The guest
Reggie Watts: Musician, comedian, beatboxer and improviser; former Late Late Show bandleader and author of the autobiography Great Falls, Montana.
What this episode covers
Reggie Watts joins Joe Rogan for a wide-ranging, drug-tinged conversation that opens on kava, kratom and his enthusiasm for ketamine as a tool for clearer thinking and creativity. They drift into politics-adjacent musings on capitalism, conflict, AI-assisted government, student debt, homelessness and the value of patient, non-tribal conversation. The middle stretch is a long car-enthusiast deep dive covering Porsches, Teslas, electric trucks, the McMurtry Speirling and Gordon Murray's cars. They also cover knee and metabolic health, keto and food addiction, UFO sightings, moon and simulation theories, and psychedelic therapy. It closes on Reggie's upcoming run at the Comedy Mothership and how Joe designed the club.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Paramount+
“the new ones really got me; it does capture the spirit of the old”
“the new ones really got me because it does capture the spirit of the old cuz it's just before the original series”— Reggie Watts
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Ford GT (2005)
Ford
“the Ford GT was magic; that thing is incredible”
“the Ford GT was magic I have a 20 05 for GT and that thing is incred it just hugs the road it wants you to like Bend into the corners”— Joe Rogan
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Porsche Taycan Turbo S
Porsche
“that thing's amazing; it's amazing”
“I have a Porsche tyon Turbo S and I have a that thing's amazing that thing is it's it's it's amazing”— Reggie Watts
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Porsche 911 Turbo S (2022)
Porsche
“the Turbo S is a nasty monster; feels like a mountain goat”
“the Turbo S is a nasty monster and but it's more analog you know it's got like a grips feels like a mountain goat”— Reggie Watts
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Tesla Cybertruck
Tesla
“that's the coolest thing I've ever seen”
“when I saw the Cyber truck in person I'm like that's the coolest thing I've ever seen”— Joe Rogan
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Rivian R1T
Rivian
“Rivian's good looking, sick, it's a cutie”
“I like take a rivan over that any day rivan's good looking e sick it's a c it's a cutie”— Reggie Watts
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Alpha Wolf
Alpha Motor
“that thing looks incredible”
“look at that thing dude that thing looks incredible look at that smooth piece across the front that thing looks incredible”— Joe Rogan
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Telo MT1 (truck)
Telo
“that's what I would rock”
“that now that's that's what I I would rock that it's tiny man wow and look at that approach angle”— Reggie Watts
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Gordon Murray T.33
Gordon Murray Automotive
“I love this car”
“the T t33 that one check that one out um I love this car that's very interesting”— Joe Rogan
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Gunther Werks (Porsche 911)
Gunther Werks
“it's so fun; it's the rowdiest car”
“it's so fun it's the rowdiest car it's so rowdy I'm to come to analog it's so analog”— Reggie Watts
The guest's own work
BookBy the guest
Great Falls, Montana: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again
Reggie Watts
“no it's just called Great Falls Montana it's a it's autobiography about me growing up”— Reggie Watts
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Ford v Ferrari
“like that moment in Ford versus uh Ferrari you know where the guy's like I never knew where he takes the the EXA for that crazy run”— Joe Rogan
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Project Blue Book
“I grew up like I love UFOs like grew up Project Blue Book watch the series loved aliens”— Reggie Watts
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Dance Dance Revolution
Konami
“Dance Dance Revolution made a lot of people lose weight that's right A lot of people lost weight”— Joe Rogan
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Ford GT40
Ford
“GT40 is even smaller than my GT my Ford GT the original GT40 very small car it's very small”— Joe Rogan
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Porsche 911 GT3 RS (2007)
Porsche
“I have a 2007 manual shark Works car it's so fast and so light that one was hard to handle”— Joe Rogan
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McMurtry Speirling
McMurtry Automotive
“it broke every record and you got Center driving position I mean it destroyed that run”— Joe Rogan
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Gordon Murray T.50
Gordon Murray Automotive
“the Gordon Murray um t50 and the T3 T30 he's the guy who designed the F1 the McLaren”— Joe Rogan
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Lucid Air Sapphire
Lucid Motors
“I was thinking about lucid for a while is that new Sapphire that's coming out that's like the fastest thing on the planet”— Reggie Watts
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Tesla Model X
Tesla
“that egg wagon is like a dude that thing doesn't tip over okay that thing literally doesn't tip over”— Joe Rogan
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Feel Free (kava + kratom tonic)
Botanic Tonics
“I just basically do you know these feel frees and like uh weed is definitely my constant”— Reggie Watts
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Supergut
“I've also been taking this stuff called I think it's like called super gut it's like this powder that you add to a drink and it aids your gut biome”— Reggie Watts
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BioCoach
“I start working these these guys called they call uh bio coach so they deal with like metabolic health”— Reggie Watts
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Quorn
Quorn
“corn is very delicious that qo r n it's made from mushrooms like mycelium and they make chicken cutlets and stuff like that”— Reggie Watts
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Upside Foods (cultivated chicken)
Upside Foods
“Tyson chicken is in heavily invested in upside foods that makes this chicken they're the only company that's ready to go to market”— Joe Rogan
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NyQuil
“I remember when NYL had codine in it and one time I was sick I took NYL and I was just I remember lying in bed feeling so wonderful”— Joe Rogan
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Robitussin
“when I was growing up we would drink robotussin which had dextrorphan in it which is also dissociative”— Reggie Watts
Big reveals from this episode
- Reggie describes a friend taking 10 kratom pills before workouts and getting extremely high trying it himself.
- Reggie recounts giving a nervous musician friend ketamine and watching her self-editing speech loop disappear.
- Reggie says he bid on four LA houses over three years and kept losing to all-cash over-asking offers.
- On a 200mg ketamine lozenge he ran a successful pandemic livestream while extremely high and nobody noticed.
- Reggie claims a near-telepathic whispered conversation with a stranger 20 feet away during a deep ketamine 'k-hole'.
- Joe reveals he threw up during a Blue Angels flight after pulling around seven and a half Gs.
- Reggie describes seeing three low, silently moving glowing UFO objects in a Montana cattle field at about age 17.
- Reggie and Joe discuss Rick Doblin, MAPS, and MDMA/psychedelic therapy as a way to save humanity.
Worth remembering
- Ketamine's dissociative effect was combined with opiates to treat napalm burn victims in Vietnam.
- Ketamine is molecularly close to PCP but produces fewer adverse side effects.
- Joe relays Bernie Sanders' idea of a tiny per-trade stock speculation tax to fund free healthcare and education.
- The harmala alkaloid harmine was briefly nicknamed 'telepathine' for the shared-vision experiences it produced.
- Joe does 100 Hindu squats daily and recommends slant-board work and the Knees Over Toes program for knee strength.
- Porsche e-fuel uses captured carbon to make a combustible fuel with near-zero net emissions for its race cars.
- The McMurtry Speirling uses two fans to generate downforce, weighs under 2,200 lbs, and makes around 1,000 hp.
- Apollo 12 astronauts crashed the lunar module into the moon, triggering a moonquake that rang far longer than expected.
- Upside Foods grows cultivated chicken from a single cell sample on substrates and recently got FDA approval.
- Reggie uses a continuous glucose monitor and keto-style eating to cut sugar, energy crashes and joint inflammation.
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