Joe Rogan Experience #1856 - Nate Bargatze

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drumming) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music plays) Hello, Nate.

   4. NBNate Bargatze0:14

      Joe.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      Good to see you, my friend.

   6. NBNate Bargatze0:16

      Good to see you, buddy.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      It was fun last night. It was a fun day, yeah.

   8. NBNate Bargatze0:18

      It was fun. Yeah. I- y- yeah, that worked out great. I came here at like, you know, to go do a spot. I was in two very different environments, of just a corporate gig and then, uh, the Vulcan. It was, uh ... But it wa- it was awesome. It was awesome to see your, uh, your hour. It's tight, my friend.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:36

      Thank you.

   10. NBNate Bargatze0:37

       It really was. It was very fun.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:39

       Thank you.

   12. NBNate Bargatze0:40

       Which was, uh ... I'm big fan of fun.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:44

       (laughs) Me too. (laughs)

   14. NBNate Bargatze0:45

       Yeah. Yeah. And like stuff's not getting as fun anymore. And it was-

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:48

       Yeah.

   16. NBNate Bargatze0:48

       ... fun. It's like you can see when everybody's watching something and it's like they're just having a good time, like they're ... It's just a fun-

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       Yeah.

   18. NBNate Bargatze0:57

       Like, you know, what comedy is. Standup is you're like enjoy it, let's have fun.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:01

       I think there's still people doing that.

   20. NBNate Bargatze1:03

       Oh, yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:03

       But there's a lot of people who've kinda lost their way.

   22. NBNate Bargatze1:05

       It's, uh ... Yeah. And I- I think you're gonna see a separation though. I think it will be ... It's, uh, people that are gonna, you know, not wanna go on ... They don't wanna go on the road anymore, and they like ... It- it's a- it's a lot to go do standup. And so, I think you're gonna see ... The pandemic almost like split it to be like all right, who like did whatever they had to do to do shows, where they did them outside, they, you know, or tried to, just try to stay funny-

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:33

       Right.

   24. NBNate Bargatze1:33

       ... during the pandemic.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:35

       Versus?

   26. NBNate Bargatze1:35

       Versus just collapsing on themselves and not being funny. And it's- that's a mu- you know, it's a muscle.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:43

       Have you noticed how many people have gotten like very, very political on Twitter? Like during the pandemic?

   28. NBNate Bargatze1:50

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:50

       It became like i- i- f- especially comedians, and this is ... I'm not trying to be mean, but who are not that good-

   30. NBNate Bargatze1:59

       (laughs)
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   ... sh- shitting your…

   1. NBNate Bargatze15:00

      Yeah.

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      ... sh- shitting your pants. (laughs)

   3. NBNate Bargatze15:02

      (laughs) And they kinda ... They sound amazing. You're like-

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:04

      (laughs)

   5. NBNate Bargatze15:04

      "That sounds unbelievable." (laughs)

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:06

      Just, "Where's this guy playing?"

   7. NBNate Bargatze15:08

      (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:08

      "I wanna hear about shitting your pants." Um, but yeah, they, they, they would, they would fucking kill, and they had music, so they're like ... (singing) "I shit my pants." Ba- you know?

   9. NBNate Bargatze15:18

      Yeah, yeah. (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:19

       And then you're on afterwards, "So, uh, took my daughter to the park the other day." (laughs)

   11. NBNate Bargatze15:23

       Yeah, it's such a weird ... (laughs)

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:26

       (laughs) And you have to have, like ... It has to be ... The, the stuff that you say first has to somehow or another establish who you are.

   13. NBNate Bargatze15:34

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:34

       And you have to, like, get them, so they're-

   15. NBNate Bargatze15:36

       And how quick.

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:36

       ... interested.

   17. NBNate Bargatze15:37

       You gotta get them quick.

   18. JRJoe Rogan15:37

       Yeah.

   19. NBNate Bargatze15:38

       That-

   20. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       They have to be interested in you.

   21. NBNate Bargatze15:39

       You gotta learn ... Uh, the thing I learned in New York is, like, you gotta make them laugh as, as quick as you can.

   22. JRJoe Rogan15:44

       Yes.

   23. NBNate Bargatze15:45

       And so it's like, "What can I do to get you in my rhythm and what's the quickest laugh I can get to," so you can kinda reset the tone. 'Cause if you follow something ... an act like that or someone that murders or something, you're gonna ... It's gonna t- it might take a couple jokes, even if they're good jokes, just to, like, reset the room and then be like, "All right."

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:04

       Yeah.

   25. NBNate Bargatze16:04

       "Now I got you." 'Cause you only have 10 minutes.

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:06

       Yeah.

   27. NBNate Bargatze16:06

       You only have 15 minutes, like, so it's tough.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:08

       That was the Store too, though, is a big thing about the Store. It's like, you're, you're going on after arena acts, like, you, you'll follow Sebastian, you'll follow-

   29. NBNate Bargatze16:15

       Oh, yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:15

       It's like, there's all these killers. Louis C.K. stops in. Like, Jesus Christ, like, you ... Ev- on any night you're following just assassins.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

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   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      off the rails. He went a little nutty. 'Cause Patton Oswalt has a whole bit about doing Blade 3 with Wesley Snipes.

   2. NBNate Bargatze30:07

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:08

      (laughs) About Wesley Snipes is like allegedly, uh, imbibing in certain, you know, controlled substances-

   4. NBNate Bargatze30:15

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:15

      ... whilst in his trailer, and just was like, is out of control, and fucked up the whole taping of it. What pa- Patton has like a whole bit. He like a whole chunk that he did on filming, uh, Blade 3.

   6. NBNate Bargatze30:27

      Yeah. (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:30

      (laughs)

   8. NBNate Bargatze30:30

      If you met Wesley Snipes, it would be. It'd be wild.

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:33

      Yeah.

   10. NBNate Bargatze30:33

       Like to be around him and just ... 'Cause those, those guys are so famous.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:37

       I was supposed to fight him.

   12. NBNate Bargatze30:39

       Really?

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:39

       Yeah. I suppos- they, they... Wesley Snipes was about to go to jail for taxes, and, uh, they were trying to figure out a way to make money. And they came to this guy, Campbell McLaren, who was, uh, one of the original producers of the UFC, and they wanted Wesley Snipes to fight Jean-Claude Van Damme. This was their idea, to have, like, a, a fight, an actual fight.

   14. NBNate Bargatze31:00

       How old are they at this point? Like...

   15. JRJoe Rogan31:02

       (clears throat) Uh, Wesley's older than me. I was in my 30s at the time, so I gotta assume he was in... I was probably 35, so I gotta assume he was in his late 30-

   16. NBNate Bargatze31:12

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan31:12

       ... or late 30s or early, early 40s.

   18. NBNate Bargatze31:14

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan31:15

       You know, he's still fit, and, uh... but about to go to jail. You know, like, he needed money.

   20. NBNate Bargatze31:20

       Yeah. Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan31:21

       And, uh, we were supposed to have a UFC fight. I trained for it for, like, six months. It was crazy, but-

   22. NBNate Bargatze31:26

       You were gonna fight him?

   23. JRJoe Rogan31:27

       Oh, yeah. Uh, yeah.

   24. NBNate Bargatze31:29

       'Cause the way Jon V- hey, Jon Von... he didn't want to do it.

   25. JRJoe Rogan31:32

       They didn't want Jean-Claude Van Damme.

   26. NBNate Bargatze31:33

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan31:33

       They're like, "He's... that... there's not... nobody buys movies anymore."

   28. NBNate Bargatze31:36

       That would've been amazing. Like an MMA fight?

   29. JRJoe Rogan31:38

       Yeah, it was gonna be an MMA fight.

   30. NBNate Bargatze31:39

       And he does (crosstalk) he's a big MMA...
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

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   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      disaster. I gotta get the fuck outta here." But I didn't know what to do. And I thought about moving to Utah at one point in time. I was gonna get a mountain house. I thought about moving to Montana. I was like, "I just gotta get the fuck out of this city." Like, "I don't trust these people. I don't wanna be under their governance." And then we came to LA with a bunch of friends from California that were thinking about moving to Austin. And we said, you know... and I was like, you know, "I don't know. I'm- I wasn't sure if I wanted to move to Austin, but, like, maybe that's a good place to be. I always love it here." And my fucking kids when they came here and, you know, they were 10 and 12 at the time, and they were like, "Why doesn't anyone have masks on? How come it's different here?" Like, uh, we'd go to a restaurant. We were just sitting in a restaurant like, "This is, like, normal? This is normal?"

   2. NBNate Bargatze45:46

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:46

      We went and had barbecue outside, and everyone's friendly and they're like... And then we went to the lake, and, uh, we were on the lake and the lady who was showing us this house, she's very smart, my friend Bridget. She's a good friend now. She took us out on a boat on the lake, and my kids were like, we were jumping in the water and laughing.

   4. NBNate Bargatze46:04

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan46:04

      And, and they're like, "I wanna live here." And my wife was like, "Ugh." And I go, "Let's buy a fucking house here. Mm. If you don't like it, we could, you know, try it out for a year." And then it became, let's try it out for a year. And then as soon as we-

   6. NBNate Bargatze46:16

      And here we are.

   7. JRJoe Rogan46:17

      ... soon as we lived here, my kids immediately loved it. Like, they made friends like normal kids. Like, normal kids that don't wanna be fucking reality TV stars. Like-

   8. NBNate Bargatze46:28

      Well, I think that's the biggest-

   9. JRJoe Rogan46:30

      (laughs)

   10. NBNate Bargatze46:30

       ... is to get around regular people. I've been back in Nashville for seven years, I think, where I'm from, and our daughter, we moved back when she was two, and, but it's like my family's there, and, like, she goes to school and she rides the bus and-

   11. JRJoe Rogan46:45

       And your, your parents live there.

   12. NBNate Bargatze46:46

       Yeah, yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan46:46

       Yeah.

   14. NBNate Bargatze46:46

       My parents are there. My wife's parents are about an hour away. Like-

   15. JRJoe Rogan46:50

       That's nice.

   16. NBNate Bargatze46:50

       ... everybody's super close-

   17. JRJoe Rogan46:51

       That's nice.

   18. NBNate Bargatze46:51

       ... so we see our family often.

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:52

       Yeah.

   20. NBNate Bargatze46:53

       And, uh, and we're f- I mean, luckily I'm from Nashville, and Nashville's become a awesome town to move to. And, but they're... you know, our daughter goes to school, rides the bus. Like, it's trying to g- let her, like, have the most normal-

   21. JRJoe Rogan47:07

       Normal.

   22. NBNate Bargatze47:07

       ... kinda like existence.

   23. JRJoe Rogan47:08

       Yeah.

   24. NBNate Bargatze47:08

       And I think it's, it's good for comics 'cause we are... I'm doing normal things. I'm doing-

   25. JRJoe Rogan47:13

       Yes.

   26. NBNate Bargatze47:13

       You know, it's like you're not, uh, even, you know, you're not thinking about the business the whole time.

   27. JRJoe Rogan47:18

       Right.

   28. NBNate Bargatze47:18

       Like, it's not like you... I mean, even though you do think about it, you know? But it's not as... you're like, "Yeah, I still gotta go run..." You know, we go watch her play softball, and then we go do this and then-

   29. JRJoe Rogan47:27

       Yeah.

   30. NBNate Bargatze47:27

       You know, and it just makes it... I think it just helps for your material.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:06:54

   Thank you. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      a bear."

   2. NBNate Bargatze1:00:00

      Thank you.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      "And I'm gonna be like, 'Foul ball.'" (laughs)

   4. NBNate Bargatze1:00:02

      And then they ask you ... They're like, "Do you wanna go out to dinner on Saturday night?" Or they ... Are you out of your mind? Saturday nights are ... I can't wear ... It's the only time I can't go.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:09

      Yeah.

   6. NBNate Bargatze1:00:09

      "Would you like to go to lunch at, uh, 12:00 AM on a Wednesday?"

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:13

      (laughs)

   8. NBNate Bargatze1:00:13

      (laughs) And they got ... And they're like, "What?"

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:16

      That's the one thing about comics that you hang out with people that have that wacky schedule, you get accustomed to that. You wind up texting your friend at 2:00 in the morning. He's like, "Bro, why the fuck are you texting me? I'm sleeping."

   10. NBNate Bargatze1:00:26

       Oh, and you have no clue. You're like, "Yeah, I'm s-"

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:28

       Oh, why are you asleep at 2:00?

   12. NBNate Bargatze1:00:29

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:30

       (laughs)

   14. NBNate Bargatze1:00:30

       You're like, "Who are you, dude?"

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:32

       Did you not do a late show? (laughs)

   16. NBNate Bargatze1:00:33

       Yeah. Yeah. That doesn't make sense.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:36

       And you get so used to, like, waking up late too.

   18. NBNate Bargatze1:00:38

       If I texted a comic at 10:00 and they, like, were like, "Oh, I fell asleep," I would be like, "So you quit comedy."

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:43

       (laughs) Yeah.

   20. NBNate Bargatze1:00:44

       I guess that's your way of telling me.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:46

       (laughs)

   22. NBNate Bargatze1:00:46

       'Cause how are you ... (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:00:48

       Yeah. There's a sadness when people quit comedy. You know, when someone's good and they quit comedy, I get bummed out, man.

   24. NBNate Bargatze1:00:55

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:00:55

       I really do.

   26. NBNate Bargatze1:00:56

       Who quit? Like ...

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:00:57

       I don't wanna name names-

   28. NBNate Bargatze1:00:58

       Oh, yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:00:58

       ... but, uh, quite a few friends-

   30. NBNate Bargatze1:00:59

       Oh, like when the-

Episode duration: 3:39:03