The Commercial Break - TCB Infomercial: Reggie Watts

Episode Date: October 12, 2024

Episode #617: The iconic Reggie Watts did the unthinkable: he returned to The Commercial Break! This conversation is absolutely bonkers amazing and so quintessentially Reggie. Reggie is BACK! We lov...e people who are smarter than us New Brew Reggie on the road A festival for people who hate festivals Reggie’s love life Being poly Relationship communication Connections! Reggie’s cool life Partying Shaman-ing Some deep shit, with Reggie Watts Again, we are not in Florida. Special Guest: Reggie Watts Watch Reggie’s Special Reggie’s Book: Great Falls, MT Follow Reggie on Instagram Reggie on Tour Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB Follow Us: IG: @thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast YT: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak www.tcbpodcast.com Executive Producer: Bryan Green Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Producer: Astrid B. Green Producer & Audio Editor: Christina Archer Christina’s Podcast: Apple Podcasts & Spotify To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:02:03 Well, you see, a few weeks ago, Chrissy and I sat down and spent hours here in the studio in an effort to solve a problem we've been having. The problem? How do we drive ourselves, and you, even more crazy? The only reasonable solution? Put out additional episodes of The Commercial Break. Sure, I'm one glass of milk away from my deathbed, Chrissy's still recovering from Menfo, there's great college football games on, you're probably spending any waking time you have away from that miserable job
Starting point is 00:02:27 looking forward to pre-gaming it tonight to go out with the girls, and your kids haven't been fed and little Johnny needs to do his homework. Ignore all that, because today a promise was kept. A man honored his agreements, and the TCB universe as we know it spun in the opposite direction. Because of all the people we've interviewed, 99% of them said, sure, we'll come back. But only one actually did it. And that is our good friend Reggie Watts. So please take an hour out of your day and enjoy this wide ranging
Starting point is 00:02:55 conversation with one of the world's most intelligent human beings. That's no joke. Christina, do the kids a favor and roll the tape. The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Oh yeah, guys and kittens, welcome back to The Commercial Break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Chris and Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chrissy. Best to you, Brian.
Starting point is 00:03:24 Best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us. Very excited, Chrissy, because we have a first second. Yes, we do. We have a first second. We have a first second interview with someone that we admire greatly.
Starting point is 00:03:39 And now we're gonna consider him a friend. I think so. At first, we're just sycophants. The second time we're friends, the third time you have to get a restraining order. There's how it goes. That's the order of appearances on the commercial break. So our good friend, I'm gonna let you guess out there who it is. You know, you saw the poster.
Starting point is 00:03:57 It's Reggie Watts. Whee! Man, do I love this guy. Love the way his brain works. I just love the way his brain works. I want it to split open and melt right all over me. I really do. So I watch a lot of his Instagrams
Starting point is 00:04:09 because I'm fascinated by the guy. He's doing a 10. And you're constantly on Instagram. I'm constantly on Instagram, constantly. TikTok or Instagram, one of those two. Don't spend too much time on Facebook. Although I do go to Facebook every once in a while just to see what like my crazy,
Starting point is 00:04:22 to see what my craziest, which rabbit hole, the craziest of my friends are still on. There's one girl that I know that, I can't, I don't understand, but she reposts somebody else's posts at least nine times a day. On average, nine times a day, sometimes up to 15 times a day,
Starting point is 00:04:42 she will just share somebody else's post. And they're always wackadoo bullsh- you know, wackadoo bullshit. Anyway, I don't want to get into it. So I'm watching the Instagram, because you know, when you pay attention to someone's Instagram, they're likely to be served up to you a lot more. So Reggie's content is served up to me. And for the last, I don't know, say a couple of months, maybe over the summer, he's been posting and there's been a mysterious lady in some of these pictures, but always face hidden, always face hidden, like alluding to maybe
Starting point is 00:05:10 a romantic relationship, but not there, and I don't wanna be a drama queen, but then I'm gonna be a drama queen. Two or three weeks ago, I wanna say, all of a sudden, a full face shot, full frontal, Chrissy. Full frontal face. And she was adorable, and so was he. And it looked like a budding romance.
Starting point is 00:05:27 And I'd like to ask him about that. I know, hopefully he'll tell us. Because I love a good love story. I really do. Who doesn't? I love a good love story. Ted Bundy doesn't, I'll tell you that right now. Ted Bundy was not a fan of romance.
Starting point is 00:05:40 He'd just kill you. Yeah, that's an outlier. But you know, you watch Reggie's Instagram. He's always doing something new. That's how I like it. Yeah, that's an outlier. But you know, you watch Reggie's Instagram, he's always doing something new. He's doing a Ted Talk, he's doing a comedy special. He's doing- Playing music. Playing music, he's in some punk band. He's really multifaceted.
Starting point is 00:05:57 A Renaissance man, if you will. Yeah, you know what I like in him too? Like a less redneck Hunter S. Thompson. I think his brain works that way. I just do, I don't know, for some reason. I mean, Hunter was mainly a writer, but he did a lot of different stuff, and he was kind of all over the place,
Starting point is 00:06:12 but I think he was all over the place in a way where, you know, some people, they've said of like President Trump, he's playing 4D chess while the rest of us are playing checkers. I think Hunter S. Thompson actually was playing 4D chess, like he had that kind of brain, and I feel like Reggie sometimes is too. And so I'm fascinated. Very creative.
Starting point is 00:06:29 I'm always interested in people that are much, much smarter than I am. I know. Much more creative. It's happening. Much more, yeah. I don't know, much more in touch with the world than I am. It's just, I'm living vicariously through Reggie Watts. So anyway, his people asked if he could come on again, and of course we said, yes, funny story, this email comes through, I don't know, about two months ago, and so we're trying to set up a time. Someone asks for our physical address, like the commercial
Starting point is 00:06:56 breaks physical address, of which we said, for what? Like, please send the death threats elsewhere. Right. And then a couple of weeks ago, I come up to my door, there's a big box, Brian Green, and I was Please send the death threats elsewhere. Right. Yeah. And then a couple of weeks ago, I come up to my door, there's a big box, Brian Green, and I was like, oh, I wasn't expecting, I never expected anything. Well, I'm not expecting anything. And I open it up and it's from Reggie, and it's New Brew. Oh, that's the type we were talking about.
Starting point is 00:07:18 Remember that drink we talked about? That's right. And we're talking about this kratom-based energy drink that there's a number of them, but New Brew, it's so beautifully packaged and the, it was just a lovely package that I got. It was all wrapped wonderfully. And so New Brew is a company that is owned by a friend of Reggie's. This is what he said last time he was there. We'll talk more to him more about that. He wanted us to try it. He wanted us to try it.
Starting point is 00:07:43 So we're going to. And he actually followed through on that. And so he's got two feathers in his cap. Number one, he came back, he's coming back on a second time. Number two, he sent us something to get us fucked up while we're talking to him. So, goddamn Reggie, I know we can't be there, you know, like doing Molly with you or going down into a K-hole, but we'll drink some new brew with you. Yes, we will. That we'll do. Anyway, drinknewbrew.com is the website you can go to. They're not a sponsor. I'm just sharing with you information. Drinknewbrew.com.
Starting point is 00:08:13 Be mindful. Kratom does work on your opioid receptors. So, if you're prone to addiction, on your way to addiction, currently in addiction, you might not want to drink this. It's not for the faint of heart. Reggie's book, which we were promoting last time he was here, still on sale, Great Falls Montana, Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and A Tale of Coming Home Again. It's a great book. Great book. Christi and I both read it, and I love it. And it's an easy read. It's an easy read if you're smart like I am, and you can understand the inside of Reggie's brain. If you're not so smart, it might take you longer. Did it take you longer?
Starting point is 00:08:49 It did not. It did not? Oh, well. But I love to read. You do love to read. Yes. This is one I didn't take the audio version. I went straight for the book. And I'm glad that I did because I enjoyed flipping through the pages and seeing the pictures and stuff. And then at Reggie Watts on his Instagram, you can follow him. He's got some appearances that he's making later on in the year. And then he's got his special also. So his comedy special. So go check that out on Veep's, I think. Isn't it on Veep's?
Starting point is 00:09:21 Yes. I think it's on Veep's. So let's do this Chrissy. Let's go into our awkward transition phase because that's important. Why don't we take just a short break? We'll pay some bills. We'll hear from some of our sponsors and Christina, for all of you that love those Christina liners, we'll take a short break. And then through the magic of tele-podcasting, Reggie Watts is going to be here for not the first but the second time in
Starting point is 00:09:45 Commercial Break history. Our first second. Our first second. You never forget your first second, Chrissy. That's right. All right. We'll take a break and we'll be back. My darlings, my angels, my sweet little cherubs, it's that time again where I try to convince you to follow us on Instagram at The Commercial break and on TikTok at TCB Podcast. We really don't post that much, so it's no skin off your nose. If you'd like to get in touch with us directly, you can text us or call us
Starting point is 00:10:13 and leave us a voicemail at 212-433-3TCB. You know we are just sitting by the phone waiting with bated breath for you to call. So please leave us an Ask TCB and we'll give you some mildly concerning advice. Peace and blessings. And you're back. You're our first second.
Starting point is 00:10:34 Never forget your first second. He's the second time Reggie has been with us. And we're so delighted to have you. Thanks for coming back. Thanks for joining again. And as we were discussing, thank you my friend for sending us a beautiful case lovely wrapping packaged wonderfully care TLC who's your friend who owns this new brew? It's Justin. I'm sending this to you. Go ahead and take a picture. Here, here, here, here, here we go. Okay, ready? There we go. Got it. Nice. Tell Justin, thank you very much.
Starting point is 00:11:05 Justin and New Brew. Now I don't know if these are available everywhere, but New Brew is a euphoric seltzer, a new brand of non-alcoholic drinks, a new category, if you will. But New Brew seems to be the one that's taking the internet by storm, at least. Chrissy and I went down the TikTok rabbit hole today
Starting point is 00:11:22 and saw a lot of people doing reviews of them drinking New Brew. And a lot of, it seems like people with the large following saying, what's my favorite non-alcoholic drink? New Brew. New Brew has cava and kratom and caffeine. I'm gonna make this a straight commercial for your book, Justin.
Starting point is 00:11:37 It tastes delicious. It's got berry flavor, citrus flavor. What was the other one we got? There was a couple of, it was three flavors that we got. Yeah, three, I think it's, yeah, berry,, citrus flavor. What was the other one we got? There was a couple, it was three flavors that we got. Yeah, three I think it's berry, citrus and mango. Mango. Now this is not, as it says on the packaging, this may not be for people who have issues with addiction
Starting point is 00:11:57 or sobriety, if you're sober, maybe this is something you wanna just check into before you do, but otherwise, I love it. I think it's great. I have lots of problems with addiction and I think it's lovely. So there you go. How you been over the last couple of months? What have you been up to?
Starting point is 00:12:13 I've been watching that. I'm spying on you on TikTok. What's going on out there in your world? Have you been traveling? Yeah. I mean, uh, yes, I've been traveling. Well, I was in, um, where was I? Uh, I guess most recently travel wise. I was in, where was I? I guess most recently, travel-wise.
Starting point is 00:12:28 You were in Europe, weren't you? Yeah, it was like for the longest time we were in Berlin. Yeah, we were in the UK and then Berlin. And yeah, it was just an amazing time. I was there with my girlfriend and we had just an incredible time hanging out with friends and I did shows out there, did five shows. Yeah, it was a dream. Like I really hope someday that I'm able to like have my girlfriend and I to just like be really free monetarily and I would just like through playing gigs and stuff like that and just kind of travel to all our favorite festivals, play the festivals, but like hang out with friends. And that's kind of most of the rest of our life.
Starting point is 00:13:08 That's one great plan. That sounds like a great plan. I like that, life plan. We're on episode number 600 of the commercial break, which is not a lie. And I'm still waiting for that dream to come true. I love Europe and I love traveling Europe. And Germany was one of my favorites.
Starting point is 00:13:21 Spain, of course, is where my heart is. But Germany was wonderful. Switzerland even, even, of course, is where my heart is, but Germany was wonderful. Switzerland even, even though I'm kind of on the food, I love the culture. I thought it was beautiful. My favorite. Yeah, of course, Italy. So are you, you're playing gigs out there.
Starting point is 00:13:35 You played a couple of festivals, didn't you? Yeah, I played a festival called Houghton in the west of the UK and it's thrown by Amanda and Craig Richards. Craig Richards was one of the, I guess he was like early founders, curators of a club called Fabric in London which was a pretty important club when it came to the electronic music scene in the 90s and going forward and they now broke people like Tricky and Massive Attack and Portishead and things like that,
Starting point is 00:14:09 and all kinds of chemical brothers and underworld and all this stuff. But yeah, so he and his partner Amanda created this festival called Houghton, which they dubbed as a festival for people who hate festivals. is a festival for people who hate festivals. And it is like the most, I mean, it is a festival, but it's just so dreamlike, you know, everything's like eco, eco-packaging on everything. They don't leave any trace, it's on royal land. And, but the lord who owns the land
Starting point is 00:14:44 is a huge friend of the couple. And so they are really good friends. And so it's a very synergistic existence for the festival to be there. And yeah, it just feels very safe. It sounds dreamy. I want to go. Yeah. Oh, you got to go fast.
Starting point is 00:15:00 And anybody who was involved in anything having to do with Portishead is a friend of mine because I think I think honestly in my late teenage years in my early 20s I probably had sex to Portishead more than I had sex that any other band. Portishead is just some. Portishead is New Brew music. It's like music. If New Brew was music, Portishead would be, it's euphoric and jittery and sexy and cool. It, that's the music. I was in love with Portishead for a long time and that album that they had, it just played back and back and back. I would bring whoever home to my lair.
Starting point is 00:15:40 The bag porch. That's right. The screened in porch that I lived on for six months. No heating or anything. Oh my God. But once you started playing in the porch, it generated a heat all over itself. Yes. Yes, I know.
Starting point is 00:15:56 It's the right vibe. It is the right vibe. Anytime. Anytime. When you, so this girlfriend, here's a question I had, and if I'm getting too personal, just tell me and I'll cut this part out, but is this girlfriend new? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:12 Yeah, well, we've been together. It's always hard for us to say when, but I mean, we met on February 16th, but we, I guess became like official in like early May. Okay. Yeah. Because here's the thing. but we, I guess became like official in like early May. Yeah. Yeah. Because here's- A good three month mark.
Starting point is 00:16:30 I noticed he was being a little cagey with some of Vince's Instagram posts where he'd have like the back of her head, but he'd be like smiling in the thing. And then one day recently, over the last couple of weeks, I saw a reveal and I was like, that's the reveal. That's the we're together photograph right there.
Starting point is 00:16:44 Beautiful woman, by the way. Congratulations. I hope you guys. Sounds lovely to just travel around Europe with my, with my new girlfriend. And Oh yeah. It was a total dream. Yeah. She's, she is amazing. And yeah, I've never really been in a relationship before, you know, like, No, that's not true. Is that true? Is that true? Well, I mean, I've had girlfriends, but I've never been in an actual relationship where you feel like you're vulnerable to each other and that you really are, you care for each other and you kind of see each other and you're listening to one another and you're supportive
Starting point is 00:17:15 and you're, you know, willing to compromise not because you feel like it's compromised just because you want things to work, you know? And so, yeah, I've never really been, but I've been working a lot in therapy and things like that for communication problems and really, I never really had any serious issues in relationships. I was just always in the fun mode. I wanted everything to be fun all the time. And so, and then I just never got to those points
Starting point is 00:17:40 where you're just like, this is how I really feel about this or I feel inadequate about this, you know? And then this person like, I hear you, but don't worry, I'm not judging on that, you know? Like, tell me more, you know? That kind of a thing. I've just never experienced that. That is true intimacy.
Starting point is 00:17:53 And I had this problem also, is that if I'm cagey, cool, and sexy, but they can never get at me, then it's not true intimacy, so they can't hurt me. And even though I always thought of myself as a little bit self-aware, I didn't kind of catch on to that. It's well into my 20s or 30s. I was like, wait, I'm just being an asshole
Starting point is 00:18:12 who's not letting anybody in. It's really what's so fun. And no wonder my relationships don't succeed. Well, and it's all fun. It's like, you know, it is fun, but then it runs into a wall, you know, it's like, because you can be fun and all that, you know, and, it's like, it is fun, but then it runs into a wall. It's like because you can be fun and all that. And I was never like, I definitely frustrated
Starting point is 00:18:30 a lot of people because at a certain point they were like, so what are we doing? And I'm like, oh, I don't know. And then I'd wait for them to break up with me. But I think in this particular instance, she's one of the smartest people I've ever been with and she is just so incredibly like unique. It's like almost like my mother passed away
Starting point is 00:18:54 two over two and a half years ago, I guess. And she would be definitely someone that my mom would have been like, okay, I'm glad you're with her. And yeah, she's cool. She's a lawyer and she just started her law job yesterday. She started working at a law firm yesterday? Yeah, just yesterday.
Starting point is 00:19:18 Yeah. I would say that I feel like Reggie has been bitten. I think he's been bitten. I think you've been bitten, my friend, and more power to you. This is the best feeling in the world. To have someone that you can freely fall, like the trust fall of trust falls is a beautiful thing. And with my wife is the one person I really experienced it
Starting point is 00:19:37 with 100%, no doubt, no questions, almost from the moment. It didn't matter. I knew she was my ride or die, and it still doesn't matter to this day. Now, I know she'll yell at me if I do some stupid shit, but I also know that no matter what. Yeah, you're in it together, you're a team. When I open the door. Yes.
Starting point is 00:19:53 You know, like they say, like, dog's love is unconditional. Some people like cats or whatever. Dog's love is unconditional. You walk in the door, no matter what you said on the way out the door, no matter if you said goodbye or hello, no matter if you tell them you love them, no matter what, they're going to be there with the same fucking stupid grin on their face when you come in at the end of the day, no matter how you
Starting point is 00:20:11 feel. And I think that that, if you find that in a human being, and of course, there's more nuance to it than that, but if you find that in a human being emotionally, spiritually, that connection, that is the magic, that's the jam. That's when you're blinged out and you should try your best to make it work. So, congratulations. Yeah, that's exciting. Yeah, thanks. Yeah, it's crazy because I was always like, because I was poly for a while and it was really cool and it definitely helped my communication skills because you have to be clear with everybody. So I think everything that I did evolutionarily, relationship-wise, all built up to the moment
Starting point is 00:20:53 like when I met her and she's like a little bit more traditional and she's a southern woman. So she's just a little bit traditional, but she's also a little bit traditional, but she's also hyper non-traditional and can hang with all my weirdo, I don't know, I guess you'd call them like activists, leftists, like sexually free friends
Starting point is 00:21:16 that are just like pretty like out there, and she's just like, I understand these people. And I'm like, okay, well, that's all I need to know. You're good to go. Yeah, I think it's, we don't know each other that well. We've only talked for 45 minutes of our entire life together, but I would have to say. It's a time man. It's way more than most.
Starting point is 00:21:32 That's, listen, some of my best friends I've only talked to for 45 minutes. I don't let people get that close, but. Yeah, I get you. I get you. It's too dangerous. Way too dangerous. But I would say that it takes a special kind of lady to hang with Reggie Watson and his friends here because you are so, you're wicked smart
Starting point is 00:21:51 and you're super open and you're willing to, through your creativity and through your art, I see that you're willing to accept all outcomes and all perspectives or most perspectives. And so that's very, that's not an easy thing to ride along with if you have a more traditional way of thinking. And so I think if you find somebody that is willing to do that and scratches that itch for you, that's like a,
Starting point is 00:22:17 that's a double whammy. You got it. Yeah, yeah. It's pretty cool. And I like that she continues to just be like, like, you know, it's like, all right, well, to just be like, you know, it's like, all right, well here's the reality, you know. Here's what, you know, it's great.
Starting point is 00:22:29 She's, you know, it's like now it's really just a challenge of her being in a nine to five and figuring out how that works, you know, because I don't really have, I have a pretty loose schedule and I stay up late and, you know, but she is a night person, that's the one's the one good thing it's like she is naturally a night person so it means that in the future if we figure out a way that you know for us to make money for her to still continue doing her you know
Starting point is 00:22:55 helping people and things like that but and it's not tied to a schedule that that's our goal yeah yeah it's a cool challenge that can't be a challenge because I remember when I was my first wife, I remember I worked nine to five and she worked at the bar, right? As a bartender, at a restaurant with a bar and she would bartend and she would get home sometimes one, two in the morning.
Starting point is 00:23:16 And because I think we just never communicated on the best ways to reduce that friction, it did become very at times stressful on the best ways to reduce that friction, it did become very, at times, stressful on the relationship. But, you know, different strokes for different folks. When you were at Poly for a while, is that a lifestyle? Do tell us more, because we've had a lot of discussion about that, we have friends that are.
Starting point is 00:23:40 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I mean, you know, I was solo Poly, so I wasn't like hardcore poly. Like some of my friends are very much like, you know, they've been in a couple. Like I have two friends in Berlin and they're an amazing couple, like two of my favorite humans on the planet.
Starting point is 00:23:56 And they were monogamous the first four years of their relationship and then they opened it up. And now, yeah, they're just highly communicative, and you can tell that they really love each other, and that they're each other's partner, and you can tell that if they felt like they needed to go into a mode where they needed to be monogamous, again, they do it in a heartbeat.
Starting point is 00:24:20 It's just mainly about them experiencing life and expressing it, but for me, solo poly was a little bit more like, it's closer to being single in a way, but it's just much more mindful with the people that you're seeing. So you're like, this is how I identify and this is how I move through life and I am seeing other people,
Starting point is 00:24:38 but I enjoy spending time with you and you keep the communication high. And it's a nice way of like, you can keep distances with people, but still enjoy intimate relationships. And it was sweet. I mean, it was definitely, yeah, it was cool. It definitely takes a lot of energy.
Starting point is 00:24:55 Yeah, I can imagine. That's what we were looking for. I might have been probably single too, had any two women wanted to be with me. Oh my God. I might have chosen that, yeah. Yeah, it's tough. But it is cool in that you feel like, okay, it's a powerful thing for especially, I think, I think for any human, but especially for men who are, I would classify myself as heterosexual, I suppose,
Starting point is 00:25:18 but I enjoy the full spectrum of types of people, like women, but I, you know, I enjoy the full spectrum of types of people like women, you know, so, you know, all across the queer spectrum all the way, you know, to heterosexual, whatever it's like, I, that is a wide range for me. But I will say that being with all those different people and being communicative and saying, like, I'm doing this with this person, I'm doing this with this person, I'm doing this with this person,
Starting point is 00:25:46 is something that I didn't used to do, where I used to date a lot of people, but I wouldn't tell them anything. They knew that I was probably seeing other people, but no one asked questions, I didn't say anything. So it was very compartmentalized. Don't ask, don't tell. Yeah, don't ask, don't tell.
Starting point is 00:26:02 And not the healthiest after a while because I think at some point it was like, I was dating like five people and it was insane. But I was getting off on being able to give equal attention to everybody. I was just like, I can do it, I can do it. And this person feels seen. It was kind of like a power trip.
Starting point is 00:26:21 I can do this, I got this. And no one needs to be the wiser. Yeah, just like, you know, I'm gonna give them the trade-off. It's like, I'm not gonna communicate what's going on, but I will be the best person I can be every time we hang out. You know, that was like the trade-off. And that was okay, but then when I started,
Starting point is 00:26:39 when I ran into the Poly community, it really just kind of opened up my ability to communicate. And I think that was actually the perfect space for me to start. And then I started seeing a psychiatrist or therapist. And we worked on communication and it was nice. And I had like a few people that I was seeing towards the end before meeting Catherine that were highly, highly communicative, super intelligent, very open, smart, pragmatic people
Starting point is 00:27:12 that also helped me with the moment that I transitioned, even though it wasn't the best for one of the people, it was a harder transition because we were starting to get closer, and then I got blindsided by Katherine. Yeah. And, you know, but we were still really good friends and I love her and, you know, it's
Starting point is 00:27:33 cool. Katherine was really cool too. She was very patient, you know, with in the beginning because I was seeing other people and that quickly tailored off and she was very patient about that. I think she was just, I think she just knew, you know, like she, she, I liked her. She was just, she jumped in and she was like, I'm here. I'm available, you know, but not in a desperate way. In any way, it was just more like I want to have fun
Starting point is 00:27:56 and I really like you. And then that was kind of it. And then it just persisted. I was watching a, this reminds me of a line from the West Wing, Charlie, and I don't know if you reminds me of a line from the West wing, uh, Charlie, and I don't know if you've ever watched the show, the West wing. It's about, okay, fake presidents. Uh, you know, back in the early two thousands, uh, the fake president,
Starting point is 00:28:16 liberal, um, administration. Anyway, this guy is dating the president's daughter. He also works at the white house. Someone comes in, he's bothered because the secret service won't let him go to an event with the president's daughter. He also works at the White House. Someone comes in, he's bothered because the secret service won't let him go to an event with the president's daughter. And the lady says, if I were you, I would take, and he gets all upset and he's throwing things around. He's saying, I can't believe this.
Starting point is 00:28:35 I don't give a shit. I'll go anywhere, anytime. I don't give a shit about the secret service. And this lady says to him, if I were you, I would be the one person in her life that is not asking her, asking something of her, right? And so this reminds me like when you say, Catherine just jumped in, but she was just there, right?
Starting point is 00:28:53 She was like the one person who wasn't asking anything. She was just gonna be there. She's gonna kind of like wait it out, sweat it out. I'm here, dude, yeah. I'm here, I'm present. And I see you and I'm present and whatever you gotta work through, I'll, you know, I'm here for it. What a and I see you, and I'm present, and whatever you gotta work through, I'm here for it. What a cool thing, I always think of-
Starting point is 00:29:08 Well, it never works to try and change someone. No, no, no, no, no, no, or try and yank them in a direction. Definitely not. Because that's never gonna work. Yeah. No, no. And I think Holly to me, and I haven't experienced this myself, of course I've dated a couple girls at the same time.
Starting point is 00:29:27 And it became, I don't know if it was a power trip to me, but it just, I didn't find it satisfying to always try and focus on one thing after the other. It kind of exhausted me a little bit. But when I see friends, and I've had conversations with friends, we have friends who've been in poly relationships, it either seems to me to be the highest form of relationship
Starting point is 00:29:46 where I know I can't possibly be all you need in every realm at all times, or it's the most base form of a relationship where I need to get my dick whack every other place. And so there's like this two forms of poly that I have seen. And, you know, so that, that's why it's interesting to talk to people who have been poly
Starting point is 00:30:07 or into the poly community, because it's easy, it's interesting to suss out exactly where they stand on this, and I think it's pretty easy to tell right off the bat which one is which. Yeah, well, I mean, I think, you know, Well, there is lots in between, but I think like the, for me, like when I hang out with people that feel healthy in their poly identity, it's more like,
Starting point is 00:30:31 it's more like an openness to sensuality that is not, that's not stifled by some quasi-puretanical element, you know what I mean? Like, so like, like people, you know, and I know that, you know, even like Catherine works on this herself, you know, like we, when we're hanging out with our friends in Berlin, it's like they're all, they're, I guess most of, yeah, the core friends, they're all poly,
Starting point is 00:30:56 but they're, the way that they express themselves around each other, like giving each other massages and things like that, it's like they're very open to it. It doesn't mean that they're gonna sleep with each other at all. But it's like, but the threshold to sensuality as friends and like loving each other as friends is open and they know that line, you know?
Starting point is 00:31:17 I mean, it's, you know, and it feels safe. And so you trust, you know, so like, so for instance, like Catherine, like my friend Yetta was massaging me because she's like a chronic massager and so am I. And so like we're kind of like in our crew of friends were like the healer people, you know, so we're always like talking and we're like, Hey, come over here. And then like, yeah, I'll get your shoulders or get your feet or whatever. And for Catherine, you know, she had to admit she was like, yeah, it was a little, I had
Starting point is 00:31:42 to kind of relax and just trust that yet there's nothing going on with yetta. And she loves yetta. And you know, yetta is like a wonderful person. But it was something that she had to work on to kind of release and have the confident that we we have our connection. And I'm not going to betray that. And especially, you know, not in a situation where a bunch of friends are hanging out. But you know, and I and I'm the the same way with her. It's like, Catherine's like very loyal. You know, she's a very loyal person.
Starting point is 00:32:09 I haven't been with someone who is clearly that, but she's also very attractive, you know, and sometimes there's like men at bars and stuff, and I can see what she has to deal with sometimes, and it's just kind of, so that's an interesting, you know, so we're always working. It just means that we love each other a lot, but it's like. That's what you work through, yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:28 You work through that stuff and I'm sure this resonates with you and Jeff and when, one of the things that I really caught my attention about my immediate relationship with Astrid was, you know, jealousy and puritanical, like kind of guardianism, like all that stuff, it starts, it's really difficult to shake that
Starting point is 00:32:47 because I think it is so genetically baked in. And I think as a younger man, it was much louder. As an older man, I know which hill to die on and which one not to. And there are some things you just gotta like go, I've seen this before and it didn't end up in some train wreck, it's okay, right, somebody telling my wife. She's beautiful somewhere doesn't mean that she's gonna have children with them It just means that someone has paid her a compliment but there yes one of the
Starting point is 00:33:16 One of the things that I noticed about our immediate relationship was how though some of those genetic instincts didn't roar as loudly because I felt like she is loyal to me and I am loyal to her and these things can be worked through even if they come up, even if the worst possible outcome comes up, there's an opening there to work through it, right? So it's such a beautiful, magical dance, I guess is the right way to put it. And you're going through it and it sounds like you got it. It sounds like you got it. Jeffery Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, so far, I'd say the only thing is that it happens in such a short period of time that sometimes I'm like- Jared Sarkissian
Starting point is 00:34:00 I asked Jeff to marry me in six months. Jeff and I were the same age too. Jeff Really? Yes. Six months. Jeff How long have you been together? 10 years. Oh my God, okay. That's, thanks for that. That's helpful.
Starting point is 00:34:10 How about you? How long? My husband and I, I mean, we've been together for 12 years now. And even in the first month, we were kind of like, wow, this is like something neither one of us have ever had before, experienced before.
Starting point is 00:34:23 Wow. I could have said I loved you and meant it after 72 hours of conversation. I didn't, I waited for two weeks of conversation, but six months later I asked her to marry me and not even a year after we had met face to face, she's Venezuelan, so we had some like, geographical challenges there,
Starting point is 00:34:41 but even a year after we had met for the first time face to face, we were legally married and that, and we haven't looked back since. I think there's no such thing as moving too fast or too slow. There's the right pace for the right person in the right situation, right? And that's just it. There are some people that take forever to do this dance and get to a point where it's culminated in a beautiful love or relationship or marriage or whatever you define it as. And there are other people who go lightning quick, I don't know, because you've had this relationship 30 times in lifetimes before or have it in
Starting point is 00:35:15 other dimensions right now. Yes. Whatever you want to say. That's what I feel like. Yeah. That's what you feel like? That Jeff and I feel that way. That's what I feel like.
Starting point is 00:35:22 I remember saying to him, I was like, my soul's been looking for you, wow. Yeah. Yeah. There's just, there's something that's, it's recognizable. It's mystic. And the other person, like, it's been there before. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:37 Yeah, it feels like there is no time. Like with the way I say that to Catherine, it's like, I still like, there's still a part of me that's like keep track of the amount of time because you can't make too many fast moves. And there's that. And even my therapist is like, don't move in together. And I was like, yeah, but I mean,
Starting point is 00:35:53 now she is living with me, but it's supposed to be temporary, but I don't know if that's gonna, you know. And then I realized there are no, I mean, it's like, we're all making our own rules. And as long as we keep the communication, and if I tell her that I have fears about that, we can talk about it. But it's like, yeah, it feels,
Starting point is 00:36:11 I can't tell you how long we've been together. I mean, I can tell you physically how long, but it's really blurry for me. I don't know. Like it feels like we've been together for a year already. I think something that Chrissy said is very interesting because I think this about you and our friendship. So Chrissy and I have been friends for almost 20 years.
Starting point is 00:36:31 What? Yeah. Almost 20 years. Best friends. And the friendship was deep and immediate. It wasn't like, you know, it took us 20 years to get where we are. It's like, we've been like this since pretty much day one.
Starting point is 00:36:44 And so I think that the same thing with my best friend, my other best friend. I have another one. We'll work through that generational. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was revealed here in this podcast. My other friend, I know about the other one. Yeah. Okay, yeah. I approve. Okay. Yeah, just be open. Just have an open friendship. Yeah, communication. Yeah, we're folly friends.
Starting point is 00:37:09 We're folly friends. Yes. I think there is some truth, like in my mind, this is unprovable, but in my mind, there is some mystical magic to certain friendships or relationships where you know for a fucking fact that you're either living this out in the multiverse or you've chased them down from other lifetimes, but you were meant to find each other
Starting point is 00:37:32 in this lifetime and the connection is so deep and so automatic and so organic to who you are and your journey that there's no way you just met. There's just no way you just met. It's had to have been other lif There's just no way you just met. It's had to have been other lifetimes or whatever you want to say. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:49 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think there's just something. I think that the more I live, the more that I breathe and continue to do so. Yeah, there's definitely, I mean, it's, I mean, I play music, and so everything's very, very relatable to music, and you know, music can, you know, like there's sympathetic vibrations,
Starting point is 00:38:12 like you know, when vibrations start up, there are other things that if they're tuned correctly, then they start vibrating as well, and I think that there's something about people, you know, it's like we're a series of vibrations, like you know, multitudes of vibrations, but sometimes like we have enough of the core vibration with other people that we all start vibrating
Starting point is 00:38:31 on so many levels. We're like, oh, you're so familiar to me. You know, this is my person. I understand who you are. And definitely for me too, I will say I have an added benefit because I've traveled so much and I've met, I think pretty much all the human archetypes possible.
Starting point is 00:38:49 Not all, but I'll say like, let's say 95%. And so I can very quickly jive with people, but it's rarer for me to jive on a way that I totally trust somebody. Like my friends in Berlin, we were in a band called Kapyak, Delwin and Obie and Eric, like just instantaneous. Like I can't even tell you, like such dear friends and they feel like family and you know,
Starting point is 00:39:21 and we've just, it's crazy. And we're also connected in music as well. And Delvin is like a genius and we like jam together, like we've been playing together for 20 years. It's insane. It's beautiful. Yeah, as a musician and as an accomplished musician, unlike me who just pretends I know how to play piano.
Starting point is 00:39:39 Get outta here. Yeah, no, I know Home Sweet Home by Monty Crew. Don't make me break it out. You're done. That's it. You graduated. As someone who is an accomplished musician, you're good at this and you get that pocket, right?
Starting point is 00:39:55 And so when you jam with people, I imagine that what we're talking about is very much the same way too. There's some musicians I'm sure that you've played with that you might not go to the bar and have a drink with them if someone paid you to, but on stage, something magical can happen with that person in that moment or all the time or every time, because music is like that too. There's a language to it.
Starting point is 00:40:17 And like you said, there's a vibration to it. When you get in that room or in the studio or whatever, it's just something magical happens. Do you love, like, would you consider yourself more in love with the entertaining, the comedy, the entertaining, the presentations, the whatever it is that you're doing creatively or the music part? What would you rather do if like someone had to, if you had to make a choice, what would you do? If you had to make a choice, what would you do? Well, I mean, I'd probably pick music just because you can still be humorous in music.
Starting point is 00:40:50 Yeah. You know, you can control the mood, or at least strongly suggest the mood with music. So I'd probably pick music. I kind of don't really see the difference. Actually, I had a really crazy time the other night. My friend, Devin, she throws a night called Little Secret in Los Angeles,
Starting point is 00:41:12 and usually it's a benefit for usually children's charities and things like that. Anyways, so she got a new location because she received a grant, but it's a house in Hancock Park, and I don't know if you know anything about Hancock Park, but it's a well-to-do neighborhood in kind of central, northern Los Angeles.
Starting point is 00:41:38 And- Like a little valley a little bit? No, no, before the valley. So it's just like, it's in between like Santa Monica and Boulevard and whatever's more south of that. So it's, yeah, it's well before the hills. And it's just like kind of a very flat area with tons of gorgeous mansions,
Starting point is 00:41:57 like beautiful, beautiful houses. And somehow she's renting this mansion and it's amazing. And she's dating someone who is in a wheelchair and Who became quadriplegic? In a snowboarding accident and just kind of recently and so he's a really sweet guy his name is max and he So they made the the house like compliant, you know, uh 80 is it 88? Yeah Compliant. Yeah, and so, you know, and so they got the ramps, and he's got a chair lift on the back stairs
Starting point is 00:42:30 to get upstairs, all that stuff. Anyways, they've done all this infrastructure. They put in this ridiculous sound system and had a loud charity party, and I will say, I don't know if they're gonna have another one, because the neighbors are tweeting in and threatening. I know the mayor and stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:42:47 But I will say that it was an incredible, incredible experience. Like the performance, like everything that happened in the night, there's amazing DJs and then the living rooms where they had the main kind of area. And I ended up winning because it was a Love Island themed charity event where people voted. But when they vote, an amount of money goes to your charity, right? And so I won. And then there's this other guy. He goes by, what does he go by?
Starting point is 00:43:17 He's like one of the most popular tweet guys. No one knows what he looks like. Forget his name anyways. Is it? No, it's not God. Okay, close. I know. Okay, you do know God. Yeah, you're close. You're close. Okay. Yeah, it's it's it's someone but he yeah, he's just like a very popular guy. But anyways, he always wears masks when he takes pictures with him and stuff like that. He's very, very incognito. But really cool dude. We won and we stood there together. We both had flowers. People took pictures of us, whatever. And then they gave me the mic and then I just, I was high on ketamine.
Starting point is 00:43:58 And I just was in this zone where I was like, oh, I guess I'll do some kind of a performance. I did this acapella beat box performance that went on for a while. And I just kind of ended up like kind of sinking down onto my knees on the carpeted living room or whatever. And with this sound system and I was just, and someone was kind of lightly messing with effects while I was doing it. It was really magical.
Starting point is 00:44:23 And I kind of realized I have this hybridized performance which was almost like guru-like, you know, like channeling, like shaman type of vibes, which is something I've always suspected that I'd probably start moving into a little bit more and because I'm interested in music healing, you know, and it was crazy. It was like the first time I'd ever experienced that in my life. And it was like, I can't believe I'm doing in music healing, you know? And it was crazy. It was like the first time I'd ever experienced that
Starting point is 00:44:45 in my life. And it was like, I can't believe I'm doing this right now in front of all these people, but it's happening. And I think people liked it. I don't know. Yeah, I'm sure. Are there videos out there that we can see? There are.
Starting point is 00:45:00 First of all, how fun is it? There were some on Instagram, but I think they're gone because they're in people's stories. But yeah. First of all, how fucking cool is Reggie Watts life? He gets invited to the coolest parties. He goes to a party called Little Secret. I mean, I want to get to one of these parties.
Starting point is 00:45:18 How do we get to one of these charity parties? But second of all, I do think God is created in those moments, right? That is God. That is the constant, I guess, flowering of the lotus, right? It's the next petal, the next petal, the next petal. And when you feel it, like, you know, we do a lot of creating here. We have four days a week and they're probably, I would say, 75% of it is throw away. It's just, we're just trying to find something funny. But when you get onto it, and that 25%, but when you feel that 3%, where it's your mouth is moving,
Starting point is 00:45:55 you are laughing hysterically, it's a vibe, you can feel it, there is no me in it, none. It's God, G-O-D, right? It's Him, Her, It, The, Us, whatever, We, coming through you. And that is true magic. And I feel it sometimes. And it's like, I wish I could bottle it up and sell it to somebody. But I often, I see musicians and comedians and actors and actresses and artists, I see them at the height of their power and working a room or working a crowd. And I think that is G-O-D right there. That's happening right here with us in the audience
Starting point is 00:46:31 or me watching it on television or whatever it is. I could see you being a musical shaman. I could see you channeling that. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I mean, it's, yeah. It's what I, yeah, it's like, you know, it's kind of what I do anyways.
Starting point is 00:46:44 It's just a little bit more spiritually minded. What I do now is kind of like I sneak in that kind of stuff all the time. It's still like a form of channeling too. I always call it like we have like the Oh, yeah, collective individualism. And so there's like, you know, we're all like perception machines and we're all like projecting and receiving at the same time. And so in a collective manner, it's like, yeah, we amplify and we create, you know, different modular formations of consciousness.
Starting point is 00:47:21 And so if you're able to kind of resonate, you know, when it catches and everyone kind of like comes along for it, whoever's there, it's like in that moment, it's like now you're in this paradoxical zone where a third space opens up that's not neither here nor there, and we're all experiencing it collectively, and it's not something you can really be too, like you can be conscious within it, but if you like lean on it too much, it kind of dissolves. You too, like you can be conscious within it,
Starting point is 00:47:45 but if you like lean on it too much, it kind of dissolves. You know, if you don't care about it, it dissolves. You just have to commit to being there. Yeah, right away. That you try and remember. It's a dream that you try and remember. The more that you try and remember, the more you try and get that taste, that smell,
Starting point is 00:48:03 that sensation that you think was there five seconds ago when you woke up, the more it goes away. It's gone. It's gone. It's gone. It's crazy. Yeah. Well, I have a quote once I said, we're all living in the memories of our future selves. And I think that that's when we have these moments where we're like, I should be remembering
Starting point is 00:48:22 this, or this feels like an incredible moment right now. Like when you become aware of that inside of a moment while it's happening, I kind of think of it as like time traveler-y. It's like, the reason why it's so significant is because you're remembering what it was like the last time it happened, in a way. This is gonna sound so fucking hokey,
Starting point is 00:48:39 but it's part of my makeup, so I'll say it. Someone once told me at like a bar, drunk as a skunk, high on bad blow or something, somebody said to me, you should talk to your, you should talk to yourself. And I was talking about what a hard time I had as a particular period as a kid and the family dynamics that were going on. And this neck ass motherfucker just sold me the bad bar coke, said you got to talk to yourself. Tell them it's going to be okay. Look at you now, you're a, you're a waiter at a restaurant, you made it.
Starting point is 00:49:09 Right? Or whatever he said. 20 years later, after I had my first child, and we had a terrible pregnancy delivery, it was bad. I thought I was gonna lose my wife and my son at the same time, in like the five minutes, it was a terrible experience. But it was a blessed experience
Starting point is 00:49:26 because we're all here today, right? But at that moment, it didn't feel. It was like two days afterwards. And I'm running in the same place around where I grew up as a child during this period of time. And I started to fucking weep. And I pulled over to the side and I went down to the river. I remember hanging out there many times as a teenager,
Starting point is 00:49:43 fucking up and hanging out late at night, and I'm weeping, and I'm literally telling myself, it's going to be okay, it was the most incredibly powerful experience that was not induced by any form of self, it was just like, it was the weirdest thing, and like, I do believe that we can talk to our future selves or our past selves,
Starting point is 00:50:07 or maybe we are communicating with our, or our future selves are pulling us through. Like, hey, you're gonna get through this, dude. Like, you know, you just gotta take a couple steps more and you're gonna get through that. And I do believe that there is some multi-dimensional coaxing that goes on on behalf of self all the time.
Starting point is 00:50:24 Yes. Oh, 100%. I think about that. I mean, like, all the time. Yes, oh, 100%. I think about that, I mean, like, even when I was a little kid, I would try to tap into, like, my future self, you know, because, like, it's already experienced things. So if I can just, you know, and I think that that's what intuition is, because, you know, in physics, it's like,
Starting point is 00:50:39 they believe, like, all, you know, all time exists, all possibilities exist, all probabilities exist simultaneously, infinitely. And so that idea of like, we're just kind of a needle on the record of endless possibility. And it's like, we're only able to experience time because for whatever this is, this reality, it's like we are in it and it's binary
Starting point is 00:51:00 so that we can like, you know, pick things up and like, oh, I like that. I don't like that You whatever it's like a very complicated binary physical universe however If that idea is true and I'm not an absolutist and things I just kind of like, you know I'm like 95% something we 5% margin could be something different You know, it's like alright, but in that in that regard, I think that's what intuition is.
Starting point is 00:51:25 I think when you tap into intuition, even in those instantaneous moments of like an emergency situation, and suddenly you just feel like you know what the right thing is to do, I think it's just you're accessing an aspect of yourself that can either calculate the probabilities quick enough, far enough into the future that it sends back
Starting point is 00:51:44 a piece of information that's like, this is into the future that it sends back a piece of information that's like, this is probably the way to go, or you're tapping into, you already know the outcome of a certain action if you perform it now. Yeah, that's amazing. Wow, this is certainly the most interesting conversation that the commercial break has ever generated. Commercial break, this is what it's about!
Starting point is 00:52:07 You too can be as smart as Regi-Watch, just drink your new brew. New brew, 3,000, now with Regi-Watch! Snap into a new brew. Snap into a new brew, gives you wings. I love you, man. I just love you. I could go on. Can you just come back?
Starting point is 00:52:36 Yeah, can you just come over to Atlanta and hang out with us? All the time. Yeah, come to ATL, get some peaches, we'll be fine. If you come to the ATL and we do not get to sit and hang out, then I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be the center of this conversation. You're dead.
Starting point is 00:52:50 That is, now we're doing a special one, as soon as I, I think I might be coming, I have a tour in the fall, so we'll keep you informed. Okay, absolutely. So Reggie's got a new special on Veep's to get back to why he's probably here, which is not to talk about inter trans dimensional poly traveling. But that's actually what it was.
Starting point is 00:53:08 That's actually what it was supposed to be talked about. Oh, you're right about that. It was supposed to be talked about. Somebody in the future is coaxing us to have this conversation now because it's meaningful to somebody in our audience. Trust me. True. Veebs, he's got the new special Nevermind out on Veep's, which you can go to. We've had lots of comedians that had specials on Veep's,
Starting point is 00:53:28 so hopefully you've already dialed that up so we know what that is. Is that free, Reggie? Is there a cost to see the new special on Veep's? I think there's a, there might be a free trial, and then commit after that, and if not, it's pretty affordable. I think you can do a la carte as well.
Starting point is 00:53:46 Yeah, yeah, I know you can. Yeah, you can pick the specials that you wanna watch. And it is pretty affordable because we've had lots of comedians with specials on Veep. And then when do we get the information about the fall tour? Like when does that come out? It should be soonish. We're just finalizing now.
Starting point is 00:54:01 I think probably in the next couple of days it'll be fully finalized. And then we'll probably make an announcement, I'll come up with a name for the tour. And then, yeah, we'll probably, I'm going to guess we're going to probably announce like maybe tour in the next couple months, like in November or something like that. Okay, so Or maybe even sooner. I don't know. Yeah. I know how this goes. We know how this goes, by the way. We have 15 dates for our tour
Starting point is 00:54:26 that we'd never signed the contract and we had to go back and tell everybody. Oh my God. All those dates that we told you, just forget those. Yeah. Oh. It was terrible.
Starting point is 00:54:35 It was terrible. That's just part of the course for us. Tough. Tough. It's like, I just read something that Dr. Dre, when he was negotiating Beats' sale to Apple or Jimmy Iovine was, that Jimmy Iovine that Dr. Dre, when he was negotiating Beats' sale to Apple, or Jimmy Iovine was, that Jimmy Iovine told Dr. Dre,
Starting point is 00:54:49 because they were partners in the business, in the Beats business, and Dr. Dre dropped the tweet, right? Somebody got Beats, or somebody got Beats 1.2 billion, whatever he said. He didn't even mention it to the company, he was interested.
Starting point is 00:55:00 But because of that, that very next day, whoever, Cook, came back to Iovine and said, it's now $200 million less. And they had to take $200 million less simply because- Oh my God. Yes. But-
Starting point is 00:55:16 Oh, that sucks. I'm not crying for Dr. Dre. So stupid. Yeah. But also, like, you just don't celebrate until it's signed, man. So just don't celebrate. It's called tempting fate is what it's, but also like you just don't celebrate until it's signed, man. So just don't celebrate. It's called Tempting Fate is what it's called.
Starting point is 00:55:28 The great Reggie Watts. Check out his new special. Reggie, it's been a pleasure twice now. So thank you very much. And I hope that you come back on it. Actually, I demand that you come back. I'm telling my future self to invite you back onto the show.
Starting point is 00:55:42 We've already done it and it was really fun again. Exactly. Hey, listen, most of the time, like most of my dates in the life, I would say two is good. If we end on a high note, let's just leave it there. But you know what? Let's try for a third. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:56 Reggie Watts, thank you so much. My pleasure. I know this sounds crazy because we are a podcast, but we have a phone number because we are also a Sendian AI chatbot being designed to receive compliments and content ideas at 212-433-3TCB. So crazy how that works. If you want to follow us on Instagram, our handle is at the commercial break, and our TikTok handle is at TCB Podcast, so go find our profile and watch the videos we painstakingly
Starting point is 00:56:24 put together for you and our 20 other followers. If you find yourself wanting more, check out our website at tcbpodcast.com because you can find all of our audio and full-length video episodes. And if you just do all of those things, we will love you forever. Bye. I love a good Reggie Watts interview. I love it. Reggie Watts interview.
Starting point is 00:56:47 I love it. I'm feeling all tingly. I am feeling all tingly. I think that was one of the more outer spacey interviews that we've done. I say that, not the typical questions we would ask or not the typical content we would dig into, but I loved it. New Brew. Thanks New Brew and thanks Reggie Watts. We went deep. Half New Brew and half Reggie. We went deep. How could you not? I loved it. Newbrew, thanks Newbrew, and thanks Reggie Watts. We went deep. I think half Renewbrew and half Reggie. We just went deep. How could you not?
Starting point is 00:57:08 I know. Once he started opening up a little bit about his relationship, I couldn't help but just delve in deep. If he says the door's open, I'm going to walk in. And I just am so all about that love story. Me too. Yeah. It's, I mean, it started off, you know, it sounds like she's letting Reggie be Reggie. Yes, she let him shake out his wild oats.
Starting point is 00:57:30 Yes. And then he came around and now they're sounds like exclusive. Sounds like exclusive. That is so exciting. We'll see when Brian gets around whether or not Reggie keeps that exclusivity. I love a good love story. I really do. I love a good love story. Good for do. I love a good love story.
Starting point is 00:57:46 Good for you, Reggie. Good for you. You can catch his new special out on Veep's. You can read his book, Great Falls Montana. I never remember the whole name of it, so I'm gonna... Thanks, Newbrew. I know. Great Falls Montana. Montana. Fast Times. Post Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again. And then also, most importantly, you can go get your new brew at drinknewbrew.com. Follow Reggie on Instagram, at Reggie Watts. And he's got a few appearances coming up.
Starting point is 00:58:20 If you're so inclined, you can go check him out. Couple Festivals? Couple Fests, he says, a couple of fests. He just got back from the big year. Sounds like he got back from leap year, from gap year. You know what I'm saying? It sounds like he got back from gap year. Why don't we have a life like that?
Starting point is 00:58:37 Why can't we just- We're doing gap life. Be brilliant, make content, show up at exclusive parties in LA. I was hoping he'd slide me an invite to that party in LA, but it doesn't sound like I'm getting one. No. No. I think he's- You threw it out there. I think I gotta wait til the third time
Starting point is 00:58:51 to start asking for invites. No, he threw out there that he went, and then I was like, ah, why can't I get an invite to one of those parties? And he's like, well, anyway, onto the next subject. Yeah. He didn't take the bait. He did not take the bait. He did not take the bait.
Starting point is 00:59:06 Most of our guests don't. No. Some just lie to our face. I'll get you tickets. Don't worry about it. Anyway, thank you so much, Reggie. We really enjoyed having you. You're welcome anytime. All right, here's what you can do for New Brew, you too. There's just a couple more days left. As a matter of fact, just like three or four more days left, so we're going to be down at the Dania Improv, Dania Beach, Florida, that's the 24th, Tuesday.
Starting point is 00:59:37 Tickets are available by hitting the link in the show notes on our website or going straight to the venue. That's daniaimprov.com and get the tickets there. Do not go to a venue. That's daniel improv.com and get the tickets there. Do not go to a broker. I'm telling you right now. I don't know what people are fucking thinking, but selling commercial break TCB live tickets for $820 is fucking insane. It's insane. Uh, and if you paid $820 to come see us, don't shoot the message. I told you. I told you. Orlando, the Funny Bone on the 25th at the Bone. Go to the website. Go to the Funny Bone website, buy the tickets there. Or again, links in the show notes on our Instagram or
Starting point is 01:00:19 at our website. Those are the only authorized links. Don't go no, no man's links. tcbpodcast.com. All the information, the audio, the video, get your free sticker. And 212-433-3TCB. That's 212-433-3TCB. Add the commercial break on Instagram, youtube.com slash the commercial break. Okay, Chrissy, I guess that's all I can do for today. I think so. I'll tell you that I love you. And I love you. I'll say do for today. I think so. I'll tell you that I love you. And I love you.
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