#1856 - Nate Bargatze

Nate Bargatze (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Good to see you, my friend. It was fun last night.

SPEAKER_3 (0:20)

Yeah, that worked out great. I came here to go do a spot. I was in two very different environments of 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.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

Thank you.

SPEAKER_3 (0:37)

It really was. It was very fun.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Thank you.

SPEAKER_3 (0:40)

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

Joe Rogan (0:44)

Me too.

SPEAKER_3 (0:45)

Yeah, yeah.

I'm like, stuff's not getting this 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. Like they're, it's just a fun.

Like, you know, what comedy is. Stand up is, you're like, enjoy it. Let's have fun.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

I think there's still people doing that. But there's a lot of people who've kind of lost their way.

SPEAKER_3 (1:05)

It's, yeah. And I think you're gonna see a separation though. I think it will be, it's people that are gonna, you know, not wanna go on, they don't wanna go on the road anymore. And they like, it's a lot to go do stand up.

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, just try to stay funny.

Joe Rogan (1:33)

Right.

SPEAKER_3 (1:33)

During the pandemic.

Joe Rogan (1:34)

Versus?

SPEAKER_3 (1:35)

Versus just collapsing on themselves and not being funny. And it's a muscle.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

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

SPEAKER_3 (1:50)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:50)

It became, like, especially comedians, and 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.

SPEAKER_3 (2:11)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

It's, I mean, and they go deep. They're like people who know like third string quarterbacks that play for colleges. That's how they handle politics.

You know, they'll talk about obscure senators from North Dakota. You're like, what the fuck are you talking about?

SPEAKER_3 (2:32)

We should know who they are.

Joe Rogan (2:34)

But they're obsessed with it in this very weird way. 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.

SPEAKER_3 (2:48)

I think it's a, and too 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, I'll do this as a career. Like you're trying to pick your lane. And then they go down that lane and that lane just can't sustain. It's like when you go watch a stand up comedy, 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 gonna come back. An act is what it's about. You go to Vegas, you still go to Vegas, David Copperfield has to do an act. 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, because 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. It can't be this 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, 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 five 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 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. I started following one, cause I was like, I was like curious to be like, what's this dude's life?