Transcript of #660 - Nate Bargatze

Today's guest is a stand-up comedian. Um, he's a host. Um, he's a fixture in the world of comedy. He's, he's a leader. This guy's a leader in the world of comedy and clean comedy. Um, he's one of one, I would say, that's for sure. He has a new film that's coming out in theaters this weekend called The Breadwinner. That's Friday, May 29th. You can go check it out. He's building an amusement park, like a real one, for amusement right here in Nashville, Tennessee. Uh, I'm thankful to spend time with today's guest, Mr. Nate Barguetzi. Yeah, dude, I saw some guys talking about when you would sleep— remember when you were a kid, you would sleep over at somebody's house? You remember that?

Yeah.

And you woke up before them.

Yeah.

And just like, because you kind of had to pretend you were asleep.

Like you were ready to get up and go, but it wasn't your world, it was their universe. Yeah. I would think the, the big, you know, that's when you're a kid, then the biggest opposite is when you're older and then everybody's up, you know, and, uh, Meet the Parents. Yeah, that like scene Made me laugh so hard when, like, Ben Stiller comes downstairs and everybody's been up for, like, a couple hours. Because that— what I relate to that, I think, even as a comedian, you know, it's like we, like, we can stay up late and whatever.

You're always the guy wandering into the, into the world late.

Yes. And I mean, people are like— I, I mean, we— I, I know people outside comedy, they have like a meeting at like 6:30 or 7, like a meeting.

In the morning?

In the morning.

Yes.

And you're like, what?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. For what? Yeah, maybe with God. Maybe that's early.

I could see that. Yeah, yeah.

You know, or an actual meeting with the sun. Like if you got an email from the sun and it's like, hey, I'm gonna— we're gonna need you there.

Yeah, like the literal sun. Yes, yes, yes. If he was like, hey, I'm here.

Yeah, either son.

The son shows up early though. Yeah, yeah, the son shows up early.

Yeah.

And he's like, I've been here. And you go, no, I kind of saw you. I just was like, give me a second. Yeah, just let me get my bearings a little bit. Yeah, 7:30 meetings when they say they have those. I think I want— I would want to be that though.

Oh, so that's something like it gets a little bit aspirational. Yeah, dude. Yeah, I've been— and I hate to say this because I don't want to hear myself say this.

Yeah.

I think— oh God, it hurts even coming down to my neck. Um, I think I'm a— I think I'm a morning person.

You know, I could—

and you know what I'm saying? I'm sorry to say that.

Uh, well, I think it's, you know, it's, uh—

I don't want to apologize to people who can't even handle hearing that.

Yeah, because they want you to be a night person. Well, as a comedian, we are night people, right?

And I think there's something But I think we go opposite.

Like, it's, uh, we want structure. I did, like, not to talk about my movie right now, but like, I'm saying, when I shot the movie, and you just shot a movie, there's like structure, right?

Yeah, Breadwinner, that's the movie.

The Breadwinner is the movie. Uh, but like, when you shot your movie, uh, it's you got to be on set at this time and this, this, this is— and I loved it because I don't think we have structure as comedians, and we don't come from any of it, and we go I remember I wrote for the Spike Video Game Awards like a long time ago.

And, uh, Spike, is it volleyball? What was it?

No, remember that TV show or that network Spike? I think it was like Spike TV.

Oh yeah, Spike TV.

They did like a bunch of like random— it was like right when we were like in New York, like 2008, 2000.

Oh yes, I do remember this.

Yeah, it was like a dude's channel.

What were some of their top shows? Look up top 3 shows on Spike TV.

The— they had the game show or Video Game Awards, I want to say.

Oh, Ultimate Fighter started on there. The reality show launched the UFC and modern MMA into the mainstream. Interesting.

Blue Mountain State.

What's that?

Blue Mountain State. That was, uh, that was a show with, uh, Reacher. Uh, I know his real name, Jack Reacher. I look like Jack Reacher right now, and this is what he would wear.

Do you? I look like Jack Reach Around. I—

yeah, I don't— and my body doesn't, but this is— he wears a shirt like this. Alan Richardson. I know Al. Like, oh dude, yeah, somebody always talks to me about him. Yeah, so he was started out in Blue Mountain State, which is on Spike TV.

Wow.

And then, um, yeah, Spike TV was like, uh, a little bit ahead of its time. Like, it's, it's almost a channel that— Bar Rescue, some pretty good stuff, man.

Bar Rescue, A Thousand Ways to Die. No thank you, I'll take one way.

Yeah, but you'd want to know the other.

I don't need to know a thou— at a thousand, you're just getting— you'll stay alive forever just looking through all of them.

That is, but that's—

maybe that's reverse psychology. Maybe that's the plan.

Yeah, I mean, because it's going to be a spider bite, it's going to be you step on a nail and an artery. I don't know if you— are you on arteries?

Yeah, if you fall off a building and land, like, one of your arteries lands on like a little nail or something. Yeah, there's a lot of—

yeah, anyway, there's a lot of ways.

Bar Rescue. Okay, Spike TV. Anyway, go on. Sorry I interrupted you, but I just forgot about Spike TV.

Yeah, you know, it was a— it was a great— it was a good channel, especially like it hit an age demographic. You know, this is on— dude, Entourage, we were just— I was just talking about Entourage. Entourage was on during this time, like, so it was—

oh, on television, not the same channel. Yeah, I didn't know that Alan Richson— even just to think that that's like that Blue Mountain State was there, that the UFC kind of like sort of became mainstream by going on to Spike TV and getting like eyeballs that way.

He was like, we'll take whatever you got.

I didn't understand that.

Look up once more, Spike TV was this Mountain Dew can. It was everything it represents.

Oh yeah, America.

Just American, American Dew with Spike TV. Yeah, a thousand ways to die.

UFC.

Yeah, just shotgunning Mountain Dew, Blue Mountain State.

Yeah, it was all of it.

Yeah, yeah.

Um, what were you— what were we talking about? So we're talking about Spike TV. You see, you went into Spike TV, uh, the struc—

like having structure with the movie. Oh, the movie, you gotta— yeah, like I do— I'm not a person that has any structure.

Oh yeah, and comedians aren't in general. So when you're on set, you were saying like, yeah, you get this other— oh, it's great. And they tell you to— even comedians, I noticed, uh, they told And I don't know if they did this on Breadwinners, but they told me, we told, I lied to myself, but that to be like, they would set the call time 45 minutes, really it was later because they knew I was going to be a little bit late.

Oh yeah. Yeah. I don't know if we, I think that's, I think the people have done that to me. Yeah. Yep.

To get you there.

But I would show up, like I've been late to stuff. It depends on what it is. If it's something that I know I should get to, I'll get to. But if it's, If it's not, you can— sometimes it's like, yeah, it's just, there's a lot of stuff.

It's—

I think it's hard being your own, when you're your own boss. Yeah, it's— you can get lost a little bit and you can get, you know, you want to sometimes look for someone to go no or yes, and then you realize there is no one to say no or yes. It's just you.

Yeah, it's just you. Yeah, I really— I realized that I work for myself and I'm not the best employee, I realize.

Mm-hmm. I could— yeah, that makes sense. Like, it's— yeah, you, you can— you don't live up to maybe what you're doing, but you know, then— but if someone sees what you're doing, they're like, you're doing everything right. So then they're like, you're doing great, and you're just going to beat up yourself. Uh, oh yeah, because you think like, I should be doing more. I mean, I think about like that, you know. I should—

oh yeah, when you're working, I should get structure.

I have no structure.

Yeah.

Athletes have structure. They have like, yes, routines.

Yeah, yeah. There's no like comedy— there's not like a bell that goes off early in the morning where it's like comedians grab your pens and start your writing.

And we, like you said, if you're a morning person, you think that goes against everything that you're supposed to be because your shows are at night, and when you come up, you're out very late. But then the longer you're in it, you kind of like want to just get up earlier. And have a routine.

Yeah.

And then it's like, that's my fantasy, is just to have a routine.

Oh, to adhere to an alarm clock.

That's—

oh yeah, that's a fantasy of mine.

Yeah, yeah. Not a lot of alarm clocks, you know. You don't set alarm clocks because it just doesn't—

dude, I would set my alarm clock and then hide my phone in between the mattresses on the other side of the bed that I slept on.

Yeah.

So like over there, and I would never even hear it because it's quiet, because it's under the mattress.

Yeah, it's quiet.

It didn't stand a chance. So I wanted structure, but I was just not willing to adhere to it. Yeah. Yes. I'm like I work for myself and I'm the worst employee. I would, I would go smoke behind the dumpsters like I was hiding from myself. Like, what are we even doing?

Yeah, I think you want someone to be in charge.

Yes.

I had an old joke.

Unfortunately, it's you every time.

It's you.

You had an old show.

What? I had an old joke where I said, uh, you know, it's like with the thing with comedy is like if you wanted to quit comedy, there's no one to quit to. So you like can't call Seinfeld and be like, hey, I'm out. Like there's no one, no one cares if you quit. No one. Yeah, there's no one to say you quit to. And then if you get to a point where you have this giant audience and you quit, then you feel like you got to— you can't just quit. No, because then everybody's like, where are you at? So even if you wanted to quit, you're like, I don't know, you got to— what do you do? Make a video? And then everybody's like, why you quit? And you're like, now you're quitting to millions of people. Yeah. And you're like, nah, I just wanted to kind of slowly fade. Yeah. Daniel Day-Lewis, I always think, is an actor— like, you don't know anything about that guy. You know, he comes out for, you know, just to basically win an Oscar, and then he goes back, goes back to whatever he does. And that guy, I don't know what he does.

Yeah, I don't know what he does either. Daniel Day-Lewis. Yeah, I mean, he has day in his name. That's so—

probably gets up early for sure if he's putting that in there. Yeah.

Um, But yeah, no idea. Comes out, gets his thing. Boy in the, uh, left foot, red foot fan.

My Left Foot.

My Left Foot, dude.

No, I haven't seen it, but it's pretty good.

It's—

have you?

It's older. Yeah, I've seen it.

Really? It's about anything to do with his feet. Yeah. Oh really? It does.

Bring it up. Let's just find out what was it. My Left Foot. Hold on, let me take a gander at what I thought it was really quick. It was a man I believe, I think there was like a train accident. He gets his, it takes place like in the South. He gets one of his feet hit by a train and then he has to operate and fall in love, I guess, with just only his other foot. He has to fall in love with someone else with only his other foot to be able to like hand them a file.

So his left foot is like, it's like—

It's necessary.

It's a big deal.

Yes. Let's see it. No One Expects Much from Christy Brown, Daniel Day-Lewis. A boy with cerebral palsy born into a working class Irish family.

Okay, no train.

A little different.

Uh, that's a train.

With the help of his steely mother and no shortage of grit and determination, Christie overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet, and author.

How is it like a true story?

Though Christie is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when at the age of 5 he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. Oh yeah, I remember this now. Different movie than I was thinking, but Still a great movie. You—

yeah, the train.

Yeah, I was thinking of Fried Green Tomatoes. That's what I was thinking of. I just realized that.

That has a train in it?

Yeah. Oh, little crossover.

Yeah.

Um, that's—

but that's a good— you know, the only train movie I think of is that one Denzel Washington. Oh, it's good.

Training Day.

I don't think it's Training Day. There's one where— yeah, there is an actual—

how is it not Training Day?

But there's one that— there is, uh, Unstoppable.

Oh, I haven't seen that.

It's great. That's kind of where I'm at. I haven't seen My Left Foot, but I've seen, uh, no, Pelican One Two Three, maybe. That's it. Oh, Pelican One Two Three. Yeah, yeah. Is that got a train? I think there's a train in that.

And was there a movie called Training Day?

There is.

Is Denzel Washington in it?

Nothing to do with the train, but that was Denzel. Yeah, that's— he won an Oscar for that. Oh, okay. Or maybe, maybe he didn't.

We shouldn't go to the theater, I don't think. But, uh, but you haven't—

this was good.

You have a new movie. You have— your movie's coming out.

Yeah, No Trains, May 29th. May 29th. Yes, Breadwinner. Breadwinner. And in theaters.

In theaters. Um, and you have a Nate rate. What did I see? What is this?

Yeah, we got the— we, we talked to all the movie theaters and, uh, got prices lowered.

Nice.

So yeah, yeah, just because we want the whole family to come out. It's interesting with movies, man. You You start looking at like theaters, like, you know, you guys make your own distribution, all this, like, you know, think about touring. Like, it's hard not to think about movies and touring as kind of like the same kind of thing. You know, you get a promoter, you get this, you go to every town. Like if you make a movie and you go to these theaters and they're in every single town and you kind of go, like, did you hear about that kid on YouTube? He did a horror movie and he's got a bunch of subscribers on YouTube And he's a big horror fan, I think, and they made a movie. He made a movie, and I mean, it was, you know, it was going to go out to a few theaters, then his fans just started calling their theaters being like, no, we want it to come. And it was like a huge success, and he made it for, I want to say, $3 million. And then, uh, yeah, uh, let me see, Iron— is it—

yeah, it's like something Iron.

No, Iron something.

It was Iron something.

And then Iron Lung. Yeah.

Was that it?

Yeah. Grossed over $50 million. I think he made it for 3.

Wow.

But it was like, that's a guy that just basically did it like a tour, like how we would tour and sell tickets.

Markiplier.

Mm-hmm.

That was the guy's name, Markiplier. And what does it say? Can you take me into the, the what happened with the movie?

He just made it. He said he wanted to make it.

The Iron Lung movie was independently self-financed and created by YouTuber Mark Fischbach. Markiplier, who wrote, directed, produced, edited, and starred in it. Operating without a major studio, he shot the film over 35 days using a life-size 9,000-pound submarine set mounted on a hydraulic motion rig. Wow. After struggling to find traditional Hollywood distribution, he self-distributed the film. Massive fan campaigns convinced major theater chains, uh, to screen it. The indie film became a massive box office hit, grossing $50 million on a $4 million budget. Wow.

So he had his fans all call— I bet they Once he said he wanted to go out, he was in a few theaters and his fans kept calling their theaters in their towns and they said they want to see it. And then he went out and said, $4 million budget.

That's amazing. That's incredible, dude.

But that's where you see movies where you're like, that guy did it kind of like how you would tour on a comedy club. Like you're going and selling tickets just in these towns, right? And so if you got a big following like that, that tours and you go make a movie. I mean, I, you know, it's like, can he go do that? You know, I understand the, uh, one time is kind of like, oh yeah, it's crazy, so it'd be major if— can he go do it again or can you repeat it?

And yeah, it's interesting. I mean, even with our own movie, I don't know what we sold compared to like if I were touring in a place as opposed to people that came out to go to the theaters. Um, I know it— well, I don't think it was close, but I do know that I had a lot of friends who were like, dude, I haven't been to the movie theater in 8 years. Yeah, 10 years, right?

Yeah.

I had a lot of people who went to the movie theaters by themselves, dude. We had one video of a dude, he sent it in, he went to the movie theater, nobody else was in the theater, right? He ends up watching, uh, what was this dude's name? I gotta find it, we'll put it in. He ends up just taking his shirt off and sitting there and watching the movie by himself, relaxing. He's the only guy in there.

Yeah.

Watch the whole thing by himself. This dude, I think it's like— it was this guy, it's like this like Latino guy, he's at work and he's like, bro, I'm freaking tired, but I want to go see this movie, maybe, I don't know. And then you see him walking, he's like, nobody's even here. And then like 10 minutes later he's like, I guess I'll just enjoy myself. And yeah, I don't know what happened after that. I mean, he just— we know he had the shirt off and watched it. Um, oh yeah, this is him right here, dude. This is the guy. Can you pull it up?

Man, I just got off of work. I got this fucking movie I'm trying to go watch. Dude, I don't feel like doing shit, to be honest. Look, I still made it in this motherfucker, but look, check it out. Ain't nobody in this bitch, bro. This motherfucker out to myself, cuz.

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I've never even thought about wanting to take your shirt off. I think people either don't or do want to take the shirt off. Yeah, I'm a, I'm a not— I don't want to take my shirt off, but I mean If someone wants to, buddy, they want to.

Oh, we know a guy.

Yeah, yeah, we did.

Yeah, we know a guy. Yeah, sometimes I wish we'd try to go in more theaters, but going to, uh, but yeah, taking your shirt off, but going—

what, going to theater alone, man, that like, it's pretty great. That's something you do a lot as a comic on the road. You can hit some, you know, you go to some movie at noon.

Yeah.

And you're just by yourself in there.

Oh yeah.

Have you ever had someone come sit right next to you? I've been by my— I've been like by myself or like maybe one other comic, and then two more people walk in, they sit in the seats in front of us. Oh, drives me nuts.

And what do you do?

I'll move. Yeah, because I— or I'll sit there and just be angry during the whole movie. Yeah, because why would you do that? Oh dude, why would you sit right, you know, just go sit, it's empty, just go sit like Somewhere, somewhere else up.

And but here's the thing though, if you sit too far away from that person, you think they feel kind of left out or something?

I would— no, I would go as far as away from them. I'm one that doesn't want to really be near someone.

Well, of course, near someone in a dark theater that you don't know, that's—

yeah, yes. I think you got to have space. I mean, I would sit like when you go with a buddy, like we don't sit next to each other. You have that empty seat.

Thank you.

Yeah.

When we went to Kevin James' movie, you and I sat next to each other and we kept a seat between us.

Yes, we kept a seat between us.

Like civilized people.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We were normal. Yeah. And we enjoyed the movie more.

Oh yeah, it was good, dude.

Yeah.

Like Beetlejuice. You ever been to a movie? You ever see that guy Beetlejuice?

Mm-hmm. From Stern?

We called him up. We offered him money to come on this podcast one time.

And he said no?

This is what he said. This is the craziest part. He's like, where are you going to leave the money at? And I couldn't like—

yeah, and he— and just from there it was like, oh, it's downhill. Yeah, it was so hard.

He's like, yeah, where are you gonna put the money at?

Yeah.

And I was like, oh, and I couldn't explain to him like at the bank or whatever.

Yeah, we're gonna send you a check.

Yeah, unreal.

Yeah, wire, anything.

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Yeah, I, but I, I think you're heading more towards that kind of stuff with experience. I mean, you're seeing people get, uh, you're seeing a lot of things, Netflix House, you're seeing a lot of things where they want to experience a Netflix House, you're saying? What is it? Yeah, Netflix is doing a, they, they're starting to build these Netflix Houses which are like movie theaters. Uh, no, it's, it's like they would have, uh, John Wick, and they would have like— like, I went to one, like, there you go, like, so it's like all your favorite Netflix shows and you get to interact with it in some way.

Oh, but you can also watch the shows in the place?

No, no, I don't— you're not watching them, you're just like a Squid Game. They have like a Squid Game thing you can go through, and then so you, so you go in and you spend the night or day and you just get to interact with your favorite show. Stranger Things, you get to go through a Stranger Things set. Or play a little game or— and that this kind of thing, I believe, I believe live experiences are gonna go— that's where, that's where it's at. That's why I think stand-up comics are in a terrific spot because you're— you can't AI a live performance, right? And you— I mean, you can do hologram and that kind of stuff, but Well, yeah, we're the only place.

I mean, what else even outside of stand-up comedy? Where else are people even outside of like pastors at churches? I'm trying to think, or reverends.

That's true.

Preachers or rabbis or— but who, like, outside of those people, you have musicians, but they, you kind of know what you're getting because it's like their songs.

Yeah.

But I'm trying to think of where else is there like—

well, I guess then you don't know what's influenced with what. So like, even if they're songs or if they're singing or whatever it is, I mean, I would think you know, some folk music like that. You're gonna have to have stuff like that where you're like straight up, you know, there's nothing added into it and there's nothing— or it's gonna be a very big spectacular, uh, spectacle show. You're gonna have to go either super big or you're gonna have to be, I think, like stand-up where it's just you, me, we're talking to a crowd and there's nothing in the middle, right?

Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying is like there's not a place where you go to get a pure voice anymore. There's not that, you know what I'm saying, like that's not refined or it's not overly produced or most authentic.

That's why, I mean, I hope young entertainers, I hope stand-up comics that are getting into it get into it, and they get in there and create an act. And because you're going to be, uh, the only place, you know, essentially where you could maybe be actually hearing a real person. Preacher is a good example too. Like, it's where you're gonna, you know, have straight on, like, I just want to, I want to see the person You know, because there's so much stuff people don't trust. So you're like, I just want to see the person. I want to see the person talking. Yeah, I want to—

well, I want the truth. I want that.

I want humanity, like that I could touch that person, right?

And I want what they really believe. I feel like, yeah, like with humor, I think at the base of a lot of our humor, I think a lot of it— I mean, sometimes you're joking around, but some of your true laurels are in there. Like, these are some of my, you know, like some— we all have a backbone of stuff that's in there.

Yeah, who you are, like, yeah. I mean, I think unless you're like a one-liner guy or something like that.

Right, then that's hard to really know.

But yeah, but who you are is gonna be kind of, you know.

Somewhat in there.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, 'cause yeah, it's hard to get like a true, like, okay, what does this person think? And are they just speaking directly to me without a lot of influence? It's like pastors, comedians. I'm not putting us in some special space or anything. I'm just saying, oh, here you go.

Teachers or professors. But I mean, like, look, it's—

but teachers, some of that stuff is kind of like, um, they have to follow a curriculum. Um, oh dude, when somebody's tickling you, that's when you have to tell the truth. Think about that.

A tickler?

If— no, not the tickler is a creep or whatever. Yeah, but the person— if you're being tickled, try— you ever try to lie to somebody while they're tickling you?

Uh, it's impossible.

Impossible.

Yeah. Maybe I'll be up there.

It's impossible. That's why when I see all this waterboarding and torture or whatever and all this horrible stuff they're doing to people sometimes, I'm like, dude, tickle.

Yeah, get in there, unleash them, get under their arm.

I don't know, unleash them crawdads on somebody and you'll get it.

Grab their— try to grab their thigh right there.

Oh, oh, dude, bro, where were you? This is our JFK. Where were you? People, you always knew you could get tickled like this, right? You knew that, right? And even if there's a chubby kid and you grab that little donut around his midsection, just shake the freaking truth out his little thick ass or whatever. Sorry, and we'll edit that. But when somebody did that to you, how shocked were you? I didn't know that when somebody did that.

Yeah, I remember, like, uh, I used to do it to my daughter too. Like, you grab their leg there and then just be like, well, don't smile, don't smile, don't— you know. And then, yeah, yeah, that's right, tickling. Maybe it was going to be a big, uh— it'll come back, you know. But you need ticklers. So then you get— where are you going to do that in a safe—

we'll probably get government-issued ticklers, and those people are going to be— yeah, it's— we've already—

they're not going to try.

It's like, yeah, they're not going to be trying.

You're going to have to be digging into their fingers more, like, because you're like, dude, you're not even trying. Like, you go, here, give me your hand, and then you have to do it.

And then you're like, yeah, yeah, you're going to be leaning more towards it, dude. That's like, bro, that's so funny, bro. You're so funny, dude. That's like, dude, that's like those people sometimes at work where like, I'm the city, like a city of— I'm like a liaison to the city and they segue around the town sometimes. But dude, sometimes those people, like one time we were trying to get information and the lady was running from us. She like couldn't get her thing to stop or whatever. So she would pass by, but you had to ask her really fast because she was going. And then another time the guy's, his got stuck or whatever, like in a right-hand pattern or whatever. He kept, he called it right-hand pattern. He's like, it's in a right-hand pattern.

And he's just sitting there just glitching like in a circle, like just going in circles.

Yes.

And we're trying to like, you know, we're just trying to ask, where's the monument?

Yeah, yeah, dude, it's just like, dude, we're talking about Paul Revere. And he just kept dodging us.

Yeah, where's Daniel Boone's house? And it's just— and he's—

yeah, yeah, dude, we're like, look, dude, we, we heard Harriet Tubman ate ice cream around here.

Can you just tell me?

Yes, heard Davy Crockett Yeah, we heard Davy Crockett and Betty Crocker actually hooked up around here one time.

They were around the same time.

Were they?

I don't know.

They had to have met.

They had to have met up. They would at least known about each other. Oh yeah, yeah. Davy Crockett was talked about a lot growing up. He was way more than it is now. It was a big deal when I grew up.

Yeah, now it's like Travis Scott or whatever.

Yeah, it is. And, and Davy Crockett It's a good name. I thought Davy Crockett— ouch. Here's what I would feel, and I'm going off nothing, but Davy Crockett was, when I was growing up, was the guy. And I think Daniel Boone came in and started a little overshadowing Davy. Hmm.

I remember Davy Crockett because he had the paraphernalia, he had the hat, and I think he— I don't know if he had a pistol or if he had a—

uh, yeah, I feel like he had a gun, like a One of those old school guns, like a six-shooter or something. Yeah, no, no, like a rifle, but like—

yes, that's it. Bring him up, let's get a gander at him, because yeah, who even knows? Davy Crockett and Betty Crocker are unrelated except for the shared last name, which isn't even the same last name. Yeah, you want to take us through Davy Crockett there, Nate?

Yeah, Davy Crockett was a real 19th century American frontiersman and politician, while Betty Crocker was created in 1921. And is not a real person. So that's tough. But they were around, uh, so she was a catfish basically, which she probably— yeah. Oh yeah, that's maybe the original catfish, Betty Crocker. Yeah. Um, he kept going, what's up with this Betty? Where's this Betty Crocker? And they go, she just left.

Yeah, dude. Yeah, he goes, oh, she was just here. Um, can you get me information just about Davy Crockett, please?

Did him and Daniel Boone know each other?

Crockett grew up in East Tennessee where he gained a reputation for hunting and storytelling. So he was kind of like a comedian, I guess.

Yeah.

He was made a colonel in the militia of Lawrence County.

He opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson. Where I'm from, Old Hickory, which is named after Andrew Jackson. Hmm.

So he was elected to Congress. I didn't even know he was a congressman. In 1836, he took part in the Texas Revolution and died at the Battle of the Alamo. That's why he was popular too, because the Alamo.

Yeah, yes, the Alamo. Yeah.

Uh, Crockett became famous during his lifetime for larger-than-life exploits popularized by stage plays and almanacs. After his death, he continued to be credited with acts of mythical proportion. Um, and then what about, uh, let's go Daniel Boone. When did he— when did he slide in there and steal his shine? Daniel Boone, born in 1734, while Davy Crockett was born in 1786. 52 years apart. So Boone was already an aging frontier legend.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So probably our grandparents or great-grandparents probably heard more about Boone.

They did. And then we heard about Crockett. Yep. And then maybe the truth has come out that it's like, look, we need to go pretty heavy on Boone because he was the originator.

Yeah. Once that big, big business starts push—

pushing Boone, uh, I like when they're like, it's like he was born around November 2nd. Like, you're— they go, we weren't keeping stuff back then, dude. In the general area. Yeah, yeah. Like, and then if he was like, I was born in January, and you're like, well, yeah, that's around—

it counts.

Yeah, it counts.

Yeah, dude, he showed up in the springtime. Um, he grew up in a Quaker farming family, became famous for his woodcrafts, hunting, and long-range exploration deep into what was then the western frontier. Of British America, huh? Pretty cool, man.

Everybody was kind of an explorer. Yes. You know, because it was— I mean, I know that, like I'm saying, those guys did great, but I bet there was a lot of guys that were like, yeah, nothing was built. Every step I took was a brand new step.

Oh yeah, you were just— yeah, you were just like a Magellan. Anybody, dude, if you got a pair of running shoes, you were a Magellan. Oh yeah, you were Christopher Columbus.

Imagine when those had hookahs back then. Oh, I mean, come on, dude, you would be above Daniel Boone.

You were sponsored by the Spanish at that point, you know what I'm saying?

He came up that way, dude. That's the way he came up, and they were like, we didn't see that coming. Yeah, this guy came through.

Yeah, dude, it is kind of crazy. And because there was also a time where there were more woods, right? Anytime there was woods, you were an explorer. Anytime Yeah, that has a lot to do with exploration because there was more woods that like less timber had been cut down. So I think you had that and then yeah, just not knowing where everything was. Being an explorer, gosh, you think you, you think you could have been an explorer?

I mean, I don't think you have a choice. I think you're just it. But it's— yeah, I think I could. I like exploring. I would like to go find some, you know, trying to really see like what's the path, the best way to go. That's what's hard is there's not much left exploring. You know, you see like those untouched tribes they talked about. And then you're like, I don't even know if some of that's real or not.

It looks fake. A lot of that's fake.

Yeah, yeah. And so there's— I know in Alaska, because they talk about Bigfoot in like in Alaska, there's like so much land and stuff like in with woods and you go up to Washington, it's like got the most trees.

Yeah. People don't even—

Yeah, it's— you can't— there's so much. You probably hide and go seek for 2 years. Oh yeah, you couldn't. I mean, there's if Bigfoot's real, it's like it would be easy for Bigfoot to hide up there. Up there.

That's a good point. Whereas, yeah, like in other places like Modesto, it would be tougher. Or, um, you know, up in, uh, like North Atlanta or something like that.

Those would be— yeah, Bigfoot's gonna get seen.

Oh dude, in Atlanta, Bigfoot's gonna be at the club, probably. Yeah, yeah, at the club for sure, dude.

Yeah.

People would have him feature on their albums in Atlanta.

Yeah. Oh yeah, just, yeah, come up and talk.

Yeah, you don't think Ludacris is gonna have Bigfoot pull up?

Yeah, why would you not? You have access to him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you probably don't gotta pay him. He probably food. Yeah, I don't even know for sure.

Clean salmon, I'm thinking.

Also, yeah, clean salmon, you just give them that and then he drops a—

but they're gonna push that narrative on him that he's like a person of color too. Yeah, that would be like, he has to show up and he has to do ball. Like, he has to like, uh, he has to go collab on a track.

Yeah.

Or show up.

He has to go to stuff. He's— yeah, he's like, I'm like, yeah, we need you, bro.

Yeah, we need you at Diamonds or whatever that place is. Nipple Diamonds or whatever that, whatever that exotic club there is, I think.

Oh yeah, one of them got in— everybody got in trouble at all of them.

Yeah, a lot of them. Yeah, well, they found glyphosate there on some of the women.

I'm always crazy how open they are about talking about that, the NBA. They, they're They talk about going to those clubs and there's no, like, you know, we feel like there's someone that's like, hey, let's not, let's keep it a little quiet, right?

Like, a lot, everything else, they're like, hey, don't talk about that, don't talk about politics, don't talk about how you feel about this, don't be like Kyrie Irving with his, you know, yeah, don't express yourself. But if it comes to clubbery, yeah, like strip club Yep.

Go all out.

Or throwing tens of thousands of dollars on the back of somebody.

Yeah. Then please, then say it, say it all.

Then yeah, then share it.

Magic City, that's the one they just got in trouble about.

Oh, did it?

Yeah, because the Hawks used, uh, Magic City Night, which is the— oh, that's where they would go.

And this is similar, I guess. Magic City Night, is it— is that similar to the Nate Raid at all, or no? There's two different things.

It's, it's along the lines It's, it's what we were going for originally.

No, but I love that you're doing this, dude. I love that you were able to make that happen. How did you make that happen with the, uh, with the theaters? And then also secondarily, do you know how many theaters you guys are opening up in?

Uh, 3,000, I think. 3,000.

Oh wow, really?

Yeah, I think so. I'm not positive. I think it's like that. I think it's 3,000, but it's You, you know, it's, uh, dude, it's like meeting, uh, you know, we've met like, uh, you know, AMC, that head of Regal Cinemark, Cineplex. Like, you just kind of go to them and like, they're all, they're in the same business. I always say this, I'm in the ticket selling business, you're in the ticket selling business, we sell tickets. So it's, it's, you kind of take stuff out of like, you know, the hands of Hollywood in a sense once you're in this ticket selling business. Like, that's all, that's my relationship with the is I— you buy a ticket and you come see me. And so when you can kind of do that, I think you can go to these theaters to go, we're all on the same page. They want people coming to theaters. We want— I want them to come see the movie I made. And so then you're— I think you can just— there's ways around it. And now we're in such a new world where you're, you know, you start meeting people and like everybody just wants their businesses to grow.

And I think everybody took it for granted for such a long time because it was that's just what it was, you know. Like, what do you mean? Like, growing up was, you know, growing up you just went to the movie theaters. You couldn't do— there was no streaming. There was a, you know, then once all the streaming stuff started happening, it's like then they kind of went hard into that and then I think left theaters. And now you're getting back to where these younger generations that are growing up with phones and they're seeing their parents on the phone all the time and they just want to go somewhere and they want to go do stuff. And so then it's like, there's a chance I think it will flip back to, you know, I mean, you know, when you feel like, I think every time I drop my phone, I think I hope it breaks.

Oh yeah.

I always just, someone's like, oh, I'm like, it'd be wonderful if it broke.

I hope someone steals it. I'll even go to a city that has a lot of crime and drop my phone there a couple 10, 20 times.

See what happens.

See what happens. And I'll even make that sound like a compliment.

And be let down. Yes.

And be like, oh.

That it's, you go, I thought this city, had crying and I was wrong.

Yeah, I'll even do that when I drop it, point at it.

Yeah, but yeah, dude, leave it way out of your pocket, back pocket.

Oh, when my phone goes off, dude, sometimes I used to wet the bed and I would be like an adult, which was the saddest part of it. But after that, uh, there was times where I was like supposed to like get up in the morning or whatever, and then I would urinate all over my phone, it would short out. And it would be like the best morning.

But yeah, especially after something so sad happening as an adult. Oh, but then you're— you get past that, but then no, then your phone doesn't work and you're like, man, what a day. Yeah, I leave my phones like on the road. I, I— but I'll have like an, you know, you have an Apple Watch, uh, even an Apple Watch cellular. Like, you have an Apple Watch, you can have Apple Watch with cellular. Yes. So you can leave your phone And then like, you know, it's like one of those like, all right, if someone needed to call me, it's like you could throw AirPods in or you can be like, hey, I gotta call you back, or text message or whatever. Um, that's a big thing you do with kids at first. Sometimes you give them an Apple Watch before a phone because they can't do too much with an Apple Watch, but you could, you could get a hold of them.

My kid, yeah, my kid would be lucky to get an Apple and, uh, and watch what happens if you don't behave. That's, that's how I'm starting. Yeah, that's a start. Is a good diet and then light threat. And then we'll go from there to see what else they get if they are well behaved. But Oliver Anthony just did something. Can you bring that up, what he was trying to do with ticketing? And congrats, man, on your movie. Yeah, ours just— we only got 500 theaters. I wish we'd have gone bigger and I wish we'd have gone to more rural theaters. I think we tried to do too much just city stuff.

Yeah. But anyway, but I mean, like, movies go back and forth too. Like, streaming is— I kind of think of streaming sometimes as like, it's like Blockbuster in a sense. It's like where your stuff can go live and people can go watch that forever, right? I mean, Burt's movie, uh, you know, it's like he went to theaters and then he went crazy and did, uh, it destroyed it on Netflix.

Well, I think— and also, man, sorry to kind of make that about me there in our movie for a second. I want to apologize about that.

No, I'll talk about your movie.

No, congratulations. So it's going to be open on May 29th. That's this Friday.

Yeah.

And it's in theaters. It's going to be in 3,000 theaters, which means almost everywhere. Yeah, that's a lot of places. Yeah, that's wonderful, dude. It's exciting.

Um, also, just— there's a chance it's 4 theaters if some reason it's not 3,000. I think it's 3,000, but it would be funny.

The chance is 4,000, you mean?

No, no, I think 4,000 is the max. I think we're at 3. I'm just saying, if we go back and You know, it's in 100 theaters. It could be that too.

Got it. What was Oliver saying? Yeah, I just saw this the other day. Can you just play a little bit of it?

I could really use your suggestions and your advice. I am looking for venues to play. You know, I've started booking my own shows again. So in April we did those Virginias where I just rented the room outright and I sold my own tickets through this West Virginia ticket company. And it was sweet. It was like it bypassed the whole system. And it actually worked and it went over pretty well. And so I just announced again for the June 1st through the 3rd, I'm doing Charlotte, Greenville, and Raleigh the exact same way. But I'm just going on Google and trying to find venues, and so I have no idea what's good and bad. But if you have places that you like going to see music that can hold—

okay, got it. So he was trying, I guess, some ticketing, I guess ticketing maybe through the exact venues, I think, because that's a big thing for people. And Oliver has always been like a pioneer of like trying to figure out You know, how do you get— take away from, you know, some of these big groups like Ticketmaster and Live Nation, just that have these conglomerates, you know? It's a lot. I mean, these Ticketmaster fees are crazy.

They're crazy. Here's the, like, you know, they're crazy. No, no, they're, they're insane. I, I, I agree. But here's the thing with, like, how much work that was for him to do 4 or 5 shows, right? That's a lot of work. So it's like, you got to get for him to— if he wants to go— if you want to go do it this way, you're going to need to build a system, right? And so you're going to have to have people that are going to be able to help you to go do that. You can go do that, but you have to build a system, right? Or otherwise you're not going to be able to tour like the way you want to. If everybody wants to go see him, he's wonderful and all this. And it's, it's, it's, you know, it's a lot. It's a lot of work. Remember Louis? Louis might still do it. He did it.

He did it.

He did it for a while. He did it a long time ago. You buy tickets through his website. And stuff like that. There's many ways that you can go try to do it. And I looked— a hard part of this too is that some people are like, I'll just— just let me go to Ticketmaster, dude. I don't— you know, they— it's our StubHub or whatever they're going to go do. And you're fighting that too. So it's not like we all want to— I look— I always thought of it like this.

You're right, I never thought about that part of it.

Yeah, some people are like Dude, I don't— what do you want? Like, if I really look at it all, even though it's like the— I believe in the thing that you're doing, it's, uh, it's just so much work and you got to get the word out and people have to find you and see you and all this. I don't know what he— where he wants to be career-wise, like, if like, you know, does he want to be the most biggest star in the world? I don't feel like he— I feel like he loves where he's at. And like, I think he just loves having that relationship with the people, with the audience, with the people, which is, which is amazing. And so it's like, you should do that. But then there's a mixture. The thing, you know, it's— you remember doing like comedy clubs when you'd go try to do a rock— like for me, I would go try to do a rock venue instead of a comedy club. And then you go to the— the people that would come out to me, they don't know where this rock venue's at. So they've never heard of this rock venue.

They just know where the comedy club is.

Right now you're doing it.

Now you're— yeah, yeah. 100 people show up under a bench somewhere. Yeah. Okay, yeah.

Oh, you just got word it's 3,300 theaters there. So, um, yeah, I think so.

But yeah, they charge all this stuff. Ticketmaster does all this stuff. They—

I—

it's, it's one of those—

it's a mafia.

Yeah, but you're, you know, but the audience, you know, yes, it's frustrating, we're all frustrated by it, but then it's also like people are busy. You gotta— how many people can you get that are gonna go follow you Everywhere.

I agree. When you make it like— Yeah.

You know, and sometimes when you give stuff, you ever notice, like I waited tables and so I used to always think— Where at? Applebee's right over here. Thompson Lane.

Really?

Yeah. That's where me and my wife met.

I pray for all those people over there. You met your wife at Applebee's?

Applebee's Thompson Lane. So— Oh my God. I don't know where Thompson Lane is, but you know.

Do you remember what day it was or was it a holiday?

The day Daniel Boone was born. A roundabout, roundabout November 2nd.

Yeah, in the spring.

In the spring. Uh, yeah, yeah.

So, and you met her there? And how'd you meet her? Was she working there?

She was a waitress and I was the host.

You were a male host?

A male host.

And you've been a host anyway?

Yeah, I've been a host my whole life. And so, but I was, yeah, male host. Heck yeah. You know, shout out. I was easy you know, he came in, you know, he just— I was an easy, like, hey, you know, wasn't aggressive.

No.

Yeah, yeah. Like, hey, yeah, hey, what do you want to do? Where you want to go? You could talk me into where you want to sit easily, huh? Easily, easily.

Can we sit over by the window?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. That section's wide open. Can I go over there? Of course. We can walk over there.

Yeah, dude, sometimes you go in this one of the sections that was closed off and they had all the baby seats parked over there. That always made me nervous. I thought something had happened to all the babies.

Yeah, that's where they get like, what's wrong with this restaurant? There you go. We've had some baby problems here.

Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought.

Yeah, and that's where they— and were they upside down? Yeah, sometimes, sometimes they were.

Oh, oh man, when I see that I still think of that. And sometimes they'd be stacked on each other or something, you know?

Yeah, the old wood baby seats. They didn't have that anymore, dude.

Sometimes they would have a baby's head chiseled, his name in the wood.

Oh yeah, you know, they came a lot.

Yeah, like Ricky Jr. or something was written in there.

You're like, dang, how about you come here? Like when they see his family walk in, they already got it out.

Yeah, sometimes it'd be like an unhappy baby. It would say like Brooks was here, just chiseled in.

Yeah. Yeah, like, oh, it's a lot. Waiting tables, it's back to my theory, is, uh, you know, you, you would always think like to get a bigger tip, I would like try to hook. You'd be like, I didn't charge you for the Coke, I didn't, you know, no charge for— and you thought, I thought like me hooking you up would mean a higher tip, right? And it never did. But if I charged you full price for everything you would tip me more.

Got it.

So it's like, that's kind of how stuff works, where you— in a weird— we all— because in my head you're like, yo dude, I'm like, you know, I've taken off, I've done what I can of like, I can just get you a Coke and put water down. Yeah, you know, that's $3, $4 I just saved you. And then I'll get you what, you know, I don't know, like some random— you're doing these little things that, and you think they're going to be like I'll get you one extra little— but they tip off the price.

They tip off the price and they don't think. And sometimes people's the math in their head, like, well, I don't even know how much stuff that was worth and what do I do here?

Yeah, because you— they just want to eat and like, just charge me.

They want a breadstick and they want to meet a woman.

Yeah, yeah, you know. Yeah, like Olive Garden where they gave you free bread, you know. It's like, do you tip extra? No, like, I don't think you tip. You don't, you don't wrap that in. That's a big thing. They give you a free Don't they give you free breadsticks and maybe salad or something?

I think there's soup even.

Maybe unlimited pasta, something like— it's like aggressive.

If you just run in there, they'll give you half a handful of soup.

Yeah, yeah, for nothing.

Yeah, for nothing, dude. The assistant manager will let you freaking eat it right out of her hand if she's nice, if she's feeling good that day.

Yeah, you get complimentary breadsticks. Yeah, but I wonder if they make you feel guilty asking for them.

Yeah, like, oh, well, let me see, let me see if we have them.

You go to O'Charley's back in the day when they—

do you know, oh, the peanut shells on the floor?

No, no, O'Charley's was a different restaurant, but they had these great rolls. And I mean, the rolls were— O'Charley's has great— they have rolls now, they did something to them, they're not as good as they were. Yeah, I think they had sugar in them before, and so it was almost like a Krispy Kreme donut, but it was unbelievable. And they'd give free rolls and you would set them down on the table and then everybody would be like, go ahead and bring another round. And they'd even have 5 of them. Yeah, dude, it was— they were the best rolls in the world. And, and everybody would go in and you're just— you're really there for the rolls. And, you know, and then you would feel embarrassed to be like, you know, they bring you a basket of 5 and you're like, before you turn around, these are gone. So go ahead and send another one out. And I think they had a pace— they had a pacing problem. They had to be like, yeah, we can't Drag it out.

Yeah, people were coming and looking in the kitchen and stuff.

Yeah, yeah, because they— I mean, they were the best.

People were texting the plug or whatever. Here's a solid copycat for Charlie's original rolls: warm whole milk, a 1/6 cup of sugar, dry yeast, a beaten egg, butter, purpose flour, salt.

Thank you. Yeah, nice.

Huh. Yeah, maybe a little bit of sugar in it.

Oh dude, maybe they didn't have— maybe— I mean, I don't know, it might have been all that stuff.

It could have been the yeast. I don't know, some yeast has a lot of— it can be good.

If you do this recipe, throw a little sugar in it too.

Yeah, and if you're making anything for your family tonight, throw a little sugar.

I do. Ain't gonna—

they do pasta sauce.

No, that's a 6 cup of sugar.

Yes, it—

oh yeah, yeah, sorry, I didn't hear that.

No, no worries, man.

Yeah, see, you see what I mean, dude? I think they got rid of that sugar and then they got into— yeah, probably yeast heavy.

They might have went yeast heavy.

I remember wet yeast.

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Yeah, great guy.

I mean, let's just say he's great.

He's great.

He's great. Um, did you also direct it?

No, no, Eric Appel.

Okay, Eric did—

Eric Appel, he did, uh, the, uh, uh, Weird Al Yankovic movie. And so it's a— yeah, it's a great movie. And then so he did that, and then we had Jeremy Latcham was a producer, and Sony, TriStar. It was a full-on, like, big, you know, we did it in Atlanta, Trilith, which is right outside of, uh, Trilla, Trilith, Trilith. So the owner of Chick-fil-A, Dan Cathy, he owned— that's where they used to shoot all the Marvel movies. And so they have all these studios, and then across, uh, neighborhood is housing. So like a lot of people that shoot there, you can go rent houses, and it's like a Truman Show type place where you just walk around.

Would you see other actors and stuff during the day when you're like— they were working on different projects?

Yeah.

Uh, like whom did you see? Do you mind?

Because this is—

you saw Jaleel White?

Jaleel White?

No way.

Yeah, yeah. And so he was, he was shooting a game show. You would see a lot of, uh—

what was he doing, hooping or playing dice or whatever? What was he doing when you saw him?

No, he was at— he was just at a restaurant.

There's a restaurant?

Oh, there's a bunch of restaurants there. I mean, it's a, it's a town.

Do they have real names or is it like kind of like an Epcot Center type?

No, no, it's, it's like, uh, I mean Some people have houses there, then you rent them out to people that come in. Because when you were, you know, when they're shooting these Marvel stuff, I mean, you'd have to have like, you know, Chris Pratt or Robert Downey Jr., you know, I mean, you can go live not in that town too, but you can, but like it's right across from the studio, so you can just run over there. But they have like ice cream shop.

Yeah, I just can't imagine you're like, you go out in the morning or whatever and freaking, you know, Robert Downey Jr. Al Pacino is like checking his mail or whatever, you know?

Yeah, yeah, he's like, whoa! Yeah, yeah, that would be the weird part for me, dude.

Yeah, Trilith Town for Marvel Studios in Georgia could be the future of cities. And do you— does it come with a pet or anything? Like, what's the whole—

I think, you know, you can get whatever you want there. But it's— yeah, there— so they did all— they did a bunch of Marvel movies. I bet this is an old article because it's It's not— I think stuff's coming back, but now Marvel's all in London.

Okay, got it.

But it was—

Yeah, this is an old 2022.

But it was— Yeah, it's like— So they built those towns for like a lot of the workers, like the idea of the, the union guys to be able to go live there and like be able to come sit there and work.

And that's why—

But they did. Yeah, everything. They did everything there.

You're too tired when you get home to think about grocery shopping, but that's okay. The delivery robot has just rolled up in front of your house with your weekly order. And this is the Trillith town. Um, the 4-year-old residential portion of Trillith was modeled after the building styles and village feel of European cities. Um, it's a new town for about 5,000 people created using the principles of new urbanism, a concept that means neighborhoods should be walkable and compact with varied build— with varied building types and less emphasis on cars. Oh, it's pretty cool. And each—

and they would have different streets would be like, uh, I think it says European and British style designs while spots are more modern facades, or I'll just say facades. What is it?

Facades. Oh no, facades.

Facades. And they— so you could go shoot actually on that street. So if you had like, shoot a British-style movie.

Oh, you could shoot it all in your neighborhood.

You could do it in the neighborhood and be like, well, these houses look like they're British and these look more modern and stuff like that.

Wow.

And you could buy, you can rent it out.

Um, and this is on Perplexity, uh, AI. Thank you, Perplexity. Um, according to the article, the town's amenities are geared toward a walkable, self-contained lifestyle— retail, restaurants, a boutique hotel, co-working space, performing arts center, wellness center, and an innovative micro school. It also has lots of green space, communal parks, and geothermal smart home design features. Wow.

Yeah, it's, it's a great idea in the fact that if you were trying to— which they did— so you're trying, you're creating this studio and you want— the thing is, is like, it was, uh, you know, the taxes is like— now everything went to London, like they're all in London now because those— they're making those movies and they're so expensive. So it's like they, they shoot a lot of stuff over there now. They want to shoot everything there. There was that, uh, Rob Lowe talked about that thing where it's like for his game show it was easier to shoot in Ireland and fly the American audience to out to Ireland than it was to— cheaper than film in LA.

That's crazy, man.

Which I think it's now that LA's like doing something like— but it got to that point where he was like, yeah, will you not? Which this movie was like in Atlanta, and I think we would have shot it in Canada or something. But I was fortunate, able to be like, well, I just wouldn't make the movie. I was like, I'm not just too far away. Well, it's like, yeah, man, I'm touring. And when you're able to— the, the great thing for any young comedian, if you can, you just keep doing what you're doing, you end up getting to hold a lot more kind of power like that, you know what I mean? Because you're like, I'm touring. I have a thing, I can do this. So when you go do make something, it's not that you don't— you have like full control, blah, blah, whatever. But it's like you can, you can say no. Yes. Get the power of no.

Yeah.

So you can be like, it's like, we got to go make this movie in Canada because it's cheaper. Then it's like, then I'll just either try to make it on my own or I'll figure it out or find something else. Or I'm touring. So you're like, whatever. Yeah. And then it's like, you know, there comes a balance where you can start I got a game show. We shoot it here in Nashville. They wouldn't shoot it in Nashville.

Did you try to shoot the film in Nashville?

I tried, but this one went so— it was moving so quick that it's like we could have probably, but then it was— we needed to get it made and they have everything.

More infrastructure there for making stuff.

The thing about Tennessee is we don't have as the— you need the like an A and B team of workers. So like if you're shooting movies, you need like the A, the union guys, the guys that make up the ones that make the movies. Like you need them working on one, then another team is working on the second movie, and you're kind of able to flip-flop.

Second movie or different scenes?

Like a different movie or whatever. No, I mean a different, a whole different movie. You got to have multiple production crews. Oh, when at that, when that, their height of that trilith, I mean, I think they were using 12 to 20 studios filming a lot of things.

Oh, I see what you're saying. So they would have like, as long as you're—

you gotta have a lot of crew in town, right? We do not have that. We don't have— we have crew here, we don't have enough to handle, uh, high demand of movies.

Got it.

Like, you know, you got like, they're doing that Rescue 911, Nashville 911, or whatever it is, uh, here. Well, that's the that's a great crew that's there. But if you have them doing that, you don't have a crew that's just sitting that you could also go shoot Batman here. So you need—

right, we just don't have the infrastructure. We don't have the—

I think we can, right? I think we can get it. I think it takes time, and you got to show that there's—

yeah, you got to take—

you got to show that you're really committed in doing it, right? Yeah.

Uh, things have to happen. There needs to be tax incentives, all that type of stuff. Then Atlanta has a ton of that. Even for the example, that neighborhood, it's like they have a neighborhood built where people can stay across the street. Yes. From the studios where they can all be right there.

Georgia was a place that jumped on that really, really fast. But, you know, then you see it now, a lot of stuff, you know, even left, it still wasn't low enough. So then they still go out.

Oh yeah.

Farther. But I mean, that's where you're in a movie business that's really reliant on these movies that cost $500 million to make or whatever, and you're like, well, then you got to stop making movies.

Well, how much did you guys cost to make? You said—

I think ours was like $38 million.

Are you serious?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's a, it's a big studio.

Wow, I didn't realize all that, man. Congratulations. I mean, that's, that's fascinating. That's wild, dude.

Yeah, I think it was something like that.

Um, and Mandy Moore is also in it. She plays your wife. You have a couple of children in it.

Yep. Yeah, the kids are great. Uh, uh, Charlotte, Birdie, and Stella is the oldest. That's Birdie. Uh, and then, but the kids are great, and it's a, it's a movie that's, it's PG. It's the idea of this is, you know, I want you to go take your whole family out to go to it. Uh, take your mom, take your grandma. Like, you know, it's— I, I, I, I just love that. I love that when people can go out and they can all go together. I want to go to stuff with my family. Like, you know, you want to go, and then so you go look at a lot of movies now, it's, it's like a lot of horror movies. It's a good point. Horror, it's a big— or it's like a Marvel movie or something, or it's, or it's animated. Like, there's no live-action movies like this, I think, that are being made that PG, and it's kind of the direction that I wanted to head in, which has been a lot of your direction, it feels like.

Why is that? Like, overall, like, I get it 100%, right? Like, I get it, and it's been so successful for you, right? Like, um, I think you're like the top touring comedian last year, maybe, I think. And I don't mean to get that wrong, you know, but, um, you know, you attract, like, you know, you can attract all ages, right? Your comedy's kind of for everyone. It's for kids too, even.

I don't write it for kids, but kids can come. The point is, like, your kids don't have to leave the room. Got it. Like, so if it's on, like, but it's when there's tons of kids at my show, uh, not tons, it's, but there's kids at the show, right? And you see them, but I watch them and I can tell, like, they're not, you know, I, they don't, like, a kid's not gonna lie, they don't get everything. They don't get, yeah, they like some of the dumb silly jokes, but if I'm talking about, like, marriage and stuff like that, they're not going to be laughing at that, or my But I know when they get in the car, they're going to just talk about the whole night, right? And we— I hear that from parents, like, they're just like, oh, they just kept— but, you know, a kid doesn't know how to— it just kind of sits there and stares. But then afterwards, they just are excited. They haven't been to an adult event, and so this feels very adult, like you're watching. Yeah, because it is— you're being— you're making it for, you know, my stuff is not— I'm not trying to make it like, uh, yeah, like it's just kid-friendly.

Like, a kid can come in, you're just not cursing. You can get away with a lot more when you don't curse. Cursing is just kind of like— that's just what I found. But it's just—

what do you mean by that? You can get away with a lot more?

I think you can say a lot of things and talk about a lot of stuff. And, uh, I think if you, if you don't curse, it's—

I need to hear this—

it's, uh, it's like The cursing is what I think, like, it's just, that's what people hear that either they check out or they're like, he's dirty or he's this or he's that. And so if you're control of it, just be in control of it. Maybe you— it's not saying you don't have to curse, but it's where is it and when is it.

Yeah.

Where it's a lot of, I think, the younger comedians now, it's You know, they start on the internet, then they go to the Netflix. Like, no one's like— there's no boundaries where, like, we came, we did Live at Gotham, I think the same year, right around. And when you did that on Comedy Central, you had— you couldn't say whatever you wanted to say. That's not a bad thing. That means you have to be creative in a scenario. Not saying don't— you can come on anything else and go say whatever you want to go say, right? But it's not a bad thing. To have, oh, like some TV boundaries around you. Yeah. Because then it makes you come at stuff in different angles.

Oh yeah. I mean, I, I almost fantasize sometimes. Not fantasize, that's probably the weirdest word, but I think about that of like, yeah, I would like to get to a place where I don't have to, you know, or not because I don't have to curse you, but it's just where I don't, where I don't want to curse. Yeah, I think I do it. I don't even know why I do it. I think it's kind of how I operate in a regular day too. So in the end, I think it's probably just—

I don't think of you as someone that would be dirty.

I'm not vulgar.

No, no, right?

Like, I'm not like sexually explicit or like talking about something that I think is gross, but I'll use some profanity, you know? Yeah, it's just where I'm from and stuff like that, I think. But as an adult, and I don't have a family or anything yet, I don't have anybody looking at me across the room saying, why are you saying that in front of the kids, dude? You know what I'm saying? Because I work for myself and I'm I'm a shitty employee. Yeah, you know, I'm out back smoking and catching myself. Yeah, I'll go sneak around the corner, smoke, and then run around the corner and be like, what are you doing out here? You know, the deep fryer's freaking acting up, you know.

So, but, uh, now do, do whatever you want to go do. But by the way, no one think— I don't think anybody thinks of you as a dirty comic.

Yeah, thanks.

Like, I don't think, you know, and curse, do whatever you want. Yeah, do whatever you want.

But it is a challenge. I agree. I, I love the fact that it's a challenge to yourself Is there, is there a day, do you ever like say, well, one day I'm going to put out, there's going to be like a dark folder I'm going to put out of just the other side of things? Have you, are you ever had like, have you ever wanted to have like an OnlyFans where you just say like bad, some bad words on it?

Uh, no, I just don't think, uh, I think I'm just past the point of where I would, you know, look, I like whatever.

Was it always like that?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, we grew up— when I grew up, it was like cursing was, you know, my parents were, uh, became Christian when I was born. And well, I have a joke about it, they were the most Christian. And so like, you know, growing up here, Southern Baptist, very strict rules. Like, it's, it's, uh, you know, I think church is— that church is completely different now. Like, a lot of it's non-denomination and all that. But it's— then it was like, yeah, you didn't, uh No one, no, I mean, cursing was looked at, and no one in my fam— my, my parents did not curse, so I wasn't around.

Yeah, that's awesome.

Like, uh, that— so I have a— not that I'm, I'm not perfect, but my strictness in it, in my act, is just— was like, I was just never gonna do it. And then when I started that way, it's like, yeah, it would be weird to go.

And it doesn't feel like I'm ostracizing you for not doing it? Doesn't feel like that, does it?

No, no, I think some people—

I don't feel like you do, but it doesn't, it doesn't feel like I'm ostracized. Like, I'm, I'm envious of it.

I think it's awesome, you know?

And I think it just, it just like, yeah, it makes it so it's ready for everybody, right? Like, this is something that you can, uh, and a parent knows at some point I can turn that on. This is the thing that does get me sometimes. I, if a parent's with their kids, like, I don't know if I can turn those podcasts on because it's gonna have profanity in it, or they might be talking about some stuff that's gonna be a bit obtuse for kids.

I think about that sometimes with Sirius Radio where it's like like, you, you know, you— are you getting into some stuff about sports? So you want to listen to some sports stuff, and then it's like some of it gets— they're cursing, and you're like, I'm just trying to like hear the score of the game. UFC had like, you know, I mean, we're both giant UFC fans, and, uh, I— the pay-per-view events I'm fine with, but like sometimes even if you have to listen to something about UFC, it can get like they can get cursing and all this stuff. And like, not to— sometimes you're like, I just wouldn't mind, like, if my daughter's in the car not really paying attention and I would like, right, to just hear some UFC stuff, can we have a channel where it's like, I just know you're not gonna—

that's very—

go nuts. Yeah. Like, you know what I mean?

Like, yeah, because the only time she's gonna look up too is if she hears a bad word. She'll look up and she's gonna look at you like, Dad, what Why are you listening to this?

And you're like, I'm not— you're like, I know, I'm just trying to listen to, uh, like you just want it to be like local radio.

You're like, I'm just a Gaethje fan, what do you know, give me a chance here, you know.

I'm a Colby— look, Colby Covington, it's hard to— it's hard to keep him quiet. He's just the word. You couldn't listen to him. I mean, I have nothing against Colby, I don't say if he says all the craziest things.

Oh yeah, yeah. Well, a lot of those guys have to be their own advert— when you think about some of those guys, it's interesting because they just wanted to fight, but then they have to— some of them have probably feel a pressure to become this other thing because you have to be their own PR company in a way.

Yeah, yeah. And look, I don't feel bad. It's not the fighters, it's like just— you wish—

the commentators. Yeah, they're talking about— you're right.

Like, I mean, they do a good job though on UFC. Like, I, I don't— like, when Rogan and all them, like, they don't curse.

Oh, they're pretty clean on there.

Yeah, I don't think they curse at all. Yeah, when they go interview them. But that's another thing, that's the fighter, they're in the moment. It's going to be hard not to let loose. And some of that's part of what it is. And but it's— I do think UFC does a great job with like when it's Daniel Cormier, Rogan, and like they do not curse.

With John Anik, those three are the greatest, the greatest group that's ever done it. And they also have— and they have Bisping, Paul Felder. Even when those guys aren't doing it, Poirier's on there now, Chris Weidman, Cormier. I mean, yeah, but those guys are all—

yeah, he's been great.

Yeah, yeah, dude, he's been great, dude. He's like— yeah, I just love like— I love seeing those guys get to be not just fighters and get to share their personalities. Yeah. I gotta ask you about— I feel like such a freaking reporter now. Gotta ask, uh, dude, so tell me about Nate Land. It's real.

It's real.

The theme park is real.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Where are we at with it? Like, what's going on?

We're about to get into, uh, some investing.

Okay.

So we're about to start that kind of process. We, uh, have the land, or we basically think we We know where we want the land to be. We have not— we like, we haven't said anything about the land or where it's at or anything yet, but we've narrowed it down to basically this one spot. And then so it's— but yeah, I mean, we're— we have the renderings, they're working on it every day. We have Storyland. Storyland is a group that— Storyland is a group they did They've done stuff with everything. They— I think they had some stuff to do with Epic. It's a lot of the guys that worked with Disney for a long time and they started their own kind of company and they did all the Disneys in Dubai.

And so Storyland is a company that helps make these things come to fruition, like they build them and everything.

Yeah, yeah.

Got it.

And so they, they, they make it— they help you design all that designing, all that rendering, all that getting that out of the idea of what we're trying to do.

And is this a real render? Have you seen this before?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay. And what is on this render? Can you zoom in on that photo for me some?

Uh, it's, it's gonna be so like it says Nate Land in the front, like so that front area right past the Nate Land is gonna be like a retro mall. So that's like, that would be open all year round and you can go in there and you can have, you know, like we talked like a Netflix house that we talked about earlier, you know, maybe you could have something like that. I'm not saying this is what we're, we are having in there, but you could have some stuff like that, restaurant and stuff like that, that's open all year round. You have 3 sections of the park. You have a section to the left, uh, which is roller coasters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what's crazy, dude? I just went to, uh, her— I was in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

You went to the, um, uh, Hershey Park?

No, Hershey Park. Oh, Dollywood.

Now I'm thinking of Kennywood.

I think I know Kennywood too.

Kennywood's in Pittsburgh.

Oh no, we didn't go there. Went to, uh, Hershey Park.

How was that?

It's, uh, it's awesome. And so we rode some roller coasters which were— it was kind of roller coaster shopping, which was crazy because you're like, man, well, you would just ride with it. Now they had a few that you rolled back the miles on this. Yeah, you go, no, thank you. But it was weird to be riding a roller coaster being like, yeah, that was— they go, that one felt great. And then you're like, you know, you kind of like, yeah, yeah, let's do that one.

That's wild. And who did you go with? Was it just a family trip?

You guys know I was on the road. I was there. I did shows. There. And so we had one guy from Storyland who came up and he kind of just walked me through and said, uh, one of— for this one roller coaster we're doing, the roller coaster we're about to ride is very similar to the one that we're looking at. The same people made this roller coaster. So you're kind of riding the roller coaster knowing that that company is who would make that roller coaster, or this is another one. So you're really riding some stuff and and getting a, you know, being like, all right, what's this one kind of feel like? What's this one do?

And, and how much is a coaster, decent coaster?

Uh, I found out like, uh, there was one, there was one like, uh, uh, like a big one might be like $30 million. Like, or I'm not like, you know, I don't know if it's the biggest one, but like, uh a kind of newer, very, very good coaster they have. We were— someone is trying to guess there, uh, was about 30— they said $30 million. And then there's some other rides that were— one was like a new version of a Tilt-A-Whirl kind of, but it was like kind of moved around.

You tried that out too?

Yeah, yeah, we rode that just seeing what that was, and I think that was like $850,000.

Oh, that's one you can get.

That one, that one you get in your house, you know, you could just go on layaway. Yeah, just have that lay, lay, lay away, away, away.

Yeah. Uh, dang, I bet Kid Rock could get that thing. Yeah, freaking dude. But he'd probably—

but it's like, yes, so you start going through and he'd ruin it. And this theme park, I mean, he would ruin the—

sorry, how does that just say that?

He put it on the white—

it's so many clips of me just roasting even though we're friends. I freaking love roasting him. Oh yeah, he'd ruin it, dude. And he would spend his money on that instead of buying his brother a new leg who's missing one. Shout out Billy. But yeah, go on.

He could— well, he should get a discount and be like, if you get $50 grand off, throw that $50 to that leg.

That's what I'm saying.

He already wrapped his head around spending $850. Yeah. And then, you know what, he could go— like, if Kid Rock goes, I'm spending $850 for this, and then he goes to his brother and goes, if you can get any down, you can get that leg, right?

Whatever you save, you earn. Yeah, yeah, I love that. Limb him up. Oh, if I had a brother missing something, I'd limb his little ass up in a heartbeat. But that's me. Uh, but so do you have a budget for how much you can spend on coasters for this thing? Are you—

yeah, yeah, it's all budgeted in. Like, I mean, you know, we're looking, it's like roughly going to be like $350 million. And then, yeah.

And is— will the land be a lease or will it be owning the land?

Yeah, it's— there's a lot of that I can't get into.

Okay. And how hands-on with you are all of that? Like, some of it and some of it's obviously this, like, the minutiae you wouldn't be involved in. But yeah, how hands-on with you are all that?

I'm picking, picking the land. I mean, it's crazy because you're— I'll be in this, in these meetings, and I forget again that we're talking about, like, being in charge. I forget, like Storyland, like all this stuff. When you do this, I'm paying for all this for them to go do the feasibility study and like to economic study. And I mean, these are giant studies that they do when you do investments to go to show the tax revenue that it can bring, the jobs that you can bring to Nashville. I mean, the reason I love this idea and doing this is the idea of providing jobs. I want, I want it— I want our customer, like, the workers to be very much like, you know, it is Disney, or like, you think like Chick-fil-A, where, you know, they're just great workers, and you want people to be able to come there. Someone like me that wasn't able to go, that couldn't get into college, and like, so you don't know what— you know, my— I just was like, I'm a comedian, but it was before that, you're like, I was a water meter reader. I didn't know what jobs— you know, you don't meet people that have other crazy jobs.

You're reading water meters?

Yeah. Oh, I read Mount Juliet.

Yeah, they got a lot of water out there, huh?

Yeah, yeah, a lot of meters. And you had to go do it, uh, because you can't just guess, huh? Now I think they have it where you can drive by it and it just does it electronically. I had to get out with a crowbar and you would lift up the thing and type in how much water.

And they have snakes in there sometimes?

Oh yeah, I remember one was laid right on top of the water meter and you got to get it.

It makes my body nervous.

Yeah, yeah, spiders. And you never knew every time you opened it up.

You ever find anything cool in there? A little somebody stashed a bag, a little bag of something?

Uh, no, I don't think I ever found anything like that, no.

But really, nothing? Nobody hid nothing? A little spare lunch or whatever?

I don't think people—

it's like a little sack of Christmas ornaments or something.

It would be a good place to put something because nobody thinks about that.

It's so—

no one thinks about it. Yeah, I don't think they do, but it would have been a good spot to put something.

But you'd see spiders up in there?

I mean, yeah, that was— every one of them had spiders. No, they loved it.

And you ever see a clean one? Somebody taking care of it? They just—

no, no. I mean, you— it's, you know, I mean, I guess a newer house, like, you know, one, I think it just hasn't been through it yet. Yeah. But, uh, yeah, but I do remember this snake. Snake was just curled right on top of it, and I had to get it off because I have to lift thing to read it.

Gosh, yeah, I sold Italian food door to door for a while with this fella, dude, and that was a dang—

pizza or just all Italian food?

Huh? Uh, no, we had bread rolls, we had, um, Italian— it was like this thing called Italian caviar or whatever, but it was really just like raviolis.

Yeah.

And then, uh, what else? Uh, like, um, pastas, Bolognese. Yeah, they had arrabbiata. Uh, what else? Uh, I think they had vodka sauce pizza or something. Yeah, yeah, I don't know, but we just had like—

I deliver pizzas too.

Well, you deliver pizzas?

Pizza Hut.

You worked at damn Pizza Hut, dude. They're redoing it. You saw that? They're coming back.

Oh yeah, yeah. You know why? Because experiences. Oh, that's a big thing. That's a big reason. Is to— it's stuff for people to do because they, they— we, we had that, uh, you remember they used to have a buffet, pizza buff? Yeah, pizza, it was great.

You kidding? Where would your mom fight? It's when your parents had a real something serious going on in the marriage and take you there. Yep, that was something serious was happening, and it could be something good or bad.

Ford Waters, and you got a Sprite, dude. Hope they didn't notice with those big red cups. Yeah, I would buy, I would buy 5 dozens of those red cups. The Coke, any soda tastes the best out of that.

It's true, huh?

It's the best.

Now they had a particular type of ice in there too, I think.

Yes, a little bit like a little shaved Sonic.

Yeah, it was something different.

Something was different.

I think having a unique ice, it's little things like that that can add a lot of texture to a place. Um, a little bit more about Nate Land. So, so some things, obviously you have to get the funding to make sure you can get the space. So some things it's like this happens, then this will happen. It's like a domino falling effect.

Yeah, if they're like, I mean I mean, it's— right now I'm spending all the money for it.

And now, are you putting your own money in with somebody else, or what's going on?

No, just my money.

So you're the only money right now?

This doesn't go anywhere, I will be in big trouble. No, I mean, I would be touring for the rest of my life. But it's like, right now it's on— it's just me.

What made you make that choice? It's a big choice, and no judgment, and I think it's a cool choice. I think it's a good choice. What makes you make it? And I wish you the best of luck with it. Exciting. I'll go over there.

Thank you. We'd love to have you. It's, you know, my first job was a theme park. I worked at Opryland here in Nashville and I was 15. And so I don't know, they then they got rid of that my senior year in high school. And I mean, the whole city kind of was like, why would you do that? Like, it was a profitable theme park. Everybody kind of liked it. I'm not saying from that day I was like, I'm going to build a theme park. But then as I got—

uh, why did they close it? Do you know?

They got a mall. There's a mall there now, Opry Mills Mall.

And it used to be Opryland, a theme park? Yeah, right there. Yeah, I don't even know that.

Yeah, I don't even know if— it'd be curious to see if there's a reason. I don't know if there'd be a real reason on, on the internet, to be honest. I think that it was like maybe pro— like it was like just easier to have a mall than it would be a theme park for whatever reason.

Got it. Opryland USA closed in 1997 because its parent company Gaylord Entertainment wanted to transition— sorry, crazy name— Gaylord, because the Lord I think is straight.

Yeah.

Wanted to transition the seasonal theme park into a highly profitable year-round retail and entertainment complex. Understandable.

Yeah. So that was the Wabash Cannonball, the one that goes upside down.

Oh, that was it? You remember the name of that one?

I know them all. Yeah.

What's that one?

Wabash Cannonball.

The Wabash Cannonball?

Yeah.

Dang, so you were there, Nate.

Yeah, Screaming— the Screaming Delta Demon.

Oh yeah, I met her before. I met her, dang it, out at, uh, she goes to Mississippi State for sure. I think she just did 50 days of boozing out there in Knoxville for sure, dude. Uh, oh my God, so you were in the trenches there at Opryland?

Yeah, I was a, I was a sweeper and I worked in the dog kennel and my dad did magic there. Oh, so, but like, so the reason I thought about this was like the idea, it's, uh, you know, when you started— I started doing all these arenas and all this. My, the, the, my, my big daydreaming goal when I was starting comedy was to headline Bridgestone. And so when I, when I did it for the first time, I remember that night, uh, I really was like, I mean, I remember it was that night I was like, what am I supposed to to do now? Because I just thought about that for 20 years. And then, uh, which is crazy, it was 20 years pretty much, I think, exactly for me to get there, to headline Bridgestone.

And congratulations on that, dude.

And we sold 19,365 tickets, which is 20 years. Isn't that crazy? If you're into— I don't know, I'm not even into numbers.

You sold 19,365 tickets, so 19 years plus 365.

20 years.

20 years.

And but, uh, so when you— when I got to that, I go, all right, like, I just felt like, what am I— what's the next— you got to have something else. It can't be, you know, you gotta— I gotta assume that if I keep becoming a great comic, the arenas will come. I'll be able to do Madison Square Garden. I'll be able to do all this stuff. So I have to— I believe in myself that I can do that. But then what's the purpose of me Like, what's the per— and I, and I thought, it can't be about me, right? This life cannot be about me, or I'm gonna go crazy, right? And so, uh, from that moment is when I started Nate— when I was like, I'm gonna start Nate Land, the company. The idea of like being able to make some movies that are the movie that we're making right now, The Breadwinner. And then, uh, you know, I thought of a theme park and thought like, you know what, I want to build a place where, you know, maybe all my ideas can go live. This theme park's not going to be about me.

Me.

It's about the state of Tennessee, but— or it's about, you know, it's called Nate Land, and there's going to be Easter egg-ish stuff. But people think it's going to be a, like, a shrine to me. It's not. It's, you know, it's going to represent Nashville and all this stuff. It's like, you just gotta have someone that has the vision to be able to want to go do it.

Did you guys have choices for different names? Is Nate Land because it's the production company, so you just named it the same thing?

It's just always been— yeah, Nate Land is, uh—

and I get I mean, you worked at it, you worked at a theme park, you came up with it. It's like, I certainly get—

I think it's the trust. The reason, the reason it's named after me is the trust. If you get— if I can keep trust with my audience, with this audience that we do, and that's the biggest thing. So if they can trust that they know that they can see what I'm doing, then it's like you kind of need to know who's making— like, who's behind this.

I see. And if you're putting yourself behind—

I will sell the ticket.

Got it.

The responsibility of that park thriving is on me. I need to sell the tickets. I need to keep the trust that I have with this audience. That's on me. That's not anybody else's problem. I'll do it. That's, that's what I feel has been bestowed upon me. That's— I'm just doing what I feel I'm being asked to do. Called to do.

Did you pray about it kind of too? Like, if you had it— because this is— some of these are big choices. Not that you need to.

Yeah, yeah. No, yeah, yeah. A lot of it is. I mean, a lot of it is You feel very much like, you know, doors and stuff and your ideas and stuff that you think of or start—

it's not even yours. It belongs. It's kind of like a higher power.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I very much— you, I mean, you can visualize a lot of stuff. And then I think when you can easily visualize something, you're like, and then the doors start opening in that way, then you go, that's the direction you need to kind of head in. Where if you're, if you're, if you want something else but you're having a hard time visualizing it, then you're probably forcing, and that's probably not the direction you need to go in. You need to just like, you just kind of follow the lead. And, uh, as we did Nate Land, and then it was just kind of like—

excited. You got me excited now because, yeah, you hear little things, you see things on X and stuff like that, but you don't know, you know. And so I feel so lucky that I'm getting to listen to you talk about it.

Yeah, it's— I mean, you know, one of the things I do, I want, you know, eventually to— I think when you go to Nate Land, maybe you don't really know who Nate is, and it's not about that. Like, it's about everything there.

One day that's what everything becomes. It's like you don't even know. It's like you go to like, uh, Applebee's or whatever, you don't know who Roger Appleby is anymore. No, you know, or whatever. Or if you go to like Tim Hortons, you don't know the Logan. Oh yeah, you don't even know Logans. I think Ernest lives there now. He's living in one of them.

Ernest T. Bass? No, Ernest freaking, uh, oh, the singer.

Yeah, dude, for Logan's Roadhouse, he's kind of like John Daly is for scooters. I think he like lives in the back of one of them. Bless him, brother. Bless Ernest. He has a new album coming out too. I gotta get him and Willie Robertson in here sometime to sit and chop it up. Those guys are funny. Um, but no, dude, I just understand it more now. Take me on some of these rides because I know you've already thought about some of the rides. Wait, first of all, hold on, is there going to be a water facility? You're not doing the water thing, huh?

Water park? No.

No, because also people get—

I think what I can't say—

yes, people get electrocuted in water parks. Yeah, really? Well, I mean, they're not gonna— if you get electrocuted, this is kind of crazy.

It rains. Yeah, yeah.

Well, if it rains, it's more water. But if you get— if you get electrocuted, do you have to have water to get electrocuted? No. I've been electrocuted. I got electrocuted on a food truck that was selling seafood, illegal seafood.

Um, You know, what are we talking about? Well, you've been to Portland. You know, Portland would always— I thought of this, that are like, are like, uh, uh, uh, like said, like, uh, food trucks, right? Like, people make fun of like— because I'll go to McDonald's and all this stuff, the people go to food truck and they'll be like, they're raving about this food truck. You're like, this guy had his food in his Honda Civic all night. You gotta trust that he took it home.

Yeah, dude.

And you go, who are you to tell me that Mine's at least in a building and frozen.

I've always thought that.

Yeah.

Like they'll call especially people from the South, like rednecks. Like, it was like, but dude, this guy. Yeah. You know how close that is to his gas tank? Like he's cooking right over.

New York City is like, you know, it's like then there's been a long line in a food truck and you're, you know, and it's like, oh, that's okay. And you're like, McDonald's is safer than that.

Yeah, dude, I don't want a quesadilla that got here at 80 miles an hour.

Yeah. You know, that's got tire marks on it because he backed it— because he got in a fight that morning with his wife and he ran out. And yeah, but he had the plastic over him, so he's like, it doesn't matter.

Like, like, that changes everything. Yeah, if you put plastic over something, it changes everything. A little Saran Wrap.

Yeah, yeah.

If he's like, oh dang, this is like 3 days old, you put some Saran Wrap over it, who knows?

Like, who knows, dude?

Like, he just put it together.

Kids back there, it's like when you get an Uber and there's a car seat and you're like, I don't be a part of your life, man. Yeah, I just want to ride in an Uber.

Yeah, I didn't know Kevin Hart was in here earlier. Um, did you get— did you get us to be on the roast?

Uh, I think, I think, I think so, but I mean, that's just not my kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. So I mean, it wouldn't have— I had a show at the same time too.

You did?

But yeah, they did it. They did the roast.

Oh, none of the roasters I don't think had a problem with the jokes. Um, oh wait, except for Chelsea Handler did, I think. Chelsea Handler came out and said that she has some problem with— yeah, yeah, some of Shane and Tony's jokes maybe. Yeah.

Um, I don't think with the roast, I think with Shane and Tony.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think she had problems with them.

Good call. She kind of said the— yeah, yeah. I was like, I don't know about all the jokes, mainly Shane and Tony.

Do you feel like in that kind of instance, if people are signing up for something like that, it feels like it's like fair game unless it's like vile, you know? Maybe.

I think it's got to all be fair game. You're signing up for it. I mean, it's like, how— like, I know you know, it's like one of those, like, where are you gonna say the line is? Uh, the roasts have just— they've just, I believe, have gotten too— the spirit of the roast is kind of gone. You're not really having people on there that love each other. And so if there's no love shown, then, uh, it's, it's, it just gets mean. And, uh, you know, and but I mean, not saying that they did— they did what they were asked to do, right? I thought they— a lot of them did a great job. You know, I was very happy for Big Jay Oakerson. Killed it. Yes. Yeah, Big Jay. I was very happy. You know, I've been with Big Jay. We started with him like, so Jay crushed it and Naeem Lynn, I thought, crushed it. And I like Naeem Lynn, but those are— those people have a connection with Kevin Hart. Yeah. And so they— there's— there's— there you can see that the love is there. I thought Shane did very good or like, you know, moving along, hosting it like it's a hard thing to lot.

It's a lot to go do. Uh, yeah, people did what they were supposed to do, but I mean, these roasts, it's like, uh, they're just mean.

Some of the feeling— you're right, dude— some of the feeling that you get with it, it's like, it's intense, it's funny, and some of it is like, some of it is kind of like, yeah, what feeling do I really leave here with in the end, right? Like, I leave with some temporary highs for sure, or, oh, that was crazy, that was creative. Even something that's edgy and dark can still be very creative. But yeah, some of it, it's like, does some of this really make me feel good? Or does like, yeah.

I thought Kevin Hart did great handling a lot of it too.

Oh yeah.

It was like, it wasn't, you know, he kept saying like, this is what you signed up for. And I thought the messaging was good from him afterwards. Because, I mean, it was like such a tough, crazy—

it's a crazy experience.

But it's like, I mean, you know, you— what you— I think if you do roast, if you go look back at the old roast and stuff, these guys, the, the people that were up there were really— are you— as far as I knew, but they really knew each other, or they were really friends, or they— there was actually love really shown so you could go do stuff. And when there's no love shown And with some of them, they don't even know them, each other. It's like, it's going to be, it's going to be tough. Cheryl Underwood did great, like, hand— what, you know, the stuff they were saying, but how she handled that. She has a great laugh and like, so it's like, he handled it well. She handled it very well.

And like, uh, yeah, I had a joke I was thinking while she was there. I was like, oh, she looks like Prince put his finger in the New Power Generation. That was something that I thought of while she was up there, you know, because I like sitting home— were you at it and thinking the jokes. Nuh-uh, I wasn't at it. I don't want to go like— I don't want them catching my face if I see something, if my feelings get hurt or something. I got enough of that shit out there, so I don't need any of that. But yeah, it was just interesting.

There you go. Yeah, because you get enough— you just get more calls and texts. Oh dude, yeah, they just show your face and they go, you got to jump off a building.

Yeah, he's not doing well. Every week it's like somebody's like, oh, Theo's not doing well. I'm doing great.

Yeah, well, that's what— that's what people want to hear though, you know, that he's not doing well. No, that you're doing great. Yeah, I think sometimes people worry about you, but that's a lot of love shown your way that people were.

Yeah, but sometimes people take stuff that's kind of normal and they put it in their own space and put it out there like, oh, this guy's having a problem. And I think my podcast has always just been like a place like where I just kind of share what's going on, right? Like, can I share it pretty transparently, I guess? And maybe I shouldn't do that as much. But I don't share it because I need somebody's acclaim or approval.

No, I understand that.

But I think I don't like it— sometimes people will frame it like, oh, we can help this guy. It's like, dude, I'm fine, you know? Like, I'm as fine as any human being is. Being a human seems real spooky sometimes.

Yeah, but you start every podcast with, I'm fine.

Yeah, I know. But then here's the crazy part: the more you say shit like that, it becomes this thing. So the whole thing is kind of crazy. Yeah, you know?

Do a podcast from the top of a building and just go, I'm fine.

That'd be a great idea.

You know, my buddy Julian McCullough actually—

like, is this crazy for me to say?

He's really playing into it.

I like that idea, dude.

You know, I don't think so. And look, we keep moving the desk closer over to the edge and they go, is he all right? He goes, I'm fine. And you just start scooting. Julian McCullough, you know Julian. Uh, he has a very funny joke, like when he gambles, like when he loses, uh, he goes, hey, do y'all got a bathroom on top of the roof? Uh, so he always tells the dealer, which is such a funny thing to say after you lose a big game. Hey, excuse me, y'all got a bathroom on top of the roof?

Well, we're definitely living, it seems like, in the 6th circle of hell these days. You know, we're getting— things have gotten a little You know, things are getting a little interesting.

Yeah.

Um, we— oh, we got to talk about the rides, dude. So what—

first of all, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to tell you anything about the rides.

For the rides at that— at Nate Land?

Yeah.

But do you know the governor that's gonna be the speed on them or whatever? Have you already decided?

No, no, no.

We—

I mean, we're going through— oh, like how fast?

Uh, let me run one of them.

I'll let you run one of them. I will. Let me run one. I know.

Just for an evening, just do Theo night.

I do a Theo night, you run it, and then you get on it with them, but you don't pull the safety thing down.

You go, oh, I said it doesn't work.

Yeah, yeah. No, I'm saying you sit in it and you leave yours up, and they go, he's not fine. And that's the— and we all, we just always play into that. There you go. Theo's crazy because I don't need it. Or you just hold it and you see if you can go do I'll let you do a roller coaster. I don't— I just, uh, yeah, just to let me DJ it one night or something. Oh yeah.

Or what are good rides? I'm trying to think for like, even for young— like, I wish they had a ride that helped you, like the Lisp Fixer or whatever. Oh, like it'd be a spinner, just something like it just spun you so much the lisp just flew right out counterclockwise.

Yeah, spinner counterclockwise.

Yeah, Time After Time. Remember that song?

Yeah.

You could rush, you could buy, you could still find me.

Was that a list? Time After Time. Is that a song about Lisp?

I don't know who sang that, but I just think if they had a— or the underbite fixer or whatever. I'm trying to think of a good, like, a rod that would, like, you know, underbite fixer would be just—

we have a guy walk around, he just punches you. Yeah, undercut. And you don't ever know where he's at. Yeah, and you just know when you go in with an underbite, we've clocked you. Facial recognition, all that stuff, we can tell. And then he's just a guy that's just, you know, he's gonna get you, and you know he's gonna get you. Yeah, but he's gonna get you so good that you're never gonna see it coming. And we fix that underbite.

I like that.

Yeah, no charge.

I like that idea. Or yeah, if they had like the GLP-1 The Ozempic ride. Yes. And when you get off and it makes— it spins you so fast that you get a little leaner because of how it does your body. Or like when you take a shirt or a towel and you put it in the washer and you do the spin cycle.

Yeah.

And it comes out, it almost stand up itself, it's got so much centrifugal in it.

Yeah.

Well, you do that, boy, get your mama so spun around, she dang—

you know what I'm saying?

She'll fit into a size 1.5.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh yeah, yeah, she'll fit into her dang baby for at least an hour. Yeah, like, maybe it's—

I don't think it's gonna be forever.

No, it's not.

It's at least an hour.

Yeah, it's not full time.

Yeah, no, no. If you want to go get married, you're like, you do that and you better get over to that. You better get to that church quick. Oh yeah, yeah.

I gotta be in Nate Land at 1 PM and then I gotta be—

some of that food that you ate where you feel it expand in your mouth, that's what's going to happen to your body in a wedding dress. But you come in now.

Yeah, once the band starts though, honey, that's your own.

Yeah, here we— we're not responsible for that.

Yeah, you get one I mean, but yeah, one, you could fit into your 6th grade graduation pants if you have one for one hour.

Yeah, I like that. That's a good ride.

And that ride does that to you. Yeah, you know, or something that would just do a bunch of women's hair. I could see that in the South, you know. They put this on you like this, the COVID to cover your body, like to hold you in. Yeah, but then they put that head thing on you, the—

oh yeah, you know.

And then they get out and everybody's beehive and walking out of there looking like Marge Simpson and her two sisters.

Yeah. That's a good ride, dude.

I'm telling you, I can help you.

I, I would love it. Okay. Yeah, really?

It doesn't seem like that right now.

No, no, I think we have a— I think we're gonna have a part where you're gonna fit right in.

Yeah, let me run that crocodile tank.

Yeah, it's gonna be a swamp, like a swamp part.

Hey, I'm just sitting over there petting a crocodile, and we took all his scales down. We shaped— we like, uh, used a wood thing to take his scales down low and you can pet him. Oh no, no, he sharpened him. Yeah, good.

What about the mouth? You're like, mouth is gut. We left the mouth, we forgot about that. He goes, you know how expensive it was to do the top part? And that's when the guy undercuts him, the crocodile. And you go, golly, that guy was worth it. Yeah, it's like a Butterbean. Remember Butterbean?

Yeah, I remember just like Butterbean walking around just I saw him at Hulk Hogan's funeral, actually.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

You went to Hulk Hogan's funeral? Did you know Hulk Hogan?

I didn't know Hulk Hogan. That's pretty great. I'm not gonna pretend I knew him great.

Yeah.

But I knew him enough. We would communicate and got to podcast with him and, um, got to go down there and see him one time down at his bar and restaurant. And, uh, a fan of his son Nick. Um, Eric David Scott Esch, better known by his nickname Butterbean.

Was there some just— I mean, everybody at his funeral, like, there's some big guys there.

Oh dude, tall, like, you know, Mankind was there, I think. Yeah, yeah, womankind was there too, I think.

Was Undertaker there?

I hadn't seen her in a while, but yeah. Was it she?

Who?

Womankind? Oh, I think whoever that is.

Yeah.

Um, Jacksaw Jim Duggan was there.

Uh, Undertaker?

Undertaker was not there that I didn't see. Jim, uh, Vince McMahon was there. Um, Will you have a band like the Chuck E. Cheese band or anything like that at Nate Land, do you think?

Uh, I think that's all— that's open for discussion. Yeah, I think it's definitely open.

And you gotta have a cool Nate name. Oh, Nate Inch Nails would be good.

Oh yeah. Yeah, you laughed. That's pretty good. Yeah, it's like kid music, but it's all— it's rock, but yes, it's a rock band doing kid music, you know? Yeah, I like that.

Thanks.

That'd be cool.

I'm trying to think of any other one. Nate Vana, maybe. It's not as good.

Um, Nate and Snails might be it. They might be it.

Nate Go Back. This is how—

yeah, I like that.

Okay, um, we have a new segment that we're doing, Nate. It's by, uh, it's our Mountain Dew Summer segment. Um, so thank you for being here real quick.

Yeah, thank you, buddy.

Thank you for being here. And congratulations, dude, on your movie.

Yeah.

And congratulations on your, your goals to make an amazing theme park in an amazing city.

Thank you.

I want to say awesome, man. Yeah, it's cool.

I appreciate it.

It's really inspiring.

Thank you, dude.

And I mean that. Thank you, man. You may have noticed that we have Mountain Dew here, and so they're working with us over the summer and we're working with them and we just have a couple of questions. You're hosting a barbecue, right? And these are for you and me.

Okay.

Because I hadn't seen these. You're hosting a barbecue. What do you say if you burn someone's meat?

Uh, I mean, just like apologize to them. Like, sorry. Yeah, I'll make you another one. Or you say, I'm gonna— I'll eat that one, and you take it. Yeah, yeah, that's what you do. You go, I'll eat that one, I'll handle it. Yeah, don't worry about it. Yeah. And first of all, no, no, no, no.

And then they'll be—

I give it to my mom who eats everything burnt.

She does?

Loves everything burnt.

Oh yeah.

There's, there's an old— I think if you're born in the '50s, you're extra well done all day long. Yeah. Not even a, not even a— if you see someone walk in and they're 70, go ahead and start burning that steak.

Yeah, I agree.

It's not— they're not doing medium rare, they're not doing medium. The medium wells Burn it.

Yeah, because they're using also prefabricated teeth, a lot of them.

So they got some chompers.

They got the ability to get—

they got the— yeah, they're just shaking it like a dog. They want— yeah, there's a certain age and they, they— well, well done.

I agree, that's what I say. Just— or say, who likes that dark meat? That's another way to get through to them. Uh, Do you remember drinking from a 2-liter bottle of soda? Do you ever remember that? Like, as a kid? Like, I remember turning it up and you could see— this is the first time in my life I could drink and see the soda going down as I drank it.

Yeah, I do. We buy a lot. I don't— people— I don't think cans were— I think bottle, 2-liter soda bottle was way more in when I was younger.

2 liters in cups.

And yes. And now it's like, I guess environment's cans.

But, and I remember one time, uh, they came out with the wide mouth.

Oh yeah, 2-liter.

You remember that?

Yeah. And you could pour it, you could pour faster.

Yeah, it was like, how much can we even have at once?

Yeah, there's a ton.

Oh yeah, it was great.

Those are the days.

Oh, those were the days. Yeah, that—

I should drink Diet Mountain Dew. I mean, I would drink it every day.

Really? And what were you training for? Just, I mean, just being American, huh?

I think just keeping my body where I can— whatever I put in it, it's going to be able to handle it. I love that, you know what I mean?

Oh yeah, well, also the— I mean, you'll get some—

I'll drink that. I could drink in the morning.

You drink Diet Mountain Dew in the morning?

I— yeah, I can. I— yeah, that, or I'll drink a Diet something in the morning.

Oh, awesome.

Soda.

Yeah, I'll show them who's boss right off the gate.

Right out the gate. I think if I had to give up soda, I think a breakfast soda would be my hardest to give up.

Oh yeah. All right, and shout out to anybody drinking breakfast soda.

Yeah, Colin Quinn, he drinks it. He drinks Diet Coke in the morning too. Yeah.

Oh, he's a breakfast soda drinker. Um, dude, did you know, did you know Mountain Dew started in Tennessee?

Uh, I think so, but I don't know. You know, I think I knew that.

Knoxville.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Smoky Mountains. Rocky Top. Oh, I love that old logo.

Oh yeah, let me see that logo.

Old logo.

Mountain Dew. Oh, I never saw that. That throwback, that's beautiful. Um, all right, last one. I feel like Diet Dew is real big in the trades world. You'll see it a lot of times. Electricians, comedians, right?

Yes.

You said yourself you were a morning drinker. Um, plumbers, roadkill guys, right? Yeah, if you look in the back of the truck, you see 11 of those empty Diet Dew bottles or whatever. They're quietly like the backbone of America, these Diet Dew drinkers. Um, it's the summer, you're driving with your windows down and there's a breeze and it only smells a little bit like maybe a landfill you're passing by, or just— and it just— it's summertime, right? The windows are down. What song or band are you turning on the radio?

You're drinking Diet Mountain Dew?

Yeah, you can be if you want. I'll have one with you.

Yeah, you know, maybe some country, uh, Toby Keith.

Oh yeah.

You know?

Yeah, I know. Yeah, I know. I'm talking about that song. Yeah, yeah, I agree, man. I'll enjoy that with you.

Yeah, that'd be a nice drive. Um, all right.

Thank you so much, dude. Yeah, I think it's been good. I love learning about Nate Land, man. I think I understand it a lot better.

Yeah. Yeah, no, people don't— yeah, I mean, it was— I think people are— I mean, it's crazy, dude. It's crazy to build a theme park. I think it's crazy every time I think about it. I think about it like, you know, where I'm like, what am I doing?

Yeah. Was there a moment— take me through some of this, right? Was there a moment like— because sometimes you feel like you get to different places in like your career and in your life. I think a lot of people go through like, you know, they call them midlife crisis, quarter-life crisis. You'll see like a 5th grader going through like 5th grader life crisis they have now on TikTok or whatever.

They in 5th grade, they do?

Yeah, now that's a thing or whatever. It's like, all right, but do you like—

Did you graduate? I went to— my daughter graduated 8th grade yesterday.

You went to that?

Yeah, I went to that. Did you? I don't— I did not have an 8th grade graduation.

We had one. Really?

Yeah. I think they told us to get out and that was it, dude. It was—

remember when school let out?

Yeah.

God, that day, because you'd look so forward to it, but then you had no— there was nothing to do.

Yeah.

You lay there all summer and just drool in the middle of your living room and wait for your mom to get home, even though you couldn't— you couldn't wait for her to leave, but you couldn't wait for her to get home.

Yeah, yeah. God. Yeah, today was my daughter's first start of summer. But anyway, what do y'all have planned for the summer together?

Do y'all— is it some things you guys are gonna do?

Uh, I don't know. She, uh, like, she rides horse. She loves horse riding and all this, so she'll So she'll do a ton of that, and that's what her summer ends up becoming, a lot of like going out. We— it's at a— we have a— she goes to this stable that's run by this great— this, uh, family. And so she goes there, and I mean, she'll be up there all day. She loves it.

That's nice.

Yeah, it's nice.

You get out there and ride with her sometimes?

I have. Not a ton, but I have.

Are you getting better at it, or is it tough for you?

I've not done it enough to get better. It's a lot. I mean, it's a— it's a lot. Get on a horse is a lot. I mean, you know, but she does— she, you know, to tack a horse and put the everything on it, it's a whole, whole thing. Oh yeah. But yeah, I definitely plan on getting out there. I mean, last time I tried, it was like kind of colder, but now that we're in the summer, and I'll try to, you know, go on some trail rides with her.

Amen. Be a blast, dude.

But you're saying there's something about Nate Land, like the—

yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything else you can tell me about Nate Land kind of before we leave?

Well, it's, it's like the idea—

the hard part is Oh, I was saying thank you so much for just for explaining to me what it was like, like what some of the—

yes. And then I'm worried about doing—

yeah. And then you're worried about doing it because, yeah, I was saying you get to certain points in your career where you're like, well, now what? Like, I just got done with my special. Like, I'd been touring for the past, like, really 20 years. I've been touring, right? Like, I was touring 26 weekends a year, like, because I could sell tickets before, like, early because I've been on TV already. But it's like I didn't have any comedy. But so I— it's just been— this is like the first time in my life is like the second week of it.

Yeah.

And it's like, yeah, I don't know what to do, kind of.

Yeah.

And it's kind of like interesting. And my first thought is just go back out on tour, like figure out and go back out. And maybe that is what'll be what I'll do. Like, you know, get a new hour and go out. But it's— but do you get to parts in your career where you're like, and in your life, right, where you're like, well, now what do I do? And then what happened with this where you're like, okay, this is like a feasible, real thing that I can take on. Um, and maybe you already answered that for me. Sorry.

No, well, I would say, you know, the hard— I think the hard part when you want to do something like this, it's so weird and it's so different of a thing that you want to go do. So you do get a lot of people just being like, why? Why are you doing this? What do you want? Like, you know, if you're calling it Nate Land, you're like, why are you calling it? You gotta call it after you get all this kind of stuff like that. And I think that's the hardest part, is just kind of sit and wade through those kind of things and not let you— because it is crazy. But I know I'm doing it for the right reason and I just got to believe that, you know, I'm doing it for the right reason. And so you just got to sit and just kind of like, you know, it feels like it's kind of a joke and maybe people think it's a joke. And I understand that it could be a joke, but it's like, what if I do build a theme park? Like, what if I do it? Like, that's crazy.

Yeah, you know, I'm like, I don't come from any world where I should be building a theme park. Yeah, I come from Old Hickory. There's, there's nowhere in my growth of a child to high school, any of this, that you would ever be at a point— there's nowhere that I should even have the success that I should have had. Yeah. So then you got to go to where you start going like, well, then I'll just start. I'll just keep going until someone says know until they, you know.

Well, Mike Lindell had the MyPillow.

Yeah.

And you would have saw that probably out of him.

I'll sell that.

Yeah, you wouldn't have saw it out of him probably.

Oh no, no, no, no, no.

People have all kinds.

No, but like, yeah, like that's what I think when, uh, when, when you have these ideas and you want to go do something, it's like, just, it's like you got to just go do it, dude.

Yeah.

And the hardest thing is you got to sometimes And it's going to be people that, you know, that they're the, you know, that sometimes can be your friends or whatever that can be like, what are you doing? Why are you doing this? Those are the ones that kind of come and they, they, you know, they don't understand. And some of that is some of it's jealousy. I think some of it is you're leaving people behind. That's like that thing that you could see. We're getting in shape. I'm not in shape. I want to get in shape. But it's like, I don't know if someone or anything, if someone does something they, they can, like, you're moving forward and I think they just like go, why, why are you doing that?

Yeah, dude. Well, I mean, I, I even had questions about it. I was curious about it, right? I didn't know. I was like, oh, this is interesting. But I just heard rumors, right? And I was like, yeah, the name had popped into my head like, oh, why would he choose that? What's going on, right?

Um, I choose it because I knew you again, like, well, now I get it. Trust it.

Oh dude, after talking to you, like, yeah. I get exactly where it is, you know?

Yeah.

Um, and it is weird why sometimes our brains will jump to like— I think some of it is probably a little bit of jealousy, to be honest, or a little bit of like, um, wow, he's brave enough to do that. And I don't even know if some of that's jealousy, maybe a little bit. I'm not talking exactly about me really, but I'm just talking like, it's interesting, man. But then like you say, nothing happens unless somebody does it. No one's—

yeah, no one wants to No one wants to.

And look at Walt Disney, it was— he had both of his names in it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, he went heavy.

Yeah, he went all the way in, dude.

But you go see these guys, like, people are stuck where they, they, they see stuff get built and people have these ideas and they think, well, you can't do it again. You're like, why can't you do it again, right? Why can't you? We had a theme park here. I'm not picking a city that's never had a theme park. Nashville and Houston are the two cities that can sustain a full theme park. I already know all the stuff, right? I've already done all this stuff. I'm paying people that know how to do this stuff to do it. I'm not— I'm looking at all of it. I'm not doing anything that I would never— I have a good gut feeling of when I feel overwhelmed or not. And so I can tell when it's like, if I start feeling panicky, like, then I'm like, like, this may be back off, or this or that or whatever. And, uh, so I very much believe in, you know, what I'm doing and what I'm supposed to be doing. And it's, uh, you know, you have a mix where you go like, I don't know if I even have a choice.

It's like, it's just I'm doing—

do you do this?

What I'm just doing it.

Somebody's got to do it.

Someone's got to do it. And then maybe it's going to be good, maybe it's not gonna be good. Like, oh, like, what if I don't make it? What if I do make it?

Yeah, well, the same with making a movie. It's the same with anything.

It's like, what, maybe, you know, you always think anybody it says no, you're like, what does it matter? What does it matter if I— who cares?

Yeah, what is this?

I don't want anything from you, right? I don't want anything from— I want people that either buy into what I'm trying to do or, or just don't.

Yeah, that's the same way I feel about even if it's like trying to ask out a gal or do something like that. It's like, when I lay there at the end of it all, I want to be like, man, I tried this, I tried that. I want to smile and think about the things that I tried.

Yeah. You know, you got to think too with comedians, look at the success you get where just you're talking. We're just talking. We don't have movie, we don't have music behind us. We don't have— that's just us talking.

Yeah.

So like if you start— that's why you think about the movies where you're like, yeah, if you go put a movie behind, you know, not that everything's going to work or whatever, you're like, it's the most purest art form. So if you can get to a high level of just— oh, movie's scary, straight, straight up that.

Well, movie's scary because you don't know if it's how it's going to be. I know, until the day of, dude. And that's very nerve-wracking. And I'll say this, dude, we made some mistakes for sure. Um, I'd never watched the movie with an audience until I sat in there and watched it at the premiere.

Yeah.

And that was bizarre, dude, because you're almost like— I'd watch it on my computer a bunch at home, like when I'm editing and putting in notes. But then you're like— it almost felt like— it sounds crazy to say, dude— like I was watching like something I wasn't supposed to be watching with other people. It's almost like watching porno or whatever, because you're like, yeah, I should— this is something you watch by yourself. And suddenly I realized as it starts, I'm like, whoa, yeah, I've watched this already. This is something I'm supposed to watch by myself. Yeah, I don't think this is for mass consumption. So that was so freaking harrowing, dude.

How we did a premiere, it is very— it's very weird to watch yourself and you're, you're like, ah, I should have done that, or I should have done the, you know.

Yeah, or just—

yeah, I mean, yeah, but to just do it like, like stand-up, you're almost like— I don't watch my stand-up, or I'll watch it maybe once, but it's like you've done it so much that I think maybe you're kind of used to. But like, yeah, in a movie you're like, you just feel like— you feel like everybody else is like a real actor. And you're like, dude, I don't know what I'm doing. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy.

Oh, the immense feeling of I don't know what I'm doing. Yeah, you know. Um, but well, dude, for somebody that doesn't know what they're doing, man, you're doing a really great job of it. Thank you. And thank you, bro. And, um, oh, and will the theme park— will the rides be for all ages, or is the rides even just for like little children?

No, no, it's a full— we have fun big rides kid park, like every— it's like a regular theme park.

Yeah.

So it's going to be, and you know, shows and stuff like that. It'll be the real deal. I love it. So it'll be, yeah, everybody can come out.

Amen. Nate Bargatze: The Movie opens up this week, May 29th, in theaters, in 3,300 theaters. That's what we found out. The Breadwinner, Nate Bargatze, Mandy Moore, A supermom lands a Shark Tank deal, switching roles with her breadwinner husband. He struggles to adapt as a stay-at-home dad to their 3 daughters.

And it's not like a dumb dad— everybody gets crazy about being a dumb dad thing. It's not a dumb dad thing. It's a— it's, you know, he ends up taking the dad era, and it's a sweet, sweet, funny, uh, cute movie. And again, something we take everybody out to, and that's all. And it's the first one, so see where we go from here.

Amen, man. Congratulations, bro. Thanks for your time, dude, and congrats on everything.

Thank you.

Yep.

Yeah, brother. Now I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves. I must be cornerstone.

Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.

I can feel it. In my bones, but it's gonna take a little