Bert Kreischer Has a Stoicism Problem
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4.5 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Bert Kreischer wants to be Stoic. It just doesn’t come naturally. In this episode, he talks with Ryan about why Stoicism feels almost impossible for him, why criticism still gets under his skin, his hot take on why Nero may have been a good emperor, and some truly insane stories from his life.
Bert Kreischer is a stand up comedian, actor, and podcast host of 2 Bears, 1 Cave. You can watch both his comedy special The Machine and now his latest show, Free Bert, on Netflix!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, |
| 0:07.8 | courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. |
| 0:14.2 | Hey, it's Ryan. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to another episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 0:18.8 | We survived. |
| 0:20.7 | The snowpocalypse. |
| 0:22.4 | It was a long day, Sunday, long morning. |
| 0:25.4 | All the schools were canceled, so I got a little bonus morning with the kids. |
| 0:29.6 | And now I am back sitting in my office doing some writing. |
| 0:33.5 | And it's funny, it occurred to me. |
| 0:34.7 | I was sitting in this very office. |
| 0:36.6 | I was in this very chair. I don't remember exactly what I was working on. It's probably the wisdom book. Maybe, yeah, it would have been the wisdom book. This is the summer of 2024, and my phone rings. And it's Tom Segura, the comedian, who I know from when I did his podcast. And he came out and did the Daily Stoak podcast, but he was calling me. |
| 0:56.2 | And, you know, these days, you don't get a lot of phone calls. |
| 0:58.6 | Everyone texts or emails or whatever, but it's just calling out of the blue. |
| 1:01.9 | So I answer, and it's certainly not what I expected. |
| 1:07.2 | He basically goes, hey, I'm sitting here with Burt Kreischer, and he thinks Stoicism sucks. |
| 1:13.8 | Let me play this. Oh, are we getting him on? Yeah. Hey, Ryan. Oh, come on. Hey, what up? Hey, I'm here with |
| 1:21.4 | Will Compton and Burt Kreischer, and Bert is shitting all over Stoicism and says that it's stupid and it's a dumb way to live and he thinks it's just, you know, like... They're paraphrasing, Ryan, but they're real close. But they're close. So I was like, oh, then why he's like, yeah, I see this stuff come up on my feed and it's like fucking whatever, you know, it's just whatever. Marcus Aureli aurelius whatever so he said how the power of saying no is so stupid you got |
| 1:48.5 | say yes to everything stupid i just say yes to everything he just answered the phone with a hard |
| 1:52.3 | yes right he should have said send a voice mail he's a stole right can you just like do you |
| 2:00.1 | mind just giving a like maybe a basic principle of stoicism that we can, you know, like, hopefully show Bert why this is a value? |
| 2:11.0 | That he's angry at the wrong thing. |
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