#2291 - Bert Kreischer

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.

Jamie (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Jamie (0:13)

Good to see you.

Bert Kreischer (0:14)

Thank you, Joe.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Always good to see you, my man.

Bert Kreischer (0:15)

It's always good seeing you, man. I always say, like, you give the best hugs.

The UFC the other night, when I saw you, and you came up, you just wrap it up. I love it, I'm a hug guy too. I think it shows your emotion.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

I love a real hug, yeah, a real hug where someone loves you.

Bert Kreischer (0:33)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:34)

You know, you know I love you, so I give you a love hug.

Bert Kreischer (0:37)

I know you love me. I know you love me.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

We've been friends for a long time, brother.

Bert Kreischer (0:41)

I know.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

We really have. It's nice, like, having friends that you've been friends with for just decades.

Bert Kreischer (0:49)

I would say, I've said this before, but I would say, I never had a brother growing up, and you've always been pretty honest with me, the way a big brother would be, and you've always come from a place of love. I remember the whole reason, my whole, I was doing nothing and fucking nothing. I'm sitting in the backstage of the store with you, and you look to you, you look just, you go, Tommy's doing theaters. And I said, okay, and you need, you need to be doing theaters. I was like, okay. And you're like, you need a Netflix special. You need to get one. I was like, all right, Joe, how am I supposed to do that? And you go, be undeniable. And you just walked away. And I fucking was like, that's the kind of mentorship you look for in a friend. That's who you want to be around. Surround yourself with great white sharks. People think you're a great white shark.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Well, you were always really fun and really funny, but you were always doing these travel channel shows. And this is what drove me crazy. I remember the day. We've talked about it before, but I remember the day I was in the comedy store and I was calling you from the main room and you were on a motorcycle in Vietnam. And I think you were drunk.

Bert Kreischer (1:52)

I was drunk and hot. Two things, you're not supposed to be on a motorcycle. No helmet, inflip flops.

Joe Rogan (2:00)

Which is, by the way, it's a fun way to catch somebody. When you call someone and you're going to go on stage in like 20 minutes. I'm just checking in on you, see what's going on and you're on a fucking motorcycle in Vietnam. I'm laughing. But then I was like, dude, you really need to dedicate yourself to stand up. Like this is a trap. It's a velvet prison. These TV shows are a velvet prison. And when you're on the travel channel, you're not even getting, well, you're making great money, right? But you're not getting, I can retire now money. No. There's no fuck you money. It's I can live well money. You know, it's a great job. But it's one of those jobs where at a certain point in time, you got to go, OK, I have to jump ship. Like, you know, I can't keep doing this. Like, this is going to fuck up everything else I'm doing.

Bert Kreischer (2:42)

It's hard to pull that trigger too, because like with kids and a family and a house.

And you go, OK, it's not great money, but it's good money. And the road was not great money. And I remember you saying, you need a Netflix special. I remember you saying that to me. On that motorcycle, I'm sitting, I pulled, I had headsets in, I was listening to the doors, magic caravan, Spanish caravan. And I was flying. I was high. There were oxen on either side of me. The sun was setting. And you're like, dude, this is who you are. Fuck that travel channel bullshit. Get away from it. You need to focus on stand up in your podcast. And I was like, yeah. And you're like, you're the fucking machine. If you don't talk about this on stage, then you're not doing yourself. You're doing yourself a disservice.

Joe Rogan (3:21)

Well, there's certain people that, like, you know their full potential because when they're with you, they're completely relaxed. And, you know, everyone's just having a great time and you get to see them at their best. And when you're crying, laughing, just hanging out, talking to a guy, you're like, this guy's got it. He's just got to figure out how to get rid of all the other shit in his life and focus on that.