Nate Bargatze on Scream

Nate Bargatze is one of Chuck's favorite comedians, so much so that he hit the road for Nashville to have a chat with him about his movie crush, SCREAM.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Hey, everybody, and welcome to Movie Crush. It's Chuck here
at our home studio in Atlanta, Georgia, Pont City Market
as always, and um boy, I'll tell you what, this
week was pretty pretty great. I know I say that
every week, and honestly this because they're all great, but
this was a case where comedian Nate Bargatsy is I

(00:46):
guess you could say he's one of my comedy heroes.
He's one of my favorite comedians. He is hysterical and
I've been a fan for for many years and this
is kind of one of those deals where I was like, man,
I want to kind of be pals with Nate Bargatsy.
And that's the cool thing about this show is if
I don't know someone, I can reach out. I can

(01:08):
send him an email. If they respond, I might end
up sitting in a room with this person and maybe
we will have a rapport and maybe we might be
sort of email pals or professional pals. And that's kind
of what happened here. I'm happy to say, Um, Nate
was great. He's uh lives in Nashville, and I knew that,
and I drove to Nashville to record this. Um away

(01:29):
from home, which was kind of cool, little road trip
ate some hot fried chicken. I went to the Gibson Factory,
I went to Third Man Records, and I went to
a vintage guitar store. I can't think of the name,
but it's right over there by third Man Records, and
I drooled over uh twenty three thousand dollar Fender stratocaster

(01:50):
from like. Uh. So, all in all, is a very
fun trip for me, little Chuck stay out in Nashville. Uh.
And I met Nate and he's the best. He's just
a really nice, cool guy. And uh, I knew we
had a lot in common growing up in the South,
growing up as as church boys, and um, sure enough
we kind of hit it off because we did have

(02:10):
a lot in common and that was just really neat
for me. So Nate's movies Scream and he I think
it was a little worried at first because he's he
claimed to not be uh some big deep film goer
and can't even pick something like Scream. And I said, yeah, dude,
that's what the show was all about, just picking your
favorite thing and going with it. Uh. And we had

(02:31):
a good time talking about it because it turns out
I have a pretty interesting story about the first time
I saw Scream, and I have seen it many many
times since then. It's just one of those that if
it's on, I'll probably watch it. So we had a
great time there in Nashville, and many thanks to Nate.
And here we go with Mr Nate Bargatti and Scream.

(02:53):
So my family is from West Tennessee, but grew up
in Georgia. Are you from East Tennessee. I'm from Nashville, Okay.
I was born downtown Nashville. Uh that's a hospital. And
then uh ire, I lived and we lived in Old Hickory,
which is, you know, I don't know, twenty miles from here,
fifteen it's a suburb of Nashville. Takes us twenty minutes

(03:14):
to get here. Uh So, and we grew up there.
Was there, uh my whole life. And so I moved
to Chicago start comedy and uh I was in Chicago,
New York. I had a buddy, I was we were
waiting like I read water meters, like I just worked
for you know, Wilson County, like and my buddy wanted

(03:38):
to go to Second City and do improv and so,
and I kind of wanted to do stand up and
he was like, well, I moved to Chicago to go
to Second City and I just didn't. I was like, yeah,
I guess that's what I should. You know, I'll go
do that too. And then so I moved there for
that and then I ended up leaving Second City and
just I took another class, like a stand up class,

(03:58):
like and got in to it and uh then went
to New York and then l A. So I was
going like roughly thirteen years and I've been back. I
think this will be three And what was the Uh, well,
did you always wanted to perform or where did that
come from? Uh? You know, just like yeah, yeah, it's

(04:20):
there is that and then you know, my dad's a
magician and uh so growing up around that, I don't
think I thought of it then, Like I wasn't like
thinking about like oh he's a magician, I want to
do that or something, but you're just around it and
uh and I you know, yeah, you were just funny
and like stand up comedy was I didn't even like,

(04:41):
you know, I didn't start like watching I remember who's
a friend, like you know you Cosby when he was okay,
Uh but like Cosby Seinfeld. Uh uh sin bad and
you know, like you would see those guys, but it
was never like I had like records and I would
sneak and listen to it or something like. But I

(05:03):
did like and enjoyed it, and people thought you were
you know, people say you're funny. And and then uh
came in second place in the wittiest over High School,
which is almost perfect first place. Every buddy Chad Sulser, uh,
like we know, we know him, Like like you know
Chad Sulcer. Well you're like, oh yeah, friend of yours

(05:24):
though a friend of mine. Ok. Yeah, he said he
was in California. I saw he came to the show once.
He was a super funny guy. Uh. But and you know,
and then uh, I had another buddy that started staying up,
started doing stand up to out of high school. I
went to our high school. Uh. That was his stand
up was great. But he wasn't a guy that you

(05:44):
thought was like funny growing up all it was funny.
Everybody's kind of funny, but like he thought, you know,
you don't think about it. And then he started it
and I was like, oh man, and so that was
a big two that helped. That was a big like,
well he's doing it, Like what do I what do
you gotta do to do it? And and then it
all just yeah, it all happened, and yeah, there's something
about it. I mean for me, at least growing up

(06:05):
in uh in the South in A and I guess
the Third Area city, I didn't even know that like
these options were available to go and like write movies
or be a stand up or be a director. I
just thought, well, yeah, that's you know, you gotta grow
up in l A to do that, which was, you know,
so silly it is. Yeah, I mean when my dad

(06:29):
even doing this kind of thing. Uh, it wasn't like
he's always worked and stuff, but it was it was
like he would do gigs and he'd be gone and
go to the magic convention as they have like conventions.
Uh so I was even in the world kind of
but still, yeah, it wasn't like I knew it that much.
It does stuff doesn't feel possible. And even though I

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was in you know, I'm right outside Nashville, downtown Nashville.
Nashvill has always been a music town, but it's like
Nashville is not what Nashville is now. Uh, there was
a hown'ty seen. There was guys doing it, but it
wasn't huge. I never did it. In my first time
doing it was Chicago, and uh so it was definitely yes,
you do. You don't know that you can start this stuff.

(07:11):
You don't know how to start this stuff. That's why
I even take a stand up class. People are some
A lot of people are against classes and I've never
been against it, um just because you don't know what
to do. So it's not like you go do a
stand up class and they teach you how to be funny.
You just need to go to do a stand up
class so you even know, like what what do you
what do you do? You know? Or just be comfortable
and you become yeah, just be around like but learning

(07:33):
how to even like go like what open mics are
and like learning that you go sign up and getting
around other people that are also starting, and you're all
in the same position. You're all really nervous and scared
and you don't know what you're doing. You don't know
if you're funny, and you know there's still there's one guy,
my buddy Steve Berger, like he I would like to
say people names, like they're like there was like, like

(07:55):
I'm naming like Tom Cruise. I'm like, you guys go
Tom Cruise, right. Uh, except I do very off people
that are like, I don't is that you're just your
friend And you're like, yeah, it's a friend of mine
that I grew up with. Uh, but he's the guy
I started with him. I still talk to him some,
but like, but that's how it goes back. I mean
there's just fifteen years ago and uh, you know, and
you would take these classes and you'd be with people

(08:16):
some people are just trying to learn how to public
speak better for their job. Are some just are like
it's a bucket list thing for me, you know, and
so but you're around it was nice to be around
people that were we're all nervous to show up every
Wednesday or whatever, and you know, it was it was great.
So of the of Chicago, New York in l A,

(08:37):
where did you find you? Uh, I don't know what
would you like the most? Uh, Chicago was great. I
love Chicgo. I always remember I thought I wish Chicago
at that time. They have a good scene there. I
mean obviously the big city they had they had a scene.
I think it's a lot better now, uh, you know,
and I when I started, I was with uh there
was a big crazy group like Hannibal burrst Pete Holmes,

(09:00):
Kumail Nagiawning, t J. Miller, Cameron Esposito. Was she around then?
I don't think she was around there, and she's younger
than me. Uh, but those guys we were all new
starting and then the New York was the New York
is I always I'm a New York comic, Like that's
where I learned how to do comedy. I was in
Chicago for about it. I did about a year and

(09:21):
a half and the New York I was almost nine years.
But New York is where you learn how to even
be a comedian. You go up every night, you're obsessed
with it. You're you know, you're just around him. It's seven.
You're just set up and out till three or four
in the morning, and then you get up and go
maybe do your day job, and then go again at
seven and until fourth then get up, you know, and

(09:42):
you're just seeing guys. You know, I watched uh Burr.
Bill Burr was a big guy for me to see
because he was just doing his first late night set
when I got there and I watched him go from
that too. You know he's now uh and so you
get to see his zas and sorry it was another
one because you get to see he was an open
micer and then he hosting the MTV Movie Awards and
humor like, so you that it's important to be there

(10:05):
because you get to you do like the thing we're
talking about. You don't know how to do stuff, Well,
you need to go to New Yorker or l A
to to like so you can see people do it.
Because when you see them do it, you're like, all right,
well they were just here with me doing this open
mic or starting and now they're this. So you need
to see paths and that's huge thing. That's why it's
hard for people like when you start like what you're

(10:28):
talking about, like in smaller towns, just because you don't
see you don't know how to like how do you
become a director? How do you become right? Like you know,
it's like anything you want to be it's hard to
figure out. Like like you know, I feel like singing
would be the only one that you could. It's I
don't even know, you know, you would at least live
bands are everywhere, but like for everything else, it's not

(10:50):
like it's a huge uh like I don't know, like
there's just an easy path to it. Is there a
decent scene here? Now? Yeah, I'm I mean I've been here,
back here three years. I'm not as in it as
much as I thought I would be. I thought i'd like,
I'll be going up a lot. I don't really, you know,
I'm just on the road too much, and so I'm
just never here and then if I am here, i'd

(11:12):
do a show it uh just at the club here
is Zany's so uh there is, but there is a
good scene. I mean I think everybody, I think you
can get up every night. That's usually a test as
you can ask like how much gonna get up? You know,
and tell you what. Atlanta has got an unbelievable The
best scenes outside of New York in l A Are
probably Denver, Chicago, in Alanta, Austin, Texas has got a

(11:35):
really good scene. Uh. I don't know San Francisco, you know, like,
but those are places where guys can move there and
you know, like if you were in the South, I
would say you should probably go to Atlanta if you
don't want to move to New York or l A
or something. But eventually you gott to move to New York.
I think eventually you have to at least for yeah,

(11:56):
until you can. I was fortunate enough to now I
can move back here. Yeah that's pretty been. Okay, Yeah
it hasn't been. I was worried that people would think
I quit, right, That was a huge fear I had. Yeah, imagine,
you know, but you know, I go on the road
so much anyway, Then I realized, like, well, I'm not
even It's not like I'm in l A. So I
just go to l A when I have to go
out there. And and you got a TV show coming

(12:18):
to right hopefully we're gonna hopefully shoot a pilot, right man,
So we're still to hear that this could be the
farthest that ever gets a us talking about it, or
maybe it gets on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Uh So,
as far as like a movie going your early days
here in Nashville, was it, Uh? Were you going to
the movies a lot where you one of the kids
hanging out in the mall. Uh, we would go to movies. Uh,

(12:43):
I don't you know, movies. I don't know if it
was ever. Uh I don't you know. I remember going
to Star Wars like uh on when the weekend it opened,
like the new one the first time, the new one
when it came back after the old. Yeah, and I
remember people were dressed up and like seeing all that,
and it was just fun to like kind of be
a like, you know, just a part of that and

(13:07):
see people. I love that people get that, you know,
get that excited about stuff, and I think it's awesome.
And uh so we would go, you know, we'd go
to all the places, go sell the movies here, and
uh yeah, I mean I've always loved one of the movies.
Movies are I don't know. It's always the thing that
you're like if you're somewhere you can always like they

(13:29):
have a movie theater, like like on the road or
something in the road, like any kind of town, like
if something to do, Like a movie theater is like
your savior in so many places. Yeah, and it's just
fun to go to them. Yeah, even the biggest like
ship kick or town theater. Yeah, we used to go
to a quarter or fifty theaters. They'd play like uh

(13:51):
like after they got released and they go there for
a little bit and you can see them and that
was like great, Like yeah, we had a dollar theater
near me. Yeah, that was a big deal. That was
the best you go. You know. It's funny because now
movies like they go, they're on and they come out
so quick, oh like on TV or on TV or DVD. Yeah, Like,

(14:11):
I mean, man, it used to be I felt like,
you feel like it would be two years before you
could like somebody, if you missed it, you really missed
it because it's not about it. You can't go find it.
And then now like you know, Wonder Woman comes out,
you know this year, and like I watched on a plane,
uh uh like two days ago, like like where you're like, oh,

(14:33):
it's already like on a plane, Like you know the
hotels have like instant theaters now, yeah, yeah, that's a
new thing. It seems. Um, I don't know what that's
I mean, I know people aren't going to the movies
as much in the theater, but I wonder if they're
they're killing themselves or if that's better in the long
run to have something like The Big Sick like Kamal
and Emily's movie, like I think that was available at

(14:57):
home in theaters and it seems like it got a
lot of was maybe because of that, So maybe that's
the way to go now, Yeah, it could be. I
mean you know they're doing those. Uh. I was talking
about buddy, you got a theater movie pass? Uh and
uh so that's like a new thing. Like you pay
a monthly, you pay like eight bucks a month and
you go to a movie a day. Oh really Yeah,
it's like a membership. It's like a membership. And so

(15:18):
a lot of people are doing a lot of theaters
are doing that. And that's a huge Uh, I mean
it's huge. Yeah, it seems like a good idea. Like
you just if you go consistently. Um, I mean you
can go once and that's you paid for it already. Yeah.
I have a two year old daughter, so, uh, have
you all gone to a movie yet or no? But

(15:40):
I was the other day I was thinking that, um,
that new Coco movie. I was thinking maybe to give
it a shot. She's like two years and four months.
And my wife thinks that she'll be you know, like
we'll have to leave, We'll have to leave halfway through.
I was like, I don't know, I think she might
just sit there and just drink it in. Yeah, yeah,

(16:00):
might be crazy and if you have to leave you
ysid you like it's well that's what I said, if
this is the new Iron Man, like curious, Yeah, I
don't know. I'm kind of curious. I might do it
as an experiment because all I mean, those movies are
all kids run around anyway, so it's not like you'd
be disturbing anyone. I was. I almost Our daughter is

(16:21):
uh five and she's been to I think two movies.
Uh Mo Wanna was her first one. Yeah, that's a
good one. And I would have taken her earlier and
my wife didn't want to. But a movie was like
that was probably the first. That was the first thing.
That was the thing I wanted to do the most

(16:42):
is take her to a movie. Yeah, because I was like,
she's just the experience of it on her screen that
big you get your popcorn, you get like the whole
experiences Like that was the That was a big thing
that I was telling my like wife, I was like,
I don't want like I wanted to be like, you know,
I'm on I missed some stuff because that was something
I was like, I I don't want to miss like

(17:03):
her first movie yet from the road. Yeah, it took
her to forever. She's got that eight dollar past. I'm like, what,
I'll go that much? Uh? She like we wait, did wait?
We took pictures like you know, I'm in there like
like taking pictures. That's great. And she's her daughter was
shushing us for the previews, and you like that's the
pre But then she's never seen anything, you know, right,

(17:24):
what do you know? Yeah? And uh so yeah it was.
That was the greatest. That was really that was I
was the most excited about to a movie. Just that's
pretty cool. Fun. And we saw my Little Pony as well. Yeah, uh,
which is pretty you know, brutal like a Disney movie.
Was fun. Yeah, that's a good one. And but then

(17:46):
uh yeah, like you get like Thatt at that point,
I'm just doing it because I just want to take her.
I mean, I was like on my phone the whole time.
You're just it's yeah, pretty you know, yeah, daughters are
the best. Man having a lot of fune with that.
Uh well, let's talk about Scream. I watched it last night.
For the jeez, I don't even know. I've seen it

(18:08):
a bunch that these movies have been like most everybody
does real good movies and then I can pop into man. Well,
first of all, we'll we'll get into this, but but
Scream was a was a watershed landmark filmy. Um it's
not just some throwaway yeah, like it was revitalized the
whole genre. Yeah, you know it really, I mean it was.

(18:31):
I mean I remember in high school, like we it was.
I was like, uh, I guess the junior senior whenever
it came out. And I graduated, so it's round then,
and I just remember like it was the biggest thing
in the world, like when it came out, like it
was just yeah, how they did it, uh, everything, it

(18:52):
was just you know, like I watched it was on
the other night and I watched some of it again too,
and it's just how they did it and everything. It's
just so good. And it was like and it was
like horror movies where they were in bad shape. They
were in bad shape, and it was a new version

(19:12):
and you know it was a twist and you didn't
know what was happening and you didn't know what was
going on. And the celebrities they had it, I mean
Drew Barrymore at the beginning, and they kill her off immediately,
not yeah, hold on spoiling if someone's like, man, I
was just gonna see that. Uh, but that was such
a huge you know, I mean just start with Drew Barrymore. Yeah,

(19:33):
you don't feel like that was that one of the
first times it's ever had. Like now I feel like
they've done you've seen like I don't know a ton,
but like they have big celebrity, be at the beginning.
But I mean just have a huge celebrity. I mean
that is the get at that time, like she should
be in the whole movie. Well she was gonna be.
She was gonna play the part of of Sydney. But um,

(19:54):
she said, and you know, the little research on it.
Apparently she said, I want that beginning part because audiences
won't know, like anything can happen after that if you
kill me off. And it is easy to take for
granted now all the things that you see so much
that just wasn't happening before. Scream Like, I think you're right,
no one was doing anything like that, you know, killing

(20:16):
someone like why would you? Yeah, yeah, I mean it's
the and I don't I don't watch Game of Thrones.
This is not bad, but like Game Throne that the well,
that was the big thing there. They kill off like
main guys. Yeah, watching a little bit of it then
just couldn't couldn't go on. But yeah, they would kill
off main characters. Yeah. Yeah, so it's like, you know,
I mean it's even to that that that that's a

(20:36):
it changed a lot not to then you know, I
don't know, scream affected Game of Thrones exactly. That's exactly what. Um.
But to go back to your question, like, has everyone
picked these great movies? No, people are picking there like
largely sentimental favorites. Um, Like do you know Kyle Knaane.
Kyle went with Big Trouble in Little China, and Andy

(21:00):
Posey went with The Cable Guy has Great. Yeah. John
Hodgman picked The Avenger. So people are going, like movies
they legit like that. Not everyone's saying, you know that
they have another weird fantastic first Fantastic four is one
everybody hates. I don't know if I saw that, people
were like, you mean the very first the very first

(21:21):
iteration of it. Yeah, yeah, like I mean, you know,
in two thousand five or something whatever, the and I
mean people were furious about that movie and they remember uh.
And I remember I was doing a cruise ship. I
was a pretty like I started comedy two thousand three,
two thousands, five six whatever it was, So I'm not
I'm going to a comedy three or four years. I'm

(21:42):
doing a cruise ship. And it's like, um, it was
kind of a big first time you ever really made
any money. Was it a comedy cruise or its carnival
cruise and they would do you'd be just a comedy
act on it. Yeah, yeah, and it would like you
get paid like three grain or something for the week,
and which was an insane I mean it's three guns
a lot now like but it's like but it was
like I've never even remotely made that much money for

(22:06):
a week in any job I've ever had, and so
I'm like, can't believe it. But You're on this cruise
ship and you're in like it was the shows where
the shows were fine, but like you would have to
do five thirty minute shows and then people would come
back two shows and like I'm lowing like a three
year comic, like I barely have an hour, and so
like these people are coming back and I'm like I

(22:26):
don't have that much different material. Uh, be on a
cruise ship. But so it's just it's just a week.
And Fantastic four is the movie they played on the
TV there, and so I watched it like five times
like yeah, it's just in between like lane, Yeah, because
you're walking around by yourself on a cruise ship like

(22:46):
everybody's with their family. So it's like you you go
walk around, but then you feel like a weirdo, like
just like there's this dude, like that's there is this
twenty five year old kid like walking around by himself.
And so I would just go sit it in a
window lists like cruise ship in the middle, just just
rocking back and forth and what and and watch phantasm

(23:08):
their tiny TVs. I've only done on We're doing a
Disney cruise. Uh next year the family Uh yeah, we're
just are Yeah, we're taking my daughter and uh so
that would be the first one I've done, like as
a guest, not walking around by yourself. I'm not walking
around by myself, actually I have it will be a purpose,
so there'll be a zoo. Yeah doesn't hear this and

(23:31):
finds out that's secret. That's the spoiler. So my first
experience with Scream, it's kind of a cool story. I
Uh my brother worked as a as a manager for
AMC theaters at the time, so he would get me
in to see these screenings of movies that weren't out

(23:52):
for like sometimes a couple of months. They would get
early screeners, and uh, my friend and I he said, Hey,
there's this new movie Scream, Like I can run in it, like,
you know, midnight after everything's done, if you guys want
to come and watch it. So we went up, just
the two of us and screen Scream at you know, midnight,
and uh, I wasn't even I mean, I like horror movies, okay,

(24:14):
but I'm not a horror movie guy necessarily, and it
scared the ship out of me. And we, you know,
we have to leave and walk out into this uh
you know mall at two in the morning by ourselves.
And you know, I was in my mid twenties at
that point, but I remember being distinctly freaked out and thinking,
like that movie is that's gonna change things, you know,

(24:35):
because like we were saying that, I think at the
time it was I don't know, I mean, the only
horror movies out were like the the last retreads of
the Friday the Thirteen and Nightmare on elm Street Movies. Yeah,
it was like just your old just the old way.
It was no need thinking of a different kind of
horror movies. And it's that's an unbelievable way to see
it too, Just to see it before everybody, Yeah, it

(24:56):
was like, you know, that was back when like two
scenes something before everybody was you really saw something before,
you know. Now it's like everyone was a leak everything
and everybody you know, you never know who's seen what,
how they're watching it. But to see it in the
movie theater that early like that, that that would be unreal. Yeah,
And of course the Drew barrymore things before word had
gotten around, so it really freaked me out when they

(25:19):
you know, that whole like the first twelve minutes of
the movie, it's pretty long opening bit. It was just
badass man. And and that last shot of her hanging
in the tree. Like even last night my wife and
I are watching She's she actually worked on screen too.
It shot in Atlanta. I think she was like the
production coordinator or something, but um, she's seen scream a

(25:39):
bunch and last night she's screaming at the TV, you know,
to run to throw the phone too, you know, and
I'm like, you know exactly what happens did Drew Barrymore,
but it's still kind of sucked this in, you know. Yeah,
so I mean it was, yeah, it was, you know.
I mean for like I've never had that much stuff

(25:59):
like uh, change my like you know, like someone's like
the first song I ever heard and then I've changed
it the way I live or like I've really never
had like you know, I don't know this stuff. I
don't get moved like in that way of things. Uh,
but Scream I do. Was I mean the only movie
I ever like me we could quote it. We just

(26:19):
we watched it over and over again. And like you said,
we're talking about like a change of stuff. I mean
like I was talking to someone today that today like
the movie Disturb You, but like that's even like something
that kind of like could like all like Scream like screenboard,
screen board and all this new kind of thing we're
talking to, Like you know, like, uh, I'm not a

(26:41):
big gore, Like I don't like like that that. Uh.
And I don't like when movies like show Gore. I
feel like that's they're like it's a cheap way to
scare you and a gross you out, and like Scream
didn't do that. Scream was like you know what, there's
blood and stuff and like this crazy you know, I'm
gonna intest since thinking about but I don't know, it's
just done. It's like as they go through, like you

(27:04):
know that that was way off, but I don't know.
I felt like it was done like not in like
a way that like it's intense when you walt watch it,
but it's not like watching like Saw four where they're
like trying to show like an eyeball explode or something.
Yeah that that what do they call it? Torture porn,
shock value stuff? Yeah, like that's the stuff I don't like.

(27:25):
I I don't like and like you know that I
was the first song was great and then the second
one got gross and then we're like, wow, I'm out now. Like,
but the first one was like intense and like there
was maybe some scenes they are uncomfortable, but it was
just intense. And Scream was that first thing where it was, uh,
you know I liked horror movies. Uh you know it's
probably thirteenth and all that that's not super gory or like, no,

(27:47):
the slasher films. It was sort I mean, it sounds
silly to call it a more innocent time of slasher film,
but it really kind of was like you see people
get stabbed, but they just had to go I don't
know if hatch or not, but they've chosen to go
so far beyond that now, uh, for shock value. It's
just I don't sound like the old guy, but I

(28:08):
don't know, it's a little more pure when somebody could
just gets stabbed and that was enough and that was
it and that was good enough. Yeah, it makes it
more about what the story is or what the movie
is versus yeah, like just being like was that pretty gross?
Like you know, I've never like liked that just felt
like an easy way to do it and uh and
it and it turned me off. I mean I get

(28:29):
there's uh, you know war movies. I didn't watch hacks
All Hackshall and yeah, hacks All Origin and like that
was because my buddies like, like it's like pretty gross,
like just some like uh. And so then I'm kind
of like while I'm out, like I don't I don't
want to see that stuff. And you know, it's like
but I know the movie is like unbelievable, like everybody
you know, it's like the movie is so great whatever,

(28:50):
but you're like, I don't know, but I can't, like
if it's like insanely much like it's too much, and
to me, it's like I just don't see. I've never
understood why you need to it, Like I don't think
anybody's like I wish I could see like the inside
his legs, like you know, like no, I would have
liked the movie, but yeah, I wish they would have
like shown like her throat cut open and I see

(29:11):
it rip up, like you know, I know she I don't.
I don't believe she died because I didn't see her
eyeball pop out and you're like, oh my god, like
this is insane like that that's never a complaint, so
like I don't think you have to do that. And
screen is my perfect mix of everything where it's it's intense,

(29:34):
it's scary, there is crazy scenes. Nothing's too bad, nothing's
too like even if the way you're you could see
someone get cut open and they do it quickly and
like yeah, that's what he did was really fast, like um,
like the Drew Barrymore shot with her in the tree
was so quick. I think it made it scarier. They
didn't linger on it. And then the scene with with

(29:57):
Rose McGowan when she goes up the garage door. Uh,
you know the scary part is that shot that angle
that shows her approaching the top where she knows what's
gonna happen, and then it shows her just for like
a millisecond a few frames. It feels like her Actually,
I don't even know what happened. I don't think it
chopped her head off, but something got squished. But it

(30:18):
didn't you know, it didn't linger on it. And you
know that it's gonna He's like, that's gonna cut her,
like your skared, like and then they don't, which is nice,
but I have the same reaction. Yeah, I just don't
have the oh my god, that's disgusting, Like you know,
I don't have the thing that makes me check out, right,
you take me to that point and then I like
kind of come off of it. Yeah, And that was

(30:40):
you know, and it was you know, it was like
such a there's a movie that you didn't know, like
knowing who did it? Like you know, that was like, uh,
you know, you didn't like I don't know you just
you didn't and you never saw it coming. I didn't.
I didn't. I didn't then. Uh, and that was back

(31:00):
in the time when you could do that. I feel
like it's getting hard for movies to make you not know.
You can watch it now and you think this person
did or that part. You know. I just watched The
Orient Express likes that pretty good. I don't know. It's
like it's yeah, I don't, yeah, I don't know. This
is something you could spoil. But it's like when you

(31:20):
get to the end of it, Uh, it's kind of
you're like all right, like you know, I don't know.
It's like I don't know. It's just hard to like
hide something from people are like surprising. You gotta be
pretty clever. Yeah, it was one that was you know
and like that. But like I feel like you could
do it then and then now it's just getting like

(31:42):
you can't, you know, because everybody that's on the screen.
I used to do a joke about it, but to
be like now, I was like I was an old joke,
like but saying like when we watched stuff, you never
knew who the killer was and if now it's like
getting so exstreme that like when they show the killer,
You're just like, I didn't even though he was in
the movie, Like it's a guy that You're like, I

(32:02):
never saw that guy. You're like, of course, I would
never guess him. Yeah, he he just shows up in
the last thing. You're like, is this guy y'all ever
figured out? You're like, I didn't, like, Oh, he was
in the background during a couple of scenes, like like
someone way off And you're like, I didn't. I didn't
think to guess that guy. It's a good joke. Yeah,
that's not bad when bringing back now, you gave me
the confidence to bring this show back and it doesn't

(32:23):
do good at all, you know, and you killed me,
Like god damn it. Uh Well, the whole self referential
thing with a horror movie, it's, um, I feel like
that was so far ahead of its time and like
everything kind of does that stuff now, but no horror
movie had ever done that thing where they that screamed
it is where the characters in the movie are talking
about being in a horror movie and the rules of

(32:45):
horror movies. And at the time, you know, Kevin Williamson
wrote it, it was just such a such a clever
thing to do. Uh, you know, no one had ever
done it before. Yeah, it's like, uh, you know at
the the end, uh what's his face? Uh? The two
guys that are the killer, not the main guy, but
h Matthew Lillard, Matthew Rich, Matthew Lew But even like

(33:10):
when I was watching it the other day, like he
does like at the very end when they it's revealed
that they are the killers and he goes to go
get Sydney's dad from that they have and then he's
just like I'll be right back right. Yeah, there's just
so many callbacks to like it is. It's it's brilliant
to have him go through the horror movies and there

(33:31):
he's kind of telling you what's going to happen, and
you watch it happen, and you know, and everybody's like,
I don't know it just yeah, it was. Everything was
unbelievable about I mean, it really is such a like
it gets me excited, like like he's like, Gollie, it
really is a good movie like it was, and and
just especially for the time and no one was doing
anything like that, and it it it launched a screen franchise,

(33:54):
It launched the scary movie franchise and then it relaunched
a genre that was ed and uh, I think the
Harvey Well, of course Harvey Weinstein started to talk about
him now, but he uh, we just talk about Bill Cosby.
That's about yeah exactly. And you know who else is great?
What do alan? You know? Who? These are? The people

(34:15):
important us in our life was Harvey Whine, seemed, Bill Cosby,
Al Franken Al frank and Louis We like them all.
Uh yeah, it's a weird time. Um. So Harvey went
to bat for the movie with the with the Motion
Picture Ratings Board and they had to go back like
ten times to keep it from being NC seventeen. And
he finally went back the last time and said, you're

(34:37):
looking at this wrong, like this is a satire. He said,
don't think of his his his pure horror. And apparently
that's what changed their mind. They saw the satirical elements
and sort of the nod in the wink of the
whole movie, which is there throughout. But I think Wes
Craven like he walked that line, because there were truly
terrifying moments, but there's also a lot like I remember

(35:00):
being even the first time I saw it, thinking it
was funny how much the the killer got his ass
kicked throughout the whole movie. He was always getting the
nuts or knocked in the face. Uh, and I've never
seen that before, Like they were always these invincible slashers,
and this was one. It was like, you know, it
kind of made sense. And that was two high school kids,

(35:21):
you know. The yeah, I mean the the what they
wore is unbelievable. I have a bowling ball with a
screen face on it. Do you really all job coming out? Yeah?
I got my wife got it while we were dating.
It was the first thing. Like I was like, uh,
it was a nice bowling face. And I still like bowling,

(35:43):
but they league or just no, I never did a
league me, while they used to do quarter bowling, and uh,
you get you do anything fifty cents theaters quarter bowling,
I mean, uh, anything under a dollar if I bring
change in and have a good time and I'll go
to it. So we would, and she got me a
ball for like, uh, you know, like it was the

(36:05):
first thing she ever got me. Like weird dating that, Yeah,
and as you had the screen face, like you know,
I was a big screen fan. That's how much I
was a fan that she knew it to get the
scream and you and you knew that day that you
would marry that one. Yeah, from that day on, I
was like, I'll marry you right now and yeah. So
uh so this also had a few first for me
as far as horror movies go. And I may get

(36:27):
nerds right in and say, no, this happened before in
this movie, but I had never seen the killer run
after people like this. It was usually just sort of
a slow like Michael Myers Jason thing, and this the
screen guys would just run full force at people. I
thought that was scary as hell. Yeah, that was Yeah.
I was trying to think, like, uh, in the Shining, Yeah,

(36:52):
I just did he like Heber, but he did. He
had right in the maze. He was like hurt, so
he goes in. It's a consistent going right whether the Yeah,
but they they were like full on sprinting yeah, and
scream and like you know, and it's true like them
getting knocked down and beat up a lot, like gets
comical the way it was happening. And I think he

(37:13):
meant for that to be kind of funny. Yeah, And
he tried to walk that line between fun stuff serious,
but it's uh, you know, it's like super funny and
like uh and yeah, it's like, yeah, that's funny. The
running thing is true, Like I don't know, I can't
think of any Yeah, I guess, uh yeah, but he

(37:34):
would just show he could just materialize. Yeah he was.
I mean that's the qua Mike Myers never right, like yeah,
Michael Meyers, which is always scary, I thought. But the
other thing that I never saw much in horror movies
wash daytime stuff. Oh yeah, daytime. Well they did, Like
I always thought that was weird because they did stuff

(37:54):
at uh when they called her house they were because
they did a couple of times where they would call
were you like that seems insane, like you know they
break into uh Rose McGowen like her name in the character,
like but there when she's staying when Sydney goes over
to her house to stay, Yeah, they called her house.

(38:14):
They called her house and then they were in her
house and they like and she was it no, was
it her house or was it maybe? Yeah it was
her I think it was Rose. Yeah. They were in
the grocery store in one shot. Yeah, it shows him
like reflected like the drink door. Yeah, yeah, like yeah, yeah,
they got in and they killed the Yeah, they killed

(38:37):
the fons. Uh you know, and maybe they could do
it because I guess they were you just take it
off and they're the high school kids. Well, they showed
up at the at the they showed up at the
grocer store with Sydney, you know, ski olords, going back
and forth. I called Sydney, I called her by Earth
And I don't remember their names, no, I think, Uh, well,

(38:58):
Sydney is easy to remember because they always said it
on the phone, but I can't Randy, maybe I don't know. Uh,
But Matthew Little was the oh yeah, that's right now.
Dewey was Arquette, David Arquette, who was great and apparently
he was gonna play one of the bad guys. Uh
but it was a little too older. Maybe he didn't

(39:19):
want to or something. But um, I think Matthew Lillard
is one of the great overacting performances of all time.
He was just so over the top. It made me
really like him, like he's uh and he's almost like
he was in that other the Baseball movie with uh
uh Freddie Prince. I never saw that. Yeah, it's like

(39:42):
a Summer League Baseball. I don't know, you know, I'm
not I don't know smoking Like that movie was terrible,
Like I don't know, I'm not I'm not good like
you like, but it was like they did like Summer
League Baseball, and he was in that. He still he
played the same kind of guy. He just doesn't at
the end be the killer. Like but it's the same,
like it's the exact same guy, except he just didn't
kill him budding this one. Uh so act three of

(40:02):
the movie. The whole uh, the whole final act is
that the whole less like thirty minutes of the movie
is at Matthew Lueller's house that character and apparently the
crew was just they think they called it scene one eighteen.
It was a bunch of scenes, but they called you know,
it's like thirty days or thirty nights of shooting to
film that whole third act. And that's kind of like

(40:23):
the whole last of the movie is where everything kind
of happens almost and uh, it was pretty great, Like
even watching last night, it was it was pretty awesome. Yeah.
It's uh, you know when he when she calls the
house phone back in the voice, Yeah, and the tables.
She's not gonna tell him. You know, my parents are
gonna kill me. Like he says he improved that line apparently. Yeah,

(40:48):
that's a great line. Yeah, it's just you know, it's
a very real moment. This is still a high school kid,
right and uh then cutting up. Yeah, I mean the
the party there and you know, I mean, you know
they can't there. They get the camera set up in
the house. Yeah, it's on a delay, and then the
camera going Yeah, there are a lot of little clever tricks,
like the fact that it was on a delay when

(41:10):
they realized that that was super scary. Uh. The scene
was Sydney and the and the police Cherokee when you
know she's locking the doors and locking the doors and
then you see the hatchback raise up from inside and
she didn't know it's raising up. Like last night, my
wife was totally freaked out. She's seen it ten times
and she starts screaming about the hatchback. Yeah, it's I mean,

(41:32):
it's so quiet of a thing. Just I mean it's
really just perfect, like and just to be like, you know,
you could see how in that moment you would be like,
h I didn't think about right, Ah, man, I didn't
think about the hatchback. Yeah, like I just I don't
usually drop with the hatshback, so I didn't really think
about it. I never been in a Cherokee. It was
a really quiet. Yeah, that's a lot of quantity for
nineteen nineties something late nineties. It goes up very quick

(41:57):
and easy. Uh. And then the big ending and they
would you up. I used to like you would you
would unlock? It was just like boom, yeah in those days. Yeah,
it's not on a hydraulic or anything. Yeah. Uh. And
then the beginning when the guys, uh, I mean it's
kind of silly, but it was also kind of creepy
when the dudes are stabbing each other to try and
set up their alibi or whatever, and then they're fisted

(42:20):
at each other, so like he stabbed me too hard,
so I'm gonna stab you harder. And then uh, and
Matthew Lillard's just like full on dying, yeah, basically like
coughing up blood at that point. Yeah, I kind of
feel weirdly bad for him. Yeah. At that point, you're like,
he's like this is he's not even though he's a psycho.
He was talked into it. More like his buddy that

(42:41):
is a nut job who's like his motivation for it
was yea, his mom like you know, and uh that
was a little weak, but whatever. Yeah yeah yeah yeah
at that point, you know, but there's so much crazy stuff.
I feel like when that comes out, you're like, I
don't even care, like you know, like you don't you're
along for the right, Yeah, you're you're and so you're
not like, yeah, you're not going like, well, I don't

(43:02):
know if I'm buying you know, his motivation was a
strong enough for me? Yeah, so I'm out of here. Yeah,
let's get out of here. Like this thing you make
everybody leave? Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me? As you
walk by? R what are you doing? Then? Was the
motivation wasn't strong enough? Yeah, if you made a point,
that could be a real movie like person, Yeah, I
think I'm not buying the motivation behind the main character.
You're like, all right, excuse me, do you might have

(43:25):
excuse by? And then everyone he passed starts thinking about it,
and then these guys right, let me see, I think
I had a couple of pieces of trivia here. Oh yeah,
Drew Barrymore is gonna play Sydney. Joaquin Phoenix was gonna

(43:45):
play Billy the skeet ol Ridge part, which would have
been genuinely probably creepy. Did he die before it came
out or no he was? No, No, this is Joaquin,
not River. Yeah. I think he's still alive, right, Yeah,
walking is you have? I just went to the Viper
room where River died in front of I've been there once. Yeah,

(44:05):
we were there, Uh, Saturday night. What's what goes on there? Now?
I don't know they had a doors cover band, but
we were. I was in l A with my wife
and like, uh, she's never been, and so it was
late and they were gonna be closing soon. But like
it was you know, she was like, oh I've never been.
I've never been either. So I was like all right,
and we just went up there. Yeah. I think that

(44:26):
was my deal. I lived there for a while, just
kind of go to be like, let me go, just
went to the Viper room and pay twelve dollars for
a drink to see where wherever things died in You're like, oh,
he died outside, it's done it for free. Uh you
know you got a doors cover band? Yeah? Yeah, they
let us go free because it was almost over it
those night they were like you can just go, like
they were like in their last song Screen two and three.

(44:49):
I think are the other ones too. I'm not that
I don't hate that much either that I really I
think the the in the movie one the two, how
they started where they're in the theater, Like I was
watching in that scene and uh, who was that Jada
Pinkett And uh the other guy is uh he was
he was the running back and like, uh football the

(45:11):
program maybe maybe yeah, he was like the young running
back in the program. He's been in his tone of stuff.
You'll watch any sports maybe, Huh. I watched you know
the program. I din't watched till late. I watched it
recently because I remember the program was one a lot
of guys liked. I remember people really talking about it.
I think I saw that one and uh, and I
don't think I really watched it when it first came
out and I watched it, I've like called it that

(45:33):
and any given Sunday I've called like I like a hotel,
like on the road and show end up like being like,
oh watch it was like it's amazing what you can
watch in a hotel like stuff that you would never watch.
Oh man, well else on HBO. I'll check the Home
Born movie starts. You're like, it's the greatest night of
your life. Like the greatest moment you can have as
a traveler in a hotel room is to go into

(45:56):
your hotel and HBO and then something starting, like I mean,
scream could start or you know, anything that starts anything.
But that's a fun movie. Taken was always like like
movies that you're like, just trans any Transporter movie, like
like something that could be just like it's gonna be
just chaos. I don't have to pay attention so much,
and it's just fun. You know, you have to go

(46:18):
watch that's there's nothing better than that. Get out the
late night uh room service menu. Yeah, see what they're doing.
They're like night, what do you guys have? And always
like something ridiculous. That's the only time I'll take a
bath as in a hotel on the road, Like that's like, yeah,
that's a good movie, especially if you can watch the
TV from the bathtub. If you get a bathtub next
to the beds, and that's a real nice hotel. It's

(46:40):
heart shaped. That's pretty great, Alright, So we finished up
here with a couple of quick segments, one called what
Ebert said, this movie is disappointment. Gave it three stars,
which is good. Uh, you said, Scream is not about
the plot, it is about itself. In other words, it
is a about characters who know they're in a plot.

(47:02):
These characters read Fangoria magazine. They even use movie style dialogue.
As a film critic, I liked it. I like the
in jokes and the self aware characters. At the same time,
I was aware of the incredible level of gore in
this film, which really wasn't that gory? I don't Yeah,
maybe I'm maybe on my stance is like, well this
was he wrote this at the time though before all
the oh yes that would be yeah maybe For the

(47:23):
time it was, ay, it really is violent. Is the
violence diffused by the ironic way the film uses and
comments on it? For me, it was For some viewers
it will not be and they will be horrified, not bad. Yeah,
I don't think they'd be happy with what the four is?
The motion get right? So three or four is like,
you know, it's one of those movies that, like, I

(47:45):
think it helps it now more like you you recognize
it now more than you do even then. Yeah, for
just just changing the way what it was and what
it did. And yeah, you know, like it was for
sure alright, but behind the scenes like VH one thing
or something like one of those, like something in the
nineties like this movie. Uh. And then finally five questions

(48:08):
with Nate. Uh. Number one first movie you remember seeing
in the theater? Uh. I want to say, et, I
can't remember if I remember seeing it or if I
just noticed my parents. I know I cried and we
had so I cried so much that we had to leave. Man. Uh,
But so I can't. I don't. I can't remember if

(48:30):
I distinctly remember seeing it or if I've just been
told that story so many times. I think I was five.
So but that's the that's the one that I know.
But I mean, I you know, I can't completely remember. Well, no,
that counts up. Yeah. Uh that's a good one. First
R rated movie that you saw theater or home. I

(48:53):
was Uh, so my parents didn't. I was allowed to
watch already movies. Yeah. I think we kind of have
similar yeah backgrounds. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so whatever you would
think that would be. Uh, it's basically that minus, like
you know, we weren't like I don't know whatever the
bad stuff is. We're just normal people. But like same here.
But I couldn't watch Saturday Night Live. I couldn't watch

(49:16):
Simpsons watch I remember my dad Karate Kid came out
and I remember there him telling someone they go, how
was it? And this was my parents are not even
remotely as strict. This was like, uh, my dad, I
don't they didn't really grow up like Christian and then
he became a Christian round then when they had me,
so they were like overly like like following every single thing.

(49:38):
My sister grew up with different parents. She's nine years
younger than me, but I remember, oh yeah, wait, like yeah,
you know, but that was then the hard coordinates of
like we just started this, so we're gonna give it
her all. And I remember the kids seeing uh karate
Kid and they're like, is it bad? They're like, oh,
they say sucks one time, but that's about it. To me.

(50:00):
I don't say sucks in my act because that's a
word to me that's bad. And I know it's not
a bad word. I'm gonna say it. I said that
like that for some reason. That's that's stuck in my head.
And so now I don't say it like and I
don't my parents say it like that, but I I
still like, you just said these weird things. Um So

(50:22):
I remember, I remember Jason. I never gotta remember. Some
friends were gonna watch that at their house and I
was like, I can't. I was like, my parents won't
be am. I probably like fifteen, it's embarrassing. And I
was like, let me call my mom. And I called
my mom. I was like, they're gonna watch Jason. Can
I watched it and she's like no, and I just
went home. I know, guys, I gotta go. They're like

(50:44):
a loser, like an old kid. It's like, get in
my car and drive off, like you know. I told
my wife my parents can't love my parents said we
can't watch this movie. Uh so that Uh but I
want to say Jason was a n She was the
when the first screen might have been yeah, one of
the because I mean I was probably eighteen, I guess

(51:06):
when it's yeah. So I was seventeen about to be eighteen,
so Scream would have been maybe the first one I
ever went and paid for. Like, uh so that's kind
of that's kind of funny that that that is. And
I mean I think I might have seen you just
see bits and pieces of the Jason or Michael we're
going up. I do remember calling and I tell look

(51:28):
my friends in the face and say, I'm not allowed
to watch this. I'm gonna go home. And I thought
that was cool. Uh, it's funny because I had to, Uh, Janet,
do you know Janet Varney, I don't know. She's she's
an actor and she does. She created sketch Fest. Oh yeah, yeah.
She was one of my favorite, uh or one of
my first guests. And I told her the story I

(51:48):
had the same exact thing happened. I was after church
when Sunday night, and they were going to watch Escape
from New York. And I had to call my mom
to ask if I could watch it. And she said yes,
she said because I called and I was honest about it,
she said it was okay that I watched it. Yeah,
So that was yeah, that's all. That's where we went home.
My parents said I had to go home. Yeah. But

(52:11):
other than that, I think our parents would have I
think if they could go back, they would let me
watch it right now like they now They're like that
was stupid, Like that sucks. When I'm like, Jesus the
mouth on these these people, Oh goodness, Uh will you?
Will you leave a bad movie? Question three? And do
you remember doing doing that? Like? Man? Did I? I I

(52:38):
do remember like like like something. Uh s. I honestly
like that. I don't know if I'll leave a bad movie.
I would have to. I don't. I'm trying to think
if I've walked out I do. I mean I remember
being like almost walking out, being like that. I can't
even do this anymore. I don't remember that was I'll
tell you what the orient expressed one again. I almost

(52:58):
once the reveal of it happens, you just kind of
go all right, like you could, yeah, well, you stick
around for the movie is good, You're fine with the movie.
But then when the reveal happens, you're like all right, dude,
like you're like, I'm one of my an idiot, Like
this is stupid, Like you could almost like if someone's like,
let's just get out here, you're like, yeah, I'm fine
with getting out of you right, Uh, like leaving a

(53:19):
sports game when you're yeah, once it's like it's like
you have one small chance and then they you have
a turnover to we can go there like uh but yeah,
I mean that that one I would have. Uh And
I don't remember anyone that I can think of off
the top of my head, but I do remember thinking
like I would walk out. I remember seeing, uh, what

(53:40):
was the movie I've remember seen a movie with intermission?
Oh wow? It was like a silver war movie. Uh huh.
That was like four or five hours long, like something crazy.
So in the theater they had an internet, and I
remember like you would get up and yeah, they would
stop it and I mean like that's crazy. Take a
week and yeah to is anything. Yeah, it was like

(54:01):
such a long movie. Then he had it was like, yeah,
it's like a Silver Warman. You know, I don't remember
the movie. I remember the intermission. Maybe it's not good.
I shouldn't only remember the intermission, Like well it was,
I'm not positive, but intermission. I was like, wow, this
is pretty fun, Like, uh, number four, do you have
a guilty pleasure that you go back to a lot?

(54:23):
I mean I would go back to I mean the
scream is but I mean it he said like that.
It's that's the one. I always feel embarrassed to say
but it did. It did. It was great. And then
you know Fantastic four, that's not that's a bad one.
I mean people people get real angry about it, you know,
and I'm just like it's fine. Like that has the

(54:45):
whole comic book thing too, and those people like they
get pretty upset about Oh yeah, it gets you know,
like that. The comic book stuff is like getting I
watched the Latest Spider Man. I thought that was great. Yeah,
but they you know, like Spider Man, like I remember
because you go back to remembering they weren't coming out
with these so you were like Superman, Spiderman. You're like
so excited about it. And now that's just like every year,

(55:08):
like they've done three or four, you know, where at
least this one wasn't like this Spider Man like they
got it, Like if I wouldn't have ben have to
sit through it, if I had to go see him
get bit by Spider again. Well, you're like, this is
like the fourth ones, Like how many times we have
to pretend like we don't we don't know the story.
Like I just watched Wonder Woman. Yeah that was that

(55:28):
was good, and but that was good to know her story.
I don't think I knew her. I mean, I know
it's been around, but I'm not. I didn't know her.
I didn't know her story or anything. Uh, so that
was neat to do. But yeah, they keep uh but
I don't know what the guilty pleasure was. That was it? Yeah? Yeah,
that's right. Yeah, I don't even know where we're at him, Like,

(55:49):
what was it the movie I walked out of? Uh?
When I stay in Fantastic for I stay for the
second showing, that's how we got Yeah, all right. And
finally last question, Nate, movie going one one? What's your
what's your routine when you go to the movies? You
gotta I uh, I still like buying tickets. I can
like try to find a sneaky way to try to

(56:11):
like either to buy tickets to avoid like the line
if you see the line real long, uh adam the
new thinging Delo on your phone isn't a new thing,
And so that was pretty I've done that a couple
of times. But I still kind of like having the ticket,
and so I'll go inside sometimes if you see a
long line, I'm fine with going inside like and uh

(56:32):
doing it and buying the ticket there and then I
go in and I go uh to Uh, I go right,
I go buy. Usually what i'll buy is I'll buy
a diet coke, uh small popcorn, smallest one they would
let me have, Like I like popcorm. I don't need
it that much in Sour Patch kids, okay. And those
are my three things that I buy. Butter no butter,

(56:55):
no butter, no salt, just because it's I think, you know,
just I don't get all of your hand and yeah,
that's uh. And then I go And when I get
into the movies, I like to go. I like to
sit up like I'll go, I'll go to the top
and uh, I'll sit on the side. I just don't
want to be the farthest from someone, uh, Which I

(57:16):
mean I've been to movies where you go in because
I'll go a lot during the day no one's there.
And I mean I've been in where I've said, like,
you know, I'll be in the middle because I'm the
only person in there. So I'm like, well, i gonna
take the Sometimes i won't even take the best seat
there just because I'm like, if someone comes in, they're
gonna try to see me. So I was like, and
I've been in movies where like someone set right behind
me and it's just me and him. He's behind me,
and I mean, you just want to like turn around

(57:36):
and go, You're the worst human being I've ever met mine,
Like why would you? I'm sitting look, I get that.
I am like, there's no one here, so we should
what does it matter? But it kind of doesn't matter,
and just like scoot away from me, like like just
give me, like I shouldn't like fill you behind, Like
I mean I've said where there they said, directly behind
you and yeah, and you're like, dude, we're the only

(57:56):
ones in here, like literally the only two people in
this year. And then you don't know if you can leave,
you know, because then you don't want to stand up
and like walk because then it's like a I mean,
it is an act of defiance to that guy. You
just go like five seats down and look at him,
like look what you made me do that. I would
feel like I would sit there and then I would
just think about him the whole time and I wouldn't

(58:17):
watch the movie. I would just be so angry. I've
had guy. At one time, I remember going to movies
and there was these four like adults. I think they
were drunk and they were like causing like problems, like
they kept like waving their hand in front of the
projector you know. I mean, these are these guys were
in the thirties, and I'm like by myself, and you're like,

(58:39):
what do you you know, I don't know. Do you
go say something that you go? Yeah, I mean there
was really in there. There was There was maybe like
they were in there, but there was honestly maybe fifteen
people at the most. So if anybody does get up,
you know, you know, and there's a point you want
to go, guys, what what are we doing? But then
you're like, am I gonna have to fight four guys
on the back of a movie theater for drunk dudes?

(59:01):
Four drunk guys seeing a movie, you know, like a
seven o'clock And I remember you just sat there. I
don't remember what the movie was, but it was they
just ruined everything. Yeah, and you got to tell the manager.
You come back and you said I was just going
to the bathroom. They in trouble them and they time
it out perfectly, and you're like, I did not, just

(59:23):
so I know, you guys think that I did this,
But I did. I did not. I did not say.
I think it's cool that you disrupt the movie. Man,
I love it. Man, I'm not a fan of the movie,
so I loved like you just waving your hand, not
even doing finger puppets, you do. Uh, you just waved
your hand. Yeah. I thought that was cool because an
old school move, just you know, the manager. Yeah, yeah, don't.

(59:44):
I don't want to come up here because I feel
like a manager is probably about to come up here.
But I don't want you guys to think that I
just did it. And but I'm pretty positive one will.
How do you go sneak into movies? Like if you've
done the too? Yeah, I think you know. When I
was a kid, I would do the old by one
get one for you sometimes. Yeah. I did, uh, and
feel bad about it. After the worst one I did,

(01:00:04):
the last one I did, I felt bad about it.
I bought it and then went to Paul Paul Blart
Mall Claws. It was in New York and I think
my wife is with me. I remember it was, so
we just stuck in it and it was sold out
and then people want to sit on the stairs. Sold out,
sold out. It's like the opening weekend, but still and

(01:00:27):
that one I could almost walk down him, like I'm not, like,
yeah I can, but you knows that's one that had
the sound. Was like we could just leap. This is
the worst movie I've ever seen in my life. And
then I think I've watched it a couple of times now,
random move when it comes on, You're like, I don't
know if I didn't care anymore, like you just end
up watching it be like now, I don't know, maybe, uh,
but I remember like people sitting in an ale and

(01:00:48):
I was like I felt bad about that because I
was like, we didn't buy a ticket this and these
I'd be like, man, I guess they oversold the movie.
Well I'm not really. They me and my wife, me
and uh, both in their thirties. For Paul Blark, all right,
thanks Nate, Thanks wow? How about that one? Everybody? He

(01:01:18):
was just a super nice guy and uh couldn't have
been more personable. And it was just a real treat.
And I hope you enjoyed the talk about scream fun
fun movie. And this is clearly a case of just
a movie that he watched incessantly with his palace growing
up and his love for the movie comes from that,
which is kind of fun. So thanks a lot for listening, Uh,
Nate Bargatsy. You can find him on Twitter at Nate

(01:01:41):
bargatzi um. He is also on Facebook. He tours all
over the place, does all kinds of shows all the time,
and he's just one of the best stand ups going.
So go out and see him when just the most natural,
funny delivery in the business for my money. So thanks
a lot for joining us, and until next time, UH
do me a favor and polished that Academy award for

(01:02:03):
me that's over there on my shelf. It's getting a
little dull. Movie. Crush is produced, edited, engineered, and scored
by Noel Brown from our podcast studio at Pond City Market, Atlanta, Georgia.