Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - JRE Review of the week

Episode Date: September 7, 2018

This was a great week if podcasts to review.  Guests included Bert Kreiser the machine,  a lawyer turned professional spear fisher-person and Banachek the mentalist..  My guests on this weeks episodes is my good friend Trevor.   Enjoy

Hello and welcome to another episode in week 40 of the year this year is flying by of the Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast. For new listeners this basically is kind of a summary of the week of Joe Rogan's experience podcast. I go through different episodes, talk about things that I liked about it. Often I have a guest on today, I have a guest introducing a good friend of mine, longtime buddy Trevor, say hey, what's going on? And yeah, I go through what I like, what was fun about it, what was enjoyable, and I like to go over things like what inspires people based on the podcast.

I like to get a lot of feedback from that. So this week is a legend. Friends of Joe Rogan and listeners of Joe Rogan know that Burt is a comedian. He's been on the podcast so many times I can't even count. Every time he's hilarious and what's great about this one is he's finally released his new stand-up special on Netflix, which is out now to listen to that. It's absolutely hilarious and I haven't actually watched all of it yet, but man anything that crazy shirtless fatty does is absolutely fantastic. And now you've been a fan of of Bert for some time, right?

Yeah, he's a pretty funny guy, man. Yeah. I think we talked about on a podcast previously where he does his machine bit. Oh, the machine bit is legendary. Yeah. Now we just watched that bit earlier today. If you haven't seen the machine bit,

what's great about it is basically it's a breakdown of and you got to watch it, but it's a story of when he was in college taking Russian and he went over to Russia with his classmates. They ended up giving him the nickname the machine. He was just getting hammered with these Russians on a train, ended up robbing them place. The story is insane. It's almost like unbelievable with how fantastic it is, but the way he tells it is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in stand-up. I think it has like 10 million hits on YouTube.

Yeah, absolutely. You've got to check it out. It's so fantastic. Now, but and Joe, we're talking about the... how they do their specials, right? The film and comedy specials, something I'm interested in, and I always like to hear how comedians set that up. So one thing that comedians have been doing, and they talked about quite a bit, is when they get a venue, they will do it over multiple nights, right? So Joe's last special, which he filmed a few months ago, that hasn't been released yet,

he did that over four nights. And what that does is with the filming, it takes a lot of pressure off, like the mistakes, making sure you get the jokes, and you can hit the punch lines, and you get the responses you need. And it was interesting to hear that, but only did two of those.

But how he put it on the podcast is he was talking basically that he prefers the pressure. Right? So the first night he bombed big time. He messed up a bunch of lines. And so now on the second night, he had to like pump himself up. It was like game day. He's like, listen motherfucker, we're gonna do this. We're gonna get this right. And he went out there So now on the second night he had to like pump himself up. It was like game day. He's like lesson motherfucker We're gonna do this. We're gonna get this right and he went out there and he crushed it Crushed it. So all of it was just from one take Mostly, yeah, I don't think he used anything from the first take from what I could tell and Interesting way of doing. I don't know. I would film it a few more times personally. I'd like to give myself a bit more of a buffer,

but he's a pro, he's done it a long time. He talked about Chappelle's special as well. I think the second one that he's done, because he released one, I think last year, there was like a double, and then he just did a new one now. And that one, he did six times. now and that one he did six times. Yeah, he did six different nights of filming just because like why not? Not that he necessarily needs it but I don't know he doesn't.

When you watch him live he's amazing but if he's gonna practice it anyway he can definitely afford to and you can guarantee you take the only the very best clips That time around and they all really good specials. Yeah, I really enjoy those Some of the interesting parts of their conversation was the early days of comedy between them and You know just hearing what these comedians go through is so brutal. And, you know, we touched on this earlier, they were talking about how the Florida crowds are the worst.

Yeah. Well, that's where he's from originally Burke, right? Yeah. Well, he went to college there, for sure. So I don't know if he grew up there, but he went to Florida State. And so he knows those crowds. Did they say why they're so rough?

Like a bunch of hairpliers or something? Yeah, it's not just that, but then they're not paying attention and you got a lot of kind of diversity over there. So some crowds are into it, some aren't. Like, for example, Joey Diaz is Cuban. So he's crushing over there. And Joey talks about how no, you've never seen anyone crush,

like Joey could do in Florida. But I think it's one of those. I think they're like really tough crowds to win over because you have to be like from them. You know what I mean? You have to really have that understanding. They're just happy to hate you and that puts you in a bad spot. And I just can't imagine. I wonder if you could use that to your advantage on that. Yeah, I would imagine. I mean, as long as you don't quit, it's definitely going to give you a thick skin. It's going to toughen you up for sure,

but that would make me cower away as well. Dane Cook has a story early days as well, where he did one in Florida, and they didn't even give him, it was like at almost like a fairground, and they didn't give him a place to perform, so he had to like stand up on top of this, like almost like a hot dog stand

And he just yelled his comedy at people and he ended up getting hot dogs thrown at him And this was like his early days and he says that was actually The closest he ever got to quitting. That reminds me of um, I think Will and Nelson tells a story about how whenever he first started out He wasn't very popular in like country bars and everything and so he would go and play these dive bars in the Salas somewhere and go to the roughest joints He could find and he walked into this one place one time and they had chicken wire up in front of the stage Oh, amazing the whole time people just saw him like bottles at it and cussing at him and telling him he sucks and stuff Didn't they do something like that in the movie Blues Bros?

Isn't that like a scene at the beginning where somebody's playing behind one of them? I never thought that was actually a real thing. It looked way too insane. Imagine it plays that crazy. Yeah, I don't know. Can't imagine trying to keep with it. Yeah, be fun though. Yeah.

It would be fun for sure. Another thing that the birds up to now is staying fit. He's not drinking as much, which is a huge thing because remember they did sober up. They did sober up, yeah. So it's coming up again, they're thinking about it. They're doing one. I think they are, they're not gonna do the yoga.

I think that Ari is not into the yoga. He's not doing that. Because they were doing like, no alcohol, no drugs. And I think, I don't know how to do a yoga. Yeah, 15. Joe did nine in a row at the end. Well, because he had no time.

So he squashed it all together. And that is way too much. But see, B Bert's been training. He did like a marathon not that long ago, and now he's doing... I think he's doing like the... Spontan things. So like, well, those ones are almost like an Iron Man, I think. I think it's like a salt course, but a lot of running and other stuff.

Throw a spear. You're right. Don't kick someone down a while. So, fight a bunch of running and other stuff. Drowsphere. You have rights. Don't keep someone down a while. So fight a bunch of Persians. So he's staying in as much shape as he can, right? And he really doesn't have a room for drinking, like on top of that, which is probably the best way to motivate yourself not to drink.

If you're a drinker, give yourself something to do early in the morning, rather than say, I'm not gonna drink. Because you just think about it probably drink more. Yeah and so he has it right and it's impressive I don't know if he's losing a ton of weight he still looks fat to me but good job and Cena's new special he looks about the same though. Yeah pretty much. I wonder if it's just a way to like say face. Well if he gets a six pack well you know he's not gonna be taking a shirt off anymore. As you get older, it's harder to like, you're hanging over, is there harder on you? So maybe they're just coming up a way to like, safe face. Oh, we're being healthy. But yeah, they can't take it anymore. Well, they're like in their 50s. Yeah, just on 51 in August. So we actually did

is like kind of like a birthday tribute podcast. Yeah, it looks good. And yeah, so getting that's not young. No. It's going to hurt. Stuff hurts. Got to push through it. Moving on, he gets into like the early days of just kind of his life and dating. And dating crazy women.

Bert? Yeah. And we've all been there, right? I mean, for you, boy back in high school probably is the last time, but I mean, it exists. They do exist. And you pick them up in the sense of like, I don't know, you want to fix them.

Isn't that kind of part of the excitement though? That this is a little bit crazy? Yeah, yeah. Until you learn what it is and they like this is not exciting. I cannot handle this. My God. She killed my rabbit with my pillow. But just like hearing those stories and like when he's talking about fixing them, you know, I wanted to fix them. I wanted to help them and fix them and they did this and that. And he had this one, not. Well, you're not going to, you can't fix people.

I can't fix people. People who they are, he said he had a girl over one time. I guess they just slept together, but he came real quick. And then she was like, that was it. Like I came all the way over here for this and like was just really giving him a hard time. He was like, you need to get out.

And she just went off on it. And he knew it was done. So he just like laid that out. I can't remember what, man, I totally blanked on what he said the word, but it was really insulting. Like, like, fuck off, bitch. Or just something nasty. But what was hilarious about it is there was this moment of pause and instead of going nuts,

she just cracked up laughing. So they had like this moment, but it's of going nuts, she just cracked up laughing. So they had like this moment, but it's wake up call. You gotta kick those people out. You can't have them in your life. Well, you're not gonna fix them. No. You're not gonna be able to do any sort of work.

Well, why get into a relationship and like with that expectation that expecting somebody to change? It's hopeful, right? And you don't know that you can't, you know, you kind of feel like that's not really fair I think you don't notice too, right? Yeah, that's probably well Yeah, and then you're like oh now it's here Yeah, and then you just like well, maybe if I can x-1's it and yeah no

Women with no friends. That's where you got to, women with no female friends. You got to watch out for that one. That one's a bad sign. If other women don't like them, there is a reason. It means that they are worried that the girl is going to fuck all their guys or something. Like it is something like that. And I've dated plenty of those women. I'm glad they're gone.

Nobody needs it. Moving on to the last bit of the podcast, they got into how they put their sets together. Have a right. Have a get on with it. That's cool. Well, even professional comedians, it just like anyone trying it,

oftentimes massive procrastinators, and writing is the hardest part. So I'm always interested to hear like how they go about it. Joe's a very disciplined person you know I mean just from listening to this podcast you know this. So he can sit down and just crack on with it. Right. But some of the other guys struggle. Some people don't write at all. They do all of their material on stage and they work new things in and that's really hard. It's hard, right? And Bert was talking about how he's setting up and he said he almost has 15 minutes of

new material since his special was filmed, they think, in January. So it's been all March, I don't know. It's been quite a lot of months, almost six months since it was released, but in that time he's been able to build up a lot, because there's always that period after you do your special and you're willing to dump, you have to dump your material, you have nothing. So like right after you do a special, they just kind of, they start fresh. I think oftentimes they mix stuff in, so they'd be doing a lot of new stuff that doesn't really gain any traction, and then they do some of their older bits, not the whole thing, but just to kind of keep things going. And they

do have close to six months between filming and airing that they can still work on stuff. But I think what they're saying is it's just a good habit to to drop your material once you've made the special because people have heard it, they know the bits, they like shout out the punch lines, it gets super annoying, I think, for these poor guys. Yeah, and you know, Jo even says, he's like, I'm pretty obsessive about it.

If I think of something, he goes, I'll just hop up and leave the room and go write it down. And that is important because you want to catch it in the moment. Well, you always think you can remember, and you won't. Even if you remember the premise, you won't remember that spark that was like,

that was what was fun at it. But it gets awkward, because sometimes you're doing things you can't really stop doing to write things down. Like you couldn't be like, like you're jerking off and you're gonna be like Like you couldn't be like you're jerking off. Yeah, you could be having sex and you just stop in the middle and you're like, sorry, so we have to stop the hilarious. Yeah, let me get you kicked out of bed.

I get you kicked out for sure. You'll be in big trouble. So yeah, check out his special guys, watch it. He's great. He needs to put follow him on Instagram he's always doing hilarious shit on that too next up podcast 1160 Valentine Thomas she's cool she's French Canadian now she was a lawyer now an ex lawyer quit that gave up everything sold everything she owned to become a professional

Speed a fish a person Not fish a woman. I don't know. Can you say that? Yeah, sure. All right a Speed a fish woman fisher woman a spare woman? Yeah with fish Spear woman a Speed a fish a man who is a woman. There we go. We got it something something It's a Spirifish a man who is a woman. There we go, we got it. Something.

Something. Okay, man. What do professional Spirifish people do? People, I don't, while they, Spirifish, like in competitions, or do they like, they didn't talk a lot about that. I think it just means that that's what you do full time. But do they put the fish on the market

and like sell it for meat? I don't know how much you can get. Well, some fish Yeah you're creating amounts of money. Yeah but you're leaving with like a huge bag of fish. I don't know. Maybe it's like rare fish or something. Yeah well she didn't talk a lot about how she makes money based on the fish. She talks about having fish, right? She has a huge freezer of great fish. She loves eating them. Okay. Maybe she sells some. She does some, like, free diving lessons, a little bit of that, which is like holding your breath for a long time. She talks about that stuff, staying real calm,

and, you know, heading down and doing that and then She can hold the breath for like five minutes Which is pretty phenomenal. Yeah, and they go I think they can go like maybe a hundred feet down Which I do some diving and that's a that's a long way. That's like as far as you can go with a patty certified like Open will be watered dive. It is loud enough, but you have tanks and you have to like stop on the way back.

Yeah, you don't have to do it if you're free-diver because of the way the oxygen pressure rises, like you get it at the surface, go down and come back up. It's not like you were breathing down there. So you don't have the bends effect, but you've still got to be real careful. Because you clear like the oxygen out of your lungs, at some point, don't have the bends effect, but it's... You've still got to be real careful. Because you clear like the oxygen out of your lungs at some point, don't you? So that...

It seems like you would get the bends though. They have to normalize somewhere. No, no, no, it doesn't work quite like that because... The air is normal pressure up here. You swim down and it's high and then because you're not breathing and then you come back up it would expand again right. She didn't, anyway, she didn't. It kind of makes sense that you were but for some reason I don't think it happens like that because they didn't talk about stopping.

But what she did talk about is a pretty scary story where you go with a dive partner, obviously, someone that can watch you. She was swimming down and chasing a fish. And she was telling Joe that she was like 80 feet down quite a long way. The guys further up looking down watching her, exclusively watching her. And what happens is something can happen in your body when you're running out of oxygen and you start to kind of kick and spasm a bit weird.

Like uncontrollably? Yeah, like just odd movements that are involuntary, like you're not doing it. And she started to have that, get a bit dizzy and she started to black out. And this guy was able to spot it swim down I mean the last thing she's remembering is god I hope this guy is looking at me because it looks like he is but if he doesn't know

I can't Good to the service best enough to make a difference. Yeah, you'll be dead very quickly Obviously if you black out but she he was able to come down and get her and she said the reason that was is because He is I think his brother died, free diving and I don't know if he was watching, he was the partner but this happened and it was because someone wasn't paying attention so yeah he was super serious about it and you know it helps yeah it helps at all But yeah, just the idea that somebody would go from a lawyer to a spearfisher person is pretty amazing. And she just sounded so passionate about it,

so excited, all of her energy, like absolutely loves this, beyond really anything that she's ever done. And there was also like this reflective process, where she was really able to see who she is and what she wants to do and what's valuable to her, and where she wants to live and how she wants to do her life, and also what she's eating. Like the food, the quality. And that's an eat that she went from, you know,

spending all your time as a lawyer in an office, behind a desk, and then you're able to kind of flip that switch and go like follow your passion and make a living doing it. And, you know, we were talking about that earlier, how you have a lot of respect for people who do that. Yeah, you know what I mean? They were able to make a living, just follow their passion.

Because it's so great. And you know, it's so scary. I think everybody likes it. And you know it's so scary. I think everybody admires it. It's a job. And Joe mentioned that a bunch of times. He kept saying how abnormal or unbraved it is. It's like, wow. I think he really does admire those sorts of things.

And yeah, and for her, paid off, and maybe for other people that doesn't, but you know what, there's something about trying. And if you do it once, keep doing it, you're fine, but you're path. But more importantly, you won't be stuck on one that you hate. Which is easy to do.

Yeah, maybe she just... A lot of people don't have a choice. Like, she didn't have kids, you know? You have two kids. You can't, and a great career that you like, you wouldn't just be at a turnaround tomorrow and be like, hey, I'm gonna go...'s get a law cabin all the new Mexico live off the land What would you even grow?

I don't even know fig tree. Yeah, see figs all the time Consumption well I know I don't know no no idea't know. No, no idea. But yeah, not easy. Yeah. Not easy at all. And yeah. And she did it.

And it's pretty amazing. She was also talking about something called, I think it's called the Aquatic Ape Theory. Oh yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, do you know much about it? Just that we evolved from apes that were swimming in shallow seas or lakes or something looking for fruit and I don't know like yeah, they didn't get super into it So that's how we developed maybe our like the upright posture in our hips and Ah, yeah, and transition to walking on land easier. Yeah, I mean, it's just said that we've been in and around water for some time and

and that's kind of how we've been able to you know something happens you stick your head under the water and you're able to your body kind of adjust you stop your heart slows down you breathe kind of differently your body is preparing for being underwater. And there's something like, remember that Nirvana album cover? The babies automatically hold them. And supposedly other apes don't do that. Put them in the water, they just drown. But with humans, we've been close to water

while we evolved. And so I just always assumed that that was like, just being like, developing in a womb in amniotic fluid, like, you know, you're, maybe a natural reflex to hold your breath and keep. Makes sense, right? Yeah, but supposedly what they're saying

is other animals, mammals won't do it. Yeah, and they are developing similar circumstances. Sure, sure. So something different is going on. Yeah. And how do they test that? They just start like to get these baby chimps and dunk them in a tank. And you'll see that one died.

Yeah, 100%. They don't treat monkeys. And you gotta do like at least a thousand to get a good statistical data. He's just a genocide for science. So like don't worry, they're just monkeys. We're drowning them all. Maybe one of them will hold that breath. Right. Fucking poor bastards. Monkeys at a hard time. Yeah.

To think aliens won't come down and just do the ridiculous test on it. We can't get mad at them. Yeah. They got like, we got a pro-golisa thousand of these. They're like, we have find enough then. Yeah. I think they eat too much taco bell. But anyway, awesome lady, really cool stuff and also a great Instagram. Really cool. That's how Joe found great pictures on that. Of course, she's like going... Yeah, she's going to amazing places and it's pretty awesome. Up next on the podcast 1161, Banachek. Banachek is a guy that if you saw Joe Rogan, well, blanked on the name of the show that he had, Joe Rogan, no, no, no, no, no, he was, he like, oh, this is so stupid. It's like Joe Rogan investigates everything.

Questions, everything. Oh, yeah. Joe Rogan questions everything. So he had a banner check on because a banner check is a mentalist. He bends spoons, he guesses numbers, that you're thinking, all these different things, right? So he does all this.

Is there like an illusionist? Yeah, kind of like that. And Joe had him on just to see if this was real. And he comes out openly and says, I'm just tricking you. There's no magic. And what's cool about him is back in the day, when he was like 20, he signed up for a university test that went on for four years, where they were testing his ability to do things like

this. And what's cool about it is it kind of gives you a breakdown of the bias of science. You think that maybe they'd be the best and only real good researchers because of the scientific method. But when their bias is coming in, he was able to exploit them. And he started to get these guys thinking that he was this and they were just like waiting for this to happen. Even when he eventually came out and said,

no, no, no, I'm just doing all this. It's true. They thought he was trying to cover up the fact that he had this power. What he used to break into the lab, and he used to bend everything, and he used to change the clocks, and he used to set stuff up like he would with magic,

and it was just constantly tricking these people. And they went at it, like just looking for testing, not assuming that this person's like main focus would be to trick them, which is to lighten them and change everything. So of course they're very upset when everything kind of came out about it, but you know, incredible. Now Banachek is a guy that went on Johnny Carson and he exposed that televangilist guy with the ear Johnny Carson and he exposed that televangelist guy with the earpiece. Remember he was like,

you remember that story back of the day? And that story was fascinating. Because that was together with like healing people. Yeah, yeah. And he was like, come up, oh, you've got cancer and your breast and his wife is just telling him. And what they did is they turned into the frequencies,

recorded it, lined it up with the footage, played it on the car and exposed it. And the guy was cleaning people out of the retirement funds and all that. A bit it was worse. He was saying things like you don't need your medication, throw it up on stage and give me $10,000. Like it's so criminal, it's unbelievable. And it was all tax-free, non-taxed. And he was, I mean, that budget, he, Ivanovichek was saying that the guys budget

for making these shows was half a million dollars a month. Like, and when was Carson on? 70s or 80s? Yeah, he probably finished in the late 80s or, yeah, probably the late 80s. Yeah, I mean, sick. Yeah. But thank God that somebody came out and did this.

And I think that's one of the most awesome things. How we went about finding out like how this guy was doing it and just being able to get it to TV. I mean, it's one thing just to know this information. What do you do with it? Go to a paper, like he was reading that. But to be able to actually show it to TV. I mean, it's one thing just to know this information. What do you do with it? Go to a paper, like who's reading that? But to be able to actually show it on television, everyone just went, what?

How surprised you didn't string that guy up, right? I mean, imagine if you knew your grandma. I mean, he was probably arrested for fraud and jailed. Something like that. Yeah. Well, would it be? I don't know. Or is it just like, it's a thing that happens and does he have to really promise the word

of God? Yeah. It's hard to say if there's a law being broken there, right? It's tricky. Yeah. It's tricky, who knows. But then I think it was during... The problem was in pseudonym.

Yeah, no doubt. No doubt. Also during some other show that they were doing, he had this producer on this English guy, I think he worked with a BBC, and they were like putting a show together and doing something, and he worked with this other guy

who exposed the Avarian gel preacher. He had him on, and they were doing something back and forth, but also proving that what they're doing isn't magic or anything and the producer supposedly this is just like a random story they'd threw up but I found it fascinating and it was hilarious the producer was having like a bit of a mental breakdown because he felt like people were tricking him and they were messing with him and it was also real and they weren't able to catch anything on film. Because they were only bending things

while the cameras weren't on. Just to kind of wind this guy up. Well, he had such a breakdown. He's like yelling at them, right? He's like 20 year old, he's yelling at them, saying, well, you know, you did this on purpose and you're doing this to ruin my life in Korea. And Banjek is talking about how he's having a breakdown.

And then Banjek said he looked down and there was like a wet spine, his pants, and the guy was like, and I just ejaculated. And it demon made me ejaculate. It's a demonic ejaculation. And they're like, what the fuck? What a fucking lunatic. This guy had a real job for the BBC producing things.

Yeah, completely out of his mind. Matt shit crazy. And mad at them for not actually having magic powers. Yeah. Did he could capture? Like what a fucking lunatic. And Joe just kept repeating demonic ejaculation. Oh, he's like, oh, he's probably having a demonic ejaculation.

I was cracking up, that's so fantastic. Towards the end of the episode, he did some magic, took some nails, normal stuff, like bent it, front of Joe, took a fork, twisted it around, and talked about how there's a process to it, but Joe was checking these things out, and he was like, there is no way I could bend this being like that, all that fork. He's like, I have no idea how you do that.

That was pretty amazing. If you've seen those sorts of things, that kind of magic. I mean, in the Matrix. Mm-hmm, right. That's probably my only. This spoon is not real. There is no spoon.

Mm-hmm. That was great. But yeah, doing some cool stuff. And let me call it be see that in person though for sure Yeah for sure well kind of a big part of what Bannercheck does and Joe called him out on it's like how quickly he speaks He speaks so fast. You're like constantly confused. Yeah, and then he's I think he does some pickpocketing and things So you know they're often touch you you lots of places like your wrist your shoulder they move your elbow and before you know it watches off but he's also talking to you so fast you can't really keep up you know with where anything is but you also found out that's a bit of a problem for him

because he's trying to slow down in podcasts the Joe's like dude can you just slow down a little bit he almost wasn't able to do it. Really? And then often one tangent after another. So sometimes with these guys, it's not just like that skill they pick up. They're super ADHD. And they can't get a underlying condition. Yeah, right.

Yeah. I mean, what's the difference between somebody who does that? And like, I mean, it's probably a fine line between somebody who does that and like a scam artist. Oh, for sure. You know what I mean? Well you probably have to make that choice at one point. He's like I'm a liar and I can steal and I'm a cheat. Why not be open about it so I don't feel guilty. You know I mean why not? All you just like stealing everyone's wallet and feeling that like those guys in like Italy and Barcelona. Yeah, the gypsies. Yeah, they're real good Yeah, that's terrifying stuff. Yeah, you got to get a fanny pack. Yeah, bring in the fanny pack back

That's still a road and right there. Yeah, but anyway great week of podcasts Really good ones if you haven't listened to any of those Get on it listen to them. They're great. I want to thank Trevor Yeah, he has for having me brother. Oh, so we got to do it again and For everyone that tuned in, I really appreciate it. Thanks for the support. And like I said, I'm gonna keep improving this. We're gonna keep adding to it and, you know,

make it worth it, damn. All right, thanks guys, love ya. Bye. Bye.