#2111 - Katt Williams

Joe Rogan (0:16)

I can't believe we never met each other until today. That's kind of crazy.

Katt Williams (0:20)

It's really weird.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

It's kind of crazy.

It was always like at the store, like, Katt was here last night, I'm like, fuck. It was always, two ships in the night.

Katt Williams (0:29)

Right, I would see you and I'd be able to get to you. Like, comedy is small, but only if you're mediocre.

It's big. It's a vast, vast place.

Joe Rogan (0:46)

It's vast and it's also small because there's so few of us. And worldwide, we were talking about this the other day. There's maybe 500 of us on the planet.

You know, you've got to be real generous and say 500 because it's really probably about 250

Katt Williams (1:02)

Right.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

But legit comics, guys you want to hang out with, guys who are fun. Guys who you'd recommend.

Katt Williams (1:10)

Your number is going down. Your number is going down.

Joe Rogan (1:13)

Guys who you'd recommend, leave your house, get a babysitter.

The number is going down. There's not a lot of people.

Katt Williams (1:20)

Right.

Joe Rogan (1:21)

You think about the billions and billions of people on the planet, there's a little smidgen of us.

Katt Williams (1:26)

Well, as children, we all take to talking with ease. And so the fact that later on in your life, you'd be one of the people that could say, I talk for a living is an amazing honor.

Joe Rogan (1:46)

It's amazing.

Katt Williams (1:47)

Even if you look a thousand years back.

Joe Rogan (1:50)

Yeah, especially today. Did you be able to talk for a living? Oh, my God.

And that's the problem also with what we do, is that everybody can talk. So they see you talking, they're like, I could do what he's doing. He's just up there talking.

Katt Williams (2:03)

And the better you do it, the easier it looks, which is part of the trap.

Joe Rogan (2:07)

Yeah, it's part of the trap.

Katt Williams (2:09)

It looks like he doesn't think about what he says. He just says stuff.

But you couldn't be as accurate.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

No, no. And then there's hanging around with comics and getting to know about shit like they're electric Rolls Royces.

Katt Williams (2:25)

Right, right. If Satan hits me, just know I'm hitting back immediately. You're going to know about it if I've ever heard.

Yeah. The electric specter.

Joe Rogan (2:37)

That thing is insane.

That thing is insane. Just the way the doors open up, the way the doors close when you touch the brakes, totally silent.

Katt Williams (2:47)

For the price point, it would have to be perfect.

And the whole thing is, it is. And that's what you're trying to do in any genre. You're trying to find that thing that is flawless in that genre.

Joe Rogan (3:05)

Right.

Katt Williams (3:06)

And that's it.

Joe Rogan (3:07)

That's the Rolls Royce.

Katt Williams (3:09)

I've never had one of those.

Well, because it's important to you that you be grounded in the important ways, so I can see you not having not had a Rolls Royce. I've had four or five.

Joe Rogan (3:26)

I'm not opposed to it.

It's just the idea of it to me is like, don't do that. For me, you know, I'm always like, get away from that muscle car.

Katt Williams (3:38)

Well, see, you see what I mean? Yeah, because we live vicariously through these things, and it's been that way for all of humankind. I'm saying it was still like that for the Roman and his chariot.

Like, that's how he felt. That's how horsemen feel about that ride, you know?

Joe Rogan (3:58)

Yeah, yeah.

Katt Williams (4:00)

Transportation and people have a love story.

Joe Rogan (4:04)

Yeah, that's really the only object that I'm really into. Like, I'm into vehicles. I'm into mechanical vehicles. There's like something about mechanical vehicles that just speak to me.

I love them.

I love looking at them. I love sitting in them. I love driving them. It's one of the things that people say like, money can't buy you happiness. That's definitely true. If you're fucked up, you're not going to get happier if you get rich. But if you're already reasonably happy and you can afford a nice muscle car, god damn, you'll feel happier. You will feel happier.

Katt Williams (4:40)

But every time.

Joe Rogan (4:41)

Every time.

Katt Williams (4:42)

So what I'm saying is, when I got the 67 Chevy Camaro, I needed no other cars.

I was complete. When I got the Grand National, you couldn't tell me anything. There was nothing on the highway that was of my ilk. But I've felt that way 12, 13 times. That's what makes it real love.