Reggie Watts
Touring Brooklyn with Reggie Watts
This summer, The Takeaway embarked on a virtual road trip around the country to some of America’s greatest music cities. Our tour guides included some of the most popular recording artists and experts from each town. We kicked things off in the great borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Our tour guide was one […]
Improvising the 12th Dimension
Wrapping your brain around the nature of time and the existence of multiple dimensions is a challenge, but comedian-musician Reggie Watts doesn’t blink: he takes on mind-wrenching questions of theoretical physics in a fully-improvised song. Reggie joins Kurt and astrophysicist Janna Levin onstage to puzzle out how the universe works. Recorded live at the Jerome […]
Reggie Watts & Woody Guthrie
Studio 360’s series American Icons continues with a look at Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.” Kurt Andersen speaks with Pete Seeger and others about how the song found its place in American culture. Later in the hour, Kurt talks with sci-fi writer William Gibson, who chose not to set his new book Zero […]