{"id":14075,"date":"2025-09-10T14:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/14075\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:37:07","slug":"nate-bargatze-big-dumb-mogul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/14075\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate Bargatze: \u201cBig Dumb\u201d Mogul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I notice <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2567088\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nate Bargatze<\/a>\u2019s car before I notice him.<\/p>\n<p>The burnt orange <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0054956\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Porsche<\/a> has just pulled up to the bustling Nashville restaurant where we\u2019ve agreed to meet, and the valet is signaling for Bargatze to park out front. Once he\u2019s made his way inside, he\u2019ll tell me that his primo spot is a perk of driving a stick shift \u2014 what he won\u2019t say, and what he\u2019d hate having to read here, is that it\u2019s also a perk of being the most successful touring comedian in the world.<\/p>\n<p>As Bargatze, 46, has climbed to the top of that comedy food chain \u2014 slowly at first, then lightning fast \u2014 he\u2019s wrestled with many things, none more so than: How does a guy who\u2019s parlayed his everyman persona into a burgeoning empire remain an everyman? After all, an everyman doesn\u2019t sell out arenas; he doesn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I notice Nate Bargatze\u2019s car before I notice him. The burnt orange Porsche has just pulled up to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":["post-14075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}