassed to be like, you know, they bring you basket of five and you're like Before you turn around these are gone. So go ahead and Mm. Send another one out. And I think they had a piece. 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, the uh yeah, 'cause they I mean they were the best People were texting the plug or whatever. Here's a solid copycat for a Charlie's original roles. Uh, warm whole milk, a six of cup of sugar. Uh dry yeast, a beaten egg. Butter. purpose flour, salt. Yeah. Nice. Huh. Yeah, maybe a little bit of sugar in it. Oh dude I'm maybe sure. Maybe I mean uh 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. If you do this recipe, throw a little sugar in it, dude. Yeah. And if you're making anything for your family tonight. Don't sugar. I do, ain't gonna name pasta sauce. No, that says six cup of sugar. It does fit. Oh yeah, yeah. Sorry, I didn't hear that. No, no worries, man. Yeah, see see what I mean, dude? I think they got rid of that sugar. And then they got into Yeast heavy. It might have went yeast heavy. It might have wet yeast. Oh, that's the worst when it's real yeast you just put in your mouth and it like just grows in your mouth or whatever. Like oh yeah. Like Pop rock or whatever, like pop rock bread or whatever. Lots of places can expose you to identity theft. Oh no. 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He did Eric Capell. Eric Capell. He did uh the um Uh Weird Al Yankovic movie. And so it's a Yeah, it's a great movie. And then so he did that, and then we had Jeremy Latchham was a producer and uh Sony Tri Star. It was a full on, like big You know, we did it in Atlanta, Tr uh Trilleth, which is right outside of uh Trilla? Trillieth. Trillif. So d uh 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 there were working on different projects? Yeah. Uh like whom did you see, do you mind? You saw Jilliel White? Jillial 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 there? 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 of thing? No, no, it's it's like uh I mean some people have houses there, then you rent 'em out. to people that come. I mean 'cause when you were you know, when they're shooting these Marvel stuff, I mean you'd have to have like, you know Brad or Robert And you know, I mean you can go live not in that town too, but you can but like it 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 freaking, you know, Robert Downey Jr. or Al Pacino is like checking his mail or whatever, you know? Yeah. That would be the weird part for me, dude. Yeah. Trilliet 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, they so they did all they did a bunch of Marvel movies. I th 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 like a lot of the workers, like the idea of the the union guys to be able to go live there and like be able to come sit there and work and That's wild. Uh But they did yeah, everything 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 Trilleth town. Um The four year old residential portion of Treleth was modeled after the building styles and village feel of European cities. It's a new town for about five thousand people created using the principles of new urbanism, a concept that means neighborhoods should be walkable and compact with varied build with varied building types and less emphasis on cars. Oh, it's pretty cool. And each and they would have different streets would be like uh I think it says European and British style designs or other spots. Or I was just saying for cards. What is it? Facets. Oh no, facades. Facades. And They so you you could go shoot actually on that street. So if you had like uh sho shoot a a British style movie. Oh you could shoot it all in your neighbor. Yeah, you 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 can rent it out. Uh And this is on perplexity uh AI. Thank you, perplexity. Um According to the article, the town's amenities are geared toward a walkable, self contained lifestyle, retail, restaurants, a boutique, hotel. Coworking space, performing art 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 it's a great idea. In the fact that if you were trying to Which they did. So you're try 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. 'Cause 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 wanna shoot everything there. Th 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. It's crazy, man. Which I think it's now that LA's like doing something uh like but it got to that point where it 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'm I just wouldn't make a movie. I'm like I'm not going to be just too far away. Well, it's like yeah, man, touring and you w one you're able to the the 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. Power. Like that, you know what I mean? Cause 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 it's you can you can say no. Yes. Get the power of no. Yeah. So you can be like it's like hey, we gotta go make this movie in Canada 'cause it's cheaper, then it's like, then I'll just uh either try to make it on my own or I'll figure it out or find something else or I'm touring, so you're like, Whatever. Yeah. 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 Asheville. But did you try to shoot the film in Nashville? I tried. But this one went so it was moving so quick. That It's like we could have probably then it was it 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 as the you need the uh like an A and B team of workers. So like if you're shooting movies, you need like the A A the union guys, the guys that make up 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 kinda able to flip flop movie or different scene. Like a different movie or whatever. No, I mean a different uh a whole different movie. You gotta have the m multiple production crews. Oh. When at that when that their height of that trillet, I mean, I think they were using twelve to twenty studios. Filming a lot of things. Oh, I see what you're saying. So they would have like as long as you're ki You gonna have a lot of crew in town. Right. You'd we do not have that We don't have we have crew here. We don't have enough to handle uh high demand of movies. Got it. Like you know, you got like they're doing that rescue nine one one, international nine one one or whatever it is. Uh here. Well that's the 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. So you need we just don't have the infrastructure. We don't have the infrastructure. I think we can. Right. I think we can get it. I think it takes time and you gotta show that there's yeah, you gotta take time. You gotta show that you're really committed and doing it. Right. Yeah uh Things have to happen, there needs to be tax incentives, all that type of stuff. But Atlanta has a ton of that. Even for the example, that neighborhood. It's like they have a neighborhood built where people can stay across the street that are from the studios, where they can all be right there. Georgia was a place that jumped on that Really really fast. But you know, then you see it now, a lot of stuff You know, even left. It still wasn't low enough, so then they still go out Oh yeah. Farther. But I mean that's where you're in a movie business. That really reliant on These movies that cost five hundred million dollars to make or what it and you're like Well then you gotta start making moves. Wha how much did you guys cost to make, you said? I think ours is like thirty eight. Million. Are you serious? Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's a it' it's a big studio. Wow, I didn't realize all that, man. Congratulations. I mean, that's that's fascinating. That's wild, dude. Yeah, I think it was something like that. Um and Mandy Moore is also in it. She plays your wife. You have a couple of children in it. Yep. Yeah, the kids are great. Uh Uh Charlotte. Birdie and Stella. the oldest. It's bird. Uh And then but the kids are great and it's a it's a movie that's it's P G. It's the idea this is You know, I want you to go take your whole family out to go to it. I mean. Take your Mom, take your grandma. Like, you know, it's I I I I just love that. I love that when people can go out. And they can all go together. I wanna go to stuff with my family, like You know, you wanna go and then so you go look at a lot of movies now. It's it's like a lot of horror movies. It's a good point. Or it's like a Marvel movie or something. Or it's or it's animated. Like there's no live action movies like this, I think, that are being made that are P G and it's kind of the direction that I wanted to Head in it. What's been a lot of your direction, it feels like. Why is that? Like overall. Like I get it a hundred percent, right? Like I get it, and it's been so successful for you, right? Like, um, I think you're like the top touring comedian last year, maybe, I think. And I I don't mean to get that wrong, you know. But um You know, you attract like s you know you can attract all ages, right? Your comedy's 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 the the it's when li there's tons of kids at my show. Uh not tons. It's but there's kids at the show. Right. And you see 'em, but I watch 'em and I can tell like they're not, you know. I on Like a kid's not gonna lie. They 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 gonna be laughing at that or my but I know when they get in the car, they're gonna just talk about the whole night. And we 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 kinda sits there and stares. then afterwards they just are excited. They haven't been to an adult event. And so this feels very adult. Like you're watching. 'Cause it is. You're being you're making it for You know, my stuff is not I'm not trying to make it Like uh Yeah, like it's just kid friendly. Like 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 kinda like that's just what I've found. But it's just 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 uh I think If you if you don't curse It's I need to hear this. It's uh It's like Cursing is what Like it's just that's what when 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 control of it, just be in control of it. It maybe you it's not saying you don't have to curse But it's where is it and when is it? Yeah. Where it's a lot of I think the younger comedians now It's you know, they they start on the internet. Then they go to the Netflix, like no one's like there's no boundaries. Where w like we came we did live at Gotham I think the same year, right around And when you did that on Comedy Central, you had you could say whatever you wanted to say. That'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. Right. But it's not a bad thing. to have oh I like some TV boundaries around you. Yeah. Cause then it makes you come at stuff in different angles. Oh yeah. I mean I fa I almost fantasy sometimes. Not fantasized, that's probably the weirdest word, but think about that of like, yeah, I would like to get to a place where I don't have to. You know? Or not because I don't have to curse. It's just where I don't where I don't want to curse. I think I do it. I 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, right? 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 some of us just from and stuff like that, I think. But as a 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? You know what I'm saying? 'Cause I work for myself and I'm a shitty employee. Yeah. You know, I'm out back smoking and catching myself. I'll go sneak around the corner, smoke, and then run around the corner and be like, What are you doing out here? You know? The deep fryer's freaking acting up, you know. So But uh do do whatever you want to go do. But by the way, no one thinks I don't think anybody thinks of you as a dirty con. Yeah, thanks. Like I don't think yeah. And curse. Do whatever you want. Yeah. Do whatever you want. But it is a challenge. I do I agree. I I love the fact that it's a challenge to yourself. Um is there is there a day, do you ever like say, well, one day I'm gonna put out there's gonna be like a dark folder I'm gonna put out of just the other side of things. Have you are you ever had like have you ever wanted to have like an OnlyFans where you just say like bad some bad words on it? Uh no. I d I just don't think uh uh I think I'm just past the point of where I would I you know look I like whatever Was 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 Well, 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 church is n 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 g no I mean cursing was looked at. And no one in my family parents did not curse. So I wasn't around like uh that. So I have a Not that I'm I'm not perfect, though, but my strictness. In it in my act is just was like I was just never gonna do it. And then when I started that way, it's like Yeah, it would be weird to go And it does it 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 does if it doesn't feel like I'm ostracious, like I'm I'm envious of it. I think it's awesome, you know. And I think it just portray it just like yeah, it makes it so it's it's ready for everybody, right? Like this is something that you can uh and a parent knows at some point I can turn that on. This is the thing that does get me sometimes. I I if a parents with their kids, like I don't know if I can turn the other podcasts on because it's gonna have profanity in it, or they might be talking about some stuff that's gonna be a bit obtuse for kids. I think about that sometimes with serious radio where it's like you you know, you or you get into some stuff about sports, or you want to listen to some sports stuff and then it's like some of it gets they're cursing and you're like I'm just trying to like the score of the game. UFC had like, you know, I mean we're both giant UFC fans. And 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're cursing and all this stuff. And y 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 and 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 Very go nuts. Yeah. Like, you know what I mean? Like yeah, 'cause the only thing she's gonna look up to is if she hears a bad word, she look up and she's gonna look at you like that, what are you listening to this? And you're like I'm not you're like I know I'm just trying to listen to uh Like you just want it to be like local radio. You're like I'm just a gay chan. What you know Give me a chance here. I'm a Colby look, Colby Covington, it's hard to it's hard to keep him quiet. He's again just the way you can listen to you. I mean I've done anything against Colby. I don't Isaiah V says all the craziest things. Oh yeah. Well a lot of those guys have to be their own advertisers. When you think about some of those guys, it's interesting 'cause they just wanted to fight, but then they have to some of them have to probably and feel a pressure to become this other thing because you have to be their own PR company in a way. Yeah, yeah. And it look I don't feel bad. It's not the fighters. It's like just you wish to the commentators. I mean they do a good job though on UFC. Like I 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. Yeah, when they go interview 'em. But that's another thing. That's the fighter. Uh they're in the moment. It's gonna be hard not to uh let loose and some of that's part of what it is and But it's a I I do think UFC does a great job with like when it's Daniel Corme Rogan and like they do not curse. With John Annik. And they also have when they have Bisping, Paul Felder, even when those guys aren't doing it, Poirier's on there now, Chris Widman. Cormier. I mean, yeah, but those guys are all screen. Cormier's been great. Yeah. 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 fighter and get to share their personalities. Um I gotta ask you about I feel like such a frickin' reporter now. Gotta ask. Uh, dude, so tell me about Nateland. It's real. It's real. The theme park is real. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Where are we at with it? Like what's going on? We're we're about to get into uh some inv investing. Okay. So we're about to start that kind of process. We uh have the land or we basically think we we know where we want the land to be. We have not we like we haven't said anything we're about the land uh Or where it's at or anything. Yeah, but we we've narrowed it down to basically this one spot. And then so It's but yeah, we I mean we're we have the renderings we're work they're working on it every day. Uh We have Storyland. Storyland is a group that uh Story Lane is a group they did uh They've done stuff with everything. Uh they I think they had some stuff to do with the epic. It's a lot of the guys that worked With Disney for a long time and they started their own kinda company and they did all the Disney's in Dubai and Storyland is a company that helps make these things come to fruition. Like they build them and everything. Yeah, yeah. Got it. And so they they they make it They help you design 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 render? Can you zoom in on that photo for me, some? Uh it's it's gonna be so like it says Nate Lane in the front, like so that front area right past the Nate Lane is gonna be like a retro mall. Mm-hmm. 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 uh Netflix house that we talked about earlier, you know, maybe you can have something like that. I'm I'm not saying this is what we're we're 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. Yeah, the section to the left. Uh roller coasters? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Uh you know what's crazy, dude? I just went to uh Hur I was in Hershey, Pennsylvania. You went to the um Hershey Pennsylvania. No, Hershey Park. Dollywood? Not thinking of Kennywood. I think I know Kennywood, too. Kennywood's in Pittsburgh. Oh, no, we didn't go there. Went to uh Hershey Park. How was that? It's all it's awesome. And so we rode some roller coasters. Which were uh it was kind of roller coaster shopping. Which was crazy. 'Cause you're like meh. Well you would just write well they had a few that you rolled back the miles on this. Yeah you go. There you go. No thank you. Uh but it was weird to be riding a roller coaster being like Yeah, that was they go uh that one felt great. And then you're like Yeah y you know, you're kinda like, Yeah, yeah, let's do that one. Dude, that's wild. And who did you go with? Was that just a family trip? You guys I I was on the road. I was there. I did shows there. And so we had uh one guy from Story Land who came up. And He kinda just walked me through and said, uh one of 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 the same people made this roller coaster. So you kind of ride in the roller coaster knowing that that company is who would make that roller coaster or This is another one. So you you're really riding some stuff and And getting a you know, being like, all right, what's this one kinda feel like? What's this one do? And and and how much is a coaster, decent coaster? Uh I found out like w uh there was one There was one like uh Uh uh like a big one might be like 30 million dollars. Like or I I'm not like You know. I don't know if it's the biggest one, but it like uh A kinda newer Very, very good coaster they have. Guess someone is trying to guess. There uh was about thirty they said thirty million dollars. And then there's some other rides. That were one was like a new version of a Tilt a whirl kinda, but it w it was like kind of moved around. You tried that out too? Yeah, yeah, we we we rode that just to see what that was. And I think that was like eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Oh, that's one. You can get that one. That one you get in your house. You know. You g just gonna lay away? You gotta just have that. Lay, lay, lay away. Yeah. Uh Dang, I bet Kid Rock could get that thing. Yeah. But he'd probably But it's like, yes, so you start going through He'd ruin it. And this theme park, I mean He would ruin the kin the Sorry, how does that say that? It's in the white 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. You could well you should get a discount and be like, if you get fifty grand off So that fifty to that leg. That's what I'm saying. He already wrapped his head around spinning eight fifty. Yeah. And then uh you know what you could go, eight like if Kid Raw goes, I'm spending eight fifty 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 lemon mud. Oh, if I had a brother missing something, I'd limb his little ass up in a heartbeat. But that's me. Um do you have a budget for how much you can spend on coaster for this thing? Or you Yeah, yeah. It's all budgeted in. Like I mean, you know, we're looking it's like roughly gonna be like three hundred and fifty million dollars. And then yeah. And is will the land be a lease or will it be owning the land? 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 because I mean it's crazy because you're I'll be in this in these meetings and I forget. Again, that we're talking about like being in charge. I forget like storyland, like all this stuff when you do this, I'm paying for all this. For them to go f do the feasibility study and like to economic study and 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 this idea in doing this is the g 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 w 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 Jew. Dig? Yeah. They got a lot of water out there, huh? Yeah, yeah, a lot of meters. And you had to go do it. Uh 'cause you can't just guess, huh? Now 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 have they have snakes in there sometimes? Oh yeah. I remember one was laid right on top of the water meter. And you gotta get it. That makes my body nervous. Yeah, yeah. Spiders. And you never knew. Every time you open one up. You ever find anything cool in there? Some Uh, no, I don't think I ever found anything like that. No. Really? Not nobody to hit nothing, a little spare lunch or whatever. I don't think people's like a Christmas ornament. It would be a good place to put something. Nobody thinks about that. It's so good. Yeah. I don't think they do. But it it would have been a good spot. But you'd see spiders up in there? I mean, yeah, that was every one of 'em had spiders. No They loved it. And you ever see a clean, somebody taking care of it? They just No. No, I mean you it's you know I mean I guess a newer house, like, you know, one I think it just hasn't been to it yet. Yeah. But Uh, yeah. But I do remember the snake. Snake was just curled right on top of it and I had to get it off 'cause I have to lift thing to read it. Gosh. Yeah, I sold Italian food door to door for a while. This fella dude, and that was a dang. Pizza or just all Italian food? Huh? Uh no, we had bread rolls, we had um Italian It was like this thing called Italian caviar or whatever, but it was really just like Rabby oly. And then uh What else can Like um pastas, bolinese, they had Arabiata Uh what else? Mm. think they had vodka sauce pizza or something. Yeah. I don't know, but we just had like pizza too. You deliver pizzas? Pizza. You worked the damn pizza, dude. They're redoing it. You saw that they're coming back. Oh yeah. Yeah. You know why? Cause experiences. That's a big thing. That's a big reason. It's to it's stuff for people to do, 'cause they they we we had that uh you remember they used to have a buffet, pizza buff Yeah 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. They take you there. Yep. That was something serious was happening. And it could be something good or Ford Waters and you got the sprite. And hope they didn't notice. With I would buy I would buy Five dozens of those red cups. The Coke, any soda tastes the best out of that. It's the best. Now they had a particular t type of ice in there too, I think. Yes. Like a little shave sonic. Yeah, it was something different. Something was different. I think having a unique ice is it's little things like that that can add a lot of texture to a place. Um a little bit more about Nateland. So 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? No, just my money. So you're the only money. This doesn't go anywhere I will be in Big trouble. No, I mean But it's like right now it's on it's just me. What made you make that choice? It's a big choice. And no judgment and 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 is exciting. I'll go over there. Thank you. We'd love to. Uh it it's uh You know, my first job was uh theme park. I worked at Operand here in Nashville. And uh I was fifteen. And so I don't know, they 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 kinda liked it. I I I'm not saying from that day I was like I'm gonna build a theme park. But then as I got Uh Why did they close it, do you know? They they got a mall. There's a mall there now. Opera mills. But it used to be Opera Linda theme park. Yeah. Right there. Yeah. I don't even know that. Yeah. I don't even know if it'd be curious to see if there's a reason I don't know if there'd be a a real reason on on the internet, to be honest. I think that it was like maybe pro like it was like just easier to have 'em all than it would be A theme part for whatever reason. Got it. Opera Lane USA closed in nineteen ninety seven because its parent company, Gaylord Entertainment. Wanted to transition, sorry. crazy name. Gay Lord, because the Lord I think is straight. Yeah. Wanted to transition the seasonal theme park into a highly profitable year round retail and entertainment complex. Understandable. So that was the Wall Bush Cannibal, the one that goes upside down or Oh, that was it? You remember the name of that one? I know yeah. What's that one? Scream Wall Bash Cannonball. The Wall Bash Cannonball? Yeah. Dang, so you were there, Nate. Yeah, screaming the the screaming delta demon. Oh yeah, I met her before. I met her, dang it, out at uh she goes to Mississippi for sure. I think she just did fifty days of boozing out there at uh in Knoxville for sure. Dude uh Oh my God. See, you were in the trenches there at Opri Land. I was a I was a sweeper. And I worked in the dog kennel. And my dad did magic there. Oh so But he like so the reason I thought about this was like the idea it's Uh, you know, when you started I started doing all these arenas and all this, my I the the my I my big daydreaming goal when I was starting comedy was the headline Bridgestone. And so when I've when I did it for the first time, I remember that night. Uh I really 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 twenty years. And then uh which is crazy, it was twenty years. Pretty much I think exactly for me to get there. to headline Bridgestone. And congratulations. And we sold nineteen thousand thive tickets, which is twenty years. Isn't that crazy? If you're into I don't know, I'm not even into numbers. You sold nineteen thousand three hundred and sixty five tickets. So nineteen years plus 365. Which is 20 years. 20 years. Dang. And but uh so. When you when I got to that I go, all right. Like I just felt. Like what am I What's the next You gotta have something else. It can't be, you know, I you gotta I gotta assume that if I keep becoming a great comic, the 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 per and I and I thought it can't be about me. Right. This life cannot be about me. Or I'm gonna go crazy. Right. And so uh From that moment when I started Nate when I was like I'm gonna start Nate Laying the company, the idea of like being able to make some movies that are the movie that we're making right now, the breadwinner. And then uh, you know, I thought of a theme park and thought like, you know what, I wanna build a place where You know, maybe all my ideas can go live. This theme park's not going to be about me. It's about the state of Tennessee, but or it's about, you know, it's called Nate Land and there's going to be Easter egg is stuff, but people think it's going to be a like a shrine to me. It's not. It's you know, it's gonna represent Nashville and all this stuff. It's like you just got to have someone that has the vision to be able to Wanna go do it. Did you guys have choices for different names? Is Nateland because it's the production company, so you just named it the same thing? It's just always been yeah, Nateland is uh And I get it. Look, I mean you worked at a you worked at a theme park, you came up with it. It's like I certainly get that. I think that's the it's the trust. The reason 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 I they know that they can see what I'm doing. Then It's like you kinda need to know who's making like who's behind this. I see and if you're putting yourself I'm putting my I will sell the tickets. Got it. I the responsibility of that park thriving is on me. I need to sell the trick 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. That's that's what I feel has been bestowed upon me. That's I'm just doing what I feel I'm being asked to do. Called to do. Did you pray about it kind of too like if you had a because this isn't some of these are big choices, not that you need to. Yeah, no, yeah, yeah. A lot of it is. I mean, a lot of it is you feel very much like you know, doors and and stuff and your ideas and stuff that you think of or it's not even yours. It belongs it's like a higher power. Oh yeah yeah. I I very much you 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 in that way, then you go, that's the direction you need to kind of head in. Where if you've if you've 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 kinda Follow the lead. And uh as we did Nate Land and then it was just so excited. You got me excited now. Cause 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 to you talk about it. 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. 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, or you go to like Tim Horton's 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 'em. Ernest T Bass? No Ernest. Oh, the singer. Yeah. Ernest the singer, dude. For Logan's Roadhouse, he's kinda like John Daly is for Hooters. I think he like lives in the back of one of 'em. Bless him, brother. Bless Ernest. He has a new album coming out, too. I gotta get him and Willie Robertson in here so now. 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 rods, because I I know you've already thought about some of the ride. Wait, first of all, is there gonna be a water facil? It's you're not doing the water thing, huh? Water part. No. Because also people get electricity. People get electricated. If you're in water parks. Yeah. Really? Well, I mean, they're not gonna if you get electricity just at a r this is kinda crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Well if it rains, it's more water, but if you get a If you get electrocuted Do you have to have water to get electro-cated? No. I've been electric cheated. I got elect cheated up some by I don't know. food truck that was selling seafood, illegal seafood. Um You know what I'm saying, Portland? You know Portland would always I thought of this day are like are like uh uh uh Like you said, like uh food trucks. Right? Like people make fun of like, 'cause I'll go to McDonald's and all that stuff. Then people go to food truck. And they're like, They're raving about this food truck, you're like This guy had his food in his Honda Civic all night. You gotta trust that he took it home. Yeah, dude. And you go, Who are you to tell me that mine's at least in a building and frozen. Yeah. Like they'll call especially if people in the South, like red and eggs. Like But dude, this guy, yeah, that you know close that is to his gas tank? Like he's cooking really Right over New York City's like, you know, it's like then there's a bit of a long line and a food truck and You're you know, and the it's like, Oh, that's okay. And you're like Donald's safer than that. Yeah, dude. I don't want a case it either that is that got here at eighty miles an hour. Yeah. That's got tire marks on it because he backed it. Cause he got in a fight that morning with his wife and he ran out and 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. Little saran wrap. If he's like, oh dang, this is like three days old, you put some stringer up over it? It's like when you get an Uber and there's a car seat and you're like I don't want to be a part of your life, man. Yeah. I just want to ride in an Uber. Yeah. I didn't know Kevin Hart was in here earlier. Um Did you get it did you get us to be on the roast? Uh I think s I think s I think so. But I mean that's just not my So I I mean it wouldn't have I had a show at the same time too. You did? Mm-hmm. They did it. They did the roast. Oh, none of the roasters I don't think had a problem with the jokes. Um Oh wait, except for Chelsea Handler did, I think. Chelsea Anler came out and said that she has some problem with us. Some of Shane and Tony's jokes, maybe. Yeah. Um I don't think with the roast, I think with Shane and Tony. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. She had a problem with them. Good call. She kinda said the yeah. Yeah. 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 like fair game, unless it's like vile, you know, maybe. I think it's gotta all be fair game, just signing up for it. I mean it's like w how like I know, you know, it's like one of those like where are you gonna say the line is. Yeah. The roast have just they they've just got I believe we've gotten to the spirit of the roast is kinda gone. You're you're not really having people on there that love each other. And so if there's no love shown, then uh It's it it just gets mean and Um, you know. And but I mean not saying that they they did they did what they were asked to do. Right. I thought they a a lot of them did a great job. You know what I was very happy for Big J Ogerson killed it. Yes. Uh yeah, Big J, I was very happy. Uh you know, I've been with Big J. We started with him like Uh so Jay crushed it and Naeem Lin, I thought crushed it. And uh I like Nine Lean, but those are those people have a connection. With uh Kevin Hart. Yeah. And so they there's there's there you can see that the love is there. I thoug Shane did very good. Uh or like, you know, moving along, hosting it, like it's a hard thing to it's a lot to go do. Uh yeah, people did they were supposed to do. But I mean these roast It's like uh 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 be 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. I thought Hart did great handling a lot of it too. Yeah it was like it wasn't You know. He you know, kept saying like this is what you signed up for and Yeah, he kept on the messaging was good from him afterwards, like 'Cause I mean it was like such a tough crazy It's a crazy. I mean, you know. You w what you yeah, 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 uh are you as far as I knew. 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 'em. Each other. It's like it's gonna be it's gonna 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 she handled it well. She handled it very well and like uh Yeah, I had joke I was thinking while she was up there. I was like, oh, she looks like Prince put his finger in the new power generation. That was something I that I thought of while she was up there, you know? Cause I like sitting her. Were you at it? And thinking of jokes. Uh uh uh I wasn't at it. I don't wanna go, like, I don't want them catching my face if I see something or if my feelings get hurt, something I got enough of that shit out. So I don't need any of that. But yeah, it was just interesting. They oh yeah 'cause you get enough. You just get more calls and text. Oh dude. They just show your face like to jump off a building. Yeah, he's not doing well. Every week it's like somebody fight out the is not doing well. I'm doing fine. In fact, I'm doing great. Yeah. Well that's what that's what people want to hear, though. You know? And 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 shown your way that people worry about it. Yeah, but sometimes it's 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 like I just kinda share what's going on, right? Like and I share it pretty transparently, I guess. And maybe I shouldn't do that as much. But 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. You know, like I'm as fine as any human being is. Being a human seems real spooky sometimes. Yeah. But every podcast without fine. No. But then here's the crazy part. The the more you say shit like then it becomes this thing. So the whole thing is kinda 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 McCollow. I actually like it. It's just crazy. I like that idea, dude. Yeah. And look, we keep moving the desk closer over to the edge. They go, is he all right? He goes, I'm fine. And he just started scooting. Julian McCullough, you know Julian. Uh he has a very funny joke, like when he gambles, like when he loses, uh He goes, hey, do y'all got a bathroom on top of the roof? Uh is just uh Dealer. Which is such a funny thing to say. After you lose a big 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. You know, we're getting things things have gotten a little You know, things are getting a little interesting. Um we gotta talk about the rides, dude. So what first of all, what I don't know if I'm gonna be able to tell you anything about the rides. For the rides at that at Nate Land? Yeah. But do you know the governor that's gonna be the speed on them or whatever? Have you already decided? No, no, no. We I mean we're going through Oh, like how fast? Let me run one of them. I'll let you run one of them. Oh well. How. Just for an evening. Just do Dio night. I do a Theo Knight, you run it. And then you get on it with them, but you don't pull the safety thing down. You go. Oh, I say it doesn't work. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm saying you sit in it. And you leave yours up and they go, he's not fine. And that's the And we all we just always play into that. He goes 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. I don't uh just to yeah, just to Let me DJ it one night or something. Oh yeah. Or what are good rides I'm trying to think for like even for young like I always had a ride that helped you. the lisp fixer or whatever. Oh, like it'd be spinner. Just something like it just spun you so much you the lisp just flew right out. Counterclockwise. Yeah. Spinner counterclockwise. Yeah. Time after time. Remember that song? Yeah. You can rush, you could buy, you can still find me. Is that a a Lisp? Time after time. Is that a song by Lisp? I don't know who sang that, but I just think if they had a or the underbite fix or whatever I'm trying to think of a good like a rod that would like, you know Underbite fix would be just where you have a guy walk around and 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. Facial recognition, all that stuff, we can tell. And then he's just a guy. That's just, you know, he's gonna get you. And you know he's gonna get you. Yeah. But he's gonna get you so good that you're never gonna see it coming. And we fix it under bite. I like that. Yeah, no charge. I like that idea. Or yeah, or if they had like the GLP one. The Osympic ride. Yes. And when you get off. And it makes 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 or a towel and you put it in the washer and you do the spin cycle. Yeah. comes out. It'll almost stand up itself. It's got so much Centrifugal in it. Well you do that boy get your mama so spun around she dang you know what I'm saying? She'll fit into a size one and a half. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She'll fit into her dang baby. For at least an hour. Like it maybe it's I don't think it's gonna be forever. No, it's not but it's at least an hour. Yeah. 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. You better get to that church quick. Oh yeah. Yeah I gotta be in Natel at one PM and then I gotta be some of that food that you ate where you feel it expand in your mouth, that's what's gonna happen to your body in a wedding dress. But you come in Yeah. Once the band starts though, honey that's we we're not responsible for that. Yeah, you get one I mean but you could fit into your sixth grade graduation pants if you had For one for one hour. 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. I 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. But then they put that head thing on you, the 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 I would love it. Yeah. Oh it doesn't seem like that right now. No, no. I think we have a I think we're gonna have a part where you're gonna fit right in. Yeah Let me run that crocodile tank. It's gonna be a swamp like a swamp pot. I'm just sitting there petting a crocodile and we took all his scales down. We sh we like um Used a um wood thing to take his scales down low and you can pet him. Oh, no De sharpened him. Yeah. But what about the mouth? You're like mouth is gut. We left the mouth. We forgot about that. You go, do you know how expensive it was to do the top part? And that's when the guy undercuts him the car cut up. And you go, golly, that guy was worth it. It's like a butter bean. Remember butterbean? Yeah, I remember. It's just like a butter bean 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? I did know Hulk Hogan. That's pretty good. 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 um got to go down there and see him one time down at his bar. And restaurant and s uh a fan of his son, Nick. Um Eric David Scott Esh, better known by his nickname, Butterbean. Was there some just I mean everybody His funeral like there's some big guys there. Oh, dude. Tall, like you know. Mankind was there, I think. Yeah, yeah. Womankind was there too, I think. Was the Undertaker there? I hadn't seen her in a while, but Yeah. She Who? Womankind. Oh I think whoever that is. Um Jacksaw Jim Duggan was there. Uh Undertaker? Undertaker was not there that I didn't see. Jim uh Vince McMahon was there. Um Will you have a band like a the Chuck E Cheese band or anything like that, at Nateland, do you think? Uh I think that's all that's open for discussion. Yeah. And you got a cool Nate Oh, nate inch nails would be good. Oh yeah. Yeah, you laugh. That's pretty good. Yeah. It's a kid music. But it's all rock. But yes, it's a rock band doing kid music. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. Thanks. Nate Vana maybe. It's not as good. Um Might be it. It might be it. Nakel back. This is how Yeah. I like that. Okay. Um we have a new segment that we're doing, Nate. It's by uh it's our it's our Mountain Dew summer segment. Um So thank you for being here, real quick. Yeah. Thank you, buddy. Thank you for being here. And congratulations, dude, on your movie. Yeah. Um, and congratulations on your uh your goals to make uh an amazing theme park in an amazing city. Thank you. I want to say awesome, man. Yeah. It's quite it's really inspiring. Thank you, dude. And I mean that. Thank you, man. Um, 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. Uh you're hosting a barbecue, right? And these are for you and me. Okay. Cause I hadn't seen these. You're hosting a barbecue. What do you say if you burn someone's meat? Uh, I mean just like apologize to him, but sorry. Yeah, I'll make you another one. Or you say I'm gonna I'll eat that one. And you take it. Yeah. Yeah. That's what you did. You go, I'll eat that one. I'll handle it. Yeah, don't worry about it. Yeah. And for some. And they go, No, no, no, no. I uh I'll give it to my mom who eats everything burnt. She does? Loves everything burnt. Oh yeah. There's a there's an old I think if you're born in the fifties, you're extra well done all day long. Yeah. Not even a not even a If you see someone walk in and they're seventy Go ahead. And start burning that steak. Yeah, I agree. It's not they're not doing medium rare, they're not doing medium the medium wells. Burn it. Yeah. Because they're using also prefabricated teeth, a lot of them have they got. Some children. They got the ability to get the yeah. They're just shaking it. Like a dog. They want, yeah, there's a certain age and they They well, well done. I agree. That's what I say. Just or say who likes that dark meat. That's another way to get through to 'em. Uh, do you remember drinking from a two-liter bottle of soda? Do you ever remember that like as a kid? Like 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. Yeah. I do. We buy a lot. I don't people I don't think cans were I think botta two leaders so bottom was way more in when I was younger. Two liters and cups. And yes. And now it's like I guess environments cans, but And I remember one time uh they came out with the wide mouth. Oh yeah. Two liter. You s remember that? Yeah, and you could pour it. You could pour 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 are the days. Oh, those are the days. Yeah that was. I used to drink a diet Mount Dew. I mean I would drink it every day. Really? And what were you training for? Just I mean Just a ma being American, huh? I think just keeping my body where I I can whatever I put in it's gonna be able to handle it. love that. You know what I mean? Oh yeah. Well also the in I mean you'll get some I could drink in the morning. You drink diet mountain dew in the morning. I yeah, I can. Yeah. Dad or I'll drink uh Diet Something in the morning. Oh I'll show soda. Yeah. I'll show them whose boss right off the gate. Right out the gate, dude. I I think if I had to give up soda, I think it Oh yeah. Or hey, and shout out to anybody drinking breakfast soda. Yeah. Colin Quinn. He drinks it. He drinks Diet Coke and Warren. Yeah Oh, he's a breakfast soda drinker. Um Dude, did you know did you know Mountain Dew started in Tennessee? Uh I think so, but I don't know, you know. I think I do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Smoky Mountains is where you put it. Oh. I love that old logo. Oh yeah, let me say that old logo. Mountain Oh, I never saw that. That throwback. That's beautiful. Um, all right, last one. I feel like diet do is real big in the trade world. You'll see it a lot of times. Electricians, comedians, right? Yes. You said yourself you were a morning drinker. Um, plumbers, roadkill guys, right? Yeah. If you look in the back of the truck, you see eleven of those empty diet dew bottles or whatever. They're they're quietly like the backbone of America, these diet do 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 landful you're passing by or just and it and it just it's summertime, right? The winters are down. W what song or band are you turning on the radio? And you drink and died Mountain Dew. Yeah, you can be if you want. I'll have one with you. Yeah. You know, maybe some country. Uh Toba Keith. Oh yeah. You know? Yeah, no. Yeah, no, I'm talking about that song. Yeah, I agree, man. I'll enjoy that with you. Yeah. That'd be a nice drive. Um All right. Thank you so much, dude. It's just been I think it's been good. I love learning about Nate Lan, man. I think I understand it a lot better. Yeah. Yeah, no, people don't yeah, I mean it was I think people d are I mean it's crazy, dude. It's crazy 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 'Cause 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 midlife crisis, quarter life crisis. You'll see like a fifth grader going through like a f fifth grader life crisis they have now on TikTok or whatever. Um in fifth grade they do? Yeah. Now that's a thing or whatever. It's like, all right. But do you graduate I went to my daughter graduated eighth grade. You went to that? Yeah, and I went to that. Did you I don't 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. Cause you look so forward to it, but then you had n there was nothing to do. Yeah. You would lay there all summer and just drool in the middle of your living room. Mm-hmm. And wait for your mom to get home, even though you couldn't you couldn't wait for her to leave, but you couldn't wait for her to get home. Yeah. Yeah. God Yeah, today was my daughter's first Start of summer. But anyway. What do y'all have planned for the summer together? Do y'all is it some things you guys are gonna do? Um I don't know. She uh like she rides horse she loves horse riding and all this, so she'll she'll do a ton of that. And that's what her summer ends up becoming a lot of like going out. We it it's at a we have a uh she goes to this stable that's run by this great this f uh family and so she goes there and I mean show me up there. All day. Mm-hmm. 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'm not I've not done it enough to get better at it. It's a lot. I mean it's a it's a lot. Get on horses is a lot. I mean, you know, but she does it. She you know, to tack a horse and but the Everything on it, it's a whole whole thing. Oh yeah. But yeah, I definitely plan on getting out there. I mean, last time I tried it was like colder, but now that we're in the summer and I'll try to you know go on some trail rides with her. Amen. Maybe a blast, dude But you're saying there's something about Nateland, like the Yeah, yeah. Anything else you can tell me about Nataline kinda before we leave? Well it's it's like the idea, the hard part is uh Oh, I was saying thank you so much for just for explaining to me what it was like, like w what some of the things that you're 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? Like I just got done with my special. Like I'd been touring for the past like really twenty years I've been touring, right? Like I was touring twenty six weekend a year. 'Cause I could sell tickets before like early because I've been on TV already, but it was like I didn't have any comedy. But so I it's just been so 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 out and go back out. And maybe that is what'll be what I'll do. Like, you know, get a new hour and go out. But it's 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. Um And maybe you already answered that for me, sorry. No, well I would say Yeah, the hard I think the hard part when you d wanna 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 Lane, you're like, why are you calling it you gotta call it after Nate? You get all this kind of stuff like that. And I think that's the hardest part is just kinda sit and wade through those kind of things and not let you 'Cause it is crazy. But I I know what I'm doing it for the right reason and I just gotta believe that You know, I'm doing it for the right reason. And so you gotta sit mm. Just kinda 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. Yeah You know, I'm like I don't come from any world where I should be building a theme port. Yeah. There's Uh 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 gotta go to where you start going like well then I'll just start. I'll just keep going 'til someone says No. Until they you know Well Mike Lindell had the Ma Pella. And you wanna saw that probably out of 'em. I'll sell it out. Yeah. You w you wouldn't have sold it out of them probably. Oh no, no, no, no, not at all. Or people have all kinds of No, but like yeah that 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 gotta just go do it, dude. Yeah. And the hardest thing is you gotta sometimes and I it's it's gonna 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 kinda come and they they you know, they don't understand it. Some of that is um Some of it's jealousy. I think some of it is you're leaving people behind. That's like that The thing that you could see we're getting in shape. I'm not in shape. I wanna get in shape. But it's like I don't know, if someone or anything, if someone does something 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 I yeah, I'm sh the name had pops into my head, like, oh why wh why would he choose that? What's going on, right? Um I choose it because I knew again, like to trust it. Oh, do after talking to you, like 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 Um Wow, he's brave enough to do that. And 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's w yeah, no one wants to No one wants to And look at Walt Disney. It was n he had both of his names in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He went heavy. He went all the way in dude. But you go see these guys like people are stuck where they They s they see stuff get built and people have these ideas and they think we 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. I'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 not, 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 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. Like it's just I'm doing this from I'm just doing it. Somebody's gotta do it. Someone's gotta do it and 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, but the same with making a movie. It's the same with anything. It's like what maybe, you know? You always think and anybody that's is says no, you're like, What does it matter? What does it matter if I cares? Yeah. What is it? I don't want anything from you. Right. I don't want anything from Yeah, I want people that either buy into what I'm trying to do. Or Or just don't way I feel about 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. I wanna smile and think about the things that I try. Yeah. You know you gotta think w too with comedians. Look at the success you get where just you're talking. We're just talking. We don't have movie. We don't have uh music. Behind us we don't have That's just us talking. Yeah. So like if you start that's why you think about the movies where you're like Yeah, if you go put a movie behind you know, not that everything's gonna work or whatever. Yeah, like w it's the most purest art form. So if you can get to a high level of just Oh, a movie's scary. Straight up that. Well movie's scary because You don't know if it's how it's gonna be 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 a movie with an audience until I sat in there and watched it at the premier. Yeah. And that was Bizarre, dude. Cause you're almost like I'd watch it on my computer a bunch. I don't 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 Berna por Porno or whatever. Cause you're like, I should this is something you watch by yourself. And suddenly I realized as it starts, I'm like, whoa, 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 it's very weird to watch yourself and you're you're like ah I should've done that, or I should've done the you know. Yeah, or just yeah. I mean 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 it, but like, yeah, when a movie you're like You just feel like you feel like everybody else is like a real actor. And you're like, Yeah, 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 that 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 rise be for all ages, or is the rise even just for like little children? No, no, it's a all a full we're Fun big rides. For Like every it's Like a regular theme park. Yeah. So it's gonna be In you know, shows and Stuff like that. It'll be it'll be the the real deal. I love it. Uh so it'll be, yeah, everybody everybody can come out. Amen. Um Nate Bargati, the movie opens up this week, May 29th, in theaters in 3,300 theaters. That's what we found out. The breadwinner. Uh, Nate Bargatsy, Mandy Moore. Um, 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 d 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 dead era and it's a sweet, sweet funny, uh cute movie. And again, something that we take everybody out to. And that's all. It's the first one, so. See where we go from here. Hey man, man. Congratulations, bro. Thanks for your time, dude, and congrats on everything, man. Thank you. Yep. Yeah, brother. Now I'm just falling on the breeze, and I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be calling. Oh Reach that ground I'll share this peace of mind I found I can feel it in my bone