Ep 840 ｜ A Biblical Response to Andrew Tate
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Summary
Who is Andrew Tate and why is everyone talking about him? Why is the mainstream media so obsessed with him? Is he a victim of the Matrix or a victim himself? Should conservatives be defending him? Should we take the true things that he says to heart? What is really going on beneath the surface? That s what we re going to get into today as we look at the charges against him, the things he has actually said about himself, and the biblical response to someone like Andrew Tate.
Transcript
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Andrew Tate, who is this wildly influential figure?
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Is he a victimizer of women or is he a victim himself of the matrix, of the mainstream media,
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Should we take the true things that he says to heart?
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We'll also look at the Romanian charges, the things that he has actually said about himself,
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and what I think is the biblical response to someone like Andrew Tate, who has appealed
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This episode of Relatable is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.
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Hope everyone's having a wonderful week so far.
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Okay, yesterday at the top of the episode, I said I was going to talk about two different
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things, the false dangerous messages I think men are receiving from the likes of people
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like Andrew Tate, and then the false toxic messages that I think women are receiving.
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But this, in our research, has turned into mostly just an Andrew Tate episode.
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It's not because I don't have a whole lot to say to women and about women.
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It's why I wrote my book, You're Not Enough, and That's Okay.
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It's about the toxic message that I think women receive and so thoughtlessly sometimes
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imbibe that actually destroy us, destroy our relationships and all that.
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So I have so much to say about that, but we just don't have time.
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Like, we don't have time to do both, and I can't give justice to that.
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So maybe we'll do that tomorrow, or maybe we'll do that on Thursday.
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Just kind of depends on how everything we have scheduled shakes out and what else happens
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I will do some kind of part two that specifically addresses the toxic messages that women receive.
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But because so many of you really have no idea who Andrew Tate is, or you didn't know who
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Andrew Tate was until you saw the interview with Tucker Carlson, I wanted to kind of shed
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some light on that because I didn't really know who he was either until, I don't know,
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maybe a year ago, I started seeing conflicting ideas about who he was, even on the right.
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I saw some people on the right say, oh, Andrew Tate is just a victim of big tech censorship.
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He's a victim of, you know, progressive propaganda, and he's saying things that are true.
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They're trying to stifle his voice because he is an advocate for masculinity and responsibility
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and individualism and hard work and all of these things.
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And then I saw other people on the right saying, no, this guy is a scumbag.
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And so if you are like I was about a year ago, totally unfamiliar with who Andrew Tate
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is, maybe you've seen some of his videos go around.
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They regularly go viral on Instagram, Twitter, et cetera.
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I think even some people repost his stuff on TikTok.
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And you're thinking, OK, he says some things that are legit.
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He says some things that a lot of people are scared to say that are true.
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And then maybe you saw the Tucker Carlson interview and you said, wow, the Matrix or the left or
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the globalist elites, whatever you want to say, they're really trying to go after this
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Maybe you feel like with false allegations because they're just trying to silence them and make
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men weak and prevent people from thinking for themselves and providing for themselves.
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I want to shed some light on who Andrew Tate is.
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But I'm going to tell you who he is, the kind of messages he's conveying, why I believe
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he has become so incredibly popular with young men because he has.
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And we'll look at some of the data on that and some of the charges that he's facing, some
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of the things that he said and why I don't believe that Christians, professing Christians
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should have any part whatsoever in elevating Andrew Tate in anything that he has said.
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Now, some of you might be thinking, well, yeah, duh, obviously we shouldn't do that.
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But you would be surprised at how many Christians don't realize some of the things that he has
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done, some of the things that he has confessed to, what he actually represents, the moral
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rot that I think that he really symbolizes and demonstrates.
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And you will see a lot of professing Christians go to bat for Andrew Tate and the ideology that
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So I just want to give you, as much as I can, an accurate picture of what he is, convey the
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But then also try to give you a biblical perspective of just why, at least for the Christian, this
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I can't really speak so much to the secularists out there because, you know, moral relativism
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But for those of us who believe in objective truth, those of us who believe in God, that
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we were created by a supreme and sovereign being, the triune God specifically, that sent his
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son Jesus to die for us, if we believe that the word of God is a standard, then we have
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to compare things that Andrew Tate says and does to the word of God, right?
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Now, no matter what your religious beliefs are, though, I can guess that you probably will
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take issue with at least some of the things that Andrew Tate has said and done.
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And I know, I know, I already know after this episode, I am going to get the comments that
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I've received over the past few days since I started talking about this, calling me a
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man hater, calling me a misandrist, saying that even as a Christian conservative, that
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feminism has infected my mind and I'm a female supremacist and that I'm a closet feminist
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and that I just want to, you know, make men weak and emasculate men, all of that absolute
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nonsense, because I am not a fan of someone who has something called a pimpin hose degree.
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I know, I understand that you're going to be upset, you're going to say I'm taking it out
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of context, you're going to say that I don't really understand, you're going to say that
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underneath all of this, I just have the same feminist bitterness towards men as women on
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the left do, which of course is absolutely absurd, is absolutely absurd.
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Anyone who has listened to me for any amount of time, anyone who has watched me, anyone
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who started following me after I did that viral PragerU video, which was the, it might
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still be, it's probably in the top five most watched PragerU videos of all time and that
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says a lot because their videos have routinely get millions and millions of views.
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It was number one for a while and then I think it got bumped by some other videos, but their
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five minute videos that they do and it was titled, I think it was make men great again
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or make masculinity great again, where we talk about the importance of masculinity to
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society, that fatherhood, that present fathers, present dads, strong men are central to cohesive,
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strong societies, that there is something unique, uniquely necessary about kind and strong and
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responsible masculinity to families, to communities, to societies, to nations, to the world.
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There is something very powerful about men that women simply don't have.
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The complementary relationship between masculinity and femininity is a necessary dynamic for the
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health, again, of any family or community or society.
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And masculinity in particular has this unique capacity to build up and destroy in a way that
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But I am just as against the emasculation of men as I am against or I'm just as against
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this kind of what I think is a dumb and destructive form of masculinity that we're about to talk about
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today as I am the emasculation and the weakening and the demonization of men.
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It's important for Christians to understand the discussions and debates that are being had
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and to try to approach them as humbly and as biblically as we possibly can.
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Like your life isn't really affected by who Andrew Tate is, except that he does have a lot
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He has a lot of influence, particularly over teenage boys.
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So if you have sons or you have daughters, it really doesn't matter.
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I mean, they're going to be interacting with each other.
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Like you should understand who Andrew Tate is as a response to the secular feminism that
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We also need to see that the flip side of it or that the polar opposite of it, perhaps,
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if you could even call it that, the foil to that is not necessarily better.
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So Andrew Tate, he was the most Googled man in the world in 2022.
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He is a former professional kickboxer who began posting advice to young men online about
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And in order to get it, they must be worthy of it.
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He has since very recently converted to Islam and has also celebrated the Islamification of
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He operated something called Hustlers University.
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It was a platform where members paid $49.99 a month, that's the membership fee, to receive
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instruction on ways to make money outside of traditional employment, such as cryptocurrency,
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Tate became highly prominent in 2022 by encouraging members of Hustlers University to post large
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numbers of videos of him to social media platforms in an effort to maximize engagement,
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As of August 2022, its website had amassed over 100,000 subscribers that same month.
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The Irish American Financial Services, called Stripe, pulled out of processing subscriptions
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for the platform, and Hustlers University had to shut down its affiliate marketing program.
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So, of course, a lot of people saw this as victimization of Andrew Tate and the demonization
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of his message of responsibility and individualism to men.
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Hustlers University was accused by many of being a pyramid scheme.
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Tate launched a rebranded version of the program called The Real World in October 2022.
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Tate also operates a private network called The War Room, which is advertised as a, quote,
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global network in which exemplars of individualism work to free the modern man from socially induced
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So, the idea there is that men have basically, they've been degraded, they have been disrespected,
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they have been limited and trapped by society, by a world that now hates their strength and
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hates their leadership and hates their voice, hates their influence.
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So, Andrew Tate is someone who has kind of placed himself on the front lines of pushing
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back against what he calls the socially induced incarceration.
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According to BuzzFeed, Andrew Tate's now deleted $450 pimp and hose degree.
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Video course was first launched on his website in 2018.
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In it, the influencer, or he offered step-by-step instructions on how to build an Instagram account
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to contact women and have sex with as many of them as possible.
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Or as Tate calls it, how men can go from having no access to women to becoming a player.
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According to BuzzFeed News in 2017, Tate removed from, moved from the United Kingdom to Romania.
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He said, according to Forbes, that it was because he liked, quote, living in countries where corruption
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is accessible for everybody, rather than just a few people.
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I'm going to dig back into some of his past too, but I'm just kind of giving you an overview first.
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Tate and his brother, Tristan, were arrested in Romania, along with two women.
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All four were suspected of human trafficking and forming an organized crime group.
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According to the BBC, Romanian police allege that the group coerced victims into creating
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paid pornography for social media using various methods, including something called the lover
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boy method, which we'll get into in a little bit.
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In March 2023, all four were moved to house arrest while the investigation continued after being
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In June, they were charged with rape, human trafficking, and forming an organized crime
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Let's back up a little bit and understand more about who he is and why he is so popular,
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Then he first came to prominence when he appeared on a reality show called Big Brother in 2016.
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He came under scrutiny for making, quote unquote, homophobic comments on Twitter.
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And he said, he said, for example, they are teaching gay issues to seven-year-olds by law.
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A pure homosexual cannot reproduce, so they need your children for new partners.
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And then he said apparently some rude things about some celebrities.
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So you're starting to see why, based on some of the things that he says, why he would be
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He was not removed for, like, the rude comments.
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He was later removed from the show because a national newspaper in the UK was about to publish
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a video of him, quote, hitting a woman with a belt.
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He claims the girl in the video was his friend and they were joking, but he was still dismissed
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He received more backlash and attention in 2017.
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When, at the height of the Me Too movement, he tweeted that women should bear some responsibility
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He was an ardent supporter of then-President Trump, gained a following in, quote, unquote,
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according to NBC far-right pockets of social media.
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He met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower in August 2017.
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He's built a following online by posting YouTube videos and appearing on podcasts, including
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So how much influence does Andrew Tate really have?
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I think about this all the time, that I'll randomly stumble upon people, I'll randomly
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stumble upon, you know, influencers or something on social media that are recommended
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to me by Instagram, and I'll see that they have like 4 million followers.
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So if you've never heard of Andrew Tate, that does not mean that he doesn't have influence.
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She has a lot of influence, and there are many, many famous people who have a lot of influence
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He has about 7.2 million followers on Twitter, about 1.5 million followers on Rumble.
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He was kicked off YouTube around the same time he was kicked off TikTok and other platforms
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He apparently violated their terms of service, and they said that, you know, he posted things
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that were misogynistic and promoted violence and conflict and all of this stuff.
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And so, again, you can see how conservatives who are also routinely kicked off these platforms,
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very often for just saying things that are controversial but true, like you can see how
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he is starting to build himself up or has built himself up over the past several years as some
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kind of champion of conservatism or at least heterodox ideas or unpopular truth.
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He was permanently banned from Twitter as well in 2017, but he was reinstated recently by
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And he's also said that he tries to stir up controversy in the things that he says because
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that helps people, you know, that helps him go viral, that helps other people go viral,
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The New York Times described a now banned video in which Mr. Tate recorded,
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in which he said that he keeps a machete by his bed and what he would do if a woman accused
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It's bang out the machete, boom in her face, and grip her up by the neck.
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So that's part of the stuff that was getting him banned.
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Like, very often when we hear the left saying things like, oh, misogynistic, whatever, we're
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like, okay, yeah, they might have said something true about feminism that's being labeled as
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But this is like one example of him seemingly, whether you think he was joking or not, encouraging
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violence towards women in like a very graphic way.
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By August of last year, videos of him on TikTok had been watched more than 11.6 billion times.
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I'm not sure if they have the same progressive political leanings as a lot of these so-called
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anti-extremism nonprofits, you know, have here in the United States.
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But they found that eight in 10 British boys aged 16 and 17 had consumed Tate's content.
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45% of British boys had a positive view of him.
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When probed about what they like about Mr. Tate, most said they thought Mr. Tate wants
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men to be real men and that he gives good advice.
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Now, I've talked to plenty of you on Instagram after I've posted about Andrew Tate.
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And you have found that he is very popular among teen boys, that a lot of them are influenced
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by his ideas and how they think about relationships, how they think about money, how they think
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about themselves and success and women, that these things are heavily influenced by people
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But the research by the Center for Countering Digital Hates, again, you know, there could
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be some bias there, argues that Tate's popularity was not so much a product of today's young men
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and their views, but really Tate's expertise in gaming the TikTok algorithms.
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I think people on the left do not understand why someone like Andrew Tate has any appeal whatsoever.
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And I do, I do understand why he has so much appeal to these young teen boys.
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All right, so the appeal of Andrew Tate is that he says things that are true.
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And so I want to play you some clips of him saying things to give you an understanding
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of why people on the right who claim to be traditional, who claim to be against degeneracy,
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who claim to be against immorality, who claim to be against, you know, sexual promiscuity
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and all of these anti-traditional things that we see glorified in our society, why they would
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simultaneously kind of like or at least have a nuanced and complex respect for someone like
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So one of the things that he talks about a lot, obviously, is masculinity.
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This is an interview between him and Pierce Morgan from December 2022, in which he talks
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All these people who talk about toxic masculinity and how bad it is for men to be traditionally
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A traditionally masculine man does things he doesn't feel like doing because it is his duty
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He charges into the building because it is his duty.
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Not because he feels like it, because it is his duty.
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We're now teaching the new generation of men that they don't have duty and they can just
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act on their feelings and act how they feel and they don't have to act as a man should.
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Do you know what happens when you get men who just act how they feel?
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You get school shooters, you get violence, you get rapists.
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Men who do not control their emotions are dangerous.
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If you find a man who is stoic, he's not going to hurt people.
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He's going to sit and think about his actions very carefully and he's going to be a good man
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You find a man who just acts out on impulse and does whatever he feels like, you're going
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I mean, the Bible speaks to the importance of self-control, that a man without self-control,
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a person without self-control is like a city without walls.
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It sounds like exactly what you want a young man to hear, that you don't just act on how
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you feel, that you actually have a responsibility.
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He also says this, he has tenets, tenets of Tate on his website.
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He says, I believe that men have the divine imperative to become as capable, powerful,
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He also talks about responsibility, hard work, discipline.
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This is from a podcast appearance in which he talks about the importance of just doing the
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right thing, rather than acting on some kind of feeling of motivation.
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People who train every day don't want to train every day.
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Andrew, are there ever days where you don't feel like working out or you don't feel like
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Every day, I don't feel like doing things that I still do.
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He also, he talks about the importance of exercise.
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You can probably tell as a kickboxer, as someone who is very in shape, who, you know, obviously
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He talks about the importance of physical strength.
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He's tweeted, again, kind of the same idea that working hard little by little over time
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Um, and then he's also talked about, you know, the danger of preying upon kids with progressivism,
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What do you think you're like, transgenders going and reading nursery stories and from
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If you want to chop your off, I have nothing against that.
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What I'm, what I am anti is propagating your worldview on other people's children.
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If you're gay and you can't have kids, why do you now believe it's your right to go to
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other people's kids and tell them how to think?
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If you've decided that the type of sex you want to have will prevent you from recreate,
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You've decided that having sex with women isn't worth it for you.
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That does not give you the entitlement to go to other people's families who did decide
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to have children and raise them and try and program their children.
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I mean, a lot of people hear that and they think, wow, that's a different way to say
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it because he says things in a very forthright way and in a way that is a little different
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and more unique than how other people are saying it.
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He also has things to say about God and the importance of believing in God and religion
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in how not believing in God leads to the breakdown of society.
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If you remove God from society completely, if you click your fingers and he's gone,
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if you completely remove religion from earth, you'll see the devil appear pretty quickly.
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And then you'll understand that God is a real force.
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You can just consider every single country that is dominated by Islam.
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And you can just compare that reality also to what he just said.
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But nevertheless, like if someone is listening to that and they're not thinking about like
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what Islam has actually, like what Islam actually looks like and how it manifests itself in the
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Um, he's also talked about things like, uh, how, you know, climate change is a hoax,
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which is something that a lot of conservatives believe.
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If you're going to sit there and tell me that I need to give more money to the government
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to stop the sun from being hot, I'm going to argue with you that I'd rather keep my money.
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When I argue against some people, you don't care about the issue.
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But you're not smart enough to understand that the legislation around this issue is so
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It hasn't even been read by most people voting for it.
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And there's something in the middle of it, which is going to damage every single person's
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life, which has nothing at all to do with the issue itself.
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Uh, you can see, I mean, how he is appealing to a lot of conservatives.
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We are the most beautiful union that God has possibly created on the planet, a feminine
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It's the most beautiful union that can possibly exist.
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But if you destroy one side of the equation, then the other side is going to be completely
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So I think what he's talking about there is that feminism has destroyed one side of the
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And so that complimentary union, that relationship, that dynamic that we're supposed to have,
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So he says a lot of things that I would agree with that I think are true, that I think at
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the very least are interesting, that a lot of people are simply unwilling to say.
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Um, and the left has pushed back against a lot of what he said, has, uh, casted him as,
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you know, some kind of awful misogynist who has an exclusively negative influence on society.
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And they haven't taken the time to see at all why some people might, uh, ascribe to a lot
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So for example, uh, the guardian in August, 2022, um, they published an article saying
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inside the violent misogynistic world of TikTok's new star, Andrew Tate.
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Tate's views have been described as extreme misogyny by domestic abuse charities capable
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of radicalizing men and boys to commit harm offline.
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MSNBC, Andrew Tate's violent misogynistic teachings are seeping into classrooms.
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Tate's statements validate the followers, these followers' patriarchal belief systems
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in which men remain heads of households and women are subservient actors who support them.
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Um, they're, you know, attracting the toxic, uh, masculinity types to, uh, to Islam.
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Yeah, it's Andrew Tate that is attracting the, uh, misogynistic types to Islam.
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Uh, anyway, there's been other, uh, other headlines basically saying the same thing.
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The dangerous philosophy of Andrew Tate, misogynistic influencer, Andrew Tate has captured
00:29:31.980
And so I think a lot of people, if they've only seen clips like the ones that I play,
00:29:35.960
they've only heard him say things that are true.
00:29:38.160
Maybe some things that are a little objectifying towards women, but nothing really terrible.
00:29:43.300
And then they saw the Tucker Carlson interview and they heard about these charges in Romania
00:29:47.760
and they've seen some of the left-wing headlines.
00:29:50.360
It is very easy for me to understand, um, how people would think that he is really just
00:30:01.140
Look, we've got all of these global elites, um, that we know at least a few of them were
00:30:11.080
And as far as we know, none of them have been held accountable yet.
00:30:16.040
And yet now they are going after people would say someone like Andrew Tate, who was just trying
00:30:21.940
to tell men how to be strong, how to be individuals, how to push back against like corrupt authority
00:30:28.340
So if that is your picture, that is your understanding of what's going on.
00:30:32.700
Like I get why you would go to bat for Andrew Tate.
00:30:37.940
And, and, and not to mention the fact that, um, he is not just saying some things that are
00:30:44.540
true, not some saying some things in like a unique compelling way, not only that, but his
00:30:51.400
audience of young men, they've been hearing for the past several years that in order for
00:30:59.800
them to be successful, in order for them to be valued, they need to do the exact opposite
00:31:11.580
They need to just sit down and shut up that their voices don't matter, that their strength,
00:31:17.880
that their natural form of even healthy aggression is wrong, that it's simple, that it needs to
00:31:28.660
They just, uh, need to take a back seat and let the women lead for a little while.
00:31:38.900
It's not a great time in society to be a young man.
00:31:42.400
You're constantly hearing about the toxicity of masculinity.
00:31:46.080
And you are being encouraged to feminize yourself so that you can fit in better with society.
00:31:52.480
It's harder and harder to find truly masculine heroes for young men.
00:31:57.580
I mean, when we have a dereliction of duty, when it comes to fatherhood, especially in
00:32:02.000
certain communities in the United States, like you could see why someone would look to
00:32:06.060
Andrew Tate and say, finally, someone who doesn't shame me for wanting to be strong.
00:32:12.080
Someone who doesn't shame me for being attracted to women.
00:32:15.660
Someone who doesn't shame me for wanting to be successful or wanting to be disciplined.
00:32:23.460
Someone who can sympathize, maybe even empathize with me and then tell me something to do that
00:32:32.480
Someone who talks about the negative impacts of feminism, both on women and men.
00:32:40.480
I can absolutely see why this would be attractive to a lot of men, especially young men who have
00:32:48.880
been demonized so harshly over the past several years.
00:32:56.260
When there is a void, when other people, when in some cases, I'm certainly not saying all cases,
00:33:03.300
but when in some cases, pastors are even too scared to talk about the dangers of feminism.
00:33:08.940
When even church services have become an emotional, feminized experience.
00:33:15.860
When there is a lack of truth telling, when there is a lack of mentorship and examples for strong,
00:33:23.660
responsible masculinity, someone like Andrew Tate is going to fill the void and people will
00:33:36.480
I think he started saying things that people were interested in hearing and in some cases
00:33:45.440
And so you've got Tucker Carlson, who I'm a major fan of.
00:33:50.180
I really, really like Tucker and appreciate all of the truth that Tucker has shared over
00:33:55.580
But he posted an interview last week with Andrew Tate, a two hour interview.
00:34:02.940
They start out talking about the charges that he is facing because Andrew Tate is now under
00:34:08.420
house arrest for these charges of sex trafficking, et cetera.
00:34:12.200
And so they start talking about the charges in a very incredulous way.
00:34:17.940
Like, basically, can you believe that you're being charged with this stuff?
00:34:25.500
So it was claimed that not a single woman has come forward when it comes to these charges
00:34:33.420
Tucker also said that accusing a man of sex crimes is the fastest way to discredit what he's
00:34:39.220
saying, because Tate has said so many true things.
00:34:41.940
Tucker made the comparison to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who was accused of
00:34:46.320
and charged with rape after exposing damaging documents about the U.S. spying on its own
00:34:53.300
And Tate claimed that he is being charged with being the head of an organized criminal group,
00:34:59.320
which is which recruits women to make TikTok videos to steal the money.
00:35:04.740
And then he steals the money from the TikTok views.
00:35:13.340
He does say that he was actually charged with human trafficking, forcing girls to work on
00:35:17.500
TikTok against their will, using something called the lover boy method.
00:35:23.680
And so he describes it as, oh, I was just nice to these women.
00:35:26.760
He says that he has never encouraged women or forced women or made women in any way post videos
00:35:34.560
He just said he doesn't even know how to make money in that way.
00:35:39.420
He says, if you actually analyze the charges in the overall case against me, they're saying
00:35:43.880
that they're saying that my brother and I, by being nice men, convinced girls to have TikTok
00:35:55.620
He doesn't think that that's right, that he has never forced women to do anything like
00:36:04.780
So here is his kind of explanation of what he's being charged with and how he feels about it.
00:36:18.080
And this thing, they're accusing me of using the lover boy method, coercing them by being nice.
00:36:23.760
And by the way, these charges presumably are public.
00:36:26.740
So they're public and this is extremely serious.
00:36:28.640
But if you actually analyze the overall case against me, they're saying that Andrew and his
00:36:33.940
brother, by being nice men, convinced girls to have TikTok accounts and then take the money.
00:36:40.120
And it's very interesting because inside of the entire case file, there's not a single
00:36:44.520
OK, so he says that he's not being charged with any violence.
00:36:49.280
Again, they say that there is no there's no women who have come forward to say that they're
00:36:53.380
He says that the women who have talked to authorities have said that they're not victims.
00:36:58.000
So they talk a lot about being the enemy of the matrix and being against the powers that
00:37:02.560
be because of the true things that he has said.
00:37:06.040
But the fact of the matter is, is that Andrew Tate has admitted to doing a lot of the stuff
00:37:15.280
Like he has been very public about the things that he is engaged in.
00:37:19.760
So underneath all of the maybe true things that he has said, all of the things that have
00:37:23.760
attracted men to him, like he has admitted to sexually and emotionally manipulating young
00:37:30.600
women into doing pornography for him and then taking over half of the money that they earn
00:37:39.260
I don't have I don't know if this is via TikTok, but we do know that he created a webcam service
00:37:45.760
and he convinced women admittedly to work for him by having sex with them, by emotionally
00:37:52.940
manipulating them, saying, you know, we're going to be together.
00:37:56.320
I'm going to be with you, travel for work with me and then convincing them using that
00:38:02.520
method to then work for him and then lied to them about how much money they were actually
00:38:10.380
So right there, you've got some kind of you have manipulation via false pretenses and getting
00:38:24.700
So here is actually, though, the Romanian indictment.
00:38:27.280
I won't pretend to be a I won't pretend to be an expert on Romanian law.
00:38:33.040
So I'm not saying whether or not he is guilty of these charges, but we're going to get into
00:38:38.260
playing some of the things that he has actually said.
00:38:41.220
So the here this is according to Forbes and they have the indictment defendant Andrew Tate
00:38:47.580
together with defendant Tristan Tate and two female defendants formed an organized criminal
00:38:51.500
group with the purpose of committing in Romania and in the U.S. and the U.K. human trafficking
00:38:58.140
through actions of recruiting victims carried out by the defendants Andrew and Tristan, subsequently
00:39:02.400
under their coordination through actions of sheltering and transporting the victims carried
00:39:06.380
out by involving the defendants with the Luana Radu and Georgia Nagel with the aim of obtaining
00:39:16.260
significant sums of money by forcing the victims to engage in pornographic activities for the
00:39:20.760
production and distribution of pornographic materials using the website OnlyFans for this
00:39:26.080
purpose and by subjecting them to forced labor using the website TikTok, thus fulfilling the
00:39:31.480
constitutive elements of the crime of forming an organized criminal group.
00:39:36.240
The published indictment leaves out the victims names, but list charges of human trafficking
00:39:40.300
from 2016 to 2022, recruiting by deception, transporting the victims from the U.K. or within the country,
00:39:47.080
providing shelter with the aim of sexually exploiting the victim and forcing the victim to engage
00:39:52.560
These actions fulfill the constitutive elements of the crime of human trafficking in continuous form.
00:39:58.940
So Tate says to Tucker that he is not being accused of violence, that he's only accused of using the lover
00:40:07.880
boy method or coercing them, he says coercing them, by being nice. But here's the indictment. He is
00:40:15.900
accused of violence. It says, during this time, together with a person named blank, they subjected the
00:40:22.420
victim to physical violence and psychological coercion resulting from actions of intimidation,
00:40:28.180
surveillance and control with the aim of sexually exploiting her fact from the indictment. He is
00:40:33.720
also accused of two acts of rape on the date, says the date, and a building located in says the
00:40:39.640
location. The defendant, Andrew Tate, coerced the victim by exerting physical violence and
00:40:45.220
psychological and verbal pressure intensified by the entire factual context to engage in normal
00:40:49.980
and moral sexual relations. Tate also told Tucker that this is only about TikTok and he says he's
00:40:56.780
never been involved in TikTok. He says their justification for this is that some girls I know
00:41:02.220
that they have found have TikTok accounts. But here's what the indictment actually says. The indictment
00:41:07.800
lists the known pornographic site OnlyFans of forcing her, a victim, to engage in pornographic
00:41:15.220
activities for the production and distribution of pornographic materials. Here's another fact from the
00:41:19.840
indictment. Tristan Tate faces the same charges of forcing the victim to engage in pornographic
00:41:24.420
activities in addition to subjecting one victim to forced labor for 12 hours on TikTok with only
00:41:29.300
a five minute break. So whether or not those things are true, it is not true that they haven't been
00:41:36.020
charged with violence, that they haven't been charged with other forms of coercion. There are many people
00:41:42.180
out there giving legal analysis. I saw this really great video by a criminal lawyer named Bruce Rivers.
00:41:47.840
He is a criminal lawyer. He has a very popular YouTube channel and he outlines three things that
00:41:52.780
are needed in sex trafficking charges. Force, fraud, so false pretenses or coercion, threat of harm or
00:41:59.160
some way to limit movement. And so throughout his video, he is actually reacting and I can link this video
00:42:04.800
so y'all can watch it for yourself. He reacts to a video that was published by Andrew Tate himself in
00:42:10.700
which he describes the methods that he uses to get women under false pretenses using fraud to
00:42:18.780
prostitute themselves, to work on webcam. And he lies about how much they're getting paid. He lies about
00:42:27.240
what the arrangement is going to be. And over and over again, you hear Andrew Tate say that this is about
00:42:34.220
control. You want to control them. You want to make sure that everything is under your control
00:42:39.900
and they know that they could not earn money in this way without you. He's controlling these women
00:42:46.140
through money, sex, information, and manipulation. We don't have time. It would take another hour to go
00:42:53.300
through the entire video that he reacts to, but I will link it for you. So before you say, oh, you're
00:42:58.240
just saying that that's a false accusation. That's not really true. You can go watch the video, go watch
00:43:03.000
the video for yourself and you can see the response that this lawyer has to Andrew Tate's own words.
00:43:08.820
But I will play you some of the clips of Andrew Tate basically admitting to some of the things
00:43:13.900
that he is being charged for and then other things that he's not being charged for. He has also talked
00:43:17.920
about this lawyer that I just mentioned. He calls it self-snitching that basically he snitched on
00:43:23.900
himself over the years. And it doesn't take a lot of digging to find this stuff.
00:43:27.920
Okay. So here is one thing that he says in a now deleted video from his YouTube channel. Tate
00:43:47.340
explains that the lax laws are 40% of the reason I moved to Romania. Tate said, I'm not an effing
00:43:53.820
rapist, but I like the idea of just being able to do what I want. I like being free. If you're a man
00:43:59.620
living in England or Germany or America or any of the Western world right now, you've decided to live
00:44:03.360
in a country where any woman at any point in the future can destroy your life. And so he's talking
00:44:10.320
about how so much credence, and I agree to a degree that too much credence is given immediately
00:44:18.240
without any discernment, without any questions to, um, allegations made by women toward men. Like you
00:44:25.560
heard, believe all women, believe all women. And an allegation is enough in the court of public opinion
00:44:30.600
to ruin someone's life, which of course I think is wrong. The Bible actually speaks to that, that someone
00:44:35.120
who makes a false accusation should receive the same punishment, um, that the person would have
00:44:41.220
received, if that, uh, would have received that was accused by the false accuser, if that makes sense. Um,
00:44:50.740
but I mean, he says, and he said earlier, as I, as I pointed out that he, he moved to Romania because yes,
00:44:56.920
it's corrupt, but everyone he says has access to corruption. So here he is several years ago, talking on a
00:45:06.820
So yeah, on corporate tech.com, I have my PhD program and that is a PhD is a pimpin hose degree
00:45:13.440
that, um, um, that teaches basically how I got girls, how I met girls, how I got girls to like
00:45:22.500
me, how I got girls to fall in love with me, to work on webcam for me. Cause that's what I did.
00:45:26.780
That was my, my MO was fine girls, make them love me and make them work for me. And that's how I got
00:45:31.380
rich. I was all about trying to get paid. Like my whole, I used sex as a tool to make women love
00:45:37.440
me. So they'd obey me and live in my house and make me money. That that's what I wanted. So I
00:45:41.720
was a pimp in that sense. Like I was not trying to have sex with women. I was trying to get women
00:45:45.640
to obey me. And I realized that's easier if they like to have sex with me, if they don't like having
00:45:49.820
sex with me, it's pretty hard to make them listen to me.
00:45:51.860
So those were from a few different appearances, um, in which he talks about not just his pimpin hose degree,
00:45:57.380
but also he's talking about his recruitment process for, uh, bringing girls in to work for
00:46:02.980
him. That's the lover boy method. Um, and he calls himself a pimp. And so some of the things in this
00:46:08.780
indictment, he has talked about doing, it's not just being nice to women. It is yes, manipulating them,
00:46:16.380
lying to them in some cases, um, using their, you know, vulnerability to try to get them to
00:46:25.080
prostitute themselves so he can take money from that. And, you know, I've seen, I said basically
00:46:30.940
that on Twitter and I got some people saying, Oh, the girls aren't held accountable. Like they had
00:46:36.680
a choice in this. They made a choice. I'm not saying that these women made, didn't make a choice.
00:46:42.080
I'm not saying that they made a good choice. I'm not saying that they had good discernment and wisdom
00:46:45.520
when they decided to pair up with Andrew Tate. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that they were
00:46:51.700
making like wise decisions with their life and with their body. But if you listen to,
00:46:56.640
if you listen to him and if you listen to a lot of the things that he has said, especially in that
00:47:01.920
analysis by the lawyer, I was just telling you about, like he made it very difficult for them
00:47:07.340
to really have any other choice. I'm not defending the choices that they made initially or their
00:47:13.440
discernment or whatever. But it's funny how the people who are saying, Oh, well, these women had a
00:47:18.820
choice. They had agency. They had autonomy too. They won't bring themselves to say though,
00:47:23.720
that what Andrew Tate did is wrong. Like they really only want to blame the women for their
00:47:30.580
decisions and basically just say that Andrew Tate was a hustler. So why can't you say both? I can say
00:47:36.720
both. Why can't the defenders of Andrew Tate say both? That both choices were wrong, but he used his
00:47:41.620
power and even his physical might allegedly to keep women in line and to keep women working for him.
00:47:48.820
Uh, he also, so he's talking about, uh, recruiting women, uh, in this next clip. And he is talking
00:47:59.720
about how he was trying to figure out how he was going to make money. And because he was broke at one
00:48:06.160
point at the beginning of all of this, and he thought about, okay, what assets do I have that I can
00:48:11.980
make money from? And here's the conclusion that he came to. I was on YouTube, like researching,
00:48:17.720
you know, how people make money, what millionaires have, dah, dah, dah. And they kept talking about
00:48:21.420
assets. And I was sitting there thinking, what assets do I have? I have a car. I have this,
00:48:27.220
I have that. And then I realized I had about five girlfriends, all smoking home and females are an
00:48:33.440
asset. Attractive females are absolutely an asset. And if you disagree with me, walk in the club with
00:48:38.560
10 blondes and you'll see who the most important guy in the club is. The champagne shows.
00:48:42.560
Okay. So he goes on to say, you didn't get the context in that clip, but he goes on to say how
00:48:49.180
he basically used these women as assets to try to, uh, make money by giving them to perform on
00:48:57.500
webcam. So that just shows like what he thinks about women. Uh, they were an asset for him. Like
00:49:04.080
things are typically seen as assets, not human beings. Um, he appears to admit in this next video,
00:49:11.680
uh, to having a minor work for him as his top webcam girl. He, here, he implies that one of his girls,
00:49:18.220
his bottom B I T C H has been with him since she was 15 or 16. Um, so she says, he says that she's
00:49:26.360
21 has been with him for six years. So we're just kind of doing the math on that, but you can take a
00:49:31.960
listen for yourself. You actually have to downplay your relationship with the girl of six years,
00:49:35.720
which is difficult. And I only get away with that because the girl of six years plays along.
00:49:39.200
So Vivian's been with me six years. She's completely head over heels in love with me.
00:49:42.320
She wants kids with me, everything, everything, everything. And we met and we fell, whatever,
00:49:46.120
we're in love. When I bring on new girls, I usually pair them with Vivian because Vivian's
00:49:50.920
younger. Melissa's like 28. Vivian's like 21. Vivian's younger. She's more fun, more outgoing.
00:49:57.120
Melissa's really quite not a bad way. She's more homey, boring.
00:50:00.460
Okay. So you heard him say, unless that was some kind of mistake, unless that was a mistake,
00:50:08.920
he said that Vivian, his main girl is 21. They've been together for six years.
00:50:16.720
So is he talking about past tense when she started? He was 21. Now he made another comment. Um, I don't
00:50:24.420
think that we have the clip. It doesn't sound, it doesn't look like we have the clip in front of me,
00:50:29.460
but, uh, I'll, I'll link it in the description where he is talking on a podcast and he says,
00:50:36.340
you know, it's common for me in this webcam business to have girls that are 15. I mean, 16.
00:50:41.300
I mean, what's the age of consent in the United States? Oh, 18 working for me. Just take that as
00:50:48.060
what you will take. That is what you will. Um, he also has made comments about not paying taxes.
00:50:56.020
It's funny because in one of the videos, when he's talking about women being an asset and really
00:51:00.380
explaining everything that he, uh, that he does and how he manipulates and exploits these women.
00:51:07.260
Uh, he talks about women don't understand taxes. And so you can tell them that you're splitting it
00:51:13.380
50 50, but you have to take a cut out of their pay in order to pay taxes. And you get them to just
00:51:19.460
sign these fake tax forms that you just throw away. But because you're paid via Bitcoin, you don't even
00:51:25.720
have to pay taxes. So he's talking about women. He said, women don't understand tax. And then he goes
00:51:31.900
to show that he doesn't understand tax because it's not true. You do have to pay taxes, even if it's
00:51:37.780
Bitcoin. And so again, that's false pretense. That's fraud, but it also goes to show how little
00:51:43.280
he thinks of women and then how little he apparently understands about tax himself.
00:51:48.720
He's talked about tax evasion and how he doesn't want to pay taxes. Um, he also says this, this is
00:51:54.440
just like a random bad take. This has nothing to do with the, it's not illegal to have bad takes,
00:51:58.720
but just to understand a little bit more about who he is. Um, in December, 2022, he tweeted this
00:52:05.160
reading books is for losers who are afraid to learn from life. So they try and learn from the life of
00:52:10.140
others. They have lived, but if you never really learn unless, but you never really learn unless
00:52:15.020
you lived it, you must feel it to believe it. Books are a total waste of time. Education is for cowards.
00:52:21.520
He says, but then it's funny because in March of this year, he says, I am not allowed computers,
00:52:28.400
but I've requested a typewriter. It is my, it is time to write my book. Are you a loser? If you read
00:52:35.020
Andrew Tate's book, that's the question, that's the question. Um, so, I mean, there's so much,
00:52:42.360
there's so much out there that he said that he has admitted to making money off of exploiting women.
00:52:49.860
There are a lot of disturbing montages out there, um, where he is obviously, uh, acting in a way that
00:52:58.420
is illegal. I've, I've, uh, talked about some of these montages that you can go look for yourself.
00:53:05.360
There's a lot out there in his own words, as in the words of the lawyer, I was talking about,
00:53:11.800
he's a smell, a self snitcher. He has told on himself as many times. And it's just funny how
00:53:18.160
many people defend Andrew Tate saying, Oh, it's context. It's his persona. It's a joke. Guys,
00:53:26.000
you don't have to go to bat for him. You can just say, there are some things that he said that are
00:53:30.240
true and also say, yeah, but he's also a pimp that doesn't actually live up to any of the values
00:53:36.980
that he says that he has. He's not a traditional man. This is not responsible masculinity. This is not
00:53:43.340
good stewardship of the strength and the resources that you've been given. I mean, this is like the
00:53:48.460
weakest of the week, like the, the weakest intellectually, the weakest in masculinity,
00:53:55.420
the weakest man, the most inept man in the world can, uh, manipulate women into doing sex work
00:54:03.700
for them. Like if you want to do something that actually takes sacrifice, that actually takes
00:54:09.600
diligence, that actually takes discipline, that actually takes real responsibility and real
00:54:14.680
morality and real duty, all of these things that he talks about, then do something that is actually
00:54:21.160
going to make a real positive edifying, um, impact rather than something that is destroying.
00:54:28.940
It's destroying the lives of these girls. It's destroying the lives of the men. It's destroying
00:54:33.860
the families that are involved with these men who are in his words, falling in love with these women
00:54:39.280
and, uh, being addicted to the kind of pornography that he's putting out. And he's talked about the
00:54:44.880
destructiveness of pornography. Pornography is ruining men's lives. It's ruining women's lives
00:54:50.240
in a variety of ways. Only fans is an exclusively destructive force that encourages sex trafficking
00:54:57.260
and has allowed for sexual violence against children to be monetized on a daily basis through their
00:55:05.300
platform. And Andrew Tate is a part of that. And the very same people who say that they're
00:55:11.080
anti-groomer, who say we should ban porn, who say that sex predators should get the death penalty.
00:55:18.440
All of these people who, by the way, I agree with all of those things, who talk about the dangers
00:55:22.560
of gender ideology, that that is a form of grooming. When you push that kind of confusion on kids,
00:55:29.220
it's so strange to me how the people who say that will simultaneously defend Andrew Tate,
00:55:36.160
or they will at least, as I said, have a complex and nuanced respect for him.
00:55:40.260
That they will say, you know, I don't agree with everything, but he's still a victim.
00:55:47.940
Or they'll just focus on the positive things that he said, and they'll ignore the fact that he
00:55:51.880
is admitted to be a literal groomer. It's just strange to me. Why? Like the same week,
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the same two-week period, that we've got Sound of Freedom coming out, and we're talking about the
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evil of trafficking and the wickedness of selling humans, of buying humans, of purchasing people for
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sex. Like you've got some of the same people, it seems, claiming that Andrew Tate, who admits to
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being a pimp, is some kind of hero. So there are a few examples of this. You've got someone named
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Pearl Davis. Pearl. She says, Andrew Tate's only real crime is being too influential. The Matrix won't
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have it. And she responded to me when I said that he is evidence that the right can be as easily
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manipulated as the left by empty platitudes and virtue signaling, which is what Andrew Tate does.
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And he emotionally and sexually manipulated girls to make money. She says, oh, come on, Allie.
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Sexually and emotionally manipulates women. It's feminist-speak. We don't need this on the right.
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These women made their own choices. Stop blaming the men. She didn't respond to me when I asked her
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why she uses so many exclamation marks. I don't know if it's a tick or something like that, and why
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she can't also, at the same time, call out the men for their choices. Is that really difficult? Maybe it
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is difficult for some people. All of us have been gifted our own intellectual capacities. Feminists,
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she said, have expanded the definition of human tracking. I think she means human trafficking,
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rape, and coercion so much that we are at the point that conservatives are trying to take away
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accountability from sex workers, conservatives. What? I know so many women that would never do that,
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no matter the price. It's a disservice to us. Again, I don't believe in taking accountability away
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from people who sell their bodies. I just think that the people who manipulate them,
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and in some cases coerce them to sell their bodies, that they should also be held accountable.
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It's really, I think, difficult, I guess, for some people to understand.
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There is a reporter by the name of Suleiman Ahmed who says it's quite simple. This is a coordinated
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attack orchestrated by those in power. It's not a conspiracy theory. He says, when we began posting
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about a Muslim-Christian alliance against LGBTQ in schools, a few days later, there's a coordinated
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attack aimed at discrediting this idea, ensuring there is no unity. I guess he's talking about the
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fact that, you know, Andrew Tate is Muslim, so it's all a part of that. Alex Jones came to Tate's
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defense after his arrest, saying that the charges against Tate are completely, absolutely, totally
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made up, that Tate is well known for being neurotic about not breaking the law. Again, he self-snitched
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a lot. Ryan Fournier says, Andrew Tate was arrested for human trafficking. Really? After all the BS
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we've seen this year, do you really think this is true? There's a fan account, Tate News. I'm not sure
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who runs it. Andrew Tate, right, as always, there's no influencer other than Andrew Tate that is
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genuinely benefiting our lives. Free top G. There are several other conservatives that you would know
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that have said things in defense of Andrew Tate, who have accused people like me and others who
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criticize him of being some kind of left-wing feminist, which of course is absurd. Like,
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do you have to be a left-wing feminist to say that, oh, maybe the things that he stands for,
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like, they're not something that a Christian conservative should ever support or defend in
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any way? Like, this really shouldn't be that difficult or that complicated, but apparently
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it is. Apparently we're so tribalistic and we're so deluded and we're so absolutely just
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mush-brained that we can't just say, oh, I think that probably the things that he has said don't
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align with my values, even though he has said some things that are true. He obviously doesn't live up
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to the standards that he apparently is setting for other men, so we should just view him as someone
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who is discredited. I don't know. I guess it's just difficult. It's just difficult. Not that any
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of us, including myself, is perfect in, like, discernment and wisdom and understanding people's
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character and, like, their goods and their bads. I'm not saying that, but it's pretty obvious when it
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comes to Andrew Tate how much he has admitted to trying to ruin people's lives through exploiting
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women. Okay, so what is the, what should the, what's the alternative then? Like, what's the
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Christian response to Andrew Tate? Because Andrew Tate, he bills himself as a man of God, as a man of
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responsibility. I already said there has been, I think, a dereliction of duty in some cases
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by the church to talk about, like, what real masculinity looks like. And you've got a whole
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movement within the evangelical church trying to say that men in power or men being the heads of
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families or men being the heads of churches has led to abuse. And so the answer to that is to try to
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minimize the influence or even feminize the influence of masculinity and men in the church, which is
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obviously not the answer either. And so I think young men are looking for truth and they are
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looking for purpose. And so they're looking to someone who claims to have these things like
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Andrew Tate. But look, Andrew Tate is a scumbag. Following Andrew Tate, young men, is not going to
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lead to satisfaction. Not only if you do the things that he's admitted to doing, will you probably get
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charged and end up in prison, but you're not going to find yourself with a satisfying relationship.
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You're not going to find yourself in a healthy, happy marriage. You're not going to find yourself
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with a lot of self-respect. You're not going to find yourself with the kind of discipline that
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actually leads to any kind of fulfilling life. You are going to find yourself with all of these
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empty treasures, with all of these vapid goals that maybe you reach and you're going to realize that
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you're just as lonely, you're just as empty as you were before. You're going to find that the answers
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that Andrew Tate is trying to give you for your problems, that it's going to lead to just as much
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dissatisfaction, just as much self-loathing as what you are hearing from the left who says that all of
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your masculinity is toxic. Look, both messages are wrong. He has given you a false idea of what it means
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to be strong, of what it means to be responsible, of what it really means to be a man. I promise if
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you pursue this, it will end up in a dead end. And the Bible talks about people like Andrew Tate
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and the messages that he conveys about sex, about women, about personal gain, about influence,
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about riches, about success, about really the God of self. Because that is who Andrew Tate worships.
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He worships like so many in our society, right and left, the God of self rather than the God of
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scripture, the God of self, whatever form it manifests itself in, whether it's in this hyper
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masculinity or whether it's in this emasculation that we see, especially through gender ideology
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and some forms of feminism, like it's always going to lead to destruction no matter what.
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The devil is crafty, can take on many forms to appeal to all different kinds of people. The
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destination is the same place. So I just want to, I just want to read, like there's so much that I
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could say, but just let me read what I think scripture has to say about these kinds of messages.
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Okay. So I want to read you from second Peter two, second Peter two. Now, second Peter two is
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talking about false prophets and false teachers. And typically when we're talking about false prophets,
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we are talking about within the Christian church, those who claim to be Christians,
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who claim to be proclaiming the gospel, but then they're teaching something that is not aligned
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with scripture, that is not in alignment with what Jesus taught. And it's leading people astray.
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It's leading people to destruction. Now, Andrew Tate doesn't claim to be a Christian. And so he's not
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claiming, I mean, he's a Muslim, so he's not claiming to be a Christian prophet, but in a lot of ways,
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he is claiming to be a prophet, maybe not explicitly, but he is claiming to basically have access to,
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and the unique ability to communicate higher truths that if you access them yourself, if you accept
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them yourself and apply them to your life, like you will be in a way saved. You will at the very least
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be successful. You will step outside of this socially induced incarceration that he talks about.
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But 2 Peter 2 talks about the danger of false prophets. And again, even though Andrew Tate is not
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an espousing Christian prophet, a professing Christian prophet, I still think these principles
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absolutely apply because he is also leading people to destruction in the name of truth.
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2 Peter 2, but false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among
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you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the master who bought
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them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality. And because
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of them, the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed, they will exploit you with false
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words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. But these,
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like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about
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matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, suffering wrong
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as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, their blots and
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blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you. They have eyes full of adultery,
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insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed, accursed children.
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Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of
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Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, but was rebuked for his own transgression. A speechless
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donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness. So again, there's a distinction
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through what's being talked about here, people who profess to be Christians who are preaching
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something that is not true. But he does profess to be a man of God. He does profess to have wisdom
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from God, to have favor from God, and to be telling you liberating truth that if you apply and have
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access to, you will be free and satisfied and fulfilled. And it leads to destruction.
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Oh, there's more on this. There's more on this, actually. I thought that I was done reading that
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chapter, but this is also applicable. These are waterless springs. That's good. These are waterless
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springs and mist driven by a storm. For them, the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved. For
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speaking loud boasts of folly, they enticed by sensual passions of the flesh, those who are barely
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escaping from those who live in error. They promised them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of
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corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. For if, after they have escaped
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the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, they are again
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entangled in them and overcome the last state and overcome. The last state has become worse for them
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than the first, for it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness
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than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb
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says has happened to them, the dog returns to its own vomit. And after the, so after washing herself
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returns to wallow in the mire. I mean, you will remember that Andrew Tate says that he was raised
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a Christian. There's more on this that I would say to young men or just young people, or in particular,
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professing Christians who are tempted to buy into Tate's argument. First John 2, 15 through 17,
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do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the father
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is not in him. That's convicting for all of us. For all that is in the world, the desires of the flesh
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and the desires of the eyes and the pride of life is not from the father, but it's from the world.
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And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides
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forever. Now, Andrew Tate tweeted a verse in which Jesus says, if the world hates you, keep in mind that
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they hated me first, except that verse is not talking about Andrew Tate. Andrew Tate doesn't
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follow Christ. He is not hated because he is following Christ. He's not being persecuted
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because he is a follower of God. Matthew 5, 27 through 29, you have heard that it was said,
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you shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful
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intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin,
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tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that
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your whole body be thrown in to hell. There's a lot more that I could read. Let me read you one
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more and then we'll be done. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom
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of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who
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practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will
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inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you, but you are washed, you are sanctified, you are
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justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God. The body is not meant for
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sexual immorality, but for the Lord and the Lord for the body. 1 Corinthians 6, 9 through 11.
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There's Ephesians 5, 25 through 28. There's also Ephesians 5, 1 through 16. There's 1 Thessalonians
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4, 3 through 8, that all speak against all of the practices that people like Andrew Tate has put into
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place. And then so I would just warn you, Christian, I would urge you, Christian, to look to Christ. If
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you don't find any worldly models, if you don't find any or any models in the world or in society or
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where you're looking, if you can't find a godly mentor, at the very least, look to Christ. Yes,
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people in the church, people in the conservative movement, people in the places that you exist will
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fail you. They will fail to live up to being a good mentor. They will fail at being good examples
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of masculinity and of strength and of responsibility. Look to Christ. Look to his word. I promise you the
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way of Andrew Tate leads to hell. It leads to destruction. It leads to unhappiness. It leads
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to exploitation. It leads to dissatisfaction. It is just as far away from what is good and right and
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beautiful and true as any form of secular, simple leftism. I don't know if he is guilty of all of
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the Romanian charges. I hope the justice prevails in his favor if those charges are not proven.
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But that does not mean that we need to defend him. That's where our defense is limited. Beyond that,
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he says things about masculinity. He says things that are true that he doesn't himself live up.
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And thankfully, we have a standard bearer. We have Christ. We have the word made flesh. We have
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the written word. We have something better. The gospel is better. Christianity is better. God's
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prescription for masculinity, for success, for satisfaction found in Christ, which is a form
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of dying to yourself, is better. It's better than the pride and the lust and the fleshliness that is
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given by someone like Andrew Tate. All right. That's all I have time for today. Long. There's
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a lot of information. We'll get to the woman stuff at some point, but I just wanted to get through all
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that. Thanks so much for listening. We will be back here tomorrow.