Hosts

The Nateland Podcast is primarily hosted by three Nashville, TN based stand-up comedians: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, and Aaron Weber

These three modern stooges use their delightful and lighthearted podcast as a platform to ask questions that most people are too embarrassed to ask. Questions like, “Why do we have calendars?” or “Does anyone still go to the mall?”. While their answers are not always groundbreaking or entirely correct, their laid back and conversational tone toward regular topics create a talk show full of clean humor and commentary on things us regular folks think about all the time but never discuss. To our surprise, most of us listeners walk away having actually learned something. Yet despite the neutral topics, these comics can be surprisingly polarizing. Audience feedback seems to favor either true love or true hate of the hosts personally and/or the content. 1 star or 5 star reviews only it seems. However, the chemistry between these three men from different generations is undeniable.

Nate Bargatze


Laura Bargatze’s husband and co-producer of the Nateland Podcast, Nathanael Bargatze aka “Nate the Great Bargatze”. He is the father of one child and one dog, and lives with his family in Nashville, TN. He has won multiple awards for his stand-up comedy, has appeared multiple times on popular late-night talk shows and has now filmed 2 Netflix Comedy Specials, etc. He frequently tours the world bringing his clean and completely relatable comedy to American military service members and civilian stations alike. He has been called one of the top up and coming comics for over 20 years. Nate represents the blue collar class and Generation X age group. He regularly proves that you don’t need a fancy education to have good common sense and charismatic star power. His frequent middle-aged-man stereotypical rants are genuinely full of true wisdom and insight, even if he uses a comedic approach and elicits laughs and/or groans from his co-hosts.

Brian Bates
Brian is the wisest and most knowledgeable host and represents the Greatest Generation age group. He works hard behind the scenes to filter audience comments (a significant feature on the show) and research the seemingly regular topic at hand. While he is clearly the hardest working host, he is often the most ridiculed based on running inside jokes that began early in the podcast. Just because he talks softer than Nate, it doesn’t mean he can’t match Nate's wit and snappy one-liners. Brian is the rarely appreciated glue of the show and an excellent comic with shows and tours all over the world, well at least in the US.

Aaron Weber
Aaron Weber is the youngest of the three comics and the newest at stand-up comedy, which shows. While possibly the most book smart of the group, having attended Notre Dame and having teachers as parents, he has the least amount of career and general life experience. More recently the butt of many jokes, Aaron has a great laugh and great sense of humor about himself and is clearly enjoying his time on the podcast, while it lasts. ''**A recent phenomenon has grown on the show involving Aaron’s personal life and health. Unsolicited, the audience has spent a lot of their energy devoted to identifying and providing life coaching and medical advice to Aaron who sometimes shares his motivational problems or medical ailments live on the show.**'' We hope that Aaron seizes this opportunity to continue to develop and improve himself to become a great comedian that lives past the age of 40. He is clearly full of talent and we can’t wait to see what’s next.