2025 LC Thread: Now With Added 2026

This can’t bode well for Nateland

Nate Bargatze has a business plan so unheard of for a stand-up comedian that it sounds like the setup for a joke. He’s planning to build a theme park emblazoned with his name—Nateland—in his hometown of Nashville, Tenn., with roller coasters, live shows, restaurants, the works. It’s expected to cover more than 100 acres and cost about $350 million

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/nate-bargatze-the-breadwinner-nateland-d811ec04
Paywalled but similar story

https://people.com/nate-bargatze-wants-to-build-a-100-acre-theme-park-in-tennessee-11977775

Oh wow Bezos, a capitalist, complained about his employees, the liberal media, to the guy who he’s sucking up to and doesn’t like the liberal media?

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I think we got the level of his super brain with that idea.

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“Terrible” means having ethics.

The guy is vaguely familiar but I had no idea what his name was. Not that I have my finger on the pulse exactly, but I don’t think he is theme park material.

The weird thing is that he seems to have gone out of his way to hide it until that.

He has being doing comedy since 2002

Yeah, but his ascension to ‘fame’ must have been rapid. ;)

Yes but his profile exploded in just the last few years.

Is he going to have a Washington’s Dream ride?

He’s only leaving 1 billion to his kids.

And that was the culmination of ~20 years of work at it.

I know lol billionaires and all, but that’s better than what 99% of billionaires are doing.

Sure. That has nothing to do with my point, which was that his relatively recent and fast increase in fame means that is PR skills are still lagging his actual PR needs.

Yes, and I posted why I thought that wasn’t the case. He was quite careful not to let the mask slip during the past several years. This was intentional. He knew the consequences and he didn’t care.

Needing better PR skills implies that he’d have done something different if he had more PR skills. I’m not sure that’s the case.

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I dunno that seems plenty to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

His “children” are 68, 71, and 72.

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I have also vowed to not leave my kids more than a billion dollars combined

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It would be a miracle if any kids got a dollar from me. A true miracle.