Chapter 1: What makes Reggie Watts a unique guest on The Commercial Break?
And if you want the sound of a snake constantly hissing, but never taking a breath, then get a Roland Space Echo and use that on your recordings. He's like, breathe, breathe! Just fucking breathe! And I hate doing that to a snake. You know, because they're, whatever, it's just a snake. Turns out snakes know how to do circular breathing.
It's like if you look, their nostrils are like just puffing a little bit here and there. It's like, you don't have to impress me. You're already impressive, you know.
On this episode of The Commercial Break.
Well, meow, meow, cats and kittens. Fancy seeing you here on a Saturday. So you've decided to press play, and now you're wondering, why is there a Saturday episode of The Commercial Break? 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 crazy... And that is our good friend Reggie Watts. So please take an hour out of your day and enjoy this wide-ranging 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, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Greene. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Chris and Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chrissy.
Best to you, Brian. 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.
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Chapter 2: How has Reggie Watts's relationship influenced his creative process?
And now we're going to 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 going to let you guess out there who it is. You know. You saw the poster. 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 because I'm fascinated by the guy. 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 my craziest... 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 don't understand, but she reposts somebody else's post at least nine times a day. On average, nine times a day. Sometimes up to 15 times a day. She will just share somebody else's post.
And they're always wackadoo bullshit. Anyway, I don't want to get into it. So I'm watching the Instagram. Because 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 a romantic relationship, but not there. And I don't want to be a drama queen, but then I'm going to be a drama queen.
Two or three weeks ago, I want to say, all of a sudden, a full face shot, full frontal, Chrissy.
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Chapter 3: What is New Brew and how does it relate to Reggie Watts?
Full frontal face. And she was adorable and so was he. And it looked like a budding romance. And I'd like to ask him about that. I know. Because I love a good love story. I really do. 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. He'd just kill you. 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. A renaissance man, if you will. Yeah. You know who I liken him to? 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, you know, he did a lot of different stuff and he was kind of all over the place. 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. I'm always interested in people that are much, much smarter than I. I know. Much more creative. 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 breaks physical address, of which we said, for what? Like, Please send the death threats elsewhere. And then a couple of weeks ago, I come up to my door. There's a big box, Brian Green. And I was like, well, I wasn't expecting.
I never expect anything. Well, I'm not expecting anything. And I open it up and it's from Reggie. And it's New Brew. Remember that drink we talked about? That's right. And we were talking about this kratom-based energy drink. There's a number of them. But New Brew, it's so beautifully packaged.
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Chapter 4: What experiences has Reggie had while traveling and performing?
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 here. We'll talk more to him. He wanted us to try it. He wanted us to try it. 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 god damn 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'll do anyway drink
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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. It's a great book. Chrissy 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? It did not. It did not? Oh, well.
Okay.
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 Veeps, I think. Isn't it on Veeps? Yes. I think it's on Veeps. 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 telepodcasting, Reggie Watts is going to be here for not the first, but the second time in 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.
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Chapter 5: How does Reggie Watts define his approach to love and relationships?
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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? Oh, it's Justin. I'm sending this.
Go ahead. Take a picture.
Yeah. Here. Here we go. Okay. Ready? There we go. Got it.
Nice. Tell Justin. Thank you very much. Justin and the new brew. Now I don't know if these are available everywhere, but, 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 and saw a lot of people doing reviews of them drinking New Brew. And a lot of, it seems like, people with large followings saying, what's my favorite non-alcoholic drink? New Brew. New Brew has kava and kratom and caffeine. I'm going to make this a straight commercial for your book. I know. It tastes delicious.
It's got berry flavor, citrus flavor. What was the other one we got? There was three flavors. It was three flavors that we got.
Yeah, three. I think it's berry, citrus, and mango.
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Chapter 6: What insights does Reggie share about communication in polyamorous relationships?
My favorite? Yeah, of course. Italy. So, you're playing gigs out there. You played a couple festivals, didn't you?
Yeah, I played a festival called Houghton in the west of the UK. And it was 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, you know, broke people like Tricky and Massive Attack and Portishead and things like that. And all kinds of, you know, Chemical Brothers and... underworld and all this stuff. But, um, yeah, so he and his partner, Amanda, uh, created this festival called Houghton, which they dub as is a festival for people who hate festivals.
Uh, and, uh, it's, it's, 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. Um, the, uh, They don't leave any trace. It's on royal land. But the lord who owns the land 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. Oh, you got to go.
Best. And anybody who was involved in anything having to do with Portishead is a friend of mine because I think honestly, in my late teenage years, in my early 20s, I probably had sex to Portishead more than I had sex to any other band. Portishead is just some... Portishead is New Brew music. If New Brew was music, Portishead would be it. It's euphoric and jittery and sexy and cool.
Yeah, 100%.
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Chapter 7: How does Reggie Watts view the concept of intuition?
You care for each other and you kind of see each other and you're listening to one another and you're supportive and you're willing to compromise. Not because you feel like it's compromised, just because you want things to work, you know?
Yeah.
And so, yeah, I've never really been, but I've been working a lot like in therapy and things like that, you know, for communication problems. And really, I never really had any like serious issues in relationships. I was just like always in the fun mode, you know, like I wanted everything to be fun all the time.
And so, and then I just never got to those points where you're just like, this is how I really feel about this. Or I feel inadequate about that, 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.
True intimacy. And I had this problem also. Communication is key. 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 until well into my 20s or 30s. I was like, wait, I'm just being an asshole who's not letting anybody in.
It's really what's going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No wonder my relationships don't succeed.
Well, and it's all fun. It's like, you know, it's, 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 I was never like, I, I definitely frustrated a lot of people because, you know, at a certain point they were like, so what are we doing? And I'm like, Oh, Oh no. You know? And then like, and then I'd wait for them to break up with me.
But, um, 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 unique. It's almost like my mother passed away over two and a half years ago, I guess. Yeah. 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.
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Chapter 8: What is the significance of Reggie's upcoming special and tour?
Yeah, thanks. Yeah, it's crazy. 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, um, built up to the, to the moment, like when I met her and, and, you know, and she was like a little bit more traditional and she's a Southern, she's a Southern woman. Um, so, uh, so she, she's just a little bit traditional, but she's also hyper non-traditional and can hang with, you know, all my weirdo, um,
you know i don't know i guess you'd call them like activists you know leftist like sexually free friends that are just like pretty like out there you know and she's just like i'm with i understand these people and i'm like okay well that's all i need to know you're you're good to go yeah i think it's i don't we don't know each other that well we've only talked for 45 minutes of our entire life together but i was a ton man it's way more than most 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 guess 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 friend because you are so... You're just, you're wicked smart 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. That's true.
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, that's a double whammy. You got it.
Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, it's pretty cool. And I like that she continues to just be like, like, you know, it's like, all right, well, here's the reality, you know, here's what, you know, I just, it's great. She's, you know, it's like now it's like really just a challenge of her being in a nine to five and figuring out how that works.
works you know because i don't really have a pretty loose schedule and i stay up late and you know but she is a night person that's the good that's the one good thing it's like she she is naturally a night person so it means that in the future if we figure out a way to you know for us to make money for her to still continue doing her you know helping people and things like that but and it's not tied to a schedule that that's our goal um yeah you know it's a cool challenge
That can 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.
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 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. We have friends.
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