Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh - Bert Kreischer Gets Pranked By His Biggest Fear

Episode Date: March 21, 2023

Whats up people, we've got The Machine in the building, Bert Kreischer. Schulz reached out to his 2 bears, 1 cave co-host Tom Segura to get some info on some of Berts fears... turns out he hates clown...s and balloons. We DID NOT expect it to end up like this. INDULGE! 00:00 START 01:27 Rolex boys 04:59 WHO Picked berts movie wife? + kissing a new woman 08:42 Why Bert won't cheat + Bert loves to EAT 12:46 Being honest + earning the ability to talk about yourself 15:30 Tosh is the greatest + colluding in poker 20:48 Bert's comedy style + having unbelievable conviction 30:26 Patrice O'Neal story + insight into their lives 32:07 Birth of "The Machine" + being protective about personal life 37:39 Bert LOVES Segura even if Bert gets hurt 41:54 Music industry infiltrated Comedy + wanting to make Comedy 45:58 Stand up clips are gonna end comedy but it WORKS 51:15 Body counts really do count 59:57 Segura sends his regards + "you can't trust them" 01:03:53 Flagrant unspiked Bert's beer 01:04:57 "I can smell them" - Balloon PTSD 01:09:18 Ari is more trustworthy than Flagrant + can't trust Clowns 01:15:04 Bert is terrified of flying + blimp panic attack 01:18:02 Industrial Clown Complex is done 01:19:17 Deaths, Phobias, panic attacks & spelunking 01:39:49 Travel show - cave diving or wingsuiting will be your funeral 01:45:04 Bert is relentless + failure was ultimate blessing 01:54:26 Early Rogan appearances - impacted EVERYTHING 02:04:22 Comics used to hate each other 02:06:41 Blessed to have lived the best life

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Do you love Tom? Yeah, yeah. So much so that I'd let him f*** me over. Ooh, this is interesting. So you would let him f*** you over, and you're like, you have so much goodwill built up that you could look past it. I'll tell you this.
Starting point is 00:00:12 I'll tell you a true story. I don't know if Tom knows this. Right. I think his dad ran sex stores. Right, right. And says... Oh, f***! I've never seen Bert look this uncomfortable.
Starting point is 00:00:27 You need another drink? I'm like shaking. Why are you crying? I'm like shaking. You have tears in your eyes. Give me the beer. Give me the beer. Give me the beer.
Starting point is 00:00:33 No, no, no. It's just shocking. Check out my special razzle dazzle. What a weird episode. I've never done a podcast like this in my life. You guys, to be up today, I've been the luckiest guy in the world. When I die, everyone should just go like, I don't deserve any of the stuff I've gotten. I don't deserve anything.
Starting point is 00:01:02 And I've done everything in the world. I've traveled the world four times. I have two deserve anything. And it's been like, and I've done everything in the world. I've traveled the world four times. I have two beautiful daughters. I'm in love with my wife. And I have the greatest career that I feel so lucky to have. And I have awesome friends. Like, when I die, and I shouldn't have had any of it. There's people that don't have any of it.
Starting point is 00:01:18 I can't, I mean, yeah, I hope my funeral's fun. What's up, everybody? Welcome to Flagrant. And today is a very big day. We're in the middle of a global economic meltdown. Yes. I think I caused it. I think I caused it.
Starting point is 00:01:37 You might have. You don't know who's talking just right now. I mean, you do because you clicked the fucking thumbnail, but we're going to set it up as if you don't. Okay. The president, the ex-president the last president might be getting arrested today when this comes out
Starting point is 00:01:50 the Pentagon has confirmed fucking aliens motherships and little UFOs might be going to America and there's only one man that can save us all it's a man to my right right now that's the man, the myth, the machine it's Burt Kreiser let Let's go, Burt!
Starting point is 00:02:06 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, Burt! Now, Burt, it is weird you requested not to have our black co-hosts on the show. That I thought was kind of weird. You said, I'll only come back. You said, I'll only come back if I'm the only one wearing two Rolexes.
Starting point is 00:02:23 Wakanda forever. Oh, that's Wakanda forever. Wakanda woman. Oh, that's Wakanda too? Yeah, baby. Yeah, what was with the two fucking Rolexes? I didn't even notice it. That's so crazy. Oh, I didn't even know.
Starting point is 00:02:34 Oh, is that what's happening right now? My arms are fully loaded. You know, I figure if you're promoting a special called Razzle Dazzle. Oh, that's a good-ass point. Razzle Dazzle.
Starting point is 00:02:46 That's a good-ass point. I was with Sigur yesterday. He was throwing this one away, so I just picked it up. Really? He was like, I'm done with it. Now, I do have a question about how you're wearing them. Yeah. Because I do kind of like watches.
Starting point is 00:02:58 I love, I love. This is valid. Now, this Rolex here is made for left-handed people so you can wear it on your right hand. Now, here's what's interesting. That's not accurate. Well, you tell me. Because I bought this yesterday. Okay.
Starting point is 00:03:15 We were in Vegas yesterday, so we were doing a thing at the MGM. This is the new thing. It's a throwback. They're doing this all year. And which side is it on? It's for left-handed people, yes, but they're doing this on all the watches now. That's not true. It's only on that watch right there.
Starting point is 00:03:27 No, no, no. You got lied to. No, no, no. Hold on, because I sat on a plane. I sat on a plane with a dude. They haven't announced the new Rolexes until like next weekend. Yeah, this is last year's.
Starting point is 00:03:35 Yeah. This is, I just got it yesterday. Yeah, no, it's, but that doesn't mean, they didn't make it and then give it to you. Call Segura, call Segura, call Segura, call Segura. We're in this year. We're in this year right now, okay. We're in this year right now. Okay?
Starting point is 00:03:46 We're in this year right now. What I'm trying to say is this could work perfectly because you just take the Daytona and you put it on your left. Yeah. And then you take this one on the right. Yeah. And then everything is golden. It fits perfectly.
Starting point is 00:03:56 It works great. Yeah. I really fucked this up. Yeah. Because how on earth are you going to fix that while it's on even? No, I didn't even say it when I bought it yesterday. They were explaining
Starting point is 00:04:07 that this is a thing they're doing this year. But be honest, you didn't listen? You were just like, give me the fucking roll? I did not. I don't even know
Starting point is 00:04:13 what I'm doing. I didn't even know what's going on. And by the way, I didn't even pick it out. I didn't even pick it out. We're being real serious. Shake to see if they're
Starting point is 00:04:20 on different times. Of course they're on different times. But that way, it's always five o'clock somewhere. You know what I mean? That's true. Cheers to that, baby. Let's go.
Starting point is 00:04:29 Fuck yeah. The motherfucking man. I didn't even pick it out. I walked in and they go, Christine's picked your watch out. It's waiting for you. I said, which one am I getting?
Starting point is 00:04:39 He goes, you'll see. And she had picked it out. She just had it over to the side. She goes, that's the one you're getting. And I went, I love it.
Starting point is 00:04:46 Wait, Daytona, my favorite place. That's perfect. Oh, no, this one my wife got me for my birthday. That's a great fucking gift. That's the gangster. Okay, I have a question, though, that relates to your wife. Because obviously you've got all these amazing things going on. Your fucking tour looked crazy.
Starting point is 00:05:01 I want to talk about all of it, okay? But the movie, you have this movie based on the machine, okay? Yep, yep. Memorial Day weekend. Memorial Day weekend. You get to cast the movie. You get to cast your wife, and you have some elite milk as your wife.
Starting point is 00:05:19 Coo, coo. So, how does she feel about what you wish she looked like? Oh, no, no, no, no. Oh, no, that's not even the good question. Okay, go, go, go, go, go, go. I did not get to pick my wife. Wait, she picked it? Leigh-Anne picked her.
Starting point is 00:05:34 That's the right fucking decision, Bert. Wow. Shout out to Stephanie. Leigh-Anne loved her. She goes, that's me. And I went, really? She goes, yep. She goes, as a matter of fact, I want to get on the phone with her.
Starting point is 00:05:45 What was she eating in that audition? Because those look good. They're called flip sides. She goes, I'm getting flip sides. I like that woman. Flip sides are the chocolate-covered pretzels? No, no, no. The pretzel on one side, cracker on the other.
Starting point is 00:05:56 Yeah, yeah, yeah. My toll house are pretty fucking awesome. It's a new hybrid they've come up with recently. Yeah, they're fucking awesome. Yeah. So then. Bird's on the cunning edge of snacks. This is the good story.
Starting point is 00:06:04 Yeah. Oh, yeah. See, what? Fuck this new Rolex. I's on the cunning edge of snacks. This is the good story. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck this new Rolex. I can tell you the snacks in me. Dude, you tried the Buffalo Blue Cheese combos? Yes, bro. They're fucking next level. The popcorn.
Starting point is 00:06:14 Dude, wrap snacks. Have you had wrap snacks? I can't respect that you always tag it with the brand. You're like, flip sides, toll house. Buffalo Blue Cheese combos. You got to show respect. You know what I mean? That's true.
Starting point is 00:06:23 Shut up. The best part is, I didn't realize I had a kissing scene. Oh, did you not? I swear to God, I swear to God,
Starting point is 00:06:32 I swear to God, I swear to God. Hey, they just sprung it upon me. My wife's in Serbia. Okay. She comes out for the first like,
Starting point is 00:06:38 week of shooting and we do the kissing scene and I find out that night, I go, I'm kissing her tomorrow and Leanne goes, you didn't know that? I said, well, I didn't read the fucking script. Like, I mean, I read it, and I find out that night, I go, I'm kissing her tomorrow. And Leanne goes, you didn't know that? I said, well, I didn't read the fucking script. I mean, I read it, but I don't read the action.
Starting point is 00:06:50 I don't read the action part. A couple other guys wrote it. I just punched it up. I don't read the action part. I just read the words. You punch it up in the sex scene? She goes, yeah, you have a kissing scene. And I was like, oh, my God, what do I do?
Starting point is 00:07:01 She's like, you're going to kiss her. So I went over. Dude, you're a fucking genius. And I had not kissed another woman in 20 years. Yeah. And then you let your wife pick the woman that you got to cheat on her with. And I'll tell you right now, my wife's got great taste. No, but I had to kiss this woman.
Starting point is 00:07:21 Did you get a wrecked? Did you get a boner? I wouldn't say I got my, yeah, whatever. I'll tell you right now. I'll tell you right now. I can understand. Did you run that scene a few times before you recorded? This is how bad of an actor I am.
Starting point is 00:07:34 We had to do a pickup for Mark Hamill where he had to say his lines and then they're just doing his tight. Luke Skywalker plays his fucking dad. It's crazy. I'm in a different wardrobe. I'm in a different wardrobe than the scene should take. We're just doing this pickup real quick. And then Mark says his line and then we kiss. And off camera, I kissed her.
Starting point is 00:07:52 And everyone's like, what the fuck are you doing? And I went, I was like, I don't get, I'm doing the scene. And they're like, you guys don't need to kiss. No one's filming it. But you went for it. I just kissed her. I fucking kissed her on fucking camera. And she's like, what the fuck are you doing? And I went, is that not what we're supposed to do? Where were your. I just kissed her. I fucking kissed her on fucking camera. Yes. I was just like, what the fuck are you doing?
Starting point is 00:08:05 And I went, is that not what we're supposed to do? What did you do? Where were your hands when you kissed her? On her back. On her back, but did you slide down?
Starting point is 00:08:12 I had to, the kiss said I had to knock her off her feet. Oh. And I was like, I've never done that. But she wasn't ready. By the way,
Starting point is 00:08:20 I kiss with my eyes open, so I'm not a good kisser. But yeah, it was crazy. It was bizarre. And then that night, my wife'm not a good kisser. But yeah, it was crazy. It was bizarre. And then that night, my wife gets in bed, and she was like, hey, you want to kiss a little faithful? I was like, beat it, scissor lips. Fucking kissing her is like licking an envelope.
Starting point is 00:08:36 Yeah, but you kissed with your eyes open, dude. I'm a bad kisser. Yeah. Is that why you don't cheat? Because you're just bad at it? Yeah. Well, hold on. I'm bad at sex.
Starting point is 00:08:43 I'm bad at everything. Me too. That's why I don't cheat. I'm horrible. It's the? Yeah. Well, hold on. I'm bad at sex. I'm bad at everything. Me too. That's why I don't cheat. It's the same reason, like, my wife doesn't sing karaoke. She can't fucking sing. Well, the reason I don't fuck chicks on the road is because I can't fuck. Dude, same to same, dog. I'm glad I can't fuck.
Starting point is 00:08:54 Wait, how do you know you can't fuck? Because I've done it. I've done it. I've been there every time. And you're comparing yourself to, like, professionals? No, I'm comparing myself to notes I've gotten from the women I've had sex with. Okay, let's go on to these notes, because this is fun.
Starting point is 00:09:07 What is the best note you got? The best note, are you going to put it in? And you thought it was in? I thought I'd already had an orgasm. Just thigh me? You were on thigh me? Underneath, butt cheek in the bed. Oh.
Starting point is 00:09:20 That's how I lost my virginity. Two pumps, done. She says, are you going to put it in? My dick's between her butt cheek and the bed. I didn't even need a purse in there. I could have done it myself. And I was like, fuck, that's the first time I lost my virginity. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:34 But that could just be a mix-up. That's just one. Yeah, because you didn't really lose your virginity. You misplaced your virginity for a couple of minutes. You found it. Can you tell us the second time you lost your virginity? Second time was right after it, when I went in with a couple of minutes. Can you tell us the second time you lost your virginity? Second time was right after it when I went in with a compromised condom.
Starting point is 00:09:50 A compromised condom? Yeah. I blow a load. Condom's done. She says, are you going to put it in? I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's when I lost my virginity. It's like, imagine if I went, let's go for a hike. I go, but first, let's jump in a river and get our socks.
Starting point is 00:10:07 You had a condom on and then came between the bed sheets and a butt cheek. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Filled up the condom. I thought it was two different situations. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:10:19 It's the same fucking night. All in one night. Dude, I was, that is how I'm introduced to sex in my fucking life. I'm like, fuck this. I didn't fuck again for like a couple years. I was like, I'm not. Because I was like, I got to fucking figure this shit out. Yeah, do some reflection.
Starting point is 00:10:36 Yeah, and then the next time I had sex, I was in college. And I jerked off before I had sex. Nice. And then I was like, and then i was like and then and then yeah and then i was i was good but i'm still i've always been fast like really fast like oh so it's not your skill in bed it's the time i come fast yes yes yes yes like joke about that yeah i have a bunch i've always i've had so many jokes about it uh i have one uh fucking me is like a rodeo six seconds and then i hop off my buddy comes dressed like a clown distractor um first
Starting point is 00:11:05 time i had sex with lance true story blew a load really quick and then i went i think someone's breaking into my house i'm gonna go check a second time yeah i had an orgasm this one's in razzle dazzle right now i had an orgasm so fast one time leanne laughed at me laughed and said shit i don't think you could have gotten aids from that. Yes, I am fucking fast, bro. So like, I think. Have you ever satisfied your wife, you think? Yeah, no, no. I give her an orgasm, but not with my dick.
Starting point is 00:11:32 From what do you do? Oral sex. Oral? I've never. Are you nice at oral? Yeah. You're really good, aren't you? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:41 I really am. I really am. I gotta be honest with you. What makes you so good, dude? If I was gonna cheat on my wife, I'd just. I really am. I really am. I gotta be honest with you. What makes you so good, dude? If I was gonna cheat on my wife, I'd just give the chick for her. Which is the worst way to cheat. You don't even come
Starting point is 00:11:52 and you just wanna make a girl feel good that wasn't your wife? What a piece of shit. He's a people pleaser. He wants her to be happy. I remember Nikki Glaser, I think, said something to me one time
Starting point is 00:12:05 just so you know not all chicks like the exact same oral sex and in my head I was like oh for real cause I know I'm really good at oral sex oh yeah the other day I gave her an orgasm and like a gangster walked out of the room
Starting point is 00:12:23 while it was still happening just like strutted my way out. She's just like What? And I just got up and walked out and was like, that's how it's done. Like a fadeaway three? Just like curry? You just walked away while it was still fucking in the air? That's like Jordan.
Starting point is 00:12:38 It's so weird to hear sex stories about your wife. It is. It's kind of, well, yeah, I guess I'm 52. Because I've met her. You know what I mean? Yeah. My problem is I'm too honest like my my we were talking about comedy earlier off the way i do comedy is just super vulnerable super honest tell you everything and then hopefully tell some good story put storytelling in it yeah you are you your style is very is very different i don't like i don't think I know much about, you're like Tasha a little bit.
Starting point is 00:13:08 Like, we were talking about Daniel Tasha. He's fucking awesome. Yeah. But Tasha does not want anyone to know anything about him. Yeah. And, like, you're kind of like that, but without the podcast. I know a little bit about you.
Starting point is 00:13:17 Yeah. But it's still like. Yeah. Like, your parents can dance. Yeah. I know that. Yeah, yeah. I never thought that I was worth talking about until recently.
Starting point is 00:13:28 For real? Yeah. I thought it was a very arrogant and, like, narcissistic thing for, like, comics that, like, had nothing to go up there and be like, today a weird thing happened to me. Really? And I was like, well, who the fuck are you? Well, I don't have the ability to do what you do. Right. Or Burr and Chappelle.
Starting point is 00:13:43 I think you earn talking about your life. So I'd love to see like. That's a good perspective. I didn't talk about my life for the first 10 years of doing standup. Yeah. I never really thought about that. Because why would anyone care? You have to talk about the things that they can meet you at.
Starting point is 00:13:58 Right. And then so my hope would always be like early on, like you would know who I was without knowing things about my life. So you would know the type of guy I am. You would know the type of person I am through my opinions about the world, you know? It's funny. It's really funny because saying that, there's a joke you had one time that I saw a long time ago that I, because of that joke, I said, oh, I know a lot about him. I know. That's the dream to me.
Starting point is 00:14:27 You know me through the material. Yeah. Like you had the joke, you were talking to an Indian guy and you're talking about the arm thing. Oh, yeah. And I remember going, well, wow, he is, I immediately, I went, he has diverse friends, I'm assuming. He grew up in New York.
Starting point is 00:14:39 He, he, he was a smart dude. Like, I don't know. I was like, I was like, oh, I bet he's had sex with other chicks than white chicks. Like just based on one joke. Me, I got to tell you, I've only fucked white chicks. Well, no, the beauty of it, and I really like it, I think the way that people connect is through story. And I think that like you're a perfect example of that.
Starting point is 00:14:57 You know, you have these like obviously the machine, but there's many other things. And it's like the story is our earliest version of downloading information. Right? So there's something biological that happens. It it's like, the story is our earliest version of downloading information, right? So there's something biological that happens. It's almost like music. And I think like, as I've gotten some more success in my career, I've, I've started to, to try to make things more personal because I think it like is justified now, you know, like, you know, and so it's like, or at least reflecting on these things that are happening in society that I care about through kind of personal experience.
Starting point is 00:15:28 So I want to bring more of that out, but it was something I think I had to earn. That's really interesting. One of the guys, like, you get game changers. But Tosh is king, bro. Bro, that's my favorite comment. Tosh is king. That's why I asked it, because they're both, all three of us, not trying to brag, Florida guys. And so I was, like, trying to see, did you know Tosh from back in the day and, like, any Tosh stories?
Starting point is 00:15:44 Because no one knows anything about him yeah Tosh and I colluded on a poker game once colluded? what does that mean? it's when you go in pretend not to know each other and you work as a team
Starting point is 00:15:53 to win it's what happened in Rounders yeah I love that movie that's Rounders shout out to Brian Koppelman movie changed my life I walked around with a pack of cards
Starting point is 00:16:01 after that and I would just try to hustle people in poker in high school I watched Rounders and I was like this is the coolest thing I've ever seen that and I would just try to hustle people in poker. In high school I watched Rounders and I was like, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen. That and then World Series of Poker blew up? That is the most ambitious thing I've ever fucking heard. World Series of Poker blows up like a few years
Starting point is 00:16:14 after I think that was part of it, but imagine Rounders came out during the middle of World Series of Poker crazy time. It would be the biggest movie ever. Ever in history. I think it worked better though because it didn't feel like it was cashing in.
Starting point is 00:16:26 You saw this, you got into it and then it was just like a great movie. I didn't know Koppelman wrote that. Yeah, he wrote Rounders.
Starting point is 00:16:32 It's one of my favorite movies. It's a great fucking movie. I met Schultz when Georgia was born. Tosh. I'm sorry, yeah, Tosh.
Starting point is 00:16:40 It's okay, it makes up the greats. When Georgia was born, I was featuring, I was broke, I was featuring. I was broke. I was featuring for $700. I had to fly myself out, put myself up. And Tosh and I got along really well.
Starting point is 00:16:52 And the next day he called. We got back. He said, hey, do you want to go play poker? Or do you know any poker games? I said, I do. He said, can I go and play? And I was like, yes. So he picked me up.
Starting point is 00:17:01 I was so broke. I asked for $100 from Leanna. She goes, we don't have it. And I was like, just give a hundred dollars from Leanne and she goes, we don't have it. And I was like, I was like, just give me the a hundred dollars. She goes, no, we don't have it. And I said, well, give me the card. I'm going to, I'm not going to lose it. And she goes, no, we don't have a hundred dollars. And Daniel Tosh goes, I'm so uncomfortable right now. I'll give you $200 to leave. So he gave me the a hundred dollars. We went up to this game and as we walked in, he goes, Hey, we don't know each other. And I went, what? And he goes, we don't know each other and I went what and he goes we don't know each other
Starting point is 00:17:25 don't go in on anything I go in on I won't go in on anything you go in on and I went okay so I walked in Tosh walked in someone's like
Starting point is 00:17:33 hey aren't you guys comedians I was like yeah he's like do you guys know each other and he's like I've seen him around but I don't really know him and they're like
Starting point is 00:17:38 and then we we fucking Tosh won the fucking tournament let's fucking go Tosh won the fucking tournament how much money did he give youosh won the fucking tournament. How much money did he give you for this? Because you're the broke one. I got a hundred bucks. That's what I needed, the hundred bucks. He's a good dude, man. He's a solid dude
Starting point is 00:17:52 and a brilliant fucking comic. Oh, that's legit, man. The night I got passed at the comedy store was the last time I saw him. He came up. I haven't seen him forever. Dude, I remember being, Mark and I were just talking about this the other day, but I remember being like a young comic and like, a young comic, you're trying to get by
Starting point is 00:18:08 and you're like, okay, do I have to like win them over? Do I have to like charm them? Do I have to start off with like this big misdirection joke? Like, how do I fucking solve this puzzle that is performing in front of people? And early on in comedy, you're like, okay, I gotta get some momentum going and if
Starting point is 00:18:23 they're into me and the momentum's going, the jokes work and everything's good. And I remember watching him in one of his specials. He didn't like some people that were in the crowd and he kicks them out of the crowd, stops the show, starts from zero again. And I thought that I saw the greatest comedian ever. I was like, what? He stopped the show. And there were like a few things. I was like, what? That is incredible. He stopped the show and there were like a few things. I went on this like rabbit hole with Tosh and it's like,
Starting point is 00:18:48 I saw another thing happen. I saw him, he went on a radio. Remember back when we would do radio and like we would do bits? Yeah. They like tee you up
Starting point is 00:18:55 for a bit and it was the worst because like, you don't know, it's like, do I pretend that this isn't a joke and do it
Starting point is 00:19:00 or do I just do it as a joke? This motherfucker did the joke as a joke and murdered for three people. It is three people. I saw that clip. do it or do I just do it as a joke? This motherfucker did the joke as a joke and murdered for three people. It is three people. I saw that clip.
Starting point is 00:19:09 I saw that clip. It is the most destructive radio you've ever seen in your fucking life. And then you can watch him do the joke on stage and it's the same cadence, the same rhythm. He is so good. That weekend in Miami there was a guy up front that was heckling.
Starting point is 00:19:27 I was featuring, and I dealt with it. I kind of fucked around with it and then tried to deal with it. And as I got off, he goes, what the fuck was that? I said, it's a guy up front. He goes, that won't be happening for me. And I said, really? And so I go around, and he walks out on stage. He goes, show has not started.
Starting point is 00:19:41 You need to leave, sir. I will not go on until this guy is kicked out. Fucking go. Kick him out. Kick him out right now. Kick him out. Go. You need to leave, sir. I will not go on until this guy is kicked out. Kick him out. Kick him out right now. Kick him out. Go. You're garbage. You're fucking garbage. I'll spend the whole time telling you how old your fucking chick looks. You're garbage.
Starting point is 00:19:56 Get out. And then he said, I'll never forget it. He goes, and no one is laughing. No one's laughing. He's not famous. As he's walking the corner, he goes, sir, I hope you get fucking AIDS. And then he turns to the audience and he goes, but the good AIDS, like Magic Johnson. And the place erupts. He goes, you know, like opening Starbucks and underprivileged.
Starting point is 00:20:17 And he starts and murdered from top to bottom. Top to bottom. Top to bottom and fucking. He's a zero to 100 guy, which is like, and it's something I've always aspired to bottom. Top to bottom and fucking. He's a zero to 100 guy, which is like, and it's something I've always aspired to do, is like I don't care how bad or good the last joke is, we got to go down to zero and then get to the 100 by the end of the joke. And that's when the joke starts, it can be zero.
Starting point is 00:20:37 There can be a fire. Someone can have a fist fight. It doesn't matter what is going on, where the set is, and it can hate them. And from the beginning of that joke to the end of the joke, they're at 100. Yeah. So,
Starting point is 00:20:49 if we're breaking it apart, I couldn't do what Tosh or Dane or Nick Swartzen did. I didn't have that ability. Or like you or Chappelle, that like, I only could get you
Starting point is 00:20:58 to know me and I saw guys like Freddy Soto. Do you remember Freddy Soto? Was he? He's passed. He was a Comedy Store comic and he had
Starting point is 00:21:06 a bit about his dad. Yeah. Irregardless. Oh, irregardless. Irregardless. Irregardless. Oh, Freddy. Oh, you can't help me but I bet if you were talking beers with your friends. It was so funny that I went, I love,
Starting point is 00:21:22 I feel like I know his dad. I feel like I know him. So I would introduce characters in my stand-up, like my buddy Hutch or my buddy Harper, and I'd tell you a little bit about them, like a real story. Like Hutch, one time we were playing frisbee golf, and my frisbee got stuck in the tree, and I was throwing a stick at it,
Starting point is 00:21:37 and Hutch goes, hey man, if I were you, I'd keep your mouth closed. I was like, huh? He's like, you know how when you look up, your mouth automatically opens? And I was like, oh, I didn't notice that. He goes, yeah, a stick could go right down your throat. Happened to me twice. And I was like, huh? He's like, you know, when you look up, your mouth automatically opens. And I was like, oh, I didn't notice that. He goes, yeah, a stick could go right down your throat. Happened to me twice. And I was like, huh? So that, so I'd introduced that character and then I'd use him throughout stories where I'd call back to him. Harper, good friend of mine. One time misspelled
Starting point is 00:21:57 his name. Yeah. Happer, two P's, no R. He goes, well, it happens. I go, no, no, no, never. No, I've never been in a rush. Like, catch you later, Perf. Those were like my two. I had a story about taking acid and going to Disneyland. Yeah. And I introduced those two characters. And then I could tell you a story. Still, my takes are off.
Starting point is 00:22:16 Like, when you talk about the financial crisis, I don't really know what's going on. Neither do I. Neither do we. But I have such confidence that people believe I know what the fuck is going on. Your generation? I was just saying this to Tim Dillon. I made up a lie about TikTok that became
Starting point is 00:22:32 the news. A complete lie. It was just a hunch. It's the news now. It's crazy. Like politicians talking about it. It's a crazy thing. Yeah, your generation knows Har Harambe and like stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:50 Jeffrey Epstein and like Giselle. What does that mean? Harambe's such a funny example. What does Harambe have to do with Epstein? I don't know. I don't know. I don't even know anyone. I guess a kid died.
Starting point is 00:22:58 I don't know any of them. It's just the news that has nothing to do with Bert. And he's like, I think it's a generational thing. No, no, no. You're right. You're right. I'm not thinking about me's a generational thing. No, no, no, you're right, you're right. I think not thinking about me is a generational thing.
Starting point is 00:23:07 He's like millennials. Have you ever, has anyone ever been like, hey, you want to see my pictures? Pearl Harbor could happen, and Bert would be like, oh, we were going to Hawaii that week, weren't we?
Starting point is 00:23:18 So funny you say that. I, when you say Pearl Harbor, I immediately think of telling you a story about my experience in going to Pearl Harbor. That's how my brain works. Harbor, I immediately think of telling you a story about my experience in Northern Florida. That's how my brain works. Like, I immediately go, I went there with Russell Peters one time. Yeah. No, but I.
Starting point is 00:23:31 There's a Japanese guy talking about how his dad just fucking ran into an aircraft carrier in a plane. And you're like, yeah, yeah, but me and Russell went to Pearl Harbor once. And let me tell you. We had a riot. Your dad hit it. The, no, yeah, I don't, like, when people go, hey, you want to take a look at my vacation pictures? And you're like, am I in any of them? Like, no.
Starting point is 00:23:48 And I go, I don't fucking see about your vacation. So, fuck. So, we're talking about this. This is what I think is, like, beautiful about comedy. And it actually extends to just art in general. It's like, we all have an idea of what we think, like, the best version of something is. And the more pinpoint your idea is, if it becomes popular, you're a genius, okay? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:09 So like, I want to use an example. Okay, so we have a friend of ours, right? He's a brilliant designer. His name is Calm, right? Kid Super is the company that he has. Brilliant guy. And his shit is so weird and ridiculous that, but all of a sudden he was like the head male designer for Louis Vuitton and he's just, but it's so weird and ridiculous that but all of a sudden he was like the head male
Starting point is 00:24:26 designer for louis vuitton and he's just but it's so weird and out there yeah but he has to have unbelievable conviction to go this is good it should be on a shirt it should be on sweatpants and then when it becomes popular he's a genius for believing so much in this thing that is so different than everything else right yeah and I feel like almost in comedy, you have to have unbelievable conviction for the type of comedy you love, right? So I loved, like in my mind, I was always like coming up, I'm like, okay,
Starting point is 00:24:54 what I think the best comedy is is taking something that is incredibly difficult to argue and making the argument for it. I don't know why I thought that, but I was drawn to these guys like Rock, and then I saw Patrice, and I was like, Patrice is doing this at the highest level. It's nothing has been done like this. And it was this like great moment where I had this like kind of comedic North star. Okay. You know, I would argue the, I would argue the best part of Patrice were his stories about him.
Starting point is 00:25:18 Well, so, so, so here's the thing. Story should be in everything, everything, whether it's about you, whether it's about like, with Dave Chappelle, he's like this magnificent storyteller as well. Whether the story happened or not, he tells it within story for a reason, right? It's like, just telling the joke, that's like on horseback. The story, you're on a fucking rocket ship.
Starting point is 00:25:39 I would say the story is sometimes the peanut butter, the joke is the pill inside it. A hundred percent. So what I think is interesting is like, I would say that story is sometimes the peanut butter. The joke is the pill inside it. A hundred percent. So what I think is interesting is like you have this idea of what you think the best comedy is. And you should feel that way about story. I think people in general should feel that way about story. It's the most powerful.
Starting point is 00:26:02 But like so you go, I'm going to do this type of comedy to the best of my ability. And I think what often happens in this business is like since we're so swayed by like the validation of the audience, you see somebody doing something different and a lot of people just go, well, maybe I should kind of do that. Maybe you're not the best at that. So what I think is really cool, what you've done is if you've gone, I like telling stories.
Starting point is 00:26:17 When I'm around my friends, I tell stories. When I'm on podcasts, I tell stories. I'm really good at telling stories. And I can kind of fill these stories up with these like interesting characters and I can build this life. And then at no point have you been like oh I guess I need to be Daniel Tosh or I need to be this guy because these things are popular it's rare as a comedian because usually we gravitate towards the things they're just like yeah I couldn't at what point
Starting point is 00:26:37 did you stop paying attention to me when I was talking just right at the very beginning I'm being guys serious at the very beginning when you started started saying it, I go, I'm not listening. I remember I actually said, I'm not listening, and I hope he uses an example about me so I can understand what the fuck he's talking about. Yeah, he tuned back in when he said, what's great about him. Yeah, yeah. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, me too, me too. No, Patrice, I would argue Patrice is the beauty. He suddenly had the peanut butter and the pill when you brought him up.
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Starting point is 00:30:20 Take the hair care quiz, use the code flagrant and start living that good hair life. Now let's get back to the show. Patrice told a story one time. I don't know if you've ever heard it about the cool guy in his neighborhood, Tony. Did you ever hear it? Tell me. So it's beautiful because you know Patrice. And if you knew Patrice, you knew the vulnerability in Patrice. Patrice was raised by a single mother.
Starting point is 00:30:43 I don't know how much – I don't want to get into details about Patrice's. He talks about the single mother thing in Mr. P. Does he talk about his father? I don't believe so. I won't tell Patrice's stories. But what I'll tell you is, Patrice didn't have a father figure to teach him how to be a man and be cool.
Starting point is 00:31:01 He had this guy in this neighborhood called Tony. And Tony was slick. He'd go up behind, I'm telling it as if I'm Patrice. Tony would go up behind a girl and tap him on the back of the neck and go, damn, you look good. Girl would go, oh, Tony, Tony. So Patrice is like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:18 I gotta smack a bitch, alright. So he goes, I'm a little bit bigger than Tony. I just come up behind a bitch and just... And he told these stories of So he goes, I'm a little bit bigger than Tony. I just come up behind a bench and just, ow! And she, ow! And he told these stories of Tony would grab girls and put them in front of the fire hydrant. And he's like, all right.
Starting point is 00:31:33 So he puts a girl in a half Nelson and holds her in the water. But those stories Patrice told, just me, I guess, were, for me, I was crying laughing. Now, I love everything he did. But I loved to know about his life. I loved it. And so, I was crying laughing. Now, I love everything he did, but I loved to know about his life. Yeah. I loved it. And so, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:31:48 I always like, that's what I always dug hearing the stories. Like Geraldo. Yeah. But Geraldo was also like a joke guy. Like he could like rifle off. Geraldo arguably is one of the best joke writers ever. What I loved about Greg was when he would tell me stories about his partying. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:03 And you'd go, I'd go,, do you talk about that on stage? He's like, eh. You know, when I started doing Rogan, because I was really trying to be like, you know what cops hate? When you touch their faces. And then I wasn't great at it, and I wasn't standing out. And when I started doing Rogan, I told the machine story. And then I came back one time.
Starting point is 00:32:20 This is when we were doing the Ice House. And I said something. I wish I could remember what it was, but I said and rogan goes oh hold on we're getting another amazing burt kreiser story and i went oh i was like oh shit and and and you know he's the one that got me to start telling the machine on stage i was not telling it on stage oh wow yeah i told her on thing and he goes you tell that on stage i said no that's not like a it's the way geraldo said that's not a stage story and he goes no fuck no, fuck that. And he goes, from this point on, he is only to be referred to as the machine, and you are to chant that name out until he tells that story.
Starting point is 00:32:52 That next weekend, I was in Columbus, Ohio, and the whole place was chanting, the machine. I go, guys, I'm not going to tell it. And a guy in the front row goes, hey, man, we know it's not going to be good. But you have to tell it. Rogan said you have to tell it. You have to tell it rogan said you have to tell it you have to tell it to make it good and we'll fake laugh right guys and they're like yeah we'll fake laugh bird that's beautiful that makes me want to fucking cry i'm an audience member i told the machine story for a solid year with it bombing i mean bombing oh really bombing i mean it's a
Starting point is 00:33:20 fucking 15 minute story and that's a long bomb bro you have no idea quarter of your set you've only had to write 30 minutes for the last 10 years dude i'm fucking i'm i'm would bomb with this fucking story and then one night i figured out the end of the story that's the most important thing in storytelling is if you have an end yeah then you know you can get the fuck out yeah right and so I figured out the end of the machine story and from that, and then it got good.
Starting point is 00:33:48 Then it got really good and then obviously it went viral, but that changed the direction of everything I started doing because I never thought
Starting point is 00:33:55 I'd be talking about fucking kids. You don't understand. Wait a second. That was like the dumbest. Yeah, say that differently. Say that, run that sentence back.
Starting point is 00:34:02 Yeah, yeah. Don't use the same cuss word. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's crazy yeah yeah yeah yeah you don't need a documentary made about you buddy
Starting point is 00:34:08 clip it I never thought I never thought I'd be talking about fucking dogs no wait a second whoa whoa whoa
Starting point is 00:34:14 I never thought I'd be talking about my kids ever I never thought that I did not like that kind of comedy and I did not like when comics did it
Starting point is 00:34:20 it depressed me yeah and but then I just started everything started becoming stories why did it depress you I don't know i wanted to be cool and young and famous yeah i wanted to be an old cook i wanted to be like that that was our he was like you were gravitating to what was working instead of doing what you do best yeah exactly i think that's the cool thing
Starting point is 00:34:39 about podcasts is like it gets you more comfortable telling these stories it definitely made me more comfortable sharing my life i always shared my life with people, but it's great to do it in a place where like, you're like, okay, I can work through these things and find the funny in these things, find the vulnerability in it. Oh, that's interesting. You were always comfortable sharing
Starting point is 00:34:55 because my parents always told me, this is why I didn't tell stories for the longest, still not that comfortable. They told me, nobody needs to know what's going on in our lives. Nobody needs to know. That's like an old saying. That's for us.
Starting point is 00:35:04 Whatever we're going through is for us that's not for them my mom was like people could use it against you which is kind of crazy thinking but I was like alright so I didn't tell
Starting point is 00:35:11 anybody anything there's like an old saying like when a writer's born the family dies you ever heard that? oh cause you gotta kill the family basically and I think about that
Starting point is 00:35:19 like shit I'll allude to on this podcast like I wanna bring it on stage but if I do my family's getting phone calls. Bro, it's so funny. Like, Mark and I were literally talking about this yesterday, but like, growing up, my folks had, I mean, you know my folks. My folks had no, like, during my wife's vows, my dad, who has, he's no short-term memory anymore.
Starting point is 00:35:40 During my wife's vows, to me, he interrupts her and goes, someone's getting lucky tonight. Like my wife is mid tears with her brother. And he just interrupts for a fuck joke in front of her and my family and all of our friends. So it's just like no filter. My dad would joke around about like my mom and him not having enough sex or having sex. Like I've never had any filter been able to tell them absolutely everything in my life so i don't know how to do small talk and when people do small talk i get like uncomfortable to the point where like i just have to say something salacious so we can stop this fucking charade yeah and then then mark you were telling me yeah that it was the opposite in your family. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What was the purpose? It was like—
Starting point is 00:36:26 Yeah, everything's nuanced. Everything's like tongue-in-cheek, very Catholic upbringing. Everything that everyone said was always like couched in something else. But it was all indirect. So there was nothing head-on. So then when people are super head-on, I'm like, jeez, this guy is great. We're head-on with each other, but nobody needs to know that part. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:43 I don't know. I just think it's really interesting. So I guess you could say like it informs your comedy. Yeah. Oh, we were, we were very open. We were like, I knew how, I know how to, it's interesting when you talk about like, I'm not good in like, I know how to make an entrance. Yeah, we know.
Starting point is 00:37:03 I can make an entrance. Yeah. All the other shit I'm not good at you're like uh australians yeah like australians are fun for like five minutes yeah after that you're like i get why the english left them bro what the fuck my wife says i cast a large wake like i i people i get people i can get people to dislike me so easily there's like a certain type of person that I drive up the fucking wall. Like who? Anyone who also wants the attention.
Starting point is 00:37:32 They fucking hate me. They hate me because I just, I don't leave a lot of room. I'm a bull in the china shop. I'm a lot. It's like people, i remember a professional athlete i don't say his name he's a cool dude but i remember him saying he spent some time with me and he then he met tom and he goes how can you be friends with burt it hurt my feelings he could i've patched it up with this guy since and tom's like what do you mean he's like how can you be around that
Starting point is 00:38:01 for that long and tom goes i don't need to be him. Tom is, like, the most confident in who he is guy in the world. Tom is. It's unbelievable. He's a gangster. Fascinating as a comic especially because you'd think that he would need all that energy, but it's so clear that he finds you fucking hysterical and absurd. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:20 Like, it's really funny to, like, watch him look at you and be like, wow, he isn't noticing this. That fucking Kool-Aid thing that happened when you were drinking 64 ounces of Kool-Aid a day. I never thought that was odd. I never thought that was odd. But after seeing Tom with his mom, it makes sense. I think he's been around these really big characters his whole life. His dad, too. Okay, so that to me goes, okay, Burt is an extension of really big characters his whole life i do okay so like that that to me goes okay burt is an extension of these big characters and he knows how to be funny around them so it
Starting point is 00:38:52 kind of fits perfectly my dad's like tom my dad's like tom my dad doesn't need to be center of attention doesn't need anyone but but we me me and my dad laugh like me and tom like me and my dad there's a clip that went out of me trying to put a pizza in an oven i saw that clip very funny and everyone's like i always thought bert's laugh was fake and and then they're like oh it's his dad and him have an identical laugh we start laughing and then we say the word that made us laugh in the first place over and over and over again. So like one time Tom said we should go to Jennifer Anderson's house. And he was like, should we bring our wives? And I go, should we bring our wives?
Starting point is 00:39:35 He goes, no. I go, can she bring a dude? And he goes, yeah, for safety. And then he said, well, maybe that's not the message we want to be putting out. And I started laughing, and I kept going, for safety. Maybe that's not the message we want to be putting out. And I started laughing and I kept going, for safety's sake. Because I can visualize him saying it and I can repeat it.
Starting point is 00:39:54 My dad, when I went to put the pizza in the oven, I couldn't get it off the thing. So I pulled it back out. My dad goes, it's not done yet. Like he thought that I thought it was done. And I just kept going, it's not done yet. It's not done yet. Yeah, man. I just kept going, it's not done yet. It's not done yet. Yeah, man. I just love, I fucking, I don't know, I don't know how any of that informs my comedy, but I just love to fucking laugh. Do you love Tom?
Starting point is 00:40:13 Yeah. Yeah. So much so that I'd let him fuck me over. Oh, this is interesting. So that's how you define your love. So. Yeah. That's interesting.
Starting point is 00:40:22 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:24 Yeah. So you would let him fuck you over once and you're like, you have so much goodwill built up. He has so much goodwill built up with you that you could look past it. So I'll tell you this. I'll tell you a true story. I don't know if Tom knows this. So I signed before. Now everyone's signing touring deals, but I was the first person to sign a touring deal.
Starting point is 00:40:46 Yeah. Like five, four, six years ago. Let them know. Four years ago. It was considered foolish at that time. Like no one did it. Yeah. And I signed it.
Starting point is 00:40:56 And I, for an exact number. And I told Tom about it. And then, and I wasn't supposed to tell anyone. But I told Tom, he's my best friend. I wanted to talk it through with him. And then all of a sudden, someone, it got out that this deal was. And so my team said, Tom told people. And I said, no, he didn't.
Starting point is 00:41:20 And they said, he clearly did. And I said, he didn't. And it was a moment where I had to truly trust in my friendship. And then Leanne goes, what if he did? I go, honey, if he did, I don't care. I still love him. I go, I am forcing myself to believe the best in my friend, even though evidence is showing me otherwise.
Starting point is 00:41:37 I believe him because I love him, and I know he wouldn't do it. And he didn't do it. Turns out he didn't. Who did? His fucking, everyone leaked it. They all wanted to brag that they were doing this thing. And then didn't do it. Turns out he didn't. Who did? His fucking, everyone leaked it. They all wanted to brag that they were doing this thing and then they wanted
Starting point is 00:41:48 to blame someone. And now everyone's signing fucking touring deals and you're like, so. The music industry is slowly infiltrating comedy. Dude,
Starting point is 00:41:58 this game's changed. Yeah. It's unrecognizable. I mean, we're sitting back there talking about lighting packages for arenas. Yeah. mean it's it's this game is yeah i walk in here and i look at this and i go i said it when i walked in i said this yeah is what every comic will have one day one day yeah everyone will have this and this will be your business you
Starting point is 00:42:18 probably won't have a manager the way we know them as managers today yeah you may maybe you'll hire someone like a producer as a consultant. Yeah. It would be nice to have a consultant of like, say fucking Mary Parent leaves Legendary and you pay her a fucking million dollars a year as a consultant to look at your career. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:33 And advise you on what projects to do. Yeah. You'll have a touring agent. You'll never lose agents. But I guarantee you that agents are going to, I'll tell you what's going to happen. Agents are going to team up and they're going to own their talent
Starting point is 00:42:45 and they won't let their talent work with other people. That's already happening. I think management companies changed drastically. I think they're gone. I think they're gone. And I think it's because
Starting point is 00:42:54 management companies were built around profiting or monetizing their talent through TV and film. And now the comics don't really have to do it. You did a movie but you didn't have to.
Starting point is 00:43:06 You probably lost money going to do a movie. I lost a great deal of money. Because you could have been touring and making crazy money. I make more money in one night than I made doing that movie in three months. Right? So this is like a cool legacy thing to do. It's like a fun project, and we should do these things. I made a movie because I live in Hollywood, and if I didn't make a movie,
Starting point is 00:43:22 I'd be like, why didn't I make a movie? I remember you telling me when I did Birdcast, you wanted to make a movie, and you're making a movie just because you always set out to do it. And it's great. It's great to do it. I guess what I'm trying to say is, like, the fact that we can make more money doing the thing that we love, and their whole business apparatus is built around turning us into actors, right? They're not running the tours. The tours are run by Live Nation, or they're run by Outback, or they're run running the tours. The tours are run by Live Nation or they're run by Outback
Starting point is 00:43:46 or they're run by the agencies. So the management really doesn't play that much of a part in it. I think the new model would be something kind of like what we're doing is like, like where my boy Dove is singularly focused on building this and all of us and everything that's going
Starting point is 00:43:59 instead of 50 other clients that they're like, every once in a while you get a call and they're like, you should post some stand-up on Instagram. Can I have 10% of that? Yeah. I mean, what a ludicrous idea.
Starting point is 00:44:10 You know what I think the internet has done, and I may have said this on this podcast, but I think it just eliminated middlemen in every industry. Like before when you wanted to book a flight, you called a travel agent. Yeah. And I got a travel agent I love, but that's because I book a lot of flights. For the most part, kayak.com. Yeah. And managers were kind of just middlemen. Hey, there's a barrier to getting you famous.
Starting point is 00:44:28 I'm going to connect you with those guys. I actually wonder if comics stop doing podcasts. Ooh, I like this. I think comics—I don't think a lot of comics— I love an idea that doesn't make sense to me immediately because I go, I want to hear it. Because I don't think a lot of comics want to do podcasts i just think that they see what's successful and they're just replicating that thing so they could have success and i don't think it's comics i think it's musicians i think it's everybody human right it's human beings right
Starting point is 00:44:55 so i think once they see that people are having success by posting stand-up clips they'll go well i could just post stand-up clips i don't go, well, I could just post stand-up clips. I don't have to do that other thing where, like, I talk to my friend. Like, because here's the reality. Like, there's nobody that's successful at podcasting that doesn't enjoy the people they're talking to. Yeah. You got to like it. Like, you got to have an actual friend. Like, those things where they, like, connect a few people that don't really know each other and they try to make it a pot, even if they're famous. Yeah. That shit flames out so fast. Because you find out. You're like, oh, there's no real chemistry
Starting point is 00:45:28 here. They don't have any history. It only works when you're excited to see the people you're working with. Tom and I were in Vegas yesterday at the MGM and I hadn't seen him in a while. And you can't wait to talk about shit. He goes, meet me at the Rolex store. And I was like, oh, that's what I love about this guy. And then we went in and he's dressed nice and he smells good
Starting point is 00:45:44 and I'm fucking still sweating. And then we went and we fucking's dressed nice and he smells good and I'm fucking still sweating. And then we went and we fucking went to the MGM. We partied. We hung out for like maybe three hours and then I fucking left and I was like, God, and then he's coming out to LA. You're right. Here's the deal.
Starting point is 00:45:55 I'd argue the other way a little bit. I think posting standup clips is going to go away first. Posting standup clips and I'm the one saying this, it might be the end of stand-up. Listen, listen. Thank you. And I'm not against people doing it, but what I will...
Starting point is 00:46:12 It might be the end. Oh, there's so much that we can unpack here. Bro, bro, bro. It might be, and I'm not against doing it. Like, listen, I'm the biggest proponent.
Starting point is 00:46:20 I tell every one of my friends, like, listen, build your career, get some stand-up out there. But I think people think that you just throw anything up and then you become successful. Right? And it's like the bar has gotten low. It's gotten real low.
Starting point is 00:46:35 And I think that the very important thing to remember when you're posting something is you're giving an example of what your shows are like. And you're hoping that somebody sees it, and then they come out to your show. When they see the machine story, they go, I would like to experience that. That's really fun, right? When they see you post a great story, a great bit, a great piece of crowd work,
Starting point is 00:46:59 great being the most important word, they go, I would like to be there. If you post garbage, you're giving them the reason not to come to the show. Yeah. There's people two years in posting clips, and I'm like, yo, God bless the ambition. But come on. And there's some people that are fucking killing it. Don't get me wrong.
Starting point is 00:47:19 This is the sad thing about it is that there's some people who are doing an amazing job, and they're fucking selling out theaters. And if you look at all the comics right now that are doing well i'm talking about the next generation of comics they're all comics from youtube specials and posting clips online yes that's so it's the top of the top but it's also the bottom well i've been in i've been in my bunk scrolling through stand-up clips yeah going like i'm not funnier than these people like there Like there's, there's some great comics out there, but then I've been in my bunk going, what the fuck is this person doing? Now I say I benefit from the fact that I don't post standup clips.
Starting point is 00:47:54 So they have to see you. So then when you see Razzle Dazzle, people are like, I mean, I'm being serious. The feedback's been very positive. And part of me goes, yes, it is good. The other part of me goes, yeah, but I'm not, you don't ever see me do that. Like when you go on my social media, you never get to see me do standup. You can only see me live or on Netflix. So when you do see it, you go, wow.
Starting point is 00:48:15 Oh, wow, I forgot he does standup almost. I thought he was just a guy who promoted fucking shows. You're at a different level though, where you already have fans. There's already curiosity about you, and you've already built a thing where people are like, I want to know what's going on with that thing. You know what I mean? Whereas somebody that has to come up has to find their machine or has to find their specials,
Starting point is 00:48:36 have to find their – so you do have to do it at a certain point. Yeah. I mean, posting the machine – I posted from that special on Showtime. I posted the machine. Yeah, you made special on Showtime. I posted the machine. Yeah, you made it off a clip. Yeah, I made it off a clip, yeah. I don't know anyone who's made it not off a clip in like the last five years. Well, what's, okay, so here's my theory.
Starting point is 00:48:56 Maybe Nate Bargatze. No, clips during pandemic. Oh, that's right. He was killing with the, dude, Sebastian closed the fuck up with a clip. So there's only one way now to like make it in the level that we want. But you need a body of work
Starting point is 00:49:09 behind you. Exactly. So you need one thing. You need one explosion to get people to Google you and then you need a body of work. That's great, yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:16 So like for Rogan, I would argue Rogan was the Mencia shit and then all of a sudden everyone was like, oh fuck, he's a comic. He's,
Starting point is 00:49:23 because everyone thought he was the Fear Factor guy. Bill Burr is the Philly rant. Yeah. Jim Jefferies getting punched in the head. I was telling Chrissy D about this. Shout out to Chrissy D. Also, Chrissy D got a new show on Vice.
Starting point is 00:49:36 Make sure you guys go check out Chrissy D's new show on Vice. And he lost his glasses. And we got to find him his glasses. There's no way you could ever buy those specific types of glasses. They made one pair in his glasses. Like there's no way you could ever buy those specific types of glasses. I made one pair of those glasses. But, but he had this nine 11 story that he did at the cellar. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:51 And I remember seeing it and going, yup, he got one. And it's like, it is the fucking portal. It is the, the vacuum, the well,
Starting point is 00:49:59 and every, everybody who watches it gets dropped in there and gets thrown all this other stuff that, you know, Chrissy has, it's brilliant. I'd even argue, don't walk away from the thing that got you famous. Lean into it.
Starting point is 00:50:12 Would you? I've had people go. Hey, would you, Burt, lean into the thing? People tell me all the time not to tell the machine story. No, go with it. Dude, I've had the biggest comics in this business tell me, you need to retire that story. And I go, you don't go to my shows.
Starting point is 00:50:30 I had Ari Shafir one time told me, you know you have to stop telling that, right? A real comic wouldn't tell it. And I went, okay. So we were doing a storytelling show up in Calgary, and he brings me up. I tell him to do the thing, and they're yelling at the machine. I go, no, Ari said I need to retire it. Ari went on stage after. And he could not get a word out.
Starting point is 00:50:48 They would not let him speak. Mushi, he goes, fuck it. Fuck it. I was wrong. I'm wrong. Come and tell it. But yeah, I've had comics tell me, please stop telling that story. They just don't get it.
Starting point is 00:50:59 They just don't get it. They never had that experience with it. It's a different situation. If people don't. That's frustrating, though. Because it's like they're judging your stand-up. never had that experience with it. It's a different situation. if people don't... That's frustrating, though. Like, people, because it's like they're judging your stand-up and it's like,
Starting point is 00:51:08 they're acting like you don't write enough. It's like, motherfucker, come to the show and then tell me I don't write enough. Can you tell me what you were telling me yesterday?
Starting point is 00:51:18 Can you tell me what you were telling me yesterday when we were just talking about shit that frustrates you? Can you tell the thing? He said the funniest fucking thing because I was just like, we're just talking about shit that kind of.... Can you tell the thing? He said the funniest fucking thing, because I was just like, we're just talking about shit that kind of,
Starting point is 00:51:26 like, let's not write jokes. Let's just be frustrated, and like, just vent on that, right? Because I think that's where the shit comes from. And, you know, Mark has been only with his wife, right? That's the only girl he's been with, right? And like, sometimes people judge him. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:41 He said this fucking, I want you to say it. Wait, what's more specifically? About getting married young? No, no, no, no. He goes, he goes, he goes, everybody makes this big deal about like all the women
Starting point is 00:51:50 I haven't had sex with. Oh, yeah. He goes, but they never talk about all the dicks that haven't been in my wife. And it's just like, and it was like,
Starting point is 00:52:00 it was like anger. Jesus. It was like visceral anger coming out of him. All the dicks that haven't been in my wife. And he's just like, think All the dicks that haven't been in my life. He's just like, think about the dicks that have been in your wife. And it was just this beautifully angry but logical feeling.
Starting point is 00:52:12 Dude, that would fuck me up in relationships. Yes! I would break up with chicks based on people they fucked. Because I'd go, how could you fuck him? If you fucked him, then you think I'm like that? I'm better than that? It's a reflection on you, ultimately. And if a chick's you fucked him, then you think I'm like that? I'm better than that? It's a reflection on you. And if a chick's had anal sex, fuck you.
Starting point is 00:52:29 Now I got to fuck you in the ass. And I don't even want to, but you take it in the ass. Fuck, dude. Amen, man. It was one of those beautiful things where it's just like this visceral feeling that you have. And it kind of like poured out of him. Yeah. That's great.
Starting point is 00:52:46 I couldn't, I said to Joe the other day, I don't know why I said this. I said, did you guys, did you and your wife talk about how many people you had sex with before you had sex the first time? And he goes, no. And Joe's one of those people, of course, that goes, I am, I move,
Starting point is 00:53:02 I don't deal in the past, I move from this part forward. And I was like, yeah, I did ask my wife how deal in the past. I move from this part forward. And I was like, yeah, and I did ask my wife how many people she slept with. Oh, God. Don't do that. I was back, dude, I was so concerned with AIDS. How many, how many, how many? Not many, not many.
Starting point is 00:53:16 Can you tell us? Similar number? Very similar number, yeah. What's the cheek clap count? What's that? What's the cheek clap count? Well, how many individual claps does that count? Yeah, how many claps? It's the cheek? How many individual claps? Count?
Starting point is 00:53:27 It's like a Harambe thing. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That shit's fire. You got it. You're doing it, bro. Yeah, I'm doing it. You're doing it. Let's get lit, man.
Starting point is 00:53:38 Let's get lit. Get the young audience out to the shows. Epstein did it. Yes. I don't know if that really makes sense. Hillary Clinton was on the plane. Yes. Chelsea Halen went to those parties.
Starting point is 00:53:49 Yes, bro. You're nailing it. You see what Chelsea had to defend that she didn't fucking. No, what'd she say? I don't remember. They were at her wedding. They were at her wedding. Yeah, there's Epstein and fucking Maxwell at the wedding. No, my wife's number is two more than me.
Starting point is 00:54:04 Eight. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know his number? Yeah more than me. Eight. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know his number? Yeah. We do our research. It's not a fucking hard one to remember. Yeah, single digits.
Starting point is 00:54:12 Single digits? Yeah. Do you count the one where you came on her thigh? Because I guess that would make it five. I don't count. I have a weird count.
Starting point is 00:54:19 Like, I don't count blowjobs. I don't count fooling around. For yourself or for her? For me. It had to be penetrative. I'm fucking you.ing around. For yourself or for her? For me. It had to be penetrative. I'm fucking you. Yeah. Like there's a lot of chicks where you fucked around like in high school. But how many girls
Starting point is 00:54:31 did you actually successfully fuck? Six. A lot of times you probably fucked the sheets. Six. Tanya, can I get a LaCroix? When are you going to take another little beer? Yeah, I'll take another beer, please. And another beer. Alright guys, we're going to take a break for a second because you know it's hard dick season. Matter of fact, every season is hard dick season,
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Starting point is 00:57:32 listen, Akash, we got to have a little discussion about March Madness. Yo, this is the best time to bet. Because I know shit about college basketball, but it don't matter in March Madness. The number one seed overall, I think, Purdue lost. Virginia was like a four seed
Starting point is 00:57:45 lost to a 13 seed yeah just bet yeah there's crazy odds on underdogs and underdogs stay winning yeah in my mind it's like i might just use my bet online bonus and throw money at every underdog and one of the motherfuckers is gonna hit because they're gonna pay out like it pays out crazy that's funny yeah yeah i mean it is just the craziest tournament. I know there's probably people listening in Europe and they're like, I don't even understand what's going on. Nobody does. Yeah. Nobody knows every team in the tournament. Nobody knows every... The thing about the tournament is you
Starting point is 00:58:13 learn about all these players. It used to. Now a lot of these players just go right to the league. But like it used to be you find out who the elite players are. Dwayne Wade. I remember. He played for Marquette and they destroyed the number one seed, Kentucky. And I was like, who the fuck is this kid? Exactly. So you see draft stock skyrocket. Steph Curry, nobody
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Starting point is 00:59:08 about the early Rogan days it's cool that Rogan like teed you up for the machine story yes the early days that you were doing Rogan
Starting point is 00:59:15 what is that like like the first time you do it do you think it's anything dude oh no how early were you walking through the whole thing
Starting point is 00:59:23 what was the pod like what did it look like etc it was so fucking cool yeah you'd go to his house Dude. Oh, no. Oh, it's nothing. How early were you? Walk us through the whole thing. What was the pod like? What did it look like? Et cetera. It was so fucking cool. Yeah. You'd go to his house. He'd meet you at the front door.
Starting point is 00:59:32 Kids running around. Wife. Dogs. And the first time I, and I was a fan of the show, so he invited me to do the show. I can't tell you how early it was. It was early enough that no one, it wasn't like huge yet. Right. He was still, he was selling flashlights on it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:49 Oh, he had ads and stuff. Flashlights. That was the specific. Just flashlights. Just the only ads. Just flashlights. Just flashlights. Because Aubrey Marcus is, I think his dad ran sex stores.
Starting point is 01:00:00 Right. And says, What the fuck? Listen, you got a great friend in Tom Segura. I just want to let you know. You have a great friend. Hey, let's fix these stuff. Get in here. Get in here.
Starting point is 01:00:24 Scoot over. Slide over. Slide over. R, let's just eat stuff. Get in here. Get in here. Scoot over. Slide over. Slide over. Razzle dazzle. Who loves you so much. And is willing to. This guy. I've never seen.
Starting point is 01:00:41 I've never seen Bert look this uncomfortable. When I called up Tom, I said, Tom, what would be something fun we could do with Brad? Because, because, oh, he hates balloons, and he hates clouds. You can't smell that. You can't smell that. Smell what? The balloons, you can't smell that? The balloons? You can't smell that? I'm being dead serious.
Starting point is 01:01:03 I didn't smell a balloon. They're gonna start popping, dude. They're gonna start popping dude They're gonna start popping. I'm gonna I get a cat might have to leave Can we leave one balloon give me the beer give me Give me the beer. No, no, no. You've got to drink more beer. Let's chug.
Starting point is 01:01:22 Let's chug. Chug this. Get him another. They're really going to pop. They really are because they're better lights. Those aren't even hot lights. What's going to happen if they pop, dude? It's just going to make a noise. Oh, dude.
Starting point is 01:01:35 What is that? That little screech? Okay, it smells so much better. I'm being serious. You didn't smell that? Nobody smells anything. Are you being serious right now? Yes, I'm being serious.
Starting point is 01:01:44 I'm like shaking. Why are you crying? I'm like fucking shaking. You have tears in your eyes. Here you go, man. Let's just have, let's just drink, bro. You can have this one too if you need. This will calm your nerves.
Starting point is 01:01:56 Here, I'll drink with you. I'll take yours, Akash. Here, cheers. The clown has been removed from the room. Ooh. Let's have a cheers. Fucking real. Okay. Let's have a cheers. Fucking real. Okay.
Starting point is 01:02:07 Hold on, hold on. You know what's funny? The last time you were in here, we gave you like pro-Russia memorabilia and shit. I'm fucking, I would suck Putin's cock right now. To fucking never have that happen again. I'm shaking. I'm like shaking.
Starting point is 01:02:24 Hold your hand, hold your hand hand I know they're in here I know that it can happen again that was dove okay I don't give a fuck I don't know how so you have a you have a
Starting point is 01:02:39 like a fear of clowns clowns and balloons why balloons I don't know I have no idea I have no idea is it because the and balloons. Why balloons? I don't know. I have no idea. I have no idea. Is it because the condom broke that one time? I don't know.
Starting point is 01:02:48 No, it was way before that. I was a kid. What happened? I don't know. Did you watch it? Nope. Oh, no. I'd never watch that fucking movie.
Starting point is 01:02:56 I would never watch that fucking movie. Hey, just do me a favor. For real, promise me he's not coming back. He won't come back. He won't come back. I swear to God he's not coming back in. He's not come back. I swear to God he's not coming back in. I'm fucking sweating. And why don't you like clowns?
Starting point is 01:03:12 I can't trust them. You can't trust them. Did you know about this? I tried to stop it. I tried to stop it. Thank you. You're such a fucking... So for my birthday, for my... We have to give, first of all, Tom needs credit for this.
Starting point is 01:03:35 I don't want to act like we did it alone. Tom deserves credit for this. That's so cool. Remember when I said I'd let him fuck me over? Yeah. Well, you were right. We waited for you to say that on camera You're lucky I love you more than you love me, Tom
Starting point is 01:03:48 Now we do have one more thing that we have to tell you It's just one more thing What you've been drinking is a lie Is it not? I'm just fucking non-alcoholic beer? Oh yeah, but damn I thought we could trick you into thinking it got spiked But yeah, we spiked it fucking non-alcoholic beer oh yeah but damn I thought we could trick you into thinking
Starting point is 01:04:07 it got spiked but yeah we spiked it with non-alcohol we unspiked it we unspiked it so I've just been gaining calories oh wait now you care
Starting point is 01:04:15 about calories Bert Jesus fuck so I've just been sipping on bread fucking Jesus buddy you think I started drinking for you?
Starting point is 01:04:26 I was wondering. I was like, didn't you? You guys get crazy. Don't you not get into, like, your heaven if you drink? Your family shuns you and they put a tire around your neck and light you on fire or something? I don't know how their religion works. I'm fucking... I am off.
Starting point is 01:04:40 I am off. I am... And that's why he brought in a real fucking drink. Oh, you motherfuckers. I'm sitting here just gaining calories going, why isn't it? How bad is my drinking that I can't feel it? Tom, stop. I mean, stop acting like you're health conscious, Bert.
Starting point is 01:04:54 No, he wants to get drunk. Bro, I'm fucking healthy as shit right now. I want steroids. Are you on the? Fucking juice. Feel my arm. Which juice? We're trying to get juice on the pot, too.
Starting point is 01:05:05 Yeah? Our car's getting on peptides. Is it orange juice? Yeah, I'm on tea. I'm waiting on my arm. Which juice? We're trying to get juice on the pod too. Akash is getting on peptides. Is it orange juice? Yeah, I'm on tea. I'm waiting on my shipment. Wait, are you on testosterone? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's awesome. Really? How do you feel?
Starting point is 01:05:13 Fucking amazing. Does it allow you to smell things that don't exist? No, no. Hang on, you did not smell. I smelled it the second she walked in the room, I smelled them. Well, you also saw them. No, I know, but the smell is what bothers me.
Starting point is 01:05:24 The smell, the touching, and their unpredictability. You can, they're never, as soon as you do that, as soon as you inflate that thing, then all of a sudden, it has the possibility to explode like a drunk alcoholic father. Like a fucking, just like, it'll snap you at any time. Now we're getting there.
Starting point is 01:05:41 From my 49th birthday, Rosebud Baker was on tour with us and she thought it would be a good idea. These idiots thought it would be a good idea to fill my bunk with balloons to surprise me. She didn't know you were afraid of them. She didn't know I was afraid of them. And the fucking I came in and I fucking melted down.
Starting point is 01:05:58 And this is my tour bus and it was my bunk. It was my bunk. Dude, I've had this happen so many times. On my 40th birthday I was in Australia and the board of tourism wanted to surprise me. So they put my, they filled my entire room with balloons, my entire fucking room. And so I, I was like, I, and I couldn't, I had nowhere to put them because it's in a hotel room. So, and now I'm going to come home drunk and I'm in my rooms full of balloons and I'm fucking melting down. And my wife, drunk and I'm in my rooms full of balloons and I'm fucking melting down. And my wife,
Starting point is 01:06:29 I call my wife and I go, I need to, um, I was like, I don't know what to do. And she goes, just have another drink and pass out. You'll be fine. Just put them on the roof. They'll be fine in your bedroom. I couldn't get inside. And then middle of the night, the helium on all of them died at the exact same time. And in the middle of the night, All of them died at the exact same time, and in the middle of the night, every blue balloon landed on me in the bed, and I fucking lost it. I lost it. I lost it so fucking bad. Fuck. It's okay.
Starting point is 01:07:03 You're safe now. You're safe now. I'm never safe. We got rid of the clowns. I you're safe now I'm never safe we got I'm never safe I'm never safe never safe from balloons and clowns I will never do the show
Starting point is 01:07:10 ever again I will never ever step foot in the studio it's so nice knowing you guys it's just shocking
Starting point is 01:07:24 it's just chugging he's just chugging check out my special razzle dazzle that was the name of the clown actually that's just my movie The Machine it's coming out Memorial Day weekend it's amazing
Starting point is 01:07:39 it's amazing I want like what's crazy is like it's amazing it's amazing how like how it really hit me. I don't know if you saw it. Like, I'm, right now, I'm just starting to relax just a titch.
Starting point is 01:07:51 But, first of all, how much is a titch? Not much. Now, Bert. I know the balloons are in this. I have to walk past them. No, no, we put them in the closet. My daughters have never been allowed to have balloons. No way.
Starting point is 01:08:06 So their birthdays, they never had a clown or a balloon or anything? Hold on. No one's getting a fucking clown. That's the dumbest fucking thing. Yeah. Have you ever had a clown? No. No, that shit is fire, dude.
Starting point is 01:08:13 My friends had clowns at their birthdays. Your parents didn't bring a clown in. It's like the whitest thing in the world. No, it was my friend's parents, but it was fire. The clown was fire. He rubbed his fucking leg on a coloring book, opened it up, and pages were blank. Crazy. Never forget that shit ever, Doug.
Starting point is 01:08:26 What about magic? How do you feel about magic? I don't mind magic. I like magic. You can trust magic but not clowns? Yeah, I don't know. Dude, you know what's funny? Is Tom texted me.
Starting point is 01:08:37 He goes, hey, you should do the balloon clown thing later in the episode because he's going to get real jittery. And I just sent back ha ha ha ha ha thinking that he was just busting balls. But like it has changed you emotionally. Yeah. It's fucking great. Who do you hate more, us or Ari? Yeah, would you
Starting point is 01:08:57 have rather we, we thought we were doing a nice thing unspiking the drink. We unspiked your drink. Really, yeah. So funny, I didn't even look at the drink. He unspiked your drink. Really, yeah. It's so funny, I didn't even look at the cans. I was drinking. Well, you were drinking a whole can in the beginning
Starting point is 01:09:10 of fake beer and it was just great. He opened up the fridge also with Shasta Tanya. She hid all the non-alcoholic beers behind the steles. That was good. That was good.
Starting point is 01:09:17 Yeah, I probably, I'm not even fucking around. I'm not even fucking around. I trust Ari more than I trust you guys. Because I can't promise that you'll never do something like that again. Like, I know Ari pulled me aside one time and he goes, you have to know I'll never drug you again. And then I went, I do believe that.
Starting point is 01:09:40 But with us, how do you feel? I just don't trust you. Like, what do you think that we would do? Like, for example, at the Forest Hill show, you don't think we would hire like 100 clowns to sit front row or anything, right? I'll toss them. I'll toss them on the street.
Starting point is 01:09:54 You Daniel Tosh right there? I'll fucking Daniel Tosh them. They're all going to get in the same car and drive away. This will be the biggest clip you have ever had of me ever I'm being serious because
Starting point is 01:10:09 there's no I can't I'm not turning anything on right now I'm being 100% me this is 100% me when my wife sees this my wife's gonna go
Starting point is 01:10:18 oh fuck they didn't do that did they fuck well Tom did it. We had nothing to do with it, really. Hey, hey. Hey, Schultz,
Starting point is 01:10:28 why do you and Bert not talk to each other anymore? Well, we brought seven balloons in during the episode. It wasn't seven. That wasn't seven. How many? What did it smell like?
Starting point is 01:10:38 I'm being dead serious. You guys didn't smell it? A dozen? No, nobody smelled it. Oh, man, the smell is what fucking got me. The clown, I mean, what? What bothered you more, the clown? The balloons or clown man, the smell is what fucking got me. The clown, I mean. What bothered you more, the clown that touched you or the balloons that were hateful from you?
Starting point is 01:10:50 I couldn't, I couldn't. Probably the balloons. So the balloons, it's like an allergy for you. No, no, it's just, I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. You can't trust them. You ever seen a blimp? Yeah, he talks about it. I went in the't know what it is. You can't trust him. You ever seen a blimp? He talks about it.
Starting point is 01:11:07 You can't trust him. You're good with blimps? This all sounds like euphemisms for Jewish people, but you actually mean the thing. You can't trust clowns, dude. No, just clowns are, man, it just doesn't make any sense why someone would do that to themselves.
Starting point is 01:11:26 Napargatzi's dad, I think, is a clown. Oh, yeah. He is for certain. And a magician. And I almost couldn't become friends with him. With Nate. Because I couldn't understand how he could have that in his family. And I'm not even fucking around.
Starting point is 01:11:40 He was made from clown sperm. You couldn't understand how Nate could have it in his family. But he was, yeah. I couldn't get it. I love Nate. And when I met Nate, it was like the first thing I go, your dad's like a clown, right? And he goes, yeah.
Starting point is 01:11:55 And he was really proud of it. He's really proud of his dad. And his dad actually is, apparently, I'll never see it, but an amazing performer. He opens for him. He opens for Nate sometimes, right? He opens for him. But I just couldn't wrap my head around it. I went home with the chick.
Starting point is 01:12:07 She was going to be seven. Or she was going to be six. My wife is seven. Or it would have been seven. Oh, the number of girl you were going to have sex with. I was going to have sex with this girl. She brought me home. The way that you allude to fucking kids without even trying is crazy.
Starting point is 01:12:19 What did I say? Earlier you were like. Let's start the sentence over. Let's do it again. I was fucking what would have been the seventh woman I've ever had sex with. Yeah, yeah, yeah. God damn it. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:12:29 Because before you just said. This has changed subjects. Before you just said. Don't tell us we're not friends, Bert, because we're fixing these sentences for you. Exactly. We're looking out, dude. Don't tell us we're not friends. Okay.
Starting point is 01:12:39 I'm definitely not doing fucking Logan Paul's podcast now. Or what's his name? Not Logan Paul, the other one. Jared Paul. Jake Paul. So Logan Paul. Logan Paul's podcast now. Or what's his name? Not Logan Paul, the other one. Jared Paul? Jake Paul? So Logan Paul, Logan Paul, Logan Paul. I'm definitely not doing that fucking podcast. Why do you think that they would do some jokes about this?
Starting point is 01:12:53 Because this is the Harambe generation. This is the Harambe generation. I'm going to do his fucking thing, and he's going to have a clown come in. Because this action, this is how everyone's fucking. What? I went home with a chick one time. Yeah. And she was beautiful.
Starting point is 01:13:11 Lived in Venice. She said, you know, can I show you what I do? This is a bizarre story. And she put in clown porn. She had shot a documentary on clown porn, and I'm not even joking, Vince Vaughn was in it. Like, he was, like, as an extra in the back. She was friends with Vince Vaughn,
Starting point is 01:13:33 and these two clowns were, like, and I literally, I was, like, what the fuck? I got to get out. And he was, Vince was with my buddy, Gary Auerbach, and I go, is that Gary Auerbach? She goes, yeah, you know Gary Auerbach? I go, is that Vince Vaughn? And then I saw the clowns, and I was, like, ah my buddy, Gary Arbeck. And I go, is that Gary Arbeck? She goes, yeah, you know Gary Arbeck? I go, has that been fun? And then I saw the clowns and I was like, ah.
Starting point is 01:13:48 And I just walked out. I was like, I have to leave right now. Why would they ruin sex like that, you know? Why did she want to show you it? I have no fucking clue. You guys went home to have sex. Went home. And then as like a little like foreplay.
Starting point is 01:14:02 She's like, can I show you something? And then she put in clown porn. Hey, buddy, you okay? Take a deep breath. I'm not. We like foreplay she's like can I show you something and then she put in clown porn hey buddy you okay take a deep breath I'm not we're not bringing the balloons back I promise you we're not bringing
Starting point is 01:14:10 the clowns back there's no more clowns deep breath in through the nose out through the mouth you know what I mean Indian things you got this man you can conquer
Starting point is 01:14:18 anything bro are you interested in getting over like through therapy nope not even nope like immersion therapy
Starting point is 01:14:24 nothing nope you're just cool just living your life and never being around a balloon? I don't need to be around one. Don't, don't, don't, don't do that. I'm not doing that. I just saw you lick your bottom lip and that was, you know what I mean? No, I did that because you were laughing at me thinking about what I was doing.
Starting point is 01:14:36 But I already made a promise to him that there's no more clowns and no more balloons. Do you want another drink? Actual drink? We'll bring you an actual drink. Pete! Pete, we need another drink! We need another drink? Actual drink? We'll bring you an actual drink. Pete! Pete, we need another drink! We need another drink, Pete. You don't have a show tonight, do you?
Starting point is 01:14:52 Because I'm worried you're not going to be able to. I've got to produce a special. Shout out to Shane Torres. Shane Torres is shooting a special today. I can't believe I can't turn it around. I'm shut down. I'm like shut down. But this is beautiful. How often do people get this version of Bert Kreischer?
Starting point is 01:15:06 Never. If you're on an airplane with me, you'll get it. Oh, are you afraid to fly? I'm terrified of flying. Oh, that's why you did the tour bus. Oh, that's why you did the tour bus. That's why I did the tour bus. Ah.
Starting point is 01:15:15 But you went on the Goodyear blimp? It was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. I jumped out of a blimp as a child. What? Yeah. That's, yeah. Okay. Let's do that. As a child? a child taking off and i was like i'm
Starting point is 01:15:26 not doing this and i just jumped out and i had to reland that shit for real yeah because i was like i don't play this is stupid it makes no sense it's super slow yeah so you're you're literally i mean that sounds awful it is fucking terrifying it's like yeah it's like we're not even going in outer space and you land like this it is terrifying and. It is terrifying. And I thought I'd be fine with it. And I wasn't, man. I fucking, it was one of the worst panic attacks I've ever had in my entire fucking life. And then you just hang. Yep.
Starting point is 01:15:56 You just hang. Makes no sense at all. It's fucking, the only more terrifying I've been when we were in a helicopter, we went to the mother Guadalupe up in rio oh uh virgin mary isn't it jesus the jesus yeah yeah yeah yeah and so we went thanks buddy and so uh we went uh we went up in a helicopter to it it's like i think it's like fucking 12 000 feet yeah it's crazy and then he just took the helicopter out over Brazil, and he said, I have to wait here for a second. And we just didn't go anywhere.
Starting point is 01:16:29 We just sat still. Terrifying. And I was like, dude. I was like, we need to get the fuck out. Terrified. I'm terrified of helicopters for that reason. Planes, in my mind, I can convince myself that if the engines go, they can use the speed.
Starting point is 01:16:43 We hear stories of guys landing planes on lakes. I don't think a jumbo jet can do that. But we hear the story. I never hear a story of a helicopter landing safely in the ocean. They have this thing called Blade, right? And you can take a helicopter from like the West Side Highway to JFK. I'm too scared to do that. Right?
Starting point is 01:16:58 And it's like twice as much as an Uber, but you're there in literally five minutes. We took a helicopter from LAX to Burbank one time because I was only home for 12 hours. Boom. And I wanted to get the girls before they went to bed. Yeah. And it was one of the coolest things I ever did. It's great.
Starting point is 01:17:13 It's so fast. It's awesome. Yeah. But I can't stop thinking, there's no fail safe for this. If the engine goes. I'm feeling better. Okay, good.
Starting point is 01:17:20 It was funny. I can, I can, the alcohol's kicking in. I knew you'd get there. I knew you'd get there. Are you able to finish the early Rogan stories? No. I don't know. Did we do it in the middle of those?
Starting point is 01:17:31 Yeah, yeah, yeah. He wasn't listening. He was pulling a U. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not 100% here yet, but I'm close. No, no, we're getting there. Okay, so the helicopter thing. So all I can't, I can't stop thinking about. Do not fuck this up with the clown.
Starting point is 01:17:41 No, no, no. If I leave, it's to pee. I'm not going to bring anything back. I already told you there's no more clowns and no more balloons. And we'll make sure there's none when they get out. When you get out. When you finish. Okay.
Starting point is 01:17:51 But the helicopter thing. I can't... There you go. You like it. Because you appreciate how funny it is. First of all, can I tell you something? And you'll be really happy about this. You'll be really happy about this.
Starting point is 01:18:03 What? That clown that we just showed right there is antiquated. They no longer have those clowns available. We tried to get a real clown to come. We reached out to every clown company in New York. This is a good story. Clowning is done.
Starting point is 01:18:20 We had to fabricate a clown because they no longer have rentable clowns. I love to hear that. Think about that. You're like Walter White at the end of Breaking Bad Season 4. I won. You won, dude. Yeah, man.
Starting point is 01:18:36 Think about that. Think about how terrifying John Wayne Gacy was. Oh, my God. Do you think he ruined clowns or was it already fucked? I think he is the beginning of ruining clowns I would be curious I would be really curious to see Why I don't like clowns
Starting point is 01:18:50 Let's look into it You ever do like mushrooms, like mushroom therapy? No, I'm not doing You don't strike me as a therapy guy I'm in therapy New or you've done it? I've done it, I've done it a lot therapy is
Starting point is 01:19:06 very useful for me but I see you laughing and I have to look over my fucking shoulder no no no there's no fucking cloud I'm gonna go pee but I swear to god
Starting point is 01:19:15 I'm not coming back with anything there's no cloud therapy is super useful it's great I don't pinpoint the stuff that like flying
Starting point is 01:19:22 for instance flying I went to therapy to try to fix my fear of flying, and the therapist said, well, when was the last time you flew? I said, fucking Monday. She goes, so you do it? I said, yeah. And she goes, well, then you don't have a problem.
Starting point is 01:19:38 You just don't like flying. And I went, yeah, but I have a terrible fear of flying. She goes, yeah, a lot of people do. But if you can do it, then you're there. You're doing it. You're figuring. My thing with flying is I drink. I've had plane flights where I wasn't drinking,
Starting point is 01:19:52 where it's turbulence. And I, dude, I've sobbed crying on a plane. No. Yeah. So brucktober, I had to fly to Minneapolis doing the Target Center or whatever. And I can't drink. And we're taking the fucking red eye
Starting point is 01:20:05 and it's horrific turbulence. And I'm in first class, 49 years old, crying my eyes out. Crying my eyes out, shaking, holding on. I'm so bad, I will grab the person's leg next to me. I'm a horrible fear of, I have a fear of death, really. Yeah, okay. It's ultimately what it comes down to is I have a terrible fear of death. Now has this increased with success? My fears? Fear of death. Yes. I understand that. What is it? I think it's like you get to taste this life that is oftentimes unimaginable. And you're like, I don't want to lose this.
Starting point is 01:20:45 And not only that, you have children, you have a wife. Like, there's all this life you get to live with them, all these things you get to see with them. And doing something frivolous, doing something dumb, doing something like fucking skydiving or whatever like that, the reward of that is what? You land, and you have an exhilarating moment. The risk is you throw away all this you've worked for.
Starting point is 01:21:07 Like, I can completely understand that. Yeah, I have a, I would say. Dove, you got to get out of here. I did it to ease him. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I appreciate it. As soon as I saw you in here, I was like, okay, it's not happening again. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:21:21 Is it better? No, no, no, it's perfect. He's still going to remember that you're out? No, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine. Get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, get out. But now you know there's no more clowning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he's still going to remember. No, no, no, it's perfect. He's still going to remember that you're out. No, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine. Get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, get out. But now you know there's no more clowning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, go on.
Starting point is 01:21:31 That is crazy that that is a. But don't you think. That's crazy that like, that's crazy that that actually happens to me. That I don't have control over it. Control over? Over when the clown and the balloon showed up that I shut down and I can't right my boat for a little while. It's crazy that that's a thing that I have no control over. Yeah, but that's the best.
Starting point is 01:21:50 It's phobias. No, but that's, I don't know. I think that's the most entertaining thing. Do you have any phobias? Oh, I never wouldn't say them out loud now. Homo count? What? I said, does homo count?
Starting point is 01:22:04 No, no, no. Do I have any phobias? Yeah, I have a huge fear of heights. I do not fuck with heights? No, no, no. Do I have any phobias? Yeah, I have a huge fear of heights. I do not fuck with heights at all. Oh, bro. I'm claustrophobic. Okay, I'm claustrophobic, and I have a fear of heights. I don't fuck with heights at all.
Starting point is 01:22:13 I got stuck on the train for almost an hour once. It was one of the worst experiences of my life, and now anytime the train stops, I freak the fuck out. Dude, I'll tell you what. My claustrophobia is so bad, I have a hard time scuba diving. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm not used time scuba diving. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm not used to scuba diving. Get that fucking mask.
Starting point is 01:22:27 Like, me and Rachel Ray were supposed to go scuba diving with sharks, and they sent over the, Rachel's claustrophobic, and they sent over the, you have to have like a hood. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, I can't do that. You would prefer to use just the oxygen thing? Yeah, just oxygen. Have you seen the guy who goes up they go up uh in i forget who did it but he went up in a u2 plane he went up in a one of the spy planes that goes out of the atmosphere so they had to wear a helmet like a spaceman's
Starting point is 01:22:56 helmet and he said they're watching him and he goes okay my nose is itching. Oh. Immediately I went, oh my God. Because he can't get to his nose. Oh, fuck. Yeah, dude. And so the guy goes, just don't think about it. And he's like, no, but it's itching really bad. I was like, fuck. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:23:14 Dude, claustrophobia is a motherfucker. I didn't understand claustrophobia. And then I just got this MRI recently on my shoulder. Fuck. Dude. Fuck. I had one of those. All you had to do was your arm, right?
Starting point is 01:23:24 No, I was rolled into it. You did the whole thing for you? Yeah. Dude. Fuck. I had one of those. All you had to do was your arm, right? No, I was rolled into it. You did the whole thing for you? Yeah. Dude. I didn't know arm was an option. Dude, I did just the arm.
Starting point is 01:23:31 Mine was my elbow. It wasn't my shoulder. It was my elbow. So I had to put my arm in there for like, I want to say like 30 minutes or 45 minutes. I was in there forever
Starting point is 01:23:37 and I, panic would hit me and I could feel it well up like going, here we go. We're going to have a panic attack right now and then I'd go and I took a Xanax before I went feel it well up, like going, here we go. We're going to have a panic attack right now. And then I'd go,
Starting point is 01:23:46 and I took a Xanax before I went, and it still didn't fucking help. Oh, I would eat the Xanax. Oh my God. Explain to me. So the MRI machine is just on your, you can do whatever you want over here. You have to put your arm in.
Starting point is 01:23:56 But they tell you you can't move. Can't move. It's the not moving thing that's the problem. Yeah. If I had my arm in some machine and I could kind of like roll around and do whatever, I'd be okay. But when I was rolled in.
Starting point is 01:24:04 No, no, no, You had to stay still. You had to stay still. That's fucking crazy. So I'm back like this. I'm in this little tube and I can't get a full breath. And I'm sure this is a function of claustrophobia, but I can't get a full breath. And I feel like, oh, well, if I could move a little bit, I could get one. But I'm breathing it like it feels like 80% of a full breath.
Starting point is 01:24:21 So now I'm in this little panic where I'm like, well, how do I get that last fucking 20%? Am I going to pass out in here? I had to tap out. Halfway through, I had to tap out, go back in to finish it. I literally think my logical brain, and riding the train, still gets stuck for four or five minutes.
Starting point is 01:24:37 My logical brain is like, nothing is going to happen. And I'm like, no, no, no, I'm going to run out of oxygen. I told my wife on our third date, if we ever got stuck in an elevator for 30 seconds, you would never respect me again. Dude. You would never respect me again. It would be the most embarrassing thing. She got stuck on a train one time.
Starting point is 01:24:52 She put her hand on my chest, just like calm me down. She said your heart was fucking pounding. Dude, I got stuck in an elevator with a bunch of Japanese men. If you think panic sounds bad in English english panic in japanese is like fucking kicking cats like it was and i and i was like and they started freaking out and then it's making me worse and i opened the doors to the elevator i opened the doors to the elevator and opened the other doors and climbed out and the most the most deep i was like i would 100 try to do that i wouldn't be strong enough i'd fall to the bottom but i would try to do that. I wouldn't be strong enough.
Starting point is 01:25:25 I'd fall to the bottom, but I would try to do that. Dude, dude, let's go panic for panic. I was in a top fuel dragster, right? Top fuel dragster. Is it a drag race? It's a drag race. So they put you in. I'm riding, I'm just a passenger.
Starting point is 01:25:41 First of all, you're in a flame retardant suit. Zip up, right? Put the helmet on, gloves gloves on they put you in they five point harness you and then they then they strap your hands to your neck so that you can't because you're going to reach out and grab something they don't want you to touch anything so your hands are here i'm not doing that so they put me on all the stuff and then they go all right we'll get back to you. And I go, hold on. I need out of here. And they're like, well, he's going to be here in a second.
Starting point is 01:26:10 I go, I need out of here right now. I'll tell you, panic for panic, this is the worst. This is the worst. I'm doing this show called Scream If You Know The Answer. It's a game show on roller coasters. The roller coaster they put us in is out at Magic Mountain in L. it's the one where you stand up they harness you in and then they put you in like superman like you so you fly through it they have a vest on me for to hold a camera a go gopro mount and a mic so i'm and i'm and i'm like really tied into this thing we pull into the station we're the, we're like one car out.
Starting point is 01:26:46 And we're sitting there and someone goes, I wonder what's going on. And they're like, all right, we're having a little problem. We're going to bring you in in a second. They bring us in. The floor raises. And they go, all right, we're having a problem with the releases. It shouldn't be a big deal. But we have to wait until the guy,
Starting point is 01:27:06 the head mechanic's going to come out and he'll fix it. He'll be here shortly. And I said, excuse me, can you just undo mine? And they said no, we need to undo them all at the same time. I said, yeah, but I'm having a little bit of a panic attack. And so the lady who was running it comes over and goes, it's going to be okay. You're the safest
Starting point is 01:27:22 place you can be, but he's on his way. I said, where is he at the park? She goes, he's in his home in Tarzana. No fucking way. It's five o'clock. It's fucking five o'clock. Dead of traffic. This motherfucker's in Tarzana.
Starting point is 01:27:38 Oh, God. L.A. traffic. Fuck me. I was in this thing for 45 fucking minutes in this thing like this, facing down. I was in this thing for 45 fucking minutes in this thing like this facing down. I mean melting down. The woman the poor woman had to sit underneath me and hold my
Starting point is 01:27:53 hand and I was crying. I'm the host of the show. I'm fucking the host of the show and I'm freaking out. I don't want to die. Can someone call me and sing me a song or something? Can you distract me?
Starting point is 01:28:09 I'm fucking, oh, I've had so many. You know what's even worse than that? Have you ever been stuck in deep snow? You're making me feel bad. We did this to you. Have you ever been stuck in deep snow? No. So we go hella skiing in Switzerland.
Starting point is 01:28:22 We go up to like fucking 10,000 feet, 12,000 feet, whatever the fuck it is. Air's thin. I'm hungover. We're all in snowboards, and they put beacons on our chests. I go, what's the beacon for? He goes, it's better to locate the body. I said, what? He goes, locate the body.
Starting point is 01:28:38 Am I saying it right? Say you fall into a crevasse. I can find your body, right? I said that right, right? And I'm like, find my body? What do you mean find your body? And he goes, it's for us. It's not for you.
Starting point is 01:28:50 Don't worry. Don't worry. No, actually, it's for you. And I'm going, hold on. There's a chance I'll disappear? And he's like, oh, yes. OK, so just stay real close to me because I don't go in crevasse. And he goes, all right, let's go.
Starting point is 01:29:01 And we start going. Now, we're on the top of a mountain in Switzerland. So it's, it's what I would only guess maybe four feet of powder. I mean, it's just powder everywhere. So we start going and I realized I'm a good snowboarder, but I hadn't snowboarded in a while. And you know, your first run, you're always like, oh yeah, I'm going to warm it up a little bit. Well, my first run, this is my first run in a couple years and I'm on top of a mountain in Switzerland and all of a sudden I catch a toe and I go face forward
Starting point is 01:29:30 into the snow and I disappear. I take my arms to push up and there's nothing there. There's nothing there. It's too deep and I'm like panicking going, oh my God,
Starting point is 01:29:40 this is what they mean to find the body. I literally go, I'm gonna die here. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die and I'm fucking sitting there for, I'm not even joking, 10 minutes upside down in snow trying to push
Starting point is 01:29:51 and all of a sudden I feel a hand grab my back, pull me up and he goes, you should see your sound guy. My sound guy is upside down, skis like this and gear everywhere. And I was like, get us the fuck off this mountain. It was weird. Dude, getting stuck in snow is fucking terrifying.
Starting point is 01:30:12 I could go, this is, I could talk anxiety and terrors for hours. Sinkhole. Sinkhole. Sinkhole scares the fuck out of me, dude. I grew up in fucking Florida. Sinkholes were everywhere. You'd be playing football on the street one day, next day, sinkhole. I swear to God,
Starting point is 01:30:28 I was thinking about this last night. You know when the ground just swallows up a house or whatever? What happens to the guy? I'm like, if that happened to me, that's just how I die. That's how you die. They don't get them out of it. That's how you die. It's like being buried alive. It's the worst thing that could possibly happen in my life. There's a clip
Starting point is 01:30:43 online I saw one time, haven't been able to find since, of a guy in England explaining quicksand at the beach. And he goes, I'm bad with accents, but he goes, I don't know what accent I'm doing. That's a Switzerland guy. Yeah, a Switzerland guy. Hello, mate. All right, all right.
Starting point is 01:31:03 So this is quicksand. Very normal. Now, I have safety gears everywhere. Everyone's here. We've got a compressor, air compressor to get me out. But I want to show you how it works. It's very simple. You stand here, and in a matter of seconds, you'll feel your ankles sick in. Now, if you struggle like such, it goes a little deeper.
Starting point is 01:31:19 Now, it's safe for me to get up to my knee. It won't go much deeper than my knee. But watch this. As I try to get out, I'm now at my knee. So that's how it works. Let's get me out now. And someone goes, okay. And he just keeps sinking.
Starting point is 01:31:33 And they're like, hold on. Okay, this is not funny anymore. Let's get me out now. And he starts going deeper and deeper. And you're watching this guy fucking spiral out of control. This is a video. You can find it online. I can't watch it again.
Starting point is 01:31:47 How about this? Have you ever seen the guys who go spelunking? Oh, yeah. Oh, no, no, no, no. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, dude, dude. We went spelunking in New Zealand. Why?
Starting point is 01:32:02 Can you explain spelunking real quick? It's like caving. It's caving. Yeah. It's caving. Yeah. It's caving. No. Now there's a combination of the spelunking we did was in water. And as we enter.
Starting point is 01:32:11 This is the scariest fucking thing. As we enter it, they go, all right, we need you to get through the birth canal. And I said, what's that? And they go, it's this canal. It gets us into the cave. It's a little tight. But just get on your stomach and you'll marine crawl through
Starting point is 01:32:29 and there's just enough room for you to breathe. But there's one part where your face is gonna go on or just keep going forward, it opens up. Nope. And so we get into the birthing canal, climb through and we spend the next hour and a half in the most terrifying experiences I've ever had in my life.
Starting point is 01:32:46 At one point, there was a waterfall and in order to get, you had to get up the waterfall and they'd take you. You can't hear anything. It's a waterfall. They put you behind the waterfall. So you're behind the waterfall
Starting point is 01:32:57 and then you had to climb up from behind it. But at one point, you were just getting fucking bukkake with water. And then as you got to the top they grabbed you and they put you in a room where it was this tall the water was to here and we were all sitting here just breathing like this
Starting point is 01:33:13 now the only thing this is crazy the only thing that would calm me down and I don't know the explanation was a camera on me if I knew a camera was on me I could almost act like and I would so I'd keep, was a camera on me. If I knew a camera was on me, I could almost act. Yeah. Like, and I would, so I'd keep going, put the camera on me.
Starting point is 01:33:27 Your fear of being embarrassed is worse than your fear of claustrophobia. And we got done that fucking thing in New Zealand. And I remember getting out and all of us were like, we're fucking alive. They have, in Colorado, there's, I mean, horrible stories of these guys who go into these caves. I think it's called Caverns of the Wind. And they're caves. And they go in, and they will get in, and they'll get stuck like this, and they'll get their little rock chiseler to try to open up space for them. I mean, I've Googled it and watched it.
Starting point is 01:34:02 It is fucking, I can't do it. The crazy thing is sometimes you're spelunking and then torrential rain comes. That's what happened with those Thai boys. The Thai kids. Yeah, and the rain raises the water level. So now those parts that you had to crawl through are completely underwater.
Starting point is 01:34:19 So those tight little spaces, that's why they had to give them the oxygen tanks and shit to get out. But that, why were they doing that? It was a common thing to do to go in, like very normal to go into that cave and go to this place where I think you go to a beach. I watched the documentary on it, I think. There's some cool, beautiful, like all those stalagmites. Hold on.
Starting point is 01:34:37 You know, those like crystals. It is. Yeah. Risk not worth the reward for me, but I get it. I've done a lot of spelunking. I did one in Austin. And the guy, they go, all right, we're going to lower you in. They have a pothole, just like you'd see on the street.
Starting point is 01:34:57 And the guy takes the top off. And it is just the width of my shoulders. And he says, and they put a harness on you. And he goes, all right, I'm going to lower you down, but you're too big. You need to go one arm down, one arm up to get through. And so they lower me down. I am fucking, all I'm thinking is,
Starting point is 01:35:17 I have a GoPro on, like a chest GoPro that's up in my face, and all I'm thinking is I'm rescuing baby Jessica. That's all I, I was thinking like I'm doing. Baby Jessica was a story from the 80s of a girl who fell down a well, like a chest GoPro that's up in my face. And all I'm thinking is I'm rescuing baby Jessica. That's all I was thinking. Baby Jessica was a story from the 80s of a girl who fell down a well, like a young girl, and the nation was captivated by it. But then he yells up, hey, you're going to see an area where it seems like you should get out. Do not get out.
Starting point is 01:35:39 And I'm like, what the fuck? All of a sudden it opens up to this beautiful place. Now you're so fucking claustrophobic that the second you see that, he's right. My initial thought was, I should stop here and take a breath before I have to go down. I think it was like 180 feet, I think, was what they lowered you down. And as I see this oasis, I go, fuck this. I'm going to keep going. And you go into even a smaller cave, and you're just getting lowered.
Starting point is 01:36:05 And then it opens up to a huge fucking cave. And you're like, and all I'm thinking is, I got to get the fuck out of here that way. I mean, I've done this. No, then you walk out, right? Isn't there another exit? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the most fucked up part. It's like, well, take me in through the exit.
Starting point is 01:36:20 Yeah, have you done this? No, but I've seen this before. And it's like, why are we going this way? Yeah. Let me do a reverse. And it's like a this before. It's like, why are we going this way? Yeah. Let me do a reverse. And it's like a regular exit where people have tickets and they're coming in. There's stairs and shit. Yeah, Spelunking's pretty badass, you know.
Starting point is 01:36:33 Bro, have you seen the, there are these like natural water slides sometimes. And sometimes they're usually part of like rivers or like waterfalls. Now, Duval was at one. And what you do is you go through this hole in the rock and then you're completely kind of like submerged with the flowing water and then you pop out. So you gotta hold your breath for a couple seconds.
Starting point is 01:36:54 Something happened where like Duval went through the wrong entrance in the rock and got stuck couldn't breathe, can't see. So he's just stuck in the middle of this, and the water's churning everywhere, right? Oh, I got the crazy story for you afterwards. Water's churning everywhere, kicks, pushes, finally gets put back into the funnel, and then gets, but he's like, dude, I thought I was going to die.
Starting point is 01:37:18 Like, I was, like, making my peace in that moment. Crazier story. There's this wave pool that they're building. I won't say who it is. And a very famous UFC fighter, right? Is going to check out this wave pool. The wave pool isn't ready yet. Now the way the wave pools work is there are these engines, right? At the bottom of the pool, suck in all the water from the pool, shoot it back out. That's what creates the waves, right? He's waiting to go surf. The engines didn't have grates on them.
Starting point is 01:37:46 Now all wave pools have grates. The engines suck in the water. He gets sucked into the engine room with the water, okay? It's not like he gets spit back out with the water. For minutes, he's getting smashed around, whatever. They shoot out the water. He can breathe for a second. It's pitch black.
Starting point is 01:38:04 He doesn't know what's going on. Right? Then the water comes sucked back in. Shoots out. Five minutes. Like, they shut down the pool, but they're like,
Starting point is 01:38:12 where the fuck is he? How do we get him out? Think about that. You're just in this thing. You could breathe for a second and then nothing. Breathe for a second, nothing. No way out.
Starting point is 01:38:20 Terrifying. How'd he get out? How'd he get out? They stopped the pool and they were all there. We'll bleep it. Shut the fuck up. Oh my God.
Starting point is 01:38:32 Oh my God. Guys, some interesting shows coming up. I'm going to be performing at my boy Gary V's conference, VCon,
Starting point is 01:38:40 which has happened at the Lucas Oil Stadium. It's where the fucking Colts play. It's a football stadium. So this is going to be kind of crazy, but I'll be there May 19th. And then of course, Calgary, where I went and shot that movie,
Starting point is 01:38:54 The Thicket, look out for The Thicket. But I'm going to be coming back there August 27th to do the Great Outdoors Fest. That's going to be fucking nuts. 5,000 people in Princess Island Park. So it's just, obviously, hopefully you get some good weather. But, I mean, just come through to that. That should be absolutely crazy.
Starting point is 01:39:12 Akash, what you got going on? Yo, guys, the Bumass Cities Tour is launching. I'm coming to your city. I'm only doing one show because who the fuck wants to be there for more than one night? But I'm coming to these cities. Well, first of all, I'm going to be there here for a few nights because it's a great city. Denver, April 20th through 22nd at the Comedy Works in downtown. I'm going to get high on 420 and do comedy. I will never do that again. It's the only time I'm going to do it. Buy tickets to that show. Now, May 3rd,
Starting point is 01:39:36 East Providence, May 10th, St. Louis, May 11th, Kansas City, May 31st, Cleveland, June 1st, Columbus, all those dates and a bunch more at akashsingh.com. Get your tickets now. Now let's get back to the show. Have you heard Cowboy Cerrone's fucking cave diving story? He told Ron Rogan, I won't even do it justice. It was one of those ones where you're sitting there going like, like cave diving is a motherfucker.
Starting point is 01:40:02 Because those guys go in and then they just, I guess you get turned around. Oh, you don't know which way you're fucking going. And it gets silty and you can't see anything. What does silty mean? Like, all that ground is, like, very, very fine. It's like dust that's been sitting at the bottom of this cave forever. So when you're walking around it, it just starts to lift. It just goes, and then you can't see anything.
Starting point is 01:40:24 These cave divers fucking die. Cave diving is like fucking wingsuiting. Yeah, that's gross. That's how you die. Once you pick that as a hobby, that's how you die. I met, we were going swimming with sharks in Hawaii, and the woman that was taking us out said, I was talking about my show, because I always did dangerous stuff every week for the show.
Starting point is 01:40:56 It was like crazy stuff. And she said, make me one promise. This is the lady who was going to be outside of the cage with the sharks. She is fearless. She goes, make me one promise. I said, what's that? She goes, never base jump. I said, why? And she goes, if you base jump, that'll be how you die. I can promise you that. And I was like, fuck, for real? And she goes, her husband was the dude who hit the fucking line and vaporized? Yeah. That was her husband. Can you explain that story?
Starting point is 01:41:17 He was wingsuiting with his dude. He was in front. His dude was here. So wingsuiting is, it's sky skydiving but you have this suit on that has like these almost flats yeah yeah because of that you get you can get lift and so you can fly so instead of just instead of just jumping down straight down yeah you jump out off a mountain and then the the the the thrill of it is to get as close to objects as possible i see them right on the side of them yeah. Go over a bridge.
Starting point is 01:41:47 There's one where a guy goes through an opening. There's like... Those guys, I mean, do you remember the one with this is how I show my love. This is how my ADD. And the guy jumps and he goes by the balloons and just catches it.
Starting point is 01:42:04 I mean, those guys live life. Well, her husband, if I'm not mistaken, I think it was her husband was in front of her dude, his best friend. And they're going, I think they're in Asia. And they're going past a bridge. And he hits one of the fucking wires and vaporizes. Vaporizes. And his buddy feels his buddy all over him. Oh, no, because he's behind him.
Starting point is 01:42:26 Yeah, and he's got to still finish his flight, pull the chute. His best friend just vaporized in front of him. Yeah, and ruined his outfit. I mean, yeah, it's a lot. I mean, I wouldn't worry about my outfit. I'd be like, was my mouth open? Like, what the fuck, dude? I just went in my mouth.
Starting point is 01:42:42 Have you been tested? Like, are you clean? How many people have you slept with? But like, yeah, there's so many. I mean, I did so much stuff when I worked at Travel Channel. God, thank God for getting me out of that fucking. I would have. Too panic inducing?
Starting point is 01:42:56 Is that what you're saying? Thank God? So you saw a little bit of it, right? In that moment. I was like that every fucking morning sitting in a fucking shower uh praying like just going like don't let me die today like and by the way it wasn't it wasn't here's a weird thing is is you saw it you saw the real thing is like it wasn't real like it was I was it was imagined like I I mean stuff people did I mean yes there was a risk
Starting point is 01:43:24 but if stuff people did but I still would wait, there was a risk, but it's stuff people did. But I still would, I would wake up with searing anxiety every morning and I would sit in a shower. I'd say prayers. I had rituals that I would do to try to keep myself sane. I'd have rituals in the shower, but I would, and I, but I would sit there. I remember in New Zealand, we had to do a, there was a, there's a jump. You can, I'm sure you can find it online, but it's, they put you in a chair. They put you, it's a, like's a jump. I'm sure you can find it online, but they put you in a chair.
Starting point is 01:43:46 They put you, it's like just a free fall. They put a rope on you, you jump, and then you, a canyon swing. But they put you in a chair, and they lean you backwards, and they fuck with you, and at the last minute they let go, and you fall from a chair backwards into a canyon. I knew I was doing that. I knew I had to do that. That was my job.
Starting point is 01:44:04 And I woke up, and I remember sitting at the bottom of the shower going, what am I doing? Don't I have any value? Like, am I just a person who can go, hey, welcome back, and then jump? Like, is that my only value? And I remember thinking, I'm a comedian. I'm a talented comedian. Why am I here? Like, I'm looking at my friends blow up.
Starting point is 01:44:24 Tommy is blowing up at the time. Rogan's podcast has taken off. All that's happening. And I'm sitting here as a human. They call it, I used to call myself a water dummy because I was just, I was filled with water and I just, and I just jump off these things. And I fucking, I'm so,
Starting point is 01:44:45 I think that's why I work as hard as I do now because I had those other jobs that I didn't want. And so now when I have an opportunity to do shit, I'm like, fuck yes, I will travel every single day that you're doing standup because I lived the other life where it was like, yeah, it looked nice. And if you're into that shit, then you're into it.
Starting point is 01:45:00 But if you're not into it, I wasn't into it. I wasn't into it, yeah. Do you think there'll be a time, because I don't know if people realize how relentlessly you tour. Yeah. And it's not like you're just popping into clubs. You're doing it at the highest level. And the highest level has a lot of anxiety. I don't know what your team is like, but I know when we go in and we play certain places, it's a whole day.
Starting point is 01:45:23 It's like making sure the lighting is good making sure the setups are good making sure everything you're going on is good it i've always wondered this with you it's like is there a time where you're gonna go i need like three months i need six months i need no no i don't think he's wired like that i'll tell you what makes i mean this respectfully yeah i'll tell you what makes me different than you yeah is uh i don't know the right way to say this it is a compliment but it's going to come out sideways okay it's fine but like i got i was a i got to be a failure i got to be like a failure that no one cared about like i got that it's i was very it's a blessing because there's a period when i got
Starting point is 01:46:03 fired from travel channel and and pulled off the funny or Die tour because no one gave a fuck about me. And they were like, it's $2,000. Save $2,000 and get rid of Burt. Keep Tommy and Joey and Sebastian and Fluffy. And these are my friends, and I'm watching them blow up. And I would sit at the store, and I remember talking. I remember having a conversation with a guy that I thought we were friends with. And he was looking over my shoulder, and Sebastian walked in.
Starting point is 01:46:24 And he went, uh-huh, yeah my shoulder, and Sebastian walked in, and he went, uh-huh, yeah, yeah, and walked away from me. And I remember seeing people have really cool things and just cachet, like comics that I was like, he's good, but I don't think he's as good as like, and I would be funny, but I was like, and I was like, I was lucky enough to have that moment in my life. Sadly, and lucky for you, you'll never get that moment.
Starting point is 01:46:47 You'll have what it was like to be a young comic, but you'll never have a little bit of success and then absolutely nothing. And then people going, I guess that's it for that guy. You're lucky that you'll never have it, but I'm blessed that I had the opportunity to have that. And if it wasn't for guys like Rogan, I don't know. I mean, I wouldn't. and I use Joe as an exact example because Joe does what my
Starting point is 01:47:09 wife does my wife looks you in the eyes when she talks to you and she is present and it doesn't matter if fucking if fucking Kim Kardashian walks by she will talk to you Joe Rogan you never I don't mean to suck the guy's cock all the time, but the truth is. We do that quite often on this show, so you're in good company. He would talk to you in the eyes as a friend, and he would never look past you. And I watched a lot of people do that. And so the reason I work, I remember Ali Wong saying to me, you're acting like it's going to go away one day. She's like, you're one of the biggest comics.
Starting point is 01:47:42 In the world. In the world. Like, just fucking relax. And I wanted to go, Ali, you haven't been a failure. Be a failure once. Be a failure, like a legit. There was a point that if I quit comedy, not only
Starting point is 01:47:55 would no one know about it, but no one would have cared. I was lucky enough to get that. So you think if you stop, it will go away. Yeah, sure. I mean, yeah, why not, right? What I would get from that story is that. Imagine they came in right now.
Starting point is 01:48:13 That would be perfect. That would have been perfect. No. What I got from that story is that you can build your success. It's like you did it once and then you had some downtime. And then you did it again. And there's some confidence that should come from that. Also,
Starting point is 01:48:30 yeah, maybe. I mean, maybe. I don't know. I'm in control of my ship right now. I don't think this is luck for you, Bert. I think it is a little bit. We were saying this when we walked in. I was saying this right when I walked in. Ten best comics in the world, right? If you named them, I would argue I probably wouldn't make that list.
Starting point is 01:48:48 However, I am one of the biggest touring comics in the world. You might be the biggest right now, man. I'm number four. I don't know in terms of money brought in, but in terms of size of show, who else is doing a bigger show? But that's my point. Fluffy, maybe, at the baseball stadiums there's a lot of guys doing really big shit i mean joe chapelle fluffy burr people are doing
Starting point is 01:49:10 joe coy people are doing big shit but i would argue and this is why i think i'm very grateful to be where i am yeah but it's like it's why i hustle as hard as i do is i i go i don't i don't look at myself as talented as my peers ever i mean i, I look at, I look, I look at what you do and I go, God, man, he's fucking good. And then I, and then it's, it inspires me like, you gotta fucking work harder, man. Look at the, God damn it. He's funny as shit. You gotta fucking write more. You gotta tour more. You gotta fucking bust your ass. Like I think it's from that period of time I got to be a failure that I'm very grateful. It's like, like, it's like a like you ever have a friend who's never been in love, and then all of a sudden they fall in love, and they're like,
Starting point is 01:49:48 dude, I'm not letting go of this one. That's what I feel like with stand-up. I feel like that genuinely with stand-up. And with movies, and with television, you give me an opportunity, I'll take it, and I'll bust my ass. I'll show up sober. I'm not going to fucking be a dick on set. Like, I just, I'm really blessed.
Starting point is 01:50:04 I'm blessed and lucky to be where i am and i won't ignore that fact trust me i've seen dudes who feel like they've they deserve it like i won't say a name but i could say a name very easily we're talking about about earlier about the thing yeah that guy watched that guy behave poorly when he should have been just a little better yeah and he i mean having some fucking gratitude and believing that, I mean, there's so much luck gets us into these positions. There's no question about that. I guess, like, I look at a guy like you specifically,
Starting point is 01:50:35 and I don't go, that's luck. I mean, like, but I've also toured. Think about this, right? Let me say this. Yeah, I'm sorry. Not luck in terms of, like like we all need luck to get somewhere we all need you know somebody to look out like i had fucking charlemagne and joe i had like two of the most powerful people in media like really fucking look out for me and like throw me
Starting point is 01:50:56 opportunities and like yeah close that like i'm the luck in my mind i'm the luckiest in your mind you believe you're the luckiest oh yeah but i think that's also has to do with kind of like our perspective on life a little bit when you believe you're the luckiest. Oh, yeah. But I think that also has to do with kind of like our perspective on life a little bit. When you believe you're lucky, you wake up and you can smile a little bit. When you believe that like you deserve more and why am I not being looked at, like you're going to be bitter and angry. I guess what I'm trying to say is like there is a skill and understanding and a component that I think that you have that I think a lot of people don't have. And you have to work hard on that. And so I don't want you to undermine that.
Starting point is 01:51:29 It is not easy to do this at this level, continually do it, continually produce it, and continually make it exciting to the point where people come out. It is a hard thing to do. Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, it is a hard thing to do. But I do, I think I sometimes I try to. I think for the person watching, it's easier to identify our lucky moments than our hard work.
Starting point is 01:51:58 Yeah, and it's better to harp on our luck than it is our hard work. People get bitter if you talk about it. Because you're actually, I watch you. You're one of the smartest comics in terms of moves you make, the way you operate. Your intelligence is very overlooked because you'll take your shirt off or whatever. I never want you to see.
Starting point is 01:52:16 I'd rather... It was sports. My perfect example. I'm probably more athletic than 98% of the comics working. But I downplay it as a joke, and I tell Tom, I'll destroy you in tennis. He's like, you've never seen me play. And then I ace him 27 times.
Starting point is 01:52:33 Son, there's a clip of you shooting the fucking bow and arrow. Yeah, I have sneaky, weird talents, but I'm never going to tell you my talent before you meet me. I want you to find it out for yourself. Low expectations are the key to life, man. Low expectations and over-deliver. Exactly. And everybody's happy.
Starting point is 01:52:50 Yeah, I think that is, you know, best compliment I ever got came from David Letterman. It got me emotional. He goes, the guy takes his shirt off and he doesn't mention it. He goes, and then he does like beautiful comedy. He's a masterful storyteller, but his shirt's off. He's like, what? Why is his shirt off? And part of me goes, I don't fucking wish I had an answer.
Starting point is 01:53:18 I wish I had a fucking answer. I'm from Florida. That's my answer, I guess. I don't know. I used to like cheering myself up on the road on Thursdays. So I'd rip the shirt off, kill a beer, and then make myself giggle. I don't know. I used to cheer myself up on the road on Thursdays so I'd rip the shirt off, kill a beer, and then make myself giggle. I don't know. I don't think you need an excuse for it. I think that oftentimes
Starting point is 01:53:29 if there's someone that's jealous of what you have, they have an excuse to justify why they don't have it. And please believe if they took their shirt off, they wouldn't get your success. Please believe. Anybody thinking that that is the key, just take your shirt off. That's what I love. Any comics that are haters, just do it. If that's the thing that's stopping you, by all key, just take your shirt off. That's what I love. Any comics that are haters, just do it.
Starting point is 01:53:45 If that's the thing that's stopping you, by all means, just try that. I guarantee you it won't work because there's something else going on.
Starting point is 01:53:54 But it's a convenient thing that if somebody doesn't have it but they're filled with fucking envy and jealousy and you will get people that are going to be jealous. Oh, I bet, man.
Starting point is 01:54:02 I've had more. You know, it's so funny. When you're a failure, you're everyone's friend. Everybody's favorite. Oh, he's the best guy. I love that guy. Oh, he's so funny. He's hilarious.
Starting point is 01:54:12 Get successful and you'll find out who your fucking friends are real quick. Real quick. Yeah, yeah. Everybody loved Bernie Sanders until he had three houses. You're like, socialist my ass, right? It's that simple. Yeah, it's true. All right, let's tell'll i'll tell the early rogan days and then and by the way i i don't hate you guys oh i just want you to know i know you don't hate it but do you trust us i do we didn't bring him back in i
Starting point is 01:54:39 appreciate that and i like the energy this has taken. Yes, it's real. It's kind of very real. Bro, you're going to do 40 podcasts as you promote these amazing things you have on. Okay? It's IU. You have to create something different. It has to be a different experience with Bert. Nobody else pranked Bert. All right? I'm going to go on Good Morning America and they're going to be like, hey, we got a fucking clown.
Starting point is 01:55:00 By the way, I'll swing on that clown. By the way, I'll swing on that clown. The early Rogan days were fucking fascinating because when you talk about Tosh doing radio, that was all we really understood. And Joe was not having it. So when you tried to do bits, he would shut it down. My first Rogan appearance. It would be cool to see a highlight reel of me trying to do bits on him
Starting point is 01:55:22 because I was. I was like, oh, yeah, because no one knew what a podcast was right especially the way Joe does it you I would be interested to clip him out I was like I fought a bear one time and he's like what uh what what region was the bear from and you're like I thought I don't know what region it was from and he was like well wait why would you and it was from. And he was like, well, wait, why would you? And it was like a very thoughtful conversation. And then I realized within 20 minutes, this is not radio. Yeah. And so, and I realized that the best thing you could do
Starting point is 01:55:56 was listen to Joe sometimes. Yeah. To try to respond to him. Yeah. It's why today I don't feel like I'm that great when I do Rogan because it's a lot of it, I feel like I'm just catching up with a friend. And I don't know if it's entertaining as a podcast.
Starting point is 01:56:09 I feel like you're just hanging out with your buddy. Well, maybe that's the camaraderie people want. Maybe they're alone. Maybe. They're working from home. They haven't seen anybody that day. It's what I used to love about it. I used to love it.
Starting point is 01:56:19 So I get offered to do Rogan. I remember saying to Ari, because I didn't trust celebrities. I'd gotten in a fight with a, I'd gotten in beef with a comic and I just didn't trust him. I said to Ari in Redman, I said, so, like, what's Joe's thing? Is he gay? And they're like, I was like, I thought he was gay. Because I was like, why would he want me to come to his house? And like, what's his deal?
Starting point is 01:56:42 I'm like, no, he's just a great guy. I go, no, no, no, no, no, no. They all got something. What is it? And then they're like, no, he's just a great guy. I go, no, no, no, no, no, no. They all got something. What is it? And then they're like, no, he's just a good guy. He thinks you're funny. Like do his podcast. So I go, yeah.
Starting point is 01:56:55 I thought everyone was gay. I thought Elliot Gould was gay. Anyone, Will Smith, I thought Will Smith was gay. I thought anyone that wanted to be friends with me, I just figured they were gay and they wanted to fuck me. And so I literally was like, went to his house. The most likable guy on the planet. You can't fathom that somebody's like,
Starting point is 01:57:16 I'd like to just be around you and tell stories. They just want dick. Yeah. But I was a fan of Joe's. I was a legit fan of Joe's. And so I go out to his house. I do the worst thing you could ever do when you meet Joe. But I was a fan of Joe's. I was like a legit fan of Joe's. And so I go out to his house. I do the worst thing you could ever do when you meet Joe. Now I know this.
Starting point is 01:57:29 I go, hey man, huge fan. I want to meet your dogs. I want to see your deprivation tank. I want to get high. I want to play pool. And then we can do the podcast. And Joe is like, uh, okay. So he takes me out and introduces his dogs. We get high. We play pool. Shows me his
Starting point is 01:57:45 deprivation tank, meet his wife, meet his kids, do a podcast. And, and I'm, I'm trying to do bits and it's not working. And then I'm like, okay. And then I just go into like, just going, if you ask me a question, I'll respond to the question, which is like what we do now, but it just was not what happened in media. And so, uh, I wish people knew what early radio days for comics were. Oh. Because what you're explaining makes so much sense, but I don't know if they know. If you've ever watched Comics Unleashed, where the comics just go around and do their bits in a circle, that was radio. They tee you up with the premise of your joke.
Starting point is 01:58:17 I did Bob and Tom back in the day, and you had to write out your bits. You had to write them out. Yeah, yeah. And so I wrote out all my bits, and then you gave them to them. And they're like, so. You ever go to write them out. Yeah, yeah. And so I wrote out all my bits, and then you gave them to him. And he's like, so. You ever go to Russia? Yeah. I hear you.
Starting point is 01:58:31 I'm married. Are you married, Bert? And you'd be like, ugh, here we go. But it was Bob, Bob, and Tom was fun back then. That was all you knew. Yeah. And this is rogue, and you do it in an office. I think he had a cat that would take shits in the bathroom in the middle. It was
Starting point is 01:58:45 in his office. And Joe was rich, but he wasn't Joe rich today. Like Joe was like, and then, and he would have you do this vlog after the podcast, which is so awkward. Like Brian will pull out his, his laptop and go, all right. And Joe's like, what's up? I just did a great podcast with Bert. So Bert, what's going on? And you'd be like, not much, Joe. It was so fucking bad. You can find those clips, I'm sure. And Joe had black facial hair, and he still had hair. He still had hair. But he wore his hat backwards because he's whatever.
Starting point is 01:59:15 And so you get done the podcast, and then he'd be like, you want to go get something to eat? And so it was crazy. He was also banned at the store at the time. Yeah, that's right. So he would do shows at the Ice House. So then, so the first time I do it, I think in my head, this is not what I thought it was going to be.
Starting point is 01:59:34 I can't do bits here, but I do have this Russian mafia story that I bet would be good on this show. And so I go, hey man, next time I'm here, remind me to tell you the Russian mafia story. Like a week fucking later, he's like, hey, come tell the Russian mafia story. He's like, I'm sure I'm off on timelines. But I come back, I think a week later. And he's like, everyone's wondering about this Russian mafia story.
Starting point is 01:59:55 And I tell it, and I got to be honest with you, it bombed. Sometimes, I hope I'm not pulling the veil back too back. Sometimes Joe and Red Band would be fighting. And so you'd go in to do the podcast. There'd be some tension. And the whole thing would be them just, Joe being angry at Red Band because Red Band is saying buttholes and Olive Garden the whole time. And Joe's like, Brian, you've got to realize people are fucking listening to this.
Starting point is 02:00:22 And then you'd just be sitting off to the side, like, watching them go back and forth. And then be like, you guys want to try some Alpha Brain? And by the way, this is when Joe's launching Alpha Brain. This is when they're launching on it, right? So he'd give you his vitamins. He'd load you up with his vitamins, give you a fleshlight, and then be like, take those Alpha Brains. Tell me what you think about them. And then be like, take those alpha brains.
Starting point is 02:00:42 Tell me what you think about them. And then you'd take them. And in a real scientific way, because they promoted, what's the lucid dreaming? And so, and I'm an active lucid dreamer to begin with. And so you'd come back and he'd be like, you took alpha brain? And this would be on the podcast. And he'd be like, yeah. And he'd go, so wait, what did you feel?
Starting point is 02:01:08 Like, you know, the Joe analysis part of his brain. And he'd do that on the podcast about his own pills because he was trying to figure out if he liked them. And he's like, I love the alpha brain. I'm taking like nine a day. I took one, Joe, I couldn't sleep. And he was like, no, what did you take? The cortisone mushrooms, the roll on, roll off, whatever the fuck.
Starting point is 02:01:23 It was like, it was really, it was really interesting. And then the first time I did Rogan, I remember getting in the car and I had 3,000 Twitter followers extra. And I was like, I was like, wow. Second time I did Rogan, I told the machine story and I went to the club and it was sold out, comped, but sold out. And then, and then I watched it and I, and then the third time I did Rogan, I made a machine shirt, the machine shirt that I used to sell shows. I got home to my house and
Starting point is 02:01:52 Leanne goes, the fuck? We just sold $25,000 worth of t-shirts. She goes, I don't have those made. Woke up the next morning. She goes, we sold $90,000 worth of t-shirts in like two days. We had made six figures in those t-shirts by the end of the year, by like in three months. We did that, must have been in November. By the end of the year, we made six figures in those machine shirts. Joe wore it at a weigh-in. You'd see huge fucking spikes, huge fucking spikes.
Starting point is 02:02:21 I'd go to different countries. I remember it was in Amsterdam, and they were yelling the machine in Amsterdam. And they were yelling, the machine in Amsterdam. And I was like, what the fuck? And then, I mean, so it's funny. You just get high and talk for three hours and not remember any of it at all. And it's crazy to see where he is today. Like, I just did it the other day.
Starting point is 02:02:42 And I'm like, it doesn't make sense to me. I remember I did it one time, and I got really fucked up, and I might have said that America created COVID or something. I don't know what I said. Who fucking knows what I said. They took the episode down and put it up in two parts. And then they clipped out the thing I said. I don't know.
Starting point is 02:03:01 I'm terrified. That's Joe. Because I know that there's some parts missing. And I was like, hey hey man, did I say some regrettable stuff on your podcast? She was like, fuck it, fuck it. It was great, man. It's great. I'm bummed that you guys didn't get
Starting point is 02:03:15 to experience that side of the show because it was the fun when like Joey Diaz, like we just, one of the hardest I ever laughed was Joey Diaz just rolled, I never met him. This is the opening words of meeting Joey Diaz like we just one of the hardest I ever laughed was Joey Diaz just rolled I never met him this is the opening words of meeting Joey Diaz
Starting point is 02:03:29 we're doing we used to do death squad nights at the Ice House we're like it was like five comics on the podcast
Starting point is 02:03:36 with Joe and we'd just do and we'd do a show and so we'd hop on and off so we'd go in and do a set and then come back to the podcast
Starting point is 02:03:42 and everyone would be fucked up and Joey Diaz comes in. I never met him. And he's like, he's like, dog, you ever eat a woman's pussy on a quaalude? And I was like, no. And he goes, Lucy Snorbusch. And we, oh, you ever break into someone's house and eat the pussy on a quaalude?
Starting point is 02:04:01 Lucy Snorbusch. And we cried fucking laughing. And then I found out it's the hardest I've ever fucking laughed. One of the top five hardest I've ever laughed. And Joe goes, you've never met Joey before? And I go, no. And he goes, well, you're about to be your best friend. And Joey Diaz and I, from that day on,
Starting point is 02:04:18 Joey lived right around the corner from me. If we ever did that show, we'd drive out together. Those were the days, man. I miss those days so much. Because it was so, it was like, you guys don't understand when comics hated each other. They used to hate each other. Comics hated each other. No one wanted anyone to succeed.
Starting point is 02:04:32 We started in that. Yeah. And I think this still exists. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You did. Yeah, you did. Yeah, I think this still exists. But I think that you guys did something that really transformed the way that we behave with one another.
Starting point is 02:04:44 And it's pretty awesome. That's Joe. Well, it trickles down, man. I always say that. What Joe does for you guys, for me, it's like what we do maybe for other people. I remember before I met you, you tweeted about Bring Back Apu and I just thought that was so fucking cool that the machine is tweeting
Starting point is 02:04:59 yo, this is a great special. Everybody go watch it. It's the same thing that makes me say I'm lucky instead of talented is I have I love being a fan of shit I've said this ad nauseum yeah but I like liking stuff
Starting point is 02:05:11 yeah I don't understand the energy of disliking stuff I don't understand that energy at all of like hating things yeah I love liking stuff
Starting point is 02:05:20 and it makes comedy this business so much more fun to be a fan of your friends yeah and to love when like you got abundance when you it was so much fun when you did uh when you put out infamous it was so much fun to celebrate your success it was so much fun i don't know if you're a fan of it yeah yeah and and as opposed And as opposed to, and I'm sure those comics are out there. I do not hang out with them.
Starting point is 02:05:47 The guys that are like, fuck Schultz. Fuck Schultz. You know, that's bullshit. Or, you know, whatever. All that stuff, it's so much fun to go look at this. It's changing the game. Oh, fuck yeah. Oh, it's on YouTube.
Starting point is 02:06:00 What is it, a fucking 13 million? 15? 15 million? Yeah. Imagine if you get to pick a team i want to be the guy that has fun or the guy that goes to bed angry every night yeah i'm never gonna pick the angry guy i don't want to be that guy there's guys that make a living doing that there are guys online that make a living doing that yeah i want to be the guy that goes fuck yeah by the way i can
Starting point is 02:06:20 celebrate the guys that hate me also because i go that's that's got to be cool to hate me. I get it. I get it. Trust me. What a fucking weird episode. I've never done a podcast like this in my fucking life. Good. That's what we want to create every time we have somebody on. A different experience. What a weird.
Starting point is 02:06:41 Okay, before you leave, I want to ask you, as you reflect on your life do you think that you've lived a fulfilled existence yep
Starting point is 02:06:53 I've lived the best life anyone's ever lived that anyone could ever live no one I mean I can't imagine anyone will cry found the love of your life
Starting point is 02:07:01 built a family yeah I can't imagine that anyone's gonna cry at my funeral. Ooh. I mean, we cry selfishly a lot of times. Yep. People should.
Starting point is 02:07:14 I'm going to get emotional saying this. You guys fucked me up today. I've been the luckiest fucking guy in the world. When I die, everyone should just go like, I don't deserve any of the stuff I've gotten. I don't deserve anything. And it's been like, and I've done everything in the world. I've traveled the world four times.
Starting point is 02:07:40 I have two beautiful daughters. I'm in love with my wife. And I have the greatest career that I feel so lucky to have, and I have awesome fucking friends. When I die, I shouldn't have had any of it. There's people that don't have any of this shit. Can I interrupt you for a second? Yeah.
Starting point is 02:07:57 This right here is why you deserve it. Yeah. Oh, man. I believe that. I can't. I mean, yeah. I hope my funeral's fun. Hey, I'll drink at your funeral, buddy. There you go.
Starting point is 02:08:12 Not a, you know, not real beer. What a beautiful way to look at life, man. Just no balloons. Oh, there's going to be balloons. We're all dressed in those clowns. We're going to lift you right out of that fucking casket. You want me to go to heaven're all dressing up as clowns. We're going to lift you right out of that fucking casket. 100%. You want me to go to heaven happy?
Starting point is 02:08:27 Everyone dress as clowns. I'll close the casket for you. I'll fucking start digging holes, motherfuckers. Fuck me. Guys, this has been Bert Kreischer. Give it up one more time for an absolute legend. Make sure you check out the Rose of Bert Kreischer. It's OnlyFans Rose of Bert Kreischer, give it up one more time for an absolute legend. Make sure you check out the Rose of Berth Kreischer. Make sure you, it's OnlyFans Rose of Berth Kreischer.
Starting point is 02:08:48 Make sure you check out the movie, The Machine. We're all going out to support that. Memorial Day weekend. Make sure you check out the tour. He's coming to Forest Hills, New York. Where else are you going to? This is this crazy. Gorge, fully loaded.
Starting point is 02:08:59 It's a sick lineup. It's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. Norman, Dick Shane, fucking everybody. Lewis Black, Dave Attell. God. Tiffany Haddish, it's crazy Norman Shane fucking everybody David Tell God Tiffany Haddish it's crazy
Starting point is 02:09:07 and then Razzle Downs is my special streaming right now and the special on Netflix right now so make sure you check out
Starting point is 02:09:12 everything we love you man gentlemen what a fucking bizarre afternoon this is this makes me so happy that was a meal
Starting point is 02:09:18 yeah that was a meal that was a that's a young phrase I can use alright guys peace

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