THE ED MYLETT SHOW - LIFE, DEATH & COMEDY: BERT KREISCHER TELLS ALL

Episode Date: January 9, 2024

💥Get Ready for BOLD, RAW, AND UNFILTERED TEARS & LAUGHTER! This week’s guest will knock your socks off… or maybe your shirt! We're stepping into the unedited, unapologetically real world of sensational comedian, BERT KREISCHER. 🚨HEADS UP: Normally, I mute language that may be considered offensive to some. But this week, Bert’s use of these types of words is so ingrained and organic to who he is that I made the choice to post the unedited version to maintain the flow of our conversation. ADMIT IT…when you found out that BERT KREISCHER was my guest, many of you wondered if we were going to talk without his shirt on. But let me tell you, there's so much more to Bert than his wild on-stage persona. Whether he’s fully dressed or topless, “THE MACHINE” is one of the hardest-working guys in the entertainment industry. He’s a podcaster, reality television host, and author who runs his own production company, continues to do stand-up to filled arenas, and has a must-watch movie out on Netflix based loosely on his life. This interview peels back the layers of one of today's most dynamic comedians, revealing insights and life lessons that are as profound as they are unexpected. But beyond his public image lies a man of DISCIPLINE, HUMILITY, AND DEPTH. In this episode, you'll get an inside look at Bert's journey with sobriety and his commitment to self-care, which recently led him to an impressive 40-pound weight loss. It's about finding and embracing those moments of joy that truly enrich life. Dive in as Bert opens up about: His unique relationships with fellow comedians Joe Rogan and Tom Segura. The psychological impact of his intense touring schedule. Confronting his mortality amid his struggles with substance use. The challenges and pressures of being a present, effective parent. Battling Imposter Syndrome despite his immense success. Understanding the root of his success and what drives him. The importance of fearlessness in both life and comedy. A candid discussion on death and the legacy we leave behind. Bert Kreischer has made us laugh countless times, but in this episode, BERT will also make you THINK, which is the mark of what makes a comedian and an observer of the human condition TRULY GREAT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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for free. I can't get over it. GrowthDay.com forward slash Ed. This is the Edmonton Show. Hey everybody, welcome back to the show. I'm so excited to share this very profound and deep conversation with Bert Christchurch. You're going to hear Bert in ways that you have never heard from him before. We go very, very deep here. It gets very, very emotional, and I know you're going to love it. But what you are going to get from Bert that you are used to getting is a lot of adult language.

And so I wanted to give you warning in advance because you normally listen to my show, easily bleep out the couple of profane words, but there's a lot of them in this episode because that's the way that Bert speaks. And we just decided there's too many of them to try to beep, all you be hearing is beeping. So I want you to know today's episode

has strong language, the F word is used a lot in this episode. And so just wanted to make sure you knew that up front. If you've got young ears or ears, you don't want to hear that language writing with you in the car or anywhere in the room with you. Today you're going to hear strong language on the show. God bless you, enjoy. All right, welcome back to the show.

But I wish we were recording what we've been doing here in the last 50 minutes. I'll say it again, Tom Sager is tedious. Tom Sager is tedious. We're talking a bunch of crap or he is about Tom segur. If it wasn't for his wife, no one would like him. I'm being dead serious.

You have your spent time with them? I haven't spent time with her. She is so enjoyable. You think Tom looks at you with sparkle in his eyes and goes, should we open a bottle of white wine? Never, never. Tom's on his phone, fucking on the couch. Should we get ribs? Should we get ribs?

She's the joy in that fucking relationship much like I am with Leanne Leanne's dead inside too You've been It's a great way to start You Bring me a lot of joy. I was telling you this off camera. So let's just start you already know this voice By the way, he's like everywhere right now. I mean, literally, right now he's got, he's got the bird cast, he's got two bears. He's got the machine streaming on Netflix,

which literally, I texted him and told him, bro, they're your incredible in this movie. I appreciate it, thank you very much. It's not only a great movie, you are incredible in the movie, even though you're playing yourself, that is not an easy thing to do. You're acting's outstanding.

It's easier than you think. Well, you may have looked that way. Actually, I'm doing it right now. I'm playing a life coach in a movie. I don't think it's that easy. Razzle Dazzle streaming on Netflix right now. So, man, it's just blowing up all over the place. And he just makes me laugh and makes me think. And I watch him. There's something about him that he just like jumps off the screen, which we already did. Best intro we've ever had. So, Bert, Christ, you're welcome to show. Thank you for having me. I'm a fan. I've been listening to you for a while. I have to, you have people on your show

that I have to rewind 15 seconds and hear what they said again. Yeah, and I will say, the one you did with the dude, I don't know the dude, the white guy, kind of like, a few of those. Nurtie looking, it's like most down, like, five million downloads on it. Okay, and then. Oh, YouTube, yeah, we don't do that great on YouTube,

we do better on audio. I think it's probably hardy, the 10x guy. Okay. Oh, YouTube. Yeah, we don't do that great on YouTube. We do better on audio. I think it's probably hardy, the 10x guy. I don't know, so guys, we're talking about intent and your thoughts and change my fucking relationship this morning. Really? Yeah, because I got into a fight with my wife because my daughter had a, had a migraine.

Okay. And I got in a fight with my wife about it, seven in the morning, I go to get coffee and I thought, my thoughts are my reality. Now, if I'm gonna be mad at this woman, which is silly, why would it be mad at her? She brings me so much joy in my life, then that's my reality,

but I can change my thoughts and have that be my reality. So I sat in gratitude, driving to go get coffee about how great this woman was, and I came home and I made a sincere apology and said, I'm gonna try to empathize it with all the thing. I wanna hear your voice in this conversation. So yeah, I mean, here's the deal. There's so much information out there

that sometimes it's easy to poke holes in it. It's easy to mock morning suns. We were just talking this polar punch sauna. It's easy to mock all that shit. It's easy to pick apart David Goggins. You can, you can, or you can opt in drink the coolade, which I love, which you like a lot of coolade. And look for the things that help you in life.

That's all they're doing. That's all these people are doing. And my favorite one these days is blue collar life coaches. There's a guy that thrashers his last name. I forget his first name. He just is real simple. This is my morning routine, frozen ground beef on here. I cooked my rice early, fold yours into the coffee. I like to set my coffee

I wanted to drip early in them and I go that's my friends. That's all the dudes I work with do a manual labor Yeah, they're not gonna do the fucking pull-up on just twelve thousand dollars. I agree with you Not everyone can get a fucking pull-up on it's right. Yeah, well when I sort of teach them like just turn the water on cold In the shower for two minutes, dude There are easy ways to do this. Pools in my pool in LA is 58 degrees. It's cold enough Okay, real real secret here because I've been sent one of these and I do use my cold plunge But the truth is I use my pool most of the time. It's cold enough. I'm in there and the whole point of it for me I know it changes your neurochemistry

The point of it is to me is what you said to me off camera makes me do something I don't want to do early in the day I'm doing something difficult love doing stuff. I don't want to do early in the day. I'm doing something difficult. I love doing stuff I don't like to do. I think I would surprise people about you because you are like a disciplined guy. You do have these routines that you do. You are kind of into personal development itself. Yet there's the machine side of you. Everybody sees like this dude's out of control.

There's dudes a big drinker, a big party, a lot of weed, doubles in everything. And so this is why you're so fascinating to me because you're this multi-dimensional human. And when people watch you, no, I'm being serious. I think when people watch you, it can seem on the surface. The shirt's off, hilarious as hell, filling up arenas all over the place now.

There's a one-dimensional dude, I got it, there's a stick there. Then you listen to your comedy. It's not stick. You listen to your routine and your life and how you actually got here. And there's a depth and dimension to you that I think would surprise most people, including the fact that you're really a routine dude. You swim almost every single morning, right? Yeah. I work out every morning. I have a trainer come to my house. I watch what I eat. I'm pretty strict on my diet. You look great by the way. Oh, thank you very much I am down 40 pounds

and yeah, like even with alcohol and with drugs I tried to I tried to There's a speech I gave one time of bar stool that I did not mean to give if I meant to give it I would have put more thought into it about how I'll never quit drinking. Yeah, I just was on a bender We were in Florida. I fucking love Florida and they're like are you an alcoholic will you ever quit drinking or whatever the question was and I went on a bender, we were in Florida, I fucking love Florida, and they're like, are you an alcoholic? Will you ever quit drinking or whatever the question was? And I went on a rant, like, I'll never quit drinking. I love, I love, I'll get you a kiss, I'm talking about it. I love, I love the impulse. I love to watch other people break.

I love other people going, all right, I'll have one. I, we did it the other day, thanks gonna be morning. I had a bottle of, of, of, papi. And I said, who wants to just, little sampler in the morning? I love when you get there in turbo to go, fuck off one. I love that energy. It's like a first kiss and you don't get first kisses when you're married, but you get

these moments in life. And when my wife says to me, let's make a specialty cocktail and get in the hot tub. Even if I'm not drinking, I go fucking, I'm in. I'm in, I love it. But I also love not drinking. I love I Love sobriety. I genuinely enjoy and I say or so say or sobriety because That feeling is just as fun to joy. It's when you don't even realize I Tell you what yes, I say yes because I've been dabbling in sobriety since 2017.

Let me just understand it. By the way, I heard that bit. There's like this romantic relationship where you go on and on about alcohol. I could write a poetry about alcohol. I'm gonna tell you, I thought about you because by the way, everyone's always trying to fix you which I think is really weird for such a high.

No, you're such a high performing dude, right? There's nothing wrong with you. There's things you probably want to improve. That's one of the problems with self-help. I'm broken, fix me. How about you're actually pretty damn good. Maybe you want to make some improvements. But anyway, I listened to this thing.

My dad got sober. One of the parts of my story is my dad was not like you. My dad was a dysfunctional alcoholic. And when he got sober, I know I'm tied into the sobriety world pretty deep because of that. And I heard that bit and I've heard you do it on Rogan show before too. And I'm like, this dude, for him to get sober is going to, he doesn't like it. He loves it.

There's a romantic relationship to it with him that was pretty deep, right? So I remember hearing that thinking, man, this will be a difficult thing for him. But since 17, is that when you guys started having the bets with Rogan and those guys about, hey, we'll sober November or whatever it is. So brocteau. So brocteau. It was the first time I did it than sober in November. That makes sense. And it's interesting because at that moment, I think I was very tied to getting fans and kind of polarizing my group, getting my group to finding fans is really tough. It really is. It's the hardest struggle you'll have in comedy or in any fanny. Really. Yep. And I remember going to bed that night, laying in bed and going, I fucked up my career.

I was honest with, I'm always honest, which is a fault of mine. But I said, I'm going to tell exactly how much I drank and I did. And I was afraid people would see it as sad. And or I'd lose people by going sober for a month. Yeah. And I did it. I had a fucking blast. I really had a blast. And on that last night we were in New Orleans. And I didn't, I didn't want to start drinking again. And then I did and I loved it.

Turned it on way too hard on the impractical joker's cruise. And but I found that these chunks of sobriety gave me clarity, gave me grounding. They get my heart resting, heart rate back into the 50s. Like, just health. Yeah, I wish mine were the 50s. Oh, I'm, I track my resting heart rate. I know you did. Religiously.

I'm a big fan of whoop. But it wasn't until I did this last sober run. It's like 83 days. And I gotta be honest with you. I really think the challenge if you're a big drinker give yourself a large chunk of time to sit with yourself. Sit with yourself and I found one day I was in my backyard and I was smiling. I was just smiling and I went whoa like you called me off guard and I thought where like where is this coming from?

And I found real joy, real joy and sobriety, real joy in my dogs. I was taking time with my dogs and like really playing with them. And my wife and I were going through a thing with like we're really good right now, really good. Like don't deserve to be that good. And I found this really joy of spwriting. I didn't want to let go of it. And when we went on my cruise, I knew I was gonna good. And I found this really joy of spying and I didn't want to let go of it.

And when we went on my cruise, I knew I was gonna drink and I was terrified. I was like, I was white, knuckle, and drinking again because I was like, really? Well yeah, because I was like, I don't want to get rid of this. Like, it feels so fucking good. And I drank on the cruise,

had, I mean, one of the most spectacular times of my life on that cruise. Really honestly, I was still tethered to that joy and being able to appreciate the joy in other people and having fun and connecting. I was grounded for real. Drank in the Cayman Islands with my wife for a week. I mean, really partied.

And then I came home, terrified that I'd lost it. I fucked it up. Now, I remember I drank in Miami at the airport. I had stopped drinking on flights by a drink in Miami at the airport and drank on the plane. I hadn't drank on planes in a while. That was like it's fucking gone. And then, uh, didn't drink when I got home, thinking, let's see if we find it.

And two days later, or two days later, it showed up. And I mean, it showed up. So, like, uh, joy. Okay. I walked out of our podcast studio I was barefoot I was in jeans and I never showed on and I just was like hey I'm gonna go pick up a ila from the bus and I was there and I went oh shit it's back I got so excited about having that joy that I went it's two days away so like all you say is I got one rough day one rough day of like

hey I don't know fuck I wish I could let's open a bottle. So like all you say is, I gotta have one rough day. One rough day of like, hey, I don't know, fuck, I wish I could have. Let's open a bottle of wine, that's shit. Just say no to it. And then all of a sudden, the next morning and that night might be a little rough, especially if you tie one off for a week. But then it's back and I have been playing with this. I've been, is this what you meant when we're off camera?

You said I cracked the code on drinking. I cracked the fucking code. I really did. What does that mean? It said I cracked the code on drinking. I cracked the fucking code. I really did. What does that mean? It's still a thought going on. So I apologize. And if you're listening and you're a big drink and you're thinking, I have any answers for you,

just pump the brakes a bit. I will second that. The, there's a thing that happens with every addiction where you have an impulse. And I was forced to do this when I quit drinking There's a thing that happens with every addiction where you have an impulse. And I was forced to do this when I quit drinking and I started eating right. My impulse, I was totally carnivore. My impulse was to have a snack,

to have mashed potatoes or mac and cheese. And I just said no. It's amazing when you quit eating, when you quit eating like shit, that first day you'll go to that fridge eight times, eight times and open it and go, I can't have anything in here. That's the impulse part.

The impulse is real, it's going to show up, you've got to let it show up, that's the natural progression, but then a certain point you start remembering, oh, I just don't go to the fridge and then you stop going to the fridge. Once I started sitting with that moment, I journal about it, arrive at a app, then call a happiness journal, or I quantify the things that make me happy. I started going, that's just impulse. It's not real, it's just impulse. Impulse is always gonna be with me.

The questions are, when do I give into the impulse, when do I allow it and when do I not allow it? And I start to find joy in not allowing it. And realizing it's a fleeting thought, it's gonna show up, let it show up, sit with it. Really sit with it and go, where is this? And then journal about it. Think, why am I thinking this?

Let that journaling period, and then halfway into sit with it and go, where is this? And then journal about it. Think, why am I thinking this? Let that journaling period, and then halfway into journaling you'll go, hey, the impulse is gone. That's so fucking crazy. I wonder how long I can go again without that impulse and then quantify it, wait till the impulse shows up again, and then literally one day you'll go, how's three hours between impulses?

I can do three hours. If I just sit with this, it'll be gone for three hours. And then one day it turns into nine hours. And then one day you don't even think about it. And you're like, fuck. And then one day it's Thanksgiving morning and you're thinking, let's open a bottle of papi. That's not impulse.

That's living your life right. And then you just go, hey, let's do it. And then your dad has one. And you have a moment. Maybe you go out, you have a cigar. Maybe you get, maybe I brought a sneaky beer into the sauna with me. I hadn't done that forever.

Put it in the cold water. I get the water out of the polar punch, put the sneaky beer as an IPA, put it in the polar punch water, sit in the sauna, and slow roll it, and really enjoy it. Really enjoy the grapefruit flavors. Mmm. God, those things are beautiful. And to favor, like the next time, if you go off the rails, I'll tell you what it's gonna happen.

But what if you do, do me a favor, and then you tell me what's gonna happen? Because that's one of the best clips it's ever been on the show, right there. The last four to five minutes, and there's been some amazing moment, I get emotional. It's been some, I've been blessed to sit in front of some amazing moments,

the last seven or eight years. That was one of them right there. And so if you get off the rails, I'm dead serious brother, I want you to go back and listen to what you just said the last four or five minutes because That was profoundly true one if you can find some joy and not drinking most alcoholics can't find joy in sobriety I just read Matthew Perry's book during that. I got you know the phone listens to you and a lot of stuff comes up when you're not drinking

You're telling people you're not drinking and Matthew Perry's book. He said His first few times through rehab, I think maybe all those times, I don't want paraphrase him, but he couldn't find the joy that people were finding. He didn't know if he had fucked it up through opioids or whatnot. He had fried his circuits. Yeah. And I said, thank God I'm not there. And luckily, I've journaled about it so much and had so many conversations about it that I will listen to that. I will listen to it because that joy is there for everyone. You just gotta let it happen.

You can't force it. I have a buddy that went through rehab recently. He hasn't found it yet and it bums me out that he hasn't found it because it's all around him. I'm seeing it. I was at his house last two nights ago. And it's just there. It's flooded.

Sometimes you get so caught up in that impulse is just so many. It's in your ear going like, dude are we drinking? Are we drinking? They're open and wine. What the fuck man, no one offered you a glass? Well, that's what they call the obsession, right?

So what you're saying here, most alcoholics, especially people in A will talk about the obsession. By the way, forget alcohol, everybody listen to this. You're like, I'm not an alcoholic. Your obsession could be worry, anxiety, fear, anxiety, which is a huge for me to anxiety was with me last night. Anxiety was with me last night. I stopped breathing. I was breathing, but I was having a hard time breathing. Whether it was allergies or we made a stew, whatever it was, I was in, we were watching a documentary called Barried on Netflix, and I was noticing

I was having a hard time breathing, and I go, and I said to myself, this isn't real, you're still here, you're still here, let's take a minute and think about how much time we have in between these thoughts. And I said, I'm not breathing, I'm having a hard time breathing. And then I dropped the remote into the recliner and I broke it and my wife and I had to pull it out. And I got done getting the remote out.

I said, I'm not breathing. And I went, oh, wait, I wonder how long that's been between those, that moment I didn't think about it once. What, this is my fucking brain. This is my brain. I love my brain. It gives me all these great thoughts. I got to allow it to do this in order to get those great thoughts

Because I was terrified when I got to bed I would I would be Have anxiety about breathing and then I got that I listen to what you Podcasts and it went away was a and and what you're learning to do but a little bit And by the way, I this is so good. I had no idea we're gonna go there and like here we are already going I When you can learn to be the observer of your thoughts, what you said earlier, so I'm gonna sit with this for a minute,

but also get outside your thoughts and like observe you thinking, then they don't control you. And you don't have to believe everything you think, by the way. But the observer of a thought and becoming self-aware like that, doesn't mean you've fixed everything.

And I'm not saying that we're not gonna see birth on social media six weeks from now going, hey man, I'm on another. Or tomorrow night. Or tomorrow night. However, what you're starting to build those like this like toolkit of functionality that can pull you out of spirals when you have them.

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Go to growthday.com, forward slash ed and check it out. Here's you and I have in common, this super accurate. I'm kind of obsessed with death, right? And I know you are too. Like, I, you said you used to fear it more than you do, but like I, I am obsessed with it. When I say obsessed is like, I think about it a lot, but it actually gives me a lot of peace.

So I was with my dad when he took his last breath. There's literally right there with my dad. And it like dawned on me when he did it. And after he passed away, my mom and my, we had to wait for the hers to come, was like an hour and a half. My mom and dad don't, my sister and my mom, my sisters, they don't wanna be in the room with them.

So I'm in there with my dad alone, just me and my dad. Right? And like, I'm sorry, I just can only imagine me going, hey, you faking it? Well, I literally, with it sound, I'm gonna be real with you, like me going hey you faking it. Well, I literally would it sound I'm gonna be with you like your their body twitches and stuff I'm like a couple times like he's back right and even when he was passing Like their heart rate will go to nothing and it's gone and you're like they think he's gone and then it comes back

So there there is a little element of that it's a really deep thing and it's like I know that now Yeah, you should know that event everybody should know that in advance a really deep thing. And it's like, God, I know that now. Yeah, you should know that event. Everybody should know that in advance. Anyway, at some point that stopped. And we were there and it dawned on me like, you know, you start running memories of your dad

of your life, right? Like this is the most important man in my life of my entire life is my dad. You're the most important in Georgia and Iless, right? Like there's no other man that'll ever be that important. Their husband will be, but there's something with the dad. And so I'm just thinking of memories of my dad and you know different things and then you as you look around the room like pictures of our family There's some of my dads at wards are there And it's just don'd on me like it's some point I realized actually my dad's not here

Like his body's there, but my dad's gone whatever you want to call it in my case It's a soul. I know we're being serious here. Yeah, I'm being serious spirit their life force whatever in my belief in my faith. It's a soul. He's gone So I'm like it's just Don Don me man like my dad is in his body and then What could my what who was my dad my dad's not his body? So he's this energy this life force And he when my dad died in the room he was in, was his body, he wasn't that. Was all of his awards, he wasn't any of his accumulations. We were in his actual house. He didn't get to take his house with him. His car was in the driveway. He didn't get to take his car with him. When my dad died, he had worries and fears and anxieties and problems. He didn't take those with him. So you can't take any of that crap with you. Like physically, my dad was gone.

So he's not his house, he's not his cars, he's not his awards, he's not his worries, he's not his fears. He's not any of those things. What did he leave? What did he leave? My dad left two things. My dad left us. He left us, he left his family.

He left the lessons we learned, the memories we had, all that other stuff. And then he left all family. He left the lessons we learned, the memories we had, all that other stuff. And then he left all the other people that he helped, my dad helped like several thousand people go get sober and blah, blah, blah. In your case, just remember this, like you can't take all this shit with you anyway. But you get to leave all the people you made laugh.

All the lives you change. And I'm being very serious with you. Millions and millions of people you brought joy to. Maybe it's just for a freaking hour of their life. They're like, man, that night with Bert, I saw, I was there that night at Red Rocks. Right, that one night with you, they remember that the rest of their life.

You get to leave that here. You get to leave Ila. You get to leave George. You get to leave Leigh-Anne. Like, those are the things that matter. And the reason that that's so powerful for me is, when I walk out, there's 30,000 people, I'm not on the anxiety that I normally have.

Yeah. Because I'm going to be gone anyway. I don't get to take, but I get to take away all the difference I make for those human beings when I speak. So I really value you, bro. Like I really value, but I don't know if that helps you or not, but like for me, it's like some of this stuff we get caught up in all the time. Like it's, you can't take any of this stuff with you.

No. Does that make sense? I'm just watching your face. Yeah. Yeah. No. I'm, I'm, it, it, it, it leaves an impact because you think, you think of all the, all the things you've put out. Like I think it jimmy Buffett. Mm-hmm. And I still get his joy. Yes. He left it. And I love Jimmy Buffett or Jerry Garcia. Mm-hmm. I still get their joy, like I still get to listen to Althea. Do you wanna blessing it is that you have what you have? I kind of do, that sounds really crazy, but I kind of, I have in the moment on stage thought, this is really cool.

You get to take people out of their memory, out of their thoughts for a second, and you get them to be present and laugh. And I've said this before, if I can leave anything, my legacy, I would love for it. I'll get emotional. I get emotional, think about this. Maybe just a couple times if people, what I'm gone.

People just go like, and it'd be so much cooler if Burb was here. Like, we'd have so much fun. Wouldn't it be great if Burb was here and he just walked in with a bottle of champagne and a crazy story or, like, I just, like, I mean, I don't need to cure anything, but like, just for people to go like, I mean, I wish he was here.

That was, that was so fun. Like, just, and I don't need it to be the world, just like, like a solid hundred people to just be like, man, can you imagine if part was here? Like that, that energy, I think it's what, that energy is what defines me. It's what I've always wanted and searched for as a kid is, is I wanted, I wanted people like, miss me. And like, I noticed that like, at a certain point, like, if I left the room and no one cared

And if I wasn't there no one was like where's Bert? I feel like I'm I feel like I'm just Building to hopefully get it to the place where people go like God man You're like yeah, I wouldn't be cool if Bert was here. I know my daughters will say that but That's it. It just like on a Sunday morning when when someone opens a bottle of champagne and goes like fuck. Bert would have brought a joint. Bro, you have said three or four things that they like in the history of the show or like my favorite things ever said. And the reason there's a bunch of people crying with you, the one they want that to, and some people are sitting there

going, I wonder if anybody would miss me. And you were born to do something great with your life, everybody. It doesn't mean you're going to be in millions of people. But someone ought to miss you. There ought to be a difference you've made. And if right now, if this was the last day of your life, the final chapter, you go, I don't know who would miss me. That's an indicator you need to make some changes. An indicator you need to pursue your dreams.

That was like, bro, like, I had no idea where we were gonna go today and I'm so grateful that we went where we went. So glad that I'm so happy you asked me to do this. Bro, like, honestly, like come back every couple of years and let's just sit down and figure out where you're at. Plus I wanna be, and please take care of yourself. Like, we would miss you.

Like, we don't want you to leave sooner than you need to leave here. If I asked you this question, because I think a lot of people hear feedback as criticism. That's a fucking powerful statement. Yeah. How did you hear it? When you hear that from people, you've got a movie that killed it. This dude fills up anywhere he wants right now and he can do it multiple days. Bert does. You make a ton of money, podcast or crush and, you know, your, your life is really, really good right now. There's probably a party that's like, Hey, if this is, you know, do you know what you're

dealing with here? Like I'm pretty functional. So do you hear feedback, even from dudes who love you as criticism? Because most people, that's how they hear it. Yeah. Yeah. And what stinks is that when I was at my lowest, and my lowest was these past probably seven months,

starting in January, I did a European tour that I did an arena tour in the States, and then I promoted the special. I then went to an Australian tour in arenas, and then I did another arena tour, promoted my movie, I did my fully loaded tour, which was six weeks. I think this year, then did the cruise and build the cruise was right before that. But I was at my lowest and everyone noticed.

And I will say that I got emails from I got texts from everyone. One of them was Tom's agent. I just apologized to him the other night. He texted me, worried about you, whatever, this and that. And I was like, whatever. Ran into him at dinner in New York with Tom and I said to him, hey man, you're not my boy, you're not my wife, go fuck yourself.

If you want to be in my life, sit down and have a drink with me but I don't even hear a word out of your fucking mouth. You don't spend time with me, you don't know what my life's like. I don't want to hear a fucking word. I said that Steve Burn, I said that to Tom, I said that to Joe, I said that to I said that to fucking everybody. Because at the time, what I was like, when someone's concerned about you,

you don't hear it that way. You don't hear, you hear them saying I'm better than you in some way or I got my shit together. You need to get your shit together. I don't know what you hear, but I did not hear it well. And it wasn't until I realized, oh, there just, it was my daughters who said they were worried about me. My daughters when they went on tour thus fully loaded,

we had, it was extremely stressful. I had a stalker trying to kill me. It was like really bad. Yeah, it was really bad. And by the way, all this. Yeah, it was really bad. And by the way, I got all this is just, it's bubbling over. It really is. And my, both my daughters at the end of fully loaded and now granted fully loaded is with the 32 best comics in the world every week. It's a new 10 comics. It's my best friends. The funniest people in the world, and we're

cracking beers at this epiracvist. We're eating mushrooms, we're smoking weed, we're drinking at the show, we got on a tour bus, we party at night, it's fucking fun as fucking shit, I'm 275, but I'm not 300 pounds, so like, and I'm benching 225-10 times, I'm strongest shit, I feel good, I don't feel like shit, I feel like shit, probably, if we're gonna be very honest. My daughter's both said like, like at the gorge, I killed like four beers at the end of the show last show. I killed four beers and one of them was an IPA, and I snapped.

I was like, who the fuck gave me an IPA? Like to kill, it was my daughter at Georgia. Oh my god. She goes, sorry, I don't drink. I don't know what a Bud Light looks like. What's her heart? And then, and, Oh, God. She goes, sorry, I don't drink. I don't know what a blood light looks like. That's so hard. Yeah. And then, and, uh, and we're all sitting

and we got home and Ida said, you're drinking a lot. Mm-hmm. And I was like, really? And my sister's like, you look, like, I want to put a needle in you and just watch you deflate. You look bad. Georgia said, you're red all the time. Like, your face is just red.

Now my face is normally red, because I was out in the sun and Florida as a kid, but and that's when I kind of took, like I assessed where I was, and I was like, I was never meant to be 275. I was never meant, drinking now is to getting me, getting me through the day. And it's, and I say that I wasn't like an early morning,

I need drinks kind of guy, but it was just always there and we'd be like, go to play golf and you'd be like, ah, fuck it. Let's have a, let's just do it. Double Tito's in soda, just to start, and everyone's fun. And when my daughter's my wife said it, I was like, all right, and then I was just like, I'll do a cleanse,

drop 15 pounds, start all over. And then at the end, I went to my cardiologist and I was trained for it. I like didn't drink, took a Xanax going in, get my blood pressure down. My cardiologist is like, yo, what's going on? He's like, you're the fatdest you've ever been. And your blood pressure is 120 over 80.

I don't believe this. And that's when I think I started, I started this journey of like going, if I want to continue my lifestyle, which I do, then I need to be in control of my lifestyle. And I ran into a guy, I was in Austin, and I ran into a guy who was like, you're not as fat as the internet says.

And I was like, huh? He's like, oh, there's a Reddit thread thread about like an over-under on when you die. And by the way, that death thing is very real. It's not going to show up. There's not going to be like huge things that show up before you die. Just one day, you have a heart attack. One day you are pushing it too hard. And give a fear of that.

Not as much not drinking. Okay, not as much not drinking. So the decision for you long term is just going to be this. Can you moderate it and can you regulate it? And that's what you're going to have to decide. Let me ask you this though, because this is, here's the hard part for you. By the way, this is true for anybody with anything they're doing that they think doesn't serve them. You do it cause there's an upside.

You don't do anything cause you don't get something from it, right? Your career is sort of tied. People kind of root to see you do crazy things. Right, like part of it is, I actually think you would be just as successful without it. I don't think you think that, but I think you're that funny. I think you're that talented. But I would argue the same. I think you're that funny. I think you're that talented.

But I would argue the same. I think I'm funnier. I think I'm funnier. I know I'm funnier without alcohol. If I'm on stage, if you've seen me on stage, chances are I'm 100% sober lately. I was during fully loaded. I was pretty wasted on all these shows,

but I, for specials, for when I tour, I'm primarily sober on stage. Break yourself on this. One to 10 as a businessman, a comedian as a star. One to 10. I would say as a businessman, I'm like a solid seven. Okay. As a stand up. I 10.

I 10 as a dad. I think I am a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, 10, 10, as a dad. I think I am a, I'm a slow building six. Okay. I think I, I have built myself to like a really good six. And I say that because I'm also very self-deprecating, so I would never, my wife was, if she was here, she'd say 10. But like I apologize to Georgia two nights ago, she's home from college and I just said, you know, I raised my voice a lot to you when, you know, when you were like 15 to 17, I raised my voice a lot and I said, I'm really sorry about that. I'm really, I really regret that and And I need you to know that I, if I could take anything back, it would be that period during the pandemic

when towards the end and she was growing up. And I, and so I'm getting better. But I'd say solid six. See me, I evaluate all that like business man, I think I've done pretty well on that. I'll let you know, but I ask myself, now that I'm 52 and both minor out of the house,

you got one out of the house and I list still there, right? Yeah. That'd be my answer too. Be like a six. Yeah. Hey, listen, let me tell you something. Yeah. I don't mean to be shitting on any of my friends.

There's a lot of guys that are 55 that have kids that are like two and three. And if you ask them, they're gonna tell you 10. They don't fucking know. They're four. They're four. They're four. They don't fucking see it.

And it's like only at a certain point of hindsight you start realizing, God damn it, I fucked up a lot. I parented the way my dad parented. And I thought I wasn't. And I had to grow and I had to learn that if, if, when they fucked up, I took it to a level 10, then they realized, well, level 10's where it goes every time, my mind is well lie, cheat, if, when they fucked up, I took it to a level 10, then they realized, well, fuck, level 10's where it goes every time, my mind is, well, lie, cheat, and steal,

because I know that that's what it is, and then you gotta be in therapy to go, okay, now I need to reset. Now, that parenting that I was, maybe I was at a four, I just dropped to a two, because I gotta build back up to the four. Yeah, I bet your girls know you love them and believe in them.

Both my daughters are hyper aware, I love them more than anything in the world and I believe in them 100%. I'm telling you something to remember for what it's worth because I bet you're higher than a six. The number one thing that my dad did that was negative with his drinking. I'm going to tell you what it was. It was not that he would misbehaving when we got in restaurants or that he was a jerk or that he, you know, got aggressive. The insidious thing that my dad's drinking did is I worried about him. Uh, well, and that's the thing, bro.

It's like I created internal stress and I created, and he created in me. My dad created in me. This dude who sits here today who has hundreds of millions of dollars, popular show, great friends, blah, blah, blah, and I chronically worry and have anxiety. And the reason I have, I think I have chronic worry and anxiety is I'm familiar with it. And we move towards what we're most familiar with in our life. And when I was a little boy, because I loved my dad, I didn't want my, I would worry

who's going to leave, I would worry to get killed, I was worried he was going to die, I was worried he was going to get in a car accident, I was worried he was going to get in a fight, you know, and he wired into me to be a warrior. And it's a repetitive thing I've done. And that's the one thing that you should always govern and watch with your, with your girls is that do they worry about their debt? They love them. They're proud of them.

He's an amazing provider. You on the road a billion nights a year and all the things you've had to do and the travel showing all the stuff to get where you are They're damn blessed, but you don't want a wire into them This repetitive thought of I worry about my dad. I stress about my dad That was the number one thing now that I'm an older man I've I had anger issues because my watch my dad be angry my dad raised his voice a lot in the house I've had a little bit of that too. That was how you parented it back then. Right. Exactly. And we respected it.

But the big thing was, man, I worry a lot. And where's this come from in me? Where's this come from? I know where it comes from. I worried about my dad. That's what it was. My daughters, I think they, there was a period of time where I think they definitely worried about me. I think everyone worried about me. I did internally time where I think they definitely worried about me. I think everyone worried about me. I did internally, but I think if I could, you know, I was thinking today, I was like, I was laying down in the gym, and the sun was hitting my face, and I thought, should I have quit drinking earlier?

Like, should I have done this, if I had done this like 15 years ago, where would I be today? And I I was like don't even you gotta get rid of that because that 15 years of party in my dick I've got me here and I love where I am. Yeah, so it's like I'm cool I'm cool with where I am today. You're the most amazing dude Well first off nobody at your level of success is dishonest about their real life No, no man. I'm like you're helping humans right now. Like, you make a lot of people laugh, but this stuff that you do, the rare, when you do do it, do there's a lot of people that you're helping right now. Because it might not be

booze, it might be they, they're addicted to, you know, they spend all their money, you know, they're gamblers, they're whatever. Like, but there's something most of us have that we know doesn't serve us in our life. And we're trying to navigate. Do I need to stop doing it? Can I have a relationship with it? Can I dance? Can I modulate it? Is there a way to keep it in my life? Because I like elements of it. Right. And in your life, you're just fascinating to me because you step back and listen to this dude. If you didn't, if you didn't know otherwise, you think, oh, this guy, this is one of them. I mean, I'm, you're humble and you're living it and you're afraid it's going to go away. So you don't realize, but like you're, you're in the prime, you're having a level of success in

your life, financially, notoriety, you reach, and even today, like, who you're going to help today. That's a rich man's life. Like, you have a very rich life, like more than one millionth of one percent of all humans ever get in the world where you are. And so it's important everybody hears both sides of this at the same time. This man, the machine everyone knows the story. If you don't go watch the movie,

we're not gonna talk about that version of it today. But it's rather unbelievable that you're this honest and vulnerable about your real life and your frailties and worries and thoughts at your level. I think it's, well, I think it's irresponsible. You don't. I mean, then everybody's irresponsible because everyone's putting a mask on and faking it 99% of the time and you know, you've had them on your show.

You've, I've had them on my show. They're sitting right across. Yeah, like I know you're not telling me the truth right now. Yeah, well, I think I, you know what, I've tried to be honest in every respect, even when I fly in private jets, like I have friends that all fly private

and they're like, don't post it. I was like, hey man, I love it. Just so you know, like it's the coolest thing you're ever gonna do. I'll tell you how much I spend on it. I'll tell you what it cost me. I'll let you know what I could have bought with that money. But I'm gonna fucking put it.

That's what a regular person does. If you can stay as regular as possible, and just don't lie, and just don't go like, I want you to think I'm something other than I'm not. I think I've done that aggressively with my partying. I've done it with my relationships. I've done it with my relationships with comics, which I regret at times.

I've spoken about casually about things. I never should have opened my mouth about. I don't do it about politics. It's the only fucking thing I've done. I've read it that pretty well. Well, I just don't know anything. And so like, I'm not that smart. Like last night I listened to a,

I woke up before in the morning, I listened to a podcast on the Rothschilds, and I was like, no to self, never bring up the Rothschilds. I'm so sorry. I'm over my speed. Listen, I don't get, I don't, never bring up the Roth Childs. I'm going over my speech. Listen, I don't get it. You don't know anything.

Is there a part of you because you're so humble, do you have, I have like, massive imposter syndrome? Oh, and if you don't have an imposter syndrome, you're an imposter. Like if your, imposter syndrome's real, it's authentic. When we first bought our, when we bought our big house, like the one we're in now. Yeah.

I was so terrified to post any video on social media because I didn't want anyone to think I had money. I didn't want to lose the who I was and like show my backyard. I have a beautiful fucking backyard. I will say this, I worked very hard to earn that backyard. I got very lucky to marry a wife who can recognize good properties, but I was terrified to show that.

And I hardcore consistently live with this imposter syndrome. I'm afraid things are going to go away. That's what I worry about. Yeah, of course, because they do, because they do, because they do, you do. They do for everyone, they do for everyone, they do for everyone. It goes away. It goes away. Look, you get a little heat and the world loves you I'm watching it happen to Matt rife right now where they're where they're attacking him He had it and I'm not saying Matt rife's fame is going away or success is going away

I don't think it is I for Matt. I think it's gonna have a long beautiful career, but the world loves the they love to celebrate you and then and and listen. I'm sure I'm guilty of it too. You know, someone pops and then in a weird way you sit back in the cut and go, what are they gonna find? You know, like, it's very true. And but it goes away. I does. And she was stand up. You, you get a few hot ears and, and you're the guy. And people want to see you in arenas. And then at one point, they're like, Hey, who else is out there?

You, it's a natural. It happens with bands. How, like I just rediscovered the dead again. And I was like, oh, they went away from me. It's mind blowing when you see them. And I always remind myself that'll be you at some point. So like have some perspective on what's going on. Remember what really matters, but also enjoy it while it's here. But I live with that. I live with like, and the other thing I struggle with,

I may ask you if you do this too, do you worry about you're going to lose momentum? Like you'd say no to things. Yeah. I don't say no to anything. I don't say no. I like, I also like the challenge. I've done projects that you would roll your eyes at. I did a show finding the world's best dancing dog. It was as interesting as it just sounded. But I feel like, I watch people say no and I watch things go away for them. I watch dudes who had hot sexy careers. I was just texting my friend group with a guy who had the hottest career.

And then he's just like, I'm the coolest guy here. And then it kind of went away for him. And he's struggling to get it back. And then you just go in like, maybe if you hadn't been so precious and you would say that I'd love to do that college or that casino or that maybe I take everything as an opportunity. It's a gift. First of all, a lot of comedy. I can only talk about comedy, but a lot of comments forget we did it for free. Yeah, we did it for free. If someone wants to give you a hundred thousand dollars to do stand up, I don't know that there's I mean,

look, there's comics disagree with me listening to this, but like, it's a pretty great deal. Yeah. I had Dane cook on the show. Yeah. And sometimes I even Dane was on. We talked about that thing that if you to told me at one point that Dane would, you know, Dane acknowledges this like Dane was so hot. And then at some some point he was not hot, right? And now watching him, you know, go get that back again. But like his reverence for that time when it was good to, it's like, I don't want to say no to things that I think could keep things rolling in my life. I don't, one thing I want to ask you a couple things about you, like, because I want to understand you. I understand like the complexity of you and the drinking and the, the party and the success

and all the worrying and all that, because I relate to 90% of that. But why are you so successful? Like, what's the thing with you? Is it like, because it went, most of you don't know this story and we're not going to get into it today, but like, it took him a long time. And he wasn't even really doing stand-up even that long ago consistently as a career in the real world. It wasn't that long ago. What is it? Like, what's don't, don't be humble. Like, what's the thing with you? Is it that you like connect with everyday people? Like, is it? Like what's don't, don't be humble. Like what's the thing with you? Is it that you like connect with everyday people? Like is it like, I know you're funny, right? But like, is it like, Hey, man, I'm rooting for that dude because I see me in him. What is

the thing about you? Is it the work ethic? Is it what is it that's made you in that seat right now? I had of almost everybody in the in your entire industry. I think, sure there's a lot of aspects of this, but I'll tell you the one thing I know that I don't have, that I have that not a lot of my peer groups have, is I don't my failing. Like, I'll give you a subtle example. A subtle example is Instagram.

I took the Instagram pretty early and I started editing videos and putting up videos and I took to Instagram stories very early and I didn't mind posting and because I thought if no one sees it, then it's not really a failure because no one saw it. But if people see it, then it's a success. So you're just going to see the successes.

The best example of this I can give is hot summer nights tour. So the pandemic hits, my special drops on the two days after stay at home orders, which is the greatest gift. Anyone can ever be given. Everyone's sitting there. Everyone in the country has to go home and not leave their house. And I'm on Netflix with Tiger King.

You have to say it's you and Tiger King. It was me and Tiger King. Tom was the next week. I mean, it was like really insane luck. But I, in this, it's gonna go away. I gotta keep my momentum. I said I wanna go on tour. We gotta find a way to do this.

And I reached out to my agents, my managers, and I said, find me driving movie theaters. See if we can do it to drive in movie theaters. I'm very adaptable. I love trying to problem solve. I love giving parameters of, of, of artistic things and then being able to work around it or come up with a cheat code to get myself the thing I need. I love that energy. It helps inspire my creativity. And I said, get me dry movie theaters and they said, that's not a thing. And I said, I know it's a thing. They're there. See if you can get them. And they did all the work. They found a EDM company who was doing live outdoor shows. We connected with them, hotbox. And we did one. And I had the biggest names in comedy. I won't say names, but the give us one Tom okay, uh, Tom's exact words do not do this

Do not this is not a good idea you're gonna be a guinea pig and No one wants to be a guinea pig his exact words no one wants to be a guinea pig and I thought You don't succeed, maybe Tom does, but I don't succeed by not failing a couple times. And I was like, you know what? In my head, I said, I'll do one week end of it for shows. If I like it, I'll do more. If I don't, no one saw it. Maybe, maybe great point. Yeah. I was like, and I thought also, if they don't go well, I also have control of my narrative. I will post what I want on social media, and it'll look fun.

It was something I tried. I didn't do more of them. I'm in and out. I did, on the very first night, we were in North Carolina in a rock quarry, in a driving movie theater that could only be described as 1950s picturesque. I mean, the way FDR planted America getting together,

I don't even know if the air is right. But, and it was amazing. I shot drone shots, it was sold out, people were down the street for three miles in their cars. And I said line them up, I ended up doing 60 cities, I ended up doing like 90 something shows. I mean, we did, I did the whole end and I won a number of awards. I got the comedies, innovative creative impact.

I won damn the torpedoes and by the way, Winston Churchill is like a hero of mine. So the damn the torpedoes, fucking energy of damn the port torpedoes full steam ahead. Fuck it, they're coming anyway. Let's just start moving forward. I love that energy, and I think that changed my career because number one, I put on great shows, I had a great time, I had fun, I had a fucking blast, but it gave me the confidence to realize

I have to just go with my decisions, not listen to anyone and do what I want to do. And then I started fully loaded. I did a cruise. No comics were doing cruises. I did a cruise. It's my third year of fully loaded coming up. And no, I'm the only, if I'm not mistaken, I'm the only comedian, run festival ever,

owned and run. I own it ever. I owned and run. I own it myself. I run it myself. And I watched other people do that in their careers like Rogan, doing his podcast, getting a fucking flashlight. Everyone told him no, but Rogan believed in it. And I thought, why just gotta believe in things I believe in.

And I think that's been my one strong suit is just going, just fucking, I'll do it. Whether it's the dance video. This is, I mean, I said to Joe, Tom and Ari, this so rocktober let's do hip-hop dance. Joe was like, absolutely not. Tom was like, Ari was like, I think it's cool, but none of them could agree.

And so I said, fuck it, I think it's a good idea, because I know that I watch them online So I'm gonna do a hip-hop dance video. I got deglazer for 1200 bucks. She taught me a dance I said I'll run my tour dates to the side of it Put it up sold out a tour so in 15 minutes the video and viral Tom then goes back and invest $40,000 in a dance video his own sells out his tour and then all the sudden Promo videos become something everyone's doing. And I'm not saying I created it, I definitely didn't create it.

But like that energy of like, I'm not gonna listen anybody. And the other thing is, I believe in, just start and it'll happen, is just start. The other day I did a Thanksgiving day video that went out. It had the most shares I've ever had on any video. We released it, it was my, I'm sure, but drinking on the longest party and day of the season.

I went in and I said, don't overthink it. Just turn on a camera, we'll figure it out. And we shot it in like 30 minutes. And just shot it, just shoot it, just do it. Just post it. If no one saw it in like 30 minutes and just shot it just shoot it just do it just post it if no Insolent no one be talking about it, but they saw it. They're talking about it. Everyone's hitting me up. It's fantastic Just do it just shoot it. I got a marching band come to my house one time for 1200 bucks to an outdoor and Leanne's like what are we gonna do with them? I go, we'll figure it out. It's a marching band.

I mean, it can't go wrong. I said to them, what song can you guys play? All you guys in there, like rubber band man, I go cool, line up around my pool. You know what, what you just said is what helps me become whatever level of success I've had. It's like, I don't have to know everything before I begin. I'll start and I have this enough for me.

It's a faith thing, but I'm like, God, I'll find the answer for me somewhere in the room. I'm just gonna get in the room. Once I get in that room, I'll find the door into the next one. I'll find the door to the next one. I'll find, and if I don't, it's a faith thing, but I'm like, God, I'll find the answer for me somewhere in the room. I'm just gonna get in the room. Once I get in that room, I'll find the door into the next one, I'll find the door into the next one, I'll find, and if I don't, that's okay. With the thing you said, that's also brilliant,

we think everyone's gonna remember all our failures. If you're not successful, no one's going to remember it. No one talks about it. That's the whole entire point. I do think it's helped me, and this is gonna sound weird. We don't know that much more time, but like, I love your brain.

You should do more stuff like this, because people are pulling things out of you. I feel like what happens when you're a comic, because you see this with big names, is they start leaning to the serious more, than funny, and I have to remind myself that I'm just funny. I'm just funny.

I listen to all you guys for inspiration, and I apply it the way I apply it, and it's maybe it's broken. But like, thank you very much for the compliment. But, but yeah, I don't, I just, I mean, like, I think every once in a while, every year or two, like you said about journey, it's like, why am I successful?

What is the stuff that I'm good at? Was the stuff that I'm not so good at? Like, I don't wanna see you do in a serious podcast because you are funny and we're not, right? So like, that's your gift, but at the same time Because you are funny you reach a lot of people man who could use the help that will look at someone like me like my audience is my audience But it's a bunch of people's like I don't want to listen to this dude who's you know Things he's got all of his act together

I want to listen to the dude who I know doesn't and then things that he's doing to hold it all together and become successful There's something super powerful about that. Let me ask you one last question on it. And I mean that, like, take care of yourself. You're way more of an important dude in people's lives than you realize because you have a lot of confidence. And I know that there's probably this side of you that people are like, hey, man, don't get too big, but there's this other part of you, bro.

You have such deep humility. I love people that have both of those things. They're super confident, but they got a lot of humility. If someone was listening to this, they're like, hey man, you chased your dream, like you had no idea, you're just doing college. And by the way, everyone want to reinforce this. If you have not seen the machine on Netflix, you have to go see this movie. It's a ride. And it's one of those movies like you don't really want it to end. It's the every minute of it is entertaining. Every single minute of this movie is entertaining. It's funny, but it's like it's a real story. I'm sure it's you know, jived up a little bit. It's so good and all of his Netflix specials, Razzle Dattles Well, is out right now, but like all

of them are awesome. Go check his stuff out. But let me ask you this last. If someone was listening to their like, hey man, I would like to pursue my dream too, but I have a lot of anxiety. I got a lot of worry. I got a lot of imposter syndrome. I got all this stuff that you've described that you still have and you made it anyway. What advice would you give to somebody

who's like sitting there going, whatever it is, they want to open up a bakery, whatever it is, right? They want to start painting. What would you say to them? First of all, the procrast procrastinations the best part. Like just don't don't worry about the time you've spent procrastinating that's all the buildup stuff those are the muscles you're getting to get you to where you need to be because I procrastinated just like you did I'd had great ideas and didn't know where to pitch them and didn't know what to do with them and then one day, one day you're gonna stop giving a fuck with

everyone else's. But you gotta let that happen for you. You gotta let yourself say, I'm not gonna tell my friends this idea, they're just gonna shit on it. And you just gotta say, fuck it. You really gotta say fuck it and go, I'm gonna try it. I don't want, I don't care if they make fun of me, that's part of the process also. Let them make fun of me. Half the making fun of me is gonna put me

in the right direction anyway. But you gotta say fuck it, you gotta go after it. I think sometimes how'd I never got on stage or how'd I never answer that phone rolling store magazine called. Had I never taken the balls, it's the same thing about getting in the goddamn polar plunger that energy is real you do not want to do it you're standing on the edge of the pool all those moments on the edge of the pool are just as valuable as

the moments in the pool respect the edge of the pool as much as you do inside the pool and let yourself sit with it be scared do not want to do it lay in your bed roll around I don't want to fucking go in this is it I'm fucking putting all my eggs in this basket and then once you jump in go all the way deep get your head under don't just put your toe in it go all the way deep and fucking charge it you get one shot at this life And if you leave anything on the table, it's just left on the table. It's you don't you don't get to take it with you.

The hell just happened today. Like, you know, you become like a philosopher of all good things. I also like you guys. I this is I'm just gonna say this to you all. First off, thank you. This is why I do the show right here. The first off, a lot of you guys, I just want to say this to you all. First off, thank you. This is why I do the show right here. The first off, a lot of you know, Bert Christchurch. You didn't know all of this stuff today. Not it's number one. Hopefully we get things out of people

that other people don't get. People are gonna be like, start drinking again. Jesus Christ, man. No, I mean it, man. There's a depth to you. There's people aren't successful at the level Berts successful by mistake. And a lot of times what I love watching people come on the show

and do, they start realizing there's things about them that are pretty damn amazing that they didn't realize before they started having to talk out loud about it. And a lot of the advice you gave today is phrase differently than I would phrase it, but it's exactly what I would say if I had the wisdom that you have, especially the last part right there. And I just want you to know, man, like you got a friend in me. Buddy, I'm glad. Yeah. That, listen, I will take you up on that friendship. Yeah, I mean,

that. I get a friend here and I, I would, anything I can ever do to help you. The world needs more of you, man. I think you're the most talented of the most talented. Well, I am such a fan of yours. So to hear you say that is like, it's so real to be sitting across from you. Bro, you crushed this today. Everybody listen to me. Go follow everything, Bert. If you don't already, share the show today. This is one of those where you're like, Hey, this is not the normal Edmila Let's show episode and you need to hear this. And it's an all time or for me. It's an all time. I'm so grateful that you can't growl, thank you so much. Thank you. All right, God bless you, everybody, max out. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ you