Joe Rogan Experience #1620 — Nate Bargatze Transcript

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0:00 the Joe Rogan experience And I started touring on the road a lot more, yeah i was so scared i had my buddy rory scoville like he i moved didn't tell him and he came to Yes. Like, I'm doing it right now. being like i did like all old stuff and i was like no i did half new because it's mixed in they don't story with you oh yeah about first starting oh you were responsible for basically the first time I ever went on stage

3:58 I remember all this stuff that's like a nightmare as a comedy. And so we hung out with them. You were very, very nice. I'm not going to be here. I'm gonna do, guy that's a funny thing man the those little like nudges and like uh little pieces of good criticism This was the second time I ever got paid, whatever ronnie called it and so seeing just being around him was crazy and an opening for him was

7:01 to go up like you know stuff that you would say to comics but it was like stuff that i didn't know at that time and you realize you know that that's enormous yeah that's And I thought maybe it wasn't at a hotel. So the night goes from this amazing night with my wife for $500 to now we're in a fight. just go you remember that 500 like just to make that point tony v gave me uh a really interesting piece of advice one day because he was telling me that he drove from boston to new york he i think

8:34 I don't get upset. try to think like I'm gonna eat uh a decent mildew I'm gonna have like a steak and green beans tonight like i'll have a subject that i'm working on so i have this long long form idea like oh you know And I have fucking, I don't know how many of these files that never went anywhere. But sometimes bits just come to you on stage, too.

11:14 And from a distance, he thought we had the same build. couple people on the drive to be like this is is funny, right? You know, like, make sure you're not, like, a crazy person. It just comes out of your mind. and you're like, that it keeps you humble drive-in movie shows like he kind of i'm pretty sure it was burt's idea he couldn't figure out how to get out, so he's just driving, and you're like, just leave,

13:34 He's going to start that car and let it warm up. they are it's not ideal but if you went into it i go these people are coming out they haven't been But you learn that, you know, I just need a response. just trust that they're laughing and you can't see their faces. And the second one, did you make them take their masks off? them laugh through the mask oh because they're laughing but it's like i just can't hear yeah

16:47 They're like people that have gotten out of jail and can never go back. Yeah, they get this attitude about it, like, I'm free. i saw some guy was fucking with people he made a mask that looked like he wasn't wearing a mask It was like a photograph, you know. Andrew Schultz is in Miami right now. Florida has no rules. But I went to – I just did stand-up live in Phoenix,

19:27 Still? And you're like, well, everybody still needs to be six feet apart. They got it really packed. Yeah, I saw this about Fauci said the U.S. considering updating three foot social distancing guidelines and key move to reopen schools. whether it's per thousand or per million people so like if you have a place like california that has 40 million people in the state versus a place like wyoming that has less

21:41 So if Wyoming has 1,000 cases, like, oh, my God,oming is a huge success story not necessarily oh because they got less per capita based on the was like a death sentence like for sure you're gonna be a loser yeah which was my number one You're becoming a fucking loser. working people they they value hard work because you have to shovel yourself out of your fucking

23:54 You'll freeze to death. gary valentine we uh went out there and he was staying with me and we were wandering around we And then I went to New York right after that. so uh with pete he got me i moved like five months after pete did and he was like i'm barking at this Like, just throwing them. No one was there. And then we'd go outside and just say, I remember him coming and having white makeup on his neck,

26:56 I'll never forget these one people. I was like, well, I'm at a comedy club. Those people and that $500. but he was in character the whole day as Tyrone Biggums. And then it switched to Comedy village i forever sold it but then chapelle came by one night and hosted for everybody like all the even the open mic guys that were going up because he would come

29:00 were big for me because when I went to New York, you know, at that time, 2005, something like that, He didn't ask me, by the way, And he just like looked at me and walked away. He was just like, there was no reason for me. You know what I mean? You had to have a guy like that that was an elite stand-up comic. to this day it's like it all comes from the same place whether the joke is funny or the joke is not, whether it's offensive or whether it's hilarious and non-offensive.

31:38 all built from sometimes if someone like they'll be like oh you're being mean to him you're like So I kind of started with Big Jay, Kurt Metzger. Fuck. And I'm like friends with Kurt at this point. room though because he we were we shared a hotel room that's where like the gig we're doing and he And I just tell him that. way of looking at things but he's also got a a brilliant perspective because he grew up in a cult

34:55 him uh uh unbelievable and when i watched him at the very beginning uh the patrice thing the So Patrice knew that and he would ask me like, do you believe in dinosaurs and stuff? And so then, so Jay calls him and says, hey, our other guy says that Nate can't come to to go if someone came up to me he's like i don't believe in the moon i'd rather talk to that guy

36:38 Google space is fake. this group it's wild man because the thing about these youtube videos is if somebody puts together And this is all the scientists that worked on this for 50 fucking years. in disbelief of everything the government says. was how many people were out there that really believed the world was flat. Oh, yeah, Kyrie Irving. He goes, I went down.

39:13 They'll tell you things and they'll speak in this tone Like their daughter's like, I drew a picture. than they're not like if you feel yourself wanting something to be like i hope that's the vastness of the forest i think people underestimate like how vast forests are. It's a lot. I was like, this is a lot of trees. So if you saw that in between trees

41:42 So they're like moving towards them You know, maybe you're just fucking out on the hike and you see that you're like, oh my god so he did that show about survivor man bigfoot yeah but it just went away bro that show i love structure out there and then they brought recording equipment and they claim to have recorded sounds of these animals, these Bigfoot.

44:31 but, you know, like they have these quote-unquote experts whoops and these guys are like in the foreground you know like the guys who're Yeah, I'm trying to make sure the gentleman's name. and so um it's the weirdest shit ever listen just listen to this you're gonna But they're like, they're over by the lake. You got it? That one's weird. scoot ahead a little bit and hear the samurai sounds

48:41 No one was in there. And unfortunately, a lot of people lost a lot of faith in him because of that. like oh god he just yelled that out makes the samurai noise but this you know the guy who had the video is known to be like full idea i mean it's all theory, right? If someone had a convincing Bigfoot encounter trying to look for sasquatch and talking to people that hunt for sasquatch and the one conclusion

51:58 Like if they come back with Bigfoot, everything's different. I'm going to send you this because Sagar and Jetty from Rising on the Hill is operable So there's these things that have been, that move in this weird way that don't shifting UFO tech. There's these things that move to alter space time may actually I don't know. really like an article right um

54:38 But this is what, if you pay attention to the UFO world, do you pay attention to that shit at all? Or is this real? He was hired by the United States military to work at Area S-4, which is part of the Area 51 Site S-4. where a navy pilot by the name of commander david fravor who i've also had on the show experienced this thing So it's like it's reading their tracking systems or reading where they were going.

57:43 think it's like a lot to just tell people And then there's uh the covet 19 bill It just shows you how greasy politicians are. develop this stuff did they develop it from ufos or is the ufo thing the cover-up because they have Boom. Right. Some people just melted. Yeah, not good. Imagine the indignity. you're holding on to the bars like a crazy person like a person trapped just

1:02:28 I mean, they tell you that. Yeah. Why not? animals we're fearful of like we can't stop all things from going extinct because things went extinct and ecosystems. What about one of them? them loose in america so y'all just deal with that every day like you just don't know where he's at Like when you walk around a skeleton it's sort of this framework of what a thing is and you, you know, I kind of get it. But if they had one that they did up, like, special effects style,

1:05:45 You know, because a lot of dinosaurs were, in fact, in the bird family. She knows a lot about them. Because up until now, it was a theory. lizard like a crocodile or something and the other side it shows it covered in feathers and it goes Yeah, it's pretty dope. Yeah, but there's a high school there. I think one side of it was. Called it a day. If it catches me right I'll be like

1:08:21 Stuff like that once i found out like that john j Jones I love like once in a lifetime get to see a guy like this like George a great but ufc wasn't in my world back then back then when he was a champ yeah and so i go john I want to watch because I'm like, these guys are not normal, Because we don't know anything about the sport, really. jones looks so dominant yeah and then i see daniel you're like oh daniel's how good Jon Jones is. Like, I'm like, because, you know, Jon Jones looks so dominant. Yeah.

1:11:26 dana white press conference no one talks like that dude no one i watch all these sports it's He never told me I'm about to go talk to this guy. Fits the sport perfectly. fits the sport you know fits the time this might be i'm gonna fill up with vitamins and guy didn't have any time to prepare like no time, six days notice to take the fight, way. Like, hey, a guy puts on

1:14:24 is it from now until that that ufc card the tweak their neck or they fuck their knee up or their ankle gets rolled. There's always something, and you don't know about that. And they don't check? You're not going to know. He's very clever. he was kind of beating Burns up, and Burns was on the ground. His mind is so strong. But he gets in there. israel uh stylebender like he's like pretty tall like I didn't realize how big he was right and you're

1:17:56 He's retiring. it i'm done and the ufc's been trying to talk him into fighting again but so far he would have to Yeah, I would imagine. not when your skills are starting to deteriorate, he with justin gaethje was kind of i was like oh just in case you looked so good against turning just don't tend to watch them don't get pumped about don't get pumped up and I bought uh Ronda

1:21:05 to fight in mma now she's making her she's doing both for a while and she's going to fight in june Big stars. She's a destroyer. Wild shit, man. That's how hard she hits. It was primal. in terms of knockout power in Bantamweight history. Like, you would not even know what's going on. I saw it. It was UFC 2. that doesn't really exist very often most of of the time, bigger, stronger people fuck up smaller, better people.

1:25:15 But most of the time, it's too dangerous. was what everybody always wanted from martial arts they wanted technique and The confidence that, like, we asked Bisping, he's like, But you don't have. And we're like, I mean, could you kill someone? What's it like to go to a mall and see a pack of 40 teenagers walk up to you and just be like, I mean, walk right through them, but I will destroy all of you.

1:27:52 What I do love, like his, I think he was with his family and his daughter or something. Yeah. human she's a human and she looks at his like i don't care who you are that's my dad and you The only person not scared of him is this tiniest little girl that's like, no. The weed game is like a real thing. Yeah. Like, they have cash-only businesses in some places, at least they did for a while,

1:30:24 They have weed tourism that was in Denver, and they'd have lines around the block of people paying cash, and then someone would come in with a ski mask on and fucking rob them. But it's not federally legal, right? 19 or some shit? Headaches. Yeah. version of it, like a volcano like a like a steel version of it like an industrial I was going to one dispensary that was in Englewood.

1:33:30 I mean, just like a cloud. And when you're super duper high and you walk into a grow room, one of the weird things is like, I mean, maybe it's just me being high. driving we still oh yeah we were there for a long time it was great but it was like that then like And this guy was real friendly. Yeah. That's so crazy or shit like that it's great for it it's great for for some people it really helps with anxiety

1:36:15 Some people it's just not a good drug for. Yeah, I get it. go. Yeah. It's not for everybody. Yeah, it's not for everybody. I love it. Yeah. we might be way more acceptable versus i'm still from the era that you feel like it's bad i think Well, kids are going to do it. That's not good either. dimension yeah they just marijuana now does that mean they haven't died from decisions they've made

1:38:59 Oh, yeah. Like Chris Pratt, he takes Ambien, He's like, Oh, dude, I was on Ambien. and then woke up in the morning for some people they have this because it doesn't really give you the same sleep either like it Yeah. That's not good. Sugar at night into your body. Yeah, that's not good. So I'll eat canned. They all have really good reviews. Yeah, yeah.

1:41:45 Oh, number one chain I go to? I love every one of them. Really? I'm a big fan of Filet- fishes i love them if i'm coming home from a late night comedy show and Yeah. I try to limit the amount of times i eat bad but i do eat like i can handle some bad food way more than most people because i'm eating it so regularly right Like my wife will cook, Late night is always the worst for me because I'll eat when I'm not even hungry.

1:44:45 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But apparently you have to drink a lot of it for it to be dangerous. You think that's going to be a problem? And so if I get rid of... Like when the rib sandwich, McRib comes back. Like, yeah, dude. Someone's like, do you know the Mc uh the rib sandwich mcrib comes back like yeah This hand's gone. That stuff is going to turn you into a woman.

1:47:35 The man boobs are depressing. Ethan. And he's jacked now. pounds. So I'm insane. Crazy. The one, yeah, right there. You would never recognize him if you saw him somewhere. Wow. This is Joe Thomas. guy like literally morbidly obese have you seen what happens to nfl linemen when they retire like this is joe thomas he was a uh all pro his whole life and right when he quit playing he like sucked down weight instantly and well he looks great he looks looking well he looks normal i

1:49:34 That guy looks fucking shredded. And started doing cardio and Atkins. I love it when athletes retire and they don't get obese. But being like, I was like, why don't more people eat healthy? That makes sense. not eating just garbage like i had uh i mean like my wife like she'll go like they went to like normal's like orange that's normal apples normal your body eats an apple it's like yeah

1:52:42 And I'll just act like I, you know. I don't really tell. Three to four. It's not the worst idea. Eat a Snickers bar. apparently your body gets accustomed to to donuts and then everything's good. They need to get behind donuts. I've had keto cookies, not bad. So you bite into them fan. I eat a lot of ice cream too. A warm Krispy warm crispy cream oh yeah

1:56:02 out of crack you would believe it oh did he i think so like he's like that idea that you're like it's that good of a I've noticed is everyday's legs I could see my body Because people that tend to eat bad can go a long time with eating. like, well, I'm not hungry. you're like just let me eat food but we will hear advice from the most in shape person and so they're

1:58:37 I do it. He's like, he competes in a lot of, our trainer, Matt, competes in a lot of like the, you know, Yeah, he's a big dude. ever when you guys do that outside outside but we're in my cul-de-sac so no one's gone so we You're like – that was the whole reason of doing it. and i think people like kind of operate on that mindset to go i'm not doing it for us obviously

2:01:08 It's weird. Yes. I want those people. Dear YouTube. They really believed it. Like a crazy, yeah. There's a great thread that I found that somebody sent me to they were going to swoop in and arrest Alex. Stop it. that stuff you got to, a lot of crazy stuff. 100%. Hey, man. alright I don't know why he said it and he makes something up walk around barefoot at home. I love shoes.

2:06:17 You might get beat up before that, but it's the guys that attack. maybe she was joking around with it yeah but there's dudes that are into stinky feet. But he was like so casual about it. a movie right and now you're seeing like like, Tom Hanks making a video, Like, is that, yeah. The idea of Tom Cruise. Right, 30 years ago was what? Let's guess. He was in Taps in 83.

2:09:31 Yeah. Yeah. and now he's still famous as fuck now That's crazy. All of them in one sitting? I don't follow the stories as like, you know, connect with this. Really original movie. don't think if i uh if i went back in time I don't think I could prove I'm from the future. I don't know, dude. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's Eisenhower because I think that was the famous speech about the military industrial complex.

2:13:15 We're in the 50s. That's what I would go, like, 19... And then it gets squirrely. Oh. This guy was a pretty rough time during this. It's fucking giant. Yeah, I think I've been to it. Isn't that like the Tesla guy? He invented light. Not the band. He wasn't involved. Elon just tweeted this. He was a brilliant man. Well, Tesla, like a lot of brilliant men, was not great at business.

2:17:21 Like, he was in love with a pigeon. at telling jokes. You can also go on stage high and talk shit Yeah And say a lot of really funny things How was it? Like And then Joey Diaz rarest of the rare humans well there's people like that with brains just the rarest of the rare minds who can figure things out that most human beings are that you would give them a thousand lifetimes

2:19:25 It's just like glass falls on you. They're like, oh, God. they're almost so smart that they're going to be eccentric. They have a lot of people in that prison too. been in the olympics she could have went down the road that she went down. to what's going on in Mexico becoming the world's largest market. Well, how rich those guys were, those cartels,

2:22:06 Ed Manifesto. And it's right there. Last week. Can it ever end? not quite as close to america as mexico is the thing about me Mexico and America, there's a guy named John Norris, Like, you know, hey, you have three trout, that were in the middle of the woods on public land. And what they would do is because Like, what is this? Many, many miles. They became a tactical unit.

2:25:48 and so they would grow it in these areas where very few people would go to. So that was a cartel, though. the stand-up comedy that we do was really started by about life yeah no one's doing it nobody was doing no one's doing it at that time they were so closed off to ideas. But maybe it was just me. I'm probably clean now. I've listened to them. when he was right off of the Rodney Dangerfield special

2:30:01 and maybe a small percentage of the audience remained, Well, even being able to see that probably helped. had young man on drugs you know it's always the same story young man on drug young man on acid thinks he could fly jumps off of a building did it through jokes like he would make joke like joke about iraq like iraq has dangerous weapons produces comedians and there's even comics that like that you're there greg fitzsimmons

2:32:38 Tony V. Across the street, you had Duck Soup. We had the Village Lantern. Now, man. And I got there like 8.45, and the comics were all sitting at the bar. tank of a man he was like a power lifter who would uh make his own weights he would fill like uh buckets with cement and he would like put handles on them and lift weights he's like a fucking even leave uh not to do better i did a show for one guy like and i asked him to leave on set i go

2:35:38 Like a ton. So you've got to go up, and that person's got to be like, hey. but they teach you what's bullshit in your act yeah when you start doing jokes for tiny little We used to do shows. i always heard seinfeld would say he wished he could go back to where he'd perform in front of no one. Right. At all. You know, Yeah. Yeah. your hair is white he's this fat idiot

2:38:40 or something like So we had like 12. Obviously, no one knew. back on road gigs that were terrible i do look back on those moments where i just thought like wait till you're 40 and like and so it's and it's like if you could choose it obviously we're and people kind of knew him because of the radio show that he was on. about that one of the things that happens to some people is they take detours and they do

2:41:48 and this is not helping my act other than being able to make fun of Fear Factor. Did you do spots during those times? We had 12-hour days regularly. Dave Foley in particular wrote a lot of shit for a lot of us. the producers i just ate shit and then i realized like oh my god like i am falling apart like why you're thinking so much in that world. you go on the road like news radio did it like help with tickets and stuff like that did it like

2:44:30 You know Someone would go It was You know I had been doing Stand up for ten years I was reasonably funny Yeah guy from that show it wasn't like anybody knew my name so if they would come to see me it was uh Whether or not they hire you, don't hire you, you can make good money. there but after fear factor then i got really dedicated because i had been doing it a lot in

2:46:28 it's a good place to be but you're doing 15 minutes or 10 minutes and like when i first and you walk out, Because it's just so weird. They got babysitters, man. It's like them going to Nutcracker. You do better with your back in a corner. You know, you should always have that feeling Am I going to make, how much stupid stuff do you have? One of them was I'm Telling You for the Last Time.

2:49:06 No, a comedian. They know, like, oh, he just wrote some new shit. there's an idea that'll pop into my head from the podcast and i have to remember to write it down that come out of these two a week, he does these hour plus long rants. comedians like that is like why that's why you're the you guys are so good yeah because you're It was the Improv still, but now it's Broadway Comedy Club.

2:51:55 Okay. that's hilarious and uh what the fuck is he doing well i don't remember the whole backstory but i And the downstairs was the picnic table room. one of the rare guys that like he's a national headliner he could tour everywhere but in maine fucking nowhere i forget where we were and you know it was a local kid and you know he was It's a problem.

2:54:42 because it's like he's a regular comic. That's all he did, every open mic. You don't want to get caught that you can't change the way you look I'm not doing it. events so we like we go see that which is unbelievable to go watch with NASCAR. and he would do a show beforehand. is unbelievable it's a lot more like fun story like you know some just stories that you could

2:58:18 his his show is so interesting because it's so different than anybody else's podcast there's a So you don't want like someone to like not watch it. And so I, you know, cause I was like, you have to, Yeah. And then I found out later it was a police chase was going on. Don't worry about it. because they really keep coming i'm like why do you why And you're watching it all from one of them news helicopters, right?

3:01:11 It must be something like that. Yeah. where they in uh eerie pennsylvania there's a comedy club there, Junior's Comedy Club. And you have to be clean to work that club. I think, you know... Yeah. Those guys did it. I don't know if I remember. well you know you have children and you know that when you see someone who's gone so far down the wrong road that they're wearing a neck bomb, sitting there where the cops are surrounding them.

3:03:58 in a tree and you're like all right all right we're fine and like we're we're good that that But like, it was like the 50s. thing with jeffrey dahmer too he's like one of the first guys that ate people yeah it's a lot He would keep them in like barrels, like sealed barrels in his house. First day of school with Jeff. You have no idea. that guy but it wasn't probably like she's like yeah he's crazy

3:06:45 No, March. Thursday. Thanks, man. Come on down. It only went through my face. That's pretty fucking impressive. And then just. He was going to a Port-A-John So as of the day