Joe Rogan Experience #2048 - Reggie Watts

Reggie Watts joins Joe Rogan for a wide-ranging, drug-tinged conversation that opens on kava, kratom and his enthusiasm for ketamine as a tool for clearer thinking and creativity. They drift into politics-adjacent musings on capitalism, conflict, AI-assisted government, student debt, homelessness and the value of patient, non-tribal conversation. The middle stretch is a long car-enthusiast deep dive covering Porsches, Teslas, electric trucks, the McMurtry Speirling and Gordon Murray's cars. They also cover knee and metabolic health, keto and food addiction, UFO sightings, moon and simulation theories, and psychedelic therapy. It closes on Reggie's upcoming run at the Comedy Mothership and how Joe designed the club.

• Reggie describes a friend taking 10 kratom pills before workouts and getting extremely high trying it himself.
  00:01:38
• Reggie recounts giving a nervous musician friend ketamine and watching her self-editing speech loop disappear.
  00:04:14
• Reggie says he bid on four LA houses over three years and kept losing to all-cash over-asking offers.
  00:24:32
• On a 200mg ketamine lozenge he ran a successful pandemic livestream while extremely high and nobody noticed.
  01:01:51
• Reggie claims a near-telepathic whispered conversation with a stranger 20 feet away during a deep ketamine 'k-hole'.
  01:08:05
• Joe reveals he threw up during a Blue Angels flight after pulling around seven and a half Gs.
  02:01:59
• Reggie describes seeing three low, silently moving glowing UFO objects in a Montana cattle field at about age 17.
  02:07:47
• Reggie and Joe discuss Rick Doblin, MAPS, and MDMA/psychedelic therapy as a way to save humanity.
  02:37:30

• Ketamine's dissociative effect was combined with opiates to treat napalm burn victims in Vietnam.
  00:06:20
• Ketamine is molecularly close to PCP but produces fewer adverse side effects.
  00:07:23
• Joe relays Bernie Sanders' idea of a tiny per-trade stock speculation tax to fund free healthcare and education.
  00:18:51
• The harmala alkaloid harmine was briefly nicknamed 'telepathine' for the shared-vision experiences it produced.
  01:09:38
• Joe does 100 Hindu squats daily and recommends slant-board work and the Knees Over Toes program for knee strength.
  01:13:47
• Porsche e-fuel uses captured carbon to make a combustible fuel with near-zero net emissions for its race cars.
  01:34:30
• The McMurtry Speirling uses two fans to generate downforce, weighs under 2,200 lbs, and makes around 1,000 hp.
  01:50:33
• Apollo 12 astronauts crashed the lunar module into the moon, triggering a moonquake that rang far longer than expected.
  02:16:10
• Upside Foods grows cultivated chicken from a single cell sample on substrates and recently got FDA approval.
  02:24:25
• Reggie uses a continuous glucose monitor and keto-style eating to cut sugar, energy crashes and joint inflammation.
  02:30:13

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