Editor’s Note
I received a text from a Porsche PR person: “Hey, Jonny. We have something coming up I think Reggie Watts might be interested in: Meeting the guys who developed the Mission R concept race car and going for a ride in it.” Long story short, Porsche was conducting a press launch for notable influencers and had its corporate sights for the American influencer wave on Reggie Watts. (Watts, if you don’t know, is a musician, comedian, and band leader/de facto co-host for The Late Late Show with James Corden.) I’d met Watts three months earlier when he was our guest on the first episode of our future of the automobile podcast/vodcast, The InEVitable. Two things from that experience will always stand out to me. One is that after he left the studio,…