Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2048 - Reggie Watts
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2048 - Reggie Watts' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-12. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2048 - Reggie Watts

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I'll take that.
Yeah?
Yeah.
I only drink a half one, though.
You drink the whole one?
I drink the whole one, but I'm going to try a half this time just to see.
Because, you know, it's weird.
I have friends that are like, they will not, they're just like, I don't know
what it is.
Well, they can't take it because, well, some people do get nauseous on it.
But I've never had that experience.
It's really weird.
All throughout my life, I've taken all kinds of things that people are like, I
throw up.
Or like Robitussin or something.
Like drinking a whole thing of Robitussin.
I throw up, I'm like, I don't know why, but I just, I don't have that reaction.
It's weird.
So I feel either lucky or I'm dumb.
Do you ever get seasick?
No.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Do you throw up when you get sick?
Do you ever throw up?
I try to avoid it at all times, but I don't get sick that often.
I get sick maybe once every four years or something.
Do you ever drink too much and then you throw up?
You just downed the whole thing, didn't you?
No, I did like three quarters.
No, I did half.
I don't know why this is two portions.
That's silly.
Because you can't even see through the glass.
How do I know where the half is?
I always have my flashlight.
I'm just like, oh, let me check.
Yeah, that seems kind of silly.
I'm trying half because I got to do that because I'm just like, so like, just
do it.
Just fucking do it.
And every time I do it, I'm like, oh, man, it feels really good, but I feel
like I miss
my opportunity to try half.
So this is my opportunity.
Kratom is a weird one.
Yeah.
Because it's kind of an opiate, right?
It uses, as far as I understand, it uses the opioid receptor, but it's not
technically
an opiate.
There was a friend of mine was telling me that he takes Kratom before he works
out.
I go, how many do you take?
Really?
And he goes, I take 10.
And I go, really?
10 what?
10 pills.
Oh.
Of just pure Kratom?
Yeah.
And I don't know what the milligrams is.
I go, 10?
I was taking two.
So I tried 10.
And I go, dude, you're getting high as fuck.
I was so high.
On 10, I was like, oh, my God, this is a drug.
But it's a weird drug where it doesn't affect your motor skills.
No.
Not really.
I was high, but my coordination, I was like, nothing feels off.
Yeah.
You know, like when you're drunk, it's like, I can do this.
But everything's in slow motion.
No, you can't.
But Kratom was like high in some weird way.
But it was definitely intoxicated.
It's an interesting one, especially when, you know, feel free, you've got Kava
and Kratom,
which does that, like, here's a mellowing anti-anxiety vibe.
And then here's like a euphoric energy thing in the center of it.
And so it gives you that, like, that's why people feel so groovy on it, because
it's got those two.
However, I do understand if people get sick on it.
Like they, I think some people just, it's too much for their brain or they just
need to do like a third of a bottle or something.
We can't even keep them at the club because Duncan just chugs them.
Really?
Oh my God, he's an animal.
The trusty?
Oh, he doesn't, he doesn't play with those Kratoms.
I can only, I can only do, I, I, I reserve one, uh, but one four times a week.
Like at night, I use it at night because, especially if I have a social
engagement, if I have a lot of people to deal with, I take one of those.
I'm just like, oh, really?
Oh, where did you grow up?
You grew up in France.
That's interesting.
Um, that pen, what does it mean to you?
You know, I mean, like, I'm so hyper engaged.
It's crazy.
Isn't that interesting that there's actual things that can make you a better
conversationalist?
There's things that you can take where you'll be, you know, you'll be better
talking to people.
You'll say different things than you would without those things.
I know.
I know.
I don't know.
I think it has something to do with the, I think like certain things that
remove the editing aspect and you're just more fluid.
Like I remember a friend of mine, she had like this, I don't know if you know
people like this, but they, they analyze everything that they're thinking.
Like it's like a compulsion.
So like my friend, she's amazing musician, but every time she would speak, she'd
be like, well, I'd like to, I'm not sure if I, I should, but I, you know, I, I
would like to, but a lot of this like looped kind of.
And self-annuality, but like the analysis loop is so, so small that I'm like,
you know, I wish I could help.
But then one night I can, she was nervous about taking ketamine and I, and I
gave her just a little bit of ketamine and finally she's like, okay, I'll try
it.
I'll try, try it.
And she's like, I don't know, should I, I think maybe is it too much?
And then, and I was like, trust me, just, just do this amount.
I'm really good at dosing.
And she took it and I progressively saw her go from, I don't know what's going
on.
Yeah.
So, um, yeah.
And you know, I was just kind of wondering, my career is interesting, but I
have a lot of fear based around it.
She was just calm, relaxed and completely fluid.
And I let her go for a while.
And then I said, did you notice that you haven't stopped yourself once?
Like in the last two minutes, she was like, oh my God, you're right.
And I was like, yeah.
Like if you notice that when you're on it, it's possible you can carry that
over into your functioning everyday life.
But it was, it was a cool, it was cool to see that transformation.
Yeah.
I wonder if that's possible without the ketamine.
I think of course it is.
But I think ketamine just puts you immediately in a spot where you're, you're
no longer emotionally connected to your observational self.
You're just in an observational state.
So it's, it's, for me, I noticed that I'm very clear, even though I'm, I think
of myself as a pretty good communicator.
Sometimes when I'm on ketamine, the thoughts are just flowing in a way that I'm
actually watching them.
It's the same feeling when I'm improvising and it's going really well.
Like I'm with a bunch of cats and we're like jamming or whatever.
There'll be this weird thing where I'm suddenly, I'm like, I'm just, it's
almost like I'm standing next to myself going like, hey, that's pretty good.
Oh, wait.
And then I'm, then I'm playing again.
And it kind of puts me in that kind of a state.
And I don't know, there's something about it.
I'm really interested in ketamine, like doing more research with it too.
Like fMRIs, like, you know, real-time fMRI and mapping regions of the brain
when you're improvising and things like that.
There's been a little bit of that, but I want to do it myself just to see.
Wasn't it originally devised as an animal tranquilizer?
Yeah, it was an anesthetic as far as I know.
Like cats or something.
Yeah, it was like, well, horses, like large, large mammals that can do a lot of
damage.
I think it was used for them to just, as an anti-anxiety.
And then it's an anesthetic.
So I know a friend of mine, he was, or a friend of a friend, he was skateboarding,
shoulder went out of place, went to a hospital, they shot him with ketamine,
and then put his shoulder back in.
I think they use that in medic kits overseas.
Oh, that's probably right.
I think they do if they have to do, like, in-the-field surgery, if something
happens on the battlefield.
Well, I know in Vietnam, all the burn victims from, like, napalm and stuff like
that, they use a mixture of opiates and ketamine.
Huh.
Because the dissociative takes you out of your body, so you're not related to
the pain in your body, and the opiates obviously suppress pain at the same time.
Crazy, right?
Pharmacology.
I know.
Reggie Watts and Joe Rogan.
Hey.
Everyone's like, we're not giving advice.
There's all these doctors going, like, that's not true.
It was actually, I'm like, okay.
Everything you're saying is dangerous.
I'm trying.
I'm trying.
Everything you're saying is misinformation.
It's all misinformation.
I mean, it's like, sometimes it's just what you understand at the time.
Oh, there it is.
There it goes.
Ketamine was found of many of the same anesthetic and analgesic properties as
PCP.
I think it's very close to PCP, like, molecularly.
Yeah.
But consistently produced fewer adverse side effects.
Following this initial research, ketamine was characterized as a disassociative
anesthetic.
Yep.
Yep.
Yeah, and when I was growing up, we would drink Robitussin, which had dextromethorphan
in it, which is also dissociative.
And so it's kind of a weirder version.
I don't know if it, but when I first took ketamine, I was like, why does this
feel familiar?
It's Robitussin.
Oh, dextromethorphan.
Interesting.
Although dextromethorphan feels like an Instagram filter over the dissociative
experience, whereas ketamine feels clean.
A little bit cleaner.
Oh, interesting.
I remember when NyQuil had codeine in it, and one time I was sick.
This was back in the old days.
Yep.
And I took NyQuil, and I was just, I remember lying in bed feeling so wonderful.
You know, I was sick.
I was like, this is amazing.
I don't think I'd ever taken it before.
And I don't think this formula is the same.
I think I'm talking like the 90s.
You know, I remember being in a convertible in the 80s, and a friend of mine
sitting like, you know, on the deck where the, you know, the top is down or
whatever.
He's sitting on the deck, and he just had a bottle of codeine.
He was just like, take sips of it, and I was like, I wanted to try it, but I
was like, I don't know.
I just didn't, but it was funny.
Was the car in motion?
It was in motion.
We were cruising.
That's not a smart move.
No, I know it's not, but it's the 80s.
That's a codeine move, too.
I know.
It's totally codeine.
The 80s.
It's like 80s, everything.
I remember in the 80s being in a scout, like, taking all the back roads from
Great Falls to Lake Five in Glacier Park on the way there with, like, a half
rack of beer.
And just, like, you know, drinking beers and cruising down the road and with,
like, three friends and a bunch of bikes in the back.
I mean, I don't know.
The shit that we did back then was, you just can't do it anymore.
You definitely can't if people are filming you with their phones.
No, that's true.
Yeah, yeah, that was the missing link.
That's a big part of the world now.
So many things are being filmed.
There's good and bad of it, right?
The good thing is, like, citizen journalism.
Sure, yeah.
You know, like, we know more about the horrors of war.
Like, the wars that are happening right now.
Do you remember, like, during, it was, I think it was Desert Storm or it was
the next, it was after, whatever, 2020, 2001, after the 9-11 attacks.
They weren't allowed to show bodies of troops coming home.
They weren't allowed to show coffins.
Remember, photographers were not allowed.
Or something like that.
Yeah.
Which is insane.
And then now, here we are 22 years later, and you just get graphic cell phone
footage from Ukraine.
Now you're getting it from Palestine and Gaza.
It's just horrific graphic footage from phones.
I mean, even back in the days, like, remember when ISIS was on the rampage, you
could still see videos on YouTube, like, before they took them down.
Like, people were exposed.
Beheading videos.
Yeah, like, I saw one of those, and I was like, I should have never seen that.
Yeah.
Should have never seen that.
I can't, I can't get it out of my head.
No, I've seen quite a few of them, unfortunately.
It's just like, you know, I mean, it's like, I mean, on one hand, it's like the
barbarism is a good thing to see, where you're like, that I never want to put
myself in this situation, or I want to do everything I can to try to make our
society not do that kind of shit.
But at the same time, it can desensitize, and some people can kind of fetishize
on it as well.
So it's, I don't know, it's a twofer.
Yeah, it is.
That is a thing with people.
They do fantasize about things that they 