Joe Rogan Experience #1954 - Bert Kreischer

Longtime friends Joe Rogan and Bert Kreischer catch up the morning after a stacked night at Bert's Austin comedy club, where Ron White and a who's-who of comics performed. They wander through stand-up craft, the differences between club, theater and arena timing, and Bert's obsessive process of building a new hour and a Netflix special. A large chunk centers on health: Bert's wake-up at a wellness clinic, starting TRT and steroids, his punitive workout philosophy, and Joe's warnings about training while sick with covid. They swap wild BDSM and dominatrix stories, debate how sexual tastes get imprinted, and close on heavier territory: dictators, Putin and Kim Jong-un, Smedley Butler's 'War Is a Racket,' pharmaceutical fines, free speech, and what happens after death.

• Bert's wife Leanne secretly bought a new house and built him a full podcast studio plus a Two Bears One Cave set inside it, taking over his business.
  01:14:57
• Bert reveals he's now on TRT plus Winstrol and Deca after a wellness clinic flagged his testosterone, calling steroids 'medicine' and saying he loves them.
  01:26:53
• Bert recounts a graphic dominatrix TV-shoot where he was bound, shocked and weighted, with the safe word 'marshmallow,' deciding to let it finish.
  01:44:45
• Bert and Tom Segura visited a dominatrix together for a live show; Adriana Chechik offered them a double-team, which their wives vetoed.
  01:46:47
• Bert says he still can't fully forgive Ari Shafir for drugging him and won't put him on Fully Loaded because of it.
  02:00:48
• Bert smuggled a weed one-hitter into Canada, panicked at the border, and the agent let him off saying it was 'an honor meeting the machine.'
  02:49:27
• Bert nearly chose not to fact-check his cherished memory of seeing Nirvana live, then confirmed it with his old college roommate.
  01:33:10

• The JRE cigars are made by Foundation Cigars, which Joe praises despite initial skepticism about a branded cigar.
  01:10:14
• Joe gave Lex Fridman an Omega Speedmaster with a built-in moon phase, calling it 'the most slept on watch.'
  01:12:19
• Joe says the Tesla Roadster is projected at roughly 1.9 seconds 0-60, faster than all his muscle cars and Porsches.
  00:18:48
• Joe cites Smedley Butler, a decorated Marine general, and his 1935 book 'War Is a Racket' confessing he made nations safe for bankers.
  03:02:53
• The Annabel Chong documentary covers a USC gender-studies student who had sex with 251 men in 10 hours.
  00:51:57
• Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson tie ancient civilizations to a comet impact around 11,800 years ago (Younger Dryas).
  02:14:19
• Cam Hanes ran 10 miles a day and polar plunged while sick with covid, prompting Joe to send a nurse.
  02:32:56
• Bert hit his first-ever home run at age 50 at his old high school field, having never hit one out in high school.
  01:30:34
• Volkswagen has paid about $34.9 billion in fines for its dieselgate emissions scandal.
  03:09:07
• Joe describes UK studies giving subjects a slow IV drip of DMT to sustain the state for hours and map repeatable encounters.
  02:14:50

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