#1990 - Bert Kreischer

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Bert Kreischer (0:15)

Brother, I love you way more than you'll ever love me, and you know that I told you that last night.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

That's a ridiculous thing to say to a person.

Bert Kreischer (0:23)

You changed my life immeasurably.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

You changed mine too, we changed each other's lives. We really did.

I just get too much credit. It's all of us. It's like we did it all together.

We all did it together. Without good friends, nobody really succeeds because you don't appreciate it if it's just you. It doesn't seem fair. It seems all fucked up.

Bert Kreischer (0:52)

I keep saying to people, you gotta surround yourselves with the motherfuckers.

If you're talking about your friends as if you're the top dog, then you're with the wrong dudes. Someone said to me, you're always talking like, you're not a great comic, your friends are so much better. I go, they are. Look who my fucking friends are. Are you fucking kidding me?

Like my friends, I surround myself by people that are way better than me. And then I just listen. I don't listen a lot.

Joe Rogan (1:17)

We all rise up together. It's the old expression, the rising tide raises all boats.

It really does. It's just, it's good for everybody. It's like you want killers, right? Like we got into this because we love comedy and now we're in it. And when you're in it, it's so scary and it's so weird and it's so chaotic and people are comparing themselves to other people and it causes all this totally unnecessary conflict.

And if you just remember why you got it in the first place, you got it in the first place because you love to watch it. And then you did it and then you got selfish and you started thinking about yourself. You started thinking about, I want to kill and I want to be better and I want to be the number one person.

Bert Kreischer (2:00)

Watch them where other people are in their career and go, I don't have a 30 minute, half hour special.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

People get upset with people that they really don't have any conflict with in real life, but in their mind, they associate that person with something negative because they feel bad when they think about them because that person's more successful than them. It makes them feel bad so they think that person's bad. It's like a weird, selfish way of thinking about stuff. And every comic used to have that back in the day. Dice was talking about how every comic would fuck every comic over and they would like do something that would fuck up your set. And he was talking about what he did on Dangerfield's young comedian special.

Someone else on the show wanted to wear a leather jacket, the day of, a biker jacket, like the same jacket that Dice wears.

Bert Kreischer (2:47)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

And Rodney stopped it and he put the kibosh on it. But the comics would always do that kind of shit to each other.

Bert Kreischer (2:53)

It was like that when I started.

It's not like that. It's way less like that now. Like I feel like the amount of love I've gotten from comics these last couple of weeks promoting the movie, the love I've gotten from them has like made me feel good. Like I get really nice texts from people. Even, I was telling you, I'm gonna name drop right away. Chappelle was the fucking sweetest guy in the world.

Joe Rogan (3:18)

He's the nicest guy of all time.

Bert Kreischer (3:19)

He was the sweetest guy. I wanted to meet that guy.

Joe, I wanted to meet him for so long. Because he's my favorite. Like out of all the comics when I moved to New York that I could watch, it was Chappelle the way he did it. It was like watching jazz, right? And then Attelle was like almost like watching the fucking fish or like the dead. And you're like, it's not jazz. I don't know what the fuck that is, but it's totally different. I don't understand it.

Hedberg was like that. Those are the guys. Geraldo, those were those. Patrice.

But Chappelle was like the great white. I told him that. I said, you're like a great white shark.

You don't see, like you walk into a room and you're like, oh, fuck, fuck. And he goes, he was like, he was like, man, he was very nice. He goes, you've always spoken very nice about me. And I was like, yeah, that's how it works. Like when you're a cool person, people talk good about you.