Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - REGGIE WATTS Slept in a Cave in France

Episode Date: October 31, 2023

Seth and Josh welcome Reggie Watts to the pod! They talk about Reggie’s childhood in Great Falls, Montana, his friendly French cousin rivalry, Reggie’s awesome new memoir, and so much more!Thanks again to Nissan for sponsoring this episode of Family Trips and for the reminder to find your more. Learn more at NissanUSA.com.Find your new favorite fits and get 15% off @marinelayer with promo code TRIPS15 at marinelayer.com/TRIPS15. #marinelayerpod"

This episode of Family Trips is brought to you by Nissan. Whether you want more adventure, more electric, more action, more guts, or more turbocharged excitement, Nissan is here to make sure you get it. Learn more at NissanUSA.com. Hi, Pashi. Hi, Sufi. I'm going to make a call out to our listeners. Do you mind? No, go for it. Be my guest. I know that sometimes you get a little persnickety when I start talking to the listeners more than talking to you.

I like the listeners. Okay, great. I'm a fan of the listeners. And you're also a fan of the listener episodes. The first one was great. We're going to do it again. We're reaching out to our listeners. If you have a great story about fall travel, about Thanksgiving.

I guess people don't do a lot of trips for Halloween, right? I mean, some people do, but those people... We don't really want to engage with those people. Those are weirdos. Someone's like, oh, we're traveling for Halloween again. That isn't real. Your friend's a witch. So Thanksgiving, if you've got a good story about that,

leave us a message at www.speakpipe.com. That's S-P-E-A-K-P-I-P-E.com backslash family trips pod. We had a listener reach out, Josh, with a message. It's a very exciting message. A great message for the content and also from who it came from. message for the content and also from who it came from yeah exactly it was from the dad of the kid who fell off the side of the grand canyon his name is wyatt well yeah wyatt kaufman was the kid yeah he's fine he's like 99.5 recovered according to his father he's missing a leg and a foot i'm just trying to think of what 0.5% is. No, he's fine. He's still wearing a wrist brace.

He's wearing a wrist brace, which I think is, if you say, what is 99.5% fine, that means you just are walking around with one wrist brace. Which also, as someone who's,

I've broken my leg three times. Two of those were, I guess one of those, I was really like a kid like having a cast yeah you get a lot of attention for that and i feel like wyatt is still sort of probably getting his props yeah from his friends because you know i don't think you encounter a lot of new kids when you're at that age but when you do they're like what's up with the kid with the the wrist brace and they're like oh he fell into the grand canyon and everyone would be like oh that's oh i would be dining out on falling into the grand canyon yeah i mean it's almost the only

reason i'd want to go to the grand canyon if you told me i could fall and be 99.5 fine within a few months i'd do that in a heartbeat yeah yeah i will say does it bother you that without falling into the grand canyon you seem to have been hurt worse in your life than the kid who did no i'm fine with it i'm happy to be i mean i don't know that i'm i don't know that i'm 99.5 fine i feel like you definitely are now you broke your leg in two places because you were driving around in the back of a, what, U-Haul truck? Yeah, I think it was a rider truck, but same, same. A rider truck. And I wasn't riding around in the back. I had a job to do.

Oh, what was your job in the back of the rider truck? These risers, which were very heavy, sort of like tables with very short legs. Yeah. To put audience members in a show, like one row back at a level higher so they could see a stage. This was a college production. You were in the Northwestern production of Hair, correct? Yeah. Yeah. And it was totally a student run.

This wasn't like a Northwestern show. It was a- As evidenced by the fact they thought a job was go in the back of the truck with the risers. Yeah, they were like, hold these risers up against the wall. And there were two sets of them and they were both leaning against the wall like the hypotenuse of a right triangle.

Now, why was it important to hold them up? Why wouldn't you just? This is a great question. And I don't think it was important. And inevitably, I did a bad job at it because when the driver of this truck pulled out onto Sheridan Road and made a hard left turn, the centrifugal force on my side pulled them off the wall and these were very heavy and they fell and uh caught my right leg sort of a back of the calf and uh sort of put a new knee right there it was a new new bend in the leg broke two of the big bones. Tibia fibula. Massive injury. Yeah. Oh, super bad.

Super bad. Most pain you've ever been in? Yes, I think so. I mean, I would argue maybe the most pain I've been in is hearing about it. Yeah. I mean, I apologize to our listeners, but it was, yeah, it was gross. It was bad. There was an old commercial that used to run on Saturday morning cartoons where it was like a guy was playing basketball and he had a fake leg. And it was sort of like, you can do anything you want to do.

And he would like lace up his shoes and then went out onto the court. And in my head, I was like, I'm going to be that guy. I was never going to be as good at basketball as him because it just wasn't in the cards for me. But I was sure I was going to lose part of my leg, like my foot. And yeah, but it didn't. And I'm glad you didn't. Yeah. I do remember getting the call. You called me to tell me the news and I was very angry, which I felt bad. I think this is, I, in general, it's been a lot of one-way traffic of you calling me to be like, another traumatic injury has taken place. And I think it's because

I feel so bad for you, but I also feel bad because I think I didn't take it out on you. I'm like, son of a bitch. Like, I'm not, so I apologize. Yeah, I don't want these injuries on myself. Also, that one when I got taken in an ambulance to the emergency room, and they gave me something to dull all the pain away, morphine, whatever it was, I'm not entirely sure. a little thing over my finger that was taking my pulse yeah i was hooked up to machines and i was not the most pressing case in the moment in the emergency room so there was a lot of activity going on around me and at some point uh i had my little heart monitor and i started flatlining and i thought in my sort of drugged up you know broken, broken leg brain that I had died. Yeah. And I'm watching all this activity all around me. And there was a nurse walking by and I said, excuse me, nurse. And she heard me, which was great because I thought she might not hear me if I was dead.

You're not dead giveaway. Yeah. I was like, I think I'm flatlining. She pushed this little thing a little bit more onto my finger, and then my heart rate returned. It had never left me. It was just a fit. I will say, pretty bad product design if a little wiggle of the finger can give you the flatline. Yeah. I mean, maybe it was more of a flail on my part.

Again, it was pretty hopped up. So I want to note, because we were talking about how, you know, Wyck Hoffman, you know, obviously he had an injury because he fell off the side of the Grand Canyon and you had yours because you were in the back of a Ryder truck. Should we add a question to our guests where we say, have you ever been in the back of a Ryder truck? Was it worth it? You know what I mean? Like, it's the new Grand Canyon question. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, I mean, I recall Timothy Oliphant and his fiance went not only to the Grand Canyon, but like slept in the back of a rider truck. That's true. Probably no risers though, and no quick turns. No, but he had a couple of cats back there. That's true. Yeah. If you went in the back of a rider truck with a couple of cats, just, you know, and they were sliding around as you made turns like that looks like that sounds like fun i do that thank you to uh to wyatt kaufman's dad for reaching out with that good news we got to get wyatt on the pod because of wyatt after falling off the side tells me it's worth it that might be the tipping point i'd love to talk to him if he can look me

in the eyes post tippy off the sidey. Yeah. I don't want Wyatt to hear this and think, you know, want to give you the victory of him saying that, like, no, it's not worth it. I just want his honest take. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think, I hope everybody knows that this is, Family Trips is in an honest zone.

In fact, I'll continue with some honesty. Our guest today is Reggie Watts, but before you hear our conversation with him, you have to listen to this song from Jeff Tweedy. Family trips with the Myers brothers Family trips with the Myers brothers Here we go Hey!

So, there we go. We're so happy to have you. I'm feeling the Myers. Yeah. How are you? I'm good, man. This is very exciting. We're catching you as Reggie Watts, the author, today. Yes, that's right. You've written a new book. And it's very exciting. We're catching you as Reggie Watts, the author today.

Yes, that's right. You've written a new book, and it's very exciting. And your book is called Great Falls, Montana, Fast Times, Post Punk Weirdos, and A Tale of Coming Home Again. It was funny. I realized I have no idea where Reggie is from, and I think I would have believed anywhere. That is how mysterious I find you, Reggie. i would have accepted any answer yeah i also feel like in watching you like watching different clips of you here and there you very often have like different accents or different sort of ways of speaking so you are sort of that amorphous that's true yeah yeah but then of course when i read your bio of course it makes sense that

you were a Air Force brat. So you were actually everywhere. Air Force proud. I don't even know if that's the saying. Yeah, that would maybe undercut Air Force proud if you don't even know if that's the saying. Is that what we say? So talk us through your beginnings. Yeah, I mean, my dad was uh i get confused but i think he was in the air force at the time he was in the army and the air force uh he transferred to the air

force uh after the army but i he was decommissioning a base in the north of france and then he there would be like a there was a bar called the charlie bar that that a lot of the jetters would hang out in after working or whatever before going back to the base, I guess, in Germany. Anyways, he met my mom there. And then, yeah, they had me, I don't know, maybe two years later. They were in Stuttgart at the time, so I was born there. And then, yeah, we moved around Europe a little bit, ended in spain for two years then moved to great falls about i was about three and a half almost four okay and that was that's how it all got started so french mom and american dad yeah any connection to great falls montana before you moved

there uh no not at all no i mean my dad's from Cleveland. That kind of helps. Yeah. It's not Montana, but it is. Yeah. It's in the United States. It helps you pick elsewhere. Yeah, it really does. Yeah, Cleveland does. It's like, that's their tagline. It helps you pick elsewhere. After the major industries moved out of there, that was their saying. But yeah, you can draw like a line. You can like cleveland and just draw a line straight to great falls and it it kind of answers your question no um i i think uh it was you know like when you're in the service though you're supposed to transfer and oftentimes they'll give you the luxury of choosing between a few different places and um and so i think our choice was between north dak and Montana. And they picked Montana because they thought the schools were better. Yeah, that'll do it. How did your French mom find living in the United States, especially Montana?

I think she loved it. She fought for her space pretty severely. She's a fighter. Almost like a little too much, but great for me because i felt like super protected the whole time yeah she so she kind of just like you know she came into the neighborhood and had almost like a gangster vibe to her she's just like you mess with my family and i'll kill you you know like that kind of stuff because we had some run-ins with some neighbors and things like that you know just being like who are these weirdos? You know, like, who's this like black guy and a white lady I can't understand.

And some weird kid, you know, like that was the vibe, which ultimately I don't fault anybody for that because like, anytime you get someone weird, obviously you don't have to be an asshole about it, but it's like, but like they were just, you know, they're kind of ignorant to a certain degree, you know, cause they, there's just they don't get that many different people coming through town more than most towns because of

the air force base but like still not that much so we had to kind of fight for it do you remember the age that you sort of clocked that being from a biracial family was different than most of the people around you i think relatively soon you know like know, like I definitely, you know, as a kid, you're just like, oh, my dad's black and my mom's white. You know, and then you like go over to your friend's house. It's like, both your parents are white. That's crazy. And you're white.

You know, like definitely more of that. And so that was noticeable. But, you know, there were a few friends that we had that had like my friend Wally, his mother is from spain and had like a thick accent and my friend mike his mother was from greece and had a thick accent my friend tony his mother was from thailand and had a thick accent so there was enough of that around to kind of like give me something you know uh to kind of bounce off of my identity. But yeah, it was kind of apparent right away. Are there Great Falls in Great Falls?

Yes, there are technically Great Falls. It was named after some waterfalls that are actually, I believe it's further downriver than where the town is built. But that's what it was named after. There's a hydroelectric dam. The cover of my book has me kind of like over the hydroelectric dam, but the Anaconda Dam. But yeah, so they built, I think, two hydroelectric dams before finding your community of, I don't know, what's the right word? Outcasts? Weirdos? Goonies. Goonies. I think goonies is a good word.

Close enough to the Pacific Northwest. Yeah. Obviously, you made a choice to write this book, and so you knew there was a story there. But in writing it and sitting down and recollecting, were you surprised at how much you remembered in the act of writing it? Yeah, for sure. I mean, I was remembering tiny, you know, tiny sense memory things like the sound of my mom putting away, you know, spoons in the drawer, you know, or the, you know, the sound of the screen door slamming shut or, you know, like those are tiny, tiny examples, but like, yeah, it brought out a bunch of things and still continues to like, even when I was reading my book for the audio book, I was having these memories like, oh, right. Oh yeah. You know, it was,

it's just an ongoing thing, which is something I'm absolutely fascinated in because we miss so much of our lives. I mean, it helps when you have siblings and things, you know, where you can kind of talk about what did we, what did we do in that big hit? No, that was when you stole the thing. It's like, I didn't steal it. That's like, no, I did steal it. You know, like when you have people that corroborate your existence, it kind of helps flush it out.

But as an only child, you know, I had my friends if they were around, but a lot of stuff was me on my own noticing things. So I don't know if I can, you know, it's like, I don my friends if they were around, but a lot of stuff was me on my own noticing things. So I don't know if I can, you know, it's like, I don't know how much I can remember, but this has helped a lot. It is nice, I would imagine, when you write a book like this, knowing you at least won't have a sibling contradict you once they read it and say, how dare you remember it that way? You're kind of in a nice place where you get to, it's almost could be fiction. You're kind of in a nice place where you get to,

it's almost could be fiction. Yes. That's so ridiculous. Yeah, I mean, I imagine Seth's going to write a book someday and I'm going to be like, come on, man. You know, leave that out. Or you're way off base. It wasn't Corn Flakes. It was Product 19.

I promise to let you have a pass at anything you're mentioned in, Josh. I don't know if I want to read it. So now you don't even want to read it. I just, yeah, I mean, I'm going to let people tell me about it, and then I'll be like, that's nonsense. Well, this is a real encouraging push towards writing a book that my own brother won't even read it.

Now, I'm wondering, you know, so you obviously have this army air force dad uh he meets his uh wife your mother abroad does this then make them travelers were you the kind of family that like sort of had wanderlust because you'd been so many places i mean it's kind of strange i mean yes and no i mean well not in the traditional sense like we didn't really go i wish I had a record of like all the places we went, but I don't remember. We didn't travel that much. Like the big traveling that I would do would be in the summer to go either visit Cleveland, Ohio. the family, or we would go to France to visit my French relatives. So that was the biggest thing. And obviously, when we'd go to France, we would travel to Paris, or we'd go to, you know, the cemetery outside of Nancy or something like that, or Nice. But generally speaking, like, I don't know, there were some times where we'd travel to Glacier National Park. I think we drove to North Dakota with my dad's grandparents at one

point, but I don't have a memory full of like, oh, we were traveling everywhere. Like we'd go to lakes sometimes, but it wasn't really that much. I went almost with more with my friend's parents. When they would go fishing for the weekend, I'd go with my friends. So oddly, not as much as you'd think, but I think maybe because they traveled so much already, maybe they were down with not traveling as much. I'm not sure. I always wonder about people who are in the armed services and they live abroad and it becomes just work. And maybe it becomes a little bit less necessary for leisure if you've already traveled for your job that much yeah i i think i think so well i mean in the case of my father you know it's like i am gonna hire somebody

actually to try to you know like an investigator to to go in and try to find when my father joined the army when because i want to know exactly because it's also like vague um and i didn't go there unfortunately while they were around to ask them but i think my father started probably in 1967 or 66 and then went to vietnam twice and then switched to the air force so you know i think for him he was pretty in in it and was looking probably for something a little more chill i did have a subtle zing that i want to apologize for about cleveland which is a wonderful city and i enjoyed going there i have enjoyed performing there but as a kid were you

equally excited about going to cleveland or going to france did you have a preference yeah that's like that's a good question. I mean, Cleveland was weird. It wasn't like I was stoked to go there necessarily. It was more like I had to prepare myself to go there because I wasn't fully accepted there by the kids. I was a weird kid. I was like a lighter skin, big know big-nosed weird kid that speaks the way that i speak but i was very fortunate to spend time with my grandparents

and to go to the family reunions and to have that that sense of culture that side of my family that i wasn't really exposed to because most of the time i was in montana which was it's about 98 white the state at least at that time and so and then going to france of course more whiteness there's a lot of whiteness around so for me it was like it was pretty intense to like go to a culture that i'm part of but didn't spend don't spend that much time and so i will say that i was appreciative of it i would have have, I would have never, like if someone was like, would you have never gone there? I was like,

no, I'd absolutely would have gone there because it was super important. Like me seeing Ghostbusters two with Bobby Brown in it, in a black theater in the neighborhood was like, like I'll never, there was not one white person in there. It was crazy. It was like,

you know, like there's like all these people just yelling at the screen and screen. And then Bobby, Bobby Brown does his cameo and it was like, and it was just like, you know, like there's like all these people just yelling at the screen and then Bobby Brown does his cameo. And it was like, and it was just like, you know, moments like that were amazing. You know, or just summer nights, you know, kids running around, you know, fireflies and getting in trouble. Like I wouldn't trade that for anything. Were those reunions like big?

Was it a big extended family for your father and his side of the family? Yeah, it was pretty huge. My father was an only child as well, so I kind of got his vibe a little bit while he was there, the way he would be in it. Yeah, there were cousins of every kind and aunts and uncles. It was huge. It was probably about 50 people. and you know it was huge it was probably about like 50 people you know were they like multi-day affairs or was it like you're going to somebody's house or you're going to a park or it was it was usually a park it was usually a park there people would come over to each other's houses to help

them prepare like my grandma would be making like chitlins and um you know preparing like her dishes that she would bring and so there would be like the house full of like aunts and uncles and cousins running around and they're preparing the food and everyone gets in the car and caravans to the park you know um yeah it was it was uh pretty weird i didn't really mix very i mean like i kind of stayed on the outskirts and like kind of talked to people i was just like a little shy in those things. It was just kind of crazy. You, if your dad was an only child, that means you're the only grandchild.

Were your dad's parents, did they treat you like the incredibly special only grandson? Yeah, I guess that's true, right? My grandmother was a Jehovah's Witness, so I never really got any presents from her, but not the presents or what determined how much someone cares about you, but sometimes kind of. That's a good thing to remember.

If I ever forget to get a present for my kids, I might just tell them that I've recently converted. Please do. And the cool thing is that when you use that excuse specifically, like, everyone understands. They're, like, so understanding and so warm and so loving. I'm proud of you, daddy. That's what your kids sound like. No. Papa, I'm proud.

That is them. That's very good. Oh, okay. You have a good ear. You have a very good ear. That's so crazy. You have a good ear for children you've never met. Holding on to that.

No, I don't know. I didn't necessarily feel. I mean, I think that it must have been, you know, them going like, well, we got this kid here for a little while. It's, you know, let's hang out with him. And he's the only one we got. I'm sure that that was there. I didn't necessarily feel like overly spoiled. That's definitely a spoiled kid for sure but i didn't feel like over because my parents like from cleveland like my grandparents you know they they were in a corporeal punishment

and you know being strict and rules and all of that stuff and i don't think they had like that big of a generous sense of humor even even though there were times like my grandmother, when she would laugh, it was like the whole universe shifted because she was so like scowly usually. And then all of a sudden she'd start laughing and it was just whole room would levitate. So,

you know, different kinds of people. Nice to know that that's in there. When somebody like that laughs. Yeah. It's like great. Yeah. Yeah.

That's important. That's what you hold on to. Did you like go around to Cleveland? I mean, and see the sights, would you? Because I imagine, you know, I don't know Great Falls, but I imagine it doesn't have much of a sort of city complex to it. So would you go downtown?

Would you go to like the zoo or, you know, where there are things on your list that you would do other than seeing family? You know, sometimes I go with my neighbor. There were neighbors across the street, and the kid there, his name was Reggie as well. So we two Reggies getting into Gremlin and going to SeaWorld. You know, definitely went to movies a lot. I love malls.

It was the 80s after all. Yeah. You know, malls were like, oh my God. I think malls are primed for a comeback. I think you're right. I had to go to a mall recently, and I think malls got to make a comeback. I just remember as a kid, you just need a place to go where your parents are confident enough to just leave you there. Yes.

And there's enough adults about that you can kind of have a nice time. Yeah. Very pro malls. We used to ride our bikes to the Bedford Mall, which was like a very small mall near us. But there was a Papa Gino's pizza, and you could get a slice and a Coke for something minimal, something that you would pay in the 80s. Yeah, two bucks or something. Yeah. And then you just walk around the mall, and it was fun. And maybe see other kids and socialize. Yeah, see others. Yeah, and then you just walk around the mall and it was fun.

And maybe see other kids and socialize. Yeah, see other kids. Totally, yeah. On escalators, passing each other on escalators. Yeah. A mall with an escalator. What I wouldn't give. A mall with an escalator is the best. Two floors? Yeah, we had two floors,

man. I was really proud of Great Falls. A lot of people in our generation that we've been talking to did not get on a plane until a lot later in their life. Obviously, you'd have to fly to France. Would you fly to Cleveland? Yeah, yeah. I mean, later, I developed a weird fear of flying in my early 20s. And so I remember taking a bus, which I will never recommend anybody do for a long period of time. As your parents flew, you said, I'm going to tap out of this flight and I'm going to take this bus? No, I was going to go visit my grandparents as a young adult. And so I was like, I'm going to take a bus. And it was just like the most depressing, the smell of the bathroom. How many hours is that?

Oh, man. I don't know. I mean, because it's a bus, so you got to like add on. Double it. Just whatever it is, double it. Yeah, not going that fast, plus stops. Probably like four days, five days. Wow.

That's no good. Something like that. No, yeah, and I did it by train too, which again, not recommending that. Maybe if I had a sleeper car, maybe. I love the idea of train travel. I find it very romantic. And yet I just feel as though, especially American trains, there's no, no one who's ever taken the long trip has told me you gotta do it. Yeah. We have, we have a friend, Peter Moskos took a train like cross country, I want to say, and he loves trains.

And I was like, how was it? He's like, you shouldn't. It's not great. Yeah, when a train person is telling you, like, I don't know. If you were taking a trip up to, I don't know, Seattle or something like that, and you took a train from LA and you got a sleeper car, maybe that could be nice. I've definitely taken the train from Portland to Seattle. It's a pretty short ride, but that's nice. And also New York, the Northeast, coming from New York and going upstate,

taking a train just kind of makes sense and it's not that bad. But yes, in general, mass long-distance travel in the United States on a train is Depression City. I'm sorry, Amtrak. Yeah. So I would imagine it was different summers that you would do a Cleveland or France. So how long would you go to France for when you would do that trip?

Almost the whole summer vacation. I think like maybe I'd have like a week in the beginning or actually sometimes it would be like the very next day we'd go. Wow. Like as soon as school was out. Like that last day, like the next day we were going to France. And would your dad come the whole summer as well? Or would it be you and your mom and your dad would come when he could?

I think my dad probably went in the summers when I was maybe between seven and nine. Although I don't remember it um I remember always going with my mom it was definitely mostly my mom and I that would go and did she speak French to you growing up so were you yeah yeah yeah I learned French growing up but it was all by ear so sometimes it's it's a weird way of learning something because I don't know mechanically necessarily how it functions so sometimes when i'm reading them i can't get the accent right but i can get it right by ear the way that i normally talk french speak french yeah but uh yeah it's a it's a weird one it's a weird crisscross well our mom was a french teacher and she was our french teacher

and i will tell you if you can still speak it, your way is better. And I would like to tell you, je m'appelle Josh. Oh, my God. Look at that. How are you? Have you performed in French? Have you done stand-up in French ever? A little.

I did a couple shows in France. I did a show in Paris. And yeah, I spoke a little French. I yeah i spoke a little french i mean in a silly way not in a very like nuanced way um i don't quite have that but yeah i mean it yeah not the whole time but some of it yeah i just talked to somebody who did a show in paris a stand-up and i was i just thought oh my god that must have been amazing. And they said, it was fun. It's totally true. The French are a little weird.

Their tastes are very interesting. And they generally respond to very silly things pretty well. Jerry Lewis, famously Jerry Lewis. So there you go. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, they love big physical silliness. love like big like physical clowns silliness yeah clowns clowns yeah so yeah yeah they they're they're good so i usually kind of defer to big dumb silly things not dumb but you know just like there's just stuff that i know that french people would like we lived in holland for a while and they have an expression they're called chequebec

which means crazy face and it's like sometimes you just gotta lean on that good old crazy face oh man it's it's it's true it's true yeah it works because it's the biggest thing and everybody gets it they're like oh yeah oh i know what you're doing i should stress i have great appreciation for anybody who comes see me perform where english is their second language i'm not being judgmental i'm blown away that you're willing to make the effort oh a hundred percent but you kind of have to meet people a little bit you know it's like right you know a little and and i don't know i mean like i was when i was in italy i did gigs in italy and i don't speak italian at all i just did the gig and like fake italian the whole time and uh and they were like they were just staring at me like, what are you doing? It was the greatest feeling in the world.

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Saving your closet, one shirt at a time. Which kind of shirt did you order, Josh, just for our listeners? It's a blue t-shirt with a nice little logo. It's not overly large or offensive and it's the softest tea on the shelf. I can't wait to visit you and steal it. I'll know you've been wearing it because it'll smell like you. That was hurtful. Did your mom come from a big family in France? Like when you went back, did you see a lot of hers? Well, she has one full brother and then I think three half siblings. And they had a lot of kids and her brother had, I want to say

like two or three or something like that. And so, yeah, when we go back, we stay at her brother's house in the north of France in this little tiny village. And I had tons of cousins around there. I would sleep in a weird bed in a cave. Their house was like 500 years old. They would like sleep in this cave, like dungeon-y place that I loved. But yeah, so there were tons of cousins. Yeah, we'd go to Metz and then there'd be like cousins in Metz and there'd be cousins in the center middle of France.

There'd be cousins in Nice. Yeah, I grew up with a, yeah, kind of like a big French family, but I don't really talk to them that much now i don't know it's like so so far removed but i'm sure like if i came back to france and hung out they'd be like hey welcome back you know so yeah that's always good were they i mean because obviously you were different of the cousins you were sort of an outlier were they very accepting and warm to you they were pretty cool yeah they were they were really cool yeah i got along with my cousin jean-pierre a lot like we we used to hang out quite a bit and then um i had some cousins that you know had

added we had attitudes towards each other whatever these like rivalries things that's just french that's just french that's just french he's just got to be french it's got to be french got to be french would you come back from a summer in france and be one of those kids who would then sort of brag it out in the streets how lucky you were that you got to spend a summer in France when you got back to Great Falls? I don't remember being that way. I wouldn't put it past me. But no, I think I was mostly just like, I don't know, chill about it. Like I was in France. Then the kids would ask me questions about it i think it was mostly that but i wasn't i definitely wasn't like i was just in

france because i think an element of me i wanted to fit in so i didn't want to like you know make myself even more distant were there any like uniquely french games like i'm just wondering culturally as a kid like was there like, oh, now we put a broom and a bucket and we run to the square? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was one. A bucket and broom.

Yeah, a bucket and broom. Well, we played Pétanque a little bit. You know, the whatever balls game in the sand that seems like, what are you guys doing, yeah, I know. You know, the whatever balls game. Yeah, I played some Pétanque. In the sand. This seems like, what are you guys doing? I don't know.

I don't understand. Let's do it. So what are the other versions? Because I will say Pétanque is by far the best name for that game. Yeah, yeah. Pétanque, Jeu de Boulle. Jeu de Boulle, yeah. And Bocce.

But Pétanque being just, it feels like the sound of those balls. Yeah, Pétanque. I know, Pétanque. Yeah, it's pretty P petanque-y. I didn't go to France for this, but my mom would have from her French class like Tintin books and Asterix and Obelix. Oh, yeah. Did you sort of find your way into French, Belgium comic books and stuff?

There was some of that, for sure. Asterix and Obelix were very big. And some other French. Yeah. Tantan was definitely in there and some other weird French cartoons as well. Yeah. It was like very weird vibes, you know,

like for, it's just, it's like dipping your toe into an alternate universe or something like that when you're growing, especially when you're a kid, cause your mind is so fertile with imagination and like you have like now you're like what is this what is this weird toy that this viking with stripy pants oh who is this yeah that's from asterix nobles what is that it's like oh it's just belgian what is that and you're just like you know it's like this whole

other strange world and then when i was in fr, they would play a lot of Japanese animation. So you'd get, what was it, Goldorak? In France, they called him Goldorak. Oh, here it's Voltron. Oh, yeah. It is always, I think when you're a kid, it blows your mind that there's a whole, there are volumes and volumes of a different thing for kids. That you sort of feel like, astros and obelisks

yeah there's like a thousand of them you're like a thousand and this just happened while i wasn't paying attention yeah what's what's happening you know i mean we got the smurfs over here but the smurfs were around yeah for a while in europe you know and and so you know that that was like a little bit of you i mean once in a while we got a little bit. The United States did get some Euro shit. Yeah. It is a shame that we got the Smurfs. I mean, of all the things that came from. I know.

We also, we got Belle and Sebastian. I don't know if you remember that, Reggie. Yes, of course. Yeah. Yes, of course. We had a great Pyrenees and her name was Belle from that show. Belle and Sebastian was like a story of a french boy who had lost his parents and he had a huge great pyrenees and then he had a very small dog that lived like in his pocket oh it was also bad it was also smurfs it was

beautiful and we named a beautiful dog after and bad it was a tv show yeah it was a tv show yeah yeah interesting and the smurfs i i'm referring to uh the novel uh the smurfs oh of course of course yeah the actual long form no pictures smurfs book is the one right right okay gotcha now you i you know you start. I mean, I'm assuming maybe you could to some degree, but I'm assuming you don't start your career in Great Falls as a performer. I mean, I know you do school stuff, but when you started doing shows, you were in Seattle for a while, correct? Yeah, I was in Seattle from 90 to 2003.

All right, so that's a lot of time. Would your parents come to see you? Did they like to travel to see you perform? Yeah, I think they came to stuff. I think my dad was a little less likely to do that. But yeah, they would come to stuff for sure. My mom came to everything for sure. Like she was always there. My dad was when when he was living with us up until about age 13. He was I'd say he'd be like 80% of the things, which is pretty good for a dad. That's pretty good, yeah.

Yeah. That's not a bad number at all. Especially a dad from back then. Your mom was, it sounds from everything I've read, incredibly supportive of your creativity. Yes. She was like, I mean, it's funny. I don't think that she necessarily understood

what it was but she she understood that it's something that i wanted to do and that i was passionate about and so she supported it that way so you know it's kind of like old school like raw report or something like that she just understood in a way that was a little bit more energetic. And so, yeah, it was great. It was great that she saw what I liked to do. And she's like, okay, well, if that's what you want to do, then fucking do that shit. And I'll help out as much as I can.

You should always keep doing your shores. That's a very, I can only imagine that's how she sounded. That's how she said it. She'd be like, Ricky, as long as you you do chores, you can do whatever you want. Now, anyone who's familiar with you is aware that you have this incredibly unique comedy style. But when you're a kid in school, are you just sort of doing like the sort of school plays that we all picture? Is that your start? Are you doing theater

stuff or is it more music stuff i mean it's it's kind of it's combination of both but i did do some theater in elementary school really basic stuff i wrote my own play and put it on for the school at one point then in junior high i was very social and i think I did a little bit of drama stuff, but not a ton so much. That was mostly like school dances and being on like student union a little bit. And, you know, after school programs, a couple of those, you know, it was mostly just break dancing, you know, listening to Billy Ocean and having a good time. That works for me, man. Hey, come on. Yeah, crowd pleasing. Yeah come on yeah crowd my dreams yeah i kid on my dreams

yeah and then but high school was really where i got into drama formally uh and i was competed in and was in a couple plays and things like that i think it was we were in tartuffe and that's pretty advanced for high school yeah yeah but it was so good it was so great it was i just i had never read tartuffe and i like saw it at a used bookstore and bought it recently and started reading it. And I was like, Tartuffe rhymes? Like Tartuffe rhymes the whole way through? And it does. It's like, it has a real Dr. Seuss-y feel. I'm sure you could see it performed in a way that isn't in my head. I was really sort of tripping along in that.

It was just a silly for sure yeah it's it's a very physical kind of it is a cartoon play yeah it's like it's a perfect way of describing it but when we were doing it i mean we the bed or no sorry we did the not tartuffe we saw tartuffe at missoula but we did um the imaginary invalid and i'm not familiar another by the same author but yeah that one was crazy because like this it takes this a guy that hangs out in bed the whole time and he's sick or whatever and but so we made the bed a trampoline so it looked like an old-fashioned bed but like at times like the the imaginary invalid would get up and he'd be mad and he'd be stomping on the bed and he's just like bouncing super high in the air it was it was pretty cool but anyways it was a very cartoony play i mean it was yeah that's that

that's that dude do you remember what the play that you wrote in junior high was about or the general thrust of it well that was the that was in elementary school that would have been like maybe fourth grade or something like that it was about about, it was just like, don't use drugs. Interesting. It's an anti-drug thing. Now, have you been asked to do it or did you on your own? No, I asked to do it because I wanted to put it on. But a teacher didn't say

write a play about an anti-drug play. You had this, that's wonderful. No, I got a meeting with the principal and asked him if I could do it. Nancy Reagan got to you. Her message got to you. Totally. A hundred percent.

Nancy's everything. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. She got to me too. The first time I ever saw Seth drink a beer, I totally flipped out. I will say he was not 21 and I.

Oh no. Yeah. I was not pleased. That's insane. Our parents were out of town. I had about, I think I was not pleased. That's insane. Our parents were out of town. I had about, I think I had three friends over. It was not a rager. And we were, I'm going to say, I mean, 17 or 18.

Probably 17. It might not have been, but Josh was 15. Okay. And the lack of chill Josh had when he saw us. I mean, we had one six pack for four dudes. It wasn't like we, and we weren't going to drive anywhere. And Josh, like, I felt like just haymakers started throwing punches. I was really mad.

And then you guys wanted to go like TP somebody's house. And I remember one of your friends being like, isn't this fun? And I've never liked TPing houses. Cause I'm always like, someone has to clean this up later. Yeah. And I will say, you were right on that. Maybe we would have stayed at home if you had let us drink our beers in peace.

We only went out to TP. That all would have been okay by you, Reggie? Everything except for the TP. Okay. I agree with the TP. I did do TP once, but I was like, this is a lot of work. And also I just feel bad for people having to clean it up.

Yeah, I also feel bad. You should never do it. It's a terrible thing to do. And also, again, we had our, you know, Nancy Reagan. We also had a lot of 80s movies that led us to believe that TPing was a rite of passage. And I can only tell you, it's not. I mean, Pee Wee Herman, you know, his impassioned speech about not using drugs. There you go.

It was very thoughtful, you know, and it made sense. Did you ever travel as an adult with your mom? Did you guys ever go on trips together? Not a ton. My parents came to visit me in Seattle, I think, maybe in the early 90s or something like that. That was cool. I wish I could remember more about that day. But they came.

And then I think my mom might have come again to visit. But I don't know. It wasn't a lot. Later, when I was living in New York, my mother came to visit me. And I took her on a tour. I took her on a tour bus. And we went and saw a theater and you know i took her to dinner and that was really fun but yeah not a lot had she ever been

to new york before no she'd never been wow yeah pretty cool how old was she would you would you guess if you could try to when she first went to New York City? Let's see. Yeah. She would have been, I think. This is like watching that movie, A Beautiful Mind. 60s? Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. I'm just running every calculation possible. It keeps coming up to 60s.

Based on how long this was taking, I thought you were going to get it to the day. Jesus Christ. You've landed within a decade. Was she someone who, when she came to New York City and you did all those things with her, was she someone who was sort of in awe of it, or

was she more reserved? I think she loved it. I think she was really impressed by it. She was taken in by it, for sure. She was an interesting person. She wasn't outwardly curious about a lot of things, but I think she had to have been because she's very passionate about discovering new things. But she was also kind of timid a little bit,

but also, I don't know, she was very extrovert, introvert, kind of a strange mixture, depending on the context. But she had a blast, you know, it was good. And I'm so glad that context but she had a blast you know it was good and uh i'm so glad that i did that with her you know i wish i would have done like more some of my parents you know some of my friends are like parents are going out to stay in a cabin together and gonna go over to you know wherever the traditional swimming hole you know i have a lot of friends that are doing that or going on road trips. And I just never, that wasn't my relationship with my parents as much. You mentioned earlier the like fishing trips with friends, families and stuff.

Yeah. Yeah. Was that driving somewhere from Great Falls? And would those be weekend trips or little day trips? Yeah, they were definitely like weekend trips. Yeah. So every weekend there was some friend that was, you know that if it was the wintertime, they were going either snowmobiling

or they're going to go skiing or snowboarding. Gotcha. Any ice fishing? No. Never did ice fishing. Yeah, nor have I. Yeah, people would do it. I could do it. It was cold enough back then. Not so much. Yeah, it would be just like

fishing. I went duck hunting once. They didn't get any ducks that day which i was super glad yeah i just didn't i didn't even though i am a hypocrite and i did and i do eat meat like it's that was hard always hard for me as a kid like even though i'd walk into some of my friends garages you know they have like a deer was like hanging from the rafters and they just processed it there's a bunch of cardboard on the floor, you know, all that stuff like that was there. So my friends like, Hey, look at my new key chain. I mean, from a deer hoof or something, but like, you know, like there's a lot of like raw animal, like hunter-y things around me for sure.

And I, I, I can hang with it, but me personally being there when that happened,'m still that way today i can't i'm such a i'm a wuss no hey man i'm i'm not i'm not down with that stuff on the duck hunt did you have a gun that day did you fire and maybe intentionally i don't think i had a gun i don't think i had a gun i think i think they were just letting me tag along yeah you know what now that for some reason as you asked that question like i saw in my mind like what if i hired this like a painter to do like those like famous scenes of like you know george washington like you know crossing the delaware or whatever like in those kinds of styles of like these moments of like me with a bunch of duck hunters like you know one's pointing up at the sky and there's like ducks or whatever. And I'm just kind of like in the brush looking up.

With an easel and a paintbrush. Yeah. Yeah, totally. It's like he was there as a documenter. He was there. Some of the most important. The most important hunts of those activities like snowmobiling and whatnot. What,

which of those were you most psyched about? Well, I couldn't do ski. I tried skiing once and it was just like an 80s ski movie. Yeah. You know, like where I'm coming down the hill, and I still don't know how to stop properly. And so I'm like the last bit of the hill, it kind of ramps back up,

but it leads to like the lodge. And so I kind of like have enough speed that I'm like coming up that that thing and i can and people are taking off their skis or putting their skis or whatever they're it's like a little changing area underneath the where the lodge meets and i'm just yelling like get out of the way i can't stop get out you know like and then like just slamming into the wall and and that's how i stopped yeah that's how you stopped skiing forever. Yeah. I was like, I can't do it. I think I tried going on my own.

I bought my own ticket and went one day on a weekend, like a Saturday. Cause I was like, I'm going to get over this fear of, you know, skiing or whatever. I'm going to figure it out. And then I like went again and I was like, this sucks. I was not feeling it. But in Boy Scouts, I think think we did we went to a lodge uh i forgot the name of it i think it still functions but it's an inner tubing place so it was just for inner tubing it was this mountain for energy so we went there and inner tubing was fun that

that's what i could get into that was really cool cool. Or sleds. I love sleds. Yeah. I like piloting. Like a machine that you kind of get on. It's either like an inner tube. You just kind of get on it, wax it, get on it, and just kind of hope for the best. There's some stuff you can kind of do, whatever,

put your feet on the ground. I think considering you had a dad in the Air Force, he might take issue with you saying you like piloting and then talking about sleds and inner tubes. Hey, man, it's my life. I don't want to dig up your past here. I feel like I hit a nerve. So wait, what about fishing? Is that something obviously that was a local thing that you grew up with?

Did you get the bug for fishing at all? Is that something you ever do as an adult? I mean, I know you don't live in a lot of fish-friendly places. That's true. That's true. Yeah, people around here don't take too kindly to fish. Just like, get the hell out of here, you and your fish. Yeah, I went fishing the most out of the outdoor things, activities. yeah i caught some fish i did it with my dad

a little bit my grandfather loved fishing yeah definitely the thing i did the most i didn't mind it i mean i had my own rod you know and i love the gear of it you know like the rod i used to practice in the yard you know like putting a little weight on it and like casting it and like reeling it back in and i love like the mechanism and how it like you know lays down the the fishing wire like like like evenly as it widens back i was like that's so cool like oh it's just you know i was more into that than actually getting fish but fish were a little less uh intense than mammals yeah yeah yeah you know getting a fish it's like it was kind of gross but i was like yeah that makes sense you gotta do that you know getting a fish it's like it was kind of gross but i was like

yeah that makes sense you gotta do that you know yeah and i feel like you can more readily gut a fish clean it and then like cook it yes right oh yes immediately yeah and and within like a like a couple minutes yeah it's it's yeah if you're good at it you're like yeah it's like instantaneous we um we we took my uh uh or i shouldn't say we took my son i we the kids set up a lemonade stand and a dude stopped by long white ponytail and he was just talking to my kids one of those like cool cats who just talks to kids like an adult and they were just so enamored with him and he said yeah you yeah, you know, yeah, I want to go fishing. Let me know.

And then the five-year-old became obsessed with the idea of going fishing with this person we didn't know. And we checked with our neighbor, and the neighbor said, oh, yeah, that's a guy. You know, he lives up there. I have his number. And so my wife, God love her, just called this stranger and was like, hey, do you really, did you mean it? Would you take my son fishing?

He's like, yeah, I'll be there in an hour and uh took i took axel uh fishing and i went with him and there was there was this nearby lake and uh the five-year-old said you can't come down the dock i don't want you to come and so he wanted me to be able to see him but he didn't want me to come and hang out with him and guy he wanted to have his own experience and it was the trippiest thing to just watch this dude i met wow don't know at all and he then later said which was so sweet you know he's like look uh you know a guy taught me how to fish and this is a thing i felt very important to pay it forward so anytime i can teach a kid how to fish but uh they would catch you know little fish and and they'd throw them back and this is a real like soci, sociopath thing, my son said.

And by the way, he's of the three. He's the sociopath. But he – I'm not saying he's a sociopath. I'm just saying if you had to pick one. But he said – he takes the fish off the hook. He goes, bye, fishy. Go back and get big, and one day we will catch you and kill you and eat you. I'm like, well, that's not –

I don't know if you need to send him off like that. go back and get big and one day we will catch you and kill you and eat you. I'm like, well, that's not. I don't know if you need to send him off like that. Also, maybe he didn't want you to come on the boat because it would have been so clear that you didn't know how to do any of the things that Guy knew how to do.

Yeah. If you never even got on the boat, then he wouldn't have to see that. So it was just the end of a dock. They didn't actually go out of the boat. I would not, I want our listeners to know, I would not let a stranger take my son on a boat because that's a real that you try never to do anything that when the police you're filing a report they're like wait what now we met him at a lemonade stand he bought lemonade we let him take my kid on a boat. Your parents are robots, and they have infiltrated a level five.

Like, oh, that's great. Good job there, Axel. Good catcher. And they're also involved in the gnomes of Zurich banking scheme. Yeah, you know what? That does track, because Axel's been looking at me sideways since his time with Guy. Guy really wants to go to Zurich. Yeah, he does want to go to

Zurich. I totally love Zurich. He loves all these. Can we go to Zurich for Christmas? Yeah, totally. Zurich. Who's that? Oh, this is Zurich, the stuntman doll. Oh, cool. That's great. The other thing was weird that Axel somehow thought this was important. He said, our our code word if you hear me yell banana that means i caught a fish

so i would sit there even though i could see him he would then scream banana because he did want me to i was allowed to come down the dock to see the sort of fruits of their labor i just wasn't allowed to like bust their vibe when they were actually trying to do it. So generous of him. Very generous. Yeah. Shout out to Guy. Thank you for everything you did. Yeah, Guy.

Good job, Guy. I'll be over there now. All right. So we have some questions for you, Reggie. Oh, okay. These, we ask all our guests these questions.

All right. Here we go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Relaxing. Nice. Good call. Good call.

Your favorite means of transportation? Train, plane, automobile, bike? Bus. Sounds like bus. Bus, boat, nothing but good things to say. Well, for long distance, airplanes. But for in general existence, a sedan. Yeah. Okay. Nice sedan. Nice. If you could take a vacation with any family other than your own family, what family would you like to take a family vacation with?

They could be fictional. They could be from history. They just can't be your family. Family, family, family family family family family family i guess well i think it would have been really weird but kind of interesting i mean i don't know for how long though but for a little bit it'd be interesting to hang out with the brady's all right that's good answer the brady's the brady the brady bunch the brady yeah just because yeah yeah because the partridge family like they were they were okay but i don't know

there wasn't as much weirdness yeah you know yeah so you know if i could be like a time traveler or a reality traveler and i appear in their reality to just observe for like three days yeah that would be that's like when they went to hawaii like maybe you'd be like staying at the same hotel when they went to hawaii yeah i'd be like the guy in the background like cleaning tables like i'm in that episode but i would gladly take that one and just kind of be like oh this is the vibe okay yeah if you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family who who would it be? Ooh, damn, that's tough. One member of my family.

Nice place to reconnect with Jean-Pierre. Oh yeah, Jean-Pierre. Yeah, Patricia. Man, that's a tough one. I guess I would have to say maybe my cousin, Rachel. Rachel. All right. Yeah.

We will reach out and see if she agrees. Thank you so much. You're from Great Falls. Yes. Would you recommend Great Falls as a vacation destination? I think it depends. I don't think it's for everyone. I think it's for a niche kind of people.

I think if you like to get into small city culture in the interior of the country, it has enough going on. There's great museums. There are great restaurants. There's two actually good world-competing coffee shops. There's all kinds of attractions around there. The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center is really amazing. The river is cool. You can go on hikes.

So, yeah. It's a great new book, I hear. There's a great new book. There's a great new book you could read before you go. There's a book about it. Yeah, you can read. It's on the coffee table. It's in every room.

Yeah, I don't know. I would recommend it, but I would just say, like, it's not like your traditional, like, hey, you know where I'm going to Berlin. You know, like, yeah, that makes sense. You're going on vacation to Berlin. Yes. But, like, where are you going? Oh, I'm going to Berlin, you know, like that. You're like, yeah, that makes sense. You're going on vacation to Berlin. Yes. But like, where are you going? Oh, I'm going to Sioux City. I'm going to two dot Montana.

Like, oh, that's what is that? You know? Yeah. But for some people, like, it's cool. You know, they're like, I want to experience another reality. That's like not not even close to the usual thing I would go to. Then I would say, yes. Sorry for the long answers.

No, that's great. I'm sure the Great Falls Department of Tourism, Board of Tourism is delighted with the answer. They can pull like three different quotes out of that. Oh my God. Okay, I'm down. Jesus, that was so easy. Here we go, Reggie.

Have you ever been to the Grand Canyon? I've not. Do you want to go? To the Grand Canyon? Yeah. Yeah, sure. have you ever been to the grand canyon i've not do you want to go to the grand canyon yeah yeah sure so this has not been a long dream or bucket list it seemed like you put a little bit of thought into it and you were like all right yeah yeah it's not like someday i hope to get that big old canyon i want to see that i want to see that's the size i want to experience it yeah um i just i need to but no i i think uh i mean it's definitely something i would check out it's it's not like yeah it's never been like i gotta go

there gotcha gotcha fair enough so that's like kind of right down the middle we're trying to take a poll of yes and no's and i'm gonna i mean you're real in the middle yeah yeah yeah i'm a new i'm a neutral neutral in the grand canyon i'm sure, yeah. I'm a neutral. Neutral on the Grand Canyon. I'm sure once I saw it, I'd be like, why didn't I want to come here earlier? I'm sure. Yeah, that's how they get you. Reggie, what a delight talking to you. Great Falls, Montana, Fast Times, Post Punk Weirdos, and A Tale of Coming Home Again.

Because you went back home. Did you like going back home again? Yeah, I love it. Yeah, I still do. I'm going back. It's the last date on i still do i'm going back it's the last the last date on my book tour is great falls that's exciting yeah that's pretty cool and i'm gonna stay for a few days and then i'm going back probably for i'm definitely gonna go back for thanksgiving and um probably christmas as well even if i just go by myself i just like i still

have the house that I grew up in. So it's like, it's home. It's where my parents and all my memories are. And it's nice to just chill in there

and go like, wow, this is pretty rad. Yeah. Well, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you, Reggie.

Really great seeing you again. Pleasure. Yeah, absolutely. In France, Reggie would sleep in a cave room. Yeah, absolutely. Reggie would travel from town to town In Cleveland He watched Ghostbusters with Bobby Brown

Did I say Ghostbusters? I meant Ghostbusters 2 In Cleveland at night He Chases Fireflies In fancy red comics Asterix

And Obelix And play Paitonk It's a long game. Similar to Bocce.