#1712 - Bert Kreischer (Part 1)

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience. Salute, my brother.

Bert Kreischer (0:17)

Cheers, brother.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

So good to see you.

Bert Kreischer (0:19)

It's great seeing you, man.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Oh my God.

How long has it been? It's been months and months.

Bert Kreischer (0:24)

It's been all quarantine. No, no, first quarantine, that we did a podcast right when, I think, my special aired.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

Right, right when it started going down.

Bert Kreischer (0:32)

When we didn't know, like when we smoked two separate joints because we were scared.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

Ah, was that like May or something?

Bert Kreischer (0:38)

March 20th we did a podcast, I think.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

Now we're ready to make out.

Bert Kreischer (0:42)

Yeah, little did I know, I didn't need to do anyone's podcast. Stay at Home orders are really good for a special.

Special comes out March 17th. Stay at Home orders kick on March 15th.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Perfect. Greatest timing ever.

Bert Kreischer (0:57)

Fuck a snowstorm, Ralphie May.

Joe Rogan (0:59)

Right, everyone's at home.

Bert Kreischer (1:00)

Dude, it was, and then the cabin came out, and I was like, was it gonna hit you up to do your podcast? I was like, you know what? They still gotta stay at Home orders. I think we're good.

Joe Rogan (1:09)

Yeah, well, one of the weirdest things that happened was podcasts are essential businesses.

Bert Kreischer (1:14)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

Like, okay.

Bert Kreischer (1:16)

I'll tell you what, it kept me sane.

Me and Tom did Two Bears, One Cave. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. Best thing that ever fucking happened to me.

Joe Rogan (1:24)

Yeah, because it gives you something to do.

Bert Kreischer (1:25)

Yeah, and we doubled down. We started doing two, one every week, and we were doing two a month, and we just, I mean, it was like, complete, and we just forgot about COVID when we got in there.

Joe Rogan (1:36)

And may I be the one to say that you were the first person to figure out to do drive-through or drive-in movie shows. You know, there's a lot of people, other people try to take credit for that, Bert Kreischer.

Bert Kreischer (1:44)

I only said that in a podcast.

Joe Rogan (1:50)

And I try to be diplomatic, cause I know it was you. And I was like, you know what it's like? It's just like when someone has a hand grenade and they pull the pin and you're like, don't let go of that thing because that's a live hand grenade. And they're like, no, it's not. I'm like, okay.

Bert Kreischer (2:05)

Can I tell you? And I told you outside, I got the same Amanda Knox thing Malcolm Gladwell says she has, that guilty disorder. I listened to that and I went, oh my God, I didn't create the drive-in, Eliza did.

Oh, you thought that? And I was like, I stole it from her. I was like, I stole it from her. Cause I'm going like, I thought, I was like, I know that I came up with that. Like March 17th, the day of my special air, I called Nick Nussforo. I said, yo, get me the drive-in movie theaters. He's like, it's not a thing. And I go, no, it is, we'll make it a thing. I go, they're wide open. No one's using them. Let's get in there. We'll have all the feed going from my audio on a stage, right next to the big screen. We'll shoot it.

He's like, it's not a thing, then he hits me back and he goes, okay, I got an electronic dance producer, dance, EMD's music, whatever.

They think they can do it. Hotbox, shout out to Hotbox, those guys are gangsters. He's like, the money is shit.

He's like, you got to pay for another tour bus, a thing to drag the stage around, a crew of 12 And he's like, and you got to pay rent, the vent, he's like, the money is shit. If you want to do it, you can do it. And I was like, I was like, let's do it. And they signed me up for like 14 And I was like, hang on, let's do like a couple and see if I don't want to commit to a fucking summer.

So we did the first one in a rock quarry in North Carolina, the most beautiful location. I did an hour and 35 minutes. In 35 minutes, I did my whole hour. And I was like, time to tell the machine twice. I was like, fuck it.