Messy stories, famous guests, no clean edges.
Bertcast runs on loose talk, big personalities, and stories that keep swerving into stranger territory. Recent episodes move from cooking with Andrew Zimmern and Antonia Lofaso to music talk with Chris Robinson and Luke Combs, with plenty of detours through running, booze, blood clots, acting, and live-show chaos.
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Bertcast is a comedy conversation show built around momentum, interruption, and stories that keep finding new exits. It rarely sits still. Recent episodes move through cooking, music, acting, live events, exercise, family, drinking, health scares, and the strange daily business of being famous enough that ordinary errands become stories. The food-centered Something’s Burning episodes bring guests into a loose kitchen-table format where the cooking matters, but the talk keeps stealing focus. Andrew Zimmern and Antonia Lofaso turn burgers, fish and chips, pasta, and restaurant judgment into arguments about taste, simplicity, and excess. Gayle King and LeeAnn Kreischer help steer a conversation from potatoes and pop songs to running clubs, a 5K, and the exact comedy of seeing oneself on camera. The music episodes have the same wandering energy. Chris Robinson talks touring, bands, travel, and the long shadow of rock life. Luke Combs brings the conversation into country music, quitting nicotine, fishing, and the little habits that become hard to give up. Live episodes add another layer of looseness, with Ja Rule and Ana Navarro folded into drinks, jerk chicken sandwiches, audience energy, and investment stories. The show is often blunt, but it is not cold. It has a habit of making serious subjects sound oddly survivable because the next laugh is already arriving. Blood clots, sobriety, life insurance, family security, and health anxiety all appear beside jokes about clothes, food, and fame. That mix is the point. Bertcast does not treat celebrity guests like museum pieces. It treats them like people at a crowded table who might have a better story if the conversation gets messy enough. The result is warm, loud, personal, and proudly uneven in a way that gives the show its shape.
Made for: For listeners who like loose celebrity conversations, comedy-adjacent storytelling, food talk, music detours, and blunt personal anecdotes. It works best for people who prefer live-wire banter over careful interview structure.
What sets it apart: Bertcast stands apart by letting polished guests get pulled into unpolished rooms. The show’s appeal is the collision between famous people, ordinary obsessions, and conversations that keep drifting until a better story appears.
Comic and man of the world Bert Kreischer shares his wisdom and life with you.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Bert Kreischer turns food, entertainment, and everyday preferences into lively guest conversations with room for stories, arguments, and comic detours.
Bertcast lets a guest conversation behave like a crowded meal. Bert Kreischer asks direct questions, answers with stories of his own, and follows interruptions into subjects as varied as music, running, travel, movies, family history, and food.
A burger opinion becomes a sex joke before you can finish chewing.
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Simple food, loud opinions, and a few sharp turns into burger politics.
It moves from a recurring "thing" joke and airport-bar judgment into a vineyard daydream before settling into fish and chips, Burger Bash, and the case for keeping burgers simple.
A road-worn conversation that moves from travel and phones to health scares and family security.
The piece turns travel, phone addiction, and life on the road into a larger case for why touring still matters. It opens in Cornwall and Europe, then shifts into the tug of the phone and the pull of getting back into the world, keeping the focus on motion and escape.
A loose, funny episode where a potato craving keeps opening doors to stranger places.
The episode works best as a casual drift through the kind of details that usually stay off-mic. Four weed attempts and a keto-era potato craving turn into a question about songs that can pull high school loneliness back into the room.
A hungry, cigar-curious dinner chat opens into a vivid family story about Portuguese roots and San Diego tuna boats.
The episode lets a dinner-table ramble drift from appetite to cigar talk before landing on the more memorable thread: one family's place in San Diego's tuna-fishing history.
A theater-side Sixth Sense revelation becomes a loose, funny riff on spoilers, dates, and stories worth retelling.
This episode turns movie spoilers into a small story about accidental solidarity. The room circles The Sixth Sense, then drifts toward a Usual Suspects ending story one speaker calls the best he has ever heard.
A loose food debate turns one extra ingredient and a whisper of pink into real stakes.
Food becomes a test of restraint in this loose, lively conversation, as an imagined vineyard life slides into a sharper debate about what makes a dish actually work.
A fry-cook scare turns hot oil, dirty sodas, and survival jokes into the punchline.
A Tuesday-morning interview slides into a kitchen stretch where fries, hot oil, and dirty sodas take over the room. The oil keeps cooking after the flame goes off, water makes it bubble, and a simple question about whether something might catch fire becomes the bit everyone…
Bert Kreischer hosts Barstool personalities Feitelberg and Mikey Pavinelli to break down their new scripted series 'Les Mascots'.
Bert Kreischer cooks for chefs Andrew Zimmern and Antonia Lofaso on his show 'Something's Burning'.
The hosts share humorous personal stories, including a golf course prank and discussions about sobriety and 'dirty sodas' during Sober October.
Too Short, who first grabbed a microphone in 1980, tells Bert Kreischer why his music was designed for car trunks and woofers rather than headphones.
It opens with a joke about having a thing.
The guest shows up talking the UK, Cornwall, the road, and why being in a band still means getting out into the world.
The conversation opens with four attempts to smoke weed, each one ending in vomiting.
Luke Combs discusses the story behind a #1 song that almost didn't happen, sharing insights into his songwriting process and experiences in the music industry.
A live cooking podcast episode where the host makes jerk chicken sandwiches for guests Ja Rule and Ana Navarro while discussing topics like music, drinks, and Ja Rule's whiskey business and COVID-era investments.
The host recounts a dangerous incident where a friend was shot by a ricochet from an AR-15, leading to a blood clot diagnosis and a hypochondriac's validation.
The host discusses working with actors Chris and Matt on a project, noting their quiet, bashful approach compared to other actors who try to draw focus.
Bert Kreischer hosts wife Leigh-Anne and actresses Arden Myrin and Mandell Maughan on Something's Burning to celebrate the Netflix debut of their collaborative project Free Bert, drinking champagne and sharing behind-the-scenes stories from the Atlanta shoot.
Bert Kreischer hosts comedians Greg Fitzsimmons and Mike Gibbons on Something's Burning S6 E21, cooking pork belly while discussing the P.
The host discusses politics and cultural observations with Snow Tha Product, touching on topics like white people, sitcoms, and personal experiences.
The hosts engage in casual banter about personal anecdotes, including texting about Mark Sanchez, a Florida tour, and humorous observations on water pricing at Irwan.