The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan Experience #1954 - Bert Kreischer

Bert Kreischer is a comedian, podcaster, and actor. He's the host of "The Bertcast" podcast and YouTube cooking program "Something's Burning." He's also the co-host of the "2 Bears, 1 Cave" podcast with fellow comedian Tom Segura. Look for Bert's new Netflix comedy special, "Bert Kreischer: Razzle Dazzle", on March 14, and his movie, "The Machine", in wide release on May 25. www.bertbertbert.com

Joe RoganhostBert Kreischerguest

Jun 26, 20243h 22mWatch on YouTube ↗

WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Bert Kreischer, comedy, chaos, and meaning at Rogan’s Mothership

Joe Rogan and Bert Kreischer spend a long, freewheeling conversation bouncing between stand-up comedy, Rogan’s new Austin club, touring, health, drugs, sex, and geopolitical doom. They celebrate a highlight night at Rogan’s Comedy Mothership, including Ron White’s surprise set and Kreischer stress-testing brand-new material. The two dissect comedy culture—generational beefs, supporting younger comics, and the grind behind big specials and arena tours—while also diving into fitness, TRT, COVID, and how fame and aging change perspective. Woven through are riffs on everything from fetish culture and porn to dictators, propaganda, banking crises, and whether anything actually ends when you die.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Comedy success now rests on community and curation, not just talent.

Rogan’s new Austin club and Kreischer’s “Fully Loaded” tour show how building tribes of comics, stacking strong lineups, and creating great hangs offstage are as important as individual sets for momentum and growth.

Supporting younger comics keeps the scene healthy—and your own act sharp.

Rogan criticizes older comics who resent rising talent, and Kreischer explains how touring with people like Shane Gillis and Mark Normand both boosts them and forces him to keep evolving instead of coasting.

Stand-up that looks loose is often obsessively structured behind the scenes.

Kreischer describes building specials over years, running material relentlessly, and carefully choosing venues and dates; what feels like drunken chaos onstage is engineered and refined with intent.

Discipline in health and fitness functions as mental medicine.

Rogan treats workouts and sauna as non‑negotiable therapy, using them to burn off aggression and stabilize mood, while Kreischer is slowly shifting from punishment workouts after partying toward more deliberate health tracking and TRT.

You can’t outsource responsibility for what you put in your body.

Their discussion of pharmaceuticals, semaglutide, TRT, and past drugging incidents underscores that medical systems and friends can fail you; you have to understand trade-offs and protect your own long-term well‑being.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

Nothing bothers me more than those old dudes that don’t like the young guys coming up.

— Joe Rogan

I love chaos. I love standup more than anything—so I build my life around it.

— Bert Kreischer

This idea that you’re gonna get somewhere and it’s all gonna make sense—no. Your motivation just shifts to doing the best work that you can.

— Joe Rogan

I’m so grateful I didn’t get what I wanted when I was young.

— Bert Kreischer

To live is to suffer, but you don’t know that it just goes black when you die—and to say you do is dumb.

— Joe Rogan

Rogan’s Comedy Mothership launch and a standout night with Ron WhiteModern stand-up: big tours, lineups, young comics, and industry “beef”Fame, aging, relationships, and how perspectives shift over timeHealth, fitness, testosterone, COVID, and lifestyle trade-offs on the roadSex, kinks, porn subcultures, and how desires get “imprinted”Propaganda, dictators, banking crises, and systemic corruptionThe meaning of success, mortality, and using discipline to stay sane

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