Earlier this year, comedian Bert Kreischer announced that he would be stepping away from podcasting, explaining that he felt he had become “overexposed.”
According to sources, his views were declining, ad revenue was drying up, and his audience had grown weary. Yet roughly four weeks later, Kreischer resurfaced on the new podcast of Bobby Alto, a woman whose rise to internet fame came loaded with baggage and more than a few accusations of being an industry plant.
Bobbi Althoff first grabbed attention when her debut podcast episode featured Drake in a bed drinking champagne. The clip spread everywhere, and with it came immediate suspicion that her sudden fame was manufactured.
She reportedly missed her daughter’s first birthday to film it, later left her husband and children to pursue full-time clout chasing in Hollywood, and watched her original show, The Really Good Podcast, collapse under audience fatigue and relentless ad reads before rebranding entirely.
Her new show is called “Not This Again,” quite accurately named. With Kreischer as a guest, the title proved more fitting than ever.
The two sat together getting pedicures, a $1,200 expense split between them, just weeks after Bert and his podcast partner Tom had publicly declared their New Year’s resolution was to stop overspending.
Within minutes, Bert launched into his infamous Russian mob story, which he himself acknowledged people are thoroughly tired of hearing, before going ahead and telling it anyway.
The conversation lurched from one awkward moment to the next. Bert stumbled through a discussion on parasocial relationships, stating, “I have parasocial relationships with people I’ve never met,” apparently unaware he had just recited the literal definition of the term. Bobby nodded along without comment.
Things took a more uncomfortable turn when Bert told Bobbi, who is close in age to his own daughters, that it would be nice to be “naked with” someone as young as her. Bobbi’s response was simply, “That’s crazy.” The moment passed without further acknowledgment from either of them.
The episode closed with a segment where Bert revealed he shares his live location with dozens of people, including cameramen he worked with once, a former bus driver, and old assistants. Bobbi, apparently unbothered, agreed to share her location with Bert indefinitely after knowing him for approximately one hour.
What the episode captured was two people with a complete absence of self-awareness occupying the same space. Bert talks without listening. Bobby listens without engaging. The combination produced an hour of content that offered nothing of value, which may explain why Bobby turned to Kreischer in the first place.
