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Katt Williams brings his reading list to The Diary Of A CEO

White Fang and The Swiss Family Robinson become touchstones in Steven Bartlett's most-watched interview of the week.

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2:16Williams explains how reading adventure books gave him an imagined path beyond his childhood circumstances.
16:09White Fang and The Swiss Family Robinson offered Williams hope and models of resilience.
28:22Williams describes using comedy and classic slapstick to change his mood after trauma.
56:30Bartlett presents Williams' handwritten list of comedians he studied while developing his own craft.

The Diary Of A CEO gave its week to two long conversations, with Katt Williams reflecting on survival and comedy, and neurologist David Perlmutter discussing brain health. Williams' interview has reached nearly six million views, the largest audience for any of the channel's five new uploads.

Among its most revealing objects are two books. Bartlett presents White Fang and The Swiss Family Robinson, and Williams explains how adventure stories gave him hope during a childhood marked by severe physical abuse. Their heroes endured terrible circumstances before life changed. He held on to the possibility that his own story could change too.

Comedy offered another kind of relief. Williams describes watching slapstick and classic performers as a way to alter his mood: "Comedy made light of all situations." Later, Bartlett produces his handwritten list of comedians to study, turning the conversation from finding refuge in humour to learning its craft.

Perlmutter's interview gives the week a different focus, examining his arguments about metabolism, inflammation, exercise, sleep and dementia risk. It is currently drawing views faster than the Williams conversation, while accompanying excerpts extend both interviews into shorter uploads.

The channel added 300,000 subscribers over the week, although its current daily views are below their usual level. Among the nearby podcast channels, Shawn Ryan Show recorded a similarly substantial weekly view total, while PowerfulJRE and First We Feast had no net subscriber gain.

For Bartlett, the week's distinctive keepsake is that handwritten study list: Williams finding comedy first as comfort, then approaching it as work.

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