Joe Rogan Experience #1322 — Reggie Watts Transcript

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0:00 Oh yeah, that's all he is. Dude, do you have a Coke nail? Is that a Coke nail? They're real. It looks like Coke. I'm 51 years old. If you're, if your life is healthy, if you have a good balance and you're enjoying your time and you're being creative and you have good friends and you have fun, you're not There's an emptiness. Let's do this. It's like this little.

2:30 And then you put in your weed and you just press a button. I know. Who's Be Real? Shit. And you're like, what the fuck is this? I am a lyrics guy and Nas is definitely my favorite lyricist I mean, super creative. but then when people are like kind of going off about how much money they have and all that shit, I'm like, I don't really care about that.

5:06 But like at the same time, if it just sounds like basically the three things that everyone talks about, which is like women, cars of some sort, and money, or the things you can buy with money, after a while, it just all bleeds together. Chance the Rapper, I've heard good things about it. Let me turn you on to some Run the Jewels. I mean, you still can.

6:12 Yes. Yeah, because that way I just don't have to worry about all that bullshit. These are actually very good. What? I like having a knife. Okay, That button? Yeah. So this would break your window? Just whack it. You have like bottled water in your car at all times? I have glass. municipal filter yeah that's it and you get alkalized water room temperature whatever and

9:21 Hell yeah. Jamie's a god damn wizard some special talent from like the pioneer days she's so rad i saw her in uh where were we in oh in australia sy Sydney. She's doing a podcast with Tom Papa. Really, really funny guy. Oh, no. He just makes it himself. It's so good. And he's so smart Cooks you something Yeah. reservations, Like I, I made grilled cheese.

12:50 really elaborate creative dishes you start going oh oh this is an art form it's just a like a Like, a split, just the peas, though. Yes, it's art. Well, you know, in a weird way, music is kind of like that. If it's not recorded, you know in a in a weird way um or uh in in a weird way music your eyes people make all these beautiful things right your ears people make beautiful music but

15:15 Black pussy incense. Yeah, that's a very specific kind of person, right? One says butt naked. Do you know Miss Pat? jd at the comedy store and we're talking he's on this uh i don't give a fuck times a million groove Anything is fair game. like just like music there's an art to to being a person even yeah for sure yeah right like why I mean, yeah. and your cousin was really sexy

19:42 But, because there's a co-resonance, Right. No, yeah, it's all subjective. because uh i had a girlfriend that made me throw it away after i got in a car sent me in a Whitesnake cassette. And I used to – it's in the office. Okay. She was into like the Pixies, that kind of shit. You might really be, but there's also a thing you're doing. How good is this weed?

22:13 But she looks amazing. It's great art direction. His hair. It's amazing. His hair is wonderful. I mean, that shit, look at those shots. His hair, it's amazing. His hair is preposterous. have to do anything yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah it's a totally lazy chaos it's lazy yeah it's here I go again on my own This one freaked me out, man. That's what I mean, man.

24:33 I mean, that's kind of hardcore. the difference between jimmy hendrix in this is the the absence of drugs. Like, this is music created on the match. You know, like these guys are living like the high-end party shit. classic mixing and like the like aura tone and. They're just like speaker systems that have kind of become standards to a certain degree.

26:18 hitting all the time and that was all amplified so then when you hear 80s music it tends to be it's mixed uh not all of it but a great deal I mean, it's one of those subtleties that you may never think about, but then when you hear about it and you learn about it, it blows open a whole new way of thinking about things. where she was on tour they would sell like bacon and eggs out of the car she was a

28:16 apparently it makes sense and this is not me talking from personal experience yeah yeah yeah It's like, to me me quality is like it exists in I don't know, man, it's like ah ah ah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah Hey. That was his sound guy? What the fuck? I think that that's the responsible thing to do, to just know your own chemist. How many people got busted at those concerts?

31:47 And my job for that day was to walk around the parking lot, What's a goo ball? Oh, Jesus. This gets you high. where people didn't get them, and then someone found them somewhere, into some kind of a psychedelic event yeah which caused this hyper self-awareness loop or whatever. But to a man, almost to a man, all the – I shouldn't say that even. and the hard liners who believe that it that they don't have any positive effects whatsoever yeah

34:26 Yeah. Yeah. and this isn't even encouraging anyone to do it but this is just saying to dismiss it as being then we'll talk yeah you know just have one quick dmt trip and then we'll talk because there's no If you're a really smart guy or a smart girl, it's hard. It's hard to maintain a good perception of what things are and what things aren't when you're the smartest person in the room.

37:09 Right. But there's a bunch of different kinds of intelligence. So if you're someone who's like, oh, shit, like, let's say it's this, Yeah. Like, what am I supposed to do? That's how you stay alive. That's my thoughts on themselves to the other person because they come up unfavorably insecurity exactly that's where i I know, because either they're doing an act, which I'm always hoping.

40:45 climate yeah right yes if you're stuck in some fucking shit whole city and it's just your whole Okay, let's ignore that. environmental disasters of course and aren't we also going on the fucking momentum of decisions some lead stuff some mercury stuff you know kind of common sense really hardcore shit that should So it's, in my mind. Josh Fox. Yeah.

44:18 Oh, yeah. what's going on here and why are you so sure that this didn't come from fracking and that you could No, you're not. their bills paid it's also like that no nonsense right wing mindset there's like a no nonsense Yeah. It's totally crazy. but it might kill a million salmon, the worst because it's like it does not it's just a not it's not a part of the equation for growing

47:38 unbelievably brutally ruthlessly cold occasionally people get jacked by bears yeah like really they're living Right. You meet those dudes that come to a lot of shows when you do in Canada. You see the water all fucked up. Oh, wow. why i was saying like yeah you know how much is it worth to be able to get copper out of a hole and a bunch of murderers and a bunch of people pouring oil into the ocean yeah i know it's a bummer it changes when people do fucked up things it

51:07 And if you can have good conversations with people like that, you can kind of, I believe, you can kind of help steer things, at least technologically, to allocate funds to different portions of technology that should be more prioritized than they are. that can still happen, You start thinking, oh, no, no. He didn't find the right way to work inside of the system.

52:28 But recognizing that it's a problem and engineering it so that we have a better society where I don't get it. But it's. i guess what i'm relating to economically yeah if, if more people are doing well, then you have a very productive society. And a lot of drug addicts come from abuse. When people are not losing in life. Yeah. Yeah. i'm like oh fuck man that shouldn't be a thing but but i see why you know it's like you're talking

55:17 Yeah. against each other i'm like is he right yeah is he right or is it convenient is it just convenient mini muskets in the fucking street in front of everybody and you were the president is that true He did, but I think only like one person. Yeah, and that was a way to concede. I'm pretty sure that's the storyline There's a guy named Charles Dickinson,

57:42 first signal from their seconds, Dickinson Damn. That is a time-honored tradition. But yeah. Like gossip magazines didn't have hand-printed newspaper Like everyone had to buy into it. Well, if that happened, if Trump took a bullet, but his gun misfired, and then he re-cocked it and fire again oh that would be a trump thing that's what but Oh, my goodness.

1:00:28 Oh, you can't cheat on horse betting. civil barbarianism civil barbarianism it's like well we're barbarians but there are rules well especially the ones with the Xs on the chest, They got a little silly. How much hand-to-hand combat were they doing? I bet that Like the soldiers and all the different rank and file, they're all like pieces on a chessboard.

1:03:10 Well, it was guerrilla at first and then it became chess games. Yes. So it created at least traction. totally false perception of like i have um those vibram five finger running shoes oh yeah yeah yeah They just had leather. But the bottom was just fucking leather. Yeah, wooden shoes. I like how they figured out wood and leather. One mean motherfucking chimp.

1:06:31 oh yeah primitive humans when the first one was that stabbed something like a stabbed a rat or a What the fuck can you catch with your hands? but then they had yeah you're right uh they obviously had to figure out different ways of He did back it up. Oh, I see. So it would make them see things better. and thinking and and trying to figure out ways around stuff and trying to you know try to figure

1:09:50 that's pretty amazing two million years yeah it's just like a deviation well you know it's Say it again. It's a little tiny rodent. Eutherian. I don't think that's the thing, though. says these rodent-like creatures are the earliest known ancestors of humans whales and truce oh okay That turned into a person, folks. God didn't, I was not a rat. whatever i i that's one way of thinking of it god collective consciousness whatever you want to call

1:13:17 that um this is i think the way he was saying it was a somehow or another it was evidence or at least in his eyes i love it brian cox just cameness and horizon problems. I love it. why the Big Bang happened. revolves on one initial in the most spectacular sorcery the world has ever known. terence mckenna we were asked by science to believe the entire universe sprang from nothingness

1:16:22 Everything is a complex assortment of There was a beginning. what reality is, and i think we're Yes, right. And the concept is that there is a real possibility that going through that black hole, you would happening there's a resistance no come on yeah there's a thing like an instant reaction to resist your your relationship to reality yeah which is pretty sick we have at least we'd like to take

1:19:55 There's no way it could be that number. fuck when you're looking in the sky and you're seeing a galaxy or a any sort of star like in the deep, deep, deep distance of space. what do you think is the closest? what's the closest? 4.3 light years from Earth. I hope so. Alpha Centauri is a binary pair. I guess that average might be... So, two are closer than the one.3 this one's 4.22 so it's technically closer nice i guess that average so two are closer than the one on one day now do they know if there's planets around those stars

1:22:40 And then there's all these theories. And brains, the membranes that there's like. with matthew modine is that the star how dare you i know i'm pretty sure it was modine guys Well, Matthew Modine was training crazy, but he was trying to drop weight to go down to you're gonna make the weight he goes i hope so he goes i hope so too and just kept walking with

1:24:30 Here he is. Oh, so he could get into college? Think you're gonna make the weight? Fuck. He was fucking jacked, man. just wrestling all the time, it's like immediate, like violent amounts like oh i mean it's like strength grip and being able to torque shit and make shit happen i mean Plus, another thing is trying to get you. Yeah, yeah, weight-assisted machines. Not the worst kind of strength Is like Nautilus machine strength Yeah yeah

1:26:54 Where you're just trying to Because it's Like if you go to heavyweights like freeweights, Yeah, so that's what wrestling is, and move him around, and your reflexes and your intuition. and do these different moves But wrestling, it's just like, And it just flips. watching it it's a different consequence when you fail yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i mean it's as

1:30:15 That happens a lot, man. if they're trying to punch you. that's just that's fucking dangerous man that's what because if you lose to a wrestler or you hit him right in the face was while he's trying to bend forward that's legal yeah oh fuck yeah It was one of those things where we watched it That wasn't it. I see. But that's... Yep. Three seconds. So he couldn't wait to do that to him.

1:33:16 probably gonna end up being somewhat friend friendly later on down the line no you don't Some guy punched a chick, too. of it oh it's a terrible technique it's the most disappointing it's like guys if you're gonna fight And the worst is the pulling off of the shirt. like this dude got choked out but i couldn't quite tell what was going on here because he

1:35:14 He's like, oh, I just killed that guy. Isn't it funny that's all it takes? I mean, it is pretty could not have been like a biological weapon back in the day if you had some like small He's fantastic man Except Dennis Rodman this day that's one of my all-time favorite lines i hear that line i'm like god damn that's a great That's like some shit talking shit.

1:37:18 spits at you yeah you're like i want to destroy you i would kind of understand that reaction I think it's a power it's funny to spit They'll get back. Yeah. god damn it but if someone's kissing you and are tongues in your mouth and you're swapping, Yeah. You don't need to do that. So they really did do it for the scene? give a fuck yeah that's true that is true They do things like that. Have you seen Euphoria?

1:39:32 I've heard it's good. or trying to overcome drug addiction It really blew me away. And it's great. We went from that So there's like a great scene in the first in the pilot. And then she introduces herself and leaves. Cut yourself in front of them. They were like, I don't know what to fuck. Yeah. I know. No, it's Darth Vader's. she was coming. what previews are.

1:42:54 I bet you if you didn't know what King Kong was, and stuff you'd be like holy shit yep it would be so much better than you watch all those previews It's great. I know. You're like, what the fuck is this? People are going to scream and drop the camera. and they're like hey we work at the movie theater. And I was like, oh, we're going to probably go there this weekend and see that Blair Witch movie.

1:45:15 not telling anybody but this is like 17 18 years ago at the very i mean when that movie come out That was the first movie that I saw that was made all on, vibe but a little bit more curated like narrative uh narrative but i was like i thought it was eerie all the time we see that kind of imagery we still don't necessarily see you What are you using to see things with?

1:47:49 Right? It's focused on right in front of these things. like if you ever put your phone in time lapse mode yes it looks like um the way it tracks when then a film would look clunky to us? but now people like dv well it's like people like vinyl right there's people that are just diehard What does it sound like on car speakers? So going back to the Auratones and the NS10s and then the standardized car speakers that

1:50:35 The sound systems have to, but you mix two. And I was like, what? went into the showroom, the main room, And then he just goes, proceeds and goes through and explains all of the stages that, you know, Wow. The engineering should get the fuck out of the way. if you have a really nice quality piece of vinyl we're playing the stereo two-track, then you have something that for at least the first, I don't know, vinyl people will say how many times,

1:53:59 I don't know what it would be, maybe 60, 30, 40, 50 times. There's kind of a digital mastering standard. Well, it depends on your use case. i'm not totally knocking it but for me if you're going to get a system for your living room if i they are oh i forget i have seen those i've seen pictures of that that's um who who makes this alexandria xlf is Yeah.

1:57:03 I don't even know what the fuck all that stuff is. That's another one. No one will vanquish my spirit. mark levinson system in it yeah it's just like the whole thing's engineered for the shape of that's interesting but um but the audi man bang banging olsen and i have some 18s at home they're uh it's a 2.1 system Yeah. What's it called again? What's that mean?

1:59:41 It's the first time I think I've said it out loud. You'll notice that the overall layout is mid-cinch mod. No, Jules. So their idea was like to be super modular, really easy to move for company. And you sit in them, and they're just great. Fin, F-I-N-J-U-H-L. That's too low. So it's like normal chair height, but it's beautifully designed, but it's minimal.

2:02:26 sitting there about that Jesus Eric it's like Brazilian bossa nova. And I have a lot invested in iTunes, but I started using Tidal only because it's the less, So it's like the highest quality possible for streaming. that's where the this whole thing was like the wild wild west when it got started and of the money like if you were a tomato store and you got your tomato from a farmer and the farmer

2:05:05 know i mean like that's that's the way that's where we are now i think yeah i think that's Yes. It can be great. become center stage in your office. Or it'll go terrible and people have to pick sides and or one of you has to leave. i'd be like listen you guys can't bang each other yes i know it sounds gross i know that you're here Yeah, if it was a real chick movie, the girl would have the smaller paycheck, too.

2:08:41 there who she was single and she was into you and you're both into each other and you're like god damn it what do you do you start banging and don't tell anybody That sucks. things that we don't allow ourselves to sure like let people know about and well especially in the corporate world right you're you're forced to They need to feel alive. i don't know i mean it's harassing people about credit card loans. Yeah. I know.

2:10:57 Yeah. that you don't want to do. Like that's what he does for a living. society has organized themselves in a way that ensures that people remain productive aside from these automations because it's taking away the menial tasks, the repetitive tasks. How do you feel about that? There's a base amount that everybody will have. actual things. That place is going to be disgusting.

2:14:06 Yeah. Oh, that's cool. of a smart thing to do i like that everything yeah the idea is that you have equity in the fucking tube into the ground suck out all the oil and make a trillion dollars like who said that profit would be split evenly around the country in terms of infrastructure and replenishing impoverished communities and community centers right now from that stupid oil pipeline yeah the quicker that someone figures out an alternative energy that's kind of

2:17:30 that's true. I feel, the roaster, is going to be a half a very disappointed. I'm very disappointed, because you've got to break the two barrier what kind of nonsense is this i know Don't let the Italians make the engine, though. I guarantee you. that's so funny you know what it's like it's like a ferrari 488 yes but one that fuck 1900 alexis lfa oh yeah yeah

2:20:35 I know. that looks really cool. It better look amazing. It's a fucking house in the hills. the Tesla roadster oh yeah that that thing's badass what is the other one rimac concept two Why would they have no side view mirrors? like that's character man that's beautiful so why do you need uh why don't you want side mirrors i also a screen uh maybe that's what tesla's no pillars no pillars what what are you laughing

2:23:33 2020 exactly yes reggie watts let's wrap this bad boy up let's do it um people want to follow you