Katt Williams is a weird, weird dude

A good friend of mine sent this link to me. I hadn’t listened to an interview since Tim Dillon and Alex Jones and Ira Glasser, former head of the ACLU way back in the spring of 2021. I’ve had fun with this friends links before (see Robert Edward Grant: King of Gobbledygook), so I gave it chance. I couldn’t recommend that anyone else listen to these three hours … but YMMV. It has 26M views and almost 500K likes on YouTube. Check out my notes below and decide for yourself.

Joe Rogan Experience #2111 − Katt Williams by Joe Rogan (YouTube)

I’m almost an hour in and I feel like Katt Williams thinks that the plots of Independence Day (all tech came from analyzing the attack ship from Roswell) and Transformers (all tech came from analyzing Megatron) are real, historical artifacts. He thinks humanity got advanced tech from space aliens.

Brother Katt: just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean nobody understands it. I just listened to a tech talk from a guy at work about ASIC (Wikipedia) that was incredible. Just incredible. He understands circuits on a deep level in a way that I almost certainly never will.

OK, now, I’m at 90 minutes into this thing. Katt is drifting hard sometimes. People underestimate Rogan’s ability to keep a conversation going for 3 hours, how he steers his guests into areas that might be interesting. He’s kind of a moron, but he’s not without talent.

How many times has Rogan said, “Yeaaah, … uh, that makes sense…” when Williams just vomited up another word salad?

From, like, the Sirius star system?

“Rogan: I’ve always wondered whether alchemy wasn’t just a way to regain lost knowledge.

“Williams: [speaks so slowly that I feel like his battery is dying.]”

They are both so stoned but Katt’s like those alcoholics who can drive a car better than you or I can, even when they’re at a stratospheric BAC. He has so much practice at being stoned. I kept expecting him to just *slide* out of his chair, but he always rallied.

I mean, most of what he’s saying is useless trash if you look at it too closely, but it sounds good. It sounds wise. Stoner wisdom. Joe Rogan is the perfect interviewer for him.

Also, Katt talks about how much he reads—20 books per week!—or how much he read when he was younger, or … whatever. It’s all bullshit! Either that or he’s reading Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys. If he actually read serious works—he says he reads (or read! Who can tell what year he thinks it is?) classics—then how could he be this misguided and spacey? If he actually spends all of that time reading all of that incredible content, then it’s a shame that he comes out thinking and expressing himself like this.

Williams mentioned several times that he thought he would be canceled for some of his utterances—and then said something relatively banal. But then he also said,

“You know, the Jewish people [UH OH] are powerful people on this planet [OMG STOP] and a lot of that has to do with the process that they have in instilling in their young people a certain amount of information and wherewithal and conversation that does not happen with other cultures, let’s say […] and um that exists only in a few places around the world but they’re always important um especially if you look at things from a nonreligious point of view.”

Dude. WTF are you talking about? Are you talking about the Torah? No-one knows. And how does it not worry you to talk about one of the most sensitive ethnic communities when you worried about a dozen, other, relatively innocuous statements? Absolutely wild.

Joe Rogan soon after: “What do you think ghosts are? Do you think they’re real.”

Good call, Joe. Steer him away from the Jews. JFC.

Katt Williams, after visibly gathering himself, “You either believe in the supernatural or you don’t.”

Well…yeah.