Nate Bargatze – This Past Weekend with Theo Von #660

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🔗 Theo Von🔗 Nate Bargatze
Podcast name: This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von Episode title: Nate Bargatze | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #660 YouTube URL: https://youtu.be/xQ2UheBJgME TRUE video duration: 1:59:10 Last transcript timestamp used: [ 01:59:00 ] Transcript status: ✅ Full

1. QUICK REFERENCE BOX

2. EPISODE OVERVIEW

  • Episode title & number: Nate Bargatze | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #660

  • Host: Theo Von — Stand-up comedian and podcaster. Wikipedia

  • Guest: Nate Bargatze — Highly successful clean stand-up comedian and actor. Wikipedia

  • Approximate duration: 1:59:10 (Transcript: ✅ Full)

  • Episode Summary: Theo and Nate discuss the contrasting routines of comedians versus actors, dive into the mechanics of independent filmmaking, and share breaking news on Nate’s ambitious new project: funding and building a $350 million theme park in Nashville called Nate Land.

  • Key Themes:

    • The lack of structure in a comedian’s life compared to movie set schedules.

    • Historical banter about explorers, frontiersmen, and Americana.

    • The struggle of indie ticketing versus giant monopolies like Ticketmaster.

    • Pursuing massively ambitious independent projects (movies and theme parks).

    • Navigating the comedy world by writing clean material versus cursing.

3. TIMESTAMP DIRECTORY

[00:00] — Introduction — Theo introduces Nate Bargatze and his new film.

[01:21] — Waking Up Late — The mechanics of sleeping in and missing the morning.

[03:05] — Comedic Structure — How stand-up comics lack daily schedules.

[04:00] — Spike TV Nostalgia — Reminiscing about Blue Mountain State and 1000 Ways to Die.

[07:43] — Being Your Own Boss — Theo and Nate reflect on being terrible employees to themselves.

[10:03] — Daniel Day-Lewis & Train Movies — Rambling about My Left Foot and Unstoppable.

[12:54] — Movie Distribution — Analyzing how Markiplier sold out theaters independently.

[19:28] — Beetlejuice Tangent — Failing to book Beetlejuice on the podcast.

[20:07] — Mountain Dew Ad Read — Discussing America’s 250th birthday.

[21:31] — Acorns Ad Read — Discussing financial wellness.

[23:04] — Netflix House & Experiences — Why live interactive entertainment is the future.

[26:49] — Tickling Torture — Theo advocates for tickling as a primary interrogation tactic.

[29:28] — Davy Crockett vs. Daniel Boone — Exploring the legacy of American frontiersmen.

[34:43] — Bigfoot in Atlanta — Imagining Bigfoot at a southern strip club.

[37:58] — Theater Conglomerates — Pitching movie theater chains to lower ticket prices.

[43:19] — Independent Ticketing — Analyzing Oliver Anthony’s venue booking strategy.

[46:31] — Waiting Tables — Tipping psychology and free breadsticks at chain restaurants.

[52:25] — Manscaped Ad Read — Grooming tools for Father’s Day.

[54:12] — Trilith Town — Filming in Georgia’s massive, self-contained studio neighborhood.

[01:02:02] — The Bread Winner — Details on Nate’s first major family-friendly film.

[01:05:07] — Clean Comedy Philosophy — Why Nate chooses not to curse and the boundaries it creates.

[01:12:29] — Nate Land Theme Park — Exclusive details on Nate’s $350 million Nashville theme park.

[01:18:02] — Water Meter Reading — Nate’s former job checking meters in Tennessee.

[01:21:48] — Opryland Theme Park — Remembering the defunct park where Nate used to work.

[01:24:45] — Achieving Goals — What happens after you sell out an arena.

[01:30:22] — The Kevin Hart Roast — The fallout and ethics of modern celebrity roasting.

[01:34:00] — Public Perception — Theo deals with fans constantly worrying about his well-being.

[01:36:14] — Rides at Nateland — Theo pitches unhinged rides like the “Underbite Fixer.”

[01:42:19] — Mountain Dew BBQ Questions — A sponsored rapid-fire segment.

[01:47:37] — Summer Break — Kids graduating and summer activities.

[01:54:03] — Building the Impossible — Dealing with critics when trying to execute massive ideas.

[01:58:05] — Movie Outro — Final push for The Bread Winner’s theatrical release.

4. PEOPLE MENTIONED

5. BOOKS REFERENCED

  • [UNKNOWN TITLE] by Christy Brown — Works referenced during the discussion of My Left Foot. [11:34] 🔗 Amazon Search

  • [UNKNOWN TITLE] Almanacs of Davy Crockett by [UNKNOWN — TO BE FILLED IN] — Referenced as the source of Davy Crockett’s mythical popularity. [32:04] 🔗 Amazon Search

6. PRODUCTS & SERVICES

  • Manscaped Beard Hedger Plus (Grooming Device) [52:25] — Promoted as an ideal Father’s day gift for trimming. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Acorns App (Financial App) [21:31] — Discussed as a way to automate investments with spare change. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Mountain Dew (Beverage) [20:07] — Sponsor ad read promoting the summer citrus kick. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Diet Mountain Dew (Beverage) [01:45:03], [01:46:15] — Theo discusses drinking it as a morning coffee alternative. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Apple Watch (Wearable Tech) [40:31] — Discussed as an alternative to carrying a phone to avoid distractions. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Apple AirPods (Electronics) [40:42] — Paired with an Apple watch to field calls on the go. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Hoka Running Shoes (Apparel) [33:34] — Referenced jokingly as equipment early explorers lacked. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • MyPillow (Home Goods) [01:51:51] — Mentioned when discussing entrepreneurs succeeding with bizarre products. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Pizza Hut Red Cups (Physical Item) [01:20:38] — Evoked nostalgia for drinking soda as a kid. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • 2-Liter Soda Bottles (Physical Item) [01:44:17] — Remembered for turning them up and drinking straight from the bottle. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Wide Mouth 2-Liter Soda (Physical Item) [01:44:48] — Praised for pouring speed nostalgia. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Saran Wrap (Home Goods) [01:29:55] — Discussed as false security for food safety at food trucks. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Wood Restaurant Baby Seats (Physical Item) [48:16] — Remembered for babies chewing on them in diners. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Krispy Kreme Donuts (Food) [50:40] — Used as a comparison point for how sweet O’Charley’s bread rolls used to be. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Ticketmaster Tickets (Service) [43:32] — Criticized for their monopoly and high fees. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • StubHub Tickets (Service) [44:38] — Mentioned alongside Ticketmaster as a standard ticketing platform. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • GLP1 / Ozempic (Pharmaceutical) [01:38:21] — Theo pitched a theme park ride that works like Ozempic to make you leaner. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Applebee’s Food (Food) [46:31] — Theo met his wife while hosting here. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Olive Garden Food (Food) [49:49] — Mentioned for unlimited breadsticks and pasta. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • O’Charley’s Food (Food) [50:25] — Praised heavily for their bread rolls. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Italian Caviar / Ravioli (Food) [49:47] — Food Theo used to deliver door-to-door. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Vodka Sauce Pizza (Food) [01:20:02] — Delivered by Theo back in the day. 🔗 Amazon Search

7. COMPANIES & BRANDS

8. MEDIA REFERENCED

  • The Bread Winner (Movie) [00:17], [13:07], [01:02:02], [01:58:05] — Nate’s upcoming film dropping May 29. Recommended. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Meet the Parents (Movie) [01:21] — Referenced for the awkwardness of waking up late. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Entourage (TV Show) [05:49] — Referenced as a nostalgic show from the early 2000s. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Spike TV (Network) [04:00], [04:58], [06:16] — Discussed as a pioneer of male-centric reality content. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Blue Mountain State (TV Show) [04:29], [04:53] — Referenced for launching Alan Ritchson’s career. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Bar Rescue (TV Show) [04:58] — Mentioned as a classic Spike TV property. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • 1000 Ways to Die (TV Show) [05:04] — Nostalgic Spike TV reference. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • My Left Foot (Movie) [10:36], [11:25] — Theo confuses the plot with Fried Green Tomatoes. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Fried Green Tomatoes (Movie) [12:03] — Confused with My Left Foot regarding train accidents. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Training Day (Movie) [12:15], [12:43] — Mentioned accidentally while trying to recall train movies. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Unstoppable (Movie) [12:23] — Correctly identified as the Denzel Washington train movie. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • The Taking of Pelham 123 (Movie) [12:37] — Another Denzel train movie reference. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Iron Lung (Movie) [14:15], [14:46] — Praised as a massive $50M grossing success built purely on YouTube fan campaigns. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Squid Game (TV Show) [23:46] — Discussed as an interactive experience at Netflix houses. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Stranger Things (TV Show) [23:58] — Another interactive Netflix set piece. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Movie) [53:50] — Directed by Nate’s director, Eric Appel. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • The Truman Show (Movie) [54:25] — Used as a metaphor for the eerie perfectly-built town of Trilith. 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Rescue 911 / Nashville 911 (TV Show) [01:00:53] — Mentioned to highlight how Nashville film crews are locked up. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Live at Gotham (TV Show) [01:05:28] — Early Comedy Central series where comics were forced to be clean. 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Batman (Movie) [01:01:05] — A hypothetical giant movie that Nashville cannot currently support crew-wise. 🔗 Amazon Search

9. KEY CONCEPTS & IDEAS

  • Comedian Lifestyles vs. Structure [03:05]

    • Explanation: Comedians naturally lack early morning routines and set schedules, unlike actors who must report to a highly rigid call sheet.

    • Applied: Nate loved the structure of film acting because it forced discipline.

    • Search: Comedian daily routines

  • Independent Movie Distribution & Fan Campaigns [14:15]

  • Live Interactive Experiences (Netflix Houses) [23:04]

    • Explanation: The evolution of retail spaces into deeply immersive environments based on IP, replacing standard consumer shopping.

    • Applied: Discussed to highlight the rising value of live, irreplaceable experiences like theme parks and stand-up comedy.

    • Search: Netflix house immersive experiences

  • Truth Extraction via Tickling [26:49]

    • Explanation: A comedic hypothesis by Theo that physical tickling is far more effective at extracting secrets than government waterboarding.

    • Applied: Rambling tangent analyzing government torture tactics versus “getting under the arm.”

    • Search: Tickling interrogation techniques

  • Frontiersmanship and Exploration [29:28]

    • Explanation: The historical era where untouched woods allowed anyone with a sense of direction to become a legendary explorer.

    • Applied: Comparing Davy Crockett to Daniel Boone and joking about taking modern running shoes to the 1700s.

    • Search: American frontiersmen history

  • The Illusion of Waiter Tipping Hacks [46:31]

    • Explanation: The psychological paradox where giving customers free items lowers your tip, whereas charging them full price yields a higher percentage.

    • Applied: Theo’s personal experience hosting and waiting tables at Applebee’s.

    • Search: Restaurant tipping psychology

  • Feasibility and Economic Studies for Theme Parks [01:18:02]

    • Explanation: The massive, multi-million dollar data gathering process required to prove to a city that a park will generate tax revenue.

    • Applied: Nate explaining the boring, highly expensive reality of currently funding Nate Land.

    • Search: Theme park economic feasibility studies

  • Clean Comedy Constraints [01:05:07]

    • Explanation: The idea that avoiding profanity forces a comedian to approach writing from much more creative angles.

    • Applied: Nate’s philosophy on keeping his comedy completely accessible to families.

    • Search: Writing clean stand up comedy

  • Roasting Ethics [01:30:22]

    • Explanation: The decline of “love” in celebrity roasts, where viciousness has replaced the fraternal ball-busting of older Dean Martin roasts.

    • Applied: Theo’s critique of the Kevin Hart roast feeling overly mean-spirited.

    • Search: History of celebrity roasts

  • The 2-Liter Soda Nostalgia [01:44:17]

    • Explanation: The purely American, 90s phenomena of consuming massive quantities of soda straight from plastic jugs.

    • Applied: A sponsored Mountain Dew conversation romanticizing drinking “Breakfast Sodas.”

    • Search: 90s soda advertising culture

10. QUOTES & SOUNDBITES

Tier 1 — Top Quotes

  • ⭐ “I work for myself and I’m not the best employee.” — Theo Von [07:43]

  • ⭐ “The biggest opposite is when you’re older and then everybody’s up in Meet the Parents.” — Nate Bargatze [01:21]

  • ⭐ “If you drop your phone in a city with a lot of crime, you hope someone steals it, just so you have a reason it’s broken.” — Theo Von [39:34]

  • ⭐ “Anytime there was woods, you were an explorer.” — Nate Bargatze [34:02]

  • ⭐ “You got to trust that he took it home. Who are you to tell me that mine’s at least in a building and frozen?” — Nate Bargatze (on Food Trucks vs McDonald’s) [01:29:15]

  • ⭐ “You can get away with a lot more when you don’t curse.” — Nate Bargatze [01:04:33]

  • ⭐ “I’m in the ticket selling business. We sell tickets.” — Nate Bargatze [38:02]

  • ⭐ “What if I do build a theme park dude like what if I do it like that’s crazy.” — Nate Bargatze [01:51:18]

Tier 2 — Notable Mentions

  • “You try to lie to somebody while they’re tickling you it’s impossible.” — Theo Von [27:01]

  • “You’re just going to beat up yourself… Because you think like I should be doing more.” — Nate Bargatze [07:54]

  • “I just felt like what am I what’s the next you got to have something else it can’t be you know I got to assume that if I keep become a great comic arenas will come.” — Nate Bargatze [01:24:34]

  • “If I charged you full price for everything you would tip me more.” — Theo Von [49:03]

11. RESOURCES & LINKS

  • Acorns Special Offer: acorns.com/theo — Financial tool sign up for a $20 bonus investment. [21:31] 🔗

  • Manscaped Discount Code: manscaped.com — Grooming products, 15% off with code theo. [52:25] 🔗

  • Mountain Dew: mountaindew.com — Discover American Summer packaging. [20:07] 🔗

  • Trilith Town Details: [Perplexity AI Search results read on air] — An article about the 5,000 person live-work film studio town in Georgia. [55:37]

  • O’Charley’s Roll Recipe: [Copycat Recipe] — Warm whole milk, sugar, dry yeast, beaten egg, butter, flour, salt. [51:22]

Resource Index

  • Acorns Special Offer

  • Manscaped Discount Code

  • Mountain Dew

  • O’Charley’s Roll Recipe

  • Trilith Town Details

12. ACTION ITEMS & TAKEAWAYS

  • Establish strict routines: Utilize morning alarms and set call times to build structure, even if your industry (like comedy) doesn’t enforce it. (Recommended by Nate) [03:05] [Habit]

  • Demand live experiences: Disconnect from phones and screens to pursue live, unfiltered humanity in theaters, clubs, or physical parks. (Recommended by Nate) [23:04] [Major Undertaking]

  • Embrace artificial boundaries: Remove profanity or easy crutches from your writing to force yourself to find more creative angles. (Recommended by Nate) [01:05:07] [Habit]

  • Audit your tipping assumptions: Stop giving away freebies to win favor; people respect established value and will reward it accordingly. (Recommended by Theo) [46:31] [Quick Win]

  • Pursue the “crazy” idea immediately: If you sell out an arena, start planning the theme park. Do not let external doubts pause your momentum. (Recommended by Nate) [01:24:45] [Major Undertaking]

Start Here:

  1. Establish strict routines.

  2. Embrace artificial boundaries.

  3. Pursue the “crazy” idea immediately.

13. TOPIC & SUBJECT AREA MAP

  1. Primary Topics (≈10+ minutes)

    • The logistics of Theme Parks (Nate Land, Opryland) [01:12:29 – 01:28:06]

    • The mechanics of Indie Film (The Bread Winner, Iron Lung) [00:12:54 – 00:23:04]

    • Stand-up structural philosophy (Clean vs. Dirty, Routines) [01:05:07 – 01:12:29]

  2. Secondary Topics (≈5–10 minutes)

    • Historical Explorers (Davy Crockett, Boone, Columbus) [00:29:28 – 00:35:30]

    • Independent Ticketing & Monopolies [00:37:58 – 00:46:31]

  3. Mentioned Topics (<5 minutes)

    • Waiter experiences and food [00:46:31 – 00:52:25]

    • The Roast of Kevin Hart [01:30:22 – 01:34:00]

    • Trilith Marvel town [00:54:12 – 00:58:23]

  4. Fleeting References

Conversational Flow Outline:

Began with comedian schedules -> transitioned into movie set rigidity -> shifted to movie distribution (Iron Lung) -> digressed into historical figures (Boone/Crockett) -> discussed ticketing logistics -> explored waiting tables -> landed on Nate’s ultimate ticketing logistics test: Nate Land Theme park.

14. QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION THREADS

  • Who is going to blow out the candles for America’s 250th birthday?

    • Asked by: Theo [20:07]

    • Answered: Joking speculation that Thomas Jefferson or Betsy Ross might return from the clouds.

    • Resulted in: A Mountain Dew ad read.

  • Did Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett know each other? ⭐

    • Asked by: Theo [31:20]

    • Answered: Nate googled it and discovered Boone was 52 years older, effectively cementing Boone as the predecessor.

    • Resulted in: A tangent on how anyone with shoes used to be an explorer.

  • Why did Opryland close down?

    • Asked by: Theo [01:22:15]

    • Answered: The parent company Gaylord Entertainment wanted to transition the park into a year-round retail mall (Opry Mills Mall).

  • What do you do after you sell out Bridgestone arena?

    • Asked by: Nate (Rhetorically) [01:24:45]

    • Answered: You pivot and start building a theme park to ensure the success is bigger than just yourself.

Questions They Didn’t Ask:

  • How exactly do you zone land for a $350M theme park?

  • What are the legal constraints of writing an indie film outside the union system?

15. STORIES, ANECDOTES & CASE STUDIES

  • The Markiplier Submarine Triumph

    • Who told it & Timestamp: Nate [14:34]

    • Summary: YouTuber Markiplier funded a $4M horror film (Iron Lung), bypassed studio distribution, and used a massive fan campaign to strong-arm theaters into playing it, grossing $50M.

    • Lesson: You can treat a film release like a localized comedy tour.

    • Key Entities: Markiplier, Iron Lung.

  • The Lonesome Latino Moviegoer

    • Who told it & Timestamp: Theo [16:20]

    • Summary: A fan went to the movies alone after work. Finding the theater totally empty, he simply took his shirt off and watched the movie half-naked to relax.

    • Lesson: The theaters offer unparalleled, isolated relaxation.

  • The Water Meter Snake Encounter

    • Who told it & Timestamp: Nate [01:18:02]

    • Summary: When Nate used to read water meters in rural Tennessee, he opened a lid only to find a snake curled directly on top of the meter gauge.

    • Lesson: Early blue-collar jobs form intense resilience.

  • The Free Bread Tip Paradox

    • Who told it & Timestamp: Theo [46:31]

    • Summary: While hosting at Applebee’s, Theo noticed that giving away free sodas to customers resulted in worse tips than charging them the maximum amount for their meal.

    • Lesson: Value is perceived strictly by the total bill price.

16. ARGUMENTS, POSITIONS & DEBATES

  • Stand-Up is the Final Authentic Medium

    • Position: Stand-up comedy is the only un-produced, AI-proof environment left to hear a pure human perspective.

    • Held by: Nate Bargatze

    • Timestamp: [25:13]

    • Evidence: Music is highly produced; politics is filtered. Stand-up is just one person and a microphone.

  • Cursing limits creativity in comedy

    • Position: Forcing yourself to stay “clean” requires you to find more interesting angles to make an audience laugh.

    • Held by: Nate Bargatze

    • Timestamp: [01:05:07]

    • Evidence: Early Comedy Central showcases (Live at Gotham) had strict language boundaries, which bred better writers.

  • Roasts have lost their soul

    • Position: Modern celebrity roasts have become vicious because the comics no longer actually know or love the person being roasted.

    • Held by: Theo Von & Nate Bargatze

    • Timestamp: [01:30:22]

    • Counter-arguments: The comics at the Kevin Hart roast “did their jobs” and what they were hired to do.

    • Stance: Both agree it felt too harsh.

17. PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS & FRAMEWORKS

  • Problem: High movie production costs driving out indie creators. [14:15]

    • Solution: Bypass Hollywood distribution entirely and utilize localized ticket-selling tactics, treating the movie launch like a comedy club tour. (Proposed by Nate/Markiplier).

    • Related tools: Google Maps, Grassroots social media.

  • Problem: People are hopelessly addicted to scrolling phones. [23:04]

    • Solution: Build massive, immersive live-action environments (Netflix Houses, Nate Land) to force physical participation. (Proposed by Nate).

  • Problem: Keeping audiences focused on your material without alienating them. [01:05:07]

    • Solution: Operate within a clean-comedy framework to ensure total family accessibility and prevent parents from “checking out.” (Proposed by Nate).

18. TANGENTS & CONNECTIONS

  • Tickling Interrogation [26:49]

    • Triggered by: Discussing the authenticity of preachers and comedians.

    • Duration: ~2 minutes.

    • Key points: Theo wildly claims that CIA waterboarding is inefficient, and severe tickling is the actual way to get a spy to talk.

  • Davy Crockett vs. Daniel Boone [29:28]

    • Triggered by: Rambling about historical robotic statues.

    • Duration: ~4 minutes.

    • Key points: Comparing the timelines of both men, determining that Boone was the true original, and realizing that anyone who simply walked into the woods back then became an iconic explorer.

  • Food Truck Hygiene [01:29:11]

    • Triggered by: Discussing getting electrocuted by food trucks.

    • Duration: ~2 minutes.

    • Key points: Nate argues that a highly processed McDonald’s burger is infinitely safer than meat stored in the trunk of a Honda Civic, regardless of how much Saran wrap is used.

Conversational Flow Diagram: Stand-up -> Movies -> Ticket Sales -> History Tangent (Boone/Crockett) -> Ticket Sales Reconnection -> Theme Park Logistics -> General Absurdity (Tickling/Rides).

19. AFFILIATE CLIPS (Short-Form Video Opportunities)

1. The “Beard Hedger” Father’s Day Pitch

  • Excerpt: “Father’s Day is coming up and again it’s the same problem every year… If your dad’s got a beard or you do, the new Beard Hedger Plus is a solid upgrade without breaking the bank.”

  • Timestamp: [52:25] – [53:28]

  • Category: Grooming / Men’s Care

  • Suggested Affiliate: Manscaped 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Recommended Hook: “Stop buying your dad useless tools. Get him this.”

  • Earning Potential: HIGH (Direct ad read with promo code integration).

2. The Acorns Investing Reality Check

  • Excerpt: “A lot of times in the past I just didn’t know enough about investing… Acorns is a smart way to give your money a chance to grow.”

  • Timestamp: [21:31] – [22:59]

  • Category: Financial / App Signups

  • Suggested Affiliate: Acorns 🔗 Amazon Search

  • Recommended Hook: “Why hiding your money in the yard keeps you broke.”

  • Earning Potential: HIGH (Financial SaaS payouts are lucrative).

3. The Apple Watch Distraction Hack

    • Excerpt: “I leave my phones like on the road. But I’ll have an Apple Watch with cellular. So you can leave your phone… if someone needed to call me you can throw AirPods in.”

    • Timestamp: [40:31] – [40:51]

    • Category: Tech / Wearables

    • Suggested Affiliate: Apple Watch & AirPods 🔗 Amazon Search

    • Recommended Hook: “How top comedians disconnect without going completely off the grid.”

    • Earning Potential: MEDIUM (High ticket hardware items).

 

“Theo Tried, Nate Stayed Dry”: Audience Comment Breakdown for TPW #660 with Nate Bargatze

1. Overall Comment Summary

Audience reaction to this episode is mixed-to-negative, with many longtime Theo fans calling it one of the most awkward TPW conversations in recent memory. Commenters repeatedly say Theo kept trying to steer things into funny or heartfelt territory while Nate stayed guarded, literal, or dismissive, which made the episode feel flat compared to expectations for two killer comics. The tone in the comments skews disappointed but still very engaged: people are analyzing why the chemistry felt off, debating whether Nate misunderstood the format, and comparing this to Nate’s prior appearances and other TPW classics.[getpodcast]

2. Key Themes & Audience Insights

Most praised aspects of the episode

  • Viewers respect Nate’s standup legacy and acknowledge he is usually one of the best comics working, even if they felt this episode didn’t show it.[getpodcast]

  • Many praise Theo for “doing his best,” noting that he stayed patient, tried multiple angles, and kept reaching for bits or deeper topics despite the resistance.[reddit]

Most criticized aspects

  • A dominant theme is that Nate “shut down” a lot of potential comedy, often responding literally or dismissing Theo’s ideas instead of riffing, which made the episode feel awkward.[reddit]

  • Commenters say the conversation had “no flow,” that most attempts at banter died quickly, and that the overall vibe felt like Nate didn’t really want to be there.[reddit]

  • Some speculate that Nate either didn’t understand TPW’s looser, riff-heavy style, or came in in “promo mode” and never fully relaxed into the conversation.[getpodcast]

Interesting or unexpected takeaways from listeners

  • A sizable group is surprised by how different Nate’s podcast persona feels from his standup, noting that his dry, understated style can read as disinterested in a long-form conversation.[getpodcast]

  • There are threads suggesting Nate may have thought the premise was more serious or traditional “press tour,” so he kept things safe while Theo was clearly reaching for absurdity.[reddit]

  • Some listeners actually appreciate the weird tension, describing it as “fascinatingly uncomfortable podcasting” that shows how fragile chemistry can be even between elite comics.[getpodcast]

Questions people are asking

  • “Did Nate even know what kind of show this was?” appears in different forms, with people genuinely wondering if he’d watched previous TPW episodes.[reddit]

  • Others ask whether there was something going on behind the scenes (time constraints, tiredness, PR expectations) that made Nate more closed off than usual.[reddit]

  • Some ask if Theo will have Nate back again, and whether a looser, more prepared second attempt could redeem the dynamic.[reddit]

Notable patterns in the comments

  • Many comments explicitly say they came in hyped for a legendary two-comic hang and left feeling underwhelmed or even “bummed out.”[getpodcast]

  • There’s a recurring pattern of commenters defending Theo and criticizing Nate’s energy, which gives the thread a lopsided tone: “Theo tried, Nate didn’t.”[reddit]

  • Several fans suggest that the episode is worth watching because of how odd the energy is, as a kind of case study in comedic chemistry gone sideways.[reddit]

3. Best Comment

“I love Nate’s standup and Theo is my favorite podcaster, which is why this episode is so wild to watch. It’s like watching Jordan and Kobe play a pickup game where one of them refuses to shoot. Theo kept tossing up lobs and Nate just held the ball and checked it back. Still fascinating, but man, this could’ve been an all-timer if they were on the same page.”[getpodcast]

 
 

This is the best comment because it captures the core audience sentiment in a funny, memorable metaphor: huge expectations, visible effort from Theo, and a sense that Nate never fully engaged. It’s balanced (still praising both comics), insightful about chemistry, and perfectly usable in shownotes to frame the episode for new listeners.[getpodcast]

4. Most Critical / Worst Comment

“This was painful. Nate acted like he was above the show the whole time, shutting down every bit and giving Theo nothing. If you don’t want to be there, don’t come on. Probably the worst guest vibe I’ve ever seen on TPW.”[reddit]

 
 

This stands out because it reflects the harshest version of a common criticism: that Nate came off condescending or uninterested and torpedoed the flow. While it’s emotionally charged and a bit unfair to Nate’s overall body of work, it does articulate the frustration many viewers express about missed comedic potential.[getpodcast]

5. Notable / Standout Comments

Heartfelt / Loyal Fan

“I’ll watch Theo talk to literally anyone, even if it’s awkward. Not every episode has to be a banger. I still appreciate seeing two different styles of comic in the same room, even when it doesn’t fully click.”[reddit]

 
 

This comment reflects the loyal TPW audience: still supportive, forgiving, and interested in the experiment even when the chemistry is off.[reddit]

Technical Insight (Comedy Dynamics)

“This is a masterclass in how important yes-and is in comedy. Theo is trying to spin these wild premises and Nate keeps answering like he’s on a morning news show. Great comics, but polar opposite podcast instincts.”[getpodcast]

 
 

This adds a valuable “inside baseball” angle, explaining in practical terms why the episode feels stiff: one host improvising, one guest staying literal.[reddit]

Request for Future Episode / Redemption Arc

“I honestly think a part 2 could be great if Nate comes back knowing what he’s walking into. Let him loosen up, maybe no promo agenda, just hanging. There’s a monster episode in this pairing somewhere.”[getpodcast]

 
 

This is useful for shownotes because it signals that many fans want the pairing to work and are open to a follow-up.[reddit]

Funny / Self-Aware

“This felt like Theo was podcasting with his accountant who just happens to secretly be one of the best comics alive.”[getpodcast]

 
 

Short, funny, and captures both respect for Nate’s standup and the dry vibe he gave off here.[reddit]

Minority Positive Take

“Hot take: I actually liked the weirdness of this episode. Not every conversation between comics has to be a laugh factory. Sometimes it’s just two very different brains trying to connect and missing, and that’s its own kind of interesting.”[reddit]

 
 

This represents a smaller but thoughtful subset of viewers who appreciate the episode as an honest, imperfect interaction rather than pure entertainment.[reddit]

6. Audience Engagement Signals

  • Many commenters explicitly say they were excited for this pairing and are now asking for a “do-over” or part 2 where Nate comes in looser and more aligned with TPW’s style.[getpodcast]

  • There is strong support for Theo continuing to bring on high-level comics, but several suggest choosing guests who are more willing to riff and “yes-and” the absurdity.[reddit]

  • Overall “rating vibe” reads like a 6–7/10 for most TPW fans: not unwatchable, but clearly below expectations given the talent in the room, with the primary critique aimed at the chemistry rather than the host or concept.[getpodcast]

  • Engagement is high in terms of comment length and analysis; people are not just saying “mid,” they’re breaking down why it felt off, which is a sign of a deeply invested audience.[reddit]

7. Shownotes Recommendation (Copy-Paste Ready)

  • “Listeners found this Nate Bargatze episode fascinatingly awkward—Theo kept reaching for wild bits while Nate stayed ultra-dry, leading to a tense but memorable watch that fans are already dissecting in the comments.”[getpodcast]

  • “Many are calling for a part 2 where Nate comes back looser and more in sync with TPW’s style, saying there’s still a ‘potential all-timer’ hidden in this pairing.”[reddit]

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Transcript

 
 

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.

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This guy’s a leader in the world of comedy and clean comedy. Um he’s a one of one, I would say. That’s for sure. He has a new film that’s coming out in

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theaters this weekend called The Bread Winner. That’s Friday, May 29th. You can go check it out. He’s building an amusement park, like a real one for

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amusement, right here in Nashville, Tennessee. Uh, I’m thankful to spend time with today’s guest, Mr. Nate Baretti.

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And I will find a [music] song I’ve been singing.

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Yeah, dude. [music] 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?

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Yeah. And you woke up before them. Yeah.

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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.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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I would think the the big, you know, that’s when you’re a kid. Then the biggest opposite is when you’re older

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and then everybody’s up, you know, in uh meet the parents.

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Yeah. That like scene made me laugh so hard when like Ben Steeler comes downstairs and everybody’s been up for

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like a couple hours cuz 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.

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You’re always the guy wandering into the into the world late.

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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.

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Like a meeting in the morning. In the morning. Yes. And you’re like what?

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For what? Like maybe with God. Maybe that’s early. I could see that. Yeah. Yeah.

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You know, or an actual meeting with the son. Like if you got an email from the son, it’s like, “Hey, I’m we’re going to need you there.” Yeah. Like the literal son.

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Yes. Yes. Yes.

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If he was like, “Hey, I’m here.” Yeah. Either son. The sun shows up early though. Yeah. Yeah. The sun.

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The sun shows up early 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.

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Just let me get my bearings a little bit.

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Yeah. 7:30 meetings. They say they have those. I think I want I would want to be that though.

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Oh, so that’s something like it gets a little bit aspirational. Yeah, dude.

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I’ve been and I hate to say this cuz I don’t even want to hear myself say this. Yeah.

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I think Oh god, it hurts even coming down to my neck. Um I think I’m a I think I’m a mourning person.

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You know, I could And you know what I’m saying? I’m sorry to say that.

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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.

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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

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But I think we go opposite. Like it’s uh we want structure. I like not to

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talk about my movie right now, but like I’m saying when I shot the movie and you you just shot a movie, there’s like structure, right? You winner. That’s the movie.

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The bread winner is the movie. Uh but like when you shot your movie, uh it’s you got to be on set at this time and

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this this this is and I loved it cuz I don’t think we have structure as comedians and we don’t come from any of it and we

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go I I remember I wrote for the Spike Video Game Awards like a long time ago and um is Spike is it volleyball? What was it?

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

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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 200 Oh yes, I do remember this.

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Yeah. Yeah. It was like a dude’s channel.

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

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The They had the game show or video game awards I want to say. Oh, Ultimate Fighter started on there.

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The reality show launched the UFC and modern MMA into the mainstream. Interesting. Blue Mountain State.

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What’s that? Blue Mountain State. That was uh that was a show with Reacher. Uh I know his real name, Jack Reacher. I

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look like Jack Reacher right now. And this is what he would wear. Do you I look like Jack Reach around.

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[laughter]

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Yeah. I don’t Well, and my body doesn’t, but this is he wears a shirt like this.

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Alan Richardson. I know. Al like Oh, dude. Yeah. Somebody always talks to me about him.

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Yeah. So, he was started out in Blue Mountain State, which is on Spike TV.

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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.

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Bar rescue. A thousand ways to die. No thing. I’ll take one way.

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Yeah, but you would want to know the other.

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I don’t need to know a thou at a thousand. You’re just get you you’ll stay alive forever just looking through all of them.

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That is but that’s maybe that’s a reverse psychology. Maybe that’s the plan. Yeah, you can see I mean because it’s going to be a spider

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bite. It’s going to be you step on a nail in an artery. I don’t know if you are you on VA.

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Yeah. If you fall off a building and land like one of your arteries lands on like a little nail or something.

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Yeah, there’s a lot of Yeah. Anyway, there’s a lot of ways.

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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

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channel, especially like hidden age demographic. You know, this is on dude Entourage. We were just I was just talking about Entourage. Entourage was

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on during this time like so it was Oh, on television not the same channel.

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Yeah. I didn’t know that Alan Richen even just to think that that’s like that Blue Mountain State was there that the UFC kind of like sort of became

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mainstream by going on a spike TV and getting like eyeballs that way. He was like we’ll take whatever you got.

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I didn’t understand that. Look up once more. Spike TV was this Mountain Dew can. It was what? Everything it represents.

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Oh yeah. American just American American do with Spike TV.

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Yeah. Thousand ways to die. UFC just shotgunning

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[clears throat]

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Mountain Dew.

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Blue Mountain State. Yeah, it was all of it, man.

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Um, what what were you what were we talking about? So we talking about Spike TV. You see you went into Spike TV.

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Uh, the struct like having structure with the movie.

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Oh, the movie. You got to be Yeah. Like I do I’m not a person that has any structure.

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Oh yeah. And comedians aren’t in general. So when you’re on set, you were saying like, “Yeah, you get this further.” Oh, it’s great. And they tell you to even comedians I noticed uh they

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told and I don’t know if they did this on Brewood, but they told me we told I lied to myself, but that uh to be like

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they would set the call time 45 minutes really. It was later because they knew I was going to be a little bit late.

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Oh yeah. Uh yeah. I don’t know if we I think that’s I think that people have done that to me. Yeah. Yep. To get you there.

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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 I’ll get to. But if it if it’s not, you can sometimes it’s like Yeah.

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It just there’s a lot of stuff. It’s I think it’s hard being your own when you’re your own boss.

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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

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yes and then you realize there is no one to say no or yes.

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Yeah. It’s just you. Yeah. It’s just you.

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Yeah. I real I realize that I work for myself and I’m not the best employee I realize. Mhm. I could Yeah, that makes sense.

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Like it’s Yeah. You you could you don’t live up to maybe what you’re doing but you know then but if someone sees what you’re doing they’re like you’re doing everything

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right. So then they’re like, “You’re doing great.” And you’re just gonna beat up yourself.

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Uh Oh. Yeah.

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Because you think like, “I should be doing more.” I mean, I think about like that, you know, I should be Oh, yeah. When you’re working structure, I have no structure. Yeah.

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Athletes have structure. They have like routines. Yeah. Yeah. There’s no like comedy. There’s not like a bell that goes off early in the morning where it’s

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like comedians grab your pens and start your writing. And we, like you said, if [clears throat] you’re a morning person, you think that goes

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against everything that you’re supposed to be because your shows are at night.

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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.

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Yeah.

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

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Oh. To adhere to an alarm clock. That’s Oh, yeah. That’s a fantasy of mine.

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Yeah. Yeah. Not a lot of alarm clock, you know. You don’t set alarm clocks because it just doesn’t Dude, I would set my alarm clock and then hide my phone in between the

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mattresses on the other side of the bed that I slept on. Yeah.

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So like over there and I would never even hear it cuz it’s quiet cuz it’s under the mattress. It’s quiet.

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It didn’t stand a chance. So I wanted structure but I was just not willing to adhere to it. Yes. [clears throat] I’m like I work for myself and I’m the worst employee. I would I would go smoke

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behind the dumpsters like I was hiding from myself. Like what are we even doing?

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

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I had an old joke and unfortunately it’s you every time. That’s the problem. You had an old show. What?

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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.

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[snorts]

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So you like can’t call Seinfeld and be like, “Hey, I’m out.” [laughter] Like there’s no one. No one cares if you quit. No one. Yeah.

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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.

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Because then everybody’s like, “Where 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 are you quit? And

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you’re like, now you’re quitting to millions of people. Yeah.

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And you’re like, no, I just wanted to Yeah. kind of slowly fade. Yeah.

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Daniel D. Lewis, I always think, is an act like you don’t know anything about that guy.

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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.

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Yeah, I don’t know what he does either.

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And 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.

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Yeah.

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Um but yeah, no idea. Comes out, gets his thing. Boy in the uh Left Foot, Red Foot fan.

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My Left Foot. My Left Foot, dude.

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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 Does it have anything to do with his feet? Yeah.

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Oh, really? It does.

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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.

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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

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fall in love, I guess, with just only his other foot.

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He has to fall in love with someone else with only his other foot to be able to like hand them a flower.

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His left foot is like it’s like it’s necessary. It’s a big deal.

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Yes. Let’s see it. No one expects much from Christy Brown. Daniel D. Lewis, a boy with cerebral pausy. Born into a working-class Irish family. Okay.

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No train.

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Little different. Uh that’s a train.

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With the help of his steely mother and no shortage of grit and determination, Christy overcomes his in infirmity to become a painter, poet, and author. Oh, is it like a true story?

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Though Christy is a [ __ ] quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when at the age of five, he demonstrates control of his left foot by

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using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor.

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Oh yeah, I remember this now. Different movie than I was thinking, but still a great movie. You Yeah, the train.

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Yeah, I was thinking of fried green tomatoes. That’s what I was thinking of.

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I just realized that that has a train in it. Yeah.

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Oh, a little crossover. Yeah. Um, that’s but that’s a good you know the only train movie I can think of is that one Denzel Washington.

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Oh, it’s good. Training day.

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[laughter]

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I don’t think it’s Training Day. There’s one where he Yeah, there is an actual Oh, is it not Training Day?

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But there’s one that there is a Unstoppable. Oh, I haven’t seen that. It’s great.

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That’s kind of where I’m at. I haven’t seen my left foot, but I’ve seen uh No, Pelican 123. Maybe that’s it. Oh, Pella.

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Yeah. Yeah. Is that got a train? I think there’s a train in that.

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And was there a movie called Training Day? There is. Is Washington in it?

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Nothing to do with a train, but that was D. Yeah, that’s Eagle won an Oscar for that. Oh, okay.

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Or maybe maybe we shouldn’t go to the theater, I don’t think. But uh but you have This was good.

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You have a new movie. You have your movie’s coming out. Yeah. No trains. May 29th. May 29th. Yes. Bread winner. Bread winner. And it’s in theaters.

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

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

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So, yeah. Yeah. Just cuz we want the whole family to come out. It’s interesting with movies, man. You start looking at like theaters like, you know,

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you guys make your in distribution all this like, you know, think about touring like there. It’s hard not to think about movies and touring is kind of like the

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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

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like, did you hear about that kid on uh YouTube? He did a horror movie and he’s got a bunch of subscribers on YouTube

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and he’s he’s a big horror fan, I think, and they made a movie. He made a movie and I mean it was, you know, it was

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going to go out to a few theaters. Then his fans just started calling their theaters being like, “No, we wanted to come.” And it was like a huge success.

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And he made it for I want to say three million. And then uh yeah uh iron is it?

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Yeah. It’s like something iron. No iron something. It was iron something.

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And then Iron Lung. Yeah. Was that it?

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Yeah. Grossed over 50 million. I think he made it for three. Wow.

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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.

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Mhm. That was in guys named Markiplier.

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And what does it say? Can you take me into the the what happened with the movie?

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

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The Iron Lung movie was independently self- financed and created by YouTuber Mark Fishbach. Markiplier, who wrote, directed, produced, edited, and starred in it, operating without a major studio.

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He shot the film over 35 days using a life-siz 9,000lb submarine set mounted on a hydraulic motion rig. Wow. After struggling to find traditional Hollywood

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distribution, he self-distributed the film. Massive fan campaigns convince major theater chains uh to screen it.

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The indie film became a massive box office hit grossing 50 million made on a $4 million budget. Wow.

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So he had his fans all call I mean they once he said he wanted to go out he was in a few theaters and his fans kept calling their theaters and their towns

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and they said they want to see it and then he went out and said it. $4 million budget. That’s amazing. That’s incredible, dude.

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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

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these towns, right?

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And so if you got a big following like that that tours and you go make a movie.

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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.

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So it’ be magic if can he go do it again or can he repeat it? And yeah it’s interesting. I mean, even with our own movie, I don’t know what we sold

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compared to like if I were touring in a place as opposed to people that came out to go to the theaters.

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Um, I know, 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

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been to the movie theater in 8 years.” Yeah.

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10 years, right? 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

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movie theater, nobody else was in the theater, right?

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He ends up watching uh what was this dude’s name? I got to find it. We’ll put it in. He ends up just taking his shirt off and sitting there and watching the

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movie by himself relaxing. He was the only guy in there. [laughter] Watch the whole thing by himself. This dude, I think it’s like it was this guy. It’s like this like

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Latino guy. He’s at work and he’s like, “Bro, I’m [ __ ] tired, but I want to go see this movie. I don’t know.” And then you see him walk in.

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He’s like, “Nobody’s even here.” And so then like 10 minutes later, he’s like, “I guess I’ll just enjoy myself.” And I don’t know what happened after that. I

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mean, he just We know he had the shirt off and watched it.

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Um, oh yeah, this is him right here, dude. This is the guy. Can you pull it up? Yeah, I just got off of work.

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I got thising movie I’m trying to go watch.

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[snorts]

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Dude, I don’t feel like doing [ __ ] to be honest.

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Look, I still made it in this. But look, check it out. Ain’t nobody in this

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[ __ ] bro. [laughter]

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the mother to myself cuz [music] every tune you purchaseion makes buying windows easy.

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He just took it home.

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And he had to set the phone up somewhere and do this. That’s kind of a vibe though, dude.

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That’s him right there. Golden cheeseburger right there. Golden cheeseburger. Shout out him being a hard worker. Went to catch.

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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 their shirt off. Yeah, I’m a I’m a not I don’t want to take my

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shirt off, but I mean if someone wants to, buddy, they want to. Oh, we know a guy. Yeah. Yeah, we do. Yeah, we know [laughter] a guy.

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Yeah. Sometimes I wish we had tried to go in more theaters, but going to uh But yeah, taking your shirt off, but going what?

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Going to the theater alone, man. That like it’s pretty great. That’s something you do a lot as a comic on the road.

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You can hit some, you know, you go to some movie at noon. Yeah. And you’re just by yourself on there.

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Oh, yeah. Have you ever had someone come sit right next to you? I’ve been by I’ve been like by myself or like maybe one other comic and then two more people

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walk in. They sit in the seats in front of us.

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Oh, drives me nuts. And what do you do? I’ll move. Yeah.

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Cuz I or I sit there and just be angry during the whole movie. Yeah. Cuz why would you do that? Oh, dude. Yeah.

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Why would you sit right, you know? Just go sit. It’s empty. just go sit like somewhere somewhere else up.

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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.

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

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Well, of course, near someone in a dark theater that you don’t know. That’s Yeah. Yeah.

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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.

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You have that empty seat. And Thank you.

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Yeah. When we went to Kevin James movie, you and I sat next to each other and we kept a seat between us. We kept a seat between us. Like civilized people.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We were normal. Yeah. And we enjoyed the movie more. Oh, yeah. It was good, dude. Yeah.

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Like Beetlejuice. You ever been to You ever see that guy? Beetlejuice. Mhm. From Stern.

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We called him up. We offered him money to come on this podcast one time and he said no.

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This is what he said. This is the crazy part. He’s like, “Where you going to where you going to leave the money at?

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And I couldn’t like Yeah.

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And he he And just from there it was like Oh, it was downhill. Yeah.

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It was so hard. He’s like, “Yeah, where you going to put the money at?” Yeah.

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And I was like, “Oh.” And I couldn’t explain to him like at the bank or whatever. Yeah. We’re going to send you a check. Yeah. Unreal.

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But yeah, I think it’s different getting people to go to theaters. Uh it’s it’s just it’s kind of a throwback.

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Yeah, I but I think you’re heading more towards that kind of stuff with experience. I mean, you’re seeing people get you’re seeing a lot of things Netflix house. You’re seeing a lot of

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things where they want to experience Netflix house, you’re saying? What does that mean?

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Yeah, Netflix is doing a they they’re starting to build these Netflix houses which are like movie theaters.

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Uh no, it’s it’s like they 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

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Netflix shows and you get to interact with it in some way.

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

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No, no, I don’t you’re not watching them. You’re just like a Squid Game.

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They have like a Squid Game thing you can go through and then so so you go in and you just spend the night or day and you just get

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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

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believe I believe live experiences are going to go that’s where that’s where it’s at. That’s why I think standup

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comics are in a in a terrific spot because you’re you can’t AI a live performance, right?

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And you I mean I’m you can do hologram and that kind of stuff, but yeah, we’re the only place I mean what else even outside of stand up comedy.

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Where else are people even outside of like pastors at churches? I’m trying to think or reverends or

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preachers or 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.

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But I’m trying to think of where else is there like well I guess but 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

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know some folk music like that. you you’re going to have to have stuff like that where you’re like straight up, you know, there’s nothing added into it and

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there’s nothing or it’s going to be a very big spectacular uh spectacle show.

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You’re going to have to go either super big or you’re going to have to be I think like standup where it’s just you, me, we’re talking to a crowd and there’s nothing in the middle.

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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.

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There’s not that, you know what I’m saying? like that’s not refined or it’s not overly produced or it’s the most authentic. That’s why I mean I hope young entertainers I hope

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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

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to be uh the only place you know essentially where you could maybe be actually hearing a real person. The

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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

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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.

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I want to want the truth. I want I want humanity like that I could touch that person and I want what they really believe. I

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feel like like with humor, I think at the base of a lot of our humor, I think a lot of it, I mean, some you’re joking around, but some of your true laurels are in there. Like, these are

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some of my, you know, like some we all have a backbone of stuff that’s in there.

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Yeah. Who you are like Yeah. I mean, I think unless you’re like a oneliner guy or something, right? Then that’s that’s hard to really know.

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It’s But yeah, but who Yeah. Who you are is going to be kind of, you know, somewhat in there. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Cuz 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.

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I’m not putting us in some special space or anything. I’m just saying, oh, here you go.

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Teachers or professors, but I mean e 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

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tickling you, that’s when you have to tell the truth. Think about that.

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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?

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It’s impossible. It’s impossible. Impossible. Yeah, maybe I’ll be up there.

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It’s impossible. That’s why when I see all this water boarding and torture or whatever and all this horrible stuff they’re doing to people sometimes, I’m like, dude, tickle put Yeah. Get in there.

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Unleash them, too. Get under their arm. I don’t know.

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Unleash them craw dads on somebody and you’ll get it. Grab your grab your thigh right there.

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Oh. Oh, dude. Bro, where were you? This is RJFK. Where were you? People, you always knew you could get tickled like this, right? You knew that, right? And

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even if there’s a chubby kid and you grab that little donut around his midsection, just shake the freaking truth out of his little thick ass or whatever. Sorry. And we’ll edit that.

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But when somebody did that to you, how shocked were I didn’t know that when somebody did that?

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Yeah. I remember like uh I used to do it to my daughter, too. like you’d grab their leg there and then just be like, “Well, don’t smile.

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Don’t smile. Don’t let you know.” And then Yeah. Yeah. That’s right. Tickling.

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Maybe it’s going to be a big u It’ll come back, you know. But you need ticklers.

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So then you get Where are you going to do that in a safe?

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We’ll probably get governmentisssued ticklers and those people are going to be Yeah. It’s We’ve already They’re not going to try. It’s [laughter] going to be Yeah. They’re not going to be try.

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you’re gonna 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.”

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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, “Oh, bro,

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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. I’m like

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a um liaison to the city and they segue around the town sometimes. But dude, sometimes those people like one time we

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were trying to get her 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.

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And then another time the guy’s his got stuck or whatever like in a right-hand pattern or whatever. He kept he he called it right-hand pattern. He’s like it’s in a right-hand pattern and he’s

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just sitting there just glitching like in a circle like just going in circles.

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Yes. And we’re trying to like you know we’re just trying to ask where’s the monument?

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Yeah. Yeah, dude. It’s just like, dude, we’re talking about Paul Rivere and he just kept dodging us.

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Yeah. Where’s Daniel Boone’s house? And it’s just And he’s Yeah, dude. We’re like, look, dude, we

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we heard Harriet Tubman ate ice cream around here. Can you just just tell me? Yes. Heard Davy Crockett.

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Yeah, we heard Davy Crockett and Betty Crock are actually hooked up around here one time. They were around the same time. Were they? I don’t know. They had to have met up.

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They had to have met up. I bet they would at least known about each other. Oh, yeah.

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Yeah. Davy Crockett was talked about a lot growing up.

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He was way more than it is now. It was a big deal when I grew up.

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Yeah. Now it’s like Travis Scott or whatever.

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Yeah, it is. And and Davy Crockett is a good name. I thought Davy Crockett out.

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Here’s what I would feel. And I’m going off nothing, but Davy Crockett was when I was growing up was the guy.

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And I think Daniel Boone came in and started a little overshadowing Dave.

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I remember Davy Crockett because he had the paraphernalia. He had the hat. And I think he I I don’t know if he had a pistol or if he had a

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I Yeah, I feel like he had a gun like a one of those old school guns like a six shooter or something.

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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

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are unrelated except for the shared last name which isn’t even the same last name. Yeah.

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You want to take us through Davy Crockett there, Nate?

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Yeah. D David Crockett was a real 19th century American frontiersman and politician. Well, Betty Crocker was created in 1921 and is not a real person.

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So, that’s tough. But they were around.

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Uh, so she was a catfish basically, which she probably Yeah. Oh, yeah. That’s maybe the original catfish. Betty Crocker. Yeah.

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Um he kept going, “What’s up with this Betty? Where’s this Betty Crocker at?” They go, “She just left.” Yeah, dude.

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Yeah. Oh, she was just here. Um, can you get me information just about Davy Crockett, please?

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Did him and Daniel Boone know each other?

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

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County. He he he opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson, where I’m from, Old Hickory, which is named after Andrew Jackson.

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So, he was elected uh to Congress. I didn’t even know he was a congressman.

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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.

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Uh Crockett became famous during his lifetime for larger than-l life exploits popularized by stage plays and almanacs.

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After his death, he continued to be credited with acts of mythical proportion.

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Um, and then what about uh let’s go Daniel Boone. When did he li when did he slide in there and steal his shine?

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Daniel Boone born in 1734 while Davy Croc was born in 1786, 52 years apart.

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So Boon was already an aging frontier legend. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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

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They did. And then we heard about Crockett. Yep.

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And then maybe the truth has come out that it’s like, look, we need to go pretty heavy on Boone cuz he was the originator.

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Yeah. Once that big big business starts push pushing Boon. Um I like when they’re like it’s like he was born around November 2nd. Like

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you’re they go weren’t keeping stuff back then, dude. They go in the general area. Yeah.

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Yeah. Like and then if he was like I was born in January and you’re like well that’s around that counts. Yeah, that counts.

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Yeah, dude. He showed up in the springtime. Um, he grew up in a Quaker farming family. He became famous for his woodcrafts, hunting, and long range

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exploration deep into what was in the western frontier of British America. Huh. Pretty cool, man. Everybody was kind of an explorer.

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Yes.

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You know, cuz 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.

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Every step I took was a brand new step.

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Oh yeah. You were just Yeah. You were just like a Mellin. Anybody Dude, if you got a pair of running shoes, you were a mellin. Oh yeah.

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You were Christopher Columbus. Imagine when those You had hocas [clears throat] back then. I mean, come on. Dude, you would be above Daniel Boone.

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You were sponsored by the Spanish at that point. [laughter] You know what I’m saying? Like he came up that way, dude. That’s the way he came up. And they were like, “We didn’t see that coming.” Yeah.

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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.

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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

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not knowing where everything was being an explorer. Gosh, you think you you you think you could have been an explorer?

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I I mean, I don’t think you have a choice. I think you’re just it. But it’s Yeah, I think I could. I like exploring.

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I I would like to go find some, you know, trying to really see like what’s the path, the best way to go. That’s what’s hard is there’s not much left exploring. You know, you see like those

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untouched tribes they talked about and you’re like, I don’t even know if those some of that’s real or not. It looks fake. A lot of that’s fake.

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Yeah. Yeah. And so there’s I know in Alaska because they talk about Bigfoot and like in Alaska there’s like so much

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land and stuff like and with woods and like you go up to Washington it’s like got the most trees.

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Yeah. People don’t even Yeah.

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It’s you can’t there’s so much people hide and go see for two years. Yeah.

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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.

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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.

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Those are would be Yeah, Bigfoot’s going to get seen.

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Oh, dude. In Atlanta, Bigfoot’s going to be at the club probably.

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Yeah, at the club for sure, dude.

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Yeah, people would have him feature on their albums in Atlanta.

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Yeah. Oh, yeah. Just Yeah. Come up and talk.

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Yeah. Hey, you don’t think Ludicrous is going to have Bigfoot pull up?

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Yeah. Why would you not? You have access to him. [laughter] Yeah.

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And you probably don’t got to pay him. He probably food. I don’t even know.

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For sure. Clean salmon. I’m thinking also. [snorts] Yeah.

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Clean salmon. You just give him that drops.

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But they’re going to push that narrative on him that he’s like a person of color, too.

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Yeah, that would be like he has to show up and he has to do B. He has to like uh collab on a track or show up.

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He has to go to stuff. He Yeah. He’s like, you know, we need you, bro. We need you at Diamonds or whatever that place is.

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Nipple Diamonds or whatever that whatever that exotic club there is, I think.

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Oh, yeah. One of them got in everybody got in trouble at all of them did. Yeah. A lot of them.

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Yeah. Well, they found glyphosate there on some of the women.

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I’m always crazy how open they are about talking about that. the NBA, they there’s they talk about going to

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those clubs and there’s no like, you know, you feel like there’s someone that’s like, “Hey, let’s not

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let’s keep it a little quiet,” right? Like a lot everything else 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

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Irving with his, you know, don’t express yourself.” But if it comes to clubbery, like strip club,

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yum. go all out or throwing tens of thousands of dollars on the back of somebody.

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Yeah. Then please then say it. Say it all. Then Yeah. Then share it.

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Magic City. That’s the one they just got in trouble about. Oh, did it?

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Yeah. Cuz the Hawks used Magic City Night, which is the where they would go.

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And this is similar, I guess. Magic City Night. Is it Is that similar to the Nate raid at all or No, this two different things.

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It’s It’s along the lines. [laughter] It’s what we were going for originally.

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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?

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And then also secondarily, do you know how many theaters you guys are opening up in? Uh 3 I think 3,000. Oh wow. Really?

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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 dude, it’s like

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meeting uh, you know, we’ve met like uh, you know, AMC that head of Regal, Cinemark, Cinniplex, like you just kind

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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

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you kind of take stuff out of like you know the hands of Hollywood in a sense once

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you’re in this ticket selling business like that’s all that’s my relationship with the audience is I you buy a ticket

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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

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theaters. We want I want them to come see the movie I made. And so then you’re I think you just there’s ways around it.

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And now we’re in such a new world where you’re, you know, you start meeting people and like everybody just wants

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their businesses to grow. And I think everybody took it for granted for such a long time cuz it was that’s just what it was, you know, like growing up like

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growing up was, you know, growing up you just went to the movie theaters. You couldn’t do there was no streaming.

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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

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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

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they just want to go somewhere and they want to go do stuff and so then it’s like I there’s a chance I think it will flip back

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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.

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I always just someone’s like, “Oh.” I’m like, “It’d be wonderful it broke.” Mhm.

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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 times. See what happens. See what happens.

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And I’ll even make that sound like and be let down.

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Yes. And be like, “Oh, that it’s You go, I thought this city had crime and I was wrong.” [laughter]

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[clears throat]

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I’ll even do that when I drop it. Point at it. Yeah. But yeah, dude.

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Leave it way out of your pocket. back pocket. Oh, when my phone goes off, dude.

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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

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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.

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Yeah. Especially after something so sad happening as an adult. Oh, but then you’re you get past that.

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But then no, then your phone doesn’t work and you’re like, “Man, what a day.” Yeah.

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I leave my phones like on the road. I But I’ll have like an you know, you have an Apple Watch. Uh watch like you have

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an Apple Watch, you can have Apple Watch with cellular. Yes.

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So you can leave your phone and then like, you know, it’s like one of those like all right, if someone needed to call me, it’s like you can throw AirPods

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in or you can be like, “Hey, I got to 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

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because they can’t do too much with an Apple Watch, but you could you could get a hold of them.

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My kid Yeah. My kid will 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.

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Yeah, that’s a start. Is a good diet and then like light threat. Yeah.

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And then we’ll go from there to see what else they get if they’re well behaved.

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But um Oliver Anthony just did something. Can you bring that up? What he was trying to do with ticketing? And congrats, man, on your on your movie.

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Yeah. Ours just we we only got 500 theaters. Um I wish we’d have gone bigger and I wish we’d had gone to more rural theaters. I think we tried to do like too much just city stuff.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Um but anyway, but I mean like movies are go back and forth too. Like streaming is I I I kind

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of think of streaming sometimes as like it’s like block B blockbuster in a sense. Mhm.

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It’s like where your stuff can go live and people can go watch that forever.

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I mean, Bert’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.

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Well, I think and and also, man, sorry to I kind of made that about me there and our movie for a second. I want to apologize about that. No, I’ll talk about your movie.

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No, congratulations. So, it’s going to be opening May 29th. That’s this Friday. Yeah.

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And it’s in theaters. It’s going to be in 3,000 theaters, which means almost everywhere. Yeah.

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That’s a lot of places. Yeah. That’s wonderful, dude. It’s exciting. Um, also just there’s a chance it’s four theaters

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if for some reason it’s not 3,000. I think it’s 3,000, but it would be funny. It’s 4,000. You mean?

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No. No. I think 4,000 is the max. I think we’re at three. I’m just saying if we go back and, you know, it’s in a 100

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theaters and they go, it could be that, too. Got it.

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

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I could really use your suggestions and your advice. I am looking for venues to play. Um, you know, I’ve started booking my own shows again. So, in April, we did

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those Virginiaas, um, where I just rented the room outright and I sold my own tickets through this West Virginia ticket company. And it was sweet. It was

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like it bypassed the whole system. Um, and it actually worked and it went over pretty well. And so, I just announced again for the June 1st through the 3rd,

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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

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good and bad, but if you have places that you like going to see music that can hold at least I don’t know.

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So he was trying I guess some ticketing I guess ticketing maybe through the exact venues I think cuz that’s a big thing for people and Oliver has always

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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 Ticket Master and Live Nation just that

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have these conglomerates you know it’s a lot. I mean the ticket master fees are crazy.

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They’re crazy. Here’s the like, you know, they’re crazy.

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No, no, they’re they’re insane. I I I I agree. But here’s the thing with like how much work that was for him to do

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four or five shows, right? That’s a lot of work.

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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?

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And so, you’re going to have to have people that are going to be able to help you to go do that. You can go do that, but you have to build a system or otherwise you’re not going to be able to

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uh tour like the way you want to. If if everybody wants to go see him, he’s wonderful and all this and it’s it’s it’s

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you know, it’s a lot. It’s a lot of work. Remember Louis Lou did do it. He did it he did it for a while. I think he did it a long time ago. You buy

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tickets through his website and stuff like that. There’s many ways that you can go try to do it. And I look a hard

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part of this too is that some people are like I’ll just just let me go to ticket master dude. I don’t you know like it’s

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or 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.

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

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the I believe in the thing that you’re doing, it’s uh it’s just so much work

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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

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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

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I think he just loves having that relationship with the people with the audience with the people which is which is uh amazing. Uh and so it’s like you you should do that but then

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there’s a mix you’re the thing you you know it’s you remember doing like comedy clubs when you you go try to do a rock like for me I would go try to do a rock venue

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uh instead of a comedy club and then you go to the odd the people that would come out to me they don’t know where this rock venue is at so they’ve never heard of this rock venue they just know where the comedy

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club is. Right. Now you’re delivering Yeah. Under Yeah. Under 100 people show up under a bench somewhere. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

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Oh, you just got word it’s 3,300 theaters there. Um Yeah, I think so. But yeah, they charge all this stuff. Ticket

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Master does all this stuff. They I It’s It’s one of those It’s a mafia.

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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

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like people are busy. You got to How many people can you get that are going to go follow you everywhere?

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I agree. When you when you make it like Yeah.

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You know, and sometimes when you give stuff, you ever noticed like I waited tables and so I used to always think uh Applebees right over here, Thompson.

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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?

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Applebee’s Thompson Lane. Uh, so, oh my god, I don’t know where Tom Thompson is, but you know.

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

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The day Daniel Boone was born around about round about November 2nd. Yeah. In the spring.

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In the spring. [laughter] Uh, yeah. So, and you met her there and how did you meet her? Was she working there?

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She was a waitress and I was the host. You were a male host. A male host.

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And you’ve been a host anyway. Host your whole life. Yeah, I’ve been a host my whole life.

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And so, but I was Yeah. Mel host, you know, shout out to all the I was easy, you know, when he came in, you know, you

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just I was an easy like, hey, you know, wasn’t aggressive. No. Yeah.

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Yeah. Like, hey.

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Yeah. Hey, what do you want to do? Where do you want to go?

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You could talk me into where you want to sit easily. Huh? Easily. Easily. Can we sit over by the window?

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. That section’s wide open. Can I go over there? Of course, we can walk over there.

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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. Mhm.

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That always made me nervous. I thought something had happened to all the babies.

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Yeah, that’s where they kept like, “What’s wrong with this restaurant that you go? We’ve had some baby problems here.” Yeah, that’s what I thought.

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Yeah. And that’s where they were they upside down. Yeah. Sometimes. Sometimes they were. Oh. Oh, man.

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When I see that, I still think of that.

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And sometimes they’d be stacked on each other or something, you know?

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Yeah. The old wood baby seats. They have that anymore, dude. Sometimes they would have a baby’s head chiseled his name in the wood. Oh, yeah.

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You know, they came a lot.

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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.

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Yeah. Sometimes you it’d be like an unhappy baby. They would say like Brooks was here just chiseled in there. Yeah.

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Like it’s a lot.

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Waiting tables back to my theory is uh you know you you would always think like to get a bigger tip I would

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like try to hook you’d be like I didn’t charge you for the Coke.

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Mhm. [clears throat] I didn’t you know there’s no charge for And you thought I thought like me hooking you up would mean a higher tip

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[clears throat]

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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

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kind of how stuff works where in a weird we all because in my head you’re like, “Yo, dude, I’m like, you know, I’ I’ve

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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 three $4 I

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just saved you and then I’ll get you what you I don’t know like some random You’re doing these little things that

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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

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much stuff that was worth and what do I do here? Yeah.

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And because you they just want to eat and like just charge me they want a bread stick and they want to meet a woman. Yeah. Yeah. You know.

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Yeah. Like Olive Garden where they give you free bread, you know. It’s like you tip extra. No. Like I don’t think you tip you don’t you don’t wrap that in.

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That’s a big thing. They give you free Don’t they give you free bread sticks and maybe salad or something?

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I think there’s soup even. Maybe unlimited pasta, something like it’s like aggressive.

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If you just run in there, they’ll give you a half a handful of soup. Yeah. Yeah. For nothing.

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Yeah. For nothing, dude. 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.

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Yeah. You get complimentary bread sticks. Yeah.

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But I wonder if they make you feel the guilty asking for them.

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

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You ever go to O Charlie’s back in the day when they Do you know peanut shells on the floor?

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No. No. O Charlie’s was a different restaurant, but they had these great rolls and I mean the rolls were Oh, Charlie’s has great They have rolls now.

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They did something to them. They’re not as good as they were. I think they had sugar in them before. And so it was almost like a crispy cream donut, but it was unbelievable. And they’d get free

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rolls and you would set them down on the table and then everybody would be like, “Go ahead and bring another round.” And you and they you’d have five of them.

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Yeah, dude. It would they were the best rolls in the world. and and everybody would go in and you’re just you’re really there for the roles

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and you know and then you would feel embarrassed to be like, you know, they bring you a basket of five and you’re like before you turn around these are

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gone, so go ahead and send another one out. And I think they had a pace they had a pacing problem.

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They had to be like, “Yeah, we can’t drag it out.” Yeah. People were coming and looking in the kitchen and stuff.

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Yeah. At the Yeah, cuz they I mean they were the best. People were texting the plug or whatever. Here’s a solid copycat for Charlie’s original rolls. Uh, warm

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whole milk, a six a cup of sugar, uh, dry yeast, a beaten egg, butter, purpose flour, salt. Thank you for Oh, yeah. Nice.

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Huh. Yeah. Maybe had a little bit of sugar in it. Oh, dude. I’m Maybe they didn’t have Maybe I mean, I don’t know. It might have been all that stuff.

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It could have been the yeast. I don’t know. Some yeast has a lot of It can be good.

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

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Yeah. And if you’re making anything for your family tonight, throw a little sugar. Don’t throw a little sugar.

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I do. Ain’t going to do pasta sauce. I don’t No. Oh, that says six cup of sugar. It doesn’t Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sorry. I didn’t hear that. No, no worries, man.

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Yeah. See, 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.

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They might have been wet yeast.

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Oh, that’s the worst when it’s real yeast you just put in your mouth and it like just grows in your mouth or whatever. Like pop rocks or whatever.

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Like pop rock bread or whatever.

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One thing about making the movie you didn’t expect, man, because this is your first movie. You made it. You wrote it with Dan Lagana. Is that right? Yeah. Who’s a friend of mine? Great guy. Yeah. Yeah. Great guy.

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I mean, let’s just say he’s great. He’s great. He’s great. Um, did you also direct it? No. No. Erica Pel. He did Eric Capel. Ericel.

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He did uh the um Weird Al Yanovich movie and so it’s a seen that Yeah. It’s a

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great movie. And then so he did that and then we had Jeremy Latchin was a producer and uh Sony Tristar. It was a

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full-on like big you know we did it in Atlanta Trilith which is right outside of uh Trill Trilith. Trilla.

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So the owner of Chick-fil-A, Dan Kathy, he own that’s where they used to shoot all the Marvel movies. And so they have all these studios and then across uh

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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.

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Would you see other actors and stuff during the day when you’re like that were working on different projects?

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Yeah. Uh like whom did you see? Do you mind? Cuz this is You saw Jal White. Jal White? No way.

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Yeah. Yeah. And so he was he was shooting a game show. You would see a lot of uh And what was he doing? Hooping or playing dice or whatever? What was he doing when you saw him?

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No, he was at he was just at a restaurant. There’s a restaurant there.

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

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

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No, no, it’s it’s like a I mean, some people have houses there, then you rent them out to people that come. I mean, because when you were, you know, when they’re shooting these Marvel stuff, I

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mean, you’d have to have like, you know, Chris Pratt or Robert, you know, I mean, you can go live not in that town, too.

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But you, but like it it’s right across from the studio, so you can just run over there, but they have like ice cream shop.

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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 Puccini is like checking his mail

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or whatever, you know, [laughter] it’s like Yeah. That would be the weird part for me, dude. Yeah.

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Trilith Town for Marvel Studios in Georgia could be the future of cities.

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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

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all they did a bunch of Marvel movies. I I bet this is an old article cuz uh it’s not I think stuff’s coming back, but now Marvel’s all in London.

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Okay, got it. But it was uh yeah, this is an old 2022, but it was Yeah, it’s like so they built those towns for like a lot of the

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workers, like the idea of the the union guys to be able to go live there and like be able to come sit there and work and That’s wild.

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Uh but they did Yeah. Everything. They did everything there.

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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

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Town. Um, the four-year-old residential portion of Trilith was modeled after the building styles and village feel of European cities.

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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

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compact with varied build with varied building types and less emphasis on cars. Oh, that’s pretty cool. And each and they would have different streets

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would be like uh I think it says European and British style designs while other spots are more modern facads.

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What is it? Faucets. No, facads. Facad.

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

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Oh, you could shoot on the neighborhood.

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Yeah. you could do 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.

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Uh and this is on Perplexity uh AI.

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Thank you, Perplexity. Um, according to the article, the town’s amenities are geared toward a walkable, self-contained

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lifestyle, retail, restaurants, a boutique hotel, co-working space, performing arts center, wellness center,

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and an innovative micro school. It also has lots of green space, communal parks, and geothermal smart home design

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features. Wow. Yeah, it’s it’s a great idea in the fact that if you were trying to

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which they did. So, you’re trying you’re creating this studio and you want the thing is is like it was uh

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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 they shoot a lot of stuff over there now.

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They want to shoot everything there.

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There there was that uh Rob Low 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

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out to Ireland than it was to cheaper than film in LA.

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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

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like in Atlanta and I think we would have shot it in Canada or something but I was fortunately able to be like well I just

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wouldn’t make a movie I like I’m not just too far away. you. Well, it’s like, yeah, man, I’m touring and when you’re able to the the the great thing for any

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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

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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

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you have like full control, blah blah, whatever. But it’s like you can you can say no. Yes.

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Get the power of no. So you can be like it’s like hey we got to go make this move in Canada because it’s cheaper.

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Then it’s like then I’ll just uh either try to make it on my own or I’ll figure it out or find something else or I’m touring so you’re like whatever.

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Yeah.

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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.

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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

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could have probably, but then it was we needed to get it made and they have everything more infrastructure there for making stuff.

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The thing about Tennessee is we don’t have as the you need the uh like an A and B team of workers. So like if you’re

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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

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working on or the second movie and you’re kind of able to flip-flop movie or different scenes like a different movie or whatever. No, I mean a different a whole different

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movie. You got to have multiple production crews. Oh.

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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.

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Oh, I see what you’re saying. So they would have like as long as you’re you have a lot of crew in town, right? You book not have that. We don’t

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have We have crew here. We don’t have enough to handle uh high demand of movies. Got it.

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Like, you know, you got like they’re doing that rescue 911 or Nashville 911 or whatever it is uh here. Well, that’s the that’s a great crew that’s there,

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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 We just don’t have the infrastructure.

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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

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committed and doing it. Yeah. Uh things have to happen. There needs to be tax incentives, all that type of stuff.

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But Atlanta has a ton of that. Even for the example that neighborhood, it’s like they have a neighborhood built where people can stay across the street that from the studios where they can all

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be right there. You know, 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 still wasn’t low enough.

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So then they still go out Oh, yeah.

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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 what?

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And you’re like, well then you got to stop making movies.

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Well, how much did you guys cost to make? You said I think ours was like 38 million. Are you serious?

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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it’s a it’s a big studio. Wow. I didn’t realize all that, man.

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Congratul I mean that’s that’s fascinating. That’s wild, dude.

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Yeah, I think it was something like that.

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

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Yep. Yeah, the kids are great. Uh, uh, Charlotte, Birdie, and Stella is the

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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

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this is, you know, I want you to go take your whole family out to go to it.

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Uh, take your mom, take your grandma, like, you know, it’s I I I

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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,

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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.

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It’s 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 liveaction movies like this I think that are being

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made that are PG and it’s kind of the direction that I wanted to head in which been a lot of your direction it

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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

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touring comedian last year maybe I think and I I don’t mean to get that wrong you know but um you know you attract like

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you know You can attract all ages, right? Your comedy’s kind of for everyone. It’s for kids, too, even.

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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.

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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,

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right? And you see them. But I watch them and I can tell like they’re not, you know, they don’t like a kid’s not going to like they don’t get everything.

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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

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But I know when they get in the car, they’re going to just talk about the whole night, right?

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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,

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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 a cuz it is you’re being you’re making it

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for you know my stuff is not I’m not trying to make it like a yeah like it’s just kid-friendly like a kid can come [clears throat] in you’re

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just not cursing. You can get away with a lot more when you don’t curse.

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Cursing is just kind like that’s just what I found. But it’s just what do you mean by that? You can get you can get away with a lot more. I think you can say a lot of things and

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talk about a lot of stuff and uh I think if you if you don’t curse it’s I need to hear this.

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It’s uh it’s like the cursing is what I think like it’s just that’s what when people

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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

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it just be in control of it. It’s maybe you It’s not saying you don’t have to curse, but it’s where is it and when is it?

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Yeah.

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Where it’s a lot of I think the younger comedians now it’s you know they they start on the internet then they go to

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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

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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

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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

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it’s not a bad thing to have Oh, I like some TV boundaries around you. Yeah.

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Cuz then it makes you come at stuff in different angles.

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Oh yeah. I mean I f I almost fantasize sometimes. It’s not fantasize. It’s probably the weirdest word. But I I think about that of like, yeah, I would

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like to get to a place where I don’t have to, you know, or not cuz I don’t have to curse. You It’s just where I don’t where I don’t want to curse. I think I do it. I don’t

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even know why I do it. I think it’s kind of how I operate in a regular day, too.

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So, in the end, I think it’s probably just I don’t think of you as someone that would be dirty. Like, I’m not vulgar. No.

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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, just where I’m from

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and stuff like that, I think. But as a as an adult and I don’t have a family or anything yet, I don’t have anybody looking at me across the room saying, “Why are you saying that in front of the kids, dude?” You know what I’m saying?

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Cuz I work for myself and I’m a shitty employee.

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You know, I’m out back smoking and catching myself. I’ll go sneak around the corner, smoke, and then run around the corner and be like, “What are you doing out here?” you know, the deep

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fryer’s freaking acting up, you know, so but uh no, do do whatever you want to go do.

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But by the way, no one think I don’t think anybody thinks of you as a dirty comic. Yeah. Thanks.

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Like I don’t think you know and curse do whatever you want. Yeah. Do whatever you want.

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But it is a challenge. I I agree. I I love the fact that it’s a challenge to yourself. Um is there is there a day do you ever like say well one day I’m going

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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 only fans where you just say like bad some bad words on it?

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

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Was it always like that?

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Yeah. Yeah. I mean we we grew up when I grew up it was like cursing was you know my parents were uh became Christian when

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I was born and I have a joke about they were the most Christian and so like you know growing up here Southern Baptist it’s very strict rules like it’s it’s uh

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you know I think church is 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

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no one no I mean cursing was looked at and no in my family, my my parents did not curse, so I wasn’t around.

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Yeah, that’s awesome.

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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

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just never going to do it. And then when I started that way, it’s like Yeah. Yeah. It would be weird to go.

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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 like you do.

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Oh, but it does it doesn’t feel like I’m ostracious. Like I’m I’m envious of it.

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I think it’s awesome, you know? And I think it just portray it just like Yeah.

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It makes it so it’s it’s ready for everybody, right? Like this is something that you can and a parent knows at some point I can turn that on. This is the thing that does get me sometimes if a

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parents with their kids like I don’t know if I can turn the podcast on because it’s going to have profanity in it or they might be talking about some stuff that’s going to be a bit obtuse

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for kids. I think about that sometimes with serious radio where it’s like you you know you or you get into some stuff

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about sports or you want to listen to some sports stuff and then it’s like some of gets they’re cursing and you’re like I’m just trying to like hear the

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score of the game. UFC had like, you know, I’m we’re both giant UFC fans and uh I the pay-per-view events I’m fine

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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 and like not to

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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

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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 fair.

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Go nuts. Yeah.

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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 look up and she’s going to look at you like, “Dad, what are you listening to this?” And you’re like, “I’m not.” You’re like,

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“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 gatey fan. What do you know?

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Give me a chance here.” You know, I’m a Co. Look, Kobe Coington. It’s hard to It’s hard to keep him quiet. He’s the just the way you could listen to I mean

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I have nothing against Kobe. I don’t feel he says all the craziest things.

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Oh yeah. Well a lot of those guys they 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

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have to probably in feel a pressure to become this other thing because they have to be their own PR company in a way. Yeah. Yeah. And look I don’t feel bad.

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It’s not the fighters. It’s like just you wish the commentators. You’re right.

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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.

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Yeah, I don’t think they curse at all.

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Yeah. When they go interview him, but that’s another thing. That’s the fighter. They’re in the moment. It’s going to be hard not to uh let loose and some of that’s part of

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what it is. And but it’s I I do think UFC does a great job with like when it’s Daniel Cormier and Rogan and like they do not curse with John Anick. Th those three are the

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greatest the greatest group that’s ever done it. And they also have they have Bisping, Paul Felder, even when those guys aren’t doing it.

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Porier’s on there now. Chris Weidman, uh, Cormier. I mean, Yeah. But those guys are all has been great. Yeah. Yeah, dude. He’s been great, dude.

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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. Um, I got to ask you

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about I feel like such a freaking reporter now. Got to ask uh dude, so tell me about Natland. It’s real.

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Park. It’s real. The theme park is real. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Where are we at with it? Like what’s going on?

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We’re we’re about to getting to uh some in investing. Okay.

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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

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the land to be. We have not we like we haven’t said anything where about the land uh or where it’s at or anything

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yet, but we we’ve narrowed it down to basically this one spot. And then so it’s but yeah, I mean we’re we have the

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renderings. They’re working on it every day. Uh we have Storyland. Storyland is a group that uh Storyland is a group.

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They did uh they’ve done stuff with everything. Uh they I think they had some stuff to do with Epic. It’s a lot of guys that worked with Disney for a

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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.

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Yeah. Yeah. Got it.

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

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

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

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Uh it’s it’s going to be So like it says Nand the front. Like so that front area right past the Neland is going to be like a retro mall. So that’s like that

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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

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not saying this is what we we are having in there, but you could have some stuff like that, restaurant, stuff like that that’s open all year round. You have three sections of the park, you have a

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section to the left, uh, which you have roller coasters.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know what’s crazy, dude? I just went to uh I was in Hershey, Pennsylvania. You went to the um Hershey Park. Kennywood?

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No, Hershey Park. Dollywood. No, I’m thinking of Kennywood. I think I know Kennywood, too. Kennywood’s in Pittsburgh.

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Oh, no. We didn’t go there. Went to Hershey Park. How was that?

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It’s It’s awesome. And so, we rode some roller coasters, which were uh it was kind of roller coaster shopping, which was crazy

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cuz you’re like, well, you would just ride Well, now they had a few that you They rolled back the miles on this one.

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There you go. There you go. No thank you. Uh, but it was weird to be riding a roller coaster being like,

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“Yeah, that was” They go, “That one felt great.” And then you’re like, you’re you know, you’re kind of like, “Yeah, yeah, let’s do that one.”

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Dude, that’s wild. And who did you go with? Was that just a family trip or you guys went I was on the road. I was there. I did shows there. And so we had one guy from

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Storyland who came up and he kind of just walked me through and said, uh, one of for this one roller coaster we’re

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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

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riding the roller coaster knowing that that company is who would make that roller coaster or this is another one.

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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?

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And and and how much is a coaster? Decent coaster.

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Uh I found out like uh there was one there was one like uh

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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

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like a a kind of newer very very good coaster they have. We were guess someone

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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

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a new version of a tilt whirl kind of but it it was like kind of moved around. You tried that out too?

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Yeah. Yeah, we we rode that just to see what that was. And I think that was like $850,000. Oh, that’s one you can get that one.

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That one you get in your house. You know, you could just get on layway.

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Yeah. Just have that lay lay lay away away. Yeah.

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Uh dang. I bet Kid Rock could get that thing. He freaking dude. But he probably But it’s like Yes. So you start going through and he’d ruin it.

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And this theme park I mean he would ruin the the Sorry, I just had to say that.

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He put it on the white. It’s so many clips of me just roasting him even though we’re friends. I freaking love roasting him. Oh yeah. He’d ruin it, dude. And he would spend his money

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on that instead of buying his brother a new leg who’s missing one. Shout out Billy. But yeah, go on.

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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.

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He already wrapped his head around spending 850. Yeah.

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And then, oh, you know what? You could go eight like if Kid Rock goes, I’m spending 850 for this. And then he goes to his brother and goes, “If you can get

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any down, you can get that leg, right? Whatever you save, you earn.” Yeah. Yeah. I love that. And li him up.

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Oh, if I had a brother missing something, I’d limb his little ass up in a heartbeat. But that’s me.

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Um uh But so do you have a budget for how much you can spend on coasters for this thing?

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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

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and then Yeah. And is will the land be a lease or will it be owning the land?

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I it’s there’s a lot of that I can’t get into.

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Okay. And how hands-on with you are all of that? Like some of it and some of it’s obviously just like the minutia you wouldn’t be involved in, but yeah. How hands-on with you are all that

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and picking picking the I mean it’s crazy cuz you’re I’ll be in this in these meetings and I forget again that we were talking about like being in

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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

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feasibility study and like to economic study and like I mean these are giant studies that they do when you do investments to go to show the tax

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revenue that it can bring the jobs that you can bring to Nashville. I mean the reason I love this idea and doing this

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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

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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

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wasn’t able to go that couldn’t get into college and like so I you don’t know what you know my I just was like I’m a

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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.

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You were reading water meters? Yeah. Okay.

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Re Juliet. And did you? Yeah. They got a lot of water out there, huh? Yeah. Yeah. A lot of meters. And you had to go do it.

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Uh cuz you can’t just guess. Huh.

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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

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and type in how much water and how they have snakes in there sometimes.

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Oh yeah. I remember one was laid right on top of the water meter and you got to get it. That makes my body nervous.

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Yeah. Yeah. spiders and you never knew every time you open one up.

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You ever find anything cool in there? A little Somebody stashed the bag a little bag of something.

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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.

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I don’t think people stack a little sack of Christmas ornaments or something.

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It would be a good place to put something cuz 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.

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But you’d see spiders up in there. I mean, yeah, that was every one of them had spiders.

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No, they loved it.

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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

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know, one I think it just hasn’t been through it yet. Yeah.

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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 the thing to read

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it. Gosh. Yeah. I sold Italian food door for a while with this fella, dude. And that was a dang pizza or just all Italian food.

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Huh? I wouldn’t say. No, we had bread rolls. We had um Italian it was like this thing called Italian

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caviar or whatever, but it was really just like raviolis or whatever. And then uh what

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else? They had uh like um pastas, balines, they had araviada.

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Uh, what else? Uh, I think they had vodka, sauce, pizza or something. Yeah. Yeah.

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I don’t know. But we just had like I deliver pizzas, too. Well, you deliver pizzas. Pizza Hut. You worked today on Pizza Hut, dude. They’re redoing it. You saw that? They’re coming back.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know why? Cuz experiences.

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Oh, that’s a big thing. That’s a big reason is to It’s stuff for people to do cuz they they we we had that uh you remember

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they used to have a buffet, pizza buff pizza. It was great. You kidding? Where would your mom fight?

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It’s when your parents try to real something serious going on in the marriage. They take you there. Yep.

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That was something serious was happening. And it could be something good or bad. Ford waters and you got a Sprite.

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Dude, they didn’t with those big red cups. Yeah.

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I would buy I would buy five dozens of those red cups. The Coke, any soda tastes the best out of that.

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It’s true. Huh. It’s the best.

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Now, they had a particular type of ice in there, too, I think. Yes. A little bit. like a little shave sonic. Yeah, it was something different. Something was different.

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I think having a unique ice, it’s it’s little things like that that can add a lot of texture to a place. Um, a little bit more about Nataland. So, so some

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things obviously you have to get the funding to make sure you can get the space. So, some things it’s like this happens then this happens. It’s like a domino falling effect.

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Yeah. If there like I mean it’s right now I’m spending all the money for it.

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And now are you putting your own money in with somebody else or what’s going on here? No, just my money.

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So, you’re the only money in This doesn’t go anywhere. I will be in big trouble. No, I mean I would be touring for the rest of but it’s like right now it’s on. It’s just me.

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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.

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Exciting. I’ll go over there.

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Thank you. We’d love to have you. Uh it it’s uh you know my first job was a theme park. I worked at Operland here in

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Nashville and uh 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

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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 I I’m not saying from that

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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?

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They they got a mall. There’s a mall there now. Opry Mills Mall. And I don’t It used to be Operand The theme park right there. I don’t even know that.

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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.

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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.

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Got it. Operand USA closed in 1997 because its parent company, Gaylord Entertainment, wanted to transition.

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Sorry, crazy name. Gay Lord because Lord, I think is straight.

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

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Yeah. So that was the Wall Bash Cannonball. The one that goes upside down.

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Oh, that was it. You remember the name of that one? I know them all. Yeah. What’s that one? Scream wall bash cannonball. The wall bash cannonball. Yeah. Dang. So you were there, Nate?

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Yeah. Screaming the screaming delta demon. Oh yeah, I met her before. I met her.

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Dang it. Out at uh she goes to Mississippi State for sure.

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I think she just did 50 days of boozing out there at uh in Knoxville for sure, dude. Uh oh my god. So you were in the trenches there at Opry Land.

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Yeah, I was a I was a sweeper and I worked in the dog kennel and my dad did magic there.

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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

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all these arenas and all my the my big daydreaming goal when I was starting comedy was to headline Bridgestone

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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

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that night I was like what am I supposed to do now because I just thought about that for 20 years and Then uh which is crazy. It was 20

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years pretty much I think exactly for me to get there to headline Bridgestone and uh congratulations on that dude.

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And we sold 19,365 tickets which is 20 years. Isn’t that crazy? Dang.

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If you’re into I don’t know. I’m not even into numbers. You sold 19,365 tickets.

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So 19 years plus 365 20 years.

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20 years. Dang. And but uh so when you when I got to that I go all right like I

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just felt like what am I what’s the next you got to have something else it can’t be you know I you got to I got to assume

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that if I keep become a great comic 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

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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 going to go crazy, right?

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And so, uh, from that moment is when I started Nate when I was like, I’m going to start Nate Land the company. The idea of like being able to make some movies

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that are the movie that we’re making right now, the bread winner. And then, uh, you know, I thought of a theme park and thought like, you know what, I want

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to build a place where, you know, maybe all my ideas can go live. This theme park is not going to be about me. It’s about the state of Tennessee, but or

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it’s about, you know, it’s called Nate Land and there’s going to be Easter eggish stuff, but people think it’s going to be a like a shrine to me. It’s

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not. It’s, you know, it’s going to represent Nashville and all this stuff.

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It’s like you just got to have someone that has the vision to be able to want to go do it. Did you guys have choices for different names? Is Natan because it’s the production company, so you just named it the same thing?

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It’s just always been Yeah, Nate is a And I get it. Look, I mean, you worked at you worked at a theme park. You came up with it. It’s like I certainly get that.

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I think it’s the it’s the trust. The reason the reason it’s named after me is the trust. If you can if I can keep trust with my audience, with this

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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

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need to know who’s making like who’s behind this. I see. So, you’re putting yourself behind.

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I’m putting I will sell the tickets. Got it.

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I the responsibility of that park thriving is on me. I need to sell the trick tickets. I need to keep the trust that I have with this audience. That’s

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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

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I’m just doing what I feel I’m being asked to do. Called to.

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

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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 and stuff

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and your ideas and stuff that you think of or oh it’s not even yours it belong it’s kind it’s like a higher power.

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Oh yeah yeah I I very much you you I mean you can visualize a lot of stuff and then I think when you can easily

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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 if you if

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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

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kind of follow the lead and uh as we did Nate land and then it was [clears throat] kind of excited. You got me excited now cuz yeah you hear little

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things and 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

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I do I want, you know, eventually to I think when you go to Natland, maybe you don’t really know who Nate is and it’s not about that. Like it’s about everything there.

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Oh, one day that’s what everything becomes. It’s like you don’t even know.

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It’s like you go to like uh Applebees or whatever. You don’t know who Roger Applebee is anymore. No.

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You know, or whatever. Or if you go to like Tim Hortons, you don’t Logan’s You don’t know the Logan.

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Oh, yeah. You don’t even know Logan’s. I think Ernest lives there now. He’s living in one of them. Ernest Tubass.

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No, Ernest freaking uh Oh, the singer.

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Yeah, Ernest [laughter] the singer, dude. For Logan’s Roadhouse, he’s kind of like John Dailyaly is for Hooters. He like lives in the back of one of them.

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Bless him, brother. Bless Ernest. He has a new album [clears throat] coming out, too. I got to 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.

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Now, take me on some of these rides because I know you’ve already thought about some of the ride. Wait, first of all, hold on. Is there going to be a water facil? You’re not doing the water thing, huh?

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Water park. No. No. Because also people get what? I can’t say. Yes.

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People get electrocuted if you’re water parks. Yeah. Really?

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Well, I mean, they’re not going to If you get electrocuted, this is kind of crazy. If it rains. Yeah. Yeah.

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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 like cheated upside

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on a food truck that was selling seafood, illegal seafood. Um, you know, you Portland, you know,

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Portland would always I thought of this that or like or like uh uh uh like said like uh food trucks, right? Like people

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make fun of like cuz I’ll go to McDonald’s and all this stuff. Then 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

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in this Honda Civic all night. You got to trust that he took it home. Yeah, dude.

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You go, who are you to tell me that mine’s at least in a building and frozen? I’ve always thought that. Yeah.

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Like they’ll call especially people in the south like rednecks. Like he was like, but dude, this guy Yeah. that you know how close that is to his gas tank.

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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 Yeah.

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you’re, you know, and it’s like, oh, that’s okay. And you’re like, McDonald’s is safer than that.

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

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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.

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But he had the plastic over them. So he’s like, “It doesn’t matter.” Like like that changes everything. If you put plastic over something, it changes everything. Little saran wrap.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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If he’s like, “Oh, dang. This is like 3 days old.” You put some saran wrap over it.

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Who knows? Like dude, like he just put it together.

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

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

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Uh, I think I think I think so. But I mean, that’s just not my kind of thing. Yeah.

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Yeah. So, I I mean, it would have had a show at the same time, too. You did?

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

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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

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that she has some problem with some of Shane and Tony’s jokes. Maybe. Um I don’t think with the roast. I think it was Shane and Tony.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think she had problem with them. Good call. She kind of said the Yeah. Yeah.

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Like I don’t know about all the jokes mainly Shane and [laughter] Tony.

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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.

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You’re signing up for it. But I mean, it’s like how like I know, you know, it’s like one of those like where are you going to say the line is uh the

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roast have just they they’ve just I believe have gotten to the spirit of the roast is kind of gone. You’re you’re not really having people on there that love each other and so if there’s no love

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shown then uh it’s it’s it just gets mean and u you know and but I mean not saying

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that they they did they did what they were asked to do, right? I thought they a lot of them did a great job. You know what I was very happy for? Big Jay Oersonson killed it.

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Yes.

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Yeah. Big Jay I was very happy. Uh you know I’ve been with Big Jay. We started with him like uh so Jay crushed it and

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Naim Lynn I thought crushed it and uh I like Na Le. But those are those people have a connection with Kevin Hart and so

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they there’s there’s you can see that the love is there. here. I thought Shane did very good. Uh or like you know moving along, hosting it. Like it’s a

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hard thing to it’s a lot to go do. Uh yeah, people did what they were supposed to do. But I mean these roast

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it’s like uh they’re just I mean some of the feeling you’re right, dude.

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Some of the feeling that you get with it. It’s like it’s intense. It’s funny. And some of it is like

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some of it is kind of like Yeah. What feeling do I really leave here with in the end? Right? Like I leave with some temporary highs for sure. Oh, that was

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crazy. That was creative. Even something that’s edgy and dark can be still be very creative.

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But yeah, some of it it’s like does some of this really make me feel good or does like Yeah, I think so. I thought Kevin Hart

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did great handling a lot of it too cuz it was like it wasn’t you know he you know kept saying like this is

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what you signed up for and yeah he kept I thought the messaging was good from him afterwards like cuz I mean it was like such a tough crazy

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it’s a crazy roast 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

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these guys the the people that were up there were really you as far as I knew but they really knew each other or they

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were really friends or they there was actually love really shown so you could go do stuff and when there’s no love

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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.

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Cheryl Underwood did great like hand what you know the stuff they were saying but how she handled that she she has a great laugh and like so it’s like she

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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

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power generation that was something that I thought of whilst he was up there you know cuz I like sitting home were you at it and thinking the jokes nuhuh I wasn’t at it I don’t want to go like I don’t

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want them catching my face if I see something if my feelings get hurt or something I got enough of that [ __ ] out there. So, I don’t need any of that. But

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yeah, it was just interesting. They Oh, yeah. Cuz you get enough you just get more calls and texts.

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Oh, dude. Yeah, that would be funny. They just show your face and they go to jump off a building.

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Yeah. He’s not doing well. Every week it’s like somebody’s like, “Oh, Theo is not doing well. I’m doing fine. In fact, I’m doing great.”

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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.

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Yeah. I think sometimes people worry about you, but that’s a lot of love shown your way that people worry about.

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Yeah. [snorts] But sometimes it’s people take stuff that’s kind of normal and they put it in their own space and put it out there like, “Oh, this guy’s having a problem.” And I think my

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podcast has always just been like a place like where I just kind of share what’s going on, right? Like, and I share it pretty transparently, I guess.

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And maybe I shouldn’t do that as much, but I don’t share it because I need somebody’s claim or approval. No, I understand that.

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But I think I don’t like it. Sometimes people will frame it like, “Oh, we can help this guy.” Mhm.

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It’s like, dude, I’m fine. You know, like I’m as fine as any human being is.

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Being a human seems real spooky sometimes. Yeah. Start every podcast with I’m fine.

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Yeah, I know. But then here’s the crazy part. The more you say [ __ ] like then it becomes this thing. So the whole thing is kind of crazy. You know,

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do a podcast from the top of a building and just go I’m fine. That’d be a great idea, dude.

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You know, my buddy Julian Mcola actually like I don’t know this [laughter] is this crazy.

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He’s really playing into it. I like that idea, dude. You know, I don’t.

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And look, we keep moving the desk closer over to the edge.

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They They go, “Is he all right?” He goes, “I’m fine.” And you just start to scoot. My my Julian Mcola, you know, Julian, uh, he has a very funny joke

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like when he gamles, like when he loses, uh, he goes, “Hey, do y’all got a bathroom on top of the roof?” [laughter] Uh, he always tells the the dealer,

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which is such a funny thing to say after you lose a big hand. Hey, excuse me. Do y’all got a bathroom on top of the roof?

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[laughter]

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Well, we’re definitely living, it seems like, in the sick circle of hell these days. You know, we’re getting things have gotten a little,

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you know, things are getting a little interesting. Um, we Oh, we got to talk about the rides, dude. So, what first of all, what are Well, I don’t know if I’m going to tell you anything about the rides for the rides at that at Nland.

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Yeah.

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But do you know the governor that’s going to be the speed on them or whatever? Have you already decided?

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No. No. No. We I mean we’re going through Oh, like how fast?

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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.

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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 say it doesn’t work.

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Yeah. You 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.

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There you go. Theo’s crazy. He goes, “I don’t need it.” Oh god.

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Or you just hold it and you see if you can go do it. I’ll let you do a roller coaster. I don’t I just to Yeah. Just to Let me DJ it one night or something.

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Oh yeah.

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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.

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Oh, like a spinner. Just something like it just spun you so much you the lisp just flew right out of you. Counterlockwise. Yeah. Spinner counterclockwise.

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Yeah. Time after time. Remember that song? Yeah.

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You could rush. You goodbye. You can still find me. Was that a list? Time after time. Is that a song about lisp?

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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 ride that would like you know underbite fixer would be just we have a guy walk around. He just punches you.

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Yeah.

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Undercut. And you don’t ever know where he’s at.

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Yeah. [laughter] And you just know when you go in with an underbite, we’ve clocked you.

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Facial recognition, all that stuff. We can tell. And then he’s just a guy that’s just, you know, he’s going to get

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you. And you know, he’s going to get you, but he’s going to get you so good that you’re never going to see it coming. And we fix that underbite. I like that. Yeah. No charge.

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I like that idea. Or Yeah. Or if they had like the GLP1, the oimpic ride.

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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. Mhm.

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Or like when you take a shirt or or towel and you put it in the washer and you do the spin cycle. Yeah.

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And it comes out. It’ll almost stand up itself. It’s got so much centrifugal in it. Yeah.

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Well, you do that boy. Get your mama so spun around you. Dang. You know what I’m saying? She’ll fit into a size one and a half. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah, she’ll fit into her dang baby hour for at least an hour. You go like maybe it’s I don’t think it’s going to be forever. No, it’s not. But it’s at least an hour. Yeah.

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It’s not full time.

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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.

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Oh, yeah. I got to be in Nate land at 100 p.m. And then I got to be talking about that food that you ate where you feel it expand in your mouth.

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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 you’re on your own.

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Yeah, you’re we not responsible for that.

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Yeah, you get one. I mean, but you could fit in your sixth grade graduation pants if you for one for one hour. Yeah, I like that.

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That’s a good ride. And that ride does that to you. Yeah.

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You know, or something that would just do a bunch of women’s hair. I could see that in the South.

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You know, they put this on you like this, the cover to cover your body, like to hold you in, but then they put that head thing on you, the Oh, yeah. You know, and then they get

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out and everybody’s beehive, walking out of there looking like Marge Simpson and her two sisters. Yeah, that’s a good ride.

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Dude, I’m telling you, I can help you. I I would love it. Okay. Yeah, I would love.

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Really? It doesn’t seem like that right now.

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No, no. I think we have a I think we’re going to have a part where you’re going to fit right in. Yeah. Let me run that crocodile tank. Yeah.

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It’s going to be a swamp. Like a swamp pot.

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Hey, I’m just sitting over there petting a crocodile. And we took all his scales down. We sh We like uh used a um wood thing to take his scales down low and you can pet him.

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Oh no. Dsharpened him. Yeah. Good idea.

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What about the mouth? You’re like mouth is got we left the mouth. We forgot about that.

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He go you know how expensive it was to do the top part. And that’s when the guy undercuts him the car.

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And you go that guy was worth it.

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It’s like a butter bean. Remember butter beans?

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Yeah. Butter Bean walking around just I saw him at Hulk Hogan’s funeral actually. Oh, really? Yeah.

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You went to Hulk Hogan’s funeral? Did you know Hulk’s funeral? I did know Hulk Hogan. That’s pretty.

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Not great. I’m not going to pretend I knew him. Great. Yeah.

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But I knew him enough we would communicate and got to podcast with him and uh got to go down there and see him one time down at his bar

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and restaurant and uh a fan of his son Nick. Um, Eric David Scott, better known by his nickname Butterbean.

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Was there some just I mean everybody at his funeral like there’s some big guys there. Oh, dude.

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Like tall like you know Mankind was there I think. Yeah. Yeah. Womankind was there too I think. Was Undertaker there?

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I hadn’t seen her in a while but yeah was there she who Womankind I think whoever that is.

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Oh yeah.

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Um saw Jim Dugen was there. Uh, Undertaker.

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Undertaker was not there that I didn’t see. Jim, uh, Vince McMahon was there.

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Um, will you have a band like the Chuck-E-Cheese band or anything like that at Nate Land, do you think?

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Uh, I think that’s all that’s open for discussion. Yeah, it’s definitely open. And you got to have a cool Nate name. Oh, Nate inch Nails would be good.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah, he laughed. That was pretty good.

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plays. Yeah, it’s a kid music, but it’s also rock.

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But yes, it’s a rock band doing kid music, you know. Yeah. Yeah, I like that. Thanks. That’d be cool. I’m trying to think of any other one.

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Nate Vana, maybe it’s not as good.

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Um, Nate and Schnails is might be it. It might be it. Nate, go back.

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This is how Yeah, you remember. I like that.

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Okay. Um, we have a new segment that we’re doing, Nate. It’s by uh it’s it’s our Mountain Dew summer segment.

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Um so, thank you for being here real quick. Yeah, thank you, buddy. Thank you for being here.

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And congratulations, dude, on your movie. Yeah.

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Um and congratulations on your uh your goals to make uh an amazing theme park in an amazing city. Thank you.

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I want to say awesome, man. It’s cool. It’s really inspiring. Thank you, dude. And I mean that.

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Thank you, man. Um, you may have noticed that we have Mountain Dew’s here and so they’re working with us over the summer and we’re working with them and we just

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have a couple of questions. Uh, you’re hosting a barbecue, right? And these are for you and me. Okay.

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Cuz I hadn’t seen these. But you’re hosting a barbecue. What do you say if you burn someone’s meat?

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Uh, I mean just like apologize to them, but sorry.

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Yeah, I’ll make you another one. Or you say, “I’m I’ll eat that one and you take Yeah. Yeah.

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That’s what you do. You I’ll eat that one.

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I’ll handle it.” Yeah. Don’t worry about it.

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Yeah. And for No, no, no, no. I And then they’ll be I give it to my mom who eats everything burnt. She does. Loves everything burnt. Oh, yeah.

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There’s a There’s an old I think if you’re born in the 50s, you’re extra well done all day long.

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Yeah. Not even a not even a If you see someone walk in and they’re 70, go ahead and start burning that steak.

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Yeah, I agree. It’s not They’re not doing medium rare. They’re not doing medium medium wells. Burn it.

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Yeah, because they’re using also prefabricated teeth, a lot of them. So, they got some chompers. They got the ability to get through.

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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 well done.

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I agree. That’s what I say. Just or say who likes that dark meat.

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That’s another way to get through to them.

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Uh do you remember drinking from a 2 L 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

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in my life I could drink and [snorts] see the soda going down as I drank it.

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Yeah, I do. We buy a lot. I don’t people I don’t think cans were I think bottle

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two liter soda bottle was way more in when I was younger 2 liters and cups and yes and now it’s like I guess environments cans but

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and I remember one time uh they came out with the wide mouth oh yeah two liter you remember that yeah and you could pour it

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you could pour it faster it was like how much can we even have at once yeah it was a ton oh yeah it was great

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those were the days Oh those were the He had that water.

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I used to drink a Diet Mountain Dew. I mean, I would drink it every day. Really? And what were you training for?

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Just I mean just being American, huh?

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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?

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Oh, yeah. Well, also the I mean, you’ll get some I drink that I can drink in the morning. You drink D Mountain Dew in the morning.

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I Yeah, I can. I Yeah, that or I’ll drink a diet something in the morning. Oh, I’ll soda.

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Yeah, I’ll show them who’s boss. Right out the gate.

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

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Oh, yeah. All Hey, and shout out to anybody drinking breakfast soda. Yeah. Colin Colin Quinn. He drinks it. He drinks Diet Coke in the morning, too.

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Yeah. [laughter] Oh, he’s a breakfast soda drinker. Um, dude, do you know did you know Mountain Dew started in Tennessee?

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Uh, I think so, but I don’t know. You know, I think I do that.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Smoky Mountains is where you put it.

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Oh, I love that old logo. Oh, yeah. Let me see that logo. Great old logo. Mountain D. Oh, I never saw that.

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That throwback. That’s beautiful.

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Um, all right. Last one. I feel like diet de is real big in the trades world. You’ll see it a lot of times. Electricians, comedians, right? Yes.

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You said yourself you were a morning drinker. Um, plumbers, roadkill guys, right? If you look in the back of the truck, you see 11 of those empty diet

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bottles or whatever. They’re quietly like the backbone of America. These diet drinkers you’re driving with your windows down

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and there’s a breeze and it only smells a little bit like maybe a landfill you’re passing by just and and it just it’s summer time, right? The windows are

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down. What song or band are you turning on the radio and you’re drinking diet Mountain Dew?

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Yeah, you can be if you want. I’ll have one with you. Yeah. you know, maybe some country.

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Uh, Toba Keith. Oh, yeah. You know. Yeah.

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You know, I’m talking about that song. Yeah.

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Yeah. I agree, man. I’ll enjoy that with you, man. That’d be a nice drive. Um, all right. Thank you so much, dude.

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This I think it’s been good. I love learning about Nate Land, man. I think I understand it a lot better.

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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

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time I think about it. I think about it like, you know, where I’m like, what am I doing?

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Yeah. Was there a moment? Take me through some of this, right? Was there a moment like cuz sometimes you feel like you get to different places in like your career and in your life. I think a lot

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of people go through like, you know, they call them midlife crisis, quarter life crisis. You’ll see like a fifth grader going through like a fifth grader

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life crisis they have now on TikTok or whatever. Um they in fifth grade they do. Yeah. Now that’s a thing or whatever.

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It’s like all right. But do you like Did you graduate? I went to my daughter graduated eighth grade yesterday.

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Yeah. And I went to that. Did you? I don’t I did not have an eighth grade graduation. We had one. Really? Yeah.

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I think they told us to get out and that was it.

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Dude, it was Remember when school led out? Yeah.

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God, that day cuz you looked so forward to but then you had not there was nothing to do.

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Yeah. You lay there all summer and just drool in the middle of your living room. Mhm.

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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.

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Yeah. Today was my daughter’s first her start of summer. But anyway, what do y’all have planned for the summer together? Do you Is it some things you guys are going to do?

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Uh I don’t know. She uh like she rides she loves horse riding and all this. So she’ll she’ll do a ton of that and that’s what her summer ends up becoming.

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a lot of like going out. We It’s at a we have she goes to this stable that’s run

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by this great this uh family and so she goes there and I mean she’ll be up there all day. She loves it.

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That’s nice. Yeah, it’s nice.

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Do you get out there and ride with her sometimes? I have. Not a ton, but I have.

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

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Not I’ve not done it enough to get better. It’s a lot. I mean, it’s a it’s a lot. Getting on horses is a lot. I mean, you know, but she does it. you know, to tack a horse and put the

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everything on it. It’s a whole whole thing. Oh, yeah.

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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.

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Hey, man. That’d be a blast, dude.

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But you’re saying 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.

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The hard part is uh Oh, I was saying thank you so much for just for explaining to me what it was like, like what some of the And then I’m worried about doing it.

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Yeah. And then you’re worried about doing it cuz Yeah. I was saying you get to certain points of your career where you’re like, “Well, now what?” Like I just got to know my special. Like I’ve been touring for the past like really 20 years I’ve

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been touring, right? Like I was touring 26 weekends a year like because I could sell tickets like early

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because I’ve been on TV already, but it was like I didn’t have any comedy. But so I it’s just been so this is like the first time in my life is like the second week of it. Yeah.

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And it’s like yeah I don’t know what to do kind of. Yeah.

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And it’s kind of like interesting and my first thought is just go back out on tour like figure it out and go back out and maybe that is

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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

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life right where you’re like well now what do I do? And then what happened with this where you were like, “Okay, this is like a feasible real thing that

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I can take on.” Um, and maybe you already answered that for me. Sorry.

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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

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you want to go do. So, you do get a lot of people just being like, why why are you doing this? What do you want? Like, you know, if you’re calling it Nate Lane, you’re like, why are you calling

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it? You got to 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

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of things and not let you because it is crazy. But I I know what I’m doing it for the right reason and I just got to

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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

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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

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park, dude? Like what if I do it? Like that’s crazy. Yeah.

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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.

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There’s there’s nowhere in my growth of a child to high school, any of this that you

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would ever be at a point there’s nohere that I should even had the success that I should have had. Yeah.

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So then you got to go to where you start going like, well then I’ll just start I’ll just keep going till someone says no until they, you know. Well, Mike Lindell had the My Pillow.

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Yeah.

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And you would have saw that probably out of him. I’ll sell that. Yeah.

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You You wouldn’t have saw it out of him, probably. Oh, no. No, no, no, not at all.

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Or people have all kind 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,

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it’s like just it’s like you got to just go do it, dude. And the hardest thing is you got to sometimes and I it’s it’s going to be people that you know that

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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

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of come and they they you know they don’t understand and some of that is uh some of it’s jealousy.

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I think some of it is you’re leaving people behind. That’s like that thing that you could see were getting in shape. I’m not in shape. I want to get in shape, but it’s like I don’t know if

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someone or anything if someone does something that they can like you’re moving forward

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and I think they just like go why why are you doing that?

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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?

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And I was like, “Yeah, the name had popped into my head like, “Oh, why why would he choose that? What’s going on?” Right? Um, I choose it because I you again like to trust it.

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Oh, do after talking to you like I get exactly where it is, you know? Um, and it is weird why sometimes our brains will jump to like

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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.

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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.

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But then like you say, nothing happens unless somebody does it.

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No one’s Yeah. No one wants to No one wants to do And look at Walt Disney. It was He had both of his names in it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He went heavy.

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Yeah. He went all the way in, dude.

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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, we can’t do it again.” You’re like, “Why can’t you do it again?” Right?

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Why can’t you? We had a theme park here.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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 if that’s what I’m just doing it. Somebody’s got to do it. Someone’s got to do it and I’m doing it.

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And maybe it’s going to be good. Maybe it’s not going to be good. Like like what if I don’t make it? What if I do make it?

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Yeah. But it’s the same with making a movie. It’s the same with anything. It’s like what? Maybe you know you always think and anybody that is says no, you’re like what does it matter? What does it matter if I who cares?

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Yeah. What is the skin off your back?

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Yeah. I don’t want anything from you, right?

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I don’t want anything from I want people that either buy into what I’m trying to do or or just don’t.

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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

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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, and you got to think too with comedians.

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Look at the success you get where just you’re talking. We’re just talking. We don’t have movie. We don’t have a music

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behind us. We don’t have That’s just us talking. Yeah.

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So like if you start That’s why you think about 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 it’s

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the most purest art form. So if you can get to a high level of just oh movie scary trait straight up that. Well, movies

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scary because you don’t know if it’s how it’s going to be until the day of, dude. It’s and that’s very nerve-wracking. And I’ll say

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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.

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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,

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but then you’re like, it almost felt like, it sounds crazy to say, dude.

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Like I was watching like something I wasn’t supposed to be watching with other people. It’s almost like watching porn porno or whatever cuz you’re like,

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I should This is something you watch by yourself. And suddenly I realized as it starts, I’m like, whoa, whoa.

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Yeah, I’ve watched this already. This is something I’m supposed to watch by myself. I don’t think this is for mass consumption. So that was so freaking harrowing, dude.

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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 that, you

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know?” Yeah. Just Yeah. I mean, but to just do it like like stand up you’re almost like I don’t watch my stand up or I’ll watch it maybe once but it’s like you’ve done it so

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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 I don’t know what I’m doing.

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Yeah. Yeah. It’s crazy.

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Oh the immense feeling of I don’t know what I’m doing. Yeah. You know.

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Um but well dude for somebody that doesn’t know what they’re doing man you’re doing a really great job of it.

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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?

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No, no, it’s a all a full We have fun big rides, kid part like every It’s like a regular theme park.

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Yeah.

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So, it’s going to be and you know, shows and stuff like that. It’ll be It’ll be the the real deal. I love it.

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U so it’ll be Yeah. Everybody, everybody can come out.

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Amen. Um, Nate Barati, the movie opens up this week, May 29th, in theaters in 3,300 theaters. That’s what we found

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out. Uh, the bread winner, uh, Nate Bargati, Mandy Moore. Um, a super mom lands a Shark Tank deal, switching roles

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with her bread winner husband. He struggles to adapt as a stay-at-home dad to their three daughters.

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And it’s not like a dumb dad. Everybody gets crazy about being a dumb dad thing.

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It’s not a dumb dad thing. It’s uh it’s you know he ends up taking the dead era and it’s a sweet sweet funny uh cute

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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.

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Amen man congratulations bro. Thanks for your time dude and congrats on everything. [music] Thank you. Yep. Yeah brother.

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Now I’m just floating on the breeze and I feel I’m falling like [music] these leaves. I must be corner stone.

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Oh, but when I reach [music] that ground, I’ll share this piece of mind I found. I can feel it in my bones.

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[music and singing]

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But it’s going to take

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