BRETT TAYLOR tunes in as Katt Taylor schools Joe Rogan in Atlantis, the GOAT and Smurfological esoterica...
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Comedian Katt Williams, known for his comedy specials, appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience#2111. The episode aired on 29 February 2024, and in one week garnered over 13 million views on YouTube alone.
The 52-year-old comedian, who was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, drew on his religious upbringing and his knowledge of “great religious books” to expound on the Garden of Eden. Throughout the interview he touted the importance of literacy (“Reading books moves civilisation”) and claimed to have read 3,000 books and to have checked out up to 60 books a week in his pre-Internet youth, reading eight hours a day, 108 pages an hour. Clearly, Katt views his exposure to occult books as the basis of his esoteric understanding; he made numerous claims to learning, such as: “As a preteen, I knew that Atlantis really existed.”
“That’s the difference between those of us that, uh… want to know the world’s great mysteries and conspiracy theorists,” he said. “A lie is not something that people are gonna want to repeat for generations and generations… People have reason to believe it to be true. Those are the stories that we talk about, but they’re still valid”. He cited the writings of the Dogon tribe of Mali, which allegedly describe the stars in accurate detail, doubting that any such tribe would bother to write “a fake star story”. Rogan chimed in, suggesting the Dogon described the Sirius star system in these books, then asked, “What if we find out we were aliens?” He then asked if perhaps the Garden of Eden was the place where humans were “created” by aliens. Williams concurred that NASA was covering up the truth about aliens, saying, “The further you get in space, the more obvious shit is.” Rogan also appeared to one-up Williams a bit by bringing up Zecharia Sitchin, the theorist who, beginning in the mid-Seventies, placed human origins on “the 12th planet” (see FT173:39-41, 271:24). Williams appeared unfamiliar with the late author, a staple of paranormal broadcasting since the Art Bell days.
Elsewhere Williams seemed to agree with Rogan that Bob Lazar was telling the truth about the US Government’s UFO retrieval programme: “What I find fascinating is the lack of imagination in any of these stories where imagination could apply… You’re seeing somebody tell you a story that is the only explanation for certain things that are happening.”
