Bert Kreischer: The Running Life Nobody Knew About
Post Run High
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1.1 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Bert Kreischer has built a career off chaos, comedy, and being completely unapologetically himself — but this conversation gets into the side of Bert people do not always see.
In this episode, we talk about the mindset behind Bert’s success, the discipline hidden underneath his larger-than-life personality, and why running has remained one of the constants throughout his entire life.
We also dive into the competitive mindset that drives him, how he thinks about health and longevity as he gets older, and why authenticity became the foundation of his career.
This episode is about more than running or comedy — it’s about learning how to channel your energy, build a life around who you actually are, and create systems that help you sustain success long term.
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| 0:00.0 | I've lived a more eventful, crazy, productive, celebratory life than 99.999% of this world. |
| 0:09.4 | Running's always been a part of my life. My dad was a marathon runner. I used to open a box |
| 0:12.9 | of wine on my treadmill and then drink. And then next you know you're running 13 miles at night. |
| 0:17.0 | It's amazing what you can do when you're a little bit buzzed. People kind of associate partying |
| 0:20.7 | chaos with you. Running is almost this like juxtaposition to that. I'm a huge juxtaposition. |
| 0:26.6 | Bert Kreischer is one of the hardest working comedians in the game. He sold out arenas, |
| 0:31.0 | built one of the biggest comedy podcasts out there, and made a career out of being completely |
| 0:35.4 | himself. In this episode, we get into the full picture of who Bert is, a lifelong runner, a self-made comedian, and a father and husband who is just as honest off the stage as he is on it. You've got to be yourself. That's what Will Smith told me. He told me that a urinal when both our d'-hs were out. What would you say are the biggest ways that you've grown? Listening to myself is probably my biggest bit of growth. |
| 0:55.3 | Am I going to fail on someone else's advice or fail on my own advice? |
| 1:02.8 | Hi guys, Kate here. |
| 1:04.6 | Thank you so much for tuning into today's conversation with Burt Kreischer. |
| 1:08.1 | If you are enjoying post-run high, please be sure to follow wherever |
| 1:11.2 | you're listening, and we will be right back after this short break. |
| 1:18.9 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 1:27.3 | When I used to drink and run, because I used to open a box of wine on my treadmill, and then drink, watch Guy Fietti's, diners, drive-ins, and dives, and get on the treadmill late at night. Put the girls down, I'd open a box of wine, get on the treadmill. My wife would come out. We had a man cave. It was the greatest thing I ever owned in my entire life, possibly my favorite house I've ever lived in. And the competitive spirit in your head where you go, all right, I'm going to do five miles. And then you get five miles, you go, fuck it, let's do seven. And then you're like, god damn it, wouldn't it be great if I did 13 tonight? And then next year you know, you're running 13 miles at night, drinking a box of wine, hammered by the end. I used to laugh so hard, |
| 2:03.6 | buzzed on the end. I, you know, I used to laugh so hard, |
| 2:03.6 | buzzed on a treadmill, because I would, I would watch movies and then run like they did. Like, |
| 2:10.0 | or I'd, or I'd, I'd just go like, all right, let's, let's do, uh, this next mile. We're going to do, |
| 2:15.6 | uh, a master's walk on the 18th hole. And so for like a mile, I'd be like, it was the funnest, but that competitive spirit is what I identify with. And also the buzz is the keyword there, because it's amazing what you can do when you're a little bit buzzed, I do have to say. I wonder, you know, I see these kids online eating edibles before they go for sex. Say the gummies. I need to do it. How do we know they're real gummies? Yeah. You see them put them in their mouths and you're like, guys, those could just be a gummy. I started watching this kid's video the other day where he was doing some sort of gummy challenge where he was like popping a five milligram gummy. me like I don't even I forget I'm so bad I can't |
| 2:51.6 | I don't know exactly what it was and I didn't finish watching it but I saved it because I'm like |
| 2:55.1 | I need to go back to this video to see the end result he was running like 22 miles or something and |
| 2:59.0 | having a gummy like maybe every half mile but I don't know I worked out high one time only one time |
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