Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1856 - Nate Bargatze
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1856 - Nate Bargatze' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-12. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1856 - Nate Bargatze

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Hello, Nate.
Joe.
Good to see you, my friend.
Good to see you, buddy.
It was fun last night.
It was fun doing a gig.
It was fun.
Yeah.
Yeah, that worked out great.
I came here to go do a spot.
I was in two very different environments.
Just a corporate gig and then the Vulcan.
But it was awesome.
It was awesome to get to see your hour.
It's tight, my friend.
Thank you.
It really was.
It was very fun.
Thank you.
Which was, I'm a big fan of fun.
Me too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I feel like stuff's not getting as fun anymore.
It was fun.
It's like you can see when everybody's watching something and it's like they're
just having
a good time.
It's just a fun, like what comedy is.
Stand-up is, you're like, enjoy it.
Let's have fun.
I think there's still people doing that.
Oh, yeah.
But there's a lot of people who have kind of lost their way.
It's, yeah.
And I think you're going to see a separation, though.
I think it will be.
It's people that are going to, you know, not want to go on.
They don't want to go on the road anymore.
And they, like, it's a lot to go do stand-up.
And so I think you're going to 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, are trying to just try to stay funny.
Right.
During the pandemic.
Versus?
Versus just collapsing on themselves and not being funny.
And it's, you know, it's a muscle.
Have you noticed how many people have gotten, like, very, very political on
Twitter, like, during the pandemic?
It became, like, especially comedians, and this, I'm not trying to be mean, but
who are not that good and were not that successful.
You know?
They were kind of, like, kind of hanging on.
And now you go to their fucking Twitter feed and it's just this political extravaganza.
Yeah.
It's, I mean, and they go deep.
They're like people who know, like, like, third string quarterbacks that play
for colleges.
You know, that's how they handle, that's how they handle politics.
Yeah.
You know, they'll do, they'll, they'll talk about, like, obscure senators from
North Dakota.
You're like, what the fuck are you talking about?
We should know who they are.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, but it's, they're, they're obsessed with it in this very weird way.
It's like, it's, I think they're distracting themselves in the fact that their
career is kind of gone.
And so now they're just mostly concentrating on politics.
I think it's a, and two for some, I always look at it as like a cash grab.
Like sometimes it's like, it's a quick, like, all right, you get some, you
think some steam on this kind of thing.
Maybe some tweets or some, whatever you feel like you're being, you're having a
lot of reaction in the Twitter world.
And so you think like, all right, this is, this is, I'll, I'll do this as a
career.
Like you're trying to pick your lane.
Right.
And then they go down that lane and that lane just can't sustain.
It's like when you go watch a standup comic, you still, you have to have an act.
People will go watch someone for once, but if they do not have an act, like no
one's going to come back.
Right.
An act is what it's about.
You go to Vegas.
We're still, you still go to Vegas.
David Copperfield has to do an act.
Right.
He, that's why they've been doing, that's why Carrot Top's been in Vegas for 30
years or whatever he's been there.
Cause there's an act and you're like, I bought this and I'm watching this for
one hour and it was entertaining and I leave and I have a good time.
You have to create an act.
You can't, it can't be this like, like trick.
That's kind of like, I trick you to get in the door, but then you go watch it.
I see it with like, there's some, uh, you know, you see people on Instagram and
I don't know them, like some of them are like these rappers and they have like
5 million followers or something.
And you're like, is this guy or is he like super famous or something?
And then, but you're like, I don't know if he is, like, I don't, I don't, I
think it's like, he's famous on Instagram.
Like he's famous for people watching that, but you're like, I don't know if
this guy is selling tickets or, and I don't know.
It's, I'm sure it's more than just the, I've just seen a couple of the rappers
as I fall.
I started following one.
Cause I was like, well, I don't, I was like curious to be like, well, what's
this dude's life?
Like, you know, you just want to watch him.
He's doing some, you know, they're doing rock venues and they're doing all this
and there are millions of followers and they have all the stuff, the watches,
all the, and you're like, I'm just like, is this guy, is it, you know, they
sell, is that guy going to sell out Madison Square Garden?
And I don't know if he, I don't know if it is.
I mean, maybe, maybe it is, maybe I'm completely wrong, but it's, it's the
fascinating, you get this audience that's on board with you with social media,
but like, they're not going to translate.
They're not going to go with you for your career.
People want to grow with their people.
I think if you like someone, you're like, I'd like to grow, like, you see them
have a family and then they have this and they kind of just keep talking about
their evolution of life.
And that's what you enjoy watching, like.
Yeah, and that's like the whole process when you put out a special of
developing new material and then making sure that it's up to snuff and then
recording again.
And then this, like, how many years, what is your, your, your process in terms
of like, how much time do you do in between specials?
Uh, this one, I taped the last one in, uh, 2020, because it came out in early
21 and I'm taping the next one in September in Phoenix.
So roughly two years?
Yeah, it'll be, it'll, it comes, a special will come out.
Yeah.
Cause it all times out about the same.
Yeah.
So two years.
And I think that's good.
And I don't think you should, that's a lot.
Yeah, it's a lot.
And, uh, doing it more than that, I think is too much.
And then, you know,
I did three, two years in a row.
I did 2014, 16 and 18.
Yeah.
I think that's the way.
And then I was going to do 20, but then the pandemic hit and I really didn't do
standup for quite a while.
And then, uh, I realized that when I started doing standup again, um, having a
little bit more time with the material, like really made it tighten up more.
Like, I feel like everything is way tighter now.
Like this set, it's also working in Texas because we've been doing, you know,
these regular sets at Vulcan, Vulcan Gas Company and, and Creek in the Cave.
And so I'm headlining all the time.
So I'm doing an hour.
So instead of doing like 15 minute sets, I'm doing like all this material.
So it's very tight.
And I've just been doing it a lot over and over again.
And then I've been touring on the weekends.
So I've been doing arenas and theaters and comedy clubs, like all these
different kinds of venues on purpose, like different size venues.
And I feel like more times better.
I feel like this is like the tightest one I've ever had.
And it's got the most laughs of any special that I've ever had.
And I feel like four years, which, which is what it will be when this one comes
out of like, that is even better.
It's even better than two.
You get to be with it a lot more.
Yeah.
And you get to like have much more material too.
Right.
So I have like a whole extra hour.
So I have this hour and then I have, you know, the B side stuff that I can like
build up and turn into like a bits.
Yeah.
So like once I abandon this special and put it out, I'll have stuff to work
with.
Yeah.
I'm a big, I believe the road is, I think you write more on the road because
when you have more time on stage, you can, you're just not as like, you know,
like doing sets and doing spots are like, that's how you get stuff tight.
And that's what you need at the beginning is to learn how to be tight.
But, you know, if you go do, when you go back to New York, you do 10 minute
spots and you're like, well, I feel like I got a murder.
Like you can't like sit for a second.
Right.
And when you got a long time, I can sit because I know the next thing's going
to be work.
Right.
And then you can, so you can really like be like, let me just see if I can mess
around with this a little bit here because there's not as much pressure as like,
you know, you mess with one bit and then your bits just get longer.
Yeah.
And when you start doing, I've noticed from going to clubs to theaters, like
when I first started headlining in clubs,
it was, I mean, doing 45 minutes was tough.
I would get tired.
I remember just talking that long.
Like you're like, I've never, you're just like, how do people even do you hit
35 minutes and you're like, I don't even, I'm out of everything.
I've done every closer I've ever come up with.
And so now you're just trying to get out of the set.
And then the longer you do it, then you start getting into theaters and I'm not
a big, I don't move around a lot like all this, but like you do, you just like
everything just expands because there's more people.
There's more, there's more.
It's just a different, it's a, it's, it's pretty wild.
It's a pretty different thing and it's fun to learn it.
It's fun to get to do it.
Some guys get stuck in that city mentality and they, they keep doing those 15
minute sets and those 15 minute sets or 10 minute sets are great.
But if you want a headline, it's not the same.
It's not like you just don't string 10 of those sets together.
Like you really have to develop an actual hour.
It's a show.
If you're going to do an hour, you, you can't just take four 15 minute sets and
sort of, you really want it to flow.
And the only way to get the sense of the, the right way to do it is to do that
hour.
And I think that fucks guys when they, they only do the city and then they try
to go on the road and headline and you see them in their fucking hotel room in
a panic with like stacks of notes.
Like trying to piece all their piece, their act together.
You know, it's a show.
It's, uh, I love, uh, making stuff like really go into the next thing.
Like that's how you remember your act is you're like, well, the only thing that
could come after this is this.
Like if you're talking, you know, I'm talking about my kid, then I'm talking
about my wife.
Well, like they go together.
And so you put them together and then you put all this stuff together.
And that's the, that's the aspect of creating a show.
And that's where I got, like you tell, like if you see young comics or even
young entertainers, it's like, that's what it's like, do an act.
Like you got to create even in a five minute thing, at least have a system that
you're like, I'm starting with this.
I'm going to close with this and I'm going to try to make them, you know, make
it seem like I'm not going in between each thing.
Unless you're one of those non sequitur guys, I've always felt like those guys
have the hardest job.
Like the Mitch Hedberg types or the Stephen Wright types, those guys who just
do, here's another joke.
Here's another, like William Montgomery does that.
It's just like, here's a joke.
Here's another joke.
It's like, whoo, how do you remember all that?
That I don't know.
That's a lot.
I mean, it's, it's just because it's, it's, you know, if you talk about
yourself and your personal, you're like, well, at least it's your opinion.
It's your point of view.
So I think then it makes everything, everything becomes funny because it's your
point of view.
So if I'm watching you, I'm buying into you.
So I want you to go to the grocery store and I'll see what Joe Rogan does at
the grocery store.
And so like, there's a lot more opportunity for that.
And then that would make me nervous with those guys.
That's why it is amazing to be able to write these jokes, to be actual joke
writers, which is, you know, this stand up was, it's how stan