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Every book Bert Kreischer recommended on podcasts
Across 2 podcasts. Every show Bert Kreischer appears on, in one place — not just one.
Bert Kreischer’s most recommended books
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- A Land So Strange by Andrés Reséndez
- Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
- Living with a SEAL by Jesse Itzler
- War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne
- Fingerprints of the gods by Graham Hancock
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Albert Charles Kreischer Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, and actor. In 1997, he was featured in an article in Rolling Stone while attending Florida State University. The magazine named Kreischer "the top partyer at the Number One Party School in the country." The article also served as inspiration for the 2002 film National Lampoon's Van Wilder. Appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience, Kreischer discussed and recommended various historical and biographical books. He recommended Andrés Reséndez's A Land So Strange about Spanish explorers in Florida and Smedley Butler's War Is a Racket. Kreischer also mentioned listening to David Goggins's Can't Hurt Me, for which he wrote the foreword, and discussed Jesse Itzler's living arrangements with Goggins. Additionally, he spoke about how Bob Woodward's Wired impacted him personally during college, mentioned Alex Haley's Roots in the context of conversations about slavery, and discussed Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tony Robbins's Unlimited Power.
Books recommended by Bert Kreischer
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson is a non-fiction exploration of internet culture, modern outrage, and the severe consequences of public shaming on social media.
Discussed“I read a book on shame on public shaming and there's all these examples”
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The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is a classic Lost Generation novel chronicling the disillusionment, travels, and romantic entanglements of a group of American and British expatriates in Europe.
Discussed“And so he wrote very simply, and it wasn't until after I read a bunch of Ernest Hemingway, I was working at Barnes and Noble, and this person said, 'Don't you love his titles?' And I was like, 'Yeah, 'Sun Also Rises'.' And they're like, 'Yeah, but no, 'The Sun Also Rises'.' And I was like, 'Yeah, 'Sun Also Rises'.'”
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A Land So Strange
A Land So Strange by Andrés Reséndez is a historical nonfiction account chronicling the harrowing and improbable journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his fellow survivors as they walked across North America in the sixteenth century.
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 detailing the author's harrowing journey from a brutal, abusive childhood and severe obstacles to becoming a Navy SEAL, ultra-marathon runner, and symbol of extreme mental toughness.
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 chronicles the author's thirty-day experience inviting an intense Navy SEAL, later identified as David Goggins, to live with him and completely overhaul his physical and mental 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 by Smedley Butler is a concise and blistering critique of military profiteering written by a retired United States Marine Corps Major General who exposed how armed conflicts primarily serve corporate and financial interests.
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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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic American novel depicting a young boy's journey down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave, confronting society and morality.
Discussed“there was this time where where people thought like I remember reading the word in high school during reading Huck Finn reading it aloud reading it aloud is that still in it or did they change the words because I think I think some let's find out what what's going on with that because I feel like I read that”
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C.
Discussed“this is like I've kind of got into this when I was reading empire of the summer moon is a book about Comanches. I bought it on audiobook”
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Fingerprints of the gods
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock is an alternative history bestseller that argues an advanced, forgotten global civilization was wiped out by a cataclysm at the end of the last ice age.
Discussed“I had picked up one of Graham's books I believe it's I always say footprints of the gods but it's really fingerprints of the gods I'm pretty sure and the book was about ancient civilizations and it was all about how there's some there's a massive amount of evidence that points to the possibility that Earth experienced some sort of”
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Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain's breakout memoir Kitchen Confidential offers a raw, vivid, and romanticized look behind the scenes of professional restaurant kitchens while revolutionizing the cultural perception of chefs.
Discussed“my wife red kitchen Confidential's is that his was that his and my wife's like this guy's [ __ ] amazing bird”
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Naked
Naked by David Sedaris is a humorous and candid autobiographical collection of essayistic stories reflecting on the author's eccentric family, childhood, and unconventional adulthood.
Discussed“First book I ever read was uh like really read like bought it and and for myself and said I'm going to read it was Naked by uh David Sedaris.”
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Roots
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley is a monumental historical novel that traces several generations of an African American family from freedom through slavery to emancipation, leaving a profound mark on American culture and historical awareness.
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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Unlimited Power
Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins is a foundational self-help and neuro-linguistic programming book designed to help individuals achieve personal and professional success.
Discussed“I got unlimited power which is one of his books yeah and he came like uh you would it had like audio cassettes he would listen to his audio cassettes”
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Wired
Wired by Bob Woodward is a biography detailing the life and tragic death of comedian and actor John Belushi.
Discussed“I idolized John Belalushi. I read Wired when I was in college and was like, 'Dude, this is I mean, there's so many aspects of my personality that I draw from a book like that of like the way he was comfortable in an agent's office and and B12 shots I get because of John Blushi.'”
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Books Bert Kreischer wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (6: 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”
“I went to Barnes and Noble, I bought 'Men are from Venus, Women are from Mars.'”
“I went for a run after she dumped me, I went into the shower and cried. I went to Barnes and Noble and bought 'Men Are From Venus, Women Are From Mars.' I watched 'Fight Club' in my closet.”
“he does have a vibe of like like like the bad guy in a Harry Potter movie Michael Ian Black”
“what's interesting is that that book Lolita what is that book I don't know I read it I want to say don't know I read it I think I read it in Russian”
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