Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2291 - Bert Kreischer
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2291 - Bert Kreischer' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-03-18. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2291 - Bert Kreischer

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Good to see you.
Thank you, Joe.
Always good to see you, my man.
It's always good seeing you, man.
I always say, like, you give the best hugs.
The UFC the other night when I saw you, and you came up, you just wrap it up.
I love it.
I'm a hug guy, too.
Yeah.
I think it shows your emotion.
I love a real hug, yeah.
A real hug where someone loves you.
Yeah.
You know?
You know I love you, so I give you a love hug.
I know you love me.
I know you love me.
We've been friends for a long time, brother.
I know.
We really have.
It's nice, like, having friends that you've been friends with for just decades,
you know?
I always say, I've said this before, but I always say, you're like, I never had
a brother
growing up, and you've always been pretty honest with me, the way a big brother
would
be, and you've always come from a place of love.
I remember the whole reason my whole, I was doing nothing and fucking nothing.
I'm sitting in the backstage of the store with you, and you look just, you go,
Tommy's
doing theaters.
And I said, okay.
And you need to be doing theaters.
I was like, okay.
And you're like, you need a Netflix special.
You need to get one.
I was like, all right, Joe.
How am I supposed to do that?
And you go, be undeniable.
And you just walked away.
And I fucking was like, that's the kind of mentorship you look for in a friend.
That's who you want to be around.
Surround yourself with great white sharks, and people think you're a great
white shark.
Well, you were always really fun and really funny, but you were always doing
these travel
channel shows.
Yeah.
And this is what drove me crazy.
I remember the day.
We've talked about it before, but I remember the day.
I was in the comedy store, and I was calling you from the main room, and you
were on a motorcycle
in Vietnam.
And I think you were drunk.
I was drunk and hot.
Two things you're not supposed to be on a motorcycle, no helmet, in flip-flops.
Which, by the way, it's a fun way to catch somebody.
When you call someone, and you're going to go on stage in like 20 minutes, I'm
just checking
in on you to see what's going on.
And you're on a fucking motorcycle in Vietnam.
I'm laughing.
But then I was like, dude, you really need to dedicate yourself to stand-up.
Like, this is a trap.
It's a velvet prison.
These TV shows are a velvet prison.
And when you're on the travel channel, you're not even getting, well, you're
making great
money, right?
But you're not getting, I can retire now money.
No.
There's no fuck you money.
It's I can live well money.
You know, it's a great job.
But it's one of those jobs where at a certain point in time, you got to go,
okay, I have
to jump ship.
Like, you know, I can't keep doing this.
Like, this is going to fuck up everything else I'm doing.
It's hard to pull that trigger, too, because like with kids and a family and a
house.
Yep, yep, yep.
And you go, okay, it's not great money, but it's good money.
Yeah.
And the road was not great money.
And I remember you saying, you need a Netflix special.
I remember you saying that to me on that motorcycle.
I'm sitting, I pulled, I had headsets in.
I was listening to The Doors, Magic Caravan, Spanish Caravan.
And I was flying.
I was high.
There were oxen on either side of me.
The sun was setting.
And you're like, dude, this is who you are.
Fuck that travel channel bullshit.
Get away from it.
You need to focus on stand up in your podcast.
Yeah.
And I was like, yeah.
And you're like, you're the fucking machine.
If you don't talk about this on stage, then you're not doing yourself, you're
doing yourself
a disservice.
Well, there's certain people that like, you know, their full potential because
when
they're with you, they're completely relaxed and you know, everyone's just
having a great
time and you get to see them at their best.
And when you're crying, laughing, just hanging out, talking to a guy, you're
like, this guy's
got it.
He's just got to figure out how to get rid of all the other shit in his life
and focus
on that.
Cause you were always so fucking funny.
And I was like, how is this guy doing these shows where he's letting people
hurt him and
all this, like when you were doing hurt, Bert, I was like, what are you doing?
Don't get hurt.
And then I just that, I also, I'd gone through it with fear factor.
Like fear factor was a great job.
Don't get me wrong.
Very happy that I got it.
It was wonderful.
It gave me fuck you money.
It gave me the ability to do whatever I want after that.
But it was a thing where I was like, this is not what I want to do.
What I want to do is what I always do.
Just stand up and have fun.
You know, if I was, I was doing the UFC back then too.
So it was like, do the UFC commentary, things I love doing.
That's what I want to be doing.
I don't want to be doing just a job.
Jobs are great.
Don't get me wrong.
Thankful I got it.
But at a certain point in time, if you want to reach your full potential, you
have to realize
like, this is holding me back.
And sometimes people don't want to tell you that because it's a job and it's a
great get.
And I've had people, I've had people tell me like, don't leave fear factor.
I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about?
I have to leave.
I'm like, I have to leave.
I got to go.
I remember those times.
I remember people saying, because I knew you were, I knew you as Joe the standup.
And I remember people saying, he does comedy?
And I was like, no, that's what he does.
Like, he's not an actor.
He's not a host.
He's a comedian.
But that's understandable, right?
Like, my standup, I'd only done, like, by then, I'd only done like a couple
things that
were out, that were available.
And I was on the hugest show in television.
Fear Factor was fucking gigantic.
It was massive.
It was nuts.
It was massive.
Monday nights?
Yeah.
It was a fun job.
You know it was a big show when 20 years later, you remember the night it was
on.
But this is what's important.
Even though it was the number one show in the country, I still had that feeling.
Like, I don't want to really be doing this.
I'm happy to do it.
I'm very thankful that I got the job.
I worked with some amazing people.
It was a lot of fun.
We had a great crew.
Really fun time.
But I didn't want to do it.
I wanted to do this.
This is what I, I didn't know I wanted to do this because this wasn't a thing.
You know, but once I figured it out, I was like, oh, this is what I want to do.
I want to do this in standup.
In the UFC, which is like, to me, it's not even a job.
It's like a vacation.
It's crazy watching you operate in the UFC and seeing that mechanism and to
think when you
started that.
Like how long, how far that, that path with the UFC has been for you.
Oh, for me, it was 97.
I know.
But walking in through the other day and I was like, oh, this has been Joe's
life for
fucking 26 years.
Well, you know, if you want, if you're a person who's a martial artist and you're
a fan of
martial arts, if you get a job to do that, like if you get a job to talk about
martial
arts and to express your love for and your appreciation for the athletes,
appreciation for the fighters
and what they have to go through to get to where they're at and the magnitude
of their accomplishments
and to put words to that, like to do that, to be able to do that for a living.
That's an honor.
That's how I feel.
Oh yeah.
It's like, it's an honor.
It's an honor.
And I feel like I do a good job at it and so, and I like doing it and I'm super
passionate
about it and I don't do it because it's a job.
I do it because I love it.
Like, I don't need to do it.
I could have quit a long time ago.
It does, like, I could just watch it.
Like, we're doing a fight companion this weekend.
It's going to be fun.
We're going to hang out.
What are you doing Saturday?
I don't know.
Oh, I'm in Vegas.
Are you really?
I have two shows in Vegas this weekend.
Oh, nice.
At Resorts World Theater.
Nice.
Oh, I should say, my special, Lucky, is streaming right now on Netflix.
Right, right now.
Right now.
I say Lucky, I say Lucky because I am the luckiest fucking guy in the world.
I really am.
When you think about, like, do you think about, like, finding the friends I did
later in life,
you know, like, at, like, 37 or 38 when I started meeting all you guys and
hanging out with you guys.
And then, you know, and getting into comedy at the time I did.
Like, we got into comedy when no one, it wasn't a job.
It was like, it was weird.
It was like joining the fucking circus.
It was.
And I only got into comedy because I got discovered by Rolling Stone magazine
as the number one party in the country.
I mean, what are the fucking odds of my life tracking out?
So, that's why I named it Lucky.
Well, we're all very lucky.
That's absolutely sure.
No, no dispute.
We're all very lucky.
If you're listening to this, you're very lucky because you can fucking hear.
How about that?
Yeah.
If you're watching it, you're very lucky that you can see.
You're very lucky that you can afford a phone.
We're very lucky.
Like, most of the world lives in utter poverty.
And that's the unfortunate reality of all these people virtue signaling about
the 1%.
Like, bitch, you're in the 1%.
You're in the 1% of the world.
There's someone digging blood diamonds in Sierra Leone right now smoking brown
brown, and he's 11, okay?
If you make $34,000 in America, you're in the 1% of the world.
How about that?
Wow.
Yep.
That's real.
My father-in-law still isn't in that 1%.
Hey, life's not good for everybody.
Life's not good for everybody.
Some people don't get lucky at all.
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I always think luck is a perspective.
You work hard, dude.
You're not just lucky.
You work hard.
You work real hard.
You're always touring.
You're always doing things.
You're always putting together new shit.
You're always working.
You're always hustling.
Like, it's not just luck.
It's luck plus, you know, you love to party, but you also have a great work
ethic.
And that's very, very important, man.
It's like you can't just be lucky.
Lucky's huge.
You got to get lucky.
But also, if you work really hard, you tend to get luckier, especially if you're
smart and if you're willing to take risks.
Like, for you, the Travel Channel thing, that was a risk.
Like, you had to listen to your friends and you had to go, you know what?
They're fucking right.
Everybody else is cooking right now, and my stand-up's kind of stalled out
because I'm doing this TV show.
And, again, it's coming from someone who wa