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Every book Bert Kreischer recommended on podcasts
Bert Kreischer's podcast appearances on interview programs like The Joe Rogan Experience feature lively discussions spanning history, personal memoirs, physical endurance, and cultural milestones. Kreischer frequently recommends works that explore extraordinary real-life struggles and historical accounts. He recommended Andrés Reséndez's A Land So Strange, which details the harrowing journey of Cabeza de Vaca and his encounters with indigenous populations. Kreischer also championed David Goggins's memoir Can't Hurt Me, noting that he wrote the foreword for the book and listened to it extensively, connecting it to discussions of physical grit alongside Jesse Itzler's experiences detailed in related running literature. Furthermore, Kreischer brought up Smedley Butler's classic anti-war text War Is a Racket, examining its critique of military conflict. The discussions also touched upon Alex Haley's influential book and miniseries Roots, recognizing it as a watershed moment for honest American conversations regarding the horrors of slavery. Through these selections, Kreischer demonstrates an enthusiasm for harrowing historical accounts, memoirs of extreme perseverance, and impactful social critiques.
Books recommended by Bert Kreischer
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A Land So Strange
A Land So Strange by Andrés Reséndez is a captivating historical account detailing the harrowing expedition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his fellow survivors as they traversed early colonial America.
Recommended“and you go back to uh Cabeza de Vaca when there's a great book uh called the land so strange and it's all about these guys from Spain Landing in Florida and and making their way and running into the Mayans and like what the [ __ ] is going on down there oh dude wait what's the name of”
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Can't Hurt Me
Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins is a powerful memoir and motivational guide detailing the author's harrowing childhood, severe abuse, and extraordinary mental and physical transformation into a record-breaking endurance athlete and Navy SEAL.
Recommended“His book that he wrote did you listen to it... I mean it his book I wrote that I did the forward to it”
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Living with a SEAL
Living with a SEAL by Jesse Itzler is a memoir about an entrepreneur who invites an elite Navy SEAL to live with his family for a month to push his mental and physical limits.
Recommended“Do you know Jesse's I must mispronounced his name Jesse seitzer Caesar he lived with the campaigns... he lived with David Goggins my bad... he did something so [ __ ] for a runner so powerful is that he's talking about getting back into running”
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War Is a Racket
War Is a Racket is a classic anti-interventionist critique written by retired United States Marine Corps Major General Smedley D.
Recommended“literally Smedley Butler's 1933 uh story that he wrote article he wrote War is a racket Have you ever read that Joe war is a racket”
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Roots
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley is a monumental historical novel that traces the multi-generational journey of an African family sold into slavery in America, culminating in the author's own genealogical discovery.
Discussed“they kind of whitewashed slavery up until roots came out like they didn't really dive into just how bad it was from what i from what i've heard until roots came out roots was the first representation of what of them”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| Joe Rogan Experience #1821 - Bert Kreischer & Tony Hinchcliffe | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2024-06-27 | 1 |
| Joe Rogan Experience #1990 - Bert Kreischer | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2024-06-27 | 1 |
| Joe Rogan Experience #1954 - Bert Kreischer | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2024-06-27 | 3 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“because I feel like I read that that there was some call to remove that word from Huckleberry Finn yeah that's what it says yeah it's like well remember the Chevy Chase routine with Richard Pryor yeah yeah [ __ ] yeah on SNL I mean it's it was interesting too there was a period of time where Quentin Tarantino”