Best of the Bus: Nate Bargatze On Going From Tire Recycler To Touring With Chris Rock
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🗓️ 6 June 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
The boys have one of the boys and Nashville comedian, Nate Bargatze. The boys get right into some of Nate’s old jobs that he had when he was a kid. One of the jobs that he hated actually made it onto an episode of Dirty Jobs.
Then the boys get into how Nate started his comedy career. Instead of moving straight to New York from Nashville, he did a little time in Chicago before he finally decided to make the move to New York. Nate talks about the New York comedy scene and how crazy/overwhelming it can be as there are thousands of comedians trying to make it. He says fighting your way through the different types of comedy is how you really become good and is how you find your style/voice.
Nate gets into some comedians he had a little bit of a run in with but has since ironed things out with. He tells the story of Louis CK publicly embarrassing him at a show and making fun of one of the jokes Nate told during his set. However, Nate says he was able to make sense of it all because at the time he had only been in comedy for 5 years. Nate talks about the different advice he gives to younger comedians which is interesting to hear.
The boys end the pod talking about why Nate decided to be a clean comedian, why he decided to stop drinking and how good Scientology is at recruiting people. Nate is really just one of the guys and tells some really good stories throughout the episode that you won’t want to miss. Enjoy fellas.
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| 0:00.0 | What a time that was 2021 on the bus in the church. What do you think of this compared to the church? I like this. You know, I used to work this area. I used to do, I was a delivery guy. And we used to deliver appliances and stuff like that. And we, I was over, I would do it over here. And I mowed. And I worked for a guy to cut grass once. And his thing was right back over here too. So I used to be over here a lot. |
| 0:24.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.4 | You got mowing jobs? I had mowing jobs. Moan's the worst, dude. It's, you know, like, I would cut grass growing up, like your neighbor's yard or so. I had this old lady, if she gave me, I got five bucks they cut her grass and then uh |
| 0:39.4 | this was 1953 you got that's a whole much salary right there that's someone you're killing it back |
| 0:46.1 | then I remember I could go there was a candy store this is I mean I'm 44 it's not like I'm 100 |
| 0:51.1 | but there was a candy store in old hickory and uh you could go, five bucks was a lot. Five bucks was like the 20, I think now. Like if you give a kid, if you give a kid five now, I feel like they don't even respect it. But a 20 is, you know, it's like five, you're like, ooh. But we, so I mowed grass for a little bit, but I mean, just doing businesses. |
| 1:12.6 | And it's just, man, people that mow, like, landscaping and all that, that is brutal work. |
| 1:18.9 | It's so hot and you're just out in it all day. |
| 1:23.4 | I quit after one day of landscaping. |
| 1:25.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.5 | Yeah, it was brutal. |
| 1:26.3 | It was like a hot 98 degrees. Like, my mom wanted me to go do this. You know, I was lifeguard the summer before. Next summer, I got thrust it into a landscaping job and I quit immediately. The first day? Yeah. We went and got lunch and got sandwiches or whatever. I texted my mom. |
| 1:44.8 | I said, |
| 1:45.0 | you got to get me out of here. |
| 1:46.2 | Dude, |
| 1:46.4 | the first, |
| 1:46.9 | I've never mowed a lawn in my entire life. Really? Not one. I grew up in Arizona. Yeah. Only rich people had grass. And so. Yeah. You got the turf. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, people got turf or people got rocks. |
| 1:57.8 | Like that's really what you get to deal with out there. |
| 1:59.3 | So coming out here or even being up in Michigan, the maintenance is nuts. |
| 2:04.2 | Yeah. |
| 2:04.6 | And I feel like a landscaping deal isn't as bad because they have like the cool mowers that they can kind of move around. You're sitting the whole time. Yeah. They're all, they got the whole garment and everything on. I'm sure as a boy, you were just short sleeves shirt and some shorts. I was, yeah, I was never, I wasn't at high up. So you'd be, you're weed eating, which is, I mean, just no fun. Or you're doing all the weird kind of like where you got to be like, you got to push it because they can't get a thing on it. Landscaping, though, was the, if you have no college, if you have no chances |
| 2:36.8 | to going to college, always starting a landscaping company was talked about pretty heavily. |
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