Find Your Adventure with Katt Williams

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.4 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Katt Williams joins the podcast for a characteristically unpredictable conversation about his complicated childhood, and how his early years set him up for a career in comedy. Katt shares what it was like being raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, how moving by himself to Florida as a young child helped form him, and what his relationship is like with the women in his life.

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0:00.0	At that time, I had already read so many books and I was excited about it.
0:04.9	So I was like, oh, I'm guaranteed.
0:08.3	I'm a sure thing.
0:09.8	A terrible childhood?
0:11.8	Like, I'm guaranteed to make it.
0:14.1	Like, all the heroes and all of these stories.
0:16.9	This is where it all begins.
0:17.5	Poor girl Cinderella is played in the chimney.
0:20.2	The stepmother's awful.
0:21.7	You're like, I'm right on track.
0:23.9	I'm like, God, you really know how to do it.
0:26.6	Like, no, this is why you leave at 13.
0:29.0	That's right.
0:29.4	I get it, Jesus.
0:30.4	Yes.
0:36.2	This episode is brought to you by Rivian and Progressive Insurance.
0:42.1	Hi, Craig Robinson.
0:44.1	Hi, Michelle Obama.
0:45.0	How are you today?
0:45.7	Good. Welcome back to IMO.
0:47.9	Yes, on the vineyard.
0:49.4	On the vineyard.
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