#894 - #WhoIsFat - Day 1

Joe Rogan (0:00)

I don't know, you don't look very fat to me. If I had to describe you to someone, I wouldn't say, that's a fat guy.

Tom Segura (0:07)

It feels good.

Bert Kreischer (0:09)

You would definitely say Stalky.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

I wouldn't say you're fat either right now.

I wouldn't say you're a fat guy. I know you're wearing layers right now.

Bert Kreischer (0:15)

I'm wearing a lot of layers.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

Because you're weighing in, so you're trying to dehydrate. Because you kind of came in late to the game.

Ari Shaffir (0:21)

He sandbagged me. This motherfucker has been working out since August.

Bert Kreischer (0:26)

And in November, he says, hey, let's do a weight loss challenge.

I'm 256 at the time. I'm like, okay.

Tom Segura (0:33)

Wait, that's a little bit of a Bert-ism, though. Bert's, I don't know if you know, Bert's prone to exaggerate slightly.

Bert Kreischer (0:40)

It's called hyperbole.

Tom Segura (0:42)

He was 256 on Thanksgiving after a full binge. That wasn't his walk around with.

Bert Kreischer (0:48)

It was a New York binge where I drank every day on OP radio, drank every single night, and then came back.

Tom Segura (0:54)

And then he weighed himself.

Bert Kreischer (0:55)

And like I was a full binge, Ari said to me, he's like, there's no way you're 244 I got on because that's what Bunz was on November 11th. That's when my special on Showtime came out. And that's when we weighed in. It was the day. I saw you the next day at the end of the World Podcast. Right. What did you think I was then?

Tom Segura (1:08)

That's November 8th, though.

Joe Rogan (1:09)

I didn't check.

Bert Kreischer (1:11)

I was robust.

Joe Rogan (1:12)

You were big.

Bert Kreischer (1:13)

I was big.

Joe Rogan (1:13)

You had a gut. Now, what made you guys start this?

Bert Kreischer (1:17)

Ari.

Tom Segura (1:18)

But actually, Ari made the challenge. But I was thinking about the origin of Bert Is Fat.

Bert Kreischer (1:23)

It's you. It's you and your wife when you get together are dicks.

The name of the podcast is the thing you said to other kids when you didn't like them. Yeah, that's where I was.

SPEAKER_5 (1:37)

Your mom's house.

Bert Kreischer (1:39)

You wonder where this hate-filled fucking podcast comes from.

Ari Shaffir (1:42)

So wait, though.

Tom Segura (1:44)

But here's where it came from. And do you remember a few years ago, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was in the scandal?

Joe Rogan (1:57)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Ari Shaffir (1:58)

In New York?

Joe Rogan (2:00)

He raped a maid?

Tom Segura (2:01)

That's right. He was accused of raping the maid. He was eventually cleared. And it inspired a movie that I think was on HBO or Showtime. And we were watching it, and they did it like loosely or mostly based on that story, but it wasn't a biopic. And the guy that played DSK was Gerard Depardieu.

And there's a scene where they have him get arrested and do the perp walk, and then they do the strip search, like at Rikers Island. And he had this totally bloated, distended, like big booze body. And we were like, that looks like Bert, but bigger, like way bigger.

So then we talked about it on our podcast. And then people started to Photoshop Bert onto Gerard Depardieu.

Bert Kreischer (2:43)

I was actually taking it as compliments, because I know he's a very talented actor.

I was like, oh, that's cool. By the way, this is all blind sighting me. This is happening in their little fucking world. And then at the same time, I started a vlog. Remember when I did my vlog, Jamie?

And I knew that one of the things that was popular on vlogs was weight loss.

So I was watching my weight loss, and I was losing weight, but I was always weighing in on a Speedo. And it was very self-deprecating. I was trying to make it funny. These two are watching it at the exact same time and making fun of how fat I am. I'm oblivious to this. I'm oblivious to all of this. And then one day, Doug Benson and I get into a fight. I remember, I think everyone knows what I'm talking about here.

Joe Rogan (3:21)

Yeah, that was on his podcast, right?

Bert Kreischer (3:24)

It was a live podcast, and it was very uncomfortable. And it was bad.

And I think I called Tom. I went right to the bar after it. I was fucking worked up. I was like, I think I called him. I was drunk, and I go, he goes, hello? I go, hey, we need to talk. And he goes, I am so sorry. And I go, for what? And he goes, wait, what are you calling about?