Nate Bargatze

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You know, I have a bunch of stuff this week, because they all come to everything. Are you touring right now? Yeah. Where are you at? I'm in the middle of it.

It only ended in August. How many dates? Probably 150 years. Almost every other day. Almost.

Yeah. How are you maintaining your energy? It's like I would read these things about let know. He's like hosting the Tonight Show, and then somehow doing 80 dates a year.

“Like how the fuck is this man doing all those things?”

I have pretty good energy, where I live, we got a crazy storm, so I was into it. I was like five trees in my yard. You know where I'm out Julia? Where you are at Waterman? Yes.

I heard you are out there. You're out there full time yet? I wish. No. All summer, Thanksgiving, Christmas, any moment we have three days were there.

We love it so much. Yeah. Our friend Hannah was staying at the house, because she knew she was gonna lose her power. Where she was at? Can we say your house?

Great. And she's just anymore. Like the streets down the streets down. So you were in Nashville this morning? So I was in Toledo, Saturday.

So I was going to Knoxville, Tennessee, Knoxville got canceled because of the weather. So I was going to go home, but the weather got kind of just too crazy of a, we got stuck and so then we went to Vegas. They got full power and they got full power right now. We did the same thing.

We did not lose power, but like my brother, he's got his power back. So then I got my buddy Brian, his family's all power. So they're coming over today. There's a ring that I love, and then there was yesterday my wife goes, I told Benny and his three roommates from Ole Miss.

They could come up and stay at the house because they lost power.

Like first of all, when did they stay in plan?

There's seven hours. Yeah.

“And then three dudes that are in college at my new house?”

No way. Yeah, yeah. When I said you bet, and then luckily they got out there and then they jettisoned the plan. On icy roads like that. It's not the part of your heart.

Yeah. And I looked up the weather. It was like, bro, it's 43 NMR. I think the ice issue is going to be gone. Yeah.

Yeah. Whoever Ole Miss is. Oxford, Mississippi. Yeah. That's got to be further south amount.

Juliet, we would agree. Much further. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. What if that was a skill you had where we'd set a college and you knew exactly the town

it was in? I bet you do because two were touring and college football. You could name a college and I could make it. Who's your team? Dennis.

I'm a Vanderbilt fan. Okay. I did not go to Vanderbilt. His mother worked in the box office though. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. So grew up a diehard Vanderbilt fan. Now, where do you live currently in Nashville? Brentwood.

I'm from Old Hitcree, which is the side of your own. Yeah. You went K through four there. Yeah. Now, I was public to ninth grade.

I went to Donaldson Christian my senior year. My dad was a teacher. And so he was able to teach there and then we're able to afford to go there. Yeah. Is that a history teacher there?

Yep.

“Is that a bummer or fun to have your dad teaching in your high school?”

You know, I never had him as a teacher because he was teaching different grade.

I played basketball. I got cut all four years from my basketball team. But the first year my dad was the assistant coach of the basketball team. That's good. He gave you the news.

I think I got the news soon out. But you had no reason on it. Yeah. I started a decision. Yeah.

Part of the decision. Oh, I was cut to I tried out with my best friend in seventh grade. And he only tried because he wasn't hanging out in the end. And I didn't make the team and he did. Oh, so then he just quit.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was the even thing a long honor of now that he quit. They'll call me. And I don't think I was even second runner up for the cuts. He still couldn't get you in.

He sure said I'll only play if you bring.

Yeah.

“There's brothers in the NFL that are that way, right?”

One brother.

I watched this incredible real sports for one brother.

He's missing a hand or something. Do you know this story? Yeah. And he went to college. He was basically like, I'll play here.

But you got to take my brother too. And then the brothers fucking great. And he plays with one hand. And I showed my little girls when they were like four and six. The 60 minute segment are real sports.

I'm like, look at these two. That's you too. That's how you be a sibling. Oh, I don't know. We'll lose a hand.

That's right. The win. One of you. Not if win. And we don't know.

I'm better than you. How athletic and great you have to be. To just not have a hand. No. It's unimaginable.

It's hard enough with two hands. You and I had everything. We had all of our appendages and we couldn't make the team. And for him to get that high glide by us. To go for John daily.

Well, he's a local legend in Mount Julia. Yes. He was a guy that was so talented. But drink is warm up. Would be three diet cokes and a couple cigarettes.

And then he would just go out. And then he won like a major championship. He tells the story himself quite often. He loves the story that he invited Tiger at the end of a match to the bar to have some post match drinks. And Tiger said if I was his talent.

So did you. I could go have drinks. Yes. But I got to go practice. And since nursing.

He tells that story and he likes it. Well, yeah. It's a compliment. It is. Yeah.

Now, if you had done what Tiger did, you had the talent. The god knows. If you didn't go to the 19th hole. I mean, he had a great time. Clearly.

Two majors. I mean, he's got a tour boss. We got a tour boss. That's doing great. I watched some documentary.

It was like about drug lords and Netflix. And there was a woman from Compton in the 80s. She came to biggest drug or whatever. But she was also growing up. Could have been an Olympic sprinter.

You got person like that. You're just being a great. Yeah. So it just matters. How do you apply it?

And so where do you send it? And her path. What is the other way? And then she's like, all right. Well, I'll just be the best.

I think she just talks now. She has a podcast. She could. She could. She could.

But like motivational speaking.

“I thought that's what happened toward the end.”

But again, now I'm starting to make up. That's all right. That's all right. But it led us to an incredible segue for me. So your father, I think very interestingly,

was a clown and a magician and a motivational speaker. Yes. What did his work life look like when you were a kid? First of all, I know you guys are really close. You adore your dad.

Yeah. Yeah. What did dad's work life look like growing up? He was a magician.

I always said, like, my daughter, your kids.

None of this seems out of the ordinary for them. That's all they've ever seen. So he was that kind of aspect. He always had a regular drive. He was a teacher.

And then he would do magic and stuff. Well, even let's go back. He was going to be a preacher, yeah. Yes. He had a very rough upbringing.

My family was in Tennessee. Then his mom, my grandmother ran away when she was like 17 to Louisville. So my parents are both from Louisville, Kentucky. And then when my dad was 18, he ran away back to Nashville. And then lived with our cousin Ronnie Bargazzi,

who coached at Vanderbilt II. He was like a coach and broadcaster. So the reason we kind of fell in love with Vanderbilt. And then Ronnie, like kind of got him straight. He's a Christian saved him.

I mean, was he drinking and found her in? Yeah, I think he was just lost. You know, my dad had a Christmas where he woke up. All the kids had a present but him. And some stuff like that.

So he was just kind of lost. So your dad was kind of the black sheep. Very much. So he ran away. Then moved home and really straightened up.

And they were really strict with them,

which was something he's never had before.

No one ever cared where he was. Now they cared where he was. Right. They were like, "You better be home at this time." And my mom and my dad had been together since 7th grade.

Oh. 7th grade and they're still together. Yep. My goodness. So did she come to?

Yeah, they got married. She came. And then I was born 79. And when I was five, my dad went to college. Trevecha graduated and started teaching and still do a magic.

And all that kind of stuff. I mean, to me, all that's of show business, too. Like, I've interviewed several people that were going to be preachers. Or Jack White was going to the seminary, but they went and let him bring his amplifiers. So he didn't go.

It's so interesting how many people that desire that you feel like you have a communication skill or something. Yeah, just like, I'm going to head that way. You feel drawn to stand in front of people and try to convey something. Exactly.

“I think no internet even for me when you've started.”

You don't see anyone succeeding. So the high school I was going to go to is a pretty rough high school. So a lot of parents would try to switch. I went to a very blue collar Christian school. It wasn't a high, high end place, but kids had money.

You know, you would see, I graduated in '97. But they had like a 1997 Mustang in Cameroon. And then I had like a 1985 Mazda 626.

Nick name on blue.

Great guess, Miles. Great guess, Miles. Yeah. So when I look back now, he's all think about whatever drive or whatever wonder that he could have had.

I wonder if I would have had that if I would have just stayed where I was in the public schools. Because as public schools, no one has a nice car. You don't see the teachers. You have no idea that someone could have a million dollars. Yeah.

Like that couldn't even fathom into your brain. It's not part of reality. Yes. And when you would see celebrities, that's like seeing a king when you're coming up

“and you're in a public school and you think, well, what could I be?”

You could go be a full-time caddy. I had a very rich golf course. That's a good bracket actually. Yes. I don't know how you would ever know.

They, someone has done that as a career. Yes.

Or even Valley Parker because your parents never fucking Valade.

You even know about Valade. None of it. A restaurant that you could go work out where you're full-time at a five-star restaurant. That's a career. I agree.

I always get asked to interviews. When did you know you wanted to be an actor? I hear people say all the time. Like, when I was 9 a.m. I don't know how I would have thought that into Troy.

I never met one. Never saw one. You watched TV and you're like, what are they doing? I wanted to do that. But they weren't there from another.

Really? Yeah. They're not even in my world. I think now with social media, you see behind the scenes and you see their personal life. So maybe you're like, oh, that guy does sound like that.

You don't bury an entry. You can be a producer of content and posted. We just had the sex for non-talking about this. The internet phase one was all humans could be publishers. Before that, you had to get through the gatekeepers at New York Times to share your thoughts

in writing with anyone. Everyone became a publisher. For better and worse. Yeah. And then now we're in a phase where everyone's a producer or has the capacity to be growing

in New York Times.

I would never even heard of New York Times.

I was like, it's like, yeah. You would hear about some kids make it out of that and they are very curious. I wrote it was a lot smaller. That's how we can sum it all up.

“I think it was like, I knew my town and then the town my dad lived in when I'd seen”

him on the weekends and then my grandparents died. Yeah. That was that. It was very rural. It can be rural.

But it's not the state. Yeah. You didn't go downtown when I grew up. And that was the national downtown was pretty rough. And so no one went down there.

But dad. So he did other stuff, obviously. But he did perform. He still did magic. When you look back, he was trying to get a career.

But he had a family. I think he had a chance to move to Vegas. But he didn't want to with raising us. And so he stayed in Nashville. And I don't know if I remember exactly how much him going out trying to do this stuff.

My mom did great because my mom had to stay home with us. And dad would go pop off. We had a really big Christmas one year. What age? 12 perfect.

And now I know because it's gigs. My dad just got a lot of Christmas gigs. Yeah. So he was kind of like we had a little extra money. What was the big present you got?

I've got a mental breakdown. Oh, really? Yeah. A red tell boa. Yeah, I was in the state.

Oh, wow. You were a weird kid. Yeah.

“Right now and then I like hang with a kid.”

And he invited me to do his bedroom. And there was a snake. Yeah. It was a certain type of child. Yeah.

That was a amateur her intelligent. Yeah. I always like stakes. As I've got an older, I'm not going to go grab him.

Go all that little way. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think you felt brave? Yeah.

Like it was a way to exercise bravery in some sense. Would this stake? Yeah. Is there scariest fuck? I don't know if I thought that that deep really?

Are you most people are afraid of snakes? It's kind of like an innate human fear.

My dad would just always go grab him and show him.

He was from the country and Kentucky. He'd handle anything. Unsupervised. Yeah. He saw something.

He was always just show us. We lived in Del Rio, Texas when I was five. My dad moved down there to teach at a Episcopal school. We only lived there and then we moved back.

But I remember going church. And we saw a snake in the middle of the road. So I'm going five. And it was doing like the cartoon way where the middle of it would be up. Yeah.

That's how he was moving. Then my dad got out and caught it. He was like, oh, I'm going to show it. We're that family. Yeah.

I'm going to go show it. The kids are going to love it. Right. Right. So then we're driving.

And then my dad's got the snake. It's like over his shoulder. But I'm like right behind him. And this snake is furious. But then we get there to the camp lays it down.

All the kids get around it. It's very exciting. That's the family ethos. We kind of are a lot of games. Like you're making up games.

And you're like, all right. Let's play this. And that kind of circusy circusy. And there's three of you. There's three of you.

There's three of us. And what order are you in that? On the oldest. And then my brother Derek and then my sister Abigail. Okay.

And you were by all accounts. A pretty big fuck up. You barely graduated. A school. And then you go over to the community college.

You do a year there, right. And then you end up going to Western Kentucky for a year. Just one semester. It was all remedial classes at Ball State. And so it was just to try to even get you where you could go to a college.

Yeah. And you have the best joke I heard of this morning. I was watching one of your videos.

They call it community college because they have a sense you're going to be s...

in the community. Yeah. Like, show you the ropes of the community. I don't know. Old Joe Brass.

Stay with me, college, too. I was like, all of my classes were outside. Because they were like, you guys will be working outside. One day. But it's just acclimated to the outdoors.

Yeah. They just knew. They had all my jobs. Work outside before comedy. I went and actually got a degree at a community college.

And transferred. So, no. I think about trying to go get just a community college. I don't need the full. I like community college.

Just some reason. Me, too. Good. It's attainable. They're very democratizing.

“I'll say that's what's really great about our country is most countries that have”

a really good university system. You'd test in early or you don't go. Whereas our country, you could start at any moment at a community college. Then transfer somewhere really good. Yeah.

That's an incredible part of our.

Society. Trade schools. Going to go. My last serious shove is a water meter reader. You would drive right now.

This is the comedians. And when I look back, I can see it. I would go up and do some shows in my dad when I was a kid. Not a ton, but pop up. I'm around it.

Yeah. And you liked. And I liked it. I like the comedy aspect. I like making people laugh.

The magic part of it. I don't know. I mean, it's a lot of work. I mean, I could see who my dad does magic. I mean, he's kind of doing it all day at home.

And so I liked the making people laugh. Was he happy? Because I do feel like the idea of a magician or a clown even a standup. I think we're all like, oh, they're funny. They're happy.

But more and more people we talked to. I'm like, oh, wow. Those people are almost carrying the most weight and sadness. Yeah. And I've decided to channel it.

Yeah. I mean, I would think he was happy.

“But I'm sure there's a mix of both of that.”

When you're up there on the show, it's so fun. And I just know this for personal experience. When you're up there, it's like the best. And when you come off, it's like reality kind of set back in. Yeah.

Yeah. You have ultimate control for this finite amount of time. And then you enter back into the real world where you have virtually no control over anything. It can be a little bit disjointed. You can be celebrated.

Yes. Yes. I mean, I walk out in front of Arena's every night. It's this applause, this big, big thing. And then it kind of gets back to normal.

Okay. So I do have one question about the reading the meters. So Snoopy by nature. Did you enjoy having full permission to just be like walking on the people's properties and taking a little peek about how people live?

So when we did it, the meters are always in the yard in front.

And so you would get a crowbar and it was like a mini manhole. And so you would lift it up. You just go to the top and you just type in what they're doing. Did anyone ever try to grease you? Come out and be like man, type in bubble.

We're struggling. Let me throw you 20 bucks. Yeah. I don't know. They would try to throw you money.

But they would, you know, it's like, no, I'm going to pay just give me whatever. And my buddy, Michael, and I started coming with. He's still works there. Yeah. I wonder if he's talking with my meaner.

He could be. We can find out. I want to say this out loud. I am so grateful for the water department in Mount Juliet. Because we had this big issue with the pool.

The auto fill flooded for a few days. So I did this crazy water bill. And we call him or like, I get it on the water bill. But the sewer fee. It didn't go into the sewer went into the lake.

Yeah. And they're like, okay, cool. Like if I made that call in LA, I would have never got anyone on the phone ever that could have made any decision. I mean, I'm like, suck a dick in my mouth.

If they were like, okay, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. I was very grateful for it. Yeah. I'll let him know.

And I'll find out if Michael read your water. I mean, you might have been the one. It was like, what the fuck happened here. How about just have Michael pop up your house? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think some selfies. Yeah, yeah. He still works. He told me recently.

“I think he had someone that was upset with them.”

And said, you know, neighbor gets used to work here. And I'm going to tell Nate how you're doing. Not knowing that he was a one friend. Yeah, he started.

He was like, all right. He gets to tell him. I like to think that I have that much pool still. That water coming. I go, Miss Jill.

You're going to go for a little bit. All right. I'm going to take a look at the gas. They need his egg in the brain. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. So yeah, you and Michael move up to Chicago to start comedy. You try second city. Second city.

I did it very brief. And why wasn't that a match for you? I knew I was going to be clean. And so I could tell you did improv. I can't control where they're going to take you.

And I don't only can you not control. You're obligated to join them. Yes. So if he says, my condom fell off. Guess what?

You're a good. Yeah. Yeah. So I can make it a curse in it. I'm going to be in a predictive.

He's like, he's right. Yeah. And when you start to, they all go there. Yeah. So everything is going to be dark out.

It's the easiest route to say. Yeah. So I pretty quickly was like, yeah. This is not going to match with what I want to go do. And I already wanted to do stand up.

Michael wanted to try a second city.

It was almost like, I just needed someone to go like, Hey, I'll try some different. You want to go? Yeah. You know, like, yes.

That's what you need.

That's all you need it.

Yeah.

I need an area to try to join that basketball team with me.

Yeah. Yeah. It's just something. Yeah. Someone to kind of come in.

Like, you really want to do it. But you're so scared to say you want to go do it. And I love how much you talk about this. I think it would be very comforting for all the people that are trying comedy. You're really honest about the fact that you had gone to the gym broth.

Yeah, gym broth. Yeah. Went to comedy college. And I think a lot of comedians are too cool for that or would turn up their nose at that. And you're like, for me, I needed some starter stuff between that and open mic.

Yeah. It's just a comedy class that he does. I mean, he still doesn't. It's just you're meeting people that are starting. We're all pretty nervous.

Yeah. And we're all scared of what's going to happen. There's a comic. I remember he's still the very funny comic John Roy. And he was just one star search the year I started.

So he came in and talked to us. And so you're like, this is nuts, dude. Like, this dude just one is two out of three. And he's a real comic. And then you would go to open mics and you could grab a guy from that class.

Let's do it together. Let's do it together. Let's do it together. And then so you slowly start. It's kind of like grounding.

Yeah. I'm going to be even darker, which is it's so comforting to see. And then to see minimally some people are worse than you. It's like that sample. Yeah.

“I think that's why punk bands are so encouraging.”

She's going, you're like, yeah, I think I might be able to plan to ban him. The bars low. Yeah. Everybody's trying it and everybody's doing it. You just got to get where you're comfortable to go try stuff.

And like kind of pushed into direction. It's practice. You have to go. Yeah, I paid. It is getting over that fear every time you get up.

Exactly. I remember I wanted to get a call every Wednesday and be like, the building burnt. Yeah. I can't do it.

And I'm like, oh man. So I could be like, I wanted to do it. You want that. All you're looking for is something.

So you could be like, even if you never did it.

You're like, I tried every time. Yeah. That's the alleviate the self-legulation of not trying. Yeah. We just interviewed Anderson Pack.

You know that musician. He's incredible. Yeah. And he just directed his first movie. And his son was in.

And he's like up until a week before the movie. I'm just like praying. My changes as mine. It doesn't want to do it. It's like a boy.

Exactly. Exactly. The line works is like, how can I still have on record. I did everything I could. But then I didn't have to do it.

It didn't have to do it. It's so weird. You do a show. And you're like, oh my god. It's the best thing ever.

And then the next show. You just hope. This gets canceled. Your car gets blocked in.

“I remember my car got blocked in before.”

And I was like, I can't man. I'm so sorry. Yeah. Making. I was so happy.

It's so wild. Yeah.

And that's the thing that you got to get over.

Because some people are like, I can't wait. I know. But are they? Well, I got like six. We know that he Murphy.

Like, there are a handful. And we're like, step back. Motherfucker. Yeah. Yeah.

There are those people. They're very excited. And they can just jump right in. And then a lot or like, who do I think I am trying to. Yeah.

The confidence. And I'm going to say that you are uniquely a the persona you end up carving out for yourself. That works so beautifully. He's not a high energy rapid fire thing.

So that a works best at an open mic. You have limited time. You got a crush immediately. You're going to be clean. You had additional challenges.

I would argue. Yeah. Why do we decide? And oh, four. I guess to move to New York.

The documentary comedian was sign filled. Believe it's on Netflix. It's it's. Sign filled. I got done with the show.

And then taped a special. And then was going to build a new hour. He's building a new hour of material. And so it showed him going through the New York comedy scene.

“If you want to know anything about sin of comedy,”

it's still the best one to watch. Anybody a prey around my age or class of starting or really being in the comedy that moved to New York is very much because of comedian. I think it was a mad doc right where he says, when I go on stage at this point,

I'm going to get four free minutes. Yeah. They're going to just be so excited. I'm there. But then reality is going to take over.

That's the beauty of comedy. When set Jack Nicholson, they're going to be like for four minutes. They're clapping. And then they're like, all right.

Yeah. Yeah. What do you really got? Tell you. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's as objective as it gets. And in New York, you just dive into it.

And you're just obsessed. You started as a barker at Boston comedy. That's Boston comic ups. That was what it was called in New York. And I moved there.

No four. Yeah. So you're standing out there hanging over the comment to a brand new one. At that club, yeah. Oh, no kidding.

So you're out there on the street begging people to come in and give this comment. You got flyers. So you're standing on the corner. And you're like, hey, we got a great comment show. And I started.

If you ever saw Pete Holmes had a show on HBO about his comedy crashing. I started with Pete. But yeah. You would stand out. Dustin Chaffin, a comic buddy of mine.

And we were kind of together during all this time. And he still comes in the out on the road. And he would run a show at Boston Comic Cup. It wasn't a normal. It would start at like eight during the week.

And it would run to like two a.m.

Okay.

A lot of comedy. Yeah.

So there wasn't really set show time.

“You're just kind of trying to get people in.”

Have a couple of drinks. You'd be out in the corner. And you're like, yeah, you got a great guy. And then you would get him to walk in. And they could walk in.

And they'd be like, all right. And then I performed for one guy once. You have two people. Then you have four for a parent. You said.

Oh, yeah. That was a joke. That wasn't South Dakota. That was on the road. That was on the road.

There's a parent in the room. Did it talk? Yeah. Great. It was heckling you.

It did. It's loud. Screens. It's hard to time. You know.

You don't know when they're coming. You're right. Yeah. Yeah.

That was in South Dakota.

And that indoor pool. And. It's a human in there. Yeah. You're staying in that hotel.

Your whole world just in this thing. Yeah. And this two shows. So there's a parent in the back. And you're like.

Why? Why do you have to be in here? And the guy was like, he likes to show. Yeah. What?

All right. You're just like getting paid. Yeah. Shocking that alcoholism tracks high. I mean, you're just stuck in some shit.

A whole hotel for three days. I mean, come on. Yeah. You're trying to do your show. Parents.

Oh, my God. Wow. They need to do the second show. The parents not there. And so I go, where's the parent.

He goes, we has his own room. And you go, why don't you put him in there. Yeah. I thought like the parent lived in that room. Sure.

Yeah. Let's go. Yeah. He goes. He goes.

Yeah. Now, how did you socially get along with all the other comedians? Because I'll say the improv sketch scene is lovely. It's akin to Broadway people.

Like everyone's insanely supportive. I got along instantly with everyone. But when I did stand up, I felt like that vibe was trickier for me to navigate. And you're from the south and you were clean. How did that whole aspect?

I think it's kind of like school. You just found your group that you're kind of going to be with. Where they might group that I was the closest to were the dirtiest comedians. Big J. Oaksen, Luis Chegoma, Dan Soder. Dan Soder, like the dirtiest.

That always makes sense by the way.

Yeah. Because you're not doing the same thing. You're no threat in some sense. Yes. They're playing the fucking trumpet and you're playing stand up.

That kind of makes sense. I would open for them. The shows I would do a lot coming up. They were uncensored and they were adverts. As you was super sexy at the time when I was in New York.

That's when Burr started. Burr was a big one for me because I watched Burr kind of become Burr. And so he was just doing spots.

“I remember when I was painting out Flyers one time and I go,”

"Hey, we got a show and it's Bill Burr and I'm like, I'm so sorry." And he was doing his first letterment. So we would know as a club. But it's not like people knew him. And then the opening of the rant happened

where he just roast Philadelphia. I don't know if you ever seen it. No, it's amazing. She go look. So it's open and Anthony was a radio show.

And so they had comics. And then they do a live show. And they're doing this live show in Philadelphia. They're just booing. Every comic.

They booed. Bob Saga. Tracing more. And I booed everybody. And so then Burr went up.

It was on YouTube. It was kind of right when we're even in a video could be uploaded. And all this kind of stuff. And so Burr goes up and just starts tearing into this crowd. Well, they love it.

And so I mean, just trash. Oh, my God. Oh, I must see it. One man versus Philadelphia. So that was a big, big thing where it was funny.

We would go watch Bill Burr at Carolines. Because Burr was the comic we all were like, "Can we go see Burr? Can we go see Burr?" Yeah. Luis the game was kind of right above Burr.

So he was like a little bit older at the time. So Burr was like the younger Max next. Something I learned to from Burr.

“Is I remember right after that filled everything.”

He would do a show. And they would start going like, "I'm from DC. I'm from Texas. Start trash."

And they wanted that. And he wanted to get roast. They wanted to get roast. They wanted to get roast. And he's like, no.

Because I got an act. And it was like a learning moment to go like, "Oh, yeah. You don't give them what they are." He's been his whole life.

So the rest of your life. You have to go to towns. Also, they come out with more work. You have. Everywhere you go, you've got to learn everything about.

If you're whole, yeah. Retina is like, and you're in Skokiel andoi. I don't know how much stuff you're going to be able to dig up. You didn't need a teen. Colour was constant making toilet bull jokes.

Yeah. And then you're also encouraging that your audience is going to yell out. And they're going to lead you. You're not going to lead them. No.

And they're going to be just screaming. And then it's not a fun... That's the thing sometimes with like the crowdwork comics. Unless you're like a phenom, like Matt Rye for some of these other guys. Trevor Walls, Nate Jackson's another one.

We're these guys are really, really good. Ian Bag. When you go down that route, if you're not going to become the best at it. Yeah. You're going to invite a lot of problems.

Yes. Yes. You better be very skilled. Yes.

It's not easy to do.

And it's not consistent.

“And then you also end up getting some jokes.”

I mean, if y'all are married and you're like, Oh, interracial couple of married. I'm going to have 10. I'm about 10 of them. Yeah. And then you're like, Oh, you have a kid.

You divorced. You have this. You're going to end up having stuff. Yeah. You have a routine in essence.

That is under the veil of improv. Yes. Yeah, but it's a bag of tricks. So there's even cheats in improv. They have them.

Oh, there's cheats in there. She's not. She's we used to do in York. You performed for a small audience. It's like, because you've done this in a cab.

Yeah. That was like, everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Universal.

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“I remember just thinking, "Here's a little lesson that you learn where you're like, "No, I think we're all saved."”

I think we've all agreed that we can all say that. Even just the idea that he's like, "Are you kidding me?" You stole? Yeah, yeah. It's time to, like, when you're seeing bird do his thing and it's crushing and all these people are crushing, are you like,

"Should I try to do something a little dirty or should I try?" My mind just didn't go that route of writing that kind of way.

I never wanted to make someone feel bad in the crowd.

I just didn't like it. It would make me so uncomfortable to do that. So I was always making fun of myself. So I think it kind of kept me in that realm. I had a joke on YouTube, though, and it was one that I didn't like that I put up.

I remember there was a bunch of projects being murdered in New York when we were there. And so then it was a joke kind of about that kind of situation. I mean, young comic, it works very much in those rooms. Yes. And then I did it.

Maybe out here. I didn't put it up on YouTube, but it got put up on YouTube.

Yes.

And then I remember this is kind of early on my space.

“And so then actually a lady that isn't that line of work,”

the message me something and then I wrote back and said, look, I'm so sorry. I didn't know it was going to go up. I wouldn't do that joke again. I know why I did it. I know why I came up with it, but I was like, I'm so sorry.

That's just so rare in space. It's so rare. It's just made of self in the running for best boy or what. I know you might be the best boy. I like the best boy.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's the very best boy. Yeah, that's the best boy. Yeah, that's the best boy.