TCB Infomercial w. Reggie Watts

Summary

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The Commercial Break: TCB Infomercial with Reggie Watts

Episode Date: February 27, 2024
Host(s): Bryan Green, Kristen (Krissy) Joy Hoadley
Guest: Reggie Watts – comedian, musician, author

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Commercial Break features a freewheeling, deeply humorous interview with Reggie Watts—beatboxing comedian, former bandleader for The Late Late Show with James Corden, and author of Great Falls, Montana: Fast Times, Post Punk and Weirdos. Bryan and Krissy, in classic chaotic TCB style, riff on British pranks, ‘80s pop culture, drug experimentation, personal history, and musical & comedic influences with Reggie. The conversation is frank, cerebral, silly, and a wild ride through topics both absurd and profound.

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Key Discussion Topics & Insights

1. Introductions & Vibe Setting

• Bryan hails Reggie as one of his comedy heroes, citing his unique comedic style and influence from shows like Comedy Bang Bang.
• A recurring joke is made about how their podcast is the “most mediocre” and that guests like Reggie only end up there after doing bigger shows (“Rogan, Conan, then The Commercial Break”) [10:01].
• The show’s chaotic, self-aware tone is evident, with jokes about being “just FINE” and boasting its unpolished style.

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2. Early Influences on Reggie’s Comedy

• First Thing that Made Reggie Laugh: Watching “Muppet News Flash” segments on The Muppet Show where the anchor would get abruptly crushed by a bell [10:43].

  “I couldn't stop laughing for an hour... it happened so quickly.” – Reggie [11:16]

• Influence: Muppets’ silliness and Monty Python’s absurdism, mixed with a musical approach to humor—juxtaposing disjointed ideas without needing “a cohesive narrative” [12:37].
• Bryan notes Reggie's style is “disorienting and funny at the same time... comes out of the blue” [11:46].

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3. Music & Comedy Hybrid Identity

• Reggie describes his fusion of comedy and music, inspired by pop culture in the ‘80s (e.g., “Weird Al” Yankovic) [17:19].

  “That was the height of pop culture... The stuff that came out was so innovative... it was experiments on television.” – Reggie [17:19]

• Krissy’s husband’s indie label connection with some of Reggie’s collaborators sparks a discussion on underground music scenes and Reggie’s touring projects [16:24].
• The group reminisces about growing up in the ‘80s: Star Wars, Max Headroom, kids’ autonomy—likening it to Stranger Things [23:30].

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4. Growing Up Multicultural & Making Friends

• Reggie was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and raised in Great Falls, Montana. He describes growing up as “idyllic,” rich with outdoor activities and pop culture, without modern digital distractions [23:30].
• Making friends was “pretty easy,” and Reggie embraced whoever was down to be friends—no cliques or barriers, just organic connections [24:58].

  “I just made friends with whoever was, like, down to be friends, you know? ...It just organically happened.” – Reggie [25:18]

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5. Comedic Style, Barriers, and Breaking Norms

• Reggie never set out to use comedy as a survival tool but was always naturally drawn to the “weird and silly,” mixing pop culture to make things more palatable [15:29].
• Both hosts and Reggie talk about not fitting into the classic high school “clique” structure—valuing individuality and finding friendships naturally [26:01].

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6. Drug Experiences: Ketamine, Kratom, and Beyond

• Reggie discusses his responsible, experimental approach to psychoactive substances.
  • Ketamine: Described as accessing “the infinite liminal”—a detached but fascinating experiential zone [28:06].

    “You’re like in between everything... not very emotional... pragmatic... a pure experiential mode... kaleidoscopic and fractal.” – Reggie [28:06]

  • Kratom: Discovered via musician friends; contrasts the harshness of some extracts (like “Feel Free”) with gentler new products (“New Brew”), highlighting different social and functional effects [33:11, 36:54].
  • Stacking Experiences: Recounted combining edibles, kratom, and ketamine for unique, social, “hyper-communicative” highs, comparing the buzz to monk-like serenity [35:42].
  • Quaaludes: Recently tried, finding it “groovy,” “hyper functional,” and ideal for both party and intimate settings [39:03, 40:36].

    “If you happen to be, like, making love... on Quaalude, it’s really beautiful. It's very hyper-connected.” – Reggie [40:36]

• Bryan and Reggie reflect on the changing attitudes toward substances once maligned in the ‘80s but now recognized for their therapeutic potential (e.g., ketamine for chronic pain or depression) [32:59].

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7. Pop Culture, Late-Night, and Book Talk

• Reggie shares about landing the bandleader role on The Late Late Show with James Corden: personal outreach, negotiation of his terms, and joining the show after Comedy Bang Bang [21:31].

  “James was like, I don’t want anybody else. I want you. And I was like, okay.” – Reggie [21:31]

• Bryan lauds Reggie’s book (Great Falls, Montana: Fast Times, Post Punk and Weirdos) and proposes it should become a movie [47:57].
• A playful tangent emerges on the virtues of shoehorns—a random passion Reggie and Krissy share [43:25], highlighting the show's love for oddball details.

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8. Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Comedy:

  “It’s just an appreciation for things that are silly and mixing it with not having to make everything make sense... It doesn’t have to make sense.” – Reggie [12:37]

• On Drug Experimentation:

  “When I hit that... I’m calibrating chemicals and seeing where it gets you. Is it consistent? Is it contextually dependent? Blah, blah, blah.” – Reggie [35:42]

• On Social Connectivity:

  “Whoever you’re talking to, you’re completely interested in everything they’re saying. It’s amazing. It makes you so receptive to information...” – Reggie [41:40]

• On Sexuality and Substances:

  “If you happen to be, like, making love with somebody, I apologize. You can cut out the making love part... On Quaalude, it's... hyper-connected, it’s a really beautiful thing...” – Reggie [40:36]

• On Great Falls, Montana:

  “It was kind of an idyllic upbringing… It’s riding your bike as fast as you can to get over to your friend’s house to play Dungeons and Dragons or Atari.” – Reggie [23:30]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• [00:27]–[03:44] – Hosts joking intro, British spaghetti tree hoax banter
• [09:38] – Reggie Watts joins the show
• [10:43]–[13:55] – Early comedic influences (Muppets, Monty Python), philosophy of humor
• [15:29]–[17:19] – Childhood, music/comedy hybrid, pop culture influences
• [21:31]–[22:57] – Becoming the Late Late Show bandleader
• [23:10]–[26:01] – Growing up in Great Falls, friendships, youth memories
• [27:13]–[42:34] – Drug exploration: ketamine, kratom, experimental stacks, and social effects
• [43:25]–[44:41] – Shoehorn digression and other quirky fascinations
• [47:07]–[47:54] – Final reflections on the show's guest lineup and Reggie’s uniqueness

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Tone & Language

• Irreverent: Banter is witty, self-deprecating, and delightfully tangential.
• Candid: Both Reggie and hosts are open about personal quirks, experiments with drugs, and odd passions (shoehorns!).
• Warm & Playful: The conversation is welcoming, non-judgmental, and packed with good-natured ribbing.

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Takeaway

Reggie Watts is a true original—on stage, on the page, and in conversation. This episode is as much about the unpredictable, joyful art of riffing as it is about the details of his biography. Listeners get a window into Watts’s creative process, his love for the absurd, his philosophy on life and humanity, and his bold curiosity—whether tinkering with comedy, music, or even his own neurochemistry. The Commercial Break, in its signature freewheeling spirit, provides the perfect setting for Reggie to roam.

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Recommended: Listen to [28:06–42:34] for Reggie’s mind-bending, responsible take on legal/illegal substances and how they influence art and social connection.

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For more, check out Reggie’s book “Great Falls, Montana: Fast Times, Post Punk and Weirdos” and follow The Commercial Break on their socials for more improv comedy chaos.

Transcript

[Reggie Watts]

Ass, tits, cunt cock, motherfucker. Shit. Ass, tits. Come on. Ass, tits, cunt cock, motherfucker. Ass, tits. Come on. It takes some.

[Brian Green]

On this episode of the commercial break.

[Reggie Watts]

And I, you know, it's like, I know no one does this and I probably shouldn't mention it on the show, but if you happen to be, like, making love with somebody, I apologize. You can cut out the making love part.

[Brian Green]

No, you can say screwing. Yeah, please, Dude. Reggie, come on. You are. I want to tell you something. You are amongst friends. Literally. We're the only ones that are going to hear this. So you're fine. Don't worry about it. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, yeah. Guys and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green and this is my dear friend and co host, Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris, and best you out there in the podcast universe. Hey, I thought Aliens was the appropriate noise to play today as we have the very talented, extraordinarily unique beatboxing comic Reggie Watts coming on for the TV TCB infomercial. I'm really excited about this one because Reggie is one of my faves. He's always been one of my faves, Chrissy. Not always, because I haven't known him for that long. Not like we've been best friends since I was born, but since he hit the scene. Comedy bang bang and all that. He's super talented. He's written a book. We have it right here. He's written a book. I read it. I'm going to put it upside down. There we go.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I love that book.

[Brian Green]

Reggie Watts, Fast Times, Post Punk and Weirdos. And I'm not. I'm just going to ignore it. I'm just going to ignore the fact that Blue just walked in the studio like goddamn queen that she is. She's unbelievable. She's unbelievable. Go, get out. Leave me alone. Oh, well, I know.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And it's funny, too. There's a funny connection because when we told Jeff, my husband, about Reggie.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He had that story to tell. I'm gonna ask Reggie about it, too.

[Brian Green]

The story to tell.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He's a musician, too.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, he is. Well, that's a good question for Reggie, too. It's like, do you consider yourself a musician, a comic, or some kind of hybrid? I think I'm kind of like a futurist too. Like, he's always, like, predicting the future. I don't know.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Reggie is a Renaissance man.

[Brian Green]

He is a Renaiss man for sure. So we're super excited to have model. Have him here in a couple minutes. But first. But first I wanted to talk about something that I find extremely interesting. So. Not as interesting as Reggie Watts, but it is interesting. And that is. Did you know that in 1957, the BBC fooled an entire country into thinking that spaghetti grew on trees? Did you hear this? Have you seen this? No. It is insane.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Like this day in history.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's this day in history, TCB style. I feel like we've been broadcasting since 1957. I feel like we have another 80 years to go. Just today alone. I know this day is never ending. I swear to God it is. It's never ending. It's been plagued by so many problems. It's just so fitting that Reggie is coming on today.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It really is.

[Brian Green]

We're gonna end with icing on the cake. And that's.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know. I wish I had, like. I wish I had another one of those. Like it's a new moon.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

When you were like. That's just the kind of bullshit I' been trying to blame something on.

[Brian Green]

That's just the kind of I've been trying to blame something on.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's Fat Tuesday.

[Brian Green]

Fat Tuesday recording. There you go. We should be drunk somewhere.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It should be. See, the world is not right.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it knows that's right. It's trying to pull us down. You trying to get out.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Here's some beads. Go have fun.

[Brian Green]

Here's some beads. Do that. Show me your.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Show me your knees.

[Brian Green]

Well, show me your knees.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

How's the love.

[Brian Green]

Show me your culturally appropriate knees. Show me your ankles. As my masseuse did the other day. Show me your ankles. Okay, I gotta. I got a 14 minute ankle massage. Called it a day. Why not?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And an origami lesson.

[Brian Green]

No, the origami sheets. So the BBC patrolled an entire country. They put out a documentary on the BV and what they.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No one that sense of humor.

[Brian Green]

Because it, what, the world wasn't as close as it is today. You just couldn't hop on a plane. Right. And few people, I imagine only rich people or people with means would take a boat to go to Italy or. Or get on a train or whatever they did back then to Italy. That spaghetti wasn't a thing that was very popular in Britain. So because it wasn't very popular, the.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Some producers, they're still not known for their pasta.

[Brian Green]

No, they're not known for their food at all. Let me attest to that. I feel like I am British in a different life. I feel like born in the wrong country. I love the British. I love their humor. I love everything about it. I love your country, your food. But I'm Irish and I don't have much to talk about. So there you go. They put together this entire documentary where they hung cooked spaghetti from trees, like olive trees, and just rows and rows of the spaghetti. So I saw the actual parts of the documentary and these ladies were going around pulling the cooks from spaghetti and laying them out in bath. There was a guy holding a basket and they would put it in the basket and lay it out. And they fooled an entire country into believing that spaghetti grew on trees. Isn't that wild? Isn't that. I just like, I don't know why, but 1957 BBC. God damn right. The first Rick roll ever. It grew on trees. It grew on trees. Really guys? It grew on trees? That's what you believe? That's what you had? I, I don't know. That's it. You know, after the war, maybe just people weren't thinking straight. Twelve years after the war, maybe that, that's.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They were doing like a drying action. Like, because when I've made homemade pasta.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

There's like a drying rack and it could be like a branch.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. This was officially. They were trolling. It was like a purposeful, you know, yuckle, Yuckle, the clown school kind of thing going on. Ah, good old yuckles, the clown school and dating advice.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's right.

[Brian Green]

So if you get a chance, look up the BBC documentary on spaghetti growing on trees. Because if now, knowing what we know, that in fact spaghetti does not grow on trees, that it'll be funny to you that to watch as people try.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

To convince you, I'm gonna look for.

[Brian Green]

It, that spaghetti grows on trees. The great BBC, the great British Broadcasting Corporation Company, whatever they call it, channel. I don't even know what it is. But you know, that's how the, that's how the British roll. They have, they fund that BBC now they have many other channels besides that, but they used to be the BBC, BBC1, BBC2. They still have BBC7, BBC8. When you go over there, it's all BBC or Sky TV or whatever it is. We just don't have any kind of equivalent here in the United States. Our broadcasting channels are not what they used to be. Let's just put it that way. I mean, I think there's more of.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Them, but more doesn't mean there's thousands of more.

[Brian Green]

Does not mean better. You know, I bet you could go ask like a 15 year old what ABC stands for or NBC stands for. CBS stands for. And they probably would not even understand what you're talking about. They'd be like, what are you talking about? Channel 5. Channel 5. Yeah. My dad watches it, right? That's where he gets all his news about Trump. All right, the great Reggie Watts up with us in just a few minutes. His book, Great Falls, Montana, Fast Times, Post punk and weirdos. He's coming up on this show. I can't believe it. It's yet another fine, fantastic guest book on the show that has no absolute, absolutely no business being here. But we'll take it where we can get it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's right. We fooled another one.

[Brian Green]

You won't be fooled again. Oh, yes, you've been fooled again. So let's do this. Let's take a short break, and when we come back, we will be with Reggie.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Reggie and Blue.

[Brian Green]

What's that?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Reggie and Blue.

[Brian Green]

I'm guarantee I'm getting that blue out of here real quick.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Look, she turned around to look me.

[Brian Green]

I know what she's like. Huh? What? Touch me, I'll bark. Oh, here she comes. She's like, yep. Okay, you want me to bark, I'll bark. All right, let's kick Blue out, and we'll be back.

[Christina]

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[Brian Green]

And we're here with Reggie now. Reggie, thanks so much for joining us here on the commercial break. Thanks for taking time out of what I'm sure is a very busy schedule to be with the most important show in the podcast universe, the commercial break.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I've done Conan, and now you've done.

[Brian Green]

Conan, and now you're here.

[Reggie Watts]

I've done the Barbarians show.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Reggie Watts]

And now I'm here.

[Brian Green]

I noticed there's a pattern going on with our guest. It's like Rogan Conan seven months later, the commercial break. When we just run out of options, we're like, all right, the commercial break. Let's go there. But you know what? We are the most mediocre podcast in the universe, so it's okay that you're here last. I want to ask Max Middle. I want to ask you a question that I one time asked Dane Cook. So there's a lot of similarities here, and I'm. I'm hoping you give me a much more interesting answer. What is the very first thing that you found funny that you can remember finding funny? Like, just the very first thing that you found made you laugh?

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, it was watching the Muppet show, and they would have something called a Muppet News Flash.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

And. And it was like this reporter that had, like, you know, looking like this, like, big chin. Like. No, you know, what a nose, like, broadcaster looking guy. And be like a Muppet News Flash, you know, And. And he. He has this, like, little prompter paper in front of him, and he's. He's like. There are reports of a strange identified object in the sky, and then he just gets crushed by this giant bell. We're talking, and it's just like.

[Brian Green]

We're talking about, like, the original Muppet show prime time. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was, like, 1970. I don't know, 79 or something like that, or 1980. And. Yeah, and, like, this bell just immediately falls on him, and you hear this gang or whatever, and I couldn't stop laughing for an hour.

[Brian Green]

I just.

[Reggie Watts]

Because it's just like, it happened so quickly. It's just like a Muppet News flash. There are reports of an unidentified.

[Brian Green]

You know what? Much more interesting answer than Dane Cook, by the way. You win. And the reason why I wanted to ask you this is because you. You have such a unique brand of humor that I find so funny. It's disorienting and funny at the same time. It comes out of the blue. It's like you have to really think to keep up with what's going on on stage. And I love it. And I just was curious about where, like, your comedy gets its. Like, it gets its origins. What informed your comedy? And maybe you can help me. Maybe you can explain it, because you're you and you have a better idea of where you got that from. What informs that sense of humor, that disorienting. Out of the blue, here it comes. Is that Muppet, you know, segment kind of tells it all, I guess. Just came out of the blue.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, I. Yeah, I don't. You know, I don't know. I guess. I guess some of it is like the Muppets for sure. They had like a silliness to them that was very, you know, this is very silly. And so it starts kind of with silliness. And then I think Monty Python, when I saw Monty Python, that blew me away. And that was this absurdist, silly humor. And so I think it's just a. It's just an appreciation for things that are silly and mixing it with not having to have to make everything make sense, connect that ideas can be. And I think it probably came from studying music, you know, where music, it's like you can throw things that don't make sense at all in a composition and it, and it works and you can, it can be disjointed and it can change styles drastically at any given moment. It doesn't have to make sense. And so I think with humor, just expanding it to humor and improvised or improv based comedy or whatever performance, I think that that's kind of where that all came from just being silly. But don't. I don't have to make it a cohesive narrative, like a little perfect sense narrative. So, yeah, probably came from that.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I think I've been a fan of yours comedy bang bang, college humor days. And I, I'm just so fascinated. And I think that's a great analogy that you made with the music is there's no barriers, there's no walls. It comes out of nowhere. It goes places it' wouldn't expect it to go. Sometimes there's no narrative to it whatsoever. But it is very, very funny. Do you feel like you talked about this in your book? Which is great by the way. Chrissy and I both read it. Do you feel like comedy helped you break down, Barry? Look at that.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Nice. That's my favorite on the messages you can do on your iPhone.

[Brian Green]

So for six weeks I say Chrissy and I were sitting here doing the show and every, mm, let's call it 15 minutes, shit started popping up on the video screen. Yes. Like thumbs up. Fireworks.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Balloons.

[Brian Green]

Balloons. Little guys flying across. And we couldn't figure out for the life of us why this was happening. We were wondering if we were streaming live and someone was reacting to it. And we just couldn't figure it out until we realized that Apple had somehow placed, you know, some kind of emojis inside of our computers.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, whatever they call excitacons, I don't know what they are.

[Brian Green]

Did you feel like humor, humor was a, was a, like a barrier breaker for you? You, you know, you were born overseas and you came Here and ended up in Great Falls, Montana. Somehow. Did you feel like humor became like a wall breaker for you?

[Reggie Watts]

I mean, yeah, for sure. I mean, for sure. I mean, but it's like. It's not quite like something that I was like, how do I survive in society? I better choose humor. You know, not that you're implying that, but just. I don't know, I think some people might think that that's the way that it happens, but no, I mean, it's just like I was just naturally playful, you know, weird. Like, I loved stuff that was weird. You know, stuff that was like. That represented things in strange ways or shows that made me feel weird or I was always gravitated to strange, strangeness. And so I think that that was there. And then mix in the silliness, then my love of pop culture, you know, and then like referencing pop in order to like, make it more palatable. Palatable for people, you know, that those types of things, like that all just kind of happened naturally and it comes across in the.

[Brian Green]

In the music too. Chrissy, you actually have an interesting story about.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I do. I ended up telling my husband that we were interviewing you and he has a record, indie record label called Terminus Records, and he did a lot of work with Tucker Martin and Wayne on the My Lab. Yeah record. And he recently did. That was kind of a pandemic project for him to re release some of his. Some old, you know, things that he'd worked on old projects and My Lab was one of them. So he was like, oh, my God, I don't know. You know, Tell him Tucker Martin and Wayne Horvitz will definitely remember, you know, the My Lab record.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, for sure.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's awesome. I love that record. I was like, reggie.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, the four plus one ensemble record. Yeah. I haven't heard it in a while. Yeah, that was. It was fun to tour it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, definitely.

[Reggie Watts]

Amazing.

[Brian Green]

So when. So were you a musician first? Like, is that what you. When you kind of came out and you were looking to be a musician, or were you looking. Was comedy a natural fit for you? Or just blending those two together made sense?

[Reggie Watts]

I mean, I guess it just. It all just started to make sense because I would use music, you know, in my comedy or I would do parodies, you know, like Weird Al coming out with Eat. It was like such a huge. And when that came out, I was like, what the fuck is happening right now? This is insane. You know, like. Yeah, Anyways, it was. It just blew me away that you could do that, you know, and. And then I started making my own parody songs and I don't know. And then also just the 80s, pop culture wise. In the 80s, it was just. I just. I'm like, so glad I grew up then because, like, it was like that. The height of pop culture, American or western pop culture was. It was just like. Like no one knew, you know, like anything like how we got there. Like no one knew. They were just like, we're here, so let's party. You know, like, it was like that vibe. And so. Yeah, so the stuff that came out was like so innovative and for the first time. And it was experiments on television. You know, television was the experimental platform.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

True.

[Reggie Watts]

Like the Internet is now. And so. Yeah. So I was exposed to a lot of really crazy, weird. You know that. That is still weird by today's standards.

[Brian Green]

Absolutely.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

There's Nothing like the 80s.

[Brian Green]

Look at, look at old Max episodes and tell me that.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, I. I've. I've. I've completely rewatched that. It's like so telling of our current paradigm. I mean, it's. It's so prescient. It's. It's kind of incredible. Yeah, it's a. It's a good show. It's weird.

[Brian Green]

I watched it during the pandemic. I went back and rewatched it and it was just crazy. Yeah, me too. The craziest thing, I think, is that. And I think. I think we're a similar age. But the crazy thing to me is that that Mex Headroom bit was based on an actual. I grew up in Chicago. Was based on something. It was an ad, but I broke the. He, like hacked into the local television station.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, do you remember? That was crazy. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's. I forget. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And I don't think to this day they knew who. Who did it. But he had some kind of transponder receiver or something and he actually broke in and they were moving this back. Weird background while he had this weird.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah. To make it look like half. Yeah, yeah. It was insane. Yeah. Like they hacked like the public television whatever or whatever station it was for like. Like two minutes or something like that. Or three minutes. I think they did it twice.

[Brian Green]

Yes, they did it twice.

[Reggie Watts]

I think they did it twice. It's like, crazy. And no one knows to this day.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. No one understands how they actually hacked it or who was actually behind it, which is crazy. And if they did something like that today, they would, you know, they'd certainly be underground and under the jail, you know.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, my God. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

You talk about The Eat It.

[Christina]

Right.

[Reggie Watts]

But that was that time.

[Brian Green]

It was the 80s. Everyone was high and happening. I kind of feel blessed to have grown up in the 80s, actually.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah, that's it.

[Brian Green]

That Eat it. Right. I couldn't. My parents wouldn't let me. Wouldn't. Even though my very first, like, album that they got me was Run dmc, followed by Beastie Boys, they wouldn't let me get the Eat it record because for some reason they thought it was rude. Right? It was rude. And I couldn't have it and I wasn't allowed to get. Don't Ask me. This weird Irish Catholic household and certain things were off limits. We went to church for the preschool, but not for God. It was a weird.

[Reggie Watts]

I grew up in a. Yeah, of course. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

My grandma bought it for me, the Eat it record, and we played the. Out of that.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

My grandmother would buy me the stuff too, for sure.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, that's cool. What a cool grandma.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I don't think she realized what she was doing.

[Reggie Watts]

Okay, well, you got lucky.

[Brian Green]

But how blessed I, I, I, I was. So, so I have a, I have a question, and I, I don't think in doing homework about you, I don't think I got this answer. How did you actually make it onto the James Corden show as the band leader? You show, by the way, great on that show.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, thanks. Yeah, it was fun. It was fun times in the city. Yeah, I mean, yeah, we, I think I was just, I just gotten done with Comedy Bang Bang, and I was in LA for a couple more weeks, and then I was going back to New York and, And then in that time, I got a call to meet with James Corden, who I didn't know at the time, and went to this hotel in Beverly Hills, sat down, talked with the showrunner, Ben Winston, and, and James. And then, like, I think at one point, like, I think they basically just said, we'd like you to be the band leader. And, And James was like, I don't want anybody else. I want you. And I was like, okay. But I was like, I just quit Comedy Bang Bang. And I was, like, looking forward to having like a, some solo time and, like, to chill time, you know, figure out some other projects to get into. So it kind of took me a while to decide to do it or not, but it took me like, I don't know, maybe like a month of just checking around, stuff like that. And then. Yeah, and then it happened. And, I mean, I chose to do it and they, I asked them for all the stuff I wanted and they were cool with everything that I asked for. And, and then how. Then we did it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

There you go.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, you broke the mold. The coolest band leader in all of Late Night television for sure. And, and it was a, it was a good run. I think James Gordon just ended last year, didn't he?

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, April 28th and. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

So I want to ask you a question about growing up in, in Great Falls, Montana. So you were born in Stuttgart, is that right?

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, that's right.

[Brian Green]

You were born in Stuttgart and then came over and landed in Great Falls, Montana. How did, and so how did, how was it growing up in Great Falls, Montana?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's beautiful out there. I loved it in your book when you were talking about how you can just see the sky. You can, you can see all of these things forming, you know, these weather patterns. It's beautiful out there.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, it's incredible. I mean, it's, you know, it's a. Again, like growing up there in this, in the 70s and the 80s, you know, it was just a perfect time to grow up there because, you know, you didn't have any network devices, no cell phones, and a lot of autonomy and a lot of self discovery. So. And to be, you know, in nature and to like sign up for programs, you know, like swim classes after school or skiing or, you know, or I was in the Boy Scouts and we used to go camping and, you know, learn knots and survival skills and all that stuff, and that was really great. But then also Star wars and all the 80s pop culture was really popular, so playing with kids like Star wars and like hanging out in the woods and, you know, playing games and going to swamps and whatever, like, it was, it was awesome. It was like everything that Stranger Things depicts, like, they nailed it. Like that's, that's pretty much the existence. It's riding your bike like as fast as you can to get over to your friend's house to play Dungeons and Dragons or to play some weird Atari game or something like that. So it was kind of an idyllic upbringing.

[Brian Green]

And so did you find it was easy to make friends in Great. Great Falls, Montana? Was that your. Was. Was it easy to come from out of the country and then make your way into Great Falls, Montana? Or was. Was there barriers to finding friendships and assimilating and.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, I mean, it was. I would say, yeah, I think it was pretty easy. I mean, like, I had a lot of friends in my early years. I had mostly girl friends, but then.

[Brian Green]

Me too, in my early and later years.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, there you go.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, we're best friends.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah. That's the way to do it. Yeah, I agree. Because. Because. Because. Because women rule. But more. More fun. More fun. But, yeah, so. But yeah, I mean, I always had, like. I always had friends. I was pretty good at making friends. I just kind of was. I don't think I was ever. I don't think I ever dreamed of being with friends that I didn't get to be with. Be friends with. Yeah, Like, I think you just. I just made friends with whoever was, like, down to be friends, you know? And so I never really had a want or anything like that. It just kind of just organically happened and. Yeah, it was. It was. It was great. It wasn't. Yeah, it wasn't hard at all, really.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I feel the same way. I think, like, you know, people ask, like, you know, where are you in the popular clique? Or were you in the band Click? Or were you into this clique? And I was like, I don't know. I was friends with who I. I felt like I was friends with. And I didn't really. I didn't. Wasn't really bothered by anything else. I. I just kind of tried to tune out the noise a little bit, and it really didn't matter to me. And quite frankly, I like to be alone a lot, too, so that was one thing.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You did play third string? What? Saxophone.

[Brian Green]

I played third. Third. Third chair saxophone. Let's get it right.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Sorry, there's no strings.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice. Yeah. No strings attached.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Russell. First chair. I wanted to be second chair because I didn't want to have all the responsibility of first chair.

[Reggie Watts]

But, yeah, totally. You don't want. No, yeah. Second chair was cool.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

I was first chair, second violin at one point.

[Brian Green]

Oh, were you?

[Reggie Watts]

But that's kind of like being second chair. First violin.

[Brian Green]

I didn't want the heavy weight of first chair. I really wanted second chair, but they.

[Reggie Watts]

Gave me first chair is too much.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, Yeah. I feel like the pressure if you.

[Brian Green]

Ride down the middle. No. Everyone just kind of lets you be. You know what I'm saying? I don't want to stand out in any particular way. One of my favorite bits that you do, you sing a song about Robitussin.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Yes. Robitussin and Benadryl. I think it's actually about Benadryl. But you talk about Robitussin, too, which I identify with. Robitussin is a nice dissociative that can really make for a wonderful Saturday evening, especially when you're 17 years old. And all those girlfriends that you have don't want anything to do with you on Saturday night. They're happy to talk to you at school. I don't want to talk to you on Saturday.

[Reggie Watts]

Yo. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. So. So I want to ask you a little bit about this because I did see a interview. Like, maybe it was last week, I was watching this interview, and you had a shirt on. And I can't forget what it says. But it was about ketamine, right? It said something about ketamine.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, maybe the ketiverse.

[Brian Green]

Ketiverse. So tell. Tell me your thoughts on ketamine. I'm interested to hear this.

[Reggie Watts]

I love it. I think it's one of my favorite drugs ever. It's. It's a very. You know, it's like. I kind of call the space that you enter into with it the infinite liminal and meaning. It feels like you're in a diagnostic mode. It feels like you're kind of in the hallways between all the things that reality is like, or at least perception. So you're, like, in between everything, but. And then in being there, you're also not very emotional. It's very kind of pragmatic in a strange way. And you're able to, like, you know, depending on how high you get. I like going into a K hole because that's an incredible experience, you know, to just, like, fall into this zone where you're not having to think about anything. You're just in a pure experiential mode. And it's so kaleidoscopic and fractal and just otherworldly, like, just. Just reconfiguring the way that you're seeing reality and perceiving it. And so really amazing. And then when you're not in a cable, but, like, still pretty high and you're with friends, it can be this really incredible social situation where you're both occupying the same reality. Almost like you're in a dream state together. Consciously.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

And incredible things happen in that state. I've witnessed, you know, at least seemingly telepathic things. You know, people coming up with the same experiences and not talking to one another, you know, or talking over great distances across a loud room at a very low voice, but still being able to hear each other perfectly. Very, very weird, like, stuff. So I'm really. And I've done music, recorded music, high on ketamine. And what comes out of it is insane. I mean, it's insane that you can even function when you're that high. But it's like things just start to happen automatically. It's like you're just automatically playing and observing yourself playing. And so you're like listening to the record you're making, if that makes sense. Or you're listening to. Yeah, you're listening to the record you're making. It's. It's crazy.

[Brian Green]

It's. It's very.

[Reggie Watts]

So it's an interesting drug to me.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I've done it. Yeah, I've been in a K hole. I find it to be a very fascinating place to be. It's almost. It is like having an out of body experience is. Is the best way that I can explain it. But. And it is a dissociative. So that's exactly what it does. Right. You disassociate from your body. And I guess that's why now they give it as a painkiller. I've had some friends who have been in, you know, accidents, trauma to their leg or whatever, and now they're, you know, giving ketamine.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. For mental health. You know, there's so many new discoveries too that people are going back to.

[Brian Green]

Well, here's what I wanted to ask you. Yeah, here's what I wanted to ask you about it because the interview that I was watching, you were speaking really highly about ketamine. And I had a friend, this is probably a decade ago, and he had something called trigeminal neuralgia, which is also referred to as the suicide.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, that is the word. Worst. Yeah. Suicide disease. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Because it's affects your. The. The main nerve that runs through your face. It causes these headaches. And he got it from. It's insane, he thinks from playing hockey. Like he was a semi pro hockey player, right. And he thinks it got, he got it from just banging his head repeatedly. He also came, that also came with some PTSD and some mental health issues. And he had tried everything, everywhere, all the time, every doctor, mass amounts of opiate related pain medication, all this other stuff. And the doctor at one, you know, Sloan Kettering or somewhere, one of these famous hospitals prescribed him ketamine. And so one day I saw him sniffing something out of a bottle and like the afternoon, and I was like, what are you doing? Is that like nasal stuff? And he's like, dude, don't tell anybody this. He handed me the bottle and it was ketamine. And I was like, whoa, ketamine, A prescription for ketamine. That's in insane. How are you taking that stuff? And he's like, brian, I swear to God, this is a wonder drug. It has helped me me so much, and I can still function. Like, I'm okay to function. It's a small enough dose that I function, but it takes away the pain, and it puts me in a frame of mind where I don't want to literally jump off a cliff all the time. And I was like, oh, that's amazing. Now, my experiences with ketamine, like, I, you know, I'm just a recreational user of ketamine and probably taking too much of it at times, but I was just so surprised by this. And I'm so fascinated by the pharmacology that we all as, as children growing up in the 80s and 90s, or teenagers or young adults in the 80s and 90s,. Taking all these drugs experimentally. You know, they're illegal, they're bad, they don't do this, be arrested, whatever. And now the world waking up to this, like, wow, ecstasy can help. Wow, mushrooms is great, can be great in therapeutic sessions. Ketamine can help people literally take them off the edge. And I like how you talk about this in a very pragmatic, realistic. But you're also, I don't know, in almost a responsible way. And I. I really thought you. You had some good thinking on that. And then you were talking about Kratom 1 and one of the interviews also, and Chrissy and I were talking about this early. What is your experience with Kratom?

[Reggie Watts]

Well, I mean, I first experienced it, I was doing this. I did this video series that I created called Drone Versations that are interviews, musicians, other cool, groovy people that's entirely shot by drones. But the. The drones are so loud, you can barely hear the conversation. And so I did one with Thundercat, and he showed up with this case of case shots. He's great. He had this case of case shots. And I was like, what the is this K shot thing? He's like, it's Kratom. Or he might have been pronouncing Kratom, but it is pronounced Kratom. And I was like, oh, sure, I'll check it out. And I did one, and I was like, holy, this is an insane eye. This is amazing. And. And he was popping him, like, every, I don't know, 30 minutes or something like that. I was just. I was like, how are you doing this? He's just got like. He's like a. Built like a tank. But anyways, I thought, I can. I can withstand some pretty high doses, but that was just too much. Anyways, I had one, and we did the shoot. And then the next day I went to smoke shop, and they sell them there. And so I got a little box of it. I came home, took one, felt amazing, and then I took another one and I felt sick.

[Brian Green]

Sick.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, yeah. And I was like, ah, maybe this isn't for me. And then I gave them away. And then flash forward, I don't know, over a year later, and then this product, Feel Free, shows up on my Instagram ads. And even though I hate getting ads on Instagram, I was like, well, that's interesting. And so then I ordered some, and then I had one. I was like, holy shit, I feel incredible right now. But it was mixed with kava. So it was like a kava kratom blend.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[Reggie Watts]

And so you get the anti anxiety aspects, calming aspects of kava, and then you get the euphoric elements of kratom. And yeah, so I started there. I was really fell in love with it, and then started experimenting with like that. So that and THC Edible plus Kratom or sorry plus Ketamine produces an incredible high. Like that stack, if timed correctly. If you do the edible first, then wait a half an hour, then do the Feel free. I usually do the whole thing. Some people just do half. But some people get a little sick from Feel free to.

[Brian Green]

But.

[Reggie Watts]

But anyways, you do that. That's what I did anyways. And then. And then added the. The K. Like maybe an hour after that, after the onsets of both of those things. And it just produced this insane high. Like, I felt like I was all those pictures of someone sitting on a lotus, you know, like all the energy fields around, like these, like these, like, like graduated energy fields around them. And like, I felt like that. And when I was speaking with my friend, I was speaking in the most fluid, concise way I've ever spoken in my life. It was insane. And I was like, what is that? And so when I hit that, that's really what I'm doing when I'm experimenting with these things. I'm calibrating chemicals and seeing where it gets you. Is it consistent? Is it dependent on. Is it contextually dependent? Blah, blah, blah. So that's where I got into it. But then, feel free. It was like a little bit too grenade. Like, And I was. Some people were like, oh, I'm having a problem with it. I'm addicted. And I don't really have an addictive personality. So I was like, well, you know, I'll take breaks. I'm gonna take more breaks from it. And I took breaks and I feel fine from it. But then this Other product came in called New Brew. That is about half the dose of a Feel Free.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

But it's. They use an extract instead of using the whole kratom leaf. And Feel Free, you'll get clumping because there's actual plant matter in there. Yeah, there's chunks of it. Yeah. So it gets, like, gloppy, which I hate because it tastes so shitty that when you're doing it and suddenly it, like, sticks for a second and then dumps a whole bunch in your mouth. You almost throw up. It's like, oh, my. Oh. And so with New Brew, it's an extract. So they just extract it from the leaf, and it's much easier on your stomach. I don't know anybody who's gotten sick from it. Like. Like they do with Feel Free and. And it tastes good. It tastes like a yerba mate. No more plantier than a yerba mate would taste. So they really nailed that formula. Now I'm like, this is the perfect formula. On occasion, I'll do a Feel Free if I want to, like, do a grenade, like, you know, hardcore. But mostly I just stick to that. So that's my relationship with Kratom now.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I took. I've taken Kratom and I took it. I remember the first time I took it some. I was telling Chrissy that someone left a bag of it at my house after a party. There was a party. Someone left a bag.

[Reggie Watts]

Loose leaf.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it wasn't loose leaf. It, like, was in. It was actually in pills. Pills. And so I called the person, I said, hey, you left this stuff over here. I had no idea what it was. Oh, take a few. You know, it'll be fine. I'll be. I'll get next time. Whatever. I took a few before I went to a movie with the girl I was dating at the time. And I remember feeling. This is. This feels very much like I took a painkiller and had a couple of cups of coffee. Right. It feels like there's like a. Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

That'S a good description.

[Brian Green]

Like a mellowing effect, like a Vicodin. You know, it's. You're feeling relaxed, but you want to go do stuff you want. I couldn't sit still in the movie. I was like, I want to go organize my closet. I think you're so methodical about your chemical use. I feel like you take notes or something.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Everybody's brain is different, you know, people respond in different ways. You got to feel what's right for you.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm a Yeah, I just like exploring, you know, and I like. It's fun when you're. When you're experiencing some of these things with, you know, other people and you're able to share in these experiences. Like, I recently ran into methyqualone, which is also known as Quaaludes.

[Brian Green]

Oh, I didn't know they made it.

[Reggie Watts]

Hasn't existed. Yeah, it was. Hasn't been around since 1983. But some chemist, I guess, somewhere figure out. Figured out the precursor in order to make the chemical reaction to produce methyqualone. And so I got to try it. And it's. I, you know, it's like, I can kind of understand why people would get hooked to. It's classified as a hypnotic.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

And I don't, you know, I don't know. It's a. It's an interesting high. It just makes you feel really groovy. It's kind of like a Valium. I guess I don't have that much experience with, like, Valiums and whatever the other things that are abuse. Xanax and all that stuff. I'm not super. I can't really remember what that high is, but I know that it's generally like, opioid.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Reggie Watts]

You know, like, kind of. Kind of. I feel good and kind of numbed or whatever, but.

[Brian Green]

But heavy. Like, heavy.

[Reggie Watts]

Heavy. Yeah, yeah. Like you got like a weighted blanket on you or something like that. This is. This is not that it's like that. It's that feeling, but. But it's hyper functional. So you're still like, you're zippy, you know, you're like, oh, I want to do this, I want to do that, but I just feel great. And then like. And I, you know, it's like, I know no one does this, and I probably shouldn't mention on the show, but if you happen to be like, making love with somebody, I apologize. You can cut out the making love party.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No, you can say screw him.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, please. Dude. Reggie, come on. You are. I want to tell you something. You are amongst friends. Literally. We're the only ones that are going to hear this. You're fine.

[Reggie Watts]

Don't worry about it. That's so awesome.

[Brian Green]

Take it all the way.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

All right.

[Reggie Watts]

Well, yeah, when you, when you're doing that, it's like, it's on. On. On Quaalude.

[Brian Green]

It's.

[Reggie Watts]

It's really beautiful. It's like very hyper connected. Like, it's. It's a really beautiful thing, but, you know, it's also functional. So you can just like you could be taking at a party. I like to take. Take drugs sometimes in social situations and also in, like, you know, comfortable at home situations. Just to know what are they, like in different, different contexts and at a party, it's. It's really nice, too. You just feel like, hey, man.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Hey, brother, how's it going?

[Reggie Watts]

It's like. It's like how Matthew McConaughey must feel all the time.

[Brian Green]

Right. I imagine sometimes you get recognized and, you know, I know you're a kind person, an empathetic person, and then you try, probably try to do your best to, you know, be nice to everybody. Right? But you're at that party and there's that annoying guy like Brian Greene, like, hey, Reggie, what'd you do this. When you're in third grade, everything's great. Yeah. And then everything's great. Go find that Brian Green guy. He was interesting to talk to.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, he was really cool. Very thorough. Yeah, I mean. I mean, you know, like a new brew or a Feel Free also does that socially. It makes whoever you're talking to, you're completely interested in everything they're saying. It's amazing. It's like, it makes you so receptive to information that you see it all as great and interesting. It's. It's. It's. It's really quite incredible.

[Brian Green]

I'm going to the head shop because the head shop has it. I do it. The new brew at the head shop.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, you newbrew. Yeah, Get. Get some new brew. The. The CEO guy, he, like, he's the. He's the dude that turned me onto it. They gave me some, and then he came over and gave me more and we hung out and he's a really cool dude, and he and his brother started the company and.

[Brian Green]

Dear. New brew.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah, hey, I know. Hey, they might. They might. I mentioned it on here. You'll probably.

[Brian Green]

Hey, listen. The commercial break audience. This is probably perfect for Newburgh. So come on board. I have to say this. We just have a few minutes left, but I have to say this. I was trying to explain to my wife, who's Venezuelan, who's not so familiar with Reggie wants. But I said he's like a. He's like a communications voyager. He's, like, reaching out to people in new, weird, wonderful ways. And I've always seen you like that as a person who just kind of mixes stuff up and is trying to communicate with people in these weird and wild ways. And I've. I've loved it. I. I've. Since a long time ago. I've just loved your brand of humor, your music, your style. I think it's super interesting and the book is great. Great Falls, Montana. Fest Times. Post Punk Weirdos. Reggie, appreciate you you coming on today. And I know Chrissy does too.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Absolutely. And I share a love of shoehorns with you as well.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, sick.

[Brian Green]

They're the best, aren't they?

[Reggie Watts]

The best.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They're the best.

[Brian Green]

Wait, wait. Tell us about the shoehorns. Hold on. You can't leave it like that. What? I didn't.

[Reggie Watts]

Oh, no.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I know, I know.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah. No, I love shoehorns. Yeah, really great one. Use it every day. All my. All my Gen Z friends are like, what is that? They're like, they have no idea what it is. And I'm like, it's a shoe. And then when I show them, they're like, what?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yep. Awesome.

[Brian Green]

I thought of my grandfather when in that part of the book. Because my grandfather used to have like the. He. He has the old school. He used to have the old school, the tiny ones. But then he also had the very large ones too. Like, you know, the ones that you slip down. Like when he got older. He had the older ones where he got down.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

He had a shoe buffer, an electric shoe buffer from the. I don't know, I'm going to guess the 50s. And I just used to play with that thing every time I went over. There was nothing else to do except for the shoe buffer. And I just used to put my foot in there. Yeah. Oh, man. Like we. I. I could probably spend the entire afternoon talking to you. Reggie, we really appreciate you coming on and hopefully taking the time to talk to you again and, you know, New brew. Come on. Come on board. Yeah. I'll tell you what. We get new brew and we'll all drink it and we'll do an episode.

[Reggie Watts]

Of the commercial break. Oh, yeah, let's do that. That'd be fun.

[Brian Green]

Deal. So, new brew CEO guy, send us some new brew and we'll get Reggie on and we'll say new brew all day long. It's. We'll call our show.

[Reggie Watts]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

The new Boo break.

[Reggie Watts]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

I'm a whore. I'll give it out. Reggie, thank you so much. Go out and get the book, guys. We really appreciate it. Thanks, Reggie.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Nice to meet you.

[Reggie Watts]

Pleasure.

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[Brian Green]

Oh, man. The great Reggie Watts. How can you argue with the great Reggie Watts? You can't. It's hard to argue with the great Reggie Watts. I feel like I'd lose anyway. He's so cool. He's like the epitome of cool. Yeah. And then he's super smart on top of it. It. And I always feel like Reggie's. I don't know how to say this. Like, he's so cerebral, right. That I wonder how stupid he thinks I really am. Ask him that question. Like, how dumb do you think I really am? I mean.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, he said he's going to come back, so.

[Brian Green]

Well, they all say they're going to come back. They all say they're coming back. But as Astrid pointed out, it's hard to say, no, I won't come back back. But I'm sure it will happen at some point. At some point, somebody's gonna go, nope, no, thanks. That's probably when we get, like, you know, Corey Hayman or whatever. Feldman on or something. We tried to have Corey Feldman on. He just wanted us to pay him. And I was like, nah, I'm not gonna do it. No. Not gonna get in the business of paying people to be on the show. If three listens is not enough to prod you onto the show, well, then, fuck you. Then. Fuck you. It's a great. Reggie Watts knows it's important. Then Corey Feldman should know it's important.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

God damn it. Of course, I do notice that a lot of our guests, including Reggie, and there's no. And I don't blame Reggie for this at all. As a matter of fact, this I would. I'm also thinking the same way, and I'm not even half as famous as Reggie, is that I do notice that they go through the list. Conan, Joe Rogan, you know, whatever. Two Bears and a cup or whatever it is. Yeah. They make the rounds, and then when they've exhausted all other options, they're like, well, guess I Gotta go do that other show.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

There's this one more. They say they have listeners, but I.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, they say they have listeners, but I was actually on the show and I wouldn't listen. But. But in our defense, I actually don't have a defense. There's no defense.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, well, that was exciting. I love all of our interviews that we've been doing.

[Brian Green]

I do. And I love Reggie. Thank you, Reggie, very much for coming on. Go grab his book. Great Falls, Montana. Fast Time Post Punk and Weirdos. It's a great book. It's a great read. It's an easy read. I actually think this is the kind of book that can be turned into a movie and I. I think it should be turned into a movie because Reggie is just one of those unique comic minds that don't come along very often and we should cherish it and it should be put on celluloid in a very funny way so that we can all enjoy it for many eons to come. Of course, I'm probably 30 years older than Reggie and I'll die before he does, but whatever. You get the point. You get the point. Well, Blue, Chrissy and I want to say thank you very much to Reggie.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes, Blue especially. She's a big fan.

[Brian Green]

Yes, huge fan. So much of a fan. She pushed over a 10 pound weight to get in the door.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I must see Reggie.

[Brian Green]

I must see Reggie. All right. Okay. TCBpodcast.com that's where you go. You find out more information about Chrissy and I. All the show notes, all the audio, all the video right there from one location. Go nowhere else. Go to tcb, podcast.com.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Not anywhere else it's not.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, you can get it everywhere else actually. And you get your free piggy fronting sticker right now available to you. All you have to do is write in, hit the contact us button on the website, drop us your physical address and we will send it off to you. 2124333 TCB is the fifth phone number we've had and probably the last one. Hopefully. 1-212-4333 TCB. Questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas, ask Brian's mom, ask TCB, all that stuff. You can just text it to us or leave us a voicemail. And now we will actually get them because we are no longer around with phone.com.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That'S right.

[Brian Green]

We would also so just love it. We'd be just like super pleased if anytime you hear a sponsor on this show and you're in the market for their products or services or you like their products or services, please make sure you use the specialized URLs and codes. It's the way that they know we're doing our job and that is the way we get paid or that is the way we think we are going to eventually get paid.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Thoughts and prayers.

[Brian Green]

Thoughts and prayers for the commercial break at the commercial Break break on Instagram, TCB podcast on tick tock and YouTube.com the commercial break. All right, Chrissy, that is definitely all I can do for this day.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

But I'll tell you that I love you.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

Best to you.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Best to you.

[Brian Green]

And best you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time. Chrissy. And I always say, we do say and we must say goodbye. Sam.