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Jan. 19, 2011 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #73 - Bert Kreischer
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brian redban
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unidentified
The Joe Rogan Experience
The Joe Rogan Experience I never knew.
joe rogan
I never knew how to start.
I don't hear anything, Brian.
brian redban
You don't hear anything?
joe rogan
I don't hear myself at all.
bert kreischer
Hello?
joe rogan
Do we have technical issues?
bert kreischer
I don't hear myself either.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brian redban
I hear you guys.
joe rogan
Yeah, we hear you, dude.
We hear you, but we don't hear ourselves.
You just did something.
You're turning it up.
bert kreischer
Hello?
joe rogan
What'd you just do?
brian redban
Your volume is down.
joe rogan
Oh, why do I look at that first?
That doesn't make sense.
brian redban
Well, because no one plays with that, right?
joe rogan
Dude, the cats.
The cats get in here and start whacking shit around.
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
Tell me when it's good.
joe rogan
They don't like it when we kick them out.
bert kreischer
I can't hear me at all.
Can you hear me?
joe rogan
I can hear you.
brian redban
Oh, you're probably using the wrong headphones.
Is there another pair?
joe rogan
Wait a minute.
Talk into that, man.
Talk into that.
bert kreischer
Can you hear me right now?
joe rogan
Not very well.
brian redban
Try it again.
bert kreischer
Right now?
Right now?
Hello?
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
I can't really hear.
joe rogan
here I can hear me a little bit yeah yeah now I hear me oh yeah I think we were supposed to be on this one we don't know what the fuck we're doing I got a new desk and I'm very excited.
But I'm also very excited.
Burt Kreischer's in the motherfucking house, ladies and gentlemen.
Give it up for Burt Kreischer.
bert kreischer
Am I the first real fan of the show to come on the show?
joe rogan
For Shizzle.
I don't know.
Sort of?
No.
bert kreischer
Because I listen to every single one.
joe rogan
Oh, thanks, man.
That's awesome.
bert kreischer
It's the best way.
Anyone I saw on a chat board, someone's like, there should only be an hour.
I could use them for four hours.
joe rogan
Well, some people like it if it's only an hour, but then just listen to an hour of it.
Shut it off.
bert kreischer
I like the long, I'm flying to Miami, I'm going to pass out in the middle and have to rewind and figure out how the fuck a monkey can hold...
How is everyone on this show so fucking smart?
I never thought Ralphie was that smart.
Like, just hanging out with him?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Ralphie's, you know, if you've got to put out that much material, I mean, Ralphie Mae's got hours and hours of shit.
You know, a guy like that, you've got to be intelligent.
You've got to be intelligent to be a comic.
bert kreischer
Yeah, but some people are smart as shit.
joe rogan
What is going on with the sound, Brian?
Everything is echoing.
It's really loud.
unidentified
Hello?
Hello?
bert kreischer
Do I need to be closer?
joe rogan
I don't know.
bert kreischer
Like this?
brian redban
This is all very different than yesterday.
joe rogan
It's Bert Krescher.
He's a fucking robot.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
His voice doesn't work like normal human voices.
unidentified
Hmm.
joe rogan
We good now?
brian redban
I think so.
joe rogan
Okay.
brian redban
Maybe we're stoned.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, that's definitely the case.
It's the vaporizer.
It gives you a different high.
brian redban
A little different.
A little more intense.
joe rogan
I've been going vaporizer lately, ladies and gentlemen.
Cutting out the metal man.
Going straight to the THC. You know, the conversations we have, that's one of the most fun things about it.
I mean, we always had these conversations, like, especially Duncan and I. We would have hours and hours of super-baked conversation.
And Brian Callen, too.
bert kreischer
I fell in love with Duncan and saw him on a plane and went back to where he was sitting and could not stop talking to him about getting back into weed.
I'm really trying to get back into weed.
It's just, I don't...
joe rogan
Sounds like you're trying to take yoga.
bert kreischer
My wife and my sisters had an intervention, and they were like, listen, you're drinking way too much.
joe rogan
Right.
bert kreischer
And I was like, okay.
And they're like, we got you a bag of Afghani Kush.
Like, start there.
joe rogan
Right.
bert kreischer
And then I did, and I got rookie bait.
joe rogan
That happened to me once.
I got really scared once, because I'd gotten upset at myself for making fun of Steven Seagal.
This is how high I was.
I was so high.
I called Eddie Bravo.
I was super baked paranoid.
And I'm like, what am I going to fight Steven Seagal if I see him?
I don't even really care about him.
Why am I being so mean when I'm making fun of him?
Because I was making fun of him relentlessly and brutally.
And then I thought about it while I was super baked.
I was like, what if I met that guy?
Two things.
First of all, I'd probably be nice to him, which is the most hypocritical shit ever.
And second of all, I would probably feel terrible for being so mean and making bad jokes.
brian redban
Fleshlight.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
Let me see this bitch so bad.
joe rogan
This is the alien one.
bert kreischer
You haven't come in this, right?
joe rogan
No, no one has.
No one has.
bert kreischer
I know that's a joke you like to play on Friends.
joe rogan
That's Brian.
He doesn't run these fleshlights.
These are in my possession.
It's pretty awesome.
unidentified
Ridiculous.
joe rogan
It's really good for shooting loads into.
And if you go to JoeRogan.net and you click the link and you put in Rogan, you get 15% off the podcast or off the fleshlight.
brian redban
Here's how you clean it.
Have you seen this part?
unidentified
No.
brian redban
Unscrew the bottom.
bert kreischer
You just dump it out?
brian redban
No, you unscrew the top and put the faucet on the top.
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
So it just shoots it right through.
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
That's it.
bert kreischer
I might leave it in.
joe rogan
Just leave the loads in there.
bert kreischer
Pretend I'm in Vietnam.
brian redban
Wow.
bert kreischer
Having like a real moment with my flashlight.
Have a conversation with her.
Long day.
Really long.
joe rogan
Speaking of Vietnam, I saw a really interesting documentary, or a piece rather, it was a very short clip about, they were talking about how marijuana, it was changed war, and how Vietnam was the first war where the soldiers were smoking marijuana and they became reluctant to fight.
And it was all about the mentality of the soldiers just completely changed when they were in Southeast Asia.
And they were smoking weed, and they could smell the Viet Cong smoking weed, like over the hill.
Like they were like close enough to each other to smell each other's weed.
unidentified
Shit.
bert kreischer
Shut up.
joe rogan
Yeah, and one guy was talking about how there was one time where he was high and he had seen this Vietnamese, this Viet Cong soldier and he knew that that guy was high too.
It's like they looked at each other and they knew they were high.
And they knew they didn't even know each other, and they're gonna shoot each other because, you know, some fucking people in an office somewhere say that this is how it's supposed to go down.
bert kreischer
But those Vietnam guys were the first generation to hear stories about war.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
Because their dads came back.
My grandfather came back from World War II and was fucked up.
Like, fucked up.
And they didn't know that you could fix it.
They just thought, well, that's what happened to my life.
I was 18 and it just switched, and now I'll drink beer in the garage by myself.
joe rogan
Well, they don't know what to fix it with.
Even though what they're doing now, they're really taking the long way around.
What they really should be doing is giving these soldiers, the ones that want to do something about post-traumatic stress disorder, I mean, you shouldn't impose it on them, but giving them Ibogaine.
Ibogaine and ayahuasca are two of the most potent psychedelic mixtures, and they're responsible for so many different people getting off of heroin, getting over the past...
Yes!
Dude, it's like...
Conversations with God, man.
brian redban
It seems like that would be the worst thing possible to give somebody that's not in touch with reality, you know?
joe rogan
No, no, no.
What it does is it lets them know what really happened.
It lets them see it from an emotional perspective, why there's this big gigantic hole in them that freaks out whenever they think about the past and freaks out and relives all these moments.
And you can go over it, especially with Ibogaine.
I've heard so many different stories about it.
And also with MDMA. You know, MDMA, which is ecstasy.
bert kreischer
I would love to do some therapy with that.
joe rogan
That was the idea.
bert kreischer
That was the funnest drug when you didn't know it would fuck you up.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, it does fuck you up, though.
That's why I won't do it.
I did it once, and that was it for me, but I learned a lot, man.
I learned a lot about, like, insecurities.
But anyway, the point is about soldiers, like, you know, and people that are addicted.
There's people that have, like, problems with heroin, problems with alcohol.
They can fix all that shit with Ibogaine.
bert kreischer
Geraldo, right, said, like, in one of his lowest points, took a bunch of acid because he said that he heard that that would fix his problems.
And he said it didn't.
joe rogan
Well, acid's not known for that.
I mean, acid...
Well, it is kind of self-observing.
bert kreischer
They used to give it to alcoholics, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, but I think acid also just freaks people out so much.
Like, when it wears you off, it's like so...
Someone described it as abrasively introspective, that just like so freaks you out that it might be too much for someone who has like an addiction.
bert kreischer
Mushrooms, I think, are good.
joe rogan
Mushrooms are good.
Anything that's enlightening, anything that allows you to step back and look at it, but it has to also jive with your biochemistry.
You can say everything enlightening, but what if you're that one weirdo that's allergic to peanuts and you know you can't even drink Diet Coke or you get splitting headaches.
bert kreischer
Are there people that are allergic to weed, like, physically?
joe rogan
Sure, there must be.
There's people that are allergic to everything, I would think.
brian redban
A lot of people that have, like, smoking allergies in general.
joe rogan
Yeah, but if that's the case, are they allergic to it?
They eat it?
Or what about vaporizing?
brian redban
Vaporizing still has smoke in it.
I don't care what people say.
unidentified
It's mist.
brian redban
It doesn't get hot enough to smoke.
joe rogan
That's the whole deal.
brian redban
But you still cough from it.
joe rogan
I don't cough from it.
brian redban
You coughed yesterday from it, because I remember going, you're going to be really fucked, man.
joe rogan
No, I think so, Brian.
I think you're attaching that moment, that memory, to some other time.
bert kreischer
Demetri Martin's allergic to alcohol.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
Yeah, and peanuts.
I shouldn't say this.
joe rogan
You could be really mean and throw something else in there.
It's allergic to pussy.
You know, you say something stupid there.
I don't even know the dude.
There was an opening right there.
bert kreischer
He's a regular.
unidentified
Is he?
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
And he's allergic to alcohol.
So what happens when he drinks?
bert kreischer
And peanuts.
Oh, he breaks out.
If you throw a peanut on his face, his face will swell up.
joe rogan
Wow, that's crazy.
bert kreischer
Talk about fucking being helpless on stage.
joe rogan
Peanuts, man.
bert kreischer
Someone doesn't like your show and just flicks a peanut at you?
joe rogan
Does he know?
bert kreischer
He knows.
joe rogan
I mean, now people know.
bert kreischer
Now people.
I just fucked him up.
joe rogan
You just fucked him up, man.
People are going to be throwing peanuts at him.
brian redban
That shit's kind of fucked up because I've worked in so many kitchens before where easily there could be peanut in something and then just be a dumb waitress that didn't know.
Or you're making a salad and a peanut flies into something.
joe rogan
It just seems like that's just Thai food, like Pad Thai, peanut sauce and shit.
bert kreischer
A lady in front of me was allergic to shellfish on the flight yesterday, coming back from D.C. And they gave her shrimp and put it in front of her, and she flipped out.
She was like, I can't have it around me.
I can't even be around it.
And I was like, if we have to land this fucking pain because this chick can't eat shellfish.
joe rogan
Whoa.
She was freaking that bad?
bert kreischer
She was freaking out pretty bad.
People do, though, because that's her...
Think about that.
That's your windpipe.
Like, I'm allergic to gerbils, right?
joe rogan
Right, and people wouldn't recognize it enough.
unidentified
Bad.
bert kreischer
Fucking bad.
unidentified
Gerbils?
brian redban
Your ass swell up and stuff?
bert kreischer
No, my wife, my kids got, at her school, they got a gerbil.
And so my wife was playing with the gerbil one morning and then washed her hands, got in the car, grabbed the steering wheel.
I went to take my sister to the airport, grabbed the steering wheel.
My eyes shut.
This part, you know this part of your eye?
That lining part?
Swole up over my eyes.
Okay?
I started, water's coming out of my eyes and it's burning lines down my face.
My windpipe closes up and I'm just like...
But I don't know what's happening at the time because I'm like, I just fucking sat in a car.
I'm like, oh shit, this is a stroke.
Something's going down.
I call my wife and then I start thinking, did she fucking play with the gerbil?
I just asked out of the blue.
She was like, but I washed my hands.
And I was like, fucking.
joe rogan
Wow.
unidentified
Oh my God.
joe rogan
Can you believe that's how I washed my hands?
Nah, right you did.
Fuck you did.
bert kreischer
You didn't wash your hands.
joe rogan
You didn't wash your fucking hands.
Trying to make up for it.
Revisionist history, motherfucker.
bert kreischer
Yeah, but I washed my hands.
joe rogan
Oh, that's nonsense.
brian redban
That's craziness.
joe rogan
Sounds like something a 13-year-old would tell you.
brian redban
So could you walk through like a pet store if you just didn't touch anything or have you ever done that just like because you're feeling dangerous on a Saturday?
bert kreischer
Fuck no.
joe rogan
That is so crazy.
So anybody that has a gerbil in their hand and touched the doorknob, you could touch that and it would just jack you?
bert kreischer
That seems fucked up.
I'm legit to cats, but my wife has a cat, so I live with it, so I've gotten over the allergy.
joe rogan
Wow, that must have been crazy in the beginning of the relationship, huh?
bert kreischer
Fucking talk about swallowing your pride and fucking deciding, my life is less important than dating this chick.
joe rogan
Wow.
bert kreischer
And the doctor, we sat down with an allergist one time, and he's like, so here's the deal, the cat cannot be in the room with him, or one night he might die.
joe rogan
Whoa!
bert kreischer
And the cat is fucking there.
joe rogan
And your wife's like, but I love the cat!
bert kreischer
She tried.
She tried, but she'd hear the cat clawing under the door.
joe rogan
And she wanted to let him in, let him sleep in the bed.
bert kreischer
She's known the cat longer than me.
I'm like four months in.
joe rogan
Whoa.
bert kreischer
Fuck.
It was just destructive.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brian redban
You got chose over a cat.
joe rogan
I might have to kill that cat.
brian redban
Damn.
bert kreischer
Dude, the cat, she called one night when we were moving an apartment.
She was like, we can't find Gus Gus.
And I was like...
joe rogan
Oh, that's too bad.
bert kreischer
I was like, sweet!
And then I came home.
joe rogan
Gus, Gus.
bert kreischer
For like a day we couldn't find this cat, right?
And then my daughters are getting upset because they're like, Daddy, Gus, Gus, he's hungry.
I'm like, he's a fucking straight cat he can find for himself.
So then I go into the old apartment to look for him and I hear him.
He's in the fucking dryer.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
brian redban
So you turned it on?
bert kreischer
Part of me is like, there's a moment where you have to make the call.
Do I just not say anything and just leave?
Like in those fucking movies where you just go...
And just walk by.
Or do I rescue the cat and deal with my allergies?
And I'm like, I can't fucking kill an animal.
I can't let an animal die on my watch.
joe rogan
Yeah, not like that either.
If you're gonna kill it, at least stomp on its head.
brian redban
And punch it or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, kill it quick.
Don't let it kill it.
unidentified
Fuck it.
joe rogan
My cat, when I was in high school, my dad accidentally threw the cat in the dryer.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, I didn't know.
The cat had gone to sleep in the hammock, or in the hamper, because there was warm clothes in the hamper.
No, no, no, that's not the story.
The story was, I guess he went to sleep in the dryer.
Whatever.
Somehow or another, the cat got in the fucking dryer by accident.
And my dad heard all this...
And he opened it once and looked, and the cat was out.
And the cat didn't move, so he was like, well, I guess nothing's in here.
And so he shut it again, and again...
And after a couple of minutes of this, man, then he opens it up, and the cat comes out screeching, and one of his teeth was broken off.
And my father felt so bad.
He felt awful.
It was just such a bad scene, you know?
The cat lived, though.
brian redban
That's a shitty story.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Cat lived.
With one fucked up tooth.
He always had this one fucked up tooth that reminded you of like, no wonder this cat's crazy.
Imagine one day you wake up and you're in blackness and you're falling on metal every half a second.
You're just getting beat over the head.
Someone's just beating the fuck out of you and you're flipping through the air.
What a crazy way to wake up.
Inside a dryer.
And then to survive that after minutes and minutes in that fucking dryer.
bert kreischer
I had a buddy who passed out and fell into a pool, and that was a terrifying way to wake up.
joe rogan
That cat needed ibogaine.
That cat needs ibogaine.
brian redban
Yeah, I was just gonna say, why don't you heal that cat with some psychedelics?
joe rogan
I know.
Heal that cat with some ecstasy.
By the way, don't listen to anything I say.
Don't take anything I tell you to take.
Stop it.
Don't listen.
I am just a fucking comedian, alright?
I am not qualified to be diagnosing life-changing chemicals to any of you fucking freaks.
bert kreischer
A lot of those guys that come back, like my cousin...
They're fucking fearless.
joe rogan
From the war?
bert kreischer
You can't faze these dudes.
joe rogan
Yeah, once you watch a bunch of people shoot at you and you shoot at them and kill people.
bert kreischer
And then you've got some fucking frat boy telling you he's going to knock your teeth in at a bar.
And you watch my cousin not give a shit.
Literally just go, like he got wasted this weekend and fell down a flight of stairs and split his head open.
And all his buddies are like, he's fine.
I'm like, dude, he has a head injury.
He fell down fucking at the DC Improv down those stairs.
joe rogan
I've never been to DC Improv.
bert kreischer
It's like a fucking slippery, icy stairs.
joe rogan
Wow.
bert kreischer
And they were like, he's fine.
He's fine.
Don't call a fucking ambulance.
Just, Johnny, you're gonna be fine.
Johnny, you're gonna be fine.
And then he starts throwing up because he has a concussion all over the place.
joe rogan
That's not good.
bert kreischer
I'm like, we're calling an ambulance.
I don't give a shit.
But they're fucking, you just can't fade these kids, man.
That's a new generation coming back here.
joe rogan
Toughing it up.
Yeah.
Now, coming back here after those experiences, hundreds of thousands of them, right?
bert kreischer
God, oh, standards are going to change.
joe rogan
It's so unfortunate.
It's so unfortunate that you've got people that are willing to do literally anything for their country, like Pat Tillman type people who really are true heroes.
And then you look at what they get used for.
You look at how chaotic.
You talk to any soldier that comes back from Afghanistan, they'll tell you it's fucked.
There's fucking chaos over there.
No one thinks you could fix that place.
That place is bananas.
It's fucked.
It's fucking warlords, man.
bert kreischer
They're like Michael Vick's dogs.
Like, you just gotta fucking...
joe rogan
Crazy.
And another thing is, they fuck boys over there like on a regular basis.
It's like, there's a weird culture over there where there's a lot of like men who take in like little young boys.
Like, they fuck them like on a regular basis.
It's like a natural part of their culture.
It's so common and so prevalent.
Like, everything over there is so alien to us.
There's like one city in the whole country and the rest of the country is just like warlords.
It's like you can't control it.
There's like a hundred different fucking dudes with a hundred different, you know, harems and, you know, they're rocking one part of the country and holding it down.
And, you know, the best way they get information from these dudes, the way they communicate with these dudes, they give them Viagra.
That's what the American soldiers do.
Viagra, because they can't fuck their wives anymore, so it's hard to hold this harem.
It's hard to be a warlord when your dick doesn't work anymore.
So they're giving them Viagra, and now these 60-year-old dudes who were just trying to hang on and keep the young bucks at bay, now they can bone again, so they can get some credibility.
You can't have 18 hot young wives and not fuck any of them.
Someone's going to fuck one of those bitches.
That's what's going to happen.
You're going to have to shoot some young males or something.
You're going to have to prove your dominance.
bert kreischer
Wouldn't you, if you had gotten fucked in the ass as a child, wouldn't you say, I'm in this way I am, I'd be like, well, I didn't enjoy that, so I'm not going to do it to somebody else.
joe rogan
Well, that's a rational, logical way of thinking it, but apparently...
What happens to some people's minds when something traumatic happens to them is their mind gets rewired in a very, very unhealthy way.
And somehow or another, when people are molested, some folks have an urge to do the exact same thing that happened to them to someone else.
Almost like they're reliving their pain and their tragedy and reintroducing it to another person to try to understand it or something.
It becomes an addiction to them.
It becomes very, very sick.
bert kreischer
I heard of women sometimes that get raped.
Stay date-raped, try to fuck the same guy over again to try to like make sure it was okay.
And then a lot of times those guys don't want to be in that situation again because they know they did the bad thing.
So then they veer away from it and then that fucking ruins the woman that got date-raped.
That's horrible.
Man, I hate psychological shit.
The way your brain tries to fix things is insane.
joe rogan
It is insane.
bert kreischer
I think that's why I drink.
joe rogan
That's why bullying is so dangerous.
You know, when you hear about kids at school getting stuffed into lockers and then wind up committing suicide.
Some kid recently, fuck, this story was so crazy.
I don't know the full details of it.
It was something someone told me, but some 14-year-old kid, there was a bunch of kids that were out on some little event.
This kid climbs to the top of ten stories, breaks a window and jumps out in front of everybody.
So they're all on there on some fucking vacation or some school trip or some shit.
This kid smashes a window and just skydives into the pavement in front of the whole class.
unidentified
Shit.
bert kreischer
No, were you bullied at all?
joe rogan
Yeah, I was bullied.
Yeah, that's how I got into martial arts.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, I think almost every comedian is bullied.
But for me, first of all, I was little.
I wasn't a big guy.
And I moved around a lot.
When my family was seven, we moved from New Jersey to California, and then California to Florida.
So it's like I never really stayed long enough to make good friends.
I would live in one place.
And even California, we lived in one street.
And the next year we lived, you know, halfway across town.
And then, you know, in Florida we moved a couple of times.
It's like, man, I just never really had a chance to make, like, long-lasting friends.
bert kreischer
I went to an all-boys Catholic high school.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus.
bert kreischer
That was just torture.
And then I was, like, the funny guy to my friends.
So the older dudes would just fuck you up.
And it wasn't even, like, bullying.
It was just beating you up.
joe rogan
Wow.
bert kreischer
It was just like, you just got...
You knew...
I got beaten up one time.
This guy on the baseball team, Freddy Rosella.
I'll say his name.
I'll give you shit.
brian redban
Fuck that dude.
bert kreischer
He's still a beast.
He was a beast when we were all fucking children.
He had ball hair.
He was a monster.
Damn.
joe rogan
That's a little kid with a beard.
bert kreischer
Dude, the guy was shaving in like eighth grade.
I mean, he was a monster and his arms were huge.
And he was the captain of our baseball team.
And I was like a junior, sophomore.
And I was making a joke and he said, Kreischer, shut your face.
So I went, that's a joke.
And then he did not get that.
And then he went to go fight me.
And then I was like, but then they broke it up.
joe rogan
Wow.
bert kreischer
So then we get done.
He goes into the dugout and I'm playing catch with my buddies, Joe and Troy and Dean and warming up.
And we see him walking out, and we're walking in.
They're like, oh, Freddie gets upset sometimes.
But he's just coming to apologize.
Look, he's got a bat.
He's probably had enough to do the batting practice, and he's just going to say sorry.
So I was like, okay, don't worry, I got this one.
So I have a glove in hand, ball in the other hand.
I'm like, hey, Freddie.
And then he just, with the baseball bat, just starts beating the shit out of him.
My three friends got on and they couldn't pull this guy off of me.
I never let go of the ball.
I'm just like...
And then, of course, I just go to crying.
I was still a young boy.
And then he beat me up and the coach was in there.
And we both played left field together.
So I had to go out and sit in left field with him after that.
joe rogan
Whoa.
bert kreischer
But those things, that's why I think women...
joe rogan
How do you get past that moment and run by him again when this guy beat the shit out of you?
bert kreischer
He came to see me at the Tampa Improv recently.
Are you serious?
Me and him probably never talked about it.
We were cool after that.
We played on the same team for a year after that, but he came to Tampa Improv.
He's like, what's up, man?
I was like, hey, how you doing?
But I'm still like gun shy.
joe rogan
Right.
bert kreischer
You know Cowhead, the guy in Tampa radio show?
joe rogan
Okay, yeah.
bert kreischer
Cowhead, I used to tell a story about getting in a fight with a black guy.
I did it on my hour special.
And it's a real story.
It's a true story about getting the shit kicked out of me by a black guy.
Cowhead looked him up and found the dude.
And was like, I'm bringing him in studio.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
bert kreischer
I was like, please don't fucking do that.
I was praying the guy was dead.
And his daughter listens to the show or whatever.
I was like, fuck.
Because I've been telling jokes about this guy on stage for the past eight years.
joe rogan
There was this one dude that I went to high school with.
I don't even remember his name.
I think it was Kevin.
He was this black kid that was way bigger than everybody else.
He was like this football player.
I didn't really know him very well.
I knew his brother.
His brother was a nice guy.
But he was like a scary dude to me.
Just looked like a Mike Tyson looking dude.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
And, you know, I remember, like, no one ever fucked with this kid, and everybody was always nervous.
But there was something about him where I'd be like, man, this guy just seems like, he just seems, like, too dangerous.
Like, there's something about him, like, that makes me fucking nervous.
Like, someone could be that much bigger than you when you're 16 years old.
That much bigger.
Turns out he wound up murdering somebody.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
We had one kid in our neighborhood.
Definitely won't say this guy's fucking name.
The one kid you knew was weird, but you didn't know how to...
Everyone would be like, who wants to go ride bikes?
And he's like, who dares me to go in the woods and put a stick in my ass?
Like that kind of kid.
joe rogan
Right.
bert kreischer
Just crazy.
One night he was, he had the keys to his, this chick that lived in our neighborhood.
He had the keys to her house because his parents were watching their house.
And he's like, Hey, you want to go in her house and get weird?
And I was like, they're not here.
He's like, I know.
Come on.
I'll be fucking crazy.
I go in there and I cut the pussies out of their underwear.
And I was like, so my sister calls me like, like six months ago.
She's like, uh, you remember, uh, John.
And I was like, yeah.
She was like, he's in jail.
I go, really?
And she goes, yeah, he was working for, um, for circuit city when they were going out of business and he stole one of the trucks filled with a bunch of equipment and I was like really And she goes, yeah.
And they arrested him.
And then they fingerprinted him and found out he had been killing chicks down by the causeway.
unidentified
Wow.
bert kreischer
I was like, if you fucking said serial killer to me, I would have been...
If I was the guy next door, I'd be like, I fucking knew it.
I knew it.
I saw that coming.
joe rogan
Holy shit.
How many girls did he kill?
bert kreischer
I have no idea.
But I was like...
And I've looked for it online.
I can't find it online.
joe rogan
It's so hard when you run into someone who's completely fucking crazy.
It's like, what?
You know, there's no way to fix that guy.
When you're 15, 16 years old or whatever, and all of a sudden you're going to high school and you're hanging out with this kid who you know is completely insane.
bert kreischer
Yeah, and it's a small neighborhood, like eight boys.
That's it.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
bert kreischer
And we spent the night at this kid's house.
And like, just fuck!
And I'm like, holy shit!
joe rogan
I wonder when he started.
bert kreischer
It starts young.
I remember him shooting a frog with a BB gun, and I remember him asking me to do it, and I couldn't do it.
I couldn't kill an animal.
I just couldn't in my head at that age.
But he was like, it's funny.
It's easy.
It's easy.
They don't move.
But I think you have to start.
It's got to start in college.
joe rogan
I wonder what it is, you know, because some people like Jeffrey Dahmer, they say there's nothing wrong with his upbringing.
You know, some people were abused when they were younger.
Some people have some, you know, various reasons for why they're so fucking crazy and psychotic.
But with Dahmer, Dahmer is one of those weird ones where they're like, there's nothing wrong with his childhood.
bert kreischer
But what parents are going to be like, yeah, I did that.
brian redban
Right.
bert kreischer
Of course.
joe rogan
Of course.
bert kreischer
Dahmer's parents are going to be like, I fucking didn't know you're not supposed to finger their assholes.
unidentified
Right.
brian redban
Every day.
joe rogan
By the way, speaking of finger their asshole...
I saw a clip online of your show where you went to the Gracie Academy in Torrance, and you were talking about defense, and you said, oh, I'll just grab their balls and figure their asshole, and Horian just stone-faced you, and the way you held it, dude, was so funny.
I was laughing out loud.
You held it just staring at him for, like, fucking ten seconds, man, when it was like no one said anything, and then it's like, okay, let's go learn some techniques, some arm locks and some joint locks and some jokes.
bert kreischer
Dude, I got joked out.
unidentified
That day?
joe rogan
I saw it.
bert kreischer
It fucked me up for like a week.
Because you know what it's like to die.
You know what it's like to be totally helpless and your windpipe to close and your blood to stop and you fight it just like you see in the movies where you go, no, no, no, no.
joe rogan
It's very helpless.
Very helpless.
Especially with the Gi on, man.
When guys get collar chokes on you.
bert kreischer
That's what he did.
He gave me, like, the collar thing.
joe rogan
Very hard to defend those.
bert kreischer
And that's why I stopped fucking with dudes.
Because I realize now, everyone's a badass.
Everyone is...
I almost got in a fight.
I almost got in a fight recently.
Really?
Yeah.
Because I just was like...
My brain is...
No, I'm sober.
It was in the morning.
I was going to shoot something for Comedy Central and I needed a bathing suit.
So my sisters live on an apartment building below Starbucks.
So I fly in and I kind of block two spaces and they're just going to throw my bathing suit to me.
So they throw it and then as I pull out I realize I blocked it and this guy's pissed.
He's really pissed.
As I pull out, he zooms in, gets out of his car and starts yelling at me.
Now, I've been in a lot of fistfights, so I do come from that kind of mentality of, like, talk shit and let's...
That's my mentality at the time.
So I said...
joe rogan
Talk shit and let's fight?
bert kreischer
I'll fight.
Really?
joe rogan
You just ready to fight some dude?
bert kreischer
No, no, no.
Not now.
Not now.
joe rogan
How long ago was this?
bert kreischer
This was like three years ago.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
You're a different guy now.
bert kreischer
Very.
unidentified
Yeah, right.
bert kreischer
This moment, and then the moment happened the next day.
So then he yells at me, and I rolled out my window, and I yelled at him.
I go, I was just trying to get my bathing suit.
Like, that's going to fucking...
Like, he's going to go, oh, I didn't know.
Go ahead.
But I was like, that was my defense.
I'm just getting my fucking bathing suit.
I wasn't...
Being a dick.
And then he goes, fuck you, learn how to drive.
And so I get out of the car.
And then I stand up and I come out here.
I stand out of the car and I go, come out here and be a man.
Prove you're a fucking man.
joe rogan
Oh, no, you didn't.
brian redban
Why would you do that?
joe rogan
Oh, my God, you're crazy.
bert kreischer
At a fucking Starbucks.
Now everyone's like...
joe rogan
Do you know how to fight at all?
bert kreischer
No, but I know, yeah, I know how to...
brian redban
And this was L.A., right?
bert kreischer
This is L.A. Wait a minute.
joe rogan
Do you have martial arts training?
bert kreischer
None whatsoever.
joe rogan
You don't know how to box?
You never wrestled?
bert kreischer
Never boxed, never wrestled.
joe rogan
No sparring?
bert kreischer
Just fistfights in college.
joe rogan
Goddamn, dude, what are you doing?
Are you crazy?
bert kreischer
Exactly.
And it was at that moment that I realized if he walked out, I would have to fistfight.
joe rogan
Right, and what if he's good?
What do you do if you get out there and you start talking shit to a dude and a dude just holds his hands up real natural and starts bouncing around on his toes?
bert kreischer
I get my car and drive away.
brian redban
Or he just pulls out a gun and shoots you.
This is LA. That too.
bert kreischer
But it's that moment that you need.
joe rogan
It might be your ass first.
bert kreischer
You need that one moment where you go, alright, that's never going to happen again.
joe rogan
Why have unnecessary conflict?
That's an unnecessary moment.
That's like just management right there.
That's management of stress and emotions.
Because really, you don't even know this guy.
If that was you, what if you had done this and the guy who you cut off was like your best friend?
And, you know, you cut him off and you're like, fuck, I can't believe I cut Mike off.
You know, Mike's my best friend.
You know, your interaction with this guy is all based on, you know, this conflict that you're having.
bert kreischer
But those thoughts don't go through your mind.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
But you can rewire your brain to try to think like that.
brian redban
Was he driving a Prius?
bert kreischer
No, he was driving a teal BMW. Prius is a douchebag.
brian redban
Yeah, I was going to say, I might have done it if I saw a Prius.
joe rogan
He had a teal BMW. I told you I'm on an eight-eight count.
Eight so far.
I've seen eight Priuses flick cigarettes out their windows.
Eight.
brian redban
That's crazy.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
I started noticing it in San Francisco.
I'm like, why do I keep seeing these eco-cunts throwing cigarettes out their window?
They have some weird justification.
brian redban
Well, you could also think that you could just own a Prius because you want to save money on gas.
You don't give a shit about fucking...
joe rogan
I swear to God I unplugged this fucking cunty phone.
brian redban
Eh, it's funny now.
joe rogan
It's not funny, dude.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Call from what?
brian redban
Planned Parenthood, Joe.
unidentified
Planned Parenthood?
joe rogan
John Mendoza, it sounds like.
How do you hear Planned Parenthood?
brian redban
I'm always thinking Planned Parenthood, you know?
joe rogan
If anybody should, you should.
brian redban
Great place to pick up chicks.
It's the subway right underneath the Planned Parenthood.
Get a bunch of sad girls.
joe rogan
So what were we talking about before we got caught up?
Yeah, don't go and get an advice, man.
I mean, it's like a total hippie thing to say, well, look at that guy as if he's your brother and treat him as such.
But, you know, a lot of shit can be avoided just with, like, cool talking to people.
Shit that could just turn your whole life into ugliness.
bert kreischer
Oh, dude.
One fucking...
I knew a guy in college that punched a dude one time and killed him.
He fell back on a thing.
joe rogan
Kevin James went to...
He was a bouncer for a while, and he was a bouncer with this dude.
And a fight broke out between some drunks.
Something happened.
Bouncer punched this kid.
The kid fell unconscious and banged his head off the curb and died.
The bouncer was a fucking college kid.
He's trying to make some money.
All of a sudden, he's in jail for, like, years.
You know?
It's, like, some serious shit.
He got charged with manslaughter.
brian redban
I think that's a lot of the reason why I wear hats and sunglasses so much, and I always look at the ground.
I'm never...
Because, especially out here, I don't want...
unidentified
I don't care.
brian redban
I don't need to talk to anybody.
If I want to talk to somebody, I'll go to you, you know, type of attitude.
It's funny when you see those people that hand out things on the streets, you know, like flyers or people trying to get you to sign things when you walk into the grocery store.
I watch them go, hey, to every person and I get up and they don't say a word to me.
Because I purposely sent out a vibe to be like, don't talk to me.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm not happy when they get me in the parking lot of the supermarket when I'm trying to put my groceries into the truck.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, what are you doing?
This guy comes up to me with his one finger up in the air, okay?
Holding it up in the air, like above his head, and he points it at me and he goes, do you have one minute for gay rights?
brian redban
No.
joe rogan
Do you have one minute for gay rights?
brian redban
We're talking about lesbo rights.
joe rogan
And I was like, dude, I'm going to my fucking car.
Get out of here.
This is nonsense.
And I have one minute for you.
This ain't about gay rights, man.
You're not going to fix gay rights by me giving you a dollar or by me giving you my fucking email address.
That's not going to fix gay rights.
What's going to fix gay rights is voting and people learning how to be nice to each other and not being prejudiced.
Not some fucking weirdo who accosts you in a parking lot with a finger in your face.
Do you have one minute for gay rights?
He's just so pronouncedly, offensively gay.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, with his finger in my face.
bert kreischer
Gay guys just fucking hate me.
joe rogan
Why?
bert kreischer
I don't know.
They see me and I think they just look at me and they're like, fucking that guy was a nightmare in high school.
joe rogan
Think you're homophobic?
bert kreischer
Oh, in a heartbeat.
I'm the furthest thing from homophobic.
brian redban
I think you look like a decent bear, you know?
bert kreischer
I do.
joe rogan
A decent bear.
Bears, for the folks at home that are innocent, is what a hairy, overweight gay man is.
A bear.
brian redban
That's what they call them.
bert kreischer
And now a bunch of people are looking at this going, oh, that is right.
brian redban
Do you have chest hair?
bert kreischer
Yeah, a little bit.
joe rogan
This show got so gay right there.
Both you two, you just almost kissed.
bert kreischer
Have you ever seen a gay porn?
joe rogan
Yes, accidentally.
bert kreischer
Accidentally?
Me too, and I watched it for 45 minutes.
joe rogan
I've seen a bunch of shit on my website.
There's always stuff, but one time I picked up this girl in Long Island and we went back to her place.
And she said, there's this video that's here that was here when I moved in.
I think it's porn.
And I go, oh yeah?
And so she throws it in, and it's these two dudes in the woods.
And one dude's got his back against a tree, and the other dude is looking at him.
I'm like, why is he looking at him like that?
And I'm like, I didn't know it was a gay porn.
I thought it was a porn.
bert kreischer
We're putting a lot of backstory in this.
joe rogan
And I'm like, yeah, man, this is going to be a strange story.
I never did like the story ones.
I like the clips.
Just cut right to the bone.
And I don't need to know that you're a pizza man, okay?
So anyway, this dude pulls the guy's pants down and starts sucking his cock.
And I literally started hyperventilating.
I was like, what?
I'd never seen...
Mind you, you kids today, you grow up...
This is the age of the internet.
You see dudes sucking dick all the time.
I had never seen a man actually suck a dick until this moment.
And I was probably 22 years old, somewhere around then, 22, 23. So this guy starts sucking this guy's cock.
And I was like, wow, they really do do it.
That's what I thought in my head.
I knew that's what gay was.
I lived in San Francisco for three years when I was younger.
Actually, my aunt, I told this story before, but my aunt used to get high with these gay guys that lived next door.
And they used to smoke pot and get naked together.
And one guy would play the bongos, and they were really weird.
And it was this big, muscular black guy and his white little bitch boyfriend.
And my aunt went over and smoked pot.
So I grew up with gay people.
It didn't bother me.
But watching the guy actually suck the cock, I'm like, whoa, you can't take that back, dude.
You are sucking a cock on video!
I can't believe they can get people to do it!
I couldn't believe that they could get people to do it!
Even if you were gay, you want people to know that much?
You want people to see the gay stuff?
bert kreischer
I used to have a joke about, you're going to hate this.
Why would I hate it?
Because I used to say, who's seen gay porn?
No one.
I said, who's seen the UFC? And then everyone.
I go, here's my pitch.
Mix the two genres.
Right?
Fights where the winner gets to fuck the loser in the ass.
I'm not saying anyone would watch the entire fight, but how hard would you fight if your asshole was on the line?
joe rogan
You would fight hard as shit.
bert kreischer
No tap outs.
No tap outs.
Just the best part that I thought would be after the guy is unconscious, watching Brock Lesnar try to get hard in the thing.
Like, I just don't want to get hard before I can fuck him in the ass.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
joe rogan
So what if he takes him down to rape him and the guy's out and he can't get it up?
bert kreischer
He can't get it up and he's just sitting there and the guy starts coming to him and he's going to start beating him up again.
joe rogan
No contest?
Who's that?
bert kreischer
Maybe he just sucks his dick.
joe rogan
He didn't win by tap.
He didn't tap that ass.
bert kreischer
But yeah.
Why would I hate that though?
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
bert kreischer
I don't know.
I just thought...
Because it brings up the whole...
brian redban
It's so gay with two guys rubbing dicks.
joe rogan
Well, guys like you like to think it's gay.
brian redban
Actually, you know what?
I might have thought that when I first thought of it the first time ever, but now I don't think of it.
But it's funny, every time I go to open mics and stuff like that, whenever they talk about UFC, that comes up.
joe rogan
Sure, that's like Asian drivers or black eyes don't tip.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, it's all right there.
brian redban
It's a hot topic.
joe rogan
Well, it's the easiest conclusion to draw, you know?
Like, you know, you see these guys in their underwear, looking gay.
bert kreischer
They stopped wearing the tight ones.
joe rogan
Some guys wear the tight ones.
unidentified
Yeah.
bert kreischer
That's how I fucking fight.
joe rogan
George St. Pierre will still rock the tights.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was packaged there.
You know what I'm saying?
He's just smuggling it.
bert kreischer
Now, would you ever fight in UFC? No, I would not.
joe rogan
Never.
I don't think you should ever dabble in fighting.
I think fighting is a very, very, very dangerous thing, and you should be obsessed with it, and it should be your sole focus.
You shouldn't be a stand-up comedian slash author slash podiatrist slash UFC fighter.
bert kreischer
No, when was the last fist fight you got in?
Like a provoked street fist fight?
joe rogan
Not since I was in high school.
bert kreischer
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
By the time I was in high school, I was already a martial arts champion.
See, I was so scared of getting bullied and kids fucking with me that I just became obsessed with martial arts.
And so when I was, you know, 16, I was already winning all these big tournaments.
When I was 17, I was the Massachusetts State Championship.
I was fighting in the men's divisions when I was a kid, when I was like 15 and 16. Yeah.
So most of the kids that I knew at the time, they all knew that I was doing that.
bert kreischer
But I would assume...
joe rogan
People just left me alone.
But I was still terrified.
I was still scared.
Even when I was fighting in tournaments, I was afraid of bullies and getting my ass kicked.
I didn't totally believe that I could kick someone's ass.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Even when I was knocking out grown men in sparring and...
You know, and then, you know, having fucking wars in the gym, I would still run into bullies and, you know, kids that I knew that were like bullies and I'd be scared of them.
I just did.
I didn't want them to fuck with me.
I wanted to make sure I can get away from let me just go around the outside.
Like, even when I was winning fights against trained fighters, I was still like, it fucks with your head.
brian redban
Me and my friends, we all got bullied by the same bullies, but we were all the artist kids.
What we'd always do is draw pictures of them with cocks in their mouth and stuff like that.
We'd put them around the bathrooms and the girls' bathrooms.
We'd just turn around the corner and toss a bunch of drawings in there.
joe rogan
Did you copy them or did you just rake the same drawing over and over again?
brian redban
No, we copied them.
joe rogan
With a copy machine?
brian redban
Yeah.
But we would make it kind of like currency.
And they knew we were the artists drawing people.
joe rogan
Brian, your mic is so much louder than everybody's mic.
It's the same thing.
It's the same thing as yesterday.
Is there a setting or something?
brian redban
I'm so much lower on this board if you can come look at it.
joe rogan
Maybe your mic is better than ours.
brian redban
I don't know.
joe rogan
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
brian redban
But anyway, so we would draw a bunch of different ones.
So there was like all these kind of like $5 bill, $10 bill, $20 bills, different kind of currencies of bullies with dicks and cocks and stuff like that.
bert kreischer
Fucking hilarious.
joe rogan
That's so funny.
brian redban
Yeah.
bert kreischer
I wanted to, I just pitched the Travel Channel.
They were trying to think of ways to promote my new show.
And I thought I had the most genius idea.
I was like, what if you made, like, busts?
A bust of me, like, this big, right?
Just my bust, like, with my mouth open, and it fit over urinal mints.
Like, urinal cages.
So you'd put them in urinals all over the country, just me with my mouth open so people could piss in my mouth.
I was like, everyone would fucking talk about those, and, like, I thought it would, like, spread like wildfire, and they looked at me like I was out of my fucking mind.
joe rogan
I'm fairly confident I would never have come up with that idea.
bert kreischer
If you saw one in a bar, would you not bring it up?
joe rogan
I would never want anybody pissing in a symbolic mouth of mine.
Because I don't want to give anybody that idea.
I don't want dudes to go, you have none after we piss in his mouth.
Let's fuck him in his mouth.
bert kreischer
I hadn't thought it all the way through, possibly.
joe rogan
Hold him down.
unidentified
You jerk off in his hair and I'm going to shit on his chest.
joe rogan
I don't want to open up the door for anything degrading.
bert kreischer
It wasn't flushed out, but I thought it would be one of those marketing geniuses.
joe rogan
You would want to give people something that everybody wants and needs and doesn't really have on them.
Like if you want to give them lighters.
You know, or something like that, with Burt the Conqueror lighters, or give them something they're going to use, so they're going to enjoy the fact that, oh, I got this from Burt the Conqueror, like a keychain?
Who uses a fucking keychain, man?
That's silly.
That's just more shit to have in your pocket.
Put your fucking key in your pocket, right?
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, but like, you know, Burt the Conqueror keychains, that's not going to come up.
But like, maybe a lighter?
You know?
Especially people who are smokers.
bert kreischer
I was, I told him to print like a thousand stickers and just send them to kids.
joe rogan
That'll, and then they'll get annoyed, you know, stick their stickers, Bert the Conqueror, cunt.
He's got his fucking stickers all over my school.
What is a, what is a thing though that you could use that would really help people?
Besides like pens and shit like that, like what would people enjoy?
Is there a piece of swag that people would actually be happy to get?
Brian, you're into all that shit.
brian redban
Yeah, you know, the thing I would think of, iPhone cases.
joe rogan
That's not a bad move.
brian redban
Because I know so many chicks that have no iPhone case.
I'm like, dude, you're so fucking stupid.
You're going to break this.
You're going to drop it.
joe rogan
It looks so dope without a case.
brian redban
It does look dope, but all their excuses is like, I know, I just need to get on.
joe rogan
It is pretty stupid that you have to have a case, too.
That bothers the shit out of me, man.
I think that's so dumb.
I had that little rubber bumper on.
I dropped it.
Shattered.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
I got a good fat rubber one now.
bert kreischer
What about Burt the Conqueror magnetic wristbands?
joe rogan
Oh, those hologram bullshit bands?
bert kreischer
Yeah, those bullshit bands.
joe rogan
I've seen so many high-level fighters wearing those things, it makes me so sad.
It's like, why don't you just take a chicken head and wrap that around your neck?
Do some voodoo, yeah.
But it works.
What is that, Brian?
brian redban
See, this is like a rubber iPhone case that I got the other day from some Japanese anime.
joe rogan
On listening on iTunes, he's holding up some sort of a...
bert kreischer
Oh, you just got that for free?
joe rogan
Japanese...
brian redban
No, I didn't get it for free, but I'm just saying if you feel it, this is like a cheap, that is a cheap product.
joe rogan
Well, they cost like 30 bucks though, dude.
brian redban
Yeah, but that's super markup.
If you go to eBay, if you go to Amazon, you can get like a box of these.
joe rogan
Really?
So how much do you think that would cost to get printed?
brian redban
Like a dollar?
Well, I think probably just the part alone, I'd probably say like not even a dollar 13, something like that, something cheap.
joe rogan
How did you come up with a dollar 13?
brian redban
Because it seems more official.
joe rogan
It does, right?
If you added an extra number in there.
brian redban
I bet there's a company on the internet that you can print out your own iPhone cases.
bert kreischer
What about Birth to Conqueror's sunscreen?
Like little packets of sunscreen?
joe rogan
That's not a bad idea.
As long as you know that it doesn't give you cancer or something.
Because I've read some crazy shit about sunscreen actually contributing to cancer in some people.
bert kreischer
Fucking great.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
All I do is lather in sunscreen.
joe rogan
I do too, man.
I have a friend of mine who's got skin cancer right now.
He had a big chunk of meat removed from his head.
brian redban
Now, how did he notice?
Was it itchy?
joe rogan
Here's the scary thing.
He went to a dermatologist and the dermatologist said nothing.
The dermatologist said, I don't think you should worry about it.
And then a year later, he went to another dermatologist and it turns out it's skin cancer.
And it was pretty deep.
They had to really dig into his head to cut it out.
brian redban
Wow, that's scary because, I mean, I have this one mole.
I'm a mole-y motherfucker.
joe rogan
You mole-y bitch.
brian redban
I have this one mole on my back that always feels so weird.
It's like crusty feeling sometimes.
And then I went to the dermatologist and they're like, oh, no, that's fine.
Here, look at these pictures.
See that?
That's what you want to look out for, where it looks like red dots and it's like all crazy looking.
And I'm like, okay.
But I've always thought, no.
That's not right.
bert kreischer
Oh, I haven't checked out 10 times.
I'm a massive hypochondriac.
joe rogan
Oh, you really?
bert kreischer
Oh, I found a fucking ingrown hair under my arm one time, and because I just hung out with Schimmel, I was like, I got fucking non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
This is how it starts.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
bert kreischer
And I fucking convinced myself.
Whole flight home.
Went straight to the doctor, and she looked at it, and she goes, it's an ingrown hair.
joe rogan
Holy shit, dude.
brian redban
Check this out.
I had ingrown hair in my belly button.
Do you remember this?
Oh, my God.
bert kreischer
I gotta see this.
brian redban
This is like four...
joe rogan
Again, this show turned gay.
Oh my god, I gotta see this.
That would look amazing in my mouth.
bert kreischer
If you have an ingrown toenail, anything ingrown that's pussing, I'm dying to see it.
brian redban
Oh yeah, really?
bert kreischer
You haven't typed in botfly extraction?
joe rogan
I have seen that.
bert kreischer
I want one so bad.
joe rogan
What the fuck is wrong with you?
bert kreischer
Just the idea to pull it out.
Maybe I don't want one.
I want my wife to get one on the occasion.
joe rogan
So you can pull it out?
bert kreischer
Oh, that looks awesome.
Let me see your...
joe rogan
Can't those things...
brian redban
No, I don't have it now.
This is like four or five years ago.
joe rogan
You've got a weird pus thing going on, son.
bert kreischer
You don't do that.
I'll fucking...
If I get anything like a good pimple, oh my god.
brian redban
It swelled up my belly button to the point where you couldn't even put your finger in it.
And then one day it just filled up with blood and yellow stuff and white stuff.
joe rogan
You've got to be really careful.
I'm thankful about staph infections.
And this is for anybody that listens to the podcast.
Please, if you have any weird infection on your body that, you know, maybe it's a spider bite.
I don't know what it is.
Go to a fucking doctor and get that checked out because you could fucking die.
Staph infections are scary shit.
bert kreischer
You probably don't know the comic.
His name's Roy Johnson.
He's from Tampa, right?
So I'm going on Facebook one day and I click on it.
And the thing, his post is, doctors say, it looks like I'll keep my leg.
And now I'm like, what the fuck, right?
So I go to his page, and I start clicking back, older posts, to find out what happened.
So I go back two weeks later, and it starts like he's at the Dayton Funny Bone, and he's like, yeah, so I got a weird bite on my leg last night.
I wonder if it's a spider bite.
I'm going to get some calamine lotion next day.
It's getting worse the day after that.
Okay, this is really starting to concern me the day after that.
I'm having a hard time walking.
And like you can see it getting worse and worse and worse.
And then he ends up in a hospital.
He's like, doctors say I'll keep my leg.
And I'm like, oh, fuck.
It's like this guy.
It's like this.
joe rogan
What was it?
bert kreischer
I have no idea.
joe rogan
It must have been MRSA. It must have been that there's a crazy strain of staph.
We talked about the antibiotics, Brian, about people not taking their antibiotics in the full dose so it doesn't kill the bacteria.
And it creates things, these antibiotic resistant strains of infection.
And staph is one of the scariest ones, man.
bert kreischer
Oh, fuck yeah.
joe rogan
Donna D'Erico apparently has it real bad.
bert kreischer
Who?
joe rogan
The Baywatch chick, Donna D'Erico?
bert kreischer
Shut up.
joe rogan
She got MRSA. She got it real bad, apparently.
It was in the news.
She was in really bad shape.
bert kreischer
I always worry about that at Barry's Boot Camp.
Because I don't think they clean it.
joe rogan
Well, this is what you've got to make sure.
When you ever get any sort of scratch, there's a company called Defense Soap that has a bunch of different salves and all these different things.
And they're all natural oils that kill any funky infections.
But any open wound, any open scratch, you've got to clean that.
It has to be cleaned and you have to make sure you put something on it.
You know, these ointments and salves, they're all natural.
It's all like eucalyptus oil and tea tree oil.
It kills all funky shit.
Just give yourself a fighting chance.
Dudes run around with deep scratches and they don't do anything about it.
You don't clean it and then it gets infected.
You could fucking lose your arm.
That's no joke, man.
I know a dude who got one in his elbow and his elbow was fucked up.
He got it in jujitsu, didn't know what it was, hurt him, didn't do anything for a while, and by the time he went to a doctor, you know, he's a tough guy, he's an Australian dude, by the time he went to a doctor, it's too late, he had this giant hole in his arm, because his arm had swollen up this monstrous looking thing that's twice the size of a normal elbow.
unidentified
Fuck that.
joe rogan
It happened to Ari Shafir, too.
Ari got one on his knee.
And we were playing pool, and I saw him limping around the pool table.
I go, what the fuck is going on?
And he goes, I got bit by a spider.
And as soon as he said that to me, I said, oh, fuck.
You know, I had had staph once, and I was lucky that somebody pointed it out to me.
I didn't know what it was.
I got it really, really early.
It was just a few pimples on my leg.
And my friend Tate looked at it.
He goes, dude, what is that on your leg?
And I go, I don't know, was it zits or something?
He goes, I think you got staph, man.
You got to go get that checked out.
And what it is, it's folliculitis.
I forget what the actual term is.
But when you see like follicles that are like little infected follicles, that's the beginning.
That's the beginning of a staph infection.
And it could be nothing, it could go away, or it can get ugly and be nasty.
And Ari's had turned into like this swollen, pussy-looking thing that looked like he had been bit by something.
And it was just a rampant staph infection.
bert kreischer
So wait, how do you get rid of it?
joe rogan
Well, he had to go on some serious antibiotics.
And he got it again.
He got staff again like a year later over nothing.
bert kreischer
Wait, how's he getting it?
joe rogan
Well, he got it from jujitsu.
He got it from jujitsu.
And that happens in jujitsu.
And the way it happens is you're getting scratched and scraped and you're sparring.
And when you're sparring, you're essentially going forward.
Pretty much full clip on each other.
And, you know, you get cuts and your knees scratch on the ground.
And if you don't wash yourself, like, Ari would just, like, fucking...
He would just, like, not take a shower at all, even that night.
And he would have, like, ten dudes rape sweat all over him, just leaking into various holes in his body.
unidentified
He's just a honeypot of disease in a bad family.
And then some poor shit gets in that same bed the next week and fucking the next town.
joe rogan
And bangs chicks in that bed.
And by the way, Ari changes his sheets, no bullshit, once every six months.
He went six months without changing his sheets.
brian redban
No, I think it was even longer than that.
unidentified
Really?
brian redban
Because it was like a very long time.
joe rogan
And he wonders why the fuck he gets staff.
Yo, dude, you gotta clean your house, son.
bert kreischer
I love that video of his asshole.
brian redban
Oh, so strange.
bert kreischer
Oh my god, it's the best.
It really defines what hemorrhoids really are.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
I didn't know what they were.
joe rogan
Your butt's popping out from the inside.
bert kreischer
How do you do stand-up with that in the back of your pants?
joe rogan
I know, man.
How do you show it to everybody and not give a fuck?
bert kreischer
I can't even sit on my wallet and Ari's sitting on a golf ball.
brian redban
I think it's comfortable, though.
It's like squishy.
It's probably like, you know, like those things you put on in your shoe.
unidentified
Like an air mattress?
brian redban
No, like the Dr. Scholl's.
bert kreischer
He's just gelling?
brian redban
He's just gelling?
bert kreischer
Ari's just gelling, Mike, but gelling!
Hey, Ari, how you doing?
Just gelling.
brian redban
Just gelling.
unidentified
Oh, no.
brian redban
Jelly donating.
bert kreischer
His mind works totally different than mine.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
Talking to him about getting on, smoking weed to get a prescription for flying, because I have a terrible fear of flying.
He's like, dude, you just got to take one of these gel tabs.
And I'm telling you, man, like him and Ralphie.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
Two people that I just don't under...
Hey, playa, just take two of these.
joe rogan
Don't listen.
Don't listen.
bert kreischer
I think they're fucking being dicks.
Like, they don't mean to.
But, like, I just...
I took, like, half of one and was melted.
joe rogan
Yeah.
A breast strip, one of those little things, if you get a hold of those jammies, those...
You take a half.
brian redban
Take a half if you're an OG. Just don't eat any.
joe rogan
Yeah, don't eat anything if you didn't make it yourself, man.
It's just too hard to know the dosage.
brian redban
They gotta regulate that shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's not fucking like dudes that work in Intel making microchips with fucking lab coats on.
It's some asshole in a tie-dyed t-shirt and a goofy ponytail and he's throwing some shit into a bowl.
bert kreischer
And if he's making it, he clearly has a high tolerance.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
He's like, who am I going to make this for fucking kids?
joe rogan
Dude, exactly.
There's a dude that came to visit us, and he came to visit us at the John Lovitz Club, and he gave me some shit.
Me and Joey, after the show, we both just sat there, and Joey always leaves.
He always leaves.
Always!
If I go on stage, I know that it's the second show.
By the time I get off stage, Joey's gone.
I got off stage, I'm saying bye to the staff, thank you everybody, blah blah blah, gathering all my shit, and I see Joey sitting in a chair.
I ain't got to lie to your dog.
I ain't moving.
I ain't moving, Joe Rogan.
That's how high I am.
You're not going anywhere either.
Stay here with me, cocksucker.
unidentified
Stay here.
brian redban
The whole time he was sitting there watching you, Joe, when you're on stage, sweating, like, hand going like a thousand miles a moment, just sweating.
He would look at me and get those eyes.
You know, he's, like, looking at you like a...
joe rogan
The point being, these motherfuckers and their cookies, man, they were too strong.
Ari ate, they had these, what are those called, biscottis?
The guy told me, only eat a half.
Ari ate a whole one.
And Joey ate one and a half of them.
unidentified
Oh, no.
joe rogan
Yeah, Joey ate one and a half.
The guy says eat a half.
Joey goes, ha!
I laugh in the face of danger.
He just ate all of it, yeah.
bert kreischer
Now, what happens to your brain when you get, is getting too high like getting too drunk?
joe rogan
No.
When you get really, really high, especially if you eat it, it's really psychedelic.
It's really introspective.
It really brings up your past and you start thinking about all kinds of weird shit about your childhood and things that you did that you were upset that you did to someone when you were like seven.
You just start really tripping out about weird shit.
It's much more...
It's like a much deeper, much more psychedelic trip than just smoking it.
When you smoke it, if you get really high, you get paranoid.
You get hyper-aware.
You start feeling really vulnerable.
You start being really sensitive to shit.
But when you eat it, you start hallucinating.
Especially when you close your eyes.
When you eat it and you close your eyes, dude, I always, for me, for whatever reason, it's cartoons fucking.
That's what I see.
I see these really bizarre, alien, impossible to describe cartoons fucking.
And I can never exactly see what they look like, because whatever they look like right now is not what they look like a second from now.
They just keep morphing and changing, and it's like some sort of these alien cartoons fucking.
That's what I see every time I close my eyes when I get super baked.
That's what I know.
If I've eaten like a pot cookie, that's when I know I'm deep in the terror zone.
bert kreischer
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
You get into that strange place of it almost feels like you are now in another dimension.
Like you've entered into an alien world.
You look at the world around you, the mechanical world like airplanes and pilots and stewardesses and cars and trolleys and you look at all that shit.
And the mechanical interfacing, you become super aware of it all.
And it feels like an alien world.
Because there's a world all around you that you've totally taken for granted that is completely bizarre.
The world of you climbing into a metal box with these squishy rubber tires connected to this hard pavement that they've created and molded over the earth.
And you're in this box, and while this is happening, The giant fucking nuclear explosion that lights everything up, and you're spinning around it, going a million miles an hour through the fucking universe.
It's just too much, man.
You have to compartmentalize your life.
And what Pott does is it doesn't let you compartmentalize.
You can't say, well, I gotta get the kids to school.
You know, Pott goes, yeah, you do.
But look at what life really is.
Look at space.
It goes on forever.
Inside every galaxy, there's a black hole.
Inside every black hole is another universe.
Filled with hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with a black hole, each with another universe, with hundreds of billions of galaxies.
And the whole mass of it all just starts fucking overwhelming you.
That's the problem with pot.
That's why people think, like, you know, people go, oh, it makes me paranoid.
You know, you should be paranoid.
If you were really smart, you would realize, A, this shit all ends.
Everyone's gonna, it's gonna stop.
bert kreischer
For all of us.
Are we trying to get me into an anxiety attack?
Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
That's something that we ignore.
I think we should appreciate the moment, but we should be aware that it's temporary.
And to deny it and just to put it in the back, that's not helping you.
Because then when the pot comes on and you get super paranoid about that, what you're super paranoid about is about something you haven't really addressed in your own mind.
You haven't come to grips with it.
bert kreischer
It's a real fucking thing that one day you will find out.
Is there a god?
Is there a devil?
Is there fucking space aliens that take you away in their crafts?
joe rogan
Right, or is this one step in an endless cycle of things that you can't even recognize what the next one is?
It's so bizarre and alien.
This is alien, man.
This world that we live in, if we didn't live in this world, we were some sort of an empty, rational, objective being, you know, that was like looking at human culture.
We would say this is the, this way to live is the craziest thing ever.
bert kreischer
That's why if I ever get really rich, I'm moving to Idaho, I'm buying a mountain, I'm making a huge rock sculpture of myself with paintings carved into the mountain of what I did, like real outrageous stories, because that's the only thing that's going to be left.
unidentified
You're going to go make Pharaoh, Pharaoh Kreischer.
bert kreischer
Because that's all that's left, man.
That's all that's left.
All the steel crumbles, it's going to be me, Crazy Horse, and the fucking four presidents.
And they'll be like, who is this Bert?
joe rogan
How dope is that Crazy Horse structure?
They're still working on that thing.
bert kreischer
I'll be doing that shit too.
joe rogan
That's what you should do.
bert kreischer
Joe, let's do this, okay?
I will spearhead this.
I will quit comedy tomorrow, okay?
I don't need a lot of money.
All I need is a bunch of dynamite.
And I just want to be your sidekick.
unidentified
Do you know how to do this?
bert kreischer
No, we'll figure that shit out!
unidentified
We'll figure it out.
bert kreischer
Lewis and Clark made it across the fucking country.
joe rogan
Dude, I've been watching this new show.
I think it's called The Wild Within.
It's a new show on the Travel Channel.
bert kreischer
It's on Travel Channel with Steve Renna, yeah.
joe rogan
Dude, I watched it last night for the first time.
I saw the ads and I started TiVo-ing it.
Fuck, it's awesome, man.
And he went the Lewis and Clark way through Montana.
bert kreischer
Dude goes pit bull hunting for fucking boar next week.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
bert kreischer
Like, old school.
Like, we're taking some pit bulls, we're getting a boar.
joe rogan
Dude, I had a dog that was trained for that shit.
I had this Hawaiian pit bull that they use for wild hog hunting.
He was crazy.
Frank?
You remember Frank?
Frank was crazy.
That was a dog.
I could not stop that dog from wanting to attack other animals.
He was bred to go after hogs, so he was like super, super aggressive.
It was a tremendous pain in the ass.
bert kreischer
Now, how's your dogs with the girls?
joe rogan
Oh, they're great.
The dogs that I have now are very, like, the Johnny, the big one, the Mastiff, is very calm.
He's, you know, he was, like, the guy who bred them bred dogs for Fear Factor.
And he really is conscientious about how he mixes them.
He makes sure that dogs that are aggressive to people, or even other dogs, they never get to breed.
So he only breeds the best personalities.
And he's been doing it for generation after generation.
So he really is, and he's very proud of it.
So his dogs have like the best temperament.
Like I went over his house and his dogs, like they're these giant things, but they're so calm and friendly.
And they come over to you to check you out and assess and make sure, okay, let me just make sure you're cool.
Okay, come on in.
Come on in, relax.
bert kreischer
That's what I want.
joe rogan
Yeah, you can get one of those.
I'll hook you up.
bert kreischer
I wanted an Argentinian Mastiff.
joe rogan
Those are crazy.
You've got to be careful of those.
bert kreischer
And why I didn't know.
And then I submitted, I sent an email to the lady and then she sent back a questionnaire.
joe rogan
Yeah, do you have kids?
bert kreischer
Yeah, first question, do you have kids?
And I was like, yeah.
Second question, do you plan on sleeping with a dog?
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
I was like, I don't understand.
joe rogan
You have to bond with them.
bert kreischer
Is that what it is?
unidentified
Yeah.
bert kreischer
Because I didn't know if you didn't want to sleep with them.
joe rogan
Before Mrs. Rogan moved in, I used to sleep with the dogs.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
I sleep with two pit bulls in my bed.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
They love it.
They love sleeping with you.
They love you, man.
Dogs, you know, when you have a real relationship with dogs like that, they really are like this sort of subhuman baby that you have.
It's like, it's not quite human.
You don't love them as much as that.
But, you know, there's an affectionate, like loving bond between you and a dog.
bert kreischer
Ever since you and Callan, like two weeks ago, last week, said like you guys were talking about, how crazy is it that we're riding horses?
I started looking at animals just sitting in my house.
joe rogan
It's weird.
bert kreischer
I got fucking dominion over that bitch.
joe rogan
What's weird is when they can kill you and they don't know.
When you have a pit bull or my mastiff, he could kill me.
bert kreischer
I've worked with chimpanzees maybe four or five times.
I had a chimpanzee, an adult chimpanzee on my shoulders with both ears in his hands.
joe rogan
Oh no.
bert kreischer
For fucking Spike TV. And I was like making 13 grand an episode.
joe rogan
Oh my god, you're crazy.
bert kreischer
Fucking possibility of my nose being bitten off.
joe rogan
A real good possibility.
bert kreischer
Was it a male?
Male chimpanzee.
Sitting on my neck.
John Moore, one of the people I've worked with a ton of times, has a picture of it.
And he's just got both my ears in his hands.
I worked with a bear.
joe rogan
How big was he?
bert kreischer
He was a fucking beast.
joe rogan
Like how big?
How much did he weigh?
bert kreischer
He was like a 7th grader.
joe rogan
What is the seventh grade weight?
100 pounds?
bert kreischer
Yeah, 100 pounds.
joe rogan
So it was sort of an adolescent chip.
bert kreischer
It wasn't fully grown.
I wrestled a bear one time for that whole Bert show.
Dude, that's the fucking scariest thing I've ever done in my life.
joe rogan
Did you ever see the video of that guy who was a trainer and the bear killed his brother or his cousin?
I think it was his brother.
bert kreischer
It might be the same bear I worked with.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
Because I worked with the bear that was a movie bear.
So it was like the bear that fucking fought Will Ferrell in the movie Semi-Pro.
joe rogan
Really?
I think this is the bear we're talking about, dude.
That bear killed somebody.
Let's find this out real quick.
bert kreischer
I think his name was Bam Bam, or it's from Bam Bam's family.
One of the bears that we fought that day was named Bam Bam.
I know that.
Or I think that.
brian redban
This podcast is filled with bear talk.
joe rogan
Semi-pro bear kills trainer.
Yeah, that's the first thing that comes up.
What was the bear's name?
bert kreischer
I think it was either...
joe rogan
Rocky.
bert kreischer
Rocky and Bam Bam were the two bears.
joe rogan
The massive animal who were named Rocky is being put through obedience exercises.
Was being put through obedience exercises.
Wow, he just decided to just bite this dude on the neck.
bert kreischer
Let me see a picture of where it is.
That looks like where it was.
Is it in California?
joe rogan
Yes.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
Big bear.
bert kreischer
Yeah, we had to drive out.
joe rogan
Dude, this is the bear.
This bear killed somebody.
bert kreischer
There's only like four bears you can work with.
It's like fucking black actresses.
joe rogan
So you worked with this murder bear.
bert kreischer
Wait, that was a really good joke.
We're going to pass by?
joe rogan
That was pretty good.
I'm sorry.
That's so true.
I wasn't even thinking about it.
bert kreischer
I apologize.
joe rogan
I like how you claimed it, though.
You were like, stop, stop.
That was a good line.
bert kreischer
That's strong.
I like that.
joe rogan
It's like, how's Al Sharpton keep getting work?
What the fuck, man?
You guys can't do better than that guy?
bert kreischer
That guy's the safest man in America.
No one's killing him.
joe rogan
It's so ridiculous.
bert kreischer
No white supremacist is going to kill him.
They love what he does.
joe rogan
They don't care.
He's so buffoonish.
bert kreischer
He gets up with his windows open.
joe rogan
Al Sharpton walked by the comedy store one night, and we were hammered.
It was me, and God, I think Ari was there.
Eddie Bravo was definitely there.
And he's walking by, and as he's walking by, like Al Sharpton, we all just start yelling out, Al Sharpton's a pimp!
unidentified
Al Sharpton, work that motherfucker!
joe rogan
And everyone's yelling at, like, five different dudes, go get yours, Al!
Fuck those dummies!
And he's, like, kind of waving and not knowing how to respond, and we're just, like, letting, you know, we know you're a crook, but go ahead, go get it!
bert kreischer
Did you hear how he got his, uh, his...
joe rogan
The Tomorrow Broadly style?
bert kreischer
No, his, uh, his, his relaxed hair, relaxed?
joe rogan
No.
bert kreischer
He used to look like fucking buckwheat.
unidentified
Right.
bert kreischer
And then, uh, and then...
Godfather of Soul, James Brown, said, I can get you a meeting with the president and we'll get in there tomorrow.
I want to say it was Nixon or fucking Reagan or Carter.
James Brown just called the office and was like, we got a meeting.
I saw it in the movie Good Hair.
We got a meeting.
And he goes, listen, I ain't taking you to meet the president if your hair aren't relaxed.
unidentified
So he got his hair done just like, dude, bro!
No way!
bert kreischer
It was on the movie Good Hair.
Best fucking movie I've seen in the longest time.
You cannot go through TSA and not guess if black women have fucking weaves.
It makes you reassess black women entirely.
joe rogan
Oh, that's fine.
bert kreischer
It's the best movie.
So anyway, on Hurt Burt, I had broken my ribs.
I got mauled by a bull.
joe rogan
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
bert kreischer
It's online.
It's online.
Just type in Hurt Burt Rodeo.
joe rogan
And this is all from your show?
bert kreischer
This is Hurt Burt.
This is one I did right after the X show.
brian redban
It hit your side, right?
bert kreischer
Where I met you like 10 years ago.
unidentified
So...
brian redban
It stepped on your foot and it hit your side or something?
bert kreischer
Broke my ribs and broke my foot.
joe rogan
A bull did this to you?
bert kreischer
Bull didn't teach me a fucking thing on this show.
They just bring me in and go, so today you're going to be a rodeo clown.
I go, what do I need to know?
And they just stay away from the bull and just let the bull loose, put me in the makeup.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
bert kreischer
And it just fucking broke.
It just mauled me.
You're lucky you're live, man.
Dude, you have no fucking idea.
You have no fucking idea.
joe rogan
Who's responsible for this show?
bert kreischer
Mark Cronin.
joe rogan
Who's the producers?
bert kreischer
Mark Cronin, the guy who does...
He did Celeb Reality on VH1. What year was this?
2000?
joe rogan
Oh, so they really weren't hip to how dangerous all this shit was.
bert kreischer
It was done through Fox, and they were literally like...
I remember them going...
It's simple.
We'll just pay him as a contestant and then we'll give him the rest of his money for being a producer.
So I was covered.
joe rogan
Because you're a contestant.
bert kreischer
Technically.
I was like a reality show contestant.
So I was covered under that insurance clause.
And then I was just paid like 80% of the money as a producer, an executive producer on the show.
joe rogan
Wow.
bert kreischer
But the idea was...
joe rogan
You can't sue yourself because you're a producer.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
It's your idea.
bert kreischer
And it's the most brilliant show that never took off.
It was Jackass meets Dirty Jobs.
brian redban
Do you want to see it, Joe?
bert kreischer
I would go out and I would take dangerous jobs for a day.
So I was a professional football player, MMA fighter, hockey player, dominatrix, gimp.
joe rogan
Did you actually have an MMA fight?
bert kreischer
No, I just fucking fought three Gracies at once.
joe rogan
And they just beat me up.
Yeah, so that was what I watched.
Man, what is it like putting your fucking body on the line like that all the time?
bert kreischer
I was young, and I was in, and I just was like, and that was the theme of entertainment at the time, was that like, Jackass, I had done this ass wax in like 2000 that had blown up before Jackass.
joe rogan
I've done an ass wax?
bert kreischer
It's the funniest thing I've ever done in my entire life.
I swear to God, if you're listening to this, just type in hurt Burt ass wax.
And it's longer because that's the way segments were made then.
But it is the funniest thing I've ever done.
The funniest.
unidentified
Wow.
bert kreischer
Like Cher got a hold of it and started passing around to people.
And like it got TalkSoup clip of the year.
joe rogan
How do I not know this?
bert kreischer
That's the reason I'm not fucking...
Literally everything I've ever done has just kind of like fallen.
It happened...
joe rogan
How long is this clip?
bert kreischer
It's too long.
Too long?
Yeah, ass whacks.
And then we did the bull thing.
I broke my ribs.
And so we had to kind of stay in the city because I couldn't really travel.
joe rogan
So after you broke your ribs, did they give you time off?
Say, okay, heal up and then you go right back at it?
bert kreischer
You know, like two weeks and then...
What?
Yeah, two weeks and then...
joe rogan
Two weeks off and you have broken ribs.
bert kreischer
Two weeks I just laid in bed, was on bed rest, didn't do anything.
joe rogan
Right, but you can't just go back out with broken ribs because they can fracture and become embedded in your organs or shit.
bert kreischer
Yeah, we didn't really think a lot of this through.
joe rogan
God damn, dude.
bert kreischer
Dude, when I was a football player, we were doing helmet-to-helmet contact.
I basically shot a porn one day when I was the dominatrix camp.
I basically shot a porn.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
I mean, I was naked, and this girl was just fucking doing everything she could to my junk, like putting weights on my balls and...
joe rogan
Whoa!
You had to do this?
bert kreischer
It was insane.
It was the Wild West of reality television.
Because what was huge at the time is fear factor, right?
Everyone's eating shit and jumping out of shit and like crazy.
And so it was this next level stuff where you didn't know you could just host something and be charming and people would stick around for that.
joe rogan
You just had to take it to the next level.
bert kreischer
You had to fucking try to bring it.
And you were competing with that dog-eat-dog, like, jackass.
joe rogan
Right.
I forgot about dog-eat-dog.
bert kreischer
I mean, yeah, it was like the craziest shit.
So then the opus, not the opus, but like the height of it was towards the end when they were like, hey, do you want to fight a bear?
And I was like, who does that for a living?
And they're like, you do on Thursday.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
bert kreischer
Sure enough, man, they just took me out and fucking...
unidentified
Dude, what was that like?
bert kreischer
Terrifying, because you see the bear, he's totally wild.
Like, he's jumping up and down, and there's like a crew there.
And I'd gotten this, but this time I realized I don't give a shit about my safety, because I'd already gotten fucked up by the bull.
So what they're looking for is the end, is to hurt Bert, Bert to be hurt at the end.
So then, I mean, it's a little bit of a bit.
It's not a bit, but the story is a story.
I get there, and the trainer's like, this is how we'll do it.
Take these, and he hands me five marshmallows.
He goes, when the bear's not looking, take a marshmallow and put it in your mouth.
And then casually walk in front of the bear and show him the marshmallow like...
And allow the bear the opportunity to engage you and take the marshmallow out of your mouth.
With his mouth, this way he'll learn to trust you.
And I'm like, fuck that.
Like, who needs that trust?
And I'm borrowing money from him?
joe rogan
Oh my god.
bert kreischer
But you don't know any better.
At the time, I'm 28 years old, maybe?
29?
joe rogan
Oh my god.
bert kreischer
And I did it, and then he goes, alright, we're ready.
joe rogan
So what the fuck was that like when that bear tongued you?
bert kreischer
I felt like you were making out with a homeless person.
Like, just fucking...
Bear lips look like a 17-foot woman's vagina just going ear-to-ear on you, just...
joe rogan
And his giant teeth and his giant head.
bert kreischer
And just tongue right behind the margin.
joe rogan
What is it like knowing that that bear went and killed somebody after that?
bert kreischer
I don't know.
I think it's probably like the guys who missed their flight on 9-11.
Like, you don't think about it.
You don't go like...
Because I didn't die, so I'm like...
brian redban
You're the appetizer.
joe rogan
Fuck, dude.
bert kreischer
But yeah, it's the...
I mean, the entire experience was like terrifying.
We ended up fighting, and then they go, so look, if you're in trouble, just say marshmallow.
Because then that's your safe word, and we'll get you out.
joe rogan
Marshmallow.
bert kreischer
Yeah, and so that fucking beginning of the fight, I'm like, fucking Marshmallow!
Marshmallow!
And the bear's just throwing me around.
I'm like, Marshmallow!
And then the bear put my face in his chest, and I couldn't breathe.
And then he spun me doggy style and fucking had me in a bear hug where you're like, helpless.
And then I just started looking at the crew and the trainer, and I'm like, Marshmallow, get me the fuck out of here, Marshmallow.
And the trainer's like, go limp!
I'm like, please be talking to me right now, and not the bear.
There's a bear cock climbing up my jeans.
unidentified
Shit.
bert kreischer
Marshmallow.
But yeah, that's technically how it went down.
joe rogan
So they didn't save you?
bert kreischer
No, I went up and slid out the bear, and then the bear ended up sitting on my face.
And then my wife, they put a marshmallow in her mouth, and the bear got off, and then they pulled me away.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
brian redban
Is that online?
joe rogan
You let your wife get kissed in the bear after he was so worked up like that?
I would never do that.
bert kreischer
She did it.
And then I went in and tamed lions that day.
Tamed four lions.
unidentified
Dude.
bert kreischer
Fucking washed an elephant.
I mean, literally.
joe rogan
What?
bert kreischer
Wow.
Hurtbert was probably the greatest show no one ever saw.
joe rogan
God damn, dude.
You're giving me anxiety.
Just listen to these stories.
brian redban
So why is it somebody with such anxiety?
It seems like you have a lot of anxiety and stuff that do all these crazy shows because you also do a show where you ride the craziest roller coasters and you do all these intense things, but it seems like you wouldn't.
It seems like you'd be cooking shows or something.
bert kreischer
I don't know.
I don't know how I got these jobs.
I just got them like...
You know, I don't know.
I don't know why they go to me.
joe rogan
How did you get the first one?
How did you get Hurt Burt?
bert kreischer
I got Hurt Burt because I did the Ass Wax.
joe rogan
So the Ass Wax was for what?
bert kreischer
The X Show.
joe rogan
It was for the X Show.
Okay, now I remember the X Show.
Now I'm remembering it.
bert kreischer
It was the funniest fucking two minutes of television when Joe was on.
Because Gary Valentine, we all went into Gary's green room, me, you, and Kevin Sussman.
Jeff Sussman.
Jeff Sussman.
And we were talking bullshit and one of the producers came in and they're like, so here are the questions we were going to ask Joe and Gary's like, fuck that.
I've known Joe forever.
We're going to be fine.
We're just going to go out there and riff.
Do you remember this at all?
joe rogan
Sort of.
bert kreischer
So we go out.
It's me and Gary and you.
And you sit down and Gary was...
I love him like a brother, but he was the worst host in the world.
The worst.
So he goes...
All right, welcome back.
I got my buddy Joe Rogan.
I've known Joe forever.
How you doing, Joe?
And you're like, just like, pretty good, Gary.
And he's like, all right.
All right.
Yeah.
Okay.
He just locked up.
I was like, so Joe, you are doing the MMA thing now?
And you're like, yeah.
And he goes, ah!
Joe, you've always been into that, man.
You've always been into that.
And it was so uncomfortable.
They made us do it again.
You don't remember this at all?
They made us do it again.
So then they go, okay, Gary.
And he's like, they gave him the questions.
And he's like, don't worry.
unidentified
Don't worry.
bert kreischer
Don't worry.
Fuck, don't worry.
Don't fucking worry.
I got this.
unidentified
I got this.
bert kreischer
Come on, Joe.
We'll just, I'll get you into one of your bits, okay?
All right.
Hey, we're back.
I'm here with Joe Rogan.
Joe, I've known Joe forever.
Joe, I haven't seen you in a while.
And you're like, yeah.
And he's like, you've been on the road?
And you're like, pretty much.
He's like, great.
unidentified
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
bert kreischer
And I'm fucking laughing my tits off next to Gary.
And Gary's like, ha, ha, ha.
And then they're like, take it again.
And then you're like, ask me about this.
Ask me about that.
And Gary's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's where we'll go.
That's where we'll go.
But it ended up being funny.
joe rogan
Dude, I completely forgot about this until you just brought it up.
This is like an old, dusty memory.
I want to see it.
I'm in the corner of an attic right now with a broom going, is that what that is?
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
Let me clean that fucking...
Get a flashlight.
Do you have a flashlight?
bert kreischer
It was so fucking...
joe rogan
Dude, I completely...
That would have been erased forever.
If you gave me a piece of paper and said, describe your appearance on the X show.
Something really crazy happened with Gary Valentine.
I would have wrote, never went on that show.
Don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
brian redban
Yeah, that's right.
Is it that online anywhere?
bert kreischer
No, those were the outtakes that they'll never use.
joe rogan
The X show was like a Maxim.
They were trying to do like a Maxim magazine sort of a TV show.
bert kreischer
They were trying to do a hot, sexier man show.
joe rogan
Wasn't the guy from Studs?
Wasn't he a part of that?
bert kreischer
Mark DiCarlo.
joe rogan
Yes.
bert kreischer
He's actually a really cool dude.
joe rogan
Do you remember Studs?
brian redban
No.
joe rogan
Oh.
Studs was a show that was the most ridiculous dating show, like, ever.
brian redban
Oh, yes.
joe rogan
And it was, like, the most arrogant guys and the most...
It was, like, one of the first looks into reality TV. Yeah.
bert kreischer
Probably.
joe rogan
But we didn't recognize it because it was sort of a show.
I mean, it was like a dating show.
We didn't recognize that it was reality TV. It was, yeah, Mark DiCarlo, and then he got fired.
bert kreischer
That guy Justin from the movie with Alicia Silverstone.
Do you remember Clueless?
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
He was the pretty boy.
joe rogan
I don't remember that.
bert kreischer
He got fired, and then John Webber got fired, and me and Gary Valentine got brought on.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
You guys came in at the very end.
bert kreischer
And that's how I met Stanhope, because it was up between me, Gary Valentine, Doug Stanhope, and some guy, Scott Henry.
joe rogan
Wow, if you stick around in Hollywood long enough, man, you'll have some crazy stories that just accumulate.
bert kreischer
I remember going to the improv one time, and Stanhope was on stage.
And I don't know if he saw me or if he didn't, but he ended up doing like 15 minutes on me.
On you?
Just making fun of like...
But it was very...
joe rogan
Which show was it from?
bert kreischer
The X Show.
joe rogan
The X Show.
bert kreischer
And he goes, he was just talking about a shitty show on television that they give to a younger comic because he has some heat generated behind him.
Ooh, that sounds bitter.
What it's like.
But it was really funny.
It was murdering.
And then I was in the back, and I'm sitting there like, I wonder if he knows I'm here.
And then at the very end, he's like, don't get me wrong, Bert Kreiser.
You're a nice guy, I'm sure.
But I want to see you one week in fucking Iowa when it's snowing and you can't leave your hotel.
And there's only an Arby's to eat next door to you.
And you've got to fucking drink wine just to get through the...
And does this whole bit.
And then I'm in the back, and I'm just like, I'm fucking leaving.
So then cut to...
Probably four years later, I'm in Sacramento, soulless, empty, like in the fucking Taffy District or wherever the fucking place is.
And I'm just empty and I'm drinking a lot.
And I email Stan Hope.
And I'm like, I wonder if I can reach out to the dude.
Because comics are all like, you know each other.
joe rogan
Right.
bert kreischer
So I email Stan Hope.
And like 20 minutes later, I get a message back.
Long, like a long like, oh, welcome to the quickening.
unidentified
Yeah.
bert kreischer
And then he just emailed me now and then, like, how you doing, baby girl?
joe rogan
Stan Hope called me up the other day, pie-eyed drunk.
He called me, and I tried to, like, I realized, like, right when we started talking, you know, he wanted to talk, I wanted to, he got an altercation with Janine Garofalo on the green room, Paul Provenza's green room, so I wanted to hear, like, his version.
bert kreischer
Oh, shut up.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
I'm so turned on to Janine Garofalo, by the way.
joe rogan
Are you really?
bert kreischer
Fucking so turned on to me.
brian redban
It feels like it's 1999. She's in 1993 right now.
bert kreischer
Oh my gosh, she looks so good right now.
But go ahead.
joe rogan
For real?
bert kreischer
Yeah, she stopped drinking.
joe rogan
Is that what you're into?
You into that look?
bert kreischer
No.
At all the choices?
Yeah, maybe I am.
unidentified
My wife kind of looks like her.
joe rogan
Tracy Lord's in her prime, or...
bert kreischer
I'm going Ginny Garofalo.
joe rogan
Whoa.
bert kreischer
Tracy Lord's fuck definitely going to Ginny Garofalo.
joe rogan
I would have agreed in 1993. Tracy Lord's you don't think is hot?
bert kreischer
No.
What is wrong with your DNA? I used to fuck blonde chicks all the time.
joe rogan
She's got brown hair.
bert kreischer
Oh, I thought she had blonde hair.
joe rogan
I didn't even notice.
How the fuck did you notice?
bert kreischer
Wait, wait, wait.
So what happened with Dan Open to Garofalo?
joe rogan
Okay.
Apparently, Garofalo, on her first set after 9-11, Went on stage at the Laugh Stop in Houston, and according to Stanhope, what she said is that everybody should just back the fuck off, and Noam Chomsky should back the fuck off and leave George Bush alone, because this is obviously a crazy situation, and the guy's doing the best he can.
And Stanhope was saying that he was very disappointed because he went to see her expecting some really biting social commentary.
Stanhope was doing this bit about 9-11 that he was really sticking his neck out there.
He was like, I guess your God takes Tuesday off.
He was doing this thing about all these people praying for God and how this came through in spite of all these people, this religious fervor.
And he had this big anti-war thing that he was working on.
And, you know, he was really into it.
And so when he went and saw Jeanine Garofalo and she's like saying, you know, give George Bush a break, like that always nodded him.
So he brought it up on the show, apparently.
bert kreischer
Fucking love Doug Stanton.
joe rogan
And I talked to Jamie Kilstein and Kilstein saw it and he gave me his version of it.
And then I talked to Doug and...
unidentified
I got this fucking version.
joe rogan
You know, Doug gave me the drunk man version.
He was hammered when I talked to him.
It was a really crazy conversation because Doug and I, we have these conversations where, you know, we'll talk like every few months and it's like, okay, where are you at?
What are you thinking about?
And then when we're talking, it's like, you know, this doesn't make sense and that doesn't make sense and then what happens and, you know, what's the point in even concentrating on any of this?
Right, exactly.
I'm there too.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
And we'll have like these weird conversations, you know, where we're just trying to like, how much have you been trying to figure out in life in the last three months since we last talked?
And then we try to like figure out, you know, if either one of us has come to any conclusions that make you happy.
And in the middle of this, he goes, is there anything, is there anything that gives you hope?
Is there anything that gives you hope?
And I was just sitting there going, wow, what a strange conversation.
I'm sober.
Completely sober.
He's fucked up drunk.
And he's going, dude, is there anything that gives you hope?
brian redban
Maybe he's thinking of a tagline for himself.
unidentified
You should have thought.
bert kreischer
You should have said the fleshlight.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
That fucking gives me hope.
joe rogan
15% off.
bert kreischer
Go to my website.
Now, what was...
joe rogan
His version of it, I mean, he just was relaying exactly what he saw, and he thought it was disappointing that she didn't take a stand.
bert kreischer
And he's not attacking her, he's just telling her.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you know what?
Quite honestly, after 9-11, who the fuck knew exactly what happened, and who knows still?
I have a real issue with people that want to argue about 9-11, and It's a fucking inside job.
Or, you know, there's no way the government would have done that.
Either argument where you're so goddamn sure.
You know, that whole thing is just a bunch of puzzles.
There's a bunch.
I watched that Jesse Ventura show, and I don't know if he's telling the truth or if it's real.
But if it is real, what he said on that conspiracy show is fucking terrifying.
Rumsfeld had a press conference the day before the 9-11 attacks where they said that some insane amount of money in the trillions was missing and they couldn't account for it and they were working on it.
And then the next day, the Pentagon gets hit in the exact same spot where the accounting offices are, where all that information was stored.
That's what got hit in the Pentagon.
And they're talking about trillions of dollars that were unaccounted for.
See, I have no understanding of that.
It's so abstract to me, first of all, when you start talking about trillions of dollars.
I mean, I can't even wrap my head around that.
I don't even know what that means.
And then when you tell me that the money was unaccounted for, And they smash this plane or missile, if you listen to some people, into the exact offices.
What does that mean now?
They didn't have a backup somewhere?
They didn't back their shit up online?
I don't know what happened to that money.
So if you don't know what happened to that money, then this conversation's over.
Because we can't talk until we have any information.
But there's so many different things about 9-11 that make you go, why did that happen?
Why did this happen?
What the fuck happened to that Tower 7?
You can't say one way or the other.
You can't say that they did do it.
You know, the United States government was involved, and you can't say they weren't involved.
You've got to look at it and go, what did happen?
You would have to go back in time and watch it all – you would have to watch every single aspect of it play out in front of your own eyes to really be truly sure.
bert kreischer
Yeah, I believe in some conspiracy.
I believe that the Flight 800 conspiracy, that terrorists...
joe rogan
Got shot by a missile.
bert kreischer
Yeah, shot by a missile, and then Clinton just pimped it and was like...
joe rogan
It blew up in the middle of the fucking ocean, man.
bert kreischer
And Clinton's like, no, that was a wiring thing.
Fuck you and all your tries.
I believe in this shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, if there was a way to avoid telling people that are a terrorist attack and blown up an airplane...
bert kreischer
That you can affect us?
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
They'd do it in a heartbeat.
joe rogan
Yeah, for sure.
They would hide that information.
They would say, well, there's an engine malfunction and that's it.
You know, if they could find a way to avoid any sort of information getting out like that, because first of all, people are going to freak out about something that most likely with 300 million people in this country, most likely is not going to affect you.
It's an isolated incidence.
And by the way, we're immune to those isolated instances, but they happen every fucking day all over the world in these places where we're supposed to be liberating.
You know, I mean, in Iraq, fucking.
Fucking buildings just get hit by missiles.
Whoopsies.
We didn't mean to shoot this building, but we did.
Sorry, everyone who died.
I mean, that shit is commonplace outside of the world.
But if the United States government can keep us from recognizing that, they would do it.
I think they would do it and they would think they were doing us a favor.
bert kreischer
What's Stanhope's stand-up like these days?
joe rogan
It's angry and dark and twisted and resolved.
bert kreischer
It's funny as fuck.
joe rogan
That's what it is.
bert kreischer
I want to do a show called Comedy Intervention, where you take a guy like Stanhope and go...
Look, here's what we're going to do, okay?
We're going to have like eight comics that he likes.
We're going to go through.
We're going to make you one hour special that you can sell on DVD. It's going to be clean and you're going to make $20 million.
And then you can do whatever you want and you can have a trust fund for the rest of your fucking life.
Because I bet if he spent some time just going through what would be Brian Regan's set list, I bet his fucking view...
Like, if he had a kid, all this...
Like, when you had your kids, did your...
Like, when you first do, you go, fuck, I'm noticing a lot of this shit everyone else noticed.
But then...
joe rogan
No, I didn't think that.
I mean, there's definitely going to be things that you notice that other people have already talked about, but I just...
To this day, still, like when I had a little conversation with my daughter this morning, and it's like I'm on drugs.
bert kreischer
You had a conversation with your dog?
joe rogan
Daughter.
bert kreischer
Oh, my daughter.
I was like, I think you might have been on drugs.
joe rogan
So I'm like a fucking...
One of those commercials.
I had a conversation with my daughter this morning.
I went to the store and I got bagels.
She loves lox, you know, like salmon.
So we're eating bagels and lox and I'm having this little conversation with her.
She's like, I love salmon.
It's so yummy.
Is it really yummy?
It is, okay.
I would like some more.
And we're having this little conversation.
I'm looking at this incredibly cute little two and a half year old person who's talking to me that I am just, I love more than anybody I've ever loved ever.
And I'm having this weird little conversation with her about salmon.
Like, do you want some more?
Daddy, I want some more.
I am not quite filled up.
And she starts laughing and she like rubs her tummy.
And then, you know, I gave her some more and she's like, delicious!
And she tries to make me laugh.
And it's like, it's surreal.
It doesn't even seem real.
I always explain children to people who don't have children.
I'm like, it's just like mushrooms.
If you haven't done mushrooms, you really don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
You can't say, you know, that doesn't do any good for you.
That's just an escape.
If you've done it and you have that opinion, then I would like to talk to you about it because I think it's strange that you would have that opinion if you've actually done mushrooms.
It's the same thing with children.
People say, you know, Yeah, it's just a bunch of fucking cells and no big deal, man.
Get over it.
You say that, but it's love.
It's love in the purest form.
And most of the time you're dealing with douchebags in life and it's very difficult to be open and loving all the time and to really...
Just put out only positive energy.
You feel like people will walk over you.
Experiences that you had when you were growing up getting bullied and I had and everybody has.
It's very difficult to put out love like that.
So it's easy to dismiss it when you have an absolute pure form of love for a baby that you're raising.
People who don't have them don't understand.
bert kreischer
It's like being a born-again Christian.
joe rogan
Sort of, I guess.
bert kreischer
And you almost have this look to your friends like, don't worry.
When you get saved, you'll figure it out.
joe rogan
Sort of, but it's also tremendous responsibility where I just felt like a massive growth and maturity and pragmatic way of looking at things just kicked into seven gears higher.
I started working harder.
I started focusing more on certain shit.
It's like...
It's an evolutionary stage.
I really believe that just like when a healthy bird leaves the nest, you talk to kids that are like 30 that still live at home, they're fucked up.
There's something wrong with them.
They never really went out and did their own shit, and they never really became adults.
They're stuck in this salamander stage where they never quite blossomed into the mature animal.
And so when I see that, I think that...
Having children is another stage like that.
I'm not saying that everyone should have children.
bert kreischer
Oh, I don't think that at all.
joe rogan
No, definitely not.
Or that having children is going to definitely evolve you or that you need to do it to evolve.
I'm not saying that.
bert kreischer
Yeah, some people end up drowning their kids in the tub.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah, they do.
Yeah, there's some crazy assholes out there.
And not only that, sometimes they get involved with someone who's like really detrimental to you, but you like to fuck them.
And all of a sudden you have a baby with that person.
And now you have this...
It's an incredibly chaotic relationship where they try to keep the baby from you, to manipulate you.
Things can get really ugly.
But for me at least, I think having a child kicked my whole being into another level.
bert kreischer
I went from being a guy who hung out at the Hollywood Improv Drinking Until the bar closed to literally the week my daughter was born, being on the road every single fucking week.
Like, taking feature sets for no money, just because I knew that I'd get better and better.
joe rogan
Just really ambitious.
bert kreischer
Just horrifically.
And now I'm on the place where I think I'm traveling like 50 weeks this year.
Wow.
joe rogan
Do you bring your wife with you and your kids?
bert kreischer
Yeah, I'm doing a trip to Indianapolis, Arizona, and then Cancun.
But it's for Bert the Conqueror.
So we'll go to the greatest theme parks.
So I'll take them.
joe rogan
Oh, that's great.
bert kreischer
And we'll take them.
We'll just spend the day at a theme park.
And they have an escort.
And they can just go do wherever they want.
So now it's turning out.
I think this summer we're going to do it pretty heavily.
brian redban
Has there been any of these rides that were the worst?
What's the most craziest one you went to?
bert kreischer
I think the Stratosphere really fucked my head up.
joe rogan
That's the one in Vegas?
bert kreischer
Man, I was bad the night before.
I was throwing up in a bathtub and called my wife and told her I was running into the desert.
I was like, I'm fucking out.
I'm going to get sued for this production cost because I'm not going to do it.
You were not scared of it?
joe rogan
After you've been on a bull?
Or after you've been attacked by a bull?
brian redban
You know heights, man.
bert kreischer
Heights is a different thing, man.
It shuts your brain down.
joe rogan
Look at your fingers.
You're moving so fast.
bert kreischer
As I'm talking about it, my ass just started sweating.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
The second I talk about it, it knocks your stomach out.
I mean, I can't even look at the videos online of people on those Russian kids climbing on the tower.
joe rogan
We talked about that.
Did you see that?
bert kreischer
My asshole starts tingling.
joe rogan
Oh my god, it's so hard to watch.
bert kreischer
I told the man, my wife's like, just tell the producers...
You can't do it.
And just be a man about it.
So I called this guy Dan Adler that morning and I hadn't slept and I'd been drinking and it was a bad scene.
I was a wreck.
I was a real fucking wreck.
And I was like, dude, I can't do it.
It's not going to happen today.
And he was like, that's fine.
That's totally cool.
I get that.
But here's the deal.
If you're not going to do it, I need you to not do it on the edge of the building.
Like, I need you to get all the way to that moment and then back off.
unidentified
Wow.
bert kreischer
And I was like, and he goes, and you do not have to do it.
But I can make a show out of that.
I can't make a show if you just go, I'm not doing it.
So I was like, okay.
So I went through the whole thing.
Did the training.
Got the jumpsuit on.
Did all my interviews.
Got up to the top.
Started doing my reads.
And my cameraman, this guy Scott Sands, is hanging off the building.
Literally tethered in and hanging off the building with a camera.
Fearless motherfucker.
This guy fucking loves that shit.
unidentified
Ugh.
bert kreischer
And he's videotaping my reads, and I'm on the edge, and I'm fucking my...
I've pissed my pants a little at this moment.
Like, it's just bad.
It's a bad scene.
And Scott starts laughing.
And I go, what?
And he's like, you know, there's like 400 people at the bottom waiting for you to jump.
I was like, Andy's like, there's like 200 behind you right now.
He goes, dude, it's going to be much easier to jump than to tell 600 people and the mayor who's waiting for you with a shot of tequila that you're not jumping.
joe rogan
The mayor was waiting for you with a shot of tequila?
bert kreischer
I was the first person to jump on the ride.
I was the first guy to do it.
So I was like, shit.
He was like, I just jumped, man.
It's 16 seconds.
And then it'll be over.
joe rogan
16 seconds is so long.
It's a fucking free fall for 16 seconds.
This is your free fall.
bert kreischer
You just jumped right now.
And right now you're thinking, oh, the ride works.
But then you're thinking, man, this is really fucking high.
joe rogan
This is really fucking high.
bert kreischer
And you're looking at a target below.
joe rogan
Oh my god, still not even time.
bert kreischer
You're about eight steady stories.
And right now you're Time.
You're 40 stories away.
You still haven't landed.
brian redban
Did you shit yourself?
Did you shit yourself or anything?
joe rogan
Explain the ride to me because I don't know it.
bert kreischer
It's controlled descent.
So they took you in on a seven-point harness and with basically a big fishing reel.
And so you jump and you fall and that tether makes sure you don't run into the building or swing out.
It basically keeps you in one kind of area so you can land on the target.
brian redban
Yeah, but what if it gets windy?
bert kreischer
It was very windy my day, as a matter of fact.
They do it by gusts.
So it's gusts of like 45 miles per hour.
So it's a windometer.
So anytime a wind gust hits 45 miles per hour, they shut the ride down for 15 minutes.
And then they wait for the wind gusts to go back down.
And my day, they were just peaking.
But they were like, they had fucking 100 people waiting to do it.
And they needed to open the ride.
And you can see that they're just like, ignore it, ignore it, ignore it.
So then I'm just a fucking...
And I've got my producer, Lonnie, is like in the background with my script going like, I need you to say, I'm here in Las Vegas on the top of the strip.
And I'm like, and I just start going, fuck you, Lonnie.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
You can fuck yourself.
I'm fucking jumping right now.
And she's like, Bert, don't jump.
And I'm like, fuck everyone.
I'm fucking jumping.
And now I know they can't use any of that because you can't use cursing.
And so then I'm like, and then I'm like, calm down.
I'm like, okay, seriously, I'm going to jump.
And they just use that, me jumping.
So then we do it.
I land.
I have a religious moment.
I start crying.
I take a shot, and I'm just like, I'm alive.
There's no better feeling in the world than surviving a fucking 110-story jump.
What the fuck, dude?
110 stories is the height of the Sears Tower.
unidentified
Oh, God.
bert kreischer
Think about standing on the edge of the Sears Tower.
And then I get down, I do it.
I'm like, fuck.
And they're like, can you do it again?
And I was like, no, I'm not.
I'm done.
So then two weeks later, they're like, listen, we didn't get any of your fucking reads.
I was like, what?
And they're like, we didn't get any of your reads.
We need to send you back to Vegas to do pickups.
Because there's a lot of shit because you were so fucked up that we didn't get.
So I was like, okay.
So we have to reshoot the episode, but we're just basically...
joe rogan
Everything but the jump.
bert kreischer
Everything but the jump is what they're telling me.
So then we get up to the top I know where this is going.
And my buddy Scott Sands goes, look dude, I put in for like a fucking $120,000 lens.
I'm going to sit a mile from you, but I'm going to shoot you from a mile.
And if you jump, it's going to look sick.
And I was like, Scott, I'm not jumping.
And he goes, I'm just saying, man.
It's your show.
Do you want it to get picked up for a second season?
It's going to look sick.
So then I was like, fuck.
So I get up to the top, and I know I'm not jumping.
I know I'm not jumping.
And then I get up to the top, and I realize, standing on the edge, it's easier to jump than to walk away from it.
So I was like, fuck it.
And I just jumped again.
Had the same religious moment.
You get down to the bottom.
It's not religious.
It's like a spiritual awakening where you're like...
I'm fucking alive.
I'm going to hug my kids.
They called me two weeks ago and they're like, the Navajo Bridge in Arizona, they want me to jump off it and do a bungee jump.
It's like 500 feet.
It's pretty gangster for a bungee jump.
joe rogan
Dude, 500 feet is really high.
bert kreischer
Free fall for 400 feet.
Free fall bungee style.
How long does that take?
Probably eight seconds.
And the real pimp part is, you don't jump.
Four dudes lift you up like you're on a boat and they just throw you off.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
bert kreischer
So you're fucking, you feel out of control.
And I'm looking for a celebrity to do it with because I don't want to do it by myself.
joe rogan
Joe, get the fuck out of here.
bert kreischer
Straighten your back up right away.
joe rogan
Yeah, no, I'm fine, man.
bert kreischer
You'd never do that?
joe rogan
No.
bert kreischer
Really?
joe rogan
Not into that.
Not into that.
bert kreischer
I'm not either, but...
joe rogan
I'm not into tricking my brain into thinking I'm almost dying.
I get it.
I get it.
It looks like fun.
I don't need that kind of stress in my life.
bert kreischer
It's all my life filled with right now.
joe rogan
It's crazy, man.
bert kreischer
It's not even that much money.
joe rogan
Well, is it helping your gigs, though?
It should be helping your gigs.
bert kreischer
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I sold out five shows in D.C. this week.
But it's family-friendly audiences.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
bert kreischer
So you just have to train them to watch what you watch.
You did it.
joe rogan
Well, that's something you were saying, too.
Yeah, that's what you were saying when you were talking about comedy intervention, like getting someone and taking someone and making them super clean and realizing there's so much money out there in that.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
I couldn't do it clean.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And a guy like Stanhope couldn't do it either.
It wouldn't be fun anymore.
It wouldn't be the same thing.
It would be all of a sudden there's a job that you can do where you can make money.
But you're not going to be really doing stand-up anymore.
bert kreischer
You're not going to be doing what?
Like your brain won't be thinking the way it normally thinks when you're on stage.
Or I feel like my brain is just juggling thoughts to me like, ooh, this would be good.
joe rogan
You can't do that if you're saying, no, can't go there.
Nope, can't go here.
Nope, can't say that.
Be careful when you say this.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
Don't want to offend any sponsors.
So when you do stand-up now, when you were saying that you get them to like what you like, you know, or get them to know what you do.
bert kreischer
I start about my kids.
Like, I'll start.
I mean, they're not good.
They're not by any stretch of the means.
Clean jokes.
One joke's about my daughter.
My daughter's in a room.
My youngest was fingering her ass and putting it in the dog's mouth.
joe rogan
They finger their assholes all the time.
It's so disturbing.
She'll be talking to me about playing on the swings, and she's just digging in her vagina.
Just fingers in her vagina.
Sue, maybe we can go on a swing?
What do you think?
Maybe we can do that?
Maybe you can stop fingering yourself when you're talking to your dad.
unidentified
Fuck!
bert kreischer
But that joke, when you do something about your children fingering their ass, that takes all the parents that went to see a clean show and puts everyone at the same level and goes, oh, that shit does happen.
So then once their brains get reset for that, then they go, okay, all this shit does happen.
He's not being mean.
I stopped doing racial jokes, like being heavy on racial jokes, just because I was like, I don't fucking know.
I don't care.
I don't give a shit enough about equality to put my job on the line to try to make everyone even.
I'll get into nights if it's an all-black room where I just do black jokes.
But not mean, but just what I do, black jokes.
And then you do that.
And once you do that, you have a fucking power of attorney to do anything.
Because even the clean people go, my kids finger their ass too.
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
bert kreischer
And then I talk to the audience a lot.
joe rogan
But when you were saying that you used to do racist jokes or racial jokes.
bert kreischer
Racial jokes.
joe rogan
And you stopped doing them because they offended too many people?
bert kreischer
No, no one ever got offended, but I just noticed that I was, for one, I was obsessing on it.
I could write, all day long I could write jokes about black people.
I swear to God, if you put me in a room with a black audience, all I'll do is talk about black people.
All I'll do.
And now, the furthest I go is I have a joke about...
I think it's racist that they don't make black baby powder.
I just think that from a company named Johnson& Johnson, they would have thought of that by now.
joe rogan
That's pretty funny.
bert kreischer
And then they go, that's how I'm going to make a million dollars.
I'm going to make black baby powder.
And then I'll call it Magic Johnson& Johnson.
So then one night, this is great.
One night, this black dude sits up in an audience in Miami.
He goes...
Hey, motherfucker, when you get done your little joke about black baby powder, I'll tell you I don't make shit.
And so I was like, I think I'm done with the joke now.
Like, what?
Why don't they make it?
And he goes, we don't have a problem with moisture the way you guys do.
He goes, every time I hug a white guy, it's like hugging a dolphin.
He goes, black people have a problem retaining moisture.
unidentified
Oh.
bert kreischer
So they have a problem getting ashy.
So they have to always stay moist, whereas white people are constantly fucking moist.
joe rogan
Whoa.
bert kreischer
And so he's like, they just never needed black baby powder.
joe rogan
Dude, he schooled you.
bert kreischer
And I was like, but it was awesome.
It was like a great moment.
I love, dude, if I had a videotape of every experience I've had with black people in an audience, I would be the most famous comic in the world.
unidentified
Yeah.
bert kreischer
I've had black dudes get on stage in Miami, right?
Real shit.
Fucking three gangsters in the front row.
True story on my children.
Fucking, they're ruining the show for everyone.
And I go up and I just talk to them.
One dude gets up on stage halfway through my set.
And he's like, this is a real motherfucker.
He's keeping a real, real talk right now.
Real talk.
You know what real motherfuckers get in the 305?
And he drops his pants and shows his dick.
Place goes bananas, right?
They're like, and it's the biggest, blackest.
It's almost purple.
It's so black.
But it's huge.
It's huge.
And I'm like, that is real.
That is fucking real.
How big is his dick?
Fucking monstrous.
joe rogan
Nine inches.
Ten inches.
bert kreischer
And it's a shower.
It's like a thick.
It's thick.
Thick and uncircumcised.
I'm just looking at it like, holy shit.
So then I go, man, that's fucking...
His name was Ray.
I don't know why I remember that.
But I'm like, Ray, I go, I think you might want to get off stage because I can guarantee you they're calling the cops right now and I don't want you to go to jail for just showing your dick.
He's like, I appreciate that.
Good looking out.
And then he puts his pants on and leaves.
So then I go, man, how do you follow that?
Another gangbanger stands up, gets on stage.
I go, please tell me we're seeing another cock right now.
He pulls his pants down, fucking just as big, but lighter, like a lighter brown.
And I'm like, holy shit.
And I was like, you might want to go catch up with Bray, because I guarantee they're calling the cops now.
So they're sitting with, I swear to you all my children, they're sitting with a hairless albino, okay?
And I said, and now the crowd is like fucking in a fevered pitch.
I go, that's funny, out of all the dicks I wanted to see, it was yours.
He stands up, gets on stage, takes his dick out, and it looks like a lighthouse.
There's no grass, no grass.
Bright white.
And they're flipping over fucking tables now.
Like fucking going nuts.
And I was like, ladies and gentlemen, that's my show.
joe rogan
That's the perfect way to end it.
bert kreischer
Just got off like, that's my show!
brian redban
Damn it.
joe rogan
How do you follow that?
You can't follow that.
bert kreischer
Can't follow it.
I literally...
joe rogan
A white glow-in-the-dark Casper the ghost dick?
bert kreischer
Oh, it was beautiful.
And it was big.
It was big.
I swear to you, it was big.
And I was like...
I was like fucking and then and then they all waited for me out at the bar and they were like, dude, we're taking you out and I was like, I don't know This doesn't end this way But I was in my like I want to be Dave Attell phase Hardcore and I was like, I'm fucking going out with these guys.
This is what comedy is about.
It's having this experience I went in one time to do radio and Miami's my crazy club like I go in and I do the fucking morning pimp show and they happen to have this You do the improv in Miami all the time?
joe rogan
You like that place?
bert kreischer
I stopped going to that place But you can't, you can't, because you're not, you're famous.
So, when, like, some...
joe rogan
No, no, I stopped going way before I was famous.
bert kreischer
But that club wants to get the best of you.
Like, they want to show you you're wrong.
joe rogan
I saw, no, what happened with me was, I was on stage once and I brought up a boxer.
I forget the boxer's name.
I think it was Oscar De La Hoya in one of my jokes.
bert kreischer
Oh, you referenced him.
joe rogan
And a fight broke out in the audience over, you know, you know, fuck Oscar De La Hoya, finish trying to kick his ass!
And then dudes were standing up and yelling at each other.
And an argument broke out in the crowd over what boxer was the best boxer.
Who would fuck who up.
And I just stopped and said, I'm never coming back here.
brian redban
Is that just a bad audience?
bert kreischer
No, that's very common there.
joe rogan
Miami Improv, they lost control of that place a long time ago.
They gave away too many free tickets.
bert kreischer
They gave away a ton of free tickets if you're white.
Because they can sell tickets to black people.
And then, so one time I go to the Morning Pimp Show, and they have this gang in there called the Zo Pound, right?
joe rogan
A real gang?
bert kreischer
A real gang, dude.
Look it up, they were on gangland, okay?
These are all Haitian motherfuckers.
So they're doing this thing, this song, I'm a Zo, that's a song, that they're singing in studio.
unidentified
They have a song?
bert kreischer
And now mind you, I'm just doing radio.
I'm doing press.
Like, I'm just there to fuck around.
But I know the one thing I do in these stations, I bring a bottle of tequila in, and then I get everyone drunk, and then I just take my shirt off and we go fucking crazy.
joe rogan
When you do press, you always bring in tequila?
bert kreischer
Sometimes.
Sometimes.
unidentified
What?
bert kreischer
I've done it before, but I think that's more because I'm an alcoholic and not for...
joe rogan
And they'll get drunk with you in the morning?
unidentified
Yeah.
bert kreischer
And you'll sell out the entire fucking weekend.
unidentified
That's awesome.
bert kreischer
Because all anyone's doing is driving to work wishing they were drinking, and then they hear you drinking, and all the rules go out the door, and every show lets you stay on until fucking 11. That's awesome.
It's been like a little trick I've done.
joe rogan
Wow, but what do you feel like for the rest of the day?
bert kreischer
Take a nap.
joe rogan
Take a nap?
bert kreischer
Take a nap.
I look at you when you go into a radio.
I've seen your radios and you'll come in high.
joe rogan
High as fuck.
bert kreischer
And I'm like, how do you function for the rest of the day?
joe rogan
Oh, dude, but high doesn't kick your ass.
See, I smoke weed and then I go to the gym.
Like, it doesn't affect me the same way.
I go, like, if I'll do, like, the morning radio and I'll smoke some weed before the morning radio...
I'll go to the gym afterwards.
I'll go lift weights.
I'll run or I'll do the elliptical machine.
Like, it feels good.
bert kreischer
I usually...
Yeah, I don't do that.
joe rogan
When I drink, man.
When I drink, I'm done.
The next day, I'm done.
bert kreischer
I have a very long history with drinking.
So...
Oh, so there's O'Pound.
joe rogan
Yeah, so these guys are singing.
bert kreischer
And I'm doing Shots to Kill and they're calling me cocaine because I'm white.
And so then I tell them, I go, you guys can come to my show tonight if you want.
And they're like, oh, we're coming, we're coming, we're coming.
joe rogan
Oh, you're crazy.
bert kreischer
So I'm like, this will be fun because I've just seen these guys on gangland, right?
So they come to the show.
unidentified
What?
bert kreischer
And like 15 minutes in, they walk on stage, like, matte just deep with their fucking bottle of tequila, and they're like, we're drinking this on stage right now.
And I'm like, holy shit, and DJ Laz comes up, and we all just fucking...
joe rogan
DJ Laz?
bert kreischer
DJ Laz.
joe rogan
You say that like we're supposed to know who the fuck that guy is?
bert kreischer
He's the biggest DJ in South Florida.
unidentified
Oh, really?
bert kreischer
For, like, Latinos.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Okay.
bert kreischer
But, like, if you're a white comic and you can get in that room and do well, you'll sell out for the weekend.
Like, you're not sellout, but you're not buying tickets.
joe rogan
I'm doing West Palm this weekend.
Not this weekend, next weekend.
You doing Paul and Ron?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
bert kreischer
They're great, dude.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're great guys.
bert kreischer
They'll fucking...
joe rogan
Yeah, I've done their show many, many times.
Those guys are really cool.
bert kreischer
That's a great club.
And you probably know Johnny, the guy that's managing it now.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've been to that club a long time ago, back when it was a smaller club.
bert kreischer
Dude, that's your market.
Those guys fucking, like, those people, like, when you get done a show, you know who the big comics are, and you know who the ones that people don't go see are.
Based on what comics go.
So, do you know guys, like, everyone always says, do you know Rogan?
Everyone always wants to know if you know Dane Cook.
joe rogan
Who do you know?
Who do you hang out with in Hollywood?
bert kreischer
Basically, and I'm always like, yeah, they're all great, they're all great.
joe rogan
Do you ever talk shit about anybody?
bert kreischer
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
What comics do you talk shit about?
bert kreischer
I can't say.
joe rogan
Can't say?
bert kreischer
I can't say.
But, I mean, you can probably guess.
But, yeah, I talk shit about it.
I've got to stop because there's comics I've talked shit about a lot, a lot, that just came up to me and they're like, dude, I'm a big fan.
I'm like, oh, me too, me too, me too.
It's the worst feeling in the world.
Like, you know, Ari is someone who I initially did not like.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
Because I met him one night and he was just standoffish.
But he was just Ari.
He wasn't being standoffish.
Yeah, and I wanted to meet him and then he didn't and then he walked away and then I was like, I was like, oh, fuck that guy.
And then I saw...
And then I saw his Amazing Racist.
And I was like, I saw a clip and I wanted to hate it.
I wanted to hate it.
Really?
Because he was kind of weird.
Then I watched it and it was the best thing.
I said, I don't give a fuck.
When I see that guy again, I'm going to make friends with him.
And I saw him at the improv one night, right after the shit went down with you and Messia.
And you guys switched.
And I was like, dude, I just want to tell you, I'm a big fan.
You make me laugh a lot.
And Ari's just like, really?
Thanks, man.
We hung out.
But if you tell people you like them, then they like you too.
That's all you have to fucking do.
joe rogan
A lot of times, comics are standoffish with each other because everyone is so competitive.
Especially early on.
Comics, for some reason, have this weird thing where they think that if someone else is being successful, Somehow or another, it keeps them from being successful.
Their success takes away from you.
That could have been yours or something crazy.
It's this weird, illogical connection that a lot of comics make.
bert kreischer
And it almost happens with every fucking comic you meet.
joe rogan
Yeah, why is that?
bert kreischer
I don't know.
I know because I'll have arguments with comics in my head.
joe rogan
Like fake arguments?
bert kreischer
I had an argument with Opie from Opie and Anthony in my head.
I've never met the guy in my entire life.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
bert kreischer
But I love their show, and I've wanted to get on their show to promote things.
joe rogan
Oh, dude, you'd be awesome on their show.
You're perfect for their show.
bert kreischer
They never let me on.
They're always like, no, no.
joe rogan
They still don't let you on?
bert kreischer
No, still don't let me on.
joe rogan
Listen, Opie listens to this show sometimes.
I guarantee you, he'll hear about this from Twitter, and he'll have you on.
bert kreischer
I had a dream last night.
joe rogan
Drop some clips of the funniest shit that he said, and you'll be on Opie and Anthony for sure.
bert kreischer
So here's what happened.
I had a dream last night that I could fly, and I flew into Opie and Anthony's studio.
And I was walking around, and I was like, oh shit.
joe rogan
Like, fly through the air?
bert kreischer
Yeah, but they're a studio.
joe rogan
Without a plane?
bert kreischer
Without a plane, I was flying.
unidentified
I was flying.
bert kreischer
And it was in a tent.
It was in a tent.
And I went in, and they had these gift bags.
And I was like, oh.
So I opened one up and I was stealing one.
I was like, I want to get one of these.
I love Opie and Anthony.
This will be awesome.
And then it was an Opie and Anthony scarf.
So I pulled it out and I went, oh, fuck.
I can't use an Opie and Anthony scarf because I never want to know.
I got it from here.
And then they'll be like, we didn't give it to you.
So I put it back.
And then I left.
I flew away.
And then as I was hovering above their tent where they were doing their show, Opie came in and said, who stole this fucking scarf?
And I was like, you know what?
If I man up to this and tell them, Norton will have my back.
So I go in and I go in and I'm like, listen, I'm the one who opened that.
I didn't steal it.
Norton was in there.
And Opie's like, who the fuck are you?
And he basically, in my dream, my brain told me everything about me that I think.
Like all the horrible shit.
So now I'm pissed off at Opie for fucking saying that to me.
So I start getting in a fight with him.
And then I wake up, right?
And then I literally laid in bed arguing with Opie.
Never met him.
I listen to his show every day.
I'm the biggest fucking fan.
So you were preparing yourself in case you- In case I go in and he literally does the typical Opie throw a chest set at me, fucks with me, ruins me, tries to make me look like a fool.
joe rogan
He doesn't really do that to comics, though.
He only does that- He did.
bert kreischer
He used to, I think.
They used to a lot.
unidentified
Really?
bert kreischer
Yeah, they did it to the guy that killed himself.
Who?
The guy in the bathtub.
joe rogan
Oh, Richard Jennings?
bert kreischer
They did it to Richard Jennings.
unidentified
No.
bert kreischer
Did they?
unidentified
Really?
bert kreischer
Yeah, they made him stand outside the studio and they wouldn't let him in.
What?
All radio show guys would sell out their mom for a bit.
joe rogan
Wow.
bert kreischer
I didn't know they did that.
If they think they could get a good bit out of humiliating me.
joe rogan
So what happened with the Richard Jenny thing?
What was the story?
bert kreischer
Literally, I probably listened to every opening of Anthony.
Just back in the day, they made him sit outside the studio in the glass and they made him do his interview from there.
unidentified
What?
bert kreischer
Like, I think.
brian redban
Do you think he was in on it, though?
No, no, no, no.
bert kreischer
I don't think they liked him.
joe rogan
Why?
bert kreischer
I don't know.
I don't remember this whole story.
I'm probably paraphrasing in a way that makes it horrible.
joe rogan
He was a guy that had a weird reputation, though.
Jenny was a troubled guy.
Brilliant comedian, though, man.
I went to see him when I was an open-miker at Catch a Rising Star in New York.
And he really influenced me a lot early in my career to the point where I caught myself a couple times on stage when I was really young when I was sounding just like him.
I was like, boo, I gotta fucking make sure I don't...
I mean, I sound like I'm ripping him off.
I'm imitating him, you know?
bert kreischer
I think so many comics do that.
joe rogan
Oh, he was so good, man.
Anyway, when I saw him in Catch a Rising Star, he influenced me so much because he just freeballed.
He had so much material.
He just went all over the place with it.
I had never seen anybody do that before.
Everybody else that I had seen do sets, they always had sort of an opening that they would always do.
Then they'd have a middle part, and then they'd have a closer.
But when I saw Richard Jenney, man, I saw him a couple times in a row.
And every time I saw him, he was doing like a different hour and a half.
And I was like super humbled.
bert kreischer
He was so quick.
I remember hosting for him at the Hollywood Improv, and I'm in the back watching him.
And, you know, I'd come from New York, so I was like, in my head, I was like, if I didn't know you in New York, you're not anything.
Basically, I was basically saying, if you're not Geraldo, Attell, Hedberg, in my head.
unidentified
Right.
bert kreischer
Someone says, he says something, and now we're going to go over there and look for, this is right after 9-11, now they want to tell us to go over there and look for weapons of mass destruction?
What a load of bullshit is that?
You think they got them?
And some lady goes, they have nuclear weapons!
And he goes, listen, you dumb whore, if they had them, they would have fucking used them.
Do you think they're holding back?
And I was just on the floor.
I was like, what a great perception.
Would they use them?
joe rogan
Right.
bert kreischer
Of course they would have used them.
But yeah, he was great.
joe rogan
He was so prolific, and he was the best guy that I had ever seen at really dragging the most out of a subject.
He would get on a subject, and he would fuck that subject up from all different angles.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
And right when you thought he was done, he would go deeper.
And then he would go deeper.
And it made me realize, like, man, that's something that's really present in amateurish comics, where they will touch on a subject and then immediately have a quick joke and then immediately go to another subject.
bert kreischer
It's me.
joe rogan
Well, it's everybody in the beginning.
bert kreischer
It's me.
I've gotten so fucking lazy.
joe rogan
It's a bad thing, man.
It's really easy to do, especially when you get comfortable on stage, especially if you do a lot of ad-libbing.
bert kreischer
When you get a good ad-lib, you're like, wow, that was genius.
I'll keep that, as opposed to looking for the better one.
joe rogan
But Jenny would take any subject, whatever it was, and just find all sorts of angles with it.
He never really got the credit I think he deserved.
It's really weird.
I just think people didn't appreciate how good he was.
He was in the Eastside Comedy Club in New York, in Long Island.
I saw him there, too.
And I remember Peter Bales, who was the host, was just shaking his head back and forth.
He's like, he did three different hours.
He did three different shows in three totally different hours.
He didn't repeat one joke once.
bert kreischer
I was influenced by Attell massively.
joe rogan
Is that guy you drinking to?
bert kreischer
No, I told you.
joe rogan
Explain that because this is a crazy story.
You didn't say this on the podcast.
bert kreischer
In 1997, Rolling Stone magazine wrote a six and a half page article about me calling me the number one party animal in the country.
This actually gets a little weirder.
joe rogan
Were you doing stand-up back then?
bert kreischer
No, just partying.
I had a notorious reputation at Florida State for being funny but being a wild party animal.
joe rogan
What kind of shit were you doing?
bert kreischer
Just fun shit.
I think loudest guy in the room shit.
I remember I used to climb up on this telephone pole outside the bars on Tennessee Street.
There would be 500 people out there.
And I'd just stand up and I'd go, Everyone shut the fuck up and listen.
If you want to smoke weed, go to my house.
And the cops are all sitting there.
I have tons of weed, enough for everybody.
And we're all going to have a blast and get high.
If you know where I live, you're invited.
If you don't, ask someone.
Just know and tell the fucking cops.
And you'd have literally 500 people just giggling at the idea that someone was offering them weed in front of a cop's face.
joe rogan
And what do the cops say when you do this?
bert kreischer
They would laugh too.
Like one time for an election I got naked for this election and just shit on a pizza box and won the election.
joe rogan
Election for what?
bert kreischer
For my fraternity.
I just got up naked and shit on a pizza box.
And then everyone...
joe rogan
And that's how you won?
bert kreischer
And then I won.
joe rogan
Did you wipe?
bert kreischer
No, I just shit.
I just shit.
I learned one very important lesson.
When you go number two, you also go one.
Because I pissed all over the feet on everyone that was sitting in front of me.
Oh, no!
But you can't stop it.
When you go one, you also go two.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus, dude!
bert kreischer
And so I won the election.
So, like, all these stories came out.
And then Rolling Stone's like...
Let's do an article on him.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
bert kreischer
It gets crazier.
Ready?
So you ready for the part that you go bullshit?
joe rogan
I will never say bullshit.
I've heard enough of your stories.
bert kreischer
I'm not saying bullshit.
So Oliver Stone optioned the rights to my life.
And then from the article.
So then I tried stand-up and I moved to New York to start doing stand-ups.
I did it once in Tallahassee and it went amazing.
I got offered my own morning show in Tallahassee.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
Yeah.
Oliver Stone, I've seen the rights to my life.
Like, I start doing stand-up five months later.
Will Smith sees me do stand-up and I get a development deal with him.
Like, right out the gate.
It's like Bill Burr style.
unidentified
Holy shit.
bert kreischer
Like, been doing stand-up for no time at all.
Development deal based on the article and then the fact that I could competently do stand-up somewhat.
And then the development deal falls apart with Oliver Stone.
All the guys that have submitted their scripts for Oliver Stone's movie about my life then get their intellectual property back.
One of the guys takes...
His movie changes my name, sells it to National Lampoon, and it becomes the movie Van Wilder.
So theoretically, and I say this theoretically, loosely, I'll never be able to sue.
I never would sue.
I never would sue.
But I went into National Lampoon and did, do you remember Kevin Couch?
He used to have a show on National Lampoon.
joe rogan
Yeah, on XM Radio?
bert kreischer
Yeah, yeah.
And I told him, I said, bring some execs in.
I've always wanted to find out if this is true.
So then he brought some execs in and I start telling the story just like I am you.
One of the guys fucking locks up like, hold on, stop right now.
What do you want?
What's going on here?
Is this like an ambush?
And I was like, no, I just want to be able to tell it on radio and know I'm not lying.
That's all I care about.
All I care about is the story being like true.
joe rogan
Right.
bert kreischer
And he was like, what do you want, like your own radio show?
I'm like, ugh.
Fine.
And then he's like, we'll do a show partying with the original Van Wilder.
Are you happy?
I was like, yeah.
And so then he was like, pretty much, I was like, so I can say it's true.
joe rogan
So they were worried that you were going to sue them.
bert kreischer
They were worried I was going to sue them.
joe rogan
Well, that must mean you have a case.
Why don't you just go fucking sue those cunts?
bert kreischer
Barry Katz said to me one night, Papa, you can be one of two guys.
You can be the guy that sues and doesn't work, or you can be the guy that doesn't sue and works.
Which one are you?
And I was like, I'm the one.
joe rogan
Anything Barry Katz would tell me to do, I would immediately do the exact opposite.
Barry Katz used to drive a Ferrari while he owed everyone money.
bert kreischer
He looked like the Grimace when they'd sell a Toyota Grimace in a car.
Just a big head sticking out of a tiny car.
joe rogan
He's so crazy.
bert kreischer
He was like a big brother to me.
He was my manager for a long time.
joe rogan
What happened?
You got rid of him.
You wised up, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It had to.
bert kreischer
It was like, he just never could get in touch with him.
You know?
So I just went to levity.
joe rogan
No comment.
brian redban
I want to rewatch Van Wilder.
bert kreischer
But it's pretty crazy.
I've never seen Van Wilder.
joe rogan
I think this is what you do, bro.
You find out what the fucking statute of limitations is, get to a point where you're so talented, you're so funny, you cannot lose.
You just have to keep doing what you're doing.
You cannot lose.
You're a very, very entertaining dude.
They can't stop you.
So once you get to a certain point, and then you go after them.
Get to a certain point where you're embedded into the zeitgeist.
unidentified
I was just looking for a reason to use the word zeitgeist right now.
Zeitgeist.
joe rogan
Very important.
unidentified
Show you my range.
joe rogan
My range as a man.
What is it?
It's a strange conspiracy movie that they've got three episodes now.
It's actually the cultural, the idea of the mind of the culture.
Get into the consciousness of the culture.
The zeitgeist is like the mind frame, like where people's heads are at right now.
The Zeitgeist.
There was a new one that they just did recently, I guess.
But a lot of it's like 9-11 shit.
brian redban
I tried to watch the first one.
joe rogan
Incorrect shit about certain things about religion.
And then you get Zeitgeist debunked and things get really cloudy and people go online and debunk it.
And who's right?
Who's wrong?
I don't have time for this shit.
Yeah.
But you should sue the fuck out of those Van Wyler punks.
bert kreischer
I'll never sue them.
joe rogan
That's all nice.
How about I pretend I'm you and I'll sue for you?
bert kreischer
Do it.
And then just let me swim in your pool.
joe rogan
Give me your email address, bro.
You can swim in my pool.
Anytime, bro.
Come on over.
Bring your daughters.
bert kreischer
I bring my daughters in a heartbeat.
joe rogan
A little park out here.
bert kreischer
My daughters will think they swim and they're like, I can swim, daddy.
And I love just that first second where they jump in and then sink.
And then you save their lives and you see rescue in their eyes.
I can't swim, daddy.
joe rogan
I'm not into that.
I'm into showing them how to swim.
unidentified
No, I'm trying to teach them how to swim.
Be like daddy.
bert kreischer
I don't throw them in like fucking my Uncle Johnny.
Like, you go for it.
This is how you learn, boy.
joe rogan
I don't know how I learned how to swim.
bert kreischer
That's how they did it to us.
They just threw us in fucking pools.
joe rogan
I can't remember not knowing how to swim.
I just always knew how to swim.
brian redban
I went to swimming lessons.
joe rogan
I must have done something.
bert kreischer
I just got thrown in a pool by my Uncle Johnny.
joe rogan
Fucking Uncle Johnny.
bert kreischer
Same dude whose son fell down a flight of stairs.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
Same uncle.
And Northeast, baby, that's how they did it.
Irish Catholic, they'll be in a fucking pool, learn how to swim.
joe rogan
Yeah, I grew up...
bert kreischer
Native American style.
joe rogan
In Jersey and in Boston, my formative years, that Northeast sort of mentality, there's a lot to that.
It makes people more go-getter.
It makes people more ambitious.
It makes people more the kind of people that can button down and get shit done.
There's something about California.
There's something about this weather where it's 85 degrees in January.
It's so hard.
It just makes you weak.
It just makes you a soft little bitch.
I wrote this on my Twitter, and I really believe this.
People need visible nature to keep them humble.
You need to see that snowstorm coming where you know you can't do shit.
Sit the fuck down.
I hope you have logs to burn because you might need and the power might be out for a week.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
No one's going anywhere.
And that quiet, you don't even know what quiet is until you get outside in the middle of a blizzard.
When the blizzard's over and everything's covered in snow, like three feet of snow in Boston, I would go outside and you could hear like...
Like the quiet has like a sound to it.
It's like it's empty.
It's like you don't hear anything.
The snow absorbs it all and it's almost like a fake world.
Like you go walking around and everything is white.
It's like I really feel sorry for kids that don't grow up with some snow.
Yeah.
Don't get to experience that.
And those fucking school days when you get a day off and you go outside and everything's covered in snow.
bert kreischer
I never grew up in snow at all.
joe rogan
The only problem with that is you could die out there.
You could fucking freeze to death.
bert kreischer
Fall asleep in a snowdrift and lose your foot.
joe rogan
Did you hear about this lady in Toronto that happened last week?
The coldest night of the year.
Apparently she had dementia and she froze to death outside in a neighborhood while she was screaming for people to help her.
unidentified
Wow.
bert kreischer
Shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, everyone's screaming and she just died out there.
Apparently she was just a known nut.
So like, look at that crazy broad out there screaming.
bert kreischer
That's why I don't drink in the snow.
A lot of dudes fall asleep and lose a foot.
unidentified
And die.
bert kreischer
Lose a foot.
Everyone loses a fucking foot.
brian redban
So do you still throw them down like hardcore?
Like, are you still partying like you were?
Or have you slowed down a little?
bert kreischer
I don't know.
I don't know.
I've had a major stretch where I didn't drink.
joe rogan
At all?
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
Did you feel different on stage when you were sober?
bert kreischer
Oh, I don't drink on stage.
Here's the thing.
Let me rephrase that because everyone that's listening has seen me on stage.
It's like, hold on.
You fell off a stage one night.
Like, I've fallen off stage twice.
joe rogan
Really?
Hammered?
bert kreischer
Kinda.
Not really.
Like, I wasn't that drunk.
It just was bad footing.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
bert kreischer
Like, once in Tampa Improv and once in DC Improv.
But, yeah, here's the thing.
As I go up, I will have a beer when I get on stage.
I will drink it fairly fast, probably, to sell drinks throughout my show.
And then I process it.
You did that on purpose?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
David Tell said to me one night, Miami Improv, he said I was featuring for him.
He said two things.
When you're featuring, you should write all the time.
You should never go up and try to kill.
You should be writing and writing because no one gives a shit about you.
And then the second thing he said is when you do get headlining, remember you are there to sell drinks.
Like as much as you want to do your art, the more drinks you sell, the more appetizing you are to the club.
And the club will bring you back if your bar sales are high.
Doesn't matter what your ticket prices are.
So I literally just went on stage and I remember, and Attell would be like, he'd bring up, he wouldn't even bring a Drink most times.
He'd bring up like a...
He'd have them singe...
I mean, whatever.
I don't want to get behind Attell's theories on drinking on stage or what.
But I would just go up and drink a beer.
joe rogan
No, but figure...
I mean, complete what you were saying.
He would bring up shots?
bert kreischer
I don't know.
Now he doesn't drink, so I guess you can say it.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
He's pretty open about it.
bert kreischer
He wouldn't drink shots.
He would drink...
It would be like coffee.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, he would fake it?
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
bert kreischer
But he didn't drink now, so I don't think he gives a shit.
But he would tell me, he's like, you gotta be Superman.
You gotta be working up there.
Like, that was a tele...
A tele was never fucking drunk on stage.
joe rogan
Right.
bert kreischer
So, but I would go up, and I still...
I mean, I can drink a lot of beers.
I can go up now, and I'll...
Usually what I'll do is I'll play a song that's inspiring me.
Like, because I... You know, you get bored doing a lot of road work.
Like, one was this song, Alcohol Pussy and Weed by the MJB and 8Ball.
Just fucking great.
Just first 30 seconds to the song...
Alcohol, pussy, and weed!
Alcohol, pussy, and weed!
joe rogan
Does that got you fired up for a show?
bert kreischer
And it was also because I was having family-friendly people come out, and it would set the stage.
So then the second song I do is this song by Maxim Ludwig, and the Santa Fe 7 was a really great song.
And then now I go out and listen to Black Betty by Ram Jam.
And then as the song plays, I'll maybe fucking throw off a shirt, pound a beer.
joe rogan
Is that that song?
Whoa, Black Betty!
bert kreischer
Bama Lam, whoa, Black Betty.
Bama Lam, Black Betty had a child.
Bama Lam, the damn thing don't lie.
Bama Lam, send your lot of money.
Bama Lam, whoa, Black Betty.
unidentified
Babylon And right now everyone in the crowd's fucking humping And I'm like everyone raise a beer We're pounding a beer right now!
bert kreischer
And then the whole fucking room lifts a beer, we pound it, and then right there, you just increased the entire bar staff, the bar bill for the club by five bucks.
joe rogan
How many dudes are going to slide into trees on the way home, though?
bert kreischer
My cousin fell down a flight of stairs.
He was at that show.
joe rogan
Oh, that was the one?
bert kreischer
Yeah, because then everyone sends shots, and we're talking aggressive.
joe rogan
What's the most shots you ever drank on stage?
bert kreischer
Oh, I couldn't even guess.
I couldn't even maybe, like, I don't know.
joe rogan
Take a guess.
More than 10?
bert kreischer
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
More than 15?
bert kreischer
No, no, no.
Probably around 10 or 12. I've had a lot of shots on stage before.
And those shows don't...
Those shows are usually more chaotic.
Like, I had one in Tampa recently.
This was, like, a really great moment where you're just so drunk you can't function.
So I bring a black guy on stage and I do an interview.
joe rogan
Let's always bring a black guy who shows his dick.
unidentified
Thank you.
joe rogan
Good night.
unidentified
Good night.
joe rogan
That's like a great new closer for you.
bert kreischer
It's the best!
It's the best!
You bring a black guy on stage, and then one of two things will happen.
Either you say something totally hilarious, or all the white people will just applaud for whatever he says, right?
He's an engineer!
unidentified
Yay!
bert kreischer
Good for him!
He's not one of the best!
You know, like, that's what happens.
So I bring this black guy on stage, and I'm like, and I try to guess what job he did.
And then I used to have a great one where I bring a black guy, a Latino on stage, and I go, I'm going to say it the way I say it, you say it the way you say it.
And then I go, I would like to take you on a date.
And then the Latino guy would be like, mommy, mommy, mommy.
unidentified
And then the black guy would be like, can a player get some conversation?
Yeah.
bert kreischer
And then we'd do like a bunch and the crowd loved it because they were like, oh, that's right, the white guy's nerdy.
And then I'd always close with, all right, how about this one?
I'd like to apply for a home loan.
And I give it to the black guy and he's like, uh, it was great.
It was great.
So I bring this black guy on stage in Tampa and I said to him, I go, I'm at a loss.
We're having a great moment, making jokes.
And then you can slide whatever jokes you do have in your pocket into that moment, looks improv, plays, fucking flips out.
Like I tell him, oh, you remind me of my black friend.
And he's like, oh, you got a black friend?
I'm like, yeah, his name's imaginary.
And so then just bam, right off the gates.
So then I tell the black guy, I go, what do you want to do?
And he goes, let's sing a song.
I go, really?
He's like, yeah.
I go, okay.
I go, what song do you want to sing?
And he goes, Journey's Don't Stop Believin'.
I was like, alright.
I go, do you have that in the DJ booth?
So they start playing it, right?
And so now it's me and the black guy singing Don't Stop Believin' back and forth.
Just a small town girl.
And he knows all the words and it's killing.
Then I have them cut the music and the whole crowd starts singing.
And it's like, just this, like...
unidentified
Living in a lonely world.
bert kreischer
And you can literally, we would cut the music and then have it turned back on and everyone's right on time.
And then at the end of the show, it's me and the black guy, no music, and the crowd's still singing.
And it's like, do it soft.
And you can hear 350 people go, just as small.
unidentified
Like, don't stop believing.
bert kreischer
And then I'm like, do it in a Mexican accent.
unidentified
And then the whole crowd's, don't stop believing.
bert kreischer
And then the black guy's doing it one more time.
His shirt's off, right?
And then the whole crowd sings.
I grab his leather jacket, throw it on his shoulders.
I'm like, we're done!
And just that moment, you can never recreate that.
You can't recapture it.
You can't try to do it again.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's live performing.
bert kreischer
It's just being in that moment and being 10 shots in and going, I don't...
joe rogan
Fuck it.
bert kreischer
Yeah, fuck it.
This can't end bad.
But yeah, those moments.
But here's the problem.
You get addicted to those moments.
And then you sometimes...
I got this 90-year-old woman offstage.
And we were dancing to Alcohol, Pussy, and Weed.
And I've got her pinned donkey-style.
My hands on the ground.
My legs are up over her shoulders.
And she's just going like this.
And then you get addicted to that.
And you want to create that.
And you stop doing stand-up.
joe rogan
She was doing that to you?
bert kreischer
It's online.
joe rogan
Just type in.
Wait, her...
She was on top of you and your legs were over her shoulders?
bert kreischer
It's really hard to explain.
joe rogan
Okay, I'll see it.
I'll look for it.
bert kreischer
But it's just type in...
joe rogan
I want to hear more though.
Just tell me more.
bert kreischer
Yeah, but you get addicted to those moments.
joe rogan
Right.
bert kreischer
Because then what happens is you have the story that maybe a comic tells another comic.
When Burt was in Miami, three gangbangers showed their dick.
And then other comics were like, dude, I can't wait to work with you.
I want to see you work because I hear what you do.
And you're like, I don't do that all the time, but it does happen.
Then you feel pressure.
And then you go to a set at the Hollywood Improv and it's just fucking eight minutes of material.
And you're like, that was uninspiring.
I mean, don't get me wrong.
You have those moments where like those oh shit moments where you're just like, this will never fucking happen like this again.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And those are moments too when you're doing like an hour on stage and they get to know you and you're really in the groove with the crowd.
bert kreischer
Oh, and it's a moment.
joe rogan
You've gone through a lot already.
bert kreischer
Best.
Like this is, and I give this to any comic listening if you ever need to do this, because sometimes you get that reputation and then you go to a club and they're like, listen, we got a marriage.
They want to propose on stage.
We told them it was cool with you.
Listen, it's a shit dick moment, but here's what you do.
I've given this to every comic that wants to use it.
It's brilliant.
It came in the moment.
I had like four shots of tequila.
I had a guy who wanted to propose to his chick.
This is what you do.
Bring them both up on stage to do a shot of tequila.
Okay?
The guy knows he's proposing.
Don't worry about that.
Get him on stage, and then you tell the girl, we're going to play a game.
We're going to blindfold you, and you're going to have to feel our chests, just our chests, and tell which one's your husband and which one's me.
And then she's like, okay, so you blindfold her, right?
Then you tell the dude, now.
And so he gets on his knee with the ring and then you just release the blindfold.
Dude, you want to talk about 200 people crying like, oh my god!
The perfect setup.
And it's such an easy way to get out of that.
Because a lot of times when you're a young comic, the manager will just be like, they give me 500 bucks, just make sure he proposes to her.
So if you're a comic and you ever get stuck in that situation, feel free to use it.
It's how I did it.
And it killed.
joe rogan
Now, what do you do after that, though?
bert kreischer
Just get all fucking staged.
Someone play back Black Bad.
joe rogan
You should write a book called Bert Kreischer Exit Strategies.
bert kreischer
Exit Strategies.
joe rogan
Well, those are awesome, man.
Dude, thank you very much for coming on the show, man.
You're fucking hilarious.
This is one of the most fun podcasts I've ever had.
unidentified
Me too.
joe rogan
And knowing that you enjoyed listening to it, now you're on it, and you probably made one of the best ones we've ever had.
bert kreischer
I won't listen to this one, but I can't wait.
I can't wait.
joe rogan
You can't tell the Tracy Morgan story.
bert kreischer
I can tell it, yeah.
joe rogan
You can tell it?
bert kreischer
Of course I can tell it.
joe rogan
Please tell the Tracy Morgan story.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
We're going to end on this.
Thanks to the Fleshlight, go to JoeRogan.net, enter in the Fleshlight, the thing.
It's like Rogan is the code name and you get 15% off.
I'm in February 4th.
We're at the Mandalay Bay Theater.
It's me, Joey Diaz, and Ari Shaffir.
That's like a three-headliner combo there.
And then next weekend, not this one coming up, but next weekend I'm at the West Palm Beach Improv, the 28th, 29th, and 30th, and that is also...
With young and talented Ari Shafir.
So tell me what the fuck happened with Tracy Morgan.
bert kreischer
Okay.
I'll preface this.
I want to be safe and preface this that my buddy Jay Moore does tell us on stage.
We have an agreement.
He's my friend.
He's not a thief.
Okay?
I know that Jay is concerned about that, but he told me he's not telling the story anymore.
And it did happen to me, so I don't give a fuck.
I mean, this is a true story.
joe rogan
So this is a true story.
bert kreischer
It's a true story.
So I was a young comic working at the Boston Comedy Club.
Working the door.
joe rogan
In New York.
bert kreischer
In the village.
Yeah, and I used to party with all the black comics.
Because they...
Well, because I don't...
joe rogan
Why would you like to?
bert kreischer
Yeah.
And so we...
We used to have a good time.
And so then, one night, Tracy Morgan comes in.
This is when he's starting to get back into stand-up after SNL. So, like, when you were a young comic and a new celebrity came in, you, like, had to see that shit.
Had to.
So I go in, and I watch Tracy's set, and it is not...
We have nothing in common.
He's doing observational material, and his observational material is like, all right, yeah, okay, okay, who remembers finger-fucking-by-the-handball courts?
And you And he thinks that's a shared experience, like losing a sock in the dryer.
And then he walks you through and he's like, you put that bitch up against the wall and just pussy pop that bitch.
You wouldn't even kiss her.
Put your arm in your own stank.
And now you have a visualization of Precious getting boxed out at a handball court, making eye contact with passerby, just getting her pussy blown out by Tracy Morgan.
But then he comes on stage, and he's like, fucking, yeah, I'll hit that, man.
I got this new bit about my dick being so pretty, you can suck it with the lights on.
Which is a genius statement, because I've never had a blowjob in the light, but he just didn't word it right, right?
unidentified
My dick is so pretty, you can suck it with the lights on.
So he goes...
bert kreischer
So then he goes, hey, you want to get high?
And I was like, yeah, because I'm a grown-up.
And so we walk around the corner, and he pulls out this rack of a joint, hands it to me, hits it, gives it to me, I hit it, and it tastes like shit.
It tastes like sweat socks.
Just like...
And I'm like, what the fuck is this?
And he's like, oh, you never smoked SHRM before?
And I was like, what?
And he's like, SHRM, baby, Angel Dust, PCP. You never smoked SHRM before?
And I'm like, you just gave me fucking PCP? Like, how did you know?
Who ever taught you how to get high?
So I panicked bad.
Like, hardcore anxiety attack.
I go back to the club.
I go to this older black comic who was and still is one of my good friends.
And I go, hey man, Tracy just gave me PCP. He's like, oh...
Oh, let me tell you something, shorty.
Tracy doesn't smoke PCP. He's fucking with you.
I was like, what?
He's just smoking pot.
He's fucking with you, though.
He's just getting in your head.
And I was like, no, I smoke PCP. I'm feeling weird.
And he goes, whatever you do, shorty, don't go to your house.
You hang out with us tonight.
So I'm like, all right.
So I do my set.
I bomb.
We all go out.
And Tracy is...
In downtown Soho, right on Houston, right?
And he's in a club that is like one of those railroad clubs where it goes all the way back.
You have to walk down a flight of five stairs to get two.
And he's in the back.
He's been there like 20 minutes.
And he is holding court with his shirt off, okay?
Shirt off, bottles of champagne covering his table.
There's other tables that have champagne on it.
He's buying it for them.
I buy her a bottle of champagne right now!
I got a pretty dick!
Like just, Eddie Murphy gave me this, whatever the fuck he's saying is like loud and boisterous.
So I sit at the table, and I think I'm on PCP, and I start ordering Heinekens separately from this wreck of a bar tab he has.
And so I'm getting Heinekens, and then the whole night goes through.
It's kind of an interesting, bizarre experience, but like 2 o'clock in the morning, and the waitress comes up, and she's got the bill.
And she puts it in front of me because I'm at a table with all black dudes.
So she thinks I'm their agent or lawyer or coach, whatever I am.
So she gives me the bill and I see it and I'm like, oh, I can't.
And Tracy Morgan flips out and he goes, oh, what the fuck is that?
That's fucking racism.
You give it to him?
He works the goddamn door.
unidentified
He doesn't do it.
bert kreischer
He doesn't make any money.
I'm the rich motherfucker in here.
I'm on TV. I'm the rich motherfucker.
And he flips the bottle of champagne table upside down.
Now the woman's like, um, sir, sir.
And he goes, hey.
And he takes his shirt and throws it in her face.
A bouncer comes up and he's like, excuse me, sir.
And Tracy just...
Wham!
Lays the guy.
And the biggest fight I've ever been in just breaks out all over.
People are fighting, jumping on you.
And I think I'm on PCP. So I walk out on Houston and I start going, this isn't happening.
This is imaginary.
This is not real.
People are flooding out left and right.
And they're like, dude, that shit's going off.
Tracy's got like four dudes on him.
And I was like, holy shit.
A minute later, the doors kick open and Tracy Morgan is launched out of the club by the back of his neck and the seat of his pants just...
joe rogan
They put his shirt on him?
bert kreischer
No, up on the street, shirtless, laying at my feet on the sidewalk.
Doors close.
Second later, doors kick back open, and Tracy's shirt comes out, end over end, and lands on his head, and it's silent.
And we're looking at Tracy like, fuck, this is crazy.
All of a sudden, he looks up, stands up, takes his shirt, snaps it, and he goes, now that's how you get out of paying a check!
unidentified
This guy's crazy like a fox!
He fucking just walked out of a $6,000 bar tub!
joe rogan
Holy shit!
bert kreischer
Getting kicked out of the bar!
He really did that?
brian redban
That's awesome.
joe rogan
Did he ever have to pay for it?
bert kreischer
I have no idea.
Here's the thing.
I only met Tracy once.
You don't hang out with a dude more than that.
joe rogan
I would never leave that guy's side.
I would have to hang out with him every day.
unidentified
I would have to be hanging out with him all the time, especially if I didn't have kids.
bert kreischer
I was just like, like Jay used to tell, I was telling you, Jay used to tell that story that had happened to me when we'd do stand-up.
And man, people would be like, get out of here.
But I don't know Tracy, and I doubt he remembers the night at all.
Fuck.
And you know how stories go in your head when you start telling them a lot?
Then you, like, shorten it and tighten it and punch it.
And I've been telling that to comics for, like, 12 years.
Ever since that happened.
And I was a stand-up doing stand-up for, like, two months.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
Now, you weren't on PCP. You just thought you were.
bert kreischer
I wasn't on PCP. I don't know.
I was...
joe rogan
Probably strong weed.
bert kreischer
Probably strong weed.
I doubt Tracy smokes PCP. I've heard him on NPR interviews say he's never done drugs.
And, I mean, I don't know.
joe rogan
He's never done drugs.
bert kreischer
He said on...
brian redban
PCP is something that you would probably tell the person, even if you were a PCP user.
bert kreischer
And I think here's the thing, Tracy's got that, like, I would say, that, like, prison mentality of, like, he'd rather fuck with you than really fuck you up.
joe rogan
Right.
bert kreischer
Like, I think he'd rather get in your head than, like, fuck you.
I don't think he's a mean-spirited person.
joe rogan
Right, just play him.
bert kreischer
He was just playing with you, and then I'm the one white guy hanging out with all black comics.
And so then that's funny that he thinks he's on PCP. That's a great story.
But the best...
joe rogan
That's a fucking fantastic story, dude.
That was one of the funniest stories ever.
bert kreischer
Next time I'll tell you about when I was in the Russian mob and we robbed a train.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
It's a true story, but I'm not going to tell it now.
joe rogan
Okay, dude, you're coming back again soon.
brian redban
Definitely.
joe rogan
Folks, if you want to follow Bert on Twitter, it's B-E-R-T-K-R-E-I-S-C-H-E-R. Follow him, please.
One of the fucking funniest guys we've ever had on the show.
Thank you very much, man.
That was so much fun.
bert kreischer
I had a blast.
joe rogan
And we will see you bitches on Tuesday.
unidentified
Holla at your boy!
Later.
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