Name: Bert Kreischer on Being Sober During Sober October
Uploaded: 2020-03-29T16:00:10.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bert Kreischer on Being Sober During Sober October' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-03-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bert Kreischer on Being Sober During Sober October' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-03-29. Transcript available.

This message is for Burt.
Me and Theo come from the same cloth.
Looks like I'm coming from God.
But how do you drink so much and stop for Sober October?
How do you do that?
I can't even imagine just stopping drinking like that without any program or
anything like that.
How do you do it, Burt?
Gang, gang, boy.
Yeah, how do you do that?
I don't know, you just make a decision.
You just shut it down.
Ramping up until October, are you like, okay, September, I'm going to drink as
much.
We're going to have this last night.
It's going to be a big party.
Do you have a party the night before?
No.
Yeah?
No, actually, usually I'll quit drinking a couple days before.
Just kind of prep.
No, just because I go, I don't want to ramp up and be hungover October 1st
where I'm like, oh.
I'd rather have that shit day here so that if I need a glass of wine to go to
bed, like if I'm like, you know, I'm going to have a glass of wine.
So like I'll kind of taper it off.
And then I just stop.
I've done it both ways.
I did it this last year.
I got fucking wasted September 30th or whatever and then turned it off.
The year before, I kind of tapered off a little bit.
The year before that, I think I didn't drink because the rule is you got to
stop drinking at midnight.
Right.
So you can't build up to midnight and then go, I'm done.
That's not going to happen.
So like I always tapered off a tad bit.
But I don't know, man.
I have a weird thing in my head.
It's very punitive.
I'm very punitive.
I'm a little obsessive compulsive.
So like I'm not drinking right now.
I'm not going to drink for the next probably.
I mean, I may.
I never met anybody drinking here.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I meant I meant I'm not drinking right now, this time of my life.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
And so we got a lot of work to do, too, right now.
Yeah.
And I have plenty of fucking free time.
I'm like, dude, the last thing I'm going to do is fuck a bunch of free time up
with booze.
Yeah.
It's like when you go on vacation.
My biggest mistake when I was younger is I go on vacation and get fucking
wasted the whole time.
Wasted the whole time.
Come home and be like more tired from the vacation than I was in your life.
I went on vacation one time to Hawaii.
My wife's like, no booze.
I did it.
And I had a fucking blast.
Yeah.
Up early, jogging, swimming, snorkeling.
Oh, it's like the greatest vacation.
I love snorkeling.
Oh, dude.
Leanne loves snorkeling, too.
I'm good out there.
Oh.
When I'm out there, I feel like I'm supposed to be out there.
Me, too.
You know what we did in Fiji?
We kind of floated the reef where they drop you off and you just kind of cruise
with the reef.
Oh.
Is Fiji pretty cool?
Fiji was fucking awesome.
It was really great.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm about to say Fiji.
Bali.
Fiji's great, too.
Oh, wow.
I went to Fiji as well.
Fiji's amazing.
But Bali's fucking legit.
I don't know.
I wish I could tell you.
I've talked to Dr. Drew about it, why I get to this place where I shut it down
and then
I don't.
And then I'll tell you right now, man, if I don't drink for this whole time we're
off
or whatever time we're off, I'll have a really hard time starting again.
Do you feel like you have to drink because of your show and because of your act?
I think people would be really – I think people would probably look at me
different.
I think people look at my show as like a reason to tap out and have a good time.
Yeah, let's go celebrate.
I'm also the guy that like – when I go to a party like with parents, I'm the
guy that
gives everyone a license to get a little loaded.
And you can never tell when I'm wasted.
I mean, I can, but normally people can't.
So I feel like they go on.
Your lips get wetter, I noticed that.
Yeah, they do.
Yeah, it's okay though.
But yeah, I don't know how I – I don't know.
I wish I knew.
And I've talked to Dr. Drew about it.
I'm like, am I an alcoholic?
He goes, I don't think so.
He goes, I think you're going to have health problems if you continue the way
you do it.
Yeah.
So that's where I like turn it off.
Good evening, good afternoon, and other times.
Thanks for watching that video you just saw.
I mean, it was okay.
But the next video you could watch could be way better.
What if you watch a video right now that changes your life?
Well, you could.
Watch this one.
Or watch this one.
Watch this one.
Watch this one.
Watch this one.
Ah!