Interview · moment 11 of 20
The Doug Benson Cheeseburger Meltdown
from Bert Kreischer · #137
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5 minGuest
Bert tells the full story of the infamous live podcast meltdown with Doug Benson in St. Louis, where he brought 200 Burger King cheeseburgers on stage against Doug's wishes, escalating into a real on-stage fight and fallout with another comic friend.
- 29:41Tim introduces the concept of "survivors remorse" from his lowest point in 2016.
- 30:13He flew to St. Louis early to do a podcast with Doug Benson on a Wednesday night.
- 30:29Tim decided to buy 200 cheeseburgers to give to the fans at the show.
- 30:49He called Burger King from the airport tarmac with the idea, demanding they be ready in 30 minutes.
- 31:21Doug explicitly asked Tim not to bring the cheeseburgers on stage before the show started.
- 31:56Tim ignored Doug's request and brought the cheeseburgers out anyway, telling Doug he thought he was joking.
- 32:32After Doug hid the burgers and staff kept retrieving them, the situation escalated into a legitimate meltdown.
- 33:13Tim left the stage screaming with Doug, then decided to take his shirt off and walk through the audience with the burgers.
- 33:43He kept getting laughs and didn't realize he was doing everything Doug explicitly asked him not to do on his show.
- 34:09Doug came to Tim's hotel room the next day, and they did a podcast to talk it out and patch things up.
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