E558 Katt Williams

28 Jan 2025 · 2 h 37 min

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Podcast Summary: This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von - E558 with Katt Williams

Episode Overview In this episode of "This Past Weekend," host Theo Von welcomes iconic comedian and actor Katt Williams, known for his impactful stand-up performances and numerous comedy specials. The conversation dives into Katt's career, personal beliefs, and reflections on life post his explosive interview last year.

Key Themes and Discussions

  1. Personal Connections and Mutual Respect
  2. Theo's Admiration for Katt: Theo expresses his respect and admiration for Katt, likening him to a mythical figure.
  3. Katt's Perspective: Katt acknowledges the genuine connection people feel with him and Theo, explaining that their stories resonate due to authenticity.
  1. Katt Williams' Comedy Journey
  2. Motivation for Comedy: Katt shares that while he has always aimed to entertain, he also seeks to impart messages through his comedy.
  3. Heaven on Earth Tour: Katt discusses his current tour and how it serves as a way to reconnect with his audience.
  1. Philosophical Views on Life
  2. Diversity in Heaven: Katt shares his realization of the diversity that exists in heaven, highlighting that all races and backgrounds will be present.
  3. Joy of Life: The conversation touches on the importance of having aspirations and goals, emphasizing that the pursuit of dreams gives life meaning.
  1. Reflection on Time and Life's Journey
  2. Concept of Time: Katt suggests that time is a construct used to manage our lives and that individuals have the time they need to accomplish their goals.
  3. Living without Regrets: Katt expresses the belief that one should not feel pressured by time but rather focus on enjoying every moment and pursuing their passions.
  1. Relationships and Connection
  2. Trust and Communication: Katt emphasizes the importance of genuine communication in relationships, suggesting that both romantic and platonic bonds benefit from open dialogue.
  3. Potential Romantic Interests: Theo discusses his aspirations to connect with a woman he encountered at the airport, illustrating a desire for connection.
  1. Insights on Modern Society
  2. Dark Forces in the World: Katt speaks about his desire to expose what he perceives as dark forces in society, alluding to the challenges faced by artists and celebrities.
  3. Human Nature: The duo discusses how human nature is reflected in the complexities of fame and success, particularly in Hollywood.
  1. Cloning and Society's Future
  2. Discussion on Cloning: Katt and Theo touch on the topic of cloning, debating its ethical implications and the current state of scientific advancements in this area.
  3. Hope for the Future: Katt expresses optimism about a "golden era," where truth becomes more valued than deceit, suggesting a shift in societal values.
  1. Legacy and Influence
  2. Katt's Role Models: Katt reflects on his influences, particularly the impact of comedians who have passed away, and how their legacy shapes current comedy.
  3. Creating a Home for Artists: Katt reveals his ambitions to provide a space for artists at his recently acquired property, aiming to foster creativity and collaboration.

Conclusion The engaging conversation between Theo Von and Katt Williams blends humor, introspection, and thought-provoking discussions about life, authenticity, and the complexities of being a public figure. Katt's reflections serve as a reminder of the importance of staying true to oneself while navigating the challenges of the entertainment industry.

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Key Takeaways

  • Authenticity and genuine connections are vital in both personal and professional realms.
  • Comedy can serve as a vehicle for delivering meaningful messages.
  • The pursuit of dreams and aspirations is paramount for living a fulfilling life.
  • Open communication fosters stronger relationships.
  • The value of truth is becoming increasingly significant in society.

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0:00Today's guest is, well, he's the goat. He is an iconic comedian. He has a new tour going on right now called the Heaven on Earth Tour. He is labeled by many as an oracle, as the black crystal ball, I've heard him called. I'm thankful that he came down from the clouds today to spend time with us. Today's guest is Mr. Ket Williams.

0:38What's up, man? What's up, man? It's time. It's good to see good old Theo Vine. It's an honor, man. The world loves you, you know? Well, that's nice of you to say. I feel like I can't believe I'm around you, I think. I feel like you seem like a mythical figure. Right. Well. You know, like a sasquatch or like a unicorn or something like that. Yeah. You'll still feel that way by the end. I won't ruin that. Yeah. Okay. That's the good thing about people like you and I. Like, if somebody thinks that they like us and they think they've made a connection with this person on the screen, when they're around us, it's legitimate because it was legitimate.

1:44You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, if Theo Vaughn wasn't successful, he doesn't have a different story. Right. Right, right. You know what I mean? It's the same story. He lived that story. And that's why people gravitate to you because there's nobody like you. Well, thanks, man. I feel the same about you. I feel like everybody does. And you have a statue of me at your house. So, you know. So, yeah. Thank you, man. Thank you for letting them even do that statue. What was that whole deal like with them, with Michael's? That's where I got mine at was at Michael's. Right. Yeah. Did you do a, it wasn't a collab or what was it?

2:30Nope. Nope. They just robbed my image and likeness because they could. They're messing up, man. Because they were doing it for religious purposes. Oh, yeah. I allowed it to be. Well, thank you. We wish you a black Christmas. Amen. Look, I'd be honored to have one. I'd be honored to have one. Yeah, man. Because when I met that guy there, he said, we got two left, man. And there was 200 and one of them was marked down because it had a chip in it. But it's still, man, it's an honor. I keep it up in my house year round. And people walk in and they're like, no way, that's Cat William right there. It is.

3:13And it's beautiful, man. Thank you. Yeah. You have a new you have a new tour, man. And, you know, I know people talk about touring and comedy a lot. And I want to know what kind of keeps you still doing comedy. Like, did you like because I think when we start out, maybe it's to be funny. And then some people get to this place where they want to have a message. Do you notice that kind of tone shift in your like desire to do it over time? I don't think so. Like, I always try to have a message just because I enjoy the fact that while laughing and joking, you might learn something you didn't know and have gotten it from a comedian.

4:03And I kind of dig that. But everything else is just continuing this conversation with my fan base. Like, these are my friends that I haven't seen since the last time I was here. And here's our discussion furthering our relationship. So it hasn't felt much like work. And it's the Heaven on Earth Tour. Do you believe in heaven? Absolutely. and earth yeah okay all right fair touché man yeah dude i remember when i first because like when i was growing up we just had uh you know you learned about heaven and stuff but all the pamphlets or whatever i'd seen at church or anything it always had uh it was mostly white folks on it right right and then i went to a black church one time yeah it was um i think it's called Greater Starlight Baptist Church that was in our town.

5:06Shout out to Greater Starlight Baptist Church. Oh, yeah. It was nice in there. This was in Covington, Louisiana. But yeah, they had - About 13 miles from Slidell. Yeah, there you go.

5:21Wow. Map Williams in the building, baby. Right, right. But, and that's when I realized - Don't make me go Gert. Everybody's everything.

5:35That's when I realized, oh, everybody's going to be in heaven. That was the first time that I realized heaven was going to be very diverse. I'd never thought about it. Right. And it blew my mind. I was like, oh, wow, they're going to have black folks in heaven, Asian folks. All types of folks are going to be there, you know? It's truly the only place that white people are a minority. Yeah. Is in heaven. just because thousands of years went with nobody getting to go. Yeah. Just because of fuck shit that they might not have even been involved in. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, I guess I'm kind of, I don't know if I'm starting to look forward to it.

6:16I am excited about it. Yeah. But, yeah, I guess I get caught up in, like, a lot of worldly stuff, you know? Like, there's still things I want to do here, that type of thing, you know? Really? Yeah. You still got stuff you haven't done? Yeah, man. I got some things. Yeah, some different things. I would like to write a book, I think. Don't say what they are. But I'm saying just the fact that you got things that you're excited about doing, that's the joy of life. That's when you're living. That's why it's so difficult for these super wealthy people to be fucking happy. Like they can do everything else, but they can't fucking be happy because they've lived all their dreams.

7:00They got everything they were trying to get. They wake up and they can't score a touchdown no matter what. Yeah, it's a terrible life. But guys like you and I that still got stuff to try and taste and, you know, things to feel and people to be around, Like it gives life a wonderful meaning. Yeah. Yeah, I think that is something that like if I stay kind of motivated and I have a plan a little bit that keeps me a lot more like, okay, I want to do this. I still want to try that. Yeah. And I start to think, man, I'm running out of time too. You know, if you really like to taste different things and smell different flowers and, you know, and see what's in different gardens and stuff, then you start to run out of time.

7:53No. You don't think? No, because you had to be in the position that you're in now for you to be able to make some of these things happen. Couldn't have done them at 34, 24, 14 because circumstantially you weren't ready. You weren't ready financially. You didn't have the time. You didn't know that's what you wanted to do. now at this place is when you can make those things happen. Like you can do everything on that list of yours in 2025 with no fucking sweat. And your biggest problem in 26 is I got to have a new list. Yeah, time is one of the main things that's made up. Yeah, you think? I know.

8:44So it's just used as like a mechanism to what limit our thinking? Well, don't say limit. You said that you like this thing because it gives control and it puts things in its place. And that's what time does for us so that we're able to keep track, you know. But the less you deal with time, you realize you have the right amount of time to do everything you got to do every day. 24 hours. And you could make it an adventure every fucking day. Like, hey, I could die tomorrow. What would that mean I would need to be doing today? You see what I'm saying? Right. Like, not looking at it like, oh, I'm running out of time.

9:33No, no, no, no. Dead people ran out of time. Everybody else alive.

9:42You got 30 swim trunks. Do that for me.

9:48How you going to say you got 30 swim trunks, but you ain't never been in the ocean, Joe Rogan? Thank you for having a good sense of humor, man. That's what I am. I am a good sense of humor. Yeah, sometimes we forget about that along the way, man. You are. How long you want to live for it than you think, Kat? You got to check it. You got to, when you ever think about it?

10:15I was promised that I won't have to deal with that. So I don't, I don't consider it. I do know that.

10:32But, yeah, I don't have any things that I have to do in order to go out the way I would like. So that's a blessing and about one of the best you can get, you know, is being okay with the body of work and the legacy and the feelings and the emotions that you left, you know? And I still haven't done my best, like comedically. Like I'm still not my funniest. Like I'm still not working hard enough. Like I'm still not, I still haven't made a complete package of myself yet. So do you think some comedians start to feel like they have and that that's a trap? Most comedians have though. Yeah. I'm saying that becomes part of the career is the fact that a lot of guys that are doing comedy right now were funny from 1995 to 2000.

11:452004. They're still working. They're still generating income. They're still, but their best comedy is long behind them. They're not that comedian that was thinking something was funny and writing it down and figuring a way to get this to the people. And so, yeah, it happens. What sidetracks comedians? I guess it could be all types of things, huh? which sidetracks them from maybe fulfilling their their their excellence is difficult but to be mediocre it's no pressure like you know what i mean oh yeah like if you don't feel like you have to be the funniest person that this crowd has seen tonight then you don't and there's nothing wrong with that.

12:41Nobody's gonna jam you up about it. They'll go, oh, you were funny. And for a lot of people, that's enough. How do you pick on, you've had a lot of openers, like I've met a lot of your openers over the years here and there. How do you choose them, man? How do you choose these guys or women? You need a lighter? Whether you're, oh, no, no, I have no needs. I apologize. I choose them based upon whether their point of view is unique to them. Like, I don't care what a comedian's talking about. That's your business. I don't care what jokes you're making or how your set flows. But are you telling a story about you?

13:33Can people see this 8 minutes, 12 minutes you're going to do and know you and have a chance to like you? If you do that, then you can open for me because my allegiance is to the people out there in those seats. and I want them to see the very best comedians that I can possibly bring somebody they'll enjoy, whether they're male or female or white or black. Just do they come to work? Do they have a show for you? You see? Yeah. Yeah, that's what I care about. Yeah, I think when I was getting into comedy in the beginning, I wanted people to know me, right? I like the jokes and I want them to laugh and feel good and see different ways that maybe I think and stuff.

14:28But I wanted to sell myself. That's what I always thought, I think, when I first started. I don't want you to remember one joke. I want you to remember me. I felt like this desperate. That's a star, though. See, you knew that you would be a star. That's different than a performer. a performer is based upon the act what i'm saying is magicians ain't shit unless they doing magic yeah right oh oh if i see them bitches yeah i feel right bro right yeah but a true comedian is above the comedy material the jokes are secondary we we like this guy and we want to hear what this guy has chosen to say to us about the topics of his choosing.

15:22That's who you are. You know what I mean? That's who you are. That's who you are, Kat. Yeah, well, takes one to know one.

15:33Yeah, you grew up in Ohio, huh? Yes. Yeah. Did you grow up by Dave Chappelle? You guys grew up near each other. Dave Chappelle's not even from Ohio. Isn't he? I thought he's from Dayton. I'm from Dayton. Are you really? Yeah. Chappelle's from D.C. Oh, damn. My bad. Sorry. No problem. But he lives in Dayton now, though. Yeah, he has a lot of, he owns probably$5 million worth of property out there. Dang. He's done really well for our Dayton, Ohio. They got a beautiful museum out there I went to. Dayton's a wonderful place. They have the Air Force Museum, I think it is, out there? Yeah. because we have Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that we're very, very proud of.

16:18It's awesome. Yeah, they have, I think Fat Man and Little Boy are in there. Is it the, or the plane that dropped, those are planes that dropped the bombs on, I want to say it's, I want to say it's Pearl Harbor in there maybe? Hiroshima. It could be Hiroshima. Little Boy and Fat Man. There they are.

16:43yeah that's what uh rogan named his um the rooms of his comedy club after he certainly did the mothership yeah they really get it over there um you feel in the pressure of this interview no no of uh austin of moving there is austin calling you a little bit trying to put pressure on a little bit i didn't like at first i wanted to do my own thing like a lot of people were moving there. But now when I'm there, it just feels like it's a fun energy. It is. And there's people on stage and you can go up and down that sixth street and you can do five or six sets in a night. I mean, that's a lot of practice and it's probably within 800 footsteps or whatever.

17:26Yeah. So that to me seems really remarkable. What's on your, what's on the new tour? What's it like? Like, what's it like to still go out there? What's it like to like, do you do in the Around? What's your show like? I've been to a Cat Williams show. Clearly. Yeah. And what a blessing. You know what I mean? That's true. I still have it to look forward to. Right. And we just learned we got plenty of time, you know?

17:53But it's like, I don't know, it's like a festival for laughs and good energy. And there are different comedians before it gets to me. And so you get a chance to get an overview of some of the greatest comedians around the country. And get a chance to see them. And it's hosted by Monique. And Monique is a super large figure in comedy. And she has a great presence. And then after all of said and done, then I come out. And I congregate with the people for an hour. And, yeah. The best thing I think is probably the fact that you've gotten your money's worth twice before I get on stage. And I think that's the part I'm probably proudest of.

19:05Yeah. What do you bring with you on the road? Somebody said you bring a Cybertruck. Is that true?

19:15Yes. That's my work truck. I have a Cybertruck. That's why I was just curious what you thought about it. When I'm home on the ranch, that's my farm truck. I love it. It's fun. It feels like you're driving an email kind of. A what? It feels like you're driving an email. That's what I feel like sometimes. It just feels like I'm in the future. Like you could floor it and just. Yeah, it does feel like a UFM. Yeah. Like you'll put the gas on Monday. Like you'll floor it and you'll fucking. When it stops, it's fucking Thursday right there. It's like it just has like a, I don't know. Yeah, it's a unique experience, you know?

20:00Have you met him? Have you met Elon before? No. No, I don't.

20:09I don't generally enjoy the company of billionaires. Yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to think if I know any good billionaires. Well, it's not that they're not good, but I'm saying I don't need to be reminded of my inadequacies. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do you do for fitness, man? What's your fitness regime like? You got a regime each day or what's that like? The ladies keep me fit. I'm heavy in sexual relations. And so that keeps you pretty fit. I got a cold plunge and a jacuzzi and a sauna that I do pretty ritualistic. I've never been a gym guy. I got two torn rotator cuffs. Oh, damn. Both them bitches go on, huh?

21:05Yeah, yeah. So golf is basically how I stay where I'm trying to be. But I've never been seven pounds under or over in my life. You're that middle dog. Yeah, dog. Like, I'm at 150, you know. On the dime, baby, he'll show up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He'll fucking checkmate a scale, baby. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Right, right. Yeah, I think I like, what have I been doing recently? Swimming. Oh, there's you playing golf right there. Damn, kid, out there. Right. So, you know, if you can get 222 without your arms ever going above your head and do it consistently where it always ends up in the fairway that you're hitting, you know, 14, 16 of 18 in the fairway, you know, this is, then you can play the game a little better.

22:07Banging out there, yeah. Well, you can't get them arms. I guess at a certain point, your arms don't need to go that high in the air anyway, though. I'm trying to think of what I. Well, it would certainly give me more yards and a fuller thing. It's just the rotator cuffs don't allow it. So I started golfing with these 80-year-old guys that, you know. Them bitches, you got to wait. Like they can barely get out the car, but then they come out there and out drive you. Every shot is better than your like. So they taught me how to play golf under restraint so as to not hurt myself, you know. And how'd you bang them cuffs up?

22:54What happened, you think? What you mean? How'd you? Oh, I was in the midst of a push-up contest. No way. You blew him out? Yeah. Oh, man. But I was probably at 200. I was doing too much. You did 200 push-ups? Yeah. Yeah, and tore the cuffs both. Damn, you ripped both them bitches, man. God dang, boy. You better pull up at a jiffy lube and get well, buddy. The guy I'm going against, because the way it worked is you could do as many as you wanted. When you stop, it's my go, and I got a match. You know what I mean? You took it to the limits, huh? He was a horse. You took it to the limits, right? Yeah, maybe you could probably do some swimming safely.

23:50Maybe I could see you getting up. Oh, I'm an avid water guy. Yeah. I'm like, I'm in the water probably more than. You're that dark koi, baby. You out there. I love the water. Yeah. I pray underwater. Because, you know, evil can't access you underwater, you know? Oh, that's interesting. A lot of people don't know. Is that true? Yeah. Maybe that's why a child is an amniotic fluid, huh? Yeah, like water is super powerful, like a living being. I'm sure that soon in the future they will confirm for us that water is a sentient being. And that, you know. Man, that's going to be if they do that. Well, that's why all throughout history there was always gods of water, just because it's such a powerful force.

24:52Yeah. Yeah. God, that's great. Yeah, I have a trouble out there. I think I'm just not the best swimmer, man. I never, I don't like to swim cap either, you know. I never liked putting that cap on. That just was not something that was my vibe, you know. What do you mean by not a good swimmer? I just, I don't like it, man. I don't like being out in there. I'm kind of a land dog. I like being on land. I respect water too much. I think I get too scared in it. I just. Yeah. That's it. I get scared in it. Yeah, you have to have a real respect for it no matter what, like on a boat or regardless. Yeah.

25:31It's one of those crazy things that, you know, is beautiful and wonderful and it sustains life, but it has a thousand ways to kill you. Yeah. And it houses the scariest in the whole world. Yeah, I just get nervous. Yeah, yeah. But what are you like in a jacuzzi, though? I'm pretty chill, I think. I'm okay in a jacuzzi, but even then, if nobody's around, I just don't know if I trust myself or not not to like. If I'm even driving through a long puddle, I'll look at my watch and make sure everything's all right. But you had a drowning incident in your past? I think I've just had some probably nervous experiences with it, man.

26:14We used to have a neighbor, and this guy was probably, I don't know if you, he had like one of them big bathtubs they had at their house, and they would, he would play, he would make us play Navy or something. He was probably a gay guy, but we didn't know, right? But he would have us playing Navy. You have more than six of those stories, so you can't claim it now. Yeah, we had, well, but he'd have us play, but it was just like a lot of. It was a guy looking and had you looking in buttholes, so I'm saying. We've had some fucking wild neighbors, bro. Some of these guys were for certain games. I don't know if they were gay.

26:52I'm not sure what they were. We're sure. We're sure what they were. You just made it through all the gauntlets, like, as a participant. Oh, yeah, bro. I put a juke on a nut sack. You know what I'm saying, bro? Give me my$4. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we grew up just adding them. But back then they had some more pedophiles and wildness, I think, back then, man. People wouldn't – now it's all documented, you know. Right. But back then it was just people was more – you know. I remember we had a guy that called – one basketball coach had been, like, kind of tickling the kids a lot, right? And then the other guy called him and he said, hey, you said that's so natural you said that's so naturally like that's a thing that coaches can find themselves dealing with he's trying to get that three pointer out of you bro he's trying to but they had yeah just but they called him and said hey they said Mr.

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28:01Sharp you say if you keep tickling a kid you can't coach him no more but that was it there wasn't like a lawsuit or anything it was just more you know stern activity don't do it don't do it like that but we had i mean i don't i don't fucking know man what was that what were we talking about oh jeff swimming people swimming man yeah i never i think i just get too nervous in water i just i know it's too powerful that's what i know yeah i know it's way more powerful than i am man yeah but it's so funny you like yeah because i could see you man i think sometimes if i think about you i think about you like i could see you having like a show at a sea world or something like that you know like you know what i'm saying matt like a the cat no it'll be a one night only but still because i'm letting all the end i'm letting everybody out are you free like this is wrong you free like i'm black i'm not gonna stand here in front of a prison and do a show You freeing all the black fish on everything.

29:07All the fish. Every fish in the ocean, bro. Free Nemo, bro, until it's backwards, man. I don't know what happened yesterday. Everyone's gone. Dude, if they had one night, though, I'm talking a$320 ticket. It's a pricey ticket, but it's a why not only Cat Williams and the whales, baby. Right. Cat, fish. I got you. People, it'd be unprecedented, man. Indeed. Indeed it would. It would be unprecedented. People would love it, man. I think people are loving the fact that you're sharing new stories. Thanks, man. Right. Yeah, I like it. So get back to the guy in his big bathtub. Oh, yeah. Roy was his name, right?

30:00Roy. And he ended up in the military. But at the time, nobody knew that. We were just children, and he got a whistle or something. Somebody bought him a whistle. And so he would just have us do these little games or whatever. And so I don't know if kids were violent during that, or sometimes people would be aggressive or something. But I think maybe that made me nervous about water. My sister almost drowned one time. I thought she did drown. But she almost drowned once. So I think just stuff like that. We would go swim in a river and there weren't a lot of lifeguards. So I think that's super scary because, you know, you get caught with a current or something.

30:42It's just real. It can be a lot, you know. Which river? The river we were at, I think it was probably part of the Chifuncta, like a little tributary of it. Dirty water? Yeah. That's scary too. Yeah. Yeah, so just that kind of atmosphere, I guess, maybe. Trying to think of what made me so scared. And you know what? I don't know if I knew how to swim that great. You know, Chafunk the river? I don't know if I knew how to swim that great, to be honest with you. But yeah, I think, yeah, people could. I would love to see you do a water show of some sort one day if you ventured out to that sort of thing.

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36:18i i felt like everybody that i everybody in my work life lived in the Palisades. Like, yeah, it's a massive gut punch, just the lives and economies of people that have been destroyed. But this is how life operates, you know? it's very humbling for there to be thousands of homeless millionaires you know yeah yeah it's so surprising man I had a friend I was talking to him he said hey do you want me to go to your apartment and get your I got a Jeep Cherokee out here so you want to go get it in case the winds change it and I said I think it's going to be okay and I said what are you doing he's like I'm going to an audition and it was just so wild that you had places that were completely disappear off the earth and then you have a guy who's going to an audition at the same time you know just that there's so many things happening at once in this it's like part of it is so affected and some of it is unaffected you know kind of just was a dichotomy yeah I feel that way every time I watch international news you know what I mean just those If you watch another country's news and see all of the stuff that they're going through that we never hear about or know about.

37:56Yeah, it's crazy. L.A. is just so massive of a city, you know? It's like a state almost in a way. Right. Like L.A. is like a collection of 100 cities, you know, that make this. That's a good point. I never thought about it like that. with Hollywood and Encino and Beverly Hills and all Compton, Gardena and Englewood and Hawthorne and Torrance and the city of Palmer. And all of these places are fingers and pieces of the body that is L.A. So there's no way for six or seven of those parts to be going through pain and the body to be okay. But by the same token, it has to be. You know what I mean? Like if you break your finger, the rest of your finger still got work to do.

38:58Yeah. You know what I mean? Like. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, man. Yeah, sometimes I think about what it would be like if I were like another ethnicity, you know? You ever imagine like that? Like if you was an Asian guy? Like if you could handle it? No. I, um... You ever had dreams like that where you're Asian? I'm not sure if you have those when you're black. Like...

39:38I'm saying I was born black, so I was born a superior being, a superb specimen, if you will, as far as human creations are concerned. And so I never wanted to be anything other than that. I wanted to know how other people felt. So I didn't. But you never like thought I want to be that. No. Yeah. No. But maybe some of that is because I didn't think that was possible.

40:28I didn't see it from a negative perspective. I saw it from a positive perspective. Right. You know what I mean? Like I'm in the driver's seat. Yeah, it'd be cool to be a passenger, but I like the seat I'm in. That makes sense? Yeah, I didn't think that Chinese people were having more fun or doing better things. I thought they were doing different things. Yeah, they're doing fine. Yeah, and I was interested in knowing what those were, but it never dawned on me that they might be better. You know what I mean? Right. And I had white friends that were admirable, but I didn't imagine being white. And I didn't think that they imagined being black, I guess, either.

41:26But you have a great imagination, which is what makes you world class. You know, like you have to have that. because I heard you tell the story of, you know, I know the stories. Yeah, because I think about that a lot, I guess, of what it would be like to be different ethnicities if I could handle it, you know, if I would think it was fun. I don't think that you would be as different from yourself as you, or as a white guy, as you imagine that you would be. Oh, you would just be kind of the same but just in different shape. Right, right. What I'm saying is I don't think that you, because you think the thoughts and all are kind of the same than you think.

42:14I'm almost certain. I'm almost certain that you as a black guy are also not the norm. You're not. Yeah. You're. I could do it, I think. Kind of a singular. Yeah, you can. I don't know what I'm saying. I'm trying to culture vulture or whatever, but I would like if they ever give you, if they do, you know, if they let people, if I get to do reincarnation, I would put in an application. I know that. Okay, so let's work this out. Let's work this out because if reincarnation is real, you have some say in it, right? That's right because you probably get to apply or talk to the manager. I'm saying there's nobody else's opinion that would be more valued than yours, right?

43:08So let's decide. So where are you coming back? What do you want to try first? Ethnicity, you mean? Don't go right to black. Okay, I won't. I'll wait at least a round or whatever. I will do, I don't know if I, would I do Asian? I don't, Asian seems so, it feels like you could, it feels easy to do kind of. I hate to say that. It just seems. Yeah, that's racist. Sorry. No, it's okay. Okay. Yes, I said it. Asian people. Oh, I would be Mexican. Mexican seems cool. It's, you're kind of almost, you're like a little black or whatever, but you're also, you're just. Right. What was his name that came in your school?

43:58oh no the first Mexican the kid the first Mexican that we ever had in our school not Constantine no Nicholas right so you at least have some experience you know how you could show up you know and you could be a hero and not get ahead of yourself yeah I would go easy into it I wouldn't let anybody know that I was had been there that I was it was my first time you know I think you'd have to be because sometimes I believe you have first times as a human even like you meet some people and it's like oh this is this person's first time being a human the soul like this is a damn newborn you know and then you meet some people you're like damn this person is a sensei this person has been they've been here before but yeah I wouldn't go do black first man I wouldn't yeah I would definitely keep that for like a I would And, yeah, I would be honored to do it if they let me do it.

44:59That's what I would say. I don't speak for the entire delegation, but. And I would do my best, man. We would be, again, as a black guy, we would be honored to have you come through our path. And the only reason I said don't do it first is just because there are certain things that go along with it that you just don't know how you would handle it, you know, until you got the dick of a horse. And then you just got to figure this thing out. Fuck, yeah. Oh, yeah, you got a parallel park even probably tougher. You know, everything is different. Everything a little bit different, I'm sure. But, yeah, I don't know if I'd go along.

45:46Yeah, I would like to. Especially if I got to bring a friend, I would definitely do it, man. You don't get to bring a friend. You make new friends with each of the, you see what I'm saying? Yeah. I know. See, I want to just have some safety, you know. Same reason why I don't want to be in the water, you know. It's just when I feel risk, it makes me, I think it makes me feel nervous, you know. Right. But nervousness was created for that. Nervousness is a good thing. You're supposed to feel that. But that doesn't dictate whether you continue. And if you can get a hold of that, understanding that nervousness doesn't mean stop.

46:30The yellow light doesn't mean stop. The yellow light means be cautious, right? And so when you feel those nerves, understand those nerves mean, okay, don't fuck around. But you can still enjoy. Yeah. Yeah. So we're going to get you closer to the water in 2025. And we're going to deal with some of these ethnic... Blockages, maybe? I don't think they're blockages. You're very open-minded. Yeah, thanks, man. Yeah, they're not blockages. Yeah, you're not dealing with blockages. you're dealing with uncertainty as to who you are in the universe and whether or not you belong in the places you feel like you.

47:27Man, that's interesting. That is kind of how I feel. Yeah, because I'm always thinking of what this other thing would be like, kind of. Right. Right. Because, you know. I never really thought about it like that. I don't believe this is your home planet, you know? Do you believe that most of the people here that are living right now that this is their home planet?

48:00No. No. So you feel like it's more... that we're, you feel like we're maybe a species from somewhere else that's been kind of, that landed here or that got? Mm-hmm. All of the religions tell the same story. And all of the stories are started up there and then end up down here and then continue. And there's a reason for that, I believe. do you feel like this is like a place we're supposed to learn something do you feel like it's a place that we're kind of just spending time an experience a destination you and I are at an age where we remember when the video game experience wasn't what it is now.

48:57It was still a game like Monopoly or something, you know? Where it is now, it's a whole different universe that you can live inside from your Xbox or your PlayStation. And in Call of Duty, you're an actual soldier and you get kills and deaths and eliminations. And And when you then cross over to the PGA game, you have your actual golfer that looks like you and has the name you gave him. And he's really going to go out there and do this 18 on Whistling Straight. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. Then I go and get in my Podium One sim racer and pick the car of my choice and I'm an actual racer. So those experiences located in that console, that's this experience here on earth that we're all able to share.

50:05And that's what would make that reincarnation possible. It just means, oh, yesterday I played that game, and today I'm logging in this experience. And so, yeah, certainly a universal college, if you will. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes I forget. I get caught up in the minutia of things, you know, And I forget to kind of have this bigger breath of like, this is an experience. It's not a sentence. An experience in which you're winning. Right. And an experience in which you're in a better position than others who have been in this same, you are excelling in a life in which you very well could have turned out to be nothing.

51:06Yeah. Or another statistic or just another forgotten body in a ditch. And those were the hazards, right? Yeah. And you, Theo Vaughn, made it through all of that and negated all of those horrific possibilities and are here in this position the best you've ever been, you know? And those are the facts. and if we tell ourselves more of the facts in our head, then we don't hear so much negative, you know? If we try and just focus on telling ourselves the facts? Yeah, of how good we're doing. Like, we're much too hard on ourselves. Oh, yeah, yeah, I feel that all the time, man. I feel like I don't know any other way to be almost sometimes.

51:57Like, not in a bad way, but, yeah, I feel like it's this constant sentence. I feel like there's always been this to-do list that I don't even make, and it's just always been there. Does that make any sense to you? Yeah. That's how I feel all the time. Right. I still have to prove it, a constant of approving. All winners have that disease.

52:26It's self-inflicted. It's for you. It's you doing that. And there's nothing wrong with that harsh management. It's what gets you to the point that you're at. But if you have animals, you know that a relationship doesn't do good with just control words. Just sit and stay. And there needs to be connection fostered and treats are the best thing for learning, you know. And so treat yourself with those type of things as well. Like don't forget to remind yourself of all of the people that you tell stories about and the fact that that was it for them. That little piece of the story you told, like they didn't get better.

53:36like they didn't then change some stuff and go like you did yeah yeah yeah do you feel like who was like a role model when you were growing up do you where do you think you got some of your own influences from do you think it was from people like actually humans in the world or do you feel like you had kind of like divine thoughts that came into your head or guidance like where did that kind of stuff affect you like when you were young or do you feel like? I got it all from books. Like, I got it all from books. What are you smoking, Kat? Sir? Brother? You smoking? If it's not pot, I can smoke it.

54:19That's right. He said, if it's not pot, I can smoke it. Yeah, it's for certain pot. Oh, it is? Yeah, sir. Oh, damn, brother. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, if you needed a cigarette, you could have one. Yeah, I might have a cigarette with you, mate. Sure. What you're getting ready to have is not even available in this place that we live in. What? California. L.A.? Yeah. Oh, they don't have Newports here? Yeah, they're not allowed to do menthols. Wow. So racist. Yeah, it's weird. you can burn down a whole town, but you can't have a Newport. Right. Right. And your blackness begins. Yeah.

55:12Yes, sir. Sorry. Was that it? I love that a lot. Yes, sir. We had some cool black kids growing up in our area, bro. Right. Right. Your basketball team picture is just so wonderful. Oh, thanks, man. Cal Jackson on there, Don Galatis. He had a child. number 34 of our basketball pitcher. We had a lot of good kids in there, man. Right. Shout out James Gray. His dad ran a tire place. He was in there. There's Vincent. He got all the ladies. Vincent did. And Johnny, that's Big Johnny. He was damn 11 feet tall, baby. He had birds living on his shoulders, baby. He was up there. Look, we had a lot of cool kids in our area.

56:07that's how we know everything is perception for you. You know what I mean? Because you gave two whole different sizes for two niggas that's the same size. You can see they're the same size in the picture. He doesn't let that change his story. One of them was 7 '7". He was bigger than all the trees. The other one was 6 '1". Here they are together. But Johnny was so tall, he had windows on the side of his head, but he was tall, man. No, you were kneeling down. Yeah, countless stories. Yeah, I might have been. That's true. You're right.

56:46I was kneeling down, man. Yeah, but these experience, like, no matter what, like, that dude number 34, like, we want to hear his stories. Yeah. Like we know he's got stories and we want to know if he'll tell the stories. And the fact that that's what you do is why. Well, thanks, man. Thanks for the nice words. I appreciate it. You do a great job too, man. Thank you for all the joy over the years. You just bought a military base. Is that right? Yeah. Formerly Fort McClellan. Fort McClellan. And was it an active base until recently? I think it decommissioned in 1999. What's it like over there? Magnificent.

57:42Magnificent. It's going to be one of the greatest things that I personally have ever done. This is it? That's the front side of the beginning of the campus, which is 30 buildings, 3 million indoor square feet, 4 .5 miles of roads. Like, you know, we got the best parts of the base. They had chemical testing and stuff. We don't have those parts of the base. That's the Department of Homeland Security. But, yeah, we just have a wonderful, blessed base at the foothills of the mountains. And it's really magical. And I was able to see what Tyler Perry was able to do with 200 or 300 acres and a military base.

58:46Yeah, it's amazing. And how you could make a movie studio out of that. And so, yeah, we're, yeah. It's unbelievable. It hit the news recently, but I purchased it years, a couple years back. Yeah, I've had it. So we've been working. Was that a tough step to, like, take that, like, okay, we can get this and we can do this? Like, did you reach out to Tyler Perry? Because I know he has, like, in Atlanta, he has an amazing space. He may have many spaces now. This was three years ago. I went to a space to train for something, and they were, it was unbelievable. No, no, no. I wasn't looking then or now for assistance.

59:35Like, we can do this. I just needed to be able to have a home where great movies and entertainment product could be made without any of the shenanigans that are generally involved with Hollywood. and be able to crank them out. And that all it needs to do is be good. If it's good, we're going to make it. And so even though it might have appeared from interviews of me that, you know, this guy just loves tearing people apart, really, you know, So we're trying to create something where it can provide a platform for a lot of people to show what they do. So, yeah. So it would be a place where you could make other people's kind of dreams come true, like with film, television, that sort of thing.

1:00:37Right, where you can just basically have a great script and a great cast and leave your troubles at the door and walk out with the movie in the can. You know what I mean? I like that. I like that, doing things yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because they'll let the comedy movie industry die if we allow it. You know what I mean? And nobody in the fan base ever said, hey, we don't want any more funny movies. Nobody said that. None of the fans ever were like, hey, we're tired of laughing in the movies. Yeah, boo to the cop. No one ever said that. They just decided, you know, we make more money in the superhero action department.

1:01:32Let's just do all those. You know what I mean? And so it'll just take for somebody in the comedy sphere to start producing funny shit. And there we go again. Do you already have projects kind of on tap? Yeah, we got a slate. Well, I'm not allowed to really answer that question, but, yeah, like it's a great location where it is. You know, like it's an hour and a half from Atlanta or less. It's 45 minutes from Birmingham, you know. And I love that area, and they're so thirsty to be involved, you know, that we have equal thirst. So everybody wants it to work, and so it will. Amen. Dude, that's exciting, huh?

1:02:30It is. It is. Will you have kind of your hand in on most of the projects kind of? Is that a weird question? That's kind of, it's kind of, it's kind of not necessary for how, for how it's set up. It's set up in much of the way the grocery store is set up. So my job is just to make sure that all of the food that we sell in this grocery store belongs in this grocery store. You see what I'm saying? Is it a good quality? Oh, we'll get it in there. Some people will want to see that. Yeah, they'd love that. Yeah, the cherry plums. Yeah, they'd love that, you know? And once that barrier is crossed, then we're just trying to make the best project for you and to make your smaller budget be able to compete with the larger budgets.

1:03:35Yeah, because comedy don't need the really big budget either. It just needs to be funny. Yeah. It needs to be funny. But it also can't be under-budgeted, though. See, it can't. It's got to be professional. Yeah. It cannot look cheap regardless, which means it can't be. And that goes to the equipment and to the lighting, and that's why you need hundreds of acres of space to be able to have all of what we're having. Like they're building an amphitheater and, you know, we have sound stages and a whole auditorium and, you know. Hell yeah. Yeah, it's pretty nice. Instead of seeing if you have the cards, that's owning the deck, really, you know.

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1:07:38Um, I have wives, but no. Yeah.

1:07:46Yeah. Yeah. I'm a happy, happy man. Yeah, sometimes I've been thinking a lot about getting married, but I don't know if sometimes it's like an outside pressure that I feel or if it's just like something I would like to have that family, you know? Like that, you know, I think you always have like an idea of what a family is, you know? Yeah, yeah. Sometimes I feel like that's something I want to try to make happen, you know? It seemed like it would be a real challenge. Scared of marriage, but I was scared of divorce. Like, my parents didn't get divorced. My parents are still together. Oh, wow. So I never, I always felt like you only do this one time, you know?

1:08:35And I was always more happy of the bullets I had dodged and the people that, whoa, I thought I would have married her. Like I was ready to, you know what I mean? Yeah, then you'll see them years later and you're like, oh. Right, you're like, oh my God. So, yeah, happiness is what I'm after, not titles or idealistic situations. Like I just want to provide happiness and be provided that as well. and if you can get that situation regardless of what it's called that's going to be nice maybe I get too stuck on the yeah maybe I sometimes do get too feeling like I have to fill in the blanks as opposed to what do I really want to create you know like or being like what if I didn't get married what would people think sometimes I'll get that stuck in my head you know I guess it's normal But yeah, like I.

1:09:45Yeah, I like I don't. I would hate to be put in a situation where I have to cheat on somebody, you know what I mean? And I kind of feel like what was the point? Yeah, yeah. I don't want to set myself up or that's a good point, too. I don't want to set myself up or a situation that would be uncomfortable for me or I would hurt somebody else's feelings either. Right. Yeah, that's something I would not enjoy. But remember, in your next life, you know, you got a black woman coming. So things are going to change. Oh, Lordy. Things are going to change. It's going to be something. It's going to be something.

1:10:26God. Right. Yeah. Have you experienced a black woman?

1:10:35Yeah. Pretty much. I mean, I haven't dated just a black lady. She wasn't our best representative. No. I mean, there's a cute black lady that I met at the airport that if I see her again, I think I would try to ask her out, but I haven't seen her again. But I would be open to dating a cool black lady. Hold on. Hold on. Let's talk specifically about this one you're talking about. Yeah, she just looked like really confident and nice smile. And pretty eyes. And I was like, man, there's just something about her. Okay. All right. And she was where? That I admired. She was working at the airport. Working at the airport.

1:11:17That's. So she was a worker. She liked to work. She doesn't mind working. Hey, hey, they're beautiful. Which airport was this? This was at LAX. You bet it was. Yeah. So she was TSA approved too, you know, so. Right, right. So yeah, if I see her again, I would try to. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're seeing her again. Okay. We're seeing her again. Because you have this feeling already. You're only saying it like, well, you never know. I might not see it. You're going to see her again. Absolutely. Because we, yeah, you're going to ask her out. Beautiful. Fantastic. Oh. She might. No, she's not watching.

1:11:58She might be watching. I don't know. She might be watching. Do you do that? Do you do that, like speak things into existence type of thing? I'm not powerful enough to do that, but I don't ignore things that I see in existence. So what I'm saying is I'm not going to ignore the fact that you're not saying abstract. You know, if I saw a black woman that did something for me, I'd ask her out. No, you actively saw one. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And this is recent. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And it's going to be life changing. Yeah? Yeah. Are black women a lot different, do you think? Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yes. Like, you know black guys, right?

1:13:02Black women are nothing like black guys.

1:13:07Like, I don't want to put so much pressure on this lady at the airport, but she doesn't know we've had this conversation. No. No, she doesn't. Magnificent creatures. Okay. But in slavery, black women were appreciated. You understand how difficult that is? Yeah. That's some hard shit to pull off. Yeah. I hate you guys, but not all of you. Some of you are wonderful, precious beings. Yeah. Yeah. Black women are almost unreal. Only because what it is that they possess, they don't. It's not on purpose. You know how we feel about people on the spectrum? Oh, yeah. They're magic. Right. The reverence that you and I have for that community, right?

1:14:20You're going to feel that with black women. Wow. They're really where the word nurture comes from. You know what I mean? Like the ability to give you something as a man that you never had before or felt before and make it comfortable for you to access that. Really? Yeah. Really life changing. yeah man cause I yeah yeah this could be part of my 2025 man it is it clearly is right right we've said it we are we've said it yeah you had a lot of last year it seemed like you had a lot of predictions last year you kind of became this oracle last year did you feel that that people came to you they almost you almost became kind of like this like a little bit of like a crystal ball you know

1:15:27I'm honored to get to say the things that I say when I'm saying them. And because you know that I operate from a positive first standpoint in all things, like I assume that it's going to work out for the best. and I understand that if it is for the worst, then I'm prepared to handle that as well. But, yeah, it was something. Did you start to worry any about your own safety and stuff? Because it seemed like you really had some moments where you're kind of, you know, almost channeling truths into the world.

1:16:23and some people don't like that you know some people don't want to I mean the dark side of things doesn't really probably enjoy that well what it was that I was attempting to do was impossible so before I do this interview there is no Illuminati it's just a joke it's just something that crazy people talk about There's no such thing as our side and God's side. None of that is even real. I got to come and make it real. I have to come and say, no, no, no, no. Everybody's not the same. So that's why when I said that, nobody came out and went, that's not true. I'm on God's side. Like, none of them.

1:17:10I'm just the conversation was to show that there are spiritual things going on in the world and that there are things that are bigger than just coincidence. And that a ritual is something that you do over and over and over again a certain way. You see what I'm saying? If part of the ritual is wearing a dress, then we should be able to look through entertainment and see all of these people being made to wear a dress. That's what a ritual is. You know what I mean? Like whether they're white or black, that doesn't matter. There's not other jobs where this is a requirement. man why is this yeah why is this so necessary yeah you don't see the dog catcher show up every you know every other year like it's not a thing in a nice skirt or you don't see an electrician right so come up in a blouse every now and then right i'm saying a lot of people that doubt what you say don't read and they haven't been readers you know what i mean like books were my life Literally, I thought that I could learn enough information to be an important person.

1:18:39You know what I mean? So I'm actively trying to eat information. Like, do you have a favorite book? No. No, no, no. Like, even when I said how many books I read, like, people are thinking maybe I'm reading 900 pages. No, no, no. I'm reading 150, 200-page books, and I'm reading as many of them as I can because I'm trying to earn these pizza parties and these other weekly reader things that exist. My parents don't even celebrate holidays. I got to get my own gifts, bitch. I'm fitting to read myself into a t-shirt and a personal paying pizza. Yeah, yeah. Right. So I got those books, and then I got the ones I'm trying to learn from.

1:19:38Yeah. You know? And those are separate. What was your question? Do you have a first book that you remember reading, like one that got read to you when you were a kid, or something that you really liked? Like a book that set it off for you that was like, oh.

1:19:56I read the Bible first. That's 66 books. So, yeah, it kind of was my starting point in book reading. But it's not set up like a book technically. It's very disjointed. Oh, yeah. So I found that everything else I read was an easy read. You know what I mean? I loved reading all of the classics because I felt like I was literally in this story. You know what I mean? And I could read multiple books at once. And I was completely enthralled with reading. Oh, yeah. Yeah, just the idea of being able to take myself into a different place, you know. It was like, and it really, I mean, words were really just fuel for your imagination.

1:20:59It's like, that's how you would get your head going, you know. Right, but I didn't want to use my imagination. I wanted this imagination. You see what I'm saying? Oh, you wanted the information. I wanted to know what Huckleberry Finn and I wanted to know what they were doing. Like, you know what I mean? Like I wanted the adventures. You know what I mean? Like I was reading everything. Nancy Drew, Mysteries, like every, like anything I could get my hands on. The Hardy Boys, like I'm reading that and yeah. So many different stories that you get, you start understanding what it takes to, for someone to be a winner in life, you know.

1:21:57And you find out from reading thousands of books that if you can list the fucked up things that have happened in your life and you can put that on a list and you somehow made it past all of this to be in a position where you can still go make some stuff happen. that's what you have in common with every hero of every story of every autobiography of every is that yeah is how much happened to you that should have broke you that did not break you so that you were able to then fucking ride amen amen did y 'all um I'm trying to think of some of my favorite books when I was a kid. I don't even remember.

1:22:56When I was young. Where the Red Fern Grow. We had to read all kind of shit. They had one book that kept killing this dog in it. I felt so bad for him. How many times can you kill a dog? I mean, they kept, that thing was fucking really dead. I don't remember that. I don't know who wrote that bitch, but I think Stephen King wrote it. But that bitch was dead, bro. After the second chapter, I said, this bitch is dead. I think I only read one book he ever did because I couldn't read his books without going, hey, dude. Whoever writes like this is a demon. And then he always had his picture on the back, and he looked scary.

1:23:42Like, uh-uh. Yeah, he looked like he owned a bunch of ravens or something. That dude, yeah, everybody, he had one book that, and the animals was kept being alive and dead. Edgar Allan Poe was a favorite of mine. He was a gangster, too. He had a lot of women, too. Bring up some of his ladies he had, Edgar Allan Poe's girlfriend. He had a flock at the, you know, I think he used to live in Virginia. You know that? Edgar Allan Poe, click on a couple of his dimes he had.

1:24:16look at these broads right here yeah just click on one of them damn edgar allen right there baby you tell him oh shorty want a thug he was a clear pedophile Come on, man. He was a clear pedophile. She looks nine. And it says she died when she was 24. She had tuberculosis, boy. But before that. That's how he liked them. That's how he liked them, boy. Oh, shit. Now, she's cute. No, come on now. Right there, Frances, baby. That was a foster mother. That was a foster mother, whatever. Damn, bro. Why are you fucking helping me out? Fire. These were supposed to be his whole family members. Whatever.

1:25:11We got our research department. Now, what about right there? Virginia Clem, baby. That's a girlfriend. Right. And that was the, I'm saying, even today, that's heavy filters.

1:25:31that was her looking good at any age right there that particular pose okay I admit you had to be a virgin to show that much next she was like no one has ever yeah pretty good but what about her though oh wow let me see Sarah Helen Whitman a professional writer who met Edgar through the literary circles in New York. Vellatio. Yeah. Otherworldly. That's the original Hawk tour. Sarah Helen Whitman. She get those curls going. Oh, you're going to love it. Bounce, bounce, bounce. Milk it, Sarah. Milk it. She'll slurp you back to Saturn right there, man. And then just, wait a minute. Why does Zuckerberg come?

1:26:22Are they? Oh, geez. I don't know why they brought him up. You have genius here. Oh, we have the new hair. Yeah, he has the new hair. Sarah Helen Tucker. What do you think about a lot of these social media sites controlling how people communicate? What do you think about that, man? You fear that kind of stuff?

1:26:47If it exists, it will be controlled and regulated. That's just a fact. Whatever it is, that's the game. The game is to how quick can we get this new thing controlled and regulated, right? And we are counting on them to provide this platform that we use to communicate on, right? So it's a tradeoff. Always has been. I'm saying the if we understood that the internet itself is a government function then how much privacy would you expect? Right. Right. At that point we're almost the fools for pretending that we would still have it privacy. Yeah. Right. I'm saying do you feel like in Hollywood would that there are, you know, I've heard you kind of allude to the fact that there's like kind of darker forces that kind of like, you know, that present opportunities to people in trade-off, right?

1:28:05In trade for their own, maybe their own peace, maybe their own reality, maybe a sacrifice of their actual direction that they want. Do you think that really happens, that kind of stuff?

1:28:28I think everything is controlled and regulated. Mm-hmm. You think there's ever ways where we can get to the control room and see who's controlling, or do you think that's all? We're past that. We're past that, but we don't protect the whistleblower, right?

1:29:07We don't honor the scout that would tell us who it is. matter of fact when they get them we're gonna go oh i could have told you that was gonna happen they're telling too much truth do you think hollywood has a lot of things that they like hold against people you know like i had a theory that a lot of this is human nature right so it's not even hollywood it's just human nature it starts as human nature right like i'm saying this is in And these things that I'm saying in Hollywood exist in religious circles, in politics, in the medical profession.

1:29:53In any circle of business, really. Yeah. They had a big bust with Puff Diddy where he got arrested. And then they've had like accusations and stuff. He hasn't gone on trial, I don't think yet. But do you think that they – there's been speculation that they did that because they – the timing of that was they wanted to like use other people that have allegedly been involved in some of his circles to – they wanted to kind of use like, okay, you could be next unless you help this political plan. Do you think that's at all possible? That's how all cases are handled. Yeah. Right? So what am I saying?

1:30:43I'm saying if it's car theft and we're going to accuse you of having a carjacking ring, right, We're going to begin by bringing in people that we caught who were robbing cars, who said that you was the boss, their first in line. And then we're going to bring in victims, the people whose cars you stole and said, yeah, that was him. That's how they build a case. So none of that should be shocking. you don't put it past them. It's part of what an investigation is. But do you feel like they would say to someone, okay, we're going to bring you in unless. Absolutely. That's what they do. Yeah. Yeah.

1:31:39Even like in the rap world, like all of the rappers that you know that never been to jail and never,

1:31:49never gotten any trouble with the law, but they talk as if their life is opposite of that. Like, those are federal informants. Like, you know. You think they're really out there? Yeah. Yeah. That's part of the job is to acquire those. It's like saying, you know, if you're playing chess, do you have any pawns? You have to, don't you? You can't start without them. Right. Right. Wow. Right. Man, so how do you know who is, that's part of the game, huh? You don't know. It's part of the game. Yeah, it kind of makes it exciting, too, when you think about it. It can be exciting and depressing. Mm-hmm.

1:32:45Did you ever do a rap album?

1:32:49Yep. You did? Several. I didn't know that. I'm sorry, man. I didn't research that. No problem. I didn't put them out. Oh. You asked me, did I do them? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Did you have some collabs on them with anybody? Did somebody help you produce some stuff? Master P, maybe anything like that? Sure, he would be honored that of all people, you name dropped him. I'm just thinking of somebody from Louisiana right what a blessing when I was in college he used to they had it was like masterpiece it was like silk the shocker like that whole cabal was really really vibing right so they used to have they would all come to LSU and play at the basketball courts and they would have these guys who would stand on the side and hold their clothes and they were dressed like kind of Native Americans like almost like black Indians And some of them would have on like little headdresses and stuff and they would have them all holding their clothes and shoes on the side of the court.

1:33:55It was a vibe, man. Yeah. All through that period of time, that whole no limit empire was really, really magnificent to the fan base. Like, they really went to places where people wanted to see them and delivered a show like we weren't used to. Because there was so many acts. Yeah, they had a lot of the whole group. You know what I mean? Like, there was... They all came together and, like, put on a show that was just unbelievable in all venues. It was extraordinary to watch. Did you ever tour with a rap? Did you ever, because sometimes you'll have musicians and rappers, or musicians and comedians tour together?

1:34:51Yeah. You have? Mm-hmm. I'd say no. Some people like that. Some people don't. Yeah. I have Lil' Mo on, has been on our tour probably for the last three or four years. And the Lady of Rage as well comes out. Music is a wonderful partner to comedy, you know, and we try to use that music and comedy are interspersed in my life. So it's always a part of my set. And yeah, I'm a huge music fan. Are you an instrumentalist? You play anything? No, no, no. I play nothing and I cannot sing. can't sing can't play anything which makes me one of the greatest music listeners yeah you know what i mean like that's what i like and i and i like immerse myself you know like like there's there's like albums that represent like whole periods of my life you know what i mean like um like the album Counting Crows, August and everything after.

1:36:10Down up in New Amsterdam. Like, I know every song, every beat, every word, like, because where I was at the time and then Pearl Jam's. Yeah. 10. At home, drawing pictures of mountain tops. Yeah. With him on top. Like, you know what I'm saying? Because I was listening to stuff that it made me feel like they're really singing about me. How I think or feel some moment. All of it. Yeah. Remember Shy? Remember when that group came out? And if I ever fall. Remember them? I can't sing either. I do. You did pretty good. Thank you, bro. Appreciate that. They would be proud. They were good. bro. They were good.

1:37:04But that was a great time for music of all genres. You know what I mean? Like, good music was just good music. Yeah. Yeah, I remember one of the, I'm trying to think of one of the first Oh, I went to a guy. Green Day. You're gonna make a great black guy. Oh, yeah. And they had Tevin Campbell, remember him? Can we talk? Right. For a minute, Tevin Campbell. Girl, I want to know your name. I'm like, well, fucking just go talk to her then. No, like, tell the truth. When we saw him and we heard the song, we were like, are you sure you want to talk to her?

1:37:50No wonder you're so trepidious.

1:37:56That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. They had a different... Right. The sequel to that song was a surprise. We'll just say like that, man, the sequel was a surprise. That was a good time, though. Right. That was a good time. It was a good time. When was that? That was late 90s, I think. Did you ever get to meet Michael Jackson before?

1:38:26No, I got to meet Prince. You did? Yeah. Did you ever get to go bike riding with him or anything like that? Who's that? Prince? Um, I think bike riding may have been the only thing we'd yeah, no, no, I don't he wasn't doing bike riding. Um, he had had an experience. Let's see, so when I meet him I'm 12, I guess he's 18, 19. Oh, you met him when you were 12? Yeah, I knew him, I knew him my whole, I'm saying from 12 till he left, that was, I knew him the whole time. Like, yeah, he was a magnificent, one-of-a-kind individual. Like, I got to, he, he lived different lives. Like, he wasn't where we are and we're talking about how we need to you know reinvent and and he was like the master at that you know what I mean like he was only going to be this version of himself for a very short amount of time until he had mastered it and then he was gonna go to something else and he always had that energy huh yeah from the yeah yeah he was yeah but but when i met him he was already a millionaire and so i i couldn't initially understand what kept driving him you know because it just seemed to me like he was never happy because every time i would see him he had achieved like 30 new things and had purchased like 100 new things.

1:40:23And still yet he was working like he didn't, you know? Yeah. And I probably was just not understanding what work ethic was, you know? But, yeah, I learned a lot from that guy. I met Shaq when I was 16. Damn, where at, you think? I know where. In Orlando, his rookie year. Yeah, because he played at LSU, man. Yeah, great guy. Great guy. Big shit. Yeah, right. Yeah. Dude, if I was that big, I couldn't get my big ass out of bed at that size, man. It'd be so hard. You know, because some of us, it's kind of hard at even a regular size. I don't believe that. You know how hard it is to get a big old? Look at it right there.

1:41:16It's so hard to get up when you're big. Right. I watch my aunt get up sometimes like, she ain't going to get up. You know what I'm talking about? You ever see somebody and you're like, she ain't going to get up. That's when. And they figure it out. When all of the places were catching on fire, that was my first thought was like, nobody on my 600-pound life is gone. Make it out of none of this. Like, what? Yeah, that show's over, bro. Like, there's a whole portion of population that can't get up.

1:42:00Everybody's like, evacuate! Somebody just shit in the bed. I did. I did evacuate. They evacuated. Did us look the other way? That's their evacuation. Just lean away from the warm.

1:42:24Flip the pillow. Yeah. Did you, what did you and Prince do? Did y 'all ever go to eat or nothing? Like, what did he like to do? No, no. So, like, you know how some people have chefs? like he was beyond that like he wanted he wanted a chef to know what he was preparing like I don't know how to explain it but like he wasn't vegan the whole time I knew him you know he was just vegan for this portion But before that, he had a whole different thing. But he would have an Italian chef to make Italian when that's what he was having. And he, like, to the extreme. He was extreme. Yeah. So, you know, you would get the most beautiful meals around this dude because he was a foodie.

1:43:34Oh, damn. I'd love to watch him eat a little snack or something, a little creme brulee or a little big scoop of ice cream. I'd love to see that because he was kind of smaller, wasn't he? I'm 5 '5", so it never really factored in. Oh, you're bigger than him, I think. Yeah, but I'm saying I wasn't gazing at him while he was eating it. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, we always had enough women around. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I wasn't there in a longing fashion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, sorry. Some of us like to watch a small person, if they get up against like a real hard scoop of ice cream, they fucking can't handle that bitch, you know?

1:44:25No, no, no. I didn't get it. Yeah. Rewind that again. Okay, sorry. Somehow I missed that and I can't accept it. No, I just sometimes if somebody, you know, I know like if I get up, if it's a real cold scoop of ice cream and it's hard to, you know, get with a spoon or something. I just imagine like a smaller guy battling that bitch.

1:44:53Oh, shit. I want you to acknowledge how funny that was. I just want to envision in my head, Prince. He just got two or three spoons going on that bit. He going to get in there. He'd have whooped your ass in here. He probably would have. And blessings, man. I'd have had to pull him off. Man, he's a purple superhero, and he is the king, man. In real life, yeah. I'm just joking, Prince. If your spirit is here, I'm sure it is somewhere. It is indeed, yeah. And he had a great sense of humor. Oh, I saw him stop in. I was in Minneapolis. they used to have this place called and he got more pussy than you.

1:45:35Did he? Yeah. Oh yeah, of course he did. What the fuck am I talking about? Yeah, it took me half a second to realize that. Yeah, of course he did. Damn, boy. Yeah. Well, no, they had a place though that he would go perform sometimes on a certain night. It was in Minneapolis and a lot of musicians would just show up and one night he showed up there, man, and it was amazing. It was just random people would get together and play. No, he loved that probably more than anything else. Like, he loved that more than touring. He loved that more than anything is jam sessions. And he had places all over the globe, and he was welcomed.

1:46:21I'm saying, you're talking about a guy that played 26 instruments. Do you feel what I'm saying? Like, we're talking about a guy that, like, most people, yeah. Just magical, huh? If you couldn't learn from what he did, then you just pass learning. You know what I mean? Like, the shit resonates regardless of what it is you're trying to do. Right. And so, yeah, I was blessed to. Even be around him, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Just to be able to witness a short, young black guy navigate the highest echelons of entertainment and still be holding on to things that he doesn't do and won't do. And still feeling like he needs to look out for other musicians and other artists and still trying not to bring shame on his fans or other black people or music lovers or, you know, just a wonderful human, you know.

1:47:54that's what you feel like shit now i feel bad about making that joke but i feel okay still i mean i feel you should it's okay yeah i'm just joking yeah um yeah but did um when you were growing up do you ever have like a tv for like a like a tv father kind of you know like i had like i'm trying to think of like just trying to think of like influences that you had when you were young like i had like little house on the prairie was a show i would watch that they had michael Landon was on it. And then they had In the Heat of the Night. I really liked that show. Now, wait a minute. Who was the father figure on In the Heat of the Night?

1:48:37Was the black guy your father figure? Virgil Tibbs? Virgil Tibbs. Yeah, probably. He was good. I will tell you this. I met his wife at a, or not his wife, but - The lady that played his name? Yes, that's her right there. Virgil and Sophia was his wife in the show, I think. She was way smaller than you thought, right? She was very beautiful. And I saw her at a breakfast place, and I was like, I cannot go back in there and tell her. And I did. And I think she kind of appreciated it, but it was still pretty awkward, I think. But she's very beautiful. But, yeah, I liked him and Carol O 'Connor was in it.

1:49:11But in the heat, that was my heat. Right. That shit was good. I loved that. What else did I like? trying to think of a show where i had like a tv dad did you have like a tv family or someone that you kind of liked um as a black man um i had a real father so um i wasn't looking at um tv for the images of a real good black father because i had one You know what I mean? So for me, it was a little interesting just to see how other fathers were portrayed, you know? I more enjoyed seeing the dynamics of other families and how things went for them because that's the only way that I knew, oh, I don't have that type of upbringing at all.

1:50:18Wow, that's, yeah.

1:50:23I didn't even know my mother was supposed to love me. Like, I didn't know that. Sorry to laugh, man. She's never kissed me in my life. I didn't know she was supposed to like me. I'm saying she made sure I ate.

1:50:44I had clean clothes. But I'm saying I didn't. Yeah, it would have been shocking. My mom was always working. I would be like, Mom, tell me you love me. She was like, I got to move this box over here. That's what she would be like. I'm like, Mom, how do you feel about me? She's like, oh, we got to put all these boxes away. She always had something to do, you know. Like if a feeling came up, my mom just couldn't have it, you know. No, I love you, Mom. I'm just, it's funny. Now it's funny. Right. But now you can. Yeah, it was ridiculous. I was like, Mom, how do you feel about me? She's like, we got to get this car to start.

1:51:26Like, what the fuck? What are you talking about? There's a vacuum.

1:51:33Right. Yeah, that was it. That's what I think. That's what I always was looking for, for me. But these are the things that guarantee success. That's what I'm telling you. Yeah. It's part of what's on that list that, you know, you got certain things against you. you're going to be successful. Right. Yeah. Yeah, you're going to be in a position where you can rectify things. You know that you're way more appreciative of love because of that. You're in a position where you can still be loved, you know, by the black lady. At the airport. Yeah. 2025. My little layover lady. That's what I'm calling my little layover.

1:52:34I've seen you. This is something that I thought. There's only two things that I think that I've seen and I'm not sure. One of them was that Santa Claus when I was a kid that they brought us outside and they had a real sleigh go by in the air. It was an airplane that they disguised as a sleigh in our town. The second one is I thought I saw you riding bikes down Sunset Boulevard. Right. So now the funniest part of all of that is because all of your stories are true. Right. But the whole thing is when you're telling this story, we ride by on these bikes with lights on them. Yeah. Like from the future.

1:53:14Circus members. Really, really, this is a million and a half dollars worth of Can-Am spiders. Eight of them, 200 ,000 apiece. Me and Suge going down sunset. Oh, yeah, I didn't see those, man. I'm sorry. I saw some bitches. Somebody covered them bitches. Cat Williams came by with a Shetland pony. It had neon lights on the hooves. Somebody spray-painted silly string on the back of it. But a violin started playing it. Do you believe in life after life? Yeah, I swear to God, I'm standing on the porch. I look over there. Right. And you had done one of those things where you stand up but keep, you know what I'm saying, when you're riding down the street.

1:54:09I'm 5 '5", so I do that better than most. And I said, damn, there he goes, bro. Right. And by the time I get anybody's attention, nobody believed me. So that's why I think it had a lot of that same, like, when you saw Santa, you know, type of energy. Right. Well, understand, I didn't take away from the myth. I just clarified. Yeah. No, good. Because I thought I was crazy for thinking that. Right. What do you see happening in 2025, Kat? This is where we get to where, like, what do you feel like? What do you feel like are things we can look forward to, things we can stay conscious of? Can I bump another cigarette by chance, man?

1:54:52You got enough sure on you? Absolutely. Let's do it. Yeah, so. Let me get that bitch. Get my lungs up. We're already in 2025, aren't we? Yeah. Yeah. So. You write already. Yeah. See there? So the whole thing is we're not.

1:55:12This thing does not happen in yearly cycles. Like it's not an every 12 months thing. That's not how it works. So the age of truth is not one year. It's the beginning of people having more of a thirst for what is true than an appetite for lies. So if you sell lies, it's a harder road for you. If you have truths to tell, people are hungry for that, and they'll pay you handsomely to hear the truth. It wasn't always that way. It's that way right now in real time. Whatever that means to you, that's the battle that's going on, is people who profit from the manipulation of others by getting you to believe something that's not the case.

1:56:15And that's how they make their living. And it is now a difficult time for those entities.

1:56:27Do you think that there is actual cloning going on? We know that there's actual cloning going on. The question I believe you're asking is human cloning. Oh, yes, sir. But let's start with the real question. The real question is, is cloning going on? Yeah. Yeah, it is. I knew it. Yeah. Well, I'm saying, let's just say animal cloning. Oh, yes. Let's start there. That's not a myth or... No, that's been known. That's not a conspiracy theory that we are at the point where we have no problem cloning animals. If you lose a pet, you can send away to these companies and they will. They'll fucking remix that bitch and send it back.

1:57:19Right. Yeah. As close a proximity as you can imagine. Yeah. Right. That we know is possible. Okay. So now. Through Viagen pets right there. So that's in the animal world. So now in the human world, we know that there are multiple surgeries that we know we can replace this with that. All the way up to, what's our last achievement? Is it heart? The guy passed away with a pig heart? But it worked for, I'm saying. Let me see that. Bring up that pig hearted guy right there. Yeah. Two people have received a genetically modified pig heart transplant, David Bennett and Lawrence Fawcett. Both were performed in Maryland.

1:58:29So there's not, the evidence is there Very much left on what it would take as far as abilities go Do you think there's any artists now that you think are not the same artists that we thought they were?

1:58:49if we're only speaking of biology I've heard that a man's G spot is in his anal passage which means I'm going to go my whole life without ever experiencing it yeah by the same token

1:59:16everybody is a reflection of what they got to go through to get to where they at, right? And I just know that the people that have been in positions where they decided to do some stuff that they said they weren't going to do, they don't be the same on the other side. nothing they can do can make them seem like what you remember them as. I call it spiritual because I don't know what else to call it. Have you ever faced that in your own life where people try to come at you for offers like that? Do you think that stars get offered that kind of thing? Like to compromise themselves sexually for entertainment?

2:00:16Again, the things that we are discussing exist in each of the fields. Right, any field. Right, right. Not entertainment exclusively. Politics, religion, science, everywhere, right? Some of this is human nature, right? Because we listen and we don't judge.

2:00:51Were there things that you didn't take in your career that you feel like were, like, are there things to look out for, do you feel like? There wasn't for me because I knew I wasn't going to take it, but I did want to get offered. You know what I mean? And most of the stuff I wouldn't have believed until I had to get to a certain level to get to see the proof. You know what I mean? So I was as shocked as anybody about how powerful Harvey Weinstein was at the time that I was meeting with him and how he could not be told no, that he get whatever he want. You follow what I'm saying? They'll figure out some way.

2:01:44Right, so I thought that didn't apply to me because I don't care about nothing, but bitches in good business, right? And then he offered me two actresses like they was playing cards, and I was like, what? Like he just jolted me. He was like, I know you. Damn. Right, like what? Some aces. No, my personal aces. Yeah. Did you think about it? Look, I'm not. In these scary situations, I don't even leave it up to me. Like, I'm going to do what the superhero would do in this part of the movie regardless and deal with what happens after. Yeah. Just because it's a story. And I know it's a story. Right.

2:02:44It's my story. You know what I mean? So I can't. That's a good way to think about things in general. Yeah. What would the superhero do right now? Yeah, yeah. Because I'm saying, I read about Jesus getting to the mountaintop and the devil saying you can have all of this and him saying you don't have anything to offer me. You know what I mean? So that's what I got to look up to. So I'm going to follow suit in the best version I can regardless of anything else.

2:03:25Do you have a comedian that passed away that you miss a lot? I mean, I know there's been a lot of them. But do you have like a real... As Gary said, I miss so many. Do you have like a brother in comedy? like i miss so many i like what was bernie mack like was he a super guy because i never seen anybody like him that's a great place to start no you never saw anybody like him just because there wasn't anybody like him you know what i mean like um the things people pretend to do and talk themselves up to be, and he was that already. Yeah, I...

2:04:21I went down to his show when he was taping and they were saying he wasn't feeling good. I left there feeling like they're murdering this dude. Like he had a lung problem, right? And the doctors told him that he just had to take time away from the show and he could come back when he was okay, right? And his contract wouldn't let him. Oh, yeah. And they made him work through, like, yeah. Yeah. But I miss all of the comedy angels that I came in contact with, from Charlie Murphy to Heavy D. I miss Heavy D, John Witherspoon. You know, like, we lost some really. great comics. I miss Rinaldo Ray. I miss yeah it's been a lot.

2:05:30Bring up a picture of Rinaldo Ray. I'm just not familiar with him just so I can see what he looks like. Oh yeah. Yeah. Didn't he play in the Cosby show? Was he the grandfather? He was a brilliant brilliant individual. He had multiple master's degrees and was an art collector and a real legendary guy. Yeah.

2:06:08What other? What about Bill Cosby? Did you ever get to meet him or not? Before he had all the problems?

2:06:21Is being a rapist one of the problems. Sorry. You said it like before he got scurvy. Oh, man.

2:06:39Sorry, bro. That was, yeah, that was, that was, yeah, I did, but yeah, what was he like before that? Right. Right. I don't know. I don't know.

2:07:01Comedically, like, he has some works comedically that you could put up there in the pantheon of joke telling. Oh, yeah. He had so many albums when I was a kid that, like, our parents would play in the car, stuff like that. And he spent a good portion of his televised career really making black men and black families look really good in a time when that was not a popular thing to do. None of that supersedes rapists. No. But, yeah, I was glad to not be a fan of his just because, you know, we liked Richard Pryor and you had to kind of like, which way are you? Are you Richard Pryor, Red Fox, or are you Bill Cosby?

2:07:58Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's definitely different then.

2:08:06What else is going on? Please don't have an R. Kelly question. I do not have an R. Kelly question. No, I don't. Did you get to go to Bernie Mac's funeral? Did he have a big funeral?

2:08:24Steve Harvey was at his funeral, so I wouldn't have been there anyway. I didn't know that. Okay.

2:08:38What else? I'll be able to tell you when you're black. Okay. Okay. I feel like I'm not doing that good right now on it. You're doing great. Okay. What do you mean? Thanks, man. Did you get, was it scary for you to be a parent whenever you decided you wanted to be a parent? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's one of those things where it's only looking back that you realize, oh, I was not in any way qualified for that job. Like, you know, but you try so hard, you know, and it means everything. But, yeah, it's exciting and scary. Like, you can't. So you don't have any kids? No. I want to get to it.

2:09:40I would like to have some children. Well, if you have one child, you're not going to have the drug issue to deal with ever again. Really? Yeah, because it's going to, you can't do them both. Right. You can't do them both. Yeah. And if, yeah, and if you. As soon as you have, and it doesn't matter how you get this child. Okay. The second you become a father and this life is dependent upon you, like you're going to devote everything to that and you're going to have to. You're going to have to because only somebody with your experiences will be able to deal with not being able to sleep for like two months.

2:10:42Yeah. You know what I mean? Just on this baby's schedule that has no schedule except, yeah, it's crazy. Life-changing doesn't even say the half of it. But, you know, do you have pets? See, this is a thing. Yeah. Right. I'm going to get started too. This is what's keeping you able to be in this world is because you've not given yourself a life responsibility. You see what I'm saying? I think that's why I became a community because I didn't want any responsibilities really. Right. Right. In a lot of ways. Right. I think it's a big part of me that starts to feel like, yeah, I'm missing out if I don't.

2:11:27I'm missing out, but I just want to know. I want to have every experience I can, you know. Right. Right. And you can. Yeah. And this is the vehicle for that. You know what I mean? That's what a coincidence that all your life will line up for you to want to do that. And then to meet a girl at the airport that already loves to fly and travel. And make sure I don't have any illegal substances on me too at the same time. Just because you're not going to need them. Are you a pet owner? You a big pet owner, man? I've heard that you got some animals over there. Yeah, I love the animals. I've heard you got a couple of horses, things like that.

2:12:12They're great. Yeah, ducks. Like, I got, I got. How many ducks do you have, Kat? Between 19 and 21. I just say that because a couple were there when I first got the place, and they never left, right? So they're there. But everybody else, we raise some eggs, you know, that you go down to, what's the name of that place? Tractor Supply. Oh, Tractor Supply. Yeah. You go to Tractor Supply. Oh, and the feed and seed shop? You do the incubators. Yeah, so it's beautiful because they're all black. Oh, really? Good. We need more of that. We need everybody. Diversity in the duck world. Oh, hell yeah, dog.

2:13:01I'm sick of seeing these fucking swans, bro. You know what I'm saying? These rich-ass, long-necked motherfuckers, bro. No, we have geese, too. But I'm just saying we need some fucking bangers in there, dog. You know, we need some dark ducks in this bitch. Yeah, yeah. Or some, bring up a couple of black ducks, man. I would love to see those right now. Because I'm used to seeing mallards I've seen for sure. But I've never seen some really good darker ducks. So that's a beautiful one right there. None of these are black ducks. Oh, sorry. Well, get one. But no, get one at the bottom. Okay, yeah, there we go.

2:13:37That western black duck. That western black. That's an all black duck. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah. But mine are, oh, that's fucking Mallard Luther King right there, bro. That thing dark as hell, dude.

2:13:54Sorry, bro. You're going to make a great black guy. Mallard Luther King. That could be his name. And that is actually a beautiful name for a duck. For that duck specifically. It is. Mallard Luther. The king. Yes. Do you think, some people think that guys like Martin Luther King were compromised by the CIA. Do you ever believe stuff like that?

2:14:22Well, this kind of goes back to... Like there's a lot of conspiracy theory stuff about that, you know? Somebody says it's a conspiracy, but that doesn't make it the case. In both of these cases that we've had these conversations, we are talking about the FBI and the CIA. So what do you think they do? So maybe we're unclear about what we think these agencies do. So now the question becomes, hey, do you think they be doing their job? I do. I do think they be doing their job. You mean all through history? Yes. Yes, I think they keep on doing their job. You think they get everybody? I think they get everybody.

2:15:17So again, not conspiracy theory at all. Oh, I'm saying the only way that there could be a FBI file for us to be able to get 30 years after his death is if there's a FBI file, correct? Right, right, right. Right. Damn, bro. Nobody could trust anybody. That's a scary part to me sometimes. the Bible said do not put your trust in men. It's pretty specific. Why? Because everybody can be compromised except you. Yeah. If you don't believe in God then it's pretty messed up because now you only got you to believe in. But if you got you and God, you can believe in both of those. You can have peace then.

2:16:19Have you had times in your life where you struggled having God in your life, or what's that been like for you? No. Do you have a practice that you use kind of to like, like one of my goals this year is to have more God in my life, right? So for me, I'm just using like more times where I stop and pray, like even some of those moments So my head will pop in like, you should hit your knees right now and pray. And sometimes I just don't do those. I just go and keep doing it about my day. But now when those hit me, I'm trying to just make sure I do that, you know, just like because it's like an intuition that I have, you know, just because I want to have a stronger practice.

2:16:53And understand it's the reason that it's special is because only you're going to know that it's working. Right. There's going to be no evidence other than the evidence. But you're going to know that. Like I. I talk to God five and six times a day. He has an accurate account of how I'm feeling about everything, how I think things are going, what I feel like I'm doing good at, what I feel like I need help with. These are our conversations. So I don't wonder why stuff gets moved out of my way because I asked for things to be moved out of my way. Like you asked earlier, aren't you scared? I'm not allowed to be scared because I'm not counting on me.

2:18:09you can't fuck me up because you're not allowed to fuck me up. And I've been in enough situations to know that. He ain't let me down yet. Like every time I needed his safety, it was there. Yeah. And will be. And the more times you communicate, the better the relationship is. And then you'll find that that works. with the black girl from the airport too. Like, communication is key. Yeah.

2:18:51Oh, Lord, man. Literally, huh? You're perfect when you don't even try. Bam.

2:19:05I've heard you say that you feel like we're about to enter like a golden era.

2:19:13What do you mean kind of by that? Or what feelings do you have about that? And what can we look forward to?

2:19:30I was just trying to be super positive at the time. I wasn't trying to be actually accurate with the question. Okay. The question was asked, I think, almost on New Year's or something like that, or Christmas, something like that. It was pretty close to the top of the year, so I didn't want to say anything that would make anybody uncomfortable or awkward.

2:20:05But the Bible has a book called Revelations, right? And it gives you this little metaphorical rundown of how things should go. Bring it up real quick, Revelations. We can get a look at it.

2:20:33Here we go.

2:20:38Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse, the final book of the New Testament.

2:20:48Correct. So now, it talks about the things that will happen in what's called the last days, right, before the second coming of Jesus, right? Because my whole life I was just trying to figure out, like, whatever it would take for Jesus to come back, why aren't all of the people around the world that love Jesus, why aren't they making sure that happens? Yeah. So he would come back. Yeah, like Santa didn't leave milk and cookies. You know what I'm saying? You think we would fucking leave out a couple of freaking. We're willing to go buy the presents ourselves and say you delivered them. Put some sacred snacks out for them or something.

2:21:43Right. So, you know, it just tells a story of the little key things that will happen that you can look forward to before things get there, right? And so it talks about things like all of the nations will have to come together and make a group called the United Nations, you know. And this was written way back then, and we have a United Nations now. Yeah. And it talks about there being wars and reports of wars in multiple places. and it gives us a little guideline just to what may be happening in the future. Like whenever Jesus comes back, where do you think it'll be at?

2:22:53Well, the Bible is generally pretty specific about places generally. So, like, it talks about Armageddon, right? And there's this actual valley of Armageddon. I'm going to mispronounce it, but Armageddon. But the valley of Armageddon that's supposed to take place, there's this valley that it's named after, which really exists. but wherever it is he's gonna bring it up but there's probably a war there now right right so now here we are the valley of megiddo also known as jezreel valley is a large fertile plain in northern israel it's known for its historical theological and geographical significance.

2:23:51Oh, wow. And there's a lot of war going on right there, right now. Correct. So, TBD, huh?

2:24:04What are some of the other animals that you have there? I have heard that you have horses over there. Is that a true cut that you have some horses over there? The donkeys are the stars over there. But yeah, we got a lot of, yeah, we have cows. Mini cows. Those are the best kind. Mini cows and hot belly pigs. Probably about the right there. A mini cow? Yeah. Bring up a mini cow real quick. I want to see one of them. They're beautiful, too. My sister has a picture of a couple of them at her house. Beautiful. Yeah, if we can find a white one, that'll be like cash. That's your name, Cash? Uh-huh. Oh, that's cool.

2:24:47Wow. Are those milkable? He's a boy, so I don't need him. Oh, damn. Well, yeah. I'm not it. Right. Oh, look at that. So, you know, the blessing, he doesn't, he has no idea he's many. Oh, I see. Yeah, ours is bigger than that, but yeah. The beautiful little one right there. Yeah, they're really fun. And do you name, that one's named Cash, and what other name do you have for these animals? Well, all the animals have names except animals that might be delicious.

2:25:38Goat is my favorite meat, I think. And so we have quite a few. And are you eating goat? Not Billy. he's the king of all the goats. Right, right. But you have a little bit of goat. How much goat are you having monthly, you think?

2:25:59Weekly. Oh, okay. Damn, okay. So Cat got him a little bit of money if he having that weekly goat meal, you know that, boy. I'm accountable, you know. Yes, sir. Goat eat goat. Hey, man, goat eat goat. Right. I love that.

2:26:18He's making a little money. Sorry.

2:26:24I think sometimes I was just so nervous about who you are because you seem like such a like, you almost seem like something that came down off of Mount Rushmore to spend time with us today. So I think that's like the mystique about you. So I think sometimes I don't know when it's like okay to joke around and stuff, you know. So you just try and figure it out as you go, you know. I hope that that is not correct and you're just saying that because it is always okay to joke around me. I appreciate that. I definitely feel that for sure more than other interviews.

2:27:00I'm trying to think of what else I want to ask you about. This is the best picture I ever got about it. Someone sent this and they said this is. Cat Williams talking to Cam Newton, somebody said. Right. And that's what I'm thinking, man. Yeah, because here's the thing. Here's the thing. Everything, yeah, we know that stupid picture of me. Thanks. Appreciate it. Yeah. Oh, I didn't even see that. Can we take that down? That's unbelievable. Very racist. You see how I became racist to me? Yeah. No, but here's the facts. The facts are, you know, everything we know about history, we know because of artifacts, things that were left behind.

2:27:52You know what I mean? And so to be heavily into the culture in a way that is represented is pretty cool. It's a pretty big deal, you know? Yeah. Yeah. We should make one next year if we made one and we made a charity for it or something. That could be cool.

2:28:18Right, but we would have to do you one too. So like there would have to be a Theo Vaughn as well. I mean, I would be happy to do that. Yours is really the one they're already using without your permission. That's what I'm saying. They are already doing mine. Yeah, that's true. But maybe we'll try to find one. That'd be kind of a neat, maybe we could do something where we'd raise some money for something. I would love it. You would? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I'm all about that. That's cool. We should do it for, yeah, we should do it for autism. We should do it for people on the spectrum.

2:28:59Okay. Yeah. And do they have, and everybody has autism. Do they have all types of people with autism, yeah? Right. Yeah. I would love to do that. That's a cool idea. And do you, my last question for you, Kat, do you know any Native Americans you ever met any over the years? What's that been like? Really cool.

2:29:19Like way more, I'm trying to figure out how to say it, but like. Because I've just heard, some of these are just things that I've heard. When you, I met this tribe that several times I've met several tribes, but the whole thing is you get this thing around them that you understand that they've been standing here. You know what I mean? Like, there's, yeah, you understand how difficult it is to carry legacies and stories, even though your people have been getting destroyed. And then when it's all as bad as it could possibly be and everything is destroyed of your whole legacy, then they give you unlimited money and have casinos.

2:30:23it's um it's a a mind-blowing thing to watch a people a group of people still carry their legacy along and um that's what you get and they know so much about so much like you know what I mean like yeah like and i'm an outdoor guy like and they know everything about everything like fishing with them is like a whole different experience they're whistling the bitches in the boat they don't make no mistakes like that whole part where you don't catch fish they don't know shit about that yeah they're catching bitches and half of them cooked They do it right. I want you to come out of the water boneless.

2:31:20Filets.

2:31:24With outdoor stuff, have you ever done any camping or anything like that? You ever done any long camps? Did you ever do a plant medicine retreat or anything like that? No, but having a hundred acre ranch, you start getting into trying to make sure you, because first you have to figure out what you already have there. You know what I mean? Because I'm kind of, aren't you like close to Nashville? Yeah, yeah. Right. So I'm out in Mississippi on this farm, you see. And so, you know, you're learning what's out there, and then you're trying to accentuate what's already out there. And because I think we probably got like 300 deer, like, wow.

2:32:17And they're just running around everywhere? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Because the way progress worked, they kept getting pinned in. And then there was a golf course. And so they had a little safe area in between them. And then when houses start going in, then it became neighborhood. and gated community, and now there's nowhere else for them to be. And this particular area is where they all came to. So pretty wonderful. Yeah, I could see you having like a cool pet and zoo or something one day if you wanted to and you ever quit or just wanted to have a peaceful animal or a safari, something like that. Yeah, yeah.

2:33:11Cats, cats. I'm never trying to do something that requires interaction. Like what I'm doing is creating heaven on earth. Yeah. Right? So that means finding out all of the things that really make you jump for joy and excited and make you go, oh, and collecting those around yourself. so that no matter what it is you have to deal with in the world you can come back to this little heavenly environment that you have created that's it that fuels you you know yeah that's the tool right there yeah heaven on earth as it turns out yeah yeah cat man thank you so much for spending time with me today man just thanks for yeah, thanks for just so many things, so many quotable moments from your life that you've shared with us and yeah, it's an honor, bro.

2:34:14I really feel honored to be in your presence today and just yeah, I can't even believe it. So thank you so much. Likewise.

2:34:33But when I reach that ground I'll share this peace of mind I found I can feel it In my bones But it's gonna take

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