Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1015 - Reggie Watts
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1015 - Reggie Watts' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-09-26. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1015 - Reggie Watts

September 9th
There we go. God. Completed my homework.
Boom. So what was the day that we were supposed to die from Nibiru?
I think it was the 20th. It was Saturday.
Yeah.
23rd, is that right?
23rd? What was it, Jamie?
33 days after the eclipse.
Oh, then Nibiru was going to come and smash us. Isn't it huge? Wouldn't we see
it coming?
Pretty big. It has to be pretty big.
It has to be pretty big. Do you know the whole Zacharias Hitchin thing? Do you
know the whole thing?
A little bit, yeah. I was kind of into that for a while.
Me too.
It was a while ago that I realized I was super into it, like Art Bell days.
Yeah. Yeah. I used to love Art Bell days.
Remember when his son got kidnapped?
Oh, that's right.
Remember that?
Who kidnapped his son?
It was really weird. I don't know.
Was it real?
I couldn't tell if it was real or not. That was the problem.
Yeah, I used to listen to it coming home from the comedy store. It was the
thing to listen to.
Yeah, there you go.
You know? 10 o'clock, late night, driving home.
Yeah, totally. Totally. Art Bell, man.
Midnight, Art Bell, live from Pahrump, Nevada.
Yeah, Pahrump.
He had like this fenced-in compound in Pahrump, Nevada with a radio signal.
I mean, he was like, in a lot of ways, he was like doing internet before the
internet.
Yeah, yeah, you're right.
He was kind of like an aggregator, like a curator. I mean, as a curator, it was
conscious curation.
But is that what you mean? Like the content of what he was talking about?
Well, it was also like, there's a lot of, I would say there's a lot more people
that have access to like UFO conspiracy theory type stuff now because of the
internet.
And before then, Art Bell was like your only source for that.
Oh, I got you. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah. The deep cuts.
Yeah, that kind of stuff. What is this?
This is his son kidnapping this pretty dark story.
Son assaulted by HIV teacher. Oh, Jesus. Let's not put that on.
Fuck it. There's some people out there. Yeah, I know.
But Art Bell had this crazy fenced-in compound that literally looked like it
was in the middle of this like open prairie.
I never saw pictures of it.
Yeah, they put pictures online. Who knows what I was looking at? It might not
even been that.
It might have been like he faked people out with this. He probably might live
in a regular house.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. You want him to live in that situation.
Yeah, I hope. Yeah.
Because he's kind of like a, you know, in a way, he was like a mystic.
Those types of people, they're kind of like mystics. They're hermits.
They live in like these weird places because they have to be, you know, in the
right conditions to receive the information.
Yeah, there's his house. See, it's all like fenced in.
Oh, wow. Yeah.
That's a very large, that's a weird, well, that's a weird, someone's going over
the fence.
Look, he's got windmills for electricity.
Wow.
He's got some big sort of truck he's got backed in there where he gets probably
supplies.
He's a total prepper.
Oh, my God. That's amazing.
Our bell is incredible.
That's, and it's blue. Is it a bluish teal or something like that?
It is so like a Beverly Hills rundown motel color, you know?
Is it Rambler?
You know, like off tans and off blues.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Look at that tower, the radio tower.
It's so huge.
This giant fucking tower in the middle of his yard.
That can't give you cancer, can it?
No.
It should be, right?
No.
You're not sure something's going on.
No way, no.
It would never, it would never do anything.
What's that other one?
I don't, no, that's a, oh, I know what that is.
That's a, that's a, I think that's a TV aerial, isn't it?
Yeah, maybe it is a radio.
Maybe it's a radio, but it looks like an old school TV thing.
These are fucking huge towers he has.
I know, because he must, yeah, because he used, he probably, he did, he
broadcast from there.
Yeah.
So, so yeah, in a way, that's another like internet reference.
Art Bell was the first time I heard a Terrence McKenna outside of a Bill Hicks
joke.
One Bill Hicks joke.
Oh, right.
He referenced, he said, he was talking about five grams of dried mushrooms or
what Terrence
McKenna would refer to as a heroic dose.
Yes.
And I was like, wow, who's Terrence McKenna?
Yeah.
And then I heard Terrence McKenna on the Art Bell show live from Hawaii.
What?
Terrence McKenna had this crazy setup in Hawaii where he lived in Kona on the
mountain and
he was totally off the grid, but way more than Art Bell.
He was in the jungle, off the grid.
He would have these basins to catch rainwater.
He had several acres around him, which he was growing psychedelic plants.
He had a thousand books.
He lived totally by himself.
He had like a generator for power and he was completely off the grid and he
built the house
there.
Oh, dude.
That's heavy.
He was just up there writing and tripping.
And then he would leave like every six months.
He would take off and leave for six months and just do these tours where he
would do these
speaking things in like hippie places like Austin, Texas and Portland, Oregon
and shit like that.
Yeah.
And they would gather on all these people to listen to all of his stuff.
Yeah.
And if you ever heard Psychedelic Salon, Psychedelic Salon's a podcast, a great
podcast.
And I've had Lorenzo from Psychedelic Salon on, but it's all like old
recordings of Timothy Leary and Alan Watts.
Are you related?
No, I wish.
You wish?
Don't be this shit.
I really wish that I was related to him.
That would be rather nice.
Profound and with an English accent.
Yes.
He's very careful.
But he has all the McKenna recordings, like all of them, like way back, way
back through time.
He plays them all the time.
McKenna was which time period?
I sometimes get them fused with Leary.
No, he was post Leary, but he was there.
You know, he was there during that era, but he came into prominence post Leary.
I think his main Psychedelic experiences were in the 70s.
Like he had some really, really crazy mushroom trips with his brother, Dennis,
who's an amazing guy.
Dennis is alive.
He's alive.
He's been on this podcast several times.
He's a great guy.
He's amazing.
And he's actually a professor.
And Dennis, like, recounts all these tales.
And one time, Terrence and Dennis went into the jungle and they took too many
mushrooms.
And Dennis completely lost his mind, like went away for two weeks.
Whoa.
For two weeks.
Just incoherent, rambling, had some sort of a psychotic event, like, and just
like broke down the nature of reality itself.
Just went way too deep.
Yeah.
It was gone for like two weeks.
They had to watch him.
Yeah.
They had to watch over him.
Oh my God.
It's almost like he was exposed to such a complicated mathematical equation.
And it took him that long to figure it out.
When he came out of it, he's like, okay, I figured it out.
I'm back.
Well, you know, Terrence came up with the idea of the stoned ape theory.
And it wasn't just Terrence.
It was Terrence, along with a lot of other psychedelic researchers, they sort
of formulated some of the parts of this hypothesis.
But the parts of this hypothesis had to deal with human beings evolving from
lower primates because the lower primates were forced to try out new foods
because the rainforests were receding in the grasslands.
And all these undulates who were eating up all the plants as they were growing
up, they were shitting.
And they were leaving cow patties.
And in these cow patties, the mushrooms, of course, would grow.
Yeah.
So these monkey people-like things that were us that were living in the trees,
they were forced to test out new food sources.
And it coincides, this theory coincides with climate data that we know about
changing of the temperatures back in Africa during that time.
Yeah, yeah.
And in these particular regions.
And he thinks that these lower primates started experimenting with mushrooms.
They started eating, you know, they'd flip cow patties all the time to get beetles
and bugs and things along those lines.
And so they would flip it and they would pick these mushrooms out to see if
they could eat them.
Well, in low doses, mushrooms enhance visual acuity so it would help you be a
better hunter, makes you more sensitive and it makes you more horny, which
would make you more likely to breed.
So you would be much more likely to be a successful hunter and more likely to
breed.
That's like a triple threat right there.
Crazy.
And that's outside of the psychedelic effects, right?
The psychedelic effects of enhancing community, of creative thinking, all these
things that happen when you do mushrooms in varying doses.
And he believes that mushrooms are responsible for the doubling of the human
brain size over a period of two million years, which is apparently the biggest
mystery in the fossil record.
They have no idea.
Yeah, it's so quick.
Yeah, so quick.
It's crazy.
It's a total departure.
And it's the organ responsible for the fossil record in the first place.
Right, exactly.
For the understanding of what a fossil record is.
And the reason why we're writing all this stuff down.
I mean, it's because of the mine.
Well, this mine doubled over a period of two million years.
And I think what they think is there's a bunch of different factors.
And people argue about this, but I think it's really important to be balanced
about this and go, I don't think if it's either or.
I think there was a bunch of shit going on.
Yeah, absolutely.
They think it had to do with humans figuring out fire and how to cook meat.
They think cooking meat allowed people to get more nutrients, which allowed
people to be healthier.
And if you can kill one animal, you'd have more resources to sort of figure
things out.
They start thinking of shelters and weapons and all these different various
things that led to civilization.
There's one theory that goes along that way.
Trade.
Yeah, trade.
The throwing arm is another one.
The fact that we could throw, that we could throw things, we could hit shit
that was nowhere near us, like no other animal.
And then once we figured out spears, we started like this, this ability to do
this one thing might have led us to enough free time to start innovating.
And then the brain, as time went on, favored the ones who are more innovative
and more disciplined and more creative.
And those are the ones that survive longer.
Yeah, which is obviously like what we're rewarding people today.
Yeah, exactly.
That's true.
Fascinating.
That hasn't gone away.
No, that hasn't gone away.
That totally makes sense.
I mean, it's like, you know, I view in general the idea of awareness and
consciousness as a, you know, as a metaphor, it's many people use it, but just
like a computer operating system.
So, so, or, you know, consciousness experiencing itself infinitely, you know,
but like, that's like this form of an operating system.
And the, the, the, we live in a binary, uh, version of, uh, isolate, which,
which is kind of like a game, you know, to then rediscover the, the, the, the
fact that that's not true.
It is true, but it's also not true, you know, to arrive at the paradox to the,
the answer of the, the thing that happens within a paradox, you know, like a
good joke.
Right, right, right.
When you're, when you're like, here's the setup, here's the punchline.
And so it's somewhere when those two things collide in a group of people, it
will trigger a reaction.
And if it's laugh, laughter in that moment, it's, it's understanding a paradox.
It's like feeling the effects of a paradox where it actually like, right.
A very unique moment, a crazy thing that like you didn't expect to experience
because it's so different than everything else you experience in everyday life.
Yeah.
It's like, it's like everything and nothing simultaneously.
Like you get that quick, like, because a joke kind of does that, at least in my
opinion.
And, and, and that makes you feel like it gives everyone a sense of
enlightenment for, for a moment.
I know what you're say