Nate Bargatze

Sunday, July 27, 2025

OOOOOOO, that was fun and funny. This was Tom and Louise’s idea to celebrate our 40th year! We went out to dinner at the Loon Cafe by Rice park first and all enjoyed. Keith ordered his food based on how cute it would be – then loved every morsel of it.

The show started a little bit after 7, with a funny MC and 5 different comics, all of whom were good. During the fourth guy’s bit, there was a LOUD crack of thunder. He responded, “Was that me?” and rolled right into a bit about the weather. The next guy started and the lights came up. The monitors were still working, and his mike was hot, so he kept rolling. I looked around and noticed the lights were emergency lights. What was up?

We were sitting up in space (you don’t need to see a comedian, you just need to hear him!) and an usher came and offered us seats down on the level 100. OKAY! Our seats were fine, but upgrade is always fun. We checked out the rain – oof, was it raining! Happy that the show was really just starting, because we parked pretty far away. We tried an elevator, but it wasn’t working. I flew down the steps (I’m so good going down) and the steps and the steps and the steps. It is a long way down from way up. We scurried to our new section and found our seats. We were quite close now. Look at the TV of Nate. Look at that red, bent lights or something to the right. Look at that guy just to the right of that, almost touching it, almost to the top. That’s where we had been sitting.

Keith and Tom went for drinks/snacks. Tom thought he would have a beer, but Keith was hoping for ice cream. To each their own. They returned with two diet Cokes. Apparently, all the food places were closed, except one that had a fridge of bottled soda. Everyone was wandering around in the arena and the words going around said. “Thank you for your patience. The show will resume shortly.”

Oh! We were having some power issues. The monitors were still on, but not really too much more. We chatted about the opening comics, we did the wave, we did a Viking clapping game that I didn’t know about, we drank our diet Coke. It felt really fun. I was sure that he was going to come out, because the mike worked and the screen worked, so even if the big emergency lights were on, the show would go on.

They got our half of the lights off and Nate came out to entertain us. It was delightful. I definitely laughed until I cried several times. He talked about putting (no..moving) his parents into a 55+ community. They are an entertaining family. He is going to marriage therapy (just a tune-up. Nothing is wrong), but the therapist is a wife and shouldn’t her husband come, too? He ended up reading us a chain from his family text that happened while he and his dad were at a celebrity golf outing, his sister was having a fist fight on the beach in Mexico, and his mom was watching all the kids. When they get to the internet you will enjoy the stories very much.

There was more big thunder, which made him wonder if he was supposed to stop. Then a bug flew into his eye, and he had some funny lines about God meeting him in heaven and saying I made the biggest sound I could, then I threw a bug in your eye in from a really lot of people, and you still didn’t stop?!

It was just sprinkling when we got out – lucky us! There were tipped-over outdoor chairs and garbage cans. The internet said the power was out at Tom and Louise’s, but was supposed to be back on by the time they got home.

We have nothing on the plan for tomorrow, so I want to save the pantry pictures, but it’s done today! The handles came, the cabinet jig came, the handle screws came, and Keith finished it up. It’s great!