Nate Bargatze Eats His Last Meal

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I'm Nate Bargetti and this is my last
meal.
Every person has exactly two things in
common. We all got to eat and we're all
going to die. Today's guest is a
stand-up comedian, a podcast host, a New
York Times bestselling author, and star
of the new movie The Bread Winner. But
most impressively, he won the Dupont
Hadley seventh grade middle school
science fair. Nate Bergetti, welcome to
the show.
>> Thank you so much. That is my proudest
moment. Thank you.
>> As it should be. Like listen, you've
made millions of people laugh and that's
great. But you also made several DuPont
executives believe that you can move a
chicken bone with a magnet.
>> Yeah. Yeah. They had different plans for
my career.
>> They still come after me.
>> They're headh hunting. Is that what it
is? I think so. Yeah.
>> Yeah. They're head hunting. Uh if I'm if
I'm available. I delivered uh packages
for FedEx in New York when I first uh
moved to New York to start coming
and I was very very good at delivering
because I did delivery jobs before that
Nashville and they would call me like a
lot.
>> Yeah.
>> Like to be like will you come back and
I'm like no I I I got another like dumb
day job and then I'm doing standup now
but I was a good delivery guy in New
York.
>> Have other jobs ever come back to you?
Has Applebee's ever come back and been
like, "Hey man, I know you never quite
made it to a server, but as far
>> we would like you to be a server
>> now." Um, I mean, I bet I could go back
to Applebee's. I would want to be if I
went back to Applebee's, I would I would
put me in the manage, you know,
management.
>> Yeah, like an assistant manager track at
least you have growth
>> at least. Yeah, at least I would do some
serving just to, you know, like get
reused to the menu a little bit and uh
interact with the people. But I should
be coming up to the tables asking,
"How's everything going?" Yeah.
>> And I don't need to really be in the
weeds with every table. That's how I
look at it.
>> I I agree with that. I'm not an expert
in either comedy or or the restaurant
business, but I believe in 2025 you sold
more tickets to see you perform comedy
than any comedian on Earth. Do you think
that qualifies you to be an assistant
manager at Applebee's? Cuz I don't know
if I'm sure.
>> Straight track, too.
>> Straight track. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Yeah. I think I should. It qualifies me
and I think I should skip the bottom
couple salaries. So, I should be one of
the like at least moves up. I'm not
saying I could be the top salary. I
would like to earn something. Yeah.
>> I don't know what the levels of the
salaries are, but I should at least
start with like the third where you're
like the next one's the one.
>> Yeah. And then that's when you buy the
Buick.
>> That's when you buy the
>> That's when you buy the Buick.
>> That's when you buy the Buick.
>> Man, you got your life figured out.
>> Yeah. I got options. I mean, this could
all fall apart and I I will be fine.
Great. There's always going to be
Applebees. Thanks so much for joining me
today, man.
>> Thank you for having me.
>> Of course. Have you thought about your
last meal before?
>> Uh, you know, I think some like
sometimes I don't know if not as much to
start a podcast about it, but it's uh
it's Yeah. You know, I've thought about
like I thought I think it's a great
idea.
>> Sure.
>> Uh but it's Yeah, I've thought, you
know, what you would what you would
order and what you would do. And I mean,
I think it's Yeah, you would go Mine
would be I think what I would I don't
know. It's like I don't I don't think I
would go too far off. Would I?
>> Yeah.
>> I wouldn't try anything.
>> Do you Do you generally not to like to
try new foods? Are you
>> No, I'm actually pretty good about it. I
I will try new foods. I like to try
stuff. I've eaten some weird, you know,
where you've had alligator like uh I had
caviar recently for the first time. I
did not mind that. But I think I liked
it cuz it came with a big piece of bread
and so I think that's what helped the
toasted bread and that made
>> the caviar was a tax you had to pay to
get to the bread.
>> Yes. It's like if it was like just a
bowl of caviar you're like well I'm not
going to that seems crazy but when you
have it on the bread it's Yeah. It was
pretty good.
>> How often do you think about death?
>> I don't I don't think I I think about it
that much. When you have a kid, that's
the one that's like you're so scared.
Like anything when you're a baby. I
mean, I remember my daughter, you just
like multiple nights like you just put
her put my ear on her chest and make
sure she's bra. Like you're just so like
this life's so precious and all this.
And now it will be like family.
>> Sure.
>> If you do,
>> you you seem like you have a habit of
taking yourself out of a lot of things.
Like the way that you dance, it's always
more framed around other people. Is it
your own life that you're not really
>> Sorry, I just gave my voice right.
>> Is it your own life that you're not
really that concerned with?
>> I I mean, I do think about myself and I
do it's but and it's uh if I talk about
myself, I think I do it and to closer
people and friends like you're going to
want to vent. You're going to want to
get out. You got
>> you do have an ego. You do have all this
stuff. Uh so it's like, you know, you
just pound that on your close ones
>> and then
>> really be a burden to the people you
love the most. You want to be the ones
that you love the most. You want to be
the most burnt. You want to when you
walk in the room, they're like, "Oh my
gosh." But then when it's other people,
they're like, "Hey." Uh so I need to to
work on that. Uh but yes, I I think in
general, you should be a service uh to
whatever you're trying to do. You're uh
just trying to be the best thing for the
thing that whatever someone's watching
this or whatever someone's doing. and uh
try not to think too much about
yourself. Try not to make, you know, too
big of a scene or whatever, you know.
Yeah.
>> I think uh Super Bowl champion Jaylen
Herd said it best when he said, "Keep
the main thing the main thing."
>> Oh, yeah.
>> And I've always liked that a lot.
>> I like that.
>> I don't really know what it means, but I
like it.
>> I don't even know what it means, but it
does work,
>> doesn't it?
>> Yeah. Cuz maybe you're not the main
thing.
>> Yeah.
>> So then keep the main thing the main
thing, but I guess it means the Super
Bowl is the main thing, so be that's the
main thing.
>> I think so. Yeah. But as a standard
comic, I'm by myself. So if I'm the main
thing.
>> Yeah. You're the You are the main thing.
You as a stand comic, you throw the
ball.
>> Yeah.
>> No one.
>> Well, if I said it'd be the opposite.
>> Sure. Yeah.
>> It would sound bad. I keep the main
thing the main thing, man. And then just
rolling and everybody's like, "Golly."
>> All right, Nate. For the first course of
your final meal on Earth, we have
McDonald's Big Mac number one, no
onions, and the Dairy Queen Blizzards
delivered at the exact same time. We
double dashed it together.
>> Double dashed.
>> We double dashed it.
>> Same driver.
>> It was the No, different drivers.
>> They do that.
>> They do that.
>> They do that.
>> Why do they want It's like they want to
meet to
>> I mean, you don't want Yeah. You don't
necessarily want more people knowing
about this.
>> No, not at all. No.
>> But now we have frankly millions of
people knowing that you
>> Well, now they know. I've Yeah. I I've
told a story about But this is what I
do. And the truth, just so I don't look
like a maniac, I will the Oreo will be
small. Not I won't get two mediums.
>> It's your last splurging. Yeah,
>> it's the last meal. Exactly. So I do I'm
not insane. This one's a small one.
>> Please, man, dig dig into the Big Mac.
Don't let this stop you.
>> We got the Big Mac with no onions. I I
know you've had the restaurant idea for
a spot simply called no onions where the
whole thing you would serve tomatoes. No
onions.
>> No tomatoes, no onions. But I like
ketchup.
>> Yeah. This is so divorced from tomato at
>> That's That's the type of That's the
type of tomato I like.
>> I like that where you can't even tell
that there was a tomato. Most of the
tomatoes I eat
>> Mhm.
>> are the tomato relative stuff that would
be in it. A tomato has never met it.
>> No.
>> It's never Yeah. Like this ketchup's
never met a tomato.
>> The tomatoes that eventually went into
this ketchup
>> Yeah. probably six generations of tomato
ago. You know what I mean?
>> Those tomatoes were grown in 1998 and
now they ended up in here.
>> It's like their great great great great
grandparents like speak a different
language from the old country but then
these kids are like I don't know that
language.
Run's already got a bite out of it.
>> So Nate, I would like you to demonstrate
how one should respond in this situation
where they're sitting next to somebody
and there's a bite taken out of their
Big Mac. How you should respond is did
you do this?
>> I did.
>> You did.
>> I did. It was my buddy Frank.
>> My buddy Lewis uh who's the most loyal
friend in the world immediately blame
immediately blamed the entire
restaurant. And I don't know if there's
more love than that that could ever be
shown.
>> Yeah.
>> Because he just thought you would never
do that.
>> You're my best friend.
>> Mhm. So, I would imagine
it's the entire restaurant and we I not
even we I should fight all of them.
>> I I can introduce you to all of the
culinary producers that have put this
meal together and you can fight each one
of them one by one Mortal Kombat style.
>> Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
>> Yeah. Yeah. We'll do that in the parking
lot after the show.
>> I'll switch you Big Max. This one has
snow bite taken out of it. I
>> I loved it.
>> I like walked in the kitchen to Lily
taking a giant bite out of this Big Mac.
By the way, I want you to know this is
not a fake bite. It's a real bite. Yeah.
>> I love a Big Mac, man. I love a Big Mac.
>> Yeah.
>> You said in your book, In your book, Big
Dumb Eyes,
>> I do not know what is in this special
sauce, but I know that eating it makes
me a man.
>> Can you tell me about
>> the unique coming of age ritual that
young American men have that is sharing
a Big Mac?
>> The McDonald's sauce is like everybody
kind of does it. Everybody goes like,
"Oh, we got our special sauce."
>> And you're like, "You all just copying
this."
>> They are.
>> You got a Big Mac, too. Big Mac. This is
a good time to get Big Mac during the
day.
>> McDonald's always I mean, I'll do it
anytime, but day McDonald's is like it's
different.
>> Mhm.
>> It's just different.
>> It's the turnover.
>> About to 7 8:00 p.m. You can
>> It's nice. And then you get past that,
we're getting a little
>> You don't know. I mean, sometimes you go
>> Mhm.
>> and they surprise you. There's a few you
can go to, but some you can go to and
their ice cream machine's always broken
late at night.
>> That's a fair point. So, you have to get
the Blizzard delivered.
>> Blizzard, baby. Where they go? This is
our business.
>> This is a very small hamburger, but why
when we were kids did we build this up
to be like an unconquerable mountain?
Cuz I remember my first Big Mac with my
dad.
>> Wow.
>> And it was special for a couple reasons.
One, I felt like I was finally a grown
adult at like 10 years old. But two, he
had just gotten his first job where he
didn't have to like go to a check
cashing place to cash the check.
>> Wow.
>> And so I was raised on dollar menu only.
No drinks, no sides. It was McChick's
McDoubles when they were a dollar. So
the Big Mac was like actually a big
moment for us.
>> Yeah.
>> Was there a moment where you thought
like, man, I made it cuz I can finally
afford the fast food meal of my dreams?
>> I think when I moved out like it was
like, yeah, just the idea that I can go
get it at any time. I mean, I'll check
the dollar menu out because that's where
they're hiding the McChick at.
>> Sure.
>> The McChick was its own powerful thing
and it was a meal.
>> Yeah.
>> Now they hide it over in the dollar uh
thing. So, you got to go over there and
get it if you want it. Cuz I will get a
side fish a lot. A side sandwich
sometimes. A lot of times fle of fish.
Filet of fish is it'd be a little more
expensive. But that's obvious.
Obviously, obviously it's a fle of fish.
But if it was Fridays, the fileto fish
would be half price generally or two for
$3
>> like Cath.
>> Exactly. Because of Catholics. The
Fileto Fish only exists
>> because Ray Croc wanted to have an
option for Catholics on Fridays.
>> Oh yeah.
>> And Ray Croc, founder of, you know, the
McDonald's system. His initial idea was
called the Hoola Burger. That was just a
canned pineapple ring on a bun with
cheese.
>> Not smart.
>> A dumb. That's all it is.
>> So much of your humor is very
self-deprecating about you being dumb.
Hence the name of the book, Big Dumb
Eyes.
>> But you saw that.
>> But that's really smart.
>> You got this guy.
>> No, but I'm like,
>> it's on another level, dude.
>> Like a little bit. But no, no, no. I'm
like genuinely curious how you see the
idea of intelligence because like
obviously I I know you got zero credits
from community college, you know, but
you obviously have a level of genius to
you in the way that you are able to
communicate ideas with other people. You
know what I mean? Even earlier in the
intro where I very casually asked if you
thought about your last meal. I've never
had anyone say anything remotely as
funny as that question as not enough to
start a podcast about it. Yeah.
>> And it took like I'm dead serious. Like
to me that's a level of communicative
genius. Do you feel that about yourself?
And is this all just self-deprecation or
you're actually just like whatever I
have inside me.
>> That's a gift that I got and I
>> main thing's the main thing, brother.
You go. You know what I mean? Right.
>> You know what I mean? Go birds, baby. Go
birds.
>> Uh no. Yeah. I'm books smart is what I
uh am not. But I guess the communication
observation
like I'm very aware. I'm very very good
in reading a room and like kind of
seeing what needs to happen or if you're
in a situation business situations or
any kind of like you kind of got to read
people and like be like all right I I
know what's going on. You I'm not going
to you know it'd be like I would know
how to run the cameras but you could be
like all right we're here we need we
need three you know. So you might have
like an observant like that kind of
thing or whatever. I don't know.
>> I remember when
>> Smarts only works for so long.
>> I used a lot of it on that
>> pouring the French fry in the thing. So
we could be out now.
>> There's something though about when you
constantly turn the butt of the joke on
yourself.
>> It's like the safest person to make the
joke about, right?
>> Mhm.
>> Was that a conscious decision by you or
that's just the style of comedy you've
always gravitated to? I I I just don't
ever I didn't ever want to make anybody
feel bad. I just never wanted to make
someone
uncomfortable feel like it would just
break my heart. I mean like like you're
when with comics comics like make fun of
each other all the time, but there there
is a lot of love shown in that.
>> Yeah.
>> So when you're able to really show love
and have rapport someone Yeah. It's like
then that's the best part. You make fun
of your friends and all that. But as far
as in standup with someone coming to a
show,
I've never wanted to uh I don't know.
They're just watching a show. I I I
didn't I didn't feel comfortable like,
you know, being like, "What's up with
you, man?" Not that I've not ever done
it, but it's in initially like you're
just I don't know. You're kind of being
mean to this person and then everybody's
laughing at that person.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Now, saying that, there's
some people that want to be that person
and they want everybody to
>> say, especially in the last 5 years,
like it seems like that idea of crowd
work and has really blown up, especially
across social media, but now it seems
like you're getting people showing up to
comedy shows wanting to be the person
that goes viral on a crowd clip, which
>> would freak me out if I was doing
>> I had a friend, my buddy Aaron, and he
was saying like there was there was some
comedy club and they had uh no one
wanted to sit up front cuz they were
like we're going to get made fun of. So
every show like there was a section of
these seats that no one would sit in cuz
they wanted to be farther back from the
stage so they don't get made fun of. And
then he could not get people to move up
there. And then weirdly enough he
started charging he just said had a
great idea and he goes he charged more
money for those tickets and called it
the splash show. So then it's like
that's where you're going to get made
fun of and it flipped and then people
those tickets sell out immediately
>> and it's weird just to like I don't know
it's it's crazy just to think that
you're like you don't want there then
you're like hey it cost more money
you're like and he's going to make fun
of me you're like all right I can't wait
like it's it is it's bizarre I like
doing my act it's like a performance I
really look at it as it's like a play
you know you're I'm me I'm Eden McDonald
I mean this is what I am but then an
elevated version of that and then you're
just doing your show.
>> Yeah.
>> It's also an act that you've roughly
worked on for 20 years, you know,
tirelessly.
>> Now that you have, you know, a
blockbuster movie coming out and you
haven't done all that much acting, does
it feel like this is the culmination of
20 years and there was a consistent ramp
up or you're like, "Holy crap, all of
this is suddenly just happening at
once."
It's all happening very fast at once.
But it does like I'm grateful
that it took this long.
>> Yeah.
>> Cuz when you see when people get stuff
too quick, I was trying to get stuff too
quick. They just weren't giving.
>> So I had to go through the whole system.
>> Yeah.
>> But that set me up so much better for
where I'm at right now. Like the first
time I did SNL,
I did uh I was doing an arena the night
before. So I was able to go have go to
do SNL for the first time with 20 years
of experience.
>> Yeah.
>> And like I know I have material. I know
I have you just I've been through so
many situations. So you're able to even
though you're nervous, but you're able
to
>> hide your nerves because I I just know
how to do that. Yeah.
>> Or turn your nerves into excitement. So
yeah, going the long route has made it
where you know, yeah, when you do a
movie now, you're just like, yeah, this
is my first movie. I haven't acted, but
it's like I this first one, I'm not
veering too much far off. It's a lot of
my standup is some little bits in it.
>> Yeah,
>> I'm not venturing. I'm not like in
space.
>> I mean, I told him
>> that's the bread winner 3.
>> The bread winner will go to space for
sure. Ludicrous is in it. You know, by
the way, Jason, you ever watch Jason
when he goes to space?
>> Yes.
>> Out of all those Jason X, huh?
>> That's one of the only ones that's
actually makes the most sense.
>> I've watched all of them and it that
one's actually like Okay.
>> Yeah.
>> Like when he goes to New York.
>> Sure.
>> He's being drugged by a boat in the
river for hours and he's just standing
in New York City and like no one's like,
"Yo, what's up?" or anything. A lot of
it doesn't make sense. Obvious when he
goes to space,
it's you're like, "Yeah, they I don't I
mean, I don't know why they would have
taken him to space."
>> Mhm.
>> Like I would think if you would leave
your serial killers, you wouldn't be
like, "Hey, we got to go to space."
>> Sure.
>> I remember watching it being like, "How
are they going to get him to space?" And
then the second they get in there, I go,
>> you know, go, "That's not that bad." I
go, "Yeah." I go, "I think I'm I think
I'm on board." Their problem with the
movie is they made it 3025
which is way too far in the future. Like
where I mean I don't remember when it
came out 2001 or 19 whatever. No one can
imagine what 3025 is going to be. You
know the Terminator was smart enough to
go 200 like I I forget like 25 right
>> like around now. Yeah. Yeah. Now was
when it's happening. Don't go. And that
was crazy. But you're going 3025.
You're like, how could you even We don't
even have the stuff to even make it look
like it's 3025.
>> Yeah.
>> It's an absurd year. That's
>> make it dig your blizzard. I don't know.
>> That was my only That was my only
critique.
>> Blizzard is unbelievable, too.
>> There's a I just found out in St. Louis
there's a U
restaurant. I want to say it's Trudies
or Truds or something. Could be wrong.
Could start with a different letter.
>> Uh, do you think it'd end with different
letters, too?
>> Oh, it could be all.
>> Yeah. Whole different combination.
>> You could Yeah, it Yeah. I mean, it
could be like
>> Brent's
>> Yeah. Brent's ice cream and I'd be like,
"Oh, yeah. I don't know what I was
thinking of." Uh,
>> but he supposedly That's where the
Blizzard
>> Oh, interesting. It was like that guy
did it first where you would show it
upside down
>> and then Dairy Queen. Uh, you know,
they're doing pretty good now.
>> Nate, for the second course of your
final meal, we have this is mom's cheesy
chicken.
>> Yes.
>> Now, we got the recipe directly from
your mother, but but then your your
wife, Laura, did chime in and say that
that she's not making it right and that
you got to use less cheese than your mom
said and that you should use fresh
>> chicken breast. So, um, before I ever
met your your mother and and your wife,
I already sort of had to choose between
them. Um, is that something you have to
do often?
>> Yeah, I bet I I would rather the not
real chicken.
>> So, you're saying that your mom is right
in this?
>> Yeah. I I like again I don't want my
chicken that I eat. I always think I
could be I might be borderline vegan
because the meat I'm eating is not even
remotely near some cow. Like it's it's
like everything I eat it's like no cow's
been harmed in this process and I'm
eating a Big Mac or whatever and you're
like no cow.
>> Yeah.
>> No one. So, we have taken cheese and
fresh cooked chicken breast, half the
cheese because your wife said, and then
we rolled that up into crescent rolls,
and then we poured a creamy cheese sauce
with Campbell's cream of chicken soup on
there over the rolls and baked it into a
casserole. This was our fancy meal. And
my family, like, we're not big uh we
don't come from like a foodie family.
And there was no one really in our
family like that's this big cook or big
food is like celebrated in a way. Uh so
it was like this was our this was our
fancy stuff right here.
>> But like the feeling of eating this back
then is probably very very special.
>> Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I ate it not too
long ago. My my daughter loves it and so
my wife makes it for her now.
>> It tastes just like it's unbelievable.
>> That's so good. It's like a savory bread
pudding.
>> Yeah.
>> You know what I mean?
>> Yeah. If anything reminded me of home,
it would be a taste of this.
>> Yeah. I want to go back to your
childhood because you've talked about
your upbringing as quote unquote normal,
>> which is in opposition to a lot of
comics. You talk a lot about, you know,
childhood drama and stuff like that. But
if you look at your dad, you know, your
dad is somebody who was a performing
comic and and magician out there and he
had that very stereotypical traumatic
upbringing where he's using the humor to
cope with that darkness. Do you think
that he kind of tried to shield you from
that trauma but still gave you that
level of creativity?
>> Um, yeah. I mean, it's the, you know,
it's like when I talked about it's like
cuz it's like you talk about the the
child, I always have just a hard time
with, again, maybe it's the blaming.
It's like you never want to, you never
want to blame someone else. Like it's
like my dad was raised in a pretty rough
upbringing and then he did the best he
could do out of what he did which is
night and day different. Now that
doesn't mean it's going to be the best
that five dads away were going to do or
whatever but it's like the be so you're
just always at least moving forward is
the is the goal and you don't just get
stuck and it's the same thing over and
over and over again.
>> Yeah. But weirdly enough,
we're My dad's a magician. So everywhere
we walk, not that we're better than it,
but like it's like you're very
noticeable.
>> You can brag that your dad was a
magician. All right.
>> Yeah. You know, but then you want things
normal where you go like I had a joke
about my dad got a screen door and when
he he put it up and the handle was on
the wrong side of the regular door. So
to go in our house, you would have to
you would have to open the screen door
then go this way to the regular door,
right? And that just start the reason we
wanted my mom wanted a screen door cuz
she just wanted because normal houses
had screen doors.
>> So can we just be normal and have a
screen door like everybody else and then
our family is just that where we go try
to do something and then it ends up
being just not the right way.
>> Did your dad intentionally do that as a
joke or just No, just got just happened.
>> But it's but see it's a mix of both
where it's like funny where my dad might
not think about that. So I got pieces of
that. I got my dad's timing. I got my my
mom is very funny. But I mean that also
aspect I I I'm a I'm a lot like this now
where it's like I just want normal like
I want the normal thing. I want the if
we buy something I'm like I want the
main whatever the main thing is. I don't
want it to be off a little bit. I don't
want it to be a different uh you know,
if I'm buying a Samsonite suitcase, I
want it to be that. I don't want it to
be like, well, this brand is this other
little. And you're like, no, no, no, no,
no. I want the main one that everybody
gets.
>> Sure.
>> Like, so there's a lot of that because
you would, you know, growing up, you
you'd always have I had the Jordans that
were from the Dollar General store. Uh
or you had this you just nothing was
just normal. Like nothing was just like
felt regular
>> even. And there's super positives to
that, but then there's times where
you're like you feel very outcast like
everybody else has.
>> Yeah.
>> Like the regular
normal pair of, you know,
>> the fact that your dad was he was
somebody that that toured him. I think
he went across the globe, right?
Especially doing a straight jacket from
death act, which is fantastic. Very Andy
Koffmanesque. He obviously had a very
different view of normal and what he
wanted his life to look like and then it
sounds like you did despite the fact
that you're both in the same profession
roughly and that you've actually had him
open for you in the past.
>> Yeah. Well, him being around that played
a lot into it because I I can see that
now
>> how much it played into it.
>> Sure.
>> But my dad we could have went to Vegas.
Uh my dad could have moved to Vegas and
done stuff there and he chose to raise
us in uh Nashville. you roughly made
that same decision, right? You could
have lived in any city in America or the
world and maybe would have been more
advantageous to your, you know, career
depending on how you view the word
advantageous. But you made the decision
to keep your family, you know, in
Nashville. That's where you used to
live, right?
>> Yeah. But I moved, I did, I moved to
Chicago, New York, and then LA. So I was
gone for about 13 years. Uh our daughter
was born in
>> We were living in New York when she was
born. Yeah. But I uh we had her in
Tennessee. I didn't want her to have a
New York birth certificate.
So
I think that's literally a Hank that's
literally a King of the Hill plot line.
>> Oh yeah.
>> Where they didn't want Hank to have a
New York birth certificate. It's a great
It's the best show. And they they
>> It was Yeah. So we flew
>> We had this doctor up until the doctor
wasn't thrilled uh cuz he had to do all
like the nonfun stuff. And I think where
they make the big bucks is the delivery.
And then we were like, well, I don't
want I just don't want her to have my
joke. I used I had a joke about it and I
was like, well, I didn't want her
growing up thinking she was better than
me. So, I was like, you start where we
start. No one gets a leg up in this
family. Uh, but yeah, so she was born in
Tennessee and it really did matter. I
mean, I did want her to have a Tennessee
birth certificate. I wanted her to be
born in Tennessee. Uh, and so from after
that, we went to LA for a couple years.
And then I was really starting to kind
of tour a little bit more and I was just
leaving them kind of out there. And I
could tell doing auditioning and all
this kind of stuff that like if the path
that I was going was like I'm going to
have to create my path. I wasn't, you
know, the stuff they wanted me to
audition for. I technically not all of
it I was ever really comfortable to do
whether it was a lot of was dirty or all
this kind of stuff. So I was like, well,
I'm just going to have to create my own
little world. And so then I just was
like, well, let me go on the road and
just uh work on my standup. And you
know, and I kind of always thought, uh,
if I can get one thing, if I can make
one thing great, then I think you can,
it's easier to make other things great
cuz you know the process that it takes.
And so then you can when you go into
other stuff like I know how much work
needs to go into it because I know how
much work went into this one thing.
>> Made for course number three of our
final meal. We got the Italian sub and
the uncle sub from Uncle Paulie's. And
then we have a large pepperoni and olive
pizza.
>> Love it. Who's this delivered to?
>> Michael Loafman. Michael Lafman.
>> Look at that, dude. Who's Michael
Loafman?
>> Oh, Michael Loafman. Uh, so my my I had
a semester in Western Kentucky. Go Hill
Toppers.
>> Go Hill Toppers. No credits. the uh
failed bowling which is tough but they
make you and I was actually I'm a like I
I don't I was a very good bowler for a
while but still failed it cuz you had to
keep score. He like the point was you
had to learn how to keep score.
>> Well, that's a math class, not a bowling
class.
>> Yeah. And like like I don't know where
that's ever going to happen. I mean
every bowling alley in the world does it
on its own. And uh but Michael Ofman uh
was just every good there's a Goodwill
store there and he was employee of the
month every single month.
>> And so we just had this me and my buddy
Jeremy Pee is his nickname. Me and P
just were like Loafman was just killing
like we just would like it was like a
you know this guy dude is like and he's
employee of the month every month.
>> That's that's an incredible track.
incredible driver.
>> He must be a very impressive man.
>> Very impressive. And then uh we go
bowling one time and we're just bowling
and I I mean we're not even expecting
it. I look up and it's uh Loafman 300.
He bowled a 300 game. You're like you're
like this dude's out of his I mean this
guy's a unbelievable. So it was like
just fun for us to talk about how great
we thought Michael Lafman was. Never met
him. Uh and my emails are all Loafman.
Everything was Loafman. And then I I've
I've changed it because I put it in the
book, but when I had a stay at hotels in
another name, I was Michael Loafman. You
know, I never got to meet him. I I I
don't know. Uh I assume it's hardworking
family and uh wonderful family and you
know, we were we were big fans from
afar. Michael, this one's for you.
>> Yeah, buddy.
>> Dig in, man. So, this is uh we actually
made this ourselves. We tried to do it
in the style of New York. Very very thin
crust. Nice and charred on the bottom.
Little bit greasy. Black olives,
pepperoni.
>> This how you eat in New York. You eat
it. You got to curl it up. And
>> oh pizza.
>> The the pizza that reminded me of It's
this place West Third. I think it's West
Third Pizza. Uh it's kind of next to the
Comedy Seller.
>> Mhm.
>> In New York. You would run around and do
a lot of shows in New York. And so, you
know, you could do the most shows I did
in one night was like seven. And you do
spots at clubs. So, they have all these
comedy clubs and you're doing like 15
minutes. So, you I mean that night
you're just like right when you get off
stage, you're running to another comedy
club and then you go do a show there and
you go do a show there and you bounce
around. So, you would have to eat and
then so like pizza was just in New York.
Yeah.
>> The easiest to they have it out. You
just say, "I'll take one slice of that."
You can grab it, eat it on the way. So
it it reminds me very much of New York
and us running around doing a bunch of
shows and all that kind of stuff.
>> Yeah. When you look back at those days,
so many people once they they reach
success, they realize that now they have
a lot of people they're responsible for.
The projects that they're doing are now,
you know, uh tens of millions of dollars
deep. Whereas when you were just running
around New York doing your craft, that
was actually the most fun that you had.
Do you have that rosecolored view of the
past or you're very happy where you're
at now?
>> I'm very happy where I'm at, but I I'm
very very happy. I would like I wouldn't
It's I wouldn't change it, but I
wouldn't go back.
>> Yeah.
>> It's like uh I loved it.
>> I still talk to most everybody that I
started with, you know. Now that we're
doing shows, I get to bring a lot of
them on the road with me. So, it's like
we've been together for, you know, 23
years some. when you first when you're
in New York and you're running around
doing shows, you become friends with
these people because you're around them
every day like all night and because
you're doing shows every night. So the
guys that are really going out there and
doing it, it's not till later when you
start getting on the road where you kind
of go from where you're not really
around a lot of them and so you're kind
of by yourself.
>> Mhm.
>> And which can be bad. Uh because you
know it's like I think what makes
everything so funny at the beginning is
like you're all together so you're all
comics. So everybody's trying to be
funnier than any comment you say I want
to be better than that comment. like
it's very competitive and very making
fun of each other and all this and so
that's why now on the road I bring uh my
buddy Julian Mcola who I started with uh
he hosts the shows the arena shows are
so big and he's so great I mean he he's
got his own special everybody's a
headliner on their own right and then I
bring three also three other comics on
the road
>> and the idea of it is to recreate that
Hank that we kind of had
>> just so we can stay funny. So there's
always jokes. It's a lot of jokes. You
need to do that. I mean, if you just go
sit in a hotel room alone by yourself a
lot on the road, it's like not it gets
old. You're not going to be
>> I don't know. You're kind of like down
like you're not
>> Yeah.
>> What you talking about, too? It's It's
nice.
>> It's nice when fans when you're making
all these people laugh, but you're sort
of left alone in a vacuum. I I haven't
done a ton of stuff on stage, but when
we have we did this little tour that was
like selling out, you know, 2500, 3,000
person theaters. And I'd never
experienced that amount of laughter or
connecting to you, whatever. But I have
never experienced a more lonely feeling
than leaving a stage and going back to a
bus with nobody else on it. It felt like
a vacuum, like everything was like I was
Jason in space in a vacuum getting the
air sucked out,
>> you know? It really scared the hell out
of me. Mhm.
>> But it sounds like you've tried to just
recreate these like good old days by
stacking people
>> basically. Exactly that. Exactly that.
So you can have cuz you have so much
stuff crazy happening that you just want
to go back to your buddies and be like
dude did you that was crazy like that
was this that that whatever and you go
do more stuff cuz when you know when
you're alone in a city it's like
>> I don't know. I've been to almost I've
been to every city. I performed in every
state I've done. Like you you go back to
these cities that you just been to them
and it's like so much that you can go
like all right well this food is good or
this go see this or go see that and then
you might be alone or whatever and
you're just not going to interact with
people. You're not going to be making
jokes to yourself about stuff but when
you go walk around a zoo with like four
comics I mean you might come up with
something. You might like say something
that's funny and it's like oh you should
say that on stage and you're like all
right I'm going to try that. And it's
like your brain is just thinking.
>> That's how you got your famous orangutan
bit.
>> Exactly.
>> You guys haven't seen it yet, but I
heard it in the
>> Yeah. So funny, man.
>> Thank you.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Okay, so we got two different sandwiches
from Uncle Paul. You got the uncle and
the Italian.
>> Um I would argue that the uncle is also
an Italian uncle in question cuz it is
mostly soada patito.
>> Yeah.
>> A lot of cured meats in here.
>> What's the deal with Uncle Paulie
sandwiches?
>> So I know Paulie.
>> You know Paulie?
>> I know Paulie. Paulie uh was in New York
City and he worked at the uh Broadway
comedy club in New York City.
>> No way.
>> Yeah. And he uh his mom uh booked uh
comics, booked a lot of us on like uh
whatever gigs around New York and
Connecticut by this this this random
stuff. And then so I left went to LA and
then later way later on I found out like
he went and opened a deli out here in
LA. I was like I couldn't believe like I
was like that's crazy dude and it's
become a like a very popular place. He
it wasn't like he didn't make us
sandwiches
coming up. I don't there was none of
that
>> cuz obviously he learned how to make a
pretty damn good sandwich. Like this is
genuinely like one of the best
sandwiches in LA. There's a reason it's
so popular.
>> We've just used their This bread looks
familiar. You've seen us just use this
bread for other sandwiches that we make
on this cooking show.
>> That's how good the bread is.
>> But you had no idea that he was like
going to open a sandwich empire.
>> No idea. And so
why I wanted to even pick with the show
is just like I just love that. I I do
remember being even when I was young
being kind of in common to being
sentimental about like I always like
thought I I can't wait to see where
everybody's going to be at in teen years
and 20 years. and it was always comics
and stuff like that. And so to see
Paulie have done this and then you're
just known him for forever and you're
just like you're like dude that's so
awesome. Like that's crazy. He he was
very fun to get laughing. He was very
funny. He just fit in with comics even
though he wasn't a comedian. Obviously
he was around a bunch of comedians. So
he just fit in with us all very well.
So, it reminds me of that time and I
root for him as a person. I've always
just really liked him and uh so to see
someone come and have chef success is
awesome.
>> It's interesting thinking about what
people you were rooting for like 10
years ago cuz I remember listening to
you on Mark Marin's podcast probably
closer to 15 years ago, like real early
days.
>> And Mark Marin despite seeming like
almost the complete opposite type of
comic to you, right? Mark Maron works
super blue and he's super political and
he is very very riled up and fast-paced,
but he seemed to take like such an
affinity for you cuz he was like, I
don't know a lot of people that are
doing what you are doing. the fact that
that you are clean. The fact that
frankly you're really really well paced,
you use a lot of silence in your act in
a world where some of the comics that I
grew up listening to, right, I would
have called them edgy when I was
younger,
>> but then when everyone's edgy and
everyone's talking about sex and
everyone's talking about politic and
everyone's working the same level of
blessed everywhere, is there something
to just like staying the course of what
you know to be true and funny and not
trying to follow everybody else?
>> Absolutely. You you gota you got to just
that's the that's the only message I
would give to anybody is just
you know there was times you you I was
you're very tempted to go uh edgy or
when political like cuz I mean I watched
a lot of comics that were younger than
me that would just fly by me and like be
you know you're like that guy you're
like I'm doing comics 10 years longer
than that guy then you're like that
guy's famous now you know and you're
like all right maybe I should do this
cuz if I did this like you would draw
attention whatever and uh but
fortunately uh I was I I I was able to I
was able to stay the course kind of stay
to what I did you know someone asked me
recently how could you keep your you
know it always feels weird saying the
word brand but it's the simplest way to
put it but it's like your brand or
whatever like how could you uh keep it
together now
>> like and I would and I told him I said,
"Well, I think I've already done the
hard part cuz I did it the when it was
the easiest to veer off of it."
>> Yeah.
>> Now, it would be insane to veer off of
it. But I if I went through all the
years where no one knew me and I didn't
veer off of it, then I feel stronger now
and that I'll stay in it more than ever.
>> Nate, for the final course of your final
meal on this earth, we have
>> a PB Swizzle acai bowl from Smoothie
King. No, this is a regional chain that
we were not able to get. So, we tried to
recreate it faithfully, including
manufacturing the sticker that goes on
it.
>> And then we have um I would kind of
think this is maybe an evolution of Nate
Baretti that this is the old acai bowl.
>> Yes.
>> Chocolate ice cream with milkboard on
top.
>> Yeah. Yeah. So, this would be from my
buddy Ryan, uh my oldest friend since we
were eight. But we would eat this. He
would eat it and then I started doing
it. I seen him do it and he just put
chocolate milk in there and I mean
chocolate ice cream and just put milk.
It's like the the cheesy chicken. I mean
out out of all the things it's like
these are the two things that really
remind me of like home.
>> If you were to shake this up a bunch,
that'd be what we call a milkshake.
>> It's like
But it's kind of better.
>> It kind of is better.
>> Like it's like a lazier,
you know? It's like you don't have the
money for a milkshake machine.
Just
>> You write really glowingly and very
empathetically about your dad in your
book Big Dumb eyes about this moment of
testimony that he had
>> of, you know, your dad
>> basically being like disfigured at age
three, basically getting chewed up by a
bulldog cuz his mom left him outside of
a bowling alley while she was bowling a
299 game. Most in the history of the
state of Kentucky, don't you know?
>> Bowling Hall of Fame.
>> Bowling Hall of Fame. But
>> bowl
But like your dad had this crazy rough
upbringing. He was basically abandoned
by his family,
>> kind of taken in by distant relatives
after he was living on the street,
aimless, everyone called him dumb, and
then he had this moment of testimony of
being cared about for the first time.
>> Have you had any similar moment of
testimony like that? Or for you, was it
more of like a gradual understanding of
that calling?
>> I think for me it was a gradual
understanding. Yeah. I I don't think
there was ever this one. Well, I I about
did Bridgestone Arena
and I always like kind of daydreamed
about doing that when I first started
and then we did it sold the most tickets
for a single show. Uh Gar Brooks did 12
shows there, but but I I snuck I snuck
mine in with the most in one show. Uh
but it's so after I I remember that
night. I've been thinking about that
moment for 20 years.
And uh and I didn't really speak about
it. I didn't like it was just with me.
And then after that night, I was like,
"What now?"
>> And I remember heavily that being pretty
heavy on me of going, "What now?"
>> Yeah.
>> Like, and I haven't done MSG. I haven't
done that. Was one of the early arenas I
did. But I knew I wanted to keep I
wanted to go do MSG. I wanted to go do
Boston Guard, all this kind of all these
big shows. I wanted to be this big tour.
I want to be the be, you know, the best
standup I could be and be hopefully try
to be one of the best stand-ups and all
this kind of stuff. So, I knew all I I
wanted all that stuff, but there was
something that I you could see where
you're like, well, that doesn't matter
if there's this other hole or something
that's not being filled.
>> Yeah.
>> And so then I mean I I I mean I remember
it that vividly that night. And that was
like we had a terrible uh they had a
school shooting uh like not too quickly
before that. And I remember meeting the
the uh police officers that were
involved in a lot of that. It was just
met uh people from that school. They had
come to that show. This was a few weeks
after and just for them to have the
relief of uh you know I mean they the
weight of the world on the town much
less the this small school. And so
getting to meet them and all this and
just, you know, knowingly that they uh,
you know, they're like, it's the first
time they've laughed. It's first time
they, you know, it's like, I don't know,
it was just heavy moments
>> that you were kind of lightening for a
second. And so I think that time is when
I thought of Nateland and like the Natan
world that I'm trying to build where it
was like all right this has to be I have
to be I need to be a relief for people
and on all spectrums
whether I I'm I'm from I'm Christian uh
so but like be whatever you are I should
be for everybody
>> it doesn't matter if you believe don't
believe you're a different religion
you're different whatever doesn't matter
that's why I I liked making fun of
myself because I can I can do that and
you can laugh with me or at me and it
doesn't matter. I'll either I always it
counts as a laugh either way. But and so
then that's where the my drive goes. And
I'm not trying to say I'm better figured
anything out. I'm just telling you
that's where
>> this guy almost had a daughter born in
New York. He thinks he's better than us.
All right.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just doing my I'm
just doing my thing. You go do your
thing. I'm not trying to bother anybody.
I'm just doing my little thing over
here. Uh that involves a bowls and uh
ice cream.
>> Take d take it to the asai bowl, man.
Where does where does this come from? Is
this like the the new healthy uh power
building Nate Barget?
>> I'll be honest with you, they've cut me
off on these. Uh
because, you know, I I love this AIO,
but the amount of stuff that I'll put in
it,
>> I mean, it it rivals this.
>> Uh
>> there's definitely more calories in here
than there is in here. Yeah,
>> you get nutrients and vitamins in this,
but like we're talking calories.
>> Oh,
but I didn't even know about them. And
my daughter
>> Mhm.
>> wanted one.
And I like I was like, I'm not good at a
smoothie bowl. It seems insane. I never
knew about them. I was minding my own
business. Wasn't even in
the AIA or AI
aa world.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
I didn't know anything about it. And my
daughter Harper, she made me go get her
one
>> and I still didn't get it. And then we
were somewhere and I was just like, "Oh,
all right. I'll try one." My daughter
always gets this. And uh came a pretty
big problem. And I would eat them before
every show. And so,
uh, until very recently where we've been
had to tone it down, I've eaten two in a
day. And that's a lot, dude. That's a
lot.
>> It's like it's a lot.
>> We've somehow branded these like like
health food, but I had a buddy from
Brazil who was like, "Oh, we we eat that
to bulk up. That's like a post-workout
meal for us because there's so much
sugar." And I was like, "No, no, no.
This is diet food in America, you know."
Yeah.
>> Oh, yeah. You're talking about trying to
appeal to as many people as possible or
not shut people out, not to sell more
tickets to bigger arenas because, you
know, the arenas can just go bigger and
bigger and bigger and they're building
bigger ones out there,
>> but like to actually be able to connect
more people to each other.
>> Your new movie, The Bread Winner, it it
seems like a movie that hasn't existed
in quite a long time, like a theatrical
release familyfriendly comedy. Was that
something that was very intentional or
that's just the comedy that speaks to
you?
>> Older movie, Mr. Mom. Mhm.
>> John Hughes,
>> Michael Geek, still amazing. When we I I
started writing this with Dan Luno when
I first was writing. I was kind of based
my stand up. It was just like what
happened I got stuck with the kids and
I'm like it's funny cuz I'm like I think
it's this great idea and it's like yeah
like it's Mr. Mom. I was like man I go
it is like there there he was. John
Hughes was good and uh he did Home
Alone. He did plane trains building all
that. So
that kind of era of a movie that people
talk about a lot was movies that you
know I I I I I I still think very
business-minded, right? So if I'm
thinking very I I want to create this
for this movie, but I think I'm very
businessminded. If I'm looking on all
these streamers and how complains
transits is in the top 10.
>> Yeah.
>> Like over every movie you make, how are
they sustaining that? You can't tell me
that no one want doesn't want that
anymore when I'm looking at it. How do
you have teenagers go watching Friends
now?
>> Sure.
>> And they're going through the whole
series. How can you like there's all
this I I just it doesn't I can't wrap my
head around it cuz I'm just like and
this is I don't even know inside data.
I'm just looking at like the rankings.
But yeah, you see this kind of thing
where you know they they're like well no
one wants to go to the movie theaters.
Everything's always like I I feel
everything gets blamed on everybody, the
audience.
>> Yeah.
>> But no one takes responsibility. So they
all go, "Well, no one no one wants to
come to movie theaters anymore." That's
right. It's everybody. It's your fault.
>> It's the hundreds of millions people's
fault. Surely not what you're doing.
>> Our bad.
>> You guys, that was your fault. I think
everybody thinks everybody changes and
you're like, "Dude, they don't change,
man. They all still want the same thing
that you wanted when you were a kid.
They want it too. They want to watch
those things that are easy. And I think
you got a problem where people are
addicted to social media and the people
that make the decisions to make
television are addicted to social media.
Yes.
>> And then so they are going like, "Wow,
this is what everybody wants because
it's got these views on social media."
>> And while social media matters very very
much, I don't see where it translates
into ticket sales. And so like you could
look at look at my Instagram following,
right? Mhm.
>> I think we're almost at 3 million
followers where if you looked at some
other comics or some other people, I
should not be above them as far as it
just shouldn't.
>> Yeah.
>> But it's like and you know and I use
another one I always use was like uh
YouTube. YouTube has like a video.
>> Is that how you're saying it right?
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Yeah. I I see you.
>> I see it. I see.
>> I see. I see it. That's good. She should
get into this
>> businessminded.
>> She should get into it. But like you see
a video and I love her and I've watched
the video, but it have it could have
billions of views, right?
>> Well, that means she shouldn't be able
to walk outside cuz that I think every
person on earth has watched her video.
>> So she should be the most famous person
that's ever existed.
>> Sure.
>> And not saying she's not extremely
famous, but like something's not at
>> She hide her face.
>> She hides her face. So now she can walk
around. But some of those like when
those views they just don't it doesn't
make sense to me. You're like how does
this have a like billions of views? And
now they start showing everything in
minutes watch. I don't understand that
either. They're like 411 million minutes
watch. You're like what is what are we
going off?
>> I don't I don't have a sun dial. I
missed how much that was.
>> Yeah. How long is Yeah. How
>> you want to sort of go back to this this
sort of golden era. It seems like
>> I think the golden era still still
exists and they they had it when they
went once TV, you know, they flipped in
TV but kind of came back into the golden
era and then I think TV's now it's like
what every actor and everybody's kind of
gone that route and then you got these
TV shows and stuff and it's like let's
let's have a balance. I think people
still want a Big Bang Theory on the air
that they can just have on and cook
dinner and you know it's like
entertainment is doesn't all need to be
like where I'm like you got to listen to
every second of everything I do you
know.
>> Yeah. But as the world sort of changes
there you have been for 20 years on the
same straight path
>> and now it's caught back up.
>> Where's God eating food I ate before I
made it. Nate, you became a conscious
human being around the year 1983. That
was when Vanderbilt started a 25- year
losing streak where they did not have a
single winning season.
>> Man,
>> what did that teach you about having low
expectations in the world?
>> I think it humbled you and I think uh I
think the best thing that could happen
to you as a kid is to root for a team
that is not good.
>> Yeah. And I think that's what, you know,
you meet a lot of kids, uh, especially
my age, that were like, I'm a Bulls fan
and a Cowboys fan and a Yankees fan.
You're like, well, are you?
Well, that was a fun time for you. Um,
yeah, I don't think it's a bad thing.
Detroit, like if you're a Lions fan,
you're like a a Cleveland fan, like
you're like it's just it's going to be
better than talking to like a Patriots.
like you just want.
>> I think that's actually like a really
powerful uh metaphor for life right
there of if you don't expect the world
and you just get something nice like a
nice 10 and 13 to root for with a plucky
plucky quarterback.
>> I think there's like I don't know a key
to happiness in there.
>> Yeah. I mean, you're the most excited
every year and you get it's like I think
there's humor. Humor shows up there.
>> Yeah.
>> Because you're you can make fun of
yourself, make fun of your team. And I
always say at the beginning of the year
like you got to you got to talk me how
we're not going to go undefeated.
I mean and I for the I've been doing
that for the past 20 years. He go I
don't see where we're going to lose and
then we would have seasons we lost every
game.
>> Yeah.
>> But I started
>> sometimes strung multiple.
>> Oh yeah. But I would start that season
going like I just don't I just don't see
where the loss would come from.
>> And then it just it was the opposite.
But it's like, yeah, it does. It makes
you Yeah. having a car that's not as
good or having like all these little
weird things that you got to kind of
explain why you're into them are are
good are good cool tools to have cuz
you're like, why are you a Vandy fan?
And then you got to make a joke about it
or you got to just dive all into it and
be obsessed with it.
>> Yeah.
>> I had a I had a highlight reel. Uh I
showed I did I I took speech at uh in
community college. So for my speech
class I brought in uh highlight reel on
VHS of Vanderbilt's uh that we went five
and six.
It wasn't even a winning season. And and
I brought in and I played I just played
the highlight reel and I just like I
didn't even prepare. This could have
been one of my first standup like
opportunities like where if I look back
on it I I just played it.
>> I was like I talked about I knew
everybody. I talked about uh just how
great it was that season and then the
end of it to be five. We didn't go to a
bowl game. We didn't get it wasn't a
good year and but I was very funny
telling it and uh I got I think I got an
A in that speech fest because of that.
But that that was like, you know, you
look back, that's a sign of uh that I
see where you're like, "All right, I was
being very my go-to thing was to like
since I'm not going to prepare for this,
I'll just bring this in and be funny. I
I'll do something so offthe-wall that no
one no one, you know, no one goes to a
different college. We're not even at
Vanderbilt. We're at a community
college. No one's there going like, I
hope we see the five and six season of
Vanderbilt football in 1997 or whatever
it was." Go doors, man.
>> 98. Go Doors.
>> We ask every guest, "What do you think
happens when you die?"
>> Uh, well, as a Christian, uh, you know,
it's like I not that I know everything
about everything, you know. I don't know
if I'm I I'm not a the best Christian.
I'm not a bit I'm I'm not I'm a very non
Do you be everybody be everything? Like
I don't I don't know. I just I I don't
have the answer. Am I smart enough to
have the like, you know, I don't know
what to say and all that, but uh so I do
believe that there is an afterlife and
uh and that's where you know you want to
that's where I would hope to be.
>> Now you ready to get in the landing
round?
>> Yeah, let's do it.
>> Who's the one person dead or alive you'd
want to share your actual last meal
with?
>> I mean Jesus is that but that's Yeah,
>> you can pick it. Only one other person
has picked Jesus before.
>> Oh, really?
>> Yeah. Yeah. What kind of people you
having on here?
Yeah.
>> Uh, what song do you want to be played
at your funeral?
>> We were merely freshmen.
>> You promised fivestar pocket passer
Jared Curtis a role in a movie. When are
we going to see him?
>> Stay stay tuned for that.
>> Like actually.
>> I love Nil, baby. All right. Who's your
dream eulogizer at your funeral?
>> Eulogizer?
>> Yeah. Yeah. That sounds like a acting
like a fitness thing.
>> That's the person It's the person who
gives a speech.
>> Yeah, it's tough. I don't know. It's
hard to be funnier like uh my daughter
cuz then I would hope that she outlives
me by a lot.
>> That's a good guarantee. What's the most
underrated menu item at Applebee's?
>> The Chinese chicken salad.
>> What's your biggest fear? I uh I I think
uh getting stuck left like
>> feeling feeling feeling stuck like if I
feel like I'm getting behind can be
career-wise, could be anything. It can
be if I feel like I'm like like you know
I should be moving forward that's
>> or claustrophobia. You can choose you
choose claustrophobia. Just go
claustrophobia. That's easier than the
other.
>> Who's the best player in the history of
the NBA?
>> Michael Jordan. Sorry, we're talking
about N we're talking about Nashville
Baptist Association, not National
Basketball Association.
>> Uh,
I played with the guy uh against the guy
in the real world that wore the Cowboy
hat and he was tall,
but he he didn't play Nashville. He came
in, we scrimmaged him. He was in
Kentucky. So, that was out of town game.
>> Just an exhibition, not real league
play. Yeah.
>> Uh,
>> was it on carpet or hardwood?
>> That one was on hardwood. It was like
don't be dick carpet was there earlier
and he got we practiced on carpet. All
right, bud. Don't
>> I didn't mean to offend the National
Baptist Association. I'm so sorry.
>> Finally. Nate, are you happy?
>> I'm extremely happy. I feel very loved.
Uh I think I have a lot of stuff to do,
but uh yeah, you know me. I'm Yeah, I'm
very happy.
>> I'm happy that I got to share this with
you, man. Thank you so much. I've been a
massive fan for years. I'm stoked to
check out the bread winner, man.
>> This is awesome.
>> Thank you. Appreciate it. If you want to
deliver your last words to that camera
right there.
>> Uh last words before Oh, yeah. Like I
would die.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Before they ate this is like a man
>> cuz I'm thinking it's a I'd get
electrocuted.
>> Oh yeah. Yeah. You So you think you So
you you'd be pretty bummed about your
own death is what you're saying.
>> Yeah. So you'd go like
>> you're talking about a situation.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. If I was on my deathbed, it's like
it would be like I love you or like
>> Well, let's say you're on your deathbed
like on
>> No. Well,
>> you you don't like you know,
>> oh man,
>> I think so.
>> You go I think still you just always
Yeah. You just Oh man.
>> Oh man.
>> Or
>> you go it's coming to the end. It's the
choice. It's like you go your your last
words would be like, "Oh boy, I hope
it's I hope it's Jesus."
>> Yeah.
Oh boy, I hope it's This is Dave
Maretti. Everyone, check him out. Thank
you again so much. Everyone,
>> make sure you check out The Bread Winner
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