Best of the Bus: Nate Bargatze On Going From Tire Recycler To Touring With Chris Rock

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🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Best of the Bus, the boys were joined by Nashville legend and comedian Nate Bargatze — and things get rolling quick.

Nate looks back on some of the questionable jobs he had growing up (including one so bad it ended up on Dirty Jobs). From there, the boys dive into his comedy journey — starting in Chicago before making the leap to New York, grinding through the chaos of thousands of comedians trying to find stage time, and figuring out his voice in one of the toughest comedy scenes in the world.

Nate shares stories about early run-ins with other comics (including getting roasted by Louis CK after a set), how he bounced back, and the advice he now gives younger comedians coming up behind him.

The boys close it out talking about why Nate chose the clean-comedian route, his decision to stop drinking, and — somehow — how good Scientology is at recruiting people.

Nate is truly one of the boys and tells some unreal stories you don’t want to miss.

Enjoy, fellas.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.4	With that said, boys and girls, please enjoy this episode.
0:07.3	Please subscribe.
0:08.5	Raid 5 stars.
0:09.2	We haven't talked about it in a while, do, but the merch is hitting.
0:11.2	It's hitting good.
0:12.7	So go ahead and get over to the store.
0:14.5	Grab yourself a couple things.
0:16.0	Tweet at the boys.
0:16.8	Tweet at the busing account.
0:17.7	Tweet at the boys in the bag.
0:18.6	Tweet it myself tweeted will compton we love to see it we love seeing the support Nate bargotsie let's get right to it
0:23.9	what a time that was 2021 on the bus in the church what do you think of this compared to the church
0:28.8	uh I like this you know I used to work this area I used to do I was a delivery guy
0:34.8	and we used to deliver appliances and stuff like that.
1:11.4	And we, I was over, I would do it over here. And I mowed, and I, 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. Yeah? You got mowing jobs? You had mowing jobs? I had one. Mowing'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. That's brutal. And then, this was 1953. That's a whole much salary right there. You were killing it back then. I remember I could go.
1:12.2	There was a candy store.
1:13.2	This is, I mean, I'm 44.
1:14.7	It's not like I'm 100, but there was a candy store in Old Hickory. And 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.
1:27.7	But a 20 is, you know, it's five now, I feel like they don't even respect it. But a 20 is,
1:30.2	you know, it's like five, you're like, ooh. But we, so I mowed grass for a little bit, but I mean,
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