Nate Bargatze
Appearances
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Oh, yeah. This new hour, I've switched it a ton. It's worked because now I'm opening on a joke that I've closed on. So it's great to be opening on a joke that I've actually had the energy and the rhythm of a closer, and then you just move it up, and now it's the front. And you're doing those decisions on the fly. Yeah, you just fill it out. It's kind of like a song.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I'm in love with stand-up right now. I love it so much. The way I've looked at writing, it's a movie. So I'm the main character of this movie. And I'm telling the story. There's a...
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
you know of reason for be saying all this stuff and everything leads into the other thing yeah so you want to make it where people don't realize you're into another joke but in my head i could be on like joke five right but you're trying i'm trying to make it where like you know and then that's how you remember it because the only way you know if you're talking about like riding a car and then you're like my wife bought a car well now that's the only thing i could go into right right and we will be right back
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, well, Cosby was one. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But if you go watch his old stuff, it's very storytelling, all that kind of stuff. I'm a big Seinfeld fan. Seinfeld was... He was... I kind of think... Because I always looked at it like I tell stories, but in a joke form.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Like, so it's, I mean, I try to never be too far from the laugh because the farther you are from the laugh, the bigger the laugh has to be. And I don't want to put that much pressure on a laugh. So if I can just kind of keep it going and let it build, it's like, you know, it doesn't, you're just not putting the weight of the world on this.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
You're like, because if you go silent too long, I mean, there's a point where you're like, well, this joke better be unreal.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And there's no, you're like, no, he's supposed to go, well, he'll never get there now.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, yeah, there's a bunch. I mean, you'd blame it on, I had one one time, I thought it was the shirt I wore, and so I threw that shirt away. I had a button-down shirt, and I tucked it in, and I've never done that since. For real? Yeah, I was like, it wasn't me, I was just like, this shirt, this guy.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
What is this guy's shirt? What is this guy's deal? I've done a cruise ship.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I won a contest and your prize was to set your career back five years and do cruises. And so I go out and I'm doing it. And you got to do like... you got to do a bunch of shows. So you do 30 clean, 30 dirty. I never had dirty. So it's like, I couldn't even, and then you would do one, another show. So you needed honest, because sometimes these people would come back and watch multiple shows.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
So you needed to have, you know, two hours of material or do crowd or be able to mess with the crowd or something. And I remember we go up and you would do one show at the beginning of it. You do like five minutes each. And it's kind of just like it's in the big theater. And you're kind of just letting the crowd know we're comedians. We got a show back here, blah, blah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
So the other guy just was great and knew how to like he shined a fly shot on the crowd, like just knew how to like really play with the crowd.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And he was like, come to my shows. Every show is different. And he made a big announcement how they're all different. And then I went up and I said, I go, come to one. It may be the other one, but the other one will be the same. I was like, do not come to all my shows. Most will be the same. I don't have enough material to have them all be different. So you can go to his shows.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
They will be different. Mine will be... And then I went and did a show and... I started it, and they didn't laugh, and I was like, oh, these people have been to every show. And I'm not a crowd work guy, and I'm like, so what do you do, man? And some guy's like, he's an oil rigger in the ocean. It's actually a pretty crazy job, and I was like, that's cool, and I just moved on.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
It's like an insane... People are saying crazy stuff like I'm a bank robber. I'm like, that's neat, man. What about you, ma'am? I had nothing. No riffing. And then I had to ride in an elevator with these people. I'm in the elevator in the ocean. You think it sounds like I made it.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And I'm just sitting there and I had a hat on and I just hear some guy just trashing me and my shoulder's touching him and I just have to sit there and get off.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, you would just have a show that's like the kids can come to this show, your family can come to this show, and then you'd have like a night at 11 p.m. It's like an adult-only show. You still can't be that dirty, but the idea of it is a little more...
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I got a curse as I talk about parking. I'm like, you guys ever parallel park? And they're like, this guy's filthy. Yeah, I didn't even have any. I didn't even have... I had no dirty jokes. Like, there's no... I don't really... I don't talk about sex or... uh, like political or like, there's nothing like really like, that's kind of like this.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I'll tell her. Yeah. I like, she knows about every joke that comes up. Cause that's something I had to learn to when you make fun of your wife at the beginning is you have to show love. Like you have to show, cause people, cause I remember at the beginning of the reaction would be like, well, why are you married? And so then you're like, well, that's not, that's not what I want.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
You don't need to have that reaction. So you have to then make fun of yourself, but with her and you got to do it in a way that where they can tell that you do love your wife. You love your family. And so it's just kind of like just making fun of each other. But yeah, I'll run by stuff.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah. I just never liked it. Like, I felt bad. I mean, I would, like, make fun of my buddies in comics and stuff.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
But in the audience, I just always felt, you know, it's like, this person's just trying to sit there. They don't need it.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And it'd be, like, big, what's your shirt? Your shirt's stupid. And then I got my shirt on tucked in.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah. I moved back. So I was gone, like, 13 years. And then we've been back for about... nine yeah i hear it's beautiful down there yeah it's so good right yeah i'm born and raised there it's great uh we have as much of a normal life as it can be we're gonna live in a cul-de-sac uh the house at the top so we're the leaders and uh we set the tone for it uh I have a joke. I'll just say it.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
It's my new act, Russ. And we do all in our cul-de-sac, we do all the right things. Like if someone pulls down there, we're like, what are you doing down our street? Any car we don't know, we just run out. You better get out of our cul-de-sac. I mean, just furious if they come down there.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, yeah. My brother's like three years younger than me. My sister's about 10. I've talked about her in a special. And she works for me now, too. So that's fun. I mean, you get yelled at by her. I mean, you got your whole family.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I did say before, don't ask about if I have kids. Oh, all right. I guess we're—okay. Yeah, and I have one 11-year-old daughter.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
It is. But I don't even know where... No one... We don't come from horse stuff. You know?
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
No, there's never horse people, but she loves horses, so right now she's kind of doing that stuff, but she's very creative, very funny, and she, you know, will get me and my wife laughing a lot, you know? I think I gotta teach her where to wear the joke. You gotta be like, all right, well, you gotta be serious.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
until you learn it she can make fun of her friends recent and like i think but then they all got like it was like they did not like it and i was like and it was funny i forget what it was but it was like it was something funny but you're like all right you gotta understand You're like, you got to... Some people will be able to handle it.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Like, you know, she just is all about the joke because it's obviously just our... You know, her grandfather's a magician, a comedian. Like, so it's a lot of joking.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, this is the route. I know we started last night. We were in Philly at the Fargo. It was where the Sixers play.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
It was this big thing. And then it goes Syracuse, and then it'll go Albany. These are the two that Fallon wanted to come to, was Syracuse and Albany. Yeah, of course. Those are big venues. I think he's from up here. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Is that used to be? Yeah, no, I've been to a game there. That's like a huge... I've been to a basketball game there. Even the basketball court's set up. People buy tickets that are like, I don't think they can see the court. They're sitting like behind the court.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, I mean, it's all about how you feel. We have, like, you know, the arenas, we have these big screens. I've put more speakers up so everybody can hear it everywhere. You really do try to make it intimate. I mean, you can tell everybody gets real quiet. I mean, that's the cool, it's one of the coolest things is when you're telling a joke and you're, this many people are quiet. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
You know, and they're just, I mean, you could, I could yell with no microphone and the top person could hear me. It gets that quiet. That's so cool. So, yeah, I mean, I'd imagine if you did a stadium, you know, I could see it getting a little loose.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
You know, and we're in the middle, too, of an arena, so I'm a lot closer to everybody. Do 100,000.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Uh, yeah. I mean, you've done it so long now that you're... I mean, keep your knees bent.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I mean, I've done it now. It's like, yeah, I mean, you think about it. I had an SNL like a little bit when I did the monologue. I was more nervous with the monologue because it's like stand up and you're like, I'm supposed to be good at this. And then you got to kind of deliver the jokes into the camera, but there's the crowd.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And so like, it was very weird to deliver jokes to kind of a spot where no one's at.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, you're like, I could say anything right now, and they're going to hear it right now because it's live, you know? Yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, I didn't use it in my act. You say you do? No, I didn't hang on to your like, I kept it. I still read a joke book when I was five and I'm closing on it. I remember the joke. I said there was a joke book or something, and there was a guy goes, waiter, there's a spider, or there's a fly in my soup. And then the waiter goes, well, don't worry, the spider on your bread will get it.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And it was a picture of a spider web. And so my dad always brings it. I remember that joke. And then my dad brought it up because I was explaining why the joke was funny to him and kind of going through it. Like, here's why this is funny. So that one was the first one. But I let it go.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, I don't know. We've done it at shows, and it's not like a concert. Like I was saying, stand-up's still kind of... It's kind of a newer thing. Cosby's one of the first. He's still alive. He knew Lenny Bruce.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
But you could do it without it. But you get like a deal. So you have promoters and then the... Yeah, you are... I think it's like the promoter is the one that's putting the money for like the... the renting of the venue. And then I'm paying, then it comes out of mine, the show budget of the speakers and all that stuff. And so you can have it go as low or as big as you want it to go.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I think we say it wrong as a family, too. I think it's supposed to be Bargazzi, and we say Bargazzi. It's just we've southerned it up. Oh, I say Bargazzi. Yeah, I think a lot of people would. When I lived in New York, they would always be like, Bargazzi, because it's like Italian. And I was like, you know. Bargazzi. I was like, I don't like tomatoes.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I think we've all agreed to kind of go. We had a family reunion once, and we had family come over from Italy, and we got Kentucky Fried Chicken for them. And I think it was like from that moment was just kind of like, all right, y'all have a good life. We did it. We're going to do our thing. We're going to do y'all's thing. And we've just kind of gone our separate ways.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, I'm a big sports guy, so I watch a lot of golf, like any sports, golf, UFC, watch a lot of UFC. Oh, you do? Yeah, I'm a big fan of UFC.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
It's just the most, the honesty of it, with Dana White and the fighters, they can say whatever they want. And so there's no, you know, like when Tom Brady, is he going to retire or not retire? It's like, it's all kind of a game and a show. And UFC kind of really is like, we just got a dude that just says, I want to fight this guy.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And then it just gets to it. And you're, I don't know, I kind of like, I love it.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
There's the build-up to it, and then they don't like each other, and then you go in there and watch them fight. It's not just watching a street fight. You're watching two professionals that have to fill each other out.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Some. It gets hard because of the shows and stuff. But yeah, I'll play some on the road. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's kind of it. I mean, I don't know. It's like you're just running around, got a lot of stuff. Got a lot of hanging out. Like the road is the most fun because it's just like... A bunch of dudes. And, you know, this morning we went in Syracuse.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
We're in Syracuse, and this place has a hot and cold plunge thing. Sure. Will loves it. So I've never done it. But they let us come in. So, like, we woke up and did that.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Oh, yeah. is that so i this is another i told it on snl i tell it in my act too uh but it boo weekly uh because i have a joke about fighting orangutan at a county fair okay and where i read the story was there's a golfer named boo weekly and when he read uh he said when he was 15 he got in he goes this county fair he's from like georgia like southern southern georgia
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
This is like the 80s, you know, and you could pay $5 to fight an orangutan. An orangutan would be in a boxing ring with boxing gloves. And so dudes would pay $5 to fight them. That's hysterical. Yeah, and then guys would get in there, and this orangutan would just knock people out.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Because when I say this, I tell the whole story in my act, but I say because we didn't have the internet to look up how strong is an orangutan. It was all word of mouth back then. So, you know, you had to meet a guy that just fought an orangutan. And he's like, he's stronger than you think. But the arms are so skinny. I know. That's what I thought as well.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
It's the feet. Look at his feet. His feet's bigger than you. Yeah, that strength comes from somewhere.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Well, that's what Buwiki said. He goes, that's not written everywhere back in 1982 when you're fighting orangutans. The guy that does this doesn't go, you sign a waiver.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah. You don't realize until afterwards, like, that's why he has gloves on. If it gets the gloves off, there's a chance it will rip your head off. So, but you know, what are you gonna do? Ride the scrambler again? That's really funny.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And that one, they were like, you can't do that. We're like, all right. We thought they liked it. I'm glad you just had to tell us. And we got rid of it. Fair enough.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I don't have any, like, I gotta re- I'm messing up some, the order a little bit, so I'll do that a little, and then we'll just hang out and be at the venue if there's, we do try to shoot basketball, like, some of these arenas, if they have a basketball goal somewhere, we'll try to, like, mess around, shoot basketball, just kind of, you know, do whatever until showtime.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I did my last special there. And this one's going to be in the Footprint Center where the Suns play. Wow. Yeah. I mean, it just kind of works out touring-wise. You just hit these towns every two years or so. And so it's just kind of like,
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
They do some. Yeah, yeah. We went to Europe. Like they came to Europe. They come to the, you know, they're not here in Syracuse or Albany, but they, if they're, I'm doing the Boston Garden, they're going to come to Boston.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, on the boat? Yeah. I went, yeah, we went, I got to remember it, but we went to, it happened. We're on the lake, Old Hickory Lake. Is that true? Yeah. And we're in, we're like in the water. And then it's, my wife's ex-boyfriend was on another boat. Right. And I didn't see him. And she pointed out, like, there's no reason to point it out. But she pointed it out.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
So then, yeah, like all I can think of now, like I'm thinking about him. And then I look at her and she's looking at him. And I feel like she's looking at him to see what her life would be like if she didn't marry me. And I was looking at him to see what my life would be like if I didn't marry her. So we're both putting a lot of pressure on this guy.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And then my buddy told me, he's like, you should go fight him. And I was like, what? Like he's on a boat. Like I got to swim over to that fight. Have you ever tried climbing a boat from water? It's not graceful. It's not easy. You don't come in with power. I would need his help to start the fight.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Hang on a second. I know, but that's what made it frustrating. I had no one to go show my wife, well, here's mine. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
No, we started dating like 2021. We met at Applebee's. We both waited tables at Applebee's. I was a host at the time. Oh, that's great.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, we're all in the neighborhood. We're all in the neighborhood or something. But we're big fans. We took our daughter.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And then I'd say put it on the side just so the guy thinks I'm going to eat it. Then he would just take a full plate of broccoli back after. I'd go, ah, I got full on the other stuff. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, we're big chain. I mean, I grew up like we're, you know, I had an old joke about like I was a big, I don't like mom and pop shops because they can close. Just they're like, we don't feel good today. And they close like Walmart. Walmart, you know, they were a mom-and-pop shop at some point, and then they got it together and became unreal. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
They have the great chocolate... Lava cake. If you want one, go to Chili's.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Dr. Pepper's doing some pretty amazing things right now. So if y'all are into Dr. Pepper, die Dr. Pepper. Is that right? They got some real good stuff going on. And some cherry, right? They got some cream soda, strawberry stuff. I mean, it's something, dude. They're showing off over there.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
So I've tried to make a bunch of shows that have never gone. We've had one show that we shot a pilot. And so Greg came in. I did not know him, but he came in. Danielle Sanchez Witzel. She was showrunning it, and she's friends with Greg. And so Greg came in to help us do it. And I knew Greg Garcia's work, but I didn't know him when he first came in.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
So when he first came in, he's like, he's going to help us. And I was like... I don't know who this dude is.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Uh, I gotta listen to this guy. And then, uh, we wrote our whole, rewrote the whole script on his, off just his ideas. Cause they were so good. And, uh, obviously he's unreal.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And, uh, so we just become really close and become friends. I, uh, I was just with him this week, uh, actually, uh, uh, uh, dinner with him. Cause I had to go to LA for a second. And, uh, so, uh, he's, yeah, we became friends like that. And he's, he comes out on the road too. I'm telling you, y'all should, y'all come out on the road.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
If you, if you want to get away and have a little fun trip, come on out, dude.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
If you mean it, it's a fun, if you mean it, I swear Fallon's coming tonight. We have a fun time. It's you just, uh, play cards or you play, uh, You know, like we went to a casino last night in Philadelphia.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Good to see you, Sean. Hey, just a little fun note, never seen Shawshank, so... Well, you're young.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I got a show in Syracuse. This is... Can't make it here. Can't make it anywhere, you know?
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
This is the vacations I can afford in Syracuse. He goes, it's nice. We took a bus, though. But it's... You know...
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, everything went to this. My family of 30 is right off camera. They're just right there. I said, if y'all talk during this, I will kill y'all.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Hmm. Uh, we have, uh, probably like 10 guys. Uh, cause I bring, uh, four openers. Actually tonight, we got a surprise opener. He won't be here till later. Uh, Jimmy Fallon. Fallon is coming to the show. Oh, that's great. He's going to jump on the bus.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Get out of here. Sorry, Nate. Thanks, you guys. Keep going. No, I mean, I grew up around that. I mean, so that was like, you know, I was funny, but then also growing up around, you know, my dad being a magician. You learned patter. Yeah. It just kind of leads you to it, I guess.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, he's a pretty good dude. I don't know the whole backstory, but I just know from what R hanging out is.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, yeah, it was the best. It is, you know, I don't know if I even understood it. Like, I'm sure, I think of it like my daughter and I'm sure your kids, like, it doesn't seem not normal. Like, it just felt like, it's like, that's all I ever knew. And it wasn't until you got older that you're like, yeah, dude, nobody's dad's a magician. Yeah, yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah. So he would make a living doing it? I mean, I have people do magic, like magicians would show me magic tricks. I've just seen them all too. And I just, I'm just not a good, I'm not a good person to perform for because I'm just like, all right. You know, it's like, is this your card? You're like, it's always mine. It's always my card. It's always been my card.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
He did. He was a teacher, too. Like, so he had a day job, and then he would do that, and then we were always in Nashville, and so he's just always done it. And I mean, he's very successful. He's very known in the magic world. He comes with me and opens for me a lot on the road.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And he will do these shows, and... You know, it's every little boy's dream to travel to your dad when you're 44 years old. So you go, got a little CPAP machine hooked up in a tour bus. It's a good time.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah. I mean, we had our bus parked out one time, and it was my dad, my mom, and my aunt. And I was like, people probably go by this tour bus, and they're like, it's pretty rocking in there. And I mean, we got, it's lights off, quiet, just the roar of machines keeping everybody alive.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
No, no, we didn't ever do that. He never did that, go that far. He did Sleight of Hand. A lot of Sleight of Hand, and he does comedy with it. Oh, it's my favorite. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Uh... I think it was just being funny. We would, like, I remember seeing stand-up. It was just trying to make people laugh. I don't think I ever really made fun of anybody.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
But it was like I would make fun of myself a lot, which is what I do now in my comedy show. Yeah, it's the best. You'd be doing stuff like that, making fun of me. He had, I mean, one time, I've talked about this in a special on one of them, but it was like he brought the Easter Bunny home when I was... Like six. He was at a mall doing a show, and the Easter Bunny needed a ride home.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And my dad goes, I'll give you a ride home if you swing by my house. And so I remember the Easter Bunny, we had like, my parents had this old red Mazda stick shift, you know, and the Easter Bunny's head was bent to the side because his head couldn't fit in the car.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
So he was just, he was sitting like this. And then he got out, and I met the Easter Bunny, and then my dad... Drove the Easter Bunny home.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
That was the trajectory. I go, if I can beat that guy, then maybe I can make it.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
My parents have been together since seventh grade. And they, my mom's very funny. But she worked at a bank. I mean, she's just been, I mean, it's just stuff. There's like, growing up, it's buying, you know, she has to go, my dad would be like, go to the store, I need you to buy 12 lemons. And he has to buy for like his magic. are a bunch of newspapers from that day.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
It's like a bunch of random, and it's just normal conversation. You're just like, it's a Tuesday. You're just trying to grab some bread, milk, and 30 oranges, and then you get on out of there.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
He's got a lot of shows this week. It's just stuff like that. That's cool.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Oh, yeah. So I moved to Chicago first for a couple years. And then I moved to New York. And I was in New York for the most, for like eight and a half years. And so I did all the clubs and all the, like, going up every single night. I performed for one guy once. Oh, my God. No way. Like, he wouldn't leave. We tried to get him to leave, and he's like, nah, it's all right.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
And we're like, well, we don't think it's all right. He really wasn't about him. You're like, I don't want to stand up in front of a guy. Right. regularly up in front of four people, five, six, like, I mean, six people was like, got pretty good show going on. You know, you were excited about six people.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah. So you just get used to just being in these kind of like, you know, it takes a long time before you're in front of like an actual paying crowd that's
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Well, I had to learn to get people into my rhythm very quickly. So since I talk slower and I'm from the South and all this, I had to figure out... Because I would follow high-energy acts, and then I'd come up and I'm like, well, I got to... come up with a joke or I got to say something.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
I just need you to hear my voice for a second so you can go like, all right, readjust and be like, now we're in this rhythm and then get into the first kind of, you know, come up with a good like opening little thing or whatever and just get rolling.
SmartLess
"Nate Bargatze"
Yeah, I go up prepared. I mean, I can't do the other. I can't really do like crowd work and go up and stuff.