Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1648 - Reggie Watts
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1648 - Reggie Watts' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-08. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1648 - Reggie Watts

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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
We're just staring at rolling stones.
Shooting stars.
Of course.
Black holes.
Imagine what a black hole sounds like.
What do you think it sounds like?
I think, didn't someone, they simulated it or something?
Some physicists simulated it or something?
Really?
Yeah, it does make a sound.
That's the best part of Interstellar.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, my favorite part of it.
Oh, man.
It was the Chinese theater.
It was so loud and fucking awesome.
Oh, you want to see it there?
I want to see it again there so bad.
IMAX is the place to see it, right?
It was the IMAX theater he made it at.
He was testing it there to make sure it was two-par and it was.
That's a bold movie, man.
Very bold movie.
Oh, yeah.
Super sick, too.
Just think of all the elements that people have to follow along,
especially the ending.
Spoiler alert.
Oh, yeah.
At the end when he's looking at himself.
Like, what?
What is happening there?
Like, you got to, like, if you're, you know, you take, like, a kid there.
He's like, Dad, what is going on here?
You're like, whew.
It's like, I don't know, man.
We're in the same spot.
I can't really explain it, son.
We'll talk about it later.
We're in the same spot.
We'll get it on DVD.
Does it have the sound of it?
That robot was so dope.
It's just translating as great movie sound, but it's just a rocket, also, is
what it sounds like.
Yeah, this isn't working.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's fine.
I would imagine, without the rocket, it sounds like stars getting smushed.
Yeah, it's just like, I think it was like, they were saying, like, a, you know,
that type of a thing.
Just the fact that that's a real thing, that in the center of every galaxy is
this giant mass that's eating stars.
Star eaters.
Just sucking them into who knows what on the other end.
You know, it's great.
I love reading.
I mean, I haven't read about black holes in a really long time since, I think,
a Michio Kaku book that I had.
But that was a while, a while ago.
But, I mean, it's so fascinating, that weird, like, you know, that point, it's
like the event horizon.
It's like, theoretically, it wouldn't work like this, but theoretically, there's
just, like, a membrane, and you're just close, close.
You're fine.
You're fine.
You're fine.
You just get sucked in.
It just stretched, and broken, and just crushed to bits.
And then, I guess, just reconstituted as pure energy on the other side.
Because it definitely doesn't just get destroyed.
It gets redistributed.
They're redistributors.
We're just so concerned about the finite life that we live.
Like, we're so concerned of preserving this very fragile existence that the
idea of getting reconstituted into pure energy in another dimension is, like,
horrific.
But that's why we're here.
We're here, right?
We're here because a star exploded.
Yeah.
We're made of stars.
What's that old song?
We are stardust.
We are golden.
We are billion-year-old college.
Oh, is that from the 60s?
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
It's like the strawberry alarm clock or something.
Joni Mitchell did a version of it, but I don't think she was the original.
Well, maybe she was the original.
Maybe she wrote it.
I don't know.
Joni Mitchell, artist.
Message to love.
Crosby.
Oh, it's probably Crosby's still the man.
When you were singing it, the way you were singing it, that's Crosby.
Can we give us a little bit before we get in trouble?
Just give me a little taste.
Give me a little taste.
Give us 2.6 seconds.
Give me a little taste of, like, 1970s acid.
1970s acid and marijuana grown in that Mendocino range where that Hulu series
Sasquatch was made.
Yeah.
There it is.
I can't hear it.
He was walking on the road.
Oh.
Yeah.
I haven't heard this.
You never heard this?
No.
Oh, my goodness.
This is classic.
I got to get into them.
Oh, Yaskar.
Keep it going.
Fuck it.
If we get pulled, we get pulled.
Let's test Spotify's algorithms out.
It's like the Borg, man.
Oh, that's gorgeous.
That's pretty fucking good, man.
Especially when you're high.
Oh, that's inspirational.
There's something about being high.
That old music just resonates, man.
There's some, like, Allman Brothers songs that are different when you're high.
You listen to them when you're high.
Like, Midnight Rider.
I don't know if I know.
You don't know Midnight Rider?
I'm terrible.
I don't know.
How dare you.
I apologize.
I'll see you.
It was just a really fun podcast.
You're a musician, Reggie.
You're a musician.
I know.
I'm supposed to know all music.
This is outrageous.
I'm sorry.
Your mind is filled with electronica.
I know.
I know.
My zone is, like, so very specific and very surprising to people, but I love it.
Well, that's all that matters, man.
Of course.
Of course.
But, I mean, I love, you know, my philosophy on music when they're like, what
kind of music you listen to?
What kind of music I like?
I'm like, anything that's good.
That's always my answer.
It could be anything.
Anything.
Anything that's good.
Anything that's good.
I mean, it's all subjective.
What were you going to tell me?
There was a lady you were going to tell.
I stopped you.
I said, save it for the podcast.
Oh, yeah, yeah, right.
Yeah, my friend Kirsten Joy Weiss.
She's a trick shooter.
Like a pistol shooter?
Yeah, pistol rifle.
And she lives in Cody, Wyoming.
And she is amazing.
Just a really cool independent thinker.
Like, she loves sci-fi.
But she sent me these.
I'll see if I can send you a video.
You can see.
She did like this, I guess, a shot that hasn't been duplicated before.
There she is.
Look at this.
Oh, yeah.
She's leaning back for people that are not listening.
She's got her shins down on the ground and leaning back behind them.
And she's shooting 30 yards behind her.
Yeah.
Backwards.
Gun Pilates.
Yeah.
She calls it gun Pilates.
Was that this one?
Is that the long shooting or is it long range trick shot, as that was called?
This says Gun Pilates trick shot.
Okay.
Yeah.
There's a whole market for hot girls with guns.
Do you know that?
Like the hot girl gun world?
Yeah.
It's funny.
But you know what?
The interesting thing that's different about her, she's almost like she's just
a badass shooter
that happens to be an attractive woman.
But she's like, she's the real deal.
She was going to be on, she trained in the Olympics, on the Olympic team.
And I like her videos because she talks about, I mean, it's called the joy of
shooting, obviously.
But, I mean, it's a play on her name.
But she really does mean it.
She's just talking about like, hey, this is a cool exercise and kind of like a
meditative exercise.
Like shooting and target practice is meditative.
And the cool thing about her is she does everything herself.
Every video that you see is just her with a camera and a tripod and all her
editing.
She's super DIY.
That's what I like about her.
Oh, that's cool.
She's sick.
And she's like very philosophical.
Very cool.
What are you saying, Jamie?
The video's playing on his phone.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
Sheesh.
I am going to stop that right now.
Sorry, Karistan, wherever you are.
She's badass.
It is true, though, that shooting is like very meditative, right?
Oh, completely.
Are you kidding?
I mean, it's like any, you know, it's like you're shooting a project.
Whether you're shooting or it's a bow and arrow or it's a crossbow or it's a sling
or you're throwing a ball.
Even darts.
Oh, man, darts especially.
Yeah.
Darts especially.
I mean, just to try to get that arc right and you're like.
Yeah, you're like thinking, not thinking, muscle memory, learning.
Also, like the weirdness of like letting that thing go.
Like you don't want to let it, you don't want to drop your hand down.
You got to like release it at the exact right time.
Yes, yes, I know.
I went axe throwing in Great Falls, Montana recently.
That sounds like a Great Falls, Montana activity.
Are you kidding?
It's so great.
I went with my friend Kelly.
He's awesome.
His family's cool.
I went with my mom.
I brought my mom.
Your mom was axe throwing?
No, my mom was like 83 just like sitting in a chair drinking wine.
And she's like three feet away from people throwing axes at the wall.
That's hilarious.
This is so awesome.
Sipping wine while people hurl blades.
Yes.
That's very funny.
My friend Kelly was like, he's so ridiculously good at it.
It was stupid.
He'd like not look.
He'd turn around and throw the axe behind his back and it would land on the
target.
He would take two axes and throw them simultaneously and they would land.
And he's not like, he's just a natural at it.
It's very strange.
He doesn't practice?
I mean, he's been there a few times, but he was already a natural the first
time he went.
So like the people who work there are just like, hey, are you on a league?
You know, like that type of thing.
He's like, nah, just do it for fun.
You know, it's like a movie, right?
Right.
About axe throwing.
Naturals are weird.
Yeah.
Like a natural in anything.
It's a strange thing when you see someone who's just really good at something
right away.
It just makes sense.
You know, it's like they just have this ability to like, oh yeah, like this.
And you're like, wait, but I've been training for five years.
Yeah.
They just see it and they just, they just have it.
Yeah, but it's annoying.
It is annoying.
If you're a person who's been like studying your whole life and some guy comes
around,
oh, you mean like this?
Yeah.
And then you've got, then you've got, then you've got problems.
Bodies are not.
Deal with it.
Bodies are not fair.
You know, they're not fair.
Some people's bodies just work way better.
Oh man.
I mean, for me, like I always had a good ear.
So like if I heard an accent, if I heard, you know, Olivia Newton-John on the
radio or
whatever, I could mimic the, her timbre and the, and the texture and really,
really easily.
And so for me, music came pretty, I mean, obviously the theory is the theory
and that's
something you have to learn, but I, I had an ear.
So even if I didn't learn theory, but I kept playing with musicians, I would
have been fine
because I would have figured it out.
When did you start learning music?
Age five.
Wow.
That's a, that's a nice advantage.
Yeah.
So you grew up with a musical mind.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I love, you know, my, my parents, you know, we were in Europe for a
while because
of the military air force and we moved around and then I was born in Stuttgart
and then
we moved to, I think like Italy, ended up in Spain for two years, the final two
years
till age four.
Then we moved to great falls, Montana to Malstrom air force base.
But, uh, in that time, you know, I just love, my parents love jazz, Ray Charles,
you know,
my mom listened to French, a lot of French or European folk music, like Anna,
Anna Muscari
and, uh, Eddie Piaf and things like that.
So I, I was hearing that all the time and I saw Ray Charles and I loved the way
he moved
and he had the sunglasses and playing piano.
And so I used to sit at the edge of the table and pretend like I was Ray
Charles and they
were like, Oh, let's get them a toy piano.
And they did.
And then, uh, and then my mom was like, do you want to have lessons or I was
like, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I was like, you know, almost six, five.
And I started studying a classical piano, like private, private lessons.
It was.
Is there anyone that's learned piano without lessons?
Cause I know people have learned guitar without lessons.
Oh yeah.
A hundred percent.
Um, yeah, it's just by ear.
The piano actually is an easier instrument to learn by ear because it's a grid.
It's just a grid.
It's not like when you have a stringed instrument where you have like a fretless
board, like
a cello or violin or something like that.
Right.
It's like, there's no fret, there's no marking.
So you have to really know where to put your finger and you have to know the
technique of
bowing.
There's a lot of complicated stuff.
A piano, it's like, uh, you know, note.
Ri