Bert Kreischer

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Everyone will know who Bert Kreischer is. When I describe a jolly man with no shirt on who does stand up, he does not do his profession with a shirt on.
Yeah. It's not for him.
Too cumbersome. Too much fabric.
Too much fabric. It doesn't declare I want to party hard enough.
That's right. And he is all about partying.
He really is. He is.
He was also, he was crowned that early on. Yeah, once you get that moniker in college, you got to make it a lifestyle.
And boy, has he successfully. Very successfully.
Bert, of course, is a host of a couple of very popular podcasts, Two Bears, One Cave, and Something's Burning, and Berturtcast. And he has been in The Machine, Razzle Dazzle, The Cabin, Burt the Conqueror, Secret Time, and he has a comedy special out right now on Netflix called Lucky.
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I find it rude showing up to a podcast on time. When I show up on time, I should show up like five minutes late to let them get settled.
So today I was like, I didn't know your energy. So I didn't want to assume when I get to do a podcast, I'm like, when I say two o'clock, it means I'll get there at two o'clock.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.
Yeah. And so I feel bad when people get there early and they're waiting on me.
And then I'm like, I'm so sorry. I decided to walk to walk to work yeah and you have it nearly as bad as me which is you're recording a house i just said i can't believe i'm at your house it's so intimate yeah yeah right yeah is it a good or a bad idea you think it depends on who you have on your podcast i have lunatics on my podcast the night that we decided we no longer do in our house it was me sam tripoli and eddie bravo my daughter isla my daughter georgia and eddie bravo and isla were learning jujitsu moves okay we're all high and we're all by the fire pit sure and isla's like i'm mom i'm learning jujitsu it was really fun but my wife's like all right just so we were clear that energy we're not going to welcome that into our house every time we have a guest a little bit aggressive she's like i like eddie i like sam but i don't if we're going to just anytime you have a band that wants to stick around and we had a band doing coke in our bathroom the other day.
Yeah. Maybe keep those kids away from that.
I try to go, ladies, do you know who this is? And then they're like, no. Yeah.
I was like, shit. This is Gavin Rossdale.
Do you know Gwen Stefani is? And they're like, yeah. I go, oh, God.
Can you guys hug him or something? He's a legend. The only one that they ever got mad at me for not introducing them to was Tony Hawk.
Oh, we love Tony. They were like, you had Tony Hawk here, dad? It's hard to know what they're going to know, right? They're what, 19 and 20, your daughters? 19 to 20.
Slipknot was a big home run. Five-finger death punch.
My daughter, I listen to that kind of music. So how many years ago did you stop recording at home? Because I went to a house, but that's not where you were living.
That is just our studio. Probably three years ago.
And that's good, right? It's just good across the board. Best energy in the world.
I'm a natural extrovert, so I draw energy from people. And so to walk into a creative space like that, I would have really thrived in one of those content houses.
Those content houses that kids did. What's that? What do you mean, what's that? I don't know what a content house is.
I was acting like I did. I thought I could context clues figure that out.
I was like, there's no way Dax knows what a content house is. Back in the day, they get a thing called Sway House.
Now, I'm going to sound so fucking old. Is this MTV? No.
No. It's something ridiculous, Monica.
Oh, my God. Bryce Hall.
Do you know who that is? No. Okay.
We're really failing back. This is worse than being caught looking at porn at your kid's school.
I'm really embarrassed that I'm telling you that I followed this. We're ignorant.
It's never a good look. The Paul brothers did it.
They get big on TikTok and then they'd move their friends in and then all day long they just create content. Oh, okay.
I was 45 when they were doing that. 42.
There was one that lived down the street from me. I was so jealous.
I had a family, kids, a beautiful wife, dogs. And I'd drive by there and go, these kids are living it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they lived in mansions in the hills and they just light their pool on fire.
Hey! Cut the top off of a lamb. Oh, neighbors would be living.
Yeah. Okay, so you still feel like, oh man, or you feel like I had my time.
I feel like I got it now in my house. I go there.
I'm not lighting pools on fire, but today we had a creative meeting for a sitcom. First day of productions.
Everyone comes in. They move out.
We got a movie pitch. They come in, move out.
We got three podcasts. It was a fervor of activity when I showed up.
For anyone who didn't listen to that episode of Two Bears, One Cave, I roll up and there's a tour bus in the driveway. I'm immediately ingiated to you i'm like no one else has this in their driveway in la this is great yeah and then i go inside and there's people everywhere and i'm like they have a big business there's a lot happening well there's touring there's tv there's movies there's podcasts and then there's the vodka there's the 5k cooking show and that's the beautiful thing about this is whatever idea i mean i have my own fucking flip-flop oh god let's see this is it merch listen this is gonna sound so detached but once you get a certain level in success you get to kind of just call your own shots so there's a flip-flop that i liked they stopped making it so i started cyber bullying them i said everyone online just hit them up tell them that this is bullshit that they're not making my flip-flop anymore cannot live without these the guys that own the company hit hit me up.
They're like, hey, man, we're not doing great in business. And I was like, well, then let me help.
And my first thought was like, I need size 12s. Just give me a thousand and I'll wear them for the rest of my life.
You just want to get paid in flip flops. Are they reefs? No, they're free waters.
They're great flip flops. Okay.
And then I said, well, wait, how many do you need? I don't need any money in the company. Give me a price point where it's financially beneficial for you to make flip flops.
Because if you could sell like 5,000 flip flops,, I'd do it. I went, great.
I said, make 5,000 in my style, the kind I like. Put my name on it.
I don't care, but I'll sell it to my fans. We sold them in like 15 minutes.
Nice. Really? And at that point, I realized, oh, there's bigger things in this business.
You're extremely ADHD, right? Yes. And I was thinking, oh, what a perfect time you were born in to come of age where you could be doing 57 different things and there's no barrier to entry and it's self-distribution.
We started at a time when that wasn't it. We had to get christened by a gatekeeper, which was so frustrating.
I remember getting my first camera. It was a GL2.
It was a Sony. Oh, yeah.
Canon GL2. Canon, yeah.
And I shot shorts. I just needed to do.
And I edited them and I gave them to my manager and he goes, what am I supposed to do with these? At that moment, I thought this needs to go away because I was like, I know I see stuff and I like it. Yeah.
And I was like, what about the guys from South Park who made the Jesus fight Santa Claus? They made something. Now everyone sees it.
I got really bored when I was a travel channel and I started doing a vlog. I got really into Casey Neistat, Mr.
Ben Brown. You're so good with names, I just got to say.
I've been watching you all day on different interviews and your recall for people. And how much you're abreast of every comedian that's working and all that.
It's kind of staggering. I can tell you things I like.
I love being a fan of shit. There's no sexier feeling in the world.
I hope someone's getting this right now. This is the coolest feeling you'll ever get in the world.
Is when you discover something and you like it and you deep dive and you find so much more shit and you're like oh i haven't even started it is so fun you know i'll tell you this i'm a big grateful dead fan i've been lucky enough to be around them dead and company i've gone to the sphere i'm going back you do drugs when you do that because you're not into drugs drink you won't do like mushrooms or something for that no no it also feels scary at the sphere you don't need anything exactly i got so moved at the sphere for you two that David Copperfield left our box. I was't know.
It also feels scary at the sphere. You don't need anything.
The sphere is that good. I got so moved at the sphere for you too that David Copperfield left our box.

Because?

I was crying aggressively.

My daughters could not stop laughing.

They were filming all of it.

Wow.

And I was just sobbing.

The older I've gotten, I've gotten very emotional.

But I'm a big dead fan.

I love when you discover something.

Yes.

And so for me, it was vlogging.

I've discovered Casey Neistat and Mr. Ben Brown.

When I found these guys, I got turned on. I started deep diving them.
And I was like, this is sexy that they're in control of everything. And I started doing my own vlog.
Very simple at first, a little more complex. And people followed it.
And I got made fun of. I mean, trust me, Rogan lit me up a couple times.
I was like, we're hoping to film us playing pool. And he was like, the fuck? We just did a podcast.
Yeah, yeah. But I got really into it.
And in doing that, I just learned how to edit videos. When I learned how to edit videos, I realized I was now in the driver's seat of my own career because I could put out whatever content I needed out on whatever timeline I needed it to promote whatever show I needed.
And in doing that, I think I learned to follow my heart. Well, it's a great era for someone with your makeup, probably ADHD, super crazy passionate

right now about the thing.

My hunch is if you can't knock it out in a small window, it's gone, right?

Is that fair?

They put pilot in Hollywood.

That means we're making your pilot.

They buy it with the commitment to make the pilot.

At NBC, shout out to Tal Rabinowitz.

I knew her when she was assistant. I walked into the room.
She's now running NBC. She was always cool.
She was like, say less. Done.
And then my best friend started fat shaming me. What year was this? This was 2016, I think.
I had just gotten fired from Travel Channel. I already knew how to edit everything.
I knew how to vlog. And Tom started fat shaming me.
And I was like, I know Tom doesn't know how to do any of this shit. I'm going to destroy him.
And so I started fat shaming him. At one point, my manager and agent called my wife and they were like, Hey, we need Bert's notes on the pilot.
And she was like, Oh, he's done. And they're like, what? She was like, it took too long.
He's done. He's onto this fat shaming thing.
Yes. He's not going to do it.
You're white hot, but it's got a real short half-life. If it's not there right away, I'm onto the next thing.
But what amazing technology that has sprouted up where you make real-time content and it can be released that day and you see the results of it. And then you're on to the very next thing.
This is not a personality type that works under the old paradigm. No.
All right, but let us start at the beginning. Shoot.
Tampa, Florida, 1977. 72.
52. Yes, yes.
I'm 75. I made you younger than me.
My two writers on my show were like, you're meeting Dax Shepard today? And I was like, yeah. And they're like, how old is he? And I went, probably like 40.
And they were like, he's fucking 40? And I was like, I don't know. And they're like, you were just with him.
How old do you not know how old he is? And I was like, he seems young as shit. He's got a full head of hair.
He's jacked. Look at you.
That's so nice. He took the steps two at a time on the way up to the studio.
Oh, you shaved 10 whole years off. How nice.
Yeah, that's really kind of you. Well, and then I just gave you five years.
November 72, you arrive. St.
Petersburg, but then we get to Tampa. Yeah.
I shot my special in St. Petersburg.
Special comes out on Netflix March 18th. Lucky.
And I shot it in St. Petersburg.
Very emotional. Okay.
So Tampa, Florida, dad was a real estate attorney. Yeah.
So was he crushing? No, my dad doesn't like me talking about this, but he doesn't listen to your podcast. So I think we're safe.
Yeah. Yeah.
I was talking about it on Rogan one time. Rogan said, can't be real.
So I call my dad. I go, Hey, yo dad, do you ever represent dot, dot, dot? And he's like, yeah.
I was like, cool. I'm on Rogue.
And he goes, wait, don't fucking tell people who I represent. Buddy, you can't tell people who I represent.
But they have a building right on this road. The people he represented have a building on this road.
Very big building. A mile that way.
Scientology. Easy.
Oh, good job. So he met an author.
Okay, wonderful. The author loved boats.
I mean, you'd think the guy lived on a boat. And then he didn't build a boat he lived on.
Yeah, yeah. We lived in what I would say a white trash neighborhood.
I apologize if there's anyone that grew up with me. Not my second neighborhood, not Faircloth Estates, but the first neighborhood was white trash.
I remember in first grade, I went over to this dude, Darren, and we used to play football together. Darren, Darren lived on that street.
And he was with a chick. And I just went up with my ball.
I was like, yo, we playing football today. And he's like, buddy, I'm fingering a girl right now.
In first grade, first grade. I hope she was in second grade.
At least he had to be in like eighth grade. They were older.
I'm sorry. Fellow first grader came out weird.
Yeah. I was like, Oh my God.
That's like when I said to someone, no, I was drinking with a bunch of minors and they're like, what? And I was like, Yeah fellow first grader. That story came out weird.
Yeah. I know.
I was like, oh my God.

That's like when I said to someone, no, I was drinking with a bunch of miners.

And they're like, what?

And I was like, yeah, they were fucking fun.

And they're like, where were you?

I said, West Virginia.

Coal miners.

Yeah, it's coal miners.

Oh my God.

What are you doing?

Grew up in white trash.

My dad gets this one client, promised a big money, buys a house for like, I don't even

know, $130,000.

In 82, that's a lot.

It's big. Three bedrooms, office a lake no pool you had no pool that was our pool gator pun dude there are signs that you grew up in florida and it is you're hyper aware of gators and snakes i've never once walked across my lawn and not watching my feet land yeah that's florida and i never have gotten in a fucking lake and just thought this will be fun.

As a kid, you get water skiing,

you're like feet up.

I don't want to get eaten.

It was terrifying.

Well, my mom will like that I tell this story.

She was water skiing in Florida

as a young 20 something year old.

She saw alligators and then she fell

and she was too terrified to let go of the tow rope.

And she was drug behind the boat so long

that it gave her an enema and she shit her bathing suit that's florida water skiing for you right there public enema number one shit you're gonna water dude florida's so fucked up i think florida and australia the closest cousins you get in the world everything can kill you in australia the weakest people in the world germans there's nothing scary Nothing. They don't even have wolves.
In Australia, have you ever been to Australia? Oh, yeah. Especially in Northern Australia.
Every sign is written in English and in German. Because Germans have lived this carefree life with no snakes, no alligators.
They have deer. Maybe a raccoon.
Maybe. And so they go, these are water, looks fun.
And then gators got them in its mouth. Yeah.
And they got the great whites. It's teeming with man killers down there fuck australia dangerous yeah it is so as a car guy the weird thing is i would go to florida and everyone drove a mustang notchback lx5 liter they were only sold in florida people always got a hatchback i don't know why they all like that but it was all kids living with their grandparents because their parents had kicked them out i, there's a huge contingency of people just living with their grandparents, which is a wild group.
Were you running into that a lot? I was not. That's more central Florida? No, that's more northern Florida.
Okay, like Orlando-y? Yeah, like Ocala. I was in Sebring a lot.
So that's southwest coast Florida. Yes.
Southwest coast. No! It's central mid-state.
We'd fly into Orlando. You're not watching this.
That won't be entertaining. But the look Monica just gave me.
Anytime I talk about geography, which I can't resist. It's like 14 minutes of trying to figure out.
And she's like, no one gives a flying fuck where Seabree in Florida is. And she's right.
No one. But we care.
I just said to someone the other day, the best geography joke ever was Homer Simpson. He goes, who cares about Canada all tucked away down there? Exactly.
Back to Tampa. Dad has this client now.
That's all we can say about that? Because I would certainly need to know more. I read that book Going Clear and him floating around on a fucking boat.
Way to dance around it. Yeah.
Things that seem interesting in your life are just your life. And you're like, I don't really remember yeah all i know is that we got into move into a nice house in a nicer neighborhood based on the client and then the client allegedly just kind of bounced okay and then we had a house with no furniture in it but from the street you guys look like you're like we were killing it but if you walked in our house you're like oh you just move in you're like no we've been here a year and a half right and did you have a complex around that no it's weird what doesn't bother me and then it's weird what bothers me yeah what bothers you because you seem to have a very thick skin and you're very self-deprecating so it's hard to know what would trigger you i'm extremely sensitive i'll give you a perfect example when i talked shit about you on two bears yeah right and then i heard that it came to you i got really upset about wait i don't know this we are definitely talking about well quite simply i had been told in comments that i got made fun of on two bears by bird it was just tom lights me up and pokes me and i like talking wild on a podcast it's part of being on a podcast and he's like dax shepherd's fucking killing it maybe i'll get him on here as a guest bear and i was like was like, what? And I go, dude, he just started podcasting last week, and it's the number one podcast in the world? Yeah, it's all very legit.
I've been doing this for nine fucking years. What's funny is I'm aware of that.
I come to expect that. But then somehow I see a video of Bert telling a story where he said, I feel really bad that I made fun of Dax Shepard.
And he did this incredible thing, which he sent me I didn't do but an armchair he did wait what someone sent him our merch oh our merch yeah and he thought it was from me and he was like oh what it destroyed me it was during the pandemic and I got it in my po box and I was like oh my god and here's the thing I am like a day one ride or die for Dax for real when Punk came out first of all I know I told you this he looks like my best friend growing up ryan valerius when he came on there you even looked more like him then and i was like that's my fucking guy you expect your movie stars to just stay movie stars and not get in your lane and when they get in your lane you're like dude you're already a fucking movie star you're already married to a fucking movie all of it i totally understand and i would be fucking annoyed and then we hashed this all out on his show and it was lovely i've done that to a few people and. And so when it happens to me, I understand it more.
It's helpful, right? When you go like, all right, it's the same thing I did. I don't even mean it.
They probably don't mean it either. You're looking for a funny take.
Like I went off on alcoholism. I went off on people who quit drinking.
Right. Oh, I'm also bad.
Did you hear this? No, it was bad. Anyone in the program got really upset with me.
What were your points? My point was, if you're thinking about quitting drinking, don't. It's not the alcohol.
It's you. So have a drink and let's figure this out.
Let's talk it out over drinks. My whole point was, I know so many people who have quit drinking but didn't fix the problem.
Well, I agree with you there. Yeah.
Let's not say it's alcohol. Let's say it's you.
And it was just to make Tom laugh. And I got lit up by friends in the program.
Listen, I'm so pro drinking. I'm so pro drugs.
Everyone that can do it should be doing it as much as they can. I'm doing it tonight.
I got to shoot something tomorrow. And I was like, I don't want to look bloated.
And then I was like, I already look bloated. People are going to recognize me if I'm not bloated.
I have to drink to keep up my personality. But what I would say about that point is simply to address the you that is the problem, which I would agree with.

It's best to do that not drunk.

You're not the most objective version of yourself when you're trying to do some self-analysis is when you're feeling very confident and better looking than you are.

We were in Orlando and I had tied one on really heavy the night before and we had to do a podcast at 8 a.m.

And I sat down and I was off. I go, I need a six pack.
And Tom's like, what are we doing here, buddy? And I was like, you know what? Fuck you. It was before the podcast.
He's like, what? And I go, bring it up. Say something.
I dare you. And then they bring in a thing.
And he goes, what do you think? Maybe it's a little early to have a beer. I go, you know what? And then I went on this rant.
And then a few people that I really care about that are in recovery reached out really upset. And that bothered me.
And then it went viral viral and I was like, nah, fuck you. I would have never shamed you for it.
Danny Trejo stood by me. He's like, yeah, you got to fix the problem in you.
It's not the booze. And if it's not that it's going to be jerking off for sex.
We'll just talk to anyone in their first year of sobriety. They're either fucking nonstop.
They've started online gambling or something. The best feeling in the world is gambling.
Oh, scary. The heart race where you've had to battle it or no? No, no, no, no.
Just when you got the nuts, your cards are on the table and another card lands and it's your card and you don't know what he has and your heart, nothing in the world would I trade for that moment. I remember my numbers 11.
I always put money on 11 during the pandemic. I was in a casino.
I put a hundred dollars on 11. Lady had all eye contact spins it she's watching it it hits 11 and i watch her eyes dark and me and her and that feeling of hitting 11 and i've had two children better than the birth of either of them sure it felt so good i split it with her oh beautiful so that's a 3600 payout and i should never have split it with her because she doesn't get it it goes to the fucking house no they get their tips no she tips.
No, she puts it in the bucket. We're going to fact check that.
They got to get their tips. It's like if you gave money to a homeless guy on the side of the road and he goes, yeah, I'm going to split it with all of us.
You know, ugh. Well.
I want you to have it. I get that.
First of all, what scenario did you just paint? There's no way any dude is like, I'm sharing it with all these people. I used to do a thing called waitstaff raffle.
I just did it as a lark. It was the first time I ever sold out a show.
It's the very beginning of me starting to sell tickets. And there was a snowstorm and I got bonused a hundred dollars.
Or maybe it was more, but I had a hundred dollars in my set. I'm going to give it to the whole staff.
And then I realized, well, it's only 10 bucks a person. It doesn't seem that big.
And then I said, I'm going to give it to one person. That's the thing I look for in life.
If I'm addicted to anything, it's the sparkle of a moment, the sensation when you go for me, you know? And so I said, you know what I'll do? And I got on stage and I said, here's the deal. This wait staff, they've been busting their ass and they're going to probably walk with maybe 120 bucks tonight, which is good money, but we can make one of them really feel the moment.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to pass around my hat and just put in whatever you have. Don't take it away from your tip.
Just if you got like 10 or 20, just throw it in.

Five bucks is fine.

And I'm going to put $100 in.

Nice.

And we got $700 that night.

Wow.

And we pulled a name out of all the waitstaff.

Oh, this is so fun.

One girl came up on stage, starts crying.

This is a fucking powerful moment.

I don't know if you'll get it as much as me because you never a poor dad.

But she said, I get to buy the nice car seat now. Oh.
As as a poor dad i remember going to target with leanne when we were broke looking at car seats and you'd see the good car seat and you this is my baby's life and i gotta get the cheaper one because i'm a fuck up that's a lot wait it gets better you ready for this one and you can find this one online so i start doing it and it's fun and i tell him i said we'll do it every show five of you will walk away with like a thousand bucks a night extra and they loved it and then we were in louisville kentucky last show

on sunday and we've been doing it the whole week and i pull the name i go kevin you don't want dudes

to win you don't want a guy to win yeah there's already a pay gap just go make some money and

he's black you don't want black dudes to win no you don't want black i disagree now you're talking

to a pro i put my 10 000 hours and i'll tell you why okay black guys have a hard time with

vulnerability they try to be funny they're not going to share like a white chick or a black chick

I don't know. No, I disagree now.
You're talking to a pro. I put my 10,000 hours and I'll tell you why.
Okay, okay. Black guys have a hard time with vulnerability.

They try to be funny.

They're not going to share like a white chick or a black chick will share.

Black guys are a little standoffish.

But it's Kevin.

I go, Kevin, and I improved 100% wrong.

Yeah, I had a hunch that you were not on firm ground with this opinion.

I was going to go down as a racist.

I know.

I was like, oh, God.

I'm going to keep the money.

They've had enough.

Yeah. They've been handed everything.
I'm going to keep the money. They've had enough.
Yeah.

They've been handed everything.

They're fucking born on third base.

I bring him up on stage and he is trying to hold it together.

And he's like, good looking out.

Thank you.

You can find the video online.

I'm going to over exaggerate for you listening because I want you to feel it. But you can watch it and it is just as moving.

And I go, Kevin, you seem a little emotional. And he goes, no.
Oh, I'm going to get emotional telling you this. I said, buddy, I'm looking at you.
What's going on? And he goes, no, I'm good. Thank you, everybody.
Thank you. And I said, what are you going to do with this money? And he said, Saturday is my daughter's birthday.
Now I get to throw her the party she wanted and I get to be the dad she thinks I am. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He stands up, walks a hundred dollars, get that for your daughter. The whole fucking room.
Oh my gosh. Fucking make it rain.
It was awesome. We had wild moments doing that.
That's what I love in life. Oh, for sure.
Okay. We must get to how you're here.
So Tampa Jesuit school, shocker to me. Loved it.
Define me. You describe yourself as a dum-dum all the time.
It's kind of part of your onstage persona. You can't get to a Jesuit school and be a dum-dum.
They specialize in making people very critical thinkers, challenging of opinions. You'd be shocked at how many dum-dums are in my phone right now.
That are all Jesuit graduates. I mean, the funniest dudes ever.
My group of friends in high school, without a doubt, were the funniest individuals I've ever known in my life. So then you go to Florida State, and this is important.
You're there for how many years? Six or seven? Six and a half. Year six of his enrollment at Florida State.
Rolling Stone is in search of the biggest party school. They do an article and they crown Bert the hardest partying guy at the hardest partying school.
That's a crown. And you kind of have a moment of celebrity all of a sudden in your sixth year.
It's the best. It's my first taste of celebrity.
I'll tell you, it was intoxicating. And clearly every kid on that campus read that article.
It's got to be the biggest news possible that they got crowned that. Everyone did.
So it was a different time then. I think the real world road rules was around, but celebrity wasn't as attainable as is now.
Overnight, it changed my life. Every publication wanted to write about me.
There were like these tabloid news shows that would happen like five o'clock in the afternoon. American Journal.
They all flew down. They spent time with me.
Oprah wanted me and my parents to do it. Oliver Stone optioned the rights to my life.
Stop. I met Oliver Stone.
This is the most bizarre. This is.
It's the craziest set of life experience you could ever imagine having, especially as like a 25 year old kid. I had no plans for anything.
I didn't know what I was going to do. I was figuring I'll move to Aspen and just try to work on a ski lift or something, live with my friends.
And then this happens. I still didn't know what to do with it.
And in the article I had said, I wanted to do stand up. This radio show was like, yo, we'll let you do stand up.
Now they were doing it to watch me fail. And then they'd have content for Monday.
They put me last on the list of four professional touring comics at a place called Pop Bellies. Still there.
I just went there the other day in Tallahassee and I did 20 minutes and it was stream of consciousness. Oh, I had nothing.
Was the house packed with your now devotees from campus? No one would have been there if it wasn't me. It was all friends.
I was in a group called Scalp Hunters, which were the heads of all the attorneys. So all the attorneys were there.
I was with my dad when I did the Emily Arena in Tampa and Derek Brooks, you know, Derek Brooks is a hall of famer played for the box played at florida state he says to my dad he goes it's amazing to see where he's at now from where he started my dad goes huh and derrick goes i was at his show at pop ellie's i was like shit so yeah it was crazy but i did great radio show offered me a gig on their show they're like we thought you'd bomb why don't you come in do third mic wow this is nuts because normally you're chasing fame and it takes forever. And then you maybe get it or you don't.
Fame found you. You're like, oh, I like this.
How on earth do I keep this going? This sounds shallow. I don't know why, but when you're just like an average looking dude, you become funny.
So people pay attention to you. And then when you're funny, people pay attention to you.
But the thing you were looking for is what good looking guys have where people like, what's that's name i was never the guy where if you were with a group of girls they're like do you know who we have to set jennifer up with and you'd be like please say my name please say my name and they'd be like derek he is hilarious i'm like derek does fucking impressions of ace ventura he's not fucking funny and so then i remember eating at a blimpies and these hot girls were staring at me perfect location it couldn't have been a better location pop bellies is the first fucking stand up my mom was obsessed with blimpies oh blimpies subs are fucking legit but i'm from georgia that's why duluth exactly yeah my wife's from georgia what part bowden it's a really small redneck town sorry anyone from bowden listening no shout out anyway fame felt good well the gals were staring at you did they they talk to you? Came over, sat down with us. It filled holes that I didn't know I had, but I knew were there.
Dude, we all want to be the gorgeous quarterback of the football team. We want to know what it's like to just walk down the hall and people turn and they look at you.
If a girl said she wanted to have sex with me, and this happened a couple of times, especially in college, my initial thought was what's wrong with her? Because I go, that doesn't happen to me. Yeah, something's weird about this.
I mean, it was the craziest and the access you had to life. I remember ESPN sent two young actors down to hang out with me, shoot a commercial and party.
One of those actors was Johnny Knoxville. Oh, come on.
And this is like insane stories. The things that have happened to me in life just shouldn't track.
And we partied. He showed me Can't Kill Yourself videos of them trying to break beer bottles on their head.
And we took pills. We drank.
He threw himself down a flight of stairs. We ended up dressed as women.
The original content house. It was everything you wanted.
You were a member of Jackass for a night. Yeah.
It's probably five years before Jackass. I know this sounds fake.
Johnny knows this is real. He was writing articles for Big Brother at the time.
And he pitched me Jackass in his kitchen. Wow.
Anyway, it filled holes. And so I moved to New York going like, the fame shit's for me.
Yes. How do I get more of this? And I got a job at the Boston Comedy Club working the door to get stage time, and I sucked.
And I was like, okay, hold on. Yeah, no friends there.
And it looked like fame all of a sudden was really fading quickly. You know those pictures of Michael J.
Fox and his brothers and sisters where their legs start disappearing? Oh, and Back to the Future. It was just a picture of my head.
Everything was gone. I was like, yo, if I don't get famous quick.
You realize you were on minute 17. Yeah.
Of the 15 minutes. You're like, uh-oh.
I mean, I auditioned for MTV's Who Wants to Be a VJ. Do you remember that? Sure, sure, yeah.
With Dave Holmes and Jesse. And then I started getting good at stand-up quicker than i should have let's talk about your dad though one second because i know this part from i was on your show your dad lets you have it at one point yeah this to me on the surface sounds like the wrong approach but it really worked for you tell monny what happened on my 26th birthday i woke up no air conditioner in new york on a leather couch hung over shit it's probably 9 30 and the phone rings it's my dad i look caller id he probably just wants to wish me happy birthday.
I woke up, no air conditioner in New York on a leather couch, hung over shit. It's probably 930.
And the phone rings. It's my dad.
I look, caller ID. He probably just wants to wish me happy birthday.
I'll let him do it. I'll go back to sleep.
I was like, Hey, what's up? He was like, you are a tremendous piece of shit. And I was like, what? And he goes, I just perjured myself in court.
I have never perjured myself. The judge said, Mr.
Kreiser, how's your son doing in New York? And I said, fantastic, your honor. That's a lie.
You have no humility. You are a fucking party boy.
You have nothing. You don't deserve what you have.
He really broke me off. Now I'm sitting up sweating still.
I go, it's my birthday. Yeah, that's a fair response.
And he goes, I don't know what fucking day it is. Are you fucking kidding me? That's why I'm calling you.
I remember saying, well, how do I fix it? And he goes, you can't. He goes, I fucked up and it's my problem't know what fucking day it is are you fucking kidding me that's why i'm calling you i remember saying well how do i fix it and he goes you can't he goes i fucked up and it's my problem i'll deal with it i'll help you out we'll figure this out together but just have fun be a party boy and i was like hold on oh even worse he's resigned and by the way he wasn't doing the fake thing of like it wasn't reverse stupid dog yeah yeah he had like given up you're a fucking mulligan you're gonna be a failure forever let's game plan that yeah i was like dad stop for real i want to fix this and he goes you don't have the skills to fix it what you need is humility that is what you don't have you're too proud to do with someone that wants something will do and he goes it's my fault you should have worked in warehouses you should have done the hard work you didn't do it so i fucked up and up.
And I was like, hang on. This is like a rough one.

I remember my sisters laughed out loud.

But I told him, I go, tell me what I need to do.

And he goes, if you want my advice tonight, you go to that comedy club you go to and you ask for a job.

You tell him you'll do anything.

You'll mop the floors.

And I go, OK, I can't do it tonight because I have a birthday party planned.

One more day is a piece of shit, please.

It's like a junkie going, can I party on the plane?

I already bought some. Can I get through that? We'll go to treatment after.
He goes, you don't deserve a party. Oh man, he was fucking.
He goes, what are you celebrating? My sisters are like, that's so dad right there. And he goes, you've got nothing.
You're a piece of shit. That article was 20 months ago.
It was. And I said, okay, I'll do what you said.
What if they say no? And he goes, it doesn't matter. You just fucking go.
So I went to the club, went up to this guy, Louis Schaefer. I said, Hey, my name's Bert Kreischer.
And he goes, I know who you are. And I said, I would like a job.
I'd like the opportunity to stand up. I came to be a stand up.
I'll clean up. I'll mop up.
I'll put chairs out. I'll do whatever you want.
And he said, can I give you my advice? And I said, sure. He said, move back to Florida.
I was like, cool. So I went to the bag it in, had a drink, went down to McDougal ale house, met my friends, celebrated my party, woke up the next day, called my dad.
And I was like, didn't work. And he goes, perfect.
You show up again tonight. You say the same thing.
And if he stops you, you say, here's the deal, buddy. I'm looking for an opportunity.
And I'm going to keep asking you this question every single night for the rest of your God-given life until you give me an opportunity. So I go, dad, I'm gonna look like a fool.
He goes, no, no, no. He goes, I want you to think about a young black kid in Harlem who doesn't have everything that's been given to you and think how hard he's going to fight for that opportunity.
So you think how lucky you are. So I walked in the next night and I was like, hello, Shaver.
My name is Bert Kreischer. And he goes, can I tell you to move back to Florida? I go, Hey man, here's the deal.
Okay. My dad called me a piece of shit yesterday.
I was supposed to have a party. I didn't even really get to have a party.
It was easier in college. This seemed so much easier when it was given to me.
And working for it seems so difficult. And he said, I'll put you out front and you bark.
If you can bring in 20 people, I'll give you 20 bucks. I'll give you a dollar for everyone you bring in and I'll put you on at the end of the night.
And I went deal. Stay tuned for more armchair Expert, if.
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Two things happened that night. Patrice O'Neill, Rich Voss, Jim Norton, and I think Bobby Kelly were standing on the side of the street.
Do you know who Patrice O'Neill is? I know Patrice. Patrice was catcalling women.
Now, I'm working the street, and I don't know these guys at all. And I said, I can't believe you think that would work.
Because I've never seen a cat call. Cause I go in Florida.
It's about foot traffic. We don't have that.
And so he goes, shut the fuck up. And I was like, that's not how you'd hit on a woman.
It sounds aggressive. He was like, what would you do? And a beautiful woman, probably 35.
Now I had to talk to her anyway, cause I tried to get her to a club. I said, you look tired.
Why don't I take you out and I'll buy you a glass of wine. I'll listen to your day.
And she went, I'm okay. And they made fun of me.
Yeah. She heard them make fun of me and she came back.
She goes, you know what? I'll take you up on that glass of wine. And I looked at her and I went, I can't.
I don't have any money. No, I go, I just got my dream job.
My dad called me a piece of shit yesterday. Everything's working out.
I can't throw it away for you. And I went, I can't.
And she went for real. And I went, no.
And she walked away and I went, fuck. Louis Shaver's like, you got a job.
He's like, you come every night. We'll put you up.
Six months later, Will Smith discovered me, gave me a development deal. And I moved out here.
Holy shit. I'm sorry to run my own interview, but I'll tell you the thing that I think is interesting in this.
Now I'm on the track to fame, development deal, hanging out with Will Smith all the time. He's introducing me to everyone is his guy.
I'm like, fame's right there. It's going to happen again.
the fx x show and i'm on tv every night things are happening i'm meeting sammy hagar and slash and i'm meeting famous people and one day i'm sitting in my car on the corner of franklin by vine kind of beautiful winter day in la in the morning i'm driving the set of a jason williams jersey on white chocolate jason williams fuck yeah when he played. Yeah, yeah.
I'm in my expedition. Eddie Bauer.
I'm listening to Ja Rule. Oh, fuck yeah.
And I'm like, this is it. And I go, I thought I'd be happier.
I guess it wasn't fame. I've got all the things I want.
I have a development deal at Fox that's ending. I have one that's starting up again at CBS.
I have a TV show. I'm doing everything I've ever wanted to do.
You're still doing stand-up throughout this? No. And so I lose it all.
Meet Leanne, fall in love. What do you mean you lose it all? Fire, it just goes away.
Shows aren't hits. What age was that? 27 is that day.
And then I meet Leanne at 29. Now from 27 to 29, I get back into stand-up really aggressively.
Yeah, you're like, this is what brought me to the party the first time. The lesson my dad gave me about humility, it was the biggest thing that ever helped because I was cool with sucking my pride in.
I call it the improv and now I've been on television shows. There's cachet for a comedy club.
And then Aaron's like, yeah, I can't really just give you spots, but if you want, I'll let you host hosting in LA is frowned upon back in the day. It was meaning that's not what a real comedian does.
The first time I did it, my wife brought her best friend and a few friends and her best friend said in front of everyone, I didn't know you were going to host. Let us know when you do stand up next time.
Oh, yeah. I was like, okay.
That's stung. And I started hosting.
This is what I got to do. This is what I got to do.
And I just kind of worked my way back up. And then I got an opportunity to host in Ontario, which was a bigger opportunity.
And then I met a couple of guys and then I started touring and going out on the road and everything was going great, but not making any money. 700 bucks a week, you got to pay managers and agents and you got to pay for travel and sometimes lodging.
It's gone. It's gone.
But then I married Leanne and we were broke. So broke.
I didn't know we were broke. One day she sent me to the store to get milk and I got a gallon of milk and I bought a tall boy of Foster's.
I was listening to Spoon. That's the way we'll get by.
And I was on my skateboard and I was skating and we lived on Detroit street and I was the happiest I'd ever been. This is fucking it.
Broke, no fame, but in the throes of standup. So good at standup at that time.
Two kids, my wife worked for the buildings. We had a great apartment and I had a tall boy of Foster's.
And I was like, Leanne might be pissed that I bought beer with whatever money she sent me to the store with. And Leanne happened to be watching me skate home.
When I got upstairs, she was like, don't ever lose whoever just walked in that door. And I was like, yeah, that's what you want.
The fame wasn't the thing. And I didn't know that it was the work doing standup was the thing I loved purpose, the purpose.
Now listen, I am famous now and I fucking love it. Access to anything is good.
Well, I would argue too, your particular version of fame is really fun because you're a good time Charlie. You're like a turnkey.
When you show up, people are like, oh, we're partying. That's the association.
Yeah. So generally when people see you, they're fucking pumped to have a good time.
I love to have a good time. When does this stand up take off where you're headlining and you're starting to make good money i worked for travel channel for like eight years you would go to amusement parks and stuff you would go on thrill rides you jumped up the stratosphere and you're afraid of all this stuff yeah eight years i did that for three years and then i did another show called trip flip for four years i was also a little bit of like a rover for them they needed someone to do something they could plug me I was always good with ad sales.
I could help sell Carnival Cruises and then they go, let's just do a show about Carnival Cruises. We got money from Carnival Cruises.
I got fired from that. For a specific reason or just it ran its course? No, it just ran its course.
I was like, I would sign deals. Millianne always says, don't say fired, but that's what it feels like.
They just didn't renew your deal. The lady called me and she was like, hey, I think we're done working with you.
We're not going to renew your deal. She had never worked with me.
She was a new president. She was like, so good luck.
Really cold. I could take back one conversation in the world.
It would be that one. So I was like, okay, but you know, I don't want to work with anyone.
Like I was just so needy. Yeah, of course.
Yeah. Scared.
My Showtime special was coming out. This is 2016.
The machine. Yeah.
That's the game changer, right? Not yet. Here's what happened.
I had the deal over at NBC. I lose interest in that.
I'm kind of going through, I guess what is depression? I find out, I mean, I don't know what depression feels like for real people, but my thing of it where it just sucks a little bit. You went down to a 7.5 for a couple of weeks.
Yeah. I was spending longer on the toilet than I normally do.
I was only able to sleep nine hours uninterrupted last night. I put a lot of chips in this special, the machine.
I was like, pop they told me when i shot it they're like hey can we do one version with your shirt on when did that start you doing stand up with your shirt off i couldn't tell you exactly i would say probably 12 years ago i was in dayton ohio it was not a sold room it was like 75 people and i was like this is not where i want to be, let alone this actual place. And Doc brought me a six pack of beer in a bucket.
And he's like, have fun tonight. I heard it is fucking good luck.
And I thought, man, these people paid money. They don't deserve to see me get upset and say, I'm not happy.
So I got on stage and Doc was in the booth. He was playing Ram Jam, Black Betty.
Hail my money. Hail, Hail, Hail, Black Betty.
The pacing to walk the stage is pretty awesome. And it fired me up.
got up there and i went fuck this and i ripped my shirt off 75 people went nuts i think i murdered six beers in a row back to back to back to back to back because i kept looking to dock i go one more and the place was like yeah yeah and it was a thursday night one show you were like steve austin stone cold that energy and it started that night i've been doing it ever since it's so weird how you can stumble into these things that are such signature. I do the Showtime special shirtless.
This is back when changing a channel was a thing. For anyone listening, there was a thing you hold in your hand and there was a plus and a minus sign.
And you decide to go up a channel or down a channel if you didn't like what you saw. And mostly you spent the entire two hours flicking.
You never even watched a whole thing. This is the difference in media.
Not to get too heady on on this when you had that remote in your hand you were caesar you were thumbs up thumbs down so now the thing in traditional media where you have the remote in your hand and you're caesar and a guy shirtless comes on stage and you go oh fuck that click is the exact opposite on the internet you see a guy with your shirt off you go wait what's that And so I shot the machine, lowest special they'd ever had on show time. Oh no, they told you that? How did you even find that out? They told us and they were like, you know, you could help to promote it.
I was like, huh? And like, it's tracking to be the lowest we've ever done. I heard someone say this at the Oscars, success in Hollywood means I get to work again.
I get to keep working. Exactly.
But this meant I might not keep working. Last special you'll ever have.
Now I look at my at my tour dates and I have no tickets sold. And then like, you know, you got to fix this somehow.
And I was like, oh my God. Now at the time I was supposed to do a tour with Tommy.
It was funny or die. I was supposed to do four weekends.
Sebastian, Tommy, Fluffy, Dane, I think was on Eliza. It was going to be fun.
I was getting paid $2,000 a weekend, which isn't bad money. And then they pulled my weekends and I told Tom and I was like, it's so's so crazy, man.
They pulled my weekends. And he was like, holy shit, man, that's a lot of money.
And I went, well, it's only like $2,000. He goes, $2,000 a show? I said, no, $2,000 for the weekend.
And he goes, no, I think you got that wrong. I go, wait, what are you getting paid? Oh no.
With boys, right? Yeah. And I was like, I don't know if I want to tell you.
And I was like, why? And he goes, I'm afraid it'll fuck up our friendship. So I'm sitting there in my man cave.
I'm like, all right, give me a second. I go, can I be happy for this man's success? And what's the price point where I can be happy? And where's the price point where I'm going to be like, okay, fuck that guy.
So my head, I go, if he's getting 20,000 for the weekend, I'm happy for him. I said, what are you getting? And he goes, I'm getting 20,000.
I went, cool. And he goes, a show.
A show? A fucking show? You're making 80 grand on these weekends? And he was like, I told you what I'm going to tell you. But I was like, I already decided we're friends.
So I'm like, okay, I'm cool. But then in that time, we're doing a little podcast called Rogan, which at the time is not what it is today.
Meaning you are appearing on it. Yeah.
And Rogan loves that we're fat shaming. So Tom and I go on, we talk about the fat shaming.
He goes, why don't we do weigh-ins at the end of the year, January 1st, second, and third, we'll do three sets of weigh-ins. That's three episodes of Rogan back to back to back where people are tuning in because we've talked about it.
You guys do the weight loss challenge. See who loses the most weight in December.
So I'm like, okay, my special bombed. So I'm trying to figure out how to rebound.
I go, I know how to edit. I get the raw file of my special and I edit out four clips to post on Facebook, Twitter.
I've learned it all. I've learned how to make graphics.
I write my own graphics. I post the machine story, December 27th.
Me and Tom go in to do weight loss challenges on the first and second. And during that week, the machine story goes viral.
I'd never experienced anything like it. And that first week in Jersey at the Stress Factory, which staff raffle, that was the first club I sold out.
And I said to them on Saturday night, I go, why are you guys here? And someone goes, the fucking machine. And I go, I retired that.
And he goes, the fuck you did. Tell it.
That's the only reason we're here. So I told the machine at that moment, 2017, that first weekend, January 8th, 9th, 10th, I've sold out every show I've ever done.
God, that's only eight years ago. I got it late in life, which is the best thing that can happen.
Yeah, it's great. Yeah, because you're so rich now.
Oh. You're so rich.
You can Google it. I'm gonna.
Okay, so really quick, I want to know. So you've since done, I guess, five stand-up specials.
This will be your fourth on Netflix. You had the show Time One.
You had a couple on comedy central last year when you toured, did you do a full tour last year? Yeah. Last year was my arena tour.
Okay. So how many dates did you do? I don't know.
I do more dates than the average comic, which is fascinating. Cause if you look at when they post all our earnings, you know, top 10, most earning comics, you look where I am and you're like, wow, that's impressive.
But then when you look at the other comics and you're like, oh, Chappelle only did 13 dates. That's not that impressive.
That's the thing. It's like deceptive about those things.
Sure. Well, who cares? You can get it anyway.
Who cares? But I work a lot. I always do Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, three weeks a month with maybe a week off.
I would go out Wednesday, do first weekend. So do you fly to meet your tour bus? I fly to meet my tour bus okay and then monday i'd fly to go see tommy in austin we do podcast tuesday and then i leave tuesday night to go meet the tour bus i do another run i then fly out to do more podcasts or fly back to do pocket and then go back out and meet my tour bus oh my god this is a lot when you don't have anything not say i didn't have when you wanted the success, you wanted the fans, you wanted the opportunity to stand up all over the country and have people show up.
When it shows up, you're like, I am not letting go of this. I look at like NFL players and they have all their great years when they're 22, 23, 24.
It's heartbreaking. I'm so lucky to have them at 49, 50, 51, 52 to a movie.
And then you're getting all these opportunities. You just don't want to say no.
You no you're like fuck yeah man let's get after it and you don't feel overwhelmed by all those commitments overshare yeah please do a year ago we're closing on our festival and the girls and leanne were like cut the shit if i'm not mistaken i think they had a bed for me at betty ford those are hard to come by by the way yeah and had to talk with me but they're like dad he can stop working. He can't stop drinking.
He can't stop eating. I was 285 pounds and I saw it in me first.
And I said to myself, let me get through this tour. And then I'm going to stop.
I'm going to take some time off and I'm going to clean my lifestyle up and I'm going to still work. No booze, eat keto, lose weight.
And what's crazy is randomly a friend of ours was going a little harder than I was. And he took that bed and no one said anything to me, but I had already quit drinking like 13 days before.
Everyone was chomping at the bit to tell me, but I'd already got in front of it. And then I quit drinking for like three months.
I lost 55 pounds. I got in really good shape.
I started touring again and I was doing it in a very healthy manner. But what was happening was I've never really taken a break.
Don't you think it's also dangerous when you have this thing to lean on, which is like something's working so well in your life. You're like, yeah, I'm drinking more than I should, but everything's going exactly how I would want.
It's very hard to confront when everything's working. It's wildly difficult to tell someone that's bringing in millions of dollars that what they're doing isn't working.
No one touches the golden goose, even if the golden goose bites you in the dick a couple of times. But at the end of July, they were witnessing the same.
I just shot my special and they're like, what are you going to do? Are you going back on the road? And I'd planned a European tour. And they're like, dad, why don't you take some real time off, get grounded.
And I didn't understand that getting grounded meant getting really lost in order to get grounded., you got to be scared. Yeah.
With all the distractions gone and you have to sit with yourself. So I took a break and in taking a break, I was like, yo, I'm very fucked up.
I need distractions. I need something in front of me.
I need a goal. I need to sell some tickets.
I got to write a script. And my wife's like, no, no, you're not doing anything.
You can do podcasts, but that's it. I've been off in a ditch trying to figure myself out.

And then just recently, we got that bench press competition.

All of a sudden, started writing because I had a goal.

I understood goals, and I was like, cool.

And then I had a show.

By the way, you just have to set goals on the personal frontier.

Like, you can still be goal-driven.

Just can't be externally motivated.

Yeah, they're all for me, the creative frontier.

I can set goals creatively. But like, personally, I go, I don't know, man, my wife and I got in couples therapy that helped immensely.
We're not having a problem. We did it because I'm home for the first time.
Yeah. My girls are gone.
It's me and her. We have a joke where when we wake up, instead of saying, I love you, she just goes you again, huh? And so couples therapy started really opening my eyes to some shit about me.
I mean, I think she got me into couples therapy just to get me into therapy. I know a few women who've done that.
He's not going to go solo. So I guess I'll have to fucking sit through his session.
Dude, I smoked her on the first one. Fucking killed it.
No, I smoked her. She lost so bad.
I look at it, win or lose. Yeah, of course.
Everything's competition. By the way, if she cries in couples therapy, that's a cheat.
It's a fucking cheat. It's a cheat.
It's like pretending to be a fair catch and then catching it and run. I go, no, if you cry, goddammit.
No, that's your fault for not being able to sit through her crying. I said, this is kind of an unfair therapy because she's crying.
She goes, unfair. Yeah, it's like, that's my feeling.
Oh, you want me to cry? I can easily whip up some tears. Show me a commercial.
Yeah. Let me tell you about a Grateful Dead song.
But on the first therapy we were in there, Leanne just really loves therapy. She's talking and talking and I'm just trying to feel it out.
And I went and say something, Leanne cut me off. And the lady goes, do you ever let him talk? And I was like, take the win.
I was like, I'm just going to sit back in the cut. And the cut and i like seldomly you've been with me for what an hour and i let you say a fucking word so you were playing again she smoked me a couple times okay sure and i know this next week i'm definitely gonna fucking lose i'm going in just taking a knee because she's got some real things to report what'd you do it was a good one i can't even talk about it because i gotta let it happen first and then run it by leanne because it was a real one and it wasn't my fault but i was like i don't know but it was i really wish i could talk about it when we brought it up in front of friends the other day and it started again and i went oh i was like okay maybe i can't make a joke out of this one can't make a joke out of everything like my daughter got her period i talked about it on stage yeah what is the vibe at home because almost all your stories involve your wife and your girls and you do an impression of your wife it varies wildly throughout the show and you acknowledge it how comfortable are they what's that dynamic like it's interesting when i started doing stand-up and using social media it wasn't a thing yet there was no chance of your family seeing no one was doing specials just on the road talking shit about your family.
That's interesting. When I started doing standup and using social media, it wasn't a thing yet.
There was no chance of your family seeing. No one was doing specials just on the road talking shit about your family.
That's right. And the harder it went, the funnier it went.
I remember telling the first joke I told that caught traction. George and Isla were laughing one morning, early in the morning.
I said, what are you guys doing? They're like, you gotta see baby Isla's new trick. I go, what is it? She's like, it's not that funny.
If I tell you, you gotta see it. I said, okay.
So Isla is three at the time, takes her finger, shoves it up her ass and puts it in the dog's mouth. Oh my God.
Yeah. Wow.
They figured that out. It turned into a good bit and I told it.
And then by the way, I got to do a special. They're only like five and seven.
Tell it again. They're not going to hear it.
Yes. And then do another one.
And then they're seven and 10 and then they're 10 and 13. And the first time it bit me in the ass was the period party.
I mean, it's like such a good bit. It writes itself.
I didn't have to do anything. It was presented to me as a fucking banger on a silver platter.
13 years old. Kid gets her period at school.
Calls dad and says, hey, go to the store and get a red velvet cake. I'm throwing a period party tonight.
I'm like, okay. It's on.
Yeah, yeah. And so I tell it on Conan.
Uh-oh tell it on conan oh she didn't like oh boy well anytime schoolmates can get wind of it that's what you don't want them to have to deal with conan walks in and he's like hey man how are the girls i said good good i said isla just got her period and he went oh i said yeah you're telling me i go we had a period party and he's like wait what and i tell him the story he goes whoa whoa save it can you tell it on stage and i was like yeah yeah because you're like you want to do well yes you want to make conan happy and then that night i watched it how are your girls oh good i just got a period she has pause she goes do people watch this oh no i was like yeah yeah yeah yeah she was like how many i said a lot she was like will people in my school see this and i was like yeah probably she was like wait let me see the my God. She was fine.
I could tell something was off. And then the next morning, Leanne was like, Isla, I need you to see something.
And it was a flood of emails of little girls going, thank you, you're my hero. Thank you so much for sharing.
Oh, okay. So it had a positive ending.
I just got my period today. My dad's doing a period party for me.
I put my finger on my ass and put it in the red velvet cake and then the dog ate it. Yeah i think that's much worse than the period party yeah you can get away with that three and then the last special or maybe the one before she had a line that i wanted to use so bad it was so good you ran it by her and she said no i didn't even run it by her she saw my set the girls now come and vet my sets oh okay that's fair they've learned they were at the forum with notebooks going nope she's, you can't put that in the special.
I go, but you said it. She goes, I know, but I said it to you.
She goes, I can't be the person that said that out loud to everybody. Yeah.
And I was like, baby, I'll give you 20 grand. She was like, no.
And I just kept going up. Good for her.
Yeah. Them and Leanne, initially, when I was doing it at the the forum i'd done so much of the shit about

leanne that it kind of came out angryish yeah angry yeah and they were like yo dad you're losing your smile in this joke and then my director said that to me and my best friend who produces my specials he was yeah man the smile's gone like i think you've been doing it too much you need to stop and then find it again and so i got the smile back for it because i talk shit about a 54,

I almost threw up saying it,

54 year old woman.

If you don't make that fun it does sound like you're shitting on women we need to know at all times you're deeply in love with it's a fine line to walk my danger isn't politics and my danger isn't racial shit and they may have been at times in my career i mean i have a political joke in the special i don't give a shit no one's gonna fucking leave me for it well you'll love it he takes a very pro-choice stance on behalf of yeah well you're not gonna love it love it yeah yeah you're gonna also dislike some of it okay cool so you actually watch the special yeah yeah watching last night of course yeah yeah okay so i love burt kreischer finder of things this is your self-proclaimed identity marker. And I think this is the funniest trait to have.
How does one come to this realization that this is your knack? It's a little bit of delusion. When I was 14 years old, we were in Anna Maria Island.
I was with the Lazara family. We were in chest high water.
And Benny Lazara said, oh shit, I just lost my ring. And I went, really? And I had this feeling that God whispered in my ear, you'll find it.
And I swear to God, I went over to where he was, I put my foot down and I stood on his ring. Wow.
And you're a hero. I went underwater and I grabbed it.
And this is my thing. I love the sparkle.
I said, uncle Benny, what are you going to say to me? If I say I have your ring in my hand right now, he said, I'll tell you right now, if you are holding my ring in your hand, you are my favorite child in this water. And I love you more than my son.
Great. Boom.
And he went, how the fuck did you do that? And I go, I don't know. And my whole life, I've been able to do that my fucking whole life.
If you lose something, I have a weird confidence where I just go, I'll find it. And by the way, also, I'll put in the work to find it.
Some people go, oh, let's look. And then they don't really look.
And I go, you're not really committed to this finding. Yeah.
Well, and you have to, because it's now an identity marker. If you don't find it, you don't know who you are now.
I'm going to tell you, this is a wild one. 15 years ago, back when SeaWorld was acceptable to people, we went to SeaWorld San Diego.
When you could go guilt-free. Yeah.
When you were like, that was cool. Shamu rocks.
He looked happy. Since we don't have Shamammu have you noticed the orcas are acting up a little bit you think they want i think they might have found out what we did and they're not afraid of us anymore interesting there's a lot of theories out there but we have not considered that shammu went and told everyone it's like remember your friend who's lights a cigarette in his bedroom you're like what are you doing she's like that bitch won't do shit to me anymore i'm 15 what's she gonna say fuck you old lady and that's the orcas yeah they're like spoiled rotten kids they're like wait we're bigger and smarter than these people anyway we go to sea world and we're walking to the parking lot and i find a diamond ring with an engravement in it and i go wow it's crazy so i'm gonna give this back to the person i'm gonna find the person that this is and leanne said honey i call sea world i go lost and found they go yeah yeah no one reported rain just drop it off i go no no no because i don't trust you guys i already see what you're doing yeah you're not a house of ethics here by the way twitter's not even around yet probably a year later i post a clip i hold on to this ring i'm like hey i found a ring at sea world it's got an engravement it's rubies and a diamond it's a really nice ring and it's expensive and i go if, if you lost this ring, fine.
My daughter comes in. She's young.

She's dressed as a kitty cat. It's a cute video.

Radio silence. At one point, we're

really low on money. And Leanne goes,

if we sell this ring, it could get us

out of the hole. And I said, that's not our ring to sell.

That's someone's ring that I'm holding

until I give it to them. This is like a

George Costanza type storyline.

Delusional. It's very endearing.

I go on podcasts. I talk about the ring.
I talk about the fucking ring everywhere. I have this ring.
I'm pretending to hold it in my hand right now. 2020, seven years later, my wife calls and says, someone reached out about the ring.
Oh my God. I said, for real.
She goes, yeah. She says it's her mother's ring.
She knows the inscription and she lives in San Diego and she would like to come to your show. I have a show there.
And if she gives you the right inscription, then it's obviously her ring. This woman comes up with her husband.
She's emotional. And she goes, I think you have my mother's ring.
What's the inscription? She goes, the inscription is in cursive. It's LH plus dot dot.
Those are my parents' initials. I go, here's your mother's ring.
You didn't make her go, what are you gonna say if I because you like to do that part you like a lot of acclaim I go here's your mother's ring do you think your mother would be happy that I gave you her ring back okay so a little bit of that she looks at me and she goes my mother was a cunt oh my god she goes I swear to god she died and she gave me this one ring and I hated my mother and I was at SeaWorld and it fell out of my purse and I said she fucking lost this ring because she hated me and she wanted to prove me a lesson and I go really I go what are you gonna do with the ring now she goes I'm gonna fucking sell it and I went oh wow you could have sold the goddamn ring it could have helped us kids could have gone to private school wow what a turn almost if she said like I threw that away in a parking lot so I'd never hear about it or see it again i didn't want to be reminded of her yes keep talking about it i have always found shit you know what i'm doing to promote this special and my wife thinks i'm a lunatic i see pennies all the time i always pick up pennies look this is the eight-year-old side of you if you can get me into a game you have burnt lost for the day i'm set so i got a hundred dollars worth of pennies that's a

lot of fucking pennies oh my god it's too many pennies 10 000 pennies i'm throwing them all over the city i put them in front of people's cars so when they go to their car they're like hey good luck i don't know if it works or not but maybe that's a nice gesture i like if you can gamify life?

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I go back on tour. I haven't announced it, but I'll say it.
I have a new a new tour called permission to party which you came up with in an interview you were doing i did i was talking to this guy and he goes i'm kind of confused i've been to one of your shows these guys are taking their shirts off and they're not in great shape and they're watching the whole show shirtless and they're with their wives and they're getting hammered and he's like why you and i said this for real i was like i've always given people to party. I've always been the guy that like a kid's birthday party.
They're like, yo, are you going to ask for beer? Because we're all winning a beer. It's Sunday morning.
No one wants to be here. I had the same role.
I would always show up at my friend's house with a six pack. And they were like, oh, this is great.
You brought a six pack. We're doing this.
Like, yes, I would go first all the time. I love it.
I wasn't going to drink this weekend. So I was like, I'm going to get ready for the month.
We just went in from Spain. Saturday is four o'clock.
It's a beautiful Saturday. Remember Saturday was a good one.
Yeah. It got really warm.
Dan goes, I could have a glass of rosé. Now I'll never say no to a glass of rosé ever in my life.
If I get sober, if you offer me rosé, I'll still drink it. Yeah.
I love rosé. It's a good one.
Oh my God. It creeps up on you so quick.
Oh, the pandemic. We drink so much rosé.
I drink so much rosé during the pandemic. Oh my God.
At one point I go, am I just drinking perfume? Can I tell you how much rosé they drink? Oh my God. Because we all hung out here.
There's a liquor store that's two and a half blocks away. And I would get on my motorcycle and we started this thing where they would time me to see how fast I could arrive back at the house with four bottles of Rosé.
Hold on, am I finding my people? The final one was sub two minutes. It was like a minute and 45 seconds.
I was back. And then I got back.
I was like, I got to call it at that. I ran the red light.
I was going 95 miles an hour on Franklin. I left the gate open so I could blow in.
That's how bad we needed it. We sent an alcoholic to go pick up our wine.
On a motorcycle. Can I tell you what I just discovered this year? Campari spritz.
I don't know if I like Campari. I'm going to have to try it.
Campari tastes a little earthier. So when I was a kid, there was a commercial, Campari on ice.
Oh, so nice. And I remember going, Ooh, I want to get into Campari as a kid.
What Campari is that a brand or a type of alcohol it's a aperitif I think and it's basically liqueur but it's got a very earthy taste to it two parts Prosecco two parts Campari splash of soda water wow I think you should make that tonight I'm going to sunset tower tonight and so maybe can I okay can we start a game sure because once again if you gamify life this will be so fun but we got to do a three-way text because i can't text great it's creepy if i'm like what are you fucking the old vice president what's his name pence can't be in a room with a woman other than his wife unless someone else is present to be very clear yeah you are i never but we should do a group text where each other what to drink. Maybe we're emotional cheating in that.
Then I'm like, I want to be where she is. Yeah, you'd be like, oh, I'd kill for that.
They don't have that at my bar. Wait, what bar are you at? Yes.
I had a very attractive female comic. She goes, you know, I really like you.
And I was like, thanks. She's like, I feel like we connect.
And I go, we kind of do. She was like, would you be my drinking buddy? Sometimes I want to go get a drink.
I don't want to get hit on. And I kind of just want to have a buddy that I can talk shit with and talk shit about comedy.
Would you be my drinking buddy? And I was like, yeah. So the one night I'm at home with Leanne, it's like eight o'clock at night.
And I get a call from her. I go, hey, what's up? She goes, hey, I'm going out.
You want to come meet me up? I was like, yeah, done. And I hit it.
I go, hey, I got to go. She's like, what's going on? I was like, what's your name? She said we're going to go out.
Leanne's like, are you on a date? And I go, no, just me and her. It's like, we're gonna go drink.
And Leanne's like, hold on. You're not going out drinking with just a random woman.
I go, it's not a random woman. I've known her for eight years.
She's my drinking buddy. We connect.
I had to call her back and go, my wife will let me come. Yeah.
I'll tell you a person for real. She'd admit this.
She'd make fun of me for saying this. Whitney Cummings and I have a real connection as comics, almost like brother and sister.
She is really close with my daughters, really close with my wife. But I will tell you this, and this is my perspective, or more importantly, it's Leanne and her boyfriend, Chris's perspective.
If we go out on a double date, Whitney and I just take off on our own. We went to the Greek to go see Sturgill, and both of them were looking at us like, are you guys together? Are we going to be here? And then we went to her kid's birthday party and Whitney and I just took off.
Now, let me ask you this though, because my wife is so grateful for that. I have several friends that are female that I get on with like that.
And my wife is like, oh my God, thank God I don't have to receive all of his energy tonight. It's on someone else's plate and he needs to talk so fucking much and I don't want to talk that much.
She's like grateful for it. Leanne, I'm trying to bite my tongue because I'm trying to say like the first time Leanne saw me and Whitney hang out.
And Whitney is like a sister to me. And I mean that for real.
My daughters call her Aunt Whitney. You got her name tattooed on your back.
Like your bros. Yeah.
bros yeah we went to dr woo whatever my wife's like you can't ignore it because you guys are good together so she's like if you have a show you need to hire her as your wife your sister you need to work together yes she was like but remember your chemistry is just funny she's like if you fucked her she wouldn't like it yeah don't get confused yeah don't get confused i really honestly love whitney like a sister so you text her right obviously you're not only on three-way text i gotta be honest with you i bet it's a three-way text wow but you know also i don't read text so like a lot of people go if i'm gonna text bird i'll text leanne too i guess the four of us could be on a text no we couldn't do it it couldn't be one-on-one because it would turn into emotional cheating okay all right okay right. Okay.
Then we can't do it. But I am going to have a martini tonight.
So I am telling you now that is what I'm going to be doing. Okay.
Let's play the game just live then. Yeah, live.
Okay. Tell me what to drink and I'll tell you what to drink.
And this got to be the first drink you have. Oh, this is a fun game.
Yes. Have you had Frenette? I have.
That's a. It's an aperitif too, I think.
Yes. So my buddy, Mark Smalls always has a shot of Frenette to start the night.
Oh. And it turned into a fun thing where we'd all have a shot of Fournette and no one really enjoys Fournette.
But if you drink Fournette enough, you start to enjoy the fact that you don't like it. Okay.
Get me on a new one. All right.
It's a fun way to take the thinking out of it. Just walk up and go, shot of Fournette, please.
You're already trying to limit the amount of drinks that you like. So the notion of making yourself like one that you don't like is really funny.
But I'm going to do it. But okay, I'm telling you your drink and you should invite your wife in to do this.
You should make this for both of you. No, it's just me and you.
OK, cool. Great.
A bee's knees. Don't even tell me what it is.
Do you know what it is? Can I tell you kind of the fun of this is going, can I get a bee's knees, please? Oh, and then sipping it and going, oh, she knows me so well. OK, great.
But do they know it everywhere? Yeah. If to a good place, I'll know it.
I like a Brandy Alexander and a pack of Palma. Yeah, yeah.
Well, Bert, you're a goddamn delight. We really did it.
Just like when I was on yours. We went for it.
We went hard. I'm so glad that I get to eat my words and say, I'm so happy you got into podcasting.
Oh, thank you. I'm being serious, man.
If for nothing, I've said this to you before. People have brought this up to me about what a great, great episode.
And I'm the same way, live by the sword, die by the sword, where I'm 100% honest. Maybe I'm over-honest.
Maybe I overshare. But when you talked about falling off the wagon, I remember where I was when I listened to it.
I remember just how vulnerable it was and how cool it was to hear someone take accountability. And the conversation you got, it was just incredible.
I think it was it was during the pandemic yeah and i was in the pool listening to it only real podcast listeners us diehards know the feeling when you've got a phone and you're just right there and you're with every word and someone's like hey can i get you go hang on stop i'm in the middle of something and they're like what i'm like my friend dax fell know him so well. He just flushed 16 years of sobriety.
Shut the fuck up. It's crazy.
I said, when I first met Rogan, I'd listened to so much of the podcast. He invited me to do the podcast.
I went to his house. I go, I know this guy.
He's like my buddy. And I never met him.
I was like, hey, hey, man. He was like, it's good to meet you.
And I was like, I know you. And he was like, what? And I was like, I need to meet your dogs.
I need to see your deprivation tank. I want to play a game of pool i want to get high and then i'll be ready i go look man i'm a big fan i need to get this out it's an interesting fun relationship podcasters and their listeners yeah all right well everyone check out lucky it's on netflix couldn't be easier for you to consume it's hilarious i really adore you i'm really glad that we got to do each other's shows i am too

yeah you're such a sweet boy truly you're such this is like a big old fucking heart in you and i love it i think it's just because i drink a lot no enlarged well it is probably enlarged but it's also very sweet all right so everyone wants lucky and we'll do this again i can't wait He is an armchair expert, but he makes mistakes all the time.

Thank God Monica's here.

She's got to let him have the facts. I loved that show.
So did I. I loved it.
I loved anything that was like inside, inside information into the lives of celebrities. So wild.
Yeah. I loved Cribs and you have so nosy.
I wanted to know how everyone lived, what their style was, how big their house was, what kind of cars they had. But you know what else was fun about Cribs is like they would do like an LA actor.
Yeah. And they had like an okay house.
Right. Anytime they were in Atlanta for like a rapper or a basketball player, everyone had like 10,000 square foot houses on acreage and then huge driveways full of cars.
I'm like, oh, yeah, it's a lot more bang for your buck in other places. That's true.
I wasn't thinking like that back then. You weren't.
So I was just a little girl. Yeah.
That's our age difference. How old were you when you were watching it? It made you uncomfortable because so many of them were set up for partying.
It was all about like. Okay, you don't even know me.
Some of these places had dance clubs in them. I used to booty bump.
You don't even. Not at eight.
Okay, I think I was older than that. Let's see when Cribs came out.
When was it? Uh-oh, that's not a good Google because you know what it says. You know who's got a great episode of Cribs? Maybe the best.
Rosenbaum. Really? Oh, yeah.
He had someone hiding under the sheets in the bedroom when they were looking at the bedroom, and then the guy jumped out of the bed. Mariah Carey also had one.
Hers was infamous more than it was because she seemed a little unstable. She like took a bath during her episode.
Yeah, there was some, I remember a bath. If a guy did that, he'd go to jail probably.
Not then. Yeah, you're right.
Okay, yeah, premiered in 2000. So I was 12.
12. But you were a lot older.
I was 24. I was ready to go to one of those nightclubs in the house.
It is so crazy how age starts to mean nothing. But when you're young, this is just real proof that— I'm older? No, no.
That like these, when people are like, oh, it's not that big of a deal. It's like the 16 year old is what it's, it is like when I think about being the age I was watching Cribs.
Yeah. And then being 24.
Yeah. Wildly.
Who was your favorite? What are your favorite episodes of Cribs? Okay. I need to see.
I don't remember. Top 10 best episodes of Cribs.
It's funny to me. Now, mind you, I got to remember everyone that participated in Cribs was in their 20s.
No, Richard Branson. They did his island.
Yeah. I remember that one.
His private island. Yes.
10 best houses on MTV Cribs.

Lil Wayne.

Oh, my God.

They did Beyonce?

Oh, God.

Lil Wayne.

He has a plastic hot tub in the dead middle of his living room.

A lot of athletes.

Yeah.

Mariah Carey in her bathtub, as we discussed.

Shaq.

That was Orlando.

I remember Shaq's house. Yeah.
Tony Hawk, Russell Simmons. That was an older man.
I saw that one. Yeah.
That's a huge mansion. And Wilmer Valderrama.
Yes, he did. Oh, the Playboy Mansion did a cribs.
Aaron Carter, That's an infamous one. Yeah, 50 Cent.

R.I.P., right?

Who?

Oh.

I think so.

That's sad.

Yeah, Branson.

Oh, I wish they'd bring it back.

But anyways.

Would you do it?

No, no, no, no.

But I remember as soon as I owned a house thinking like, oh, no, God, no.

I don't want anyone to see where I live.

So I don't have that.

Are you going to do an episode when your house is down?

Not of Cribs, but I do.

You would do architecture.

The advanced version is architectural digest home tours, which I love.

I love looking at them, but I wouldn't participate in one.

You got a smell?

Something's going on.

Oh. Have you ever had a smell in your nose? Did you cook fish in your apartment last night? No.
Okay. As you're prone to do? Sometimes when you just get a smell in your nose, you can't get it out.
Sure. I don't smell it on me, but I'm really panicked.
This is, remember, we learned some people's OCD is that they are scared of smell. Okay, they did 19 seasons of Cribs.
Whoa! But there probably did multiple. There's three a year.
Yeah, exactly. They had a break from 2010 to 2021.
Okay, so 2010, yeah. So I could have definitely participated.
I think I was even asked. Yeah.
As an MTV alumni. Yeah, exactly.
You would have been perfect for them. But you didn't have like a bath.
You don't have things. I had an average house.
You would show your cars, I guess, your motorcycles. That's mostly what it probably would have been.
In the posters of yourself. In the garage.
Yeah. They're in the garage.
Well, they were in the house, remember? Not posters.

Bad, still bad.

I can own it.

But a lot of stills from the movies.

Well, is that even? Which are cool.

Can I see one?

What do you mean stills?

Like there's an on-set photographer and there's a picture of me and Luke Wilson in Idiocracy in a scene. I like the photo.
Yeah. I don't know if that's that bad, actually.
Yeah. I thought it was like posters.
Is that it? I do have that photo, but that wasn't the one I had on display. Look at my hair.
Look at you. You look so little.
You look just like Lincoln. It's crazy.
But look at my hairdo. Go ahead.
No, you just, I mean, I noticed this when we watched, when we did. Without a paddle.
Without a paddle. You just look so different.
Yeah. Like your face has changed.
Yeah. Isn't that weird? Yeah.
Like, obviously everyone gets older, but your face is different, I think. Yeah.
Yeah. I agree.
I think my neck is a lot thicker, which I think changes the whole look of your face. Oh.
That's like one of the big things I noticed, like when I'm watching Parenthood or something. Uh-huh.
Oh, yeah, my neck was half the size of my neck now. You look different.
Yeah, but is it bad? No. That I look so different? No, I don't think it's bad at all.
Okay. Yeah, you're right.
That kind of looks like me, right? You look more like you. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
You just look just look. Because in Idiocracy, I was fat.
Like I gained a bunch of weight really quickly. Yeah.
Like 37 pounds. Yeah.
And then this was months after. And so now I'm like, I'm halfway back to me being thin, which I always was on parenthood.
This looks parenthood. Yes, that's parenthood.
And I'm like 185 there. In Zathura, I'm probably like 200.
And then in Idiocracy, I'm 220. Can you, Rob, pull up When in Rome? Oh, I look terrible.
That's the closest to your current body, though. But nah, I was so thin.
Like my way of getting ripped then was the traditional approach, which is like get really cut and you'll look big. So I was like 169, 170 for the like modeling shoot stuff.
Yeah, look at it. I look like I'm on Ozempic.
Wow, you do look really thin. Yeah, like Ozempic-y.
I want to see a front face. Rob, can you pull up? This probably sucks if you're listening.
You can start Googling all this stuff. Yeah, and also go to YouTube to watch us.
Yeah, like I look similar from a distance, but I'm so much lighter there. I'm a full 30 pounds lighter there.
Your face looks... My bottom lip looks super big because my face is so gone.

Well, I think you're sticking it out there.

I think it's just the light is interesting.

Wow.

Well, this is a real fun retrospective.

Yeah.

With that watch I'm wearing, this is a bad story.

I don't actually know you want to tell it.

Wait, you have to now.

Oh, God.

Yeah.

I don't really want to say it in public because people... Anyways.
What happened? We were trying. I wanted to look douchey.
That was my goal for this character. Right.
I was an underwear model. You were playing an underwear model.
Yep. Yes, really into himself.
Yeah. And so when we had the meeting with like what kind of jewelry and watches I would wear.
Yeah. They just kept handing me different watches and then they handed me the

one I'm wearing in that photo and I go oh my god this is perfect it's you didn't I'm gonna let you finish okay yeah fill in what happened of course you were like this is perfect it's so douchey and then what happened it was someone's personal watch that had taken it off and just handed it in the pile. No.
Yes. And I felt so bad.
Oh, my God. Why would they do that? I don't know.
Because, yes, it was a little bit of a trap because we knew everyone in the room knew why we were doing what we were doing. And then it was just handed to me.
And I was like, yes. Oh.
I still at night think about that. I feel terrible about that.
Did he cry? It's kind of a cool watch though. Now that I'm looking at it, I was.
Well, anyways, moving onward. Anyways.
That is a horrible thing you did on accident. On accident.
I know. This will happen.
I have way more of those than most people, I think. Or at least no one tells me their stories about Times-Bee.
No, I know. It's because you aren't- Very censored.
Correct. And I think you've gotten much more censored.
Yeah, yeah. So back then, of course- Who knows? This is the douchiest watch ever.
Fuck me, I'm puking.

But wait, no, you remember you, you thought I was a lot, but then you watched Idiocracy.

I mean, you watched Without a Pail and you said, oh, you're, you still were sweet back then.

Yeah. Your conclusion.

But you had thought maybe I wasn't because I was using drugs and alcohol.

Right.

I just think, don't you think you've tamed instead of gone the other way

over time?

For sure. Yeah.

I tell less fight stories.

Anyone who's been in your life for a lot

way before me

says that.

Yes. Yes.
But I think

maybe you thought I wasn't sweet back

then. But I think I was still sweet.

You were sweet but I don't think, do you think

you were like, I'm really a

you just weren't walking through

I'm really, you just weren't walking through life feeling like I might hurt someone's feelings? Well, I wasn't thinking that, but when I did, I felt like this situation I still think about. Yeah, you weren't like, well, fuck it.
20 years ago. And I'm like, oh, God, what a terrible.
Did you say I'm sorry in the moment? Oh, did yes oh that probably made it worse probably what do you do though what was I to do you'd say actually actually I don't even know if this is the right one because it actually is it's pretty cool I think an apology is better than like trying to lie at that point you're doing an about face i would i do an about face you would yeah yeah because i think they'll choose to believe the nice thing because it hurts to believe the bad thing do you know when i think of pretty often i accidentally was oh god it pains me to bring these up this one's not you as much, but to me it's rough. But someone's wife had gotten a new car.
Okay. And before we got to what kind it was, I started making fun of the old RAV4.
Okay. Because they look kind of like a Fisher Price car.
The old one. Because you're still doing it.
It's crazy how it looked.

Callie had a RAV4.

We used to cruise around in it. I think it was the second.

I think I just read it's like the second or third best selling car in America.

You either had a RAV4 or a CR-V.

You had a CR-V.

Yeah.

I hadn't seen the new one.

The new one looks way better.

It's a very good looking vehicle.

But I went on a little thing about how bad the RAV4 was. And then my friend said, that's what she got.
And I was like, oh my, I felt so bad. And then I was like.
This is worse than the watch. Look at that vehicle.
That looks like a Play-Doh car. It's like a wind up car.
Yeah, a wind up car. I stand by my aesthetic assessment of the old RAV4.
It didn't, that picture. It looks like something Ziggy would drive.
Remember the cartoon Ziggy? Yeah, no, I don't. But that picture is meant to look.
It was a very visual episode. Yeah, I know.
Okay, the RAV4. I have so many great memories of Callie's RAV4.
Oh, it's a great car. Very dependable.
Everyone who's currently in one right now, I love it. But boy, they had just gotten a new car and I was bagging that.
That's bad. That was really bad and I felt bad and I still feel bad.
Then I saw the new one and I'm like, I love the new one. And I don't know if my friend bought it.
Oh, you said that. Yes.
So you did about face. I did.
And which was your recommendation with the watch. But this one was actually sincere.
And I think even the sincere version. Didn't work.
Didn't work. Do you feel bad enough to like get them a new car? Yeah.
Yeah. If that would erase the whole thing, for sure.
And if I could buy the other person a new watch and erase it, I would do it. There's a whole gray area where it would never make a ninth step in AA.
Yeah. I'm not going to go make an amends over the watch.
Oh, well, if it's bothering you. Well, and I said sorry on the day about the watch.
But I just, I just think about it. Yeah.
And I would love to figure out how to not think about it. Yeah, that's how I feel about that girl.
Which, oh, wait, I kind of remember. With the mole? It's the worst story.
Yeah. It's the worst thing I've ever done.
We make mistakes. I know.
We really do make mistakes. We really do.
Speaking of children, we just came from the most life-affirming event. Yeah.
The rainbow run. Delta had a rainbow run at her school.
The rainbow run. She was so excited.
She was up very early. She wanted to do a top knot for her running.
And she painted a rainbow on her cheek. Yes.
I don't know if that was a transfer tattoo or painted on. If she painted that, that's really impressive.
So cute. Right on her cheek, a big rainbow.
Yeah. And she's in a little jumper.
Oh my God. And we watch her run around and all the little kids run around.
They basically run in a circle for 10 minutes each class. And then they've raised money per lap.
Yeah. And I'm there to see Delta first, but really close second is Freddy because he runs like a gazette.
Delta's friend, Freddy. Yeah, it's who I want to adopt.
Yeah, he's really a cool, cool kid. The coolest.
I don't know how someone just born that way.

I know you, you like ran out there to high five him.

Like you wanted his approval.

Of course.

And he high fived me the first time.

And then on the second lap, I ran out and he ghosted me.

Oh, I saw that.

I thought you were doing it to some random person.

No, no, I was trying to get another round two.

I got greedy with Freddie on another high five. This is always your problem.
I know. It's the nature of an addict.
Like, I liked it the first time. I thought, well, let's keep doing that until it breaks.
Which in this case was pretty quickly. It was quickly.
He had enough. Man, it was cute.
But he did tell his mom. She told me that he said I'm giving him a truck at some point.
He's giving you a truck? No, I'm giving him a truck. Oh.
Yeah. He has it in his head that I'm giving him a truck.
And I said, do you think Delta promised him that? Maybe. And I said, fine, that's fine with me.
All he's got to do is marry Delta. And then he can have all my shit.
This is such a common thing. I think for parents, they like.
They want kids to get married. Yes.
They decide early they want their kid to marry this kid.

Well, and I want her to have like 20 relationships before she gets married.

Yeah.

I think some parents want their kid to date from junior high all the way to adulthood.

And I just don't think that's very likely.

Do you want to hear just the best story ever?

So Elizabeth and Andy went to elementary school together. They did? They went to elementary school.
Andy was Elizabeth's first crush. Oh.
She loved Andy, but Andy was like a punk. He was like a little punk kid.
Okay, he's too cool. And he was into prints and like snowboarding.
And she thought that was really cool and different. Yeah.
And then they, you know, Andy moved a couple years later. Okay, to another town.
Yeah, yeah. And she didn't see him for, you know, 20 years or something.
And she ran into him on the street in New York. No.
And that's when they rekindled? Well, they never even kindled, but she was like, Andy Rosen?

Oh, wow.

I like that story.

Isn't that such a good story?

It'd be like if you married Dairy Queen guy.

That's still an option.

That is not the same.

That'd be like if Andy was mean to Elizabeth.

What if he came to you and said, I think about that once a week. I feel fucking terrible.
Yeah. I'm so sorry.
Yeah. I didn't know what I was saying.
I was 12. I know you didn't.
It's fine. It's really fine.
And I liked you then and I still like you. Well, I.
And now I'm not a dum-dum. I'm.
Iattered. Now I work at Berry Queen.
Oh, I'm good. Oh, I would have been flipped.
Yeah. Really? Well, I can't be with you.
Exactly. That's the real arc of this.
Yeah. Okay.
Circling back. Yeah.
To the Rainbow Run? Circles? Yeah. Circling.
So Rainbow Run at back. The Architectural Digest tours.
Oh, yes. I would like to do that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I love those Architectural Digest.
It's called like Open Door. Yeah, I love those too.
And I would never do one. Yeah, well, Walton did one recently and it was so good.
His place is gorgeous. It's gorgeous.
Yeah. The hunting lodge in the Hudson Valley.
Dakota Johnson. Is your food here? Oh, fuck.
Our coffees. Here, I can grab it.
Okay. Thank you.
Thanks, Walton. Yeah.
I just love those. And I would really like to do it when my home is done.
Okay, if you're listening to an architect, you'll die, Jack. Look, I'm not a big enough person for them to want me to do it, but my home is going to really be worth seeing.
And I think you plus Nikki Kehoe. Yeah, that's what I mean.
It's them. It's Nikki Kehoe plus my architect, Bill, Bill Baldwin.
Bill. They created, like, it's just incredible.
Yeah. I think this could happen.
It's very special. So I would love for it to get some love.
Yeah, let's, if you're listening Digest. I'll manifest it.
Yeah. I think this could happen.

I'm going to manifest it.

I wonder if people ever reach out to them.

I'm sure people do.

Yeah.

But I'm not going to.

Okay.

I'm just going to hope and pray.

Maybe you should.

I'm going to hope and pray.

If you want it, this is like dating.

This is like the hot guy.

If you want to be in Architectural Digest, ask.

This is the hot guy because I don't want to ask.

I want them to come to me. Oh, man.
Yeah. You oh hold on we have a visitor mr rogers is here oh knock knock knock oh look at these cute decorative cups wow what is what vanilla mine is just has cinnamon whole milk and yeah well i gotta get my calcium in because of my bone density.
Oh, right, because you're your Swiss cheese bones. I spoke to my mom the other day, and she asked me every other time I talked to her if I'm taking my calcium.
And every time I say, no, no, I'm not taking that. I'm not going to take it.
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I love cinnamon. What's your favorite spice? I like cinnamon.
Favorite spice? I like vanilla. I got vanilla.
Yeah, you got vanilla. I can't taste the vanilla.
I wouldn't. Well, I guess I'll call it a spice.
Vanilla's not a spice? Not really. It's a bean.
Here are your options. Thank you.
I can't think of spices. Yeah, it's a weird question.
I like rosemary in my pasta. Okay, yeah.
Rosemary, oregano, coriander, cumin, thyme, black pepper. You could go black pepper.
Tarragon. Garlic powder, onion powder.
Salt. Himalayan pink sea salt.
Let's see if it's salt. Okay, I'll go cinnamon because that's the only one that I associate with being sweet.
Even though on its own, it's not sweet, obviously. Salt is not considered a spice.
I just am Googling most popular spices. Okay.
Oh, no. This is already salt is the first one.
Yeah. AI.
So this is the most used. Yeah.
Most commonly used spices, but it shouldn't say salt if it's not. It's like, that's the green hats.
This is the green hat riddle that we still haven't told on here. Okay.
do you want to do it now? Nope. Okay.

No.

Black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika,

chili powder, cumin, cinnamon, ginger.

I like taco seasoning.

Yeah, well, that normally has chili powder,

paprika, cumin, a lot of cumin.

Cumin.

Salt, pepper. That's when I douse over my elk now.

Oh, it is.

I was wondering if you were still on your elk.

Yeah, I made a big batch two days ago.

Turmeric.

Very good spice for you.

Yeah.

Very healthy spice.

Do you think people have turned it off by now?

Yeah, I understand.

I understand why.

Can't fault them, really.

All right.

Well, Bert Kreischer. Oh, well, before I move on freddie we have to give a shout out to freddie's mom hayley hayley but i like to refer to her as freddie's mom like um dax's mom i just think it's so cute yeah freddie's mom that is a good moniker is so nice and we chatted with her she's the, this is part of it.
It's like, obviously, Freddie is cool because the mom is so cool and the dad is so cool. Is legendary.
Yeah. So.
The dad makes me nervous and is so good looking. They both are.
Both of the parents are gorgeous. And so, obviously, Freddie is gorgeous and cool.
Yep. And he wears an earring.
And he's got siblings. And he's got the cutest little sister you've ever seen in your life.
He borrowed his sister's pearl earring today. To be faster.
Listen, if I decide to have a kid with a donor, how many am I going to have to look through? I mean, this is like really. Do you get to see photographs of them i don't know about that i think you can request i think some you can some maybe you can't depending on the bank yeah i mean the price would you want rob's sperm he's very fertile no he has i well i mean i would love to make a little vinny that would would be my dream.
But I can't ask anyone I know.

Okay.

I have to go to the bank.

Okay.

Actually, that's not true.

I could ask someone I know, but no one I see a lot.

Right.

Because wouldn't both of you feel weird if either of you gave me your sperm, and then we were all hanging out, kid's there and it's your kid. Yeah, it would.
I would have to be involved. Right.
Yeah. I couldn't just pretend like, oh, I donated.
Exactly. And then that gets complicated for everyone.
Yes. I guess not.
You know, I offered a friend sperm years ago, over a decade ago. They turned it down.
They said, I would love that. We're going to try one more round.
First, I asked Kristen, would you care if I, and we didn't have kids yet. So I, this is, I, I was like naive to what I thought.
I thought I would just like, yeah, who cares? I'll give them the sperm. Be done with it.
They didn't. Thank God.
Let's just say the parenting, I totally disagreed with. It would be crazy for me to be looking on the outside and not want to rescue a child.
Yeah, that's half me. It would be crazy.
I'm so grateful that didn't happen. But I was no intention.
If I had a kid that was half years and I was letting them go shopping every day. No, more like what if you had a kid and you were really crazy protective and he wasn't allowed to do anything and he never learned to ride a bike and he didn't.
Yeah, that's more likely for me. That would be hard for me to watch.
Wow. Big time.
That's. Because I would go, this kid's like a, he wants to be out there tackling life.
According to you. Mm-hmm.
Well, if he's half me, odds are. Yeah, you definitely can't be giving anyone your start.
No, no. Yeah, this is good to know.
But I only feel this way after having kids. Mm-hmm.
Like, if I was seeing Lincoln around. It wouldn't feel the same would be my guess.
I don't know if, like, when I look at Lincoln, as you just said. Yeah.
She has my face at that age.

And if I was around her, it would be hard. Oh, yeah.
I'm forgetting you're around her. Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
It'd have to be a situation, to be honest, where it was like, A, I have a vasectomy, so it's not even an option. Yeah, exactly.
But if we had a friend who wanted that and needed that, and we decided yes, I would be involved. Oh, that would, Kristen wouldn't want that.
Well, Kristen wouldn't maybe care, actually. Well, that's a lot on her.
That would be a lot on her for you to then like kind of take on this other kid.

Yeah, it's very complicated.

If I reverse it, let's say so she needed to give an egg to somebody.

She gave an egg and then.

She demanded to be in their life.

That's what's tricky because there's a mom involved already.

In my scenario, there's no dad involved.

Oh, right.

Well, no, let's say there's no mom involved. She gives it to.
Oh, to a guy. Yeah.
Oh, interesting. Yeah.
Okay. And then this guy.
So Jess has a kid with Kristen's egg. Lucky him.
That would be a cute kid. Oh, yeah.
What would win? The tininess or the tallness? I think it'd be red hair and tiny. Oh, like Seth.
Yeah, like Seth's kid. Yeah, I don't know how she would juggle it.
I would expect her to want to be very involved in Jess's kids' life if it was her egg. And...
I mean, the whole family would just have to get on board. You'd have to on board it's like this is basically our god daughter this is our god daughter this is our daughter well no because that's not see this is where things get but they would have just wanted the child to have Kristen as the mom okay but she kind of grew up like separated and you understood like oh yeah my dad's gay so he got.
So he got a donor. But that's my mom and I love her.
Right. So that's one scenario.
Yeah. And there's a more common scenario, which is that the dad or mom wants to raise their kid like as they want to raise their kid and not then go to their donor and like co-parent.
Unless it's their friend and they're already immersed in one another's life. Yeah, but maybe like, you know, you know how it is with all the parents and stuff.
You don't want advice or co-parenting from some other parent, even if you really like them. Like we all, we have a pod full of parents.
And I actually think this is a great thing about the pod. I mean, of course, people ask each other for advice.
And there's like conversations about parenting. But very little.
But very little. People are parenting differently across the board.
And that's great. And we're all.
Everyone's accepting of that. As close to nonjudgmental as you can get about it.
Exactly. Yeah, yeah.
So I don't think it would work if it was like, hey, Dax, just so you know, like, I think what you should be maybe doing with Lincoln is, you know. Yeah, no, it would just have to be with my time with the child.
Yeah, that's hard on the kid. All right, we're not doing it.
I'm not doing it. I can't do it.
And also I'm not doing it. It's not just you.

This is an interesting question in general.

I think so.

People.

I think it could be done though.

Like, let's just say like there is a version where Kristen's egg was given to Jess and

he has a little girl and they, and she knows Kristen's her mom and she has a mom and she

sees her mom a lot.

Yeah.

But maybe he's like, but then the baby might think, but that's, it's hard for a kid. Maybe.
Maybe. Yeah, I have no idea.
I think whatever you get is what's normal. I have no idea.
Yeah, I think whatever you're raised in is standard and you don't think too much of it. What people do with the sperm, when they get to choose sperm, as opposed to choosing your partner, this is different, right? What you have the ability to do when you're choosing sperm is like, you're kind of creating what you think is like the perfect person mixed with what you know you're giving.
So it's like, you know, the good qualities you're giving and the bad ones. Yeah.
If you're being honest with yourself, like I might be handing over these sets of things. So what I don't want to do.
Yeah, me. I was like, if you want a deaf, dyslexic, alcoholic, look no further.
This is me. Yeah, these are the genetics.
No, but I mean, like, I guess I'm sort of. Don't you think you do want to attempt to level out?

Yes, balance.

That's what I'm saying.

I'm not going to go get an addict egg.

That's too much addict in the mix.

Exactly.

You know what I'm saying?

Probably.

I mean, also, of course, there are kids with two addict parents that are beautiful and wonderful and great.

Yeah.

In some ways, you.

Your mom is an addict in some ways. Well, she's a love addict.
Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's what, like, there's.
And I got both things. I got my dad.
I know. I know my dad was a love addict.
What am I talking about? Love addicts. You got it all.
I got it all, yeah. So, and you're great.
I'm largely. You're thriving.
I'm largely great. We can at least agree that you're thriving and your life has worked out really nicely.
So like, you know, you don't, and partners don't do this, I don't think. I mean, sometimes they think through like, oh, this is a good partnership because they're like bouncing me out.
But I don't think that's what a lot of relationships are. No, because I think you're not thinking of kids rightly.
Except I was.

At 32, I was very mission-driven.

I know, but most people aren't.

They're attraction-driven.

And then they decide they want to have a kid.

And then you start thinking, oh, boy, both of us don't clean the house.

Exactly.

So anyway, it's just interesting.

Rob, would you give your sperm to anyone?

Yeah, I guess so.

Someone you know or? Monica? If someone needed it. That's nice of you.
Yeah. What about, but what if you saw them every day? I don't think it matters.
I mean, like my sister was a surrogate for a family and birthed two kids for them. Yeah.
That feels a little different. But it wasn't her egg, right?

No, it wasn't her egg.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think a lot,

it's just your personality.

I think a lot of people can say like,

oh, that's great.

I'm just helping.

Yes. And that's great.

That is great.

And that's not my kid.

Yeah.

That's your kid.

That was the donor we talked to

on Armchair Anonymous

who had like 100 kids.

Yeah.

He was just like,

yeah, if you want to meet, let's meet. Like, i don't feel any connection or guilt that i'm not raising oh yeah yeah i don't think anyone should feel guilt because i would i think the guilt will come if you saw that the kid wasn't being raised right yeah or struggling and then like helping would maybe come into question then.
Right.

All right.

This is.

Bert. This is for Bert.
Bert. Now, what animals are native to Germany? Because he's under the impression that they don't have any predators there.
Any threats. Yeah.
Sleep outside in the woods naked. There's a chapter in Schwarzenegger's book, Education of a Bodybuilder, where he and Franco were, for a period in Germany, weightlifting in the woods naked.

And they would have a barbecue and they would drink wine.

And he said, like, old time gladiators.

Oh, my God. Yeah, just imagine walking through the woods and you see two bodybuilders squatting naked with raw meat everywhere.
Oh my God. Bottles of wine.
Wow, good for them. Yeah.
Okay, number 10, chamois. That's like a goat.
Okay, that's also kind of the name of the chamois. The chamois.
Chamois. Good call.
Okay, red fox. I think red foxes are so cute.
I wouldn't be afraid to fight a red fox. I don't think you would either.
I think you should because I kind of think I'm a red fox. Oh.
I'm not, am I? God. Well, hold on.
I'm not. As soon as I said it, I knew I wasn't.

I do think fox is an appealing animal to identify with if you're a woman.

Yeah, because that's a.

They're clever.

They're athletic.

Well, people call, if you're hot, you say you're a fox.

Foxy.

Foxy lady.

But I'm not.

I'm just a chinchilla.

Well, chinchillas are very cute.

Have you ever held a chinchilla? They're like the Armchair Anonymous leg guy. They're like jam.
Oh, geez. No.
They don't have a ribcage, Jerry. See? Eight, greater horseshoe bat.
Seven, bicolored shrew. At least I'm not a bicolored.
Am I a bicolored shrew? There you are. No, no, no, no, no.

I kind of look like that.

That looks like a little mouse.

Shrews are clever, right?

They're supposed to be real clever.

European badger.

Now that's a tough customer.

You don't want to tangle with a badger.

Well, except that its diet is made up of root tubers, large insects, carrion, ugh, cereals, and small mammals.

It eats cereal? Yeah, that's kind of cute. I wonder what his favorite eats Captain Crunch.
You're a small mammal, I just will add. Okay.
So you should watch your- Because I'm a- I would rather fight a red fox than a badger. Yeah, that's probably right.
Okay, wild boar. Scary.
European wild cat. Now these are interesting because they're big but they look like regular domestic cats yeah and i find that creepy i don't like that i know if i see a domestic cat in the woods um i think a witch is nearby yes did a spell made that cat Or maybe is a witch and can transform.
Harry Potter. Okay, European Pine Martin.
What's that? That is a family of badger, weasel, otter, and mink. Ooh, okay.
Wooded areas. They're found in wooded areas.
Sharpies. Fast runners.
Both good on the ground and in trees.

Fire salamander, very scary. If you're barefoot.
Poison glands. Oh.
And alpine ibex. Ibex.
All right. So there's nothing I'm too scared of here.
He was right. I'll give him that.
He was right. Okay.
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This would be a bad arrangement for me. I would have a very hard time with this.
You would not. If I saw someone with a shitty personality that was not kind to everyone, I'd be like, dude, you got to brighten it up so we can get, we're pulling our tips.
I'm over here bringing in 300 bucks. Learn some jokes.
Do your hair. Brush your teeth.
You know what? They should take Jess's class. They should.
Because he's really changing the game over there.

Yeah.

He really is.

People's tips are doubling.

Yeah, he has all these restaurants.

It's called the Restaurant Launch,

and he has all these restaurants that he helps.

He comes in and teaches them how to up their game

and how to really be a good server.

That's awesome. Now, 10 highest grossing comedy tours of 2024.
Oh, here we go. We should get Mindy on the phone for this.
Mindy Kaling? Because she loves counting people's money. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, this is her and I's kind of list. Yeah, she wants this listed on people's houses.
Yeah, should we call her? No. She's busy.
Let's call her. No! You're so scared.
Yeah, I don't want to bother her. Come on.
Don't bother her. We bother a lot of people.
What are we going to do? Tell her about everyone's money? Yeah. Oh, I don't know.
Oh, you're so scared. You're so ballsy.
This is like the situation with the watch. I'll probably like, I'll regret this.
Yes, and you're going to drag me into this? She's probably so scared to answer. I've never called her.
I'm playing it so cool with her, and here you are. Yeah, I'm burning, I'm lighting this bridge way on fire.
She might be at her kid's rainbow run. Your call hasn't been called.
Yeah, she's not going to answer. All right.
I feel all right i feel really relieved okay great i'm just gonna leave her a quick voice memo you're gonna call back no i'm gonna oh i'm gonna leave a voice memo um monica's so up in arms right now that i have the audacity to call you mindy i'm so sorry we know you're very busy i don't know why're too busy to take a phone call. But we were about to read the list of the top 10 comedy tours, the financials.
And I said, I need my friend Mindy here so we can count everyone else's money. Let's get her on the phone for this.
We're happy you didn't answer. Monica's very relieved you didn't answer.
She thinks this might be the end of our burgeoning friendship. Okay.
I'm sweating again. Yeah, that made you very nervous.
God. You know there's only a few people in this world who make me nervous.
I know. She's one of them.
Oh, you want to call Matt next? Yep. Oh, my God.
Hey, man, you want to know how much money all these stand-up tours are making? Okay. Here we go.
Joe Coy, number 10. We're going to go in 10 to 1.
Okay. Joe Coy, he grossed $26 million.
He did 83 shows, 368,000 tickets sold. And he's been doing this for years.
Oh, yeah. I wonder if he has a huge mansion somewhere.
I'm sure. He should go on Cribs.
Oh, they all should. They should.
Yeah, the whole season should be top. Oh, they should.
That's a good idea. Yeah.
Okay, number nine, Adam Sandler. He grows $27 million, 26 shows only.
A million a show. 261,000 tickets.
Gosh, good for him. Number eight, Jerry Seinfeld, another classic.
Two guys who have so much money and they just can't help but make more. They can't.
27.8 million, 36 shows, 199,000 tickets. So Sandler's making more per show than Seinfeld.

That's interesting.

Seinfeld must play smaller.

I also think Adam Sandler

is not as...

He's harder to get.

Seinfeld does do comedy tours

every now and then.

That's true.

But Adam Sandler, like, oof.

Trevor Noah, number seven. 29 million.
29.7. 30 million.
94 shows, 392,000 tickets. Number six, here's our guy.
Here he is. Berg Kreischer.
No shirt. No shirt.
29.7 million. Exact same as, I wonder why they put him above Trevor.
Because 64 shows, less shows. Less shows.
Yeah. Pound for pound.
388,000 tickets. Wow.
Wow. Number five, another friend of the pod, Sebastian Maniscalco.
Very enjoyable episode. Check it out in the archives.
Yes. $36.5 million for Sebastian.
I love it. 53 shows, 293,000 tickets.
Oh, baby. Number four, Cat Williams.
Now this, just let everyone know I read this list. Yeah.
Like three weeks ago. Yeah.
I think after we had Bert on, I got real nosy. Because I asked him how much is he making more on tour or from his podcast? Yeah.
And when he said way more on tour, I thought, what is that number? Anyways. Sure.
Cat Williams, I thought, was, we go on podcasts. He blasts a bunch of people.
Mm-hmm. and it'd be very viral.
Although somehow you didn't see his last round of viral. He did one interview that he just, he lined up 20 people and just let them have it.
I had no idea he was the king of standup. Number three.
I mean, I'm sorry, number four. Number four.
How much? 37.5 million. God, I want to see his house.
60 shows, 399,000 tickets. Oof, tasty.
Number three, Gabrielle Iglesias. Sure.
42.8 million. Ooh, wow.
124 shows, 603,000 tickets. number two Matt Reif Matt Reif this is the cute comedian

yeah he's younger 57.5 million god what do you do in your 20s with 57 that's a lot I hope he has so many dumb Lamborghinis and Ferraris I hope he's giving to charity. Yeah.
256 shows.

That's too many.

That's every day.

733,000 tickets.

Wow.

Number one, Nate Bregazzi.

Nate.

82.2 million.

82.2 million.

I want him to hit 100 million so bad.

He will.

For no reason.

148 shows, 1,100,000 tickets. Wow.
Yeah. Wow, wow, wow.
Pretty cool. Okay.
Are orcas acting up? Yeah. Yeah.
They're ramming boats. Getting wily.
They're getting real wily. Now, what's way more interesting is while I was editing this episode and we were at the orcas part, the orcas part was part of the SeaWorld portion of this episode where he talks about finding someone's ring at SeaWorld.
Oh, yes. anyone because he finds everything finds things but then we were talking about sea world and orcas and I'm in the middle of that part listening and then email pops up.
It's a request. It's an ad request for SeaWorld.
Yeah, that's crazy. At the exact moment.
And let's be clear, it's not an ad to come visit SeaWorld. It is a request for us to have them as a sponsor.
Correct. Which your computer couldn't listen to that and figured that out.
No. Yeah, that's really wild.
That was such a glitch. Lazy, lazy, lazy.
Okay. Now what is Campari? Oh, I regret to inform you.
I know. Okay.
You told me that Bert did have the bee's knees. That night.
That night. And loved it.
I know. Yeah.
And I haven't done his yet. Yeah.
You're not good at this pact. I feel bad.
I feel bad. And then you were supposed to do it last week.
I wasn't. I didn't do it again.
I know. Tonight's a drinking night, right? Friday.
Yeah. I could probably get some down.
Yeah, why don't you try it? The problem is, but I'm going to be open because I want to do this for Bert. I just know I'm not going to like the Campari spritz.
Well, not with that attitude. I just, I don't even like Aperol spritz, which everyone likes.
And this is like a stronger, more bitter version of Aperol. But you know what? I'm going to do it.
I'm going to do it. You never drink Jack Daniels, huh? No.
No. But I drink whiskey.
Okay, just not Jack. Yeah.
What about a Jack Ginger for you? But I don't like Jack Daniels. Well, you might with ginger ale.
Well, why do I have to? Why can't I go with something fancy? Because it's the best drink. Okay.
It's the one I've drank the most of. Oh, you do ginger ale.
Yeah, Jack Ginger's ginger ale and Jack Daniels. What about ginger beer? It's not my favorite.
Really? No. Hmm.
Jack and Diet's the best taste, but you don't even like Diet Coke, so I don't want to start you there. Can I do like Blanton's? Do you shave your sides and start drinking Jack? I mean.
I drink whiskey. I drink Old Fashion's.
Oh. What's your brand? A lot.
Knob Hill or one of these? No, I like Four Roses. I like Blanton's.
Blanton's? Yeah. I don't know about Blanton's.
Blanton's is fancy. Is it? A lot of them have all come out in the last 20 years since I quit.
Four Roses you probably would have liked. It's really good.
And it's better. Bourbon? Jack Daniels.
No. I like Jim Beam and Jack Daniels.
These are classics. Yeah, you're going classic.
That's right. Yeah.
It's like Levi's jeans. You know? Mm-hmm.
It's what America was built on. Woodford.
Have you ever had Woodford? No. Woodford Reserve.
Very good. Very good product.
These are triggering names for me a little bit. Because they sound elite.
Oh, my. They're trying to be like, Oak Barrel Whiskey.
It is. Call it a man's name.
Jim Beam. Ew.
Jack Daniels. Jack Daniels.
No. Bill Rutherford.
Mike Pence. Oh, my.
What if Mike Pence had a.

I could see it. He should have a.

I could see it.

A whiskey.

Yeah, well.

Actually, he should have a gin.

No.

Mike Pence gin.

Absolutely not, because I like gin.

But you're going to love Mike Pence's gin.

Jim.

All right.

Okay, that's it.

Love you.

Love you. Love you.
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