Joe Rogan Experience #2445 - Bert Kreischer

Joe and Bert open on red light therapy, AI, and Bert's recent embarrassing habit of agreeing to a false 'lost everything and made it back' narrative on Shannon Sharpe's show. The conversation moves through lucid dreaming (and Joe's vivid non-human 'encounter' dream), Rasputin, and a long Tucker-Carlson-fueled theory that Watergate was a deep-state setup that framed Nixon. They spend extended time on COVID, vitamins, and Joe's distrust of mainstream/corporate media, with Joe describing how he paid to send IV vitamins and monoclonal antibodies to roughly 100 people. The back half is about comedy: how viral moments make careers, why awards are meaningless (Joe refused to submit for a Golden Globe), surrounding yourself with great people, the value of physical struggle, and a long comedic rabbit hole questioning whether Helen Keller and Stevie Wonder were really blind.

• Bert admits he falsely agreed on Shannon Sharpe's show that he 'lost everything and built it back', it never happened, he just went along with it.
  00:11:26
• Bert reveals he got the COVID vaccine/boosters four separate times (early in LA, in Serbia, at home, and once more) to keep working on film/TV.
  00:33:35
• They read a press release claiming scientists achieved two-way communication between people while lucid dreaming via earbuds.
  00:39:18
• Joe describes an intensely realistic dream of encountering tall, thin non-human beings that felt like a real encounter, which a UFO-researcher friend told him may have been real.
  00:44:29
• Joe argues Watergate was a deep-state coup that framed Nixon, citing Bob Woodward's naval-intelligence background and Tucker Carlson.
  01:02:37
• Joe says he paid thousands of dollars to send IV vitamins and monoclonal antibodies to about 100 people during COVID, many of them strangers.
  01:39:29
• Joe reveals he declined to submit for the Golden Globe podcast award because it cost $500 and he's been number one for six years.
  01:51:55
• Bert recounts his ongoing real-life claim that he confuses Helen Keller and Anne Frank, sparking a long bit that Helen Keller and Stevie Wonder may not be truly blind.
  02:27:30

• Bert's theory of comic 'pop' moments: his Machine story, Bill Burr's Philly rant, Jim Jefferies getting punched, and Tom Segura being one of only two comics (with Burr) on early Netflix.
  00:16:34
• Rasputin was a healer for the Tsar's hemophiliac son Alexei, he helped by removing the aspirin (a blood thinner) the doctors were giving the boy.
  00:53:19
• Joe explains CTE comes from repeated subconcussive trauma, you can get it from jet skis, roller coasters, even football hits to the chest.
  01:01:35
• Bill Murray told Joe that Woodward's book 'Wired' wildly exaggerated John Belushi as a constant drug user; Murray said Belushi was actually a lightweight.
  01:07:20
• Joe's virus argument: pathogens evolve to become more transmissible but less potent over time, which is why later COVID variants were milder.
  01:33:41
• Joe sleeps with a mouthpiece plus mouth tape (Hostage Tape) and says he feels better on five hours than eight hours without it.
  01:45:40
• Joe's go-to immune stack: vitamin D3 with K2 and magnesium, plus zinc taken with quercetin (an ionophore that aids zinc absorption).
  01:50:53
• 'Happy People: A Year in the Taiga' shows Siberian subsistence trappers who, despite hardship, are happy with almost no mental illness, illustrating that struggle creates satisfaction.
  02:08:23
• Bert's mantra for self-improvement: surround yourself with great people, 'if you hang out with enough great white sharks, people think you're a great white shark.'
  02:24:26
• On Lance Armstrong: Joe notes that to find a clean rider in Armstrong's Tour de France wins you'd have to go to 18th place because nearly everyone doped.
  02:41:30