#1024 - Bert Kreischer

Joe Rogan (0:00)

I'll just do a podcast, say I sound like Joe Rogan, but I'm not. Just totally Same voice, everything.

Hello, everybody, I'm live here with super yogi Bert Kreischer, newly sober, athlete, resting heart rate of 47

Bert Kreischer (0:19)

47

Joe Rogan (0:19)

That's pretty crazy, man.

Bert Kreischer (0:20)

I called my cardiologist right after I talked to you guys.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

Am I dying?

Bert Kreischer (0:24)

I literally was like, hey, Joe Rogan said I'm dying. And he's like, first of all, he's like, I respect Joe Rogan, but please don't listen to him about your blood pressure medicine.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

But I read somewhere that blood pressure medicine and anti-anxiety medicine lowers your heart rate.

Bert Kreischer (0:40)

Yes, those are beta blockers.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

Yeah.

Bert Kreischer (0:41)

I'm not on that.

By the way, I spiraled out, and I couldn't get my heart rate up as I was spiraling. So I was like, I'm freaking out normally. My pulse would be through the roof. I called my doctor. He's like, no, you're healthy. He's like, this is what we've been shooting for, is you to stop drinking? So he's like, let's just do what you're doing. He's like, have a good time with it.

And so, but yeah, my resting heart rate's low. I've never felt better in my fucking life to be dead serious with you.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

How many days in are you?

Bert Kreischer (1:07)

12 days, right?

Joe Rogan (1:08)

We're 12 days in? Today the 12th?

Bert Kreischer (1:10)

I'm one day ahead of that because I quit the day before. I quit the day before because I listened to you guys and all the fucking armchair doctors who were like, Bert, you're going to die. You need to be medically induced into a coma.

Joe Rogan (1:20)

Well, you were telling us that you were drinking six doubles a day.

Bert Kreischer (1:23)

By the way, I talk out of my ass when I'm drunk, so I don't know how much I was really drinking because I was definitely terrified. I was definitely terrified coming into the home stretch of getting sober because I was like, I was like, man, am I going to die? Like, I literally, and I talked to Dr. Drew about it, and I was like, hey, can I like die and stuff? And he was like, well, you can have seizures.

But I stopped drinking. I didn't even have withdrawals. It just felt good the next day.

Joe Rogan (1:53)

That's amazing. That's what killed Amy Winehouse, you know?

Bert Kreischer (1:56)

I've Googled all this shit.

Joe Rogan (1:58)

But I think Amy Winehouse is just over the top.

Bert Kreischer (2:01)

You've gotta be the second you wake up till the second you pass out drinking. And by the way, on that Australian tour, there were hints of that.

Like, I was flying and performing every night, and I'd drink on planes. I hadn't flown sober at that time. And so there was, but I've always been very measured with my booze, so I wasn't going nuts.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

Did you feel good when you're doing that? Like, how did you feel when you're drinking and flying and you felt bad?

Bert Kreischer (2:31)

I actually felt really bad.

And I think we all tweeted this, but I was like, I was ready for this fucking month. After that Australian tour, I was definitely ready. That's a great way to go into not drinking, is fly to Australia, do a tour for two weeks, and then fly back. I was like, fucking bring it, dude.

Joe Rogan (2:48)

You know what, man, I don't drink that much, but I feel way better, too. It's weird. It's like, I would have maybe a shot before I go on stage some nights, but some nights not. And then maybe someone go, you want a beer? Yeah, I'll have a beer. And they have one or two, and then maybe I'd have a glass of wine with dinner. So on a regular Friday night, I might have four drinks.

And now nothing for 12 days, and no pot. I went off the pot, too. Because Ari was giving me such a hard time, I'm like, you can't even quit, you can't even quit pot. You're an addict, that's what addicts say. And I was like, all right. I told Tommy, I was like, I'm just gonna quit and not tell them, and then break it at the end of the month. Like, it's easy. The pot's been easy. But the dreams have been different. It is really interesting.

When you don't smoke pot, your dreams like wrap up. Makes me think, like what?