WEBVTT - Clay talks with Nate Bargatze 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:05.760 This is Wins and Losses with Clay Trevis. Clay talks 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.879 with the most entertaining people in sports, entertainment and business. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:21.279 Now here's Clay Trevis. Welcome in Wins and Losses. It's 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.560 been a little while, been crazy busy with everything in 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.520 the out Kick universe. But there's a brand new Netflix 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:31.600 comedy special up from Nate Bargatsky. I watched it last 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.000 week with my wife. We loved it. We were laughing 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.160 a lot, and I thought, I need to get Nate 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.400 back on the Wins and Losses programs. Have actually fascinated 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.199 how you film a comedy special in the middle of COVID, 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.120 And so we're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.239 about his sports fandom and this conversation in general. I 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.080 think you will love it's Wins and Losses. If you 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:51.640 like this when, you'll like a lot more of them 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.240 as well. So dive in. Here's comedian Nate Bargatsky with 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.720 me on Wins and Losses. Joined now by Nate Bargatsky. 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.720 He's got a great Netflix comedy special that is up, 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.120 just debuted a couple of weeks ago. I watched it 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.360 this time last week. I think and uh immediately texted you, Nate, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.080 and I said, man, that was really really good. I 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:14.800 needed I think there's a lot of people out there 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:19.760 who need laughter right now, certainly more than ever. Uh So, 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.720 first of all, thanks are getting up early and uh 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.280 and hanging out with us. But I was so fascinated 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:28.120 by the way that this was filmed outdoors in l A. 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.440 There's helicopters flying over the top of it. What was 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.680 the process like, so before you're telling any jokes and 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.679 anything else, Like, how was this set up? How long 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.160 did it take to tape? Tell me how you go 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:44.520 about filming a Netflix special like this? Uh? Yeah, well 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.760 appreciate it, buddy. I got your text and uh it 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.080 was This one was like much different because obviously was 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.400 outside and with an audience hunter people audience had to 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.160 get COVID tested, they ought to wear masks, so it 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.760 was very difficult to dude that got the tickets that 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:01.920 very of funny. Had a guy email me and he 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:03.600 was like, Yo, what's with all the hoops to get 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:07.560 these tickets? As a kid, there's uh pandemnic like to 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:09.640 the point to show him like, well, there's a big 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.560 global pandemic that the earth is going with uh, So, 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.240 I mean, you know, that's part of it, but it 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.400 was tough, Like the timing, Like the timing of it 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.960 is what's the hardest part, because you can't I can't 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.040 hear them laugh because we're outside. They got mask on, 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.440 and it's just laughter kind of just goes in the air. 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.480 And then also you can't see their faces, so you 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.239 can't see them smiling. So you're like up there like, dude, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.120 this might be they might hate this, and you're just 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.080 kind of going off like I know these jokes, I've 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.320 done them before, they've worked, and so you're just hoping 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.600 they're working. But so we time like you know, my 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.480 sets like timed out. So I timed it out. It 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.480 was like sixty four minutes. I was doing these drive 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.760 in movie theater days, and uh, I had it timed 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.239 out in the first show. We take two shows for 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.080 a special, and then the first show I did forty 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.919 three minutes. It was that and that much was entered. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.520 You was like gone with just the outside in the 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:07.120 mask and like we had helicopters fine over and like 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.880 all that kind of chaos. Like so it's like crazy 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.760 to see. I mean, I've had it happened. But you know, 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.280 you can fluctuate ten tif teen minutes, ten minutes maybe 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.760 with no like if the crowds like crowds can be 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.720 fast laugher like they laugh quick and stop or whatever. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.919 But it was pretty wild to go that. So then 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.919 usually when you take two shows, they tell you, I 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.480 mean every special I've done, they always go, we got it. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.120 The first show, We're good, don't worry about it, have 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.000 fun on the second show, and then this show they 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.080 were like, yeah, we do not have it. So the 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.880 second show is very important because you don't have to 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.520 do an hour. So that's actually really so were they 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.560 back to back? Like how much time is between the two? 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.960 Is it the same day? Are you performing the same hour, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:59.760 different different crowding? Yeah, you just you you usually get 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.520 everything from one show, so when you see a special, 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.840 it is most likely from one show, and you just 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.120 takee two just to be sure, uh you know, something 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.720 like this happens or who knows, And then they, you know, 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:14.960 maybe occasionally be like, I like the joke on the 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.680 first show better, the reaction was better, I said it better. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.160 You know. Uh so usually but you have like an 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:22.560 hour after, but I mean, right when I got off. 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:27.640 You know you nailed this out. I mean the second one, 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.240 I think, I yeah, you could tell. I mean it 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.360 was you know, you never feel I don't know when 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.280 you take them, you never feel specials are not it's 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.640 not the same as uh, regular show. Like it's it's 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:41.560 I don't know, there's just the pressure of like you 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.599 gotta get it. Uh. And this was such a weird 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.080 kind of thing. Uh. And so you you don't like 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.600 when you when you get done, you're like, all right, 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.279 I think that was good, Like you just you're like, 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.120 I don't know. The last one. I felt really good 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.960 about the Tennessee Kid. That one I did, like I was, 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.120 I was running that material. That's the thing too, is 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.679 I mean I was. I had probably fifty more theater dates. 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.239 I would have ran this hour in before the special, 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.200 and I mean lucky I got to do those drive 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.520 in and do it. And I had an hour built 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:13.080 before the special, I mean before COVID happened. I was 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.919 kind of already like I had an hour already. But 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:17.840 I mean normally you would have. And those reps are 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.000 super important because you just you you you tighten jokes up. 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.000 You find little things here and there. You maybe add 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.559 a little bit, and and then you're doing these theater 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.360 shows and so normally you just kind of pick we're 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.159 a stop on your theater tour and you're like, we're filming, 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.640 Like we were going to film in Minneapolis, was the plan. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:38.480 And then uh everything happened COVID and then all that stuff, 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.839 and so that that was like gone, and then I 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:43.800 didn't think I was gonna get its special, but then 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.600 they said they could do it at Universal Studios, and 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.200 so I was like, you know what, I'll just I 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.440 wanted to be done with this material. You get kind 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.480 of tired of your jokes and you kind of want 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.200 to come up with some new stuff, and so I 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.240 was like, well, no one's put anything out either. Uh 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.160 so I was like maybe I'll stand you know, you 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.320 can stay in alone kind of because there's not really 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:06.640 much coming out. And so there we go. So it 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.320 isn't there's so many interesting things to unpack there. So 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.680 how long to you is a period of time that 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.279 you're capable or want to do the same joke? Right? Like, 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.080 so this is all new material to you, what's the 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:24.240 lifespan of quote unquote new material? Like how long let's 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.719 pretend COVID didn't happen, and you were just touring as 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.560 a comedian doing this this act, this one hour ish act. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.800 How long would you tour with that act? Like what's 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.200 a normal range and how many acts have you gone through? 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.039 What you would say in your comedy career so far? 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:46.159 I mean hours? So I've had two hour specials. Half 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.600 hour on Netflix, that's a two and a half on Netflix, 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.360 two and a half hours, an hour on Comment Central 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.800 three and half hours, which that one air the same 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.800 night of the Mayweather pack you alf fight. No one 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.880 thought a scheduling by did you even watch it? Or 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:04.360 you watching Mayweather past? Watch the fight? Want? I mean, 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.120 I told them and they were like, I think we're fine. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:11.560 I think for years. This is like the biggest fine 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.040 by the way, this is this is funny too because 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.920 you're a big sports fan and we're talking to da Bargassy. 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.679 I So I've had to deal with this when I 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.000 when I sell books, right like to to write about 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.640 sports or whatever else. So my first book was Dixie 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.720 Land to like going around to all twelve SEC football stadiums, 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.800 and the people who buy books, by and large know 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:36.520 nothing about sports, right and so uh and so like that. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.880 I was talking to all the publishers, most of them 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:40.960 in the agents, and they're like, so, tell me about 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.480 this SEC football. Is it a big thing? And I'm like, yeah, 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.320 you know, like there's a lot of people who are 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.080 college football fans. They're like, do you think there's a 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.280 market out there? I was like, yeah, yeah, I do. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:53.800 You know, like, you know, there's hundreds of thousands of 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.200 people every Saturday go to the stadiums to watch and 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.760 they're like, really, like you know, it's like it's like 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.960 I'm talking to It's like I'm in a zoo and 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.520 I'm talking about like it's just so insane, like the 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.440 people you're trying to sell to. And the other example 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.520 I'll give you is right after I wrote Dixie Land 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.200 to Light, I was like, Hey, I've got this great idea. 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.880 I want to do a book about the NFL Draft 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.840 and about how much interest there is. I'm like, it's 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.440 the lent, you know, the link pin, the sort of 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.760 the connective tissue, the point between when guys go from 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.320 college to the NFL they train for the combine. I'm 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.920 gonna train for the combine alongside of these guys. I'm 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.160 gonna tell the story, and I went into all these 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.600 New York City publishers and they're like, yeah, we don't. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.120 We don't think there's enough interest in the NFL draft. 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.800 And I'm like, are you are you kidding me? Like, 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.560 like every day there's a new mock draft that comes out, 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.200 Like we can do NFL draft talk. I think I 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:48.880 got a text the other day and somebody was like, hey, 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.840 you know, Cowherd's done mock drafts for like sixty five 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.600 consecutive days on his radio show because there's so much 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.199 interest in it. But so I'm curious on that for 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.120 the comedy world, uh, because you're a big sports fan. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:02.920 But I can see you being like, hey, you know 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.520 it's head to head with Mayweather Pachie out like that's 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.920 really not a good overlap for me, and they're like, 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.160 oh no, no, that everybody's gonna still watch. I can 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.520 totally see the comedy world and the entertainment world being 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.680 a little bit insular like that too, where they don't 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:20.280 really know about like the overlap with sports. They and 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.480 I started. So I did fallon to pool, like I 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.480 don't found much, but like that night when I was 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.920 on Foulon like to promote it, I had foulon. I 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:29.720 told him that, and I was like, hey, you should 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.360 say that, And I just started telling people that because 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.560 I was like, I have no hope of them watching this, 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.200 like at least tell them to dvrn't and be like 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.760 we're all watching the fight. Like this Netflix specially come 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.640 out during the first Justice League got dropped in the 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.640 March madness. But it's on Netflix so people can know 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.440 that they can watch it whenever they want to go 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.520 watch it, right, doesn't the drop date doesn't really matter 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.160 as much, you know. I mean, most time Netflix to 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.240 to promote your specialist, you they don't want your promoting 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.880 until after it's already on, right, so you won't do 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.640 I mean, they have algorithms down to everything that you won't. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.120 Like you sit down with them and they tell you 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:06.839 like when we'll go through and stuff, and I mean 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.440 they got it. They're like, we think thirty days now. 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:14.000 I think they're doing thirty days before. Uh they do 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.240 thirty days before the special to lead up to it, 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.840 and then a bunch after the special because it's like 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.720 you want people to be like, hey go watch it now, 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.439 like you can see it right this, you know, because 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.960 more people tend to do that stuff. You know. Another 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.360 random thing they might be finishing is a billboard in 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:36.000 Cool Springs. I got a billboard right, Uh. That billboard 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:40.079 is basically there, so I see it, like they there's 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.120 I mean they I've always heard that they do this. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.199 I don't know how they have billboards in New York 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.280 and l A uh in l A. I think it 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.320 is more you know, that's more of the for the 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.800 voting for Emmy's and Graham like that kind of stuff, 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:54.440 and like just to be in the Hollywood so those 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.839 people see it. So they do it. With Jet appt 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:58.920 out they did one of his shows, they put one 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.000 near his house like on the way to work, because 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:02.880 then he sees it and he's like, all right, look 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.280 at them. They're promoting Yeah, they're promoting it. It's like 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.520 straight up and I swear this one's like straight up 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.520 from me to my two legends golf courts, like you 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.360 know that they know. I go to my sick golf 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:17.200 court and that is like every day and I'm like, yeah, 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.040 I look at this. They're giving it. You know. That's 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:24.000 that's the that's that's amazing. Also, that's the story like 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:28.120 on Hollywood boulevard or whatever, Like the most expensive billboards 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.959 in the world are right there because they want the 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.800 industry to know like, hey, this event is going on, 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.079 and also the people who are affiliated with it right like, 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.760 uh to be haven't I haven't seen your billboard. I 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.120 mean I drive sixty five South in Nashville on a 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:48.960 regular basis. I think, oh, you see it coming north? Yeah, 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.040 so that is, Yeah, that is It's great, awesome that 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.839 they do it like that. Yeah, I mean Netflix is amazing. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.840 But yeah, you're right about them promoting stuff. I mean, 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.680 they don't know, they don't you man. We talked to 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.040 the don't know sports like when I had it when 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:03.480 I moved to New York and you would talk about 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.760 sports and they're like, I don't know, Like is Rutgers playing? 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.560 You're like Rutgers, Like are you crazy? Like you think 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.480 like vesting matters and you're you sit there and you 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.560 could That's when I could always see the disconnect of 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.080 when I live in New York in l A. Because hey, 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.040 when you say you're from the South, they just are like, 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.520 what are y'all doing down there? You know, like they 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.680 do not think that anything exists out of there, like 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.240 blocks that they live on and they can't fathom that 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.720 there's human beings wandering around and whatever human means they 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.280 think are one around. It's not the best. They think 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.680 the worst people alive and you they all you have 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:39.079 to you have to talk to them all the time, 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.040 Like it's a yeah, like football, You're like, what was 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.520 the big game tonight? Like who You're like Alabama LSU 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.480 and they're like, what is that. You're like, I don't know. 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.040 You would dream to have those ratings. I can tell 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:51.040 you that it would change your life. You're dumb. Spcom 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:55.800 even had a had a Vandy Kentucky Saturday noon ratings, 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.200 you would still yourself for something like that. It is funny, 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.920 Like so obviously without kick, uh we serve by and 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.280 like we have a lot of listeners all over the country, right, 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:09.320 but our basis, you know, starting off was SEC football 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.960 and now we're up to whatever ten million people a 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.040 month or plus will come to out kick And sometimes 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:16.760 we talk to people on the East and West coast 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.959 and they're like, well, that's a lot of people. It's like, yeah, 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.599 people care a lot, you know, like college football is 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.920 a big deal, you know, and I know big ten 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.640 fans and SEC fans they kind of get it. But 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.120 really for East Coast, like they don't have any I 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.240 mean your point on Rutgers, like Boston College whatever, Like 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.200 nobody really care Syracuse there's not a lot of teams there. 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.760 And then on the West Coast, Uh, you know U, S, 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.800 C U, C l A. If they're good, people care, 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.679 but it's not the same level of like intensity, My 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.319 I'm gonna go shoot somebody if my team loses, which 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.120 happens pretty much every year, for instance in the Iron Bowl. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:53.559 We're talking to ton April Gasy. So I'm curious. So 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.160 in your special, you've been doing stand up comedy for 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.480 a long time. You have been eight eighteen years. You 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.400 have been a lot of times a guy who gets 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:08.800 up that nobody knows as a comedian. How does it 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.840 change when people know you and have an expectation for 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.760 you when you come on the stage beforehand. I'll give 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.079 you an example from from your act that I was watching. 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.360 You say at some point, like everybody you know, something 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.280 along the lines of like your dad was a magician 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.680 for people who don't know, But people who have watched 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:29.040 your comedy now know that, and you don't have to 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.600 do the exposition of Hey, you know, my dad used 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.440 to do this, X, Y, and Z. You start to 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.600 assume that your audience has some knowledge about your life. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.840 Is that better or worse from a comedian perspective to 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.400 know that the people who are watching you are in 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.560 some way invested with the trajectory of your life such 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:52.160 that they come in with preconceived notions about you as 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.200 opposed to you just well, I'm sure I'm assuming it's 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.640 way easier, but you've had to battle to get there. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:00.920 I'm wondering how different that feels. Yeah, something's it's definitely 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.080 a different thing, and you never you can get to 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.800 the point more. Uh, you know, it's like nice to 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:08.640 be like I can say in the special, I can 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.440 say about that the magician is not about him being 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.400 I mean, it's a story with him being a magician, 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.720 but it's not like I'm telling you about it some 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.480 growing up like that or something. Uh. It definitely helps, 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.960 you know, I just talked to something about it, like 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.720 where it was. You know, when you start come, these 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.800 people are going to be steaters and like you're seeing 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.800 these there's a line and people are buying food and 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.360 it's like a couple of thousand people and they're there 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:35.000 to see you. You do have a moment of uh, 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.040 like you feel like you like look around, You're like, 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.280 who are they? Who's here tonight? Just because you can't 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.440 imagine it's you and you're like what are these? And 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.000 people doing? You know, and that's but it's like that, 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.480 it's a weird thing to switch over. Steinfeld once said 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.400 like if he could ever go back, the only thing 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.640 that he misses before he obviously loves, you've got a 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.160 lot of money, is life is great. But the one 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.960 thing he does miss is performing when the audience doesn't 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.720 know you. And you do miss that. I mean I 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.840 can still go up if I you know, pop up 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.440 at Zany's in Nashville and no one knows I'm coming. Uh, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.520 I'm not not every and they're not there for me. 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.440 They're just there for a regular show. I mean, people 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.920 do know who I am, but they you know, some 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.240 people might not and are if you do a corporate 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.880 show sometimes that you could be there and they don't 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:23.760 know you. And when you can get when you can 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.880 get those people that don't know you, uh, it's the 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.480 it's so fun because you they're they have no idea 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.840 what they're in for and you get it. Like if 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:33.920 you get that's the excitement you have when people don't 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.640 know you're like, you get approved that you're funny to people. 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.240 The thing you got to switch to when people start 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.320 coming is you then got to hey, it does get 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.760 easier they uh. That's why I like that. I always 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.320 start with new jokes because the jokes that you know 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.480 they're they're going to give you more grace at the 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.680 beginning because they're like just excited that you're there and 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.440 you know, and then you gotta get into some good stuff. 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.680 But you have to always remind yourself too, I mean, 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.800 as you know, to know that you're not getting these 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.639 laughs for no reason, like you're just sitting you know, 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:07.439 you're getting laughs just because we're like we love you, 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.040 like Colin Quinn said, and like there's a document comedians 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.560 like Jack Nicholson like he can get off stage and 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.680 they get on stage, they give them five minutes to 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:17.440 grace and then they'd be like, all right, Jack, tellton 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.720 jokes you get out of here, like and that's how 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.040 an audience feels like there, you know, Yeah, I could 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:24.800 go back to the same cities and probably do this 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.320 thing I've got a new jokes now, But if I 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.639 had the same jokes, they would handle it maybe once, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.360 maybe twice. And then if you come back a third 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.840 time and you got the same act, I mean it's over. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.879 Like it's you know, and they're not coming back like 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.159 they're gonna be like, oh I saw him, you know this. 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.800 After the second time, they'd be like, let's go. You 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.919 gotta that's why you and you gotta start, keep building 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.160 a new act and keep growing. Fox Sports Radio has 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.120 the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.480 of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.119 within the I Heart Radio app. Search f s R 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:03.080 to listen live. We're talking to Nate Bargatsky, great uh comic. 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.159 He's got a Netflix specially encourage you guys to check 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.320 it out. Went up a couple of weeks ago. How 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.159 much has your life been? Like everybody's life changed because 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.040 of COVID, right, Like everybody had something in their life 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.960 that was substantially different. But for a comedian who makes 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.320 his living being out on the road and sort of 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.720 being able to test jokes in front of normal audiences 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.359 inside of comedy clubs, that had to be just a screeching, 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.639 halt suddenly and then your home all the time, and 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:31.920 like my wife is like, why don't you leave more often? 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:33.439 You know, Like I haven't been on the road very 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:35.040 much for the past year. I used to travel a 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.840 lot more. What was your life like as a comedian 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.399 during COVID compared to what it was like February of 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:45.280 last year compared to like April of last year had 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:49.040 to be like two different worlds. Yeah, I was in Uh, 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.720 I was in New Jersey the day we canceled the show, 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.359 and uh we canceled like three hours before the show. 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.719 Everything was getting canceled. Uh the guy didn't want to cancel. 0:18:57.880 --> 0:18:59.760 People are like already showing up a little bit and 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:01.920 it was like but it was like this weird I 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:03.480 didn't know if people can get their money back, like 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.000 if I if I canceled or if I didn't cancel, 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:07.800 and say, some people are like I don't feel safe, 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.800 like they're not gonna get their money back because we 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.920 did the show and uh so it was like you 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:14.960 got kind of call and like in this kind of 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:16.639 weird thing. Was funny that they had a show the 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.800 night before Tony Bennett and the guys that we had 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.399