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Joe Rogan Experience #95 - Bert Kreischer
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joe rogan
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unidentified
The Joe Rogan Experience.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
joe rogan
That black guy voice makes me uncomfortable, dude.
I'm going to be honest with you.
Because it's not really a black guy voice.
It's a white guy talking like a black guy, which is never cool.
brian redban
Which is not even right.
It's actually a robot that's been programmed to be a black guy.
joe rogan
Well, it's a robot that's white, made by white people.
They don't know how to do a black voice.
bert kreischer
I liked Keira Knightley better.
joe rogan
Keira Knightley was better.
bert kreischer
That was so hot.
joe rogan
There's something about a black guy faking a white voice is really completely acceptable.
bert kreischer
I do the best black voice.
joe rogan
Oh, dude.
Does it weird you out, though, when you can call somebody on the phone and you know that they're black when you're talking to them?
You're like, how would I describe this to an alien?
How would I describe how I know this is a black guy?
But I know it's a black guy.
brian redban
I missed that laugh.
joe rogan
That laugh brought to you by Burt Kreischer, ladies and gentlemen.
Follow Burt on Twitter, B-E-R-T-K-R-E-I-S-C-H-E-R, also known as Burt the Conqueror on the Travel Channel, which just started, right?
bert kreischer
Yep.
Last week was our first episode.
First week.
joe rogan
Powerful.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it was a rating success.
bert kreischer
Great ratings.
joe rogan
And fucking social media success.
bert kreischer
Social media success was a brand new thing they track on Trend TV or TV Trenders.
And my agent sent it to me.
He's like, you conquered!
And I was like, I did?
And he was like, you were number nine, right behind the Kardashians.
joe rogan
Wow, right behind the fucking ass.
bert kreischer
But it's just me.
It's me.
I literally...
Here's my theory about promotion on Twitter.
I think you have to promote with a joke, and that's my rule.
If you obsessively, like I told you the other day, Ralphie has just taken Twitter to a brand new level.
Thank you, Brian.
Joe hasn't seen any of it.
I'm like, how have you dodged that bullet?
That's like coming out of my rack and go, they've been bombing in here?
joe rogan
It's like what Ralphie May is up to.
bert kreischer
Oh, I guarantee you, he's tweeted in the last two minutes.
I guarantee you.
brian redban
Yeah, I just added him, and already he's been Kevin Smithing me.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
For people who don't know, is it Ralphie underscore May?
bert kreischer
I don't know.
It's him in that big orange jacket.
joe rogan
Yeah, Ralphie underscore May.
Whoa, Jesus Christ.
He's been on Twitter for how long?
brian redban
Like a week?
bert kreischer
Literally a week, maybe a week and a half.
And he had like 15 tweets or like 20 tweets up until then, and I'm sure there's a thousand now.
joe rogan
I can't tell how many tweets he has because for some reason my computer has gone back to the old Twitter.
I was using the new Twitter site.
I don't know how to switch it up.
brian redban
It's not at the very top?
Is it Ralphie underscore May?
joe rogan
Ralphie underscore May.
bert kreischer
Here, I'll just go into my trend and I'll find him right away.
joe rogan
I don't know what happened.
brian redban
He's got a total of...
unidentified
What?
brian redban
That can't be right.
bert kreischer
He just started using it.
brian redban
1,082 tweets?
bert kreischer
And he's only been using it in a couple weeks.
God.
brian redban
That's true.
joe rogan
Is that true?
brian redban
Yeah, that's true.
Unless he's got some kind of...
bert kreischer
In Ralphie's defense, he's not promoting anything.
He's simply arguing.
He hasn't learned not to argue with people yet.
So he's just going back and forth.
joe rogan
That's something you really have to learn, too, man.
You have to learn that shit.
bert kreischer
Yeah, I never reply to anyone at all.
And I only promote with a joke.
So if I'm going to promote the show, I'll do something funny to promote it.
And then I think those get retweeted.
joe rogan
I try to be...
I'm not always funny.
If I find some interesting shit, I just throw up some interesting shit.
Anything that I think is fascinating, whether it's funny or not.
And if I have to promote something, I promote something.
I always try to treat it as if I always am aware of people's attention spans.
And anything interesting that I find, I give to Twitter immediately.
bert kreischer
I give it right back.
You're a different animal than, say, myself or Brian, who if we promote, then people will just delete us and be like, enough of that shit.
People want to see your shit.
They don't want to see our shit.
joe rogan
They want to see you.
bert kreischer
When you're pounding them left and right, we're the guy at the orgy fingering assholes.
You're the guy everyone came to fuck.
We're the guys just, pow!
joe rogan
Even grosser.
I went to this one guy's Twitter.
I don't want to mention his name because I don't particularly like him.
But it was all promoting some special that's coming out.
And it was all like him tweeting celebrities using the exact same wording, just having a different celebrity's name.
Hey, blank.
Hey, you know, whoever.
Kim Kardashian.
Holla at your boy.
My special's coming out.
Blah, blah, blah.
And it was his whole Twitter was that.
brian redban
Is he an official Twitter?
Like a verified account?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
He has a verified account.
brian redban
Wow.
I wonder if that's almost like an assistant that's like, no, you're supposed to use my name.
joe rogan
It could be that, or it could be just someone who doesn't know how to use social media and is an annoying cunt.
brian redban
What's his name rhyme with?
joe rogan
We'll talk later.
bert kreischer
I tweeted The Game on Sunday, like an hour before my show started.
joe rogan
The Game, the rapper?
bert kreischer
Yeah, I was like, yo, The Game, you in LA? I'm having a barbecue at my house.
Bring over some potato salad.
But I was just like, if he does reply, the hood's on my shit, son.
Here's what I used to do.
Okay?
Ready?
This was my favorite thing to do.
I used to go on to black-centric trend topics.
Okay?
joe rogan
Black-centric trend topics.
bert kreischer
Just type in whatever the trend topic is.
There's going to be one that reads black.
Okay.
Like mine was V-Day Gifts for the Hood.
Yeah.
Valentine's Day gifts for the hood.
And so I thought it would be funny if...
And you know, it's all like very...
It's black people being racist about black people.
It's just them writing like...
Get her a click-clack.
You know she needs a gun in the hood.
Get her another baby.
You know she's already got ten of y'alls.
How about child support, son?
And so then I wrote back, how about anything Dungeons& Dragons, son?
And no one got it, right?
No one laughed at all.
And they started getting mad.
Like, what are you doing in here, man?
Get out!
Get out, white boy!
And then I was like, give me another chance.
joe rogan
They said, get out, white boy?
bert kreischer
Get out, white boy!
This is for the hood!
Don't you read the trend topic?
And I'm like, alright, how about a classy pen?
And they're like, A classy pen?
Like, what the fuck?
And then I was like, alright, alright, alright.
One more chance.
How about a bottle of champagne, but you spray it all over like a hoe.
And they're like, that's more like it.
joe rogan
Oh my goodness.
bert kreischer
Tom Segura.
I got Tom Segura on them.
And Segura started, and I started doing them.
And it was like, I forget the one.
I know it's saved in my phone.
But I got Segura on them.
And I was like, don't write anything racist.
Just write very good suggestions that you would think.
Like, one was things black people scared of.
And then...
joe rogan
So this is a trending topic?
How do you start a trending topic?
bert kreischer
Trending topic is pound sign and then one word.
I'll tell you what's trending right now.
brian redban
Yeah, like whatever it is.
joe rogan
One word, all in one word, right?
bert kreischer
Right now is...
joe rogan
Like what are black people scared of would be no spaces, all one word.
brian redban
Like Charlie Sheen has been winning.
joe rogan
Right, winning, winning, tiger blood.
bert kreischer
Yeah, and then the trend topics right now is what's dead in 2011, why can't you just...
So I'm sure it's like, why can't you just pick up your baby girl when you say to pick up your baby girl?
unidentified
Yeah.
bert kreischer
This one's Ask Lil Twist.
Who's Lil Twist?
I don't think he's a scientist.
I'm going to say he doesn't teach much.
joe rogan
Let's Google Lil Twist.
Whenever something like this happens...
brian redban
I'm guessing a child rapper.
joe rogan
Whenever something like this happens, I really feel so out of it, man.
When I hear about this child...
Born in 93. Jesus Christ.
He was born when I was auditioning for News Radio.
That's when he shot out of his mom's box.
93. Wow.
bert kreischer
I was still in college today.
joe rogan
His name is Christopher L. Moore, born January 11, 1993, better known as his stage name Lil Twist.
He's an American rapper, an American rapper from Dallas.
He signed on to Lil Wayne's label.
Oh, that's why he's Lil.
Lil Twist, Lil Wayne...
unidentified
I don't understand.
brian redban
He's a Lil Rapper.
joe rogan
I don't understand Lil Wayne.
bert kreischer
He's under six feet is what they're probably saying.
joe rogan
Lil Wayne is a fascinating cultural icon to me.
I watch his music and I am completely perplexed.
It's like a language I just do not speak.
Whatever it is, it just doesn't get me.
I don't understand it.
bert kreischer
I'm gonna sound horrible.
joe rogan
They are fucking...
He is huge, man.
He is gigantic.
unidentified
Massive.
joe rogan
He couldn't be bigger.
Is he the biggest rapper ever?
Or one of them?
bert kreischer
He is the biggest rapper.
He is the most commercially successful rapper right now.
I think probably ever.
joe rogan
Man, I feel like I should give him another chance.
I feel like there must be some reason why I'm...
bert kreischer
Here comes the black in me out.
unidentified
Word?
bert kreischer
His earlier stuff is much better than his later stuff.
unidentified
Ha ha ha!
bert kreischer
When he was with the Hot Boys, he was amazing.
I ran into him and Juvenile, and they had a band.
There's four of them out of New Orleans, and his earlier stuff, he was good, man.
He had rhymes that would blow you away.
brian redban
Wow.
bert kreischer
So now, everyone just go on to Lil Twist, ask Lil Twist trend topic, and ask very insightful questions that you know Lil Twist doesn't have the answer for.
Don't try to be racist.
The whole goal is not to be racist.
It's just to be like, seriously, do you think there's life forms out in the universe, Little Twist?
And just see what Little Twist's answer is.
brian redban
You know he has an answer for that.
joe rogan
Listen, Little Twist grew up with the internet.
He might be smart as fuck.
The thing about kids today, man...
Man, you can never underestimate them.
It's not like they don't have the same access to information that we do.
When we were kids, we were retarded because nobody told us shit.
We were figuring things out like little monkeys just wandering around our neighborhoods.
But now there's no more neighborhoods, man.
There's the whole world, man.
Those stupid rumors that you heard about, dude, I heard that Rod Stewart had to get his stomach pumped and there was a gallon of sperm inside.
Those stupid fucking stories only lingered and worked because we didn't have anything else.
That shit would never fly today.
bert kreischer
A hamster in the ass.
joe rogan
Which, by the way, I heard was...
This is my rumor.
I heard that that was Scientology spreading that rumor to fuck with him because he left Scientology.
Yeah, that's what I heard.
I might have just made that shit up.
What's good to Google that?
bert kreischer
I'll tell you.
So this is the trend topic I started.
And this brings it back to our conversation yesterday.
I started doing a trend topic.
What will the maid think when she sees this?
That was the trend topic, okay?
So then I started leaving a hotel room in a manner so that the maid walked in.
She would go, what the fuck happened in here?
Okay.
Now, you're on your Twitter right now.
I'm just going to tweet these, Joe.
And I'm telling you when I say this, this might be my opus.
joe rogan
Okay.
bert kreischer
This might be this funnier than anything I've ever done on stage.
joe rogan
Okay.
bert kreischer
I definitely think that.
joe rogan
I'm on the homepage waiting to tweet.
bert kreischer
I'm tweeting the first, and I at signed you.
And it's going chronologically.
I've gotten much better.
As you'll see, my later work, much like Lil Wayne's...
joe rogan
So your early inspired shit was really good.
bert kreischer
I just started getting to the next level.
Adam Richman started doing them too, and then he started challenging me on Twitter, and then people were like, dude, you guys are fucking...
And then I started really thinking out of the box, and I got into this Jackson Pollock hyper...
joe rogan
Tweet this shit, son.
I'm trying to get a hold of it.
bert kreischer
I'm tweeting it.
joe rogan
Where the fuck is it?
bert kreischer
It's coming up right now.
And so I got into this like manic state when I was in New York doing press.
And I was trying to come out with them to promote the show.
And I was getting some good ones, man.
Like really fucking impressive.
I mean like some good shit.
I guarantee you.
There's artists on Twitter that go, you've got great conceptual boundaries or whatever.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
I'm telling you, Joe.
joe rogan
Is there artists on Twitter that can teach you how to tweet up a fucking twit?
bert kreischer
Here we go.
It's coming up right now.
Sending tweet.
joe rogan
There we go.
brian redban
Here's your cell phone service.
There's the first one.
bert kreischer
There's the second one.
And a third one should be coming up too.
joe rogan
Oh my goodness.
Here we go.
Alright, here we go.
What will the maid think when she sees this?
Okay.
Blind.
Clicking completely blind.
Okay.
I click this.
Oh.
He's got the bed made up looking like a nun.
bert kreischer
Now mind you, this is my early work.
Wait till you go through and see how good my shit has gotten.
joe rogan
I'll retweet it.
I'll retweet it so you can get it back.
brian redban
That's fucking beautiful.
joe rogan
Oh, there's a bunch of them in here.
bert kreischer
I'm telling you, I've got more than I could post right now.
I just went through my early shit, and now my later shit.
joe rogan
So is this how you entertain yourself on the road?
Look at number two.
bert kreischer
What's that one?
joe rogan
The refrigerator where it looks like a man's body.
A torso with clothes?
That's hilarious.
bert kreischer
This is my, I'm telling you.
joe rogan
Meanwhile, the real sad part is that Maine's probably not going to see it.
It's going to be the next guest.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
They're going to pass right by it!
joe rogan
Fucking maids are like cleaning that lazy bitch.
She's tired.
brian redban
I talk about this all the time, but I always...
joe rogan
The third one doesn't work, bro.
The third link doesn't work.
bert kreischer
Now go to the latest recent tweet.
joe rogan
Birth of Congress on the 8 p.m.
with toilet paper.
And he made a fucking doll.
This is hilarious.
brian redban
How did that take you?
bert kreischer
It was talking about three hours?
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
bert kreischer
Three hours in a fucking hotel room just whacked out with a bottle of wine.
joe rogan
These are hilarious.
bert kreischer
Just...
joe rogan
I retweeted the first one.
Let me retweet the second one.
brian redban
This hotel in Portland we were just in.
I usually do the whole cum thing.
You don't really do that.
I don't really normally do it as much as I say.
I'm not saying I haven't done that.
But this time I decided to do it because I was in bed and I didn't want to wipe it on the bed.
I didn't want to get out.
So I threw it kind of up behind me and it went straight down on my iPhone.
joe rogan
Good.
I hope it gave your iPhone AIDS. Cum karma.
I hope your iPhone dies.
brian redban
Do you think my iPhone starts getting a cough?
joe rogan
We're talking about Bird Crush's hilarious pictures.
You're going to talk about shooting your own load on the wall.
No, we're talking about some very specific thing that this guy's doing.
It's very hilarious.
I love the Birth to Conquer one, Sunday at 8 p.m.
bert kreischer
That was my opus.
joe rogan
That was the best thing I've ever done.
unidentified
That was genius, man.
joe rogan
That was genius.
I just tweeted all these folks, and if you're listening to this on the podcast, go back to the day that we recorded this, which is April 5th on Tuesday, 3.30 p.m., Pacific time, so if you want to find those tweets, because they'll get lost in the mix.
brian redban
That's hilarious.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're very funny.
bert kreischer
I feel like, and then I was talking to Heffron the other day on doing radio, and he was in Pittsburgh, and Heffron's like, I love those pictures.
I was like, why don't you do them?
And he was like, you know, I thought of it, but I didn't want to steal it.
Like, I didn't want to do it and feel like I stole it.
And I go, Heffron, and this is to any comic listening.
I don't give a shit.
Do it, but you've got to tweet it to me, because I want to see it, because I don't want to copy your shit one day.
joe rogan
Right, so this is the tweet.
It's what would the, what is the hashtag?
bert kreischer
I didn't put the hashtag in there, but what would the maid think when she sees this?
joe rogan
And that's all one word.
bert kreischer
All one word.
joe rogan
What would the maid think when she sees this?
And just tweet it to Bert, and let's fucking get to it.
His one is great, the guy who's jumping out the window.
bert kreischer
Yeah, I did that one in Canada.
Last minute.
They all happened at the last minute.
That's hilarious.
joe rogan
What the fuck?
This one, fangs?
unidentified
Look at this.
joe rogan
This is ridiculous.
bert kreischer
That's the one Adam Richman was like, you cheated.
I go, what do you mean I cheated?
He goes, you gotta use this shit in the room.
And I go, no, I used this shit in the room.
That's towels, napkins, and ketchup.
And he was like, what the fuck?
joe rogan
Dude, you just owned him.
That's why he's upset.
You can't compete with this.
I would quit the game.
If you were playing this game, I'd be like, this guy's playing this game way seriouser than I am.
brian redban
Bert, you need to have a part on your website that has a collection of these because if that becomes big, which it seems like it would be, you need to be the center home base of that.
So you should go home and immediately do that.
bert kreischer
The Travel Channel got a hold of it and they're like, we love it.
We want to use it to promote the show.
We're going to do a caption contest.
We're going to send them out.
And then they called one day.
I was in Mexico and they're like, and I wasn't sleeping.
And they're like, we need seven more.
joe rogan
What?
bert kreischer
Seven?
What the fuck?
Do you think I'm on meth?
How am I going to come up with seven?
And they're like, just do it.
Just do it.
And I was like, I couldn't.
And I was sitting in Mexico, fucking no TV, listening to the Joe Rogan podcast experience on my iPad, in bed with me, in a pillow next to me.
Because I couldn't.
I was having anxiety, and I was fucking flipping out.
And it's like, it's the best.
I put it on low, so I feel like friends are talking in the next room.
And it puts me to sleep.
I just sit there, and I just...
And then you wake up, and you hear, dog, dog, dog.
joe rogan
Joey...
bert kreischer
He wakes me up every time.
Any time he talks.
joe rogan
More people complain about Joey and his volume control.
Joey will lean back like this.
Here's what the problem is.
Joey and...
We got a fucking problem there, Brian.
bert kreischer
This fucking cocksucker!
joe rogan
And then he'll get right up in there and you're like, oh, Jesus Christ.
brian redban
Yeah.
bert kreischer
He's someone I feel like I really miss.
I don't even think I want to meet him.
Because I want to just have him be the personality he is, you know?
joe rogan
He is Joey.
You don't have to worry about meeting him.
brian redban
Yeah, it's even better meeting him.
joe rogan
Yeah, you meet him and you love him.
He's the most unique human being I've ever met.
bert kreischer
When he tells that story about his mom, his stories, he tells a story, and he's one of the best storytellers because he leaves out the parts that make you stop and wonder, and then right when you're wondering, he hits you with a fucking joke.
He tells you the story about them playing cards.
Was his mom gay?
joe rogan
I don't think so.
bert kreischer
I thought there were lesbians in the story.
And she'd go, shake your ham, Joey, shake your ham.
joe rogan
Oh, when he would dance?
bert kreischer
Shake his ham in his underwear?
This sounds like a fucking TV show.
Like, I don't know how this guy has not gotten a TV show.
One of the most interesting guys I've ever fucking listened to.
joe rogan
He's so crazy.
That's why.
brian redban
Remember when he got pissed off at you?
joe rogan
Yeah, for nothing.
We were on the way to the gig, right?
And they were in the lobby, and the show starts in like, you know, 20 minutes or 15 minutes, whatever the fuck it is.
And so I'm headed downstairs.
Dog, I've been waiting for you down here for a half an hour, dog.
Don't leave me hanging here like this.
I go, don't worry about it.
The show starts when we get there.
Come on, dog.
You know me, dog.
You can't leave me hanging here like this, dog.
And he wouldn't drop in.
He got crazy.
brian redban
It got to like that times five more levels.
bert kreischer
Like, dog, you have to give me respect!
unidentified
Blah, blah, blah, blah!
Got your respect, dog.
joe rogan
Don't make me leave.
Don't leave me down here waiting for you, dog.
What are you talking about, Joey?
Meanwhile, I'm trying to discuss whether or not I should tell him that I had to take a meaty shit.
It took a little longer than I thought it was going to take.
Look, it's not like I don't want to be on time for my own fucking show.
We're here.
No one's dying.
We'll be there in five minutes.
bert kreischer
It was weird.
joe rogan
Forever.
I've known him for like 11, 12 years now.
Maybe even 13. I might have met him in...
Yeah, it might be 13 years.
unidentified
Fuck.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
brian redban
He was drawing a picture in the green room while Joe was talking to some friends.
And he goes, Brian, record this.
I'm like, what?
And I'm like, okay.
So I start recording him just drawing something.
And then he pulls up the sign that says...
Brian loves Taylor Vixen, who's my ex.
And I'm like, what the fuck?
And then he pulls out his balls and puts his balls behind it.
And I'm just like, Jesus Christ, man.
It's like, Joey Diaz's balls in a room that small is deadly.
bert kreischer
I bet his balls are massive.
brian redban
Massive, sweaty.
joe rogan
You two queers should go get a room.
Talking about Joey Diaz's balls.
The fuck?
bert kreischer
Dog!
unidentified
Dog!
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, what Joey did is he made a funny video to Brian's ex because Brian made a couple of other funny videos.
He's just torturing her.
brian redban
I'm not torturing her.
Joey Diaz is torturing me.
joe rogan
And you're sending him.
brian redban
Well, I'm sending him because they're funny and I think she would think it's funny, not torturous.
joe rogan
I'm not saying torture like you're hurting her.
Torture also means fun.
You know, like, oh, he's fucking torturing her.
It doesn't necessarily mean you're trying to hurt her.
brian redban
Yeah, see, she has an RSS feed.
bert kreischer
I don't even know what that is.
joe rogan
Brian, shut the fuck up, please.
bert kreischer
Oh, is this the whole fucking Bill Burr argument?
joe rogan
By the way, which continued on to Bill Burr's podcast and now apparently on to Greg Fitzsimmons' podcast.
bert kreischer
Shut up.
joe rogan
Which is even more ridiculous.
I was so disappointed in Bill when I heard him talking on his own podcast about it.
I'm like, wow.
And then here's the worst part about it.
He goes, and I just wanted to say I won.
Yeah, I even talked to my lawyer.
My lawyer said that I could sue.
Okay?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I won.
And I was like, Jesus Christ.
Somebody go find Bill and give him a fucking hug.
That guy, it's so ironic that Bill was talking shit about people who smoke weed.
If anybody needs weed, it's Bill Burr.
bert kreischer
Oh, he could definitely use a bullhead.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah, he could.
unidentified
He's so intense.
bert kreischer
He's a very intense guy.
But I always assume that's what everyone in Boston is like.
joe rogan
Yeah, very similar.
It's a hard place.
That's why comedy there, it's such a good place to grow up and start doing comedy because you learn very early on to appreciate people's attention spans because they will fucking boo you off the stage with the quickness.
Oh, yeah.
bert kreischer
We did.
I did a show at...
What was the comedy...
joe rogan
Connection?
bert kreischer
Comedy Connection.
joe rogan
Daniel Hall?
bert kreischer
Yeah, yeah.
For the Jameson tour.
It was me, Billy Gardell, Steve Byrne, and Danny Bevins, I think.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
And we had to do the show to get renewed.
Like, do the show to get the tour renewed.
And the tour was a dickload of money for us.
unidentified
Right.
bert kreischer
It was like four grand a weekend.
And all he had to do was 20 minutes.
joe rogan
Wow.
bert kreischer
And Billy Gardell was like, Billy, I mean, this is, I probably shouldn't talk about out of school about Billy, but Billy had just quit drinking.
And he's sober now, but had just quit drinking, like, that Thursday.
And was like, I'm never touching it again.
And we've got to go.
And he's fucking freaking out.
And he's like, you've got to close the show.
And I've got to follow like three guys that are all fucking bang, bang, bang in Boston.
And I'm nervous about doing well in Boston because I kind of do race.
I used to do a lot of race stuff then.
And I was like, fuck.
And I just came out the gates and I was like, I just gave it everything I had.
Just bam, bam.
Bam!
Bam!
And then like 15 minutes in, I'm like, if I can keep this energy going, then we fucking...
And I had a good set, and we got the tour renewed.
But, of course, just fucking dumped on some black eye in the front row the whole time.
He loved it.
He was with a white chick.
She had red hair.
Does that sound weird?
When a girl's like...
But that was...
Yeah.
That was my only experience in Boston.
joe rogan
Boston's a fun place.
Fun town.
Too bad it gets too cold.
Never live there again.
Sorry.
Love you guys.
bert kreischer
I couldn't live there.
joe rogan
Great place for comedy, though.
When you live in a place where it's that fucking harsh, you know, that kind of an environment, you know, I mean, but you think, you know, a lot of good comics come out of L.A. too, so that argument kind of sucks.
But don't start in L.A.? Yeah, some of them do.
bert kreischer
Who?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I've met some comics that started out here.
Holtzman started out here, didn't he?
He did, right?
I know guys who started out here that are really good.
I mean, you can start anywhere, man.
bert kreischer
I started in New York.
I did it once in Tallahassee and then moved right to New York.
Did it in New York and got my lunch money taken.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
Fucking quick.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
My first time ever on stage, this guy, Louis Schaefer, was like, I said I wanted to be a comic.
It's a long story, but my dad gave me one of those phone calls you don't ever want to have from a parent where he called me one morning on my birthday.
I'm expecting a birthday phone call, and he calls me.
He's like, you're pathetic.
You make me sick to my stomach.
I'm embarrassed of you.
You said you were going to be a comic.
Rolling Stone wrote an article about you and you said you were going to move and be a comic and you've been there eight months and you haven't done shit.
And I lie.
I lie about you.
Judges say, how's your son doing?
And I lie.
Do you know what that makes me feel like?
It's my birthday!
I'm sitting hungover in my underwear on my couch that I grew up on in New York.
I had that up there.
And my dad's just like, I failed you as a parent.
I failed you.
You have no humility.
I don't know what to do.
Just keep doing what you do.
I guess get a fucking job.
joe rogan
You have more humility?
bert kreischer
I had no humility at the time.
joe rogan
In what way?
bert kreischer
I just didn't, I didn't have the, like, I was like, I want to be a comic, but I didn't know how to go about getting it because I felt like I was too good to work the door or to, you know, does that make any sense when I say that?
I felt like I was too, I was, I was too good to just get in at the ground level.
I wanted to be discovered.
I wanted to be.
Hmm.
joe rogan
What was, what brought that on?
bert kreischer
I don't know.
I think a lot of people are like that.
joe rogan
Hubris?
Just youth?
bert kreischer
Yeah, I think a lot of people that...
How old were you?
26. Really?
Yeah, and I was too young to like...
The open mic scene was all alternative comedy.
And like Dimitri and Martin and I started around the same time.
And Dimitri just got welcomed by them.
And I hung out and no one ever talked to me.
And I was like, oh, fucking great.
So then I just hung out at the comedy clubs and drank.
In the back of comedy clubs.
joe rogan
You know what I've always found ironic about alternative comedy is that a lot of alternative comics were like outcasts and they, you know, they felt like, you know, they were kind of in, you know, nerds or whatever you would...
And meanwhile, they are like the least welcoming.
bert kreischer
The most, I mean...
joe rogan
And the weirdest, like, backstabby-ish, catty-ish.
It's very strange that you would think that the people that were picked on would be like really open and warm and friendly.
bert kreischer
Yeah, they were brutal.
I would go to...
I forget the name of the fucking...
Surf Reality and Collective Unconscious.
And I would hang out, try to do sets.
And no one would speak to me.
No one would speak to me.
And I would just be sitting there and Dimitri would talk to me.
And then he literally would come and talk to me.
And then walk away and talk to all of them.
And then come back and talk to me.
And I was just fucking...
But I never felt like an alternative.
joe rogan
Is that you though?
Or is it them?
unidentified
No.
bert kreischer
I would try to talk to people.
And whenever I said, they'd make fun of me.
Like I remember...
joe rogan
They would make fun of you.
Like how?
bert kreischer
The first...
Anything out of my mouth.
They'd just go, okay, okay.
joe rogan
And this is the comics.
bert kreischer
This is the comics.
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah, because they wanted you to feel uncomfortable.
bert kreischer
Oh, they wanted me to feel horrible.
joe rogan
Wow, isn't that weird?
bert kreischer
Oh, it's the worst.
And then I go to...
joe rogan
It's so common, though.
unidentified
Oh!
Oh!
bert kreischer
Go, go...
I'm generalizing, and I don't want to do that, but go hang out at fucking...
I'm trying to think of a name.
UCB. And see how, like, I know Tom said he went and did the, they have a comic book company.
joe rogan
I did a set there once and I had a great time.
I only did it once and I remember somebody pointed me to a thread somewhere where the people said they actually enjoyed the show but they were like, what the fuck is Joe Rogan doing here?
bert kreischer
That's so stupid.
joe rogan
It's weird, but it is, but it isn't.
They're expecting a certain particular type of comedy that maybe makes it feel good.
bert kreischer
But your comedy is the same.
That's what really upsets me.
I don't give a shit, personally.
I'm not looking to get spots at a comic book store.
joe rogan
I did a comic book store.
bert kreischer
Tom Segur just did one, and he said he was great.
joe rogan
I did it for Duncan.
It was awesome.
bert kreischer
But Duncan is kind of welcomed.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's welcomed everywhere.
Duncan's a genius.
He can float between worlds.
But what were you saying?
bert kreischer
So I had no humility.
That's what it gets to.
And it was just I would sit in the back of comedy clubs.
joe rogan
So how does this translate?
This is where I'm confused.
You say you have no humility at the time.
You thought you were too good.
But yet here you are in these alternative rooms and everyone's treating you like shit.
Do you think they're connected?
bert kreischer
I'm sure there were.
I'm sure that my perception of what the status quo of comedy clubs was perceived from the way I'd been treated.
But I'd go to the Boston Comedy Club at the cellar, and I'd say hi to Attell and Norton.
They were all cool, but they were also working comics.
And that's what I wanted to be.
And I think what my dad's note was, my dad's the kind of guy that if he wanted something, he would get it.
And he'd go, and he'd say, this is what I want.
Can you please help me get this?
joe rogan
And I would not, that guy, I'd just hang out in the back of the club and You know, in their defense, in anybody's defense, when it comes to hanging out with new people, man, I try to be as friendly and as open with everybody that I can.
New comics, I love talking to new comics.
But man, there's a certain point in time, sometimes in the middle of a conversation, when you realize, oh, I'm stuck talking to this dummy.
That's annoying, man, when you have a good group and a good vibe.
So maybe you came off too loud.
bert kreischer
I didn't say a word.
Really?
Maybe your stage, your act.
I went from this...
joe rogan
What were they judging you from?
bert kreischer
I never got on stage.
joe rogan
So what were they judging you from?
bert kreischer
I was nice.
Everyone liked me, but the alternative people didn't.
joe rogan
You must have said a word because you said they were mocking you for saying anything.
bert kreischer
Oh, the alternative comedics.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
I'd go up and I didn't know how to do stand-up.
joe rogan
Oh, so you did go up on stage and find them.
bert kreischer
Yeah, I'd go up and surf reality and collective unconscious, but you'd pay three bucks and go up at the end of the night.
joe rogan
Right.
bert kreischer
And that was how those rooms worked back then.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Well, then you can understand why they didn't want to talk to you, right?
bert kreischer
Yeah, I can understand that they didn't want to talk to me.
unidentified
I mean, I have to break down everything.
bert kreischer
But they weren't funny either.
It's not like anyone was killing, but they would laugh at whatever they said because they had said it.
joe rogan
And it also was a certain sensibility too, right?
bert kreischer
Yeah, and my shit was like...
I was trying to be funny in any comedy club.
Anyway...
joe rogan
You were trying to be funny in any comedy club?
bert kreischer
I was just trying to be funny.
I didn't know there was a difference in alternative...
joe rogan
There isn't.
We were talking about that before.
About this guy that they were saying is the founder of alternative comedy.
We both agreed.
He's not even an alternative comic.
He's just a comic.
You know, what does that even mean?
You know who I think was the founder of alternative comedy, as far as I know?
If it all came out of Boston, supposedly, it all came out of Catch a Rising Star, it was David Cross.
Because David Cross was doing, like, really weird shit.
brian redban
What about Steve Martin?
joe rogan
Oh, well, Steve Martin is an icon.
I mean, Steve Martin's a different thing.
He's not...
What David Cross did, here's one of the things he did.
Let me give you an example.
He put on a stretching tape, like a warm-up exercise tape, and then he started stretching and talking on stage about his stretching.
And I don't know why, but it was silly.
There was something funny about it, but it was completely ridiculous that he was taking this chance to go on stage.
But a lot of people weren't laughing, but everybody had a smile on their face.
Like, what the fuck is he doing?
It was fun.
Steve Martin was a comic.
He was just silly.
brian redban
Yeah, but he often did a lot of alternative stuff on stage.
joe rogan
Alternative stuff like what?
brian redban
Like he would do banjo stuff.
joe rogan
That's a banjo alternative?
That's not an alternative.
The idea of alternative is like hipster.
It's like nerdy, super smart.
That's what alternative comedy is supposed to be.
Like not too loud, not too physical.
Steve Martin is the antithesis of that.
He's the absolute opposite of what you would consider alternative comedy.
bert kreischer
I can't put my finger on alternative comedy per se, whether it is or it isn't, but I can put my finger on what alternative comics dislike.
Like, I can go on the road and go, this guy would...
You see guys on the road where their act is just unbearable, and you're like, holy shit.
And I think what they think is that is the comedy...
That goes on not in UCB. That is the comedy that's everywhere.
And that is like, I don't think a lot of them go on the road and see what you do on the road.
Or see what the road's like.
joe rogan
Well, eventually the road becomes the same everywhere.
I'm going to tell you that.
My crowds are sometimes more enthusiastic in different towns, but they're all the same now.
It's everybody's...
They all know what I'm doing.
So it's not an issue anymore.
But when you're young and no one knows who you are and you go on stage, if you're used to doing the UCB and getting those really polite laughs and chuckles in the back of the room with some witty...
You know, reference that you made, you know, to some, you know, fucking Dune novel, you know?
You know what I'm saying?
Something about the spice.
And everyone in the UCB thinks it's so funny.
Do that shit in Tallahassee, Florida.
They'll throw bottles at you, motherfucker.
You know, there's a problem with, you know, when no one knows who you are, man, that's when it's really tough.
When you're not bringing in your own crowd.
You can get really soft easily if you're a name and, you know, you have a bunch of people that come to see you all the time and, you know, they give you...
So much love.
They want you to succeed.
They want to laugh.
They don't have any arms crossed staring at you sideways.
bert kreischer
Good comedy is good comedy.
Patton Oswalt makes me laugh.
I don't give a fuck what anyone says.
He makes me giggle.
joe rogan
He's one of my favorites.
bert kreischer
First time I ever saw him on stage, he was like, he's really big in the alternative comedy scene.
And I was like, oh, really?
And then he just murdered.
And it was an alternative.
It was just funny.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, he's big in the alternative comedy scene because he's a comic book nerd and he loves science fiction and, you know, he fits in physically, you know, so they accept him, but he's a great writer.
That's what he is.
He's one of the best.
bert kreischer
His book is really good.
joe rogan
I got it, yeah.
I haven't read it yet, but I picked it up.
bert kreischer
So now to put it in perspective, now to get to what, to bring it full circle, if this is possibly at all possible.
So that is who I was in New York in 1997, trying to fit in, trying to break my way into comedy through having beers with comics and not fitting in an alternative and not having the gumption or the gregariousness to break in.
joe rogan
So were you doing sets?
bert kreischer
I don't even know what the fuck I was doing.
I was working out at Barnes& Noble.
joe rogan
So you were working at Barnes& Noble?
bert kreischer
No, working out.
joe rogan
Working out?
bert kreischer
Oh, this is bad.
joe rogan
Like, did you do sets at Barnes& Noble?
bert kreischer
No, I was working at Barnes& Noble and then working out during the day in the basement.
Like, I was fucking...
I got fired from Barnes& Noble.
This is the worst.
I was working at Barnes& Noble at Astro Place.
No fucking AC. And so every day, I would...
You ever have a job where you lift boxes and as you do, you're like, that's not a bad...
That's a good buy workout.
And you're like, oh, all right.
I'll do a little bit of this.
And if I do this all day long, I'm going to have fucking jacked buys by the end of the summer.
So I'd go down to the basement and you could take the freight elevator.
I'm going to sound like a psycho in five minutes.
You could take the freight elevator to the basement and no one could get down there because you had the elevator.
And so once I got to the basement...
I'd take off my clothes and start working out and just like do push-ups, sit-ups, fucking curls with boxes, hold books out and do fucking these fucking jobs, front rows, and I'd work out.
And then there was no AC, so then I'd wait until I cooled down, put all my clothes back on, get in the freight elevator.
Walk up, and I just killed like 30 minutes.
When you have a job like that, to kill 30 minutes is a...
It's like fucking...
God, I'm that much closer to being done.
Right, right.
So I'm like, this is...
And I'm eating rip fuel.
Do you remember rip fuel?
unidentified
Yeah.
bert kreischer
I'm popping fucking three rip fuels every three hours, right?
joe rogan
Oh my God.
bert kreischer
I'm like a tweaker running around, shelving travel books, going down to the basement, pounding like I'm in fucking...
And then come up sweating like a motherfucker with a name tag on.
And so like two weeks into it, my boss Dwayne pulls me aside and he was like, hey man, you've been spending a lot of time in the basement.
And I was like, oh yeah, because I've got to get travel books and that's where we keep them all down there.
And he's like, yeah, do you know we have video cameras?
unidentified
Ugh.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
bert kreischer
And I was like, I didn't know that.
And he's like, you're fucking fired.
And I was like, Dwayne, I can explain.
He goes, no, I can't have someone getting into their underwear in the basement, working out when they should be working, and then coming back up, and then interacting with people.
And I was trying to be a comic, so I was trying to think alternatively, and I'm on speed, which is...
So theoretically, I would do funny shit, but it was crazy if you didn't know me exactly.
Some guy told me the other day we were doing a promo shoot for Ace Team TV, and I did a joke at the end of the day.
I go, is that funny?
He goes, Bert, everything you do is only funny if you spent fucking 24 hours with you.
And so, yeah, so I got fired and then came home.
brian redban
That'd be great to have that tape if anyone had Barnes& Noble.
joe rogan
Oh my god, that's hilarious.
bert kreischer
His name was Dwayne.
I remember he asked me if I wanted to be a manager like a week before that.
And I was like, no.
And he was like, what?
And he was like, you don't want to be a manager?
And I was like, no.
He was like, why do you, what do you want to do then?
I was like, I want to be a comedian.
And I was like, this isn't what I do.
And he looked me dead in the face.
He goes, this is what you do.
This is who you are.
You work at Barnes& Noble.
Don't think you're better than us.
unidentified
You're not.
bert kreischer
I was like, fuck, I'm out of here soon.
I didn't know I was going to get fired.
joe rogan
Don't think you're better than us.
There was a guy when I was driving limousines that had that same attitude.
He would get pissed at me if I wanted to go home after working eight hours.
Because I was like, I'm gone, man.
I gotta go.
I got a gig to do.
And he was like, hey, eight hours is nothing around here.
There's a lot of other guys doing 12, 15-hour shifts.
I go, okay.
Good for them.
Bye.
bert kreischer
I'm going to leave.
joe rogan
And he's like, what makes you think the job's going to be in the morning?
I go, dude, I worked eight hours.
I got to go.
I got a gig.
He goes, where's your gig?
So I told him where the gig was.
Well, the gig got switched.
It was one of those things where it was a little $100 gig or something like that.
One of the booking agents...
I called him up and he said, hey, would you rather do this one in Connecticut?
It pays 150. I said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's one.
So he switched me and moved me to this other place.
So asshole calls the first place and I'm not there.
He goes, yeah, I called that fucking job.
You weren't there.
You know, you're a liar.
I'm like, no, it gets switched, you fucking creepy stalker prick.
Like, I work eight hours, but his whole attitude was that he wanted to keep me a driver.
Like, he felt me escaping.
I can feel it, yeah.
bert kreischer
A lot of times, I mean, I think that goes...
joe rogan
With everything.
bert kreischer
Even comedy.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, sure.
People are haters, man.
A lot of people, it's way easier for them if you're a failure.
Way easier for them if you're not ambitious, if you're not...
Like, when you're a guy and this poor fuck was like, you know, he's in his late 30s and he smokes cigarettes and he just looked like a broken dream.
He had nothing going on, you know?
And here he is, a dispatch guy for a limousine thing in Boston where you're dealing with a bunch of fucking savages every day.
And, you know, you see someone who's 21, And it just has all these crazy ideas in their head.
And I'm going to do this.
I'm going to be a comedian.
And you see all this energy behind this person.
You just want to squash that.
You want to throw water on that fire.
There's a lot of people, man.
The last thing they want to see is someone with some sort of a spark inside of them.
There's a lot of people, man.
That's terrifying to them.
They just don't want to see that, man.
They don't want to see that.
They want you to fuck up.
They want you to fail.
So they don't have to compare themselves to you unfavorably and then start thinking about what a fucking disaster their life has been.
bert kreischer
That was everyone that worked at Barnes& Noble.
Everyone that worked at Barnes& Noble was broken.
There was one gay guy who had...
I think he knew he was gay the whole time.
Then got to New York and was like, I'm fucking gay.
I remember him coming into work one day.
He's like, I'm gay.
And I was like, awesome.
And he's like, no, I can say it now.
I'm gay.
And I'm so happy.
And I was like, good for you, man.
joe rogan
So he had to hold onto it for the longest time.
bert kreischer
And he fucked so much that first month.
That guy, he got fucked out of his loft one night and came back with a black eye.
joe rogan
Because he fell out of the loft?
bert kreischer
Because the guy was fucking him and pounding him out of the loft.
This guy fucked non-stop at first.
That's kind of great.
joe rogan
Yeah, so he was in the closet.
bert kreischer
Just to be able to come into your sexuality, to realize you're straight, and then everyone in the straight community is like, let's just fuck this shit out of this guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, that wouldn't happen.
bert kreischer
Because that's what happens in the gay community.
joe rogan
In the straight community, it doesn't work that way.
They're not really into you switching teams.
It's like, you used to play for the Red Sox, and now you want to play for the Yankees?
What about that Red Sox sucks tattoo you got?
bert kreischer
Oh, but yeah.
So then, okay, now, full circle.
So then I worked at Barnes& Noble.
That's who I was.
I worked at Barnes& Noble.
I hung out at comedy clubs.
And so my dad, after that, at the end of that conversation, I was like, Dad, I don't want to embarrass you.
And I want to...
Tell me what to do.
It was my 26th birthday.
joe rogan
Wow.
bert kreischer
And he said...
You go to the club and you tell them you want to be a comic and you'll do anything it takes to be a comic.
And I go, Dad, that's not how it works.
And he goes, that's humility.
That's humility.
You walk into that front door, you talk to the guy who runs the club and say, you'll do anything.
You'll mop up, you'll stack chairs, you'll flip burgers, you'll clean dishes.
I go, Dad, they got a guy that cleans dishes.
He goes, that's what I'm fucking talking about.
Have some humility and go in and do that.
So I went in to this guy, Louis Schaefer.
Do you remember him?
joe rogan
Yeah, the comic strip?
bert kreischer
No, that's the Lucian hold.
Lewis Schaefer was a gay guy that worked down in the village who always wore a blazer and a white shirt.
joe rogan
Yeah, why do I know?
bert kreischer
Lewis Schaefer!
joe rogan
What club?
bert kreischer
Not gay, not gay.
joe rogan
What club?
bert kreischer
Boston Comedy Club?
joe rogan
Right, okay, yeah.
bert kreischer
So I went up to Lewis and I was like, I want to be a comic.
And Lewis was like...
This is the night of my birthday and he goes, can I give you some advice?
I said, yeah.
And he goes, go back to Tampa and learn it there and then come back to New York.
You're in the big leagues right now.
And I was like, I've already got an apartment.
That's not going to work.
And he's like, well, that's my advice.
And so I called my dad and I was like, I want to, he said to move back to Tampa.
And my dad goes, perfect.
Go in tonight and give him the same speech you gave him last night and say, you're going to do this until he fucking folds and gives you a job.
And so I was like, all right.
So I went in that night.
Like, Seven said the same thing to Lewis, and Lewis said, God, didn't I tell you to move back to Tampa?
And I was like, I go, well, I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to keep hounding you.
And he said, okay, if you can stand out front and bring in 20 people throughout the night, and then if there's still people in the room after Godfrey goes on, I'll let you go up on stage.
And so I was like, okay.
So that night...
Two, the fucking three people in, four people in, a girl named Karen Bergreen is on stage.
And four Puerto Rican guys who I had brought in off the street who were like one guy was going to prison the next day.
I just brought anyone.
I brought a guy in with ice cream.
He had groceries and I brought him in.
I brought everyone in the club.
They're sitting in the front row and they make Karen Bergreen cry.
And Louis...
They go, look, Karen's crying.
And so Lewis goes, oh, you want to be a comic?
Now's your chance.
So he went up, grabbed Karen Berger, and he goes, all right, you guys ready for your next comic?
And brought me on stage.
And the only thing, if anything, that I could do was light up four Puerto Ricans.
And I got on stage, and I destroyed these guys.
unidentified
Wow.
bert kreischer
One by one by one.
And when they'd talk, I would be like, listen, when it says in my act the dumb Puerto Rican interjects, I'll point to you.
And he'd be like, oh, and the crowd was going nuts.
How many people It was everyone that knew me.
I brought everyone in.
It was like 100, maybe 100 people on a Thursday night.
And so they get up and they leave.
The place goes nuts.
And this is my first time on stage in New York.
And I'm like, oh, I'm like, or like on a real stage, you know?
And I'm like, yes, I'm a fucking.
And then I was supposed to do a joke and I didn't have any jokes.
And I was like, fuck, I bombed, got off stage.
And Lewis was like, you got a job.
And I was like, what?
And he goes, come here every night at 7, unlock the place, set the chairs up, and bring in people all night long, and I'll give you a spot.
Six months later, literally, and this brings it to Bill Burr, six months later, I get a development deal with Will Smith.
Do work in the door, six months later, like that, and Bill Burr told me, he was like, it happens, don't feel guilty, everyone's going to dislike you.
But I was like, huh?
joe rogan
Did you get that?
Did you get a lot of resentment?
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah?
bert kreischer
Yeah, a lot.
But I didn't care, really.
Because I was like, I don't fucking...
joe rogan
You sound almost like...
I mean, I love you, man.
But you sound almost like this hapless retard that stumbles upon success.
bert kreischer
I'm fucking...
I'm the luckiest guy.
I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
Literally the luckiest guy.
joe rogan
But it's not just that.
It's your personality is very endearing and interesting.
And you tell great stories.
So it's not just that you're lucky.
It's just to be you...
And this is the same thing when you were talking about Joey.
To be Joey...
You can't be Joey and market Joey.
It's almost like somebody else has to come along and find what's interesting about you.
Yeah.
You know, but the fact that you, like, kept going after it, you know, and that you started out in New York, in the village, you know, it's, like, one of the hardest places you could ever start doing stand-up.
Oh, yeah.
bert kreischer
I think if you can...
I always assimilate the two, like, because then I moved to L.A., because I got a TV show, and then tried doing a comedy in L.A., and it was just totally different.
And I remember Bobby Kelly came out, and he was like, I don't fucking...
I remember Bobby was like, I don't have this fucking witty shit.
I don't have witty shit.
I'm fucking real.
I'm a comic.
I'm a fucking New York comic.
I go up and I talk.
unidentified
Yeah.
bert kreischer
He was like, fuck this witty shit.
joe rogan
What do you mean witty shit?
bert kreischer
I don't remember.
He just kept saying, fuck this witty shit.
I don't have witty shit.
I don't have witty jokes, okay?
unidentified
What?
bert kreischer
I don't know.
That's all I remember is sitting in the back of the improv with him.
joe rogan
Look, man, Joey Diaz doesn't have a witty bone in his body, but it's the funniest shit I've ever heard.
It doesn't have to be witty to me.
bert kreischer
I consider the two difference.
I think both are working out, but New York is working out in prison.
Where you're like, it's just a fucking steel bar with two cinder blocks and you're just kind of trying to get sized so you don't get fucked in the ass in the shower.
And LA is like doing like Taibo or like spin class.
So you want to look good.
You want to look good.
You want to look tight.
But you don't have to worry about getting fucked in the shower because it's not as bad.
Of course, I've never done it at the store.
What?
LA, LA, New York comedy is like fucking in your face.
Like the second you stand up, it's not like an industry crowd.
It's fucking a bunch of fucking Persians that are in from Iraq or wherever.
And then it's a fucking bunch of brothers in from Harlem.
Some kids from Spanish Harlem.
And they just like fucking light you up.
Like it's a little more aggressive.
LA is a little more you get up.
I remember the first time I realized I didn't have any like joke jokes.
Like I couldn't just start speaking.
Like I needed to interact with someone.
joe rogan
Really?
That's what you'd always do?
bert kreischer
In New York, you just...
I mean, your act is very organic because you talk to someone, hey, where are you from?
Or, oh, how'd you get here?
unidentified
I don't know.
bert kreischer
It just seemed like more crowded.
joe rogan
I never did that, even when I was in New York.
bert kreischer
It seemed more organic.
joe rogan
I never did that.
When I was in New York, I just did my act.
bert kreischer
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I never talked to the crowd.
The only time I'd ever talk to the crowd is if there's a problem.
Like, you have to deal with something.
Or if someone's just, like, really outrageous.
bert kreischer
I saw the guy...
What's the guy's name who used to do Make Me Laugh?
Do you remember that?
The one on Comedy Central?
Mark?
joe rogan
I have no idea.
bert kreischer
It was on Comedy Central, and Jeff Ross was always on it.
I forget the guy's name.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
He dated Tara Silverman, this guy.
I saw him come to New York one day.
He was an LA comic, and he got fucking stole.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
Bad.
And I'd never seen someone bomb before like that, where he couldn't come back.
It was just bits.
And he fucking ate it hard.
joe rogan
Dude, people are going to eat it.
They're going to eat it everywhere.
bert kreischer
But everyone in the club was like, that's LA comedy for you.
joe rogan
It's not even.
It's probably he was uncomfortable.
Probably uncomfortable and got on stage with an attitude or felt weird when he got up there.
That's half of it, man.
Half of it is being comfortable wherever the fuck you are.
Which is the best thing about having fans that come to see you.
Having people that know what you do and they're coming to see you.
I know Bert Kreischer.
He's hilarious.
I'm going to see Bert Kreischer.
You know, as opposed to just coming to any club.
But that's how you develop your voice too, by doing those clubs.
But then you have to always think that if you're doing these clubs and no one knows who you are and you're trying to get them to like you, you know, there's a danger of maybe becoming something that you're not because you want them to like you, you know, because you want to be more successful.
Like it almost like it hinders your ability to become yourself on stage.
You know what I'm talking about?
bert kreischer
Yeah, I think so.
joe rogan
I mean, how many guys have you seen that do a tell when they go on stage?
bert kreischer
A lot.
joe rogan
A lot, right?
And why are they doing it?
Well, they're doing it because they know it works.
They know it works and it's successful and it gives them a charge when they're in the audience.
They react to his cadence and then it becomes really catchy.
And then you sort of start doing it even almost subconsciously because you're just trying to be effective.
You're just trying to be effective up there.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
I used to steal from Mattel when I was young because I didn't know how to write a joke.
And you'd just be like, how the fuck would a Telltale tell it?
unidentified
Right.
bert kreischer
I remember my first joke was, you know what cops hate?
When you touch their faces.
And I was just like, that's a Mattel fucking set-up punch.
joe rogan
It is?
bert kreischer
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
He said that already?
bert kreischer
No, no, no, no.
I just always thought that in my head.
joe rogan
Oh, I see what you're saying.
So you imitated him.
bert kreischer
I would emulate, when I'd write a joke, I'd be like, I got a funny premise.
Because I was hammered on a flight to Scotland, and a stewardess was trying to cut me off, and I knew she was cutting me off, and I didn't want her to say anything.
And so I just went, took my fingers to her lips, and I went, shh.
Like, I didn't want her to cut me off, and then I got really cut off.
This is well before 9-11.
And so I told Patrice that happened, and Patrice was like, that's a funny joke.
Because the second you touch someone's face, you take all their power away.
Like, you touch someone's face, it fucking just...
And he was like, you gotta fucking tell it.
joe rogan
So did you actually touch her face?
bert kreischer
Yeah, I fucking touched her face.
I was so drunk going to Scotland from L.A. Wow.
And I just went...
joe rogan
So what happened when you touched her face?
Did she freak out?
bert kreischer
No, she just was like, alright, you're done.
You're done.
And then served me another beer at the end of the day.
Like when we were getting a land, she gave me another one.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
I've been cut off planes a lot.
unidentified
Really?
bert kreischer
You've never been cut off on a plane?
joe rogan
Never.
Never.
brian redban
What's the cutoff amount?
joe rogan
You gotta be obnoxious.
bert kreischer
No, no.
No, I'm not.
I'm the least obnoxious drunk.
joe rogan
So it's not.
It's a number.
bert kreischer
It's four, yeah.
It's four.
They won't serve you more than four drinks.
joe rogan
Is that in first class as well?
bert kreischer
No.
First class is totally different.
joe rogan
They let you ball.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
They figure you get control.
bert kreischer
I'm a pro at it now.
joe rogan
Yeah?
bert kreischer
Number one, if you're a big drinker on planes, this is how I do it.
Don't speak.
Ever speak.
Don't speak to anyone.
Just, if you want a drink, tap your cup.
Just...
joe rogan
Dude, you're an alcoholic.
bert kreischer
Okay, maybe I am.
joe rogan
You're not talking just so that you can get more alcohol?
bert kreischer
Yeah, on planes.
I have a hard time flying.
I have fucking massive anxiety flying.
joe rogan
You're telling us before the show that you have anxiety right now.
bert kreischer
I have horrible anxiety.
joe rogan
Yeah, because you seem a little, like, revved up today.
bert kreischer
Fucking yeah.
joe rogan
Like you're having a hard time, like, staying calm.
bert kreischer
Yeah, because I gotta go skydiving on Saturday.
And so that's in the back of my head, like, the concept of...
joe rogan
So is that fucking with you while you're talking?
Like, do you hear it in the back of your head?
You're going skydiving.
unidentified
No, I don't.
bert kreischer
No, if I got high...
joe rogan
Yeah, Bert is the only one right here that's not high, so he's not on the same frequency as Brian and I. Yeah, I would totally.
bert kreischer
Have you ever gone skydiving?
joe rogan
No, I'm not really into dying like that.
bert kreischer
If you would...
joe rogan
I'm sure it'd be fun as fuck, but, you know, there's...
I know two people that know people that have died, including Brian.
Brian's dad was supposed to go skydiving with this woman.
brian redban
Yeah, she flattened out.
joe rogan
Boom, hit the ground.
unidentified
Squat.
brian redban
You know another thing I heard too that I don't know if this is true or not I think we already talked about this but like how when you're skydiving it's really hard to breathe because it's so much air so the whole time you're just going like you can't you're just trying to breathe you're focusing so much on breathing now I'm starting to sweat yeah no no it's just really hot don't bring up how hard this guy's sweating like a pig seriously he's really sweating man I'm really sweating right now I'm thinking about it it is hot in here yeah yeah it's not that hot in here you guys are both fat oh I will definitely this is what's going on right here So you really
bert kreischer
knew someone who died skydiving?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
I knew someone else from some friends of mine in Houston.
There was a bunch of guys that skydived and, you know, I didn't know the guy.
He told me his friend died.
And then Brian's story.
That's two.
That two's enough.
bert kreischer
Was he tandem?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I don't know what happened.
I think he was solo.
brian redban
You know, a thousand people that probably died or knew people that died in car accidents, but you still drive a car.
joe rogan
I don't know a thousand people that have died in car accidents, Brian.
brian redban
Jesus Christ.
I'm saying if you're going by a person that knows somebody that died.
You have friends that know somebody that died in skydiving.
joe rogan
And what would be the difference, Brian?
brian redban
What are you talking about?
joe rogan
What would be the difference between those two things?
bert kreischer
You don't need to skydive to get to work.
joe rogan
A, and B, you don't skydive every fucking day of your life.
brian redban
I mean, I'm not skydiving because of people dying.
That's the last thing I'm thinking of.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
That's the first thing I'm thinking of.
What a dumb fuck I would feel if I'm pulling that thing and the parachute's not coming out and I see that barn and I know I'm going to make a fucking Scooby-Doo hole through it in the shape of my body with my outstretched arms.
unidentified
Boom!
joe rogan
And it's going to hit the hay and And I'll turn into a bag of jello and broken bones.
Splat!
And basically, just inside your helmet is all just broken, smashed up.
brian redban
It's just not going to happen.
You're going to be fine, but it's going to suck the heights things.
Are you scared of heights?
bert kreischer
Terrified of heights.
Terrified of heights.
brian redban
Yeah, me too.
But you've been on rollercoaster stuff, but you're going to be strapped into somebody else, also a professional.
bert kreischer
Hopefully, I'm going to go tandem.
joe rogan
Well, you must be.
You have to.
You can't just do it on your first time.
They don't want you to panic and just...
bert kreischer
I panic.
joe rogan
Just shut off.
bert kreischer
So I've been stressing about that like crazy.
joe rogan
That's freaking you out.
bert kreischer
Oh, fucking nightmare.
joe rogan
This show is a real mindfuck for you because you have to do a lot of dangerous shit on this show.
bert kreischer
Yeah, we were doing a concrete toboggan race where you get a 300-pound concrete toboggan, put five kids in it, and then you race it down a mountain against another team who has a 300-pound concrete toboggan.
unidentified
What?
bert kreischer
And you go 40 miles per hour, no steering, and you just fly down a fucking mountain.
joe rogan
How do you stop it?
bert kreischer
They have brakes.
They have brakes.
But it depends on where your brakes are on the thing.
You may just fucking flip it.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
The two people before us, the group before us, guy goes, they've ragdolled it.
They hit a berm, ragdolled it, dude breaks his femur, girl breaks her arm in two places, and all the bones in her hand.
And then they go, are you ready?
And I was like, what?
And my cameraman's like, dude, a broken femur's a game changer.
unidentified
It is.
joe rogan
It's a life changer.
bert kreischer
Fuck yeah!
joe rogan
People lose their legs sometimes because when they try to reattach it, put the femur back together, you can't get a blood clot going.
So it gets gangrene.
People lose their legs from femurs.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
But yeah, that was like one of the things.
I mean, we went shovel racing in New Mexico.
Do you know what I mean?
joe rogan
What's that?
bert kreischer
You just sit on a shovel and go down a mountain at 70 miles an hour.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
bert kreischer
Just sit on a shovel and then just...
joe rogan
And hope you don't die?
bert kreischer
And just sit back like this.
joe rogan
How fast were you going?
bert kreischer
I definitely didn't get 70. But guys are going 72, 75. 70 miles an hour on a shovel.
On a shovel.
No brakes.
joe rogan
What kind of hill are you dealing with here?
bert kreischer
A fucking blue slope.
Like on a blue slope on skiing.
Yeah, blue diamonds.
It goes green, blue, and black.
And we're on a blue one that's been shaved and salted.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
bert kreischer
And you just are flying.
unidentified
Fuck that noise.
joe rogan
It's basically like the luge.
bert kreischer
Oh, it's exactly like a luge.
But with less control.
Because you're on a shovel.
And the rods just sticking between your legs.
I've learned a lot about myself with anxiety through this show.
Like, I've learned a ton.
But I'm still dictated by my anxiety.
joe rogan
Like, in what way?
bert kreischer
Like, there's certain foods I won't eat because I know it'll fuck with me in the middle of the night.
I'll just wake up and have an anxiety attack.
joe rogan
Certain foods trigger anxiety.
unidentified
What foods?
bert kreischer
My stomach dictates my anxiety.
brian redban
It's heart palpitations.
Some foods like onions and stuff I know makes my heart beat a little crazy here and there.
bert kreischer
For me, it's spicy food to wake me up in the middle of the night.
joe rogan
Onions make your heart beat weird?
brian redban
Spicy food.
Like the other night when my shit was all jacked up from eating those jalapenos, the stuffed jalapenos.
bert kreischer
Oh, I can't fuck with jalapenos.
brian redban
Yeah, it fucks my stomach up, which then fucks my heart up, which makes me conscious of my heart, and then I'm freaking out.
joe rogan
Whoa.
brian redban
Yeah.
bert kreischer
You don't get any anxiety?
joe rogan
Not about that stuff.
bert kreischer
Have you ever had an anxiety attack?
joe rogan
No.
bert kreischer
Never?
joe rogan
No.
brian redban
That's weird.
bert kreischer
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brian redban
That's really weird.
joe rogan
Wait a minute, it's not really weird to not have an anxiety attack.
brian redban
No, I mean, like most people I thought always had, like, I didn't think you'd never have.
bert kreischer
I don't think most people have anxiety attacks, dude.
joe rogan
I don't think that's true at all.
I've had some, let me clarify, I've had some paranoid moments on weed, for sure.
I've had some moments, but I think those are very important.
I think those are the ones that make you re-evaluate yourself.
bert kreischer
You said that one time and I was like, I don't like re-evaluating myself.
joe rogan
I like those.
bert kreischer
I don't even like knowing myself at all.
joe rogan
I like being scared as fuck when it comes to that.
No, no, no, no.
It's not anxiety because I'm not panicking.
I'm just terribly aware of everything.
And it's not a panic attack.
It's just an acceptance of the whole picture.
It's never where I don't feel like I can handle it or I'm going to freak out or my heart's beating too fast.
It's never that.
It's just the humbling, aware feeling and awareness of the big picture.
You know?
I like that.
brian redban
Let me start saying that.
joe rogan
I think it's very important.
bert kreischer
Do you realize people take drugs to get away from that feeling?
joe rogan
Not me, man.
I go into it.
I run into it.
That's what the tank is.
The tank accentuates any feeling that you get.
Have you ever been too high and freaked out?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I go in the tank when I'm too high.
The higher I get, that's the more I want to get in the tank.
Because you face it and you come out of it and you always learn something.
unidentified
Always.
joe rogan
Always.
I always know more about myself.
I always know whether I'm on the right track as far as like, you know, is there anything in my subconscious that's fucking with me?
Really?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I go right in there, man.
bert kreischer
See, I'll obsess about anything.
If you can give me something, I'll mull it over my head.
Like, when I had to jump off the stratosphere, I literally was up the night before throwing up in a bathtub.
joe rogan
Right, but do you feel like you're making progress with all this crazy, critical thinking?
unidentified
Yes, I am.
bert kreischer
I'm definitely making progress.
But, like, I'm definitely making progress.
But I still...
brian redban
I think the stratosphere, by the way, is going to be a lot scarier than skydiving.
bert kreischer
Really?
brian redban
Yeah, because you're going to be able to see a point of distance.
joe rogan
Bitch, you crazy.
Nobody died in the stratosphere.
bert kreischer
Someone said skydiving is...
You're so far removed from what the distance is...
brian redban
That's what I'm saying, yeah.
bert kreischer
...that it doesn't freak you out.
brian redban
Right.
unidentified
What?
brian redban
No, I mean, it makes total sense.
I mean, if you're standing on top of a really tall building, you can fucking see that you're really high up because you can see other things at the same level or below or higher.
So it gives you more of an idea that you're really high up.
joe rogan
A reference point.
brian redban
Yeah, yeah.
When you're up in a...
You know, plane.
Sure, it's high, but it's also almost like cartoony fake.
joe rogan
If you're retarded, I don't know, man.
To me, it looks like a goddamn plane flying 30,000 fucking feet above the earth.
unidentified
He's just going 16. It's just going to take a long time to hit the ground.
joe rogan
16,000?
unidentified
16,000!
joe rogan
You hit the ground quite twice as quick.
And it's one of those planes that just falls from the sky every now and then.
Those skydiver planes?
What kind of a fucking plane can you open up a door in the middle of the flight?
That's a drug plane.
Those are drug planes, man.
brian redban
If the pilot has a mustache, you might be screwed.
joe rogan
Drug planes crash all the time, dude.
You ever see that one that crashed in Mexico?
Four tons of cocaine inside of it that ran out of gas?
CIA plane.
unidentified
Are you serious?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's fucking one of the greatest stories of all time.
CIA plane headed...
Went to Guantanamo Bay on two separate occasions.
Clearly a CIA plane.
Four tons of cocaine in it.
unidentified
Shut up.
joe rogan
Crashes in Mexico.
Mexicans won't let them refuel because they know what the fuck they're doing.
brian redban
By the way, Portland was fucking amazing.
Have you been to Portland, Chile?
bert kreischer
He was saying that.
I'm going this year.
I just don't know why.
joe rogan
Portland didn't have a major comedy club for the longest time, so it was hard for comics to tour through Portland.
But then they just put this helium place in.
I had done Portland before.
I did a theater there, and it was great.
But this was really fun because we got to do three nights, you know, five shows over three nights.
Everything sold out way in advance.
It was all podcast fans, you know.
And that's the thing that Brian and I have been talking about a lot lately, and I was talking with you about it in the kitchen.
Everything has changed.
It's completely different, you know.
The people that are coming to shows are way more enthusiastic.
It's way different.
You know, they know you better.
It's a crazy experience, man.
bert kreischer
Do you feel like you have more of a chance to riff on stage than you used to?
joe rogan
I don't know, man.
I've been cutting my sets down to like an hour and ten minutes and just smashing.
bert kreischer
You guys just said something, one podcast, that made me reevaluate everything I do on stage.
joe rogan
Yeah, what?
bert kreischer
50 minutes.
Someone said 50 minutes.
joe rogan
Jim Norton did that.
Norton did 50. I saw him do 50 in Austin.
And he made me think, because I was doing a lot of long sets where I do this question and answer thing at the end.
But the problem with the question and answer thing is that it doesn't have the same pop as the regular show, and so the show always would kind of end on some weird note, like I'd be crushing for an hour, and then I'd do this question and answer thing for an hour, and then people would be tired.
So the experience of a show was not the same.
And I thought I was just giving them more show.
I thought I was being more generous and giving them more show.
But I realized the best way to do it, really, is to give them an hour, hour and ten max, and just smash it.
Just come out of the gates.
And I've been doing that for the last couple of months.
brian redban
Standing O's, all those shows in Portland.
I mean, instead of like, because I saw it too, kind of like a fizzle.
It just kind of like shows over, now here's this other thing.
And then people forgot about the show.
They were kind of doing this.
Exactly.
But now it's just like fucking roaring.
Those people want to come back.
They're telling all their friends immediately instead of going, oh yeah, it was good last night.
joe rogan
Yeah, they were all standing ovations.
It was awesome.
Portland was fucking awesome.
Never had a place where people handed me more weed.
Never.
brian redban
Never.
joe rogan
Dude, I stunk of weed when I got home.
I was wearing the same pants that I wore the show the night before, and Mrs. Rogan was like, you fucking stink like weed.
It was my pants.
I took a shower, and she goes, I can still smell in the bathroom.
And then she goes, your pants.
She goes, what did you smoke?
Your fucking pants?
They smelled like weed.
It was ridiculous.
It was just from people blowing weed on me, and Joey, and then when we were in the green room.
brian redban
Joe, I remember when I kept on sitting at the airport, like I smell weed.
joe rogan
It was in my pants.
brian redban
No, it might have been that too, but I opened my book bag up and there was a bowl, there was a joint and a bag of weed in the secret pocket I didn't even know existed.
unidentified
And I'm like, holy shit.
joe rogan
You know what I would have done?
I would have pretended I didn't know you and I would have ran in the opposite direction.
I need to go home and see my kids, dude.
I can't be going to court for you.
bert kreischer
Jay and I one time were flying to Vegas and we're in my car.
We're sitting in my car and we have a bag of weed and he's like, just bring it.
And I go, I don't want to because I don't want to go through security with it.
And he's like, it's fucking Vegas.
Do you think anyone's going to check?
brian redban
Of course they do.
joe rogan
It's one of the worst.
bert kreischer
And so I was like, all right, fuck it.
So I throw up my bag.
We go to leave.
We start walking.
And at the last minute, I fucking go, oh, hold on.
And I take it out of my bag.
I just throw it in the car.
And I go, I'm not fucking bringing it.
I'm not bringing it.
But I don't tell Jay.
I'm just like, fuck it.
I'll deal with it when we get to Vegas.
So we go through security.
And as we go through security, they pull me to the side.
And they're like, sir, we're going to need to check your bag.
And Jay thinks, yeah, I have it.
And I start laughing hysterically because I know that he thinks I have it.
And then the guy is a tall black guy.
Jay is standing right there.
He goes, what are you laughing at, sir?
And I go, I almost traveled with weed, but I left it in my car.
And Jay goes, you didn't bring it?
They go, no, it's in my car.
And the guy was like, you have weed?
Where's your car?
I was like, I'm not going to tell you.
joe rogan
You have weed?
Where's your car?
unidentified
He was like, what?
joe rogan
What kind of a TSA bullshit fucking question is that?
brian redban
He's probably coming on his break soon.
He wanted to puff out.
joe rogan
Yeah, he wanted to scare you into giving up the weed.
bert kreischer
I walked into Brave Stadium and I said to the lady, just out of curiosity, it's the moments that you don't have drugs that you want to find out how it would go down if they busted you.
And I said to the lady, she was checking my fanny pack, When I firmly believe in fanny packs, by the way.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah, give me some knuckles on that shit.
I firmly believe in fanny packs.
I'm getting mad at all this what's dead for 2011. The fanny pack will never die, okay?
Because I'm not trying to get laid.
So fuck you.
bert kreischer
They're so sensible.
They're right there.
All your shit's right there.
joe rogan
Exactly.
I love wearing them.
I love when people think they're dorky.
Good.
brian redban
Especially if you're married and have kids.
It's awesome.
joe rogan
You haven't worn it before I was married with kids, kid.
How about I never stop wearing it?
How about I wore that shit in the 90s?
People were giving me shit on the message board in the 90s for wearing a fanny pack.
I don't give a fuck.
brian redban
I love more if you're very successful and it doesn't matter.
joe rogan
Brian, look at you and stop and think about the level of pussy that you get on a regular basis.
You could still rock a fanny pack and pull it off.
Trust me, kid.
bert kreischer
It's like a mustache.
joe rogan
That would probably get you more pussy.
It would probably get you more pussy because you're like, this motherfucker doesn't care.
He's wearing a fanny pack.
Why don't you wear pink Converse All-Stars, too?
Women, that's one of the things that women like more than anything is a guy that can be himself.
That's why she knows who the fuck you are.
Instead of you going out and pretending to be some different person no matter where the fuck you go.
Women know when they can count on you.
They know when they can count.
bert kreischer
He's the first guy to wear a girl mustache, not the tenth.
joe rogan
Exactly.
Go fucking porn style with a big fucking twisty one.
So there's a list that just got released talking about checking you at the airport, because this is amazing.
It's the Department of Homeland Security.
And they put out this, the following characteristics that qualifies a person for potential domestic terrorist.
And I put this shit on my Twitter because it's so ridiculous.
Expressions of libertarian philosophies.
Bumper stickers or statements.
Like, you might be a fucking potential domestic terrorist because you think that people should be able to do whatever they want to do.
You think that libertarian ideology is better than Republican or Democratic ideology.
Amazing.
You have a bumper sticker, so you might be a domestic terrorist.
If this was just some crazy asshole that ran some website, some right-wing website, but this is like giving people instructions.
Look out for Second Amendment-oriented views, NRA or gun club membership.
Jesus fucking Christ.
What, you can't go hunting?
If you want to shoot your own meat instead of getting it from some fucking slaughterhouse, you're a potential domestic terrorist because you believe in the rights to keep guns.
You think that adults should be able to have guns just like adults can have fucking cars, okay?
Just like adults can have a lot of shit that can fuck you up, alright?
Yeah, people should have guns, alright?
That's why they're here.
They're here so, A, you can shoot people that are bad, and B, you can shoot animals and eat them, okay?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's not a fucking potential terrorist issue.
bert kreischer
I would argue there's no connection between people who own guns and terrorism.
joe rogan
I don't know about that.
bert kreischer
I would say almost 100%.
I mean, the guys that fucking flew planes into 9-11...
joe rogan
That's just because they couldn't get guns on board.
bert kreischer
Exactly, but where's the connection?
Where do you draw a connection between someone who owns a gun?
joe rogan
Well, the idea is that people want to overthrow the government.
They're thinking about people who rise the fuck up and realize this goddamn corrupt government that's running this country needs to be held accountable for all their bullshit.
I finally finished watching that Inside Job last night.
bert kreischer
Fuck!
joe rogan
I had to turn it off the last time I watched it.
I watched it for an hour and I'm like, I'm getting angry for no reason and I had to shut it off.
But I finally watched it all last night.
It is maddening.
It's all about the financial collapse.
It's not Inside Job.
You hear like that, you think 9-11.
It's not about 9-11.
It's all about the financial collapse.
And it's all interviewing all these economists and all these people that didn't predict it, all these people that fucking profit from it.
And it talks about one of the most disturbing things is how corrupt economics has become the study of economics at the university level.
Because all these fucking guys who are teaching economics at Harvard and at Columbia, they all wind up working for the presidents.
They all wind up working for governments and they wind up going on these speaking engagements where they're making millions of dollars.
And they showed this, like how fucked it is that everyone is just stealing and everyone is getting away with it because everyone is protecting everyone.
Everyone is making sure that no one is held accountable for all this.
Fucking incredible movie, man.
Matthew Damon is the narrator.
And it's really good.
If you want to get crazy, go and see how fucked up this country is and how fucked up the unfixable foundation of this country is, the financial foundation of this country.
It's nuts.
It is amazing that it works at all.
And these motherfuckers that got bonuses, man, just the brazen...
That asshole-ishness to ask for hundreds of millions of dollars in the middle of a gigantic financial collapse that you were at least partially responsible for.
And the fact that nobody holds him to the fire.
It's nuts, man.
It is one of the nuttiest documentaries I've ever seen in my life.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
This guy who's running the documentary, too, he's asking some of the questions, one of the guys, and he catches a lot of these guys, like one of the guys that worked for Bush.
And, you know, he was an economic advisor for Bush.
And he's also for, I think, I believe he teaches at Harvard.
And they caught this guy and they were talking to him and asking him questions.
And you see the frustration when they're hitting him with logic and facts and like, how could you not know?
And then they're hitting him with all this information about things that he said and how wrong it was.
Why did you think that this economy was stable?
Why did you think that these funds should be rated at AA? Meanwhile, they crashed the very next day.
I mean, it's just nuts, man.
They're just stealing.
It's incredible.
It's like everyone is stealing, so it seems like...
They can get away with it and they can keep doing it.
No one's asking for anybody to be held accountable.
It's really weird, man.
I mean, we're in the middle of like a giant trillion dollar heist and these bankers have literally ripped off everyone.
It's one of the most incredible things I think I've ever seen.
It's really explained in detail when they talk about it from the point of the stock market and where people were banking on things to fail yet selling them and promoting them with their clients.
unidentified
Wow!
joe rogan
It's amazing.
I mean, you have to watch it like five or six times, I think, to really wrap your head around how fucking complex it all is.
Because the whole financial system, it's almost intangible.
It's like there's nothing there.
As you get deeper and deeper into it, you try to pick something up.
There's nothing to grab.
It's really weird, man.
But it drives me fucking nuts.
bert kreischer
If the movie is any indication of this conversation, I think I'd be lost within the first five minutes.
I'll always have a six-year-old's span of listening to shit.
joe rogan
I'm just so fucking...
bert kreischer
Have you always been a reader?
joe rogan
Yeah, pretty much, yeah.
bert kreischer
Like, as a kid, did you read?
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
I never fucking read.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
Never.
First book I ever read was, like, really read, like, bought it.
And for myself, instead of I'm going to read it, was Naked by David Sedaris.
joe rogan
Well, I used to read, when I was a kid, I used to read a lot of fiction.
And then I started doing martial arts.
I read a lot of martial arts books.
Really?
I read a lot of books on strategy.
Like, you know, that's where I first read the Book of Five Rings, which became like a...
This is the tattoo that I have.
This is Miyamoto Musashi fighting a tiger.
And one of the reasons why I got that tattoo is because I read something when I was a little kid that really sunk into my head.
Once you understand the way broadly you can see it in all things, is what he said.
And the idea is that once you find greatness in anything, whether it's painting or sculpture or music, when you find something, you just nail it, you get to the core of it, you understand what greatness is, and you can see it in everything.
You can see it not just in your chosen Field, but in everything and it really is like a way of you know of channeling brilliance and it made me think that As I was a kid that if I just really threw myself into martial arts I could be successful at life because even if it wasn't martial arts that I wound up pursuing There would I would if I could get greatness if I could really figure out what greatness is If I could really understand the way really tap into it I could transfer that on to my life, which has actually been true Do you think you're better at comedy or martial arts?
I don't know, man.
I've never even thought about it.
It's not even something that I would think about.
You're better at whatever you put the most attention to.
unidentified
It's really that simple.
bert kreischer
I was a big baseball player growing up, and I remember playing baseball with guys that went on to go pro.
I call it Brad Radge.
I remember playing baseball with him all growing up, and the way that parents looked at him playing baseball, I remember thinking, like, no one looks at me like that.
No one's, like, pulling me aside, like, hey, great game today, Pert.
Like, I still made all-stars, and I still got recruited to play, like, at high school, but I never had that it.
And then the first time I did stand-up, I was like, okay, that's the it.
Like, I got that it.
This is the similarity.
joe rogan
For me, it's probably just the opposite.
When I first started doing comedy and I was leaving martial arts, I was really good at martial arts and not good at comedy at all.
And I had to reinvent myself.
Because as a martial artist, I was a four-time Massachusetts State Taekwondo champion.
I won the U.S. Open.
I came in second place in the U.S. Cup to the current national champion who fought in the Olympics.
And I was right there.
And I was really young.
I was 20, 19 at the time.
And then 21, I had a couple fights.
I started kickboxing when I was 21. That's what fucked up everything.
And that's one of the reasons why I stopped doing, why I stopped competing.
It's because I started realizing that there was a bunch of holes in my martial arts game because I was just doing one style of martial art, which was Taekwondo.
And when I switched from Taekwondo to boxing and kickboxing, I realized there's big holes in my game.
So then it made me not respect Taekwondo as much as an individual martial art.
And then competing in Taekwondo seemed sort of ridiculous to me because, well, now I know that I'm vulnerable to punches.
So now, in my mind, I would have to start kickboxing because otherwise I would be practicing something that wasn't as effective.
So then I started kickboxing and I realized, okay, there's not even any money in this.
What the fuck am I doing?
What am I going to do?
I'm going to run a kickboxing gym, and I'm going to have brain damage.
I was looking at my future, and I was like, I've got to figure out what the fuck I'm doing.
bert kreischer
How old are you?
joe rogan
I was 21, and I was doing comedy at the same time.
bert kreischer
Jesus, do you realize that you guys don't have that kind of insight at 21?
Keep going, keep going.
joe rogan
Well, it was mostly because no one raised me.
bert kreischer
Yeah, no parents at this time.
joe rogan
I was left in the streets like a wolf.
I mean, my parents both worked, and by the time they got home, it was 6 o'clock, and I was over at a friend's house or something.
I was a wild kid.
bert kreischer
Did your own laundry?
joe rogan
Yeah, it was a different time, man.
When I was little, man, I was like seven years old.
I used to do a fisherman's wharf in San Francisco.
I used to have my own magic show.
I used to walk down the street by myself with my own thing.
I was thinking I was seven or eight, and I had like a little magic show that I got for Christmas, and I would put a Fucking hat on and a cape and I'd set up a stand and I would do a show.
By myself.
No friends.
No one with me.
Completely by myself.
This is a different world, you know, that people lived in back then.
You can't let a fucking eight-year-old out of the house by themselves today.
That kid's gonna get raped and killed.
brian redban
Too bad you didn't know little Joey Diaz at the time.
joe rogan
I know, I wish I did.
brian redban
He could dance for you while you did your magic.
joe rogan
We were good buddies.
We could have had a fucking awesome show.
Joey and I would have been best friends from the moment we met.
I was best friends with Joey the moment I met him.
I would have been best friends with Joey if we met when we were six.
bert kreischer
Guaranteed.
joe rogan
So I realized I had thrown my whole life into martial arts from the time I was 15 until I was 21. But when I was 20, I started teaching at this place in Revere.
There was a Nautilus fitness place in Revere, and they had a big extra side room.
It was a really big, nice room.
So we started teaching Taekwondo there, and I opened my own branch of the That's where I met this guy, Joe Lake, who was a boxing coach.
He's coached some UFC guys like Marcus Davis.
He's a really, really good boxing coach and a great guy.
He became one of my good friends.
He taught me how to box.
When I started boxing, I started realizing, man, I've got all these holes in my fucking martial arts game.
At Taekwondo, I was really good at Taekwondo, but you added in boxing, and then eventually leg kicks, and I'm like, man, I've got a lot of fucking flaws in my game.
So it made me not want to ever compete in Taekwondo again, and then since there was so much work to do to become a competent kickboxer, and then it was like, well, what am I going to do?
Become a boxer?
Because if I become a boxer, now I'm really starting almost from scratch.
I mean, I'm a rudimentary, almost a beginner boxer.
And then I'm going to, what, am I going to start fighting in that way?
Because that's the only place I can get fights.
Because you couldn't even get boxing or kickboxing fights in Massachusetts.
We had to drive to Rhode Island to fight.
So the last time I fought, I fought three times in one day.
I fought in a kickboxing tournament.
I won the first fight.
I knocked the first guy out.
I beat the second guy up, and then the third guy knocked me out.
The third guy was like three fights, and I was completely exhausted.
It was hours later.
This is all for free.
And I won the first round, and then I got clipped with the left hook.
And it was really weird because it didn't even hurt.
It's just my legs stopped working.
It never happened to me before in a fight.
bert kreischer
Is that the ones where they go like this?
joe rogan
They just go rubber.
They just stop working.
It's like he disconnected my brain from my legs.
My legs no longer communicated with my brain.
They just shut off.
And I went down, and I got up.
And then he hit me again.
I went down again.
I got up and they stopped the fight.
I'd been hit way harder before.
It wasn't that.
He just hit me perfect.
bert kreischer
It was like the perfect spot.
joe rogan
And I was exhausted.
I had shitty nutrition and I was delivering newspapers.
I'd get up every morning at 5 o'clock to deliver newspapers.
And then I would...
Take a nap, and then I would drive limos, and then I would go train.
And then I was still trying to do comedy at the same time.
So that made me really realize I had to pick a path.
And I'm like, you know, this was a good wake-up call for me.
And my ego wanted me to get back in there and go smash and, you know, show that it was a bad, you know, that I really didn't train right for that fight, and I was out of shape, and I was sick.
You know, but I thankfully figured out a way to shut my ego up long enough to get some distance.
Your ego's fucked.
bert kreischer
My ego's fucked.
joe rogan
In what way?
bert kreischer
It's attached to shit that doesn't matter.
joe rogan
Like, in what way?
bert kreischer
I don't know.
I'm starting to see the world a little differently recently.
The last conversation we had, I had said something about it.
I talked about almost getting into a fight with a guy in driving, remember?
joe rogan
Yes.
bert kreischer
And you were like, that's fucking out of here.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
Dumbest thing in the world.
joe rogan
So dangerous.
bert kreischer
And that...
To me, was the first wake-up call of like, yeah, why would I do that?
Like, I started thinking like...
joe rogan
Just from our conversation, you started thinking about that?
bert kreischer
Yeah, oh, yeah.
Fucking, actually, fairly heavily.
You're probably one of...
I mean, you wouldn't want to hear this, but like, probably one of the toughest guys I know.
Like, no one would ever scare you?
joe rogan
There's a lot of people who scare me, man.
bert kreischer
No, but...
joe rogan
I work in the UFC. I'm constantly around people who scare me.
bert kreischer
But what I'm saying is, like...
And so I started, like, checking, like...
joe rogan
Why do you feel so confident to start fights with people when I don't?
bert kreischer
Where is that?
And then it started, like, sizzling down.
And it was like, holy shit, man.
My ego...
My ego is totally attached to not, like, cool shit.
Like, it's not attached to my...
I don't even know what an ego should be attached to.
joe rogan
Do you have parts of your personality that bother you?
bert kreischer
Oh!
Every part of my personality.
joe rogan
Okay, well, what do you do about that?
bert kreischer
Nothing.
I drink.
What do you do?
Are you supposed to do something?
joe rogan
I meditate and I get in the tank.
bert kreischer
Nah, I drink.
joe rogan
That's my number one thing.
bert kreischer
I drink and then forget about it and then wake up and I just fucking hope it doesn't shine.
joe rogan
I would like to get you in the tank, man.
I think you would really enjoy it.
bert kreischer
I would want you next to me and I'd want to have headsets so we could talk to each other.
Alright, Joe, I'm starting to spiral.
joe rogan
You could do it at my house, bro, and I could be right outside the tank.
bert kreischer
There's parts of my personality I can't stand.
joe rogan
Why don't you work?
Okay, tell me what you want.
bert kreischer
I don't like this, but don't...
Be sensitive.
Okay.
joe rogan
Listen, I love you, man.
You don't have to worry about that.
bert kreischer
I know, I know, I know.
unidentified
I'm...
bert kreischer
I know that when Birth to Conqueror gets canceled, whenever it does get canceled, I will talk about it incessantly to people.
joe rogan
No, you won't.
bert kreischer
I will.
unidentified
I will.
joe rogan
This is what you say.
You say you'll talk about it, which is why you'll talk about it.
But if you just say you won't and just decide, you know what?
When Birth to Conqueror, if it ever does get canceled, God forbid, I'm going to move on to something else and I'm going to push forward.
You're an entertaining guy, man.
The world needs entertaining people.
bert kreischer
Okay, what part of your personality do you not like about you?
joe rogan
I get angry at things too easily.
bert kreischer
Seriously?
I do that too!
And that is something I know about myself.
joe rogan
That's my number one thing.
Whether it's something someone says, or something that happens, or even watching this fucking documentary.
I get angry.
I was visualizing what I wanted to do physically to each one of these cunts that's causing all these people to lose their houses.
And I'm just picturing myself strangling them and just getting so enraged.
It almost becomes like an animal, like animalistic and primal.
It gets very, it's very dangerous.
And that's why I was saying to you, like, be really careful, man, because you never know who the fuck you're going to run across.
bert kreischer
Oh, oh, oh.
joe rogan
As crazy as I might be...
I'm nothing compared to a lot of people that I've ever met, man.
I've met some really crazy motherfuckers that if you pick them, you're the wrong guy, and you wind up saying something to them, they're like, oh, thank you, Jesus, you just brought me someone to kill.
And they'll just attack you.
And they know how to fight, too.
There's a lot of people like that.
A lot of them.
I've met a lot of them.
brian redban
Have you always been like that?
joe rogan
Me?
Anger?
Yeah.
Part of it is my childhood.
Part of it is genetic.
I have Sicilian peasant genes.
I mean, this is the reason why my hands are as wide as cinder blocks.
You know, I have the weirdest bone structure ever.
I have giant hands.
You know, they're good for hitting things.
I'm short and wide.
My family, you know, they grew up carrying bricks and shit.
You know, that's what my ancestors did.
You know?
That design, I think there's a lot of aggression built into certain body types.
If you look at super athletic, you look at some Mike Tyson looking dude.
Look at Mike Tyson's body.
God looks like he's designed to destroy things.
Just designed to.
Like when he used to step into the ring, when he was in the prime of his life in the late 80s, he would get into that fucking ring.
And it was like, that is the scariest human being that's ever walked the face of the earth.
You couldn't imagine doing anything else.
That's what he was there for.
He's there to smash things.
bert kreischer
Just a tank.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That guy, guaranteed, he's got a giant biological buildup of stress that he needs to blow out.
Besides having a fucked up childhood.
I mean, I think a lot of people that are in jail are in jail because they have fucked up bodies, man.
They have fucked up childhoods.
bert kreischer
That's interesting.
So you can almost say that the body dictates the personality?
joe rogan
It does have some effect.
It's not a completely benign thing.
Without a doubt, I think so much clearer after I work out.
To me, it's like mandatory.
I don't allow myself to say, oh, fuck, I'm tired.
Let me just take a nap.
I don't allow that because I don't like me when I don't work out.
So I make me work out.
I make me work out so I can be sane.
For me, I always feel like, I got this monkey.
And if I don't let this monkey out of the cage, he's going to throw shit at me and he's going to fucking start rattling the cage and lighting things on fire.
Just let him out of the cage.
Come on, buddy.
It's the same way I feel about my dogs.
I feel bad if I don't walk my dogs.
If I don't take him around the neighborhood, let him go smell.
I want him to get out.
Let's get out.
Let's get out.
It's the same thing with the animal inside you.
The animal inside you, that motherfucker needs to rage.
And if it doesn't rage, it starts looking for opportunities to rage.
It starts looking, look at this dick.
He wants to get in my lane.
unidentified
Fuck you.
joe rogan
Fuck you, bitch.
After I work out, I'm like, yeah, go ahead, dude.
I'm I'm not in a rush.
bert kreischer
I started letting people, I thought of this the other day, I got flicked off by these very liberal couple.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
A very liberal couple.
Of course, I am the stereotype of ignorant white male.
Like I drive a freaking expedition, black on black, you know, fucking, I'm just.
joe rogan
Do you have a tap out sticker in your back?
I can get you one.
bert kreischer
I'll put it on!
I'm always playing something like hip hop.
And I guess I cut them off.
I don't even know.
And they were in a little...
What's the little...
joe rogan
Prius?
bert kreischer
Smart car?
joe rogan
Mini Cooper?
bert kreischer
Mini Cooper.
And they flicked me off.
And then she went up and went...
Was thumbing upping me and pointing at me.
joe rogan
Your car?
unidentified
Yeah, I guess.
bert kreischer
I don't know.
Me or my car.
Who fucking knows?
And then we both got off at Laurel Canyon and were right next to each other.
And I was like, I'm going to fucking tell them off.
And then I was like, hold on.
If I tell them off, nothing's going to come of this.
But if I make them feel like they won, then maybe they'll continue this behavior until they run into the guy who beats a living fuck out of them.
joe rogan
So you set a trap?
bert kreischer
So I set a trap.
And I rolled down the window and I was like...
You guys, let me, fuck, fuck!
And then they took off and they laughed and I was like, great, just keep it up.
Keep it up.
You took a dive.
joe rogan
That's genius.
I've never heard anyone doing that before.
bert kreischer
Now, do you see, do you sense phoniness in people right out the gate?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
bert kreischer
I'm so fucking good at that shit.
joe rogan
Of course, because you're so honest.
bert kreischer
Oh, I feel like I'm really honest with my bullshit.
So I see shit right out the gate and I'm like...
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm super honest.
So when someone's not being honest, I smell it a mile away.
I smell crazy too.
Crazy and dangerous.
bert kreischer
Oh, I can smell crazy.
Really good.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
My wife's best friend, we went out to dinner with him when we first met him.
And I fucking, you know me, I'll talk all night long and drink.
And we're having a good time.
And then we got done.
I go, I don't fucking like him.
And she was like, how can you not like him?
You just had a great time.
I go, she's fucking crazy.
She was like, she's not crazy.
And then now I'm like, Matlock.
I'm like, we just got to hang out enough.
And then I got to just untangle the necklace enough so it starts to fall apart.
And then I brought it up one time about drugs.
And she was like, oh, I used to have a problem with meth.
And I was like, bingo!
Told you!
joe rogan
Dude, that's so funny you said that.
I had a Brian Callen story where Brian used to always date these really fucked up girls and try to fix them.
And Brian's been one of my best friends since 94. When I hosted Mad TV, I met Brian and we instantly became best friends.
And when we were hanging around, the first thing I noticed when we were hanging around together was like, this motherfucker dates some broken bitches!
I mean, his current wife is a very nice person, but he's had some disasters in his past.
bert kreischer
Didn't he fuck Fiona Apple?
joe rogan
No comment.
bert kreischer
Okay.
I just remember hearing something about that.
joe rogan
Yeah, no comment.
No comment.
We are on the internet.
There's hundreds of thousands of people, and some of them may know Fiona.
bert kreischer
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
Probably not.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
Anyway, he just, you know, I used to tell him, man, you've got to get better at reading people.
He's like, yeah, I'm getting it.
I'm getting it.
unidentified
I'm getting it.
joe rogan
I'm getting better, man.
This new girl, you're going to love her.
You're going to love her.
So he introduces me to her, right?
I say, hi, how are you doing?
She goes, hi, nice to meet you.
And then I go, can I talk to you for a second?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I pull them outside.
I go, listen to me, man.
unidentified
She is fucking crazy.
joe rogan
Yes, yes, yes.
I go, dude, this bitch is fucking crazy.
No, I shook her hand.
I shook her hand and I looked in her eyes and I saw madness.
It was like that Sam Shepard movie based on that, uh, in the mouth of madness.
Remember that?
It was like that.
I was like, I was like, this bitch is completely insane.
I was like...
So I pulled him aside.
I go, listen to me, man.
I go, that bitch is crazy.
She's a nice...
unidentified
No, no, no.
joe rogan
She's a good girl.
No, no, no.
Dude, she's a fucking nightmare.
unidentified
Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude.
joe rogan
You're famous.
She's nervous.
She's meeting...
No, no, no, no.
No, it has nothing to do with that.
I go, that bitch is crazy, man.
You gotta trust me, dude.
I know crazy.
All my spider senses were going off.
I go, you better get the fuck away from that girl.
Trust me.
You're gonna find out.
You're gonna find out the hard way.
You need to run.
What are you attracted to her?
She's nice.
She just needs friends.
unidentified
No, no, no.
joe rogan
No, it's not that she needs friends.
She's fucking nuts.
Okay.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
Time goes on.
And eventually, he finds out that she's a meth head.
Like, massive.
You know, I don't know how he missed this.
But, like, she was completely insane.
And I had some, like, some guy was looking for her.
And, you know, anyway, he winds up eventually slowly getting rid of her.
Right?
He just gets rid of her.
ricky schroder
And then one day he's walking down the street.
joe rogan
Okay?
And he sees this girl walking towards him.
And the girl's a hooker.
You know, she's got a skirt on.
And he looks up and he realizes it's this girl.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
And she's got fucking scabs on her face, like she's picking her face.
Yeah, and he goes, how's it going?
She goes, what do you think?
Okay, you take care.
bert kreischer
Don't be that honest with me.
joe rogan
This is all, and I swear to God, I picked this up from, hi, how are you?
I was like, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop.
All these alarms.
bert kreischer
I'm good at that.
joe rogan
You can't always think you're good at that.
You always got to be open to the possibility that you haven't picked it up yet.
You always got to be open to the possibility that some people are better at covering their bullshit or they have different motivations for being crazy.
Are they delusional crazy?
Because delusional crazy is pretty easy to spot because they lie to themselves.
Or are they deceptive crazy?
Deceptive crazy is strange because sometimes deceptive crazy, there's like a sociopathic element of it where they're not concerned about how they come off so they'll really play to your strengths and all of a sudden you're like, this guy really compliments me.
Meanwhile, what he is is just a certain type of manipulative crazy that you haven't picked up yet.
bert kreischer
Fuck.
I've had so many crazy people in my life.
joe rogan
Of course.
You're a comic, man.
I mean, just doing shows.
How many nutty fucking people do you meet after shows?
brian redban
You make the greatest sounds, man.
You can crack me up with every time you make one.
joe rogan
So listen, man.
Last time you were here, there's a fucking story about the Russian mob.
We tease these bitches.
These people right now on Twitter, they have been going crazy all day.
Do not let Bert Kreischer get out of there without the Russian mob story, man.
Tell us what the fuck happened.
bert kreischer
Alright, this is in 1993, probably, I think is when I went to Russia.
I was taking Russian classes at Florida State.
I thought they were Spanish classes.
unidentified
What?
bert kreischer
I thought they were Spanish classes because it was a noon class and I signed up.
And then I was like, fucking sweet, Spanish at noon?
I can phone that in.
And then I get there and they start writing a new language, a new alphabet.
And I'm like, alright, this clearly isn't Spanish.
So then I said, I'm going to leave.
And the teacher's like, listen, don't leave...
Because if you leave, we can't have a class and I can't get my master's degree.
But if you stick around, I'll talk to you after the class.
I get done at the end of the class.
She's like, listen, don't leave and just show up at class and I'll give you a C. I was like, done.
Done.
So I took Russian.
I took Russian 1, 2, and 3 because these kids needed another guy in their class to take these classes.
So then finally I take Russian 4 and we go to Russia.
We go to Russia.
But this is Russia like when the mob ran Russia.
Like are you guys aware of that?
joe rogan
No.
bert kreischer
Okay.
In like the late 90s, mid 90s, the mob ran everything that had to do with Russia.
So when going over to Russia, you had to...
Literally pay off the mob in order to go and study abroad.
So we paid off the mob and they gave us in return two banditos, two young mobsters who would go everywhere with us.
They lived in our hotel.
They stayed with us.
They went on tours with us.
They did everything with us.
Their names were Igor and Sasha.
And when we got there...
Our teacher was like, listen, this is Igor and Sasha.
They will be ghosting us with my teacher who was there with me.
He was like, they're in the fucking mob.
joe rogan
Igor and Sasha?
bert kreischer
Igor and Sasha.
joe rogan
It's like a gay guy named Bruce.
bert kreischer
And they were like, oh, it gets worse.
So they're like, listen, whatever you do to our class, do not talk to them.
Do not interact with them.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
bert kreischer
Do not engage them.
They are only here to shadow us.
So in my head, I'm like, fucking get to know these guys, right?
Like, get a bottle of vodka, a six-pack of Baltica...
Knock on their door.
Mind you, I speak no Russian at the time.
No Russian, because I had never studied in any of the classes.
So, first night there, I knock on Igor and Sasha's room, and they're having a party in there.
Like, fucking all their friends are in their room.
They live right next to me.
And Kendra, my teacher, lived across the hall from Igor.
So I knock on their door.
Igor opens the door, and he looks like a fucking thug.
He's got, like, a wife beater on.
A cigarette, a beer, and he just looks at me in Russian and just goes, and now the second he says that, I start panicking.
All the phrases I had in my head that I was trying to say all disappear, and all I say to Igor in Russian is, I am the machine.
joe rogan
What is it?
How do you say that?
bert kreischer
Yamashino.
And so, but I just said, Yamashino.
And he went, huh, sto?
And now I don't know what I've said.
I'm like, what did I just say?
I'll fuck you up.
And I go, I am the machine.
And he goes, say it again.
I said, I am the machine.
And then he starts laughing and he brings me into the room.
He's like, hold on, say it again.
And so I say it to the room.
I don't know what the fuck I'm saying.
I'm like...
I'm the machine!
And they're like, you're the machine!
I'm like, I'm the machine!
I said that all fucking night with these guys.
That's the only communication we had is I said I'm the machine.
And Igor and Sasha and I became best friends, right?
We did everything together.
If we went on a field trip, they would tell me, machine, you don't need to go on the field trips.
Come drink with us.
So now, cut to one day, we have to take a train to Moscow.
Now, a different mob ran the train to Moscow, and a different mob ran Moscow.
And Igor and Sasha were not allowed to cross boundaries.
And they told me, they said, listen, we're not going to go with you, but we've taken care of you.
We've talked to the mobsters on the train and in Moscow.
Because we had to pay them too.
joe rogan
So they weren't allowed to come with you?
bert kreischer
They weren't allowed to come with us.
joe rogan
Because it's a different mob.
bert kreischer
And we're paying a different mob now to protect us on the train.
unidentified
Wow.
bert kreischer
We're paying a different mob to protect us in Moscow.
joe rogan
Holy shit.
bert kreischer
So they said, we've taken care of it.
Don't worry about it.
So they take me to the train and...
They introduced me to our two new gangsters, Igor and Igor.
What?
joe rogan
Double Igors.
bert kreischer
I swear to you.
joe rogan
Three Igors out of four dudes.
bert kreischer
There's not a lot of names in Russia.
It's Alex, Igor, or Sasha.
joe rogan
What about Fyodor?
bert kreischer
My Igor says to these Igors, this is the machine.
If you give them alcohol, you'll have a great time.
unidentified
Sorry.
bert kreischer
So Igor and Igor are like through the roof.
They're like, awesome!
Don't worry, we've taken care of you.
We're sitting in first class.
You're not sitting with your class.
You're sitting in first class to Moscow.
And I'm like, holy shit, this is what I'm talking about.
And I bring another guy, John Bolshoi, Big John, I bring him with me to go sit in first class.
Sure enough, man, we're a fucking first class.
Just me, these two Igors, John, the conductor, I shit you not, the conductor, before the train takes off, comes into the room, I swear to you, rips off the band on this thing, says, this is a present for the machine.
It would be an honor to do a shot with you.
And I'm like, oh, this is fucking right.
So I do a shot with the conductor, and we pound this vodka within like fucking 30, 45 minutes.
We're done all the vodka in the room.
joe rogan
Whoa.
bert kreischer
We're drinking hard.
And my class is all on coach, and I'm sitting in first class.
And Igor and Igor are like, let's go get more vodka.
And I'm like, done.
These guys run the fucking train.
So we get up, we walk into the bar cart, and Big Igor says, Machine, grab some bread, Cleb.
And I'm like, that's bread.
I'm understanding Russian.
He's like, grab some Sia.
That's cheese.
I'm like, I'm learning Russian.
I'm looking at John who's standing behind me.
joe rogan
He's like, yeah!
bert kreischer
He's like, grab vodka.
I go, I know that one.
And he's like, grab all the money.
Grab all the rubles.
And I go, what?
I look around and we're robbing the bar cart.
joe rogan
What?
bert kreischer
The bartender's standing like this.
Everyone's standing against the wall.
And I'm sitting behind the bar with a handful of rubles, a bottle of vodka, and a thing of bread going, holy fuck.
John looks at me and he's like, just take it.
Let's go.
Take all the fucking cash out of the bar cart.
joe rogan
And what is the bartender doing?
bert kreischer
Not making eye contact.
joe rogan
Everyone just lets it happen.
bert kreischer
It's the mob.
They ran everything in Russia.
Everything.
unidentified
Wow.
bert kreischer
And so we get done and we go back to our room and it's a totally different energy.
Like very like...
Very sketchy.
joe rogan
Are you freaked out now?
bert kreischer
I'm freaked out because I'm like, fuck, I just robbed the car.
No one else saw anyone rob the bar car except for me.
And my teacher, Val, who at the time was our chaperone, didn't speak any Russian.
She comes to our first class cart, opens the door and says, I need to talk to you right now.
And I was like, listen.
And she goes, I told you that you're in big trouble.
Your classmates have told me what happened.
Big Igor takes a sip of vodka, spits it in her eyes and goes, no one talks to the machine like that.
joe rogan
I'm like, whoa, he spit vodka in her eyes?
bert kreischer
And fucking, it is.
And then shuts the door and then looks at me and he says, don't worry, I got you.
When it gets dark, we're going to have a lot of fun.
And he pulls out a thing of keys.
He's got keys to the whole fucking train.
He's like, we're going to rob everyone when it gets dark.
Now I'm like, fuck, what did I get myself into?
Like, this is bad news.
Bad fucking news.
So, it gets dark.
And sure enough, then we start robbing the train.
Go through my class first.
And we'd fucking open the door.
Little Igor would crawl in, pull the bags out.
John and I would go through them and try not to steal anything important.
And Big Igor would stand guard.
and if anyone woke up, he'd take a sip of vodka and spit it in their face.
What?
And it was, I mean, it's sketchy.
Now it's sketchy.
It's not even fun.
joe rogan
Are these guys armed?
bert kreischer
No, no, no.
They're loaded, though.
They're hammered, piss drunk.
We robbed my whole class, and then they end up taking off and going into the car, and me and John are sitting in the first class car just thinking, we're fucked, man.
We're fucked.
We robbed the train.
We robbed the bar cart.
And they come back, and they're just fucking angry drunk, like piss angry drunk.
We pull into Moscow, and my teacher, Val, comes to the door, opens it, and said, I'm just letting you know we've called the police.
So I was like, fuck.
So Igor and Igor are like, fuck it.
Don't worry.
Fuck the police.
Fuck the police.
This is Russia.
Who the fuck does she think she is?
This isn't America.
This is Russia.
We run everything.
I'm like, ugh, I'm going to fucking go to the gulag.
Sure enough, man, the cops are sitting on the middle, like, the middle, you know, where people get off the train, that little receiving area.
My class is sitting there.
My whole class are in the pajamas.
They're crying.
Their bags have been gone through.
They're fucking giving statements to the cops, and the cops are writing them down.
And I'm sitting with Igor and Igor and John in the fucking cart, and they're just still drinking and smoking, and they're like, fuck this.
Fuck this.
We'll take it out of this right now.
They walk outside, out to the cops.
And start yelling at the cops.
And I'm like, motherfucker.
This is not how I would have taken care of this.
I don't even know what they're saying, but they're just shouting.
And the cops are shouting back.
And then finally, Big Eeyore just starts pointing at me.
And I'm like, oh, he's pinning this whole fucking thing on me?
Like, I'm going down for the whole thing?
And then the cop starts pointing at me and telling me, or whatever he's saying.
Come here, right now!
So I fucking walk out.
And it's that moment where you find the hash.
On your body, you know, they find it and you're going to jail forever.
That's that moment, that walk where your asshole gets cold and you're like, this is it.
joe rogan
Midnight Express.
bert kreischer
Fucking, that's the moment.
And I walk all the way across this little fucking trail to get to him.
I get right up to the cop and the cop looks at me and he goes...
I understand you're the machine.
I was like, yeah.
And he goes, tonight you party with us.
joe rogan
What?
bert kreischer
So then we went out and partied with these cops.
joe rogan
So the cops did nothing?
bert kreischer
Fucking nothing.
They were so excited to meet the machine.
unidentified
What?
bert kreischer
They were like, this fucking, it was a nickname.
joe rogan
Is there no one funny in Russia?
Is that what it is?
bert kreischer
No, there was no humor.
brian redban
I gotta drink with you.
joe rogan
Is that what it is?
There's no one funny, and then you come along and you're hilarious, so they're like, we're partying with you.
bert kreischer
Yeah, and I was just loud.
There's not a lot of loud people.
joe rogan
Would you be willing to move to Russia to be their bitch?
bert kreischer
No.
Dude, those guys scared me.
joe rogan
How many nights did you party with these guys?
bert kreischer
Oh, I partied with Igor and Igor on the train only, and then I partied with the cops in Moscow with John for one night, and then we hid from them.
The cops wanted?
No, the cops were scary.
More scary than the gangsters, because they could not get in trouble.
They were like, drive my cop car, and you're like, what the fuck?
joe rogan
Drive my cop car.
bert kreischer
Just fucking...
joe rogan
Do they drive on the left side or the right side?
Same side as us?
bert kreischer
I don't remember.
I was there for three months.
You'd think I'd know.
I have no idea.
joe rogan
I think they drive on the same side as us.
bert kreischer
But they...
I mean, like, the whole experience in Russia was just...
I mean, it was just...
I remember one time Igor and Sasha said they were going to get a boat for us for Russian May Day or Labor Day.
And they were like, yeah, we got to...
They're going to have a big boat for our whole class.
We're all going out in the boat.
So I get up early for the day we're going out in the boat and I go over to Igor's room.
And Igor's eating dried fish, drinking beers.
And I was like, what's the matter?
And he's like, I'm fucked.
I go, what?
And he goes, we got no boat.
I go, what do you mean?
He goes, I've done everything to try to get a boat.
I can't get a fucking boat.
And we've promised the class a boat for the tour.
It's supposed to have a boat.
And so we're like, oh, fuck.
And he goes, and then all of a sudden the phone rings and he goes, we got a boat.
I go, we do?
And he goes, yeah.
So we start walking to the dock.
We're carrying a fucking big case of beer, my whole class.
Cameras and fucking their little passports around their neck.
And one of his buddies just walks up and he's like, hey!
And he's like, hey!
And then we just get to the dock and there's a boat there and we just get on it and take off.
And halfway through we realize the guy just stole the fucking boat.
joe rogan
Really?
He just stole the boat and he was like, Russia must be just fucking crazy, man.
bert kreischer
Insane.
We went to a big mob boss party one night, and Igor tells the mob boss, he goes, this is the machine.
This is the guy.
joe rogan
How does this all happen?
bert kreischer
I just was loud, and then I was partying with Igor and Sasha so much, and they just tell their friends, oh, you've got to meet this guy.
You've got to meet this guy.
He's so funny.
joe rogan
Dude, we're going to have to drink with you.
bert kreischer
I never lived it down.
joe rogan
We've got to do shots with Burt Crusher.
You've got to be careful, man.
You're selling yourself as this incredible, fun party guy, and everyone's going to want to do shots with you.
bert kreischer
Oh, I don't...
I'm fucking...
brian redban
Are you friends with Igor on Facebook now?
Have you tried to find him?
bert kreischer
I don't think Igor's alive.
joe rogan
Can I follow Igor on Twitter?
bert kreischer
Sasha wanted to be a filmmaker really bad.
He really wanted to be a filmmaker and he'd talk about film.
joe rogan
What kind of film?
bert kreischer
I was 22 at the time.
Murder films.
Igor was probably dead, I would say.
joe rogan
You had a pretty interesting life before you ever became a comedian.
You would think you have a wealth of fucking stuff to talk about on stage.
Did you ever figure out a way to tell that mobster story on stage?
bert kreischer
I can't because it's too long.
I can tell you here, but to tell it...
joe rogan
You just need to chop it up.
bert kreischer
It's hard.
It's really hard.
It's like the Tracy Morgan story.
You can't...
I never felt comfortable telling that story.
joe rogan
Well, that's ridiculous.
Well, there's a perfect example.
It goes, look, Jay was telling it on stage and it was crushing.
bert kreischer
Yeah, I know.
joe rogan
You should totally tell that on stage.
bert kreischer
Yeah, maybe I'll have him tell the machine story and then have him pull it back from him.
joe rogan
Have him tighten it up.
Yeah, just farm it out to other, like, you know, if there's some Mexican comics in town, sort of like surrogate jokes, you can have them carry your joke for you into, you know, term.
bert kreischer
But yeah, so I don't party like that really anymore.
joe rogan
You were just telling us how much hammered you get lately because you're trying to avoid this.
bert kreischer
On planes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
Like that's fucking anxiety.
That's me trying to handle whatever I've done to my brain so that I can get from fucking LA to New York.
joe rogan
Do you feel like some guys don't want to lose that anxiety because they're worried that if they become evolved, some whatever, you know, enlightened, however you want to say, that they wouldn't be funny anymore.
bert kreischer
Yeah, I'm afraid.
Whatever.
I get nervous as shit before I go on stage still.
joe rogan
I used to think that if I became more enlightened, I wouldn't be funny.
I would avoid doing yoga, and I would avoid meditating, because I literally thought I had to be more fucked up to be funny.
bert kreischer
I feel that way.
Like, they asked me to get on this drug called Celexa.
joe rogan
For what?
What does that do?
bert kreischer
They have social anxiety disorder.
joe rogan
Hmm, let's see.
Celexa.
How do you spell it?
bert kreischer
S-E-L-E-C... C-E-L-E-X-A? No, I want to say it's an S. I got a prescription for it.
joe rogan
It's used to treat depression.
A class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors that works at increasing the amount of serotonin, a natural substance.
You know, my thing with all this stuff is, first, get your body in order.
This is what I tell everybody.
Whenever I talk to anybody and they're like, oh, I'm thinking about getting on something, I'm not completely opposed to people doing any sort of antidepressant.
I know people that's changed their fucking life.
I know people where it's helped them dramatically, including one buddy of mine who got on it, changed his life, and then slowly weaned himself off of it and literally has a different way of thinking now.
bert kreischer
Really?
joe rogan
And it saved him.
Yeah, he was really super depressed.
He had some real issues.
How much of it was his childhood?
How much of it was his biology?
Whatever the fuck it is.
But I think you've got to get your body in order before you start fucking around with all that stuff.
bert kreischer
Oh, my body's a wreck.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, of course it's not working so good then.
bert kreischer
Yeah, but it's...
joe rogan
How often do you work out?
Do you want to be healthy?
Yeah, yeah, no, no, no.
bert kreischer
Do you want advice?
joe rogan
Do you want advice?
Why don't you join some sort of a gym?
Get some sort of a trainer.
bert kreischer
I'm not home.
When's that ever going to happen?
joe rogan
Okay, how about this?
Bring a DVD on the road with you.
I have DVDs that are all bodyweight exercises.
bert kreischer
Yeah?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, you can do it in your hotel room.
You set a laptop down on the bed, and right in front of the bed, you need a fucking small space.
You start doing Hindu squats and Hindu push-ups.
brian redban
Shake weight, man.
joe rogan
And push-ups with claps in between them, and then you can do handstands against the wall.
Dude, you can have a serious fucking workout.
Steve Maxwell told me how to do chin-ups on a door.
You put a towel inside the door, slam it shut so there's a knot in the towel, and the knot stays so that you can...
You can slam the door shut so you can't pull the towel through.
And then you do chin-ups with it.
I do all kinds of crazy shit in my hotel room.
bert kreischer
Yeah, I'm sure that's one of the things I need to do.
joe rogan
But before you start taking any crazy-ass pills...
bert kreischer
I'm not going to take it.
They just said that's what you should be on.
joe rogan
Who says this?
bert kreischer
Some fucking doctor.
I went to a therapist once and she was like, you need to talk to...
Because I have a problem with flying.
And I've always had a problem with flying.
And I fly 200,000 miles a year.
But I still have anxiety when I get on a plane.
I can't get rid of it.
It just doesn't disappear.
And so they're like, you need to get on Celexa.
You also have social anxiety disorder.
And I'm like, I can talk to people all day long.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
Anyone would say that you have a social anxiety disorder.
You're a fucking comedian.
bert kreischer
Yeah, but I don't know.
So I'm sure there's a ton of things I need to do to fix my shit.
joe rogan
Everyone has a little bit of social anxiety just because you don't know.
I mean, when you first talk to someone, you don't know what the fuck you're getting.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, you get better at it and more used to it as you get older.
But I used to remember, I used to go to banks, and I had already started doing comedy at the time.
And I would fucking have weird, almost like failures of my speech when I was talking to someone at the bank.
You know what I mean?
I'd get up to the counter.
Can I help you, sir?
Yeah.
I needed to deposit this.
It just couldn't come out right.
I was nervous for whatever stupid reason.
I mean, I had fought.
I had done stand-up.
I'd done all these scary, scary things.
But talking to the teller, for whatever reason, would make me...
Lock up.
So I think we all have a certain amount of social anxiety.
It's just a matter of overcoming that.
brian redban
You just need indica, Bert.
bert kreischer
The whole worst.
I've gotten so confused with whatever indica or sativa.
Every time I have a conversation with someone, they're like, you need the one that doesn't make you think.
You want the one that doesn't make your body.
You don't want to feel it in your body.
brian redban
It seems like you're overthinking everything.
bert kreischer
It's not that bad.
I don't think it's any different than anyone else.
I don't think I'm...
I think if anyone had my lifestyle or my life, like where you travel, you're gone all the time, you're jumping off buildings, you're jumping out of planes.
I think if anyone had my life, they'd go through this shit.
joe rogan
Has it noticeably changed since you started doing this show?
bert kreischer
It's gotten much better.
Last year it was really bad.
But I've gotten much better with my anxiety.
Like now I can appreciate things.
And go, wow, this is really cool that I'm getting to do this.
Like, last year I was just a fucking wreck.
joe rogan
Yeah?
bert kreischer
I would find injury in the smallest thing.
I'd be like, that's gonna, I'm gonna, we were doing a belly flop contest, and I was like, what if there was like a stick?
I'm just gonna fucking impale myself on it.
joe rogan
That's a good question.
You should look out for sticks.
bert kreischer
Thank you!
Everyone was like, are you out of your fucking mind?
You're gonna break it.
And I was like, no, it'll go right through my body and I'll die.
joe rogan
Depends on how big the stick is.
They're all confident that you're gonna break it.
unidentified
Right.
bert kreischer
I guess.
But I've gotten much better.
You'd be fun to be in production with.
You're like, that's a good question.
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
I'm the worst person when it comes to anything dangerous.
I'm the guy who's like, listen, listen.
You take chances, motherfucker.
Okay, nothing wrong with that.
But you better be aware of what you're doing.
Don't be stupid about it.
Take informed chances, you know?
bert kreischer
Yeah.
This season's been a lot of fun.
A lot of fun to shoot.
joe rogan
Do you do comedy when you're on the road, like filming?
Do you schedule gigs?
bert kreischer
No.
But if I do comedy, all of a sudden, all the chaos gets real fucking mellow.
Because I can talk and I feel like I'm getting that outlet.
I was in the middle of a month's stretch from Alaska to New York to D.C. to Indianapolis.
And then leaving Indianapolis, we had to fly out of Cincinnati.
And my wife's like...
And I'm complaining to her about my brain or whatever is wrong with me.
And then she was like, just go get on stage.
Just go over to the Funny Bone in Cincinnati and get on stage.
joe rogan
That's a good idea.
bert kreischer
I was like, I guess that's a good idea.
joe rogan
Because it's almost like a form of exercise.
Like this amount of energy that you expend on stage.
bert kreischer
Oh yeah.
I think one of the things that's wrong with me is I don't listen very well.
And I talk more than I listen.
Like some people are good listeners.
I feel like I'm all fucking exporting data.
joe rogan
Well, listen, you're aware of that, so you'll be a better listener.
It's that simple.
If you're aware of one thing that's fucking with you or one thing that you don't like about how you behave, that's step one.
That's even more than step one.
Step one is like thinking, what's wrong with me?
Step two is like figuring out what it is.
You're at step two.
You already know what it is.
bert kreischer
But I think once I do stand-up, That I start listening.
I'm done talking.
Do you ever get done with a long stretch and you're like, I'm fucking do not want to hear myself speak?
joe rogan
Yes, sure.
bert kreischer
I'm done talking.
joe rogan
It's hard to discipline myself to listen to tapes when that happens.
bert kreischer
I can't fucking listen to tapes.
I've never listened to a tape ever.
joe rogan
Really?
How do you go over your bits?
bert kreischer
It's all in my head.
unidentified
Whoa.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you think that that's the best way to do it or just that's the best way for you?
bert kreischer
I know that's not the best way to do it.
Because anytime I look at a tape, I go, man, I should have fucking...
I could do that different.
joe rogan
I could do that better.
bert kreischer
And it always works.
But I hate looking at myself on film and just watching it and going over it and being like...
joe rogan
You know what I say to myself?
bert kreischer
What?
joe rogan
I say you're a professional.
I'm a professional comedian.
And my job as a professional comedian is to do it the best I can.
And to do it the best I can, I have to review tapes.
I have to actually write.
I have to take chances on stage where I go on stage and I just don't know what the fuck I'm going to talk about.
I just go.
I have to do that.
Go down dark roads, especially like South Comedy Hole.
I love that place because it's like 80 people and we, you know, I can just fuck around and talk about anything and bits will come out of that.
So there's that, but you've got to write and you've got to review your shit.
bert kreischer
You've got to listen to it.
joe rogan
You've got to do it all.
You've got to do everything.
bert kreischer
I write, but I think going through my shit is exhausting.
joe rogan
It is exhausting, but that's part of the job.
As I've gotten older and as I've gotten...
I wouldn't say that I take my stand-up more seriously, but I think I've gotten better at being disciplined about it.
Especially the last special that I did came out a little over a year ago.
And I've got a completely new hour and 20 minutes between now and then.
And it was difficult to do that.
I've never done that before.
I always sort of slowly built up an act.
You know, over the next few years because I kind of had to, you know, but now the way I do it, I just, you know, and I kind of like got inspired by Louis C.K. talking about how he comes up with a new hour every year.
So I, you know, I just tried to attack it and write as much shit as possible.
And in doing that and trying to put together a new hour in a year, you have to review material.
You have to be more disciplined about it.
You have to be more professional about it.
bert kreischer
Yeah, but I know it's your new hour thematic of who you are right now.
joe rogan
It's the best thing I've ever done, for sure.
It's the most silly.
But I also think that's part of the reason is because of this podcast.
Like, I don't feel like the need to extrapolate or to expand on, like, philosophical ideas or try to make something funny that might not necessarily be funny.
Like, all I'm really concerned about is being funny, as opposed to, you know, like, sometimes I'd have bits about something I just wanted to talk about.
Why don't I have to worry about that now?
Because I just talk about it on the podcast.
You know what I mean?
The outlet is better.
So in a sense, I think it's condensed my comedy and made it sharper and better.
Made it more funny.
bert kreischer
My comedy's all over the fucking place right now.
joe rogan
Everything's all over the place.
brian redban
What is your comedy?
Is it any kind of theme?
Or are you just pretty much...
joe rogan
You sound like some guy at the fucking hotel.
brian redban
No, I mean...
joe rogan
What do you do, comedian?
So, what do you do when you're on stage there?
Do you have a theme to your act there, fella?
What's...
brian redban
What kind of comedy do you do?
If you're talking about your comedy, Joe, you'd say it's more like a storytelling-based.
It's kind of conspiracy, kind of theory, your kind of life.
joe rogan
Conspiracy theory.
brian redban
Well, you used to be more conspiracy, but not...
joe rogan
Not really conspiracy.
We're talking about the pyramids bit, you mean?
I wouldn't say that it's a conspiracy.
brian redban
Pyramids, Noah's Ark, all that stuff.
But do you have more of a, like, bitty?
Are you more jokey-jokey?
unidentified
No, no.
bert kreischer
I'm straight-up storytelling.
brian redban
Storytelling?
bert kreischer
I would say more so...
My stand-up show is more like you're going to watch someone...
I feel like it's literally you're coming to my house, I'm telling you stories.
I'm standing on the ottoman, and you're sitting on the couch, and you're like, man, that guy's house is fun to be at.
It's a lot of just crowd interaction.
I told you this last time I bring people on stage, but with straight-up stories, I've always had a hard time.
I have a great story about...
The first time I met Will Smith, and I've had a hard time telling it because I feel like it's...
joe rogan
Name droppy?
bert kreischer
Yeah!
joe rogan
Whenever you're running uphill, whenever you say, oh, here's the time I met Will Smith.
Get the fuck out of here, dude.
brian redban
Do you still hang out with him?
joe rogan
I think you need to have a jamming fucking story if you want to bring up the time you met Will Smith.
Just to overcome the weight of carrying that story around.
bert kreischer
But it's all storytelling and it's, you know...
joe rogan
Do you write?
Do you sit down and write stuff?
bert kreischer
No, I can't write a story because then it loses...
The story always works the first time I tell it on stage and if I ever could have ever videotaped it, I'd be like, bam, that's how I need to tell it every time.
But you've got to almost...
The way I work is my brain...
I've got to feel the beats...
Feel the beats and where they go and where they drop and where they hit.
If I write it, it just becomes very long-winded and all the jokes that would fit in on stage just don't fit in.
They're like longer themes.
joe rogan
So everything you talk about on stage is pretty much stories?
bert kreischer
Yeah, I would say.
joe rogan
So you'd literally never sit down with a laptop and say, you know, I'm going to do the Russian mob story, then I'm going to do the Gary King story.
bert kreischer
The Russian mob story has been the hardest one for me to tell on stage.
I've done it.
I did it on...
Have you ever done Elliot in the Morning in D.C.? No.
I did Elliot in the Morning and I told it on his show and then everyone would come to the show and be like, machine, machine!
And then I'd get up at the end of the night and I'd be like, fuck, I've got to tell a story.
joe rogan
That seems like a story you can tell on stage.
bert kreischer
I'm going to try.
I'm going to try to start working it into shows.
But it's also weird if, like, I do the fight and a bear story on stage.
I do the story about my daughter's...
My daughter's...
But yeah.
joe rogan
Say, what if you did a special?
Are you going to do a Comedy Central special?
bert kreischer
I've done an hour.
joe rogan
You did an hour?
When did you do this?
bert kreischer
Probably 18 months ago.
joe rogan
And when you did it, did you feel like you have to write all new stuff after you did it?
bert kreischer
Yeah, but I also get...
I feel like a hack if I tell old jokes.
I don't like listening.
I feel like a phony a lot.
A lot I feel like a phony.
Only because I don't like...
I guess when I got into stand-up, I traded whatever...
My wife goes nuts about it.
I traded whatever brain I have that is the guy that gets a job at Dean Witter or whatever and has those luncheon stories and tells a story about golf last week.
I traded in them for every story is fucking funny.
Every story is funny and I'm fucking willing to mind anything.
And if it takes it quick, like the Russian mob story, I obviously shorten a massive chunk of that because the real story is a little depressing.
The real story gets really depressing.
But if you tell it to people, then they fucking...
joe rogan
But there's something crazy about you robbing people.
Do you tell the story about you working out in the bookstore?
Dude, you've got to tell that one.
brian redban
I was thinking about that.
You never masturbated down there or do anything like that.
bert kreischer
No, there was a guy.
There was a sign up.
This is going to sound even crazier.
There was a sign up when you'd go to hit an afraid elevator that said, there was double doors.
Whoever is urinating on this door, please stop.
There's offices on the other side.
So I kept seeing that going, wow, that's so funny.
I bring the afraid elevator down here to work out.
I wonder who's bringing it down to piss on these doors.
And then I started thinking, what happens when you piss on these doors?
It's got to be a fucking really good payoff for...
For someone to really risk it and just do it.
And I was like, I should do that.
I should definitely piss on those doors.
And then, that's why I got caught.
Because they were reviewing tape to find out who was pissing on the doors.
And then they saw me working out.
And they were like, well, it's got to be him pissing on the doors too.
So I'm sure I got fucking tapped for both of those.
joe rogan
Yeah, without a doubt.
bert kreischer
But you know, it's so funny.
Like, now that you...
This is the way my brain works.
I remember a telltale of me.
I had a joke one time about...
My name's...
When I was growing up I tried tagging in my neighborhood so I got a can of spray paint and I was all I was like, son of a bitch, I'm the only Bert that lives in this neighborhood.
And then I was like, sucks, dick.
And Attell was like, that's a great joke.
And I was like, and as soon as he said that, I'm like, that's in every fucking act.
So now that you say you should tell that working out in the Barnes& Noble, as soon as you said that, my brain went, oh, that is good.
I never saw it as good.
I never thought it was worthy to bring on stage.
joe rogan
Dude, that's a classic bit.
I laughed.
When you said that, you know, you have cameras down here, dude, that would...
Crush!
bert kreischer
Yeah, now I'll tell it on stage.
But that's the way my brain works.
I had never thought about telling Tracy Morgan and Jay's like, you've got to fucking tell it on stage.
And I was like, meh.
joe rogan
Have you guys resolved that?
bert kreischer
I don't know.
I think so.
I mean, here's the thing is that if he wants to tell it, he can tell it.
joe rogan
Right.
bert kreischer
I don't want to tell it.
I don't like it.
joe rogan
Do you make him say that it's Burt Kreischer?
bert kreischer
No, because I don't want Tracy Morgan fucking...
Tracy, one day, that fucking hen is coming back to roost.
unidentified
You think so?
joe rogan
He's going to get mad at you?
Come on.
He's going to love you.
First of all, he tells crazier stories than that every time he goes on the radio.
You ever seen the thing that he pulls his shirt off and goes, someone getting pregnant instead of slapping his stomach?
unidentified
Yeah.
bert kreischer
Tracy Morgan's one of the most hilarious individuals around, but I just don't know him.
I only met him one time, so I don't want to...
brian redban
Yeah, but it's such a funny story.
I think he, as a comic, would just go, that is a hilarious story.
bert kreischer
In a weird way also, though, and I think I admitted this to Jay, it's better...
I enjoy the people coming to me and go, I heard that Tracy Morgan story of yours.
That's fucking hilarious.
I enjoy that more than telling it every night on stage and having that to be my closer.
And then every night, everyone's like, Tracy Morgan!
And I'm like, oh, fucking again?
joe rogan
Why?
It's a great story.
bert kreischer
I don't know.
Please.
I don't know.
I'm...
joe rogan
That's an amazing story.
bert kreischer
It's a great story.
unidentified
It's a great story.
bert kreischer
It's a pretty fucking great story.
joe rogan
And I guarantee you, I guarantee you, Tracy Morgan would have no problem with you telling that.
Tracy Morgan is like Joey Diaz.
Except every now and then, Joey Diaz would get upset at you telling the truth about some story.
brian redban
Well, you ever got mad about marijuana?
joe rogan
Well, how about, yeah, how about the thing the other day?
unidentified
Yeah, you're telling everybody on your podcast I didn't fucking show up for that show that one time.
joe rogan
But you didn't tell them, I was over at Eddie Bravo's.
I was at Eddie Bravo's.
unidentified
I was like, okay, okay, okay.
brian redban
Yeah, I like that response.
He was at Eddie Bravo's and then went to go see a movie.
bert kreischer
Yeah, it was crazy.
joe rogan
Meanwhile, people quote it on my website.
I ain't gonna lie to you, dog.
I never left Vegas.
bert kreischer
Did you ever do impressions?
joe rogan
That's what he was in.
unidentified
What?
bert kreischer
Did you ever do impressions?
You're really good at doing people's voices.
brian redban
He's been doing a lot of impressions lately.
bert kreischer
You do Brian Callen, and it's so subtle, but it really sounds like Brian Callen.
joe rogan
I can do a few.
I can do Alex Jones.
Anybody realize I'm a Jew?
I can't really do Ari.
I have to know I can do people.
Like, I can do...
Who do I do?
I can do Alex Jones.
I can do him real good.
bert kreischer
Yeah, you do do a good Alex Jones.
unidentified
Ladies and gentlemen, black helicopters have been spotted outside of Dallas, Texas right now.
joe rogan
We're going to go live.
Infowars.com.
brian redban
That one and Joey Diaz are your two best.
joe rogan
Those are my two best.
I can do Mike Tyson.
That's easy.
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Pretty easy.
bert kreischer
I can do Scotty J from Boogie Nights.
Do you remember Boogie Nights?
joe rogan
No.
What an obscure fucking...
bert kreischer
Scotty J was Philip Seymour Hoffman.
brian redban
Yes.
bert kreischer
Do you remember when...
This is the only...
It's not even words.
Do you remember when everyone saw Dirk Diggler's cock for the first time?
brian redban
Yes.
bert kreischer
And everyone had their moment.
Burt Reynolds kind of was smoking a cigar and kind of went like this.
Everyone kind of went like this.
And this is Scotty J. He was holding a boom mic.
And he just went...
That's the only impression I can do.
unidentified
That's pretty good, dude.
joe rogan
I think you nailed it.
You brought me right back to that movie.
brian redban
I love that movie.
joe rogan
You know, when I first started out, I used to do impressions, but I stopped doing them because I felt like it was cheap.
I felt like it was cheap laughs.
Because I would see guys that would go on stage and they would get laughs just with impressions.
Meanwhile, there's nothing wrong with that.
I mean, it's kind of interesting to see someone do an impression.
It gives you some sort of a charge.
Like, wow, he does sound just like him.
bert kreischer
I was like, I need four or five of those in my act.
Just to sprinkle them in between.
They were such a great...
DC Benny used to pull out a fucking...
This is my impression of an Italian eye doctor.
What you looking at?
And it was just real quick.
joe rogan
DC Benny?
Wow, I haven't seen that guy in forever.
bert kreischer
I used to party with him and Ben Bailey.
Tony Woods back when I was there.
joe rogan
Tony Woods.
bert kreischer
Tony Woods was like one of my best friends.
joe rogan
Tony Woods is fucking hilarious.
bert kreischer
Tony Woods is amazing.
joe rogan
He's like...
I mean, I think Dave Chappelle is very original.
Don't get me wrong.
But Tony Woods is like the original Dave Chappelle.
Like, is very similar style to Dave.
And really fucking funny.
And I'm not saying that Dave stole from him.
Dave is just a...
He's one of those guys that...
We've all known guys like that for whatever reasons.
Like, they're really funny, but...
This fucking thing doesn't get on the right track, and something doesn't happen, and people don't know you're really funny.
There's a few guys like that, like J.B. Smooth.
bert kreischer
J.B. Smooth's making a lot of money now.
joe rogan
He's a destroyer.
He's always been a destroyer, man.
I was in...
I did a gig in New Jersey once with JB Smooth, and he was late.
We both were late.
We got lost.
It was ridiculous directions.
This is pre-navigation systems, okay?
This is like 1992, 91, and we're both pretty much scrubs.
And, you know, we're both starting out, and we're doing these stupid gigs.
And I did this college, and they were all excited to see me because I had done the NACA thing, and you get on stage, and I killed at the NACA conference, and I got all these bookings, and I was so excited.
Well, I get there.
I think I've told this story before, so I'll make it briefly.
I get there and, well, the opener's not here.
JB Smooth was supposed to open.
I was supposed to close.
The opener's not here yet, so do you want to just sit down and watch TV? Okay.
So I sit down in their little rec room and watch TV and I watch this fucking special on the Malibu fires.
I don't know what year it was.
I'm assuming like 93, 92, 93. And it was...
Devastating.
These people were crying, and there was a kid walking around calling out for his dog, and he's walking over these burnt-down foundations with smoke coming out, and they're calling every five seconds, Mike!
Mikey!
Mikey!
Calling out for whatever the fuck the dog's name is, and there's a guy who's a fireman, and he's crying, and he's crying talking about this house is the only thing that, you know, he worked his whole life to build this fucking house.
Well, the opener hasn't come, so we're just gonna throw you up.
Is that okay?
Yeah, okay.
And I didn't know back then.
I had to learn a bunch of times that you have to get yourself into a certain state of mind before you go on stage.
That you can't just try to perform.
When you're 21, or whatever the fuck I was, and no one's telling you what to do, you can kind of develop really loose habits when it comes to your stand-up.
So I went up there, dude, and I did not know how to start the show off.
I didn't expect to be starting the show off, so I didn't prepare for that.
I prepared to be following a guy, so I didn't have anything.
When you start a show off from scratch, you've got to settle everybody in, you've got to calm everybody down, get control of the room, then start with some jokes and open strong.
Open strong so that they think it's worth following you and paying attention.
I did neither of these things.
All I did was go on stage and think about these poor fucking people that lost their houses to the fire.
So then...
For whatever reason, a joke bombs, right?
And then I just say, I shouldn't have watched that fucking show.
I'm sorry.
This is what I did.
Right before I went on stage, I watched this documentary about all these people in Malibu who lost their houses to fires.
And I go, and I'm fucking depressed.
And the audience is like 200 kids.
They're like, why are you telling us this?
Are you a fucking comedian?
What are you here for?
It was terrible.
And then J.B. Smooth finally showed up.
So he goes on after I eat dick for half an hour.
He goes up and just crushes.
And it was exactly what they wanted.
He was silly and high energy.
And he just picked up the ball where I left it in a pile of dog shit and just ran with it.
But he's another guy.
It's like, why is that guy not a giant fucking huge star?
bert kreischer
Tony Woods, Brian, I'm imagining you've never seen him do stand-up.
unidentified
Tony Woods, no.
bert kreischer
He used to go on and purposely, literally, not speak for the first two minutes.
unidentified
What?
bert kreischer
Tony Woods would not speak.
unidentified
Really?
bert kreischer
And just get himself organized.
Real slow delivery.
And then he'd say something like...
I know what you're thinking.
A joke would be good to write about now.
But I'm black and I don't...
Just when I get to work doesn't mean I start working.
I gotta walk around for 15 minutes and see who the girl...
He was so fucking...
He was like my zen master when I started comedy.
Like just really fucking...
Like, just, ugh.
Like, I'd tell a story and be like, that story's good.
I told a story one night about fucking a girl on the waitstaff.
I worked at the Boston Comedy Club, and I lasted, like, two seconds.
And she got really fucking pissed and started yelling at me after it.
And I was like, and I didn't give a shit.
I was fucking drunk.
And we were in my hotel room, and I was like, listen, you can't do that shit.
I was telling her on stage, I was like, you can't do that shit.
And she was like, fuck.
unidentified
Fuck you!
Fuck you!
bert kreischer
You better go online and learn how to read a manual about how to fuck somebody!
And I was like, you know what?
I don't care.
I fucked you.
I win.
And she was like, ah!
And then I go, and you're getting out of here.
You're going to Brooklyn.
And so she was like, motherfucker!
And then got all dressed.
Got to my door.
I'm still totally naked with a beer in my hand.
She's at my door.
And she was like...
She was like, I swear to God, I fucking...
And then looked at me and went, huh!
And that, and I went, huh!
And then we both started laughing.
I slammed the door, and then she pounded on every door in my building going, Bert Kreischer can't fuck!
Bert Kreischer can't fuck!
joe rogan
This is true?
bert kreischer
This is a true story, yeah.
And so I get done, and I tell it on stage, and then I get off, and Tony Woods goes, alright, number one, don't ever tell that story ever again.
Why?
I said, I go, why not?
And he goes...
No one wants to hear that shit.
Alright, let's leave.
Tony was just like the best to be around.
joe rogan
Well, he's wrong.
I want to hear that story all day.
unidentified
Did he die?
joe rogan
No.
unidentified
No, no, no.
joe rogan
He lives in D.C. Why would he say not tell that story?
Because you don't want people to know that you can't fuck?
I don't know.
So that's a black-white thing.
Black guys never want to talk about how bad they are in bed.
bert kreischer
Yeah, there's a lot of things that are different.
I remember we did a show with Donnell Rollins and Red Grant with the two black comics.
And they were like...
Oh man, you never run a train on nobody?
And I was like, no, I've never run a train on anybody.
And they're like, oh man, that must just be a hood thing.
And I was like, wait, you guys like fuck a girl at the same time?
And then he's like, yeah, everyone ran trains on people.
I was like, I've never once ran a train.
I go, that's kind of gay.
And they're like, no, that's not gay at all.
I go, what the fuck?
It's really gay.
Like a bunch of guys playing leaky submarine with some girl.
unidentified
Just rock, rock, rock.
bert kreischer
There's a hole back here.
But that's another thing.
joe rogan
I don't think that has nothing to do with brothers.
That's just freaks.
bert kreischer
Seriously?
joe rogan
You just weren't hanging out with wild people.
bert kreischer
Man, I guarantee you.
Two of the trend topic.
joe rogan
Running trains?
Dude, people run trains in all races.
bert kreischer
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
Have you ever run a train?
joe rogan
Listen, we're on the podcast.
brian redban
Of course he has.
joe rogan
This is on the internet right now.
bert kreischer
We've got time to talk about this.
Can you guess how many people you've had sex with?
brian redban
No.
bert kreischer
Really?
I've got like eight.
joe rogan
Eight?
unidentified
That's it.
joe rogan
That's good.
You're doing well.
bert kreischer
My wife was it.
joe rogan
About seven more than I expected from you.
unidentified
I was thinking after that wage, she just called it quits, but then I remembered you had a daughter.
joe rogan
I don't know, man.
I stopped counting.
When you're a comic and you're on the road, things get squirrely.
When you're a single man, you can do whatever you want.
Things can get squirrely.
bert kreischer
Oh my God.
joe rogan
How many comics do you know that would literally, that's what they were looking for more than even doing comedy?
They just wanted to get laid after shows.
bert kreischer
Oh, every single one.
joe rogan
We know a lot of guys.
I know guys that have damaged their careers because they don't write.
They don't do anything.
All they do is just try to go up on stage and kill and hope they meet a girl after the show.
bert kreischer
That was the way I wrapped my head around the store.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
I thought the store was all like fucking Ahmed, Sebastian, Steve, Brett, Mike Young.
I thought they all just went up, murdered, just to fuck.
And then I was like...
joe rogan
Do you think they did it?
Do you think that that's like a...
Is that a valid thought?
Or is that just your own weird paranoia?
bert kreischer
Semi-valid thought.
I did a tour with those guys once, and they were just like, I was doing more time.
They're like, what the fuck are you doing?
We were used to doing 20 minutes, and I was doing 30. They're like, what are you doing 30 for?
Let's get out of here!
Let's go to a bar.
Yeah, let's go to a bar.
joe rogan
Tell everybody we're at a party.
bert kreischer
I was like, I'm married.
I want to do time.
joe rogan
That's funny.
You wanted to do extra stand-up, and they wanted to get off quicker.
So what they're worried about, see, if there's Mike Young, Brent Ernst, and Aaron, was it Aaron Cater?
All in one room, and then, you know, you want to be the first guy offstage, because you want to be the one to attack quick.
You don't want to get there after Mike Young's already taken her into the bathroom.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
Could be careful.
bert kreischer
Fucking Mike Young.
unidentified
God.
brian redban
Mike Young.
bert kreischer
His middle name isn't.
joe rogan
Mike isn't Young anymore.
That's what it should be.
bert kreischer
He eats like a crazy man, too.
joe rogan
Does he?
Oh, yeah.
bert kreischer
He's got that pancreatic cancer in his family.
brian redban
What?
bert kreischer
Yeah, he's got cancer, brain cancer, pancreatic.
So have you ever eaten with him?
joe rogan
What does he eat?
bert kreischer
He just eats very healthy.
Like we went to Hooters one day and he had a chicken breast and a bowl of lettuce.
And I was like, what?
And he was like, man, I got to keep my healthy, my shit clean.
Cancer runs in my family and it just creeps up and you die.
joe rogan
Wow.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's creepy.
bert kreischer
Like he doesn't drink beers.
He'll do shots of tequila.
joe rogan
Oh, that's healthy.
That's real good for you.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
joe rogan
What the fuck is that?
Joey Diaz has started smoking cigarettes again.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Yeah, what is he doing?
I saw him smoking.
brian redban
He didn't just start.
It's been going on for a while.
joe rogan
He smoked one at the airport the other day.
brian redban
Yeah, he's been doing it for a while.
joe rogan
He was telling me that he only smokes them before shows, but then I saw him smoking one at the airport.
brian redban
What's going on?
bert kreischer
How old is Joey Diaz?
brian redban
You know Joey Diaz, Joe.
joe rogan
It's like Bigfoot.
unidentified
When he dies, there will be no record of him.
bert kreischer
Who do you want to speak at your funeral?
joe rogan
No one.
bert kreischer
No one?
joe rogan
No one.
Light me on fire.
Who gives a fuck?
bert kreischer
Are you serious?
joe rogan
Yeah, stupid.
I don't want a bunch of people standing around crying because I'm gone.
Are you serious?
Yeah, I don't like going to them.
brian redban
I hate funerals.
I've skipped like the last three friends that died.
bert kreischer
Yeah, I'll definitely speak at your funeral.
joe rogan
When friends die, I mourn them in my own mind and think about them, but I'm not into it.
Really?
So when did he start smoking?
Because I see him the other day with a cigarette.
I go, what the fuck is going on?
Well, you know what I found out?
Brian, did you tell me or did Ari tell me?
Ari told me, Joey's outside smoking.
And I go, did we just smoked?
I thought he meant weed.
He goes, no, no, he's smoking that other stuff.
I go, other stuff?
brian redban
Ari said that?
joe rogan
Yeah.
And then we were working in Brea.
And then I went outside and Joey's smoking a cigarette with you.
And I go, what are you doing?
This just gets the fucking party started.
This gets the blood pumping.
You know what I'm saying?
Right before I go on stage, I go, you smoking cigarettes?
unidentified
No, no, no.
joe rogan
Right before I go up.
Right before I go up.
Just get a little taste.
Get a little fucking makes me crazy.
Makes me nuts.
unidentified
I just want to go up there and go fucking nuts on these motherfuckers.
brian redban
It's been a while.
Actually, I've known about it for maybe a year.
joe rogan
Wow!
Does Terry still smoke?
Does this girl still smoke?
brian redban
I don't think she does, but she did last time I saw her.
joe rogan
She did last time you saw her?
Which was how long ago?
Not long ago at all.
The drunk cast.
You did the UFC drunk cast.
I don't like people dabbling in cigarettes, Matt.
It's a scary thing.
brian redban
Joe, we had on Ari's podcast yesterday on Death Squad, we had...
joe rogan
Mack Lindsey.
brian redban
Mack Lindsey.
I don't know if you saw it or not, but he was talking about how he grew up being a huge drug addict, homeless, meth head, and he did Doug Stanhope's show while he was on meth, and Doug would have talked to him for five years.
It's a pretty interesting interview, but the one thing he says, he's like, everything else, I haven't touched anything for five years or anything, but Fucking cigarettes?
I can't fucking do it.
He's like, I've tried so many times.
He's like, it's impossible.
He's like, I'll quit.
It's just amazing how, I mean, meth even.
joe rogan
That's why I'm looking at Joey and I'm like, what makes you think?
You had a real hard time for years.
He would tell me, Joe Rogan, it's the hardest fucking thing I ever had to quit.
unidentified
Those cigarettes, there's something in them to get in your bones.
joe rogan
You know what I'm saying?
You're getting your fucking sweat and your blood.
They get in there and you can't get them out, Joe Rogan.
You can't get them out.
And now I see it.
I see someone smoking.
It makes me sick.
It makes me sick to my stomach.
I can't believe I ever did that.
So to see him smoking again after all that...
brian redban
Even though you say that, which is what I would say, too, when I quit and everything like that...
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what you did say when you quit.
brian redban
In the back of your head, though, every time you smell it or see a cigarette, you still think, I still think about it.
bert kreischer
I haven't smoked in well over 20 years.
joe rogan
What does it make you feel?
You want it.
You crave it.
What does it give you?
What is the feeling like?
See, when you smoke pot, you sit back and you're like, whoa.
You feel it hit you.
It's instant.
It changes your outlook.
It gives you an altered perception.
It changes your body.
It makes you more sensitive.
I see people smoking cigarettes and I'm like, you're still the same guy.
Nothing happened there.
brian redban
It relaxes you.
bert kreischer
It does relax.
It sucks you tobacco for a long time.
joe rogan
No?
For the same reason?
bert kreischer
Yeah, I'd shoot tobacco because I couldn't imagine doing this, what we're doing right now, without a dip in my mouth.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
I couldn't imagine.
I could not imagine.
If someone would come into our lounge and our fraternity or into my apartment and be like, dude, you're never going to believe what happened, I'd be like, give me a second, let me get a dip.
Because a good story was like...
joe rogan
You had to have a dip first.
Man, Sal from Sal's Comedy Hole is addicted to cigars.
Holy shit, that guy is just...
I go, how many do you smoke a day?
He's like, all day.
I go, all day?
brian redban
And he smokes them when they're just a blob of crap.
joe rogan
And then he goes and gives somebody money to go buy them more.
bert kreischer
Does he inhale them?
joe rogan
No, you don't inhale cigars.
bert kreischer
Some people do.
unidentified
Really?
bert kreischer
Yeah, I mean, usually people that are addicted to cigars inhale them.
brian redban
Yeah, most people are addicted to cigars.
bert kreischer
Like, I smoke cigars, but I don't inhale them.
So if I have one, it's going to be because my dad's in town, or someone says, hey, would anyone like a cigar?
Like, I don't need a cigar.
joe rogan
Dude, you want to come with me, man?
I got a membership at the Grand Havana Room.
I got a humidor up there and everything.
bert kreischer
Seriously?
unidentified
Yeah.
bert kreischer
You don't smoke cigars?
joe rogan
Yeah, I do.
I do.
Me and my friend Matt, we go there every now and then.
We have little butt buddies.
We have our names on the plaque together.
We share a box.
We've got a bunch of Cuban cigars.
bert kreischer
Is that Beverly Hills?
joe rogan
Yeah, you sit down and you feel like a fat cat.
All these assholes.
But what's really interesting is how many celebrities go there and see, like, look, it's David Caruso, who looks a million years old, by the way.
It's like, wow, that's the guy from NYPD Blue?
Now he's become this weird sort of a caricature with his sunglasses and that CSI Miami.
Those shows, man, you're doing one of those shows, man, you want to talk about a life-changing thing.
That's your new life, pal.
Your new life, it revolves around this show that you're doing because you're going to film it most of the year and you're going to film it most of the day, most of the week.
Almost the entire week, you're going to be spending filming five, six days a week, 12-hour days, sometimes more, depending on which shots need to get done.
Those fucking shows are brutal.
I've had a bunch of offers.
I've had a few things come my way where they wanted to meet me for something like that.
I'm like, what is it?
Single-camera drama.
Stop.
Stop talking.
Stop talking.
I'm not doing it.
bert kreischer
You don't seem like a five-year playing kind of guy.
joe rogan
The more time goes on, man, the more I am just enjoying doing comedy, doing the podcast, and doing the UFC. And I wish the UFC... I would like to do less of those.
I love doing it, but sometimes I travel just a bit too much.
I would love it if it was in LA or something like that.
But sometimes it's hard.
But when I'm there, I never wish I was anywhere else.
I'm enjoying everything I do.
So I'm very careful right now to make sure that I don't take on anything else that I don't enjoy.
Because right now, my life is like a little masterpiece.
I've got it set up.
So when I'm in town, I'm enjoying everything I'm doing.
I have the greatest group of friends.
And a part of it is this podcast.
And now because of this podcast, the people that are coming to see me at the shows are different.
It's like now they're all podcast fans and they really know where the fuck I'm coming from.
And we're all where we're all coming from.
I mean, Brian gets fucking huge rounds of applause when he goes on stage now.
Brian did like five minute sets in Portland.
He gets huge rounds of applause.
Ari does too.
Huge, huge round of applause in Seattle.
bert kreischer
Brian's the puff daddy of podcasts.
joe rogan
Ballin', bro.
But it's, you know, it's all good stuff.
It's not like, when I was doing Fear Factor, it was like, it was a great job.
It was, you know, it paid ridiculous money and it was really easy.
It was three days a week.
But during those three days, I would wish I was doing something else.
And I did it, you know, happily, because it was a lot of money, but there's never a time when I'm doing a podcast, never a time when I'm doing stand-up, never a time when I'm doing the UFC, where I go, wow, I wish I was doing something else.
Every time there's a UFC, I'm like, fuck yeah, here we go.
You know, the boom, boom, the sound comes on, the lights dim, first fight starts, I'm like, woo!
I punch knuckles with Mike Goldberg, here we go!
Every time, man, I'm like a little kid, I love it.
There's never a time when I'm like, God.
I can't believe I'm sitting here watching fights.
Never, never.
And stand-up, right before I'm going to go on stage, there's never a time where I'm like, fuck, I can't believe I'm doing stand-up.
Never, never.
bert kreischer
Now, how much does money incorporate into any of your decision-making?
joe rogan
Well, it has to.
Luckily, I make good money from the UFC, and I make good money from stand-up, so it doesn't have to.
As long as those things are covered, then I don't have to think about it.
It's when they're not covered, then it has to become an issue.
When I first started doing Fear Factor, I was not making really good money with stand-up.
I was doing news radio, the sitcom.
bert kreischer
Can you tell me how much you were making on stand-up back then?
joe rogan
A few grand a week.
bert kreischer
Like a couple grand?
joe rogan
A couple grand.
Two grand, 2500 maybe on a good week.
But I was doing like Thursday through Sunday, you know.
Maybe news radio was getting, it was a little more than that towards the end because it was 99 when I put out my CD and that definitely helped.
And I was getting paid better in clubs.
And there were some places where I could sell out.
But it was inconsistent and it's few and far between.
So like when something like Fear Factor came up, it was like, well, here's a good chance to make really good money.
And when you say $2,500, people go, wow, that's a lot of money.
But then when you take away agent's fees, manager's fees, and also business manager.
bert kreischer
And consider you're also in a different tax bracket because you're on news radio.
So I can tell you exactly how much you walk away with $2,500.
That was my rate.
joe rogan
Yeah, you walk away with 30 cents on the dollar, 35 cents on the dollar.
brian redban
It's ridiculous.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
But that's just the way it is.
So you have to make good money to stay ahead of the curve.
And then if you want to be able to relax, you have to have enough in the bank so you don't worry if something happens.
I mean, financial freedom, the real financial freedom is not the freedom to buy things and to own things.
The real financial freedom is to not worry about money.
That's the number one thing.
Get yourself in a place where you can feed yourself and be able to...
Brian Callen said this to me once and I really took it to heart.
unidentified
And he goes, being rich, I'd like to be rich.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
But you know what I want to do?
unidentified
I want to be able to go to a nice restaurant whenever I want.
joe rogan
Go to a nice restaurant.
And I'm like, that's so true.
Like, be able to eat at a nice place and never go, well, how much is the steak?
28. How much is the fish?
24. You know that feeling?
You know, I mean, I clearly remember thinking like that, you know?
That's real financial freedom.
You don't have to think about stuff.
So the way I've got everything set up, man, it's like I'm in a real good spot right now.
So I've got to be real careful about taking on any other things.
I talked about pitching this show right now.
It's sort of based on some of the ideas that came up on the podcast.
But really, the more I'm thinking about it, the more I'd rather just put cameras on the podcast.
brian redban
That seems like the most ideal thing, because we're pretty much doing it already.
Might as well do it.
bert kreischer
Out of all the things in your career, I would say this is probably the most...
And this is just as a person who's Who's obviously been a fan of yours and I'd say a friend somewhat, but this is probably the most representative of you.
And this is the one thing that I think when you pass, people will go, dude, his podcast was fucking...
That was before people were really...
I keep doing them, and it was breaking ground.
It's your personality.
Your stand-up's your personality, but it also has to be delivered in a one-two set.
There is a payoff at every moment in your stand-up, so you will compromise, despite how much people will argue this, you will compromise your voice for a joke.
joe rogan
Yes.
bert kreischer
A lot of times.
joe rogan
Yes.
It's different.
And I don't feel like I have to get my voice out anymore.
You know, I used to feel like there were certain things that I wanted to say on stage that maybe I couldn't say because I couldn't condense it into a joke form.
I don't feel like that anymore.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, there's a lot of stuff that I have.
There's a lot of weird thoughts that I have that I've expressed on the podcast and I've explored, you know, in depth that almost have no payoff as far as humor.
You know, like my idea about the whole...
Universe being some complex mathematical problem.
Every literal thing that goes on is just a part of some giant fucking algorithm.
This is something I've been dwelling on for a long, long time.
There's nothing humorous in that.
But we've discussed it on the podcast a bunch of times.
bert kreischer
Oh, I totally believe in parallel states.
joe rogan
Yeah?
bert kreischer
I fucking totally believe in that shit.
I believe that...
Do you ever think to yourself, like, I can't believe I'm still alive.
joe rogan
No!
Brian does, because Brian ate onions this morning and his heart almost fucking exploded.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's onions and heart palpitations.
Brian has this super hot girl.
Can you tell the story that you were telling me right before you started the show about how lazy you are?
brian redban
Oh, yeah, sure.
joe rogan
Tell this.
This is how ridiculous this motherfucker is.
First of all, this girl is dating.
Ten.
Okay?
Ten.
Solid ten.
Not ten face, but a six personality.
Not ten face, but a five body.
She's a fucking ten.
She's a ten.
brian redban
L.A. ten.
joe rogan
It's an L.A. ten.
Legit ten.
I don't use L.A. tens.
I use tens.
I don't judge anybody in any other way.
This is it.
Straight up across the board.
No doubt.
brian redban
I was just too tired to have sex.
What's wrong with that?
joe rogan
No, tell me what you did.
brian redban
I went down on her.
She had orgasms.
And I was like, I'm good.
Going to bed.
joe rogan
Dude, you need to go to a doctor.
You need to get your fucking blood work done.
Find out you need niacin in your diet.
Incorporate some squats.
Get off the cigarettes.
bert kreischer
My wife just said the other day we had sex.
My wife would hate that I'm talking about this.
joe rogan
Don't let her know.
We have a podcast.
bert kreischer
My wife couldn't figure out a fucking computer.
It's broken.
Why does it always break when I touch it?
Because you're fucking retarded.
And so she says, my whole thing is go oral first and then we'll do Tuesdays.
And so we had oral sex and then she said, I said, alright.
And she goes, well, what about just me?
Doesn't that ever happen?
So often it's just you.
Really?
Of course.
joe rogan
You get head all the time?
bert kreischer
No, no.
joe rogan
Just squirt it in there and go to sleep?
bert kreischer
Yeah, just be like, sorry.
Sorry.
joe rogan
Really?
Do you do that?
bert kreischer
You don't?
Do you realize how different we are, Joe?
brian redban
I enjoy eating pussy.
I've talked about it many times.
I do, too.
Even if I'm not horny and they're horny, I'd be like, oh, dude, I'll totally take care of you.
joe rogan
You don't get horny once you're eating pussy, though?
bert kreischer
That's the gayest thing I've just heard in my life.
That's like saying, I'll go out and eat with you and I'll just chew it and spit it on the floor.
I'm going to fucking swallow it, Brian.
I'm going to go Bill Burr on your ass.
Don't talk about an RSS feed.
joe rogan
RSS feeds.
brian redban
I'm not saying that's what I do every time.
Last night, I was so fucking tired.
joe rogan
I've never done that in my life.
bert kreischer
I've never been too tired to fuck.
I've never been too tired to drink.
brian redban
I woke up and took care of her.
bert kreischer
But Brian...
You were not aroused at all?
brian redban
I was half asleep last night.
I seriously was so fucking...
Actually, I take it back.
I know why I did it.
On top of being so tired, I was fucking stuffed out of my mind.
I made these huge garlic steaks and vegetables and stuff.
So it was more just kind of like, you know what?
I'm just not feeling it.
joe rogan
Your system has just crawled down to a halt, kid.
brian redban
You know, where you're supposed to take a nap after you eat a big meal.
joe rogan
And she wants her box eaten.
bert kreischer
And she's a 10?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Meanwhile, he falls asleep.
bert kreischer
That's...
I mean, I maybe could consider it eating.
joe rogan
She goes, uh, uh, uh.
He's like, thank God.
bert kreischer
I could maybe consider that if I had taken an Ambien and had one of those sleepwalking episodes, and my wife's like, you woke up in the middle of the night and ate my pussy.
You don't remember that?
And I'm like, I must have been the Ambien.
But I can't imagine just doing that sober.
joe rogan
Do you ever worry that she's going to think that you're not attracted to her if you don't fuck her when you eat her fucks?
brian redban
No, because normally, I wish we were at my house right now so I could just go grab my trash can.
We normally fuck like six times a day.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Grab your trash can?
brian redban
Huh?
bert kreischer
Wait, what are you doing?
joe rogan
Grab your trash can.
brian redban
Condoms, son.
bert kreischer
God.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
bert kreischer
The national average is six times a month.
brian redban
I know.
That's what my normal average is, too.
bert kreischer
I'm below the average for fucking paraplegics.
brian redban
I'm very lucky because she's one of those girls that you can just touch her in the arms.
unidentified
She goes...
brian redban
You know, like that?
And so she's just fucking...
joe rogan
Why do I find listening to you fuck talks so distasteful?
There's something about it.
I'm going like this with my mouth.
unidentified
I don't know.
brian redban
She's one of those girls that always grabs your hand when you're just in the middle of conversation and she just puts her hand in her pussy and it's just like juicy.
bert kreischer
Oh, one of those girls?
unidentified
Yeah.
bert kreischer
Yeah, those don't exist in my world.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
Never?
bert kreischer
I've never had a...
joe rogan
Well, you have a very small test group you're working with.
bert kreischer
Eight people?
I'm target marking out of Iowa.
I'm trying to learn how Rice Krispies sell only in this one city.
joe rogan
Didn't you say that your show is targeted, like that whole network is targeted towards women?
bert kreischer
Towards women, yes.
brian redban
Network?
joe rogan
He's on a travel channel.
Which, by the way, one of my favorite shows.
Two of my favorite shows.
Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations.
I fucking love that show.
It's a great show.
And really recommended some great restaurants to me.
Because of that show, I found out about a great seafood place.
God, I can't remember the name.
In Austin.
It would be great if I could pull the name out of my ass.
But it was a fantastic seafood place in Austin that I found out about.
I found out about places in L.A., I found out about a place in LA, a Mexican joint that serves goats.
They have giant fucking sides of goat and they're sawing it with a bandsaw and cooking it all together.
They cook like hundreds of pounds of goat every day.
It's amazing.
I found out about a bunch of great places.
And then also that Steve Rinella show.
You said it did not get such good ratings.
bert kreischer
Maybe it shouldn't be done.
It might be done.
It didn't do amazing.
joe rogan
Are they going to bring it back, you think?
bert kreischer
I doubt it.
joe rogan
Really?
bert kreischer
I'm speculating.
Why the fuck do I know?
I know nothing.
I know nothing.
joe rogan
Good fucking show.
bert kreischer
It was a good show.
But here's the thing.
For a first season show, you kind of got to hit a home run.
People get just as excited about new projects as they do successes.
But they don't get excited for shows that did pretty good.
joe rogan
Well, also, when you're dealing with a women-based network, man, it's going to be hard to promote a show about hunting.
bert kreischer
I think all networks, I mean, almost all networks really target women.
joe rogan
No, not at all.
Not Spike and not Comedy Central.
No, no, 18 to 34 males.
18 to 34 males are worth the money.
That's what they always target.
bert kreischer
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, always.
bert kreischer
Maybe I got our demographic off, but I could swear...
joe rogan
As far as, I mean, obviously you can make a lot of money if you're Oprah, but as far as the people that spend the most, it's 18 to 34-year-old males.
That's the 18 to 49 occasionally, depending on how far they want to stretch their demographic.
brian redban
I want to say we're like 23 to 52. I bet Travel and Food Network, and there's a couple of those that all do women.
I can see that totally.
Even though I love the Food Network.
joe rogan
Anthony Bourdain's show is very male-centric, I would think.
The way he discusses things and talks about things and drinks a lot.
It's a fun fucking show.
unidentified
Yeah.
bert kreischer
Yeah, but I think even like Adam Richman's show is very...
Women love it.
But women like...
I mean, I think women will watch a guy they want to...
joe rogan
Connect with?
bert kreischer
Connect with.
Right.
You know, that's what I think was a big fear of my show is that I'm kind of a meathead frat.
I'm like a Forrest Gump frat boy.
joe rogan
Right.
bert kreischer
So like, who wants to watch a guy scream all over the world and jump?
joe rogan
They underestimated your charm.
bert kreischer
Exactly.
That's what I said.
unidentified
Bitches.
joe rogan
Bitches need to step.
bert kreischer
But our show's doing good.
So...
joe rogan
And you told me this Adam Richmond guy, this man versus food, he got so fucking fat that he doesn't even do the challenges anymore?
bert kreischer
I never said that, Joe!
joe rogan
Oh, okay, you didn't say that.
bert kreischer
No, I didn't say that.
joe rogan
What I heard on the internet...
bert kreischer
Fucking Jesus Christ!
joe rogan
It wasn't you.
I'm sorry, it wasn't you.
What I heard on the internet was that this guy got so fucking fat that he doesn't do the challenges anymore.
Is that true?
bert kreischer
No, he's not doing the challenges anymore.
What the fuck is that?
joe rogan
That's the whole show, though.
bert kreischer
I don't think he got fat.
I think he just fucked his body up.
I think it's just very unhealthy.
joe rogan
The reason why I said this is there was a thread about it on my message board.
This was a long time ago, before I even talked to anybody about it.
And it showed a picture of him from season one.
What season is he in now?
bert kreischer
Season four.
joe rogan
Poor fuck.
bert kreischer
Yeah, but his body just...
He does all the cleanses and detoxes.
And even still, he's just like, fuck, it's...
joe rogan
Well, he's eating 30-pound cheeseburgers and shit.
bert kreischer
You can't do that show.
You can't do that show for six seasons for 20 seasons.
So they had to kind of change it, I think, to make it more of a sustainable show.
So it could carry on that long.
And so now it's called Man vs.
Food Nation.
And they're doing it where he brings in, like they did the Nasty Boys in Tampa.
I mean, I definitely shouldn't be talking about his show.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Don't talk about a show, bro.
bert kreischer
But, uh, but yeah.
joe rogan
Let's talk about Bert the motherfucking Conqueror and tell these bitches when they can watch it.
When is it on?
bert kreischer
Sunday nights at 8 o'clock.
joe rogan
Sunday nights at 8 o'clock.
I will now set my DVR. Bert is a fucking hero.
He's one of my favorite human beings on the planet.
bert kreischer
Best laugh ever.
joe rogan
You're a fucking, you're an awesome dude, man.
You got a great laugh.
You got a great personality.
Your stories are the shit.
Please tell that fucking Barnes& Noble story on stage.
It's gonna be a crusher, dude.
It's a, and you can do that Russian one, too.
Burt Kreischer, if you want to follow Burt on Twitter, you can follow him.
It is B-E-R-T-K-R-E-I-S-C-H-E-R. That's a complicated-ass fucking name.
You should change that.
brian redban
Burt is cool or something.
bert kreischer
Can you change your handle?
joe rogan
Burt is da shit.
I used to be JoeRogan.net.
It used to be D-O-T-M-E-T, but it was so long, it was impossible to retweet me.
If I said anything funny, you would have to chop it all up because there was too many words.
I used to think the new Twitter, you can retweet something and it just retweets it in its entirety.
It's a separate 140 characters.
But it used to not be that.
It used to be that when you retweeted something, you had to account for all the characters inside their name.
bert kreischer
You don't have to do that anymore?
joe rogan
No, no, you don't have to do that anymore.
On Twitter, you just hit retweet and it can just take care of it the way it is.
So, anyway, and some dude had Joe Rogan.
bert kreischer
Wait, what can I change mine to?
brian redban
Just make sure it's something that is memorable.
You don't have to do your last name, like Burt K. How about Burt Likes to Fuck?
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
Or Burt the Machine?
joe rogan
And tell your wife about it just all nonchalantly.
Yeah, I changed my Twitter name to Burt Likes to Fuck.
What?
Burt Likes to Fuck who?
bert kreischer
I just like it in general.
joe rogan
Yeah, I just like it.
unidentified
It's awesome.
bert kreischer
I'm not saying I don't like it with you.
joe rogan
It's the awesomest.
It's the greatest thing ever.
bert kreischer
Man, your fans are ridiculous on Twitter.
Last time I did this show, I got like 3,000 fans.
Really?
joe rogan
Well, we want you to get 3,000 more today.
And anytime I told you, anytime you ever have a show, please let me know and I'll tweet it and we'll pump it up on the podcast.
bert kreischer
I want one of those so bad.
joe rogan
You want a flashlight?
I got one for you.
bert kreischer
Are you serious?
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
It's so awkward to buy one.
joe rogan
Well, you don't have to buy one.
I'll give you a free one.
brian redban
Joe used that one last night.
joe rogan
No, I didn't use that one.
I haven't used any of the ones that are laying around here.
If you go to JoeRogan.net and click the link, we want to thank, first of all, thank the Fleshlight for being our sponsor.
It's a cool company, and it's embarrassing for a lot of people, and now it's become 10 minutes of my act right now.
bert kreischer
I did a joke.
unidentified
It's strong.
bert kreischer
I made a joke the other day on stage.
I don't remember the reference.
I don't know how it came out, but I made a joke about a Fleshlight.
I said, yeah, and then just type in the promo code ROGAN. And the place went fucking bananas.
joe rogan
Because they were podcast fans?
bert kreischer
Yeah, but it was in Irvine, and I just said, just type in the promo ROGAN. And they fucking went crazy.
brian redban
That's hilarious.
joe rogan
Well, you said you had a lot of people come up to you in Irvine.
bert kreischer
Dude, I have more people come up to me from your show than my TV show.
joe rogan
Wow.
bert kreischer
And I love it because your comedy fans are like straight-up comedy fans.
Yeah.
They don't fucking heckle.
They don't drink too much and get fucking kicked out.
They're just...
Good, like just random, I told you a girl from HGTV listens to this.
Yeah.
One of the heads of directors of HGTV was like, I heard you on the Rogan podcast.
joe rogan
Really?
HDTV? HD. That's Hogan Garden.
Oh, I thought you were talking about HD. That makes sense because that's like the fight network.
bert kreischer
And they were like straight up like, I was like, shut up.
joe rogan
Oh, that's awesome.
Hi to her.
unidentified
Hey.
joe rogan
Listen, the best thing about this podcast is that we develop like a real connection with all these people.
And it's like, you know, what people tell me is it's like they're hanging out with us.
You know what I mean?
bert kreischer
Dude, the best testament to this show, and I swear this on my children, when I'm on the road, I'll put on the podcast and put it on low in the pillow next to me and just feel like I'm listening to friends talk in the other room.
And it puts me to sleep, and I just go...
But a lot of times, I had to stop because I would...
joe rogan
Whip the dick out and feel weird.
bert kreischer
Yeah.
I can't do it to a new one because I'll end up listening to the whole fucking thing.
joe rogan
Oh, right, right, right.
bert kreischer
I have to do the old reruns, and it needs to be Ari.
Like, someone's got great energy.
Like, just very, like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
And I've listened to the one where you guys...
joe rogan
Is that your Ari impression?
unidentified
No.
bert kreischer
But the one where you guys had the blackout?
joe rogan
Yeah.
bert kreischer
Still, I listened to that a million times because I love listening to...
I love that he passes out halfway through.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was completely gone.
Well, Joey got so tired because he ate a cookie and he smoked joints and he hit the bag.
He hit the vaporizer bag, too.
He gets so hot.
He goes down a downward spiral.
Joey's the reason why I found out the difference between Indicas and Sativas.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Because I never smoked Indicas.
I really didn't realize that there was so much of a difference until I smoked Joey's weed.
Me and Brian and Duncan were hanging out in Houston, Texas.
We were in the lobby of the hotel and we were just sitting there slack-jawed and no one was moving.
No one was going anywhere.
And I was like, what the fuck is wrong with us?
And then I think it was Duncan that realized it, right?
unidentified
He goes, I think we just smoked Joey's weed.
joe rogan
Oh no!
What have we done?
Because Joey's just like, I just like to get blasted, dog.
I don't give a fuck, alright?
OG Kush, what do you got there?
Third eye, train wreck.
Come with it, bitches.
Come with it.
He'll just, whatever the fuck you got, man.
He'll smoke it.
But he used to be on, he doesn't do it anymore.
Now he likes hybrids.
Which are good, because hybrids give you that heady thing, but it also relaxes you.
It's good for comedy.
bert kreischer
Whenever I get the chance to have a regular life, maybe I'll take up weed smoking then, but I can't do it now.
I'm fucking all over the place.
joe rogan
You could, dude.
Look, we're going to get you in an isolation tank.
We're going to get you some exercise videos to follow.
We are going to rebuild Burt Kreischer.
Thank you to The Fleshlight for sponsoring our show.
If you go to JoeRogan.net, click in the code name ROGAN, you get 15% off.
Folks who are interested in coming to see me in Toronto, there's very few tickets left.
They're almost out.
And the only way you can get them now, Ticketmaster's sold out.
But if you go to my Twitter...
There's a link for the Massey Hall is where I'm playing.
And they have tickets available on their website.
But that's it.
And I can't fucking wait.
It's going to be awesome.
I can't wait to go there.
Thank you everybody that came to Portland.
Portland was the shit.
One of my new favorite towns.
brian redban
Thanks to everyone.
joe rogan
Fucking awesome place.
brian redban
Nicest people ever.
joe rogan
Nicest people.
Everybody was super cool.
And like I said, never been handed more weed ever in my life after shows.
I felt bad.
I had to be like, take your weed.
I can't take this.
I have too much.
I can't bring it home with me.
Philly is all sold out, I believe.
We put in a second show Thursday night, and that might be the only thing that there's tickets left.
So that's Helium in Philly, which is next weekend.
And that's with Joey and Ari.
It's the full death squad, bitches.
Brian Woodgub.
His girl's having her birthday, and he has to eat her box.
unidentified
Wow!
Wow!
joe rogan
So that's it, folks.
And we'll see you Thursday.
And Friday is going to be Kevin from Attack of the Show.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
We've got a special Friday episode.
brian redban
Kevin Pereira.
joe rogan
Pereira.
How do you pronounce his last name?
brian redban
I should know this.
joe rogan
That guy.
He's very cool.
I've known him many times.
We'll figure it out.
We're going to get to the bottom of this.
And that'll be Friday at 3. And somebody else on Thursday.
I'm not sure.
Maybe Stephen is easy if he's home.
All right, bitches!
You know, I love you.
Thank you very much for tuning in.
Thank you very much for coming out to all the shows and for everything you do and for being a part of this fucking crazy experience we're all going through together.
Burt Kreischer's in the motherfucking house, ladies and gentlemen.
unidentified
Burt Kreischer!
brian redban
Burt Kreischer!
joe rogan
Thank you, Burt.
Appreciate it, brother.
bert kreischer
Thank you, Joe.
Thank you, Brian.
brian redban
Subscribe to Death Squad.
bert kreischer
Watch my show this Sunday.
joe rogan
Yeah, watch Burt Kreischer's show.
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