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Hello folks, welcome to the Nateland podcast. I'm Nate Bargetzi, Aaron Weber, we solve that problem. Welcome to... No, Brian's here, Brian's here. He's, you know... It's not bad. That was awesome. Not bad. Yeah.

Bates, Brian Bates here. Yeah, I have to apologize because people, I got in a lot of trouble by everybody that I was mean. I didn't mean to go on a big cutting. I mean, I did, I guess. It's all coming out of, I was trying to be funny, making fun of you. And it got, and people took it too real.

And so I shouldn't have done that. I don't want anybody to think that. I don't want anybody to hate him. It is trying to make jokes. You go hard. I come from a New York scene. And it's not saying it's right or wrong, but it's very hard. You go super hard after each other. But I shouldn't have done that. I don't want anybody to think one guy doesn't want to come to the show ever again. He was so mad.

But I don't want you to think I ever have like any of this in my heart. Like I don't hate anybody. I would never in a million years make you feel bad. I don't have no desire to do that. You're seeing like three dudes hang out and we're just making and we're going after each other hard. I probably did go after him. I probably did get frustrated a lot when we traveled together and it might come out like that and you see it.

And I can get very intense. I'm not perfect. I'm not trying to think I am. But I don't need to make you think that I hate bait or that something to be mean. So I apologize for that. I know there's kids listening to this and it's just... Not anymore. Yeah, definitely not anymore. Yeah.

I had people ask me this weekend that I saw at the shows. They were like, are you and Bates fine? Yeah. And so we are fine. Or I think we're fine. I'm fine. I'm of course fine. I was the bully. So I feel terrific. But are you fine? I'm going to...

I want you to resign. All right. I will step down. Like the office. Yeah. Michael holds that apology. Yeah. And brings in the woman, the watermark episode. Yeah. And it doesn't go over. And she's like, no, I want you to step down. And they end up getting a huge fight. Yeah. He calls her like a bad name. Yeah. With the Scranton Times there. That's, I will not step down. What is this speech? They go, you will have to pull my dead body from this podcast before I step down. Yeah.

I will not, no. I know people are like, oh, maybe the last couple have been grouchy.

We've definitely been on the road more than I've ever been, but that still doesn't matter. That's not y'all's fault. That's no one's fault. It's not their fault. That's no one's fault. I can choose to do this or not do it. I do enjoy doing this. It's fun. I've got to learn the balance. I'm working on the balance. It's part of my reason about trying to work out and get in better shape to have a better attitude towards everything for all the work that is coming. Your whole life you work to get this much work, so you don't want to blow it.

And, but it will not, you know, I get it. Like it was, it was too much. I can get on like, you know, it's like, I'll just, I mean, I called you a cow. That didn't help. That might've been the one that sent it over the edge. But in my head, there's like, I'm making a joke. Like, I'm not trying to make funny, but it's like, I don't know. You're just, I'm just on a tangent. Yeah. And I'm like used to like, it's not like I'm used to like, but it's like we were, I was watching a clip this morning, Rich Voss and Bobby Kelly.

and the New York comics and Rich Voss came and had a watch on, I guess that Bobby wanted. And Bobby just asked him to leave the podcast. And it's like, that's what I was like around that. So it's like, it's sometimes it just, it gets over into other things where it's just like, you really just can go after someone and it can be too much. Now we recorded two podcasts that I can't hear my mic, but we recorded two podcasts that day.

That was the first one. That was the first one. Broke for lunch. Everything was fine. Yeah. Recorded another one after that. Yeah. So if you want to really know how our demeanor was, watch when we do the talk show episode. Yeah. That's how we were. Yeah. Just to show there was- The talk show episode. We recorded one on talk show. Yeah, yeah. It'll come out later after that one. Yes. That was right after that one. Yeah. But they might see it still. What if they're still like, yeah, I can tell.

Yeah, because they hadn't read these statements yet and felt sorry. Yeah, I had to give a speech. My memory is that I don't remember anything lingering over that second. It wasn't a... No. Yeah. I don't, but I mean, yeah, look, when you call another man a cow, you definitely understand how people could be... It wasn't even me. I don't even think that was the worst rant you had that day. Yeah. It was... But I don't want anybody to think that. I mean, that one guy's not coming to the show. That breaks my heart, the dude to think...

that this was his last straw for him. And look, if he doesn't want to, I get it. Don't. You don't have to. But it's like I would never make that guy feel bad. I never want anybody to be truly hurt

and their heart to be hurt. Like, I have no desire to do that. I'm trying to be funny. We're making jokes. I definitely think you go too far. This is a big problem you have with even comedians as all of us. Sometimes when you talk to someone that's not a comedian and you make jokes, it's like way out of line. Because your mind is just kind of like always just, it's about the joke. And so sometimes when it does come across, it just comes across mean sometimes.

And if I am tired. In fairness, half those posts were ones that I created, fake accounts. Well, there's a lot. So you got after it. I did. One guy coming on Reddit, he said, Nate doesn't owe an apology. Besides Nate playing off Brian for being a simpleton, what else does Brian contribute to the podcast? Yeah.

And then he went back and edited it. I didn't think you'd find that one I wrote. Well, he went back and edited it and said, sorry, guys, I didn't realize they actually read this. Oh, man. So I'd like to say to him, I don't know. All the research, everything, this podcast should be called Brian Does Everything Land. There you go. That's what I'd say to you. It's not as catchy of a name, but more accurate. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I still can't hear through my head, but that's okay. I can hear them. I just can't hear myself.

So, yeah. So I wanted to apologize. I mean, you can see. But you see what I'm dealing with? He kills the momentum. It's super hard. You know what I mean? It's like a cow getting in the road and you can't get around it. It's like Dwight's statement of regret. Yeah. I state my regret. You couldn't have just said that? You couldn't have memorized that? No, because I did not feel it. Yeah.

I do feel it. I don't want... I would never want his feelings to be hurt. I would never want... I don't want you to be listening to this and think this comes like this. I know I'm... Label is the nicest man in stand-up, but y'all see a little bit more. You see, but I'm intense. I'm not... You know, I do have...

I mean, look, I've dealt with Laura. I've had to deal with it. I've had to fix myself. And I'm always trying to fix myself because I can get very quick. And if you don't do what I have, something doesn't go the way I want it to go. I get upset. I'm doing a bunch of stuff to help that because I don't want to live like that. And so there's a lot of stuff that I can do. I think a lot of it is the reason you're a comic the way you are, because I do get annoyed at anything.

And it's always stuff that's so stupid. But that's where I think comedy comes from is like you get annoyed at like a line at Target or I get annoyed like and I'm just losing it. But I never outwardly give it to someone. I bottle up and give it to the people that I love. And I just jam it all on them. And so, you know, my Bates, my wife...

You know, Aaron, he's got a Waffle House shirt on. And so Bruce Bruce. I opened for Bruce Bruce once. Did you? Yeah. Caroline's. How'd it go? He does Bruce Bruce. He murders. Bruce Bruce. In his intro. I was with you. Yeah. Yeah. And he. So I go out. And then Mark Theobald is there. A comic from New York. And so then I go out.

and I'm featuring in the middle. So I get done with my set, goes great, comes off, and then Bruce is in the green room. I talked to him for a second. I was like, hey, I'm from the South, and he was cool and nice real quick. And then when Mark brought him up, Mark walks off stage and they start playing music. And this is almost the first time I've ever seen kind of a showmanship. And so I don't know what's like they said. I'm like a younger comic that's like, yo, they said your name.

So you should go. And I like went, I almost, almost, and thank goodness I did it. And I almost was going to go back and be like, Bruce, Bruce, they said your name, name. I thought that might be funny.

But thankfully, I didn't do any of that. Something, I at least had something in me that goes, just don't. I'm sure he knows that his name's called. And they were playing a song. And then he walks out. And when he goes on stage, he like raps like the last part of the song. But it's like awesome. Like it's like, it's, and then you're like, oh yeah, that's, that's a.

that's a showmanship. I hosted for him in Alabama a couple of years ago and I just never felt the crowd forget about me so quickly. As soon as he walks out, he's just, he's a legend dude. Like he's, he's a true, yeah. I mean like just destroys and then just, you know, and it is, it's the way he comes out and the way like,

you see it where you're like man that is awesome like it's like it builds that excitement it builds that you know people are like yeah we're here to have a good time it almost makes everybody like just check out and you know yeah yeah i like that uh so all right i did have a lot of people ask me they said are we still friends what'd you say we go never were uh

Who told you? I pinned him against the wall. Who sent you? Did someone in the Bates family send you? How'd you get back here? Last night I was watching Seinfeld and it was the one where James Spader's in the 12-step program.

And step nine is apology. Yeah. And George keeps demanding it. And he's like, all right, I'm sorry. I didn't want your bulbous head. Stretch it out my finely knit sweater. And that's kind of. My apology is real. Yeah. At least. And not because people think I don't apologize. Like it's not a real apology. Right. I don't ever want you to be your feelings hurt. Or you're like to me to hurt you.

It's comics. We're making fun. So I can probably go a little bit harder than everybody, and I get that. I've got to bring it back. I've even gone so hard. There's been times I've gone so hard later on, like just various. You pull, you're like, hey, man, I'm just messing with you. You say it later because you're like, well, I can't. That was too much. And you're going for the laugh. You're going for whatever. So I don't want to, you know. I mean, the guy that's not coming to the show again,

That was like, that hurts me. Like, you're like, well, I don't want that guy to think. I mean, the last couple episodes, I guess I was grouchy and yeah, but I don't want that guy to be, that's not what this is about. I'll start, you know, we're calling, I go on these rants. It's all I got, man. Maybe I can reach out to him and I think he likes me. He definitely likes you. Get him to come back. You might need you on a show to get him to, I don't know what show he's going to. We probably already got it booked, but, uh,

Maybe you'll be happy if I bring our buddy who's with me this weekend, Nick Novicki. Nick, yeah. There's not a camera at you, Nick. He thought he was coming in after comments. Oh, no. You can just come on in. Nick was with me this weekend, and he's flying out today. We're going to read some comments, Nick. Everybody knows you, Nick.

Hello, folks. You know?

Blake Fitzsimmons. I just want to say how much of an impact Nate, his family, and the podcast have had on our lives. Our daughter has been in the hospital since she was born in August. She had her heart transplant at the first of this year and is recovering super fast. This podcast and this community that surrounds it have been extremely instrumental in keeping my spirits up. We had tickets to the Grand Prairie Show but gave them up when we found out our daughter was getting discharged. Abigail, Nate's sister, reached out and it was extremely nice. Nate's dad reached out to us and let us know he was praying for us.

Other podcast listeners from the page on Facebook have been supportive as well. So just a huge thank you for myself and my family. We love what y'all are doing. I just want to make sure y'all know how appreciative we are.

Blake Fitzsimmons, that's the one that said he's not coming to show again ever. Yeah, he said that two weeks ago. Oh, yeah, that was before. So he might change his mind completely. That's awesome. We are praying for you, and that's great that they're getting out. And we'll see you at another show. There's going to be many shows. And thank you very much for that. Yeah. See, and that's what it's about. If I get a little ranty, if I get a little, don't take it, just don't try to take it too serious. That's all I can ask.

It's like, don't, I'm not, you know, maybe it is being, you just tell me if I was like, Hey, that was probably a little too mean. Just tell me. I'll be like, all right, you're right. Probably. I need to back it up. Um, the, uh, Nate land, Facebook fan page. They're throwing me a baby shower. Oh, wow. Uh, virtual baby shower on Facebook, February 22nd. Whoa.

I think that's a Tuesday, 7 p.m. Central. I'll have more details. I'll probably be mentioning this every week. Yeah. But that's how nice people are. I know. They're all nice. That's what we want it to be. Everybody's nice, but I think we're all friends. So if I call you a cow. You called yourself a cow. I was the one going to the slaughter. Oh, yeah. Like we're all cows. See, in my head, it's a joke.

Like it's just like in some of the it's happening so quick. And my vocabulary is not extensive, as we noticed. So I have to go to the basic, just say cow. And I picture my head and it's all funny in my head. And I don't you know, and then like in the moment, I don't think like, hey, man, you just called another guy a cow and that he was about to get slaughtered.

And then none of that clicks in that moment. I feel like the cow is positive. The slaughter is a little bit where you go, oh, I don't know. Hey, there's always a line. You know, the cow. I don't know how being called a cow is positive. I mean, they're pretty happy usually. Yeah, that's true. That's true. I bet they'd be difficult to travel with.

I'm sorry. See, that was, that's not my fault. That was Nick's fault for doing that. I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about me. I would be, I'm a cow that's a head. I'll be the cow.

This might be, I might've just ruined everything. Like all that we've had built up is gone. John Whipple, Nate, so encouraging to hear that you're creating a brand that will make it easy to identify clean, non-political content. Your comedy is enjoyed by my whole family. I love that. I got asked about that this weekend. Yeah, hopefully, I mean, hopefully it goes. Might not go. I think it'll go. We'll do something. Keep going. But that's the idea.

give you guys the nice dadgum comedy y'all deserve. That's so funny that you broke that news. You do a 30 minute rant, you know, and then we wrap it up by, oh, by the way, starting this cut. See, that's, but like, that's where I don't, I'm not perfect. I do. I can be the most hypocritical person on earth. I can, I can say one thing, one. And then in my head, it can all make sense. I'm saying so much stuff.

But I have no idea what I'm saying. I don't think I'm perfect. I will never make sure that I make you feel terrible. I can assure you that. That's the thing that hurts me the most is I don't want him to feel bad. I don't want someone to think that. I'll never make it. I don't want your heart to be hurt. I don't want you to think I'm making fun. I would never make you think I'm better than you. I don't have that in my body to do that.

The comedian in me can be hard and mean and blah, but it's like,

I think sometimes you're like, well, I don't think any of this and I hope that comes off. So then that's why you can go super hard. Cause then you don't, you think, well, I'm not gonna, I would never do something, you know? Uh, or like, you know, and I'll tell you, I pay for it. Like I say, I'm not like, I'm not saying it to hold that over you. I would never hold that over. I would never in a million years. I know I'm saying it. I think I'm saying it to that. I'm in my head. I'm like, I'm doing, I'm like, at least I'm trying to show you

That I'm doing something not like it's like, you know, and I think that's what I think. Like, well, if I tell you I'm doing this nice thing for you, then I can tell you I can make fun of you. And that's what says probably the logic that I used in my head. But it was wrong. You guys and you guys let me know. Laura Amsweiler Watson. I'm not a doctor, but I do have some experience with ADHD and Nate's texture issue with paper. Napkins is a huge issue.

clue that he possibly has it. Now you should take one of those online quizzes for it on air. All right. Why do that? An ADH online quiz. I mean, look, I'm like, should be in a hospital. Yeah, it's really not his fault. I mean, I should, something's wrong. I can't even do anything, Nick. Do you tend to avoid or delay and start on a new important task?

I don't know if I'd do that. No, I wouldn't say that. Yeah. I want to get it over with. I can't let it go when I know it should be done. That's another thing that I have to deal with. I have problems with that. We've got Abigail working here, my sister, and Laura. I look at things like if I want to know an answer to something, I don't understand how the answer's not, and then I can't let it go. I'm not good with...

If I ask something and then instead of just thinking it gets solved, I need to be told it was solved. And it will be the dumbest thing ever. It won't be like getting a pool built or like it'll be.

Did you reach out to that person? I mean, some of them will be like if someone, a folk listen to this, or you're like, did you reach them and get the tickets for them? And I can't let that go until I know for sure that they've been talked to. Do you find yourself making careless mistakes when engaged in something you feel is boring, repetitive, or difficult? That's a good one. That's a good one. I would say you just check out. Well, I mean, you know.

I guess I called you a cow, so that was probably careless. I don't know if I was bored. No. I don't think you were bored. I think that was directed. Yeah, I think you were very focused. Yeah, I think that was the most I've ever been on. You were zeroed in, man. For sure. I don't know if I make the mistake, but I get bored with it a lot. Yeah, I get. But, I mean, the whole thing's correct unless it's a mistake. Like, I don't know how many mistakes, but maybe I do make a mistake.

But I can get very bored. If it's not up my alley, I'll just zone out. I don't pay attention. Yeah, I don't think this is you, man. I'm just looking through the questions. I don't think. So far, it's not sounding like it. I can get distracted, though. I can do it when someone's talking to me. Then I can just be like, I'm gone. But you get distracted. Yeah, I definitely have some of this.

A lot of this. Yeah. Where you just zone out. I never really thought you had a deep... I think you're distracted because you guys got a lot going on. Yeah, I always thought... I think that too. But I don't know, like, why do I watch these movies and, like, they can't... I can't focus on them. I can't... Because you got a lot on your mind. Yeah. That could be true. Greg Cole. I like that. I know. Lauren Watson was not a...

She's like, I'm not a doctor. And we're like, but I think she knows what she's talking about. Well, the napkin thing is what she's. Yeah. Which apparently that's a sign. That's a sign. I might have a lunch. I might be just kind of wrapped up a little bit of everything. Like an everything bagel.

Greg Cole, intern Cole got mixed up somehow. Utah has the youngest median age at 31.3, with Alaska having the second youngest median age at 35. Maine has the oldest median age at 45.0. People in Utah tend to have an entire van or SUV full of kids, which brings that median age down.

So I fired Cole. There you go. Cole ever. Okay. I guess what? His hats are going to be that he chooses his college. It'll be limited to one apparently because he's not smart enough. Dadgummit, Cole. Yeah. Somebody said MTSU. Yeah. Because I guess when he was on, I tried to get him to go to MTSU and they said he may be going to MTSU after all. Yeah. But no. Can you imagine us firing someone for making him a fake on the show? Yeah. Or anything. We gave him promotion. Yeah. Yeah.

The funny thing about it is I think – so I read on Backwards based on Cole's research, said Maine was the youngest and I think I said Alaska was the oldest. It's –

Basically the other way around. I think you said, both of those, I think you said, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Which is just kind of funny because it was the exact opposite. The exact opposite. Did you read it wrong or Cole got it wrong? Cole got it wrong. Oh, Cole. You would think Alaska would be the oldest for some reason. We're going to get rid of it. Yeah. You would think so. Yeah. Yeah. It's cold. There's snow. You know, you got it. Well, that's why you and Cole are both fired right now. No. Cole does great. We had some duties in high school. He's going to school, trying to get into college.

Cole did great. Yes. Taylor Ruggles, about the dinner time in Spain, a lot of Spanish-speaking countries have late dinner times because it's custom to take a nap during the day so they work later into the night. Oh.

You're living a Spanish lifestyle. I'm a Spanish lifestyle. Yeah, I like that. Move down there. There's a lot of evidence that our bodies are built to do that. Yeah. You know that feeling, that 2.30, 3 o'clock feeling? Yeah. We're probably supposed to take naps. I feel like you're doing a five-hour energy drink commercial. You know that 2.30 feeling? Yeah. Well, it's like a... Siestas. Yeah, which our nap is, yeah, would be probably 4, 3, 4 p.m.

4 p.m., maybe 5. You know what's funny? I go lay down. I don't take naps. You always say, I don't ever take naps. I go in there, and I'm going to go take a nap. There's occasion, like the other day after we did, I was on Bob and Tom. Me and you both were on Bob and Tom. But that nap, one of my favorite naps was,

is getting up to do morning radio. When you only get like three hours of sleep and then you go do radio, it's borderline not even a nap. It's going back to bed. But then you go eat and you're just so tired and then it's during the day and you're like, I can't wait to go back to sleep. You don't like getting up early to do morning radio, but man...

When you're done after that, that satisfaction of being, you worked, I did something this morning, and you go eat just whatever, worst breakfast. You can get pancakes, whatever. It's like the most, you feel the most deserved time to eat that. You're a veteran. You know how to do this to where eat and then fall asleep. I'm tired, and I'm also drinking coffee at the same time. I'm like, I got to stay up. Then I'm like, oof.

I had a little bit of coffee before Bob and Tom, and then I have a Diet Coke at breakfast. Diet Coke, sir. Then I go back to sleep. But I'm having trouble with coffee at night. I'm having a time I always like to have. I get one before the show, and I think I got to have it at like 2 p.m. or something. I'm getting old enough finally. But you eat after the show, right? And you drink caffeine? Yeah.

Yeah. That's the real problem. Probably. But the caffeine in the Diet Coke probably does nothing to you. Yeah. You've built up a pretty high tolerance. Yes. I would think so. Yeah. Coffee's a different, that's in a different league. Yeah. Throw a couple of Sour Patch Kids in there for you too. Doesn't help. Yeah. Honestly, it doesn't help. I eat like a cow. Are we going to do our weigh-in? I should be taking off to slaughter. I weighed myself yesterday. I'm at 186. I'm nowhere.

But that's five pounds better than last time you were here. I had shoes on and stuff. I was like wearing my full outfit, but I mean, I'm a 186. So I was like, yeah, I did it literally yesterday and I thought, well, I got to go 20 pounds. How are you doing, Brian? I've made slight progress. Okay. But I had a five pound lead on it, so I thought I could coast until he catches me. Yeah. Well, you can still coast. I mean, but I'm getting close.

Because I got to get, you know, look, I got to get in a better mood. I got to do a lot of stuff. I'm fixing a lot of stuff. You have to just fix just your weight. So I won't be a cow. So you won't be a cow. What are you? Oh, I stop weighing myself. Oh, there you go. That's the answer. Amy Jackson. When I was little, my grandmother told me that the devil was angry at God for the beauty in the sun, so he beat his wife, making her cry. Her tears were supposed to be the rain.

All right. Sorry you had to deal with that, Amy. That's the child. It's the grandmother. Like, hey, let's maybe not go over there today. That's funny. Next to your rant, that probably got the most comments. The devil beating his wife. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people have heard that. Not just in Mississippi and Alabama. Oh, yeah. All over. All over. Why did the rain come from the sky then? Is the devil's wife...

In the sky? No, you would think it would be flooding. You think it would be coming up, yeah, coming up from. Like when it's flooding. Yeah. But that water comes from the sky. But in the flood, a volcano. A volcano would be. A volcano would be, yeah. And you're like, well, her tears are fire because she's down there. She's married to the devil. Jordan Garrett Lane. My grandparents called lunch, dinner. Once they invited me over for dinner, I didn't show up until 6.30 p.m.

I guess it's not my fault for not knowing my grandparents better. I guess it is his fault. I guess it is my fault. Yeah. Yeah, it was his fault. Christina Barga. I couldn't help but notice that when we have another penguin situation on our hands, the way Nate and Brad Currams say bingles sounds like it's spelled bingles. B-I-N-G-L-E-S.

I'd be curious to see what Aaron Lane has to say about this. I would bet he pronounces it. How do you pronounce it? Bengals. Bengals. That's how you say Cincinnati Bengals? Yeah. Since I actually sided with him in the penguin pronunciation, I find it funny to hear it pronounced Bengals as if it rhymes with Pringles. I know this whole comment sounds like a Dr. Seuss book, so I apologize in advance for making Nate read this. Yeah, Cincinnati Bengals.

Yeah, I've always said bingles. I said bingles. What did you say? Bangles. So you say it like the band, the bangles. I say it the way everybody I've ever met in my entire life says it. You know what I mean? Until now? Until now, yeah. I mean, does it bother you that you're...

Most people don't say it that way? No. Do you notice that? Are you aware of it? No, I think when they all say it, we say it. We're not around much people that can get into Notre Dame. I'll talk about on ESPN, they go, tonight's matchup, the Cincinnati Bengals. They don't say anything. What do you think? I just follow them around and go, I think I'm saying it wrong. I think they're saying it wrong.

Okay. Wait, are you protected of the South or are you not protected of the South? Who are you defending here? That's a good point. I've never noticed it. I never noticed it either. The more we talk about it, the more I'm thinking Bengals. Like Bengals. Bengals. Cincinnati Bengals. Now I'm saying, it's wrong in my head and I'm like, I can't get it out. Cincinnati, and he's from Connecticut. That's ESPN territory. That is true. We invented how to say it.

Yeah. Bengals. How do you say it? I say Bengals, like the bangs on your hair. Bengals. But like the band, the Bengals. That's a funny reference. I would like to say. But I mean, they spell it differently. Both ways. Bengals, the way we say it is B-I. The way you say it is B-A. No one's saying Bengals. Bengals. She nailed it, though. This is the exact argument we had about penguins. Yeah. Yeah.

Penguins. Penguins. Rachel Jones, my husband is from Morocco and says the Moroccan time fact is simply not true. He said that if you show up an hour late to meet a friend, they would be angry. And if you show up a day late to a doctor's appointment, you would be laughed at. Please let the listeners know so they visit. They are not disappointed when they miss their dinner reservations and tour times. I'm glad we got that.

I'm a little let down. I love the idea that you would just show up the next day. I mean, to live in society, I mean, that would be a very frustrating society. I don't think I could probably handle it if they lived like that. I would end up apologizing every day. I would end up going into every doctor's office.

The next day and be like, hello, I'm Nate Bargetti. I'm sorry. Yesterday I got a little carried away. It's like the reverse, like Vegas where anything happens anytime, you know, they have their own, like you could just show up anytime. And that's, I mean, but I met my, one of my favorite things would have been in life would have been Morocco just to show up the next day for your doctors. Like that's, and they're like, yeah, cool. Whatever dude.

That sounds exactly like Vegas, right? Yeah. It's the same thing. Same thing. Oh, okay. I thought you said the opposite. No, well, it's the same, but it's like a step further. Anything goes in Vegas. Anything goes any day in Morocco. You could just do whatever you want. There you go. Shelby Sheridan. Thanks a lot, guys. I blame you all for Amy's loss last night on Jeopardy.

January 26th, 22. Same day that Nate Land aired, she lost her 40-game streak. You guys jinxed her. That's true. That is true. Do you know what her total winnings were? Did she break a million? Yeah. She broke a million. Yeah. That's second most wins. Wow. Well, that's good. Yep.

Being from New England and hearing Brian say we call a milkshake a frappy is driving me crazy. It's spelled frappy, but we pronounce it as frap. When he said frappy, I was losing my mind. Chris, you need to apologize to Brian right now. It's the only thing I learned, Chris. It's our fault. We're the ones, me and you, buddy. Yeah.

Sorry, Chris. Chris Culp. In regards to yard sales, my cousin Kyla was going through a box of items only to be told that they were cleaning out their garage, not having a yard sale. She also thought her car was broken into because when she got inside, there was stuff thrown about everywhere. Then she realized she was in someone else's car. Kyla sounds like your kind of girl.

Oh, that's funny. Yeah. All right. Now I get it. I didn't get it at first. Like she just went up to someone's house. Yeah. It just started going through their stuff in the garage. Oh, that's great. That's so funny. That's so funny. Have you ever come close to getting in the wrong car? Oh, I do it all the time. Yeah. I've sat in the wrong. I sat in the wrong car and started adjusting the mirrors. And then I realized it's not. Really? It's not my minivan. Yeah. Yeah. I think I had a joke with it.

uh it's happening to me i did a joke about it john f o'donnell i don't remember i've talked about it a comic but one day i was picking him up and i watched him get in a car and he was and he was on the phone with me god i think i told this joke on stage i don't know if it's in a special but it's and i was like on the phone and like i regretted like not saying uh

Because he goes, is this your car? And I just said, I go, no. And I remember I should have been like, how do you not? That's when I think I got good at playing little pranks. Because I learned a lesson there to go like, he was about to open a door and get in. And I could have watched it. I could have listened to it. And my good heart in me said no. And I beat that good heart down. Yeah.

And now I'm pretty mean. It's happened to me though in Vegas where I've literally got into the wrong car. And then crashed in the parking garage? Can I crash this car? No.

No, we ordered an Uber, and I was with my buddy, Clint, who's also a little person, and he's got a scooter. And so I literally get into the car. I sit in, close the door, and I'm like, do you mind helping get my buddy's scooter in the trunk? And he was like, who are you? Why are you in my car? Yeah.

You get in and then also giving the guy, the guy's got to do a bunch of stuff. It weighs 60 pounds. I could get somebody else. I was literally like, I can have somebody else help me. He's like, what are you doing in my car? His buddy Clint's the best. He is so fun. He's a fun time. He's a fun time. All right. People were asking too, because y'all read some of the ads recently. We were just mixing it up.

you know? Yeah. I like doing it. Yeah, it was good. So we all do it. I know you guys, I know that's, you know, we read, uh, it's a lot of ads. So I know people don't, you know, but it's like, uh, tell the boys make money. And, uh,

So, yeah, I don't know. That's it. But we also do ads. I thought you were going to go around. I go. I pay for you to be on this podcast. We're going to read these ads. Brian Bates flies first class everywhere. No, but this is all stuff that we do use, though. Like, we're not. I do try to. I do specifically. I don't use keeps, obviously, but that's, I think, a good thing to use. But we do. We ate that meal before we went on the road. Yes. No.

on Wednesday. Yes. We had the green chef and then we did athletic greens before. And so it's, I try, I don't do stuff that we wouldn't use. I don't talk space, talk, talk space. You got to talk to someone. I've had to talk to someone because apparently I get, I did not. Apparently I'm, uh, mean. So, uh,

You know, you got to deal with that. And I have. And you didn't work last week. Talkspace pulled their ad. Yeah. It was a busy week for you. Yeah, I called Talkspace right after. I accidentally missed last week. So then I got a call back in next week and go, whew, God's got out of control. I go, where were you? You wouldn't believe what happened last. I yelled at them. They go, I was traveling. I go, how'd you travel? But they...

Yeah, but I try not to give you anything that we wouldn't use. I've said no to stuff. I honestly try to give you stuff that we would use. So this week, the reason Nick's here, we didn't want him, but... All right, sorry. It just jumps out. You know? Nick, so this week we're going to talk about award shows. We're back to the topics, too.

look at this. Oh, is this your... I thought there should be one winner at the table. Wow. This is Emmy. This is a real Emmy. Wow. Yeah. Not as heavy as you think. It's not heavy. No, it is. I just want to say the opposite of everybody that says you got it. A lot lighter than you think.

Look at that dust. I didn't realize there was dust on the bottom of it. 13th Annual Mid-South Regional Emmy Awards. Brian Bates, Newscast Daytime. News Channel 5 this morning, WTVF. Do you give a speech? Yep. What do you do? What was your speech? I just thank my coworkers and everyone who worked on it. I thought we were going to be having her, honestly. I mean, there's no set time. They didn't play me off or anything. Yeah.

I think I made a joke. This is 1999. Now, they're more up to date. They look more like with the round bases, just like the real Emmys. But I think I remember making a joke about... Because everyone was thinking their spouse, and I didn't have a spouse. So I made a joke about it. I guess I'll think my mom or something. I don't know. Something like that. That's pretty good. That's pretty funny. Did you pretend that you didn't expect to win? Everybody always does that. That's my biggest...

Pet beef. These award shows. I was like, oh my, I never could have. You were nominated. Yeah. You had a shot. Yeah. I'm so stunned. Here's the speech in my pocket. Right. Well, that's, but you have to write the speech. But even if you're nominated, I still think you're, there's a little like, you're like, I'm not going to win though, dude. Like, I mean, I think with my gram, like, you know, you're like, I'm not going to win. Like, it's like being nominated, you know, because it is, I think, I think some of that's true.

I think a big part of it is feigning humility. I think it's a big part of it. But you got to be, dude, if you got nominated for a Grammy and then you won, you would be like, dude, this is crazy. It's crazy. It's like, why am I, I can't believe I'm even here. I mean, when I, I can't believe I I'm even nominated. I honestly, you don't think that's something that you're going to get to do. And honestly,

But then you don't know. Not that I know of. You find out in that moment. So if you win, there's got to be the fear of, I've got to give this speech. I wrote this speech. I was like, I'm not going to read this speech. All the stuff that you would just then be like, I can't believe I'm even up here. Look at Leonardo DiCaprio when he won.

You've got to think, that guy is like, yeah, should he think he's being nominated? Never won. If anybody that should have ever won, this guy hasn't won ever. And they just keep not getting it. And he keeps going, probably thinking, yeah, I'm going to win. Why would he not win? He's a great actor. He's doing all this stuff. Never wins.

They just don't give it to him. And that dude's the darling of Hollywood. Like, that guy's like, I'm doing the things, what am I, you know. For some reason, y'all don't want to give it to him. And this dude barely wins, like, one. In that video, there's that video when he's sitting there, he's getting his...

They give him the trophy and they're making it. And then he's like, they're like, you do ask him something. He goes, I don't know. I've never done this. And you're like that. I mean, that's the most famous person on one of the most famous people on earth. Right. For doing great movies. How did not win in Titanic? Like how did like, you know what I mean? So I do think there's a, I get what you mean, but there has to be, there has to be an element of like, they can't believe like you just, you know, everybody doesn't think they're going to be the best. Right.

Like you don't think you're going to get to maybe you're nominated. Some people probably do. Some people have the ego to think that.

But then I think some other people, I guess I get what you're saying in magic, it depends if it comes off authentic or not. - Yeah, to Aaron's point, sometimes they've already went eight that night and then they'll get up there for their night. I cannot believe this. - But I also think too, that comics have a serious advantage that you're used to getting up there and just talking where a lot of actors are unbelievable, but acting with the script that they work on for a while.

So in that moment, it's crazy and you're not – You're just saying what – You're saying whatever. What you think you're supposed to say. And it's like as a comic where you're like, oh, there's a bad thing that happened. Somebody's – there's an issue happening at a table in front of you and that's – you're more used to the craziness of –

on the fly situations. I like a comic. Yeah. But I think you're still just like kind of terrified and nervous and like, wow, all this, I've been working my whole life and this happened. So I get a little bit why people would blank, but I think it's so much more beneficial for a comic because in that moment you can say something funny or you've been there. Yeah, I mean, you got to think you're not going to win this. Did you think you were going to win this? This is the first time I've ever been nominated. I didn't know what to think. No, not really. Yeah.

Yeah. It was, I mean, so long ago, I don't even remember. But yeah, I mean, I think it was one in five chance. And at that time, I was really like, I don't even know what these, it's not like a singer or an actor where you know exactly who you're up against. I'm up against some TV station in North Carolina. I don't know what it is they did. Yeah. So I just thought, well, I got a 20% chance. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think about like with a great, like I don't know.

You know, you sit there and think about it. Oh, I know. For years. I've seen the other nominees. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's not happening. Congratulations, Bo Burnham. Yeah. He's not nominated for. Oh, he's Critics' Choice? Yeah. He is nominated for a Grammy, but it's a different category. And Bo's was unreal. But it's like, you sit there and you're like, I don't know, dude. Why would I? Like, you do. I think, I'm just saying that.

And I would maybe, I'd probably say this is crazy or something. And it's like, you don't, but it's like, I don't know. You're like, I don't expect it. Because it's like, it seems too surreal. Why would I get it? I can't believe I'm even, I can't even believe to be to that point. Like, you're like, I'm just an idiot from here, dude. Because this is a whole world you never thought you'd even be.

You're doing comedy. It's all about the jokes. You're just trying to get ahead as a comedian. I don't even know what you're searching for. It's not like you're sitting there going... I mean, I've talked about it. I have my goals and dreams and I want to do this stuff and I want to create this stuff. I want to start a Nate Land world and be able to do this stuff. There's a lot of...

Drive. I think I have... I know I have a lot of drive. I know I have a lot of like... Which plays into like my being upset or mean. It's like I can get very... I'm in my drive and I want like... I think everybody should be doing like... I'm doing it. You should do it. We should all like... You have this mindset of like just do it. Like I don't like, you know. But it seems insane. It would be insane. Because it's like, you know, it is. You're just like, dude, we're just...

Family from Old Hickory. I think we're good people, unless we're talking about Brian. And then we're, you know, and you're just like, you know, I don't know. You just say like, it would be wild. But it is wild that you're nominated. And it's like, you're there. I mean, that is such an insane accomplishment. I mean, I look at the nominees.

This year for you, everyone's insane. Dave Chappelle won the Grammy three straight years. Yeah. 2018, 2019, 2020. Tiffany Haddish won it last year. All huge names. Last year, the Critics' Choice, the nominees, it was a tie. Did you know that? I think. Seinfeld and Michelle Buteau. Oh, you already know that. Okay. Yeah. But then Fortune Feimster, Hannah Gadsby, Mark Maron, Patton Oswalt. I mean, big, big, big names. Yeah. And Seinfeld won last year. Now you're up. You may win it this year.

How crazy is that? It's crazy. I bet Bo. Bo's the nominator in that one. Yeah. So Bo. But I mean, everybody, yeah, it's, it's, yeah, that's the thing. Being nominated is the, is I, and I would always, so you would tell you if you could one day, almost your goal would be just to be nominated. And you're like, just let me, at least you can be, you know, maybe that would be your top. So winning it, but.

Nate wins. But I get it. I get what you're saying. Like when you're seeing them and you think, because you think like, yeah, dude, you're the most famous person ever. How do you not? But that person might not think that. Like they might be like, you know, it's like I'd imagine they could be like, I don't know, dude. I'm just like, you know, Denzel Washington. Like I've become like kind of obsessed with him recently. And there was a video. He was on Jimmy Kimmel. They actually showed it.

But he goes to his old Chicago neighborhood, and he's talking to this old lady. And, I mean, dude, he's just like one of them. Like, he's just – they're just hanging. He's like, you know, and it's the best. And, like, that guy probably knows – by now he knows he's going to get nominated on everything just because he's been around for so long. So, like, I think he's just in the world so much. But, like, that guy seems like a guy that's, like, just –

this best dude ever. Like he just seems like a guy that would never, I think would be surprised that he's in the world that he's in and he, you know, and it could feel like crazy. Yeah. He's one of the most nominated for, for Oscars people ever. This makes me think of this clip, which I love. It's Ben Affleck and Matt Damon winning their first Oscar for writing Good Will Hunting. And they're just young dudes and they are so over the top excited that

I think at one point Matt Davis was like, I mean, it's crazy. They're just young. Look how pumped they are, dude. Yeah. But the adrenaline there, though, it's just wild. Yeah. I mean, that is like, they're like, I can't believe we won. They probably can't believe they won. Yeah. They can't believe they're right. Their whole year has been a whirlwind. That year of them doing goodwill hunting, it's been just...

Like, it's been nonstop. They probably didn't have time to even think about it. It's like you're just, they're just in it. Probably at that point, everybody's asking them to do anything and everything. And then they're like, these two dudes just wrote this. And then they're like, hey, by the way, you're not in for an Oscar. Like, you can't even wrap your head around that. And then next thing, and then you're winning it. And you're like, that all probably happened within a year. Was just, every day was something insane.

Every day was a call from something that you can't believe. So you don't even get to catch your breath. You don't even get to go like, and you're trying to just stay in the moment too. And you're trying to be like, yeah, man, this is like, you're trying to back yourself off and be like, yeah, this is crazy. This isn't, I can't believe this. When I go to my shows, I look at you, look at the crowd. You go, I don't know who, who's, why are you here?

You just can't, I mean, you just look at it. And you're like this weekend where every show is,

And you're just going like, why are y'all here? Why would you come here? Y'all need to, you're wasting your money. Like Leanne was talking, you're like, and go wash their car. And you just feel like that because you're like, I'm not anything special, man. And you're, you know. So it's like, that's all I would say, not to diffuse your point. I think there would be times I would be annoyed by it. Have you seen the video, Faith Hill at the CMAs where she faked outrage?

That's also fun too. When you've been doing it so long that they have all the nominees up and then they announce Carrie Underwood and she's like, and she storms off. And people thought it was real, but it clearly is a joke. She's just having fun. And that's fun too. That's fun too. Yeah. Yeah. That's funny too. There's no way we're going to be playing any of these videos. Well, you don't have to. Yeah. That was the gist of it. Yeah. Yeah. Award shows are good. Award shows are great.

They were great. I feel like they're still there. I feel like they've dropped off. They've got to get back to being the fun that they were. I mean, because award shows were very fun. They were fun to watch. They were fun to do. It was a good time. How much of that do you think is the award shows changing versus just you changing and you look at them differently now? I think the award shows changed. I mean, I think it was...

You know, it's like a big part of it, too, is like the movies. Like, you look at the Oscars. Like, they're nominated movies that you're like, I don't know who. I've never heard of these movies. Because they're making, it's all Marvel, Star Wars. It's all these kind of movies. And then the ones that are nominated for Oscars, like, don't get, no one even knows about them.

like you're, you know, like the one with Leonardo, Revenant, or is that what it's called? The Revenant. Yeah. So like that one was like a big one. Cause it's got Leonardo Caprio in it. Like if it's got some big actors in it, but some of these other ones that are winning, you're like, I don't know what that is. Uh, Parasite when it won, like I heard that's great or something, but like, I never saw Parasite. Like, I don't know where I would have gone. Like I'm not,

if you're living like, was it on the movie theaters? Like you go to Opry Mills and I think I watched it on Amazon prime. Yeah. It's like, you're not going to like, but I mean, most people are like, I'm going to Opry Mills to watch a movie like, or Opry land. I'm going to like, they don't have parasite. They don't have like, it's, it's all kind of like, they're almost making movies for people, right? Like they're making for like the America, uh,

It's like, or, you know, the world. But they were like, here's all the regular people. Y'all go watch these movies. And then these are the movies that are like, so it's almost getting like wine tasting. Like it's getting too specific that you're like, people are like, I don't even know. I've never heard of one of these movies. So like, I don't, like I would, I don't know if I, I'm not really invested in it. Right. But when I would go before you'd be like, we saw Good Will on, everybody saw all of these movies.

And that elevated the award shows. The ratings show, I mean, 2021, which weird year because of COVID, 9.8 million Americans watched last year's Academy Awards. In 2014, it was 40 million. So that's a huge drop off in just a short amount of time. 40 million. Yeah, I mean, they're huge. Those are almost mash. What's the most ever? I don't know, but the ratings...

for the Academy Awards last year was 1.9. The year before it was 5.3. Wow. Which, that's a huge drop just in one year. 1.9 means that 1.9% of adults watched it. Wow. They're all dropping to some degree. The Emmys hit the all-time low in 2020. Its peak was early 90s and early 2000s. I can move that.

So that was your heyday. What? You go, the Emmys dropped, and I just moved this in front. What were they in 1999? They were huge. This is the Mid-South Emmy Awards, by the way. Oh, yeah? It was on TV, though. It was on PBS. Local PBS. Well, you know, this year's Grammys, they may have a nice bump, you know? Mr. Bregazzi nominated. That's true. And

I know one guy that won't be watching. Yeah. The guy earlier. If Nate wins, he's going to be like, all right, first things first. I just want to apologize for calling Brian a cow. I might bring him back up if I win. I'll be honest with you. I finally got rid of that guy. Brian's been just holding me back, draining me. Amazing what he can do when you cut the dead weight out of your life. And I think everybody knows exactly who I'm talking about. Put the picture on the screen behind you.

Yeah. If he wins, it's all bets off. Speaking of pictures, can we talk about this man? Can we talk about who is sitting next to me right now? Someone. So Nick, no Vicky. People might not know. Uh,

The Golden Globes, a lot of people protested this year, didn't show up. Nick does not care about any of that. Can I read something? He supports them full time. From Variety magazine. This is from January 2nd, January 4th. There will be no celebrity presenters this year at the Golden Globe Award. Variety has obtained a copy of an email where talent bookers sent several publicity agencies and they were able to secure no...

Talent clients for the show. Sources say no celebs have agreed to take part. Go ahead, Nick. That's when my time to shine comes. Yeah, baby, yeah. Everyone out, you know, a lot of fallouts, and then boom. Now is my opportunity. So they did it. This was a very cool thing, though, Nick. It doesn't, you know, take away the...

All the... But that doesn't even matter. No. Like, this is... The Golden Globes, it's a... It was very cool that you got to do this. So, this is by far the craziest phone call I ever get in my life. I get a phone call the Friday before the Sunday Golden Globes. And there was a presenter for two awards, the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, two of the biggest awards. Yeah. Got COVID. And they asked me, like...

In the literally 23rd hour, they've already got rehearsals, all this stuff. We want you to present these awards.

The Hollywood Foreign Press, they support the Easter Seals Disability Film Challenge with a grant. They asked me last minute because of this fallout. And it is just the craziest call I ever get in my life. You got rehearsals tomorrow. I'm like, what? They're like, we're going to send you the script. There's two scripts. Don't worry. We got teleprompter. So don't worry about it. Now, let's cut to the last time I was on.

And we had a lot of people reaching out. The folks have still been reaching out about my eye problem. I have keratosis. I don't know how many eye doctors and people with eye problems are fans of this show, but I have received 50 emails of people supporting me. And a lot of people, they're saying, look, it is a big deal, but don't worry about it. You only really need to do something if it affects your life.

Okay. If your vision affects your life. Now I accept this thing and I can't read teleprompter. So the most important call I ever get in my life and I cannot read. Yeah. So I'm like, well, I'll be at the Beverly Hilton tomorrow for the rehearsal. And I got these giant scripts and I'm starting to kind of memorize. Now this is a tuxedo event too. And I have two tuxedos that I got from different shoots.

but I brought one of the tuxedos with me to New York. So now I'm running around. I don't have a tuxedo shirt. I don't have a tuxedo tie. I'm trying to memorize. And I'm like, oh, I get to the rehearsal. Well, you brought it to New York. Yeah, I brought, I was doing something else. And so I brought like the wrong pants and the wrong shirt with me. So now I got the wrong, I've gotten this. This is in New York? No, no, no. This is in LA, but I'm, I'm, I have to get on that Saturday morning, the

the correct matching of a tuxedo. I don't even have this. And I'm, I'm trying to memorize and I get up to the rehearsal and I show up and everybody is doing one take and it's going great. People do teleprompter all the time. Everybody that's presenting.

And it gets to me. And right before I go up, I go, you know, hey, guys, I got really bad vision. So I just want to don't worry about it. Everyone, you know, it's huge font. You're going to see it. And there's five cameras. They it wasn't televised on NBC, but they still shot it this exact same way, same location, same cameras. And so I get up there and I just can't see.

I am like, I'm in that moment where you're just like, oh, I should have listened to the folks. And I'm now trying to see, and I kind of have some memorized and I kind of can see certain things and I'm just making up other things that have nothing to do with it. I'm like, yeah. And they did come with the car and they're like, what are you talking about? They came with the car. I mean, I am just saying, and so I get through it and everybody else is one take. Great. And I get, I get through on the side.

And the guy who was the stage manager goes, you might want to stay here. I have a feeling we're going to do this again. Oh, man. Because, you know, in your head, you're like, maybe it's not as bad as I thought it's going. And then the guy's like, yeah, just stay here. I think we're doing it again. And we don't do it again. And the stage manager, everybody goes, look, I understand you couldn't see it. Don't worry. We're going to do it again.

We actually had Betty White as a presenter two years ago. So we created a Betty White font for the teleprompter. And so we're going to give you that. And I'm like, how great. I am literally using the font of a 98 year old woman. Yeah, yeah.

So I'm still like the writers are like, look, we don't have time to actually do it again with this Betty White font. So you should just memorize it. So now I stay up all night memorizing these two speeches, really tough names, including one of the nominees was Denzel Washington, actually. And I'm memorizing the speeches. And, you know, you're just in that moment where you're like, oh, man, I hope this goes good. You're praying. You really just want it to go good. And I show up.

for the actual awards, right before it, a writer comes up to me and goes, "Hey, just want to let you know, we changed the script. Don't worry, it's on the teleprompter." And I'm like, "But I can't read the teleprompter!" And so I go up and it was- - What did you say to him before you go, "Oh, that's cool."

I mean, I just was like, I don't know if I'm going to be able to read it. He goes, and they just walk away. You know, it's like everybody's got different jobs. Yeah. They're, you know, they're doing what they're told to do. It's like the army when you're on a production. So they're like, this is the script. Don't worry. You're going to read it. And I'm like, but I can't. And he's already gone. You know, they're, they're in, they're in television, like producing mode, you know? And so I, I get up there and I actually could read, you know, parts of the Betty White font.

- It's just really huge? - It's just humongous. It's like one word at a time. Usually it's like four sentences on the thing. It's like one word and I have things memorized. And luckily, like I was able to kind of improv a little and bring energy and it was one of those magical things where it really went great. And I knew in the moment where I was like, wow, everything is landing. I'm throwing little jokes. I presented an award to Will Smith

And I'm like, "Hey, it's Will Smith!" I went crazy. Everybody else is that regular energy. And I'm like, "I want to learn how to play tennis 'cause of this movie." You know what I'm saying? I'm like doing crowd work. And it's like, it was a really magical moment. And I get off stage and the director was like, "Wow, that was really great." And I gotta be honest, yesterday I did not think this was gonna go very good.

And I got to thank my guardian angel, Betty White, because it was like that moment where you're like, thank God she was 98 years old. Yeah. And here two years ago. That's awesome. Well, that's like the famous John Travolta when he mispronounced, was it Idina Menzel? And says it's something like you would say it. Yeah. But he said afterwards, they changed it last minute to make it phonetic.

Is that the right word? Yeah. Phonetic. And so he just tried to read it how she said it, and that's how they totally messed him up. Well, it just was, I had never honestly read Teleprompter 2. So when I was in the rehearsal trying to read it and I can't read it, I just started going on complete different talking points. And they were like, what are you even talking about? This isn't even in the script. Yeah. Yeah.

And, and De Niro actually did something like that. So there, I could hear like a crew guy going, Hey, I think he's pulling a De Niro. Oh yeah. Did, uh, did you do, uh, I like that you told me, you said, like you said, you want, I want to play tennis because of this movie. Yeah. So Will Smith won. Will Smith won. So I present. And when I saw it was Will Smith, first of all, some of the nominees have very difficult names. Yeah. Uh,

And I was having a hard time pronouncing certain names. And Will Smith was one of those names. And I was like, I hope to God it is Will Smith. Yeah. Because I'm a fan and it's the easiest name to say. And I'm not going to mess it up. Yeah. And when I saw it, I just was also just like knowing that I got through everything I had to get through and it went good. Yeah. Instead of like it was new things and, you know, and it went good. And I saw Will Smith and I was like, it's Will Smith.

you know, King Richard. And then after I was like, you know, and I always wanted to learn how to play tennis, you know, this movie made me want, and I just start going into this thing and everybody's like, I'm bored with me. And everybody else's energy is just like, cause I'm the only comic, you know, that's there, you know, people that really talk a lot, you know, even actors, they're generally not like, they will say lines, but I was at now a 12. I was so fired up. Nick's the first presenter to get the wrap up music. Yeah.

Get him off. It was just, it was that moment where you just had the adrenaline and just felt so happy. And I was, cause, cause there was a time earlier that day where I was like, I think I'm going to quit show business. Like I'm like thinking like you just start to get down that alley where you're like, everything's going wrong. I can't see it. And I'm trying to memorize, but it's like a lot of stuff and you're memorizing it within a, not even a day. Yeah. Yeah.

And then literally within the hour before they completely changed everything that's you've been memorizing. It's funny. Why would they change the script? They do that all the time. Every, everything like that happens. And so you gotta be like, you know, it happens on it. Luckily I have that experience from TV and working on TV and, and they change stuff too. Yeah. And you gotta, you know, you gotta still do it. So, I mean, I was very honored like that. I got that opportunity. Um,

And having been in the business for 20 years, it's like if I didn't have a ton of experience,

It could have gone so bad. Yeah. Yeah. And I literally called, I called Nate when I got this opportunity, like an hour after. And I was like, look, part of me, I'm like, this is an amazing opportunity. Probably the most exciting phone call I've ever got. And if it goes great, it is an amazing thing that I'll have for the rest of my life that no one can take away. Yeah. But if it goes bad, I'll be able to go on the Nate land podcast and talk about all this vision advice that I didn't listen to. Yeah.

Were there any recipients there? No. So just announce it. And you were, it was, it was like, uh, you know, all different organizations that get funding from the Hollywood foreign press gives out a ton of grants and they give out a grant to the Easter sales disability film challenge, which we just opened up registration. It's happening this year, April 5th to April 10th.

You make a film that has somebody with a disability in front of her, behind the camera. This year's genre is superhero. Go to disabilityfilmchallenge.com to learn more. But everybody that was a presenter was a recipient of a grant or involved in nonprofit. And it was a year about showing all the great work that the Hollywood Foreign Press does.

And so there wasn't really anybody that was, there was like Jamie Lee Curtis and Schwarzenegger, but they also, you know, did videos. So it was really more about the Hollywood Foreign Press and organizations they support.

So I also had that advantage, too, to where a lot of these people do great work, but they also are not used to talking in front of people. Right. Now, they are used to reading teleprompter. So I was like, ah! Did you open the envelope before? No, see, it was exactly as you would see. Literally the exact same location. It's in...

The Hilton, which I used to stay all the time. I would swim in the pool whenever Nate would be in town. Yeah. And the same exact thing. You give the speech and then you go and the nominees and then you open up this like golden envelope and it has the name. And that's like to see Will Smith's name too and read that. And I mean, it's just, it's surreal. They have all the golden globes right there. The nominees were Denzel Washington, Will Smith,

Yeah, Benedict Cumberbatch, Javier Bardem. That was Javier Bardem. That was in the rehearsal script that I was in. I kept saying Javier Bardem. I was saying it wrong. My wife was like, it's them, like Democrat, Javier Bardem. Bardem. When you open the envelope, does it say anything besides Will Smith, King Richard? No. No.

My buddy read the wrong winner on the Mid-South Emmy Awards. My buddy Ben, the same one who got nominated twice and lost both. Yeah. If anybody remembers that story, that's... I don't know. My buddy, we've talked about it a few times. He was nominated twice in the same category. There was four nominees. He was two of the four. They announced, we have a tie. He was neither of the winners. I mean, how great is that? I love that. That's unbelievable.

It's unreal. It's the odds of that are... I think it's... What are the odds of you getting nominated twice in a category and the other two people top? And that's if they... Yeah. Golly. He also was a presenter once and it was for Best Live Broadcast or something like that. So the Mid-South Emmy Awards, it's kind of weird. They were nominated for last year's show. So...

When he opens up the envelope to read the winner, they didn't win, but it said in there, it still had their title at the top of the page. Does that make sense? And so he just read, he thought they won. So he read their name and then everyone just froze. They didn't play the clip. They didn't play whatever. And then the real winner just died.

came up and accepted. Oh, did they know? Everybody knew it was wrong? Well, the production people know the winner because they have to know. So they played like, you know, once they announced the winner, they play the clip of what they did. And then those people, the real winners saw it and then they came on up there. But he actually announced the wrong winner. And so then he just turned and looked at the screen and they didn't start it. And he goes, oh, yeah, that's...

And that's the big thing. What's the other one? The Warren Beatty? Yeah, that's the biggest, the best picture at the Academy Awards. Well, now after this process, though, because you have a whole other day of rehearsal the day before. Same location, all the cameras, and they give you a different name. And I thought, I was like, I think they just told me who won the Golden Globes. Like, you know, and it was, it's a dummy. But I think they give you the harder names on the rehearsal. So they're like, hey, you better know all these names. Wow.

So if you wanted to find out if you win or not, just go to the rehearsal. And if you hear your name...

You're guaranteed you didn't win. Well, maybe. I think some of the people were winners. They just gave me the tough names. They were like, he's having a hard time reading regular. We better give him. Better throw Mahershala Ali at him and see what happens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Oscar, when they give it to you, it's already engraved with your name. Yeah. But the Grammy is not. That's just a fake one that you use for pictures, and then they mail you the real one later. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because they don't want anyone to know. Oh, that's crazy. Oh, the Oscars, they already have it.

They already have it, so it's got your name on it when they give it to you. Wow. If you win a Grammy, are you going to put it in here? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Put it somewhere right here. Yeah, we'll find a spot for it. He'll break this on air. Yeah.

I looked up why they're called. I forgot to look up Tony. I don't know why Tony's called Tony. An Oscar is called an Oscar because one of the women who worked there said it kind of looked like, the statue looked like her uncle Oscar.

So that's why they call it that. That's all it took, huh? Yeah, that's so funny to me. This big kind of Academy Award is like this big name. And Oscar is a good, Oscar is a great name. Yeah. But it's funny that it all just starts with like, it almost like you would take the awards. It makes them not seem as serious. If someone, like if you won an Oscar,

And then you're looking at it and just someone just came up to you and said, you know, it's called an Oscar because this lady, like, it looked like her uncle. And then he just walked away. You'd be like, well, it's not even impressive anymore. Yeah.

Grammy's called a Grammy because it's short for gramophone because that's what the image is. Yeah. Emmy is, it was. Immophone? It's close, actually. It was originally IMMY, which is a TV, a piece of TV equipment. And they said, well, let's soften it and call it Emmy, like a girl's name. So that's why it's called that.

I-M-M-Y is a TV? It says it's short for image orthicon tube, which that doesn't spell Emmy, but then they said, let's feminize it and call it Emmy with an E. Yeah.

All right. And Tony, I forgot to look. Yeah. It's so crazy too, though. The, the adrenaline after the show, cause it's live. It's all these things. They have to be, there's no mistakes. It's all, it's, it's all shot to air. So when, when it's done, everybody's in this just crazy, exciting kind of moment. And I actually work too behind the scenes for the Emmys a while ago, I was like producing a segment and,

And I was at this party. It's called the Governor's Ball.

And this was still a big accomplishment. I'm working behind the scenes. And this lady who was a governor, which is high up in the Emmys, comes up to me and she said, you know, I just want to tell you, we have a lot of plans for you. We really think you have a huge future with us. And I was like, oh my God, she loves what I'm doing with this behind the scenes stuff. And then it dawns on me that she thinks I'm Peter Dinklage. I was about to say. She thought you're Peter Dinklage, yeah. Yeah.

She did. She had a lot of big plans with people. But I went from being so honored and like, oh my God, that's the nicest thing I've ever heard. And then to being like, that's the funniest thing I ever heard. And I'm laughing in real time a little bit, trying to be like, you know. Yeah. Have you ever attended any of the award shows just as an audience? No. No.

No, not like this. You always answer it like you're about to say yes. Like, is there a story coming behind it? Did you notice it? Yeah, he goes...

No. Yeah. I almost did. I got a lot of almost. Yeah. Because I'll get a lot of like, hey, we may have a ticket for you or just come and I'll be hanging out and I go to the parties after. But I never made it in. I mean, he does it a lot too. Like he goes, no. He's like, you think like I was going to get a little story out of it. No, no, no. Yeah, I went to the after party.

For what? The Grand... Golden Globes. Was it Golden Globes? Yeah. Didn't you go with Jimmy Fallon? Yeah. But I thought it was... Maybe it was Emmys or Grammys. No, because it was NBC. Oh, yeah. So I guess it was Golden Globes. And then we went to the...

When I first was working with Fallon, we were going to write a show, and we wrote that show together. We went, and me and Laura, have we talked about this? I don't know. Me and Laura went, and I got invited to, it was like the first kind of crazy thing to be like, they were like, do you want to come to the after party to their after party? Tonight show's after party.

And so we were like, yeah, yeah, it's crazy. And he was like, oh my gosh, this was like the first kind of like Hollywood thing to be like, oh man, who's going to be there and all this kind of stuff. And so, and then we go and I went and bought a tux or I bought a suit like the day before. Like we found out very late, had to buy a suit. Just, you know, I didn't know what you were supposed to wear, like, and all this kind of stuff. And we went in and, yeah.

And like, you know, everybody's there. I remember saying like Nicole Kidman and, uh, who's she made Chris Martin or no, no, no, no, no. I know. With the patrol. Yeah. Nicole Kidman. And, uh, I know Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman. They live here in Nashville. Yeah. I don't know. But, but they're in, uh, but like we saw them and like, um, do you say like Bill Maher was there? Yeah. Bill Maher was there. Eric stone street who I've become friends with, but he was there. Uh,

David Spade, who I didn't really know Spade at that point. I've met him a few times and I just said what's up to him real quick. And then like, yeah, but it was just like, we were just, me and Laura just looked around. It was like, just crazy. It's just like,

It's like an office party, but it's everybody's famous. Yeah. And you're just sitting there and you're like, good night, dude. And this is, you know, now you dress a little more fancier. And this is like Nate with the Cumberland t-shirt. Oh, yeah. Very loose suit, Nate. We had a fun...

overdressed up event. You know, when did we talk about when, when we went to, for the, the, the Christmas party. Yeah. So when he was on boardwalk, when Nick was on boardwalk empire, he got invited to the Christmas party for the cast. Yeah. And he could bring a plus one. And I'm staying with Nate and Laura. Yeah. He's staying at our house. So it was plus one was me.

So he's like, you want to come? I can bring someone. And I was like, all right, yeah. So I'll go. So me and Nick go. It's, again, and this is, I mean, Nick's been around these people, but like I've never been around any of these people. Like, I don't know. You know, it's like, you're just kind of like nervous to be like, oh, these like celebrities are going to be there and these famous, these actors and everything.

So Nick gets it. He goes, look, you got to dress up. This is like a real nice place, right? And I was like, all right. So I don't have clothes to dress up. So I put on, look at Nick. He doesn't even look like you. I know. So I put, I wear like, there's a picture of this somewhere. But I wear like a blue shirt, blue button-down shirt and khaki pants. And then Nick's got like a suit on or something. Yeah.

And so that's like the only thing I had nice. But it was like, it was a scramble too. You didn't even like have this. Oh, I do have khakis. You tuck them in in a certain way. Yeah. I tucked them in. Yeah. I'm just look. So we go and we get there and the dressed up is like, it's just like a dress. Cool. Like dress, you know, it's not like I look like a waiter. Like I just look like a server, like Michael Scott. Like I'm wearing, I mean, I just look like a server. Yeah.

And so I just go in there and I'm like, Nick, everybody's like dressed like you could have just wore something cool. Like, and I'm like, gosh. And then Nick's got a suit on. He looks good. Like you'd wear a suit. You could wear, you know, just that you could wear a hoodie with a jacket on it. Like that looked kind of stylish. But, uh, so we're going down there. So Nick gets there and he's like, Nick's like, I'm gonna go make the rounds.

And I'm like, well, I'll just sit up at the bar. Like, I don't know anybody. He's like, Steve Buscemi's there. Like, we talked to him. That dude's the best. He's like the nicest dude you could ever meet in your life. The guys that all on the boardwalk, the guys that played Al Capone or whoever. I mean, he played Al Capone in something else. But he's, that dude, like, it was like his first thing. Yeah.

And so like some of those guys, it was cool to get to meet them because you could just see like they can't believe that they were here. You just went up and talked to them and they were like, oh, yeah, man. I remember we just all talked and they were just so it was like just a very kind of awesome night. And so Nick's walking around. He's got a glass of wine. So Nick's got a glass of wine. Yeah.

And he's like, I'm gonna go make my rounds. So I just sit at the bar like alone. I'm just minding my own business. Kind of stay out of the way. And then Nick comes back and Nick's had a few to drink. But his wine glass is like the same that it's been. I'm like...

Nick, I go, you're getting drunk, dude. I go, you don't need to... I go, why? I go, have you even drank this wine? It's still full. He goes, they just keep filling it up, man. So, like, Nick holds it here, and he doesn't even know. But, like, they have people walk around just pouring wine into...

And like where Nick's holding is just perfectly that like, it just looks like he always wants more. So these servers are just walking around and they're just constantly. So every sip he takes, it looks like he hasn't drank it. Plus this is like, I've never been to something like this either. This is the first season, a couple months into filming first season. And I've never been invited to anything like this. So I have no idea. I'm like, Nate, you need to wear a tuxedo. You know, like I have no idea what we're supposed to be in.

And we were going to eat. And I go, no, no, no. They got an amazing spread of food. And we show up and there is no food. So we haven't eaten all day. And I honestly don't think I've drank at all because I keep looking and I'm in conversation at this wine. Yeah. And yeah. I mean, it caught up in the moment. It was caught up in the moment. And I don't even think it was five minutes. Like it was literally such a short period of time when I left you and came back. Why when we walked in, you left me?

And then I... But I knew I'd get it. Like, I knew it. Like, it's like, let me go make my rounds. You don't want...

to walk around and be like yo this is my buddy like you know so i was like i'll just stay over here go like just mingle and like you know and uh and then but we talked to steve shimmy like we talked he was he's a he was a big comedy fan like he didn't know us but he was very interested in comedy and all that kind of stuff he knew nick obviously but uh and then the best was like we had this one guy so big jay augustin uh everybody knows what he looks like the big jay

So there was a guy. So one thing I like to do with Nick is if I see someone that looks like it's someone we know, I, uh, we'll tell Nick that that's him. And I just hope Nick goes and talks to him. So there's a guy that kind of looks like Jay and I go, dude, big J's here. Now there's, this is invite only. There's no way for big J to ever be invited to this thing. And, uh,

And so I go, Big Jay's here. And Nick looks at him and goes, are you kidding? Nick's had enough to drink. He goes, are you kidding me? Nick walks over and just hits the guy in the leg. Just punches this guy.

And then he looks up and he's like, can see it's not Jay. So he just immediately just, he hits him and looks up and goes, hey man. Hey, so what's your name again, man? I was like, it's great to see you again. Great to see you, man. What was your name again? The dude's like, what is happening? Because he wasn't facing us either. And the guy, in fairness-

Big J at that time would have his long hair. He's a big guy. It was a chain he had like around like for his wallet. It was perfect. You know, and not facing. So when I see him and I'm just everything you're again, the adrenaline of all this, this is just brand new. It's like exciting. And there wasn't, I don't know how much wine I've had, but it was enough to where I just see him and I go,

hey and i just hit clock him the guy just goes and he just turns around i mean hey what's your name again did you know him at all no i mean there's like there's a hundred people on the yeah yeah yeah yeah it's no one knows yeah it's he it was just the the way you go hey and the guy's like hey and you're just like hey uh what's your name again like you know

And, oh, man, it was the best. The other one with Jay, I told you. Remember I told you that he tried out for the Jets and didn't make it? Wait. Yeah.

I believed him. He believed him. This was... He wouldn't believe... I don't know if he would believe that now. But this was... And Jay's outside the Comedy Cellar and Jay smokes cigarettes. Jay's smoking a cigarette with fingerless gloves on. And I go, hey, just... I don't even know how we got into it. But it just kind of came up and I said, hey, Jay tried out...

He walked on the New York Jets. Yeah, but you were like, too. You were like, he made the practice squad. I agree. He made the practice squad. As a tight end. But they just cut him. But here's the thing, too. Nate is so good at these things with me. And this is going back years. So he actually had other people in on this before I knew again. I told Jay. He told Jay and somebody else. So he's like, he made the, you know. And it was like he made the practice team. Yeah. So it wasn't like he's in the game. And I was like, what?

that's cool and then I walk away and somebody else is like yeah don't talk to Jay about the Jets yeah and I was like to everybody this is a big deal here so I see him I go hey man sorry about that getting like what are you talking about

That was a fun one. I mean, Jake's smoking a cigarette. Like, that guy's going to go make me an NFL. He's like, he says he smokes a cigarette. He's like, I don't know what happened. I just, you know. Like, you know how good you would have to be to make the practice squad, and you're an active smoker? You would be one of the best athletes of all time. And he hasn't played football in probably 20 years, but I think he's just...

Yeah, I mean- When was this? Oh, I mean 2005, 2006, something like that. I think it was probably less than 10 years ago, honestly. No, it was a long time. It was enough to where he also- You were living in New York. So much older. I swear, this was like- No, no, you were living in New York. So I moved there in 2004.

So we met in 04. You've been gone almost 10 years. Yeah, I've been gone. When did you move to LA? I mean, I moved when you moved in with Laura. Yeah. So 06. So it was 2004, 2006. Because you were living there.

Unless you came back. I think it was. You would come back and always stay with me. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It does. I don't think it really matters. Only people are like, well, let's get it down. What are we looking at? But Jay used to have long hair. Now it's cut short. But yeah. Do you know anyone who's ever been a seat filler? No.

No, no, I don't. A seat filler? No. Somebody actually told me once, this is going back almost 20 years ago, that the David Letterman show, I wouldn't be able to be there because I'm too distracting in the audience. Just in general. I'm too distracting to sit in an audience because they would think I'd be part of a bit or a sketch. I just want to watch.

I want to watch the show. They were like, you can't because then we're going to have to pay you. I was like, I want to pay to watch this. Yeah, yeah. This is like early 2000s, but I was so stunned. I mean, it wasn't like a kid. It was like an official person with like a clipboard. Yeah. You would be too distracted. Yeah.

Oh, that's great. I don't think they could say that now. You can't. You can't. It should have been back then, but I don't know. Can you imagine now? I don't know. It's just too much. It'd be too much. We couldn't even, you know. That's too funny. That's incredible. Yeah.

Do you know a C-Filler? Just Kramer. Yeah. That's a great one. Hey, they catch us on camera. They're going to have some explaining to do. The 2009 CMA Music Awards, Taylor Swift sang her song 15, where I was kind of a C-Filler. They wanted just a bunch of high school, college-age kids in the background. You can actually see me at one point here. She's singing...

This is like a little pit area on the back corner of it. And then there I am right there. Where? Right there in the middle. Oh! Oh, man. Just hanging out, dude. Yeah. You're the only one not swinging your hands. I didn't know the song that well at this point. Every single person has their hands up except Aaron. You can't just move your hands? Yeah. Oh!

I'm just hanging out. Yeah. I'm having a good time. Yeah. Looking around. You're that, you're that guy. I believe he's the only guy too. There's like 25 women around him. Yeah. You're at a bunch of pretty girls. You don't have a good time. You're trying to act cool. Yeah.

Yeah, I was trying to do a little bit of that probably. A mix of that. Yeah. I didn't know the song that well. I remember. You look at the camera and you're like, I don't know the song that well. That's how cool you act. The camera hits you and you're like, I don't listen to this type of music. I listen to more like Nine Inch Nails and stuff. And it's the whole. Nine Inch Nails. Yeah.

That's the whole Taylor Swift video. It's just you trying to act like, I'm not a Taylor Swift. This is like a girl thing. I'm more of like, I'm a Weezer guy. Weezer. Yeah.

Were you trying to sing along? It looked like you were moving your mouth a little bit. They told everybody, please sing along. But I didn't know. I know the song very well now, but I didn't know it. What song was it? 15 by Taylor Swift. I've been rolling with it. I mean, look how everybody's so into it. Yeah. And you were just mouthing kind of like pretend? I didn't know the camera was on me at that point. Yeah. See, these are the girls I went to high school with right here. You know them? Yeah, I know them. Melissa and Samantha.

And then I'm just in the mix, man. I remember that was very fun. And did you get it, though, because you knew her brother? So, yeah. She told her brother, just bring a big group of kids from your high school out, and you can be in this area. So I was just one of them. Oh, yeah. That's super cool. Wait, where? Yeah. And she went to? She went to Hendersonville High School. Oh, yeah, yeah. She went to Hendersonville. See, there's HHS loves Taylor. I didn't see that. Oh, yeah. And then you went to?

It's only got 2,600 views. It's our least viewed video. Aaron's the one who posted it. Yeah, this is the only video they were like, no, you can definitely show this one. It's remarkable that this...

Taylor Swift live. How does it only have 26? Oh, this is posted by just some unofficial fan channel. Oh, that is Taylor Swift featuring Aaron Weber. It's on his website. It's a credit. I get brought up on stage. And her brother went to your high school. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. JP2 in Hendersonville. Yeah.

And you went on vacations with her family, though. One. It wasn't a regular thing, but I went on one with my senior year. Yeah.

high school pretty fun i had forgotten about this till we were talking about yeah that that happened did y'all ever like vacation you ever just would y'all ever you and her be like alone and like you have just like an awkward conversation you're like like whatever you should be with her brother you know like something you're she i mean she's taylor swift at this point and so like just mad like you know like we are like in the lobby waiting to go on a tour or something and you're she's like you're like

What's up? Hey, you going to school has been kind of crazy. You know, you try to talk about your normal stuff. A couple of times. Yeah. I remember I was at their house watching the Notre Dame Stanford game. Yeah. And it was like a great game and it was down to the fourth quarter. And she came home and was like, can I, somebody help me with groceries? And I'm just like, yeah, right. I just like forgot about the game immediately. And then it's just like me and her getting grocery bags out of her car. And I'm like, yeah, so thanks for letting me.

hang out or whatever yeah a few of those moments yeah biggest Notre Dame fan in the world by the way yeah Nick would have done that yeah so she was already huge then but she was going to the grocery store yeah yeah yeah she was going on to get but she was huge like was it not what she is now but she was starting to yeah yeah I think Fearless had just come out which was a huge album yeah so probably not yeah like she could probably still you know I mean she could say yeah everybody can go to the grocery store still

You were such a fan from like months in. Nate would sing the songs and be in the car. And I was like, what is this? And now in hindsight, I love her. But I made fun of you early on. Yeah, because you were, see? He was mean to me. I'm secretly mean. He's secretly mean. Y'all don't see it.

All my cards are on the table. Nick hides it and he yells at me off camera. What is this Taylor Swift? You cow. Nick's the real bully. He's the real bully. To attend the Oscars, you have to be a member of the Motion Picture Academy. Are you?

I might be a member of a – That's how Kramer got Mickey. He was a member of the Academy. Yeah, yeah. He was with the Academy because he didn't say. The funniest thing, I live on the street of the Oscars. So you can't park on my street during the Oscars. And talking about seat fillers, they have to have a certain amount of people on standby in case people don't show up. Yeah. And so they line up in tuxedos on my street.

Oh, wow. And so you see them. And a lot of these, it's like they don't know if they're going to get called in or not. But they're in full tuxedos just hanging out. How many of them don't get in? Like most of them? I think a lot of them get in. Yeah. But they don't know where. Like if somebody gets up and they're nominated, they're not going to go back to their seat.

But if you pan with the camera, because there's so many cameras. Look at the green. Yeah. With the Golden Globes. I could not believe. And this didn't even air. Yeah. You know, it's like six, seven cameras and cranes. So they want to have every seat looking full. So there's a lot of people that are like, you may not get in. Yeah. Because people have got to go to the bathroom. I don't understand, especially at this point, how many people are up that

that that's really going to make a difference. And who's it? Why does it matter? Does people think you can't really feel? I was about to say, is this such a big problem that you need to jump through all these hoops? Yeah. Just seems like it's overkill. So like, so if you win an Oscar, you don't come back and watch?

I don't think you go back to your seat. You go from that to like, there's a separate area where you do an interview and you're on a carpet and you're in, you're holding it and you're talking about it. And that's the way it was from the golden good. After you even present you, you go and you, you talk about that experience and you talk about this.

And there's other areas. So they have people that go in and you can't just have anybody because they have to be cleared through security for this. I had to be tested three times. You know, I had to get tested, vaccination cards, all that stuff. So that's a whole other layer now for the seat fillers. But even before, you know, there would be you can't just have anybody on the street come up.

And they had the whole thing with the one guy that was a seat filler that ran up on stage, I think at the Oscars, right? Oh, really? Where he was a streaker? No, but I think he just ran. There was a big thing where somebody ran on stage. Recently?

I found a couple of clips from years ago. There's one that was streaker that the 1974 Oscars ran behind the presenter. And then I think something recently happened. I can't remember what it was, the Oscars or something weird happened where somebody ran from the audience. It's well, this is the I think it's a little further in. But the security is unbelievable. There's snipers on the roof. There's for the Oscars. It's crazy. Yeah.

Oh, yeah? Yeah. Oh, well, there's just so much, I guess, probably money there. Because they've gotten a lot of threats for bombs and all kinds of stuff. I can't remember when the streaker happened. I think it was back. Yeah. It's real fast. I may have misled you. Well, but I think it was in the middle. Oh, there it is. There it is.

Yeah, so we're- The Academy Awards. Streaker, 1974 Oscars. He had a great mustache, too. Yeah. But the best was the guy, this is like the Emmys, Betty Thomas was on Hill Street Blues, and she won an award. And you see her in the audience celebrating with her spouse or whatever.

And then a guy goes up on stage and says, Betty cannot be here tonight. So she wants to think and just starts giving a speech. And he's just some guy who crashes events. Oh, really? Just crashed it. And then everybody's like, what is going on? She's right here. And then he kind of does a little thing. They eventually usher him off. Not that one. Yeah.

That's good. But that was the best one. Did I send that to you? Yeah, the mystery man on stage? No. No, you didn't send me that. Oh, sorry. Could you imagine that if you win something your entire career? Yeah. Somebody else just goes up and gives a speech for you and you're like,

Who is this and why? He called himself the great imposter. He pulled similar pranks at sporting events, including the Super Bowl. I don't know what he did there, but he was fined $175 and six months probation. That almost seems worth it. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I think I'll pay this guy if I win $175. He's going to do it. Yeah. He had a streaker at the Titans game. Oh, yeah? When I was there.

What would it take for you to do that? I feel like I could, I would do that. $175. A lot of folks commented. They thought it was me. Cause they said he gave up way too easy. Yeah. He did give up super easy. He didn't. Oh, you're so tired by the time you get down from your seats to the field. Wish I thought this through.

Yeah. He didn't try to outrun. I mean, he got laid out by the security guy just went and got him. He didn't even try to outrun him at all. He was a streaker. No, he wasn't naked. It was just a guy running on the field. Just a guy running on the field. Yeah, I don't know why they don't. That's the one they always say they don't show it. And you're like, just show it. Or try to discourage people from doing it. Yeah, but I mean, you're doing it in front of 80,000 people.

I think that's the thrill. 20 million. And then it's immortalized forever on film too. Then you've got a clip of it. Well, there was a guy with the John 316 sign, the rainbow man.

And people would start paying for him to go to all these crazy events and he would have the sign or, you know, I think he ran on the field and it ended up nuts. This, this, his story, he ended up like there's a 30 for 30. There's a 30 for 30. I think, but he ended up, it just got wild. People were paying for him to go to these things and it ended with him being arrested, you know, and he's in jail. Oh, really? Yeah.

For a long time? I think so. What did he do? Because there was... I don't know the whole story, but it was like a dog day afternoon where he had people under... He had them, basically, in a hotel. They were like hostages. I mean...

You telling the story is, if I imagine being a detective and you're the guy that we're trying to, like, there'd be multiple times I'd go, all right, man, well, thanks for coming in. And then you'd be like, yeah, well, you had people in this hotel as hostages. I'm like, well, hold on, come back. You're like, it would just start, like, it starts so, like, it would honestly, like, you were the one that we're trying to get this guy to go to jail. Yeah.

Yeah, I thought he just held up the John 360 sign. Yeah, he did. He did. But look into it. The story gets wild. Our buddy Walker Hayes was a big part of that Chiefs-Bingles game.

Oh, really? He performed at halftime the Fancy song. And did you see this? It was so loud that the CBS broadcasters couldn't hear each other to talk. Somebody messed up. They were down on the field at halftime and put the speakers right in front of them. So it just blasted out everybody. It was a big talk on social media. Yeah, that's funny. Fancy like it was just that.

I think so. It was just so loud that you're trying to hear the announcers and you just hear it blasting behind you. That's crazy. So this guy was charged with, he did take hostages. Took a turn. See, the story makes, you know, it's, look it up. It's pretty wild.

But he would go to every major sporting event. People would pay for him to go because he was also who would hold the signs at John 316. Yeah. And so he would go everywhere wearing the rainbow wig and was very famous to be the ultimate person that would sneak in stuff. Yeah, and he was like a crazy person. And then he ended up being like crazy. Why did they pay him to hold up that sign? Well, I think there were certain people. I don't know all the details, but I think certain people were paying because he was –

sort of showing, you know, pro-religion, you know, message. Couldn't they just bought a ticket and do it themselves? Because he was, he would go into like the World Series and, and, you know, like the Wimbledon and,

And I think he ran on the field and ran into all the... Yeah, this is like the 80s. Yeah. This is where... No internet. Yeah, there's... I mean, you could just get... This is... Roland Stewart was briefly jailed by Moscow police at the 1980 Summer Olympics. In the late 1980s, he began a series of stink bomb attacks...

Targets included a cathedral, a newspaper, the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and a Christian bookstore. The stated intent of an attempted attack at the AMA, the American Music Awards, bringing it back around to the topic, was to show the public that God thinks this stinks. So he did a stink bomb attack. I mean, he was a big part of my childhood in the sense that every sporting event I flew in the 80s, Monday Night Football, Howard Cosell. I remember just that guy holding the sign.

The John 360, though? Like, every time they would kick a field goal, because he'd usually be behind the goalposts. He had the best seats everywhere.

Yeah, I wonder how he got all those seats. At the time, I didn't realize. Somebody was funding it. Oh, yeah? Yeah, at the time, I didn't realize it was the same guy. Because they just wanted, they liked that he was there. Or someone was like, wanted the message. I think it was, people liked it. There was a religious message. Just that there was the John 316. And he was so recognizable with the wig. And maybe just somebody thought it was funny that he's doing all this crazy stuff. Yeah. Running on, you know, so. Yeah. Huh.

All right. So EGOT, do you know what that is? Yeah. There's only been a very few. Whoopi Goldberg. Yep. I don't know. Yeah, there's, well, I said it's very, very, I don't want to contradict myself. West Side Story. Yeah. Yep. Right. Rita Moreno. Yes. There's been actually more than I realized because there's been a lot of composers and people like that. But just for acting, there's very few. Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg. Yeah.

And then there's been a few that won.

non-competitive, but they still got like a lifetime award. Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte, and Quincy Jones. He's a composer, but... What's non-competitive mean? Like, instead of up... They won an award, but they weren't competing against other people. They got like a lifetime achievement or something like that. Oh, like an honorary degree. An honorary, like a Grammy Legend Award or... An adjunct Oscar. An adjunct Oscar. Stuff like that. I mean, there's more directors and stuff like that, but as far as

Actual actors, very few. So you'll get the G. If I can win the Grammy, I get a G. And then you're on your way. You're like winning an Emmy. That's possible. You win the Critics' Choice Award, they just change the... Really, Grammy, first blush, you'd think that'd be the hardest one for you.

as far as you think of Grammy as music. Yeah. So I could see you in a movie or a TV show or. I think you're gonna struggle with that T dude. Yeah. Tones. You're gonna be ego. I could write. Yeah. Tonight. I could write a.

Nate Land the musical. Nate Land the musical. Or is it a Broadway show or does it got to be a musical? It could be a Broadway show, right? Oh, yeah. I think it's just Broadway awards. Oh, yeah. So you do a Broadway show and just write. I mean, most Broadway shows are musicals, but it didn't have to be. A play is what you're saying. Yeah. It's a one-man show about your and Brian's friendship. Yeah. Yeah. Rated R. Called Dead Gummit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah

Is that it? Well, I thought that would go further. All right. Do you want to guess who's won the most Oscars? I would guess Meryl Streep. Yeah. Meryl Streep has been nominated by far the most. 21 times. Wow. That is crazy. Nick, she's won three. I mean, how do you only win three? That's what doesn't make sense. If you're doing something where you're nominated 21 times...

And you only win three. Susan Lucci was the ultimate. You know who that is? For Daytime Emmy, she was a soap opera star. And she was nominated year after year after year after year. And she never would win. And she finally won. But it was a long streak. She was known as the one who always would never win. Wow. But Meryl Streep was nominated 21 times. The next closest is Jack Nicholson with 12. So she almost doubled it. Yeah.

But Catherine Hathorne has the most Oscars before. I thought it would be so much more than that. Yeah. Four is the most. For acting. I would have thought Meryl Streep had about 10. Yeah. For directing and composer. I was thinking maybe like John Williams. Yeah, he's probably got 30 or something like that. Oh, is there like who has the most Oscars? Is there someone that has like 30? Sound editing. Look how many John Williams just won.

Yeah, he's been... John Williams is nominated for 52. He's won five. That's still not crazy. That's still not... No. But he's had... Yeah. Yeah, it's still not crazy. Walt Disney. He's 26. 26 Oscars. Wow. SNL's been nominated. I saw where just Lorne Michaels has been nominated for almost 100 Emmys, I think. Wow. That's crazy. SNL's like...

over 250 nominations in the show's history but it's been on for 40 something years nearly 50 years yeah yeah yeah Critics Choice Awards there's been two people who've won three times Allison Janney Sarah Paulson it's a very new award show like it was my favorite one yeah for TV I think they've been doing it for like 10 years

If I win that one, if I'm at one. You're on your way. I'm on my way. I'm almost to the top. You're in the mix. Yeah. Tickets for the first ever Academy Award were $5. Wow.

I mean, that's, you know, when was the first Academy Awards? 1929. Yeah. People still have to pay to attend. Really? If you're nominated, you don't. The studio or somebody will pay for you. But if you're a member of the Most in Picture Academy and you get a chance to get a ticket, ticket prices run from $150 to $750 for a seat. But like the actors that are there, I mean, it's only the nominated actors that are there and then it's...

No, because this theater holds 3,400 people. Yeah. So it's a big theater. And the Motion Picture Academy is twice that many members. Yeah, didn't Sebastian go, Maniscalco? And he was like sitting in the top or something like that? I didn't see that. At the Oscars? Well, if you're part of a movie, though, that's nominated, they'll give tickets to support him. Yeah, but they go sit. They don't get to sit. They sit farther back. I mean, I think it depends on...

What the movie is. And he was a part of Green Book, right? Yeah. And that won. Won the Oscar. Big shout out, Peter Farley, the best guy. Yeah. But if you ever sit at the top, you'd probably still see some pretty well-known actors. Yeah. Probably. I'm guessing. Anywhere. Or someone like... That's good. I mean, it's crazy because Sebastian's like someone like in that world where they go, you know, like he's...

Everybody kind of looks at him like, oh, well, I don't know who this guy is. You're like, well, this guy could sell this room out alone maybe 10 to 15 times. It's kind of weird. Very few of the other people who are more famous could do that. Oh, they couldn't. Maybe none of them. Maybe none of them. Maybe none of them. Not as much as he could. If it was like Brad Pitt was going to go speak –

Like, I don't, you could, he could probably sell it out, but you're like, when people are like, what is he going to do? Like, you wouldn't know what he's going to do. Could, like, Leonardo DiCaprio sell out an arena? No. I mean, that is, that's funny. That is, that's always the craziest thing is like, you know, like, it seems like, you know, people are like, oh, who's this Sebastian guy? And you're like, that guy, I mean, sold out four gardens. Yeah.

Listen to this, how crazy this is. 1961. So the biggest award for Grammys is Album of the Year.

1961, Bob Newhart won, not just for Comedy Album of the Year, Album of the Year for anything. The last award. He beat out Harry Belafonte, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and two other nominees. Wow. How crazy is that? With a comedy album? With a comedy album. Wow. Was it musical or was it his calls and stuff? Yeah, no, it was comedy. Yeah. I think it was his first one because he also got Best Newcomer or something like that. They didn't do...

They probably didn't have a comedy album back then either. No, I think he won that too. Oh, really? I think he won comedy album of the year and then later in the night he wins just album of the year. Man. That's crazy. How crazy is that? Dominating. George Carlin has the most nominations for comedy album with 16. Bill Cosby has the most wins with seven. Wow. Seven. All got probably taken back. Probably so. Midnight Cowboy was the first X-rated film to win Best Picture.

Wow. X-rated? I've seen that. I think that'd be PG-13 now. Yeah. There's Seinfeld that plays off Midnight Cowboy. Do you know that? There's what? There's a Seinfeld episode where the mom and pop store. Yeah. And Jerry wears the cowboy boots. Yeah. That's kind of playing off Midnight Cowboy. Oh, I've never seen Midnight Cowboy. It's great. Yeah. I'm walking here and all that.

Oh, I don't even know what it is. And at the end, Kramer has a nosebleed. Yeah, yeah. All that's playing off this movie. Oh, I thought that was playing off the dust and Hoffman. Yeah, that is it. That's it. Yeah, but I thought that was from, I think I thought it was from Rain Man. No, it was that. So this movie's like awesome. Yeah. Yeah. What is it about?

Is one guy like a gigolo or something? Yeah. And Dustin Hoffman – Kind of mentors him? Yeah, mentors him, and he's sort of the pimp. Yeah. He's like a dumb buffoon who comes to – it's the Jon Voight. It's Jon Voight, right? Yeah, Jon Voight. So it's also the Jon Voight's car episode. He moves to New York, and Dustin Hoffman takes him under his wing and just – Shows him the way. But this is New York in the 70s, so it's like –

A whole different New York. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay. It must be pretty good, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. It placed 36th on Top 100 of all time. Wow. Wow. I'll have to check that out. Yeah. Maybe I'll try to if I get the time. It's one of the top movies of all time. I'm kind of busy right now with my own life. Are you watching Sopranos? I'm trying to look at it. I'm watching Sopranos. Have we watched Scream?

The new one? No. I haven't seen the new one yet, but I'm going back to all of them. Scream is my favorite movie. The first Scream is my favorite movie. Such a good movie. Yeah. And so, like, I'm pretty pumped about it. So I just went and I was watching them all this weekend. I like them all. They're fun. Yeah, you showed them to me. I watched it the first time. That and I know what you did last summer. Yeah. I had heard of all these movies. I just never actually sat down and watched them. Yeah. They're a lot of fun. They're fun. Yeah. Scream. The first Scream is awesome.

They're all awesome. I like it. But the first one is like, yeah, it's my favorite movie. Yeah, the longest ever Oscar...

The ceremony was four hours and 23 minutes back in 2002. How long do you get to speak? Do you know that? I don't know. The more famous you are, the more time. Is that true? It feels like it. I think if you win the big awards, I think they are allowed to give a pretty big speech. So when are your awards? Keep 45 seconds. April 3rd. Will you be able to attend? Yes. Okay.

Yes. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think I might be getting to go to the Critics' Choice Awards. Because I already have a show, and it crushes me because I was excited to get to go to these. I've never really been to them.

And so I don't believe I'm going to be able to do that because I have a show that we've already – it's like with Move and everything, it just ends up being. But the Grammys, I'm going to be able to be there. And so it's in Vegas. Awesome. So, yeah. It's exciting, man. It's exciting. It's very – it's crazy. It's crazy. I can't believe I'm even nominated. It's a big deal. He doesn't buy that. Aaron just said, I'm going to say it when I go. If I win, I can't believe I won. Okay.

Would you rather them go like, I expected this and I would be mad otherwise? Yeah. Honestly. I mean, wouldn't that be amazing? But I don't think anybody really feels like that. Okay. Yeah.

You think they do? I mean, how would you know, dude? Look at Meryl Streep's- I want to believe what you're saying because that- Well, there's Meryl Streep's in on me 21 times and she's won three. Yeah, but if she went up there and won her fourth one, oh, I just don't know who to- Oh my goodness. But I think the- You've done this- You've been through this for 40 years. I know, I know. But you would then be like, but you've not made me- 21 times, I've lost- She's lost the most. Yes.

She's lost more than anybody's ever lost. Yeah, yeah. Even though she's won three, she's lost more than anybody. I don't know if that's true, but it sounds like it. But she's lost 18 times. It's bound to be 18 times. Can you imagine being nominated 18 times? You would be very surprised. There's got to be a point. There's a streak.

of her losing 18 times, dude. She goes 21 times to this thing. She wins to three. And then 18 of those, I mean, there's a point you go like, I'm not even going to write a speech. I think, I think it's like, I'm like, cause you're just the hassle. Like,

every year I have to write this big, long, I can't believe. And then y'all just don't give it to me 18 times. Like that would be. And then if you did win, you might be like, yeah, I don't have a speech prepared because I never went. And even though y'all hear my name all the time, I'm never winning. Yeah.

I think one time she won after she'd already won and she was like, I know you guys are mad that I keep winning, but I'm sorry. You know, she kind of like said that in the thing. Yeah. But I feel like it is though. Like it's the first time you've won. That's an insane thing. The adrenaline of everything. You just, I think you do kind of blank out, you know, think about like, you know, like you're at, you're in a career right now. Like, do you think about a Grammy or do you think about like, obviously you'd want to win one, but like,

Can you imagine it or can you like, why would they ever? No, this is not even what I'm thinking about. Yeah. It's like, so that's what I think the mindset, like that's what the mindset is for, I know speaking from comedians is us. You just work hard forever and then you kind of look up and here you are in this crazy environment. You're not there. There's not like a goal of like Grammy, this, that, blah, blah. I'm not saying, I don't know, actors might, singers might have that kind of stuff.

But you kind of just like, I don't even know what I'm trying to do, man. I'm just trying not to be homeless. Yeah. And like you're starting a job and that's, you know, that you're not promised. And so then, yeah, you just get to it and you get to a point and you're like, you're in your head. You're still like, I'm still just here, dude. I still go. You're with your family and you're still hanging. You're like, I don't look at it as like this other way. That's I'm not until when you go out, when I go on the road and you're like, I don't know why these people are here.

I don't like it's crazy and you feel like you're like, I feel bad. Like you're like, I don't, I got to do good enough to be like, I'm supposed to be, why am I here? Like, so I think that that's why it happens. I definitely know what you mean. I get it. But I, I do think that's what it'd be. If you got nominated for a Grammy next year, you're going to be like, I can't believe it's about time. Yeah. Yeah. Finally. You probably mostly talk about people who've won a bunch.

It seems like no one's won a bunch. Well, that's true. At least in Oscars. I'm sure in Grammys. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, look, Dan and Shay, we had Shay here. Shay's won, they won a ton. But it's still like, you know, Shay and Shay, it's still just like, I can't believe. I mean, there's going to be after you get nominated a bunch and

you know, you would be like, how am I not not like, you know, I think the nerves though are a real thing though, where a lot of people are like, look, I don't need to write down my speech because I do this all the time. I perform or I'm, I act and then it's wildly nerve wracking. I was like scared before I went up and I, you know, you've,

perform all the time. And I think certain people just think that they have it. And then when they get up there, they go, I don't remember what I'm supposed to say. Yeah. And they, they literally, you see them blank and they're like, I didn't think I was going to win. And it's just literally them saying that to try to figure out what they want to say. They're just saying what they've heard over the years. You know,

but can I promote a couple of shows? Yeah. February 5th, this Saturday, I'm back at the Grand Ole Opry. Nice. John Schneider's on the show. Bo Duke. Oh, wow. My hero from my childhood. That's really cool. April 15th, 16th, me and Aaron doing a co-headlining at Wise Guys in Salt Lake City. Oh, wow. That's awesome. Uh,

What should we call it? The tour breakfast in the gout, the whistle and the wheeze gout before breakfast. That sounds pretty good. Doesn't it? Like, you know, uh,

I don't know. Well, it'll probably just be our names from the Nate Land podcast. But anyway, hopefully that'll be a fun show. Salt Lake. That'll be good. I'll let you know how it is traveling with this guy. Yeah. See how it goes. I'll keep him on his toes. Yeah. He's gotten better. Just meet him there. That's exciting. Meet him at the gate. In Salt Lake? Yeah. In Salt Lake. And I'll see you on stage.

I got one, too. Next weekend, Valentine's Day weekend, February 10th through the 14th, I'm in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Oh. I've never been there. Laughing Gas Comedy Club. I'm headlining. Talking to Aaron. This is getting a little Aaron in that episode here going. Laughing Gas, Cape Girardeau. Come out. Yeah. That's awesome. I'm getting to open for you in Salt Lake. Salt Lake? We're being Salt Lake. We added a fourth show there. This weekend? There's a lot of folks. No, no, no. It's...

I don't know, February 21 or something like that week or something like that. The same night as our show. Yeah. I'm going to move it. Just to crush us? Like a point just to kind of remind everybody what we're doing here, you know? And then, yeah, so I got that. And then this weekend we're going to Pensacola, New Orleans, Dallas. Dallas will be the biggest place I've ever played.

It's like 5,000 seats. Wow. It's a big place. That'll be pretty special. But I mean, they're all being New Orleans, two shows there, Pensacola. Shows have been awesome. You guys will be coming out. I truly appreciate it. Me and Bates are fine. We don't have to. They said people were talking about in the crowd, the vibe of it. What crowd? At my shows. Really? Yeah. Oh, wow. Word was getting around. I opened with a big rant about you. So that didn't help. That didn't help.

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