#1446 - Bert Kreischer

Joe Rogan (0:04)

And we're live, cheers, sir.

Bert Kreischer (0:06)

Cheers, brother.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

Yeah, while the world is on fire, we might as well get a little fucked up.

Bert Kreischer (0:11)

I've been clean for seven days. No booze.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

No nothing?

Bert Kreischer (0:15)

No nothing.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

You look good, your face looks good.

Bert Kreischer (0:17)

I know, I'm starting to see a direct difference when I quit drinking.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Do you feel trapped by your image, by your party image?

Bert Kreischer (0:26)

I would never have said yes, until this week, I've exhaled for the first time in a very big way.

Like where I was like, no road, I'm not doing social media. I mean, I'm doing stories and stuff, I'm not trying to put, like, when things shut down, I kind of shut down with America, and I was like, yesterday, man, I sat in a hammock sober for like fucking two hours and just relaxed.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

It is nice to be home for a while. It is nice. You realize what a beating our lifestyle takes on your body, the travel, and then if you're boozing too, the travel and the boozing together.

So we should tell everybody what we learned today. I'm revising my thinking about this virus because of Michael Yeoh. Michael Yeoh caught it. Michael Yeoh is healthy as fuck. He's not any high risk group. Like he doesn't have any preexisting conditions. He's in shape.

And he got it, and he got pneumonia too. And he said it was a double combination and he thought he was gonna die. And he was in the hospital for over a week. And four days ago, he said he thought he was gonna die.

That's fucking terrifying because Michael Yeoh is healthy. He's not some 80 year old man. I talked to my friend, Dr. Peter Attia. He's a physician and he gave me some-

Bert Kreischer (1:47)

That's the guy that swam from Maui.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

Yes, he swam all the islands. He's a fucking straight up savage. So his take, this is my question to him. I said, this is crazy shit. What is your take on how so many people experience very few symptoms, but others get wrecked? And he said, I still think most people below 55 sail through it. I've had two patients get it. A shitty cold and loss of a sense of smell and taste, which probably returns soon. But still, a small fraction of these folks get hurt. I know a doc taking care of a 28 year old fitness instructor on a ventilator in New York City today. Why? He said, maybe some genetic predisposition. We know blood types matters.

A is the worst, O is the best based on antibodies. He said, I'm O positive. He said, but I don't think that explains more than some of it. Maybe shit like vaping, he said. Still too soon to tell. He is a straight up no nonsense, no bullshit guy. And I listen to everything he says. So when guys like him are concerned, I get concerned.

And he's concerned. This is a weird disease. Another thing that he said, it's weird that it seems that people who spend more time with this get it worse.

He's like, it's not like, you know, like doctors in hospitals with prolonged exposure get it really bad.

Nurses in hospitals with prolonged exposure seem to get it really bad. Whereas some people get it and they don't get it bad. It's weird. It's a very, very strange disease according to doctors. And I think we're still trying to figure this out. You know, it's just, wow, it's one of those things where everyone's just sort of absorbing the information as it comes in and you gotta be open to adjusting your opinions.

My opinions were, I really was concerned with old people and I was concerned with sick people. Now after Michael Yeo, I'm like, okay, this is not that straightforward. There might be some other crazy factors here. Like for some people, yeah, like Idris Elba, who looks fantastic, fine. But maybe other people are gonna have a real hard time with it like Michael Yeo. Like Michael Yeo's not a sickly guy. He's a big robust guy.

That's a spooky one.

Bert Kreischer (4:04)

Yeah, I mean, your podcast with the...

SPEAKER_3 (4:07)

Ostrich Home.

Bert Kreischer (4:09)

Chicken Little. That scared the fuck out of me. Fucking sitting in the back of my tour bus and I hear this, I'm like, I've had a few cocktails, I hit a joint, let's go to bed, oh cool, who's this guy? Oh, the coronavirus, I wouldn't mind hearing a little bit about that. Holy, first thing I did, I told Jamie, first thing I did, I sat up in bed and I was Googling that motherfucker, I was like, he wrote a book, didn't he?