Bert on The Machine Movie and Crying the First Time He Saw It

Who is Bert on The Machine Movie and Crying the First Time He Saw It?

Taken from JRE 1990 w/Bert Kreischer:

Topics and Timestamps

• 01Bert Kreischer discusses his emotional reaction to watching The Machine movie for the first time
• 02The conversation covers how seeing his own story adapted to film affected him deeply and made him cry
• 03Bert talks about the creative process behind bringing his famous Russian train story to the big screen
• 04Discussion of how personal stories translate to cinema and the vulnerability of seeing yourself portrayed on film
• 05Bert reflects on the impact of The Machine movie on his career and personal life
• 06Joe and Bert explore the emotional weight of revisiting traumatic or significant life moments through film
• ▶Bert reveals he cried watching The Machine movie for the first time0:05:30
• ▶Discussion of how personal stories translate differently to film0:12:15
• ▶Bert reflects on vulnerability of seeing himself portrayed on screen0:18:45
• ▶Joe asks about the emotional impact of revisiting his Russian train story0:25:30
• ▶Bert talks about the film's creative adaptation of his real life events0:32:00

The Show

In JRE 0, Bert Kreischer opens up to Joe about his surprisingly emotional experience watching The Machine movie for the first time. What could have been a simple celebrity vanity project turned into something much deeper for Bert, who found himself genuinely moved by seeing his legendary Russian train story adapted into a full-length feature film.

Bert explains that he went in expecting to be entertained, but instead found himself confronting the weight of his own story. The film forced him to relive one of the most significant and wild experiences of his life, and doing so while watching it play out on screen proved to be more emotionally impactful than he anticipated. He talks about how seeing the narrative of his youth, his chaos, and his journey rendered visually in front of him cracked something open in him.

The conversation digs into how personal stories can hit differently when they're adapted into another medium. Bert reflects on the vulnerability required to put something so intrinsically tied to his identity out into the world in such a permanent, cinematic way. He discusses the creative choices made in the film and how they captured or reinterpreted elements of what really happened.

Joe engages Bert on what it's like to be the subject of a major motion picture, the strange experience of seeing yourself portrayed by an actor, and how that process forces you to examine your own life story from a new perspective. Bert's candor about his emotional reaction makes it clear that The Machine meant more to him than just another career milestone. It was a confrontation with his past and a strange form of catharsis.

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