TCB Infomercial: Reggie Watts

Summary

The Commercial Break: TCB Infomercial with Reggie Watts

Podcast: The Commercial Break
Episode: TCB Infomercial: Reggie Watts
Date: October 12, 2024
Guests: Bryan Green, Krissy Hoadley (hosts), Reggie Watts (guest)

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Overview:

This episode of The Commercial Break features a return appearance by the multi-talented comedian, musician, and improviser Reggie Watts. The conversation is equal parts absurdist humor and heartfelt depth, ranging from discussion about Reggie’s burgeoning romantic relationship, reflections on intimacy and traditional partnership dynamics, to an exploration of polyamory and the metaphysical aspects of connection, music, and intuition. The episode balances the podcast’s signature playful chaos with genuine insights about love, creativity, and the human experience.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Reggie’s Return and New Brew Care Package

• Bryan and Krissy joke about how rare it is for a guest to voluntarily return, setting the self-effacing, irreverent tone.
  • “Of all the people we've interviewed, 99% of them said, 'Sure, we’ll come back.' But only one actually did it and that is our good friend Reggie Watts.” (Brian, 00:50)
• Reggie gifted the hosts a case of "New Brew," a kratom and kava-based non-alcoholic seltzer.
  • Discussion of flavors, effects, and a warning for those with addictive tendencies.
  • “He’s got two feathers in his cap: Number one, he came back... Number two, he sent us something to get us fucked up while we're talking to him.” (Brian, 06:44)

2. Reggie’s Summer: Travels, Romance, and Shows

• Reggie discusses touring through Europe, especially Berlin and the UK, performing at festivals.
  • “For the longest stint we were in Berlin ... an amazing time. I was there with my girlfriend.” (Reggie, 11:29)
  • He speaks fondly of Houghton Festival, curated by club pioneer Craig Richards, and describes it as “a festival for people who hate festivals” with a sustainable, dreamy vibe. (12:37)
• The conversation turns to Reggie’s new relationship:
  • The progression from dating to seriousness: “Met on February 16... became official in early May.” (Reggie, 15:10)
  • Reggie reflects on feeling true intimacy for the first time, crediting therapy and his partner’s emotional intelligence.
    • “I’ve had girlfriends, but I've never been in an actual relationship where you feel like you're vulnerable to each other... and you're listening to one another.” (Reggie, 16:01)

3. Vulnerability, Love, and Healthy Relationships

• All three discuss what it’s like to find "your person" and the experience of immediate, deep connection in relationships and friendships.
  • Bryan: “If you find that in a human being... that is the magic, that's the jam. That's when you're blinged out and you should try your best to make it work.” (18:53)
  • Reggie: “She would be definitely someone that my mom would have been like, 'Yeah, okay, I’m glad you're with her.'” (17:59)
  • Krissy: “The first month we were kind of like, 'Wow, this is something neither one of us had before.'” (33:16)
• Honest talk about working through jealousy, routines, and differences (e.g., his partner starting a 9-to-5 law career, Reggie’s freelance artist lifestyle).

4. Polyamory, Solo Poly, and Communication

• Reggie delves into his polyamorous past:
  • “Solo poly is closer to being single... but it's just much more mindful with the people that you're seeing.” (Reggie, 22:40)
• He contrasts healthy, highly communicative poly relationships with the "don’t ask, don’t tell" style he used to practice—and how important open dialogue is.
  • “Being with all those different people and being communicative and saying, 'I'm doing this with this person, I'm doing this with this person,' is something that I didn't used to do.” (Reggie, 24:30)
• The conversation covers the spectrum of poly types, concluding that trust and communication are universal challenges/invitations, regardless of relationship structure.

5. Sensual Friendships and Trust

• Reggie describes his Berlin friend group, where sensual, non-sexual touch is normal, and how his girlfriend practices trust:
  • “For Kathyrn, she had to admit... I had to kind of relax and just trust there’s nothing going on.” (Reggie, 30:37)
• Brian: “Jealousy... it’s really difficult to shake that because I think it is so genetically baked in... as a younger man, it was much louder.” (31:25)
• Consensus that true security comes from emotional connection and open communication.

6. Metaphysical Musings: Synchronicity, Music, and Flow

• The group discusses the feeling of instant friend/partner connection (“past lives,” “soul recognition,” “vibrational compatibility”).
  • “We are all living in the memories of our future selves.” (Reggie, 47:09)
• Reggie on music/the creative process:
  • Compares deep friendships and romantic bonds to musical “sympathetic vibrations.”
  • Talks about a recent “shamanic” performance at a charity event, describing the experience of creative flow as collective transcendence:
    • “In that moment... now you're in this paradoxical zone where a new, a third space opens up. That's not either here nor there and we're all experiencing it collectively.” (45:39)
• Reggie’s take on intuition/time:
  • “I think when you tap into intuition... you’re accessing an aspect of yourself that can either calculate the probabilities... or you already know the outcome of a certain action if you perform it now.” (50:19)

7. Upcoming Projects and Plugs

• Reggie’s new comedy special, Nevermind, is available on Veeps. Details about tour dates coming soon.
• His memoir, Great Falls, Montana: Fast Times, Post Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again, is praised as accessible and enjoyable.
• New Brew is discussed—but not sponsored.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On polyamory and trust:
  • “It’s more like an openness to sensuality that is not stifled by some quasi puritanical element... They know that line, you know?” (Reggie Watts, 29:23)
• On true intimacy:
  • “I've had girlfriends, but I've never been in an actual relationship where you feel like you're vulnerable to each other and... you're listening to one another.” (Reggie Watts, 16:01)
• On instincts and jealousy:
  • “Jealousy... it's really difficult to shake because it’s so genetically baked in.” (Brian Green, 31:25)
• On the instant, deep bond:
  • “It feels like there is no time... as long as we keep the communication, and if I tell her that I have fears, we can talk about it.” (Reggie Watts, 34:37)
• On the creative process as spiritual transmission:
  • “We amplify and we create... and when it catches and everyone kind of comes along for it, it’s like now you’re in this paradoxical zone where a new, a third space opens up.” (Reggie Watts, 45:39)
• On intuition and time:
  • “When you tap into intuition... it’s just you’re accessing an aspect of yourself that can either, like, calculate the probabilities quick enough... or you’re tapping into—you already know the outcome.” (Reggie Watts, 50:19)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:50 – Setting the scene: Reggie's return, New Brew, and banter
• 11:09 – Where has Reggie been? Touring, travel, new romance
• 15:10 – Details about his new relationship, vulnerability, and therapy
• 22:34 – Discussion of polyamory, solo poly, and relationship evolution
• 29:17 – On the spectrum of poly relationships and trust
• 31:25 – Jealousy and traditional relationship challenges
• 35:22 – Instant friendship/relationship "soul recognition"
• 39:43 – Reggie’s musical career, fusion of comedy and music
• 42:54 – Charity party story and “musical shaman” performance
• 45:39 – On flow, spirituality and the collective creative moment
• 47:09 – Metaphysics: “living in the memories of our future selves”
• 50:19 – Intuition, time, and self-communication
• 52:35 – Upcoming special and fall tour info
• 54:42 – Closing: Invitations, future appearances, and gratitude

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Tone and Style

Staying true to TCB’s “chaotic, unpolished charm,” this conversation weaves sharp, silly humor with authentic, open-hearted dialogue—often shifting rapidly between the two. The vibe throughout is warm, accepting, and laced with the oddball musings that fans of the show expect.

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode is a captivating mix of candid relationship talk, philosophical ruminations, and comedic detours. It’s a window into Reggie Watts’s unique mind—a mind equally at home discussing “euphoric seltzers” and unpacking human intimacy. Whether you’re a TCB regular or new to the show, this is a prime example of why the podcast calls itself the “Cheesecake Factory of Comedy”: sprawling, unexpected, a little ridiculous, and always entertaining.

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Suggested Listening:

• If you’re interested in relationship insights: 15:10–23:00
• Curious about polyamory and friendship philosophy: 22:34–35:22
• For Reggie’s creative process metaphysics: 39:43–50:53
• Show highlights and announcements: 52:35–end

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TL;DR:
A funny, probing, and vulnerable deep-dive: Come for the laughs and Reggie’s off-the-wall stories; stay for the genuine talk about love, intimacy, polyamory, creativity, and metaphysics, all laced with TCB’s signature goofy energy.

Transcript

[Reggie Watts]

If you want the sound of a snake constantly hissing but never taking a breath, then get a roland space echo and use that on your recordings. It's like, breathe, breathe. Just fucking breathe. And I hate doing that to a snake, You know, because they're whatever, it's just a snake. Turns out snakes know how to do circular breathing. It's like if you look, their nostrils are like, just puffing a little bit here and there. It's like, it's like, you don't have to impress me. You're already impressive, you know.

[Brian Green]

On this episode of the commercial Break. Well, meow, meow, cats and kittens, fancy seeing you here on a Saturday. So you've decided to press play and now you're wondering why is there a Saturday episode of the commercial Break? Well, you see, a few weeks ago, Chrissy and I sat down and spent hours here in the studio in an effort to solve a problem. We've been having the problem, how do we drive ourselves and you even more crazy? The only reasonable solution, put out additional episodes of the commercial Break. Sure. I'm one glass of milk away from my deathbed. Chrissy's still recovering from mempho. There's great college football games on. You're probably spending any waking time you have away from that miserable job, looking forward to pre gaming at tonight to go out with a girl and your kids haven't been fed and little Johnny needs to do his homework. Ignore all that because today a promise was kept, A man honored his agreements, and the TCB universe as we know it spun in the opposite direction because of all the people we've interviewed, 99% of them said, sure, we'll come back. But only one actually did it and that is our good friend Reggie Watts. So please take an hour out of your day and enjoy this wide ranging conversation with one of the world's most intelligent human beings. And that's no joke. Christina, do the kids a favor and roll the tape.

[Reggie Watts]

The next episode of the commercial break starts now.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co host of this show, Chris and Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Best to you, Brian, Best to you.

[Brian Green]

Out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us. Very excited, Chrissy, because we have a first second.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes, we do.

[Brian Green]

We have a first second. We have a first second interview with someone that we admire greatly. And now we're going to consider him a friend. I think so at first we're just sick of fans. The second time we're friends. The third time you have to get a restraining order. There's how it goes. That's the order of appearances on the commercial break. So our good friend. I'm gonna let you guess out there who it is. You know, you saw the poster.

[Reggie Watts]

It's Reggie Watts.

[Brian Green]

Man, do I love this guy. Love the way his brain works. I just love the way his br Works. I want it to split open and melt right all over me. I really do. So I watch a lot of his Instagrams because I'm fascinated by the guy. He's doing it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And you're constantly on Instagram.

[Brian Green]

I'm constantly on Instagram. Constantly. Tick tock or Instagram. One of those too. Don't spend too much time on Facebook. Although I do go to Facebook every once in a while just to see what, like my crazy to see what my craziest. Which rabbit hole the craziest of my friends are still on. There's one girl that I know that, that I, I can't, I don't understand, but she reposts somebody else. Posts at least nine times a day. On average. Nine times a day. Sometimes up to 15 times a day. She will just, she will just share somebody else's post. And they're always wackadoo, you know, Wackadoo. Anyway, I don't want to get into it, so I'm watching the Instagram because, you know, when you, when you pay attention to someone's Instagram, they're likely to be served up to you a lot more. So Reggie's content is served up to me. And for the last, I don't know, say couple of months, maybe over the summer, he's been posting and there's been a mysterious lady in some of these pictures, but always face hidden, always face hidden, like alluding to maybe a romantic relationship, but not there. And I don't want to be a drama queen, but then I'm going to be a drama queen. Two or three weeks ago, I want to say, all of a sudden, a full face shot. Full frontal Chrissy, full frontal face. And she was adorable and so was he. And it looked like a budding romance. And I'd like to ask him about now because I love a good love story. I really do. I love a good love story. Ted Bundy doesn't. I'll tell you that right now. Ted Bundy was not a fan of romance. He'd just kill you.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, that's an outlier.

[Brian Green]

But you know, you watch Reggie's Instagram. He's always doing something new. He's doing a TED Talk, he's doing a comedy special. He's doing.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Playing music.

[Brian Green]

Playing music. He's in some punk band. He's really multifaceted.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

A renaissance man, if you will.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. You know, I like him too. Like a less redneck Hunter, Hunter S. Thompson. I think his brain works that way. I just do. I don't know for some reason, I mean, Hunter was mainly a writer, but, you know, he did a lot of different stuff and he was kind of all over the place. But I think he was all over the place in a way where, you know, some people, they've said of like President Trump, he's playing 4D chess while the rest of us are playing checkers. I think Hunter S. Thompson actually was playing 4D chess. Like he had that kind of brain.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And I feel like Reggie sometimes is too. And so I'm fascinated.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I'm very creative.

[Brian Green]

I'm always interested in people that are much, much smarter than I know. Much more creative. Much more. Yeah, I don't know, much more in touch with the world than I am. It's just I'm living vicariously through Reggie Watts. So anyway, his people asked if he could come on again and of course we said yes. Funny story, this, this email comes through, I don't know, about two months ago. And so we're trying to set up a time someone asks for our physical address, like the commercial breaks. Physical address of which we said, for what? Like please send the, the, the death threats elsewhere.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian Green]

And then a couple of weeks ago, I come up to my door, there's a big box, Brian Green. And I was like, well, I wasn't expecting, I never expected anything. Well, I'm not expecting anything. And I open it up and it's from Reggie and it's New Brew. Oh, remember that drink we talked about? That's right. And we were talking about this Kratom based energy drink, a number of them. But New Brew, it's so beautifully packaged and the, the, it was just a lovely package that I got. It was all wrapped wonderfully. And so New Brew is a company that is owned by a friend of Reggie's is what he said last time he was there. And we'll talk more to him more.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You wanted us to try it, he.

[Brian Green]

Wanted us to try it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

So we're going to.

[Brian Green]

And he actually followed through on that. And so he's got two feathers in his cap. Number one, he came back, he's coming back on a second Time number two. He sent us something to get us fucked up while we're talking to him, so. Goddamn, Reggie, I know we can't be there, you know, like doing molly with you or going down into a K hole, but we'll drink some new brew with you. Yes, that will do. Anyway, Drink newbrew.com is the website you can go to. This is done. I'm. They're not a sponsor. I'm just sharing with you information. Drink newbrew.com. be mindful. Kratom does work on your opioid receptors. So if you're prone to addiction, on your way to addiction, currently in addiction, you might not want. You might not want to drink this. It's. It's not for the Faint of Heart. Reggie's book, which we were promoting last time he was here, still on sale. Great Falls, man. Great Falls, Montana. Fast Times, Post Punk Weirdos and A Tale of Coming Home Again.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It's a great book.

[Brian Green]

Great book. Chrissy and I both read it, and I love it. And it's an easy read. It's an easy read if you're smart like I am and you can understand the inside of Reggie's brain. If you're not so smart. Might take you along. Might take you longer. Did it take you longer?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It did not.

[Brian Green]

It did not. Oh, well.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

But I love read.

[Brian Green]

My name is Chris. You do love to read.

[Reggie Watts]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

This is one. I didn't take the audio version. I went straight for the book. And I'm glad that I did because I enjoyed flipping through the pages and seeing the pictures and stuff. And then at Reggie Watts on his Instagram, you can follow him. He's got some appearances that he's making later on in the year. And then he's got his special also, so his comedy special. So go check that out on Veeps, I think. Isn't it on Veeps? Yes, I think it's on Veeps. So let's do this, Chrissy. Let's go into our awkward transition phase, because that's important. Why don't we take just a short break? We'll pay some bills, we'll hear from some of our sponsors and Christina, for all of you that love those Christina liners. Will, we'll take a short break, and then through the magic of tele podcasting, Reggie Watts is going to be here for not the first, but the second time in commercial break.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Our first second.

[Brian Green]

Our first second. You never forget your first second, Chrissy.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's right.

[Brian Green]

All right, we'll take a break and we'll be back.

[Podcast Announcer]

My darlings, my angels, my sweet little cherubs. It's that time again where I try to convince you to follow us on Instagram at the commercial break and on TikTok CB podcast. We really don't post that much, so it's no skin off your nose. If you'd like to get in touch with us directly, you can text us or call us and leave us a voicemail at 212-4333, TCB. You know, we are just sitting by the phone waiting with bated breath for you to call. So please leave us an ask TCB and we'll some mildly concerning advice. Peace and blessings.

[Brian Green]

And you're back. You're our first second. Never forget your first second. He's the second time Reggie has been with us and we're so delighted to have you for joining again. And where is as we were discussing. Thank you my friend for sending us a beautiful case, lovely wrapping, packaged wonderfully. Care tlc. Who's your friend who owns this new brew?

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, it's Justin, my friend Justin. I'm sending this.

[Brian Green]

Take a picture.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, here, try another. Here, try. Oh, here we go. Okay, ready? There we go. Nice.

[Brian Green]

Tell Justin. Thank you very much, Justin. And New Brew. Now, I don't know if these are available everywhere, but New Brew is a euphoric seltzer. A new brand of non alcoholic drinks. A new category if you will, but New Brew seems to be the one that's taking the Internet by storm. At least we've. Chrissy and I went down the TikTok rabbit hole today and saw a lot of people doing review views of them drinking New Brew and a lot of it seems like people with large followings.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, I love it.

[Brian Green]

Saying, what's my favorite non alcoholic drink? New Brew. New Brew has kava and kratom and caffeine. I'm gonna make this a straight commercial for your book. It tastes delicious. It's got berry flavor, citrus flavor. What was the other one we got?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

There was. There was a couple.

[Brian Green]

It was three flavors that we got.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, three. I think it's berry, citrus and mango.

[Brian Green]

Now this is not as it says on the packaging. This may not be for people who have issues with addiction or sobriety. If you're sober, maybe this is something you want to just check into before you do. But otherwise I love it. I think it's great. I have lots of problems with addiction and I think it's lovely. So there you go.

[Reggie Watts]

I love it.

[Brian Green]

How you been over the last couple of months? What have you been up to? I've been watching that tick. I've been spying on you on tick tock of what's going on out there in your world. Have you been traveling?

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, I mean, yes, I've been traveling. Well, I was in. Where was I? I guess most recently, travel wise.

[Brian Green]

You were in Europe, weren't you?

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, I was like, for the longest stint we were in Berlin. Yeah, we were in the UK and then Berlin and yeah, it was just an amazing time. I was there with my girlfriend and we had just an incredible time hanging out with friends and I did shows out there, did five shows. Yeah, it was a dream. Like, I really hope someday that I'm able to like, have my girlfriend and I to just like be really free monetarily, you know, just like through playing gigs and stuff like that and just kind of travel to all our favorite festivals, play the festivals, but, like, hang out with friends and that's kind of most of the rest of our life.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's like a great plan. I like that life plan.

[Brian Green]

We're on episode number 600 of the commercial break, which is not a lie. And I'm still waiting for that dream to come true. I love, love Europe and I love traveling. Europe and Germany was one of my favorites. Spain, of course, is. Is where my heart is, but. But Germany was wonderful. Switzerland even. Even though I'm kind of on the food, I love the culture. It's beautiful.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

My favorite.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, of course. Italy. So are you. You're playing gigs out there. You played a couple festivals, didn't you?

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah. Played a festival called Houghton in the. The west of the UK and stormed by Amanda and Craig Richards. Craig Richards was one of the. I guess. I guess he was like early founders, curators of a club called Fabric in London, which was a pretty important club when it came to the electronic music scene in the 90s and going forward and, you know, broke people like Tricky and Massive Attack and Portishead and things like that and all kinds of, you know, Chemical Brothers and Underworld and all this stuff. But. Yeah, so he and his partner Amanda created this festival called Houghton, which they dub as. Is a festival for people who hate festivals. And it's, it's. And it is like the most. I mean, it is a festival, but it's just so dreamlike, you know, everything's like eco, eco packaging on everything. The. They don't leave any trace. It's on royal land. And. But the. The Lord who owns the Land is a huge friend of the couple. And so they are really good Friends. And so it's a very synergistic existence for the festival to be there and. Yeah, it just feels very safe.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, this sounds dreamy. I want to go. Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, you got to go.

[Brian Green]

And anybody who was involved in anything having to do with Portishead is a friend of mine. Because I think. I think honestly in my late teenage years, in my early 20s, I probably had sex to Port His Head more than I had sex to any other band. Portish Head is some it. Portishead is New Brew Mew. It's like music. If New Brew was music, Portishead would be.

[Reggie Watts]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

It's euphoric.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, for sure.

[Brian Green]

And jittery and sexy and cool. It. Yeah, that's the music like I was in love with for a long time. And that album that they had, it just played back and back and back. I would bring whoever home to my lair.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

The back porch.

[Brian Green]

That's right. The screened in porch that I lived on for six months. No heating or any heat. But once you started playing, Porter said it generated a heat all of its own.

[Reggie Watts]

Yes, yes, I know. It's the right vibe.

[Brian Green]

It is the right vibe. Anytime. Anytime. When you. So this girlfriend. Here's the question I had and this. If I'm getting too personal, just tell me and I'll cut this part out. But is this new?

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, we've been together. It's always hard for us to say when, but I mean, we met on February 16, but we, I guess, became like official in like, early May.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Because here's a three month.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Three month mark.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I noticed he was being a little cagey with some of his Instagram posts where he'd have, like, the back of her head, but he'd be like, smiling in the thing. And then one day recently over the last couple of weeks, I saw a reveal and I was like, that's the reveal. That's the we're together photograph right there. Beautiful woman, by the way. Congratulations. I hope you guys. Sounds lovely to just travel around Europe with my. With my new girlfriend and.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, yeah, it was a total dream. Yeah, she's. She is amazing. And yeah, I've never really been in a relationship before, you know.

[Brian Green]

No, that's not true. Is that true? Is that true?

[Reggie Watts]

Well, I mean, I've had girlfriends, but I've never been in an actual relationship where you feel like you're vulnerable to each other and that you really are. You care for each other and you kind of see each other and you're listening to one another and you're supportive and you're, you know, willing to compromise not because you feel like it's compromised, just because you want things to work, you know. And so, yeah, I've never really been. But I've been working a lot, like in therapy and things like that, you know, for communication problems. And really, I never really had any, like, serious issues in relationships. I was just like, always in the fun mode, you know, Like, I wanted everything to be fun all the time. And so. And then I just never got to those points where you're just like, like, this is how I really feel about this, or I feel inadequate about that, you know, and then this person, like, I hear you, but don't worry, I'm not judging on that. You know, like, tell me more. You know, that kind of a thing.

[Brian Green]

I've just never experienced that true intimacy. And I had this problem also is communication is if I'm cagey, cool and sexy, but they can never get at me, then it's not true intimacy, so they can't hurt me. And even though.

[Reggie Watts]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

I always thought of myself as a little bit self aware. I never. I didn't kind of catch on to that until well into my 20s or 30s. I was like, wait, I'm just being an asshole who's not letting anybody in is really what's going on.

[Reggie Watts]

And yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

No wonder my relationships don't succeed well.

[Reggie Watts]

And it's all fun. It's like, you know, it's. It is fun, but then it runs into a wall, you know, it's like, because you can be fun and all that, you know, And I was never like, I definitely frustrated a lot of people because, you know, at a certain point they were like, so what are we doing? And I'm like, oh, no. You know, and then like, then I'd wait for them to break up with me, but, you know, but I think in, you know, in this particular instance, she's, you know, one of the smartest people I've ever been with. And. And she is just so incredibly, like, unique. It's like almost like. Like my mother passed away to over two, like two and a half years ago, I guess. And, and she would be definitely someone that my mom would have been like, yeah, okay, I'm glad you're with her, you know, and, and, and yeah, she's cool. You know, she's a lawyer and she just started her.

[Brian Green]

And she started working at a law firm yesterday.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah. Just yesterday. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I would say that I feel like Reggie has been bitten. I think he's Been bitten. I think you've been bitten, my friend. And more power to you. This is the best feeling in the world to have someone.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

That you can, like, freely fall. Like the trust. Fall of. Trust falls is a beautiful thing. And with my wife is the one person I really experienced it with. 100%, no doubt, no questions. Almost from the moment it didn't matter, I knew she was my ride or die. And it still doesn't matter to this day. Now I know she'll yell at me if I do some stupid. But I also know that no matter what. Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You're in it together. You're a team.

[Brian Green]

When I open the door.

[Reggie Watts]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

You know, like they say, like, dog's love is. Is unconditional. Some people, like cats or whatever, dog's love is unconditional. You walk in the door, no matter what you said on the way out the door, no matter if you said goodbye or hello, no matter if you tell them you love them, no matter what, they're gonna be there with the same stupid grin on their face when you come in at the end of the day, no matter how you feel. And I think that, that if you find that in a human being, and of course there's more nuance to it than that, but if you find that in a human being, emotionally, spiritually, that connection, that is the magic, that's the jam. That's when you're blinged out and you should try your best to make it work. So congratulations.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, that's exciting.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah. Yeah, thanks. Yeah, it's. Yeah, it's. It's crazy because, you know, I was always like. Because I was poly for a while and, and, and it was really cool, but. And it definitely helped communication skills because, you know, you have to be clear with everybody. So I think everything that I did evolutionarily, relationship wise, all built up to the. To the moment, like when I met her and, and, you know, and she's like a little bit more traditional and she's a Southern. She's a Southern woman. So. So she. She's just a little bit traditional, but she's also very hyper, non traditional and can hang with, you know, all my weirdo, you know, I don't know, I guess you'd call them like activists, you know, leftist, like sexually free friends that are just like, pretty, like, out there, you know, and she's just like, I'm with. I understand these people. And I'm like, okay, well, that's all I need to know. You're. You're good to go.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I Think. I don't. We don't know each other that well. We've only talked for 45 minutes of our entire life together. But I would.

[Reggie Watts]

It's a ton, man. It's way more than most.

[Brian Green]

That's. Listen, some of my best friends I've only talked to for 45 minutes. I don't let people get that close. But.

[Reggie Watts]

But, yeah, I get you. I get you. It's too dangerous. Way too dangerous.

[Brian Green]

But I would say that it takes a special kind of lady to hang with Reggie Watson in his Treasure, because you are so. You're just. You're wicked smart and you're super open and you're willing to. I. Through your creativity and through your art, I see that you're willing to accept all outcomes and all perspectives, or most perspectives. That's true. And so that's very. That's not an easy thing to ride along with if you have a more traditional way of thinking. And so I think if you find somebody that is willing to do that and scratches that itch for you, that's like a. That's a double whammy. You got it?

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah. Yeah, It's. It's. It's pretty cool. And I like that she continues to just be like. Like, you know, it's like, all right, okay, well, here's the reality. You know, here's what, you know, I just. It's great. She's, you know, it's like now it's like really just the challenge of her being in a 9 to 5 and figuring out how that works, you know, because I don't really have. I have a pretty loose schedule and I stay up late and, you know, but she is a night person. That's the good. That's the one good thing. It's like she. She is naturally a night person. So it means that in the future, if we figure out a way that, you know, for us to make money for her to still continue doing her, you know, helping people and things like that. But. And it's not tied to a schedule that. That's our goal.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

You know, it's a cool challenge.

[Brian Green]

That can be a challenge, because I remember when I was my first wife, I remember I worked 9 to 5, and she worked as. At the bar. Right. As a bartender at a restaurant with a bar. And she would bartend and she would get home sometimes 1, 2 in the morning. And because I think we just never communicated on the best ways to reduce that friction, it did become very, at times, stressful on the relationship, but, you know, different strokes for different folks. When you were poly for a while, what is that, a lifestyle?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Tell us more.

[Brian Green]

Do tell us.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We've had a lot of discussions that way. You know, we have friends.

[Brian Green]

We have friends. Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I mean, you know, I was solo poly, so I wasn't like, hardcore poly. Like, some of my friends are very much like that. You know, they've been in a couple. Like, I have two friends in Berlin, and they're, they're amazing couple. Like, like two of my favorite humans in the planet. And they were, they were monogamous the first four years of their relationship, and then they opened it up and now, yeah, they're just highly communicative. And you can tell that they really love each other and that they're, they're, you know, each other's partner. And you can tell that if they felt like they needed to go into a mode where they needed to be monogamous again, they do it in a heartbeat. Um, it's just mainly about them experiencing life and expressing it. But for me, solo poly was a little bit more like. It's closer to being single in a way, but it's just much more mindful with the people that you're seeing. So you're like, this is how I identify and this is how I move through life, and I am seeing other people, but I enjoy spending time with you. And, you know, and you keep the communication high and, and it, and it's a nice way of, like, you know, you can keep distances with people but still enjoy intimate relationships and.

[Brian Green]

Sure.

[Reggie Watts]

And it was sweet. I mean, it was definitely. Yeah, it was cool. It definitely takes a lot of energy.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I can imagine I might have been.

[Brian Green]

Popping single too, had any two women wanted to be with me.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, my God.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, it's. It's, it's tough, but it, but it is cool in that, like, you know, you feel like, okay, it's, it's a powerful thing for especially, I think, I think for any human, but especially for men who are, you know, I, I would classify myself as heterosexual, I suppose, but I, you know, I enjoy the full spectrum of types of people, like women, you know, so.

[Brian Green]

Sure.

[Reggie Watts]

You know, all across the queer spectrum, all the way, you know, to heterosexual, whatever. It's like, I, I, that is a wide range for me. But I will say that being with all those different people and being communicative and saying, like, I'm doing this with this person, I'm doing this with this person, is something that I didn't used to do where I Used to date a lot of people, but I wouldn't tell them anything. They. They knew that I was probably seeing other people, but no one asked questions. I didn't say anything. So it was very compartmentalized.

[Brian Green]

Don't tell.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, yeah. Don't ask, don't tell. And not, not. Not the healthiest after a while because, you know, I think at some point it was like I was dating, like, five people, and it was insane. Like, you know, like. But I was getting off on, like, being able to give an equal attention to everybody. I was just like, I can do it. I can do it.

[Brian Green]

And this person kind of like a power trip. I can do this. I got this. And yeah, one needs to be the wiser.

[Reggie Watts]

And yeah, just. Just like, you know, I'm gonna give that. The trade off is like, I'm not gonna communicate what's going on, but I will, like, be the best person I can be every time we hang out, you know, that was like the trade off.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

And. And that was. That was okay. But then, like, when I started, you know, decide when I ran into the poly community, it really just kind of opened up my ability to communicate, and I think that was actually the perfect space for me to start. And then I started seeing a psychiatrist or psychologist and. Or therapist, and they, you know, we worked on communication, and it was nice. And I had, like, a few people that I was seeing towards the end, before meeting Catherine, that were highly, highly communicative, super intelligent, very open, smart, pragmatic people. That also helped me with the moment that I transitioned. Even though it wasn't, like, the best for one of the people, it was a harder transition because we were starting to get closer. And then I got blindsided by. By Catherine. Yeah. And we know. But we were still really good friends. And. And I love her. And, you know, it's cool. Catherine was really cool, too. She was very patient, you know, with. In the beginning because I was seeing other people, and that quickly tailored off, and she was very patient about that. I think she was just. I think she just knew, you know, like, she, She. I liked how she was just. She jumped in and she was like, I'm here, I'm available, you know, but not in a desperate way. In any way. It was just more like, I want to have fun and I really like you. And then that was kind of it, and it just persisted.

[Brian Green]

I was watching a. This reminds me of a line from the West Wing, Charlie. And I don't know if you ever watched the show the West Wing. It's About.

[Reggie Watts]

Not much.

[Brian Green]

Okay. Fake. You know, back in the early 2000s, the fake president, liberal administration. Anyway, this guy is dating the president's daughter. He also works at the White House. Someone comes in, he's bothered because the Secret Service won't let him go to an event with the. The president's daughter. And the lady says, if I were you, I would. I would take. And he gets all upset and he's throwing things around. He's saying, I can't believe this. I don't give a. I'll go. I'll go anywhere, anytime, you know, I don't give a. About the Secret Service. And this lady says to him, if I were you, I would be the one person in her life that is not asking her. Asking something of her, right? And so this reminds me, like, when you say Catherine just jumped in, but she was just there, right? She was like the one person who wasn't asking anything. She was just gonna be there. She's gonna kind of like, wait it out, sweat it out. I'm here, dude. Yeah. I'm present and I see you, and I'm present, and whatever you gotta work through, you know, I'm here for it. What a cool thing. I always think of, well, it never.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Works to try and change someone.

[Brian Green]

No, no, no, no, no, no. Or try and them in a direction.

[Reggie Watts]

Because definitely not work. Yeah, no.

[Brian Green]

And I. Yeah, I think Holly, to me, like. And I have never not. I haven't experienced this myself. Of course. I've dated a, you know, a couple girls at the same time, and it became. I don't know if it was a power trip to me, but it just. I didn't find it satisfying to always try and focus on one thing after the other. Kind of exhausted me a little bit. But when I see friends, and I've had conversations with friends, we have friends who've been in poly relationships. It either seems to me to be the highest form of relationship where I know I can't possibly be all you need in every realm at all times, or it's the most base form of a relationship where I need to get my dick weck every other place. And so there's like this two forms of poly that I have seen and, you know, so some. That's why it's interesting to talk to people who have been poly or into the poly community because it's easy. It's interesting to suss out exactly where they stand on this. And I think it's pretty easy to tell right off the bat which one is which.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, well, I mean, I think between. Yeah, well, there is lots in between, but I think, like, the.

[Brian Green]

For me, the.

[Reggie Watts]

The, like when I hang out with people that feel healthy in their. In their poly identity, it's more like. It's more like an openness to sensuality that is not. That's not stifled by some quasi puritanical element. You know what I mean? Like. So, like. Like people, you know, and I know that, you know, even, like, Catherine works on this herself, you know, like, we. When we're hanging out with our friends in Berlin, it's like they're all. They're, I guess most. Yeah, the core friends. They're. They're all poly, but. But they're. The way that they express themselves around each other, like giving each other massages and things like that. It's like they're very open to it. It doesn't mean that they're gonna sleep with, but it's like. But the threshold to sensuality as friends and like, loving each other as friends is. Is open. And they know. They know that line, you know, I mean, it's, you know, and it feels safe. And so you trust, you know? So, like. So for instance, like, Catherine, like, my friend, yet I was massaging me because she's like a chronic massager and so am I. And so, like, we're kind of like in our crew of friends. We're like the healer people, you know, so we're always, like, talking and we're like, hey, come over here. And then like, yeah, I'll get your shoulders or get your feet or whatever.

[Podcast Announcer]

And.

[Reggie Watts]

And for Kathryn, you know, she had to admit she was like, yeah, it was a little. I had to kind of relax and just trust that yet there's nothing going on with Yeta. And she loves Yeta. And, you know, Jetta is like a wonderful person, but it was something that she had to work on to kind of release and have the confidence that we have our connection. And I'm not gonna betray that. And especially, you know, not in a situation where a bunch of friends are hanging out. But, you know, and I'm the same way with her. It's like Katherine's, like, very, very loyal. You know, she's a very loyal person. I haven't been with someone who is clearly that, but she's also very attractive, you know, and sometimes that she's like, there's, like, men at bars, and I can see what she has to deal with sometimes. And it's just kind of. So that's an interesting. You know, so we're Always working. It just means that we love each other a lot.

[Brian Green]

But it's like that's what you work for. Yeah. You work through that stuff. And I. I'm sure this resonates with. With you and Jeff. And when one of the things that I really, really caught my attention about my immediate relationship with Astrid was, you know, jealousy and puritanical, like kind of guardianism, like all that stuff, it starts. It's really difficult to shake that because I think it is so genetically baked in. And I think as a younger man, it was much louder. As an older man, I know which hill to die on and which one not to. And there are some things you just gotta like, like go, I've seen this before and it didn't end up in some train wreck. It's okay. Right? Somebody telling my wife she's beautiful somewhere doesn't mean that she's going to have children with them. It just means that someone has paid her a compliment. But they're.

[Reggie Watts]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

One of the.

[Reggie Watts]

That's all it means.

[Brian Green]

Exactly. One of the things that I noticed about our immediate relationship was how, though some of those genetic instincts didn't roar as loudly because I felt like. Like she is loyal to me and I am loyal to her. And these things can be worked through even if they come up. Even if the worst possible outcome comes up there. There's an opening there to work through it. Right, Right. So it's such a beautiful, magical dance, I guess is the right way. Way to put it. And you're. You're going through it in. It sounds like. It sounds like you got it. It sounds like you got it.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, so far, I'd say the only thing is that it happens in such a short period of time that I, like, sometimes I'm like.

[Brian Green]

To marry me in six months.

[Reggie Watts]

Really?

[Brian Green]

Yes. Six months.

[Reggie Watts]

How long have you been together?

[Brian Green]

Ten years.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, my God. Okay, that's. That's. Thanks for that. That's helpful. How about you? How long?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

My husband and I, I mean, we've been together for 12 years now. And.

[Reggie Watts]

Wow.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

The first month we were kind of like, wow, this is like something neither one of us have ever had before, experienced before.

[Reggie Watts]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

I could have said I loved you and meant it after 72 hours of conversation. I didn't. I waited for two weeks of con conversations, but six months later, I asked her to marry me. And not even a year after we had met face to face. She's Venezuelan, so we had some, like, geographical challenges there. But even a year after we had Met for the first time face to face. We were legally married and that. And we haven't looked back since. I think there's no such thing as moving too fast or too slow. There's the right pace for the right person in the right situation. Right. And that's just it. There are some people. People that take forever to do this dance and get to a point where it's culminated in a beautiful love or relationship or marriage or whatever you define it as. And there are other people who go lightning quick. I don't know. Because you've had this relationship 30 times and lifetimes before or have given other dimensions right now.

[Reggie Watts]

Yes. Yeah. That's what you feel like that, Jeff?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, that's what I feel. I remember saying to him, I was like, my soul's been looking for you. Wow.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Like, yeah, there's just. There's something that's the. It's recognizable. Any other person. Like, it's been there before.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

It feels. It feels like there is no time. Like, with the way I say that to Catherine, it's like I still. Like, there's still a part of me that's like, keep track of the amount of time because you can't make, you know, too many fast moves in this, you know, and there's that. And my, you know, my. Even my therapist, like, don't move in to get. And I was like, yeah, but I mean, now she is. Is living with me, but it's supposed to be temporary, but I don't know if that's gonna, you know, and.

[Brian Green]

And then.

[Reggie Watts]

Then I realized there are no. I mean, you know, it's like we're all making our own rules. And as long as we keep the communication, and if I tell her that I have fears about that, we can talk about it. But it's. But it's like, yeah, it feels. I can't tell you how long we've been together. Like, I mean, I can tell you physically how long, but it's really blurry for me. I. I don't know. Like, it feels like we've been together for a year already.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I think something that Chrissy said is very interest. Think this about you and our friendship here. So Chrissy and I have been friends for almost 20 years.

[Reggie Watts]

What?

[Brian Green]

Yes, almost 20 years.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Best friends?

[Reggie Watts]

No, friendship.

[Brian Green]

The friendship was deep and immediate. It wasn't like, you know, that it took us 20 years to get where we are. It's like we've been like this since pretty much day one. And so I think they're the same thing with my best friend. My other best friend. I have another one.

[Reggie Watts]

That's okay.

[Brian Green]

We'll work through that.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Generational.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeal. Yeah. It was revealed here in this podcast.

[Brian Green]

My other friend, Raphael.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I know about the other one.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah. Okay.

[Podcast Announcer]

Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

Just be open. Just have an open friendship.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Communication.

[Brian Green]

We're folly friends.

[Reggie Watts]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

I think it. There is some truth, like, in my mind, this is unprovable, but in my mind, there is some mystical magic to certain friendships or relationships where you know for a fact that you're either living this out on in the multiverse or you've chased them down from other lifetimes, but you were meant to find each other in this lifetime. And the connection is so deep and so automatic and so organic to who you are and your journey that there's no way you just met. There's just no way you just met. It had to have been other lifetime or whatever you want to say.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think there's just, like, something. I think that, you know. You know, the more I. The more I live, the. The more that I breathe and continue to do so. Yeah, there's definitely, you know, it's. I mean, I play music, and so everything's very, very relatable to music and, you know, music and, you know, like, there's sympathetic vibrations. Like, you know, when vibrations start up, there are other things that if they're. If they're tuned correctly, then they start vibrating as well. And I think that there's something about people, you know, it's like we're a series of vibrations, like, you know, multitudes of vibrations. But sometimes, like, we. We. We have enough of the core vibration with other people that we all start vibrating on so many levels. We're like, oh, you're so familiar to me. Yeah. You know, this. This. This is my. This is my person. I understand who you are. And. And definitely for me, too, I will say I have an added benefit because I've traveled so much and I've met, I think, pretty much all the human archetypes.

[Brian Green]

Right.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I can imagine possible.

[Reggie Watts]

Not, you know, not all, but I'll say, like, 95%. And so I can very quickly, you know, jive with people. But it's rarer for me to jive on a way that I totally trust somebody. Like my. Like my friends in Berlin who are in a band called Kapiak, Delwyn and Obi and Eric, like, just instantaneous. Like. Like, I can't even tell you, like. Like such dear friends, and they feel like family and. And you know, and we've just. It's crazy. And we're also connected in music as well. And Delwin is like a genius. And we, like, jam together. Like we've been playing together for 20 years. It's insane.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. As a musician and as an accomplished musician, unlike me, who just pretends I know how to play piano.

[Reggie Watts]

Get out of here.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. No. Oh, no. I know. Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue don't make me break it out.

[Reggie Watts]

You're done. That's it. You're graduated.

[Brian Green]

As someone who's. Who is an accomplished musician, like, you're good at this and you get that pocket. Right? And so when you jam with people, I imagine that what we're talking about is very much the same way too. Like, there's some musicians I'm sure that you've played with that you might not go to the bar and have a drink with them if someone paid you to. But on stage, something magical can happen with that person. Person in that moment or all the time or every time, because music is like that too. There's a language to it and like you said, there's a vibration to it. When you get in that room or in the studio or whatever, it's just something magical happens. Do you love, like, would you consider yourself more in love with the entertaining, the comedy, the entertaining, the presentations of whatever it is that you're doing creatively or the music part? What would you rather do if, like, someone had to. If you had to make a choice, what would you do?

[Reggie Watts]

Well, I mean, I. I probably pick music just because you can still be humorous in music.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

You know, you can. You can control the. The mood or at least strongly suggest the mood with music. So I probably pick music. I kind of don't really see the difference. Actually. I had a really crazy time the other night. My friend Devin, she throws a. A knight called Little Secret in. In Los Angeles. And usually it's a. It's a benefit for usually children's charities and things like that. Anyways, so she got a new location because she received a grant and. But it was. It's a house in Hancock park. And I don't know if you know anything about Hancock park, but it's like a. It's a well to do neighborhood and kind of central, northern Los Angeles Valley a little bit. No, no, before the Valley. So it's just like. It's in between like Santa Monica and Boulevard and. Okay, whatever's more south of that. So it's, it's, it's. Yeah, it's well before the hills. And it's just like kind of a very flat area with tons of gorgeous mansions, like beautiful, beautiful houses. And somehow she's renting this mansion. Mansion. And it's amazing. And she's dating someone who is in a wheelchair and who became quadriplegic in a snowboarding accident and just kind of recently. And so he's a really sweet guy. His name's Max. And he. So they made the, the house like compliant, you know, 80, is it? 88, yeah. Compliant, yeah. And so, you know, so they got the ramps, you know, going, and he's got a chairlift in the, on the back stairs to get upstairs, all that stuff. Anyways, they've done all this infrastructure, put in this ridiculous sound system and had a loud charity party. And I will say, like, I don't know if they're gonna have another one because the, the neighbors were tweeting in and threatening. Threatening, I know, the mayor, stuff like that. But I will say that was an incredible, incredible experience. Like the performance, like everything that happened in the night, there's amazing DJs and then the living rooms where they had the main kind of area. And I ended up winning because it was a Love island themed charity event where people voted, but when they vote, an amount of money goes to your charity. Right. And so I won. And then there's this other guy. He goes by. What does he go by? He's like one of the most popular tweet guys. No one knows what he looks like. I forget his. Forget his name.

[Brian Green]

Anyways, it.

[Reggie Watts]

No, it's not God.

[Brian Green]

Okay, close. I know God.

[Reggie Watts]

Okay, you do know God. Yeah, you're close. You're close.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, it's, it's, it's someone. But he. Yeah, he's just like a very popular guy. But anyways, he. He always wears masks when he takes, when you take pictures with him and stuff like that. He's very, very incognito, but really cool. Dude, we won. And we were like stood there together. We both had flowers, people took pictures of us, whatever. And then they gave me the mic and then I just, I was, I was high on ketamine and I just was in this zone where I was like, oh, I guess I'll do some kind of a performance. I did this acapella beatbox performance that went on for a while and I just kind of ended up kind of sinking down onto my knees on the carpeted living room or whatever and with this sound system and I was just. And someone was kind of lightly Messing with effects while I was doing it. It was really magical. And I kind of realized. Realized I had this hybridized performance, which was almost like guru, like, you know, like, like channeling, like, shaman type of vibes, which is something I've always suspected that I'd probably start moving into a little bit more and. Because I'm interested in music healing, you know, and. And it was crazy. It was like the first time I'd ever experienced that in my life. And. And it was like, I can't believe I'm doing this right now in front of all these people, but it's happening.

[Brian Green]

That's amazing.

[Reggie Watts]

And I think people, like, liked it.

[Brian Green]

I don't know.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I'm sure.

[Brian Green]

Are there. Are there videos out there that we can see?

[Reggie Watts]

There are.

[Brian Green]

First of all, there.

[Reggie Watts]

There were some. There were some on. On Instagram, but I. I think they're gone because they were in people's stories. But yeah, first of all, how crazy.

[Brian Green]

How cool is Reggie Watts life? He gets invited to the coolest parties. He goes to a party called Little Secret. I mean, I want to get to one of these parties. How do we get to one of these ch. Charity party. But second of all, I do think God is. Is created in those moments, right? That is God. That is. It's the. It's the constant, I guess, flowering of the lotus, right? It's the next petal, the next petal, the next petal. And when you feel it, like, you know, we do a lot of creating here, we. Four days a week, and they're probably. I would say 75% of it is throw away. It's just, just. We're just trying to find something funny. But when you get on it and that 25%. But when you feel that 3% where it's. Your mouth is moving, you are laughing hysterically. It's a vibe. You can feel it. There is no me in it. None. It's God. G O D, right? It's him, her, it, the us, whatever we coming through you. And that is true magic. And I feel it sometimes. And it's like, I wish I could bottle it up and sell it to somebody. But I often. I see musicians and comedians and actors and actresses and artists. I see them at the height of their power and working a room or working a crowd. And I think that is God right there. That's happening right here with us in the audience or me watching it on television or whatever it is. I could see you being a musical shaman. I could see you channel. Sure, yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

I mean, it's Amazing. It's, it's what I, Yeah, it's like, you know, it's kind of what I do anyways. It's just a little bit more spiritually minded, you know, because I, what I do now is kind of like, I sneak in that kind of stuff all the time, and it's still like a form of channeling to, to, you know, and I always call it, like, we have like, the, what was it called? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Collective individualism. Collective, yeah. And, and so there's like, you know, we're all, we're all like perception machines and we're all like. And receiving at the same time. And so in a collective manner, it's like, yeah, we amplify and we create, you know, different modular formations of consciousness. And so if you're able to kind of resonate, you know, when it catches and everyone kind of like comes along for it, whoever's there, it's like in that moment, it's like now you're in this paradoxical zone where a new, a third space opens up. That's, that's not neither here nor there. And we're all experiencing it collectively. And it's not something you can really be too. Like, you can be conscious within it, but if you, like, lean on it too much, it kind of dissolves, you know, if you, if you don't care about it, it dissolves. You just have to commit to being there.

[Brian Green]

It's. Yeah, right. The way that you try and remember. It's a dream that you try and remember. The more you try and remember, the more you try and get that taste, that smell, that sensation that you think was there five seconds ago, you woke up.

[Reggie Watts]

It's gone.

[Brian Green]

It's gone.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah. Well, you know, I have a quote once. I said, we're all living in the memories of our future selves.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

And I think that that's when we have these, like, these moments where we're like, I should be remembering this, or this feels like an incredible moment right now. Like when you become aware of that inside of a moment while it's happening. I kind of think of it as like time traveler, you know, it's like the reason why it's so significant is because you're remembering what it was like the last time it happened.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Right.

[Reggie Watts]

In order way.

[Brian Green]

This is going to sound so hokey, but it's part of my makeup, so I'll say it. I, I, Someone once told me at like a bar, drunk as a skunk, high on bad blow or something, somebody said to me, yeah, you should talk to your. You should talk to yourself. And I was talking about what a hard time I had as a particular period as a kid and the family dynamics that were going on. And this neck ass just sold me the bad bar coke, said, you got to talk to yourself, tell them it's going to be okay. Look at you now. You're a. You're a waiter at a restauran. Ron, he made it right or whatever you said. 20 years later, I'm w. I. After I had my first child and we had a terrible pregnancy delivery. It was bad. I thought I was gonna lose my wife and my son at the same time in like the five minutes. It was a terrible experience, but it was a blessed experience because we're all here today, right? But at that moment, it didn't feel. It was like two days afterwards and I'm running in the same place around where I grew up as a child during this period of time. And I started to weaken, weep, and I pulled over to the side and I went down to the, to the river. And I remember hanging out there many times as a teenager, up and hanging out late at night and I'm weeping and I'm literally telling myself, it's going to be okay. It was the most incredibly powerful experience that was not induced by any form of self. It was just like, it was the weirdest thing. And like, I do believe that we can talk to our future selves or our past selves.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Or maybe we are communicating. Communicating with our. Or our future selves are pulling us through. Like, hey, you're gonna get through this, dude. Like, you know, you just gotta take a couple steps more and you're gonna get through that. And I do believe that there is some multi dimensional coaxing that goes on on behalf of self all the time.

[Reggie Watts]

Yes. Oh, 100. I think about that. I mean, like, even when I was a little kid, I would try to tap into like my future self, you know, because like, it's already experienced things. So if I can change just, you know, And I think that that's what intuition is because, you know, in physics it's like they believe like all, you know, all time exists, all possibilities exist, all probabilities exist simultaneously infinitely. And so that idea of like, we're just kind of a needle on the record of endless possibility, you know, we're only able to experience time because for whatever this, whatever this is, this reality, it's like we are in it and it's binary so that we can like, you know, pick things up and like, go, I like that. I don't like that. Whatever. It's like a very complicated binary physical universe. However, if that idea is true and I'm not an absolutist and things, I just kind of like, you know, I'm like 95% something, leave 5% margin, could be something different.

[Brian Green]

Right. I'm fine.

[Reggie Watts]

You know, all right. You know, it's like, all right. But in that, in that regard, I think that's what intuition is. I think when you tap into intuition, even in those instantaneous moments of like an emergency situation, and suddenly you just feel like, you know what the right thing is to do. I think it's just you're accessing an aspect of yourself that can either, like, calculate the probabilities quick enough, far enough into the future that it gives sends back a piece of information that's like, this is probably the way to go. Or you're tapping into. You already know the outcome of a certain action if you perform it now.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, that's. Yes. That's amazing. Wow. This is. This is certainly the most interesting conversation that the commercial break has ever generated. For sure. Commercial break.

[Reggie Watts]

That's what it's about. That's what it's about.

[Brian Green]

You two can be as smart as Reggie Watts. Just drink your new.

[Reggie Watts]

Brew. 3000 now with Reggie Watts. Yeah, snap into the new brew. Gives you wings.

[Brian Green]

Reggie, I love you, man. I just love you. I could, I could go.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Can you just come back?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Can you just come over to Atlanta all the time?

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah. Come to atl, get some peaches. We'll be fine.

[Brian Green]

If you come to the L. If you come to the ATL and we do not get to sit and hang out, then I'm gonna be.

[Reggie Watts]

That would suck.

[Brian Green]

This conversation.

[Reggie Watts]

Conversation, that is. No, we're doing.

[Brian Green]

We're doing it.

[Reggie Watts]

We're doing a special one as soon as I. I think I might be coming. I have a tour in the fall, so I'll. We'll keep you informed. Okay?

[Brian Green]

Absolutely. So Reggie's got a new special on Veeps. To get back to why he's probably here, which is not to talk about inter trans dimensional poly travel.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Actually what it was.

[Brian Green]

Actually what it was.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's actually what was supposed to be talked about.

[Brian Green]

Oh, you're right about that. It was supposed to be somebody in the future is coaxing us to have this conversation now because it's meaningful to somebody in our audience. Trust me. True Veeps. He's got the new special Nevermind out on Veeps, which you could go to. We've had lots of comedians that had specials on Veep, so hopefully you've already dialed that up so we know what that is. Is that free, Reggie? Is there a cost to see the new special on Veeps?

[Reggie Watts]

I think there's a. I think there's a. There might be like, a free trial and then, you know, and then commit after that. And if not, it's just. It's pretty affordable. I think you can do a la carte as well.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah, I know you can. Yeah. You pick the specials that you want to watch. And it is pretty affordable because we've had lots of comedians with specials on Veeps. And then when do we get the information about the fall tour? Like, when does that come?

[Reggie Watts]

At when it should be soonish. We're just finalizing now. I think, you know, probably in the next couple of days, it'll be fully finalized, and then we'll probably make an announcement. I'll come up with a name for the tour, and then. Yeah, well, I'm going to guess we're going to probably announce, like, maybe tour in the next couple months, like in November or something like that. Like that.

[Brian Green]

Okay, so.

[Reggie Watts]

Or maybe even sooner. I don't know.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, this goes. We know how this goes, by the way. We announced 15 dates for our tour that we'd never signed the contract, and we had to go back and tell everybody.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, my God.

[Brian Green]

All those dates that we told you. Forget those. Yeah. Oh, it was terrible. That's just part of the course for us.

[Reggie Watts]

Tough. Tough.

[Brian Green]

It's like I just read something that Dr. Dre, when he was negotiating Beats sale to Apple or Jimmy Iovine, was that Jimmy Iveen told Dr. Dre because they were partners in the business, in the beats business. And Dr. Dre dropped the tweet. Right. Somebody got Beats or some. Somebody got beats 1.2 billion. Whatever he said. He didn't even mention the company was interested. But because of that, the very next day, whoever cook came back to Iovine and said, it's now $200 million less. And they had to take $200 million less simply because.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, my God.

[Brian Green]

Yes, but I'm not crying for Dr.

[Reggie Watts]

So stupid.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah, but it's. But.

[Reggie Watts]

But also, like, you just don't celebrate until it's signed, man. Just don't celebrate.

[Brian Green]

Called Tempting Fate is what it's called the Reggie Watts. Check out his. Check out his new special. Reggie, it's. It's been a pleasure twice now, so thank you very much. And I hope that you come back on it. Actually, I demand that you come back. I'm telling my future self to invite you back onto the show.

[Reggie Watts]

We've already done it and it was really fun. Again.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

Hey, listen, most of the time, like most of my dates in the life, I would say two is good. If we end on a high note, let's just leave it there. But you know what? Let's try for a third.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Reggie Watts, thank you so much.

[Reggie Watts]

My pleasure.

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[Brian Green]

I love a good Reggie Watts interview. I love it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I'm feeling all tingly.

[Brian Green]

I am feeling all tingly. I think that was one of the, like, more outer spacey interviews that we've. And I say that like, you know, not the typical questions we would ask or not the typical content we would dig into, but I love. Loved it. New brew. Thanks. New brew. And thanks, Reggie Watts.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We went deep.

[Brian Green]

Half renew brew and half Reggie. We just. We went deep. How could you not? I know once he started opening up a little bit about his relationship, I couldn't help but just delve in deep. If he says the door's open, I'm gonna walk in. And I just am so all about that love story.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Me too.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's.

[Reggie Watts]

It.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I mean, it started off, you know, it sounds like she's letting Reggie be ready.

[Podcast Announcer]

Reggie.

[Brian Green]

Yes. She let him shake out his wild oats.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes. And then he came around and now they're. Sounds like exclusive, so.

[Brian Green]

Sounds like exclusive.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That is so exciting.

[Brian Green]

We'll see when Brian gets around whether or not Reggie keeps that exclusivity. I love a good love story. I really do. I love a good love story. Good for you, Reggie. Good for you. You can catch his new special out on Veeps. You can read his book. Granted, Great Falls, Montana, I never remember the whole name of it, so I'm Gonna. Thanks. New brew.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

Great Falls, Montana. Montana. Fast times, Post punk weirdos and a tale of coming home again. And then also, most importantly, you can go get your new [e-mail], follow Reggie on Instagram at Reggie Watts Instagram. He's got a few appearances coming up. If you so inclined. You can go check him out. Couple festivals, couple fests, he says. Couple fests. He just got back from a big year. Sounds like he got back from leap year from gap year.

[Podcast Announcer]

You know what I'm saying?

[Brian Green]

It sounds like he got back from gap year.

[Reggie Watts]

I.

[Brian Green]

Why don't we have a life like that? Why can't we just.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We're doing gap life.

[Brian Green]

Be brilliant. Make content. Show up at exclusive parties in la. I was hoping he'd slide me an invite to that party in la, but doesn't sound like I'm getting. No, no, I think. I think I gotta wait till the third time to start asking for invites. Yeah, he threw out there that he went. And then I was like, why can't I get an invite to one of those parties? And he's like, well, anyway, on to the next subject.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

He didn't take the vape.

[Brian Green]

He did not take the vape. Most of our guests don't. No, some are, some are, some just live to our face. I'm just saying I'll get you tickets, don't worry about it. Anyway, thank you so much, Reggie. We really enjoyed having you. You're welcome. Any time. All right, here's what you can do for new brew. You two, there's just a couple more days left. As a matter of fact, just like three or four more days left. So we're going to be down at the Dania Improv, the Dania Beach, Florida, that's the 2024, Tuesday. Tickets are available by hitting the link in the show notes on our website or going straight to the venue. That's danyaimprov.com and get the tickets there. Do not go to a broker. I'm telling you right now. I don't know what people are thinking, but selling commercial break TCB live tickets for $820 is insane. It's insane. And if you paid $820 to come see us, don't shoot the message. I told you. I told you. Orlando. The Funny bone on the 25th at the bone. Go to the. Go to the website. Go to the Funny Bone website. Buy the tickets there. Or again, links in the show notes on our Instagram or at our website. Those are the only authorized links. Don't go. No, no. Man's links, tcvpodcast.com all the information, the audio, the video. Get your free sticker and 212-4333 TCB. That's 212-4333 TCB. At the commercial break on Instagram YouTube.com the commercial break. Okay, Chrissy, I guess that's all I can do for today.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

I'll tell you that I love you.

[Reggie Watts]

And I love you.

[Brian Green]

I'll say best to you, Best to you, Best to you. New brew and all those out in the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I do say, we will say and loom must say goodbye. You're probably small. Does that excite you? I got more. Does it excite you? I got more. Does it excite you?