Speaker 1: This is Wins and Losses with Clay Trevis. Clay talks
Speaker 1: with the most entertaining people in sports, entertainment and business.
Speaker 1: Now here's Clay Trevis. Welcome in Wins and Losses. It's
Speaker 1: been a little while, been crazy busy with everything in
Speaker 1: the out Kick universe. But there's a brand new Netflix
Speaker 1: comedy special up from Nate Bargatsky. I watched it last
Speaker 1: week with my wife. We loved it. We were laughing
Speaker 1: a lot, and I thought, I need to get Nate
Speaker 1: back on the Wins and Losses programs. Have actually fascinated
Speaker 1: how you film a comedy special in the middle of COVID,
Speaker 1: And so we're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about his sports fandom and this conversation in general. I
Speaker 1: think you will love it's Wins and Losses. If you
Speaker 1: like this when, you'll like a lot more of them
Speaker 1: as well. So dive in. Here's comedian Nate Bargatsky with
Speaker 1: me on Wins and Losses. Joined now by Nate Bargatsky.
Speaker 1: He's got a great Netflix comedy special that is up,
Speaker 1: just debuted a couple of weeks ago. I watched it
Speaker 1: this time last week. I think and uh immediately texted you, Nate,
Speaker 1: and I said, man, that was really really good. I
Speaker 1: needed I think there's a lot of people out there
Speaker 1: who need laughter right now, certainly more than ever. Uh So,
Speaker 1: first of all, thanks are getting up early and uh
Speaker 1: and hanging out with us. But I was so fascinated
Speaker 1: by the way that this was filmed outdoors in l A.
Speaker 1: There's helicopters flying over the top of it. What was
Speaker 1: the process like, so before you're telling any jokes and
Speaker 1: anything else, Like, how was this set up? How long
Speaker 1: did it take to tape? Tell me how you go
Speaker 1: about filming a Netflix special like this? Uh? Yeah, well
Speaker 1: appreciate it, buddy. I got your text and uh it
Speaker 1: was This one was like much different because obviously was
Speaker 1: outside and with an audience hunter people audience had to
Speaker 1: get COVID tested, they ought to wear masks, so it
Speaker 1: was very difficult to dude that got the tickets that
Speaker 1: very of funny. Had a guy email me and he
Speaker 1: was like, Yo, what's with all the hoops to get
Speaker 1: these tickets? As a kid, there's uh pandemnic like to
Speaker 1: the point to show him like, well, there's a big
Speaker 1: global pandemic that the earth is going with uh, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, that's part of it, but it
Speaker 1: was tough, Like the timing, Like the timing of it
Speaker 1: is what's the hardest part, because you can't I can't
Speaker 1: hear them laugh because we're outside. They got mask on,
Speaker 1: and it's just laughter kind of just goes in the air.
Speaker 1: And then also you can't see their faces, so you
Speaker 1: can't see them smiling. So you're like up there like, dude,
Speaker 1: this might be they might hate this, and you're just
Speaker 1: kind of going off like I know these jokes, I've
Speaker 1: done them before, they've worked, and so you're just hoping
Speaker 1: they're working. But so we time like you know, my
Speaker 1: sets like timed out. So I timed it out. It
Speaker 1: was like sixty four minutes. I was doing these drive
Speaker 1: in movie theater days, and uh, I had it timed
Speaker 1: out in the first show. We take two shows for
Speaker 1: a special, and then the first show I did forty
Speaker 1: three minutes. It was that and that much was entered.
Speaker 1: You was like gone with just the outside in the
Speaker 1: mask and like we had helicopters fine over and like
Speaker 1: all that kind of chaos. Like so it's like crazy
Speaker 1: to see. I mean, I've had it happened. But you know,
Speaker 1: you can fluctuate ten tif teen minutes, ten minutes maybe
Speaker 1: with no like if the crowds like crowds can be
Speaker 1: fast laugher like they laugh quick and stop or whatever.
Speaker 1: But it was pretty wild to go that. So then
Speaker 1: usually when you take two shows, they tell you, I
Speaker 1: mean every special I've done, they always go, we got it.
Speaker 1: The first show, We're good, don't worry about it, have
Speaker 1: fun on the second show, and then this show they
Speaker 1: were like, yeah, we do not have it. So the
Speaker 1: second show is very important because you don't have to
Speaker 1: do an hour. So that's actually really so were they
Speaker 1: back to back? Like how much time is between the two?
Speaker 1: Is it the same day? Are you performing the same hour,
Speaker 1: different different crowding? Yeah, you just you you usually get
Speaker 1: everything from one show, so when you see a special,
Speaker 1: it is most likely from one show, and you just
Speaker 1: takee two just to be sure, uh you know, something
Speaker 1: like this happens or who knows, And then they, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe occasionally be like, I like the joke on the
Speaker 1: first show better, the reaction was better, I said it better.
Speaker 1: You know. Uh so usually but you have like an
Speaker 1: hour after, but I mean, right when I got off.
Speaker 1: You know you nailed this out. I mean the second one,
Speaker 1: I think, I yeah, you could tell. I mean it
Speaker 1: was you know, you never feel I don't know when
Speaker 1: you take them, you never feel specials are not it's
Speaker 1: not the same as uh, regular show. Like it's it's
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's just the pressure of like you
Speaker 1: gotta get it. Uh. And this was such a weird
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Uh. And so you you don't like
Speaker 1: when you when you get done, you're like, all right,
Speaker 1: I think that was good, Like you just you're like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. The last one. I felt really good
Speaker 1: about the Tennessee Kid. That one I did, like I was,
Speaker 1: I was running that material. That's the thing too, is
Speaker 1: I mean I was. I had probably fifty more theater dates.
Speaker 1: I would have ran this hour in before the special,
Speaker 1: and I mean lucky I got to do those drive
Speaker 1: in and do it. And I had an hour built
Speaker 1: before the special, I mean before COVID happened. I was
Speaker 1: kind of already like I had an hour already. But
Speaker 1: I mean normally you would have. And those reps are
Speaker 1: super important because you just you you you tighten jokes up.
Speaker 1: You find little things here and there. You maybe add
Speaker 1: a little bit, and and then you're doing these theater
Speaker 1: shows and so normally you just kind of pick we're
Speaker 1: a stop on your theater tour and you're like, we're filming,
Speaker 1: Like we were going to film in Minneapolis, was the plan.
Speaker 1: And then uh everything happened COVID and then all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and so that that was like gone, and then I
Speaker 1: didn't think I was gonna get its special, but then
Speaker 1: they said they could do it at Universal Studios, and
Speaker 1: so I was like, you know what, I'll just I
Speaker 1: wanted to be done with this material. You get kind
Speaker 1: of tired of your jokes and you kind of want
Speaker 1: to come up with some new stuff, and so I
Speaker 1: was like, well, no one's put anything out either. Uh
Speaker 1: so I was like maybe I'll stand you know, you
Speaker 1: can stay in alone kind of because there's not really
Speaker 1: much coming out. And so there we go. So it
Speaker 1: isn't there's so many interesting things to unpack there. So
Speaker 1: how long to you is a period of time that
Speaker 1: you're capable or want to do the same joke? Right? Like,
Speaker 1: so this is all new material to you, what's the
Speaker 1: lifespan of quote unquote new material? Like how long let's
Speaker 1: pretend COVID didn't happen, and you were just touring as
Speaker 1: a comedian doing this this act, this one hour ish act.
Speaker 1: How long would you tour with that act? Like what's
Speaker 1: a normal range and how many acts have you gone through?
Speaker 1: What you would say in your comedy career so far?
Speaker 1: I mean hours? So I've had two hour specials. Half
Speaker 1: hour on Netflix, that's a two and a half on Netflix,
Speaker 1: two and a half hours, an hour on Comment Central
Speaker 1: three and half hours, which that one air the same
Speaker 1: night of the Mayweather pack you alf fight. No one
Speaker 1: thought a scheduling by did you even watch it? Or
Speaker 1: you watching Mayweather past? Watch the fight? Want? I mean,
Speaker 1: I told them and they were like, I think we're fine.
Speaker 1: I think for years. This is like the biggest fine
Speaker 1: by the way, this is this is funny too because
Speaker 1: you're a big sports fan and we're talking to da Bargassy.
Speaker 1: I So I've had to deal with this when I
Speaker 1: when I sell books, right like to to write about
Speaker 1: sports or whatever else. So my first book was Dixie
Speaker 1: Land to like going around to all twelve SEC football stadiums,
Speaker 1: and the people who buy books, by and large know
Speaker 1: nothing about sports, right and so uh and so like that.
Speaker 1: I was talking to all the publishers, most of them
Speaker 1: in the agents, and they're like, so, tell me about
Speaker 1: this SEC football. Is it a big thing? And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, like there's a lot of people who are
Speaker 1: college football fans. They're like, do you think there's a
Speaker 1: market out there? I was like, yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: You know, like, you know, there's hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: people every Saturday go to the stadiums to watch and
Speaker 1: they're like, really, like you know, it's like it's like
Speaker 1: I'm talking to It's like I'm in a zoo and
Speaker 1: I'm talking about like it's just so insane, like the
Speaker 1: people you're trying to sell to. And the other example
Speaker 1: I'll give you is right after I wrote Dixie Land
Speaker 1: to Light, I was like, Hey, I've got this great idea.
Speaker 1: I want to do a book about the NFL Draft
Speaker 1: and about how much interest there is. I'm like, it's
Speaker 1: the lent, you know, the link pin, the sort of
Speaker 1: the connective tissue, the point between when guys go from
Speaker 1: college to the NFL they train for the combine. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna train for the combine alongside of these guys. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell the story, and I went into all these
Speaker 1: New York City publishers and they're like, yeah, we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't think there's enough interest in the NFL draft.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, are you are you kidding me? Like,
Speaker 1: like every day there's a new mock draft that comes out,
Speaker 1: Like we can do NFL draft talk. I think I
Speaker 1: got a text the other day and somebody was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, Cowherd's done mock drafts for like sixty five
Speaker 1: consecutive days on his radio show because there's so much
Speaker 1: interest in it. But so I'm curious on that for
Speaker 1: the comedy world, uh, because you're a big sports fan.
Speaker 1: But I can see you being like, hey, you know
Speaker 1: it's head to head with Mayweather Pachie out like that's
Speaker 1: really not a good overlap for me, and they're like,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, that everybody's gonna still watch. I can
Speaker 1: totally see the comedy world and the entertainment world being
Speaker 1: a little bit insular like that too, where they don't
Speaker 1: really know about like the overlap with sports. They and
Speaker 1: I started. So I did fallon to pool, like I
Speaker 1: don't found much, but like that night when I was
Speaker 1: on Foulon like to promote it, I had foulon. I
Speaker 1: told him that, and I was like, hey, you should
Speaker 1: say that, And I just started telling people that because
Speaker 1: I was like, I have no hope of them watching this,
Speaker 1: like at least tell them to dvrn't and be like
Speaker 1: we're all watching the fight. Like this Netflix specially come
Speaker 1: out during the first Justice League got dropped in the
Speaker 1: March madness. But it's on Netflix so people can know
Speaker 1: that they can watch it whenever they want to go
Speaker 1: watch it, right, doesn't the drop date doesn't really matter
Speaker 1: as much, you know. I mean, most time Netflix to
Speaker 1: to promote your specialist, you they don't want your promoting
Speaker 1: until after it's already on, right, so you won't do
Speaker 1: I mean, they have algorithms down to everything that you won't.
Speaker 1: Like you sit down with them and they tell you
Speaker 1: like when we'll go through and stuff, and I mean
Speaker 1: they got it. They're like, we think thirty days now.
Speaker 1: I think they're doing thirty days before. Uh they do
Speaker 1: thirty days before the special to lead up to it,
Speaker 1: and then a bunch after the special because it's like
Speaker 1: you want people to be like, hey go watch it now,
Speaker 1: like you can see it right this, you know, because
Speaker 1: more people tend to do that stuff. You know. Another
Speaker 1: random thing they might be finishing is a billboard in
Speaker 1: Cool Springs. I got a billboard right, Uh. That billboard
Speaker 1: is basically there, so I see it, like they there's
Speaker 1: I mean they I've always heard that they do this.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they have billboards in New York
Speaker 1: and l A uh in l A. I think it
Speaker 1: is more you know, that's more of the for the
Speaker 1: voting for Emmy's and Graham like that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: and like just to be in the Hollywood so those
Speaker 1: people see it. So they do it. With Jet appt
Speaker 1: out they did one of his shows, they put one
Speaker 1: near his house like on the way to work, because
Speaker 1: then he sees it and he's like, all right, look
Speaker 1: at them. They're promoting Yeah, they're promoting it. It's like
Speaker 1: straight up and I swear this one's like straight up
Speaker 1: from me to my two legends golf courts, like you
Speaker 1: know that they know. I go to my sick golf
Speaker 1: court and that is like every day and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I look at this. They're giving it. You know. That's
Speaker 1: that's the that's that's amazing. Also, that's the story like
Speaker 1: on Hollywood boulevard or whatever, Like the most expensive billboards
Speaker 1: in the world are right there because they want the
Speaker 1: industry to know like, hey, this event is going on,
Speaker 1: and also the people who are affiliated with it right like,
Speaker 1: uh to be haven't I haven't seen your billboard. I
Speaker 1: mean I drive sixty five South in Nashville on a
Speaker 1: regular basis. I think, oh, you see it coming north? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that is, Yeah, that is It's great, awesome that
Speaker 1: they do it like that. Yeah, I mean Netflix is amazing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right about them promoting stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: they don't know, they don't you man. We talked to
Speaker 1: the don't know sports like when I had it when
Speaker 1: I moved to New York and you would talk about
Speaker 1: sports and they're like, I don't know, Like is Rutgers playing?
Speaker 1: You're like Rutgers, Like are you crazy? Like you think
Speaker 1: like vesting matters and you're you sit there and you
Speaker 1: could That's when I could always see the disconnect of
Speaker 1: when I live in New York in l A. Because hey,
Speaker 1: when you say you're from the South, they just are like,
Speaker 1: what are y'all doing down there? You know, like they
Speaker 1: do not think that anything exists out of there, like
Speaker 1: blocks that they live on and they can't fathom that
Speaker 1: there's human beings wandering around and whatever human means they
Speaker 1: think are one around. It's not the best. They think
Speaker 1: the worst people alive and you they all you have
Speaker 1: to you have to talk to them all the time,
Speaker 1: Like it's a yeah, like football, You're like, what was
Speaker 1: the big game tonight? Like who You're like Alabama LSU
Speaker 1: and they're like, what is that. You're like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You would dream to have those ratings. I can tell
Speaker 1: you that it would change your life. You're dumb. Spcom
Speaker 1: even had a had a Vandy Kentucky Saturday noon ratings,
Speaker 1: you would still yourself for something like that. It is funny,
Speaker 1: Like so obviously without kick, uh we serve by and
Speaker 1: like we have a lot of listeners all over the country, right,
Speaker 1: but our basis, you know, starting off was SEC football
Speaker 1: and now we're up to whatever ten million people a
Speaker 1: month or plus will come to out kick And sometimes
Speaker 1: we talk to people on the East and West coast
Speaker 1: and they're like, well, that's a lot of people. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: people care a lot, you know, like college football is
Speaker 1: a big deal, you know, and I know big ten
Speaker 1: fans and SEC fans they kind of get it. But
Speaker 1: really for East Coast, like they don't have any I
Speaker 1: mean your point on Rutgers, like Boston College whatever, Like
Speaker 1: nobody really care Syracuse there's not a lot of teams there.
Speaker 1: And then on the West Coast, Uh, you know U, S,
Speaker 1: C U, C l A. If they're good, people care,
Speaker 1: but it's not the same level of like intensity, My
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go shoot somebody if my team loses, which
Speaker 1: happens pretty much every year, for instance in the Iron Bowl.
Speaker 1: We're talking to ton April Gasy. So I'm curious. So
Speaker 1: in your special, you've been doing stand up comedy for
Speaker 1: a long time. You have been eight eighteen years. You
Speaker 1: have been a lot of times a guy who gets
Speaker 1: up that nobody knows as a comedian. How does it
Speaker 1: change when people know you and have an expectation for
Speaker 1: you when you come on the stage beforehand. I'll give
Speaker 1: you an example from from your act that I was watching.
Speaker 1: You say at some point, like everybody you know, something
Speaker 1: along the lines of like your dad was a magician
Speaker 1: for people who don't know, But people who have watched
Speaker 1: your comedy now know that, and you don't have to
Speaker 1: do the exposition of Hey, you know, my dad used
Speaker 1: to do this, X, Y, and Z. You start to
Speaker 1: assume that your audience has some knowledge about your life.
Speaker 1: Is that better or worse from a comedian perspective to
Speaker 1: know that the people who are watching you are in
Speaker 1: some way invested with the trajectory of your life such
Speaker 1: that they come in with preconceived notions about you as
Speaker 1: opposed to you just well, I'm sure I'm assuming it's
Speaker 1: way easier, but you've had to battle to get there.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering how different that feels. Yeah, something's it's definitely
Speaker 1: a different thing, and you never you can get to
Speaker 1: the point more. Uh, you know, it's like nice to
Speaker 1: be like I can say in the special, I can
Speaker 1: say about that the magician is not about him being
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a story with him being a magician,
Speaker 1: but it's not like I'm telling you about it some
Speaker 1: growing up like that or something. Uh. It definitely helps,
Speaker 1: you know, I just talked to something about it, like
Speaker 1: where it was. You know, when you start come, these
Speaker 1: people are going to be steaters and like you're seeing
Speaker 1: these there's a line and people are buying food and
Speaker 1: it's like a couple of thousand people and they're there
Speaker 1: to see you. You do have a moment of uh,
Speaker 1: like you feel like you like look around, You're like,
Speaker 1: who are they? Who's here tonight? Just because you can't
Speaker 1: imagine it's you and you're like what are these? And
Speaker 1: people doing? You know, and that's but it's like that,
Speaker 1: it's a weird thing to switch over. Steinfeld once said
Speaker 1: like if he could ever go back, the only thing
Speaker 1: that he misses before he obviously loves, you've got a
Speaker 1: lot of money, is life is great. But the one
Speaker 1: thing he does miss is performing when the audience doesn't
Speaker 1: know you. And you do miss that. I mean I
Speaker 1: can still go up if I you know, pop up
Speaker 1: at Zany's in Nashville and no one knows I'm coming. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm not not every and they're not there for me.
Speaker 1: They're just there for a regular show. I mean, people
Speaker 1: do know who I am, but they you know, some
Speaker 1: people might not and are if you do a corporate
Speaker 1: show sometimes that you could be there and they don't
Speaker 1: know you. And when you can get when you can
Speaker 1: get those people that don't know you, uh, it's the
Speaker 1: it's so fun because you they're they have no idea
Speaker 1: what they're in for and you get it. Like if
Speaker 1: you get that's the excitement you have when people don't
Speaker 1: know you're like, you get approved that you're funny to people.
Speaker 1: The thing you got to switch to when people start
Speaker 1: coming is you then got to hey, it does get
Speaker 1: easier they uh. That's why I like that. I always
Speaker 1: start with new jokes because the jokes that you know
Speaker 1: they're they're going to give you more grace at the
Speaker 1: beginning because they're like just excited that you're there and
Speaker 1: you know, and then you gotta get into some good stuff.
Speaker 1: But you have to always remind yourself too, I mean,
Speaker 1: as you know, to know that you're not getting these
Speaker 1: laughs for no reason, like you're just sitting you know,
Speaker 1: you're getting laughs just because we're like we love you,
Speaker 1: like Colin Quinn said, and like there's a document comedians
Speaker 1: like Jack Nicholson like he can get off stage and
Speaker 1: they get on stage, they give them five minutes to
Speaker 1: grace and then they'd be like, all right, Jack, tellton
Speaker 1: jokes you get out of here, like and that's how
Speaker 1: an audience feels like there, you know, Yeah, I could
Speaker 1: go back to the same cities and probably do this
Speaker 1: thing I've got a new jokes now, But if I
Speaker 1: had the same jokes, they would handle it maybe once,
Speaker 1: maybe twice. And then if you come back a third
Speaker 1: time and you got the same act, I mean it's over.
Speaker 1: Like it's you know, and they're not coming back like
Speaker 1: they're gonna be like, oh I saw him, you know this.
Speaker 1: After the second time, they'd be like, let's go. You
Speaker 1: gotta that's why you and you gotta start, keep building
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Speaker 1: to listen live. We're talking to Nate Bargatsky, great uh comic.
Speaker 1: He's got a Netflix specially encourage you guys to check
Speaker 1: it out. Went up a couple of weeks ago. How
Speaker 1: much has your life been? Like everybody's life changed because
Speaker 1: of COVID, right, Like everybody had something in their life
Speaker 1: that was substantially different. But for a comedian who makes
Speaker 1: his living being out on the road and sort of
Speaker 1: being able to test jokes in front of normal audiences
Speaker 1: inside of comedy clubs, that had to be just a screeching,
Speaker 1: halt suddenly and then your home all the time, and
Speaker 1: like my wife is like, why don't you leave more often?
Speaker 1: You know, Like I haven't been on the road very
Speaker 1: much for the past year. I used to travel a
Speaker 1: lot more. What was your life like as a comedian
Speaker 1: during COVID compared to what it was like February of
Speaker 1: last year compared to like April of last year had
Speaker 1: to be like two different worlds. Yeah, I was in Uh,
Speaker 1: I was in New Jersey the day we canceled the show,
Speaker 1: and uh we canceled like three hours before the show.
Speaker 1: Everything was getting canceled. Uh the guy didn't want to cancel.
Speaker 1: People are like already showing up a little bit and
Speaker 1: it was like but it was like this weird I
Speaker 1: didn't know if people can get their money back, like
Speaker 1: if I if I canceled or if I didn't cancel,
Speaker 1: and say, some people are like I don't feel safe,
Speaker 1: like they're not gonna get their money back because we
Speaker 1: did the show and uh so it was like you
Speaker 1: got kind of call and like in this kind of
Speaker 1: weird thing. Was funny that they had a show the
Speaker 1: night before Tony Bennett and the guys that we had
Speaker 1: Tony been here us, I was like, yeah, you definitely
Speaker 1: shouldn't have had that show, Like he shouldn't have been
Speaker 1: you know, it's like we knew very early that like
Speaker 1: older people were ninety year old and nine year old
Speaker 1: him should definitely not have been You should have canceled
Speaker 1: that show. Like mine show might have been okay. I
Speaker 1: probably would have been Okay, this show you definitely should
Speaker 1: have had. Uh. But we basically drove the bus I
Speaker 1: was on. We have a bus, and so uh, we
Speaker 1: just drove straight back to Nashville, and then it just
Speaker 1: everything stopped and no one knew it. Everybody everything's getting pushed,
Speaker 1: you know, the same stuff. We're like we think we're
Speaker 1: gonna be open. We're very bottom at the bottom rung
Speaker 1: of like things that they care about opening commedia, and
Speaker 1: so you gotta kind of look at sports, and that
Speaker 1: was how we're what we're all looking at to like
Speaker 1: see what sports are doing. If sports open back up,
Speaker 1: then we would get to open back up. I had
Speaker 1: to do a bunch of drive in shows, and that's
Speaker 1: that was kind of a different thing, but that was
Speaker 1: pretty cool, like to do those just to get a
Speaker 1: you know, you can't hear the crowd and I'm not
Speaker 1: showing the Chicago's five cars and they would try when
Speaker 1: you walk on stage five hunt cars flashing the lights
Speaker 1: and hawking the horns at yet. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: something that I remember for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: Like it was such a unique experience and you could
Speaker 1: tell that these people were so it was this was
Speaker 1: in the summer. They were just so happy to get out.
Speaker 1: It's kind of fall and that game in Chicago was
Speaker 1: like forty five degrees. It was raining, and like the
Speaker 1: people were so happy to be out. They just they
Speaker 1: just loved it and it was like nice to get
Speaker 1: to do that. We watched you know that one drive
Speaker 1: in let us watch Halloween, uh by herself, like you
Speaker 1: just played it. Yeah, yeah, so it's like you gotta
Speaker 1: do it. Was like just trying to be like, all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do some weird things that we never would
Speaker 1: have got to do. Um. But I mean it was tough.
Speaker 1: I golfed a lot and then you know, I mean
Speaker 1: just trying to give yourself somewhat busy, uh you know,
Speaker 1: started a podcast. I mean, there's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: I have a kid from another marriage, not but what
Speaker 1: about you keep going like, yeah, it's pretty upset about that.
Speaker 1: But I was like, covid anything. We're talking to Nate
Speaker 1: bar Etsy. All right, So you are a big Vanderbilt
Speaker 1: sports fan. Where would you be on the optimism scale
Speaker 1: New beat football coach Clarkelee, Uh, Jerry Stackhouse. Uh potentially,
Speaker 1: I don't know. U. N c Roy Williams decided to
Speaker 1: step down yesterday. Uh. Where are you on the optimism
Speaker 1: scale for Vanderbilt athletics right now? Obviously the baseball team
Speaker 1: is number one in the nation, and Tim's got golf,
Speaker 1: it's following dominant dominant. Uh, we're a problem with wims bowling.
Speaker 1: You don't even want you don't you don't even come
Speaker 1: to the come to the matches. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they're called. Uh it's I I feel great, dude, Like
Speaker 1: I am thrilled right now they're doing They just announced
Speaker 1: that three million dollars. Uh, that's growing into the stadium.
Speaker 1: That and you donated thirty million yourself, right, I mean
Speaker 1: I want to give you credit for everything I've ever made, dude,
Speaker 1: everything ever made. We're broke now, but yeah, yeah, your
Speaker 1: wife say, I just I was like, can we get
Speaker 1: backs in the stadium. I'll give you thirty million dollars. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's I love it, dude, I I it's the most
Speaker 1: excited I've been as a Vandy fan. This happens to
Speaker 1: us a lot. But that new chancellor is uh chances
Speaker 1: than Candice Lee. They just seem like they're doing stuff
Speaker 1: like they they're actually like saying they're doing these things.
Speaker 1: I love the Clark Lee higher I I love it
Speaker 1: so much. I love I mean, I love a coaching search.
Speaker 1: There's nothing, there's nothing. I think the NFL Draft is
Speaker 1: super fun, and I think a coaching search is about
Speaker 1: as fun. But he was the one that you know
Speaker 1: that we had some flashy ones, uh flashy you know,
Speaker 1: names that you think you could get. But he played
Speaker 1: there with the n b A. I just I'm way
Speaker 1: on board with the hire of him and the fact
Speaker 1: that they're doing all that stuff. I mean, I feel
Speaker 1: terrific about it. Basketball we've got to figure out, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that if Stuck got left for
Speaker 1: North colin I wouldn't be upset. He's not been here long.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be upset about it. I would, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to hopefully find someone else and we get
Speaker 1: moving forward, even if each days you know it's it's
Speaker 1: good too. I don't know recruiting and the Vanderable basketball
Speaker 1: how great that is. But as far as football and
Speaker 1: everything else, I'm thrilled. I can't wait we get to
Speaker 1: be hopefully beat Tennessee. I like the guy y'all's hired.
Speaker 1: I think that's good. I'm not very optimistic about Tennessee athletics.
Speaker 1: We're talking to to Nate Baratzky, uh, and I mean
Speaker 1: really was looking at the list. You know, everybody talks
Speaker 1: about Minnesota as a state that has had a lot
Speaker 1: of failure. No, we've never really won anything since in
Speaker 1: the state of Tennessee. I mean, the Pared's got to
Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup Finals. Titans have been, you know, a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago in the a f C Championship game. Memphis.
Speaker 1: The Grizzlies have been to Uh. I think they made
Speaker 1: to the Western Conference Finals one year. Uh. Tennessee football
Speaker 1: has just fallen off the radar. I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: you can say Vanderbilt baseball, but pro championships or major
Speaker 1: college championships in basketball or or football just haven't happened.
Speaker 1: So we got a lot of losing that's been going on,
Speaker 1: and I'm just not optimistic it's gonna change. I feel
Speaker 1: like this is my lot in life, and it's like,
Speaker 1: really these teams that these two what's his face? What's
Speaker 1: the guy in Miami sc N guy that was I
Speaker 1: think you had problems with Vatar decided well he when
Speaker 1: he remember him talking about Miami, Like, who's crying? When
Speaker 1: Jeter like went there? The Marlins and You're like, did
Speaker 1: you have one? And that that stuff makes me furious
Speaker 1: when you're like, I've won nothing, dude, Yes, it's like
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt League for a year and they won a World Series.
Speaker 1: The Heat, when I mean the Hurricanes have been dominant.
Speaker 1: I know they haven't won in a while. But you're like,
Speaker 1: and he's like upset because they have a bad Marlin's year.
Speaker 1: You're like, come on, dude, like we ares have won
Speaker 1: two World Series? Uh, you know, like the the Heat
Speaker 1: have won three championships. I think if I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: the one, the first one with Wade and then the
Speaker 1: second one with Wade and Lebron their second and third,
Speaker 1: and obviously the Hurricanes have been dominant for a long time.
Speaker 1: You don't have to go that far up. You know
Speaker 1: the Bucks have one too. I mean the state of Florida.
Speaker 1: The University of Florida's won two in UH two in
Speaker 1: UH in college football at least maybe it's three. I
Speaker 1: can't even keep up, and they've won two in college basketball. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hard to feel that bad for those guys. By
Speaker 1: the way, Um, you like to go to sporting events.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think one of the last times I
Speaker 1: saw you at a sporting event was maybe back in
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen, I think the start of the Vanderbilt
Speaker 1: cy and if I remember correctly, I think Vanderbilt is
Speaker 1: playing Georgia at that game. How is your life changed
Speaker 1: as a guy who used to be able to go
Speaker 1: I would bet anonymously to sporting events because you're just
Speaker 1: a fan of Vanderbilt Athletics or whatever sporting event you're
Speaker 1: going to. And I know when we were at that tailgate,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of people coming up like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I love the special The power of Netflix is real,
Speaker 1: and now that you've got multiple specials on there, like
Speaker 1: you have to get approached all the time in a
Speaker 1: way that never happened for the first I don't know
Speaker 1: what twelve or thirteen years of your career. I would
Speaker 1: bet yeah. I mean I was staying with you at
Speaker 1: an NCC game. So there's there's a big reason every Uh.
Speaker 1: But it's yeah, it does happen. It happens more. You know,
Speaker 1: I get I get recognized here in Nashville. It's not
Speaker 1: anything crazy. I got a joke. I have a joke
Speaker 1: about it, Like it's not a problem at all. And
Speaker 1: like usually when I do get recognized that some of
Speaker 1: takes pictures I once they leave, I didn't have to
Speaker 1: explain who I am to like ten people. They're just
Speaker 1: like who are you? Why did they do that? And
Speaker 1: I have to go, I'm a comedian like that, and
Speaker 1: they're like, I don't know who you are. Uh. Then
Speaker 1: I had a guy into the Nashville Airport. He just
Speaker 1: asked me, he goes there anybody in that like he
Speaker 1: might do it? Like he was just like he like
Speaker 1: that's how literally thought of who I was. He's like,
Speaker 1: you think I should try it? They're like, dude, I
Speaker 1: mean get out there. Uh. So it does happen, and
Speaker 1: it happens a lot more here. Uh. It's again, it's
Speaker 1: not like it's some chaotic thing, but it's a weird
Speaker 1: It's it's where you know, because you always get some
Speaker 1: people don't say approach you, but then you get a
Speaker 1: message later like I saw you out tonight, and that
Speaker 1: stuff kind of gets at you in your head. Not
Speaker 1: in a bad way, but you start thinking, like, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to back, like you're just like some
Speaker 1: like your Brad Pitt walking in. Everybody notices you, but
Speaker 1: you do think like someone couldn't be knowing me and
Speaker 1: they're just being polite and not saying anything, and so
Speaker 1: you know, you can't. There's a lot of stuff that
Speaker 1: goes where you're like, you can't just lose it on
Speaker 1: a waiter or something like that, like gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: just somewhat just kind of be under the radar tip
Speaker 1: more than more. That's the first thing that I started
Speaker 1: doing when like when I because my radio. When you
Speaker 1: start doing radio, and you know this, like in the
Speaker 1: Nashville area, a lot of people would know my radio
Speaker 1: voice before I was doing television and everything else, and
Speaker 1: they would be like, oh, you know, they just kind
Speaker 1: of perk up because they're like that's a you know,
Speaker 1: you're standing in line at Wendy's or something in you
Speaker 1: order a frosty and like the people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: I I'm used to hearing that voice right, Like it's
Speaker 1: on my radio all the time. And the thing I
Speaker 1: noticed was like every waiter and and waitress was like
Speaker 1: a sports talk radio listener in Nashville. And so I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm never you gonn accuse me a lot
Speaker 1: of things Nobody's ever gonna be like Clay Travis cut
Speaker 1: me short on tipping, right, like so you know all
Speaker 1: the time, like big tipping in that like that that
Speaker 1: was sort of a crazy aspect. But I do think
Speaker 1: that's that's a sort of a wild thing. And uh
Speaker 1: and I would imagine it's it's a unique thing because
Speaker 1: you can kind of track the trajectory of your career
Speaker 1: over that in many ways. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: a it's a you tell it is. The second Netflix
Speaker 1: secial is a big deal. Like it's like a lot
Speaker 1: of people can get one are you know a lot
Speaker 1: of people in comedy, but then doing the second one
Speaker 1: and you haven't know that that guy, that guy at
Speaker 1: the airport, he might have three by now. If he
Speaker 1: gotten into it, you can do what ever he wants
Speaker 1: to do do. I mean, that guy is crushing it. But
Speaker 1: so that's that your first one killed it? Did you
Speaker 1: get an opportunity to do a second? And Netflix has
Speaker 1: all the data and the analytics and everything else. So
Speaker 1: if they come back to you, they're like, hey, we
Speaker 1: love what we saw from this last one. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, they don't really tell you, which does
Speaker 1: the big thing? Like, so, like the big story with
Speaker 1: it was with a stranger things they wanted to renegotiate,
Speaker 1: and the actors did and they were like, I don't
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's doing good, but it's not great.
Speaker 1: And then their agents are like, well, these kids can't
Speaker 1: walk outside. Yeah, right, so we know something. And like
Speaker 1: the Netflix kind of has that leverage like to be
Speaker 1: like Netflix does when you switch from your iPad to
Speaker 1: go to your TV if you watch it on your phone.
Speaker 1: I mean, do they have everything they know negotiations? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how did negotiations go with Netflix? Like I know how
Speaker 1: negotiations go for radio or TV or whatever, like, and
Speaker 1: we don't have anything in the Netflix world, but presumably
Speaker 1: you have your agent. Does Netflix come in and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: we'll pay you x and uh? And then you're like, well,
Speaker 1: we want why like or or is it just like
Speaker 1: such a good thing for a comedian to be on
Speaker 1: Netflix that you're like, well, I know, I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: way more money because so many people are gonna see
Speaker 1: it right that you're gonna immediately sell out everywhere else.
Speaker 1: In other words, I'm not I'm not really aware. Like
Speaker 1: if you release an album and you're an artist music album,
Speaker 1: they don't make that much money. My understanding is off
Speaker 1: the album itself. It's all the concerts and everything else.
Speaker 1: And you know the radio airplay is basically an advertisement.
Speaker 1: Is that similar in comedy? I mean I know, like
Speaker 1: you know, Dave Chappelle is gonna get twenty million dollars
Speaker 1: or whatever the heck Dave Chappelle gets and there's sixty
Speaker 1: oh my god, three I think for three, So uh,
Speaker 1: that's great. But he's bringing a lot to it. I
Speaker 1: mean that's what you're I mean, it's not too far
Speaker 1: from what you do is like you you gotta get
Speaker 1: yourself big enough, which has been through Netflix, but you
Speaker 1: get yourself big that you're worth to them. It's like
Speaker 1: you have an audience that you're bringing. So then the
Speaker 1: negotiating is like way to go to HBO. I'll know
Speaker 1: the wherever and like, so that's the leverage that you used.
Speaker 1: But they usually do a thing where they have like
Speaker 1: a first look deal, so like you would sign you
Speaker 1: do you they you do a thing. Sometimes they do
Speaker 1: too special deals. Um, if you get if you get
Speaker 1: up that Chappelle level and that kind of thing that
Speaker 1: you know, you can get the multi special deal. But
Speaker 1: they would give you and then they usually have a
Speaker 1: first look or something for your next special. So like
Speaker 1: a lot of times it's something like that. So whatever
Speaker 1: you do, like that first stand ups I ever did,
Speaker 1: it was that was like basically like I was doing
Speaker 1: a half hour that was like you know, I mean
Speaker 1: they it paid great, but it was it was more
Speaker 1: than I've made. But it was, um, it was like
Speaker 1: I knew that I needed to be in the Netflix community.
Speaker 1: It was like you were betting on yourself, Like this
Speaker 1: is going to help my career if if they're distributing
Speaker 1: my content. Yeah no yeah, people that choose stuff for money,
Speaker 1: you don't need to choose stuff for money until you know,
Speaker 1: until it's time to choose stuff for money. Like but
Speaker 1: it's it's like just get in that world. Because there
Speaker 1: was people that wouldn't want to do that half hour
Speaker 1: because it was like I don't want to have the
Speaker 1: money wasn't good or something. You're like, it doesn't really matter,
Speaker 1: Like I need to get in front of those people,
Speaker 1: Like that's the audience that they have is enormous, and
Speaker 1: it's the fir stand up It's the number one place
Speaker 1: that you can go to. Uh and so, and then
Speaker 1: you did the next special and then this one, and
Speaker 1: then they usually do a thing where like if so
Speaker 1: when I do my next one, I think I have
Speaker 1: to tell them first and give them the option to
Speaker 1: buy it or they got to say no to it,
Speaker 1: and then if they say no to it, then I
Speaker 1: can go somewhere else. Uh So you're kind of under contract.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess if you wanted to get at it,
Speaker 1: I don't know why you would. Netflix is there's nothing.
Speaker 1: No one's likes them as far as ever, it's almost
Speaker 1: any their borderlines start taking over TV. Yeah, do you
Speaker 1: want to do something like so you've done the stand
Speaker 1: up specials with Netflix and we're talking to Nate Bargatzy,
Speaker 1: does any part of you want to do like I mean,
Speaker 1: like I'll give you an example. I think it was
Speaker 1: Netflix that has like w w E shows right, like Mike,
Speaker 1: they I mean they do sitcoms and other words, my
Speaker 1: kids love like all these little sitcoms that they do.
Speaker 1: Do you think they'll start to do like more and
Speaker 1: more of traditional old school sitcoms, Like would you have
Speaker 1: any interest in a multi camera Like I know you've
Speaker 1: done pilots before, like everybody who is in you know,
Speaker 1: I think I'm on Like I've done like forty Fox
Speaker 1: Sports pilots and they all get like shelled or whatever
Speaker 1: over the year. But is that have some appeal to
Speaker 1: you as well? Like obviously traditional stand up has worked well,
Speaker 1: but like a multi camera sitcom style show, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it does. I mean, and I always try to do it.
Speaker 1: I mean I always look at it is like, I
Speaker 1: got stand up is my what I want to do
Speaker 1: for the rest of my life. I stand up is
Speaker 1: you can you can kind of become big off stand
Speaker 1: up now like you used to not be able to.
Speaker 1: But now with Netflix and specials, I mean you can
Speaker 1: you can kind of really build a pretty big audience
Speaker 1: with that. I do want to do a show, and
Speaker 1: I am I am trying right now. I'm trying again.
Speaker 1: I've been told no a hundred times and so uh,
Speaker 1: we're in a world of it's yeah, it's all knows.
Speaker 1: That's the thing people get into any kind of like
Speaker 1: entertainment or can like this. They're probably even regular life.
Speaker 1: You're basically told no all the time and then there's
Speaker 1: just some yeses and then but it's you've got to
Speaker 1: get through all the nose and so it's, uh, I'll
Speaker 1: hopefully get to do it, and I would like to
Speaker 1: do it. But yeah, they started doing the Crew, which
Speaker 1: is Kevin James show that's a multi cam on Netflix,
Speaker 1: and I mean that feels like a King of Queen
Speaker 1: show and so like once you usart of seeing that
Speaker 1: and you're like, this is a show that me and
Speaker 1: my wife can watch and with our daughter there, and
Speaker 1: like you know, it's not like it's not this in
Speaker 1: depth like you know, the first for a while, Netflix
Speaker 1: is like all like it's like a murder documentary and
Speaker 1: you're like, dude, I'm just trying to eat like spaghetti,
Speaker 1: like I don't need to be like you know, like
Speaker 1: just ingested in this case, and so that stuff that's
Speaker 1: so like just overpowering. But now they're doing that like
Speaker 1: the crew, some animated stuff and I mean obviously a
Speaker 1: lot of that, and so I mean I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna be I mean, that would just be where people go, like,
Speaker 1: you know it already is, but you know where you're
Speaker 1: not even you're just looking at Netflix. You're like, all right,
Speaker 1: we can what do you want? We can want to
Speaker 1: have everything. So, yeah, I do want to do it again.
Speaker 1: Whether it's multi camera, single cam, I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figure that out now, but that route of
Speaker 1: a TV show, I do. Yeah, I do want to
Speaker 1: do that. I want to shoot, yeah, because I want
Speaker 1: to do it in them and I want to shoot
Speaker 1: in Naville. Yeah. And I've asked before, but I'll ask
Speaker 1: you down on live radio. You'll let me like I
Speaker 1: I played myself in Blue Mountain State. But you'll give
Speaker 1: me a spoken line at some point in one of
Speaker 1: the episodes, will you agree with Yeah? Yeah, if you
Speaker 1: don't get canceled, dude, I'll give you whatever. You know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it could happen to anymore, let's be honest.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's going to be the last show that
Speaker 1: I ever do in radio. I mean that has to
Speaker 1: be a little bit scary, by the way, for comedians too,
Speaker 1: because you guys used to be like you could say
Speaker 1: anything in a comedy club back in the day before
Speaker 1: people had their phones. And now like you've got to
Speaker 1: be kind of cringing every now and then when you
Speaker 1: because you know all these guys, right, and you know
Speaker 1: and the girls that end up trending on Twitter for
Speaker 1: some joke that they made, you know, five years ago
Speaker 1: that's now circling back up or whatever else. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a brave new world, right Or guy gets I
Speaker 1: can't even you get on SNL, which is what everybody
Speaker 1: wanted to do forever, and then like everybody does a
Speaker 1: deep dive into every joke that somebody's ever made in
Speaker 1: the history of of their career, and yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: would a lot of times. That's right. Yeah, that guy
Speaker 1: is the real deal. Uh, he's an unbelievable comedian. Like
Speaker 1: he to me would be like the next kind of
Speaker 1: Louis k. Like when I he came to Nashville and uh,
Speaker 1: and I know him and I went and watched him.
Speaker 1: He was the one in that SNL thing that that
Speaker 1: he got hired and then that someone went and found
Speaker 1: like all these dumb old podcasts that he's done that
Speaker 1: had no views, no one listened to him, it's just
Speaker 1: a new comic saying trying to be You've gotta learn.
Speaker 1: You've gotta learn your craft, right, like and everybody who
Speaker 1: ends up successful in anything, Like I'm sure the first
Speaker 1: time that you work on a car, if you're a mechanic,
Speaker 1: if you went back and looked at it, like after
Speaker 1: you've become the best mechanic in the city, you'd be like, man,
Speaker 1: I really screwed up when I was trying to learn
Speaker 1: how to fix that car the first time, right, and
Speaker 1: you're doing other skill, you're doing something weird to twitched.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I'm a clean comedian, but I mean
Speaker 1: I was I've cursed and jokes because I was doing
Speaker 1: to show it two in the morning to drunks yelling
Speaker 1: at me. So you just showed that one thing. I
Speaker 1: was like, I was trying to survive, dude, Like I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm up there, like what you I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I was like, you're just doing whatever you
Speaker 1: have to do when your first starting out. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that kid will be fine though, Like he's he
Speaker 1: is the real deal as a comedian, and uh, and
Speaker 1: I think I hope that it's it's people are gonna.
Speaker 1: I mean, comics have just gotta, like you say, quid,
Speaker 1: apologize and just do whatever your act is. I mean
Speaker 1: I don't really do anything because I'm not like you
Speaker 1: know you want to say, but you do get nervous,
Speaker 1: you because you're like, I don't know what if someone
Speaker 1: takes something the different way or take it wrong, or
Speaker 1: you like, kid, if if they want to highlight you,
Speaker 1: they can highlight you, um so and the people want
Speaker 1: to do that. I you know, I don't necessarily do that.
Speaker 1: It's not like my thing. I don't really care. Uh So,
Speaker 1: it's like whatever, you know, but everybody should be able
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Speaker 1: Last question for you, and by the way, this has
Speaker 1: ended up being basically the entire second hour of the show,
Speaker 1: So I appreciate you rolling through is but uh is
Speaker 1: there somewhat in the world of sports that has senior
Speaker 1: comedy special or senior act and you found out that
Speaker 1: they are a fan and you've been like, I can't
Speaker 1: believe that insert person here is aware that I exist
Speaker 1: and or even more than that, enjoyed my show. Has
Speaker 1: there has that moment happened for you? It could be
Speaker 1: a coach, can be a player, can be somebody associated
Speaker 1: with athletics. Uh, there's been I mean, you know the
Speaker 1: one that was struck by a del Murphy. Oh, del Murphy.
Speaker 1: Del Murphy was on my show. And so del Murphy was. Uh.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, you know, he would always
Speaker 1: sweep three sweeps before he was bad. And so when
Speaker 1: I played little league baseball, I always did that and
Speaker 1: I always did it because of Del Murphy. And I
Speaker 1: had no idea and he lives in Utah and I
Speaker 1: was in Utah, and then he like tweeted something that
Speaker 1: he was at the show, and I mean, he was
Speaker 1: unbelievable just because he was my favorite baseball player, which
Speaker 1: I'm like, you were the same age. I just tried
Speaker 1: affected me with a baseball I don't watch it like
Speaker 1: I did, because it was like I was at the
Speaker 1: right age. When they stopped playing, you're a team, you're
Speaker 1: and you start to find new things. Like That's what
Speaker 1: happened to me too. But Dale Murphy is phenomenal. Dale Murphy,
Speaker 1: Del Murphy, Bob Horner, Bob Horner. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he remember Bob four home runs in a game back
Speaker 1: in the day for the Braves. I remember, well, like
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. It is like a blondhaired guy right
Speaker 1: like uh, kind of kind of portly. Uh. My grandfather,
Speaker 1: my granddad and chet Nooga, Tennessee, was a monster Atlanta
Speaker 1: Braves fan. So he would watch every game on TBS.
Speaker 1: And what's interesting is, I know, you've got a daughter.
Speaker 1: My ten year old son has turned into a huge
Speaker 1: Braves fan. So it's on every night in our house.
Speaker 1: And so I've kind of circled back in through baseball
Speaker 1: because of him. And I'm like, you know, this is
Speaker 1: kind of fun. It takes you back to when you
Speaker 1: were a kid and like you were ten or eleven
Speaker 1: years old and you had that same affinity for the sport. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's great now. Like now, I've always
Speaker 1: just saw a Vandy guys now, like I'd like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Mike just chimsky and like Sonny Gray and God is
Speaker 1: always in price like you just always Tony Camps in
Speaker 1: Houston like I just did. It's actually pretty great. I've
Speaker 1: learned to not have like a crazy loyalty. Like it's
Speaker 1: just like you get to watch sports and be like,
Speaker 1: I just wanted this to be a good game. I
Speaker 1: want to root for these players that I like. It's
Speaker 1: like your Jesney being friends with every SEC football coach
Speaker 1: because they all like his music. And you're like, wait,
Speaker 1: you grew up a Tennessee fan. He's like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: I like Steve Spurrier two. He's an awesome dude. And
Speaker 1: you know, like you see him pictured at like every stadium,
Speaker 1: you know, hanging out in different gear, and initially you're
Speaker 1: like that stupid, but then you're like, well, if you
Speaker 1: actually meet some of these guys, they're actually pretty good dudes,
Speaker 1: and you're like, you root for them maybe more than
Speaker 1: you root for a team, if that makes sense. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It makes it a lot easier. It makes your life
Speaker 1: a lot easier. It makes it like you can sit
Speaker 1: enjoy a game and I'm miserable. I mean, once you
Speaker 1: get older to you just start realize that you're you
Speaker 1: get busy, and then you're like, dude, I can't be
Speaker 1: like crying over the Titans or something. Like you're like,
Speaker 1: I gotta get it. I gotta get it together. You know. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I think about now. Sometimes, like
Speaker 1: I will sit and watch a game and I'll be like,
Speaker 1: like Tennessee, for instance, in basketball, this kid gains is,
Speaker 1: his name is, nine years old whatever he is, missed
Speaker 1: two free throws in the SEC Basketball Tournament against against Alabama,
Speaker 1: and I felt awful for him because potentially Tennessee would
Speaker 1: have pulled off the upset been in the SEC championship game.
Speaker 1: They haven't won the SEC basketball Tournament in my entire
Speaker 1: life as a fan, so I'm forty one, Like that's
Speaker 1: a long time to just have a lot of losses.
Speaker 1: Every year. I'm like, this is the year and they
Speaker 1: lose or whatever. But now I sit around, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I would be such a jerk move for me to
Speaker 1: tweet something bad about these kids because I have a
Speaker 1: way bigger audience often times than they do. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's interesting the transition from somebody who
Speaker 1: just roots for a team to like, man if I
Speaker 1: said something like I can't believe you missed that? How
Speaker 1: did he choke like that miss those free throws or whatever?
Speaker 1: On Twitter, it will be like I would feel bad
Speaker 1: because it's like I'm picking on him right because I've
Speaker 1: got a big arm. And it's it's crazy transition in
Speaker 1: your mind to go from like a casual fan to
Speaker 1: are a big fan. But now you've got a bigger audience.
Speaker 1: It's like more people are going to see your criticism
Speaker 1: of that play that might have been watching that play
Speaker 1: almost right, Like it's it's a weird kind of and
Speaker 1: you're old enough to be there dead. That's also true
Speaker 1: once you get once you get to our age, you
Speaker 1: realize how young is oh yeah, and how young and
Speaker 1: you're like, dude, that these are kids. That's like my
Speaker 1: argument has been uh and this is you could probably
Speaker 1: build an entire uh segment about this, but you can't
Speaker 1: wear a jersey of someone that is younger than you,
Speaker 1: right Like that you like what you're like if I
Speaker 1: see guys walking around and you're like, you're forty five
Speaker 1: year old and you're wearing like a nineteen year old jersey,
Speaker 1: it's like that's kind of you biliating right now for
Speaker 1: people like us, Like I could wear a throwback Bo
Speaker 1: Jackson jersey, right, Like, my argument is that they have
Speaker 1: to be older than me, unless it's your own kid
Speaker 1: or you know, some sort of scenario like that. Right,
Speaker 1: if one of my kids ever was good enough to
Speaker 1: play it, you know, i'd wear his jersey or whatever
Speaker 1: to go sit in the crowd. Maybe maybe I would,
Speaker 1: Like if you did it, you go, I'm not, I can't.
Speaker 1: I've had this. You stick this hard fast, really have
Speaker 1: it's like dead, but just swear my jersey and you're like,
Speaker 1: the people will call me out for being a hypocrite
Speaker 1: and and so, but I've It's funny like as you age,
Speaker 1: you start to dress more like the coach um and
Speaker 1: so like I wear like when I go to an
Speaker 1: SEC football game now, coaches polo right, Like, you're not
Speaker 1: you're not trying too hard, but you're not doing too
Speaker 1: much like the coaches you know in a college football
Speaker 1: game stand on the sideline and the coaches polo and
Speaker 1: that's like your look right like, I'm I'm pretty much
Speaker 1: gonna be coaches polo for the next twenty years or
Speaker 1: so because I'm roughly the age of the coaches now.
Speaker 1: And uh, and I think that's the way you have
Speaker 1: to to dress for an SEC football game. And I
Speaker 1: can't believe earl. Yeah, like it's something like, I mean,
Speaker 1: not necessarily I want to like, but it's like you
Speaker 1: still understanding some the beaten traffic thing. You're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I like that. I went to one football
Speaker 1: game this year. It was Alabama against Tennessee, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I just I can't. I don't think I
Speaker 1: can sit through this entire game. Like it's just an
Speaker 1: absolute drubbing, you know. And I used to be like that,
Speaker 1: never leave early, but but yeah, I if you get
Speaker 1: stuck in that. That was one of the good things
Speaker 1: about that, Probably the only good thing about COVID was,
Speaker 1: you know, I've got season tickets to the Titans. Man,
Speaker 1: I could pull up park right by the stadium, you know,
Speaker 1: I get my kids, I could walk in, nobody was
Speaker 1: sitting in front of them blocking their view. We could
Speaker 1: go get uh, you know, easy concessions, and then as
Speaker 1: soon as the game's over, it takes five minutes to
Speaker 1: get to your car, drive right onto the interstate. Like
Speaker 1: I was like, man, you know this one third stadium
Speaker 1: capacity thing is is not necessarily awful from a fan perspective, Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh not at all. Yeah, that's what that's what they
Speaker 1: think that's almost what they should do, is like they
Speaker 1: could ever do it. It's like just make make that experience,
Speaker 1: like focus on that leaving, you know, not being like
Speaker 1: I mean you think about airlines, like if they just
Speaker 1: spread the sea, you're like, you talk about better everybody's
Speaker 1: life would be just I don't understand why at the
Speaker 1: airlines they don't have double exits, right, they have the
Speaker 1: extra exit thing that they can open in the back.
Speaker 1: I've always wondered, why don't they have two different like
Speaker 1: little whatever those things are called, like the conveyor belt
Speaker 1: thing that they pull up so you can walk off.
Speaker 1: It seems like it would be wildly more efficient to
Speaker 1: have to than one. It's because they're all against this
Speaker 1: man and there they don't want to still have a
Speaker 1: good time. I don't understand it. Like every time I'm
Speaker 1: standing there like sweating because they turn they turn off
Speaker 1: the air and you're like in the back of the plane,
Speaker 1: which I've been a lot, and I'm just like this
Speaker 1: is just awful, and your kids are throwing a fit
Speaker 1: and you're like there's no way for me to get off,
Speaker 1: and like why wouldn't they just open the back and
Speaker 1: have a double exit. Strategy. You should just yell that
Speaker 1: next time and go, hey, this a doorback here. Do
Speaker 1: you remember when that guy like opened it and just
Speaker 1: got a beer and slid off. Do you remember that,
Speaker 1: Like flight attendant was just like I'm and and like
Speaker 1: deployed the emergency exit and just slid off the back
Speaker 1: with a blue moon. It was like drinking a beer.
Speaker 1: It was like, that's the nightmare you set off too.
Speaker 1: Is so funny to the net, Like for something like
Speaker 1: that to happen, it's like two seconds for that slid
Speaker 1: to pop out, and then you're like, I mean it's
Speaker 1: like ten hours to get it back and like it's
Speaker 1: just a night there like they have down there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is phenomenal. Uh Nate. When's your next by the way,
Speaker 1: when your next comedy like event? Where are you gonna
Speaker 1: be performing next? Do you have one schedule? You know what?
Speaker 1: My Miami improv the end of May, that's the I've
Speaker 1: got a bunch of club dates of them were sold
Speaker 1: out in Miami, not so much. Miami is a tough market.
Speaker 1: So not a piller for you, not not the I'm
Speaker 1: not I'll definitely get informed there in part of people
Speaker 1: that don't know me. Uh, that's that but it that's
Speaker 1: a end of May and in the theater tour starting
Speaker 1: hopefully starting back up and all that's awesome. Well, we
Speaker 1: appreciate all the time. I know how busy you are.
Speaker 1: Congrats on the special, encourage everybody to to check it out,
Speaker 1: and we'll hopefully talk to you again soon. Yeah man, anytime,